GM's Corner

I talk with Mike Calvaruso about the past, present, and future of the San Antonio franchise. Along the way we touch on some of the franchise's top player's, it's construction in its glory days, the impact of injuries, and even discuss a trade worth many stars.

Chris Wilson and Ron Collins have a half-hour talk that covers the Wolves past, present, and future. The nature of baseball in an online league. History, coaching, teaching, and maybe a little Mons Raider here and there ... oh, and we get little lines like "when I won my _first_ Landis" tossed around like those things are just so much candy.

Ed Murphy and Ron Collins take an afternoon chat to cover all things Des Moines. We take a look back at Ed's considerable time with the league, talk about his two superstars and the way he's looking at the current season. Of course, there's a bout of Ed in the lightning round, and then Ed's question that leads to the revelation of my mega-spreadsheet (natch, right?). Oh, yeah. There might be menti...

Mike Bieschke and Ron Collins spend a fun half hour talking about his time with the Hawaii Tropics and how he's gone through the good times and the bad--with a touch on the notorious Al Hoot, his views on rebuilding, and his overall approach. Along the way there's a bit of Disney magic, a hint os nostalgia, and a love to massive OOTP email. Nothing but the best radio here in the BBA.

Lee Honigsfeld and Ron Collins spend 15 or so minutes talking about the Valencia Stars, focusing on their reputation as a team that that builds from within, managing the minors in OOTP, Valencia's take on the up-coming expansion process, the difference between fantasy baseball and fake baseball, and all sorts of other great stuff (including a fun fact about the origin of OOTP in BBA land!). As an...

Brandon Slouck and Ron Collins talk about Charm City's brief but successful history, how Brandon looks at team development and his time through an expansion draft. How would he look at this year's process? Then we talk about today's Jimmies, and tomorrow 's Jimmies...put him in the hot seat...and then things get really interesting. 

Kevin Dickson and I sit down for a fantastically fun conversation that ranges from his early days in the league (six realtime years) through the team's current cage match with the Surfers, and out into the Pioneer and BBA future. Hear about Terry Cochrane and the role of the DH. Small ball vs. long ball. How Kevin thinks abou tbuilding teams and the role of his ballparks. Advice the the freshies,...

Today I sit down with Long Beach Surfer GM Stephen Lane for something shy of 40 minutes to talk about Long Beach and the BBA. There's all sorts of good stuff in here as Stephen touches on things like the process and value of moving the franchise, building through free agency and trades, any possible buyers remorse on the Ken Jenkins deal and even opens up the super-secret vault of full-staff pitch...

About 30 minutes of unadulterated fun (or is that just unadult fun?) regardin the Brewster and the Vancouver Mounties. Join me and Brett Schroeder as we talk about the vast spaces in Northwoods Outpost (the club's ballaprk), the team's reputation as a pitching and defense kinda outfit, and Vancouver's future...and that's all before we get Brett into the notorious lightning round. Certainly a Can't...

With this package of 22 minuites of BBA glory, we sit down with Atlanatic City GM Joshua Biddle to talk about all things Gamblers. You'll get insights into the Gorman Injury, what drives Joshua's approach, how he thought about those huge pithcing contracts, and the one thing about the Gamblers that no one's talking about. Among other stuff, of course.

Check out about 14 minutes of BBA Goodness! Ron Collins and Omaha GM Justin Niles sit down to look a the BBA after sim 12 of the 2034 season. We discuss the CarGo contract, Havana's staff, key injuries, who's really the best division in baseball, give an over/under on Nashville, and even get into the esoterica of the AA career homer run leader board. Much fun.

Okay...this one's long...almost 40 minutes. But it's so full of Matt and Ron that you'll still enjoy it. At least the Matt parts, anyway. He talks the Hustlers and what's going on there. There's a little OOTP 19 there and some history, and his own take on the best division in baseball. We put him in the lightning round, of course...but then he turns the tables...boy howdy...don't go into a discuss...

Check out about 27 minutes of BBA Goodness as the YS9 GM puts Mexico City Aztec General Manager Fred Holmes in the GM's Hot Corner. Fred talks about current events around the league, Ricardo Diaz, Charles Martin, Montreal's future, and a hundred other things he's taken into account while re-gearing the Aztecs to compete in the best division in baseball!

Ron Collins puts Omaha Hawk General Manager Justin Niles in the GM's Hot  Corner. Niles talks about his time in the BBA, effects of the move from  Indy, and makes brash predictions for his ballclub.

Join in as Ron Collins and Randy Weigand cover the intensive Pitcher Study published in the BBA Media Guide!

If you listened to the first episode of GMs Corner (and if not, why not?), you know Randy left us with a cliff hanger. Check out this 5-minute end-cap (the first GMs Corner Quick Pitch) to hear the end of the story!

So to try my little experiment out, I sat down with Randy Weigand to  talk all things Sugar Kings, JLS, and a few other things of the esoteric  league-wide kinds. It went 40 mins a little longer than I generally  intend, but such is life, eh?