Rain Delay Theater

From Mo Vaughn to Jason Schmidt to Marc Sagmoen (who?), Jack and Jeremy run down the list of the last player for each team to wear #42 and discuss a lot of fringe-y forgettable players in the process! Before that, Jack comments on the Cubs alleged threats to media outlets about mean Addison Russell articles and Jeremy shares a few highlights and outrageous stories from his trip to see the South Be...

The 2019 baseball season starts for real this week as Jack and Jeremy head out to their first live game action of the season and bring you a SUPER-SIZED episode! First the guys head to the southside to see the White Sox take on the Royals. It was barely 2 innings into the game when Jack and Jeremy got their first taste of classic White Sox rowdy fan behavior! They also answer some major cliffhange...

Jack and Jeremy check in after one week of the 2019 MLB season. Jeremy laments Carl Edwards Jr. and the Chicago Cubs bullpen, Joe Maddon's future, and addresses how new Cubs pitching coach Tommy Hottovy is baseball Marc Trestman. Jack weighs in on his 2019 Brewers and Josh Hader's durability. And the guys look around the league to discuss Pete Alonso's debut, Noah Syndergaard's complaining, and po...

Jack and Jeremy call an emergency podcast recording session to check in on the eve of Opening Day 2019. The guys touch on the surprise promotions of Eloy Jimenez, Pete Alonso, and Fernando Tatis Jr. for opening day, some quick outlooks for 2019, and an announcement about Rain Delay Theater's first trip (or trips) out to the ballpark for this season! Join in on this quick minisode!

Here it is: the conclusion of the Uniform Number Tournament, round 2 through the championship game! Tune in to hear the stunning conclusion of the tournament! Did I say stunning...? Well, just tune in to hear for yourself. Some real deep dives into the stats of some all-time greats. Man, I'm really pulling for my boy Rick Reuschel in this one...

In honor of March Madness, Jack and Jeremy conduct a March Madness tournament of their own consisting of players who wore jersey numbers 1-64. See who the guys pick to represent each jersey number and have them do battle in an ultimate tournament to see who is, um, the best...uniform...guy...? However it turns out, this is a fun one where the guys actually give their opinions on some of baseball's...

Can baseball hurry up and get here already?!? This week Jack and Jeremy try to kill the time by going back and re-evaluating Rookie of the Year voting from 2005 to 2015 to see if they got it right or overlooked a future Hall of Famer. At the top of the show, the guys pay tribute to a great comedian and baseball fan, Steven Brody Stevens, who passed away a few weeks ago. Check it out and afterward...

The countdown to the 2019 season is underway as Spring Training is starting up and Jack and Jeremy are here to take a look at some of the Non-Roster invitees. How else could the guys have an excuse to rag on some major leaguers hanging on by a thread so early in the season? Before that, Jack and Jeremy spend a little time weighing in on the Manny Machado signing and the futility of the White Sox's...

This week Jack and Jeremy escape the polar vortex of Chicago all the way north to Caledonia, Wisconsin to see 17U high school prep baseball as the White Sox Amateur City Elite players take on the Class of 2020 Hitters baseball team! This is the same travel team that #6 pick Jarred Kelenic played on last year! The guys arrive at a wrong address for the facility and are creeped out by Wisconsin back...

Before the 2019 Hall of Fame voting results are announced, Jack and Jeremy chime in to run down the '19 ballot and give their votes for this year's class of baseball greats. Along the way you'll be treated to Jack and Jeremy's thoughts on allowing steroid players in the HOF, a throwback yelling at Lance Berkman story, and some vocal impressions of Sammy Sosa in his various commercial appearances....

For this week's episode, Jack and Jeremy provide a very thorough recap of their viewing of the 1996 Tony Scott movie "The Fan" starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes. As you can imagine, the guys have some choice criticism of this baseball movie masterpiece. They discuss the main character's odd obsession, not only with baseball, but also with the Rolling Stones, the classic theme of a young bo...

Jack and Jeremy return to a game...a basketball game? That's right, Rain Delay Theater was in attendance at the United Center to see the one and only Chicago Bulls take on the Brooklyn Nets. There's plenty to talk about as the guys dive head first into Social Media Night, including lending their faces to a 3D CGI basketball dunking video (for real), photobombing the Bulls pregame show, and an awkw...

This week, Jack and Jeremy run down their lists of baseball's naughty and nice and equate players to good or bad Christmas gifts. Find out who is the equivalent of a hard to assemble Ikea shelf or who's like a gift card that is impossible to redeem. Along the way, the guys touch on the questionable Mariners trades of Robinson Cano and Jean Segura, Joe Maddon's son's controversial tweets, and the s...

The offseason is upon us but Rain Delay Theater is back to help get you through the long winter! Jack and Jeremy discuss what they turn to in order to survive the offseason. The guys check in with recent baseball news, including the leaked Bryce Harper White Sox video display photo, the Kris Bryant on the trading block rumors, and the Rookie of the Year announcements. For the main event, the guys...

The 2018 baseball season has come to an end and in honor of the World Series (and Steve Pearce), we run down the list of the last 10 World Series Champs and pick the worst player on each 25 man World Series roster! Sorry 2016 Cubs Brian Matusz, you weren't eligible for this one! You ever see a fringe major leaguer and think "THAT guy has a World Series ring?!?" Well those are the guys we're talkin...

The NLCS is over and Jack and Jeremy recap it all! We hear how Jack is coping with the Brewers elimination. The guys also talk about the Wade Miley switcheroo in Game 5, the who's who of Game 7 attendees in the first row of Miller Park, and just what led to the ultimate outcome of the Dodgers beating the Brewers. Jack and Jeremy touch briefly on the ALCS too (38:00) before running down the list of...

Jack and Jeremy are back this week to give their picks for 2018 Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, and MVP. But first, we get an impromptu technology criticism from Jack, a full check-in about the Brewers/Dodgers series, and a less-full check-in on the ALCS. Jeremy shares a story about razzing Steve Pearce to some Orioles fans in 2014 and pines for traveling out to see the Arizona Fall League. Also, Ja...

Jack and Jeremy are back this week to touch base on the end of the regular season, game 163, and the Cubs loss to the Rockies in the Wildcard game. Jeremy shares his thoughts about the torture it is to listen to a national broadcast call your team's playoff games, Jack weighs in with his thoughts about Willson Contreras and crying in baseball, and the guys look ahead to the rest of the playoffs an...

A last minute change of plans has Jack and Jeremy doing a 180 and heading north on the red line to Wrigley Field for Cubs/Pirates this week! Hear the story about how that happened and so much more! The guys finally encounter some goofballs in the crowd at Wrigley and a stressed out Jeremy is none too happy about it. Tune in to (or skip) a lengthy 14 minute rant that starts around the 1:03:00 minut...

A special mini-mini postgame check-in from Jack and Jeremy on their walk home from the 9/25/18 Pirates at Cubs game. The guys check-in with their timely thoughts about tonight's game in preparation for the full recap later this week! Check it out and then stay tuned for the full-length recap of the game in a few days!

In this week's minisode, Jack and Jeremy assemble a team of 3rd tier superstars! So that means players who were good, but not-so-good. The main requisite for our selections was players could never have made an All-Star team. We always talk about hearing old baseball names and if you're into that as much as we are, then this episode is for you! Tune in!

Jack and Jeremy head to Wrigley Field for an NL Central showdown this week and there was plenty of drama on and off the field! The intense game between the Cubs and Brewers served as a great backdrop to a couple of incidents in the stands as Jeremy finally almost comes to blows with an unruly, rowdy fan and maybe now they're sorta buds...? Jack angers a curmudgeonly season ticket holder with his B...

In a game that was marked on the calendars since Spring Training, Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels come to the southside to take on the White Sox! And Ohtani, torn UCL and all, delivered! Hear Jack and Jeremy recap the entire Ohtani Experience, including Jeremy getting on a Red Line train heading in the wrong direction out of pure overexcitement. The guys also discus...

Jack and Jeremy are back out at the ballpark to see none other than Michael Kopech in his 3rd major league appearance! And...well, the baseball gods would have nothing of it because after 3 innings of Kopech, we were treated to our very first rain delay of the Rain Delay Theater podcast. We talk about what to do during a rain delay and we get a chance to comment on more of the White Sox video boar...

Ever wonder who Jack thinks is the Biggest Greaseball in the majors? Want to know who Jeremy picks as baseball's Biggest Hunk? Well tune in to this week's minisode to find out! Jack and Jeremy run through a list of made up awards ranging from Most Annoying to Nerdiest Player to Coolest Dude! We really let some people have it, including newest Cubs acquisition Daniel Murphy! For a fun time, give th...