Bat Flips And Nerds

Hannah Keyser of Yahoo Sports joins Darius to discuss her Deadspin documentary 'The Cricket Kings of Queens' about a New York high school's cricket team, her trip to the All-Star Game in Cleveland, fixing baseball's attendance and image problems, and her weekly show The Bandwagon.

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh joins Tom and Darius to talk about his new book, The MVP Machine, plus Effectively Wild approaching its seventh anniversary, and how he consumes baseball.

ESPN's Coley Harvey and Jason Mastrodonato of the Boston Herald join John to unpack the Yakke and Red Sox reactions to that landmark weekend in London.

Your four pals are back (plus extra special appearance from Stand-In Blake) to wrap up the best weekend of our collective lives. Totes emosh.

Marly Rivera joins the boys to round up the wildest day of baseball we've ever seen...

The whole band is back together, and we're only in the bloody PRESS BOX!

John and Tom start the hype...

Tom and John preview next week's series, focussing on introducing the two teams and their players to those experiencing baseball for the first time. They also give their series predictions and tackle a few over/unders.

Mike Ivory joins John and Darius to talk about the Cubs and Cardinals coming to London in 2020, what they're all looking forward to at next week's London Series, and the Kimbrel and Keuchel signings, plus much more.

Russell is joined by Padres Baseball Operations Fellow Samantha Schultz to discuss her role in the San Diego front office.

Tom claims to have hit a home run during the first game of the Softball60 tournament. Ben, John and Darius do their best to ignore him while still discussing the event, as well as what's going on at the London Yards fan event, the ridiculous 2019 Minnesota Twins, and listener questions about Craig Kimbrel, Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, and the most mediocre player to have a transcendent postseason...

Tom claims to have hit a home run during the first game of the Softball60 tournament. Ben, John and Darius do their best to ignore him while still discussing the event, as well as what's going on at the London Yards fan event, the ridiculous 2019 Minnesota Twins, and listener questions about Craig Kimbrel, Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, and the most mediocre player to have a transcendent postseason...

Red Sox big cheese Sam Kennedy joins John to chat about the bonds between the Red Sox and Liverpool FC, the club's strong desire to pioneer MLB's assault on Europe and the logistical hiccups the team is working on as they embark on new waters for the sport.

John chats to Andy Brown, the Korean based British baseball artist about how his passion for painting found a muse in the sport of baseball, his artistic career to date, his current quest to document all 30 MLB ballparks during the 2019 season and the role of artists like him in recording the history of the game of baseball.

John chats to former Brewers, and current Rangers pitcher - and social media pro - Tim Dillard about making the most of your talent, 'doing something' every day, the importance of kindness and his role as creative mentor to generations of minor league talent. This is a hoot.

Tom returns from his two weeks in Italy and begins by rambling about computer games. Darius then agrees they really should talk about baseball and Tom rambles about the epic start from Steven Matz against the Phillies. The guys talks about the potentially juiced balls, before solving the "During this break in the action..." problem, once and for all!

The guys get to grips with the weirdness of the new baseball season, in which Tim Beckham is apparently better than Chris Sale...

ESPN Wednesday Night Baseball play-by-play guy Boog Sciambi joins John to reminisce about his time calling the Marlins and Braves, to look forward to the new season and MLB London, and offer some reflections on the state of the game.

Mark and Ben offer insights into the birth of BT and ESPN's new UK baseball show 'Caps Off', including some behind the scenes stories from Spring Training, which players are obsessed with which Premier League teams and some familiar faces popping up on the show. It airs this Thursday at 3.45pm on BT Sport 2.

The whole team gets together to predict season records for all 30 teams. Darius makes up player names, Ben continues his bizarre Mets love-in, Tom references... erm 'older' adult dating websites and John gets sick of it all (but wants the Reds to know he loves them).   Oh and the predictions? Awful. Tell us why we're dead wrong about your favourite team.

John is joined by Jake and Jordan or Cespedes Family BBQ to discuss their path from the wilderness to MLB, and their enduring love of minor league ball, shared experience of watching baseball from the UK and answer some listener questions.

Emily Waldon of The Athletic Detroit and The Athletic MLB joins Tom to talk about her start in Baseball writing and Minor League Players rights. They talk about Ken Rosenthal and his Slack messages, juggling two jobs of Baseball writing and Customer Experience Manager at Mercedes, finally they discuss the struggle Minor League Baseball players face when trying to reach the big leagues.

Outsoken veteran Aussie reliever Peter Moylan joins John to discuss his career, and to get a few things off his chest about the state of employment for baseball players, and the impact of front office dominance and thirst for new things on consistent, dependable performers. Hold on, he doesn't hold back...

Tom is at the San Diego Padres Spring Training facility in Peoria, Arizona. He is joined by AJ Cassavell to talk about the Padres Spring Training plans, their outlook going into 2019 and how AJ's thoughts about writing for MLB.com as a beat writer.   Next up he is joined by Padres radio broadcast Jesse Agler, where they discuss Tom's true love Don Orsillo, once again Padres baseball and how Jesse...

John is joined by Somerset Patriots ace Rick Teasley to discuss his itinerant career which has taken him from the Rays minors system through Australia and Taiwan to Venezuela. They discuss Rick's approach to pitching in-game and to self-improvement off the mound, and his experiences in different cultures - notably Taiwan's baseball mad populace and the role of baseball in the everyday lives of Ven...