Batting Around Podcast

We talk America's 250th, fireworks, the nonstop metaphors pouring out of the national mall all week, England fans embracing Michael Harris, the Cavalli/Contreras incident and apology, Naylor and Hedges, All Star Game selections, and our idea for reworking the Fourth of July and really all of the American holiday schedule around Union victories in the Civil War. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to g...

Charles is back to talk about the Pirates collapsing below .500, Buster Posey sucking at his job, Carlos Mendoza's firing, the Great American State Fair that nobody is going to, encouraging men to read, and Tommy Pham signing with the Phillies. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to support the show and BattingAroundPodcast.com to submit mailbag questions and get a link to the show's Discord server.

Covering the continued controversy around the Giants chud relievers including a warning from the league and a DOJ civil rights investigation, the tantrum spreading to indy ball, sports bringing people together despite the best efforts of the forces of reaction, Shohei Baby #2 and Jane's 19th century pseudoscientific analysis what that means for his career. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to get bo...

Stephen was the only person in New York making a stink face after the Knicks won this weekend, people traveling to American cities for the World Cup find the non-chuds to be wonderful, Trump terrorizes DC residents again, and every nobody on the Giants gets homophobic for Pride Night. The story about MLB issuing them a warning came out while I was editing the episode, but whatever it's just a warn...

We get to the bottom of the horrific "dirty soda" trend, Jane makes a pro-Knicks case, we channel our inner HR ladies, talk a little bit about baseball, then figure out the perfect voice training strategy. Support the show by signing up for our patreon at the $6 tier or higher and get access to our bonus episodes, including our deranged baseball legacy sequel pitches episode and our recent Wach Pa...

We're starting work on the Manhattan Project-level weapon that will bring down the Tarps Off movement. Sign up at Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to our bonus episodes including the Wach Party series and our recent episode where we pitch baseball movie legacy sequels.

You know what it is, it's a Roth episode: Mets, regional pizzas, eating Costco hot dogs for the first time, things of that nature. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to our bonus episodes, including the one where we pitch legacy sequels to beloved baseball movies and Wach Party, our series on the movies of the Wachowskis.

The Thrust is dead. Long live The Thrust. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to bonus episodes, including our latest Wach Party episode on The Matrix Reloaded with Manu.

Oops all Damian Lewis' music career. Go to patreon.com/battingaround to support the show and get access to bonus episodes, including our Wach Party series on the movies of the Wachowskis.

Cora and Thompson got canned, Murakami proves the haters wrong (so far anyway), Jazz sucks at challenges and that rocks. Check out Patreon.com/BattingAround and subscribe at the Slapdick Prospect level or higher and get access to our bonus episodes, including our new Wach Party episode with Patrick Willems.

Mamdani's woke sharia has spread from the Mets to the Yankees, a psychosexual pushup contest with Mr. Met and Dinger, the Phillies stink, and a bunch of Looney Toons shit happened the other night, Subscribe at Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to our bonus episodes and support the show.

Imagine getting so mad at a mascot that you become a Yankees fan. Check out Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to our catalog of bonus episodes.

More stupid ballpark foods, quantifying and monetizing Jo Adell's defensive heroics, the Ichiro statue breaks during its unveiling, the White Sox are giving away a pope hat. Support the show and get access to bonus episodes at Patreon.com/BattingAround

The Phanatic has spawned a new brood. We take a look at fanbase optimism around the league. More new ballpark food. The Rangers made the nacho hat real kind of. Like all the new city connects for this year leaked (it appears anyway). CB Bucknor is still embarrassingly bad. Support the show and get access to our bonus episodes at Patreon.com/BattingAround.

The MLB season is upon us and we have tons of topics from Opening Day, False Opening Day, and the rest of the week. Freddie Freeman's got a great new outfit, the ABS challenge system is already producing hilarious moments, and we talk about some of the new ballpark food listeners got at games. Subscribe to the show at Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to our bonus episodes. Tomorrow we'll be...

WBC is over but Team USA is still dealing with criticism for their whole weird deal during the tournament, Jesus Christ has abandoned America's chuds for Venezuela's, somehow Bryce came out of the WBC looking good, just a little more spring training left, and the Oscars happened. Check out Patreon.com/BattingAround to support the show and get access to our bonus episodes including the 2026 Pride G...

We have a measured and thoughtful discussion on the subject of vibes in the WBC and 21st century nationalism. Italy's vibes are good. USA's are unbelievably wretched. We also talk about the Oscars a little and about how every country should make its own version of Dracula. Check us out on the Ten Thousand Losses podcast this week. Get bonus episodes at Patreon.com/BattingAround

WBC is underway. Rangers put up a racist statue at their park. Slay the Spire 2. Also we learn about buzz balls. Check out Patreon.com/BattingAround for bonus episodes.

Technological breakthroughs in American cheese, the dangers of being a guy that responds to every email he gets, one last '28 winter olympics story, we're at war again, spring training still sucks, WBC coming up, some other stuff. Subscribe at Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to bonus episodes.

Sorry about Lauren's mic but she lost power and had to record with some Thomas Edison style equipment. Subscribe at Patreon.com/BattingAround for bonus episodes.

Creamy pints. Nick Castellanos developments. Our new Owners To Be Shamed Now segment. Two disgusting stories about blood and bones. Tons of winter olympics messiness. Support the show by signing up at Patreon.com/BattingAround and get access to our bonus episodes, including our Wach Party series where we just did a great episode on Bound.

Olympics, WBC stuff, more clubhouse bidets, things of that nature. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround and sign up at the Slapdick Prospect level to get access to our bonus episodes, including the new Wach Party series where we talk about the films of the Wachowskis.

Josh Boerman of The Worst of All Possible Worlds and Ill Conceived podcasts is here to talk about actually going to see Melania, bad vibes in Maryland, the vibe stabilization efforts of the Mets' offseason, the Tarik Skubal situation, Derek Falvey and the Twins' conscious uncoupling, the latest Epstein Files tranche, and Mike Trout's new med bed company. Support the show at Patreon.com/BattingArou...

The hockey girls are fighting, the hockey goalies are fighting, the hockey podcast bros are leaking text chains and beefing. None of us are the right height to get the open job to be Mr. Met or Mrs. Met. Bryce Harper's working his way backwards to chemtrail conspiracies. Then Stephen explains his RIPCON system. Support the show at Patreon.com/BattingAround for access to bonus episodes including th...

Birthday boy Charles Star is back to discuss the latest free agent signings and trades, The Pitt, the Kyrsten Sinema homewreck lawsuit, and much much more. Support the show at Patreon.com/BattingAround for bonus episodes, including our upcoming Wach Party series on the films of the Wachowski sisters.