Mudville

The boys are back for another remote episode and we're proud to report that the kids seem to be alright. We haven't seen the surprise right-wing cult favorite Sound of Freedom, but we have a lot to say about its audience. Action movies are back in a big way; Nolan saw Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One and Brody saw Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. We rave over Inherent Vice as Br...

The 2023 Draft is in the books and Prospect Sauce is back to discuss how our mock drafts from last week played out. Nick and Nolan give their favorite picks and discuss which players may develop better than others, and which teams walked away with the most talent. Then, Morgan joins the back half of the episode and we talk about the simultaneous WGA & SAG-AFTRA Strikes, anonymous executives tu...

Nolan and Brody are honored to welcome Nick Chalmers aka Prospect Sauce back to the podcast for a bit of a marathon episode! We recap some of the biggest stories from the first half of the 2023 campaign and speculate where it might go from here. Are both MVP races in the bag? How many records will Shohei Ohtani break? Then, Nolan and Nick present the first ever Mudville Mock, our preview of the ML...

Domingo German and Kyle Higashioka twirled the 24th Perfect Game in MLB history on Wednesday as the Yankees blanked Oakland 11-0, but the legacy is a bit complicated. Shohei Ohtani broke baseball in the month of June and continues his ascension into the stratosphere. LSU won the College World Series over Florida, with Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford ensuring their status as the cream...

What a week for billionaires: moving MLB franchises, dying in submarines, and challenging each other to cage matches. We break down the week of news dumped on our heads by Rob Manfred and David Zaslav, debate the terminology of the extra-inning baserunner, and learn something new about a coveted stat. Nolan reviews Extraction 2 and Wes Anderson's Asteroid City. Brody visits Canada and makes a cata...

Baseball's notorious rivals went head-to-head this weekend and we brought on Sox fan Toney Brown to discuss the unwatchable series and dive deep into both franchises. Anthony Volpe is struggling mightily and Triston Casas is too. We discuss Toney's history as a cinephile and his favorite NYC rep theaters, including the Roxy, where he just went in blind to see a movie that's been on Nolan's mind a...

We record through carbon monoxide poisoning to mourn the season of Jacob deGrom, rave over Elly De La Cruz, and discuss Brody's experience working of Nicole Holofcener's excellent new film YOU HURT MY FEELINGS starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies. Nolan talks about getting invited to Bluesky and draws a few odd similarities between this movie and Ben Affleck's AIR. Follow us on Twitter...

California ownership makes a fool of itself in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco. Elly De La Cruz is on the cusp of the majors and the Guardians face some tough decisions. Taika Waititi buries his own legacy so the rest of us won't do it for him. Nolan and Brody make convoluted jokes about The Beatles, predict their first trade of the season, and vaguely discuss the ending of Barry. Brody de...

Get ready to meet the man of the hour: Motern Media's very own Boston Johnny! We discuss Farley & Roxburgh's newest film, as well as the cinematic event of the baseball season: a loose squirrel in Yankee Stadium. Studio execs only get more shameless, The Dodgers whiffed big time, and some young outfielders are turning heads.

A double feature of new releases from the Always Sunny gang brings us to the theater. It's a big week for Canada as we discuss the Yankees visit to Toronto and Matt Johnson latest film Blackberry , alongside Charlie Day's directorial debut Fool's Paradise. Bryce Berg joins the studio to talk about a couple of fun movies and possibly dig up Yogi Berra's buried treasure.

Brody's been sautéing his brain in WFAN radio and the Michael Kay Show. The Yankees and Mets have hit some turbulence, the Cardinals are blowing it, and the Astros haven't turned it on just yet. Nolan spills his drink.

We attended SNY director John DeMarsico's "Baseball is Cinema" event on Saturday and loved it. The WGA is on strike (Solidarity!) and we're cooking up some ideas for the slop trough. The Oakland Athletics are authoritarian fascists and the Yankees are limping their way into a comatose state. The Rays still don't lose. Follow us on Twitter! @mudvillepod (Brody is @Bordguy23; Nolan is @stuckinthecoi...

It's been a wild week for baseball and da movies and for all the corporate ghouls sucking the life out of one or both of those industries. We're back discussing the Oakland Athletics move to Las Vegas, the Russo Brothers' AI hellscape of a future, and speculate why Mookie Betts, Cody Bellinger, and Max Muncy all went on the paternity list in the span of a week. Follow us on Twitter! @mudvillepod (...

We have a very special episode this week as Zac Beck from the Dynasty Dugout and Nick Chalmers from Prospect Sauce join to advocate for points leagues in the fantasy baseball community and discuss Beck's upcoming article, "The Case for Points Leagues." (Conversation begins at 20:55) The guys debate Mike Francesa and discuss the recent slew of prospect call-ups. Follow our guests @Upper_Beck and @P...

We recap first 10 days of the MLB season, including the Rays' undefeated start, the Brewers' shutting us up, the Phillies' falling on their faces, and a few teams that probably shouldn't even exist. Brody falls victim to an Anthony Volpe straw man. Nolan propositions the Cardinals to make a trade with the Rockies.

Nolan and Brody discuss the last week of Spring Training, debate a few young outfielders, and concoct a plan for Alex Rodriguez to get back in the Home Run chase. Brody makes an apology to the Los Angeles Angels for some reason. We preview Thursday's slate of Opening Day baseball! Players mentioned: Anthony Volpe, Jordan Walker, Andrew Vaughn, Riley Greene, Zac Gallen, Mitch Keller, Triston McKenz...

Brody and Nolan discuss the ending of the World Baseball Classic, Opening Day excitement, seeing The Night of the Hunter at Film Forum, and go in-depth on the 1942 classic The Pride of the Yankees, a Lou Gehrig biopic starring Gary Cooper.

The guys bring on their first guest, Morgan Staub (@morgoftheflies), to discuss his movie initiative for 2023 and preview the state of the American League. Nolan watched "Creed 3" and "Cocaine Bear" this week and found one to be much better than the other. Brody celebrates his birthday with a history lesson in basketball and endless war.

Mudville steps up to the dish. Brody and Nolan discuss the World Baseball Classic, the 95th Academy Awards, and their first impressions of Spring Training. Dominated by "Everything Everywhere All at Once" and "All Quiet on the Western Front," the Oscars were haunted by the ghost of Will Smith. We have a lot to say about "the Daniels." We discuss the 1989 comedy Major League, starring Tom Berenger...