Passed Ball Show

John Pielli previews the 2023 San Francisco Giants.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Milwaukee Brewers.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Baltimore Orioles.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Tampa Bay Rays.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Los Angeles Angels.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Chicago White Sox.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Arizona Diamondbacks.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Miami Marlins.

3-27-2023 Passed Ball Show. John spends this show asking “what quantifies an all time great?” He discusses the natural reaction to make it about total championships won but questions whether or not it is all about it. John talks about Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and other Basketball greats as well as Tom Brady and Otto Graham before discussing whether Nikola Jokic can be an all time great if h...

John Pielli previews the 2023 Pittsburgh Pirates.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Kansas City Royals.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Detroit Tigers.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Cincinnati Reds.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Washington Nationals.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Colorado Rockies.

John Pielli previews the 2023 Oakland Athletics.

3-21-2023 Passed Ball Show. John spends this show talking about the once proud Men’s College Basketball programs at St. John’s and Georgetown and whether they could return to prominence with the respective hires of Rick Pitino and Ed Cooley. John believes that it was those programs success in the 1980’s that carried the Big East nationally, not the likes of Syracuse and Connecticut. After John mak...

3-14-2023 Passed Ball Show. John opens up this show by declaring the combined Perfect Game thrown by team Puerto Rico against Israel during the World Baseball Classic as official and should be considered the twenty-fourth (24th) of all time in the history of baseball. John explains why it does not matter that four (4) pitchers were needed to finish the job and why it does not matter that the self...

3-9-2023 Passed Ball Show. John spends this program talking about the World Baseball Classic and the players preparing for it also while preparing for the upcoming baseball season. John compares it to the NHL players leaving during the middle of the season for the Olympics (though he believes that is a bigger deal). John believes baseball should try the WBC in November as opposed to March but it w...

3-6-2023 Passed Ball Show. John opens up this show by declaring it is a bullshit show. He talks about how the Eastern NBA Conference is very top heavy and most of the best talent and overall teams once again reside in the Western NBA Conference. John then compares teams like the Sacramento Kings and Memphis Grizzlies to the likes of the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers, for a couple of...

2-25-2023 Passed Ball Show. John opens up this show talking about the Sacramento Kings 176-175 win over the Los Angeles Clippers and where it ranks in history among the highest scoring games ever. John talks about the highest scoring game in history, which was between the Detroit Pistons and Denver Nuggets on December 13, 1983. After declaring that the National Football League is America’s Pastime...

2-21-2023 Passed Ball Show. John opens up this program talking about why the play in the NBA All Star Game is so much different than it is during the regular season and why the ASG is difficult to watch. He reiterates why the selections itself are still important to the players and their resumes. He then defends (while completely flabbergasted that he even felt the need to defend) the Utah Jazz’ d...

2-18-2023 Passed Ball Show. John opens up this program by explaining, in detail, why the Baseball Hall of Fame has failed both the players it has held out and the players that are being selected to enter. John claims that the essential ignorance of an entire generation of top baseball players has caused a ripple effect of campaigns for very good players to get in due to a resurgence of popularity....

PASSED BALL SHOW #137 6/18/2014 Part 2 WITH JAY JOHNSTONE; I start out by playing my interview with long time MLB OF Jay Johnstone. Jay talks about signing 11 letters of intent to go to college as well as his interest in sports as a kid. He also talks about some of his pranks he and his teammates pulled on each other. Jay also discusses his appearance in Naked Gun and what he learned from Leslie N...

PASSED BALL SHOW #137 6/18/2014 Part 1 WITH TOM HERR; I start out by speaking with former Cardinals 2B Tom Herr. Tom talks about being a Giants fan, getting a scholarship offer from the University of Delaware and his interest in wanting to play a professional sport. He also talks about batting 3rd and Whitey Herzog's influence on his career. I then talk about the death of Tony Gwynn and what he sh...