Rain Delay Theater

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...

Jack and Jeremy run down the top 10 highest paid players this year and give their take on whether they're worth their contract or not. What do the guys think of David Price, Zack Greinke, and Jason Heyward, tune in to find out! But before that, Jeremy and Jack call out the Yankees announcers for their incredibly stupid take on the Adam Engel catch from last week. Watch out Ryan Ruocco and Ken Sing...

Winter is Coming®...hey! wait a minute, no it's not! It's only August and there's still plenty of shoddy theme night promotions at Guaranteed Rate Field! So Jack and Jeremy take in Game of Thrones night on the southside as the New York Yankees take on the Chicago White Sox. The guys jam pack a lot into this episode including plane crash survivors throwing out first pitches, more ridiculous video b...

Jack and Jeremy make their long awaited return to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field this week! In a first for the podcast, we find a Jeremy who's actually angry about baseball gameplay and not the fans...though, there's some of that too. We get a lengthy rant from him about Joe Maddon's bullpen and starting pitcher mismanagement. We hear a story from Jeremy about the late, great Yosh Kawano and a fake...

The guys are joined this week by friend of the show Ben Perkins (@allusedup2 on Twitter) to watch and discuss some of their favorite Baseball Videos! We run down some of the great baseball meltdowns, rants, and drunken moments captured for our eternal listening and viewing pleasure! Wally Backman and Terry Collins losing their minds, Lou Piniella ranting on Steve Stone, Rick Sutcliffe drunk on air...

Jack and Jeremy head to Wrigley Field this week for the 2018 Under Armour All-America Baseball Game featuring the country's top high school stars! And the game did not disappoint, unfortunately, the unruly droves of inattentive, beer-sniffing little league parents did! Children running wild, adults behaving worse than the kids they paid so little attention to, and a put upon beer vendor whose know...

The well never runs dry on the southside of Chicago and this week the guys meet, hands down, their biggest baseball weirdo to date - "The Informed Interloper"! Armed with a scorebook, an Oakland Athletics hat and lanyard, and a Yairo Munoz Cardinals shirsey, this ballpark oddball sidled his way next to Jack while Jeremy was up on his second dollar dog run of the game and what unfolded would be pod...

Big moment for the podcast this week: the guys welcome their very first guest to the studio! Podcaster/Actor/Musician/Theme Song Composer Mark Rosenthal joins Jack and Jeremy to share their favorite baseball songs! Lots of hot takes in this ep! At the top of the show, we also share our All-Star Ballots and Jeremy catches A LOT of flack for his hipster-centric voting patterns. And stay tuned after...

WARNING: The guys work a little blue at the top of the show, starting off with a stomach-turning story of an inebriated passenger on the train back from the game. From there they venture into stories about a group of wiseass teens trying to publicly embarrass their friend and a couple of vocal and rule-breaking bathroom patrons...and then eventually get around to talking about the game. They (try...

This week Jack and Jeremy run down their lists of favorite players from their childhood, both hometown and out of town. But before that, Jeremy shares a tale of a World Series bet gone wrong(!) and gives a mini-update from the 6/18/18 Dodgers @ Cubs rain out, including a story of how he scared Cody Bellinger! Jack shares a stirring interview conducted with White Sox catching great Ron Karkovice an...

Woo doggies do we have a jam packed episode for you this week! Jack and Jeremy took in two games for this one and are here to bring you the full reports! First up we have the 6/11/18 Cleveland Indians @ Chicago White Sox matchup! We hear about uninspired, generic White Sox fan chants, unlikely Knoxville, Tennessee resident Yan Gomes, and the sordid, secret world of beer vendor drama. Then the guys...

This week Jack and Jeremy share their respective baseball bucket lists with each other and, well, it ends up turning into a bit of a brag-fest about events they actually have seen (at least for Jeremy). They also touch on the 2018 MLB Draft, Jack learns about Morganna - the infamous "Kissing Bandit", and we receive an update about Johnsonville Chorizo sausages from a listener.

Jack and Jeremy make their triumphant return to the great state of Wisconsin to see the New York Mets take on the Milwaukee Brewers. We hear about Jeremy's cheese curd quest, a dark story from Jack's past involving a scarring t-shirt toss fracas, and we meet our newest outspoken fountain of misinformation and mind-numbingly inane anecdotes, "The Eager Leaner"! You're gonna want to stick around for...