The Brothers Brandt Sports Podcast

The Little League World Series is an annual youth tournament held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for baseball players aged 10 to 12 years old. The Series was first held in 1947 and takes place every August on the nicest youth baseball fields in the world at Howard J. Lamade Stadium and Volunteer Stadium at the Little League International headquarters complex. This event is a worldwide tournament an...

Enjoy this episode as we take you through a virtual tour of Cooperstown, NY. Cooperstown is roughly a one-square-mile village in central New York state, about four hours north of New York City.  It is widely known for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, with its interactive exhibits, artifacts and iconic Plaque Gallery.  With a population of about 2,000 people, Cooperstown is a quaint c...

Well it's official... Steve Sparks... is a friend of the Pod! What an incredible experience connecting with Steve. Growing up as kids, we used to play a baseball video game on XBOX called MVP Baseball and who was our knuckleball pitcher we used... Steve Sparks. Pretty epic to have him on the pod. In this episode you will hear probably the craziest story of how Steve took his path to the Majors. He...

In 2014, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the debut of the "show about nothing," the Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league baseball team, renamed their MCU ballpark in Brooklyn, New York for a promo night to honor the legendary, made-up latex business in the 1990’s sitcom Seinfeld by calling it, “Vandelay Industries Park.”  And it didn’t stop there.  It drew a sell-out, packed crowd of Seinfeld ent...

Wow! This was an incredible podcast interview. Get ready for the 1-2 jab and watch out for the left hook in this episode. Gerry Cooney is one of the ALL TIME greatest boxers to ever step into the ring. He grew up on Long Island and found the boxing gym in his early teens during the 70's. He took the boxing world by storm with his power and tenacity. Gerry became a professional boxer on February 15...

Well folks, here we have it. The game of all games... the Super Bowl. Going to a Super Bowl should be on every person's bucket list. Period. End of Story! If you have been following along, this is Part  3 /3 of our Super Bowl Trip. And what a way to cap off our first ever Super Bowl. The Patriots vs. Seahawks Super Bowl will go down in history as one of the best finishes/ if not the best finish in...

What up everybody! Hope you are staying strong during this quarantine. We are so excited to share this story with you. In this episode, Rick and I go into the heavy details of ALL the AMAZING EVENTS during the Super Bowl Week. If you are going to a Super Bowl, we cannot recommend enough taking off the entire week from work and enjoying the city hosting the Super Bowl. At the very least, come in on...

What up everybody! We had the pleasure of zooming in with Founder and President of TeamWork Online - Buffy Filippell. If you have ever applied for a sports related career, chances are you did it through TeamWork Online. Buffy created TeamWork Online 30 years ago way before LinkedIn, Indeed and Monster.com. TeamWork is the frontrunner in the sports recruitment industry and many executives have Buff...

Coach Rob Mendez was the winner of the 2019 Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at the ESPYS (check the youtube link at the bottom to see his speech). Rob was born without arms and legs, but he was determined to be a football coach. In this episode, we talk about growing up in Gilroy, CA and the support Rob had with his friends and family. We discuss sports growing up and Sharks Hockey. We talk about R...

Enjoy listening to us chatting it up with the University of Georgia's Athletic Director, Greg McGarity. Greg has an amazing story that you can't really script. In this episode, we talk his childhood growing up in Athens, playing tennis at UGA, starting his working career at UGA, UF and back at UGA. Georgia is a storied athletic university and there is not a lot that Greg didn't have his hands on w...

What up everybody! This is one of those feel good stories for sure. Rick and I dive deep into the baseball career of Zack Granite. Zack grew up on Staten Island and was a die hard Yankee Fan from birth. He even has a family dog named "Jeter." He started his baseball career right on the block playing at the neighborhood park. It was there that Zack developed hitting the ball up the middle. He enjoy...

When people look at all the road trips and sporting events Rick and myself have been to, they are always amazed and in aw of the accomplishments and games checked off the bucket list. On the other side, this is the man that Rick and I look up to! Ram Silverman is the Godfather of tickets. He started out as a bartender in Miami and at 27 got introduced to the world of ticket sales. Him and his part...

Tie those spikes tight, put on the eye black, step into the batter's box  and get ready for some fastballs because we are coming in HOT! We had a blast interviewing Ryan and Jake Kalish. We went all the way back to middle school days and Bagel Masters and all the way to the big league journey. Ryan talks about what it was like to be drafted by the Red Sox out of high school and his quest up to the...

People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did but they will never forget how you made them feel. Rick and I have had the privilege of meeting Todd Frazier twice before baseball games we attended. Every time he made us feel like we were the only ones in the ball park. We will always remember that! Raised on the Jersey Shore, Todd grew up in a house that was no stranger to the Majo...

Lace up your running shoes and get the stop watches ready because Timmy Gorman is coming in HOT! Timmy grew up with us in the same home town of Little Silver, NJ. He started his career in track and field during middle school at Markham Place. Then he made the move to Christian Brothers Academy. Freshman year Timmy tried out for the cross country team and was one of the worst runners but kept in th...

What up podcasters! I hope you are enjoying the ride. This episode is our favorite thus far!! The reason being, we had our first ever interview and it was with our great friend, Shane McCarthy. We've known Shane since he was 10 years old growing up in Little Silver, NJ. Rick umpired a lot of Shane's baseball games as a kid. Shane attended Rumson Fair Haven H.S. and was a star pitcher there. After...

What up everyone! We are rolling into Pittsburgh hot after tearing up the town of South Bend with our good friend and golden domer, Timmy Galano. What a blast at Notre Dame. We are rockin' a 7-1 record on our trip thus far, and excited to be in the Steel City with our friend Colin Lang. Enjoy our stories of our first double header... a Pirates game at 1pm and a Steelers game at 8pm. Shout out to C...

Buckle up your seat belts for this WILD adventure into South Bend, Indiana. We are cruising into town, hot, from our time at Wrigley suffering our first loss on the road trip. We are 6-1 on the road trip and we are coming into town guns a blazing friends (and by guns I mean party hats on). Enjoy the tales of our trip to Notre Dame. Here, we partied like Golden Domers, drank like the Irish and won...

Strap on your history helmet! This episode is going to rock your world with history knowledge of Wrigley Field. It is the home to the Chicago Cubs. We drove up from STL, took part in the best stadium tour ever on Thursday and enjoyed a beer and hotdog along the first baseline for a Friday day game at Wrigley. Wow! I just got chills writing this. Enjoy the story of our 7th sporting event in 8 days!...

After soaking up  the Field of Dreams, Rick and I headed down to Kansas City to check out Kauffman Stadium and see back-to-back Royals games. We stayed with a friend of a friend. It was a blast; we felt like we were staying at a Four Seasons. The next night, we slept in a parking garage in Saint Louis. Enjoy theses stories :) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a pod...

When Rick and I share our EPIC sports road trip stories, everyone asks " what inspired these?" The answer: a quest to the Field of Dreams. This episode is the reason we did our first ever sports road trip. In this episode you will hear about our run in with the law, The Field of Dreams movie starring Kevin Coster, Chicago White Sox History and hear how we played a game at our "heaven" on earth. So...

This episode highlights game 3 and 4 of our epic sports road trip across the Midwest. Milwaukee is our HQ for 3 days. Craig Pigs for MVP. Enjoy as we tell the stories of our experiences at the “Frozen Tundra” aka Lambeau Field home of the Packers and Brewers Baseball game. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https...

Enjoy these epic sports road trips where two Jersey bro’s turn nosebleed tickets into Ulitmate upgrades at the Detroit Tigers and Michigan Wolverines games.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebrothersbrandt/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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