The Moonlight Graham Show

Sometimes, a Moonlighter finds a role and sometimes a Moonlighter needs to make a role. While the average Joe can't even come close, a 5'9 righty who throws around 90 is a dime-a-dozen in professional baseball. This week's Moonlighter created a role for himself in that got him into a major league bullpen. Just like his knuckleball, Jannis's career took a less than traditional path to his MLB debut...

This week's Moonlighter takes looking like a pro to a whole new level. If you google Gar Ryness, the internet refers to him as "an American sports entertainer". And while you may not know that name, or what an American sports entertainer is, you have probably seen an online video of Ryness doing his impressions of batting stances and what can only be described as baseball comedy sketches.

As the Des Moines area gears up to host the production of the new Field of Dreams show, Tim and Neil discuss the next era of the film's saga.

Part of being a role player is doing the things just off of center stage. Facilitating, supporting, and generally making sure the show goes on without a hitch. Sometimes you don't even know a good role player's name but you can't miss their impact. This week's guest is an official who was on the court with some of the biggest names in basketball history but most people don't know his name; just th...

On this week's Moonlight Baseball Hour Tim and Neil celebrate Anthony Rendon's left-handed home run off Brett Phillips, which could be the highlight of the year thus far. They also dive into the dead ball conspiracy theory and lay out all of the reasons Iowa should continue to play baseball in the summer.

The Moonlight Graham Show is nothing if not loyal. And what sports relationship better represents that loyalty, through thick and thin, than a golfer and his caddy? Tim returns to the links with our favorite golfer Sam Meuret to take another swing at qualifying for the US Open.

The Moonlight Gambler, alias: Tom Hagan, returns to the podcast a year after his uncanny prediction of last year's scandal at the Kentucky Derby. With one of the most exciting events in sports just around the corner, we wanted to get Tom Hagan back on the pod to talk all things horse racing and give the Moonlight listeners the inside track as they head to the bookies to place their bets.

Anna DiTommaso, from Baseball Bucket List, joins the Moonlight Baseball Hour to discuss the best and worst of the City Connect Uniforms, Miguel Cabrera joining the 3,000 hit club, the best cities for MLB expansion, and our thoughts on new technology in the game.

This week Moonlight Graham brings you an underdog NFL draft scout of our very own. Nick Clark loves college and NFL football. More than just watching games, he loves breaking down the players and looking at what NFL teams need. What started as a hobby in high school has turned into a full-blown passion project for Nick Clark. NCtheScout joins the pod this week to get us ready for the 2022 NFL Draf...

In this week's Moonlight Baseball Hour Tim and Neil discuss Clayton Kershaw's 7-Inning Perfect Game, Seiya Suzuki's introduction to Chicago, and Vlad Guerrero Jr.'s 3 home run game in Yankee Stadium.

As a midwest sports podcast with a diehard baseball fan as its host, of course, the Twins have come up on this podcast more than a few times. Tim and the brothers Flattery have loved the Twins for their whole lives. Not only that, but their dad, Moonlighter Dave Flattery is a twin. We've even had some twin brothers on the pod over the years. But this week puts a whole new spin on the twin connecti...

They say good things come in small packages and this week's guest puts his own spin on that. Spencer Brown was a giant coming out of 8-man football and tiny Lenox, Iowa. Now, Spencer Brown is an absolute force on the field playing right tackle for the Buffalo Bills. How does a guy come from small-town ball and lightly recruited to starting 10 games for one of the best teams in professional footbal...

Neil and Tim are bursting with anticipation. Between Opening Day and Neil's baby on the way, there is a lot to be excited about in the Moonlight Graham world. It hardly seems possible that the opening day of the 2022 baseball season is here with all of the time the sports world spent talking about the lockout. Between the social media hot takes and the threats of a reduced season, it almost felt l...

Ben Ahlers is a blast from the past! Not only is he a repeat Moonlighter but he is a featured character in the new HBO show The Gilded Age. From the same team that created this hit series Downton Abbey , comes a historical fiction series about New York City just before the turn of the 20th Century. Ahlers recently took some of his time away from filming to return to the Moonlight Graham Show to ta...

We love repeat-Moonlighters and this week we bring back an all time great. Pat Hoberg isn't just a top tier Moonlighter though, he is also the number one umpire in Major League Baseball. The Urbandale native was the star of episode 103 when he was an up and comer in the Majors. He returns to the pod as arguably the best umpire in the world!

Now that the players and the league have settled the lockout we are ready for baseball after a (make it) rain delay. This week we have a guy whose career was put on a delay of it's own, Carter Baumler.

This week's Moonlighter made a career out of knowing how to play his role. On the court, he was a deadeye sharpshooter and gritty defender for Fred Hoiberg and the Cyclones. And while Scott Christopherson isn't technically an Iowan, he certainly became a favorite adopted son. Tim and Scott sit down this week to talk about all things-Cyclone basketball ahead of this weekend's Big 12 Men's Basketbal...

The Moonlight Graham Show is back with a new season, which is more than we can say for Major League Baseball. Emery Songer joins the pod this week to talk about the season that coulda/woulda/shoulda been. These amateurs have done some research and tried to get a better everyman's level of understanding about why we aren't getting excited for opening day right now.

Tim and Tom have the hottest takes on 2021 in the season finale of the Moonlight Graham Show.

This week's Moonlighter suited up for over 1,600 points and 3 NCAA tournaments between 1993 and 1999. Jess Settles was a big part of a lot of our childhoods because of just how long he spent on the roster for Tom Davis and that long stretch of winning Iowa basketball.

The American curling crew, with Shuster as their leader, got off to a slow start in South Korea. The 2018 gold was the result of getting hot at the right time. Shuster returns to the pod as he prepares to lead USA Curling into the upcoming Olympics in China. In this interview, Tim and John reflect on life since the 2018 games and preparing for his trip to China.

This week the Moonlight Graham Show puts our own spin on the GOAT conversation. Tim welcomes Moonlighters Jack Brownlee and Sean O'Hare to the studio to combine their wealth of Iowa boys' high school knowledge to create an 8 team bracket of the greatest teams from all classes and across time periods.

With the modern game so focused on scoring, a pass-first point guard almost seems like a relic. This week Tim sits down with one of the all-time great point guards in Iowa State history who just happens to be one of Tim's childhood heroes. Jacy Holloway was a Kansas boy who was recruited to Iowa State right at the time of the transition from Johnny Orr to Tim Floyd. Jacy's game was to protect the...