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Just a quick New Year's Message from your pal Sully at the corner of Orange Grove and Colorado in Pasadena.
Rob Manfred says he will not quit regarding the 2020 season. You know what? Maybe he should. Quitting is not always a bad thing!
I am back to vent about the insanity about baseball in the age of COVID. The Marlins can't play for a few days and players are taking votes about where to travel. This is insane!!!
Sure it is fun to have ballgames on. But the outbreak on the Marlins squad show that it is not smart.
I am using the old Sully Baseball feed to vent some thoughts. I am still hosting the podcast at Locked on MLB. But I felt like some of my more negative thoughts on starting the game should exist in a sponsor free zone. I will come back from time to time on this feed to vent honestly and express how I feel that baseball opening in a pandemic is a new level of irresponsibility.
This is a sneak preview of the brand new movies by minute podcast Bull Durham Minute. I am the host and will be breaking down the 1988 classic Bull Durham one minute at a time. This podcast will be appearing on its own feed that you can now subscribe to on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. For minute 4, Dan Epstein, the author of Stars and Strikes and Big Hair and Plastic Grass joins the show to talk baseball, rock and roll, baseball movies and North Carolina. Join the Bull Durham Minute Dugout on Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/928386427538867/ Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/BullDurhamMin
This is a sneak preview of the brand new movies by minute podcast Bull Durham Minute. I am the host and will be breaking down the 1988 classic Bull Durham one minute at a time. This podcast will be appearing on its own feed that you can subscribe to starting in January, 2020. For Minute 3, Tierney Steele (@OneSteeleSister )returns to talk about how fabulous Susan Sarandon is putting on make up, the incredible year of comedy that was 1988 and Iain Sclater's birthday party in 1980. Join the Bull Durham Minute Dugout on Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/928386427538867/ Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/BullDurhamMin
This is a sneak preview of the brand new movies by minute podcast Bull Durham Minute. I am the host and will be breaking down the 1988 classic Bull Durham one minute at a time. This podcast will be appearing on its own feed that you can subscribe to starting in January, 2020. For Minute 2, Tierney Steele (@OneSteeleSister ) joins the show and reveals that she has never seen Bull Durham. That does not matter. She watched the first 3 minutes without context and she already loves Susan Sarandon, even if she is not crazy about her accent nor her interior decoration. Join the Bull Durham Minute Dugout on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/928386427538867/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/BullDurhamMin
This is a sneak preview of the brand new movies by minute podcast Bull Durham Minute. I am the host and will be breaking down the 1988 classic Bull Durham one minute at a time. This podcast will be appearing on its own feed that you can subscribe to starting in January, 2020. In this minute I go over the origin of the podcast and salute Orion Pictures
Big news for fans of the Sully Baseball Podcast. I will be hosting a new show for the Locked On Podcasting Network called LOCKED ON MLB. The new show will launch on Monday March 25th. The show will cover baseball like we did in this podcast. I will talk about the state of the game, pennant races, uniforms, alternate timelines, stadium food and anything else that pops in my head. Essentially it will be a way to continue to travel down the River Sully in this upcoming exciting season. Make sure to subscribe on whatever platform you listen to podcasts and let's have a fun 2019 season.
Hello fans of Sully Baseball! I am back after an extended break in time to do that always fruitless exercise of making predictions for the season. I make my post season and individual award picks and will forever doom a franchise because I am ALWAYS wrong.
Happy New Year. I recorded my first podcast of 2019 looking over the remains of Candlestick Park and contemplating timelessness.
The World Series is over and now we go off to face life without the respite of baseball for a while. I had to take a few weeks off as life caught up with me and I will continue to go on hiatus. But I wanted to say hello, especially after my Red Sox won it all.
Before the Oakland/New York Wild Card Game, I gave my thoughts and concerns. Afterwards, I made sure the blame did NOT go on "Bullpenning" but on the A's inability to get the big hit. Plus I appreciated what the A's have achieved, as empty as it may feel.
As Vin Scully would say, not a bad opening act for the post season. Tony Wolters becomes the hero and demonstrates why baseball is so wonderful in creating unlikely immortals. Meanwhile Cub fans will take comfort that hurtful losses like this no longer have the baggage of the Cursed Days of the team.
FINALLY we know what the National League Post Season picture looks like. And man oh man will either the Rockies or the Cubs regret not winning just one more game in the regular season. I give the final Who Owns Baseball Tally and make my post season predictions.
The potential for full chaos at the end of the season was there in the National League. I checked in bit by bit throughout the day as the NL is STILL undecided after 162 games!
One thing is certain about the National League post season chase: Trying to predict it is an act of futility. I compared it to David Lynch's surreal movie Mulholland Drive. Trust me, the comparison makes sense.
Do you want an exciting final week of the season? Then you better start rooting for the Rockies to make things interesting. That and Bryce Harper's inevitable free agent departure from the Nationals might have him wind up in Philadelphia.
The Dodgers were left for dead less than a month ago. But after taking 5 of 6 from the Rockies, they have a clear path to get back to the NLCS. Meanwhile, Colorado might regret letting a once in a generation opportunity slip away.
The Yankees should be very worried if their bats remain this dead into October. Meanwhile, say what you want about the Rays new "Opener System." But it works and since late May, they are one of the best teams in baseball.
While standing on the Stanford campus, and avoiding a creepy guy, I look at the potential 100 win defending World Champion Astros as an unlikely post season underdog. Plus Rickey Henderson, with the benefit of time, has suddenly become old school and the type of player kids today should emulate.
The Indians will be the worst AL Playoff team... so naturally they are the first team to clinch a division. The concept of geographical divisions made sense once but are obsolete now. And my concept of playoff seeding would provide a ton of drama in the AL this year.
Are the Diamondbacks a dominant team powering their way into the post season? Or are they a maddeningly inconsistent team who find new ways to lose critical games? They have been both this year and that could cost them a chance at a winnable pennant.
Doing a Sunday Request from friend of the podcast CU8SFAN (aka Cubs Fan with an 8.) He wants to know which team should be the next great championship challenge for Theo Epstein after delivering to Red Sox and Cubs fans. He makes some suggestions. I have a thought of my own.
While at a rest stop traveling up the 5, I realized that neither the Mets nor the Los Angeles Dodgers have a franchise defining offensive superstar. I wondered if Mike Piazza had stayed with LA if he could have been that figure for the Dodgers. And would David Wright have been that player if he remained healthy?
Driving along along the 5 freeway, I began to think about ways to put together a pitching staff that doesn't require wearing a bullpen down but still tries to keep starters from facing an order more than twice. I have an idea.
When the World Series is clinched, a whole team will celebrate knowing they are champions. There are two categories of champions: Those who have never won one before and those who have. And in those categories, there are several subsets. Today, I will break those down.
This is my favorite part of the year as a baseball fan. It is like Christmas morning every day. Which is one reason it is so frustrating that the Red Sox have decided to coddle domestic abuser Steven Wright and make this month a whole lot less fun.
It is September and a bounce here or a bounce there will be the difference between playing in October or not. The Brewers get that and are fortifying their team in any way they can. Meanwhile Jim Kaat wrote a surreal tweet. Not only does it make Kaat look like a factually incorrect bitter old man, but it also illustrates a problem of how MLB markets and presents itself.
