Erik Manning

Hosts: Tom Summary:  Erik Manning from FutureRedbirds.net is my guest.  Erik talks about Future Redbirds and what his website is all about.  He then gives his analysis of the Cardinals’ farm system. Finally, Erik does touch on the Cardinals’ big league team and talk about their chances in 2008. Time: 31:53 Date Recorded: 7:24/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom Summary: Erik Manning from <a href="http://www.FutureRedbirds.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FutureRedbirds.net</a> is my guest.  Erik talks about Future Redbirds and what his website is all about.  He then gives his analysis of the Cardinals’ farm system. Finally, Erik does touch on the Cardinals’ big league team and talk about their chances in 2008. Time: 31:53 Date Recorded: 7:24/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/046-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)</h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

046- Interview with Erik Manning of FutureRedbirds.net

Hosts: Tom and Todd Summary:  On the night before the All-Star Game, Todd and Tom discuss the Brewers and Cubs trades for starting pitching then hit on the All-Star voting.  We then do a quick wrap up of the MLB division by division.    Time: 41:46 Date Recorded: 7:14/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom and Todd Summary:  On the night before the All-Star Game, Todd and Tom discuss the Brewers and Cubs trades for starting pitching then hit on the All-Star voting.  We then do a quick wrap up of the MLB division by division.    Time: 41:46 Date Recorded: 7:14/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/045-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)</h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

045- Trade Talk and All-Star Jabbering

Erick Robertson

Hosts: Tom Summary:  It’s been a while since we’ve put out a show but this is a good one.  Teddy Ballgame and CLuke put me in touch with Erick Robertson who is a programmer who has created an online fantasy baseball “universe”.  I took the time to create a login at Sim Yard and it looks pretty interesting.  It allows people to create teams of players and and build franchises.  It’s a brand new project so we thought we get Erick on the show to talk about it.  Using the best marketing tool out there, viral marketing, Sim Yard lets people play for free for as long as they want.  Of course, if you want to build a franchise, the subscription route is the way to go.  Erick explains that Sim Yard is not just about winning the game but also developing your ballclub and increasing your franchise revenue.   While we were emailing each other about logistics, Erick told me he had the chance to watch more than a few baseball games while in Japan.  Not only that, he took part in one of Hanshin Tigers’ cheerleading organizations.  So I couldn’t pass up the chance to ask Erick about his experience with Japanese baseball from a fan’s perspective.  Finally, Erick is a Cubs fan so we  wrap up the show trying not to get too giddy about the Cubs’ latest successes.  Thanks to Erick for being on the show! Time: 49:21 Date Recorded: 6:15/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom Summary:  It’s been a while since we’ve put out a show but this is a good one.  Teddy Ballgame and CLuke put me in touch with Erick Robertson who is a programmer who has created an online fantasy baseball “universe”.  I took the time to create a login at <a href="http://www.simyard.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sim Yard</a> and it looks pretty interesting.  It allows people to create teams of players and and build franchises.  It’s a brand new project so we thought we get Erick on the show to talk about it.  Using the best marketing tool out there, viral marketing, Sim Yard lets people play for free for as long as they want.  Of course, if you want to build a franchise, the subscription route is the way to go.  Erick explains that Sim Yard is not just about winning the game but also developing your ballclub and increasing your franchise revenue.   <a></a>While we were emailing each other about logistics, Erick told me he had the chance to watch more than a few baseball games while in Japan.  Not only that, he took part in one of Hanshin Tigers’ cheerleading organizations.  So I couldn’t pass up the chance to ask Erick about his experience with Japanese baseball from a fan’s perspective.  Finally, Erick is a Cubs fan so we  wrap up the show trying not to get too giddy about the Cubs’ latest successes.  Thanks to Erick for being on the show! Time: 49:21 Date Recorded: 6:15/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/044-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)</h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

044- Interview with Erick Robertson of Simyard

Hosts: Tom, Tedd, Chuck Summary:   Our first roundtable of the year.  Tom, Todd, and Chuck discuss the first week of Major League Baseball with special emphasis on the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs. We get a few words in about the University of Illinois baseball team, too. Time: 45:38 Date Recorded: 4/6/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom, Tedd, Chuck Summary:   Our first roundtable of the year.  Tom, Todd, and Chuck discuss the first week of Major League Baseball with special emphasis on the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs. We get a few words in about the University of Illinois baseball team, too. Time: 45:38 Date Recorded: 4/6/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/043-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)</h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

043- First BZR Roundtable of 2008 season

Hosts: Tom Summary:   In a special show, I interview Shawn Roof.  Roof is a former Illini who was drafted into the Detroit Tigers organization in 2007.  He talks to us from the Tigers spring training camp in Lakeland, Florida.  Roof talks about life in the minor leagues, his daily routine in spring training now and his thoughts on his old alum, University of Illinois and their chances in 2008. Time: 16:33 Date Recorded: 3/6/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom Summary:   In a special show, I interview Shawn Roof.  Roof is a former Illini who was drafted into the Detroit Tigers organization in 2007.  He talks to us from the Tigers spring training camp in Lakeland, Florida.  Roof talks about life in the minor leagues, his daily routine in spring training now and his thoughts on his old alum, University of Illinois and their chances in 2008. Time: 16:33 Date Recorded: 3/6/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/042-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)</h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

042- Interview with Tigers Minor Leaguer Shawn Roof

Teddy Ballgame

Hosts: Tom and Tedd Summary:   Regular Tedd Mallasch, aka Teddy Ballgame, phones in an interview from Florida where he is enjoying some spring training games.  He updates on what he has seen and who he has talked to. Check out Teddy’s daily reports from Florida on The Baseball Zealot. Time: 28:41 Date Recorded: 3/3/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom and Tedd Summary:   Regular Tedd Mallasch, aka Teddy Ballgame, phones in an interview from Florida where he is enjoying some spring training games.  He updates on what he has seen and who he has talked to. <a href="http://www.thebaseballzealot.com/category/2008-spring-training-trip/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out Teddy’s daily reports from Florida on The Baseball Zealot.</a> Time: 28:41 Date Recorded: 3/3/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/041-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)</h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

041- An update from Teddy Ballgame from the Grapefruit League

Brian DeCaussin

Hosts: Tom Summary:   I interview Brian DeCaussin from Big Ten Hardball.  Brian reviews the Big Ten baseball teams and we take a look at the first weekend of Big Ten baseball.  Time: 26:10 Date Recorded: 2/26/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)  Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom Summary:   I interview Brian DeCaussin from <a href="http://bigtenhardball.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Big Ten Hardball</a>.  Brian reviews the Big Ten baseball teams and we take a look at the first weekend of Big Ten baseball.  Time: 26:10 Date Recorded: 2/26/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/040-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) </h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

040- Interview with Big Ten Hardball’s Brian DeCaussin

Hosts: Tom and Todd  Summary:   With Spring Training beginning this week, Todd and I chat about the latest in baseball news,  We cover the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Roger Clemens ordeal, Alfonso Soriano, and a few of the trades and signings in the off-season.    Time: 45:10 Date Recorded: 2/17/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom and Todd  Summary:   With Spring Training beginning this week, Todd and I chat about the latest in baseball news,  We cover the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Roger Clemens ordeal, Alfonso Soriano, and a few of the trades and signings in the off-season.  Time: 45:10 Date Recorded: 2/17/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/039-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)</h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

039- Spring Training is here! Todd and I catch up

Brian Foley

Hosts: Tom: Summary:   I interview Brian Foley from The College Baseball Blog.  Brian chats a bit how The College Blog came about, sums up the 2007 college postseason and gives us a pre-season look at this year’s college baseball.  Finally, we discuss where college baseball is headed as a college sport. Links:   The College Baseball Blog Time: 28:39 Date Recorded: 2/10/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom: Summary:   I interview Brian Foley from The College Baseball Blog.  Brian chats a bit how The College Blog came about, sums up the 2007 college postseason and gives us a pre-season look at this year’s college baseball.  Finally, we discuss where college baseball is headed as a college sport. Links:  <a href="http://thecollegebaseballblog.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The College Baseball Blog</a> Time: 28:39 Date Recorded: 2/10/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/038-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)</h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

038- Interview with The College Baseball Blog’s Brian Foley

Dan Gordon

Hosts: Tom: Summary:  In this week’s show, I interview author Dan Gordon who has just come out with his book, Haunted Baseball:  Ghosts, Curses, Legends and Eerie Events with co-author Mickey Bradley.  Dan talks about the impetus to write his book and relates some of the stories he heard when he and Mickey interviewed hundreds of baseball players in researching the book. Links:   Haunted Baseball book web site Haunted Baseball review on The Baseball Zealot Time: 22:28 Date Recorded: 2/5/08   (Click Podcast icon to listen to the show) Listen to the show via iTunes!

Hosts: Tom: Summary:  In this week’s show, I interview author Dan Gordon who has just come out with his book, Haunted Baseball:  Ghosts, Curses, Legends and Eerie Events with co-author Mickey Bradley.  Dan talks about the impetus to write his book and relates some of the stories he heard when he and Mickey interviewed hundreds of baseball players in researching the book. Links:  <a href="http://www.hauntedbaseball.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Haunted Baseball book web site</a> <a href="http://www.thebaseballzealot.com/books/book-review-haunted-baseball/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Haunted Baseball review on The Baseball Zealot</a> Time: 22:28 Date Recorded: 2/5/08 <a href="http://baseballzealotradio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/bzrmp3/037-BaseballZealotRadio.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <h4>(Click Podcast icon to listen to the show)</h4> <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207695332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen to the show via iTunes!</a>

037- Interview with Haunted Baseball author Dan Gordon

A weekly show discussing the latest in baseball news.  We have news, analysis and opinions of Major League Baseball and sometimes delve in the history of the great sport of baseball.  We occasionally bring in special guests from the baseball world

this is the biggest problem with podcasts.   anyone can have one.  this guy seems to love the game of baseball, and may be pertty knowlegebale about it, but his stuttering, stamering delivery is absoulutely unlistenable.  some people just were not meant for talking on the radio.  

this may come off as mean, but....

This is a great podcast. Try to make more of it for now on. Ok?

dude

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Roger Ailes started Fox News and is described by many as one of the main drivers of the polarisation of US politics. 
If you don't know about Ailie you should. A great place to start is the ShowTime miniseries "The Loudest Voice". 
This interview is with Joe Lindsley who worked directly for Ailes for 2 years. 
"Very earlier on, Roger called me Ailes Junior. He told my dad, 'I've never met anyone more like me than Joe.'" As the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, Joe Lindsley was closer to the man who built Fox News than any Fox executive.
Lindsley recounts how Ailes would routinely ask him to change media coverage of stories based on 'who is good and bad' and how Ailes said 'there is no such thing as truth'. 
This interview corroborates much of the TV miniseries "The Loudest Voice".

A 1st hand account of Roger Ailes

"Very earlier on, Roger called me Ailes Junior. He told my dad, 'I've never met anyone more like me than Joe.'" As the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, Joe Lindsley was closer to the man who built Fox News than any Fox executive. He helped write Ailes' speeches, sat next to him at executive meetings, and went to church with his family on Sundays. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan? For a deeper dive into his epic odyssey, check out Joe's memoir — Fake News / True Story: www.inkshares.com/books/fake-news-true-story

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"Very earlier on, Roger called me Ailes Junior. He told my dad, 'I've never met anyone more like me than Joe.'" As the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, Joe Lindsley was closer to the man who built Fox News than any Fox executive. He helped write Ailes' speeches, sat next to him at executive meetings, and went to church with his family on Sundays. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan? For a deeper dive into his epic odyssey, check out Joe's memoir — Fake News / True Story: <a href="https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inkshares.com%2Fbooks%2Ffake-news-true-story&amp;token=d4a977-1-1558671273247" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.inkshares.com/books/fake-news-true-story</a>

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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair sits down with Glenn Thrush in London to discuss the relationship between American and British politics, his close relationship with the Clintons, Brexit, and the danger of approaching politics with a closed-mind.

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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair sits down with Glenn Thrush in London to discuss the relationship between American and British politics, his close relationship with the Clintons, Brexit, and the danger of approaching politics with a closed-mind.

Tony Blair: Centrism may be dead

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Elizabeth Kolbert covers climate change for the New Yorker. She's the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. And she recently wrote a paragraph I can't stop thinking about. "The problem with global warming—and the reason it continues to resist illustration, even as the streets flood and the forests die and the mussels rot on the shores—is that experience is an inadequate guide to what’s going on. The climate operates on a time delay. When carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, it takes decades—in a technical sense, millennia—for the earth to equilibrate. This summer’s fish kill was a product of warming that had become inevitable twenty or thirty years ago, and the warming that’s being locked in today won’t be fully felt until today’s toddlers reach middle age. In effect, we are living in the climate of the past, but already we’ve determined the climate’s future."Kolbert lives, to an unusual degree, in the planet's future. She travels to the places around the world where the climate of tomorrow is visible today. She has watched glaciers melting, and seen species dying. And she is able to convey both the science and the cost with a rare lucidity. Talking with Kolbert left me with an unnerving thought. We look back on past eras in human history and judge them morally failed. We think of the Spanish Inquisition or the Mongol hordes and believe ourselves civilized, rational, moral in a way our ancestors weren't. But if the science is right, and we do unto our descendants what the data says we are doing to them, we will be judged monsters. And it will be all the worse because we knew what we were doing and we knew how to stop, but we decided it was easier to disbelieve the science or ignore the consequences. Kolbert and I talk about the consequences, but also about what would be necessary to stabilize the climate and back off the mass extinction event that is currently underway. We discuss geoengineering, political will, the environmental cost of meat, and what individuals can and can't do. We talk about Trump's cabinet, about whether technological innovation will save us, and if pricing carbon is enough. We talk about whether hope remains a realistic emotion when it comes to our environmental future.Books:-Edward Abbe’s “Desert Solitaire”-Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”-David G. Haskell’s “The Forest Unseen”-Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Elizabeth Kolbert covers climate change for the New Yorker. She's the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. And she recently wrote a paragraph I can't stop thinking about. "The problem with global warming—and the reason it continues to resist illustration, even as the streets flood and the forests die and the mussels rot on the shores—is that experience is an inadequate guide to what’s going on. The climate operates on a time delay. When carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, it takes decades—in a technical sense, millennia—for the earth to equilibrate. This summer’s fish kill was a product of warming that had become inevitable twenty or thirty years ago, and the warming that’s being locked in today won’t be fully felt until today’s toddlers reach middle age. In effect, we are living in the climate of the past, but already we’ve determined the climate’s future."Kolbert lives, to an unusual degree, in the planet's future. She travels to the places around the world where the climate of tomorrow is visible today. She has watched glaciers melting, and seen species dying. And she is able to convey both the science and the cost with a rare lucidity. Talking with Kolbert left me with an unnerving thought. We look back on past eras in human history and judge them morally failed. We think of the Spanish Inquisition or the Mongol hordes and believe ourselves civilized, rational, moral in a way our ancestors weren't. But if the science is right, and we do unto our descendants what the data says we are doing to them, we will be judged monsters. And it will be all the worse because we knew what we were doing and we knew how to stop, but we decided it was easier to disbelieve the science or ignore the consequences. Kolbert and I talk about the consequences, but also about what would be necessary to stabilize the climate and back off the mass extinction event that is currently underway. We discuss geoengineering, political will, the environmental cost of meat, and what individuals can and can't do. We talk about Trump's cabinet, about whether technological innovation will save us, and if pricing carbon is enough. We talk about whether hope remains a realistic emotion when it comes to our environmental future.Books:-Edward Abbe’s “Desert Solitaire”-Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”-David G. Haskell’s “The Forest Unseen”-Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change

Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan delve deep on free speech for 3 hours! Somehow it gets more interesting through the episode, not less! Hear why often it's best to "be tolerant of the intolerable".
Canada tried to pass laws compelling people to use pronouns like zi and zur. Should you be compelled to call someone a certain pronoun? Jordan Peterson pushed back saying he had no problems using pronouns like zi and zur for people who have non-traditional genders, but that he had a problem being compelled by law to use certain pronouns. 
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire. 
We have gone from homosexuality being illegal in most of the west 60 years ago to same sex marriage being legal today. "Free speech is the master value because it is the value which allows us to update all other values." Sam Harris.

Free speech, only a small topic!

Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and tenured professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos  100% off the Future Authoring Program code: "ChangeYourself" - The offer is valid until the end of Nov 30th.

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