The Hot Corner: Recent Episodes
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Airing live at 8:00 AM every Tuesday and always accessible online, The Hot Corner on 88.9 The Bridge brings you all the baseball and football knowledge you need. Listen to hosts McLean and Jared play high-intensity knowledge games and break down all of the MLB and NFL’s front-page news. If you want to hear all the baseball and football content you can handle, The Hot Corner is the show for you!
Jared and McLean remember their password to upload shows! This is Jared's swan song and he ends his Hot Corner tenure by critiquing McLean's five year plan for the Cubs! Listen in tonight, June 9th, for Jared's encore with the sports crew of 889 The Bridge.
Your hosts are back! Technical issues kept us off the air last week but we are back in full force discussing our favorite rookies, the role of advanced stats in today's game, the theory of groundball pitchers, and the future coming to an outfield corner near you.
Your hosts tackle their new time slot by discussing the disappearance of small-ball offense, Madison Bumgarner's seven-inning feat, what to do with the questions around hitting pitchers, a path forwards to temper three-true-outcome baseball, and an analysis on where Patrick Corbin is going wrong
Jared and McLean take on a new time slot by discussing which teams surprised them the most and if their unexpected success is sustainable. They also share their MVP ladders and some disagreements are thrown about. Plus, they take a look at the state of the AL East and all of its chaos.
Jared and McLean are back to discuss the league's first week of action, looks at all of the division winners and underperformers across the league, Rookie of the Year picks and sleepers, when Mariners fans can expect to see top prospect Jarred Kelenic, an all-time great showing by the San Diego Padres' Joe Musgrove, and the up-and-down starts of both the Cubs and Cardinals. For all of the MLB's front page news, The Hot Corner is the show for you.
Prediction time yet again! Who is in Mclean and Jared's top 3 for NL Cy Young for the 2021 season? Guess you will have to listen in to truly find out...
Jared and McLean get back at it and discuss Opening Day starting pitchers for the league's April 1 slate, the NCAA tourney, and their definitive NL Central rankings
LOTS OF GREAT CONTENT FOR YA THIS WEEK. It's AL Central time for rankings who will win this tough division??? Stay tuned to find out.
LOTS of predictions... Jared spends 15 minutes talking about the Rockies while Mclean makes dumb jokes about unrelated topics... Wow, Jared did spend way too much time on the Rockies.
Lots... I mean Lots of things to talk about in this episode... All the way from Bigotry in the Mariners Organizations to Pujols potential retiring. All in a jam-packed episode that you don't want to miss.
Get ready for some predicting!!!! Lots of talk about what the AL east will end up like and who will win!! Join us on this episode to go in-depth on these divisions!! Sorry if you're seeing this a tad late... Oops! (:
Let's just get straight to it... Cardinals gave up NOTHING for the league's best third baseman!!! Learn more details about the trade, Slam Diego Padres, Dodgers, and other great topics throughout this episode!
Jared and McLean reflect on the careers and lives of Don Sutton and Hank Aaron as well as discuss all the pitchers moving around the league and the game's relationship with its' cheaters
McLean and Jared break down the Francisco Lindor trade, the Mets' situation at second base, the San Diego Padres, Atlanta's star-studded corps, the value of superutility players to championship teams, and the new dimension that haunted stadiums would bring to the game.
An Episode that involves a lot of Cleveland Indians.....Oh, wait I mean the Cleveland Baseball Club.... Oh, wait I mean the Spiders. Whatever it ends up being, we can all agree that ANYTHING is better than the Indians. Not to mention that the Mets continue to splash in FA... As Beyonce once said, "If you like it then you should've put a ring on it" And the Mets have taken that to heart.
WOW! Lots of topics today... All the way from Dick Allen to the Mets and White Sox gunning for it all. Enjoy this jam-packed episode of goodies!!
Just another day in the books for Jared and Mclean as they discuss the historic signing of Kim Ng, talk about how we would build the bluejays to make them a playoff threat and in general all of the news surrounding baseball right now.
Finally some quality sounding content! Rookie of the year has been released and Foolish Baseball has Jared talking about the Marlins. This episode talks about all of the awful teams in the sport along with some exciting free agency coming soon!!!
Jared Is back in town!! And with his return comes plenty of bloating about his ingenious Cy Young prediction!! Much more is discussed in the first real episode in quite some time!!
A bonus episode of The Hot Corner, in this shortened show Jared and McLean talk about their NLCS and ALCS predictions
Welcome back to Season 3 of the Hot Corner!!! Today was our beginning episode of the season so we thought we'd just talk about anything that came to mind. We predicted the remainder of the playoff bracket and much more!! See you next episode!!
Jared and McLean wrap up the Hot Corner's second season by discussing the HR record, the latest proposal for a shortened season, and Joey Votto's reaction to protests against police brutality. Then they continue the Reasons To Watch segment and highlight a couple of reasons to tune in to Pirates and Tigers games.
Hosts Jared and McLean begin to wind down the year by bringing the latest on the possibility of a 2020 MLB season, plus continue their Reasons To Watch segment by talking about why fans should watch the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays. Also discussed is the importance of back-end starters, McLean's love of superutility players, and what the show could possibly look like next year.
The Hot Corner marches on with another episode, breaking down the latest on Trevor Bauer and updates on the Players' Union's negotiations with the MLB. McLean and Jared also kick off a new series where they look at some of baseball's teams without that much in the win column and highlight other reasons to watch this team.
Hosts Jared and McLean keep it going on The Hot Corner, breaking down all the latest news from the Players Union, LeBron's company's documentary about the Astros scandal, Derek Dietrich's hot month of May in 2019, the best free games on mlb.tv, and one of the weirdest perfect games in history.
Jared and McLean continue throughout season 2 to talk baseball, in this episode Mclean and Jared talk about CC Sabathia's very untraditional retirement and they decide to bring one of Mclean's games from The Rutabega's down to the show. Although there is no Baseball, there is definitely no shortage of content. Join us next Tuesday for another fun episode
Jared and McLean continue throughout season 2 to talk baseball, breaking down their picks for the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year of both leagues. Also discussed is the Players' League, Steven Brault's country album, and how different .265 is in different contexts
The eleventh complete show and fourth stay-home show sees hosts Jared and McLean talk about baseball's likely MVPs as well as a couple of dark horse picks for both leagues. Also, the meaningless Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues might be important now? Listen to hear all this and more on 88.9 The Bridge's best baseball show
A month after it hits the airwaves, the Lost Episode of the Hot Corner gets immortalized digitally where hosts McLean and Jared talk about the NL Central and argue a lot . (There's a reason this was a lost episode) Listen for a thrill ride of a baseball talk show, only on 88.9 The Bridge
Jared and Mclean are back again but this time with a very special guest...... Mariner Max!!! The three of them discuss every thing from the less talked about players in the majors to their predictions on the NL East. Tune in on Tuesdays at 8:00 to hear the best baseball show on 88.9 The Bridge
With the Carona Virus sweeping the Nation. Jared and Mclean Craftily found a way to still record an episode highlighting the NL West and the New York Golden Mic Awards. Tune in of Tuesdays at 8:00 to hear the best baseball show on 88.9 The Bridge
With Spring Training completely underway, your hosts Jared and McLean take a looooong look at the AL Central and AL West division races and look at the present and future of the game as represented by their highlighted players of the day. Tune in of Tuesdays at 8:00 to hear the best baseball show on 88.9 The Bridge
As Spring Training crawls onward and Opening Day grows closer, hosts McLean and Jared break down the AL East, mispronounce the names of many MLB players, take a look at some impact players for the 2020 season, and talk about... merch? Listen to The Hot Corner for all the baseball knowledge you can handle!
In a more serious episode of The Hot Corner, hosts Jared and McLean break down their prospects to watch for the 2020 season, Spring Training highlights, how to tell if pitchers are good, and... hockey? Listen to The Hot Corner every Tuesday from 8 AM to 9:30 AM Pacific time, only 88.9 The Bridge.
Hosts Jared and McLean put up a great showing in a three-game slate of their sports knowledge games, argue about the superior NL Central team (again), break down the proposed changes to the MLB playoff format, and discuss... journalism?
In another episode of The Hot Corner, hosts Jared and McLean play more games and discuss lots of events.
We can upload again! IN a shortened episode, hosts Jared and McLean break down their predictions for the NL Central, the diaspora of the 2017 Marlins and 2018 Mariners, and Jared adds another flawless boss fight to his resume in the Journeyman Game
Join us on The Hot Corner!!! The only show where a Cubs and Cardinals fan actually can talk civilly. It's live on Tuesdays 8-9:30 AM to hear all the fun games, witty banter, and baseball knowledge you can handle.