Baseball 101A Podcast: Recent Episodes
Baseball 101
Baseball101A is on baseball in 2021 season and in the past. Our review of the best baseball teams ever begins with the 1905 New York club (today’s SF Giants) and will eventually cover the 64 top teams of all 30 MLB clubs. Updates & synthesis of 2021 season for clubs & their respective farm systems. Baseball words, quotes & poems of interest, words from Vince Scully to Gary Soto. I’m an author of print books and podcaster, PhD, forthcoming memoir on minor & Major League Baseball. Next podcast Baseball101B.
An update of MLB in August 2021. Interesting parallels between baseball and ancient narratives.
Discussion of Arizona D-backs and Florida Marlins, explaining specifically why they are the worst teams in baseball. Review of baseball fundamentals not well executed by these two and a few other teams. Discussion of some of the best words sports fans can hear from classic broadcasters, Vin Scully and Phil Liggett.
A review of the status of baseball as played in the MLB in 2021. Have you noticed how many players are lacking the fundamental skills and knowledge to play professional baseball at the highest level? We think this is the weakest basic baseball play in the major leagues in the last 120 years.
Our featured team is the 1907 Chicago Cubs, the best Cub team of this organization’s history. We talk about the Cub’s minor-league system, which is ranked 17th of 30. Our minor-league topic is the low-A California league.
Baseball 106A features the 1970 Baltimore Orioles, the best team in Oriole organizational history. We compare this team with the 2021 upstart Orioles, deep in young talent, and with the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, The Big Red Machine. We conclude with a baseball poem written by a poet who is a retired college athlete, Tim Sherry.
Our featured team is the best in the history of the Philadelphia Phillies: the 2008 Phillies. We compare this team to the 2021 Phillies and provide updates to the 2021 MLB season. Words from Walt Whitman about baseball, too.
The Big Red Machine, the 1975 Reds, is our featured team of this podcast. We contrast the “small ball” of the 1975 World Champions with the power of the 2021 sluggers, who lead the National League in home runs. We claim this was the best team in the history of the Reds. In podcast 300 we will have a coherent and conclusive argument for which was the best club ever of all 30 major league franchises.
Our featured team is the best in the history of the Cincinnati Reds: the 1975 Reds, known as The Big Red Machine that won 108 games and the World Series vs Boston. In this podcasting experiment, we compared this 1975 club with the 2021 Reds as we watched them play the Dodgers live in Dodger Stadium today. Competing with the noise of the game we quote words of Vin Scully & Ralph Waldo Emerson. We think Emerson & baseball players do similar (transcendental) work.
This is an extra to my usual weekly podcasts on the past and present of baseball. The featured team is the 1975 Cincinnati Reds—The Big Red Machine. This and the next podcast lead to comparisons of the 1975 and the 2021 Reds. I also explain my criteria for establishing the top 43 offensive players. My mantra for this podcast series: all baseball games are good and all numbers (the old statistics and new analytics) are good.
Our featured team is the best baseball club in the history of Boston, the 2004 Boston Red Sox. We use sabremetrics to evaluate 2021 hitters. Two baseball quotes are the light side of this podcast, offered by RLeslieWilliams, PhD & author of print books and podcasts.
We feature the best team ever in St Louis, the 1942 Cardinals. Updates from both leagues and some of the best words used by Vin Scully, iconic broadcaster of Dodgers. These podcasts weekly though baseball season, then bi-weekly.