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Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Pedro Martinez
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
This week we dive into the story of Pedro Martinez. The little skinny kid, who grew up in abject poverty in Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic, who use to follow his older brother Ramon around from sandlot to sandlot playing baseball. The same kid who couldn't afford baseballs and he would chop the heads off his sister's baby dolls, to use as a cheaper option. From the outhouse to the penthouse, and ultimately the baseball king of his native island, that is chock full of generational baseball talent. #PedroMartinez #RamonMarinez #RaphaelAvilla #LosAngelesDodgers #MontrealExpos #BostonRedSox #NewYorkMets #PhiladelphiaPhillies
![George Herman Ruth; The Babe](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog13469313/17073230045291707329211818_300x300.jpg)
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Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
George Herman Ruth; The Babe
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
This week BKP will present the life and baseball career of the face of baseball in the 20th century, Mr George Herman Ruth, better known as the Babe. Besides Jackie Robinson, no baseball player has had more influence on the brand of Major League Baseball, that we consume today, than the Babe. From his rough and tumble childhood, along the docks and water-ports of Baltimore, to learning the game of baseball in a boy's school for the incorrigibles, to thrilling the baseball universe with his skill, first as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, and then as one of the deadliest sluggers of all time with the New York Yankees. HIs is a story of apocryphal myth, and legend, shrouded in a cloud of reality. This is the story of Babe Ruth. #BabeRuth #StMarysIndustrialSchoolForBoys #JackDunn #BaltimoreOrioles #BostonRedSox #NewYorkYankees #BostonBraves #TrisSpeaker #MillerHuggins #HarryFrazee #JacobRupert #LouGehrig #CharlieRoot
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Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Minute Maid Park
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
While none of the bigger fish were reeled in this past week off the free agent market, there was a flurry of activity, and the BKP Hot Stove Report will break them all down for ya. Jake is gonna hit on Hector Nerris going to the Cubs, David Robertson to the World Champion Rangers, Aaron Hicks to the Halos and all the other moves made this past week, as well as his beloved Orioles finally being on the verge of being sold to billionaire private equity partners. David Rubenstein and Mike Arougheti, and a consortium, consisting of Cal Ripken Jr, Joan Jett and Michael Phelps. Then BKP will bring you not only the history of Minute Maid Park, but also a short retrospect on the stadiums that preceeded her in Colt Stadium and The Famous Astrodome. Minute Maid Park is not only a magnificent place to catch a ballgame, but it is a true modern marvel of ballpark engineering, with a profound tradition and backstory. #MinuteMaidPark #ColtStadium #Astrodome #UnionStation #HoustonTexas #Astros #AstroTurf #SatchelPaige #WilliamCollins #BobbyDynamite #DraytonMcLain #Enron #KennethLee #TalSmith #CrawfordBoxes
![Jim Thorpe And His Path Hit By Lightning](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog13469313/17060244279601706030535498_300x300.jpg)
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Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Jim Thorpe And His Path Hit By Lightning
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
This week, BKP opens with the Hot Stove Report, and addresses, the all-in move by the Astros, by acquiring the best closer on the free-agent market, Josh Hader. Now that Houston has one of, if not the best, late-inning trio of arms, coming out of their bully, what are their roles? Also what are the Stros next moves to solidify, the rest of the bullpen, that has seen three free-agent defections, and a season-ending injury to pitcher Kendall Graveman. And the Tampa Rays pulled a typical sneaky under the radar signing, as they snatch Noayuki Uwasawa from the Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan, and sign him to a minor league deal. even though the Angels offered a guaranteed major league contract. What are the roster ramifications for the Rays with this move? What role does Jake see him playing in Tampa?
This week's topic is Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest athlete of the 20th century. The man who started from humble beginnings, on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma, to winning two gold medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, playing Major League Baseball, and becoming one of the all-time greats on the gridiron. #JimThorpe #CharlesThorpe #SacAndFox #PopWarner $CarlisleIndianSchool #KingGustav #NewYorkGiants #JohnMcGraw #ChiefMeyers #BostonBraves #CincinnatiReds #EddRoush #CantonBulldogs
![”Macho Man” Randy Savage; Seam Dreams](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog13469313/17055493377621705554986219_300x300.jpg)
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Thursday Jan 18, 2024
”Macho Man” Randy Savage; Seam Dreams
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
Thursday Jan 18, 2024
This week, we open the show the show with the BKP Hot Stove Report, and Jake asks, " What's next for the Chicago Cubs?"; After netting Japanese Japanese southpaw pitcher Shota Imanaga, and pulling off what he feels is a sneaky good trade, with the Los Angeles Deferrals. The Giants make a curious move by signing the second best closer on the free agent market to become a starter in their 2024 rotation. The Yankees bolster their rotation as well, but are still eying last year's NL Cy Young winner, Blake Snell. Then we dig into this week's topic, and bring you the story of Randy Poffo and his Seam Dream. Before he headlined the marquee, in areanas and stadiums, around the world, as the iconic and unforgettable "Macho Man" Randy Savage. The baseball obsessed kid, with the help of his father, made a serious run at bucking the odds, and becoming a major leaguer. #MachoMan #RandyPoffo #RandySavage #AngeloPoffo #LannyPoffo #MsElizabeth #LynPayne #MrFuji #NikolaiVolkoff #TitoLandrum #LarryHerndon #GouveasSausagePhillies #StLouisCardinals #GulfCoastLeague #CincinnatiReds #ChicagoWhiteSox #CVDavid #GeraldBrisco
![Gary Carter; Here’s Looking At You Kid](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog13469313/17049017106281704908894251_300x300.jpg)
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Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Gary Carter; Here’s Looking At You Kid
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
This week we open the show with the Hot Stove Report, that saw the Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto at it again, as he makes two trades this week with the Giants and Rays. The Giants will receive a former Cy Young Pitcher in the deal, who won't be available, until the second half of the 2024 season. Prompting Jake to wonder, if the Giants GM is on the proverbial hot seat. The Mets make moves to bolster their starting rotation. The Cubs sign Japanese southpaw Shota Imenaga, and of course, what would the offseason be if the Dodgers didn't make another move and sign another player with a deferred contract. But Jake ask the question, are the Dodgers on paper, better than the Braves right now?
Then we get into this week's topic, as we dig into the life and career of Gary Carter. His rise throught the Expos franchise. His contributions to the Mets World Series championship in 1986, to his fight with brain cancer, that would eventually rob the baseball universe, of this elite player and class individual way to early. Here's Looking At You KId. #GaryCarter #MontrealExpos #NewYorkMets #DanCarrithers #KenSingleton #RonDarling #KeithHernandez #PalmBeachAtlantic #AndreDawson #FuckCancer
![Hank Greenberg: Baseball Moses](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog13469313/17043449620241704352372316_300x300.jpg)
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Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Hank Greenberg: Baseball Moses
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
BKP starts off this week with the first Hot Stove Report of 2024, as Jake breaks down the particulars of the trade between the Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox; Vaughn Grissom for Chris Sale. Soon after the trade with Atlanta, the Red sox sign RHP Lucas Giolito to a one year contract, with an option for 2025. What do the Braves get out of this deal? Will the Red Sox, with an all right-handed rotation, be aggressive in their pusuit of a southpaw among Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery or Japanese import Shota Imenaga? The Reds continue to make moves to solidify their bullpen and rotation. Will the large markets begin to show agression in the market, now that so many of them lost out on the Sho and Yo Sweepstakes tour? All this and more, in week eight of the 2023 0ffseaon. Then we dig into the life and career, of baseball's first Jewish superstar, Hank Greenberg. He played in an era with the Great Depression and World War II, in the background. Amid the anti-semetic environment playing out on MLB ball fields around the country, and with Adolph Hitler, and his evil Nazi thugs rising to power in Europe. Hank displays the courage to take on prejudice in the game, and sacrifice four years of his amazing career, to fight Hitler's New World Order and his final solution. #HankGreenberg #HammerinHank #TheBigMoose #GreenwichVillage #NewYorkCity #Bronx #HenryFord #JackieRobinson #BabeRuth #LouGehrig #DetroitTigers #SandyKoufax #PittsburghPirates #EdgarGuest #AdolphHitler #TheGreatDepression
![Sandy Koufax; The Left Arm Of God](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog13469313/17039248825161703931926310_300x300.jpg)
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Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Sandy Koufax; The Left Arm Of God
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
For week seven of the MLB offseason, the show kicks off with the final Hot Stove report of 2023. With the Dodgers spending over a billion dollars on big fish free agents Shohei Ohtani and Japanese import pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, as well as the extension given to new starting pitcher, Tyler Glasnow, Jake wonders aloud if the Dodgers are done with their free agent spending spree? Or could there possibly be another bullet in the gun, left to be fired? Also what does this mean for the next three big free agents in Cody Bellinger, Blake Snell and Josh Hader.. all this and the updates of the latest moves of the last week.
This week, BKP does a deep dive into the life and career of the great Sandy Koufax. The kid from Brooklyn, who grew up with dreams of playing basketball for his beloved New York Knicks In the NBA, but would wound up having a twelve year career, pitching for his hometown Dodgers, that is earmarked by a tale of two halves to a career. From a mediocre six year beginning to his career, to becoming one of the greatest southpaws who ever lived, with one of the best 6 year peaks of a career, the baseball universe has ever witnessed. To his stunning retirement, at the age of 30 years old, while he is on top of his game. We celebrate the Hall Of Famer's birthday this week, by digging into the mystique that is Sandy Koufax. #SandyKoufax #DodgersStadium #VinScully #MiltonLaurie #FredWilpon #CincinnatiBearCats #AlCampanis #TommyLasorda #CarlErskine #NormSherry #YomKippur #DonDrysdale #WalterOMalley
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