Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about gamers snacking on the sphere and a baseball equal of the EGOT earlier than (23:01) Ben brings on Ron Shelton, the Oscar-nominated author and director of Bull Durham and the writer of The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham, to reminisce about Shelton’s minor league profession, how situations within the minors have advanced, the long run huge leaguers he performed with, why Crash Davis didn’t stick within the majors, sports-movie verisimilitude, how he wrote Annie Savoy, Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, why Bull Durham virtually didn’t get made, the golden age of baseball motion pictures, Bull Durham as a TV collection, an MLB sport in Durham, his different baseball initiatives, and extra. Then (1:04:02), Ben and Meg discuss to well-traveled 45-year-old pitcher Chris Oxspring of the Australian Baseball League’s Sydney Blue Sox about his baseball origin story, his path by indy ball, affiliated ball, Japan, South Korea, and the Olympics, tradition shock and the language barrier, his cup of espresso with the Padres, the event of baseball in Australia, the knuckleball’s future, being a player-coach, the toll being a baseball participant takes on one’s household, Australian slang, and the way lengthy he can hold pitching. Lastly (1:50:04), they finish with a Previous Blast from 1956 and some follow-ups.
Audio intro: Fruit Bats, “The Ruminant Band”Audio interstitial 1: Concrete Blonde, “It’ll Chew You Up and Spit You Out”Audio interstitial 2: Toner, “Ox ’45”Audio outro: Frazey Ford, “One Extra Cup of Espresso”
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