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Join Matthew Melton and Jimmy Bowman as they discuss, debate, and celebrate all things baseball. No over analyzing stats or deep strategics here, just two baseball fans talking about the fun and sometimes ridiculous aspects of the sport.
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Apr 25, 2023

Here is the audio from our live show at the 2023 Treefort Music Festival! Listen to Matt and Jimmy talk about perhaps the worst $15 Matt ever spent as they discuss, debate and deride the 2005 cinematic mistake that was Fever Pitch. Thank you to everyone who joined us, and a special thank you to TMF and Alisha, Derek and Brett at Podfort for having us! Give us a listen and make sure you subscribe you don't miss an episode, and say hello @ThatBBShow on Twitter, cool kids! 

Apr 4, 2023

Happy Opening Week, TBS Nation! Matt had the opportunity a while back to chat w/Anna from The Baseball Bucket List, another excellent baseball pod that you should subscribe to and put into your earholes! Here is the episode TBB just released, dropped into our feed so you won't miss it. Don't miss another one- check out baseballbucketlist.com to create a profile along with your own personal bucket list and connect w/other fans! Also catch them on Twitter @BaseballBucket. 

Thank you to everyone who came out to our live show @ Treefort Music Fest as part of the newly-christened Podfort last month! Keep an eye on our feed for that episode, it was a great time and we can't thank TMF and Podfort enough for having us back. Until then, @ThatBBShow on Twitter and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, library owls! 

Mar 16, 2023

Listen. Matt and Ryan will get to the rest of the conversation about the new rule changes for MLB this year. But first, we gotta pants some Jeopardy! nerds. We explore the vibes that are baseball and maybe contradict ourselves (a little) as we explore a shift-less American game. We even touch on the World Baseball Classic! Ol' Babe made it here, we're all sure that you will. 


Listen to this episode if you want to hear us talk about The Today Show: Nights, CW: Scraping (Teeth, Barrels), Cocaine Mascots, and Matt Does A Basketball. Also, baseball. @ThatBBShow on Twitter & leave an Apple Podcasts review, cocaine mascots! 

Mar 8, 2023

Guest host Ryan McEachern just flew back from spring training and boy, are his arms tired! No really, he basically had to flap his non-existent wings to get himself there. He tells us all about his harrowing trip to AZ and we start (but do not finish!) diving into MLB's rule changes. 

Listen to this episode if you want to hear us talk about Matt's Desert Knowledge, Hertz Plane Rentals, and It's A Clock-Off. Also, baseball. @ThatBBShow on Twitter and leave an Apple Podcast review, flappy birds! 

May 25, 2020

The orchestra's yawning and they're dimming the lights down dear listeners, so it can only mean one thing- it's the last The Last Dance. We talk about a show having nothing to do with baseball that only one of has seen, and we also break down the mascots of the KBO because there isn't much else to cover just now. Enjoy! 

Listen to this episode if you want to hear us talk about those things we said above. Also tweet us @thatbbshow with your MJ red-assed baseball equivalent and make your pitch to Matt for which KBO team to follow, quaranteens! (Rates and reviews on Apple Podcasts also go down smooth). 

Jul 19, 2018

Matt and Jimmy are back, and they have one question for you: Do you have any hats you aren't using? We find ourselves...short. While you check your stock, we'll be discussing The All-Star Game and HRD, Mike Matheny, a recent flurry of 19-run games and Mark Reynolds and his best week ever! 

Listen to this podcast if you want to hear us talk about Digging Pointers, The Walk Home Derby, Judge Utley's Frontier Justice, and Lonergan Sequels. Also, baseball. @ThatBBShow and leave an iTunes review, tough guys! 

Jun 30, 2017

We're not going to lie, gang- there is a LOT of owl puns in this one. Matt did his best but they were inevitable, and we thought it best to warn you ahead of time. Mad thanks to the Boise Hawks and the Ada Community Libraries for having us and for letting Matt-- I mean, "Whoodini" the Library Owl throw out the first pitch last week! We talk about that experience, plus Matt gives Jimmy another quiz that proves his baseball hipsterism. We also talk no-nos and the NL West! 

Listen to this episode if you want to hear us talk about Mascot Alter Egos, The Saddest Dab, The Scottish Pitcher, Ruined Sandwiches, Snowflake No-Nos, and Jimmy Goes Heel. @ThatBBShow on Twitter and do leave us a review on iTunes, you cool gangsters! 

Mar 15, 2017

(Hey gang, sorry we wanged the earlier upload of this episode. Let that be a lesson- "copy" =/= "paste"! Anyway here is a corrected upload for your enjoyment -Matt) 

Hello TBS Nation! With only a few weeks to go before the start of the 2017 season, you best believe this episode is chock-full of expert analysis on the many 90's songs featuring Godzilla. YOU DESERVE IT. We also talk WBC, spring training guests and a hot new country album that is crawling in the direction of the charts! We also finally determine who is the Pete Rose of this podcast. Plus a LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT during wrap-up! 

 

Listen to this episode if you want to hear us talk about The Podcast Awards, Unconscious Coupling, Mensches On a Bench, (Baseball) Service Guarantees Citizenship, Tebow At The Bat, Secrets Of and Possibly To Life, and Godzilla Soundtracks. @ThatBBShow on Twitter, tribe! 

Mar 28, 2016
  • The Knitts
  • California Raisins Disneyland Anaheim Angels in the Outfield
  • A-Rod's Farewell Tour
  • How to Make Sportscenter
  • Coming Out of the Swag Closet
  • Moneyball

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Mar 15, 2016

Hey there Nation! We would have had this very special 2016 season preview episode of TBS up earlier, but we couldn't settle on what to call the podcasting super-group created when Jimmy and Matt combined forces with Ryan McEachern of the McEachern Podcast Network! We never did decide- Audioslave I think? We also provide terrible gambling advice which you shouldn't follow.* 

 

Listen to this pod if you want to hear us talk about Chris Russo Impressions, Stamp Sound Effects, Advanced Mustache Metrics, T-Pain Burrito Techniques, The Rise of The Carrasborg, The Uribe Uncertainty Principle, #notalllineups, Amazon Drone Horse Delivery, A New Term for Tanking, and OUR FIRST LIVE SHOW EVAR! Also, baseball. @ThatBBShow on Twitter and That Baseball Show on Facebook, Spoon Men and Women! 

Feb 10, 2016

Hello Nation! This podcast is late, that is to say it's later than we'd like. Also Matt's audio sounds like he was recording in a snowstorm- rest assured, it's like 50 degrees here. Apologies for both, Podcast Krampus strikes again! 

 

In this episode we review/geek out over the Season 3 Simpsons episode "Homer At The Bat". We cover the episode's history, the player guest stars, and why Jose Canseco is THE WORST. We also talk about our Super Beef, The Confounding Rockies, Air Bud Junkballs, and What's Worse Than Jose Canseco. Also baseball. @thatBBshow on Twitter and That Baseball Show on FB- Grampy Bowman approves!

Jan 22, 2016

When we committed to doing the pod weekly through the off-season, we have to admit we were worried we wouldn't have enough to talk about. Then the MLB went to court over TV contract rights and that MAKES US ANGRY. We also discuss the notion of automated strike zones and what that means for humanity's desperate struggle against our robot overlords. And Matt apologizes for his plosives- his pop filter fell off. Womp womp.


Listen to this pod if you want to hear us talk about Withdrawal Spiders vs. Actual Spiders, A Piping Hot Cold Open, Eagles Atheism, M*A*S*H Knowledge, RSNs Are Too Big To Fail?, Kafka-esque Court Settlements, Let's Bern This Joint Down, Wordy Ref Taunts, R2-D2 vs. BB-8, and Giant Robot Stadiums. Also, baseball. @ThatBBShow on Twitter and That Baseball Show on Facebook, Robo-Sinners! 

Jan 17, 2016

One more pod in the can before Jimmy heads back to L.A. Thanks to UnBound for use of their dope podcasting studio! And sorry for all the baby-eating jokes, Matt promises to watch Labyrinth to get the actual ending. 

Listen to this pod if you want to hear about Some Sort of Maze, David Bowie Walk-Up Songs, Aroldis Chapman: Baby Eater, Rage Against the (Pitching) Machine, Mr. Slide, Straight As An Arrow: The Jimmy Bowman Story, Gronktastic Park, pulling a Full-On Favre, Life After Sports and Jessica Mendoza is here to stay. Also baseball. 

SUBSCRIBE on iTunes and Stitcher and follow us @ThatBBShow on Twitter, ya Goblin Kings! 

Jan 10, 2016

BREAKING NEWS from the distant past, live from the future! The HoF voting happened like 24 hours after we recorded this. Listen and hear how prescient we are! (SPOILER: not very much). Also check yourself before you Veeck yourself as we introduce a new recurring bit. Hilarity! 

 

Listen to this pod if you want to hear about Matt's Friendship Hall of Fame, First Ballot Baseball Dad, Get Off My Lawn, Fernando Rodney!, Sportswriter Rectum EVP, The 3 Habits of Highly Unsuccessful HoF Ballots, The Cantankerous Murray Chass, The Tyranny of Metrics, The Ferocity of Youth-Adjacentness, Tim Raines Fist Fight, Horse Amphetamines, Roger Clemens' Secret Moon Base, and The Lizard People Leagues. Also baseball! 

 

SUBSCRIBE on iTunes and Stitcher, @ThatBBShow on Twitter, Lizard People! 

Dec 17, 2015

On this week's abbreviated episode, Matt and Jimmy spend a lot of their precious time telling you they don't have a lot of time. Seems like someone should have told them they were wasting the time they didn't have, but meh. 

Listen to this episode if you'd like to know more about The Best Baseball Player to Follow on Instagram, What would a Food Truck Named "Even Year Magic Serve?", Belief in Wheelbarrows of Money, The Dread Pirate Rockies and why no one wants to play in Denver, Legends like Danny Whatshisname, The Season of (No) Hope, Mark Reynolds Hates Nature, and Everything about the Reds Must Go! Also baseball. 


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Dec 10, 2015

In this week's episode, Jimmy and Matt put their hands on a hot stove. Their moms said not to, but sometimes you just have to let the little dickens make their own mistakes, amirite? 

Listen to this pod if you want to hear us talk about Amateur Padcasting, Baseball Hanukkah, Two and A Half Pitchers, squashing beef in Boston, is Zack Greinke John Travolta or Olivia Newton-John in this analogy?, lots of other horrible analogies (we seriously feel bad), Bruce Bochy: Celestial Being, Mark Trumbo: the Nothing-man of Anyone, the uncomfortable Aroldis Chapman saga, and how Barry Bonds is like Ian McKellen. Also, baseball.

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Nov 28, 2015

Happy late Thanksgiving!  On this episode that took Matt forever to edit,  we talk A Change in Management,  the Podcast Farm System,  Being a Complete Tool,  Kris Dreamboat, Kindergarten Life Hacks,  How Does Gambling?  The Kangaroo Court of Public Opinion,  Edward Norton Cannot Save You,  The Great McDonalds Cup Heist,  and Secret Bonus Tracks!  Also baseball.  Subscribe and review on iTunes and Stitcher, ya filthy animals!  @thatbbshow on Twitter

Nov 11, 2015
  • Mike Trout would love our opening
  • It's all over
  • Twin awards
  • Just beat it (or please don't)
  • The Times They Are A-Changin'

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Oct 30, 2015
  • Yo Quiero Taco Baseball
  • A group of New Yorkers beat up baby bears
  • Goat Simulator
  • NSync
  • Baseball 24/7/365
  • What does the Fox say? Nothing.
  • Ch-ch-ch-changes!

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Oct 18, 2015
  • Seventh inning stretch
  • So flippin' good
  • Texas defeats Truman!
  • Schwarber becomes part of Wrigley
  • Dodgers get a leg up
  • The Anti National Geographic Photo Contest

 

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Oct 9, 2015

Matt and Cody throw away all other topics of discussion this week to dive into the post-season and why the Cubs will win it all.

 

Oct 1, 2015
  • Papelbondage
  • Ice Cold Coors
  • Our Award Picks

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Sep 23, 2015
  • AL Gone Wild
  • Dr. Harvey
  • Milestones 
  • Closing Time
  • Misfire
  • Urinal Hulk

NOTE: Due to a hardware malfunction, the quality drops in the last 20 minutes.  We apologize but I'm sorry Mr. Perfect, I forgot you never made a mistake.

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Sep 8, 2015
  • First openly gay player
  • Harvey Two Face
  • ESPN gets Curt
  • Hoodini
  • No Red October

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Aug 24, 2015
  • NY(NL) making a run
  • The Chapman Filter
  • Black...in
  • Not so Blue Jays
  • MLB is not the NFL
  • Ketchup Catchup
  • Reviewing a review
  • Beer bets

You can find us on these fine institutions:

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