Battery Mates - the Podcast
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Battery Mates - the Podcast
A Brit and an American explore their beleaguered baseball fanhood and discover nothing all that groundbreaking about life itself while they're at it.
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100 episodi
Episode 154: We Are Cuter Than That Couple For Sure
Matthew and Toby are coming to you live for a baseball podcast with a southern wink.
Episode 153: A Debate
Matthew and Toby square off on whether this season does or does not totally stink.
Episode 152: I Was Rude About T*ylor Sw*ft
Matthew and Toby revel in the bizarro standings at the halfway point, check in our (mostly bad) teams, and go from very mad at Rob Manfred on behalf o...
Episode 151: You Can't Say Sausage to an Englishman
Matthew and Toby honor the king's coronation by reviewing the first month of the baseball season for the Royals (among other teams), taking a spin thr...
Episode 150: The Chair Would Win
Matthew and Toby welcome film critic and Mets fan Noah Gittell to the show — mostly to vent about the pitch clock, but also to serve up hasty takes on...
Episode 149: Sex Noises
Matthew and Toby bask in the glow of another Opening Day, and Battery Mates Nation submits their predictions for the season ahead.
Episode 148: Presumably His Father Filled Out the Birth Certificate
Matthew and Toby ostensibly gather to talk about the World Baseball Classic, and eventually that happened. But mostly Toby just wanted to dish about h...
Episode 147: A Pie in a Bap Is Not Considered Outlandish
Matthew and Toby find out who won the World Series, catch up on hot stove goss, and dive deep on butties, barms, and pea wets.
Episode 146: Haggis is an Animal
Matthew and Toby play some greatest hits in recapping the playoffs so far: Yankees schadenfreude, Big Papi’s imminent retirement, filthy-mouthed post-...
Episode 145: PEDs Are Bad and Don't Do Drugs, But
Matthew and Toby take a spin through the first-round postseason match-ups, get pretty worked up over the “real” home run record debate (before arrivin...
Episode 144: Hugs and Whispers
Matthew and Toby check in on their teams’ respective “disgusting brands of baseball,” while Matthew discusses the overlapping interests between him an...
Episode 143: No Stats for How Pissed the Fans Are
Matthew and Toby discuss the trade deadline and the fallout from the Nats shipping out Juan Soto. And of course there’s a critical update on the muddy...
Episode 142: People Who Wear Tank Tops and Fight With Their Neighbors in the Street
Matthew and Toby check in our teams (and Matthew’s fantasy team) and go around the horn on ESPN’s Manfred puff piece, the high drama surrounding Joe M...
Episode 141: Pretty Sure He Saw My Shirt
Matthew and Toby are joined by J.D. Scholten, Democratic candidate for the Iowa House and former professional baseball player to discuss his career as...
Episode 140: Stink Until It Is Flammable
Matthew and Toby return to check in on the season, the balls, MLB in London, and new rules being bandied about. Now who’s the idiot?
Episode 139: Definitely on Water Skis
It’s Opening Day, which means it’s time for Matthew and Toby to ring in this should-be national holiday by wading through all the preseason prediction...
Episode 138: Grey Doesn't Quite Cover It
Matthew and Toby take batting practice with the latest news around MLB and open up the 2022 Preseason Predictions Contest. Here’s how to enter — use y...
Episode 137: No Fungibility Without Representation
Matthew and Toby get a bit slap-happy now that the lockout is over — going around the horn on the terms of the new CBA, the evolving media coverage, t...
Episode 136: The Commissioner Had a Duty
The MLB season might be in doubt, but Battery Mates is back for its record-breaking seventh season. Matthew and Toby kick off the campaign with a disc...
Episode 135: The Feast of Stephen Strasburg
Matthew, Toby, and Father Christmas gather for a very special yuletide episode. The 2021 preseason prediction contest winner is revealed, the World Se...
Episode 134: Sometimes Eddie Rosario Shows Up
The October Classic is underway! Matthew and Toby are joined by Addisu Demissie, an Atlanta fan who also managed Cory Booker’s presidential campaign,...
Episode 133: Not How the Doctor Described It
Matthew and Toby are joined by Steve Krupin — former White House speechwriter, current SKDK managing director, and longtime Nationals fan — to preview...
Episode 132: Try Harder Duda
Matthew and Toby are joined by Seth Reznik to discuss the New York Metropolitans. Other topics are covered, sure.
Episode 131: Young Young Prospects and Old Old Dudes
For a special Trade Deadline edition, Matthew and Toby are joined by Kelly Kreft — Orioles fan, data scientist, and 2012 Obama vet — to discuss first...
Episode 130: PKs as They Are Known in America and Nowhere Else
For a special All-Star Game edition, Matthew and Toby are joined by Jeff Gabriel (who’s frustrated he can’t get in a clean hit over Euro 2020). The ba...
Episode 129: Thirsty Thursdays with the Nuts
Matthew and Toby are joined by Brent Colburn, Obama alum and VP for communications and public affairs at Princeton University, to go around the horn o...
Episode 128: Playing a Bit Rubbish
Matthew and Toby are joined by Run For Something co-founder and Astros fan Ross Morales Rocketto, who dishes on his ballpark routine, why he hates the...
Episode 127: The Most Sarcastic of the Double Plays
Matthew and Toby check in quickly on how things are going across the pond after the implosion of the Super League and go around the horn on fans being...
Episode 126: Soccer Is Actually an English Word
Matthew and Toby turn to Chief Over-There Correspondent Matthew McGregor to explain what just happened with the proposal and rapid collapse of a Europ...
Episode 125: The Absence of the Feeling of Shame
It’s the first actual breaking-news episode of Battery Mates, as Matthew and Toby react to the news that MLB will move the 2021 All-Star Game in respo...
Episode 124: We're All Goddamn Winners (Even the Mets)
Glory! Glory! It’s Opening Day! Matthew and Toby play back all of the submissions to the 2021 Preseason Predictions Contest and revel in the arrival o...
A Special Announcement
It's just three days until the baseball games start counting. That means the deadline for the annual Battery Mates Nation Preseason Predictions Contes...
Episode 123: You Have to Remember That Greg Abbott Is an Idiot
With two weeks to go before Opening Day, Matthew and Toby are joined by Justin Barasky, celebrated fan of the Clevelands who spent 2020 taking back th...
Episode 122: The Quiet Part Out Loud
Matthew and Toby are joined by Faiz Shakir, chief political advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders and his 2020 presidential campaign manager. The ball gets w...
Episode 121: You Are at Work After the First Pitch
As pitchers and catchers report to spring training, Matthew and Toby launch Season Six with a visit from Mike Casca, Dodger fan and communications dir...
Episode 120: We Don’t Have The Word Ornery
Matthew and Toby get together for a wintry mix of conversations about Curt Schilling not getting enough votes, the Clevelands making Toby sad, other p...
Episode 119: It's Literally Christmas Eve
Matthew and Toby catch up on news from the offseason, discuss the ways Rob Manfred keeps messing things up, and lay out what’s in their letters to Bas...
Episode 118: This is Not a Breaking News Podcast
Matthew and Toby do their best to remember the World Series, dive deep on Rob Manfred’s handling of the Justin Turner debacle, discuss what the offsea...
Episode 117: The Team Is Based in St. Petersburg Anyway
Matthew and Toby preview the World Series, if that’s what you want to call it, and make the case for the team everyone should root for. The Research D...
Episode 116: Gabrielesque
As the Championship Series get under way, Matthew and Toby check in on the Clevelands’ early exit, the aggravating Astros, and other reasons people ar...