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Feb. 23, 2025

IWBC - Mission for Women in Baseball with Kat Williams & Leslie Heaph…

rebroadcast from Sept 2024 Guests: Leslie Heaphy & Kat Williams from the International Women’s Baseball Center share their stories and the mission of the IWBC MLB Develops - Trailblazer Series event at the Jackie Robinson Tr...

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Feb. 13, 2025

Spring Training, MLB Free Agents & Mookie gives advice

Super Bowl & Baseball Season Kickoff: Mark is happy to see football season ending & baseball season beginning Mat shares his excitement for baseball despite the cold in Canada. Spring Training & Player Movements: Discussion o...

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Feb. 6, 2025

Joy, Bad Choices, Alonso, Bregman, Kiermaier & Science Fiction baseba…

Pitcher and Catcher Report HAIL TO THE CHIEF Mark’s bad date, No Uber, Grand Funk Railroad, Little Eva, Friends sacrificed an evening with Grand Funk Regrets for making the wrong decision and it’s impact on other Voices skewe...

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Jan. 30, 2025

Lou Schiff - Attorneys in the Hall of Fame, Tony La Russa, fans in Ja…

Author & Judge Lou Schiff joins Mat & Mark 28 years on the bench Mitchell Hamline School of Law Upcoming book: Attorneys in the Baseball Hall of Fame Plans for Marlins games in LA and Milwaukee Visits to Japan and LA World Ba...

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Jan. 27, 2025

When Baseball Was Still Topps - Phil Coffin

Baseball history through the lens of the 1959 Topps Baseball Card collection. Phil Coffin, looks back at 1959 through the history of the complete 1959 baseball card collection. He revisits baseball players, managers & stories...

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Jan. 23, 2025

MLB beyond the Dodgers + Bring Pete Alonso back to Tampa Bay

Executive Order – One Baseball – All-Americans Can the Rays bring Pete Alonso home Alonso would be a strong leader on the team & marketing asset for the Rays Past considerations with Freddie Freeman & Nelson Cruz The Return ...

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Jan. 21, 2025

Bob Hope, Colorado Silver Bullets Women's Baseball, Journeys with Han…

“Baseball can’t truly be America’s pastime if women are prohibited from playing.” – Bob Hope Bob Hope’s Baseball Career Journey: College student to Atlanta Braves employee Starting as an office assistant to Assistant PR Direc...

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Jan. 16, 2025

Mat Germain's Top 50 Tampa Bay Rays Prospects - RaysUp

Mat Germain's extensive research into the Tampa Bay Rays has given him the insight to discover & assess the Top 50 Prospects in their farm system. He shares with us the gems of the Rays and the keys to their future in this ep...

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Jan. 9, 2025

RaysUp - 2025 Drew Rasmussen, Carson Williams, Xavier Isaac plus Tito…

Gratitude - Thank you to Canadians, including Mat Germain, for their contributions during hurricanes and wildfires in Florida and California. Excitement for upcoming 2025 Baseball Season Spring Training dates: Pitchers and Ca...

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Jan. 3, 2025

5th Annual Goofy Gobbler Baseball Awards - Cold Leftovers with Brando…

Mark Corbett introduces Brandon Noe who has been organizing the Goofy Gobbler Awards for the past five years. Brandon reflects on how the awards started as a joke but have now grown into a prestigious tradition. The Goofy Gob...

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Dec. 24, 2024

Janet Marie Smith, Dodgers, Senior Vice President of Planning and Dev…

Early days studying architecture and design in Mississippi & New York Janet Marie Smith’s work with Fenway, Dodgers Stadium, Camden Yards, Ed Smith ballpark Janet Marie has been recognized by Cooperstown Hall of Fame in the D...

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Dec. 19, 2024

Manfred / Oz visits Tampa Bay, Free Agents & A Curt Flood Christmas S…

Caleb Durbin – more like Dustin Pedroia or Jon Berti style of player? Durbin is Electric What can we expect from the Blue Jays in the AL East Blue Jays pitching is getting older but not as dominant in past years What do they ...

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Dec. 12, 2024

MLB Winter Meetings - Rule 5 - Juan Soto Effect

The Scott Boras Effect & Player Disadvantages Juan Soto's Big Contract and the Gambling Industry Influence on Salaries Why Soto Chose the Mets Steve Cohen's Impact on the Mets and MLB Mark shares a conversation with Lou Schif...

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Dec. 5, 2024

Golden Bats, Women in Baseball, Winter Meetings, MLB Stadiums & Juan …

Rays Stadium - John Fisher money & motivation in Vegas with the A's satire Tradition vs. Modernization in Baseball Golden Bat rule challenges the traditions of baseball. MLB becomes the Savannah Bananas Field Dimensions and F...

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Nov. 28, 2024

RaysUp Stadium Fiasco, White Sox future & Rays Prospects Tre' Morgan …

Happy Thanksgiving from BaseballBiz On Deck All primed up for the Rays Prospects List Mat's conversation with Baseball America, J.J. Cooper Blake Snell - $185 million 5-year contract with the Dodgers MLB - 10 teams that can a...

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Nov. 22, 2024

Beth Greenwood, a USAWNT trek, a Catcher's life in Women's Baseball,

USAWNT Baseball Player – Beth Greenwood - Women in Baseball Player Development Coach Won the Championship with the Comets at the AmericanGirlsBaseball.org Path to the USAWNT Baseball team Making the 40 player team with Ila Bo...

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Nov. 20, 2024

RaysUp Stu Stokes - County Votes - Where is Willy?

Hurricane Brain in Tampa Bay Pinellas County Commission vote to not vote on Rays stadium bond Where does the county funds come from to build a new stadium Timeline of approval of Rays deal with both the City of St Pete & Pine...

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Oct. 31, 2024

Dodgers & Yankees - Game 5 World Series Wisdom

World Series Game 5 Expectations Dodgers’ unexpected struggle to close out the series, Freddie Freeman's impact: Mat highlights Freeman’s impressive streak with six home runs across six World Series games, Yankees’ Comeback A...

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Oct. 24, 2024

Where will Rays play, KK goes to the World Series & Check Swing Chal…

Milton debris and cleanup in Tampa Bay continues #RaysUp - Tampa Bay Rays offering support to local community Avoid burning debris What happens to the TB Rays without a roof Rays not moving to the big O in Montreal – potentia...

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Oct. 19, 2024

Building Better Pitchers at Randy Sullivan's Florida Baseball ARMory

Randy Sullivan CEO of Randy Sullivan’s Florida Baseball ARMory (FBA) has made a positive difference in several players’ lives. The FBA provides full individual assessment of all players and tailors a strategy that will increa...

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Oct. 16, 2024

Milton tears through Tampa Bay & Rays' Tropicana Roof - What's Next?

Canadian Thanksgiving Thank you to our Canadian friends and those who came from across the U.S. to aid and help from Canada to the Florida area post-Milton Halifax Explosion Tropicana Field – shredding of the roof The rays in...

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Oct. 3, 2024

Post Season Blackout, Women Champions in Baseball & Pete Rose

Get Ready for the Third Annual All-American Women’s Baseball Classic Blackout Baseball to watch with MLB.tv & Bally subscriptions How to not successfully market baseball Once 35 million viewers for each game of the World Seri...

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Sept. 30, 2024

Meggie Meidlinger & USA Women's Baseball - a team of Champions that w…

Women's Baseball World Cup : 6 elite women's baseball teams (Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, Japan, China Taipei, USA) competed at the World Cup in Thunder Bay, Ontario, August 2024. USA vs Japan : Japan's 39-game winning streak (...

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Sept. 26, 2024

RaysUp - MLB Clenching, Hot Rods take off, Looking for Pete Alonso

Mat_Germain_ & Mark at BaseballBiz On Deck take a look at the closing of 2024 season and the future of the Rays. Tampa Bay facing hurricane Helene strong winds, storm surges – stay safe 2019 Rays won 96 games and spent 60 mil...

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