Rants with Danny Shih

This episode, I provide a midseason update on each #CPBL team, a very brief overview on the 2025 Draft, my thoughts on the All-Star games, and Corbin Caroll rejecting the invitation to play for Taiwan in the 2026 World Baseball Classic

This show, I conduct a quarterly check-in on all 6 CPBL teams

Who's the favorite? Who's the bottom feeder? and who's the surprise team? This week, John Foster joins me in the virtual studio again to go team by team in the CPBL to preview the 2025 season,

This week, CTBC Brothers Hitting Coach Daniel Catalan 丹尼爾 joins me in the virtual studio to discuss his hitting philosophies, his globally illustrious baseball career and he explains the "Driveline philosophy."

This week, I spend an hour to talk about my emotions through the tumultuous World Baseball Qualifer journey for Team Taiwan and my thoughts on the reaction by the International Baseball community

This week, I react to the new World Baseball Classic Qualifier Roster for Team Taiwan, and how it compares to the rest of the Group consisting of Spain, South Africa and Nicaragua. International baseball guru Jeff Duda (@INTLBaseball24) joins me to discuss the qualifier and the hope for growth in international baseball.

The interview with Jeff Duda starts at 00:21:47.

This week, John Foster joins me in the virtual studio discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the CPBL, his thoughts on CPBL umpires, and his favorite sight-seeing places in Taiwan.

This week, John Foster 佛斯特 joins me again to discuss his coaching philosophies, the most important skill as a baseball coach, and the difference between coaching in Taiwan and the United States

This week, John Foster 佛斯特 joins me for an hour-long interview to talk about his 7-year tenure with the CTBC Brothers, what happened on the day Lin Wei-Chu 林威助 got fired, and his proudest accomplishments.

This episode, I explain why 2024 is THE greatest year in Taiwanese Baseball history, and what to look for in 2025

For the first time in history, Taiwan wins the adult-level baseball world championship, beating an all-pro Samurai Japan team in the Championship game 4-0. I talk about the key moments to our triumph, and what this can lead to in Taiwanese baseball.

Check your volume level folks, this is the BIGGEST RANT in the history of this podcast.

This week, I recap Pan Wei-Lun 潘威倫 and Chou Szu-Chi 周思齊's retriement ceremony, and the significance of their careers in putting baseball back in mainstream culture in Taiwan

This week, I talk about CPBL players getting fired, suspended, and fined for being spotted in Texas Poker venues, and why the league's reaction is appropriate.

This week, I review the absolute greatest sequence in Taiwanese baseball history, with legends Chien-Ming Wang 王建民, Chen Chin-Feng 陳金鋒 and Peng Cheng-Min 彭政閔 stepping onto the field in the last 10 minutes of the All-Star Game. I also discuss the need to reimagine the All-Star festivities in North American sports

This week, I talk about Yu Chang's record-breaking contract with the Fubon Guardians, Fubon's questionable 2024 draft strategies, and Rakuten's tsunami of bad news since end of 2023

This episode, the Executive Director of UConn's Bleeding Blue For Good Jared Thomas joins the virtual studio to discuss the current landscape of Name-Image-Likeness, the the biggest misnomer of the industry and a passionate rant on the NCAA and the IRS. 

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This episode, CPBL pitcher Bradin Hagens visits me in the virtual studio to discuss his favorite food in Taiwan, what to buy at a Taiwan 7-11, and the 2023 CPBL season. 

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This week, to cap off 2023, I countdown the Top 10 storylines of the 2023 CPBL season and Taiwanese Baseball overall. 

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