The Blight Bat
In a world filled with Seattle Mariners podcasts, The Blight Bat is another one. New episodes twice a month. Great guests and a mediocre host try to divine meaning and purpose through the examination of baseball's most uniquely cursed franchise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The list of great guests continues to march ever onward, as The Blight Bat returns with another episode to soothe your ears and balm your soul. Today's episode feature Fangraphs' Editor-In-Chief, and Effectively Wild-stalwart Meg Rowley. Come for the thoughtful discussion on how being in baseball as a vocation effects your fandom. Stay for the exploration of how and why the standards and expectations of Mariner fans are (rightfully...
Beep bop boop it's good to be back. This episode of the Blight Bat welcomes back old (and we mean old) friends Scott Weber and David Skiba, both formerly of Lookout Landing and Dome and Bedlam, now both full-time dads and increasingly casual Mariner fans.
This episode talks about how and why fandom ebbs and flows; both with the Mariners specifically, and with sports overall. There's some digressions into the NFL, a bit of NBA, a...
Welcome back to The Blight Bat: The Light Bat Podcast! I am so happy to welcome David J. Roth of Defector Media to the show. David is one of my very favorite sportswriters, and his recent* turn as one of the internet's most thoughtful and insightful commentators on our current times has been a huge benefit to us all.
In the show we discuss the similarities and disparities between our respective cursed (and current first place r...
The great Patrick Dubuque of the mighty Baseball Prospectus joins the show. We lament the various trials of children of a certain age, marvel at the Seattle Mariners being projected to have one of the American League's best teams despite having so many bad baseball players, and find ourselves deeply curious in the financial loss leaders of the Pittsburgh Pirates ownership group.
There's a fair amount of chatter about the ways we...
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Nathan and Chris Crawford - of Emerald City Spectrum and My Oh Why - talk about getting your foot in the door of sports media, the genesis of Mollywhop Monday, what makes a good scout a good scout, and a bit about the meandering paths we all walk. Stick around as Chris goes into great detail (and effusive praise) on his Top 10 Mariners prospect list.
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