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🎙️Weekly Baseball Podcast ⚾️ HOF Baseball Writer @Kurkjian_ESPN 🔎 "Is This A Great Game, Or What?" 🎧 Link Below & Wherever You Get Podcasts

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“PCA is the best defensive player at any position on the planet.” @Kurkjian_ESPN shares the HUGE praise Craig Counsell once gave Pete Crow-Armstrong.
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“I think you’re underselling how good these are.” @JPKurkjian gives @Kurkjian_ESPN’s “All-Election Team” the respect it deserves. 😂
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Jacob Misiorowski will soon join an EXCLUSIVE list of players who have started and won a World Series game, in addition to the Cy Young Award. 😤
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The Brewers have to be in the top five seasons by any team EVER, says @Kurkjian_ESPN. “When you can win a bunch of close games as they did, that matters.”
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The love for Bob Uecker was pouring out across the field last night. ❤️ @Kurkjian_ESPN: “There has never been a more beloved former player/broadcaster in the game.”
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“For those two guys to have such a warm embrace, it was really, really cool.” @Kurkjian_ESPN on Robin Yount and Christian Yelich's shared hug after last night's win.
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Pouring rain, missed calls and... honking horns at 5 a.m.?! 🌧️📢 Joe Maddon recalls the chaos of the 2008 World Series in Philadelphia, including some VERY unwelcome wake-up calls from Phillies fans.
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That now makes two legendary managers sick of the “small ball” label… 😤 Joe Maddon sides with Buck Showalter on the Brewers' and Rays' “tried-and-true” approach, calling it “the game in its purest form.”
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How did Joe Maddon turn the Rays into World Series contenders? 🤔 The legendary manager revisits his “9 = 8” mantra and the philosophy that changed baseball at the Trop forever.
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“He was born to play baseball.” Jackson Chourio has quickly become an elite player and is showing very little weakness at the plate. 😤
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It’s hard not to view the Brewers’ success as a tribute to the great Bob Uecker. “He was such a big part of everyone’s life,” says Tim Dillard.
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Milwaukee will be ROCKING tonight for its first World Series game in 44 years. 👀 “It’s going to be super loud in the dome,” says Tim Dillard.
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Tim Kurkjian is STILL collecting Hollywood paychecks. All $28 of them. 😂 @Kurkjian_ESPN recalls how a trip to the bank turned into an unexpected brush with movie stardom.
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What happens when Orel Hershiser tries slipping a Marine $5 at the White House? @Kurkjian_ESPN recalls a joke that earned the Dodgers legend a priceless response: "That'll be enough, Mr. Cy Young." 😂
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The Brewers and Rays are bringing OLD-SCHOOL baseball to the World Series. ⚾️ @Kurkjian_ESPN explains why “the two best bunting teams in baseball" are proving there's more than one way to win in October.
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"Who knew there was an outfielder named BUD WEISER?!" 🍺 @jpkurkjian CAN’T believe @Kurkjian_ESPN ‘s “All-Beer Team” in honor of Milwaukee's World Series berth.
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Seashells, the seashore, and the invention of the CURVEBALL! 🐚⚾️ Only @Kurkjian_ESPN could turn a 19th-century beach trip into a Hall of Fame baseball story!
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ZERO career homers and batting THIRD in the ALCS?! @jpkurkjian is BAFFLED by Chandler Simpson hitting in Tampa Bay’s three-hole. "You're gonna put runners on for me to not hit another homer?" 😂
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The Brewers' bullpen has been doing some pretty remarkable things this postseason.
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How impressive was the Brewers' historic sweep of the Dodgers?
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