This Week in Blernsball

Holy big extensions Batman! Wander Franco and Jose Berríos signed monster extensions in the two weeks since we've met last. Award season is here, which is way better than the holiday season. Predictably, Shohei took home AL MVP and Robbie Ray took home the AL Cy Young, setting him up for a big payday. The CBA is expiring in a week. What does this mean for free agency, arbitration, and the start of the new season? It's bracket time. This week we have Air Bud, Patrick Swayze, Jackie Moon,...

Award season has begun, with St. Louis taking home a record 5 Gold Gloves. Also, congratulations to Vladdy Guerrero Jr. on his winning the Hank Aaron Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance in the Field of Excellence. The battle for the Greatest Fictional Athlete continues, with matchups between Paul Crewe and Johnny Utah, Vince LaSalle and Ivan Drago, Crash Davis and Pete LaFleur, and Kate Veatch and Brendan Conlon. This week's Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: Hurricane Neddy (Jacob),...

The season is over, Atlanta has won, so now what? The answer, dear listeners, is the bracket we've been putting off since the first wave. It's time for the greatest fictional athlete bracket! Prepare yourselves for a massive bracket where athletes from fiction face off to determine who will reign supreme. Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: The Homer They Fall (Ben), Mother Simpson (Jacob)

NOTE: This episode was recorded before Game 1 of the World Series. Dodgers vs Red Sox, the Battle for Mookie's Soul! What's that, they didn't make it? Screw this World Series. Who to cheer for when there's no morally good team to cheer for? Well at least Freddie Freeman is in the World Series! The Toronto Blue Jays might be in deep trouble trying to re-sign premium players this offseason after their ownership shenanigans spilled out into public. Watch West Wing. Just do it. Simpsonrama...

Apologies for the audio quality, the Internet Ninjas had it in for us this week! The Red Sox were this close to taking a commanding series lead, and then blew it in the ninth inning to let Houston tie the ALCS 2-2 last night. How will their pitching respond in Game 5? Will their hitting continue to be red hot as the series progresses? Atlanta was on the verge of going up 3-0 in the NLCS, but some Hollywood Heroics from Cody Bellinger and Mooky Betts brought LA back into the series. Who...

This week, we spent so much of our time breaking down the playoffs, we completely forgot our other mission, to talk about TV! The Red Sox-Rays series was a barnburner. Congratulations Ben on his Red Sox advancing to the ALCS in dramatic fashion and sorry to the rest of us on having to watch a Red Sox-Astros ALCS. In the other ALDS, the Astros proved they're laser-focused on proving their championships aren't tainted, and beat the White Sox into submission, robbing us of the potential of a...

It's playoff season! Perhaps most importantly, the Yankees lost! Get ready for a month of edge of your seat, exciting baseball! We try to come up with an iconic nickname for Shohei, like "The Bambino" or "Iron Horse." You'll never guess what the result is! Remember back in March how we made some predictions for what would happen this season? Remember how wrong we were? Gotcha! We're super-geniuses at predicting stuff! Either that or baseball is super predictable, one or the other. Plus,...

The Red Sox, Blue Jays, and Yankees are duking it out for the AL Wild Card, but there can be only one! What's that? There are two wild cards now? There can be only two! Meanwhile, in the NL, the epic collapse of the San Diego Padres seems complete, as they sit 5 GB with just 12 to play. It's time for some sports equinox talk, the epic day of all the big four at once is coming up again, as the NHL and NBA seasons look to get underway! This Week's Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: Krusty...

Farwell Norm, you'll be missed. The high flying, incandescent, Blue Jays have caught Boston and New York for the AL Wild Card. How much higher can they fly before the season ends? Holy cow, where did this version of the San Francisco Giants come from? And what a matchup in the NL Wild Card! And it's time for TRAILER FRENZY! We nerd out about genre trailers that came out in the past weeks. Let's enjoy some Spider-Man! This Week's Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: Treehouse of Horror III...

Guess who's back, back again? It's us, back from a knock to the noggin! The Red Sox are struggling, falling behind the Yankees as the Bronx Bombers continue to surge in their post-deadline boom. Can they be stopped, or will their revamped lineup be able to sustain their subpar pitching? The Blue Jays made a splash at the deadline and had an amazing first homestand back in Toronto, but it all seems for not after a less than stellar series in Seattle, can they pull it together or is this a...

Good job Cleveland, not only are you not Detroit, you have a baseball team name that isn't a racist slur (starting in 2022)! The Rays are loading up for another run, getting Nelson Cruz from Minnesota. Is Champa Bay ready to add another boat parade to the mix? Where does the NL West end up? With their top three teams all duking it out for supremacy in the division, it's shaping up to be one heck of a pennant race. International Baseball Edition! Your favourite ex-MLB stars and stars of...

It's the Gronk Episode! If you know, then you know! The Toronto Blue Jays are back in Toronto, after nearly two full years on the road! It'll be exciting, a little bit unsafe, and a lot of bit fun. Shut up and take our money! Are the Red Sox legit? Sure seems like it! Does MLB have a domestic abuse problem? With yet another MLB star placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, it sure is starting to look like a pattern rather than isolated incidents. Fun times in Tokyo today!...

It's the All-Star Week, which is a strange thing to call a three-day weekend. We revel in Vlad Jr's monster performance at the Midsummer Classic, becoming the youngest MVP in All-Star Game history. Pete Alonso didn't have a bad showing either, mashing his way to his second consecutive Home Run Derby Crown. What's in store for the second half? Will the Red Sox keep up their torrid pace and win the AL East? Will the Giants finish off a dream season and capture the NL West crown? Will the...

Ich bin ein Berliner! And with that, there's some German for you in this Yiddish heavy episode of This Week in Blernsball. Who made the All Star Game? Lots of Blue Jays and Red Sox, that's who! Revel in our teams being good! Sho time keeps rolling. He's a no-doubt MVP candidate as he walloped 31 home runs in half a season. Why are everybody's City Connect jerseys better than the Red Sox? Because Boston can't have all the nice things Ben! But seriously, The Giants have some really nice new...

You may also call this episode Spaceballs: The Podcast! Or We'll Podcast until we get vashnigyered! In baseball news Hector Santiago was suspended for a sticky substance on his glove, giving him the dubious honour of being the first pitcher to be suspended under the new foreign substances rule. No sympathy here folks. Sho' time hits the Bronx this week, with Ohtani smacking a few dingers at Yankee Stadium and grabbing the MLB lead, for now. But watch out for Kyle Schwarber, having the best...

MLB has a new initiative to attract fans, and it's pants-free baseball! Checking in on the sticky stuff situation got a whole lot more interesting as Max Scherzer and Sergio Romo dropped their pants to prove they aren't hiding anything to doctor the baseball. Wander Franco is legit and the Rays have yet another great prospect to boost their playoff chances. But the real question remains, is he just Julio Franco in a fake moustache trying to get some more at-bats into his already lengthy...

This episode has two titles. Can you find them both? Continuing from last week's sticky situation, MLB has issued some punishments for the use of foreign substances on baseballs. Have they swung back too far in cracking down on this situation? Our analysis says maybe! Can Boston keep up their hot start? After an uneven series against Toronto, who knows? Vlad Jr is en fuego! Since it's now mid-June it's not just posturing to say he's on track for a Triple Crown season! Plus, let's see if...

We took a week off, so there's lots to discuss this week! Marcel Ozuna...disappointing. All we have to say is that there's no place in baseball for this kind of behaviour. On to the sticky stuff! And by sticky stuff we mean, the literal sticky stuff pitchers are putting on the ball. Does it matter what pitchers are putting on their hands to control the ball? Time for more City Connect Jerseys! The Chicago teams unveiled their jerseys over the past couple of weeks and they show off the two...

Congratulations Joe West? You broke the record for most MLB games umpired, but at what cost? At what cost! Vladdy Jr is hot, but the Blue Jays are cold, looks like it's time to call on the reinforcements of Alek Manoah! Way to force a promotion youngster! The AL East is the AL Beast, and we're loving it. Also, the NL West is fun too, but they don't have a fun rhyme for it. Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: The Boy Who Knew Too Much (Ben), Mr. Plow (Jacob)

This podcast is good...But it could be better! Are we already into Year of the Pitcher territory? Only six weeks into the season, with outstanding pitching performances piling up, and another no-hitter last night, there's sure a convincing case building. Are the Los Angeles Angels the most disappointing team in baseball? They have Mike Trout, literally the Mike Trout of baseball, Shohei Ohtani hitting bombs and striking dudes out, and still can't manage to break .500. Derek Jeter is...