An all new baseball-fans podcast from Scotland that focuses on the experience of baseball rather than the stats and in-depth analysis. Four fans, three from Scotland and a proud Yorkshireman, share their experience of following America’s game at home and abroad. The football loving fans from across the pond get into America’s game and seek to understand, explain and enjoy it from a lifetimes experience of watching traditional British sports. The Bullpen bros are rooting for the Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox. During the 2023 season we’ll bring you a regular review to help you not just understand what’s happened but importantly help you understand the simple yet complex game. We’ll give you our Heroes, Villains, Highlights, Fantasy Baseball update and our Triple AAA, Ask About Anything to help us all learn. Plenty of laughs along the way and mascot Hamish the Highland Bull makes regular appearances!
Episodes
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
The Super Bowl is done and we can focus on proper sport now as the MLB season is around the corner. The boys get together to discuss win projections for our teams in 2024. Are we really all sufficiently pessimistic about the year ahead.
And importantly Yorkshire Dave is here to rate the various Brown Bars we sampled on our most recent Dutch trip. Oh and a bit of chat about the groundhopping and the games!
Enjoy, subscribe and share.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2023
CREDITS
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Shards [Intro Version]
Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Video Link : https://youtu.be/1BnmlzuVOCU
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
The Boys from the Bullpen return for 2024 although sadly our Chief, Richard, is waylaid by work commitments.
Not to worry we are on our way back to the Netherlands very shortly for our annual football extravaganza. So importantly Yorkshire Dave is here to tell us about our trip schedule and of course which pubs and brown bars we will visit on the trip. Yes, he has a book to help these important decisions.
Highlander Alan chimes in with the smaller detail of the trip that will see us watch Top Oss, Nijmegen and Vitesse Arnhem. In addition to some important town facts we also remark on a poignant part of the trip where we will pay respect to a Highland League footballer killed in the Battle at Arnhem.
Keeping us up to date on the baseball front Young Dave talks us through the draft lottery, what, why and how. A recent addition to the MLB world and one that produced a quite surprising result in the recent lottery.
So another packed episode from Scotland.
Enjoy, subscribe and share.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2023
CREDITS
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Shards [Intro Version]
Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Video Link : https://youtu.be/1BnmlzuVOCU
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
So it's early September and things are looking good for 1/4 of the Bullpen playing baseball in October. Or will it be 1/2 of us.....?
West Coast Richard on a high as Seattle are on a roll. Red Sox Dave realistic about Boston's chances of playing in October and Dave Junior and Alan, well they follow teams in the AL Central...
We get some World Series predictions, will Daz Cameron get a late call up to the Orioles as this season's form team perhaps could do with a few more homers?
And White Sox fan Dave makes a bold prediction about Shohei Ohtani's future in the Windy City! As we discuss the astonishing implications of his injury and not being traded in July.
So another packed episode from Scotland.
Enjoy, subscribe and share.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2023
CREDITS
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Shards [Intro Version]
Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Video Link : https://youtu.be/1BnmlzuVOCU
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Yorkshire Dave and Highlander Alan look to make sense of the Baseball Deadline Day and start to understand why it's so different to Football's transfer windows and why they aren't all trying to improve this years results!
How you build a team seems a more structured process than we're used to but clearly not all our teams can get this right! It's appropriate the Bullpen boys discuss the Farm system but it's not one for Hamish... What is Free Agency all about?
As it's Boston v Detroit on the podcast it's appropriate that Alan is heading over to Fenway this week and hoping to defend an unusual Highland Bullpen record in Boston!
Plus No Hitters, the usual amazing Stats and football in Comerica Park highlighting the one time star of the Scottish Premiership who has now played in both games at Comerica....
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Friday Jun 23, 2023
So another packed episode from Scotland.
Enjoy, subscribe and share.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2023
CREDITS
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Shards [Intro Version]
Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Video Link : https://youtu.be/1BnmlzuVOCU
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
So another packed episode from Scotland.
Enjoy, subscribe and share.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2023
CREDITS
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Shards [Intro Version]
Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Video Link : https://youtu.be/1BnmlzuVOCU
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
It's a big Highland Bullpen welcome back for Dave Junior! Our favourite Chicago White Sox fan returns and swings for the fences with some killer stats.
And it's a quality start to our latest episode with Yorkshire Dave explaining one of the more unusual pitching metrics in the game of baseball.
Host Rich is happy to see Bryce Miller make pitching history for his Mariners. Rich and Yorkshire Dave are also looking to see who comes out on top with their Seattle Mariners and Boston Red Sox locked at one game apiece in their series.
Highlander Alan isn't a fan of the decision by the Oakland A's owner to take the famous franchise to Las Vegas.
The Bullpen Bros also give their verdict on New York Yankees' Aaron Judge after the recent tipping controversy.
So another packed episode from Scotland.
Enjoy, subscribe and share.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2023
CREDITS
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Shards [Intro Version]
Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Video Link : https://youtu.be/1BnmlzuVOCU
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
We're now 30 games into the 2023 Major League Baseball season and the boys in the Highland Bullpen have plenty to discuss.
Host Rich's bold claims that the Mariners can go deep into the post-season are not looking too hot - as Julio is yet to ignite and Robbie Ray is out for the year, not to mention that Seattle's finest keep coming up short in close games.
Highlander Alan talks us through the Detroit Tigers' opening to the season, as a tough start has the men from Michigan on course for another tough year. But at least the Tigers are in better shape than Dave Junior's Chicago White Sox, who have made a nightmare start to the 2023 season.
Elsewhere, Yorkshire Dave is hopeful that the underachieving Boston Red Sox can keep on the right side of .500 and he reviews his recent trip to Fenway, including Monster tickets and good times in the Bleachers Bar.
There's also quality chat about the upcoming London Series between the Chicago Cubs and the St Louis Cardinals, and a discussion on the new 'pizza box' bases!
So another packed episode from Scotland.
Enjoy, subscribe and share.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2023
CREDITS
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Shards [Intro Version]
Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Video Link : https://youtu.be/1BnmlzuVOCU
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Major League Baseball is back on Opening Day 2023! And so is the Highland Bullpen - the baseball podcast from bonnie Scotland.
Host Rich takes a look back through the history books to find out if the omens are good for our favourite teams. Spoiler alert - not so much for the Bullpen bros who follow the Sox (any colour)!
Highlander Alan talks us through his Spring Training trip to Florida where he packed in tons of sporting action, as per usual. He also reveals his hopes for the Detroit Tigers as they embark on another AL Central campaign. Last year, Dave Junior's Chicago White Sox took the Bullpen bragging rights, but Al is hoping his Tigers can turn the tables in 2023.
Elsewhere, Yorkshire Dave is hopeful that the underachieving Boston Red Sox can get Fenway rocking after a lacklustre 2022. He's also looking forward to his own US trip.
And Rich makes a bold claim about the Seattle Mariners, backing his favourites to unseat the Astros and be World Series contenders.
There's also quality chat about the success of baseball players from Japan.
So another packed episode from Scotland.
Enjoy, subscribe and share.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2022
CREDITS
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Shards [Intro Version]
Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Video Link : https://youtu.be/1BnmlzuVOCU
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
The Bullpen Bros expand their sporting travels as the Rugby League World Cup visits the North east of England. Tickets were bought in 2020 for the 2021 event which we saw in 2022!
Dave Senior is a season ticket holder at Leeds Rhinos and entertained Alan over 4 days with some class action and sport (and alcohol...) with young dave joining us in Newcastle and Middlesbrough.
Rugby League is different from Rugby Union in several ways and we reckon a game our American friends would enjoy more and we are not biased.
Our games were New Zealand All Blacks v Ireland at Headingley, Scotland v Fiji at Kingston Park, Tinga V Cook Islands at the Riverside finishing with Papua New Guinea and Wales in Doncaster.
Rugby, travel, groundhopping, friendship and a few beers and other stuff (it was on offer...) along the way.