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
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Friday Apr 23, 2021
The Highland Bullpen survives its first week of the baseball bros butting heads! Boston Red Sox fan Yorkshire Dave and Chicago White Sox diehard Dave Junior review their teams' latest encounters and their teams' early-season form!
White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon joins Jackie Robinson in the 'Hero of the Week' section after his incredible no-hit performance against the Cleveland Indians.
Alan reveals his recent run of poor predictions as his Detroit Tigers continue to confound.
Plus all the latest from our Fantasy Baseball action, where the Highland Bullpen continue to beat the odds with our team comprised only of Red Sox, White Sox, Tigers and Seattle Mariners making a strong start.
Cheers and enjoy the chat brought to you by Scotland's baseball podcast for fans around the world.
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©Tartan Podcasts 2021
CREDITS
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Shards [Intro Version]
Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Video Link : https://youtu.be/1BnmlzuVOCU
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Scotland's Bullpen bros give their unique verdict on week 2 of the 2021 Major League Baseball season.
The Red Sox lead the way of our teams with the Mariners and White Sox chasing them and of course the Tigers always battling hard. But the bros are at least hitting it out of the park in the British Baseball Podcasters Fantasy League! Just how did that hapen?
This week's show is packed with great content, including:
1. The Bros reveal their personal highlights from the Week, Rookie pitchers, returning ballplayers, welcome back!
2. Who are Baseball's Heroes and Villains this week? Will Los Angeles get a 2nd hero award and New York New York, so bad they got two nominations in the Villain of the week.
3. Dave reveals the answers to his computer themed quiz and Alan poses two new Baseball q's having discovered a couple of amazing facts related to the Masters Golf!
4. What did we learn this week. Framing, saves and holds, will these facts help our exclusive fantasy team?
5. How to follow and get in touch via social media and a special shout-out to our far flung fans across the globe #thescotsheardacrosstheworld.
6. What's coming up for our teams and importantly for all of MLB in the next week? #MLBEurope
Cheers and enjoy the chat.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2021
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 Apr 07, 2021
The Highland Bullpen 2021 The Masters Golf and playing at Augusta National
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
It's April, it's the golf season and the blooms are out at Augusta. Bullpen Bro Alan usually regales us with his stories of being at the Masters. Today he is usurped by another mid handicap golfer explain how he got to play at Augusta and how he measured up to his "break 100" challenge!
Euan McLean, a 20 + year veteran of Scottish golf journalism, talks us through his 2006 working trip to Augusta where his name was drawn in the journalists lottery to play the course on the Monday after Phil Mickelson put on the green jacket.
How did he feel over his first tee shot?
How were the greens?
Did he replicate Sandy Lyle from the bunker on the 18th?
Did he break 100?
All these questions and more answered from Euan.
Plus some great insights on watching baseball and ice hockey through various journalistic trips.
Cheers and enjoy the chat.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2021
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 Apr 07, 2021
The Highland Bullpen 2021 Baseball Opening week highlights, heroes and villains
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Scotland's Bullpen bros give their verdict on an action-packed opening week of the 2021 Major League Baseball season.
Our teams - the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers - enjoyed mixed fortunes but the bros are at least hitting it out of the park in the British Baseball Podcasters Fantasy League!
This week's show is packed with great content, including:
1. The Bros reveal their personal highlights from Opening Week
2. Fantasy baseball round-up. Who is leading the pack so far?
3. All-new quiz with three tricky questions that will test your baseball knowledge
4. Three things we learned this week. Some wild action on the home run front caught our attention this week, plus rare rules that cropped up in opening series clashes.
5. How to follow and get in touch via social media and a special shout-out to our far flung fans in Chile and India.
6. Show mascot Hamish the Highland bull reveals his hero and villain of the week.
Cheers and enjoy the chat.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2021
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
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Why is Opening day so special and what differentiates from the start of our Scottish football season and indeed what is that brings both together? Find out here from the Bros. It's a 34 minute listen and we'd love your feedback on the boys predictions.
Plus we have the scoop on how each of the Bullpen teams of Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers will do in 2021 according to the Bullpen Bros. We have a World Series contender plus we also doubt Alan the Tigers fan misplaced confidence.
Even more exciting the Bros predict where our carefully selected fantasy baseball team will do in the British Baseball Podcasters Fantasy League. Honour comes first for the Bullpen team which consists exclusively of players from our four teams, three of which didn't make last year's expanded play offs. Are they justified as fantasy baseball rookies in their confident predictions?
We also announce the new competition for the MLB in 2021, the Bullpen Division. Featuring only four teams and only the games they play each other. A round of drinks is at stake here in addition to Bullpen pride.
Cheers and enjoy the chat.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2021
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/
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
The Bullpen Bros complete their Grand Slam of MLB season previews by crossing the Atlantic to team up with SouthSide Zo, from the Pinwheels and Ivy Chicago baseball podcast.
We shoot the breeze about the upcoming Major League Baseball season and Zo lifts the lid on life (and baseball) in the sports-mad city of Chicago.
Zo reveals his love for a famous Scottish sporting export. He's also shocked and delighted when the Bullpen Bros are able to reveal another celebrity White Sox fan, to join former POTUS Barack Obama!
He also discusses how one of his most memorable baseball moments came watching his city rivals, the Cubs.
It's another great episode and sets the scene for the Highland Bullpen's upcoming Opening Day special, when Richard, Alan, Yorkshire Dave and Dave Junior will review what's sure to be a spectacular opening to the 2021/22 baseball season.
Cheers and enjoy the chat.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2021
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/
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
The Highland Bullpen Sports Podcast Series 2 Episode 5 Detroit Tigers 2021
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
The Bullpen Bros welcome veteran Detroit Tigers fan Dave Peake to preview the upcoming season. Let's face it we know where the Tigers will be when we get to October so we have some great chat with Dave on his history of supporting the Tigers.
First up Dave delves into his memory banks for the 1968 World Series win for the Tigers. Fascinating for us novice fans listening to someone able to recount key plays from over 50 years ago.
Dave talks next about the 1984 team and indeed we get into a debate about who would win a series between the two teams!
Success hasn't followed the Tigers since then despite another World Series win but we've plenty of good young prospects in the Tigers Dave can talk to us about.
We also get Dave's insights on inter University rival in Michigan sports and as always we enjoy the rivalry chat. Dave questions us about the delights of Scottish football and we promise to meet up in Detroit over a bottle of Glen Ord malt whisky.
Cheers and enjoy the chat.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2020
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/
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
On this show we are joined by Cammy Bell of Heart & Hand podcast for an hours chat. A podcast for fans of Rangers Football Club, Champions of Scotland. H & H has been going for ten years and has been voted in the Top 20 Podcasts in both of the last two years BPA Awards and is also a Top 100 Podcast in Patreon.
Successful fan media which sees the podcast as official accredited media of the Club, Cammy talks us through the evolution of the podcast and how it’s achieved its’ status. Some ideas for many podcasters there.
For fans of groundhopping and Rangers Cammy also talks us through a range of his travels supporting the Gers through Scotland into England and throughout Europe. Alcohol tends to be involved in many of the stories. Bullpen Bro, Yorkshire Dave, also realises he too once attended a Rangers away game in Europe as the Scottish champions won the 1992 Battle of Britain!
We also veer into American sports, watching Rangers on the TV in the USA from California to New York. And we take the opportunity to discuss greatest Rangers players and indeed which legends of the club would fit into today’s team. At some point Cowdenbeath and Lisbon get compared but we did say alcohol was involved.
We hope you enjoy the listen.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2020
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/
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
The Highland Bullpen celebrates International Women's Day in style by teaming up with the Birds With Balls for an All Star episode.
Jo Lenton and Molly Willcox, two thirds of the BWB podcast team along with Tracey Wilks, share their experiences of falling in love with baseball.
They also discuss what inspired them to start their podcast. Together we discuss the challenges women still face in sport and society, discuss the positive steps forward in recent years and look ahead to a fairer future.
With plenty of laughs among the thought-provoking chat and baseball banter, it's an International Women's Day special to remember.
Remember to follow the Highland Bullpen Sports Podcast and Birds With Balls on your favourite podcast and social media platforms.
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
The Highland Bullpen Sports Podcast Season 2 Episode 2 Boston Red Sox
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
So what's to make of the Boston Red Sox in 2021? Join the Bullpen Bros and Terry Cushman of The Bastards of Boston Baseball as we get Terry's insights on how the Red Sox will fare this year.
Terry takes us on his journey from a NASCAR supporting family in Maine to the bleachers at Fenway Park. With some tips for where to eat and drink when visiting this historic park.
In this 60 minute episode Terry gives us his view on the pitching rotation and who's going to make the big hits for the Boston team. He's even gracious enough to make a recommendation for UK visitors to Fenway to take the trip down to Yankee Stadium too.
We get some insights to Boston and the surrounding area, we talk boxing between fans Richard and Terry who tells us his favourite all time boxer is British. And of course a mention for Liverpool FC owner John Henry too.
And no Red Sox chat on the Highland Bullpen would be complete without another great Ted Williams story, indeed one not even super fan, Bullpen Bro Dave, knew the final line to! Thanks to Terry for giving us his time.
Follow The Highland Bullpen via your favourite podcast apps and on Twitter (@HBullpen) and other social media channels.
©Tartan Podcasts 2020
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/