I Love LA and Melbourne too

The Angels and Dodgers are in first and we love L.A.  Ed Kasputis interviews Justin and Anastasia Woods who traveled 9,962 miles from Melbourne, Australia to visit our studio and Joe Connor aka Mr. Sports Travel about things to do in Southern California.

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2014 Wild Card Preview

Jeter is out and the A’s are in.  We look forward to the playoffs and salute our three 2014 MLB Prediction champions, Professor Bruce Bukiet from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Justin Woods from Melbourne, Australia and Andre Lower from baseballbypositions.com.

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Professor Bruce Bukiet Wins Predictions Contest … again

3 out of 4 Years

Professor Bruce Bukiet from the New Jersey Institute of Technology has won his 3rd Baseball PhD predictions contest in the last four years (2010, 2011 & 2013).  Bukiet successfully predicted seven of this year’s ten Major League Baseball playoff teams (Rays, Tigers, A’s, Cardinals, Dodgers, Braves & Reds). The key to Bukiet’s victory was that he was the only participant in our predictions contest who predicted that the defending World Champion San Francisco Giants would not make this year’s post season.

Bukiet did not predict the firing of Dusty Baker by the Cincinnati Reds this week unlike Baseball PhD Committee member, Farley Dillinger who has been predicting Baker’s demise since 2010.  Dillinger, a Cubs fan has a long memory of Baker’s October exploits.

Four participants finished one team behind the Professor with 6 of their teams making the MLB Post-season.  Congratulations to Baseball PhD Committee members, David Matejzcyk (Tigers, Indians, A’s, Cardinals, Reds & Dodgers) and Mark Rantala (Rays, Tigers, Indians, Braves, Reds & Dodgers) along with Andre Lower from baseballbypositions.com (Rays, Tigers, A’s, Braves, Reds & Dodgers) and Australian Justin Woods (Tigers, A’s, Rays, Cardinals, Reds & Braves).

Will any mortal have the guts to predict that this year’s World Series Champion will not make the playoffs next season?  Professor Bukiet truly understands the power of math.

Professor Bukiet will be honored during our League Championship Series podcast (Episode 228) which will be released on Friday, October 11, 2013.

 

2013 Miami Marlins

We’ve taken our skills to South Beach.  The Fish are down but the Pirates are up.  Ed Kasputis interviews Mr. Sports Travel aka Joe Connor about Miami and Melbourne, Australia listener, Justin Woods about his American baseball road trip.

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2013 Pittsburgh Pirates

Happy Days are here again with the Pirates boasting the second best record in the Majors.  We explore the City of Bridges.  Ed Kasputis interviews Craig Davis from visitpittsburgh.com and Australian listener, Justin Woods from the Magnificent Mile.  Then it’s off to the Great Northwest.  Next stop Seattle.

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2013 St. Louis Cardinals

We are in St. Louis to remember “Stan the Man” Musial (1920-2013).  Our PhD Committee interviews Cardinal faithful Justin Woods from Australia as we prepare to honor the greatest harmonica player ever to make it to Cooperstown on the first ballot.  Our podcast concludes as we head to the American League’s newest venue – Houston.

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