2013 Minnesota Twins

Let’s meet Minneapolis as our PhD Committee enjoys Target Field and all the great things of this classic Midwestern City.  Ed Kasputis interviews Kristen Montag from minneapolis.org.  The podcast concludes as we head to the Queen City and her Cincinnati Reds.

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Minicast – Target Field

In February 2010, Ed Kasputis flew to Kanas City to interview Gina Leo Stingley from the sports architectural firm, Populous about the opening of Target Field in April of that year.  In 96 days, Populous‘ next Major League ballpark will open – Miami Marlins’ Ballpark.

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Minicast – Ed Kasputis Baseball PhD Ceremony

Ed Kasputis gets his Baseball PhD by visiting his 30th Major League Ballpark – Target Field.  Our PhD Committee examines Ed about his 40 year journey though the baseball world and life.

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Harmon Killebrew (1936 – 2011)

This week is Twins’ week with our podcast featuring the Minnesota Twins being released on Friday, May 27th.  On May 17th, Twins slugger Harmon Killebrew passed away.  During our podcast Ed Kasputis, Creative Director of Baseball PhD will be interviewing baseball researcher, Stew Thornley about the legacy of Harmon Killebrew.

“I saw Harmon Killebrew play in the first Major League game that I ever attended,” said Ed Kasputis.  “In my opinion, Killebrew was the greatest right handed hitter of my youth.  While he was only 5’11” he played like a giant.”

His Nickname was “Killer”

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Baseball PhD meets Target Field

Meet the PhD Committee again

What a difference a year makes!  Our PhD Committee remembers their first year as they prepare to launch Season 2.  This podcast concludes with a replay of our first podcast – Meet Your PhD Committee which was released on February 20, 2010.  Our podcast featuring the Cactus League will be released on Friday, February 25th.

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Ed Kasputis gets his Baseball PhD

What do the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ed Kasputis have in common?  On September 17th both were in St. Paul (St. Paul is the twin city to Minneapolis).

The Scrolls were on display at the Science Museum of Minnesota.  Ed was in town to see his last Major League ballpark.

“Seeing all 30 current major league ballparks has been a great journey that took me 14,740 days to complete.  Once I learned that the Dead Sea Scrolls were in town, I immediately knew that it was the PhD thing to see before I caught a cab for Target Field,” said Kasputis.

You can listen to the PhD Ceremony for Ed Kasputis on our next podcast featuring the Cleveland Indians (Ed’s first game was at Cleveland Municipal Stadium on May 10, 1970).  Farley and Mark will perform the PhD examination of Ed.

Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea – Lowest Point on Earth

Washington Nationals

Cherry Blossoms,  Congress,  Racing Presidents and your money.  This week we are in our Nation’s capitol where all four can be found.

We start our podcast by making a u-turn and taking a quick jaunt back to Minneapolis to interview Kevin Smith, Executive Director of Public Affairs for the Minnesota Twins.  Kevin gives a a recap of Target Field opening day.

Next Ed, Farley and Mark discuss the great features of our Nation’s capitol and Nationals baseball.  Gina Leo Stingley from Populous teaches us that Nationals Park is a green park in a city on a hill that would make any environmentalist proud.  Ed then interviews Frank Ceresi, co-author of the book, Baseball Americana – Treasures From The Library of Congress.  (FYI.  Library of Congress is archiving all Twitter messages!)

Ed, Farley and Mark then conclude the podcast with excitement as they leave the green ballpark in D.C. for next week’s podcast destination – the green monster at Fenway.

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Minnesota Twins

Target Field will open on April 12, 2010 as the Minnesota Twins host the Boston Red Sox.  Target Field will be the only new major league ballpark that will open this year.  Ed, Farley and Mark begin the podcast by talking about Target Field.  Ed then interviews Michael Wekesser, lead designer for the Target Field project.  Mike’s employer is the world renown sports architectural firm, Populous.

The Wise Guys then battle it out over baseball history and then Baseball Bob appears from the shadows to give us the baseball trivia question of the podcast.  What was the name of the franchise that moved to Baltimore in 1954?

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Baltimore Orioles

Beautiful Baltimore.  The Inner Harbor, National Aquarium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards make Baltimore a must see among baseball fans.

In this episode, we first review what to do and see in Baltimore.  Next we get a sneak peak at Target Field which will open on April 12, 2010.  Gina Leo Stingley from Populous walks us through the features of this state of the art urban ballpark.

Our podcast crew makes their 2010 Major League Predictions.  Then comes the expert.  Professor Bruce Bukiet, math professor from the New Jersey Institute of Technology shares his 2010 predictions. Professor Bukiet has been using math models to predict the wins and losses of each team since 1998.

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Baseball PhD meets Target Field

Like anything great, we had to travel to Kansas City to learn about Target Field.  Target Field opens on April 12, 2010 in Minneapolis.  It will be the new home of the Minnesota Twins.

Target Field was designed at the world headquarters of Populous.  In the video below, Ed Kasputis interviews Michael Wekesser, lead designer for the project.

To learn about the 2012 Olympic Stadium that is being designed by Populous, click here.

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