A Few More Words The Athletic

Let me tell you what a trooper Molly Knight is. She has been deathly ill the last couple of weeks dealing with Covid. Like SUPER sick — can’t get out of bed sick.

But she texted me after Vin Scully passed away and said we HAD to do a podcast. So we recruited Mike Schur and talked a whole lot about Vin Scully … and the Dodgers … and the Juan Soto trade … and the sad existence of the Angels … and how much better peanut M&Ms are than regular M&Ms … and so much more!

Shortly after we did this, Molly had to check into a hospital for severe dehydration.

She’s much better now. But I gotta tell you, that’s the sort of Kellen Winslow commitment you get from Molly Knight. Sign up for her Substack, like, right now!

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This is fun — Molly Knight and I talk about our five “favorite” baseball stories of the year so far. Only they aren’t really our favorites since we HAD to talk about the Yankees. I mean, the Yankees are overshadowing everything else in baseball so far.

So we do talk about the Yankees … and we also talk about some of our favorite stuff like Byron Buxton, the Joc Pederson-Tommy Pham thing that never ends, the Phillies’ and Braves’ winning streaks, etc.

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If you haven’t gotten enough baseball preview stuff here the last couple of weeks, Molly Knight and I talked some baseball, why the Dodgers didn’t bring back Kenley, how much magic the Giants lose without Buster, how much we love the Blue Jays infield and so on.

Please check out Molly’s Substack “The Long Game” because it’s fantastic.

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Jackie Stiles is one of the greatest college basketball players ever — she set the NCAA scoring record while playing at what was then Southwest Missouri State and most of you, surely, will remember her team’s extraordinary run to the Final Four that year.

She is also an amazing person. I’ve known her now for closing on 25 years, and followed her from when she was just a kid in Claflin, Kansas, making 1,000 shots a day, through her incredible college career, through her injury-plagued pro career and into her post-career life as she has searched to find the person she is without basketball.

On March 1, a new documentary by Brent Huff called “The Jackie Stiles Story: Anything is Possible,” will premier in her hometown of Springfield, Mo. With that in mind, it seemed a good time to catch up with Jackie, talk a bit about her life and, sure, relive a couple of Jackie Stiles legends (like the time she won the Kansas state track titles in the 400, 800, one mile and two mile on the same day).

Super fun conversation. Hope you’ll like it.

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Hey, hey, talking a little Baseball Hall of Fame with Bob Costas. I don’t think there’s anything else I can really add to that … hope you enjoy.

While I have you, many of you have noticed a bit of a rough PosCast transition with the move to Meadowlark Media — this is particularly true on Apple PodCasts and Stitcher. I believe much smarter people than me are working on it, but best I can tell, this is the best thing I can tell you.

THIS IS THE LINK for the PosCast on Apple Podcasts.

I believe that link is working, it has the right artwork (how about Mike and me as bobbleheads!) and it has most of the shows on it. Unfortunately, it does not have a lot of the comments or an archive of many older shows. I can tell you we are working on it.

Meanwhile, I must admit, I’m still figuring out the link for this show. It seems to be populating in a couple of different places — again, probably my fault — so I’ll get to the bottom of it as soon as I can. There’s a good chance, though, that the old PosCast you are subscribing to will get these JoeBlogs shows.

Sorry if all of that is confusing — I’m pretty confused myself.

But either way, Bob Costas on baseball and the Hall of Fame is always worth it.

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Been trying to get this podcasting this worked out now that the PosCast is with the goons over at Meadowlark media. Last week, this bonus JoeBlog podcast somehow got mixed up with the PosCast, it was mayhem, hopefully we got things worked out.

This week, the magnificent Molly Knight — sign up for her Substack! — and I talk about baseball lockout, how optimistic we are about the season going on (spoiler: Molly is VERY optimistic) and whether or not Trevor Bauer will ever pitch for the Dodgers again.

Hope you enjoy. And I’m still working on getting this podcast on Apple, Spotify and all the rest.

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