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Episode 16 of The SMS features an hour with Oakland A's legend Dave Stewart, who walks us through his three World Series wins, a World Series MVP, an earthquake and so much more from his 16-year major-league career.——The second guest needs no introduction, as former Blue Jays centre fielder Kevin Pillar joins the show as he drives through the Arizona desert on his way to the Chicago White Sox complex on an early spring training morning.——EP15 is sponsored by Lessard Coutu Jewellery.Serving th...

Fresh off a turkey hunt and a round of golf in retirement, former Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Justin Smoak joins the show to reminisce about an 11-year career that featured stops in Texas, Seattle and a memorable five seasons north of the border.Included in his Jays run is a pair of ALCS appearances and a career-best 38-homer campaign in 2017 that saw him start the Midsummer Classic in Miami.In addition to some Josh Donaldson and David Price stories, Smoak talks about the 2015 club that w...

Baseball season is back and to kick things off we sit down in Dunedin with Toronto Blue Jays reliever Erik Swanson on the windiest day possible to go over the ins and outs of the 30-year-old high-leverage reliever’s career. From growing up and living in a place made movie famous — Fargo, North Dakota, don’t yah know? — to being traded three times early in his career, Swanson goes over his journey from eighth-round pick of the Texas Rangers, the trade that sent him to the Big Apple in exc...

A chance encounter at the 2023 MLB winter meetings in Nashville led to our first guest’s SMS appearance, as former Oakland A’s utilityman Chad Pinder starts his metamorphosis from baseball player to mental health advocate.At the age of 31, Pinder walked away from the sport in 2023, deciding to call it a career for very personal reasons.A candid Pinder talks about how anxiety affected him personally as a baseball player, the work he put in to change his mindset, and what ultimately led to his ...

We are back for the first episode of 2024 and it’s a prospects-heavy edition.Toronto’s own Tyler Black joins the show fresh off a batting practice session thrown by his broadcaster father, Rod, and ahead of a huge spring training for the Milwaukee Brewers infielder, as heads into camp with a legit chance to crack the opening day roster for the first time in his career.After being selected 33rd overall in 2021, Black talks about his journey from Wright State to the brink of his major-league de...

We finish off season 1 and the year 2023 with the newest head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, as Corey Mace joins the show to reminisce with Scott Mitchell about their time in Calgary together and look forward to the job that lies ahead for the 38-year-old native of Port Moody, B.C.Mace goes over his three years in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills, his time as a player in the CFL, an abrupt retirement, and then a quick ascension in the coaching ranks, all leading to where he is today hea...