Almost Cooperstown
Gordon Kolier & Mark Kolier
We're a father & son who love to talk and argue about baseball! Baseball is the professional sport that has the longest history so there is a lot to talk about. We launched Almost Cooperstown noting that baseball contains a long history of players that, for whatever reasons, have been shunned by the electors of the Hall of Fame. Consequently here are many 'Almost' players still waiting their turn for induction. With less than 1.5% of the now more than 23,000 players in the HOF, we feel there should be more players included. In these podcasts we also discuss current seasons & trends. Please send any messages to [email protected].
Baseball articles can be found here: https://almostcooperstown.substack.com/publish/posts
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All-Star Game yawn, weekend series wrap. trading deadline thoughts, all in TWIB! - Ep. 534 -
Almost Cooperstown
07/22/24 • 28 min
At least we got to see Paul Skenes pitch to Aaron Judge. It lasted all of one pitch however. The All-Star Game lost its juice years ago. Mark suggested counting All-Star stats in career totals. For whatever that would be worth. To add to that there are no longer Thursday games post All-Star break so four full days without real baseball that counts is awful!
What's remaining in the 2024 season is essentially a pandemic-legnth season around 60 games. Too many to determine a team's fate, too few not to pay attention.
The MLB trading deadline is July 30th and the next 10 days may shake up the baseball world - at least a bit. But the action may not occur until right at the deadline as too many teams have a chance. Particularly in the National League where only 2 teams (Marlins and Rockies) are truly out of the running.
MLB also dropped the 2025 schedule which includes a season-starting series between the Dodgers and Cubs in Japan. Shohei Othani vs. Shota Imanaga is a pretty juicy prospect!
Intro & Outro music this season courtesy of Mercury Maid! Check them out on Spotify or Apple Music!
Please subscribe to our podcast and thanks for listening! If you can give us 4 or 5 star rating that means a lot. And if you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter/X @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page or YouTube channel. And please tell your friends!
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Almost Cooperstown midseason report - Ep. 317
Almost Cooperstown
07/21/22 • 28 min
Unlike many who offer predictions on who's going to be a playoff team, we divulge what we predicted BEFORE this 2022 season started. We did pretty well by our own admission although we did have a big miss. Listen to find out what we got right and what we got wrong in this fast moving summary of the unofficial 1st half of the season!
Please subscribe to our podcast and thanks for listening! If you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page. If you can please give the podcast 4 or 5 star rating!
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MLB Baseball Parks & Groundskeeping - Ep. 208
Almost Cooperstown
05/20/21 • 34 min
Do you know the 10 oldest ballparks currently in use in MLB? Sure you'd expect Fenway & Wrigley but some of the other names might surprise even the most knowledgable fans. How about groundskeeping and the differences between baseball parks? Baseball is really the only major sport in which the playing field differs depending on the park in which you're playing. What's going on with the future of the Oakland A's? We talk about all this and more in this episode.
Thanks for listening and if you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page.
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MLB position players transition to pitcher & the reverse - Ep. 221
Almost Cooperstown
08/19/21 • 27 min
What Shohei Ohtani is doing this season is amazing. Just making it to the Major Leagues is incredibly difficult. How about changing positions from being a position every day player to a pitcher? Or a pitcher needing to become a position player in order to stay in the big leagues? Players like the Cardinal’s Rick Ankiel come to mind but there are plenty of other MLB players who've adapted on the fly in order to remain at the highest level of baseball.
We also talk about the Olympics again for some reason.
Please subscribe to our podcast and thanks for listening! If you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page.
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This Week in Baseball 8.21.23 - Ep. 423
Almost Cooperstown
08/21/23 • 14 min
We often discuss historical aspects of baseball and we love doing that, but we're fans and we watch what's going on in baseball at the moment. So this week we're starting a weekly Monday wrap-up show on what happened in MLB last week. We will try to keep it to 15 minutes and of course we will drop our regular episodes on Thursday as always.
We've added a YouTube Channel. Here is the link to the Almost Cooperstown channel.
Please subscribe to our podcast and thanks for listening! If you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter/X @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page or YouTube channel. If you can please give the podcast 4 or 5 star rating!
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More Baseball Oddballs - Ep. 424
Almost Cooperstown
08/24/23 • 23 min
Are players less weird today than they used to be? Surely today's players with their understanding of social media are more sensitive to public opinion. We already had episode 106 'Baseball Oddballs' https://www.buzzsprout.com/1066072/4412837 in which we talked about Bill 'Spaceman' Lee and Bill Veeck to name a couple.
No midgets in this episode but there are some very colorful characters!
We've added a YouTube Channel. Here is the link to the Almost Cooperstown channel.
Please subscribe to our podcast and thanks for listening! If you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter/X @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page or YouTube channel. If you can please give the podcast 4 or 5 star rating!
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This Week in Baseball 9.3.23 - Ep. 427
Almost Cooperstown
09/04/23 • 23 min
What was the signature moment of the past week in #MLB? Was it Alex Cobb's near no-hitter? Bryce Harper's 300th HR? Ronald Acuna's 121.2 MPH home run - the hardest hit ball in 5 years? We talked about all of those and the state of the races in all the divisions in our weekly TWIB update!
We've added a YouTube Channel. Here is the link to the Almost Cooperstown channel.
Please subscribe to our podcast and thanks for listening! If you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter/X @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page or YouTube channel. If you can please give the podcast 4 or 5 star rating!
www.almostcooperstown.com
When will MLB add more teams? - Ep. 127
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12/17/20 • 29 min
The last teams to come into MLB are now 23 seasons old (1998 the Rays and D'Backs). For 60 years there were only 16 teams in MLB. After the Dodgers and Giants moved in 1958, expansion really began to take off in 1961 with the Los Angeles Angels and another incarnation of the Washington Senators when the previous Senators team moved to Minnesota to become the Twins.
With franchise valuations continuing to increase it's highly likely that baseball will further expand both domestically and internationally? Where it goes next is still anyone's guess. We track the history of MLB expansion in under 30 minutes.
Thanks for listening and if you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page.
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Silver Sluggers of the Silver Screen - Ep. 108
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07/16/20 • 25 min
We love baseball movies but there have been a lot of bad ones. We try to put together a 'team' of the best players fictional and otherwise to have never played in an MLB game. It is not really possible to have a complete position by position team since while there are some Silver Sluggers discussed, there are more baseball movies made about pitchers than for any other field position. We talk about the movies we liked as well as ones we did not.
Thanks for listening and thanks to Lee Marc Stein for the idea! If you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on Twitter @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page.
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Will Ichiro be a first ballot HOFer? Should we care? - Ep. 563
Almost Cooperstown
11/25/24 • 47 min
79/113/122 those are the numbers representing the amount of days until pitchers & catchers report, #Dodgers #Cubs opening games in Tokyo March 18, and the REAL opening day on March 27.
MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, and Manager of the Year were all awarded. There were exactly ZERO surprises. Guess that's but it's also kind of boring. News Flash - #Mets Francisco Lindor did not win anything but a silver slugger. Sure he gets paid but what does Lindor have to do to get recognized as one of #Baseball's best?
Who will get in on the recently released 2025 HOF ballot? #Mariners Ichiro Suzuki is on the ballot & may be a first ballot HOFer. Should he be unanimous? We give reasons why yes, and why no. Felix Hernandez & C.C. Sabathia are also on the ballot for the 1st time. Will they get in first time around? How about #Astros #Mets #Phillies Billy Wagner? This is his last time around. Will he get in?
Intro & Outro music this season courtesy of Mercury Maid! Check them out on Spotify or Apple Music!
Please subscribe to our podcast and thanks for listening! If you can give us 4 or 5 star rating that means a lot. And if you have a suggestion for an episode please drop us a line via email at [email protected]. You can also follow us on X @almostcoop or visit the Almost Cooperstown Facebook page or YouTube channel. And please tell your friends!
www.almostcooperstown.com
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FAQ
How many episodes does Almost Cooperstown have?
Almost Cooperstown currently has 297 episodes available.
What topics does Almost Cooperstown cover?
The podcast is about Baseball, History, Podcasts and Sports.
What is the most popular episode on Almost Cooperstown?
The episode title 'Almost Cooperstown midseason report - Ep. 317' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Almost Cooperstown?
The average episode length on Almost Cooperstown is 30 minutes.
How often are episodes of Almost Cooperstown released?
Episodes of Almost Cooperstown are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Almost Cooperstown?
The first episode of Almost Cooperstown was released on May 23, 2020.
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