Episodes

Bobby and Alex run through a list of news items that have gotten somewhat lost in the shuffle in the last few weeks, including the appraisal of damage to the Tropicana Field roof and the Rays’ subsequent 2025 plans, the Orioles reversing course on their left field wall change from two years ago, Diamond Sports…

This week on the show, Bobby and Alex are joined by friends of the show Jane, Lauren, and Stephen from ⁠Batting Around⁠ to draft the silliest, most ridiculous, most Online, and just generally dumbest things that happened in the 2024 baseball season. From false ejections to panicked statements and everything in between, this episode runs…

Bobby and Alex bookend the 2024 season with a conversation about the ways it felt unique in comparison to the seven other seasons they’ve covered on the podcast. Then, they talk through some of the upcoming content plans they have for this offseason, including some exciting Patreon experiments and “Main Character Month,” a series that…

Bobby and Alex gather to react to a World Series bookended with two classic games that the Dodgers ultimately dominated over the Yankees. They discuss the shocking Freddie Freeman performance, the resilience of a very injured Dodgers pitching staff, the buttons that Dave Roberts pressed to navigate all 27 outs each time they took the…

Bobby asks Alex whether or not he has any other grand predictions (after predicting Freddie Freeman’s huge Game 1 moment in the previous podcast). Then, they discuss the Dodgers winning Games 1 and 2 of the World Series and whether the Yankees have a chance to come back, plus the performance of Shohei Ohtani, Freddie…

Bobby and Alex gather to preview the 2024 World Series, which is here at long last and consists of two teams that everyone is having very Normal and Measured reactions to! They do so by presenting a list statements and deciding whether they will be true or false by the end of the series. Baseball…

Bobby and Alex discuss a $9 million sale of a copy of the U.S. Constitution and whether or not it relates to a very important figure in the baseball world. Then, they field your voicemails and emails about the teams that have been eliminated from the 2024 playoffs and try to provide some therapeutic advice…

Bobby and Alex run through a special (mostly) playoffs-oriented edition of Three Up, Three Down, discussing the Good New York Mets, how this postseason’s relievers are like refrigerators, a well-timed F-bomb, the key to being rich, The Mainstream Media, an on-the-nose advertising mishap by TBS, David Rubenstein’s prolific authorship of nothing, and more. Links: ⁠David…

Bobby and Alex discuss a new zen that’s come across Bobby as the Mets have ridden an adrenaline rollercoaster over the last two weeks. Then, they bounce around the various Division Series, highlighting the takeaways from the first games and whether or not any teams have changed their prospects of going deep into October, or…

Bobby and Alex react to a truly mind blowing final day of the 2024 regular season that saw the New York Mets do extremely non-New York Mets things to make the cut for the postseason. Then, they fill out their postseason bracket based on the Power of the Narrative, defining what the narrative would be…

Alex’s return to the podcast is marked with an unprecedented Shohei Ohtani feat, some strange pitch tipping news out of High-A, a check in on the state of the playoff races, a Farhan Zaidi-McCovey Cove Dove improv re-enactment, and a frankly remarkable amount of Kevin Costner chat. Tipping Pitches features original music from Steve Sladkowski…

Alex still isn’t back from his so-called “vacation,” so please enjoy this special episode of “three up, three down” with friend of the show Hannah Keyser (unlocked from our Patreon)! Follow Hannah on Twitter @HannahRKeyser. To find more episodes like this, you can subscribe to our Patreon for the full back catalogue at patreon.com/tippingpitches. Tipping…