We had a great time checking out the Mariachis de Nuevo Mexico!
Author: James Christopher
There’s No Place Like Home
The ‘E Train’ Is Rolling
The New Look Midland Rockhounds
Good Guy and Glue For Baseball
When the Good Men Project wanted to interview me as one of the ‘Glue Guys’ of baseball, I wasn’t sure if I’d really earned it. Whether I do deserve the title or not remains to be seen, but it was an honor to be asked. To be asked by Emily was the icing on the cake.
The Inland Empire Strikes Back
New Let’s Get Two!!!
I went to a hockey game. Andrew gave me a challenge and THE INLAND EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!
Season 4 Premiere: “We’re Baaaaaaack”
2021 Award Winners
The Let’s Get Two team continues to honor the folks in and around minor league baseball as they help grow the game. Starting this year, the award will be a Texas style, rodeo inspired belt buckle. Congratulations to the winners!
| CATEGORY | WINNER |
| Single A | Bowling Green Hot Rods |
| Double A | Frisco RoughRiders |
| Triple A | Omaha Storm Chasers |
| Indie Ball | Southern Maryland Blue Crabs |
| Cleburne Railroaders | |
| Collegiate SL | Fond Du Lac Dock Spiders |
| Content Creator | Emily Nyman |
| Entrepreneur of the Year | Apollo Media |
| Mascot of the Year | Dusty (Tri Cities Dust Devils) |
| Shelldon Tortuga (Daytona Tortugas) | |
| Don Gillingham Fan of the Year | Johnny Bowlin |
| Erik Mertens “Spirit of Baseball” | Ed Rivera |
| Voice of the Year | Shawn Murnin (Bowling Green Hot Rods) |
| Emma Tiedeman “Woman In Baseball” | Amy Johnson |
| Exectutive | Alan Miller and Jon Ryan |
| Ben Hill Person of the Year | Martie Cordaro (Omaha Storm Chasers) |
| Emma Tiedeman (Portland Sea Dogs) |
2020 Is Over
It’s kind of awkward to be a Texan right now and joke about 2020 being gone and 2021 being here considering the fact that we’re still thawing out.
What a year already.
But baseball is here and we’re back for season 3 of our show.
If you’re looking for baseball talk thats:
- Positive and fun
- Respectful
- Focused on the soul and heart of the game and where that soul lives.
- Not surviving on hot takes and trolling
- Doesn’t rely on the lowest common denominator to make the show happen.
Then we’re the show for you.
In the premiere of every season, and sometimes in random episodes, I start with a quote. This season’s quote couldn’t be more fitting. Check out the premiere to find out what it is. We call that a tease.
2021 will eventually become more normal. We’ll get to the ballpark. Transport through time and space to the first time we went, heart the crack of the back, ate a hot dog thats a bit too messy and stretched in the 7th. We’ll get there.
We’d be honored and humbled if you come along with us as we journey through what we hope will be a season of catharsis and healing.
Let’s Get Two.
Baseball Talk In 2020…
There are lots of reasons I decided to do this show. Obviously, I love the game, I think I have a different view of the game, a unique relationship with the game and was searching for a creative outlet after leaving film.
With 2020 becoming the disaster we’ve all experienced, it was important for me to try to formalize what I wanted the show to be.
The biggest thing I wanted to maintain in our show was tone. The fact is, we knew we would have to be active on twitter. Have you been on twitter lately? It’s awful on its best day. But to grow the show, we knew we had to be involved and we really wanted to make sure we had a purpose and that we interacted with people in a kind way, with a positive, welcoming tone. We celebrate fandom, we don’t care if you’re a Gateway Grizzlies fan or a New York Yankees fan. Baseball is great. People who love baseball are mostly great. And our focus is mainly the beauty of the game focusing our lens on the MiLB, Collegiate Summer League and Independent Baseball: the game at it’s purest.
But let’s be honest, many people on Twitter are out there being trolls, they are throwing bombs with fake accounts and seeming to take a sense of pleasure in upsetting people, in adding a little extra misery to fan bases they deem unworthy. In 2019, that made you an awful person. Who does that? In 2020, it makes you even worse. We have a pandemic, we have a divided political culture. The economy in the US is contracting. We have so much going on. So what does it say about someone who gets some kind of delight by being a prick on twitter? And I know, it’s yelling into a hurricane. Or, ‘old man yells at cloud’.
So, we on this show, will maintain our very different tone. Because any other tone would make me depressed. I’m a smart dude with a sharp wit and I can go toe to toe with anyone. But when I’m done, I honestly feel bad for going after someone and lowering myself to a level.
The fact is, there are lots of roads we travel, lots of paths that lead us to logging into Twitter. Internet tough guy doesn’t impress me. I’m an Army vet. Did over a year in Bosnia where I saw shit that no one should see. Mass graves. A hand grenade tossed in my direction. The results of a little kid falling into a minefield. And more. So, all this tough guy twitter talk? Unimpressed. The desire to make people feel worse just cause? Over it.
I’m unapologetically an Astros fan. I’ve become the Astros fan other fanbases will hold up as “reasonable.” While it’s a compliment, I’m far from the only. I know lots of Astros fans. Many of my favorite people are Astros fans. So, no, not the only one.
Conversely, I’ve seen a Yankees fan mock a cancer patient for wearing an Altuve jersey. The story of my grandson being called a cheater by an Ms fan. I don’t judge every fanbase by them, so maybe we should all admit that there are loud, obnoxious percentage of everyone’s fanbase and look each other as humans instead.
If I could waive my hand and fix things, it would go like this (for example) Yankee fan should be able to celebrate every home run. every Cole K, Judge homer without some jackass posting the Chapman/Altuve walkoff. Conversely, I should be able to talk Astros with Astros friends and not have to worry about some moron posting trashcan memes. Let’s just acknowledge that life SUCKS. and not try to make it suck more for other people.
So our show will always be positive. We’re not going to attack other fans. We’re not going to isolate, we’re going to welcome. And we’re going to help you find other shows and twitter folks who do the same thing: bring some positivity to it. And at such time as people we have on our show, or people we recommend behave in a way that’s overtly negative, going after low hanging fruit, they will no longer be associated with the show.
We know we could get greater notoriety by going full troll, but we couldn’t live with ourselves doing it that way.
We’re just going to be us. People who love baseball and who love people who love baseball.
