Fireside Chats #38: Where Paul & Tim sit back and listen to the experts, Will Carroll and Jeff Goldberg

by | Mar 17, 2009 | Fireside Chats Podcast

Boston Red Sox podcast on MVN Radio, Episode #38 where Paul & Tim sit back and listen to the experts as Jeff Goldberg, formerly with the Hartford Courant and soon to be NESN, and Will Carroll from Baseball Prospectus teach us a thing or two about baseball.

Episode #38
Hosts: Paul Testa, Tim Daloisio
Guests: Jeff Goldberg, OuttaThePahk and Will Carroll, Baseball Prospectus

It’s a star studded episode of Fireside Chats as we first welcome Jeff Goldberg who tells us why he thinks Big Papi is going to be swinging a big stick this year and how Jon Lester’s contract extension could be the best of the Sox offseason moves.  Jeff, a career newspaper journalist with the Hartford Courant before they made some deep cuts in the sports department last year, also gives us a candid look at where the media landscape.  It doesn’t look bright for the newspaper industry.

From newspapers we turn the conversation to injuries and who better to talk to than Will Carroll from Baseball Prospectus.  He is the injury expert (I’ve given second thought to using the word guru – thanks Will) and he tells us why we shouldn’t rely on Brad Penny, not to fear for Mike Lowell or David Ortiz, and that if Julio Lugo is half the woman that Mary Lou Retton is, he’ll be back on the field in short order (you’ll have to listen to understand the reference).

Thanks to Daryn and Rob for their winning efforts in our first Red Seat t-shirt giveaway as they tell their “first” experiences at Fenway Park.  Next week, we’ll be giving out another Red Seat t-shirt to the caller (yes you have to call in and leave a voice mail – the number’s below) who gives us the best answer to the following question, “Which Red Sox player is most likely to surprise us with his performance in 2009?”. Paul and I will select the best explanation to win a Red Seat original t-shirt.

All that and more on Episode #38 of Fireside Chats on MVN!

Thanks for listening!