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May 6, 2009 @ 1:55 pm

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Comment by 'Okawari' Phil

May 15, 2009 @ 9:55 pm

Yay! More pod casts (CL and PL).

I listen to them on my commute home as I have no interest in reality TV (that’s all London’s free commuter ‘newspapers’ are full of) and I’m bored with Swine flu and the economic down turn?

Dave,

A good way to describe ‘Bovril’ to your listeners might be to call it British Miso?

YOU have GOT to make Mr Pellegrini some hot buttered brown toast with a smear of Bovril on it, YOU WILL ROCK HIS WORLD!

I know a lot of ‘septics’ (Septic-tank, Yank?) who struggle with the whole vegi/marmite thing but Bovril is a different matter altogether?

It is the Champagne Krug of meaty/yeasty spreads.

Keep up the good work…

‘Okawari’ Phil

Comment by David Watkins

May 18, 2009 @ 1:11 pm

Hi Phil.

Thank you for continuing to listen and for the comments!

I may well have to knock up some Bovril on toast and force feed it to Chris at the beginning of the next podcast. Not sure Bovril goes well with beer though, but if we drink that stout from last time then it may work….

The next instalment should be towards the back-end of June as we’ll be reviewing the 2009 Interleague games and see where they leaves things in the CL and PL.

Comment by Jack Lord

May 19, 2009 @ 11:59 am

“meaty/yeasty”?

Please tell me it’s not actually meaty, as in containing meat.

Do you guys have a lock on the market of British baseball fans or do they just comment with greater frequency? Very cool.

Comment by David Watkins

May 20, 2009 @ 3:06 pm

Meaty it is indeed, though it wasn’t for a while a few years back. It used to be known as “Beef Tea” though I much prefer “Beef Juice” (and I may be alone there).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril

And as for having a lock on British baseball fans I think Phil is probably 50% of the UK’s total of baseball fans so you may be right…….(I jest of course).

Comment by Okawari’ Phil

May 21, 2009 @ 2:10 am

Jack,

It’s SO meaty that I stopped eating it a few years back when mad cow disease was all the rage?

On toast it tastes like Vegemite (the Aussie yeast spread) and as a hot drink it’s a
miso-esque clear beef soup. In the winter, in the lower leagues, it’s the traditional beverage accompliment to a meat pie at a football match?
There’s probably more meat in the Bovril than in the pies!

Dave,

I probably am 50% of the UK’s JAPANESE baseball fan base, most fans over here (and there ain’t many as you’ll know) are into MLB and nothing else?

Me, I’m all about Beisbol, Can-Am, Cape Cod, Honkball and Yakyu.

I only get interested in the US majors when I can’t find anything else baseball related to read or listen to?

I’m a bit schizoid at the moment, looking forward to the 2009 World Cup but saddened by the fact that team GB are all ex. pat. Aussies, Cannucks, Septics and Seth Efricans to a man?

Team GB are in the same group as Japan, Nicaragua and Russia?

Played 3, lost 3 then. I’ll consider it a moral victory if ‘we’ go a full nine innings against anyone, assuming they’ll be some kind of ‘slaughter’ rule where the game is called if one side are getting a thrashing?

Comment by JD

May 23, 2009 @ 12:37 am

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/11776486
Everybody loves your boy Bobby V!

Comment by PB

May 27, 2009 @ 6:54 pm

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