Baseball Radio 2009-10 Episode 5

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Welcome to the weekly wrap up of all MLB and Australian Baseball news.

First off this week the boys discussed the upcoming Claxton Shield season. The season kicks off on friday the 6th of Nov with both New South Wales and Victoria hosting season opening games.

For full details of all the upcoming Claxton Shield fixtures, please visit http://www.baseball.com.au/?Page=59060

Next up the boys caught up with Brett Hidson. Brett has just been appointed as the new General Manager of Baseball Victoria. Brett will be taking up the new role in Jan. Brett comes to BV from from his position as Manager of the AIS Cycling Program that is based in South Australia.

The boys also gave a rundown of the season performances of the Aussies in the Major and Minor Leagues.

Rounding off the show the boys caught up with Secretary General of the International Baseball Federation Mr John Ostermeyer. John discussed with the boys what has been happening in the International arena, including the recent decision to knock back Baseball’s re-entry to rejoin the Olympics.

As always, the show covered a wrap of this weeks Major League action.

The presenters of this week’s program are Craig “frita” Kernick and David “skinny” Simpson along with Jim “tiger” Hines on the panel. You can email the guys with questions for the broadcast at baseballradio@gmail.com

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