The Highland Bullpen Baseball and Sports Podcast

A new mini series from the Highland Bullpen "Why I Love..." and to kick it off we have Rich talking about Errors and "why he loves errors". It's not to do with the fact he knows he'd be error ridden out on the field but he explains about errors and why they elevate his love of the game. The other Bullpen Bros join in with their thoughts and will be telling us what they love most in future episodes of this mini series. Tell us what aspect of the game would you most "love" to talk about for this series? We'd love any feedback from you. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

We're into the last month of the regular season, 3 of our 4 team predictions are bust, 2 of our teams are bust but both teams of Sox are in the driving seat for Play Off places. Join the disappointment of Rich and his Mariners and Highlander Alan and his Detroit Tigers as they make a feeble attempt at explaining the team's failures. And the anticipation and expectation of White Sox Dave Junior and Red Sox Yorkshire Dave as they bring the potential glory of their teams to the Highland Bullpen with October baseball. It's all covered in half an hour of baseball in Scottish accents. We'd love any feedback from you. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Welcome to The Highland Bullpen Baseball podcast and a new episode on Soccer history in Ballparks. And given the recent Tartan Army takeover of Boston what better place to start than Fenway Park. 11 minutes 22 seconds of random soccer facts from Boston covering Scottish football, Rangers, Celtic and even Charlie Adam (great guy, once saw him speak at a Mental Health charity dinner in the evening and a friend on hand to drive him back south for training the next day) getting an honourable mention. A little bit of insight to the 1968 North American Soccer League which we'll cover more and no debate from here on who the actual GOAT is. We'd love any feedback from you. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Welcome to the Highland Bullpen baseball podcast. And this weeks bonus episode is all about discussing our recent Ballpark adventures. Rich joined the Tartan Army in Boston and Miami but also visited his spiritual home in Seattle and picked up some minor league baseball in Tacoma too. All this after flying into New York from Glasgow and a quick visit to Citi Field to see the New York Mets. Dave Junior also saw a good number of games but stayed 100% loyal to the table topping Chicago White Sox and also managed to get his son to witness his first Sox win! We'd love any questions and thoughts you have. ©Tartan Podcasts 2026 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Welcome to The Highland Bullpen Baseball podcast and in our regular team catch up where else can we start but with Yorkshire Dave and the unstoppable Boston Red Sox with their franchise record 15 consecutive wins. Dave Junior chats through the still table topping Chicago White Sox as we hit the final stretch towards the play offs. Seattle Mariner fan Rich is losing a little bit of optimism with the PNW team but it's a division that could be anyones. And Highland Alan and the Tigers with all the Detroit chat about will be Skubal be traded or not and what will we get for a trade. We'd love any questions and thoughts you have. ©Tartan Podcasts 2026 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Welcome to The Highland Bullpen Baseball podcast and we've an exciting episode in store for you with the upcoming launch of MLB Bases Covered Live on BBC iPlayer and TNT Sports. We catch up with hosts Melanie Newman, play by play broadcaster of the Orioles and Xavier Scruggs formerly of the St Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins. We talk all things fan culture, the memorable experiences of World Cup fans taking over baseball games, our shared passion of baseball and sport across the pond and what unites and divides us. We chat about how to grow the great game over here and come up with the ultimate idea for the next London Series game, you know you've got to do it MLB! We'd love any questions and thoughts you have. ©Tartan Podcasts 2026 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Welcome to The Highland Bullpen Baseball podcast and our second episode on Scottish Baseball History! We really didn't expect to find baseball in our Highlands over 100 years ago but that was the consequence of the Great War. It did lead us to a discovery that there may have been baseball in the Highlands back in the 1800s but that's for another time! Sixteen minutes to find it all out here. Some military history, baseball history and a wee bit of Scottish geography knowledge! We'd love any feedback from you. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Little did we expect the extent of the Tartan Army takeover of Fenway Park during the FIFA World Cup. Bagpipes, a march, thousands of fans, songs, joy, beers. What was it like to be there? Only way to find out was to get Tartan Army foot soldier Steven onto our podcast and talk us through it all. You can feel the fun of the evening through his words and enthusiasm. Even better he is an NFL fan so we are working on his conversion! The Red Sox might have lost the game but I think they won many fans and enhanced theor reputation through their engagement with the Scotland fans. A heartfelt thank you to them. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

The "Soccer" World Cup is upon us and the Bullpen Bros, full of excitement for Scotland's return to the tournament after a 28 year absence, have an irreverent chat looking at Scotland's opponents, MLB teams/cities whose early settlers hailed from competing European countries, countries playing and heavily represented in the MLB. Just the sort of stuff that no one else will have covered but gives you a half hour of trivia and facts that might just crop in the pub quiz one day, you can thank us all later. The World Cup preview for anyone looking to consume every conceivable piece of random facts. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

*temporary new title for Monday 6/22 Heading to the World Cup in the USA? Going to a baseball game? Join Rich, Dave Jnr and Alan talking through what you should do to maximise your experience, what you can expect, what you need to know and what to pay attention to. Half an hour recording, download for your flight. Enjoy the experience! #TartanArmy #RedSox #Marlins ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Host Alan is joined by Red Sox fan Yorkshire Dave and White Sox fan Dave Junior to talk what's happening with the different coloured Sox. And the conversations veers into why do we sports fans seek out other sports and teams to cheer simply to add some extra heartbreak and disappointment into our lives? Dave Junior cheers us up however talking about the House of Fun that is Guaranteed Rate Field these days, it's not all about winning but about the joy and does "the team that drink together win together"? It's not such fun over at Fenway, although we Scots will be arriving en masse in about a months time, but Dave meticulously talks through where it's going well and where, well it's not going so well. Any questions or want to hear any other chats from the Bros give us a shout. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Richard and Alan catch up to chat Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers. Rich retains his hopes that the Mariners continue to grind away and get back to form amidst a series win over divisional rivals the Astros. Mucg depends on a continued uptick in last seasons stud, Cal Raleigh. Highlander Alan doesn't see the same hope with the Tigers, injuries, suspensions, errors and loss of form brings a reality back to is this the real Tigers despite the big off season signings. Que Sera Sera. And then we had a chat about VAR in Scottish football and how American sports seem to manage video refereeing so much better. (We saved the more heated part of recent discussions for beyond this recording....) Any questions or want to hear any other chats from the Bros give us a shout. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

EXTRA INNINGS! Ever watched a game of baseball on TV and thought it was in a foreign language? We're here to help, Yorkshire Dave, Rich and Highlander Alan get together to irreverently discuss what you'll hear tuning in to a game. Even if our accents differ... This is Episode 3 of "Babbel for Baseball" We compare and contrast the phraseology with other sports you might be more used to whilst arriving at the dawning realisation that non football fans would find the exact same experience! Any questions or particular phrases you want explained drop us a line and we'll cover it next time. ©Tartan Podcasts 2026 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

EXTRA INNINGS! Ever watched a game of baseball on TV and thought it was in a foreign language? We're here to help, Yorkshire Dave, Rich and Highlander Alan get together to irreverently discuss what you'll hear tuning in to a game. Even if our accents differ... We compare and contrast the phraseology with other sports you might be more used to whilst arriving at the dawning realisation that non football fans would find the exact same experience! Don't forget to check out our Episode 1 too. Any questions or particular phrases you want explained drop us a line and we'll cover it next time. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

The bases are loaded as all four Bullpen Bros catch up to discuss the big news and form around their teams. Yorkshire Dave has some sadness with the main story of Alex Cora leaving the Red Sox. He explains who calls the shots in baseball and gives his wn tribute to Cora. Alan and Rich see some green shoots of recovery for both the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers. With veterans and rookies making waves in the teams. Dave Junior sees joy in the way the White Sox are playing and along with half of Chicago enthuses over Munetaka Murakami taking up "half the show" listing his season's leading achievements!! We also discuss the rookie start of Kevin McGonigle comparing and contrasting with Murakami and pose the question as to the advantages and disadvantages rookies have with MLB pitchers. Give us your thoughts? Any questions or want to hear any other chats from the Bros give us a shout. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Welcome to The Highland Bullpen Baseball podcast and indeed perhaps our first proper episode on Scottish Baseball History! Yes, it exists, and indeed we cover of some World War 2 history, HIghland League football history and of course the story of baseball in Ross and Cromarty in World War 2. Indeed playing on the hallowed turf of Victoria Park, home of Ross County Football Club who did not play during the War. If you have any other insights, stories or photographs connected with this podcast we'd love to hear from you! ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

EXTRA INNINGS! Ever watched a game of baseball on TV and thought it was in a foreign language? We're here to help, Yorkshire Dave, Rich and Highlander Alan get together to irreverently discuss what you'll hear tuning in to a game. Even if our accents differ... We compare and contrast the phraseology with other sports you might be more used to whilst arriving at the dawning realisation that non football fans would find the exact same experience! Any questions or particular phrases you want explained drop us a line and we'll cover it next time. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

The best team in Baseball* Dramatic news from the Bullpen as the Chicago White Sox claim the title of best team in baseball* How did this happen, how long will it last and will it still be the case when Dave Jnr heads to Chicago in the summer? Or is it down to how the other teams are doing. Highlander Alan joins Dave to chat about the White Sox but also a little bit of the Tigers. And it's April, let's have a chat about The Masters and we compare legendary White Sox pitcher and commentator Steve Stone comments about forgetting what you have done and focussing on the next pitch with exactly what a golfer should be doing around Augusta. *best team in Highland Bullpen Baseball that is....bragging rights though. Any questions or want to hear any other chats from the Bros give us a shout. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

The Bullpen Bros are back and perhaps with their tail between their legs... Has the season "only just begun" and we'll soon see our teams working their way towards our predictions for the season? Join Yorkshire Dave discussing "the worst team in baseball" (*official) Boston Red Sox, Rich bemoaning the stars of Seattle Mariners who aren't producing like 2025 and Highlander Alan reflecting on the naivety of sports fans believing this "is the season" for the likes of the Detroit Tigers. Dave Juniors White Sox have found a new star and a handful of wins. But we also issue an appeal to MLB TV to bring back the "free game of the day", come on lads "grow the game". Any questions or want to hear any other chats from the Bros give us a shout. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.

Season 7 Episode 4 and welcome to MLB 2026! Spring Training is over, the old hands are refreshed and raring to go, the prospects have been given their shot and the rosters are set for today! Join host Rich (Seattle Mariners), Yorkshire Dave (fan of his nearest team Boston Red Sox), Dave Junior (Chicago White Sox) and Highlander Alan (Detroit Tigers) full of optimism for the year ahead. Who and what should you look out for the in the season ahead which will, we predict, see one of these seasons go way into October. How were our game win predictions in 2026 compare to 2025 where we very credibly were just over 1% out in total! Have we really all gone bolder? Any questions or want to hear any other chats from the Bros give us a shout. ©Tartan Podcasts 2025 CREDITS "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License "Shards [Intro Version]" by LonePeakMusic Follow The Highland Bullpen on your favourite podcast platforms and connect with us on Twitter (@HighlandBullpen) and other social media for the latest updates, engaging content, and a community of baseball enthusiasts ready to welcome you into the fold.