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Starkville | Walt Weiss On The Tackle Heard ‘Round The World

4/25/202657 min

Jayson Stark and Doug Glanville welcome Braves manager Walt Weiss to Starkville to discuss his red-hot team, his brawl-saving tackle, and the time he swiped dirt from the old Yankee Stadium. They also break down another Strange But True, this time featuring Angels All-Star outfielder Mike Trout and his home run barrage in the Bronx a couple weeks ago.

Rundown:

0:00 Starkville Is Back!

3:40 ABS Rarities

12:12 Walt Weiss Joins The Show

12:49 The Braves Hot Start

15:45 Transitioning from Bench Coach to Manager

17:27 Facing Adversity in Spring Training<...

Clips

Why He Tackled Jorge Soler
What Managers Really Do
Turning Bad News Into Fuel
First Day As Leader
He Didn’t Chase This Job
Glove Disintegrates Before Game
Texts After The Tackle
Pocketing Yankee Stadium Dirt
Why He Wears High Socks

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Jayson Stark· Host0:00

    Hey, coming up on the show today we've got Walt Weiss, manager of the Braves. There's some craziness in the ABS world we'll talk about. And of course, Strange but True. [upbeat music] Greetings, and welcome back to Starkville. I'm Jason Stark. I write about baseball for The Athletic, and I'm joined once again by my good friend, writer, Substacker, a man who once got 1,100 hits in the Major Leagues, and our favorite voice of baseball on ESPN Radio, Doug Glanville. Doug, so great to be hanging out every week here in the Starkville town square. You know, I, I thought that we'd, that we'd have more statues up after all the renovations.

  2. Doug Glanville· Host0:57

    Yeah.

  3. Jayson Stark· Host0:58

    You're the statue council chairman. What, what happened there?

  4. Doug Glanville· Host1:00

    Yeah. Well, a couple of them are, are backlogged. Well, it's actually a couple thousand are backlogged.

  5. Jayson Stark· Host1:07

    Yeah.

  6. Doug Glanville· Host1:07

    So, um, yeah, we, we might need a new artist 'cause they're chiseled by hand and, um, you know, that takes some time. So, uh, maybe 2028- [laughs] ... somewhere in there. Yeah. Next Star Wars movie- Okay ... he'll be there.

  7. Jayson Stark· Host1:20

    [laughs] Okay.

  8. Doug Glanville· Host1:21

    Yeah.

  9. Jayson Stark· Host1:22

    We'll look for that in 2028. So if you're tuning in for Rates and Barrels, w- uh, neither of us is DVR

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