Outsports Radio

Last week, we talked about how the minor leagues are an essential part of baseball. Today, the focus is on how MiLB is an essential part of baseball's connection to the LGBTQ community. I'm joined by MiLB Specialist for Diversity & Inclusion Ben Pereira (BEQ Magazine's 40 LGBTQ Leaders Under 40) for a great discussion about the exploding popularity of Pride Nights throughout the minor leagues. Before the season went on hiatus, MiLB had scheduled 81(!) Pride Nights in 2020--including "non-traditional" markets like Utah and rural Virginia. Sorry hipsters, it's not just for Brooklyn anymore. Pride is breaking out in baseball towns throughout the country and that's a dose of much-needed good news. Ben and I also delve into what it's like to be a Red Sox fan who came of age without the mental baggage of 1918. As someone who spent 37 years in the shadow of 1908, I'm profoundly envious. Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @Bereira31 Insta: @kenthinguy @bereira31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch

Hello, Lovelies! We're keeping SB Nation's Marvel Week going this week with two super guests. First, Uncanny Attractions' Darnell Mitchell and Brian Bell explore the intersection of pro wrestling and comic book heroes. Then, Hollis Adler joins Brian for a discussion on LGBTQ representation within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Discourse is this show's super power after all! Follow Darnell Mitchell on Twitter: @Dnellicious Follow Uncanny Attractions on Twitter: @uncanny_attract Follow Hollis Adler on Twitter: @YesterdayBadGuy Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow the show on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Karleigh and Dawn beam up two players from the Maine Women's Senior Basketball League: trailblazing trans woman Julie Woodbury and Joanne Lannin, author of "Finding A Way to Play: The Pioneering Spirit of Women's Basketball." Lannin plays in the same league as Woodbury, and together they talk about stereotypes, bigotry and the camaraderie they both enjoy on the hardwood and in the locker room. Also, since this is MCU meets Outsports week, Julie dishes on her favorite Marvel movies and Joanne talks about her favorite sci-fi movies of our generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Outsports is joining SB Nation in celebrating the MCU. And not just the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Marvel comics and the Saturday morning cartoons of our youth, too. Six members of our Outsports podcast team — Cyd Zeigler, Alex Reimer, Brian Bell, Karleigh Webb, Ken Schultz and Dawn Ennis — assembled for one special podcast episode, to ask the question: What if out athletes could be Marvel superheroes? Listen to find out which of these famous LGBTQ athletes could become your favorite MCU character: Megan Rapinoe, Rob Kearney, Mike Parrow, Ryan O'Callaghan, Joanna Lohman, John Amaechi, Fallon Fox, Nyla Rose, Tom Daley, Mack Beggs, Gus Kenworthy, Adam Rippon, Veronica Ivy, Matthew Mitcham and Catilyn Jenner! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Abby Dunkin was suffering emotionally, physically and mentally in 2013, she stumbled upon the sport of wheelchair basketball. In just two years she was representing the United States on the international stage, and a year after that she won Paralympic gold. She talks with us about that journey, about representing the LGBTQ community, and about why she feels the sport of wheelchair basketball saved her life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex does his first ever mailbox, answering listener questions about his WEEI career, favorite topics to write about and ... whether he podcasts naked. He also recaps his recent interview with queer Muslim writer Samer Hassan about why Jeff Goldblum's comments about Islam on Drag Race last year were wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MLB has a plan to eliminate 42 minor league teams. Like most ideas MLB has, this is a very bad plan. For example, MLB once thought the Marlins were a good idea. This is the Marlins of plans. Today, I'm joined by Minor League Baseball Senior Director of Communications Jeff Lantz to talk about this very frustrating issue. We delve deep into the difficult circumstances in which MiLB finds itself--between the pandemic on one hand and Rob Manfred on the other. Jeff and I discuss the minors' vital role in growing the game and creating new baseball fans. You know...the kind of thing that a baseball league SHOULD be embracing. Plus, my beloved Kenosha Twins get a shout-out (and a skypoint)! And Jeff has an amazing story about Kerry Wood's 20 strikeout game... Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @Jeff_Lantz Insta: @kenthinguy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! Filmmaker Antonio "Electric Llama" Hernandez enters the LGBT Ring this week to chat his new documentary about Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Wrestling Champion Trish Adora, how his "Indelible" series highlights marginalized voices within the D.C./Baltimore arts community and hip hop's connection to pro wrestling! Check out the when it debuts Thursday night, April 30, at southsidesuplex.com! Follow Antonio Hernandez on Twitter: @electric_LLAMA Follow Trish Adora on Twitter: @TrishAdora202 Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow the show on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sports editor and Toronto Blue Jays superfan A.J. Andrews joins Karleigh Webb and Dawn Ennis for conversations about baseball, transitioning and quarantining. She wants to be known as a blogger and podcaster who just happens to be transgender, and not a transgender blogger and podcaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On a special edition of "The Sports Kiki," Alex speaks with queer Muslim writer Samer Hassan about the controversy over actor Jeff Goldblum's question about Islam to Jackie Cox on Drag Race, and whether he was ignorant to ask if the religion is anti-homosexuality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kendall Wesenberg burst onto the skeleton seen a few years ago, landing a spot on Team USA at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She talks with us about being her girlfriend, being bi, and what it was like being at the Olympics as LGBTQ athletes became big stars at the Games. Plus she explains what the sport of skeleton is and how she got into it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the NFL Draft this weekend, Alex chats with Outsports co-founder Cyd Zeigler about the intensive interest surrounding Michael Sam, and how much it still matters whether a major NFL star comes out. They also talk about Cyd's coming out journey, including how he used right-wing politics as a cover for his homosexuality early in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With MLB currently playing no games, this seems like a good time to look back at a guy who played ALL of them. In this episode, author and Orioles fan Emily Guy Birken (End Financial Stress Now) joins me to discuss one of the most classic games of our youth: the night Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played record on September 6, 1995. We dig deep on what Cal meant to baseball coming off of the 1994 strike and what he meant to Orioles fans as a homegrown symbol of pride in the city of Baltimore. It was one of the biggest feel good nights in baseball history at a time where everybody needed it the most. Huh...can't think of any comparisons to a single thing going on in present day America AT ALL. Nope. Not a one. This offseason is the only thing that's lasted longer than Ripken's victory lap. ALSO: Emily is doing a really cool thing and offering free financial consultations to anyone who needs one during the coronavirus pandemic. Visit her website for details. Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @EmilyGuy

Hello, Lovelies! This week Brian Bell welcomes 'One Tough Broad' Corinne Mink. Fresh off her appearance on TLC's Dragnificent, Mink details her unique introduction to pro wrestling, her long-standing support for the LGBTQ community in and out of the ring and how wrestling and drag helped her discover her own definition of femininity. With some bar fights and beer bashes thrown in for good measure! Follow Corrine Mink on Twitter: @Corrine_Mink Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow the show on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dawn and Karleigh welcome Lauren Rosenberg, the first out LGBTQ sports reporter at the University of Missouri’s campus radio station, KCOU, and also a pioneer for women. We breakdown the WNBA draft and talk NCAA women's basketball, coming out at Mizzou, opportunities for women in media and what we love and hate about the Houston Astros, specifically their "Tequila Sunrise" jerseys from the 1970s and 80s. Plus, our shared love of Doctor Who! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Diver Joey Cifelli was preparing for the Olympic Trials until 2020 was canceled. He dove at Purdue University and graduated just last year. Now living in Los Angeles and coaching at USC, he talks about his transition to gay life in West Hollywood after living in West Lafayette the last four years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's edition of "The Sports Kiki," Alex speaks with Boston Magazine Food & Entertainment editor Scott Kearnan about whether gay bars will be able to survive the coronavirus lockdown, given how so many of them were already struggling due to the rise of dating apps. Alex and Scott also talk about why it's wrong to shame people who honestly slip up while trying to socially distance, and whether we will start seeing Instagram influencers promoting face masks and other pandemic-related products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We could all use a little positivity right now. And just as a certain Number 23 did for the Cubs in 1982, Episode Number 23 came along at just the right time. Today is all about celebrating Ryne Sandberg, my favorite Cub and the greatest second baseman I've ever seen. Joining me in this tribute to all things Ryno are Sara Sanchez and Andi Cruz Vanecek from the Cuppa Cubbie Blue podcast. Naturally, we fanboy/fangirl out over The Sandberg Game, that sublime day when Ryno simultaneously vanquished the Cardinals, the greatest closer of the 1980s, and Cub demons. We also discuss the consistent excellence of Sandberg's defense, the surprising eloquence of his Hall of Fame speech, and the special moment when he represented the Cubs at Pride. Bruce Sutter should probably skip this one. The rest of you will love it. Read Sara's great "Life Without Baseball" blogs here: https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2020/3/16/21182972/saras-diary-life-without-baseball Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @BCB_Sara @Bryz_blue @CuppaCubbieBlue Insta:

Hello, Lovelies! This week's show is a tale of two worlds that's sure to intrigue. First, Fanbyte's Colette Arrand joins Brian to discuss WWE's talent cuts and overall response to the coronavirus pandemic. Then, Brian reunites with his close friends Hollis Adler and Sarah Rose for a surreal trip down memory lane, reliving their college radio origins and the odd beast that was our former internet talk show, Open Til Midnight. Don't worry. There's still plenty of wrestling talk packed inside! Follow Colette Arrand on Twitter: @colettearrand Follow Sarah Rose on Twitter: @MaybeSarahRose Follow Hollis Adler on Twitter: @YesterdayBadGuy Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow the show on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify an

Karleight and Dawn welcome back trans powerlifter JayCee Cooper of Minnesota who is also a public worker impacted by the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. We also chat about escaping our troubles through gaming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices