Author Archives: Tim Benz

20 Nov

Breakfast With Benz Podcast (11/20)–Red Sox Author on Ben Cherington

published in category: Sports Talk Radio
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 – 12:31 am

http://podcast.triblive.com/download/alexspeier.mp3 Boston Globe reporter and NESN contributor, Alex Speier joins us for the podcast Wednesday. He’s covered the Red Sox since 2002. So he was around for most of Ben Cherington’s time at Fenway Park. Speier wrote a book called “Homegrown” about the 2018 Red Sox World Series team that has Cherington’s fingerprints all over […]

 

19 Nov

Breakfast With Benz Podcast (11/19)–Hockey podcast with Brian Metzer

published in category: Sports Talk Radio
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 – 12:12 am

http://podcast.triblive.com/download/metz111919.mp3 Brian Metzer of the “Penguins Radio Network” joins me to talk about Bryan Rust, the goalies, Dominik Kahun, fancy stats, the Islanders rivalry, and Jim Rutherford’s Hall of Fame speech. No, I’m kidding. We talk about metal music and paranormal activity.

 

17 Nov

Cheerleaders Madden Monday (11/18)–Mark Madden on Colin Kaepernick, Mason Rudolph vs. Myles Garrett, Penguins weekend, Ben Cherington

published in category: Sports Talk Radio
Sunday, November 17th, 2019 – 11:39 pm

http://podcast.triblive.com/download/maddenmonday111819.mp3 Mark Madden and I discuss the Colin Kaepernick sideshow in this week’s “Madden Monday” podcast. We agree on a lot of fronts there. But Mark and I are on opposite ends when it comes to the “Rudolph should be suspended” debate. Mark and I also kick around the problems facing the Steelers independent of […]

 

15 Nov

Breakfast With Benz Podcast (11/15)–Pirates podcast with John Perrotto

published in category: Sports Talk Radio
Friday, November 15th, 2019 – 11:14 am

http://podcast.triblive.com/download/PerrottoX.mp3 Long time Pirates reporter John Perrotto is a contributing writer with TribLive on the shake up in Pirates management. He joined me for a podcast surrounding the rumors that Ben Cherington is about to become the new General Manager of the Pirates. John and I are hearing the same thing. Cherington may be in […]

 

14 Nov

Fulfill your Fantasy at Cheerleaders (11/14)–Fantasy Sports podcast with Jeff Erickson

published in category: Sports Talk Radio
Thursday, November 14th, 2019 – 12:49 pm

http://podcast.triblive.com/download/erickson1115.mp3 Fulfill your fantasy at Cheerleaders! It’s our weekly fantasy sports podcast with Jeff Erickson of Rotowire. We go in depth on Steelers-Brown on Thursday night. Also a drilling down on who may shine in the Cowboys-Lions game as well as the Patriots-Eagles contest. Which skill guys will show up the most in Ravens-Texans? And […]