Talking Kansas City: Baseball, BBQ and Ballparks w/ Mike Czerniewski

Talking Kansas City: Baseball, BBQ and Ballparks w/ Mike Czerniewski

Author: A podcast about baseball, music and culture. April 29, 2026 Duration: 46:10
Mike Czerniewski, host of This Podcast Is ... Uncalled For, joins us this week to talk about Kansas City baseball history - the Monarchs, the A's and the Royals, along with Kansas City BBQ and new digs for the Royals. Check out our episodes 280, "Texans in the Hall: Joe Williams, Andy Cooper and Hilton Smith w/ Thomas Kern," and 262, "Rube and Bill Foster: Texans in the Hall," for stories about players that played for and against the Kansas City Monarchs. This Podcast Is... Uncalled For on Ap...

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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273 - Podcast News, Baseball Moves, Guns & Roses [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:30
Big news about the podcast, a look at some early baseball moves and Guns & Roses is going on tour. Errata: The Houston Astros missed the playoffs twice since 2015 - in 2016 and in 2025 - not once. Nacagdoches is a town i…
272 - The Spirit of Radio w/ Dave South [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:15
Dave South was the radio voice of Texas A&M Athletics from 1985 to his retirement in 2018. He is the author of "You Saw Me on the Radio: Recollections and Favorite Calls as the Voice of Aggie Athletics" (Texas A&M Univ.…
271 - Hard Caps, Soft Caps, Salary Floors and Baseball Cards [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:08
This week on the podcast - a bizarre ending to a high school football game, the soon to be expired Collective Bargaining Agreement has baseball fans scrambling to learn about salary caps, and we open another set of baseb…
270 - "Second Base? That's My Best Position!" w/ Trenidad Hubbard [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:16
Trenidad Hubbard played 10 Major League seasons in a 19-year professional baseball career. A Chicago native, Hubbard played college ball at Southern University, was drafted by Houston in the 12th round in 1986, and climb…