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Brothels, Brawling & Baseball - Billy Martin - Part 1

🕑 Added 2025-09-23 00:36:00 +0000 UTC

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J.E. Cook

In 1985, my junior high, 7th grade, had "industrial arts" or IA, as we called it. Half the school year you did wood shop. The other half you did mechanical drawing. I hate both with a passion. Then in high school the board of ed decided the school needed expansion and we ended up having a few classes moved into trailers. It was either hot as Satan's taint or so cold that you'd hear guys complaining about their balls going back up inside their body. 😂

Wifket

Appreciate James' disdain for the pitch clock. If one’s a baseball fan, and those 25min out of 24 hours is so vital to you, you probably have very thin margins in life which is too bad. Or, you have the attention span and patience of a 7 year old.

Ruben Reveles

San Francisco looks alot like Italy.... Alot of gays?

Smalls (smallenoughtofit)

Huge numbers of people use New Orleans as an entryway because it was cheap to get there due to the infastructure and the fact that any ship entrying there could pick up cargo sent down the Mississippi River system to take back. New Orleans was a major Atlantic port behind London, Liverpool, and New York.

Jean Hope

This is an awesome episode as usual but probably more so because it’s local

Crowded Crow

What a story... I loved it!

Cali kayak

Have to watch banana ball, all fun no stress no drama

Renata

I, too, am cursed with a “Roman nose”. 🙄🤦‍♀️

Amy Sousa

Billy Martin got me into baseball. I was trying to take an interest in the same stuff my Italian-Portuguese boyfriend liked, and while I found baseball boring, the antics of Billy Martin most definitely were not. It was reality TV before Reality TV. I never did become a huge baseball fan, but I was glad I gave it a shot, because I ended up marrying that boyfriend 36 years ago. So, thanks Billy Martin for my marriage? Life is weird!

Brandi H

"Pass the peas over my stolen foreskin." Damn it Jimmie.. 9 mins in and I'm dying🤣

Seamheads.com

My favorite Casey Stengel quote when asked to compare two of his players: "You see that man over there? He's only 20 and in 10 years, he has a chance to be a star. You see that other man? He's 20 too and in 10 years he has a chance to be 30."

Martin Christensen

Star Wars is amazing!

Lisa Chamberlin

This was such a great episode, I’m going to have a hard time waiting for the next one to be posted. Thanks for the laughs!

Jessica Ameljanczyk

I could not give less of a shit about sports, but find this episode absolutely riveting. I recognize a ton of these names from my dad's signed baseballs. Bravo for delivering on the promise that you don't need to enjoy sports to get down with CiS, James! 😂

Stephen Watts

All I know about Martin is that he was the guest ring announcer for the first Wrestlemania and a few weeks earlier did an interview on WWF tv which Gene Okerlund claims Martin was incredibly drunk for and had to be handheld like a wrestler on his first promo.

Mike TV

Wow James did a perfect Dan Dority impression, that was spot on! I ❤️ Dan so much.

Dave i need tickets for Tarrytown Graziano

As a huge baseball fan I love the pitch clock. 25 minutes less per game of adjusting batting gloves and throwing over to first base. I have to get to work in the morning.

Kim Ritter

Will wait impatiently for part 2 ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Andrew Exline

Same. Lot of things he says he loves but "can't" watch anymore

Peter Melling

Yeah, James’ distaste for the pitch clock is one of his worst takes.

Andrew Exline

Throughout the 80s baseball games were less than 2:40. In the 90s they shot up because of television, and they continued to get longer and longer. The only thing the pitch clock has done is bring the length of games back to what they were in the 80s. James take that it was better when it took longer is not just old man shouting at clouds, it's based on no actual facts. When the game goes faster you have to pay attention, instead of checking out while a batter adjust his gloves after every pitch.

Monika

As a non American knew nothing about baseball or Billy. But can’t wait pt. 2.

Kala Stroh

It's Mike Birbiglia and that joke is hilarious. He is a good comic.

Johnny K

So fun fact for next week show Boys… the PHX dog track had three partners. The silent 2% owner was Bugsy Siegel through his associate Gus Greenbaum. My grandfather formed the AZ racing commission and loved telling that story later in his life. They knew it but couldn’t prove it before Siegels death.

Maritzad123

I have a cousin named Dagoberto. Everyone calls him Dago. But we're Dominican 🇩🇴 so yeah 🤷

Erika Fultz

My dad's Costa Rican and is the oldest of 8. NONE of the siblings regularly go by their given names, but their nicknames don't seem to have any connection to their actual names... My dad's name is Carlos, but his nickname is Tai (tie). 🤷‍♀️

Summer Montera

Portuguese Hawaiian isn’t very uncommon, my family is. Indentured servants came from Portugal to work the plantations in Hawaii in the mid to late 1800s

Benjamin Fleming

I have been waiting 8 years for this! So stoked!

Cindy Hollenbeck

This made me so nostalgic for my brother- huge baseball fan. Been to the Baseball Hall of Fame many times. Thanks James and Jimmie. Your show is my salvation! 😘😘😘

Camille Stelmachowicz Marolf

Mike Birbiglia! Haha so close 🤣🍩🍩

Danielle Carter

Soooooo stoked for this! Every time you said you would be doing Billy Martin, I have waited patiently!!!!!

Lynn Villarreal

I HATE THE PITCH CLOCK!

MrLanzus

Been praying for the Billy Martin saga for years now. Can’t wait for part 2!

Dr Phil Goode 👹🌲🔥

I want to see a picture of his mom. From the back preferably. Lol

Kathy Z

Can't wait for part 2!!!!!!

Dorothyann

I assume you still have that hat?

Dorothyann

I’d like to know what sport James enjoys watching. 🙂

Ryan Oakes

Good episode 5 Stars James and Jimmie

Michael Weeks

I've been waiting for the Billy episode. Billy was friends with my grandmother back in the day. I'll never forget meeting him at 10 years old. I asked him for an autograph and he took his Yankees cap off and put it on my head. Such a cool experience.

Sam Stegemann

Been hoping for this one ever since I read the Bill Pennington book.

Cheri Humphrey

I love the series episodes so much!!!!

Daniel Peters

😂 it took me 20 something yrs before I found out dago was a slur. My gparents neighbor was called Dago. Got me curious if that was his actual name.

Kathy Z

I've been waiting for this one!!

Donnie King

I have been waiting so long for this! As a Yankees fan and just a baseball fan in general, Billy Martin is such an interesting character. I know James is going to make this super entertaining. I hope it lasts longer than the Evel Knievel series!

Jeff Stanton II

This is going to be epic, James does such an amazing job putting these multiple part episodes together and the research they put into them is really detailed.