Podcasts about portland beavers

Feliks Banel's guest on this live broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Bob Blackburn, Jr., son of legendary "Voice of the Sonics" Bob Blackburn. The elder Blackburn was born on October 14, 1924, and this special program was presented in honor of the centenary of one of the most beloved broadcasters in Pacific Northwest history. Bob, Jr. shared memories of his father, and played highlights from a treasure trove of vintage audio from his father's broadcasts of Portland Buckaroos hockey, Portland Beavers baseball, OSU football and, of course, the Seattle Supersonics (including a postgame interview from 1971 with Wilt Chamberlain). This LIVE broadcast of CASCADE OF HISTORY was originally presented at 8pm Pacific Daylight Time on Sunday, October 13, 2024 via SPACE 101.1 FM and streaming live via space101fm.org from studios at historic Magnuson Park – formerly Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.

Today, we're excited to welcome Sunny Rubenstein, a true Duck with deep family roots at Oregon. Both her parents and all three sisters are proud UO alumni. Sunny has had an incredible career in sports and entertainment marketing. At AEG Live, she was Vice President of Marketing and Special Events where she helped to revive the concept of Las Vegas residencies and worked with key stars like Elton John and Barry Manilow. She also led the marketing campaign for Celine Dion's first residency, which grossed $385 million. Sunny even gave Garth Brooks pivotal business advice on the differences in strategy between touring and working in Vegas. Before that, she made her mark in the sports world with the Portland Timbers and Portland Beavers. And fun fact—while she was a student at Oregon, Sunny had a front-row seat to the filming of Animal House.

Ever wondered how professional sports franchises can not only survive but thrive through challenging times? Today, we've got the answers straight from the source. Join us as Wes sits down with Warren Smith, the mastermind behind the success of USL Arkansas and other prominent sports teams. Warren's journey from a serendipitous entry into professional sports to becoming a heavy hitter in multiple markets is nothing short of inspiring. He takes us through his pivotal moments, including rescuing the Portland Beavers from bankruptcy and learning from the legendary Art Savage.But it's not just about the game day excitement; Warren and Wes dive deep into the profound impact sports clubs can have on their communities. From fostering local spirit to creating a sense of belonging, they explore the myriad of ways these organizations contribute beyond the pitch. Whether you're a sports enthusiast, an industry professional, or simply love a good comeback story, this episode offers a treasure trove of insights and inspiration. Don't miss this compelling conversation that promises to change the way you look at sports franchises forever.

El Paso Chihuahuas Triple-A baseball play-by-play broadcaster Tim Hagerty ("Root for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball's Most Off-the-Wall Team Names and the Stories Behind Them" and "Tales from the Dugout: 1,001 Humorous, Inspirational and Wild Anecdotes from Minor League Baseball") joins the show this week to spotlight some of the most memorable names and events in "forgotten" minor league history. When Hagerty isn't calling games for the San Diego Padres top minor league affiliate, he can usually be found digging deep down a variety of research rabbit holes, in a never-ending quest to refine his encyclopedic "double-asterisk" knowledge of baseball factoids and historical lore. For us, it's a callback to minor-league teams of yore like the: Tucson Toros, Huntsville Stars, Mobile (AL) BayBears, Portland Beavers, Hutchinson Salt Packers, Ilion (NY) Typewriters, Montpelier (VT) Goldfish, Kalamazoo Celery Pickers, Saskatoon Berrypickers, Greenville (MS) Cotton Pickers, Porterville (CA) Orange Pickers, New Orleans Baby Cakes, New Orleans Pelicans, Midland (TX) Cubs, Texarkana (TX & AR!) Casket Makers, Agua Prieta (Sonora, MX & Douglas, AZ!) Charros, Corsicana (TX) Oil Citys, Bluefield (WV) Blue Jays, Princeton (WV) Rays, and Pittsfield (MA) Astros - among others. And, of course, we get Hagerty's take on the current state of MiLB, now that Major League Baseball is fully in charge - and where it's likely headed in the years to come.     BUY EARLY & OFTEN: Root for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball's Most Off-the-Wall Team Names and the Stories Behind Them (2012 book) Tales from the Dugout: 1,001 Humorous, Inspirational and Wild Anecdotes from Minor League Baseball (2023 book)   FIND & FOLLOW: Website: https://goodseatsstillavailable.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoodSeatsStill Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodseatsstillavailable/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodSeatsStillAvailable/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@goodseatsstillavailable

This week's guest co-host is On-Field Host for the Tri-City Dust Devils Erik the Peanut Guy!! We had a great chat about our roles with our respective organizations. We also crown this week's Pickle of the Week. We finish up with a pretty great listener submitted story about a melee involving the old Portland Beavers. It's a good one for sure. GO PICKLES!!

Larry Casian is a NorthWest area scout with the SF Giants.  He was a 6th round selection of the Minnesota Twins in 1987 and spent 9 years in the big leagues. Larry offers great insight into what scouts are looking for in players!  Larry Casian is a NorthWest area scout with the SF Giants.  He was a 6th round selection of the Minnesota Twins in 1987 and spent 9 years in the big leagues. Larry offers great insight into what scouts are looking for in players! Former Major League Baseball pitcher Larry Casian was hired as an assistant coach in September of 2006. Casian, who spent all or parts of nine seasons pitching in the majors, coaches the pitchers and catchers for the Pilots. During his first season on The Bluff, the Portland pitching staff lowered its team earned run average by nearly two runs. Four UP pitchers (Given Kutz, Josh Roberts, Ari Ronick and Chris Siegfried) were selected in Major League Baseball's draft last June. A pitching coach from 1999-2005 at Corban College in Salem, Ore., Casian took over head coaching duties for the Warriors prior to the 2005 season. A sixth-round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins in 1987, Casian pitched for the Twins, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox while in the majors. He posted a career record of 11-13 with an earned run average of 4.56 in 240.7 innings. His best year as a pro came as a Twin in 1993 when he went 5-3 with a 3.02 ERA in 54 appearances. That season he was voted Minnesota's Comeback Player of the Year. In the minor leagues, Casian was a AAA All-Star with the Portland Beavers in 1991. In 1988, he was named Minnesota's AA Player of the Year and was named to the AA All-Star team. In three years at Cal State Fullerton, Casian posted a 17-5 record with three saves and a 3.17 ERA. He struck out 195 in 218.2 career innings and pitched 10 complete games. In 1987, he was a Second Team All-American, First Team All-West Region and was named the Pacific Coast Athletic Association's Player of the Year after going 11-1 with a save and a 2.54 ERA. He pitched eight complete games in 14 starts, struck out 118 in 120.2 innings and was 7-0 in league contests. In 1986, Casian hurled a one-hitter against UC Irvine and was a First Team All-PCAA selection. Casian spent his freshman year at Oral Roberts in 1984, posting a 3-1 record with a 3.67 ERA. Larry and his wife Michelle have three children: Kayley (17), Lindsey (14) and Eddy (10). www.troskyranch.com https://troskybaseball.com/ https://coachmongero.com/ Thanks to our sponsors at: https://soldiersports.us/ https://winreality.com Use Code Trosky for one month free https://www.jaegersports.com/ https://qualityatbats.com/

It has been 40 years since Alberta baseball fans were first introduced to the Pacific Coast League. On April 14, 1981, the Edmonton Trappers took to the field on the road against the Portland Beavers. Eight days later, April 22nd, the Trappers made their debut on home turf, taking on the Tacoma Tigers at Renfrew Park. It was quite the journey in making that happen. Efforts to start a new professional baseball league in Western Canada fell through, as did hopes to bring a Pioneer League team to face Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat. Edmonton’s Mr. Baseball, Mel Kowalchuk, wouldn’t take no for an answer, and looked into the possibility of Triple-A coming to town. When an expansion team wasn’t feasible, he looked at buying an existing franchise, bringing in Peter Pocklington to help finance a deal for the Ogden Athletics. After some back-and-forth, the deal happened, the team moved and the rest, as they say, is history. We chatted with one of Kowalchuk's friends, Orv Franchuk, and former pitcher Bill Atkinson about that inaugural season.

Two bits of Mariners news on today's episode First of all, Mitch Haniger avoids arbitration. D.C. talks about his career as a Mariner, his injury-riddled past two years, and the impact his absence had in the outfield in 2020. Later on, D.C. talks about David Lander, who passed away last Friday. While he was a Mariners scout and at one time was minority owner of the Portland Beavers, he's best known for his role on the classic sitcom "Laverne and Shirley," where he played Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two bits of Mariners news on today's episode First of all, Mitch Haniger avoids arbitration. D.C. talks about his career as a Mariner, his injury-riddled past two years, and the impact his absence had in the outfield in 2020. Later on, D.C. talks about David Lander, who passed away last Friday. While he was a Mariners scout and at one time was minority owner of the Portland Beavers, he's best known for his role on the classic sitcom "Laverne and Shirley," where he played Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cutternation Podcast #49 - Matt Antonelli Antonelli was originally drafted as a third baseman by the San Diego Padres with the 17th pick of the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft. In July 2007, Antonelli was named the best second base prospect in the minors by Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus. In November 2007, Antonelli was ranked as the #1 second base prospect and #27 prospect overall in baseball, on a list polling 20 members of the scouting community and compiled by Jonathan Mayo of minorleaguebaseball.com Antonelli with the Padres in Spring training 2008 Before the 2007 season, Antonelli was not considered to have much power potential after having zero home runs in over 200 professional at bats in 2006. However, he hit 14 home runs in 82 games for High A Lake Elsinore, before moving up to Double A San Antonio Missions to finish the season. In 534 at-bats between the two levels, Antonelli finished with a slash line of .304/.404/.491 with 21 homers and 25 stolen bases along with a 94/83 K/BB ratio. He won the Texas League Championship with the Missions in 2007. In 2008, Antonelli played for the Padres' AAA farm club, the Portland Beavers. He struggled at the plate most of the year, hitting just .215, but kept his good eye and ended up with 76 walks. In August he found some success, hitting .290 for the month, with 4 home runs and a .393 OBP. Antonelli was called up to the Padres on September 1, 2008, where he promptly laced a single off Greg Maddux of the Dodgers for his first hit in the major leagues. He then went hitless in his next 20 at bats, but then got 7 hits in his next 13 at-bats with 3 walks, including his first home run, on September 15, off of Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Hirsh. He was unable to earn another big league promotion with the club and granted free agency at the end of the 2010 season. . To schedule a training session please head over to Cutternation.net, link in bio, to sign up through our brand new scheduling system! Very easy to use! . Times are Monday - Friday 1:30/2:00/2:30/3:00/3:30/4:00/4:30/5:00/5:306:00/6:30 Saturday 8:30/9:00/9:30/10:00/10:30/11 am Sunday 11:30/12/12:30 - 1 hour training sessions for 1 athlete 1 time a week $60 2 times a week $80 3 times a week $100 Full time 5 days a week $125 - @sd_baseball_training @cutternationbsb @cksotabaseball @tahearn619 @tba_baseball @cn_apparel @cutternationremotetraining @cutternationcatching - #baseball #velotraining #pitching #sports #videooftheday #pitchingdrills #littleleague #throwhard #sandiegobaseball #baseballtraining #pitchingtraining #pitcher #pitchingmechanics #strikeouts #baseballislife #baseballgame #instagram #baseballworkout #mlb #sandiego #california #milb #santee #lakeside #love #instagood #lifestyle #inspiration #marketing --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cutternation/support

ESOL News Oregon, by Timothy Krause Text of article: AUGUST 2, 2019) Professional baseball is a popular sport in the United States. In fact, the game was invented in New York state in 1839. It quickly became known as "America's pastime." Today, there are 30 Major League baseball teams in the Major League, and 256 Minor League baseball teams across the country. Professional baseball was played nearly continuously in Portland from 1901 until 2010, except during the 1994 season. The original Portland Beavers was the longest lived team. They played every season from 1901 to 1972, though occasionally under a different name. Various Minor League baseball teams played in Portland thereafter. Since 2010, there has been no professional baseball played within the city limits. However, there are two opportunities to watch up-and-coming baseball athletes at play. One is the Portland Pickles in Southeast Portland. The other is the Hillsboro Hops in the western suburbs. Since 2013, the Hillsboro Hops have played at Ron Tonkin Field in the nearby suburb of Hillsboro, Oregon, about 15 miles west of Portland. They are part of the Northwest League. The team name is a reference to the plant used in beer brewing (Oregon is the second-largest hop-producing US state by volume), as well as to various baseball terms such as the short hop, bad hop, and crow hop. Established in 2015, the Portland Pickles is an active team in the Great West League. The Pickles play at Walker Stadium located inside Lents Park in Southeast Portland. The team's website says, "The Pickles are all about FUN and are recognized for presenting the best live-sporting entertainment package in the Portland area." Read by Eric Dodson. CC BY-NC-SA. From ESOL News Oregon by Timothy Krause. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. https://sites.google.com/pcc.edu/esolnewsoregon Music by Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Six - http://www.chriszabriskie.com - Creative Commons BY License Additional sound clips by Freesound.org users sanus_excipio and AshFox (Creative Commons licensed)

In this week's episode we feature Bill Schonely, otherwise known as The Schonz and the Mayor of Rip City. Bill was the play-by-play announcer for the Portland Beavers and for 35 years with the Portland Trail Blazers. He was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and in 2003 the Blazers retired his microphone. Bill Schonely now works as the Blazers Goodwill Ambassador.

In this episode we talk to Coach Jerry Gatto about his early days playing and watching baseball.  He talks to us about the Portland Beavers, playing stickball in the street and having access to the Portland Beaver Players.  We hope you enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Ben and David share with you the amazing history of the Portland, Oregon Minor League Baseball Team the Portland Beavers.  We take you from the expansion of the league, to its demise, back to its expansion, its demise once again, another expansion and its final demise. We hope you enjoy this podcast because we had a great time recording it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Hagerty is the voice of the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahua's...and before that the Tucson Padres and before that the Portland Beavers (with friend of the Pod Rich Burk).  They're all the same team and all different teams.  So Tim takes us through his MiLB journey, his rise quickly to the highest levels of the minors, his working on his voice and covering his accent and more.

  Long-time sports marketing legend David Hersh has formed a new company to change over how college athletics promotes and sells their teams. Hersh has formed the Viking Athletic Partnership with Portland State University, which he considers wholly different than the third party concept used by most major university athletic departments in terms of ticket sales. The VAP examines ways to use the entire sports revenue ecosystem; tickets, marketing, promotions, corporate sponsorship, etc., to build a better, more sound product to sell to the greater Portland area. Hersh discusses his background in running two versions of the Portland Beavers baseball franchise as well as his twenty-plus year career in the world of professional sports, and how he looks to extend those metrics to the college athletic landscape.

It’s our lucky 13th episode on Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider. We start the show talking about how Eric’s friend Kourtney was unlucky at last night’s Portland Beavers game. Once we finally get to movie talk, with both agree “Knight and Day” is a good time at the movies this summer. “Grown Ups” is barely worth talking about, but we still manage. Last week’s Pitch Me gets the best title ever (“Carbon Night”) and this week’s includes Kate Winslet, Bill Pullman and special guest star Colin Firth. Our QOTW (Question of the week) is “What is your favorite teen romance?” Email your answers to moviebspdx@gmail.com