Buck Showalter, Four-Time MLB Manager of the Year and a Member of the NY State Baseball Hall of Fame and Bill Purvis, Chicken Fried BBQ's Champion Pitmaster, Plus Doug Scheiding as Guest Co-host

Episode 283 features four-time Major League Baseball Manager of the Year and New York State Baseball Hall of Fame Member, Buck Showalter and Chicken Fried BBQ's champion pitmaster, Bill Purvis, plus guest co-host, Doug Scheiding

Buck Showalter has earned a reputation for building baseball teams into postseason contenders in short periods of time.  The teams he has managed include, the New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, and New York Mets.  Along the way he has won four Manager of the Year Awards, three in the American League and one in the National League.  He is the third manager to win four Manager of the Year Awards, the seventh to win the award in both the American and National Leagues, and the only one to win the award with four different teams in four different decades.  In addition to managing, Buck has also worked as a television analyst for ESPN, the Yes Network, and the MLB Network.  Buck is also a member of the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame.

Bill Purvis is the pitmaster of Chicken Fried BBQ.  In 2019, he entered his first barbecue contest, in which he ended up winning first place ribs along with Reserve Grand Champion.  In just his first three years of barbecue, he won over 35 Grand and Reserve Grand Championships.  Bill's barbecue success has provided opportunities for him to be featured twice on the Food Network's television show, BBQ USA with Michael Symon.  He is also a creator and co-host of the podcast, Shiggin Fried with Chicken Fried and LCBBQ.  In addition to all of the preceding, Bill teaches barbecue classes and sells various barbecue food products created to elevate your food to the next level.  Go to  https://chickenfriedbbq.com/ for more information on Bill and his products.

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We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky.

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