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Michael Tucker takes a deep dive into his major league career in the second of a two-part episode.  Tucker played 12 years in MLB with seven teams.   From Bobby Cox to Barry Bonds to the man they simply called Junior (Ken Griffey, Jr.) Tucker shares his stories from playing with baseball’s best. 

In this first of a two-part episode, Michael Tucker talks about teaching aspiring big leaguers, developing his game at Longwood, and balling with Michael Jordan in the Arizona Fall League.  In 1992, Tucker earned NCAA DII Player of the Year and was the DH on the Olympic Baseball team.  He capped off the year as a first-round selection by Kansas City in the MLB Draft (10^th overall).    

Alex is joined by the following cast of characters: Jesse, Jon, and Josh. These has-beens share their thoughts on the world of sports from the past week. They discuss their fantasy football league playoffs (7:40), Bill Belichick’s Eminence (14:30), their Qualin Awards for the most timely play of the week (17:22), and the 2021 World Juniors (32:25). The gang then discuss the most valuable NHL franchises (36:20), Kyrie Irving’s shot at the media (39:34), Kevin Love’s response to Kyrie (40:10), and James Harden’s sense of entitlement (41:31). The crew end the podcast with three intriguing rounds of Start-Bench-Cut (49:37).

Welcome back to another edition of MLB Network's Intentional Talk: Caught Listening.

This week, Chris welcomes former pitcher Ryan Dempster to the show. Dempster talks about how it feels to be traded, playing (or not playing) in an All-Star Game, and what happens when Kevin Millar is in charge of the transportation.

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