It's a Tale of Two Robs with Baseball Writer, Rob Neyer and Rob Rainford, Cookbook Author and Host of the TV Show, License to Grill

It's a Tale of Two Robs with Baseball Writer, Rob Neyer and Rob Rainford, Cookbook Author and

Host of the TV Show, License to Grill

Rob Neyer is a baseball writer known for his use of statistical analysis or sabermetrics.  He started his career working for Bill James and joined ESPN.com as a columnist and blogger from 1996 to 2011.  He was National Baseball Editor for SB Nation from 2011 to 2014 and Senior Baseball Editor for FoxSports.com in 2015 and 2016.  He has written freelance stories for Yahoo Sports, FiveThirtyEight, and The New York Times.  He is an accomplished  author or co-author of several books, including The Umpire Is Out:  Calling the Game and Living My True Self which he wrote with our episode 137 guest, former Major League Baseball umpire, Dale Scott. In 2018 his book, Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game won the prestigious Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.  Rob is also the host of the extremely entertaining podcast, SABRcast.  You can find more information on Rob at https://robneyer.com/

Rob Rainford is a trained chef, author of the cookbook, Rob Rainford's Born to Grill and host of the television show License to Grill.  Over five seasons and 104 episodes, Rob hosted the series, License to Grill, which involves backyard cooking and entertaining.  Rob's Born to Grill cookbook includes more than 100 recipes and 20 complete menus that are specifically tailored for backyard cooking.  The book introduces the "Rainford Method," a series of techniques to help improve your cooking skills.  Rob did not just wake up one day as a sucessful chef, author and TV show host and he shares stories of his journey and talks about his love of teaching which he continues doing.  Go to https://gustotv.com/hosts/rob-rainford/ for more information on Chef Rob.

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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