Breaking Down The Subway Series, Tomorrow Night at 10PM Eastern

Tune in tomorrow night at 10PM Eastern as LATB Radio breaks down the 2009 Subway Series. Join Bernadette as she talks with Andrew Vazzano of The 'Ropolitans and Rob Abruzzese of Bronx Baseball Daily.

Also, the winners of The Great Subway Series Giveaway will be announced. Four people will each win an Essential Games DVD Set:

You'll have until 10:30PM to get your entry in. To find out how to enter, click here.

Good luck, and talk to you tomorrow night!

The Great Subway Series Giveaway!

The Subway Series returns this Friday when the Yankees host the Mets at the new Yankee Stadium. It continues in two weeks at the new Mets ballpark, Citi Field. These two parks have yet to produce any real memorable moments that fans can turn back to again and again. For now, they will have to be content with the memories they have collected from the old ballparks. Here are two great ways to relive those memories: The New York Yankees Essential Games of Yankee Stadium and The New York Mets Essential Games of Shea Stadium:







This Sunday night, 4 lucky listeners will each win a copy of one of these DVD sets. How? By entering the The Great Subway Series Giveaway. Click the link below for instructions on how to enter:

The Great Subway Series Giveaway

Get your entry in right away and listen to LATB Radio this Sunday night at 10PM Eastern to find out who won The Great Subway Series Giveaway!

Chat Room Opening This Sunday

Some listeners may know that, in the past, I co-hosted another show on BlogTalkRadio. While working on that show, I had some not-so-nice experiences with users in the chat room. As a result, I have been hesitant to open the chat room for LATB Radio. However, I have now decided to give it a try. The chat room will be open during this Sunday night's show. If you visit the chat room, please keep the following in mind.

Rules Of The Chat Room

The LATB Radio chat room is a place to discuss the show, baseball, other sports and anything else that happens to come up. It is NOT a place for the following:

* Publicizing your own show, blog or anything else you're involved in;

* Personal attacks on other chat room users, show guests, athletes/celebs/public figures or the host;

* Profanity, whether it is blatant or subtle, or any type of sexually explicit language; and,

* Discrimination of any kind, including racism, sexism, homophobic activity and ageism.

In short, treat others as you wish to be treated.

Anyone who violates any of these rules will be muted for the rest of the show. If they continue this behavior on subsequent shows, they will be permanently banned from the chat room.

If I find that I am having to ban too many people, I will just close the chat room.

If you have any questions or comments about this, email the show at latbradio@gmail.com. Thanks for reading and for understanding.

Next Show- Rays Ramble

Tune in to LATB Radio this coming Sunday for Rays Ramble. The show will be devoted to the 2008 AL East Champion Tampa Bay Rays. Bernadette's special guests will be Pat & Christin Manfredo. the team's biggest and most famous fans.

The ladies are in the team's fan hall of fame and have been the subject of several newspaper articles and TV news reports, including their local FOX station. Click the link below to watch:

Rays Superfans Welcome New Season

Also scheduled to appear on the show is Asher B Chancey, Associate Editor and Co-Founder of BaseballEvolution.com.

Tune this Sunday night at 10PM Eastern.

National Pro Fastpitch & MLB.Com Partner

This press release arrived in the LATB Radio Inbox today:

DENVER, CO and NEW YORK– The National Pro Fastpitch League (NPF) and MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, announced today a multi-year agreement in which they will partner to stream a schedule of 60 NPF games live online exclusively from the League’s official Web site at http://www.profastpitch.com/. This free offering, which begins today on Opening Day of the 2009 NPF season, will mark the first time regular season NPF games will be streamed live on the Internet. In August 2008, NPF and MLB.com teamed up to stream the championship game of the NPF Championship Series on ProFastPitch.com and MLB.com.

“We are proud of our long-standing relationship with Major League Baseball and this new opportunity to work with MLB.com is representative of our cooperative efforts,” said Cheri Kempf, NPF Commissioner. “Fastpitch softball is a natural attraction to fans that are already sold on baseball at its highest level and we are confident that delivering live streaming video is a significant step forward in broadening our audience and fan base.”

“This partnership with National Pro Fastpitch represents an extension of The Commissioner’s Initiative on Women and Baseball and leverages our streaming technology to put the league and its great players in front of a global audience,” said Leslie Gittess, vice president, business development, MLB.com.

The live streaming schedule for NPF games on ProFastPitch.com and MLB.com begins tonight as the defending NPF Champion Chicago Bandits host the Philadelphia Force at 8:05 p.m. (EDT) and includes 24 additional games during the season’s first month. The complete schedule is available at MLB.com.

Every NPF game streamed on ProFastPitch.com and MLB.com will be available on-demand for the duration of the 2009 calendar year. The 2010 schedule of live streaming games will be announced prior to the beginning of that season.

Major League Baseball is the Official Development Partner of National Pro Fastpitch in the category of women’s professional fastpitch softball. The partnership, which began the fall of 2002, is part of The Commissioner’s Initiative on Women and Baseball, a league-wide effort to help Major League Baseball and the 30 Major League Clubs build stronger relationships with female audiences.

National Pro Fastpitch is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The League, created to give elite female fastpitch players the opportunity to pursue a professional career in their chosen sport, has operated since 1997 under the names of Women’s Pro Fastpitch (WPF) and Women’s Pro Softball League (WPSL).

You can learn more about NPF by listening to the recent Mother's Day Edition of LATB Radio.

Switch Pitcher Pat Venditte, Sunday Night at 10PM Eastern

Tune in to LATB Radio this Sunday night to hear special guest Pat Venditte, the switch-pitching closer for the Charleston Riverdogs, a Class A affiliate of the New York Yankees. Pat will talk about his development as an ambidextrous pitcher and about his young career.

Also appearing on the show will be Gabriel Schechter, author of This BAD Day In Yankees History: A Calendar of Calamities, and Mike Passeri of the blog New York Yankees Update.

Tune in Sunday at 10PM Eastern.

Philadelphia Force To Play NCAA Division 1 All-Stars

On May 29th, the NPF's Philadelphia Force will play a team of All-Stars from five of Philadelphia's NCAA Division 1 schools. The game will take place at Drexel Field, one of six NCAA Division 1 softball schools in Philadelphia. A softball skills clinic for players aged 6-18 will take place after the game.

Force Assistant GM Erin Statmore was part of LATB Radio's Mother's Day Show and she represented both her team and NPF really well. Click here to learn about the Force and the NPF.

If you're in the Philadelphia area and would like ticket information and directions to Drexel Field, visit Drexeldragons.com.