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Bear Grease

Ep. 343: This Country Life - Baseball

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.97.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This week, Brent's sharing his passion for baseball with some stories from his childhood. He has a special affinity for America's pastime, but his favorite part of it isn't the players - it's the game itself. The similarities he sees between life and baseball are close. You'll have to listen to see if you agree. Batter up! It's time for MeatEater's "This Country Life" podcast.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to this country life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves.

0:09.1

I'm Coon hunting to trotlining and just general country living.

0:12.9

I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences and life lessons.

0:17.3

This country life is presented by Case Knives on Meat Eat Eater's Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer.

0:27.3

All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

0:31.2

I've got some stories to share.

0:39.6

Baseball.

0:45.5

If there's a close second to spending time in the outdoors for me, it's baseball.

0:51.2

And for someone who never played it beyond high school, it remains a passion for me.

0:56.3

I only follow a handful of players, and I actually met them last year on a coon hunt. They invited me to go on with them. Aidan and Grant Anderson are brothers.

1:03.9

They're twins and they're pitchers. Aidan is in the Texas Rangers organization and Grant

1:09.8

pitches for the Milwaukee Brewers.

1:12.3

Now, the funny thing about that is when they talk to me, all they want to talk about is coon hunting.

1:18.2

And all I want to talk about is baseball.

1:21.9

Now, I couldn't tell you off the top of my head who won the last world series without thinking about it real hard and

1:27.8

even then it would probably be just a guess besides the anderson brothers the last stats i kept up

1:35.3

with were mine when i played i just liked the game the history and the romance of it for me

1:42.7

it's truly amer America's pastime.

1:46.7

Bailey and I go to a lot of games here, the Arkansas Travelers, which are the

1:50.5

AA affiliate of the Seattle Mariners.

1:54.3

A perfect even for us is to grab a hot dog or a fried bologna sandwich at the game

1:59.8

for supper and cheer for the travelers

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