Starkville’s Back with Aaron Boone
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jayson Stark and Doug Glanville are back with a new episode of Starkville! The guys discuss their plans for the re-launch of the show and the implementation of ABS. Then, Yankees manager Aaron Boone joins to talk about his childhood as part of the Boone family, his wide array of impersonations and his very specific skill with baseball cards.
Rundown:
0:00 Starkville Is Back!
5:35 ABS In MLB
12:05 Aaron Boone Joins the Show
15:50 How the Yankees Prepared for ABS
23:02 Getting Ejected
29:24 Playing in New York
31:55 Growing Up in the Boone Family
36:30 Aaron Boone: The Great Imitator
39:34 Playing 162
42:50 Baseball Card Savant
46:31 Strange But True
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Hosts: Jayson Stark & Doug Glanville
With: Aaron Boone
Editor: Jason Potere
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome back to Starkville. I'm Jason Stark. I read about baseball for the athletic. |
| 0:17.5 | And I'm joined once again by my good friend writer, substacker, broadcaster, a man who |
| 0:25.1 | once got 1100 hits in the major leagues, and our favorite voice of baseball on ESPN radio, |
| 0:33.8 | Doug Glennville, Doug, I've missed you, we're back. |
| 0:39.0 | It's been a while, man. |
| 0:40.6 | It feels like the first show, one of those rock band reunion tours, don't you think? |
| 0:45.9 | Oh, I mean, I'm glad you mentioned that because, yeah, Darrell Hall, John Oates, you got to start there. |
| 0:52.0 | They had a song called How Does it feel to be back and back together |
| 0:55.7 | again so um you know at the risk of licensing violations i know we can't play those songs but that is |
| 1:01.7 | what i'm feeling right now it's great to be back in the show here and uh got an exciting season in front |
| 1:07.6 | of us yeah we do uh all right so what's new? Let's tell you what's new. |
| 1:12.3 | It's the same Starkville that you've grown to know and love. We're just part of the |
| 1:16.7 | Rates and Barrels show now. So thanks to DVR and Eno for allowing us to clear customs, |
| 1:23.6 | visit the land of rates and barrels. Doug, I'm thinking I must be rates because you're definitely the man with the barrels. |
| 1:30.2 | Does that sound right? |
| 1:32.1 | Yeah, I didn't think of it that way, but I like where your head's at. |
| 1:35.2 | I mean, you know, we have had extensive renovation to Starkville, so it took a little time. |
| 1:39.5 | It was still faster than my kitchen, but I do appreciate that we are now in the modern era of Starkville. |
| 1:46.4 | They are. |
| 1:46.8 | They're still sweeping up around us. |
| 1:48.4 | Try to ignore all that. |
| 1:49.9 | So I know what you're thinking. |
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