Starkville | Walt Weiss On The Tackle Heard ‘Round The World
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Jayson Stark and Doug Glanville welcome Braves manager Walt Weiss to Starkville to discuss his red-hot team, his brawl-saving tackle, and the time he swiped dirt from the old Yankee Stadium. They also break down another Strange But True, this time featuring Angels All-Star outfielder Mike Trout and his home run barrage in the Bronx a couple weeks ago.
Rundown:
0:00 Starkville Is Back!
3:40 ABS Rarities
12:12 Walt Weiss Joins The Show
12:49 The Braves Hot Start
15:45 Transitioning from Bench Coach to Manager
17:27 Facing Adversity in Spring Training
20:13 Lessons Learned From Colorado
21:58 Walt’s Brawl-Saving Tackle
28:12 Braves’ Deep Bench
30:18 Replacing Brian Snitker
32:35 Which Braves Player Would Make A Good Manager?
34:01 Saving Dirt from Yankee Stadium
35:58 Wearing High Socks
40:50 Playing 162
42:53 Trivia Time!
44:55 Strange But True
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Hosts: Jayson Stark & Doug Glanville
With: Walt Weiss
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, coming up on this show today, we've got Walt Weiss, manager of the Braves. |
| 0:05.0 | There's some craziness in the ABS world we'll talk about. |
| 0:08.9 | And, of course, strange but true. |
| 0:24.9 | Greetings and welcome back to Starkville. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Jason Stark. |
| 0:29.0 | I write about baseball for the athletic. |
| 0:41.4 | And I'm joined once again by my good friend, writer, substacker, a man who once got 1100 hits in the major leagues, and our favorite voice of baseball on ESPN radio, Doug Glanville. |
| 0:46.0 | Doug, so great to be hanging out every week here in the Starkville Town Square. |
| 0:51.6 | You know, I thought that we'd have more statues up after all the renovations. |
| 0:58.0 | You know the Statue Council Chairman. |
| 1:00.0 | What happened there? |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, well, a couple of them are backlog. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, it's actually a couple thousand are backlog. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | So, yeah, we might need a new artist because they're chiseled by hand. And, |
| 1:12.6 | you know, that takes some time. So maybe 2028, somewhere in there. Yeah, next Star Wars movie. |
| 1:19.9 | Okay, we'll look for that in 2028. So if you're tuning in for rates and barrels, neither of us is DVR or Eno. I'm Jason. He's |
| 1:32.9 | Doug. And we are now part of the Rates and Barrel show, definitely thrilled to be a part, |
| 1:40.3 | except we're working weekends. Those guys don't do that. that we do that so this show will drop every |
| 1:47.5 | saturday morning occasionally will show up during the week you can listen on apple you can listen |
| 1:53.4 | on spotify you can listen wherever you get your podcasts you can follow you can subscribe you can |
| 1:59.1 | rate you can review you can do all that stuff. |
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