Celebrating our 8 Year Anniversary With Umpire Frank Pallone and Smoke 'n Magic's Bre Via and Brad Colter

Celebrating our eight year anniversary with umpire Frank Pallone and Smoke 'n Magic's Bre Via and Brad Colter

Frank Pallone started umpiring at the age of 13 and has been at it ever since.  Frank is a Connecticut State Certified Baseball Umpire and has spent more than 30 years with the Greater New Haven Baseball Umpires Association.  In 2024 Frank received the Gassira Umpire Award.  It is awarded annually to a local umpire who exhibits the passion, sportsmanship and teachings of Andrew Gassira.  Gassira was a lifelong resident of the New Haven area, who passed away in October, 1979 and dedicated himself to the community including, but not limited to, the Greater New Haven Baseball Umpires Association.  Frank loves umpiring and provides a fascinating look into what he does and how he does it.

Bre Via and Brad Colter make up Smoke 'n Magic barbecue competition team.  Their first date was a BBQ competition and, per their website, "As we fell in love with each other, we also fell in love with the competition circuit."  In 2022 Smoke ‘n Magic (at the time known as Black Magic) won the inaugural Made for KC BBQ Championship.  This annual competition awards its Grand Champion team $25,000 and a one-year opportunity to serve their winning recipes in an immersive dining and performance space at the new Kansas City International airport terminal - that includes use of two 2,400-pound smokers, the first of their kind in any U.S. airport.  We discuss the preceding as well as their future plans, their sauces and rubs which are available for purchase, and much more.  For more information on Bre, Brad, and Smoke 'n Magic go to https://smokenmagic.com/

We recommend you go to Rogue Cookers website, https://roguecookers.com/ for award-winning rubs, Chef Ray Sheehan’s website, https://www.raysheehan.com/ for award-winning saucess, rubs, and cookbooks, Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Cutting Edge Firewood High Quality Kiln Dried Firewood - Cutting Edge Firewood in Atlanta for high quality firewood and cooking wood, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/

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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