Screwworm’s Back at the Gate | Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report June 4, 2026)

A’s Blow It, Rockies Steal One & Tigers Waste Framber | BD Baseball June 17, 2026

Jake’s back on the mic and we had a full MLB slate to chew through. The A’s jumped out early on the Pirates, Zach Gelof stayed hot, and then the bullpen let another one slip away. The Rockies gave us the bright spot of the day with a win at Wrigley, while the Tigers wasted a good Framber Valdez start and opened up a bigger conversation about Detroit’s rotation and bullpen decisions. We also get into the rest of the league: Jesús Luzardo dealing for Philly, George Springer hitting career homer No. 300, the Yankees hammering the White Sox, Logan Gilbert shoving for Seattle, Reid Detmers blanking Arizona, Shohei Ohtani supplying the only run in a 1-0 Dodgers win, and the Giants apparently sliding into full fire-sale mode. Then we look ahead at today’s games, the A’s-Pirates rubber match, Rockies-Cubs, Tigers-Astros, a few weekend series worth watching, and the World Cup crowds taking over American cities. The dog days are here. The ball is flying. Trade rumors are heating up. It’s a damn good time to be a baseball fan. Move your ass. We’re burning daylight. In this episode: A’s blow an early lead against Pittsburgh Bryan Reynolds and Brandon Lowe power the Pirates comeback Zach Gelof keeps swinging a hot bat Rockies beat the Cubs at Wrigley Tigers waste a strong Framber Valdez start Jake breaks down Detroit’s rotation questions Phillies, Blue Jays, Yankees, Mariners and Dodgers all make noise Shohei Ohtani wins a 1-0 game with one swing Giants trade rumors and possible fire sale talk Today’s MLB slate preview World Cup crowds bring chaos and energy to American cities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

A’s Bats Are Cooking, Tigers Go Deep & Rockies Pain at Wrigley | BD Baseball 6-16-26

The homer teams had themselves a night… well, two of them did, anyway. The A’s absolutely stomped the Pirates 11–2, led by a full‑on manimal performance from Nick Kurtz: three hits, two nukes, five driven in, and a pretty clear “vote me into the All‑Star Game” message to the league. Old man Jeff McNeil – the Flying Squirrel – finally woke up too, with three hits and four RBI out of the bottom of the lineup, turning things over for Kurtz and making the A’s offense look downright dangerous again. On the mound, J.T. Ginn gave me another honest‑to‑God quality start: six innings, one unearned run, worked through traffic, and looked more and more like the ace of a very shaky A’s staff. Meanwhile Lawrence Butler keeps hitting rockets and the hits are finally falling. It was the opposite vibe for the Rockies. They blew a late lead at Wrigley and got walked off on a walk as Pete Crow‑Armstrong hit for the first cycle of the 2026 season and basically beat Colorado by himself. That’s one of those games where you shut the TV off and stand in a cold shower questioning your life choices. In Detroit, though, they’re partying. Colt Keith went deep three times, drove in six, and the Tigers dropped five homers on the Astros in a 9–3 win. We hit the best performances of the night, Dustin May’s one‑hit shutout, the standings, key transactions, and a full rundown of today’s pitching matchups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

My A’s Won the Series… But Sunday Was a Crime Scene | BD Baseball 6-15-26

My A’s took the weekend series from my Rockies, so technically I should be happy. But then Sunday happened. Colorado dropped a franchise-record 23 runs on 24 hits in Las Vegas, and the A’s got absolutely slobber-knocked in the getaway game. Willi Castro went off, Hunter Goodman nearly hit for the cycle, and Las Vegas Ballpark kept playing like a launchpad. In this episode of BD Baseball, I start with the homer teams — A’s, Rockies, and Tigers — then run through the rest of the MLB weekend from June 12–14. I get into: * A’s taking the series 2–1 from Colorado * Rockies dropping 23 runs on the A’s * Willi Castro, Hunter Goodman, and the Rockies’ offensive explosion * Zack Gelof’s hitting streak and Tyler Soderstrom’s on-base streak * Tigers’ bats going quiet against Cleveland * Tarik Skubal getting back on the mound * Jacob Misiorowski throwing a complete-game one-hitter with 15 strikeouts for Milwaukee * Yoshinobu Yamamoto flirting with a no-hitter * Paul Skenes pitching well and still losing * A full MLB weekend rundown and quick look at the week ahead BD Baseball is scores, starters, who’s hot, who’s not, and straight baseball talk without the filler. Move your ass. We’re burning daylight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

A’s Climb Back, Rockies Stick It to the Cubs & Tigers Get Rolling | BD Baseball June 12, 2026

Welcome back, Daylight Burners. Jake and I are back on BD Baseball and the season is heating up. The A’s got themselves a day off after climbing back toward .500, which is probably a good thing before the Rockies come to town this weekend. The Rockies, meanwhile, had one of those games where the box score tells you they should’ve been in it, and then you look up and they lost by six. Twelve hits, still got beat 9-3, because Seiya Suzuki hit a grand slam and the Cubs did Cubs stuff. And then there’s the Tigers. Detroit went absolutely stupid on Minnesota — six home runs, 11-0 final, and one of those games where you just start laughing at the box score. We’ll get into the A’s, Rockies, Tigers, the rest of Thursday’s MLB slate, the best arms, the best bats, and whatever rabbit holes Jake and I end up wandering down. BD Baseball. Ball talk, homer bias, and box scores that don’t always make a lick of sense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Screw(worm) Iran! — Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report June 12, 2026

Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report for Friday, June 12, 2026. We wrap the week with a full run‑through of the board, the barns, and the Beltway. August live closes in the low 240s while August feeders rip higher, five‑area cash holds in the mid‑250s, and the basis blows out to roughly $14. We walk the Sale Barn Pulse and National Beef Wire runs: $4‑plus calves from Missouri and Kansas, nearly $500/cwt on high‑end New Mexico cattle, and $560/cwt on 430‑pound calves at Fallon, Nevada — a $2,400 range calf. On the heavy side, 8–9 weights in the Southern Plains and East are stuck in the mid‑$3s as packer capacity and plant issues bite. From there we hit the drought map and producer headspace: the Southwest and Southern Plains lighting up in D2–D4, the Corn Belt drowning, and what that split means for hay, fall feed costs, and who’s liquidating what. War Reel covers day 101 of a choked Strait of Hormuz, IRGC strikes on US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan, Trump’s latest “deal is close” talk, Houthi threats in the Red Sea, and why a 6% dump in Brent crude doesn’t mean your diesel and fertilizer come back to normal any time soon. Bugs & biosecurity brings a tight screwworm update (Texas and New Mexico cases, new USDA lab at Kerrville, and futures traders finally pricing it), plus a quick check on the Cargill Fort Morgan lockout and what that idle plant does to kill capacity and basis. We then sit down with the six‑sentence FENCE Act: what it actually changes inside ECP, why it’s a marginal improvement in a program you may not love, and where “new fencing technology” becomes GPS collars, data exhaust, and a future fight over who owns your grazing information. We close with quick hits on BLM’s grazing “modernization” rule, USDA payment‑limit tweaks, drought and producer sentiment, On This Day in history, and the weekend sports slate. If you make your living on a horse, in a tractor, or in the sale barn, this episode walks you through what the board, the bugs, the fuel, and the feds just did to your budget this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]