Podcasts about Baltimore, Maryland

The Orioles are what Baltimore sounds like on this page. Most of what plays is baseball talk, and it comes from several directions at once: a sports-radio show still working over a comeback from 7-1 down against Arizona, two fans deciding whether a reliever will ever be a real major leaguer, and an archival series reading out the night Cal Ripken passed Lou Gehrig. The Ravens take the next largest share, almost all of it offseason work: arm lengths, penalty counts, mock-draft consensus. Behind the two teams the city is heard in two other registers, a true-crime series on its open homicide cases and an AM talk show on WOLB about housing, jobs and Black history. Sports at the front, crime and politics behind: that is the shape of the listening.

What Baltimore is

Baltimore is Maryland's largest city, a port on the Patapsco River near the head of the Chesapeake Bay, about forty miles northeast of Washington. It is known for brick row houses, the Inner Harbor, Johns Hopkins, and two professional teams, the Orioles at Camden Yards and the Ravens, whose seasons organize a good deal of the city's year.

The Orioles, from the box score to the archive

The game-by-game end belongs to Glenn Clark Radio, which sounds like local sports radio built from live conversation: half-finished setups, quick corrections, stat checks, sudden detours into weather or uniforms. Episodes are titled by date, with the names of that day's voices in parentheses, from Tom Hamilton to Darryl Strawberry. In the clips Steve Johnson calls Jeremiah Jackson "one of the most consistent guys" in a strikeout-heavy bottom of the order, Glenn Clark says the Orioles "won a game they shouldn't really have had" after trailing Arizona 7-1, and the transcript window the feed plays leaves baseball altogether for whether the Belmont would move relative to the Preakness and which network holds which race. The Warehouse Podcast - a Baltimore Orioles podcast covers the same April with more numbers: Zach Eflin seeking a second opinion on his right elbow, Kyle Bradish's fastball dropping from 97.3 to 92.0 mph inside one start, and, in "The Orioles bullpen is incredible | Ep. 309", the case that Baltimore has "the deepest bullpen in baseball". Locked On Orioles - Daily Podcast On The Baltimore Orioles titles its episodes around results against Toronto and Cleveland; its clips come from the pitching search, Lucas Giolito and Zac Gallen among the names.

The fan-argument end is where the Sroka name keeps turning up. Section 336 - Baltimore Orioles Talk is Matt Sroka and Josh Sroka, and it sounds like two familiar fans talking after a game, often starting in family life or youth sports before finding its way back to baseball, in tones that run dry, irritated, nostalgic and self-mocking. Josh proposes Adam Jones as manager on the theory that rebuilding clubhouse culture matters more than managing experience, and the titles track a season by mood: "#633 Adley Trade", "#634 : In The Hunt", "#635 : Five Hundred". Birdland Today - Daily Baltimore Orioles Talk is Josh Sroka's own show, and its clip from "The Orioles and Family" is the most Baltimore thing in the section: high-school friends declining to come over depending on how the Orioles had done that day, and Camden Yards described as a place of peace where family conversation stays off politics. Bird's Eye View - Baltimore Orioles Unofficial Fan Podcast supplies the purest argument. Scott Magnus insists Brian Baker is "going to throw meatballs" despite a new changeup, and one voice wants him to be good, "I want it in my soul. I want it in my bones.", while admitting in the same breath that he does not believe it.

Two shows look past the big-league roster. On The Verge | An Orioles Prospect Podcast, with Bob Phelan, Zach Spedden and Nick Stevens, tracks late-season promotions including Enrique Bradfield Jr. to Triple-A, whether Trevor Rogers can hold ace-level form, and the Dominican Summer League; its titles also include "Bob (Finally) Watches The Wire - S1, E1-3". Baltimore Orioles Baseball Podcasts from BaltimoreBaseball.com treats the club as history. Its Bird Tapes episodes pair John Eisenberg's framing with interviews and readings, and its clips are the memory bank of the page: the impromptu lap around the field the night Ripken took the record from Gehrig, which he later called "the best human moment of my career", and Earl Weaver on the 1988 club as "the worst team I have ever put on the field". The title run includes "The Streak, Part 1" and "The Streak, Part 2".

The Ravens, measured in inches

Ravens listening here is almost entirely offseason work. Filmstudy - Baltimore Ravens Talk is Ken McKusick with Josh Sroka of Section 336, and its title run is a position-by-position draft countdown of tackles, edge rushers and interior linemen plus "Friday Morning GM 4-17-26". The clip is scouting at its most granular: a Memphis right tackle with 34-and-a-quarter-inch arms, top-30 visits with about seven teams and 30 flags in 2,971 college snaps, weighed as a developmental replacement if a long-term deal with Rosengarten never comes. 410 Sports Talk works the same board live, the hosts thinking out loud, checking the chat and moving between screen shares, injury reports and mock-draft boards. Its clips weigh Reuben Bain Jr.'s 81 pressures against an arm length that has split evaluators, and its titles carry the news beats: "JESSE MINTER is the NEW COACH of the Baltimore Ravens", then a Maxx Crosby trade and, four days later, the Ravens backing out of it. Locked On Ravens - Daily Podcast On The Baltimore Ravens, hosted by Kevin Oestreicher of Ravens Wire, studs its titles with capitals and its clips with dollar figures: Tyler Linderbaum projected at $17-18 million a year in one February episode and $22-23 million two weeks later, plus a shopping list of veteran guards and draft-round targets.

The city, off the field

The Land of the Unsolved treats Baltimore as a subject rather than a fan base. Its titles are cases: "The Long Drive Into Darkness: New Clues in the Death of federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna", a scientist murdered walking her dogs, a run of episodes on the trash chute deaths and what police overlooked or kept secret. The clips go wider than any one case: a 1970s homicide detective's files, in which a coffee-shop conversation turned a Baltimore patrolman into the suspect in Maryland's 695-killer case; Kelvin Sewell saying Baltimore homicide suspects cannot clearly recite all 26 letters of the alphabet; and This Dream Called Death, read by Taya Graham, which descends into candlelit bars burrowed beneath the alleys of aging east-side row homes. Call Tyrone Show airs on WOLB 1010 AM Baltimore and titles its episodes by date alone. Its clips are the page's civic argument: a commentator on more than 60 Black towns destroyed and post-1964 policy as wealth extraction, and the host connecting stable housing, job training and fewer street crimes to Baltimore's abandoned neighborhoods. The window the feed plays is an exchange over Black inventors, Lewis Latimer's carbon filament among them, and how a history never taught leaves people ready to believe nothing was ever accomplished.

Where to start

• For the Orioles game to game, Glenn Clark Radio or The Warehouse Podcast - a Baltimore Orioles podcast; Section 336 - Baltimore Orioles Talk and Bird's Eye View - Baltimore Orioles Unofficial Fan Podcast for the argument afterwards.
• For Orioles history, Baltimore Orioles Baseball Podcasts from BaltimoreBaseball.com and "The Streak, Part 1".
• For the Ravens' draft board, Filmstudy - Baltimore Ravens Talk for the measurements and 410 Sports Talk for the live version.
• For the city beyond the stadiums, The Land of the Unsolved and Call Tyrone Show.

The Baltimore feed on this page plays clips from these shows.