John Nash/Rob Adams
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Connecticut softball, field by field.
THE INSIDE CORNER is a Connecticut softball conversation built around teams, coaches, captains, leagues, and season outlooks. It favors real roster detail over broad sports chatter, moving quickly from records and lineups to culture, travel ball, championships, and local pride.
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THE INSIDE CORNER is built for Connecticut softball people who want the names, schools, scores, and season arcs treated like they matter. The show’s range is local but not small. It covers high school programs, travel teams, prep-school contenders, and college softball around the state. Episodes often start with a destination: Lewis Mills, North Branford, the SCC, the SWC, Kingswood Oxford, Albertus Magnus. From there, the conversation gets specific fast. Coaches explain how a catcher settles a staff, why a shortstop is really a glue player, or how a captain handles a pressure spot in a championship lineup. Players talk about team trips, commitments, leadership, and what it feels like to grow inside a successful program. The tone is warm and moving, with enough teasing to keep it from sounding like a formal media session. It also has a strong memory for Connecticut softball history. State titles, conference strength, program rebuilds, and repeat contenders are treated as part of the same ongoing story. The show is especially good at connecting levels of the sport. A discussion of travel coaching can lead into high school demands, player development, or first-year softball with the Bridgeport Bluefish. A college preview can turn back toward Fairfield Ludlow and then forward to Albertus Magnus. That gives the podcast a useful scouting-report feel without becoming mechanical. It is not a national softball debate show. It is closer to a weekly check-in with people who are actually around the fields. The result is a quick, insider-friendly portrait of a state softball community in motion.
Made for: Made for Connecticut softball fans, players, families, coaches, and local sports followers who care about high school, travel, prep, and college programs. It especially suits listeners who enjoy names, lineups, league context, and coach-level detail.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its local specificity: it follows Connecticut softball from the SCC and SWC to individual programs, captains, and coaching decisions. It sounds close to the sport because the conversations stay rooted in actual teams and games.
The CT Softball Blog covers the sport of softball in the state of Connecticut, from high school to college to travel. We want to tell your story.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rob Adams and John Nash turn Connecticut softball results into detailed conversations about lineups, leadership, development and program culture.
Rob Adams and John Nash build episodes around the people who know Connecticut softball programs from the inside. Coaches and captains discuss batting orders, defensive changes, player development and the expectations surrounding championship teams.
A 5-0 start gets the full depth-chart treatment, down to the glue player you nearly missed.
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A Florida trip, a 5-0 start, and the steady roster pieces behind Lewis Mills' run.
The episode follows Lewis Mills softball in Florida, with team bonding and a pair of games framing a check-in on the 5-0 start. Chris Sawyer sits down with Anna Henry, Jillian Tizzo, Michaela LaRose, and Brooke Martineau, and the talk stays close to the roster details that have…
Chris Carrera connects Connecticut softball coaching, player development, and local sports media.
Chris Carrera comes through as a local softball lifer whose work stretches from travel ball and high school practices to player development and podcasting.
A focused look at North Brantford's defending Class S champions, their five-year run, and the calm behind the title.
North Brantford's defending Class S champions get a focused local look, with John Nash and Rob Adams speaking with coach Nick Delizio, senior captain Lauren Vittarisi, and senior Ava Reisig, last year's state-championship MVP.
The SWC gets real attention here, with the conversation centered on depth, Massican, and the Class L chase.
The episode gives the SWC a full look, and the hosts make the case that it deserves more than passing attention. Rob Adams and John Nash frame that point before bringing in Stratford West Haven co-op head coach Gary Sherrick, whose remarks move from the league's depth to the…
A grounded look at Kingswood Oxford, balancing the team story with the people and experiences around it.
Kingswood Oxford comes across as a program built with care, not just results. Head coach Jay Bradley and captains Alexis Nicerios and Olivia Doran talk through what it takes to sustain a two-time defending Western New England champion, and Bradley sounds especially thoughtful…
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Bristol manager Adam Whitlock says his 12U team builds confidence through character, communication, and a deep softball roster.
The show heads to Florida with Lewis Mills softball.
Chris Carrera, a Sacred Heart University sports communication student and Connecticut softball coach, explains how severe ulcerative colitis ended his baseball path and led him into softball coaching.
John Nash and Rob Adams head north to North Brantford.
A preview of the 2026 SCC softball season with coach Melanie Bluday discussing the league's competitiveness.
Rob Adams opens by putting the SWC in the spotlight.
Kingswood Oxford coach Jay Bradley, captain Alexis Nicerios, and captain Olivia Doran discuss a West Hartford program that has won back-to-back Western New England titles and multiple Founders League championships.
A podcast previewing Albertus Magnus College softball and its coach Lou Bonasso, who previously built a high school powerhouse at Fairfield Ludlow.