Fastballs, Backbeats & Maple Syrup: Thrice Drummer Riley Breckenridge and the Team Behind Merle Maple

Riley Breckenridge is the drummer for the band Thrice. Riley began playing the drums in high school after tearing multiple ligaments in his legs while playing football. Being unable to play sports for several months, he bought a drum kit and taught himself to play.  Originally, Riley had aspirations of becoming a professional baseball player.  He played college baseball for Pepperdine.  A middle infielder, he redshirted as a freshman and only saw limited action as a sophomore. After a coaching change at Pepperdine, he transferred to a junior college where he played for a year before giving up baseball to focus on music. For more information on Riley and the band Thrice, including their tour schedule go to https://thrice.net/ Lyle Merle and Eileen Downs are two of the four partners running Merle Maple.  The business, located in Attica, New York offers a wide variety of maple products made on premises.  We discovered their maple barbecue sauce during an upstate road trip.  Their family's rich history of producing maple syrup goes back over 100 years.  Lyle’s dad, Arthur, started carrying pails of sap when he was five years old and continued in the maple business for the next 74 years.  In addition to pure maple syrup, Merle Maple make many maple syrup based products. For more information on Merle Maple or to order their products go to https://www.merlemaple.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/ To team up against prostate cancer go to https://fansforthecure.org/ for Fans for the Cure, and to subscribe to Bill Chuck's newsletter, Billy-Ball go to  https://billchuck.substack.com/    We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky. We truly appreciate our listeners and hope that all of you are staying safe. If you would like to contact the show, we would love to hear from you. Call the show:  (516) 855-8214 Email:  [email protected] Twitter:  @baseballandbbq Instagram:  baseballandbarbecue YouTube:  baseball and bbq Website:  https//baseballandbbq.weebly.com Facebook:  baseball and bbq   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.