Former MLB Player, Jim Leyritz and Megan Day from Burnt Finger BBQ Provide Exceptional Baseball and BBQ Talk

Former MLB Player, Jim Leyritz and Megan Day from Burnt Finger BBQ Provide Exceptional Baseball and BBQ Talk Jim Leyritz was a professional baseball catcher and infielder.  In his 11-year Major League Baseball career, Leyritz played for the New York Yankees, Anaheim Angels, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres, and Los Angeles Dodgers.  With the Yankees, Jim was a member of the 1996 and 1999 World Series championships.  Nicknamed "The King," Jim's playing days were highlighted by a pair of memorable postseason home runs he hit with the Yankees in 1995 and 1996 in comeback wins.  Jim is a fantastic storyteller and shares many, including stories of his life prior to, during, and after baseball.  How did a refusal to give Jim a $5,000 signing bonus change baseball history?  Who was the future Baseball Hall of Fame player Jim met when he was 14 that made Jim choose to become a catcher?  Jim bares his soul to us, and we are truly grateful for his extreme candor.     Megan Day is our guest, but we are pleasantly surprised when her husband Jason Day also joins us. Megan and Jason are the husband and wife pitmasters behind the professional barbecue team, Burnt Finger BBQ.  They are educators, authors, product designers, and BBQ ambassadors.  They have collected top finishes at many prestigious cooking competitions.  Megan was named on Southern Living's, "Most Influential Women in Southern Barbecue."  She is a Chopped Grill Masters Champion and is regularly seen promoting barbecue on the Today Show and various Food Network shows.  Jason's signature recipe, Bacon Explosion, went viral after it was featured in a New York Times front-page story.  They are prominently featured in the film "Smoke and Ribbons: A DocQmentary" streaming on Amazon Prime.  Go to https://www.burntfingerbbq.com/ for more information on Megan and Jason as well as a chance to purchase their barbecue sauces and rubs. We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky. We recommend you go to 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/ If you would like to contact the show, we would love to hear from you.     Call the show:  (516) 855-8214 Email:  [email protected]:  @baseballandbbqInstagram:  baseballandbarbecueYouTube:  baseball and bbqWebsite:  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.