Trust Your Butcher With Butcher BBQ's, David Bouska and Get An Inside Look at the MLB With Former Player, Ryan Thompson, Plus Guest Co-host, Gary Mack

Episode 284 features Butcher BBQ's, David Bouska and Former Major League Baseball player, Ryan Thompson, plus guest co-host, Gary Mack. David Bouska is an award-winning pitmaster and the owner of Butcher BBQ.  He has won numerous awards, including titles at the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational BBQ and American Royal World Series of Barbecue.  He was featured on seasons four and five of Food Network’s, BBQ Pitmasters and BBQ Pitmasters All Stars.  David is a member of the Oklahoma BBQ Hall of Fame and will soon be inducted into the Kansas City BBQ Society Hall of Fame.  He has created injections, brines, seasonings and rubs, and sauces and grilling oils.  Go to  https://butcherbbq.com/ for more information on David and his company, Butcher BBQ. Ryan Thompson is a former Major League Baseball player who spent all or parts of nine seasons with the New York Mets, Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, New York Yankees, Florida Marlins, and Milwaukee Brewers.  Ryan also played one season in Japan for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks.  Ryan was included in the trade which brought him to the New York Mets, along with Jeff Kent in exchange for David Cone.  He discusses what it was like to be a young player traded to the New York Mets and his surprise upon finding out as well as many other entertaining stories.  We are also joined by the host of the Mets Musings podcast, Gary Mack. 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/   We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky. 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.