“Mizzou Breakdown” with James Carlton on week two of Tiger football. We talk Opening Night atmosphere at Faurot Field, team depth, Boston College looks better than expected, backup QB gets work and more. Click here to listen to more “Kilcoyne Conversations”Oleh Martin Kilcoyne

This week, Brian and Blake focus on the top hitters across the St. Louis Cardinals system during August. Players results are compared to The Cardinal Nation’s choice as Player of the Month, Springfield catcher Jimmy Crooks. Among other standout players covered are Rainiel Rodriguez, Mike Antico, Bryan Torres, Darlin Moquete, Matt Koperniak and Ian …

A peek behind the curtain of how R handles that batch of code you send to the console, an adventure in automating the translation of Quarto documents to multiple languages, and there's no time like the present to give your code a little linting love. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Tw…

“The Kilcoyne Conversation” with Matt Morris. He won a very notable 101 games pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals. He talks candidly about waiting to get into the Cardinals HOF, getting a red jacket alongside Dave Duncan, living in Montana, LaRussa relationship, playoff memories and more. Click here to listen to more “Kilcoyne Conversations”…

A very packed show this week! We have Tim Heitmann from HNS, Eric Engler the Executive VP and Chief of Staff at Ascension Health Care, Nathan Charnes National Secretary of PGA of America and Ian Baker Finch, 1991 Open Champion and CBS broadcaster.Oleh Jay Delsing

“Mizzou Breakdown” with James Carlton. Martin and James preview the Mizzou Football season, areas of concern, college playoff or bust, and some Springsteen inspiration. Click here to listen to more “Kilcoyne Conversations”Oleh Martin Kilcoyne

This week, Brian and Blake open with the St. Louis Cardinals’ bullpen change with Shawn Armstrong out and Riley O’Brien in. Next up is the many moves across the minor league system and ramifications, currently and looking ahead to roster expansion on September 1. Among the players covered are Michael Siani, Victor Scott, Tekoah Roby, Jimmy Crooks, …

A few tools you can use to find those elusive bottlenecks in Shiny app performance, adding a dash of interactivity to a reactable table, and save yourself many hours of manual effort with Quarto parameterized reporting. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter) Unve…

“The Kilcoyne Conversation” talking @MizzouFootball with Jeremy Maclin and Will Franklin. @jmac__19 and @willfranklin_85 here getting into Tiger excitement this year and coaching high school football. Click here to listen to more “Kilcoyne Conversations”Oleh Martin Kilcoyne

We have Jim Hackenberg, founder of the Orange Whip and legendary Jim Nantz on our show this week.Oleh Jay Delsing

Answering some “What-If” questions for the Cardinals to start today’s Great Talk. Do they bring Goldschmidt back? Who, hypothetically, would start game one if the team makes the playoffs? Martin has fun stories about La Russa and the “Tony Talk” podcast. We also get into the guy behind “Rally Belly” and Mike Shildt’s return to Busch. Thoughts on Co…

“The Kilcoyne Conversation” with Mike Kelly, the voice of @MizzouFootball since 1994. He gets into big expectations, Brady Cook as a “true son”, why Drink’s job was never on the line, and trying to avoid the “Mizzou thing”. Click here to listen to more “Kilcoyne Conversations”Oleh Martin Kilcoyne

This week, Brian and Blake open with the St. Louis Cardinals’ curious handling of Jordan Walker and the return of Luken Baker. The main discussion is a one-year revisit of the Cardinals’ 2023 deadline trades, which brought six pitchers and three position players, all prospects, into the system. Successes, disappointments and especially injuries com…

Eric flies solo for this episode with a recap of his positconf 2024 adventures! Also how not to panic when you see a merge conflict in Git, the genesis of the new R ARUG community in India, and a great primer on creating your own Quarto templates. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast …

One of Martin‘s favorite "Great Talks" ever this morning on the Scoops Sports Network. A look at the Cardinals fanbase and if they’ve arrived at apathy. Martin says he sees more anger and sees that as a sign the fans still care. So should the team put the majority of money toward the farm system? What would fans say if the team stopped "competing" …

This week, Brian and Blake discuss their upcoming St. Louis Cardinals Top 50 Prospect List re-ranking for August, highlighting notable risers and fallers and four new entries. Prospects profiled in depth include Darlin Saladin, Luis Gastelum, Rainiel Rodriguez, Keiverson Ramirez, Leonel Sequera, Ian Petrutz and many more.…

“The Kilcoyne Conversation” with Tom Hart @tom_hart from @ESPN @SECNetwork talking college football, how will @MizzouFootball handle the hype, new coach at Bama, and best SEC venues.Click here to listen to more "Kilcoyne Conversations"Oleh Martin Kilcoyne

We have Matt Minder from the Amateur Players Tour and one of THE best putters of all time, Brad Faxon.Oleh Jay Delsing

This week, Brian and Blake discuss July results by selected players across the Cardinals system, including the two Pitchers and Players of the Month. Highlighted hitters are winners Thomas Saggese and Rainiel Rodriguez and pitchers Keiverson Ramirez and Jose Davila. Other notable players covered include Jordan Walker, Victor Scott, Jimmy Crooks, Le…

A realistic take on converting the NY Forest Carbon Assessment modeling pipeline to the tidymodels suite, and a review of R package development workflows in the Positron IDE. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Converting New York’s Forest Carbon Assessment to Tidymodels R p…

“The Kilcoyne Conversation” with Bernie Miklasz. Bernie shares great stories about covering the St. Louis Rams, becoming friends with Georgia Frontiere, dealing with Kroenke, his take on Cardinals coverage, his relationship with Mo/DeWitt and more.Click here to listen to more "Kilcoyne Conversations"…

This week we have LPGA HOFer Juli Inkster! We also have APGA Tour pro and defending champion, Chase Johnson. Hear from new CEO and Commissioner of the APGA Tour, a Nike exec for 30 years, Keith Houlemard.Oleh Jay Delsing

This morning on Great Talk, we get into the Cardinals wavering success as of late and last week's trade deadline moves. With the series loss in Chicago and lack of momentum, what could the rest of the season look like? We talk about the loss of Michael Siani and why they chose to bring up Victor Scott instead of Jordan Walker. Will we see Jordan Wa…

“The Kilcoyne Conversation” talking soccer with Mitch Morice, a founder of the St. Louligans. He gets into the fallout over Leagues Cup, US Open history, St. Louis CITY SC's response, current boycott and #MLS role. Click here to listen to more "Kilcoyne Conversations"Oleh Martin Kilcoyne

This week, Brian and Blake share their general impressions of the Cardinals’ trade deadline moves and a host of minor league transactions announced on Tuesday. The latter is headlined by the activation of nine 2024 draft picks, including first-rounder J.J. Wetherholt.Oleh Brian Walton

Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Let's Talk About the Weather 2024 Shiny Contest Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W31 Supplement Resources https://lorenzwalthert.github.io/precommit/index.html https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/llm-rag/ Supporting the show Use the…

We have World Golf Hall of Famer Ian Woosnam joining us this week along with Alonzo Byrd from the upcoming Ascension Charity Classic!Oleh Jay Delsing

Time to catch up with Martin Kilcoyne after some R&R on today’s Great Talk. We get into Cardinals trade needs, favorite past teams/trades, the ‘04 team anniversary, La Russa and more. Plus, a look ahead to Mizzou football.Listen here thanks to Lou Fusz Automotive group:Oleh Dan McLaughlin