Is it live or is it Memorex? The Tokyo Dome in 2026.

MLB The Show 26 WBC edition. Either way, six stars.

Video Game Month continues with content creator and Sony San Diego developer Ashley Sanders (@Ashley22Sanders) to all things baseball.

We start off with Ashley telling us how she went from being a streamer to working at SDS on the MLB The Show game. Ashley lets us know what a typical week of work is like for her, between working on the game and doing the studio’s weekly live streams. There’s talk about all the new features in this year’s game, favorite modes to play in the game and the addition this year of the World Baseball Classic, which actually put two famous ballparks also known for hosting wrestling matches, in the game.

From there, there’s chat about this year’s baseball season, including the rejuvenation of Ashley’s Chicago White Sox, headlined by the arrival of Munetaka Murakami and continued maturation of young stars like Colson Montgomery. When we recorded, the White Sox were 22-22 and in the middle of the weekend series with their crosstown rival Cubs. Ashley also tells us about where she has seen the White Sox on the road so far this season.

This segues nicely into a chat about ballpark food, both the normal stuff like hot dogs and the more esoteric foods we see these days at ballparks.

We wrap up with some talk about San Diego Comicon and Ashley’s first trip to the convention last year. As someone who first went 30 years ago now, I get to share some stories of the old days when there were “only” 50,000 attendees and lament how Petco Park being built next to the convention center meant an end to see the Padres during Con Week.

Ashley has an amazingly busy schedule, so we thank her for finding time to chat. You can see her stream most weeks on the SDS live stream Friday afternoons and her own Twitch stream most Saturdays.

Johnny Legend and friends from his mid-1980s Rock ‘n’ Roll Wrestling VHS tape.

We welcome Kurt Brown back to the show to discuss the life and times of Johnny Legend, who passed away recently at the age of 77.

Not only was Kurt a long-time of Johnny, but he also wrestled for his Incredibly Strange Wrestling in the 1990s. Just what where those shows like, which featured such characters as Cletus the Fetus, the Abortionist, Ku Klux Klown and manager Harley Racist and Stacey Domina (Synn in Ohio Valley Wrestling).

This leads to a discussion of alternative/punk/meta wrestling companies, including Chikara, Inter Species Wrestling, Kaiju Big Battel and the precursor to them all, Argentina’s Titanes el en Ring.

We also talk about some of Johnny’s other wrestling other projects: the 1980s Rock ‘n’ Roll Wrestling VHS tape (chock full of Memphis music videos), writing the classic novelty song Pencil Neck Geek and helping create My Breakfast with Blassie, starring Fred Blassie and Andy Kaufman.

There’s plenty of other topics, including Johnny and Kurt’s mutual friend Eric Caiden from Hollywood Book and Poster (you can hear Kurt eulogize Eric way back in Winter Palace episode seven in 2015), going to see lucha in Tiajuana back in the day, the success of former Odessa Steps Magazine cover star Hechicero, Los Hernandez Brothers and lucha in Love and Rockets (see our article about that on the website, including a chat with Xaime Hernandez) and more.

It’s been a while since Kurt has been on the show, but we hope to have him again soon for more stories.

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