A Few More Words

Brandon McCarthy and Ellen Adair join Joe Posnanski for the 200th episode of The PosCast!

Before diving into the 60-game season, Joe poses the question, should sports teams change their names more often?

The trio then discuss the testing problems throughout MLB and give their predictions on what Opening Day will look like and if fans may actually enjoy a shorter season.
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Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur discuss what’s finally prompted Dan Snyder and others to consider changing their team names.

Later in the show the two discuss their concerns for sports’ return amid the rise in COVID-19 cases across the United States.

Finally, they draft their favorite hours of the day.
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Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur discuss the never-ending baseball negotiations and the role of commissioner in sports.

Plus, what’s the best baseball name from the 2020 MLB Draft? They answer your most meaningless questions.

They wrap by drafting condiments for the first time in PosCast history (we think!)
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Joe Posnanski and Ellen Adair talk about MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s most recent comments and what they’ll mean to the prospect of a 2020 MLB season.

Later in the show, they’re joined by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, who breaks down the latest information and gives his prediction on whether baseball will be played this year.
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Joe Posnanski looks to Kansas City for a candid discussion about race and the importance of diversity in the game of baseball with Royals General Manager Dayton Moore and President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick.
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Frequent PosCast guest host and actress Ellen Adair joins host Joe Posnanski to discuss the many issues across the globe right now. The pair talks about the ongoing MLB labor discussions amid the pandemic and Ellen hints at some optimism that there will be a baseball season in 2020.

Joe makes up some segments on the spot to make sure Ellen is on her toes. Say hello to "Ask Ellen If This Is A Great Player Or Not" and "A Reading With Ellen" where Joe gets to live out his dream of being an actor alongside Ellen.

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PosCast Pop Culture Correspondent Linda Holmes jumps on the latest episode of the PosCast to draft the world's greatest cereals with hosts Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur!

Michael reveals how he navigated his numerous humiliations to ensure that the L.A. Regional Food Bank was supported - including eating a hot fruit pie and getting his hands on and wearing a Derek Jeter jersey. Plus, do writers really care about what critics have to say? Michael and Linda weigh in.

Stick around for the hilarious cereal draft! See which cereal Michael describes as the "mainlining heroin of breakfast cereals" and hear how Linda selects her brigade of cereals that will help her attain her never ending quest for world domination.

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Talk of a potential 2020 baseball season is heating up and the PosCast is talking about it! Former MLB Pitcher Brandon McCarthy and Rolling Stone's Chief TV Critic Alan Sepinwall join host Joe Posnanski to ponder what a socially distant version of baseball could actually look like.

Following the baseball talk, the crew drafts the things that they've discovered to replace the absence of sports during the global pandemic.

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In what will surely go down as one of the shortest PosCasts in recent memory, hosts Joe Posnanski & Michael Schur say hello to comedian, Gary Gulman!

Joe taps into Mike and Gary's Boston roots to talk about the town's many sports heroes and who they think is the most popular. Michael takes issue with the traditional end-of-game baseball celebration. Hear his fix for a situation that always seems to confuse the two guys that it most frequently involves.

The trio takes a walk down memory lane to talk about their earliest memories from collecting baseball cards and how that evolved into playing Strat-O-Matic Baseball at a later age. All this in more in a brisk 68-minute episode!

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Joe Posnanski and guest host Ellen Adair welcome acclaimed baseball writer Keith Law to discuss his new book, "The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves." (1:21)

The book dives into how the inner workings of the game of baseball can forever impact baseball history. You can get your copy anywhere that books are sold!

The group discusses the various shortcomings with baseball movies "Trouble With The Curve" and "The Babe" (30:42) before laying out what they think baseball will look like if and when it returns from its hiatus (35:36). For the draft, the group posits their life lessons that were learned because of baseball (49:52).

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