Ep. 86 — Alex and Bobby fire off a Bad Take Dramatic Reading thanks to Anti-Hero of the Pod Phil Mushnick and his crusade against Gary Sanchez. Then they bring on Hannah Keyser, a national baseball writer for Yahoo Sports, to talk about the creation of her baseball web show The Bandwagon, baseball’s 1994 strike, and the nature of sports fandom. This week’s Three Up, Three Down features Justin Verlander’s media beef and Nick Castellanos’s existential thoughts on baseball. Follow Hannah on Twitter here, and keep an eye out for The Bandwagon every Wednesday at noon.

Links:

The Bandwagon

Hannah on fan backlash to the ‘94 strike

Nick Castellanos gets meta

Songs featured in this episode:

Normani — “Motivation” • The Beatles — “I’ve Just Seen A Face” • Frank Ocean — “Sweet Life” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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