some baseball news but a lot of Lauren talking about the muppets.

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Rivalry weekend, another weird DBacks loss, broadcast booths getting existential about mortality and the nature of time, a touching tribute to the POOP scorebug, the Twins have the longest win streak of the season, new Green Monster city connects are good, and some mailbag.

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Derek Shelton fired, White Sox Pope, Keith Hernandez weird, Rockies bad, sweater Crocheted.

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A cool new cheering section at Giants games, high tech toilets in the Dodgers clubhouse, two hot mic moments from games this week, Austin Wells gets his own burrito at Yankees Stadium, and Lauren asks if she's allowed to wear certain ballpark giveaways.

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Unsanitary beer drinking by Padres fans, another weird Diamondbacks game, Tommy Pham makes a crude gesture to a fan, and everyone needs to freak out a little less because it's not even Memorial Day.

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The Cubs and Diamondbacks were both Batting Around, one player is way more intense than necessary when the benches clear, another Tim Robinson lookalike does some fan interference, Stephen tried the blue cotton candy fries, and more.

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The fascism is bad but the baseball is still pretty good.

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Charles Star is back to talk about a variety of stories from the week including the PNC Roberto Clemente controversy that bubbled up on twitter, Michael Kay talking about One Piece, a couple of stories about animals at ballparks, and Tyler Wells' frozen burrito ranking project. Our main topic is the piece in The Athletic where MLB players are asked about the ways they save money on little things and if that's frugal or cheap.

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Every November we record an episode with our sister podcast, Tipping Pitches, where we talk about the dumbest things that happened in baseball that year. This year is shaping up to be the dumbest year yet, so we decided to get in front of it an talk about the dumb things we're monitoring throughout the year.

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It's opening weekend and there's plenty of baseball stuff to talk about.

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