Batting Around Podcast

Occasional writer and full time very funny guy Richard Staff is on to talk about the Mets, Noah Syndergaard. Pete Alonso's golden retriever brain, Chris Sabo's goggles, Helen Ruth burning up in a house fire, Jordan Peterson, and the best place to die at Citi Field. This one is so funny, seriously.

Thanks to @BringDaNoyz for the episode art.

Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to sign up so you can join us for the Mets/Phillies watch along in the discord! Stephen's going to hate it, it's going to rule.

Also go check out Jane on Qanon Anonymous!

Jon Bernhardt of No Cartridge and Goonhammer is back to talk about the trade deadline and his favorite topic, The Baltimore Orioles. Then some mailbag.

The Vin Scully news broke after we recorded. RIP to a legend.

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Meg Rowley of FanGraphs and the Effectively Wild podcast joins us to talk about the draft, the futures game, and the upcoming trade deadline. Then we have Players to Be Shamed Later: Cardinals Edition and subject poor Meg to Transvestigation: Baseball Edition. Lots of Editions in this one. We round it out with some mailbag.

Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to support the show and get access to upcoming bonus episodes. Watch Along announcement coming real soon, too.

Outro: Martha - Goldman's Detective Agency

Okay first of all the audio is bad but I couldn't help it because I was on drugs because of a sex injury and also exhausted from sex so you're getting what you're getting. We also hit the Patreon goal in the middle of recording, so everyone gets the full episode.

It's the Second Batting Around Hot Player Draft of Hot Guys! This time it's even gayer because instead of drafting one team we have Stephen and guests Lewis (@Pigeonize) and Jeremy (@jfkooan) each draft their own team with Lauren acting as commissioner and Jane struggling to do some coherent commentary. But before the draft we also talk about Juan Soto, the Mariners, the Orioles, and have our biggest Player to Be Shamed Later yet.

Outro song: The Mountain Goats - Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome

We have Charles (@ugarles from all your favorite legal podcasts that aren't 5-4) back on to talk about the Pirates, baseball eugenics programs, then some really good mailbag questions. Then on the patreon side we give everyone an update on Will Craig of The Play, that dumb Freddie Freeman's agent rumor, the Dodgers Stadium worker strike. Then Stephen calls in with the long-awaited Players to Be Shamed Later: Phillies Edition.

Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to sign up for all the extra content we've put out. We're real close to having to do extra episodes.

Songs:

SACK - I Hate The Beach Boys

The Replacements - Answering Machine

Defector's David Roth is back for a record fourth appearance on the show to talk about Stephen's favorite subject, The New York Mets. It's a Roth episode, you guys love these. We also had fun talks about Dodgers Stadium, living next to TikTok stars, city connect jerseys, baseball cards, and loveable major city mayors.

If you sign up for the Patreon side at www.Patreon.com/BattingAround you can hear us talk about the new Worst Park in Baseball, Antonin Scalia, getting Aaron Sorkin back on coke, Dave's favorite ballpark food, and Player to be Shamed Later.

Songs:

Comforting the Disturbed and Disturbing the Comfortable by Dead To Me

Outta Hand by The Bombpops

We talk to Chelsea Manning about the Cubs, gay bars, the 2016 World Series, congressional scrutiny on the MLB's antitrust exemption, then some mailbag.

On the Patreon side Jane and Lauren check in with Stephen about Bryce Harper, do some podcast beef, then talk about the Mariner/Angels brawl and come up with the best idea for a sports video game ever.

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More information on Chelsea's book and links to pre-order can be found at https://readmetxt.xyz/

Jane cares about one all star candidate, Ichiro's favorite hitter, Lauren's revolutionary new meal prep system that is extremely Lauren, then we catch up on our mailbag backlog, including answering how we can get players "slamming ass" again. Jane is kind of a jerk on this one.

Then on the patreon side we talk about the sex lives of mascots and Pride Night at Citi Field. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to sign up

Audio sounds like shit because we recorded live together and I was drunk while operating the mixer. I also didn't edit it much because I'm busy and tired. Whatever it's still good I'm sure.

Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to sign up for the premium extra content for every episode. This week we made a tier list of Target Field scran, it's almost as long as a normal episode.

Morning episode! Early in the week episode! Weird energy for us. Joe Girardi fired. Keelhauling. Rays Pride Night debacle. Which Jesus roots for which MLB team. Players to Be Shamed Later: Twins Edition. The Pederson/Pham/Trout fantasy drama. How to pick out a hat. Then on the patreon side we Couch Around about two episodes of Bob's Burgers. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to sign up.