A lot of topics this week! Jarren Duran's extremely Boston moment gets him a two-game suspension. Mets celebrity first pitches. The Padres and Diamondbacks are nipping at the Dodgers' heels. Players' Weekend. Obama's summer playlist. The Phillies are bizarre. The ump who wore a Kramer shirt during a game. The Onion returns to print. John Kruk. A bunch of White Sox/Yankees stuff. Alex Verdugo is allergic to batting gloves and his own tattoos. The suggest six inning minimum for starting pitchers.

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We talk about Grifol getting canned, Lauren does a Guess the PItcher segment, then we talk about the Olympics and Billy Bean before getting into some mailbag.

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Defector's David Roth is back on the show to talk about the bare minimum amount of ball required by law in the month of August, including the Mets playing pleasantly adequate baseball and the White Sox being on the verge of historical terribleness.

We talk about our new boundary setting king, the big trades so far, some littler trades, and come up with a plan for the White Sox.

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We're back and we're gaming it out. We're plotting. We're Vizierpilled. We're Jafarmaxxing.

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Stephen's back and we're pivoting to business.

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ALAB's Charles Star is back to talk about the historic game-ending pitch clock violation, Buck Showalter talking about butts, Willie Mays, and the Rickwood Game.

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This week's episode is a little shorter because Jane had to go do stuff for Father's Day, and we released a whole extra episode on cricket late last week. Also check out patreon.com/battingaround for our crossover with Tipping Pitches where Stephen and Alex talk about their experience in London for the Phillies/Mets series.

SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE

We had a really great conversation with Nat (@styloshka on twitter) about cricket as the US team makes an underdog run through the T20 World Cup. She tells us not only about this team but also the state of cricket in the US and where it's going.

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Stephen is in London so it's just Lauren and Jane talking about this week's baseball happenings.

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