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Casual Diehard episodes

  • Sometimes You're The Windshield
    Addy, Britt, and Jesse spent the week between F1 races diving into the start of baseball season, which has gone for the Mets about the way we usually expect things to go for Ferrari. But remember how the last F1 race was won by... Ferrari? Wild. Ferrari won the last F1 race. That is a thing that happened. This is a mixed racing/baseball episode, as we've got NASCAR highlights from Richmond to discuss. Addy also wrote about the Mets to go with this episode, you can find that on our website.

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    55 min
  • Pittsburgh Drug Trials

    In episode 2 of Dugout of History, Chrystal and Colleen dig into the Pittsburgh drug trials, the scandal that many people know because the Pirate Parrot mascot was implicated as a coke dealer, but that had far-reaching impacts across major league baseball, including shaping the sport’s drug policy into the Steroid Era.


    For me (producer Jesse, writing the show notes), it’s a very interesting episode because I was a little kid at the time. I remembered Rod Scurry as a Yankee, for instance, and remember him dying young – though I definitely didn’t put it together as an 11-year-old that his death was drug-related. Lonnie Smith wound up having a very interesting second act with Atlanta, leading the National League in on-base percentage in 1989 and hitting three homers in the 1991 World Series before blundering on the basepaths in Game 7. Keith Hernandez, obviously, was and is Keith Hernandez.


    So, I knew some of the details for this one, remembered others, and learned plenty for the first time. The story of the Pittsburgh drug trials also echoes through the way baseball has dealt with subsequent scandals, including in the sport’s powers that be making the same mistakes. Thank goodness that’s all history, though, and vice-related scandals involving superstars are… ah, dang it.

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    56 min
  • Kim Mulkey, Pansexual Icon
    Ana, Janice, and Jesse assemble after the opening weekend of the NCAA women's tournament and continue waiting for what must be the biggest Washington Post story since Watergate for all the hype it's gotten from its subject. The basketball has been excellent, and the regionals bring potential matchups of Kim Mulkey's LSU against Caitlin Clark and Iowa, the rejuvenated Paige Bueckers and UConn against the new hotness JuJu Watkins and USC, and star-studded Stanford against top-seeded Texas. Oh, yeah, and South Carolina is still mowing down absolutely everybody in sight, with an average margin of 49.5 points so far in the tournament. Now, who's going to tell Kim about her jacket?

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    47 min
  • You Brought The Social Team To Australia, But Not A Chassis

    Addy, Britt, Jesse, and Katie are over the moon after the Australian Grand Prix and the rare occasion of not only a race not dominated by Max Verstappen, but won by Carlos Sainz in his Ferrari, two weeks after his appendectomy and a few months before he cedes the Scuderia seat to Lewis Hamilton… who was one spot ahead of Verstappen in the running order as Mercedes’ disaster start to the season reached a nadir. We’re glad George Russell is okay after his crash, amused by Lando Norris flipping off a fan, and wondering what Charles Leclerc has to do to get a win for the first time in almost two years. Some stuff does stay the same even when there’s a Max DNF, after all. There's also plenty of drama through F1's midfield (we'll use that term generously) and not so much this week in NASCAR from Circuit of the Americas, which is fine because the European boys delivered so much for us in Australia, and the stock cars are going back home to short tracks fort he next couple of weeks.


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    59 min
  • Shohei Ohtani, Clubhouse Cancer
    Addy, Britt, Chrystal, and Jesse are caught up in the Shohei of it all, and the scandal-embroiled superstar isn't a clubhouse cancer, but a clubhouse Cancer. That's his zodiac sign. And we are talking astrology in a big way, too, because Jesse made a full fantasy baseball league on ESPN (it's publicly viewable) where the teams are divided by the stars. Who's got the best roster?

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    1 hr 21 min
  • Merkle's Boner

    On the premiere of Dugout of History, Colleen and Chrystal go deep into history for the story of Merkle's Boner, a dramatic turn of events in 1908 that to most folks now is just a funny name for an incident more than a century ago. There's so much more to it than just the boner.


    From Wikipedia:

    Merkle's Boner refers to the notorious base-running mistake committed by rookie Fred Merkle of the New York Giants in a game against the Chicago Cubs on September 23, 1908. Merkle's failure to advance to second base on what should have been a game-winning hit led instead to a force play at second and a tied game. The Cubs later won the makeup game, which proved decisive as they beat the Giants by one game to win the National League (NL) pennant for 1908. It has been described as "the most controversial game in baseball history"

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    48 min
  • Teams That Bark End Up In First Place
    Jared and Riann from Dunks and Donuts join Ace, James, and Jesse for a Celtics-themed episode that is specifically about love for Derrick White, and nostalgia for Marcus Smart, because the regular season might still have about 10% of the way to go, but business is settled, and business for Boston has been great -- they've already got that "x" next to their name in the standings. So, when it does get to playoff time, who might actually be an interesting matchup for what looks more and more like a juggernaut in the East?

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    1 hr 12 min
  • March Madness 2024
    The field of 68 is set and it looks like a lot of chalk at first glance. Certainly, Barack Obama felt that way with only five lower-seeded teams winning in his women's bracket for the entire tournament. Ana, Janice, Jesse, and Lyndsey scan the regionals and see where upsets might be waiting to happen, because you know they will -- that's tournament basketball. After our last women's college episode two weeks ago, our projected Final Four is viable, with each of our picks sent to different regions. Do we still think it'll be South Carolina, Stanford, LSU, and Ohio State? Is there room for Texas, Iowa, and USC now that they're top seeds? Test your prediction powers against us in the Casual Diehard pool, and you could win a hoodie!

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    40 min
  • This Felt Like Days Of Thunder
    NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Ryan Ellis joins Addy, Britt, and Jesse to talk about driving the No. 43 Chevrolet, Washington Capitals fandom, and texts from grandma to turn on the Cup series. Also, since this is regularly an F1-themed hour… what would it really be like if Max Verstappen came over to drive in the truck series?

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    1 hr 29 min
  • The National Buffet Association
    Shaun joins Ace and Jesse to talk Knicks basketball. It’s great. We are loving the Knicks. Jalen Brunson is a superhero. Isaiah Hartenstein put up a historic night in Sacramento. OG Anunoby is back and transformative. In a fandom defined by failure, how do we stay positive? And who are we most negative about, because Knicks fans are, after all, world class haters? Is it the Hawks, the Heat, or even Indiana? One thing’s for sure: the Knicks sweep em with a broom, cause our season don’t end til the middle of June. 

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    50 min

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