Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a Star Wars emergency and (5:17) an nVenue Apple odds update, then (8:57) answer listener emails about how good a team has to be to convince people that it’s cheating, a hypothetical Mike Trout ultimatum about Shohei Ohtani, whether MLB would ban a real-life Sidd Finch, whether not having to bat makes pitchers more likely to hit batters, which teams will have the most and fewest pitch-clock violations, clock-defeating schemes using baseballs and beach balls, the speediest strikeout, and mascot polling, followed by Stat Blasts (1:23:57) about the biggest velo differences in a game and on back-to-back pitches, the longest streaks of pitching appearances with a decision, the hardest-hit liners caught in the infield, and the latest in a season a division has gone without any team falling out of first for good, and a Past Blast (1:38:00) from 1991.

Audio outro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Daniel Chin on Star Wars

Link to nVenue episode

Link to NBA Launchpad info

Link to more Launchpad info

Link to Jeff on baseball LeBron

Link to Rob Mains on hitting batters

Link to Machado ejection

Link to Anderson ejection

Link to Ohtani violations

Link to Rob on age and pace

Link to Russell on pace and velo

Link to pitch tempo page

Link to Pitching Ninja video

Link to 2023 velo uptick

Link to mascot poll

Link to Mariner Moose info

Link to Slider info

Link to listener emails database

Link to Stat Blasts page

Link to MPH differences sheet

Link to decision-streak queries

Link to Pederson liner

Link to hardest-hit liner

Link to Acuña liner

Link to hardest-hit-liner leaders

Link to corner liner leaders

Link to simple division analysis

Link to complex division analysis

Link to 2006 NL West graph

Link to 1991 Past Blast source

Link to 1992 article

Link to 1992 article continued

Link to 2014 article

Link to Hall obit

Link to bases website

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

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