Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up with additional details about the Cardinals’ cheeseburger phone, banter about the hot hitting of Ronald Acuña Jr. and Aaron Judge, answer listener emails (31:13) about home run rituals and the unwritten rules, a prophylactic procedure to prevent Tommy John surgery, whether a runner could be safe because of his beard, the percentage of players who could be on the same statistical list as a Hall of Famer, whether pitchers fan batters or vice versa, a rapid player promotion, and making fan interference part of the game, react to a Luke Voit “beef” reference, meet Major Leaguers Josh Walker and Garrett Acton (1:13:46), Stat Blast about entire divisions being better than entire other divisions, players batting without a position, and streaks of starting pitchers with the same handedness (1:27:39), plus follow-ups and a Past Blast from 2009 (1:42:22).

Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Goold on phone details

Link to burger image

Link to burger GIF

Link to home run rituals

Link to Lawless bat flip

Link to “beanball” wiki

Link to FG WAR leaderboard

Link to xWOBA leaderboard

Link to other Ben on Acuña

Link to Sheehan on Acuña/Judge

Link to story about prophylactic TJ

Link to more on TJ

Link to even more on TJ

Link to bearded Napoli slide

Link to Speier tweet

Link to Episode 1426

Link to spirit week explainer

Link to listener emails database

Link to story on Walker

Link to more on Walker

Link to even more on Walker

Link to MLBTR on Walker

Link to Walker interview

Link to Acton debut story

Link to Acton’s first K

Link to BA on Acton

Link to FG on Acton

Link to background on Acton

Link to Ben on pitcher deception

Link to new MLB debuts

Link to Voit video

Link to Topps Now cards

Link to ALE/ALC standings

Link to tweet about “nothings”

Link to SABR on “nothings”

Link to most “nothing” PA

Link to most “nothing” runs created

Link to Russell on SP handedness

Link to 2009 Past Blast source

Link to more on Ripken’s site

Link to even more on the site

Link to video on the site

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to long hair article

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