Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Yordan Alvarez kissing Martín Maldonado, Will Brennan’s birdslaughter (12:33), the Guardians’ slow start (23:12), Madison Bumgarner’s reported reluctance to alter his pitching approach (32:49), Mike Trout passing Ken Griffey Jr. in career Baseball-Reference WAR (45:56), whether the A’s will end up historically bad or rebound to being merely abysmal (1:03:38), the firing of A’s broadcaster Glen Kuiper (1:21:17), and the Dodgers’ Pride Night debacle (1:40:34), plus a Past Blast from 2010 (1:48:05).

Audio outro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Yordan kiss image

Link to Yordan kiss video

Link to Pudge kiss image

Link to Brennan bird video

Link to other Brennan bird clip

Link to Brennan tweet

Link to baby pigeons info

Link to Gomes story

Link to playoff odds changes

Link to Buchanan on Bumgarner

Link to Mason Saunders story

Link to Trout/Griffey thread

Link to B-Ref career WAR leaders

Link to Dan S. on the A’s

Link to Tango on the A’s

Link to Sheehan on the A’s

Link to tremendous content meme

Link to Kuiper firing story

Link to other Kuiper story

Link to 2023 Kuiper clip

Link to 2020 Kuiper clip

Link to first Kuiper apology

Link to Braden explanation

Link to Pride Night story

Link to 2010 Past Blast source

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to Mets lasagna story

Link to Brennan’s bird gesture

Link to Brennan press conference

Link to A’s stadium update

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