Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s week away, Julio Rodríguez’s hot streak and the Mariners’ surge, and the White Sox firing Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn, plus a grab bag of topics that caught Ben’s attention while he was in Sweden: the Dodgers signing Kolten Wong; a Cubs adult-diaper ad; an oddly ricocheting Luke Raley home run; errors and official scoring, another incident that made Miles Mikolas mad; Riley Greene, Spencer Torkelson, and the Tigers’ rebuild; Bobby Witt Jr.’s sophomore breakout; Nationals extensions, CJ Abrams, and Joey Meneses; the similar seasons of J.D. Martinez and Justin Turner; the potential for good teams to miss the playoffs, and radical realignment; Jon Singleton returning to the Astros; Dallas Keuchel continuing to pitch; a nifty Brewers trade revisited (and Christian Yelich’s bounceback); the sale of Fogo de Chão; John Angelos’s latest groaners; preseason prediction philosophies, and more, plus a Future Blast (1:32:04) from 2049 and a few follow-ups (1:33:37).

Audio outro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Jay on Julio

Link to mlb.com on Julio

Link to Stark on Julio

Link to info on latest M’s win

Link to “Here Come the Warm Jets”

Link to MLBTR on White Sox firings

Link to The Athletic on Sox firings

Link to article on Sox relocation

Link to tweet about Cubs ad

Link to Reddit thread on Cubs ad

Link to Raley HR video

Link to Defector on Raley’s homer

Link to Kevin Cash quote

Link to ballpark homogenization info

Link to Stat Blast on official scoring

Link to The Athletic on official scoring

Link to Russell on official scoring

Link to story on Mikolas/Alonso/Winn

Link to more on Alonso/Winn

Link to FG post on Witt

Link to FG post on Abrams

Link to MLBTR on Greene moving

Link to MLBTR on Nats extensions

Link to FG post on Yelich

Link to Keuchel article

Link to other Keuchel article

Link to Singleton dingers

Link to Bain buying Fogo

Link to article on Escobar and Fogo

Link to Angelos interview

Link to Rob Mains on Angelos

Link to Rick Wilber’s website

Link to Future Blast wiki

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