Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the proper pluralization of “POBO,” then (7:12) answer listener emails about baseball with a five-second pitch clock, how long fans will continue to boo pickoff attempts, what it would take for a team to pay a particular fan to attend (or not attend) its games, Freddie Freeman’s base stealing, bringing turnovers to baseball, clubs that could achieve “perfectly average success” in the 30-team era, the limits of fan tolerance for playoff expansion, a proposal for the postseason to be like college bowl season, boosting starting pitchers with a “bullpen bank,” whether Harold Baines would’ve been better off declining Cooperstown induction, Adam Wainwright and the Hall of Fame, and fan voting on Hall of Famers, plus a Stat Blast (1:30:13) about whether awards voting has gotten more homogen(e)ous and more closely correlated with WAR.

Audio outro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to POBO pluralization exchange

Link to info on forming plurals

Link to pitch tempo leaderboard

Link to speed chess wiki

Link to Episode 1453

Link to Tango on pickoff attempts

Link to Bruce Chen’s pickoff attempts

Link to Gonny Jomes wiki

Link to MLB Ballpark Pass-Port

Link to MLB Ballpark app

Link to Stathead on 1B SB

Link to FG post on Freeman’s steals

Link to L.A. Times on Freeman’s 20–20

Link to graphic on Freeman’s 20–20–200

Link to Sam on Freeman’s improvements

Link to NYT on O’Neill’s 20–20

Link to Stathead on oldest 20–20 guys

Link to Pujols steal streak video

Link to H-E-B wiki

Link to baseball exceptionalism wiki

Link to EW on batters catching pitches

Link to The Athletic fan survey results

Link to NHL playoff format wiki

Link to playoff randomness by sport

Link to “paper champions” study

Link to Ben on the SP protagonist

Link to Ben on pitcher limits

Link to @dril “turning a big dial” tweet

Link to latest Hall of Fame ballot

Link to HoF tiers EW discussion

Link to article on Baines induction

Link to Ben on Baines

Link to Jay Jaffe on Wainwright’s 200th

Link to Jay on HoF SP standards

Link to EW episode 114

Link to HoF by election method

Link to Ben on Mauer’s candidacy

Link to EW emails database

Link to homogenous vs. homogeneous

Link to Kenny Jackelen on Twitter

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to B-Ref awards voting results

Link to awards data, all years, with WAR

Link to awards data with calculations

Link to Ryan’s Stat Blast graphs

Link to concentration ratio explainer

Link to HHI explainer

Link to SABR study on WAR and awards

Link to win probability of scoring team

Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet

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