Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and top-tier Patreon supporter Kevin Peskuric banter about and quantify the difference between the receptions to an @MLB tweet about a Shohei Ohtani cat encounter and an @Yankees tweet about Henry Kissinger. Then (18:48) they talk about Kevin’s background as a baseball fan and EW listener, answer listener emails (32:13) about whether facing only bad hitters could get a pitcher to the Hall of Fame, activating a five-second pitch clock once per game, a team-wide Freaky Friday-esque body swap, and describing players’ bodies in scouting reports, and Stat Blast (1:07:39) about players with more WAR than HR, interdivision records and the AL Central, and the most pitches thrown in a game before the first whiff, followed by a radio-play-style Future Blast (1:33:31) from 2093.

Audio outro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Twitter ratio explanation

Link to Ohtani cat tweet

Link to Yankees Kissinger tweet

Link to Biden’s Kissinger statement

Link to Rolling Stone Kissinger obit

Link to “Nobody:” meme

Link to info on view counts

Link to info on Twain misquotation

Link to Jeff on opponent quality

Link to BP team opponent quality

Link to EW Episode 2089

Link to hurry-up offense wiki

Link to Trout hypotheticals wiki

Link to Ben on Reds scouting reports

Link to Ben on Scout School

Link to scouting glossary

Link to Rob on MLB handsomeness

Link to Rob on MiLB handsomeness

Link to halo effect wiki

Link to Colon’s nickname info

Link to Stathead on WAR>HR

Link to Rob on division records

Link to Rob’s interdivision data

Link to Rob on Twitter

Link to 1998 Baseball Weekly article

Link to 1998 Ocker article

Link to 1998 AP article

Link to 1998 game’s play log

Link to 2000 game’s play log

Link to 2007 game’s play log

Link to latest-first-whiff data

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to 1985 Mantle/Radatz article

Link to Mantle/Radatz H2H record

Link to Sam on Musial/Labine

Link to listener emails database

Link to Future Blast text

Link to Rick Wilber’s site

Link to Alan Smale’s site

Link to 1932 WS clip

Link to The Naked Gun clip

Link to O’Neill cylinder wiki

Link to Ami Li on Twitter

Link to Chris Hanel on Twitter

Link to Shane McKeon on Twitter

Link to Dan Szymborski on Twitter

Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet

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