Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a grab of topics, including a team meeting after two games, early bad blood and benches-clearing incidents, the continued terribleness of the new uniforms, a Bryce Harper blooper, a missing first-base coach, an A’s conspiracy, Juan Soto as instant True Yankee, new lights at Chase Field, the Dairy Daddies and marketing, a Nelson Cruz one-day-contract comp, Oswaldo Cabrera’s selective switch-hitting, and more, followed by a Stat Blast (1:14:22) about first-time Opening Day starters, Jesse Chavez and pitchers who were much better with one team than they were overall, games in which both teams scored more runs than they had hits, and the lowest-WAR three-team trades.

Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to team meeting story

Link to Hoskins slide

Link to Hoskins taunt

Link to throw behind Hoskins

Link to story on Royals unis

Link to sweaty Yankees jerseys

Link to Ben on pitcher injuries

Link to Harper play

Link to A’s conspiracy

Link to Jaffe on the Yankees

Link to MLB.com Soto story

Link to Soto throw

Link to Ben on the Shuffle

Link to Sterling call

Link to FiveThirtyEight on NYC

Link to New Yorker cover

Link to EW on Gallo

Link to White Sox delay

Link to EW episode 2069

Link to lights at Chase

Link to THT on day/night splits

Link to BA on minor league lights

Link to Meg’s salmon run tweet

Link to salmon run wiki

Link to Dairy Daddies

Link to Oatly Malmö team

Link to EW on team names

Link to EW on Colon’s retirement

Link to BP on Cabrera

Link to NY Post on Cabrera

Link to EW on Edman

Link to EW on Edman again

Link to Stat Blast song cover

Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter

Link to Opening Day starter data

Link to old SB on re-acquiring players

Link to MLBTR on Chavez

Link to Chavez comps data

Link to Tex Pasley’s Twitter

Link to Jay Cuda tweet

Link to games with R>H data

Link to 1953 game log

Link to 1953 game article

Link to Kenny Jackelen’s Twitter

Link to MLBTR on the Berti trade

Link to 3-team-trade data

Link to Seattle ballpark meetup

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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