Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the lack of an uptick in stolen bases this season, which of the teams that are off to surprisingly hot or cold starts has changed their minds the most, analogs to baseball’s epidemic of UCL tears in tennis and women’s soccer, whether MLB would/should allow a hypothetical UCL-strengthening steroid, and whether MLB will ever reboot its continuity, then Stat Blast (1:02:31) about players with inside-the-park homers and over-the-fence homers in the same game, games in which one team threw many pitches faster than its opponent’s fastest pitch, and the highest player winning percentages in starts.

Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Ben C. on stolen bases

Link to birds and bees study

Link to playoff odds changes

Link to BaseRuns standings

Link to MLBTR on Schumaker option

Link to team defense projections

Link to Jontay Porter story

Link to NPR on tennis injuries

Link to WaPo on soccer injuries

Link to NYT on soccer injuries

Link to article on soccer cleats

Link to UEFA initiative

Link to artificial ligament wiki

Link to Mark McGwire comments

Link to Andy Pettitte comments

Link to EW on sports history authority

Link to comic-book reboots wiki

Link to EW on “modern era”

Link to AFI movies list wiki

Link to tweet about Babe Ruth’s wife

Link to EW listener emails database

Link to Garrett Krohn’s Stat Blast cover

Link to Langs tweet about Elly

Link to OptaSTATS tweet about Elly

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to inside-the-park graph 1

Link to inside-the-park graph 2

Link to Statcast Era both HR list

Link to both HR, both sides list

Link to story on Nimmo game

Link to inside-the-parker data

Link to both HR types leaderboard

Link to Lucas Apostoleris on Twitter

Link to Foley tweet

Link to lopsided team velos sheet

Link to player winning percentage sheet

Link to Craig Wright on Lou Klein

Link to Moonfall wiki

Link to add EW on YouTube Music

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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