Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Edwin Díaz’s sticky-stuff suspension, a new name for the internal brace alternative to Tommy John surgery, Blake Snell’s latest setback, the success and extension of Cristopher Sánchez (and the Phillies’ excellence), Shota Imanaga’s regression and Meg’s preseason prediction about Imanaga vs. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Kyle Finnegan’s first-of-its-kind clockoff, the respective impressiveness of starts by Bailey Ober and Pablo López, a follow-up Steven Kwan-versation, the much-improved Guardians offense, an incredible catch by a Baltimore fan, the latest slow start by Julio Rodríguez, and (1:27:17) Ben’s pedantic report about brand-new baseball movie Ultraman: Rising.

Audio outro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Díaz incident

Link to X-Files episode

Link to UCL surgery sheet

Link to internal brace explainer

Link to Snell comments

Link to “slapdick” story

Link to Giants depth chart

Link to P fWAR since 5/11

Link to Dombrowski comments

Link to Dan S. on the extension

Link to MLBTR on the extension

Link to preseason predictions pods

Link to Finnegan play

Link to Finnegans Wake wiki

Link to violations leaderboard

Link to clockoff game log

Link to clockoff gamer

Link to shrimp post

Link to Sam on walk-off errors

Link to Sam on walk-off strikeouts

Link to Langs pitch-count stat

Link to Stathead on Ober games

Link to first Kwanconversation

Link to article on Guardians whiffs

Link to recent Kwan profile

Link to Cleveland wind tunnel

Link to fan’s catch

Link to Julio’s splits

Link to Julio’s swing changes

Link to Neil on Julio’s starts

Link to wOBA-xWOBA

Link to Ultraman wiki

Link to Ultraman: Rising wiki

Link to Ken’s stats screenshot

Link to 400+ HR sheet

Link to .500-est teams

Link to Turner’s helmet play

Link to Sam on helmets

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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