Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mike Trout’s latest season-ending injury, the Orioles’ latest top-prospect promotion, and a tweak to the postseason schedule, and answer listener emails (24:20) about ex-player umpires, eavesdropping on pitchers’ thoughts between pitches, whether and how they’d reintroduce baseball to a world without it, awarding belts or trophies for team rivalries, the viability of a pitcher who can’t field, how a player could win MVP in both leagues in the same season, how MLB would work if it were Patreon-supported, how international soccer’s transfer system would apply to MLB, and referring to a type of player by saying “a [player name]”, plus (1:29:48) a few follow-ups.

Audio outro: Kite Person, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Jim Downey meme

Link to The Athletic on Trout

Link to MLB.com on Trout

Link to Trout’s tweet

Link to SuperPretzel EW episode

Link to EW Trout hypotheticals

Link to MLBTR on Mayo

Link to postseason schedule

Link to ex-player umps

Link to Scully movie clip

Link to mic’d up Manoah

Link to Ben on Yesterday

Link to Vedder Cup article

Link to Mayor’s Trophy wiki

Link to Babe Ruth Award wiki

Link to Gary’s Old Towne Tavern

Link to Sam on playing in a game

Link to listener emails database

Link to Snell quote

Link to White Sox streak tweet

Link to playoff ratios tweet

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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