Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss the solution to a Carlos Estévez prediction cold case, share a baseball-sicko experience prompted by the band Hinds’s new single, put actors on baseball-movie Mount Rushmore (in honor of the late, great, James Earl Jones), scrutinize two suggestions for HBP policing, assess the risks and history of ceremonial first pitches, Nora Ephron’s fandom, and the “first ball” in the movie My Blue Heaven, and banter about a White Sox ad for MLB.TV, the call-up of Jasson Domínguez, Gerrit Cole’s return to form, whether Corbin Burnes’s free agency could play out like Blake Snell’s and Jordan Montgomery’s, the Mets-Braves wild card race, Francisco Lindor, Trea Turner, and fan ovations, the unsung A’s offense, Jerry DiPOBO’s Seattle staying power, and more.

Audio outro: Kite Person, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to player predictions EW wiki

Link to Estévez story

Link to Estévez game

Link to Estévez radio call

Link to McMahon homer

Link to Aaron Muñoz Insta

Link to Dollar Dogs article 1

Link to Dollar Dogs article 2

Link to Dollar Dogs article 3

Link to “Boom Boom Back”

Link to Viva Hinds album

Link to Hinds wiki

Link to 1933 Elmer the Great nickname

Link to Boom-Boom Beck SABR bio

Link to Elmer, the Great wiki

Link to Time on Elmer, the Great

Link to NYT on Elmer, the Great

Link to JEJ NYT obit

Link to Joe E. Brown wiki

Link to Ken Medlock wiki

Link to Baseball: The Movie

Link to Gittell on EW

Link to The Sandlot scene

Link to Merrifield Athletic article 2

Link to FB ABS HBP post

Link to HBP replay review rules

Link to Bethune first pitch report

Link to Koike injury report

Link to Baylor injury report

Link to My Blue Heaven first ball clip

Link to My Blue Heaven Padres scene

Link to Sleepless in Seattle scene

Link to My Blue Heaven wiki

Link to info president pitches

Link to The Winning Team wiki

Link to first pitches wiki

Link to first pitch/ball history

Link to Ephron on Tekulve

Link to story on Robinson

Link to The Naked Gun clip

Link to White Sox ad

Link to MLBTR on Domínguez

Link to pitcher WAR since 8/1

Link to Ben C. on Braves-Mets

Link to FG playoff odds

Link to FG SP projections

Link to team SP WAR

Link to Megill velo story 1

Link to Megill velo story 2

Link to Megill velo story 3

Link to Lindor ovation story

Link to Turner doc story

Link to team batting post-ASB

Link to squandered GSc>= 50

Link to squandered GSc>= 60

Link to squandered GSc>= 65

Link to squandered GSc>= 75

Link to M’s starts of GSc>= 75

Link to MLBTR on Dipoto report

Link to BP on Dipoto

Link to Mariners playoff appearances

Link to Hyden’s five-albums test

Link to listener emails database

Link to Machado homer story

Link to Banda punch story

Link to Bird Bones song

Link to ballpark meetup forms

Link to meetup organizer form

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