Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about an expert’s stance on stretching, whether the White Sox were the funniest team for the new Pope to support, what Paul Skenes signing up for the WBC signifies, an optimistic take on the odds of a lost season, Bud Black’s firing and the dreaded “vote of confidence,” Roki Sasaki’s struggles, a petty Shohei Ohtani, how opposing teams have handled Aaron Judge, a Javier Báez rebound, sliding mitts as fashion accessories, a real-time reaction to a Rich Hill signing, and more, plus (1:36:48) updates and a preliminary postscript on Pete Rose’s reinstatement from the ineligible list.

Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to NYT on stretching

Link to trigger point info

Link to end range of motion

Link to NYT on Baseball Pope

Link to Phillips on the Pope

Link to 2005 Pope video

Link to 2006 Trump photo

Link to papal infallibility wiki

Link to JLD on the Rizzler

Link to Keke Palmer meme

Link to Skenes WBC story

Link to Hannah on Skenes

Link to The Bandwagon entry

Link to Bud Black quotes

Link to Pirates Shelton statement

Link to MLB.com on Sasaki

Link to pitcher zone rate leaders

Link to pitcher contact rate leaders

Link to Sasaki IL news

Link to latest on Kershaw

Link to Ohtani video

Link to Ohtani story

Link to Hannah on Skenes

Link to hitter zone rate leaders

Link to Clemens on walking Judge

Link to defense vs. Judge

Link to Jay on Aranda

Link to Jay on Báez

Link to sliding mitts story

Link to MLBTR on Hill

Link to FG SP WAR

Link to FG SP projections

Link to Rose news

Link to 2015 Jackson story

Link to Thorn in 2016

Link to Thorn in 2019

Link to 2020 ESPN report

Link to March ESPN report

Link to April ESPN report

Link to calling Trump report

Link to MLB ban wiki

Link to Ben’s Rose obit

Link to Rose death reactions

Link to Rose ban text

Link to Jackson details

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