Ben and Meg banter about Based Boras vs. Borscht Belt Boras and a few corny quips they overlooked, then discuss end-of-season awards (Aaron Judge vs. Cal Raleigh, Paul Skenes vs. Cristopher Sánchez, Skenes as a paid pitchman, José Ramírez MVP shares, Shohei Ohtani’s dog vs. Judge’s dogs, repetition among award winners, groupthink among voters, WAR preference, bringing back old-school awards, and more) before touching on the news that Padres ownership is exploring a sale. Then (1:13:43) Michael Mountain joins Ben to Stat Blast about team rivalries.

Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Boras/exec comments

Link to BP Boras quip ranking

Link to AL MVP results

Link to Ben on Judge and Raleigh

Link to NL MVP results

Link to AL Cy results

Link to NL Cy results

Link to Skenes reaction

Link to Skenes reaction article

Link to Skenes Raising Cane’s spot

Link to Skenes on EW

Link to Posnanski on retro awards

Link to Ohtani dog video

Link to Judge dog video

Link to Baumann on voting and WAR

Link to award share wiki

Link to Ramírez award share

Link to pitch-fixing fallout article

Link to MLBTR on the Padres sale

Link to rivalry scores data

Link to CTV Barger video

Link to Mense hiring

Link to Secret Santa sign-up

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