Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Red Sox suddenly sweeping their coaching staff clean, projected contenders off to even worse starts than the Sox, MLB offense in Mexico City, a double ball-strike challenge, Kyle Harrison as the new Quinn Priester, and Kevin McGonigle out-phenoming Konnor Griffin, then Stat Blast (38:37) about Brandon Phillips and major league afterlives, teams hitting for the homer cycle in a single inning, and individual net five-homer games. Then (53:38) they talk to The Boston Globe’s Alex Speier about how and why the Red Sox fired Alex Cora and Co. and whether there’s more house-cleaning to come.

Audio interstitial: The Spaghettis, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to FG post on Sox firings

Link to MLBTR on Sox firings

Link to MLBTR on Sox hirings

Link to original Cronin wiki

Link to van photo

Link to Four Seasons Total Landscaping

Link to Whitlock quote

Link to Story quote

Link to player reactions round-up

Link to firing timing Stat Blast

Link to Sportradar firing fact

Link to “Chad” wiki

Link to Cora reactions story

Link to Cora text

Link to Cora tweet

Link to fired coaches photo 1

Link to fired coaches photo 2

Link to Paine’s Sox analysis 1

Link to Paine’s Sox analysis 2

Link to playoff odds changes

Link to Diamondbacks Mexico City win

Link to Mexico games

Link to Ben on Mexico City scoring

Link to Monterrey stadium

Link to Mexico City stadium

Link to run-scoring comparison

Link to Vancouver expansion story

Link to double challenge clip

Link to double challenge story

Link to Refsnyder challenge story

Link to Baty challenge story

Link to Harrison’s five-start averages

Link to FG on-pace leaders

Link to Griffin’s first dinger

Link to Phillips contract story

Link to EW on delayed retirements

Link to major league afterlives data

Link to Kenny Jackelen

Link to Phillips B-Ref page

Link to PCL wiki

Link to SIS Cameron story

Link to SIS Cameron post

Link to Red Sox preview pod

Link to team HR leaderboard

Link to team SP WAR

Link to Sheehan on the Sox offense

Link to Napoli photo

Link to Napoli story

Link to team payrolls page

Link to Rosenthal on Cora

Link to team payrolls page

Link to listener meetup tool (PW: EW2026)

Link to meetup tool Reddit post

Link to sub-two-hour-marathon story

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