In the fifth incarnation of a time-honored tradition that recurs every 500-ish episodes, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley are joined by ex-co-host Sam Miller and The Athletic’s Grant Brisbee to draft assorted things that they like about baseball.

Audio outro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to EW wiki page for things drafts

Link to Episode 500 wiki

Link to Episode 996 wiki

Link to Episode 1500 wiki

Link to Episode 2000 wiki

Link to U.S. semiquincentennial wiki

Link to Pebble Hunting

Link to Grant at The Athletic

Link to Ben on pre-WAR value estimates

Link to spaghetti policy research

Link to article on spaghetti research

Link to Devil Rays food policy article

Link to The Roundtable cancellation

Link to O’Neil on bat cracks clip

Link to O’Neil on Bo article 1

Link to O’Neil on Bo article 2

Link to Tracy quote about Harris

Link to Kershaw on McKinstry

Link to Tito Translator post

Link to Murphy on Vargas

Link to Space Jam sound clip

Link to Space Jam video clip

Link to Space Jam quote 2

Link to Space Jam clip 2

Link to Franzke on Stott

Link to Martinez comment

Link to Schneider on Lukes

Link to Kemp quote 1

Link to Kemp quote 2

Link to Baldelli on Vázquez

Link to Cora on Mayer

Link to Roberts on DeLuca

Link to Maddon on Fletcher

Link to Campbell on Andrews

Link to Snitker on Acuña Jr.

Link to Roberts on Betts

Link to Stark on Rollins

Link to supposed Tabler quote

Link to Malone on Counsell

Link to Sandberg quote

Link to Royko on Sandberg

Link to Royko on Kruk

Link to Royko wiki

Link to Kruk and Koch

Link to 1978 Willoughby article

Link to Tomlinson Father’s Day bit

Link to Can’t Hardly Wait scene

Link to Everybody Wants Some!! clip

Link to Sam on sound outside ballpark

Link to Sam on K-strutting

Link to Sam on Brewers challenging

Link to Leeroy Jenkins wiki

Link to The Athletic on Ruiz

Link to best-hitting catchers

Link to 2015 Cozart article

Link to 2015 FG post on Cozart

Link to 2016 FG post on Cozart

Link to 2017 Cozart article

Link to 2017 FG post on Cozart

Link to The Athletic on Cozart

Link to Wong/Chapman story

Link to Sam on “drawing interest”

Link to Sam on SP strike rates

Link to Bill James strike zone quote

Link to Cansecos switcheroo story

Link to Cansecos switcheroo conspiracy

Link to Jolly article

Link to Ben on Twins.com

Link to MLB trademark application

Link to Niekro-on-Niekro homer

Link to Perry home run story

Link to Gameday 3D explainer

Link to previous Gameday 3D banter

Link to Defector on Gameday 3D glitches

Link to other glitch 1

Link to other glitch 2

Link to other glitch 3

Link to other glitch 4

Link to other glitch 5

Link to other glitch 6

Link to other glitch 7

Link to other glitch 8

Link to other glitch 9

Link to Grubb on Gameday glitches

Link to deleted Gameday 3D post

Link to possible source of deleted clip

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