In the first release of the new biweekly schedule, Sam spends time waxing poetic about how baseball is adrift as it's lost one of its most important resources: hope. From the boardroom to the clubhouse, hope has packed up and left town with minimal hope of it's miraculous return. How and why are detailed within what is one of the more powerful yet downer episodes in the series yet.

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