In light of a recent update to the Michael Oher chronology, Bradford William Davis joins us to discuss an ugly cultural relic: 2009's The Blind Side. This movie was nominated for Best Picture and won Sandra Bullock an Oscar. Why are some calling it "one of the worst films of the decade"? Are we among those people? Would it make Obama's end of year list? We connect the book's author, Michael Lewis, to another of his financially exploitative bestsellers that rocked the sports world: Moneyball. Someone should probably start asking that guy some questions.

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Edited by Nolan Rabine

Cover art by Brody Staub

The failing New York Times published one of their most embarrassing pieces to date and Joey Votto caused commotion on Twitter. We break down two major questions: Are TikTok movie promoters the new Cahiers du Cinema? Could we get a hit in a full MLB season?

(0;00 - 12:00) Intro, Fantasy Baseball Trade Deadline, Brody's Trip to Woodstock

(12:30 - 39:00) NYT MovieTok Article

(39:30) Joey Votto's Hypothetical

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Huge week for the haters and traders: We celebrate the Yankees-White Sox series by tearing both teams to shreds, before recapping the winners and losers from the 2023 trade deadline. Jose Ramirez knocked Tim Anderson tf out! The Angels shot for the moon and landed in the mud. The Mets pivoted to sell mode, paying teams to take their old aces in return for stud prospects. The Orioles really don't want to talk about how they got here.

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0:00-8:00: Intro/Brody's catastrophe

8:00-27:30: The Yankees' terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week

27:30-40:00: $outh $ide $uicide

40:00-1:05:00: Trade Deadline

Greta Gerwig & Christopher Nolan accidentally teamed up to create the cinematic event of the decade and we've got the full Barbenheimer scoop. The guys are joined by Seamus Mulhern (writer/director of Growing Boy) to break down two of the biggest movies of the year.

(19:00 - 56:00) Barbie

(56:30 - 2:02:00) Oppenheimer

The boys are back for another remote episode and we're proud to report that the kids seem to be alright. We haven't seen the surprise right-wing cult favorite Sound of Freedom, but we have a lot to say about its audience. Action movies are back in a big way; Nolan saw Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One and Brody saw Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. We rave over Inherent Vice as Brody works out an internal conflict of whether Nolan looks like Thomas Pynchon or not. Andrew Painter is getting Tommy John Surgery and the Yankees are dead in a ditch. Check us out on Twitter's graveyard @mudvillepod

The 2023 Draft is in the books and Prospect Sauce is back to discuss how our mock drafts from last week played out. Nick and Nolan give their favorite picks and discuss which players may develop better than others, and which teams walked away with the most talent. Then, Morgan joins the back half of the episode and we talk about the simultaneous WGA & SAG-AFTRA Strikes, anonymous executives turning into movie villains, and a new theory regarding catching prospects. We entertain Buster Olney's report that the Yankees might be in on trading for Shohei Ohtani. I really need the All-Star break to end because I was watching South Park reruns on MAX while editing this.

Nolan and Brody are honored to welcome Nick Chalmers aka Prospect Sauce back to the podcast for a bit of a marathon episode! We recap some of the biggest stories from the first half of the 2023 campaign and speculate where it might go from here. Are both MVP races in the bag? How many records will Shohei Ohtani break? Then, Nolan and Nick present the first ever Mudville Mock, our preview of the MLB draft with analysis on the most talented prospect pool in recent memory (starts around the 53:00 mark). Will LSU teammate Dylan Crews or Paul Skenes go #1 overall? Could Wyatt Langford, Max Clark, or Walker Jenkins be in the mix? We try to make our best predictions.

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Domingo German and Kyle Higashioka twirled the 24th Perfect Game in MLB history on Wednesday as the Yankees blanked Oakland 11-0, but the legacy is a bit complicated. Shohei Ohtani broke baseball in the month of June and continues his ascension into the stratosphere. LSU won the College World Series over Florida, with Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford ensuring their status as the cream of the crop. We remember a bunch of drafts and a bunch of guys.

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What a week for billionaires: moving MLB franchises, dying in submarines, and challenging each other to cage matches. We break down the week of news dumped on our heads by Rob Manfred and David Zaslav, debate the terminology of the extra-inning baserunner, and learn something new about a coveted stat. Nolan reviews Extraction 2 and Wes Anderson's Asteroid City. Brody visits Canada and makes a catastrophic FanGraphs blunder.