Hogdale, Brady, and Justin, are joined by guest of honor, Lou Merloni to talk about a swath of things including the Sox recent signing of Aroldis Chapman, the prospect of acquiring Garrett Crochet and the proposed "golden at-bat" rule as well as much, much more in this heavy-hitter of an episode you won't want to miss!

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Steve Perrault of Section 10 takes on Hogdale in our latest Pick-a-Side. Questions below.

1. Who would you prefer in the Red Sox rotation: Max Fried or Corbin Burnes?

2. Better RH bat choice: Teoscar Hernandez or Tyler O'Neill?

3. Is gambling good for baseball?

4. Greater need: Move Rafael Devers off third base or move Connor Wong off catcher?

5. Someone builds an optical portal that allows you to see a vision of your own life in the future (it is essentially a crystal ball that shows you a randomly selected image of what your life will be like in twenty years). You can only see into this portal for thirty seconds. When you peer into the crystal, you see yourself in a living room, two decades older than you are today. You are watching Canadian football game, and you are extremely happy. You are wearing a CFL jersey. You chair is surrounded by CFL books and magazines that promote the Canadian Football League, and there are CFL pennants covering your walls. You are alone in the room, but you are gleefully muttering about historical moments in Canadian football history. It becomes clear that for some unknown reason you have become obsessed with Canadian football. And this future is static and absolute, no matter what you do, this future will happen. The optical portal is never wrong. This destiny cannot be changed. The next day, you are flipping through television channels and randomly come across a pre-season CFL game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Knowing your inevitable future, do you now watch it?

Justin and Ed talk Thanksgiving, Blake Snell, marry/fuck/kill (Garrett Crochet, Luis Castillo, Jared Jones), and then really get into it on the recent run of Soto scoops and sources making the rounds on Red Sox Twitter.

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Hogdale, Brady, and Ed talk have a heated discussion over the merits of moving Rafael Devers off third base, the current status of the pitching rotation, Brady's sudden conversion into a prospect hoarder, and what went wrong with the Star Wars Disney trilogy.

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Liam Fennessey of "Pod on Lansdowne" takes on Sammy James of "Play Tessie". With special guest judge Ian Browne!

Questions

1. Superior social network: Twitter or Bluesky?

2. Jake Paul's next opponent: Joe Biden or Donald Trump?

3. Better fit for the Red Sox: Juan Soto or Roki Sasaki?

4. Who would you rather have officiate the wedding of your son or daughter? Prime Stephen A Smith or current day Christopher Mad Dog Russo?

5. MYSTERY QUESTION

In this week's episode, our very own Big Four of Hogdale, Ed, Brady, and Justin assemble to go over a range of topics including the Juan Soto sweepstakes, a Marry/Fuck/Kill game with three of the free agent starters, Roki Sasaki, Nick Pivetta, and even Hogdale's most recent adventure skydiving. With guest, Seattle Mariners manager, Jerry DiPoto.

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Its Red Sox vs Yankees in our first Pick-A-Side showdown of the season. Lucy Burdge returns to represent Boston while also returning Emily Nyman represents New York as the two go back and forth with questions about Juan Soto, Father/Son duos, Nomar vs Jeter, a dream VCR, and much, much more!

Back after a month hiatus Ed, Hogdale, and Justin go over the greatness of twitter user DeverEnjoyer, and the 2024 World Series and then talk about the 2024/25 free agency class. Juan Soto, Max Fried, Tanner Scott, Tyler O'Neill, Devin Williams and much more! Intrigued? Then it's time to listen to Pod by the River!

Ed and Justin get together to answer YOUR questions. Intrigued? Then it's time to listen to a bonus episode of Pod by the River!

The boys get back together one last time for the 2024 season to discuss their Red Sox superlatives, the end of the Kenley Jansen era in Boston, and their hopes and expectations for the 2025 season. Intrigued? Then it's time to listen to Pod by the River!