Shagging Flies - Ben and Zach are joined by the wonderful and sharp-witted Matthew Roberson (@mroberson22), formerly of FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, and Lookout Landing but currently of the New York Daily News, for a typically meandering joyride around topics from Seattle suburbs, karaoke, the utility of flying, Mariners fandom, and countless other meaningless asides. Subscribe and enjoy!

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As usual, on names (2)

Sammamish Washington (3:30)

Travis Pastrana (7:45)

Every kid needs humbling (15)

Having a cup of coffee at FanGraphs (23:30)

Writers are weird (24:30)

Tales from the college newspaper beat at the University of San Diego (27)

Oh no, Charlie Morton (33:30)

From Dominoes to New York (with some sales in between)

On Comedy and Carrie Underwood (43)

If you’re doing karaoke, make sure you know the song (47)

Phone drop! (1:00)

Why would you have a roast for your birthday?

Why baseball? (1:04:30)

Stadium talk (1:11)

Spending money? Me? A baseball franchise owner? (1:18)

On Yankees fans and Boston fans (1:21)

Hisashi Iwakuma love (1:25)

Order of Operations Trifecta! (1:30)

Concert of choice: Prince (1:37)

Who in history would you talk to? (1:45)

Not quite a UFO story, but not not a UFO story (1:48:30)

Do birds know that flying is cool? (1:52)

Matthew almost calls PETA as a child (1:55)

The Full Count! (1:59)

Matthew’s Book Recommendation: Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson

Matthew’s Music Recommendation: Sawayama

Matthew’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Hacks / Catch Me If You Can

Matthew’s Food Recommendation: Xi’an cuisine

Matthew’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Going for a walk

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