Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach

Zach is joined for a special solo session with Howard Megdal (@howardmegdal) of Baseball Prospectus, The IX, and the Next for a lovely ninety-minute conversation about women's sports, Bard College, the Mets, New Jersey, and plenty more baseball. 

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3 – Working in politics, but then not

5 – Mouse!

7 – The Next [https://www.thenexthoops.com/] and The IX [https://www.theixsports.com/]

10 – A nearly half-hour tangent about the wonderfulness of women's sports and the criminality of their underfunding

31 – Name and Image Likeness

33 – Loving sports at Bard College

35 – Sending angry emails to KenPom

37:30 – Leon Botstein does have a Wikipedia

40:30 – Campaigning the backup center for D3 player of the year

42 – Why baseball?

47 – Basketball is a shot, baseball is an IV

49 – The Baseball Talmud!

52 – Coolest games ever: 2015 World Series, David Cone, and Johan Santana

58 – Alex Bregman and flawed replay

1:02 – Analytics talk

1:06 – Cat!

1:07 – The enemy is certainty

1:09 – Order of Operations trifecta!

1:14 – The consistency of toothpaste as it hits the teeth

1:15 – A conversation with Abraham

1:17 – No ghosts, but Justin Turner is unexplained

1:20 – The Full Count

* Howard's Book Recommendation: Katherine Heiny [https://katherineheiny.com/]

* Howard's Food Recommendation: South Jersey Pretzel [https://www.sjpretzel.com/]

* Howard's Movies/TV Recommendation: The Third Man [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/]

* Howard's Music Recommendation: Bria Skonberg [https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ahtSggrsy1v2oJuKfmzGm]; Veronica Swift; [https://open.spotify.com/artist/0YyqJ4bcQqxXdsdpgQPwtl] Emmet Cohen [https://open.spotify.com/artist/3kyGmsyTEpjopA521SSlLT]; Good Jazz and Good Food (in general)

* Howard's Miscellaneous Recommendation: Flannel pants

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