That's Your Field

We're back after our, what, 3 week hiatus? Jared explains sports betting odds, while Bradley talks about why Trump's hats are so historic.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/dukakis-and-the-tank-099119/

How do new teams get added to professional sports leagues? What's going on in Hong Kong? Did the Seattle Kraken base their logo on Trogdor the Burninator? Can Alex really beat Rajon Rondo in Connect 4? All these and more in today's episode.

Strong Bad Email #58: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90X5NJleYJQ

Kraken Trogdor Sticker: https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Hockey-Trogdor-by-mcguiresticker/53235958.EJUG5

In the halcyon days of 2010, a woman named Christine O'Donnell ran for Senate. Four years later, the #1 offense in the NBA Dallas Mavericks were looking to trade to make their defense match. These two stories are unrelated, but they did both end pretty badly.

Christine O'Donnell ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJyPsmEask

Bobby Bonilla is getting paid $1 million a year to not play baseball, and Mike Bloomberg spent about $1 billion to lose the Democratic primary. In today's minisode, we're discussing some pretty substantial mistakes.

MLB players and owners are yelling at each other, and so are we. In the most combative episode of TYF yet, we discuss whether any baseball will be played in 2020, what's going on with the Supreme Court, and what qualifies as fast food.

Baseball gives some teams an unfair advantage, and the US gives some voters an advantage. Learn about both as we discuss the Designated Hitter Rule and voter manipulation.

Also, check out this short video on how gerrymandering works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9AY

With Black Lives Matter protests all over the country responding to the killing of George Floyd, we thought it would be important to discuss Colin Kaepernick and the movement that got us here.

We are three straight, privileged (and Jewish) white guys, so to really understand the perspective of people of color, here are two great podcast episodes to listen to -

Pod Save the People - No In Between: https://crooked.com/podcast/no-in-between-ibram-x-kendi/

Minority Korner - The Emperor Has No Clothes: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/minority-korner/mk234-the-emperor-has-no-clothes-history-of-us-police-protests-ivanka-pride-blackouttuesday-coping-through-systemic-racism-while-black-white-allys-bush-photo-op/

Our first minisode, exploring catastrophic decisions: The Red Sox selling Babe Ruth, and Quibi.

Professional sports are being delayed due to COVID-19, and so is millions of people having money. How is everyone going to deal with this? Also, we finally have intro and outro music, let us know what you think at [email protected]!

What was the XFL, and is it coming back? How are we all gonna vote in November with COVID going on? Who's Alex? Don't worry about it. We're not gonna make it a thing.