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In Episode 424, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig indulge in some (advent calendar) coffee chat and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.


1. The Postman Only Rings Twice: Roki Sasaki is being posted, eventually. 
2. There is No Such Thing as a Free Agency: 50 free agents, ranked
3. Television Man, I Know What You Are Trying to Be: Diamond Sports is still going to be showing baseball games. This is probably fine. 
4. Around the Horn: The Angels are the only team doing anything. Which is annoying. 
5. A quiz entirely about domes. 


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In Episode 423, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about sprinkler systems and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. We Dug Cole Together: Catching up on what actually happened with Gerrit Cole's opt out
2. To Catch a Rising Free Agent Star: What's a worse sign for Scott Boras, the Yankees calling his bluff or the quality of this year's one-liners?
3. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel: We check in on the Angels offseason.
4. Around the Horn: Positional flexibility is in vogue, as our prospect lists.
5. Testing the memory of Old Millennials. 

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In Episode 422, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Christmas lights and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. We Dug Cole together: A cannier podcast would wait until the Cole opt out was sorted to do a segment on it. This is not that podcast
2. For Whom the Bellinger Tolls: Like (spoiler alert) Gerrit Cole, Cody Bellinger will be staying put. What does that mean for the 2025 Cubs?
3. Five Years, That's All We've Got: More IFA malfeasance, but one side seems to be taking more than their share of the blame. 
4. Around the Horn: The Brewers play some money games, some notable pitchers opt in, and Craig can never escape Joe Kelly.  
5. We go to the game that requires no prep, WAR escalator. 

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In Episodes 420 and 421, Patrick, Jeffrey, and (eventually) Craig discuss nine mostly baseball topics in between fighting with Tempe, AZ wifi.

1. I was a Freeman in Paris, I felt unfettered and alive: The Dodgers strike first in Game 1, thanks to the first of several weird Yankees tactical moves.
2. Helplessly hoping, her harlequin hovers nearby: Dodgers make it 2-for-2 while dealing with an Ohtani injury scare.
3. Sing another song boys, this one has grown old and bitter: The Yankees have a playoff anthem for some reason, it didn't help.
4. Around the Horn: David Stearns hits the reliever market and we consider the White Sox managerial job.
5. Patrick remembers some Mariners
6. Ayyyyyyy, I'm fieldin' ovah here: The Yankees get one back, but that isn't the main story of this game. Plus Craig complains about Dave Roberts bullpen management one more time.
7. Five Alive: Game five features a five run lead lost, and the Dodgers are world champions
8. Here in the afterglow: What's next for the Yankees and what does this win mean for the Dodgers dynasty.
9. Around the Horn 2: A trade already and a couple notable retirements

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In Episode 419, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. The Judges of Normality are Present Everywhere: Before the preview, there's the discourse.
2. The World Series Preview: Well, who ya got? 
3. Fernandomania: The Dodgers lost one of their franchise icons this week 
4. Around the Horn: Some potential postings and some actual injuries 
5. Base 10 Supremacy rears its ugly head again

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In Episode 418, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about advent calendars (and the coffee that sometimes comes inside them) and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Theeeeeeeee Yankees Win: Juan Soto is a tough out, and the Guardians made too many easy outs.
2. I am the Edman, coo-coo-cachoo: The Dodgers turn the Grimace Shake meme back on the Mets. That's a sentence people will definitely understand in 50 years.
3. A Hunk of Metal: This isn't the World Series preview, that's later this week 
4. Around the Horn: What's next for the Guards and Mets, and the Rockies are cutting payroll apparently. 
5. A World-Series-themed Lightning Round, except Patrick made it up, so...

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In Episode 417, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Unhappy Meal: The Dodgers take the Mets lunch at Citi Field. You might say they've been hamburgled.
2. Christmas Creep:  The Guards and Yanks play an instant classic, as Cleveland hangs around thanks to some big bombs.
3. Here we are now, going to the South Side...no, further south: You might think it's playoff time. But Jerry Reinsdorf knows it's securing the future of the limited partners time.
4. Waiting for the other shoe to drop in Tampa Bay: How many teams can we fit in Nashville, asking for an owner.
5. Let's find out how much the editors of BP have been paying attention this playoffs.

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In Episode 416, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about weekend Fall excursions and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Playing Catch Up: The league did not consult our pod schedule for their playoff schedule, so we have a bit of catching up to do.
2. Escape from LA: The Mets head back home with a split, but did we learn more about the Dodgers? 
3. The Empire Strikes First: The Yankees might have a little bit too much talent for the Guardians 
4. There's gold in them thar gloves: Gold Gloves finalists are out. 
5. Around the Horn: Some people want extensions, some people are getting extensions.

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In Episode 415, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about cold sweats and horror movies (not related) and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Purple October: The Mets move on, and the Philles (well mostly their fans) are flailing a bit for an explanation  
2. Royal Pains: The Garrett Hampson led KC offense could overcome the Yankees. We're as shocked as you are.
3. Pitching Chaos (no, not that one): The Dodgers pen forces a Game 5 and Craig has thoughts on the interference rule.
4. View of Sku: The Tigers turn to their ace once more to try to move on as the getaway day series ends on a getaway day.
5. Around the Horn: The Twins are for sale, and Josh Jung faces another surgery.

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In Episode 414, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig indulge in some more coffee chat and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Split-Split-Split-Splitadelphia: The Mets/Phillies series is as chaotic as we (well two of us) could have hoped.
2. Stay Class...everyone involved: Meanwhile the Dodgers/Padres series is just a mess.
3. Central Planning: Tigers/Guardians get the short shrift on the pod, but there isn't a ton to say yet. Well Tarik Skubal is very good , but you knew that.
4. The Hampson Also Rises: The segment we (well one of us) has been waiting for.
5. Around the Horn: The Blue Jays really run it back, and Will Clark apparently has a podcast.

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