In Episode 453, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Portland's Waterworld AI Stadium and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Sunday Funday: A whip around a busy day on the baseball sched.
2. Just Peachy: The Braves are tweeting through their rough start.
3. Around the Horn: The Rockies continue to Rocky. Plus a bunch of major-league debuts.
4. What to Watch: The Mets amd Phillies are back on their bullshit, and the Brewers are once again prominently involved. 
5. How condfident are we in Nolan Ryan's stats?

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In Episode 452, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the new Subaru Outback and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Sir, this is a website: We look over what's been on BP for the past week, including MLB celebartting Jackie Robinson for [redacted], what's going on with the Pirates and Angels, and Mike Elias's thoughts on building a rotation.
 2. Rocky Mountain Why: And then there's the Rockies (and yes, the Clint Hurdle thing broke five minutes after we finished recording. 
3. Around the Horn: Cedric Mullins would like to stay in Baltimore, the Twins have some injuries to deal with, and the Braves get some reinforcements.  
4. What to Watch: Awful lot of the Tigers in these lately, plus a Western showdown, and two teams that share one stadium.  
5. No more Padres in the Trendy Grid please

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In Episode 451, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about Patrick's vacation and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. The Guys Have It: How are our guys doing? Pretty well honestly. 
2. I've always liked it slow, I've never liked it fast: We check in on some slow-starting stars to see what the issues might be. 
3. Around the Horn: An important Cubs arm is out fot the season, and an important (to the show) Yankees arm is back. 
4. What to Watch: A Padres and Tigers heat check, and AL West showdown (maybe not the one you'd think) and a Dodgers series (not in the place you'd expect)
5. Back to the nickname mines 

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In Episode 450, Jeffrey, and Craig have a lot of banter and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1.  What's got into that cat?: It's our first frisky watch of 2025, checking in on the Tigers, Nats and Angels (?!)

2. What me worry: Conversely some teams that haven't been so frisky so far.
3. Around the Horn: A tragedy in the Domincan Republic, some early-season injuries, and some Rockies call-ups. Plus, how much coffee is too much coffee for closers.
4. What to Watch: A weird weekend for baseball match-ups.
5. An exceedingly normal game (and Craig performance)

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In Episode 449, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the Craig's endless cough and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. The Good: The Giants, the Mets bullpen, and Wilyer Abreu are off to very strong starts.
2. The Vlad: Vladimir Guerrero, jr signs a mega-extension with the Jays. Patrick isn't here, but ther est of us are ambivalent.  
3. The Ugly: The White Sox are bad again, some pitching staffs are underperforming early, and Victor Robles suffers an awful shoulder injury.
4. What to Watch: An NL East showdown, two purported playof contenders off to mediocre starts, and the Keller Fellers are the new sickos?  
5. Jeffrey is still struggling with game compositions, but Craig does okay at this one.

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In Episode 448, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig have more banter than usual and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. National Jump to Conclusions Week: We consider making some hot takes about the NL West, the AL Central, and Jake Mangum. 
2. 100 Million Reasons to Stay: We have a lot of extensions to discuss. Patrick does a crossword or something. 
3. Around the Horn: Jurickson Profar is suspended, the raves rotation takes another blow, and the Dodgers get another outfielder
4. What to Watch: The good teams, not the bad teams, but also the Rockies and Athletics 
5. We try a new game, but no one can remember anything about the Rockies.

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I feel like I just had a quarter-life crisis. I can't be having a midlife crisis already. At least Scandanavian synthesizers are cheaper than Alfa Romeos, although not by as much as you might think.

Soundtrack

"deep sea leaks" by Google Earth, James Riotto, and John Vanderslice, Street View (2024)
"White Plains" bu John Vanderslice, Cellar Door (2004)
"Scorpio Rising" by John Vanderslice and the Mountain Goats, Moon Colony Bloodbath (2009)
"green grid" by Google Earth, James Riotto, and John Vanderslice, Street View (2024)
"How the West Was Won by John Vanderslice, Dagger Beach (2013)

In Episode 447, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Three for three: Nine takeways from three podcast hosts about the first threeish games of baseball. 
2. Weights and Measures: The extra thick bats can't hurt you, they aren't real. Well unless you are the Brewers pitching staff.
3. Around the Horn: Eating tape on the field, an injury roundup, and Cam Smith scores an endorsment deal. 
4. What to Watch: An interesting pitching matchup in Miami, the Yankees face a good (ex-)Brewers pitcher, and a Sickos matchup that startes while we are recording (And to be fair turns out pretty sicko) 
5. A new game for a new season.

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In Episode 446, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about dental routines and then discuss five mostly baseball topics. 

1. Last-Minute Shopping: Most of the moves both major and minor we missed over the last few weeks.
2. Everyboduy hurts, spring time: And of course there's a lot of injuries to cover
3. Roster Resourceful: Some Opening Day debuts, and some surprising roster choices.
4. What to Watch: Real baseball, also Vallente Bellozo and a cruise ship fireworks show
5. The games are back, and Craig resumes normal service.
 
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In Episode 445, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about the Tokyo Series and then preview the American League West.  
1. None of us know what to do about the 2025 Texas Rangers.
2. PECOTA knows exactly what to do with the 2025 Seattle Mariners.
3. The Houston Astros are worse and more interesting
4. The Los Angeles Angels are exactly as good and exactly as uninteresting.  
5. The Sacramento Athletics are going to take some getting used to.

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