Amos And Amish talk Cold Stove and ridiculous waiting, as the top free agents in baseball continue to not have teams!  We also preview the NL West and play our usual fun games!  Hope you can listen in!

Amish is about to be slamming some fingers in a window if his Twins don't get a pitching Anchor that will still make sense for a 2019 Playoff run and Amos teases a few Cubs prospects as we begin our weekly fan focus series segments!  Plus all the usual hot stove banter, games and this week we preview the AL West!

The Groundhogs known as Machado and Harper came out and saw their shadows of not enough money agents again.  What does this mean with only single digit days remaining for pitchers and catchers reporting in Florida?  Amos and Amish hash this out, plus talk signings, Cubs and Twins...our AL Central Predictions, plus the usual games and a fact about Teddy Ballgame Machado and Harper could learn from!

SPRING TRAINING IS HERE AT LONG LAST IN THE UPCOMING WEEK AND IT WILL BE THE START OF A NEW SEASON OF THE HOT TAKES CORNER PODCAST!

To wrap up our first season, we offer a R.I.P. to Frank Robinson, talk about proposed changes in the game that have been discussed at the winter meetings, share our thoughts on the J.T. Realmuto trade and some other news of the week...plus our team talk segments of the Jays, Twins and Cubs...the final divisional preview of the AL East for 2019, a mailbag question regarding new Braves 3B Josh Donaldson, the weekly hit-or-miss and bum/no bum game fun and a thanks to you, the listeners for support in season 1!

Amish & Amos have got THE SCOOP on the FAILED Betts trade, plus moar scandal talk about the Astros that you didn't probably want(but we are giving to you anyway, BECAUSE WE CAN'T WAIT FOR THE SEASON TO START AND HOUSTON HAS TO PUT IT ON THE FIELD!)  Plus the usual Twitter Talking banter you've come to love and respect from us!  CHECK US OUT LIVE ON www.twitch.tv/iamfamousamos Feb 15 around 8pm, Eastern = IT'S OUR 50TH AND FINAL EPISODE OF SEASON 2!(and it will also be the final episode here, as we will be moving to www.anchor.fm/hottakescorner starting the week of Feb 22!)

Yippee Yippee Yi, Yippee Yi Yo Yo!  Amish & Amos talk new Astros Manager Dusty Baker, the maligned Astros fan behind www.signstealingscandal.com , the latest in the MLB vs MiLB teams retraction/reorganize proposal controversy, and the usual Hot Takes and Twitter talk!  Two more episodes to go in Season two, and then it's off to our new Anchor site, www.anchor.fm/hottakescorner to start Season 3!

Amish & Amos get into it with managers, hot stove and Asterisk/Astros takes.(listen for a SMOKIN hot one from Amos regarding the Mike Fiers internet rumor idiocy)  And of course, Castellanos IS signed by the Reds.  More details on that NEXT week as we roll on with our weekly podcast!

So much we DIDN'T talk about this week that we could/maybe should have...but that's the WILD week it was after the MLB Commissioner's office announced the decision on punishment for the Houston Astros in the trash-can-gate scandal!  Amish gets giddy about Josh Donaldson signing with the Twins and more this week!  Don't forget our new home on anchor will soon be www.anchor.fm/hot-takes-corner ! (Starting Feb 22)