Craig Calcaterra (NBC’s Hardball Talk) returns to assess the start of the 2018 season, envision the damage that tanking is doing to the game, and reminisce about some really bad Atlanta Braves teams. Plus, SteveStories about drowned ballparks in Cincinnati and Tampa and a baseball “witch-hunt.”

The Infinite Inning now has a Facebook group! Come one, come all, come as you are, come as Reggie Jackson ’77.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ballpark in Atlantis*Witch-Hunts and Redlegs*The Infinite Inning has a Facebook group; be good to each other*Craig Calcaterra: The Fifth Column works through baseball*Efficiency thinking*The human side of No-Neck Williams*How d’ya like the 2018 season so far?*The March of the Relief Pitchers*Pitching in a Pinch*Can baseball support expansion? And tanking, too! (The Portland Possibility)*The fan as consumer/In the run we’re all dead*Watching the mid-‘80s Braves on TBS*Omar Freakin’ Moreno*Tommy Pham and Jose Martinez, old men of hope*Maybined and Shucked*In-show surprise: The Braves sign Jose Bautista*The Weirdness of Nick Markakis*Goodbyes.