This Week in Blernsball

The Oakland A's might be on the move! After unsuccessful negotiations to build a new stadium at Howard Terminal, the A's have gotten the blessing of the Commissioner's Office to begin exploring relocation options. Welcome to the MLB Las Vegas A's, or maybe Athletique de Montréal!

Boston keeps on rolling. Six weeks into the season and the Red Sox are in first place in the tough AL East. Is this more than a mirage? Can the Blue Jays overcome their terrible health issues to put up a fight, or is this Boston's unlikely year?

Will the Blue Jays play in Canada this season? With vaccination numbers on the upswing, it's looking more and more likely.

The Minor Leagues are back, so let's take a look at some outstanding prospects!

All this, and No-hitters galore!

This Week's Simpsonrama episodes of the Week: Whacking Day (Ben), 22 Short Films About Springfield (Jacob)

Happy Star Wars Day, if you're listening to this on drop day, then May the Fourth be with you! Also, Happy Cinco de Quatro! Enjoy our longest tangent yet, as we discuss Star Wars, and all things Star Wars related.

In baseball news, Robbie Alomar isn't a great person. Some of us may have had inklings for a while, and now an MLB investigation has put him on the league's ineligible list following a very serious allegation of sexual misconduct against an MLB employee in 2014. 

The Oakland A's and Kansas City Royals keep making us look like fools in our early season predictions. It looks like the AL Central is going to be lots of fun this year. Stay tuned!

Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" (Jacob), Mayored to the Mob (Ben)

BONUS ROUND - Greatest Star Wars Parody: Blue Harvest (Family Guy's Episode IV Parody) (Jacob), The Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode (Ben)

Big things from juniors this week! Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit three dingers and drove in 7 against the Nationals, and Fernando Tatis Jr. had multiple 2 HR games at Dodger Stadium. Way to outdo your dads' boys!

MadBum pitched a no-hitter. Or did he? Does a 7-inning no-hitter count as a no-hitter?

The standings are topsy-turvy. Who saw Oakland being successful, those Moneyballing jerks! Are the teams at the top an April mirage, or here to stay?

This week's Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: The Beast with a Billion Backs (Ben) (the movie!), Homer's Enemy (Jacob)

The first-place Red Sox? Blame Canada! The 9-2 Dodgers? Blame Canada! Jackie Robinson Day on a Thursday? Blame Canada! Joe Musgrove threw a no-hitter? Ok, he can have credit for that one.

This week's Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: Homer Defined (Ben), Homer the Smithers (Jacob)

Regular season baseball is back. And MLB made a progressive decision! For perhaps less than progressive reasons, Atlanta is no longer hosting the 2021 All-Star Game due to Georgia's new voter suppression laws. Let's all not think too hard about the fact that the All-Star Game probably shouldn't be happening this season anyway.

Boston isn't totally trash, hooray for Ben! Let's just not look too hard at those UCLA Bruins-inspired City Connect jerseys. Yes we know the real inspiration, it's still weird to see the RED Sox in YELLOW!

Bad news from San Diego, Fernando Tatis Jr. has hurt his shoulder, again. This doesn't bode well for the face of the next generation of superstars...

This week's Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week - Homer the Heretic (Jacob), Bart the Daredevil (Ben)

It's Zach Snyder's This Week in Blernsball - Longer, Edgier, and Batman says the F word. Yes, it's not baseball, but on our nerd-centric part of the show, we review the Snyder Cut, our final evaluation, perfectly cromulent, but nothing earth-shattering.

It's injury season, not a happy time if you're a Jays fan, or like Fernando Tatis Jr..

Uniforms Galore! There's some fun stuff going on over at Nike, there are some cool Negro League tribute uniforms, and you should listen to Unified, with Chris Creamer and Paul Lucas, two of the best uniform watchers in the biz!

Holy cow, next week is Opening Day! We've almost made it!

This Week's Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: Lisa the Vegetarian (Ben), Deep Space Homer (Jacob)

This episode is a fine episode. Sure it's no 25th Episode Spectacular, or episode devoted to COCAINE BEAR, but it's cromulent. We talk lots about baseball, just like we promised last week, plus there's a dog!

We make some predictions for the 2021 Season, bookmark this episode to see just how wrong we are!

Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: Homer vs the 18th Amendment (Ben) $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) (Jacob)

This week... nothing much happened. Sure there were some minor spring training transactions and some exhibition games, but the big news was off the diamond. The big news was COCAINE BEAR, the upcoming film soon to win all the Oscars directed by Elizabeth Banks and produced by Lord and Miller. This film will take us where we've never been before, into the wild mind of a bear who ate 75 pounds of pure 80s coke. We only know the title of this based on a true story movie and it's already the best movie of all time.

We promise there will actually be baseball next week. Maybe.

Simpsonrama episodes of the Week: Homer's Barbershop Quartet (Ben), Trash of the Titans (Jacob)

With Spring Training in full swing, it's time to overanalyze some games! We all know that the Jays are going to be World Series Champions based on 21 innings of play, which is how things work, right? It probably isn't good that there are fans there though.

Minor League Baseball (might) be back this season! A nice economic boost for the MiLB communities and a great plus for player development.

Baseball should be doing a better job eliminating the creepy people in its midst, but of course, they aren't.

And finally, the Blue Jays eliminated their radio broadcast, which just plain stinks.

Simpsonrama Episodes of the Week: Marge vs The Monorail (Ben) Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song (Jacob)

Spring is here! Spring is here! Hope springs eternal with the arrival of spring training. Whether it's the promise of a championship season, or maybe just finishing at .500, we all can hope with the arrival of spring that things can return a little more to normal.

Albert Pujols teased retirement this week. How does his career stack up to some of the best and what might his next steps be?

This week's winner of the Marge Schott Memorial Award for Terrible Executive goes to former Seattle Mariner President and CEO Kevin Mather after he said the quiet part out loud about manipulating service time and made some racist comments about foreign players. Baseball needs to be better than this.

We missed this being off last week, but HOLY COW, Fernando Tatis Jr. got paid!

And what's going on in Oakland?

This Week's Simpsonrama Episodes of the week: Cape Feare (Ben), Grade School Confidential (Jacob)