Ep. 100 — For their 100th episode, Alex and Bobby take a look back at the 2010s by picking a player from each year who best represented the decade as a whole. The resulting list is a collection of players who were not necessarily the best, but who made the biggest cultural impact in the last 10 years, or who changed the way that we as fans consume the game. Does Yasiel Puig make the cut? Listen to find out…

Songs featured in this episode:

Lorde — “Supercut” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 99 — Bobby and Alex talk about Trevor Bauer’s unfortunate automobile luck, and also the Allstate Mayhem guy’s Twitter presence (it’s not sponsored content, promise). Then, in the spirit of Thanksgiving football and Christmas Day basketball, they discuss which holiday deserves its own baseball tradition, touching on the merits of three summer holidays and figuring out what that day would actually look like. Finally, they craft a Thanksgiving plate from ballpark food. Hope you didn’t want veggies!

Links:

Trevor Bauer’s sports car gets totaled

Songs featured in this episode:

Vampire Weekend — “Holiday” • The B-52’s — “Love Shack” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 98 — Alex and Bobby discuss Rob Manfred’s big ol’ middle finger to the MLBPA, where MLB’s plan for minor league restructuring goes from here, and widdle baby Astros owner Jim Crane needing cops to shield him from the Big Bad Journalists. Then, they interview… each other. Yes, seriously. They talk about the things they don’t know about each other’s baseball fandom, and discuss a baseball player as a jeopardy host and a Mount Rushmore of baseball players — among other things.

Links:

Rob Manfred says no economic concessions

Congress wades into the MiLB plans

Jim Crane stays silent at the owners meetings

Songs featured in this episode:

Swell Maps — “The Helicopter Spies” • Belle & Sebastian — “Nice Day For A Sulk” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 97 — Bobby and Alex have some fun with this winter’s latest Boras-isms and Bobby recounts a middle school memory. Then they discuss the Astros sign stealing scandal and what an appropriate response from MLB would look like, and Gabe Kapler continuing to fail upward. Finally, a look at which stars could get traded this offseason, and how they foreshadow the future of baseball fandom.

Links:

The Astros stole signs in 2017 ($)

Songs featured in this episode:

Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 96 — Alex and Bobby talk the robot umps looming in the shadows and discuss whether or not MLB can be trusted with their implementation. Then they look at the Nationals’ visit to the White House, their behavior on the visit, and the ensuing public reaction, wondering how to swallow this as fans. Finally, some good old fashioned collusion talk, courtesy of Braves GM Alex Anthopoulos saying the quiet part real loud, on a phone call to journalists. Offseason baseball, baby!

Songs featured in this episode:

Blondie – Rip Her To Shreads • Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing! • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 95 — Bobby and Alex discuss the biggest takeaways from the World Series, including unlikely heroes, rules chatter, a scandal hanging over it all, and, of course, Baby Shark. They also briefly discuss Carlos Beltrán being named the new Mets manager. Then, for a seasonal retrospective, they look back on the year in Three Up, Three Down, comparing how their lists began and how they ended to see what occupied their headspace the most this year. This week’s Three Up, Three Down — and the final of the year — features Gerrit Cole’s middle finger, and a horrendous decade in World Series champions.

Songs featured in this episode:

Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 94 — Alex and Bobby share their 10 steps to watching and enjoying the World Series, discussing the pitching-heavy teams, the Bryce Harper narratives to come, the Nationals and Astros as patchworks of tanking teams, the joy of rooting for Good Players and against Bad Players, the Nationals as the perfect foil to the Astros, and more. This week’s Three Up, Three Down features a radically bad plan for minor league baseball and the beauty of baseball as a packaged product on TV.

Links:

Baseball America on MLB’s minor league proposal

The New York Times on MLB’s minor league proposal

Songs featured in this episode:

Lil Kim — “Player’s Anthem” • The Rolling Stones — “Happy” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 93 — Alex and Bobby talk with Bradford Davis, senior sports writer at the New York Daily News, about the Yankees, a tipping-pitches-or-maybe-not scandal, how postseason strategy differs from regular season strategy, the Carlos Correa walk-off home run and subsequent celebration, and more. This week’s Three Up, Three Down features an updated scouting report on Bernie Sanders, and the return of The Smoltz.

Follow Bradford on Twitter at @_beewilly.

Songs featured in this episode:

Wilson Pickett — “Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You” • Dr. Dog — “Ladada” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 92 — Bobby and Alex somewhat-but-not-quite briefly discuss Gerrit Cole’s hair, and also his ability to throw baseballs extremely well. They then talk to FanGraphs managing editor Meg Rowley about the acute anxiety of watching strangers succeed and/or fail on a national stage, whether it is fair to judge managerial decisions from afar, the resurgence of starting pitching this postseason, how we root in the playoffs, and more. This week’s Three Up, Three Down features the Tomahawk Chop in the limelight, and some (more) different baseballs (again).

Follow Meg on Twitter at @megrowler.

Links:

Rob Arthur on a changing ball once again ($)

Songs featured in this episode:

Jay Som — “The Bus Song” • The Byrds — “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 91 — Bobby and Alex banter about playoff matchups thus far, and bid farewell to the Oakland Athletics. Then they discuss at length what the ideal playoff baseball moment looks like, and how baseball’s evolving character changes that in 2019. This week’s Three Up, Three Down features Kevin Kiermaier in need of some labor value theory, and baseball analysis telegraphed via half-baked analogies.

Links:

Jack Nicas on the Oakland Coliseum

Songs featured in this episode:

Erykah Badu — “Certainly” • Phony Ppl — “End of The niGht.” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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