Ep. 30 — On this episode, Alex and Bobby banter a bit about baseball’s resident dad Mike Scioscia, the return of The Freak, and Hunter Pence’s board game/video game/comic book/live streaming/podcasting café in Houston (a.k.a our new recording studio). Then they bring on writer and prolific tweeter Eireann Dolan to talk about activism in baseball, a painfully slow offseason, baseball reality shows, and how she met her husband Sean Doolittle (spoiler: it was Twitter). She also has some great ideas for how we should monetize. Follow Eireann on Twitter here.

Links:

Pedro Moura on Ohtani/Scioscia ($) / the Scioscia quote

Hunter Pence’s foray into the coffee business

Songs featured in this episode:

X — “Los Angeles” • Japanese Breakfast — “Everybody Wants to Love You” • Jeff Rosenstock — “Nausea” • The Eagles — “Already Gone”

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Ep. 29 — Alex and Bobby banter about some recent transactions, including Yu Darvish to the Cubs, Todd Frazier to the Mets, and — the biggest one of all — Russell Wilson to the Yankees. Then they dive right into the 5,461(!!!) words that Tom Verducci gave to Derek Jeter (no literally, handed the pen to him) about his quest to turn around the Marlins and become the benevolent king of Florida or something like that. They wrap it up with their ideal baseball roomies, and give a Valentine’s Day shoutout to their favorite on-field couples around the league.

Links:

Tom Verducci on the Great God Derek Jeter

The Cubs needed Yu Darvish 

Stanton and Ramos are roomies

The All-Gentrification Team

Songs featured in this episode:

Urge Overkill — “You’ll Be A Woman Soon” • Slothrust — “Horseshoe Crab” • Noname — “Diddy Bop”

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Ep. 28 — Bobby and Alex talk a bit of transactional news coming out of Oakland, and highlight Brandon Moss’s comments about the slow offseason and the responsibility the players need to shoulder. They throw out a few early dark horse MVP picks, and review the good-but-not-applause-worthy decision by the Cleveland Indians to FI-NAL-LY get rid of the abhorrent Chief Wahoo logo (next up: the team name!). Finally, they look at a couple recent developments in the Pace Of Play Saga, and talk about Rob Manfred’s record as baseball’s commissioner.

Links:

Brandon Moss on baseball’s financial state

10 dark horse MVP candidates

A half-hearted pace of play proposal

Songs featured in this episode:

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings — “Tell Me” • Hop Along — “How Simple” • Joan Jett — “Bad Reputation”

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Ep. 27 — Alex and Bobby do a rundown of where the Brewers stand after their eventful Thursday evening, doff their caps to the four newest Hall of Fame inductees (mostly to Vlad), and get irrationally upset at whoever vandalized the “Field of Dreams” field. They also discuss the prospect of a strike among the players and the larger financial structure of baseball today. Finally, they settle into their new brand as a Baseball Reality Show Review Podcast, talking about Big Papi’s upcoming show where he basically just does stuff and lobbing out better reality show ideas for a few guys once they wrap up their baseball careers.

Links:

Kenley Jansen suggests a strike (heart eyes emoji)

Jeff Passan on baseball’s broken economic system

The “Field of Dreams” vandal can meet us outside

Teasers for the glorious “Big Papi Needs A Job”

Songs featured in this episode:

Charly Bliss — “Percolator” • Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B — “Finesse (Remix)”

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Ep. 26 — Back on the same coast, Bobby and Alex discuss the Andrew McCutchen at length, dive down the rabbit hole of what a 50 inning baseball game would look like (not baseball, is the answer), take a bite out of Prince Fielder’s wonderfully bizarre food show, and answer a listener question — their very first! — about the possibilities of trading from scrub to star. Then they have an in-depth conversation about why baseball doesn’t have a LeBron equivalent; i.e., an ambassador for the game who becomes a worthy interview on things beyond the sport itself. They wrap it up by bringing back an old friend and seeing how the offseason is treating him.

Links:

Prince Fielder’s food show (and the Hardball Times piece)

The 50 inning game

Tim Tebow is adjusting well

Songs featured in this episode:

Foxygen — “In The Darkness” • Sleater-Kinney — “A New Wave” • Modern English — “I Melt With You” • The Jackson 5 — “ABC”

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Ep. 25 — Alex and Bobby kick off the Slow Offseason Pod with a reminiscence on the life and legacy of Trenton Thunder bat dog Home Run Derby, then discuss some recent signs of life on the lukewarm stove, including whether we should give the Astros the World Series trophy now and if the Mets actually have a plan for this year. They deliver a scouting report on Rafael Palmeiro’s batting practice video, and give 50 Cent his due as he attempts to make his own comeback to the mound. They round things out with a look ahead to 2018 and make predictions on what the worst takes will be this year — because there’s sure to be no shortage.

Links:

Bat dogs galore on E:60

That kinda hurt, Marcell Ozuna

Rafael Palmeiro is feeling himself

The 50 Cent redemption tour

We do the Giancarlo workout too, really

Songs featured in this episode:

Fleetwood Mac — “Never Going Back Again” • Bill Conti — “Gonna Fly Now” • Prince — “Kiss” • Lucy Dacus — “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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Ep. 24 — Bobby and Alex kick off 2018 with a rundown of some recent baseball news, then dive into one former Mets player’s strange in-game habits and dissect another’s Twitter. Then they have an extended discussion on a pair of troubling stories from around baseball involving misconduct against women both on and off the field, and talk about the issue of violence against women in the sport at large. They wrap up the episode with a few hypotheses on things that players would like to leave in 2017, and a chat about what they hope to see from baseball as fans in 2018.

Links:

Darryl Strawberry’s in-game habits

Head of MLBAM forced out

Miguel Sano accused of sexual assault

Jen Mac Ramos on baseball and sexual violence

Songs used in this episode:

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — “Running Down a Dream” • Vagabon — “Minneapolis” • The Supremes — “You Can’t Hurry Love” • Fleetwood Mac — “Gypsy” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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