It's our Sandpapergate-themed summer book club special, featuring a deep-dive into Geoff Lemon's Steve Smith's Men and Gideon Haigh's Crossing The Line as they and we dissect the absolute state of Cricket Australia - plus things you may have missed in the NBA and Beeso's Leeds play I Spy in the English Championship. This week: Legacy disappointments, Gonzo Geoff, the final word from The Final Word, forensic accounting, Kangz XI, Smudged captaincy, white line fever, pride goeth before a fall, Australia Cares (about dumb stuff), picking better skippers, commanding respect, board stupid, Enron Hubbard, Ten get deep-sixed, the positives of Sandpapergate, clear your desk, selecting selectors, conflicted and confected, CAXI and Maxi, outsourcing your picks, NZC and the ABs, the EPLisation of the IPL, Kimber and Beeso on T20, being there, contagious cultures, vale the coach-GM era, 11.5 games back, Kant can't go home, bringing Boogie back, Hardwood Nihilism, glass jaws in the 6, Kyrie's leadership cosplay, Harden '19 vs Kobe '06, stop the fans, Doncic vs Simmons, the centre cannot hold and Professor Bielsa's masterclass. You can hear more from BALLS and After Dark on Omny Studio, Spotify Podcasts and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to the show via Twitter, Facebook  and email. 

Programming note: after last week's Album Of The Year Special for 2018, BALLS After Dark is off this week, back mid-next week with our first new albums of 2019; Doc's pick is the latest (and possibly last) from former Kyuss frontman John Garcia, while Beeso's gone for the debut album from Russian rock revivalists Angelic Milk. Review albums from current, future and recent past After Darks are in our After Dark review playlist on Spotify, along with our 2018 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums we reviewed last year. Doc and Beeso have also made individual mixtapes of their 2018 faves because they can't agree on anything. We'll start a 2019 After Dark Mixtape playlist once review season cranks up in earnest.

It's our After Dark Album Of The Year for 2018, in which we sort through the eighty-odd new release albums we reviewed on the pod last year and pick a definitive* top five, plus our favourite legacy artist, Oz/NZ and classic albums of the year. This week: previously on ADAOTY, critical skills, making work for yourself, Konmarangie, why is VB, unnecessary relistens, confound variables, rethinking the classics, party consumable concept albums, stupidity is my wheelhouse, histrio-Nicks, do you like fun, our mixtapes of the year (coming soon), 2016 > 2018, dance dance revolution, flashes from Flash, Legacy Acts 101, 2015 > 2018, bangers and mash, the difference between silly and dumb, metal perspectives, concept v reality, highly commendables, highly combustibles, the inside of Beeso's head, 2017 > 2018, the first BALLS podcast, sets by subscription, embracing debate, musing on legacies, hating everything that's fun, wanting a go and getting a go, remembering Mics Sound Nice, Street Press Gang and seeing you next Tuesday.

*in no way definitive

Our full list of review albums (including 2018) is available here, and our current and recent review albums are catalogued on our After Dark review playlist on Spotify along with our 2018 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks of the year from albums we've reviewed. We'll add 2019 review albums to the playlist and start on a 2019 After Dark Mixtape as soon as After Dark returns in a week or so. You can hear BALLS and After Dark on Omny Studio, Spotify Podcasts and Apple Podcasts. and talk back to us on Twitter, Facebook and email.

Beeso and Dr Yobbo are back from the beach with a quick one on the absolute state of it (it being the continuing omnishambles of Australian cricket, through the lens of test team selection) - Maximising Marsh, the 2012 Lakers of cricket analytics, he-said he-said, deselecting selectors, the No Futures League, the 2015 Sixers of player development, international transfers, club > country, east coast biases, getting absolutely Slatered and why we believe the children are our future. Background links: CricViz on Shield batsmen, Jarrod Kimber on BALLS talking T20 analytics, Ethan Strauss on NBA forward scouts (paywalled, but the Athletic is worth a few bucks a month) and you definitely should go buy Geoff Lemon's book (not just because he said nice things about us). Back next week to review that and Gideon Haigh's unofficial culture review of CA in our summer book club. BALLS After Dark, our accidental music podcast returns in midweek with our 2018 Album Of The Year Special. You can hear more from BALLS and After Dark on Omny Studio, Spotify Podcasts and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to the show via Twitter, Facebook and email.

For all you poor suckers back at work - or still posted up in the hammock watching the cricket - here's a bonus BALLS summer edition pod with Adamhfoto and the Doc on the state of BBL socials, Jazz odysseys, Ben's budget triple doubles, Dante's peak, uncooked schedules, Sixers in (the) five, homeless Raptors, stanning the standings, stagnant Marshes, Bumrah goes whooshka, Pant-a-gram, the worst captain since the Costa Concordia, foreshadowing our Sandpapergate book club, the Reject Shop Mark Nicholas, do as I say not as I did, coal-fired quicks, PCB calendar trolling, life finds a way, New Year's Bevo, low performance management, too soon for a Boof, Warnie's Get-Squares, women of the year, India get out of their own way, RIP follow-ons and confirmation bias. Beeso and the Doc are back in a few weeks with our Cricket Australia Sandpapergate Post Mortem Culture Review Book Club Deep Dive Thing. Until then, you can hear more BALLS and After Dark on Omny Studio, Spotify Podcasts and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to us via Twitter,  Facebook or email.

Happy New Year! To close out the festive season we're bringing you a summer special double episode of the After Dark. First, Beeso and the Doc review new Anderson.Paak and Cookin' On 3 Burners, then argue over the classic status of Primal Scream's pioneering rock-rave crossover Screamadelica (1991). Then (from 29:15), Adamhfoto joins the Doc to review our last new albums for 2018 from the Beths and Jon Spencer (sans Blues Explosion), and preview our annual Album Of The Year ep. Also in our summer special: not safe for Tumblr, the Cupertino approach to naming albums, everlasting gobstoppers, live mixing, the state of 90s dance, stopping Play, live mixing, live admin, getting experimental, twitching, going big, feeling pretty, JERREHWORLD, making noises, Bungled ideas, divvy vans, why Tyndale, AOTY preamble (aka reading the phone book) and being appreciably #WorseThanBoomers. We'll be back in a couple of weeks (around mid-Jan) with our 2018 Album Of The Year special. Our full list of review albums is available here, and our current and recent review albums are catalogued on our After Dark review playlist on Spotify along with our 2018 Mixtape of our favourite tracks of the year from albums we've reviewed. If you've got an hour or so spare on the beach this summer, last year's AOTY special is definitely worth a (re)listen. You can hear BALLS and After Dark on Omny Studio, Spotify Podcasts and Apple Podcasts. and talk back to us on Twitter, Facebook and email. Thanks for listening in 2018 - catch you in 2019.

Live from an undisclosed location in beautiful Buranda, it's the BALLS Podcast. This week: tales of the tape, trampoline bounce, Virat gets shafted, AWOL crowds, flat red cards, 5-6-7-8!, native flora, "I can't understand the Suns", ghost fandom, ringchasing on a budget, #nofilter insta, Jeff is the real coaching Stan, Magic missing a trick, college emperors, you are hearing us from the future, Leeds leads, the perils of recording before Mou gets fired, expansion drafts of history, the Phoenix Phoenix, rugby is still a rabble, D-Day for Davey Dum Dum and Beeso finally settles his debts. You can hear us on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and return serve on Twitter, Facebook and email.

New albums from Racing and Drunk Mums, a classic from Tricky, getting rejected from Penthouse Forum, nominative determinism, appreciating nuance, saw the Stooges and the MC5, whiffley, you should do more of what works, pronounciation guides, having the wrong opinions, resampled samples, music on television, I doooo love writing Green Guide letters, getting another one in, having your preconceptions reinforced, going Aceless, 2017 never happened, broken gizzards, Paaklife, Doc's 30 day song challenge and our mixtape tour. Next week: new albums from Cookin' On 3 Burners and Anderson .Paak, and a Classic Album™️ from Primal Scream. Review albums are on our After Dark album review playlist (new stuff added to the end) while our favourite tracks of the year from AD albums are our 2018 After Dark Mixtape. Talk back to us on Twitter, Facebook  and email. Hear us on Omny Studio, Spotify Podcasts and Apple Podcasts.

Golden Nuggets, Timmy Good Times, this Paul Millsap bit didn't age well, choose your own a̶d̶v̶e̶n̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ diagnosis, beasts from the east, the (potential) Battle of Los Angeles, KD stays salty, Draymond Green is the YOLO N'Golo, this Chelsea bit didn't age well, the first rule of Headband Club, evil beards, making it rain, washing your hands, southeastern mediocrity, Kings Twitter is undefeated, RoCo saves Minnesota, Pop going flat, when competence is an achievement, Adam's revenge, this India bit didn't age well, twitter bantz, Brisbane is upset, Wayne is a muppet, transatlantic football takes and Beeso reports back from international duty. You can hear us on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and return serve on Twitter, Facebook and email.

With Beeso away on international duty the Doc does a stupid social media quiz and inflicts his laughably poor choices on you, the listener. As Drake would have put it, you used to call me on my self-own. Next week: new albums from Racing and Drunk Mums, and a mid-90s triphop classic from Tricky. Review albums are on our After Dark album review playlist (new stuff added to the end) while our favourite tracks of the year from AD albums are our 2018 After Dark Mixtape. Talk back to us on Twitter, Facebook and email. Hear us on Omny Studio, Spotify Podcasts and Apple Podcasts.

This week: new albums from Muse and Resin Dogs, revisiting the Prodigy's Fat Of The Land from 1997, plus Hey Botham!, clapbacks without comebacks, it's all gone Pete Biltong, B-grade movie soundtracks, the tide is out on synthwave, pop bowerbirding, time and motion, Darkness and light, the Doc's Insurge story has a point (honest), Gentlemen's Dog Club, song 2, our notorious Desert Island Discs II episode, twisted firetwirlers, unreasonable fanboiz, stylistic choices, repeated Mantras, Katch-N-Dave-22, looking a djift horse in the mouth, leaning into the bit, doing it live, NËVËR RÜFÜS, I like your old stuff pretty much the same as your new stuff, not doing any research, the absolute state of Victoria, legendary MCs of the UK, picking the unpronounceable, triphop to hiphop, in defence of condiments, a challenger comes forth and this week in old person music. We're back in a fortnight (that's the period of time, kids, not the shoot-em-up/dancing game) to talk new albums from Racing and Drunk Mums, plus a Tricky classic (both in terms of artist involved and difficulty of pronouncing the title). Current and recent review albums are on our After Dark album review playlist (new stuff added to the end) while our favourite tracks of the year from albums we've reviewed are on our 2018 After Dark Mixtape. Find us on...

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