Episode 82: Tuna Sandwiches and NBA Jam

Welcome to Barbecast 82! Our special guest this week (at 18:10) is Jonah Keri, a prominent member of our personal Baseball Writer Mount Rushmore, among other things. Jonah is a baseball internet favorite and we've been wanting to have him on the podcast for a while. So here he is! Topics include...

what made Grantland so awesome

the role of editors of awesome sites such as Grantland

Yo's perplexing free agency

the weirdest signing of the off-season

the difference between writing his first book on the Rays and his second book on the Expos

The discrepancy between how PEDs are discussed in baseball vs. football

Tim Raines

Being on Seth Meyers

super vague tease regarding Jonah's upcoming projects

...and more!

After Jonah (at 1:20:25), the B-Ref Battle presented by baseball-reference commenced, with two names that may have each been a lower seed in our Best Name Bracket. Tales from Logdog (at 1:31:00) with Lana Berry was a blatant admission that Lana wasn't available and we edited her in from a previous episode. We concluded (at 1:31:25) with some more morbid talk about dog death protocol before a mildly exciting Varsity Baseball Update from Jake now that he's back in school. Thanks for listening <3

Music: Remember (A Tribute to the Montreal Expos)

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