Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley problem a sexiness-comment correction and banter about Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s MLB: The Present cover-model credentials, the 2023 Opening Day schedule, extra methods wherein baseball is and isn’t totally different from different sports activities (14:35), Chad Inexperienced’s convoluted contract (31:35), and their appreciation of Zack Greinke. Then (43:49) Ben chats with former All-Star Shawn Inexperienced about his cameo in 2003 sci-fi movie The Core and his dominant stats towards fellow The Core cameo-maker Mike Hampton, adopted by a dialog (56:55) between Ben and The Athletic options author Jayson Jenks about Jenks’s three oral histories of Greinke’s profession, the very best Greinke tales, Greinke’s singular abilities, character, and status, Greinke’s future within the recreation, and extra. Lastly, Ben and Meg conclude with a Previous Blast from 1963 (1:36:31), plus a couple of follow-ups.
Audio intro: Sleater-Kinney, “Male Mannequin”Audio interstitial: Fruit Bats, “My Uncommon Buddy”Audio outro: TUNS, “Holding Choices Open”
Hyperlink to Correa tweetLink to faux Jazz tweetLink to Chisholm cowl revealLink to cowl athlete analysisLink to Jazz on his cowl spotLink to Jazz on final yr’s gameLink to 2023 schedule announcementLink to fraternization rule videoLink to Ben on baseball failureLink to baseball exceptionalism wikiLink to FG put up on GreenLink to MLBTR on GreenLink to Inexperienced choices movement chartLink to The Core Stat Blast episodeLink to The Core wikiLink to story on the actual coreLink to The Core baseball sceneLink to Inexperienced vs. Hampton H2HLink to 2004 Inexperienced vs. Hampton storyLink to lopsided batter-pitcher matchupsLink to ’99–’02 prime place playersLink to Randall Munroe on the shuttleLink to Inexperienced vs. pitchersLink to Greinke vs. hittersLink to Inexperienced vs. Greinke H2HLink to MLB 2004 wikiLink to Inexperienced’s bookLink to Jay on Greinke re-signingLink to story on Greinke’s cutterLink to above-average low-Ok%+ SPLink to 2022 SP by Ok%+Hyperlink to Posnanski on GreinkeLink to first Greinke oral historyLink to second Greinke oral historyLink to 3rd Greinke oral historyLink to fourth Greinke oral historyLink to 2019 thread of Greinke storiesLink to Greinke calling his personal signsLink to Greinke at recreation in standsLink to listing of best-hitting pitchersLink to Jayson’s writer archiveLink to 1963 story sourceLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to ESPN on the tennis exhibitionLink to “Battle of Surfaces” videoLink to tennis serve clock storyLink to 2022 RP WAR leadersLink to John Adams obitLink to Adams Guardians inductionLink to Hilda AwardLink to Baseball Reliquary episodeLink to turf definitionLink to synthetic turf wikiLink to “Was the Grink There?” tweet
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