Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter concerning the sizzling begin by Jarred Kelenic and when to imagine in a breakout, Jo Adell and the thriller of quadruple-A gamers, the percentages of no Marlin hitting for the cycle till Luis Arraez did it this week, the Rays’ record-tying thirteenth straight win, new experiences about new guidelines, and extra. Then (51:12) they reply listener emails about the perfect city, non-ballpark setting for baseball, the MLB participant they’d most need to be stranded with on a desert island (with a digression on Matt Strahm and ballpark beer gross sales), a pitcher with one unhittable pitch per sport, and a black-box outfield, plus a Previous Blast (1:26:19) from 1993.
Audio intro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Successfully Wild Theme”Audio outro: Chicano Batman, “Cycles of Existential Rhyme”
Hyperlink to Kelenic homerLink to Passan tweetLink to article on Kelenic’s swingLink to Verducci on KelenicLink to article on AdellLink to Arraez cycle videoLink to cycles since 1993Link to crew cycles since ’93Link to one-team cycle oddsLink to league-wide cycle oddsLink to Rays streak statsLink to Springs harm storyLink to Rays rallyLink to FG playoff oddsLink to Baumann on LodoloLink to FG violations reportLink to new B-Ref guidelines reportLink to aircraft-carrier diagramLink to aircraft-carrier derbiesLink to Mikolas lizard storyLink to AP story on beer salesLink to Astros beer newsLink to Strahm commentsLink to Manfred on concessionsLink to BA on concessionsLink to Crain’s on concessionsLink to Strahm’s YouTube channelLink to EW emails databaseLink to 1993 Previous Blast sourceLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s Substack
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