Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Akil Baddoo taking a baseball to the beans, broadcasters describing groin pictures, and gamers deciding whether or not to put on cups. Then they evaluate a resurgent Joey Gallo and a slumping Andrew Benintendi (20:25), recall reliever Zack Littell’s affinity for cruise ships (33:22), forecast MLB’s worldwide future (37:22), contemplate the Dodgers’ secret Ugandan academy (47:06), focus on an replace on MLB’s integration of Negro Leagues stats (1:13:40), and assess their ranges of tension about game-fixing in mild of two school playing scandals (1:30:21), plus a Previous Blast (1:42:35) from 2006.
Audio intro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Successfully Wild Theme”Audio outro: Ian H., “Successfully Wild Theme”
Hyperlink to Baddoo playLink to first cup tweetLink to second cup tweetLink to MLB nutshots compilationLink to a different nutshots videoLink to swinging nutshot videoLink to Ben Clemens on GalloLink to Ben L. on Gallo in 2014Link to Gallo’s juggle catchLink to Gallo on New YorkLink to Gallo on New York againLink to Littell articleLink to previous Littell EW episodeLink to MLB worldwide plansLink to South Korea recreation infoLink to Uganda academy articleLink to data on Dodgers’ DR academyLink to data on academies’ impactLink to prospect exploitation reportLink to Horace Wilson articleLink to article on Negro Leagues statsLink to Ben on MLB’s reclassificationLink to Ben on reclassification againLink to Baumann on the AL scandalLink to Sheehan on the AL scandalLink to extra on the AL scandalLink to Iowa State infoLink to 2006 Previous Blast sourceLink to 2022 article on JonesLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to Rasmussen infoLink to 2022 Megill storyLink to 2023 Megill story
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