Shaggin' Flies (Ben Palmer, Zach Hayes)

• 2:00 – Opening with good vibes by remembering the time Nick forgot to record Zac Gallen’s side of a podcast interview
• 5:00 – Reminiscing on the Slack days
• 6:00 – Pitcher List meetup!
• 6:45 – Nick is from Brooklyn but doesn’t have an accent
• 7:30 – Nick puts a watermelon inside of a stroller to fit in in Brooklyn
• 9:00 – What if it was a Doberman in a stroller instead of a "pocket dog" 👀
• 11:30 – Shoutout to all the other Psych majors/CompSci minors
• 12:30 – Let's be clear—Midnight Agenda is a booty call and not a reference to witchcraft
• 13:00 – Ben Palmer knows all the skeletons in the Pitcher List closet, including the name of Nick’s old band name
• 16:30 – When Ben is short for… Benton?
• 17:30 – Zac(h) goes down BAD at Starbucks
• 21:30 – Progressive Metal go harddddddd
• 24:00 – A truly impeccable analogy between catchy music and healthy eating
• 26:00 – Zach samples Cannibal Corpse and Ben takes issue with Yngwie Malmsteen
• 29:00 – All genres are beautiful!
• 31:45 – It should indeed probably be called White Metal
• 33:30 – Certain chord progressions are corny
• 34:30 – Zach is a basic bitch in his musical tastes
• 36:30 – You’ve never listened to Porcupine Tree or Pineapple Thief?
• 40:30 – Nick does NOT care for flutes
• 41:30 – The history of Pitcher List, according to the founder of Pitcher List
• 46:00 – Ooooooooohhhhh imposter syndrome!
• 47:15 – WHY WOULD YOU SUGGEST I START AUSTIN GOMBER OVER NATHAN EOVALDI
• 48:00 – Fantasy blame and toxic fandom
• 50:45 – A cease and desist from MLB?
• 52:00 – Nick has Washington Post bylines, what have you done lately?
• 56:00 – Sorry Nick, we’re UNIONIZING
• 59:00 – The short-lived article series titled Hit It or Quit It
• 59:30 – Fireworks (that you can’t hear) make Zach almost fall out his chair (that you can’t see)
• 1:00:00 – Weekly shoutout to the 15 loyal listeners!
• 1:04:00 – Division III life!
• 1:10:00 – Why baseball? Because pitching is so cool!
• 1:11:00 – And also when pitching, you get to be the center of attention
• 1:13:30 – In which baseball is like Yu-Gi-Oh
• 1:19:00 – Pitching is the greatest position and also the worst position
• 1:21:00 – The time Dan Wharthen’s wife said his butt looked good
• 1:22:00 – Nick loves a good ol’ slider
• 1:24:45 – And also the perfectly placed 3-2 Chris Sale changeup to Mike Trout that wound up a grand slam anyway
• 1:29:00 – Does it get any better than chicken tenders and fries at Citi Field?
• 1:30:00 – The Great Chicago Hot Dog/Crab Dip Waffle Fry Debate, Part 69
• 1:32:30 – Modeling windups on David Cone and Tim Lincecum
• 1:34:00 – We made it all the way to episode fourteen before revealing that Jim Palmer is Ben’s father
• 1:35:30 – Order of Operations trifecta
• 1:38:15 – Zach keeps fantasizing on his cereal-before-milk supercut
• 1:39:00 – Spitballing baseball movies and the misleading, manipulative plot of Bull Durham
• 1:44:00 – An INCREDIBLE League of Their Own pun
• 1:48:00 – Quantum physics is crazy, man
• 1:50:30 – Nick’s superpower: selective omniscience
• 1:52:00 – Writing and analysis advice: sit down, be humble!
• 1:58:00 – The Full Count!
  • Nick’s Book Recommendation: How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • Nick’s Food Recommendation: Al Di La in Park Slope, Brooklyn
  • Nick’s Movies/TV Recommendation:

1 – Do people actually care about the Crosstown Classic?

3 – The Sara Sanchez story, originating in Utah

5 – Michael Hermosillo robs Andrew Vaughn of a home run, and Zach forgets that the game he was just watching is not at Wrigley Field

6 – On Wrigley Field

10:30 – Things we don’t like: running baseball teams like McKinsey consultants

15 – The walking elote at the park formerly known as U.S. Cellular field is the best food in baseball, including the crab dip waffle fries

15:45 – Sara knows what a bohtini is!

19 – On Cheladas

21 – Battle of the Chicago hot dog part 8

25 – Flavored Malort

27 – Debate! And its benefits.

30:30 – Book chapters on disinformation

38:30 – The Best and Worst of debaters

42 – Why baseball?

44 – The Sandberg Game

47:30 – Commissioner Sara wants to pay minor leaguers and end blackouts.

1:00 – MLB owners suck

1:04 – The Ricketts especially

1:08 – Order of Operations trifecta!

1:15 – Why A League of Their Own is great

1:29 – John C. McGinty or John C. Reilly?

1:31:30 – Jair Jurrjens throws a no-hitter

1:33 – UFO sighting!

1:35 – A remembrance

1:37 – Advice for writing

1:45 – Sadly, high school teachers can’t laugh at their students

1:47:30 – M*********** doesn’t start with a B! (Sorry Nick, couldn’t bleep this one, pretend it’s satellite radio)

1:50 – The Full Count!

• Sara’s Book Recommendation: The Lord of the Rings
• Sara’s Food Recommendation: Hatch, New Mexico Green Chile
• Sara’s Movies/RV Recommendation: Battlestar Galactica
• Sara’s Music Recommendation: Tom Petty
• Sara’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Walking!+

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Ben and Zach are on a break this week, so we're delivering you a selection of some of the best moments from the first seven editions of Shaggin' Flies, featuring six of our friends from all around the baseball internet. Our pods run pretty long—if you're reading this, you know—so there are a lot of cool little nuggets near the back of these conversations that deserve some more air time. Guests include, respectively: Alex Fast (2:30), Chris Paul Towers (9:35), Michael Ajeto (20:30), Janice Scurio (40:45), and Sung Min Kim (1:14:14).

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2 – a long intro on names, how they’re pronounced, and where they come from

11:30 – Kansas City is cool

13 – What’s in Delaware?

15 – The origin story

23 – has dived

25 – what matters is you

30 – golf

35 – brian the plant doctor

41 – why baseball

52 – on will clark

55 – ballparks

58 – malort

1:01 – commissioner bubba

1:09 – order of operations trifecta

1:14 – we lose ben and it’s pretty funny

1:19 – strong opinions on baseball movies

1:22 – déjà vu is not a ghost but it’s something

1:26 – on metallica

1:30 – important lesson about writing – don’t be scared

1:37 – The Full Count

• Brian’s Book Recommendation: Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
• Brian’s Music Recommendation: Metallica
• Brian’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Breaking Bad/Goodfellas
• Brian’s Food Recommendation: Tripas Tacos
• Brian’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Get organized!

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3 – Cleveland gets a bad rap!

5 – Why do we all hate Cleveland again?

6:30 – CC is the goat

9 – The Black MLB Players you need to know about series

9:30 – Aaaaand he’s gone

11:30 – The Lindor trade is a garbage thing to have to write a second article about

17 – Jumping from film to journalism and all similar creative endeavors

21 – Behind Tangible_Uno, aka, we all get in trouble for pissing off Curt Schilling

23 – In support of Alice in Chains

26 – Favorite Anime/Manga

28 – Bad wifi will be the death of us all!

30 – Appreciation for Heat, Memento, and Michael Mann

35 – Why baseball?

35:30 – Chaos!

39:30 – We’re all basically writing book reports

43:30 – Commissioner Pat is looking out for Minor Leaguers and front office and ballpark workers

47 – The Order of Operations Trifecta

51:45 – Jackie Robinson was a much, much better baseball player than actor

54:30 – Joakim Noah on Cleveland

57:30 – On being emotionally wounded by Jeremy Guthrie

59:30 – Benevolent ghosts

1:02:30 – Zach questions the usefulness of invulnerability

1:04 – Respect to Janet Jackson and Sadé

1:07 – The Full Count!

• Patrick’s Book Recommendation: House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
• Patrick’s Food Recommendation: Steak and Lobster
• Patrick’s Music Recommendation: The Price of Tea in China by Boldy James & The Alchemist
• Patrick’s Movies/TV Recommendation: The Wire
• Patrick’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Minor League Baseball!

1:15:30 – Wrapping up with the Great Pickle/Hot Dog Debate Part 391.3

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Ben and Zach talk to Janice Scurio (@scuriiosa) of Baseball Prospectus and NBC Sports Edge for a good long talk about her work as a librarian, entering the baseball writing world, covering the White Sox (and a no-hitter!) in a pandemic, and many things Chicago-related and otherwise. The following times are approximate but they'll get you in the general vicinity:

• 0:03 - The support group for wealthy people
• 0:06 - The Dewey Decimal System
• 0:10 - When being a librarian involves power tools
• 0:18 - Working Plato's Apologia into a Baltimore Orioles season preview
• 0:29 - Zach confuses Chris Davis, Khris Davis, and Crash Davis
• 0:38 - Michael Ajeto is mentioned for the third time in four weeks
• 0:40 - North Side Sox plug!
• 0:50 - Cloud Gate, a.k.a. The Bean
• 0:55 - Bodies in Lincoln Park
• 0:58 - Birria tacos and Chicago dogs
• 1:08 - Yes, the James Shields trade happened
• 1:20 - Growing up with the problematic Hawk Harrelson
• 1:26 - Asbestos lawsuit money
• 1:32 - Scrapbooking Roberto Alomar
• 1:35 - Weekly perfect game/30-3 loss appearance
• [redacted]
• 2:00 - Oh, we know.
• 2:05 - The difference between gyro and hero
• 2:15 - Aliens!
• 2:17 - Tyler Glasnow and his hair products
• 2:27 - Appreciation for deez nuts jokes
• 2:30 - The Full Count!

Janice's Book Recommendation: The Son of Good Fortune

Janice's Food Recommendation: Pita Inn

Janice's Movies/TV Recommendation: Lupin

Janice's Music Recommendation: SOPHIE

Janice's Miscellaneous Recommendation: Peloton

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Shagging Flies - Ben and Zach are joined by the wonderful and sharp-witted Matthew Roberson (@mroberson22), formerly of FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, and Lookout Landing but currently of the New York Daily News, for a typically meandering joyride around topics from Seattle suburbs, karaoke, the utility of flying, Mariners fandom, and countless other meaningless asides. Subscribe and enjoy!

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• As usual, on names (2)
• Sammamish Washington (3:30)
• Travis Pastrana (7:45)
• Every kid needs humbling (15)
• Having a cup of coffee at FanGraphs (23:30)
• Writers are weird (24:30)
• Tales from the college newspaper beat at the University of San Diego (27)
• Oh no, Charlie Morton (33:30)
• From Dominoes to New York (with some sales in between)
• On Comedy and Carrie Underwood (43)
• If you’re doing karaoke, make sure you know the song (47)
• Phone drop! (1:00)
• Why would you have a roast for your birthday?
• Why baseball? (1:04:30)
• Stadium talk (1:11)
• Spending money? Me? A baseball franchise owner? (1:18)
• On Yankees fans and Boston fans (1:21)
• Hisashi Iwakuma love (1:25)
• Order of Operations Trifecta! (1:30)
• Concert of choice: Prince (1:37)
• Who in history would you talk to? (1:45)
• Not quite a UFO story, but not not a UFO story (1:48:30)
• Do birds know that flying is cool? (1:52)
• Matthew almost calls PETA as a child (1:55)
• The Full Count! (1:59)
  • Matthew’s Book Recommendation: Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
  • Matthew’s Music Recommendation: Sawayama
  • Matthew’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Hacks / Catch Me If You Can
  • Matthew’s Food Recommendation: Xi’an cuisine
  • Matthew’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Going for a walk

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Shaggin’ Flies is joined this third week of April 2021 by Dugout Dish founder and Paducah Sun sports reporter Chelsea Ladd (@chelseabrooke), who was kind enough to chat with us about everything from career choices to covid to crying to high school baseball to the minors to the majors to LSU to the Brewers and Mets and Dodgers and Mike Piazza and moonshine and TONS of other stuff you’ll find in the notes below!

• :02 - Chelsea has a new job!
• :03 - Opening thoughts: knowing clicks on the internet is BAD
• :05 – Leaving the medical field and relatable COVID unemployment struggles
• :10 – The weekly Michael Ajeto name drop
• :11 – How dugout dish came to be
• :15 – Crying and being weepy is good
• :17 – Ben cries at **
• :19 – Zach cries at ****** ********
• :22 – Being a full-time sports reporter!
• :25 – What’s great about high school sports
• :32 – The Evansville Otters and the wonderful accessibility of minor and independent league baseball
• :39 – Freshman pitchers doing cool stuff
• :44 – Good outdoors-y stuff to do in Kentucky
• :50 – Chelsea’s laptop almost dies on us but doesn’t
• :51 – Triple Play Baseball 2001 = 🐐
• :53 – Hall of Fame Pitcher Jason Grimsley (and the rest of the Mitchell Report)
• :59 – Do YOU have the Jose Bautista follow on Twitter?
• 1:02 – Why baseball?
• 1:04 – Shoutout to Magglio Ordoñez
• 1:09 – Best baseball parks, minor leagues and otherwise
• 1:13 – The choo choo train of thought goes completely off the railes
• 1:17 – Moonshine!
• 1:22 – The Brewers take a 1-0 lead
• 1:24 – Ben rants at a frozen screen about the Dodgers for roughly 45 seconds, unknowingly
• 1:26 – Order of operations trifecta!
• 1:29 – Two straight weeks with a big emphasis on dental hygiene
• 1:31 – Fascinating people such as Sylvia Plath and Zelda Fitzgerald
• 1:32 – The Bad News Bears aged REALLY badly
• 1:36 – Sky High is a great movie
• 1:43 – Chelsea saw a ghost! Shaggin’ Flies 1, Guests 6
• 1:48 – Babies farting at weddings
• 1:50 – The Full Count!
  • Chelsea’s Book Recommendation: The Betrayal by Charles Fountain
  • Chelsea’s Food Recommendation: Vodka Sauce
  • Chelsea’s Movies/TV Recommendation: The Final Season
  • Chelsea’s Music Recommendation: Joy Division
  • Chelsea’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Sunrises over the Water

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• 1 – Anthony Santander appreciation
• 3 – Shoutout William Henry Harrison
• 7 – Answering emails as a fantasy analyst is different when you have kids
• 9 – Imposter syndrome!
• 11 – Cursed league
• 12 – Tony Kornheiser: JUST DO IT
• 13 – Y’all don’t wanna know what my DMs look like
• 14 – The Story of DJ
• 15 – Ben begins a forty minute mid-podcast game of fetch
• 18 – Yes, Dear was an underrated sitcom
• 19 – The animals run the show here
• 20 – The Joy of college radio
• 25:45 – Echoooo
• 28 – Turn up at Salisbury
• 32:30 – Who’s good at de-escalating? Not police! Also, time to talk music.
• 34:30 – Shoutout Rancid
• 37 – Music as cultural currency, and why the music we listen to when we’re younger sticks with us
• 40 – It’s the cat’s turn to say hi
• 41:45 – An elegy for mixtapes
• 43 – I am child (and as old as Ben’s brother)
• 48 – Being surprised on the radio
• 50 – Late millennials went from limewire to paying Apple $10 a month 😐
• 51:30 – How do we know what jeans are cool in a pandemic when nobody’s outside?
• 52:45 – Ben and DJ are LOVING the Dad fantasy
• 57 – Attempting to send reviews to Pitchfork, getting two thumbs down
• 57:30 – Why baseball?
• 1:02 – Francisco Lindor is batting .313 over his last 3 games
• 1:04:30 – Jarred Kelenic and Mets fan pain
• 1:06 – The Washington Football Team has gotten a weird amount of airtime on this show
• 1:08 – Justin Fields is my president
• 1:11 – Shake Shack at City Field
• 1:13 – Getting kicked out of the Coca Cola Corner at Citi Field for vaping
• 1:16 – DJ Short is now the commissioner of baseball, and has some interesting rule changes
• 1:20 – Zach does a terrible job of explaining an even more poorly conceived extra inning idea
• 1:23 – Ben does magic fingers and gives DJ the impression that we have sound effects
• 1:23:30 – Van Gogh leads to Dad Jokes
• 1:26 – Ben’s kid 1, Ben 0
• 1:27:15 – Order of operations trifecta!
• 1:33 – Most baseball movies suck, especially awkwardly watching Bull Durham with your parents
• 1:37 – Sugar is the only good baseball movie, really.
• 1:41 – Reconsidering how we talk about players, as fans and analysts
• 1:45:45 – Randy and Dennis Quaid are VERY different
• 1:46:30 – We got a ghost story guys!!!!
• 1:49:15 – The most altruistic superpower imaginable (kind of Captain Planet-esque)
• 1:51:45 – Beeker is hilarious and Zach is Beeker
• 1:54:45 – Scandal noted
• 1:56:15 – Writing advice—know when to walk away!
• 2:00:30 – Hey @CraigCalcaterra wanna come on Shaggin’ Flies?
• 2:02 – Note to self: don’t fall in the giant hole while stealing pumpkins
• 2:04 -- The Full Count!
  • DJ’s Book Recommendation: Swing Kings by Jared Diamond
  • DJ’s Food Recommendation: Paulie Gee’s
  • DJ’s Movie Recommendation: The Sounds of Metal/Ozark
  • DJ’s Music Recommendation: A Billion Little Lights by Wild Pink;

Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach

In lieu of a guest this week – and because we need to keep the lights on somehow – we put together some of our favorite deep cuts from the first 22 episodes of Shaggin’ Flies. Some of our highlights include, in roughly chronological order:

-Michael Ajeto calling the cops on himself

-Janice Scurio calls the Cubs flatulent

-Sung Min Kim on Tinder

-Repeatedly being interrupted by live sports

-Scott Chu gets stopped by idiot immigration officials at the Canadian border and then tells us about sign language

-Bradford William Davis reminisces on Queens and canceling Cookie Monster

-DJ Short on culture and dad jokes

-Ghost stories from DJ, Pat Ellington, and Ellen Adair

-Sarah Griffin on getting pulled over as a result of the Mookie Betts trade

-Sara Sanchez brings a funny story in which you can’t laugh

-Ellen Adair on acting

-The long awaited Cereal Supercut

Enjoy!

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Ben and Zach are joined by Michael Ajeto (@dysthymikey), Pitcher List and Lookout Landing contributor and counselor extraordinaire, for a lengthy conversation that begins with 45 minutes of mental health talk (with a content warning regarding suicidal ideation and other symptoms) before meandering everywhere from our own names to the depths of our own brains. Anyway, some other highlights include:

• 0:00 - Our many names
• 0:15 - Growing up in the Pacific Northwest
• 0:25 - On psychology, mental health and Michael's thought-provoking medium post
• 0:40 - Ben notes our lack of a time limit as Michael explains the amygdala
• 1:08 - We finally start talking about baseball
• 1:12 - The 2001 Mariners were super cool
• 1:20 - All thirty of our remaining listeners receive a hearty thank you
• 1:22 - Certain things that are legal in Washington and Illinois...
• 1:25 - ...that might have made Michael call the cops on himself
• 1:40 - Socks before pants, and Zach's apparent difficulty drying his feet
• 1:52 - Michael explains why Friends sucks
• 2:05 - Seeing ghosts!
• 2:12 - Ranking Nirvana albums
• 2:20 - Why Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven is a Kid Cudi favorite

Michael's Music Recommendation

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The title says it all—this week, Ben and Zach are joined by Insider investigations writer and former New York Daily News baseball columnist Bradford William Davis, who took the time to talk about everything from Queens to DC and back. Check out the timestamps for some details, or hints, depending on how you take them:

• 2:30 - Forest Hills, Queens; Tennis and Peter Parker
• 7:15 - Simon and Garfunkel went to high school with Peter Parker
• 8 - Defending the Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire Spider-Mans (1 and 2, at least) from the zoomers
• 11 - Stop the TikTokking!
• 17:15 - Missing comedy in New York City
• 18:30 - Cities are cool!
• 22:15 - There are no skyscrapers in DC!
• 24:45 - Private police forces are evil
• 26:00 - The road from Baruch College to baseball writing
• 33:00 - Getting paid late is indeed a bit of a red flag when it comes to employers
• 35:15 - Bradford on working for HBO and making his way to the Daily News
• 37:45 - Editors are awesome, editors are the best.
• 44:30 - How it can be helpful to not have one's identity wrapped up in their professional career, and going against the grain of major media norms.
• 48:15 - They did indeed Thanos (verb) the New York Daily News
• 51:45 - Shouts to the non-baseball people holding us down as we scream our heads off in this ridiculous industry
• 55 - Why baseball? The chill! And the excitement!
• 1:01:45 - Roger Clemens' competitive fire
• 1:05:30 - Trevor Bauer is neither unathletic nor inspirational
• 1:09:15 - Can anybody confirm that Greg Maddux believes climate change is real?
• 1:14:00 - On individualism and its problems as reflected in sports media
• 1:18:00 - Aaron Judge and Yankees fandom (being dumb sometimes)
• 1:30:00 - Order of Operations Trifecta!
• 1:30:30 - Ben's dog joins the show momentarily
• 1:37:15 - Does seeing people catch the Holy Spirit count as seeing a ghost?
• 1:41:00 - Cookie Cancelled: Cookie Monster Under Fire Following 2013 Tweets
• 1:44:00 - 5Eva, the TV Show
• 1:50 - The Full Count!
  • Bradford's Book Recommendation: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Bradford's Food Recommendation: Birria Tacos (Appearance Number Two//shoutout Janice)!
  • Bradford's Movies/TV Recommendation: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Bradford's Music Recommendation: WILLOW
  • Bradford's Miscellaneous Recommendation: Trader Joes Coffee Ice Cream; Koval Bourbon; MF DOOM

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Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach

Ben and Zach are joined this week by their Pitcher List and South Side Sox Colleague Chrystal O'Keefe (@chrystal_ok) for a delightful and rambling several hours that begins in Indianapolis, Indiana and instantly turns every which way imaginable.

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1 – Opening with Star Wars

7 – SciFis everyone should watch!

10 – Meeting the Firefly cast

14 – What to do in Indy

17 – The Chicago Bulls All Have Covid

21 – Name-a-Pacer

24 – Writing!

25 – Murder?

30 – Writing a kids book

34 – The great hot dog debate part 224

38 – Gino’s East > Lou Malnati’s

41 – Michael Ajeto once again finds himself in reference, this time for the crime of liking Malort

42 – Why baseball?

43 – Other sports don’t have Tim Anderson. Also, family, writing, and Andrew McCutchen!

50 – Stadiums and food!

52 – Go to Pittsburgh and get a pierogi

55 – Churro love

1:03 – Ben messes up the Order of Operations Trifecta

1:06 – Field of Dreams sucks

1:10 – Toothpaste?

1:15 – A conversation with Carrie Fisher if we could

1:17 – A really genuinely unsettling ghost story

1:25 – Relitigating the windshield wiper self consciousness debate

1:29 – The Great Concert Wishlist (Nirvana, Prince, David Bowie)

1:32 – Writing advice: skip the replies

1:40 – Kids are weird and funny

1:45 – The Full Count!

• Chrystal’s Book Recommendation: Breath
• Chrystal’s Food Recommendation: Garlic and Breadsticks
• Chrystal’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Pen15
• Chrystal’s Music Recommendation: The Metallica Collection
• Chrystal’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Take Care Of Your Face

1:55 – Fading out to Miley Cyrus and Wayne Coyne

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1 – Let’s cut the BS y’all, fantasy sports are gambling

2 – Straight into the deep end with ten minutes about gambling, DFS, fantasy sports, and being an analyst

13 – Who Is Justin Mason?

15 – From D.C. to the Army to NorCal!

17 – Mission Accomplished!!1!1!

19 – On addiction and recovery

21 – Disclaimer!

25 – On the importance of being yourself in your writing

26 – Taking over for Eno Sarris, no pressure

27 – What. Is. The. Deal. With. Those. Shirts?

30:30 – When someone approaches you to talk about the Freemasons, it feels like a slippery slope towards anti-Semitic OneWorld conspiracies at the like

35 – The height disparity between Ben and Zach is gonna be weird to gauge when we finally meet IRL

37 – A reminder that Ben is 30 and I am 12

42:30 – If this show has a track, it’s this one

44 – History of TGFBI and Tout Wars

51:30 – Nick Pollack, not unlike Nick Cannon, is spreading his seed far and wide

56 – It makes for GREAT radio/podcasting when Zach freezes in a funny pose

57 – I’m actually way too lazy to edit the whole part out so enjoy the 90 seconds where we try to figure out why there are two Zachs in the studio

1:02 – Why baseball? Do what you’re good at!

1:09 – Balancing fantasy analysis in different sports

1:17 – Michael Carter-Williams?

1:20 – Burnout is real!

1:24 – Paul Sporer is not listening to this podcast

1:30 – We Love Hunter Pence

1:32 – Jeremy Affeldt and weird baseball injuries

1:36 – Favorite stadiums – Oracle is pretty dang nice

1:38 – ENOUGH WITH THE HISTORY MAJORS

1:45 – Justin Mason is Commissioner of Baseball and there are No More Unwritten Rules

1:51 – If it’s a standard from the segregation era, it’s probably not great!

1:58 – Order of Operations trifecta!

2:03:30 – Ben insists on continuing to refer to waterless toothbrushing as “raw dogging it”

2:05 – Justin DEFINITELY saw a ghost

2:10 – Still a dearth of fast food chicken sandwich takes :/

2:15 – RIP Stephen Hillenberg

2:20 – Removing the stigma around profanity

2:21:30 – Justin’s daughter with some truly inventive language

2:29 – The Full Count!

• Justin’s Book Recommendation: The Color of Water by James McBride
• Justin’s Food Recommendation: Sushi
• Justin’s Movies/TV Recommendation: The West Wing
• Justin’s Music Recommendation: Miscellaneous Grunge
• Justin’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Being of service

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1:30 – Zach is weary of society and also on a delay

4 – How are you?

5:30 – We are all just hurtling through space on a tiny rock

8:15 – A pair of life coaches

9 – The podcast has in fact started and we are seven minutes and 30 seconds into it

10:15 – The Ellen Adair story begins in Philadelphia, which is how one becomes a Phillies fan, as few people willingly choose it

12:30 – Ben lobs out possibly the worst borough-related joke ever told

15 – Nepotism, etc

16:30 – Ellen Adair is NOT Ellen Adair’s *full* name

19 – On the day that we recorded this podcast, someone named Ellen Adair died in South Carolina, but not THAT one

21:30 – A story about Kirk Douglas leads to the pronouncement that whiteness is a construct

24:30 – We are all Declan McManus

27 – We would ALL be so lucky as to perform Death of a Salesman in a Bennigans?

27:30 – Why acting? Transformation!

30 – Ben can’t get his Shakespeare plays about English kings straight

32 – Acting, part two: externality and infinity!

35:15 – The Arthur Miller Special

39 – Possibly the first religious turn Shaggin’ Flies has taken

45 – We are all wearing masks and performing, whether it be stage, gender, or interpersonally

51:30 – The difference between stage acting and screen acting

57 – Poetry!

1:00 – Zach is lost and returned

1:05 – Watching the super bowl with Dylan Baker

1:12:15 – Meeting Jim Thome > Meeting Barack Obama

1:13 – Baseball drawings! (ellendrawsbaseball@gmail.com)

1:17 – Why baseball? It is the beauty of renaissance painting combined with the apollonian perfection of Newtonian physics

1:25 – The clarity of the drama

1:29:00 – Favorite Phillies players (Jimmy Rollins love)

1:32 – Ballparks

1:38:30 – Order of Operations Trifecta

1:53 – Baseball movies

2:00 – Ghosts, multiple

2:04 – Making rules about seeing ghosts or not

2:12 – Superpowers

2:15 – The Full Count!

• Ellen’s Book Recommendation: Cloud Atlas (shoutout Ulysses!)
• Ellen’s Food Recommendation: Bún
• Ellen’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Maniac
• Ellen’s Music Recommendation: 4Keus
• Ellen’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Thinking of life in terms of narrative

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In Which Zach Accidentally Deletes The Word Doc With All The Episode Notes

So, Here's A Recording Of Game Four Of The 2005 World Series Instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaAsMEN7qbA

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• 0:00 – I remembered to hit record the first time this week! All the note times are like 45 seconds behind but whatever.
• 1:00 – WashU! Great school!
• 4:00 – A bit of history about Justin’s life
• 7:00 – Seoul is big
• 9:30 – Aspects of the KBO/in defense of singles
• 14:00 – The strikeout/homer debate, part 3579767
• 18:00 – The difference between analyzing hitters and pitchers
• 21:45 – Hitting is like dieting (but on the metric system)
• 24:00 – Corey Seager panned out a lot better than either Matt Wieters or Gordon Beckham
• 27:45 – Shoutout Matt Hobgood
• 31:00 – Following the chain of analytics
• 35:00 – Danny Santana, baby
• 38:15 – Houses of the Holy as Justin's favorite Zeppelin album
• 44:15 – Killer Mike isn’t enough of a communist for Zach
• 49:30 – The Gray Album got Ben into hip-hop
• 52:30 – Can’t Fake The Funk!
• 54:30 – Why baseball?
• 55:00 – Why? Baseball is weird!!!
• 58:00 – More on the KBO and stadiums
• 1:03:30 – Men smashing heads
• 1:07:30 – Ben revisits smoked meat at KBO games
• 1:08:45 – Professional owners lobbied to have no-peddling ordinances passed outside their publicly funded stadiums, forcing local economies to shut down, banning them from public space, and forcing people to buy overpriced food inside the stadium
• 1:10:45 – The weekly Michael Ajeto appearance
• 1:12:30 – On pumping out articles twice a week
• 1:14:15 – Shoutout Adrian Houser
• 1:17:15 – Order of Operations Trifecta
• 1:20:00 – Ben learns Justin’s age and is SHOCKED
• 1:21:00 – Zach and Ben reflect on what they were doing at the life stage where Justin is writing for Fangraphs
• 1:23:30 – Ben chooses violence by relitigating the Chicago hot dog
• 1:25:15 – Competitive skiing (and the potential for fantasy skiing)
• 1:29:00 – Justin needs baseball movie recommendations
• 1:33:45 – Perfect Game
• 1:36:45 – Who discovered music?
• 1:39:15 – We heart unexplained noises!
• 1:40:30 – Budapest or Bangladesh?
• 1:42:30 – Teleportation would be cool
• 1:44:30 – Don’t use a nonstick pan
• 1:45:30 – The Full Count!
• Justin’s Book Recommendation – Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Justin’s Food Recommendation – Kimchi
• Justin’s Movies/TV Recommendation – Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Justin’s Music Recommendation – Voicenotes by Charlie Puth
• Justin’s Miscellaneous Recommendation – Read other people’s work!

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0 – Ben butters em up real good

5:30 – It is very much NOT all love, dammit

6:30 – Imagine seizing a team from a billionaire and putting it under control of the state via eminent domain

7:30 – We get to our tangent about owners sucking even earlier than usual, and the relitigation—literally—of the Rams’ move from St. Louis to LA.

12 – Jerry Jones DEFINITELY has some really nasty stuff in his emails

15:30 – Married life!

20 – The Drew Silva story

30 – We interrupt the Drew Silva story to report that the STUPID RED SOX are going to the ALCS

32 – Somehow we wind up talking about Philistine foreskins again

36 – A question that starts with “As a Drake fan”

44 – Ben’s favorite Drake album is SCORPION????

52:50 – Multiple curses

54 – Best concerts

1:02 – The joy of the two-monitor setup

1:04 – End of ad break?

1:05 – Why Baseball?

The Cardinals!

1:12 – I will **** on Indianapolis until the day I die

1:15 – Ben dodges a bomb threat at work (from someone in a panda onesie) while his parents are concerned with Cal Ripken’s impending divorce.

1:18:30 – Ballpark foods

1:20:30 – ******

1:25 – Phish at Phenway

1:30 – In defense of watery Domestic Lite Beers

1:35 – Is an Opener a Starter?

1:40 – Bring a cricket announcer into baseball

1:41 – Order of Operations Trifecta!

1:51 – A deep and dark revelation from Ben

2:03 – Copying is good!

2:08 – The Full Count! (Recommendations To Be Added Shortly)

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1 – Podcasting and ENDURANCE and performing

3:30 – I’m TIRED

5:15 – Anne Arundel County

7:45 – NO PLUGS

11:15 – TV News is wild

12:30 – Bamboo Bernie’s!

16 – Fascinating Uber rides

19:30 – Maryland seafood, of course

22 – What the hell is the Illinois state flag?

25 – The Dark Side of the Moon

33 – Why baseball?

37 – Don’t ask about the Coors Field popcorn

40 – The Yoán Moncada Defense Segment

42 – Tiger Stadium and Robert Fick

49 – In praise of Scary Movie 3

52 – The Order of Operations Trifecta!

55 – Ben has a fixation

1:00 – Pick your ear

1:01 – Tesla is cool, Elon is not

1:07 – Would you fly if it took the same energy as running?

1:14 – The Full Count!

• Michael’s Book Recommendation: Game of Shadows
• Michael’s Food Recommendation: Red Curry Pad Thai
• Michael’s Movie Recommendation: Narc
• Michael’s Music Recommendation: Things Are Great by Band of Horses
• Michael’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Cymbal Cases

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Shaggin' Flies:

1 – Barbie!

3 – From Madison to the Bay

4:30 – Boo Daylight Savings

6:30 – DVR is Of Earth

11 – Witnessing the rise of fantasy live from RotoWire

14 – What If We Kissed In The Combination ESPN Zone/Hard Rock Café

19 – The different vibes of fantasy and gambling

22 – Tales from Sam’s Club

27 – Reflections on Oracular Spectacular

31 – Why baseball? Accessability!

38 – Ballparks!

41 – In support of Ballpark Nachos

44 – The Homer Bailey no-no

46 – Order of Operations Trifecta

52 – Chalk up a W for the Sandlot Enjoyers

54 – Devin Harris shoutout

57 – Ben Palmer, Raccoon Murderer

1:00 – Roy Kent would NEVER

1:02 – The Full Count!

• Derek’s Book Recommendation: Answers in the Form of Questions
• Derek’s Food Recommendation: Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Tacos
• Derek’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Schitt’s Creek/Tommy Boy/Jiro Dreams of Sushi/Bojack Horseman
• Derek’s Music Recommendation: Little Neon Limelight by Houndmouth
• Derek’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Go on vacation somewhere cool

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This lovely spring week of April 15th, Shaggin' Flies is joined from Seoul, South Korea by Sung Min Kim, brilliant baseball mind, former Lotte Giants front office member, and journalist whose work has appeared at Deadspin, The Washington Post, FanGraphs, and The Athletic for a two-and-a-half hour journey meandering from life in Korea and the United States, the (sometimes) guilty pleasure of intoxicated McDonalds, his forthcoming MS in Sports Business, and of course, his body of work across American and Korean baseball. Enjoy!

• 0:03 - Glee watch parties
• 0:05 - In defense of the Squier guitar
• 0:08 - American school lunch
• 0:10 - US portion sizes; getting in trouble at Chipotle
• 0:13 - Baseball in and around Seoul, South Korea
• 0:18 - Tales from the University of Maryland, College Park, heavily featuring but not limited to Ratsie's Pizza and the McDonalds across from the UV apartments
• 0:23 - Craving fish filets
• 0:28 - Shaggin' Flies does not condone Breaking & Entering (but make it cool if you do)
• 0:33 - Permission to curse, but not at Chicagoland high school basketball legend Jon Scheyer
• 0:36 - It should be acceptable for players to call fans down from the stands and challenge them to fight if they talk too much ****
• 0:41 - Cromulent, my favorite word
• 0:45 - Making the most of the good ol' Journalism degree
• 0:50 - Pitching mechanics geek-out, featuring Paul Nyman and Ben Brewster
• 0:53 - RIP Deadspin
• 0:55 - American influence on KBO organizations
• 1:00 - The unveiling of spin rate 🤯
• 1:02 - MLB as opera, KBO as rock concert (take that as you will)
• 1:04 - Joey Votto hits a TANK live on air
• 1:11 - Identifying American players to bring to the KBO
• 1:16 - Weekly howling cat appearance
• 1:17 - Yo, Adrian
• 1:19 - The Big Question: Why Baseball???
• 1:26 - On Mark Teixeira and Regional Pain
• 1:31 - Boog's BBQ (delicious) and OLD BAY IN BEER YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT NO IT WAS NOT MY IDEA (-zach)
• 1:36 - The Order of Operations Trifecta!
• 1:42 - Definitely don't underrate dental hygiene
• 1:44 - The Washington Football Squadron
• 1:47 - Hines Ward is cool
• 1:58 - Sung Min can't explain how he got a prom date
• 2:01 - A healthy weight loss journey
• 2:05 - Freedom, baby
• 2:06 - Thankfulness for societies with the tiniest shred of collective compassion
• 2:11 - The Full Count!
  • Sung Min's Book Recommendation: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • Sung Min's Movies/TV Recommendations: Love Letter (1995); That Chapter
  • Sung Min's Music Recommendation: Mr. Twin Sister
  • Sung Min's Food Recommendation: Five Guys
  • Sung Min's Miscellaneous Recommendation: Tinder (but not necessarily for dating!)
• 2:27 - And, finally, why hair metal killed the music video

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2:45 – Plugs and gassing up

4:15 – The history of Locked On Orioles

6 – In Praise of the Google Form

7:30 – Making it through the pandemic with the 2012 MLB playoffs

12:15 – Love to Odrisamer Despaigne

15:15 – College and minor league broadcasting is pretty cool!

17 – Ode to the Bowie Baysox

21 – How times have changed since Matt Wieters

25:15 – Trying thing in college is cool

29 – You gotta remember your best calls

31 – In appreciation of radio broadcasting

35:15 – I Am Once Again Asking Announcers To Make A Little Bit Of Effort To Learn How To Pronounce Names

37 – Oh, Ed Farmer

39:30 – Slander for Scott Garceau and FP Santangelo

44 – Shoutout Don Orsillo

48:15 – We Love Gus Johnson

50 – The Great Joe Buck Debate

55:30 – Ben imitates Tim McCarver reading Metallica lyrics

58:30 – Why Baseball?

59 – It’s relaxing! You get down time!

1:06 – Shoutout Erik Bedard and Adam Jones

1:08:30 – Oriole legend Steve Pearce

1:12:15 – Twelve minutes of Chris Davis

1:24 – Thoughts on the rebuild?

1:27 – Brady Anderson?

1:33 – Yeah, the Yankees aren’t running out Travis Hafner and Vernon Wells anymore

1:37:15 – We all run into Jim Thome in an elevator sometimes

1:41 – College baseball is dope (and Silver makes her weekly appearance)

1:44 – Comerica Park has a merry-go-round on the concourse

1:45 – Order of Operations Trifecta!

1:49 – We need a Ben’s Wife Reaction Cam

1:56 – Zach the horribly sad conflation between Fab Melo and Melo Trimble

1:57 – Zach goes Back to Back and pronounces GIF like JIFF and it’s so bad I had to censor it

1:57:30 – As per usual, Moneyball is good, also as per usual, the Sandlot is overrated

2:01 – What would it be like to actually have an off-the-record, one-on-one with Chris Davis?

2:03 – The Full Count!

• Connor’s Book Recommendation: The MVP Machine
• Connor’s Food Recommendation: Grab & Go Taco
• Connor’s Music Recommendation: Superstore
• Connor’s Music/TV Recommendation: Culture III
• Connor’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Watching the night sky at Cherry Spring State Park

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Enjoy episode 18 of Shaggin' Flies, featuring Sarah Griffin (@skg_18), whose work you can find here, as we cover an uncountable number of completely inane topics, including:

1:15 – Ben begins the pod with a handy lesson on figuring out how to deal with delays

2:00 – Silver the 20-year old calico cat sets a new record for podcast interruption

3:20 – Why have we non-Massholes probably heard of Watertown, MA? 😳

5:30 – Ben just now learns that Zach lived in Providence until last October; Sarah indulges Zach’s weird fascination with New England culture and explains the difference between all of the states

8:45 – A super awkward and sudden segue into writing careers

9:15 – The story of how all three of us accidentally stumbled into history degrees

10:15 – Ben’s college advisor was NOT doing their job

12:00 – Student teaching in a nutshell: “are you new?”

15:00 – AP Style vs. Marxist theory in Communications programs

17:00 – Boomer Red Sox fans are a notoriously welcoming group of fans

21:00 – Zach’s camera takes offense to John Means

22:00 – Why hockey is cool

26:00 – The truths and untruths in Massachusetts stereotypes

29:00 – The legend of Traffic Jam Jimmy

30:30 – Boston drivers are indeed a MENACE

32:30 – Weekly reminder that I Am Baby

34:00 – Is it normal to care about other peoples’ windshield wipers?

35:15 – We interrupt this program to talk about Zach’s tire flying off on the highway the other day

39:00 – Service industry horror stories

42:00 – Ma’am, this is, in fact, a Chili’s

47:00 – US Labor law is something, isn’t it.

48:00 – Why baseball? It’s something you grow up with!

51:15 – Championship parades really are the best

54:00 – The AL East Grievance Hour

1:00:30 – Is Maryland the South???

1:05:30 – Wisconsin does not get enough credit for their absolutely batshit drinking culture

1:09:00 – We made the questionable decision to record during Game Six of the NBA Finals

1:10:15 – Rebranding as GiannisList

1:11:00 – Breaking the news of the Mookie Betts trade to the state trooper that pulled Sarah over

1:14:00 – Which is a better story than getting pulled over on the Ohio Turnpike while listening to Mrs. Officer

1:15:45 – Miller Park > Camden Yards #MidwestSupremacy

1:17:15 – The Great Crab Dip Waffle Fries vs. Chicago Hot Dog Debate Part 18

1:19:45 – Guinness Blonde is made in Baltimore?

1:20:45 – We don’t do plugs, but we do give shoutouts to 18th century colonizers

1:21:15 – Order of Operations trifecta!

1:26:00 – Sandlot slander, etc

1:29:00 – Is it bad or is it funny?

1:32:00 – What’s the real story of the One Direction breakup?

1:33:00 – There is a zero percent chance the oldest house on Cape Cod is NOT haunted

1:36:00 – The difference between Muppets and Sesame Street

1:39:00 – On chicken sandwiches and other important topics

1:40:30 – We ALL used to be geeks about the Presidents

1:44:00 – Presidential fun fact bonanza

1:45:30 – Everyone in Watertown knows Whitey Bulger

1:47:30 – Equal amounts of excitement for the Bucks winning an NBA championship and the White Sox completing an eighth inning comeback against the Twins

1:49:00 – Self-editing is hard but important!

1:53:00 – Wedding crashers by way of playing the children’s game Manhunt

1:55:00 – The Full Count!

• Sarah’s Book Recommendation: Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride T

Senior Fantasy Writer for The Athletic Jake Ciely (@allinkid) joins Ben and Zach LIVE at PitchCon 2021 to cover serious and urgent topics including DuckTales (original and reboot), Jack Bauer, having it out for Evan Engram, working at a deli, getting cold called by Tony Kornheiser, and most importantly, a lengthy defense of the practice of putting milk in the bowl BEFORE cereals.

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CBS Sports and CBS Fantasy analyst Chris Paul Towers (@CTowersCBS) joins Ben and Zach for a long and winding road of a discussion that includes pop funkos, living in South Florida, being in the Miami Herald print room during Osama bin Laden's capture, covering Isiah Thomas's ill-fated coaching run at FIU, why Paul McCartney and London Calling reign supreme, and finally, in a direct rebuke of Episode 1 guest Alex Fast, why Flea is an overrated bassist. Enjoy!

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1 – On a floor 😯

2 – Hawaii!

5 – To Fear The Water While Living On An Island

7 – Naming some guys: Erick Aybar; Gary DiSarcina; Darin Erstad; Tim Salmon

10 – Alex Chamberlain, Math Guy

19 – Mark Buehrle love, always worth noting

24 – Zach is a child

26 – Chad Moeller? Yankees backup catcher Chad Moeller?

29 – Taking AP Chem remains one of my biggest regrets

32 – Jim Edmonds inspiring kids to practice diving catches

34 – Freddie Freeman is the second most famous baseball-related alumnus of Alex’s high school

37 – Chris Davis is the modern day Bobby Bonilla

39 – In favor of ballpark food out of a helmet

43 – Mike Trout robs a Grand Slam, and Alex Chamberlain becomes a national hero

47 – Rob Manfred makes $11 million?!?!?

52 – In favor of bullpen carts

55 – The Order of Operations Trifecta! (PEMDAS)

1:00 – No ghosts, but disembodied heads are scary

1:03 – Alex’s daughter escapes

1:06 – The Full Count!

• Alex’s Book Recommendation: Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael-Bob Waksberg
• Alex’s Food Recommendation: Japanese Cuisine
• Alex’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Forgetting Sarah Marshall/MacGruber/Bob’s Burgers
• Alex’s Music Recommendation: The Wonder Years
• Alex’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Slovenia

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Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach

Zach is joined for a special solo session with Howard Megdal (@howardmegdal) of Baseball Prospectus, The IX, and the Next for a lovely ninety-minute conversation about women's sports, Bard College, the Mets, New Jersey, and plenty more baseball.

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3 – Working in politics, but then not

5 – Mouse!

7 – The Next and The IX

10 – A nearly half-hour tangent about the wonderfulness of women’s sports and the criminality of their underfunding

31 – Name and Image Likeness

33 – Loving sports at Bard College

35 – Sending angry emails to KenPom

37:30 – Leon Botstein does have a Wikipedia

40:30 – Campaigning the backup center for D3 player of the year

42 – Why baseball?

47 – Basketball is a shot, baseball is an IV

49 – The Baseball Talmud!

52 – Coolest games ever: 2015 World Series, David Cone, and Johan Santana

58 – Alex Bregman and flawed replay

1:02 – Analytics talk

1:06 – Cat!

1:07 – The enemy is certainty

1:09 – Order of Operations trifecta!

1:14 – The consistency of toothpaste as it hits the teeth

1:15 – A conversation with Abraham

1:17 – No ghosts, but Justin Turner is unexplained

1:20 – The Full Count

• Howard’s Book Recommendation: Katherine Heiny
• Howard’s Food Recommendation: South Jersey Pretzel
• Howard’s Movies/TV Recommendation: The Third Man
• Howard’s Music Recommendation: Bria Skonberg; Veronica Swift; Emmet Cohen; Good Jazz and Good Food (in general)
• Howard’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Flannel pants

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This week, Ben and Zach are joined by the one and only Shelly Verougstraete (ShellyV_643) of Pitcher List, Dynasty Guru, and Over the Monster for big ol' conversation that starts with the silent letters in her last name and winds up at the show's second reference to Churro Cinnamon Toast Crunch, with a few asides about Fenway, ghost hunting, the joy of prospecting, and the occupationally-inspired names of small towns in Virginia ending in -ville. Enjoy!

• 0:01 - The heartbreak of being an Orioles fan, part 823
• 0:03 - Mechanicsville, Virginia
• 0:06 - Political yard signs and their theft
• 0:08 - Ben sees a ghost live on air
• 0:10 - Trivia completely unrelated to this podcast (but relating to Lil Nas X)
• 0:14 - Shelly teaches Ben to pronounce her last name, and Ben explains the structure of the Belgian government
• 0:19 - Farmville, Virginia (and all the other villes)
• 0:26 - Life as a CPA (or not)
• 0:32 - The joy of baked goods and Zach's howling cat
• 0:35 - Making peanut butter cookies with ketchup?
• 0:42 - Shelly y sus dos perros, y porqué sus nombres son Orsillo y Soto
• 0:48 - Pedro Martinez and Red Sox Fandom
• 0:56 - Why baseball!? (Feat. howling cat appearance number two)
• 1:00 - "Who do you think you are? I am!" -Pete Weber
• 1:10 - On the joy of prospects, writing about prospects, being knowledgeable about prospects, and getting to see as much baseball as possible
• 1:15 - Zach learns about the Orlando Arcia trade
• 1:20 - Dr. Sticks tears up the minors
• 1:23 - Order of Operations Trifecta!
• 1:26 - Cereal milk and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cake (no shrimp involved)
• 1:32 - Ben and Shelly mercilessly slander The Sandlot for potentially very valid reasons
• 1:40 - The abominations known as the sequels to Major League
• 1:42 - Skydiving Elvises
• 1:45 - Ghost hunting as the sober friend
• 1:50 - The virtues of a good "that's what she said" joke
• 1:52 - The Full Count!
  • Shelly's Book Recommendation: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
  • Shelly's Movies/TV Recommendations: The Great British Baking Show/Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Shelly's Music Recommendation: Fantasies by Metric
  • Shelly's Food Recommendation: Noodle Man (location: Virginia Beach)
  • Shelly's Miscellaneous Recommendation: Baking!
• 2:02 - As is customary, all seven of our listeners are thanked :) we appreciate y'all!

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Ben and Zach are fortunate enough to be joined this week by Sean Anderson, former producer at Chicagoland radio station 670 The Score and current host of the Locked On White Sox Podcast, to talk about a million different things that can't possible be condensed into a single paragraph but include, among many other things: hot dogs, Esteban Loaiza, Captain Crunch Berries, why Field of Dreams sucks, and being told at a young age that, plot twist: you're not gonna be a pro sportball player.

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1:30 - Paul Pierce and Derrick Rose buzzer beater bank shots in the 2015 Eastern Conference Playoffs

3:45 – Pink mics

6:15 – A cat or a squirrel?

9:30 – Being told at age six that you’re not gonna make it as a sportball player: the Sean Anderson origin story

14 – Dane Dunning love

19:15 – The best New Yorker in North Carolina

21:30 – College radio

23:15 – Get Back reviews and Paul McCartney’s granny music

29 – Ranking Springsteen

35:30 – Christmas Shoes?

38:30 – Why baseball? Leaving it alone.

43 – Sammy Sosa, Chicago White Sox outfielder

45 – Esteban Loaiza’s windup

46:30 – Hot dog and other essential ballpark foods

53 – Commissioner for a Day

1:01:30 – Order of Operations trifecta!

1:07 – The utterly pathetic Chicago Blackhawks organization

1:15 – A long rumination on baseball movies, the Sandlot, Major League, and Field of Dreams

1:28 – Jesus Christ resurrected outside the 670 The Score studios

1:37 – Ghosts, or lack thereof?

1:42 – The Full Count!

• Sean’s Book Recommendation: Joe Posnanski’s Top 100 Players
• Sean’s Food Recommendation: Mac n’ Cheese
• Sean’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Die Hard/Deadliest Catch
• Sean’s Music Recommendation: Faye Webster
• Sean’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Madden

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VP of Pitcher List and MLB Associate Producer Alex Fast (@AlexFast8) joins Ben and Zach to discuss his acting career and filmography, life in Columbia, Maryland, finding inspiration in Samuel Beckett and Stanley Kubrick, his favorite bassists, worst stage experiences, Saturday Night Live, and plenty of baseball, including his favorite pitchers past and present, the best parts of Camden Yards, the Curse of the Andino™, how he found Pitcher List, and of course, why baseball.

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