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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 Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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 Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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. ------------ 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 Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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! Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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.  --- 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 Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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.  --- 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 Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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 Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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! Subscribe: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | RSS | 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 Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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) Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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! ([email protected]) 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 Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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!+ Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

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! Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus