Derek Holland Blasts Giants Management, Says Team Had Him Fake An Injury

Follow Up

We have received the following bingo square suggestions from an unknown listener:

1. Walk off home run
2. Double steal
3. Ground rule double
4. Suicide squeeze
5. Balk
6. Runner interference
7. Infield fly rule
8. Sacrifice fly

Some other ones we came up with during the show:

• You hear "popcorn" on the broadcast
• Someone doesnt catch the ball in foul ground
• Bat boy
• Player on first talks to the first baseman
• Game with fans on the field
• Organ music
• PA screwups

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Weird Baseball Things

A Bad Throw To First Forced Niko Goodrum To Send A Flying Knee Into Marwin Gonzalez's Face

Edwin Jackson set to play for record 14th team

The Irregular Outfields of Baseball | The DataFace

Madison Bumgarner And Yasiel Puig Are Making Their Long-Distance Hatred For One Another Still WorkFiled to: Beef.

Minor League Team of the Week

There's a jingle this time! Thanks haroldina.

This week's team is the Augusta GreenJackets, sent in by @theTiger. They're named for something related to a golf tournament. Go figure.

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Weird Baseball Things

How to Break a Slump

Giants score in first inning for 1st time this year

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BEES

Bees Invade Giants-Reds Game

FOX Sports Ohio on Twitter: "DIETRICH TO THE RESCUE!… "

Cincinnati Reds on Twitter: "Derek Beetrich. 🐝… "

More Weird Baseball Things

Minor League Baseball's Copa de la Diversión Hats, Ranked

NPR on Twitter: "1/ At ballparks these days, a hot dog is no longer just a hot dog. A sub is no longer just a sub. Meet the bulgogi hoagie, a concoction found at Nationals Park that’s piled high with Korean BBQ beef, caramelized onions and “kimcheese wiz."

MLB Food Fest

Kyle discusses his experience at MLB Food Fest, and the age old question of "Is a hot dog a sandwich?" is debated.

Food Fest Game

Kyle challenges Andrew to guess which baseball team is responsible for each "food item" he had at the MLB Food Fest.

Minor League Team of the Week

This week's Minor League Team of the Week is the Louisville Batsthe Derby City Mint Juleps. At least until we review the replay and decide to disqualify them in favor of the second-place finisher.

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(K)hris Davis

Cut4 Pitcher Pinch Hitting

Send Coffee

"The greatest double play ever"

Stealing Bases

This week's topic is stealing bases and the complicated rules and strategies around stealing a base. Thank you to OliveSoop for the suggestion.

We talk about signs, leading off, stealing first, stealing home, tagging out, picking off, a pickle,

Minor League Team of the Week

The Team of the Week this week is the Cedar Rapids Kernels. Because corn, you see?

Behold Mr. Shucks, the mascot:

😛

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Follow Up

Chris Davis ends futility streak, turning mock cheers into Red Sox pain

“That’s a long time without getting a hit,” he said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do with it, but obviously something special.”

Davis broke into a smile when his bases-loaded, two-run single in the first inning broke the drought.

“It meant a lot to me,” he said.

He tried to make the most of his terrible stretch.

“I said it a couple of weeks ago: ‘You have to embrace it at some point,'” he said.

Davis walked to the plate in the first to what mostly appeared to be mock cheers when he was announced. But many of those quickly changed when he hit a liner over the head of second baseman Dustin Pedroia, ending the longest hitless streak ever by a position player.

Weird Baseball Things

J.A. Happ tried to be like Bartolo Colon on this play, but he's not him and nobody is

The rarest thing in baseball just happened

Pitcher pulls off a move straight out of the 'Matrix' to avoid line drive

Pitcher Yu Darvish hits three people with one magnificent throw

A new study of MLB pitch calls makes a strong case for robotic umpires

Minor League Team of the Week

This week's team is the Las Vegas Aviators. Kyle went and watched one of their games in their brand new stadium! Jackie Robinson Day! Free parking!

Finn the Bat Dog

Finn, the Las Vegas Aviators' bat dog, was trying to do his job but the home-plate umpire had other plans

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Topics

• Davis now 0-for-44, closing in on futility mark
  • UPDATE: He has since surpassed the futility mark, but then got a hit.
• Baseball Fights
  • Real or not? Despite Puig's fire, Reds are already toast
  • Yasiel Puig tried to fight the entire Pirates team during a bench-clearing brawl
  • Yarr, we be the Pirates of Pittsburgh.

Minor League Team of the Week

This week's team is the Lehigh Valley IronPigs of Allentown, Pennsylvania. World-renowed steel.

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Followup

Opening Day happened, and baseball that counts feels waydifferent from Spring Training. Revenues are up! Lots of inside baseball talk.

Opening Day Twitch

Opening Day Baseball!

Letterboxd Score

Twitter has determined that we will be watching The Sandlot (1993) as the first movie. We'll be watching it... sometime. Also, James Earl Jones was in Click. Also, there were three Sandlot films. We're definitely only gonna watch the first one. You're welcome for that knowledge.

Ballpark Food and Baseball Snacks

Trader Joe's White Cheddar Corn Puffs

Where to Eat at Comerica Park, Home of the Detroit Tigers

Beyond Burger

Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’

#BunsShouldBeUtensils

Please do not unnecessarily combine foods.

Morning Show on Goodstuff.fm

How Much Longer Will Baseball Stadiums Be For Baseball Fans?

Good Beer Hunting podcast episode

Minor League Team of the Week

The team of the week this week is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarillo_Sod_Poodles.

Amarillo, Texas

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We start by, uh, listening to some baseball (Reds vs. Braves). We describe what's happening. We also spend a not insignificant period of time discussing the safety equipment that baseball players (baseballmen?) wear.

Also discussed: pine tar, RBIs, double switches.

Bacon-Wrapped Pizza

We Did an Opening Day Stream

And you missed it. But you can watch it here.

We talk about what we did (or didn't) do to prepare.

Minor League Team of the Week

This week's team of the week is the Louisville Bats.

That's the LuhvullBats.

(Yes, Andrew called it the Major League Team of the Week. And Kyle called bats birds. We regret the errors.)

Buddy Bat battles Darth Vader

Buddy Bat's twitter

#GetBuddyTo750

Then we have an idea for a video game where you play as a mascot. Mascot Simulator 2019. Get in touch if you want to license this idea.

Jar Jar

A Very Muscular Horse

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