Episode Details

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mike Trout’s latest season-ending injury, the Orioles’ latest top-prospect promotion, and a tweak to the postseason schedule, and answer listener emails (24:20) about ex-player umpires, eavesdropping on pitchers’ thoughts between pitches, whether and how they’d reintroduce baseball to a world without it, awarding belts or trophies for team rivalries, the viability of a pitcher who can’t field, how a player could win MVP in both leagues in the same season, how MLB would work if it were Patreon-supported, how international soccer’s transfer system would apply to MLB, and referring to a type of player by saying “a [player name]”, plus (1:29:48) a few follow-ups.

Audio intro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Kite Person, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Jim Downey meme
Link to The Athletic on Trout
Link to MLB.com on Trout
Link to Trout’s tweet
Link to SuperPretzel EW episode
Link to EW Trout hypotheticals
Link to MLBTR on Mayo
Link to postseason schedule
Link to ex-player umps
Link to Scully movie clip
Link to mic’d up Manoah
Link to Ben on Yesterday
Link to Vedder Cup article
Link to Mayor’s Trophy wiki
Link to Babe Ruth Award wiki
Link to Gary’s Old Towne Tavern

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