Podcast Episodes

Infinite Inning Reissue 26 (039): Trumpian Baseball Math

In this week’s new commentary, we wonder how major league strikeout leader James Wood can reduce his strikeouts by 600 percent in 2026. Then we retur…

2 months, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning 355: Several Tragic People Named McGann, Some In Baseball, Some Not

Pete Alonso’s exit from New York triggers an exploration of an earlier first baseman who was not only dispensable, but mocked for the very fact of hi…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 25 (077): The Death of Addie Joss Explained and Old-Time Cheating Too

Infinite Inning Reissue 025 (077) The Death of Addie Joss Explained and Old-Time Cheating Too In this week’s new segment, we talk about some fringe m…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 354: A Pitcher Named Bumpus And Other Upbeat Tales Of Baseball

Episode 354

We return from the IL with Casey Stengel’s endorsement of the designated hitter, and of astronauts too, then springboard from the recent Red Sox-Pira…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 353: The Catcher Who Loved Me

Episode 353

A pitcher throws a great game in the World Series and is congratulated by a backstop unknown to him, but once he was known to the game. Then we trave…

3 months, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 24 (106): Got Those Girl Don’t Want You Team Signed Charlie Hayes Blues

In this week’s new material, we compare a team signing a low-OBP player to the girl you were crushing on choosing the only suitor you would have had …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 352: Why Are There Bad People When There is Also Good Baseball

Episode 352

We look at an ordinary day of baseball, May 8, 1949, and some extraordinary—and tragic—things that happened. First, a couple of good pitchers get she…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 23 (021): Live! Home Run! Baseball!

In the new commentary segment of this week’s reissue episode, we talk about childhood fears of the end times, the degraded state of Times Square in t…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 351: The World Series and the Surplus of Piggies

Episode 351

We spend the episode in 1933. First, Will Rogers comments on the broadcasts in a way which suggests that not much has changed between the start of on…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 22 (047): Home Run Hitting in Major League is Becoming Farce

A slightly discursive rainy-day episode in which we question the unlikely players who have hit three home runs in a game and ask if the Rockies-Pirat…

4 months ago