Podcast Episodes

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-air baseball commentary and its current state. Th…

Published on 1 month, 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-Pirates season series was really necessary before exami…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 350: Overlooked Baseball - The Greater Bullet and the Lesser Babe

First we make amends to a great of the game who was not only left out of last week’s Shohei Ohtani-Babe Ruth approbation, but was poorly served by baseball (and Baseball). Then we jump from the bizar…

Published on 2 months ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 21 (093): Baseball and the Unlimited National Emergency

In both this week’s new remarks and our reissue, we go back to pre-Pearl Harbor 1941 and the days when Joe DiMaggio was, day by day, counting up hits and the president, without the medium of televisi…

Published on 2 months ago

Infinite Inning 349: The Very Complicated Bat Factory

We observe the passing of the Milwaukee Brewers out of the championship picture via Casey Stengel (who once managed the minor league Brewers to a championship) mourning a day Whitey Ford was outduele…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 20 (072): An Injured Pitcher, an Injured Country, and a Hurricane

In this week’s new remarks, we observe how quaint the racial dialogue of 2018 was (or at least your host’s was) in light of what was coming down the line for the nation. After a brief discussion of p…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Infinite Inning 348: The 1925 World Series Without Tears

We note the passing of Mike Greenwell and an odd time to be an injured player with the Red Sox, and observe the cruel turns fate can take. Continuing on that theme, we go back to the 1925 World Serie…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 18 (067): Ballplayers and Pastries Above Replacement-Level

In both this week’s new remarks and in the reissue segment we revisit our obligation to think critically and how the concept of WAR can help us frame the abstract concepts of “better” and “worse,” an…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Infinite Inning 347: Spahn, Bringer of Screwballs; Mars, Bringer of War

Episode 347

We begin by fixing the Rockies with the 1987 Cardinals, stopping off at the intersection of George Steinbrenner gaslighting and (one more time) my Chuck Knoblauch Story. Then we journey back to World…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Infinite Inning Reissue 18 (007): Lou Gehrig and Austin McHenry Haunt the ACA

We revisit an early episode about two great ballplayers who sickened at midcareer and, sadly, could not come back in any sense. What can we learn from them? This week’s new remarks expand on that the…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago