May 31, 2021
It's time for our second fantasy draft. This time we're talking the longball. We reminisce about our personal favorite longballs before each drafting a team of sluggers -- with the caveat that we can only draft one player from a given decade. We clearly overthought it and didn't draft Hank Aaron. Tom flubbed a draft...
May 24, 2021
Part two of our examination of Satchel Paige. We cover his career in Latin America, his time with the Kansas City Monarchs, and how he finally broke into the majors at the age of 42, his final major league game at the ripe 'ol age at 59, and some of the absurd stats he assembled over the course of thousands of...
May 24, 2021
We cover the nearly mythical legend of Satchel Paige this week. But Paige was very real, and thanks to the work of actual historians, we have the chance to discuss Satchel's early career, the Pittsburgh Crawfords, his legendary barnstorming, as well as how he was received by the 1940's version of Skip Bayless, Ted...
May 17, 2021
Tom and Josh talk the 1989 comedy classic Major League. We discuss the movie, look at the real life parallels of the characters in the movie, ask whether the movie would still be about Cleveland if it were made today (yes, yes it would), nitpick the movie a bit, more than nitpick the romantic subplot, and make fun of...
May 10, 2021
Josh tells Tom about the most storied franchise in American sports greatest failure: the New York Yankees' 1990 season. Not only were the Yankees losers in 1990, they had traded most of their cornerstone players, Donny Baseball was injured, lost a game where their pitcher didn't surrender a hit and their owner...