Dec 30, 2021
Is this heaven? No. It's a podcast. In this episode, Tom and Josh discuss the classic 1989 film Field of Dreams. We talk Iowa, Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones' comedic chemistry, boomer hippie stuff, the choice to cast Ray Liotta as a left-handed southerner, daddy issues, and dead baseball players. Really...
Dec 19, 2021
Josh and Tom fire up the WhatIf Sports simulator again as a follow-up to our episode on integration. We draft teams of players that wouldn't be in MLB if it weren't for integration and put match-up in another best-of-seven series. See who gets drafted first in center: Willie Mays or Ken Griffey Jr.; at second Joe...
Dec 8, 2021
We discuss the 2021 World Series briefly before Josh tells Tom about the 1919 Chicago White Sox... a team notorious for eight of its players taking money from gamblers to throw the world series. Their story was kept alive by the movie Eight Men Out and star leftfielder Shoeless Joe Jackson was further immortalized in...
Dec 1, 2021
While Jackie Robinson is rightfully remembered as a groundbreaker, MLB integration is a story that spans almost a century, involving Moses Fleetwood Walker, Kennesaw Mountain Landis, a gentleman's agreement, and the players who integrated every single MLB franchise of the era. Josh takes Tom through one of the most...