Society & Culture
This week, the thing Nick, Jordan, and Bill love about baseball is second half stars! This is a serious one, y'all! We talk a lot about Felipe Vazquez, Domingo German, and Joe Torre sputtering moronic, incoherent banalities about why MLB wouldn't let the Mets honor 9/11 first responders - banalities that turn out, we decide, to be cynical in a deeply depressing way.Eventually we climb our way out of the darkness and have some fun: Amir Garrett sprinting away from Kyle Schwarber - our Beef of the Week - the end of September roster expansion, and Ronald Acuña approaching the 40-40 club - not the Jay-Z one. But we're not going to pretend all this bad stuff didn't happen. So it's a serious show!Our other baseball podcast is The Lead from The Athletic and Wondery! (Because it's a co-production, it's the rare Athletic podcast that is not behind a paywall.) It's a general sports podcast hosted by Anders Kelto and Kavitha A. Davidson, who Nick went to high school with! It's a great show, so please subscribe and if you like the show, PLEASE give them five stars, because butthurt white guys are review bombing it and we just can't have that. Subscribe and follow Kavitha and Anders on Twitter!Thanks as always to the great @drawawalk for our artwork.Stuff we talked about:Agadmator covers the FIDE Chess World Cup (Bill's non-baseball thing)Kendrys Morales injures himself leaping onto home plateA writeup of Jordan's sketch show Goddamn, Mitt in the Columbia Chronicle from 2012 holy crap he cannot believe he found thisThe website for Jay-Z's 40-40 ClubLinks:Leadoff Grand Slam on TwitterLeadoff Grand Slam on Apple PodcastsLeadoff Grand Slam's Website(Recorded 9/20/19)