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This week, for our second offseason episode, the thing Jordan and Nick love about baseball is basketball! Because being a baseball fan this offseason was rather depressing, and mostly Jordan and Nick prefer to enjoy basketball rather than behold the objective awfulness of Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball.Fun fact though, we recorded the afternoon of Tuesday the 4th, and on Tuesday evening they announced the Brusdar Graterol trade - aka the Mookie Betts trade if you're pedestrian like that. Which isn't much less depressing but is more fun? If that makes sense. So they recorded a lil' supplement on Thursday the 6th.We also talk about the Florence Y'all's, Derek Jeter, and the big story with Minor League baseball which is definitely not just dogs.Our non-baseball things wereThanks as always to the great @drawawalk for our artwork.Stuff we talked about:Video of Mike Clevinger getting a tattoo (???) and explaining why the Astros suck buttsSheryl Ring's story about Alex Verdugo's uninvestigated involvement in a sexual assaultWhere you can buy silipint glasses from Duluth Trading Company (Nick's non-baseball thing)A bunch of stuff related to the great thriller writer Megan Abbott (Jordan's non-baseball thing)- Dare Me on USA Network - based on Abbott's book; she's a writer for the show too- You Will Know Me, the book Jordan read that was so good he couldn't read it at night because he would just not sleep and read all nightWhere you can watch the steroid documentary Screwball on Netflix (tbh I can't remember if we talked about this, but we talked about it before we started recording and it's great and you should watch it)Links:Leadoff Grand Slam on TwitterLeadoff Grand Slam on Apple PodcastsLeadoff Grand Slam's Website(Recorded 2/4/20 and 2/6/20)Screwball