Podcast: Blame it on the rain

So far we’ve actually stuck to our quasi-monthly podcast schedule and we jammed another one into the can (huh?). Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath gave us similar bandwidth issues to everybody else in the non flooded part of the United States, and we actually lost the last half hour of the podcast. You won’t miss much because we’ll just talk about that same crap next time.

Kick back and enjoy, we tackle a host of important issues, like who should be the Cubs’ color announcer, how hilarious it is that the Cardinals choked and the Marlins fired Ozzie, and I have a plan to fix the Cubs rotation short term and load them up with prospects for the long term.

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And, to fill the void left by the missing end of our podcast, enjoy these highlights of the NASL championship game between the Sting and the Cosmos.

Podcast: Gravy on it

The fourth edition of the runaway, Internet smash hit podcast, The Other 15% unearths a doozy of a Dusty Baker e-book, a great oral history of Cheers, and a reminder that Warren and Kerm are terrible at predictions, but I’m awesome. The cheap shots at Al and Rozner aren’t bad either.

Or something like that.

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Link Dump

• Dusty Baker’s Hitting Handbook

• Cheers oral history (GQ)

• Subscribe to our crappy podcast on iTunes

Matt Holliday — still dirty

Apparently the Cardinals and Giants played game two of the NLCS last night. I wouldn’t know because Cardinals games are not broadcast where I live.

Even when I move.

But in that alleged game, Matt Holliday allegedly took out Marco Scutaro on a throw at second base. Some people are even saying that this was a dirty play:

The Reds put their World Series dreams on hold for two more years

Dusty signaling for the lefty.

It’s so cute how the Cincinnati Reds think they’re close to winning a pennant. Sure, they’ve won the NL Central in two of the last three years, and yes, they have a great player at first base in Joey Votto and a couple of really good starting pitchers, plus a crazy Cuban closer who throws like 1,200 miles an hour. But today they announced they’re keeping Johnnie B. Dusty Baker as their manager for two more years.

All that means is they’re going to have two more years for Johnny Cueto and Mat Latos to get hurt, two more years for Votto and Brandon Phillips to get older, and two more years of Zack Cozart and his sub .300 on base average hitting first or second in the lineup.

You get a lot of good things when you have Dusty as your manager. You get a shitload of made up Hank Aaron stories. You get pregame dim sum and Miles Davis on the clubhouse stereo, and the fans behind the home dugout get real-live, game worn, manager wrist bands tossed into the stands after wins.

You also get a lot of bad. You get terrible in-game strategy. You get drooled on toothpicks scattered all over…everywhere. You also get a lot of non-sensical pre and post-game comments, paranoia, and improperly filed federal taxes. For all of his success, Dusty has still never won a playoff series without the assistance of a bloated, steroid ravaged corner outfielder in the middle of his lineup.

Podcast: Playoff preview and Adam Greenbergapalooza

The Podcast is now on its (supposedly) regular schedule of every other week, and so we preview the playoffs, I tell a story about Phil Regan’s ball sack, Kermit details his Twitter Adam Greenberg friend stalker and war2d2 wonders aloud how he ever got mixed up with a pair of dummies like us. It’s all good.

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