Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley reply listener emails about why gamers within the dugout appear so assured in pitch areas, whether or not it will ever assist to put on two gloves, MLB Huge Inning and different baseball equivalents of NFL RedZone, the acute dimensions of the Polo Grounds, what makes it so spectacular that some gamers carry out on the identical degree for a very long time, whether or not the Cardinals are a enjoyable staff, and what it means once we say {that a} participant is “enjoyable to look at,” then (55:45) take pedantic questions on “pedantic” vs. “semantic,” whether or not each batted ball that hits the bottom is a floor ball, “former” first-round draft picks, “primary” draft picks, how greatest to explain a batter’s small-sample line, the (un)significance of head-to-head staff data, clearing the bases and homers that drive in a number of runs, the right way to check with ballparks which have since modified their names, and the on-deck circle vs. the “subsequent batter’s field,” adopted (1:32:07) by a Previous Blast from 1867.
Audio intro: Nick Lowe, “Hope for Us All”
Audio outro: The Mynabirds, “Semantics”
Link to Martinez ejection story
Link to MLB Big Inning
Link to B-Ref Stream Finder
Link to Ben on baseball RedZone
Link to the Mitchell catch
Link to Sam on the Mitchell catch
Link to Polo Grounds dimensions wiki
Link to B-Ref on the Polo Grounds
Link to THT on extreme ballparks
Link to THT on ballpark homogenization
Link to 85.4 mph home run
Link to Ben on quality of competition
Link to THT on political baseball jargon
Link to The Atlantic on baseball stereotypes
Link to research on baseball stereotypes
Link to Craig Wright on the running game
Link to Pages From Baseball’s Past
Link to Defector on The Athletic
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1867 story source
Link to 1873 dead ball ad
Link to “next batter’s box” diagram
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