223 - Close But No Cigar II: Barry Bonds, 1,996 RBI

10/26/24 • 47 min

Five players in MLB history have driven in 2,000 run in their career. Barry Bonds concluded his amazing 22-year career 4 RBI short of 2,000. This week we examine Bonds' career and try to find out how he came up short.
Also this week, Craig and Rex with their favorite new albums released the third quarter of 2024.
Errata: The reports are Bonds' head circumference grew by 1 to 1.5 inches, not that his hat size grew by 1.5 sizes. The book, "Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero," by Jeff Pearlman, released in 2006, not 2007. The book is available through our affiliate link below or wherever you buy books.

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222 - Rex Trolls Craig's Pre-Season Predictions: "You Might As Well Have Run Over Him With a Truck"

This week Craig and Rex review Craig's sketchy pre-season predictions and ruminate about the on-gong MLB playoffs.
Errata: Met closer Edwin Diaz has one year left on his contract, not three.
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224 - The Professor's Mysterious Concoction

Craig and Rex contemplate the end of the 2024 baseball season as the Dodgers took the first three World Series games from the Yankees. They then turn their attention to the 1949 film "It Happens Every Spring," starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters and Paul Douglas. It's a screwball comedy with a baseball-related plot. Thumb's up all around. Finally, a few words about a North Carolina man that combined artificial intelligence with internet bots to try to take on the online music business. The man is innocent until proven guilty, of course.
Justice Dep't press release in the AI, music bot case.
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