SF 23 - Drew Silva Once Copied Hemingway

10/16/21 • 157 min

0 – Ben butters em up real good

5:30 – It is very much NOT all love, dammit

6:30 – Imagine seizing a team from a billionaire and putting it under control of the state via eminent domain

7:30 – We get to our tangent about owners sucking even earlier than usual, and the relitigation—literally—of the Rams’ move from St. Louis to LA.

12 – Jerry Jones DEFINITELY has some really nasty stuff in his emails

15:30 – Married life!

20 – The Drew Silva story

30 – We interrupt the Drew Silva story to report that the STUPID RED SOX are going to the ALCS

32 – Somehow we wind up talking about Philistine foreskins again

36 – A question that starts with “As a Drake fan”

44 – Ben’s favorite Drake album is SCORPION????

52:50 – Multiple curses

54 – Best concerts

1:02 – The joy of the two-monitor setup

1:04 – End of ad break?

1:05 – Why Baseball?

The Cardinals!

1:12 – I will **** on Indianapolis until the day I die

1:15 – Ben dodges a bomb threat at work (from someone in a panda onesie) while his parents are concerned with Cal Ripken’s impending divorce.

1:18:30 – Ballpark foods

1:20:30 – ******

1:25 – Phish at Phenway

1:30 – In defense of watery Domestic Lite Beers

1:35 – Is an Opener a Starter?

1:40 – Bring a cricket announcer into baseball

1:41 – Order of Operations Trifecta!

1:51 – A deep and dark revelation from Ben

2:03 – Copying is good!

2:08 – The Full Count! (Recommendations To Be Added Shortly)

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0 – Ben butters em up real good

5:30 – It is very much NOT all love, dammit

6:30 – Imagine seizing a team from a billionaire and putting it under control of the state via eminent domain

7:30 – We get to our tangent about owners sucking even earlier than usual, and the relitigation—literally—of the Rams’ move from St. Louis to LA.

12 – Jerry Jones DEFINITELY has some really nasty stuff in his emails

15:30 – Married life!

20 – The Drew Silva story

30 – We interrupt the Drew Silva story to report that the STUPID RED SOX are going to the ALCS

32 – Somehow we wind up talking about Philistine foreskins again

36 – A question that starts with “As a Drake fan”

44 – Ben’s favorite Drake album is SCORPION????

52:50 – Multiple curses

54 – Best concerts

1:02 – The joy of the two-monitor setup

1:04 – End of ad break?

1:05 – Why Baseball?

The Cardinals!

1:12 – I will **** on Indianapolis until the day I die

1:15 – Ben dodges a bomb threat at work (from someone in a panda onesie) while his parents are concerned with Cal Ripken’s impending divorce.

1:18:30 – Ballpark foods

1:20:30 – ******

1:25 – Phish at Phenway

1:30 – In defense of watery Domestic Lite Beers

1:35 – Is an Opener a Starter?

1:40 – Bring a cricket announcer into baseball

1:41 – Order of Operations Trifecta!

1:51 – A deep and dark revelation from Ben

2:03 – Copying is good!

2:08 – The Full Count! (Recommendations To Be Added Shortly)

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Previous Episode

SF 22 - Performing and Infinity with Ellen Adair

1:30 – Zach is weary of society and also on a delay

4 – How are you?

5:30 – We are all just hurtling through space on a tiny rock

8:15 – A pair of life coaches

9 – The podcast has in fact started and we are seven minutes and 30 seconds into it

10:15 – The Ellen Adair story begins in Philadelphia, which is how one becomes a Phillies fan, as few people willingly choose it

12:30 – Ben lobs out possibly the worst borough-related joke ever told

15 – Nepotism, etc

16:30 – Ellen Adair is NOT Ellen Adair’s *full* name

19 – On the day that we recorded this podcast, someone named Ellen Adair died in South Carolina, but not THAT one

21:30 – A story about Kirk Douglas leads to the pronouncement that whiteness is a construct

24:30 – We are all Declan McManus

27 – We would ALL be so lucky as to perform Death of a Salesman in a Bennigans?

27:30 – Why acting? Transformation!

30 – Ben can’t get his Shakespeare plays about English kings straight

32 – Acting, part two: externality and infinity!

35:15 – The Arthur Miller Special

39 – Possibly the first religious turn Shaggin’ Flies has taken

45 – We are all wearing masks and performing, whether it be stage, gender, or interpersonally

51:30 – The difference between stage acting and screen acting

57 – Poetry!

1:00 – Zach is lost and returned

1:05 – Watching the super bowl with Dylan Baker

1:12:15 – Meeting Jim Thome > Meeting Barack Obama

1:13 – Baseball drawings! ([email protected])

1:17 – Why baseball? It is the beauty of renaissance painting combined with the apollonian perfection of Newtonian physics

1:25 – The clarity of the drama

1:29:00 – Favorite Phillies players (Jimmy Rollins love)

1:32 – Ballparks

1:38:30 – Order of Operations Trifecta

1:53 – Baseball movies

2:00 – Ghosts, multiple

2:04 – Making rules about seeing ghosts or not

2:12 – Superpowers

2:15 – The Full Count!

Ellen’s Book Recommendation: Cloud Atlas (shoutout Ulysses!)
Ellen’s Food Recommendation: Bún
Ellen’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Maniac
Ellen’s Music Recommendation: 4Keus
Ellen’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Thinking of life in terms of narrative

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SF 24 - Do Birds Know That Flying Is Cool? A Conversation With Matthew Roberson

Shagging Flies - Ben and Zach are joined by the wonderful and sharp-witted Matthew Roberson (@mroberson22), formerly of FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, and Lookout Landing but currently of the New York Daily News, for a typically meandering joyride around topics from Seattle suburbs, karaoke, the utility of flying, Mariners fandom, and countless other meaningless asides. Subscribe and enjoy!

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As usual, on names (2)
Sammamish Washington (3:30)
Travis Pastrana (7:45)
Every kid needs humbling (15)
Having a cup of coffee at FanGraphs (23:30)
Writers are weird (24:30)
Tales from the college newspaper beat at the University of San Diego (27)
Oh no, Charlie Morton (33:30)
From Dominoes to New York (with some sales in between)
On Comedy and Carrie Underwood (43)
If you’re doing karaoke, make sure you know the song (47)
Phone drop! (1:00)
Why would you have a roast for your birthday?
Why baseball? (1:04:30)
Stadium talk (1:11)
Spending money? Me? A baseball franchise owner? (1:18)
On Yankees fans and Boston fans (1:21)
Hisashi Iwakuma love (1:25)
Order of Operations Trifecta! (1:30)
Concert of choice: Prince (1:37)
Who in history would you talk to? (1:45)
Not quite a UFO story, but not not a UFO story (1:48:30)
Do birds know that flying is cool? (1:52)
Matthew almost calls PETA as a child (1:55)
The Full Count! (1:59)
- Matthew’s Book Recommendation: Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
- Matthew’s Music Recommendation: Sawayama
- Matthew’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Hacks / Catch Me If You Can
- Matthew’s Food Recommendation: Xi’an cuisine
- Matthew’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Going for a walk