SF 25 - Live From Sam's Club With Derek Van Riper

11/13/21 • 72 min

Shaggin' Flies

Shaggin' Flies:

1 – Barbie!

3 – From Madison to the Bay

4:30 – Boo Daylight Savings

6:30 – DVR is Of Earth

11 – Witnessing the rise of fantasy live from RotoWire

14 – What If We Kissed In The Combination ESPN Zone/Hard Rock Café

19 – The different vibes of fantasy and gambling

22 – Tales from Sam’s Club

27 – Reflections on Oracular Spectacular

31 – Why baseball? Accessability!

38 – Ballparks!

41 – In support of Ballpark Nachos

44 – The Homer Bailey no-no

46 – Order of Operations Trifecta

52 – Chalk up a W for the Sandlot Enjoyers

54 – Devin Harris shoutout

57 – Ben Palmer, Raccoon Murderer

1:00 – Roy Kent would NEVER

1:02 – The Full Count!

Derek’s Book Recommendation: Answers in the Form of Questions
Derek’s Food Recommendation: Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Tacos
Derek’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Schitt’s Creek/Tommy Boy/Jiro Dreams of Sushi/Bojack Horseman
Derek’s Music Recommendation: Little Neon Limelight by Houndmouth
Derek’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Go on vacation somewhere cool

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Shaggin' Flies:

1 – Barbie!

3 – From Madison to the Bay

4:30 – Boo Daylight Savings

6:30 – DVR is Of Earth

11 – Witnessing the rise of fantasy live from RotoWire

14 – What If We Kissed In The Combination ESPN Zone/Hard Rock Café

19 – The different vibes of fantasy and gambling

22 – Tales from Sam’s Club

27 – Reflections on Oracular Spectacular

31 – Why baseball? Accessability!

38 – Ballparks!

41 – In support of Ballpark Nachos

44 – The Homer Bailey no-no

46 – Order of Operations Trifecta

52 – Chalk up a W for the Sandlot Enjoyers

54 – Devin Harris shoutout

57 – Ben Palmer, Raccoon Murderer

1:00 – Roy Kent would NEVER

1:02 – The Full Count!

Derek’s Book Recommendation: Answers in the Form of Questions
Derek’s Food Recommendation: Slow Cooker Pulled Pork Tacos
Derek’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Schitt’s Creek/Tommy Boy/Jiro Dreams of Sushi/Bojack Horseman
Derek’s Music Recommendation: Little Neon Limelight by Houndmouth
Derek’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Go on vacation somewhere cool

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Previous Episode

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

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SF 26 - The Bard College Holiday Throwdown with Howard Megdal

Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach

Zach is joined for a special solo session with Howard Megdal (@howardmegdal) of Baseball Prospectus, The IX, and the Next for a lovely ninety-minute conversation about women's sports, Bard College, the Mets, New Jersey, and plenty more baseball.

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3 – Working in politics, but then not

5 – Mouse!

7 – The Next and The IX

10 – A nearly half-hour tangent about the wonderfulness of women’s sports and the criminality of their underfunding

31 – Name and Image Likeness

33 – Loving sports at Bard College

35 – Sending angry emails to KenPom

37:30 – Leon Botstein does have a Wikipedia

40:30 – Campaigning the backup center for D3 player of the year

42 – Why baseball?

47 – Basketball is a shot, baseball is an IV

49 – The Baseball Talmud!

52 – Coolest games ever: 2015 World Series, David Cone, and Johan Santana

58 – Alex Bregman and flawed replay

1:02 – Analytics talk

1:06 – Cat!

1:07 – The enemy is certainty

1:09 – Order of Operations trifecta!

1:14 – The consistency of toothpaste as it hits the teeth

1:15 – A conversation with Abraham

1:17 – No ghosts, but Justin Turner is unexplained

1:20 – The Full Count

Howard’s Book Recommendation: Katherine Heiny
Howard’s Food Recommendation: South Jersey Pretzel
Howard’s Movies/TV Recommendation: The Third Man
Howard’s Music Recommendation: Bria Skonberg; Veronica Swift; Emmet Cohen; Good Jazz and Good Food (in general)
Howard’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Flannel pants

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