128. Preparing for a Year Without Baseball

05/29/20 • 63 min

This is a loaded episode folks. We look at the latest negotiations between the MLB and MLBPA and how the proposed sliding salary scale is turning players off to the idea of discussing things further (à la Max Scherzer). We also chat about Trevor Bauer’s calling out of Scott Boras on Twitter claiming the agent is meddling in MLBPA affairs, and discuss whether or not Bauer will continue his M.O. of extending an invitation to meet with individuals he has publicly called out. We talk the Pensacola Blue Wahoos putting up their stadium on Airbnb as well as the baby shark design and extremely confusing math that went into the creation of the recently-revealed Nationals World Series ring. We then jump into the Q&A section of the episode, answering questions submitted by you, the listeners, covering a variety of topics including Madison Bumgarner’s incredible World Series statline, the legitimacy of a potential 2020 World Series winner, the best baseball video games of all time and more.

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We take a break from our 2+ month stretch of MLB quarantine interviews and dive right into our first-ever draft episode, selecting our teams consisting of pitchers, position players and managers whose careers partially or completely spanned the 1990s.

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129. Conversation with Jonny Gomes

World Series Champion Jonny Gomes breaks down a lot for us on this one, including the player/owner negotiations, why even a shortened-season World Series title means everything, the 2013 Red Sox championship season and why the experts had that team wrong, the 2008 Coco Crisp brawl, the differences in playing for both big and small market teams (highlighting his stints in Oakland, Tampa Bay, Cincinnati and others), his stance on technology in baseball and the Houston Astros cheating scandal, his favorite David Ortiz stories, his favorite professional moment of his career, his love for good food, who his all-time 2-3-4 lineup would be, his appreciation for a particular New York Yankee and more.