Three Swings

"I literally have a megaphone." Rhea talks to baseball teammate and fellow comedian Alice Wetterlund (Treks and the City podcast) about playing together and not apologizing for being competitive. Plus mean coaches, Minnesota, and Joc Pederson.

And a new edition of ROSIN BAG! Rhea answers your Twitter questions on gendered hats, team names, advanced metrics, favorite ballparks, rounders, and more!

And for your reading pleasure, Rhea recommends a revelatory article from the MLB.com vault, Chris Landers' "Four remarkable women from baseball history that everyone should know about." Learn more about Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, Edith Houghton, Effa Manley, and Jackie Mitchell:

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/four-great-women-from-baseball-history/c-136471052

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RHEA BUTCHER'S 2017 WORLD SERIES DIARY PT5 "Conventional wisdom is losing the World Series right now." Rhea breaks down the managerial miscues and poor at-bats that led to a 5-3 Houston victory in Game 3 and a 2-1 series lead. Plus GM4 predictions. Rhea also discusses Yuri Gurriel's racist gesture and the fallacy of assuming that playing/living in a country makes you more empathetic towards the people of that country. And because there's more to life than baseball, Rhea offers a strong recommendation for the documentary "Witness" about the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder.

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Rhea talks to the comedy world's premiere baseball mind, GREG PROOPS, about the mental side of baseball, including genius and not-so-genius managerial moves, playing angry, and why Willie Mays may be the smartest ball player of all time.

Greg also tells some truly unforgettable baseball stories... postseason memories, meeting Joe Madden at the breakfast table... too many stories to count.

PLUS Rhea talks about women in baseball (and the lack thereof), female umpires, the Sonoma Stompers, and the ways in which other professional baseball leagues (besides the MLB) are making a way for female players and non-gender binary players.

Read "The Old Ball Game" by Britni de la Cretaz (BITCH MEDIA) for more: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/baseball-has-a-female-umpire-problem

AND Rhea analyzes more Hot Stove moves, including the Yu Darvish signing, Jake Arrieta predictions, and hot takes on the Diamondbacks, and Rockies.

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RHEA BUTCHER'S 2017 WORLD SERIES DIARY PT6 "I myself am on the brink..." This series. Oh man, this series. Just relentless, gut punch baseball over and over and over. Not to mention the ongoing Yuri Gurriel debacle, two Bushes throwing out the first pitch, the Halliburton ad in Minute Maid park, the maybe-a-silver-lining Mueller indictments looming in the background, and, what's this, gloomy weather all of a sudden in LA... No matter who you're rooting for, no matter where you're from, RHEA IS THE CATHARSIS YOU NEED TODAY.

"This is a baseball podcast but as with anything... Everything is something else." Rhea goes in on the upside down morality of the Gurriel "redemption narrative," Dave Roberts' continuing managerial miscues, Game 5's mind boggling strike zone, and the reasons why our society just can't seem to protect people from abuse and can't figure out who actually deserves blame.

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Rhea talks the good things in life and getting stoked for the men's baseball postseason plus Yankees peaking, World Series simulations, the TV ratings game, the Felipe Vasquez arrest, and the arrested development of professional athletes.

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