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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!
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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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!
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
Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus
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