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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