Wildcard Races Heat Up; Trout-Yelich Done; Royals Sold; Felipe Vazquez Shocking Arrest; More Home Runs; Taylor Swift (Ep.110)
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First and foremost, it the wildcard races are shaping up to be thrillers! Can the Brewers hold on without Christian Yelich? Can the Indians sneak past the Rays? Stay tuned!
The oft-delayed but never forgtten Episode 110 of Foul Territory: A Baseball Podcast—The Return of the Pink Panther edition—is finally in the books, although, not without some technical issues that you will discover if you listen long enough!
On to the Headlines Jed and Jon discuss in this week’s show:
- Playoff races and more playoff races
- Mike Trout and Christian Yelich out for season
- Luis Severino and Giancarlo Stanton return to Yankees
- Royals sold for $1B
- Pete Alonso is the first rookie to set a team HR mark since ’38
- MLB weighing opioid testing after Tyler Skaggs’ death
- Luis Castillo, Octavio Dotel cleared of Dominican drug-ring ties
- David Ortiz hires investigator to probe D.R. shooting
- Christian Yelich trolls a Twitter user with walk-up song
- Mariners’ Keon Broxton suspended two games for throwing a batting glove at an umpire
- Felipe Vazquez arrested
- Twins RHP Michael Pineda given a 60-game suspension
- Ned Coletti hired by the San Jose Sharks
- Dodgers set the NL team home-run record
- Minnesota has five players with 30 home runs (can you name them?)
- Yankees’ Mariano Rivera receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Moran brothers stage battle 119 years in making
For this week’s Starting Nine, in honor of SNL hirings and firings, Jed gives us nine players with famous SNL sketch names. Since we covered so much Extra Innings content throughout the show, we end with one tidbit: Taylor Swift saying she is now obsessed with politics. Yay!
