Dreamcast 112: Spicy Meatballs

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    AC had technical issues but we did recruit a new friend to play as we discuss:

    • The Cubs’ consistency to maintain the division lead despite a June slump;
    • Cam Smith and Kyle Tucker;
    • Trade deadline thoughts;
    • Stuff about fandom and athletes we were tangentially associated with

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    147 COMMENTS

    19. berselius,

      I didn’t want to share details in case they did fix it because I wasn’t sure if they would change the player names or the category. But since they must have fixed it for you not to notice, they had Jeff Samardzija, Carlos Villanueva, and Travis wood as Top 5 SO among relief pitchers in 2019.

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    36. I played this earlier when it said 2019. Amateur hour.

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    47. Following up since I missed the pod last weekend, the only particularly notable athlete from my high school was Blair Brown, NCAA Volleyball champ/MVP who was there just after me. Otherwise the other alums of note are more infamous – congressional dirtbag Chip Roy (well before my time) and convicted murder Clara Schwartz (who was a friend of a friend!).

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Robert_Schwartz

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    48. I had really terrible football teams while I was at Cal, but my younger brother got guys like DeSean Jackson, Marshawn Lynch, and Aaron Rodgers among others grumble grumble

      Rodgers kind of sucks as a human being but Lynch is still awesome

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    49. Rice Cube,

      Russell Wilson was at Wisconsin in my last year of grad school and I’m still kind of confused when he mentions Wisconsin in his SNF intro. He was at NC State for four years beforehand!

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    50. berselius,

      (dying laughing), that was actually the year after I left.

      Maybe I’m just too much of a Wisconsin Footbaw meatball but I always associated that team more with Montee Ball and his 33 TD year than Russ. I thought he was gonna be great in the NFL, bummer that his struggles with alcoholism sunk his pro career. At least he seems to have gotten back on track these days.

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    54. Rice Cube,

      There isn’t a negative outcome when the Mets, Phillies, Dodgers, Padres, Brewers, Cardinals play each other at this point. Focusing on divisional supremacy instead of league supremacy is loser mentality.

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    72. My sleep deprived brain forgot Kerry Wood was mostly a starter. (dying laughing)

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    91. re: Vegas stadium groundbreaking, this was in Calcaterra’s newsletter today

      The Guardian has an absolutely damning story about John Fisher and his poorly thought-out plan to move the Athletics to Las Vegas.

      The short version: despite the recent eyewash groundbreaking of the alleged new stadium on the Strip, construction is nowhere near imminent. Indeed, the stadium is nothing more than vaporware at this point. Fisher still hasn’t spent enough money on the project to unlock the public funds it’s been allocated. Funds that were approved over two years ago now.

      Meanwhile, construction costs have soared – Fisher admitted this past weekend that the price tag is now over $2 billion – and he doesn’t yet have anywhere near $1 billion in funds for the project. He’s trying to hastily sell off his MLS team for some quick cash, but that won’t cut it. His personal fortune is estimated to be $3 billion and while, yes, that’s a lot of money, is not the sort of fortune from which one can simply write over a billion dollars in checks without risking personal and professional ruin. You start doing stuff like that and things snowball. Loans are called, Wall Street loses confidence in you, and your company – in Fisher’s case The Gap – becomes prey.

      Which is to say: Fisher is fucked and the odds that this stadium gets built are approaching nil. At least while Fisher still owns the club. And if he doesn’t own the club – if he sells to some white knight who fixes everything – it’ll still be a massive humiliation for him and for Rob Manfred, who held a shovel at that bogus groundbreaking and who has personally vouched for this relocation and stadium deal for years now. If Manfred understood that he is the commissioner of baseball and that he’s thus supposed to care about the long-term health and vitality of the sport, he never would’ve approved this debacle. Manfred, however, views his job as being the lackey of the owners and he will do as he has always done, which whatever they want regardless of the consequences for the sport at large.

      Read for the schadenfreude. Also read for lots of good quotes from Friends of the Newsletter J.C. Bradbury and Neil DeMause. Finally, read for great passages such as this one:

      “Why would Fisher leave nearly a billion dollars for a park on a 55-acre plot, in a top-10 television market in love with its ballclub, for nine acres and a minuscule market with fans who don’t know their A’s from their elbow?”

      Brutal.

      article he linked to: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/02/athletics-las-vegas-stadium-john-fisher-mlb-debacle

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    133. Flexen taking the bump in the 10th tells me Counsell expects extras to last three innings. (dying laughing)

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