Infinite Inning 143: The Baseballness of Everything

May 1, 2020 · 2h 9m 38s
Infinite Inning 143: The Baseballness of Everything
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Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns, and Money talks remote learning, finds many baseball examples to illustrate our current reality, and reminds us just how bad “neutral” umpiring used to be....

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Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns, and Money talks remote learning, finds many baseball examples to illustrate our current reality, and reminds us just how bad “neutral” umpiring used to be. Plus: Mookie Betts, true Red Sox affection, and a hypothetical trade involving an asteroid, and a Dodgers pitcher feels his oats.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Mookie Betts Trade Can Have No Winners*Johnny Allen Bravado*Scott Lemieux: How is Remote Learning Going?*Rushing the Professor*“No One Could Have Expected!*Mitch McConnell in History (and in a Fantasy League)*Steve’s “Too Mean” Story*The 1890s Orioles, PEDs, and “Civility”*Accountability Immunity*The Ideological Floor*Medicare For All and Hostage-Taking*Stats vs. Scouting in Political Science*The Fallacy of Historic Baseball Platoons/Ball-Strike Calls in the 80s and 90s*So Where Will It All End?*Goodbyes.
The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game’s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?
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