Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter a couple of Star Wars emergency and (5:17) an nVenue Apple odds replace, then (8:57) reply listener emails about how good a crew needs to be to persuade those who it’s dishonest, a hypothetical Mike Trout ultimatum about Shohei Ohtani, whether or not MLB would ban a real-life Sidd Finch, whether or not not having to bat makes pitchers extra more likely to hit batters, which groups may have essentially the most and fewest pitch-clock violations, clock-defeating schemes utilizing baseballs and seaside balls, the speediest strikeout, and mascot polling, adopted by Stat Blasts (1:23:57) concerning the greatest velo variations in a sport and on back-to-back pitches, the longest streaks of pitching appearances with a call, the hardest-hit liners caught within the infield, and the newest in a season a division has gone with none crew falling out of first for good, and a Past Blast (1:38:00) from 1991.
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Link to Daniel Chin on Star Wars
Link to nVenue episode
Link to NBA Launchpad data
Link to extra Launchpad data
Link to Jeff on baseball LeBron
Link to Rob Mains on hitting batters
Link to Machado ejection
Link to Anderson ejection
Link to Ohtani violations
Link to Rob on age and tempo
Link to pitch tempo web page
Link to Pitching Ninja video
Link to 2023 velo uptick
Link to mascot ballot
Link to Mariner Moose data
Link to Slider data
Link to listener emails database
Link to Stat Blasts web page
Link to MPH variations sheet
Link to decision-streak queries
Link to Pederson liner
Link to hardest-hit liner
Link to Acuña liner
Link to hardest-hit-liner leaders
Link to nook liner leaders
Link to easy division evaluation
Link to advanced division evaluation
Link to 2006 NL West graph
Link to 1991 Past Blast supply
Link to 1992 article
Link to 1992 article continued
Link to 2014 article
Link to Hall obit
Link to bases web site
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
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