Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Drew Maggi’s main league debut and whether or not there needs to be a method for different journeyman minor leaguers to make the majors extra simply, the story of short-lived Mariners mascot Spacey the Space Needle, the causes of a dramatic uptick in occurrences of catcher’s interference, Shohei Ohtani’s anti-pitch-tipping prowess, Jordan Walker’s demotion to the minors, the sluggish begins of the Cardinals and White Sox, and extra, plus (1:17:03) a Past Blast from 1999 and a query about celebrities on main league rosters.

Audio intro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to video of Maggi’s debutLink to article about Maggi’s debutLink to Reddit put up about SpaceyLink to 1990 Spacey articleLink to different 1990 Spacey articleLink to 1999 Spacey articleLink to video of stilts pitchingLink to video of stilts hittingLink to Ben on pitcher roster limitsLink to Jay Jaffe on RayLink to interference spreadsheetLink to CI at B-RefLink to CI rule dataLink to Jeff on CI in 2017Link to Jeff on EllsburyLink to Emma on SenzelLink to reach-on-error articleLink to Ben on one-knee framingLink to knee-down catching dataLink to Grandal on CILink to Grandal on CI once moreLink to Jake & Jordan on CILink to pitch-tipping put upLink to Suarez tweetLink to different Suarez tweetLink to 2019 Suarez articleLink to Walker pitch sortsLink to article on Walker demotionLink to different Walker articleLink to FG on the Cardinals OFLink to playoff odds modificationsLink to 1998 Past Blast supplyLink to Past Blast supply, cont’d.Link to AP piece on BrooksLink to B-Ref Bullpen on BrooksLink to Sam on baseball embarassmentLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s Substack

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