Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Akil Baddoo taking a baseball to the beans, broadcasters describing groin pictures, and gamers deciding whether or not to put on cups. Then they examine a resurgent Joey Gallo and a slumping Andrew Benintendi (20:25), recall reliever Zack Littell’s affinity for cruise ships (33:22), forecast MLB’s worldwide future (37:22), take into account the Dodgers’ secret Ugandan academy (47:06), talk about an replace on MLB’s integration of Negro Leagues stats (1:13:40), and assess their ranges of hysteria about game-fixing in mild of two school playing scandals (1:30:21), plus a Past Blast (1:42:35) from 2006.

Audio intro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Baddoo playLink to first cup tweetLink to second cup tweetLink to MLB nutshots compilationLink to a different nutshots videoLink to swinging nutshot videoLink to Ben Clemens on GalloLink to Ben L. on Gallo in 2014Link to Gallo’s juggle catchLink to Gallo on New YorkLink to Gallo on New York once moreLink to Littell articleLink to previous Littell EW episodeLink to MLB worldwide plansLink to South Korea sport informationLink to Uganda academy articleLink to information on Dodgers’ DR academyLink to information on academies’ impressionLink to prospect exploitation reportLink to Horace Wilson articleLink to article on Negro Leagues statsLink to Ben on MLB’s reclassificationLink to Ben on reclassification once moreLink to Baumann on the AL scandalLink to Sheehan on the AL scandalLink to extra on the AL scandalLink to Iowa State informationLink to 2006 Past Blast supplyLink to 2022 article on JonesLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to Rasmussen informationLink to 2022 Megill storyLink to 2023 Megill story

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