#13 | The All-Star Game Should Be Mario Party: Little Brother Teams, All-Star Week, and Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

This week, the thing Coach Dave, Jordan, and Nick love about baseball is little brother teams! You know, the White Sox to the Cubs, the Mets to the Yankees, the Angels to the Dodgers.

We also babble - I am running out of synonyms for "talk about" - about why All-Star Week could be so much more fun - short answer, the All-Star Game is stupid and should be replaced with goofy skills tests - and make some predictions now that we've arrived at the break. Coach Dave also enlightens us about Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller - you'll see - and rants about why people in hot cities shouldn't own huskies.

Our other baseball podcast of the week is R2C2, Ryan Ruocco's podcast with CC MFIN' SABATHIA!!!!1 How a professional athlete has time to record a podcast *every week* is beyond us. Also, empowering athletes and boosting their voices as human beings is a thing we love about baseball, so we *extra* love R2C2. Subscribe to the show and followed Uninterrupted on Twitter - they're an "athlete empowerment brand" who host the show.

Thanks as always to the great @drawawalk for our artwork.

Stuff we talked about:
"I don't think about you at all" scene from Mad Men
Odon de Pins
The baseball minigame from Super Mario Party
Sahadev Sharma's piece on Robel Garcia for The Athletic
SANTANA - "SMOOTH" BAHAHAHAHAHA
Poochie aka the Washington Nationals

Links:
Leadoff Grand Slam on Twitter
Leadoff Grand Slam on Apple Podcasts
Leadoff Grand Slam's Website

(Recorded 7/7/19)