#18 | ASMR Mets Fan: Defensive Highlights, NL Wild Card Madness, and The Orioles Got Beef

This week, the thing Nick and Coach Dave love about baseball is defensive highlights! Jordan is off this week, and sorely missed. Nick and Dave agree that home run highlights are boring. Who wants a two-camera-angle-needing dinger highlight that needs much context when you could have a silky smooth barehanded catch and throw across the diamond?

We talk about the crazyballs NL Wild Card, decide that position player pitching is broke and pitcher position play is woke, and recap the Beef of the Week, which is Orioles Beef! Dave shares his Negative Nancy takes on everything, and we talk about Norway. We also sing quite a bit. Nick is the ASMR Mets fan.

Our other baseball podcast is The Show Before The Show, a podcast about minor league baseball (!!!) hosted by Sam Dykstra and Tyler Maun - who also hosts the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, our OBP for Episode 3! Follow Sam and Tyler on Twitter and subscribe!

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

Stuff we talked about:
Javy Baez's lefty swing
Chris Davis and Brandon Hyde get into it
Citi Field finally is a fun place to watch baseball
Luis Guillorme catching a flying bat
Vince Velazquez plays a mean left field
Michael Lorenzen plays a mean right field

Links:
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Leadoff Grand Slam's Website

(Recorded 8/9/19)