#19 | It’s Important Not to Get Too Excited About Things: "The Switch," Derek Holland, and September Predictions

This week, the thing Jordan and guest host Bill Porter love about baseball is "the switch!" (Coach Dave and Nick Lerangis are off this week.) "The switch" is moment in August when we go from the doldrums of summer baseball to the excitement of the stretch before the playoffs. (Don't worry if you haven't heard of the switch before; Bill made it up.)

We also talk about Derek Holland's noble and most likely misguided butthurtedness on Twitter, why PECOTA is always right and you should never be excited about anything, and the umpteenth rise of the Dark Knight, Matt Harvey.

Our Other Baseball Podcast of the Week is The Ringer MLB Show! Michael Baumann hosts, and Zach Kram and Ben Lindbergh are his most frequent guests. It's a wonderful, insightful show and they're some of our favorite baseball people. Follow Michael, Zach, Ben, and the Ringer on Twitter, and subscribe!

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

(Btw, I said Billy Hamilton had 12 stolen bases this season; he actually had 18.)

Stuff we talked about:
Seong-Jin Cho performing a piece from Debussy's Children's Corner suite
Fleabag on Amazon Prime
A great piece about Billy Hamilton for The Athletic

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

(Recorded 8/18/19)