#26 | Eck "Pitch" Tinkering: Pitch Tinkering, We Hate Baseball (Again), and Nick goes Papa Bear

This week, the thing Nick and Jordan love about baseball is pitch tinkering! You'd think we'd love the various CSes but nope, ALL our teams got knocked out, so we love something evergreen and theoretical rather than timely. (Though Kyle Boddy got hired by the Reds a few weeks ago so it's sorta timely.) We also talk a bit about the Braves tomahawk thing and why that organization so richly deserved to lose after engaing in the most perfunctory kind of course correction that actually did more harm than good. And finally, y'all get to hear Nick go gloriously papa bear about David P Samson's dumb dumb dumb tweet about Daniel Hudson wanting to be there for his wife and his child. It's beautiful and stirring.

Our other baseball podcast is the Productive Outs Prodcast! It's the podcast corollary to the great great twitter account from Riley Breckinridge and Tim Miller of PUIG DESTROYER, Jordan's favorite baseball-centric semi-parodic grindcore band. (Riley was also in Thrice, which is deeply cool for certain people.) Follow Productive Outs and Riley on Twitter, and subscribe! AND FOR GOD'S SAKE LISTEN TO PUIG DESTROYER.

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

Stuff we talked about:
Preludes by Olivier Messiaen
Awful Announcing's piece on why David P Samson is a dumb fucking sexist prick
Roger Ebert's review of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Jordan's pick for greatest western of all time
An excerpt from Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik's The MVP Machine
Puig Destroyer's Bandcamp page (PUT OUT A NEW ALBUM PLSSSS)

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

(Recorded 10/14/19)