#27 | Calma: Federal Baseball, Arguing with Robots, and Frankenstein & Jesus

This week, the thing Jordan loves about baseball is federal baseball! Baseball in Washington, D.C. (This is a solo ep for Jordan, as everybody else was busy. Accordingly, it's a shortie aka a Leadoff Grand Slam Short Porch, which is something we're determined to make happen.)

In addition to giving you a brief history of baseball in our nation's capital, I'll also thoroughly meh the ALCS, get very mad about that dickhead Yankees fan, and talk about robots, Frankenstein, and Jesus. It's a Jordan solo, so it's a weird one.

Our other baseball podcast is actually an other baseball *thing.* It's the Foolish Baseball YouTube channel! FB does deep dive statistical analysis on subjects like Clayton Kershaw at his peak and why Tim Locastro should be your favorite weird baseball player, all wrapped in a delightful 16-bit video game aesthetic, complete with pixel art and music from Final Fantasy VI on the Super Nintendo. It's a perfect Venn diagram of Jordan's interest. Follow Foolish Baseball on Twitter, and subscribe to their YouTube channel!

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

Stuff we talked about:
Roger Ebert's review of Andrew Dice Clay's Dice Rules
Jordan’s piece on tender sports for MEL Magazine
Assemble with Care on the App Store (available via Apple Arcade)
Monument Valley on the App Store (not available via Apple Arcade)
Billy's Tweet about Frankenstein and Jesus
Pedro Capó - "Calma"

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

(Recorded 10/18/19)