In this episode, Tom and Tim talk about Baseball. Tom is having cosmic experiences with it while fall asleep to Northwoods Radio Sleep Baseball. And he’s wondering about the abstractness of it, the beauty in its weirdness, the storytelling of it all. Tim has the history, and the love of it, and strong memories of loving it and giving it up.
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Timestamps
00:00 Tom has been experiencing insomnia and listening to Sleep Baseball
01:50 Abstract stories
04:35 Sleep Baseball’s sense of humor
05:50 Americans don’t deserve baseball
6:00 Tim loving baseball and baseball history
7:00 Most fans back in the day never saw a game
8:00 Would the announcers just make stuff up?
9:15 Tim sees the Yankees final home game at Yankee Stadium
10:20 The strange, perfect rules, the quiet parts of the game
12:00 Pickup games
12:45 Dropping the ball
13:45 Friends with books of statistics
15:00 History of baseball, generations, history of Stonehenge
17:30 Tim stopped playing because he couldn’t hit curveballs
18:20 Tim’s ritualistic departure from baseball
21:00 Charles Schulz’ final Peanuts Sunday strip
22:30 Baseball field as magic space for Schulz; Peanuts Sandlot
24:00 Baseball stats in the paper, photos of Tim playing
25:45 Tom’s theory about the players being pinpoints of light
26:20 What is story inside the body and mind?
27:00 The old baseball stories you would have heard, but can’t confirm
28:24 AAA baseball, and AAAAA baseball and the proximity to the majors
30:30 Tim pulls out his old baseball jersey
31:15 Tom pulls out his dad’s baseball jersey
32:00 Willie Mays catching the ball in center field, and the radio announcer’s reaction
33:06 Tim’s Reading Corner intro
46:00 Stories Baseball’s Unforgettables by Mac Davis
