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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up on an earlier Clayton Kershaw commercial conversation and banter about Tom Seaver and the benefits of being a late bloomer, then answer listener emails about catchers sharing secrets about their old teams, the value of game-calling, Manny Ramirez signing with the Sydney Blue Sox and the experience of watching old players in lower-level leagues, how stadiums designed for games without fans would be different, whether a pitcher could tattoo his hand to look like a baseball, whether a person from the past could infer the occurrence of a pandemic from MLB’s schedule alone, and what would happen if it were revealed that baseballs are alive, plus Stat Blasts about teams with the most one-run games and batters who always hit in the same spot in the lineup.

Audio intro: Jenny Lewis, "Late Bloomer"

Audio outro: Superchunk, "What a Time to Be Alive"


Link to Kershaw commercial

Link to Benetti and Stone clip

Link to Seaver newsletter

Link to Pages from Baseball’s Past

Link to Ben on catcher intangibles

Link to Ben on Yadi’s game-calling

Link to Harry Pavlidis on game-calling

Link to interview episode with Harry

Link to article on Mathis’s game-calling

Link to Dan Szymborski on the decline of Pujols

Link to story on MLB Network “speed cam”

Link to story about Mariners broadcast innovations

Link to story about Clevinger’s tattoos

Link to Sean Rudman’s Stat Blast Song cover

Link to teams with the most one-run games

Link to spreadsheet on batting in the same spot in the order

Link to Rob Arthur on the baseball’s inconsistency

Link to Star Trek episode of The Ringer MLB Show

Link to Russell Carleton’s update on the shift


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