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Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Representative Cedric Richmond’s retirement from the Congressional Baseball Game after a Ruthian two-way career, discuss Theo Epstein stepping down from the Cubs (and at least temporarily leaving baseball) and Robinson Canó getting suspended for the entire 2021 season after testing positive for steroid use, and share a Stat Blast about the first ever-LOOGY.

Audio intro: The Nerves, "Working Too Hard"

Audio outro: Chance The Rapper, "Same Drugs"


Link to Nathaniel on the Congressional Baseball Game

Link to Nathaniel’s EW interview episode

Link to Tom Verducci on Theo

Link to Joe Posnanski on Theo

Link to Theo’s farewell letter

Link to Theo’s comment on aesthetics

Link to 2016 EW discussion about Theo

Link to story about Cubs layoffs

Link to story about Dodgers layoffs

Link to Jay Jaffe on Canó’s suspension

Link to Ken Rosenthal on Canó’s suspension

Link to story about 2020 PED testing

Link to Ben on Canó’s 2018 suspension

Link to Geoff Baker on Canó’s 2018 suspension

Link to the Boston Globe on PED pressures

Link to THT article on the origins of the LOOGY

Link to Ben on LOOGYs and the three-batter minimum


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