July 5th, 2016
hermitologist
PRODcast 126: One Every Three Months, Whether You Need It Or Not
Productive Outs
The PRODcast

Whoa, we’re back! For now. Here’s what happen(s)(ed):

- The show open, with Not Jose Mota!

- The Musical Guest: The Drones. Buy “Feelin’ Kinda Free” here.

- The Email of the Week: Which players should have dreadlocks?

- The Baseball Things:

  • The All-Star Game rosters
  • Midseason review
  • Zack Hample and Marlins Man should both delete their accounts
  • Bring back Gorilla Ball
  • Big Papi can’t actually retire now
  • Stop beating up and sexually assaulting women, goddammit.

- The Old School Player of the Week is: Henry Cruz

July 5th, 2016
hermitologist

PRODcast 126′s Old School Player of the Week: Henry Cruz

Henry Acosta Cruz was outfielder and pinch hitter for the Dodgers and White Sox from 1975 to 1978. In 310 career ABs, Cruz hit .229 w/ 8 HR and 34 RBI, which explains why his MLB career was so short lived. Following his glory days, he spent 4 years in the Mexican league, 10 years as a scout for the Indians, and (according to Wikipedia) he is currently the director of the Dodgers’ baseball academy in the Dominican.

During his playing days, Cruz looked like he was a part of the witness protection program, donning a thick mustache, 70-grade lambchop sideburns, 70-grade tinted #dadglasses, and a 60-grade #dadhat.

April 12th, 2016
hermitologist

PRODcast 125: Old School Player of the Week: Steve Sharts

This is a deeeeep cut. Sharts, whose name is a sentence, never played in the big leagues, but spent six years in the Philadelphia Phillies organization as a middling left-handed reliever between 1985 and 1990. He spent two years at AAA Scranton Wilkes-Barre, and posted decent numbers, but never got the call … which is probably a good thing because an announcer saying “Steve Sharts on the mound for the Phillies” would have broken the Internet before the Internet even existed.

He also looks an awful lot like Thomas Middleditch from Silicon Valley.

April 12th, 2016
hermitologist
PRODcast 125: How Hard Is It To Slide Into A Base?
Productive Outs
The PRODcast

Welcome to the second episode of the new leaner, meaner, and more in-betweener Productive Outs PRODcast. Here’s what’s in store for ye:

The Open.

The Musical Guest: Close the Hatch. Buy “Death & Resistance” here.

The Email o’ the Week: Zak writes in to discuss baseball and music.

The Baseball Things.

  • How hard is it to slide into a base? How much harder than that is it to stay on said base? Come on, guys.
  • Who the fuck is Trevor Story?
  • Robertson Canoe’s hot stort
  • Halos be shifting like crazy – a not-so subtle fuck you to Jerry Dipoto?
  • O’s off to a hot start, TWINT & BARVES not so much

The Old School Player of the Week is: STEVE SHARTS

April 6th, 2016
hermitologist

PRODcast 124′s Old School Player of the Week: TITO FUENTES

Fuentes spent 13 seasons in the bigs as a 2B, SS, 3B with the Giants, Padres, Tigers and A’s, and posted a career OPS+ of 82 (that’s not good) and a batting average of .268 (that’s also not all that good and who cares about batting average anyway what is this 1983 go iron your corduroys you dweeb). And while his sub-replacement level play would be a fine reason to pick him as the OSPOTW, it’s not the real reason we picked him. We picked him because he is both a card carrying member of the “Windbreaker Underneath The Uniform” club (aka the WUTU club), and he is the founder of the “Why The Fuck Are You Wearing A Headband?” Club (aka this acronym is too long and sounds like the surname of a Nigerian soccer player). Sometimes he wears the headband under his #DADHAT, sometimes it’s over his #DADHAT and obscures the team’s logo, sometimes it’s a complimentary solid color, and sometimes it’s Gym Class Issue White# and he scribbles “TITO” on it with a Sharpie. All of the times it is bad.

Nonetheless, we celebrate Tito and his perplexing headwear and would encourage you to do the same.

Two musicians who love baseball, but don't take it too seriously.

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