We’re back to a weekly schedule because baseball is back! The Lord giveth and then she taketh away, or something. 

But we’re here to celebrate the mediocrity that is Barry Zito X late-period Metallica:

 Ugh.

In other, less painful (we hope) audio news, here is a prawncats!

- The open (0:00-7:35)

- The emails. Weird, as usual. (8:15-29:45)

- The music: feat. Get Pure, the new album from MOUNT CARMEL. (30:30-32:30)

- The baseball talk (32:30-1:02:20)

• Coffee is for closers and closers be blowin’ it: Nathan, Holland, Parnell, etc.

• PuigGate 2014

• Emilio Bonifiacio es bonafide?

• Ryan Braun done lost his mind

• MLB.tv/AtBat commercials

• Replay review: Can you dig it?

• Seven-inning baseball games?

- The musical advice: the vagaries of record-label contracts, sales, reissues, and the like. (1:03:05-1:13:40)

- The self-promotion (1:13:40-1:17:55)

- The farewell