Short and sweet this week, kids. Bing bang boom. Still no shortage of great #content, with our unique based ball insight accompanied by the mellifluous strains of ILLUSTRATIONS.

- The open: memories of a young, portly Prince, enveloped in Zubazity. (0:00-4:05)

- The emails. Y'all crazy. (4:40-22:55)

- The musical guest: ILLUSTRATIONS. Buy “In Vain” here. (23:40-26:26)

- The baseball things: (26:26-50:20)

• R.I.P. Tony Gwynn
•  More baseballers fall to the curse of Tommy John, including Chad Billingsley
• Where goeth the Shark? 
• Royals are rolling
• Giants free-falling
• Please get well, Justin Verlander
• Cardinals are coming for what’s theirs
• The All-Star Game continues to be stupid

- Musical advice: what the hell is Ian's problem with Guided by Voices, and the fine line of fidelity (51:00-1:00:00)

- Puig Destroyer updates and TTFN (1:00:00-1:03:02)ast