Hello, this is the new and (hopefully) improved PRODcast – an easy-to-digest nugget of baseball and music that should pass through your system without causing bloating, headaches and/or abdominal discomfort. It’s like the All-Bran of podcasts. PLEASE HAVE SOME.

Musical Guest: WHITE DENIM. Buy it here.

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Baseball Things

BASEBALL IS BACK! (Have you heard of it?)

1. Our picks to win each division + wild card teams
2. Things we’re excited about/not excited about seeing this season … 
   

• A full season of Correa, Bryant, Buxton,
  
• The Mets rotation
  
• If Jered Weaver can crack 80MPH
  
• More Mike Trout, gimme all of the Mike Trout
  
• Hot dog Twitter, Wrestling twitter, Twitter in general
  
• MLB.tv and MLB Network ads
  
• This season’s installation of Unwritten Rules enforcement
  

Old School Player of the Week: Tito Fuentes

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

We’re back with another PRODcast, and this one is goofy and irreverant as ever.

It goes like this … 

(0:00-3:30) The open

(4:27-9:20) The musical guest: BABY BOY. Buy 2015 here.

(9:20-14:47) The Pipin’-Hot Take of the Week: Mat Latos, Kind of a Dick.

(15:30-35:45) We Read from the Electronic Mail Sac

(36:20-56:10) The Baseball Blather

• Sam & Ben are running an independent baseball team this summer – The Sonoma Stompers
  
• MONCADA to BoSOX (Jerry Remy will pronounce his name “YORN MAWNCAWDER”)
  
• Pitchers and catchers report! Beat writers are taking horrible photos.
  
• Didja hear? A-Rod’s back!
  
• BJ Upton is changing his name to Melvin
  
• John Axford’s Oscar predictions – 18 for 18 in 2014.  How’d he fare in 2015?
  

(56:10-1:01:11) The Old School Player of the Week:

WARREN BRUSSTAR

Gaze upon his holy visage.

Brusstar played nine seasons with the Phillies, White Sox and Cubs as a reliever. He was 28-16, w/ a 3.51 ERA, 14 saves and a 1.360 WHIP in his career. Ol’ Brusstar’s Millions was drafted four (!) times, has an incredible 80-grade merm, a 70-grade scowl, 70-grade DADHAT, and a serious plustache (which looks an awful lot like his eyebrows were cloned and fell down to his upper lip).

Such a good episode. Get it into your synapses ASAPses. 

1. Intro
2. Emailses
3. Musical Guest: Title Fight
4. Special Guest: Jason Parks
5. Outro

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This is another long one (that’s not what she said! OH!), so get comfortable. 

• Intro
• Lonnnnnnnng-ass email segment!
• Musical guest: TIGON, with tracks from their new record, Infinite Teeth.
• Who are the worst hitters in the big leagues so far this season?
• Holy shit, the Astros are bad.
• Mike Trout just turned 21. What were you doing at 21? 
• Updates on Kowloon Walled City and The Music Project with Ed and Mike
• The Ballad of Jose Mota (You’re going to want to stick around for this, trust me.)

As always, thanks for listening. You can ask questions/get involved/make fun of us in the following virtual locations:

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Also, we’d loooooove it if you took a minute and left a review for us on iTunes!