Leadoff Grand Slam

#30 | Spatula Wrist: Basketball, The Blockbuster BRUSDAR GRATEROL Trade, and Bookie Mets

This week, for our second offseason episode, the thing Jordan and Nick love about baseball is basketball! Because being a baseball fan this offseason was rather depressing, and mostly Jordan and Nick prefer to enjoy basketball rather than behold the objective awfulness of Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball. Fun fact though, we recorded the afternoon of Tuesday the 4th, and on Tuesday evening they announced the Brusdar Graterol trade - aka the Mookie Betts trade if you're pedestrian like that. Which isn't much less depressing but is more fun? If that makes sense. So they recorded a lil' supplement on Thursday the 6th. We also talk about the Florence Y'all's, Derek Jeter, and the big story with Minor League baseball which is definitely not just dogs. Our non-baseball things were Thanks as always to the great https://twitter.com/drawawalk for our artwork. Stuff we talked about: https://twitter.com/Watch_Momentum/status/1218217165687607296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fsports%2Findians-mike-clevinger-astros-g-stealing-signs-penalty https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2020/2/6/21124292/red-sox-dodgers-alex-verdugo-the-unspoken-problem-with-the-mookie-betts-david-price-trade https://www.duluthtrading.com/duluth-trading-silipint-silicone-shot-glass-78863.html?&srccode=GPSHPMN&chnl=ps_prospect_pla_mn&region=in_region&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsvTxBRDkARIsAH4W_j-hu17dJuZi3RxflwXKCJHeYLYbUYjI3rQ5iC0GY6vRn1qCi64wINwaAqhlEALw_wcBA bunch of stuff related to the great thriller writer Megan Abbott (Jordan's non-baseball thing) - https://www.usanetwork.com/dare-me - based on Abbott's book; she's a writer for the show too - https://www.meganabbott.com/you-will-know-me, the book Jordan read that was so good he couldn't read it at night because he would just not sleep and read all nighthttps://www.instagram.com/p/B5_gEPapD-P/?igshid=1x6ieaatw3n7j https://www.netflix.com/search?q=screwball&jbv=81047680&jbp=0&jbr=0 Links: https://twitter.com/LeadoffSlamPod https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leadoff-grand-slam/id1462126505 http://leadoffgrandslam.buzzsprout.com/ (Recorded 2/4/20 and 2/6/20) Screwball

#29 | The Astros are a Deepfake: Blake Snell's Twitch Stream, MLBeards, and Rob Manfred is a Cartoon Villain

On this week's Leadoff Grand Slam, the thing Jordan and Nick love is Blake Snell's Twitch stream.

#28 | Senior Soup Latives: Bandwagons, LoGS End of Year Awards, and the Nats are Cancelled

On this week's Leadoff Grand Slam, the thing Jordan and Nick love is bandwagons.

#27 | Calma: Federal Baseball, Arguing with Robots, and Frankenstein & Jesus

On this week's Leadoff Grand Slam, the thing Jordan loves is federal baseball.

#26 | Eck "Pitch" Tinkering: Pitch Tinkering, We Hate Baseball (Again), and Nick goes Papa Bear

On this week's Leadoff Grand Slam, the thing Jordan and Nick love about baseball is pitch tinkering.