Coronavirus Episode: MLB, All Major Sports Shut Down; Francisco Lindor; Gary Sanchez; Barry Bonds; Tom Brady(Ep.119)
First and foremost, this is the coronavirus episode, the most bizarre episode in the history of Foul Territory!
Episode 119 of Foul Territory: A Baseball Podcast — The Hangover edition — is the wall-to-wall coronavirus episode. Is there anything else to talk about? A few Headlines, and here they are:
- MLB suspending spring training and delaying Opening Day at least two weeks (wishful thinking!)
- All major sports and college spring sports halting their seasons
- Indians trying to extend Francisco Lindor but falling short
- Yankees’ Gary Sanchez coming down with regular flu bug
- Carlos Gonzalez unlikely making Mariners’ roster
- Nationals players golfing with President Trump
- Barry Bonds saying that being MLB pariah is a ‘death sentence’
- FAA yanking license from Dallas aviation company for illegally flying Major League Baseball teams
- Rockies’ Larry Walker was going to be honorary Avs’ goaltender
This week’s Starting Nine honors the Ides of March, and gives us nine players with Shakespeare quote names. They are Bard-tacular! Around the Horn features fantasy baseball Studs and Duds for every team, and the show wraps with Extra Innings and a look outside the world of baseball at where Tom Brady will land when NFL free agency starts and Kate Perry announcing she is expecting her first child with Orlando Bloom.