Episode 46: Awards; Hot Stove; Stanton & Ohtani sweepstakes; Jersey Shore; Matt Lauer
First and foremost, down goes Matt Lauer! Down goes Matt Lauer!
For Episode 46 of Foul Territory: A Baseball Podcast — the Lee Pettitte or Andy Smith Episode — hosts Jed Rigney and Jon Sumple continue their offseason trend of bantering about all things other than baseball, including white meat or dark meat, food poisoning, politics (Fauxcahontas), Brian Regan doing it right, Frontier, Downton Abbey and Godless, and on and on.
For this week’s Headlines, we talk Cy Young and MVP winners, Hot Stove action with Giancarlo Stanton & Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes and wheeling Jerry Dipoto, and The Coppy Effect for the Braves following sanctions.
The Starting Nine topic is week late but as delicious as leftover turkey and stuffing: players with Thanksgiving sounding names.
Finally, Episode 46 wraps with Extra Innings, a look at this week’s news outside of baseball, including Prince Harry’s engagement to actress Meghan Markle (and the couple’s plan to take over the U.S.); Charlie Rose, Al Franken and Matt Lauer falling from grace; Charles Manson finally kicking the bucket and, Jed’s favorite news of the week, the return of Jersey Shore.