Episode 60: Jose Altuve; Eugenio Suarez; Ronald Acuna; Justin Turner; Screwed Minor Leaguers; Naked on LSD; March Sadness
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First and foremost, congrats to AL MVP Jose Altuve on his five-year contract extension!
Episode 60 of Foul Territory: A Baseball Podcast—the Dallas Keuchel edition—kicks off with this week’s Headlines, with hosts Jed Rigney and Jon Sumple discussing Jose Altuve’s five-year extension for $151 million and whether or not it was a necessity at this time, the Reds signing emerging star Eugenio Suarez to a seven-year deal, Ronald Acuna and Victor Robles being reassigned to the minors, Alex Cobb signing with the the Orioles for some reason, Justin Turner breaking his wrist, David Phelps heading for TJS, Jorge Polanco getting suspended for 80 games for PEDs, Aaron Judge being slapped for “tampering” with Manny Machado, the Brewers new spring training facility and the amazing amount of money that won’t be spent to pay minor leaguers a fair wage (leading to a need for “Save America’s Pastime Act” from Congress), Jim Thome’s Wahoo-less HOF plaque, the Yankees and Red Sox playing regular season games in London in 2019, and Ex-MLBer Greg Reynolds’ run-in with an LSD-crazed naked man, and the subsequent lawsuit award.
This week’s Starting Nine gives us nine players with Sweet 16 team names, while Around the Horn takes a break for Italics Predictions—somewhere in between bold and obvious predictions—for NL and AL MVP and Cy Young winners.
Show wraps with fan-favorite Extra Innings and a look outside the world of baseball, including March Sadness with all the top teams bowing out, Cynthia Nixon running for governor of New York as if she was running for mayor, Facebook getting slammed for data mismanagement, and the first death of a pedestrian at the hands of a self-driving car.
