Episode 75: Diamond Anniversary Show; Scioscia Retirement; Felix’s Woes; More Bartolo Records; Double Cycle; Slender Man; Oscars Add Best Popular Film
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First and foremost, who woulda thunk that Foul Territory would make it to its diamond anniversary episode? We sure didn’t!
Yes, it’s Episode 75 of Foul Territory: Baseball Podcast—the Barry Zito edition—and hosts Jed Rigney and Jon Sumple bring the love in this week’s Headlines, which focus on Mike Scioscia’s upcoming retirement, the potential for Felix Hernandez missing a start because he’s no longer King Felix, the Red Sox reaching 80 wins and expanding their AL East lead, the A’s acquiring Mike Fiers to bolster their playoff run, Bartolo Colon becoming the winningest Latin American pitcher and his new record-chasing goals, Braves broadcaster apologizing for doubting Juan Soto’s age, Pirates minor leaguers Kevin Newman and Jacob Stallings hitting for the cycle in the same game (and both achieving the cycle in the same inning!), Jacoby Ellsbury having season-ending (what season?) surgery, disgraced pitcher Luke Heimlich getting signed by a Chinese team (and then having the signing denied by the league), Jayson Werth bitching about Scott Boras not letting teams know he still wanted to play (despite no longer having what it takes to do so), White Sox employee getting a World Series watch after being wrongfully imprisoned for 23 years, and Oliver Drake becoming the first MLB player to pitch for five different teams in one season.
This week’s Starting Nine pays tribute to the opening of Slender Man this weekend, with nine players with movie monster names, and the show concludes with Extra Innings, a look outside the world of baseball, and the NCAA’s new basketball policy to allow players to have agents (kind of), the Oscars adding a new award—Best Popular Film—to help Disney win more awards and five people charged for trafficking 385,000 of fake Nike Air Jordans worth $73,000.
