Episode 81: Game 163; Wild Card Winners; Most Important Postseason Players; Duquette and Showalter Out; Oktoberfest; NASCAR; Leonardo DiCaprio
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First and foremost, how about those game 163s and Wild Card games? Ouch for the Cubs, right?
Episode 81 of Foul Territory: A Baseball Podcast—the Eddie Guardado edition—brings wall-to-wall, or ball-to-ball, coverage of the game 163s and Wild Card craziness. The Cubs, one win away from the best record in the National League, are done after two woeful performances at home, where they scored a meager two runs in 23 innings. The Rockies move on to face the Brewers and hot-hitting Christian Yelich. In the AL Wild Card game, the Yankees ousted the upstart A’s and their pitching-by-committee approach with long balls from Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, two players who need to deliver against the Red Sox. Will Chris Sale be vintage Sale or fire Sale? And will the Red Sox lefty rotation survive the Bronx Bombers’ bats? An exciting series that Jed and Jon both hope becomes a five-game classic (which Jed hopes the Red Sox win). All optics point to the Red Sox, Astros, Dodgers and Brewers advancing, but we’re up for some surprises (as long as the Red Sox and Dodgers win, says Jed).
In other Headlines, Dan Duquette and Buck Showalter are out in Baltimore, which is not necessarily their fault (Peter Angelos*cough*), Paul Molitor won’t return as skipper of the Twins, Red Sox ratings were the highest since 2013 (big surprise), MLB releases ad slamming the “unwritten rules” of baseball and encourages fun, Carter Stewart’s grievance with the Braves remains unresolved, the FBI is exploring possible corruption with international recruiting and the LAPD arrests a crew for burglaries of Robert Woods, Yasiel Puig and LeBron James.
This week’s Starting Nine honors Oktoberfest with nine players with names of famous Germans, and Around the Horn looks at the most important players on the remaining playoff contenders.
Show wraps with Extra Innings, a look outside the world of baseball, with NASCAR removing restrictor plates at Daytona and Talladega (more crashes!), Lady Gaga fans being accused of writing fake Venom reviews to help bolster A Star is Born at the box office this weekend and Jed’s near-famous experience with Leonardo DiCaprio, who chose to make the film The Beach instead of choosing Jed’s script, Strange Times.
Strange times, indeed.
