Trade Season Underway; Cashner and Bailey; Hall of Fame Inductions; Dwight Gooden; Top Gun Trailer; Tour de France; R. Kelly(Ep.107)
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First and foremost, who’s excited about MLB trade season getting underway?
After a two-week breather following the All-Star Game break, Foul Territory: A Baseball Podcast is back with Episode 107—the Dumb and Dumber edition. Jed Rigney and Jon Sumple shake the rust off by stumbling and bumbling their way through this week’s Headlines, including:
- Andrew Cashner heading to the Red Sox and Homer Bailey to the Athletics to kick off trade season
- Hall of Fame inductions
- Hector Neris getting suspended three games for head-hunting
- Angels pitching a no-hitter in their first home game after Tyler Skaggs’ death
- Rick Ankiel ending his comeback
- Francisco Cervelli giving up catching
- Carlos Carrasco being diagnosed with Leukemia
- Commissioner Rob Manfred saying the ball isn’t altered to get more home runs
- Justin Verlander saying the balls are juiced, turning game “into a joke”
- Yu Darvish winning his first game at Wrigley Field
- Tigers extending GM Al Avila
- CC Sabathia saying he’s interested in a front office role with the Yankees
- Ken Giles hurting elbow due to massage
- Dwight Gooden reportedly getting arrested for cocaine possession last month
- Yadier Molina joining millions of Puerto Ricans calling for its governor to resign
- Athletics running a Liam Hendricks ad in Australia, saying “ROOTED IN OAKLAND”
In honor of the release of the Top Gun 2 trailer, this week’s Starting Nine features nine players with Tom Cruise movie quote names. (The trailer is awesome.) Episode 107’s trade season extravaganza wraps with Extra Innings and a look outside the world of baseball at the Oklahoma Thunder’s dismantling of its team by trading Paul George and Russell Westbrook, Tour de France rider Rohan Dennis’ unexpected withdrawal and disappearance and R. Kelly saying he’s happy in solitary confinement in prison.
