This week we feature one of the low-key best baseball rivalries as the Dodgers travel to St. Louis to take on the Cardinals in a battle of the two most successful franchises in the National League. Peak Pujols, Manny being Manny, and managers managin'!
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The Rivalry! The Red Sox and Yankees from Fenway on August 31st, 2003. The pennent race is heating up as the Red Sox come into the game trailing the Yankees in the East and the Mariners in the Wild Card. Roger Clemens is on the hill for New York as he makes what was supposed to be his last regualr season start at Fenway Park (he had announced he was likely retiring in the offseason. HA).
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Mullets! Mustaches! Powder blue! The Blue Jays travel to the Mistake on the Lake to take on Cleveland in June of 1988. Scott Bailes flirts with a no-no and Cory Snyder comes up clutch. Scott and Travis chat about Cleveland attendance, Ron Washington's defense, the decline of Black players in MLB, Boomer Wells and his beef with Toronto, and more.
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Grant Brisbee's breakdown of the 1988 Orioles and their 21-game losing streak.
Here's a link to next week's game: Yankees @ Red Sox - August 31st, 2003.
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Coax Baseball parties like it's a year toward the end of the last century. May 18th, 1999, the White Sox host the offensive juggernaut Clevelands at Comiskey Park. We've got classic Hawk Harrleson, we've got The Big Hurt, we've got a litany of excellent Cleveland hitters powering the team to the Majors best record to that point in the year.
Scott and Travis discuss Cleveland's uneven roster construction, late 90s payrolls compared to today, the absolute freak known as Richie Sexson, looking back at problematic players and how we should remember them, and the White Sox for like two minutes.
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The Omar Vizquel story (HEAVY content warning: Sexual violence, assault).
Robbie Alomar's second story (heed the same warnings).
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And if you want to get ahead and watch next week's game, we're headed way way back to the 1980s for a Jays Cleveland game from Old Muni Stadium in 1988. You can find it here.
Wherein we introduce ourselves and our dumb little baseball podcast, wax poetic about watching Mike Mussina pitch, discuss the 1994 players' strike, ponder the crumbling Blue Jays empire, laugh at 92 mph fastballs, and defend the honor of Brady Anderson.
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Next week's game - Cleveland @ White Sox - May 18th, 1999
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