Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 102: Immediately Regret This Decision

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

The Space Between:

A) Sammy Moves

B) Doug Starts a Biz

C) FPAZ!

1^st Base (~12:15)

• Regular Season Wrapup

2^nd Base (~34:45)

• 2018 Awards

3^rd Base (~1:09:15)

Game: "Read Between the Lies"

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:28:00) 

• Postseason Wrapup

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music and additional tunes by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 101: He Must Have a Hot Girlfriend

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~4:30)

• News

• Kershaw
• Paxton
• Bauer
• Cano
• Call-up: Touki Toussaint

2^nd Base (~17:15)

• Extract
• Sammy: Ronald Acuna
• Doug: Corey Kluber (~30:15)

3^rd Base (~45:30)

Game: Over/Under

Home (~1:24:30) 

• FPAZ!
  • Link to the event
• Special Guest: Brent Hershey
• Twitter: @BrentHQ

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music and additional tunes by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 100: He's Neo in the Matrix

Trade Deadline Bonanza! 

Different format - no Bases, all Trades

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

Huge thanks to our sponsor,

Following the Reader

Power Hour DFS (promo code: SammyReid)

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music and additional tunes by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 99: Gonna Die on That Hill

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~6:00)

• News

• Trades: Machado, Hand, Familia
• SP Injuries: Thor, Snell, CarMart
• Call-up: Garrett Hampson

2^nd Base (~30:30)

• Extract
• Doug: Jose Quintana
• Sammy: Alex Bregman (~45:15)

3^rd Base (~1:06:15)

Game: Read Between the Lies

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:23:45) 

• Gary Lollygag Sanchez

Total Run Time: 99 minutes

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music and additional tunes by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 98: All the Mariners Should Have Entered the WSOP

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~2:45)

• News

• G. Richards
• K. Tucker
• All-Stars
• HR Derby

2^nd Base (~27:00)

• Extract
• Sammy: Nick Castellanos
• Doug: Ross Stripling (~37:30)

3^rd Base (~51:15)

Game: "Connect 4"

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:04:15) 

• 2nd Half Story Lines
• Machado
• Mets SP
• Kersh
• AL East
• Mini Vlad
• NL East
• Nats
• Indians
• M's

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music and additional tunes by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 97: Chewin' 'Em Up Like Pacman

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~1:45)

• News

• Kershaw's back
• Acuna's back
• Ohtani taking swings

2^nd Base (~21:45)

• Extract
• Sammy: Juan Soto
  • Soto vs. Nola
• Doug: Walker Buehler (~35:15)
  • Magically sawed in half:
  • 

3^rd Base (~58:15)

Game: The Wonder Years

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:08:15) 

• Where the scouts and the stats shake hands

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music and additional tunes by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 96: Don't Threaten Me with a Good Time

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~3:15)

• News

• The Childish Bambino
• Sano drops Anchor in Single-A
• K. Escobar traded to Nats

2^nd Base (~18:30)

• Extract - Switch!
• Sammy: Jacob deGrom
• Doug: Tommy Pham (~31:00)

3^rd Base (~45:15)

Game: "Whose Line is it Anyway?"

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~56:45) 

• The DH Debate... again

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music and additional tunes by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 95: Insta Self-Check

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~2:00)

• News

• Ohtani :(
• Breaking down the Standings
  • AL
  • NL

2^nd Base (~32:45)

• Extract
• Sammy: Rhys Hoskins
• Doug: Trevor Bauer (~43:00)

3^rd Base (~58:00)

Game: Read Between the Lies

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

   - We also announce the winner of Name That Game from last week

Home (~1:21:00) 

• Trading Season

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music and additional tunes by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 94: Why is MLB So Easy?

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~3:45)

• News

• Kershaw's "back"
• Alex Reyes
• Gleyber, Soto and Meadows
• The Rays start RPs
• The Rizzo play
  • Craig Edwards' article for FanGraphs
  • Sammy's Twitter thread

2^nd Base (~41:00)

• Extract
• Sammy: Manny Machado
• Doug: Jordan Hicks (~47:30)

3^rd Base (~1:02:00)

Game: TBD - "True/False"

- help us choose a name! Email suggestions at Baseballholics@gmail.com!

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:24:00) 

• xwOBA
• Jonathan Judge's piece for Baseball Prospectus
• Another great Sammy Tweetstorm

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

All Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 93: Better Than Kershaw

 Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

• Ep 93 brought to you by Motus Global

1^st Base (~5:45)

• News

• Acuna
• Kingham
• Seager
• Hader
• NYY
• MIN

2^nd Base (~29:15)

• Extract
• Doug: Nick Pivetta
• Sammy: Ozzie Albies (~44:15)

3^rd Base (~54:00)

Game: Tie Breakout

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:06:30) 

• Splitters
  • Matthew Trueblood's article ($$)

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

All Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 92: Crank n' Gank

Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

• Ep 92 brought to you by Motus Global

1^st Base (~4:15)

• News

• Manaea No-No
• D'backs
• Phillies

2^nd Base (~25:15)

• Extract
• Sammy: Didi Gregorius
• Doug: Patrick Corbin (~37:45)

3^rd Base (~52:15)

Game: Connect 4

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:05:30) 

• Call-up season
• The economic disparity of professional baseball
• Michael Baumann's article

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

All Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 91: The Big Haymaker

Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

• Ep 91 brought to you by Motus Global

1^st Base (~5:00)

• News

• Injuries (and lots of 'em)
• O.Albies
• G.Cole

2^nd Base (~28:45)

• Extract
• Doug: Chase Anderson
  • Anderson's RP Plot - 2 clouds:
• Sammy: Matt Chapman (~40:15)

3^rd Base (~54:15)

Game: The Wonder Years

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:07:00) 

• What We Look for in April

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

All Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 90: Eye On Taillon

(Note: Please excuse the static on Doug's feed from ~29:00 to about ~48:00 into the pod. We had some technical difficulties, which will be fixed by Ep 91. We apologize for the inconvenience and annoyance!) 

Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~3:15)

• News

• Ohtani!
• Dodgers
• David Price
• Jordan Hicks

2^nd Base (~28:00)

• Extract
• Sammy: Paul DeJong
• Doug: Jameson Taillon (~40:00)

3^rd Base (~58:45)

Game: Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:16:00) 

• Unwritten Rules

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

All Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 89: Bombed Out and Depleted

2018 Season Preview!

Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~6:00) - NL division by division

• NL West

• NL Central
• NL East

2^nd Base (~42:00) - Predicting the Awards

• MVPs
• Cy Youngs
• Rookies of the Year

3^rd Base (~1:06:15) - AL division by division

• AL West

• AL Central
• AL East

Home (~1:46:00) 

• Breaking down the Baseballholics Fantasy Auction Draft

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 88: Philly Had a Cheeseburger

Fantasy Preview Part 2 (sad about Vlad)

Draft set for the Baseballholics Auction (Sun 3/25/18 at 3:30 EST)

Groundskeeping

• Twitter: @SammyReidFI, @doug_thorburn

• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~4:30)

• News

• Justin Turner injury
• Orioles sign Alex Cobb, Twins sign Lance Lynn
• Mike Moustakas re-signs with KC

2^nd Base (~20:15)

• Fantasy Preview, Pt 2
• Breakouts
• Bargains
• Busts

3^rd Base (~53:00)

Game: Read Between the Lies

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:16:30) 

• Fantasy Draft Strategies, Approaches and Preparation

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 87: The 2018 Fantasy Preview

 w/ Special Guest, Paul Sporer

***The Baseballholics Anonymous Fantasy Auction League has arrived!***

Come join fellow Baseballholics for Year 4 of our annual auction league! 

It's a 5x5 Roto League, swap out AVG, HR, W and Sv for OBP, SLG, QS and SOLD (Sv+Hld).

Auction date and number of teams to be determined (we will shoot for a draft date as close to the season as possible)

To enter, send us an email at baseballholics@gmail.com, with the following items in the body of the email:

1. Review the show on iTunes, then copy+paste your review into the email. It's shameless promotion, we know. (if you have reviewed us already in the past, then please copy+paste the og review)

2. Tell us a BRIEF summary of your Baseballholism, and why you would be a good fit for our baseball addiction group.

Who's in?

Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

Baseballholic Guest: Paul Sporer

Twitter @sporer, Twitch: psporer24

podcast: Sleeper and the Bust

1st Half (~3:30)

• Fantasy Over/Under

• Acuna HR+SB
• L.Castillo K
• Rhys HR
• Berrios ERA
• Albies SB
• Gleyber GP
• ...and many many more

2nd Half (~1:21:45)

• The Evolving Landscape of Fantasy Baseball
• How have things changed in 2018?
• Players, positions, stats
• Strategic Approaches

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 86: I Want to Burn All My Padres Gear

***The Baseballholics Anonymous Fantasy Auction League has arrived!***

Come join fellow Baseballholics for Year 4 of our annual auction league! 

It's a 5x5 Roto League, swap out AVG, HR, W and Sv for OBP, SLG, QS and SOLD (Sv+Hld).

Auction date and number of teams to be determined (we will shoot for a draft date as close to the season as possible)

To enter, send us an email at baseballholics@gmail.com, with the following items in the body of the email:

1. Review the show on iTunes, then copy+paste your review into the email. It's shameless promotion, we know. (if you have reviewed us already in the past, then please copy+paste the og review)

2. Tell us a BRIEF summary of your Baseballholism, and why you would be a good fit for our baseball addiction group.

We can't wait - who's in?

Groundskeeping

• Twitter: @SammyReidFI, @doug_thorburn

• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

The Wedding of Sammy

Welcome to the Evolution! 

( @EvoAthletix )

1^st Base (~11:00)

• News (!)

• Yu
• JD Mart
• Padsmer
• Rays
• D'backs

2^nd Base (~30:00)

• Extract
• Sammy: Gregory Polanco
• Doug: Luke Weaver (~40:00)

3^rd Base (~52:30)

Game: Connect 4

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:12:45) 

• Humidoration Equation

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 85: History is Littered with Carcasses

Fly Iggles Fly!

Sammy's the Big Winner!

Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~9:15)

• News

• Brew Crew Doing Damage: Yelich and Lo.Cain
• Mets Get Permission to SIgn Frazier

2^nd Base (~26:30)

• Extract
• Doug: Blake Snell
• Sammy: Mike Moustakas (~39:00)

3^rd Base (~49:30)

Game: The Wonder Years

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:03:15) 

• Pitchability
  • Answering reader email, defining an amorphous term

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 84: A Multi-Colored Dinosaur Threw-up in the Outfield

Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~5:00)

• News

• Hall of Fame
• Giants get Cutch, Longoria, A-Jax

2^nd Base (~26:30)

• Extract
• Sammy: Evan Longoria
• Doug: Luis Castillo (~36:45)

3^rd Base (~53:00)

Game: Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~1:11:00) 

• Sammy's nominated for a FSWA Award
• The differing skill sets needed to successfully cover / play seasonal vs. DFS

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 83: The Comparables are Variable

Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~1:30)

• News

• A Bomb Cyclone Stove
• Bruce Back to Mets
• Cole Traded to HOU

2^nd Base (~20:45)

• Extract
• Doug: Gerrit Cole
• Sammy: J.D. Martinez (~37:15)

3^rd Base (~47:45)

Game: Read Between the Lies

Sammy visiting, Doug home 

Home (~1:03:15) 

• Regression Across the Board?

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang

Baseballholics Anonymous Ep 82: When a Rock Hits the Windshield

Groundskeeping

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• email: Baseballholics@gmail.com

1^st Base (~1:30)

• News - sorta

• The Cold Stove
• Rox spend grip$ on RP
• Oye Como PHI

2^nd Base (~19:30)

• Shohei Ohtani
• How he impacts the Angels
• How his UCL impacts him
• How he impacts fantasy

3^rd Base (~41:00)

Tie Breakout

Doug visiting, Sammy home 

Home (~55:15) 

• The Marlins

Music by The Ghost Notes:

Intro – Hold On

Outro – Never Seems Right

Break Music by PBR Streetgang