Looking For Baseball’s LeBron

Back on the same coast, Bobby and Alex discuss the Andrew McCutchen at length, dive down the rabbit hole of what a 50 inning baseball game would look like (not baseball, is the answer), take a bite out of Prince Fielder’s wonderfully bizarre food show, and answer a listener question — their very first! — about the possibilities of trading from scrub to star. Then they have an in-depth conversation about why baseball doesn’t have a LeBron equivalent; i.e., an ambassador for the game who becomes a worthy interview on things beyond the sport itself. They wrap it up by bringing back an old friend and seeing how the offseason is treating him.

Links:

Prince Fielder’s food show (and the Hardball Times piece)

The 50 inning game

Tim Tebow is adjusting well

Songs featured in this episode:

Foxygen — “In The Darkness” • Sleater-Kinney — “A New Wave” • Modern English — “I Melt With You” • The Jackson 5 — “ABC”