Show notes
Hello! It is we, the based ball mens. We made sound thing for you! It unfold like this:
- The Open, where we are a total mess.
- The Musical Guest: PUP. Buy "The Dream Is Over" here; stream in on Spotify here.
- The Email o' the Week: Ritchie (@ritchieage) wonders if we actually need to be told that dinged dongs are going "back" before they are "gone."
- The Baseball Things:
- We discuss the HR Derby at painstaking length
- We discuss the All-Star Game a little
- We also inveigh about destroying young pitchers' arms and laud the new high-school pitch count rules
- Game time: Riley & Ian attempt to name the starting 9 for the BARVES & TWINT (respectfully borrowed from Andy & Pedro's podcast, Sportswriter's Blues)
- The Old School Player o' the Week is:
RANDY "JUNKMAN" JONES
"Junkman" earned the nickname because of his filthy sinker, not his literal junk. He's the proud owner of some plus #DADLAP, plus #DADHAT (when he actually wore one) and some elite locks that fall somewhere between Richard Simmons merm and Phil Spector's beehive.
Jones was born in Fullerton and went to Chapman University, was a 5th round selection of the Padres in 1972, made his big league debut in 1973, was a 20-game winner and All-Star in 1975, a 22-game winner, All-Star and CY Young Award winner in 1976, and fell off a cliff (not literally) quickly thereafter. That was due in large part to the Padres being exceedingly shitty from 1976 to 1980 (and beyond). He had a 2.24 ERA (3.23 FIP) in '75, and won 22 games and pitched 25 complete games in '76. Jones was traded to the Mets in 1981 and no longer a MLB player by 1983.
After his playing career he coached young players (Barry Zito being the most prominent), opened a couple restaurants, started a catering company – Randy Jones Buckboard Catering – and has his own BBQ sauce.
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