Episode 177: Please Stop Hooting (feat. John Fleming)

Guest Madness rolls on with another one of our absolute favorites, John Fleming. And if you've paid any attention to the show in the seeming eternity that it's existed, you know that when John comes on the show, we'll be talking one thing and one thing only: baseball. Baseball comes in all types of forms. Major league baseball. Minor league baseball. College baseball. Little league baseball. Tee ball. The classic video game series "Backyard Baseball." Remember that game with all the quirky little kid characters? I remember enough to have takes about a handful of them. Pablo Sanchez? Goated. Khan brothers? Insanely rizzed out. Angela Delvecchio? A liability at the plate and on the basepaths but an ace pitcher (who the hell else can throw a wicked breaking pitch in both directions?). Dmitri Petrovich? Annoying geek but underrated player. Jorge Garcia? Bitch. Marky Dubois? Another pretty good pitcher but alarmingly inbred. I think there was like a set of twins or something too.We open up with a general discussion of the state of baseball and some other things. Then, JackJohn gets on his soapbox to provide us with a bonus monologue that provides for some intellectual enrichment. For our 3 baseball guys of 2026, we have a bold owner with a lot of outlandish ideas, the brother of a more famous player with a rather dubious distinction, and the rise and fall of a colorful old timey pitcher/champion hog caller.JackJohn Mystery Baseball Segment - 00:38:36Bill Veeck - 00:50:45Larry Yount - 01:24:17Pea Ridge Day - 02:17:55