Infinite Inning 154: North Atlantic Salmon-Fishing Erotica

This one has everything: David Roth, the Defector, a mysterious player with a name that suggests a large animal with a slack colon, a rumored Mickey Mantle trade of 1958, the Mets, and more.TABLE OF CONTENTSFrank Lane’s Hypothetical Mickey Mantle Trade and the Media*Three Announcements Invoking Craig Calcaterra*New Baseball Song: “The American Game”*Bevos and Hippos (Oh My)*David Roth: “Jeopardy” Category: Bad Royals Trades, All Thing Gabriel Byrne, and other Trivia*What is The Defector?*Freelancing is a Drag*The Vanishing Internet*The Defector Elevator Pitch/A Blogging Fresca*How Can a Website Have a Broad-Based Appeal When Fox Exists?*The Walt Disney Formulation and Ursine Copulation Coverage*How Will the Nation React to College Football Being Cancelled? (The “Sham of Amateurism”)*…And the MLB Model*The Marlins and the Cardinals*Are We Enjoying the 2020 Season?/Low Offense*Andres Gimenez: Blogger-Sized*Marcus Stroman Opts Out*Have All Teams Become the Mets?*Summing Up the Cespedes Era*Albert Pujols and the Long, Long Contract*Goodbyes.Warning: One or two cusswords and mature animal subject discussed. Hide the hippos.The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game’s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?