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Shaggin' Flies
by Ben Palmer, Zach Hayes
Join Ben Palmer (@benjpalmer) and Zach Hayes (@pinetarkeyboard) of Pitcher List as they talk to some of the most interesting people in the online baseball community about everything BUT the usual, from baseball to music, movies, the meaning of life, and everything beyond.
Episodes
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SF 32 - The Magic of Johan Santana with David Mendelson
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SF 31 - Scary Movie 3 and Coors Field Popcorn, Enjoyed With Michael Govier
1 – Podcasting and ENDURANCE and performing 3:30 – I’m TIRED 5:15 – Anne Arundel County 7:45 – NO PLUGS 11:15 – TV News is wild 12:30 – Bamboo Bernie’s! 16 – Fascinating Uber rides 19:30 – Maryland seafood, of course 22 – What the hell is the Illinois state flag? 25 – The Dark Side of the Moon 33…
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SF 30 - Alex Chamberlain Is A National Hero (Who Loves The Bullpen Cart)
1 – On a floor 😯 2 – Hawaii! 5 – To Fear The Water While Living On An Island 7 – Naming some guys: Erick Aybar; Gary DiSarcina; Darin Erstad; Tim Salmon 10 – Alex Chamberlain, Math Guy 19 – Mark Buehrle love, always worth noting 24 – Zach is a child 26 – Chad Moeller? Yankees backup catcher Chad...
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SF 29 - Sean Anderson Knows Baseball, Springsteen, and a Good Mac & Cheese Recipe
Ben and Zach are fortunate enough to be joined this week by Sean Anderson, former producer at Chicagoland radio station 670 The Score and current host of the Locked On White Sox Podcast, to talk about a million different things that can't possible be condensed into a single paragraph but include,...
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SF 28 - We Bought A Clip Show!
Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach In lieu of a guest this week – and because we need to keep the lights on somehow – we put together some of our favorite deep cuts from the first 22 episodes of Shaggin’ Flies. Some of our highlights include, in roughly chronological order: -Michael Ajeto calling…
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SF 27 - The Many Different Hats Of Chrystal O'Keefe
Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach Ben and Zach are joined this week by their Pitcher List and South Side Sox Colleague Chrystal O'Keefe (@chrystal_ok) for a delightful and rambling several hours that begins in Indianapolis, Indiana and instantly turns every which way imaginable. --- 1 – Opening…
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SF 26 - The Bard College Holiday Throwdown with Howard Megdal
Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach Zach is joined for a special solo session with Howard Megdal (@howardmegdal) of Baseball Prospectus, The IX, and the Next for a lovely ninety-minute conversation about women's sports, Bard College, the Mets, New Jersey, and plenty more baseball. --- 3 – Working in...
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SF 25 - Live From Sam's Club With Derek Van Riper
Shaggin' Flies: 1 – Barbie! 3 – From Madison to the Bay 4:30 – Boo Daylight Savings 6:30 – DVR is Of Earth 11 – Witnessing the rise of fantasy live from RotoWire 14 – What If We Kissed In The Combination ESPN Zone/Hard Rock Café 19 – The different vibes of fantasy and gambling 22 – Tales from…
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SF 24 - Do Birds Know That Flying Is Cool? A Conversation With Matthew Roberson
Shagging Flies - Ben and Zach are joined by the wonderful and sharp-witted Matthew Roberson (@mroberson22), formerly of FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, and Lookout Landing but currently of the New York Daily News, for a typically meandering joyride around topics from Seattle suburbs, karaoke, the...
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SF 23 - Drew Silva Once Copied Hemingway
0 – Ben butters em up real good 5:30 – It is very much NOT all love, dammit 6:30 – Imagine seizing a team from a billionaire and putting it under control of the state via eminent domain 7:30 – We get to our tangent about owners sucking even earlier than usual, and the relitigation—literally—of…
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SF 22 - Performing and Infinity with Ellen Adair
1:30 – Zach is weary of society and also on a delay 4 – How are you? 5:30 – We are all just hurtling through space on a tiny rock 8:15 – A pair of life coaches 9 – The podcast has in fact started and we are seven minutes and 30 seconds into it 10:15 – The Ellen Adair story begins in Philadelphia,...
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SF 21 - Sara Sanchez Debates Debate
1 – Do people actually care about the Crosstown Classic? 3 – The Sara Sanchez story, originating in Utah 5 – Michael Hermosillo robs Andrew Vaughn of a home run, and Zach forgets that the game he was just watching is not at Wrigley Field 6 – On Wrigley Field 10:30 – Things we don’t like: running...
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SF 20 - A Day in the Life of a Plant Doctor with KC Bubba
2 – a long intro on names, how they’re pronounced, and where they come from 11:30 – Kansas City is cool 13 – What’s in Delaware? 15 – The origin story 23 – has dived 25 – what matters is you 30 – golf 35 – brian the plant doctor 41 – why baseball 52 – on will clark 55 – ballparks 58 – malort 1:01…
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SF 19 - Justin Mason Is Not A Freemason (But It Runs In The Family)
1 – Let’s cut the BS y’all, fantasy sports are gambling 2 – Straight into the deep end with ten minutes about gambling, DFS, fantasy sports, and being an analyst 13 – Who Is Justin Mason? 15 – From D.C. to the Army to NorCal! 17 – Mission Accomplished!!1!1! 19 – On addiction and recovery 21 –...
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SF 18 - Sarah Griffin Can Name All The Presidents In Order
Enjoy episode 18 of Shaggin' Flies, featuring Sarah Griffin (@skg_18), whose work you can find here, as we cover an uncountable number of completely inane topics, including: 1:15 – Ben begins the pod with a handy lesson on figuring out how to deal with delays 2:00 – Silver the 20-year old calico...
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SF 17 - Max Greenfield Has Many Thoughts About Baseball
In Which Zach Accidentally Deletes The Word Doc With All The Episode Notes So, Here's A Recording Of Game Four Of The 2005 World Series Instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaAsMEN7qbA Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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SF 16 - Connor Newcomb Brings Insider Takes on Joe Buck and The Magic of Play-By-Play
2:45 – Plugs and gassing up 4:15 – The history of Locked On Orioles 6 – In Praise of the Google Form 7:30 – Making it through the pandemic with the 2012 MLB playoffs 12:15 – Love to Odrisamer Despaigne 15:15 – College and minor league broadcasting is pretty cool! 17 – Ode to the Bowie Baysox 21 –...
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SF 15 - Patrick Ellington Talks Film Noir, Minor League Baseball, and Still Hating Joakim Noah
3 – Cleveland gets a bad rap! 5 – Why do we all hate Cleveland again? 6:30 – CC is the goat 9 – The Black MLB Players you need to know about series 9:30 – Aaaaand he’s gone 11:30 – The Lindor trade is a garbage thing to have to write a second article about 17 – Jumping from film to journalism and...
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SF 14 - Who Is This Nick Pollack Guy Anyway?
2:00 – Opening with good vibes by remembering the time Nick forgot to record Zac Gallen’s side of a podcast interview 5:00 – Reminiscing on the Slack days 6:00 – Pitcher List meetup! 6:45 – Nick is from Brooklyn but doesn’t have an accent 7:30 – Nick puts a watermelon inside of a stroller to fit…
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SF 13 - DJ Short And Ben Palmer Walk Into The Combination Wilco/My Morning Jacket/Bob Dylan Concert
1 – Anthony Santander appreciation 3 – Shoutout William Henry Harrison 7 – Answering emails as a fantasy analyst is different when you have kids 9 – Imposter syndrome! 11 – Cursed league 12 – Tony Kornheiser: JUST DO IT 13 – Y’all don’t wanna know what my DMs look like 14 – The Story of DJ 15 –…
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SF 12 - Justin Choi Is A Lot Cooler At 20 Than Most Of Us Were
0:00 – I remembered to hit record the first time this week! All the note times are like 45 seconds behind but whatever. 1:00 – WashU! Great school! 4:00 – A bit of history about Justin’s life 7:00 – Seoul is big 9:30 – Aspects of the KBO/in defense of singles 14:00 – The strikeout/homer debate,...
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SF 11 - Bradford William Davis Talks Baseball, New York, Great Editors, and the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man Trilogy
The title says it all—this week, Ben and Zach are joined by Insider investigations writer and former New York Daily News baseball columnist Bradford William Davis, who took the time to talk about everything from Queens to DC and back. Check out the timestamps for some details, or hints, depending...
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SF 10 - Deep Cuts I: Best of Episodes 1-7
Ben and Zach are on a break this week, so we're delivering you a selection of some of the best moments from the first seven editions of Shaggin' Flies, featuring six of our friends from all around the baseball internet. Our pods run pretty long—if you're reading this, you know—so there are a lot…
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SF 8 - Chelsea Ladd Loves High School Sports (and The Bell Jar)
Shaggin’ Flies is joined this third week of April 2021 by Dugout Dish founder and Paducah Sun sports reporter Chelsea Ladd (@chelseabrooke), who was kind enough to chat with us about everything from career choices to covid to crying to high school baseball to the minors to the majors to LSU to…
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SF 7 - Sung Min Kim is Very Thoughtful about MLB as Opera, KBO as Rock Concert, Tinder, and the University of Maryland
This lovely spring week of April 15th, Shaggin' Flies is joined from Seoul, South Korea by Sung Min Kim, brilliant baseball mind, former Lotte Giants front office member, and journalist whose work has appeared at Deadspin, The Washington Post, FanGraphs, and The Athletic for a two-and-a-half hour...
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SF 6 - The Comfort of Numbers and Pedro Martinez with Shelly Verougstraete
This week, Ben and Zach are joined by the one and only Shelly Verougstraete (ShellyV_643) of Pitcher List, Dynasty Guru, and Over the Monster for big ol' conversation that starts with the silent letters in her last name and winds up at the show's second reference to Churro Cinnamon Toast Crunch,...
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SF 5 - Janice Scurio on Power Tools, Peloton, and the Adley Rutschman Multiverse
Ben and Zach talk to Janice Scurio (@scuriiosa) of Baseball Prospectus and NBC Sports Edge for a good long talk about her work as a librarian, entering the baseball writing world, covering the White Sox (and a no-hitter!) in a pandemic, and many things Chicago-related and otherwise. The following...
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SF 4 - Michael Ajeto Explains The Brain
Ben and Zach are joined by Michael Ajeto (@dysthymikey), Pitcher List and Lookout Landing contributor and counselor extraordinaire, for a lengthy conversation that begins with 45 minutes of mental health talk (with a content warning regarding suicidal ideation and other symptoms) before…
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March 4th, 2021 - Chris Towers on Wilco, Mofongo, and the 2003 Marlins
CBS Sports and CBS Fantasy analyst Chris Paul Towers (@CTowersCBS) joins Ben and Zach for a long and winding road of a discussion that includes pop funkos, living in South Florida, being in the Miami Herald print room during Osama bin Laden's capture, covering Isiah Thomas's ill-fated coaching…
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February 25th, 2021 - Jake Ciely Brings DuckTales to PitchCon
Senior Fantasy Writer for The Athletic Jake Ciely (@allinkid) joins Ben and Zach LIVE at PitchCon 2021 to cover serious and urgent topics including DuckTales (original and reboot), Jack Bauer, having it out for Evan Engram, working at a deli, getting cold called by Tony Kornheiser, and most...
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February 16th, 2021 - Alex Fast on Waiting for Godot, David Bowie, and Hoyt Wilhelm's Knuckleball
VP of Pitcher List and MLB Associate Producer Alex Fast (@AlexFast8) joins Ben and Zach to discuss his acting career and filmography, life in Columbia, Maryland, finding inspiration in Samuel Beckett and Stanley Kubrick, his favorite bassists, worst stage experiences, Saturday Night Live, and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Join Ben Palmer (@benjpalmer) and Zach Hayes (@pinetarkeyboard) of Pitcher List as they talk to some of the most interesting people in the online baseball community about everything BUT the usual, from baseball to music, movies, the meaning of life, and everything beyond.
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Join Ben Palmer (@benjpalmer) and Zach Hayes (@pinetarkeyboard) of Pitcher List as they talk to some of the most interesting people in the online baseball community about everything BUT the usual, from baseball to music, movies, the meaning of life, and everything beyond.
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