Five and Dive

In Episode 83 Bradford and Craig chat about how meaningful the Wild Card round was and then discuss the four Divisional Series.

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In Episode 82 Emma, and Craig discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Are we having fun yet?: The Fall Frenzy has left everyone a little frenzied out.

2. Bullpen Hell: Yesterday had a lot of relievers going, and it didn’t go well.

3. Let the kids play: Yesterday had a lot of rookies going. Is this a meaningful trend?

4. Gooooooo Homeeeeeee: Trevor Bauer has been in the news a lot lately.

5. A look ahead: The NL Wild Card round finishes up with a marquee pitching matchup and and unknown pitching matchup. Plus, some early ALDS predictions.

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In Episode 81, Jeffrey and Craig chat about prospect eligibility and the last day of the season and then preview all eight playoff series.

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In Episode 79, Bradford, Emma, and Craig chat about MLB’s forgotten testing promises and then discuss five mostly baseball awards topics.

1. Playoffs? Playoffs?!: We are down to the final weekend. The AL teams are locked. The NL teams are still a mess.

2. Hardware Vol. 1: The MVP awards get discussed, with more consensus in the NL than AL.

3. Hardware Vol. 2. Shane Bieber is going to win the AL Cy Young. The NL is a little more complicated.

4. Hardware Vol. 3: The AL Rookie of the Year is between two hitters that faded down the stretch. Plus, Craig doesn’t know what a slurve is.

5. Around the Horn: Should you be worried about the White Sox, and other AL Central chat.

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In Episode 79, Jeffrey and Craig chat about being Coffee Dads and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Who Doesn’t Want It Least: The NL playoff race is a mess, y’all

2. Around the Horn: A wide catcher has a good game, a Yankees lawyer is on the case, a Mets GM returns to Queens, and we say good bye to Cole Hamels and Ron Gardenhire (and the Tigers rebuild?)

3. Jeff Has Been Very Disrespectful: The Nolan Arenado saga continues and we try and fail again to figure out what the Rockies are doing.

4. Three-batter Minimal Effect: tl;dr Just institute a pitch clock.

5. A Look Ahead: The AL Central is on the line, and a requisite Sixto mention.

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In Episode 78, Emma and Craig chat about Fernando Tatis jr, and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. There’s a lot to commend it: Why don’t they just build the whole season out of the expanded playoffs?

2. Doing a disservice: Actually, it’s about ethics in Nick Pivetta’s service time

3. AQWhy are we playing baseball: playing baseball doesn’t matter, the planet is dying.

4. Injury Roundup: Matt Chapman is out for the season. As is Jed Lowrie. We only break the big news on Five and Dive.

5. Bubble Bound: Josh Donaldson told an umpire to take that call and shove it.

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In Episode 77, Jeffrey and Bradford discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Moving Day: The Yankees leave the Orioles in their wake, and the Marlins and Mariners are making moves towards the playoffs.

2. Meet the Mets: The Mets may finally have a new owner, but we ask the important question, what does this mean for A-Rod?

3. Around the Horn: A no-hitter, an unnecessary protest, and a proper musical protest

4. Protocol Me Maybe: The Giants had a Covid case, then they didn’t, and the media didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory reporting on it. Plus, what will the playoff bubble look like?

5. A Look Ahead: Two big series with playoff (well, seeding) implications.

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In Episode 76, Jeffrey and Craig have frankly a too long conversation about Kyle Wright and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Minor Threat: The PBA is about to expire and MLB seems about ready to take over the minors.

2. Big Scores Are Back: 19-0? Psshaw.

3. Around the Horn: An ump show, a second base glove, a steal go home, and some NL Central action on and off the field.

4. Thanks I hate it: Rat Leon thoughts and a reading from the book of Dubuque

5. A Look Ahead: Did not expect the Orioles and Marlins to be highlighted this late in the season.

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In Episode 75, Bradford, Jeffrey and Craig discuss grilling and then engage in five rounds of buy or sell for 2021.

1. Are you buying the White Sox as a top 3 team in the AL?

2. Are you buying the Phillies as the second best team in the NL East?

3. Are the Yankees always going to have a dozen injured players?

4. Are the Athletics the best team in the AL West?

5. Are the Diamondbacks really this bad?

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In Episode 74, Emma and Craig discuss six mostly baseball topics.

1. Rob Manfred get a forehead tattoo challenge: Rob Manfred likes baseball. No, there will be no follow up questions.

2. Rule 1: Leave the memes to the professionals, not the professional baseball teams.

3. My New Dads: The trade deadline was 90% Padres deals

4. Remembering Tom Seaver: The Franchise was more than just the best Mets player ever, he might have been the greatest pitcher ever.

5. Don’t make CC come out of retirement: The Rays and Yankees are at it again.

6. What to Watch (In Between Blue Emu Ads): The Padres or the White Sox, who ya got?

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In Episode 73, Bradford is joined by Shakeia Taylor and Cory Frontin to discuss a week of strikes in baseball, whether or not Rob Manfred cares about the sport or Black people, and Jackie Robinson Day.

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In Episode 72, Jeffrey and Craig discuss Bo Bichette and five other mostly baseball topics.

1. Call Up SZN: There’s been oh so many debuting top prospects. Here are several of them.

2. Team Entropy: The AL playoff picture seems fairly settled at the halfway point, the NL one? Not so much

3. August and Everything After: What is the trade deadline going to look like this year?

4. Who ya got: There’s no wrong answer, but Jeffrey definitely has an answer.

5. A Look Forward: A series with playoff implications, and a pitching matchup with trade implications

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In Episode 71, this time Emma and Craig successfully record a podcast about five mostly baseball topics.

1. To Anyone I’ve Offended: Thom Brennaman said a anti-gay slur and gave a weird apology.

2. Let The Kids Play: Let’s talk about some unwritten rules and some grand slams.

3. Protocol Me Maybe: Another team has multiple positive tests, and this is only the third topic because see title.

4. Playoffs? PLAYOFFS?!: We are about halfway through the season. Who’s in and who’s out?

5. A Look Forward: Pitching is the name of the very lightly researched game once again.

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In Episode 70, Bradford and Craig chat NBA playoffs and then tackle five mostly baseball topics.

1. Protocol Me Maybe: Zach Please has a blog, the Cardinals are back on the field, and baseball has some more (new) guidelines

2. Around the Horn: The unbalanced schedule is leading to some bad nights for Red Sox pitching, and J.A. Happ had a meeting that could have been an e-mail, or something like that.

3. Weights and Measures: The ball is un-dejuiced?

4. Welcome to Planet Earth, a debacle: Well, we agree with the overall sentiment, Joe. Kelly, but maybe less so with the specific point you are making.

5. A Look Forward: Bradford likes finesse pitchers. Craig wants to see if the Dbacks have what it takes (to make the playoffs along with half the league).

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In Episode 69, Bradford and Craig tackle five mostly baseball topics from Craig’s temporary office space that might as well be on a dial up modem.

1. Protocols Me Maybe: The Cardinals still haven’t played a game, Zach Plesac breaks some protocols, and the Reds consider fans.

2. The First Rule of Fight Club is Hide Behind Your Teammates: The Astros have another dust up.

3. Around the Horn: Quick thoughts on an iconic four-base error, a pitcher with your grandpas mustache, and a pitcher with a 1990s mustache,

4. 2 Legit 2 Quit: Some teams are off to a hot start, are they for real?

5. A Look Forward: Good pitching matchups abound.

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