The music this week is NOT by a Windsor act, but rather by Texas’ Tif Ginn who recently played alongside the great Fred Eaglesmith at The FM Lounge in Windsor. The song is called “Pretty As You Please” off of her 2012 self-titled album.

You can e-mail questions to the podcast at runsbattedout@gmail.com and you can follow us on Twitter. I am @travisreitsma, Steve can be found @SMcEwen_eh and Chris spouts nonsense @Sherlander6.

RBO Podcast 14 Pretty As You Please

Yes, Zaun is an individual who is entitled to his opinions, revolting and backwards though they may be, but he is not entitled to protection from the backlash that they elicit. He is a public figure with influence and a following, so for whatever reason, there are people who look up to and admire him.

The problem with public figures conducting themselves in this manner is that it normalizes the behaviour; the people who admire Zaun will look at his treatment of women and think that it is okay. And because they look up to him, there is a good chance they will go on to emulate (or attempt to emulate) these attitudes and behaviours in their own lives. Believe me when I tell you that we really don’t need more men out there treating women like Gregg Zaun does.

Here are the tweets in question from April 22nd. He has since deleted them, but screen caps are a thing that exist, so nuts to that.

Not only does Zaun act as though being called a misogynist is a compliment, but the revolting manner in which he addresses the woman at whom he is tweeting (“LOL XOXOX doll,” “Hugs and kisses doll”) is so condescending as to be almost unbelievable.

Just so we’re clear: misogynist is a pejorative. Even if you think that your “hero” James Bond was a misogynist, that does not make it complimentary. According to the Oxford Dictionary, a misogynist is “a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women.” So I’m going to need an explanation as to why wearing the label of one who hates women is a point of pride for Zaun.

Although he first claims to be “the furthest thing from [a misogynist]“, even going so far as to bust out every misogynist’s first line of defence (“ask a woman who actually knows me”), the fact that he ends up deciding to embrace and brag about the label is incredibly troubling.

Misogyny is not a title that is given to isolated incidents; it is a problem that saturates our culture (particularly in sports) and affects the way women are viewed and treated by individuals and society as a whole. Actively helping to perpetuate a cultural black mark that thrives on the derogatory treatment of an entire segment of society is repulsive, and deriving any smug self-satisfaction from it is even worse.

Behaving like a pig online is hardly a new thing for Zaun; on the same night, he told the “pretty lady” who tweeted at him that her hostility was going to lead to premature wrinkles and invited her to come watch the game with him in the broadcast studio if she didn’t like her seats.

A cursory glance back through his tweets has you wading through numerous other instances of skin-crawling interactions with and about women, including telling a woman “she’ll do” when she asks if she can come to his Grey Cup party and telling men that if they just want to “spectate” at his charity beer pong tournament, there will be “plenty to do.”

That last one comes complete with a link to pictures of the “Zauntourage girls” in case men want to check out the women that they, too, can objectify. And in perhaps his most well-publicized social media debacle, he once complained that the women in the same bar as him were, “tubby, unfortunately manish, and super stuck up.”

Make no mistake: no one is surprised by his disrespectful conduct. I am tired, and I am angry, but I am not surprised. This has been going on for far too long without any obvious repercussions, and I have had enough.

Because as troubling as Zaun’s questionable conduct is, Sportsnet’s silence on the subject is even worse. Silence, not just once, but over and over again, implies endorsement. They repeatedly look the other way while their on-air talent belittles and scorns women and while once is bad enough, a pattern of silence on aggressive sexism is not something that should be tolerated.

Their apparent indifference is not limited to Zaun—on April 9th, Doug MacLean opened Hockey Central by telling viewers that it was Hazel Mae’s job to clean the studio. It’s true that we don’t know what Sportsnet may be saying to Zaun or MacLean behind closed doors, but their complete lack of any public response to the issue is inexcusable. By repeatedly refusing to condemn his remarks in a public forum, they are complicit in his behaviour and in the perpetuation of the cultural flaws it represents.

It’s easy to say that comments like these are just jokes or to brush them off by asking who among us hasn’t said something they shouldn’t have for one reason or another. It’s easy to say that they are just isolated incidents with no wider implications for women on the whole or specifically in sports. But that is wrong. Nothing happens in a vacuum, and make no mistake, when Zaun brags about how he thinks less of women, and when MacLean goes on air and says that the job of the woman in the studio is to clean, what they are really telling women is you don’t belong here.

Being a female sports fan can be frustrating because sometimes it always feels like you are defined by your gender rather than your fandom. There is always that asterisk there marking you as other. We’ve come forward in great leaps and bounds over the past few years, but things like this do not do anything but alienate women and make it feel like we are unwelcome.

Sportsnet tolerates their employees bragging about being called misogynists and repeatedly speaking about women in demeaning terms. They do not condemn them for saying that their female counterpart’s job is to clean the studio. And that’s just this month.

Their continued indifference on the subject contributes to the perpetuation of the culture and normalization of misogyny in sports. The treatment of women as though they are out of place does not stop with the panelists; it is internalized by every man and woman who hears it and while it is damaging enough to hear as a woman, the knowledge that other men will hear it and believe it is just as bad.

The longer we allow these men to treat women in this manner, the more other men will hear them and believe what they are spewing. The longer we put up with their contempt for women, the more people they will be able to influence. It is time to say enough.

If you wish to register a complaint, you can contact Sportsnet here. The sponsors of Gregg Zaun’s segment (Blue Jays Central) are Blackberry and Home Hardware.

I have yet to see it, but last Friday saw the release of “42” into theatres, starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford. The major motion picture is the first to depict Robinson and so far the reviews have been mostly positive. Most say it’s a tad Hollywood, but it’s a movie made for mass-market appeal—expecting something else is probably foolish.

Still, the Jackie Robinson story is an immesely important one to tell. It’s an important turning point in baseball and as is so often the case, sports mirrors our culture. The breaking of baseball’s colour barrier no doubt helped along the fledgling Civil Rights Movement which at the time was still in its relative infancy.

Unfortunately, there are many parts of this story that fail to be told by Major League Baseball or the mainstream media.

For one, although Robinson was the first black player to play in the Major Leagues post-segregation, forgotten are the scads of black players who played professional top-tier baseball pre­-segregation and how many of them faced the same vitriol (and even worse, in some cases) as Robinson did. There’s also the fact that mere days after Robinson made the jump to the Majors, many other black players followed, such as Larry Doby of the Clevelands and Dan Bankhead, a pitcher who played alongside Robinson on the Dodgers. Although Robinson was certainly more of a star than either of those two players, their complete lack of mention when talking about the integration of Major League Baseball is sort of appalling.

But the biggest omission in the Jackie Robinson story has to do with the more structural role of racism in the 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond in the United States. As humans, we like tidy narratives that are easy to explain and retell. For the sake of storytelling, black and white (no pun intended) is always better than grey. There are good guys and bad guys and probably the good guys win—after facing some adversity.

Unfortunately, nothing in life is that easy. It’s easy for us to watch the players on our TV screens don the number 42 for one day in a touching tribute to an important figure in baseball history, but it’s hard for us to fathom that some of the most horrendous institutional racism to take place in the United States, took place after Robinson broke baseball’s colour barrier. Even as black athletes began to make strides, black people as a whole were struggling and fighting every day just to enjoy the most basic equality offered to nearly every white person.

Robinson himself was a crusader in this fight. For all the “turn the other cheek” narratives we hear about him, Robinson dedicated his post-baseball life to fighting for his rights in the Civil Rights Movement—often being seen standing beside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He became a fervent critic of the American government and the oppression they continued to lay upon black people. He was often heard talking about the structural barriers that continued to exist that kept black people from ever reaching their true potential and asked that his story not be used as a case study in the abolishment of racism—because he understood what it really was: An individual aberration that was allowed to exist in a culture that was built upon bigotry.

This, of course, doesn’t fit in with the narrative the mainstream has built around Robinson. The narrative captured by the Branch Rickey quote in the movie, “I’m looking for a ballplayer with the guts enough not to fight back.”

Robinson, it turns out, was fully willing and able to fight back—a necessary action against the extreme state and cultural power that continues to exist to this day. In order to do Robinson justice on the day dedicated to him, it’s important to acknowledge the broader structural elements at play and not allow the corporate mainstream—whether it be in the media or in Major League Baseball—to whitewash the story. It’s also important to note that Robinson himself was uncomfortable with the idea that people wanted to focus on him individually. He wanted people to focus on the structural importance of truly eradicating inequality.

We tend to view stories like Robinson’s as evidence that we’ve somehow overcome bigotry, and although obvious progress has been made, there is still an undeniable prejudice that exists in modern Western society.

Take the argument outside of the realm of race, and suddenly it’s clear how much further we still have to go. There are no active out-of-the-closet gay athletes in any of the four Major North American men’s sports. The role of women in Major League sports is appallingly low and a dominant culture of sexism is so prevalent, that the link between rape culture of jock culture is on full display on a seemingly every day basis.

It’s important to remember this today when you watch baseball and see the number 42 all over your screens. Yes, it’s important to honour the achievements of Robinson—but it’s also important to remember what he really stood for: equality—something we’re not even remotely close to achieving 66 years after Robinson played his first game with the Dodgers.

Top 5 Starts:

1. Yu Darvish, Texas Rangers RHP vs. Houston Astros

bbFIP -1.70, 8.2 IP, 27 Batters Faced, 0 BB, 14 K, 9 GB, 2 FB, 2 LD, 0 PU

Of course the top start of the week goes to Yu Darvish. As with all metrics that increase in reliability with mass data, there will be some funky looking numbers in the first few weeks. Yu Darvish really was great though, only two Line Drives against over the course of 27 outs is really solid.

2. Dan Straily, Oakland Athletics RHP vs. Houston Astros

bbFIP -0.87, 6.2 IP, 25 Batters Faced, 0 BB, 11 K, 5 GB, 5 FB, 2 LD, 2 PU

Straily’s great start was followed by a demotion to the minors with A.J. Griffin taking his place in the rotation. Not the groundball dominance that Darvish displayed, but still, an excellent start.

3. Alexei Ogando, Texas Rangers RHP vs. Houston Astros

bbFIP -0.70, 6.1 IP, 24 Batters Faced, 1 BB, 10 K, 9 GB, 1 FB, 2 LD, 1 PU

Are you picking up a theme here? Only one walk and another double digit strikeout game from a starter against the lowly and strikout-ridden `Stros. Ogando is not known to be a groundball pitcher so the fact that he got groundballs 70% of the time when put in play is somewhat surprising. Is it a case of poor Astros hitting or a change in approach?

4. Marco Estrada, Milwaukee Brewers RHP vs. Colorado Rockies

bbFIP 0.30, 5 IP, 24 Batters Faced, 0 BB, 8 K, 7 GB, 7 FB, 1 LD, 1 PU

One of the surprising players by bbFIP last season, Estrada continued to do well in the first week of the season. On the surface it was a poor start with 9 hits allowed, but most were on groundballs. The home runs should balance out as the season continues.

5. John Lackey, Boston Red Sox RHP vs. Toronto Blue Jays

bbFIP 0.44, 4.1 IP, 19 Batters Faced, 1 BB, 8 K, 6 GB, 2 FB, 2 LD, 0 PU

John Lackey played his first game in over 500 days, and suffered an unfortunate injury right away. Down 2-1 to Jose Reyes in the 4th inning, Lackey threw a breaking ball and his arm went sickeningly limp as the pitch caromed out of control taking the feet out from under Reyes. Prior to that at-bat, however, Lackey had struck out eight and had accumulated six groundballs.

And in the worst start of opening week via the bbFIP metric:

Liam Hendriks, Minnesota Twins RHP vs. Baltimore Orioles

bbFIP 8.05, 4.2 IP, 24 Batters Faced, 1 BB, 1 K, 8 GB, 4 FB, 10 LD, 0 PU

Wow, 10 Line Drives allowed in a game is rare, though if there was a pitching staff to do so it would be the Minnesota Twins and their philosophy of pitching to contact. Just to illustrate how poor Hendriks start was, Vance Worley and Bud Norris accumulated 10 Line Drives as well–in two starts.

For the complete data, here is a google spreadsheet. Enjoy!

First, Chris, Steve and I talk about teams extending players before they hit free agency, then we talk about a few of the happenings in Opening Week. Finally, I talked to Melissa Couto, a freelance baseball journalist who’s been published in several Canadian publications about what it’s like to be a journalist just starting out and we also talk a bit about her experiences in Florida for Spring Training. You can follow Melissa on Twitter, @ThrowinSmoke

The music this week is by Big Sugar’s harmonica and saxophone player, Kelly Hoppe (AKA Mr. Chill) with a song called Gastown Taxi off of the Windsor musician compilation “From the Tank.”

Enjoy!

RBO Podcast 13 We Left Town in a Gastown Cab

It almost doesn’t matter what sort of super-interesting things the Astros do this season because even if they boost themselves by five—or even ten—wins by aggressive defensive shifts and weird tactical roster decisions, they’ll still be awful and nowhere near a playoff spot. It also isn’t going to cost them anything. And they know it. Which makes what they did on Opening Night against the Rangers pretty fascinating. After Bud Norris pitched fairly well through 5 2/3 innings against the high-powered Rangers, Houston pulled him in favour of their fifth starter, Erik Bedard.

The oft-injured left-hander proceeded to dominate the Rangers, recording the final ten outs of the game while facing only 11 batters to pick up his first career save and only the fifth save in baseball since 2010 that was longer than three innings.

Because of early-season off-days, the Astros don’t need Bedard in their rotation for a while, which is why he was used in such a way on Opening Night. Still, could this be a sign that the Astros are re-thinking bullpen usage?

Under new GM Jeff Luhnow, the Astros have hired two former Baseball Prospectus writers in Mike Fast and Kevin Goldstein. Both have gone on the record while with BP saying that they’d be in favour of teams returning to the “super reliever” model of the 70s and 80s where teams employed a few relievers that could and would go three to four innings when needed. Maybe they have Luhnow’s ear here.

With Bedard, or any other starting pitcher for that matter, the Astros could employ this strategy and would be under no pressure to change if it didn’t work out right away. With their extreme scorched-earth approach, the Astros have afforded themselves the ability to try things out in a real-life laboratory setting.

Of course, Houston went back to more traditional bullpen usage in their second game last night against the Rangers—when they were nearly perfected by Yu Darvish—using five pitchers to get through the last three innings, but the point stands that they’re just the organization to try using super relievers.

The Astros are also getting experimental with their pitching staffs on the minor-league level. Luhnow announced last month that the organization will use tandem starters at every minor league level this year. This was done by, most notably, the Toronto Blue Jays in their low-A and high-A affiliates last season, but the Astros plan to take it one step further and implement it even at the AA- and AAA-levels.

This allows Houston to keep their young pitchers as starters longer—traditionally, if a pitcher struggles at all in a multi-inning role, he’s reduced to a reliever with no further chance to prove himself at starting. Under this system, there won’t be as much pressure to whittle-down the number of starters to four or five on each team. It also limits a young pitcher’s workload since they plan on limiting the first starter to 75 pitches or five innings, and his tandem partner to 60 pitches or four. The next time around, the two tandem partners switch roles.

If this ends up keeping pitchers healthy, there’s a small chance the team could try it at the Major League level if it ever has the personnel to do it. They may not need to go to the extreme, but even just getting back to a bullpen with two or three long-men could be a drastic improvement. Of course, we don’t know for sure if this would keep pitchers healthier and there’s no evidence to suggest this model would lead to more wins, but it’s still an interesting thought nonetheless.

The other ancillary benefit to a change in bullpen approach would be overall roster makeup. Employing the super reliever model would allow a team, in theory, to carry less relievers. Ideally, a team could carry only five, or maybe six, pitchers in the bullpen allowing them to carry more bench players. This could lead to more flexibility with platoons and better pinch-hitting options late in games, which is especially important now that every team has to play games in National League parks on a much more regular basis with year-round interleague.

It’s certainly interesting enough to watch things in Houston closely.

Either way, five months without competitive Major League Baseball is too long and now that it’s back, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, colours are brighter, clouds are fluffier, people are prettier, world peace has finally been achieved. You get the idea.

Life—for anyone who takes the time to read these virtual pages, anyway—is better with baseball in it.

Over the winter, Chris, Steve and I—the main proprietors of Runs Batted Out—have started a podcast. This week, we’ll record our 13th episode and the first while competitive baseball is on our various screens and reverberating over our various airwaves. Having the podcast on a mostly weekly basis has allowed us to be excused for a lack of written content ‘round these parts, but as always, we’ll continue to try and write more.

Both Steve and I are now also writing at FanSided’s Halo Hangout where we discuss all things Angels. I just wrapped up my annual team-by-team preview series over at Getting Blanked—a grueling six-week affair that finished up just under 50,000 words long.

At the end of today, every Major League team will have played at last one game, so before we go much further, I’d like to make ten predictions that will most likely make me look pretty foolish in the coming months.

1)      The Pittsburgh Pirates will finally have a winning season

The Pittsburgh Pirates haven’t had a winning season since 1992 when they came oh-so-close to beating the Braves in the NLCS and advancing to the World Series. Back then, their best players were Barry Bonds (who was just 27 and had only 176 career home runs), Andy Van Slyke and Doug Drabek—who both now have sons who’ve played in the Majors.

For the first time in a long time, there’s optimism surrounding this young team. They’ve put up solid first halves in each of the last two seasons and held first place in the NL Central  as late as August 8 last season. If the Pirates can avoid the second-half swoon, they may finally be able to win more games than they lose.

I’m not saying they’ll contend, but with a young core of position players that includes MVP-candidate Andrew McCutchen and some decent supporting pieces in Pedro Alvarez, Neil Walker and Starling Marte, they could have an above-average lineup. Throw in a pitching staff with some workhorses like A.J. Burnett and Wandy Rodriguez and a few potential superstars on their way in Gerrit Cole and Jameson Taillon and things are looking up.

2)      The Arizona Diamondbacks will finish with more regular season wins than the Los Angeles Dodgers

The D’Backs had a perplexing offseason. They traded away two of the organization’s most talented pieces in Justin Upton and Trevor Bauer for sixty cents on the dollar and seemed more intent on acquiring the mythical concept of ‘grit’ than on acquiring actual talent.

The Dodgers meanwhile, have spent the last year trying to outspend the American military and have damn-near succeeded. They’ve signed Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier to extensions, have acquired Hanley Ramirez, Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, and Josh Beckett via trade and are about to make Clayton Kershaw the richest pitcher in history. Their payroll for 2013 is north of $220-million and could conceivably go higher.

But here’s the thing: The Diamondbacks, although starless, are filled to the brim with very good players and have enviable depth. The Dodgers, although top-heavy, have several overpaid, underperforming players and outside of the starting rotation have no depth to speak of. I think both teams will have winning records, but I think Arizona is the better team.

3)      Bryce Harper will hit 40 home runs and win the NL MVP

Well, after yesterday he needs only 38 more home runs. At just 20-years-old, the Washington Nationals’ outfielder is already poised to step in to superstardom and plays on arguably the best team in baseball. The recipe is there for an MVP season that both stats- and non-stats-people can get behind.

4)      The Boston Red Sox will be a good team again

Many people seem to think that the Red Sox are a true-talent 93 loss team. Most of those same people seem to forget that Boston was hovering around the .500-mark for most of the season in 2012 before injuries struck and the team fell off. After trading Gonzalez, Crawford and Beckett to the Dodgers in August, they were putting out a AAA lineup.

If you can envision bounce-back seasons from Jon Lester and Dustin Pedroia and a healthy Jacoby Ellsbury, this is not a bad team. The reported deaths of Shane Victorino and Mike Napoli have been greatly exaggerated and if David Ortiz can get healthy enough to swing a bat, that’s a pretty deep lineup. Given the relative parity of the AL East, it’s certainly conceivable that the Red Sox will be serious contenders.

5)      The Baltimore Orioles will be a bad team again

We know all about the Orioles’ record in extra-inning and one-run games and the tendency for those two things to regress toward .500 most of the time. We know about their cobbled-together starting rotation from a year ago with the likes of Miguel Gonzalez and Steve Johnson.

There’s case to be made that the Orioles are actually a better team this season with a healthy Jason Hammel, a full season of Manny Machado, and the impending arrival of Dylan Bundy, but the overall talent is still lacking—especially in a division with so much talent. Looking up and down their depth chart, it’s difficult to see a team that’s capable of winning half their games.

6)      Ryan Dempster will be a better pitcher than Kyle Lohse

Ryan Dempster took the money that Kyle Lohse rejected early in the offseason and signed a two-year, $26.5-million deal with the Red Sox. Lohse ended up signing a three-year, $33-million deal with the Milwaukee Brewers just eight days before the start of the regular season. Dempster is entering his age-36 season, while Lohse is entering his age-34 year. Both have been consistent mid-rotation pitchers for a few years now—although Dempster has done it for longer and with less of an injury history.

Both are regression candidates in 2013, but given the choice, I’ll take Dempster and his superior stuff and strike out ability. There’s also the fact that according to Steve’s bbFIP metric, which takes into account the type of batted ball pitchers tend to give up, Dempster was the far better pitcher last year and has been for a few years now.

7)      Mike Scioscia will not be the manager of the Angels next season

In my season previews at Getting Blanked, I picked the Angels to win the AL West and to win 93 games. Projection systems like PECOTA are similarly high on them. But I have some worries. Sure, the lineup is great, but what happens if Josh Hamilton gets hurt as he is wont to do? What happens if their rather thin-looking pitching staff is even worse than we envision it? What happens if Jered Weaver’s sudden drop in velocity is indicative of sharp decline or worse?

If the Angels miss the playoffs again this season, I doubt Mike Scioscia—who has had some disagreements with GM Jerry DiPoto and the rest of the front office on philosophy—makes it into the 2014 season.

8)      Ruben Amaro Jr will not be the General Manager of the Phillies next season

The Phillies fall from grace has been well-documented. They still have Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels, sure, but a lineup that projects a 3-4-5 of Michael Young, Ryan Howard and Delmon Young is not going to win any pennants. Although the Phillies are coming off a long, sustained run of success, it seems that much of their current roster construction—with all its flaws—can be blamed on GM Ruben Amaro Jr.

Since Pat Gillick left after the 2008 championship season, the end of the Phillies run has been in sight. This could be the year that they fall off completely. If they do, Amaro will likely be the one who takes the fall.

9)      Major League Baseball will see its first female General Manager

Amaro is not the only GM on the hot-seat. Dodgers GM Ned Colletti, Pirates GM Neil Huntington, and Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik could all conceivably lose their job over the next calendar year. When the inevitable hammer drops, could we finally see a female executive handed the reins of a Major League club?

It’s certainly been a long time coming and it’s not as if there aren’t any damn highly qualified candidates. Former Dodgers’ and Yankees’ assistant GM Kim Ng appears to be the most likely, but there are others such as Yankees’ VP and assistant GM Jean Afterman and former Red Sox VP and Club Counsel Elaine Weddington Steward.

It only takes one ownership group to shed their archaic thinking to hire a woman as their top baseball executive. I’m forever (and perhaps naively) optimistic and so I say it happens sometime before Opening Day 2014.

10)   Rays reliever Josh Lueke will trip on the uneven turf at Tropicana Field and immediately tear a ligament in his knee. Then, during the fall to the ground, he’ll land awkwardly on his arm simultaneously tearing up both his throwing shoulder and elbow, thus rendering it impossible to make his living as a Major League Baseball player

Because the world should be a just place.

Enjoy all the based balls!

In the 12th episode of the Runs Batted Out podcast, Chris, Steve and I preview the National League East in the final installment of our preview series. Sidenote: There’s actual for real baseball in you TV screen boxes!

The music in this episode comes again off of the “From The Tank” compilation of Windsor musicians, with the band this time around being Four Letter Word; the song, The Put On. Four Letter Word is the evolution of Windsor rockabilly favourites The Hung Jury and features the drumming of the late, great Bradford Helner who passed away from a heart ailment about a year and a half ago. Bradford was the first drummer I ever had the pleasure of playing with back in 2006 when I was just starting as a 22-year-old singer-songwriter. We all miss him very much. For more info on SharkTank Productions, click here.

RBO Podcast 12 The Rabbits in the Top Hat

This here is the 11th episode of the Runs Batted Out Podcast wherein Chris, Steve and I preview the National League Central.

The music you’re about to be inundated with is by London Ontario’s George Manury who honed his craft for many years in the Windsor music scene as a drummer in local legends Ten Indians. This song, from his solo ventures, is called MilesDavisKindaBlueSundayMorningRain and can be found on SharkTank Productions’ Compilation of Windsor musicians called “From The Tank.” For more info about George–who’s one of the biggest sweethearts you’ll ever find–mosey on over here. For more info about SharkTank Productions, click here.

Enjoy!

RBO Podcast 11 – The Bar Smells Like Sex

This week, Steve, Chris and I preview the National League West in our ongoing preview series. We also talked about Josh Thole…like we seem to do every week for some reason.

The music this week is from The Mysterious Zug Island Hum, the song is called Ann Zug and you can find out more about this musical side-project here.

Enjoy! Or don’t. Whatever.

RBO Podcast 10 An Island for Ann Zug