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0:00 A return to normality 2:37 Housekeeping 30:29 The Angels go wacky 35:49 A new world in Miami 39:52 Still some big names out there 42:02 Where is Yu Darvish going? 49:02 Let's talk about Padres prospects 52:32 Let's talk about Cubs prospects 1:00:23 Jason becomes a little more famous 1:05:53 Special Guest: Bobby Keppel, former big league pitcher and Yu Darvish rotation mate. 1:27:36 Musical Guest: Phantom Works 1:29:29 What Are You Drinking? (back to stink) 1:32:58 Quick tales from Dallas 1:43:15 The week ahead . . .

0:00 He's not Jason, but he is in Brooklyn 3:51 Housekeeping 3:33 Email 31:42 Co-Hosting Options 32:33 Signing deadline (Don't Panic!) 38:55 A realistic discussion on what to do about A.J. Burnett 52:59 Do the Blue Jays = CH33TORZ? 1:01:09 Special Guest: MLB.com Cardinals beat writer Matthew Leach on the soap opera of the Cardinals 1:26:50 Listener Of The Week: Philosophy Grad Student/Semi-professional poker player Nate Meyvis 1:47:44 Musical Guest: Radiant Republic Of Texas 1:48:59 What Are You Drinking? 1:55:23 Jay's life with a credential

0:00 Bienvenidos! 5:05 Housekeeping: This is how to stalk us via email, Twitter and various other things 7:23 Emails: Mexican League, hating Michael Vick, and much more 39:05 The politics of ranking prospects 50:32 Watching very young players in Arizona 1:04:05 Checking out the Staten Island Yankees 1:13:02 Special Guest: Rocco Baldelli on his playing career and transitioning into scouting 1:42:04 Special Guest: Qamar Zaman, former play-by-play voice of the Lake County Fielders 2:10:13 Musical Guest: Sybris 2:12:11 What Are You Drinking? (Warning: worst WAYD segment ever) 2:13:50 Pop Culture Moment: The brilliance of turntable.fm 2.17.17 The Week Ahead/In Review

0:00 It's glorious 5:28 Houskeeping - we're are nothing if not accessible 7:32 Somehow, they gave me a national radio show 9:46 Emails, Part I 40:00 Standings at the break: who is going to win 50:13 Let's talk about the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby for less than two minutes 51:50 The best of The Futures Game 1:04:42 Trout v. Harper 1:11:32 Email Redux 1:22:37 Jason's Arizona: Dust storms, press passes and meeting Boras 1:50:32 Wrapping up the Kansas City event 1:55:12 Musical Guest: Victory And Associates 1:57:10 What Are You Drinking 2:00:29 Cooking With The Professor: How to make ribs 2:05:55 The Week Ahead

0:00 Done fixing your mic there? 2:46 Housekeeping 5:44 Emails! 26:58 Defining the term "ace" 35:37 What the hell is a "legit prospect"? 40:30 Talking about the best shortstop prospects 56:46 Special Guest: Josh Fisher of DodgerDivorce.com 1:22:27 Special Guest: Mark Frost; novelist, screenwriter, co-creator of Twin Peaks 1:45:36 Not Jim Tracy on the success of the 2011 Pittsburgh Pirates 1:47:33 Musical Guest: Maynard (includes bonus looky-loo discussion) 1:50:03 Worst What Are You Drinking EVER 1:52:12 The Week Ahead

0:00 Let's talk about what's going to happen 2:35: Housekeeping (Jason loves it) and we explode up the iTunes rankings 6:41 Emails! 29:40 The Arizona Diamondbacks: How is this happening? 36:37 Prospects on the horizon: Lawrie, Ackley, Moustakas, Montero 51:12 The difficulty of being a catcher 59:05 Special Guest: Jim Callis of Baseball Amierca: 2011 Draft Preview 1:44:00 Musical Guest: System And Station 1:45:47 What Are You Drinking? 1:50:07 Cooking With The Professor: Easy Pork Marsala 1:51:34 The Week Ahead: Draft and Improv

0:00 The part where we go over the agenda 3:19 The part where we tell you how to email us, follow us on Twitter, stuff like that 4:55 The part where we read your emails 33:31 Flavors of the month and why we like guys that haven't failed yet 43:18 Revisiting the starter/reliever debate with Aroldis Chapman and Alexei Ogando 53:58 Workload, long tossing and Trevor Bauer 1:11:36 Special Guest Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times on the modern Dodgers 1:54:24 Special Guest: My mom 2:24:21 Musical Guest: Laura Stevenson And The Cans 2:30:00 What Are You Drinking? 2:32:02 Cooking With The Professor: Birthday Cake and more Chicken Fried Steak 2:38:33 The week ahead and Jason gets passive aggressive

The World Series ends, yet the podcast just keeps on chugging along. In this episode, Jason and I discuss the World Series, and more importantly, talk about the potential futures of the two participants, with a special eye on what the next few years might hold for Josh Hamilton. Then we talk about baseball that's still being played, with an eye towards the Arizona Fall League and in-depth discussions of six of our favorite (for one reason or another) players there. After a two week hiatus, our Not manager returns as Not Ron Washington talks about the World Series and then in the first time in podcast history, our musical guest actually joins the podcast with a special appearance by Rob Warmowski of The Defoliants, who amongst things, now blogs about baseball over at Can't Stop The Bleeding. Then it's the usual end-game stuff with what we're drinking and an update on our mental states. As always, we hope you enjoy.

You want a World Series preview? You got it. After going through our email and getting into a serious, heavy discussion on Josh Hamilton and how we choose our heroes, Jason and I break down the Rangers/Giants matchup by position while making our series picks and MVP predictions. Then Jon Morosi, national writer with Fox Sports joins us for his take while also making his own predictions and getting into a fascination talk about the future of the beat writer. Following that, it's the best eight minutes in the history of the podcast, as my mother joins us to make her picks and talk about cookies and tornadoes. Irony of all ironies? My mother is her basement as opposed to vice versa. Then it's the usual wackiness with Roy Blakely of kotowari.org joining us to talk Fallout: New Vegas, so cooking talk, and Jason's new cat.

Jim Callis of Baseball America joins us to talk about Monday's draft signing deadline and the future of the draft itself. Also, what minor league numbers do and do not mean, Kevin's adventures in morning television, and we cook a recipe from a listener.

A preview of the upcoming signing deadline, Anthony Andro of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram joins us to explain last week's Rangers auction, an argument over the virtues of Wal-Mart, and much more .

Oakland Athletics Asst. GM David Forst joins us for a candid talk about making trades, helping Latin American players acclimate, and how he got into the business. Plus, Arcade Fire ruining music, why people hate A-Rod and much, much more.

The Angels make their move, Jay Jaffe on the Hall of Fame, Not Jim Leyland, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Inception and more beverage discussion as we proudly reach double digits on the episode count.

Jason and Kevin return from a slight delay and talk about All-Star week (weak), Special guest Steven Goldman discusses the legacy of the late George Steinbrenner, plus recent trades, recipe corner and Jason is getting a PS3..

Two guests from Baseball Prospectus join us as Marc Normandin explains the Padres to us, while Colin Wyers talks about what is wrong with the new defensive statistics. Plus, a look at post-modern fiction and Not Jim Tracy on big comebacks.

Jerry Crasnick of ESPN joins us to talk about the dynamic of the trade deadline in the modern age. Plus: Ediwn Jackson's no-no, Top prospects still in the minors, this week's dugout blowups and a long discussion on film.

Fans, fandom and paranoia. Criag Calcaterra of Hardball Talk and NBC Sports joins us to talk about THAT kind of fan. Also, a discussion of the Pixies, Iceland, and what we are drinking.

Tom Gillespie of MLB International discusses the growth of baseball in Europe; Jesse Spector of the NY Daily News on the World Cup and a discussion of players with 70+ tools

Special Guest: Keith Law from ESPN discusses the 2010 MLB Draft and why Catcher In The Rye isn't such a classic. Also, a breakdown of Stephen Strasburg's more than impressive debut

Special Guest: Agent Josh Kusnick talks about draft negotations. Also, a visit to Kurt Cobain's death site, third place teams that could make the playoffs, and too mock, or not to mock.