Mona Lisa Baseball

Park attendance numbers & weather (0:10) Beer sales & Bud Light (3:47) TV numbers, frontloaded interest & the new item on the menu (6:45) JD Davis (9:10) Mexico City 11 HR game (9:38) The Easter Sunday Manny Machado on field interview (11:12) Cereal guy discipline (14:26) Stolen Base Numbers (16:23) Loopholes (20:26) ABS on TV (23:30) The twofer rule change (24:56) Football games are t...

Hating on baseball? (0:10) Rule changes & dichotomy of emotions (3:02) Dad's Giants season tickets (12:22) Personal attendance (13:17) San Diego (14:30) Souvenirs (16:07) Best parks? (19:05) Clocks? (21:10) Pickoff limit? (24:41) Shift ban? (25:31) Self correction & contact hitting vs. swinging for fences (30:43) Robot arms and Tommy John (33:40) Bigger bases? (34:24) We still love basebal...

Attendance is up? (0:10) Bad movies (2:35) Brodie Brazil's beautiful rendering (5:15) It was known (7:45) Insulting Oakland (8:24) 1919 (11:38) It's Bud Selig's fault (16:15) Selling the shift ban (18:35) Analytics eating its tail (19:58) More HR (20:44) Stupid commercials (21:07) Conan O'Brien (22:35) Designated runner (24:42)

Youth commissioner in a large city (0:11) Baseball vs. soccer (1:10) Coaching (2:38) Giants fans (4:24) John Miller & JT Snow (5:51) Youth leagues; PONY, Little League (6:59) MLB influence (13:28) Buster Posey rule enforcement incites uproar (18:52) Shift ban (20:10) Barry Bonds philosophy (22:32) Will Clark was perplexed (22:57)

Bonds vs. Ichiro + crow hopping (0:10) Future of playoffs (0:51) Buster Posey Rule (2:00) Babies at the park (5:51) Self government (11:07) Eliminating pitchers (13:52) The Metaverse does not exist (14:23) Virtual seats (16:52) Joyous (18:04) Balanced schedule (19:44) Spring attendance (22:19) TV product (23:51)

Rob Manfred's media tour (3:06) Will Clark on shift ban (5:38) Fast teams (6:53) Sergio Romo retirement ruined by clock (7:52) Hunter Pence the hype man (12:10) Baserunner clock violation (15:28) Mid-season rule change (16:07) Repeal clock in playoffs? (16:44) Reggie Jackson was going to buy the A's (18:07) Fear and Blackballing (19:39) Some pitchers are working slower now (20:56) Umpire suspended...

Would Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle approve of recent rule changes? (0:22) Reddit hates us (0:52) First year not coaching (2:17) Football, Hockey & violence in sports (3:50) Wayne Gretzky's enforcer & self governing (5:35) Punch the robot! (7:43) Chippy NBA (8:31) No ump on the field & losing your job to technology (11:24) Beer & malts (11:58) We're on youtube (12:57) 2023 Baserunning...

It's Not Baseball Anymore (0:30) The Future of American Hardball (3:24) ABS Umpire Earpiece (4:10) Universal Ballpark Dimensions? (6:42) No Chalk (8:56) Batter Out After 3rd Foul Ball? (9:45) Brandon Belt (11:07) Hit Batsmen Penalty & Flopping (12:25) The Skee Ball Homerun (14:35) Manny Ramirez's Art (16:37) The Sizzle Reel (17:01) Spring Training (18:08) Robot Arms & Pitching Machines (19...

Reds Guy (0:13) NL DH (4:47) The Athletic King of Cincinnati? (9:35) Johnny Bench Statue & Riverside vs Great American (9:14) Barry Larkin & Dustin Pedroya type MVP (10:54) Only Mark McGwire could do such a thing (15:58) MLB EP exposed (16:47) Oakland and the A's are in a toxic relationship (18:48) Dam building in the west (21:04) Giant Dynasty (24:53) Cody Ross trade (25:31) Tim Lincecum...

Why the pitch clock? (0:25) Jeff Passan is so smug right now (3:30) Shorter games = more fans? (4:31) Nolan stared him down (6:37) Who's unserious about baseball? (7:23) Plastic surgery on an already beautiful face (8:47) The Prisoner's Dilemma (10:06) Cohen and the Mets (13:16) Blackballed (16:06) Father and son (17:58) Self Regulation (19:22) On field interview (20:57) Playoff fever & the NB...

The original question (0:19) The box (02:29) Replay pause kills drama (3:37) Booing intentional walks (4:52) Booing umpires & replay delay (6:08) Fool the umpire with your baseballness (6:45) Manager gives ump hell (8:28) Chocolate malts are missing (9:16) Pitchers with bats and Madison Bumgarner (9:45) Extra inning marathons (11:40) Double Switches (12:37) Winning your division (13:16) Restin...

Quick discussion about what to expect in season 3 with A1 and A2.

Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders (0:34) They are tracking you (1:25) Don't worry about A.I., worry about people (6:51) The butterfly effect and Bill Lee (9:51) Chess is a stupid game (12:04) Call it "American Hardball" (18:28) No pitch intentional walk; let the crowd boo! (20:05)

The 89 quake (0:16) Dusty Baker has nothing left to prove (4:26) The Phillies finished 14 back and went to the World Series (7:54) The double switch is complicated and we don't really hate Dusty (8:57)

Fair pay and Sergio Romo (0:24) Kyle Schwarber's last ever slugger bunt (5:20) Why can't he be a DH too? (9:17) I wanna see Verlander bat (11:10) Baseball favorites (12:59) If you were the GM of the new Las Vegas A's (16:10) Uniforms: great and awful (17:08) Fake Astro's stadium and booing Manfred (18:51) Bum in KC: GOAT (21:19) Batting style and numbers (23:00) They retired Will Clark's number (2...

Enjoyed a home run derby? (0:13) Astros baseball (2:11) A happy Dusty Baker (9:33) Ranger Bruce Bochy (15:52) Trading Madison Bumgarner (17:14) Justin Verlander (19:19) Phils were 14 out (20:35) What's up with Tatis? (22:10) Umpire calls perfect game (22:55) Fairness (25:29)

5 day tv delay (0:55) 2022 attendance (3:21) The third place Phillies (4:43) Baseball gods hate the Padres (6:00) Hot Astros (7:47) New stats? OPS (8:50) Downgrading RBIs (9:13) WHIP (10:50) Well that's WAR (11:22) Dan Okrent and fantasy (12:34) OAA, Gold Gloves and Juan Soto (14:05) Shohei in RF (18:36) Death of the double switch (19:05) The Battered Bastards of Baseball review (19:49) Albert Puj...

Crying tears of joy because playoff expansion (1:28) They suspended the automatic runner rule for the playoffs (5:40) A taste of November baseball (7:39) The Cleveland walk-off (7:54) Pretend you're a Dodgers fan (11:52) Now imagine you're a Met's fan (14:30) Magic year for the Padres (17:21) Most of these teams are cheating (18:03) That's not fair! (18:23) Bob Costa's idea for the playoffs (19:48...

First ballgame together (0:18) Getting kicked out (0:50) Licorice, malts and dogs. (2:53) Catching peanuts in the air and allergies (5:33) baseball is an ex that won't stop texting and a never before seen triple play (10:15) Remembering stats and years (11:41) Indifference and babies (12:36) How do you have a baseball show? (14:29) Fantasy baseball? (14:43) Ring central? (16:18) Big wave stadiums...

Top 5 baseball movies (0:15) They're not walking Aaron Judge (1:45) What is "Juan Soto money?" (6:36) Padres: now or never (8:00) Tatis, Barry Bonds and flaxseed oil. (8:30) Football and the viewership collapse (10:49) Dead sports and American Gladiators (12:54) The speed of trackman in tennis and baseball (19:02) More dead sports (21:25) Race walkers walking that line (24:01) Ancient extinct spor...

Bigger bases (0:13) Watching feet, grass lines, and Orwellian baseball (4:56) Bill Murray with Harry Caray (8:23) More ballpark visits? (10:01) The journalist from Milwaukee (12:18) The pitch clock, the pressure situation and building drama (17:30) Worse than imagined (19:35) Rule change announcement timing and the art of the Friday night news dump (24:25) Why is baseball failing? (25:58)

Ticking clocks (0:16) Baseball has a new body (2:15) Encouraging the stolen base by creating rules (5:02) Ricky Henderson and throwing back (8:26) Pitch clock and umpire's discretion (10:37) Vaughn's moment and more new clocks (13:28) Divisions in the Competition Committee (15:39) Shift ban, grass line, and toes (16:07) We can still hold the line (25:00) Universal designated hitter indifference (2...

Extended playoffs: the slow boil (0:13) NCAA 2023 rule changes (4:58) The ban on props (18:45) Game theory and the Kapler declaration (26:14) Guardians: best of the worst (27:47) The A's are tanking (28:42) The Howard Terminal site (31:08) More new college rules and mutual consent (32:27) No 14 inning games anymore (34:52) Candlestick frost pins (37:06) A mean little league coach (38:55)

Welcome to the future (0:22) Cellphone on the field (1:08) The A's are tanking (9:46) Madison Bumgarner's rage about pitchers getting searched (15:47) Booing Brandon Belt at home (26:15) No baseball in the Sunday New York Times (33:28) Giants fans are unhappy (36:36)

Going to see the A's (0:10) Hunter Pence is a baller (1:14) Nets everywhere (4:32) Rooting for the underdog (6:57) Ballpark rules (7:31) Sign parade (10:56) A is for attendance (14:10) Prohibited items (14:45) Flying bullets in Oakland (23:26) Throwing octopi (26:37) The wave (29.16) Attendance speculation (29:48) Sounds of the game (30:24) Attendance final result (36:41)