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May 14, 2021
Podcasts
What Are They Doing To The Baseballs, With Will Leitch
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May 13, 2021
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Horse Racing
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May 9, 2021
MLB
Mookie Betts Tagged Outrageously In Dick And Balls
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May 9, 2021
Podcasts
Curt Schilling Demands More Centaurs, With Jason Schreier
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May 7, 2021
Senators Week
Tommy Tuberville Is At Home In The Senate
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May 6, 2021
Senators Week
Which U.S. Senator Would Most Thoroughly Be Obliterated By A Single Check From Brady Tkachuk?
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May 4, 2021
Podcasts
How To Duff The NFL Draft, With Tyler Dunne
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April 29, 2021
Podcasts
Postcards From The Goblin Realm, With Ashley Feinberg
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April 22, 2021
MLB
It’s All Happening For Corbin Burnes
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April 22, 2021
Defector Up All Night
Great News: It’s Filbert’s Birthday
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April 19, 2021
MLB
Sandy Alderson Is Sick Of These Stories About His Many Creepy Mets Coworkers
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April 16, 2021
Podcasts
Activism, Branding, And Writing While Black, With Tyler R. Tynes
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David Roth
April 15, 2021
Defector Up All Night
Willians Astudillo Will Absolutely Die For This Shit
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April 13, 2021
Podcasts
The Inalienable Right To Host The All-Star Game
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David Roth
April 8, 2021
Politics
What Exactly Is Donald Trump Upset About Here?
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David Roth
April 6, 2021
MLB
Private Choices Have Public Consequences
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David Roth
April 5, 2021
Podcasts
Talking Epic Owners, Soft-Tissue Injuries, And Other Baseball Hazards, With Meg Rowley
63
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David Roth
April 1, 2021
NFL
The NFL’s Expanded Season Will Deliver Some Hideously Wrong-Looking Records
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March 30, 2021
College Basketball
USA Today Opinion Writer: Booing Oral Roberts Is Cancel Culture
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March 27, 2021
Podcasts
Where Will The Next Good Movies Come From, With Amy Nicholson
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David Roth
March 25, 2021
MLB
The Rockies Are The Old, Weird Kind Of Bad
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David Roth
March 23, 2021
Defector Up All Night
This Is The Season Of College Basketball Guys
329
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David Roth
March 19, 2021
Podcasts
A Very Loving Hater’s Guide To The NCAA Tournaments, With Maitreyi Anantharaman
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March 18, 2021
Podcasts
Talking Oprah, Royalty, And Baking While High, With Rachel Handler
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March 11, 2021
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