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This Week in Blernsball
Baseball was as boring as mom and apple pie. That’s why we jazzed it up. Each week we debate the latest in baseball news, culture, and ride off on wild tangents. It's time for This Week in Blernsball!
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Episode 80 - The CBA has been Disbanded!
Holy big extensions Batman! Wander Franco and Jose Berríos signed monster extensions in the two weeks since we've met last.
Award season is here...

Episode 79 - The Showdown Commences
Award season has begun, with St. Louis taking home a record 5 Gold Gloves. Also, congratulations to Vladdy Guerrero Jr. on his winning the Hank Aaron...

Episode 78 - Return of the Bracket
The season is over, Atlanta has won, so now what?
The answer, dear listeners, is the bracket we've been putting off since the first wave. It's t...

Episode 77 - Searching for Announcers
NOTE: This episode was recorded before Game 1 of the World Series.
Dodgers vs Red Sox, the Battle for Mookie's Soul! What's that, they didn't ma...

Episode 76 - Don't Forget About Bob Dole!
Apologies for the audio quality, the Internet Ninjas had it in for us this week!
The Red Sox were this close to taking a commanding series lead,...

Episode 75 - A Total Absence of TV Content
This week, we spent so much of our time breaking down the playoffs, we completely forgot our other mission, to talk about TV!
The Red Sox-Rays s...

Episode 74 - The Kids can call you Kaiju
It's playoff season! Perhaps most importantly, the Yankees lost! Get ready for a month of edge of your seat, exciting baseball!
We try to come u...

Episode 73 - It's a Wild Wild Wild Card
The Red Sox, Blue Jays, and Yankees are duking it out for the AL Wild Card, but there can be only one! What's that? There are two wild cards now? Ther...

Episode 72 - Turd Ferguson
Farwell Norm, you'll be missed.
The high flying, incandescent, Blue Jays have caught Boston and New York for the AL Wild Card. How much higher c...

Episode 71 - Hi! Atus
Guess who's back, back again? It's us, back from a knock to the noggin!
The Red Sox are struggling, falling behind the Yankees as the Bronx Bomb...

Episode 70 - Cleveland Guardians of the Galaxy
Good job Cleveland, not only are you not Detroit, you have a baseball team name that isn't a racist slur (starting in 2022)!
The Rays are loadin...

Episode 69 - The Gronk Episode
It's the Gronk Episode! If you know, then you know!
The Toronto Blue Jays are back in Toronto, after nearly two full years on the road! It'll be...

Episode 68 - Kahn Tent
It's the All-Star Week, which is a strange thing to call a three-day weekend.
We revel in Vlad Jr's monster performance at the Midsummer Classi...

Episode 67 - Ooh, the Germans!
Ich bin ein Berliner! And with that, there's some German for you in this Yiddish heavy episode of This Week in Blernsball.
Who made the All Star...

Episode 66 - Piss on you, I work for Mel Brooks!
You may also call this episode Spaceballs: The Podcast! Or We'll Podcast until we get vashnigyered!
In baseball news Hector Santiago was suspend...

Episode 65 - Pants Optional
MLB has a new initiative to attract fans, and it's pants-free baseball! Checking in on the sticky stuff situation got a whole lot more interesting as...

Episode 64 - When I'm (Episode) 64
This episode has two titles. Can you find them both?
Continuing from last week's sticky situation, MLB has issued some punishments for the use o...

Episode 63 - Hack the Bone
We took a week off, so there's lots to discuss this week!
Marcel Ozuna...disappointing. All we have to say is that there's no place in baseball...

Episode 62 - Manoah's Ark
Congratulations Joe West? You broke the record for most MLB games umpired, but at what cost? At what cost!
Vladdy Jr is hot, but the Blue Jays a...

Episode 61 - The Pedro Pascal Appreciation Episode
This podcast is good...But it could be better!
Are we already into Year of the Pitcher territory? Only six weeks into the season, with outstandi...

Episode 60 - I think there are Cabbages in Oakland?
The Oakland A's might be on the move! After unsuccessful negotiations to build a new stadium at Howard Terminal, the A's have gotten the blessing of t...

Episode 59 - Spine Tingly-Dingly
Happy Star Wars Day, if you're listening to this on drop day, then May the Fourth be with you! Also, Happy Cinco de Quatro! Enjoy our longest tangent...

Episode 58 - Look at Me Now Dad!
Big things from juniors this week! Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit three dingers and drove in 7 against the Nationals, and Fernando Tatis Jr. had multiple 2...

Episode 57 - Blame Canada!
The first-place Red Sox? Blame Canada! The 9-2 Dodgers? Blame Canada! Jackie Robinson Day on a Thursday? Blame Canada! Joe Musgrove threw a no-hitter?...

Episode 56 - The Return of the Season
Regular season baseball is back. And MLB made a progressive decision! For perhaps less than progressive reasons, Atlanta is no longer hosting the 2021...

Episode 55 - Zach Snyder's This Week in Blernsball
It's Zach Snyder's This Week in Blernsball - Longer, Edgier, and Batman says the F word. Yes, it's not baseball, but on our nerd-centric part of the s...

Episode 54 - Perfectly Cromulent
This episode is a fine episode. Sure it's no 25th Episode Spectacular, or episode devoted to COCAINE BEAR, but it's cromulent. We talk lots about base...

Episode 53 - COCAINE BEAR
This week... nothing much happened. Sure there were some minor spring training transactions and some exhibition games, but the big news was off the di...

Episode 52 - A Little Bit Blasphemous, A Little Bit Rock And Roll
With Spring Training in full swing, it's time to overanalyze some games! We all know that the Jays are going to be World Series Champions based on 21...

Episode 51 - What Could Possib-bly Go Wrong?
Spring is here! Spring is here! Hope springs eternal with the arrival of spring training. Whether it's the promise of a championship season, or maybe...

Episode 50 - The 50th Episode Gramp-Tacular
Listeners, there are a finite amount of Futurama episodes. So finite that we have to go back to the granddaddy of them all to fill this segment, it's...

Episode 49 - The Worst Football Player of All Time
This week, we lost one of the all-time greats. Farewell Hammerin' Hank, not only were you a terrific baseball player, you were an awesome all-around p...

Episode 48 - Springy the Springfield Spring
THE BLUE JAYS DID IT! You all said it couldn't be done, but the Blue Jays did the ding dong thing! George Springer is a Toronto Blue Jay! Of course, o...

Episode 47 - The John Belushi Funtime Variety Hour
There was baseball news this week! Actual gosh-darn transactions took place! So we spent most of our time talking about cartoons, musicals and the Cit...

Episode 46 - The Utah Episode
The baseball world was...slow this week, to say the least. Very slow. Alright, virtually nothing happened.
Instead, we talk Kobra Kai, The Simp...

Episode 45 - Here's to Another Lousy Millennium
This lousy year has come and gone, here's to another that hopefully doesn't suck as bad.
San Diego is making a push for NL West dominance, acqu...

Episode 44 - Need a Team Name? Why not Zoidberg! (V)-(;,,;)-(V)
Two major stories broke last week, while we were off dealing with some stuff. Firstly, Cleveland is finally changing their team name to something that...

Episode 43 - Yippie Kai Yay, Mr. Potter
There was very little baseball this week, so we have a very silly episode full of The Mandalorian, Nick Cage movies and one very good Alan Rickman imp...

Episode 42 - Hooray Crossover!
We return from our hiatus with lots of baseball news! The Blue Jays might be building a new stadium in Downtown Toronto! The Blue Jays might be in on...

Episode 41 - The Untouchables
They pull a knife, you pull a gun! Wait, wrong Untouchables, OR IS IT!
Congratulations to Kim Ng, Miami Marlins new GM and first Female and Asia...