{"id":3331,"date":"2017-01-20T16:24:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2019-08-14T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:15:42","slug":"crowding-plate-podcast-episode-2017-baseball-hall-fame-inductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2017\/01\/20\/crowding-plate-podcast-episode-2017-baseball-hall-fame-inductions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 34: 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Hojnacki and Greg Hessen are back for the new year and are talking the\u00a02017 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductions. Are they satisfied seeing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?results=raineti02,raineti01&amp;search=Tim+Raines&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Raines<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bagweje01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Bagwell<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodriiv01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ivan Rodriguez<\/a><\/strong> enshrined in Cooperstown? Inspired by this week&#8217;s announcements, they draft their All-Hall fantasy teams.<\/p>\n<p>They end the show by reviewing the free agent deals signed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/encared01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edwin Encarnacion<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?results=bautijo02,bautijo01&amp;search=Jose+Bautista&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jose Bautista<\/a><\/strong>. Both of them missed out on a big pay day and\/or longer deal. At least Jays fans get another year with one big slugger.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 34: 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/37tkt-66ccd1?from=yiiadmin\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Music in this Episode<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Intro\/Outro:<\/strong> \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame\u201d sung by Edward Meeker and \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame\u201d by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isotopespunkrockbaseballclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Break 1:<\/strong> &#8220;&#8217;87&#8221; by The Bouncing Souls and Tim Raines hitting a grand slam against the Mets on May 2, 1987 as called by Vin Scully.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Break 2:<\/strong> &#8220;Throw A\u00a0Bomb&#8221; by Mustard Plug and Ivan Rodriguez making the final out of the 2003 NLCS agaisnt the Giants as heard on Marlins Radio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hosted by Joe Hojnacki and Greg Hessen, Crowding the Plate is a weekly baseball podcast here on Last Word on Sports. It aims to cover the fun, yet analytical, side of baseball once a week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Joe Hojnacki writes about soccer for Last Word on Sports and is also co-host of the Crowding the Plate Podcast. An avid Red Sox fan, Joe idolizes <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harpebr03.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryce Harper<\/a><\/strong> and feels that his fun showmanship is the way to save baseball from becoming overrun by old folks, and from dying out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Greg Hessen is the resident Tigers fan on Crowding the Plate. As somewhat more of a traditionalist, Greg longs for the days of pitchers hitting in the American League and a landscape that doesn\u2019t include things like bat flips and PEDs tarnishing the greatest of all games.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/596817148\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/596817148?et=mTZ9yao8R7RgY0tlAe7_PA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=FOVlR9RDDxhUPysfVvEd-cZVcyowG2emr07I3gtiDCE=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Hojnacki and Greg Hessen are back for the new year and are talking the\u00a02017 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductions. 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They end the show by reviewing the free agent deals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":3334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,2886,2],"tags":[68,792,371,842,843,414,69,915],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-fantasy-baseball","category-featured","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","tag-edwin-encarnacion","tag-ivan-rodriguez","tag-jeff-bagwell","tag-jose-bautista","tag-mlb","tag-tim-raines"],"modified_by":"Josh Greenberg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}