{"id":3885,"date":"2017-02-20T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2017-02-20T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T22:22:35","slug":"crowding-plate-podcast-episode-36-2017-mlb-season-preview-braves-blue-jays-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2017\/02\/20\/crowding-plate-podcast-episode-36-2017-mlb-season-preview-braves-blue-jays-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 36: 2017 MLB Season Preview for the Braves, Blue Jays, and Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Hojnacki and Greg Hessen are back for another part of Crowding the Plate&#8217;s 2017 MLB season preview series. This time, the gang is joined by Brandon Murphy to talk about the Atlanta Braves and their rebuilding effort in segment one. Graham Anderson comes on to talk about the Toronto Blue Jays, their loss of <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 their chances of winning\u00a0the AL East. Finally, the fearless leader of Last Word on Baseball, Josh Greenberg, previews the Boston Red Sox and their World-Series-or-bust attitude.<\/p>\n<h2>Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 36: 2017 MLB Season Preview for the Braves, Blue Jays, and Red Sox<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/4cj53-67e6c9?from=yiiadmin\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Music in this Episode<\/h3>\n<p>Intro\/Outro: \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>Break 1: &#8220;The Lads Who Fought and Won&#8221; by The Real McKenzies and the final call of the Blue Jays winning last year&#8217;s ALDS.<\/p>\n<p>Break 2: &#8220;Look at me I&#8217;m a Winner&#8221; by The Aquabats and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/willite01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ted Williams<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s walk off home run in the 1941 All Star Game.<\/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>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/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\/643179566\" 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\/643179566?et=RkYBAoqgTBJbYXSlxrYodQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=E6XRuGGG8ePgNXNGqq7JfgJc6VbYc9V-6Emuzy8elmE=&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 another part of Crowding the Plate&#8217;s 2017 MLB season preview series. This time, the gang is joined by Brandon Murphy to talk about the Atlanta Braves and their rebuilding effort in segment one. Graham Anderson comes on to talk about the Toronto Blue Jays, their loss of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":3888,"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":[45,2],"tags":[48,68,240,69,36],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-featured","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-mlb","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"modified_by":"Josh Greenberg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","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=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}