{"id":643,"date":"2016-09-23T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2016-09-23T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:27:57","slug":"crowding-plate-podcast-episode-25-san-francisco-giants-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2016\/09\/23\/crowding-plate-podcast-episode-25-san-francisco-giants-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 25: The San Francisco Giants Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last Word on Baseball Giants<\/strong> correspondent <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LWOSDaniel\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Sperry<\/a><\/strong> joins the show to talk about what exactly happened to the <strong>San Francisco Giants<\/strong> this season. Their mid-season collapse has allowed a battered <strong>Los Angeles\u00a0Dodgers<\/strong> team to storm in for the <strong>NL West<\/strong> lead. Their bullpen has been an adventure. The offense has regressed. Daniel gets to the bottom of how and why the team fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, <strong>Joe Hojnacki<\/strong> and <strong>Greg Hessen<\/strong> revisit the insane wild card races and their potential for some bonkers tie breaking scenarios. Afterwards, they look back at the non-playoff teams and figure out which can consider their 2016 a success.<\/p>\n<h2>Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 25: The San Francisco Giants Collapse<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/8az8s-62ea36?from=yiiadmin\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Music in this episode:<\/h3>\n<p>Intro\/Outro: \u201c<strong>Take Me Out to the Ballgame<\/strong>\u201d sung by <strong>Edward Meeker<\/strong> and \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame\u201d by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isotopespunkrockbaseballclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Break 1: &#8220;<strong>Cash, Culture, and Violence<\/strong>&#8221; by <strong>Rancid<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/adriaeh01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ehire Adrianza<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s solo homer against the Dodgers from Wednesday night as heard on <strong>CSN Bay Area<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Break 2: &#8220;<strong>Bad Town<\/strong>&#8221; by <strong>Operation Ivy<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hunteto01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torii Hunter<\/a><\/strong> robbing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bondsba01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barry Bonds<\/a><\/strong> of a home run in the <strong>2002 All Star Game<\/strong> as heard on <strong>Fox<\/strong>.<\/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 <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> 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<div style=\"margin: 10px 0; max-width: 550px;\"><a id=\"ld-3504-7889\" href=\"http:\/\/lockerdome.com\/6169841350483521\/9112744049813528\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"auto\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Should the one game play-in Wild Card be expanded to a three game series?<\/a><span id=\"ld-3504-7889-equiv\"> in <a href=\"http:\/\/lockerdome.com\/6169841350483521\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LastWordOnSports&#8217;s Hangs<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/lockerdome.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LockerDome<\/a><\/span><script>(function(d,s,id,elid) {window.ldInit = window.ldInit || []; ldInit.push(elid);if (d.getElementById(id)) return;var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];js=d.createElement(s); js.id=id;js.async=true;js.src=\"\/\/cdn2.lockerdome.com\/_js\/embed.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document, \"script\", \"lockerdome-wjs\", \"ld-3504-7889\"));<\/script><\/div>\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\/608614564\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 64.814815% 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\/608614564?et=xh8Z-Zt0RINXn0Kskq3-wA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=YehddsQZP7Z5Qq_-vSAkKkUxFQk4RP2ELk6zQTPdoxo=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"385\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Baseball Giants correspondent Daniel Sperry joins the show to talk about what exactly happened to the San Francisco Giants this season. 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