{"id":6690,"date":"2017-06-07T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2017-06-07T17:47:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:47:37","slug":"crowding-plate-podcast-episode-49-2017-mlb-predictions-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2017\/06\/07\/crowding-plate-podcast-episode-49-2017-mlb-predictions-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 49: 2017 MLB Predictions Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joe Hojnacki<\/strong> and <strong>Greg Hessen<\/strong> look back on their obviously short sighted and foolish 2017 MLB Predictions. How has the first two months of the season changed their preseason views?<\/p>\n<p>Before that, it was a big couple days for the long ball throughout the league. <strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pujolal01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-lwosonbaseball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Albert Pujols<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> hit his 600th career homer and <strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gennesc01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-lwosonbaseball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scooter Gennett<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>, of all people, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/2017\/06\/07\/scooter-gennett-baseball-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bashed four in on game<\/a>. <strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/remyje01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-lwosonbaseball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jerry Remy<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> also said something silly about translators during Tuesday night&#8217;s Red Sox-Yankees contest.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Greg has some fun involving team jerseys and one team mascot flips the bird to his fans.<\/p>\n<h2>Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 49: 2017 MLB Predictions Revisited<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/6mmvs-6baa55?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;Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated&#8221; by Rise Against and Albert Pujols&#8217;s 600th career home run.<\/p>\n<p>Break 2: &#8220;The Future Freaks Me Out&#8221; by Motion City Soundtrack and <strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/judgeaa01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-lwosonbaseball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Judge<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> hitting a home run against the Blue Jays.<\/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-lwosonbaseball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\" 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\/693150946\" 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\/693150946?et=4AQGwg3XTKpEG4UZVXTdoQ&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=TMW4qlT1UvpsC4jZiCMja2tPc5sakrhltR4HafllkrE=&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 look back on their obviously short sighted and foolish 2017 MLB Predictions. How has the first two months of the season changed their preseason views? Before that, it was a big couple days for the long ball throughout the league. Albert Pujols hit his 600th career homer and Scooter Gennett, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":6701,"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":[45,2,1071],"tags":[625,68,1392,69,1393,1387],"class_list":["post-6690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-featured","category-mlb","tag-albert-pujols","tag-baseball","tag-jerry-remy","tag-mlb","tag-mr-met","tag-scooter-gennett"],"modified_by":"Josh Greenberg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690","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=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}