{"id":9271,"date":"2017-09-29T16:17:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=9271"},"modified":"2017-09-29T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:17:14","slug":"crowding-plate-podcast-episode-64-2017-mlb-playoffs-pre-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2017\/09\/29\/crowding-plate-podcast-episode-64-2017-mlb-playoffs-pre-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 64: The 2017 MLB Playoffs Pre-Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regular season is almost over and <strong>Joe Hojnacki<\/strong> and <strong>Greg Hessen<\/strong> can&#8217;t wait. There has been little drama this month as most of the playoff races are all sewn up. The 2017 MLB Playoffs need to get here and provide some, fast.<\/p>\n<p>The two also discuss the increased strikeout rate throughout the league, baseball on Mars, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rominan01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Romine<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/2017\/09\/28\/andrew-romine-play-nine-positions-last-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">playing all nine positions<\/a> in one game.<\/p>\n<h2>Crowding the Plate Podcast Episode 64: The 2017 MLB Playoffs Pre-Preview<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/bbati-755579?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;I Wanna Be Your Dog&#8221; by The Stooges and a quote from\u00a0<em>Bull Durham<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Break 2: &#8220;Until I Break&#8221; by Broken Sunday and another quote from\u00a0<em>Bull Durham<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Bonus!<\/h3>\n<p>Because of Joe&#8217;s bad back discussed at the beginning of this episode, he was unable to sit at a computer long enough to get Episode 63 edited and loaded up to the internet. So, here for your listening pleasure, is Episode 63: A New Home Run Record.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/g92i8-74fc50?from=yiiadmin\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/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 Bryce Harper 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<br \/>\n<a id=\"CYo-a9AGRmV3VD_j60afAA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/844566160\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'CYo-a9AGRmV3VD_j60afAA',sig:'TYjZG4sf-GboziSi76u-EpsjNub2J2kiZcjOSpUc2Xo=',w:'594px',h:'385px',items:'844566160',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regular season is almost over and Joe Hojnacki and Greg Hessen can&#8217;t wait. There has been little drama this month as most of the playoff races are all sewn up. The 2017 MLB Playoffs need to get here and provide some, fast. The two also discuss the increased strikeout rate throughout the league, baseball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":9276,"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":[45,1071],"tags":[1483,68,69,296],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-mlb","tag-andrew-romine","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs"],"modified_by":"Sean Couch (Senior Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271","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=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}