Immaculate Talk Craig Elsten
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Welcome to Immaculate Talk! Join Joe Sheehan and Craig Elsten, two long-time baseball writers and broadcasters, for a dive every weekday into the latest Immaculate Grid. We'll give you our picks for every square, along with some of the stats and stories that make Immaculate Grid such a fun, daily trip down memory lane! Along the way, we'll share some tips and hacks that might help you score a 9/9 grid tomorrow!
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#187: October 6, 2023, An All-1B Grid! (with Sean Riley)
Craig Elsten and Sean Riley wrap up the week with a creative grid...while Sean highlights some key stories (A-Rod out of the HOF, comparison between Dwight Evans and Andre Dawson), Craig got a creative wind in the morning and filled his grid out exclusively with first basemen! Plenty of fun baseball conversation follows, wide-ranging and we hope engaging.
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#186: Toughest Immaculate Grid Ever? October 5, 2023 (with Sean Riley)
Craig Elsten and Sean Riley navigate their way through Immaculate Grid #186, which as of the time of recording was only conceding 4.6 correct answers on average out of 9! The guys talk about the eternal difficulty of finding players with 200+ hit seasons, as well as some great stories about the Ulitmate Grid Sicko, the Lou Brock-Ernie Broglio trade, and more!
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#185: October 4, 2023 (with Sean Riley)
Craig Elsten and Sean Riley go through one of the more challenging Immaculate Grids of the week (5.4 average correct), talking about the 1993 Blue Jays, low-average power hitting shortstops, the brilliant strand rate of Rollie Fingers, and much more!
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Grid #180: September 29, 2023 (Mailbag episode with Adam Darowski)
Craig Elsten is joined by the baseball Immaculate Gridmaster himself, Adam Darowski, for a special episode that begins with mailbag questions from the listeners for Adam. Then, the boys go square-by-square through Grid #180, including a secret theme (and sub-theme) for Craig's grid, and a "junk wax grid" from Adam!
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Grid #179, September 28, 2023 (Special Guest: Sean Riley)
Sean Riley returns for his second appearance of the week, joining Craig Elsten to go square-by-square through Immaculate Grid #179, including:
A great example of the dangers of overuse from a former Reds aceA closer who Sean gave up on far too early thanks to some bad scoutingA Hall of Famer who was also a Comeback Player of the Year...and much more!
Send in any questions for tomorrow's mailbag at immaculatetalk@gmail.com
Customer Reviews
Keep up the great work!
What a great companion to the grid! Fascinating insights and entertaining anecdotes abound. This show is a can’t miss every day!
This is a good daily show
They seem to really enjoy the grid! So, that means they are geeks like me!
Great chemistry
Two buddies talking baseball, remembering some guys.