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Major League A*Holes: IN THE HOLE Wordhole Media
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Major League A*Holes: IN THE HOLE is an irreverent baseball podcast by a couple of opinionated pricks in Chicago and Detroit. We focus on the Cubs, White Sox, and Tigers as well as the Giants and A’s (long story). We'll also throw out our 2¢ on MLB issues of the day whenever we feel like it.
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135 | Sox Type Thing: What A Fucking Week
Much to everyone's surprise (including Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams) Jerry Reinsdorf fired both the #WhiteSox General Manager and Executive Vice President after a combined 50 years of service to the organization | A brief moment of optimism was squashed when rumors of another complicated and incestuous organizational structure emerged with Chris Getz and Dayton Moore(?) at the top | LARUSSAPALOOZA 2: Just when Sox fans thought it couldn't get worse, Tony La Russa rears his ugly head, this time as Jerry's consigliere | Eloy Jiménez is "not really" interested in team leadership role and apparently no one else is either | No, the Sox won't be moving to Nashville, but could the West Loop, Soldier Field, or even Arlington Heights host Comisky 3.0? | Shots fired! But did they come from inside or outside of Guaranteed Rate Field? | PV investigates security protocols one night after a bizarre and scary scene at Sox Park
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134 | Cubs Win White Sox' World Series
We give our full breakdown of two nights of epic baseball between the #Cubs and #WhiteSox at Wrigley Field | Nobody knows what the f**k is going on with Marcus Stroman, including Marcus Stroman | Does anyone really believe "dramatic changes" are coming to the Sox front office after Jerry Reinsdorf, Kenny Williams, Rick Hahn, and Pedro Grifol finish "interviewing" each other? | ASSTHETICS: New Era Caps "Fitted In Black" will document how Sox style impacted '90s hip-hop culture | #SFGiants playoff hopes are on the ropes, but can they bounce back? | Are the #Tigers actually the best team in the AL Central? | With honorable mention to Cody Bellinger, Zack Gelof, Kerry Carpenter, and Luis Robert Jr, Spencer Torkelson is our BADASS of the Week
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133 | Delayed Deadline Postmortem
#SFGiants lack imagination and ambition at the deadline | ASSTHETICS: Giants' Cruise sleeve ad is one of very few to get it right | Jeimer Candelario immediately proves to be the right move at the right moment for the surging #Cubs | HARDBALL DEEP THROAT: Investigative journalism reveals what the f**k happened with the Eduardo Rodriguez deal that never happened between the #Tigers and #Dodgers | Not one, but TWO NO-NO(s) of the WEEK for Michael Lorenzen and Framber Valdez | So much Shit We Couldn't Make Up between NYC and LA | #Orioles easily earn our A*****E of the WEEK dishonor for secretly suspending announcer Kevin Brown for not being 'positive' enough?
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132 | DEADLINE: Who Will Stay & Who Will Go?
Lucas Giolito is heading home to California, but why didn't the #WhiteSox bother trying to keep him? | The #Cubs won't be selling Marcus Stroman or Cody Bellinger at the deadline for different reasons, but they won't be big buyers either | Did the #SFGiants call up top SS prospect Marco Luciano to gain leverage in trade talks? | Eduardo Rodriguez and Michael Lorenzen are going in opposite directions for #Tigers trade value | With honorable mention to Eloy Jiménez, Dansby Swanson, and Belli, Nico Hoerner is our Badass of the Week | #Mariners Jarred Kelenic suffers the Dumbass Injury of the Week
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131 | Indecision Reigns as Deadline Looms
Of the 5 teams we cover, only the #SFGiants are sure to be buyers at the deadline, so do they really have a chance to land Shohei Ohtani? | #Cubs continue to find ways to sabotage their own season on every level | Is a 5-2 start after the break "hot" enough for Scott Harris and the #Tigers NOT to be sellers at the deadline? | Sticky stuff hasn't gone away, it's just finding new ways to hide | What will the #WhiteSox rotation look like on August 2 now that the window has officially closed? | With honorable mention to Kerry Carpenter and Cody Bellinger, Wilmer Flores earns our BADASS of the Week
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130 | Broken at the All-Star Break
With 70 games to go our five teams are a combined 66 games below .500, but there's still plenty of shit to entertain us to the bitter end | ASSTHETICS: How long #AllStarGame unis continue to devolve and make the game harder to follow before #MLB realizes they are being pennywise and pound foolish? | MLA All-Stars: If you combined resources from the teams we cover, you'd come up with one hell of a rotation and a formidable bullpen | Alex Cobb might not be all that delusional when he declared the #SFGiants will land Shohei Ohtani | David Ross is feeling the pressure as the #Cubs remain on the razor's edge of being buyer or sellers | HOLY SHIT! Matt Manning, Jason Foley, and Alex Lange throw #Tigers' first-ever combined No-No! | Window of contention for #WhiteSox is not only closed, it's nailed shut | #Athletics getting Perfect Gamed is just too perfect | It might be time to rename our BADASS of the Week the Luis Robert Award
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