Completely Conspicuous Episode 137: The Boys of Summer

Special guest Brian Salvatore (http://frankblack.net/podcast, http://enthuseyourself.mevio.com) joins me on the show's fourth anniversary to discuss baseball.

Topics:

- Check out Brian's podcasts

- Brian's a diehard Mets fan

- Game 6 of the 1986 World Series was huge

- Jay sticks by his loser Toronto teams

- The Blue Jays are a small market team in a large market

- Brian: Every pitch means something

- Brian wants a longer baseball season 

- It's rare that best team doesn't make it to World Series

- Marlins won Series twice then dismantled team

- Baseball needs a salary cap

- Roy Halladay had to learn how to pitch again

- Steinbrenner made his mark by overspending

- Brian lived in Pittsburgh; nobody cared about Pirates

- Brian: Pittsburgh's PNC Park is best stadium in baseball

- Wrigley Field, Fenway Park have their old-school charms

- Sox-Yankees playoff series in 2004 was amazing

- Jay used to go to Blue Jays games every summer in early '90s

- Brian saw last Expos game

- The Nationals are a sad, sad franchise

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

Black Mountain - The Hair Song

Les Savy Fav - Let's Get Out of Here

Mondo Generator - Dog Food

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The Black Mountain song is on the forthcoming album Wilderness Heart on Jagjaguwar Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/blackmountain and download the song for free at http://www.spinnermusic.co.uk/2010/07/27/black-mountain-hair-song-free-mp3.

The Les Savy Fav song is on the forthcoming album Root for Ruin on Frenchkiss Records. Find out more at http://www.lessavyfav.com. You can download the song for free at http://pitchfork.com.

The Mondo Generator song is on the EP Dog Food on Impedance Music. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/mondogenerator. The song is courtesy of IODA Promonet; find a link to download the song for free in the show notes at http://jzkumar.blogspot.com.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.net. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at http://bobdurling.blogspot.com/.

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