Completely Conspicuous Episode 138: Let's Play Two

Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Brian Salvatore (http://frankblack.net/podcast, http://enthuseyourself.mevio.com) about baseball.

Topics:

- Brian and a buddy pick an AL team to root for every year

- Jay doesn't have a favorite NL team

- The '04 and '07 Red Sox World Series wins were huge, but anti-climactic

- Red Sox fans have nothing to complain about anymore

- Making sense of the Plaxico Burress nightclub incident

- Baseball has the most unathletic athletes

- The '93 Jays were an offensive powerhouse

- Nobody remembers that Mitch Williams and Bill Buckner had good careers

- Jay's hazy bachelor party memories of Clemens beaning Piazza

- Steroids: Was Fred McGriff the last honest slugger?

- Ken Griffey Jr.'s accomplishments overshadowed by alleged roid users

- We should've known better during McGwire-Sosa HR race in '98

- Jose Canseco was right about everything

- Will Roger Clemens get in Hall of Fame?

- Misconception that steroids turn you into a monster HR hitter

- Catchers never used to wear pads

- The wager: Mets vs. Jays for best record

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

The Corin Tucker Band - Doubt

The Hush Now - Vietnam Giraffe

Frightened Rabbit - Son C

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The Corin Tucker Band song is on the album 1,000 Years on Kill Rock Stars Records. Find out more and download the song for free at http://killrockstars.com/artists/viewartist.php?id=2631.

The Hush Now song is on the self-released EP Shiver Me Starships. Find out more at http://thehushnow.com. You can download the song for free at http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2010/08/daily_downloads_2364.html.

The Frightened Rabbit song was sent out recently to the band's mailing list. Find out more at http://www.frightenedrabbit.com. Download the song for free at http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/08/06/new-frightened-rabbit-son-c/.

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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