Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Successfully Wild Episode 2220: The Baseball Layers of The Onion

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In a bonus EW episode, Ben Lindbergh talks to screenwriter and former editor-in-chief of The Onion Robert Siegel about his basic Onion opinion piece, “In My Day, Ballplayers Have been For Shit,” how The Onion used to method sports activities protection, the significance of headlines and inventory images, satirizing baseball vs. satirizing different sports activities, why The Onion hasn’t misplaced its fastball, and extra, plus (55:53) a postscript.

Audio intro: Josh Busman, “Successfully Wild Theme
Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Successfully Wild Theme

Hyperlink to “In My Day” article
Hyperlink to “Take Me Out” tune
Hyperlink to The Onion baseball archive
Hyperlink to Siegel’s IMDb
Hyperlink to Siegel’s wiki
Hyperlink to 2003 Yankees story
Hyperlink to Counsell story
Hyperlink to Brock AB story
Hyperlink to warehouse hearth story
Hyperlink to “No Technique to Forestall This”
Hyperlink to Congress/Capitol story
Hyperlink to Ripken story 1
Hyperlink to Ripken story 2
Hyperlink to Little Leaguer story
Hyperlink to T-ball headline
Hyperlink to Onion recognition story
Hyperlink to Our Dumb Century
Hyperlink to ODC archive
Hyperlink to “Heartbreaking” photograph wiki
Hyperlink to Ben on Sloan
Hyperlink to Fb favorites thread
Hyperlink to Reddit favorites thread
Hyperlink to NotGraphs favorites submit
Hyperlink to Angell’s boyhood recollections
Hyperlink to Ben on expertise over time
Hyperlink to Ottavino declare
Hyperlink to Tungsten Arm article
Hyperlink to Dunne at Fanatics Fest
Hyperlink to Ben on Marvel stans
Hyperlink to Grantland on dying baseball
Hyperlink to SI on dying baseball
Hyperlink to Ohtani futures guess photograph
Hyperlink to first-pitch damage
Hyperlink to Chourio prediction
Hyperlink to Holliday prediction
Hyperlink to Shania tune
Hyperlink to Ryan’s Twitter thread
Hyperlink to CV wiki

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