TrapDraw Podcast – No Laying Up

The Seamsters hold our final meeting of the 2025 regular season to look at the close division and wild card races. Then, Randy plays the role of game show host and asks DJ and Soly to guess five players based on their less than ideal second half stats and we close with some thoughts on MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year award candidates. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro⁠ Rhoback FanDuel.com/nlu Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DJ subs in for Randy on this week’s chop session with a robust agenda including our mea culpas and monitoring list, tennis, baseball, recent travels and - in a shocking turn of events - the potential return of The Commish. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro⁠ Rhoback FanDuel.com/nlu Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The NFL preseason has wrapped and we’re a little over a week away from the regular season opener.  Neil, TC, Randy and Poosh have convened the BallKnowers to preview the upcoming season and hold our annual teams draft as Poosh looks to defend his title from last season. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro⁠ Stone Creek Coffee Whoop Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re heading down the home stretch of the MLB regular season with DJ’s Brewers holding the best record in baseball. After a thorough discussion around the top three teams in the NL Central, we examine each of the other division races, provide a much anticipated update on our fantasy league, and offer some thoughts on recent news of potential MLB expansion and realignment. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro⁠ ⁠Holderness & Bourne ⁠Omni Hotels Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Big Guy makes his return to the Trap Draw to chop with TC as we recap Randy’s travels in recent weeks, detail the controversy surrounding Neil and Randy’s Whoop strain challenge, clean out our monitoring list, and sneak in a little travel, football and baseball chatter as well. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro⁠ ⁠Stone Creek Coffee ⁠FanDuel.com/nlu Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TC , Neil and DJ chop on some vacation based topics as the NLU crew is in the midst of Road Trip SZN. Plus some thoughts on music, world events, recent content shoots, our monitoring list and more. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro⁠ ⁠Whoop⁠ - join our Whoop group with code: COMM-NLUNLU ⁠FanDuel.com/nlu Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DJ and Jordan catch up with The Ringer's Alan Siegel to discuss his new book "Stupid TV, Be More Funny: How The Simpsons Changed Television - and America - Forever" as well as our personal favorite episodes, characters and the larger cultural impact the show has had over the course of its 36 seasons. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro StoneCreek Coffee Rhoback Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DJ subs in for Randy on the latest Chop Session as the guys offer Mea Culpas for the group, recent life updates, some non-golf sports takes, thoughts on AI and more. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro Whoop - join our Whoop group with code: COMM-NLUNLU FanDuel.com/nlu Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve reached the Midsummer Classic as the best in MLB convene in Atlanta for this year’s All-Star game.  The Seamsters are here to look ahead the game, the Home Run Derby and sneak in a little celebrity softball game talk as well. Then we discuss the surprises from across both leagues, assemble our all-first half team, and debut a new segment where we try to match a player blindly based only on his career stats. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro Rhoback FanDuel.com/nlu Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Booth Boys are back to offer some mea culpas, recap their 4th of July, what we’re watching and reading, life and goals updates, and the debut of a new segment: The Egghead of the Week Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro Rhoback StoneCreek Coffee Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're halfway through 2025 and it's time for mid-year progress check on our yearly goals from January's pod (TD Ep 322 - https://youtu.be/Ocd7hBwrB0I?si=oIlrqkt5xEXtNaEW).   Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro Whoop StoneCreek Coffee Oars and Alps Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s episode TC is joined by David Ruff of Washed Media to chop it up on a plethora of topics from current events, running a small business, aging with your audience and more. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ServPro Oars and Alps Omni Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A second chop session in as many weeks! Randy and TC return for a robust agenda of topics: what we’re monitoring, some life updates, air travel and logistics talk and a few sports items as well.   Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: ⁠⁠https://nolayingup.com/esf⁠⁠ Support our sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ServPro⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stone Creek Coffee Whoop Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The long wait for another chop session has ended. Randy and TC are back to offer some mea culpas and clear out our monitoring list from a wide range of global events. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: ⁠https://nolayingup.com/esf⁠ Support our sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ServPro⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Oars and Alps⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rhoback Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Seamsters have gathered for an offering of mea culpas from our preseason predictions, a division by division look at the standings, who’s over/underperforming so far this year, a look at some of the worst contracts in baseball and a quick review of our trip to Milwaukee. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ServPro⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Oars and Alps ⁠⁠Whoop - join our Whoop group with code: COMM-NLUNLU Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KVV, Tron and Poosh fire up an OTA edition of the BallKnowers to recap the draft, ask which coaches, players and teams are on the hot seat headed into the 2025 season, and catch up on recent news from around the league. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠ServPro⁠⁠⁠ ⁠FanDuel.com/nlu ⁠Omni Hotels⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠ ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil and Cody are back in the booth to debrief on our first NLU Live, provide some 2025 goals and life updates, answer some listener line questions, what we're watching and reading, and more. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ⁠⁠ServPro⁠⁠ Whoop - www.join.whoop.com/nlu for a free one month trial Holderness & Bourne Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Randy is joined by veteran tennis journalist and author Christopher Clarey in advance of the release of his book “The Warrior: Rafael Nadal & His Kingdom of Clay”.  Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: ⁠⁠ServPro⁠⁠ Oars and Alps Omni Hotels Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining ⁠⁠The Nest⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TC and Randy chop it up with some debriefs on vacation and work travels, NFL draft thoughts, the NBA playoffs, Conclave betting odds, the city of Charlotte officially on notice for next week's PGA Championship and more. Support our sponsors: ⁠ServPro⁠ Stone Creek Coffee Whoop Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining ⁠The Nest⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠nolayingup.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Seamsters are across the pond in Northern Ireland but found some time to talk baseball with a month of the 2025 MLB season in the books. For this episode, we're joined by Paddy Neill - one of our video editors, and a Northern Ireland resident - for his perspective on this distinctly American pastime. Support our sponsors: ⁠ServPro⁠ ⁠Rhoback⁠ ⁠fanduel.com/nlu⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining ⁠The Nest⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠nolayingup.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices