Shagging Flies - Ben and Zach are joined by the wonderful and sharp-witted Matthew Roberson (@mroberson22), formerly of FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, and Lookout Landing but currently of the New York Daily News, for a typically meandering joyride around topics from Seattle suburbs, karaoke, the utility of flying, Mariners fandom, and countless other meaningless asides. Subscribe and enjoy!

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• As usual, on names (2)


• Sammamish Washington (3:30 )


• Travis Pastrana (7:45 )


• Every kid needs humbling (15)


• Having a cup of coffee at FanGraphs (23:30 )


• Writers are weird (24:30 )


• Tales from the college newspaper beat at the University of San Diego (27)


• Oh no, Charlie Morton (33:30 )


• From Dominoes to New York (with some sales in between)


• On Comedy and Carrie Underwood (43)


• If you’re doing karaoke, make sure you know the song (47)


• Phone drop! (1:00 )


• Why would you have a roast for your birthday?


• Why baseball? (1:04:30 )


• Stadium talk (1:11 )


• Spending money? Me? A baseball franchise owner? (1:18 )


• On Yankees fans and Boston fans (1:21 )


• Hisashi Iwakuma love (1:25 )


• Order of Operations Trifecta! (1:30 )


• Concert of choice: Prince (1:37 )


• Who in history would you talk to? (1:45 )


• Not quite a UFO story, but not not a UFO story (1:48:30 )


• Do birds know that flying is cool? (1:52 )


• Matthew almost calls PETA as a child (1:55 )


• The Full Count! (1:59 )
  
  
  
  • Matthew’s Book Recommendation: Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
    
  
  
  • Matthew’s Music Recommendation: Sawayama
    
  
  
  • Matthew’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Hacks / Catch Me If You Can
    
  
  
  • Matthew’s Food Recommendation: Xi’an cuisine
  
  
  • Matthew’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Going for a walk
  
  
  
  

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