Baseball By Paul

Plenty of non-PaulSporer.com goings on lately including:

• Tonight is the LABR mixed league draft. It’s my first “industry expert league”. I have done mocks for magazines before, but never a full league. Jason and I will be co-owning, but I’ll have the reins tonight at the draft with J out for family duty. If there was ever a reason to miss, it’s family stuff! If you’ve listened to the podcast at all, though, we have the same brain so it doesn’t really matter if one of us couldn’t make it. We got saddled with the 14th pick which might not be so bad when you really think about it. There’s the top three, another handful going in that four to seven range, and then a giant cluster of like-valued guys so picking near the end of that clump and then again quickly in the second round won’t be so bad. If you want to follow the draft live this evening, you can do so here. I’m fairly certain Jennifer Lawrence will be following along in the chatroom cheering me on. I mean, it’s whatever. 

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• I did the first of what will be a regular Monday morning appearance on the “Ragz and The Bartender Show” which originates out of South Bend, IN. You can listen to the podcasted cuts here and listen live every Monday morning here (Listen Live in the upper left).

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• In addition to our regular podcast, the Towers of Power Fantasy Hour, I’ve appeared on another BP podcast twice in the last couple of weeks. Effectively Wild is doing their team-by-team previews and I did the Tigers one (obv) plus I contributed to the Cleveland Indians one. I’ll be on for the Nationals and Phillies in the future as well. BTW, I’d bump my Indians win projection by about 3-4 games with the Michael Bourn signing. I could reasonably go high since it’s the adding of him and subtraction of Drew Stubbs, but I’ll stick w/3-4. Speaking of these two podcasts, this probably shouldn’t surprise you because I’m a titan:

Meanwhile, here are some random things interesting me at the moment:

–Between Two Ferns Oscar Buzz Part 1, and Part 2: SO GOOD!!!! Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Bradley Cooper, Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams, and of course Zack himself. Just so much greatness here.

–Harlem Shake everything!

• Peanuts
• Underwater
• Girls, Girls
• Baseball
• Compilations and another (some overlap) and 49 at once (yes, at once)
• The Background
• The Actual Song
• Maybe just Google it & absorb at your leisure

–House of Cards

–Texas being awesome & Beyonce making a semi-duck face look cute as hell

–Jennifer Lawrence is the best. No one is more real during her interviews

–Pitchers & Catchers reporting all over the MLB: