Charles is back to talk about the Pirates collapsing below .500, Buster Posey sucking at his job, Carlos Mendoza's firing, the Great American State Fair that nobody is going to, encouraging men to read, and Tommy Pham signing with the Phillies. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to support the show and BattingAroundPodcast.com to submit mailbag questions and get a link to the show's Discord server.

Covering the continued controversy around the Giants chud relievers including a warning from the league and a DOJ civil rights investigation, the tantrum spreading to indy ball, sports bringing people together despite the best efforts of the forces of reaction, Shohei Baby #2 and Jane's 19th century pseudoscientific analysis what that means for his career. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to get bonus episodes and support the show. Go to BattingAroundPodcast.com to submit questions for our upcoming mailbag episode.

Stephen was the only person in New York making a stink face after the Knicks won this weekend, people traveling to American cities for the World Cup find the non-chuds to be wonderful, Trump terrorizes DC residents again, and every nobody on the Giants gets homophobic for Pride Night. The story about MLB issuing them a warning came out while I was editing the episode, but whatever it's just a warning wake me up when someone gets shitcanned. Get bonus episodes at Patreon.com/BattingAround and send us mailbag questions at BattingAroundPodcast.com.

We get to the bottom of the horrific "dirty soda" trend, Jane makes a pro-Knicks case, we channel our inner HR ladies, talk a little bit about baseball, then figure out the perfect voice training strategy. Support the show by signing up for our patreon at the $6 tier or higher and get access to our bonus episodes, including our deranged baseball legacy sequel pitches episode and our recent Wach Party episode on Matrix Revolutions with Bugs Maytrix.

We're starting work on the Manhattan Project-level weapon that will bring down the Tarps Off movement. Sign up at Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to our bonus episodes including the Wach Party series and our recent episode where we pitch baseball movie legacy sequels.

You know what it is, it's a Roth episode: Mets, regional pizzas, eating Costco hot dogs for the first time, things of that nature. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to our bonus episodes, including the one where we pitch legacy sequels to beloved baseball movies and Wach Party, our series on the movies of the Wachowskis.

The Thrust is dead. Long live The Thrust. Go to Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to bonus episodes, including our latest Wach Party episode on The Matrix Reloaded with Manu.

Oops all Damian Lewis' music career. Go to patreon.com/battingaround to support the show and get access to bonus episodes, including our Wach Party series on the movies of the Wachowskis.

Cora and Thompson got canned, Murakami proves the haters wrong (so far anyway), Jazz sucks at challenges and that rocks. Check out Patreon.com/BattingAround and subscribe at the Slapdick Prospect level or higher and get access to our bonus episodes, including our new Wach Party episode with Patrick Willems.

Mamdani's woke sharia has spread from the Mets to the Yankees, a psychosexual pushup contest with Mr. Met and Dinger, the Phillies stink, and a bunch of Looney Toons shit happened the other night, Subscribe at Patreon.com/BattingAround to get access to our bonus episodes and support the show.