The 2023 Draft is in the books and Prospect Sauce is back to discuss how our mock drafts from last week played out. Nick and Nolan give their favorite picks and discuss which players may develop better than others, and which teams walked away with the most talent. Then, Morgan joins the back half of the episode and we talk about the simultaneous WGA & SAG-AFTRA Strikes, anonymous executives turning into movie villains, and a new theory regarding catching prospects. We entertain Buster Olney's report that the Yankees might be in on trading for Shohei Ohtani. I really need the All-Star break to end because I was watching South Park reruns on MAX while editing this.

Nolan and Brody are honored to welcome Nick Chalmers aka Prospect Sauce back to the podcast for a bit of a marathon episode! We recap some of the biggest stories from the first half of the 2023 campaign and speculate where it might go from here. Are both MVP races in the bag? How many records will Shohei Ohtani break? Then, Nolan and Nick present the first ever Mudville Mock, our preview of the MLB draft with analysis on the most talented prospect pool in recent memory (starts around the 53:00 mark). Will LSU teammate Dylan Crews or Paul Skenes go #1 overall? Could Wyatt Langford, Max Clark, or Walker Jenkins be in the mix? We try to make our best predictions.Follow Nick @ProspectSauce or find us on Bluesky @nolanr.bsky.social @brodys.bsky.social

Domingo German and Kyle Higashioka twirled the 24th Perfect Game in MLB history on Wednesday as the Yankees blanked Oakland 11-0, but the legacy is a bit complicated. Shohei Ohtani broke baseball in the month of June and continues his ascension into the stratosphere. LSU won the College World Series over Florida, with Dylan Crews, Paul Skenes, and Wyatt Langford ensuring their status as the cream of the crop. We remember a bunch of drafts and a bunch of guys.Follow on Twitter @mudvillepod @stuckinthecoil @Bordguy23Follow on Bluesky @nolanr.bsky.social @brodys.bsky.social

What a week for billionaires: moving MLB franchises, dying in submarines, and challenging each other to cage matches. We break down the week of news dumped on our heads by Rob Manfred and David Zaslav, debate the terminology of the extra-inning baserunner, and learn something new about a coveted stat. Nolan reviews Extraction 2 and Wes Anderson's Asteroid City. Brody visits Canada and makes a catastrophic FanGraphs blunder.

Baseball's notorious rivals went head-to-head this weekend and we brought on Sox fan Toney Brown to discuss the unwatchable series and dive deep into both franchises. Anthony Volpe is struggling mightily and Triston Casas is too. We discuss Toney's history as a cinephile and his favorite NYC rep theaters, including the Roxy, where he just went in blind to see a movie that's been on Nolan's mind a lot lately: Lars von Trier's Dogville. We try to unpack the new trend of Brand Cinema, and finish with the Oakland Athletics' electric reverse boycott. SELL THE TEAM!

We record through carbon monoxide poisoning to mourn the season of Jacob deGrom, rave over Elly De La Cruz, and discuss Brody's experience working of Nicole Holofcener's excellent new film YOU HURT MY FEELINGS starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies. Nolan talks about getting invited to Bluesky and draws a few odd similarities between this movie and Ben Affleck's AIR. Follow us on Twitter @mudvillepod @stuckinthecoil @Bordguy23 and Nolan on Bluesky at @nolanr.bsky.social

California ownership makes a fool of itself in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco. Elly De La Cruz is on the cusp of the majors and the Guardians face some tough decisions. Taika Waititi buries his own legacy so the rest of us won't do it for him. Nolan and Brody make convoluted jokes about The Beatles, predict their first trade of the season, and vaguely discuss the ending of Barry. Brody defends Ted Lasso from guidance counselor allegations.

Get ready to meet the man of the hour: Motern Media's very own Boston Johnny! We discuss Farley & Roxburgh's newest film, as well as the cinematic event of the baseball season: a loose squirrel in Yankee Stadium. Studio execs only get more shameless, The Dodgers whiffed big time, and some young outfielders are turning heads.

A double feature of new releases from the Always Sunny gang brings us to the theater. It's a big week for Canada as we discuss the Yankees visit to Toronto and Matt Johnson latest film Blackberry, alongside Charlie Day's directorial debut Fool's Paradise. Bryce Berg joins the studio to talk about a couple of fun movies and possibly dig up Yogi Berra's buried treasure.

Brody's been sautéing his brain in WFAN radio and the Michael Kay Show. The Yankees and Mets have hit some turbulence, the Cardinals are blowing it, and the Astros haven't turned it on just yet. Nolan spills his drink.