Weekend Best Bets (feat. Cowell, Cooktown and the Ohtani pitcher-only problem)

It’s just Rolsey and Spoon this week with Eric still away, and we’re recording a day early because Spoon’s heading to Cowell, South Australia tomorrow to visit his partner. He was so excited he joined the booth five minutes early, which genuinely never happens.

The Cowell trip sends Rolsey straight back to his months living in Cooktown, Far North Queensland, and the boys spiral into a love letter to Australian country towns.

We then briefly touch on Shohei Ohtani’s latest start and why Dave Roberts should obviously win multiple Manager of the Year awards for the impossible task of “replacing Shohei Ohtani” (heavy sarcasm, just to be clear).

The Mets are floundering… but we promise not to do the full Mets thing again.

Spoon then runs through a few teams he’s high on right now, including some surprises, before we look at the most interesting weekend series coming up.

Finally, Spoon drops two plays for the Friday slate in Australia (Thursday in North America) featuring Rangers vs A’s and Mariners vs Padres.

It’s a loose one, feel free to skip the first five minutes and the last five minutes. You’ll be entertained either way.

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