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Episode 016 - You Can’t Spell MLB Without BLM

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

As sports begin to think about maybe returning to play out the ends of seasons and attempt play-offs, we discuss the latest in their plans for return as well as the social justice actions many players have taken up.

Contents include:
-We're #1!!...in plague
-NHL re-opening plans
-MLB and BLM
-WNBA and the plague season
-NWSL and being the first sport back playing live
-Mystics/Wizards and Juneteenth marches; Juan Toscano-Anderson and the Currys
-NBA bubble
-NBA/NHL/MLB cultural differences on the ability to publicly dissent with the re-openings
-MLB attempts at re-opening
-Extended Pandemic-prompted Meltdown
-Unwritten Rule of Baseball: Go easy on the relief pitcher

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Episode 013 - It All Touches Itself

BY Rachel Baxley and Nancy Kerr

In which Nancy and Rachel reminisce about being young women playing sports, and the sexism that comes with. (We still promise laughs.)

Contents include:
-Sports updates: drafts? maybe? time is a flat circle
-Unwritten Rule of Baseball: Nobody but the pitcher can step on the pitcher's mound
-Being a female sports fan: as a kid; as an adult
-Church league sports vs school sports; sexism in sports leadership and culture
-being an adult woman sports fan

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Episode 010 - the one where we jinx everything

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

The world is upside down! Who knows what we talk about? It's a surprise to everyone! (This was recorded pre-pandemic pod. Did I mention the world is upside down?)

Contents include:
-Current teams update: Steph Curry is back! but D. Russell is traded; luxury tax and the salary cap; hockey trade deadline and the Caps' acquisition of Kovalchuk; Caps are sucking, Flyers are doing amazing; Rebecca's love of the trade deadline
-Olympics talk: what's it like to have your fav players on a national team with players you sports-hate?
-Baseball spring training: Cactus League vs Grapefruit League; RIP Joyce Schobrich, dedicated baseball fan; Astros bean counter
-Warriors 03/05 game: Steph Curry's return; Warriors loss; retro uniforms

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Episode 008 - Kobe Bryant Redux

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

Welcome to episode 8! This week we talked a bit more about the Astros and what to do when the winner gets ousted, Rebecca's undying love of Nicklas Backstrom, a scandal in figure skating, the first out queer player in men's pro hockey, and more. Come for the sports intros, stay for the bad jokes and occasional cat noises.

Contents include:
-Kobe Bryant further discussion
-Current teams updates: Astros cheating scandal rolls on and we absolutely are not gleeful; Warriors trades and Capitals re-signings; Warriors and Sharks playoff chances (slim to none); Morgan Cipres sex scandal
-Elite Ice Hockey League pride week
-Unwritten Rule of Baseball: don't swing at the first pitch when your team is behind
-Parental Question Corner
-Super Bowl Preview: the 49ers and Katie Sowers; Colin Kapernick; Marlins shoutout; commercials and their cost
-Women's Hockey (or the lack thereof)

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Episode 006: Yet Another Stick Infraction

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

Tune in for talk about hockey coach firings and hirings; further examination of women’s sports (and why the fuck they aren’t more popular - spoiler: it’s sexism!!); and a frank discussion of the rules regarding when and how one should handle one’s stick in public spaces.

Contents include:
-Current teams check-in: baseball offseason; Caps taking too many penalties; Warriors showing minor improvement; Sharks fired their coach; Rebecca is an Ovi stan
-Sharks vs Capitals game: high stick goals; hat tricks (natural and otherwise); Evander Kane; Sharks getting up and then falling down; Tomas Hertl appreciation corner; Brent Burns
-Unwritten Rule of Baseball: play for the tie at home, but play for the win on the road
-Women's professional sports: baseball v softball; women's professional baseball; feminine coding in women's sports
-Football post-season: Fuck Tom Brady; post-season match-ups
-Ice Skating: 90's retrospective; ice skating events; figure skating scoring; current figure skaters we are watching

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Episode 003: Taking The Big D

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

Welcome to episode 3! In this episode we cover:

Current teams updates: Warriors are... rebuilding. Caps and Fliers are killing it. Stars are on the struggle bus.

Unwritten Baseball Etiquette: don't steal third with two outs - what are home runs, and why do we want them?
- the World Series (with apologies to friend-of-the-pod Lani, and to Nancy's father)

The Caps-Stars game from October 12: how'd it go???
- Michal Kempny's face
- Hockey terms 101: delayed penalties, face-off dots, empty nets, goal differential, challenges, goalie interference, power play, penalty kill
- why a goalie would ever leave the net/sympathy for goalies
- Dylan Larken's hockey butt
- Commentator Sayings Lightning Round
- Ding Dong Don Cherry's fired, we say good riddance.

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Episode 001: The Inaugural Episode

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

First full episode of the Foul Puck Podcast! Join us as we explore the genesis of the podcast's premise (sports talk and explanation by and for non-traditional sports fans, aka women, PoC, queer folk, and sports latecomers) and meet our hosts!

Featuring:
- Nancy, basketball enthusiast and sometime hockey fan (Warriors, Sharks)
- Rachel, baseball guru and sometime basketball fan (Marlins, A's)
- Rebecca, hockey know-a-bunch and sports fandom commentator (Stars, Capitals)

Also, it’s the one in which we learn exactly how much all our hosts sound alike. Yikes!

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Episode 017 - A Mesh Hat

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

Are sports really coming back? Is this a socialist podcast in disguise? Does league management know what a "bubble" really is? Listen to find out!

Contents include:
- Designated Hitter 101: pros, cons, and bunting
- Changes We'd Like To See To Baseball
- NWSL Challenge Cup: who we're rooting for; Rachel's short-lived Australian soccer career
- NHL return-to-play plan (such as it is)
- The burning question no one will answer: how many infected people is too many infected people?
- NBA and MLB return-to-play plans (one of these is better than the other)
- Socialism break
- Unwritten Rule of Baseball: the Color Line

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Episode 014 - Dueling Toxic Masculinities

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

Welcome to the ongoing pandemic sports podcast, where we talk about what sports would be happening if sports were a thing right now! This week Rebecca teaches us all about cycling.

Contents include:
-Cycling 101: Tour de France and the ability to social distance; team cycling vs individual cycling; strategies for winning; ascending and descending; Lance Armstrong
-Unwritten Rule of Baseball: don't walk in front of the catcher on your way to home plate
-Capitals player Brandon Leipsic's shitty misogynist group convo and the ensuing consequences
-sexism in sports as a female fan cont'd: general misogyny; mansplaining; issues of physical safety
-women's sports should come back first!!
-current status of sports return plans on a scale of dumb to heckin' stupid
-cross stitch sectional

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Episode 011 - #stickystuff

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

Our second quarantine pod, and our first full podcast recorded after the cessation of sports and the official declarations of Shelter in Place for two of our three hosts.

Contents include:
- Facts of The Current Bullshit: What's the effect of Covid19 on our actual lives right now? On our families?
- A timeline review of The Day Sports Stopped
- Treatment of staff; who in sports is currently getting paid?
- Parental Question Corner: Was the NBA shutting down a turning point?
- How have our teams responded to the crisis? What is the role of public shaming?
- The class issues of Covid19 as illustrated via sporps
- Unwritten Rule: Don't Touch Your Face and Wash Your Damn Hands!
- Adopt an MiLB player
- Quarantime filling

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Special Episode: Pandemic Pod

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

Recorded after the news that All Sports Is On Pause, our hosts discuss the impact of such a sudden stop to all sports with regard to the seasons in progress, the season upcoming, all the many people who work in sports, and the hobbies they will now have time for.

If you enjoy this podcast, please go give us a 5-star rating on iTunes or the platform of your choice! Hit us up with questions and comments at @foulpuckpod or email us at foulpuckpodcast@gmail.com!

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Episode 007: Sharks v Stars!!

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

In which we discuss the play of and results from the 01/11/2020 San Jose Sharks vs Dallas Stars hockey game; we very much don’t discuss the Capitols and the Warriors recent losses; and we talk about the inherent weirdness of playing on a team with team members the age of your literal children.

Contents include:
-Unwritten Rule of Baseball: don't celebrate a homerun or a strikeout
-Current teams updates: A's rehires; Warriors continue to suck; Capitals sure did play a game, and that's all Rebecca will say about it
-Sharks v Stars
--a good game! everyone showed up to play
--Pavs return
--Sharks and the Early Scoring Trouble
--Patty Marleau's 1700th game goal
--teammate age gaps
--Stars defense
--Sharks player contracts
-Hockey talk: goal differentials; current conference standings; "Pollock" is not an insult when it's your name; back-up teams

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Episode 004: The One With The Cats (Knees Spread and Fingers a’Goin’)

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

Our fourth episode! In this episode we talk about some rough hockey injuries, a full out brawl in football, professional courtesy vs cheating when you can get away with it in baseball, and much more, including:

Unwritten Rule of Baseball Etiquette: don't steal bases when you're far ahead or far behind
- "do your best! ...except for sometimes"

Jazz v Warriors game Nov 11 game recap:
- experienced vs inexperienced teams
- clock management, foul management, free throws
- new additions to the Warriors

Current teams updates: baseball MVP's; current controversial hockey call; Av's are injured; Warriors are improving? A little bit? Maybe?

- Mike Fiers and the Astros controversy
- Preview of an upcoming discussion: Gritty/Claude Giroux

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Episode 002: Taking One For The Team

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

It's our second episode! Welcome to the pod! We're still figuring this out! In this episode we talk about:
- the A's sad ending to the season (sorry, Rachel!)
- what the heck is a spray chart, anyway?
- the importance (or not) of batting handedness
- taking one for the team
- Unwritten Rule of Baseball Etiquette (managers should back their players on a call)
- whether the Mystics are going to win their first ever championship
- Deshaun Watson and the myth of the Dumb Jock
- Tuskegee College Long Snapper Johnny Fuentes
- On This Day In Sports

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Episode 018 - Scream Inside Your Heart

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr, with Special Guest Mandi Marquardi

If you haven't figured it out by now, our motto is: we are always 100% right. Alternative titles for this episode included “The Calm Before The Shit-Storm” and “The MLB Would Like You To Imagine A Hat.”

Contents (and hosts) under pressure, do not shake:
- As Yet Unnamed Segment: The Giant Career of Rube Foster
- Korean Baseball 101 and screaming inside our hearts
- Brief Socialism Meltdown: screaming outside our hearts
- NWSL Challenge Cup: Mandi calls the Cup; how is the bubble going? why do we hate astroturf? what's the risks and frequency of injuries? who are we rooting for?
- NHL update: O, Canada (bubbles); Hotel Rivalries; the upcoming Stupid Season and its format; current status of the NWHL?
- NBA and WNBA returns: arrival issues; is it good or bad for them to be playing simultaneously?
- MLB: the Calm Before the Shit-storm

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Episode 015 - Penetrating the Sports World (#ohballs)

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

There are still no sports, but we soldier on.

Contents include:
-why can't we just combine the summer and winter olympics in the same year?
-Unwritten Rule of Baseball: don't step in the batter's box while the pitcher is warming up
-mid-game rituals
-Current team updates: Superdome naming rights; NHL plans for restarting; NBA plans for restarting; WNBA plans for restarting; the difficulties of quaranteam logistics; MLB ownership plans for restarting
-Listener Question Corner: is kissing during a game unsportsman-like conduct?
-the wonderful world of cornhole

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Episode 012 - what am sporps?

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

There are no sports. You know this. So in this episode we take a listener question and do a deep dive into MASCOTS!

Contents include:
-Current teams updates: is anything happening?
-We are a socialist podcast
-Cancellation of the Olympics
-Logistics of a potential sports return
-Unwritten Rule of Baseball: Hierarchy of who catches a fly ball
-when will sports return?/time is meaningless
-The Great Mascot Debate (includes taxonomies uwu)

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Episode 009 - Football Season Finale (#fuckcapitalism)

BY Rachel Baxley, Rebecca Hunsaker, and Nancy Kerr

We're back! This week we play a bit of catch up, and talk as much about the football season finale as people who don't follow football can. #YayCapitalism #sarcasm Plus, is hitting people in the head with a baseball okay? And what the heck is an EBUG?

Contents include:
-Unwritten Rule of Baseball: retaliation via beanball
-Football Season Finale:
--49ers got their asses handed to them
--bullshit call vs bullshit rule
--patriotic coding in sports
--commercial costs and cultural monopolies (#fuckcapitalism)
--Rebecca's Super Bowl watching experience
--Actual Football Questions
--Native American imagery appropriation
-Baseball Spring Training: Astros scandal continues; a "fun" scandal; this pod is against death threats and headshots
-Hockey: Ovi and the 700th goal; EBUGs and the zamboni driver who shall live in infamy

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Special Episode: Kobe Bryant

BY Rachel Baxley and Nancy Kerr

In Memoriam: Kobe and Gianna Bryant - a basketball legend who will go down as one of the greats of all time, but who also had a very serious accusation in his past, and the gifted daughter who was only getting started. What does the death of a celebrity mean to a fan, and how do we reconcile the bad actions of a revered figure after a tragic death? Two of the Foul Puck hosts share a frank discussion. Trigger warnings for death and discussion of sexual assault.

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Episode 001: Strange Baseball Etiquette Clip

BY Rachel Baxley

Rachel Baxley Presents our very first Strange Baseball Etiquette Fact!!

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