Bad Baseball Grannies with Kelsey McKinney
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Drew is off frolicking on another continent, so it’s time to talk about baseball! Kelsey is back with Roth to swap their first ballpark stories of the 2026 season. Of course, there’s lots of new things to grab your attention at a baseball game this year - especially if you happen to know a guy at the Elias Sports Bureau who you can ask obscure questions in the middle of the night. Then, they talk about their shared passion of eating out at restaurants: did Roth embarrass himself at a friends and family dinner, despite Kelsey’s advice? Finally, they open up the Funbag and share the quotes that are stuck in their heads forever.
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Stuff We Talked About
- Nitrate toxicity
- A 33 mph Eephus
- Bunting and slapping
- Saint Liam Hicks
- Egging CB Bucknor’s house
- Discrete and finishable tasks
- A classic Sweet Davey Maneuver™
- Gnarly bamboo
Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Brandon Grugle
- Editor: Mischa Stanton
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts
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About The Show
The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm gathering myself. |
| 0:02.8 | Where are you? |
| 0:04.0 | No, I'm just, well, I need to go within and I need to get into the podcasting chamber in my mind. |
| 0:13.8 | We're back. |
| 0:14.8 | It's the distraction. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm David Roth. |
| 0:17.1 | Drew and his family are in Cap Dan Thieves in beautiful south of France for, I'm assuming, I don't |
| 0:22.8 | know. I don't know actually where he is for spring break. He wouldn't tell me, that's right. |
| 0:26.7 | So we've brought on our resident Cote Dazure expert and Philadelphia Bureau Chief, Kelsey |
| 0:35.0 | McKinney. Newly annoyedointed. How's it going? |
| 0:42.2 | I don't know where Drew is for spring break, but I appreciate you stepping in to his shoes. |
| 0:48.2 | Kelsey has put up a large Vikings fathead in her office so that I feel more at home. Yeah, I've been pacing back and forth, ranting a lot, just to make sure everyone feels good. |
| 0:53.3 | Sometimes getting weirdly close to your own webcam |
| 0:55.8 | so I can only see the bottom part of your face while you talk about the Vikings. Yeah, I'm actually |
| 1:01.4 | taking this call from my car. Yeah, this is a little bit of Drew lore that non-defector staffers |
| 1:10.4 | don't know about it. Every now and then he will join a work call with like his phone flat on a table and him looking down on it as if he's performing a medical operation. Yeah. It's a really wonderful. It's pretty incredible, honestly. I love it. Genuinely. Yep. It's very funny to me. Nobody's a it like him. Yep. We miss him. |
| 1:27.7 | He'll be back next week. |
| 1:28.9 | We miss him so much. I hope he has fun on his vacation or whatever. Wow, wow, it's delicious. Wow, all this great food that we get to eat and I don't have to worry about work. That's not how I do it. No, we're here to work all day every day. We love it. I'm eating fistfuls of flour and editing Ray Rado's blocks. |
| 1:47.1 | That's how I operate. Well, it's filling. And it has... Mouths all stiff. Guggy. You know something I saw the last time that I was using flour when I was going to, it's that apparently it is a raw product. And on the the bag they're like, don't eat this. |
| 2:24.7 | Yeah, it's for cooking. Which I wouldn't have thought that was a warning that needed. Did you read that because you were just shoveling it to your mouth by a handful and you were like, taste weird. Yeah. You won't believe it. My wife is like, I can't understand you. It's full of APF in there. why you're not supposed to eat like raw cookie dough because the haters and losers are trying to stop you from having fun, but also because all the products need to be cooked in theory. |
| 2:25.8 | Not my business. I did plenty of that as a kid. |
| 2:27.7 | And look at me now. |
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