Ep. 55.5: Best of Baseball

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

Game Show, Comedy, Quiz, Podcast, Trivia, Arts, Helen Hong, Angel City, J. Keith Van Straaten

4.6 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The 2020 MLB season is in question, but we’re happy to celebrate baseball on Go Fact Yourself! There have been a lot of contestants who have chosen baseball as their areas of expertise; we’ve quizzed folks like comedy legend Fred Willard, voice actor Phil Lamarr and Maximum Fun founder Jesse Thorn -- and more! We decided to put some of the best segments in one convenient episode. Along the way, we’ve got a murderer’s row of outstanding experts including World Series play-by-play broadcasters, world-class historians and world champion players. Let’s play ball! Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Phil LaMarr from Episode 2 Fred Willard from Episode 13 John Ross Bowie from Episode 14 Sandeep Parikh from Episode 26 Jesse Thorn from Episode 50 With Guest Experts: Jon Weisman, author of 100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die. Dr. Joe Price, Co-Director for The Institute for Baseball Studies at Whittier College. Bobby Ojeda, former baseball player and current podcaster. Dan Shaughnessy, sports columnist for the Boston Globe. Jon Miller, award-winning TV and radio play-by-play commentator for the San Francisco Giants. Go Fact Yourself was devised by Jim Newman and J. Keith van Straaten, and produced in collaboration with Maximum Fun. Theme Song by Jonathan Green. Maximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher. The show is engineered and edited by Julian Burrell. Go to gofactyourpod.com for information and tickets to the next recording of Go Fact Yourself … whenever that is! Get our Go Fact Yourself t-shaped shirt! Visit us @gofactyourpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. And wash your hands!

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jay Keith Van Stratt, and thanks so much for listening to Go Factor
0:09.1	Self. This week, we've got our very first best of edition of the show. If you're like me,
0:14.2	first of all, congratulations, but it also means that you really miss baseball. Well, since the 2020
0:19.1	baseball season still hasn't gotten started yet because of, well,
0:22.7	you know, we decided to put together some of our favorite moments of GoFactor self-centered around
0:27.4	America's pastime.
0:28.8	If you like what you hear and you want to listen to the full episode, you can find them via
0:32.0	the links in our show notes or in our archives at gofactorpod.com. And by the way, if you like baseball or if you like something called Star Trek,
0:40.7	you're going to want to listen to our brand new episode recorded for a live audience
0:44.5	before all this stuff happened, coming on May 1st with Walter Koenig from Star Trek
0:49.4	versus his daughter, the comedian and writer, Danielle Canig.
0:53.4	It may have a baseball segment in it.
0:56.2	It does.
0:58.1	Batting first, it's voice actor Phil Lamar from our episode two. He showed off his knowledge
1:03.9	of Los Angeles Dodgers against podcaster and TV host, Allie Ward. Now let's play ball.
1:12.6	Question number one for Phil. Phil, Dodgers' legend, Jackie Robinson's uniform number was retired across all of baseball in
1:17.6	1997.
1:18.6	What number is it?
1:19.6	42.
1:20.6	Helen.
1:21.6	That is correct.
1:22.6	That is correct.
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