Hello and welcome to citation needed the podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how it works now.

I'm Noah and I'm going to be managers in this team of misfits, but to do that, I'm going to need somebody to kick dirt on behalf of.

So first up, two men arguing about who gets to be in left field, Heath and Cecil.

Okay, I'm the coach's son, so I am pitching, and Cecil, you get left field.

Okay, I don't care.

Comic relief pitching.

Got it.

And also joining us tonight, two men who strongly disagree with Tom Hanks about how much crying

there is in baseball, Eli and Tom.

Okay.

To be fair to me, I didn't realize that the catcher wasn't squatting on anything when I gave

my opinion.

Hey, some people just can't take a joke or a punch.

Right.

Yeah.

And obviously, we wouldn't bother fielding a team if we weren't filling up those stands. So before we get going, I want to take a second to thank all the people who listen to the show, whether or not their patrons. But I want to thank the patrons more, though. If you'd like to learn how to join their ranks, be sure to stick around to the end of the show. and with that out of the way, tell us Cecil, what person plays thing, concept, phenomenon, or event we'll be talking about today.

Today we're going to talk about Rub, Waddell, or Waddle, Waddle. And Tom, you picked a sports thing, which tells me this is probably a really good fucking story. Are you ready to prove me right? I am. Noah. Noah, this story goes hard in the

paint. I think it's a real touchdown. All right. So Tom, what is a simultaneously entertaining

and time-padding way to eventually tell me who Rue Baudel is? Look, baseball is boring.

Agree. It takes a long time, and most of that time, most of the players aren't doing anything other than waiting to maybe do something later.

It is in fact such a boring game that an entirely new version called Banana Ball was recently invented,

taking off in popularity, because it was built on the idea that if baseball

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