Sports Episodes

Baseball’s Fall Guy — Barry Bonds and What Everyone Else Kept Ep. 17
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Sept. 22, 2026

Baseball’s Fall Guy — Barry Bonds and What Everyone Else Kept

Carlos builds a six-category scorecard to settle baseball’s GOAT debate. Then he hands it to Sam, an AI who’s never seen a game. Sam takes Willie Mays. Carlos takes Barry Bonds. Then they go category by category. Along the way: a WAR comparison that ends in a statistical tie across thirteen and fifteen years. Bonds’ 2004 season, where he walked 232 times and struck out 41. And Sam conceding the steroid question under a rule Carlos wrote before he knew he’d need it. But you can’t make th...