The Windup: A show about Baseball · The Athletic
The Roundtable | The Wild Card races are heating up & is Stanton a Hall of Famer?
August 22, 2025·44 min·4 clips
Would you rather hit the World Series-winning single or pitch the final strikeout? The hosts reveal their surprising choices.
As heard by us
A sharp, amused argument about baseball's chaos and why it keeps pulling listeners back.
The piece settles into baseball's familiar irritation: the sense that so much of it comes down to bounce, break, and bad timing rather than clean execution.
Why you'd press play
You want a sports argument that starts with the Immaculate Reception and ends at baseball's weird luck.
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