Infinite Inning 148: The Deficiencies of the Closer Mentality in Everyday Living

Published: June 20, 2020, 9:09 p.m.

b'Jesse Spector returns to discuss the non-return of baseball, an old baseball arcade game, and his decision to join the revived Deadspin. Plus: Tales of an early Cuban star who might have been a very young revolutionary and the poison dispensed by the most evil Red Sox player/manager/executive of all time.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Brief, Laudatory Career of Armando Marsans*Earl Wilson\\u2019s Cryptic Reply*Jesse Spector: Back in the Saddle Again*The \\u201cBaseball Owes Us\\u201d Crowd (Vs. Jayson Stark)*MLB\\u2019s Mysterious Covid-19 Plans*The Closer Mentality in Everyday Life*Stark vs. Gammons*\\u201cYou Need\\u201d vs. \\u201cI Want\\u201d*Old Nintento Sports Games and \\u201cWorld Series: The Season\\u201d*Old-Time Coin-Up Baseball Games*Bigotry at the Bowling Alley/The Curse of a Strong Memory*The Revived Deadspin*When It Ends, It Ends: That\\u2019s a Freeing Thing*Goodbyes.

The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game\\u2019s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they\\u2019ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can\\u2019t get anybody out?'