Speaking of Sports

In the show's final baseball episode of the season, Chuck, Ivan and Larry Bowa dedicate the hour to the late Bob Boone (78): the Stanford-psychology story behind Dickie Noles' shakable signs, the 58%-caught-stealing season at age 34, four straight Gold Gloves from 38 to 41, the dWAR case that ranks Boone 17th all-time — with Bowa, as Chuck reveals, the second-highest Phillie on ...

Chuck and Ivan open with the news dominating Philly: Jalen Hurts injured — and playing through blood clots — which turns into a "how tough is a guy?" riff on fans who never understood Mike Schmidt or gave Pete Rose credit. The heart of the show is Chuck's self-funded research project: across Tampa Bay's last six postseason trips, the Rays' offense dropped an average of 161 point...

Chuck welcomes Larry Bowa back — "I'm going to beat him up today," as a frustrated fan — and gets the inside story on why the Phillies' end-of-season presser took longer than ever ("I have never seen it go this long... it's sort of depressing") and why Bowa has zero input on front-office decisions ("I'm not a part of that decision at all"). Chuck role-plays the conversation he'd...