Christian college professors Matt Parks and David Corbin explore the ideas behind today's headlines.
Part 1 (starts at 2:09): Headlines - Major League Baseball is back (!) with the NBA, NHL, and NFL starting soon. We discuss the big stories for each league.
 
Part 2 (27:12): Required Reading - Professor Corbin recommends Michael Lombardi’s Gridiron Genius while Professor Parks talks about Ted Williams’s The Science of Hitting and Michael Lewis’s Moneyball.  
 
Part 3 (35:41): Open the Grade Book - We grade the biggest stories of the MLB and NFL offseason: Mookie Betts’s trade from the Red Sox to the Dodgers and Tom Brady’s move from New England to Tampa Bay--plus the first four picks of each other’s fantasy baseball draft. (After two days, Dave’s Canyon Lake Texas are in 2nd place and Matt’s Suffern Sluggers are in 4th).
 
Part 4 (47:10): Tocqueville's Crystal Ball - We close out the show by making our picks for this year’s NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB champions.
 
Opening and closing music is from the beginning of "Happy Life" by Ryan Andersen from his 2018 album, Americana volume 1. Available here. Licensed by Creative Commons.
Matt Parks is an Associate Professor of Politics at The King’s College in New York City. David Corbin is a Professor of Politics and the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Providence Christian College in Pasadena, California. All views expressed in this podcast are their own.

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