Out of Left Field

Von: David Seigerman
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  • EPISODE 6: THE CROSSING

    EPISODE 6: THE CROSSING
    Jan 13 2021
    On December 12, 2020, Jasmine Harrison climbed aboard Argo and started rowing. She has not stepped foot on dry land since.The 21-year-old swim instructor/bartender-turned-adventurer is competing in the 2020 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, a 3,000-mile race from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean. There are 21 boats in this year's TWAC, and Jasmine is the only woman among the eight solo rowers attempting the crossing. When she arrives in Antigua -- some time within the next two months -- she will become the youngest woman ever to row across the Atlantic alone.You can follow Jasmine's progress at https://www.taliskerwhiskyatlanticchallenge.com/. Click on the Race Tracker and dot watch with the rest of us (Jasmine's is the violet dot). Follow her Rudderly Mad Facebook feed for photos, videos, and regular updates from the middle of the Atlantic. Find out more about Jasmine at https://www.rudderlymad.co.uk/, and please consider supporting the charities that she is rowing for: Shelter Box and the Blue Marine Foundation.We want to thank Jasmine Harrison for allowing us to share her inspiring story, Ian Couch and Atlantic Campaigns for all of their help (credit for the photo is courtesy of Atlantic Campaigs), and Susan -- Jasmine's mom -- for her time and unique perspective.As always, we want to thank our friends at Electra-Craft (home of the Espressione Concierge), Everipe Superfood Smoothies, and the inimitable Soggy Doggy.Big thanks to George Hochbrueckner (check out his album, Celticafricousticelectric, on iTunes) and Eliana May for sharing their original music.
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    29 Min.
  • Episode 5: The Claiming game

    Episode 5: The Claiming game
    Dec 5 2020
    The mainstream sports fan probably only spends about six minutes watching horse racing in a given year -- the combined running time of the three Triple Crown races. A smaller subset will follow the 14 million-dollar races run over Breeders Cup weekend. Fewer still will watch the graded stakes races that lead up to the Kentucky Derby. Almost no one pays attention to the claimers, the largest segment of the racing world. This oversight costs them the chance to follow the same kind of stories that draw them in on Derby Day. Just because an event plays out beyond the spotlight's reach doesn't mean there aren't compelling stories to follow. For 21 years, the horses on the lowest rung of competitive racing and their human connections have had their day: the Claiming Crown, to be run again this year at Gulfstream Park. In this episode, we share the story of the biggest raceday with the biggest purses and the best fields available to the sport's little guys.Thank you to Dan Metzger of TOBA and Eric Hamelback of the National HBPA for all of your help in putting this story together, and to everyone who made themselves available during a busy race week to talk about the Claiming Crown: Mike Maker, Ken Ramsey, Peter Walder, and my go-to horse guy, Steve Schubert. Big thanks to Gulfstream Park and Canterbury Park for the calls from Claiming Crowns past, and to Denis Blake and Coglianese Photos for the action photo of Leitone from his win in the 2019 Claiming Crown Jewel. Thank you, as always, to our friends who make every episode possible: Electra-Craft, Everipe, and Soggy Doggy. And to George Hochbrueckner for the original tunes.You can follow the 2020 Claiming Crown live by setting up an account with 1stBet.
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    26 Min.
  • Episode 4: Election Day Special – Tipping Points

    Episode 4: Election Day Special – Tipping Points
    Nov 3 2020
    As you're sitting around this Election Day, waiting for results to come in, sports might be the furthest thing from your mind. Just as when you watched your favorite college football team play on Saturday, electoral politics probably were the last thing you wanted to think about.But what if there actually is a relationship between the two, a link between the outcomes of Saturday's games and Tuesday's election? That was the premise pursued by Andrew J. Healy, Neil Malhotra and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo in their 2010 study, "Irrelevant Events Affect Voters' Evaluations of Government Performance."The new season of the Out Of Left Field Podcast officially will begin next week. But we couldn't let this Election Day pass uncommented upon. And so today's story revisits that decade-old study and tries to project which college football games played over the weekend will have a lasting impact on the Great American Experiment.If you know of any out of left field stories that deserve to be told, visit our Contact page (https://outoflf.com/contact/) and let us know.As always, I want to thank everyone involved in the total team effort behind this episode:* George Hochbrueckner, for the closing theme. Check out his album, Celticafricousticelectric on iTunes.* Scott Holmes Music (https://scottholmesmusic.com/) for the opening theme, Hotshot.* Dr. Neil Malhotra, Professor, Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School or Business.* Jessica Berenblat of JB Arthouse (https://www.jbarthouse.net) for the cover design.* Rachel Blechman of Tinbear Consulting (https://tinbearconsulting.com/) for her technical guidance and for building a new internet home for Out Of Left Field (OutOfLF.com).* Our sponsors, Everipe Blender-Ready Superfood Smoothies (everipe.com), which has rescued breakfast-time for my family; Soggy Doggy (soggydoggydoormat.com), because it’s a lot easier to shelter in place when your place doesn’t smell like wet dog; and Electra-Craft (http://electra-craft.com/), whose coffee machines keep us all fully caffeinated and surprisingly productive in our new working- and schooling-from-home situation. 
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    21 Min.

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