Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Notes: Home Run Robberies And Bench-Clearing Brawls Aren't Boring
09 Apr 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Yeah, there should be some passion. This doesn't have to be boring. You don't get bored by baseball. Okay, one thing the game needs is more people like you. You. You.
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You guys know the drill, but it's going to get messy because our bibs are strapped on because it's another edition of bib notes. So we got to talk. Yeah, hell of an intro. We got to talk about the Angels. They had maybe the most fun week of baseball, if you want to call it. I mean, half of it was baseball. Half of it wasn't baseball. We can do this one thing at a time.
Joe Adele, three robbed home runs, including the best one of all being the third one in the ninth inning, falling into the stands, saving the game. I saw a question posed, and I didn't quite know how to answer it. Was it the best defensive game ever? Yes. Yeah. How could it not be? That's where I'm at. Genuinely, try to answer it. How could it not be? What's the scenario where it wouldn't be?
I have no idea. You'd have to have... Okay, here's the thing that I was thinking about.
You'd have to rob four home runs.
Yeah. I'm thinking about defensive run save. That statistic literally does not actually mean defensive run save because that would mean that Joe Adele got plus three defensive run save for that game, and he did not. Good example of why, while they're useful, you need to take defensive metrics with a grain of salt. That said, there's no way anyone's ever going to beat that.
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Chapter 2: What exciting moments are highlighted in home run robberies?
Three is a video game. And the cherry on top, that lady who took the picture of Joe Adele holding up the baseball while standing in the crowd. Oh, my God.
Work of art. Craziest part, too, is they won the game one to zero. Like, yeah, it's not like he was robbing these, you know, like a blowout or either way, like the Angels getting blown out or the Mariners are blowing them out, whatever it was. He literally saved the game from minimal going to extra innings.
three times it kept them winning the game twice that's insane and the other thing too is it wasn't like robberies for show like these weren't like cheap home run robberies all three of these were as legit as legit gets in terms of home run robberies especially the last one
And you could look at some of these unbelievably acrobatic catches that some of these guys make, and it's not to take away from those catches and how awesome they are. If you reach over the wall and catch a ball that was going to go over the wall,
Objectively, regardless of how cool it looks, that's a more impactful catch than a full on extension sprawling diving play because you're saving a home run instead of what? Maybe a double if it gets by you triple in a bad spot.
Okay, what's more impressive to you guys? A robbed home run. Let's take the first two home runs that Joe Adele robbed. Not that there's a standard one, but a standard robbed home run where he jumps up, catches it.
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Chapter 3: How did Jo Adell's performance impact the Angels' game?
It's not a home run. What's more impressive? One of those? or a PCA full-out sprint, diving in the air, catch the ball in the gap, save a double, sports center top 10, freakish athlete kind of play? Which one is more impressive, not more impactful to the game, because that'd be the Rob's home run. Which one is more impressive? Impressive, I go PCA.
Yeah, I would agree. I think the degree of difficulty is way harder for those like dead sprint, lay out on your stomach, slide 15 feet after catching it. I think the degree of difficulty compared to, you know, your standard, you kind of planted the wall, jump up, get it, come down kind of thing. Um,
But like you said it, the more impactful is obviously the home run, but I think the more impressive feat in terms of defense is definitely like the dead sprint layout, slide on the stomach, like it goes to review and it barely catches the pinky part of the mitt.
Chapter 4: What makes a defensive game the best ever in baseball?
Like there's just something so satisfying about those just smooth diving catches.
Okay, follow up. If you guys were in the major leagues, which play would you rather make? That crazy diving catch? Top 10 highlight? or take away a home run.
Ooh, see, now you're going to make me contradict myself because I think the diving catch is more... No, but I think I am a little bit because I think the diving catch is more impressive. But when I was a kid, I had this soccer goal in my backyard, and me and my dad, we used to... he would take a bat and he would hit fly balls to me and I would catch him like I'm catching pop flies.
And I would ask him, just try to hit it just over the soccer goal. So I could try to pull it back. Nothing cooler to me than a robbed Homer. So yeah, I mean, I see all these guys, all these outfielders get asked the ones that are, that are good defenders and they get asked, what would you rather do hit a home run or rob a home run? And it's always for me, it's rob a home run.
I want to take away a homer, and I want to look at the guy who hit it, and then I want to look at the crowd, whether it's my fans cheering for me or the other fans who are super pissed that the home run that they thought they had is gone. Something about robbing a homer. It's that play.
Yeah, I think you kind of said it perfectly, and you alluded to why my answer is rob a home run. There is – Almost nothing. Obviously, there's some things offensively, but defensively, there's nothing that gets a crowd, a stadium going in one direction or the other more than a robbed home run. Just getting that like visceral crowd reaction from a robbed home run.
For me, I feel like it's easily robbed a home run.
But doesn't it feel like we're – because I just said it's more impressive to make the sprawling diving catch the PCA catch. But I would rather do the thing that's less impressive. I guess I said it impacts the game more.
Yeah, you're not contradicting yourself. You're just choosing between impact or degree of difficulty.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of bench-clearing brawls in baseball?
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