David Roth returns to discuss the Mets’ efforts to save their season, falling in love on a day of tragedy, and the proposed Saturday morning cartoon in which the current president saved the Yankees.

WARNING: As is typical for a David Roth visit, there is somewhat more cussing than is typical for the show. Please caution all minors.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Casey Stengel Escapes!*Sympathy for the Rajah*David Roth: Beards and Birthdays*Exploring “The Yiddish Curver” and other Baseball Card Antiquities*Fred Wilpon’s Sandy Koufax*“Skoonj”*The Mets’ Momentary Rally*Giving Yourself a Chance to Have a Chance*Edwin Diaz (Under a Cloudless Blue Sky)*Sudden Upturns and Downturns*Intimate Moments Deflected*“We Met on September 11, 2001”/Love in a Brita Filter*Living in a Closed Society*Performative Patriotism in the Seventh Inning*Roth in the New Republic (Warning! Politics!)*It’s the End of the Republic As We Know It (And I Feel Nauseous)*Truth, Fiction, Perceptual Impairment, Reggie Jackson*When Trump Saved the Yankees on Saturday Morning Television*The Braves Rally*Let’s Remember Some Wacky Packages*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’s 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’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?