As the curtain closes on 2021, Jayson and Doug reflect on the year's biggest baseball moments. The guys welcome BBWAA Career Excellence Award winner Tim Kurkjian to Starkville to discuss his immortalization in Cooperstown. Tim shares which grocery store's self-checkout lane he was in when he received his HOF phone call. Tim reminisces with Jayson and Doug about his favorite baseball moments, his career and working alongside Jayson, and why he thinks baseball's charm is indelible. Plus, an NL/AL strikeout trivia question as well as a best of 2021 Strange But True wraps up 2021 in Starkville.

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Trivia courtesy: @zackfarb
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