#363 - Public Housing Superstar - Vida Blue
Crime in Sports
James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman
4.9 • 26.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
This week, we look at a legendary baseball player, who had skill, style, a really nasty fastball, and an appetite for cocaine, and driving drunk. He was plagued by playing for one of the cheapest owners in history, even qualifying for public housing, while having an MVP & Cy Young Award winning season, while this owner tried to get him to change his name to something more marketable. Life looked bright, but he couldn't get out of his own way. Did he ever turn it around? A crazy tale of 1970s living, even when it's the not the 1970s!!
Get paid in Cadillacs, be in the middle of a federal drug investigation, and have a very strange middle name with Vida Blue!!
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| 0:06.0 | I'm Sydney Battle. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Matt Bellasai, and we're the host of Wonder E's new podcast, Disantel, where |
| 0:13.5 | in each episode, we unpack when a pop culture's most iconic celebrity fused. |
| 0:18.9 | And what our obsession with them says about us. |
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| 0:30.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Crime in Sports. |
| 0:51.8 | Yay! |
| 0:52.8 | Haha, yeah, indeed, Jimmy, yay indeed. |
| 0:56.1 | My name is James Petrogallum here with my co-host. |
| 0:58.5 | I'm Jimmy Wiseman. |
| 0:59.5 | Thank you, folks, so much for joining us on another edition of Crime in Sports. |
| 1:04.1 | Crazy and wild, as always, and we always have a good time here. |
| 1:08.0 | And we're coming out of the brain damage sports. |
| 1:10.7 | We've had a run of brain damage sports. |
| 1:13.1 | And today we're going back into a rash. |
| 1:16.4 | It's a rash is the best way to describe it because Conor McGregor is a rash. |
| 1:21.0 | So that man's a rash on the taint of society. |
| 1:25.8 | My tape is just, man, it's uncomfortable. |
| 1:28.1 | That's him right there. |
| 1:29.4 | It was beer, orange and bumpy. |
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