A baseball writer roundtable with Britt Ghiroli and Jayson Stark of The Athletic

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Episode 172 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Jayson Stark, senior baseball writer at The Athletic, and Britt Ghiroli, also a senior baseball writer at The Athletic. In this podcast, Ghiroli and Stark discuss how they will approach the next couple of months as reporters amid a work stoppage; navigating labor stories versus more popular topics; the declining media access in baseball and why that significantly impacts you as a fan; whether we will see previous media access return; the Eras Committee process Hall of Fame selections including great news for Buck O’Neil and Dick Allen once again being one vote shy of the Hall of Fame; how Stark and Ghiroli feel about voting for awards that can increase a players’ contract and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Sunday, the race for Premier League glory continues as Manchester City take on Liverpool at the Etihad.
0:06.3	As good as it gets!
0:07.6	And you can stream every moment live on Sky Sports.
0:11.3	Well, it's just wonderful.
0:12.6	Available without a contract with Now.
0:15.7	Absolutely brilliant.
0:17.6	Stream Manchester City versus Liverpool this Sunday from 4 p.m.
0:21.7	Head to NowTV.com 18-plus Sky Sports Content stream via internet.
0:27.5	Full terms apply.
0:32.9	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:42.2	Two guests this week for one very cool segment. If you are a baseball fan, Jason Stark is a senior baseball writer at The Athletic.
0:49.5	Richard O'Reilly is a senior baseball writer at The Athletic as well, two of the best in the business.
0:55.1	And we get into really some interesting stuff.
0:58.3	Again, I think you're really going to dig this.
1:00.5	Talk about what the next three months, four months will be for a baseball writer,
1:05.0	as they have to navigate labor, which is not really anything anybody wants to read
1:10.5	with the fun stuff that people
1:12.6	love about baseball and transactions and what to expect for teams this upcoming year.
1:18.3	So we get into sort of, you know, how you sort of navigate that world.
1:21.3	If you're a national baseball writer like both of those two are, talk about media access
1:27.1	and how it's been significantly reduced
1:28.8	in 2020 and 2021 and both um both fear that uh we may see a much more uh reduced media access
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