Author Jane Leavy: "The Big Fella" - Babe Ruth
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Steve Czaban
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🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
He was larger than the game, and the highest paid athlete of his time. He also forged a sports celebrity culture that is a billion-dollar industry today. Author Jane Leavy's book sheds further light on the Bambino and the world off the field he helped create. Andy Pollin rolls in for his usual Tuesday spot. Hue Jackson, finally soooo fired. Twitter to remove the "Like" button? Why?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Zaid cast a double guest special Andy Poland on the skins going to five and two and whether this is |
| 0:09.9 | Zorn one all over again or something else. |
| 0:13.3 | We've got best-selling author Jane Levy on the legend of Babe Ruth. |
| 0:17.0 | All that plus the Browns cash out Hugh Jackson |
| 0:19.7 | and Twitter is getting rid of the like button? |
| 0:23.0 | Your essential Sports Talk Day Starter is locked and loaded, |
| 0:26.5 | so buckle up and let's go. |
| 0:28.4 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, here we go! Tuesday, October 30th, 2018. Thank you for downloading big show today, so let's not waste any time. |
| 0:49.0 | Hugh Jackson is out in Cleveland. What took so long? Hugh Jackson had a 0 |
| 0:59.2 | excuse me a 0.88 winning percentage with the Browns it's the lowest of any |
| 1:07.1 | winning percentage by a coach with 40 or more games on a single team. |
| 1:13.9 | And it just brings me to one of my favorite sound bites. |
| 1:17.8 | Favorite because it was just, well, it just is. |
| 1:22.3 | It's one of my favorite and now now when I play this |
| 1:25.2 | sound bite I always kind of cringe internally because we live in such a super |
| 1:32.4 | sensitized racial age and it's just meant to be funny. |
| 1:38.4 | It was from Kirby's enthusiasm in which Larry David in a particular episode had an IT guy that ran his household devices, TVs and whatnot, who happened to be black, and the devices weren't working properly. He didn't like it and so he ended up |
| 1:55.2 | firing the guy and Wanda Sykes also black calls him out on it and it just is funny that you know here you whenever we have a coach |
| 2:05.4 | who's black who gets fired I play this I take no glee and black coaches |
| 2:08.6 | getting fired or white coaches getting fired I mean every coach in sport is hired with the express purpose |
| 2:16.9 | to be fired eventually. Yeah in theory to win a championship but let's be |
| 2:21.9 | honest most of them. 99% of them won't |
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