Baseball Is Dead Episode 140: J-Rod Show

Double Play: A Baseball Podcast

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Sports, Baseball

4.6 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 140 minutes

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It was a big weekend in MLB, but today we’re starting with the Little League World Series ahead of a heavyweight matchup between Japan and Chinese Taipei. Then, we got Julio Rodríguez putting an absolute SHOW over the last week as the Mariners skyrocket in the standings and now have a 60% chance to make the postseason. Gerrit Cole had his 4th straight opportunity to pass the Baines line and failed to do so yet again, and Jayhay took that personally. We also have the BID parlay, Pete Alonso throwing a milestone baseball away, and a conversation on the NL MVP race. Thanks for listening and we’ll see you on Wednesday! If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-777 7/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NH/NJ/NY/OR/ PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. Min. $5 deposit required. Eligibility restrictions apply. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Draft King's Network.
0:05.0	I mean, this is a sport that's on the precipice of irrelevance.
0:11.0	The games are taking over three and a half hours,
0:13.0	playoff games are taking over four hours.
0:16.0	Games too long, too slow, who cares?
0:19.0	This is a situation where baseball is in trouble to begin with.
0:24.3	The NLD is officially dead.
0:26.5	Baseball is dead.
0:28.4	Rest in peace.
0:31.5	I, uh, as you know, we, we open the show every Monday with a, uh, a rundown of the topics that intrigued us the most
0:40.8	over the weekend. And I don't know who's going with what. I thought for sure we would have
0:47.0	some Julio Rodriguez talk. And we will. And we will. But depending on what order we go in
0:52.4	for the weekend storyline segment, which is, as always,
0:58.6	presented by DirecTV, home to the most local MLB games. You know them, you love them.
1:06.0	Shout out to DirecTV, a sponsor in the segment. They're the home to the most MLB games, but I feel like the
1:13.7	Little League World Series is going to be a part of this discussion here. I don't know how we avoid it.
1:19.0	I don't know how we, this is a baseball podcast. It's not an MLB podcast. It's a baseball podcast.
1:24.3	I don't know how we have a discussion about baseball and not include
1:28.9	the Little League World Series. So who who is going to be the person that goes first and brings up
1:35.1	that topic? Yeah, that's that's pretty easy. That's going to be me. Why? Because I'm the one who's
1:40.5	watching the Little League World Series. Why? Because I'm the one who was tweeting about the Little League World Series. Why? Because some folks believe we have a 37 year old man pitching for Taiwan. And some folks might just want to overlook that and say, but you know what? That man, that fully grown man is throwing 104 miles an hour.
2:01.1	And he's throwing 93 mile an hour sliders.
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