Baseball's Uncertain Future
The Lead
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3.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
There's a lot of uncertainty in baseball right now, just like every other facet of our lives. The Athletic’s Jayson Stark joins us to talk about how Major League Baseball has handled the situation with COVID-19 so far, what a delayed start could mean for the long-term relationship between players and MLB, and how the coronavirus outbreak is causing all of us to reevaluate the role of sports in our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | With the spread of the coronavirus, the suspension of spring training and the delay of the regular |
| 0:10.0 | season until at least the middle of May, there is a lot of uncertainty in baseball right |
| 0:14.7 | now. |
| 0:15.7 | It's the talk of every clubhouse, every workforce in all of America, the whole country, and |
| 0:24.6 | right now, it looks like we're going to shut it down for a little bit. |
| 0:29.3 | Today we're talking with the athletics Jason Stark about how Major League Baseball has |
| 0:33.7 | handled the situation with COVID-19 so far. |
| 0:37.3 | What a delayed start could mean long-term for both players and the league and how the |
| 0:42.4 | outbreak is affecting sports in general. |
| 0:45.3 | We have to think about sports and think about life in a totally different way because we |
| 0:52.6 | need each other now more than we've ever needed each other. |
| 1:01.8 | From Wundry and the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:04.3 | And I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:05.9 | It's Thursday, March 19th and this is the lead. |
| 1:09.2 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:13.2 | There was just something about the emotion and that moment. |
| 1:18.2 | The first time. |
| 1:19.2 | The first time. |
| 1:20.2 | The first and the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:22.2 | You can't play. |
| 1:23.2 | You can't play. |
| 1:24.2 | You can't play. |
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