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Ben Shapiro | Sports Connoisseur Saturday Special

Crain & Company

The Daily Wire

Sports

3.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Ben Shapiro takes a break from political news and weighs in on all the heavy sports topics, from the MLB implementing robot umps to Lia Thomas' effect on female athletics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Saturday Special, our part two interview with Ben Shapiro,

0:05.3

gonna bring that to you some great stuff. Remember, if you didn't catch part one,

0:09.2

we talked to him on Thursday about college football in I.L. and a whole bunch of stuff. You need

0:14.4

to make sure and check that out. But we've got some more great subjects. We're talking about

0:18.5

Major League Baseball. Women's sports, could it be in trouble? So strap in, make sure you're

0:23.5

subscribed everywhere, YouTube, TikTok, social media. David Cone's got a great question to kick

0:28.0

it off. I do know what is near and dear to your heart. And that's Major League Baseball.

0:32.1

There have been some developments in the game with the Universal D.H., the California rule and

0:36.4

extra earnings putting a runner on second. There are some possible new developments in the game

0:40.0

where my colleagues want automated balls and strikes. What are your thoughts here from the

0:45.3

purest point of view and what's going on with Major League Baseball? So honestly, I thought

0:48.7

that it's bizarre that they adopted all of these Universal D.H., the California rule,

0:55.3

before the automated balls and strikes. That's weird. Because the automated balls and strikes,

0:58.8

at least you can make the case, that that is the rule. I mean, the rule is that the strike zone

1:02.6

exists. And now the question is whether you're hitting the strike zone or not. And it's kind of

1:06.8

ridiculous game-to-game, you know, how, like there are certain skill sets that are going to get

1:10.7

removed. For example, framing a pitch is no longer going to matter if you go to an automated

1:13.6

strike zone. So, you know, the yad yermalinas of the world are going to have less pay days.

1:19.0

But with that said, I mean, you're not, you're not functionally changing what the sport is about.

1:24.5

When you add things like Universal D.H., you're getting rid of the strategy that at least used to

1:29.0

exist before the advent of, you know, specialist luggies and all of this kind of stuff. The California

1:36.7

rules are disaster and abomination. I mean, like, I'm sorry, starting with a run-around

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