Book of Joe: Early season returns, AL West, and Phillies struggles
The Ben Maller Show
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4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Book of Joe Podcast begins with hosts Tom Verducci and Joe Maddon enjoying the start of the season and the new pace of the game. Tom explains the early returns and what has already drastically changed on the field. Joe comments on the Anthony Rendon confrontation with a fan and how MLB could make some changes moving forward. Tom notes how the atmosphere in the stands has changed and how fans can take things too far. Back on the field, Tom reveals why he thinks the AL West could be the most interesting division in baseball. Plus, how much concern is there over the Phillies struggling out of the gate?
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| 0:00.0 | The Book of Joe podcast is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello again. It's time for another edition of the most interesting podcast on baseball. |
| 0:15.2 | It is the Book of Joe podcast with me, Tom Verducci, and Joe Madden. |
| 0:20.2 | Joe, the baseball season has begun, and I seem to recall there was a spring training for you with the Angels where your theme was play like it's, what was it, 1985? |
| 0:31.6 | 285, yeah, right, right. |
| 0:33.7 | You must be digging the baseball that's being played right now because it does remind me a little bit of 1985. |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah, honestly, I have enjoyed the pace of the whole thing. I have. I think everybody has. |
| 0:48.3 | And actually, that was one of the things I wrote on the top of my sheet here today. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, no question. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't think there's anybody out there is not really enjoying the pace of the game. |
| 1:00.3 | And is, I guess, I know it's a rhetorical question, or maybe it's probably not, but |
| 1:04.9 | is just the pace of the game, is that enough to re-conjure interest in the game? |
| 1:10.7 | The fact that people could watch it or sit |
| 1:12.5 | in a ballpark or watch it on TV, is this going to wear off the fact that it's a quicker-paced game, |
| 1:19.9 | or is that the linchpin to making you want to watch it more intently? In other words, is that, |
| 1:25.5 | is it a good enough reason to consider even at this |
| 1:28.8 | early juncture the experiment of success? You know, I still have, I've still heard people talk about, |
| 1:35.0 | yes, we love the pace of the game, but the quality of the game. There's still a bunch of |
| 1:38.8 | strikeouts. I don't even know to what extent base stealing is up. I know strikes are still there pretty heavily. |
| 1:45.0 | I remember over this past weekend reading about the Giants and the Yankees still having a bunch of punchouts in those games. |
| 1:52.0 | So anyway, yes, the pace of the game is wonderful. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm just asking you, I guess, also with the feedback, because you're more closely connected. I am the feedback regarding that and're more closely connected to the time of the feedback |
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