Do unwritten rules help or hurt MLB?

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Balk Talk, Jessica Kleinschmidt is joined by Dalton Johnson to discuss some examples of how the unwritten rules of baseball have caused controversy, including with Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. and A’s outfielder Ramon Laureno and decide if these rules are good or bad for MLB. Then, Diamondbacks pitcher Archie Bradley stops by to talk about his new teammate Madison Bumgarner and play a game of This-orThat. (1:28) Controversy with Fernando Tatis Jr. (9:11) Discussing A’s, Astros brawl (15:10) Yastrzemski’s great season (18:09) Did Giants throw at Trout? (28:49) Bradley reveals the change with MLB players (34:50) Bradley shares his thought on the Diamondbacks' future (38:44) This-or-That with Archie Bradley

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Boc Talk podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
0:11.0	Introducing your host, NBC Sports Bay Area's Jessica Kleinschmidt.
0:16.2	All right, welcome back to other episode of Bok Talk presented by Wendy's.
0:19.1	A Better Tomorrow starts today with Wendy's Breakfast. At Wendy's, we don't ask what tomorrow holds, but rather
0:24.0	what will you hold tomorrow? Will it be the breakfast baconator, the honey butter chicken
0:28.3	biscuit? No matter what you choose, tomorrow's looking good with Wendy's at participating
0:32.8	Wendy's. All right, we have so much to unpack and that's why I brought in the incomparable Dalton Johnson.
0:39.9	Dalton, thanks for joining me once again.
0:42.0	Of course, yeah, I like that word, incomparable.
0:44.1	I know.
0:44.7	The thing that I, it's because sometimes you don't really know how to describe somebody, and then rather than like listing everything, you're like, I'm going to not list it and just say a really fancy word. That
0:56.5	way the viewers and listeners think she's a smart one. I'll take it. I mean, I look super fancy,
1:03.3	so I will take it. We're killing it this time. We didn't do the hipster hats, but, you know,
1:07.4	that's all right. That's for next time. Now, something that really, we're going to go right off the bat,
1:12.9	and because Fernando Tatis Jr. is in the news,
1:16.4	and there were so many different elements to this scenario.
1:20.1	So, Dalton, give us the rundown of what happened
1:23.3	and why people are acting a certain way.
1:26.9	Yeah, I mean, it was just another, I think, honestly, a bad day for baseball
1:30.7	to see the unwritten rules take over the game of someone that might be the best thing in
1:37.1	the game right now.
1:37.9	This is a 21-year who's a superstar.
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