Episode 167: A Brief Eulogy for a Minor League Baseball Team

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:04.5	I'm Nate Demayow.
0:06.9	A brief ulyjee for a minor league baseball team.
0:09.8	Upon hearing that as a result of the global pandemic,
0:13.2	the red socks of Patucket Rhode Island
0:15.3	would not be playing in what was scheduled to be its final season
0:18.1	before the franchise is moved to Worcester, Massachusetts.
0:22.2	If you've heard of the city at all,
0:24.0	it could be because, as the tourist brochures will tell you,
0:27.3	is the home to the old Slater Mill National Historic Landmark,
0:31.1	where in 1793, a recent immigrant named Samuel Slater,
0:35.0	who had worked in an innovative cotton mill in England,
0:38.2	copied that mill's design, and built themselves one of his own.
0:42.3	Thus kicking off the American Industrial Revolution,
0:45.5	by an essence stealing the British one.
0:48.7	Or you may have heard of it as the Chamber of Commerce
0:51.0	will tell you, as the home of Hasbro,
0:53.8	the toy-making giant behind the Mr. Potato Head
0:56.4	in My Little Pony and Transformers in Play-Doh,
0:59.8	and many other popular brands.
1:02.8	But if you are a sports fan, you probably
1:05.8	have heard of it as the home of a triple-a baseball team,
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