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Le Batard & Friends - Mystery Crate

Episode One Hundred - Forty-One

Le Batard & Friends - Mystery Crate

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Mystery Crate, Mike and Witty talk to Simon Kuper, author of a new book called The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--And Unmaking--Of the World's Greatest Soccer Club, about Lionel Messi leaving Barcelona. Also, Baron Davis talks to Dan about a movie he co-directed called Domino: Battle of the Bones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Alright, I'll say it. If I played in the Little League World Series, I would bat 300.

0:17.0

Really? You think so. You sent me to a batting cage right now?

0:21.0

That's it though 300? I feel like you hit four.

0:24.0

I thought I didn't want to say like you know something ridiculous.

0:28.0

Go ridiculous. Go high enough. How fast are these pitches? Do we know?

0:33.0

They throw in the mid 60s. Some of them I think 50s and 60s, which is the equivalent of high 80s, low 90s.

0:39.0

From the distance. Yeah, because they're only pitching it like four weeks.

0:42.0

Yeah, because it's such a shorter distance than a major league.

0:45.0

That's why they always do the equivalent. They show you. He's throwing this hard. It's the equivalent of 98 or something.

0:50.0

Can I share a myopic Olympic gripe that I have?

0:53.0

Yes. No, now that the Olympics have ended, but we're still on the topic of baseball.

0:58.0

So I was watching the gold medal game and it was driving me crazy because it's being broadcast in America.

1:06.0

It's being it's an American broadcast team. It's clearly like, I don't know where it's being produced.

1:12.0

But pitchfings were coming out in kilometers per hour and I had no idea what the hell was going on.

1:18.0

I didn't know how fast pitches were. I didn't know what was happening.

1:21.0

Why couldn't we have done the good old MPH?

1:24.0

Because the metric system. Right?

1:26.0

Yeah, but but it's being broadcast here. It's being done by American broadcasters.

1:30.0

Why can't they just do the graphics with miles per hour?

1:33.0

You myopic American. No, I know. I said that on the front end, but yeah, I just asked that.

1:39.0

I thought the IOC was handing him the footage on that one.

1:42.0

I mean, the con. There are a lot of dresses calling the game quantity.

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