Finding baseball joy in the playoff race, the Field of Dreams game, and hoping for better days for minor leaguers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR discuss the baseball things bringing them the most joy as the second half of August approaches, the remaining intriguing playoff battles for the stretch run -- including the NL East, the AL East, and the AL Wild Card spots -- plus, the Field of Dreams game, continued frustration with living conditions for minor leaguers, and a few of their favorite Project 70 cards from this year's set.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Checkout Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. Derek Van Riper, Bridgeroli, |
| 0:23.9 | Inoceros here with you on this Friday. At least this podcast is for Friday, |
| 0:28.2 | even if you're listening to it late on Thursday night. On this episode, |
| 0:32.8 | we're going to discuss the things that are currently bringing us joy in baseball |
| 0:36.5 | because those things still exist and we will talk about them even though there are things that are currently bringing us joy in baseball because those things |
| 0:37.5 | still exist and we will talk about them even though there are things that bring us anger |
| 0:41.8 | and frustration and sadness. |
| 0:43.3 | Even though we are comrades. |
| 0:45.1 | We will bring joy. |
| 0:46.4 | We will talk about the things that make us happy because there are things that make us |
| 0:49.4 | happy even though there are times where people say, do you guys even like this? |
| 0:53.1 | It's like, well, of course, we love this. |
| 0:55.6 | That's why we get so angry about the things that are bothering us. |
| 0:58.9 | So we're going to dig into all the things that bring us joy. |
| 1:01.9 | We'll talk about the field of dreams game and some of the related stories to that. |
| 1:06.0 | So lots of ground to cover on this episode. |
| 1:08.6 | And good to have the whole gang back together again since |
| 1:11.2 | everything was a mess with me moving and being gone last week and the trade deadline. We've had |
| 1:16.3 | a chance to actually take in a couple of weeks of games since teams made moves. And we're getting |
| 1:21.8 | some stratification, I think is the correct word in the standings. There aren't as many battles division to division as we would expect. |
| 1:31.4 | There are, I would say, three, maybe four, four that are still actually up for grabs. |
| 1:37.3 | Both of the east still up for grabs, both of the West. |
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