Fixing Major League Baseball + Declining African American Representation

Takeline

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Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Jason welcomes Lindsey Adler (The Athletic) as a special guest as Mike Petriello (MLB.com) joins the show to unpack decades of change in Major League Baseball & predict where the game is headed. Jesse Washington (Andscape, formerly The Undefeated) comes on to explain why on-field African American representation in baseball continues to decline. Subscribe at http://youtube.com/takelineshow for exclusive video clips and to watch ALL CAPS NBA. New episodes every Friday! For a transcript of this episode, go to crooked.com/takeline

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Take Line. I'm your host, Jason Kiteshion. Great show this week with
0:19.9	Lindsey on the pod today. It's so great to have you here today with opening day just
0:24.7	around the corner. It's a perfect opportunity to talk about just what's going on with the state
0:31.4	of the game right now. Coming off of, you know, a lockout. What does Lindsey Adler and MLB's
0:41.5	Mike Petriello think of the state of baseball in 2022? And then we'll be talking to the undefeated
0:49.2	Jesse Washington about a podcast that he is coming out as part of ESPN's package for Jackie
0:57.2	Robinson's 75th anniversary of integrating baseball.
1:08.9	Lindsey, I actually daydream about getting signed by the Yankees and then deciding not to cut my
1:13.9	hair just to see what they would do. What are they going to do? I think it's legitimately a first
1:18.4	amendment issue like no bullshit. Like I think if you really want, if you really wanted to go to
1:23.5	the mat with it. And so you just be like, it's a first amendment issue. It's my right to express
1:27.2	myself via my hair. But the issue is like some of some of these guys get so horny for the Yankees thing.
1:38.2	The pinstripes and the no name on the back and the mystique and the whole thing, the legacy of
1:45.1	the entire thing back to the 1927, the whole thing. They come here and they say things like first class
1:55.2	organization. Yeah, they love to say like, oh, first class organization. Okay. Well, you can still
2:00.7	have a beard of me at first class organization. I mean, like, I know, I have like, you know, Yankee
2:07.6	friend, Yankee fan friends whose family is like, argue bitterly about names on the back of the
2:16.6	jerseys. Like how, oh, that's, that's not legit. What is that you're wearing with the name on the
2:22.2	back in it? Like, it's like, what do you know, I mean, with you, like, I like, I respect people
2:32.6	who are insane, curious because in some ways, I can be, but it's like the amount of money a
2:38.3	replica Jersey costs is I can't fault anyone for wearing a judge 99 Jersey because they should not
2:48.0	be paying the cost of money that takes to get, you know, the replica. Like I remember even a couple
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