FTP Ep. # 530: The Case of the Missing MLB Uniforms
Fantasy Throwdown Podcast
Dwayne Callender
4.9 • 440 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
As we head into March I begin to catch up on all the baseball news surrounding Spring Training and the current debacle surrounding the lack of available uniforms (yes you read that right) plus with the news of Jurgen Klopp leaving Liverpool at the end of the season (but not retiring mind you), I discuss the state of the Premier League with my father.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the fantasy throw down podcast, bringing you the latest from the world of |
| 0:07.2 | sports, DFS and gambling. With over five years of hot takes and millions of downloads later, I guess he's been doing something right. |
| 0:18.0 | Now, sit back and listen to one of the sharpest minds in the game. |
| 0:23.0 | Here's your host, Duane Calendar. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to the show folks. |
| 0:31.0 | I have been looking into spring training baseball and just figuring out where some of these teams are from some of their off season moves. |
| 0:42.4 | But there's one story that I need to talk about, which probably is the dumbest story. |
| 0:50.4 | I, and we talked about a lot of dumb stories in the history of this |
| 0:56.4 | podcast I mean really dumb stores but this might actually be the dumbest story. |
| 1:03.5 | So going back a couple of years ago, |
| 1:07.2 | Major League Baseball cut a deal with Nike |
| 1:09.7 | to produce jerseys. And realistically, this. and realistically this should be straightforward. Everyone knows what a baseball |
| 1:19.0 | jersey looks like. One would think it would not be this complicated to do. |
| 1:25.0 | But alas, here we are today and we've got jerseys with mis-sized lettering. We've got see-through pants. We've got everything |
| 1:40.2 | looking bootleg. And we are basically for all 10 to purposes a month out for |
| 1:46.4 | the third of the season we got no time to fix the jerseys we are out of |
| 1:52.4 | actual viable jerseys. We've got MLB clubs and this was already |
| 1:57.9 | reported widely that MLB clubs are having to scrounge in the locker rooms to find all the jerseys that they were using from last year |
| 2:09.2 | to cobble together uniforms for the teams because there are not enough jerseys even if they are |
| 2:14.8 | mis-sized in the lettering. They still don't even have enough jerseys to |
| 2:18.8 | clothe MLB teams in general. This might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. Nike. Nike. |
| 2:27.0 | And then producing it out of Fanatics's factory, how are we short of clothing for baseball players? |
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