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Sports Talk Chicago

Has MLB Gone Too Mainstream?

Sports Talk Chicago

Sports Talk Chicago

Football, Sports, Baseball

5.0832 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, host Jon Zaghloul reacts to MLB’s latest ad campaign, and explains why the game has, in fact, gone too mainstream! Tune in at 5pm Central on Thursdays to hear Sports Talk Chicago on AM 1230 WJOB and JED TV!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's his sports talk, Chicago.

0:01.7

John's Glew.

0:02.3

John Meadows here with you, and we have one last segment to go.

0:05.3

I tease this near the beginning.

0:07.2

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0:11.2

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0:15.6

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0:19.3

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0:22.1

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0:26.4

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0:37.7

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0:42.3

So, here's my question to end this show, and this is going to be the most impassioned

0:46.6

rant you will ever see.

0:48.4

Maybe.

0:51.1

Has Major League Baseball gone to mainstream?

0:56.4

Now, of course, at the outset, everybody's going to be happy.

0:58.9

Hey, baseball is getting more popular.

1:01.2

Baseball is making these rule changes for popularity purposes,

1:04.2

for getting people excited about the game.

1:08.8

But something this past week really bothered me, and maybe you sought to.

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