Hot Take: Kamila Hinkson, Staff Editor at The Athletic, on MLB Post-Season

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🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this Hot Take, Shireen Ahmed talks with Kamila Hinkson, Staff Editor at The Athletic covering Major League Baseball. They discuss the wild conclusion to the MLB regular season, Shireen's heartbreak over the Toronto Blue Jays and who Kamila thinks will take the World Series crown. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:01.0	And I'll suck you up and I spit you out and I'll play with your babies to the screaming shout
0:08.0	Oh, yeah.
0:09.0	Hello, Flame Throvers.
0:10.0	Shereen here.
0:11.0	Thank you for joining us on this very important hot take on what I call the baseball.
0:16.0	I know nothing about this and today you may or may not have heard that my newly loved Toronto Blue Jays are no longer in the playoffs, something I actually don't understand and how that transpired and how the playoffs work, if you actually even call it that, which is why I invited baseball expert Camilla Hinkson to the show.
0:36.7	Hello, Camila. Hello, Charine. So let me tell you a little bit
0:40.9	about this fabulous person. Camilla Hinkson is a staff editor covering major league baseball and before
0:46.9	joining the athletic. She worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation based in Montreal.
0:52.2	She loves jelly beans, Justin Bieber discography, and I won't even begin to tell you her
0:57.7	feelings on putine because I'm already so conflicted about everything.
1:03.2	Camila, I don't understand the baseball.
1:07.2	Let me be real with you.
1:09.8	I'm a hockey and soccer fan. I have no business being this
1:13.1	upset about sport in September. What is how is I didn't even know if we were going to the
1:19.4	playoffs. And the weird thing is the Blue Jays didn't even know that they were going to the playoffs either.
1:23.9	What? What is this? It's mess is what it is. It's just absolute mess. Where should I start?
1:31.0	Where do you want me to start? Okay. I do understand there's a thing called major league baseball.
1:35.9	Yes. MLB. And underneath that, there's American League and there's a National League.
1:43.6	Correct. That's all I got. Okay. All right. So there
1:47.8	are 15 teams in each league and oh boy, here comes the math. So 10 teams make it into the postseason,
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