Hot Take: Shakeia Taylor on The Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees and the BBWAA

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Shireen chats with Burn It All Down baseball guru Shakeia Taylor about the most recent Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, the process by which they are selected, and why that process must be burned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.1	Welcome to a special hot take for Burn It All Down.
0:58.1	This is Shireen Ahmed coming to you from Toronto.
1:01.0	And we're going to get into a little bit of baseball.
1:04.0	Yes, with me, baseball.
1:06.5	History is being made in Cooperstown.
1:09.0	And the national pastime appears to be more vital and healthy
1:13.1	than ever. On January 22nd, the Baseball Writers Association of America announced the results of
1:20.1	its 2019 Hall of Fame ballotine. Any electees will be inducted on Sunday, July 21st at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown.
1:29.6	Now, the BBWAA has elected at least two Hall of Fame candidates in five straight years
1:35.5	and a total of 16 candidates during that time. No five-year period in history has resulted in as
1:42.3	many BBWA electees with the previous high of 13 coming
1:47.5	in the five-year period from 1952 to 1956. That was also the last time the BBWAA elected
1:55.0	at least two candidates five years in a row. Now to break all of this down and unpack it, we have Shakia Taylor,
2:03.6	resident Burn It All Down baseball guru, and general badass.
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