Hour 3 – How to Get Black Players Back into Baseball + The Athletic NBA reporter Joe Vardon
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Chris and Rob discuss why there are so few Black players in Major League Baseball and tell us what – if anything – can be done to fix it, and discuss if Chris Paul would be better off with the Phoenix Suns or the Los Angeles Lakers. Plus, The Athletic’s NBA reporter Joe Vardon swings by to discuss Ja Morant’s 25-game suspension, whether or not Ja will be able to use this as a learning experience, the likelihood that Zion Williamson gets traded this offseason, this odd beef between LeBron James and Michael Malone and much more!
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