How the NFL & ESPN DESTROYED Baseball, Boxing & Tennis | 7.25

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

Wave Originals

Music, Sports, News

4.8 • 12.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On today's episode of The Right Time, Bomani Jones is joined by Howard Bryant of ESPN & Meadowlark Media to talk about issues within tennis and Major League Baseball. The show begins with Bo and Howard discussing why fame may be dependent on how old someone is (6:15) and why the decline in SportsCenter means less knowledge across the board in sports (9:32). They move onto tennis and say why it's an American sport yet Americans aren't good at tennis (19:03) and why you no longer need to win tournaments to achieve success in the sport (26:02). After the break, they dive into baseball's issues including why stars like Mike Trout aren't recognizable (33:00), how the MLB lost its grasp on being the summer sport (37:28) and would America even care if a historic record was about to be broken? (50:01) . . . Subscribe to Supercast for Ad-Free Episodes: https://righttime.supercast.com/ Buy 'The Right Time' merch: http://therighttimebomani.com/ Subscribe to The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok for all the best moments from the show. Download Full Podcast Here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6N7fDvgNz2EPDIOm49aj7M?si=FCb5EzTyTYuIy9-fWs4rQA&nd=1&utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-right-time-with-bomani-jones/id982639043?utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Follow The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Social Media: http://lnk.to/therighttime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.2	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original.
1:09.9	My name is Boat Moni Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is Howard Brian Friday. Howard Bryant, what's going on, man? What's up, Beaumonti How are you doing? Hey, man, I tell you this. I was over here at the house hanging out with my brother and another buddy, and one of them popped up with the words that you want to hear, which is Howard Brian is writing a book on Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson. Oh, boy. It is true. It is true, but we got to wait until January. That's the thing about books, man. I mean, I love the instant gratification of writing on the daily. Because you write today, it comes out tomorrow. You write today, this is coming out January 20th. But yes, very fun book. A lot to talk about there one day.
2:01.2	A part, I think this part we can't talk about before we get to January, and this is something that we
2:05.6	discussed out there with my buddies that came over, which is the magnitude of Paul Robeson
2:13.0	as an American figure and the magnitude of Jackie Robinson, I wonder what the inflection
2:19.9	point is at what age that you have to start explaining, oh, wait a minute, no, no, no.
2:24.0	Like, Robeson, I feel like somebody my age might actually be an outlier for understanding
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