How Wall Street Ruined Your (and the MLB's) Wardrobe
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
I see London, I see France, I see Shohei Ohtani’s underpants. This week, the MLB kicked off Spring Training with brand new see-through uniforms — yes, you read that right.
But it’s not just MLB players’ clothing that’s seemingly crappier, the uniform change is another story in a long line of corporate decisions that have made the clothing we wear worse and worse with each passing year. Max and Erin get to the bottom of how fashion got so fast, telling the story of a little Spanish retailer named Zara that changed the way we shop and a big, bad bogeyman (hint: it’s private equity) that stepped in to accelerate the decline of clothing quality.
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| 0:00.0 | Baseball players are mad this week and so are baseball fans. |
| 0:03.7 | What did the Houston Astros do now? |
| 0:05.8 | Well for once, baseball fans are mad at something that isn't the Astros. |
| 0:09.3 | Spring training just started and the new uniforms courtesy of Nike are pretty bad. |
| 0:14.7 | Oh, what's wrong with them? |
| 0:15.8 | Well, check out this photo a reporter took of Giants infielder Casey Schmidt, posing for |
| 0:20.4 | an official team photo. |
| 0:22.1 | Do you notice anything? |
| 0:23.4 | Oh my God, the pants are see-through? |
| 0:25.9 | And are those his? |
| 0:26.9 | Balls in play, Max, balls in play. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Aaron Ryan. And I'm Max Fisher and this is how we got here a new series where Max |
| 0:37.6 | and I explore a big question behind the week's headlines and tell a story that |
| 0:41.4 | answers that question. |
| 0:43.0 | What we're talking about this week is not actually baseball uniforms, |
| 0:46.0 | although we'll come back to what happened there. |
| 0:47.7 | It's the reaction that I had on seeing all this unfold and |
| 0:50.7 | Aaron I know that you had too. |
| 0:52.2 | This resonated big time for us because it feels like even |
| 0:55.3 | Major League Baseball is now falling victim to a problem afflicting all of us. It's not just |
| 1:00.4 | your imagination. The clothes we buy really are flimsier feeling they fit worse and they fall apart faster not to mention they look cheap |
| 1:07.4 | So our question this week why are all of our clothes suddenly getting worse. |
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