#ICYMI - MLB Greatness and Trout 5 Design, with Mike Trout

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🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice find out more about the new Trout 5 baseball cleats, data-driven baseball, and how to be baseball’s best player from MLB superstar Mike Trout and Mike Ekstrom, former MLB player and Nike Product Line Manager for Cleated Footwear. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Please subscribe to our channels on: Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360 TuneIn: tunein.com/playingwithscience GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/mlb-greatness-and-trout-5-design-with-mike-trout/ Photo Credit: D. Benjamin Miller [Public domain or CC0], from Wikimedia Commons.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:10.6	He's not Chuck Knies.
0:11.6	And this is playing with science.
0:13.2	Today we are going to talk to a man who doesn't just hit homers.
0:16.9	He smashes them.
0:18.8	And if you turn your back, he's stealing bass.
0:20.9	Yep.
0:21.9	And the only clubhouse he's not feared in is his own.
0:24.6	That's right.
0:25.6	And that is none other than already walking, talking and living legend.
0:30.6	And seemingly the most underrated player in modern history for some strange reason.
0:36.7	We're talking about a man who will rewrite and tear down records at any chance that he's
0:42.0	given.
0:43.0	None other than baseball's Mike Trout.
0:45.7	None other.
0:46.7	And that is only part of why we've got him on the show because he's that good.
0:51.1	The other reason he has a new cleat coming out, the Nike Trout 5.
0:55.9	And with the big fuss about cleats right now in Major League Baseball.
0:59.5	I'm suppose really we need to talk to the man who designed the shoe.
1:03.1	Yes.
1:04.1	That's right.
1:05.1	And that is former MLB player Mike Ekstrom.
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