Interview: Bradford William Davis, Reporter for Insider, on the Latest MLB Headlines

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this episode, Jessica Luther speaks to Bradford William Davis, an investigations reporter for Insider, about the MLB season so far, including the response to Fernando Tatis Jr.’s 80-game suspension for using a performance-enhancing substance, if Aaron Judge is actually chasing a home run record, and how the Baltimore Orioles’ have succeeded at tanking. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need. Jessica here. We know that we are neglectful of baseball on Burn It All Down and have had requests from listeners to cover it more often.
0:21.5	I won't make any promises going forward.
0:24.2	But we are definitely going to talk baseball today right now.
0:28.3	I'm joined by Bradford Davis, an investigative journalist with Insider, who has written about
0:33.0	the failures at USA fencing around reports of sexual assault, issues at rain, the top U.S.
0:38.2	organization for victims of sexual violence, and in lighter fare, about the MLB using two
0:43.4	different types of baseball during last year's season. He is a born and bred New Yorker and a huge
0:49.4	baseball fan. Bradford, welcome to burn it all down.
0:53.0	Yo, thank you for having me.
0:54.5	All right. So I want to get our biases out of the way immediately.
0:59.3	Who's your favorite team in baseball? Who do you root for?
1:03.1	I grew up a Yankees fan. My relationship to the rooting part of it is different,
1:09.6	in part because I just hate,
1:11.1	don't, didn't like dealing with trolls or like, oh, you bias, you know,
1:14.9	whenever I report something, you know, negative at the team.
1:18.6	You know, I am so happy when the Yankees do well.
1:21.2	Okay.
1:21.7	That's what I'll say publicly on the record.
1:24.3	That was such a diplomatic answer.
1:27.1	In a privacy of my own home, it may be a little different.
1:29.2	You're like crying in the privacy of your own home or standing on your couch?
1:33.8	Okay.
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