Interview: Jon Morosi, MLB Network Broadcaster, on the Global Future of Baseball

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode, Brenda Elsey interviews Jon Morosi, MLB and NHL Network broadcaster, on how Major League Baseball’s new CBA impacts international players, Spanish language learning in baseball, his hopes for the league grow globally and what he's looking forward to in this upcoming season. 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	This is burn it all down.
0:04.4	And I'll play with your babies to the screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
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0:10.2	This is Burn It All Down.
0:12.1	I'm Brenda Elsie.
0:13.7	We are thrilled to have with us today, John Morosi, NHL, an MLB network announcer, baseball extraordinaire, to talk with us a little bit about the
0:23.7	international aspects of the new CBA and what he's excited about in the new season.
0:29.2	Welcome, John.
0:30.6	This is my pleasure and always happy to help a fellow Michigander.
0:33.8	So please do stay in touch and let me know anytime I can help.
0:37.4	For sure, for sure for sure
0:38.4	okay so first of all i mean john morosi you can find him on twitter at john morosi
0:44.3	and a lot of what creeps in there though you're not a person to talk a ton about yourself is
0:50.6	spanish language learning whether it's on peloton or in other ways. Why has it been so
0:56.2	important for you as a person that covers sports, especially MLB, to learn Spanish? Yeah, it's a great
1:04.6	question, Brendan. Thanks just for having me on the show today. I really appreciate it.
1:08.3	The Peloton piece, I have to thank my wife for that. She's the
1:11.0	inspiration for me, first of all, getting on the bike. I don't do it as well or as often as she does,
1:15.9	but I did say, and part of her pitch to me was, John, there are classes in Spanish. And if you,
1:21.0	if you want to keep learning the language, it's a great way to do it. I said, you know what? Now, now you are truly speaking my language. And so what I would say on
1:29.2	that, it really goes back. Goodness, I mean, I learned Spanish a little bit in elementary school and in high
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