Jeff Passan on a World Series Unlike Any Other

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Tonight, Game One of the 2020 World Series gets underway between the Dodgers and Rays. It’s a series that promises to be as strange and intriguing as the season it concludes. Will Clayton Kershaw exorcise his playoff demons and lead the Dodgers to their first title in three decades? Or will the aggressively unconventional Tampa Bay Rays upset LA to claim their first-ever championship? And with a neutral site location and limited fans in the seats, will it feel like a real World Series? Jeff Passan explains how LA and Tampa made it this far, and what the fall classic in a pandemic will look like. Then, an ode to hockey’s preeminent broadcasting scholar, Mike “Doc” Emrick, who announced his retirement on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, winning the World Series is winning the World Series.
0:02.0	I know there was a lot of talk as to whether or not this is a normal season or what a World
0:09.2	Series championship would mean.
0:11.3	But from day one, we came out as a group and said, if there's a championship to be won, we're
0:16.7	going to go after it and we're going to try to run it down.
0:23.5	That was Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner, who takes the field tonight in a singularly intriguing world series.
0:32.1	Will Clayton Kershaw exercise his playoff demons and lead the Dodgers to their first title in three decades.
0:39.7	Or will be aggressively unconventional Tampa Bay Rays upset LA to claim their first ever championship?
0:47.6	Today, ESPN's Jeff Passen joins us from Arlington, Texas, where this unprecedented fall classic begins tonight to answer those questions, and a lot more.
1:01.8	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, October 20th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:18.4	Jeff Passon, where are you right now?
1:26.1	I am at what our colleague Alden Gonzalez has deemed the saddest hotel in baseball,
1:30.7	the courtyard Arlington, which is a little less than a mile from the ballpark. And out my window, I have a view of Jerry World and fencing and and
1:39.8	trees that are not very pretty. Yeah, it's a good time, man. Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.
1:46.7	I brought you on to this podcast because you just had what seemed like from afar. One of the
1:54.4	most glorious spectator experiences in sports of this year, and because this year is this year of maybe like the decade.
2:03.6	I mean, you got to see a, you got to see a game seven with people in it, Jeff.
2:10.1	What was that like?
2:12.4	The last week having fans in the stands for baseball games has been the closest life has felt to normal since the middle of March.
2:22.0	And even though the stadium was only about a quarter filled, it's not normal, but it's close enough to normal that it made me feel like when things do get back to the way they were, or at least as close as they're going to get back to the way they were, man, it's going to be great.
2:43.8	So in this World Series, we'll start with the Dodgers because these are the preseason favorites.
2:51.2	These are the players that you have been heralding as the best collection of talent in Major League Baseball.
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