Jeff Passan takes the temperature of MLB
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jeff the only thing more complicated than let's just say the American tax code is the |
| 0:06.5 | system of all-star game voting currently with Major League Baseball. |
| 0:10.5 | It's weird, there's multiple phases. Where do you stand on this particular process? |
| 0:15.1 | Clinton, here's where I stand. |
| 0:17.0 | We're almost at the All-Star game. |
| 0:24.0 | The Major League Baseball season is more than halfway over at this point, |
| 0:29.0 | and the number of things that we have seen in the first half, whether it is the |
| 0:33.7 | ascent of the Philadelphia Phillies, the return of the New York Yankees, or the |
| 0:38.6 | question marks about the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks who were in the World Series last year. |
| 0:47.0 | We're looking at giant purple taste buds changing seasons and we're looking at a giant California kid who spent |
| 0:57.5 | a year at LSU taking the game by storm. I don't care what all- voting looks like as long as the best players get there |
| 1:07.3 | and that hopefully in the midsummer classic is what we're going to have to compliment all |
| 1:12.1 | of those other wonderful |
| 1:13.7 | storylines in the first half of the Major League Baseball season. |
| 1:17.0 | Well that's the problem. People think that Philly is being, I don't know, a little |
| 1:21.9 | too Philly by Goose in the ballot box to make sure |
| 1:25.0 | the Bryce Harper gets the first ahead of Freddie Freeman. |
| 1:28.0 | Goose away, Philly. Do what you shall. This is a public vote and you are allowed to vote multiple times |
| 1:38.3 | without any sort of penalty or voter fraud or anything happening to you. So if you want to make |
| 1:45.8 | Los Angeles look like a second-rate baseball city, which it isn't by the way, but if you want to make |
| 1:51.1 | it look that way, then the all-star voting is the way to do it. I've seen it happen with Kansas City |
| 1:56.7 | before. I respect every single team's fan base that turns out for all-star voting so Philly do your thing The calendar has flipped to July and that means we're about halfway through the |
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