MLB Eyes Playoff Bubble and the Rise of Fernando Tatis Jr.

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Major League Baseball has already weathered multiple outbreaks of COVID-19, prompting the league to update its protocols, after the integrity of its season was threatened. Now, the league is considering taking the same route as the NBA and NHL to ensure a successful postseason: playing inside a bubble. Jeff Passan brings us the latest on MLB's efforts to contain the coronavirus. Then, Jeff shares his reporting on the breakout star of this MLB season, the San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. Jeff's recent profile of Tatis Jr. for ESPN Cover Story took him to the Dominican Republic to tell the budding superstar's story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This season is not going to be completed.
0:03.0	I'm going to predict that MLB season will be canceled sooner than later.
0:08.0	Here is why.
0:09.0	There's no bubble.
0:10.0	There's no bubble.
0:11.0	We have a global pandemic going on.
0:14.0	These guys don't have to be constricted to a bubble.
0:17.0	They're traveling.
0:19.0	We don't know what they're doing when they're not playing, but then
0:22.2	they come around each other and play.
0:25.2	When Major League Baseball faced its first major COVID outbreak two weeks ago on the Miami Marlins,
0:31.3	it laid bare a truth that was reinforced by the news out of college football yesterday,
0:36.6	that sports in the age of coronavirus is
0:39.4	really difficult unless you build a bubble. Now MLB may have finally gotten the message,
0:46.5	but the question is whether it's too late. Today, ESPN's Jeff Passen joins us to discuss the pros
0:53.2	and cons of baseball's possible postseason bubble,
0:56.4	as well as his profile of the breakout star of this baseball season, the Padres Fernando Tatis Jr.
1:04.0	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, August 12th.
1:09.5	This is ESPN Day.
1:17.4	Jeff Passon, you have two very pressing pieces of MLB reporting that I want to discuss with
1:22.5	you here, but first, I need to ask about you, and specifically, your kidney stones, how is all that going or how did all that go, I guess, more specifically?
1:34.4	Well, it went, and that's a good sign.
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