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🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | Over the last few weeks, every sports fan in America has been waiting to see when or if the major leagues will resume play. |
0:08.3 | For the most part, everything's been indefinite, vague, and it's been an open question as to whether some seasons will even begin at all. |
0:16.6 | But Jeff, you are now hearing that baseball has a plan. |
0:20.1 | Baseball hopes to have a plan. |
0:22.5 | And the issue with this plan, Mina, is that there are so many different ways that it can go sideways. |
0:29.6 | There are so many places where it can fall apart. |
0:33.4 | But what everyone has come to realize is that this is the best option. |
0:38.6 | And if the best option is potentially sequestering yourself inside of a hotel and baseball stadiums for potentially up to four and a half months in Phoenix, Arizona during the summer when it's about 110, 120 or so degrees. |
0:55.7 | And doing this, while the rest of the nation happens to be tuning in because there are no other |
1:03.1 | sports, that is a plan that you try to make happen. |
1:06.4 | And it's a plan you try to make happen, especially if you have the backing of federal health officials, which really is what has been pushing this thing forward from the start. |
1:18.0 | Ever since baseball's opening day came and went, it's been an open question when the sport might return. |
1:24.7 | Now, the league thinks it might have an answer. |
1:30.6 | Senior MLB insider Jeff Passen joins today's show to discuss baseball's plan to bring the sport back in May. Then he interviews Dan |
1:36.4 | Strayley, a pitcher with the latte giants in South Korea, about the rigorous steps they've taken |
1:41.9 | there to resume play. How do they do it? |
1:45.7 | And could it happen here too? |
1:47.7 | I'm Munich Times. |
1:49.0 | It's Tuesday, April 7th. |
1:51.0 | This is ESPN Daily. |
1:57.5 | And then we come back together. |
1:59.9 | Beautiful. |
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