MLB Players' Strange and Inspiring Hobbies
The Lead
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3.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Major League Baseball players have had some extra time on their hands recently. And, it turns out, they've gotten into some pretty interesting activities. The Athletic's Brittany Ghiroli fills us in on how a few different MLB players have been spending their time, in ways that are surprising, inspiring, and colorful.
Read Britt Ghiroli and Eno Sarris's story about MLB players actions during lockdown:
https://theathletic.com/1807617/2020/05/12/gardening-podcasting-harp-how-mlb-players-are-passing-the-time-in-lockdown/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:06.1 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Sirete. |
| 0:09.1 | And we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked-about cases. |
| 0:16.3 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga. |
| 0:21.6 | Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like. |
| 0:29.6 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, |
| 0:33.9 | the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction. |
| 0:39.9 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior. |
| 0:44.8 | Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? |
| 0:47.2 | What drives a child to kill? |
| 0:49.5 | And what's the psychology of a terrorist? |
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| 1:08.6 | Major League Baseball is still in a holding pattern. |
| 1:12.8 | And at some point, they're going to have to come to an agreement and get to the middle. |
| 1:17.2 | Because let's face it, Kevin. |
| 1:19.1 | If baseball did not return because the players in owners could not agree on economic terms, |
| 1:26.0 | the entire country would be curious. |
| 1:28.5 | And with no baseball over the past couple of months, let's be honest. |
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