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Takeline

MLB Pulls The All Star Game, NCAA Viewership, JJ Redick’s Comments + Travon Free

Takeline

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week on Takeline Jason Concepcion and Renee Montgomery discuss the impact of the MLB pulling the All-Star game and MLB draft out of Atlanta in response to the restrictive voting law SB202. They also react to JJ Redick’s comments on being traded, and the viewership milestones made by women’s college basketball. Plus, Travon Free talks about his Oscar nominated short film and plays Take Survivor. Don’t forget to smash the subscribe button at http://youtube.com/takelineshow for exclusive video clips and to watch ALL CAPS NBA. New episodes every Friday! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/takeline. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0

All these changes, all that they've done is made teams sign players to contracts that end up being bad contracts.

0:09.6

We're no closer to parity.

0:11.8

And now when teams buy out players who have bad contracts and those players then sign for somebody else, now all of a sudden that's a problem.

0:20.0

It's like we haven't fixed the initial problem of parity and we've made it worse.

0:24.4

So listen, I'm all for tweaking these rules.

0:28.6

But I think we need to be honest about the fact that the last time we tweaked the rules, we created all these unforeseen problems that made the initial problem worse.

0:39.4

100% but see, here's the thing.

0:42.4

So small market versus big market that this is basically what we're hitting on right.

0:48.4

With how the NBA is trending, is it even possible?

0:53.4

Use the word parity.

0:55.4

Is that even possible at this point?

1:01.4

By the time this pod reaches your eardrums, Gonzaga will either be the first national champion to go undefeated since Indiana 45 years ago or Baylor will have pulled off the upset.

1:11.4

Over the weekend, the stand for women won their first title since the end of the George H. W. Bush administration, despite a mighty effort from Erie McDonald and Arizona, the MLB.

1:20.4

Pulls the all-star game out of Georgia and Governor Camp in the GOP are mad about it.

1:25.4

May I suggest getting into lacrosse, guys?

1:29.4

Plus, writer and performer and now director, Trayvon Frey joins us to talk about his powerful, Oscar-nominated short two-distant strangers.

1:37.4

I'm Jason Kitsepsion.

1:38.4

I'm Renee Montgomery.

1:39.4

Welcome to take-line.

1:41.4

Let's go!

1:50.4

Okay, so Jason, I want to start off by talking about some big viewership numbers that came out of the college basketball tournament.

1:57.4

Woo!

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