MLB’s Struggles, NBA Asterisks With CC Sabathia and Ryan Ruocco, and Jason Gay on Pandemic Parenting and Regis Philbin

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by CC Sabathia and Ryan Ruocco of the ‘R2C2’ podcast to discuss MLB's shaky start to the season with multiple Miami Marlins players testing positive for COVID-19, how some of the concerns surrounding baseball can also be applied to the NFL, getting ready for the NBA restart, sports broadcasts during the pandemic, Ryan and CC’s dream podcast guests, and more (2:10). Then Bill talks with Jason Gay of The Wall Street Journal about some of the challenges the NFL will face for the 2020 season, how New York City has adapted to COVID-19, pandemic parenting, and the passing of Jason’s friend and TV icon, Regis Philbin (53:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.0	It's excellent. And just in general, very excited at both of them in the ringer family. So we're
1:07.2	gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about what's gonna happen with baseball. We're gonna talk
1:12.1	basketball stuff. You name it. It's all coming up. Also coming up Jason Gay, our friend from the
1:17.7	Wall Street Journal, one-third of the sports repotters, which we haven't done in a while. We have to
1:21.9	bring that one back by the way. We're gonna talk about the pandemic, what it's been like as parents,
1:28.7	what it's been like as sports fans. And we're gonna talk about Regis Philbin, who passed away,
1:33.4	who was just a really enjoyable guy to have in everybody's life. But Jason had a personal experience
1:39.1	with him. He worked with him. And he came on to talk about that and a whole bunch of other things.
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1:52.3	All right, R2C2 has joined the ringer podcast that worked CCC's about this year, Ryan Rukos. They
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