Opening Day Preview with Jayson Stark

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🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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ESPN's Jayson Stark tells Chuck which teams could upset the National League elite, why the World Baseball Classic could be the future of baseball, and why politics remains outside of the MLB locker room.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:06.0	Meet the press.
0:09.0	Welcome to 1947 to meet the press podcast.
0:11.7	I'm Chuck Ton and hey, it's almost opening day of baseball season.
0:17.0	So I guess this week is Jason Stark, a writer and contributor to ESPN.
0:22.1	Mr. Stark, welcome to 1947.
0:25.0	Chuck, it's an honor to be here.
0:26.3	Thanks for inviting me.
0:27.6	So when we last talked, we spoke last month for a story you were working on about politics
0:31.9	and baseball and you were comparing it to what we've seen in the NBA and the NFL.
0:37.0	And you wrote this about baseball where locker rooms feature a multicultural melting pot
0:42.3	of athletes, many of whom could be directly or indirectly affected by policies in the
0:46.9	new president.
0:48.1	What you hear are doing here is the careful sound of political silence.
0:53.0	So I want to get into regular baseball in a few minutes.
0:56.3	You're not going to be all about off the field, but I'm curious.
1:00.2	I participated in that piece.
1:02.6	What was the reaction?
1:03.6	What did you hear in the baseball world after you wrote it?
1:07.3	Well, you're not referring to like my Twitter comments here, right?
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