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PTFO - The 'Baseball Bomb' Falling on a School Near You

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.9 β€’ 8.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A battle over academic freedom is boiling over, beyond Harvard, and Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his cronies have already taken over one college in their effort to win the culture war. But the wildest part is how they're weaponizing an absolutely enormous baseball team to do it. Correspondent Jeb Lund reports on accusations of unconstitutionality β€” and mascot duplicity β€” at his alma mater, with a warning about how right-wing activists might use their sports blueprint next. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IqNPY0pnQ2E Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what

0:05.0

this sound is. I'm reminded the quote from a deep throat from all the

0:09.4

president's men. These are not very bright, and this got out of hand.

0:14.0

Right after this ad.

0:16.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. King's network. So this is one of those episodes Cortez where I admit that you're probably going to roll your eyes at the top year.

0:37.6

Oh really? Yes. Why is that? We are doing a Ron to Sandus episode.

0:41.8

Okay, I ask again, why is that?

0:43.0

Why are we doing a Ron deSandis episode on this podcast?

0:46.0

Look, I am also exhausted by Ron DeSantis, right?

0:49.0

Like he's not going to be president, he's annoying, he's lazy, he's a coward.

0:52.0

And Florida has been talking about him for so long and I get all of that and yes laziness and cowardice also apply we're doing this because the way he has been using baseball

1:02.1

specifically his favorite sport is really

1:04.9

important and fascinating in a way that I did not appreciate before we

1:07.8

reported this and it's not even reliant on whether he's going to be the

1:11.3

president of the United States at all.

1:13.0

I didn't know he's a baseball guy, didn't know he was wheeling baseball.

1:16.2

Yes, yes.

1:17.2

He was a little leaguer, he went to the quarterfinals of the 1991 Little League World Series,

1:22.4

he was the captain of his college baseball team.

1:24.7

Bonifides, okay? And they're real. Great, he's a baseball guy, okay. But I also think he is playing up the baseball

1:31.3

stuff to be a, yes, a man of the people he's just like your favorite

1:36.0

jocks even though he's not my favorite jock well might be somebody's favorite jock and

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