Roberto Clemente Day & Erasing the Stigma
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR discuss Roberto Clemente Day, erasing the stigma around mental health, and using baseball as a way to cope.
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Rundown
3:45 Roberto Clemente Day
12:31 Erasing the Stigma
22:40 Baseball as an Escape
27:48 The Battle for the AL Central
37:03 Are You Buying the Marlins, Rockies or Mets?
43:31 Wild & Crazy Stats
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| 1:09.8 | Derek Van Riper here with Inosaris and |
| 1:11.9 | Britch Roli. It's Friday, September 11th. On this episode, we're going to discuss the celebration |
| 1:17.5 | of Roberto Clemente. Of course, Roberto Clemente Day was Wednesday of this week. We'll talk about a few |
| 1:22.4 | interesting award nominees, perhaps, along the way, as the league continues to honor him that way, each and every year. |
| 1:30.2 | Wild stats. So get some fun stats, and we wanted to pass along a variety of different things that have just caught our eye recently. |
| 1:36.0 | We'll take a look at the wild race in the AL Central, which continues to be probably the most fun division in baseball. |
| 1:42.7 | We saw Joe West call security to throw Mike Rizzo out of a game, |
| 1:46.6 | so we'll get to the bottom of how that happened and some other really interesting stuff to get |
| 1:51.1 | to on this episode as well. Britt, how's it going for you on this Friday? Yeah, it's going |
| 1:56.5 | good. I can't complain. How are you guys? I'm doing pretty well. You know, how are you doing? |
| 2:00.9 | Okay, but I'm a little bit worried this weekend is going to have some of the worst air quality in the history of the Bay Area. |
| 2:08.8 | So I'm trying to plan some sort of escape because I don't want to breathe in the air right now. It's slightly orange again. Yeah, it's been a |
| 2:22.2 | really scary couple of weeks for a lot of people out there on the West Coast. And how far from |
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