Sports in the Time of Coronavirus - Baseball Season Begins & The Washington Football Team Is Born

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.2 • 14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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L.A. Clippers player Lou Williams is quarantined after visiting a strip club, the Washington Football Team rebrands, and MLB adds fake crowd noise to its broadcasts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.6	BAM!
0:03.6	Major League Baseball.
0:12.0	America's leading metaphor for how far you went during a hook-up.
0:16.2	Just four days after the season started with a record four million viewers tuning in.
0:20.8	It looks like the season is already at risk.
0:23.2	With a report today that at least 14 players and coaches on the Miami Marlins have tested
0:27.9	positive for coronavirus.
0:29.9	This is a real blow because the league had been trying literally everything it could
0:34.4	think of to try and stay safe.
0:37.2	There's so many things different about Major League Baseball this season.
0:40.6	The pirates lived to wrap up their first series of the season at St. Louis on Sunday and
0:46.1	check this out.
0:47.1	Your home played umpire tosses, a player from the pirates.
0:50.0	So new manager Derek Shelton goes out there and new rules.
0:53.9	You have to social distance and mask up to argue.
0:58.0	Corona's really changed our lives.
0:59.7	Hand me my mask is the new hold my earrings.
1:02.6	I mean seriously, props to these two because this is an expert demonstration on what it
1:07.5	means to take coronavirus seriously.
1:09.8	Because yes, these guys wanted to fight but they also know that coronavirus is waiting
1:14.4	to beat both of them up.
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