Starting 9 Episode 176 - Scott Kingery & Cole Tucker
Barstool Baseball
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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 188 minutes
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Summary
Barstool Sports presents the Starting 9, featuring Jared Carrabis and Dallas Braden - the baseball podcast everyone wants but no one else will give you. This week's episode features a combo interview with lifelong friends and current Major Leaguers Scott Kingery (Phillies) and Cole Tucker (Pirates), who talk growing up together, what they've been up to with no baseball, the latest in the attempts to return to the field, and much more (50:50). Dallas and Jarerd get into the latest developments in the back-and-forth between MLB and the MLBPA at the start of the podcast; RDT Barstool joins for a few to talk Orioles draft and to eat his tweet from last week (2:06:46); and the crew chats the Yankees sign-stealing report and answer questions from the Reddit page (2:18:40)!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, starting nine listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:05.6 | Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music. |
| 0:08.3 | It is going to be a frustrated episode. It's one of those things where you hope you don't have |
| 0:15.1 | to do stuff like this, but when it comes time to it, you need to do stuff like this because I don't |
| 0:20.8 | think that Major League Baseball and the owners are quite, I mean, maybe as of last night, they're |
| 0:28.1 | feeling the heat, but I don't think up until that point, they were really taking the backlash and |
| 0:34.5 | frustrations of the fans seriously because I mean, you have, it is absolute anarchy in the streets |
| 0:42.2 | now. Like you have active players tweeting like, hey, guys, this is fucking embarrassing. Like, you have |
| 0:48.7 | a complete revolt of active players that are just openly speaking their minds instead of towing |
| 0:54.8 | the company line. These guys no longer care about the company line. I don't even know if they |
| 0:59.8 | care about the company anymore. So it's a real situation out here where I think now, and maybe it's |
| 1:08.7 | because of social media, but fans are smarter now than they ever have been. So these negotiating |
| 1:16.0 | tactics that may have worked prior to this in years past and negotiations, they're not working now. |
| 1:22.4 | Like if if either side, mainly the owners and Rob Manfred are trying to use the media to gain |
| 1:29.6 | leverage or to bluff in order to get the players to to budge a little bit, I think once that happens, |
| 1:37.4 | which it is currently happening, you're going to have a situation where the fans are like, Bullshit, |
| 1:42.3 | and now you're only creating a stronger push on the behalf of the players because the fans see |
| 1:47.2 | right through what's going on here. So let's talk about what's going on here. You want to |
| 1:51.2 | why that happens, Jared? That happens because back in the day, the New York Times, the LA Times, |
| 1:58.4 | whatever other newspaper Times, Harold, evening edition, whatever the fuck was not |
| 2:04.8 | immediately responding to the figures that were being leaked out to the general public. So back |
| 2:11.8 | in the day, you read those figures in the morning newspaper, right? At breakfast and then talked |
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