Starting 9 Episode 218 - John Smoltz
Barstool Baseball
Barstool Sports
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 156 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 podcast features an interview with Hall of Famer John Smoltz, who discusses his career (both Atlanta and Boston), talks in-depth pitching, his brief experience in Boston, pitching with Maddux and Glavine, being a starter vs a closer - and much more (1:12:30). Jared and Dallas also get into all the news the podcast hasn't covered, including the Mets trade for Francisco Lindor & Carlos Carrasco, the Yankees signing of DJ LeMahieu and Corey Kluber, Liam Hendriks to the White Sox, Kyle Schwarber and Jon Lester to the Nationals, Archie Bradley to the Phillies, Alex Wood to the Giants, Martin Perez back to Boston - and everything else. The crew also discusses the Mets firing of GM Jared Porter and the situation surrounding that, Theo Epstein joining the MLB office and Dave Stewart getting involved in the Oakland stadium situation!
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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. |
| 0:08.4 | Episode two 18. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, where are you? |
| 0:13.8 | Yeah, where have you been? |
| 0:15.0 | Where you been? What's going on? |
| 0:16.2 | I've been here. Where have you been? |
| 0:17.5 | Good to see you back in Minsk. Close. |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah, it's nice. It's nice to be back podcasting about Major League Baseball on on this particular program. |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah, hey, you know, Jared, free agent season isn't just for the ball players. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes, you know, there are in this business, it's this, you know, it would be nice to live in a world where we could just do this as a hobby. |
| 0:42.3 | And it is something that we enjoy very much, but it is still a job. |
| 0:46.1 | And sometimes, you know, the business side, it gets in the way of being able to do that job. |
| 0:51.6 | And I think some of the, some of the rumors out there, I know that like the starting nine Reddit was, was on top of it. |
| 0:58.5 | And a lot of people were asking what was going on and they were wondering what was going on. |
| 1:03.5 | I was trying to offer updates as much as I could without impeding on offering up information that was not in my business. |
| 1:10.3 | But I do appreciate everyone that said that they would stop listening if it was just me. |
| 1:14.8 | I do appreciate that people noticed that we were gone and cared about the future of the podcast. |
| 1:22.1 | But, you know, we're back and it's good to be back. |
| 1:25.2 | That's it. I couldn't have said that better myself. |
| 1:27.6 | I know you guys probably woke up this morning to the alerts from Dave Portnoy and from Ericka, Nardini, celebrating our reunion. |
| 1:38.0 | So I'm probably just giving you information that you've already consumed and digested. |
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