Starting Five: The NFL Draft Is Here, Baseball's Sticky Debate
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🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the lead, add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:09.0 | Drilla Words is back for another season exclusively on Amazon Music. |
| 0:14.0 | We asked people to bring in three words of meaning and significance to their lives. |
| 0:19.0 | We used that as a springboard for conversation. |
| 0:21.0 | And then at the end of the show, we asked them for a word that they'd be happy never to hear again. |
| 0:26.0 | So that's Drilla Words with made John Bishop and Tony Pitts. |
| 0:30.0 | Listen to it every Friday exclusively on Amazon Music. |
| 0:43.0 | The NFL Draft is finally here. |
| 0:46.0 | England's two top soccer teams are a step closer to a Champions League showdown. |
| 0:51.0 | And after a baseball brawl in St. Louis, we ask, are betters getting hit more often? |
| 0:57.0 | Because pitchers aren't using sticky stuff? From Wondery, I'm Otterskeltto. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm Matt Strout. It's Thursday, April 28th. And this is Starting Five, Five Sports Headlines in 10 minutes. |
| 1:11.0 | All right, so Strout, the NFL Draft is finally here. |
| 1:15.0 | And for those who don't know, this is the Las Vegas Do Over Draft. |
| 1:19.0 | The draft was supposed to be in Vegas in 2020, but instead got moved to Roger Gidell's basement, who can forget that wood paneling. |
| 1:27.0 | Iconic. But this year, they're bringing back a lot of the fun that they had planned back in 2020, including the floating stage inside the fountains of the Bellagio. |
| 1:37.0 | Yes, I think it's fair to say we've both been waiting two years for this moment. |
| 1:40.0 | Truly, truly all I can think of is Roger Gidell announcing a pick and going full Ron Burgundy with the cannonball into the water. |
| 1:46.0 | I can't wait. Well, actually, unfortunately, the floating stage is just for the red carpet. |
| 1:51.0 | The actual ceremony is in a different theater. And they also aren't going to bring draft picks onto the stage by boat. |
| 1:57.0 | Like they were going to do back in 2020. But I mean, there has to be an overrunner on someone doing a cannonball or just falling into the fountain, right? |
| 2:04.0 | You've now told me we won't have draft picks arriving by boat and we won't have the commission doing a cannonball in the span of about 15 seconds. |
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