Talking Baseball Lockout With “The Real Ben Shapiro”
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, we speak to baseball commentator Ben Shapiro about the MLB lockout.
We also have ‘Choice Words’ about the move by organizations like the IOC and FIFA to isolate Russia, given their decision to stay silent when it comes to other conflicts. We also have a special “Keep Your Head Up” to WNBA star Brittney Griner who was locked up in Russia on absurd charges. And don’t miss a special NBA edition of Jake’s Takes as well. All this and more on this week’s show!
Ben Shapiro
Twitter: @benshapironyc1
Zirin, Listen to Bernie Sanders and End the Bosses’ Baseball Lockout
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mlb-lockout-bernie-sanders-baseball/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. |
| 0:13.7 | This week we are talking to Ben Shapiro. |
| 0:16.2 | No, not that Ben Shapiro. |
| 0:18.8 | We don't platform fascists here. Don't worry. I'm talking to Ben Shapiro, We don't platform fascist here. |
| 0:20.9 | Don't worry. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm talking to Ben Shapiro, who is an amazing baseball mind. |
| 0:25.1 | We're going to talk to him about the lockout taking place in MLB. |
| 0:29.5 | Also, I've got some choice words about why organizations that love dictatorships, |
| 0:35.5 | like the International Olympic Committee and the FIFA, |
| 0:38.8 | are now taking a hard line on Russia. Very interesting development in that part of the sports |
| 0:43.5 | politics world. I've also got just stand up and just sit down awards and more. And we've got a |
| 0:49.5 | special basketball edition of Jake's aches. But first, let's talk to Ben Shapiro. |
| 0:59.8 | And as promised, we have one of my favorite baseball voices, someone I used to have on as a regular when we did the Edge of Sports show on Sirius XM. His name is Ben Shapiro. Ben, how are you doing? |
| 1:05.9 | I am great. How are you doing today, Dave? Good. I do feel like we have to be very crystal clear with our audience that |
| 1:12.0 | you're not the proto-fascist, Ben Shapiro. So what's it like walking around with that name? |
| 1:18.5 | I just have to ask, first and foremost. How often is that a problem for you? It's sort of one of |
| 1:23.3 | those things where, you know, you open up Twitter and you see what's trending and it's your name |
| 1:29.2 | and you're not even remotely happy about it. You know, like, you're just like, oh, God, what did he say? |
| 1:36.3 | What happened? What, what now? What, what embarrassing thing? And then there's the other |
| 1:41.8 | flip side. I mean, in real life, people that know me, obviously, |
| 1:45.2 | know I'm not him. But when I'm introduced to people, though, they're like, oh, man, that must |
| 1:50.6 | be rough having that name, which is, that's not great. And then there's the, you know, if you like |
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