The 'Baseball Bomb' Falling on a School Near You
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A battle over academic freedom is boiling over, beyond Harvard, and Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his cronies have already taken over one college in their effort to win the culture war. But the wildest part is how they're weaponizing an absolutely enormous baseball team to do it. Correspondent Jeb Lund reports on accusations of unconstitutionality — and mascot duplicity — at his alma mater, with a warning about how right-wing activists might use their sports blueprint next.
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| 0:32.6 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.7 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm reminded of the quote from deep throat from all the president's men. |
| 0:42.8 | These are not very bright eyes, and this got out of hand. |
| 0:47.2 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:49.9 | You're listening to Draft King's Network. |
| 1:09.9 | So this is one of those episodes, Cortez, where I admit that you're probably going to roll your eyes at the top here. |
| 1:10.4 | Oh, really? |
| 1:10.9 | Yes. Why is that? We are doing a Ron the top of here. Oh, really? Yes. |
| 1:11.4 | Why is that? |
| 1:12.2 | We are doing a Ron DeSantis episode. Okay, I ask again, why is that? Why are we doing a Ron DeSantis episode on this podcast? Look, I am also exhausted by Ron DeSantis, right? Like, he's not going to be president. He's annoying. He's lazy. He's a coward. And Florida has been talking about him for so long, and I get all of that, and yes, laziness and cowardice also apply. |
| 1:44.5 | We're doing this because the way he has been using baseball, specifically, his favorite sport, is really important and fascinating in a way that I did not appreciate before we reported this. And it's not even reliant on whether he's going to be the president of the United States at all. I didn't know he's a baseball guy. Didn't know he was wielding baseball. Yes, yes. He was a |
| 1:50.0 | little leaguer. He went to the quarterfinals of the 1991 Little League World Series. He was the captain |
| 1:55.7 | of his college baseball team. Bonifides, okay. And they're real. Great. He's a baseball guy. Okay. But I also think he is playing up the baseball stuff to be a, yes, a man of the people. |
| 2:06.7 | He's just like your favorite jocks, even though he's not my favorite jock. |
| 2:11.0 | Well, it might be somebody's favorite jock. |
| 2:12.6 | And the fact that he could be that while also having gone to Yale is part of the strategy, I think. |
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