The Cards Take Flight, A Playoff Bubble & Zack Meisel Breaks Down a Strange Week in Cleveland
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Britt discuss the packed schedule for the Cardinals as they attempt to resume play Saturday, the possibility of a postseason bubble, and Zack Meisel joins the show to discuss the very unusual week in Cleveland after Zach Plesac and Mike Clevinger broke curfew in Chicago.
Rundown
2:40 The Cardinals' Highly Unusual Schedule
7:31 Baltimore's Surprising Start
14:14 Surging in San Diego
17:38 Appreciating the New Uniforms Around the League
23:31 Is It Ever OK To Change Fanhood?
28:34 The Viability of a Postseason Bubble
39:45 Zack Meisel Explains What's Going on in Cleveland
44:50 How Does This Organization Develop Pitching So Well?
48:07 Could James Karinchak Take Over the Closer Role?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode number 125. |
| 0:18.9 | It is Friday, August 14th. |
| 0:21.9 | Derek Van Riper here with Richard Roley on this episode. We will talk about the Cardinals. They are set to resume their |
| 0:26.6 | schedule this weekend. Finally, after more than two weeks on the shelf, we're going to discuss |
| 0:30.7 | how that's taking shape and what that's going to look like, especially as we flip the calendar |
| 0:34.9 | to September. Jason Stark wrote a great piece about the possibility of an MLB postseason bubble, |
| 0:41.5 | and frankly, we are a very pro-bubble podcast, so we're going to touch on that. |
| 0:45.7 | Later in the show, Zach Meisel joins us to discuss how Cleveland has been handling violations of team and league rules, |
| 0:52.1 | thanks to one Zach Plesack and one Mike Clevenger, the former |
| 0:56.1 | a little more vocal about what was happening than the latter. We haven't really heard a whole |
| 1:00.0 | lot from Clevenger on that situation, but Zach will come on the show to defend himself |
| 1:05.2 | and prove that he's not evil because apparently that's something you have to prove if you're |
| 1:09.9 | part of the media right now. |
| 1:11.5 | I just don't really understand like the narrative of it was our fault. |
| 1:15.6 | He broke the rules. |
| 1:17.5 | He didn't kind of break the rules. |
| 1:19.0 | He was five hours past curfew. |
| 1:20.7 | It wasn't 20 minutes. |
| 1:22.5 | He was alerted. |
| 1:24.9 | You know, the security guard saw him come in five hours late told the team and then |
| 1:29.7 | somehow it's everyone else's fault for reporting that and you know as soon as you say something |
| 1:36.7 | about the media as you know derrick your twitter kind of becomes one side or the other and i guess my |
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