The impact of enforcement, Marcus Semien's excellence, and emerging deadline sellers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt and DVR discuss how MLB may try to implement the enforcement of rules outlawing sticky substances, the impact on different players, Marcus Semien's excellent season, Arizona as a clear-cut trade deadline seller, seasonal park effects, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels brought to you by Tops.com and Tops Project 70. Check out Tps Project 70. Some awesome cards are up right now over at Topps.com. Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, Bridgeroli. The whole band is back together for the first time in weeks. It's amazing. We're actually starting earlier than usual, too, just to sort of break the fourth wall like we never start the show early it never |
| 0:38.3 | ever happens especially after a stretch where we don't record all three of us together so |
| 0:43.6 | I'm actually really proud of us I feel like we're growing as a show being able to say we are |
| 0:48.1 | recording early today yeah we've been everywhere, man. I know. |
| 0:56.3 | I mean, I just missed you guys. |
| 1:07.8 | So I take all the blame for the early banter because it's been way too long without, I mean, I have been listening, but it's way too long to not hear my own squeaky voice in these Raisin Barrels podcast. |
| 1:08.9 | How is Alaska? |
| 1:10.2 | Amazing. |
| 1:11.6 | You see the moose behind? |
| 1:13.8 | I mean, the deer behind me. |
| 1:17.3 | Brought it back. |
| 1:19.0 | Full circle. |
| 1:21.6 | I like that's the best backdrop. |
| 1:25.0 | Really, I think, that I've seen for anyone at the athletic Brit. |
| 1:26.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:26.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:27.7 | Dead animal. |
| 1:32.2 | Very well done. |
| 1:33.1 | Very well done. |
| 1:34.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:39.0 | Lots to talk about on this episode, of course, the never-ending saga. |
| 1:44.5 | Can we call it a saga of sticky substances and the impact that is having on the game. |
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