The Latest Mets Mess and a Trade Deadline Without Scouts
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
With DVR on vacation, Eno attemps to Wall Pipp him as lead host. Eno and Britt start off with the latest Mets PR nightmare. They discuss the nations social unrest and how it can effect MLB clubhouses. Then it's on to the trade deadline and what impact a lack of scouting in 2020 will have on moves before Monday's deadline.
1:00 - Brodie Van Wagenen the Wilpons and the Mets
9:48 - Baseball teams make the decision to not play on Thursday
19:00 - Biggest holes teams are facing at the trade deadline
26:00 - How do you trade for prospects without scouts
45:15 - Are scouts sneaking into team facilities?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode 130. |
| 0:25.7 | This is a voice that you don't normally hear at the beginning because DBR is on vacation, |
| 0:32.4 | well-deserved vacation. |
| 0:33.8 | And today we've got myself, Enosaris, brit garroli here on uh rates and bells friday |
| 0:40.0 | episode number one 30 um and it is the 28th of august and we have a great show for you today we're |
| 0:46.5 | going to talk about uh the met's debacle that's it's always a debacle l-o l-lmets will never die |
| 0:52.1 | uh we will talk about about team sport and race. |
| 0:56.7 | Is baseball team sport? |
| 0:58.2 | And how does that factor into what happened yesterday, the last couple of days? |
| 1:03.5 | We'll talk about the trade deadline. |
| 1:04.8 | And then we'll finish up with a little bit of talk about borderline teams and what they should do in this weird, |
| 1:12.3 | weird trade deadline. |
| 1:14.5 | But how are we doing on this Friday, Britt? |
| 1:17.2 | How are you feeling? |
| 1:19.0 | I'm feeling pretty good. |
| 1:20.7 | I know you're a little nervous for this. |
| 1:22.1 | This is a huge hole left here by our friend Derek. |
| 1:28.9 | I've never hosted before. |
| 1:31.4 | I know. |
| 1:32.2 | Guys, off air, he was very nervous. |
| 1:34.7 | Palms are probably sweaty. |
| 1:36.1 | Cannot confirm. |
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