The Myth of the Liberal ESPN, the Death of TrueHoop, and Baseball Activism (Ep. 302)

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🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Ringer's Bryan Curtis brings on author James Andrew Miller to examine the notion that ESPN has a "liberal agenda" (5:00). Then, The Ringer's Danny Chau joins to discuss the destruction of TrueHoop (25:00). Finally, essayist John Lingan joins to offer his thoughts on why baseball has no athlete activism (39:15). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Bill Simmons.
0:01.8	The ringer is very excited about our new podcast that went through a lot of name iterations.
0:06.7	Would you decide on Larry Wilmore?
0:08.2	Larry Wilmore, black on the air.
0:10.0	What was the runner up?
0:11.6	Well, the Bill Simmons idea was, was it LARLAR LAND?
0:14.7	LARLAR LAND.
0:15.7	What was that?
0:16.7	It was LARLAR LAND.
0:17.7	LARLAR, where did the love...
0:18.7	You think people were going to subscribe to LARLAR LAND?
0:22.2	That joke was that it would be the worst idea for a podcast.
0:24.8	No, it was hard.
0:25.8	You don't want people thinking worst when they're...
0:27.3	No, I want them to have a good one.
0:28.6	This is a very good name.
0:29.9	So what's going to be in this podcast?
0:31.4	It's going to be me kind of weighing in on some of the issues of the day with my audience
0:36.5	and then I'll be interviewing some really cool people during the podcast.
0:39.6	Each week it'll be somebody different, sometimes with cultures, sometimes politics, sometimes
0:44.1	sports, sometimes maybe an interest of mine, sometimes television, I've worked a lot
0:47.1	on television.
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