The Sports Reporters - Episode 299 - MLB Opening Day 2020!

The Sports Reporters

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Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What are you expecting from this baseball season? Are we poised to see an outlier take it all? Or are the Yankees and Dodgers destined to meet in the World Series? Are Mike Trout and the Angeles positioned for a big year? How about the defending Champs... Are the Nationals in a prime position to repeat with their one game at a time mentality? The sprint season provides us with plenty of story lines! Oh, and did we mention Mookie Betts and the Dodgers will be together for the next 12 years? Plus, the NBA has spoken up about social justice issues but where is their criticism of China? Is it all tied to money? And if there is no pre-season in the NFL, will the quality of play slip in this upcoming season?

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0:00.0	award-winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left
0:07.7	unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's
0:14.3	mike lupeka and mitch alb i am mike lupega new york daily news m lb dot com i'm mich alb of the
0:20.5	detroit free press and welcome to the sports reporters podcast.
0:24.0	We're doing a duo today.
0:25.5	Bob Ryan will join us again next time.
0:28.4	And boy, finally, opening day.
0:31.5	Opening day of something.
0:32.9	I'll take anything.
0:34.2	But opening day of baseball is tonight.
0:37.3	Hopefully it won't get rained out, as the baseball
0:40.6	has reached that point in the season where it actually is going to begin. I have to say I had my
0:46.0	doubts we'd ever even get to today. And even if they play five games and then cancel the season,
0:50.8	it's a little further than I thought we were going to get, Mike. What are we looking at here? There are still huge questions as they go into the opening
0:59.2	pitch tonight about the playoffs and about where Toronto is going to play and other things like that.
1:03.8	What are you expecting from this crazy season?
1:06.5	You know, Mitch, I watched some games over the weekend, I looked in on some games yesterday and it's
1:12.6	obviously not the same as golf. I don't even, it's not even on my brain that there's no galleries
1:19.3	in golf. I'm just watching guys hit shots and it looks completely normal. Baseball's different,
1:25.0	whether they put those cut out people behind the plate or not.
1:29.3	It's going to take some getting used to.
1:31.3	I actually think I watched some NBA scrimmages yesterday.
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