The Sports Reporters - Episode 300 - MLB Opening Weekend Storylines. NCAA's Procrastination Approach. Lou Breaks the Bubble

The Sports Reporters

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Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Actual sports to discuss! Is Justin Verlander's injury a sign of things to come in baseball? Is this the risk you run when trying to start a season on a unusual timeline? Four Marlins players test positive for Covid-19... Is this the beginning of the last man standing in baseball? And why we are in for a wild season. Plus, should players be penalized harsher if they break covid-19 protocols? Lou Williams simply gets a 10 day quarantine for his strip club visit... Should it be harsher? And do we feel confident in a football season in College? The guys debate.

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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 mike
0:14.5	lupeka and mitch alb i'm mike lupeka new york daily news m lb dot com i'm michaelum of the detroit
0:20.7	free press and welcome to the sports reporters podcast.
0:24.3	Mike and I doing a duo today.
0:26.6	Well, now we have some actual sports to talk about.
0:29.5	Yes, very nice.
0:31.2	We'll get to coronavirus in the way it's affecting things,
0:33.8	but we want to actually talk about a development in the season,
0:37.4	and with three games
0:39.1	basically in baseball. Everybody's two and one, one and two. There's no runaways. There's no
0:46.3	one and three. So the tigers are actually in first places. We're speaking this morning.
0:50.7	Anything could happen. We're going to talk about how anything could happen, but we want to
0:54.7	start with some significant news for the Houston Astros. Justin Verlander is going to miss some time,
1:01.9	a good amount of time, or possibly the whole season, it depends on who you want to believe,
1:07.5	with a strained right forearm. And for a team that lost its other ace to free agency,
1:14.6	this is a crushing blow, Mike, for Houston's hopes. And Mitch, you know, you watched him in
1:20.3	person forever. This guy has been a horse in his career. Now, he had a groin injury, and he wouldn't
1:26.3	have started the season on time if the
1:28.0	season had started on time. But this is extremely troubling, Mitch. You know, when you hear in that
1:33.9	the forearm, but who knows? Okay. And the Houston Chronicle said he's out for the season. And then
1:40.3	Verlander tweeted the report that I'm currently missing the rest of the season is not
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