This Fresca Has ATTITUDE! with Emma Baccellieri

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Emma Baccellieri, staff writer at Sports Illustrated and creator of The Soda Fountain newsletter, joins Drew and Roth to talk baseball and the WNBA, but, mostly, sodee pop. What have the W refs been messing up lately, and what’s the fix? Can you pop into a baseball stadium for a quick hot dog? Then, they open up the fun bag to answer real questions from real listeners.

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Stuff We Talked About

When is it okay to leave a Marlins game early?
Problems with the W’s officiating
Soda seasonality and regionality
Going Benihana on eggs
Sitting down on second

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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Brandon Grugle

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

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About The Show

The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Roth. They do, Roth? I'm good, man. How are you? It's great to hear your voice.
0:10.0	Oh, that's what everybody says when they hear this pocket. Everybody in my house, they're like, oh, oh, Dad's talking again. We love it when Dad talks.
0:18.4	We love it when he talks in that tone. There is a slightly
0:21.2	different when you put a little extra, well, podcaster sauce on it. It does sound different than the
0:26.8	normal version of you that you get before we, the red light goes on. That's right. I mean,
0:31.4	I, you know, I drop my English accent and I talk a little bit louder, you know, sort of a flat American
0:36.8	accent. Yeah, you have like an
0:39.0	Aussie playing the lead in an American rom-com. Our guest this week is our very old friend, Emma Batcheliori from
0:45.8	Sports Illustrated. I am. I don't have any accents to show off for like a good podcasting voice, but yes,
0:52.2	I'm also happy to be here. Emma presides
0:54.8	over the soda found newsletter as well. And if you don't think we're going to spend most of today talking about delicious sody pop, you are wrong. So we're got to, we got to do some sports first, but then we'll talk soda pop. How's that sound, Emma? I am always happy to talk about soda. So perfect. Thank you.
0:51.6	Oh, really, brilliant.
0:53.3	Over at Sports Illustrated, you haven't been covering How's that sound, Emma? I am always happy to talk about soda. So perfect. Thank you.
1:11.5	Oh, really, brilliant.
1:13.1	Over at Sports Illustrated, you haven't been covering baseball as much as you have been
1:16.6	women's basketball lately, but you did say that you had some fan observations about Major League Baseball right now to share.
1:23.9	So please, could you please illuminate us on your, uh, on your fan thoughts about the
1:28.8	2025 baseballs? What do you see it out there, Emma? Uh, mostly it has just been kind of pleasantly
1:34.3	surprised at how much I have enjoyed going to games as a fan again, which is obviously like a very
1:38.8	basic level observation, but I was kind of charmed. I thought that maybe it would take me a while to get back
1:44.8	into the experience of going just as a person, a civilian, and not going to the press box,
1:50.3	which I know is an annoying thing to say. But I was like, oh, this is actually really nice.
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