Viva Baseball: The Latino Pageantry of Miami's 2017 All-Star Game

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Dave Zirin / The Nation

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🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, we speak to the editor-in-chief of La Vida Baseball, Adrian Burgos, about what he saw and experienced during a celebration of Latino baseball history at this year's MLB All-Star Game. We also have Choice Words about the treatment of Venus Williams by the police. We dole out our Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down Awards to a pair of legends, give you a fresh Kaepernick Watch, and lastly, a brand new section called...Books I Am Reading.Adrian Burgos, Editor-in-Chief of La Vida Baseball & Professor at the University of Illinoishttps://twitter.com/adburgosjrVenus Williams, a Car Accident, and the Outrageous Police Responsehttps://www.thenation.com/article/venus-williams-a-car-accident-and-the-outrageous-police-response/—http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod |https://www.instagram.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE)—Music: Eye Examination - Del the Funky Homosapien | Story of OJ - Jay-Z | La Gozadera - Gente de Zona ft. Marc Anthony | You Came Up - Big Pun ft. N.O.R.E. | Shape of You - Ed Sheeran | Dusted N Disgusted - E-40 | Express Yourself - N.W.A. | Revolution Rock - The Clash | Peter and the Wolf March - Prokofiev | The Wire Outro Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	What people have a harder time understanding is the way in the unwritten rules of baseball,
0:06.5	you have to keep throwing at Man and Machado because he's not playing the right way in the minds of certain people
0:12.1	because of the way he trots around the bases. I argue that there's a cultural subtext to that.
0:19.1	That is how we're trying to police
0:21.5	Latino expressions of their culture.
0:24.0	The more they threw at him,
0:25.1	the slower his home run trot became.
0:27.7	And that was kind of an inside-to-game dynamic
0:30.6	going on that most people don't see.
0:33.3	But a number of us Latinos,
0:34.5	like, I see what's going on.
0:46.3	On tomorrow I But a number of us Latinos, like, I see what's going on. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.
0:48.3	I'm Dave Ziron.
0:49.3	This week, we speak to author, professor of history, and editor-in-chief of La Vida Baseball,
0:56.5	Adrian Burgos, who was at the All-Star game in Miami last week, and my goodness, does he have
1:02.3	a story about the Latino current that was running through that game?
1:06.2	Also, I've got some choice words for the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department regarding their treatment of the great Venus Williams.
1:13.8	I also got to just stand up and just sit your ass down award that you do not want to miss.
1:18.7	I got a Kaepernick watch about what he did on July 4th Independence Day.
1:23.8	And lastly, I got a new segment on books I'm reading.
1:28.3	I was going to call it Edge of Books or Books on the Edge, but I think I'm just going to call it books I'm reading.
1:36.1	So let's get to it.
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