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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

What Was 1982 Like? with Ray Ratto

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Chief Comrade of Defector Ray Ratto joins Roth to get really esoteric with it. We’re asking the tough questions: What’s the deal with the city of Edmonton? How did everyone not die in the late 1970s and early 80s? What do you call a run forced in by cheating? And how much semi-legal sticky stuff is too much sticky stuff for the MLB? And as always, they dive into the Funbag, answering real questions from real listeners.

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Credits

- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth

- Producer: Eric Silver

- Editor: Brandon Grugle

- Production Services & Ads: Multitude

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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. I'm not Drew. I'm Roth. This is the distraction. Drew is absent this

0:07.0

week due to some stuff going on. And so playing the role of me, he's going to be acting exactly as I would if I were in my normal

0:15.8

role on the podcast and I'll be acting exactly like Drew, so you're going to get used to me being

0:20.1

louder. Ray Ratto, our friend, Defector Staffer, how's it going man, what's happening?

0:25.6

Edwin Diaz is being wronged. Is that enough of you?

0:29.2

Yeah, sorta. Could you sound a little sadder when you say it?

0:32.7

Would that be possible?

0:34.3

I want to get to the Edwin Diaz story because, you know, first of all, I'm in charge of the

0:40.7

podcast now, so it's not all going to be met stuff but I wanted to

0:46.0

while you are here and then also because I've been hearing from enough people and I've been

0:49.9

reading on our website apparently the Stanley finals, which just ended as we're recording, were

0:56.1

interesting. Ray, were they?

1:00.3

Well, here's the funny thing about it.

1:03.0

It was, the games for the most part were not interesting because most of them were lopsided one way or the other.

1:12.0

Yes. But it was the order in which... of them were lopsided one way or the other.

1:12.6

Yes.

1:13.2

But it was the order in which they fell.

1:16.6

That was interesting.

1:17.8

Florida won the first three games,

1:20.1

which you automatically means you're ticketed to glory and honor and vast amounts of money.

1:27.0

He fed it in Valhalla.

1:29.0

They lost the next three to the best player in the world, Connor McDavid, setting up a game seven in which Canada, which

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