Why Conservatives Love Baseball (w/ David Roth)

Know Your Enemy

Matthew Sitman

Right Wing, National Review, History, Socialists, Reactionaries, Conservative Movement, Conservatism, News, Society & Culture, Ronald Reagan, Leftists Look At Conservatism, William F Buckley, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Sam talk to David Roth about baseball, why conservatives love it, and why we do too.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome listeners to episode 63 of Know Your Enemy.
0:04.2	I'm Matt Sitman, your podcast co-host, and I'm here with my great friend Sam at their
0:08.0	bell.
0:09.0	Hey, Sam.
0:10.0	Hi, Matt.
0:11.0	What are we getting into today?
0:12.0	We've got a little mid-October special for the listeners.
0:14.4	It's a baseball episode, all about baseball and conservatism.
0:18.5	You know, what went wrong with baseball this year a little bit.
0:22.0	And we've got a great guest.
0:24.9	We've got David Roth, one of my favorite writers on sports and politics and the editor.
0:29.9	And co-owner of DeFactor, the great website.
0:32.8	That's right.
0:33.8	We've been promising this episode for a while.
0:35.5	The varieties of conservative baseball fans.
0:38.3	There's an affinity there.
0:39.7	The right likes baseball, at least many conservatives do.
0:42.6	People have an association in their head between baseball and conservatism.
0:46.1	We try to explain what that's all about.
0:48.1	And I'll just warn the listeners.
0:49.9	We do commiserate a little bit at the beginning, but never fear.
0:53.6	That will pass.
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