Will Major League Baseball Be Playing In May?
The Lead
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🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal joins us to discuss a radical new plan from Major League Baseball, which would see the league returning to play as early as May. The plan, which reportedly has the support of high-ranking federal public health officials, would involve empty stadiums, players sitting six feet apart in the stands, and no touching or high-fives -- all broadcast live on national television. It comes with a tremendous amount of uncertainty and pitfalls, but could it possibly work?
Read Ken Rosenthal's story about MLB's unlikely plan:
https://theathletic.com/1729420/2020/04/07/rosenthal-some-in-government-support-plan-for-baseballs-return-obstacles-remain/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:00.0 | It will be in its players are increasingly focused on a plan that could allow them to |
| 0:09.0 | start the season as early as May and move that reportedly has the support of high-ranking |
| 0:13.4 | federal public health officials who believe that the league can... |
| 0:16.6 | Imagine major league baseball games without fans in the stands. |
| 0:21.9 | Imagine no players in the dugout instead sitting six feet away from each other in the |
| 0:26.6 | stands. |
| 0:28.6 | Imagine baseball with no high fives and with players going back and forth between stadiums |
| 0:33.3 | and their hotels. |
| 0:35.2 | All of this is part of a proposal being considered by major league baseball to get the league |
| 0:39.5 | back up and running, perhaps as early as May. |
| 0:42.8 | Today, the Athletics Ken Rosenthal joins us to discuss a radical plan from MLB. |
| 0:48.2 | It's many potential pitfalls and whether there's any chance it could work. |
| 0:53.0 | If that's the only way to play and for the owners and players to make money and to present |
| 0:57.1 | the sport to the public on television, if that's it, guess what? |
| 1:01.7 | Maybe you say, okay, we've got to do all this. |
| 1:08.5 | From wondering in the athletic, I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:10.8 | And I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:11.8 | It's Thursday, April 9th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:15.6 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:19.8 | There was just something about the emotion and the fun. |
| 1:23.8 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:31.9 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
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