Yankees-Rays Drama & The Most Fun Teams in Baseball
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR and Britt discuss this week's drama in the Yankees-Rays' series, the most fun teams in baseball, MLB's improved process for managing the pandemic, Evan Drellich's piece about commissioner Rob Manfred, and what they're looking forward to during the long holiday weekend.
Rundown
1:41 Yankees-Rays Rivalry, Aroldis Chapman & Intent
8:24 Are the Rays the Best Team in the American League?
12:19 What Makes a Team Fun to Watch?
20:50 Clevinger Debuts with Padres & Optimal Clubhouse Dynamics
28:53 The A's Return to Play; Has MLB Improved Its Management of the Pandemic?
36:27 Reflecting on Rob Manfred's Time as Commissioner
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| 0:24.1 | Welcome to Rates and Beryls episode number 134. |
| 0:43.0 | It is Friday, September 4th. |
| 0:45.3 | We've got like three weeks and change left in this crazy 2020 MLB regular season. |
| 0:52.1 | On this episode, we will discuss the brewing rivalry between the Yankees and Ray's. |
| 0:57.5 | Things got pretty heated earlier this week. |
| 1:00.0 | Mike Clevenger debuted with his new team, which happens to be maybe the most fun team in the league. |
| 1:06.0 | Of course, the San Diego Padres. |
| 1:07.5 | We'll talk about the A is getting back into action and the possibility that Major League Baseball is getting better at handling playing baseball in a pandemic. We'll also discuss |
| 1:15.7 | Evandrelic's piece about Rob Manfred because we have been criticized or questioned for maybe |
| 1:21.9 | being too critical of the commissioner on this show. So I think in fairness we will discuss Evans Peace, which raises some questions. Like perhaps Rob Manfred is good at his job, even though we don't really like how he does his job. That's at least a possibility, right? So we're going to discuss all that and what we're looking forward to on this long weekend. I know we've got a limited amount of time, |
| 1:44.5 | so we're just going to get right at it. |
| 1:45.9 | Let's start with this Yankees-Rays rivalry, guys. |
| 1:49.3 | Auralt's Chapman. |
| 1:50.7 | Did he or did he not intentionally throw at Mike Brasso? |
| 1:54.3 | Britt will start with you. |
| 1:56.1 | Probably. |
| 1:57.3 | Based on what I know, |
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