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The Sports Reporters

The Sports Reporters - Episode 283 - Is The MLBPA Looking To Make a Point or a Deal?

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6806 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Will money be the ultimate factor in baseball starting its season? The guys discuss the current plan and why the clock is ticking on getting the season started. Plus, the NBA and NHL are set to re-start their seasons in a "bubble" type set-up... How will it all work? Why the first sport to get up and going can benefit. A potential for a sports log jam late in the summer. And sports documentaries.... Who would make a compelling subject?

Transcript

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0:00.0

award winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left

0:07.7

unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mike

0:14.4

lupica mitch album and bob ryan i'm mike lupeg of new york daily news melb dot com i'm bob ryan of the

0:20.3

boston globe and espn run a mitch album of the detroit free press and you're listening to the New York Daily News, MLB.com. I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

0:22.1

And I'm a match album of the Detroit Free Press, and you're listening to the sports reporters podcast, the podcast incarnation of long-running Sunday morning TV show on ESPN, where we would sit around in suits and ties and discuss the issues of the week as they presented on Sunday morning.

0:38.5

Now we sit around in whatever clothes we happen to feel like we're wearing on Mondays and Thursdays

0:43.0

and discuss the same thing.

0:44.9

Only twice a week.

0:46.2

And right now, as we try, well, I'm wearing a tie.

0:50.4

I don't know about you guys.

0:51.4

I wear one every time for the podcast.

0:53.8

You're Nixonian in that regard, I understand. Nixonian. I wear one every time for the podcast. You're Nixonian in that

0:54.3

regard, I understand. Nicksonia. The first time I've ever had that applied to me, Nixonia. But there

1:00.6

is news in the world of Major League Baseball as it attempts to get back. Remember, Major League

1:06.3

Baseball is the only one of the four sports right in front of us that's trying to start.

1:14.6

Basketball and hockey are trying to finish, and we're going to talk about their plans to that.

1:15.4

But the holdup, and this should shock no one, isn't so much about are we going to catch the

1:21.7

coronavirus, as how much are we going to get paid for this or how much are we going to make

1:25.7

for this?

1:26.1

In other words, a money dispute. Will money end up being a thing that keeps baseball from taking the field in 2020,

1:33.8

guys? You know, I can't believe I'm hearing this. Bob, can you believe that the owners and the

1:40.4

players in baseball are fighting over money? No, this is this is startling revelation.

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