Could Fans Own a Team?
Tipping Pitches
English - May 11, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsSports baseball sports world series politics oakland new york mets statistics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Bobby and Alex talk about their experiences watching the KBO, Scott Boras’s misunderstanding of 9/11, and whether baseball in 2020 makes sense. Then, they explore the idea of publicly-owned baseball teams, the precedent for such a concept and what it would look like in practice.
Links:
Ben Clemens on watching baseball in Korean
Dave Zirin on the Green Bay Packers
Ben Burgis on Public Ownership of Sports Teams
More reading:
Could the Mets just go public?
Songs featured in this episode:
The Coup — "5 Million Ways To Kill A C.E.O." • Booker T & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”
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