Always good to catch up with Jon. He had a night available and I was starting my vacation, so I had to log in and fire up the notebook to do it. It was a typical meandering podcast.
- Being a creature of habit and a bit of a completist
- The summer movie podcast and whether it would have continued
- The Lone Ranger and how quickly I would have wanted to turn it off
- The All-Star game and the Mariano Rivera entrance
- Neil Diamond was bad but it didn’t matter. He’s Neil Diamond.
- The All-Star game could be missing the star power
- Interleague play and how it changes the All-Star game
- Access to players on TV has ruined the spectacle of the All-Star game
- Start times aren’t the target. Game ending times are the target.
- Who is the star of MLB?
- Omar Vizquel being the best means something because I say it
- Slow pitch softball on TV
- Baseball vs. Soccer as a game for kids
- Socioeconomics and football. Will privileged kids play football forever?
- The future of football and what it just might be
- Front offices and how they aren’t really connected to the history of their teams
- Salary caps and where they are good and bad
- Parity in baseball
- Bud Selig and how the history books will look back on him
- What are the chances that Mark Shapiro could be the next commissioner of baseball?
- Indians trade deadline piece by Jon