Alex and Bobby return to their regularly scheduled programming with — what else? — a betting controversy involving umpire Pat Hoberg, and discuss the sport’s increasingly hard-to-ignore gambling problem. Then they react to some comments from former agent Jeff Berry on the league’s economic landscape, cross a couple of items off their season bingo card, and run through this week’s edition of the Unnamed Ranking Segment.
Links:
MLBUA’s statement on Pat Hoberg
Tucupita Marcano banned from baseball
Mark Attanasio on Bloomberg Business of Sports
Q&A with former agent Jeff Berry
Michael Bloomberg joins bid for Timberwolves
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Songs featured in this episode:
Booker T & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”
