2-11-2022 Passed Ball Show. John opens up the program by throwing a couple of ideas out there of penalties he should suffer for being wrong over the James Harden/ Ben Simmons trade. He then talks about the Baseball Hall of Fame and how it is supposed to be a museum that tells the history of baseball. While baseball wants to forget and intentionally not tell the story of the steroid's era, it does not seem to have an issue in highlighting its refusal to integrate the sport any sooner than it did. It celebrates Hall of Famers such as Cap Anson and Kenesaw Landis, who did all they could to keep MLB white. John states that the steroids era was more worthy of celebrating that segregation. Baseball, its writers, and those who work for its Hall of Fame, seem to think that segregated baseball is better for the game to celebrate than the steroids era. John talks about the constant struggle that exists between Baseball's owners and players and how that might impact the future of minor league baseball. John brings up the possibility that MLB (led by the Commissioner and the owners) may actually be looking to eliminate minor league baseball. John spends the next half of the show talking about how it seems NBA players are not very bound to the very contracts they sign and have agreed to. John believes healthy players should not be paid to NOT play, citing John Wall in Houston (even though John knows this is not John Wall's fault) and of course, the displeasure expressed by Ben Simmons and James Harden leadind to the trade for each other. What other sport allows for its top players to decide whether or not they want to play for their team, the same team that is paying them to play. John talks about Kyler Murray and the Arizona Football Cardinals and whether he has earned a big time contract extension yet. John cites Dak Prescott and to this point, believes Kyler is not close to being on Dak's level.
