Emma Baccellieri from Sports Illustrated brings a unique perspective to a podcast episode that intertwines her passions for MLB, WNBA, and soda. The episode begins by celebrating the experience of enjoying baseball as a fan and questions the appropriateness of leaving games early. Discussion shifts to the Marlins Home Run Feature as a significant visit, emphasizing liberation from exhaustive player knowledge. Personal reflections on frustrations with sports management further contribute to a multifaceted conversation about sports and culture.
Much of the credit for this unusual and patently unstable mixture goes to our guest, Sports Illustrated's Emma Baccellieri. All of these are, somehow, her areas of expertise, and as such the decision to divide the episode between MLB (her former beat), the WNBA (her current one), and her beloved carbonated beverages (her lifetime beat, true passion, and the subject of her newsletter The Soda Fountain) more or less made itself.
We began with Emma celebrating the experience of enjoying a baseball game as a civilian and pondering the question of if and when it is OK to leave a game.
We discussed visiting the Marlins Home Run Feature as a holy pilgrimage, the liberation of no longer feeling compelled to know everything about every guy on every roster, and Emma's story of eating dinner at the ballpark on the night of a game that didn't happen.
I copped to making myself mad about the Pittsburgh Pirates at the trade deadline and why, and while I think I made a decent enough case about the unspoken social contract of workplace conduct the word 'diseased' was nevertheless used to describe me.
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