Effectively Wild Episode 2032: League of Legends

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s spectator expertise on the All-Star Game, whether or not it’s good or dangerous that the MVP was a participant as obscure as Elias Díaz, the rise within the variety of All-Stars per season, different All-Star highlights and lowlights, complaints about All-Star uniforms, perennial requests for a expertise competitors, Rob Manfred’s and Tony Clark’s feedback about extra lenient pitch clocks within the postseason and the ball-strike problem system, extra particulars concerning the Alabama baseball betting scandal, and extra, plus a Future Blast from 2032. Then (59:10) they discuss to Byron Motley, producer of the brand new Negro Leagues documentary The League, concerning the lengthy street to creating the film, the latest enhance in appreciation of the Negro Leagues, his father’s life and profession as a Negro Leagues umpire, the problem of discovering archival footage of Negro Leagues video games, assembly and interviewing former Negro Leagues stars, the Negro Leagues as a microcosm of Twentieth-century American historical past, the affect of Rube Foster, the movie’s portrayal of Branch Rickey’s position in integration, and the legacy of the Negro Leagues.