If there's one thing we know about the public radio audience, it's that you love... sports. You crave sports coverage. You live for sportstalk radio. And so this hour, we talk sports... on the radio. And there's plenty to talk about:

There's the fallout over Jay-Z's new partnership with the NFL (and impending ownership within the NFL?). There's the hot take question, "Do running backs even matter?" There're all the interesting players in baseball right now: a trio of the best young players ever to play at the same time playing at the same time as one of the best two-way players ever to play playing at the same time as one of the best players, period, ever to play. Oh, and then there're all the baseball players apparently hopped up on gas-station sexual-enhancement pills.

Like I said: plenty to talk about.

GUESTS:
Des Bieler - Sports reporter for The Washington Post
Ben Lindbergh - Staff writer at The Ringer; his most recent book is The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
Erin Tarver - Associate professor of philosophy at Oxford College of Emory University and the author of The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity

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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.

If there's one thing we know about the public radio audience, it's that you love... sports. You crave sports coverage. You live for sportstalk radio. And so this hour, we talk sports... on the radio. And there's plenty to talk about:
There's <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/08/20/jay-z-has-moved-past-kneeling-some-nfl-players-have-problem-with-that/">the fallout over Jay-Z's new partnership with the NFL</a> (and <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/16/jay-z-part-owner-nfl-team/">impending ownership within the NFL</a>?). There's the hot take question, "<a href="https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/do-running-backs-matter-nfl-football-debate-philosopher.html">Do running backs even matter?</a>" There're all the interesting players in baseball right now: <a href="https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/8/16/20808545/young-batters-fernando-tatis-ronald-acuna-juan-soto">a trio of the best young players ever to play at the same time</a> playing at the same time as <a href="https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/8/21/20825896/shohei-ohtani-two-way-pitching-hitting-rotation-tommy-john">one of the best two-way players ever to play</a> playing at the same time as <a href="https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/8/7/20757809/mike-trout-home-runs-league-leader-stats">one of the best players, period, ever to play</a>. Oh, and then there're all the baseball players <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mlb-memo-sexual-enhancement-pills-2019-8">apparently hopped up on gas-station sexual-enhancement pills</a>.
Like I said: plenty to talk about.
GUESTS:
<ul>
<li>Des Bieler&nbsp;- Sports reporter for&nbsp;The Washington Post</li>
<li>Ben Lindbergh&nbsp;- Staff writer at&nbsp;The Ringer; his most recent book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/ben-lindbergh/the-mvp-machine/9781541698956/">The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players</a></li>
<li>Erin Tarver&nbsp;- Associate professor of philosophy at Oxford College of Emory University and the author of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo26175954.html">The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity</a></li>
</ul>
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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.

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