MLB All-Star game, Fixing baseball, future of football and more - WFNY Podcast - 2013-07-18

Always good to catch up with Jon. He had a night available and I was starting my vacation, so I had to log in and fire up the notebook to do it. It was a typical meandering podcast. Being a creature of habit and a bit of a completist The summer movie podcast and whether it would have continued The Lone Ranger and how quickly I would have wanted to turn it off The All-Star game and the Mariano Rivera entrance Neil Diamond was bad but it didn’t matter. He’s Neil Diamond. The All-Star game could be missing the star power Interleague play and how it changes the All-Star game Access to players on TV has ruined the spectacle of the All-Star game Start times aren’t the target. Game ending times are the target. Who is the star of MLB? Omar Vizquel being the best means something because I say it Slow pitch softball on TV Baseball vs. Soccer as a game for kids Socioeconomics and football. Will privileged kids play football forever? The future of football and what it just might be Front offices and how they aren’t really connected to the history of their teams Salary caps and where they are good and bad Parity in baseball Bud Selig and how the history books will look back on him What are the chances that Mark Shapiro could be the next commissioner of baseball? Indians trade deadline piece by Jon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices