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

Source: http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/2013/07/mlb-all-star-game-fixing-baseball-future-of-football-and-more-wfny-podcast-2013-07-18/

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