Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the implications of Shohei Ohtani’s unprecedentedly deferred contract structure, whether the Ohtani signing and Juan Soto trade portend MLB imbalance driven by the bursting cable bundle (21:42), whether the Dodgers will ever be bad again (28:06), media hang-wringing over Friday’s false reports (35:58), and the Tyler O’Neill trade (42:57). Then they talk to John DeMarsico, SNY Mets game director and cinephile, about how he’s applied his affinity for film to baseball, the behind-the-scenes mechanics and rhythms of baseball broadcasts, what makes baseball so tough to televise, innovative technology and techniques, showing more of exciting plays, copying and being copied, Gary, Keith, and Ron, the use of stats and graphics, baseball movies, and more (47:45).

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Link to Fabian’s Ohtani report

Link to more from Fabian

Link to Ben on Ohtani’s deal

Link to Lindsey on Ohtani’s deal

Link to Baumann on Ohtani’s deal

Link to Becker on Ohtani’s deal

Link to Becker’s contract math

Link to Tim Dierkes on Ohtani’s deal

Link to Rob Mains on Ohtani’s deal

Link to Tom Verducci on Ohtani’s deal

Link to Adam Morris on Ohtani’s deal

Link to FG MLB payroll page

Link to L.A. Times on Ohtani

Link to Jack Harris tweet

Link to Clemens on the cable bubble

Link to Sheehan on the cable bubble

Link to info on Dodgers RSN

Link to Ben on L.A. in 2015

Link to Nightengale on the media

Link to “Vivaldi” tweet

Link to Dodgers Nation post

Link to flight-tracking info

Link to Wired on flight-tracking

Link to Baumann on O’Neill

Link to EW Episode 2033

Link to EW Episode 2035

Link to Rangers-Rays play

Link to Sam on the play

Link to Díaz entrance video

Link to Showalter/Tarantino video

Link to SNY pitch clock video

Link to SNY “ghost runner” video

Link to SNY BTS “ghost runner” video

Link to NYT on DeMarsico

Link to Newsday on DeMarsico

Link to NY Mag on DeMarsico

Link to DeMarsico on Letterboxd

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