Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a breakup of baseball lookalikes, minor league free agent draft eligibility, and more players who unretired after becoming coaches, then break down the latest baseball broadcasting developments, Rob Manfred’s recent comments (about his priorities and future, an offseason signing deadline, and regular-season structure), Tarik Skubal’s historic arbitration case, and, inspired by sensational hockey streaming series Heated Rivalry (which they discuss without spoilers), when an active MLB player might publicly come out.

Audio outro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to MLBTR on Fitzgerald

Link to Sojo article

Link to Campbell hiring

Link to TV network news

Link to MLBTR on TV networks

Link to TV network news 2

Link to Entertainment Strategy Guy

Link to streaming revenue info

Link to more on streaming revenue

Link to Manfred on a signing deadline

Link to Rooker tweet

Link to Harper sales article 1

Link to Harper sales article 2

Link to Manfred’s tournament comments

Link to MLBTR on Skubal

Link to The Athletic on Skubal

Link to Passan on Skubal

Link to Ben on arbitration

Link to MLBTR on Kepler

Link to Heated Rivalry

Link to hockey culture article

Link to Outsports article

Link to Take Me Out wiki

Link to EW Episode 1776

Link to Unwritten Rules

Link to Manfred’s diversity comments

Link to Venezuela article

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