Alex and Bobby return to their regularly scheduled programming with — what else? — a betting controversy involving umpire Pat Hoberg, and discuss the sport’s increasingly hard-to-ignore gambling problem. Then they react to some comments from former agent Jeff Berry on the league’s economic landscape, cross a couple of items off their season bingo card, and run through this week’s edition of the Unnamed Ranking Segment. 

Links:

MLBUA’s statement on Pat Hoberg 

Tucupita Marcano banned from baseball 

Mark Attanasio on Bloomberg Business of Sports 

Arctos Sports Franchise Index 

Q&A with former agent Jeff Berry 

Michael Bloomberg joins bid for Timberwolves 

Tipping Pitches bingo card 

Join the Tipping Pitches Patreon 

Tipping Pitches merchandise 

Songs featured in this episode:

Booker T & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”