On a night when fans debated the merits of staying up to watch a mesmerizingly bad five hour baseball game in the middle of a work week, the Toronto Blue Jays suffered an ignominious defeat at the hands of their perennial rivals, the Boston Red Sox, 5-4 in 15 fundamentally unsound innings. Mired in last place in the AL East at 43-50 (.462) and 5.5 games back of the second wild card, only time remains their greatest adversary in 2017.
We’re thrilled to open this action-packed edition of the show with your host, Ari Shapiro, presenting three radically different baseball perspectives for you to enjoy:
First, we’re joined by superfan and Big Brother Canada Season 3 veteran, Risha Denner (@MSRISHAD) who talks about “the church of baseball” and how the sport is both cathartic and necessary in her life (3:01), and why social media has distorted the line between fan and fair-weather fool (8:41).