MLB All-Star game, Fixing baseball, future of football and more - WFNY Podcast - 2013-07-18

Published: July 18, 2013, 3:11 a.m.

b'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.\\n\\n\\nBeing a creature of habit and a bit of a completist\\n\\nThe summer movie podcast and whether it would have continued\\n\\nThe Lone Ranger and how quickly I would have wanted to turn it off\\n\\nThe All-Star game and the Mariano Rivera entrance\\n\\nNeil Diamond was bad but it didn\\u2019t matter. He\\u2019s Neil Diamond.\\n\\nThe All-Star game could be missing the star power\\n\\nInterleague play and how it changes the All-Star game\\n\\nAccess to players on TV has ruined the spectacle of the All-Star game\\n\\nStart times aren\\u2019t the target. Game ending times are the target.\\n\\nWho is the star of MLB?\\n\\nOmar Vizquel being the best means something because I say it\\n\\nSlow pitch softball on TV\\n\\nBaseball vs. Soccer as a game for kids\\n\\nSocioeconomics and football. Will privileged kids play football forever?\\n\\nThe future of football and what it just might be\\n\\nFront offices and how they aren\\u2019t really connected to the history of their teams\\n\\nSalary caps and where they are good and bad\\n\\nParity in baseball\\n\\nBud Selig and how the history books will look back on him\\n\\nWhat are the chances that Mark Shapiro could be the next commissioner of baseball?\\n\\nIndians trade deadline piece by Jon\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'