Geoff Blum and Mitchell Schwartz (Ep. 69)

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann bring on former big
leaguer (and current Astros broadcaster) Geoff Blum to discuss his
evolution in the booth (01:00), the Astros’ past, present, and
future (03:30), the differences between playing for good and bad
teams, and more (18:00). Then, they welcome Kansas City Chiefs
offensive tackle Mitchell Schwartz to talk about his affinity for
baseball (26:00), his thoughts on biometric monitoring of athletes
(28:30), and the gaps between baseball and football in terms of
physical strain (31:30), the strength of unions and security of
contracts (42:30), the use of analytics (44:00), and the degree to
which player performance is dependent on coaching (47:30). Learn
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