00:00The MLB Speedway Classic took place on Saturday night, at least we thought, and then it actually
00:04ended up being played on Sunday. Let's just go over the whole scenario because I was excited to
00:10see how this was going to play out. If anybody ever sees Bristol Speedway, it literally looks
00:14like from the outside an NFL stadium. And then you go inside it, they built a baseball field
00:19in the middle of a track. I thought it looked fantastic here. You had all the pomp and
00:23circumstance and the pageantry and the players going around the track, getting introduced to
00:29the crowd. You had the opening ceremonies with the national anthem and a couple performers
00:33here that came out, which included Pitbull. You had a record crowd on hand and boy, they
00:38got some bad weather here. And as I was watching that telecast, they interviewed, I think, every
00:42single fan in the ballpark just to try to kill some time. Ended up forcing roughly an inning
00:48on Saturday night and completing it on Sunday. Talk to me about the whole program itself because
00:52I like the idea, but boy, oh boy, they got hit with the worst case scenario on Saturday,
00:58Joe. And I'm watching it on Saturday night. I'm like, I couldn't believe they took the
01:03field. There was literally a lake between shortstop and third base. And they're actually,
01:08I'm going, I remember playing like little league games in that kind of thing where don't run
01:14through the water because like, why are we playing? Why even try and start it? You had
01:19to delay it as it is. We lost Strider because of it. So the starting pitchers that we were supposed
01:25to get Donnie, we couldn't get because they had to stick, you know, everyone warmed up
01:29and then it was like, no, we can't, we can't do this. But ultimately it actually turned out
01:35to be a pretty good game yesterday. In conclusion that ended when the right fielder for the Braves
01:42robbed a home run, a tie. Yeah. A two run home run that would have tied it, but dropped the
01:47ball in the process of doing it. So it turned out to be a pretty good ending for major league
01:53baseball, but I got to tell you, it was pretty unique. I thought it was really cool.
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