The Windup: A show about Baseball · The Athletic
The Roundtable | BONUS EPISODE-Jane Leavy talks about her new book
September 9, 2025·54 min·4 clips
Jane Leavy explains why the Yankees' $350 million roster fails to address fundamental flaws like lacking a third baseman.
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A loose baseball conversation that keeps returning to what the sport gets wrong.
Jane Levy and Andy McCullough spend their time on Make Me Commissioner moving from Betty the dog and a wasp sting to a Cape League story, then into a wider argument about how baseball is played, judged, and debated by the people who care most about it.
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You want a baseball chat that starts with a dog at the vet and ends up arguing how the game should be judged.
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