Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker, known collectively as Boygenius, are making their highly-anticipated return with the release of their major label debut. The group shook up the indie scene with the release of their self-titled EP back in 2018. Now, the three musicians are gearing up for their sophomore release, The Record, this time on a major label. A few weeks ago, the trio surprised fans with three singles from the project — “$20,” “True Blue,” and “Emily I’m Sorry,” all led by a different member of the group.
But as their March 31 release date quickly approaches, fans want to know more about what they can expect when the full album is made available across streaming platforms. To learn more about the album, including the tracklist, potential guest features, and more, continue below.
Release Date
The Record is out 3/31 via Interscope Records. To pre-save or pre-order, click here.
Tracklist
1. “Without You Without Them”
2. “$20”
3. “Emily I’m Sorry”
4. “True Blue”
5. “Cool About It”
6. “Not Strong Enough”
7. “Revolution O”
8. “Leonard Cohen”
9. “Satanist”
10. “We’re In Love”
11. “Anti-Curse”
12. “Letter To An Old Poet”
Features
Based on the tracklist uploaded to both Apple Music and Bandcamp, the album will not feature any additional recording artists. However, when the credits for the album are released, we can certainly bet that the trio will enlist a few of their fellow musicians to play supporting instrumentation. In contrast, The Record will feature a slew of guest production and engineering.
Catherine Marks is the official co-producer for The Record. Ethan Gruska, Melina Duterte (aka Jay Som), Sarah Tudzin (of Illuminate Hotties), and Tony Berg will provide additional production. The Record is beginning engineered by Bobby Mota, Kaushles “Garry” Purohit, Owen Lantz, Will Maclellan, and again by Sarah Tudzin and Catherine Marks. The Record will be mixed by Mike Mogis and master engineered by Pat Sullivan. All written contributions for the album will come directly from the trio.
Artwork
The album’s artwork, photographed by Matt Grubb, is simple yet mysterious. All three members of the band record for the clear blue sky, as their matching wisdom tooth tattoos face the camera as the sun’s glare stamps the bottom right corner of the image. The pose is a nod to Pearl Jam’s 1991 Ten album cover.
Singles
So far, Boygenius has released three singles from their forthcoming album: “$20,” “Emily I’m Sorry,” and “True Blue.”
Tour
The summer Boygenius will embark on Boygenius: The Tour. The string of shows begins with a quick stop in Ponoma, CA next month before resuming on June 6 in Phoenix. From then on, Boygenius will perform consistently for just under two months before bringing the tour to an end in Denver. Carly Rae Jepsen, Broken Social Scene, Bartees Strange, Claud, and Illuminati Hotties will join Boygenius on the tour. You can check out the full dates below.
Power Trip Festival put a call out to all hard rock fans yesterday, March 29, with a teaser video asking, “Are you ready for a Power Trip?” The concert poster crafted in the video was really cool but vague, and today, March 30, Power Trip painted a clearer picture by confirming its headliners (first reported by Variety): Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, and Tool.
The inaugural Power Trip Festival is scheduled for October 6 to 8, 2023.
According to the original Variety report, Power Trip comes from Goldenvoice, founders of Coachella, which explains the location: Empire Polo Field in Indio, California.
“Despite the Coachella connection, the festival is more like a hard rock version of Goldenvoice’s 2016 Desert Trip festival, which featured a classic-rock dream team of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Who and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters,” Variety relayed.
The official Power Trip website provides instructions to register now for ticket access. “Sale only available to those who register,” it reads. Tickets will become available beginning on Thursday, April 6, at 10 a.m. PST. The starting price for general admission tickets is $599, per the website.
Hotel packages and VIP packages ($1,749) are also available for purchase beginning next Tuesday, April 4, at 10 a.m. PST.
Tons of people found themselves clicking on the trending hashtag #RIPMarty, expecting to hear tragic news about a celebrity of some sort.
Instead, they learned about Marty the cat, whose owner shared the most heartbreakingly beautiful goodbye letter following his passing. That letter quickly went viral online, leaving folks completely invested Marty’s story, not to mention utterly devastated.
Will Menaker, who shared the letter on Twitter, began by sharing how he and Marty first met. Or more accurately, how Marty introduced himself by emerging from under a car and unapologetically following Menaker up to the steps of his apartment seeking pets. Eventually, as the weather began to get colder, Menaker experimented with bringing Marty inside.
“From that moment on I was in love. I wouldn’t say I ‘had’ a cat, but from then on I shared a house with a tuxedo cat I would name Marty,” Menaker wrote.
Other than being TNR’d (trapped, neutered, released), Marty’s past was a mystery. What Menaker did know of his feline companion was that he had “striking green eyes,” was “always friendly but aloof” and was “outgoing but possessed a Sphinx-like dignity that nothing could assail.”
Those are already lovely words, but you might want to grab tissues for this next part.
“Yesterday, we had to say goodbye. After months of trying to treat a cancer that he had been suffering from, enough was enough. He stopped eating and drinking entirely and by then had wasted away to weighing almost nothing…I decided to make the only decision we could on his behalf. He went to sleep in our house and in my arms.”
Tapping into every pet parent’s grief, Menaker wrote, “I know this is a small tragedy in the grand scheme of the world, but one that I feel acutely knowing that I expected many more years with my friend. We are heartbroken but grateful for the years that we did have him in our lives.”
Despite the obvious anguish, Menaker’s letter ends on a hopeful note.
“I firmly believe cats are connected in some way to the other side. They have been around human civilization for roughly 9,000 years and are the only animal species that has domesticated human beings and not vice versa…Whatever happens after our deaths, I think cats are somehow involved, and I hope that when it comes time, Marty will guide me on my own journey to the Western Lands.
“Goodbye Marty, I’ll miss you terribly.”
Menaker’s moving words had people in tears over a cat they didn’t even know.
Dogs can sometimes act like doofuses, whether it’s eating a sock and doing the poop of shame later or trying to pretend they didn’t rifle through the trash while sitting in front of the evidence. Dogs are also pretty smart and hilariously entertaining, especially when you teach them a fun trick, which makes up for their brief lapses in judgment.
A Golden Retriever named Ellie has learned one of the cutest tricks yet: hide-and-seek. In a video posted by The Dodo on Facebook Watch, you see Ellie’s parents finding difficult places to hide. And by difficult, I mean opening up the couch storage area and climbing inside to see if the dog’s nose can sniff them out.
Ellie’s way too smart for their shenanigans and continuously finds each hiding place within seconds. But it’s unclear if she’s finding her parents or if she’s just searching for her favorite toy.
Every time one of her parents hid, they were holding a little pink stuffed dog toy. So maybe she was just on the hunt for her toy and couldn’t care less about finding the human hiding behind clothes in the closet for some unknown-to-Ellie reason. Either way, it seems her adorable game of hide-and-seek got a lot of people in the feels reminiscing about their own dogs.
“I had a border collie that loved to play hide and seek with the neighbor children! It was SO adorable!!!” one commenter wrote.
“Our golden used to be the best!! He could find anything/anyone fast!! He loved it!” another person wrote.
“Best video I’ve seen in ages! The love between you shows. I love it!” a different commenter said.
Ellie’s game of hide and seek is capturing hearts across the internet. The cute Golden Retriever even has her own TikTok page where you can see even more of her antics. But before you jaunt off to TikTok, watch Ellie outsmart her humans below.
As the old saying goes, “the map is not the territory,” and sometimes maps can be misleading. David Blattman, head of production at Barstool Sports, shared four unbelievable facts about U.S. geography on Twitter, all of which appear to be wildly incorrect, but aren’t.
Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost & easternmost state.
You can travel north, south, east, or west in Stamford, CT & the next state you hit is NY.
Reno is further west than LA.
Detroit is further east than Atlanta.
Each one of these bullet points deserves a fact check, but Snopes stepped in to make sense of the last one, which feels false. Is Detroit, a midwestern city, really east of Atlanta, a city that’s a 4-hour drive from the east coast?
Yes, Detroit is east of Atlanta.
u201cThese geography facts have left me speechless:nnu2022Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost & easternmost state.nnu2022You can travel north, south, east or west in Stamford, CT & the next state you hit is NY.nnu2022Reno is further west than LA.nnu2022Detroit is further east than Atlanta.u201d
“Atlanta is actually west of Detroit. Its coordinates are (emphasis added): 33.7488° N, 84.3877° W while Detroit’s are 42.3314° N, 83.0458° W,” Bethania Palma at Snopes confirmed. The fact-checking site reached out to geographer Maria Lane for further comment.
She explained that our eyes are fooled by their locations because the east coast extends further east as it moves north. Conversely, in the south, the coast moves towards the west. This makes Atlanta appear to be much further east.
We are also fooled by how we’ve determined what’s “east coast” and what’s “midwest.”
“So it shouldn’t be any surprise that places on the southern ‘east coast’ are further west than places on the northern ‘east coast,'” Lane wrote. “And northern places that we consider ‘inland’ or ‘midwest’ when compared to those far-north areas of the east coast, can still be relatively farther east than coast-adjacent places in the South.”
This Tumblr post from @realtivegeography explains it perfectly.
So what about the other three hard-to-believe geographical facts?
Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost and easternmost state.
It makes sense that Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state. It also has the title of easternmost because the Aleutian Islands arc right up to the edge of the Western Hemisphere and cross over into the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska’s Semisopochnoi Island (179° East) is so far west it actually lies in the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska’s Little Diomede island lies only 4 km from Big Diomede, a Russian territory. In the dead of winter, when the water around the island freezes, one can walk from the U.S. to Russia in under an hour.
How can Reno, Nevada, be west of Los Angeles, California? Los Angeles has beaches, and Reno is 128 miles from the coastline. Much like how the east coast recedes west as it heads south, the west coast does the same, pushing Los Angeles to the east of Reno.
It feels safe to say that many, if not most people hail Drew Barrymore as the “Queen of Candid.” She can seemingly talk to absolutely anyone about anything in a way that’s consistently warm and authentic.
That even goes for when she experiences her first hot flash in front of a live television audience, apparently.
While speaking with guests Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler on her talk show, Barrymore abruptly appears flustered, fanning herself and removing her jacket.
Without missing a beat, she says, “I am so hot, I think I’m having my first perimenopause hot flashes.”
“Oh, I feel so honored!” Jennifer Aniston quips as she fixes Barrymore’s mic, which is a sweet moment in and of itself.
“I’m so sorry!” Barrymore continues, laughing through it all. “Do you feel this?!” she says, placing Aniston’s hand just below her neck. “Or maybe I’m just excited!”
Sandler, then reaching for Barrymore’s palm, assures her, “Yeah you got a hot hand.”
“Well, I’m so glad I have this moment documented!” Barrymore exclaims.
One viewer on TikTok gushed, “I don’t know that I have ever heard a celebrity talk about a hot flash in the moment. Thank you for being so real.”
Another echoed, “Drew, we have a whole generation (X) entering the change. Let’s normalize it. Just wait until you’re soaked with sweat, then cold lol.”
One person commented on the exchange between Aniston and Barrymore, noting how refreshing it was to see two “beautiful, authentic, powerful women my own age to look up to.”
Only a week prior, Barrymore had again been an unofficial spokeswoman for perimenopause when she sat down with Gayle King of “CBS Mornings” to share more of her personal experiences, including having a period “every two weeks.”
“One doctor also just told me this could last, in the worst-case scenario, 10 years. And I was like, ‘I will never make it 10 years like this!’” she told King.
Considering that every woman who lives past their 40s will probably go through at least some version of this—even earlier, for some—one would think that there should be more conversations about this pivotal life chapter. Maybe then it wouldn’t be so daunting.
Or at the very least, there might be less stigma around it. As Barrymore eloquently put it in her interview, “The way menopause has been branded is, ‘You’re old, you’re done.’ That’s not it.” Instead, she feels that in reality, “more women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s are looking so attractive, feeling so vibrant, living their best lives.”
Well, Ziggy has really gone and done it now, hasn’t he? Congratulations to all the Ziggy haters out there, you got what you wanted — two dead Greeks. Ziggy and his huge hog burned too damn bright for the Bawlmer ports, and while he lives to tell his own heartless tale to Jay Landsman, there will be no more Zig on The Wire.
During the episode, there is a conversation about the actor who plays Lamar (Brother Mouzone’s valet), and how he, like too many cast members, is no longer with us. The recording took place the day before we also lost the actor who played Daniels, Lance Reddick. RIP to another real one. Here’s an interview he did after the third season and before the show really took off.
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It’s been a tumultuous month for The Cure, who announced their first North American tour since 2016 and shared a whole plan to prevent scalpers from ruining the concert experience for fans. And what happened next was infinitely frustrating: Ticketmaster turned their back on the band by charging insane fees to inflate the prices.
It’s not over, though. On Tuesday (March 28), the eccentric singer tweeted, “I AM ASKING ABOUT THE WEIRD OVER PRICED ‘FACE VALUE’ TICKETS THAT ARE POPPING UP HERE AND THERE… X.” One fan replied with a screenshot of two tickets that cost almost $1,400, yet they were dubbed as face value tickets. Meanwhile, most fans paid just a little over $100 for a ticket.
I AM ASKING ABOUT THE WEIRD OVER PRICED ‘FACE VALUE’ TICKETS THAT ARE POPPING UP HERE AND THERE… X
The problem has become so big that Neil Young recently commented on it. “TICKETMASTER FEES at 30%. It’s over,” the legend wrote on his website. “The old days are gone. I get letters blaming me for $3,000.00 tickets for a benefit I am doing. That money does not go to me or the benefit. Artists have to worry about ripped off fans blaming them for Ticketmaster add-ons and scalpers.”
The Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina doors will open at 12 noon on both days; Usher is headlining Saturday’s festivities at 9:30 pm, while J. Cole and Drake’s joint headlining set on Sunday will be slightly earlier, at 9:15. The smaller festival also has the benefit of being able to program nearly every set with enough time to set just about all of them (provided they all begin and end on time), with plenty of time to get from Burna Boy to Cole and Drake.
Funnily enough, it looks like Lil Durk and Usher are a little closer together, but it does make you wonder how much overlap those fanbases have. If you’re watching online via Amazon Music’s Twitch channel or on Prime Video, you won’t have to worry about this stuff, obviously.
In addition to the usual Dreamville roster mainstays like Ari Lennox, Bas, Cozz, Earthgang, JID, Lute, and Omen, the lineup also includes fan faves like Baby Tate, City Girls, GloRilla, Jessie Reyez, Key Glock, Lil Durk, Mario, Sean Paul, SiR, Summer Walker, and Waka Flock Flame. Check out the set times below.
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Adam Jones is all about baseball’s exciting future and how it’s being driven by the energy of players from all over the world. “The wave of showing emotion is coming,” Jones told me during a recent conversation right after the World Baseball Classic. “There’s more Latins coming. There are more African-Americans coming. It’s coming and the fan really likes it. There’s still that old-school fan that is like, ‘Oh, man, why didn’t you do this and why didn’t you do that? I don’t like this.’ And you’re going to have to let that go, brother.”
Jones, a former 5-time All-Star for the Baltimore Orioles and face of the previous WBC, has become an ambassador for the game and an advocate for a new generation of players, spreading the gospel of baseball without sacrificing the authenticity that has always made him a great quote and a consequential voice. And he’s not limiting his reach to the Major Leagues or even just the United States.
Following a playing career that came to a close after two years spent playing in Japan, Jones has embraced world travel and the power of fresh experiences, setting his base of operations in Barcelona. Down the line, he’d like to work in the front office for a team, but right now he’s in a spot that allows him to influence and support the growth of the game in Spain, France, and in other parts of the world. He’s also staying close to his former peers and baseball culture drivers as the host of The Adam Jones Podcast on The Baltimore Banner, a must-hear chat show with Jones, co-host Jerry Coleman, and a guest list that includes the likes of CC Sabathia, Ken Griffey Jr., and Orioles All-Star Cedric Mullins, among others.
In our conversation with Jones, we spoke at length recently about the above, from what the WBC means for baseball’s growth potential as we head into Opening Day to fans who can’t get out of the old way of thinking, why he loves hyping up young players, and his hunger for exploration, travel, and exposing his kids to a world of culture. But above all was the theme of being an outright fan of on-field emotion and players being able to be themselves.
How does baseball keep the momentum going following what was just one of the most epic baseball culture things we’ve seen in our lifetime?
This is the fifth World Baseball Classic. I played in the previous two. And obviously, it gets better and better and better and better. That’s just everything. And I said this earlier, baseball won. Team Japan won. Team USA. But the whole conglomerate of baseball won in Latin America, Europe, Great Britain, Israel, the Czech Republic. There are so many stories you can take away from so many different teams, so many highlights, and emotions. It was an unbelievable experience. It’s hard to duplicate that 162 [times].
But I think some of the American fans, they need to just realize that these players aren’t from where you’re from. And where they’re from, they play this game with passion, emotion, some flair. You’re not used to it. So what? Adapt to it. They’ve adapted to you. They’ve adapted to the American culture. They’ve adapted to American cuisine. Let them be who they are.
You need some flair. What Randy Arozarena did, he’s not going to do all that during the season because it’s a long season. On a (random) Tuesday night, no one gives a rat’s ass, but you need that excitement. You need to let these players who come from multiple backgrounds be who they are. Like any other thing, if you let someone be who they are, especially an athlete, you get the best of them. And this WBC showed that there were no leashes on guys’ emotions.
You had sent out a tweet that basically said that it’s all Randy (Arozarena) now after his now iconic catch. There is no more Jones.
No more Jones!
I thought that was funny and interesting. Is it hard to not want to still point to yourself and say, “Hey, remember that catch?” Was it an adjustment to put yourself in the mindset of pushing these new players forward?
Hell no! It’s awesome being on this side. I remember in 2012, I was talking to Jim Thome and he’s 42 and I’m like, “Jim, go home. You want to go home?” And he’s like, “Baseball will tell you when to go home. Right now, it’s not telling me to go home.” After that season, he retired. But it’s like baseball will tell you when to go home. My body told me when it was done and I gave it my all. You know, you can’t play this forever and it’s the next man up. It’s the next man’s opportunity. That’s why I root on guys so much and still follow it because you pass the baton to the next generation and it’s no disrespect to it.
I can’t go out there and run. I was with Jazz Chisholm last night. He’s playing center field now. I can’t go run with him. Are you kidding me? And I don’t want to. That’s the thing. And I was fortunate enough to leave the game under my own merits. I had to finish in Japan to do it, but it was under my own merits and my own control. Most people don’t get that opportunity and they’re forced out of the game. But I was fortunate enough to still have the opportunity to be around it a lot with working with the commissioner’s office and I want to see these exciting moments.
I tweeted that out because my catch has been iconic. It’s going to be iconic still, but it’s been six years since we’ve seen a player with a country on the front (of the jersey) making iconic plays. That (Arozarena catch) was an iconic play. I’m not saying just throw me away. No. But this is his turn now. It’s Shohei’s turn now. You know what I mean? It’s just, pass the baton and it’s no slight to me, it’s no slight to nobody. But it’s his turn now. You don’t need to talk about Adam Jones in the Baseball Classic as much. You still mention me because my catch is sick. [laughs] But give Randy his flowers. Give (Anthony) Santander his flowers. Salvador Perez, give those guys their flowers. And now, we build for 2026.
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When you went over to play in Japan, how did that open your world?
This would be a perfect question for my wife to answer because when we signed to go to Japan, we were excited but I was still like, “What? Why?” My agent and I got into spats. I’m like, “Dude, you don’t believe in me that I could do this?” But it wasn’t about that. We sat down (for some) long, long nights and just it was like, “Dude, we get to, first off, take control of our career.” Most players don’t get to do that. Did I want to finish in the major leagues? I thought I was that kind of player. You think what you want, but sometimes the cards play differently.
But I was able to go over there and the second we got over there, it was frustrating. It was hard. It was difficult because I’m in a new culture, then COVID hit. So, I’m like, “This sucks. I’m not with my family.” And then, my family was able to come over and it went from killing myself every day in the major leagues to make sure that I’m on the field and I’m producing, to enjoying the last couple of years of my career in a new culture and new country. We drove out to Kyoto, which was an hour from us and is one of the oldest cities in Japan. We just immersed ourselves in the culture and it was great for two years. We didn’t have to worry about American media. I could watch sports selectively if I wanted to. I could be selective in what information me and my family were to watch. We didn’t watch American TV. We were just out and exploring Japan for two years and it was absolutely amazing trying to just immerse ourselves in a culture.
We moved to Barcelona because of that. Because why not? The biggest thing, and I always say this, athletes, especially the ones that are fortunate enough to make a good enough living and be financially secure, a lot of them stay in their big houses, stay in their bubbles, golf, do local stuff, take their kids to school, into practice, and they end up coaching their kids. I get all that. They’re six and under taking them all over and eight and under taking them across the country. Take them across the world and travel.
My kids are nine and seven and they’re not missing sport. You know what I mean? They’re not missing (that). I got tons of friends, “Eight and under championships, he’s practicing three days a week.” My kids are missing none of that. My kids are seeing the world. My kids are speaking different languages. My kids are eating different cuisines and talking to different people. My kids have friends from all over the world. And going to Japan opened all those gates because the schools they were at, they got friends from China, friends from Uruguay, friends from Panama, friends from South Africa. That is what I like.
My wife’s a travel agent. This is their travel company, AXEUS Travel — it’s both our kids’ names combined. We want to see every part of the world. And if you follow me on social media, you know that we’re always somewhere else, eating somewhere, trying to see somewhere because culture is amazing. The world is amazing. It’s beautiful. And it sucks that most people don’t want to travel outside. They want to stay in their little bubble. I get that and I respect it, but that ain’t me.
I love the podcast.
Thank you.
How has that changed your perspective and what does your unique set of experiences bring to the media side of things with baseball?
Well, The Adam Jones Podcast, you can find that on all the streaming sites. I think it’s storytelling. Fans want to know the insights of it. Again, media has insight to a T. Ken Rosenthal, Jon Morosi, Adam Schefter, and Adrian Wojnarowski, all these guys, they got insight. They don’t have my insight. They don’t have the players’ insight. People want to know stories. They want to know the temperament.
And it’s cool because I’ve always respected the media. After the games, I’d rather get this interview over now and get the hell out of my clubhouse. If I’m 0-3, let’s get it over with now and get out, so you can go do your work too. Because I know that you got a deadline to make. I hated it when guys had the media sitting there for 30 minutes because you’re over there sulking because you gave up the run. Go talk, get it over with, and go sulk after it. Let them get out, let them do their job.
And now, on that side, it’s weird asking my peers questions, but it’s fun at the same time. It’s a challenge because it’s not easy. We think about journalism, “That’s easy, man. You ask a question, right?” Nah, you have to really… it’s time-consuming. It’s editing. The editing is the number one thing, but it’s a challenge. Again, it’s something that I admired guys doing and I was able to be in one place for a long time to where I had great stories and established a great rapport with a lot of guys, especially in the East Coast regions.
And now, on the other side of it, I can go up to these guys and they don’t look at me like, “He’s an asshole. I ain’t trying to talk to him.” It’s all mutual love and mutual respect. Because as a player, I had that for them and I want them to do it. We’ve all got to do our job. I struck out to end the game. It has to be talked about. I’m not going to sit in the training room and hide from the media. They ain’t going nowhere. Get it over, get it over with. And take your time, breathe. But get it out and it’s okay. It’s okay to show emotion but people don’t like that. I think the WBC showed that people love emotion.
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You were such an outspoken player, strong on things that happened in your time in Baltimore. I’m curious about how much of a role you think players have in standing up and speaking out. Because I feel like sometimes in Major League Baseball, especially compared to other sports, you don’t see that quite as much on cultural issues.
I think it is just basketball, baseball, football … I mean, obviously, basketball and football have a higher number of African-Americans. They’re a majority, strong, like 80 percent majority of African-Americans and a lot of the top players are part of the union (and they’re) also African-American. So, it’s like, it’s just different. They’re different. Baseball is a different sport and a different demographic. I’ve always said that people are like, “You know, what about the Latin population?” I said, “Well the Latins, the Dominicans, Venezuela, they’ve got so many other issues going on in their other country. They don’t got time to worry about our issues.” So, America, when it comes to baseball, the issues are black and white. It’s because the Latins have their own issues in their country. They’re trying to get their own freedoms and liberty, getting their families. They got things they got to worry about. It’s just demographic.
What sucks is that a lot of baseball fans are still in that old-school mindset, old-school rules, old-school style in terms of how you play and how you dress. And look, Mickey Mantle ain’t playing no more. Okay, sorry, Don Mattingly ain’t playing no more. The generation has passed. These guys are walking around with $50,000 chains on. Okay, that’s people’s salaries. It’s a different era of baseball. And the American fan needs to understand that.
They (fans) would get so mad at the Latin players for showing flair. They’d get so mad at Manny (Machado) because he’d make a play and have just this face, just like, “Duh. I’m supposed to make the play.” And then he makes an error, which is super rare. And he’d have the same face and they’d be like, “Oh, did you see, look at him! He just does it in his sleep. He makes an error. He doesn’t give a damn. He doesn’t care.” Get away from that narrative. Get away from that.
American Baseball is, sorry, it’s international. It’s not America’s game anymore. I’m sorry. It was proven in the final game of the WBC. It was proven the entire time in the WBC by crowd participation. It’s not America’s game anymore. It’s the world’s game. And I know that a lot of political things going on in the United States right now. But baseball, it can bridge all that and shut a lot of people up.
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