Episode 2343: The Business Of Caring
“It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring — caring deeply and passionately, really caring — which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives.” Today we talk to US Murph about one of his heroes, the legendary baseball writer Roger Angell, who passed away last week, aged 101.
RIP Roger Angell. Here’s a beautiful New Yorker piece of his, about a Major League Baseball strike in the mid-80s, but which I returned to multiple times throughout the pandemic lock-downs, and particularly in the “dry, soundless summer” of 2020. Wonderful writing pic.twitter.com/0cnFD1kHP4
— Ciarán Murphy (@saveciaranmurph) May 20, 2022
We also discuss the rebirth of Eoin and Brian’s beloved Golden State Warriors, who are on the brink of making the NBA finals.
Plus there’s the sale of Chelsea, meeting your heroes and we discuss Steve Kerr’s response to the Texas school shooting, which happened after we spoke to US Murph.
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All football, all the time, non-stop https://t.co/yaSdqeE3qH pic.twitter.com/3T21QE88LD
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