The Sportswriter
Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning
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The History of the World Is Circular
I just think sports have ever, has always been that way. I mean, when Ty Cobb was playing, playing baseball, he's one of the bigger racists in the world and, you know, come in, cleats up. So I don't think it's necessarily gotten any worse or any better. I think athletes could get away with a lot more. They're precisely the sort of person who could be elected in America now. It's already happened. You've got the solid. The sun's just coming. And it's all now... Well, surely the history of the world is circular. We thought after World War One, well, they were never going to happen again.
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