Host Jessica Kleinschmidt interviews ESPN baseball reporter Tim Kurkjian. Jessica and Tim discuss a wide range of topics including the 2024 London Series, the concept of storytelling in baseball, winning the 2022 BBWAA Career Excellence Award, and more.
Here’s the full breakdown.
- 2:06: Welcome Tim to Short and to the Point
- 2:17: Baseball coverage changing over the years
- 4:00: Being a beat reporter
- 5:53: London Series
- 8:18: MLB globalization
- 9:50: Storytelling in baseball
- 11:55: Balancing new aspects to tradition in MLB
- 13:49: Being inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame with the 2022 BBWAA Career Excellence Award
- 15:48: HOF weekend
- 17:34: Writing a story compared to writing HOF speech
- 18:41: Being a terrible writer in high school
- 20:08: Art of sportswriting
- 21:46: Has the approach to journalism changed?
- 23:37: Trying to stay humble
- 25:03: Dealing with failures and setbacks
- 28:46: Art of broadcasting and Vin Scully
- 31:28: Tim’s Is This A Great Game, Or What? podcast with son, Jeff
- 34:42: Being old school and going viral
- 37:08: Relationship with baseball since Tim started
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