He’s a genuine baseball legend who hit 398 career home runs, drove in 1,266 RBIs and won a pair of National League MVP trophies, but at the moment, he’s carrying arms full of swag half an hour before taping. He’s preparing for another podcast episode, thinking about ways to increase more audience interaction. He thinks about social media platforms and how various apps offer different things to different audience members.
This is life for Dale Murphy these days. He’s kinda, sorta a media man now. Not officially. He’s never been credentialed, but he is in the public sphere sharing his opinions on a game he’ll never fall out of love with, a game he believes needs younger eyeballs and just more fun associated with it.