The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox.The Dodgers are the latest L.A. team to get the Pablo Torre treatment. Plus: The AL is not getting any less complicated, Jayson Stark name-checks Vic Power and our Baseball Card of the Week tells the story of when I met Baseball Scarface. I’m Levi Weaver — welcome to The Windup!Pablo Torre Finds Out: Unpacking the Walter situationFreshly armed with vindication of his Kawhi Leonard/Clippers reporting, Pablo Torre is turning his sights toward Dodger Stadium. Today’s episode of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” explains what exactly is going on with Dodgers owner Mark Walter, his recent sale of the Lakers, Magic Johnson’s involvement and how the team’s TV deal helped usher in an era of exponential franchise value growth. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts.Most of this has already been reported (including here on The Athletic), but Torre and crew do a great job of laying it out, from beginning to end, and connecting all the dots in between.The most interesting part for me was this chain of events, as detailed on the podcast, which is produced by Meadowlark Media and became part of The Athletic Podcast Network last September through a licensing deal:
The core of the Mark Walter investigation. Plus: The playoff races
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