IB Nation Sports Talk: Keys To Improved Notre Dame Linebacker Play, Nick Mainieri Interview

Irish Breakdown talks Notre Dame linebacker play on today's show and we're also joined by special guest Nick Mainieri

Notre Dame's linebacker play is a hot button topic among fans. We discuss some of the keys to the Irish continuing to improve in that area. Some of the specifics include:

* What things are the LBs reading that may have been harder last season but are easier this year?

* Does comfort/understanding of a defense out weigh athleticism?

* We’ve seen pretty good interior DL play this spring. What impact could that have on the LBs?

We have more topics in Rapid Fire. The full list of topics is below. After Rapid Fire, Sean Stires is joined by author and former Notre Dame baseball player Nick Mainieri to discuss Irish baseball memories as well as his recent article about the South Bend Foundry Field Project and the unique Sappy Moffitt Baseball League. They also talk about a piece Mainieri wrote on former Irish pitcher John Axford at the World Baseball Classic. 

We start Rapid Fire by discussing if Marcus Freeman is going to win a national championship at Notre Dame before Brian Kelly wins one at LSU. Other topics include:

* Brian Kelly says it's "overblown" that he left Notre Dame for LSU when the Irish were in the middle of a hunt for a College Football Playoff spot. Fair or BS?

* NFL Sunday Ticket is leaving DirecTV for YouTubeTV and they've released their pricing for packages. Get ready for sticker shock!

* MLB’s new pitch clock has cut about a half an hour off game times this season and that’s led to an unintended consequence...beer sales dropping in ballparks. So a few teams have extended their beer sales until the 8th inning rather than the seventh...where beer has customarily been cut off. Do you Buy or Sell extending beer sales into the 8th?

* Should Major League Baseball expand and if they do, the expansion city options are Las Vegas, Portland, Nashville, Montreal, Charlotte, and Salt Lake City. Which of those two cities would you want teams in?

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