The 1st World Cup! (Ep. 159)

Zach and Jake talk baseball, college football and the inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament!

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Episode Transcript

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Hello, and welcome back to FlurrySports. And Jake, Welcome back to
the Flurry Sports podcast. Jake isback. Everybody has battle stories, war
stories, maybe some flashbacks that wedon't want to get too into because maybe
it's a little bit too serious andPTSD is a real thing. But Jake,
how you doing? How you feel? And how was Kansas? I'm

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back? Everybody from an ass whooping? That's right? DCU, God damn
it, we just opened up thefloodgates. Maybe clear was like I thought
you said it was going to bea close game. I underestimated the Cats
And what's happening? Zach? That'sright, death to the Big Twelve.
You thought it was going to bea good year. Wrong, Texas.

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You lose this. We got thewe got the Longhorns next week. Everyone's
like, kay, you no,baby, you know what it's gonna happen.
We're gonna catch everybody. We're gonnawin the division with three losses,
and everyone's gonna go why is this? Why is it still a thing?
Why is the Big Twelve Conference stillaround? And it's because of us we
do this. We bring everyone backto mediocre. That is true. That

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is true. There I would saytoo much parody in the Big Twelve,
many people saying, why why thepacked tad, why the Pac twelve?
It should have been you, Bigtwelve. You should have been the ones
to die. Fuck you, Butno, they're sticking around. It's it's
so funny though, because even whenI went there, the joke was two

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years in a row, we beatundefeated Oklahoma and lost to very defeated West
Virginia. Like it's like those teamshave weird numbers for other teams, Like
Baylor doesn't really lose to Texas,like they played Texas super well, don't
check those numbers, but like theyplayed them really good. I have no

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idea what the record is, butit feels like every once in a while
it's like, oh they lost theBaylor sure, Like what are you gonna
do? This feels like me itwas either last week, it was last
week. I think I said twostats on the Fantasy Football podcast. It
immediately corrected myself to be very incorrect, but it was fine. I was
close. The vibe was right.Oh, and that's all that matters.

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But Zach, let's get to thebig story. Because this was Claire's first
Division one football game, and myfirst night game because my two games were
the two OU games and they wereboth eleven o'clock games, So we kick
off night game there, you know. And for folks who don't know,
for like, and if you're inthe South, you kind of get this,

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which Kansas, for this part isfor sure the South. Even though
when I tried to tell my studentsthat, the response was we were in
the Union, which is a badside. That's a bad side. But
that's how you like draw those lines. But here's how you know. Their
football stadium we were sold out crowdof fifty nine thousand people. Big,

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so yeah, big them and KUbiggest stadiums in Kansas, Like that is
their sports teams. It's it's Kansasthe big accomplishment. I mean, that's
it. It's Kansas state football andKU basketball, like that's what they care
about. And the Chiefs who don'tplay in their state. Right, Yeah,
that's what I was gonna say.Big, two biggest stadiums in Kansas.

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Congrats. Third biggest is the rodeooutside Jordy Nelson's farm. That's true.
But we kickoffs ax. So Claire'sjust like taking in everything and this
is a Kansas fucking football game.Because at k State we started right they
said, all right, everyone,can you please stand up to recognize America?
Do we start with the Star Spangledbanner? No? Do we start

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with the salutes the troops. Nowwe start with the announcer going, our
founding fathers had a vision for thiscountry when they wrote down we hold these
troops of He's self evident, andhe read off the fucking Declamation of Independence.
He read it through and there werecheers after life. Whoa liberty?

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Whooa pseudopiness? Yeah, and he'slike, so follow along, I pledge
allegiance and we're like, are youkidding me? So sixty thousand of us
pledge allegiance due to flag. Great, they do the Star Spangled banner.
Then I'm not kidding. Every fireworkin the state of Kansas goes off at

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once. When I say fireworks wentoff for five minutes. We timed it.
It was unbelievable. Claire got soscared by the fireworks that a random
lady behind her started rubbing her backand said it's okay, sugar, Like,
we were like, what's happening.It just kept going and then in
the midst of fireworks, two fighterplanes flew over for a random night game

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against TCU, and then just whenyou thought it could, were like,
wow, what a night game.Willie the Wildcat, who, by the
way, our mascot is just ait's just a guy in a football outfit
with the cat head, like he'sgot human arms in the cat head.
So I was like, how's hegoing to make his entrance? Of course

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he came out with an American bandanaon a motorcycle like biker taker. So
he came out on his Harley Davidson, followed by not a kidding Zack one
hundred other people on their motorcycles.One hundred people circled the field as born
in the USA, not pro American, born in the USA, and then

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bad to the bone plade over thestadium. And that took fifteen minutes for
them to slowly parade the field.As Claire lean over and went, oh
god, there's an awesome guy.I was like, this is unbelievable.
We were just swaying back and forth. We did the wabash it was,

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and then the game started and wewhooped immediately because of course, yeah,
yeah, what were the players outthere for all of that? Uh?
TCUs were not ours. They ranus out after what I mean, come
on, dude, if I wasthe away t eaven out there for that
pack up and go what are wedoing here? It's like my favorite,

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my favorite quote from Claire was likeis this other team not from America?
And I'm like, no, they'refrom like they're from their Texas Christian like
like it was a little bit ofthat ball game, but it was all
like I don't know why. Randomlythat night we were like give them hell,
which is kind of even better becauseit was like we're just gonna do

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But it's like if you watch wrestlingand one guy gets a ten minute then
and some dudes just there when youcome back from commercial, right like it
was like he doesn't know, buthe's in for a bad time. Geez.
I mean, I wish I knewthat was gonna happen. I suppose
they thought, like, hey,TCU in the National Championship Game last year,
Yes, this is the game.We need to break out fucking every

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every motorcycle the state of Kansas,and we need to rev these motherfuckers out
of the stadium. Well a hundred. This game got sold out months ago,
Like when I bought my ticket twomonths ago. There was I think
like less than fifty tickets left,so like it was a big sellout.
And to your point, last year, this was the deciding game, like

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they upset TCU, that's the onlyreason they weren't undefeated. Go Cats.
So did it put us in thefinal four? Famously, No, it
doesn't make a goddamn look a difference. Play again, they said, well
we did, and how about thatfreshman quarterback who cares? Uh? We
freaking whopped? So it was good. So that was great. And then
my only other reporting from Kansas wasin front of us was a dad and

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this was the most dad thing ever. He let his two young daughters go
and get food and said, bringme back something. They were gone for
about half an hour. They ate, Well, they were gone, but
the first thing they did Zach beforethey stopped and ate was got him his
food. So they brought him abowl of chili, a very cold bowl

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of chili at a football game,which I don't know where they got it
from. They also didn't bring hima fork, so he just slurped it.
He had to drink a cold bowlof chili, and he was like,
thank you. Do I get intoutensils and they're like no, and
he's like, did you get anythingand they're like, yeah, we got
your chili, and then we atetwo hot dogs each. Shit. He's
like, well, okay, whatif I wanted a hot dog? And

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they're like, but you like chiliand he's like, okay, thanks.
So I was like, that's fatherhood. I guess great, eat it up,
chili boy, fucking slur fit.Yeah, just drigging you like look
back and he's like, it's likea bloody Mary with beans. I was
like, yeah, it's not thatcan't be good. Uh like white,

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I'm sure. Uh yea. Bythe way, Desert storm vet, you
know, you fall for our country, came back and now his kids are
giving him out. So that's whatyou get. You know, thanks for
your service. But Zach, myquestion to you kick off the show with
a banger. What's the worst foodthat they serve at stadiums? Like chili's

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up? There? Is there oneYou've always been like, why is that
here? I've got one from theBaseball World. Okay, if cracker Jack
wasn't in the song, oh yeah, it's just not good. No,
no one likes cracker Jacks. I'llalso throw them out calm candy. I

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mean, I'm never a cotton candyguy, so like, yeah, like
no, you're all sticky. It'sgone in a moment. It's ruined by
the rain. That's true. That'strue. I'm just trying to think,
like there's there's something in my mindthat's being blocked that has too many moving
parts and I can't fucking think ofit. Like, so anything that's messy,

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what the fuck is it? Well, for sure, I feel like
the Timberwolves have. Uh, Idon't really understand pizza at sporting events.
Pizza's okay, I can't remember whatstadium it was. They definitely serve steak,
like like you had to like justchew because there's no knife, obviously
you had to just chew on it. I can't remember. They had to

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be a college game, it hadto be. It was weird probably,
But Zach, I mean, thisis our football talk this week, So
any other football thoughts to get offyour chest? Uh? My only other
one is like I feel like Ineed someone to like regurgitate to me with
the like what are we doing incollege football? I will say there was

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big college football news had to betoday had to be today, ACC announced
the teams that are coming there andwhat they're gonna do. Yeah, so
which ones is it? I believeit's it is Colorado going there for sure.
For sure, Cal, Stanford,and SMU, we're all going to
the ACC. And they came upwith like this big system of it's gonna

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be seventeen teams in the AEC.They came up with like protected games or
whatever. So it's like they can'tget rid of Duke North Carolina every year,
you know what I mean, LikeI have to have that. So
that's big news. And I'm happySMU is there because I think SMU is
getting slighted for too long. Butthe fact that Stanford has to travel like
to the Carolina's over and over isinstane. I mean them and Cal,

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I guess, but that's weird.But over all college football, I mean,
like Alabama had a bye last week, so who cares? To your
point, big twelve teams lost,so now they're out of it. And
I don't know, I think istanking for Caleb Williams. That's fun.
We need to stop. I don'tknow about you. Everyone talked about talk

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even still talks about Caleb Williams likethis is the fucking greatest quarterback we've ever
seen. And I don't think he'splayed well in two months. Like he's
just not that great. I don'tknow, he's not that good. I
will Venmo you five dollars if youcan tell me who the five seed is
without looking at anything, that's great. I'm gonna take a guess and say

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Florida State they're the four number five. We love you, Walla, Walla,
Washington, it's the Huskies. Maybethat's my favorite team. I fucking
love Washington, I love Utah,both of them. They're so good.
For sure, Well, we havefive undefeated, so oh, which is
great. I hope we end withfive undefeated. We get to play my

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favorite game. What will they dowhen one of the big ten teams lose?
Will it even matter? That's whatI want to see. It won't
matter. Sorry, Washington, you'reout. It won't matter. With everything,
I mean, have you been keepingup with like the Michigan Yeah,
I mean I think that's an easyscapegoat, right if they even if they

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beat Ohio, that's gonna be theinteresting part. If they beat Ohio State
and then more stuff comes out aboutthem, are they just gonna be like,
you know what, Ohio State,you're in. You only lost because
Michigan is a cheater. If youdid it again, you'd win. Stupid.
But that's the thing I'm so intobecause like in the past, like

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do they think this year because ifthat's Oregon, they're in, But do
they trust Washington enough to put themabove especially if Ohio State loses, because
they also just think Ohio State's betterthan Michigan. Right. Well, here's
the thing with Washington which is helpingthem is I don't know what the odds
are at the current moment, buttheir quarterback Penix has been viewed as a

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legitimate Heisman candidate, So if theywent out, I would assume, I
mean, he has a very goodchance to win the Heisman Trophy. So
you know they definitely want the Heismanguy in the playoffs, right true?
All right? Quick takeaways? Okay, quick takeaways from the top twenty five
to one go Cats number twenty fivein the nation snuck in, which is

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our perfect ranking because you know whatthat means, We're on the board because
they're like, just in case thoseassholes upset somebody, we gotta have him
on the board. So they're rightthere. I there are two more undefeated
teams James Madison, so shout outto HBCU. I believe. So that's
cool. Two dude put him in. Put the air force in the playoffs?

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Good? They're so what will theydo if they're undefeated? How much
do you love our veterans talk about? I mean, I don't know what
they do, but they better startevery game like you just talked about with
Kansas State, So we out patriotthem, they'd be like, WHOA,

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that's true. They'd be impressed.They Yeah, that'd be incredible. That
would be interesting. They have tohave the best flyover ever, right,
I hope they have like five flyoversa game every quarter. They have to
have the like the air show everyfucking game, and during the plays,
they have to be having planes doingthose the country's only flying marching band drop

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them out of a plane. Howdoes it feel that k State now is
in the territory of they're a goodloss because that's the reason why they're up
there. So now, TC,you just had a good loss, I
mean, what are you gonna door that? If you get beat now,
that's a huge win, that's ariked win. That's true because I

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mean that's what they're doing, right, They are propping us up so that
hopefully what they want to happen issomething goes wild and Texas sneaks in,
right, I mean yeah, becausethey play us, yes next week you
said, right, yeah, soHorns down so they rank us so they

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can try and sneak back in.But when we beat them, I bet
we both fall out. I guesswe were wrong, they say, and
they just drop us both out.But I don't like somehow like a hook
and a prayer and the Cats endup winning that conference is so funny.
I feel similar to like the PACtwelve is gonna fuck around till Utah wins.

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That's like my prediction, Like Idon't know what's gotta go wrong there,
but I think, like, oh, very quick, here's my list
of the five teams that somehow randomlywin the Power five conferences. U KSE
eight no particular order, kse Eatefor the Big twelve, Utah for the
PAC twelve. I think the biggestno brainer Iowa for the Big ten somehow

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just wins it. Notre Dame forthe ACC Why are they there? Thought
they weren't? Uh? And thenwhat's the last SEC? Oh, my
god, that's never happened before ever. I know what Power five Conference is
my missing This is the hardest one. What random team wins the SEC?

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Like every once in a while,Auburn, like Auburn ole miss Lane Kiffen
fos around, but he's never wonit. I feel like every five years
Auburn wins the SEC. That's true. It's like Georgia and Alabama both have
a bad year and that's when CamNewton's a senior. Like that's you know,

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that's true. That's yeah. Imean that's why this new Like college
football playoffs gonna be great because youwin the conference automatic, you're in getting
the playoffs. That's how it shouldbe at least for sure. I think
it'll be good. I really likethat. But those are my football and
college football, thought tech. Anythingelse there I don't think so. I

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mean, Colorado lost, and uh, college football is the worst place when
Colorado. Who's your favorite NFL playerright now? This is our only NFL
talk my favorite player? I Ican't think of anybody I like, I'm
gonna go with. This is sad. Oh George Pickens. I love George

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Pickens. Are you ready for thismight be my heel turn because you know
how much I hated this guy onDraft night. Okay, who will leave
his We'll Levi's how I don't thinkthat was him last week. I love
it. He doesn't know what's happening. He's never played this good in his

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life. He's playing out of hisshoes. Yeah, Sean Clifford beat him
out, and he's like, well, all he figured out was, oh,
maybe I should just throw it toDeAndre Hopkins. Maybe that'll work so
much funny. DeAndre Hopkins is like, yeah, finally somebody's just throwing it
up there. It's incredible. He'slike Ryan Fitzpatrick right now, he's throwing

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from the ground. Yeah, Iknow. And honestly, what they need
to do is when Ryan Tannehill comesback, if you don't want to bench
Tannehill, just let Levis wear TannehillsJersey. No one is gonna know.
It's gonna be fine. No untilhe pops out of seventy yard or true.
It's like, wait a minute,that's not Tannehill. He had to

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throw last week. Go and lookthis up. His touchdown where he ends
up on the ground. He doesn'tknow what happened. If you go back
and look he asked, you cansee him on camera. Go he caught
that, dude, you threw it. He's an idiot. Dude. It
doesn't make sense. It doesn't makesense. There's so much shitty football.

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We got Kirk Cousins getting hurt,and then someone who the hell knows who
that was comes into the game.We got the Rams again, Stafford gets
hurt, Weird Stetson Bettett is stillon the whatever list, so he's not
even eligible to play football. TheBear starting quarterback looks like the guy who
always dated the girl you were interestedin. You're like, why is he

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dating that? Like a guy whospoke too much weed and really liked Tweezer,
but not when we all like Tweezer, like Africa. No, he
loved he loved Uh, I lovecollege. What's that guy's fucking name?
He loved that name? Oh maybeI do. Isn't it Asher something off?

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He loves asher off, compares quarterbackloves asher Off. His dad Apparently
his dad is like a twenty twotime arm wrestling champion. Incredible, it's
so good. His dad's awesome.Uh. But yeah, there's so much,
truthfully, like this is the endof NFL Talk for the week.

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For the episode, were so muchshitty football. It's bad. No,
it's not good. The good team'slost this week. That's not good.
Like like the Chiefs for everyone lost. We can say this, Maybe brock
party is not that good you.I was watching that game and I'm like,
the only one who's gonna like thisis Zach Weird. You gotta like

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the Miller High Life, Eh,weird. How that comparison comes back?
Oh that? And I leave youwith this quote. We were I was
at one of our cousins birthday parties, so we had to watch the Packers
game with two Viking fans won,the beloved Bloody Dan and the other beloved
Bloody Blake. And you know theywere there. They were watching and God

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is my witness. Give it upto cousin James. James at one point
goes, Blake, are you aVikings And he goes yes, and James
goes, I hate you, andI was like, give it to him.
Maybe that's right. It's like Packerfans are bad one year, couldn't
be saltier. We're the worst.We're so we're so terrible. So that's
it. What you want to goto the real heart of the show's act.

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We we shall, we Shall,And Jake, I'm so excited.
I haven't slept in days. I'vebeen waiting all NBA season for this week,
and it feels like the NBA hasstarted, doesn't it. Yes,
it feels like it just started coming. Boy, I mean you might be

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surprised to know that the NBA nowhas been a I mean we're almost a
week into the season, so thatmeans it's time for the NBA In Season
Tournament. Jake. Yes, themoment we have all been waiting for all
months of November. Starting on Friday, when you're listening to this Friday,
the NBA In Season Tournament all readybegins. And I think it's a good

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time for us to answer the question, Jake, what is the NBA In
Season Tournament? Why do we careabout the NBA in season Tournament? That's
probably probably the biggest question everyone's wondering, and just how does it work.
So I'm just gonna go over itonce more for the people who don't know,

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and Jake, ask questions along theway, because I think we you're
gonna be a good audience here toask me the questions everyone's actually wondering.
So let's again the inaugural NBA inSeason Tournament. Don't call it the preseason
tournament because it's starting on Friday,November three. It goes until December ninth,

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which is a Saturday, and that'sgoing to be very exciting. All
thirty teams were randomly drawn put intogroups six groups of five, obviously according
to their win loss record from lastyear. Beginning on like I said,
Friday, there's going to be groupplay that starts. Everyone's going to play

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each person in their group once.Games are going to be on Tuesdays and
Fridays, which is awesome, verygood. Eight teams will advance the knockout
round Jake eight teams, the teamwith the best standing in each group,
and the two teams that have thebest record to finish second. Those are

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the wild cards. Okay, Ialways watch out for the wild cards.
And then and at that point,the knockout rounds will be single elimination.
The quarterfinals are going to be playedin each team's NBA markets. The higher
team on the quarterfinals are Monday,December fourth, Tuesday December fifth. The
semi finals will then be the nextweek on Monday, and then the championship

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is going to be on Tuesday.I'm jacked. I can tell you're checked.
Any questions, Yeah, are youfollowing so far? I am.
I have a schedule clarification question.So when does the pool play stop?
When's that line? That's that's avery good question. So the group stage
ends, well, the knockout roundwill begin. The first quarter finals will

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be Monday, December fourth. Itmight be a little confusing because NBA and
myself have just talked about how allNovember long is the tournament, and actually
December on Monday and Tuesday are goingto be the quarter finals. And I
know I'm going to be watching exceptwell, Monday, that first quarter finals

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game. I mean, the Bengalsand Jaguars play Monday night football. Go
Cats. That's gonna be a toughone. That's gonna be a tough one
for the NBA. I think Idon't know who's going to be in the
quarterfinals, but this is a bigdeal, and I will say Jake,
So every game across all of these, across the entire tournament, group stage,
knockout stage, is going to countagainst the team's final record at the

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end of the year. Okay,except the championship game. That one does
not count. So the teams thatare in the championship game will be playing
eighty three games this year. That'sfine, it's okay, don't even worry
about it. There's no reason forthat one to count. The biggest game
of the year doesn't count. Butthat's fine. I also my favorite part

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about this tournament tech if you're payingattention to home, we're gonna get an
anti tournament and we get to tellit to home. What's better, because
what we're gonna get, Zach,is those eight teams after our group play,
they continue on right. The restof the teams keep playing. Yes,
that's very important distinction here. Soafter the group play ends, trims

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to eight and then there's going tobe some mathematical configuration here to match up
the rest of the teams who willjust continue with their regular season. I
believe there's going to be two teamsthat have to play cross conference, but
it's going to be, you know, in conference games, So Eastern Conference
plays Eastern Conference regular NBA games,and then when you get knocked out of

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the group stage or the knockout round, you also will just keep playing games.
So it is a win or keepplaying type of tournament, which is
also fun. You win, youkeep going, you lose, you play
more games that are arguably the same. But we don't know that. We

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don't know that. So, likeI said, December fourth, the very
first quarterfinal game Bengals Jaguars do playon Monday night football. That's a little
tough one. The semi finals willbe December seventh, and again, Patriots
and Steelers will be playing that night. And that's a slobbery docker I'm gonna
have to be treated for that one. Not a lot of points, but

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that's fine. This does feel likethe NBA sort of retaliating because the NFL
started to put games on Christmas,and I feel like the NBA is like,
oh, you took Christmas from us, We're gonna take Mondays and Thursdays
from you when it matters most.And I'm not sure if that's going to

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work. I don't I don't knowabout you. So but again, okay,
so this is the n season tournament. Shake. It's something everyone's been
wanting, something I've been waiting allNBAC and four and I just need to
remind everybody because this is going tobe tough to follow. Tuesdays and Fridays
are tournament days in November. Mmhmm. There's going to be games every

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other night as well. Those areye tournament games. Okay, no,
that could be fun. Can Igive you a real thing the only here's
what I need you to do,coaches, to make me care about this.
If I see one fucking coach restpeople during the tournament, I'm gonna
lose my mind. Rest them theother games, that's all ie, Pop

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Pop, I'm looking at you.Don't do it. You're gonna play everybody
in the random Wednesday game. Don'tdo it. I mean, this is
this has to be a talk.Adam Silver's already had, like we are
not rested guys on this day,these days, just do whatever the hell
you want, and you know whatto make these tournament days more special,

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Jake, Two games every single tournamentday will be broadcasted on a national television
channel. That's huge. Two insteadof one. Yeah, that's right.
First day Friday kicks off Nicks versusBucks. That's the first tournament game on

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national television. That's huge. That'shuge in Milwaukee. Contemplated going and losing
by fucking mind. That is Thesecond one is MAVs Nuggets, and boy,
that is that's going to be ahuge one considering everything we've seen so
far this season, Jake, We'veseen the Mavericks start out hot, but

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the Nuggets have picked up right wherethey left off. They're undefeated still,
that's right. It's no team inNBA history, and you can look back.
No team has ever been undefeated goinginto the in season tournament. And
the Nuggets have the chance to dothat. They do they do, Zach.

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I want one thing to happen.I want Jokics to win this tournament
and boy, won't EA care.I need him holding a cup drinking out
of it, but not like cooldrinking, but like sipping. Has anyone
ever sipped out of a trophy before? I want yo kids too. Don't
call it a trophy. It's theNBA Cup. And this is another point

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I would like to bring up,Jake, because I think it's misnamed.
Like we look at the NBA NationalBasketball Association that's also misnamed. We have
a team in Toronto. This isa world league. I think this should
be called the World Cup Cup.That's very good. This is the World

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Cup. This is this is theWorld Cup, and I think everyone needs
to be talking about it as such. The Pissons could win the World Cup.
Yeah, I already put a bedin for the Pacers to win the
World Old Cup. I think they'revery sneaky, all right, is well,
they are sneaky. They are sneakyright in an Indiana sorta way,

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the sense that if I had toname all thirty teams, I think they'd
sneak up Bobby. But here's myquestion. Are we past the overview enough
now that we can get into thegroups? Oh, Jake, let's get
into the groups. So, likeI said, hold on as you pulled
that up, I want to addressthe people super quick. Okay, lean

(32:30):
in, everybody, Flurry Sports Station, the Flurries, lean in. This
is our tournament. Okay, yeah, yeah, we know, we know
what you we get it, weknow this is it. Buy in,
run with it like have some Youdon't think we're booking this fucking thing raw,

(32:52):
We're in well, by the way, Jake, I found out as
recently as we've been recording for thirtytwo minutes, like forty five minutes ago,
there is more than just a winnerof the World Cup. There's going
to be a World Cup MVP andthen there's an all tournament team. So

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yes, yeah, yeah, Soa couple of years ago, we did
all the bath needed to dab thetrue MVP, the true NBA champion,
and we kind of need to figureout what we we're gonna do here.
Well, we we got we haveour own World Cup MVP obviously and World

(33:35):
Cup All World Cup team. Wegot that. We're going to do that.
Do we want who's the perfect playerto like just own the cup?
Like they only play good here?Like this is there? You don't want
to tell you Donnas Haslam in theCup? Well, you know, I
I legitimately before the season started,which it feels like forever ago, it

(34:00):
may have been last week, whoknows, but I legitimately put a bet
on the Pacers to win the WorldCup, and I bet on Tyrese Halliburton
to win the fucking MVP. AndI think he can do it. I
that's not bad. He's pretty good. I right now am on such as

(34:22):
Zion Williamson kick, I'd like thathuge. I want him to go nuts.
And this is all he cares aboutis this turney, this cat.
I mean this is kind of builtfor Zion, Like remember Energy, Like

(34:43):
remember the the COVID year. Theylet in those other teams just so Zion
would make it into the fucking bubble, and then he didn't play. And
then ever since then, he's justbeen so out of shape and injured and
all that, and he's not playing. So they're like, Okay, let's
make an n season tournament. Itcan't be too far into the year because
he's gonna get fucking hurt. Let'smake it the very first week. We'll

(35:04):
call it the in season tournament.And this kind of is Zion's that's a
good call. This is sort ofZion's tournament here. I like that.
I think he faces one of thetougher groups. Dare I say, Jake,
I think it's fair to say thatis true. I was gonna say

(35:25):
it's the group of death. It'snot the group of death. Uh.
There's a couple of groups of deathhere. That's hey, that's what the
World Cup brings you. And thereis one group of life. One of
these groups as much easier than theothers. Let's see if we agree on
which one you can choose at Hope. Okay, So let's start with the
West A. West A is goingto be the Grizzlies, the Suns,

(35:46):
the Lakers, the Blazers, andthe Jazz. West B is the Nuggets,
the MAVs, the Clippers, theRockets, and Zion's Pelicans. That's
a tough one. West C.We got the Kings, the Warriors,
the tee Wals, the Spurs andthe Thunder Definitely some young good players there.

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East a sort of a tough onehere. We got the seventy six
ers, we got the Cavs,we got Hawks, the Pacers in the
Pistons. Interesting one. East Bwe got the Bucks, the Heat and
then Nick's Wizards are still an NBAteam, and the Hornets and then East

(36:28):
CE. No, they're good.The Celtics, the Raptors, the Nets,
the Bulls, who have already hada player's only meeting after the very
first game of the season, hadthe magic. That group sucks. That
group sucks so hard. Yeah.Like, if you are wanting to bet

(36:50):
on any bet for the NBA nSeason Tournament aka the World Cup, you
can bet on which team wins eachgroup. You can put your life savings
on the Celtics, my lungs onthe Celtics. Dude, Yeah, there's
nothing else. There's nobody else there. It'd be fun if they lost,
though, I can't even make aprediction who would win though, like everyone

(37:15):
else is so bad. I yeah, I don't know. And easily the
second best one in that group ismaybe Magic. I don't think there's an
answer. I take it back.I forgot where people were on the nets.
Never mind they're not the easily secondbest team. I forgot all this

(37:36):
something like Duranta son No. Soyeah, I listen. I'm excited for
this tournament so so much. Ialready have a critique, which is really
okay, let's hear it. Ihave a few, but here's the only
one that I care about for now, because I am in on this tournament.
Pep talk still stands this. Youdidn't have to do East and West.

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That you didn't have to do it. We get that all the time.
That's such a good point. Yeah, they shunn't have six random ass
groups. I'm sorry to point thatout already. NBA, NBA, this
is not too late unless you've alreadyscheduled it. Don't tell me you scheduled

(38:24):
it. Don't give me, don'tgive me the winners of this is what
I don't need. Don't give meWest and East in the knockout round.
You can still save this, likemix them up there, that's what I
need. Oh no, it's not. It's like the finals is East orsus

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West? Why scheduling? They allplay each other anyway? No, I
mean truly, truly. What itseems like the only reason for that is
it's a signing and for whatever reasonthere, it feels like from what I've
read, they're really locked into thissmall detail. They really want conference to

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play itself after a group play ends, when they have to reschedule those regular
season games. They really want theconference to play itself. And I would
argue, why doesn't, Like,for heaven, somebids don't let the Bucks

(39:28):
play the Tea Wolves. What dowe do it? Like someone's gotta still
play Toronto? Yeah? It makesTruthfully, it makes no sense. It
really makes no sense. And sincethere's almost no incentive to dare I say,
win the World Cup? No,no, Zach Pride, it's a

(39:49):
fucking World Cup. We're okay,that's fair enough? Fair enough. Also,
I'm not sure if they've announced whothe trophies are named after. I
who do oh fun, fun funfun? Who do we want it to
be? And why is it toKembe Motimba. Maybe so there's the obviously
the the World Cup itself, andthen there's the the the MVP. Yeah,

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so who is Who's a player whostarts the seasons hot and then they
notably always died down because that's whothe MVP should be, right, Chris
Paul. Chris Paul's not bad.It's funny that he's still there. That's
not bad. Chris Paul's not badat well. I'm sorry, I'm not
a very historical NBA fan, soimmediately I went Chris Paul, Paul,

(40:36):
George, Steve Nash. Maybe SteveNash. Steve Nash is very good historically,
Uh call him alone. Maybe MaybeI feel like we're just kind of

(40:57):
thinking of players who were great butthen choked at the end. Yes,
who like I want to think evenI want to even shorten it. I
want to be like, first halfthe year they were great. Maybe Sakovich,
that would be a fun one.Jeremy Lynn. Jeremy Lynn's great.

(41:17):
That would be very fun. Bringingthe international audience too, Ikovic, doesn't
I suppose guys there, No,that would be good because I'm trying to
think. I mean historically, Iwould have to do some looking of like
reputation for like, god, he'sgood for some regular season games. J

(41:42):
R. Smith. I mean maybeyeah. Oh, Tyson Chandler, I
love Tyson Chandler. Man. No, he's a champion. He never did
a goddamn thing in important games himand oh who he might still be playing
too. I think he still isthat big pricker who played with the Pistons

(42:05):
for years, big big center playedlike three years ago. Andre Trummond,
he's all right now name it afterAndrey Trummond. That's fun. Or Rudy
Gay he's still playing. I thinkhe's with the Utah or our favorite NBA

(42:25):
player, the guy who punched theref Carlos Boozer. Carlos Boozer is a
great one. Love Carlos Boozer.Carlos Boozer. Devin Williams. Mm hmm,
Darren Williams, you're thinking true,Devin Harris. Yeah, there you
go. Let us know, letus know there has there is a player

(42:50):
who historically is like, hey,coming out of the gates hot, but
then we're gonna we're gonna start fuckingmaybe Tracy McGrady. Yeah, Well,
it's like you can find some injuryguys like Tracy McGrady is a good one
for that, because it's like hewould just never make it. And Andrew
Bogan. I did think of AndrewBoga, because I always do. I

(43:13):
also thought of Pau Gasol. True, is Marcoso still playing? I don't
think so, right, I don'tknow. Oh uh, fillin the wava,
No, keep him away. Ohyou know who deserves a trophy?
Don't name it after one of them, but name it after it's the plumb

(43:35):
Lee Trophy. I mean that couldbe the all uh tournament team. Yeah,
the pub family. I think theCup itself, for like, it
should be named after someone who justgoes crazy in short bursts, but like
not when it matters. Oh,Mike dan Tony should get one. I

(44:00):
was thinking James Harden. Oh no, it's got to be a coach,
because the Cup itself has to bea coach. Has Oh Mike d'An toni
or Van Gundy? Which one?Just keep it simple. I want the
trophy to be him getting drug aroundby Alonzo Morning. So I wanted to

(44:21):
be Jeff. Yeah, but Iprefer stand But you know, I'd love
a Standan Gandhi Trophy. And thenmaybe the m VP's Dwight Dwight. No,
no, no, we need toforget about it. Yes he has,
Yes he has Google that. Butany any final questions do you have

(44:44):
about the NBA Cup? Do youwant to know the prizing? I do
want to know the prizing. It'sa it's a pretty big deal. So
do you remember when we were kids, maybe like elementary school, remember those
like pieces of cardboard that gave youlike a free McDonald's cheeseburger. Yeah,

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I think the winners get about fourteenof those, which is actually kind of
cool. No, So, playerson the team that wins the championship,
Jake, get a half mill each. That's not bad. That's not bad
for a preseason tournament. Players onthe team that loses the championship get two
hundred k each. Okay, goesdownhill from there. Players who lose in

(45:31):
the semi finals get one hundred keach. So we're talking about two teams.
Obviously players get one hundred k each, and then players on the team
that loses in the quarterfinals that justmeans you make it to the knockout round
you lose, they get fifty keach. No reason. We also have
to remember though, for the teamsthat make it to the championship game,

(45:54):
So the winners get five hundred K, the losers get two hundred K.
And this is in place of agame check a hundred percent a hundred percent
because it doesn't count against their regularseason. That's so dumb. Give them

(46:15):
something else, Okay, NBA.In the meantime, I still like my
idea that you automatically get a lotout pick. I think that's so funny,
A lot, a lot of likefor the draft. Yeah, I
think you are. You win thetournament, you're automatically a lottery team that
you're not. Yeah, you're eitherlocked in the place you get. So

(46:38):
like, let's say a bad teamwins it. You know, my hopes
and dreams, like let's say yourpacers with it, and let's say they're
a lottery team. Naturally, let'ssay they're gonna be they're they're you know,
rating would be the eighth seed ifit wasn't a lottery. I think
that locks them in, so theworst they could do is eight. I

(47:02):
like it from a fan perspective.What I will say, What I will
say, do the players care aboutthat? Out argue? No, because
the players switch teams so much,I would argue no, also, which
is why they get to attend thelottery. Ooh, that's kind of fun.

(47:24):
That's a good one. Or theyall get lotto tickets. That's hey,
that's how they should advertise. It'sthis win in the World Cup could
be four billion dollars if you playyour cards right, true, or your
tickets right. I think it shouldjust be an automatic bid to the playoffs.
I think that's so much fun.Like that you can just check out

(47:45):
the rest of the way if youwant, or at least, like the
minimum is you lock up a playin game. Oh my god, the
NBA finally has a royal rumble.Yeah, I know. I think that
so fun. And I think there'ssome dangerous consequences, Like if you thought

(48:06):
they weren't playing before, I cansee that that's a possibility. But that's
what they're doing now. That doesn'tmake anything worse. That's fun. I
like it. I like it alot. I think it's in. I
want to close with fantasy booking thistournament. Okay, let's do it all
right, Group by group? Okay, who do you want to win?
The groups? West, Day,follow Along and Home. We already went

(48:30):
over to the teams. Okay,yeah, you know it, you know
it, west A, some toughones there. I want to see Portland
win. I have an affinity forthis Utah group and I can't explain it.
They're not good, but they're interesting. I don't know what they're doing.
And I think Kelly Olinik is anothersleeper. Could Kelly Olinik be catch

(48:55):
fire in the World Cup. Iwant this to be where we get our
weird Portland Dame matchup. That'd besuch a fun like or the Bucks just
don't win it and then the Trailblazersare like, see, oh, we

(49:15):
want be fun, just a littlething for them. So I'm rooted for
them, but I like your pickmore, uh, west B. I
am, of course picking the Nuggets. The Nuggets. We don't we don't
want it to be a Zion thing. Well I wanted to be. I
think Zion whoops this group. Ithink that's his story. I think he

(49:36):
dominates this tourney and it doesn't matterbecause jokicch is on the Nuggets. That's
fair. Okay, No, you'reright, You're right. I switched fore
I was doing halfway through fantasy booking. I want it to be Zion.
I want Zion to come out ofthis group. I'm gonna agree with you,
I will say, and I've talkedto Luke about this. Going back
to last year. If you don'twatch the NBA, that's fine. I

(49:59):
mean that me. Last year,the most fun team in the NBA to
watch, in my opinion, isthe Rockets, and they're in this grip.
You want to pick a team justto be a fan of, just
for fun, and have no hardfeelings if they lose, because they're gonna
lose. A lot cheer for theRockets. I think they they're just a
fun team. I like it.But yeah, let's get the Pelicans in

(50:21):
Zion winning. I think that's interesting. I'm sensing a pattern of no good
teams, but I love that forthis tournament. I think that's so funny.
That's what I want to happen.WeSC did give me the Spurs,
give me Let this be a webinYama extravaganza. That kind of rhymes.
I. By the way, I'ma little into the NBA now because we

(50:45):
had such an anti webin Yama pushover the summer of people being like he's
not that good. Oh users tall, And now the first week, people
being like, fuck, he's tall, yeah, dude like that. No
one did the math. Like,They're like, he can make euro steps
the free throw line. Yeah he'sa freak. Yeah so big if the
people who haven't watched he's seven four. I believe the thing is with him

(51:08):
is he just he moves. Well, usually you get above seven foot and
you can't fucking move. He can, he can run. It's a pretty
slender man out there. I'm goingfor them, but also I'm just gonna
plug because you mentioned in my brainimmediately went to this team. I love
watching the Thunder. I like theThunder too. They're so fun, so

(51:29):
young. That's like, if Iwas gonna really get in the NBA,
I think i'd get behind them.They have very quick side note, they
still have a million draft picks.Like, theoretically, theoretically, if they're
young guys are good, which itseems like they are, they should be
able to trade all of these picksfor players who we already know are good

(51:52):
and then create a good team.But it feels like they don't want to
do that for some reason. Iknow I I give him one more year,
and I feel like they have to, Like I don't know if they
want to, because I don't knowif they have confidence they can lock their
current guys up. That's like whenI'm sensing but maybe I'm wrong. But
that said, for this tournament,please give me Popovich having to play in

(52:14):
this tournament longer. That's true,he'll he'll hate it. This is a
very winnable group and another sneaky mVP pick. If the thunder go on
a run, shake, iil getsAlexander's very He's like very good. If
his team was good, he'd bein the MVP talk. Yeah, of
like the league, not just theWorld Cup. Okay, So East A,

(52:37):
what are you thinking for? Uh? East A? An interesting little
uh group here. This might bethe first one where I'm gonna pick like
a pretty good team. I Ican't listen ever since he had to suffer
Rudy Gobert. I love me someDonovan Mitchell. I'm going Cleveland. I

(53:00):
think that'd be fun. Yeah,and they're a good team. They're a
good team. Uh. And I'mrooting against the Sixers. And I feel
like they're built for a tournament duethey're built for the Cup. They are
that that's a team legitimately could winthe whole thing. Pacers. I said
it as a joke, but likeI said, I bet on them before
the tournament, before the league started. Pacers through three two or three games

(53:24):
so far this year, highest scoringteam in the league, so never know,
never know. They also got BuddyHealth. Still gotta watch out for
Buddy Hield East b Which team doyou want to win this? If we're
booking it, I can tell youwhat I think is gonna happen, though,

(53:45):
yeah, yeah, yeah, Butfor storyline purposes, Nicks, okay,
I mean winning a lot in thistournament automatically makes the tournament more talked
about. I don't like that,that's the truth. But like Knicks fans
the rest of the year, ifthey won this goddamn thing would be like

(54:07):
that tournament means something. They werelike, be all into it. So
I am rooting for teams who likewill care about this, and teams who
very much won't ghost burst. SoI think the Knicks would be awesome and
they're not bad so and I thinkthe Heat and Bucks take each other out

(54:29):
true true, like in my mindwhat I think is gonna happen. I
feel like Bucks beat the Heat.All Bucks fans are like Hey told you
we got the Heat's number. He'dare gonna be the Bucks in the playoffs.
That's why things gonna happen. Yeah, but I don't think they have
names for the trophies yet. Andit feels very very very very very fitting
if the Knicks win the whole thingand they name the Cup after Thibodeau because

(54:52):
this is his type of trophy andhis type of tournament. To be honest,
he's gonna run his guy forty fiveminutes per game in this fucking tournament.
Dude, you just put a thhon the front of that tournament.
Don't think I didn't catch you adumb tip tournament. I like it,
dude, But no, that's verydamn I like that a lot. Uh.

(55:15):
I kind of want the Bucks notto I like your story. I
like the Bucks not advancing for mypacer or for my Trailblazers thing. And
then they're like, see, Ilike, so, East C. Do
we want the Celtics to lose here? One hundred percent? We want the
Celtics to lose. We don't wantthe Celtics to win this goddamn thing.

(55:39):
Do we want Ben Simmons to turnit on a little bit with the Nets.
That's fine. Okay, think ofwhat we got. It's Cleveland and
New York we want could you imagineif? Okay, so let's just say
we gotta remember there's a wild card, right, you gotta watch out for
the wildcard. Yeah, the Netsfeel like a wild card team. The

(56:05):
Nets do feel like a wildcard team. What if they're the wild card team
and they have to go and playPhiladelphia? Thought about matchups? Yeah,
for matchups, I would pick thistournament differently if I was doing matchups Nets

(56:29):
sixers. Okay, I'm just gonnapick it the way I have and then
we'll do that super super fast,because that's the more fun way to do
it. Uh. I think forwinning this one, I want the Bulls
to win. That's fair. I'mcool with that. That's fun. Dunk
on everybody. White Chocolate is gonnafucking mid range everybody to death, that's

(56:51):
true. Okay, let's do likea four and four on each side for
actual matchups. I'll go super fasked on the West for actual matchups,
like a wild card, that wouldbe fun. I'll say a fun wild
card if we're doing it that way, would be the Pelicans. So let's

(57:12):
say the Pelicans are the wild cardand I want them to immediately match up
against the number one seed. Let'sdo Lakers. Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, So I think that's thematchup there, and then I think
you get the mid card matchup thenof I think Nuggets Spurs is super fun,

(57:37):
like a little future present kind ofthing. So I'll go there for
the West. Do you have anyYeah, I think that's the West.
And then on the East, I'mwith you that. I think the Sixers
win there, so you can doSixers nets somehow, the Sixers let's say
get the one seed. I guessso, okay, six Ers nets,
James Harden comes back and is thesavior of the Yeah. And then well,

(58:01):
if we're gonna do that and someoneelse has to win the East,
I'm or ec uh, you knowthe group. I think that means.
Let's assume it's the Celtics. ThenI want I don't know, Celtics heat
is the story, but I wantCeltics Knicks. Well you could, you

(58:22):
could connect the dots for a bunchof them. You got true Celtics Bucks,
Celtics Knicks, Celtics heat all workstrue. Right, Yeah, there's
there's plenty of ship there, truthfully, like they just can't play the Hornets
or the Wizards, and they won't. So it's okay you said lizards.
Okay, I'm gonna get Wizards withthat. Hell, you know, I'm

(58:43):
gonna go Nicks because I want Knicksto beat the Celtics and of course I
want the Nets to beat the Sixers. So we got a New York matchup
that worked out. We got Nicksand Nets on the West side. I
want uh it feels like the storythere would be Pelicans beat Lakers and we

(59:07):
get a uh a Pelicans. Doyou do Pelicans Nuggets or Pelicans Spurs?
I mean, truthfully, like,I don't think Pelicans are connected to either.
So it would make you could dresssome sort of your zion. You
get your zion webin Yama. Yeah, we know what. Well, what

(59:29):
you do is to build the WorldCup hype and makes this the most watched
tournament in the world. The Nuggetsbeat the Pelicans to win West beat but
now they have to do it again. Can you beat the Pelicans twice?
That's what makes that dangerous. That'sthat's a semi finals worth watching unless it's
on Monday night. Football, youknow, And then I think, because

(59:52):
it's a tournament, you the Pelicanswin and you plant those seats. Do
the Pelicans do they have the Nuggetsnumber? That's a fun story for the
rest of the year. The onlyteam that can beat the Nuggets is the
fucking Pelicans. That's super funny.So then we get, uh, we
get Pelicans, uh, Pelicans Knicks, and the Knicks win and it's the

(01:00:16):
most prestigious tournament of all time orwhat's actually gonna happen? And the Pelicans
don't beat the Lakers. They win, they played the Knicks in this goddamn
final, and then Lebron wins atournament that doesn't matter, but that feels
unfortunately accurate. Yeah, and thenall season where like, can Lebron beat

(01:00:38):
the Nuggets again? And then wehave to do that. But what I
want at that point, give melike a Zion. This is Zion's tournament.
That's very fun against the Knicks.That's cool. Yeah, right,
I mean that was be a stackbecause you can everything we're talking about with

(01:01:01):
Zion. You can make the exactsame case with Luca, Yes, or
you know what team is like kindof built for this turning in a way
because it's garbage time of the seasonand this doesn't matter the Clippers. I
would a lot of people hate theSky. A lot of people who work

(01:01:22):
with at Florrie Sports who listen tothis hate this sky. I would love
this to be the Russell Westbrook Show. I would fucking love I love what's
Russell Westbrook? Dude? He's theman. Is he great at basketball?
I'm not saying that, but he'sgonna out hustle fucking everybody on the court.
And Yeah, Also, I'm excitedto see where Camaro Carmelo Anthony scions

(01:01:45):
for the tournament. I feel likethat could be a landing spot for Carmelo.
Oh you know where I want himto go. I want him to
go somewhere in ec I want himto go to like Chicago or Orlando.
That would be interesting. That wouldbe interesting. But I was just a
tournament breakdown. I hope you likedit, folks, because we're a tournament

(01:02:07):
pod. We are a tournament pod, and you can bet that we will
be covering he might go to theMagic Anthony's on there. Yeah, who's
the real see Anthony? Just toconfuse everybody. That could be good,
that could be good. But yeah, we will be covering the inn season
tournament, the World Cup with enthusiasm, with journalistic integrity, with some weird

(01:02:36):
stat that determines it all for me, there's go going to be a lot,
So you know, perk up alittle bit. It's fucking November and
the best basketball is played in November. We all know that. Dude never
said I didn't embarrass myself for thesake of the show. I really thought
Cole Anthony was Carmelo's kid. Iwas like, he's got a son,
right, it's Anthony. He's likesixteen, he's this, He's like he

(01:03:00):
played with Yeah, yeah, broddy. But I was like, he must
be in the league by now.Cole is that you no? Not related?
So I was like it must be, But now I'm pumped for that.
Zach, can I end us ona fun game here? Yes,
let's do it. It is theHalloween seasons ex So this game is called

(01:03:23):
What's Spookier? And of course forgames on here, it is powered by
the power of hindsight. So it'slooking back on things that happened in sports,
and you're gonna tell me what scarier? So I want you to tell
me first scarier incident that nobody talksabout. And this is the question that

(01:03:43):
made me think of the whole gamescarier incident no one talks about anymore.
Is it Tanya Harding taking out NancyKerrigan by the fucking means? Or is
it that time that Tony Stewart killeda guy in a dirt track race.
I don't I wasn't aware of thatNASCAR driver killed somebody. He ran him

(01:04:06):
over. He's just on the track. Yeah, he got out of his
CARDI yellow Tony student. Tony ranhim over because he didn't see him.
Check your blind spot. It's adangerous thing. I mean, truthfully,
we should make a bigger deal aboutthe Tanya heartache thing. That's all I

(01:04:27):
wanted to talk about. If thatwasn't the era of social media, she
convinced a lover to take her rivalout by the fucking niece. Yeah,
I have another one to pitch thatI don't think it's going to be included
that happened yesterday that we're not talkingabout the hockey guy. Yeah, you

(01:04:47):
doing, I'm rocking a lot twodays ago, sact, two days ago,
I had this same joke Riden,but I had the guy from the
eighties, the goalie who got histhroat cut open, and I felt like
it was in bad taste because someonedied yesterday. The guy round out was
kicked up. He didn't just push, he was going for the throw.
Police are investigating. I'm like,yeah, they fuck it better. Yeah,

(01:05:12):
and it's not You know how Ifound out about it because manslaughter was
trending on Twitter. Let's make abigger deal about it. I was like,
NHL, talk about it. Andthen I was like, oh,
it's the freaking European Hockey League.Yes, still don't care, let's talk
about it. Hey. By theway, everybody, net guards are coming
to that league January first, sothey just announced it, like, don't

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worry everyone, we'll fix it.I'm like, one that's not that soon.
Sponsored by Wilson New net Guards.Everyone should get one. Okay,
uh scarier head coach Okay urban Meyerfor many reasons. M hm, Jim
Bayhi, I mean Jim Bayhid foragain, many reasons, Like coach,

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I think we should get out ofpractice before it's dark. I don't want
you to drive it home like thisis not good. Yeah, Jim Bayhem's
scary, that's true. Urban Meyeris also a little bit lost the time.
We've got to talk about that runin Jacksonville. Yeah, yeah,
I mean we were talking about ita lot then, but then as soon

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as it was like out of sight, out of mind, Like, yeah,
probably the worst coaching job ever,but whatever, Like, no,
he kicked a kicker. He didn'tfly home on the team plane. He
was in the club with college kidswhile his wife was at home babysitting their
grandkids. Didn't he find someone fornot calling him sir something like that?

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Yeah, maybe he had an assistantcoach that need to call him sir something
as well. Yeah, a lotof it was a lot of stuff like
that was weird. Beheim's scary fora lot of reasons, not least of
which killed the guy. But youknow, doesn't get talked about the ton
But yeah, I thought that wasa fun comparison. Uh, scarier human.

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Okay, all right, are youready for this part one? Francis
Nagato m hmm. Yeah. Whenhe learned how to wrestle wrestle, it
was the scariest thing in my life. That's and he learned on the box.
That's why I brought it up,Like, what are we doing?
What the hell is going on orscarier human that I don't think enough people

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talk about anymore. Mike cal Stot. Oh, it's all Stott, thank
you. Francis learned on the vesseland it's for sure. Michael Stock.
Yeah, like all Stott gives zerofucks about his own body and about you.
That's what makes him scary. Andhe doesn't have a neck, like

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very scary. Francis keeps whining abouthow everyone doubted me. I was picked
on in school. Bullshit, youwere not. Look at this guy,
he was not picked on in school. There's no chance. What are you
talking about, Like what a badday at school that was for the other
kids when you kept growing? Yeah, there's if you were picked out in

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school, that's on you because you'resix four three pounds of pure muscle.
I will say, if that's true, he he should be allowed to beat
up his bully now. Yeah,for sure. That's a good pay per
view. I think that's a goodbusiness. This is a huge pay per
view, that bully. By theway, Vin Diesel, Yeah, for

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sure. Rudy Gobert, it waslike, who's a French guy? But
no, that's good. Last oneI have for you, Zach Okay,
scarier to think that it happened tenyears ago. Oh okay, I didn't

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look up ahead of time, soI'm gonna double check. Okay, good,
okay, let me look it out. Yep, okay, I teased
one earlier. Scarier to think ithappened ten years ago. Cam Newton leads
the Auburn Tigers to a national championshipthat was only ten years ago. Oh

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not even they got beat He wonthe next year. What no for to
State Terminals won in two thousand againstthe Auburn Tigers. Jamis, that was
Jamis. I feel like Cam Newtonwas in the NFL when I was in
fucking high school. All right,hold on, hold on, let's take

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a look here. Okay, thebig thing was it was Jamis. Don't
focus on my potential mistake. Focuson the matchup. Okay, come on,
Wikipedia, tell me what quarterbacks?What do you think I want to
know? Jamos was stealing crab legsten years ago? Or what? Twenty

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thirteen aubun Tigers gusin Malazon of course, and Jean Chizik was fired. That's
not a great sign quarterback. Justlike I said, Nick Marshall, fuck

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Cam Newton won the national championship intwenty ten. Oh, that makes sense.
I just saw. I just sawit was the Tigers. I just
saw it was the Tigers. JameisWinston graduated. James was before this time?
I think who was playing for thetwenty thirteen sevens. Maybe this is

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not I didn't really think that thislast question, but this is a good
way in the show. Twenty tennational championship game? Was Texas Alabama?
Or no? Sorry, I don'tknow why I'm looking at twenty ten now,
No, I'm confused. Twenty thirteenI got him, boys, I
got them. That was also,Okay, that was Notre Dame Alabama?
Is Jamus Winston? Jameis Winston.Okay, this fun fact still works,

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while did it scarier that it happenedten years ago? Jameis Winston leads to
twenty thirteen Florida State Seminoles to thenational title. They don't though in twenty
thirteen. Oh I guess, yes, I guess ten years ago, because
so would have been played in twentyfourteen. Yeh okay, okay, okay,
yeah, dude, come down,man, where were you in twenty

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thirteen fucking in college? Dude?I don't know okay, so or so
we Jameis Winston, I guess oryeah, or the Super Bowl loses power?
Oh that was the hard bubble.Yeah, it's weird to think ray
Lewis has been only out of theNFL for a decade. How that's kind

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of scarier. I think that's scarierbecause like he still has time to revert
back to murderer ray Lewis. Ifeel like he's been corrected. But maybe
not. That's true. Why doesn'tthink he played in the NFL that long?
Also, Jake Jim Harbaugh might becoming back to the NFL against all

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odds. Oh, I found thewinner. I found the winner. Uh,
what's scarier? It happened ten yearsago. Your NFL Rookie of the
Year twenty thirteen in the NFC,that is, of course any Lacy.
Really that's a little wow, fatback screen, Baby, he won Rookie

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of the Year. You bet that'sinsane. That's great. How fast that
talks. Let's talk about the shelflife of running backs. If you're going
the shelf life of running backs.Oh, this is a fun list.
Here we go, baby, shelflife of running backs. Here's your rookies
of the Year from twenty thirteen onokay, talk about shelf life of just

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NFL players et centa in general.Your rookie of the Year in twenty ten,
Sam Bradford, Your rookie of theYear. In twenty eleven, Cam
Newton, neither of those guys arearound. Your rookie of the Year in
twenty twelve, RG three Your rookieof the Year. In twenty thirteen,
Eddie Lacy long gone. Your rookieof the year, still playing by the

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way. In twenty fourteen, OdellBeckham junior. Okay, that's a good
one. Your rookie of the Year. In twenty fifteen, Todd Gurley again
long god, Okay, never hada chance, all right, a quarterback
here, so he's going to bepretty good, right. Twenty sixteen Dak
Prescott okay. Twenty seventeen Alvin KamaraOkay again, it feels like he's on

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the twilight of his career. Butthat's fine. Uh. Twenty eighteen Sequam
Barkley, Okay, that seems waytoo recent. And twenty nineteen Kyler Murray.
Yeah. I mean, maybe it'sthe cursed Award. Maybe we need

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to start talking about that. Ithink it's very much a cursed award that
should be allowed. Also, waita minute, is there a Pepsi NFL
Rookie of the Year Award and aat one point is for sure sponsored by
Pepsi. Maybe they named their own. I don't know. PEPSI gives out

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there's an offensive and defensive Rookie ofthe Year, and then PEPSI just gives
out an overall winner. Thanks,but no one asks you, But they
don't line up Pepsi's Pepsi's twenty tenwinner is a Dominican Sue Good. He
deserved it. It's Sue Newton.Okay Russell Wilson in twenty twelve, Wow,

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who got beat up by RG threeweird Brookies the same year, and
then twenty thirteen Keenan Allen Really he'sthat old, twenty fourteen Shelf Life Teddy
Bridgewater, twenty fifteen Shelf Life JameisWinston, and then Prescott Kamara Barkley twenty

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nineteen Nick Bosa. They're just likefuck it, like we're just gonna name
our favorite players. Yeah, it'skind of fun. Oh, and then
the Pro Writers of America also namedtheir Rookie of the Year. What the
hell's going on? Yeah? Bythe way, also a fun list of
running backs Lacey Gurley, Elliott Hunt. Maybe what I'm discovering here is maybe

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we need to start being a littlebit more aggressive, and we need to
start naming some awards and enshrining them. Maybe we need to come up.
We need to have a website ora database that just has the bearing the
lead Hall of Fame. We gotour personal record books. Essentially, we
got our NBA champions, our MVPs, our World Cup winner, and everyone's

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gonna care about it. Everyone's gonnacare. You need to be included his
Wikipedia article. I agree, soZach, that's my little game for you.
It ended with a flourished there scariis fact Eddie Lacy your twenty thirteen
Rookie of the Year. Good forhim, Hey deserved it. I hope

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he's doing well. And let's endon this act just any random fun thing
for the people. Uh yeah,So Friday, the NBA in season.
Tournament's beginning, and it feels likethe NBA season has just begun shake.
But if you can believe it,we're already in tournament territory. It's already
tournament season. I kind of wantedto going to a full spiel again.

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I am not gonna lie. Iwas like starting to smell test