Podbit · Pardon My Take
Smoltz isn't anti-analytics — he's anti-analytics-as-the-only-lens. He keeps notebooks on every round of golf he plays. The Rays and Brewers are the teams getting it right because they use data and then adjust when the data proves wrong.
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The Dingers Only draft is Pardon My Take at its most chaotic and joyful. The rules: nine teams, nine players, one stat — home runs. No stats from before July 1st count. The draft order is set by a Sporkle quiz, which Memes wins decisively after selecting a Sporkle category about The Boys — a show he apparently insisted on including. [1] — Big Cat "The dumbest fantasy league in the world is back — nine teams, nine players, one stat: home runs. The only drama is the Sporkle draft order,…" 2:00:20 The draft itself is a rolling cascade of good picks, duplicate checks, injury discoveries, and position-eligibility debates. PFT selects Mike Trout with the announcement that he's 'healthy for the first time in a long time' — only to be immediately informed Trout went on the IL three days prior. The crew leaves a voicemail for Gunnar Henderson and gets a live callback from Matt Olson, who is enthusiastic and immediately welcomed to the squad. Notable picks include Memes taking Kyle Schwarber first overall, Big Cat's outfield of Juan Soto, PCA, and Aaron Judge, and PFT timing the Fernando Tatis Jr. market. The session ends with a pot of $2,000 (with PFT and Big Cat putting in $500 each and Brandon $500) plus 1% of Jersey Jerry's future stake in his business called Bush.
The dumbest fantasy league in the world is back — nine teams, nine players, one stat: home runs. The only drama is the Sporkle draft order, Mike Trout immediately getting injured two minutes after being picked, and Matt Olson calling back to confirm his roster spot.
Morgan Morgan, sponsor of the episode, advertised as having recovered over $30 billion for over 500,000 clients as America's largest injury law firm.
Thomas's wife deferred her CrossFit career — she's in the global top 1% of athletes — to put him through law school debt-free. He wants her to chase the dream now; she wants the emergency fund and house down payment first. On a $200K lawyer income with no debt, the opportunity cost is just a few months of slower saving.
Underground calisthenics battles are exactly like UFC meets a rap battle — 150 people crowded around a circle, fighters walking out with masks and chains, nicknames like 'Extra Money' vs 'Calisthenics the Prince,' and people throwing money and betting. The battle set: 100 burpees, 50 muscle-ups, 75 dips, 75 squats with a 65-pound dumbbell. This is the next big spectator sport.
Rico Verhoeven controlled the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion for approximately 10 rounds — and had his appeal upheld when officials admitted the fight was stopped after the bell. The result was never overturned. Rogan calls it either incompetence or corruption, and argues the money behind Usyk made an upset politically inconvenient.
Rogan lays out a blunt case: boxing's 3-judge system is structurally broken, and the judges know who the promoter wants to win. Glory's 5-judge format is the right model. Corruption doesn't have to be conscious — just knowing Usyk is the cash cow is enough to tilt the scales.
With the Usyk-Wilder fight stalling and Fury-Joshua coming too late, the real fight the world wants is the rematch. Rico is a free agent. Usyk vacated his belts. The story is unfinished and both Rogan and Rico know it. His Excellency Turki Alasheikh already called for it ringside — the question is money.
Rico texted Jason Statham during the Canelo-Crawford fight. Statham showed Rico's highlight videos to promoters. Two days later, Rico was on a call about fighting Anthony Joshua. When Joshua pulled out, Rico pitched Usyk himself — Undisputed vs. Undisputed. Usyk said yes in two weeks. The whole thing started with one text.
Every heavyweight who faced Usyk tried to move to the right — straight into his power hand. Rico and Peter Fury identified the obvious solution: move left, away from the left hand, and smother him with size. It sounds simple. Nobody had done it. That one adjustment was the foundation of 10 dominant rounds.
MMA fans boo when fights go to the ground. They love stand-up. Kickboxing is pure stand-up. Yet it barely exists in America while boxing and MMA are enormous. Rogan's diagnosis: no promotion machine. If the UFC got behind kickboxing the way they've built MMA, it would explode. The talent is there — the storytelling machine is not.
A nation of 17 million people gave the world Ramon Deckers, Peter Aerts, Badr Hari, Melvin Manhoef, Rob Kamen, Ernesto Hoost, and Rico Verhoeven. Rico's theory: the country is so small that every gym shares knowledge freely. In the US, you need a flight. In Holland, you drive 40 minutes and spar the national champion.
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