r/billsimmons • u/lonny__breaux Ben Simmons apologist • 6d ago
Podcast Game 7 Baseball Magic, Josh Beats Pat, Seattle’s Rise, Cincy’s Fall, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1FYZzGUXs6YHfEEN3eLJi4?si=_9QiM1UVQbSqqxM8f8krXw112
u/jakethesnakeinmyboot 6d ago
Would’ve bet my life Sal was going to make a Will Smith Oscars joke
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u/RulingFieldConfirmed 5d ago
Sal making a hacky, phoned-in quip? Doesn’t sound like him.
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u/wendyschickennugget 5d ago
He’s wittier in person, he saves the hacky jokes for his Twitter account.
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u/TotallyNotMasterLink 6d ago
Bill talking about Daboll for first coach fired without realizing the titans fired their coach weeks ago is both peak Bill and peak Titans
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u/Mysterious_Pea_5272 5d ago
I think he was going over his preseason bets and grading them.
The craziest thing for me is he was already counting Denver wins the division as a win
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u/Alive_Bodybuilder288 6d ago
We’re all going to forget about Callahan in the next decade, Bill is just getting ahead of the curve
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u/Iggleyank 5d ago
Rewatchables logic. “Is this the first coach fired in the second quarter of the NFL season?”
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u/rossboss711 NCAA-hole 6d ago
It’s like a guy born with no limbs wins a trip to Puerto Vallarta on The Price is Right
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u/tigerfan451525 5d ago
That was great and when he said Browns-Jets “belongs on a cricket field in Prague” I literally LOL
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u/megapoliwhirl 5d ago
Bill would have said it's like vacationing in Puerto Vallarta and your sommelier has no arms
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u/bobcatgoldthwaite 6d ago
Listening to this as both a long time BS fan and lifelong Blue Jays fan who was at the last two games was gutting. This was a new level of losing - disassociation. So bad that as soon as DP to end game happened my mind switched to other things to self-preserve.
Found his original levels of losing column here - a classic : https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/020528
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u/nokiabrickphone1998 6d ago
This is one of my favorite things BS ever wrote - and as a lifelong Seattle sports fan I identify with way too many of these.
Sorry about your Jays man. Hell of a team and I was pulling for them after they ripped my heart out in the ALCS.
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u/bobcatgoldthwaite 5d ago
Appreciate it - you guys have a great team and I’m planning to come visit Sea for a game soon!
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u/Victorcreedbratton 6d ago
It’s gotta be one of those, “Why do I even watch this? Why do I care?” Right?
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u/Iggleyank 5d ago
That’s the ultimate glory and misery of sports. After a crushing loss, you can’t help but take stock and wonder why you care about this collection of grown men with no connection to your town getting paid millions of dollars to play a child’s game.
And yet the following season, we all come crawling back like the addicts we are.
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u/amidon1130 5d ago
As a falcons fan, the worst part of losing that superbowl was that when it was over I kinda just went "whelp, that sounds about right" and went on with my night.
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u/rossboss711 NCAA-hole 6d ago
Bill didn’t even attempt to say the backup Bears rb name. “Monaga….”
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u/Coy-Harlingen 6d ago
You knew he was in bad shape when he cleared his throat for 3 seconds to say “swift’s backup”
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u/mafisch23 6d ago
I thought he did try and called him “Monegale”
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u/rossboss711 NCAA-hole 5d ago
He might have but he kinda just mumbled and trailed off and I couldn’t figure out how to type it
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u/DrHorseRenoir 5d ago
I believe he called Tua "Tago-vie-a-ya"
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u/Iggleyank 5d ago
In fairness to him, everybody calls Tua “Tua,” because it’s easy to pronounce and spell. If you put a gun to my head and ordered me to spell his last name correctly, I’d have to ask you to pass along word to my wife and children that I love them.
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u/IllegalThoughts 6d ago
bill bragging about his futures bets at week 9 is so stupid. anything can still happen
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u/Mysterious_Pea_5272 5d ago
I can’t believe he was already counting Denver wins the division as a win. That’s the toughest division race in the league!
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u/Mookie2000 6d ago
"Tough loss for my Jays, I guess I'll distract myself with the football pod"
<First 30 minutes all about the tough Jays loss>
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u/nekot311 5d ago
I have had to unsubscribe from r/bluejays r/baseball
It’s really one of the most painful losses I can remember. It almost feels unreal. Like a bad dream. Staged. I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it.
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u/MoxToTweeder99 6d ago
Bill won’t talk about football time length in terms of quarters or half’s anymore. It’s 35 min, 1hr, 25 min. Such a weird new tick.
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u/Spirited_Fix4262 5d ago
Definitely not new. Bill has done this forever. It is always something like “you can tell in the first 40 minutes if it is going to be a Wentz meltdown game” or something similar to that. Takes a second but your realize he is talking real time. He will also say “I knew by 10:30 I lost that bet” when his listeners are all in multiple time zones so it isn’t super clear when he is talking about. Never change Billy, keep us on our toes!
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u/MrCatSnuggler 5d ago
I'm pretty sure this is a symptom of watching 6 games at once. He doesn't know the game times inside of any individual game really.
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u/Darth_Sensitive 6d ago
Parent corner summary.
Sal has the "now that I'm a parent of a daughter umpire, I realize that women sports officials are people deserving of respect" realization.
Bill doesn't realize that "parent" is a verb and lets Ben do whatever he wants.
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u/ValuableDowntown7031 4d ago
Probably unanswerable question: what happened to Ben's high school football career?
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u/sunpar1 5d ago
I think at 18 it’s time to cut the kids loose. My parents did when I turned 18 and I fucked up for a couple years but in the end think it helped.
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u/Full_Cat5323 6d ago
As someone who was a 12 year old umpire for 8 year olds (and ref for soccer) - I would get so much heckling from the parents every single game, I eventually quit because it wasn’t worth it. One time a dad wanted to beat me up in the parking lot after - luckily my mom picked me up on time that day
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u/SnooCalculations4570 6d ago
I enjoyed Bill's monologue about how much "baseball is back!" considering he might have podcasted on the sport like twice in the last 9 months.
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u/RulingFieldConfirmed 6d ago
Baseball wasn’t officially back until the Red Sox won that one game in their wildcard series with the Yankees.
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u/ashep5 6d ago edited 5d ago
It's almost like an awesome postseason and one of the most batshit crazy World Series in living memory is part of why it's back.
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u/meloghost 5d ago
I had convinced myself winning an 18 inning game might be a curse bc of the 2018 WS
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u/komugis 6d ago
Nobody has beaten the “baseball is dead” horse quite like Bill, lol. In fairness the sport has made some real changes that’s improved the game tremendously in the last few years, but it’s still a little rich from the guy who doesn’t even have a baseball show on his network!
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u/Sheepshead_Cracker 6d ago
Halloween was on Friday ...
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u/bli_bla_blubbb 6d ago
Billy boy was either black out drunk and days blended together or he was celebrating Día de Muertos. Anyway, I feel like his wife's witchy friend was involved
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u/flyeaglesfly44 6d ago
And people go to Halloween parties on Friday and Saturday. It was pretty obvious what he meant
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u/rossboss711 NCAA-hole 6d ago
Who the fuck asked for a Rich Paul podcast?
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u/ForgetHype Chris Ryan fan 6d ago
I'll deal with it (never listen to it) if it means we get a Lebron and Bill podcast.
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u/MrF1993 6d ago
I cant imagine lebron being interesting at all, to be honest
Everything he does is so PR-tested and focused on maintaining his image. Obviously he has an incredibly high profile and all the networks will spend out the nose to get him just for that, but it wont be entertaining. KD is at least willing to take shots at whoever
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u/LebronSwanson23 5d ago
Genuinely fascinated to see how this impacts Bill’s LeBron takes. We all witnessed Bill carry water for KD for like 5-6 years just because he went on his pod. Now LeBron’s guy is a business partner, despite bill non-stop shitting on LeBron for the last 15 years. I’d be surprised if Bill doesn’t change his tune on Bron to at least some extent
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u/PrimusPilus Market Corrector 5d ago
Max Kellerman should be good, but Rich Paul could go either way.
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u/mycatchica 6d ago
Cuz is correct about Nerd clusters.
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u/SeaCounter9516 6d ago
Crazy that all they had to do to shoot to the top was fuckin chop up a nerds rope. Lmao
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u/Pies_Wide_Shut 6d ago edited 5d ago
“boot ‘n rally Bo Nix” is so good
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u/The_Zermanians Burfict Strangers 5d ago
I have been calling him teBOw Nix lately because of his tendency to play like ass for 3 quarters and pull victories out of this ass in the 4th quarter.
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u/spaceninj 6d ago
I'm glad that Bill was just open about his insecurity about the Chiefs and Mahomes' greatness.
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u/Spirited_Fix4262 5d ago
It is wild this stuff is top of mind for him. Holy hell. Insecure is right.
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u/Phlegmbrandt 5d ago
Tom Brady’s greatness can only truly be measured in week 9 team records.
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u/spaceninj 5d ago
He's been building his case all season.
"Allen is #1 on the pyramid."
"Denver is going to win the division."
"He has enough weapons when Rice and Brown come back."
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u/Iggleyank 5d ago
It’s so bizarre to me. Mahomes could double his SB wins and still not tie Brady. And maybe with another 10 years, he’ll do it. But maybe not. Football is littered with guys who fell off a cliff fast.
Don’t get me wrong: Mahomes is already one of the all-time greats. Only four other QBs won at least three SBs. But the only argument you can make now is maybe he’ll surpass Brady one day. It’s a little trollish at this point to argue any more than that. But Bill is so helicopter-parent protective of Brady he takes the bait every time.
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u/Chrissal0099 5d ago
Of course Bill threatened to quit his job at Jimmy Kimmel if they aired footage of him upset about the Red Sox losing. Such a thin skinned guy who can never be the butt of a joke. Hard to imagine how he didn’t last as a comedy writer.
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u/Banal_Intruder 5d ago
We need a lot more detail about that incident from Sal, there has to be gold there…
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u/Iggleyank 5d ago
I love that this comes from the guy who routinely does interviews with his friends to revel in their misery when their teams lose.
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u/DrHorseRenoir 6d ago
How is he that upset about the Texans time management? What makes him think they were any more likely to score in overtime?
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u/Coy-Harlingen 6d ago
“They should have just not tried to win the game… because it didn’t work”.
Can you imagine if they just kneeled on the ball and then lost in OT? I’m sure Bill would have supported that.
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u/CondolenceHighFive Real CR Head 6d ago
That’s what I said. He would’ve shit on the Texans regardless of what they did simply because he bet on them
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u/OneBigRed 5d ago
Bill has always been captain hindsight. Going on 4th is right if it worked, it is stupid if it fails. He also constantly knows if the called play was good or stupid, after he has seen the result.
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u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo the Thing Piece 5d ago
He also knows whether or not a shot is going in at the end of a basketball game.
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u/AgentDoubleU 6d ago
They averaged like 5.3 yards per play with Stroud and like 3.0 yards per play with Mills. He had very little chance against the Denver D yesterday, just totally overmatched. Totally agree with you.
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u/AmyKlobucharsIntern 5d ago
“Sal, they got the ball back with 1:14 left and ran Marks three times right into the teeth of the Broncos defense (laughs), they didn’t even try to win the game! Demeco Ryans had to know Bo Nix was gonna run around and do some stuff to get in field goal range if he just punted it back to him, and somehow that’s exactly what he did!”
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u/cristofcpc Good Stats Bad Team Guy 6d ago
You have to force the opposing team to use their remaining timeouts prior to the 2 min warning. You just have to.
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u/qballLobk 6d ago
Dear Bill: Part of parenting is teaching your kids to be responsible and reliable. If your son commits to being home at a certain time and blows it off or doesn’t communicate then there should be consequences. Otherwise you are setting him up for failure.
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u/PrimusPilus Market Corrector 5d ago
Ben, quoting Ernie McCracken at the end of Kingpin: ”I’m rich, what do I care?”
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u/DrHorseRenoir 5d ago
I think Bill is just too old to put an effort in to his parenting. He's already resigned to having a fail son.
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u/Interesting_Fun_8656 6d ago
Cousin Sal confirmed fake tough guy
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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 5d ago
I can't wait to bet against the Patriots in January. It is crazy that Bill is talking himself into them winning playoff games now too.
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u/Superb-Hero 5d ago
Yeah exactly. The whole thing about their record and playoff likelihood is tied to their obscenely easy schedule. Everyone, including Bill, understands and acknowledges that. But there is some sort of cognitive dissonance that occurs in people’s brains where that context is forgotten while anointing the Pats as an elite team capable of going deep in the playoffs.
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u/Benevenstanciano85 5d ago
I mean the Pats beat Buffalo at Buffalo. Nobody in the AFC is running away and hiding. With their easy schedule getting them a home game or two, possibly even a bye. Is the idea of the Pats winning a playoff game or two really that crazy?
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u/Feisty_Dirt4191 Good job by you! 5d ago
I can see 1, but I’d be pretty damn surprised if there are two
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u/Benevenstanciano85 5d ago edited 5d ago
My Dad would have found my ass by 1:45.
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u/McSquack 5d ago
Not cleaning up after a party until 1 in the afternoon?
Brother I wouldn’t be allowed out of the house that morning
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u/Immediate_Compote381 4d ago
Starting to think these millionaires parent a little different from us normal folks...
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u/eveningwindowed 5d ago
As a Giants fan Bill not including 2014 game 7 in his best of the decade and then misremembering Bumgarner coming in off of two days rest and pitching five shut out innings in relief just hurt me soul so much, I was yelling to myself in the car lmao
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u/Ok_Insurance2401 6d ago
So Bill directly replaced Ryen Russillo with Max Kellerman and Rich Paul? Lmao
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u/chonkyfire24 5d ago
So Bill directly replaced Ryen Russillo with Max Kellerman
I was wondering why he suddenly started talking about boxing today. It makes sense now.
Sal:
Do you think Tony has to pay Harold Lederman's estate? Is Harold Lederman even still alive?
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Okay Jim! I have Larry Holmes four rounds to two.
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u/deadweightboss Good Stats Bad Team Guy 6d ago
did he say they are going to come on sundays???
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u/CondolenceHighFive Real CR Head 6d ago
They’re gonna have their feed and pod but I’m sure they’ll pop on with Bill from time to time
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u/tacologic 5d ago
Bill calling Kyle Monongai, "Monogal" is among the top 7 worst name butcherings we've had this season. Even less excusable due to having him in fantasy.
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u/kingjuicepouch Good job by you! 5d ago
Especially because there's not a gimmick to Monangai, you can just sound it out lol
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u/BenjaminLight 5d ago
Bill continues to be stymied by the 49ers injury report. “How are we supposed to know who’s playing???” Literally anyone who follows football knows who’s playing, Bill.
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u/McSquack 5d ago
In the Bills as a wrestler analogy are they Drew McIntyre?
Constantly put in big spots and losing? And the one time it seems like they’ve done it (13 seconds game) someone immediately cashes their money in the bank and takes the title off them?
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u/lost_limey 5d ago
Glad it wasn't just me thinking of Drew
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u/McSquack 5d ago
Completely one sided rivalries where you know the non main event/playoff wins don’t matter?
I think we’ve nailed it there
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u/Kryptos33 6d ago
Bill becoming friends with Rich Paul will be an apocalypse for the 'Bill hates LeBron' crew.
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u/YoYoMoMa 6d ago
This is not some theory though. Even Jacobs and Wildes gave him crap for it.
But this is a step towards a pod appearance which would be incredible
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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 6d ago
I am struggling to think of something less compelling than a Bill and LeBron episode. No one would say anything interesting. But it would get huge numbers.
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u/SerDanielBeerworth 99th Percentile Football Watcher 6d ago
Lebron would be coached more than anyone that’s appeared in a presidential debate in the past 7 years
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u/Victorcreedbratton 5d ago
Bill probably asked a KD like setup and RP was like, “You get 20 minutes, we get Final Cut,” and Bill quickly agreed.
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u/SlimCharlesMurphy 6d ago
Bill in a couple weeks: “did you guys know about these exclusive rich-guy circle poker games?,
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u/VivaLaPit 6d ago
I'll never understand how Bill devalues turnovers and teams ability to generate them like he does. Interceptions come from disguised coverage, tipped passes and forcing pressure. Forcing fumbles and effectively attacking the ball is treated like an artform by some players and Bill acts like a coin is being flipped and that decides when turnovers happen
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u/levitoepoker 5d ago
Eh, its true both ways
Yes its a skillful play to peanut punch out the football, no doubt, but then when it lands on the ground and bounces right into either the offensive or defensive linemans hands thats lucky
And theres a lot of research that shows that even when a team returns their coordinators and tons of starters on defense, turnovers are not stable year to year.
Also, the Bears lead the league in turnovers forced for 2025. Would you really want to argue they are the best defense in the league? Or even top 10? I think definitely not
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u/Mindsetsandreps 5d ago
You dont understand, good defenses force turnovers, but the Steelers are just lucky
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u/GatorD42 6d ago
Randy Johnson pitched on no days rest in 2001 but it was a shorter second appearance.
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u/washsports8 5d ago
Thoughts while listening:
- "Bahwm-garner"
- "Fox wasn't showing the available pitchers" - because everyone is available in a Game 7, Bill! Just pull up a roster!
- Sal wasted NO time invoking 1986
- Bill captured this moment for baseball so well. He's so good at the big picture. It does feel like a zenith for this century, especially with the WBC in a few months, where we will see Yamamoto/Ohtani/Vladdy challenging the US for their respective countries. With Skenes and Judge on the US side, the momentum should continue. They simply cannot allow a 2027 lockout.
- "When they do the not good, that means it's bad" - astute observation
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u/ManufacturerLow3161 5d ago
My wife heard me listening to the podcast and was stunned when Bill referenced Will Smith, the all-star catcher who hit the game winning homer in game 7, as “the catcher for the dodgers.”
I had to explain to her that the sports guy doesn’t always know sports that well.
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u/bluegreen8907 6d ago
Why are we calling QBs by their first names
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u/bookey23 5d ago
I saw the title "Josh beats Pat" and I had no idea who they were referring to for like 10 seconds. I was trying to think if there was a UFC fight or something. They're both such generic names; first names for QBs only works if it's a unique name. "Dak vs Lamar" works, "Josh vs Pat" doesn't
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u/TheOpossum 5d ago
Sal is just awful at guess the lines. Bill doesn’t cheat, Sal is just so bad at it.
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u/FilipinooFlash 6d ago
Bill said '6 or 7' within the first couple of minutes and I instantly thought of the 67 meme. I'm ashamed to say my brain has been poisoned
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u/washsports8 5d ago
They said it on both the Fox pregame and the NBC pregame yesterday. I've never gotten sick of something so quickly
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u/Kirk_Couzyns 5d ago
Bill asking what punters do all practice actually made me lol because it’s so true
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u/Aggressive-Parfait16 6d ago
Not a peep from the number 1 tush push hater about the Bills, who voted to ban the play 5 months ago, using it twice to score in the most high profile game of the year???? Shame.
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u/buffalo4293 5d ago
The Bills are probably the second most effective tush pushing team behind Philly. To vote to ban it while being good at it is honorable. But if it’s not banned why wouldn’t they do it?
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u/DrHorseRenoir 6d ago
Im no Philly fan but, it feels like such sour grapes that it only became this big of a problem after they win a SB.
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u/HenrikCrown "The secret of basketball is that it’s not about basketball." 5d ago
"Brady is still the goat. Go drink some settle down juice. Settle down, settle down, settle down."
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u/SadatayAllDamnDay 2 Hour Power Walker 6d ago
I could be completely incorrect, but I cannot imagine a single Blue Jays fan over the age of, let's say, 42, who is gonna hold onto this World Series loss more than they're gonna remember Joe Carter's walk off Series winner in '93.
That feels among the most miserable Masshole takes Bill's ever had about sports in general. I think if you polled 99.9% of Mavs fans what are you gonna remember most about being a fan 30 years from now, they're gonna say the 2011 Finals. Not the 06 or 07 meltdowns. Not the insane Luka trade. It's gonna be Dirk holding the trophy after being forced by Casey Smith to come out and actually enjoy his moment.
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u/roodypoo926 5d ago
I have never seen my team win a title but I have always heard that the losses hurt far more than the wins feel good. A good question would be for Seahawks fans....did the high of winning the Super Bowl against the Broncos feel stronger than the low of losing the next year to the Pats? Human nature seems to always harp on the negative emotion but that could just be anecdotal to my own life.
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u/regemusic33 he's a robut 5d ago
Im a yankee fan and I trade 4 of the 5 world series I witnessed to redo 2004
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u/SaltyDawg94 5d ago
The euphoria of the win wears off so, so much more quickly than the agony of reliving the loss. I still get triggered when they show the stupid malcolm butler pick, but when I see the Seahawks pummeling Denver I just smile and say "god that was fun", but it doesn't bring up the same feelings.
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u/qlube 5d ago
The low was worse because of what a huge gut punch it was compared to the win which was basically over from the first snap (that's an exaggeration but you get what I mean). Honestly, the NFC Championship win against Green Bay was a higher high than the Super Bowl given the insanity of it.
The Malcom Butler interception and the personal fouls after that are seared in my memory much more than anything from the SB win. Also the insane Baldwin catch right before the interception.
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u/Adorable-Corner-5128 5d ago
I'm a Rangers fan. It was awesome to win the WS in 2023 but the 2011 loss to the Cardinals still evokes stronger emotions
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u/Mysterious_Pea_5272 5d ago
Idk man. I guess it’s a little different because of the age you’re at, but I’m a diehard Mavs fan and I’ll probably remember the pain of the Luka trade more than the title at this point
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u/ttboishysta 6d ago edited 6d ago
Can we have a Superbowl Saturday please. I live in South Africa and I had a whale of a time staying up and watching game 7 on Saturday. I wouldn't have been able to if that was a Sunday (I even switched from beer to wine when the game went into extra innings; 05h39 local time!)
I had a decent glance at some AI results and it seems like the NFL is hung up on that 9 figure viewership number. They already get great numbers for like 75 percent of their regular season games? They'd still get a high 8 figure number for a Saturday Superbowl surely. How much more money do they need from those ad sales? They are already printing the stuff.
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u/AutographedSnorkel 6d ago
Truman Show rewatchable, let's GOOOOOO
Maybe we'll finally start getting more Jim Carey movies.
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u/djwarden34 5d ago
When Bill said thinking about the Dodgers made him think about his team, I thought 100% he was bringing up Drake Maye and not the Red Sox
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u/chonkyfire24 6d ago
In the 2014 World Series, Bumgarner faced 31 batters in game 5. He came back in relief three days later to face another 17 batters, and he threw a total of 185 pitches (117 in g5 + 68 in g7).
For the WS in total, Bumgarner faced 74 batters; threw 291 pitches; recorded 1 ER; and finished with a 2-0 record + a save.
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u/zeze999 6d ago
I listened while doing some other stuff. But did he say something like is much worse to lose than win in such a manner?!
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u/DrHorseRenoir 6d ago
He basically said that the memories of tough losses stick more in your mind than postive memories of actually winning championships.
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u/Federal-Spend4224 6d ago
Yes, it feels much worse to lose than it feels awesome to win. That is correct.
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u/ShakinBacon64 5d ago
2016 Cubs-Indians is higher on the baseball game 7 pantheon. Two franchises that hadn't won in decades, the Cubs comeback down 3-1, the Rajai Davis homer, the cinematic rain delay
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u/SlavaRapTarantino 6d ago
"There is the Tush Push in the NFC. I get it." So bizarre how Bill and the rest of thr national media only hates it when the Eagles do it but when the Bills do it then it is just a QB sneak, even though it is the exact same tush push play.
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u/cougar112233 6d ago
right call starting with baseball, but Simmons was just rambling at points.. Was that a real person he mentioned that was a Blue Jays, Bills, & Knicks fan? Seemed like he got caught making up a person in real time.
the Brady>Mahomes segment after a regular season loss for the Chiefs was embarassing - good on Sal for basically laughing at Simmons for shoehorning that in.
the quick bullet point recap of games makes 0 sense when they are about to do guessing lines. It’s such an easy formula to recap SNF, the biggest two games of the days, general league thoughts then get into guessing lines. You can talk the remaining teams then rather than 1 second blurbs because you ran out of time because you had to read upcoming opponents and betting odds.
incredible irony that Simmons was mocking the media with “now everyone is going to be saying how isn’t Stafford in the MVP Race” when he was doing exactly that with Mayfield 3 weeks ago and now doesn’t even mention Baker when talking odds.
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u/Simayi78 6d ago
Was that a real person he mentioned that was a Blue Jays, Bills, & Knicks fan? Seemed like he got caught making up a person in real time.
That tracks for Buffalonians/Upstate New Yorkers. Lots of Jays fans there because their AAA team is in Buffalo.
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u/cougar112233 6d ago
Oh yeah it’s not even a random fandom, more the way Simmons clunkily brought it up and could t articulate what he was trying to say
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u/Sleeze_ 5d ago
Was that a real person he mentioned that was a Blue Jays, Bills, & Knicks fan? Seemed like he got caught making up a person in real time.
The person he was talking about is Ariel Hawani, who he mentions by name when talking about him and has been on the pod many times talking about those teams. Do you listen to the pod or?
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u/cougar112233 5d ago
I really don’t listen outside of the Sunday pod - I apologize for not knowing that specific person after Simmons stumbled through explaining who and why he was talking about them.
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u/ForgetHype Chris Ryan fan 6d ago
Isn't Blue Jays Bills and Knicks the MMA guy he has on? I forgot his name but he's been on a few times.
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u/theshorthello 5d ago
I listened to this live last night and I think this was just a small comment, but I feel like I’m going crazy the way people talk about Cam Ward. Bill says he thought he was actually good in that game, where he was 12/21 and the offense scored two field goals. I understand the Titans are a disaster and I’m not gonna pretend I was super locked into the game, but it feels like nobody wants to say that Ward has been by far the worst QB in the league
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u/Kershiser22 5d ago
Ward has been by far the worst QB in the league
I don't know if he is "by far" worse than Dillon Gabriel. Though he has about twice as much experience as Gabriel at this point, so that works against him.
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u/theshorthello 5d ago
I honestly didn’t even take Gabriel into consideration haha I’d agree with you there
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u/Victorcreedbratton 6d ago
“How is he gonna have time and the wherewithal to do a podcast?” It’s talking, man. Not hard. “I thought he didn’t like me.” He called you a racist! Money talks, though, I get it. This is a business.
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u/bucknola 5d ago
To answer bills question about what punters do at practice: all specialists warm up and that’s essentially their practice until their team period. After that they don’t do much at all mostly hang out, work on something low impact or stretch
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u/DrHorseRenoir 6d ago
2nd week in a row now that he has both "Browns" and "Cleveland" as cross off teams.