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Mia Wong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6381 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

They hand him 230 million guaranteed dollars, the largest guaranteed salary in the history of the NFL, right? So, okay, so how does Deshaun Watson, like, again, this guy who's being held up by the guy who, like, is now laundering being a gamer as, like, the great symbol of sort of, like, cultural, like, being a rogue outsider, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

How does Deshaun Watson, his, like, greatest fucking project do on the field? So in his first season, he basically got injured immediately. In his second season, in weeks one through five, out of 759 quarterbacks since the year 2000, just to start weeks one through five, out of, again, 759 quarterbacks, he ranks 753 out of 759 EPA for dropback. 753 out of 759.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

How does Deshaun Watson, his, like, greatest fucking project do on the field? So in his first season, he basically got injured immediately. In his second season, in weeks one through five, out of 759 quarterbacks since the year 2000, just to start weeks one through five, out of, again, 759 quarterbacks, he ranks 753 out of 759 EPA for dropback. 753 out of 759.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

How does Deshaun Watson, his, like, greatest fucking project do on the field? So in his first season, he basically got injured immediately. In his second season, in weeks one through five, out of 759 quarterbacks since the year 2000, just to start weeks one through five, out of, again, 759 quarterbacks, he ranks 753 out of 759 EPA for dropback. 753 out of 759.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

They traded three first round picks for this guy. He has a mind-boggling EPA of negative 0.3, which means every time the serial sexual predator drops back to make a pass, they are expected to get 0.3 less points than an average team would.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

They traded three first round picks for this guy. He has a mind-boggling EPA of negative 0.3, which means every time the serial sexual predator drops back to make a pass, they are expected to get 0.3 less points than an average team would.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

They traded three first round picks for this guy. He has a mind-boggling EPA of negative 0.3, which means every time the serial sexual predator drops back to make a pass, they are expected to get 0.3 less points than an average team would.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Don't worry, we're almost done with the sports part of it. I promise there is actually a reason why I'm doing this. Which is the argument that sports and gaming actually serve very, very similar cultural roles for the right. Yeah, of course. Yes. I understand that. I can see that. Yes. Also, I've always wanted to fucking complain about this on air.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Don't worry, we're almost done with the sports part of it. I promise there is actually a reason why I'm doing this. Which is the argument that sports and gaming actually serve very, very similar cultural roles for the right. Yeah, of course. Yes. I understand that. I can see that. Yes. Also, I've always wanted to fucking complain about this on air.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Don't worry, we're almost done with the sports part of it. I promise there is actually a reason why I'm doing this. Which is the argument that sports and gaming actually serve very, very similar cultural roles for the right. Yeah, of course. Yes. I understand that. I can see that. Yes. Also, I've always wanted to fucking complain about this on air.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

This is the best fucking chance I'm ever going to get. So, Jesus fucking Christ.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

This is the best fucking chance I'm ever going to get. So, Jesus fucking Christ.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

This is the best fucking chance I'm ever going to get. So, Jesus fucking Christ.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

This is what it feels like.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

This is what it feels like.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

This is what it feels like.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Yes, it is. It is absolutely what you sound like. So this guy is like a generationally awful quarterback. They sign away basically the entire future of this team, hand this guy who is a serial sexual predator $230 million, and this is the guy that fucking Michael Lewis expects you to think is like a fucking analytics genius.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Yes, it is. It is absolutely what you sound like. So this guy is like a generationally awful quarterback. They sign away basically the entire future of this team, hand this guy who is a serial sexual predator $230 million, and this is the guy that fucking Michael Lewis expects you to think is like a fucking analytics genius.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Yes, it is. It is absolutely what you sound like. So this guy is like a generationally awful quarterback. They sign away basically the entire future of this team, hand this guy who is a serial sexual predator $230 million, and this is the guy that fucking Michael Lewis expects you to think is like a fucking analytics genius.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

And this all comes back to, again, like, you know, the sort of mythology, the basic mythology of the nerd is that they're like picked on like by the jock or whatever, right? That's like the fundamental base of their mythology, that they're like oppressed by this. But like,