Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of the recent AP Poll voting?
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Mark Stein, one of the longtime journalistic voices in basketball, not unlike Tim Kirkson, someone who only cares and knows anything about his sport and knows very little else by his own admission, knows basketball. says the alleged violations in this incredibly detailed Pablo Torre report are staggering and without precedent, a story that has shaken the NBA already like very few.
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During the 2022-2023 season, when Aspiration defaulted on its obligations, neither the Clippers nor Mr. Balmer was aware of any improper activity by Aspiration or its co-founder until after the government instituted its investigation. The team and Mr. Balmer stand ready to assist law enforcement in any way they can.
So case closed.
The funniest part of this statement is the Mr. Ballmer is capitalized. And I'm certain that's how they refer to him. Everyone refers to him there. It's not Steve Ballmer. It's Mr. It's not even MR, period. The Mr. is capitalized and the Ballmer is capitalized because he is referred to by capital M, Mr. and Ballmer in press releases and in person.
Do you think they pronounce it like the way you would if it were all capitalized? Like, Mr. Ballmer. That's how you would say capitalize.
It should have an exclamation point. That's how he talks, right? Like, that's it. Like, Mr. Balmer!
So does Pablo owe Mr. Balmer an apology now that they've come out and cleared this all up? You're good with the defense there? I mean, it feels like this could have just been resolved over a phone call. Like, hey, did you do it? Like, nah.
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Chapter 3: What does Ray Lewis say about Shannon Sharpe?
One of the things every year that I guard against because. I don't believe that before week one anyone knows much of anything, which is why you get the FSU Alabama result that you get and no one sees it coming.
But I also feel that while coaches always say the biggest improvement always gets made from week one to week two every season because of what happens in game one with jitters and people being off.
i also believe it can be hard to detect in watching games like notre dame miami for example if notre dame is actually going to be good this season because i don't believe their quarterback is going to carry them this year i don't believe that cj car
I believe Miami's defense is good and I would have believed it was good before what I saw yesterday just based on some of the things that they did in the portal and in the off season and just revamping the defense.
But I don't actually know, after watching Miami and Notre Dame, if that Notre Dame offense is going to be limited all season because I don't believe in their quarterback and though he played well under the circumstances,
Seeing what I saw, I know now it's a signature win, but I also know that anyone that was in your top 10 in week one was made in your top 10 by a lot of people who don't know anything. And so some of those things can end up being a mirage. And so today, I don't know if FSU is really good or if Alabama is really bad. Oh, at the end of the season, that could look like an 8-5 team, a 7-win team.
I think that that's probably more likely for FSU and Alabama, given that Alabama's 5-5 in their last 10 and FSU's coming off a season where they had two wins. Gus Malzahn, he can do that to certain teams that are unprepared to play, and it certainly looked... Like Alabama was unprepared to play.
There are so many highlights on social media of guys giving up, jogging to where they think the play is going to go, not caring whatsoever. I do think that Miami's win over Notre Dame will age. Well, I rewatched the game a little bit. That game was actually pretty close. It's just that Miami won that middle eight, the last four minutes of the first half.
the first four minutes of the second half, and that's when Miami looked their best. But other than that, they were kind of matching blow for blow over there. And C.J. Carr, I think, really impressed because... I thought he looked great. For a dude that never played, and yeah, maybe he kept it. Certainly nervous in the first half. The throws weren't good. He looked nervous.
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Chapter 4: How did Shannon Sharpe's media presence change over time?
Their defense was actually something that last year was obviously embarrassing. This year they stood up. I don't really like Ty Simpson that much. I think that he's kind of a stopback quarterback for whoever they get next. But their offense, Tommy Castellanos was dynamite. Yeah, and he didn't have to throw, and I was laughing at things. But even the throws he did make were spot on.
You don't really see that from him. Yeah, I think early on he kind of grew into the game and he's one of those front-running quarterbacks that as soon as he knows that he's got something, he feeds off that energy. And to the other team from the state of Florida that is also ranked in the top 15 collectively with the big three for the first time since the pre-ranks in 2006.
I actually came away with a ton of concerns for Florida, which is rare in a game that a team wins 55-0. You get zero sacks against a Long Island school that we all learned at the same time has a football program. They surrendered 11 tackles for loss.
That is a team that is not winning the line of scrimmage as impressively as they should against a school that, again, we just learned has a football team. And that schedule, have you seen that schedule? It gets tough. Holy crap. Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right? Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the voice modulation in the show?
The Wall Street Journal has a podcast called The Journal. This is not a sports story. And I want to see if you guys notice anything about this reporting done by the Wall Street Journal's podcast on this Cracker Barrel story.
All because a new streamlined logo erased that old timer and set off a digital pitchfork mob. Our colleague Heather Haddon has been covering the story.
A lot of commentators were like, no, we do not like this. So Cracker Barrel's made everybody crazy today. Yo, that's me.
It would have been good to leave the trailing sound of other serious podcast voices at the end of that so that people would have noticed that that was you on the podcast as opposed to you speaking right here next to me for the audio audience that's not watching. I didn't expect to hear myself. That was me. What was this? Yeah, what is that?
This was a serious Wall Street Journal podcast breaking down everything going on with Cracker Barrel. And they wanted to give some context, so they just dropped in Zaslow.
I told you he's a rising star. I told you that everyone in media is noticing what it is that Jonathan Zaslow is doing these days. And so this is not an edit. This was something that the journal put together and we were all shocked when we heard Jonathan Zaslow's voice inexplicably in the middle of the Cracker Barrel controversy.
All because a new streamlined logo erased that old timer and set off a digital pitchfork mob. Our colleague Heather Haddon has been covering the story.
A lot of commentators were like, no, we do not like this. So Cracker Barrel's made everybody crazy today.
His voice is so distinctive. I wasn't on that show. No, you were not. They stole that sound from our show.
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