Chapter 1: What fantasy football stress relief tips are discussed?
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Chapter 2: How does Dave Dameshek share his humorous Ed Hochuli story?
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Chapter 3: What are the insights on the impact of politics in sports?
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Chapter 4: How does the conversation shift to Pittsburgh sports culture?
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Chapter 5: What controversial opinions are shared about Wayne Gretzky?
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There was a place yesterday with Samson where I had some remorse not pressing him on something when we were talking in reaction to breaking news about... Politics being involved in any of what you see visited upon sports as Terry Rozier does a perp walk in front of everyone that's purposeful in looking that way. It's offensive and obvious and politically charged.
Samson said there is no politics here. Of course there are politics here. Please don't think that these governing institutions are that much smarter. Don't give them too much credit. The FBI could absolutely clown show upon a sports story the way they did with wiretaps in the NCAA and just find a bunch of buffoonery. But Terry Rozier was purposely walked in front of people that way.
It was not necessary. It was done on purpose.
Shackled, cuffed on his hands and his feet as if he were some deranged escape lunatic murderer who assaulted people. Whatever his crime is, even if he's guilty, I don't think that was necessary in any way. I don't think it was necessary that he needed to be arrested. He could have turned himself in. I know his attorney said they didn't even give us an opportunity to turn ourselves in.
You should believe less in these institutions than you ever have in your life. I'm talking about both the NBA and investigators and the government.
He's not a flight risk. Matter of fact, you know exactly where he is. It's all very purposeful. So there was just a lot of pageantry.
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Chapter 6: How does the discussion evolve into comparing athletes across generations?
going on. Whether a crime was committed or not is irrelevant. It's what kind of crime was committed and what is the reaction in terms of bringing so-called people to justice. I could say that the President of the United States was accused and arrested on assaulting women. He didn't have to do that. He went in on his own accord. He took his mug shots and all that, but they didn't
bring the SWAT team and cuff him up and shackle his feet as well, even though he was accused of doing harm to people.
During a time when government institutions are being weaponized, please pay attention to the way things, how they're done. Some of these things are very obvious, okay? They are political machines that are now moving powerfully through making it look like the brown people are most dangerous, and so it serves them to chain up Terry Rozier on a crime that doesn't deserve this kind of chaining.
And the media will gather up behind him and throw rocks at Terry Rozier, you're idiot, you're a bad basketball player.
And Dan, I don't want to be too hyperbolic here, but there was something of it to me that was reminiscent of many of the ICE raids that we've seen around the country. Like for instance, recently in New York City on Canal Street, the guys were selling kind of knockoff bags or whatever. And it's like,
This was all under the guise of we're catching murderers and rapists and gang members and terrorists. And you're telling me the guy on Canal Street selling a fake Gucci bag justifies that in the same way here. We're going to catch these organized crime people and all that. And it's like, so you're going to arrest the basketball player and put him in shackles?
What part of that mission is this accomplishing? And it just feels, again, hollow at best, and at worst, purposeful in trying to demonize a certain kind of individual.
You're going to do a deep dive on the facts of this with Pablo Torre, and there will be more information there than you will find in most places. You tried your best, but you are not going to sway me on. That is a welcome sight, Terry Rozier being dragged away in cuffs. That's great. Sorry. That was very compelling.
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Chapter 7: What are the perspectives on the NFL's current state?
Then you remembered that game?
Then I remember the turnover against OKC. We are not wrong in sermonizing against the idea of chaining up the millionaire, the terrible Terry Rozier. You're just good with it because you've said since the beginning, like, you would have done this to him yourself as soon as they made the transaction. Citizens arrest. And you would have also framed him. I am taking this, man.
Look, if these poker games were as dumb and all these people were interacting, you'd frame Terry Rozier in a game filled with you suckering him. Just like DiCaprio in The Departed. I am a cop. I am taking this criminal. This is my prisoner.
My favorite text message I got out of all the text messages around this was a friend of mine sent me a screenshot of a text where someone said, wait a second, can someone tell Kash Patel that Woody Johnson has been playing in illegal poker games as well? Like, if that's what we're doing?
A lot of Tua tweets at that, too. A lot of love tweets. Like, I have been rigging games. My name is Duncan Robinson, and I play for the Detroit Pistons. You know that the bald guy, the security guy, he can totally frame players if that's how they're going to start getting around the salary cap.
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As a reminder, Dan Lebitard is the one who put the exclamation point at the back end, and that's what really makes it sing.
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Chapter 8: How does the episode conclude with reflections on Pittsburgh's influence in sports?
Pronounce it how you want. Football America knows many regions with distinct accents and otherwise. So go ahead. If you're from Pittsburgh, you can say Football America, Jens, but I don't know how people from South Beach speak. I can't get that patois down. Shout out, though, to my guy Amin, Chris Cody.
Everything's happening this morning, clearly, because Chris Cody, what, like 22 minutes ago, I'm sitting here listening to you guys flap your gums, and he says...
wait the seattle seahawks used to be in the afc and on football america in really just another matter of minutes here an hour or whatever when the show posts i do a what if about what if the seattle seahawks had stayed in the afc in 2002 it yields fascinating results um specifically around a couple of high-end quarterbacks or prominent names in pro football right now.
Tony, why are you pointing at Chris here? Chris is like throwing his hands in his ear like a gladiator. Like, are you not entertained? That's called network synergy, Dano. You meant to be an idiot. Well, what I love, too, is, like I say, everything's happening. I'm thrilled because, like, you know, I think everybody's picking it up.
You know, what comes off me is that I'm one of the great empaths in society right now. And, you know, I... was thrilled for my fellow hockey fan last night that that roy got to pay witness to the greatest player of the millennium the guy who saved the sport of hockey sydney crosby a couple of goals in vanquishing the whatever what's that team The defending champions. Miami's or whatever.
But that was great. So happy for everybody there. My heart is full for on Roy's behalf and whatever you guys want to talk. Oh, I have a quick story, though, about what you're talking about there about rigging games. I was once about a decade ago pregame down in Chicago downtown in Soldier Field running around on the field about 45 minutes before kickoff one Sunday. And oh, look who it is.
It's iconic referee Ed Hockley running towards me.
right the guns are out it's a nice day in chicagoland and he's running towards me into the bowels of the stadium and as he goes by me i think it'd be cute to do this as he goes by i go hey ref and i go into my uh into my pocket and i pull out a dollar bill and i go like let's make sure the home team has a good day today okay and uh and he stops and he goes what what the hell are you doing and he starts and he i i realize i have aired immediately
I've made a grave mistake. And he said, what do you think you're doing? And I said, I was just having some fun. He's like, you stay right here. Who are you? And now the shame sweats are starting, the cold is chilling down the spine and everything else. And he runs off and he's replaced 90 seconds later by a couple of sizable toughs in NFL Blazers.
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