The Fancy Lad Returns: Chris Wittyngham On The World Cup | Hour 2
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What portion of the show covers Mike’s Top 50 Two‑Sport Athletes kickoff and first entries?
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Chris Whittingham, our old friend, is going to be here with us in moments. Chris Whittingham is a fancy lad. I don't want to disrespect his time. Chris Cody was hot. He was bothered by having to wait. So I will not go through Mike's entire top 50 list of top 52 sport athletes of all time, but just take us up to Marty Fish. So go ahead and get started with number 50.
Number 50, Michael Jordan. Yeah, he tried baseball. He's also a solid golfer and famously decent at basketball. Number 49, Jared Allen. Sack artist and tried for curling.
Oh, I thought he was in rodeo, wasn't he?
Or was he tap roping or something like that? Yeah, that was part of his celebration. Number 48, Eddie Alvarez. Number 47, Steph Curry. Really good golfer. Number 46, Dan Cortez. Yeah, I mean, he was good at everything in Rock and Chalk. Number 45, as promised, Jeff Conine. Really good at racquetball. Yeah, number 44, Morty Fish.
We will get the remainder of this list and ask you what it is that you just put on the top of your hat in a second. Chris Whittingham with us. He does MLS games on Apple TV. He does Champions League and Serie A on Paramount+. He is smiling right now because we did an homage there to Robbie Williams. What are your thoughts there, Whittingham? Do you believe that, yes or no, that was cocaine?
It's pretty hard to argue it being anything else, right?
I just can't believe that that would be right. Like, yes, yes, it's hard to argue that it would be anything else. But I can't believe that that would be right. But your betting odds, your market price is that it is cocaine.
I mean, what else could fall out of one's nose like that?
Well, it was his mouth, though. We already did the telestrator. It was his mouth that it fell out of. Oh, it was his mouth. And now Tony and Mike are telling me.
Was it a piece of gum then or a Zin maybe? The Zins are big.
No Zin.
No Zin is going to break up like that. Yeah. I don't know anything about Zins. I've never used them before. But yeah, I mean, I don't know. In the mouth, though? Yeah, maybe that makes it unlikely to be cocaine if it's in the mouth. That seems impossible, right?
Noted Coke expert, Chris Whittingham.
So there were a lot of goals scored in this tournament. 104 games, 308 goals. That's the highest scoring tournament since 1970. Nobody can have any complaints about anything except perhaps the punctuation. Whittingham, your thoughts on the punctuation?
Yeah, the punctuation wasn't very good, was it? And I think that is a little bit disappointing. I think there were a lot of people that would have checked out this final just because... Oh, it's this big thing, and there are a whole bunch of watch parties, and let's go watch the final. But it was not indicative of the tournament, as you're saying. And I think Argentina really, by themselves, really sullied the entire occasion, both in terms of their complete inability to attack, but also their shithousery, for lack of a better word. They just brought a level of tackle and elbow and... Really no desire to play football whatsoever that made this final incredibly dull for large portions of it. Spain were dominating the entire time and they just weren't able to turn it into clear goal scoring chances.
But I was surprised by the lack of a response from Argentina in any real way until the 116th, 117th minute of the game. To go so long without playing, I thought was incredibly embarrassing from them, if I'm being honest.
It was embarrassing. The desperation didn't really play out on the field with their play. The desperation was in what Messi did, trying to get Cucurella sent off for covering his mouth briefly. That was as bad a look on a pitch as I've ever seen from Messi. Was that just desperation, them knowing that was their only way back into that match?
Yeah, I mean, to be fair, it worked earlier in the tournament. I guess if you're looking for every possible advantage, the very famous now call from the referee, number 10 covers his mouth.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What portion of the show covers Mike’s Top 50 Two‑Sport Athletes kickoff and first entries?
0:00–5:44
2
How does the banter about Chris Whittingham’s arrival and early jokes set the tone?
5:44–10:17
3
What were the penalties and punctuation controversies from the World Cup final?
10:17–11:51
4
Why does Chris Whittingham say Argentina’s tactics made the World Cup final dull?
11:51–23:48
5
How do experts explain Spain’s defensive dominance and historical context?
23:48–43:10
Speakers
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