Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast. I'm your host Sam Vassini. We are presented by the athletic today on the show. Good friend of the program, Matt Penny, is here. We're going to chat all about guards in the 2022 NBA draft. But first, Penny, we have to talk about Boston Sports and how I'm now

apparently just like diving into Boston Sports. I love it. This is life now, unfortunately,

for me. It's so good. It's so good. And I've slowly been peppering you for Boston Sports.

And I feel like the Tides turned a little bit on on Red Sox fans and fandom because

they break the curse and it was kind of viewed as not an evil empire, but this kind of

juggernaut. And now it's becoming not America's team, but it feels more of like a weird

feel-good story. So just to let people in a little bit, when I was at Fenway for the wildcard plan, I sent Sam a picture, and I said,

just so you know what I'm walking into, I sent a picture of a guy changing his shirt on the side

of the road because he's putting a jersey on.

And people do that all the time normally.

But this guy just did it and was like in between shirts, like holding the other

one.

I just tried to tell Sam, like, this is Boston.

I hope you embrace our friendship because this is what I live with on a daily basis

here.

Well, I feel like there are a lot of similarities between Boston and Pittsburgh in that

way.

Like, you get a lot of the same, a lot of the same people, let's go with.

And apparently, so I've been made aware that while there have been like a million

Boston shows over the years, there have not been many Pittsburgh shows.

There's a new Pittsburgh show on Showtime called American Rust, which I watched the first

half of the first episode.

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