A Goofy Cowboys Tie, the Reeling Ravens, a Crazy Sports Weekend, Guess the Lines, Mets Sadness, and Sox-Yanks With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to react to the overtime matchup between the Packers and Cowboys before discussing the players and teams that have won them over in the NFL through four weeks (4:40). Then, they guess the lines for Week 5 before talking about baseball, the Ryder Cup, and closing with Parent Corner (01:03:11). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Fill your fridge with Michelob ULTRA - the official beer partner of the NBA. https://www.doordash.com/p/play-for-an-ultra ENJOY RESPONSIBLY © 2025 ANHEUSER-BUSCH, MICHELOB ULTRA® LIGHT BEER, ST. LOUIS, MO. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast is presented by a fan dual sports book.
0:03.6	We are also presented by the Ringer podcast network, put up a new prestige TV podcast tonight, actually.
0:09.2	Episode four of Task, broke it down, me, Joanna, Rob, you can hear that.
0:13.8	You can listen to The Rewatchables on Monday night.
0:16.8	We started Redford Month.
0:17.9	We're starting at two days early before October.
0:20.5	But we are going to do The the sting as the first episode.
0:25.1	So that is what's coming.
0:27.8	Unbelievable sports time right now.
0:29.5	Ryder Cup this weekend was really fun.
0:31.6	Check out Fairway Rowland for the recap of everything that happened on that.
0:37.1	Baseball playoffs are coming.
0:38.3	We're going to be covering that in the Rainier Gambling show.
0:40.1	We're coming around the New York, New York podcast on Off the Pike with Brian Barrett as well,
0:45.4	the Boston podcast that we have.
0:47.8	And this week, it's just going to be a lot of stuff going on because it's Red Sox Yankees,
0:54.2	a huge, huge, huge monkey wrench for me personally.
0:57.2	I'm going to talk about it with Sal a bit later, but I really hate the Yankees.
1:01.7	The Red Sox did not have as good of a team as the Yankees.
1:04.3	So we have a crutch, but losing to the Yankees is my least favorite thing.
1:09.8	I think if I had to rank it, Yankees, Lakers are just
1:13.0	at the very top of just pure hatred of franchises. And then it really dips to another level
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