A Sox-Yanks Nail-Biter, Intriguing NBA Story Lines, and Five Biggest Fantasy Football Story Lines With Bill’s Dad, Michael Pina, and Craig Horlbeck

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and his dad react to the Red Sox taking Game 1 in the wild-card round against the Yankees (3:46). Then, Michael Pina joins to talk about the five things to monitor before the NBA season starts (28:13). Finally, Craig Horlbeck joins to recap his NFL experience in Ireland before discussing the top five fantasy football stories (01:08:43). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Bill’s dad, Michael Pina, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Chad Powers - New Episodes on Tuesdays on Hulu 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 brought to you by Fandual Sportsbook. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network where I put up a new rewatchables last night. It is Robert Redford Month on the rewatchables, and we did The Sting. It was me and Sean Fennacy and Chris Ryan. So you can check that out. You can watch it on YouTube. You can watch it as a video podcast on Spotify. I can get it wherever you get your podcast. We're also recapping every episode of Task on the Prestige TV podcast on
0:27.5	Sunday nights. And episode five is a hold on to your seats episode. So that's coming on Sunday.
0:35.6	The next episode of Robert Redford Month, just so you have it now, you have a bunch of days to watch it.
0:40.9	Jeremiah Johnson.
0:43.2	It came out a long time ago.
0:45.8	It is an incredible, incredible, incredible movie.
0:48.5	Big movie in my family.
0:50.4	And you can find it.
0:52.0	It's on some of the streaming services, including To Be To Be. I don't know why I
0:56.8	promote them because they don't listen to us. They don't put movies on that we want them to put on.
1:02.9	But you can watch movies for free on there. So Jeremy Johnson is over there. Coming up on this podcast,
1:10.8	Red Sox Yankees had to lead with that at the top
1:13.4	because the Red Sox won an incredible game of Yankee Stadium. So I called my dad. We talked
1:17.8	about it as we head into Tuesday night here. Who knows? Maybe that would be the only playoff game
1:22.0	the Red Sox win. But we talked about a crazy game, bizarre season and what it's like to beat the Yankees
1:28.5	and Yankee Stadium.
1:29.7	So if you want to skip that, that's about, I don't know, 22, 23 minutes.
1:33.8	You can go right to the rest of the podcast, which is Michael Pina talking about five NBA
1:39.1	preseason storylines that he's watching over the next three weeks.
1:42.5	And then I had Craig Horlebeck on to talk about what it's like to go to an Ireland NFL game.
1:48.2	And then we did basically assessing fantasy, top five biggest fantasy football storylines after four weeks, including Tyreek Hill, who tragically is out for the year.
2:01.5	And then we talked a little Steelers, Ravens, NFL, NFC, AFC North as well. Can't speak. I'm still speechless from that Red Sox game. Anyway, that is all coming up next. We're going to take a break. We're going to go pro jam. And then my dad talking Red Sox Yankees next. It's the Bill Simmons podcast presented by Fando and the NFL is back and thank God. Fando has everything.
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