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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Best NBA Late-Season Story Lines, Plus Theo Epstein’s First Appearance

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons runs through the biggest subplots to watch heading into the NBA playoffs (2:45) before talking to three-time World Series champion baseball executive Theo Epstein about bringing the Boston Red Sox their first World Series win since 1918, bringing the Chicago Cubs their first World Series win in more than 100 years, Red Sox fans vs. Cubs fans, MLB's strikeout epidemic, experimenting with making changes to baseball, and more (31:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Lots of soccer stuff going on right now is they call it outside America football.

0:04.5

Well, I call it soccer here because I'm American.

0:07.3

We have an awesome podcast called Ringer FC.

0:10.2

That's where you can find studio with Ryan Amusa.

0:12.6

You can also find Rady's house with Ian Wright breaking down all kinds of soccer

0:16.6

stuff as we head toward the Champions League final later this month.

0:20.8

Check it out.

0:21.6

Ringer FC only on the Ringer podcast network.

0:26.2

We're also brought to you by the ringer.com.

0:28.2

As well as the Ringer podcast network.

0:29.8

New rewatchable is coming on Monday.

0:32.5

If you missed it, we did what about Bob on Monday next Monday,

0:38.4

one of the greatest action movies of all time, lethal weapon too.

0:41.2

It's time.

0:42.1

It's time to finally decide whether this is the goat of action movies.

0:45.6

It might be you'll find out you can watch this if you have, uh,

0:49.7

if you have showtime on demand or the showtime app, it's free on showtime right

0:53.3

now. So lethal weapon to an all timeer.

0:56.4

Check it out. That's coming Monday coming up on this podcast.

1:00.5

I'm going to talk at the top about the 10 NBA storylines.

1:04.4

I am the most excited for us.

1:05.8

We head toward the playing games.

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