Ep. 223: The Power of Expansion Teams

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this episode, Shireen Ahmed, Lindsay Gibbs and Jessica Luther delve into expansion teams. But first, they share their favorite Halloween treats. Then, inspired by the newest NHL team, the Seattle Kraken, they discuss how expansion teams come to be, what makes them successful and how they can bring fandom to new places. They also explore challenges to expansion, including why the WNBA has been unable to add teams in recent years despite the remarkable talent. Following this discussion, there is a preview of Jessica's interview with race car driver Sabre Cook. Then, the team burns all the garbage of sports this week in the Burn Pile. Next, they celebrate those bringing light and goodness to sport, including Torchbearer of the Week, Dawn Staley, who clinched an incredible contract as head basketball coach at the University of South Carolina. They end the show with what's good in their lives and what they are watching in sports this week. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, flame throwered you up, and I'll spit you out. I'm joined by the babies to the screaming shout. Oh, yeah.
0:09.6	Hello, flame thrower. Shereen here. Welcome to another week of Burn It All Down. It's the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:16.9	I'm joined by Jess and Lynn. This week we will talk about expansion teams. We will talk about,
0:24.7	are they good for sports, good for culture, or just good for lining the pocketbooks of owners?
0:30.8	Before we start that, I think there's an important conversation that needs to be had in this particular month,
0:35.8	also known as the favorite time of year of Brenda Elsie, Halloween.
0:40.6	Let's start candy, folks. Jessica, your favorite candy, there is no judgment.
0:46.9	Yeah, there is. I love candy corn. I love the candy corn pumpkins in particular. I understand that people
0:53.0	don't love them. They can mail them to me.
0:55.1	My family will eat them.
0:56.3	We destroyed a bag this week.
0:58.5	And then my very particular thing, last year I had the Reese's.
1:03.4	Like, Reese's are a big deal just in this family in general.
1:05.8	And last year we got the Reese's peanut butter cup white ghosts, which is like the white chocolate on the
1:12.3	outside, and they're spectacular.
1:14.5	And I have tried to eat other Reese's peanut butter cups with white chocolate.
1:19.3	And it's not the same.
1:20.0	There's something about it's like that particular balance is the right one, only the ghosts.
1:24.7	And the only place that I found them was at Sam's. So like I hunted.
1:30.1	So I did yesterday finally get my Reese's peanut butter cup white ghosts and I'm very excited about it.
1:36.6	What I love about this is that your talent and genius as an investigative reporter got you
1:42.2	these specific treats that you love. Yeah, I went to my
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