Ep. 254: What Does it Mean for Sport When Playoffs Are Boring?

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode, Shireen Ahmed, Lindsay Gibbs and Brenda Elsey talk about what it means when playoffs are boring. But first, they discuss FIFA's outrageous claim that the 2022 Qatar World Cup will be carbon neutral. Then the discuss if boringness, blowouts and sweeps are bad for sport, like the current NBA playoffs, Oklahoma softball, UConn women's basketball and UNC women's soccer. They also discuss how blowouts are coded differently in women's sports and individual sports. And they cap it off with the worst championship game they ever watched. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Amira Rose Davis's interview with the one and only Briana Scurry, USWNT goalkeeper about her new book that comes out June 21, called My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper. Then, they burn the worst of sports on the burn pile. Next, they celebrate those shining light including Mithali Raj, legendary Indian women's cricket player who retried after a 23 year career. The wrap up the show with What's Good in their lives and What We're Watching This Week in sports. 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	Welcome to burn it all down.
0:02.4	And I'm joined you out.
0:04.4	And I'll play with your babies to the screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:13.6	I'm Shereen and I am joined by Lindsay and Brenda.
0:17.6	Today on the show, we will be talking about when playoffs are boring, blowouts, sweeps, and the like.
0:24.9	But before we do that, let's talk about a common thing and theme that goes through and flows to burn it all down.
0:33.2	FIFA is stupid.
0:35.0	Lindsay, you were blowing up in the chat about this.
0:38.9	Do you want to tell us what specifically irritated you?
0:42.7	This headline made me laugh slash cry slash, you know, bang my head against the wall.
0:48.7	I saw an article on CNN about how FIFA said that it will host the first ever carbon neutral world cup this year,
0:56.5	which is just like the call of says, but not everyone's buying it.
1:02.4	Well, yeah, not everyone's buying it.
1:04.8	Like, duh, of course.
1:07.2	And then, like, you click on it, and I did a little, just like a teeny bit of digging.
1:11.6	But apparently their calculations that they were using to say this did not include the air conditioning they're
1:17.5	using to air condition the stadiums because it's too hot to play. And I'm like, how do you just like,
1:22.5	how do you get to just opt out of that one? Like it's like these facts are not for mine, so we're just not going to count this
1:29.6	energy and these facts.
1:31.1	Because if we do that, it's not carbon neutral.
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