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Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

FTP Ep. # 158: Lites Out and Week 17 ATS Picks

Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

Dwayne Callender

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.9440 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Today I cover a wide range of sports from the utterly bizarre interview Dallas Stars CEO Jim Lites had with the Athletic ripping his own star players and torching any bridges he may have had with glee to the Premier League title race and the College Football Playoff. Plus I breakdown the main events for UFC 232 and go through my against the spread picks for Week 17 of the NFL season. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/fantasy-throwdown-podcast/donations

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the fantasy throw down podcast bringing you the latest in sports news fantasy analysis and opinions don't forget the hot takes can have a sports show without hot takes these days.

0:11.0

What about hot cakes though? I want some hot cakes these days. What about hot cakes though? Mmm, I want some hot cakes.

0:14.4

Now here's your host, ready to jump into the thick of things. Dwayne calendar.

0:19.2

Good morning and welcome to the final weekend of 2018 everybody.

0:27.0

So we got a jam-packed show today.

0:30.3

I'll be perfectly honest, you no idea I would be talking about hockey to lead off this

0:38.8

weekend but the amount of quotes from Dallas Star CEO Jim Light,

0:46.4

I mean, this might be the most like

0:48.7

can tankersk interview I've ever seen

0:51.9

from an executive of a professional sports team.

0:55.0

So I'm going to lead off of this story just because of the fact that we got a lot to get to between

1:00.0

college football with the bowl games. We got the orange bowl coming up and we have the other

1:08.7

matchup in terms of Clemson and Notre Dame, Alabama and Oklahoma, but man, oh man, we got to talk about the

1:17.7

NHL here first because to preface this, the Dallas Stars are currently sitting in 8th place in the Western Conference.

1:26.0

So they're technically in the playoffs.

1:28.9

But these were the quotes coming from Jim Lights in an interview that he actually called for.

1:35.0

This wasn't like something on the spot where he got caught off guard by the interviewer.

1:40.0

He literally called the interviewer to say these quotes, which means he premeditated what he was going to say and still drop these bombs on his own players.

1:52.0

His star players being Tyler Sagan and Jamie Ben.

1:57.7

They are bleeping horse bleep.

2:00.4

I don't know how else to put it.

2:02.4

The team was okay, but Tyler and Jamie Ben were terrible.

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