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Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

FTP Ep. # 623 Crosby Trade Nixed, Bam Adebayo drops 83? and Italy (yes Italy) puts Team USA on the ropes at the WBC

Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

Dwayne Callender

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.9440 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

You know it was a crazy night in sports when someone scoring 83 points in an NBA game is not the lead story for sports coverage on the networks.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Fantasy Throwdown Podcast, bringing you the latest from the world of sports, DFS, and gambling.

0:10.5

With over five years of hot takes and millions of downloads later, I guess he's been doing something right.

0:18.6

Now, sit back and listen to one of the sharpest minds in the game.

0:23.4

Here's your host, Dwayne Calendar.

0:29.5

All right, folks, we got to talk, and I don't have a lot of time.

0:32.8

So let's just break down what was an insane night of sports Tuesday night.

0:39.5

Basically, Team USA and the World Baseball Classic lost to Italy.

0:46.6

And I told you guys this before.

0:49.4

As we get further into the tournament, fewer and fewer starting pitchers are going to be available for Team USA.

0:55.8

And it bit them in this game because they basically did not have MLB starters in this game against Italy.

1:04.6

Italy jumped on the Murley, got out to a 5-0 lead,

1:07.9

and essentially the U.S. just could not get any hits on there to move forward

1:17.2

at the time. So basically they fall to Italy, 8 to 6. And again, huge upset. But I can't say that I'm, a lot of people are saying they're shocked,

1:29.9

but it's like, how can I say I'm shocked when you knew the USA pitching staff was not going to be that deep as the tournament went on?

1:38.3

So even, again, it's not necessarily major league hitters.

1:42.7

There were major league hitters on that roster for Italy,

1:46.4

but you never know on a given day starter if they've got it.

1:52.0

And none of the guys that the U.S. brought in early on,

1:54.7

they were all getting chilled.

1:56.2

Like just looking through the highlights of the game that I was able to catch up on.

2:00.4

The U.S. pitching was not good,

2:02.5

but this was my concern about them moving forward in the tournament with all these starters

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