What could be the we've called the Nats the team of destiny all season and they did it they sure did they won the world series for the first time in franchise history last night

6 to 2 in the decisive game seven the kick in here it comes swagon and miss swagon and a world series game seven winning curly W is in the box the

celebration is on the Washington Nationals all the world champions howie Kendrick man howie Kendrick baseball is just the best I mean the

Nats were definitely seen as the underdogs here remember they were 12 games below 500 at one point a season but as the athletics Jason Stark pointed out to us on the show a while back

the Nats were actually one game better than the Astros since that point in the season and they were one game better than the Astros last night

I mean look to think about what they did here this incredible comeback just to make it to the wild card with all the story lines along the way

Aaron bear a Davey Martinez losing Bryce Harper they toppled the powerhouse Dodgers thanks to a howie Kendrick ran slam by the way and then they come out and they beat the two most dominant

pitchers in baseball to win their first title seriously baseball is the best pretty remarkable except you know now we're probably going to be hearing baby shark

everywhere I don't have a problem with that yeah he wouldn't and now onto our main story

there's an NBA team that's been off to a rather surprising start this season there's squad a team that has already started turning some heads so much so the sport section of this

morning's New York Times actually posed the question have you seen the Minnesota Timberwolves the Timberwolves lost to the sixers last night in a game that

featured a rather epic headlock wrestling match between Joelle and bead and Carl Anthony towns but before that the T wolves rattled off three straight wins to start the season for just the third time in franchise history

the team is led by the NBA's youngest head coach Ryan Saunders the son of course of legendary NBA coach flip Saunders and Ryan is yep all of 33 years old

to feel old honors no never the athletics John Krasinski recently got Saunders to open up about his struggles with grief after his father's death

and so today we're going to talk to John about Ryan Saunders journey and about how his youthfulness and his ability to connect with his players is helping the Timberwolves win

Ryan is one of those guys that not only are you calling him your head coach and your leader but you're calling him your best friend so

from wondering on the athletic I'm Kavita Davidson and I'm Anders Keltow it's Thursday October 31st happy Halloween happy Halloween and this is the lead

it felt like something great was happening

there was just something about the emotion

and the other person

the values of the past don't matter because we've got this now

this isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home it stays with you

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