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MBS 082 - Age of Bracket

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Mostly Nitpicking

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.6617 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2015

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

We have no strings on us. This week we bring on comedian Trevor Brenn to help us go through the results of the second round of our Ultimate Android bracket. You the listeners voted and eliminated half of the competitors leaving us with our Elite Eight. We examine every match and give our thoughts on this week's match ups. We also go over our March Madness mini brackets. We are almost finished with the Best Butler and we are just starting DJ's favorite, The Best Pizza Topping. Vote all week at www.madbracketstatus.com/p/polls

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0:00.0

What's going on?

0:09.3

And I'm D.J.

0:10.8

And this is Matt Brackett says episode 82.

0:13.6

Eighty-two.

0:15.2

Yeah!

0:15.4

82!

0:17.3

Both the NBA and NHL operate 82-game regular seasons.

0:20.6

And in Major League Baseball, the number of games a team must win to secure a winning season is 82.

0:26.1

Why is it 82 all the sports stuff?

0:29.2

Is that weird?

0:30.4

Yeah, I don't know why NBA and NHL like 82 games.

0:34.3

You know the NBA, some teams want them to do less games why's that all right

0:39.1

so you know how right now as the way it's presently formatted a lot of teams like the spurs are

0:44.4

famous for this like every third game they'll sit their starters right yeah so the logic is

0:49.5

if you had less games you wouldn't have to sit your starters.

0:55.3

Because, like, people get all mass.

0:51.3

Like, I pay tickets to see, like, these guys play. And now I'm, you know, watching fucking, you know. Some guy. Yeah. Someone we can't name. Shved. Shved. Shved. I'm watching Shved play. Oh, wait. He's in the next starring lab. But, ha. self-deprecating joke point is

0:53.0

less games

0:54.1

you wouldn't have to see

0:54.7

your starters all the time

0:55.5

so like Oh, wait, he's in the next starting line. But, ha-ha, self-deprecating joke. Point is, less games, you wouldn't have to see your starters all the time. So the teams want this, or the owners want this, or the fans want this? So the teams have said, there have been players who said, yeah, we want less games. The owners don't because they like money. Right. I don't know how people feel about it. I imagine people would be less on it too. Well, you know, if you told people, okay, less games, but you guarantee to see your stars every game. Then, you know. That's true. I don't know, man. I don't watch a lot of sports lives that aren't football, so I don't really care about any of these sports, but it seems like a big problem.

1:48.4

Speaking of football.

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