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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Miami’s Upset Potential, Clippers Chaos, the Villainous Astros, and MLB Bubble Playoff Picks With Jackie MacMullan and CC Sabathia

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons shares his NBA Finals pick (2:20) before he's joined by renowned sports journalist Jackie MacMullan to discuss the Clippers and Doc Rivers parting ways, the Clippers' playoffs collapse, the Celtics' playoffs exit, enticing NBA Finals story lines, and more (6:00). Then Bill talks with World Series champion CC Sabathia about the MLB playoffs, the New York Yankees taking care of business against the Cleveland Indians, World Series predictions, the age-old question of restructuring the MLB season, NBA Finals, NFL excitement, and more (1:10:14). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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By volume. We're also brought to you by the ringer podcast network and the ringer.com. We have a couple of things for you in store after game one of the NBA finals.

1:18.0

The ringer NBA show will be going live basically right after I think it'll be on Twitter and will be running the podcast and ringer NBA as well.

1:25.8

And then I am bringing my act with Rocello from this podcast to Rocello's podcast.

1:31.0

On Wednesday night right after that game ends, Rocello and I are taping we're doing our thing this week.

1:36.4

On his turf breaking down game one everything we saw and that will run late late late night on Wednesday.

1:43.0

So he will not be on this podcast this week. I have a great one for you coming up going to do my NBA finals pick at the top Jackie McMillan talking about a whole bunch of great NBA subplots going on right now plus the finals.

1:53.4

And then CC sabatheia baseball playoffs a whole lot more very excited for this one first our friends from protein.

2:20.2

All right before we get to Jackie just quickly want to give my final pick as I mentioned during the back and forth that we had that I was leaning toward Miami.

2:27.8

I'm just going to say this now because we're just going up shortly late late Tuesday night.

2:34.2

I'm picking Miami in six and I really feel strongly about it. I really think they have an excellent chance of winning the series.

2:41.4

I go into it in some detail in the Jackie part of this so I don't want to step on that.

2:46.6

But Miami in six it's 10 to one odds right now. I just think the odds are are the best.

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