My Best Reply Guys with Emma Baccellieri
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Emma Baccellieri (Sports Illustrated) is back, and with a new book! Drew and Roth ask her about her writing process, and how she worked with co-author Jordan Robinson. Then, they talk Emma’s women’s Sweet Sixteen bracket and WNBA players’ collective bargaining. Finally, it’s Emma’s Soda Minute, and Drew and Roth open up the funbag to answer questions from Distraction listeners.
Go get Emma’s new book, Court Queens: Celebrate the Players, Teams, and History of Women's Basketball, out now!
Do you want to hear your question answered on the pod? Well, give us a call at 909-726-3720. That is 909-PANERA-0!
Stuff We Talked About
- Opening day is opening night
- When Netflix had DVDs
- WNBA CBA marathon negotiations
- Emma’s new favorite sodas!
- Dr. Pepper’s medical credentials
- Mr. Pibb’s neck tattoo
- Historical one-sided relationships
- The good mustaches
- Bloop out, get hard (cheese)
Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Brandon Grugle
- Editor: Mischa Stanton
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude Podcasts
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About The Show
The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Raw. That you doing Roth. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm good, man. How are you? |
| 0:08.2 | I hate to spring this news on you as we're recording, but I'm not here next week. You're going to have to find someone else to do the podcast with me. Spring break, man. |
| 0:17.9 | Where are you going? Are you going away? |
| 0:19.7 | You know, Daytona, you know, with my buds. |
| 0:22.0 | That's excellent. |
| 0:22.8 | We recorded last year from Drew was at South Padre Island, but he did bring his podcast, Mike. I read, I just read in the world history of MTV, and it was so good. And the best part was all the people, well, there were a lot of best parts, but one of the things was like people talking about the MTV spring break in Daytona and like all the posts and stuff |
| 0:40.1 | were like oh my, was so fucking gross. |
| 0:42.7 | Yeah, I think that that's like even you could tell, I remember as a kid watching like this MTV spring break stuff and being like, I don't think I'm ready to party. |
| 0:52.2 | Like I don't think I actually want to do that at all. I want to be there so bad, but it's apparently just all just barf and like, like spent malt liquor everywhere. But, hey, we have a special spring break guest, so we have to bring her on. It's Emma Batchelie area of Sports Illustrated. Yeah. Where are you going for spring break this year? Yeah, where are you going? Emma? |
| 1:13.1 | I have... Lake Powell, you get a houseboat with your friends? Like, Havasu? The lovely March |
| 1:18.3 | Madness assignments of Sacramento to Phoenix, where everyone wants to go to spring break, sweet 16, yeah. |
| 1:24.8 | Wow. I feel like there's a chance that it's like 113 degrees everywhere you are for the next, for the entire last week and for the entire next week. |
| 1:34.5 | Is that correct? |
| 1:35.8 | I think it'll be a little cooler in Sacramento. |
| 1:37.9 | But yeah, I am ready for, I think I can take the Phoenix heat after as gross as this winter has been and as cold as it's been. |
| 1:44.6 | So I'm ready for it. |
| 1:46.4 | Everybody says that before they go to Phoenix, but girl, the most pleasant weather I got in Phoenix was when I jumped out of an airplane because it was colder up there. |
| 1:55.4 | And then I got back down on the ground and I was hot again. |
| 1:57.6 | Could you like feel it getting warmer as you descended through the troposphere? |
| 2:01.6 | Of course. |
| 2:19.1 | Well, yeah, because it's 10 degrees. You lose 10 degrees every thousand feet. And I don't even know, you know, you jump from a few thousand feet. And it's cold as shit up there. And it's all blown in your face. And you get back down on the ground, you're like, oh, thank God on my cold anymore. And then you're like, oh, wait, now I have fifth degree sunburns everywhere. |
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