Random Ranking: Songs about bodies of water
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Andy recently received an absurd amount of suggestions for a Random Ranking topic. Well, after sorting and determining which recommendations were his favorite, he decided on one: Songs about bodies of water. How much more random can you get? Join Andy as he unveils his list of favorite songs about bodies of water. The songs run the gamut of genres, so we hope everyone's musical preference is met at least once!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show. |
| 0:11.2 | This is a special random ranking edition. |
| 0:14.1 | What's a random ranking you ask? |
| 0:15.4 | Well, if you read the Dear Andy column on Thursdays in The Athletic, and I hope you do, |
| 0:20.1 | you know what it is. I rank |
| 0:22.6 | something. And where that comes from is at my old job, I was a voter in the Associated Press |
| 0:29.7 | college football poll for five years. It was awful. Basically, you got up every Sunday morning |
| 0:35.0 | during the season and you ranked the top 25 teams as |
| 0:38.0 | you saw it and then once you put that out into the public people just yelled at you because |
| 0:43.1 | they were really mad that their team was number 23 and this other team was number 21 and you |
| 0:49.4 | tend to really hurt their feelings when you explain that there's really not much difference between |
| 0:53.7 | number 23 and |
| 0:54.5 | 21 and Ricky Bobby had it right when he said if you ain't first, you're last and that's loser |
| 0:59.5 | thinking. That really hurt people's feelings. And so I got a lot of vitriol from my time as an AP poll |
| 1:07.9 | voter. And so when that time expired, which basically consisted of me telling |
| 1:12.9 | the AP's Ralph Russo, some very unkind words in the press box after the national title |
| 1:19.5 | game when he was trying to get my final AP ballot for that season, I decided I didn't want to rank |
| 1:27.2 | football teams anymore, but I like ranking things. |
| 1:30.1 | So every week, we have a random ranking. |
| 1:33.3 | The readers give me ideas, and I rank the things. |
| 1:36.7 | And the readers are incredible. |
| 1:39.1 | The people are great. |
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