Sports! – The Men in the Arena

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

While Rob was visiting Patrick in Chicago, they managed to take in a Bulls game. Can you guess what happened next? A tie for the largest halftime deficit in Chicago Bulls history, of course. They witnessed history, folks! Nonetheless, visiting Chicago stirred something deep within Rob, which prompted a bunch of discussion about the future of local fandom in an era of high-priced tickets and high-priced streaming services, what makes attending a sports event great, and what sports cities Rob and Patrick are thinking about visiting later this year. Pitch us!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to Remap Sports and Sports Adjacent Podcast.
0:22.5	It sets out to disprove the notion that people with lives dedicated to pixels jumping across screen
0:26.3	can't also be unhealthily interested in what nerds condescendingly referred to as sports ball every Super Bowl.
0:31.4	Rob, I start off every episode with a question, but maybe we should change it for this one.
0:36.7	Are the Bulls back?
0:39.9	The Bulls, well, they traded someone, so that's like the first time, you know, they've,
0:45.2	they traded Zach Levine.
0:46.7	Who knows what that portends?
0:48.1	But you know, they traded Zach Levine to get back their own first round pick.
0:53.8	Well, yeah.
0:56.1	That they traded away.
0:58.2	They didn't trade anyone else?
0:59.5	It's like, hang on.
1:00.3	We still want to hold on to this core.
1:02.9	They managed to trade a bunch of players,
1:05.6	and the kind of net result of it was getting back.
1:09.7	Because it's a very quirky part about the way, like in the NFL, when you're like,
1:15.1	Blockbuster Trade, it's like, oh, they traded away these first round picks and maybe a player.
1:20.5	And the NBA, it's like way more complicated because you can put qualifiers on picks.
1:25.8	I'm sort of surprised.
1:27.0	I'd be wondering what the reason is that the NFL hasn't adopted a policy like this.
1:30.7	But basically, you might see this language, like, or a protected top 10 pick.
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