The Haterrr’s Guiiide to the 2023 MLB Playoffs!
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Drew is locking Roth in to do a whole lot of baseball talking, because it’s the Haterrrrr’s Guiiiide to the 2023 MLB Playoffs! Who’s fun, who sucks, who’s gonna win it all, and who do we wish would win it all? But we also take an aside to talk about Michael Lewis, Walter Isaacson, and how they suck now. And as always, we Remember a Guy and dive into the Funbag.
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
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About The Show
From Defector Media: Former Deadspin writers Drew Magary and David Roth should really stick to sports. Sure, their new indie sports podcast will break down the week in sports: the Mets grounding into quadruple plays, NBA players getting testy on the court and horny on Instagram, Bill Belichick cutting 80% of his roster just to keep himself interested, horrifying takes from sports talk radio that need to be broken down, etc. But these two men and their guests will have their fair share of off-the-field issues they’ll also have to address: stupid Funbag questions, bad tweets from bad people, pointless food arguments, and even less. Every week is a VERY long week these days. We could all use a little 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. This is distraction. I'm true. That's rough. How you doing, Roth? |
| 0:06.0 | I'm good, man. How are things with you? You doing all right? |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, fine. I'm fine. We actually were going to have a guest this week. |
| 0:13.0 | We're going to have bears wide out, chase play pool on, but he asked to stay home this week. |
| 0:18.0 | So just you and me, Roth. Or he was asked to stay home. |
| 0:21.0 | It's sort of hard to say. Yeah, we don't quite know. |
| 0:24.0 | It could be one way or the other. I just, you know, I just run the place. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, I was going to say I make a suggestion, just a messaging suggestion. |
| 0:32.0 | If we want this story to go away, I think we need to give three or four very unclear answers to this question. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, that's true. Our also our defensive coordinator on the podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | He resigned or we fired him or maybe he's getting divorced. |
| 0:46.0 | It's kind of weird. We don't really get Mo. It's hard to say. |
| 0:49.0 | I just want to say that the FBI did not investigate me. |
| 0:53.0 | It did not happen. Nobody visited anybody's house. |
| 0:58.0 | No. Peanut Tillman was not involved in any way. |
| 1:00.0 | We're talking about the bears, but that's not the subject of this week's podcast. |
| 1:04.0 | No, it's not, Roth, because it's just you and me. |
| 1:06.0 | However, it's not one of our usual, you know, where we sit around and jerk off for an hour. |
| 1:11.0 | I actually require your expertise for this podcast because the majorly baseball playoffs begin this week. |
| 1:19.0 | They began on Tuesday and so I need you. |
| 1:22.0 | Give me a lay of the land for a very special. |
| 1:27.0 | To the playoffs to refresh your memory and by your memory, I mean mine. |
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