The Improbability of UConn Hoops, Theo Epstein on Changing Baseball. Plus Ryen’s Solo Fantasy Baseball Draft.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Russillo shares his thoughts on the absurdity of UConn's five men's national championship wins since 1999 (0:43), before talking with MLB consultant for on-field matters Theo Epstein about undoing some of the changes that analytics brought to baseball over the past 20 years, listening to the fans, boosting the profile of MLB star players, leaving the Red Sox after winning two World Series titles, ways to rebuild a baseball team, what is next for Theo, and more (11:20). Then Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:07:27), before he live-pods during his hour-plus fantasy baseball draft (1:32:22). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Theo Epstein Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is loading.
0:15.0	You've gone a fifth national championship in the men's team.
0:19.0	How improbable this is.
0:20.0	Theo Epstein on Fixing Baseball, on Leaving the Red Sox, on learning about yourself as
0:26.5	a young executive with a great resume and what's next.
0:30.5	Life advice.
0:32.5	And as our bonus baseball episode, I draft my fantasy team by myself for an hour and a half.
0:42.5	The Yukon men have five national championships now and that's fucking crazy.
0:47.5	They beat San Diego State last night, not super locked into college basketball during the regular season.
0:52.5	Anymore like I used to be, but watch this tournament watching Yukon play.
0:56.5	They're like, man, they've got like seven or eight guys that are all really good watching anybody try to go
1:01.5	at San Diego was was hysterical.
1:03.5	It's like trying to post up a brick wall.
1:05.5	San Diego State's an older team.
1:07.5	They're tough to come back during the final four was incredible, but the limitation they have as far as shot creators,
1:14.5	like it just kind of played out.
1:16.5	They were lucky to only be down 12 to half.
1:19.5	I thought where you kind of got a little weird at the end of it.
1:21.5	It felt a little bit like the women's national final where you're like, okay, this is a really good story at Iowa,
1:25.5	but LSU is clearly the better basketball team.
1:28.5	And that's what it felt like last night.
1:29.5	So they feel like they were the right team to win this whole thing.
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