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Dan Le Batard

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4.9 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Underdogs crew is made whole once again. Peter returns to give his long shot NBA picks and of course, some love to his beloved New York Knicks. Jordan throws shade at the popular narrative that the new MLB Playoff format hurts 100-win teams. Tom sings the giant-killing praises of the chaos agent New York Giants. And finally, the Underdogs make their weekly NFL picks. Subscribe to Underdogs on Apple and Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Peter, welcome back.
0:01.6	Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for manning the helm and covering for me last week.
0:06.5	I am back. I'm back from COVID. I'm back from a family trip to Ireland, which went great.
0:11.7	I'm apparently back from all of my NBA research being just sidelined while you guys talked for
0:17.0	what was it? Two or three hours about all of your NBA picks.
0:20.5	It was a very pleasant two or three hours, wasn't it Tom? It felt like two or three minutes.
0:24.3	You know, it was just time flew when you're having fun. It wasn't contentious at all.
0:28.1	The chemistry, just the comfort with each other, the depth and level of analysis.
0:33.9	The average intelligence of the discussion went way up because I was gone for a week.
0:39.0	There's no question about that. But I wanted to ask you guys, did you guys pick Longshot MVP?
0:43.7	We kind of threw it in there at the end, maybe.
0:46.2	We were like, pick a favorite guy from one of these teams that we've dissected relentlessly, right?
0:50.4	Are you trying to say that you have a Longshot MVP pick? You'd like to share with the audience here?
0:54.4	Well, this goes back to our USC problem. How long a shot does it have to be to count as an underdog pick?
1:00.2	It's like the definition of pornography. We'll know when we see it.
1:02.9	I can go plus 1400 or I can go plus 5000, which one would you rather have?
1:07.4	I'd like to hear both, Tom. Yeah.
1:09.2	Because I want to ridicule you about the plus 1400, Janus pick or whatever.
1:12.7	Yeah, 1400 seems way too short.
1:15.3	No, Janus is plus 600.
1:17.6	Oh.
1:18.1	No, I just started looking at players and there's a guy who's 23,
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