Clean the Boards

By Austin Barach

From hot takes to statistical and annecdotal evidence, a group of friends review and debate the recent events in the sports world, mostly the NBA.

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The podcast currently has 120 episodes available.

Clean the Boards episodes:

October 18, 20214th Annual NBA Preview Show, Part 2/2: The West + Awards
(0:00) Intro segment

(5:00) Revealing our non-playoff team, 15-9

(8:37) Debating the major differences with our non-playoff teams

(17:21) Revealing our playoff teams, 8-1

(21:13) Debating the major differences with our playoff teams
Western Conference teams that were talked about the most: Timberwolves, Lakers, Clippers, and Warriors
(32:05) Revealing our awards predictions: ROY, COY, MIP, DPOY, MVP, and everyone's favorite fake award, the Darkhorse MVP... plus some 6th man

(44:19) ECF, WCF, and Finals predictions
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48min
October 17, 20214th Annual NBA Preview Show, Part 1/2: The East
(0:00) Intro segment

(3:00) General issues with the NBA today

(5:26) Revealing last year's prediction results

(9:18) College football
Here we go...
(11:22) Revealing our non-playoff teams, 15-9

(13:05) Debating the major differences with our non-playoff teams

(25:15) Revealing our playoff teams, 8-1

(29:30) Debating the major differences with our playoff teams
Eastern Conference teams that were talked about the most: Bulls, Knicks, Hawks, Nets, and of course, the Celtics
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52min
October 03, 2021Brady's Highly Anticipated Return to Foxboro, Other Week 4 Games, NBA Ramping up, and College
(0:00) Intro segment, including growing up being a Pats/Tom Brady fan...

(4:49) CtB birthdays and (5:17) Teasing the Brady return to Gillette...

(6:55) Setting the stage for TB-NE: Takeaways + observations from the Pats' first three games and (15:05) Bucs takeaways + observations this season

(22:30) Brady's Bucs vs. Belichick's Patriots preview: NE defense against Brady, the Brady vs. Mac intensity aspect, the media being anti-Belichick, some best-case scenarios for the Pats, NE offense against the TB defense and utilizing trick plays, and going through the Pats' schedule/the importance of not going 1-3... before (35:47) Official TB-NE score predictions

(37:11) Hitting the Week 4 slate: Titans-Jets, Giants-Saints, Ravens-Broncos, Steelers-Packers, Kirk Cousins, Zach Moss, and Lions-Bears

(45:42) An apology to Justin Herbert, (47:14) Patriots sources, and then (48:24) Seahawks-49ers and John's betting

(49:57) NBA gets going: the beautiful Seaport area in Boston, Kyrie and Jonathan Isaac on COVID vaccinations, and college stuff

(57:37) Hyping up the Celtics, (64:49) our college locations, and (65:32) Syracuse and Maryland football
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1h 9min
September 09, 20212021 NFL Season Preview, Part 2/2: Predicting the Seven Playoff Teams in Each Conference
(0:00) Intro segment
Revealing our AFC Playoff teams from the 7 seed to the 1 seed
(2:50) most talked about teams: Patriots, Broncos, Ravens, Browns, and Bills
Revealing our NFC Playoff teams from the 7 seed to the 1 seed
(30:49) most talked about teams: 49ers, Seahawks, Cowboys, Rams, Packers, and Bucs
Super Bowl talk
(66:17)
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1h 10min
September 07, 20212021 NFL Season Preview, Part 1/2: Steelers, Broncos, and 49ers
(0:00) Intro segment
Zach Kopelman previewing the Pittsburgh Steelers season
(1:16) Big Ben, the new OC, the defense, a bunch of depth guys, potential QBs of the future, going through the schedule, and much more
Richie Kuty previewing the Denver Broncos season
(24:25) Teddy Two-Gloves vs. Lock, the loaded secondary and defense in general, the weapons and the offensive line, going through the schedule, and much more
Sam Corcoran previewing the San Fransisco 49ers season
(38:43) Jimmy G and Trey Lance, the new identity of the defense, the dominant defensive line, the offensive line and the weapons, a bunch of depth guys, fantasy, going through the schedule, and much more
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1h 5min
August 20, 2021CtB Special: 3rd Annual Sports Jeopardy
(0:00) Intro segment on all the context that you might want to know about this episode

(6:00) Explaining the Jeopardy show rules/getting set up

(8:41) Jeopardy, just under 59 minutes of it here. NSFW. Good stuff. 37+ diverse trivia questions from our 5 participants.

(67:33) An official foe of the program induction

(68:54) Coy League fantasy talk

(73:35) CtB heading off to college...
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1h 16min
July 29, 2021CtB Special: CC Baseball Season in Review
(0:00) Intro segment
Coach Hernandez part
(2:00) Notable memories from the season, Senior Night, our 1-2-3 with Liam, Nick, and Ryan, Matt and Curley's pitching ability, how coach and Tony met, impressive home runs, food, internal excitement about Ryan stepping into the box, how to deliver a certain coaching message, the core senior class, reflecting on the St. Mary's loss and how the state playoff format is, the infamous alleged prom talk at Newton South, and having the stigma of looking intimidating in the halls of CC
Roman and Ryan part
(25:59) Beating Arlington, Roman's pitching performance against LS, Ryan's go-ahead home run against LS, our awesome team, Ryan inspiring a younger generation of CC baseball fans, Ryan reflecting on his impact on the team this season, Roman's personal favorite moment of the season, the Arlington student section, Roman's bittersweet moment, Roman and Ryan's post-high school baseball goals, Roman's assessment of CC baseball's team chemistry, Ryan's pre-at-bat superstition, mating, "Without Me" being the official 2021 CC baseball anthem, Austin's favorite memories of the season, name association with Roman, Roman describing pitching nuances, and Roman answering questions that were for Nick as if he were Nick
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48min
July 18, 2021Bucks-Suns Game 5 Anticipation and Series Thoughts/Takeaways; plus, Coach Kilian
(0:00) Intro segment

(1:19) Thoughts on Coach Kilian...

(10:42) Bucks-Suns Finals talk: assessing each of our Finals predictions through four games, concerns for the Suns, concerns for the Bucks, Chris Paul legacy stuff, our predictions for the pivotal Game 5 and the series, gambling stuff, Middleton-Giannis on-off logic, and debating the Giannis block in Game 4 against the LeBron block in Game 7 of the 2016 Finals
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44min
July 07, 2021Suns-Bucks NBA Finals Preview and More
(0:00) Intro segment

(2:00) Rundown of NBA things that have happened since our last show and (4:53) NBA Finals things to know/setting the scene
Bijan part
(8:25) The Clippers and Ben Simmons and the 76ers

(20:20) Suns-Bucks Finals preview, including the play of DeAndre Ayton, who the Suns are going to put Crowder on, the Giannis injury, and more
Ro and John part
(34:50) Trae Young appreciation and the Blazers situation

(39:58) Suns-Bucks Finals preview, including the matchups within the series

(60:15) Somewhat heated debates over where Ayton, Chris Paul, and Booker rank in the NBA
miscellaneous stuff with Bijan
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1h 20min
June 03, 2021(Probably) The Last in-Studio Show Ever: Banter and Such
PART 1/2:
(0:00) Intro segment... (3:55) March Madness theme one more time... (4:53) Banter...

(6:15) Ainge steps down, Stevens assumes his role; plus, our roots... (8:57) John vs. Bijan in elementary and middle school... (11:52) More on Ainge... (13:43) 2018 Game 7 ECF and us being changed people...

(16:26) More normal NBA stuff: NBA fans being reckless... (17:56) Bucks-Nets series predictions; plus, Romeo!... (20:23) Lakers-Suns... (24:03) Clippers-Mavs, the top 10 guys in the league right now, and more Lakers-Suns

(26:29) Bruins!
PART 2/2:
(27:58) Banter: Fear Los Braceras, origin stories of how CtB formed, notable moments in CtB history, full circle stuff, Williamson, a clip from the infamous Bucks-Celtics debate in 2019, a classic "red button" moment, the stages of Austin's voice, the clip of the very start of the very first show from September of 2018, the infamous Sorrentos day, fumbling, the Josh Gordon clip, the Men's Warehouse quote, is Ned here, infamous quotes, Tim and Cora, the Joe Boehenik schooling John Voice Memos, and Nadav and Van Gelder memories...

(52:48) People to thank for CtB... and (56:07) the future of CtB... into (57:16) the bittersweet outro into John Denver
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59min

FAQs about Clean the Boards:

How many episodes does Clean the Boards have?

The podcast currently has 120 episodes available.