Let Them Eat Takes

Not much to say other than come and get this one while it's still hot. Also, what pictures would you like to see JT Daniels' beautiful mugshot superimposed on?

We have successfully re-emerged from hibernation to deliver yet another installment of your favorite sports pod. Joining us again is Kevin Sprague to talk all things NBA. We’ll get into the draft, the antics of James Harden, which teams are exciting, which teams you should be watching, which teams you should be actively hating, our new favorite sports mascot (HINT: he's from Orlando) and we take a brief detour through college football.

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So, we took a long break; turns out October was way too outrageous even for a Sports Podcast for the outrage era.  But lament no more;  we’re back, and we’re doling out the harshness like never before. This episode was recorded about a week before it finally uploads so forgive us if we’re a bit tardy, but this was mostly a catch-up for us. We’ll revisit the World Series, talk about the state of the NFL, and we’ll devote an entire homer segment to discuss Kirby smart and Georgia’s quarterback situation. Also, we’re going to talk about a weapon called a Lemon Squeezer, which is famous for killing US President William McKinley.

Air raid is cool. You know what would be cooler? An airboat raid, which is what we think will be the next stage of LSU's offensive evolution. We got lots of good stuff to talk about this week: Colin Cowherd’s vendetta against backwards hats a satirical web article that went viral for being taken seriously, some thoughts about Mike Leach and the air raid coming back to the SEC, some overreactions to week 1 of SEC play, Trevor Bauer, Freddie Freeman, the Baseball postseason, and we’ll share our thoughts at the end about scheduling weddings on college football Saturdays.

The Atlanta Falcons should have fired Dan Quinn and hired Kyle Shanahan immediately after Super Bowl LI. Now that that is out of the way we can resume our episode description. Did you know there are baseball players, but then there are dudes? If you're not paying attention to golf, then you need to because Bryson DeChambeau (to learn more, go to his Twitch channel). We'll go over college football matchups (which will be occurring upon the date of this upload) and we'll talk about a hotdog price to kill for. Also, we'll collectively mourn the darkest day in Big 10 history.

This LTET might not be as hot and ready as a Little Caesar's $5 pizza, but the takes therein are certified fresh by us. We recorded this before the Big 10 announced its return to college football so some of the discussions are a bit behind on the news; however, we will be recording the day after this episode releases so we will talk about that in greater detail then. But we still got lots of good stuff to talk about; we’re talking football, baseball, equestrian sports, wildfires, Madden football, and we even have a segment about our favorite chicken tender establishment.

In this episode, the LTET crew offers its thoughts on the most recent NBA draft. "But wait," your mind rudely interrupts this podcast summary, "with the exception of Scott, you guys know absolutely nothing about professional basketball." And you're right... which is why we brought on to the show our very first guest, Kevin Sprague. Kevin is a basketball superfan and blogger and offers us some great insight into the state of the league. Other topics in this episode include some soccer, the "judgement free zone," some physics metaphors for Georgia Tech football, and (as always) some red-hot takes from the greatest minds in sports entertainment.

Seriously though; the good folks in Oxford, Mississippi and elsewhere would love to know what's gonna save college football if you have some suggestions (but letting the players have some of the profits ain't an answer they want just yet). We'll talk all things college football, some baseball, some golf, Lou Williams, some really good hot wings (from a rather unlikely place), a Michael Jordan video game that's bananas, all wrapped up in a touching moment in which we revel in how lame the Dallas Cowboys have really been for the last quarter-century.

Today, we make sports takes history in the discovery of a take that inexplicably escaped from the multiverse and into our humble plane of existence. We're talking lots and lots of baseball, some soccer, CFB (which now stands for "COVID football'), some Atlanta sports lamentations, plus a retro football video game we should all be playing instead of Madden.