Cast Iron Balls is here ahead of conference championship weekend to complain about what cannot possibly be a legitimate suggestion for improving the sport of baseball and also to discuss the various games and their PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — The birthday boy must scrub the tub or else he gets the club
6:05 — Abe Live Bets the Games
8:11 — WGAS NewsBag: Sports Edition; Just what the fuck is the GOLDEN AT-BAT?!
27:39 — College Football Playoff Rankings
51:30 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:01:05 — CIB Pick ‘em Game
1:09:13 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:13:47 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage
NYT: The Golden At-Bat rule could give MLB a new shine. But is it worth it?
ESPN: Poker pro Cory Zeidman pleads guilty to bettor fraud scheme
ESPN: Sources: Bill Belichick speaks with UNC about head coach job
ESPN: No Texas fans punished for throwing bottles in Georgia game
Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
Hello to my dear friends at Cast Iron Balls, and also to Abe.
Abe, I understand you had a birthday this past week. Forty-two! Those are rookie numbers! Gotta pump those numbers up. But happy birthday, young man! I hope that you live a long, blessed life, and that no one ever calls for your death on some no account podcast in the future. Though I must admit, I would be tickled pink if I manage to live long enough to get news of your untimely demise. But live long and prosper in the meantime, you bastard, because I'm not going anywhere! The Lord is just, I must still believe, but apparently not too merciful.
On to the football! The Oregon Ducks played footsie with Wisconsin a couple of weeks ago, but they’ve looked fairly dominant otherwise, against an admittedly mostly soft schedule. Penn State hasn’t played much of anybody besides Ohio State this season, either, but they lost that one, and they may well be the most fraudulent top five team I’ve ever seen. They have just one win in twenty four chances against top five opponents since the year 2000, and their coach, James Franklin is just three and eighteen against the top 10. This is not a man who knows how to win the big game. This is a man who is given lemonade, and figures out how to turn it back into lemons! Give me the Ducks, lay the three-and-a-half points, and then we can look forward to watching the Nittany Lions lose again in Happy Valley in a couple weeks, too! This new college football playoff system is just peachy, ain’t it?
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
The background music for Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
