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Theo Epstein
Tony Romo has "retired" and we remember his career as the most fun twitter meltdown quarterback ( - ). Emergency Mount Rushmore in honor of Romo naming the best quarterbacks who won exactly 2 playoff games ( - ). National Championship recap + Hot Seat/Cool Throne ( - ). Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein joins the show to talk about breaking 2 curses, how he tries to build a team, what his favorite trade was, and mean tweets ( - ). Segments include PR 101, Radio Wars, Stay Woke and Stay Classy for Jim Nantz not giving away a National Championship Necktie.
Recap
Big CatTony Romo is the most fun quarterback to watch fail in NFL history
I'll give you right now Tony Romo's legacy. You don't have to read anything else. He is the most fun quarterback to hate of all time. That's his legacy. That's what it is. He broke your heart if you're a Cowboys fan. But for everybody else... he was the most fun quarterback to watch fail.
Big CatTony Romo will not be a good broadcaster
Tony... he's not going to be – I don't think he's going to be very good in the broadcast booth. Hot take, Tony Romo is not – this is the classic media loving the guy who smiled a lot, who had his backwards hat... who answered questions, and was generally likable.
PFT CommenterKansas will win the 2019 National Championship
I'm going to go with Kansas [for 2019 champion].
Interview
Theo EpsteinThe biggest competitive advantage in baseball today is understanding players as human beings rather than just data
The ironic thing about that is it's kind of swung the pendulum back where I think the biggest competitive advantage now is actually understanding players as human beings, what makes them tick, getting the right kind of guys, building the right kind of chemistry, and then treating them the right way so that the team can take off.
Theo EpsteinPosition players are significantly better first-round draft bets than pitchers
The best bets in the first round are position players. They return, on average, about twice as much value as pitchers. If we were going to put our resources... we wanted to do it with position players.
Theo EpsteinKyle Schwarber will be an average defensive left fielder
I think [the concern about his defense] is overblown. I think he'll be average out there in left. You know, he boxed those two balls against the Mets whenever everyone was watching. So everyone thinks he's brutal. So I'll actually probably surprise some people who haven't seen him play since then.
Theo EpsteinThe Cubs would not have won the 2016 World Series without the Game 7 rain delay
I buy it. I don't think we win the World Series without that [rain delay], but you can't prove it. ... If you blow a lead late in any game, it's hard to then come back and win... our players were shell-shocked... and that rain delay... they rallied each other.
Radio Wars
Big CatCollege athletes should be allowed to profit off their own likeness
I do think that a player should be able to profit off their own likeness in some form or fashion. ... Put the money in a blind trust? ... Pay them after they get out of college?
Stay Woke
PFT CommenterPhil Mickelson intentionally reported Lexi Thompson's rules violation to ensure the PGA Tour was on notice
I think Phil Mickelson called in this rules violation ahead of the Masters to make sure everybody was on their game. ... Also stay woke. Maybe he was just making this quote to get the headlines that he paid $2 million to his bookie last year, pushed down a little bit on the Google search results.