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The OKC Thunder are not a super team and Carmelo Anthony is trash

I do not give a fuck about the Oklahoma City Thunder. I do not care that they have three quote-unquote superstars because Melo is trash. Paul George and Russ Westbrook are still very, very good, but they are not going to beat anyone. Even if they win their first series, they're not going to do anything. It's like this thing that happens to everyone's brain where they see a couple of splashy names on a team together and they say super team. They don't let them get in a series. They could beat anyone. They could not beat anyone. They're not good.

The Thunder lost in the first round to the Jazz in 6 games.

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Apr 13, 2018
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The Capitals losing Game 1 is good because you can't win a Cup without adversity

This is how you find out what your team's made of. You can't win a Stanley Cup if you don't have to battle through some adversity. Good news is we got it out of the way right away.

The Capitals famously overcame years of playoff failures to win the 2018 Stanley Cup.
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Apr 13, 2018
#29523
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The Timberwolves are the hottest team entering the playoffs because they already played an elimination game

The Timberwolves, we can now say, are the hottest team in the playoffs because their playoffs already started. They played an elimination game against the Nuggets. So they already know what it's like to have playoff intensity.

The Wolves lost in the first round 4-1 to the Rockets, so the 'hotness' didn't translate to success.
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Apr 13, 2018
#29524
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Karl-Anthony Towns is a top 10 player and the clear leader of the Timberwolves over Jimmy Butler

Any time that you can get a team that has a really, like, a transcendent talent on there, like Cat, it's going to be fun to watch them in the playoffs... If we're playing Who's Man's with the Timberwolves, this is not Jimmy Butler's team. This is Cat's team. Cat is probably a top 10 player.

Subjective, but Butler led the team to its only playoff appearance in that era and Towns struggled in that specific playoff series.

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The Brewers have the World Series sealed

I think the Brewers have this thing sealed up after an insane Monday night where they were just awesome.

The episode says Tampa Bay extended the series to Game 5, so the prediction was not yet resolved at the time of this transcript; the eventual World Series result is not established in the provided context.
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There will be no MLB lockout

They'll figure it out. There's too much at stake. They'll figure it out. It's not 1994 anymore. They'll figure it out.

The transcript is from October 2026 and the provided context does not establish whether MLB games were ultimately missed.
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A 24-team College Football Playoff is starting to make sense

I'm starting to grow on it. My problem is, I'm thinking about it in just this year where we actually had parity.

This is a subjective opinion about playoff format and cannot be definitively judged.