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The World Cup belongs on the Mount Rushmore of professional sports playoffs

Mount Rushmore of Professional Sports Playoffs... I'm gonna go football. One. I'm gonna go basketball. Two. I'm gonna go, I'll go hockey. Three. I would like to go World Cup four if that's okay.

Subjective ranking of playoff formats.

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Jun 18, 2025
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The Toronto Maple Leafs were the second-best team in the NHL this year because they were the only ones to take the Panthers to seven games

I mean, if you had to pick a second best team, PFT, it's probably the Toronto Maple Leafs. 'cause they took 'em to seven. [PFT]: I was about to start the show by congratulating the Toronto Maple Leafs on being better than the Edmonton Oilers.

The Oilers made the finals, while the Leafs were eliminated earlier; series length against a common opponent is a humorous but logically flawed metric for 'second best.'
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Jun 18, 2025
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Connor McDavid is currently incapable of winning the big one

I feel bad for [Connor McDavid]. He's an incredible player, but as of right now, I'm just going on the facts that I see — has not won the big one. And we're being a little tongue in cheek, but obviously this will be the, the, the prevailing story of can he win the big one.

Subjective 'legacy' talk. While McDavid hasn't won a Cup in this timeline, 'incapable' is an extreme framing for the best player in the world.
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Jun 18, 2025
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The Indiana Fever need to hire a Charles Oakley-style enforcer to protect Caitlin Clark

This is actually a great opportunity for somebody that's like into the bench player on the Fever, become the Caitlin Clark defender. Just start learning boxing, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, whatever. And then just be an enforcer. Be the Charles Oakley... that just goes out there and beats the shit out of girls that try to go out at Caitlin.

The Fever have not officially designated a specific 'enforcer' for this role, though teammates do defend her.

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Robot armies will take over the world within the next 10 years

I think we're dangerously close like robot soldiers and the whole robots taking over the world thing isn't as far away as we thought it was gonna be... If you see this robotic hand from X1... it looks like a human hand. And I just think that we're like in a really bad spot and I didn't think it would come in our lifetimes, but it it might be over... I think it's coming like in the next 10 years.

The timeline for sentient or militant AI/robot takeover is speculative.
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Conor McGregor will fight again and eventually go on a boxing run

I think [McGregor] will fight again. And then even outside the UFC, I think he also will go on like the boxing run afterwards.

McGregor has continued to tease fights, though serious boxing matches haven't materialized in a sustained 'run' yet.
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Cristiano Ronaldo will play in the 2030 World Cup in Portugal

He's gonna play if he's got the club coach for real... then that would be awesome. I'm being serious. I love that for us... I think there's a world where he can learn from this World Cup and realize that maybe he takes a different role on the team... even at 44 when the World Cup comes around.

A prediction for an event in 2030.