Children's Palace, Analytics of the NBA and MLB, Jimmy Haslam, Kyrie Irving and Mad Men - WFNY Podcast - 2013-07-03

Published: July 3, 2013, 2:38 a.m.

b'It has been way too long since I caught up with Jon. So, naturally we talked about everything from TV and sports and stats to the Browns and whether or not Jon can ever be an NBA fan. Hint. Probably not.\\n\\n\\nOld stores like Children\\u2019s Palace, Kiddie City, Best, Fretter, Bernie Shulman\\u2019s\\n\\nK-Mart, Wal-Mart and Target\\n\\nWould a drunk podcast worthy of listening to?\\n\\nTalking about everything but football when talking about the Browns\\n\\nTalking about optimizing strategies and contract language\\n\\nBarkevious Mingo and how it would be refreshing to just talk about him\\n\\nWhen your team doesn\\u2019t make the playoffs you really get short-changed as a fan\\n\\nEnjoying the aesthetics of the sport vs. water cooler fandom\\n\\nWatching the end of a basketball game without watching the early part of the game\\n\\nWhich sports are you willing to watch no matter who is playing?\\n\\nWatching sports as a stakeholder is a totally different thing\\n\\nKeeping timelines free and clear\\n\\nKyrie Irving and if he\\u2019s actually one of the superstar types\\n\\nHow good is Kyrie Irving and how good will he be by the end of his career?\\n\\nScott Raab\\u2019s question about if the Cavaliers have a plan or not\\n\\nWould Dan Gilbert follow through with his feeling that he would trade a guy that wouldn\\u2019t commit?\\n\\nThe Indians and having actual athletes and baseball players on the field\\n\\nKipnis = Pedroia = Eckstein\\n\\nGuys who put up numbers who are not entertaining to watch\\n\\nGuys who don\\u2019t put up numbers who ARE entertaining to watch\\n\\nMoneyball and analytics\\n\\nThe analytics of movements in basketball and soccer\\n\\nDo we ruin sports with the way we analyze them?\\n\\nSports stats and analytics are like Bobby having a train set in the Sopranos\\n\\nMad Men finale and Don Draper. Is he redeemed?\\n\\nTaking people down with the ship is the antithesis of redemption\\n\\nIf you find yourself as an artist then you need to let the art speak for itself\\n\\nIf The Sopranos are Nirvana then Ray Donovan is Limp Bizkit\\n\\nWhat will life be after Mad Men and Breaking Bad\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'