Your favorite sports podcast is back to discuss what’s wrong with the MLB playoffs, contemplate the general awfulness of Auburn, and generally walk you through your sports-enjoying weekend. 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 — Abe Live-Bets the Games!
4:07 — The Braves have been eliminated! And lots of talking about fixing the MLB playoffs
24:20 — Auburn flips 5-star Notre Dame quarterback commit
31:07 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:03:23 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest
1:13:18 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, live from Plains
1:21:30 — Wrap-up! FanDuel sued for aggressively pursuing a degenerate gambler; Antonio Pierce penalty

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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/

We’re a little bit all over the place in this week’s CIB, with apocalypses to ponder in Atlanta, North Carolina, Israel, the voting booth, and the movie theater. 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 — Atlanta is definitely not at the beginning of a zombie apocalypse
4:15 — Reading Elon’s tweets, for some reason
16:43 — Hurricane Helene
25:49 — Israel expanding its fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon
30:54 — Quick election update and a look at a Trump ad
43:08 — Did the medicalizing of obesity hurt more than it helped, and how this relates to Rob Gronkowski
58:15 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:08:19 — Wrap-up! Abe on Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.

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/

Though we would prefer to pretend that this weekend never happened, Cast Iron Balls is here to discuss Alabama’s thorough humiliation of the Georgia Bulldogs, along with the rest of the weekend’s sports action. 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 — Abe live-bets the MNF games
4:06 — A vicious coup d’youth beisbol
6:45 — Georgia vs Alabama
38:57 — The rest of the college football weekend
52:30 — One Hot Take: Intentional Grounding is a dumb rule
1:05:00 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest and Jimmy Carter Lock of the Week Update
1:10:05 — Pete Rose and Dikembe Mutombo, both dead now while the Braves live
1:15:30 — Wrap-up! Listener mail; Abe at Truist Park

Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.

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/