TrapDraw Podcast – No Laying Up

KVV, Tron and Poosh fire up an OTA edition of the BallKnowers to recap the draft, ask which coaches, players and teams are on the hot seat headed into the 2025 season, and catch up on recent news from around the league.

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Neil and Cody are back in the booth to debrief on our first NLU Live, provide some 2025 goals and life updates, answer some listener line questions, what we're watching and reading, and more.

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Randy is joined by veteran tennis journalist and author Christopher Clarey in advance of the release of his book “The Warrior: Rafael Nadal & His Kingdom of Clay”. 

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TC and Randy chop it up with some debriefs on vacation and work travels, NFL draft thoughts, the NBA playoffs, Conclave betting odds, the city of Charlotte officially on notice for next week's PGA Championship and more.

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The Seamsters are across the pond in Northern Ireland but found some time to talk baseball with a month of the 2025 MLB season in the books. For this episode, we're joined by Paddy Neill - one of our video editors, and a Northern Ireland resident - for his perspective on this distinctly American pastime.

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TC and Poosh are joined by Nate Tice of Yahoo Sports ahead of this week's NFL Draft. Nate is a true tape grinder and takes us through his process for draft prospect evaluation and details some current trends around the league before we break down this year's draft class by position groups..

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Another week, another Chop Session. TC & Randy unpack quite a bit of stories they're monitoring, plus cover ground in unexpected areas. Also, a bit of a throwback episode of sorts--Randy's audio was coming in through his air pods, unbeknownst to him. So a full mea culpa there. Enjoy!

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TC & Randy are back chopping it up this week! They issue mea culpas, catch up on recent life events, and then dive into some of the biggest news stories from around the world. Enjoy!

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The Booth Boys are back as Neil and Cody recap recent life events, travel logistics headaches, provide an in-progress report on some of our 2025 goals and more.

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Opening Day is almost here for the 2025 MLB season and the Seamsters Union has you covered with a team by team preview of all thirty big league clubs and a non-Dodgers World Series pick.

Division previews: AL East (7:30), NL East (31:00), AL Central (52:00), NL Central (1:09:00), AL West (1:39:45), and NL West (1:55:10).

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For our first airport focused episode of 2025 TC is joined by Windtalker - a friend of the program and current airline pilot who's also served as an air traffic controller.

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Two weeks in row for the Chop Session! TC & Randy are back and they have a whole long list of stories and topics to cover. Whereas last week was heavily into sports, this week is anything but. Get up to date and stay up to date with what's going on in the world around us. Enjoy!

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TC & Randy are chopping it up this week! They kick off the show discussing where and how to better find some joy in their personal day to days. They then hit on some recent travel, cooking items, and other life experiences. Finally, at the 1:10 mark, Bob Sturm (1310 The Ticket in Dallas) hops on to chat with Randy about the Luka trade and the fallout in the MetroPlex. Enjoy!

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DJ, Randy and Tim Simons are back for one of the best traditions going on the TrapDraw, the Oscars Extravaganza! Live from Los Angeles, the boys tackle a whole host of move-related topics upfront before turning their attention to the Best Pictures. Beginning at the 1:24:00 mark they reveal their consensus rankings of the ten Best Picture nominees, culminating with their choice for the industry's top honor. Enjoy, and please note, there will be spoilers!

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The Eagles are champs and the BallKnowers have convened to offer some Mea Culpas and have an open and honest discussion around Super Bowl LIX MVP Jalen Hurts. From there, we look ahead to the 2025 Regular Season and some early thoughts on the Eagles, Chiefs, AFC North and more. We close the pod with the BallKnowers Top 10 QB power rankings - a compilation of our own personal rankings - to see who we feel is the best signal caller in pro football.

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Neil and Cody return to the TrapDraw for our first Booth of 2025 with Randy joining as a special guest. We open with Mea Cuplas before offering a thorough review of the Super Bowl - the game itself, Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance, the Fox TV broadcast and more.

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Tron and Randy are back chopping it up this week. There's an extended mea culpa section, a girthy selection of news stories to monitor, and then some sports and travel talk. Enjoy!

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The BallKnowers (minus Poosh) all in the same room together! Join KVV and special guest Neil as they try to hold TC and Randy accountable for a season's worth of takes. Plus, we break down Conference Championship weekend and make final picks for the Super Bowl.

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Randy is back from honeymoon and chopping it up with TC! They unpack recent travels, offer mea culpas, hot on some sports topics, and go through their monitoring list. Enjoy!

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TC goes to the bullpen for this chop session as Neil and D.J. step in for Big Randy for the latest mea culpas, a healthy list of items we're monitoring, and some air travel talk as well.

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With Big Randy away on his honeymoon, the rest of the BallKnowers gather to recap our preseason teams draft standings, atone for our bad takes, rank MVP candidates, play some rapid-fire buy/sell with some miscellaneous NFL topics and make some predictions for the upcoming playoffs.

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A No Laying Up tradition returns with our annual Goals podcast. We begin with the christening of 2025 as "The Year of the ______", get a report card for how we did with our 2024 goals and then set out our personal goals for 2025.

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What better way to wrap 2024 than a Chop Session to get people through the holidays? TC & Randy cover *a lot* of ground in this one. They unpack Randy's wedding, they offer up a bunch of mea culpas, they discuss the biggest news stories, and get into some sports. Enjoy!

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The stove is hot! Baseball's winter meetings have come and gone and we've got plenty of new faces in new places. Randy and DJ talk ball in the first half of the episode, including their reaction to the biggest moves of the offseason thus far. In the second half of the show (at the 1:00:18 mark), Keith O'Brien stops by to discuss his new book, "Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball." Keith has written the definitive biography of the late Hit King, Pete Rose. Whatever your opinion of Pete we...

For this Owners pod we head to Duuuuval and profile the ownership history of the Jacksonville Jaguars. We begin with the franchise's beginnings in the mid 90s NFL expansion and the original owner, Wayne Weaver. From there it's on to the Shahid Kahn ownership tenure, highlighted by the infamous Urban Meyer era, the flirtation with a potential move to London, stadium renovation plans in Jacksonville, and a ton more.

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Neil and Cody are back for a wide-ranging Booth episode of the TrapDraw as we look back at the college football games over Thanksgiving, deal with the breaking news of the South Korean president declaring martial law and other global conflicts, reflections on the NLU Census, audio and video podcast strategies, updates on what we're watching and reading and some merch updates as well.

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The long wait for another college football-focused Trap Draw episode is over as Ryan Nanni returns to the pod to discuss his latest content series - Who Killed College Football. Ryan partnered with Steven Godfrey for an all-encompassing look at the current state of college football and the impacts of various stakeholders in the game including TV Networks, conference offices and commissioners, the NCAA, the NFL and more.

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Tron and Randy are back to chop it up about all the most important current events going on across the world. Enjoy!

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The BallKnowers have reconvened as we head into the second half of the NFL's regular season. We talk through some contenders, pretenders and frauds, MVP candidates, quarterback play and our favorite uniforms.

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We've reached a tenth installment of our Owners Series pods as we look to the shores of Lake Erie and the Buffalo Bills.

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Tron and Randy are back to chop it up this week. They offer a few mea culpas to begin before turning their attention to life, sports, and news stories from around the world. Then, at the 41:25 mark, they welcome Matt Stoller on the show to examine the current state of antitrust. He talks about the Google case specifically, the monopolistic behavior of pharmacy benefit managers, whether the Krogers/Albertsons merger will go through, and a lot more. Enjoy!

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DJ is back off paternity leave as the full Seamsters Union gathers to recap the 2024 MLB regular season, the playoffs thus far and look ahead to the Yankees and Dodgers squaring off in the World Series with the help of a special guest - A's Outfielder Brent Rooker who joins us a half hour into tonight's show. We also get Brent to nerd out on advanced stats, automated strike zones, the A's upcoming relocation to Sacramento and more.

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Cody and Neil are back - and overcoming the adversity of podcasting with sick kids - to bring you the latest edition of The Booth. We're also checking in on DJ Pie, looking ahead to the possibility of a Subway Series, an update on what we're reading and watching, and more.

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The BallKnowers are back as we look at the issues plaguing the Niners, Jags and Bengals and react to the news of Robert Saleh being fired as Jets head coach. On the back half of tonight's episode we reveal our current top five quarterbacks in the NFL, guess at the next coach to get fired, and look at the standings in our season long team draft contest.

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TC & Randy chop it up this week and oh boy do they have a lot to cover. They catch-up on their personal lives to start, hit on a few quick sports topics, and then span the globe discussing the most important news stories. Enjoy!

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There are only have six days left in baseball's regular season so you know it's time for the Seamsters Union to call a meeting. With DJ on the paternity list, Soly and Randy chat through the playoff scenarios still in play, including who'd they'd like to see make the postseason. They revisit their beginning of the season predictions (narrator: it's not pretty) and discuss who they think will win the biggest awards. After that they recognize some good seasons and discuss a few broader questions. Finally, stay tuned til the end to find out who won the famed fantasy...

Cody and Neil are back with another edition of the Booth covering some goal updates and thoughts on recent news from New York City and the Middle East.

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Neil's recent appearance on the We're Just Ken podcast

NYT The Daily Podcast - Israel's Existential Threat From Within

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TC & Randy re-convene to discuss all the most pertinent issues from around the globe. They begin with housekeeping items and mea culpas before moving into big stories they're monitoring, NFL Week 1 reactions, and highlighting some recent travel issues. Enjoy!

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KVV, Neil and Tron are back with the ninth installment of our Owners series. We open with a few thoughts on the news of NFL ownership approving private equity investment into franchises before our profile of the ownership history of the San Francisco 49ers.

Link to Cleveland Magazine profile of Edward DeBartolo Sr

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The NFL returns a week from today, so the BallKnowers had to convene to talk ball and draft their teams for the upcoming season. Tron, Randy, KVV and Mr. Poosh go through some big questions around the league as we approach the season before getting into the draft. Just like last year, the scoring for the competition is as follows:

1 point for each regular season win (0.5 points for a tie)

2 points for making the playoffs

2 points for making the Divisional round

3 points for making the Conference championship