🎙️ Episode 43 is here!

Has baseball sacrificed the art of hitting in the pursuit of home runs? Is Ohio State’s $17 million jersey sponsorship a smart business move or another sign that tradition is disappearing? Which NBA legends stayed on the court one season too long, and have championship rings become the only way we measure greatness?

We tackle all of that and more in another packed episode of The Skud Missile Podcast.

We open by examining the dramatic decline of the .300 hitter and debating whether analytics have fundamentally changed the way baseball is played—for better or worse. Next, we discuss Ohio State’s groundbreaking partnership with JPMorgan Chase and what it means for the future of college athletics in the NIL era.

Later, we look back at some of the NBA’s biggest names who may have played one season too long before debating whether players like Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, Steve Nash, Chris Paul, Allen Iverson, and James Harden deserve to be judged by championships alone.

In this week’s listener mailbag, we discuss whether prediction markets like Kalshi are really any different from sports gambling, weigh in on the latest involving Tony Romo, and break down ESPN’s preseason college football X-factors while sharing which players, coaches, and teams could shape the race for the national championship.

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