TPJ S1E8

Tour Wars: PPA vs. MLP

• What is the difference between PPA and MLP?
• Timeline
  • The MLP was approached by an agency (Top Notch) and began signing players to exclusive, multi-year deals
  • These deals included health insurance, 401K, and pay players $200-300K annually
  • Famous sneak-attacks - Trojan Horse, Battle of Trenton, Attack on Pearl Harbor
  • MLP with a huge head start vs. PPA
  • Aggregate/individual views
    • PPA went after top talent
    • MLP went after the rest
• Questions
  • Which roster do you like more?
  • Biggest winners of the Tour Wars?
    • Players
    • Lawyers
  • Biggest losers?
    • Ownership
    • Leagues
• Doc explains the past mergers/eras when there were multiple sports leagues
• Hot Take: Players don’t deserve all this money
• Final predictions for how all of this plays out?
  • Dad’s thoughts/Loong’s comments
  • MLP and PPA go bankrupt, APP buys them for pennies on the dollar

PPA Kansas City

• Top Story: Ben Johns and Matt Wright partner up
  • Lost a few games, but ultimately won convincingly
  • Biggest challenge was JW and Dylan in the Finals
    • BJ/Wright blew 8-0 leads in both the first and second games (even lost the second game outright)
  • Question: How bad of a partner could BJ have and still win?
• Wright vs. Riley
  • Riley out in the quarter finals to Tyson and BPJ
• ALW and BJ: Triple Crown
  • ALW and BJ beat the bricks off of Newman and Irvine
  • Best match of the weekend: ALW/BJ vs. Hurricane/Tweener King
  • ALW and Catherine Parenteau faced off against Bright and Dizon in the finals
  • ALW cruised in singles with her only loss coming from Lina Padegimaite
  • BJ didn’t drop a single game in singles
• Other notes from the weekend
  • It was hot af (105 degrees)
    • Lots of drops were missed because the ball was softer
    • ALW couldn’t overpower
    • People were drenched in sweat
  • McMuffin vs. McGuffin
    • Came back from 3-10 to win in the semis vs. Fed
  • Fed needs a wardrobe change
    • Looks too much like BJ
  • Tweener King punches his paddle following his early loss to Vich
• Concussion Watch
  • BJ takes one to the dome from Dylan

Sports Betting

• Won my first bet Newman/Irvine -110 vs. two nobody’s
  • They are no favorites when money is on the line
• All of this and more in our Sports Betting 101 pod coming later this week

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