Not For Nothin'

End of the Season for baseball... I know, I know just the regular season. But honestly who freakin' cares. Just get it over with... Anyway, the guys throw one last bone to the sport they love to "hate," and pick two dumb teams to root for and bet on. Some how they get almost 19 minutes out of it. Kris really digresses for a minute on how NBA training camps started (talk about a two pump chump), then Chris steers him back to football where they belong (somewhere around the 38 minute mark for you nerds) - and its all Hefty Bag coaches, Patriots and game picks! What a wonderful world.

Another early Thursday Morning show. Maybe these boys are growing up? But why talk Sports on a show about sports, when you can talk Mandy! They spend a lot of time talking about this movie and Nic Cage. You can hear the passion. they move on to NBA talk - which it's crazy that the NFL season just started, and NBA isn't far behind. Way to stay on top of it this year guys. Finally they get to the piece de resistance, NFL week 3 picks (27:52).

If it weren't for the NFL season, this episode would be all about the WNBA and Sue Bird. She is the wind beneath these guys wings. If they didn't have to cut themselves off and force themselves to talk football, it might have gotten weird. They kinda recap week one, and then it's on to week two picks. Honestly it feels like they weren't even trying this week, as they had to hurry out the door to watch NIC CAGE in Mandy!!!

Coming off a very prosperous week one of the NFL season, and the Jets Messiah - Sam Darnold - starting his first game, Chris & Kris decide to talk NBA with The Athletic's Mike Vorkunov (@mikevorkunov)... wait, what? On second thought, yeah that's kinda what they do. They share Hall of Fame stories, state of the Knicks and a whole lot of nonsense. Sounds like the boys made a new friend! Good job fellas, it's about time.

It's week 1 of the NFL season... Heck it's game day, it's early in the morning and so these guys are completely out of their minds. As old Jerry Reed once sang, "We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.,, watch ol' Bandit run." So no time for baseball. Instead, Chris brings up a fascinating Geno Smith stat, while Kris counters with his WNBA pre-season prediction - spoiler alert - he nailed it! Then it's all serious football talk. They do they're terrible conference winners and wild-card picks. Then go right into week 1 picks. And yeah they do them all. They aint scared like all those so-called experts. But as usual they don't give their Super Bowl picks... yeah wait until after the season starts to go there. I'm sure it'll help.

After just getting through 100 shows and coming off a rough weekend of sleepovers and wine in the Hamptons, the boys ease into their 2018 NFL Preview episode. They keep hammering away at those baseball changes, talk Martha Stewart and some other nonsense, before deciding to talk Kris's first time fantasy footballing, bad gambling on the NFL. They we're supposed to do more previewing and making season predictions. Way to mail it in guys. Maybe next week, huh?

In typical NFN style, the guys celebrate their great accomplishment of making 100 episodes, by celebrating it during their 101st show. And to turn it up to 11, they have a bbq and do a round-table format with three of their closest fans (friends) and Chris's sister. Yeah, this one is epic!

Chris and Kris celebrate their 100th episode. How do they celebrate? By waiting until the following week to have a party coincide with their 101st episode. That seems right. They debate Jayson Werth vs. stat nerds, and Kris tries to go off on a rant, but Chris won't let him, keeping him from being unleashed. Otherwise they agree analytics and stats in baseball are out of control, and the game should just be computer simulated. They talk NFL and get into a more heated debate about Kelvin Benjamin. That's what you guys yell at each other over... I don't get it. At least they come back together about their love for the Browns this year, and also rambling on about old white billionaires who gamble but own NFL teams.

Wait, what happened here? Chris and Kris start off bashing people (that's not the weird part), and wondering why Boomer is showing his junk to other guys. Then they talk a lot of baseball (which is kinda weird, but still not the thing) - come up with having ties in baseball, Rick Sutcliffe, Lou Whitaker not in the Hall of Fame. They move on to football and talk Steelers and Dez Bryant. Then it goes away, and seems like they start a whole new conversation. Like they blacked out for three days time. They get into the XFL, gambling then go back to baseball and Jimmy Stewart impressions. They might have hand, foot and mouth disease.

This episode is all about gambling in Jersey (what uo Monmouth Park Sports Book!) and gambling on Johnny Manziel... oh, and gambling on the Spurs... aaaannnd gambling on the Dolphins. Man these guys really bring the good stuff. Sheesh. try to make an effort huh fellas? Somehow they fill a whole hour with this stuff. It's so good you'll feel like your being indoctrinated into a cult by audio brainwashing.

The big news of the week isn't the Kawhi Leonard for Demar DeRozan trade. It's that MLB Commish... Rob Manfred (yeah, that's his name) copied Chris's idea on how to fix the sport. But Chris can't talk about it cause he's so mad. So they move onto the stupid trade everyone had to have an emergency podcast about. These guys decided to wait 24 hours like normal idiots. Oh, and they are finally able to combine they're two favorite things, betting and flat earth conspiracies. That shouldn't further ruin their lives. Otherwise that's pretty much the good stuff, I guess.

Chris is coming out firing this episode... he is hot-to-trot today... He actually came into this show really prepared, which is awesome because Kris is is still trying to ease his way back into civilization and people after being around wild animals for two weeks. Chris fixes baseball, again. He's getting good at this. Then they talk a little World Cup, before getting to Chris's next big idea - how to bring Pro Basketball back to Seattle. Kris loves the idea, except for one small little detail. Then they quickly touch on the eventually downfall of UFC and Eli Manning finish off another brilliant show.

Kris has to come in and save the day via a golden phone in while on vacation in Dubai...yep Dubai, but the seemingly Lost Episode has been unearthed and it's at LEAST twice as exciting as Capone's Vault. Suffice to say, Geraldo's got nothing on Kold Kutz Davey and Mr. RJ Weaver - who stopped by to grade the Knicks Draft, discuss Eli's Future, and evaluate Melo's coaching skills. And no one even cried!

For their ultimate, end-all-to-be-all, NBA draft show that no one can compete with, Chris & Kris talk baseball. So typical. They also talk World Cup and toot each others horns over their picks. It's way to early you guys. But again, so typical. Finally they get to talking NBA and the draft. Just not really sure what they're talking about though. Typical? Yup. Finally they come to the end, and Chris goes off on Kris about Puma and Jay-Z. hopefully Kris learned his lesson, and won't forget this time to never bring up Puma, again. Also they finally have a sponsor. Hooray! Only took them two and a half years. Good job guys.

What to talk about now that baseball is the only major sport going on. How about Christian Hackenberg... Um okay. Both guys have new and innovative ideas for baseball. One of them's got to be good, right? They talk about the World Cup and pick a few teams to route for, or bet on if that helps. Then Kris throws out another sizzling hot idea for LeBron James. It's so good, in confounds Chris. They try to talk about other stuff after that, but Chris's brain is broken at that point, so they stop.

Ding, dong the witch is dead! The boys tried to do this weeks show on a Tuesday morning, it didn't work, so they waited till Friday. They believe it was divine intervention (the work of Hinkie?) telling them to wait and they will be rewarded. Bryan Colangelo was fired Thursday. So you tell me. Even more incredible, they they start off the show not by talking baseball, but Hockey. Where'd that come from. Then they get into Colangelo, and then talk about... well doesn't really matter what happens after that. Actually they decided to end the show on a high note.

We'd like to dedicate this show to the mastermind, Sam Hinkie. One way or another he's pulling the strings on this whole Colangelo Conundrum. He's either the whistleblower, or the con man setting him up, right? Oh man Chris's conspiracy theories are really starting to affect (infect?) all of us. There's also some NBA Finals talk, but who really cares about that now.

The boys get into the hottest topic of last week, legalized sports gambling. Hooray, they finally decided to get around to it. To honor this momentous (albeit late) occasion, they call up their west coast bookie, Benmo. After that its a Lebron Love-fest. Chris makes some crazy statements, somehow Kris agrees. You know how this goes.

It only took them four times this week to try to do this show. Maybe it was divine intervention, or just a Romanian Centennial Festival to bring these two together for the show of shows. They figure out the next great American Festival, and which country to appropriate it from. They talk baseball of course, because it's kinda like a virus. But then they talk NBA Playoffs and Chris's favorite topic, Brad Stevens. Kinda feels like he has a weird man-hatting crush on him, right?

Ep. 88 Not For Nothin' They Talk Sports, What Do You Want From Them, Huh? by Kris & Chris