Hot Takedown - World Series Super Sabermetrics Special

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Hot Takedown - World Series Super Sabermetrics Special

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47 minutes

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Oct 27, 2015

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Kate Fagan, Neil Paine, and Chadwick Matlin preview the World Series in our own special way. Plus a showdown between Chad and FiveThirtyEight's resident Royals fan.

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Oct 27, 2015

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Hot Takedown is the weekly sports podcast from FiveThirtyEight. On it, the crew uses numbers to dissect the week in sports, taking down some silly hot takes in the process.

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Hot Takedown - World Series Super Sabermetrics Special

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