Socratic Sports: Recent Episodes
Socratic Sports
The athletic thinkers cover a range of sports topics. The sections have been timestamped below:
-1:50= How did the Mavs win the West?
-16:50= How did the Celtics win East?
-25:10= The biggest disappointments/biggest surprises from basketball playoffs.
-34:50= The athletic thinkers basketball finals picks
-36:00= Hockey Conference Finals discussion and picks
-50:40= Euro 2024 tournament overview and picks
The athletic thinkers turn 30... the 30th episode that is. They celebrate in typical socratic fashion, recapping the first rounds of the hockey and basketball postseasons.
The athletic thinkers are back for one of the most exciting times of the year with the hockey and basketball playoffs kicking off simultaneously. The thinkers do their overall previews for both in this episode and will post their completed brackets on their socials.
Another tough college basketball weekend for the thinkers, but alas they march on, no pun intended, and try to make their overall championship picks. Also, baseball has begun so listen to the end for their overall preview and predictions for the 2024 season.
The athletic thinkers did not fair too well with their original bracket. Will their second chance bracket do better?
It has been a longtime coming, but March only means on thing, madness. Join the athletic thinkers as they fill out their first ever Socratic bracket. Will they be the first ever to have the perfect bracket?
The athletic thinkers are back at with their 23rd episode. Listen for the thinkers conference championship recaps. Plus they give out their final grades for all the coaching hires since those are complete and another round of cheers or jeers. Of course stay through to the end for another epic rant by Joey.
The athletic thinkers are back again this week with their conference championship picks and more on the ever revolving coaching carousel. Listen to the end for the first ever Carlos rant.
The athletic thinkers provide their picks for the divisional round of the football playoffs, there are a couple surprises. The thinkers also cover various topics such as the coaching carousel. As always, listen to the end to see what fires up Joeman this week.
The athletic thinkers wrap up the professional football season in this episode and includes their rewards predictions and of course all their predictions for the upcoming wild card games. Listen all the way to the end for a special message from Joeman.
Join us as we discuss various hot button topics across the sports world, including Draymond's suspension, Ohtani's contract, MVP talk, etc.
SIDE NOTE: This episode was filmed before week 15, so there are talking points regarding games that had not already occurred and the Staley firing had not occurred yet.
The football season is already almost halfway over so the athletic thinkers figured it was time to check in and give their observations and thoughts.
The athletic thinkers are back at it for their yearly NFL season predictions, this episode has the athletic thinkers going through how they expect the all the divisions will pan out from top to bottom plus their awards winners including the MVP and of course the overall season champion.
This is the athletic thinkers preview of the AFC conference of the upcoming 2023-2024 season. Unfortunately there were technical difficulties towards the end and it meant that we had to break this episode into two parts.
The athletic thinkers are back and jumping headfirst into America's game. This is the first episode of a 3 part series heading into the season, it begins with an overall preview of the NFC conference.
The athletic thinkers breakdown the upcoming basketball and hockey finals. Will their predictions come true?
Major coaching change in Phoenix and the drama in Memphis continues, the athletic thinkers discuss. Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the Philadelphia news, it was just posted after it.
The athletic thinkers are keeping their promise of uploading more consistently with episode IX. They continue to cover the nhl and nba playoffs while including interesting topics that branch off from each. Come for the playoff updates, but stay for the interesting conversation about super teams.
We know its been awhile, but the athletic thinkers are back and they cover a ton on this episode. Spring has sprung and this is one of the best times of a year to be a sports fan. We cover it all in this episode, nba playoffs, nhl playoffs, and even some draft talk. It also doubles as a kind of re-introduction to the show with our new format. Enjoy!
Joeman gets a helping of humble pie when the athletic thinkers analyze the NFL postseason and look at their predictions (spoiler alert, one team DID NOT do as well as someone expected). Also, Joeman's team somehow made it all the way to the big game which leads to a wider discussion about what to expect and look for in the upcoming game.
Now that the season has concluded and the seedings are set, the athletic thinkers lay it all on the line and pick every game (along with final score lines) beginning with this weekend wild card games and culminating with the big game in February in Arizona. Do you agree with their picks? And how incorrect will each of them be?
The athletic thinkers wrap-up the NFL season with one week left. We circle back around to our pre-season predictions to see just how right (or wrong!) we were.
The 2022-2023 NFL season has arrived and these are the guy's thoughts and predictions on the upcoming season, some spicy takes are included.
Disclaimer: Despite this video being uploaded after week 2, this was filmed almost 2 weeks before the season started so keep that in mind when it comes to the predictions.
The truth is there are certain individual sporting events that are just more memorable than most. This episode will unveil the athletic thinkers top 5 games that they each witnessed when they occurred. Come for the lists, stay for the discussion about what makes certain games more impactful than others.
Everyone loves a classic underdog story. Join the athletic thinkers as they give their lists of the greatest upsets in sports history. Do you agree?