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Sports Romance Ramblings + Book Draft | S4Ep2
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This week we yap all about Sports Romances! We share what we love about the genre, the things we could do without, and share our favorite recommendations. We also host a sports romance draft where we pick our fav fictional athletes and micro tropes.
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Transcript
Introduction to Sports Romance
00:00:06
Speaker
Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Bring Your Own and catch all bookishness on the Time podcast. I'm Brandi. I'm Kendra. And I'm Kayla. And today we are talking sports
Football and Olympics Excitement
00:00:18
Speaker
romances. You guys, it is football season. When this episode airs, the very first football game is like this upcoming week. So yeah we thought what better way to kick off the NFL season and our group chat fantasy football season than with the sports romance episode. And the Olympics just happened. Like true. Yeah. It's been a great year for sports. Go sports. We need to play like the, what I'm trying to think of like a the, yeah or or like, no, what's the one that Carrie Underwood does?
00:00:55
Speaker
She says, I've been waiting all day for Sunday night. Yeah. What was the Olympics theme? I like already forgot. and ah You know, the one that was playing on TikTok. play Isn't that just in America?
Olympics Coverage and Viewing Experiences
00:01:10
Speaker
well ah
00:01:15
Speaker
probably watching the Olympics I was like you really realize like there are other countries I know that sounds so ignorant of me but I because I was even thinking like how are like other countries reporting on like us just like coming in there and like what demolishing all of them what is your guys's theme song what other countries tell us what your Olympic theme song is yeah so i would love to know BBC what do you got area yeah ah Fun fact for you guys, John Williams, the famous music movie music composer, wrote the Monday Night Football theme song. Wow. Yeah, he's retired now. Indiana Jones, that last Indiana Jones that everybody hated, that was his last movie ever retired. Oh, that sucks. Wait, like but Peacock isn't in other countries, right? like That's the big thing, like it's only in America? Yes. North America?
00:02:03
Speaker
I think so. like I was definitely not in Canada because yeah I was trying to get some a Canadian friend of mine to watch Vader Pump Rules, and she was like, I can't. yeah Or she was lying to me, she didn't want to watch Vader Pump Rules. No, I think they're definitely incorrect. It's definitely an American thing. Peacock had like the best Olympic coverage, so I'm like, what was the other country's version of Peacock?
00:02:26
Speaker
How is everybody watching the Olympics? Pop over to our Instagram. A month later, let us know how are you watching the Olympics? Were you watching it as consistently? And did you have fun? Did you have the multiview on like I did every morning?
Personal Stories and Reading Habits
00:02:45
Speaker
Did you have Gold Zone? Yeah, Gold Zone, important.
00:02:48
Speaker
Uh, what was your favorite event? All that at bring your own pod over on Instagram, go give us a follow. And also you guys, while we're talking about it, if you would like to rate and review this podcast, that would mean so much to us. We would love a little five star from you. We love you so much anyways at the top of the episode. I love it. I love it. That's what I'm trying to get better at anyways. Yeah. Um, guys, what are we reading? What are we drinking? Kinder? How was your night? Why don't you start? Yeah. Okay. We're recording this episode like a day after two days after our last one. So um reading wise, I am the same. I did DNF, a full start by LC Silver. Soft DNF, right? Soft DNF. It wasn't like, oh Oh my God, this is terrible. It's just because like I just know i'm I won't read it right now.
00:03:33
Speaker
um so i put that away I will come back to it eventually and then I'm still reading the wedding people but oh my god it's so good I it's just so good and that's all I can really say Kayla did spoil something for an accident it was completely on accident yeah like and like she it was she said one specific word and I was like wait what and then she was like oh my god oh my god but like luckily like what she spoiled was coming up like really soon so but yeah I didn't get to find out like everyone else did but it's okay um the break yeah star rating off your experience of that book yeah I think you'll really like it Brandy it's just like so well written and like so like Kayla was saying like the dark humor in it is like really good and it's just one of those books that like
00:04:17
Speaker
It's my car audio. So I feel like it's like a book that makes you contemplate a lot of your own life decisions. And like if you were in if you were in this person's shoes, like what would you be doing? And like, I don't know. It's like I feel like a coastal grandmother because it takes place on Rhode Island. You're like tugging your car to get around yourself. Yeah, it just makes you want to sit there and like contemplate like.
00:04:38
Speaker
What is life? What is going on? It's a good book. um But yeah, I'm drinking water that is not near me right now, because I am slightly hung over this morning. You can probably hear it in my scratchy ass throat. But it's okay, we're gonna do great semi great. Since it's a sports episode, I'll say that I was tailgating, but I was definitely partying with a lot of gays last night. So tail gate it was not a tailgate. It was fun. It was one of my best friends, his boyfriend's 30th birthday party, and we just went to Austin and had a good time.
00:05:06
Speaker
It's like, happy 30th birthday. of it The way you talk about your friend's boyfriend now, I won't say that. Yeah, you you can say it. Okay. but The way you talk about Sergio makes him sound, because I know he's older than you guys, but I'm like, wait, he just turned 30. That's like, he just turned 30. Yeah. nice age Yeah. And his apartment is sick. He lives like downtown Austin in a high rise and like near all the like clubs and shows. Like this is like amazing. John's like, yeah, I just like come home, like stumble to his apartment. It's perfect. We love it. like Wow. Yeah.
00:05:36
Speaker
fun yeah but but youk la I'm still reading Foxglove. I will finish it today. Rereading, I should say, Foxglove. So I'll finish that today. I also am going to start Daughter of Death and Dawn, which is the last book in the War of Lost Hearts series by Carissa Broadbent that I talked about last episode.
00:05:55
Speaker
It's a long one, so I'll be strapped in for a minute. But I'm really excited because I've been really loving this series. so I just have water today as well. ah Earlier in the morning I did have my chai, but drank that up way too quick to make it to this episode. so I am also basically reading everything the same. I did finish volume two and three of the fangirl mangas. um It's you guys, I like want to beg every one of my favorite authors.
00:06:30
Speaker
to turn their well-beloved novels into graphic novels because this has been such an incredible experience to like revisit a book that I really enjoyed through art like I don't know it's crazy it's like fan art but better that was so fun the fourth volume comes out two days from when we're recording it and I pre-ordered it so it's gonna show up in my apartment two days from now and then I'll finish it and then after doing that I did have to reread part of Landline because we had a little cameo so I reread that part and then I am still listening to everything. I cannot get myself to listen to an audiobook great lately which is insane for me so I'm still listening to everything the same but I made a good headway into when the world tips over last night um so I think I'll finish that in the next couple days because it got um'm I'm locked in so
00:07:18
Speaker
Did you see the narrators
Defining Sports Romance
00:07:19
Speaker
for that? No, I didn't. so it's Julia Wayland's one of them. It's an awful cast. Oh yeah, because there's like six main characters. Like there's so many point of views. It's so fun. Actually, there are only four point of views, but I'm very excited.
00:07:32
Speaker
um And then, yeah, I have an iced caramel latte this morning. And then we play the theme song again. dun and and No, what is that? That's Shark Tank. I was right there with you. I was like, yeah. like i I was like, wait, what scandal is that one?
00:07:51
Speaker
um It is shark. I am here to ask you ah but for an investment of a million dollars into our podcast. I'm trying to remember the like theme, like why is the NFL theme song just completely out of my head right now? I mean, there's some, there's many from multiple different channels, but like none of them are ringing about other than Carrie Underwood. Oh.
00:08:18
Speaker
Is that Fox? I think that was Fox, yeah. With like the big robot man. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah. I've seen TikTok of the little boy that like can identify like every single, like go outside. Yeah. So let's just talk a little bit about sports romance in general first. What are your overall feelings about the genre?
00:08:42
Speaker
Um, I like it. I don't like it as much as other people love it. I feel like there are people that that's like all they want, but I appreciate a good one. I feel like sports romance is probably the one that like there's a very specific formula to it. So I think that's why I don't like run to it all the time.
00:09:00
Speaker
Yeah, especially college. I think that's like a big part of the sports. Yeah, the big sports romance into two categories college sports romance where nothing is serious and then he's a pro athlete and like everything serious. So yeah, I have a question. I guess what?
00:09:19
Speaker
in your mind specifically is a sports romance because I've seen like people categorize something as a sports romance where like the guy has a profession or a professional athlete but he doesn't there's no actual like scenes of them like playing the sport or going to a game or doing anything you know like take for example Powerless by Elsie Silver does he ever play hockey at all? There is like one okay like when he's a kid No, there's a scene as an adult where she like goes. OK, and it might be the epilogue because he he wins the Stanley Cup in that book. Of course. Right. are you But I'm just like trying to think like because I've read I know I've read books. I just can't like think of them, I guess, at the moment where like he's a professional athlete or she's a professional something, but like they don't. But yeah, there's there's not a focus on the sport. Right. Right. So like, is that a sports romance?
00:10:15
Speaker
I don't consider powerless a sports romance. Yeah, me either. And I think a lot of people would. But like, flawless, definitely.
First Sports Romance Experiences
00:10:22
Speaker
Reckless, definitely. But yeah powerless, no. Right. um Yeah, i I think because when you first asked that question before you started talking about that, I was going to say, oh, any book where one of them is a professional athlete. But I don't think that's the case for me now that we're discussing it. So yeah, I would say it has to be one of them is a professional athlete. And there's like a focus.
00:10:44
Speaker
on the sport. I don't know. OK, wait, doesn't L.C. Sylvie, Sylvie, L.C. Silver in her first series, like the first book, like she what does she do? Isn't one of those girls like a racer? She's a trainer. and So off to the races. She's a trainer. And then in a photo finish, she's a jockey.
00:11:01
Speaker
But I don't consider that one a sports romance only because the focus of the book is not so much on, I mean is it? I guess it's been over a year since I've read that book and I mean I know we do discuss her being a jockey and there is a discussion about her being a female jockey in the like very heavily male-dominated field. And she had like a competition in the book. Yeah. Yeah. Yes.
00:11:24
Speaker
I don't know. That one is just so interesting because, like, I don't know. Yeah, I guess so. And his whole job is like running, helping to run the place where she trains. Yeah. We really only see like female athletes in college. I mean, but that's like commentary on like women's sports as a whole. Like, the you know, so because I don't think I've ever read a book where a woman was a professional athlete unless she was like a skater. Your favorite book.
00:11:55
Speaker
My favorite book. Kulti. Anyways, I don't think I've ever read a book where it's like. Lukav with love. She's a professional. Yeah. Like she's a figure skater or it's like, um, have I read a gymnast? No, that was a college and I DNF'd it. Oops. Yeah. I mean, co yeah, I just read a book ah called Homebound by Meredith Trapp and she was a female bull writer, which I had definitely never seen before.
00:12:23
Speaker
And did you consider that a sports romance? I mean, it was a really big part of the book. It was like but like if you if you were recommending sports romance, you'd be like. If I consider Flawless and Reckless that they can be a sports romance, this one is also a sports romance, yes. But I feel like even Flawless and Reckless, I'm not like, that would not be at the top of sports romance. No, it's definitely not. I feel like when people think sports romance, the most popular sports in the world, those are the books that pop into people's heads. And then on the other side of it, books that are insanely popular.
Popularity and Expectations of Sports Romances
00:12:56
Speaker
Uh, the dirty air series, you know what I mean? People, yeah those in sports from it's not, and F one is, is so, so popular, obviously, especially outside of the United States. But I do think that. That is a habit of people's, you know, like, because I'm trying to think of, have I ever read like a hockey or basketball profession where I haven't considered it a sports romance? Like, no. And I feel like it's just because like, I don't watch bull riding. I don't watch horse racing. So I'm like, I i have a harder time like categorizing those, but yeah.
00:13:26
Speaker
yeah Yeah, I do think, even though it's not the the top of my head when I think of Flawless, Reckless, et cetera, because you know they're all bull riders, whatever, I do think that it is a sports romance. It can be considered one, you know what I mean? Yeah, I think there's like ah you can make an argument for all of these books that we're talking about. We're learning so much. Right? Oh my gosh, what a great discussion. What was your guys' first sports romance that you read?
00:13:53
Speaker
I went back and I checked all my good reads. It was The Deal by Elle Kennedy. At least that I can like, maybe I read something, you know, younger, but like when I got got back on my book journey, it was definitely The Deal by Elle Kennedy in 2021.
00:14:09
Speaker
Yeah, mine is also The Deal. But also it's like, I i had to have read, I have read so many YA books where like the guy is like. But in high school sports, is that like a sports movie? Yeah, I'm like, you don't consider it to all the boys I love before. like Yeah. it's Like that's a sports romance, but like a big part of his Peter's story is like, what does he play? I forget. Like, yeah, lacrosse, like he's a lacrosse, bro. Like, so i saying yeah. Yeah. Mine was the wall of Winnipeg and me. That's a good first one. Yeah. I mean, I found Mariana Zapata very early on in my like, rediscovering my love of reading journey. Cause that was early 2021 that I read that one. Um, so yeah, that was my first.
00:14:51
Speaker
ah so Your first was football and our first was hockey. And I did not know hockey was as big as it was until I read the deal. like Or I guess like how rabid people get over hockey until I entered that world.
00:15:06
Speaker
And oh my God, we can spend an entire episode talking about the book talk hockey drama, but we won't. yeah my yeah yeah it's It is truly just wild, like how much people love hockey romance. And I honestly, as somebody who is a self-proclaimed hockey in real life hater, I don't get the appeal. Yeah. Why do you call yourself a hater? Why do you hate hockey, Brandi?
00:15:31
Speaker
I think it's my least favorite sport to watch. um It is not, ah it's it's it moves too quick for me to be able to like understand what's go, obviously if I put in the time and the effort, I would be able to, but it it moves so quick and it's a low scoring sport, which I have trouble with.
00:15:50
Speaker
low scoring sports, like soccer is still a reach for me. Um, but I like soccer a little bit more because it's like moving at a pace that I can be like, okay, I understand what's happening on the field right now. So I like to see teams like get demolished. Not well, it's like i mean lots of points happening.
00:16:05
Speaker
I like when, yeah, things are going, things are moving, but like people will argue that baseball, baseball is my favorite sport to watch and people say that that's, so I just wasn't raised on hockey. So I just don't have an appreciation for it. yeah Like my family does not watch hockey. My family does not watch soccer. We are a baseball, football, basketball family at my house.
00:16:21
Speaker
so and like you grew up in the midwest like if you probably grew up on the east coast like that would be like a different yeah definitely yeah wisconsin doesn't have a professional hockey team like that i'm sure that's yeah part of it so yeah in in a sports romance what do you guys expect out of a sports romance we kind of talked about this like a little bit like it if it's a sports romance, if you want to be labeled a sports romance, you probably should focus at least a little bit on the profession of one of those people, you know, see a little bit of that.
Realism and Diversity in Sports Romances
00:16:51
Speaker
Do you expect anything else? I expect a level of like,
00:16:57
Speaker
realisticness. Um, hopefully, I don't know. I'm trying to think of like how to phrase that better. But basically like, okay, if this prefer person is a professional athlete, like what is their day to day look like? And that how is that affecting how they can be in a relationship? But also like, okay, I don't know, like,
00:17:17
Speaker
I feel like Elsie did a good job with Rhett Eaton, like he was really well known in his community and within the bull riding community, but it's not like he couldn't like walk down the street and people were like, Oh my God. You know, it was just like the buckle bunnies who were so into him. Cause I feel like I've read some sports romances where I'm like, there's no way you're that famous, you know? Right. I think that's always my problem with hockey because it's like, I don't know any hockey players and then they'll make them out to be like the most famous men on planet earth. And then our friend Sahara is a big hockey fan. true And so I'm like, no, there are people that care like to that degree. I just have never like seen it before or experienced it myself.
00:17:56
Speaker
And I liked the way that Liz Tom 40 like in the mile high, the hockey players were quite famous. And there definitely were people who recognized them and knew them and stuff like that. But then like Ryan Shea couldn't leave his apartment because he was like the most famous basketball player.
00:18:11
Speaker
And that made sense in my head. I'm like, oh, like you're like, ron like, yeah, like, of course the run can't leave his house. Yeah. Like, I'm like, I would, I completely understand that because I just do feel like, I don't know. I should, I'm just like talking out of my ass, but I feel like way more people watch basketball than hockey. Yeah. So that ratings don't lie. You're telling the truth. There you go. You don't get prime time hockey games, at least not nationally. you do probably You do during the finals, but not any other. Yeah. Like.
00:18:38
Speaker
Yeah. So is there are certain things that you guys don't like in sports romances? You know what? Actually, I have seen a couple of people be like, I don't like it when at the end of a book, unless it makes sense, they don't like it when a person retires at the end of a sports romance.
00:18:57
Speaker
i only like it if that's been like a conversation throughou not to keep sucking liz's dick or anything like that but like in caught up like kai the entire book kept being like there we go spoiler alert for something about caught up But throughout that entire book, he's like I he tried to quit immediately when he got his son, and then they convinced him to stay and he was like I don't know I don't know I don't know and then in play along spoiler.
00:19:27
Speaker
he does and right content and happy with that and yeah you know so like I don't mind it if it like makes sense but yeah if it comes out of like nowhere like I read a book recently I don't want to spoil it so I won't say it but I did read a book recently where it was just like huh you know like that had never been a conversation throughout the book and so it was a little bit disappointing when it did happen i mean like cool if that's really what you want to do but it just didn't feel like it made sense in the moment to me so yeah i don't like it in sports romances and this i just love whopping on like hockey romances i read them i've enjoyed them but like i i think the real reason why they're so popular is because it's a sport where like
00:20:14
Speaker
people of color aren't very like known for playing it so it allows them to create these like super white idyllic not I mean not idyllic to me but like to them like scenarios friend groups people um and like that is what irks me is when I'm reading a book where it's like and that was like that's what got Elle Kennedy in a lot of trouble and then she tried to like correct it and then it didn't go well. Now with the her new series, campus series, I think she, I enjoyed those books and had a good time. But yeah, that's what I fucking hate. I'm like, that's when it becomes, you're talking about like, you want it to be realistic? That's when it becomes very unrealistic to me because I'm like,
00:20:49
Speaker
That's why they only like hockey. That's why there aren't this big, there aren't as many football romances. There's still a lot. But you're telling me that this white boy from middle of nowhere is the best player in this league? No, it doesn't make any sense. Just try, try, try, try. It's not that hard.
00:21:07
Speaker
Yeah, especially like of like sports like basketball, football, yeah baseball. They're incredibly diverse. You know, they're so diverse. And so like seeing a sport like hockey like that, that's just like, yeah, not and like you're yeah you'll see like it's like designated like ah Rebecca. gncheck This is actually my favorite Rebecca Janczak book. And it's called The Tip Off and the guy in it is black. I called it like this sounds so mean. But to me, it's like a watered down version of the right move. But I had a good time. Like it's so good. and um But it's like designated like you're the you're my one black player on this team. And he was a basketball player on this basketball team. He's like, I mean, he wasn't like, obviously he's not the only, but like out of the main set, you're telling me like this black guy's like only hanging out with like these other like white guys, like putting himself in this position where like he goes to a sports school. That's what pissed me off too in KBR. Like you're telling me, Reich Meadows is the captain.
00:21:59
Speaker
Of the track team. Of the track team. And that's not even as a main sport. A Vision One school. Like, hello. Like, that doesn't make any sense. Yeah. Yeah. Like, that doesn't make any sense. Like, ugh. That's what makes me mad about sports romances. Because it's like, we see sports all the time. You went to the Olympics to have those people were black. Like, it's not adding up. Right. Yeah, absolutely.
00:22:20
Speaker
What else don't I like about sports? role god I don't know. The retirement thing doesn't bother me. I mean, yeah, I didn't really think about that until you said it. I think I am. I think some ah like it's there are some things that are played out. I don't know if there are things that I necessarily don't like, but I'm like, OK, ah and not to keep walking on hockey romances. I'm like, OK.
00:22:43
Speaker
How many times is a rival player gonna talk shit about your girl who's sitting on the sidelines so then you're gonna get into a fistfight on the ice? Like, gotta go, you know? Yeah, that's what I was saying. Like, it becomes very formulaic and it's like, are you like watching? Like, there was a girl on TikTok, she was like a ah hockey wife and she would like read hockey books and tell people like if this ah shit was like real or like not. She wrote one now too. Oh, I didn't know that. Don't like that. Yeah. um But yeah, that annoys me a lot. But then I like it like in books are like I like, you know, like I don't mind it then, but I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I I feel like that, like what you're saying about the formulaic is 100 percent what it is, you know, like if if an author is making something like that, like a microchip that's in the genre their own, then of course. But if it's just like copy paste plunked in there, then yeah, then what?
00:23:37
Speaker
Oh, I guess I also this is like more to college. I don't like that. Like all of them have like the super like they're all going to the league. I hate that. Like, yeah, true. True. Because that's not like that's grinds me. Yeah, it's definitely not happening. You know, like, yeah, I do again. time Maybe a couple. Yeah, maybe a couple. Yeah. Definitely not all of you. Like you guys need to be in class. Like you yeah need to get your degree, please.
Favorite Authors and Books
00:24:01
Speaker
You're not making it to the draft. Sorry. You know.
00:24:04
Speaker
her from sports romance and i haven't read this book because i don't like the series but the kiddie ryan hoops trilogy i know the second book is about a sports agent and i feel like that's what i want more from sports romances especially if you're gonna go into like professional sports like i because there's just so much money there's so many contracts there's so many endorsements like I want more of like the behind the scenes of that rather than like us spending so much time with like this guy like doing his sport and following him. I don't know. I want the business side of things or I want more like with like coaches and please do not tell me to read coach by Devani Perry because I will not do it. But that's what I i don't know. I want more of like the admin side, not just like the player side in. I did read the rule book by Sarah Adams, which is a football for a man since she is a sports agent. So that was super interesting. Do you like it?
00:24:52
Speaker
I I did it's it's a no I read it on audio and I liked it on audio it's a very very unserious book and some of the humor a lot of people won't like I didn't mind some of it some of it was not my cup of tea but I still like overall I enjoyed the book so I probably would recommend it to people but yeah she was a sports agent and they had like a previous relationship so it was like really awkward but I liked that part of it too and I've also read a book where like the girl is like a sports journalist and that I think is interesting as well so I like those pieces of it. Who are the authors that you think like yes sports romance like they automatically come to mind? Mariana. Mariana, Liz for sure.
00:25:34
Speaker
Yeah. Rebecca Jinshak. I think that she's never written not a sports romance. Yeah. I mean, Elle Kennedy does come to mind. Oh, yeah. That's me. Yeah. You guys, I just looked and over the course of the last four years, I've only read 19 sports romances. So really? Yeah. i And how many of them were a part of series?
00:26:00
Speaker
like a specifically like a sports romance series. Yeah. Do we consider Chestnut Springs part of a series? Like that's I don't consider Chestnut Springs a sports sports romance series. Yeah. Well, I mean, more like those are Windy City. Three of those are off campus. Oh, wow. Yeah. One of them. You didn't read the last off campus book. I never did. No, you're not missing anything to the people's favorite keeps. Yeah.
00:26:30
Speaker
Oh, my God. Speaking of playing for keeps, yeah what a downfall that series has had. I can say this now. Yeah, I didn't even try the last two because I have not seen any of my mutuals who loved the first two. You know, talk positively about the right. Well, it's crazy because I feel like I have. I've seen people be like. ah Play along and the one that just came out, fall with me are their favorites. I guess universally, people did not enjoy Unravel me, so maybe this was like I didn't read Unravel Me because I tried it, I DNF'd it so fast, like I cannot take it seriously. um But yeah, that's another thing I don't and know that i don't like. it I just think it's like so it takes a lot for my brain to wrap around it that like all these players on this team are so close and like they treat each other a like family and they all love each other and they all live in like the same
00:27:18
Speaker
They all go on to live together. Yeah. And like, I know like that's that's not not uncommon in like professional sports. People living in like the same complexes and stuff. But like to a certain extent, I'm like half of these dudes just show up, do their job and go home. Like, especially if they're not like the star player. ah know I Yeah, I have read 31 sports romances. And. Yeah, a lot of them were from a series, I think.
00:27:48
Speaker
Lots of Mariana, um the main series where, yeah, we're off campus, Briar U, Dirty Air, Playing for Keeps, Windy City. Oh, my story graph didn't classify Dirty Air, so I've obviously read all four of those as well. Yeah, okay, so that's more than 20 then.
00:28:08
Speaker
Okay. so Sorry, we we've just been like shitting on hockey romance. Yeah. There are some really great ones that we really yeah do enjoy. None of the three of us would classify ourselves as sports romance girlies. Like we're not people who are going to avoid a sports romance by any means, but we're not like, Oh my God, like this is my, you know, trope in the romance genre. So that is the only reason that, you know, we're not, there's nobody who's going to sit here and defend them.
00:28:36
Speaker
Right. Wait, so like if you guys like what's your ultimate favorite sports romance and like you can only read one sports romance book for the rest of your life um from Luke off with love. It's a good one. i I mean, I've not reread this book since I first read it and like we've talked about it like I'm trying to get to but it would be the right it would probably be the right move.
00:28:56
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Yeah, I think like that you guys I think I would choose play along yeah yeah yeah i say that so hard no i know that's That's also true though, but like I also remember really low like when I read the wall of Winnipeg and me I was like running circles around my room I love that book so much, you know, dude. I reread it last year. It's fun. It's a fun way Okay, and i have the old audio though because the new audio is not good actually you might like the new audio better because cali dalton yeah i don't like cali dalton so i just don't know who is the new audio so okay yeah oh wait i think it's vanessa edwin and gomez pew am i making that up i'm looking bro if it's vanessa edwin first of all vanessa edwin
00:29:41
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Latina? No. No, it's not. Oh, my God. It's Steven Dickson. Emma Wilder. Why? Emma Wilder. Latina. Yeah. No, no. that is it Is it dual narration? It is dual narration. All of her books that weren't dual are getting rerecorded to be dual because she doesn't have an a male point of view in any of her books. So what do you mean? Do do it. There you go. That's what I meant. Excuse me. Yes. Thank you.
00:30:10
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I don't know what my favorite like sports romance of all, I really like the score. I really like it. Really? Over all the books in the Dirty Air series, yeah over you can only read one book oh for the rest of your life is what you said. Only one sports romance. The thing is, is like, wrecked. I love that book so much. about the book That book makes me so sad. Like that's a hard read, but it's so good. Same with like redeems like like that's a fun and I love it but like there are parts of the book where like my soul hurts I think I know dirty air is probably yeah I would say dirty is probably like my favorite sports romance but again I'm not like f1 I never like immediately jumped to f1 when I'm thinking of sports right but I think I prefer my sports romances to be a little like I want it to be fun and like a little silly a little wordy like yeah
00:30:58
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um that's why i love throttled so much because that book was just fun like it wasn't lauren's like new signature of like cutting people yeah so um yeah and that's why i love like i do like the new l kennedy campus diaries books and that well and actually that second book had a lot right there was some serious stuff happening in those books but there's enough of like the fun shit happening where you're like okay i can still have fun it's a balance yeah wait so do you guys prefer college though or professional I think off campus is the only college sports I've read. You haven't done like icebreaker. You haven't done. Why can't I think of anything else right now?
00:31:39
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Yeah, um I haven't done any of the Rebecca Genchak books. Oh, yeah.
Fantasy Sports Romance Drafts
00:31:47
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Yeah, I haven't done like the Grace Riley books or really every say her last name. Yeah. um I did want to read Unsteady by Peyton Corinne because everybody says that that you didn't have to. I didn't have to. I heard good and.
00:32:02
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I thought it was like really insta- he just cared about this girl too much, too fast, and I was like, you don't like you don't know this person. and okay um That turned me off. And the writing wasn't that good. Yeah, I prefer professional. Or older, yeah. The older I get, for some reason, college is a hard sell for me. I don't know. like i just be yeah yeah I'm like, i'm just I don't know, yeah.
00:32:29
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Surprisingly, two of my favorite romances this year have been baseball. And I and i think baseball is boring as fuck. Oh, that's crazy. Whoa. it's a It's boring. You go there to drink and have like you the crowd is fun. The game I think itself is a pretty boring game.
00:32:45
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When I found out Christian Yelich was in the outfield, I said, we're so we're sitting here to watch Christian Yelich and he's standing here. You don't go to watch Christian Yelich in the outfield. You go to watch Christian Yelich hit home runs every fucking game. That that man was, and they lost the game that I went to. So I was like. Yeah, the Rockies were just so fucking embarrassing. The worst team in the fucking league. Anyways, I'm a Brewers fan. I just thought he's having like back surgery too. Career, not career, season ending back surgery.
00:33:14
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um wamppo um I really want you guys to read The Art of Catching Feelings by, I forgot her name. ahlicha thomasson Alicia Thompson? Okay, I did not like this book, right? But that's because of the trope. However, her writing is really good and the characters were really good. They were just dealt like the shittiest of shittiest tropes. But I think you guys would enjoy like the sports aspect of it because like it was fun to see him like traveling with the team and like, I don't know like she also gets to travel with the team because she's like a reporter like that part I had a lot of fun with and it's good on audio and you can get it through our besties at paying a random house audio our bestie besties maybe I was just looking at my story graph do you know what sports romance I read that probably nobody here thought about snow by Sophie lark he's a boxer oh see I don't think of that as sports a doctor right yeah but she's definitely a sports for him I know I consider that a sports romance
00:34:11
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Oh yeah, but like I don't think of snow and things sports. I think of snow and think mafia because i think the mafia trope or the mafia plot overtakes. Like it's, they they coincide so much with the mafia. It's like, I was reading that book to get to the mafia shit. Like it wasn't like, Oh, he's a boxer, you know? Right. I didn't pick it up because he was a boxer, but yeah. Like he just so happened to be one. Like, Oh, congrats. Like he could have been anything. hey i would have so before And like, that was so important. and Like, Oh yeah, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. All right guys. Should we jump into our little draft?
00:34:42
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but yes yeah So to give a little recap, if you listened to our episode last, was it last season that we did our romance book draft? Yes, it it was so much fun. ah We're going to do a little mini version of that. It's not going to be quite the same yet. That that was, that was, it was fun. It was brutal. A lot of, uh, betrayals maybe happened during that that draft. You're so dramatic. really Perfect, it's been like six months. Please. I don't even remember who my team was, to be honest with you. um But anyway, all right.
00:35:17
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We're going to do this in two parts. ah We're first just going to do athletes from sports romances, and then we're going to do a little bit of a different one. We're going to do like micro tropes. I guess is what the word that we should we should call them in sports romances. It doesn't even have to be a book. It can be a movie. It can be whatever we want it to be. Right. It has to be sports romance. Just sports related. Yes. Yeah. Brandy, do you want to pull up the spinny wheel to see who goes first?
00:35:44
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I would love to. We love names. Sponsor us. Thank you. OK. I just feel like Kayla has a plan with this draft. Like she's just a little too like too excited. I just I just have names. I just have names written down. And if I don't get them, then I'm crossing them out. Yeah, I'm anxious. OK. First pick is Kendra. Whoo. OK. Second pick will be I don't want to be second, actually.
00:36:12
Speaker
All right. Because you're fucked. Yeah. OK. Good news. It's for me. So oh I'm sorry. It's OK. Well, actually, I mean, there's benefits in every single spot. I know. All right. All right. So Kendra, who's your first pick? How do they do it? Like on like draft day? Like what do they say? like With the first pick? The Chicago Bears. Yeah. Going to my my football fantasy team is called Lover Boys 3000 will be none other.
00:36:42
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than Noah Slade from, iho of course, are you kidding me? no Noah Slade is an icon. He's an American that went to F1 and like fucked up the game. Like, hello? Like, hello? you like in like And he's a Texan, right? Isn't he from Austin?
00:36:57
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He sure is. I love Noah Slade. Okay. yeah Go ahead and cross him off the list. Let me cross him off. All right. Okay. Um, for my first pick, I'm going to take Theo Silva. No. Okay.
00:37:13
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that's a good no know okay Now Kayla gets two picks in a row since we're doing a snake draft. We're going to go one, two, three, three, two, one, one, two, three, three, two, one. sir ah Okay, I know who one of my picks for sure is gonna be and I'll just say them. Since you took Theo, I'm gonna take Rhett. But then my next one, I'm deciding between two men. Yeah, I'm anxious because I feel like you're gonna take. I don't know which one to pick. I love them both so much. I think I'm gonna pick... I'll pick Isaiah Rhodes.
00:37:50
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Damn. Okay. Which therefore means, I know exactly what that means, but go ahead. So then I'm going to take Ryan Shea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's crazy. i I'm doing this draft in a very specific way where it's like, I have to get the people I know that all three of us would want out of the way as soon as possible. So now Kendra gets two picks. Yeah. Oh, true. And then you're done. Oh, you win. Yeah.
00:38:17
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I will be picking Garrett Anderson from ah Play With Me by Becca Mack. Oh. I mean, like, I really listen. I don't like know. I do love him. I do love him. But I will take Garrett. I don't know. Guys, it's so bad, like seeing them in other people's books. It's like you're like, that's not my Jenny. That's not that's not them. Like, I don't know. They become like characters of themselves. Like, it's not if you are listening and have read playing for Keep series by Beck and Mac and you feel the same way, please slide into my DMs. Like I could not do it. Oh my God. I don't know who I want to pick next.
00:38:58
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I know my pick last pick is safe, so you can pick whoever you want. um Is it, Brandi? Did you already say Ivan Lukov? Fuck you, dude. I was like, he's not gonna pick him because she talks about how stinky he is all the time. No, he's not stinky. His house. Are you seriously gonna take him right now? No, no, I just thought it was good of you, Brandi. No, um I will take Aiden Graves. Fuck! That's a good last pick.
00:39:27
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Also, like, think about it. He managed to stay in the league for so long, for so long. The NFL matches 401K. He has so much money. And he was the best defensive player in the league. Right? Like Vanessa is set. So, bro, imagine if I did take, if I did take look all crazy. I shouldn't have said that because like at the minute I said, I was like, she's going to take on a spite. But like, since we only have three picks, I knew you weren't going to, but Yes. My last pick is going to be Ivan Lukov. I knew he was safe because Kendra likes to make fun of the fact that she thinks his house is stinky because he has so many rescue pets. I stand firm on my belief that he is rich enough that he has a cleaner to clean his house. It doesn't stink. Even when la la la la la Julian and Kylo met and there was just like that dog smell, Kayla's house was like
00:40:19
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really clean like but there's just that smell hey my house no you said the same thing said these these boys stink
00:40:29
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Hello. like my My last pick, by the way, I i was choosing between two people. and One of them was Aiden Graves. So my decision has been made for me, but this is OK because I love this man so much. It's Santi Elator from. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. So I love my team. Good team team. go So Kendra, who are your three starters?
00:40:53
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um My starting lineup is Noah Slade from Throttled by Lauren Asher. And you also see him in Redeemed by Lauren Asher when he is just in full daddy mode and just like, I love him. ah My number two is Garrett Anderson. Yes, I have a hockey player on my team.
00:41:11
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still don't love the sport. And then my number three is Aiden Graves from the Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata, which honestly now it makes me want to go reread it. Like I had, so that was, I buddy read that with JVN.
00:41:24
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And that was like such a fun experience. And like that book is just so, it's thick, but it's just fucking fun. Him and his mushroom tip. I think about that scene where she falls asleep on his lap or on the fire all the time. Yeah. So you, you have F1 football and hockey.
00:41:47
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Yes. Okay. My starting lineup is Theo Silva, Ryan Shea, and Ivan Lukov. So I have bull riding, basketball, and figure skating. What an eclectic mix. I know. All right. And then mine is Isaiah Rhodes, Rhett Eaton, and Santi Alator. So I got F1, baseball, and bull riding.
00:42:17
Speaker
wow no football for you Kayla well you took mine so well you haven't read like be honest like how many football romances like have you read? not that many to be honest yeah i think i can only think of like hands down by mariana oh so mariana yeah yeah i've read yeah i've obviously mariana rulebook sarah adams candy steiner i read coach Oh, coach. Yeah, coach. by depu I think there are a lot of like X NFL like books that I see like he was in the league and now he's back in his small town to like. Oh, literally a false start. He is. That's on the back of the book. I didn't read it. I didn't know he was in the league. He played football with American football.
00:42:59
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Yeah, you're going to learn that very quickly. That's not ah that's not a big well spoiler. It won't be quickly for me. mo It'll be a later. All right. Our next draft, ah Wheel of Names, who's going to go first this time? Oh, we don't want to keep the order? No. No.
00:43:20
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That is so funny. We're doing three as well for these. First pick for our little micro tropes is Kayla and... Okay, I'll take it. Second pick is... Oh, it's close. Kendra. So then I will go third. Okay, where to go first?
00:43:41
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Hmm. Okay. This one is inspired by a very, very specific moment from play along by Liz Tom Fordy. When Isaiah like takes his bat and he like points it directly at Kennedy. So like, I don't know, like just like a player, like making a gesture or some kind yeah to their partner during the game. Yeah. So I'm going to take that specific microtrope. I like it. You just knew I was sitting here thinking of High School Musical 3. What?
00:44:12
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When Troy's like singing at the beginning and Gabrielle's like, Troy. I was going to say that like anytime, that's just like always good. Like anytime he catches her like in the middle of a game and he just like, the eye contact is so good. Um, okay. Well then I will take.
00:44:35
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When the girl wears his jersey or it's any sort of like not just a jersey too I think it's nice when it's like any sort of memorabilia that is a representative of him in this sport. I Really like that. So that would be my pick. I like that Okay, so now I have two picks. My first one is going to be when the athlete is like teaching the love interest, how to do something from their sport, like how to swing a bat or how like they're playing catch with the football or something like that. And I'm also going to take when her ex is his man.
00:45:12
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Okay, Ryan Shay. Yeah, I'm thinking about that moment specifically, but I think I've read it in other places as well, where like the ex is yeah, either kind of a sport or like I'm thinking of like from Luke Kopp with love, like her old partner, it wasn't her ex-boyfriend, but her old partner was like rivals with Ivan, you know, like they, the ex would feel some type of way about them dating them. Yeah. Um, I like it when like I think this also again happens a lot in hockey fucking concussions. Like, um, like the player gets like a concussion and like they have to like stay awake or like, you know, and you get to see their partner, like try to take care of them. It's kind of like, you know, taking care of a person, like when they're sick, that trope, but like, I don't know what sports cause like they usually see the accident happen. So I like the aftermath of all of that. Wait, so that your pick? That's yes. That is my, sorry. It's like describing the micro tropes. I can't just say like,
00:46:08
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Yeah. This is it. One word. Yeah. bro Okay. My last ones are completely inspired by the Olympics. and We saw a lot of great little love stories from this, yeah all the edits. You guys know the edit. To the alchemy. He just comes running off.
00:46:26
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a great um So yeah, that like running over to your partner after a big game, you like they're the first person you go to, you know, after something happens, that was great. And then then this next one is um inspired by Tara and Hunter. What's his name? Hunter Woodall. ah Like just them being each other's biggest fans and like cheering them on so much. Yeah. And so I just like love those moments. So those are my last two picks.
00:46:58
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yeah they're a really good couple i've been following them since they were like in college well yeah like because they met like they were like 18 yeah like they were just like he just posted that throwback video of when she surprised him at the school she had like a really tough time in college because like her first school like kind of fucked up with like her eligibility so then she transferred to ut and like had to pretty much like start from scratch but Shout out, I think her name's like Tara Davies. That was her first, now it's Tara. Shout out to Woodalls. Davis, Davis Woodalls, yeah. Oh God, her and that. Did you guys have a video where she's recording and he's like, we'll play this at our wedding? And then it cut to their wedding. I was like, aw. That's so sweet. That was so cute. Oh my God, this is hard. Okay, hmm. I feel like you guys already took like, the like best of the best of micro tropes.
00:47:52
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You know, I actually really do like when um there's like traveling with the team and the girl gets to go. I don't know. Again, that happened in the art of catching feelings and that was just like really nice. Like it kind of goes back to like you saying, Brandy, of like him showing her like how to play the sport. I just like anything that like she gets like be involved. I don't want the girl just like on the sidelines as a wag like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's not I don't even know. That's like a full like, yeah, traveling with the team when they both get to travel.
00:48:22
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Nice. Even though I said it is kind of played out in specific romances, I will say I do love a moment where it's like a fake dating and then like somebody on the court or on the ice or on the field is like hitting on their fake girlfriend. And it's like real jealousy that happens in the right mood happens in the wall of Winnipeg.
00:48:44
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um anything like that, so. Yeah. I think fake dating and sports just go like hand in hand. That's so much fun. Yeah. Yeah. Because there's always a good enough reason for the player to need like a fake girlfriend or a boyfriend. It's PR. It's whatever. Oh my God. Wait, I have another moment. Oh, but I don't want to spend the book yet.
00:49:07
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No, this is like this is not the drive. I just want to say like this moment in general, because we're talking about micro tropes. But when they like talk, have this because this goes with like the fake dating, when they have to like talk about their partner like in a press interview, or like they get asked a question, and like their response is, like I don't know, like it's it's usually like really snarky like to like defend whatever they're trying to say. like I just love a good press moment about the relationship. It's just so... Brandi, there's such a good one in Heavy Hitter. I loved it. It was really good. Okay, I thought... I probably already forgot it.
00:49:37
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she did that's so funny i remember um another one that i was thinking about that i didn't end up choosing but it's when they get into a fight and he has a shit game and it's like really embarrassing for him yeah and they like they oh my god because she's like melting down yeah uh that happens in caught up that happens in um wall i mean he gets he like can't play a game because he punched somebody because of Yeah. i love thats That's really good. Yeah. He has a shit game. He's like all embarrassed. It happens in throttle too. He gets into a fight. He has the worst race of the season. Bro. Yes. Oh my gosh. So good. Oh, I wish I would have said that one for my third one. ah I mean, yeah, it's not like anybody else was trying to steal it. Yeah. Okay.
00:50:22
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let's all go back and say remind people what ours was so mine was like whenever the athlete makes a gesture at their partner like pointing their bat or what have you another one was running over to her immediately after winning whatever big game setting some world record what whatever and then the last one is just being each other's biggest cheerleaders and cheering them on Okay, now I have to, I said a lot, so I have to recall. Okay, I know um whenever the girl gets to wear some sort of memorabilia of the guy, whether it be a jersey or like she gets like, I don't know, a fucking playing card or something. Okay, that was one. I also really love when um the player gets hurt or like I use the example of like having a concussion and like they have to then go be with,
00:51:09
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um their love interest and like the love interest is like taking care of them or just like there for them in that moment. And then lastly, I really love when there's like some sort of like traveling with the team. And then my little honorary bench player that honestly should have been my starter was a press moment whenever they get to talk about their love interest in the press. So there you go.
00:51:31
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Love it. of My three ah was when the athlete gets to teach the love interest anything about the game, like how to do any part of it, which I think is so cute. My second one that I chose is when the love interest X is going to feel some type of way about them being with the athlete, whether that's like, you know, they used to be a fan or it's like their rival or whatever.
00:51:56
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And then the last one I am going to sub in my bench player. I'm sorry. I'm going to say that when the athlete has a really shitty game around or whatever it is, because they got into like a fight or they like hurt their love interest feelings or like they left each other or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Wait, what was your other one? What was the one that you subbed for though?
00:52:18
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The one that I subbed out was the like getting to a fight during a fake dating. Oh yeah. Fuck yeah. Which I still do really like it, but. What is one sports romance you want everyone to read this year? Play along.
00:52:33
Speaker
Yeah, I haven't read bre many this year. Yeah, same. Yeah, mine would be Play Along by Liz Tom 40, which we all really loved. Do it on audio. It's fantastic.
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00:52:45
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And then a Heavy Header by Katie Katugno, both baseball romances. And you can read ah The Art of Catching Feelings by Alicia Thompson, which had, oh gosh, I just want her to like take out that trope so bad, because i I still think about that book all the time, which is crazy, like, and I gave it like three stars. Is there a sports romance that you guys are looking forward to? Mine would be Deep End.
00:53:10
Speaker
Ali is the one previously known as wet. Yeah, I'm curious to see it's a swimming romance, which I think I've ever read. Yeah, it's college. interest It's college. Yeah. um So I don't I'm nervous for her for this. I don't know because I know she has this in a sport, but like she did like these rivals in a competitive field with check and mate so well that I am like I am really excited for it. Yeah. But like they're not rivals here, right? Or like at least not. They can't be in like the pool. Like, I don't know. I don't know. They go to the same school like they're not. Yeah. Good question. I genuinely don't know. But I, I know that a lot of authors hopefully were inspired by the Olympics with all of the, I know BK Boris and shared a, an aesthetic board for Pinterest for like a sports romance. So I was like, girl, get on it. I'll be there. I'll be reading. Yeah. So I'll be, I'll be sat. So I'm excited either way for anything.
00:54:09
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Yeah, like you guys saw the story about the Croatian tennis players. That's what I'm saying, like that that's what I want. I want the swimming, I want that. If you missed it, you guys, there was a um duo partners in the Olympics this year from Croatia who they dated for four years and they were tennis partners. They played like competitively and mixed together. And they broke up a few months ago, but obviously still had to compete in the Olympics and then they won gold together.
00:54:38
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The picture was so bad. so bad Who cheated?
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00:54:46
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but And will you please get back together, please?
00:54:53
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olympics system oh like okay way We never read these books, but like you wouldn't consider like Sully's books, but but they are, right? Like sports romances. oh No, I would not consider those sports. She goes to the Olympics. Barely consider those. crazy yeah Yeah. I was thinking about that. was like She, she is an athlete. Talk about realistic. You mean a professional athlete that only eats cake and donuts. Shut up. Oh my God. Yeah. It's quirky, Brandi. She's just like her mama.
00:55:24
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I do this a lot while reading sports romances because I don't care but you guys actually like do care a lot about like if you were reading like a football book for example like when the author is describing like a play like um my eyes glaze over like I like do you guys like are you actively like tracking it in your head like yes like that would happen like that possible no I don't know cuz I don't like I feel like it happens in hockey more than on the other side. I don't know. Like I, yeah, there's not that many scenes like that. And I don't know. I don't know. In yeah like play along, like where you track, like, were you able to go like, Oh yeah. Like that's like how baseball works. I mean, yeah. Like when she was saying like short stops are typically like one of the most talented people on the team and like short stops are typically very good hitters. Like, yeah, I'm nodding along with all of that. Okay. But like during the gameplay, you just,
00:56:19
Speaker
I mean, that was kind of gameplay. I mean, I think like the fact that like, yeah, like Isaiah threw a double play. She's not saying like the ball screwed it across the ground. yeah yeah Like when she said like he's throwing double plays and had the best game of the season. I'm like, yeah. and Yeah, I don't know what that means. But um I mean, yeah, if she like if she starts talking like RBI or something, you know, like that, i first of all, I hope that R.B.I. Yeah, exactly. I hope that that would not be in a book because like nobody's going to not everybody's going to know what that is. Yeah. You know what I mean? So like it's in baseball is not exactly a sport that's really that complicated. you're Right. It is only in hockey that they do that. Like the puck glides and crisscross and like behind the net. Yeah, I don't care about that. So even if I care about the sport, I don't care about that stuff. Yeah. So like why do they keep writing it? I believe you like you don't see it.
00:57:09
Speaker
Yeah, unless it serves a purpose, like it's like leading up to them. Oh, yeah, like, yeah, like he' like get getting hurt. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, I don't care. Yeah. Guys, listeners, what is your favorite sports romance that you've ever read? Is there one that you're like, I cannot believe they haven't read this yet. They need to. Please let us know. Head over to our Instagram at bring your own as I mentioned in the beginning of the podcast um and let us know or comment. Yeah. Anywhere you love hockey romances or you also just like give it up, like pick another sport. Oh my God, have you guys ever read a golf book? Oh wait, I read Fangirl Down. That didn't- When she eats ass? Yeah. Yeah. Sure did. and That book was just okay. Yeah. um And you consider that like a hundred percent like sports romance? Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah. Like, yeah. A hundred percent but yeah book takes place around that sport.
00:58:06
Speaker
Okay, yeah, I've never, I don't think I've ever read a golf book. I know Rebecca Jinchek has a golf book. I will give Rebecca Jinchek credit. She spreads out the sports. Like she jumps back between college professional hockey, basketball, football, like she does it all. also So yeah.
00:58:21
Speaker
Yeah, but um we had Gianna Darling on two seasons ago or no, it was last season. She said she's coming out with a sports romance and I have yet to guess what it is because we tried guessing and it just, I i don't know what it is and she hasn't announced it yet. I thought she was, it would have been out by now. but She said she hasn't seen very many if any of this sport. I have a feeling it's going to be track. That's my guess.
00:58:45
Speaker
I love, I love track and field. That'll be when I'm like, when she's like describing, Oh, but she's Canadian. She's going to describe. Well, no, that works meters. Nevermind. That works for me. Yeah. Um, yeah. So yeah, that's my guess. but Yeah. We'll see if that's right. You said it.
00:59:04
Speaker
Yeah. You heard it here first. Yeah. Happy best sports season, everybody. Football. Yes. And who do you think will win ours? Draft. Well, you mean when your will win our fantasy football league, not the draft league. Yeah. Well, you can also win at a draft. You can get a lot of good players. I mean, obviously, I hope it's me, but I don't know. It's up to anybody.
00:59:33
Speaker
Yeah, we will keep you guys updated on that too as well yeah throughout the season. Cause it's very fun and we encourage you to start one. It's like% luck, 20% skill. So it's really mostly down to luck. And there's some yeah bro right now that just heard you say that. And they're like, what the fuck is she talking about? It's all about skill. This is why women shouldn't do fantasy football. Okay. Well,
01:00:02
Speaker
Cause we have so many men who listen to this podcast. Yeah, right. The one person. Anyway, happy football season everybody. Happy football season. I'm guessing that Lomi is going to win. I think she will start to call up her players and bully them if they're going to make shit. No, she will. She's the one person that I think would actually do that. Yeah. Kimmy might too. Kimmy can be. No, Kimmy did not crash shit. Well, it's because she didn't care, but she would be like, I mean, okay. Me. Lomi, yes. I'm going to help me.
01:00:31
Speaker
It's not very. I want to win team spirit of you. um What's the team spirit? I want my team to win. Anyways, I want I would say I see like a so ah sneaker happening, like how it happened with Amelia last year. She won our ah fantasy football team. She did. Her season started off really good, then got really bad and then she won the whole thing out of nowhere. Yeah, I can see Kimi or Selena winning, to be honest. So we'll see.
01:01:01
Speaker
We'll see. Yeah, that would actually be so we all become me one. I become insufferable when I win. It's just like the best feeling like because I was on a roll. I was like winning the league like four weeks straight and I was just ah so hopefully I get that same luck again, but we'll see.