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Rise of the Sports Geek: From Box Scores to Billion-Dollar Fantasy
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“Remember keeping baseball box scores by hand? Today, those same stat-obsessed weirdos run billion-dollar fantasy leagues and sports betting apps. In this episode of Original Geek, Steve and Jeff take a nostalgic (and hilarious) look at how sports geeks went from the stands with scorecards to running the game from behind the screen.”
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Welcome to Original Geek—the podcast for anyone who rolled their first d20 on shag carpet, waited hours for a comic book JPEG to load on dial-up, and wore the label “geek” back when it got you mocked, not monetized.
Hosted by stand-up comic Steve Scarfo and Forever DM Jeff Shaw, we dive deep into what it meant to be a geek in the '70s and '80s—and how that underground culture became the mainstream multiverse we live in today.
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Chapters
1. Daily Topic: Fantasy Sports Geeks (00:00:00)
2. Geek Flashback (00:09:06)
3. Geek Court (00:16:07)
4. Basement Treasures (00:21:40)
5. Geek Evolution (00:26:41)
6. Critical Hits & Epic Fails (00:38:48)
7. Ask an O.G. (00:52:51)
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