Wine & Dime
In Vino Veritas. Exploring the basketball world one glass of wine at a time.
Episodes
Chris and Lyndsay are back, and popping open the Cava. They start with the messy breakup between Chris Paul and the Clippers, where Chris could wind up (Wolves?), and the general disaster that is the Los Angeles Clippers before hitting on the Suns connecting deeper with the Indigenous community in Arizona, Norman Powell the renaissance man, the state of North American sports ownership (James Dolan sucks, but private equity sucks wo...
Chris and Lyndsay are back, this time with an assortment of wine and wine adjacent beverages, covering all the latest news in women's basketball including; the new Big Tech funded league that sounds like a Dr. Evil plan, the Chicago Sky's tragic asset management, what kind of players the Tempo will target for their inaugural season and the unnecessary but not bad Phoenix Mercury rebrand. After that they spend some time on a couple ...
On this episode of Wine & Dime the team are heading back to Rioja and begin with some news about WNBA CBA negotiations and what the new Saudi-backed league means for players before a round of stock up/stock down on the first month of the NBA season (stock up: Giannis dunking on everyone/stock down: the New Orleans Pelicans sinking season).
Wine Pairing: LAN Rioja Crianza 2021 (Rioja, Spain)
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Chris and Lyndsay return to cover all of the madness that has occurred during their mini break. They begin by hitting all of the news regarding coaching hirings and firings before diving more into the WNBA labour strife and recapping the WNBA Finals. In the second half of the episode, they draft early NBA season storylines including Wemby's early reign of terror, the NBA's optics problem with gambling, the Raptors maybe not being t...
Wine & Dime is back, and this time with an additional Chris! The crew is joined by Chris Pennant, freelance broadcaster and newly minted M.S in Journalism, to discuss the calamity that is the Chicago Sky, Napheesa Collier's Kendrick Lamar moment (Say 'Cathy'), the possibility of a WNBA lockout, and the WNBA Finals bound Phoenix Mercury, plus Bill Laimbeer.
On this episode of Wine & Dime, Chris and Lyndsay dive into the first round of the WNBA Playoffs and discuss the Game 1 domination by the Lynx, the Aces hitting their stride at the right time, the dogfight between the Mercury and Liberty, and the Dream showing they're a real playoff threat. They finish with some discussion about the standoff between the Chicago Sky and Angel Reese, the apparent cap circumvention issue for the C...
Cheers to one year! To celebrate the one year anniversary of Wine & Dime's launch, Chris and Lyndsay pop some bubbly to talk Candace Parker's jersey retirement, the weird Connecticut Sun situation, and x-factors for every playoff team (plus the Sparks).
Wine Pairing: Bottega Prosecco Il Vino Dei Poeti DOC (Italy)
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On this episode of Wine & Dime, Chris and Lyndsay sip on the first Malbec of the podcast while diving into WNBA trends (stock up: Atlanta Dream, stock down: point guard knees in Indianapolis), power ranking every wine that has been featured on the pod, and give a quick shout out to Ireland Basketball (and the country) for fighting the good fight against FIBA’s complicity in a genocide.
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Back from a little pod hiatus, Chris and Lyndsay discuss NBA free agency moves including the Denver Nuggets having a burly Eastern European in the middle for a whole game, heartwarming legacy reunions between beloved ageing legends and their former teams, and Victor Wembanyama's very interesting summer before catching up on all the latest W news like the contentious CBA negotiations, Alyssa Thomas' shoulder-less dominance, whether ...
Chris and Lyndsay talk NBA Finals, the modern NBA being the enemy of achilles tendons everywhere, and NBA trades (KD to the Rockets) before talking Commissioners Cup, surprising Valkyries, Point Angel and the Sky, and why WNBA workplace romances make the league so much more fun.
Wine Pairing: Meinklang Gruner Veltliner (Austria)
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On this episode of Wine & Dime, Chris and Lyndsay are back to talk bold wines and bold players. They discuss the merits of Bordeaux before organizing the WNBA into tiers to find out who the contenders are, which teams are just pretenders, who is just happy to be here (and the Chicago Sky), before wrapping up with some brief thoughts on the NBA Finals, coaching searches and the wild world of NCAA basketball.
Wine Pairing: Châte...
Chris and Lyndsay are back, this time celebrating the start of rosé season and the WNBA being all the way back. They start off with some quick thoughts on the NBA conference finals before diving into the W where they discuss the underwhelming Aces start, the Mystics stealing the draft, the dark clouds in Skytown, and Chris spreads Phoenix Mercury propaganda.
Wine Pairing: Gerard Bertrand Cote des Roses Languedoc Roussillon AOC 202...
It's playoff pinot gris time on this special Wednesday edition of Wine & Dime as the crew dive into all of the action of the second round of the NBA playoffs including Tatum's unfortunate injury, Boston not being a real place, Cleveland collapsing like a cheap tent, a Pacers Knicks conference finals feeding families, Julius Randle being a natural Wolf and Jokic's arm scars. They finish off with a brief discussion about Giannis'...
The NBA Playoffs are rolling and the Sauvignon Blanc is flowing as Chris and Lyndsay return to discuss all the action. They discuss how Steven Adamas inspired the wine choice, the playoff viewing enjoyability tiers (Grizzlies-Thunder could have been an email), the disparity in the quality of the conferences, react live to Aaron Gordon's game winning dunk, and debate whether the Play-in tournament has been the success the NBA wanted...
Chris and Lyndsay return to talk about the NBA's basketball colonial project (European league expansion), UConn beating the brakes off everyone in their path to win the NCAA tournament, and put the NBA playoff/play-in teams in tiers to determine who is a real contender, who the pretenders are, and the teams destined to always be in the play-in (here's looking at you, Atlanta).
Wine Pairing: Campo Viejo Rioja DOCa 2022 (Spain)
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Chris and Lyndsay are back, this time to break down what has happened in the tournament since last time: Kim Mulkey did her best Michael Jackson impression, South Carolina is winning ugly, and LA basketball is back! They finish up with a quick round of NBA "Would You Rather?" as a way to talk about the sadder situations int he NBA.
After some technological difficulties (i.e Chris being disconnected from the world), Wine & Dime is back in action and back drinking South African wine. Diana Taurasi has officially retired and this inspired Chris and Lyndsay to have a discussion about greatness, how we don't appreciate it enough in real time, and why celebrating the small things is important to fandom. They finish off the episode by picking their NCAAW March M...
Due to some technical difficulties we decided to run it back with one of our favourite early episodes.
The Wine & Dime crew is back and this time they're drinking South African wine. After some discussion about Pinotage, Chris and Lyndsay name their starting fives if wines were basketball players before bemoaning the lack of creative player nicknames/ doing a draft of the ones that are actually good.
Wine Pairing: The Grinder P...
Another All-Star game has come and gone and since no one seems satisfied, Chris and Lyndsay decided to fix things once and for all. Ideas include an NBA Jam style WNBA/NBA 2v2 tournament, Team World vs Team USA, and the ultimate 1v1 tournament. They finish off with a quick vibe check of the San Antonio Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies.
Wine Pairing: Villa Antinori Toscana 2022
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Chris and Lyndsay are back sampling Chilean wine and discussing why the NBA trade deadline is so back, the end of the Jimmy Butler Saga, more WNBA offseason moves, and a Mark Williams inspired story about eyes.
Wine Pairing: Concha Y Toro Casillero del Diablo Carménère 2022 (Central Valley, Chile)
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