This week: The big wet, tanking the wins pool, adult fantasy, researchers with agendas, holding up a barn door, are there votes in the Nets fanbase, Cleveland this is for you, the age of nepotism and failsons, California’s Toowoomba, second chance draws, the Baby Blazers were a thing (briefly), the Zion Precedent (not a Robert Ludlum plodder), Marathon Man, Jim Ratcliffe’s inadvisable slacks, the antithesis of everyone, rewarding bad decisions and appalling behaviour, South African travel advisories, DNP-racism, the only decent dude in F1, never escaping the clown you were at 19, never escaping the ghost of the GOAT and why Kobe was an untalented sociopathic hack. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.