Nothing Major’s First Thursday Drop! Grass Swing Predictions, World Cup Picks | Ep 184

**John** (0:00)
All right, coming up on Nothing Major, it's our first ever Thursday release. Very exciting times. We're going to review our stock picks, and we're going to talk the World Cup, because it is here, and also have some fan questions that are very fun. Let's get it going.

**Sam** (0:13)
Jack, John, Stevie and Sam, got close a few times, never won a slam.

**John** (0:18)
Nothing Major. Welcome back to Nothing Major, everyone. First ever Thursday edition. Thanks to Sam Querrey.

**Sam** (0:23)
Numbers are going to spike.

**John** (0:24)
Yeah, exactly. I like this idea. I didn't think of it at all. I think it's a really good idea. People are busy on Friday. You're exactly right.
Friday afternoon, no one's listening to podcast Friday afternoon.

**Sam** (0:34)
Totally.

**John** (0:35)
Thursday afternoon, they are.
Anyways, John, Sam, Stevie here, the team at CIF Creative, Charlie Fox and his whole team. Thank you so much. As mentioned, this is our Thursday episode, so no more Friday going forward. Let us know in the comments if you like this.

**Stevie** (0:53)
Unless it tanks, then we'll go back to Friday.

**Sam** (0:55)
Of course, they like it.

**John** (0:56)
I feel like why would it, like, why would it? Yeah, why wouldn't?

**Stevie** (0:59)
I don't think it will, but I'm just saying, if it tanks and like nobody listens to it on Thursday, then we'll move it back to Friday.

**Sam** (1:03)
No, no, we won't.

**Stevie** (1:05)
We're going to Wednesday.

**John** (1:06)
I'm with Sam. Monday, Thursday. It's just a great cadence. Monday, Thursday.
And then you let people the whole weekend to digest what they've heard from. Oh, gosh. You know?

**Stevie** (1:16)
Smart. Smart. Smart.

**John** (1:18)
A lot of water cooler talk on the weekend.
But anyways, a long time ago, we did a Clay Court buy and sell picks. So let's review our picks from, I think it was like right before Monte Carlo, right? That's where we did it.

**Sam** (1:36)
Yeah.

**John** (1:37)
And let's start with Sam Querrey. Why don't you go through your picks? Tell us how you think they did. Remember, this is before Monte Carlo, we did this.

**Sam** (1:45)
I hate to admit it, but I went two for two, guys. So my do you hate to admit it? I will just I know everyone hates me. But so my buy with art was Arthur Fils, right? And he had been a little injured earlier in the year. And I said that he would win a 500 What did he do? He went to Barcelona and won a 500 on the dirt, right? Unfortunately, he did get hurt after that. He didn't get to play in Roland Garros, but he did definitely prove that if he's plain, he's a threat and we all like him on this pod. And so that came true. The other thing that came true is Alex de Minaur. He was my cell. And as much as I like the demon, I was like, I don't know if he's that good on the clay.
He didn't get past the round of 64 in Rome or Madrid. He was seeded in both. So it was a first round loss, first round loss. And then he lost third round here. He lost to Menchique who basically died in the second round of Roland Garros and back from the dead and he beat the demon. Again, I shouldn't be happy about this. I want all the players to win all the time. But as far as this game goes, my buy and my sell, if these were stocks, I'd be rich right now.
I don't know if it's so funny, Stevie.

**Stevie** (2:57)
It's great, I just love the excitement.

**John** (2:59)
Well done, well done, Sam.
I'm reading it over, I forgot you chose those two players. When I first saw Arthur Fils, I'm like, oh, that was a bad pick because he missed Roland Garros. I forgot the fact that he won Barcelona and you caught it.

**Stevie** (3:11)
Yeah, I forgot that as well. I was about to laugh and be like, dude, like you didn't even play like the biggest event. Yeah, but you are correct. You're right.

**John** (3:18)
But as good as your picks were, I know Stevie's might be better. The floor is yours, Stevie.

**Stevie** (3:24)
I'm a blue chip stock picker. That's what I do. Flavio Cobolli was my buy.

**Sam** (3:30)
Stevie put a few rubles in the video 10 months ago and now they're hitting.

**Stevie** (3:33)
10 months ago, I put it in there 20 years ago before it was alive. Cobolli, dude, that was my buy outside of an obvious pick because you don't want to pick some. It's boring. You want to root for maybe somebody off the beaten path a little bit. Not too crazy, but definitely got hot. Now he's going to be in the top 10, a Roland-Garros finalist. Nothing wrong with that. My sell was Lorenzo Musetti.