Draft Day

Last episode we drafted the top ten players of all-time. This time we drafted ten more players. I don't know, man, what else do you want me to say? I can't really sell it any more than that. If you liked the last episode, you'll probably like this one. If you didn't like it, I can't imagine why this would be any different. Do as you wish.

Now it's time for a draft in which we draft...just, anything and everything. There are many basketball players in any draft, but there are even more basketball players in every draft. And there's also guys who weren't drafted. So let's throw 'em all in one big pot. In this episode, the boys draft five players apiece to create a comprehensive Top 10 list which will be built over...

You heard about this holiday "Christmas"? Yeah, well, they have this thing called "Christmas music" and it's just like songs about Christmas. Why don't other holidays have bangers? Someone should have told Paul McCartney that instead of making a Christmas song everyone would complain about for decades, he could have had it go "Simply having a wonderful turkey time" and it would've been a huge hit...

You know how sometimes you will watch a great sporting event and people will say "You couldn't write something crazier than this!" But of course you could! Have you ever seen "Being John Malkovich", the movie where a guy discovers a portal in his office building into the mind of the actor John Malkovich and then, because he is an expert puppeteer, he is able to control Malkovich? That's way crazie...

Hey, remember the song "21 Questions" by 50 Cent? I thought it was kind of mid but I think about Nate Dogg's chorus a lot. Honestly I don't really know that much about Nate Dogg's work besides that and like two other songs but they're really good. Never dug any deeper. Maybe I'm missing out. Maybe I'm not. Who cares. That's not even the name of this episode. Anyway we didn't feel like drafting so...

So we recorded this podcast on October 31st, but my computer was being weird so it's being uploaded now. It's like an artifact from the past. I sound so young, so naive, so unaware of the world in front of me. I'm nostalgic for that era, but that's the thing about nostalgia: you know the future and that's the luxury you're truly embracing. That or it's like the movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood...

Happy hockey season to all, and to all a happy hockey season! We're all excited, right? I don't know honestly, I guess it's cool. I watched the Blues game on Tuesday but, like, playoff baseball is going on. I like hockey but regular season hockey is not the reason October is the King Of Months. Anyway, we drafted some six-man hockey teams where only one player per country is allowed to be drafted,...

The hosts of this show are many things. Men. Sports fanatics. Giant dorks. But they are truly, truly Americans. Not in a jingoistic, off-putting sense, but they are truly absorbed in American culture, the kind of thing Europeans scoff about but seem to actually enjoy. And truly, what is more American than talking about fast food? In this episode, the boys draft their favorite fast food menu items...

In 2007, a bunch of people were drafted into Major League Baseball. Neither of our hosts, despite one being eligible, were drafted. He had a classmate drafted, which is good for him, but how does that help? It's not like he shared any of his signing bonus with me. Whatever, it's fine. I took revenge by not drafting him in this episode and instead drafting some guys that actually made the M...

The 1986 NBA Draft is one of the great what-if drafts of all-time. And while it is mostly remembered today for tragic reasons--the premature death of Len Bias and the squandered potential of Chris Washburn and Roy Tarpley--there were a lot of interesting contributors. So we shook up the formula a little bit. This time, instead of drafting the best available players with no consideration for the dr...

It is very likely that in five months, we will either have our first woman president or our second president elected to non-consecutive terms. In either case, it makes the premise we're doing here feel uncomfortable. Like, is it less respectful to call Kamala Harris hot or not hot? They both seem bad in different ways. Also, the non-consecutive terms thing annoys me for apolitical reasons, as...

Man, remember 2011? Well, you probably do, it was only 13 years ago. Though I guess if you're like a college freshman you probably barely remember it. My God, how young of listeners do we have? In a macro sense, neither of the hosts of this show are "old" but we are old in spirit, even though we spent the first segment of this episode roasting by far the youngest person alive to have...

We are believers in the Draft Day community. Well, not really. In fact, this is the first time I've ever really considered the Draft Day community as a coherent thing. But this time I'm pretending to care. In this episode, the boys go through four semi-out-there ideas for a future draft topic and narrow down their list to four finalists. Go to the Draft Day Twitter account (or X, or Epic L...

The crack of the bat. The clash of foot against pigskin on a kickoff. The revving of engines in anticipation of the green flag. These are a few sounds that don't exist in the Summer Olympics. There are 47 sports that do exist, though, and in this episode we both drafted 23 of them. Which means we excluded exactly one sport. It deserved exclusion.

You looking to learn how some of the greatest players in sports history got their start? Well, that's too bad, because you're stuck with this one instead. I mean, there is one legitimately great player in here, but not every draft can be great. Otherwise, it wouldn't be special when a draft turns out great, or competent, or defensible.

So here's the thing--we recorded this later than we normally would, which means I am uploading this later than I normally would, which means I am exhausted and not clever. Not that I'm ever clever but sometimes what I say has some sort of point. In this case, not really. Just kind of rambling. Anyway, sports video games. There's a new EA Sports college football game coming out this wee...

On January 1, 2000, none of our electronic malfunctioned. And the St. Louis Rams won the Super Bowl that month, which ruled. Good start, aughts. On December 31, 2009, um, I had to work the next morning at 6 a.m. I remember feeling obliged to stay up until midnight but, like, I stayed home and watched one of those VH1 listicle shows. I think it was that Greatest Hard Rock songs. I think "Iron...

Happy Wednesday, and happy NBA Draft Day (oh my God, there it is, he said the title)! Tonight, NBA teams will try to shape their futures, and in honor of that, John and special guest P. Funk look back at the 2008 draft, one in which John's favorite team had the #1 overall pick and in which Funk's favorite team won the night. Also, the two reminisce about how the Phoenix Suns trying to dump...

In most of our episodes, we take a year and draft the best players available from that year. But this time, we are organizing players by draft pick. John and Jason alternate to determine the best ever #1 through #30 picks in the Major League Baseball amateur draft.

Is professional wrestling a sport? I don't know, man, it's more of a sport than making movies or a bunch of St. Louis food things and we drafted those before. But regardless, one of the regular hosts of this podcast is a big wrestling fan and one of them only knows what he accidentally learned by virtue of being extremely Online. So this week, the boys brought on a special guest, Twitch an...

The 1984 NBA Draft has four of the greatest NBA players of all-time. It also has a bunch of other guys. And on the latest episode of Draft Day, you get both! Well, you get the four great NBA players, plus eight of the other guys. Some of them were good! Listen to find out who those players were and why there was such a long gap between episodes.

How important is listening to every episode of a podcast to you? In honor of the start of the NFL Draft tonight, John and Jason break down, in arguably excruciating detail, every scene of the 2014 film DRAFT DAY, starring Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner. Hear their thoughts on Ivan Reitman's final directorial effort, how fast it would take to fly from Manhattan to Cleveland, and how highly t...

1996 was a banner year for the St. Louis Cardinals. They made their first postseason in nine years, Tony LaRussa and Bill DeWitt Jr. entered and Ozzie Smith existed, and they drafted higher than they ever drafted before, selecting Wichita State pitcher Braden Looper third overall. Do John and Jason like this pick? (No) There's only one way to find out (actually I just said the answer, it is no...

We're getting back around to the 'Chel. Ugh, how embarrassing is it that referring to the NHL series of video games as "Chel" is part of hockey vernacular? Or that people will refer to celebrations as a "celly" without feeling intense internal shame? Or that we've abandoned giving out cool hockey nicknames in favor of going with what NHL players call each other, whi...

Ah, time to turn the calendar on another month. And in honor of the start of the new month, we're going to start making good episodes. April Fools! We would never set our sights that high. But we did set our sights on an unconventional draft, in which the hosts draft the worst draft picks in major professional sports history. From those who were poorly evaluated to those who got in their own w...