Jonathan Tan

Generations (Talking 'bout My Sports...)

Sports EN ↓ 227 episodes

A Boomer, a Gen Xer, and a Millennial walk into a podcast — and nobody agrees on anything. Steve was there. Jonathan has the stats. Mark has the East Coast take. Together they cover basketball, baseball, football, and hockey across three completely different eras of fandom. Real memories, real arguments, real numbers — from Muhammad Ali to Barry Bonds to Wayne Gretzky to the Raiders' 40 years of heartbreak. No hot takes. No corporate sponsors. Just three generations telling it straight. New episodes every Saturday. Now on YouTube.

Author

Jonathan Tan

Episodes

S1 E1 - Intro to Generations: A Sports Podcast exploring fandom over multiple generations 16.07.2023 42:30

A podcast that explores fandom across generations. We discuss how fans experience, consume, follow, and watch the game. How has this changed over the years? What are tipping points in the various games? Who are the forgotten players over the years that may have new life today because we measure and consume sports differently. No get off my lawn here. We discuss how we as fans have loved the game o...

S1 E2 - Analytics what are they good for? 16.07.2023 46:27

The beauty of sport and the drama of "anything can happen". Does Analytics distort or bastardize the simple experience of watching David face Goliath? Steve waxes on how the story and the unknown are more pure without Analytics and that Analytics has changed the game for none the better. Jonathan argues Analytics have always been here. Often it is misapplied in how we talk about, report...