Opi & the Bear

The boys talk about the Opi & the Bear tourney bracket and find out Opi is WAY over confident! Quick talk of the greatest NBA fantasy games by an individual player. They talk a little NFL and the wild and wacky Dolphins trading in the preseason and then, they finish with our MLB predictions sure to go wrong. Bear cut in some top baseball movie quotes of all time just to get everyone in the moo...

This one starts out a little crappy but picks it up. The guys pick apart and compare the 2005 Illini vs the 2021 team. See that Bear's final comments about this year's Illini came to fruition. We sing an outstanding rendition of happy birthday to our very own Marketing Manager and we point out the winners and losers of the "cheating time", otherwise known as the legal tampering deadline and get in...

No interview this week but it's an interesting one. For those that love the Produca and the Assistant to the Regional Produca, you'll love this one as Opi is gone for a portion in the middle and Bear's mic goes out half way through! Talk about your technical difficulties. We do the usual talk about changes and signings in sports and then we hit where WRs are going and finish with Miller League pro...

This week the guys discuss next year's player protection prediction in the Bud League in the FBFL. We talk about where some FA RBs are gonna land in 2021 and lastly, we have a very intriguing conversation with FBFLer Greg Ventris, who also happens to be on the football and wrestling staff at Moline High School. We discuss the difficulties of the year in both coaching and teaching during this unpre...

Welp, it's essentially the offseason with 1 game in the NFL left and baseball lurking in the spring. Considering it's about zero degrees in the Midwest, spring time seems like a long ways out! We have some more picks about the Buper Sowl, the big NFL trades, the big MLB trades, MLB free agents and our movie person of the week, Vince Vaughn. Wanna chat with us or fill out some predictions/surveys?...

We have a VERY fun and special interview with Washington National relief pitcher Dakota Bacus. Don't worry about the background noise, he was at a local pub while this interview was happening. FBFL champion Jake Lyon is also talked to for a bit because we had to. The crew along with Bacus and Lyon make their playoff and NFL Championship prediction and Bear makes an FBFL announcement for the end of...

There was a little confusion so no interview this week but the boys talk about the championship game in the FBFL for a bit. Then they go on to make their NFL playoff predictions along with saying who their picks are for certain NFL awards. They also get into a little NBA talk at the end and lastly, they want you to know their website became interactive so go out and vote on the same thing the guys...

Jeremy "Joker" Hawkes made his podcast debut and left no opinion unturned. Bear and Joker have several different lively discussions and we predict the winner of the FBFL Championship. We also have some more old Welldigger reminiscing and we find out who Joker would play, trade or cut!!

Kyler Yodts makes his debut with the gang and gets to talk about his thoughts on fantasy football, a little gambling, throwing the weighted throw in college and yoga pants (thank you Bear). He also helps us make the picks for the 2nd week of the FBFL playoffs and is a good sport in chatting with Ryan who whooped his ars this week in the first round.

We bring in old man Behrens to talk about the post season of the fantasy league and give us some insights to his past teams. We have a chat about some texting that went on between LP's widow and Bear and do a little reminisce about some Welldiggers/Halos who have passed. We chat about who Jimmy Grahams real team in the NFL was. And lastly we finish it out…on Saturday...as Bear had to cut ALL of th...

This is our first special edition of the podcast for the FBFL. This gives our listeners a chance to say, I don't care about your league, I only want to listen to the diatribe of bullshit that comes out of your mouths when it comes to NFL football. Well, here you go, don't listen to this one then! The 50th edition will be out very soon but for the FBFLers, here's your podcast for our playoff predic...

We have a strong interview with Richard Lyon, owner of the Gladiators who tells us all about his draft decisions, mistakes he made, good calls he's made and his thoughts about making the playoffs in 2020. We discuss the Storm Troopers and Ninjas at length. We discuss the FBFL post season as the way it looks right now, Opi and Bear both bring new games into the mix to create discussion. Bear defend...

Friggin' Bear soap box episode!! Goes off on NFL for COVID rules, goes off on QC for not playing the Wednesday afternoon game and goes off on the Storm Troopers for being so damn LUCKY and lastly, he's one aggressive son of a gun during Illinois basketball games!! We give the playoff scenario and Opi spends time talking about the playoffs if we were a points league. We finish with our normal picks...

We bring in Adara Opiola, daughter of Opi and listen to a very intelligent and extended interview about her life as a D1 softball player, we won't apologize for the length because the conversation was a lot of fun! The interview will explain the title! Find out how she's doing since her untimely ACL injury. We make the trifecta picks for Thanksgiving only to make it a two-some thanks to stupid Rav...

Guests are dropping like flies, we had Tater of the Oopsie Daisies all lined up and "work" got in the way which from his standpoint means it was pig slopping time or whatever those hillbillies do these days. We have the NBA draft going as we talked but nobody cared. Listen to Bear's story of throwing a fit when he thought he lost to the Dragons. We really drill down the Bears offensive decisions o...

We lost our guest for the week. We invited Grandpa Behrens of the Bruisers into the house and he got lost on the way. We understand he's now in Coal Valley just wandering around screaming out for Ryan the Producer. We have another reflection on LP and some memories he brought to the group. We also talk about the Seahawks more than the Bears this time and how bad their D is and also try to figure o...

We put another long one together but for very good reason this time as we lost a FBFL and Halos brother on Sunday, 11/1/2020 senselessly to COVID and try to put together a nice good bye…R.I.P. LP - you will be missed by all of us; We also had a very busy podcast with background grandchildren and wives; Greg Ventris of the Stalkers is our guest and he goes on and on about his stupid Packers but giv...

No guest this week and the podcast crew were mostly sick as AJ had a migraine and Bear is getting over his seasonal sinus infection bullshat. Somehow the Dolphins get brought up quite a bit in this one as we talk about Tua & a few other tidbits. The Opi jinx is in full stride this week and we have the podcast grudge week as Opi takes on the producer while Bear takes his verbal beatdown about t...

Burp-fest, burp-ademic, burp-aholic, burp-toberfest, burp krusher, burp-a-looza, burp-ilocks, sir burps-a-lot, Burp Bacharach, burp-ocolipse, burp-tastic, burp-ology…those say it all and are said during the podcast because there were 110 burps cut from this one and our guest, Kevin "fuck you" Yodts, delivered at least twice if not 3 times that many. This is not for the faint of stomach so we get i...

We bring back Cougars coach Weinis (Nathan Nicke) for his diatribe of garbage; We issue a short apology; we're also trying to encourage more listener participation; Opi & Weinis speak of the ACL epidemic a little more and Bear goes over how it affected other players "back in the day"; And lastly, don't miss Bear pissing and moaning a LOT about scoring and losing!

Apologies for 2 quick ones but gonna try to get them out sooner!! Commish tells you his thoughts on the COVID finding with Titans vs Steelers. Listen to a great story about how old Welldigger pitcher and part-time mascot Mike Pannel gets tired of listening to F-U Kevin deciding who to play. The Intern and the Bear have a sharp discussion on Barkley being made of glass and ACLs which led to the tit...

We have a nice chat with Jody and get his picks along with talking about how poor we did last week. We also give a quick update as to how Jody is handling COVID and his thoughts (not political) and lastly we sum up the Lazer Ninja Dragon League.

Back to FBFL format, find out who we chose as our boom, bust and sleeper in week 2; we read some emails; have a great and energetic conversation with Nucker from across the pond and get his take on the draft, who he saves in a fire and we drink to Monica (Monita)!! 

That's right boys!! For all these years you've been forced to read the draft grades on some shitty .pdf file on the website well instead, we give them to you straight and some of you ain't gonna like them!! We pound through each team and how we feel the draft went and could have went if they took it the route we deemed better which means they probably did a great job since, as it says in the begin...

That's RIGHT!!! That title is because the protected players are in and we're going to discuss them at length. We also discuss the preseason trades and the all important FBFL board voted COVID rules! The guys talk about MLB trades, have a quick conversation about the Lazer Ninja Dragon League and have an actual fan email to read. Lastly, we want to say congrats to the Halos softball team for their...