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It's time for a performance review, and in order to hedge their bets, Hosts James and Diaz have brought in some help this week in the form of Very Special Guest Xavier; and together, with their jobs on the line, the trio this week convenes the Guy-bunal to discuss some Replaceable Guys. It's up to James to make sure they, unlike their Guy, don't get overshadowed by understudies (22:39)...

The Pac-12 is dead, long live the Pac-12! Dressed in their best funereal garb, Hosts James and Diaz welcome back Very Special Guest Xavier onto the show so that the three of them can spend this week discussing Guys Who Made The Pac-12 Great. Xavier gets things up and running with a Guy with an excellent track record and victories out the wazoo (16:54); Diaz catches us up on a catcher who himself h...

A Guy by any other name would smell as sweet, but this week where concerned not about other names but rather other Guys with the same name. Hosts James and Diaz welcome Very Special Guest Xavier onto the show, and this time they're concerning themselves with Guys With The Same Name As Much More Accomplished Athletes. Xavier starts off the conversation by hitting us with a Bean ball (20:27); Di...

Whatever success this show has, it earned it, Guy-dammit! Not at all like the Guys the gang is going discuss today, as Hosts James and Diaz welcome back Very Special Guest Xavier onto the show so the three of them can discuss Nepo-Baby Guys. First up James introduces the team to a legacy baseballer with a nose for trouble (14:54); before Xavier gives a crash course on a Guy who very much did not d...

This show itself may be a celebration of fandom already, but Hosts James and Diaz are ready to take that a little more literally than usual as they welcome back to the show their Very Special Guest Xavier so the three can this time discuss Guys With Memorable Fan Interactions. James starts off by taking a stab at a story about things sneaking up on you at the top (20:10); then Diaz makes sure to n...

Life isn't a sprint, but it's not a marathon either. No, dear listener, life is a relay race, and this week Hosts James and Diaz welcome Very Special Guest Xavier back onto the show so that the three of them can discuss some Guys Who Were The Weak Link On Relay Teams. We dive in first with Diaz who revisits a a different part of a golden performance from our past (17:08); followed by Xavie...

It may be far from election season; but this week when Hosts James and Diaz welcome back Very Special Guest Xavier, they'll be thinking about who can best support the party line as they discuss Running Mate Guys. First up, James gets things going by saying screw democracy, let's talk about a regal advisor with some Heated advice (23:01); followed by Xavier, who talks about some of the mark...

Watch out for pop flies cause the show is veering into fowl territory. Host James and Diaz bring back Very Special Guest Xavier to the show; and together, the three of them welcome Chief Poultry Correspondent Alexander Tominsky for this week's episode. (17:58) After first joining in one of the show's favorite customs and talking about the birds for a while, Alexander dives into the Guy tha...

It's time for another round of trivial Trivia with our 3rd installment of the gameshow about the show where we mine our memories for nuggets of nostalgia about peripheral players past and present: Who Wants to Be A Guy-llionaire? This time, Hosts James and Diaz welcome not only Very Special Guest Xavier, but a slate of new contestants for the show in Richard-Francis-Burton-Reincarnate Brooks R...

As we wind down another season, the Guy-bunal's Veterans Committee convenes once again as Hosts James and Diaz welcome Very Special Guest Xavier onto the show for a sixth edition of Reliti-Guy-tion. After some extended Memories being Made, the gang gets down to brass tacks with their new dirty half dozen: a Guy with a story that's just the ticket for induction (30:27); another who saw the...

The show has been on a hot streak recently, so it's never been a better time for Hosts James and Diaz to bring back Very Special Guest Xavier to cool things off, as they discuss Guys With Historically Bad Streaks. Diaz gets things started, and tries to score some points by talking about a Guy who did anything but (17:17); then it's Xavier's Guy who may lose a lot and doesn't really...

It's time to break out the grills and coolers because this week, Hosts James and Diaz welcome to the show Very Special Guest Xavier so that he can convene the Guy-bunal to discuss some Lawn Game Guys. First, a call-in from Friend of the Show and Chief Despondent Correspondent Rego doling out some schadenfreude from Boston in spirit if not body (2:00). Then it's finally back to regular prog...

With one of the illustrious trio once again out of the country, Hosts James and Very Special Guest Xavier find themselves pleased to welcome back friend of the show and Local Baltimore Man Connor Newcomb from the Locked On Orioles podcast. After James and Xavier take some time to introduce Connor and his ornithological expertise (15:11), he presents to the partial Guy-bunal a particularly choice m...

This episode was not produced in conjunction with Shonda Rhimes, but you'd be forgiven for thinking so as Hosts James and Diaz welcome back Very Special Guest Xavier so they can all discuss Scandalous Guys. Xavier begins this week's slate by trying to make a point about gambling that, hopefully, his Guy doesn't shave (15:02); then it's Diaz, who brings to the group an umpire known...

In an attempt to class the place up a little bit, this week sees Hosts James and Diaz (along with Very Special Guest Xavier) welcoming the creator of ArtButMakeItSports, LJ Rader. LJ has brought before the Guy-bunal this week a Guy who, among other achievements: played for nearly half of a professional sports league; joined the Traded-Twice-in-the-Same-Day fraternity; and threw, statistically, an...

It's a crazy specimen, the Florida Guy, even moreso than the mythical Florida Man, and this week in preparation for one, Hosts James and Diaz welcome not just Very Special Guest Xavier but also Very Normal Guest and Editor-in-Chief of Baseball Prospectus , Craig Goldstein. It is Craig who today brings forward a case for a Guy known from Canada to Colombia and every where in between as a perfec...

Hosts James and Diaz welcome back Very Special Guest Xavier and this time, the team builds the whole plane out of "unfortunately..." when they discuss the topic of Guys That Were Taken Too Soon. Diaz gets things rolling, and rolls much more safely than his Swedish fish out of water (13:29); then Xavier brings in a Guy who finds themselves in a real trapped-between-a-rock-and-a-cement-mixer...

At long last, our Hosts James and Diaz are able to welcome back to the show their Very Special Guest Xavier, as the trio gathers to discuss Guys Who Devoted Their Lives To Sports They Never Played. Xavier starts things off, and he thinks his Guy is his ticket to a win this week (20:31); James brings a Guy who had a Faustian bargain regarding some organs (34:47); and Diaz reaches into his briefcase...

With the ongoing vacation of Very Special Guest Xavier still going on, Hosts James and Diaz are thrilled to bring on a another guest in his stead: Presenting some Guys this week, it's their pleasure to welcome Billboard Magazine editor and Rights to Ricky Sanchez contributor Andrew Unterberger. After introducing AU to the audience for any of the uninitiated amongst their listeners (14:30), the...

While our trio may be apart this week, they didn't want to keep you apart from another week of content. So, they've prepared perhaps their nerdiest episode for you to date, which is certainly no small feat! Hosts James and Diaz once again welcome Very Special Guest Xavier, as they gather their Cheetos and Mountain Dew for a good ol' table top roleplaying game! Before we get the ball an...

Another week, another chance for Hosts James and Diaz to welcome Very Special Guest Xavier, and this time, they're talking about those Guys holding everything together from the end of the bench, the back of the bullpen, or the bottom of the depth chart: Glue Guys. James is once again unable to resist the siren song of going down under with a Guy that helped a team Storm to their first title (2...

The WBC has wrapped up, summer sports are just around the corner, and as we shift our perspectives from the international space towards the domestic, our hosts James and Diaz welcome back Very Special Guest Xavier so that the three of them can discuss a number of Guys who are Only Guys In America. Xavier gets us started as we Czech out the far ranging story of one of his favorite hockey players (2...

While we certainly encourage vaccines of all varieties, there's no way to protect against the virality of this episode, as Hosts James and Diaz welcome back Very Special Guest Xavier so that the three of them can discuss this week's topic: Viral Guys. James decides to go back in time to teach us about the agonizing ABCs of early virality (19:39); Diaz details a Philly hoops legend with a s...

It's time to get that bread, obtain that grain, will it towards the millet, we're running out of steam on the puns but it's full steam ahead as the Guy-bunal kicks off a fresh season! This week join them as Hosts James and Diaz welcome Very Special Guest Xavier to discuss Guys That Secured The Bag. Diaz introduces the category with an athlete that Bernie Madoff may not love, but who ce...

There's no Guy in team...or is there? The Hall's curatorial staff has been hard at work to making a new Travelling Exhibit space to showcase stories that while bereft of true Guys still need to be shared. The first set of these will set out to answer that initial question, as we set out to explore Teams With Big Guy Energy. James is the first to take us through their space that discusses b...