Sports R Dumb

Remember during the Super Bowl when everyone in the sports world seemed to support cryptocurrency? Steph Curry and Tom Brady were telling us how easy it would be to get into the crypto space, even though they're new to it. Turns out, not understanding how something works is a great way to lose money. Now, with FTX crashing and burning, people are panicking. And the Miami Heat play in an arena...

Thanksgiving is full of fun traditions. Eating copious amounts of [insert your favorite side dish], spending time with family and friends, and tossing the old pigskin around. Sean enjoys watching the Dallas Cowboys during Thanksgiving, but you know what he does not want to watch? The Detroit Lions playing football. Yet they kick off each and every Thanksgiving with a home game. How can we make the...

Today's episode is a little different. With the NBA season in full swing and college basketball tipping off with some exciting matchups, we're going to look at the original basketball rules from 1892. Sean rates each one on a 1-5 scale between "not dumb" and "ahem, the dumbest." Sean also shares a personal story about his recent hockey game, where he went from feeling great...

We watch sports to actually see the action on the field, court, or ice. Yet why are there so many stoppages in play? (We know why—it's money.) But still, we can do better with our timeouts! Sean is so mad, his voice has never been higher pitched. Also, how many people on a football field at any given time (including out of bounds) are standing around doing nothing? Plus, a silly sports cliche...

Imagine you just played a very tough game and are sore, tired, and heartbroken. BUT FIRST, you have to go stand in a line and shake hands with everyone else on the other team. What a silly practice. And we have ways to liven it up. Also, the owl from the Tootsie Pop commercials is a big ol' cheater when it comes to counting. Plus, Sean discusses what he'd do if he were Vice President of th...

Do you have a name that people regularly mispronounce or mishear? Somehow, Sean does, despite the very easy spelling of his name. This regularly happens with NFL broadcasters and analysts, who will routinely mispronounce and sometimes even add or eliminate syllables to names.  Sean's dad also recently discovered the East/West Bowl sketch from Key and Peele . We wish we could go back in time to...

With the baseball playoffs nearly upon us, we've got a special guest on this episode — Haleigh from the OG Parks n Wrecked crew! She joins because she's rankled by how baseball measures player statistics. She believes a home run should be its own category and shouldn't also count as a hit, an RBI, or a run. But what should happen when, say, a ball hits off Jose Canseco's head and g...

We watched a chase of history this year as Aaron Judge tried to hit more home runs in a single season than anyone else ever has before...in the American League...or on the New York Yankees. And broadcasts are cutting into other sports to show us live at-bats, which often end in walks or outs. Also, some great reminiscing about the early days of online videos and playing Slingo online. Plus, is the...

This past week, Tua Tagovaiola suffered a pretty severe head and neck injury (you know, like a concussion). This was five days after he maybe had a concussion in another game. And Twitter had a FIELD day. Sean thinks these types of non-doctors dropping medical insights are wildly out of control. Many people also look at their fantasy teams first, which is dumb.  Meanwhile, Dolphins head coach Mike...

In any other sport, if you have the ball in your hand when a clock strikes zero, there's some kind of penalty. In football, the play clock often hits zero but the officials make no call because they are busy looking at the ball, then up at the clock, then back to the player snapping the ball. Luckily, Sean and I have come up with some clever ways to solve this issue that only involves a minor...

We go to a sporting event to see actual sports played on a court or field. So why do we delay the start of these events with The Star-Spangled Banner? It's even more perplexing when you consider how international sports have become, with some teams having more foreigners than Americans. Sure, we may get a gem of a trainwreck such as Carl Lewis , but more often than not we're just kind of s...

What's your favorite kind of cupcake? Joey's is red velvet, particularly the tasty ones from Nothing Bundt Cakes . Sean likes some buttercream with a drizzle of caramel on vanilla. And if you're a college football powerhouse, your favorite cupcake is a small school that you get to demolish on an annual basis. Sean thinks that's pretty darn dumb and rude to those smaller schools. Un...

The average football game takes three hours and 23 minutes. Yet only 18 of those minutes contain actual gameplay. That's WILD. And we don't like how long these football games last. There's too much downtime, and far too many commercials. In fact, let's take a commercial right now. Okay, welcome back. We're also talking about painful massages, cupcakes being served at football g...

There aren't that many college football games in a season. But if you get a targeting penalty, you're going to miss one (or half of two, which adds up to one). And it's pretty difficult to tell intent or if a player is moving their body in a certain way. Hooray for ejecting people from a game! Plus, skeletons and Dracula, a sports cliche about some of the things players do, and we refl...

The college football season starts this week. That's very exciting, isn't it? NO, it's college football LOL! Why can't players make money? Why is the NCAA such a sham? Why is targeting a penalty? Why does the Big Ten Conference have 16 teams in it? We're trying to figure it all out, so lament along with us, won't you? Plus, silly bowl games, tailgating adventures, and Frenc...

For about 15 years, Joey played fantasy football. He, fortunately, escaped the rubble a few years back, but Sean is still in the endless cycle of torture. Drafting players is fun. Managing those players throughout the season is HIGHLY frustrating. But boy, it's fun to hear Sean get riled up about it. On the plus side, the rise of fantasy football did give us the excellent Fantasy Files commerc...

Most sports have salary caps. Though they're designed as a way to "increase parity" across sports, these salary caps really just limit what a player can earn. Sean thinks we should rally together as fans to boycott sports until they get rid of salary caps. This will not happen but it's an admirable thought. Plus, have you ever played the lottery? Wouldn't it have been nice to w...

Kyler Murray just signed a $230.5 million deal. That's a lot of money, but we're more interested in the particulars of his contract. Namely, the part that said he had to watch four hours of game film a week and couldn't be distracted by the Internet, video games, TV, or anything else. You know, like he were a child and not a professional athlete.  Meanwhile, Sean attends a birthday par...

You cross home plate in baseball and that's a score. A basket in basketball is a score. But tennis scoring is pretty bonkers: Love, 15, 30, 40, game. We're diving into the history of where "love" comes from in scoring, and trying to determine once and for all where this wacky scoring system came from. We've never done so much research for an episode, so enjoy our hard work! Plu...

Sean doesn't know if hell is high, but today's topic pisses him off to high hell. When a team wants to build a new ballpark (and it's often a want, not a need), it turns to its city to help pay for it. The billionaire owners don't pay for it, the hardworking citizens do. That's quite dumb. Joey and Sean also discuss the corporate feel of the new Texas Rangers stadium, plus a te...

At one point in the history of baseball, a lot of people were using steroids. But Hall of Fame voters think some of those players shouldn't be enshrined in Cooperstown. Like Barry Bonds (who hit lots of home runs) or Pete Rose (who bet on his own team). And that rankles Sean's feathers. Joey and Sean also discuss the Louisville Slugger Museum and away messages from the days of AOL Instant...

A lot of golfers are defecting from the PGA to LIV, which is backed by Saudi Arabia. It's been a popular topic of discussion among the media, but Sean has a more interesting query: is golf even a sport? Sean doesn't think so. One of his reasons is John Daly, seen here looking like he's having a grand ol' time. Meanwhile, do you know how to escape from an alligator when it's try...

Sports shows need to fill a lot of airtime, and one great way to do that? With some lists, of course! And Sean thinks it's spectacularly dumb, especially when a top 5 list ends up having a tie and we get six players on it. Then the fans get SO MAD about it. This is just one person's dumb opinion! They're not saying a player is bad because they're not on a list.  Meanwhile, why do w...

In baseball, you have pitchers and non-pitchers. Yet in blowout games, we're often seeing those non-pitchers take the mound. What gives? Well, teams are trying to rest their pitching staff, but the results of, say, an outfielder pitching are... typically not great .  We're also briefly touching on the 2017 film Going in Style and the chaos of trying to pitch in little league. Plus, a hyste...

In basketball and football, the dimensions of the playing courts and fields are all the same. How come baseball is so wacky and doesn't maintain any kind of consistency? A home run in one park is different than a home run in another one? That's wild! And what do we have to do to get a monster on every field, defending the walls from potential home runs? We're also diving into some of t...