SportsTalk: The Podcast

Bleakness and the 2023 (not to excuse the 2006-2022) New York Mets. Is this the final SportsTalk? Only time will tell. Credit to @MedInPanicCity on Twitter, I think, for the title.

SportsTalk and his brave compatriot, the host of Late Night with David: Thursdays on WRIU2, welcome Kim and Jake to the show, both of whom say off color things. We cut most of them. We talk baseball, baseball and more baseball, as we all start to come back around on the Mets. The Red Sox continue to Red Sox, and look like they might sell at the deadline despite being within striking distance of a...

SportsTalk and David honor Viktor Hovland's run at the Wanamaker Trophy, in a special breaking news-ish edition of SportsTalk: The Podcast. Basically, that means we only cover the one topic.

Weird episode. Weird original episode description. Hopefully a very ho-hum baseball season, ending with the pre-season National League favorite hoisting the trophy. It's the SportsTalk season preview.

First Jake, David and SportsTalk, then SportsTalk and David alone, rank the top 50 (52) players in baseball. Link to the list here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuVnHi1IRT697cx4zHcSPUaorm-0oDh7W5B3w34haus/edit?usp=sharing Blog with explanations to come. For now, enjoy the audio. 

It's David and I, we're back! Your two co-hosts. We just hadn't really recorded an episode in a while, so David and I just talk for a while, mostly about boring sports (football). Baseball season is right around the corner, and we don't talk about it much. Stay tuned in the coming weeks, when we start the baseball preview. The SportsTalk 50 will drop late this month, followed by division previews,...

I don't remember the context for the title. We spend the first half hour talking the debacle that was Carlos Correa to the Mets, then spend the next 15 minutes reciting the debacle that was Carlos Correa to the Mets for John, who joins us about halfway through, then spend a since-deleted third portion breaking down the Golden Globes and the psyches of our friends. It's the first episode of SportsT...

You're not going to understand the title of the episode. For the first part, Kim drivels on about whatever it is Kim is known to drivel on about, then Jake joins and we get into the true 2022 recap and 2023 predictions. Kim tries to keep us on track, and instead talks about the play she saw on Tuesday and how much she hates Mike Francesca for reasons people don't typically hate Mike Francesca. It'...

It's the 17th episode, so you know what that means: it's all about Keith! Non-stop Keith, for 50 minutes. Give it a listen, if you want to hear all about that slick-fielding, mustachioed first baseman of the 1980s, Mex!

In which we lambast the greater online baseball media presence for a full half hour, recap the Sunday that was and don't mock any of our formerly close friends or associates. That lives in the SportsTalk vault forever. Not featuring: David, who has moved on to greener pastures. Listen to him 9:30-10:30 on WRIU2.

The original title of the episode was going to be "It's Actually an Impressive Bush," which should tell you what you need to do. We recap Old Timer's Day for maybe 30 seconds, and spend 6 minutes talking about something that is going to seem so obscure to you, because I had to chop out 2 minutes. It's SportsTalk...please enjoy. 

We talk about the trade deadline! And other baseball related topics. We're huge fans, so this is pretty much par for the course. If you like baseball as much as we do, I really recommend tuning into this episode, and episodes to follow. Thanks so much for listening, Mom!

In which I spend almost an entire hour talking to myself. The conversation does not stray from baseball: All-Stars, Home Run Derby, retired numbers, and the trade deadline. It's actually astonishing that I didn't even think to call anyone on the phone. Anyway, yeah. I was going to say hopefully I didn't ramble too much, but isn't that kind of the whole point?

Jake's back and it only took two takes for him to not say anything totally off color. We never really talk about anything topical in this episode, but what else would you come to expect from your favorite zany podcasters? My actual golf pick is Jordan Spieth for no reason whatsoever, and Phil to tweet or like something outrageous by week's end. 

Welcome to the 11th edition of SportsTalk, AKA the first edition of SportsPod, because I'm an idiot and couldn't come up with that on my own. In the most "guys sitting around on a couch saying 'bro...we should start a podcast'" episode you'll ever hear, we discuss potential solutions for the Saudi Golf League for some reason, and also a bit about Tylor Megill and $/WAR theory (I assure you, we are...

Come one, come all to Yankee Stadium to see your 27-time World Champion, New York Yankees! Up the middle we have Aaron Hicks, who has not played a full, healthy, and good season in a half-decade, in center. At short we have Isaiah Kiner-Falefa who, fun fact, was a catcher as of two years ago and has never posted a slugging percentage above .400! At second is Gleyber Torres, who slugged ONLY .366 l...

Welcome back to SportsTalk. We wrap up the top 50 players in MLB with numbers 29 (I think) through 50. David does the heavy lifting because Sean was feeling very anxious and tired and that should be okay with you people, god. It's not his best performance, so direct all complaints about the list to David. Folks, this one was for you, because truth be told neither of us felt like doing it, so you b...

(Disclaimer: I had a really good description typed out, but Spotify deleted it, so you get the shorter, less wordy version. You're welcome). In this episode, we rank the top 27 players in baseball (we'll finish the rest of the top 50+ later this week), rail against the Rays model (kinda, mostly just lament the fact that their shit works), briefly discuss how MLB doesn't actually care if games are...

SportsTalk is back baby, and we're doing more sports than ever. Baseball Prospectus released their annual guide to the 2022 season last week, so in true SportsTalk fashion, we rip off another podcast's segment and name baseball players based on their comment in the annual. Recurring guest Jake makes some off-color remarks, and we introduce Simon, who says a grand total of 7 words. It's SportsTalk,...

Here's the thought that I meant to finish at the end of the episode: what really matters in my sports journey is the pursuit of that World Series title. That is the overarching journey. Once that is accomplished, there's nothing left for me to conquer. Sure, I may still watch and care, just as I watch and care about fantasy football. But this is really all about winning the World Series, at which...

SportsTalks fans everywhere have been begging for a year-in-review show, and we finally deliver. We recap the year in sports (in moments), predict next year's top moments, then dive into the magic of college football bowl season. There's so much sports, and only so much time, so we cram a little golf in the middle and the Baseball Hall of Fame at the back end, before we turn to Jake for a little r...

So...this is not a full episode. But like, we will eventually release a full episode again. Maybe. In the meantime, we can't wait for Spiderman. Love you guys. Keep listening.

Yeah, uhh, well, enjoy. All due respect to the Remy family and to anyone else besmirched in this episode. 

What's up Sports fans, we're back and we're ready to talk some ball. I welcome David back with open arms, because talking for an hour straight takes a lot out of a man, and we have plenty to discuss. Labor disputes, the Mets, the Red Sox, the WORKS. This is a very serious episode because we're very serious sports fans, and we actually get even more serious the more you share the show with your fri...

Doing his best impression of the traitor that once wore #50 for the Red Sox, David has quit on our team. I allude to his potential return, but he has split my heart in two. It's not happening. So I press on, alone, breaking down his Red Sox and their six game defeat in the ALCS. I don't revel in that nearly as much as I should have, instead opting to passively-aggresively nitpick the manager for a...