The Official Waiting For Next Year Podcast

I had originally reached out to Will Leitch just before the Olympics and he said he'd gladly come on after them. Time flies in my world and I never got back to him, which is especially stupid on my part. Leitch joined me today and discussed his recent work on Donald Sterling, Leitch Across America, and Chief Wahoo's future. Make sure you check out Will's work at Sports On Earth  and also make sure...

Sorry for the lack of podcasts this week, but I'm traveling for work. I just happened to be in Columbus though and had a chance to meet up with Andrew in person at my hotel. I looked pretty funny carting my podcasting gear through the hotel lobby, but whatever. Andrew and I had a chance to talk about sports, music, media markets, technology and a whole host of other topics for about 40 minutes. It...

I've been meeting a lot of cool new people as a result of the podcast. Recently I had a filmmaker named Peter Barr reach out to me. He makes documentaries and has been a lifelong Cleveland sports fan who is currently stuck in the world of New England sports. He's also an avid soccer fan, so we talked about USMNT and World Cup 2014 in addition to talking about the Tribe and the Browns draft. Learn...

I got Ben Cox to come on the podcast to discuss the 2014 Cleveland Cavaliers. He dubbed it the season of huh. From the Cavaliers drafting Anthony Bennett, to hiring Mike Brown, to firing Chris Grant to Matthew Dellevedova being the Cavs' best rookie this year. It was one for the ages. Make sure you go read Ben's post at WFNY on the topic . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

The fake Jim Kanicki or the real Mike Burgermeister joined me to talk through some Browns topics. We talked about the 2014 NFL draft, specifically who the Browns should take at #4. Mike Evans vs. Sammy Watkins and talking about three studs on the offensive line. Finally, we talked a bit about NFL draft cliches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I really enjoyed my first podcast with @ sportsyelling , so I asked her to come back and she said yes. We talked about Lonnie Chisenhall and his paternity leave, the Cleveland Indians early results, the Browns and if they should do Hard Knocks, the Cavaliers and whether you'd rather have a hockey team and lots lots more.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When will Cleveland sports be about sports again? Well, for right now, there's a lot of interest in issues off the field. I had a chance to catch up with Peter Pattakos of Cleveland Frowns on both the Cleveland Sin tax issue as well as the Chief Wahoo situation. You can find Peter at his website  or on Twitter . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spoiler alert! Brian  and Craig both enjoyed Captain America 2. We discuss that movie in depth and how Marvel continues to impress with their massive film undertaking. We also spoke about the viral photo that came out of the first day of Brian's filming of the Chief Wahoo documentary he is making.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's always fun to have Brian Spaeth  on the podcast and this time he happened to be in the neighborhood so we did it in person.  First things first, we talked about Brian's movie project that he will be doing about Chief Wahoo. If you would like to talk about your pro or anti-Wahoo stances on camera, please follow this link to Brian's site .  We talked about the summer movie season starting with...

Jeff Rosenberg ( @jeff_rosenberg  or @rosenbergsports ) is a Shaker Heights native living in California and he has his film, OJ: The Musical in the Cleveland International Film Festival this weekend. We discussed his movie, Kickstarter and the rest of the Cleveland sports scene. Make sure you check out the trailer to Jeff's movie and also see the times it's screening this weekend . We discussed th...

It has been far too long since I talked to Jacob and now that his Dayton Flyers have taken down Syracuse, we decided to chat.  We also talked about Justin Masterson and his contract situation with the Indians as well as Alex Mack and his contract situation with the Browns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Denny had some availability, so we decided to catch up on the podcast. We talked about Denny's new fatherhood and all that's gone on in the last eleven weeks. We talked about my surgery and all that's going on with that. We decided to even talk a little bit about sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First things first, please go vote for WFNY as a website and the WFNY podcast at Cleveland Scene Magazine's awards . Secondly, it's been a bit, but it's good to be back. I had no voice for about a week thanks to a surgical procedure, but thankfully it came back. With today being the start of the NCAA tourney, I just had to get resident tourney nut TD on to talk about that, plus the Tribe. Here's s...

In a last minute effort, I grabbed Mike Burgermeister of JimKanicki.com to talk about the Cleveland Browns' first day of free agency. It was a lot of fun. We talked about Karlos Dansby, Dante Whitner, Arthur Moates, Emmanuel Sanders, Alex Mack, T.J. Ward, Shawn Lauvao and much much more!     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew and Craig break down a bunch of things regarding Cleveland sports. Chief Wahoo, Cleveland fans battling each other, Rashard Mendenhall's retirement decision, Zydrunas Ilgauskas' number retirement, Dion Waiters tweeting at fans, and all kinds of TV stuff.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I was very happy to welcome in @sportsyelling for the first time on the WFNY Podcast. She (yes, she) is a Tribe first sports fan, so we talked a lot about the Indians. We talked about Ubaldo Jimenez, the rotation, Chief Wahoo, and Ervin Santana. We also touched on the Browns and how the NFL has dominated the sports world to the point there's really no "off-season."   Learn more about your ad choic...

Jim Kanicki (Mike Burgermeister) joined me today to discuss all things Browns. We talked about the Browns decision to release D'Qwell Jackson, the shakeup of the front office, the free agencies of Alex Mack and T.J. Ward, Mike Pettine and lots about the combine. Is the combine meaningful? If so, how meaningful? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am out of town this week, but I recorded this podcast with Mr. Brian Spaeth prior to departing. Hopefully our takes on two movies and the all-star game aren't too stale from Monday night.  We saw the Lego Movie with my son and then saw RoboCop without my son a different night. We didn't watch the All-Star game together at all, but we talked about Pharrell, Nelly and Busta Rhymes in addition to t...

It's been far too long since TD showed up on the Podcast. We talked about the Indians, spring training, the rotation, Ubaldo Jimenez. Then we took a Tribe break and talked about the Browns and all their moves. Then my power went out, I lost TD and had to call him back. Then we talked about the Tribe again.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Honestly, Scott Raab has been trying to get away a bit from the Cleveland sports thing. I've left this platform completely open to him for whenever there's something worth talking about, and a mere days after Chris Grant was fired and we fired up the podcast, Jimmy Haslam drops the hammer in Berea. So? We loaded it up again. There's no mystery about the things we talked about. The Browns, Joe Bann...

I've talked about Stipe Miocic over the past few years as he's made his way through the ranks of the UFC. I've gotten to know some of his friends from the fire house, and I decided to talk to one of them, Jamie Meklemburg, about the experience of traveling to see his biggest fight to date in Chicago. As we all know, Stipe beat Gabriel Gonzaga to keep his momentum going and to find himself ranked 6...

It's always great to have Scott Raab's perspective when big things happen. We spent about an hour talking about all the different dynamics surrounding the Cavaliers and their decision to dismiss Chris Grant from the team. As always, it was a discussion that went beyond what is normally covered in the rapid-fire sports talk settings we're normally used to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Tom Reed from Northeast Ohio Media Group joined me to talk about the Browns. It's always fun to talk to Tom. Here are some of the things we discussed. Kyle Shanahan's apparent hiring, Dan Quinn and whether the Browns should have waited, Browns ticket prices and where they're going, Davone Bess and why the Browns haven't done anything with him yet, and finally, we discussed Ray Farmer's return to t...

It's always great to catch up with Dennis Manoloff ( follow D-Man on Twitter ) and it has been too long since I have done so. D-Man talked to me about a variety of topics today from the Browns hiring Mike Pettine, philisophically how he treats the Pilot Flying J case as a Browns story, and Anthony Bennett. Does Anthony Bennett still belongs in the d-league after his breakout night? What are the ch...

I don't go to the "friend" card on the podcast very often but when you have a friend who works in the business of the spoken word, it seems like a good place to go. My friend Chris grew up in Cleveland and relocated to Charlotte about 15 years ago. He keeps up with all the CLE sports just like the rest of us and sometimes uses them in his art, namely his poetry. CB has a poem he recently did about...