The Sportive

Brandon wasn't in town, but Michael Rand of the Star Tribune joined us instead. Among the topics: New Wild goaltender Darryl Dawkins Assigning 250% of the blame for the Wild being terrible Gopher hoops finding new and ridiculous ways to lose The utter happiness brought to us by Mo Williams Bobby Bell on desk maintenance Rick Spielman role-playing Fixing Metro Transit: Lower cost, higher big-city f...

After an enjoyable non-podcasting Christmas, the podcast is back, as Brandon, Stu, and Jon met up at Stout's Pub to record the first episode of 2015. Among the topics: Let's not get too excited about Gopher football after a five-loss year After a mediocre year, the jury's still out on Mike "Mustache-less Jeff Fisher" Zimmer, too What can we possibly get excited about with the Wolves? (Answer: Rick...

Clarence couldn't make it this week, due to a combination of a "lower-body injury" and audio problems (actually, it was the flu), but the other three regulars were in attendance for our usual pile of complaints. Among the discussions: Some Footbaw Advanced Stats, which Brandon tried to use to make Clarence apologize, even though he wasn't there Jon tries to get calmed down about the Twins, which e...

Twins writer and bullet-crusher Parker Hageman  dials in to the hotline as we discuss: Would the Vikings be a playoff team with AP? The number of people who want Clarence dead  Ervin Santana rumors. Exciting and also likely irrelevant by the time this is published People doubted us but we found a way to bitch about the Twins again Wolves 25% of the way through the season review (aka intermission)...

Hockey stathead extraordinaire Hans Van Slooten joins us to discuss: Torii Hunter signing & press conference Whether or not Mike Berardino is a prick This week in media homers Flip Saunders is the devil  The latest & greatest hockey stats Brandon outdoes himself with the worst hockey idea of all time We should also note we had a short baby shower at the beginning. Feel free to skip ahead 8 minutes...

First off, congratulations to Brandon, who had his second child on Monday. We hoped he would call in from the hospital, but as it turns out, he couldn't QUITE make it. Jon, Stu, and Clarence (who dropped out and re-joined about forty times) were left to discuss: Gopher football: everything we ever wanted Thanks for listening, Mike Russo. Welcome to the party! Stu is a cuckold Matt Kalil is terribl...

Clarence joined late, but otherwise we had the usual four-man contingent for this one. Among the topics discussed: Vikings predictions Thank you for noting that you are against child abuse, columnists of America Mark Dayton Broxey Our few-and-far-between sources of hope A surprising amount of Philadelphia 76ers talk Jon and Brandon’s five-year bet Why isn’t Mikko Koivu getting more heat? How can S...

We tried a little something different for Episode 81, as Stu and Jon met up at The Depot in downtown Minneapolis to record a Saturday evening version of the podcast. Among the topics: The Gophers lose to Ohio State We try to make sense of the Wolves and Gopher basketball despite not watching either Stu talks about the much better podcasts that he's involved with at his day job The Vikings-Bears ga...

We missed Stu this week, but he sent in enough hot takes to keep us going for one of our more contentious episodes ever. On the agenda: Which is more likely, the Wild missing the playoffs, or the Vikings making the playoffs? How are the Gophers going to do on Saturday against Ohio State? The Bears are going to beat the Vikings, right? NOTE : At this point the podcast devolved into a long discussio...

It's the first show from the newly-minted Sportive HQ 2.0! Brandon's back in the hosting chair and the rest of the idiots are joining as usual, as we broadcast now from western Uptown / the suburbs (depending on your preference). On the podcast tonight: The Molitor hiring (sigh) (sigh) (giant glug of beer) Molitor enters the Keith Millard Hall of Fame Joe Mauer is the most Sportive? Jim Pohlad: Te...

We're missing the Texas-bound Brandon tonight, but Patrick Donnelly ( @donnelly612 ) stepped in for him and did his usual fine New Ulm job. Among tonight's topics: The latest Gopher football letdown, and just how much of a letdown it really is Jon accidentally locking his wife out of the house during the podcast and how this was endlessly hilarious to Stu The Mitch Moss Sports Toilet's ongoing feu...

It's the hotly anticipated T-Wolves preview, featuring podcaster-at-large & local optimist Michael Rand . Topics: Wolves : offseason, lineup, wins predictions and Brandon arguing that Flip is the devil Twins : getting our patented pre-rage(tm) on about the hiring of Paul Molitor Wild : something about power plays? Vikings : we play the blame game, this round pitting Norv v. Zimmer. Totally shockin...

Join us as we try to laugh through the incompetence that is Minnesota sports. Topics: The Strib/Twins joint payroll press release The damn Royals Norval Laverne Turner Zimmer's free pass Flip's asinine shot charts We offered a few half-hearted fist pumps about the Wild's start if you're looking for some positivity. But you're here so we know you aren't. Enjoy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

It's a hockey preview episode of the Sportive this week, as Clarence joined Jon at Sportive HQ to talk Wild and Gopher puck for an entire episode. Brandon was not allowed to attend. Stu called in. In between a pretty detailed breakdown of the Wild and a somewhat less detailed breakdown of the Gophers, we managed to talk about such topics as: Finns are the orneriest people on earth Living in Madiso...

Gardy firing and what's next (spoiler alert: more heartbreak) Ned Yost jug yanking Gophers vs. Michigan pigskin recap  TEDDY, so damn much Teddy talk MLB playoff power rankings Plus a bit of singing, a lot of swears and our quota of front-office threats. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed: Grouse hunting or John Grisham: the eternal question The ongoing Twins ineptitude - worse than the 90s? Teddy Bridgewater, the only hope this town has left Relatively innocent jug-yanking of local media members Yet another debate over the worst local owners (no decision made; we'll take another run at it again next week) Hating ourselves for defending famous 12-year-old Bill Simmons Gop...

Highlights: - SKOL VIKINGS - Some truly awful buffalo sounds - Amish urban myths - Incest humor, unfortunately - 10ish seconds of Gopher football talk - Whether or not we should continue to support the NFL. Warning: an actual serious discussion ensued despite our best efforts otherwise. Won't happen again -- we'll return to our regular programming of faulty connections and fart noises next week. H...

We devoted the entire episode to a Vikings season preview. Had some audio issues so we decided to record twice just to be safe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Twinkie Town  boss Jesse Lund stops by Sportive HQ and Stu gets a solid buzz on, which means we're already in must-listen territory. If you need more convincing, we also gripe to the mothereffing high heavens and do our world-famous british impressions. Goddamn, this was a fun episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jon’s brother Dave  joins us as we spend most of the hour previewing Gophers football, with brief asides including racist movies, Texas tailgating, hating the Twins, the new season of Wits and dumping water on ourselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Podcaster-at-large Michael Rand  and our nemesis Rocket join us to discuss: - RIP Byron Buxton? (We weren't sure) - Whether or not Flip is still a disaster - Vikings predictions + a round of "Bros & Turds" - Our weekly Pre-Rage(TM) about Teddy - What we'd do if we were the Twins GM  - AT LEAST one million mom jokes Decently sports-ish and EASILY our least mature, which is really saying something c...

A quick catch-up sesh ended up lasting 40 minutes, so you sports nutz might want to skip ahead to the good stuff. And by good stuff we mean whining about the Pohlads, refusing to give Flip credit for what could be a pretty exciting Wolves trade, and Clarence launching into yet another tirade against Spielman. Also, Stu at one point dejectedly muttered “We were put on this earth to suffer” which su...

Brandon, Stu and Clarence power through audio issues and a lack of an agenda to discuss:   - Jon’s wedding - Organization w/ the worst future: NFL or MLB? - Vikings season preview teaser: 0-16 - Twins: should we push our chips to 2017 - Whether or not to trade our friend Glen Perkins - Will Leitch’s tortured fan bases series - Clarence’s *perfect* Tony Danza impression   Somehow that took over an...

Topics: - Sam Fuld the Peanut - World Cup recap + way too much soccer talk - Griping over Flip Saunders and Minnesota owners yet again - LeBron James *cricket sounds* - The Wild signing of Todd Vanek - Weekly bulletin of outtate Minnesota happenings  We also put a request in for St. Paul-to-St. Cloud warp whistles and sponsorship dollars to fund a jail sentence by Jon. And then a bit of cooter tal...

Despite the title, we didn't actually talk about the Twins in this one. Instead, Brandon got Jon to go off on a 75-minute monologue about the World Cup. Included therein was the following: The USA vs. Germany An update on the World Cup in general An anti-Klinsmann cross-examination from Clarence Jon talking at great length about the unknowability of life or something like that Processes vs. result...