The Sportive

We planned to devote this episode to World Cup talk, but our footie pundit Jon ditched us last-minute because apparently he’s “getting married soon” and “very busy” and we shouldn’t have found his future in-laws’ phone number and “repeatedly called to inform them what a good-for-nothing louse” he is. Whatever, Jon.   But we pushed through without him to talk Klinsmann, a half-hearted Wolves draft...

The Sports Fist hits on all the hot button issues of the day because that's what the Sports Fist was born to do. Namely: - Congratulating Stu on his new job - An extended World Cup preview - Much yelling over Klinsmann - Kendrys Morales and the 30-swings-and-misses analogy - Mauer and the head ouchies - Kevin Love has lost his damn mind We also sing the Jeffersons theme song a couple times if you'...

A little bit of Twins talk and a whole lot of Wolves bitching. Other mentions: Tracy Chapman, molotov cocktails, Minnesota insecurity, the poet laureate 50 Cent and drunken wives.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jon, Clarence and Brandon discuss: Parents getting turnt on work trips The case for keeping Kevin Love The case for firing Flip  Teddy B and the art of pre-raging Update on Twins' 2016 outlook How we can get Rick Spielman fired (hint: check the ep title) World Cup  #HireStu Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brandon was out of town this week, so we turned to Emergency Podcast Guest (and Jon's brother)  Dave Marthaler to fill in with the rest of the gang. After Dave confirmed that the podcast is not, in fact, just Jon sitting around a table with a bunch of stuffed animals, imitating their voices, he joined in the talk about some and perhaps all of the following: The Vikings draft (which was like a mont...

Football scouting expert and temporary Canadian John Sharkman  leads us in a draft-heavy episode. We get reeeeeeeal deep as we argue the merits of John Football, Ted Bridgewater, Bork Blatles and more. Spoiler alert: we're praying for Manziel, planning for line depth.  After the honest-to-god legitimate sports conversation, we spend the rest of our time BSing about The Big Lebowski, Bob Ford, the...

Podcaster Emeritus Michael Rand  and his comically verbose pal Rocket make the trek to Sportive HQ and things get real confusing, real fast. We piloted a new thing in which we broach a topic, move on to something else, bring it back up again, forget the original point, get confused, suggest yet another topic, swear at each other, and somehow an hour later we end up at the place we began. A place c...

The great Holly Manthei  dialed in for her third appearance, chock-full of the scatter-brained nonsense you've come to expect when we all get together. A few of the many items we hit on: East coast cobblers Beer science  Sour beers How to reach your spreads Grommets 2, the movie The Mount Rushmore of MN Soccer (somehow includes 45 people) Girbaud jeans & New Kids on the Block The true story of wha...

Hockey stats nerd and President of Deutschland Hans Van Slooten joins us on a puck-heavy episode. Discussed: Wild playoff preview/predictions Odds Mike Yeo is around next year Gopher Frozen Four recap Stu and Jon getting after each other, delightfully Why we hate UND Four seconds apiece devoted to the Twins and Vikings Brandon discussing his team allegiances followed by a chorus of fart sounds And...

Discussed: The Twins Bottom 5 Prospects Wolves/Wild check-ins Frozen Four preview (which lasted all of 16 seconds) Brandon offers a tip on how to be a terrible person when friends trash-talk your favorite team Vikings draft talk, i.e. Team Evil vs. Team Incompetent Steven Seagal shoutout, natch MORE "FARGO" TALK, to the delight of absolutely no one We also brainstorm names to a hypothetical goalie...

Twins Daily guy and bad-movies lover Nick Nelson  returns to the fold as we discuss: Clarence's annual hockey weekend bender Grandma's wearing puffy paint sweatshirts The Twins 2015 opening day lineup (we gave up on this season already) Ed Rosario's strange no-show Fancy ketchup Lakers v. Wolves for the billionth time A bunch of #AskSportive questions Later, Nick mentions Gleems and lube in the sa...

Brandon didn't make it this week, and neither did our planned guest, and so Stu, Clarence and Jon were left to discuss whatever happened to float through their heads. That included: Glen Perkins being the most One of Us since Kent Hrbek Whether Aaron Hicks should begin the season at Triple-A Pretending to care about Vikings free agency What to burn if the Vikings don't take a quarterback in the dr...

Gophers beat writer and Hanson fan club member Amelia Rayno joins us this week. We start off with friendly small talk that somehow morphs into a solid 45 minutes of talking about BIGFOOT (yep) and then get to the boring Gopher stuff (tourney chances, Pitino, recruits, etc). Then we discuss Bigfoot some more. Also mentioned: Detlef Schrempf, ginkgo biloba, lumberjacks, Hooters, whiskey, and Avatar....

Interested in listening to four grown men talk sports while on the verge of tears? You’re in luck. Discussed: The Wild trades (we’re happy!) Sano (we're suicidal!) Twins predictions, including wins, busts and shockers (we're scream-crying, and shaking fists at the sky!) Stu’s bit about his favorite Science Museum exhibits (we're trying so hard to smile!) Wolves (we're at full-on waterworks!) It’s...

It’s a skeleton crew this week as we failed to wrangle a guest and Stu was off Dance Momming it up in BFE for the evening. Though we were unprepared, grumpy, and predicting an unlistenable turd of a show, the episode was surprisingly great. Topics: Wolves playoff chances and exactly how/why they are f-worded for the foreseeable future (hint: two reasons, and they rhyme with Tip and Flaylor) The lo...

Brian Stensaas is back in the guest saddle this week. Topics: Some of the worst Reusse impressions you’ll ever hear Winter vs. Summer olympics Olympic hockey vs. NHL Why Kevin Love to the Lakers is an asinine notion The time Clarence’s dad crashed the Daytona Speedway Stu brags about his celebrity twitter friends Clarence’s Western Wisconsin Bar Tour wrap-up Friendly reminder that the Twins still...

Twins Daily scribe and dead man walking (MARRIAGE JOKE) Parker Hageman returns to the show to offer exclusive behind-the-scene details of his TLC reality episode . We also re-tell the Disco Danny Ford story, offer wedding advice, half-heartedly bitch about the Twins and Wild, rekindle our rivalry with those sons of bitches Gleeman & the Geek, run through some sponsored slurs, and spew more of the...

For this week's Sportive, we actually got out of the house and recorded at a bar, Gleeman and the Geek style - so we figured that we might as well invite Aaron and John on the podcast, as well. We talked about whether becoming more mainstream had changed anything for the two of them. We also tried to find out if John likes anything besides baseball and Aaron likes anything besides whiskey. There m...

Hockey Reference proprietor Hans Van Slooten joins us as we geek out at length about advanced sports analytics. We talk SRS, Win Probability, regression analyses, correlations, predictive measures and more. Yes, this actually happened, and yes, it was a million times more interesting than it sounds. After meeting our yearly quota of speaking intelligently, we argue about having the Super Bowl in M...

Podcaster emeritus Michael Rand joins the crew this week as we: Yell about the Hall of Fame Yell about Norv Turner Decide when to jump back on the Wolves bandwagon Fail at giving credit to Mike Yeo Review the outdoor Gopher hockey game Bitch incessantly about the Twins Tuck it in our collective waistbands over the promising Gopher hoops Plus a ton of ageism from Brandon, if that’s your thing. Host...

We got crazy this week and talked about sports almost the entire time. We are as shocked as you are. Agenda: Gophers/MSU recap, plus another plug for Grand Rapids Mike Zimmer reaction Teddy Bridgewater is Clarence's puppy wish (less confusing when you hear it) (maybe) Trying hard to understand why Norv Turner wouldn't be a mistake The perfect example to explain why a Zimmer/Manziel combo would be...

We've regrouped from the previous episode to bring you an effort with MUCH better sound and MUCH worse content. The topics at hand: More Wild talk Let's all calm down about the underachieving Wolves New Years resolutions Bar game power rankings Our brilliant scheme to get Jonathan Football on the Vikes Brandon tries to sell you all on Grand Rapids Clarence's moustache strategy Even for our standar...

Two days after Christmas, we all went over to Aaron Gleeman 's house and recorded a podcast. Because of the noise, and the echoes in Aaron's unfurnished basement, the result is virtually unlistenable, but we had an excellent time doing it. Brandon was actually in the studio for once, Stu was in fine form, and Jon was wearing headphones for some reason for the whole time. Also, thanks to the follow...

ESPN1500’s Patrick Donnelly pops his Sportive cherry as we discuss: The all-time best Gopher basketball player names The punchable Bo Ryan New Ulm festivals Our most-hated Germans Sid and TK tales Pelfrey the Super Soldier Johnny Football (Clarence is at full mast) and the Vikes draft outlook Even more tangents than usual And Stu drops some BREAKING NEWS by revealing the person behind the “Carl Ge...

The playlist for this music-centric episode: - Vikings Draft Breakdown, featuring Johnny Football - More Wolves Arguing featuring Hobbie Rummel - Un-fun Wild Projections featuring Dany Heatley's corpse - Our Pessimistic Twins Outlook featuring Matt Garza's soul patch - And most importantly, our long-anticipated top-5 songs off “Rumours” segment We also solidified our standing as the internet’s pre...