The Sportive

(1:00) Twins preview including best road trips and Bros & Turds, (53:00) Wild and Wolves check-in, (1:10:00) how do us vax dads start doing normal things again without having panic attacks?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ITEMS: (6:00) Pat Peterson signing, (17:15) How’s Hockey Rubio doing?, (25:15) Extremely way too much hoops talk wtf, (52:00) baseball fixes, a new segment called Fashionable Dad Life, best Finnish bands of all time, and so on and so forth.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(1:00) Twins and minor league rules changes. (30:05) Pitino gone? Pitino gone. (45:00) Wild! (55:02) Dadlife, #hotvaxsummer and assorted odds & ends.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jon and Clarence hop on the Sportive Hotline to further discuss the Wild scratching Zach Parise and what it means for the team. Plus: has Wild optimism come to a screeching halt? Is the team trying to trade Parise? Should we worry about Kevin Fiala? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stu and Jon are back for another week of Minnesota sports news. This week, that's mostly twenty minutes of talk about the Wild's decision to scratch Zach Parise from the lineup, a sign that things are bewilderingly different in St. Paul these days. We then cover the bleak basketball scenes in Minnesota, discuss whether the Twins have enough pitching or not - and as an extension, how long of a year...

It's a Hockey Guys episode of the Sportive, as Jon and the artist formerly known as Clarence gather to talk about your Minnesota Wild. Discussed: the wizardry of Kirill Kaprizov, the comfort of the goaltenders moving away from the interstate highway, why Ryan Hartman isn't who we thought he was, why wings are the first basemen of the hockey world, and how the Wild can get Zach Parise going. Plus,...

Jon and Poochie (2:00) go long on the pros and cons of the Jim Finks hiring, (33:00) name our weekly segment of finding a forever home for Kirk Cousins, then (50:00) decide the Roaring 20s will begin in earnest with this Twins season. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jon and Stu run a two-man show this week. Topics: The NHL's ongoing battle with the evil sky orb Trying to keep the Timberwolves talk under five minutes How to pronounce "Tagovailoa" and why the Vikings can't trade Kirk Cousins Which Teams Have The Wild Played? An Update The Jon Marthaler Q&A hour (soccer! Formula 1! Australian Rules Football!) Stu's Music Thoughts, plus Jon attempts a hot tak...

(3:00) We daydream about other teams Kirk Cousins could be on next season, (18:00) we up the ridiculousness ante and admit to caring about the Wolves, (37:00) Wild outbreak szn, (51:00) meandering one-offs including beer, parenting, how we’re surviving and when we think life will improve. Against all odds and in the face of reason, we are optimistic.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

We somehow - and no one really knows how or why - begin the podcast with movie reviews? Then (8:15) we bless the impossible Deshaun Watson trade and review the deliciously tragic Packers loss, (32:00) talk hot stove, (52:00) do a tight five on the Wild and for some reason end with the Wolves.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We hit on all the misery this week. (1:30) Vikings season wrap and a quick playoff preview, (16:45) Jon tries to convince us to watch Karen Carpenter and the Minnesota Wild, (34:45) B rants about the Wolves and then (49:40) rants event harder about a proposed DH rule. We wrap with (1:01:00) a Dadlife segment and end (1:16:20) by saying goodbye to a friend.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Jon and B lament the Loons heartbreaker (0:50), piss and moan about the Vikings AGAIN (34:30), luxuriate in the brilliant idea to trade James Harden to the Wolves (53:00) and then B has his best idea yet on how to save the kids from falling behind in school (1:09:00). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our world-famous live update segment continues with the Loons playoff game (0:30), B rants about the Vikings again (13:00), then a quick round-the-horn about Rosario, Wolves lineup, NHL plans, etc before (1:04:30) Stu loses his goddamn mind over a discussion about singing drummers. Blame Chicken.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

THEY SAID IT COULDN’T BE DONE, but in just 19 short years we did 300 episodes. Long-time fans may remember us from such topics as the Vikings being terrible (3:00), the Wild being forgettable (28:30), and Wolves fans being delusional (33:00). Plus a new segment called Rabbit Hole, featuring the insane life of Eric Clapton (42:00). We close out the show with some dad talk. The longest-running podca...

The fellas hoot and holler about the return of Ricky Rubio and then shrug for a few seconds about the rest of the draft, then (25:00) rip the Wild a new one for their throwback jerseys and finally (38:00) a minor bitchfest about the Vikings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jon, Stu and B are back to cover (1:45) the Twins and the new MLB playoff rules, (15:15) Vikings bros & turds, (53:45) a BREAKING and POINTLESS Wild trade, and finally (60:00) the NBA and other assorted thoughts. Just a few bros leaving it all on the field, as we do.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We started trying to figure out how to turn the Twins season around and it quickly went off the rails. We talked personal meltdowns, Wolves draft picks, sports fixes, youth coaching and who knows what else.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If sports are determined to return in a half-assed way, so are we. (1:15) Baseball is back. Will it last? Do we care? (29:00) Our world-famous “bros & turds” segment. (47:00) the NHL playoff outlook and (1:02:00) a mini TSwift review. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jon, Stu and B cover (1:40) the NBA’s definite, no doubt about it, nothing’s gonna stop us now return, (26:00) “real or fake names of Wisconsin strip clubs” trivia, (39:00) hollering about yet another bad MLB rule change and (47:00) DAD HOBBIES.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

B, Jon and Chicken deep-dive on the start of the MLB season. After our standard bitchfest, we propose INCREDIBLE fixes to baseball, then hit on youth sports for a few minutes. Plus we learned to bleep a word, thanks to Jon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Agenda: (5:00) the ‘rona is over, go crazy folks, (13:00) when will pro sports be back? (23:40) when will youth sports be back? (39:50) another installment of our famous segment “where is this place?” (51:30) Tales of Stu the Beer Fairy.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The foursome returns to (1:00) celebrate the Cabin Beer as the bracket champ and choose their own bracket faves, (28:45) preview the NFL draft, kind of, and (47:00) review the first episodes of The Last Dance. Plus we play our favorite game “Where is this college located?” and threaten to turn it into a full episode.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The whole band’s back together in this one. We (1:00) give a beer bracket update, (29:50) piss and moan about the bad ideas to restart sports and end with (45:00) ideas on how to stay sane. An excellent episode.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With no Gopher Football spring game this week, the podcast Gopher Football committee (Jon, official Gopher Football expert and brother Dave, and newly-minuted auxiliary Gopher Football expert and brother Shimul) gather to do an all-Minnesota gridiron episode. We review the 2019 season and Remember Some Games, figure out which players return in 2020 and which have moved on, and look forward to next...

NOTE: Apparently the audio was broken on our earlier attempt at this. Please redownload. Jon, Stu, and Clarence/Chiken gather to discuss the beer bracket, Edina, Tiger King, the cancellation of Grandma's Marathon (with Mandy), and offer a brief salute to Joe Diffey. We couldn't do an entire episode without mentioning covid-19, just as no one can talk to anyone right now without discussing viruses,...