DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• If this show were a pop culture high-school stereotype, what would we be?
• GM John Dorsey made his selections in the Draft, what does it all mean?! #MythBustingTheNFLDraft
• Draft Grades immediately after any NFL Draft are nothing but contrived fan fiction, and nothing more.
• Why Baker Mayfield was seen as the best QB in the Draft by the Browns, and why they're afraid to tell you that it was analytics that mostly convinced them of it.
• We got a Chubb who's literally from Chubbtown, yet he's not the Chubb Browns fans had the bigger chub for...
• Josh Allen's racially charged tweets as a 14 and 15 year old does not reflect who he is today, this according to the apparent sports mayor of blackness, Steven A. Smith.
• The only way you can move Mollie's "Abraham Lincoln" couch in is if a fat man built your house.
• The Pacers were the better team but the Cavs still won, thank you, LeBron James.
• "Greatness stains".
• What two possible things it could most likely mean if you're from Cleveland, white, and do not like LeBron James.
• How many freakin' cup holders do coal rollers need?!
• Trevor Bauer has figured out that if he lets his fellow teammates know that they suck, he'll be liked more in the clubhouse. A true story.
• Mike James has Bieber fever... Another true story?

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

Your album recommendation of the week is the Sly & The Family Stone's 1973 album "Fresh", an oft overlooked masterpiece by one of the greatest funkateers ever. Go buy that shit!

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Uhhhhhh... It's NFL Draft Week!
• What will the Browns do at #1 and #4, the great guessing game fantasy land of trying to figure who and what a team, any team, will do in the NFL Draft each and every year.
• Theoretical physics and what it has to say about the 2018 Browns Draft paradox.
• Be sure to check out Greg Miller's "The Official Brownsy Draft Preview: 2018 Edition"
• "Phrasing" the erotic bullet points for this year's top NFL prospects (kudos to Deadspin's Lauren Theisen for collecting these quotes and for authoring half the inspiration for this bit, for the other half of the inspiration we give thanks to Archer and the vocal talents of H. Jon Benjamin)
• Cavs even the series with the Pacers and appear to be finally in the driver's seat of this first round matchup, and all it took was some support from LeBron's supporting cast.
• Something you might not have fully considered which could end up the biggest factor if LeBron were to decide to leave CLE this offseason for something better elsewhere.
• #PullTown
• Adidas' non-deal deal of an offer to Kaepernick is a total dick PR move by Adidas, and nothing more.
• Weekly Tribe Playoff Probability for Week 5, and they're trending upwards!
• Fan of the Cleveland Indians and baseball? Check out TheTribeHole and enjoy, because we sure are here at Defend Cleveland.

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

If you haven't already assumed this from listening to this show, your album recommendation of the week is the first new full length release in a couple decades from Sleep, "The Sciences", which is available via Third Man Records.

(Samples of the track "Marijaunaut's Theme" was played on today's offering... We teasing you to go buy that shit!)

For this special edition of the DC Podcast we celebrate the act of giving by asking listeners to donate to WRUW's annual telethon, the one week all year where we ask for you to give to the terrestrial radio station that is home to so many great talents and shows, such as this one you're listening to, The Defend Cleveland. Please consider making a donation and supporting public radio and WRUW by going to the station's site by clicking here and giving to Telethon. 

Thank you,

Mike James and Mollie Ames, The Defend Cleveland Show.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames also discuss:

• WRUW 2018 TELETHON!
• Cavs get trounced in Game 1, however, it's not yet time to panic, this is just the point where the realization sets in that the Cavs getting back to the Finals for the fourth year in a row is going to be a lot tougher than the previous three times.
• Stern finally releases a new pinball machine that is an instant classic! And the first place you could play it in town? Yeah, Kidforce Pinball. That's what's up.
• NBA Playoff Slogans are about as dumb as it gets, but which one is this year's worst?
• Watching the Tribe during their 5 game winning streak was like watching soccer. How do you win 5 games in a row by only scoring 2 runs a game? i.e., Who needs hitting when you got great pitching and defense?
• Mollie has a confession.
• Most Ridiculous Draft Notion - Week 3's installment features the most ridiculous of all draft notions, and one all football fans suffer through each and every NFL Draft.
• Weekly Tribe Playoff Probabilities - Week 4, we're trending in the right direction, finally!
• WRUW 2018 TELETHON!

All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

Your album recommendation of the week is Jean Grey and Quelle Chris' "Everything's Fine" album available digitally by clicking here.

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss:

• Playing winter baseball... In the spring
• "Wahoo on my hat!" and other unbelievably dumb and terrible things CLE baseball fans were shouting directly at Native Americans to begin the season
• If you're not yet paying attention to what the greatest prospect in baseball to come along in 90 years is doing, you're missing a story as great as any you'll ever find in the sport
• Eating a whole pizza and other things you definitely shouldn't do when ending a fast
• Clevinger is a BEEEEAAAAASSSSSST! And it's fun to say, too
• Mollie Story Time: The stories read to kids in the outer rim might not always be on par with Dr. Seuss
• It's (finally) almost the NBA postseason and we're still talking about billboards?
• This week's Most Ridiculous Brows Draft Notion has to do with drafting a running back in the later rounds instead of selecting Barkley with one of the team's top picks, and the insane reasoning being used for the potential scenario
• Conor McGregor is finally living up to his "Notorious" nickname, because he's notoriously the one who's single-handedly ruining the UFC these days
• Butt smart and hot at 45

ll this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~

Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio.

To check out KidForce Pinball, visit KidForce Collectibles in downtown Berea at 103 Front St., 44017.

Your album recommendation of the week is Anna & Elizabeth's newest release "The Invisible Comes To Us" available via Smithsonian Folkways

• Reminding oneself to not overreact after only 3 games of regular season baseball, and then totally overreacting after 3 games of regular season baseball
• Pointing out that "transcending and surpassing history" is a redundant and largely suspect statement, as well as other observations from an April Fool's Day Easter combined day of celebration
• Trevor Bauer is a favorite, again (outliers may be lonely, but we love them!)
• Where's the Bryan Shaw Haters now?! (we warned you there'd be a little overreacting after only 3 games)
• Mollie's Story Time: How do you order your eggs?
• A new MLB season means it's time to look at the 3 main differences in STO's broadcast of Cleveland Indians games to look forward to this year
• LeBron James sets an unbreakable record by besting a record set by Michael Jordan that everyone thought would be an unbreakable record, and other things we too readily take for granted in just how great LeBron James is
• Dancing to the fact that NBA regular season is almost over because the NBA regular season is largely a waste of time and money
• What always happens when Pros play Joes (Pros win, yo)
• The outer-rim circular offering deals on "assorted" chicks apparently is not an advertisement for discounted prostitution
• Weekly Tribe Playoff Probability!
• The weekly worst thing about unchecked NFL Cleveland Browns Draft speculation (the official Draft countdown begins!)

• BASEBALL STARTS ON THURSDAY WHICH MEANS SUMMER IS HERE!
• Predictions, projections and all the things you need to know about how your Cleveland team is once again going to win the Central and vie for a championship.
• The NCAA Tournament is continuing its unprecedented course, and apparently picking your favorite mascots, places and things instead of filling out your back purely on college basketball knowledge was totally the way to go
• If you had a Pro Day, what would yours be? (All we know for sure is that you're going to love what Mike's would be) PRO DAY!
• Kevin Love is back, and with MCL sprains and knee surgeries further decimating the field, the chances of the Cavs winning it all again are back at a fevered pitch
• There's flat earth theories, dinosaur deniers and other notable wackadoos in the NBA, but Jordan Clarkson might have gone so far with his insane notion that dinosaurs were the pets of much larger humans, that there's really only one way to explain all this anymore
• The billboards for LeBron must stop, all of them
• Mollie's Story Time: The tale of the "9 milliliter Tiffany gun"
• Okay, Josh Allen might be the Browns number 1 overall after all
• Mike predicts 3 things about the upcoming season of MLB and the Tribe, one of which being who will win the most games and how many games, total, Cleveland will win in the regular season (did we mention no one's been more accurate than Mike the last 5 years with these baseball predictions? True story. aka Can't Miss Stuff!)

• Poopin' wind, the things we do to survive over-served mass public celebrations, and the best  schadenfreude ever has to be March Madness
• Your NCAA Tourney bracket may be busted but it should still be better than the expert brackets, just as long as you didn't listen to the experts
• Mike says the word he said he'd never say again!
• Joe Thomas, Cleveland Brown lifer, sure to be first ballot Hall Of Famer, and probably the only guy to ever be headed to Canton while winning less than 30% of the games he played in
• Industry Story Time: Fingernail polish peer pressure, a phantom stabbing, finding a cornedbeef sandwich in your hair, and other tales of woe from working St. Patrick's Day
• Reevaluating the Yonder Alonso acquisition
• "Oysters, Clams, and Cockles" is fun to say
• Tyronn Lue is going to miss some time while he deals with his health issues... Okay, now is it officially panic time for these Cavaliers?

• Mike and Mollie pull their pants... Up? And Daylight Saving's Time is STUPID, antiquated, unnecessary and pointless
• Browns set a record for the most trades in one day for an NFL team in March and end up getting fans legitimately excited for the first time in year. And then the very next morning make another trade that brought us right back down to earth
• The real "Madness" of the NCAA Tournament is listening to everyone act like they know what they're doing in picking who they pick
• Explaining Quadrants, RPI's, and why some teams are in yet others are not, as best as possible, anyway
• Mollie would expose her feet and step on a banana, for a price
• Are the Cavs even going to make the postseason, LeBron speculation, and other insane notions people are having about this team and its future
• Kevin Love comes forward about his panic attacks in a piece he wrote entitled, "Everyone Is Going Through Something", and truer words may never have illustrated this more clearly
• Mike is leaving his "undisclosed outer rim location" and moving back to the city proper! PROPER! (he's very happy)
• The Tribe has young talent that's tearing up the Spring more so than even the veteran talent ahead of them, so who among these prospects could actually make the team?
• Mollie goes to Pittsburgh and while there corrects her friend's identity confusion
• What does West Virginia and something called an "integrity fee" have to do with creating best means for the Cleveland Indians to improve this roster? A Defend Cleveland Exclusive

• Why the NFL Combine is important and how it's one of the absolute best parts of the downtrodden Browns fans entire season. Mike even goes so far as to say he enjoys the Combine more than he does the Winter Olympics
• "Gravitated" just doesn't sound like a real word
• JR Smith threw soup and everyone is left wondering what kind of soup it was? Well wonder know more, we've got the exclusive scoop on the soup!
• We learn that no one is allowed to touch Mollie's feet, and that she finally has joined the evolved word of smart phone technology
• What good is there in speeding up the game of baseball so younger audiences tune into the MLB if those same younger audiences never even played the sport as kids?
• Body hair, to shave or not to shave?
• Jason Kipnis is apparently still capable of great things, and we need him to be great more than ever
• Why the MLBPA's grievance they filed against four MLB teams has nothing to do with millionaire players being overly greedy and everything to do with billionaire owners being overly greedy
• Quick Oscar's recap
• LeBron James recently stated the NCAA is "corrupt", and on last week's show we agreed with Stan Van Gundy that the different set of NCAA rules for football and basketball student athletes are racist, and we even went so far and proved it citing actual court documentation as the smoking gun. Well, we also agree with LeBron and prove all of this again because it couldn't be more important that people understand what has been going on here is totally wrong, corrupt and racist, and it needs to be stopped

On today's episode Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss: