Scott and I found time on this holiday Monday morning to carry on as normal with our podcast. Here's the rest of what we discussed...

Memorial Day and working on it

Chris Perez and his apparent shoulder injury

Has anyone been hired as coach or manager to give faith like Terry Francona

Randy Lerner and his hire of Mike Holmgren

Good hires and just because things don’t work out don’t make them a bad idea

Browns public relations and media relations

Granular results and outcomes versus trends

Tom Heckert and his performance

Pat Shurmur and Howie Roseman and whether Chip Kelly wanted Shurmur

Valley View and the Fast and Furious 6

Stopping feeling guilty about the pleasures

Craig likes Roxette and the Pretty Woman soundtrack

Bubblegum pop artists and the cycles with Justin Bieber and New Kids on the Block

The Monkees and their pop hits

Zach Lowe and the criticism of Dan Gilbert’s entourage in Grantland

Being cool by not caring what other people think

Scott Sargent is not cool :-)

The Comic Sans letter and making fun of Dan Gilbert for it

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Scott joined me for about 20 minutes to discuss the Cavaliers goings on since winning the NBA draft lottery last night. Here's what we talked about more specifically.

The turmoil of having the first overall pick in the draft

What do you think about the trade down cuteness?

Due diligence and just how little fans and media can do

Nerlens Noel and how good he needs to be in order for Grant to justify taking him

Do you trust Chris Grant to avoid the tendency to chase height and need?

Kevin Love and how unavailable he really is

James Harden wasn’t available until he was either

Lamarcus Aldridge and his availability

Marc Gasol and his ability to be moved

Chris Bosh’s name and how nobody has talked about it yet

Free agency pool and who you would look at in free agency

Zach Lowe’s critique of the NBA lottery event and the Cavs

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Scott and I spent a lot of time talking Tribe today. We also touched on Brian Hoyer and whether we should be talking about it or not and also the Chuck Klosterman controversy with the Cleveland Browns.

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Talking about not talking about Brian Hoyer and his signing

Which team should win a championship if you had a choice?

Losing in 2007 and a hated Red Sox team in 2007

Cleveland fans and the amount of palpable hate for a fanbase that’s never won

If the Indians put up a statue in center field it ought to be Steve Olin

Is Jacob’s field a pitcher’s ballpark?

You have to get down to the seventh or eighth hitter to find a slow player

The contrived nature of the save in baseball

Chris Perez = Joe Borowski with a six pack in him

Julio Franco and the obsession with the holes in his game

Chris Perez talked about the organization and not just the fans

How much of the credit goes to Terry Francona?

Writing and how important it is to work with a good editor

David Granger and how important a good editor is for writers

Do novel writers have to have adversarial relationships with themselves?

The disadvantages of blogging are the lack of working it over and over

Balancing speed and quality / length

Guys who cover the NFL and how they feel about the Browns P.R.

The Browns and their adversarial relationship with the media

Chuck Klosterman whining about lack of access

It’s to Tony Grossi’s credit that Art Modell isn’t in the Hall of Fame

Access in the NFL is tightly tightly controlled

It’s better to be out there and not saying a lot than not out there at all

Talking about hockey with @NHLinCLE

The Cleveland Barons and Freddy Glover

Hockey fans and how they’re a different breed than the other sports

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My wife made a brief and reluctant experience on the podcast to give her take. We did spoiler free talk for the first 10 minutes, so feel free to listen away whether you saw the movie or not.

Star Trek Into Darkness

Watching Wrath of Khan?

My wife makes an appearance on the podcast

Should the movie have aped the catalog so much?

Rebooting the series and whether or not they’ll make a third one

Did anyone need to really need that guy to be Khan?

Just how perfect the effects are and how it allows movies to get back to characters

A car alarm goes off in Brian’s background

Who will the next group of writers be?

Being super-entertained by an XD movie and whether or not we should micro-analyze

Movies vs. films and the multiple tiers of summer movies

Christopher Nolan and how much to trust him as a producer

Kirk and whether he’s supposed to be smart or dumb like impression

Other show notes:

Brian's Saved by the Bell reboot proposal

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An author from the Bay Area named Eric Simons (pronounced SIMMONS I screwed up!) wrote a book about sports fans and their psychology. Naturally, desiring a unique subject to study, he scoured the Internet and came across WFNY's own resident head case TD. Eric's book is called The Secret Lives of Sports Fans and it attempts to answer a lot of questions about how sports fans are the way they are. There's some science and plenty of interesting stories including some about TD. I talked to him about his book and other topics for a bit.

Why do sports make me feel so angry all the time?

The physical reflexes we get when we actually watch sports

Mirror neurons in the motor cortex

MMA and why we dodge punches while watching a sport

There are a lot of different ways to like sports

Cleveland is a really good case study for sports fans anchoring to local teams

People’s brains get confused about who the action is happening to

Expectations and what it does to your brain

Is this going to feel like a science book?

Getting a word in edgewise with TD

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Really happy to get Pat McManamon on the podcast. I wanted to talk to him about Fanhouse and how the media landscape has changed both for him and also around him over the years. We also had some good conversation about the Browns, Chuck Klosterman and Twitter.

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AOL Fanhouse and what it was like to work there

Working virtually with coworkers and editors on Fanhouse

Talking to people on the phone and how much richer that communication is

Fox Sports Ohio and the STO purchase

Reporting on the Pilot Flying J story and how to cover it

Sticking to the facts as opposed to writing lots of opinions

Jimmy Haslam’s controversy and how much to report on it

The Browns and transparency with the media

Chuck Klosterman’s piece on the Browns 2013 NFL Draft night

Should the Browns have traded picks or not?

Do the Browns know why their secrets are secrets?

Open practice vs. closing it 15 minutes after it started

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Just how open are the Browns right now in terms of their public face

The Chuck Klosterman article on Grantland

What was the lead time of the trip to Cleveland?

Where is the split in the Browns home building?

Is there a split in the Browns building?

Jimmy Haslam’s trucking company troubles and how it changed Klosterman’s access

Missing the opportunity of having Chuck Klosterman in the room

Grading the front office on the pass rush should be easy

The Browns front office casts a vote against Pat Shurmur by bringing them all back

Brandon Weeden and his ability to get incrementally better

The possibility that Chud and Norv Turner will try to put guys in abilities to achieve

Finding the next Darren Sproles or finding a true change of pace back

Are the Browns going to have a third down back, or a second featured back?

What are Montario Hardesty’s chances of making the Browns?

The Lake Erie Crushers in the independent league

The Frontier League and their 14 team league

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It was a record-setting day I think for Scott and me. We went just over an hour, but it was all good conversation. If you're daunted by the length, just don't be. Listen to it over the course of a day. I don't mind.

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Brian and I talked at great length about The Great Gatsby. It was a film I wasn't looking forward to at all. It exceeded expectations for me, but that wasn't saying a heck of a lot.

Should they have made The Great Gatsby?

Carey Mulligan and how well she was used?

Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire

Casting the Great Gatsby with the cast of The Fast and the Furious

Romeo and Juliet as Baz Luhrman’s movie

Shoehorning H to the Izzo into the movie

Who had the best movie coming out of it?

John Carter and why stories that people clamor for shouldn’t be made

The Fast and Furious cast as Gatsby

The Rock makes everything watchable

Playing it completely and 100% straight

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It was good to catch up with Denny again now that he finished the Big Sur marathon.

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