The Sportive

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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.

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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.

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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 considering the low bar.

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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 sums up life as a Minnesota sports fan better than these 67 episodes combined. That said, this one was full of laffs and included a surprising lack of technical glitches. Go get it.

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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 hour. Enjoy?

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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 talk.

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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. results
• Jonathan Lipnicki, I mean Landon Donovan
• The NBA Draft and who the Wolves will take
• Brandon's dualing ideas about what NBA team he really likes
• "Wait... WE'RE a dumb organization!"
• Oscar-nominated boobs
• Stu's first three days at MPR

The entire gang was back for this one. It was good to have everybody there.

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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 preview, tailgating, the potential Saints/Twins partnership and, as always, our thoughts on couples showers.

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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're into that sort of thing.

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