The Sportive

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. Pretty magical episode, you guys. We may have peaked on this one.

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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 not as depressing as it sounds -- it’s actually worse. Go ahead and listen anyway, though. Misery loves company.

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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 local sports championship we want to see before we die
• The harrowing day of Clarence’s birth
• Brandon tells his all-time favorite family story which probably isn’t true
• Charles Buggs!
• A long dissertation on the awfulness of the Big Ten Network

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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 suck

We also hit our quota on a cappella singing and bashing of Canadians and all non-Americans. Probably doesn't even need to be mentioned at this point.

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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 nonsense you’d expect with a Parker-centric episode.

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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 must have been a few other things discussed, because we went for way over an hour. I can't remember most of them, but I do recall that towards the end, Stu quits listening to what we're saying and starts participating in bar trivia. It's delightful.

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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 Minneapolis and then Clarence describes more of his dumb fever dreams. Overall, our least-stupid podcast by a mile. Enjoy.  

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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.

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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 amazing
• A new nominee for the Keith Millard Hall of Fame
• Bitching about the Wolves
• Advanced Wild/hockey stats (seriously)
• And most importantly, your reason for listening in the first place: a Mike Muscala update

We also bitch about Ponder and congratulate ourselves for never being wrong about anything, but that's a given at this point. 

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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 standards, this was a long and wayward episode. We appreciate and are confused by your continued patronage, and hope to one day sit with you for a spirited sesh of naked lady photo hunt.

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