Nice! Josh is back with Dante this week and the two of them are JUICED for football finally being so back. They kick off this week's episode with just a bit of a love fest for football finally being back. To kick off the sports talk this week, Josh and Dante tack a (brief) step back from the NFL's return to discuss the last couple weeks in the Orioles' world. The birds took 4 of 6 at home vs. the Rockies and White Sox, which unfortunately came at a cost of losing star closer Felix Bautista. Josh and Dante get into what exactly this will mean down the line and what effect this can potentially have come playoff time against other strong teams without their all-star closer. In light of Felix's injury, maybe the only silver lining is that the "closer by committee" approach has seemed to elevate the game of the Orioles' back half of the bullpen. Fuji, Cano, Coulombe, Webb, and most recently DL Hall have all come in clutch with strong outings lately. Namely Hall, the Orioles young stud has looked exceptionally dominant since returning to Baltimore and Dante is fired up about it. Before closing this week's baseball talk, the boys address the magic number (21) for the Orioles. Kicking over to football, the Ravens and, more importantly, Lamar Jackson take the field again for the first time since December this Sunday against the Houston Texans. Dante and Josh give their keys to victory for this game, and add on to last week's discussion of what exactly they're looking for out of this opening game. Wrapping up the show, Josh and Dante recap what was a GREAT college football week 1 headlined by none other than Coach Deion Sanders' Colorado Buffaloes taking down TCU Horned Frogs on the backs of impressive performances from Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter. Josh shows love to coach prime and the two of them point out exactly how great for college football this actually is. In addition, the boys take a look at another similar college slate that will be week two, catalysed by Texas vs Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and the Fighting Irish lead by Sam Howell go into NC State looking for Howell's first win over the Wolfpack. Lastly, Dante has to get his bets off for you all. The first of many, Dante lays out his week 1 slate as well as some bonus futures for you all. Cheers to you all for joining us again. Don't be afraid to tell a friend if you enjoyed us. Have one on the intern this weekend. Love y'all!

Scoot begins his new schedule this week, but we give a HUGE shoutout to our boys Josh Smith and Mitch Williams for joining the show for the first time and certainly not the last. Josh, Mitch and Dante start off showing some love to our guy Mitch and his work on the PM Recovery podcast (go check them out). The three dive into a loaded conversation of football talk. The preseason is officially over, and we begin by addressing the Ravens streak dying. The boys also jump into some roster discussion. Final cuts were this week and now all teams have their 53-man rosters finalized. Some notable players were cut this week from the Ravens, including a few surprises, as well as some that we were pleasantly surprised who made the team. Finally, the end of an era in Baltimore, James Proche was included in the preliminary round of cuts and will be moving on from the Ravens. Moving on from the roster, Mitch and Josh give their thoughts on the season from a macro-level, including players they have their eyes on, who they want to see breakout, and mainly what they're most excited to see ahead of this season starting. Wrapping up their intent focus on the Ravens, Dante and the boys jump into some headlines from the NFL world, largely involving the Ravens in one way or another, including the mention that the Ravens were one of several teams who called about the availability of now Cowboys backup QB Trey Lance. Josh, Mitch and Dante give their thoughts on what, if anything, this means for this team. Lastly, this week marks the "official" start to the college season, so Josh and Dante give their previews of the week 1 slate and the games they have circled, along with a report from LA on the vibe surrounding the USC Trojans from Mitch. Before getting out ahead of the long weekend, Scoot and Dante give their long awaited and evergreen NFL season predictions. In the wake of last year, Dante went back to the drawing board hoping to be a little closer to the target this season. Everyone have a safe and wonderful holiday weekend, give us a shout wherever you're listening, tweet us or IG us your predictions for the season, and as always, stay hydrated. CHEERS!

To kick off the show this week the boys are talking about the tantalizing feeling that football being so close is giving them. Thursday was a big day for Scoot, for a number of different reasons, so he comes in hot with tons of energy. The Orioles are finally back home after their 9 game road stretch in which they finished 6-3. They are currently staring down the barrel the last 6 of a 9 game home stint following a series win against Toronto, with Colorado and Chicago coming to town. Dante and Scoot give their thoughts on what we should expect from the O's in the two series against the two bad clubs. John Angelos has, once again, found a way to be the center of attention when it comes to the Orioles, this time saying (and lying about) how hard it will inevitably be to keep and extend their young core without "massively" raising prices. Shoutout to Ken Rosenthal for calling him out on his BS and telling him what all of Baltimore has tried to tell him... SELL THE TEAM. September is right around the corner which means one thing for baseball: roster expansion. Scoot and Dante discuss some of the likely candidates for the additional roster spots, and the potential of top prospect Jackson Holliday making his ascension to major league status. John Means is back to pitching and, according to Mike Elias, is very close to rejoining the birds for the stretch run. Moving on to football, the Washington Commanders have done the impossible winning a preseason game against the Ravens, and thus ending the eight-year run of undefeated preseason play from Baltimore. Scoot and Dante are very thankful we don't have to hear about this streak any longer, and also shed some light on the Commanders treating this game like the Super Bowl. Jeff Zreibec put out his stock report on some Ravens players following the second preseason game which included some interesting insight on a few notable players. The entire media world has ranked their top 10 quarterbacks in the NFL this offseason, so ahead of the final week of preseason, Dante and Scoot decided to join the fun. Wrapping up the show this week is a top 5 fast food items draft. Thank you all so much for coming back this week, and if you enjoy the show, please don't be afraid to write us a review wherever you listened, and maybe even tell a friend. Cheers love you!

Boys are back this week ready to talk about another full week of Baltimore sports. Orioles take two of three in Seattle, largely in thanks to what will be revered as "The Cedric Mullins Game." Scoot professes his love for Mullins in light of one of the most clutch performances we've seen from the Orioles' center fielder in quite some time. On the heels of said game, Grayson Rodriguez made his best professional start kicking off the series against the Padres going 7 innings with 6 strikeouts, 1 walk and 1 earned run to go along with a big win. Jack Flaherty did not have the same stuff in game two, however, as the Slam Diego Padres roughed him up in his few innings of work. The talk of the town this week in Orioles land was the sending down of once top prospect Colton Cowser to AAA Norfolk, making room for Aaron Hicks being activated from the IL. Dante doesn't love it, and doesn't really agree with it, but Scoot gives his take on why this is nothing more than a small speed bump for our dear friend Colton. Moving across the I-395 parking lots to M&T Bank stadium, the Ravens extended their comically long preseason win streak to 24 games, taking down the Eagles last Saturday night. The boys give their seldom thoughts on what they actually watched in this game, who stood out, who didn't look so hot, and what they want to see in the next game against the Commanders. Marlon Humphrey made some news this week with the announcement that he has a foot injury that will require surgery, putting his start to the season on hold potentially. Dante and Scoot dive into how much this hurts an already depleted Ravens secondary, and what moves, including two potential trade targets, they can make to put a bandaid on their defensive backfield. In more lighter Ravens injury news, running back JK Dobbins returned to camp this week and rejoined the team in camp. A sight for sore eyes certainly was number 27 back on the practice field, which hopefully means Dobbins is bought in for this season. Zay Flowers has been making a fool of Commanders' defenders in joint practices this week, which have also featured a number of scraps in which the Ravens feel like they're not playing around. Finally, in honor of the Untold "Johnny Football" documentary that came out last week, the boys are drafting their Top 5 most electric college football players of all time. Tap in and spread the word. Cheers!

The boys are back firing this week wasting absolutely no time expressing their feelings on current Orioles owner John Angelos in light of recent media attention. John Angelos suspended play-by-play announcer and friend of the show (hopefully) Kevin Brown indefinitely because Brown stated cold hard facts on the Orioles lack of success playing in Tampa Bay in recent years. Albeit he was using the stats to provide context and shed light on the teams incredible success being had this year, but tyrant John Angelos was having none of it and told Brown to take a hike. The story got out, the entire baseball world was talking about it, so Dante rants and Scoot calls a spade a spade. Moving on to actual baseball, the Orioles hosted the Mets and good old friend Buck Showalter last weekend, a three game series in which the Orioles swept dominantly. Gunnar Henderson continues to play sensational baseball, and Jordan Westburg feels as if he is beginning to fill his shoes. The Astros series was certainly less than desirable by the O's and O's fans, losing game one on a 9th inning grand slam from Kyle Tucker off Felix Bautista, but finally winning game three and avoiding a sweep (again). Also, Scoot gives his thoughts on Shintaro Fujinami after his lackluster performance out of the bullpen in game two. The Ravens are officially, OFFICIALLY back this week with the first of their three preseason games. The reigning NFC Champs are coming to town as the Eagles and Ravens will play Saturday night kicking off their seasons. More from the training grounds, Pat Ricard has taken his "versatile" skill set to the offensive line, being reported that the once d-lineman and previously renowned fullback is taking reps at offensive guard this week. Dante gives his thoughts as to why this could be a genius move by the Ravens and OC Todd Monken. Also, the Ravens extended DT Broderick Washington this week on a 3 year deal worth $17.5 million. A solid signing for the Ravens with significant upside potential. Lastly on football, Dante gives his thoughts on the first episode of Hard Knocks featuring the Aaron Rodgers-led New York Jets. To wrap up the show, Dante and Scoot welcome on good friend George Karalekas, aka "Shme" to draft the Top 5 Sports Uniforms of all time. Thank you all dearly for tuning back in with us. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it and we'll appreciate you even more. Cheers!

Finally coming back from their extra-week long hiatus, Scoot and Dante jump back in talking about some of the music they've been listening to lately, and why Post Malone and Taylor Swift have Scoot emotional (again). Scoot spent his break showering good friend and friend of the pod, and soon to be dad, Marc Roche up on his home turf of Cape Cod. Dante is playing good golf of late, but now the pressure is being put on by his over bettors. To get into the last two weeks of sports, the boys start only where it's right and that's with the gosh darn Baltimore Orioles. A very tough two week stretch for the O's that proved fruitful, with the Birds finishing 9-5 over the 14 game stint vs. the likes of the Rays, Phillies, Yankees and Blue Jays. Ryan Mountcastle and Ryan O'Hearn have continued to impress, while Gunnar Henderson is still a top 5 player in baseball. Oh, and we like leadoff Adley. Unfortunately, however, with the good will also come the bad and that "bad" is Jorge Mateo, who will sadly be out of a roster spot in the near future presumably. And for the record, the boys are not worried about Colton Cowser... he's going to be juuuuuust fine. The trade deadline was Tuesday and the Orioles acquired Jack Flaherty from the Cardinals. A decent deal for the birds, although they were very much in on Justin Verlander, Dylan Cease, and Eduardo Rodriguez. Scoot gives his "f*ck them prospects" thoughts while the boys examine the assumed mindset of Mike Elias and company following this year's deadline. Looking around the league, the Mets, Cardinals, and White Sox were this year's big sellers just like we all thought, with the Angels and Rangers being the most active buyers. The boys break down the moves that were made and how the league is now shaping out for the stretch run. Pivoting to football, training camp is underway and we are officially in football season. The Jets and Browns kick off this year's preseason, and Dante dives into some Ravens training camp headlines. Lastly, the boys are drafting their top 5 Movie Franchises. Cheers to the weekend, cheers to yall, and make sure you stay hydrated!

The boys jump right into this episode and address a pressing issue at hand: it's HOT. The boys shoot the bull about how much summer stinks and how unbearably hot it has been, just like the Baltimore Orioles. The beloved birds are now occupying a share of FIRST PLACE in the AL East, alongside the sliding Tampa Bay Rays, with whom they begin a four game stretch in St. Pete this weekend. After sweeping the Marlins and taking one of three at home vs the Dodgers, the book seems to be the same with this team, that being they need bullpen help and fast. That being said, Mike Elias made the move that everyone was expecting, trading for Japanese pitcher Shintaro Fujinami, reliever from the Oakland A's. The boys break down the move and how they think it'll effect this team's relief woes. Sticking with the theme of the MLB trade deadline, the boys take a look at some of the most commonly-floated names to be traded come August 1st and where they think these players will end up. Moving away from baseball, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens rookies are HERE for training camp, reminding us that we are oh so close to the start of the NFL season. There's a massive epidemic going on with running backs right now, and while we don't know why or how to fix it, Scoot and Dante offer their solutions. You're welcome NFL. To wrap up this week's episode, Dante and Scoot draft the top 5 Sports Days of the calendar year. A damn good draft, if I say so myself. Shoutout you YOU for rocking with us. We love you. Stay cool and stay hydrated.

To kick off this week's show, the boys played some golf last week and had a very respectable round with each other. Also, Dante played the round of his life on Saturday... directly in his haters' faces. The MLB All-Star game and Home Run Derby were this week, in which a number of Orioles participated. Adley got boned by the structure of the home run derby, even though he hit the 3rd most bombs in the entire round... so we fix it. The boys also dive into the Orioles first half of the season in review. At 54-35 halfway through, and the toughest second half schedule in the major leagues, Dante and Scoot dive into what worked in the first half, and what needs to happen ahead of the second half including some potential trade deadline moves. Putting a bow on the Orioles talk this week, the boys shell out their first half superlatives for the birds, including MVP, ROY, Best Pitcher, Biggest Surprise and Biggest Disappointment. Before moving away from baseball, the boys jump into the Shohei Ohtani waters and discuss when and where he'll be traded come August 1st. Both believe the Angels have to trade Ohtani, so they give their top three landing spots for the Japanese phenom both at the deadline and in the offseason when he inevitably becomes a free agent. To wrap up this week's show, the boys draft their top 5 sports moments of all time... and it was a good one. If you liked the episode, follow us on socials and don't be afraid to share with a friend. Cheers and stay hydrated!

On this week's episode, Scoot and Dante start off by singing the praises (rightfully so) of the greatest athlete of all time... Joey "Jaws" Chestnut. After taking home his 16th career mustard belt, he justifies his place in the athletic pantheon next to greats like Michael Phelps, Tiger Woods, and Tom Brady. Moving on from the GOAT, the boys talk a LOT of baseball this week amidst finding themselves in the dog days of summer. Colton Cowser got the call Tuesday night and is officially a member of the Baltimore Orioles, which has been long awaited from the entire fanbase. After discussing his major league debut, Scoot and Dante take a deep dive into the farm system of their beloved Orioles, which is loaded on comical proportions. They discuss who will likely be the next of the baby birds to join the Orioles, what they will do with some of their "older" prospects, and who could be rising up the ranks beyond just AAA pretty soon. Secondly, the MLB announced all-star rosters, as well as Home Run Derby participants, in which Adley Rutschman is included. In his semi-home of Seattle, Adley will be competing as the 8-seed in the HR derby with his father throwing to him, which will undoubtedly be awesome for O's fans. Lastly, the boys conduct their second top-5 draft, this week drafting "Fourth of July Things" which will likely be less contentious than the snacks draft. Thanks as always for tuning in, and don’t be afraid to tell a friend if you enjoy the show. Cheers!

On this week's show the boys start off by jumping into the Washington Capitals missing out on Matvei Michkov, and instead who they were able to land in this years NHL draft. Scoot was upset Wednesday night, but has since come to terms with his new players. The LSU Tigers have won (another) NCAA Championship after beating Florida in this year's College World Series, so the boys talk about what a great series it was and which Tiger, Dylan Crews or Paul Skenes, will go first overall in this year's MLB draft. Moving from the college game to the pros, Shohei Ohtani continues to dominate on unprecedented levels, which begs the question: "is he the greatest professional athlete on the planet?" Also, bad guy Domingo German threw baseballs 24th ever perfect game Wednesday night... but again, bad guy. Jordan Westburg is FINALLY an Oriole and so far he's proving why he should've been up weeks ago (when the fans wanted him here). The Orioles are also DESPERATELY in need of bullpen help, which was evident yet again this past week. Lastly on this week's pod, Dante and Scoot have the first ever "Wave Podcast Top Five Draft" drafting their top 5 snacks of all time. Let us know what you think of the episode, who won the draft, what they should draft next, and feel free to share it with a friend. Cheers!