Throw The Game

Happy Grittiversary! We examine Gritty's mysterious handler and mourn the loss of the Columbia's marching band in this week's episode. Harry punches some bread. Sky talks to Alexa. Our NFL cards are full of scrubs. The goose? A goose? My goose?

Congratulations to the Wilmington Blue Rocks for their championship win in the A-Advanced Carolina League this year! Woo Hoo!

Other topics:

Beiing panda mascot trippin' balls

Bartolo Colon throws a ball through a kid's chest

Mike Fiers B/W beard

Data B/W beard

And the worst Star Trek trading cards ever produced!

Harry proposes new swag for U Miami's sidelines, the Octopus Grill (also special appearance by our gym teacher and Harry's football coach Dr. Watkapus). How do you build a car shaped like basketball shorts? Also we talk No Mas and other Boxing Legends of 1991.

After our annual(?) high school football season preview, we invent Time Trial Taken in which a unicycle-mounted Liam Neeson takes out crime on the Tour de France. In this week's Card Wars, does Popeye f*ck?

Questions answered (maybe) on this week's TTG:

* What are chicken squares?

* How do you solve the riddle of the Sphinx-Vampire?

* Why do all these 1991 Topps NHL Stadium Collection cards say "Rookie Card" even if the player depicted is not a rookie?

For the answer for the additional question, "Is Harry Potter wearing a conical wizard hat all the time?" donate to TTG and listen to our donors-only bonus episode The Harry Potter All-Takes Hour. Email [email protected] for donation details.

What if the Phanatic, Mr. Celery, and Dillon the Pickle Man all worked for the Arizona Diamondbacks? OK, we won't make you consider that nightmare scenario any further than that but we will talk mascots and their value to a team. Should the Rangers buy Youppi!? Also, we open Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban trading cards to promote our donor bonus episode "The Harry Potter All-Takes Hour Hosted By Throw The Game." Email us at [email protected] for instructions on how to donate to get your genuine mp3 copy!

The crickets you hear in the background are from Sky's new al fresco recording studio, not from all our bad jokes. Harry returns from a cruise. We talk about what's inside an english pie mascot's mouth. We win a trip to 1990 Spring Training to see Young Griffey and Old Griffey. Sky attempts to chew 30-year old gum.

Welcome to Throw The Game Season 2: The Season of the Corn: The Season of Giving

After a hiatus, we're back on our bullshit with a live episode recorded in Harry's living room and featuring

* The divine omen of the double water bottle spill

* In an ironic twist, Harry gets cancelled instead of Pete Rose

* Elementary school letter song deep cuts

* The worst/best MiLB game

* Smart House was directed by Levar?!?

We recorded this episode way back on June 5, but this lost tape is pretty timeless, just like the music of Will Smith. We talk Will Smith, walkup music, and Will Smith's Will Smith walkup music, along with summer favorites baseball, beer, and uh Udder Tuggers (ew).

Season 2 of Throw The Game is just around the corner. Get hype, son!

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TTG went on an unexpected hiatus from for June and most of July, but be prepared: SEASON 2 of THROW THE GAME is just around the corner! To tide you over until the big event, we present The Lost Tapes, two episodes we recorded back when the Toronto Raptors didn't yet have a Ring but did have Kawhi.

After incorrectly predicting the outcome of the NBA finals but correctly predicting that we still don't know what hat Kawhi will wear on his plaque at Cooperstown, we spend much of this episode discussing the all-time great sports photographs, from Crying Jordan to Muhammad Ali.

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