Throw The Game

Our 104-year-old Great-Great Aunt Jeanne passed away and we recorded this episode at Harry's apartment the night before her funeral. It is a singular document celebrating a life well-lived... so please excuse the audio quality, we promise this one is extra funny. Topics: Slam dunk contest winner Moises Alou; B A G E L   L O V E; "Don't be an E-Cig guinea pig," get high with Joe Biden instead!

It's the episode fueled by 40-year-old Tanqueray that we found in Aunt Jeanne's apartment as we were cleaning it out (pour some out for Aunt Jeanne!).

Recovering from colds, Harry and Sky are kind of a mess this week, but that doesn't stop us from:

* Pairing Lo Balls with high balls (Lonzo, uh, Finds a Ball)

* Sharing Pokemon Red/Blue Safari Zone strategy

* Detailing the rules of beer pong baseball

* Looking up famous Chicago White Sox fans (Roger Ebert, Michael Jordan, et al)

We open the mystery sports junk that we bought each other on the Electronic Bay! Also: Memoirs of the Stadium Grille; How much is shipping from Switzerland? Is it safe to use a 30-year-old toothbrush? And the MVC: Most Valuable Canadian.

Harry and Sky go to eBay to buy each other the dumbest, coolest sports shit they can find.

Along the way:

A size Mens/Womens???

The Tragedy of Dante Culpepper, a Tee Shirt.

How much does the original Dandy costume sell for on eBay? $25?

Tune in next time when we unbox the surprise packages we bought for each other.

How would you trick out a sport's Hall of Fame? With Hologram Tupac, obviously. On this ep we make (some very wrong) MLB HOF predictions. Other topics: best practices for showing your butt on TV, Carmen Sandiego game show with adult contestants.

A young Bruce Wayne models his super hero persona on the scariest thing about Space Jam: Wayne Knight. "I am vengeance. I am the Knight!" We enter the Knightoverse ft. Commissioner Jordan and the Knight Stick (Lil Wayne). Also: Are Nike's self-tightening shoes just Puma Click Cats? Are hoverboards real?

We check out the surprisingly robust character creation engine of the National Football League and apply Montster Factory's "no middle sliders" rule to every mascot in the NFL. Also: an elaborate con to buy the Rose Bowl and the Chargers; Harry's annual TTG performance review ft. the Fifth Beatle.

We talk bad bowl games and great football names on this week's episode. Harry says "nice" and "juicy." We look for a backup QB to send our tweets to. What if Gossamer and Grimace had a weird, gross baby? We both mispronounce "Geoduck."

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Fresh for your Christmas stocking, the 2018 TTG Christmas Spectacular! We discuss the 1993 family sports comedy The Sandlot (dir. David Mickey Evans), by far the best movie we've watched for Throw The Game. Was puke big in the early '90s? When Hamilton says "You're killing me Smalls!" he's talking about Biggie, right? It's the episode where we talk about taking the SAT as full grown adults.

On Christmas Morning, the TTG 2018 Christmas Spectacular will drop! Your stocking stuffer this year will be a discussion of the 90s Childrens Sports Comedy Classic (TM), The Sandlot (1993, dir. David Mickey Evans).

We invite you to watch along with your loved ones this Christmas. The Sandlot is streaming as part of subscriptions to DirecTV and HBOGo, can be rented to stream from Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play etc., and Sky found a good quality free stream at Archive Dot Org. As Harry reminds us, you can also dust off your old DVD or VHS(!) copy from your childhood.