Throw The Game: Recent Episodes
Harry and Sky Swartout
2017-2021: Podcast is archived but inactive. A sports podcast that's not about sports. A sports podcast with no hot takes. A sports podcast about if Youppi wrestled the Phanatic. Hosted by sports journalist Harry Swartout and sports goofus Sky Swartout.
We determine the winner of our bracket tournament of Naruto characters! Discussion topics:
Neji's Canonical Death;
Does "Yamato" rhyme with "Tomato"?
Italian Mighto Guy;
Where's Itachi?
It's the episode where we use Kabuto's resuresction jutsu to reanimate Babe Ruth.
After 3 years of radio silence, Harry and Sky are back to make good on their Maaarrrch Maaadddness promise from 2020. Here it is in all its nerdy glory: we talk for hours about Naruto. Harry drinks a Rusty Kunai. There's Coffee In That Forbidden Jutsu. It's the episode where we forget who, like, half of these Naruto characters even are.
This bonus episode recorded in May 2019 was made for people who donated $1 CAD or more to TTG's production (thanks Jason!). But it was so good we wanted to give it to you for free!
Topics: How to see two ppl doin' it in a HP movie, Dumbledore's canonical shit, Youngbledore, Ronbledore, wizard hats, LeBron playing Hagrid in the Cosby-Show-esque sitcom The Weaselys.
Recommendations: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison Michael Moorecock's "Elric of Melnibone" novels This is the end of the line for TTG - we have had so much fun sharing our bullshit and bits with you over the years but Harry and I have moved on to other projects. Some of the best parts of TTG have found new life in the narrative and comedy podcasts that Harry makes for Blue Wire. Please follow Harry on twitter @HarrySwartout for these, and also for all inquiries and correspondance related to TTG. Our TTG twitter account will remain active but dormant and unmonitored - please don't hack it. Our archive of episodes will remain available for the foreseeable future. If we ever make another collaborative project, we'll drop a note about it here.
Thank you for listening. Mr. Celery Forever. -TTG
Back in July 2017 we recorded a pilot of what would eventually become TTG just before Sky moved to Montreal. This was so long ago that I can make no claims for its content or quality, and I'm too lazy to listen back to it now before I post it so I just hope we don't say anything too inappro-pro. Enjoy!
After considering a Who Framed Roger Rabbit Space Jam (starring Bugs, LeBron and Mickey Mouse), we play a game Sky wrote 2 years ago and never played: "1990s Kentucky Derby Entrant, 1990s Ska Band, or Shit I Made Up" Plus: The Ballad of Old Billy!
We pick teams for a fantasy kickball game from Nicktoon TV shows of the 1990s. What could possibly go wrong?
Sky's Team: “The Off-Beats”
The Flesh
Krum
Grandpa Lou Pickles
Powdered Toast Man
“Pookie”
Bob from Prometheus and Bob (club mascot: The Monkey)
Mr. Krabs
Tito
Chalky Studebaker
Harry's Team: “The Slimeville Nine”
Torwald
Ickis
Roger Klotz (club mascot: Stinky)
Larry the Lobster
Norbert
Nigel Thornberry
Cliff
Otto Rocket
Dad (fairly oddparents)
Step inside, weary traveller, and we will regale you with tales of interest from the strange past of sport. With other gentlemen!
Harry and Sky discuss 1960s womens' basketball rules and uniforms (both whack, of course), the Moe Berg of Hockey, the Soviet hockey anthem Cowards Don't Play Hockey, and Sky's increasingly dumb Resident Evil 4 nuzlocke runs.
Harry bought a chair so that he can work from home, but he needs more seasonally appropriate smelly candles
Sky questions whether or not Farmers Only is real
Harry got plagarized hard in the paint
We crown the winner of Maarch Maaddness 2020: Dragon Ball Z: The World Martial Arts Tournament
Topics: Harry's got Dome Cones just like Frieza? Does Krillin fuck? Is Star Wars just Dragon Ball Z now? Is Cell's power just Kakashi? What does Piccolo (AKA Post Boy) look like wearing shorts? What is the Laura Dern Machine?
This is our 100th Episode! Thank you for listening. Stay tuned next year for Maarch Maaddness 2021: Naruto: The Chunin Exam (ok not really. but maybe)
NCAA March Madness is cancelled because of COVID-19 but the 2020 TTG Maaarch Madddness Tournament is still live from the World Martial Arts Tournament. Will anyone be able to take down overall no. 1 seed Goku? Is Yajirobe the dumbest character in Dragon Ball? Is Vegeta's daughter named "Barbara Briefs?" Why would they make like 5 characters differentiated only by a series of consecutive numbers?
Are dog shows sports? What about cat shows?
Olympic Skateboarding Uniforms
XFL is real?
In this very old episode, we talk about Bowl Game Gatorate Dumps, Muppet Orgeron, Randy Moss, and Double Landos.
We're dropping this Christmas Spectacular about the cult classic "Gleaming the Cube" (1989 dir. Graeme Clifford). In this film, Christian Slater has BDE (Big David Bowie Energy), Yabbo has a literal man cave, and Tony Hawk has 5 phones for some reason. Don't give me no jerkoff handjob!
At time of posting, Gleaming The Cube is available to stream for free with Amazon Prime in the USA, so watch along with us as we unpack this bizarre 80s skateboard/murder movie.
We'll be back in 2020 with more stupid sports and no hot takes. Thanks for listening!
You better watch out: Gritty Claus is coming to town. That's right, the real Christmas Creep, the Reason for the Season! Also: Why aren't "The Jersey" and "The Muppet Show" on Disney+ ??? Is Vin Scully dead in the world of The Sandlot? Harry breaks the rules of Card Wars.
We draft Thanksgiving dinner foods on this week's episode. Also: Were you a shortsm'n?; Earl Grey's broken trophy; Zombie Gordie Howe
We talk athletes' beer ads in this weeks episode, from Shaq's chinese beer spot to Jason Alexander's big break in a Miller Lite commercial. We watch Happy Gilmore in 60 seconds. Would our dad drink Purple Jesus for the 'gram?
Harry's Uniform Corner: LA Chargers' Mexico Starter Jackets
Card Wars: NHL 1991
Today on TTG:
- Losing our Taco Bell virginity
- Bucket School memories
- Getting a jersey at an Albany Patroons game, Mean Joe Green-style
- You know Rocky fuckin' voted for Trump
In this TTG: We imagine an alternative future in which Harry is a Masshole. Sky runs the family car into a yellow pole. Is Tacko more of a 7-ft-tall potato like Andre the Giant or a 7-ft-tall cylinder like Yao Ming? Lebron vs. Bezos in the Firefighter Civil War of 2019. Harry learns who Kylie Minogue is when we look at trading cards from Street Fighter: the Movie.
We talk the Shaq/Damian Lillard rap beef & attempt to salvage our disastrous "Card Wars" segment
Topics:
- Somebody get Dwyane Wade a puppet!
- Bad 2: The Sequel To Bad
- VORP-al sword goes snicker-snack!
- Sky eats 30-year-old baseball card bubblegum again
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?
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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 throwthegamepodcast@gmail.com 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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On this week's episode, we talk about an All That reboot, Gritty as World's Greatest Clown, the NBA draft lottery, and Dwayne Johnson's secret identity Brock Throckmorton.
This week's topics:
- CFL fashion uniforms
- Basketball & backgammon
- Odell Beckham Jr. in a kilt
Check out Harry's new podcast for Sports Illustrated, The Throwback, as they cover the 1991 Women's World Cup, feat. an interview with Sepp Blatter! Link: https://www.si.com/soccer/2019/05/02/throwback-podcast-1991-womens-world-cup
Email us at throwthegamepodcast@gmail.com to arrange your donation of 1 Canadian Dollar or more to hear our upcoming donor bonus episode, the Harry Potter All-Takes Hour Hosted By Throw The Game.
Topics: Guy Fieri memories; Guy Fieri of the night; Harry's close personal friend Jeff Dale Earnhardt Jr.; Bad mascots, good-bad mascots, and good-great mascots on Twitter @woohoocelery; Upcoming Donor Bonus Episode: The Harry Potter All-Takes Hour Hosted By Throw The Game.
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In our very first episode, "Tiger Woods starts The Process," we made jokes about Tiger's performance and his prospects for a comeback. 74 episodes later, we are surprised and delighted to see that Tiger has beat out Joel Embiid's 76ers and has finished The Process.
Other topics:
Gin & Tonic improvements
Harry Potter & The All-Hot-Takes Podcast
Thin Ron Funches & The Second Tooter
Tim Anderson got robbed / Bean balls are a C R I M E
What we were supposed to talk about this episode: the collapse of the AAF, the Jets' new logo, the NFL draft hats. What we actually talked about: Steely Phil, Magneto/Professor X slash fiction, Kobe Bryant on All That.
Listen at your own risk.
We complete our Maaarch Madddness bracket to find out who the coolest X-Men is. Is it Juggernaut? No. It is not Juggernaut.
Get your brackets ready! We've got march madddness but we decided to talk about X-Men for an hour instead of talking about Zion's shoes.
Friend and past guest @Lederman reveals the Blue Rocks' donut hotdog name (what are sweatmeats?)
Why did we have 2 Corsair X-Men action figures? What if Shredder got all of his shit polished? What if Patrick was a metal man?
Print Your Bracket and play along!
Who doesn't like waffles? Waffle fries, waffle cones filled with fried chicken and pork bellies and drizzled with delicious maple syrup, the list of our favorite waffles to eat at a baseball game goes on and on. Other topics: improving an 18th century baseball promotion, dodgebow, a tribute to Joe Auer.
Harry and Sky spend most of this episode discussing the NFL Scouting Combine AKA the NFL Chunin Exam:
- Didn't everybody go to college with a guy named "Kiki"?
- Deebo Samuel vs. Dabo Swinney
- D.K. Metcalf: "No Middle Sliders" come to life!
It's the episode where we sing the DK64 Rap AND the Gilmore Girls theme song!
On this week's TTG:
- Bluto v Pete boxing match
- Tebow/Kaepernick QB duel in the AAF (TTG boys can dream, right?)
- Swolest POTUS contest
- Lionel Messi's Cool Hand Luke Hat Trick
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."
Remember, send any corrections or negative criticism to @damonhuard
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.
Join us for the Season of Miracles as we discuss the Miracle in Miami and draft Decemberween characters for a pickup basketball game. Who will win: Harry's Bumbles or Sky's Bleak Midwinter? You decide! Also, we answer the following questions: Kirk Cameron or James Cameron? Who is allowed to be a Patriots fan? What does a Small Forward do? If James Naismith was Canadian, why is the Basketball Hall of Fame in Massachusetts?
Tonight we shoot from the hip, discussing whatever we feel like. The result: more questions than answers. Were wraparound sunglasses cool in 1999? What are Space Sports? Is chess a sport? Is baseball a sport?!? Famous people discussed: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Chris Hadfield, Billy Crystal
We could have spent our Thanksgiving (US) talking about the Detroit Lions but instead we watched "Little Giants" (1994) starring Rick Moranis. This movie was ordered by Steven Spielberg based on a McDonalds' Super Bowl commercial... and it shows. Discussion topics: Crunchy vs. Puffed Cheetos, Wonder Years reboot, "Get yourself a man who looks like Sherman and talks like Mr. Peabody."
Recommended Films:
14 Back (2018) https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/09/20/watch-14-back-si-tv-yankees-red-sox-documentary-streaming
Up For Grabs (2004) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420356/
Scooby Doo: Monsters Unleashed (2004): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331632/
The Wonder Years (1988-1993) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094582/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Just in time for the 2018 Grey Cup, we do a 100% CFL episode! The CFL is low-key the funnest league in North America?!? Where else are players drinking beers on the field (and crushing the can against their helmet)? Where else has cannabis use been pretty much ok for years? Where else will you find mascots that look like McNugget Buddies and anime/lumberjack/popeye Justin Trudeau? Nowhere but the Canadian Football League, a professional sports league that not even Canadians care about. But we do, listener, we do.
Thanks for tuning in to the Graveyard Shift all-sports conspiracy theory radio hour. We're your latenite guides to all the stuff that the commish doesn't want you to know! Lebron's expertly-crafted illusion of Ty Lue (have you ever seen them in the same place at the same time?), the truth behind Shaq's ever-deepening voice, and and Kyrie Irving's big secret - the earth isn't flat, but he is! Plus, we plan an elaborate heist to steal a picture from 50 Cent's phone.
Could Jordan get the "Supreme" logo tattooed on the top of his bald head and still go to Hornets games? We talk basketball tattoos and fisticuffs in this week's episode. Discussion topics: the high schooler's notebook doodle that is the Boston Celtics logo; Harry's Pop Tart Challenge (what man would choose unfrosted blueberry?)
Y'all think Gritty is creepy? Just wait until you see Stinger, Harvey the Hound, and some of the other waking nightmares that have been stalking NHL arenas long before Gritty broke the internet. We play NHL mascot makeover with the worst of the worst. Also: we review the remaining 4 team logos for the upcoming AAF football league.
In Harry's Uniform Corner, we critique 5 new logos from the upcoming American Alliance of Football (AAF af). Colorado's mascot Chip was injured when his T-shirt cannon malfunctioned... but was there a second T-shirt cannon on the grassy knoll? We use ballistics evidence and the zapruder film to uncover the truth. Repeat after us... "Space Jam is bad." But maybe the new Coogler-helmed Lebron-fest of a Space Jam will be kinda good? Finally, a very famous celebrity stops for a visit. This episode of Throw The Game makes no sense, not even to us.
LeBron can rap? Kevin Durant can rap better? In 2011? We start with "It Ain't Easy," LeBron & recently dropped track from the 2011 NBA lockout, but then go Heat Rocks style through a whole mess - and we mean mess - of athlete's attempts at music. Topics include: "Nature, uh, finds a Ball," Lonzo Ball's Levar Burton diss track; Dame Dolla ft.the grandson of a guy who was in ABBA; why people hatin' on Ron Artest?
Listen to all these athletes' records and more here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMm-nx5IFBof6WowFnWCnz2YvKTgL11qX
What do champions eat for breakfast? Not wheaties, unless that's the secret identity of Michael Phelps' mysterious "bowl of grain." Harry tries to guess the breakfast choices of famous athletes in our game, "Ante Up! Cap That Food!" Also: Nike pulls a Yojimbo; Starter jackets are back (but they kind of suck)
We do an episode about golf? Phil and Tiger are throwing down PPV style and who knows what will happen??? Will Phil drop out after touching the ball too many times? Will our Dad tune in on Thanksgiving day to watch Phil lose/avoid watching the Macy's parade? We don't know so we talk about historical "extracurricular" bouts. Harry attempts to wear his JNCO jeans to the French Open. Sky reminisces about his Liz Lemon wallet. Harry likes Pokemon.
In this Spectacular episode of TTG Harry and Sky sit down with friend and Popular Science video maven Jason Lederman to discuss D2: The Mighty Ducks (aka 2 Mighty 2 Ducks). Hans has gone to live on a nice farm upstate but his brother Jans is here to PUMP YOU UP. Emilio Estevez takes a backseat to bizarre jokes and plot holes in this garbage fire of a movie featuring Suicide Squad-esque character introductions and not enough Young Kenan. It's the movie that lets you know that "there's no rule against changing uniforms!"
The Kansas City Royals need all the help they can get, so maybe re-tooling their scary half-morphed wuzzle of a mascot will give them a little more fight on the field. This week on TTG, Mascot Makeover MLB edition, including the 3 teams that do not have official mascots. Also: we rip off our shirts to reveal other shirts, and start those hot 3-a-days with some refreshing Gatorade.
We return from the All-Star Break/Our Summer Vacation to discuss summer topics such as: how to sports gamble, how to meditate under a waterfall, how to attend a baseball game if both teams are good, and how to wear a LeBron jersey in Oakland. Take it from Harry - don't wear a LeBron jersey in Oakland.
Fresh from the summer heat wave, we talk Sports Doldrums: what do you watch in the summer? Baseball? Golf? Tennis? Nah. We go all in for WNBA, Tour de France, and American Ninja Warrior. Also discussed: Steamed Hams But It's Us Steaming In Our Hot Rooms As We Record This Podcast, Lebron's Heel Turn and the Los Angeles Lakers 2018-2019 Kickstarter campaign.
Using the Tug of War International Federation (TWIF) rules, we stage a heavyweight Tug of War with some of the most imposing athletes of all time... and Spudd Webb. Will Harry's team manage to stay under the weight limit after he picks Andre the Giant? Will Sky's team be disqualified when Lance Armstrong and Michael Phelps are banned for blood doping and fat nasty bong rips, respectively? Also: "Charles Atlas Shrugged," Sky checks his ribs.
Is scoring an own goal in the world cup the most embarrassing thing that can happen to an athlete? Short answer: Yes. But on today's TTG we talk other ways to embarrass yourself on the field, from Disco Demolition forfeit to pulling a JR Junior, Jr. Plus, a Name Game: Atlanta Braves player, Country Music HOF inductee, or Ronald McDonald actor?
Sky and Harry record in the same room for the first time! One of Harry's favorite Habs got traded while he was at the Bell Centre. Lebron settin' up a Ken Griffey Sr. moment? And just in time for summer baseball, Grilling 101 with Chef Harry.
In this week's TTG we get pumped about the World Cup (Go Nigeria SUPER EAGLES!!!) & then talk about video game sports (not Madden and NBA2K, but Blitzball and Toobin'!). Also discussed: non-NFL football leagues, Sleve McDichael, the Last Drop of Drink in the Last Chance Saloon.
This week on TTG we look at D'Angelo's burner accounts and other basketball conspiracies, discuss why The Flash wears a hood, and Sky considers getting a LeBron beard. King Me!
Would you watch Bugs Bunny and Aaron Judge goof it up? Yeah, maybe not. But Aaron Judge and the Muppets? That's a million dollar idea! This week on TTG we talk Space Jam, The Muppet Show, our comedy idols, and -oh yeah- what if Joel Embiid came to your pickup game?
More tea than lemonade? What if you're working with an Auntie Anne's bubbler? On this week's TTG we talk the perfect summer drink, Tim Curry's filmography, and what it would take to bring home a piece of that radical rock, the AgroCrag. Every week we promise a Sports Podcast That's Not About Sports and this week we deliver!
Who wins: Gundam Youppi! or Gundam Phanatic? Neither, it's Voltron Mr. Met. Also in this episode: Sky ghostwrites The Tao of Lebron, Harry buys a poster, and we come up with rules for Soccey, the Soccer/Sake drinking game.
What do you like to pair with a nice Lebronto? We discuss our favorite wine and cheese pairings, the Vegas Golden Knights' success story, and whether Lebron is more of a Freddy or a Pennywise. Also: we talk The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai after Harry interviewed Ralph Macchio for SI!
Harry's going to Yankee Stadium for an NYCFC game so Sky quizzes him on 13 popular stadium music choices. Play along with us! Do YOU know the actual title of the theme from Rocky? (Hint: It's not called "The Theme From Rocky") How about the artist that originally recorded "Basketball Jones"? (it features two-fifths of The Beatles and Carole King!) Learn all about your stadium favorites on this week's TTG
One of the greatest stories ever told. How one man wore a janky celery costume and became a legend. We tell the story of Wilmington Blue Rocks' Mr. Celery. Then we pick apart NBA mascots: should Jaleel White and Meek Mill get gigs as mascot voices? What should you pray for if you encounter Slamson in the Lion's Den? (spoiler: a swift death) Our mascottiest episode yet on TTG!
Watch out Ken Burns, there's a new Story Of Baseball in town! We talk Jackie Robinson, Harry's office softball games in NYC parks, skateboarding as a spectator sport, and the search for LeBron's rival on this week's TTG.
The answers to "Are bicycle kicks the 'eye poke move' of soccer?" "Is it a good idea to bring a bird to a baseball game?" and other important questions on this week's TTG. Also, we talk about Harry's new Sports Illustrated video series, Sports Animated. Check it out each week on SI.com
We kick off this episode concluding our Sister Jean fancast, but we spend most of our time playing a new Sports Game: "19th C. baseball player, blues musician, or shit I made up?" Also, we fix baseball, finally putting an end to the "boring ball era."
Is your bracket busted? You're always a winner in the TTG Maaarch Madddnesss GOATournament! Sky created a field of 64 athletes from across sports and time and on this episode Harry fills out his bracket to decide who is the GOAT. Download a blank copy of the bracket at throwthega.me and play along yourself. No first seeds have embarrassing losses to 16 seeds in THIS tournament!
All we wanted to talk about was the Denver Nuggets' new colors, Ed Hochuli's retirement, and the NFL combine. But things kept getting... inapro-pro. This week on TTG, "Sadie Hawkins' App" and the invention of Bumble, how to tickle Atlas, and swingin' out the bottom and then the top. Don't listen to this one with your kids.
This week in throw the game we discuss Youppi! wearing a Rangers sweater, the current paucity of sports heels, the identity of a sandwich's parents, and a recipe for pineapple-strawberry pancakes.
Part 2 of our 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics coverage begins with us forgetting the names of the best ice dancers of all time and only gets worse from there, devolving into discussions of Rachel Homan's BF double-fisting beers at 9am, Mighty Ducks-inspired ways of resolving a tied hockey game, and the best/worst Olympic victory tattoos.
There may not be two brothers who are more excited about the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.... except maybe those ski jumping brothers from Japan. We've been watching so much Olympic coverage that it hurts. We dedicate this first of two Olympics episodes to discussion of why slalom is so boring, some good things to throw at the feet of figure skaters, and Mr. T's curling commentary. Togetherness! Encircling the world!
Sorry this one's late, Sky was sick! This week we talk Harry's recent trade to the Cleveland Cavaliers, "New York City's College Team," and how to sponsor moms at the Olympics.
We congratulate the New England Patriots on their super bowl win and then move right on to basketball for the rest of this episode. Basketball topics: strip teases with the LA Clippers and the University of Iowa, dunking on Gaston, and our fruitless search for the laziest backup goalie in Brazil. Between the Big Game and the Opening Ceremonies, Basketball is king!
Look out Surfing, Karate, and Rugby Sevens, Tokyo 2020 just got a whole 'nother extreme sport: Olympic Pogs. We talk slammers and strategy. Also discussed: Eagels [sic] fan behavior, and a Mighty Ducks cartoon show reboot ft. Lin-Manuel Miranda. Not discussed: Super Bowl Hot Takes
A discussion of unusual athlete names leads to a Sean Connery/Michael Caine pitchers' duel, what Wonderful Terrific Monds III's friends called him (Won? Terry?), and whether or not a dozen children could land a legal hit on Mike Tyson.
More questions than answers on this episode of TTG. We ask "Should Lebron run for president?" "What is an analgesic?" "How old is Snoop Dogg?" and "If you get sterroofied, can you still compete in the Olympics?" Also, a segment on "Playground" (2014) by Gerco de Ruijter. See it here: https://vimeo.com/95944414
We're back to talk about the pleasures and pitfalls of outdoor hockey when the rivers freeze over, the realization of Harry's greatest dream in the Miami Heat's "vice" City uniform, and the many adventures of swole NFL referee Ed Hochuli.
Join us for a lively holiday discussion of Disney's The Mighty Ducks (1992, dir. Stephen Harek), the film that launched a real-life professional sports team. Up for discussion: the hockey ghost of Werner Herzog, a distinct lack of Minnesota North Stars apparel, and ducks' reproductive anatomy. Pull up a seat, roast some chestnuts, and ask "breath, blood or urine?"
No full episode this week as Sky and Harry prepare for the holiday season, but join us on Christmas Day for our very own Players' Ball, the Throw The Game Christmas Spectacular! We'll be discussing the 1992 Disney sports comedy classing The Mighty Ducks starring Emilio Estevez (currently streaming on Netflix) and celebrating the Christmas season with other special surprises. Come party with!
Sky blames Joel Embiid's recent injury on an infamous sports curse. Harry gets embedded for Season 3 of Serial. We talk about whether we'd eat grasshoppers at a Mariners game. Like the mighty Fightin' Cicadas emerging from the earth, it's our 17th episode of TTG!
After a not-very-well-researched discussion of the Windsor Spitfires Junior Hockey team (congrats on your 2017 cup win, boys!) we play at Mad Men in our segment "Egad Bad Ad!" trying to improve bad TV ads starring athletes. Between Tony Siragusa's depends and Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays in baby bonnets, it's our Adult Baby-est episode yet!
Harry got sweet tickets to a 76ers game and reports back on what Joel Embiid smells like and the Sixers' missed opportunity of a mascot. Also: Chain Game Revisited & was Manute Bol an old timer on the court or an ancient space alien from beyond the stars?
This episode begins with a simple discussion of the Nigerian women's bobsled team but we spend most of our time discussing the badly-designed but fun fictional sport quidditch and by the end of it we have become horrible stat junkies for real actual quidditch teams. Plus, the triumphant/abundant return of the Yakima Sun Kings! Cue the air horns - we'll see you at the Yakima Valley SunDome in 2018!
We bring you not 1, but TWO sports games on TTG this week. First, we compare athlete's bling to the U Miami turnover chain. Then, we create imaginary rap songs in the grand tradition of Will Smith's "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson." It's a TTG hip-hopstravaganza!
Do you want a bobblehead? The answer is yes, you do. Everybody wants a bobblehead, it doesn't matter its likeness. This week on TTG we talk tanking while your team is in the playoff hunt, the player traded halfway through a game he was playing, New York pizza, Philadelphia sandwiches, and Philadelphia sports fans.
In this episode we discuss Kyrie's status as NBA court jester and his run-in with the Bucks' 1977 Robert Indiana court. Plus, Harry's purchase of an 1857 throwback soccer jersey prompts us to play a new game "Would Harry Buy That Throwback?" It's our art-historiest episode yet on this Important Sports Podcast. Check out our website/twitter/instragram for the throwback images discussed in this episode.
This week we talk Gumby Leg: Joe Theismann vs. Gordon Hayward (it's not pretty). Other more pleasant topics of conversation include live sound in sports coverage, people who watch sports on TV with the sound off but who simultaneously listen to the radio broadcast of the game, and Shirseys: Are They For Quitters?
This week on Throw The Game we talk Las Vegas' Digimon mascot, Harry's beef with Calgary, and we fondly reminisce about Backyard Baseball after we both read that one article on The Ringer about it.
Happy Leif Erikson Day! We discuss animal-print uniforms, Van Cortland Park athletics facilities, and the Portland Football Sun Kings' QB as the "Groom of the Stool."
As the Gang attends a Dodgers game, Scooby teams up with A-Rod, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds and Jose Canseco to catch scary ghost The Juicer! Zoinks! Also: Fleetwood Mac walk-up music, the NFL's slipping grip on sports in America. Plus: take a listen to Harry's documentary on the NY Baseball Giants' move to San Francisco: https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/09/28/new-york-giants-polo-grounds
Our discussion of the recent BIG3 basketball tournament allows us to ponder a Marbury/Kukoc/Rodman dream team, the bizarre logo of the Yakima Sun Kings, and Harry's personal bet with Ludo Bagman.
On episode 5 of Throw The Game we finally discuss the important topic our podcast was designed to tackle: Mr. Celery. Also discussed: Cooperstown, Coogi Sweaters, Original Peaches.
This week on Throw The Game we ponder a question posed a recent episode of the podcast Jordan Jesse Go: "Are movie stars juicin'?" This leads to in-depth discussion of American Gladiators, Rockys 1 and 4, and Nickelodeon GUTS. Also: what's the best use for an Apple Watch?!?
On episode 3 of Throw the Game we discuss several fine sports films (if Hidalgo and Heavyweights count), Harry's audition for Ninja Warrior, and the Atlanta Hawks' 1980s "beer can" uniforms.
This week on TTG we discuss "skateboarding: the jazz of sports," sexy Jordan, and Benevolent Jeets.
On the first episode of our sports-podcast-that's-not-about-sports, we talk triathlon training techniques, Old Men of Montreal, and discuss what sports figure should undertake "the process."