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There’s a glut of sports talk radio and podcasts where the hosts are know-it-alls who you would never want to hang out with… Don’t you think? We did.
So in December of 2009 we started ‘Ready to Unload: with Cal and Sanpete’. RTU is a weekly New York Sports-centric Talk Show & Podcast hosted by Steve “Sanpete” Sanpietro and Brian “Cal” Calvi, two guys you can belly up to the bar with to have the kind of great sports discussions you have been having with your buddies for years, replete with movie quotes, obscure stats and busted chops. Cal and Sanpete are joined by their producer, “The Bishop Pop Culture PJ" Cacioppo, a school leaver, of no fixed hair style, who provides the casual sports observer point of view, chimes in on Pop Culture discussions, and provides the occasional "Instant Impression".
The RTU Boys are ‘talking sports WITH you, not AT you’, because it’s sports, not politics or religion; there’s no wrong or right, it’s just great to talk about. The show features all the Yankees, Mets, Jets, Giants, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Islanders and Devils talk the law allows, while going into all of the NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA, and even the College sports stories of the day, plus guests providing all sorts of perspectives, from sports media members to our friends with great sports opinions. Tune in weekly to the live show or check out the podcast for sports talk where you can crack a beer, hang out, and BS sports.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete - #277
Show Rundown - 12/8/18
A Block
Welcome back, Kotter(s). We'll reset the table with all the NY sports teams. So much is going on, with the Jets and Giants, Mets and Yankees and our beloved Islanders. We got a big ass reset to do.
B Block
The Mets and Brody Van Wagenen. Does Cal believe? Has Jeff changed? We'll figure out if we're buying, and suggest what we think for the Mets fix.
C Block - AKA - "Apologies to Lindsey Buckingham" Block
Islanders and coach Barry Trotz... I have to type that again. Coach Barry Trotz. Ahhhh... it's wonderful.
THE FUNLOAD:
Will be back soon, we promise...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete - #276
Show Rundown - 6-28-18
A Block
The New York Mets. Yup. All of it. A season the likes of which we have not seen in many years. Can they be fixed? We'll take a look, going all the way through all of it. Should be a really enjoyable conversation.
B Block
John Tavares and the New York Islanders. It has come to this... We'll know in about 36 hours for good if the Captain will stay with the only organEYEzation he has ever known. Cal is calm, Sanpete is... not.
C Block - AKA - "Apologies to Lindsey Buckingham" Block
We are men of action. Lies do not become us. We're not going to get to C block tonight.
THE FUNLOAD:
Bishop PJ be with you... (and also with you). He's back! He saw Hamilton last night! He probably has 800 things to talk about! We'll probably settle on something food related!
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Show Rundown - 4/2618
A Block NFL Draft! Jets Take Darnold! Giants Take Barkley! Holy underwear! B Block Mets after a hot start have leveled off to 3-6 in their last nine. What are they? Who are they? They are the walrus, goo goo gajoob. C Block Islanders are reportedly reaching out to Lou Lamariello. Yeah. Okay...
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Show Rundown - 2/8/18
A Block Football season ended with a fantastic game filled with fascinating subplots before and after... so we'll lead off with hockey and the Islanders... Just kidding, we'll quick wrap the NFL season, talk about our Super Bowl sundays, and send Jets and Giants into the very short off season. B Block Islanders GM Garth Snow spoke to the media yesterday... it went about as well as it always does. Which is not good. Will the Islanders make a move? What to make of this team on the ice? And the Rangers look poised to sell off for the first time in a long time. Woud they deal with their hated rivals?
THE FUNLOAD™ (a fun, non sports related unload, as led by Bishop PJ):
Bishop Pop Culture PJ is working this week, but he promises he's getting his rest, taking his meds, and clocking what he's eating to talk about next week on the Funload.
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Show Rundown - 2/1/18
A Block Yes, the Super Bowl is in 3 days... but we have something else on our minds. The GM's in NY, specifically those helming the Mets, Jets and Islanders. Are they ever accountable? What should a fan's expectation for transparecny be? When is a GM too arrogant? We'll get into Alderson, Maccagnan and Garth Snow as well as talk about what it takes to be successful as a modern GM in NYC. B Block The Super Bowl... sure, we'll talk about it a little bit. Why not? C Block (aka the "Apologies to Lindsey Buckingham" block) The Islanders and Rangers: a tale of two seasons, both shitty. Plus, Kirk Cousins to the Jets RQ. THE FUNLOAD™ (a fun, non sports related unload, as led by Bishop PJ):
Bishop Pop Culture PJ is off this week, as apparently the last 4 months weren't sufficient off time for him. He'll be back next week, probably talking about his old pal, Oscar™
11.9.17
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Show Rundown
A Block The Jets have a chance to get to 500 this weekend against a bad Bucs team. Should we be happy? Are we enjoying this? Someone tell us how to be fans! (kidding, please don't). The Giants are in a state of disarray that's, quite frankly, Jets-like. How the season from Hell continues to find new levels of it.The state of the NFL... the protests, the diminished quality of play, an entity that could be the only thing that could ruin itself. B Block The Islanders are 15 games in, and it's been a bit of a mixed bag. One thing's for sure though, Mat Barzal can play. Is Cal easing his way into emotional attachment? C Block (aka the "Apologies to Lindsey Buckingham" block) The Yankees let Georgia Roddy go, and are looking for a new skipper. Sanpete asked a few of his Yankee fan friends who they wanted. The concensus was... uhm, dunno? THE FUNLOAD™ (a fun, non sports related unload, as led by Bishop PJ):
Where have all the cowboys gone? We'll explain.
10.19.17
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Show Rundown
A Block
The Yankees are one game away from going to the World Series. How did they get back here so fast? Sanpete knows... Meet the Afterthoughts, Meet the Aftertoughts, step right up and ignore the Afterthoughts. B Block
Hey you guys, Jets got robbed last week in NE and Cal snapped, like really snapped. Much needed release. Who are the Jets this year? (I am a walrus...) The Giants will now rip off 11 straight wins, because 2016-17 C Block (aka the "Apologies to Lindsey Buckingham" block)
The Islandes are off to a completely middling start. Anything to be excited about? Prolly not. THE FUNLOAD™ (a fun, non sports related unload, as led by Bishop PJ): It's back to the Funload! Pants optional, all opinions welcome! Let's get loose!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete - #271 - 10/5/17
SHOW RUNDOWN:
A Block The Mets move on from Terry Collins in the shabbiest way possible. Who will be the new manager? Does it matter?The Yankees in the ALDS vs. the Indians. These Yankees easy to root for, those who root for them are not. B Block Islanders open their season tomorrow. Sanpete is maybe too excited. We'll break down the Isles for '17-18, and maybe get Cal on board with the excitment. C Block (aka the "Apologies to Lindsey Buckingham" block) The Jets are 2-2 playing the 0-4 Browns... are they any good?The Giants are 0-4 and maybe one of the more disappointing teams in NYC in recent memory. Can they turn it around? THE FUNLOAD™ (a fun, non sports related unload, as led by Bishop PJ): It's time for the THOUGHTload... how far are we going out of our way to feel bad and to make others feel worse. Should be a lot of fun. :-o
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Episode #270.4 - FUNLOAD CAFE - If the Funload is a cake, this is a box of cookies nice... We went all over the place pop culture wise, a couple guys shooting the breeze. Try to be over 35 if you listen. :-)
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Episode #270.3
9.21.17 - Show Rundown
A Block The Jets and the Tank... it's real, and it's spectacular.Mike Maccagnan and the myth of the Football Guy as GMThe Giants and they're offensive problem. B Block The Matt Harvey arbitration sichiation.The Yankees return to the playoffs. Do you continue to play for division or get Severino ready for WC game.Will we watch the playoffs? C Block (aka the "Apologies to Lindsey Buckingham" block) Islanders and the Barclays Belmont Bay of Pigs
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Episode #269.2 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Thursday, Sept. 14th at 10:15pm
A Block Mets - The Dom Smith debate - How perceptions of players are formed.The perceptions that are formed in the teams we root for. B Block Week one of the NFL - Jets are completely who we though they were, except...Todd Bowles is a mess and needs to go.Mike Maccagnan and the myth of "football guy" for GMThe Giants with a disappointing week one. We've seen this movie before C Block (aka the "Apologies to Lindsey Buckingham" block) Islanders open training camp tomorrowSanpete one step away from being completely all in on HockeyTavares, the contacts situation, and the difference between hope and promise for young players. THE FUNLOAD (a fun, non sports related unload, as led by Bishop PJ): The RTU Funload goes to the coffeehouse... expect breezy conversations and expensive baked goods.
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Episode #268.1 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Thursday, Sept. 7th at 10:30 pm
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The completey unexpected rise and rapid, predictable fall of the mid-decade NY Mets Sandy takes a sad song, and makes it sadder The value of low expectations The Pennant Races & the Yankees equally predictable rapid ascendancy
B Block
The NFL season begins...we discuss why it's slipped from our rooting interests.
THE FUNLOAD (a fun, non sports related unload, as led by Bishop PJ):
Our first "thoughtload"...podcasts and the evolution thereof.
On the eve of this year's Rock n Roll Hall of Fame induction which includes Pearl Jam AND Yes, two of our all time favorites, we talked about it like it was the baseball HOF... And Snow Patrol. All the Snow Patrol.
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RTU: #266 - Streaming / Recording Thursday, April 6th at 10pm ET
After the usual chit chat, we got to sports starting with the islanders (22:00) clinging to playoff life and what scenarios see them get in playoffs. We then went to the Yankees (40:00) and letting the Baby Bombers breath a little, and then went to the Mets, the lineup, Cal at opening day, Matt Harvey, Cal's "162 Game Pledge" and how he can use DirecTV to get there. We also got into the instant gratification of the modern sports fan, and how social media has escalated every win or loss into life and death.
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Christmas Cookies, Hard Candies, Mary Janes, Korean Pots, Nutcrackers, Cuccuzille (or as we say it, rediculously) GOOGEDZEEL).
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RTU: #265 - 3/30/17
After some Tony Banta, we went pretty hard on the Islanders demise, (18:00 min) we went all in on the Mets and the upcoming baseball season (41:00 min).
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RTU: #264 - Streaming / Recording March 2nd at 10pm
We talked Mets and David Wright, what to do with the OF glut, Yankees filled with prospects making them intriguing, Islanders stay put at deadline but bring up Ho-Sang, the Jets QB situation, and baseball changes to speed up the game, who are they aimed at?
Then the Funload, with Rogue One stories, the Oscars recap and finding out you're a little bit Jewish from Ancestory.com... A mazel.
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RTU: #263 - 2/23/17
Yup... because don't we all need an hour or two of why Cal hasn't invested in the Islanders, why Sanpete thinks the Jets should go ahead and get Tony Romo, and why both of us are completely head over heels for the Mets in 17 right now? Add in Bishop PJ talking about elegant teas and why he won't watch network TV any more AND Soundhound and you got yourself a nice break from, well, all of it.
We'll see you then.
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RTU: #262 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Friday, November 4th at 9:30pm
We're back... again... for the like 11teenth time. Cal, Sanpete and PJ will talk NY Sports, Sports in general, and whatever else catches their fancy for the 262nd time.
Cal and Sanpete will likely go station to station, like James Brown in "Livin' in America", touching on all the locals, the historic 2016 Chicago Cubs World Series, starrting the Chicago Cubs, and perhaps talk a bit about what sports means to them in this anxious time in America. We promise no politics... at all. Really. Not even a dash. But sports fandom, a triviality under the best of circumstances, perhaps is a haven for some looking to escape an extremely nervous moment in America. Or maybe it's not... maybe it's completely insignificant given the gravity of the situations that we face. We dunno, but we'll talk about it.
So join us live, or check out the pod over the weekend on iTunes... aight?
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RTU: #261 - Streaming / Recording Thursday, August 18th at 10:00pm
We welcomed back the Bishop to the show, talked lobsters and Maine, and then Mets and Yankees for a good long while. Then PJ told us all about IPS (Internet Pressue Syndrome): succumbing to undo pressure from anonymous uiniformed idiots who tell you how to feel about something. True story...
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RTU: #260 - Recorded on August 11th, 2016 at 10pm ET
We basically reset the entire podcast. Like the Mets will tomorrow with their 2016 season.
RTU: #259 - FUNLOAD
Pull your weeds, and it's done dirt cheap...
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO MULCH!!!!
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RTU: #258 - Streaming/Recording LIVE 9:30pm ET on 3.24.16
UNLOADING On: After Sanpete talked about his appearance on Daredevil Season 2, we were joined by LIghthouse Hockey.com's Dominik Jansky and covered all the bases on the Islanders... the ennui that most feel about this season, their ceiling, and why my sons pretend to give interviews to Shannon Hogue. Great Islander talk to get you set for the playoffs... (we hope)
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RTU: #257 - Streaming/Recording LIVE 9:30pm ET on 3.1.16
UNLOADING On: Spring training has begun, and Cal is giddy, Islanders and moving again, but we know better, and the futre of the NFL... when does it collapse?
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RTU: #256 - Streaming / Recording 2/16/16 at 9:45pm
UNLOADING On: We talked... a lot. About everything.
After reconvening the podcast, officially, Cal, Sanpete and Bishop banted successfully for a few minutes, eventually wondering how the commecial shoot for the first Polly-o String Cheese commercial, the famous pizza with nuttin, ever got finished.
Then, onto NY Sports... starting with the Jets, we went state of the team's union style for each of the NY teams, including a pretty indepth discussion of celebration and atitudes in the NFL, through the Cam Newton lens, the Giants with a new leader for the first time in 12 years, a heart to heart about Cal's heart not being in the Islander's season, and the Mets... looking forward to a baseball season for the first time in 8 years.
Then we wrapped with a what are we watching Funload, and Cal and Bishop got deep into Grammy Land.
All in all, good to be back... and we are, so check it out in iTunes and get your weekly dose of non-douchey, know it all NY sports talk.
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RTU: #255 - Streaming / Recording LIVE Thursday, January 28th at 9:45pm
UNLOADING On: Cal was unable to join us, so PJ and I did a Funload for the ages...
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RTU: #254 - Streaming / Recording LIVE Thursday, December 11th at 10pm ET
This episode of RTU is brought to you by the Gotham Sports Network, the place for great NY Sports blog and opinion. Go to GothamSN.com and check it out. Gotham Sports Network: ALL New York, All the time...
UNLOADING On: It's a FRIDAY NIGHT RTU!!! We got all sorts of NY Sports to talk, and the Bishop is back for an RTU: FUNLOAD you don't want to miss.(seriously, you don't want to do that to PJ. He's VERY spiteful!). Jets, Giants, Mets, Yankees, Islanders, Rangers... it's all on the table. So pour some mulled (not mold!) wine, put the Charlie Brown Christmas special on mute, since you know it by heart anyway, and give a listen. Ugh... I've killed it...
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RTU: #253 - Streaming / Recording LIVE Thursday, December 3rd at 10pm ET
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UNLOADING On: The Jets play the Giants in a pivotal game for both teams, so we'll break that down, the Islanders just played the Rangers, so we'll break that down, and the baseball offseason is going very quickly, so we'll break that down. Also, Sanpete and Cal will go discuss "windows of opportunity" theory for their teams that they have both been contemplating, separately, without knowing it.
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RTU: #252 - FUNLOAD
From Flonase, to neddy pots, to making fun of Sanpete's love of Pearl Jam, to Queensrÿche's poor decisions in studio, right through how hard "Photograph is to actually sing, to the best songs to drive 80mph on i95 while blaring/singing, we covered a lot of very not important, but very funny ground...
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RTU: #251 - Recorded on 11.19.15 at 10pm ET
Hey there! Lighthouse Hockey is selling awesome Islander shirts, with proceeds going to help fund dementia research. Go to http://www.lighthousehockey.com/shirtstore to buy a shirt!
UNLOADING On: We were thrilled to have Dan Saraceni, from Lighthouse Hockey.com join us again to talk about the Travis Hamonic situation and his trade value, what we think Barclays will be like in a year, and what's up with the team after 19 games. A great Islanders conversation...
Dan co-hosts a podcast of his own now, called ISLANDERS ANXIETY that you should definitely check out.
And check back on Monday for a fantastic RTU: Funload, a discussion of songs you want to blast and belt out when driving alone on a highway, which saw the word Courderoy make it into the entire Pearl Jam canon.
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RTU: #249 - 11/11/15
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UNLOADING On: We were joined once again by our old friend Joe Caporoso, managing editor and founder of TurnOnTheJets.com to talk about the Jets - Bills Thursday night tilt, and we got into all of it... from the Jets at the midway point to how we think Jets will attack a very familiar Rex defense. Great stuff, that will get you all set for tonight.
We then welcomed back another old friend, our buddy KMac, the biggest Giants fan in captivity, and after we did the post mortem on the Mets season, we went all in on the Giants (see what I did there?) from Eli to Odell to can they win the NFC East. Kev was a pro through and through, and the man knows NY Giants football like it's his job. (It actually should be).
Then the Funload happened, organically, as it should, where Cal, Sanpete and PJ went all over the joint, from who makes proclaimations, to holidays to how mother's day has fully taken over father's day.
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RTU: #249 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Monday, November 2nd
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UNLOADING On: With the end of the World Series and the Mets amazing run, Cal and I were left with more questions than answers. We talked through the loss of an oppotunity, and what it might mean going forward for this Mets team. Great talk, cathartic.
Then, in the Funload, we talked garlic bread and why our wives will never understand why we talked about garlic bread.
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RTU: #248 - FUNLOAD - Spice Island - Recorded on Friday, October 23rd
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RTU FUNLOAD: We went into what spices we couldn't live without, and commissioned a artist, any artists, to add a president to Mt. Rushmore, because when doing a "Mt. Rushmore" of something, four is just not enough.
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RTU: #247 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Sunday, Oct. 23rd at 9pm ET
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UNLOADING On: THIS IS NOT A DRILL... THE NEW YORK METS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES.
We covered the Mets improbable run the World Series from every angle, from the Beltran called third strike to the strike out of Fowler to clinch the pennant. Just 2 hours of great conversation we never thought we would have. We also had a great call from our resident RTU Historian Cousin Bobby to talk 69 Mets, how this team compares, and why being a Mets fan is always great.
All told, a super show.
Available on iTunes.... and coming Monday, the FUNLOAD for this episode... Bananas Magazine and desert island spices...
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RTU: #246 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Sunday, Oct. 11th at 9pm ET
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UNLOADING On: We did it... almost 2 hours on the Mets, the Slide, and the Philthy. Also, we say "neighborhood play" about 132 times. Seriously great, passionate talk about the Mets-Dodgers series.
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RTU: #244 - FUNLOAD - Yogi Berra... and Nicholas Cage - Recorded on 9.23.15
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RTU FUNLOAD: Our old friend the Swami surprised us with a call to talk about the passing of Baseball Legend and American icon Yogi Berrra. A really nice conversation about someone pretty much everybody liked.
Then we talked about Nic Cage movies... because, well, it was time.
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RTU: #243 - Recorded on 9.23.15
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UNLOADING On: We're back from hiatusbattical!
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We got heavy into the Mets...everthing from the phenomenon of waiting for 2007 part II, Cal's Fear and Loathing as a Mets fan, to what we think of Matt Harvey's inning limits. Great stuff here, long overdue.
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We did the Jets 2-0 start quickly... their defense is the star, not Todd Bowles' defense, and Fitzpatrick: any time you are ready to be a game manager, that'd be great.
Available on iTunes.... And coming soon, the Funload for this episode, with... the return of the Swamii!
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RTU: #241 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Thursday, August 13th at 10pm ET
UNLOADING On: There is so much to get to tonight... The Mets doing what we hoped they would, the Yankees feeling the surging Jays on their tail, and of course... Geno, the Jets, and the jaw. Plus, why there aren't more ways to watch sports on mobile devices, and will there ever NOT be a monopoly on sports watching?
The Bishop will check in with movies for the rest of the Summer, and a spoiler free True Detective Season 2 review. It's possible. Check the tower logs... speaking of... desert island movies; what if you only had 5 to quote for the rest of your life? Based on a true story.
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RTU: #240 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Thursday, August 6th at 10pm ET
UNLOADING On: Soooo... about the Mets.
me·a cul·pa
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noun
an acknowledgment of one's fault or error.
"“Well, whose fault was that?” “Mea culpa!” Frank said"
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RTU: #23 - Streaming/Recording LIVE 7.23.15 at 10pm ET
Main Course: Holy cow... we have a ton to do tonight. Mets 24 hours like we have never seen before, MLB trade deadline tomorrow at 4, what will the Yankees do? And Jets training camp opens, with Sheldon Richardson going as stupid as you can. Oh, and Giants Owner John Mara doesn't know how many fingers JPP has.
Yup. We got it all tonight, and we may be joined by our buddy Big O'D, a die hard met fan really would love to talk baseball but will probably wind up talking Wilpons.
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RTU: #238 - Streaming/Recording LIVE 7.23.15 at 10pm ET
Main Course: We're only doing an RTU: Funload tonight... we can't talk about sports. It's too much. Okay maybe we'll sneak in some Islanders at the end. If you tune in tonight, be prepared for a full helping of Bishop Big Doughnut.
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RTU: #237 - Sanpete Manor / Brad Kallet, Mets Columnist - CBSNewYork.com
Main Course: After we dismissed with the pleasantries, commander we welcomed back Brad Kallet Mets columnist for CBSNewYork.com for about an hour and half of both All Star and Mets conversation. We figured out a lot of stuff... perhaps the biggest revelation being True RomanceI is an underrated, quotable movie. Also, Sandy Alderson stinks. So do Wilpons. And Terry Collins isn't so hot either. Seriously, check it out for great baseball and Mets talk, the kind you'd have a bar with a few of your boys. (or girls). (or boys and girls).
Then, an abbreviated RTU: FUNLOAD with Bishop Big Doughnut about qall the trailers and movies and TV shows. He wants you to know, "This season of your favorite show is not LAST season of your favorite TV show".
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RTU: #236 - Bye-Bye, Bayside
UNLOADING on: Sanpete's last show from Bayside NY was a gem... we discussed the move to a new town (literally, Newtown) and how to root for his teams there and keep his boys loyal to those teams. Then we went around the horn literally to the MLB all star game NBA Draft, the Mets and Yankees, good press for Geno, and Okie on the block. All in all an hour 40 of great sports and stuff talk...
Plus, Ballers on HBO... will Sports Entourage work? What sports TV series do we want to see...
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Sunday, June 14 is World Blood Donor Day - The theme of the 2015 World Blood Donor Day campaign is "Thank you for saving my life". It focuses on thanking blood donors who save lives every day through their blood donations and strongly encourages more people all over the world to donate blood voluntarily and regularly... YOU WILL SAVE A LIFE!
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RTU: #235 - Shut up and wait for Al Michaels
UNLOADING on: After a lot of discussion about peanut butter and stuff, we went heavy into the Mets and then parlayed that into a discussion of stats and which ones might need to be adjusted or changed... Then in the FUNLOAD... Aw, rats....
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Sunday, June 14 is World Blood Donor Day - The theme of the 2015 World Blood Donor Day campaign is "Thank you for saving my life". It focuses on thanking blood donors who save lives every day through their blood donations and strongly encourages more people all over the world to donate blood voluntarily and regularly... YOU WILL SAVE A LIFE!
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RTU: #234 - Lennie Morrisette
UNLOADING on: After an in-depth tell-all discussion of haircuts, we got into it. The Mets. It's time. We've been putting it off. We can't any longer. There may be some other stuff in there tonight, but man. The Mets, 60 games in, well it's time to explain why the negative, why we have no confidence that anything will get done... and why we're glad we're not as emotionally invested as we have been in years past.
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May is American Stroke Awareness Month (promoted by the National Stroke Association)... go to http://www.strokeassociation.org/ for more information and become a Stroke Hero... learn to spot stroke signs and act quickly... it might make the difference between life and death!
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RTU: #233 - Connor Rogers - NYJDraftCentral.com
UNLOADING on: There's a ton of sports tonight, with the Mets suddenly fixed because they beat up on bad teams... the Yankees are doing the same thing, why does how they are doing it feel better than the Mets? We have Jets OTA's to talk about... interesting idea about practice... yes, we'll be talking 'bout practice. Then Connor Rogers of Turn on the Jets.com, Bleacher Report NFL and his own new site, NYJDraftCentral joined us to talk a ton about the Jets, Todd Bowles, Geno Smith, practice habits, and blogging and sports media in general. Great spot with a rising star.
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May is American Stroke Awareness Month (promoted by the National Stroke Association)... go to http://www.strokeassociation.org/ for more information and become a Stroke Hero... learn to spot stroke signs and act quickly... it might make the difference between life and death!
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RTU: #232 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Thursday May 21st at 10pm
Main Course: After a number of tech difficulties... we got to it. PJ and Sanpete vamped the crap out of it, then we taked sports, then we talked other stuff.
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May is American Stroke Awareness Month (promoted by the National Stroke Association)... go to http://www.strokeassociation.org/ for more information and become a Stroke Hero... learn to spot stroke signs and act quickly... it might make the difference between life and death!
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RTU: #231 - Sillly Puttying Dondi
Main Course: This is a combo show... one part NY Sports, three parts funload... 100 percent fun. Check it out... it's long, but you have time. We covered so many bases, this little synopsis won't do it justice, so just take the week and listen.
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May is American Stroke Awareness Month (promoted by the National Stroke Association)... go to http://www.strokeassociation.org/ for more information and become a Stroke Hero... learn to spot stroke signs and act quickly... it might make the difference between life and death!
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May is American Stroke Awareness Month (promoted by the National Stroke Association)... go to http://www.strokeassociation.org/ for more information and become a Stroke Hero... learn to spot stroke signs and act quickly... it might make the difference between life and death!
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RTU: #230 - Murph Palmer
Main Course: We put an emotional button on the Islanders season, then went into the DH, PEDs and illegal drugs and the Mets and Jets... Sanpete also told Cal about the annual May 6th Birthday picnic...
Turn On The Jets.com, Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete, Gun Hill Brewing Company and Seat Swap are teaming up again on NFL Draft Night at FIVE MILE STONE in NYC for a NFL Draft Watching Party!
What: Live streaming/simulcast Co-Podcast. Beer. Food. NFL Giveaways. Hanging out to watch the NFL Draft with some solid talk about it.
Where: Five Mile Stone, located at 1640 Second Avenue (corner of 85th street) in New York City. We will be taking over the second floor.
Who: Turn On The Jets.com and NY Sports Talk Podcast “Ready to Unload : w/ Cal & Sanpete” will be doing a live streaming (on blogtalkradio.com) Co-Podcast, simulcast in the bar and featuring appearances by TOJ staff, local media members (5 of ‘em!) and some surprises.
Also: Award Winning beers on tap from Gun Hill Brewing Co. (Gun Hill’s Void of Light Stout was named one of the WORLD’S 20 Best Stouts by Men’s Journal in February)
What Else: $5 dollar cover charge (going directly to bar staff for use of the room), which will give you access to food and beer specials all night, along with entry into our raffle, which include a signed Jeremy Kerley football, a signed D'Brickashaw Ferguson football, Jets tickets, Jets hats and plenty more!
Turn On The Jets.com, Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete, Gun Hill Brewing Company and Seat Swap are teaming up again on NFL Draft Night at FIVE MILE STONE in NYC for a NFL Draft Watching Party!
What: Live streaming/simulcast Co-Podcast. Beer. Food. NFL Giveaways. Hanging out to watch the NFL Draft with some solid talk about it.
Where: Five Mile Stone, located at 1640 Second Avenue (corner of 85th street) in New York City. We will be taking over the second floor.
Who: Turn On The Jets.com and NY Sports Talk Podcast “Ready to Unload : w/ Cal & Sanpete” will be doing a live streaming (on blogtalkradio.com) Co-Podcast, simulcast in the bar and featuring appearances by TOJ staff, local media members (5 of ‘em!) and some surprises.
Also: Award Winning beers on tap from Gun Hill Brewing Co. (Gun Hill’s Void of Light Stout was named one of the WORLD’S 20 Best Stouts by Men’s Journal in February)
What Else: $5 dollar cover charge (going directly to bar staff for use of the room), which will give you access to food and beer specials all night, along with entry into our raffle, which include a signed Jeremy Kerley football, a signed D'Brickashaw Ferguson football, Jets tickets, Jets hats and plenty more!
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We are extremely excited to announce that we'll once again be co-hosting a LIVE streaming joint podcast with the guys from TurnOnTheJets.com at Five Mile Stone in NYC and featuring award winning craft beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co., NFL Giveaways and free merch from SeatSwap! Thursday, April 30th at 7:30pm. Go to 2015DraftPartyPodcast.com for details!
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We are extremely excited to announce that we'll once again be co-hosting a LIVE streaming joint podcast with the guys from TurnOnTheJets.com at Five Mile Stone in NYC and featuring award winning craft beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co., NFL Giveaways and free merch from SeatSwap! Thursday, April 30th at 7:30pm. Go to 2015DraftPartyPodcast.com for details!
RTU: #229 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Thursday, April 16th at 10pm ET
Main Course: A ton to get to tonight including the NHL playoffs and the return, for at least one night, of The October Islanders, the Rangers in action, how to watch playoff hockey, the Mets off to a good start but losing their captain, the 10-27 prediction, and the NFL Draft is in 2 weeks, and we got a show to do. Now get out of our way.
Plus the FUNLOAD will be all about the Star Wars trailer and why maybe, just maybe, JJ Abrams is going to reinstitute our childhoods.
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We are extremely excited to announce that we'll once again be co-hosting a LIVE streaming joint podcast with the guys from TurnOnTheJets.com at Five Mile Stone in NYC and featuring award winning craft beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co., NFL Giveaways and free merch from SeatSwap! Thursday, April 30th at 7:30pm. Go to 2015DraftPartyPodcast.com for details!
RTU: #228 - Streaming / Recording LIVE on Thursdsay, April 9th, 2015 at 10pm ET
Main Course: We welcome Lighthouse Hockey.com's lead blogger Dominik Jansky and LHH writer Dan Saraceni for an Islanders / NHL discussion, that we assure you will be Brian Strait free.
Plus opening week of baseball... we're wadinig into the Mets season and this baseball thin. It's nice, the water seems warm.
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We are extremely excited to announce that we'll once again be co-hosting a LIVE streaming joint podcast with the guys from TurnOnTheJets.com at Five Mile Stone in NYC and featuring award winning craft beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co.! Thursday, April 30th at 7:00pm. Details to follow...
RTU: #227 - FUNLOAD
FUNLOAD: Everything you ever wanted to know about our sleep rituals, but had zero desire to ask. Actually, we find out PJ takes sleep very, very seriously...
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We are extremely excited to announce that we'll once again be co-hosting a LIVE streaming joint podcast with the guys from TurnOnTheJets.com at Five Mile Stone in NYC and featuring award winning craft beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co., NFL Giveaways and free merch from SeatSwap! Thursday, April 30th at 7:30pm. Go to 2015DraftPartyPodcast.com for details
RTU: #226 - Hopeless Springs; Eternal
Main Course: It's simple... is it the Mets time? We don't think so. Will the Islanders make a run? We went heavy into the Mets and opening day in baseball, and then took apart the Islander limp to the finish.
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We are extremely excited to announce that we'll once again be co-hosting a LIVE streaming joint podcast with the guys from TurnOnTheJets.com at Five Mile Stone in NYC and featuring award winning craft beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co.! Thursday, April 30th at 7:00pm. Details to follow...
RTU: #224 - A Few Good Grievances
Main Course: After a week off, there is a ton to get to, including but not limited to: Mets Opening Day Starter, sure you've heard it all, but you haven't. Also, Sandy Alderson continues to be Jokey McJokerson; Baseball is about to start, but we are too damned into hockey and the Islanders. We'll talk about the home stretch for the NHL, some of Coach Ham Capuano's questionable moves, and what we would do about Lundqvist and Talbot; The NCAA Tournament is cooking, and Sanpete has some choice words for a certain CBS Announcer.
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RTU: #223 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. AND GO CHECK OUT EPISODE 3!
RTU: #223 - Recorded on March 6th 2015
Time for the FUNLOAD: After a trip all over the conversational map, including a stop to discuss modern hair gel usage, we got to ranking our favorite movies with a voice over. See if you agree...
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We are extremely excited to announce that we'll once again be co-hosting a LIVE streaming joint podcast with the guys from TurnOnTheJets.com at Five Mile Stone in NYC and featuring award winning craft beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co.! Thursday, April 30th at 7:00pm. Details to follow...
RTU: #222 - Streaming / Recording Thursday, March 12th at 10pm ET
Main Course: The Jets got Revis back? Are you serious? And what's that... The Islanders signed Johnny Boychuk? Holy f*#&%ing crap! It's too much! We'll go big time into the craziest NFL Free Agency period ever, and figure out what Johnny Rocket's signing with Islanders means for the franchise.
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We are extremely exciting to announce that we'll once again be co-hosting a LIVE streaming joint podcast with the guys from TurnOnTheJets.com at Five Mile Stone in NYC and featuring award winning craft beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co.! Thursday, April 30th at 7:00pm. Details to follow...
RTU: #221 - Streaming / Recording Thursday, March 5th at 10:00pm ET
Main Course: We went heavy into the Isles and the NHL, talked Mets and David Wright's big week as Captain, Sandy Alderson's big picture, and a Jets Free Agency wish list... Great NY Sports talk for an hour and change nice...
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RTU: #220 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. AND GO CHECK OUT EPISODE 3!
RTU: #220 - FUNLOAD - Recorded on February 12th, 2015
Time for the FUNLOAD: We got all over the place in this one, with Guy Fieri, Ashton Kutcher, the Grammys and expiration dates all tackled... in a word, fun. In one made up word, Funload.
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We are extremely exciting to announce that we'll once again be co-hosting a LIVE streaming Joint Podcast with the guys from TurnOnTheJets.com at Five Mile Stone in NYC and featuring award winning craft beer from Gun Hill Brewing Co.! Thursday, April 30th at 7:00pm. Details to follow...
RTU: #219 - Little Doors
Main Course: We got a vertiable potpourri of NY sports to get to and we did... starting with some great Islanders and Rangers talk, followed by some Mets and Yankees talk and wrapped with a little Jets/Giants NFL Combine chatter... All in all, a fantastic hour and a half of really quality NY Sports talk and banter...
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RTU: #218 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes.
RTU: #218 - Brad Kallet, CBS New York.com WFAN
Main Course: We were joined by Brad Kallet Web Producer/Editor/Writer/Columnist CBSNewYork.com and WFAN.com for a great Mets conversation and some intersting talk about sports talk radio, and social media coverage of sports. Fanatstic stuff from Brad, a great place to start for the Mets in 2015.
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RTU: #217 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. Episode 3 is out, episode 4 is coming soon!
RTU: #217 - Streaming/Recording Thursday, Feb.12th at 10pm ET
Main Course: After some great Yankee (yes Yankee) talk, and a fantastic call from Bill on LI to talk Yankees, we did a little Mets, and a whole lot of Islanders, Barclays Center move and what leaving Long Island means to Islander fans. Things got a little heated, but in the end, the boys figured out where each was coming from.
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RTU: #216 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. Episode 3 is out, episode 4 is coming soon!
RTU: #216 - Streaming/RecordingThursday, Feb. 5th at 10pm ET
Main Course: After we finish with the Super Bowl and the NFL being a crack pipe America cannot put down, it's onto the Mets, as Cal made his annual pilgrimage to Sandy Alderson's stand up show at CitiField for season ticket holders, and then the Islanders, as they're skidding out of control! We'll be sans Bishop tonight, so just two goofs talking NY Sports for an hour or so nice...
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RTU: #214a Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. AND GO CHECK OUT EPISODE 3!
RTU: #214a - FUNLOAD - Streaming/Recorded on January 22nd, 2015
Time for the FUNLOAD: We talked about actors that ruin the proceedings for us, and Gone Girl, while staying spoiler free.
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RTU: #215 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes.
RTU: #215 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Thursday, Jan 29th at 10pm ET
Main Course: The Super Bowl Show... we've asked a few of our buddies to give a shout to talk all things Super Bowl with this fantastic match up. Old friends Jay Linder, Dan Nello, and... THE SWAMI have been summoned. Hopefully they'll all make it... we'll talk about the game sure, but also get into the sights, the sounds... the smells... of the Super Bowl in America.
Also, Sanpete has a quick word for a certain local sports show producer in a little segment he's calling "Why we Podcast...".
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RTU: #214 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. EPISODE 3 IS COMING!
RTU: #214 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Thursday, Jan 22nd at 10pm
Main Course: Brian Bassett from TheJetsBlog.com joined us to talk about the Jets new hires, where they go from here, off-season/draft stuff and how his website and blogger presence has grownn since we had him on last a few years ago. Great stuff on the Jets and then some #DeflateGate stuff and how we are NFL junkies who will keep buying the product.
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RTU: #212 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. AND GO CHECK OUT EPISODE 3~
RTU: #209 - FUNLOAD - Streaming/Recorded on December 18th, 2014
Time for the FUNLOAD: We finally got around to Diners. Sanpete loves em, PJ loves em, Cal loves em. What's your favorite and what's your go to order at one?
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RTU: #213 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. EPISODE 3 IS COMING!
RTU: 213 - Streaming/Recording LIVE Thursday, Jan 15th at 10pm
Main Course: After RTNUmerology...we went heavy into the Jets hiring Todd Bowles and Mike Maccagnan... We like... we don't love. And the Islanders and Rangers had the biggest regular season game in a loooooong time the other night. We were pretty pumped for the game.
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RTU: #210A Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. AND GO CHECK OUT EPISODE 3~
RTU: #210 - FUNLOAD - Streaming/Recorded on December 30th, 2014
Time for the FUNLOAD: The year was up, so we listed stuff we liked.. especially with the podcasts.
The boys are back for the first episode of 2015 and it's fitting that the year "kicks off" (see what we did there?) with friend of the show, Joe Caporoso from Turn On The Jets. Joe Cap will join Cal and Sanpete to talk about the Jets search for a new GM/coach, and if it's necessarily the end of the world as we know it if it's not quite in that order. The Giants are in search of a defensive coordinator, who's it going to be for Big Blue? It's also 2 days removed from Sanctimonymania! and the fellas will talk about the baseball Hall of Fame selections and Piazza-Gate.
All this, along with a little hockey talk, a check in on Bishop Big Doughnut's eating habits early in 2015, and maybe Bed Bath and Beyond... if there's time, if there's time. Tonight, 10:00 EST, Ready to Unload with Cal and Sanpete. Be there!
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RTU: #210 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes.GO THERE NOW AS EPISODE 3 IS OUT!
RTU: #210 - Recorded on Tuesday, December 30th 2014
Main Course: Black Monday came in the NFL and smacked no one harder in the face than the Jets... (except maybe the Chicago Bears, as big a mess as the Jets, just without FireEMERY! Banners) Cal and Sanpete will go heavy into what happened, what will happen and what we would like to happen. Plus, the Islanders have more wins before the first of the year than they have ever had in franchise history... yet we're somewhat unhappy. Just too many years of sucking, or are our concerns legit? (le what? LeGIT!) Plus the battle to be a real fan... do you need to put up a billboard to be considered passionate? Or can you just, ya know, root for your team.
FUNLOAD: Bishop Big Doughnut asks the rhetorical, meandering question, why do NPR shows have to ask so many rhetorical, meandering questions? Looking at you, Serial.
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RTU: #209 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. AND GO CHECK OUT EPISODE 3~
RTU: #209 - FUNLOAD - Streaming/Recorded on December 18th, 2014
Time for the FUNLOAD: Even the nights are better. Hall & Oates just STOP making hits? And other musings from the "music stuck in our heads from the 70's because our parents had a radio on at all times" file.
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RTU: #207 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. EPISODE 3 IS COMING!
RTU: #208 - Streaming / Recording LIVE Wednesday, Dec. 17th at 10pm ET
Main Course: PJ was astonished to know that Bing Crosby sings White Christmas in the movie White Christmas, serously. Then we went full on with Cal's disenchantment with theMets playoff talk, and the hope of liking the team so much you can ignore the manager and GM. Plus Fire Idzik crew speaks for all Jets fans, except they don't, and the Bears and Phil Emery are going through same thing as the Jets, even worse... where are the billboards? Tee Shirts? Planes flying banners? All the things that tell us what REAL fan does. Aren't Bears fans real NFL Fans? And the Islanders getting over the hump. Is JT hurt? Cal's working on a mystery.
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RTU: #207 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. EPISODE 3 IS COMING!
RTU: #207 - And you can Tell Everybody... that this is your Show...
Main Course: A Tale of Two Fans. Cal is feeling a lot of things about his teams, namely the Mets and Islanders and 93.3% of them are not good. Sanpete is way more optimistic about said teams, and has the chin up to prove it. And of course, they both are completely pessimistic about the Jets, so they have that. We'll get into it, because man... it got heated after last night second straight Islander 3 goal blown lead and loss. We got into a ton of sports as we lost the Bishop early to a flu bug he picked up as a Ball Man at the all England Tennis Tourney. Long story.
And hey... it was five years ago today (or yesterday) that we started this here thing. Things were different then. Pikes Peak was an ant hill... We'll take a look back at 5 years of doing this.
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RTU: #206 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes. EPISODE 3 IS COMING!
RTU: #206 - Road to Wellville Thursday, December 4th at 10:30pm ET
Main Course: We were off for Thanksgiving last week... there is a complete ton of stuff to talk about, from the fact that both NY football teams might soon have new coaches, to Mets fans being sold optimism on talk alone, and buying it. And the Islanders are the best team in NY, in any sport, and it's not close... we'll get into if this is awesome and bittersweet at the same time.
It's the Holiday season... whoop dee do? Well, we'll just see about that...
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RTU: #205 - Streaming/Recording on Thursday, November 20th at 10pm ET
Main Course: Just a fantastic Jets conversation with Dom Cosentino, Jets beat writer for NJ Advanced Media (NJ.com, WFAN Jets Beat Reporter and WFAN anchor Chris Lopresti and Joe Caporoso, Editor-In-Chief of Turn On The Jets.com. We really covered it all, both the current team and where they are going, and even took on some of the differences between beat writing and blog writing. Plus we found out if any of us could have our own brother whacked Fredo style, and what's the one item on the Thanksgiving table we need to have. These guys were just awesome...
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RTU: #203 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the very close to completion EPISODE 3!!!!!
RTU: #203 - Hello, Hello... Turns out I have vertigo
Main Course: After discussing an unchecked fear of heights, we got heavy into the Jets, Giants, Mets and Islanders. In all some great sports conversation...
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RTU: #202 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, and coming soon: EPISODE 3!
RTU: #202 - FUNLOAD - Streaming/Recording on October 23rd, 2014 at 10pm ET
Time for the FUNLOAD: We introduced the concept of coming up with the "Mount Rushmore" of something, the accepted 4 best of anything and it got a little semantic. Basically we could only agree on Twix. That's it. Just mini TWIX. Check it out.
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RTU: #201 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, and coming soon: EPISODE 3!
RTU: #201 - Streaming/Recording on October 23rd, 2014 at 10pm ET
Main Course: After we went around the horn with the children and the halloween and the nuttiness, Cal and Sanpete dug into game 7 of the World Series with some serious baseball talk. Then we took about the Jets implosion, and made the case for John Idzik to be kept and to be let go, examined Rex Ryan's place in the draft failures of the last 6 years, and took Jets fans to task for making it personal with Eric Decker's wife. Great hour plus of Sports talk.
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RTU: #200 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, and coming soon: EPISODE 3!
RTU: #200 - Streaming/Recording on October 23rd, 2014 at 10pm ET
Main Course: Well. How about this. Episode #200. That's a lot. We'll hopefully have a few call ins from some RTU regulars, and we'll reflect on what's been a great time.
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RTU: #199 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the just released episode 2!
RTU: #199 - FUNLOAD - Bacon Egg and Dad - Recorded on 10/8/14
Main Course: This FUNLOAD we talked breakfast sandwiches and what we learned from our fathers. Basically a Food Network "Best Thing I ever Ate" episode meets Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays. Great fun.
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RTU: #198 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, and coming soon: EPISODE 3!
RTU: #198 - Recorded on 10.15.14
Main Course: Lighthouse Hockey.com's lead blogger Dominik Jansky spent an hour with us, talking Islanders, blogging, growing up with two teams, and Garth's Godfather move. A great hockey conversation with a great guest.
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RTU: #197 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the just released episode 2!
RTU: #197 - FUNLOAD - Recorded on 10/2/14
Main Course: This FUNLOAD we began by designing hipster establishements in Brooklyn based on TV and Film restaurant and bar names, but the conversation quickly turned to "Everything you wanted to know about cereal, but were afraid to ask". Fun stuff.
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RTU: #196 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, and coming soon: EPISODE 3!
RTU: #196 - Recorded on 10/9/14
Main Course: Joe Caporoso, Editor-In-Chief of Turn On The Jets.com and Director of Social Media at Whistle Sports was again our guest, and we went all in on the Jets. An hour 15 of great Jets talk without all the crap. Really.
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RTU: #195 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the just released episode 2!
RTU: #195 - FUNLOAD - Recorded on 10/2/14
Main Course: This FUNLOAD had it all. We talked Star Wars stuff, what childhood items you have in clear reach in your house, the posters you had in your room growing up, and of course, the new, terrible off-broadway play, where the set ups are in English but the punch lines are in...Yiddish? Yiddish!
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RTU: #194 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the just released episode 2!
RTU: #194 - Tonight on PAX
Main Course: Holy cow. We went full on the Jets... John Idzik's honeymoon is over. It shouldn't be. And we talked Giants flipping the script on the season's narrative, and Cal falling in love with baseball all over again.
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RTU: #193 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the just released episode 2!
RTU: #193 - Recorded on 9/25/14
Main Course: We talked Giants, we talked Jets... but then Jeter took over, as he does. Our old friend Dr. E Ray Stat called in and we hashed it out... 2 Mets fans and a Yankee fan, with Jimmy Carter no where to be found.
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RTU: #192 - Recorded on 9/18/14
RTU: #192 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the just released episode 2!
DUMMY tells the story of Donny, who has a difficult time finding the words to express his thoughts, feelings and opinions. One day he meets Sammy. With Sammy by his side, Donny begins building the courage to speak his mind. Come laugh, cry and cheer for Donny and Sammy as they journey through life and chase their dreams.
RTU: #192 - FUNLOAD - Raul Fuentes
PJ's old friend Raul Fuentes joined us to talk about his recent conversion from Giants fan to Jets fan, and the maelstrom his announcement set off on FaceBook. Cal recants the story of his change to Jets fan in 2009 when Big Paulie himself had to sign off on it. Then we talked Jeter and over the top with the Jeter and the Jeter thing. Gift baskets were given. Great stuff... enjoy!
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RTU: #191 - Recorded on 9/18/14
Main Course: Dom Cosentino, Jets beat writer for NJ Advanced Media (NJ.com) joined us for an hour plus of great talk about the Jets, the NFL, his time at Deadspin, his beginnings in Pittsburgh, and the responsibility of beat writers... He was candid and insightful. A great conversation.
RTU: #191 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the just released episode 2!
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RTU: #190- Recorded on 9/11/14
RTU: #189 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the just released episode 2!
DUMMY tells the story of Donny, who has a difficult time finding the words to express his thoughts, feelings and opinions. One day he meets Sammy. With Sammy by his side, Donny begins building the courage to speak his mind. Come laugh, cry and cheer for Donny and Sammy as they journey through life and chase their dreams.
RTU: #190 - FUNLOAD - Joe Dalo
Joe Dalo, writer, creator and star of the new webseries DUMMY drops by to talk his work on Punked, and about his days as as standup in Philly in the early 90's. Then we discussed movies who delivered on the build up from friends, and books we should have read but didn't.
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RTU: #189 - Recorded on 9/11/14
RTU: #189 Episode Partner is: DUMMY - A new web series written, directed and starring Joe Dalo and Izzy Diaz. Subscribe to the DUMMY channel in YouTube for all new episodes, including the just released episode 2!
DUMMY tells the story of Donny, who has a difficult time finding the words to express his thoughts, feelings and opinions. One day he meets Sammy. With Sammy by his side, Donny begins building the courage to speak his mind. Come laugh, cry and cheer for Donny and Sammy as they journey through life and chase their dreams.
RTU: #189 - Main Course
There's a ton going on, from Ray Rice and the NFL's problem with discipline, to the lawsuit filed against the Mets. We'll check in with our buddy Brian Stephens about the Ray Rice mess and the Yankees fall from grace.
The boys are back to kick off the 5th season of Ready to Unload with Cal & Sanpete. NFL, Jets and Giants, Yankees and Mets, MLB pennant races, Fantasy Football. All this and new for season 5, a precocious orphan that the crew will be forced to look after... what could possbly go wrong?!?!?!.
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RTU: #186 - Recorded on 8.21.14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for info on their show tomorrow night, Friday August 22nd at the NJ Botanical Gardens.
BIG UNLOAD: Ton to do tonight, including but not limited to:
The Islanders have been sold! Repeat. The Islanders have been sold!
Matt Havey and the Mets... this is not going to end well. And Terry Collins needs to stop. Everything.
A Pitch Clock? We'll discuss a baseball change that many feel is overdue.
Both men have listened to sports talk radio in NY lately. There's a lot there.
Sanpete uncovered some super 8 footage of him playing football in his backyard circa 1985, age 11, wearing a sweet Wesley Walker jersey. We revisit a conversation from 2 years ago, when is it okay to wear a jersey. Has it changed now that we're 40? Yes.
The RTU Funload: Novelty Tee shirts... a phenomenon sweeping adult men allowing them to not be adult men.
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RTU: #186 - Streaming / Recording on 8.14.14 at 10PM
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for info on their show on August 22nd at the NJ Botanical Gardens.
BIG UNLOAD: Baseball is about to hire a new commissioner, so Cal and I played The Comish and decided how we would change baseball. Bishop Big Doughnut even got in on the action, though his suggestions sound like a George Carlin routine.
THE RTU: FUNLOAD: We spend a good long while talking about and remembering Robin Williams.
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RTU: #185 - recorded on 8.7.14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for info on their show on August 22nd at the NJ Botanical Gardens.
BIG UNLOAD: We talked tons of Mets, some Yankees, and some Jets and Giants. And Nic Cage CALLING!
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RTU: #184 - Recorded on 7.22.14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates!
BIG UNLOAD: We talked Mets, Yankees, and Jets bluster
RTU: FUNLOAD: Yup... They'll be one.
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RTU: #183 - Papa Video - Recorded on 7.11.4
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas! With the Bishop Big Doughnut returning from 3 weeks off, we got to sports kind of, but it took awhile. In the interim though, just some great conversation about Disney, road trips, dropping out of society, pop up video, vacations, roller coaster, Ralph's Italian Ices and other stuffSports wise, we talked some Mets, some World Cup, some basketball.Then we figured out which 3 movies we would like to see on Story Notes on AMC, and recasting Ghostbusters.
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RTU: Podcast #182 - Recorded on 7.3.14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas! THE BIG UNLOAD: We had some some tech difficulties, so Sanpete vamped an open about the World Cup, but once we got going we did a lot of Mets, and Cal got to ask Sandy Alderson 5 questions. Not really but hypothetically.Is there about to be a shift in the ranking for our pantheon of favorite teams?RTU: FUNLOAD: Bishop Big Doughnut remains in Disney, and we are beginning to fear it will be very hard to integrate him back into the land of the unhappy.
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RTU: Podcast #181 - Goodnight, Sarajevo
Episode Partner: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas! THE BIG UNLOAD: The USMNT has advanced to the round of 16 for the second consecutive World Cup and we're going to talk about it dammit, because, as we've been told by many, if we don't we're stupid/missing it/not awake/doing it wrong. OTHER STUFF: Mets... so much here. Everyone was buying in after big win over A's... then, as Cal and Sanpete predicted, we were reminded they are the MetsRTU OFFPUTTING TOPICS OFFROADING WITHOUT BEING A HOT TOPIC:We got way off into baseball movies. It was great.RTU: FUNLOAD: The Funload is OFF! Bishop Big Doughnut is in the Magic Kingdom. The Disney one, though.
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RTU Episode #180 - Streaming / Recording on June 12th, at 10pm ET
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas! You can see them live on Saturday, June 21st at Steeple Coffeehouse in Southborough MA at 7:30 PM! THE BIG UNLOAD: We've avoided the Mets for a few weeks now... we can no longer do so, and Cal has something to say, Jimmy Chitwood style, so better tune in for that.WORLD CUP REPORT: With RTU WOLD CUP CORRESPONDENT, Dr. E Ray Stat!?RTU: FUNLOAD Bishop Big Doughnut is back from sabatical... he wants to be sabated. What
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RTU Episode #179 - Recorded on 6.12.14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas! You can see them live on Saturday, June 21st at Steeple Coffeehouse in Southborough MA at 7:30 PM! THE BIG UNLOAD: The Cup Finals continue another day... Has Sanpete gone crazy yet?Oh, SherrieThe case to fire Terry CollinsThe World Cup... haven't we been here before? We have? Do we care yet? We might?RTU: OFFPUTTING TOPICS OFFROADING WITHOUT BEING A HOT TOPIC: A few of Sanpete's friends had an idea that could change the landscape of professional sports. Not to over sell it.
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RTU: #178 - Recorded on 6.5.14
BIG UNLOAD: The battle for Lord Stanley's Cup features a NY team... so we have to. And we will.
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A lot of conversation about what to call the new segement...we settled on RTU: Off-Roading, Off-Putting and Burying the Lead.
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The Mets make you feel good for about 10 minutes. It does not make up for the other 6 months, 23 hours and 50 minutes of misery.
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We talked a lot about colognes we wore when we were kids...
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NEW SEGMENT ALERT: RTU OFF TOPIC - We're going to try to do this every episode, taking what we really enjoyed from last episode. A conversation about something sports related that's not related to current sports events. Last week we got into legalizing some performance enhancing drugs for sports and the NFL lawsuit regarding drug abuse as condoned by the league. This week we talked about how NY over-celebrates it's players.
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PJ is appalled at your Bat Mitzvah. Okay, he's not appalled, he's actually just enjoying the 7 carving stations.
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RTU: #177 - Recorded on May 22nd, 2014
Episode Partner for #177 -Gun Hill Brewing Company - A new craft brewery located in the Bronx dedicated to bringing high quality, hand crafted beer to the NY metro area. Join them this weekend on 5/24: Memorial Day Weekend Party with BBQ Rig from Jimmy's No. 43. at the brewery, 12pm-7pm.
BIG UNLOAD: We are NOT going to talk about the Mets. Seriously. We ARE going to talk about an array of sports topics that interest us, including but not limited to:
- What are the new great sports debates for each sport? You had the DH, artificial turf, fighting in hockey, etc... what are the new ones?
- Follow up to last weeks NBA tirade... what are the hardest sports to officiate? Where is the officiating the worst? How have advances in technology changed how we watch today's sports and how much further do we want them to go.
- Sanpete heard a great personal sports story from a friend the other day... we heard a great one during the live draft show about Mark Gastineau. What's ours?
And other stuff! (and probably some Mets. Definitely some Islanders)
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RTU: #176 - Recorded on 5.15.14
-Big Unload: Mets and Yankess and the Subway Series. What the hell is wrong with the Mets? How long's your program. Honestly, Cal feels the old ballpark bugaboo is back.
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Yankees... uhm, they're really old and are battling injuries. This is a surprise?
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From now on on RTU, if you want to pretend to be someone asking Sandy Alderson a question, you must do so as Danny Zucko. We also discoverd Sandy VedderSon, GM of the Mets and grunge rock icon.
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Rangers in the ECF... Sanpete makes a King Size apology, sorta.
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NBA Playoffs. We hadn't a tirade in a good long while. Sanpete changed that. He finds the inconsistency in officiating coupled with the preferential star treatment makes close games unwatchable.
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PJ had the greatest ever "ask me about..." from a stranger yesterday. We discussed what we secretly hope some stranger asks us if we're familar with.
NFL DRAFT-A-PALOOZA-THON-A-FEST-A-GANZA Part II! We're doing it again and this time, have some partners...
We're thrilled to be doing a Joint LIVE Podcast with Joe Caporoso (The Alec Baldwin of RTU) and his whole fantastic writing squad at TOJ while we watch the 2014 NFL Draft. Even better, we'll have craft brews from a new local brewery in town, Gun Hill Brewing Co, and be at a new locale, a great new bar on the upper East side called Five Mile Stone. This is a blue-collar, jeans and t-shirt gathering of New York Jets and NFL fans to rant about the draft and talk NY Sports nice...
WHEN: Thursday, May 8th, 7:30pm.
WHERE: Five Mile Stone, New York City. 1640 2nd Avenue (85th and 2nd)
WHO: TurnOnTheJets.com. RTU Sports. Gun Hill Brewing Co
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RTU: #174 - Open Letter to a Landlord
Episode Partner for #174 is: The YaYas – a fun folk-pop duo with great songs! Catch The YaYas and Seth Glier LIVE Saturday, May 17, 8:00pm At First Acoustics in Brooklyn Heights, NY... BIG UNLOAD: A fantastic conversation about the Mets open letter to fans as Cal and Sanpete discussed what it was that bothered them, or didn't about the Mets supposed pledge of allegiance. An interesting discussion of the Donald Sterling situation, where all three guys chimed in with their opinions about the slippery slope the much needed lifetime ban might lead us down.We somehow wound up on Law & Order: Sesame Street. We laughed. A lot.
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RTU: #173 - Recorded on 4.24.14
Episode Partner for #173 is: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas
Check out this video of No Fuss and you can see them this weekend at The Burbs in Montclair NJ Friday April 25th, and Fox Run Concert Series Sudbury, MA? April 26th! BIG UNLOAD: Cal was a little late, so PJ and Sanpete talked about pine tar and being stupid, doctoring a baseball, and Ralph Wilson and a Bills fanbase that is the envy of Sanpete for all his teams. Once Cal joined, he regaled us with tales of his visit to Fenway, and then we got into some great Mets talk with their surprising start, the Yankees and Pineda, and the NFL Schedule and being fair and balanced.We got into your go to food stuff at a ballgame... Bishop Big Donut is a BIG Pretzel guy...
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RTU: #172 - Recorded on 4.17.14
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After a good deal of not so much sports talk, including what our go to song would be if we were strippers, we got to... BIG UNLOAD: We talked Mets and David Wright making a captain-y move on the successful West Coast trip, Yankees and their all hands on deck winning streak. We talked a good deal of baseball including when we would buy into the Mets, and why this Yankee team might be one to root for.The Jets signing of Chris Johnson, the Giants quietly sign Josh Freeman.Rangers get the playoffs off to a good start... we decide when it is we will begin to root against them...The Nets are a NY team, and should not be ignored as they begin a drive for an NBA title.THE RTU: FUNLOAD: Cal brought some Easter magic to the show, as we discussed our 3 must have Easter candies, we got a call from friend of show Bobby Bent in Nashville with a quick take on CJ2K, and PJ went to a "Southern Plantation Wedding" and ohhh, the sweet tea.
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RTU: #171 - Recorded on 4.3.14
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Thrilled to have Patrick Flood, a cool, calm, rational Mets fan/blogger/write back on RTU. This is a dark time. Calls for sanity. We talked about everything Mets you could possibly hope for. A great Mets discussion in a time of not great discource. Thanks to Patrick for hanging out.
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RTU: #170B - Recorded on 3.27.14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas
Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! An RTU FUNLOAD: We talk about the top 5 songs that will kill any party, which leads us to our all time ruiners of TV, movies and Saturday Night Live. Fun Stuff... cause it's the Funload.
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RTU: #170A - Recorded on 3.27.14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas
Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! BIG UNLOAD: The Dayton Flyers will have played their first Sweet 16 game in 30 years. Sanpete will either be a basket case or a basket case. Cal will deflate the Sanpete balloon.You guys, baseball is starting again... I mean. It's like it never went away. We'll preview the Mets AND the Yankees and talk about what we're most looking forward to.The Jets signed Michael Vick, and Sanpete talked cousin Michelle out of halting her support of the Jets. He'll tell us how.
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RTU Episode #169 - Streaming/Recording Live Thursday, March 20th at 10pm
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas
Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! BIG UNLOAD: Sanpete has a come down with the March Madness. But for good reason.The Jets haven't signed everyone that has been available. What gives?The Giants have signed everyone that has been available. Double what gives?We have to talk about the beat reporters and the Jets and the making stuff up. We have to.THIS IS IMPORTANT: The baseball season is still 11 days away... and Cal is at a level of frustration with the Mets usually reserved for the second week of August. He's more than angry, he'd the dreadful, apathetic.Sanpete has a proposal for RTU Funloads going forward, and we dust off a Jay Mafale suggested Funloadlette...
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RTU Episode #168 - Recorded on 3.13.14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas
Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! 25 years of the internet celebrated by a Skype fail for Cal.Our first internet experiences. We're old.NFL Free Agency has landed, and things have gotten crazy. The Giants were active day 1, the Jets day 2, and Darelle Revis joins the Evil Empire. We'll justify the night away...The Mets "competitions" this spring are not going well. Really hard to keep the optimism up.What are we watching.. It's thriling.
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RTU Episode #167 - Recorded on 3.6.14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas
Check out this video of No Fuss and catch them live Monday, March 11th at 7PM at WFUV's John Platt Presents: On Your Radar at Rockwood Music Hall Bishop was back, so we talked Oscars for the first hour or so... great stuff. Really enjoyable.We discussed Rangers trade of Ryan Callahan, and then went all in on Islanders, Garth Snow, Thomas Vanek, and what to do next. It got a little heated, but we think we figured it out.
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RTU Episode #166 - Streaming / Recording on 2/27/14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas
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Sandy Alderson gave us a February gift today, with the story leaking that he has raised expectation levels for the Mets this season. How do Met fans react? By destroyinig him, of course. Plus the Face of MLB contest has Met fans up in arms because their team is asking them to act like... well, fans. We addressed "90 Win-gate", "90 Win-a-geddon" from every angle, and concluded we're pretty okay with Sandy Alderson raising the expectation bar.
The case of Michael Sam, the "n" word and "the locker room". How many ways would NFL players like to have it?
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RTU Episode #165 - Streaming / Recording on 2/20/14 at 10P
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Will be a quick show tonight as Cal talks Sanpete through the loss of John Tavares to an injury he suffeRED IN THE DAMN OLYMPICS AND NOT WHILE PLAYING FOR THE ISLANDERS AND WHY DOES EVERY ELITE PLAYER ON THE TEAMS WE ROOT FOR GET HURT I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE ARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Also maybe some Mets and stuff...
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RTU Episode #164 - Recorded on 2/13/14
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The We have a ton to talk about tonight, and we'll have our old friend, professional Bon Vivant Jay Linder to do it. This includes but is not limited to: Derek Jeter announcing his retirement after 2014, Michael Sam's historic announcement, the Winter Olympics happening, and where BBQ should be eaten. We'll fill Jay in on Neutral Milk Hotel at BAM, and talk a little about season 2 of House of Cards...
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RTU Episode #163 Part II - Recorded on 2.6.14
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The boys said goodbye to a voice of their youth, HOF player and Met broadcaster Ralph Kiner, who passed away at age today at the age of 91. We then talked about the Mets and Cal's audience with Sandy Alderson, a Super Bowl recap with the conclusion of Elwood's three episode arc (spoiler: he mentions Andrew Luck) and we shared our Philip Seymour Hoffman rememberances.
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RTU Episode #163 Part 1 - Streaming/Recording 2/6/14
Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas
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The boys said goodbye to a voice of their youth, HOF player and Met broadcaster Ralph Kiner, who passed away at age today at the age of 91. We then talked about the Mets and Cal's audience with Sandy Alderson, a Super Bowl recap with the conclusion of Elwood's three episode arc (spoiler: he mentions Andrew Luck) and we shared our Philip Seymour Hoffman rememberances.
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This episode really had it all... great sports talk, some busted chops, an old friend calling in to talk about the Super Bowl, and a Funload where we went down sports memory lane to figure out our top 2 moments we would relive in sports.
We covered the Mets, the Islanders-Rangers and Sanpete's little TV deal, plus an in depth breakdown of Billy Ocean's two hit singles... Seriously.
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Episode #161 - Sponsored by:
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Recorded on 1.23.14
Joe Caporoso, the founder & Head writer at www.TurnOnTheJets.com & Managing Editor & writer at www.TheWhistle.com, was again our guest and he again brought the football BS'ing goods... a solid hour 15 talking about all things NFL, and a discussion of Nicholas Dawidoff's fantastic book "Collision Low Crossers". Truly great stuff...
Cal and I then got into the fascinating Yankee off-season, which we wish was a reality show that had Yankee brass living in a house with a confessional, and then had an Islanders getting national pub conversation, and then, the great Top 3 favorite snack cakes discussion. It had to happen.
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Episode #160 - sponsored by:
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Recorded on 1/16/14
We were visited by our old friend in Indiana Elwood who talked Manning and Luck and Pacers and cajun cooks... we talked ARod, Rex Extension, and how no one told the NFL Draft was in May.
We managed to discuss a Cal co-worker's butchering of cliches and sayings, Sanpete threw in several amalgamapressions, and Bishop blew our minds by asking the question: How do you do an impressino of Rich Little?
Bishop PJ then told us about an award show called The Hall of Game, on the cartoon network, which, we're not entirely sure isn't completely made up.
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Episode #159 - Consider the Salad
Recorded on 1/9/14
We got back after it after a month off, and it was an excellent 2 hours of sports and other stuff talk. The sports landscape here in NY, no matter who you root for, is pretty bleak. Cal has basically morphed into Debbie Downer, Sanpete hasn't bought his Mets hat for 2014 (a very, very bad sign).
Add to that the current state of sports discourse here in the city is about as fun as a date with a rabid jackal and you can see we are facing our greatest challenge in four years of doing this show... can we make this sh*t fun again???!!!! Well, we did. We figured out that there's an oversaturation point with the negative narratives surrounding the teams in our town, so we started the ball rolling on tuning it out and just enjoying the damn games, both watching and talking about.
Along the way we talked college sports fan allegiance, Rowdy Roddy Piper book titles, doing celebrity impressions while reading books to your kids to keep it interesting, and why PJ shouldn't be eating "tall BLT's", calls himself buddy when he talks to himself, and begs us to "consider the salad".
We then had a quick discussion about shower habits... for some it's a business trip, for others, a vacation from themselves.
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Episode #158 - sponsored by: Blue Haven
Recorded on Wednesday, December 11th 2013 After a discussion of how sports fans are conditioned to accept programming that emphasizes confrontational crap from its hosts, we got into Yankee and Mets hot stove... Ellsbury, Cano, Granderson, The Wilpons, Alderson, and payrolls. A great conversation about expectations both real and dashed. Closed up with a quick football conversation about the Jets and Giants. Great sports talk nice...
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Episode #157 - sponsored by: Blue Haven
Recorded on 12/4/13
After a ton of chit chat, a lot of it pretty funny, we did the Big Unload, where we each got 2 NY Sports wishes granted... Then we went heavy Mets and Yankees Hot Stove, and finished with a Penalty Time discussion about Rex Ryan and his future with the Jets. An excellent sports and stuff conversation.
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Episode #155 - sponsored by: Blue Haven
Recorded on November 20th 2013
Our old friend and Uber-Giant fan Kmac called in to talk about the Giants season and their huge game against Dallas this weekend. We also came up with a solid slogan for the 2014 Mets...Another old friend of the show, and old friend of ours Dr. E Ray Stat called in to talk Jets, A-Rod, Francesa, Cano and Aracde fire. Then PJ explains Bob Dylan and Sanpete and Cal have the last word on A-Rod...
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Episode #154 - sponsored by: Blue Haven
Recorded on 11.13.13
After Sanpete did about 5 disparate British dialects in 8 minutes (annnnd not on purpose), after PJ revealed his most glorious pajama pants in a slow reveal, after we heard about Cal and PJ's children's problems with hygene, after Sanpete told of his "Mo"vember, which lasts 7 minutes, we got to...
The Big Unload: We are in our 5th season of the show and for the 4th time at this time of the year, the Wilpons did/said something stupid that absolutely had to be talked about. This has become our Thanksgiving Special episode and this one was a classic, with special guest the Food Network's Guy Fieri! (Not really, but could have been!) Some seriously great conversation about Alderson, the Wilpons and the state of the Met fan psyche. And we talked some Yankees too. Robbie Cano don't you know? Don't you???
The Jets and the Giants... We wanted Ed Reed, and 12 hours later we got him, and the Giants will be your 2014 NFC East Champs. Just cause.
The RTU: Funload was a hoot...Smells like Teen Spirit is Nirvana's most popular song, but not your favorite. How com
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Episode #153 - sponsored by: Blue Haven
Recorded on 11.6.13 After discussing Sanpete's forced move to the kitchen to do the show and Italians hanging out in the kitchen, trips to Disney that are anything but vacations, and daylight savings time sucking when you have kids, we got to...
The Big Unload: The Incognito/Martin/Dolphins situation from lots of angles. A really good discussion about both bullying in and out of sports, and what it means for the league. Great stuff.
The MLB Hot Stove and the Mets... Cal is out. Sanpete is the show me state...
The RTU: Funload: Sanpete introduces a game called "Would it surprise you more if..." which takes a turn towards the hilarious... Must listen to find out who Vincent Buono from Ridgewood is.
RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE And HEY! We're on STITCHER now too! Here! Episode #152 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on 10.30.13 After discussing a Styx Groupon and the History of The Eagles documentary that Sanpete couldn't put down, we got to the BIG UNLOAD: We discussed the statistical probability of crazy plays happening in the World Series, but without all that pesky math, and got into a yuge, enawmous convo about officiating in the major sports, with Cal giving out the grades. He was not grading on the CB Bucknor curve. We then brought Scott the Islander Fan in on that, which was fantastic, then proceeded to talk Geno Smith and being sold, the Islanders and their huge trade, and he stuck around for a Funload that included where we stood on the Eagles (again) and why ghosts sound the way they do. All in all, 2 hours of really fun conversation, with double the Van Damage!
 
RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #151 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on 10.23.13 WFAN Jets Reporter and Sports Anchor for WFAN & CBS Radio, Chris Lopresti joined us and gutted out a power outage to cover a lot of bases... the Jets, covering the team, getting his start, a changed Rex Ryan, differences in team this year, Geno Smith's development, and how he sees his job with social media. A really great conversation... A quick discussion of Twitter and the ramifications of making threats to ballplayers there, and then the Funload... Say what you want, but our idea for a restaurant based on the game Perfection is a good one.
RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #150 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded onWednesday, October 16th --Big Unload: Yasiel Puig's theatrics and the reaction to it... Me first vs. showing up an opponent. We talked about everything from unwritten rules to how teams should self police. Really great conversation. -- Jets against Pats, briefly and efficiently. -- A Jay Mafale Contributed FunloadLette: What is the oldest piece of clothing you own, and why do you still own it. It got all sorts of hysterical.
RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #149 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on Wednesday, October 9th Joe Caporoso, Founder and Head Writer at www.TurnOnTheJets.com, and newly minted Editor at The Whistle joined us for an hour plus of fantastic Jets and football conversation. Really a great time... We then did a quick Instant Funload, where we answered the question if you could be part of a sitcom family for one season, which would it be? We also envisioned Christopher Walken as the Dad on Alf. It's magical.
RTU: NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes HERE Episode #148 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on Wednesday, October 2nd -- Sanpete has found SNL on NetFlix. Down the rabbit hole, he has gone, he takes Cal and PJ with him. --Big Unload: Jets and Geno Smith... everyone just relax. Including us. -- "BishFest-i-Con" is coming to a convention center near you... get your PJ costumes out, prepare for Heroes Panel discussion. -- Patrick Flood, checked in to talk about this great post he penned for Narrative.ly (a very cool site worth checking out, too) about his 3 year experience as a Mets blogger. He was funny, self effacing and insightful again. He's good. The RTU: Funload: Top 3 favorite (not best) SNL cast members... Flood's list is excellent called.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - AVAILABLE on iTunes Season 5, Episode #147 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on Wednesday, Sept. 25th -- We're back! Here's why! -- Mets and Yankees... state of and stuff -- Twitter stinks... but maybe it doesn't... -- Little Jets, little Giants -- RTU FUNLOAD: From Jay M. - Big wheels or tricycles?
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - HiatusWatch! Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on July 11th We'll do a quick check in on our hiatus(es) and then clips from 2 shows that show how smart we are. Because we mad insecure, yo. Also because it's pretty cool that we talked about something in December that was a lead Mets story in the WSJ Tuesday. Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes
Episode #146 - sponsored by: Blue Haven Recorded on 6.27.13
We had a Rusty Staub level pinch hitter jump in for Matt Cerrone of Metsblog; Cousin Bobby from Nashville, a lifelong Mets fan, regaled us with stories of Ebbets Field, Shea Stadium, and what it was like to be a displaced fan in the days before the internet. A truly memorable conversation. Then we DID have Joe Caporoso, Founder of TurnonTheJets.com, and host of TOJ Podcast join us, and he, as always, "bringed it", as the kids say. We got in over an hour of excellent Jets talk, from personell decisions to how the growing popularity of his blog has changed his Jet
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode # 145 - Jon Presser/NBA Finals LIVE at BLUE HAVEN IN NYC! Recorded on 6.20.13 We had a fantastic time at Blue Haven with Game 7 of the NBA Finals in the backdrop, and were joined by Jon Presser of The Shea Faithful.com. A great conversation about the Mets "Super Tuesday", #MetsTwitter and why Met fans are a unique bunch. Plus a little LOLPatriots. Always nice. We got a little game 7 stuff from our buddy Jess, who was spot on with his analysis of what turned out to be the game, and were joined by PJ for a bit, where we talked about what TV shows we would watch soup to nuts if we had the time. Jay Mafale, studio owner, engineer and do-gooderer (www.thewind-upshop.com) was behind the glass and amazing again, and Blue Haven itself was completely hopping by the end. (It really is a great place to watch a game). Huge thanks to the staff there, and we'll see you back there in the Fall. Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #144 Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on 6.13.13 Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes After we all did Alan Thicke impressions, Sanpete misplaced a promo, PJ flew out of a tub, and we finally got an "in your face" Big Unload promo, we got to: THE BIG UNLOAD: The Mets, apathy, fans anger, Sanpete's theory about what's happening with bloggers and fans of the Mets and Jets in relation to being happy vs. being right. Point two of our Guide to Surviving the Wilpons, and then we did some Tebow and Patriots, some actual football with Jets mini camp personnel talk. Sanpete cannot wear white shoes. Gets too... Iroc Z- ish. Parsley... not just a pallette cleanser anymore. THE RTU FUNLOAD: Pop Culture PJ had a gem with bit actors in bit parts in big movies that leave an idellible mark.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #143 -Oi! Energizer! Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on 6.6.13 Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes After we talked about how Cal and Sanpete would pick the lovable losing team in the Iditarod, about PJ's new kittens, and about "Jacko" Jackson, Australian rules football star and Energizer spokesman, we got to: THE BIG UNLOAD: - The Wilpons - They're not going anywhere, so Cal and Sanpete will begin putting together "RTU's Guide for Surviving the Wilpons". (coming this summer from Dumpling Sound books!) - The Yankees and the winning. - The Victor Cruz situation. -The Jets need to name a starting QB after seeing them compete for 2 weeks in June in shorts with no contact putting in a new offense with WR's that won't be here to start the season? THE RTU FUNLOAD: Ever try to get your spouse into something you are really excited about or interested in and want desperately to share with them and it just won't take? Doesn't that suck? Isn't it great when it takes? We discussed. Then, a website called ruined-by-fans.herokuapp.com provides us with some talk about how ardent fans ruin certain once enjoyable pop culture items.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #142 - Prix Fixe Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on 5.30.13 Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes After dicussing Olympic Scapegoating, the newest Olympic event, The Blame Game, how do pronounce "Prix Fixe", in both America and France, and "Co-Ed Naked" College Tee Shirts, we got to... THE BIG UNLOAD: The Mets sweep of the Yankees and what it means for both teams, why the Wilpons don't get it on so very many levels, why Mets fans would rather be right than happy, a great discussion about watching a game in 2013 with technology... it's like watching a game with your buddies in a bar... John Tortorella's firing and Cal talking Sanpete right out of him being coach of the Islanders, Jets, Sanchez and OTA's... let's all settle down here, and the emergence of Matt Harvey as one of those "we got one of the best in the game" phenoms, which we didn't see coming... We then had a quick spoiler free Arrested Development Season 4 convo, "I don't like how he died at the end..." and teased next week's Funload, a fun game called "What's Wrong with my Daughter's Friends?"
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #141 -Night of 100 Topics Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on 5.21.13 BIG UNLOAD: It was potpourri night on RTU, and man, did we potpourri... Can and Sanpete fondly recalled Smithtown Baseball Camp and Coach Craig Biggio, Sanpete talked of memories of his parents attending night of 100 stars in 1982, and how Powers Boothe is dead, the great Margot Kidder debate, (her?) and why Cal was a career second basemen. We also managed to have a great Mets conversation, albeit a brief one, about how Sandy Alderson may have jumped the shark for Cal, and Sanpete will not spend any more money on the Mets (until he does again). Then a bunch of other stuff, highlighted by all of us wondering why Michael Imperioli needs to insult us to get us to drink tequila. Jackass. . Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #140 Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on Tuesday, May 14th Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes BIG UNLOAD: Cal has suffered a number of serious blows to his fanhood over the years, but this might be it... tonight, this might actually be it. Between Islanders ousting at the hands of the hated Penguins, to the Mets complete disintegration into a non-competitive, unwatchable mess 4 out of every 5 days, to the Rangers winning their series in 7 games, to Jet fans and writers alike running down the team on a daily basis, he is seriously going to snap. Luckily, Sanpete is there to pick up the pieces. Yes, we realize the "Cal/Sanpete is Mad as Hell" show is becoming a seasonal ritual, basically like a Christmas Episode for us, but just like those sitcoms that did it well (so, not like, Darma and Greg), they're all different, all potential classics. And who doesn't like to hear Cal unhinged, besides his kids? Besides, he thinks he has the answer to the Mets problems (and Sanpete thinks he's right). RTU FUNLOAD: Why don't your kids like what you want them to like? Kids are stupid.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #139 - Let's be honest, quite frankly, there's no doubt about it Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on Friday, May 10th, at 9:30PM ET Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes BIG UNLOAD: A great discussion of the "star treatment" in sports when it comes to officiating... the so called "Jordan Rules" that seem to apply in these sports in the playoffs. Is it fair? Should there exist two sets of rules? How can sport be so arbitrary? Does it cheapen the fan's experience? We'll talk it out... Islanders, Rangers, Knicks, Mets, Yankees, Jets... in some way shape or form. We can hit on all of them, and will. Beat reporters still think they are the only ones who have access to a team. A tweet about Matt Harvey takes us back to a show from last year...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #138 - Helen Hunt's Fastball Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on 5/2/13 Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes BIG UNLOAD: We were joined by Scott the Islander fan to talk about the series with the Pens, and about the purity of watching a team when you are young. Then we were joined by our old friend Artie from Yahpank, a huge Knick fan, and he took us through a basic guide to panicking about blowing the series. Then we talked about Van Halen playing Twister, Helen Hunt's career, which leaves us cold, and The Outfield's blind keyboard player, and it's all rather cohesive, actually. THE RTU FUNLOAD: Jason Collins became the first active athlete in the four major sports to come out... we talked about what that means, should mean and can mean to us through both sports and cultural prisms.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete RTU: LIVE at BLUE HAVEN IN NYC! NFL Draft-A-Palooza-THON-Fest-Gate! Wow... it was a fantastic time at Blue Haven. Jay Mafale did another magnificent job with the sound, Jay Linder played the part of Pop Culture PJ, and a ton of friends came down to watch the draft with us. Huge thanks to Joe Caporoso from TurnOnTheJets.com, for checking in after the Jets made their first pick, and to Dr. E Ray Stat for the call. We cannot thank Brie, D and everyone at Blue Haven enough for their continued hospitality and for supporting the show. Special thanks to Rory for having a good sense of humor about the fan in the back room... Also thoroughly enjoyed my off the mic draft convo with the Jets and Giants fans at the table near the bar. Great stuff, it's what the show is about. Passionate, respectful sports talk. Hope we see you guys again, enjoy the tee shirts... Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #136 Join us for the next RTU: Live from Blue Haven on Thursday, April 25th at 8pm for RTU: NFL Draft-A-Thon -Ganza- Palooza-Gate. Going to have some great guests and tee shirts to give away, so if in the NYC area, come down! This episode of RTU is sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes Blog talk radio was down. We tried to download some software to record our skype convo. We did. We talked for an hour and half about everything you could possibly want to talk about for NY sports this week. It didn't record. Blerg. We got it to work at about 12:15am, and proceeded to have this little conversation about sports as a distraction from real world events. It was nice actually. So check it out. Thanks...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #135 Part II Recorded on 4.12.13 Join us for the next RTU: Live from Blue Haven on Thursday, April 25th at 7:30pm for RTU: NFL Draft-A-Ganza-Palooza-Fest-A-Thon-Gate. Going to have some great guests & tee shirts to give away, so if in the NYC area, come down! This episode of RTU is sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes In Part II of Episode #135, we talked about Carlos Quentin charging the mound on Zach Greinke, WIllie Randolph's performance in Subway commercials, a famous Dunkin Donuts Munchkins commercial starring Mason Reese, perfectly described by PJ as "Bruce Villanch's little brother", Sanpete and Tim Horton's Timbits, and Cal's Baseball Timbits, Glee, and PJ plays the "What can you do..." game, where we figure out how useless or useful we are around the house.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #135 Part I Recorded on 4.12.13 Join us for the next RTU: Live from Blue Haven on Thursday, April 25th at 7:30pm for RTU: NFL Draft-A-Ganza-Palooza-Fest-A-Thon-Gate. Going to have some great guests & tee shirts to give away, so if in the NYC area, come down! This episode of RTU is sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes We talked about lots of stuff, but mostly Cal's new reality show, "Dance Pops" and Cousin Michelle called to talk Mad Men. Then we got to... THE BIG UNLOAD: ISLANDERS. RANGERS. Saturday night. The Old Barn. The Old Rivalry. Renewed. Cal and I have been waiting to do an Islander show that's about hockey itself and not the team moving for 3 years. It's now. And unlike some other folks talking it, we didn't start watching the Islanders again 2 weeks ago.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #134 - Suspenders for PJ Recorded on 4/4/13 Join us for the next RTU: Live from Blue Haven on Thursday, April 25th at 8pm for RTU: NFL Draft-A-Ganza-Palooza-Gate. Going to have some great guests and tee shirts to give away, so if in the NYC area, come down! This episode of RTU is sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes After we discussed our feelings on mimes, Sanpete's bizarre childhood perception of what France is like, Mother's and daughter-in-laws, PJ's distaste for acapella groups, Sarah Chalke, and PJ's decision to finally become a full time suspender wearer, we got to... THE BIG UNLOAD: The "Almost Famous / Penny Lane" Big Unload, as once again in NY sports... it's all happening! We went Islanders and hockey, Knicks and how far can they get, Yankees and injuries and expectations and of course, Mets and disgruntled fans. We also went into the Mike Rice situation at Rutgers where PJ had a unique take on commonalities in the coaches people have had, how professional athletes are dehumanized and in the RTU FUNLOAD: we talked a little WTF, a little Mad Men and little about our dislike of both pirates and pirating.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #133 - Patrick Flood Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on 3.28.13 Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes After we discussed SportsPhone, Sanpete dropping 16 spots in the AP Father of the Year Polls, and Cal somehow putting Joel Grey on Silver Spoons, we were joined by Mets blogger for Amazin' Avenue Patrick Flood, for his 3rd (or 4th) time as an RTU guest. What followed was a fantastic 2 hours of lively 2013 Mets talk, a lament of the loss of any enjoyment in rooting for a team, Patrick's Mets Fan origin story, and how he came to be watching Camel Racing at a Chili's in the United Arab Emirates. And then Patrick stuck around for PJ's basement sewer flood story, the RTU: Funload, which asked the question: What Fantasy Rock Band Camp would you attend, and adiscussion of Rolling Stone's recent top 10 debut albums of all time. All in all, a really fun, enjoyable 2+ hours of sports and other stuff talk. Next RTU: LIVE from Blue Haven is Thursday, April 25th. NFL Draft-A-Ganza
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #132 Recorded live at Blue Haven NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups on Wednesay, March 20th 2013. A splendid time was guaranteed, and had by all... There will be a 30 for 30 someday on Cal's gutty call in performance nursing a (lack of a) gall bladder and our old friend Jay Linder sat in the seat on location and added a ton (that's not a fat joke!) to the show. Jay Mafale again did the sound, and played the part of pop culture PJ, who called in sick with a bad case of his wife's birthday. Great drop ins by brother Scott, Jess, and Dean from great fantasy baseball stories and what "checking the waiver wire" really means, how March Madness has jumped the shark for men of a certain age, and how bread needs to be levened to be bread. Huge thanks again to everyone at Blue Haven, especially Danielle, our server... We'll see you guys Thursday, April 25th! Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes
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NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #131 - Stacey Gotsulias
Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups
Recorded on 3.7.13
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Stacey Gotsulias one of the Co-Editor's in Chief of the SNY Blog Network Yankee Blog It's about the Money, Stupid. joined us to talk Yankees, and that we did... everything from the current team to her first memories of going to Yankee games, the difference in old guard and new money Yankee fans, defending A-Rod, and how she sees the AL East stacking up this year. It was an hour and half of great Glastnost baseball conversation.
THE RTU FUNLOAD: The boys start out talking about lost favorite sitcoms, but it quickly becomes a VH1 countdown of their top 3 favorite breads. Must listen podcast.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #130 - Jon Presser Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on 2.26.13 Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes Jon Presser from The Shea Faithful.com and RantSports.com Jets page joined us for over an hour of funny, engaging, rational Mets talk. Then we tackled Arrested Development, and it turns out Jon is a complete Ann hog. THE RTU FUNLOAD: Bishop PJ will bring the noise and the pain about the Oscars, and tell us why he needs to watch more movies and less TV. Also, sports and pop culture and stuff.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #129 - Risky: RISQUÉ Episode sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on 2.21.13 Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes After we discussed Cal as a dance mom, Sanpete's Deli Counter Person/Met Fan experience and Met Cheese, why we are not allowed to grocery shop anymore, Mr. Cole Cutts of the Land-o-Lakes Boarsheads, Cal's Giant/ Ranger fan bus driver, Confessional Black Belt Weekend, we're old, and know not what the Harlem Shake is, Power Point Confession, and Topps Litigator Trading Cards, we got to: THE BIG UNLOAD: Darrelle Revis... Trade or no? Robbie Cano... sign or no? Mets... worst outfield in the history of outfields or no? And why it's not at all surprising the head of the MLBPA wants the Mets to have a higher payroll. Todd McShay find talking about the draft absolutely exasperating. Walking on Sunshine gets the lifetime achievement Oscar for Best Pop Music for a Montage . Our 80's Pop SuperGroup, Risky: RISQUÉ! THE RTU FUNLOAD: Among other things, PJ and a staunch defense of Styx and Killroy was Here as an album, and the vinyl store that only sells the White Album (A full 24 hours before Klosterman tweeted about it.) and BEATLES! Head to Head! With Scott Muni.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #128 Sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Recorded on 2.14.13 Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes After discussing our Valentine's day traditions, how sporting a Hitler style mustache is the marketing bar for how likable a celebrity is, asking wny Sanpete still acknowledges the day he got engaged, coming up with a new line of greeting cards where you get HALLMARKED! Greeting cards to the extreme!, and discussing our parent's phone etiquette including their propensity to relay the conversation to the other one ("Did you make gravy? You did? He made gravy, Paul...") we got to: THE BIG UNLOAD: The Mets and the Wilpons and the general hysteria Fred created when he said the team would have money to spend. The plan is in place, and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are apparently alone in that regard. Mike Piazza's book has some PED revelations, so we continue the PED conversation, as Bill Simmons asked us to. Mo Rivera knows if he's retiring... but he's not telling. THE RTU FUNLOAD: The Love Boat all time guest star list, and PJ introduces a new game, "2 questions!" where you get only 2 questions to ask a big celebrity... it's fun yo.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #127 - Rich Coutinho Sponsored by: Blue Haven - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups Reocrded on Thursday, Feb. 7th Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes An incredible show. We were joined by Rich Coutinho a beat reporter for the Mets for WFAN.com. Rich spoke to us for about an hour and half, covering topics ranging from rebuilding the Mets, Sandy Alderson's work so far and what he is going for, similarities between this team and the 1983-84 rebuild, the players belief in what Alderson is doing, how Rex Ryan can get the town and the Jets back, how reporters can and should treat anonymous sources, what covering a team means now with social media and the race to be first, what statement the baseball writers made with their HOF vote, what happened with Clemens and Piazza when the bat flew, lots of personal anecdotal stuff about covering teams, to how to achieve personal goals and life balance stuff. It was fantastic. We then talked about our super bowl watching experiences, and answered some of these questions: What's the best jar pasta sauce? PJ has worked on a NEVE board like the one in Sound City? Mel Brooks blessed Sanpete and his wife on their second date? What? Yup. We get to it all.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #126 Sponsored by: Blue Haven Sports Bar in NYC Recorded on 1/31/13 Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes After some tech problems, then discussing bad improv troupe names and Bishop PJ's extraordinary improv skills, beta-max top loaders, and a terrible explanation of the long form improv The Harold, we got to... THE BIG UNLOAD: A conversation about violence in the NFL, and what can be done to change the way the game is played. Suggestions on changes that may be coming, how do PED's enter the equation, and will we let our kids play the game. Really engaging conversation between all three of us. Frank Stallone as the worst improv actor of this, or any other, generation. Ray Lewis, Brendon Ayabendejo and Chris Culliver at the Super Bowl. Much to say about what was said. The Mets held a Q&A for season ticket holders and Cal was there. He has a full report. A little on the latest PED scandal in baseball, and how over the PED discussion in baseball we are. The FUNLOAD: Jason London's agent has a plan to make him relevant again. It's not a great plan. And Blinded by the Light, both Manfred Mann and Springsteen. How did that happen?
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast - Episode #125 Recorded live Blue Haven on Thursday, Jan 24th 7:30pm Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes. Tremendous show again from Blue Haven. We talked all sorts of stuff, including but not limited to: Jets Gm, Yankees off-season so far, 10 Plagues Finger Puppets for your Seda, Jerseys you wore as a kid, making your own tee shirt jersey, what jerseys to buy your kid, how the West Coast Offense fits the Jets, Matni Te'o and the incredible, ridiculous story, Sanpete's twitter intervention, Hockey and the Islanders, Why Comedy Club names are hilairous independent of comedy, a great round table about actor's that ruin a movie for you, Why PJ is an abusive band mate, why PJ is a fantastic band mate, how Jay got his groove back, Cal feels better just not about Mets, and lots of other stuff... Huge thanks to Meghan and Bree at Blue Haven for taking fantastic care of us and letting us hang in the back room, to Jay Mafale of The YaYas for again doing a magnificent job with the sound and the 4th man in commentary and to Michelle (and friends), Matt, Keith, JC, Louise + John (and friends) for coming out to the show to hang out. Also, to Bobby Ben for the Islander and Jets yearbooks.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast Episode #124 Part 2 - Elwood Blues Sponsored by Blue Haven NYC Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes Part 2 of the podcast from 1/10/13 where this happened: Cal exlains why he's watching the Knicks. Sanpete remains skeptical. Hockey's back, and Sanpete explains why he's so excited and how John Tavares is his great sports hope. The Jets press conference and GM search. Sanpete is diplomatic, dislikes direction of team, but both urge everyone to just relax about GM's. The FUNLOAD: PJ brings "20 years ago" information that makes us feel old, and we break down the Oscar noms about as well as 3 guys with kids and no opportunity to see these movies can: By talking out directly out of our arses. Plus, Daniel Day Lewis accepts his award as Daniel Plainview.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast Episode #124 Part 1 - A Syllabus for Sting Sponsored by Blue Haven NYC Subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes BIG UNLOAD - There were lots of reasons we started this show over 3 years ago and why we named it what we did...talking about what transpired in this year's baseball Hall of Fame voting is a reason for both. We went real deep on this... Cal's first ever concert was Sting... we discuss the damage that caused. Week 2 of the NFL Playoffs. Does the chalk stay intact? RGIII's injury, and who's to blame. We wrapped part one with our predictions for the weekend, and Sophie's choice. Check out Part 2 of Episode 124 this weekend...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #123 - GUEST: Scott Salmon of GangGreenNation.com Sponsored by: BLUE HAVENBIG UNLOAD: After a quick discussion of a great Bill Cosby bit about getting hit in the you know what's in a football game, we welcomed in Scott Salmon Managing Editor of GangGreenNation.com for the first time on RTU and had a fantastic Jets conversation about the media and the team, based on his gem of a post concering the Jet beat writers. The conversation covered all sorts of terrain about how the Jets were covered this year, and finished up with a quick look into who the next GM might be. After a call from our buddy Elwood from Indy about the Colts and Andrew Luck, we took a brief spin around week 1 of the NFL Playoffs before landing head first on the baseball Hall fo Fame debate. We let that take us home. All in all a great 2+ of sports and stuff talk, starting season 4 out nice. If you get a chance please subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes. It's BCS bound...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.47 - Pompous Rock, Vol. VI Sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN After we talked about ELP's "Father Christmas" being extremely British, Cal's inability to tell between ELP, ELO, GTR, REM, and REO Speedwagon, listening to Pompous Rock, Vol. VI! and Cal explains "PlacateMas" we got to the... BIG UNLOAD: The RA Dickey Trade... in full and not sparing the horses. Why projecting wins for a team on Dec. 22nd is stupid and somehow Butch Huskey comes up for the first time in 3 years of doing the show. The Jets and Mark Sanchez. Sanpete's perhaps final impassioned plea to leave him alone. The Giants will win, says Cal... not so fast says Sanpete. RTU: FUNLOAD: We talk about our favorite casting jobs of all time... it's easy and fun, and didn't cost a penny. Please subscribe to the RTU: Podcast on iTunes. It's a gift... it's in my mother's name!
What was supposed to be a nostalgic discussion of our favorite Christmas TV shows goes wildly off, yet stays close to topic. Silly.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.46 RTU's Night of 100 Starts Holiday Special Sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN A THE BIG UNLOAD: The Mets and RA Dickey are having a very public negotiation. It's getting awkward quickly, and Met fans are cynical-ed to the hilt. We'll check in on that. The Giants off a big win over the Saints, have another test coming this week, as they head to Atlanta to take on the Falcons. The Jets are somehow still alive, and we'll find out if they dipped into the recent past looking for 2009 magic. The Pacquiao fight... yes, we're going there. And the RTU: FUNLOAD: PJ brings us old Christmas Specials vs. new ones, and wants to discuss tragedy in professional sports... to keep it light. Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST on iTunes. The Podcast that asks the question: Are there no workhouses?
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.45 LIVE FROM BLUE HAVEN A great live show from Blue Haven in NYC got started with Joe Caporso, from the fanastic Jets website www.TURNontheJETS.com where we talked Jets QB, Sanchez, Tannenbaum, and where the Jets go from here, plus his new website www.turnontheknicks.com, then we just had a great conversation with our friends at the bar, Jess, Nello, Josh and even Blue Haven's own Diarmud, as we talked Giants, Heisman, RGIII or Luck, and Yankees and Mets at the Winter meetings. Then some serious talk about Holiday drinks, and why Dan prefers, very cleanily, the Creme on Cream. Huge thanks to Jay Mafale from the YaYas for the tech and the banter, and to Blue Haven for copious hospitality. Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST on iTunes. You can feel it in your plums...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.44 - 11/27/12 Join us next week for a LIVE REMOTE from BLUE HAVEN NYC at 8:00PM Episode sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN- NYC Sports Bar After we discussed Fred Armisen, PJ's diet regimen, and shots of Apple Cider Vinegar with The Mother in it, we talked... BIG UNLOAD: Fireman Ed retired...big deal, right? Well, not really, but it did lead to a great discussion of the modern fan's sense of entitlement, how the current climate with NY teams is toxic, and how Jet fans embrace the disgrace. Lots of Giants- Redskins, and how we see the rest of the NFL season going. The Thanksgiving Parade Float Mad Libs game: insert (Random Quasi Celebrity) and (Flavor of the Month Singer) singing (First song that pops in your head, any genre) brought to you by (Completely unrelated product or company) The Curious Case of David Wright's contract negotiations playing out over Twitter. And neither of us cares very much for Ken Rosenthal. THE RTU FUNLOAD: Bishop PJ much like Liam Neeson, has a very particular set of skills; skills he has acquired over a very long career. Skills that make him an invaluable resource for... holiday shopping. He explains. Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST on iTunes. Like Drago's training, it makes a man... a better man.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.43 PART 2 11/21/12 Episode sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN- NYC Sports Bar PART TWO: While talking about the Giants and Packers game, we became sidetracked and led in all sorts of fun directions by Green Bay WR Randall Cobb, and his Hollywood twin Randall "Tex" Cobb... This led to us discussiong, not necessarily in this order: Dan Fogelberg's Leader of the Band Christopher Cross' Ride like the Wind with Michael McDonald, and Cal's killer impression of the aforementioned Doobie Brother. Movies we saw on Thanksgiving Eve, including several we were way too young to see. Sanpete's realization that "Bird" from Wildcats is Mykelti Williamson, and misprounouncing his name. A discovery that just flopping around on IMDB is sorta fun to do with friends. FOODS OF THANKSGIVING... PJ's list of things he has had over the years, some of which are just ridiculous. It was a heck of a lot of fun... hope you enjoy... Next LIVE REMOTE from BLUE HAVEN is Tuesday, Dec 4th... Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST on iTunes
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.43 PART 1 - 11/21/12 Episode sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN- NYC Sports Bar After tripping the light fantastic with memories of going out on what I am now told is "Black Wednesday", making fun of what we wore, thought, drank, sang and cared about on nights before Thanksgiving in our careless 20's, and talking a little about food particulary Alici, or hairy fish, we got to: THE BIG UNLOAD: Mainly about RA Dickey winning the CY Young, his season in historical Mets context, Sanpete's crush on Jon Hamm, (we don't even call it a man crush anymore) what Dickey might fetch in a trade... Then, the great Trout v. Cabrera MVP discussion, also known as the "Jocks vs. The Geeks", and why Mike Trout was perhaps created in Bill James Laboratory, as he was the Perfect Storm for traditional and advanced stats argument. A good talk about Diners and the golden rule of ordering in one... Then we got to the Jets, and, lo and behold, we were able to talk about football and not the circus... mostly. Next LIVE REMOTE from BLUE HAVEN is Tuesday, Dec 4th... Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST on iTunes
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.42 sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN- NYC Sports Bar After comparing notes on the storm(s), lamenting the fact they left us all a little fatter, and agreeing that cancelling the NYC Marathon was the right move, after 3 weeks off we were very excited to get to the sports, so we did. THE BIG UNLOAD: With a ton to cover, we basically just went in this order, and talked until we felt full up... 1. Islanders move to Brooklyn. Nassau gets what it deserves, we get to keep a hockey team. 2 The Jets. A lot. Highlights included a role play with Sanpete talking to Mike Tannenbaum in Tannenbaum speak and questioning why the Jets have different offensive personnel on every snap. Also, Sanpete snaps. 3. The Giants. Second half problems but... they're still champs. 4. The Mets. Wright and Dickey resigned? Traded? We took each other's puls on the team and the chances both are Mets by January. 5. We had a damned fun FUNLOAD that somehow involved the movie Ice Pirates and the TV show Hunter and his catch phrase which PJ somehow knew...Next LIVE REMOTE from BLUE HAVEN is Tuesday, Dec 4th... Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST on iTunes
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.41 Rich Hutchman Episode sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN- NYC Sports Bar After a discussion of Sanpete's borderline OCD, 80's pin ups, old school phone etiquette, and how we all basically had the same grandmother, we got to...THE BIG UNLOAD: The Yankees going forward. Interesting to see what this team does in offseason, as we see it as a team at a crossroads. Talked a lot about the notion you should trade David Wright to rebuild, but not Robinson Cano. Then we spoke to an old friend, Rich Hutchman, actor and huge Detroit Tigers fan about the Tigers run to the series, his being cast as a deviant on NYPD Blue and working wth Mickey Rooney. A ton of fun to talk to Rich, as Sanpete name dropped his way down memory lane. We talked Jets and Giants, both last weeks games and upcoming games, and our upcoming visit to Met Life for our yearly Jets game. The RTU: Funload: Pop Culture PJ had a gem for us: Judging what is actually most popular in the world, from vegetable to song. Goodbye, England's rose indeed. Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST ON iTunes!You can almost buy your own ship with it!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete RTU: FUNLOAD - #3.40F from 10/16/12 Check it out... our first detached version of the Funload. This way you can listen to the Sports stuff, and then on the weekend, just grab the funload nice, for that 30 minute Eliptical session, or commute to the In-Laws house... In this Funload, we got into a discussion of sketch comedy groups... it was pretty, well, fun... Check out our sponsor for this (and every episode): BLUE HAVEN- NYC Sports Bar
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.40 - Krusty Francesa - Sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN- NYC Sports Bar After discussing PJ's spot on observation that Mike Francesa is basically Krusty the Klown, some Scott Muni impressions, and a critical look at Lithuianian's dominance of World Strongest people competitions, we got to... THE BIG UNLOAD: The Yankees. A lot. From Girarid's gut, to A-Rod: Digit Hunter, to Jeter's injury, to the task impossible at hand, we discussed tons of ALCS Yankee stuff. It was fun. Our buddy Elwood the Indy Mets fan called to talk... Mets? SOMEBody didn't want to get into the thrashing the Jets handed his Colts on Sunday but he was good sport for coming on... Talked Jets and Sanpete's theory that Holmes being out may save Sanchez's Jets career (Hmmm, where did I see that today... perhaps in the NY Post?) and Cal is very thrilled at the return of blustery Rex. And the Giants are the best team in football. Period. We are duly impressed. The RTU: Funload: We came up with our pantheon of sketch comedy shows. Look for this to be released Friday for download as a stand alone podcast for consumption... Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST ON iTunes!We'll tell you about the twinkie...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Radio Show/ Podcast Episode #3.38 - JetAGeddon Sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN- NYC Sports Bar On our first night back on our new (old) night, after talking about books and AP English and how PJ wrote an entire Thesis paper on the history of the dash - we went to... ...THE BIG UNLOAD: An hour or so of cathartic Jet talk, that was not so much about the mess on the field, but more about how unenjoyable this team, this regime, and these games are to watch, becuase of what the Jets have become. Not sure if we came up with any fixes, but we certainly tried to figure out why watching this team is no longer an enjoyable activity, and how it's from owner to the FO to the coach to the players. It was a great conversation. -- As the games were going on we talked baseball and Yankees, and how we are hoping for the most possible drama we can get today for season's finale.And we finally got to the... ...The RTU: Funload: All about cover songs... Cal gives a great take on why covers have lost their juice, talk about the best covers we have seen live, and we discovered PJ hates Jeff Buckley, which of course, ended an 19 year friendship. Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST ON iTunes!You can cut a tin can with it. Seriously. Try it.
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Radio Show/ Podcast Episode #3.37 9/27/12 Sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN NYC After we tried to make sense of the awful practice of calling someone "son", Sanpete explained how his Jets Jersey/ShirSey jinx works, and PJ explained never getting a sitter for his children... ...THE BIG UNLOAD: Cal went to Citi Field for the final home game this season to see RA Dickey pursue his 20th win and he got that, but like Marti DiBergi, he got a whole lot more... -- Got a call from a Mets fan in Indianapolis. Seriously. He was great, and even gave us the skinny on Andrew Luck, who he has, unsurprisingly, bought in on completely. -- Figured out the Yankees/MLB baseball stuff, so everyone can relax. We got it. -- Promo'd our big move to Tuesday night for the Fall season in the style of an NBC sitcome, circa 1990. -- Talked x's & o's with no Revis, & no such thing as bad win in the NFL. -- Giants vs. Eagles (we made a mistake; Vick only has 6 INT's; just feels like 12) -- Bumped the RTU: Funload to next week... again. Apologies to Lindsey Buckingham. Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST ON iTunes!Now with more cast!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Radio Show/ Podcast Episode #3.36 - 9/20/12 Sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN NYC - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups After Cal finally, after 150 episodes or so, asked how Sanpete how his week was, and Bishop PJ treated us to "Confessions of Keurig Junkie", we got to... THE BIG UNLOAD: ... Burnt out by our local sports media, our teams, their coverage, & local sports scene in general, we decided to have an old fashioned sports discussion about the "Best Ever". It took lots of interesting places, including: Who WAS Rube Waddell? A stat nerd session about Walter Johnson, Sanpete's obession with WIlt Chamberlain, the Babe Ruth discussion, what would medical science mean for all time greats, Jari Kurri was very good, Cal's obession with Warren Moon, Tommy Lee Jones impressions, who are current players that are in the "best ever" discussion, and Sanpete's wish for Adam Vinatieri's first name to have been Anthony. We then talked a bit about the best sports related gifts we've gotten, & how you can probably get Yogi Berra to meet you at a Dennys. Please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST ON iTunes! It needs to be loved...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Radio Show/ Podcast - Episode #3.35 Sponsored by: BLUE HAVEN NYC - NYC's Sports Bar for Grownups --THE BIG UNLOAD: We talked The Newsroom and decided we would use the TV plot device of Sanpete visiting a pyschiatrist to talk about all that is troubling him in the sports world, while he and Cal bantered in witty Sorkin Speak. It was fun....and then we got into a good discussion about how the Yankee fan's approach to a collapse is so much healthier than our own... -- The Swami jumped in so we could grab a much needed break to make his week 2 picks, and insult us a little bit. -- Then back to the couch to talk of Sanpete's long awaited tipping point with the Mets. What followed was a frank and passionate discussion about why it's so frustrating and sad, what the owners of this team have let them become. -- We talked Jets and Giants in a good way... it was lovely. -- Sundays on CBS this Fall: THE GENERALIST - He knows things.... nothing specific... but... things! --The RTU: Funload was a hodge podge including betting on your own team, and why we cannot listen to Classic Rock anymore. Also, please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST ON iTunes! A podcast that switched the samples so we could give you... Provasic!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Radio Show/ Podcast Episode #3.34 - Sponsored by BLUE HAVEN NYC --BIG UNLOAD: After we discussed the "what do you look like your name should be" game, (Ready to Unload: w/ Michael & Sparky & their producer, Bishop Chuck!) we talked about the Yankees "situation" and offered some advice from two guys who know from collapse. -- We then welcomed Joe Caporoso from www.turnontheJets.com and talked all things Jets as they get set for the opener against the Bills, including what the offense may look like, clown car perception of the team as pushed forth by the media, and why sausage & peppers nice is a good first week tailgate. -- "THe SWAMI: Insult Prognosticator" was in mid-season form both for ripping on the us and making picks. He waxes poetic, until he talks about Kielbasa. -- PJ's RTU FUNLOAD: With PJ's daughter starting her first day of middle school, we looked back on first day of school memories, why picture day was a huge deal, & then played a round of the new game show sweeping the nation, "Cheese, IKEA Piece, or International Athlete!" Cal inexplicably excels. Also, please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST ON iTunes! A podcast that names the system...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY SPORTS TALK PODCAST Episode #3.33 - Mark Phinney Sponsored by BLUE HAVEN NYC We welcome an old friend, writer/director/actor/ Mark Phinney. Mark is a huge Red Sox fan, fantastic sketch comedy guy, and is currently finishing up his first writer/director full length feature,FAT. We talk Sawx salary purge, Bobby V's future with the team, a little Cheese, a little music, and all about his movie. Also, in a stunning development, Bishop PJ reveals his underage companion (four minutes after it would have been a good punchline). And we ask, what's more interesting, the Giants, or our best friend CHEESE. You can guess who wins. Also, please subscribe to the RTU: PODCAST ON iTunes! A podcast so great, it's long!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.32 - Thursday, August 23rd Here's a bit about what we talked about: After Sanpete copped to overusing what was once a funny line, and PJ and Sanpete squeezed out Cal with all their PIX'ing, they got to the...
BIG UNLOAD: and it was a doozy. Mike Francesa decided to drop the equivalent of a radio rant anvil on the Mets after their latest calamitous performance, and the guys just had to comment on it. For an hour. Because, it's one thing for us to bash our team, it's quite another for a Met hater like Mike to do it.
We managed to sneak in some actually baseball analysis in there, including Sanpete's "Backman/Davey Johnson Theory", coming in pamphlet form to a Barnes & Noble near you.
In depth analysis of both Coach Finstock from Teen Wolf, and the made for TV Brady Bunch Movies.
The Yankees... seriously. The Yankees. How will they deal with a September without their greatest weapon for the first time in 15 years?
The Giants want you to know: They don't haze. They're pranksters. It's all in good fun. And it's as always, classy. The Jets finallly ended Wayne Hunter watch, and our old friend Rick called to talk Jets offense.
PJ closed the show with the No Fun Funload, where we talked about the racket that is dentistry. Check out the RTU: PODCAST ON iTunes! It's like the Filet o' Fish, the choice for all Dragonmasters...
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.31 - Brian Bassett - theJETSBlog.com Here's a bit of what we talked about: THE BIG UNLOAD: After our week off, we caught up on what we all did on Summer vacation. Sanpete had his "bachelor week at CitiField", Cal is an Uncle again, PJ looked into how to extend the day to 30 hours. We then somehow got into our "go-to" Chinese food order and PJ began to tell his day of orthodenture when... -- We welcomed in Brian Bassett from theJETSBlog.com part of the SNY.tv Blog Network and engaged in some fantastic, down home, no crap stirred Jets talk, from Sanchez and Tebow to the defense to the depth to Rex, to how the team is covered, and lots of stuff in between... It was thoroughly enjoyable conversation between a few Jets fans. -- RTU: FUNLOAD: ... at which point we resumed our Chinese food discussion, drifted to sushi, and found out why you never throw a fake brick at Sanpete's brother's TV.
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Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.30 8/2/12 Here's a bit of what we talked about: THE BIG UNLOAD: The Olympics are underway, well underway some would even say, so we're moving the Funload to the Big Unload. Fear not, we will not be going into the minutae of dressage, but we will talk about our favorite events fave moments so far, and what the Games should mean to the country. -- The trade deadline in MLB has passed, and the Yankees got better, the Mets did nothing and the Marlins and Phillies fire-sales Tobias Funke style. We'll see what's what with baseball. -- The 2012 NY Jets training camp tee shirts, "WE CAN'T RESIST!". are in... we'll explain what that means.
-- The RTU:FUNLOAD: Pop Culture PJ claims he doesn't have a funload. We think, much like Campbell Scott in Singles he DOES have a Funload, and not having a Funload IS HIS Funload...
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Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.29 - The Bloom is off our Roses Here's a bit of what we talked about: After reminiscing about our recent 20 year reunion and doing David Brenner impressions (the two are related, somehow), we finally got to... THE BIG UNLOAD: So the Mets have imploded... it's a wreck. While overusing the cliché "the boom is off the rose", the guys talked about what has gone wrong with the Mets for the last two and half weeks, who is accountable, who had a motive and who should be here next year. Sanpete compares Don Mattingly and David Wrights careers, and wonders if there were calls to trade Don Mattingly to a winning team because "he deserved it". We also gave the Yankees a little bit of yapping as they traded for Ichiro. -- NFL Training Camps open today... and Jets are already Camp Chaos. We talked about how, to the media, it doesn't quite matter what the Jets actually say anymore. And we talked a little about, ya know, football... on a field... of grass.
-- The RTU:FUNLOAD: PJ led the guys through a "Sport, not a Sport" SOLID session, and then got an Olympic-Sized, Lyndsey Buckingham Style bump.
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Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.28-Ted Berg from SNY.tv Here's a bit of what we talked about:
THE BIG UNLOAD: Linsanity has left, ya'll... lots of speculation as to who is to blame. Did he overplay his hand? Also, NBA players complaining about another player being overpaid is awfully short sighted.
--SNY.tv, Mostly Mets Podcast and tedquarter.net Ted Berg stopped by again to talk about the Mets and things...
-- Santonio Holmes asked the NY writers to not focus on the negative so much with the Jets. Yeah... that should go over well.
The RTU: FUNLOAD Mark II A rebirth... Bishop Pop Culture PJ takes over the segment... Overrated, Underrated or SOLID, a new game show, and our favorite childhood videogames.
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Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.27 Mamma Mia, That Dristan Knocked Me Out! After Cal missed a week, Sanpete channeled his inner 70's sensitive singer-songwriter and PJ cancelled appointments to finish listening to the entire Husker Du library, we got to: BIG UNLOAD: Penn State, Joe Paterno and why he didn't act like the man we all thought he was when he had the chance to. -- Kiddie Catskills jokes... the stuff that slays at Recess...
-- Dr. E Ray Stat came back! We got the band back together! It was awesome... talked baseball, made some predicitions, gave odds on who would do what at our upcoming 20 year reunion, and more. It was great.
-- Mamma mia, you can't put that in a script and expect any Italian American actor to say it!
-- Sanpete goes out on Islanders are leaving ledge, is lured back in by a cookie from Cal.
-- Retro pharmacy stop for Dristan and why Primatene Mist was a bullyl...
-- The FUNLOAD: A discussion of The Newsroom, which Cal didn't see, can't comment.
-- Other stuff too!
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Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.26 - How you doin', Marvin...
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- After we discussed the inaugural class of the Hall of Founding Father Fame, and Sanpete's favorite Maury Povich Show moment, we got to...
THE BIG UNLOAD: The David Wright/ Pablo Sandoval All Star game voting flap, and what to change about the game itself.
-- The new "that's what she said" is "eh, that's sort of racist"... trust Pop Culture PJ here...
-- NHL free agency has been awesome with the Wild getting Parise and Suter.
-- We did Alf on Hollywood Squares impressions, as related to the Raptors trying to block the Knicks from getting Steve Nash. Heady stuff. Also, Sanpete could be a free agent himself, looking for an NBA team to root for, could it be Brooklyn? Plus, career earnings for some NBA players are ridiculous. We took a long look at why certain players take less money to try to get a ring.
-- Mets at the all star break. What we both feel expectation wise.
-- We never got to the Funload, but PJ told a great story about being a chocolate tasting proxy, and being the originator of the line "{insert year} called and they want their {insert item} back". Really.
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Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.25 What is proxy, and how can I become one? BIG UNLOAD: Instant Replay in baseball Yankees injuries, and then pet stories that will turn you white, national baseball broadcasters.
A wager on the Mets and reminiscing about WFAN at 25 years old...
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Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.24 - Subway Stories Radio Hour
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- THE BIG UNLOAD: After a discussion about Italian Grandmothers and the house coats, we moved on to the big unload, a great discussion about unwritten rules in baseball, and the feud between Joe Maddon and Davey Johnson. This accidentally led to PJ's first solo segment...
-- ... where he listed and discussed with us as an audience real life unwrittern rules. Things like which urinal to use when there are three empty ones, or never take camera to a bachelor party. Damn funny stuff from Bishop.
-- We talked Mets and Yankees both on the field and off, on the dawn of Subway Series Part II. Before the dawn of 'istory.
-- ...quién es mas macho... senor Lamas, o Montalbon...
-- RA Dickey's success is being written off as a gimmick... Sanpete got a little riled up. Cal did too. But in a more French Canadian way.
-- PJ's use of a "sounds of a Subway Platform" sound clip led us to the worst 1940's radio show ever, "Subway Stories", a collection of snippets of conversations from a subway platform.
-- RTU FUNLOAD: Rooting for greatness versus rooting for the underdog. A discussion of why we root for what we root for.
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Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #3.23 - Bro it Down
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- THE BIG UNLOAD: RA Dickey pitched one of the best games in Mets history last night, and it seems the story is simply about how Mets have appealed the hit/error ruling. Cal is fed up with it.
-- Sanpete's wife completely destroys his perception that he knows a lot about baseball, when she asked why does an error count as an o-fer.
-- We all did Robert Loggia impressions.
-- “Everything about (Swisher) is annoying, from his mannerisms to his always wanting to ‘bro’ it down,” an unnamed American League veteran told the magazine. “Being around him is just exhausting.” We discussed what the hell bro'ing it down might be.
-- PJ talks about revealing his navel during band gigs. Sanpete wonders if Bono did the same thing to kill time between songs.
-- Darelle Revis seems to be leaning towards holding out again. Sanpete thinks it might best thing that could happen to the Jets in Training Camp.
-- RTU FUNLOAD: We created the new TNT show to follow Franklin & Bash and Rizzoli and Isles... Tebow & Sanchez. Crime solving partners by day, rival stand up comics by night. With Gilbert Gottfried.
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3.22 - Ladies and Gentleman... Ready to Unload!
Here's a bit of what we talkeda bout:
-- THE BIG UNLOAD: Sanpete has a bone to pick with... Sanpete. He has been saying since the Teblowsion that he doesn't like religion and politics mixed with his sports... and then Bill Maher went and bought a minority share of the Mets... So it seems mixing those things are fine, as long as they are Sanpete's politics and religion. Cal and Pop Culture PJ will talk him throught it.
-- The Mets were on the highest of highs, but 3 straight losses have Cal feeling his "good things even out for the Mets" thing again, so Sanpete talks him out of it.
-- The Subway series: The Tale of the Tape
-- RTU FUNLOAD: Sanpete is visting his mom in Florida, so we discussed all the food his Italian mother is going to be providing. Then, a bit about The Olympics: Do we care? Bishop Pop Culture PJ is doing a lot of work on them. He'll tell us what he's working on, and why we should care, dammit.
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READY TO UNLOAD: WITH CAL AND SANPETe NY Sports Talkshow /Podcast Episode #8,020 Johan Santana pitched the first ever No-Hit baseball game in the 50+ year history of the New York Mets last night. Cal and I have to talk about it. So we will. Call in at 424.220.1817 to talk about it with us...
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Episode #3.21 - RTU: The Movie
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- THE BIG UNLOAD: Took a while to get there, after Sanpete's rambling Mike Tyson/Gary Payton NBA All Star Game party story, but when we did, we talked Mets and Yankees 50 games into this, and dispelled the Omar gets credit notion.
-- Somehow we talked about "Cop and 1/2". A lot. But in a good way.
-- Credit given in bucketfulls to Jeff Cappelini @greenlanternjet on twitter, for his fantastic piece on the Jets offseason, and the narrative Jet fans are beign forced fed.
--And we talked about last Sunday's New York Daily News, where two columnists, 5 pages apart, completely contradicted each other about how the Sanchez-Tebow situation is going to be reported on in training camp and then had Dr. E Ray Stat let us in on a great quote from Bill Polian that backed us up on the subject.
-- Why is the pomposity and bluster of John Tortorella "refreshing and honest" to some, yet the pomposity and bluster of Rex Ryan "disgusting" and makes him a "clown". And also speculated on if perhaps King Henrik Lundquvist gave himself that nick name.
-- RTU FUNLOAD: Started out as being about Podcasts and Sports talk radio, quickly became a casting of "RTU: The Movie" coming to you never from Mirimax and Foxserachlight.
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Episode #3.20
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- THE BIG UNLOAD: The Steinbrenner's looking to sell the Yankees?? And how much "Anonymous Source-ery" can one Daily News Paper's sports writers get away with? We talked about it all while using 1987 stereotypes.
-- Holy Hockey. Rangers- Devils series has been fantastic, but has made Sanpete realize something: He might not be able to handle Islander playoff hockey as an adult. He'll talk it out with Cal.
-- RTU FUNLOAD: Memorial Day weekend is upon us, a time of reflection and appreciation for the brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our Country and all we value and hold dear. We'll talk about how sports weaves into the fabric of America, and how it plays a part in celebrating our Country this weekend. And we talked about what sports tattoos we would get...
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Episode #3.19 - 5/17/12
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- THE BIG UNLOAD: After heartily welcoming ourselves back from our week off, reminiscing about our first cars, discussing what reality shows Bishop Pop Culture PJ was working on and Sanpete unveiling a (what he thinks is) a solid Scottish dialect, we finally got to Big Unload, a great discussion about how fans of certain teams defend themselves when challenged. Example: Me: The Yankees rotation is really suspect. Yankee Fan: Yeah, well the Mets suck. Now is that justice, your honor?
-- We got into Rangers- Devils series, but good, and discussed what John Tortorella owes the NY media.
-- A big Cal Unload about beat reporters, twitter and antagonism. Fantastic stuff.
-- RTU FUNLOAD: NHL Playoff beards, Matthew Perry as a sports talk show host. Go.
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Episode #3.18 - Jay Linder
Here's a bit of what we talked about: -- THE BIG UNLOAD: Sanpete watched a bit of the NBA playoffs the other night...he probably won't again. Officiating is ridiculous. Cal will help him understand. -- PJ and Cal help Sanpete with monogrammed dress shirts, and PJ prays for a Leprechaun series reboot, with William Devane. -- The Rangers and Caps are in a great series. Are we watching? Is anyone? -- How Andy Pettite is rewriting the book on how PED users can be viewed publically. -- Jay Linder joined us to talk Knicks, music, drinking and had a Bon Vivant-off with PJ that he won with a TKO where Adele was prominetly involved. We then rattled off our favorite superhero movies of all time. Blade, Blade, Blade and Blade.
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Episode #3.17 - 4.26.12
Here's what we talked about: -- We went big on round 1 of the NFL Draft with ilve coverage starting around pick 15, and continuing right through the Champion Giants pick at 32, with our NCAA, Draftnik and Equal Opportunity Giant Fan buddy Hubie and were joined by first time RTU'er John Hargeden from SNY.tv's theJetsBlog.com with instant analysis of the Jets pick, and then a cavalcade of excellent calls from friends including the Hebrew Hammer, who made an argument and talked Jets and Pineda and Cashman, Steph the Jets fan, who, being a DE himself brought instant credibility to the show, and of course, our Kiper, KMac, who engaged ina fantastic discussion with Hubie about best player available combined with need, how certain schools produce certain positions that you can trust in, and how certain teams have MO's in their drafting that they stick to. All the while sharing some of our favorite draft day memories, talking about how it's hard out there for an old school Jets fan these days, and why the Thursday, Friday, Saturday draft format is both a great thing and a tough sell to get to watch all of. -- Then we talked about the new Muppet movie. Cause, ya know, we had to get PJ involved.
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Episode #3.16 4/19/12
Here's a bit of what we talked about: -- An indepth discussion of macaroni, spaghetti, breaking it in half when putting it into the pot, using a fish as method of child abuse, fear of a wood spoon, no fear of a flung slipper, and PJ saying no. A lot. No. A million times no. -- The NHL playoffs have been great but too violent? Not for us. And Sanpete continues his Anti-Henrik campaign. -- The Yankees rotation has been shaky, so we talked about how big Michael Pineda might be. -- Mets got off to a hot start but have struggled of late, and why the Jose Reyes video thing was more than much ado about nothing. -- We talked Bobby V, found out Cal does a mean Bobby V, brought in our buddy Nello to do the RTU Funload but instead talked Bobby V, and told the story of how Nello and Sanpete, NOT Bobby V actually discovered the wrap sandwich, first known to us as the rollwich.
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Episode #3.14 4/12/12
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- Cal was exhausted, which we found out, causes him to speak in a dialect of a long lost Jersey Shore house member. This inspired an inspired conversation about the new Italian American from NY sterotype, and to PJ letting us all know the Brooklyn Italian accent is all because of the Dutch. Yes. The Dutch.
-- We then actaully talked about sports, namely, the Rangers and playoff hockey, and the Knicks as a dangerous team should they make the playoffs.
-- Then the Match Game conversation started. Too much to list here, but we learned Sanpete loves Nipsy Russell and Cal somehow knows who Brett Summers is/was.
-- We had a spontaenous VH1 "Sanpeteology", where poor Cal was regaled with stories of Sanpete and PJ's band days. Riveting for Cal, no doubt. Fun listening if you a) knew Sanpete in the late 90's, or b) have known PJ for the last 20 years or c) understand how much both Sanpete and PJ love themselves.
-- Then we talked baseball, Mets, Yankees, and Ozzie Guillen. Got a little political up in there. But in a nice way. In doing so, we found out Marge Schott was a terrible, terrible person.
--In the RTU: Funload, we talked about the actual trophies in the 4 major sports, and compared them to the awards for acting. Very funny. Promise.
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Episode #3.13 - The Notorious Lightweight
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- Cal and Sanpete both were in attendance as the Mets opened the 2012 campaign and shared their opening day experiences. From fan negativity to the narrative they refuse to follow, to the changes at the ballpark, to Johan Santana's trimphant return, we talked about it all. Then PJ revealed his rap name while sipping on a microbrew.
-- The Yankees rotation and what we except from the Boys in the Bronxstripes this season.
-- All the fellas discuss the idea of the Jets again on Hard Knocks... and how they are of two very distinct mind about it.
-- The RTU: Funload - PJ shared his 40th birthday experience, AKA the saddest story ever told.
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Episode #3.12 - LIVE - Thursday, March 29th
9:30 PM ET
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- After properly being made fun of for watching American's Next Top Model, Sanpete then asked the uncomfortable question: "What would you like to have poured over you". Not sure what happened there, but it was funny. He also did a Dan Ackroyd as Ray Stantz as Obi Wan Kenobi. Also funny.
-- We talked about Tebow, the Jets, why we are now behind it, even though we hate it, and uhm, actual football stuff about using him. It was refreshing.
-- We then welcomed SNY.tv Mets Blogger and Mostly Mets Podcaster Patrick Flood back to the podcast, and proceeded to engage in a calm, measured and intelligent conversation about the Mets and baseball. Super refreshing.
-- The boys explained to PJ why they refer to their Fantasty Baseball draft as "Draftmas" and why it's the most wonderful day of the year. He still doesn't get it. We then made fun of Twins sequel... because, well, everyone should.
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Episode #3.11 -Technical Tebow Difficulties
3/22/12
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
Tim Tebow's a NY Jet, and the boys spent a good amount of time talking about it. We battled through a temperamental night from Skype and had some tech difficulties that have be cleaned up when Pop Culture PJ gets back from Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge, then took on our problems with conflict resolution in a sports chat room. It also turns out we all do a passable Walter Matthau impression. We had a great discussion on the negativity contained in and antagonistic bent of media coverage of the "little brother" teams in NYC, and how your friends seemingly taking joy out of your misery and consternation concerning the teams you root for is getting more than a little tough to take.
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Episode #3.10 - 3/15/12 -Mike Huber/NCAA Tourney
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- Welcome back everyone! PJ instant impressions Ted Nugent into Hulk Hogan into Rowlf the Dog, without spraining anything; we had PJ look up "red blooded" and why ghosts have come to talk with that goofy shaky voice and say "boo"; Mike Huber (Hubie, in RTU circles) made his annual NCAA March Madness appearance, this time on a mission:talk lukewarm Sanpete and Cal into watching the Tourney. He was VERY convincing; Mike D'Antoni was relieved of his coaching duties, we discussed what went wrong for him, and who are the best managers/coaches for superstars; PJ and Cal share bathroom renovation sob stories (while Sanpete the renter quietly giggles) and we closed with a discussion of a New Zealand Tae Kwon Do Olympic hopeful who started an escort service to raise money for his Olympic dream. And how PJ's son Danny, no escort service, but at age 7 is one of the youngest high brown belts in the state of NJ. How'd that happen?
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Episode #3.09 - 3/8/12 - Jeff Troxclair/Scott Sanpete/Dr. E Ray Stat
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
We were thrilled to have Dr. E Ray Stat back from sabbatical for the first half hour of the show, discussed his whereabouts, and the reality show PJ has been working on. (Hint, it's not good... it's great!) We then welcomed our buddy Jeff Troxclair, a huge Saints and sports fan to the show for the first time to talk bounties in the NFL. He was fantastic, and the conversation ranged from the punishment for the Saints, to explaining to him why PJ is "gay framed" to John Fourcade. Then it was Scott Sanpete's turn to try to convince his bro that Peyton Manning is a great idea for Jets. He's VERY CONVINCING! (Said as George Costanza) Find out how he did. Closed with a RTU: Funload question for the ages: If you could assume the life of a list of great characters, who would you choose?
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Episode #3.08 - The Walk and Talk
3.1.12
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
The ball got rolling with a discussion of the February Sports Dead Zone ending with March beginning, which led to both Walken impressions and Sports Night by Aaron Sorkin talk, where Sanpete did an impromptu Sorkin "Walk and Talk". Cal then told us all about Parent-Child Sports night, and the secret of parenting. Literally. Hint: it's a Microsoft product. Cal and Sanpete both provided valuable The More You Know type promos. We then tackeld the Mets and Yanks in Spring training, and Cal learned Sanpete already caved on his vow to not spend money on the Mets, getting both a new hat AND opening day tickets. We talked MLB playoffs expansion, Ryan Braun, and then in the RTU: Funload: A plea for MLB players to wear their hat's correctly, followed by us sending back the soup.
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Episode #3.07 - The Court of Cal's Opinion
2.23.12
Here's a bit of what we talke about:
-- After establishing what a gut check it was for Cal to be doing the show last night being he had bronchitis, that he would be taking it one podcast at a time, the good Lord above, he'd be able to help the RTU team,the boys talked about Jeremy Lin and how cliches can apparently get you fired if they are used incorrectly.
-- Ryan Braun's exoneration was next, and we learned that the court of public opinion ain't got nothing on the court of CAL's opinion, where, in this case, Braun remains... guilty. Pop Culutre PJ regaled us with his impression of the 3 judges from Superman II, and Sanpete steered the show to his Adam Samberg doing Mark Wahlberg Impression.
--We then tackled the Mets brass and their private helicopter ride displaying bells the size of church bells. -- Wrapped it up with a bow with a discussion about the re-watchability of "Boogie Nights", and PJ's parenting tips.
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#3.06 - 2.16.12
Here's what we talked about:
- We were all set to talk Jeremy Lin and the Knicks like any self-respecting NY Sportstalk podcast would be these days, but the sad news that Gary Carter had succombed to brain cancer caused us to reflect on the baseball great, and share Kid Carter memories for the first hour or so.
-Then we talked about LinSanity and how it has us actually watching the Knicks and why, and Pop Culture PJ comes dangerously close to getting fined and suspended from a show that he volunteers to do.
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Episode #305 - 2.9.12
Here's a bit of what we talked about:
-- Tech difficulties at the top ruined a well thought-out, pre-meditated rhyme Sanpete had prepared for his opening intro of Cal; PJ defines our roles on the show, and surprise, he's the heavy; we took apart Madonna's performance at the SB halftime show, and tried to figure out who M.I.A. is. Then we talked about "Worst Case Scenario Bowl II", what we saw in the game, why we think it was Tom Brady's fault the Pats lost, why Eli Manning is now a top 3 quarterback in the NFL, and how the Giants are the NFL version of the Yankees here in NY. The Swami celebrated picking the perfect post season and got in some last zingers for the season, Sanpete explains his new favorite euphemism, "forcing the Improv" and in the FUNLOAD, we discussed John Tavares growing stardom as saving sports in this dark rooting time for Cal and Sanpete, and we figured out some analogies for this in music and television.
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Episode #304 - 2.3.12
Here's what we talked about... For our big Super Bowl show, entitled "Worst Case Scenario Bowl II", the boys managed to talk about their friend Keith's Band, Sister Shakedown, as said by a NY Italian, (Sista Shakedowwn), and PJ chimed in with an instant impression of George Gaines, better known as the benevolent old man from Punky Brewster. Then it got weird. Sanpete talked about why he'll never "have an edge" and Cal told us about his 8 year old daughter's Super Bowl numbers. WE eventually talked about the game, and The Swami made his bid for an 11-0 postseason of picks. We closed the proceedings with a frank discussion of Super Bowl Party food. And more Punky Brewster.
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Episode #303 - 1.19.12
Here's what we talked about... Sanpete got an IPHONE and has no idea how to work it, the boys reflect on local furniture store commercials of their youth; Clooney as a "gay litmus test"; SNL's Fireside Chats with Harvey Firestein; Sanpete introduces the "Rated, Underrated, Overrated" game;PJ makes fun of said game, but plays it anyway; The boys review the divisional round and preview the Championship games, with a keen on Joe Flacco's mustache; The Swami tries to complete the perfect postseason; Sanpete chimies in on Mets injuries; Cal congratulates the Islanders on FINALLY beating the Flyers; The RTU: Funload - RetroOdds.com... the odds you could get that certain crazy things were going to happen, both sports and popculture.
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Episode #302 -The Bishop Name Dropper
- The Boys check in on their 2012 New Years Sports resolutions, and PJ name droppeth for the first time, revealing that he has worked with Jim Nantz and AlTrautwig in the past and playing a clip in which Nantz praises PJ's sound engineering. We decided not to spend another hour and 20 minutes dissecting the mess that is the Jets, and instead went right into the Giants win over the Falcons and chances this weekend against the Packers. We hit all the NFL playoffs, although Sanpete wanted it on record he'd take Sanchez over Matty Ice, and he loves peanut butter and chocolate together. PJ then name droppeth for the second time, revealing he worked at a chocolate factory on high profile chocolate concoctions. The Swami checked in to pick the Giants all while munching on a bear claw. The Soap Opera that is the NY Jets then got its due, and Cal presented his thesis on the "Player Friendly Coach" and what Rex Ryan needs to do to get the team back, a point SO good, PJ decided we should end the show there. For good. PJ then name droppeth for the last time, which included Tommie Shaw, Styx and figure skating. Seriously.
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Episode #301 - 1/5/12 - "Babies & Bathwater"
-Big Unload: 2011-12 Jets: a team in disarray. Dogpiling the rabbit as every one remotely associated with Jets has chimed in, Rex Ryan changing? Sanpete guarantees Schotty will go. Media hypocracy when it comes to Jets. Cal says they had this coming. Have they undone all the good they did the last two years? Is all lost? Is the baby thrown out with the bathwater? Are there other cliches we could have used?
-The Swami checks in to rip on Rex, Rob, Cal and Sanpete and makes his Wildcard weekend picks, scouts Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
- Giants and NFL wildcard weekend. Eli is a top 5 QB. Giant fans dissatisfaction with said top 5 QB, Giants v. Falcons and can the Giants get on a run, Tebows can keep it close at home, no they can't says Cal, no one is beating NO at home.
-The RTU: FUNLOAD - The guys make their 2012 New Years Sports Resolutions.
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Episode #11-39 - LIVE Thursday, December 22nd 9:30 PM EST Here's what we're thinking about talking about:- The Jets and Giants play a regular season game that means something for both teams, maybe for the first time ever. We'll talk about it from every angle, from Rex's fat mouth, to Brandon Jacobs classy retorts. Plus we'll get into some actual football talk about it too. -NFL Games on Holidays. Do we like it? Does it make it harder to get a pass to watch?-The NBA Season is about to start. Cal is mildly interested in the Knicks, Sanpete is ambivalent. Can Cal get the Knicks to turn his head?-The RTU Funload: We'll check in with Pop Culture PJ about Holiday Music, and figure out what Cal wants for Christmas in Sports. You can subscribe to the Podcast by clicking the ITUNES Icon in the BTR Player!
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Episode #11-38 12.15.11 Here's what we talked about - Selling Spelling Manor... Sanpete oggles at a house with 2 gift wrapping rooms, and a 150 million dollar price tag.-Tim Tebow, Tebowing, and why it's difficult when sports and religion mix.-The Jets and Giants and the Swami. Plenty of Pro Football talk.-The RTU Funload: Christmas episodes of our favorite TV Shows, and PJ does his Gerry Jewel impression. Seriously. You can subscribe to the Podcast by clicking the ITUNES Icon in the BTR Player!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #11-37 LIVE Thursday, December 8th
9:30PM EST Join us for an all new Ready to Unload with Cal and Sanpete as we welcome Mets blogger Patrick Flood from the SNY Blog Network and the Mostly Mets Podcast to talk about Jose Reyes' departure, the Mets future, what can be done about the Wilpons, and why we are cursed with being Mets fans. Plus, we'll find out his top 5 moves the mets should make for 2012. We'll also talk about the Giants huge match up against the Cowboys, and all the NFL as the season winds down, and the Bishop Pop Culture PJ tells us why we shouldn't care about Jose Reyes any damned way... You can subscribe to the Podcast by clicking the ITUNES Icon in the BTR Player!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #11-36 11/22/11 Here's some of what we talked:-The expansion of the MLB playoffs in 2012 and the new MLB CBA. Sounds boring, but it wasn't, as Cal and Sanpete genuinely (and gentlemanly) disagreed on something. -The return of the Swami; he picked the Thanksgiving games, and taught the boys a lesson in humility in sports. Downright educational.- The Jets and Mark Sanchez, who Sanpete is not giving up on, and the Giants and their second half woes. A caller chimes in to share his Giant thoughts. - Sanpete attempts to talk Cal down about the Islanders, fails miserably. -Thanksgiving and football memories. PJ and the corpulent Uncle, and why Cal associates Thanksgivng not with the Cowboys, but with Jimi Hendrix and VooDoo Child. You can subscribe to the Podcast by clicking the ITUNES Icon in the BTR Player!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #11-35 LIVE 11/16/11 9:30PM EST Tonight we're talking:-The evolving Penn State situation. Well covered ground, but again, we have some things to talk out.-Baseball thinking about scrapping divisions and going to two 15 team leagues. Cal says boooo.-The first rule of Episode #11-35 is you do not talk about Jose Reyes. The second rule of RTU Episode #11-35 is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT JOSE REYES!- The Giants have a big divisonal game against the Eagles. Are they endanger of their yearly second half swoon?- (We'll probably talk about Jose Reyes)- We'll ask our producer Pop Culture PJ to name his top 10 albums of the 90's. Then we'll make fun of his choices. You can subscribe to the Podcast by clicking the ITUNES Icon in the BTR Player!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & SanpeteEpisode #11-34 - Ted Berg Here's what we talked about:
The deplorable situation at Penn State. We continued the conversation we had been having all week, while really attempting not to be sanctimonious. The blood boiled a little, but we all got some stuff off our chest about what might be the biggest scandal in the history of college, if not all, sports.
Then,
Ted Berg from Tedquarters.net, the Mostly Mets Podcast, The Baseball Show and the SNY.tv Network of blogs joined us for a great hour plus of Mets talk, Jose Reyes speculation, where the team is going, why Albert Pujols may be 46 years old, what could the Mets be doing, what sandwhich he is eating these days, how to eat a gyro, how to pronounce gyro, and the hopes and dreams of an Arrested Development fan. And other stuff too. It was quite an hour plus.
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Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete Episode #11-33 - 11.4.11 - Brought to you by the Mafia Here's sum of what we talked about: Jose Reyes as a free agent. Build a team around him? Is it finances or baseball decision for Mets. Tony LaRussa retired, and the boys wonder if there has been a more influential manager in the sport in the last 30 years. Jets and Giants had huge games, and Sanpete pretty much nailed em both.Just sayin... Alabama - LSU... DId we care? Eh... sorta. And Pop Culture PJ was feeling little to no pain as he called in to tell us RTU is now a part of La Cosa Nostra. Does that sponsorship come with dental? Tim Tebow has taken a ton of abuse in the media... why? And what does he have in common with Albert Pujols and Jose Reyes? Where does spirituality enter into the sports equation. You can subscribe to the Podcast by clicking the ITUNES Icon in the BTR Player!
Ready to Unload: with Cal & SanpeteNY Sports Talk Show/ PodcastEpisode 11-32 - Thursday, October 27th 2011Episode Notes:Cal, Sanpete and PJ talk about the newest Muppet and ask why isn't there an obese on, PJ actively participates in a play in his home while producing the show, Cal reveals the diffference between "at a baseball game Steve" and "at a football game Steve" and why his shoulder prefers the baseball version; the Boys talk world series, and Dr. E Ray calls in to discuss the LaRussa and his delicate genius; we reminisce about the 86 Mets, and wonder how it has been 25 years since Cal and Sanpete enjoyed a sports championship, and how many that team might have won if there was a wild card; using the Francesa- Revis interview as a jumping off point, Sanpete and Cal talk in depth about the state of sports talk radio, the agendas, the egos, the need to be right, and why expertise has turned into being a jerk, the nature of sports talk in general, and why they can't listen to most of it anymore (warning: sanctimony possible); PJ reveals his top 5 Mel Brooksian genreized movies, and Dr. E Ray calls back to talk Space Balls and The Gronkowskapades. You can subscribe to the RTU Podcast on ITUNES by clicking on the ITUNES icon on the Blog Talk Radio Player. We hope you do it. We pray you do it. But we are not going to beg. Okay... Please do it... they are such nice boys!
READY TO UNLOAD: with Cal & Sanpete Episode # 11-31 LIVE Thursday, October 20th Here's what went down: With Cal running a little late, Sanpete and PJ discuss their top five favorite Kubrickian movies, and what sports story would Kubrick want to take on. Cal jumped in for an in depth discussion about the specialization of pitching in the post season, and how perhaps the saying should be changed to "good specialized pitching beats good hitting". The Jets then got their due as the Fellas figured out if Rex Ryan will burn out before the Jets have a chance to win, and is he indeed the second coming of John Madden. Cal got a primer on how to handle Sanpete live at a Jets game. Then in the RTU: Funload, the boys got into how you view the teams you loved as a kid now, with revelations of drug use, drinking beers on the bench and Popeye's ruining your playoff chances. All in all, a fantastic 2 hours of sports and stuff talk... Check it out! You can subscribe to the podcast by clicking on the ITUNES Icon on the blogtalkradio player!
READY TO UNLOAD: with Cal & Sanpete Episode # 11-30 LIVE Tuesday, October 11thSanpete's introduces his French guy; Cal and Sanpete discuss the crapshoot-ocity of the MLB Playoffs first round; the fellas favorite Alex Baldwin SNL sketches; trying to find an analogous entertainer to Theo Epstein if he goes to Cubs and ends that curse, with Red Sox curse ending already on resume, (think Heather Locklear); what to do about the Jets and the Giants; how much does Albert Pujols get, and the RTU: Funload - Cal and Sanpete sell the NHL to Pop Culture PJ, who was on the lot looking for something in a "nice, low committment sporting event". You can subscribe to the podcast by clicking on the Itunes Icon on the blogtalkradio player! STREAMING LIVE at www.rtusports.com and here on blogtalkradio.com!
READY TO UNLOAD: with Cal & Sanpete Episode # 11-29 LIVE Tuesday October 4th, 2011 Watching the Yankees face elimination tonight? Why not mute the game and check out a new Ready to Unload while you watch. You hate Ron Darling anyway. We'll be talking: Yankees and AJ to play another day?
How last Wednesday night after the show was a tremendous baseball watching moment.
The Jets season has gone off the rails. Has Sanpete abandoned his new found optimism? Is Joe Namath right about the Gabby Johnson being right?
We're crazy excited about hockey. Seriously. Can the NHL take advantage of the NBA lockout?
Is there only one sports movie where it's okay for a man to cry at the end?
Chris Cooley comments on Tony Romo, immediately becomes our favorite TE ever.
The RTU Funload: Our buddy Nello checks in with thoughts on the Yanks, the Jets, and why NFL pregame shows ain't what they used to be. That's all tonight at 9:30pm EST... and if you miss the show, fear not! You can subscribe to the podcast by clicking on the Itunes Icon on the blogtalkradio player! STREAMING LIVE at www.rtusports.com and here on blogtalkradio.com!
READY TO UNLOAD: with Cal & Sanpete Episode # 11-28, Wednesday September 28th, 2011
Cal, Sanpete and Dr. E Ray talk MLB collapses and who has more pressure: the chaser or the chasee, and the boys comment on the MLB drama as it unfolds, then wonder aloud if the Braves el foldo will affect them the same way 07 Mets one did. Dr. E Ray and Sanpete get into the 5th major sports argument in their 30 years as friends, and for the 4th time it involves Jose Reyes, Cal and Sanpete deem Die Hard utterly rewatchable and a somehow a Christmas movie, Pop Culture PJ Glee's the joint up, the fellas decide that the Jets might want to do more than roll their helmets out on the field and expect to win, and Cal educates throughout the episode about the meaning of perception becoming reality... Plus, a miserable failure on intro music for Pop Culture PJ, and well placed Blazing Saddles sound bites.
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READY TO UNLOAD: with Cal & Sanpete Episode # 11-27, Tuesday September 20th, 2011 9:30-11:00pm EST Join the RTU Boys tonight for a live RTU Podcast. Much to do on the slate as the Red Sox and Braves find themselves in the midst of a 2007 Mets-esque collapses, the Jets and Giants win in week 2 yet they somehow both stink and how would we characterize the great Mariano Rivera? He was uh.. great! And hockey season is coming, and we are pumped... seriously. Also, the RTU: Funload: what's luck got to do with it? A discussion of how luck plays into sports, and just what qualifies as a "lucky team". Plus our producer Pop Culture PJ updates us on his dealing with FEMA and instructs on how to dry out a hard drive. STREAMING LIVE at www.rtusports.com and here on blogtalkradio.com!
Ready to Unload: #11-26Tuesday, Sept. 13th Episode #11-26 - "Welcome to Season 3 of Ready to Unload..." Cal talks about the Mets 9/11 "CapFlap", the Bishop Pop Culture PJ returns and talks about the "once every 500 years" occurence Hurricane Irene brought to his home and how Ty Pennington and ZZ top can help, the Rays run to the playoffs excites Sanpete, Cal compares Eli Manning to Mike Pelfrey, the NFL Red Zone Channel is the grown up, unscrambled Playboy Channel, and do the Mets need their version of Rex Ryan, and is it Wally Backman? Plus lots of other stuff. It was a gem. Ready to Unload: with Cal and Sanpete - Talking sports with you, not at you...
Ready to Unload: with Cal and Sanpete8/30/11 - Episode #11-25Checking in after Hurricane Irene; Cal's parenting skills; Sanpete's Ripken-esque non smoking streak; Chief Blogger in Chief Daniel Aldarondo on how to manage 7 fantasy teams, grantland.com, Madden 12 and his fantasy baseball playing girlfriend; Jets, Giants and Sanpete's opening statement in the case of the "The People vs. Mark Sanchez"; the ridiculous Vin Scully poll; and the RTU: Funload - Cal talks Sanpete down about not having season tickets for the Jets. http://rtusports.com http://fantasyfootballadvisors.com
Ready to Unload: with Cal and Sanpete - #11-24 The RTU Boys talked to a passionate Mike Hubie about the farce that is College football, the U, and how the punishment should fit the crime. Then they welcomed in Phil Soto-Ortiz from http://newyorksportsembassy.blogspot.com for some great Yankee and NY Giant talk, and capped the night with an RTU: Funload where Sanpete took issue with Myagi and DanielSan's preperation for the All Valley Tournament in the Karate Kid, and Cal wondered aloud if we should calm down with Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Ready to Unload: with Cal and Sanpete #11-23 The RTU boys talked to Ted Berg from SNY.tv's blog network, tedquarters.net, The Baseball Show and the Mostly Mets Podcast about the present and future of the Metropolitans, how Sandy Alderson is like Ben Stiller/Tony Wonder, why Mike Pelfrey is who we thought he was, the PCH's oasis Taco Bell, and why he should have his own show on the Food Network. Then in the RTU:Funload, Cal and Sanpete discussed the "Throw Back Boys Weekend", where you and your boys get together and party like it's 1992. A really fun hour and half of sports talk and general silliness. Subscribe to the podcast by clicking on the ITUNES icon on the Blog talk Radio page, and join us next week for another LIVE RTU Podcast. The Baseball Show with Ted Berg http://TedQuarters.net
RTU: Episode #11-22: The Big Unload: WWTBDWJR or What Would the Boys do with Jose Reyes. Sanpete and Cal figure it out. Really. Yankees and the AJ Burnett discussion distract from the end of the Jorge Posada Show. Then the Boys discussed the narrative that states, in unwavering fashion, the Jets took a step back, and everything around the Giants "feels like '07". A great discussion about potentially having "Red Zone Coordinators" in the NFL. The RTU: Funload saw the fellas discuss players they love to hate, and never want to play on their team, Cal's "All-Never Mets" team, actors that we used to not like and now do, and the casting of RTU Productins first motion picture: Princess Gridrion, the story of a 15 year old girl who becomes an NFL Offensive Coordinator.
RTU Episode 11-21: The RTU Boys buttoned up the Islanders Arena referendum vote, talked about the new faces in new places in the NFL and MLB, welcomed back Dr. E Ray Stat, discussed "My Two Dad's", Sanpete calls bullsnikey on the Astros-Phillies deals, Cal reveals his love of "Lost", and Pop Culture PJ does his Alan Arkin, and loses the his "Pop Culture" nickname. http://rtusports.com
Join us for a special RTU Podcast tonight as we talk about the special election referendum vote that took place in Nassau County today that will decide the Islanders future. We're nervous, we're hopeful, we're testy, we're resigning ourselves to rooting for the Kansas City Islanders. We'll be joined by our Islander Guy, Scott, and tackle the questions associated with both outcomes. Do they stay or do they go. Tonight, LIVE from 9:30-10:30 EST.
EPISODE #1120: The coming NFL Free Agency Madness, Sanpete speculates about the Jets, our buddy Brian Ferber drops by to talk Pirates (yes, the MLB team), Steelers and remind Sanpete of his UD salad (read: drinking) days, Cal talks turkey about Mets and trade deadline, and The Bishop Pop Culture PJ gives another "Instant Impression" and surprises the RTU boys with a game show. Plus, Sanpete whines about female athlete double standards, starring Hope Solo. http://www.rtusports.com
SNY Mets Blogger Patrick Flood ( http://www.patrickfloodblog.com/) gave his take on the K-Rod trade, the trade ninja that is Sandy Alderson, how the Mets might do in the second half, and what song he would have the Beatles play in his living room. The RTU boys then talked Red Sox-Yankees and made some predictions. Sanpete doesn't care for Brian Wilson (the relief pitcher, not the Beach Boy) and Cal re-discovered perhaps the most annoying stylistic choice in all of sports talk radio. All this and more in Episode #1119, where the boys gave it %110. READY TO UNLOAD: with CAL & SANPETE - Weekly NY Sportstalk Radio Show/Podcast - Talking sports with you, not at you... http://web.sny.tv/rss/blogs.jsp
Episode #1118: Sanpete goes off on an unsuspecting Christian Ehrhoff, Cal decides Jose Reyes probably turns down his "Meghan Fox", and the RTU: Funload sees all the boys answer the question: if (insert band) were to play only one song in your living room, what would it be. Plus, Cal reveals why he would want to toss the football around with Dan Marino. Join us next week for Patrick Flood from SNY Mets to talk baseball at the break. http://rtusports.com
Episode #1117 was a fine nearly 2 hour sports talk conversation that included a challenge issued by Sanpete to Cal involving Moneyball, PJ making a plea for an intern, and a spirited discussion of milestones in sports. Then the boys talked about the greatness of Pandora. Check it out and join us next week for another live Podcast Tuesday night, July 5th, 2011 at 9:30pm EST http://rtusports.com
Episode #1116 had it all; great sports talk, witty banter, a discussion of Seinfeld movie titles, (PROGNOSIS: NEGATIVE!), Cal's NHL Draft Experience, the award for best performance by an Athelete in a Cameo Appearance, Film or TV and Pop Culture PJ gets Dutch Barn Roofed. Check it out... http://rtusports.com
RTU# 1115 - A dangerous caller, the missing juice from the Yanks - Sox rivalry, Kevin Greenstein of www.insidehockey.com on the NHL Cup Finals and The Zambonis, Calstradamus and talk of the unwritten rules in baseball, and Pop Culture PJ and the boys discuss 60's and 70's bands that adapted well to the 80's... and those that didn't.http://rtusports.comhttp://insidehockey.com
RTU #1114 was a Jim Dandy, with Cal and Sanpete figuring out why the NHL remains the 4th sport in popularity in the US, and patting Cal on the back for scooping the Mets beat guys by 5 weeks. PJ started the show with 1 forced nickname, and finished with 5 organic ones, and the fellas asked that all non-Mets fans leave the Met bashing to them, then they did just that, ripping the Mets for not retiring numbers. Check out the podcast by clicking the ITUNES button in the player and join us next Tuesday night, when Kevin Greenstein from insidehockey.com joins us to talk about 70's prog rock.
Ready to Unload Episode #1113 - The RTU Boys broke down the Mets/Wilpon/New Yorker/SI/Payroll/Superstar/65-70%/Crawford money/Sell the Team debacle with great passion and aplomb, and Pop Culture PJ was issued a challenge involving a new guitar and David Caruso. http://rtusports.com
RTU #1112: Yankee/Giant/Ranger blogger Phil Soto-Ortiz was downright educational about the state of the Yankees, and let the boys know there is good in fans of the Evil Empire... They have felt it. Cal has a problem with "The Scapegoating of the Left Fielder Jason Bay by the Beat Writer David Lennon", Sanpete has a problem saying John Krasinki's name and with his MLB Commercial, and PJ has problem with his Andy Garcia impression. Below is a link to Phil's blogspot: http://newyorksportsembassy.blogspot.com/
Nutty "sweeps month" trade proposals, losing faith in David Wright, Scott the Islander fan telling us about a new arena, and why Cal is allowed to watch one NFL game live a year. Plus, Sanpete butchers an old saying, and Pop Culture PJ likes Roller Derby. http://rtusports.com
Check out the podcast of RTU #1110... KMac dropped all sorts of NFL draft knowledge and a few stories about Sanpete's college NFL Draft daze, and Jay Linder was optimistic about the Knicks, the Giants and the weather, not so optimistic about his chances to get to the movies this summer. And Pop Culture PJ has a cat. A loud cat. http://RTUSPORTS.com
After some Knicks playoff talk, SNY Mets blogger Patrick Flood talks about a new approach to sports beat writing, trades theories on what has gone wrong for the Mets since '06, and finds humor in some unintentional places. And then we talk Mr. Angelino... Tripper!!!!!!! http://patrickfloodblog.com/http://rtusports.com
The RTU Boys welcomed Dan Schachner of SNY's Beer Money to the show and found out quite a bit about the TV Host/Actor/Sports Fan/Father extraordinaire, including how he and his wife came up with one of the great sports fandom compromises of all-time, agreed upon at Yalta. Or Maybe Yemen. Or Maybe Tattoine. Check it out... http://rtusports.comhttp://sny.tv/schedule/beermoney.jsp
Metsblog.com founder and SNY blogger Matt Cerrone joined the RTU Boys to talk Mets, on and off the field, and about the state of sports blogging. And The Swami called to make fun of us...http://rtusports.com
Girl Scout Cookies, SNL classic sketch remembrances and recitations, and Cal reveals he is 1/4 French Canadian. Oh, and we talked about sports too...
NCAA Junkie Hubie on the sweet 16, our buddy Caught Looking from METSZILLA.com on the Met releases, and the RTU: Funload. Plus, Carmelo's 10 minute honeymoon is over.
The RTU Boys turned the show over to their NCAA Junkie friend Hubie and he delivered huge with 90 minutes of original Tourney breakdown. Check it out and tune in next week at 9:30pm EST for more sports talk WITH you, not AT you...
RTU #1103: The RTU Boys talked Knicks with Artie from Yahpank, a little Tiki and a little beisbol. There was a quick Walken impression from Sanpete, and Pop Culture PJ wrote and sang an RTU: Funload theme song on the spot, then talked Live Aid remembrances and the best songs for sporting events.
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Technical problems and car troubles didn't stop RTU... Sanpete and Dr. E Ray got the party started with some Knicks and Nets talk, then into some baseball as Carlos Beltran moves to RF. Cal then got back from AAMCO to get in on the party after The Swami saved the day, and Jay Linder was radio gold in the RTU Funload segment as the guys discussed their favorite sports meltdowns, and the psychology of the athlete.All in all a great show, so check it out and join us next week, when the show will be back live from Dumpling Sound Studios II!
RTU #1101 was a nice 90 minute sports gab fest where the fellas talked Knicks, St. John's, Mets, Yanks (and Phillies!) and a little Oscars on top.
Ready to Unload is LIVE once again and the RTU Boys have so much to discuss, it's sort of crazy. Super Bowl 45 is this weekend, so I guess they'll HAVE to talk about it a little, but the potential lock-out and labor strife seem to be hanging over the game. We'll talk XLV. And OHHHHHH Doctor the Wilpons, Bernie Madoff, and the Mets. It's a mess in Queens, and Cal and Sanpete have quite a bit to say about it. And the RTU Funload with a twist; The Fellas will be joined by their buddy 'Nello as they discuss Super Bowl Party Memories, do's and don'ts for the big game, and what they want in a Super Bowl Party. Plus the Doctor is in, with Dr. E Ray Stat, and your calls... Ready to Unload with Cal and Sanpete: Talking sports with you, not at you...
Join the RTU Boys tonight for their first show of the new year... Cal, Sanpete and Dr. E Ray Stat will go over the crushing Jet loss in the AFC championship game, argue for and against the firing of Brian Schottenheimer and get ready for the Super Bowl they won't be watching. Plus, baseball is around the corner, and Brian Cashman might just be crazy... crazy like a fox! We'll take some calls, make some calls, and of course, The RTU: FUNLOAD... what to do, how to deal with the crushing loss for one of your teams. That's all tonight from 9:30 to 11:30... Ready to Unload with Cal and Sanpete... Talking Sports WITH you, not AT you...
In the words of the immortal George Costanza... "I'm back, baby!" Cal, Sanpete and Dr. E Ray Stat are going to trip the lights fantastic tonight, NFL playoff style, as they make their way back from hiatus... The RTU Boys will talk Rex Ryan talking, the Jets drive to back up their talk and all the NFL playoff matchups on Wild Card Weekend. They may also throw in a little MLB Hall of Fame banter in there, and generally get back to doing what they do. Check it out and look for all new LIVE Ready to Unload weekly show's on Blog Talk Radio coming soon!
The last Ready to Unload of the season saw the RTU boys fight through their respective ailments to deliver 2.5 hours of fantastic sports talk and good times, including a great spot with SNY Mets Blogger Patrick Flood (www.patrickfloodblog.com) about the Mets manager search, and hot stove Mets talk. The fellas got into the Giants, the Jets, the Yankees and Jeter, and why Michael Vick reminds of Techmo more than Madden. Dave Rutley of www.FFAdvisor.com checked in in the Fantasy Five Spot, and lamented seeing his Skins get smoked like mozzarella, and Count Broccoli, nay the Swami made his picks, true winners this week. We will be on hiatus from LIVE shows until January, but check back for podcasts during this time, and we'll see ya in the New Year!
Listen to Ready to Unload from 11/9/10 – The RTU Boys, in their penultimate show of the year, got into all sorts of stuff last night, including Cal making perhaps the best observation ever made on the show, about the player’s responsibility in game situations. They got into a ton of NFL, a little baseball, and a little bare foot kicker history. The Swami was on fire in his spot, and Dave Rutley of www.ffadvisor.com shined on in the Fantasy Five Spot. Next week will be our last LIVE show for a while, as we reboot the show for the new year, so join us for a sports talk bacchanal on November 16th at 9pm EST.
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The boys stay up late and get together for a special edition of Ready to Unload where they discuss arguably the greatest sports movie of all time, The Natural.
Ready to Unload with Cal and Sanpete from 10/26/10 had a little bit of everything, from great Yankee and Met talk, to crowning the Giants the best team in the NFC, to Cal throwing Brett Favre completely under the bus to Sanpete taking NFL players to task for complaining about the league trying to keep them healthier. Great calls from Artie in Shirley about the Yanks, PJ in Joisey about the RTU: Funload where the boys debated fan ettiquetee at the ballpark, and Count Broccoli aka The Artist Formerly Known as the Swami, who challenged the RTU boys to challenge him. All in all a fine 2 hours of sports talk. Check us out next week, as some changes are in line for the show…
RTU: 10-12-10 saw the fellas have a party while Dr. E Ray was away. Lots of Jets, Yankees, Giants and baseball and football talk, and as Pj from Jersey pointed out in a call towards the end of the show, a Dr. E Ray Roast. The only thing missing was Jeffrey Ross coming on to do material on Dr. E Ray's Med School application. A great RTU: Funload about how to jinx a team you hate and what has become of the reverse jinx, and some fantasy football information from Dave Rutley of FFAdvisor.com in the Fantasy Five spot. All in all, 2 hours of the Cal and Sanpete yukking it up, and talking sports fun style...
Ready to Unload - 10/5/10 had a little bit of everything, for everybody. The RTU Boys started out with the Mets and the Wilpons, as the clean up of the mess in Flushing began in earnest. Then they got into the Yankees and the ALDS, and a spirited debate on whether the Twins might be better off without Joe Nathan against the Yanks. The Jets and Giants were covered like a WR by Darelle Revis, and the fellas took a quick peak around the NFL to boot. Dave Rutly from FFADVISOR.com dropped by for the Fantasy Five, and admitted he is a dyed in the wool Redskins fan, while still dropping the fantasy football knowledge like it was hot. The Swami got a new name for the night, Count Broccoli, and tried to get back on track in week 5 as he was 'leaving Las Vegas', and the RTU Funload was a great round for round about the etiquette involved with DVR'ing sporting events, with an excellent call from PJ from NJ. All in all 2 hours of great sports talk. We'll hear ya next week!
Ready to Unload from 9/28/10 saw the RTU Boys get into the Giant Problems through the first three games of the season, and mix it up with former Cleveland sports talk show host and native New Yorker Ron Brienes about coach Coughlin and the concept of "losing a team". The soap box then came out as the fellas discussed the double standard applied to the Jets in their dealing with the Braylon Edwards incident, and then paid propers to the Yanks clinching a playoff berth. They welcomed Dave Rutley of ffadvisor.com for the 'Fantasy Five' spot, the Swami contemplated a name change, and the RTU: Funload let the boys wax poetic about their favorite sports season. The Dr. Is IN segment wrapped it up. All in all two hours of great sports talk radio WITH you, not AT you.
The RTU Boys were whole again on 9/21 and talking more sports than the state legal limit allows. The fellas got all over Braylon Edwards in the opening Unload, Brandon Jacobs after that and talked Yankees, Jets, Giants, NFL… shoot just about everything. They got great calls from Rick from PA, who had a mea culpa for Mark Sanchez, and Dan “The Sensible Yankee Fan” from Manhattan, who came to Dr. E Ray’s defense as Cal and Sanpete applied the “Met-lachi Crunch” to him about the Yankees. They had a fantastic RTU: Funload about why we root for the teams we do, and the Swami called in to complain about his lack of airtime, and make picks for the upcoming NFL week. Join us next week for Episode 5 and check out the site during the week for new Blog Unload content!
Ready to Unload Ep. 3, as Cal said last night, will forever be known as the tornado episode. Our fearless coh-ost Sanpete battled mother nature last night just to make it back to his home. Fortunately, Dr E Ray was able to put aside his usual facebook surfing to join Cal for 2 hours of Jet bashing, Yankee talk and even a little college football. Yes you heard me, college football. Sanpete, the true professional that he is, made it in for the funload where the boys tried to figure out why its just not worth it to see NFL games live anymore. Hopefully you’ll check out the show if you missed it, and we’ll be back live on Tuesday 9/21/10.
Ready to Unload 9/7/10 got off to a rocky technical start, but the RTU Boys, minus Dr. E Ray, got back on the horse and didn't let that deter them from delivering 2 solid hours of great NY sports talk, and the NFL took over and refused to relenquish its hold on the show. Sanpete and Cal went with it, and in end they went around the league in 80 minutes. Great calls from PJ from NJ, The Godfather of Jets Fans Big Paulie, and of course the Swami with his first spate of predictions. Join us next week when the boys will be whole once again, and where the Pennant Races, NFL week one, and maybe a little college football (that's right) are the topics du jour.
On 8/31/10, the RTU Boys gave you Ready to Unload #1 and their first ‘official’ show on WBTR did NOT disappoint. Two hours of great sports talk, with some tomfoolery mixed in, and a fantastically fun RTU: Funload as the fellas announced their presence on Blogtalkradio.com with Nuke LaLaoosh-like- authority. Tune in next week on 9/7 at 9pm EST when the fellas break down the impending NFL season, and attempt to make Sabermetrics fun in the Funload…