Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Completely Conspicuous #571: Come On, Sporto

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about growing up as sports fans. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded on the way home from Tree House Brewing

- We still don't get esports

- Bands who sing songs about sports

- Weezer at the Winter Classic

- Short attention spans and sports

- Sports gambling is big business

- Super Bowl prop bets are popular

- Shohei Ohtani is the greatest baseball player we've seen in a long time

- Luck is a big factor in fantasy baseball

- The occasional Toronto championships

- Some people don't like sports

- Getting blown off by Rickey Henderson

- Jay: Both daughters played competitive sports

- Younger daughter is a Leafs fan

- Watching your team lose sucks, but it's not the end of the world

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

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