We Don't Know Sports

Greg sits down with Ed and discuss all things baseball with 10-year veteran.  Being one of only 3 players in MLB history to have achieved a certain feat, Ed talks shop on his career and 8 teams he played with, a World Series in 1997, and a even some Little League.  Also joining the show is Ben Sheffield who is a HUGE baseball fanatic and a former Atlanta Braves staffer.  Enjoy the show!

The NFL has turned the annual draft into a spectacle, like they do for everything else.  Detoit was no different this year, so the show this week is us having a great time!  We had a bonfire and just cut loose and recorded our show during the first 10 picks.  It will not be our most insightful episode, but one of the most fun we've had in a minute.  Hope you enjoy our real time reactions.  If you don't, you're probably not fun at parties.

Greg loves talking baseball and has an affinity for interviewing umpires this year! Dale Scott's career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of players, from future Hall of Famers to one-game wonders.   Scott has enough stories about his career on the field to fill a dozen books, and there are plenty of those stories here. He's not interested in settling scores, but throughout the book he's honest about managers and players, some of whom weren't always perfect gentlemen. But what makes Scott's book truly different is his unique perspective as the only umpire in the history of professional baseball to come out as gay during his career. Granted, that was after decades of remaining in the closet, and Scott writes vividly and movingly about having to “play the game”: maintaining a facade of straightness while privately becoming his true self and building a lasting relationship with his future husband. He navigated this obstacle course at a time when his MLB career was just taking off—and when North America was consumed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Scott's story isn't only about his leading a sort of double life, then opening himself up to the world and discovering a new generosity of spirit. It's also a baseball story, filled with insights and memorable anecdotes that come so naturally from someone who spent decades among the world's greatest baseball players, managers, and games. Scott's story is fascinating both for his umpiring career and for his being a pioneer for LGBTQ people within baseball and across sports.   The Umpire Is Out : Nebraska Press (unl.edu)

The boys talk about their harrowing tornado experience.....not really, but they're just not used to that type of trauma around WV.  Orenthal James Simpson kicks the bucket, and the internet is ruthless.  Wrestlemania, March Madness, and Green Bay Wisconsin!  There was a lot to talk about this week.  Oh yeah, the Master's!  I'm probably leaving something out.  Tell me what I missed.

NFL & USFL lineman, Northern Iowa grad, Survivor contestant, entrepreneur, paddle board surfer, and more.  If you're not familiar with Steve, you're missing out.  Steve may just be the most interesting man in the world.... well at least a life many would envy.  He's got a new book out that breaks it down much better than what we could give it justice on our show.  That being said, we had a blast getting to know him.  Check it out and go grab a copy of his book!!! Wright Author Books | Sports Memoir www.wrightauthor.com   Grab a copy of Aggressively Human today!

Of course we're excited about baseball, and we get Greg's predictions for the season, but there's a lot happening.  The NFL won't quit making headlines, a ship destroyed a bridge in Baltimore, March Madness is in the Sweet 16, and Caitlin Clark beat out Mountaineers.....but lets be honest.....the refs really beat them.  Plus we talk about Road House (both of them) and Biggie has never seen Tiger King and now refuses to even try.......

From bookies, to MVP, to federal investigation, the world speculates about what this means for MLB, Major League Baseball, and Shohei Ohtani.  If you listened to our last guest, then you also know we made some money off of the first round of the madness.  We take all that in and more!

Sports gambling is more popular than ever and its March Madness time.  We ran into Chad Patrick, host of the Chad Patrick Show and he gave up the grind of the 9-5 a few years ago and decided to bet on himself (literally).  He's not helping anyone who's serious about getting some action.  He's a wealth of knowledge on a log of things and delivers on a great first round strategy for this year's madness.  Enjoy! www.wdksports.us

Mongo is somewhere in Green Bay, Greg is post op, so its Chad and Biggie on this show talking about NFL Free Agency, Blockbuster Video, and really try to get ready for the greatest week in sports, March Madness.

If you haven't heard about the Savannah Bananas, here we are to pull you from out under the rock you've been living under.  Its a great entertainment option that combines baseball and a lot of fun.  We tracked down Vincent, who is affectionately known as the dancing umpire.  He helps us understand everything that goes into what makes the Bananas must watch entertainment.  Great dude, great conversation.  Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Life happens and half the crew is out this week, but GFR and chadthemark are here to help through this lull in sports.  But is it really a lull?  The wrestling icon Sting retired, March Madness is creeping in, and Jake Paul and Mike Tyson are going to fight on Netflix.  Go tell someone that statement 10 years ago!  If you're dealing with depression from not having the NFL, we got you.

We enjoy the extra day that we get once every four years, and take advantage of Leap Year.  We discuss some professional wrestlers being overrated/underrated, kick off the first death pool of 2024, and complain like boomers over the state of the NBA all-star festivities.  Something about cinnamon bun beer happens too.

Fresh off a week at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, Elizabeth helps share that experience along with the wild ride of being an NFL cheerleader, a CFL cheerleader, having a parrot that likes to talk during podcasts, and what it's like to represent Bills Mafia.

To avoid knee jerk reactions, we've waited to dive into exactly what this Super Bowl means and how the Chiefs might be able to maintain what they've started.  From Kelce bumping Reid, Tay-Tay chugging a beer, the halftime show, the parade, and the tragedy there, we try to take an unbiased look at what the future may look like in the NFL.........and Greg "Freakin" Rawlings shows up to profess his love for Antonio Pierce.  

chadthemark & Biggie go down the history of the best and worst Super Bowls we can remember.  From the actual games or the wild or lame halftimes, we take a look back and the most impressionable moments to us.  We also take a moment to remember Toby Keith, and it turns out, his song catalog was pretty good to us.  Biggie also makes a run at the world record for hiccups.  Check out even more content at www.wdksports.us

We sit down with Jed, who ran into Greg in Atlanta during Ron Gant bobblehead night.  From the Atlanta Braves to the New Orleans Saints and even Geaux Tigers, Jed is the man.  We talk a little about sports, life, and some crazy stories from the life of a retired USAF MP.  Head over to www.wdksports.us if you want to be part of the show!

The biggest sporting event maybe ever is on the horizon, so we dive into some of the crazy prop bets and how we think the game will play out.  Plus, a little bit into the NFL superlatives.  Co-host Mr. Brown may be gone forever (or possibly is just really sick).  We also dive into the latest fiasco involving Vincent Kennedy McMahon.  How does he survive all the things that have happened to him (or he has caused) over the years?  

It's been 18 months since we last spoke to our Lions squad.  They now have a playoff win under their belt.  When you find this episode, we either cursed them or gave them some WDKS karma and are marching on to the NFC championship.  We had to get them back on to hear just how that felt.  To finally get the playoff W!  However, they were as excited to talk future as much as the present.  The Disciples of Dan Campbell bring the energy.  Did they beat the Bucs?  Is their season done?  Live in the moment of reflection on that curse being broken.  That's this show and we had a blast!

The guys discuss every post-season format, even ones they aren't too familiar with like Nascar, but hey; that's growth pal.  Is March Madness the undisputed king of postseason sports?  What about the NFL?  We bring on someone from our Facebook group, NFL is LIfe to give us 10 good minutes, and are you a T2: Judgement Day or Matrix apocalypse person?  Don't forget to check out www.wdksports.us for all our episodes!

Michael Long, host of the Sunday Sinner Podcast, is a former professional wrestler, turned stand-up comedian.

The guys go all in on two legendary coaches and G.O.A.T. talk for all time coach across all sports.  Mongo reveals an interesting story while working at Cracker Barrell in his youth and he ponder what might be the best job in all of college football.

Greg (Mr. Brown) and chadthemark sit down with MLB umpire legend Jim Joyce.  From working with Junior in the latest Geico commercial to a not quite perfect game, Jim takes us down some interesting topics and stories.  Plus, he has an amazing mustache.......so we knew this one would be good.

We've seen over 60 quarterbacks play in the NFL this year.  We talk about that and a random high school incident from Biggie's teenage years.  

Mongo is ranked 19th in the world!  The rest are just along for the ride!

We take a look back at the year that was and talk about Christmas time and what not.  Biggie was out sick, but with us in spirit!  Enjoy the holidays!

We've got Saturday NFL!  Enjoy your weekend, gamble responsibly, and don't ever bet on a game that the Falcons are in.  Follow us on NFL Pickwatch along with all of the so called experts out there!

Ohtani gets the big pay day, but has to wait apparently.  What else will happen in the offseason?  Dallas flexes on Philly, Dak and Purdy are MVP front runners, and man we hate the NCAA.

4 man show this week as we almost breakdown as one of us REALLY likes the Cowboys.  Hot stove is heating up as some big moves start to materialize.  All that and more, Mongo even explains his attractiveness scale and how to properly rate the fairer sex.

Mongo is top 25 nationally and chadthemark might as well quite.  Let's see if someone can have a 12-3 week like last time out!

Up and coming multimedia superstar Jeff Macolino joins us to share some fun stories as the rest of the crew struggles to keep moving post-Thanksgiving.  CFP issues Biggie has, Oppenheimer, and more!

We debate the top 12 remaining healthy quarterbacks, MLB awards, and check in with Dave from SoCal on all things UCLA and Pac 12's demise.  

Not super excited about the games this week, but there's some monster spreads.  Sometimes i hate picking on Thursdays!

Zak Ford has completed his book, Called Up, so go buy it today!  We talked about the weird in season tournament in the NBA, Lebron reacting to criticism, and of course, the wackiness that is each week of the NFL season.  Biggie still is an optimist for his Patriots.

We didn't have a lot of lone wolves this week, so we're rather gonna do great or suck......tune in and find out!

The Rangers win their first ever title, but Bruce is the man.  He's got 3!  We check in with our man in San Diego for some warmer weather thoughts.  James Harden moves to LA, but they don't seem to care, and the NFL season is going nuts.  Plus, an update to the celebrity death pool.  RIP Bob Knight and Matthew Perry.

It was a rough week last time out.  Let's try to recover.  I got a feeling we're getting back on track.  All i know, is Vegas always knows.

We just walked out of a movie from last week, so spoiler alert!  Caleb Williams may not play, Michigan steals signs, we're a 1/3 of the way through the NFL, and everyone took a bath from Vegas last week.  Plus former Astros Pitcher Mike Gallo talks World Series with us!

Mr. Brown is still top 25, 3 of 5 are top 100!  Turbo went 13-2 last week!  We're back to dominate again!

We had a fun time talking about the NLCS and ALCS with former All-Star Chris Hammond.  We dove into the first quarterly review of the NFL season and argue about involvement of the league's purview.  WV Bridge Day is this Saturday too!

Mr. Brown, Mongo, and Biggie are all top 50 nationally, so we have that at least going.  Make some money and listen to the one that gets it right this week.

Mr. Brown anxiously watches the Braves fight off elimination.  Our WVU football fandom is taking over on this show, and how can you even tell who's good in the NFL besides San Francisco!

Our weekly NFL picks......Mongo is number #5 nationally!!!

We get Simpsons writer Joel Cohen to put up with and tolerate us for a while, but we also get into the wackiness of NFL, Swifties, Dame Lillard is a buck, and more!

We're all above .500 to start the year.  Will we survive another week like that?  Probably.  We're pretty good at this.

Mr. Brown's Braves clinch the NL east, college football seems more interesting so far, and a lot happened in NFL week 1, just ask Aaron Rodgers.

Picking against the spread.  Our favorite time of the year is picking NFL games.  We have fun doing it, so here ya go.....

We rejoice at the arrival of kickoff Thursday night.  Mongo is back to share some notable moments.  Mitch Berstein stops by to talk all things Philly sports, and has Deion Sanders arrived?  Turbo Tommy makes an appearance and gets fired up about High School sports getting out of hand.

Mike Crudale, former Cardinal pitcher stops by to talk about September baseball and what to expect with 30 plus games to go.  Meanwhile, we kept hearing a sasquatch or a werewolf patrolling the holler out Poca River, but we survived.  We hit on a little wrestling, if CM Punk is a problem, and our NFL season predictions.

We hang out with some awesome people who are all about running.  Check out the whole interview, its worth it!  We also mourn some wrestlers, Mongo shares world news, and biggie and chadthemark forget who Keith Jackson was.

We dive into all thing's entertainment with guest Kevin Gootee.  What's your overrated movies?  Wander Franco turns out to be a possible pedophile and Hawaii is on fire.

Packed show this week as we digest the ever-changing landscape of the money grabbers in college football.  We check in with an aspiring podcaster out in Colorado and discuss how great Bruce Bochy is.  We get into some wrestling and combat sports since we just had Summerslam and Jake Paul on the same night.  Mongo is out this week, so no new News of the World, but we have voicemails and if you hang on long enough, Biggie tells a story about his first Hibachi experience!  Something about Joe Votto's package..................