Natinals are done. Team batsu game!!

The good news: the National League is almost set for playoff baseball.

The bad news: one team that will not be participating is the Washington Nationals.  The Natinals were eliminated from division title contention this afternoon by the New York Mets, and from wild card contention by both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs.

Tim's initial pick to win the World Series: Washington
Mike's pick throughout the season to win the World Series: Washington

Therefore, Mike and Tim will be issued a team batsu game.  This will happen next time the guys get together to podcast, likely after the baseball regular season (where, by the way, Mike's original picks are severely hurting).

Episode 176 - Ray's Summer of Minor League Adventure

Ray has had a great summer, including some trips to minor league baseball games in Buffalo and Lansing, Michigan.  Ray and Mike discuss this adventure, as well as updates on MLB and NHL seasons.

When discussing the New York Islanders' move this season to Brooklyn's Barclays Center, which Mike has described as "weird" and Ray hasn't seen photos of, it occurred to us that maybe we should show photos of the Islanders' new shared home with the NBA's Brooklyn Nets:

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Episode 175 - September Potpourri

Mike and Tim are back on BlogTalkRadio for today's episode.  We talk about a bunch of current events topics:

• Tim opens with his thoughts on the NLRB denying Northwestern University football players the right to unionize.  Forgotten in the conversation is that the real issue is getting college athletes - especially revenue-generating DI football and basketball players - a small stipend, as has been suggested, including on Mike's former Sunflower Brew podcast.
• Mike talks about the NASL bringing an antitrust lawsuit against USSF and MLS (made all the more relevant since the recording in light of Don Garber's idiotic statements on the subject of pro/rel before an international audience that knows better).
• Tom Brady's "vacation" being rescinded (BTW, Brady's lawyer is the same lawyer representing NASL in their antitrust case).
• On the subject of the Patriots, was Deflategate meant to make up for Spygate?  Turns out Bill BEE-lee-check taped up to 40 different games from 2000 to 2007, including the Rams' pre-SB36 practices.
• We briefly touch on Week 1 of the 2015 NFL season, during which Mike further rips Art Modell Kroenke (as he will be known from now on - at least on this podcast).  This devolves into more talk about the LA situation.  (And Mike misspoke on the Edward Jones Dome - it's not Top 25, it's Top 25%.)
• We touched on college football, including K-State's marching band's unintentional violation of Wheaton's Law.   Ironically, William Shatner came to the band's defense.

 


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