Ready To Unload: With Cal & Sanpete

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 ou

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

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

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 Neeso

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...  Pl

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 th

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 s

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 t

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

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 w

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 li

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 r