Ready To Unload: With Cal & Sanpete

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...

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, &a

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: The

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. Please check out the RTU: Podcast in iTunes by clicking here and subs

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... Please check out the RTU: Podcast in the Itunes store by clicking here... it really feels looks like a pump. But... it's a sneaker.

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

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. Please check out the RTU: Podcast in the Itunes store by clicking here... better about anything you ever had on an Atari 800

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 Newsr

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.

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... Please check out the RTU: Podcast in the Itunes store by clicking here... no pets were harmed in the recording of this podcast. Seriously.

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

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

Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete #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,

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...  

  Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete  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 pomp

Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY SPORTSTALK RADIO SHOW / PODCAST 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...

Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY SPORTSTALK RADIO SHOW / PODCAST 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.

Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY SPORTSTALK RADIO SHOW / PODCAST 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.

Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY SPORTSTALK RADIO SHOW / PODCAST 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 memori