Ready To Unload: With Cal & Sanpete

Ready to Unload: With Cal & Sanpete - NY Sports Talk Podcast Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #184 - Recorded on 7.22.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! BIG UNLOAD: We talked Mets, Yankees, and Jets bluster RTU: FUNLOAD: Yup... They'll be one. 

  Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #183 - Papa Video - Recorded on 7.11.4 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas! With the Bishop Big Doughnut returning from 3 weeks off, we got to sports kind of, but it took awhile. In the interim though, just some great conversation about Disney, road trips, dropping out of society, pop up video, vacations, roller coaster, Ralph's Italian Ices and other stuffSports wise, we talked some Mets, some World Cup, some basketball.Then we figured out which 3 movies we would like to see on Story Notes on AMC, and recasting Ghostbusters.

  Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: Podcast #182 - Recorded on 7.3.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas! THE BIG UNLOAD: We had some some tech difficulties, so Sanpete vamped an open about the World Cup, but once we got going we did a lot of Mets, and Cal got to ask Sandy Alderson 5 questions. Not really but hypothetically.Is there about to be a shift in the ranking for our pantheon of favorite teams?RTU: FUNLOAD: Bishop Big Doughnut remains in Disney, and we are beginning to fear it will be very hard to integrate him back into the land of the unhappy. 

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: Podcast #181 - Goodnight, Sarajevo Episode Partner: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas!  THE BIG UNLOAD: The USMNT has advanced to the round of 16 for the second consecutive World Cup and we're going to talk about it dammit, because, as we've been told by many, if we don't we're stupid/missing it/not awake/doing it wrong. OTHER STUFF: Mets... so much here. Everyone was buying in after big win over A's... then, as Cal and Sanpete predicted, we were reminded they are the MetsRTU OFFPUTTING TOPICS OFFROADING WITHOUT BEING A HOT TOPIC:We got way off into baseball movies. It was great.RTU: FUNLOAD: The Funload is OFF! Bishop Big Doughnut is in the Magic Kingdom. The Disney one, though. 

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #180 - Streaming / Recording on June 12th, at 10pm ET Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas! You can see them live on Saturday, June 21st at Steeple Coffeehouse in Southborough MA at 7:30 PM! THE BIG UNLOAD: We've avoided the Mets for a few weeks now... we can no longer do so, and Cal has something to say, Jimmy Chitwood style, so better tune in for that.WORLD CUP REPORT: With RTU WOLD CUP CORRESPONDENT, Dr. E Ray Stat!?RTU: FUNLOAD Bishop Big Doughnut is back from sabatical... he wants to be sabated. What

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #179 - Recorded on 6.12.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas! You can see them live on Saturday, June 21st at Steeple Coffeehouse in Southborough MA at 7:30 PM! THE BIG UNLOAD: The Cup Finals continue another day... Has Sanpete gone crazy yet?Oh, SherrieThe case to fire Terry CollinsThe World Cup... haven't we been here before? We have? Do we care yet? We might?RTU: OFFPUTTING TOPICS OFFROADING WITHOUT BEING A HOT TOPIC: A few of Sanpete's friends had an idea that could change the landscape of professional sports. Not to over sell it.

Ready to Unload: With Cal & Sanpete - NY Sports Talk Podcast Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #178 - Recorded on 6.5.14 BIG UNLOAD: The battle for Lord Stanley's Cup features a NY team... so we have to. And we will.  - A lot of conversation about what to call the new segement...we settled on RTU: Off-Roading, Off-Putting and Burying the Lead. - The Mets make you feel good for about 10 minutes. It does not make up for the other 6 months, 23 hours and 50 minutes of misery. -  We talked a lot about colognes we wore when we were kids...  -  NEW SEGMENT ALERT: RTU OFF TOPIC - We're going to try to do this every episode, taking what we really enjoyed from last episode. A conversation about something sports related that's not related to current sports events. Last week we got into legalizing some performance enhancing drugs for sports and the NFL lawsuit regarding drug abuse as condoned by the league. This week we talked about how NY over-celebrates it's player

Ready to Unload: With Cal & Sanpete - NY Sports Talk Podcast Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #177 - Recorded on May 22nd, 2014 Episode Partner for #177 -Gun Hill Brewing Company - A new craft brewery located in the Bronx dedicated to bringing high quality, hand crafted beer to the NY metro area. Join them this weekend on 5/24: Memorial Day Weekend Party with BBQ Rig from Jimmy's No. 43. at the brewery, 12pm-7pm. BIG UNLOAD: We are NOT going to talk about the Mets. Seriously. We ARE going to talk about an array of sports topics that interest us, including but not limited to: - What are the new great sports debates for each sport?  You had the DH, artificial turf, fighting in hockey, etc... what are the new ones? -  Follow up to last weeks NBA tirade... what are the hardest sports to officiate? Where is the officiating the worst? How have advances in technology changed how we watch today's sports and how much further do we want them to go. -  Sanpete hear

Ready to Unload: with Cal & Sanpete NY Sports Talk Podcast RTU: #176 - Recorded on 5.15.14 -Big Unload: Mets and Yankess and the Subway Series. What the hell is wrong with the Mets? How long's your program. Honestly, Cal feels the old ballpark bugaboo is back. - Yankees... uhm, they're really old and are battling injuries. This is a surprise? - From now on on RTU, if you want to pretend to be someone asking Sandy Alderson a question, you must do so as Danny Zucko. We also discoverd Sandy VedderSon, GM of the Mets and grunge rock icon. - Rangers in the ECF... Sanpete makes a King Size apology, sorta. - NBA Playoffs. We hadn't a tirade in a good long while. Sanpete changed that. He finds the inconsistency in officiating coupled with the preferential star treatment makes close games unwatchable. - PJ had the greatest ever "ask me about..." from a stranger yesterday. We discussed what we secretly hope some stranger asks us if we're familar with.

NFL DRAFT-A-PALOOZA-THON-A-FEST-A-GANZA Part II! We're doing it again and this time, have some partners... We're thrilled to be doing a Joint LIVE Podcast with Joe Caporoso (The Alec Baldwin of RTU) and his whole fantastic writing squad at TOJ while we watch the 2014 NFL Draft. Even better, we'll have craft brews from a new local brewery in town, Gun Hill Brewing Co, and be at a new locale, a great new bar on the upper East side called Five Mile Stone. This is a blue-collar, jeans and t-shirt gathering of New York Jets and NFL fans to rant about the draft and talk NY Sports nice... WHEN: Thursday, May 8th, 7:30pm.  WHERE: Five Mile Stone, New York City. 1640 2nd Avenue (85th and 2nd) WHO: TurnOnTheJets.com. RTU Sports. Gun Hill Brewing Co    

Ready to Unload: With Cal & Sanpete - NY Sports Talk Podcast Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #174 - Open Letter to a Landlord Episode Partner for #174 is: The YaYas – a fun folk-pop duo with great songs! Catch The YaYas and Seth Glier LIVE Saturday, May 17, 8:00pm At First Acoustics in Brooklyn Heights, NY... BIG UNLOAD: A fantastic conversation about the Mets open letter to fans as Cal and Sanpete discussed what it was that bothered them, or didn't about the Mets supposed pledge of allegiance. An interesting discussion of the Donald Sterling situation, where all three guys chimed in with their opinions about the slippery slope the much needed lifetime ban might lead us down.We somehow wound up on Law & Order: Sesame Street. We laughed. A lot.

Ready to Unload: With Cal & Sanpete - NY Sports Talk Podcast Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #173 - Recorded on 4.24.14 Episode Partner for #173 is: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and you can see them this weekend at The Burbs in Montclair NJ Friday April 25th, and Fox Run Concert Series Sudbury, MA? April 26th! BIG UNLOAD: Cal was a little late, so PJ and Sanpete talked about pine tar and being stupid, doctoring a baseball, and Ralph Wilson and a Bills fanbase that is the envy of Sanpete for all his teams. Once Cal joined, he regaled us with tales of his visit to Fenway,  and then we got into some great Mets talk with their surprising start, the Yankees and Pineda, and the NFL Schedule and being fair and balanced.We got into your go to food stuff at a ballgame... Bishop Big Donut is a BIG Pretzel guy...

Ready to Unload: With Cal & Sanpete - NY Sports Talk Podcast Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #172 - Recorded on 4.17.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! After a good deal of not so much sports talk, including what our go to song would be if we were strippers, we got to... BIG UNLOAD: We talked Mets and David Wright making a captain-y move on the successful West Coast trip, Yankees and their all hands on deck winning streak. We talked a good deal of baseball including when we would buy into the Mets, and why this Yankee team might be one to root for.The Jets signing of Chris Johnson, the Giants quietly sign Josh Freeman.Rangers get the playoffs off to a good start... we decide when it is we will begin to root against them...The Nets are a NY team, and should not be ignored a

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #171 -  Recorded on 4.3.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! Thrilled to have Patrick Flood, a cool, calm, rational Mets fan/blogger/write back on RTU. This is a dark time. Calls for sanity. We talked about everything Mets you could possibly hope for. A great Mets discussion in a time of not great discource. Thanks to Patrick for hanging out.

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #170B - Recorded on 3.27.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! An RTU FUNLOAD: We talk about the top 5 songs that will kill any party, which leads us to our all time ruiners of TV, movies and Saturday Night Live. Fun Stuff... cause it's the Funload.

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU: #170A - Recorded on 3.27.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! BIG UNLOAD: The Dayton Flyers will have played their first Sweet 16 game in 30 years. Sanpete will either be a basket case or a basket case. Cal will deflate the Sanpete balloon.You guys, baseball is starting again... I mean. It's like it never went away. We'll preview the Mets AND the Yankees and talk about what we're most looking forward to.The Jets signed Michael Vick, and Sanpete talked cousin Michelle out of halting her support of the Jets. He'll tell us how.

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #169 - Streaming/Recording Live Thursday, March 20th at 10pm Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! BIG UNLOAD: Sanpete has a come down with the March Madness. But for good reason.The Jets haven't signed everyone that has been available. What gives?The Giants have signed everyone that has been available. Double what gives?We have to talk about the beat reporters and the Jets and the making stuff up. We have to.THIS IS IMPORTANT: The baseball season is still 11 days away... and Cal is at a level of frustration with the Mets usually reserved for the second week of August. He's more than angry, he'd the dreadful, apathetic.Sanpete has a proposal for RTU Funloads going forward, and we dust off a Jay Mafale suggested Funloadlette...

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #168 - Recorded on 3.13.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and go to www.facebook.com/nofussandfeathersroadshow for upcoming show dates! 25 years of the internet celebrated by a Skype fail for Cal.Our first internet experiences. We're old.NFL Free Agency has landed, and things have gotten crazy. The Giants were active day 1, the Jets day 2, and Darelle Revis joins the Evil Empire. We'll justify the night away...The Mets "competitions" this spring are not going well. Really hard to keep the optimism up.What are we watching.. It's thriling.

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #167 - Recorded on 3.6.14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and catch them live Monday, March 11th at 7PM at WFUV's John Platt Presents: On Your Radar at Rockwood Music Hall Bishop was back, so we talked Oscars for the first hour or so... great stuff. Really enjoyable.We discussed Rangers trade of Ryan Callahan, and then went all in on Islanders, Garth Snow, Thomas Vanek, and what to do next. It got a little heated, but we think we figured it out.

Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes HERE Also available ON STITCHER HERE RTU Episode #166 - Streaming / Recording on 2/27/14 Sponsored by: No Fuss and Feathers Roadshow: an Evening with Carolann Solebello, Karyn Oliver and The YaYas Check out this video of No Fuss and catch them live Monday, March 11th at 7PM at WFUV's John Platt Presents: On Your Radar at Rockwood Music Hall Sandy Alderson gave us a February gift today, with the story leaking that he has raised expectation levels for the Mets this season. How do Met fans react? By destroyinig him, of course. Plus the Face of MLB contest has Met fans up in arms because their team is asking them to act like... well, fans. We addressed "90 Win-gate", "90 Win-a-geddon" from every angle, and concluded we're pretty okay with Sandy Alderson raising the expectation bar. The case of Michael Sam, the "n" word and "the locker room". How many ways would NFL players like to have it?