Sports R Dumb

With the baseball playoffs nearly upon us, we've got a special guest on this episode — Haleigh from the OG Parks n Wrecked crew! She joins because she's rankled by how baseball measures player statis…

We watched a chase of history this year as Aaron Judge tried to hit more home runs in a single season than anyone else ever has before...in the American League...or on the New York Yankees. And broad…

This past week, Tua Tagovaiola suffered a pretty severe head and neck injury (you know, like a concussion). This was five days after he maybe had a concussion in another game. And Twitter had a FIELD…

In any other sport, if you have the ball in your hand when a clock strikes zero, there's some kind of penalty. In football, the play clock often hits zero but the officials make no call because they …

We go to a sporting event to see actual sports played on a court or field. So why do we delay the start of these events with The Star-Spangled Banner? It's even more perplexing when you consider how …

What's your favorite kind of cupcake? Joey's is red velvet, particularly the tasty ones from Nothing Bundt Cakes. Sean likes some buttercream with a drizzle of caramel on vanilla. And if you're a col…

The average football game takes three hours and 23 minutes. Yet only 18 of those minutes contain actual gameplay. That's WILD. And we don't like how long these football games last. There's too much d…

There aren't that many college football games in a season. But if you get a targeting penalty, you're going to miss one (or half of two, which adds up to one). And it's pretty difficult to tell inten…

The college football season starts this week. That's very exciting, isn't it? NO, it's college football LOL! Why can't players make money? Why is the NCAA such a sham? Why is targeting a penalty? Why…

For about 15 years, Joey played fantasy football. He, fortunately, escaped the rubble a few years back, but Sean is still in the endless cycle of torture. Drafting players is fun. Managing those play…

Most sports have salary caps. Though they're designed as a way to "increase parity" across sports, these salary caps really just limit what a player can earn. Sean thinks we should rally together as …

Kyler Murray just signed a $230.5 million deal. That's a lot of money, but we're more interested in the particulars of his contract. Namely, the part that said he had to watch four hours of game film…

You cross home plate in baseball and that's a score. A basket in basketball is a score. But tennis scoring is pretty bonkers: Love, 15, 30, 40, game.

We're diving into the history of where "love" co…

Sean doesn't know if hell is high, but today's topic pisses him off to high hell. When a team wants to build a new ballpark (and it's often a want, not a need), it turns to its city to help pay for i…

At one point in the history of baseball, a lot of people were using steroids. But Hall of Fame voters think some of those players shouldn't be enshrined in Cooperstown. Like Barry Bonds (who hit lots…

A lot of golfers are defecting from the PGA to LIV, which is backed by Saudi Arabia. It's been a popular topic of discussion among the media, but Sean has a more interesting query: is golf even a spo…

Sports shows need to fill a lot of airtime, and one great way to do that? With some lists, of course! And Sean thinks it's spectacularly dumb, especially when a top 5 list ends up having a tie and we…

In baseball, you have pitchers and non-pitchers. Yet in blowout games, we're often seeing those non-pitchers take the mound. What gives? Well, teams are trying to rest their pitching staff, but the r…

In basketball and football, the dimensions of the playing courts and fields are all the same. How come baseball is so wacky and doesn't maintain any kind of consistency? A home run in one park is dif…

In sports such as hockey, people go to the games in hopes of seeing a fight. In sports such as basketball — not so much. Why is that? Would a penalty box in other sports help the situation? 

Sean als…