We don’t just "stick to sports" because we don’t have the privilege of doing so. This podcast is about wrecking the toy department – the name derisively foisted on sports – where it’s supposedly all fun and games. It’s not and never has been. There’s no shut up and dribble here. We want to hear what athletes, and people from all walks of sports – have to say, because they’re public figures with a platform. What they say and do, or don’t say and do, matters whether we agree with them or not. And it matters a lot. We use sports to pull back the covers on society - culture, politics, race, civi
Wrecking the Toy Department
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33 episodes
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We don’t just "stick to sports" because we don’t have the privilege of doing so. This podcast is about wrecking the toy department – the name derisively foisted on sports – where it’s supposedly all fun and games. It’s not and never has been. There’s no shut up and dribble here. We want to hear what athletes, and people from all walks of sports – have to say, because they’re public figures with a platform. What they say and do, or don’t say and do, matters whether we agree with them or not. And it matters a lot. We use sports to pull back the covers on society - culture, politics, race, civi
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7/1/2019
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Recent Episodes
July 25, 2023
From Winning Ugly to Ugly as Sin: Part 3 of 3
<p>As if 2021 weren't bad enough, the White Sox experience was about to get exponentially worse. As the team makes its heel turn, we'll explore the real time experience a fandom's divorce from their team. It's ugliness in full bloom, and there's nothing winning about it.</p> <p><br></p>
July 11, 2023
From Winning Ugly to Ugly as Sin: Part 2 of 3
<p>They were contenders, and likable ones at that. Until... </p> <p>In this episode, we'll explore how owner Jerry Reinsdorf went rogue on his organization by attempting to rectify what he considered a nearly 35-year-old personnel mistake. We'll examine the error of attempting to turn back time, and its fallout - not only what it cost the team's chances to be perennial World Series contenders, but what Reinsdorf himself thought of both the fans and the players they had been rooting for.</p>
June 27, 2023
From Winning Ugly to Ugly as Sin: Part 1 of 3
<p>Want to know why men, women, boys and girls are madly cheering for their team and all you see is laundry? This is how I fell in love, not just with baseball, but with the Chicago White Sox. For two decades, I lived the ups and downs, glory and tragedy, and saw someone step into immortality, it allowed me to smile, to hope, to dream.</p> <p>But how do you deal with your first love doing something irredeemable? </p> <p>In part one of this three-part love story, the boy who falls in love with the team, making it all the more difficult for the man to divorce himself from the fan/team marriage decades down the road.</p>
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