Generations (Talking 'bout My Sports...)

Generations Talkin' My Sports | S4 E19 | "Unicorns & Game-Changers: Wemby, Shaq, Tiger & The Athletes Who Rewrote the Rules"Is Wemby already the most transformational player in NBA history — or is he just an alien blip? In this episode, Mark, Jonathan, and Steve break down which athletes across every major sport genuinely changed their game forever, and which ones were just really, really great.The Knicks are alive and the debate is HOT. Here's what's on the table:🏀 Wemby vs. The GOAT Debate — Victor Wembanyama is doing things in the 2025 NBA Playoffs no one has ever seen. Logo threes, catching his own misses for reverse dunks, guarding every position. Is he transformational like Magic Johnson — or a once-in-a-universe anomaly? Will the league change its rules because of him?🏀 New York Knicks Playoff Run — Mark breaks down Games 1 & 2 vs. Cleveland, Brunson's clutch gene, Miles Bridges catching fire, and why this team's unselfish basketball feels like the '70s Knicks all over again🏀 Shaq Attack — Hack-a-Shaq. Rule changes. Unstoppable. Would Shaquille O'Neal dominate in today's three-point era? (Spoiler: yes, and it wouldn't be close)🏈 Michael Vick vs. Randall Cunningham — Who really invented the dual-threat QB? Steve says Vick opened the door to the modern NFL. Jonathan says there were Vicks before Vick. The debate gets heated.⛳ Tiger Woods — Did he transform golf forever, or did the sport regress the moment he stepped away? Augusta stretched its course by 600 yards because of him. Enough said.🎿 Wayne Gretzky — The one case everyone agrees on. The Great One didn't just dominate hockey — he made it faster, smarter, and changed the entire player prototype.⚾ Jose Canseco & the Steroid Era — Jonathan makes the case that Canseco was the catalyst that changed MLB for 20 years. Steve thinks it's a funny take. Mark grabs his popcorn.⚾ Shohei Ohtani — The DH rule literally changed because of one man. Are two-way players the future of baseball, or is Ohtani a one-generation wonder?🥊 Muhammad Ali — Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, and completely rewire what it meant to be a professional athlete — inside the ring and out.Also: Jaxson Dart introduces Trump at a rally while playing QB for a 75% Black roster, and the guys discuss whether political moves in the locker room can wreck a season before it starts.🎧 New to the show? Start here. Three generations, one truth, zero filter.▶️ WATCH on YouTube — Full video drops next Saturday!Subscribe | Leave a Review | Share with your crew#GenerationsTalkingMySports #NBA #NBAPlayoffs #Wembanyama #NYKnicks #Shaq #TigerWoods #MichaelVick #ShoheiOhtani #WayneGretzky #MuhammadAli #JoseCanseco #TransformationalAthletes #SportsDebatePodcast #SportsPodcast #BasketballPodcast #NFLPodcast #BaseballPodcast #KnicksNation #OKCThunder #SanAntonioSpurs

Generations Talkin' My Sports | S4 E18 | "East Coast vs. West Coast: Does It Still Matter?"Is the East Coast vs. West Coast sports rivalry dead — or did it ever really exist? In Season 4, Episode 18 of Generations Talkin' My Sports, Mark, Jonathan, and Steve dig deep into one of sports' biggest ongoing debates: do big-market teams like the New York Knicks, LA Lakers, Dodgers, and Yankees still drive ratings, or has the game changed forever?The guys break down how the NBA went from being preempted by golf in the late '70s to must-watch TV — and whether a small-market NBA Finals matchup like OKC Thunder vs. New York Knicks could actually pull massive viewership in today's streaming era. With the Knicks on a historic playoff run, the timing couldn't be better.Topics covered in this episode:🏀 NBA East vs. West — 20 years of data, championship parity, and why the Western Conference has dominated regular season play⚾ How MLB interleague play killed regional rivalries (and why the Yankees-Dodgers World Series still moved the needle)🏈 Why the NFL never needed a big-market rivalry to dominate ratings — and what every other league can learn from Pete Rozelle's marketing genius📺 Streaming, globalization, and the "egalitarianism" of modern sports fandom — can you be a Spurs fan in Paris or a Bucks fan in Texas?🏙️ Oakland's gut punch: losing the Raiders, A's, and Warriors — and what it means when a city loses its sports identity🎙️ The Seattle SuperSonics wound that still hasn't healed, the stolen franchise, and why OKC fans should probably watch their backs📻 Bird vs. Magic, Beat LA chants, and the racial and cultural undercurrents that actually fueled the East-West rivalry🗞️ The 1989 World Series earthquake, the OJ chase interrupting Knicks playoffs, and other times sports collided with historyAlso: Why "East Coast vs. West Coast" is really just New York, Boston, and LA (sorry, Portland), the 500 true Padres fans Jonathan claims to know personally, fear the beard, Nomar shirts on eBay, and a first date interrupted by a white Bronco.50,000+ YouTube views and growing — thank you to every fan watching on the YouTubes and catching the shorts. We see you and we appreciate you.🎧 Subscribe | ⭐ Leave a Review | 📲 Share with your crewNew episodes every week. Three generations. One truth.#GenerationsTalkingMySports #NBA #NYKnicks #OKCThunder #EastCoastVsWestCoast #NBAPlayoffs #SportsDebate #SportsPodcast #BaseballPodcast #NFLPodcast #YankeesVsDodgers #SeattleSonics #Oakland #MagicVsBird #SportsHistory #PodcastSports #YouTubePodcast #KnicksNation #WembyHype #SportsRivalry

NBA Playoff Trivia — 3-1 Comebacks, Championship Droughts & the Rasheed Wallace Debate | GenerationsNew Episode — Premiering TodayJonathan, Steve, and Mark are back together for a full playoff breakdown — and Jonathan has been doing homework. This week it's all hoops, all trivia, and one genuinely heated debate about a Portland Trail Blazers documentary that has Steve and Jonathan on opposite sides of history.🏀 THE 3-1 COMEBACK QUIZSince the NBA/ABA merger in 1976, only 13 teams have ever come back from a 3-1 deficit. Two of them just happened in the first round. Can you name all 13 before Jonathan gives the clues?The full list spans from the 1979 Washington Bullets to the 2025 Sixers and Magic, and includes the only team to do it twice in the same year (the Nuggets in 2020), the only Finals comeback in league history (the 2016 Cavaliers, which Steve will not let Jonathan forget), and Doc Rivers making history as the first coach to blow 3-1 leads in back-to-back playoff years.Mark's moment: the 1997 Knicks-Heat Eastern Semifinals, the PJ Brown-Charlie Ward brawl, and a New York Post back page that Mark may or may not have saved for 30 years.📊 THE CHAMPIONSHIP TRIVIAWhich seven franchises have never appeared in an NBA Finals post-merger? Which teams have the most championships? Which franchise won a title in one city and another title decades later in a completely different one?The full rankings from Lakers (17 appearances, 11 titles) down to the Wizards (two Finals appearances, one title, both against Seattle), with stops at the Celtics, Bulls, Spurs, Heat, Pistons, Warriors, Cavaliers, Rockets, Mavericks, Sixers, and Thunder along the way.Also covered: seven franchises that have appeared in the Finals but never won, from the Knicks to the Jazz to the Suns to the Magic.🎬 THE RASHEED WALLACE DEBATEJonathan and Steve watched the same Portland Trail Blazers documentary and came away with completely different conclusions. Steve thinks Rasheed was a talented, entitled malcontent who doesn't take responsibility for anything. Jonathan thinks the documentary captures what it actually meant to be a Black player in Portland in that era — the police raids, the fan hostility, the scrutiny — and argues the narrative was more complicated than the highlights suggested.Mark watched the series too and has thoughts on Bonzi Wells, Damon Stoudamire, and what might have been had that team found any emotional maturity to match their talent.🏀 LEBRON AT 41Before the trivia starts, the guys spend a few minutes on what LeBron James is doing right now that none of us may ever see again — 20 points a game, over 20 years in the league, still running the floor against players half his age. Mark says he's just grateful to be watching it in real time. Steve wishes LeBron had better role players. Jonathan notes that most of the Lakers bench wouldn't make OKC's rotation.🎙️ Hosts: Jonathan (Gen X) • Steve (Boomer) • Mark (Millennial)📻 New episodes every Saturday | Full catalog on Spotify & YouTube#NBAPlayoffs #PlayoffTrivia #LeBronJames #Knicks #Warriors #GoldenStateWarriors #3to1 #NBAHistory #GenerationsPodcast #TrailBlazers #RasheedWallace #OKCThunder #NBAChampionship

Unwritten Rules of Sports — Are They Sacred or Stupid? | GenerationsNew Episode — May 2, 2026Nikola Jokić sprinted the full length of the court to grab Jaden McDaniels by the jersey after a garbage-time layup. Was McDaniels dead wrong for scoring? Or should the reigning champion just win a game when it matters? Jonathan and Steve dive deep into the unwritten rules of sports — who made them, whether they still make sense, and which ones deserve to die.🏀 THE INCIDENT THAT STARTED IT ALLT-Wolves up 15+. Five seconds left. McDaniels catches the ball and lays it up. Jokić loses his mind, charges across the court, and both players get ejected and fined $50K apiece. Jonathan's take: if you want him to stop scoring, stop him. Steve thinks it's posturing from a guy who should be mad about losing, not about a garbage-time bucket.⚾ BASEBALL'S MILLION UNWRITTEN RULESThe guys work through the 1986 OC Register list of 30 unwritten baseball rules — and don't agree with most of them:Don't break up a no-hitter? Bunt away, says JonathanDon't swing 3-0 when you're up big? Tell that to Fernando Tatís Jr. and Tony La RussaDon't steal when ahead by a lot? If they're not holding you on, that's their problemDon't admire your home run? José Bautista's 2015 playoff bat flip was one of the greatest moments in the sportDon't cross the pitcher's mound? A-Rod did it repeatedly because A-Rod is A-RodDon't mention a no-hitter in progress? Even the announcers had to stay quiet🎯 THE RETALIATIONS THAT WERE ABSOLUTELY JUSTIFIEDLogan Webb drills Dalton Rushing the day after Rushing trash-talked an injured Junghoo Lee. Afterwards Webb just smiled and said it got away from him. Jonathan sends an imaginary box of chocolates to Logan Webb. Steve approves.The 1977 Finals: Maurice Lucas running the full length of the court to deliver a message to Darrell Dawkins. Portland won the next four. This is what unwritten rules enforcement should look like.🚫 THE ONES THAT WENT TOO FARPete Rose's forearm shiver to Ray Fosse in an All-Star game. Pete Rose decking Bruce Bochy in the 1980 NLCS when he was out by ten feet. Steve puts Rose and A-Rod in the same category of guys who pushed every boundary and then said that's just how it's played.🏒⚽ SPORTS WHERE THE RULES ARE DIFFERENTHockey's old enforcement system — players policing themselves so refs didn't have to. How fighting morphed into Slapshot and eventually got legislated away. Football, where almost all the old unwritten rules became actual rules because people were getting seriously hurt. Basketball's version of rule enforcement — Kevin Garnett blocking dead-ball shots because he refused to let the ball go through his basket, ever.ALSO IN THIS EPISODEJazz Chisholm and the fake sign-stealing at second base — is it genius or gamesmanship?The World Baseball Classic handshake snub between Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodríguez — teammates, millionaires, still petulantStan Williams keeping a literal hit list inside his hatThe NBA racial quota — the ugliest unwritten rule in sports history, and the Celtics who quietly broke itMatt Chapman yelling at Casey Schmitt to catch the ball — on the field, in front of everyoneMark is traveling this week but will be back. The Knicks just won by 50. Celtics-Sixers Game 7 is incoming. Baseball is back.🎙️ Hosts: Jonathan (Gen X) • Steve (Boomer)📻 New episodes every Saturday | Full catalog on Spotify & YouTube#UnwrittenRules #NikolaJokic #MLB #NBA #BaseballRules #JoseBautista #BatFlip #LoganWebb #FernandoTatis #GenerationsPodcast #SportsDebate #BasketballDebate #BaseballDebate #PeteRose #MauruceLucas #JazzChisholm #SportsPodcast #NBAPlayoffs #MLBSeason

Mark is a tortured Knicks fan. He has been for decades. And this week, he finally gets to tell the whole story.From the championship Knicks of Clyde Frazier, Willis Reed, and Dollar Bill Bradley — the consummate team that Steve watched dominate with roles and passing and smart basketball — all the way to Jalen Brunson giving New York a reason to care again. Everything in between is a masterclass in being close enough to hurt, but never close enough to win.THE ERAS, THE HEARTBREAKS & THE MOMENTSPatrick Ewing arrives in 1985. The Knicks are relevant again. The problem? Jordan. The Celtics. The Lakers. The timing was always just slightly off.1994 Finals. John Starks. Two for eighteen in Game 7. Mark's defense of Starks is thorough, data-driven, and genuinely compelling — the man had just come back from knee surgery and was the only shooter on the roster. Herb Williams was 35 going on 53. Tony Campbell was somehow still in the league. The offensive depth was nonexistent. Riley probably should have gone to Rolando Blackman. He didn't. The Rockets won.Reggie Miller and eight points in nine seconds. The wound that never fully healed.Patrick Ewing's missed finger roll against the Pacers in 1995. His legs were shot. The ball hit the back of the rim and came out. Mark was the angriest he's ever been as a Knicks fan.The PJ Brown/Charlie Ward brawl in Miami — the fight that created the rule preventing players from leaving the bench. The Knicks got the worst of the suspensions. John Starks gave the Miami crowd the finger. Mark saved that New York Post edition.Larry Johnson's four-point play against the Pacers in 1999. The rare moment something actually went right.The lockout season run to the Finals as an 8-seed. Alan Houston's floater against the Heat. The Spurs ended it.THE DRAFT DISASTERSA full tour through Knicks draft history — the misses, the near-misses, and the guys who became All-Stars somewhere else:Frederic Weis instead of Ron Artest — drafted 12th while Artest went 11th, then became famous as the man Vince Carter jumped entirely over at the OlympicsLaMarcus Aldridge and Joakim Noah surrendered in the Eddie Curry tradeMichael Sweetney instead of David West or Boris DiawFrank Ntilikina instead of Donovan MitchellFive power forwards signed in one offseason — Julius Randle, Marcus Morris, Taj Gibson, Bobby Portis, and Mitchell Robinson all on the same teamTHE JAMES DOLAN MICHAEL SCOTT GAMEMark runs Jonathan and Steve through a game: is this situation more like James Dolan or Michael Scott? The answers are funnier than they should be. Confidently sticking with a failing plan — Dolan. Responding to criticism and making it worse — Dolan. Charles Oakley removed from Madison Square Garden. The email to a fan telling him to root for the Nets. The triangle offense era. Phil Jackson. $50 million. The vibes-based leadership approach — also Dolan, because he has a band.DID HE EVER WEAR A KNICKS JERSEY?A rapid-fire game covering Chauncey Billups, Derek Rose, Baron Davis, Steve Francis, Stephon Marbury, Jason Kidd, Tyson Chandler, Rasheed Wallace, Kemba Walker, Evan Fournier, and Derek Fisher — who has 259 career playoff appearances, second only to LeBron, and was only ever a Knicks coach, never a player.WHERE IT STANDSBrunson made it cool to come to New York again. Josh Hart wears number 3 like Starks. The culture is back. The team is good. Are they a championship team? That's a different question — and the Hawks are currently making it painful all over again, one point at a time, in ways that feel exactly like 1994, 1995, and every bad Knicks moment in between.Jonathan closes it perfectly: he roots for the Knicks in the playoffs because he wants Mark to be happy. That's what thirty years of Raider fandom does to a person.#NewYorkKnicks #PatrickEwing #JohnStarks #JamesDolan #NBA #GenerationsPodcast #OralHistory #MadisonSquareGarden #JalenBrunson #ReggieMiller #SportsPodcast #NBAHistory #Linsanity #PhilJackson

Rest in Power, Garrett Anderson.Before we get into anything else — the show opens with a tribute to Garrett Anderson, one of the most reliable, consistent, and criminally underrated Angels of all time. The guy who hit a three-run double in Game 7 of the 2002 World Series. The guy Jonathan made his son a homemade Angels jersey for. The guy you couldn't hate, could only fear. He was 53. He will be missed.Now — sixty years of Angels history, told the way only Steve can tell it.The Early YearsThe Angels were born as an expansion team in 1961, forever destined to live in the Dodgers' shadow. They had Dean Chance winning a Cy Young in 1964. They had Bo Belinsky throwing no-hitters and dating every starlet in Hollywood. They had Alex Johnson — a Dick Allen type, proud and misunderstood — winning a batting title on the last day of the season Nolan RyanSteve saw him pitch at least ten times in three years, standing behind the third base dugout before games, listening to his fastball explode into the catcher's mitt from sixty feet away. Half a dozen times he had a no-hitter going through the fourth or fifth inning. And when the Angels let him go, their general manager said he'd just replace him with two nine-and-seven pitchers. In 1987, at age 40, Nolan led the league in ERA with a 2.76 and went 8-16. Jonathan adds the cherry on top: Will Clark's first career at-bat was a home run off Nolan Ryan in the Astrodome. Deep center. 1986 — One Strike AwayThe Angels were one strike away from the World Series for the very first time. Up three games to one. Home crowd. Donnie Moore on the mound. Dave Henderson at the plate. The rest is one of the most tragic sequences in baseball history — not just the home run, not just the series, but what happened to Donnie Moore afterward. He never recovered. The Angels as a franchise never fully recovered either.2002 — The One That Got Away (For Giants Fans)Scott Spiezio on the bus riling everyone up. Felix Rodriguez hanging a slider. The rally sticks. Garrett Anderson's three-run double in Game 7. Jonathan's reaction to all of it. Mark enjoying Jonathan's reaction. The Angels were built from within — Erstad, Salmon, Glaus, Lackey, Percival — and it worked exactly once.Vlad Guerrero, Lyman Bostock & the Free Agent Disaster EraArtie Moreno bought the team for $180 million. The Angels are now worth somewhere near $3 billion. And somewhere in between, he signed Josh Hamilton, Anthony Rendon, Albert Pujols, Vernon Wells, Gary Matthews Jr., and a parade of guys who were paid for one good year and delivered none. Lyman Bostock gets his moment. A 24-year-old hitting machine who tried to give his April paycheck back because he was hitting .135. Was back up near .300 by September. Shot and killed after a game in Gary, Indiana by a man who thought he was someone else. One of the most heartbreaking stories in baseball history, and one the Angels carry with them still.Mike Trout & Rod CarewSteve asks whether Rod Carew could survive in today's baseball. Jonathan responds by listing his batting averages consecutively for about fifteen seasons. Then drops his career OPS — higher than Joe Morgan, Derek Jeter, Johnny Bench, Dave Parker, and Tim Raines. Rod Carew was not a singles hitter. Jonathan would like everyone to know this.And Mike Trout — the best player of his generation, stuck on a franchise that's been out of playoff contention by July almost every year of his career. The modern Ernie Banks. Jonathan hopes he stays an Angel. It would be the better story.Next WeekMark does the Knicks. First round picks. The ship be sinking. PJ Brown. All of it.🎙️ Hosts: Jonathan (Gen X) • Steve (Boomer) • Mark (Millennial)📻 New episodes every Saturday | Now also on YouTube#Angels #CaliforniaAngels #NolonRyan #GarrettAnderson #MikeTrout #VladGuerrero #DonnieMoore #2002WorldSeries #RodCarew #GenerationsPodcast #MLBHistory #OralHistory

🏴‍☠️ 40 Years of Raiders Football: The Most Painful Oral History in Sports | GenerationsFair warning: this one hurts. But it's also one of the most entertaining episodes we've ever done.Jonathan delivers a full forty-year oral history of the Oakland/Los Angeles/Irwindale/Las Vegas Raiders — every coach, every draft pick, every heartbreak, every inexplicable quarterback decision, and every moment where Raider Nation convinced itself that this year was finally the year. Mark brought popcorn. Steve survived. Jonathan's sister may never forgive him.The numbers at the end say it all: 19 coaches. 261 wins. 352 losses. 42.6% winning percentage. And several fired coaches still collecting paychecks totaling $50 million — including one who was never even the head coach.🏆 WHERE WE LEFT OFF — THE BRACKET FINALEBefore the oral history begins, the guys close out the Influential Sports Figures Tournament. Tom Brady (Michigan) defeats Willie Mays (UConn) in the final — meaning Brady wins everything, as usual, and somehow even a fictional bracket isn't safe. Mark weighs in on the NCAA finish, and Steve makes a passionate case for the UCLA women's program and the Geno Auriemma/Dawn Staley fireworks that nobody expected.🏴‍☠️ THE ORAL HISTORY — RAIDERS 1984 TO 2025The Glory Days (that lasted about 18 months)It starts on January 23, 1984. Super Bowl XVIII. Marcus Allen. 74 yards. MVP. Five future Hall of Famers. The most winningest franchise in all of sports by winning percentage. And then — almost immediately — the beginning of the end.The Quarterback Carousel BeginsMark Wilson. Jim Plunkett at age 39. Vince Evans crossing the picket line during the 1987 labor dispute. Rusty Hilger. Jay Schroeder arriving from Washington with Doug Williams' Super Bowl rings still warm. Steve Beuerlein. The Raiders trying to force-feed quarterbacks they didn't believe in while the guy they did believe in was too old to play.Bo JacksonDrafted in the seventh round out of Auburn because every other team thought he was going to play baseball. Possibly the result of a backroom deal with Al Davis. Absolutely worth it. The 91-yard touchdown against Cincinnati with the finger guns. Gone in an instant.Napoleon McCallum — The Most Unique Situation in NFL HistoryA Navy officer playing weekend furlough football while reporting back to base during the week. One of the strangest arrangements in league history, and somehow the Raiders' most interesting running back for a stretch.Todd Marinovich — Robo QBThe Tuck Rule GameSuper Bowl XXXVII — The CollapseThe Twenty Years of DevastationThe Draft Picks That Got AwayThe Ones That Made It WorseSebastian Janikowski — first round pick, kicker. Henry Ruggs — first overall pick, 2020, the story ends in tragedy. Alex Leatherwood — number 17 overall, doesn't last two seasons. Robert Gallery — number two overall, never heard from again. JaMarcus Russell — number one overall, creates a league-wide rule change, never heard from again.Where It Stands2025. 3-14. Chip Kelly. Geno Smith. A first-round quarterback named Dillon Gabriel nobody has seen play. Kirk Cousins as the mentor. Jonathan's sister in Clovis, California still wearing silver and black. Still optimistic. Somehow.🎙️ THE SERIES CONTINUESThis is the first installment of the show's new oral history series — each host will go deep on their own teams. Mark is up next with decades of Knicks draft trauma. Steve takes you through the early Angels, the Dodgers, the Rams, the Lakers, and the Kings. Buckle up.🎙️ Hosts: Jonathan (Gen X) • Steve (Boomer) • Mark (Millennial)📻 New episodes every Saturday | Classic episodes every Wednesday on YouTube👍 Please like, subscribe, and share — and tell us if we got it right or got it wrong#Raiders #OaklandRaiders #LasVegasRaiders #NFLHistory #GenerationsPodcast #OralHistory #MarcusAllen #BoJackson #CharlesWoodson #JaMarcusRussell #RaiderNation #NFLDraft #SportsPodcast

⚾🏀 Final Four Bracket Showdowns + Barry Bonds Is a Cheat Code | Generations S4We're in the Final Four of our Influential Sports Figures Tournament, baseball season is officially underway, and Barry Lamar Bonds is breaking everyone's brain with numbers that shouldn't be legal.Jonathan, Steve, and Mark cover it all across three generations of sports memory — and somehow make walks, intentional walks, and a father-son home run coincidence sound like must-listen radio.🏆 THE BRACKET: Final Four PreviewOur four remaining contenders heading into the semifinals:Willie Mays (UConn #2 seed) — representing the EastJim Brown (Illinois #3) — holding it down in the SouthBabe Ruth (Arizona #1) — the West's last hopeTom Brady (Michigan #1) — the Midwest's golden boyPlus the guys dissect the Boozer twins' costly miscue in the Duke-UConn thriller, and Steve draws a devastating comparison to Chris Webber's famous timeout. Kids will be kids — even when millions are watching.🏀 BIG EAST NOSTALGIA ALERTGrowing up in Sacramento somehow meant Saturday morning Big East basketball, and Jonathan is not apologizing for it. The crew pays tribute to the era when conferences had identities — East Coast grit, West Coast finesse, Big Ten fundamentals — and why today's Final Four teams all kind of look the same.Georgetown's suffocating defense. Syracuse's zone. Seton Hall's toughness. PJ Carlesimo. Ewing to Mutombo to Iverson. Steve remembers all of it, and it sounds glorious.⚾ BARRY BONDS: THE NUMBERS EPISODEOpening Day just dropped, and Jonathan comes loaded with trivia that puts Bonds' career in genuinely jaw-dropping perspective:All-time career walks leader with 2,558 — nearly 400 more than #2, achieved in 700 fewer plate appearances than Ted Williams2004 season: 232 total walks. 120 intentional. More intentional walks than the entire American League combined. Walked twice with the bases loaded.The guys play a game: did these two famous sluggers combined outnumber Barry's 762 home runs? The answers will surprise you.Top 10 career walks trivia covers Joe Morgan, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Mel Ott, Stan Musial, Albert Pujols, Carl Yastrzemski, Rickey Henderson, Jim Thome, Frank Thomas, Ken Griffey Jr., Vlad Guerrero Sr., George Brett, and Miguel Cabrera — and the stories behind each one are half the fun.🎯 OTHER GEMS THIS EPISODETed Williams never once had 200 hits in a season — and somehow still had a .482 career OBPWhy superstar athletes almost never become great coaches (Magic Johnson's infamous phone meltdown)The Cecil & Prince Fielder coincidence that genuinely cannot be made up — same number of career home runs, both hit 50 in a seasonOnly two players in history have 3,000 hits AND 700 home runs — can you name them before the guys do?Jonathan's weekly public plea to Will Clark to come on the show (Week 2 of what could be a very long campaign)Fantasy baseball team name of the year: The Schidler Torquer 🏆🎙️ Hosts: Jonathan (Gen X) • Steve (Boomer) • Mark (Millennial)📻 New episodes every Saturday | Classic episodes every Wednesday on YouTube🎬 Find the full back catalog — 200+ episodes — on Spotify and YouTube#GenerationsPodcast #BaseballTrivia #BarryBonds #MarchMadness #BigEastBasketball #MLBOpeningDay #SportsHistory #FinalFour #WillClark #FantasyBaseball

In the spirit of March Madness, we seeded 68 influential people in sports. Once seeded, the people are represented by a real team in the men's tournament. When that team advances, so does the person.Ali was made our overall number one influential sports person and is represented by Duke. Ali defeated 16 Seed Michael Phelps represented by Sienna (albeit barely), 9 Seed Bo Jackson represented by TCU, and another boxer, 5 Seed Sugar Ray Leonard represented by St. Johns.The full bracket and all the rankings can be found here: https://1drv.ms/x/c/a679c7b08a158e21/IQCUWh9gvfDVT5Nuu3EGS94yAW2AK2fFSr6qedx8UxHYl5w

In the spirit of March Madness, we seeded 68 influential people in sports. Once seeded, the people are represented by a real team in the men's tournament. When that team advances, so does the person.The full bracket and all the rankings can be found here: https://1drv.ms/x/c/a679c7b08a158e21/IQCUWh9gvfDVT5Nuu3EGS94yAW2AK2fFSr6qedx8UxHYl5w

I proposed the concept of taking a list of influential sports figures and creating a bracket. We would attribute the figures to be represented by real teams in this year's March Madness. As the real teams advanced, so did the represented sports figure.This is episode one where we start to rank the figures for the tourney.Additionally, there were 53 figures pre-selected. Mark, Steve, and I were able to select 5 each figures to include. We also each were allowed 1 VETO. I play a trick on Mark and Steve, that Mark catches on quickly but acquiesces to my gambit.Part II we will finalize the rankings. Listen to the debate for each see the list below. (You will notice a lot of 2's that need sorted out):Generations Tourney List Rank Last First Sport 1 Ali Miuhammed Boxing 1 Ruth Babe MLB 1 Jordan Michael NBA 1 Brady Tom NFL 2 Woods Tiger Golf 2 Mays Willie MLB 2 Robinson Jackie MLB 2 Chamberlin Wilt NBA 2 Curry Steph NBA 2 James LeBron NBA 2 Gretzky Wayne NHL 3 Bonds Barry MLB 4 Ohtani Shohei MLB 4 Bird Larry NBA 4 King Billie Jean Tennis 4 Williams Serena Tennis 5 Leonard Ray Boxing 5 Jabbar Kareem Abdul NBA 5 Russell Bill NBA 6 Nicklaus Jack Golf 6 Bryant Kobe NBA 6 Payton Walter NFL 6 Ashe Arthur Tennis 7 Louis Joe Boxing 7 Navratilova Martina Tennis 7 Taurasi Diana WNBA 8 Rose Pete MLB 8 Jackson Bo NFL 9 O'Neal Shaquille NBA 9 Deion Sanders NFL 9 Namath Joe NFL 9 Miller Cheryl WNBA 10 Jenner Bruce Olympian 10 Retton Mary Lou Olympian 11 Manning Peyton NFL 11 Montana Joe NFL 11 Bird Sue WNBA 12 Jerry Rice NFL 12 Smith Emmitt NFL 12 Taylor Lawrence NFL 12 White Reggie NFL 13 Blair Bonnie Olympian 13 Harding Tonya Olympian 13 Spitz Mark Olympian 13 Agassi Andre Tennis 14 Maddux Greg MLB 14 Hamm Mia Soccer 14 Djokovic Novak Tennis 15 Johnson Randy MLB 15 Chastain Brandi Soccer 15 Wambach Abby Soccer 16 Louganis Greg Olympian 16 Roger Federer Tennis Tyson Mike Boxing Brown Jim Football Allen Dick MLB Clark Will  MLB Koufax Sandy MLB Barkley Charles NBA Erving Julius NBA Johnson Magic NBA Simpson OJ NFL Howe Gordy NHL Orr Bobby NHL Carlos John Olympian Phelps Michael Olympian Chistenson Todd Veto Posey Buster Veto Brunson Rebekkah WNBA Leslie Lisa WNBA

Coming off some of the best hot take moments of Steve's podcast career, we tone things down a little and discuss whether Parity is good for sports or not.I get booed for bringing up relegation again.We tend to all agree on rivalries and dynasties make things more interesting.NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL all discussed.

Steve is keeping it spicy. We find out why he thinks Wade Boggs is overrated. Not that it is totally part of the show, but the answer is revealed.We have a callback with Steve going on that Robert Horry is a carpetbagger. Andre Iguodala is the new target for this.We discuss home field, intangibles, number one overall picks, and other things.I bring up economics just to make Steve cringe and Mark is the best mediator.NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL discussed.

What was supposed to be a discussion on GLUE guys, the other guys, or basically the unheralded guys, took a weird turn when Steve said Wade Boggs should not be a Hall of Famer basically because he does not care for him.Steve has turned into a contrarian for no other reason than to be a contrarian. Mark and I get sucked into a discussion where we have to denigrate Tony Gwynn, another Hall of Famer to prove that Boggs is worthy.Up is down, down is up, dogs and cats living together. Mass histeria.

This episode loses the plot quickly and Steve turns it into things he can't stand. It gets very "Get off my lawn" fast. As a listener, you will love it for all the reasons why Steve is great (or not great) at podcasting.You get Jonathan's righteous indignation and Mark just tries to make sense of things.MLB, NFL, and NBA gripes abound.

If you like the circular and irrational logic of Steve, this episode is for you.Rejecting new ideas and thinking has become a legit hallmark of Steve's persona on the show. What you will listen to is real and unedited. Strap in!Taking sports to yesteryear is on tap. New ideas are for nerds who like math, business, and apparently got an MBA at Pepperdine.Mark and I offer sound changes with some data and evidence. These make not difference.NBA, MLB, NFL all mentioned.

We're finally here. You get to hear Jonathan's top worst and best sports moments.Of course, one of the worst did not make the top 5, but Mark astutely calls is out at the end.Steve gives Jonathan a hard time that his Number 1 sports moment is not a moment.Giants, Raiders, Warriors, David Lee, Buster Posey, Will Clark, Skip Bayless, Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen, Lester Hayes, Steph Curry, Knicks, and others discussed.

What the what!?! A third of the NFL has to find a new coach. Once coach shifted from one team to the next. Tomlin resigns and if someone wants him, the Steelers get compensation?Winning coach of the year in the NBA seems to be a tell-tale sign that you will get fired within a year or two.How did we get here? Is it the new norm? Steve tells you how many coaches were fired and hired in 1975. Staggering.We discuss Harbaugh, Gruden, Raiders, Giants, Joe Judge, Daboll, Gannon, McDaniel, Vrabel, and others.

Tommy Pham sets it off in an article in the Athletic regarding his sort of understanding of data, stats, advanced stats, and so on.Steve continues with his, "You can't measure everything, INTANGIBLES" and my continued mantra of, "You can, and most people don't understand statistical analysis".Now, we have Mark and the voice of reason.Oh, and there are 7 NFL head coaches that have been fired. What the what!?!

Mark is back! Well, he is a permanent fixture now. We just are able to execute the original plan.It is Steve's turn to give us some of his generational favorites. Steve grew up in Long Beach, California. He has a lot of cool stories of how sports used to be and the fan access to athletes. Many of whom we're his neighbors in middle-class Long Beach!Dodgers, Angels, Rams, Los Angeles Kings, Lakers, and Clippers appear. We argue about Don Baylor.

It's finally time. Our 3rd HEAT, Mark has been sitting in the wings for some time. He is finally here!To kick things off, we are discussing our Top 10 Favorite and Least Favorite players or things from our favorite teams.Mark is a Knicks, Yankees, and NY Giant Football team fan. We start with Mark to allow him to introduce himself.Classic Steve takes a shot at Pat Riley and Dwight Howard inexplicably. Great things to come. Hardcore listeners will get a breath of fresh air and new listeners will get a tease of why they should stay.

With recent news regarding sending Chris Paul home from a road game, Steve and I discuss player legacies and the importance of having a ring or not.We get into perception and circumstances for players like Charles Barkley, Kevin Durant, Kevin Garnett, Will Clark, Ernie Banks, and others.I correct Steve in the fact Johnny Unitas did get Super Bowl ring and Mike Schmidt was on some good Phillies teams, ummm, they won the World Series in 1980.Oh, and Steve mentions the Ind!ans.

With the recent news from AJ Brown of the Philadelphia Eagles, Steve thought we should discuss when and who the Diva Wide Receivers of the NFL were and are.Full disclosure, we do not discuss Antonio Brown. He is currently battling additional legal issues and without being a doctor, probably unwise to try and diagnose or imply anything. But, he was definitely a diva on the field.

It has been a moment. A retired person working more than someone not retired. Upgraded internet to improve the squirrels.Sports washing happened. Gambling happened. Things have been upside down since we last recorded.Also, there is a lost episode. Maybe one day it gets published.

The first week of the NFL is concluded and the masses already have expectations for first year QBs and several others that have a year or two in the league.Steve and I discuss others before them and the common denominators for those that succeed and those that don't.Players discussed, Phillip Rivers, Dree Brees, Eli Manning, Peyton, Troy Aikman, Sam Darnold, Caleb Williams, Bryce Young, CJ Stroud, Geno Smith, Steve Young, and others.

Steve and I discuss the NFL and ESPN merger? Sale? Crossover? Collab? Whatever you want to call it.It is the start of the new NFL season and we discuss our picks for the year.Baseball is hitting the final push for the playoffs. I ask Steve if he can name the 50+ save season players.

We're passed the NBA Finals and the NHL Final. We're in the time where baseball can take over the national discussion--although starting next Saturday, I will be engrossed by Le Tour de France!Steve and I start to peel the onion of where is the Hall of Fame line. Who is the line of just in and the line of just out.Discussed: Bobby Grich, Steve Garvey, Gary Sheffield, Lou Whittaker, Kenny Lofton, Dave Steib, and others.

The Finals seem like one of the biggest comebacks in recent memory - nobody mention the LeBrons beating the Warriors in 2016.Steve and I discuss the Pacers and Thunder and how it stacks up over the Generations.We discuss the Lakers being sold and other current news.

Steve wanted to test the NBA star theory. This show features the best things about the show: Steve tells one of his personal stories based on the old school times of LA and he winds me up by saying crazy stuff.Discussed: LeBron, Jordan, SGA, Steph, Draymond, Klay, Magic, Worthy, Mychal Thompson, Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlin, and more.

These NBA playoffs have been amazing. We are on track for the 5th straight year of a different champion.And, the 3rd heat is finally coming later this year and a ton of new shows are planned.

The first half we discuss the make-up and demographics of coaches across the generations.Then, the recent news of Rose being reinstated. Buckle up

Steve asks if the drama in sports is higher today than yesterday. With all of the close games and amazing finishes the last few weeks of the NBA playoffs , Steve wonders if there is more drama now than before.Oh, and we recorded this on time, I just did not hit the final publish button to get post this at the regular time.

Steve posits whether there are conspiracies to keep series in the NBA to go longer than needed for the sake of ratings and money.I bite and use examples of the Warriors - Rockets in Game 6 and Game 6 of the 2002 Kings - Lakers.Steve thinks I am crazy.

Lighter show today. Steve was thinking of different phrases and terms and how some of the meanings have changed over the Generations.Ernest Byner and LeBron are the opening examples.

Steve and i attempt to find a comparison over our lives for what has happened this year in the NBA with coaches (and GMs) getting let go so late in the season.Discussed, Pat Corrales, Steve Kerr, Greg Popovich, Eric Spoelstra, and others.

Steve talks about his travels to Vegas and Tahoe where he watched NCAA tournament games. Oh, and he gambled a bit too.We talk about how NIL is impacting the game, four Number One seeds for the first time since 2008, and where Cinderella went.I gush over Dawn Staley and her accomplishments and Steve flatly states he is rooting for U Conn. Hmmm?

Steve uncovers something that we have not really discussed before. We have discussed how and where we consume sports has changed, but he asks be about the mid 1970s San Francisco Dons.This thread reveals a lot about how things have changed and we explore this a bit.Reggie Theus is mentioned in context to the one of the greatest all time and we discuss the Lakers, Dodgers, Trojans, Bruins, and the thirst for winners in Los Angeles.

With Gerrit Cole going down before the season, Steve and I were wondering if this will crater the Yankees season before it even starts.This got us to thinking about key injuries either before a season starts or early in a season that cratered a year before it really started.We cannot do a show on this topic without chronicling the debacle that was the Sterling led Clippers. There is a reason Steve is called Clipper Lipson.

With the revelation that Kyrie Irving is out for the year, it is now presumed that there is no reason to rush Anthony Davis back from injury. Thus, the Mavericks are looking rather foolish regarding some of the reasoning behind trading Luka.Steve and I discuss some of the fallout of trades over the generations, both good and bad while we take yet another look at the historic trade that brought Luka to the Lakers.Mentioned: Jack Clark, Jose Uribe, Amari Cooper, Khalil Mack, and others.

Steve watched a documentary on hockey and started to think about international players in other sports.Americans were in Hockey when he was a kid, but not many, and most were not of any ilk.We discuss the players that came and how Americas national sports have become global.Discussed: Detlef Schempf, Avadis Sabonis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Drazen Petrovic, Dirk Nowitzski, and others.

Post Super Bowl, we discuss GOAT to Goat re: Patrick Mahomes and others. We discuss the NBA All-star game and I go on a diatribe about the Raiders.Discussed: Terry Francona, Michael Jordan, Bruce Bochy, Dustry Baker, Dominique Wilkins, Larry Nance, Celtics, Lakers, Sixers, Dr J.

The big news from the week is not the Super Bowl. It is Luka Doncic to the Lakers. No, it is was not Anthony Davis to the Mavericks.Steve and I try to evaluate this against other trades over the Generations. We discuss Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Adbul Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, and others.And I rant that the stars always end up in L.A.

Steve was enamored with Saquon Barkley's running ability in the NFC Championship game. Saqoun is the 7th running back to rush for 2,000 yards and did it with the 3rd fewest attempts. I give historical context and discuss how the game has changed and how the Eagles maximize their talent and scheme. Steve throws out hyperbolic comments that I checkmate him on each time. Oh, and remember how he said the Chiefs were done?

I think today was just a set-up for Steve to wind me up. We discuss the recent Hall of Fame inductees of Billy Wagner, CC Sabathia, and Ichiro. Steve makes inflammatory comments about several current Hall members and others not quite in such as: Bert Blyleven, Don Sutton, Don Sutton, and others. Somehow there is a hallow on the likes of Roy Halladay and a few others. By the way, Todd Helton gets besmirched. Then we have to talk about the Raiders. Ugh.

Steve uses Sam Darnold's season as the base case for either the disproportionate credit or blame for QBs. We discuss other sports and positions and how they are measured for team success. Steve throws me a question regarding the late, great, Bob Uecker. Discuss greats such as Joe Montana, Jim Kelly, Warren Moon, and how Joe Burrow gets a pass.

Notre Dame advanced to the National Championship this week. There are many people around the country that are fans of Notre Dame that did not attend the school, have never been to Indiana, and have never seen Touchdown Jesus. Steve and I discuss teams that have followings by fans that either never lived in the region of the team, never attended the respective school, and/ or have little or no affiliation with the team, city, school, other than they are just supporters of that school or team. We discuss, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Cal, Red Sox, Yankees, Jets, Braves, and others.

Jimmy Butler was suspended by the Heat this week. Steve and I take a Generational view of the hold out/ suspension of players. We discuss what may come and the ramifications of the Butler hold out and hold that up against other star players and their withholding of services. Duane Thomas, Bo Jackson, Romeo Doubs, Eric Dickerson and others are discussed.

Steve and I discuss the proliferation of NFL games on different days of the week and how it impacts the fan, the business, and the players. Crazy that we have games throughout the season on every day less Tuesday now. We discuss how this has changed. Discussed, Jerry Jones, Cowboys, Raiders, Mike Brown, Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, and others.

With the passing of Rickey and the induction of Dick Allen and Dave Parker into the Hall of Fame, Steve and I discuss their respective places in MLB history. Rickey was the guy when I was a kid. He represented the next wave of baseball superstars after Reggie. We discuss Dick Allen's ascension in MLB and his challenges with the times against his greatness on the field. Dave Parker arguably was the best player in MLB for 4 - 5 year stretch. This one gets heavy but it is an important conversation to learn where we were and how we can improve the game and the country as a whole.

Bill Belichick after a storied NFL career, he heads to UNC. Juan Soto goes to the mets for 3 quarters of a billion. We discuss other comps across the generations and whether these are new phenonmena.