Two suggestions. First I really liked your Pod with Nate Duncan where you did basketball takes from “normy fan perspective” compared to Nate’s takes, so a repeat of that (maybe in regards to team building now with new CBA could be interesting.
Second, I think Clay Travis would be interesting since you both have (in very very different ways) come at the “untapped market of sports takes that mainstream won’t touch” angle.
I want to hear what Nate Duncan thinks about non-basketball topics. I listened to his Covid podcast that he had while there was no NBA being played and thought it was by far the best pod for Covid info. Ever since I have always wanted Nate to do a non-NBA podcast.
I totally agree with this and Nate’s covid podcast about about how to approach a risk/benefit analysis of COVID during the summer of 2020 was fantastic. I am convinced that Nate is incapable of making his subjective opinions appear as objective facts. He is so diligent about separating his opinions from facts.
Marcellus Wiley. He’s pretty open about discussing sports media and he would be a fascinating guest to have since he’s worked on those sports debate shows with all the big names.
Joe Sheehan, founding member of Baseball Prospectus, who’s been writing a subscription Newsletter for almost 15 years, way before this “Substack” whatchimadoodle came on the scene.
In particular, Joe can tell you about why the rule changes in MLB are a band-aid to the real issue: “Pitchers are Witches”. But he’s a great guy in general and I’m certain it would be a fascinating episode!
Someone on soccer. Good convo on the BS pod around the US flailing out of Copa Americana. Seems like an interesting topic why after decades and decades of the US being "just around the corner" we still suck at soccer even though we're great at every other sport.
Get Nate back to talk Biden and the state of the race.
Seems like the topic of the Lakers being run by lunatics is an interesting one and one that hasn't really been explored in depth, would be interesting to really dig into how weird that franchise is and the impact of that on the court going forward (after LeBron are they cooked?). Maybe someone who can talk about that?
I wonder if there's an interesting podcast looking into teams that always suck and why. How does the business work such that this is profitable? Are they just unlucky or is it the owners fault? Different across sports? Maybe someone has looked into this.
Could get Spike back on, he's always great and lots of sixers / NBA news.
Joe Pomp needs to be on more; maybe Nate Silver if you can get him. For more culture stuff, Kat Rosenfield is quite under-rated as a guest. Kang would also be good to get back too!
Haven't followed what has transpired as of late, but when Whitlock was in the driver's seat at ESPN (years ago) trying to launch what he called "Black Grantland", Bomani was actually one of Whitlock's few defenders. Granted, Bomani wasn't saying Whitlock was the greatest thing since sliced bread, by any means, but he never threw him under the bus or had any beef with him like many of his other colleagues did.
If you want something completely different, I’d try to get The Hockey Guy from YouTube. Does a really good job explaining the game and how hockey is not all random. The history series he’s been doing on the NHL is great
You've asked this before and I'm suggesting again that you have an actual sports economist like Rodney Fort on. Tyler Cowen was interesting-ish but he is a general economist who happens to have some opinions on sports, which is far from actually taking sports economics as a field seriously. A sports econ adjacent person would be Mike Ozanian who is the person who has produced Forbes Sports Teams valuations for like 20+ years.
Another suggestion would be Josh Mendelsohn on, he wrote "The Cap" which detailed how the NBA's Salary Cap was first negotiated back in the early 1980s between David Stern and Larry Fleisher https://www.amazon.com/Cap-Larry-Fleisher-David-Modern-ebook/dp/B086RF21CL which is also a really good account of how the early NBA/NBPA relationship looked. I don't know if he'd have much insight into the current iteration of the CBA, but at the very least you could swap Stern stories.
Two suggestions. First I really liked your Pod with Nate Duncan where you did basketball takes from “normy fan perspective” compared to Nate’s takes, so a repeat of that (maybe in regards to team building now with new CBA could be interesting.
Second, I think Clay Travis would be interesting since you both have (in very very different ways) come at the “untapped market of sports takes that mainstream won’t touch” angle.
+1 for more Nate Duncan
I want to hear what Nate Duncan thinks about non-basketball topics. I listened to his Covid podcast that he had while there was no NBA being played and thought it was by far the best pod for Covid info. Ever since I have always wanted Nate to do a non-NBA podcast.
I totally agree with this and Nate’s covid podcast about about how to approach a risk/benefit analysis of COVID during the summer of 2020 was fantastic. I am convinced that Nate is incapable of making his subjective opinions appear as objective facts. He is so diligent about separating his opinions from facts.
Nate is great because he's good at arguing and he commits to his takes. It's probably his lawyer background.
Clay would be great, I'm sure would be a very interesting convo
Marcellus Wiley. He’s pretty open about discussing sports media and he would be a fascinating guest to have since he’s worked on those sports debate shows with all the big names.
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Joe Sheehan, founding member of Baseball Prospectus, who’s been writing a subscription Newsletter for almost 15 years, way before this “Substack” whatchimadoodle came on the scene.
In particular, Joe can tell you about why the rule changes in MLB are a band-aid to the real issue: “Pitchers are Witches”. But he’s a great guy in general and I’m certain it would be a fascinating episode!
Lower the mound.
Nick Wright vs Freddie
Only sounds good in theory. It would make for an awful pod (but I would listen).
Dr. Umar Johnson
This is so insane it might just work 😂😂😂
“Consciousness over coochie and politics over Punani” a message HOS subscribers can relate to
lol
Some ideas:
Someone on soccer. Good convo on the BS pod around the US flailing out of Copa Americana. Seems like an interesting topic why after decades and decades of the US being "just around the corner" we still suck at soccer even though we're great at every other sport.
Get Nate back to talk Biden and the state of the race.
Seems like the topic of the Lakers being run by lunatics is an interesting one and one that hasn't really been explored in depth, would be interesting to really dig into how weird that franchise is and the impact of that on the court going forward (after LeBron are they cooked?). Maybe someone who can talk about that?
I wonder if there's an interesting podcast looking into teams that always suck and why. How does the business work such that this is profitable? Are they just unlucky or is it the owners fault? Different across sports? Maybe someone has looked into this.
Could get Spike back on, he's always great and lots of sixers / NBA news.
I agree "Tactical Manager" is a great up and coming US Soccer youtuber and twitter user. I was thinking the same thing.
Joe Pomp needs to be on more; maybe Nate Silver if you can get him. For more culture stuff, Kat Rosenfield is quite under-rated as a guest. Kang would also be good to get back too!
Kat Rosenfield is great
You should have Jason Whitlock on although your boys Wos, Amin, & Bomani will give you shit about it
Then you must not know Wos, Amin or Bomani. They probably aren't fans of Whitlock, but they wouldn't give Ethan shit for having him on the pod.
Haven't followed what has transpired as of late, but when Whitlock was in the driver's seat at ESPN (years ago) trying to launch what he called "Black Grantland", Bomani was actually one of Whitlock's few defenders. Granted, Bomani wasn't saying Whitlock was the greatest thing since sliced bread, by any means, but he never threw him under the bus or had any beef with him like many of his other colleagues did.
Marcus Thompson II
Let's go big with the two Bills...
... that is Bill Maher and Bill Simmons. Your really put me on to Bill Simmons podcast. The other Two Bills would be fine too.
Brian Windhorst, Nellie Bowles, Bomani, Katie Herzog, Nancy Rommelmann... and of course Ryan/Big Wos anytime.
And forgot to mention another top HOS guest... Spike
Kamala
Wos and Spike
more Big Woz please
If you want something completely different, I’d try to get The Hockey Guy from YouTube. Does a really good job explaining the game and how hockey is not all random. The history series he’s been doing on the NHL is great
You've asked this before and I'm suggesting again that you have an actual sports economist like Rodney Fort on. Tyler Cowen was interesting-ish but he is a general economist who happens to have some opinions on sports, which is far from actually taking sports economics as a field seriously. A sports econ adjacent person would be Mike Ozanian who is the person who has produced Forbes Sports Teams valuations for like 20+ years.
Another suggestion would be Josh Mendelsohn on, he wrote "The Cap" which detailed how the NBA's Salary Cap was first negotiated back in the early 1980s between David Stern and Larry Fleisher https://www.amazon.com/Cap-Larry-Fleisher-David-Modern-ebook/dp/B086RF21CL which is also a really good account of how the early NBA/NBPA relationship looked. I don't know if he'd have much insight into the current iteration of the CBA, but at the very least you could swap Stern stories.
I would second this.