Completely Conspicuous Episode 90: Sleeping with the Enemy
Special guest Matt Siegel joins me to talk about being a lifelong Red Sox fan married to a diehard Yankees fan.
Topics:
- Sox-Yanks rivalry brought them together
- Jay sneaks in gratuitous reference to Blue Jays winning '93 World Series
- Matt and Tricia had planned on opening a "rivalry" bar
- Things get tense when the teams play each other
- Tales of woe at Yankee Stadium
- Matt's a sore loser
- Tricia's a true sports fan
- Sticking with your hometown team, unlike our pal Tim Coyne
- A little NBA talk
- Talking Blue Jays
- Baseball needs a salary cap
- The wonderful world of podcasts
- Boston's shifting sports talk radio scene
- Sponsorship and podcasting
- Online shopping
- Juggling passwords and e-mail addresses
- Lamenting the fate of newspapers
- Social media rules
- Pinhead of the Week
Music:
- The Raveonettes - Suicide
- Deer Tick - Smith Hill
- Julian Plenti - Fun That We Have
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The Raveonettes song is on the forthcoming album In and Out of Control on Vice Records; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/theraveonettes. You can download the song at http://www.vicerecords.com.
The Deer Tick song is on the album Born on Flag Day on Partisan Records. Find out more on http://www.myspace.com/deertick. You can download the song at http://www.partisanrecords.com.
The Julian Plenti song is on the album Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper on Matador Records; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/julianplentinyc. You can download the song at http://www.matadorrecords.com.
The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.com. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at http://bobdurling.blogspot.com/.
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