Completely Conspicuous Episode 103: Put Me In, Coach

Special guest Phil Stacey and I conclude our look at the decade in sports, including baseball, the NFL and the influence of the Internet.

Topics:

- Big story in baseball was steroids 

- Big names were caught cheating: McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, Clemens, A-Rod

- Baseball's tough to watch beginning to end: games are so slow

- Red Sox vanquished curse with two World Series wins

- Drawback of excellent play is abundance of bandwagon-jumping fans

- Sports talk radio rehashes same stuff over and over

- NHFL has surpassed MLB in popularity

- Patriots are team of the decade

- Football's better to watch on TV than in person

- XFL came and went

- XFL's lasting legacy: He Hate Me

- Gambling is big part of NFL fandom

- Fantasy football is big business

- Internet's role in sports looms large

- Local papers trying to own their market with blogs, podcasts

- Blogs can run gamut from good analysis to gossip to fanboys

- Twitter's good for breaking news

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- Soulsavers - You'll Miss Me When I Burn

- St. Vincent - The Strangers

- Deer Tick - Baltimore Blues No. 1

- Carbon/Silicon - What's Up Doc?

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The Soulsavers song is on the band's album Broken on V2 Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/soulsavers and download the track for free at http://www.pitchperfectpr.com.

The St. Vincent song is on the album Actor on Beggars Group USA. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/stvincent and download the song for free at http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com.   

The Deer Tick song was released as a free download in honor of Veterans Day. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/deertick and download the song for free at http://www.partisanrecords.com.

The Carbon/Silicon song is on the album The Carbon Bubble. Find out more and download the entire album for free at http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com.  

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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.net. 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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