Beantown Podcast - Top 10 Most Demoralizing Plays in Sports (04042025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss Sasha Cohen fails, 3-2-1 Penguins!, and a touching tribute to the legendary John Heard

Hey, what's going on? Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, April 4th, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? Season eight of the Beantown podcast. Today's four four, four plus four equals eight. That's the kind of cryptography that we're into on the show here. C-R-Y-P-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y. Eight syllable words cryptography. We're coming to you live on a Friday afternoon 430 p.m. Just had opening day here at Wrigley Field. Big W for the Cubs defeating the Wrigley field, big W for the Cubs, defeating the previously undefeated San Diego Padres and got to watch Fernando Tatis Jr. smack around a couple base hits. Always reminds me of the time I went to Petco Park two or three years ago. Cubs were in town for a series. I was there for a conference.

So I went to a game and was very bold. You know, if you don't know Fernando Tatis is their superstar player and his dad Fernando Tatis played for the Cardinals and probably some other teams is famous as a senior is famous for being the only player in MLB history to hit two grand slams in one inning. It's absolutely absurd. It's almost certainly never going to happen again. But Fernando Tatis Jr. was suspended about three or four years ago for PEDs. It's a sort of an industry insider term that I'll use with the boys down at the club. industry insider term that I'll use with the boys down at the club, performance enhancing drugs. So he was suspended for steroids, 80 games, and ever since coming back has just been absolutely dynamite. And I'm not so convinced that he's not

still on something that's flying under the radar. So when I went to the away game Cubs at Padres, Petco Park, I booed the hell out of that guy every time he came up to bat and I was really starting to piss off the Padres fans around me. It worked out well because Cubs won and you know you can kind of cock your chin up. It's like the there's a great like picture book I don't really know how to describe it, but they used to make these books, maybe they still do, for Star Wars and certainly other franchises, but it would show their characters and all the different items and the different characters and stuff.

And there's a classic one from Attack of the Clones and it's Christopher Lee and it's a picture of him as Count Dooku. And the caption is, signature look of superiority. That was me walking down the stairs at Petco Park, going back to the Hilton after a Cubs win and three boos every time he came up to bat. One of the, one of the times I tried, I think I was two or three beers in, I tried to see how long I could hold my boo for. And I think it was like 30 seconds.

That's when people started to get really pissed off. You know what? Don't cheat. That's the moral of that story. It also reminds me, I think I had two drinks there at Petco Park. San Diego is an expensive place. I think those beers, you get the 22 ounce cans or whatever it is. I think they were $16 at the time time and that felt egregious to me.

Well, Cubs opening day was today. They just put out the beer prices for the season down at Wrigley. And the domestic, which is, you know, they sell whatever it is. Mickel-Obe and Bud Light. Is Mickel-Obe even American? I don't know. Mickel-Obe looks French to me. I think it is American beer, though.

But let's just say the Bud Light or the Budweiser. It is $13.99, a.k.a. after taxes, like $14-something, $15-something. Plus, everyone's got the tip machine now. Even the vendors, they're walking up and down the aisles. It's all digital now. And so they turn the tip machine around and it's 18%, 25% or just sub your mortgage payment

here. And it's $14.99 for premium cans, which I will put quotation marks around premium, because it's like I don't even remember what the premium cans are. I mean, it's not egregious, but it'll be like a 312 or something, which if you don't know is a Goose Island beer local to Chicago. And it's just like completely fine. It's not a bad beer. I think, you know, I think there's a 312 and a Green Line, which is the IPA. It's not bad beer by any means, but it's not going to change your life. But after tax and TIP, if you do a normal TIP, you want to get a Green Line at the ballgame this year, it's about 17 bucks. And I don't know. There's a certain point, obviously inflation prices go up every year.

prices go up every year. It's a bummer. But at a certain point it really starts to outpace your income and the amount of money you make. And so like 12 bucks for a Bud Light five years ago felt like a lot and it was and is. But 16 bucks or whatever it is now just can't really justify it. I've never been someone who goes to the ballpark and buys a ton of beer. Unless I was like in an away situation where I didn't have a home base to pregame at beforehand, but it's gotten really dire. And I'm not the type of person who if I go by myself, if I'm just hanging out at the ballpark catching a game, it's pretty rare that I'll buy a beer. I did that a decent amount of Camden Yards when I would go to Baltimore Orioles games because they were relatively cheap, but I just can't, I don't have the disposable income to just casually buy $16 Bud Lights. So there's your

PSA of the week. If you're going to Wrigley Field, make sure you load up outside the stadium, literally and figuratively. Listener discretion advised when you're listening to this program, number one will occasionally some language number two this podcast is objectively terrible. I do want to mention that I am the creator, the host and the chief semitoning stretch organ operator of this program. I'd play it for you, but the piano is all the way over there. And we got our good setup going here, drinking our Trader Joe's sparkling lime water. A couple more shows before I can get back on my whiskey game

here for this show. I got a decanter I got to fill up. Got to decant something. Got some Nevada whiskey I got. Tennessee whiskey I got. I got all sorts of stuff. But we've got this show. And then it's looking like,

I can't 100% commit to this yet, but it's looking like we're gonna get tax expert Matt Fieler on the program for year eight next week. So be on the lookout for that eight next week. So be on the lookout for that. Trying to nail down a recording time. And then one more show after that our Easter special where we go old school aka Old Testament school and you know we do something fun every year usually involves plagues, PLAG, UES

and then it's a weekend, which is crazy. So it's a clear runway in front of us, hopefully aiming for a nice, smooth, gentle landing. That would be very nice. So that's what the rest of April looks like for us. And then week after that, we got our horse name special. So if you are just coming out of frozen hibernation here,'re wondering what's going on in bean town these days well we got we got some banger episodes coming for you so be on the lookout for all that and much more. I want to

quickly very ever so quickly because I know there we're going to talk sports here but I'm not mentioning cricket it's a little spoiler for you there. But I do want to thank our good friends in Pakistan for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Thank you, Hyderabad. Thank you, Karachi. Thank you, whatever.

There's probably a nice coastal town or series of towns on the, what is that that the Bay of Bengal above the northern wing of the Indian Ocean there you know when you see you go to the Instagram and Tik Toks and you see you know viral viral you know beach towns it's always like Rosemary Beach Florida or the place in Italy, Palermo, when they where they filmed White Lotus season two, or, oh, it's always like Maldives, where they got the little huts that you walk right on right out into the ocean or Bali, people are always talking about. You don't hear a lot about the Pakistani coast. That's actually I'm actually genuinely curious because Pakistan's got a little bit

of a ocean border going there where the Indus River Delta induces into the ocean. You figure around there, you're probably not getting luxurious beach resorts. It's probably more like if you go down to New Orleans and it's just kind of a swamp. That's my expectation for the Indus River Delta. But what else they got going on there? Karachi's on the ocean. Did anyone else not know this?

When I think of Karachi, I just think of like the Himalayan mountains. But the more you know, see, because Karachi have a nice beach. Oh, there's McDonald's right on the beach. Dude, Pakistan's got this stuff figured out. Clifton Sea View Beach it's a very Pakistani name it's a scenic spot. Yeah that looks like an ocean that guy's riding a horse. Karachi doesn't have much as far as skylines go. There's something to note there. This is good research for me I play my GeoGuessr game once a day

where they plop three times. They plop you in the middle of anywhere on earth and you have to move yourself around and look for signs literally and figuratively to figure out where you are. Oh, in Karachi, this is the the Teen Talwar monument. It's a monument specifically for teens. I don't think that's true. Well maybe that picture's got some teens in it. Artful zebra crossing at teen Talwar. Or as there's a good chance teen just means something other than adolescent in what do they speak in Pakistan these days?

Urdu? Could be. Looks like so that's Karachi. If you go southeast, there's not a lot of space. That's the Kety Bunders South Wildlife Sanctuary, world famous. You got Hyderabad up there. And then you go west and there's not a lot. It looks kind of desolated.

The Hingle Balochistan National Park. That looks pretty, that's pretty actually. That guy looks like a riddle of the Sphinx. That's kind of cool Guys gotta look up the Hengel H-i-n-g-o-l balochistan b-a-l-o-t-c-h-i-s-t-a-n national park Kind of a pretty spot. I wonder if you can get cheap flights from midway And then you keep going west and you get uh

God got guadar beach tough to say looks like a lot of just rock not a ton of beach Oh three three pillars of Pishakan that should be good. Oh, that's kind of that's a cool natural formation It's almost as good as what are they called? Haystack rock out in the Pacific Northwest and then you get to Iran and You're closer to Oman and Yemen and the pirates and stuff But yeah, Pakistani coast very underrated not talked about Hidden Giants in the Bay of Bengal I can confirm is on the other side. It's the Arabian Sea that you want Let's get into our hot take of the week. We talked March Madness on the show two weeks ago when we discussed

Schools I know and had ever heard of and where they were located We talked March Madness on the show two weeks ago when we discussed schools that no one had ever heard of and where they were located. But my hot take of the week is this is the worst March Madness ever. Not only, you know, everyone knows it's the number one seeds won all their, you know, quadrants and that's fine. It is what it is. It's happened before, most recently like 15 years ago or something. But there just haven't been any good viral memorable moments.

No crying Northwestern kid. No slam dunk university or whatever they called. And Florida International was all over the map. No, there's been like one or two buzzer beaters, I think. Was it Maryland who had a buzzer beater? I can't remember. There's been maybe like two or two buzzer beaters I think was it Maryland who had a buzzer beater I can't remember there's been a you know maybe like two or three overtime games but just missing the magic maybe I'm just yearning for Jim Nance thankfully you still get to see him

when Houston plays because he's a big Houston fan but just missing the magic this March. I don't know. Nothing cool like BYU or Liberty going to the Final Four and a lot of good God memes. There just haven't been very many good memes from March Madness. Thankfully, we're getting saved by these tariffs. You want to talk memes. Oh my god, my Twitter is just a flooded that's not really a word flooded but I like when you add the a in front of it it kind of makes it sound a little bit more prim and proper if you asked me to find to

define prim PR I am first I would say the kid from Hunger Games that dies Rue and prim both get sorry spoiler alert for all the Susan Collins heads out there. You know who should have died? Rachel Ziegler in the prequel. That's what I was rooting for. But she just kind of disappears when he's in the forest. You know, she's in the forest with Donald Sutherland running around and he's kind of going crazy. That whole the third act of that that book or I didn't read the book the movie didn't work for me. It's like he's supposed to be evil now or is he good? He like goes

to the the labor camp in the third act weird pacing. I don't know what is that? Is that two years old already? A song of ice and snakes, what is it called? Rachel, what's the Hunger Games prequel called? The song, that's what it's called. Ballad of songs? Yeah, the Ballad of Songs featuring Lucy Gray. Too much singing in that one. That was the other thing.

You'll be proud to know, speaking of singing, that Rachel and I nailed a Final Jeopardy question from last night, from Thursday, April 3rd, related to Bach, Woodsman. And it's a good thing I'm caught up on my Broadway musicals because I nailed it. Preliminary trivia question of the week, this isn't the real one, but Bach-Woodsman is a character from which Broadway musical that received a lot of attention for a film adaptation late last year. It's Wicked. And we got Wicked Part 2, the wickedly talented part two.

This Christmas season, Wicked, what is it called? Be Good? I think they ripped that off from E.T. when he's, you know, Henry Thomas gives him the plant, the potted plant. And E.T. says Be Good. And then John Williams, the horn section comes in. Drew Barrymore standing there tears in her eyes. The golden retriever runs halfway up the stairs and runs back. Spaceship takes off, shoots off into the sky, rainbow in the sky, Henry Thomas tears flowing from his eyes. one of my all-time favorite movie

moments. ET is unforgettable. Scared scared me shitless as a kid especially the scene towards the end with the people in the hazmat suits oh my god scary scary scary scary when you're a little kid but that ending chef's kiss probably that's why I was scared to ride a bike as a kid because I was afraid I when you're a little kid, but that ending, chef's kiss. Probably that's why I was scared to ride a bike as a kid, because I was afraid I was going to take off over the town and fly in front of a full moon. It's all coming back to me now. I almost, that was almost the Celine Dion song

that I sang at karaoke last weekend. It's all coming back to me now. If you cut me like that and you touch me like this, it's harder to hurt but it's all coming back to me now. But I chose Power of Love instead. And I think I nailed it. I don't really remember it though. That's our hot take of the week. We don't have we should mention maple though maple is not next to me She's in the other room with mom on a very important work project here at the end of the day and Friday But that's not gonna stop us from maples minute because she told me what she wanted to say earlier when we are on our walk back

From being very brave miss maple been here for almost seven months now, and she got her first ever haircut been here for almost seven months now and she got her first ever haircut since we've had her. She was shaggy when we got her shaggy up until today and she got a nice clean trim. So she's looking like a brand new dog. Very brave. She was away from mom and dad for gosh almost three full hours and she's looking fresh. I'll try to get a picture on the website later. I would love to take credit for it as a cut by queue because it really adds some credence to the site. But alas, I paid out of pocket. I hemmed and hawed for a long time thinking, not arrogantly, but just weighing my options of whether or not it was worth it to try it myself. Because I trim her nails, and it goes fairly well.

But the haircut, just, I still think I could, I could do a decent amount. I mean, I got trimmers. That's how I shave, or trim my own hair. And I got the guards, you know, your two and 1 eighths and 3 and 7 quarters and stuff. But I just decided, you know what, it was like, it was pretty reasonable, I think, for a, you know, you worry about living in a higher cost of living city and play a neighborhood where dogs, there's all sorts of dogs, you might think, oh, you know,

haircuts can be really expensive. It was $60, which I feel like is I Don't know. Maybe I'm just gotten too rich for my own blood, but $60 doesn't feel so bad for something you're probably just gonna do like I Don't know excuse me. We'll see when the hair grows back, but like once a year maybe I don't think it would be more than that We'll see maples minute This is the only time we're going to talk politics on the show. Actually, we're going to talk it briefly with our trivia question as well, but it relates to Maples Minute. We'll do trivia at the end, but Maples Minute

is that we need to stop the tariffs on Heard Island and the McDonald's Islands. And if you're wondering what the heck are you talking about? Well, if you live under a rock you may have missed Trump's tariffs But if you didn't read the chart closely you may have noticed that Trump has imposed tariffs on Two or an island and a chain of islands the herd island John heard island the dad from Home alone and guy who dies commits suicide I believe in season one or two of The Sopranos. And then Guy Who Actually Died in Real Life. Rest in Peace, John Heard. But then, then McDonald's Islands, which not the same as the McDonald's on the beach in Pakistan,

in Karachi, although that was very well thought out. But these are just McDonald's islands. They are uninhabited islands about 2 thirds of the way from Madagascar. And there's also a 47% tariff on Madagascar, which is crazy. But uninhabited islands, no humans, I should say. 2 thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. And the reason why Maple has taken a particular interest in this. The residents of these islands are none other than penguins.

And there's all been all sorts at least on my Twitter and Reddit, all sorts of great memes. This was my favorite one. It's the you know, the Zelensky meeting from a month ago, you know, Trump's sitting there talking with his hands, JD Vance to the right and then Zelensky meeting from a month ago. Trump's sitting there talking with his hands. JD Vance to the right and then Zelensky on the left. And of course, stupid ass Agent Orange favorite quote from that is like, you don't have any of the cards. We have all the cards. And it's just instead of Zelensky, it's a penguin sitting there. The poor penguins are getting taxed. No one is safe. So Maple is standing up and

I'm with her in solidarity for the penguins of McDonald Islands and Heart Island. I don't know I think we might need to be preparing for an amphibious invasion penguin style. Get captained by those those penguins from Madagascar didn't those penguins get their own spin-off movie was it called penguins of Madagascar you know another quick shout out I want to give before we thank our sponsors and then get to our top 10 list of the week here the 321 penguins you guys remember this one it was it was a Christian kids show from probably turn of the century 25 years ago, and it was kind of like like a Star Trek spoof

Maybe it was like dragon tales, but with penguins, you know, there's these two kids They're like hanging out at their grandma's house. I think it was a film. Let's actually just cut get confirmation on this Let's actually just get confirmation on this. Let's Google it. I think while we're Googling it, 321 Penguins was a film originally. Same, I think same studio, big ideas, is that what it's called, as Veggie Tales. But certainly in the same vein, but less popular. I think it was a film and then a spin-off TV series they made. I don't know like where it aired, but let's just learn. Let's read about it. 321 penguins. The show was from 2006. But

I thought there was a film that was like it started with. Okay, here we go. This is from Wikipedia 321 penguins and there's an exclamation point, is an American science fiction computer animated Christian children's television series initially launched on November 14th, 2000. Look at that, it nailed the date. As a direct-to-video episode, so not labeled as a movie but an episode rather, by Big Idea Entertainment and just tangent, yes, that is, they did create Veggie Tales. And I think like the two guys who founded it did all the original voices in Veggie Tales. The Directive Video Series held the top spot on the SoundScan Kid video sales charts, which I've been trying to get on for years, for its first 18 weeks of release, was the

number one seller on Christian Booksellers Association's video list in 2001 and had sold 1.5 million videos as of February 2009. Okay. See if there's anything else interesting here. Maybe the character names we could come up with. There were three seasons, six episodes. So it was like six directed videos So they sold them on VHS and then there was more of a traditional TV series. I don't know what it aired on cubo

cubo It was an American TV network for children between the ages of 5 and 14 Who knew? Here are the characters. Zigel, Midgell, Fidgel, and Kevin. That's right, there was Kevin. And then the kids were Jason, Michelle, and then their grandma was named Grand Mom. So there you go.

You got Zigel, Midgell, Fidgel, and Kevin. Very creative show. 3, 2, 1, Penguin.gel, and Kevin, very creative show. 321 Penguin, something you haven't thought about for years. I want to say thank you to our sponsors here. First, guys, if you are buying a home over by Haystack Rock, which we just mentioned, there's only one home inspector that you should be trusting.

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But I couldn't find the laundry room. Now, there was one extra room inside of the big room I got into. And I think it must have been in there. Then there was a separate room with a separate entrance but I couldn't figure out how you're supposed to get in there because I'm not trying to go into all the intricate details but there was no like lock that you put your your key into you could just see the door was like an inch open and you could see there was like an interior lock.

You know there's like the metal strap if you you will, bar across the door, and there's a padlock on the inside, but you can't like reach through there to unlock it or anything. So I got to go back in there and do a second look on that. Not that I'm looking for laundry, because we have it, washer, dryer, and unit, but it's interesting. It's very cavernous down there. And I just want to get to the bottom of things. I'm literally on the subterranean level.

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Whether you're doing a podcast or a sermon or anything else Samson and God speaks he uses a Samson and of course our good friends at cuts by Q Unfortunately can't take credit for the the dog cuts but maybe next time we'll try it out we'll see how it goes maybe I'll shave some racing stripes or just do like the straight up numbers like they have an auto racing what would what would Maples number be she seems like she could be like a zero not because that's a reflection of her confidence or abilities but it's just kind of badass when you're like a cool player and your number zero like I saw Jamir Gibbs for the Lions just changed his number to zero so and he's he's fantastic so if Jamir Gibbs can be zero Maple can

be zero when you need a fresh do something snappy or new call the experts at cuts by Q. All right. This idea came to me and not in a dream but on a run. I was you know MLB season has started. I was listening to the Cubs game in Sacramento of all places. If you if you've not been following Major League Baseball and I tell you there's a team playing in Sacramento and you had to guess who it was. You know you'd want to pick the team that was closest to Sacramento before the season started but yes it is the Oakland Athletics are playing in Sacramento. They're not going as the Oakland Athletics nor the Sacramento Athletics they're just the athletics. So like you

go to the MLB AO West standings page it's got Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners, one more I forgot. And then it's just, oh Los Angeles Angels, and then it's just athletics. Reminiscent of Washington football team when the Redskins bridged the gap between them and the commanders for, what were they, WFT for like to the year two years three years maybe not sure Yep, just the athletics also if you don't know the Tampa Bay Rays Or maybe they're just known as the Tampa Rays I think they're still Tampa is used to be Tampa Bay Devil Rays now. It's just Tampa Bay Rays, but Tropicana field got destroyed by a hurricane so or the roof did and

They don't have any money to fix it, apparently. So they're playing somewhere offsite, too, I think. I don't know. I was going to say St. Petersburg, but I think Tropicana Field is already in St. Petersburg, so who knows? But I don't know. They're playing in some minor league stadium, too.

So we got a 15th of the league over here. Playing in in in new waters. How did we get there? Oh, I was listening to the Cubs game and something happened. A specific play that got me thinking, you know, that's that's really demoralizing when that happens to your team when when you give that up. And so that got me thinking, what what are the most demoralizing plays in sports? Not necessarily losses, ways to lose, but just plays to have happen against you in sports. So I made a top 10 list. Excuse me. And I actually added some honorable mentions because there was just a couple more

I thought of later and I needed to shuffle things around. But as we're going through here, feel free to blue sky at us, Beantown Podcast. Feel free to tweet at us, Beantown Cast, or as always, you can email us, BeantownPodcast at yahoo.com. Whether you agree, disagree, or you have other suggestions, we'd love to hear your suggestions as well. And that reminds me, we mentioned the horse name special, special but guys we are getting down to nut cutting time we are What a month away? four weeks away from the Kentucky Derby and this is your reminder to get in your

Horse-name suggestions for season 8 of the show we will read anything we receive live on air There's no guarantee it makes it into the top 10, but I will read everything and you know who cares where it is You know you made it live on air. There's no guarantee it makes it into the top 10, but I will read everything and, you know, who cares where it is. You know, you made it live on air. That's pretty cool. So you can email us, tweet at us, blue sky at us, whatever you want to do. But we got that coming up in a month here. Four more shows till our horse name is special. And again, if you're new, just your favorite horse name. It's not like a real horse. It's just something you came up with. Horse names are such a unique and rich culture. It's kind of hard to explain. It's kind of whatever you want it to be.

It can have cool punctuation too. It's like Elon Musk naming his kids. So submit what you got. Here are, without further ado, the top 10 most demoralizing plays in sports and there's actually going to be 12 for you. So honorable mention number one. I had this one in the list for a while and then I just got bumped but I wanted to include it because it is demoralizing. This is maybe demoralizing certainly but it's more just kind of sad when it happens. A lot of these are just straight-up

demoralizing they're not really sad. But what is demoralizing? And I only watch ice skating once every four years at the Winter Olympics, but when you are ice skating, world's biggest stage, and you have a big fall on your triple axel or your quadruple lotus or whatever you're trying to do, because when you fall in ice skating, that's it.

It's not like, oh, you know, the rest of it was really good. So you still got a chance. One fall and it's, it's over. It's done. That's always so depressing. I remember always rooting for Sasha Cohen growing up. What was it? 2002 Salt Lake City, 2006 Turin. Is that where they were? I think those were the two Olympics she was in. And just, she was always so highly touted and then she would always fall I think she meddled at least once so maybe she didn't fall one time I don't know, but it was always like okay. This is the this is the time She's actually gonna do it, and then she'd fall and you just be like well. She's not winning gold now

So that's pretty demoralizing our other our second of two honorable mentions memorializing our other our second of two honorable mentions. Giving up an overtime goal in the Stanley Cup playoffs. So it's one thing to give up an overtime goal and lose in the regular season, but it's a five minute period. It's three on three. It's designed for action. It's probably not the highest stakes thing. You still get a point.

But here's the thing, you give up an overtime goal in the Stanley Cup playoffs Especially if it's an elimination game that goes without saying but it is just Those games if you don't watch playoff hockey it is just the most like intense high energy Thing I mean all playoffs are intense and high energy, but hockey is just a whole nother level for me personally And so when you make it all the way to overtime you're playing into you know 60 first minute and beyond are intense and high energy, but hockey is just a whole nother level for me personally. And so when you make it all the way to overtime, you're playing into, you know, 61st minute and beyond, especially if it's double overtime or triple OT and you give up that goal, it is just absolutely demoralizing when that happens.

Happened to the, I saw this clip on Twitter Twitter this morning the Philadelphia Flyers lost to the Chicago Blackhawks game six of the 2010 Stanley Cup final Patrick Kane with the kind of sneaky goal no one knew where the puck went except for him and they lost in OT that was pretty devastating that happened to the Blackhawks the year after right game seven of the it wasn't the Western Conference finals I think it was the first or second round but they were playing the Vancouver Canucks and they were down 3-0 in the series they came all the way back to force a game seven and then they've lost in overtime but I'm not complaining too much because they would still get three cups total out of that core so can't

can't complain but they did get knocked out brutally a couple times. The Vancouver loss and then when they lost to the Kings, that was an overtime as well to get eliminated. Maybe that was, that might have been game seven too, I can't remember. Tough, tough. Okay number 10. This one is just, it's just, you kind of shrug your shoulders and say, what am I going to do?

Giving up a full court buzzer beater. Usually it's a heave. So not a lot of other sports where you heave, I guess shot put javelin you heave, discus certainly you heave. But otherwise, basketball, you give up a full court, doesn't happen all that often. I feel like you see it more in like the middle school games than actual, you know, NCAA bracket or NBA playoffs or whatever.

But giving up the full court buzzer beat or heave is tough. Bulls had a half court heave to beat the Lakers last week. That was awesome. That was iconic. There's that white guy, Josh Giddy, we got in the trade to beat LeBakers last week. That was awesome. That was iconic. That white guy, Josh Giddy, we got in the trade to beat LeBron and Luca. That was nice. So that was pretty demoralizing for the Lakers, but imagine if it was a full court heave, how bad that would have been. So that's number 10. Number nine, I had to include this one for the international audience, Pakistan. It's not

cricket, but you'll enjoy this. It's soccer losing on penalty kicks similar to the the hockey overtime goal if you especially in like a major tournament where you play 120 minutes before you go to PKs two full hours are running around you probably ran like 10 15 miles and then it's just PKs is so random. I mean, there's still a lot out there in terms of your talents and ability as a goal scorer, how good your goalie is, all that stuff. But it's just like, we just spent all this time and now

we're just going to decide it on PKs, penalty kicks. And when you lose on that, it's just tough. Especially if you're the road team, you're just standing there in disbelief. We put in all this work just to lose like this. It just feels cheap, cheap either way. You don't see, I don't know, maybe soccer and FIFA could take a page out of the Stanley Cup final

or Stanley Cup playoffs. You don't see them going to a shootout after one period of overtime or two periods of overtime. They just play until it's over. That's what we need to do in soccer. And and let's bring back the golden goal. We don't need to play a full 15 minutes of extra time and then another 15 after that. Just say someone scores. That's it. We don't have to commit to a full 15 minutes of extra time and then another 15 after that just say if someone scores, that's it

We don't have to commit to a full 15 minutes if you give up a goal, that's it move on with your life Those are the rule changes I would propose to FIFA Number eight this one had to include some golf But you know how in golf when you're putting and it's like, okay, you got this and you just barely miss and that's pretty demoralizing in and of itself. But then you walk up and then you got the I don't know what the golf terminology is for this, but it's like the gimme where you don't even get really get into your stance. You just kind of like get set for half a second. You do a little little nudge for the ball into the hole and then that one misses. That's what I'm talking about.

That's number seven. That's demoralizing. Or number eight, sorry. Missing a gimme putt. So it can't even be, it's not even like, oh you missed a three foot putt, that's pretty bad. You missed that one and then it's half a centimeter from the hole and then you missed that one. That's the demoralizing one.

That's when guys start to really get pissed off. That is number eight. Number seven, a safety in football. When you are backed up against your own end and if you're Dan Urlovsky for the Lions in 2006 or whatever, maybe 2008, something like that, because it was Jared Allen, and you run out the back of the end zone.

That's pretty demoralizing. I mean, all safeties are bad, but, or you get an offensive holding in the end zone. That's pretty demoralizing. You know what's also really demoralizing is a one-point safety. If you don't know, that's a niche rule book thing. Basically, you are on offense, you're going for a two-point conversion You throw an interception or fumble or something the defense has a chance to run it back 98 yards For two points of their own but instead of running that way they accidentally take the ball back

Into their own end zone that the offense was trying to score in originally and if you are tackled there you run out of the end zone or whatever somehow inexplicably you get a penalty I don't think that's ever happened before but that would be a one-point safety there's a clip of there at a college game I don't remember who it was but it's a black ref making the call and it's happened once or twice I don't know if it's ever happened in the NFL I don't even know if it exists in the NFL, but it certainly happens in college football So that's pretty demoralizing too although less demoralizing because it's like your defense and

Your goal is to not give up two points and you only give up one and it's like well That's the same thing as him just kicking anyways, so that's not as so bad as a regular safety, but I had to mention it anyways. So that's not as bad as a regular safety but I had to mention it. Number six, back to hockey. Giving up a shorthanded goal. This happens all the time when I'm playing my NHL 11 over here. Not to me but against the opponent because I'm so good with my breakaway speed. I did a fantasy draft and I got Alex Ovechkin as my number one pick and he's great on the PK and then skates down the ice finds that corner right over the goalie shoulder right side giving up a shorthanded goal especially if it's five on three that's pretty rough but you got

a power play you got a man advantage and you still find a way to give up a goal that's pretty but that's pretty rough. Number five, this happens almost never now, although it happened to the Cubs against the Diamondbacks last week. Much less common with the whole DH, universal DH thing, but giving up a hit to the pitcher always just felt like a real kick in the nuts. It's supposed to be the automatic easy out, right? What's even worse, giving up a home run to the pitcher. Was it Kerry Wood hit a home run in game seven of the 2003 NLCS?

That's epic. There's been others. Travis Wood was a reliever for the Cubs who could really knock the ball around the park. They showed Carlos Zambrano was that opening day for the Cubs today. I think he had like seven career home runs. Yeah, I mean, it almost never happens anymore. I don't know the last time a pitcher hit a home run in baseball. It had had to have been a couple of years, I would think. But when you're going up there and you give up a hit to the pitcher,

especially if it's an RBI, especially if guys come around. Or letting the pitcher score, because they get to first, they bring out their jacket there, their big puffy jacket, they're running around flapping in the wind. You ever, has a pitcher, I'm sure the answer to this is yes,

you never really think of it, or see a pitcher ever stolen a base, and not a stupid, like like delayed double steal or something, but just like a straight up, hey, I'm fast, I'm going to steal. I'd like to see that. Giving up a hit to a pitcher, number five. Number four, had to bring in basketball again,

getting posterized is pretty demoralizing. I think there's no chance that they ever call an offensive foul when you posterize a guy because it's always just like you jump, you do the Michael Jordan reach and you do a big dunk and it's cool and awesome and everyone goes nuts. I think we need to increase offensive foul calls on posterizations though. And I will take this moment to just do a quick soap box, 30 second soap box. And I felt this way for a long time and I continue to feel this way every time I watch basketball.

Basketball fouls are so stupid, specifically shooting fouls. There are so many plays the last two weeks in March Madness we're watching. A guy is playing defense, he's playing straight up, he's got his hands in the air, he's moving his feet, he's shuffling, the guy tries to drive into the lane for a layup, the defender jumps straight up. The defender or the guy with the ball, the guy trying to score moves his body into the defender's body.

He yells to get the ref's attention. You hear it on the broadcast and then it's an automatic foul because he yelled and he cocked his head back. And it's just, you see it all the time too, where the guy dribbling in the paint to try to score, this is the classic move that I hate the most, lowers the shoulder, does a big bump, and then kind of fades away and puts the ball up,

and it's like, how on earth is that, the defenders, where's he supposed to go? Is he supposed to say, oh, you're gonna lower your shoulder, let me just scooch on out of here. That's my 30-second soapbox for the week. Getting posterized at number four. Number three, dropping a perfectly-thrown nine route. This happened one of my favorites.

Stevie Johnson was a Bills wide receiver. And back in the day, before Josh Allen, everyone thinks of the Bills now and it's like oh a highly successful franchise great fan base all that stuff dude before Josh Allen between the Bills four straight Super Bowl runs and You know Basically seven or eight years ago. The Bills were apps with an absolute joke the entire The entire time the the Patriots were on their dynasty for 20 years or whatever, the bills were just absolutely awful.

Even the Jets went to the AFC Championship game twice with Mark Sanchez, 2009-2010. Meanwhile, the bills were just terrible. And then of course you have the Dolphins who haven't won a playoff game in 25 years or so. That's pretty rough too. Maybe they shouldn't, maybe if you're a Dolphins GM you shouldn't have paid a quarterback who has never won a game when it's like below 40 degrees outside. Considering you play in the same conference as the Chiefs and the Ravens and the Bills and the Bengals and the Steelers. I mean, how many teams in the NFL, in the AFL or AFC rather even have domes? I mean, it's like Houston and then the Chargers.

Is that it? Is there anyone else? The Raiders now, I guess. It's like three out of 16 teams have domed stadiums. So smooth move dumbasses. But yeah you throw a perfect, Stevie Johnson who's in overtime versus the Steelers I think when they had Ben Roethlisberger so they were very good. And it would have been a huge upset and Stevie Johnson had a perfectly thrown nine route which if you don't know is just running straight down the field as fast as you can a Hail Mary type thing and he just went right through the bread basket

or there's a play I think it was three years ago it was opening weekend Vikings vs Packers Vikings ended up wiping the floor with them but early in the game Christian Watson rookie season first game as a pro absolutely torched the defense wide open throw from Jordan Love. Should have been six. Just bounce right off his hands. And I'm sure this has happened to Marquez Valdez scantling before. I'm not going to spell that one for you because he only runs nine routes. But yeah, you drop a perfectly thrown nine route. It's pretty demoralizing. How are you supposed to look someone in the eye after that?

Number two, a walk-off home run, particularly when you're leading. It's bad enough if the game's tied and you give up a walk-off homer, but when you're leading, you go from like, if you're rooting for the team who's up, who's pitching, you're like, OK, one more strike, one more out, we got this. And then you give up the walk-off homer, and it's like, well, we just went from gotting this to lose losing in half a second so that kind of sucks that happened to the Cubs one time they were playing against

the well sure it's happened multiple times so there's a home home game so this wasn't even a walk-off home run I don't think what is for st. Louis they used to have this guy's his third baseman he wasn't around for very long I don't know if he'll be able to find his name but he was just an absolute menace when he was hot Cardinals third base home run verse Cubs I mean that's gonna be like Nolan Aronado stuff but I don't remember what this guy's name was. I'll have to, oh, I Googled cardiac.

That's not what I wanted. Johnny something. Johnny Peralta. Was that his name? I haven't even, I think it was Johnny with an H. Johnny Peralta, I think was this guy's name. He did that to the Cubs once. I guess it wasn't a walk off Homer, but it was devastating because they were winning.

And then Johnny Peralta put him ahead. Johnny spelled J-H-O-N-N-Y. He's already 42. He must have come on late. He was drafted by the Indians in 1999, subsequently played for the Tigers and Cardinals. He wasn't like a perennial all-star or anything But for a brief time when he played for the Cardinals, which is the last team he played for I guess He was solid with the Tigers too, but he just went from like Kind of an average player to just a total nuisance Johnny Peralta

forgotten player And then the flip side as a Cubs fan we had the great David Bodie walk off Grand Slam vs. the Nationals about five years ago when they were down 3-0 and it was he was down to his last strike. That was pretty pretty epic. And then number one I had to put this number one because this is what happened the play that sparked this idea. For me, number one, the most demoralizing thing, the Cubs actually cashed in on this while I was listening. And then they cashed in on this again today in their home opener versus the Padres.

Giving up a bases loaded walk. I don't know if that's really as dramatic as a walk off homer when you're leading or getting posterized or some of these other ones, you can fight on it but I've as someone who's a pitcher growing up there's something so just disheartening demoralizing when you are in control your pitcher you should be able to throw strikes have control of the situation and you just give up a free run because you're loose and lazy. So I think giving up a bases loaded walk, whether you're up by 10 down by 10 or tie game, whatever it is, that feels pretty demoralizing. What's going on, Rachy?

Yep, we got a very shades dog over here. Hi, Maple, you want anything for the podcast? Nope, just a little lick. Tried to lick the Samson Q2U series. I know it is reliable, isn't it? Well, that's what we got for you here. So to recap our two honorable mentions for most demoralizing plays in sports, we have a ice skating fall and we have giving up an overtime goal in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Number 10, giving up a full court buzzer beater. Number nine, losing on PKs.

Number eight, missing a gimme putt. Seven safety. Six, giving up a shorthanded goal. Five, giving up a hit to a pitcher. Four, getting posterized. Three, dropping a perfectly thrown nine route to walk off homer when you're up. And number one, a bases loaded walk. That's my list.

Feel free to get in touch with us. Let us know what your thoughts are. We free to get in touch with us. Let us know what your thoughts are. We got to finish up with our trivia question here. It comes back to Maples Minute, which as a reminder was about the penguins of Heard Island and the McDonald's Islands. And if you're curious again, they're located about two thirds of the way from Madagascar closer to Antarctica. So my question for you very simply what country owns slash administers

Overseas whatever word you want to use what country is in charge of these islands. It's the same country that does both of them and It's not Madagascar and it's not Antarctica which is not a country And it's not Madagascar and it's not Antarctica, which is not a country. It reminds me of detassling corn growing up, and we were playing 20 Questions in the corn fields, and Josh O'Hara, his answer, which was eventually revealed that we were supposed to guess with our 20 questions, was the President of Africa. Not like a, oh, the proper name, and this guy is the president of Africa. That was his thing. President of Africa. Tough. Homeschooling really failed some of us. No, it is not Madagascar. It's not Antarctica.

It's not Pakistan, although they have lovely beaches, I've heard. It's nothing in Africa, actually. You got to go southeast of there. It is Australia that oversees Heard Island and McDonald's Islands. So there you go. We talked about tariffs. We talked disheartening ways, demoralizing ways to lose in sports. We talked March Madness and I'm going to go take Maple outside for a little walk now. But that's what I have for you guys. Thanks for listening to my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. We will come at you next week.

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