WFMU: Therese: Playlist from January 26, 2016

Listener comments!
	♥ 6:03pm Matt from Springfield: YLT "Meet the Mets"! Had a bit of a Beach Boys vibe to it, if that's possible! Hi Therese! Look forward to your Sportsy Talk! Sportsy Rainbow!
	🎸 ♥ 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: So. Therese. Do you think the Patriots should've gone for a field goal with three minutes left in the Broncos game Sunday?
	🎸 ♥ 6:04pm slocker: Where do I find a skipping tutor?
	♥ 6:04pm Cheyenne: oh hey Therese!
	♥ 6:04pm Carmichael: I guess ol' Tom is not so terrific. BWAAHH HAAA!
	♥ 6:05pm Matt from Springfield: Schadenfreude schared, Carm! :)
	♥ 6:05pm Jeff: I'm not, not really,
	6:05pm Studio B Ben: You aren't missing anything, Therese, that you don't get from reading a good book about an underdog winning the day.
	♥ 6:05pm Cheyenne: you get to sweat a lot and possibly hurt yourself! sports sure are cool!
	🎸 ♥ 6:05pm Ken From Hyde Park: "The least trusted name in sportsy talk radio"?
	6:06pm Cliff: So.....why did Bronwyn and Jim pick you to fill in for them?
	♥ 6:06pm Matt from Springfield: I am an inside kid, uncoordinated mess as well! But I excelled in the past two days at Snow Shoveling! I excavated cars, reconnected sidewalks, and for the finish I added trails to the community mailbox, since delivery resumed today!
	♥ 6:06pm Cheyenne: This is an excellent song about sports tho.
	6:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Therese - I hate Sport. Hate it. But I think what people like about it is exactly that it's meaningless (after all, I dig Godzilla, funnybooks & Rock'n'Roll)...
	♥ 6:07pm Jeff: Was one of those songs from that movie about Englishmen running outside in their underthings?
	6:07pm Studio B Ben: We could talk about Undertale. A skeleton wears basketballs in it. That's Sportsy.
	♥ 6:08pm Cheyenne: I used to do a zine called "OllyOllyOxenFree" that was about games, but not sports. I like games more than sports.
	6:08pm Snake Plisken from DC: I suppose the most dangerous game is a sport.
	♥ 6:08pm Matt from Springfield: @RRN63: I'm kinda interested in hearing about some sports, much less so others. But I can appreciate those who are, because after all: Every Sport Tells A Story, in some way or another. That's where some people get their jollies.
	♥ 6:08pm Carmichael: Did Bobby Fischer qualify as an "athlete"?
	🎸 ♥ 6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: I wonder if Abe Vigoda (RIP) participated in sports as a lad.
	♥ 6:09pm Cheyenne: MATHLETES COUNT! (....get it??? ....nevermind)
	6:09pm Snake Plisken from DC: Ritter Sport?
	6:09pm Cliff: Yeah, jeez, I can't believe Abe Vigoda really is dead this time.
	♥ 6:10pm Matt from Springfield: @Carm: That gets into the "game vs. sport" question. Chess is a game, equestrian-ship involves exercise, but is more of a game (gaining points). Now racing (track/NASCAR/horses/etc), is that a game, or a sport?? Now I'm more confused than when I started... @Cheyenne: AUGGH!!!! ;)
	♥ 6:13pm Matt from Springfield: Danne, where are ya??! :)
	6:13pm Cliff: Cheyenne: I was a mathlete! And I was on the Lego Team too!
	6:14pm steve: after 2-3 years without touching them i recently put both of my skateboards out on the curb. kinda sad i guess?
	♥ 6:14pm Matt from Springfield: I was a mathlete also! And, a "theater athlete"! (Since we called improv comedy "theater sports" ;)
	6:14pm BadGuyZero: Hiya!
	♥ 6:15pm Matt from Springfield: BGZ!
	6:15pm steve: we had "Math Olympiad"
	6:15pm BadGuyZero: Are you a mathlete?
	🎸 ♥ 6:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: Our school district had annual "Math Track Meets" when I was in high school.
	♥ 6:16pm Mike East: I played fantasy football one or two years...I was trying to convince myself that I liked sports. Turns out, I don't. I much prefer watching PBS cooking shows on Sunday afternoon and listening to Jonesy. But to each his/her own. Gotta be yourself, man. Sometimes its not always clear who that is and it takes some time to figure it out.
	♥ 6:16pm Carmichael: I love sports AND rock-n-roll. Bicycling and distance running, specifically. Alice Cooper started his first band in high school while he was on the track team, a bunch of 2-milers rocking out at night!
	♥ 6:16pm Matt from Springfield: Academic decathlete! :) @Ken HP: May I ask, what the "track" was??
	6:18pm blahblahSports: Already this is better than the regular sportsy talk. Normally I have to shut it off.
	6:18pm Cliff: I used to like watching the Olympics when ABC broadcast them. But then NBC took it over and made it all jingoistic.
	6:18pm @djelrock: Simply put, in order to enjoy sports you need to be able to suspend reality for however long the game is and only the drama that's being fed to you matters. Just like a movie.
	🎸 ♥ 6:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: M_f_S - It was in name only. We'd take four or five written math exams (metric system, geography, algebra, etc.) and at the end they'd hand out awards to the top schools and individuals.
	♥ 6:20pm Matt from Springfield: @Cliff: Is Bob Costas a factor in that? @djelrock: That's a good way of putting it.
	♥ 6:20pm Matt from Springfield: @Ken HP: Pshaw, they were just trying to be clever! :)
	6:21pm Kevin: ever think you'd be praying for a Larry d. perv call?
	♥ 6:21pm Carmichael: But with NBC we get to hear and see Bob Costas in his mock turtleneck, waxing philosophically about the Herculean struggles of our legendary athletes. <sarcasm mode off>
	♥ 6:21pm Matt from Springfield: I think this caller is a self-aware robot, trying to cut into a conversation it already programmed.
	🎸 ♥ 6:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: In 10th grade or so, they had us run a 100-yard dash. When my turn came, I sprinted down the track and came to a stop right on the finish line. I didn't know that you were to run full speed past the line. I received much ridicule for that.
	♥ 6:24pm Matt from Springfield: Another Super Bowl of Old Hands (Broncos & Peyton) vs. New Blood (Panthers & Cam Newton). That's a narrative you can use.
	6:24pm Cliff: Bob Costas wasn't so bad, but it was just the NBC coverage in general was always focused on the American atheletes and would only focus on the events where the Americans were likely to win. ABC had more of an international focus to their reporting.
	♥ 6:25pm Jeff: Mathematics.
	♥ 6:26pm Matt from Springfield: The British are better at it - they have mathematicS (maths), while we only have mathematiC!
	6:26pm steve: i feel like my brain is wired in a way that makes me want to see one team or competitor win if i watch a sporting event for more than a few minutes. no matter what it is. its hard wired... its illogical and i can't explain it.
	♥ 6:27pm Carmichael: These callers sound suspiciously like the SUW demographic.
	♥ 6:28pm Matt from Springfield: @steve: I don't care for NASCAR (my uncle and late grandfather were hugely into it), but if I went to a race with them (like Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas VA, like a "minor league" stock car track), I'd pick one car at the beginning and root for it during the race. Even if I didn't know anything about the driver, I'd find it fun to watch his progress.
	6:29pm froyo: @Carmichael blizzard threw off people's schedules
	♥ 6:29pm Greg from ZONE 5: Therese! Whaaaaa?!
	🎸 ♥ 6:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: Does WFMU have staff softball games anymore? There are pictures of games from many years ago.
	♥ 6:30pm Matt from Springfield: @froyo: Heh, after the long, isolated weekend, they're finally ready to continue Friday evening :)
	🎸 ♥ 6:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Greg - The entire Sportsytalk staff is on assignment this week.
	♥ 6:31pm Carmichael: Jim probably got someone pregnant again ...
	♥ 6:31pm Matt from Springfield: Even Westchester should be "upstate", to a hardcore NYC resident.
	6:31pm BadGuyZero: Is there such a thing as a geothlete?
	♥ 6:32pm Jeff: I really liked Bob Costas as an interviewer when he had his "Later" show from '88 to '94... then he left to go back to the the sports-industrial complex. I thought it was a terrible shame that someone with any sort of talent or personal charm was wasting himself on all that endless content-free sports chatter.
	♥ 6:33pm Matt from Springfield: @BGZ: We had Geography "Bees", like Spelling Bees. So..."Geogra-Bees", maybe???
	♥ 6:34pm Matt from Springfield: YES Jeff! Let's talk about the dangers of the "sports-industrial complex"! Bring a political talk edge to this Sportsy talk!
	6:34pm Cliff: This is kind of like meta-sportsy-talk. :)
	♥ 6:35pm Mike East: my daughter has a GeoBee coming up in a few weeks.
	6:35pm steve: why isnt competitive long distance walking a sport? that's something i could get behind.
	♥ 6:35pm Matt from Springfield: Good point, a lot of people want someone to be "The Best" in something - that explains sports championships, Olympics, award shows, etc. That explains a lot, actually. Thanks caller!
	♥ 6:35pm Mike East: when she first told me about it, I said, "What the heck is a Gob?"
	♥ 6:36pm Matt from Springfield: @steve: It IS an Olympic sport!! 20, 50 km speed walking events. But, I don't think those will ever be broadcast on TV, if that's what you're wondering.
	🎸 ♥ 6:37pm Ken From Hyde Park: I once enjoyed watching golf on TV. Ken Venturi covering the 17th hole, for example. Then they changed the format to follow the leader's foursome for the entire round. I totally lost interest in the sport when they started doing that.
	6:37pm steve: wow i had no idea Matt!
	6:38pm glenn: i don't have a ridge. a bit of a receding hairline, maybe.
	♥ 6:38pm Matt from Springfield: @Mike: Awesome! I don't know if they'll include physical geog questions at this point (like what is an "archipelago"?) but that was a frequent weakness for me as opposed to political geog (countries and states). G-O-B, beats the "G-O-P" any day! :D
	♥ 6:39pm Matt from Springfield: @steve: Check out 2016 Rio, maybe some highlights of walking and cross-country running will be available online.
	♥ 6:41pm Carmichael: I just read that Abe Vigoda was a gifted handball player in his youth.
	♥ 6:41pm Carmichael: This guy's never gonna shut up ...
	6:42pm BadGuyZero: I'm baffled trying to figure out what this caller is talking about.
	♥ 6:42pm dale: love his dissertation. but he can stop it now.
	6:42pm glenn: feminists and baseball. check out baseball life advice by stacy may fowles.
	♥ 6:42pm Matt from Springfield: Very interesting backstory to the song! "You can't afford a ticket / Back from Baseball-gette City!"
	6:42pm BadGuyZero: Yay lady caller!
	♥ 6:42pm Matt from Springfield: Wow, now "Teenaged" Zoe!
	♥ 6:42pm Kurt Gottschalk: hi zoe!
	♥ 6:46pm Jeff: I'm right with you, Therese! I'd love to cut all those ESPNs out of my cable service and the bill!
	🎸 ♥ 6:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: Always Sunny in Philadelphia had an episode with the gang downhill skiing last night.
	6:49pm Listener Robert: Matt, "game" and "sport" are partly overlapping sets. There are games that are sports, sports that are not games, there are sports that are also games. Among games there are those that are competitive & those that are not competitive. We had a discussion at the Junto back in the 20th C. about how to define "game". It's pretty hard. The only thing I insist on is that a game have boundaries in space & time. If an activity encompasses all time and/or space, it's not a game. So, for instance, one's life is not a game.
	🎸 ♥ 6:50pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sport of the future: competitive aging. Pharmaceutical and genetic manipulation companies vie to get behind the longest-living humans.
	6:50pm Listener Robert: Heck, Geo. Blanda was a heck of a QB at 39 YO, and was even competent at 49.
	♥ 6:51pm Matt from Springfield: @Robert: Thanks for those comments on the philosophy of "games".
	6:52pm Listener Robert: Besides space-time boundaries (also boundaries w.r.t. person), games (competitive or not) have to have a significant of artificiality & arbitrariness.
	🎸 ♥ 6:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: Scripted = Rigged ?
	♥ 6:54pm Matt from Springfield: Blacksburg! (We just talked of that last night... :) The Carter homestead is all the way down in Scott Co, near Bristol and TN).
	6:54pm Listener Robert: Remember when the Mafia fixed a performance of Swan Lake? According to Woody Allen, at least.
	♥ 6:54pm Kurt Gottschalk: VANGELIS!
	♥ 6:54pm Mike East: I don't mind folks who are real into sports, but it bothers me when they make the assumption that I care about it...like when they ask if I saw the Yankees game last night, and I say no, then they'll say, Oh, you're a Mets fan, then?" The subtext being: "cuz the only other option is that you don't have a pair of testicles..."
	6:56pm glenn: and we know you have two kids, mike, so....
	6:57pm glenn: fuck the super bowl. spring training opens in 3 weeks.
	♥ 6:57pm Pete from Boston (and NJ): Watching sports is watching a story. Often it's a dull story, but that's like enjoying a bad movie. At its best, it's a really suspenseful story. Once you decode how to follow the story, you are following it with other people who are as much a part of it as you.
	🎸 ♥ 6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: I just remembered: Yo La Tengo came into that name from a sports-related story. One of the outfielders didn't speak English, so the player in position to catch the ball would yell out "Yo La Tengo!" Well, something like that.
	♥ 6:59pm Pete from Boston (and NJ): It's good to have someone who gets your level of interest and walks you through it, so you get it and are then in the story, too.
	6:59pm glenn: also, sports is the only thing you can watch on a television, and not require sound. invaluable in a bar.
	♥ 6:59pm Matt from Springfield: @Pete: Yep, "Every Sport Tells A Story".
	6:59pm BadGuyZero: Nicely played, Therese!
	♥ 6:59pm Matt from Springfield: ALL RIGHT!! Thanks Therese for filling-in, you did a great service to the not-so-sportsy inclined! Have a good evening, everyone!
	♥ 7:00pm Pete from Boston (and NJ): It was fun to clean the basement to.
	🎸 ♥ 7:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Nice work, Therese. Have a good week.

Therese: Playlist from January 26, 2016

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January 26, 2016: In which I try answer the Big Question, "Sports. Why?" (Fill-in for Sportsy Talk)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Yo La Tengo	Meet the Mets "Meet the Mets" by "Yo La Tengo"	Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics	Egon	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Walt Whitman (Quoted)	Walt Whitman on Baseball	Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns OST	Elektra	0:01:51 (Pop-up)

Belle & Sebastian	The Stars of Track and Field	If You're Feeling Sinister	Matador	0:05:45 (Pop-up)
Therese takes Calls	About Sports "About Sports" by "Therese takes Calls"

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Listener comments!
	♥ 6:03pm Matt from Springfield: YLT "Meet the Mets"! Had a bit of a Beach Boys vibe to it, if that's possible! Hi Therese! Look forward to your Sportsy Talk! Sportsy Rainbow!
	🎸 ♥ 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: So. Therese. Do you think the Patriots should've gone for a field goal with three minutes left in the Broncos game Sunday?
	🎸 ♥ 6:04pm slocker: Where do I find a skipping tutor?
	♥ 6:04pm Cheyenne: oh hey Therese!
	♥ 6:04pm Carmichael: I guess ol' Tom is not so terrific. BWAAHH HAAA!
	♥ 6:05pm Matt from Springfield: Schadenfreude schared, Carm! :)
	♥ 6:05pm Jeff: I'm not, not really,
	6:05pm Studio B Ben: You aren't missing anything, Therese, that you don't get from reading a good book about an underdog winning the day.
	♥ 6:05pm Cheyenne: you get to sweat a lot and possibly hurt yourself! sports sure are cool!
	🎸 ♥ 6:05pm Ken From Hyde Park: "The least trusted name in sportsy talk radio"?
	6:06pm Cliff: So.....why did Bronwyn and Jim pick you to fill in for them?
	♥ 6:06pm Matt from Springfield: I am an inside kid, uncoordinated mess as well! But I excelled in the past two days at Snow Shoveling! I excavated cars, reconnected sidewalks, and for the finish I added trails to the community mailbox, since delivery resumed today!
	♥ 6:06pm Cheyenne: This is an excellent song about sports tho.
	6:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Therese - I hate Sport. Hate it. But I think what people like about it is exactly that it's meaningless (after all, I dig Godzilla, funnybooks & Rock'n'Roll)...
	♥ 6:07pm Jeff: Was one of those songs from that movie about Englishmen running outside in their underthings?
	6:07pm Studio B Ben: We could talk about Undertale. A skeleton wears basketballs in it. That's Sportsy.
	♥ 6:08pm Cheyenne: I used to do a zine called "OllyOllyOxenFree" that was about games, but not sports. I like games more than sports.
	6:08pm Snake Plisken from DC: I suppose the most dangerous game is a sport.
	♥ 6:08pm Matt from Springfield: @RRN63: I'm kinda interested in hearing about some sports, much less so others. But I can appreciate those who are, because after all: Every Sport Tells A Story, in some way or another. That's where some people get their jollies.
	♥ 6:08pm Carmichael: Did Bobby Fischer qualify as an "athlete"?
	🎸 ♥ 6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: I wonder if Abe Vigoda (RIP) participated in sports as a lad.
	♥ 6:09pm Cheyenne: MATHLETES COUNT! (....get it??? ....nevermind)
	6:09pm Snake Plisken from DC: Ritter Sport?
	6:09pm Cliff: Yeah, jeez, I can't believe Abe Vigoda really is dead this time.
	♥ 6:10pm Matt from Springfield: @Carm: That gets into the "game vs. sport" question. Chess is a game, equestrian-ship involves exercise, but is more of a game (gaining points). Now racing (track/NASCAR/horses/etc), is that a game, or a sport?? Now I'm more confused than when I started... @Cheyenne: AUGGH!!!! ;)
	♥ 6:13pm Matt from Springfield: Danne, where are ya??! :)
	6:13pm Cliff: Cheyenne: I was a mathlete! And I was on the Lego Team too!
	6:14pm steve: after 2-3 years without touching them i recently put both of my skateboards out on the curb. kinda sad i guess?
	♥ 6:14pm Matt from Springfield: I was a mathlete also! And, a "theater athlete"! (Since we called improv comedy "theater sports" ;)
	6:14pm BadGuyZero: Hiya!
	♥ 6:15pm Matt from Springfield: BGZ!
	6:15pm steve: we had "Math Olympiad"
	6:15pm BadGuyZero: Are you a mathlete?
	🎸 ♥ 6:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: Our school district had annual "Math Track Meets" when I was in high school.
	♥ 6:16pm Mike East: I played fantasy football one or two years...I was trying to convince myself that I liked sports. Turns out, I don't. I much prefer watching PBS cooking shows on Sunday afternoon and listening to Jonesy. But to each his/her own. Gotta be yourself, man. Sometimes its not always clear who that is and it takes some time to figure it out.
	♥ 6:16pm Carmichael: I love sports AND rock-n-roll. Bicycling and distance running, specifically. Alice Cooper started his first band in high school while he was on the track team, a bunch of 2-milers rocking out at night!
	♥ 6:16pm Matt from Springfield: Academic decathlete! :) @Ken HP: May I ask, what the "track" was??
	6:18pm blahblahSports: Already this is better than the regular sportsy talk. Normally I have to shut it off.
	6:18pm Cliff: I used to like watching the Olympics when ABC broadcast them. But then NBC took it over and made it all jingoistic.
	6:18pm @djelrock: Simply put, in order to enjoy sports you need to be able to suspend reality for however long the game is and only the drama that's being fed to you matters. Just like a movie.
	🎸 ♥ 6:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: M_f_S - It was in name only. We'd take four or five written math exams (metric system, geography, algebra, etc.) and at the end they'd hand out awards to the top schools and individuals.
	♥ 6:20pm Matt from Springfield: @Cliff: Is Bob Costas a factor in that? @djelrock: That's a good way of putting it.
	♥ 6:20pm Matt from Springfield: @Ken HP: Pshaw, they were just trying to be clever! :)
	6:21pm Kevin: ever think you'd be praying for a Larry d. perv call?
	♥ 6:21pm Carmichael: But with NBC we get to hear and see Bob Costas in his mock turtleneck, waxing philosophically about the Herculean struggles of our legendary athletes. <sarcasm mode off>
	♥ 6:21pm Matt from Springfield: I think this caller is a self-aware robot, trying to cut into a conversation it already programmed.
	🎸 ♥ 6:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: In 10th grade or so, they had us run a 100-yard dash. When my turn came, I sprinted down the track and came to a stop right on the finish line. I didn't know that you were to run full speed past the line. I received much ridicule for that.
	♥ 6:24pm Matt from Springfield: Another Super Bowl of Old Hands (Broncos & Peyton) vs. New Blood (Panthers & Cam Newton). That's a narrative you can use.
	6:24pm Cliff: Bob Costas wasn't so bad, but it was just the NBC coverage in general was always focused on the American atheletes and would only focus on the events where the Americans were likely to win. ABC had more of an international focus to their reporting.
	♥ 6:25pm Jeff: Mathematics.
	♥ 6:26pm Matt from Springfield: The British are better at it - they have mathematicS (maths), while we only have mathematiC!
	6:26pm steve: i feel like my brain is wired in a way that makes me want to see one team or competitor win if i watch a sporting event for more than a few minutes. no matter what it is. its hard wired... its illogical and i can't explain it.
	♥ 6:27pm Carmichael: These callers sound suspiciously like the SUW demographic.
	♥ 6:28pm Matt from Springfield: @steve: I don't care for NASCAR (my uncle and late grandfather were hugely into it), but if I went to a race with them (like Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas VA, like a "minor league" stock car track), I'd pick one car at the beginning and root for it during the race. Even if I didn't know anything about the driver, I'd find it fun to watch his progress.
	6:29pm froyo: @Carmichael blizzard threw off people's schedules
	♥ 6:29pm Greg from ZONE 5: Therese! Whaaaaa?!
	🎸 ♥ 6:30pm Ken From Hyde Park: Does WFMU have staff softball games anymore? There are pictures of games from many years ago.
	♥ 6:30pm Matt from Springfield: @froyo: Heh, after the long, isolated weekend, they're finally ready to continue Friday evening :)
	🎸 ♥ 6:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Greg - The entire Sportsytalk staff is on assignment this week.
	♥ 6:31pm Carmichael: Jim probably got someone pregnant again ...
	♥ 6:31pm Matt from Springfield: Even Westchester should be "upstate", to a hardcore NYC resident.
	6:31pm BadGuyZero: Is there such a thing as a geothlete?
	♥ 6:32pm Jeff: I really liked Bob Costas as an interviewer when he had his "Later" show from '88 to '94... then he left to go back to the the sports-industrial complex. I thought it was a terrible shame that someone with any sort of talent or personal charm was wasting himself on all that endless content-free sports chatter.
	♥ 6:33pm Matt from Springfield: @BGZ: We had Geography "Bees", like Spelling Bees. So..."Geogra-Bees", maybe???
	♥ 6:34pm Matt from Springfield: YES Jeff! Let's talk about the dangers of the "sports-industrial complex"! Bring a political talk edge to this Sportsy talk!
	6:34pm Cliff: This is kind of like meta-sportsy-talk. :)
	♥ 6:35pm Mike East: my daughter has a GeoBee coming up in a few weeks.
	6:35pm steve: why isnt competitive long distance walking a sport? that's something i could get behind.
	♥ 6:35pm Matt from Springfield: Good point, a lot of people want someone to be "The Best" in something - that explains sports championships, Olympics, award shows, etc. That explains a lot, actually. Thanks caller!
	♥ 6:35pm Mike East: when she first told me about it, I said, "What the heck is a Gob?"
	♥ 6:36pm Matt from Springfield: @steve: It IS an Olympic sport!! 20, 50 km speed walking events. But, I don't think those will ever be broadcast on TV, if that's what you're wondering.
	🎸 ♥ 6:37pm Ken From Hyde Park: I once enjoyed watching golf on TV. Ken Venturi covering the 17th hole, for example. Then they changed the format to follow the leader's foursome for the entire round. I totally lost interest in the sport when they started doing that.
	6:37pm steve: wow i had no idea Matt!
	6:38pm glenn: i don't have a ridge. a bit of a receding hairline, maybe.
	♥ 6:38pm Matt from Springfield: @Mike: Awesome! I don't know if they'll include physical geog questions at this point (like what is an "archipelago"?) but that was a frequent weakness for me as opposed to political geog (countries and states). G-O-B, beats the "G-O-P" any day! :D
	♥ 6:39pm Matt from Springfield: @steve: Check out 2016 Rio, maybe some highlights of walking and cross-country running will be available online.
	♥ 6:41pm Carmichael: I just read that Abe Vigoda was a gifted handball player in his youth.
	♥ 6:41pm Carmichael: This guy's never gonna shut up ...
	6:42pm BadGuyZero: I'm baffled trying to figure out what this caller is talking about.
	♥ 6:42pm dale: love his dissertation. but he can stop it now.
	6:42pm glenn: feminists and baseball. check out baseball life advice by stacy may fowles.
	♥ 6:42pm Matt from Springfield: Very interesting backstory to the song! "You can't afford a ticket / Back from Baseball-gette City!"
	6:42pm BadGuyZero: Yay lady caller!
	♥ 6:42pm Matt from Springfield: Wow, now "Teenaged" Zoe!
	♥ 6:42pm Kurt Gottschalk: hi zoe!
	♥ 6:46pm Jeff: I'm right with you, Therese! I'd love to cut all those ESPNs out of my cable service and the bill!
	🎸 ♥ 6:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: Always Sunny in Philadelphia had an episode with the gang downhill skiing last night.
	6:49pm Listener Robert: Matt, "game" and "sport" are partly overlapping sets. There are games that are sports, sports that are not games, there are sports that are also games. Among games there are those that are competitive & those that are not competitive. We had a discussion at the Junto back in the 20th C. about how to define "game". It's pretty hard. The only thing I insist on is that a game have boundaries in space & time. If an activity encompasses all time and/or space, it's not a game. So, for instance, one's life is not a game.
	🎸 ♥ 6:50pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sport of the future: competitive aging. Pharmaceutical and genetic manipulation companies vie to get behind the longest-living humans.
	6:50pm Listener Robert: Heck, Geo. Blanda was a heck of a QB at 39 YO, and was even competent at 49.
	♥ 6:51pm Matt from Springfield: @Robert: Thanks for those comments on the philosophy of "games".
	6:52pm Listener Robert: Besides space-time boundaries (also boundaries w.r.t. person), games (competitive or not) have to have a significant of artificiality & arbitrariness.
	🎸 ♥ 6:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: Scripted = Rigged ?
	♥ 6:54pm Matt from Springfield: Blacksburg! (We just talked of that last night... :) The Carter homestead is all the way down in Scott Co, near Bristol and TN).
	6:54pm Listener Robert: Remember when the Mafia fixed a performance of Swan Lake? According to Woody Allen, at least.
	♥ 6:54pm Kurt Gottschalk: VANGELIS!
	♥ 6:54pm Mike East: I don't mind folks who are real into sports, but it bothers me when they make the assumption that I care about it...like when they ask if I saw the Yankees game last night, and I say no, then they'll say, Oh, you're a Mets fan, then?" The subtext being: "cuz the only other option is that you don't have a pair of testicles..."
	6:56pm glenn: and we know you have two kids, mike, so....
	6:57pm glenn: fuck the super bowl. spring training opens in 3 weeks.
	♥ 6:57pm Pete from Boston (and NJ): Watching sports is watching a story. Often it's a dull story, but that's like enjoying a bad movie. At its best, it's a really suspenseful story. Once you decode how to follow the story, you are following it with other people who are as much a part of it as you.
	🎸 ♥ 6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: I just remembered: Yo La Tengo came into that name from a sports-related story. One of the outfielders didn't speak English, so the player in position to catch the ball would yell out "Yo La Tengo!" Well, something like that.
	♥ 6:59pm Pete from Boston (and NJ): It's good to have someone who gets your level of interest and walks you through it, so you get it and are then in the story, too.
	6:59pm glenn: also, sports is the only thing you can watch on a television, and not require sound. invaluable in a bar.
	♥ 6:59pm Matt from Springfield: @Pete: Yep, "Every Sport Tells A Story".
	6:59pm BadGuyZero: Nicely played, Therese!
	♥ 6:59pm Matt from Springfield: ALL RIGHT!! Thanks Therese for filling-in, you did a great service to the not-so-sportsy inclined! Have a good evening, everyone!
	♥ 7:00pm Pete from Boston (and NJ): It was fun to clean the basement to.
	🎸 ♥ 7:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Nice work, Therese. Have a good week.

Therese: Playlist from January 26, 2016

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