The Maestro, Brian Hake
Co-Host of Sports Wednesday Worldwide!
Brian Hake is the Maestro, Sports Wednesday's official Yinzer, a man who stands alone, dedicated to making the show sound great and to preventing the show from devolving into an all-Cleveland love fest.
The Maestro, Brian Hake has hosted 269 Episodes.
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05.20.20: Beer! Beer! Beer! Something, something, something, Sports!
May 20th, 2020 | Season 3 | 37 mins 54 secs
baseball, basketball, beer, beer slogans, blatz, brothers, canadien, china, chinese, chinese professional baseball league, complicated, cpbl, craft, craft beer, craft beer and vinyl, def leppard, elo, espn, gambling, google, google translate, guitars, highlights, hitting, horse, ipa, joe jackson, last dance, lions, little kings, locks, mandarin, medium level, michael jordan, mlb, monkeys, nba, nba horse, nfl, nhl, nirvana, no fans, nostalgic, ohio university, old milwaukee, out of the blue, pick em, pitching, podcast, professi, quarantine, radio, records, rolling rock, schlitz, shut down, sports podcast, sports radio, strat, strohs, tickle club, titans, trae young, trivia, turntable, unplugged, vinyl, vinyl records, virus, wine
05.20.20: A mini-podcast suddenly appears in the middle of our podcast, like a small blossom on a...nevermind. We're talking beer, beer slogans, craft beer, vinyl records and just a wee bit of sports at the end. If medium-level sports talk is too basic for you, this is episode for you!
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05.13.20: MLB's proposed season...Punchdancing classics...Unnecessarily complicated MJ Trivia...BMOC's grocery store beef
May 13th, 2020 | Season 3 | 53 mins 29 secs
80s, 80s rock, ace of spades, baseball, classic 80s, danger zone, def leppard, designated hitters, dexy's midnight runners, dh, eye of the tiger, footloose, hair meal, hot rod, john parr, karate kid, last dance, metal, michael jordan, mlb, motorhead, pour some sugar on me, punchdancing, sammy hagar, short season, st. elmo's fire, start me up
We discuss MLB's proposed 82-game mini-season and put Coach on the spot: would he go to a game...plus, we select some of the greatest punchdancing songs of all time, engage in unnecessarily complicated Michael Jordan trivia and BMOC's got some beef with people at the grocery store.
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05.06.20: Don Shula and the '72 Dolphins vs. the '07 Pats...Rocky IV review and boxing card unboxing...BMOC tries 35-year-old gum...Undisputed heavyweight trivia
May 6th, 2020 | Season 3 | 52 mins 54 secs
ali, apollo creed, babe ruth, baseball, basketball, boxing, brothers, buster douglas, champs, china, chinese, chinese professional baseball league, cpbl, craft, craft beer, espn, eye of the tiger, fubon titans, gambling, george foreman, google, google translate, guitars, heavyweight, highlights, hitting, horse, iv, ivan drago, joe frazier, lennon lewis, leon spinx, lions, locks, mandarin, medium level, mike tyson, mlb, monkeys, nba, nba horse, nfl, nhl, no fans, nostalgic, ohio university, pick em, pitching, podcast, professi, quarantine, radio, rakuten monkeys, records, red sox, rocky, russia, shut down, sports podcast, sports radio, strat, sylvester stallone, titans, trae young, trivia, turntable, vinyl, virus, yankees
05.06.20: Don Shula and the '72 Dolphins vs. the '07 Pats...Rocky IV review and boxing card unboxing...BMOC tries 35-year-old gum...Undisputed heavyweight trivia
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04.29.20: NFL Draft recap...Anti-Recommendations...Baseball Skippers who were catchers...and the living, breathing Outside Magazine issue guy checks in...
April 29th, 2020 | Season 3 | 39 mins 36 secs
alabama, athens, baseball, basketball, boston red sox, brothers, canadien football league, chase young, cheaters, china, chinatrust brothers, chinese, chinese professional baseball league, cincinnati bengals, cpbl, craft, craft beer, detroit lions, draft, espn, fubon guardians, fubon titans, gambling, google, google translate, guitars, highlights, hitting, horse, houston astros, joe burrow, kj hill, leather, lions, locks, lsu, mandarin, medium level, miami dolphins, mlb, monkeys, nathan rourke, nba, nba horse, new york giants, nfl, nhl, no fans, nostalgic, ohio state, ohio university, pick em, pitching, pleather, podcast, professi, quarantine, radio, rakuten monkeys, records, roger goddell, sectional couches, shut down, sports podcast, sports radio, strat, taiwan major league, tickle club, titans, trae young, tua, turntable, uni-president lions, vinyl, virus, washington redskins, wei chuan dragons, wine
04.29.20: NFL Draft recap...KJ Hill a 7th rounder?....Anti-Recommendations...Baseball Skippers who were catchers...and the living, breathing Outside Magazine issue guy checks in...plus Coach moans about the Red Sox and the Astros...
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04.22.20: NFL Draft predictions! Card, Board and Video Game Recommendations...Mix up a "Quarantini"...MLB Multi-MVPs...40-yard dash times...plus, nobody likes Roger Goodell (still)
April 22nd, 2020 | Season 3 | 52 mins 2 secs
albert puljols, barry bonds, baseball, basketball, brothers, championship, chicago bulls, china, chinatrust brothers, chinese, chinese professional baseball league, cincinnati bengals, cpbl, craft, craft beer, detroit lions, draft, espn, euchre, fubon guardians, fubon titans, gambling, google, google translate, guitars, highlights, hitting, horse, jimmy foxx, last dance, league, lebron james, lions, locks, mandarin, medium level, miami dolphins, michael jordan, micky mantle, mike schmidt, mlb, monkeys, mvp, nba, nba horse, new york giants, nfl, nhl, no fans, nostalgic, ohio university, pick em, pitching, podcast, professional, quarantine, radio, rakuten monkeys, ray campenella, records, russell, season, shut down, sports podcast, sports radio, strat, taiwan major league, the king, titans, trae young, turntable, uni-president lions, untitled goose game, vinyl, virus, washington redskins, wei chuan dragons, wits and wagers, yogi berra
04.22.20: NFL Draft predictions! Card, Board and Video Game Recommendations...Mix up a "Quarantini"...MLB Multi-MVPs...40-yard dash times...plus, nobody likes Roger Goodell (still)
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04.15.20: Pro Baseball is back (in China)! 80's Sitcom Recommendations, Movie Franchises and Documentaries...plus unnecessarily complicated Bundesliga Baseball trivia, the XFL bankruptcy and more
April 15th, 2020 | Season 3 | 44 mins 8 secs
baseball, basketball, brothers, china, chinatrust brothers, chinese, chinese professional baseball league, chromebooks, cpbl, craft, craft beer, espn, fubon guardians, fubon titans, gambling, gifts, google, google translate, guitars, highlights, hitting, horse, laptop, league, lions, locks, mandarin, medium level, mlb, monkeys, nba, nba horse, nfl, nhl, no fans, nostalgic, ohio university, pick em, pitching, podcast, professional, quarantine, radio, rakuten monkeys, records, russell westbrook, season, shut down, sports podcast, sports radio, strat, taiwan major league, titans, trae young, turntable, uni-president lions, vinyl, virus, wei chuan dragons
Pro Baseball is back (in China)! 80's Sitcom Recommendations, Movie Franchises and Documentaries...plus unnecessarily complicated Bundesliga Baseball trivia, the XFL bankruptcy and more!
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04.08.20: Spring Sports: What are you really missing? Comedian, Spotify and YouTube recs...Caddyshack's staying power...Epic BMOC rant...Lactose Intolerance...Circus Peanuts and more!
April 8th, 2020 | Season 3 | 47 mins 31 secs
al kaline, baseball, caddyshack, cbs sunday morning, demitri martin, djent, gary gulman, jim gaffigan, lactose intolerant, lewis center, marc maron, march madness, nemesis, running, spotify, spread eagle, tall sean, the masters
04.08.20: Spring Sports: What are you really missing? We have new recommendations in Comedians, Spotify and YouTube channels...plus: Caddyshack's staying power...and Epic BMOC rant...and the connection between Lactose Intolerance...and cocaine...Also: Coach reconsiders Circus Peanuts...
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04.02.20: We talk with Voice of the Bobcats RUSS EISENSTEIN!!! The Big Cheese! Quarantine Recommendations! Best Unsung Metal Album of 1990! The Battle of Balls Bluff!! and more...
April 1st, 2020 | Season 3 | 1 hr 11 mins
abbott labs, ball state, baseball, basketball, battelle, big man on campus, bobcats, broadcaster, byron scott, campbell's soup, chicago, chris paul, coach, college, comiskey park, craft, craft beer, curly neal, duke, emeralds, euchre, eugene oregon, football, gin, goose, grilled cheese, harlem, harlem globetrotters, hockey, illinois state, locks, maestro, meadowlark lemon, mensa, milwaukee brewers, minnesota twins, mlb, mls, mustaches, nba, netflix, new orleans, nfl, nhl, nostalgic, ohio, ohio university, oklahoma city, old men, pelicans, pig, quarantine, roger goddell, russ eisenstein, salukis, shut down, silver lining, soccer, sopranos, super jock, tomato soup, turntable, two minute drill, university of kentucky, vinyl records, virus, voice, walks
The Voice of the Ohio Bobcats Russ Eisenstein joins us to talk OU sports, sports broadcasting, the old school Brew Crew and the Big Cheese...plus quarantine recommendations...the best unsung metal album of 1990...and the inside scoop on the Battle of Balls Bluff...
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03.25.20: Dancin' in the Streets with Buccaneer Brady...Hidden Gems on Netflix...the Rise of Maestro's Rant and the Rams Garbage Logo
March 25th, 2020 | Season 3 | 42 mins 31 secs
2 minute drill, agents, band, baseball, basketball, bmoc, boxing, buccaneers, candy, candy bars, cleveland indians, clint eastwood, coach, concert, cool runnings, copycat, craft, craft beer, dancing in the street, david bowie, fifth avenue, free agent, gem, good times, jackie chan, jerry maguire, jerry rice, jigsaw, joe namath, karate kid, locks, logo, los angeles, maestro, march madness, medium, michl jordan, mick jagger, million dollar baby, mindhunter, mlb, movie, nba, netflix, new england, new york, nfl, nhl, nostalgic, ny giants, ny mets, olympics, patrick’s day, patriots, phantagram, plague, podcast, postponed, puzzles, quarantine, quarterback, rams, rants, records, return, rocky, rocky iv, science, seattle seahawks, shut down, snoop dogg, snoop lion, spanish flu, sports, sports movies, sports wednesday, summer games, tampa bay, the dirty nil, tom brady, tom cruise, turntable, vinyl, virus, washington wizards, wednesday, weird science, wes unsled, white sox.willie mays, wrong
With BMOC out, Coach and Maestro talk Brady and Bucs and other somehow wrong mashups, plus hidden gems on Netflix, Maestro reviews The Rise of Skywalker and Coach has some harsh words for the LA Rams.
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03.18.20: Recommendation City! Best Vinyl, Craft Beer, Candy and Comedies to Get You Through the Quarantine! Plus…Great Game Replays and Unnecessarily Complicated Sports Movie Trivia!
March 18th, 2020 | Season 3 | 41 mins 2 secs
1958, 2 minute drill, 2002, 2017, agents, alds, baseball, basketball, best friend’s girlfriend, blue jackets, bmoc, bobsled, boxing, buckeyes, candy, candy bars, cannon, cannon blast, cars, cleveland indians, clint eastwood, coach, comeback, concert, cool runnings, craft, craft beer, dropkick murphy’s, fifth avenue, fodder, francisco lindor, game 2, grand slam, injuries, jackie chan, jerry maguire, jigsaw, jim tressel, just what i needed, karate kid, locks, maestro, march madness, medium, miami hurricanes, million dollar baby, mlb, national championship, nba, new york, nfl, nfl championship, nhl, nostalgic, ohio bobcats, ohio state, podcast, puzzles, quarantine, rants, records, return, ric ocasek, rocky, rocky iv, shut down, sports, sports movies, sports wednesday, st. patrick’s day, the u, tom cruise, turntable, vinyl, virus, wednesday, weiners, wrong, yankees
With the sports world shutting down, we turn to our other passions: craft beer! vinyl records! candy! and bingeable comedies! We've got great recommendations for all of them, PLUS unnecessarily complicated sports movie trivia and the games we want to watch replays of...
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03.11.20: We're back! #1 Seed Predictions...Emergency Goalies...The Big Cheese...Wendy's Breakfast... and more!
March 11th, 2020 | Season 3 | 45 mins 5 secs
2 minute drill, aaron judge, acc, astros, aztecs, baseball, basketball, baylor, bears, big 10, big 12, big cheese, blue devils, bmoc, breakfast, bruce lee, bulldogs, carolina, chuck norris, coach, conference, coronavirus, dayton, duke, epidemic, eruption, fights, florida state, flyers, football, gonzaga, injuries, jayhawks, joanna jedrzejczyk, kansas, karate, kentucky, kung fu, locks, mac, maestro, maple leafs, march madness, medium, mlb, nba, ncaa, nhl, ohio bobcats, panthers, podcast, rants, return, san diego stat, seminoles, sports, sports wednesday, toronto, tournament, ufc, van halen, wednesday, weiners, wendys, west coast conference, wildcats, wrong, yankees, zamboni
We're back from a 4-week break with a new format to discuss all things sports in a medium sort of way: Our #1 Seed predictions...The Emergency Goalie on Hockey...Ohio Bobcat's Big Cheese...Wendy's breakfast fail...plus Unnecessarily Complicated Trivia!
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02.12.20: 100th EPISODE EXTRAVAGANZA!!!! Top 10 SW Moments! Best bits and Worst Bits! NFL Draft Analyst Cole Medvec! This episode will never end....
February 12th, 2020 | Season 3 | 1 hr 54 mins
angels, baseball, bengals, big east, bret hull, cleveland browns, cole medvec, dave cowens, eric lauer, gordie howe, jaromir jagr, john burkett, minor leagues, nate thurmond, nathan rourke, ncaabasketball, nfl draft, nhl goal scorers, ohio bobcats, pba, swedish fish, twizzlers, vlad gurrero jr, wayne gretsky, wilt chamberlain
02.12.20: 100th EPISODE EXTRAVAGANZA!!!! Top 10 SW Moments! Best bits and Worst Bits! NFL Draft Analyst Cole Medvec! An Ohio Bobcat as an NFL QB? Listener mail! Maestro decides! Big Bucket o' Cards! Trivia! D3 Mascots! What hat are you wearing? Cancer question! + a 2-minute drill that Tall Sean called "glorious!" This is the episode that will never end....
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02.05.20: Lukewarm Super Bowl takes! The Jeter-Nirvana Connection! Gritty clears his name! NFL Odds Trivia!
February 5th, 2020 | Season 2 | 49 mins 4 secs
chiefs, commercials, halftime, jimmy garrapolo, jlo, kansas city chiefs, mahomes, nfl, raheem, san francisco 49ers, shakira, super bowl
Our hot takes on the Super Bowl have gotten a week bit lukewarm, but hey, it's Wednesday, broseph! Do you even lift, Bro? What's the connection between Derek Jeter and Nirvana? Gritty clears his name, but would you hire him to babysit? Plus Coach's 26-part, 19-minute trivia question and we crown the Season 2 Pick'em Champ!
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01.22.20: Super Bowl Preview! MVP Trivia and Perfect Prop Bets...Coach rants about the Chiefs at home....plus Soup invades the 2-minute drill!
January 22nd, 2020 | Season 2 | 39 mins 40 secs
aaron rodgers, afc championship game, baltimore ravens, chiefs, commercials, green bay packers, halftime, jimmy garrapolo, jlo, kansas city chiefs, mahomes, nfc championship game, nfl, pro bowl, raheem, san francisco 49ers, shakira, soup, super bowl, tannehill, tenessee titans
We break down the Super Bowl between the Chiefs and the 49ers, plus pick the perfect prop bets. Some final thoughts on the AFC and NFC Championship games, including Coach's impassioned defense of the 'Chiefs suck at home' thesis...and Soup invades the two-minute drill...
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01.15.20: AFC/NFC Championship Games Preview...Final Thoughts on College Football...Coach's Browns Interview...
January 15th, 2020 | Season 2 | 48 mins 13 secs
aaron rodgers, afc championship, green bay packers, jimmy garrapolo, kansas city chiefs, nfc championship, nfl, patrick mahomes, ryan tannehill, san francisco 49ers, tennessee titans
We break down the AFC and NFC Championship games...share our final thoughts on college football...plus, exclusive audio of Coach's interview with the Browns, Championship Week trivia and the always gutsy 2-minute drill...
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01.08.20: Wild Card Takeaways...Say Something Nice about the NBA...Playoff Picks and Pee Pee Predictions
January 8th, 2020 | Season 2 | 38 mins 28 secs
49ers, bills, chiefs, drew brees, dwight howard, eagles, james harden, lebron, milwaukee bucks, nba, nfl, packers, patriots, ravens, saints, seahawks, texans, titans, tom brady, vikings, wild card
Our takeaways from Wild Card Weekend. A Quick Lookahead to the National Championship game. Plus, we try to say something nice about the NBA, make our NFL Divisional Round picks and a bold prediction pertaining to pee pee.