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Go! My Favorite Sports Team

Sports in Language

Go! My Favorite Sports Team

Go! My Favorite Sports Team

News, Sports, Comedy, Sports News

4.93.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, your fearless coaches/captains/leaders shoot for the moon so they can land amongst the stars and make a...slam dunk? Tyler and Mark dive deep into the wild world of how sports are ingrained in everyday language. How will Mark correctly (and incorrectly) figure out these sports analogies? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, gentle listeners. Welcome to GO, my favorite sports team. I'm Tyler, your

0:29.0

president, expert boy, and I'm here with Mark, a good friend, Mark, who's learning about sports

0:34.4

finally. I don't think we can call ourselves boys. Oh, should I change that? We must have become

0:39.0

men at some point. What designates that? Is that the general adulthood? 18, you're a man.

0:44.3

I don't think so, because there's definitely a lot of people in their late teens and early 20s

0:49.2

that are children at best. Oh, yeah. But I think, you know, I think that self-proclaimed, I always go,

0:55.2

I'm a man. I'm not a boy. I mean, while I got like a big lollipop in my hand and a spinny propeller

1:00.4

hat, but I'm just like, come on man. I'm a chore. I got a real job about that real responsibility.

1:06.5

But then again, I remember what I do. I play video games for a living. So yeah, anyway. Uh, hi.

1:11.4

Hi. We're men here. We're men talking about sports. Yeah. What men do? Getting all grusly and

1:19.2

beefy and muscular. But I think the general point that we're trying to come across here on this

1:23.3

podcast is that anyone can appreciate sports, whether you're a man, boy, woman, girl, not anything

1:28.6

in between non-binary, all are welcome. All are welcome in the world of sports. Yes. According to us.

1:34.3

Yes. Anyway, 100%. So today, we're going to talk about sports analogies. And the biggest reason I'm

1:41.2

bringing this up is because it's so interesting how pervasive sports is even in our language that

1:46.7

we use on a daily basis, whether it's business or talking with friends, relating stuff to, to things

1:52.4

most people would understand. So it's like, you know, now that's your third strike you're out of here.

1:56.3

How many people know what that is? The three strike rules based on baseball. Three strikes you're out.

2:01.3

Have you ever said that? Yes. You ever said that. I have never said that to another human being.

2:05.4

I have. I think I've said like you're on your last strike or something. Yeah. Which still is a

2:10.3

baseball. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. That's fair. Okay. I get you. I don't think I've ever

2:14.4

really ousted somebody like that. But you've never ousted. So when did you have the responsibility

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