We Don’t Know Sports

We Don’t Know Sports
We Don’t Know Sports Podcast

We Don’t Know Sports is a weekly podcast hosted by chadthemark, Mr. Brown, and Canadian Biggie. Each week they discuss everything from sports, music, pop culture, and more. You never know what you’ll get as the guest lineup will go from super fans, authors, all-stars, and hall of famers. If you’re lacking an irreverent sense of humor, this may not be for you. If you like to have a good laugh and want to be entertained by a group of lifelong friends from the hills of West Virginia, we’re the show for you!

  1. 21 APR

    Spotlight:MLB Umpire, Dale Scott

    Greg loves talking baseball and has an affinity for interviewing umpires this year! Dale Scott’s career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of players, from future Hall of Famers to one-game wonders.   Scott has enough stories about his career on the field to fill a dozen books, and there are plenty of those stories here. He’s not interested in settling scores, but throughout the book he’s honest about managers and players, some of whom weren’t always perfect gentlemen. But what makes Scott’s book truly different is his unique perspective as the only umpire in the history of professional baseball to come out as gay during his career. Granted, that was after decades of remaining in the closet, and Scott writes vividly and movingly about having to “play the game”: maintaining a facade of straightness while privately becoming his true self and building a lasting relationship with his future husband. He navigated this obstacle course at a time when his MLB career was just taking off—and when North America was consumed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.Scott’s story isn’t only about his leading a sort of double life, then opening himself up to the world and discovering a new generosity of spirit. It’s also a baseball story, filled with insights and memorable anecdotes that come so naturally from someone who spent decades among the world’s greatest baseball players, managers, and games. Scott’s story is fascinating both for his umpiring career and for his being a pioneer for LGBTQ people within baseball and across sports.   The Umpire Is Out : Nebraska Press (unl.edu)

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We Don’t Know Sports is a weekly podcast hosted by chadthemark, Mr. Brown, and Canadian Biggie. Each week they discuss everything from sports, music, pop culture, and more. You never know what you’ll get as the guest lineup will go from super fans, authors, all-stars, and hall of famers. If you’re lacking an irreverent sense of humor, this may not be for you. If you like to have a good laugh and want to be entertained by a group of lifelong friends from the hills of West Virginia, we’re the show for you!

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