Completely Conspicuous 200: Race for the Prize

Part 2 of my conversation with special guest Phil Stacey as we discuss what happens when your favorite team finally wins the big one. Listen to the show below or download it directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Jay reminisces about '93, a good sports year for Toronto fans

- Rooted for the Bruins to beat Vancouver

- Phil covers occasional Bruins games

- We're now older than pretty much every pro athlete

- Phil and Jay attended a few games in Toronto back in the day

- Maintaining objectivity in the press box

- Nothing better than sudden death OT in hockey playoffs

- Jay started rooting for Patriots in early '80s

- Many years of misery for Bruins fans

- Phil makes some musical requests

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:
Chixdiggit - The Highway Man

The Big Sleep - Ace

Frightened Rabbit - Scottish Winds

Kisses - Johnny and Mary

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The show is sponsored by Budget, the country's premier car rental service with 900 locations. Go to Budget.com/CompCon and save 10% off any reservation or $30 off a weekly rental.

The Chixdiggit song is from the band's recent Daytrotter session. Download the song for free at Daytrotter.

The Big Sleep song is on the band's forthcoming album Nature Experiments on Frenchkiss Records. Download the song for free at Stereogum.

The Frightened Rabbit song is on A Frightened Rabbit EP. You can download the EP for free (in exchange for your email address) at the band's website.

The Kisses song is available for free download (in exchange for your email address) at the band's website.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.

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Completely Conspicuous 112: Even the Losers

The podcast's back with an installment of Driving With Kumar. I discuss the mental anguish of rooting for losing teams as I drive to and from work. Click here to listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly here (right click and "save as").

The show notes...

Topics:

- Tough times for fans of Toronto teams

- The Leafs' suckiosity tougher to deal with now that I watch every game

- Considered not watching anymore

- Season's become a car wreck; hard to turn away

- Switching allegiances is out of the question

- Leafs made a couple of big trades over the weekend

- How do fans stick with bad teams?

- Case in point: The Pittsburgh Pirates

- New Orleans Saints are a nice story after years of mediocrity

- My Super Bowl prediction: Colts (but rooting for Saints)

- Blue Jays won World Series in '92 and '93

- Jays were horrible first several years

- Lately they've just been thoroughly mediocre

- Winter Olympics are about to start

- Looking forward to hockey tournament

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- Los Campesinos - There are Listed Buildings

- Calories - The Mortal Boys

- The Red Pens - Hung Out

Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!

The Los Campesinos song is on the album Romance is Boring on Arts and Crafts Records. The song is courtesy of IODA Promonet:

Los Campesinos!
"There Are Listed Buildings" (mp3)
from "Romance Is Boring"
(Arts & Crafts)

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The Calories song is on the Calories/William Split 7" on Tough Love Records. Download the track for free at Drowned in Sound.

The Red Pens song is on the album Reasons on Grain Belt Records. Download the song for free at Clicky Clicky.

The show is sponsored by Budget, the country's premier car rental service. Go to Budget.com/CompCon and save 10% off any reservation or $30 off a weekly rental.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography here.

Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.