Happy Hour with John Gaskins

There's no crying in baseball!
 
I don't want your life!
 
My team is on the floor.
 
Up your butt, JoBu!
 
Those four lines could be on the Mount Rushmore of all-time sports movie one-liners. And, absolutely, there are plenty more classic or memorable ones you might remember. 
 
That's the thing about Mount Rushmore lists — there's only room for four.
 
And, that's the fun. 
 
For Wednesday's Happy Hour, the host and video producer give their Mount Rushmores of sports movies. In other words, their own personal favorites.
 
It was a segment inspired by the back-to-back anniversaries of the theatrical release dates for two movies on the host's list: *Major League* (37th) and *Hoosiers* (40th).
 
With an age gap of almost 20 years (host is 47, producer is 28), naturally, there wasn't one match between these two lists.
 
Hopefully, you find the trips down memory lane and their accompanying epic clips entertaining and relatable.
 
Before that, the host found a remark about Chase Mason from South Dakota State offensive coordinator Eric Eidsness that should excite Jackrabbit fans about Mason's second season as starter.
 
Plus, if you are screaming at the clouds about the nearly 3,000 players in college basketball that have entered the transfer portal — more than half of them — perhaps the perspective of one of the most respected analysts of the game will calm and quiet you down.

There's no crying in baseball!
 
I don't want your life!
 
My team is on the floor.
 
Up your butt, JoBu!
 
Those four lines could be on the Mount Rushmore of all-time sports movie one-liners. And, absolutely, there are plenty more classic or memorable ones you might remember. 
 
That's the thing about Mount Rushmore lists — there's only room for four.
 
And, that's the fun. 
 
For Wednesday's Happy Hour, the host and video producer give their Mount Rushmores of sports movies. In other words, their own personal favorites.
 
It was a segment inspired by the back-to-back anniversaries of the theatrical release dates for two movies on the host's list: *Major League* (37th) and *Hoosiers* (40th).
 
With an age gap of almost 20 years (host is 47, producer is 28), naturally, there wasn't one match between these two lists.
 
Hopefully, you find the trips down memory lane and their accompanying epic clips entertaining and relatable.

The host found a remark about Chase Mason from South Dakota State offensive coordinator Eric Eidsness that should excite Jackrabbit fans about Mason's second season as starter.
 
Plus, if you are screaming at the clouds about the nearly 3,000 players in college basketball that have entered the transfer portal — more than half of them — perhaps the perspective of one of the most respected analysts of the game will calm and quiet you down.

Zim attended football practices for SDSU, USD, Augustana, and USF and relays some observations, especially the quarterback races (at SDSU, that means the QB2 race behind Chase Mason) at all four schools.
 
The Twins are mostly Twinning in front of a mostly-empty Target Field. The Wolves are sagging, but does it feel like things will turn for the better in the playoffs?
 
And, we can't forget about the spring treasure of The Masters, which will be without Tiger Woods this year. That's probably a good thing after his latest crash (and the now-released video of his cringe call to the president). Why does the host — a lifelong golf geek whose Tiger fandom has gone in-and-out through the last three decades — feel this is Tiger heel turn?
 
We land our puddle-jumping plane back in the soggy marshes of the Final Four. Why is it not a "bucket list" event for either the host or Zim? And what do we make of the (unfortunate) burning image of the Women's Final Four — the dust-up between coaching legends Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley?
 
Some of today's thorny topics are enough to make these men curse, like Harry Doyle when the Indians got only "one (gosh darn) hit." 
 
Don't worry. Nobody's Listening Anyway.

On this very day in 1989, the best and funniest sports movie of all time — according to both of Tuesday's Happy Hour hosts — was released in theaters.
 
Major League took box office viewers on a rollicking ride a few days after Michigan won its first — and until Monday night, only — national championship in basketball.
 
Times have changed in 37 years and yet they haven't. 

What do we mean by that? Well, push play and find out on the latest "Nobody's Listening Anyway" with the Happy Hour host and Sioux Falls Live sports editor Matt Zimmer from the Gateway Lounge, brochacho.
 
The two fortysomething hosts were just the right age to witness the R-rated fun of the fictional story about a ragtag, sad-sack group of Cleveland Indians — led by dour and dry-witted tire salesman and minor league skipper Lou Brown — who decided to "win the whole (freaking) thing."
 
A stroll down that memory lane was a more palatable way to start this episode than digging right into the Wolverines' first hardwood title in 37 years and what it means for the sport.
 
But once the host and Zim dug in, they pondered the question:
 
Is it really all bad? Is it really that bad?
 
Michigan didn't win the national championship with a Fab Five this year (Side note: we forget the actual Fab Five never won it, either). They came a couple of years after the '89 champs led by Glen Rice). 
 
More like the Free Agent Five — a starting group made entirely of transfers that was clearly the best team all season.
 
You could see that as a sign of everything right or wrong (or anything in between) about how times have changed in NCAA hoops, and the hosts wander through all of that, including President Trump's executive order attempting to put guard rails on the transfer portal. Good idea? Well...
 
This, of course, leads to how the portal affects our local mid-major teams and local former prep studs like JT Rock, the 7-foot-1 Sioux Falls Lincoln prodigy who will be moving on to his third school in three years. This follows a sophomore season as a role player at New Mexico (6.2 points, 3.5 rebounds, 12.8 minutes a game) that followed a barely-saw-the-floor freshman campaign for former SDSU coach T.J. Otzelberger at Iowa State.