The Adventures Of Thunderbutt - Nathan Baggaley
Crime in Sports
This week, we find out about an Australian olympian, in a sport that we've never covered, canoeing! He had all the promise in the world, but he also had a need to seemingly try to build a giant drug empire. He is busted many times, including one attempted shipment of cocaine, that had the Australian Navy, giving chase, while bricks of cocaine were hurled overboard. This resulted in massive amounts of cocaine, washing up all up and down the Aussie coastline!! Get out of the family oyster farming business, buy yourself a boat, under the guise of whale watching, and fling bricks of coke...
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Understanding OJ - Titus Young
Crime in Sports
This week, we find out about an NFL player, who depended on his speed, but didn't count on being out of the league, just as fast. He started acting strangely. He yelled at coaches & sucker punched a team mate. From there, he quickly goes down hill, off the field, with more strange behavior, which grows increasingly more violent, with arrest, after arrest. Was it mental illness, or head trauma? Tell everyone that you're a better wide out than Calvin Johnson, climb a fence to try to get your impounded car back, and scare everyone around you, with increasingly erratic, and violent...
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Drama, Depression & Death - Billy Martin - Part 11
Crime in Sports
This week, we finish this epic tale with Billy, trying to live a peaceful "retirement", on a large farm property in upstate New York. It seems like the perfect place, but Billy is bored, and plotting his managerial return to the Yankees. This boredom causes Billy to drink, and fight with his wife, leaving broken glass, and melted ice cream, in their wake. We finally end with Billy's sudden death, and court cases about the details. Even in death, there is drama for Billy! Buy yourself a 150 acre farm & start feeding the animals, get bored with your farm work, and drink away the cold...
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Divorced, Fired & Beaten Up - Billy Martin - Part 10
Crime in Sports
This week, we pick up with Billy being arrested, on the front lawn of his girlfriend's house. He's rehired as the Yankee manager, only to be fired, at the end of the season. But dont worry, he'll be hired & fired, again! He also gets in a four part brawl with one of his own pitchers, and is attacked in a strip club bathroom. He's divorced, remarried, and looking for how to deal with life, when not managing the Yankees! Fight with your 27 years younger starting pitcher, get sued by bothe the IRS & your soon to be ex-wife, and get fired a couple more times with Billy Martin...
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Down Goes The Marshmallow Man - Billy Martin - Part 9
Crime in Sports
This week, we find Billy fired, again. He's also living a double life, by getting married to his teenaged girlfriend, but also carrying on an affair, right out in the open, with an attractive photographer. He also gets another job, and is fired. He gets in several fights, including a certain marshmallow salesman, and several others, all while the IRS breathes down his neck. Oh, also gets another job. And is fired. Can Billy ever learn to relax??? Hook up with a sexy photographer, while your wife waits at home, get fired 3 times in 4 years, "quit drinking" by only drinking beer with...
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Kiss My Petunia - Billy Martin - Part 8
Crime in Sports
This week, we catch up to a triumphant Billy, as he basks in the glow of World Series victory. This, of course, leads him to brutally pummel a reporter, who dared ask a question about a recent Yankee trade. He is forced to resign, only to be rehired, within 2 months. He fights with players, reporters, and one, very angry team owner. He also finds love, with a young lady, who many people believe is only 16 years old! Beat a reporter into a bloody heap, over minor infractions, be forced to resign, the year after you won the World Series, and continue to cause a scene, and drink heavily,...
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The Bronx Is Burning - Billy Martin - Part 7
Crime in Sports
This week, we find Billy Martin at the brink of a triumphant season, that would cement his managerial legacy. The problem is, there's going to be much drama, in the process. From fighting, in the dugout, on national televison, with his star player, to fighting with the team owner, at 2 am, after everyone has had a few cocktails, to causing a scene, by fighting with his wife, during a celebration... Billy is starting to unravel! All of this while NYC expeciences a huge blackout, and The Son of Sam runs rampant!! Fight your star player, in front of the world, challenge someone who says...
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Did He, Or Didn't He? - The Shohei Ohtani Gambling Scandal
Crime in Sports
This week, we take a break from our Billy Martin series, to bring you a bonus episode, that is more relevant than ever, right now. Mixing otherwordly talent, with the black cloud of gambling allegations, hanging over head, makes this as crazy a story as we've talked about. Did the greatest talent, in the game of baseball, the modern day face of game, actually commit acts that should have him banned for life, while everyone is happy to blame a lowly interpreter, for everything??? We look into the scandal that surrounded Shohei Ohtani!! This episode was recorded in April of 2024, and put...
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Trouble Is My Middle Name - Billy Martin - Part 6
Crime in Sports
This week, we catch up with Billy, as he is again fired, despite being the league's Manager of the Year. He fights, more & more, with his celebrity getting him out of multiple arrests. But his celebrity doesn't help his attempted cocaine mule of a daughter. He lands his dream gig, as manager of the New York Yankees, only to almost be fired for talking back to the owner. Billy will never learn! Get fired, even though you're the AL Manager of the Year, call Frank Sinatra & Henry Kissenger to try to get your daughter out of trouble, and start fighting with your new team's owner...
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The Angry Wanderer - Billy Martin - Part 5
Crime in Sports
This week, we follow Billy's exploits, as his teams perform wonderfully, on the field, but it's still not enough to keep him from getting repeatedly fired. Why? Because he fights with team owners, opposing players/managers/fans & umpires. He even beats one of his own players, so badly, that they have to be hospitalized for 20 stitches to their face! Then, he gets arrested for actually doing something admirable! Wild as always! Take a team from nearly last place, to winning their division... and get fired, lead another team back from the dead... and get fired, then quickly get...
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Fight with your 27 years younger starting pitcher, get sued by bothe the IRS & your soon to be ex-wife, and get fired a couple more times with Billy Martin - Part 10!!
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