failed and said i can do better than that. marks get set on this episode, you re about to find out all the reasons you can t do better than that. woo! for a touchdown, a sharpshooter from the midcourt. we re looking at the spirit of america. i grew up resenting sports. when you re a black kid who everybody knows is going to be over six feet tall, every conversation goes to you play basketball. i only did in eighth grade. i went the whole season without scoring a point, like dennis rodman, but without the rebounding and hair. when i lived in chicago, i discovered michael jordan. now i m the guy who quotes the last dance like it s a new book of the bible. i took it personally. but that s the thing about sports. we often take it personally. i m somehow a grown man who hates adults for no good reason. john starks! sports give us a place to unload all of our unchecked f-u on everybody, from little leaguers to hall of famers. and if there is one city that revels in
billy bogaks are the guys in the bar that have all the opinions about all the sports. for them there is no off-season. one of the biggest things. remember, channel 30 you had to get up and turn a knob. those were the glory days, though. those days are gone. how do you all know these people? i dive tend at a dive bar where i met you guys. but that s not what it s call, right? it s actually called croak bar. the nickname is whitey from the previous owner. i met him through his mother. she bar tends there as well. he gave me my first bruins ticket. that s right. so if i walked into whitey s tonight, would i get the look? you d get the best hug of your life. because southie doesn t have that reputation. no, no, it doesn t. for people like me. but people come into the bar, they re a little worried that somebody will bring their buddy to the bar that looks like you, a place called whitey s. it s not a good look. you ve seen depictions of