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Don't tell me you're at work on Labor Day?  C'mon, what kind of crap job do you have?  

I know you're at work because there's no way anyone should be cruising our site at noon on a gorgeous Labor Day. (And if you are, you're awesome.  We love you.  Chuck is on his way with a delicious fruit basket).

But since you're here, let me help you kill a whole lotta time. 

Let's start with the latest edition of the 8th Seed podcast... the internet's only 8-man NBA podcast.  This month, Jared Wade has the hosting duties... which means head on over to Both Teams Played Hard to listen to the show.

We talk Team USA a lot, specifically discussing their 2-point win over Brazil, and while the squad has played two more games since then, there wasn’t a lot to be learned by watching Kevin Durant, Eric Gordon and company stomp Iran and Tunisia by a combined 75 points.

We also talk about the Melo situation in Denver, call Matt Moore a racist, launch the soon-to-be-recurring “Try to Make Zach Cry Segment,” break down the Summers of Dallas, San Antonio, Minnesota, Los Angeles (Clippers) and Boston, which, as John Karalis lets us know has “cornered the market on O’Neals.”

Cast and crew (only seven of us this month … Michael De Leon of Project Spurs couldn’t make it):

• Me, your host, of here, Eight Points Nine Seconds and Hardwood Paroxysm
• Jeff Garcia of Project Spurs
• Zach Harper of Talk Hoops, Cowbell Kingdom, Hardwood Paroxysm, Raptors Republic and A Wolf Among Wolves
• John Karalis of Red’s Army
• Glenn Moore of The Dugout Sports Show
• Rey Moralde of  The No-Look Pass and SLAMonline
• … and this month’s special guest, Rob Mahoney of The Two Man Game, Hardwood Paroxysm, and NBC’s ProBasketballTalk

Did you miss the last episode of Boston & That Sports Babe?  Jackie was a late scratch forcing me into solo hosting duties... so if you're into train wreck radio, this is your show.  Why train wreck?  Well, at one point, I describe what I'm doing and I compare myself to the "I'm a little teapot" song.  Yeah. 

Listen to internet radio with Red's Army on Blog Talk Radio

And finally, I hopped on Project Spurs "Spurscast" to defend myself... at least my video self.  Short version: I fired up NBA 2K10, started a new career, got invited to Spurs camp, then got torched for 34 by Richard Jefferson and got cut.  I told them that and they ridiculed me on the show.  Here's my chance to redeem myself... sorta.

Is it ground breaking stuff?  No.  But you're the one looking to the internet to kill time.  I'm just providing options.  

The July edition of The 8th Seed

Every month, I and 7 other internet hooligans and miscreants get together to yell and swear at each other for an hour under the guise of an NBA podcast.  To avoid prolonged embarrassment and potential lawsuits, we take turns hosting this sucker on our sites.

This month, Jeff Garcia of Project Spurs bears the cross that is hosting this show.  We get into it right off the bat with a prolonged bout of angry barbs between Glenn Moore of The Dugout Sports Show (a Cleveland guy) and Surya Fernandez of HotHotHoops (the TrueHoop network's Miami Heat blog). 

Then we launched into other assorted shenanigans, including things we may or may not have done or said in Las Vegas.

Visit Project Spurs to listen to the show.

The full 8th seed roster (aside from yours truly and our month rotating guest) is:

Jared Wade of Both Teams Played Hard and eightpointsnineseconds.com
Zach Harper of Cowbell Kingdom and Talk Hoops
Glenn Moore of The Dugout Sports Show
Rey Moralde of The No Look Pass
Jeff Garcia and Michael DeLeon of Project Spurs

On this edition of Forsberg and Flannery...

Officially, our show is called "The Two Man Game"... and technically, the show lived up to that name last night.  It just wasn't the regular two men playing the game.

With Chuck out due to family obligations and my computer knocking me off the show seemingly every 5 minutes... guests Chris Forsberg of ESPN Boston and Paul Flannery of WEEI.com, essentially took over the show.  Funny thing is... it was our best show yet! 

Way to go Chuck.  Nice job.

Not only did these two guys address every relevant topic regarding the Celtics, they did it in often hysterical fashion.  And Forsberg hits me with a perfectly funny and emasculating shot right at the end of the live stream portion of the show.  Considering I've built my reputation on this site partially on taking emasculating shots at others... it was a pretty fitting comeuppance.  And quite honestly... it was probably the best moment in the show's history.  Take a listen.

Listen to internet radio with Red's Army on Blog Talk Radio

And wen you're done with that, head on over to TheNoLookPass.com for the latest edition of the 8th Seed... courtesy of our boy Rey Rey (@TheNoLookPass on twitter).  This month, our 8th guest was Kelly Dwyer (@KDonhoops, Ball Don’t Lie) who explained he is not a robot (though no one believes him).

This show was recorded on Wednesday... so none of us saw any of this coming.  In fact, as you listen, it becomes really obvious we don't know shit.  It's point-and-laugh HIIIIIIIGH-larity.  The rest of the roster on the show:

Glenn Moore (@DugoutSportShow, Dugout Sports Show)
Jeff Garcia and Michael De Leon (@sa2ny2004 and @mdeleon, Project Spurs)
Jared Wade (@BothTeamsPlayed and @8pts9secs, Both Teams Played Hard and Eight Points Nine Seconds)
Zach Harper (@talkhoops and @Cowbell_Kingdom, TalkHoops and Cowbell Kingdom)

The 8th Seed: April Playoffs edition

Every month (except for March... oops), 8 of us insane NBA bloggers get together to record ourselves swearing at each other... and occasionally mix in some NBA-related talk.  We like to call it the 8th Seed. 

We all got together last night to bang out about an hour's worth of playoffs talk... and a good chunk of it had to do with the KG elbow.  Here's the crew for this month:

Jared Wade of Both Teams Played Hard and eightpointsnineseconds.com
Zach Harper of Cowbell Kingdom and Talk Hoops
Glenn Moore of The Dugout Sports Show
Rey Moralde of The No Look Pass
Jeff Garcia and Michael DeLeon of Project Spurs

And special guest blogger this month was Matt Moore of Hardwood Paroxysm, FanHouse, Pro Basketball Talk... and I'm sure some other stuff.

We warn you... the language can get a little salty.... NSFW as it were... but oh.. it's worth it.  So please to enjoy our show, ok?

Or download the show and listen to it later

January Edition of "The 8th Seed"

The latest edition of the 8th Seed is now up.  This month's month's edition is being hosted on TalkHoops.net.  Zach Harper was supposed to host the show... but...

This month, I was supposed to host it but fell ill to a cold so my voice sounded like Harvey Fierstein. Jeff and John were kind enough to take co-hosting duties. We recorded this early Sunday morning (January 31st). Here's what we discussed:

- The state of the Boston Celtics.
- Who is the better Gasol brother?
- Who was snubbed from the All-Star team?
- Mo Williams is out for a month or so. Luckily that doesn't make LeBron James any less great.
- Who is the best team in the East?
- Does the regular season matter?
- Are the Lakers okay?
- How well can Jeff cool off a heated Glenn and an agitating Zach?
- How much will John talk himself into Kevin Garnett's knee being just fine?
- Is Portland okay?
- Dream trade situations for our respective teams.

Check it out.

Blow off work, listen to us talk hoops

There you are... sitting in your little cube... going through your TPS reports or something.  It's killing you.  Your soul is crumbling as you count the hours to your weekend.

Die slowly no more, dear friends.  We're here to make 2 and a half hours of your life whole again. 

It starts with me and Chuck in last night's episode of The 2 Man Game... which started with the Boston Herald's Steve Bulpett and ended with WEEI's Kristine Leahy.  It's an hour of gold Jerry... GOLD!

And if that's not enough for you, then head on over to Both Teams Played Hard for the December edition of the 8th Seed. Here's how Jared Wade describes it:

Coming in at around 90 minutes, this episode has something for everyone, including our NBA Christmas wish lists, Dirk’s brilliance, Gilbert’s free throws, Donaghy Gate, team breakdowns (for the Celtics, Spurs, Cavs, Clippers, Kings, Grizzlies and Pacers), an ode to Tyreke Evans that can only be described as Mac-writing-a-letter-to-Chase-Utleyesque and someone being accused of being an emo kid.

It's always good stuff.  And even if it's not... it's better than any 90 minutes you've got going on at work today. 

Be sure to check out the entire 8th Seed crew.

• Michael De Leon of Project Spurs
• Jeff Garcia of Project Spurs
• Zach Harper of Talk Hoops and Cowbell Kingdom
• Glenn Moore of The Dugout Sports Show
• Matt Moore of Hardwood Paroxysm and NBA Fanhouse
• Rey Moralde of  The No-Look Pass
• Jared Wade of Both Teams Played Hard and Eight Points Nine Seconds

New 8th Seed

Every month, I join some of the finest NBA bloggers around for what we like to call The 8th Seed Podcast.  This month, Rey from The No Look Pass played host to all of us.  That's about an hour and a half of great NBA debate, utter rants, and ball busting.  Rey was kind enough to break out some teaser quotes from the show:

JOHN: “It’s like somebody with an 85 IQ trying to sound smart… NO! You gotta know what you’re saying, dude!”

JARED: “I’m probably one of the few… only… Allen Iverson fans in this phone call…”

GLENN: “(Stephen Jackson)’s more of a cancer than anything. Personally, I would love to have Allen Iverson more than Stephen Jackson.”

JEFF: “Gone! Gone! That was my catch-phrase from that night. GONE!”

MIKE: “Obviously, you didn’t pay him enough, Jeff.”
JOHN: “We can start reading his drunk tweets from that night.”
JARED: “I was gonna try… but I think he was writing them in Cantonese.”

We got into a good debate about Brandon Jennings, his performance, his expectations, and whether his path to the NBA sets a good or bad precedent.  I also went nuts on LeBron James for what he said about retiring the #23 in honor of Michael Jordan.  Other topics:  Are the Hawks for real, what's going on in Allen Iverson's head... and we tried to translate Jeff from ProjectSpurs.com's drunk tweets (like this one... or this one... or this one...)

In addition to me and Rey, here's the rest of the8-man rotation and the sites represented!
Glenn Moore (Dugout Sports Show)
Adam Best (FanSided)
Jeff Garcia and Michael De Leon (Project Spurs)
Jared Wade (Both Teams Played Hard and Eight Points, Nine Seconds)
Zach Harper (Cowbell Kingdom and TalkHoops)

Live 8th Seed from 9-11pm!

This is a first for the 8th Seed.... we're doing a big, 2 hour mega-NBA preview.  Just head on over to SportsTalkCleveland.com right now.  The show should be starting in just a few minutes.  It'll be going on until about 11pm.  Here's the whole crew:

Jared Wade of Both Teams Played Hard and eightpointsnineseconds.com
Zach Harper of Cowbell Kingdom and Talk Hoops
Adam Best of FanSided
Glenn Moore of The Dugout Sports Show
Rey Moralde of The No Look Pass
Jeff Garcia and Michael DeLeon of Project Spurs

New 8th Seed... Finally

I admit, I'm a little tardy on the posting of our latest episode of the 8th seed.  It was recorded last week, as training camps opened up.  We talked a little bit about our respective teams... we got into the Delonte West absence.

The bombshell of the show came early when Glenn Moore declared his Cavs were going to be 70 game winners.  That led to a long debate about how good the Cavs will really be.

We got into some other topics... like the replacement refs... Ron Artest in LA... and Michael Jordan's Hall of Fame speech, which stirred up a passionate debate.

And in the end, pay attention to Jeff from Project Spurs as he shows how he ignores me during the show and repeats something I just said.  Good stuff.  Total running time is a surprising 1 hour and 13 minutes.  It went by fast, though.  Hope you enjoy it.

Here's our regular roster... even though this episode featured only me, Jeff, Glenn and Rey... and a late appearance by Adam Best who got Central time and Eastern time confused. 

Jared Wade of Both Teams Played Hard and eightpointsnineseconds.com
Zach Harper of Cowbell Kingdom and Talk Hoops
Adam Best of FanSided
Glenn Moore of The Dugout Sports Show
Rey Moralde of The No Look Pass
Jeff Garcia and Michael DeLeon of Project Spurs

New episode of "The 8th Seed"

Ain't nothin' goin' on in August in the NBA.  But that doesn't stop blowhards like me from yappin' about it.  Chuck and I did a live, 1-hour show just on the Celtics on Wednesday night.  And just before we did that show, I joined my regular 8th seed crew for another mega-podcast. 

You can check it out on Project Spurs.  It's a good time...We talked about Rashard Lewis being suspended for taking PED's, international NBA players getting injured in overseas play, the Timberwolves hiring of Kurt Rambis and played a game of Where's QRich?  My contribution to the Quentin Richardson ball-busting:  forcing him to play this year in a composite jersey of all the teams he was traded for this offseason... a la Gaylord Perry.  If you're listening at work, beware:  It contains NSFW language.

In addition to me, this month's crew included:
Jeff and Mike from Project Spurs.
Rey Moralde of The No Look Pass and Chronicles of Crotty
Zach Harper of Talk Hoops and Cowbell Kingdom
Jared Wade of Both Teams Played Hard an 8 Points 9 Seconds
Glenn Moore of the Dugout Sports Show

To hear previous episodes of The 8th Seed, just go to The8thSeed.com

By the way... Jared Wade of Both Teams Played Hard is ranking EVERY NBA logo.  Should be interesting to see where the Celtics logo ranks.  Check it out... it's a nice on-going piece for this time of year.