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Minnesota sports, memory, and Monday-night crankiness.
Monday Night Sports Talk with Patrick Reusse and Joe Soucheray is loose, fast Minnesota sports conversation with a long memory. The show moves from Twins misery and Masters week to Gophers hockey, Wild lineups, Target Field weather, and old sports stories without sanding off the edges.
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Monday Night Sports Talk with Patrick Reusse and Joe Soucheray is a weekly Twin Cities sports conversation built around familiarity rather than format. It sounds lived in. The show is anchored in Minnesota teams, but it keeps wandering into the side streets that make local sports talk feel local in the first place. The Twins can bring up Dollar a Dog Night, Target Field weather, pitching worries, and the misery of a long summer. The Wild can become a conversation about Kaprizov’s release, playoff rest, or who should stay home and sleep for a couple of days. College hockey is never far away. Neither is old hockey. A state championship game, a Gophers postseason loss, or the anniversary of Holy Cross upsetting the Gophers can all reopen the filing cabinet of memory. Golf gets treated with the same mix of reverence and irritation. Masters week leads to Augusta strategy, Tiger Woods stories, old smokers on tour, indoor golf skepticism, and the belief that some sports should not be overproduced for television. The show is quick. It interrupts itself. A weather check can become a Minnesota folk diagnosis, and a draft complaint can slide into Toledo, the Mud Hens, steak houses, and a book about the Edmund Fitzgerald. That is not a flaw in the design. It is the design. The conversation works best for listeners who already enjoy the texture around the game: names half-remembered, box scores, grudges, arenas, newspaper habits, and the little local details that never make a national preview. It is often dry, sometimes exasperated, and comfortable being skeptical of modern sports packaging. It can also be crude around the edges, especially when horse racing or old celebrity stories enter the room. Still, the main draw is not shock. It is two sports voices keeping a long-running argument alive, one correction, aside, and remembered box score at a time.
Made for: Best for Minnesota sports fans who like Twins, Wild, Gophers, golf, and hockey talk filtered through long memory and dry banter. It especially suits listeners who enjoy local references more than clean segment breaks.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating sports as a local oral history, where current games, old losses, arena memories, weather, newspapers, and side stories all carry weight. Its looseness feels earned rather than accidental.
Joe Soucheray and Patrick Reusse invented Sports Talk in the Twin Cities more than 30 years ago and now they’re back! Listen to them banter weekly with Monday Night Sports Talk.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Reusse and Soucheray turn Minnesota results into informed, funny arguments enriched by local detail and decades of sports memory.
Patrick Reusse and Joe Soucheray treat the scoreboard as the start of the conversation, moving through Minnesota sports with dry humor, long memory, and a willingness to challenge whatever has become conventional wisdom.
The pencil bat gets a hearing, and you get Minnesota sports talk with room for a detour.
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Weather worries, Dollar a Dog Night, and Taj Bradley give this baseball talk a grounded local rhythm.
Baseball talk opens on a forecast, with a Red Sox game weighed against hail, tornadoes, and the kind of temperature swing that makes local planning feel like a sport of its own.
Kaprizov's release anchors a loose, local sports chat that turns toward golf's old habits and Bananas skepticism.
Kaprizov's shot gives the episode its cleanest center. After a hat trick that included the winner, the conversation stays on the release: the puck is gone almost the instant the stick meets it.
A loose sports conversation where old defensive memories, golf folklore, and the Twins keep nudging the topic elsewhere.
Age, memory, and recurring sports history shape "A Case of The Mondays." The two hosts move from Jeff Seaman's place in a changing defensive group and uncertainty around his death to Joey Browner, then into a dryly funny golf story built around a supposedly careful routine, a…
A Minnesota hockey conversation turns an overtime goal into a wider riff on skill, memory, and local hockey culture.
This Minnesota high school hockey discussion uses one overtime finish to open up a broader look at where the sport has gone. The hosts are firm that the winning goal was earned, not lucky, and that judgment leads into a larger contrast between today's sharper, faster play and…
A loose local sports review where hockey numbers, golf trouble, draft fatigue, and Toledo memory keep linking up.
This single-episode review tracks a sports conversation that keeps finding order through association. St. Cloud's 1-0 win over the Gophers, framed alongside its seventh victory in 123 games against them, opens into the 30-game postseason losing streak and the Gophers taking the…
A loose Twins episode where pencil bats, Chris Paddock, and local baseball memories all get time.
Players Weekend gives this Twins-focused sports-talk episode its easy opening, with the pencil bat and candy cane bat sliding quickly into a sharper judgment of the roster.
A loose 3M Open preview finds its rhythm in player corrections, Olympic questions, and an airport-security joke.
The episode plays most naturally as a loose 3M Open field preview, with a roll call turning into a quick test of memory, correction, and side commentary.
Daily Buccaneers roster talk with teeth.
Daily Jets roster logic, pick by pick.
The hosts discuss the return of PGA golf, the first weekend without football before the Super Bowl, and review items from the Reusse list.
The hosts discuss the Super Bowl recap, the Waste Management Open, and a humorous incident where the mayor of Philadelphia misspelled 'Eagles' on cupcakes, leading to post-game riots.
Patrick Reusse and Joe Soucheray discuss the Twins' Players Weekend and the 1965 AL Championship team honor.
A preview of the Vikings-Rams playoff game and a recipe for a BLT with a secret ingredient.
A sports talk show host discusses NFL playoff weekend, the college football championship, and local sports teams, with banter about Blue Monday and a Shane Gillis commercial.
Patrick Reusse and Joe Soucheray discuss Reusse's trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame weekend, where a friend claimed to find his long-lost brother.
Monday Night Sports Talk with Patrick Reusse and Joe Soucheray spends the first major stretch on The Masters, where Rory McIlroy finishes with six majors and Scottie Scheffler misses a playoff by "a half inch." The hosts dig into Augusta National's phone ban, watch and glasses rules, and the way CBS used to cover only a few holes before expanding coverage to the front nine.
Patrick Reusse and Joe Soucheray open with Kirill Kaprizov's hat trick, the Wild's 100-point chase, and the difference between home ice in West 7th and a road start against Dallas or Utah.
["Gary Woodland's Houston Open win leads the episode because the hosts unpack the softball-sized tumor doctors found in his head, the fear center it hit, and the PTSD that followed surgery.", "Preble and Murphy also remember Jeff Seaman, Joey Browner, and Jay Robinson, linking Seaman to the Vikings' middle linebacker turnover, Browner to punt coverage, and Robinson to Iowa wrestling and a controversial summer camp.", "Tiger Woods comes up as a cautionary comparison, with crashes, painkillers, and a public image that did not match what the hosts say they assumed for years.", "Baseball's automated strike-zone challenge, the Twins' schedule, UConn's tournament run, and the American Experiment preview about ICE taxes finish the show."]
A podcast celebrating the 20th anniversary of Holy Cross's upset over the Gophers in the NCAA tournament, with sponsor content about insurance.
A sports talk show host discusses a new podcast schedule and golf course challenges.
Minnetonka and Moorhead both came back from two goals down in the third period and tied state title games in the last minute.
Joe Soucheray says Faber, Boldy, and Hughes should be "put on mandated house arrest" after the Canada win.
Mischke promotes his podcast and discusses Secretariat's gentle nature as a stud, with a brief mention of the Kentucky Derby and a Wolves Warriors preview.