Hosted by Anthony Matteo · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 55 episodes
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Sonny and Tony talk Cleveland Sports and try to stay optimistic. You'll hear discussions about the Cleveland Guardians, the Cleveland Browns, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland adjacent sports stories.
Anthony Matteo hosts Recklessly Optimistic, a sports show with 55 episodes published.
We're back to celebrate Opening Day! On this episode we talk potential. We're talking about the potential of the young players that the Guardians will be counting on. We're talking championship potential for the Cavs. An
On this episode we're talking about Myles and the trade request development. Then we spend a few minutes on the Cavs working through their setback this week to the Celtics.
Ohio State wins big over Oregon and looks like the team to beat. We talk about 2024 highlights and 2025 expectations. Happy New Year!
We've got way more questions than answers as the Cleveland Browns season winds down. We talk Stefanski and Jameis. We talk about front office changes and draft options. We make a bold prediction about the upcoming showdo
Browns beat the Steelers on a great night for football in downtown Cleveland. We talk Jameis, Myles, Nick Chubb and a win that will be remembered. We also celebrate the Cavs 16-1 start and the our MLB AL Manager of the Y
The Browns win and the Cavs are unbeaten. It has been a solid week of nothing but winning. That has a nice ring to it. Let's keep it up and beat a Harbaugh two weeks in a row. On this episode we get Recklessly Optimistic
We're back to wrap up one of the more eventful weeks we can remember as Cleveland fans. From ALCS highs and lows to a massive shift in the Cleveland sports landscape, we discuss the end of the Guardians season and the en
We're celebrating a big game 3 Guardians win in the ALCS and a massive moment for this franchise. The Guardians come back from the brink with a game tying bottom-of-the-ninth Jhonkensy Noel home run. Then they put this o
Your Cleveland Guardians win game 5 in the ALDS and advance. Lane Thomas leads the way. The bullpen is as advertised and this improbable season continues. We refelect on the ALDS and look forward to a series with the Yan
On today's episode we discuss another bad Browns loss. We're staring down the real possibility of a full return to irrelevance.
Sonny and Tony get ready for the Guardians and Tigers ALDS. And we stay optimistic about The Browns even in light of another tough loss in Las Vegas and a 1-3 start.
Fun to watch the Guardians playing with house money as they wrap up the regular season. Sonny makes a case for promoting Chase DeLauter for the post season push. And Tony says the Browns start should not be a surprise co
We're talking about another ugly game and another ugly Cleveland Browns loss. And we catch up on the Guardians with some reckless optimism about the upcoming post season.
The Guardians are navigating the dog days of summer with some new faces and prepping for a late season runup to the postseason. They'll need to regain some offensive energy and lean on some new starters. We're recklessly
We're 100 games into a special season for Guardians baseball. Lately it's been a grind and the team is toughing its way through a stretch of very uneven baseball. We talk the past, the future and the setup for what could
The Guards start win the series opener with KC and we're talking highlights of this latest home win and the season so far. Sonny makes his prediction for this year's Royals win total and Tony takes the over. We talk Vogt
The Cavs turn it on in the second half and win game 7 to advance! We're talking about a big game 7 performance against Orlando and takeaways from an up and down series. Let em know! Then we get caught up on Guardians bas
The Guardians have one of the best records in baseball through 20 games. And The Cavs have something to prove in the postseason. Welcome to another episode of Recklessly Optimistic.
We're reviewing the first 7 games of the Cleveland Guardians 2024 season and celebrating some of the many positive things about their 5-2 start. We talk about the top stories of the early Guardians success and we reveal
We're back after a haitus to start a new season following Guardians baseball. We talk Spring Training and the opening day roster. Go Guardians!
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Recklessly Optimistic is hosted by Anthony Matteo. The show is categorised under sports (football) and has published 55 episodes.
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