Let’s face it – every day we are routinely bombarded with questions. When you’re an emerging media company in Nashville, people just want to know what your opinions are on everything. It’s only natural. And, since our duty is to serve the people, well, we have no choice but to be present. That’s the SoBro Way. Also, aren’t mailbags just a barrel of laughs anyway? Welcome to the newest weekly recurring feature up in this bitch: The SoBros Mailbag. As always, hit us with those mailbag questions @SoBrosNetwork on Twitter, email ’em to me anonymously at thesobrosnetwork@gmail.com. And, holy shit, I need to update this terrible intro paragraph that I’ve been using literally ever since I started writing this column…
Question:
Greatest Tag Team? Cause someone said Brothers of Destruction and I am about to scream
— Football & Other F Words (@FWordsPod) May 20, 2021
Answer:
Listen – the Brothers of Destruction were a ton of fun back in the day…just beating the fuck out of people and leaving a trail of bodies in the wake of their destruction. Peak Undertaker….peak Kane…*chef’s kiss.* But, to call them the GREATEST TAG TEAM!?!?! That has to be a troll, right?
I might be showing my age here, but I still default to The Hart Foundation – they worked so well in tandem, had some cool tag team moves, had the cool pink and black singlets, and went on one hell of a run as Tag Team Champions. But, you can call the Legion of Doom, the New Age Outlaws, any of the TLC teams in the conversation. Hell, the New Day and The Usos are both climbing up towards that G.O.A.T. status and they’re still going. I would put ANY of those teams ahead of the Brothers of Destruction.
Question:
What came first…The chicken or the egg?
— Nabil Brent Remadna KXAN (@RemadnaKXAN) May 20, 2021
Answer:
Man, I’m torn between how to tackle this one, Brent. Part of me wants to get really serious for a minute and try to be the one to finally answer this question once and for all. Could you imagine if SoBros Network was the one to figure it out after all these years? The other part of me wants to make some sort of vulgar chicken cum joke. I can’t decide, and quite frankly, this is too much stress for a Friday afternoon.
Question:
Does anyone ever take small nibbles on an apple or do they take giant jaw opening bites like me? pic.twitter.com/KB12apTKu5
— Patrick Criswell (@PatCrizzy) May 20, 2021
Answer:
BROTHER, I am right there with you. I’m like Jaws up in this motherfucker when I’m eating apples. If you don’t take out half the apple in one bite, what are you even doing here? Are you even trying? I see no point whatsoever in nibbling on an apple. If you’re going to do that, you might as well just slice it and eat it as a fork.
Question:
When did y’all get so handsome?
— Tom Hanks & the Guilty Pleasures (@SoBroCadbury) May 21, 2021
Answer:
Thank you – want to know my secret? Here’s how anyone reading this can become handsome. I can’t answer this question for Brandon, but for me, it was when I decided to grow my hair out to look like a middle-aged English professor, bought a nice button-down shirt from the Michael Strahan collection, and decided to flaunt my ass in the Tik Tok leggings on social media.
Question, from Tyler on Facebook:
What’s up with all the no hitters this season?
Answer:
Dudes just can’t hit dingers anymore, Tyler. SIX no hitters in two months of baseball so far. Two in less than 24 hours earlier in the week. That’s absurd.
I’ll leave this one to the NY Times:
A number of factors are in play leading to the surge of no-hitters. Chief among them are an emphasis on power pitching and batters’ having shown a willingness to sell out contact in order to increase power. Those factors, plus surgical deployment of high-quality relievers, has resulted in strange numbers across the board.
Factor in colder weather in April and May, a new baseball, advanced defensive positioning and other changes in the game and it has seemingly become a recipe for no-hitters becoming a common occurrence.
I know Clayton Kershaw’s take is that all of these no-nos are bad for the sport, and I can’t say I disagree. It used to be big news whenever someone would throw a no hitter. You’d get the notification on your phone that we were like six innings deep into one, and it would be appointment television. You don’t get that when it’s happening every other night. Literally – the more often it happens, the less special it is. Maybe it’s just a sign of these weird ass times we’re living in, and maybe I’m an old curmudgeon here…but I kind of hope it dies down for a little bit, and the accomplishment gets a little bit of its prestige back.
Keep the questions coming – catch y’all next week!
Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD and #BeBetter. “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley
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