History YMMV / UrinatingTree

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Any time the {{chiptune}} version if "StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy" (over the victory screen from ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'') plays to herald an NFL team clinching a playoff spot in later episodes of ''This Week in Sportsball (2022 Edition)''.

** During his [=LOLCow=] video on the Pittsburgh Steelers (released near the start of the 2017 season), he predicts that Antonio Brown "is going to become a cancer and might get run out of town". Brown would go on to not only get run out of Pittsburgh (being traded to Oakland after their drama-laden 2018 season, which he had no small part in causing)and get run out of Oakland after several weeks of antics before the 2019 season began, but get ''[[RoleEndingMisdemeanor run out of the League]]'' after publicly threatening a woman who had accused him of sexual assault (getting himself dropped by the Patriots and most of his sponsors as a result).

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Any time the {{chiptune}} version if "StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy" (over the victory screen from ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'') plays to herald an NFL team clinching a playoff spot in later episodes of ''This Week in Sportsball''.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Any time the {{chiptune}} version if "StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy" from ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'' plays to herald an NFL team clinching a playoff spot in later episodes of ''This Week in Sportsball''.

---> '''Tree:''' You may be asking why I put that last name up there. He was a guy who I considered my friend. He was a frequent guest on the Dumpster Fire every Tuesday during football season, we'd go on his stream every Wednesday night just to shoot the shit about football, it felt so casual and relaxed... ''(sigh)'' I can't believe he's gone, man. ''(voice breaking)'' He's the reason why I'm releasing Sportsball this week. He'd have this larger-than-life personality that just wanted to bring you in, he learned to learn, he loved to teach, he just... loved life. If I could be even a tenth of the man he was, then I've done something right. ''(sigh)'' Hope I did you proud, man. ''(audibly crying)'' I love you. I'm gonna miss you man. I'm sorry.... ''(sobs)'' Goodbye, brother. (Uche's photo is shown with his birth and death year as the music quietly fades out.)

--> '''Tree:''' Rest in peace, brother. Have a good night everyone. And rest in peace, Demaryius Thomas. Always cherish life because it's short and you never know when you're gonna go. I love you all. Have a good night, everyone.

--> '''Tree:''' You may be asking why I put that last name up there. He was a guy who I considered my friend. He was a frequent guest on the Dumpster Fire every Tuesday during football season, we'd go on his stream every Wednesday night just to shoot the shit about football, it felt so casual and relaxed... ''(sigh)'' I can't believe he's gone, man. ''(voice breaking)'' He's the reason why I'm releasing Sportsball this week. He'd have this larger-than-life personality that just wanted to bring you in, he learned to learn, he loved to teach, he just... loved life. If I could be even a tenth of the man he was, then I've done something right. ''(sigh)'' Hope I did you proud, man. ''(audibly crying)'' I love you. I'm gonna miss you man. I'm sorry.... ''(sobs)'' Goodbye, brother... (Uche's photo is shown with his birth and death year as the music quietly fades out.)

--> '''Tree:''' You may be asking why I put that last name up there. He was a guy who considered my friend. He was a frequent guest on the Dumpster Fire every Tuesday during football season, we'd go on his stream every Wednesday night just to shoot the shit about football, it felt so casual and relaxed... ''(sigh)'' I can't believe he's gone, man. ''(voice breaking)'' He's the reason why I'm releasing Sportsball this week. He'd have this larger-than-life personality that just wanted to bring you in, he learned to learn, he loved to teach, he just... loved life. If I could be even a tenth of the man he was, then I've done something right. ''(sigh)'' Hope I did you proud, man. ''(audibly crying)'' I love you. I'm gonna miss you man. I'm sorry.... ''(sobs)'' Goodbye, brother... (Uche's photo is shown with his birth and death year as the music quietly fades out.)

--> '''Tree:''' You may be asking why I put that last name up there. He was a guy who considered my friend. He was a frequent guest on the Dumpster Fire every Tuesday during football season, we'd go on his stream every Wednesday night just to shoot the shit about football, it felt so casual and relaxed... ''(sigh)'' I can't believe he's gone, man. ''(voice breaking)'' He's the reason why I'm releasing Sportsball this week. He'd have this larger-than-life personality that just wanted to bring you in, he learned to learn, he loved to teach, he just... loved life. If I could be even a tenth of the man he was, then I' done something right. ''(sigh)'' Hope I did you proud, man. ''(audibly crying)'' I love you. I'm gonna miss you man. I'm sorry.... ''(sobs)'' Goodbye, brother... (Uche's photo is shown with his birth and death year as the music quietly fades out.)

--> '''Tree:''' You may be asking why I put that last name up there. He was a guy who considered my friend. He was a frequent guest on the Dumpster Fire every Tuesday during football season, we'd go on his stream every Wednesday night just to shoot the shit about football, it felt so casual and relaxed... ''(sigh)'' I can't believe he's gone, man. ''(voice breaking)'' He's the reason why I'm releasing Sportsball this week. He'd have this larger-than-life personality that just wanted to bring you in, he learned to learn, he loved to teach, he just... loved life. If I could be even a tenth of the man he was, then I've done something right. ''(sigh)'' Hope I did you proud, man. ''(audibly crying)'' I love you. I'm going to miss you man. I'm sorry.... ''(sobs)'' Goodbye, brother... (Uche's photo is shown with his birth and death year as the music quietly fades out.)

--> '''Tree:''' You may be asking why I put that last name up there. He was a guy who considered my friend. He was a frequent guest on the Dumpster Fire every Tuesday during football season, we'd go on his stream every Wednesday night just to shoot the shit about football, it felt so casual and relaxed... ''(sigh)'' I can't believe he's gone, man. ''(voice breaking)'' He's the reason why I'm releasing Sportsball this week. He'd have this larger-than-life personality that just wanted to bring you in, he learned to learn, he loved to teach, he just... loved life. If I could be even a tenth of the man he was, I'll have done something right. ''(sigh)'' Hope I did you proud, man. I love you. I'm going to miss you man. I'm sorry.... Goodbye, brother.

* AuthorsSavingThrow

* AuthorsSavingThrow: His Sportsball video for Week 1 of the 2021 NFL season was criticized for being overedited. His next Sportsball video on the MLB playoff push went back to the previous format and was much better received, as was a Week 2 video that was more lightly edited than the previous week's.

** During his [=LOLCow=] video on the Pittsburgh Steelers (released near the start of the 2017 season), he predicts that Antonio Brown "is going to become a cancer and might get run out of town". Fast-forward two years later, and it turns out that not only was he right, he actually managed to ''underestimate'' the trouble that Brown would run into.[[note]]The Steelers traded him to Oakland after their drama-laden 2018 season, which he had no small part in causing. Following several weeks of antics on Brown's part, the Raiders cut him from the team before the start of the 2019 season. New England proceeded to pick him up... for all of one game, after which he decided to publicly threaten a woman who had accused him of sexual assault, resulting in the Patriots (and most of his sponsors) dropping him like a hot potato and essentially torpedoing his career. He didn't just get run out of Pittsburgh; ''he got more or less run out of the League''.[[/note]]

*** A variant that doubles as a ShoutOut to [[Theater/DamnYankees the play]], Those [=(God)Damn=] Yankees. This one has been applied to a few teams, but stuck for Minnesota Twins fans after the 2019 postseason.[[note]]the Yankees swept the Twins, extending that team's overall playoff losing streak to sixteen games, which tied a record across the four major North American sports; thirteen of those losses have come at the Yankees' hands. (The Astros have since pushed the Twins into sole possession of the record, which stands at eighteen ahead of the 2022 postseason)[[/note]]

** His video on the Sacramento Kings was uploaded just hours before [[BunnyEarsLawyer DeMarcus Cousins]] was traded away.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSmM_io9_eQ The Philadelphia Eagles: Professional Football's Exercise in Agony]] was rendered completely irrelevant once the Eagles won Super Bowl LII.
--->'''UT''': So it appears this video is somewhat irrelevant with the Eagles winning a Super Bowl. Regardless, this video will not be taken down. It shall remain up for both historical reference and an example of how narratives on teams can change quickly in the sports world. I do not look forward to your inevitable domination of the NFC East for the next five years. Fuck.
** And now the same thing with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmC1lNvVwlI The Washington Capitals: A Legacy of Failure]] after they won the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals. It's worth noting that this happened just ''four months'' after the Eagles' Super Bowl win.
--->'''UT''': The cycle is complete. The memes are dead. The Legacy of Failure is broken. Although this video is no longer relevant, it shall remain up for historical reference. The failure of the past remains, but it's no longer active. Fuck.
** He offered up two more examples of videos that had become irrelevant in "State of the Tree: 2018 Edition" in "The Los Angeles Rams: Professional Football's Returning Lolcow" and "The Chicago Bears: Professional Football's Legacy Lolcow", but then pointed out the [[CyclicTrope cyclic nature of this trope]] by holding up both the Eagles vid and "The Jacksonville Jaguars: Professional Football's Forgotten Lolcow" as examples that had looped back to relevance due to regression during their 2018 seasons (though the Eagles would recover and gain a wildcard spot, and ended up winning a wildcard game against, ironically enough, the Bears, while the Rams would suffer a disappointing 13-3 loss to the Patriots at Super Bowl LIII).
** His "Congrats, Bears!" video, made in response to the Chicago Bears' narrow defeat by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2018-19 NFL Playoffs thanks to a failed field goal attempt by Bears kicker Cody Parkey, became this as a couple days later, NFL officials amended the ruling as a blocked field goal, and thus, not entirely the fault of Parkey.
** And with their victory in the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HUwd3fKsj0 The St. Louis Blues' Legacy of Failure]] is no more:
--->'''UT''': It's over. All of the pain, all of the agony, all of the times the Blues came up short... vindicated.\\
This legacy of failure is now a historical piece. As it shall remain to remind us all of the struggles it takes for a team to win the Stanley Cup.\\
Well done, boys. Nothing can take away that cup win now.
** [[https://twitter.com/UrinatingTree/status/1162392529830141952?s=19 He declared]] his Brooklyn Nets video from 2017 to be this after Mikhail Prokhorov sold his controlling stake in the team to minority partner Joe Tsai in August 2019.
** Shortly after the start of the 2019 NFL season, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI3jocqgHac Tree released a video]] chronicling the saga of now-former Steelers WR Antonio Brown with his new team, the Oakland Raiders, which was coming to a breaking point after days of altercation between him and the team's front office. At the point when the video was released, the Raiders were deciding to waive Brown's suspension and have him start in Week 1. Tree ended the video with a response to the Raiders' spinelessness, warning that "...this is going to flare up again, it's only a matter of when." Less than half a day later, the Raiders released Antonio Brown.
--->'''UT''': Can you stop? For like five minutes?
** In October 2019, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHiZ1hglY8 Washington Nationals' Legacy of Failure]] became the first MLB legacy of failure to fall.
--->'''UT''': And now its dead. A new record shattered at eleven months after release.\\
Be real, nobody saw this coming back in the summer. Don't lie.
** "[[https://youtu.be/PnytlIk5z_k The Washington Redskins: Professional Football's Shithole]]" was an in-depth look at the team and general manager Bruce Allen in particular, but it became this only 3 weeks after being posted as Allen was fired following the end of the 2019 NFL season.
** And with the Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl LIV, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLpsvxkQSQ8 Andy Reid's Legacy of Failure]] is the first one from the NFL to fall. Maybe we should start calling him [[WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows Tree-stradamus.]]
--->'''UT''':Another one bites the dust. Relegated to historical reference, this video will become.\\
The Reid memes were getting stale, regardless.\\
Go and eat that cheeseburger, Andy. You've earned it.
** In his Jacksonville Jaguars lolcow video from 2017, Tree joked that the San Francisco 49ers were also becoming a lolcow, showing then-49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest of police brutality during the national anthem, which, at the time, was seen as highly controversial. But by 2020, several high-profile deaths of Black Americans, most notably George Floyd, at the hands of police officers led to nationwide protests to the point where [[VindicatedByHistory Kaepernick was reevaluated]], with many people, including in the NFL, [[CassandraTruth realizing that Kaepernick's original protests weren't so outrageous, after all]].
** To that end, any video featuring the former Washington Redskins (now known as Commanders).
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKj0uA0ZNHM The Arizona Coyotes: A Disaster In The Desert]]", he puts former Coyotes GM John Chayka on full blast for making a series of moves that left the team with a wrecked roster pushed up against the salary cap, while also costing them numerous draft picks in both 2020 and 2021.[[note]]through a mixture of ill-advised trades and league sanctions for illegal prospect workouts[[/note]] He also gave owner Alex Meruelo some benefit of the doubt over his belated payments on per diems and bonuses related to the team's appearance in the Edmonton playoff bubble due to a significant portion of his worth being tied up in casinos, which were hit hard by COVID-19. About a month after the video, ''The Athletic'' published an exposè on the Coyotes and Meruelo which painted him as a con man who had been swindling vendors and purveyors at his businesses for years, had created a toxic environment in the front office full of reprisals, favoritism and betrayal, and had potentially lied to the NHL itself about the financials concerning the team under his ownership. For bonus points, multiple current and former staffers portrayed Chayka as attempting to shield them as much as possible from Meruelo's wrath,[[note]]although it doesn't truly let him off the hook for his own mistakes[[/note]] in contrast to their portrayal of current GM Bill Armstrong as a YesMan to Meruelo whose favorite tactic is [[TheScapegoat scapegoating his underlings]].

* AcceptableTargets: Just like nearly every Pittsburgh Steelers fan, Tree hates Vontaze Burfict for his long history of dirty hits against his favorite team. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zAG_tdwH6Q The NFL's Wheel of Discipline]], a video criticizing the NFL's arbitrary punishments for off-field incidents ([[ScrewTheRulesImFamous specifically, their habit of throwing the book at benchwarmers and role players but letting stars off with slaps on the wrist]]), ''every'' segment of Burfict's Wheel is labeled "You're Fucked" and his season-long suspension is greeted with cheers.

* FanHater:
** If Tree specifically mentions a fanbase, it's usually because he hates them. Though his primary whipping boys are actual franchises, in some cases he tends to lump their fans in as well, even though fanbases aren't actually part of sports franchises.
** Tree holds a special contempt for Pittsburgh Steelers fans, since he lives in Pittsburgh and is frequently annoyed by "yinzers", whom Tree says are making the city look bad through their obnoxious attitudes.

* AcceptableTargets: Just like nearly every Pittsburgh Steelers fan, Tree hates Vontaze Burfict for his long history of dirty hits against his favorite team. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zAG_tdwH6Q The NFL's Wheel of Discipline]], a video criticizing the NFL's arbitrary punishments for off-field incidents ([[ScrewTheRulesImPopular specifically, their habit of throwing the book at benchwarmers and role players but letting stars off with slaps on the wrist]]), ''every'' segment of Burfict's Wheel is labeled "You're Fucked" and his season-long suspension is greeted with cheers.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdmASWOt-c This Week in Sportsball: Week Eight Edition (2021)]]: At the end of the video, Schlasser discusses the horrific incident where Henry Ruggs III, a wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders known for his speed and who had a bright future ahead, killed a woman named Tina Tintor and her dog by crashing his car into hers at more the 150 miles per hour. Even worse was how Schlasser describes in subtitles how Tina and her dog were ''[[NightmareFuel burnt alive in her car]]'' while also noting that Ruggs, who was found to have a gun in the car and also have a blood alcohol content twice over the legal limit, thought he was invincible and now faces a long jail sentence as a woman is now dead because of his actions. Bonus points for pointing out the irony of Ruggs having had a friend die in a car wreck.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDu8AzBTB4U Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Minnesota Vikings (December 9, 2021) - The 500k Shittacular!]]: Tree spends most of the chat lamenting at how bad the Steelers are while joking that no matter what happens, the Steelers will still win the Super Bowl. The stream then takes a very [[Main/MoodWhiplash dark turn]] upon hearing the news that former Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, a Pro Bowler who helped the Broncos win a Super Bowl in 2015, died suddenly. Tree's enthusiasm then becomes melancholy as he remarks at how Thomas was only 33 when he died (same age as him), and he discusses how anyone's clock can run out at any moment. He even ends the stream by playing a clip of Demaryius Thomas catching an 80-yard receiving TD against the Steelers in the 2011-12 Wild Card game, which is significant considering Tree himself admits that moment is painful for him.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDu8AzBTB4U Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Minnesota Vikings (December 9, 2021) - The 500k Shittacular!]]: Tree spends most of the chat lamenting at how bad the Steelers are while joking that no matter what happens, the Steelers will still win the Super Bowl. The stream then takes a very [[Main/MoodWhiplash dark turn]] upon hearing the news that former Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, a Pro Bowler who helped the Broncos win a Super Bowl in 2015, died suddenly. Tree's enthusiasm then becomes melancholy as he remarks at how Thomas was only 33 when he died (same age as him), and he discusses how anyone's clock can run out at any moment.