History WebVideo / UrinatingTree

* AnAesop:
** In his lolcow video on the San Diego Padres, UT says that sports owners need to learn that "big splashes usually drain the pool of all the water." In other words, signing a popular-but-untested player or signing a veteran well past their prime is always going to be a worse decision than the BoringButPractical approach of taking a few years to build a winning squad.
** His 'Congrats, NFL' video, produced in response to the 2018-19 NFL conference championships, discusses the issues with the inconsistent officiating of NFL referees, citing the vague rules and poor judgement as main topics. Not helping matters is the video shows referees often [[FelonyMisdemeanor penalizing defensive players for roughing the passer if they so much as tap their shoulder]]. Meanwhile, blatant helmet-to-helmet hits, false starts, facemasks, and pass interference calls are completely missed, often costing teams wins.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSqmcAFgHGQ Tree's video on the Kansas City Royals]] departs from the expected mockery of the team's struggles, and instead presents a look at Major League Baseball's competitive imbalances between teams that enjoy large budgets (e.g. Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs) and those who do not (e.g. A's, Twins, Rays). Tree notes that a lack of a hard salary cap, the rising costs of running a team, and the increasing salaries of players are factors that make it hard for small-market teams to remain consistently competitive. Tree also sees the Royals as lucky: they have won the World Series recently, something that the Rays, A's, Indians, Pirates, Orioles, Brewers, Reds, Padres, and Twins could not boast.
** "Revisiting: The Indianpolis Colts" examines Colts quarterback Andrew Luck's decision to retire from football, discussing the mental toll of professional sports that accompanies the physical toll and why Luck wanted to [[OptOut walk away from it all]], given the myriad of injuries he suffered and how badly he was treated by upper management.

** '''The Unicorn''': Angels P/DH Shohei Ohtani, who is notable for being both a pitcher and a power hitter.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Mentioned in his [[https://youtu.be/vVu6hfCjnqA&t=333 "The Greatest Game" video]] for NFL 2023 Week 13 between the Vikings and Bears after Justin Fields lost a fumble.

* GratuitousGerman: His Dolphins-Chiefs recap from "This Week in Sportsball: NFL Week Nine Edition (2023)" is done entirely in German, as the game was played in Frankfurt.

* GratituousGerman: His Dolphins-Chiefs recap from "This Week in Sportsball: NFL Week Nine Edition (2023)" is done entirely in German, as the game was played in Frankfurt.

* SadistShow: Sometimes, the fun is watching Tree's meltdowns and frustrated shouting at whatever he's seeing or describing. During his 2021 livestream of the game that saw his hometown Steelers eliminated from the NFL playoffs by the Cleveland Browns, Tree even noted that some of his fans were watching for his over-the-top reactions.

* WorstWhateverEver: Subverted. After reviewing ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'', Tree admitted that the game is not as bad as it's made out to be. He would then name five other fighting games that are much worse, counting ''Super Nova'', ''Slaughter Sport'', ''Rise of the Robots'', and ''Batman Forever'' among them.

** "Thrashed" examined the lifecycle of UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} hockey in light of the move of the Arizona Coyotes out of Glendale in 2022.[[note]]News had broke in August 2021 that the long-lapsed Gila River Arena lease will be broken that year. Currently, the Coyotes plan on moving to Tempe at Arizona State University's hockey arena (which holds a maximum of 5,000 seats) for a few seasons, starting in the upcoming 2022-23 season, before planning and building a more permanent (and fitting) arena for them (and the university's basketball team) a few years later.[[/note]]

** '''The Diva/The Cancer''': Former Steelers/Raiders/Patriots/Buccaneers WR Antonio Brown.

** '''The Cocky Sonofabitch From Oklahoma''': Former Browns, current Rams QB Baker Mayfield.

** '''Blaine Fucking Gabbert:''' Blaine Gabbert, journeyman quarterback; Tree consistently portrays Gabbert as a HopeCrusher for any team that he plays for.

** '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Big. Dick. Nick]]''': Former Eagles and current Colts QB Nick Foles.

** '''Barbecue Bruce''': Former Wild and current Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau.

* OccamsRazor:
** Invoked by Tree in "The Toronto Maple Leafs: A Half-Century of Failure" when discussing the fact that the referees missed an obvious high-stick by the Los Angeles Kings' Wayne Gretzky on Maple Leaf Doug Gilmour. A segment of Toronto fans have claimed a fix was in at the behest of the NHL to prevent an all-Canadian Stanley Cup Finals since Montreal had already made it. Tree's response was that the most likely thing that happened was just the officials doing a poor job.
** Averted repeatedly in "The Haters Guide to the 2020 NBA Finals", where he:
*** Accuses the referees of rigging game six of the Raptors-Celtics series to guarantee a game seven.
*** Laughs at the Denver Nuggets for believing they would be "allowed" past the Los Angeles Lakers, while showing footage of referees persistently ignoring blatant fouls by the Lakers and repeatedly calling nebulous contact by the Nuggets to put L.A. on thd free throw line.
*** Accuses the referees of ''trying'' to rig the Eastern Conference Finals for the Celtics, then mocks the team and questions their future when they implode and hand a Finals berth to the Heat anyway.
*** Says the entire eastern half of the bracket was set up to fail in the Finals because the NBA leadership views a Lakers championship as "their version of a happy ending" after a difficult year and are willing to go to any lengths to get that outcome. Given that the NBA and its officials have been caught rigging games and series before, this is actually a justifiable aversion of the Razor.

* OccamsRazor: Invoked by Tree in "The Toronto Maple Leafs: A Half-Century of Failure" when discussing the fact that the referees missed an obvious high-stick by the Los Angeles Kings' Wayne Gretzky on Maple Leaf Doug Gilmour. A segment of Toronto fans have claimed a fix was in at the behest of the NHL to prevent an all-Canadian Stanley Cup Finals since Montreal had already made it. Tree's response was that the most likely thing that happened was just the officials doing a poor job.

* InMemoriam: {{Invoked|Trope}}. For the 2018 NFL Season, "This Week In Sportsball" added one of these for players injured during the relevant week's games. As "Taps" plays, it shows footage of a candle burning as headlines about the injured players flash by on screen, each one accompanied by a SickeningCrunch. Season-ending injuries also trigger the "Unit Lost" clip. Actual deaths in the football world (e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen Paul Allen]] and [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Spanos Alex Spanos]] in the Week Six video, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_McNair Bob McNair]] in Week 12) swap out the other SFX for church bells.

* StockScream: Injuries to players crucial to a team's success will cause one of several of these to pop up alongside the SickeningCrunch. He also uses a "Unit Lost" sound for season-ending injuries; siren chirps for suspended or arrested players and personnel; and gongs for retirements, firings, and deaths.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KR-ESyH_Gg "The Death of the Regional Sports Network"]] is an analysis of the sudden crash of RSN networks with the impending bankruptcies of Bally Sports and AT&T Sportsnet in 2023; how it will impact MLB, NBA, and NHL;[[note]]Not so much NFL and MLS; NFL had already been broadcast nationally for decades, and MLS began a national format with Apple's MLS Season Pass in 2023.[[/note]] and how well each league is equipped to handle it.

** More acute at the end of 2022 NFL Week 17 of "This Week in Sportsball" when Tree got to the injury roundup, and was going to have to get around not only to Damar Hamlin's near-fatal injury that week, but to the death of former NFL player and personal friend Uche Nwaneri.
--->'''Tree''': God, this is gonna sting.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

** More acute at the end of 2022 NFL Week 17 of "This Week in Sportsball" when Tree got to the injury roundup, and was going to have to get around not only to Damar Hamlin's near-fatal injury, but to the death of former NFL player and personal friend Uche Nwaneri.

* StockScream: Injuries to players crucial to a team's success will cause one of several of these to pop up alongside the SickeningCrunch.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Another common reaction when talking about lolcow teams. It gets DoubleSubverted at the start of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ78kp2GZ40 "The Pittsburgh Pirates: Professional Baseball's Drunken Sailor"]], because he self-admits to being a fan of the team as he is a native of Pittsburgh.

* HiddenDepths: Does he really hate the Steelers as much as he claims to? Sure, he gives them more vitriol than probably any other franchise he's ever covered, but over time, it's become more apparent that a part of him, even if it's incredibly small, is still a passionate fan of the franchise. He rejoices with the team when they win, and lashes out when they lose... whether it's ''at'' or ''for'' them depends on whether he feels they lost because they got in their own way. To say the least, his relationship with the Steelers has become a complicated one, and if your impression of his ''Pharisee'' rant is that his last word on the team is that he hates them, well, think again.