MIKE SWEENEY vs. JEFF WEAVER

Hey everybody! It’s Jon again.

In the second episode of my new series “The History of Charging the Mound,” we examine a 2001 bout between Mike Sweeney and Jeff Weaver. As you’ll see, this is among the most unexpected and bizarre mound-chargings on record. Strap in for passive-aggressiveness, a sensational takedown, some solid ground-and-pound combat, a disgraceful cheap shot, and eventual crying.

If you need to catch up, here’s Episode 1 of this series. And if you’d like to keep exploring, here you can find a spreadsheet in which I’ve logged all 266 mound-charging incidents I’ve found over the last 75 years. As always, if you’re interested in more and don’t want to wait, we’ve got everything that’s been published within the series available here, and we’re going to keep adding to it on a monthly basis.

I hope you enjoy, and whether you’re one of our Patrons or just enjoying things as they make it over to YouTube – you’ll have a new mound charging story to enjoy next week. Or, next week if you’re reading that this week. This week is the one with April 27th, 2026 in it. I hope that’s helpful.