We’ve ombuds’d with Spike. Can we ombuds’d with Mike? We tried to stay on topic with Mike Pesca, public radio/sports podcasting legend, but we ended up hitting so many subjects outside this here website. Subjects include, but aren’t limited to:
* I just came back from Florida. What’s the deal?
* There once was a banana that everyone ate and it was called The Big Mike. Now it’s extinct.
* I went on Pesca’s podcast to discuss Giannis Antetokounmpo’s “there’s no failure in sports” moment. We analyze why his listeners hated our take.
* Is it helpful to exaggerate certain societal threats?
* Mike’s NBA vs. Senate salary comp became a random controversy
* I’m trying to outsmart Elon Musk. Good luck to me.
* Is, “Go Woke, Go Broke?” true or false?
* Mike wonders why I didn’t cover certain stories, like Jon Gruden’s Raiders ouster
* The conversation about women’s sports isn’t very nuanced
* Mike asks for my most progressive sports media opinion