Hour 2: Jeff Passan and Mike Lupica

The Michael Kay Show

ESPN

Sports

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Jeff Passan says he does not believe Major League baseball will miss any games next season because the owners are banking on making money with their next television rights deal. Mike Lupica says now is the time for Jalen Brunson to get the best out of everybody on the Knicks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From 30 for 30 Podcasts.
0:02.5	Brian Padda, Senior Defensive Lyman from Miami.
0:12.9	Gunned down.
0:14.3	The key to this case, it's Brian.
0:17.2	A hour before he died, he was on the phone. Arguing with somebody.
0:21.3	This might be a hit.
0:22.8	You want the truth.
0:23.8	The biggest one of the conviction being placed him to arrest.
0:26.5	We had a killer amongst us.
0:28.2	Murder at the U.
0:29.0	Listen now.
0:31.2	This is the Michael K Show podcast.
0:34.1	I gotta get more K.
0:35.6	Listen live weekdays at one on the ESPN New York app and your smart speaker.
0:41.2	Welcome back to the show.
0:42.5	Obviously, the big news yesterday, Tony Clark resigned as the executive director of the MLBPA.
0:49.3	Jeff Passon later reported that it was because of an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law,
0:55.5	who was also given a job at the Players Association.
0:59.1	Now, I contend, and I said this at the beginning of the show, people saying, well, this really sets everything back.
1:04.1	I don't think it does because Tony Clark was the front-facing guy, but he wasn't the whole thing.
1:10.3	There's people behind him. And let's bring in Jeff Pass and see if he agrees with that.
1:14.3	Jeff, how you doing?
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