This is the Michael K Show Podcast.

Listen live weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 880 E-SPN,

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Wednesdays, it's always a great time at 4 o'clock

because then we get a chance to talk

with the Daily News columnist,

author, works for MLB.com as well the great Mike Lupica and he joins us right now.

Mike how are you?

Good guys you know I was thinking with everything that we have going on in sports right now

I remember the night in the press room in Lake Placid and we had just beaten the Soviets

in hockey and it's time to write and I heard a friend of mine about two seats down saying how do you write this and I said no no no no no no no no

these are the nights why we got into this business.

If you can't write tonight, you have to find something else to do.

This time that we're having in New York sports is an awful lot of fun.

It's amazing because there are so many stories, even with the teams that are losing,

the Giants lose the left tackle, the Jets,

get Devanta Adams, give another toy to Aaron Rogers.

But let's start with the Mets who are playing a game three tonight at City Field.

Doc and Darrell are going to participate in the first pitch.

How do you think they came out of LA?

Who do you think has momentum here?

Oh, I think they do, Michael. They, if they, I'm not even sure they would have picked

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