Ian Eagle, Sarah Kustok, Jason Gay and Pete Abraham

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Episode 42 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three guests. First up is Ian Eagle and Sarah Kustok, the broadcast team for the Brooklyn Nets as well as accomplished broadcasters for CBS, the YES Network Turner Sports and Tennis Channel (Eagle) and the YES Network and Fox Sports (Kustok). They are followed by Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay and Boston Globe baseball writer Pete Abraham. In this podcast, Eagle and Kustok discuss why it works between the two of them; what is unique about their partnership; how they value preparation and passion about preparation; whether you can have a good broadcast if you dislike your colleague; how the Nets’ current success has impacted their broadcast; why Eagle says Kustok gets television; whether they have ever gotten on each other nerves; working with Richard Jefferson in a three-person booth; why Brad Stevens, Erik Spoelstra and Nick Nurse are great in production meetings; why the Nets are good this year; whether the Nets can land a big-name free agent in 2019; what Sarah wants to do long-term in broadcasting; how Eagle tries to develop chemistry with his partners and much more. Gay discusses his recent piece titled, “Mr. Kraft’ and the Sports Owner God Complex,” and why sports owners are so often afforded the honorific “Mr”; why this exists more in the NFL than other sports; whether there is a parallel to “Coach” in college sports; the racial component in this construct; the uniqueness of writing sports for the Wall Street Journal; writing celebrity profiles versus sports pieces and much more. Abraham discusses the passing and legacy of longtime Red Sox beat writer Nick Cafardo; how Cafardo was instrumental in Abraham being hiring at the Globe; the pressures of covering a cultural institution such as the Red Sox and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino.
0:08.1	Three segments this week, four guests. First up, the fantastic NBA broadcasting team of Iron Eagle and Sarah Kustak.
0:16.1	They are the broadcast team for the Brooklyn Nets. And in my opinion, they are the best regional NBA broadcast
0:22.4	team out there. So we have a really fun conversation with them. You can tell how great their
0:27.4	chemistry is on this podcast. And if you've ever listened to, or should say, if you've ever
0:31.3	watched the net game, you already know that. After that is Jason Gay, the sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and we discuss
0:39.3	his recent piece, Mr. Kraft and the sports owner God Complex. That is about why so many sports
0:45.6	owners, particularly in the NFL, are afforded the Mr. Honorific that they get. And I think you'll
0:51.1	find that conversation with Jason. Interesting. And then we finish up with Pete Abraham, the excellent Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox beat writer. Pete talks about Nick
1:01.0	Caffardo, the longtime beat writer who passed away last week and how Nick Caffardo was instrumental
1:07.6	and Pete Abraham being hired at the globe. And the thing about Nick Cofardo was one of the few people in baseball, as Pete will tell you, who just
1:14.4	essentially had no enemies. Everybody liked this guy, everybody respected this guy. And that's
1:18.6	why the loss was, I think, so painful throughout the sports media world and throughout
1:24.6	New England. Nick Kaffardo really made a lasting impression on everyone he met in that sport.
1:31.8	So, again, starting off with Ion Eagle and Saracoustach, then Jason Gay, then Pete Abraham,
1:37.9	all coming up on the sports media podcast with Richard Deich.
1:42.3	All right, as I said at the top where I gave their quick resume, I and Eagle and
1:47.0	Sarah Kustok are the broadcast team for the Nets, but they're not just the broadcast team
1:51.7	for the Nets.
1:52.3	Each has a distinguished solo career.
1:55.7	Ian Eagle has been a broadcaster for CBS and the Yes Network for 25 years.
1:59.8	You've seen his work all over the place.
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