Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Dyche.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

This is now a tradition.

Can a tradition be something that's been going on for just three weeks?

No, why not?

This is a Saturday Roundtable podcast.

We have one regular, but two new voices.

And I'm very excited about this.

John Lewis, of course, someone you know, founder and editor of Sports Media Watch.

I am joined by two of his colleagues.

Armand Brody is the co-host of the Sports Media Watch podcast.

He's also a contributor at that site, writes the on the air column.

If you listen to the Sports Media Watch podcast, you're familiar with Armand's voice.

They are joined by Derek Futterman, who is a writer and multimedia producer for Sports Media Watch.

Derek has done a lot of work in the space written for a number

of publications. And the thing I always admire about Derek is you really cannot fake having a passion

for sports media. And in every piece that I saw Derek write, including some of the long form pieces

that he did, you could tell that he was really, really into this. And that's something like the cohort of us who have been writing this for a while, you can always tell. And so it's great to actually have him on this podcast for the first time. Same with Armand. Welcome, John. Welcome Armand. Welcome, Derek. Hey, thanks for having us. Thanks, Richard.

Thanks for having me.

You got, I've had more elegant intros. I'm not going to lie to you guys, but, but, but, but it'll do. All right. Um, let's start here. John, you know, a deference to you as the boss. I'll, I'll start with you on this. Um, the world baseball classic viewership numbers, we have through essentially like sort of like

first round plus at this point.

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