Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Deich.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

Two guests this week on one episode.

No question, two, the finest baseball writers of their generation quite frankly of any generation um they

are here in their capacity for fox sports but and again anybody who's listened to this podcast

certainly from the states is well aware of tom riducci and ken rosenthal's career they are the dugout

reporters for fox including long careers as writers fox has aired the World Series since 1996 and then

consecutively since 2000, which is sort of just looking at that on a piece of paper. It's kind of

crazy. This Friday, the New York Yankees versus the Los Angeles Dodgers. First pitch

for game one is at 8.08 p.m. on Fox in Los Angeles, probably one of the most anticipated series that we have

seen in some time. And certainly for, you know, viewership nerds like myself, absolutely fascinating

to see whatever this is going to do. And with that, I bring in Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated

in Fox, Ken Rosenthal, the Athletic

and Fox. The rare podcast, I've worked with both of you, which is, which is, you know, my pleasure. Ken,

I will just say this quick, because every time Tom Verducci is on this podcast, I have to get it out.

When I was 19 years old at the University of Buffalo, I wrote two people, basically to look at my

clips, look at my stuff. One was a Buffalo News columnist. I'm not going to bury the guy, although

he's passed away, so there's no suing of me anyway. The other person was Tom Verducci, because I love

Sports Illustrated. The dude from Buffalo, 10 miles away from my house, never responded. Tom

Verducci did.

Two-page letter, handwritten blue ink, basically telling me, hey, keep it up, you know, look to see it, you know, I'm sure, whatever, Tom, Tom did this for a lot of people. But for a 19-year-old

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