Opening Up the SI Media Podcast Mailbag

SI Media With Jimmy Traina

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Episode 587 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" begins with a brief "Traina Thoughts" segment with weekly contributor, Sal Licata, before ending with a long mailbag segment.

Topics discussed during "Traina Thoughts" include some Christmas shopping stories, Sal's night at Alex Rodriguez's Christmas party, Sal getting lots of coverage for his interview with Stugotz and more.

In the mailbag segment we tackle questions regarding the futures of Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, Ian Eagle and J.J. Watt at CBS; who could replace Al Michaels on "Thursday Night Football"; favorite childhood sports memories; sports venue we'd most like to visit; favorite David Letterman guest; whether the NFL should eliminate the 4:05 p.m. game and go to all 4:25 p.m games; betting philosophies; Steve Kornacki; worst guest cancellation; should podcasts be called podcasts; Jimmy's NFL Sunday food situation; the status of the annual year-end podcast with Peter Schrager and Andrew Perloff and much, much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Traynor.
0:05.5	Thank you so much for listening with the end of the year show.
0:10.3	We probably will have a show New Year's Eve, but that almost starts 2026.
0:18.3	So we'll close out here, 2025 for the most part, with me, Sal, and a mailbag.
0:27.1	You guys submitted a bunch of questions, got a ton of good ones on Instagram, and we'll close it out with me, you and Sal, and do it that way.
0:36.3	Before we get to it, just a quick reminder.
0:39.0	The guest list over the last couple months has been really good.
0:43.5	So if you missed any, you have time off here during the holiday.
0:46.0	Go catch up.
0:47.0	Joe Buck was on last week.
0:48.5	Iron Eagle and JJ Watt were on two weeks ago.
0:51.3	Reese Davis, Burke Magnus, the president of ESPN, Al Michaels,
0:54.5	Kyle Brandt, all recent guests. So if you missed any of those, give them a listen and then subscribe to the pod. All right. Now, let me bring in my buddy from SNY TV, Sal Akata, Sal, Merry Christmas. How are you? Good. What's going on?
1:15.1	You know, this is, we're taping this on Monday the 22nd.
1:18.4	The pod's going to come out Christmas Eve the 24th. And, you know, these are just a couple of crazy insane days to get ready for that holiday.
1:24.4	It never, I can never slow it down even with the extra time the unexpected extra time
1:31.0	this year it's still like we still haven't totally finished decorating i just punted the outside
1:37.2	i'm not doing it this year i don't give a shit it's for everybody else it's not for me i'm not
1:40.6	going to be home the next you know day or two um two. Um, so anyway, it just, it goes so freaking fast. Yeah. And like I said, it's going to be a mailbag. We'll get to all your questions. Let me just address this too. I may have mentioned it. I've gotten a lot of people asking where the year end extravaganza is with Perlough and Schrager we've done it like five or six years in a row
2:01.3	I'm working on it scheduling could be tough I'm gonna try to get that for you next week I will
2:07.3	keep you posted on that so don't give up hope yet um and then what I've gotten a lot of is people
2:14.3	want a report of Sal at the Arod Christmas party, which I, you know, I, to me,
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