Hello and welcome to Mind of Micah.

Today is the triumphant return of Micah's Reed of the Week.

Welcome in. This will be the start of a multi-part series about

Al Michaels, the legendary sports commentator, play-by-play man,

I think you're going to enjoy it, even if you're not a sports fan.

Al Michaels is an interesting character

with a long and storied history and I think you're going to enjoy this and he's never

eaten a vegetable so even if you're not a sports fan, I think you will enjoy today's

the week. It comes from us from Defector, which is sort of the new dead spin.

All of the writers, uh, previously from Deadspinner now at Defector.

It is mostly behind a paywall. I think you get two or three free pieces.

Drew McGarry wrote this piece.

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podcast that I also do. All right, without further ado here is part one of Micas, 3 of the Week.

It's entitled Al Michaels and the Price of Comfort.

Al Michaels has never eaten a vegetable.

This has been reported before, but I'm here to tell you. Al-Michals has never eaten a vegetable.

This has been reported before, but I'm here to tell you it's absolutely true.

Growing up, Al refused to eat them and was never forced to because even back then,

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