Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Deich. This is our annual. It's not annual. What am I talking about? Regular Saturday media roundtable podcast. I have the regul words here. John Lewis, founder and editor of

Sports Media Watch, Austin Karp, a sports media writer and reporter for Sports Business Journal,

Chad Finn, the Fine, Sports Media writer and general columnist for the Boston Globe. Welcome, gentlemen.

Thanks for evidence.

Hi, Richard. Howdy,. Great, hi, Richard.

Howdy fellas?

All right, we're going to start with a couple days now afterwards, but I still want to talk about.

We're going to start with the Netflix broadcast.

And, Chad, I'm going to start with you on this.

The reviews of the broadcast, to be generous, were mixed.

To be more accurate, were brutal.

SPJ did a great job of collecting some thoughts all over the spectrum here about what you know, what people liked, what people didn't

like.

You know, Andrew Marshall, I thought wrote an excellent com for the athletic.

I don't know where to begin, but I think, Chad, my just sort of broad thought on this is that

Netflix did a broadcast for Netflix.

Yes.

Not for baseball fans.

It was the primary function of that broadcast was to Netflix size it as opposed to make it a baseball broadcast for, for viewers.

Now, I understand if you pay the money, you want to use this as a marketing platform.

So, you know, I get the sense that if you're going to pony up, you want to sort of, you know, make this feel like an event, which is sort of Netflix specialty.

But I do think at a base minimum, you owe some stuff to the audience if you're going to do live sports.

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