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I'm your host, Richard Dyche.

My producer Patrick Antonetti, two guests this week.

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It is back to the sports media nerddom chat with me as sports business journal managing editor slash

newsletters austin carp sports media watch founder and editor john lewis welcome austin welcome john

hey thanks for having me happy to be here richard all right three podcast hosts as well

you can never i mean you can't you can't turn these days without, three podcast hosts as well. You can never, I mean, you can't,

you can't turn these days without hitting a podcast hosts. There you go. All right, John Lewis, I want

to start with you. We are taping this on Tuesday afternoon, so people will be listening to it on Wednesday,

and that is two games before the start of the World Series. This World Series is probably about as anticipated a World Series, as we have seen in some time. If you're a Fox executive, obviously, you are overjoyed with the fact that you have the Yankees and Dodgers. Not only do you have these two historic teams, but you have two MVP people that you can sort of market the series around.

And Aaron Judd and Joey Otani, maybe if you want to add Juan Soda, you make it three.

And so before I get some sort of really nitty-gritty viewership stuff from both you in Austin, John, I want to start here.

How good a World Series is this, in your opinion, as far as media exposure and as far as the possibility of of baseball getting some casual fans to check this out which does not always happen with

the world series i mean i think it's uh best case scenario i mean maybe not best case best case

might be yankees cubs or something but i mean it's it's pretty close to best case. And frankly, given the

star power that L.A. has, I think it is even a better case scenario than a Yankees Cubs or, you know,

I mean, once you get past all the curses, the curses are the things that have moved the needle the most for baseball.

Red Sox in 04, Cubs, and 16. Once you just get to big market teams with stars, I don't really think there's a matchup that MLB has had better than this one.

I mean, since probably the last one in 1981.

Wow.

What about you, Austin?

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