Welcome to Deadcast, a podcast taking you through the week of sports lunacy.

Here are Deadspin, editor-in-chief Tim Marchman and columnist Drew McGarry.

Welcome back, everybody.

We have a new and improved Deadcast this week, Marchman.

And can you tell everybody why it is new and improved,

the stunning innovation in Deadcast technology that will allow us to broadcast better.

Tell them.

That's my dog's collar on the suggestion of a reader.

I actually took it off of him, so it won't be rattling around in the background.

Only took a year to figure it out.

Just a year.

Just a year to figure out to take the fucking dog's collar off.

Woohoo!

Anyway, are we, so it'll be quiet now or do we have to shoot the dog?

It should be quiet unless he starts barking, in which case, you know, that's how it goes.

Oh, don't, uh, don't like ring a bell or invite the mailman in or anything.

Maybe, maybe we can do it like one of those ESPN shout shows. And if you make, if you put a bad

takeout, I'll just start rattling the collar. Oh, I'm in a shouty mood.

I'm all fired up, Marchman.

We have, before we get to the letters,

there are actually three topics we have to cover that we have to argue about.

The first one is basketball because

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