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.

Michael Lupica was laid off today, Marchman.

Are you sad?

Are you sad that Mike Lupica has been laid off 20 years too late?

Yeah, man, where am I going to get my Lubica fix?

You know, a lot of people love Mike Lupica as the angry sports tape guy

who had really sentimental takes on baseball

and this rhetorical habit of putting you in the second person

and in the past tense

at the lead of every paragraph to make everything he was writing about

seem as if it were the most important thing since, you know, the 50s New York baseball.

But...

You rooted for the Mick. You loved the Mick.

You wanted the Mick to be the best.

I love that.

I love that idea.

He's in the second person past tense.

You wanted him to be, you want him to be everything you hoped baseball could be.

Like I think that's been, I think that's a great sort of device for him.

We actually...

But you know, what I really am going to miss is his political tics, which a lot of people

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