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.

Sports Lunacy. Are you ready, Marchman? Are you ready to get into this week?

We have a very special week of stuff planned, so I hope you're prepared.

Yeah, well, you just sent me something and told me we were going to talk about this and I just read it and my jaw is still on the floor.

That's right. We're going to start off with a take. We got takeage. As you know,

Muhammad Ali passed away over over the weekend it was

very sad there were just an amazing number of tributes an amazing number of of stories and

and columns about what he meant and just an incredible outpouring of love and of kindness and

of just amazing memories of the man himself.

And not only that, but also his career.

But there was always the specter of someone waiting for that to subside

and to finally give me the Ali hot take I needed to really push it over the top.

And thankfully, uh,

someone at Cleveland.com named Ted Diadian fulfilled that and gave us our, our Ali take. And I couldn't be happier, Marchman today. My heart sings with joy because Ted

took up the mantle and was brave enough to write this take.

And by the way, Ted has a lot of takes.

Like his, his archive is quite something to behold, Marchman.

Would you like to hear some of these other headlines before we get into the Ali one?

Yeah, give it to me, man.

I need the pure stuff today.

He also, he had a guerrilla take, so guerrilla incident

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