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spread. Pick up a Coca-Cola zero sugar and start collecting. Peel, sip, collect. Welcome to the latest edition of This Was Sports Center, the podcast about the old days, the good times of the SportsCenter days where I'm fortunate enough to sit with old colleagues of mine from back in the day, still in the present day, for many

on ESPN. And this episode of This Was Sports Center features my friend from back in the day.

Mike Greenberg, good to see you, Mike. How are you? I'm thrilled to be a part of this.

Thank you for asking me. I think it is a magnificent idea, as I told you, when you first mentioned it, and I'm honored to be a part of it. Thanks, pal. And we're on the set of Get Up doing this from New York City. This is your playground. So I appreciate you giving up a little bit of the space here for this show to hear today. I think about where it was when you started and then I came shortly thereafter. So just to give you a sense of exactly where I came along, you'll remember the time.

It was when we were working out of trailers in the parking lot.

Yes, because they were redoing a whole bunch of stuff.

They were redoing the buildings.

And so when I started, which was in August of 96, I have a little tiny desk in a trailer,

and I look across and Keith Olberman is sitting there writing a show, and Dan Patrick is

sitting there writing a show, and Stuart Scott and you.

And I remember thinking to myself, this is unbelievable that we were in these trailers in

Bristol, Connecticut, doing this show

that is a cultural phenomenon beyond belief.

And so I guess that's what my way of saying,

we are a long way away from those trailers in Bristol.

Well, we weren't far apart.

I arrived in March, late February, actually, of 96.

And the setup there, it was, they were just about to move out to the trailers.

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