Can a Podcast Change the Way Sports Are Covered?

There comes a time in every sportswriter’s career when they realize they have no idea what they’re talking about. The game they watched as a child, it turns out, is far more complex than it appeared to be on television. The players and coaches speak in impenetrable jargon and the front-office nerds spend their time poring over proprietary spreadsheets that you can’t find on the Internet. Like a child who has brought a beloved action figure to a sleepover only to discover that his new friends, people he idolizes, have long since moved on to video games, the writer realizes that all his beloved sports clichés—about the “will to win,” or whatever else—are embarrassing.