Welcome to Episode 300. We’re presenting it in three parts.

Why three parts? Well, we decided to try and do a three-hour podcast. And that’d be a pretty hefty download for people. So we break it up in to hour blocks to make the show a little easier to download and consume. We hope you stick around the whole time and listen to some of our favorite people in sports.

Look, this is a really long show, and I’d love to do a full detailed recap of the entire thing, word for word, but it’s just too much writing and, honestly, too much to remember. So here’s a recap, best I can do.

PART ONE

• Nick and I talk about FoxSports.com’s Lunch with Benefits venture, including ‘The College Experiment.’ Thanks to Jimmy Traina for pointing out how terrible it is. And it’s more terrible than you can imagine. It’s just not funny. At all. And that’s the first rule of funny....be funny.

We obviously talk about the Colts and Saints and get into why the Patriots have this lore over people still – Berman called them the de-facto champions last week, AFTER they had lost to Miami.

We discuss Brett Favre, and get into how a show like NFL Live covers Favre without making the coverage the same week after week. Look how old he is! Look how good he’s playing! Is there a struggle, as a show that covers the league, to keep the information fresh while balancing the fact that, really, you have to cover Favre all the time?

We discuss concussions and how serious the former players think it is compared to when they played. And we talk about Randy Moss taking plays off. Isn’t that old news? And per Wingo, the talk of Moss not giving full effort may not even be fair this time.

• Nick is back to discuss Chris Johnson’s claim that Ted Ginn was supposed to race him and didn’t show up. I choose not to run! How great is it that two NFL players would call each other out for a race? Can’t they bring back those skills shows?

This then leads to a conversation about the Pro Bowl and if putting it the week before the Super Bowl is a good idea. Personally, I’d rather see a race. Fastest guy on each team lines up and....go.

Speaking of alienating fans, we talk about Tiger, How can we not? And how can Busbee not? We discuss what the Tiger news has been like for his traffic and how Yahoo has covered the news when compared to, say, the gossip sites. Does he have to keep the story on the golf side of things or has this just gotten to the point of covering everything because the story has gotten so amazingly huge.

Have golf sites that stopped covering Tiger in lieu of actual golf news done a disservice to their reader, or is avoiding the masses -- much like Tiger’s galleries on the course -- to focus on golf matters that don’t involve sleeping with half of America.

Are there any national media people in Tiger’s circle? Is there anyone who is able to get through to the guy?

And what about this HGH talk? Is this something that plagues the entire sport or is this just Tiger? And is it even true and/or fair to report? Last, does it really matter? In baseball we have issue with PEDs because there are so many records and the playing field, throughout history, should be level. But in golf, there’s one record that matters and one person who is trying to break it. If everyone is doing drugs, and the current field is level, who cares if a guy pops some HGH to help his knee or takes Ritalin to focus a little more? It’s not the Long Drive championship, right?

PART TWO

I wish I could recap the entire interview, if you can even call it an interview, because at times, I’m sure the listener will forget who is interviewing whom. I think sometimes I forgot.

I’ll say this, we talk a lot about sports media, covering everything from influential blogs to TV personalities – Deitsch wrote a wonderful column giving his top television media picks of the decade –  to an extemporaneous conversation about the top general sports columnists and who out there we really care to know the opinions from anymore. Has it become so specialized that we no longer care about what a writer says simply because of the byline?

I fear the entire conversation was an advertisement for Sports Illustrated, but I’m fairly certain I dropped in at least five references to Sporting News as well. I’m pretty sure I didn’t win the bout, but I’m hoping to score well on a few cards.

Nick joins the show again to talk about some of his favorite names in sports media this decade. We both wish John McEnroe made the list but whole-heartedly applaud the pick of Dan Schulman. We also laud Deitsch for picking golf reporters as ‘sideline’ people. That’s the most important sideline job in sports -- to get the lie or the break of a putt on the green is imperative to golf coverage. Those folks deserve more credit.

PART THREE

We talk about how hard it must be to gather information from each year, by month, and pick what to use and what to leave out. We discuss how technology helped and hindered his research. Was there just not as much information and accessibility ten years ago as there is now? And did that make it easier? Are there too many things to sift through these days? Damn blogs.

As I mention on the show, he has the fact that Party of Five went off the air, so you can imagine the list has been pretty exhaustive. Has anything specifically stuck out that he feels he missed?

We talk about the worst and best years. Is 2001 the worst because of 9/11? But pre-9/11 was 2001 better than, say 2003 or 2004? Wow this decade has really been pretty darn depressing. Was there any good year from start to finish?

I ask Leitch if any year this decade has a sports story as the top story of the year? Are there any transcendent sports stories of the decade. Obviously Tiger Woods is close, and a heckuva way to end the decade. Leitch brings up the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident as a memorable moment tied to sports.

We talk about ESPN and who he thinks is the most important person to him, and to the blog world we live in, over the course of the entire decade. Is it Berman? Stu Scott? Or is it someone like Erin Andrews or Bill Simmons, who just by mentioning, gets you page views.

Last, we discuss Deadspin over the decade. How much has it changed from when he was running the show, and has the ol’ catchphrase become a bit ironic at this point?

• Nick comes in to talk about some of our thoughts on the biggest storylines of the decade. We talk about how technology has changed so much in the last ten years and how our lives have been directly impacted by that change every step of the way.

We also discuss the biggest story in sports of the decade, which is hard, so it turns to the biggest personal story in sports. While Tiger Woods was named athlete of the decade, he really made his name in the late 90s. This decade belongs to LeBron. Nobody has had more hype, more pressure and delivered, exceeding everyone’s expectations. He needs to win a title, but he had the pressure of revitalizing an entire league, and he has done just that.

We also discuss the future of the blog world, and how his role overseeing all the blogs at Yahoo will have a role in shaping that. We get into a theoretical discussion about the concept of journalism -- or at least journalists -- with regard to blog networks. Dan Shanoff suggested that Comcast buy SB Nation and brand it in with the NBC Sports network to, basically, take over the world. Does that make the local Flyers or Phillies blogger who happened to get an SBN blog a journalist? If they break a story or run a tip -- valid or not -- it could become front-page news on one of the biggest sports sites in the world. That’s journalism, right?

Or is it all a little more gray than that?

Of course, it wouldn’t be fair to have Mottram on and not talk about the Redskins, so we spend a few minutes on that. He says he is confident they will not be bringing Vinny Cerrato back, and per today’s reports, he was dead on with that. Scoop!

• Nick comes back to touch on the Chris Henry news and then have some fun to end this gigantic show. You know how I feel about sports talk radio and how call-in shows are just plain terrible. Well, we decided to do a call out show! And...it blows up in our face when only one person answers.

But that one person is Dan Steinberg, so we talk with him, and his daughter who he is bathing at the time he answers the phone. Classic Steinberg, really. We then talk with the voicemails of AJ Daulerio, Josh Zerkle and another special guest. And Nick’s ‘got anything else’ is about ESPN’s 30 for 30 series.

I thank you for reading and listening. I thank all the guest. I thank Nick. This has been a lot of fun. Let’s hope I have the energy for another 300.