Welcome to Episode 300. We’re presenting it in three parts. This is part two of three.

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.

• Part two is almost entirely taken up by the talented Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated. He’s a media wonk. I’m a media wonk. And last time he was on we had a knock-down, drag-out media wonk fight that undoubtedly, I lost. But I’m a glutton, so I’ve been anxiously awaiting his return to the show. And since he ducked me for a month, we got him to be part of this big show.

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.

Thanks for listening. Don’t forget to download parts one and three!