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Chapter 1: Why does Greg Cody feel pressure in the second seat?
Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow in it. Shadow in it. I don't know if this is true or not, but I've been told by informed sources that Greg Cody doesn't like the pressure of the second seat. Who told you that? I want to know your source. Is it true or is it untrue? Or you just want me to betray my sources?
Because I feel pretty confident in my sources that you feel like the third seat is the place that you do your best work, there is less pressure, and that you deflate work. whenever you come in and you hear, as many of us do, as many in the audience do, that Stugatz is not here.
Wow, isn't he? Stu who? I'm kidding. I don't deflate. However, it is more pressure in this seat. You know, I'm used to steering the show because of the Greg Cody Show podcast, which has my name in it, so it indicates that... Twice, the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. With Greg Cody, right. But no, I'm thrilled to be in this seat, honored to be in the Stu Gotts seat.
So you're denying what sources say? Well, you just confirmed it beforehand, and then you denied it.
What I confirmed was that there's more pressure in this seat, being the second guy instead of the third guy. It's like there's more pressure batting third in the lineup than batting eighth. You know, that kind of thing.
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Chapter 2: What are the dynamics of a baseball lineup?
What about batting second and batting third?
Not much difference. Lead off. The only pressure spots in a baseball lineup are batting first, third, and fourth.
What?
That just doesn't make sense. Everything else is gravy, you know. That kind of thing, because, you know, if you're batting 7th or 8th, you're on a holiday.
Yeah, but after a certain inning, you could be batting 4th that inning.
Well, that's true. You know, the guy batting 8th could bat 4th that inning.
Right, so what are you doing? And you know that the best hitter in a lineup now more often than not bats 2nd. Yeah, that's a new thing. Is that right? Yeah, it's new.
When did that happen?
About a decade ago.
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Chapter 3: How does Greg Cody prepare for his cruise vacation?
Yeah. Back in the day, if you batted a home run hitter leadoff, you were laughed at. You were laughed at in the league. It never happened.
Can I ask you just a quick question here? How is it possible that you have been trudging out to Marlins games for the last 10 years and it has escaped your attention that the best hitter in baseball now hits second?
I don't acknowledge it. I don't think it's true. Is there any quantifiable proof to that? Name one team with the best hitter batting.
Name one good hitter on the Marlins. How would he know what a good hitter is?
No, you can't. I mean, it's ridiculous, the Marlins.
Greg, how do you not know this? You've been going to baseball games for the last 10 years.
Yeah, long enough to have earned a Hall of Fame vote.
How do you not know that baseball has switched to its best hitter now? I do love when baseball brilliant people suddenly discover, oh, yeah, get our best hitter, Maura Betts. We've been doing it wrong for 100 years.
Vlad Guerrero Jr. with the Blue Jays. One of their best series batting second in their projected starting lineup. Gunnar Henderson for the Orioles batting leadoff. Never heard of him.
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Chapter 4: What is Greg Cody's embarrassing reveal on his podcast?
Oh, okay.
Yeah, you get Zip's line. It's fun.
Nevis doesn't even sound like the name of a country.
Okay, great.
I was told that Greg Cody, the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody, has a reveal today that was both embarrassing to you... And that you didn't realize until several minutes after announcing it that it should be embarrassing to you. Why?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Well, that you apparently reveal when you lost your virginity on the latest episode of The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody.
Yeah, it's an estimate. Who can remember that far back, to be honest with you?
I mean...
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Chapter 5: What are Greg Cody's top five 'Mount Gregmore' categories?
It took me a while. Keep in mind, I worked for the Miami Herald. They had me work 39 hours a week so that I was essentially full-time, but they didn't have to pay me like a full-time employee or start my benefits clock.
That should have been your first warning, that journalism was trying to do it on the cheap.
Yeah, but back then, it was the heyday of journalism. Are you kidding me? 70s and 80s? That's when we were king.
What is a heyday? Hay Day. Is that for horses?
Halcyon days.
No, but I don't know what a hay day actually is.
Is it hay? No, because it's H-E-Y. It's not H-A-Y. So what is a hay day? A hay day is the best of times. I know what a hay day is.
I think it has to do with Willie Mays. No, I don't think. That's right.
Speaking of heyday in journalism, there was a Yale Review story that I saw yesterday that said Vanity Fair's heyday. And the guy in it, Graydon Carter, for 25 years was the editor there and made $166,000 per article that he wrote. And he wrote like three articles a year and was just raking in cash.
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Chapter 6: How does Greg Cody's podcast team function?
Here's the meeting. Greg Cody goes, we should have a guest this week for like 30 minutes. Christopher, get on it.
Who books the guests, Christopher or Yeti? Both.
Sometimes I do.
If there was budget cuts and you had to choose one, Christopher or Yeti, in terms of who is more responsible for the... putting out of the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody.
Good question.
Who would you choose?
That's a tough answer because Christopher is the second in command on air. Like he's my Robin to Batman. But Yeti does most of the producing work, most of the social media work and stuff like that. So I need both. So Yeti.
Which of your top fives did you feel the best about? Balls, brackets, baskets? Or marches. Or marches.
I think all four of them came out fabulously. The idea for this was Christopher's, but my execution was top notch. And I would not say that if I didn't believe it. Will Lucille Ball appear in top five balls of all time? You know, she was very important in my life. I love Lucy. I mean, Lucy and Ricky. You know, that was ahead of its time.
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