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

1. •Part three begins with a conversation with Will Leitch, founder of Deadspin and all-around swell guy. We talk at great length about his series on Deadspin trying to chronicle the decade, both in pictures and text.
   

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 bring Jamie Mottram into the show because, well, this blog/podcast world may not be close to what it is if not for him. How in the world was Fanhouse or any of the Yahoo blogs left off SI’s decade list? I ask Mottram what he thought about being left off. We spend a lot of time talking about the arc of this industry from when he helped build Fanhouse until now. It’s amazing how big things have gotten in such a short amount of time.

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.