Howard Bryant

Are you going to trust what you're watching or are we simply going to watch these athletes be the ones who individually get bounced out of the game and the game maintains its legitimacy?

I think it's a very, very difficult balance and I think 2025 really showed that.

See, I'm choked up.

You are.

You're reclaimed.

It's incredible, Scott.

I mean, that is the thing that we love about the games.

Every time there's a scandal, whether it's steroids, whether it's gambling.

When the game is played at its best, people come to it, and they love it, and it reminds them of all the reasons why they got hooked in the first place when their team wins.

Greg Maddox once told me, the great Hall of Fame pitcher told me, it's baseball, you can't ruin it.

And that Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series was one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

I've been covering this stuff for 30 years.

It is that reminder of the power of what sports brings for us.

Once again, we talk about all the scandal, but you also talk about the things that these athletes can do.

And you're looking at an all-time great player who can do things that none of us have seen.

All-star level pitcher, all-star level hitter, all-star level talent.

And you feel like you've seen it all.

And then in something like baseball, there's always something we haven't seen.

And the same thing is true in the other sports as well, Scott.

I think that it's been such an interesting year in 2025 because there's this feeling of,