Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: Woke NFL Media Mob, How Netflix Wins & MLB's Life-Changing Mistake
16 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What does the 'woke NFL media mob' mean?
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
By the way, I will hand on the lie detector test, say, did you ever knowingly and deliberately screw somebody? The answer is no. Right after this ad.
I was on the West Coast, I believe, judging by the pattern of the curtain. The fact that he schlepped all this stuff is really remarkable. It's a tribute to you and to the show. It's just the tenacity that our staff has. You have to want it. You have to want to climb over the lowest bar available for any participant.
I don't hear anything. I don't see anything. There it is. You can't see anything. We can see and hear John. Who the f*** is calling on Matt Cocoa? God damn, I hate technology.
It's going to be a good cold open, though. If this show ever airs, I guess, would be a caveat. Did it ever occur to anyone to do a rehearsal?
Okay. I can't hear anything. I can see you. It's lovely to see you.
Good to see you, John. Oh, now I hear it. Hey, look at that. On the laptop, there's a volume up button, and that will turn up the volume of your headphones. Do you see a button? It could be above F12. I do. And that may work. It did work. Thank you, David. Hey. No problem. That is the extent of my IT expertise right there.
David Sampson advising John Skipper on tech support. It's like a two year old teaching an infant how to drive a car. Well, that's true. And now we are starting something resembling a show. A show that has never happened in this way. John Skipper, undisclosed location, not in this studio. David Sampson. John, hello.
I've entered the witness protection program. The Department of Justice is trying to make a case against me. I'm being Pam Bondied. It's a verb now.
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Chapter 2: How does the media influence sports journalism?
I don't know what her – she's a beat reporter, which by – you know, is an adjective which by itself confines to some extent what she does. I doubt she's doing 6,000-word enterprise journalism pieces for her newspaper.
And, Pablo, you actually – Often you'll get on social media when people accuse you of being too far pro-Democrat. You will actually correct people by explaining that you go after Democrats and you talk about your aspiration story.
You actually choose to respond to almost every one of the people, whether they're bots or they have 10 followers, when they impugn your neutrality or your credibility.
It's just, I think, relevant to the conversation to point out that lots of people do different jobs. There should be a Bill Simmons. There should be a Lynn Jones. There should be a David Aldridge. There should be a Pablo Torre, hopefully. And the question that I want any consumer to ask is, what is the thing they're telling you they're doing and are they living up to it?
As opposed to applying like a blanket purity test, because... Frankly, I don't expect anybody else to do what I do. And it's better for me that they don't even try at this point. I like the little niche that I'm in.
What I don't like is that I decided to not weigh in on this and have been tricked effectively by a show that I host into talking about it and getting aggregated for reasons that I will almost immediately regret.
I see nothing in what you said you should regret. And again, I didn't see any behavior from that woman. She just, she was human. And maybe she felt a little outreach was something positive and something good to be done. I didn't see much problem with that.
All right.
I got it, David. Your time is so valuable that you can't give up one question for a humane response to something.
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