Postgame Show: All Due Respect
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I may have gotten slightly carried away in allowing Greg Cody to feed his every narcissism and being able to talk about his vacation for as long as we allowed it there. Because Greg Cody finds no subject more interesting than Greg Cody, than being able to talk about Greg Cody, no matter how mundane the details. The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody is a very popular podcast.

Made popular, at least in part, because of his endless river of oddities that he celebrates and shares with us on Tuesdays. There are a handful of things we have not gotten to yet today that Greg Cody wanted to get to.

One of them is he's objecting to an ESPN top 100 list. Summer is not complete if there's not someone somewhere complaining about someone's list. And so, Greg Cody, what is this top 100 complaint that you have? Whose list is it? Is it McAfee's list? Is it somebody else at ESPN? It's ESPN's list. Man, they love rankings, ESPN. And they rank the top 100 professional athletes of this century since 2000.

And due respect to Michael Phelps. Oh, boy. One of the great swimmers of all time. They had him number one on the list. And I'm just wondering aloud, can you be the number one professional athlete of your century when people only give a shit about you two weeks once every four years? Again, if you're an Olympian, great.

I mean, I have, you know, Simone Biles, fantastic. Katie Ledecky, love all of these wonderful Olympians. But as LeBron James proves, you can have a full-time job in basketball and still be an Olympian. Jessica's horrified by you right now. First of all...

Insanely harsh, but like out of nowhere. A bit harsh. Again, I preface it by saying all due respect to Michael Phelps. Respectfully. Exactly. I'm just thinking aloud here, you know, and I think that's true. Whether it's, you know, Usain Bolt used to be this person in track and field. We care intensely two weeks every four years about track and field. Okay.

OK, so but they have to work all four years for the pressure of having to be at their best those two weeks, which is supposed to be the epicenter of all the things you love as a writer about sports, that the pressure would be ratcheted up to four years of stakes in these two minutes. And I and I do respect that. And that's why I love the Olympics, because.

I give a shit about sports that I normally don't give a shit about. For two weeks. But it's two weeks of shit giving. Yeah, like archery. That's your limit. You know, that kind of thing. Archery. But you're only capable of like 17 days of giving shits. And then you're like, I'm all out of shits to give. Well, here's the thing about it. Usain Bolt number nine on this list, by the way. Okay, and more power to him. What do you mean more power to him? All due respect.

He's ahead of Kobe. Kobe's number 10. The thing about the Olympics is this. Too many oddball sports now. Okay, now breakdancing. Although they call it breaking, which is ridiculous. What are we, in a car? It's a breaking contest. I'm in a car. That's not how it's spelled. It's called breaking. We should have a breaking contest. But it's breakdancing. Come on.

I'm just getting used to skateboarding. You know, anybody over the age of 21 on a skateboard. Tony, he's doing some of his best cat skills material right here. I'm not a skateboarder.

Hey, lady, I got some Olympic stuff for you here at the end. Archery! Is this Robin Hood? I mean, seriously. It's ridiculous. Breakdancing. Little loud jacks and the cat skills. Going to perform three weeks only for your grandparents. Before we get out of here, what has happened in the other room, Chris Cody, with the outbreak of inter-office conversation and...

conflict around the conversation that Greg Cody doesn't know who to invite here to his 70th birthday party on a yacht with an open bar. It will not be everyone here. And evidently something happened. I'm only catching pieces of this wedding controversy in the other room, wedding invitation that was triggered by that conversation. In the same vein of invitations where we're making fun of my dad for first he was limiting a list and now he's going to kind of invite more people.

Danny GQ, our video guy whose head's been spinning all morning because of all the technical issues around here, our Zoom issues, audio, whatever. He doesn't, he looks deeply unhappy today. There are a lot of things that have gone wrong today. At one point I just heard him say, what the f*** is going on? Whoa.

He doesn't speak like that very much. Today felt haunted. Haunted by... Another thing happened. He's like, wait, another thing happened? We've had days without issues and like three things happened today. So he's not having a day. But anyway, he just got engaged. Congratulations, Danny GQ. Oh, and Tony, congratulations to you, by the way. Congratulations. You just got engaged. Nine girls, if you count Willow, in the shipping container. Why wouldn't you count Willow? No, I'm just... Aww.

Dan called it. We can't make a boy. It's crazy. But anyways, GQ, his way, the exact opposite of my dad worrying about who am I going to invite? I can't invite this person. He just basically slapped the save the date on our fridge and said out loud into the office, anyone who wants to go to my wedding, let me know and I'll send you an invite.

And it was just like, I saw Rose in Slack. She's like, I'll go. And it's just like, okay. I guess like, I just thought that that was an interesting way to kind of invite everyone while not inviting everyone all at the same time.

Very efficient. He cupped his hands together. Anyone that wants to come to my wedding, just let me know. And then you can say you invited everybody. You can say that you can leave here. We can announce you can do that same thing here. And you can have it that way. I don't think that's going to happen. Dad, you can do it with your party. The difference is Danny GQ likes all of us. I had to check with my wife and party organizer. I don't make any autonomous decisions. I'm a team player.

This is going to be a problem. You guys do realize this, right? People are going to get their feelings hurt. Sure. It could be. The same with the Miami Herald. I mean, you know, blankety blank isn't getting invited. Oh, no. Sorry about that. What about Dave Hyde? Barry Jackson? Dave Hyde. Okay. Barry Jackson? I'm not... I got to take a quiz? Come on. Skateboards. Oh, God.

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