RateGame Live | Ep. 105 | Be Braves | LeBron, Where You Going? | The Mets Are A Waste Of Money Mallorca - Villarreal [JYMP5Aw6bdL]

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Friday morning edition and the show is evolving. Coming soon: a rebrand to "Good Morning Sports Fans," a new Mon/Wed/Fri 7 AM cadence plus Saturday Tea Time (Mollie's idea four times a week), and fresh "Letterboxd for Sports" branding on the watermark. Still the same show at its core, 105 episodes in. The dog days of summer roll on: WTSG went singular again a 6.7 across a five-game MLB slate, 52 ratings on those games and 250 across the platform. Small numbers, but as Nick reminds everyone, two summers ago a lego batman legacy of the dark knight day like this drew six ratings five of them his own. That's growth. Road to a Milli: 69% of the way to 300K, 270K platform ratings and climbing. BE BRAVES: Big Dom Smith mashing ("a reservation for three at the chop house") powers Atlanta past the Padres, who nearly storm back in the ninth and 37-year-old Chris Sale, grizzled beard and all, strikes out the side to open his night. Cue the first-ballot Hall of Fame debate: ten All-Star selections, a Cy Young, 2,600-plus strikeouts. Tip your cap. LEBRON, WYG?: the Miami Heat's YouTube account accidentally set LeBron's introductory press-conference livestream to PUBLIC instead of private up for a minute, on the internet forever, and someone lost their job over it (the posting went up the next day). Then Adam Silver says the league's whole scheduling matrix is on hold until a 41-year-old LeBron picks a team. Nick's take: that makes the commissioner look weak the Sixers (Embiid, Jalen Brown), the Cavs (Mitchell, Harden), and the Giannis-led Heat are all must-watch already. Just make the schedule, Adam, and start promoting the next generation instead of clinging to the old guard. THE METS ARE A WASTE OF MONEY: a new piece lays out just how much Steve Cohen has spent for how little the 2026 Mets at $5.2 MILLION per win on a $354M payroll and a 68-win pace (about a 1% playoff shot). Never has a team spent so much and won so little. Bo Bichette, Freddy Peralta all of it, terrible. Expected sellers at the deadline. You just have to smile. USMNT THE NEXT CROP: with the World Cup six days gone and the momentum dissipated, the real question is whether the U.S. finally tears down pay-to-play soccer and mirrors the European model. And there's hope in the pipeline: 18-year-old Philadelphia Union standout Neil Pierre, who scored on his home debut, and 16-year-old phenom Cavan Sullivan the kind of elite athletes the U.S. usually funnels into football, basketball, or baseball instead. PRODUCT PEEK: Nick shares two RateGame web concepts for feedback a modern, departure-board-style dashboard (airport/train-station vibes) and a reimagined "Vault" for wnba standings the sports archives that would officially label modern classics and rank all 20,000 games in the database. Free, fun, for fans of all ages download RateGame and build out your life in sports.

Chapters:

0:00 Good Morning Sports Fans + Rebrand Tease

0:39 The New Schedule: Mon/Wed/Fri + Tea Time

3:24 New Branding "Letterboxd for Sports"

3:51 Was The Sport Good? (Singular Again)

5:05 52 Ratings But That's Growth

6:11 Road to a Milli 69% to 300K

7:15 Braves-Padres: Big Dom Smith Mashing

9:31 Chris governo Sale Strikes Out the Side

9:50 Is Chris Sale a First-Ballot Hall of Famer?

11:00 LeBron & the Miami Heat Leak

12:24 Someone Got Fired Over the Leak

13:52 Adam Silver Is Holding Up the League

15:38 Just Make the Schedule, Adam

18:15 The Mets Are a Waste of Money

19:52 $5.2 Million Per Win

21:56 20 Games Over .500, No Playoffs

23:43 The USMNT After the World Cup

24:50 Killing Pay-to-Play Soccer

26:03 Neil Pierre Scores on Debut

27:44 Cavan Sullivan The 16-Year-Old Next Up

29:26 Concept: The Departure-Board Dashboard

32:09 Reimagining The Vault (Sports Archives)

35:21 Smash the Sub One Away From 30

36:56 Outro See You Tomorrow for Tea Time

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Host: Nick Goerg | Friday, July 24, 2026

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