Editing Episode 610 (section)

=== Cold Open: All Ball Announced ===
Arif announced that Drew McGarry (formerly of Deadspin and The Defector) is ending '''The Distraction''' and has invited Arif to co-host a new podcast called '''All Ball''' in its place. The show will be football-only — matchups, players, techniques — with no gambling lines or fantasy content. The first episode records the following week. A voiced intro has already been recorded. The show will run weekly during the season and figure out the offseason format as it goes.

James noted Awful Announcing has an existing Arif Hasan tag, sitting below Pablo Torre and above Stephen A. Smith, which Arif found disconcerting. The Deadspin collapse was briefly relitigated — the comment section of the Awful Announcing piece blamed Deadspin for its own death, a position both hosts dismissed given the documented involvement of Peter Thiel and the Hulk Hogan lawsuit.

Justis Mosqueda was announced as the guest for the following episode. James DMed him immediately without censoring himself. Arif noted Mosqueda had previously missed a recording by four hours after deciding to nap following the Thursday injury report, woke up hours later, and hopped on as if nothing had happened.