92.9 The Game hosts Steak Shapiro and Mike Bell held a long overdue reunion on the air on Tuesday, as the former co-hosts did a show together for the first time in over a decade.

Dating back to their days on 790 The Zone in Atlanta, Shapiro and Bell hosted together for eight years.

Now Shapiro co-hosts in the late mornings alongside Sandra Golden, while Bell works afternoon drive with Carl Dukes. Steak said he was excited to tack on a five hour show with Bell, filling in for Dukes.

“I am thrilled that you have welcomed me into your home,” Shapiro said. “This is your home.”

Remembering some of the past moments hosting together, Steak brought up Bell’s ability to come up with various bits that were used on the show.

“It would take him like eight hours, but the results were just spectacular,” Shapiro said. “I still know guys to this day that have the Bell’s Bits CD.”

Bell’s creative abilities were what helped him land the job to co-host with Steak. Shapiro remembered when Bell flew to Atlanta for the final interview, and Bell told Andrew Saltzman, who was the co-founder and president of 790 The Zone at the time and is now the executive vice president and chief revenue officer of the Atlanta Hawks, that he would kill for the job.

“Salsa goes, ‘What is it gonna take to get you here?’ I go, ‘Get me here, I’d shoot my kid’s sister for this job,'” Bell said.

Bell and Steak also remembered the time a Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputy served Bell with a lawsuit from his previous station in Fort Myers, Fla. while on the air. Bell was being sued for violating a noncompete clause in his contract.

“Apparently I was gonna be the example,” Bell said. “They were gonna enforce the contract on me.”

“That was a first, though,” Steak responded. “Being served papers on the air in that case. And the rest is history. Mike has been the top dog for a lot of years. So a lot of years together.”

The New York Yankees played their select game on Apple TV+ last week, and some fans were frustrated with another streaming-only contest.

On The Michael Kay Show on ESPN 98.7 FM in New York on Tuesday, co-host Don La Greca echoed a caller’s sentiments that it’s absurd to have to demand fans add on streaming services in order to see the games.

“I get the Prime thing, and if you’re a Yankee fan you get Prime, and you’re gonna get 30-40 games a year,” La Greca said. “But for the Peacock, which is once in a blue moon, and the Apple TV which is once or twice a year, no it’s ridiculous.”

Kay, the voice of the Yankees on YES Network, made it clear that games being exclusive to a streaming platform beyond the ones on Amazon Prime Video is out of the organization’s hands.

“The Yankees had nothing to do with games on Apple and Peacock,” Kay said. “That’s the greed of Major League Baseball just like the greed of the NFL putting that playoff game on Peacock. That’s the league.”

Kay broke it down further, explaining that 85 percent of Yankees games are either on YES or Prime. The remaining 17 games get divvied up between networks like ESPN and FOX and then the streaming platforms. He said people need to take their complaints to the league office and not the Yankees.

“So people’s anger at the Yankees is misplaced,” Kay said.

“All the games were free at one point until 24 years ago, MSG got the games and people’s heads exploded because most of the games were on MSG,” he added. “Things do evolve, sometimes not to your liking. And if you’re an older family in Albany, and you’re getting your games with the rabbit ears and stuff like that, my heart goes out to you. But this is the way sports are going. It’s not just baseball.”

It happened in the first 30 seconds of the seventh and final game of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics, but it surely set the tone for what was to come. As he drove inside the paint for a layup, Celtics all-star forward Jayson Tatum injured his ankle and was visibly in pain, but remained in the game, playing 42 minutes. He concluded the contest with 14 points, 11 rebounds, four assists and one steal on 5-for-13 shooting from the field, and stated after the game that he felt like a shell of himself throughout the night as the Celtics were eliminated by the Heat.

Had it not been for the shrewd observations of the ESPN Radio commentary team of Dave Pasch and Doris Burke, the impact the impediment was having on Tatum might have gone unnoticed. In an appearance on The Rich Eisen Show, Doris Burke discussed what it was like to cover the series and spoke about the Heat as the team gears up for an NBA Finals appearance. After answering a question, she asked show host Rich Eisen what he noticed about Tatum, which led him to divulge that he was listening to their broadcast on the radio and commended their performance.

“The first inkling I had was when you were pointing [it] out – because again I was listening to you on Monday night – when Tatum came out with four minutes to go in the first quarter,” Eisen said. “And you’re like, ‘What’s up with that? This is Game 7.’ That means there’s something significant, and you and Dave Pasch caught wind of that right away and I thought, ‘This has all the makings.’ Tatum hurt; bad three-point shooting and turnover problems.”

Tatum has played the entirety of the first quarter in games throughout the postseason, indicating to Pasch and Burke that something was amiss when he was taken out after eight minutes of play. They communicated as such on the broadcast, making listeners like Eisen aware of the significance of the moment, and effectively fulfilled their obligations as game announcers.

“Dave, to his credit, was all over it,” Burke said of Pasch. “He kept hitting it throughout the course of the broadcast.”