Fresh off covering the Washington Nationals’ World Series title for the Washington Post, Jesse Dougherty talks about what it’s really like to be a major-league beat writer.

Jesse discusses what makes the baseball beat so unique, how it can totally warp your life, the advice he received from Barry Svrugla and Ben Shpigel and how transparency helps him to build relationships with his sources. He also walks through what it was like to cover the Nats’ come-from-behind win in the wild-card round, the insanity of Game 6 of the World Series, the pressure of writing Game 7 and why the off-season is in some ways more stressful.

Also this week, we remember Bill Lyon, the former Philadelphia Inquirer columnist who died this past weekend at age 81, with a clip from Mike Sielski’s interview in 2017.

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