Jason Benetti

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949 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 1 Sep

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The Dan Le Batard Show · Hour 2: Jason Benetti's Absurd Observations & Limited Fakes · 11 Mar 2025 podcast

So musty is a very, very funny word for baseball announcers, because I do think sometimes we all can get a little musty after a seven o'clock game goes 12 innings into a one o'clock start. Look, I watched a lot of SNL growing up. And I listened to a lot of George Carlin CDs and things like that. And that sort of observational fun time is interesting to me.

And also, let's be honest, over the course of before the pitch clock, How much of, like, the three-hour baseball telecast was really, like, gripping? Like, edge of the seat, top of the first time you ever rode it amusement park ride roller coaster thing? Like, it's not really that. So thank you for noticing, I think, and apologies to anybody that's overly musty next to me.

Well, I appreciate it. I mean, I think part of it is just my own mind that gets kind of scattered. But I will say, like, part of where my sensibility comes from is from working a lot with Bill Walton. And I know we've talked about him before, but I loved that man. I loved him every time we sat next to each other. I loved every time he would look at me and give me a little wink.

knowingly about something that he just said to me, even though he was still doing the bit. I mean, I love the man and a lot of what I do is informed by him and the grave loss from not having him on the planet anymore.

Well, so we we did a spring training game on radio and I was needling him about the the challenge system, right, where you tap your head in spring training and you can challenge a ball or a strike. And he then like he got on a soapbox and we realized that like four pitches were gone. It's not the ideal thing on radio, sir.

And we don't do a ton of games together where I think it's actually just going to be the one in spring training. And then Andy Dirk's Dan Petrie, among others, are going to be my partner. But like the reason I love baseball is because of those sides. And Dan, you're talking about like like me and whatever I do. But it's a we in a lot of ways, like Andy Dirk's.

who played for the Tigers when they went to the World Series a decade ago is a really sharp guy. He's doing more games this year. We were doing a game last year, and he couldn't think of the term lookalike. And all that came to his mind was the phrase resemblance person. So we were talking about somebody looking like somebody else. And he's like, oh, that's his resemblance person.

And I cannot get the phrase resemblance person out of my head. It's way better than doppelganger. It's way better than lookalike. But you're just hanging out with people and talking. And, you know, like, I know you know this. Bits just kind of happen. Like inside jokes just happen. And baseball is a great, I guess, trampoline for it.

So team baseball is just different than all the rest of them because you get to know guys like you really, really get to know guys. You get to know their tendencies. You get to know what makes them tick. You can walk up to them and just say kind of asides and just see where it goes because you have a sense of their sensibility.

like today i don't have the game in lakeland they're on the road but i was in the clubhouse and the tigers have uh tigers have this hot prospect named jackson job who very possibly could make their rotation this year as the four or five starter and i just went up to him and i like this was the only piece of the conversation but it lays the foundation for the future i go have you ever seen arrested development

He goes, no, what's that? I was like, it's a sitcom, but there's a character named Job on the show who's a magician. And like, you should probably just know that it exists. And then he started telling me about a nickname that he got from some other movie and all that stuff.

And that's the only sport where I could I could veritably say to you, like, at some point, this might get into a show like this might actually be a portion of an inning at some point.

He is. You take that, Dan, and all that he does on the left-hand side with the changeup that's so menacing and his willingness to add and subtract and then add pitches and be really into pitch design and that sort of thing, and you combine it with this level of just like... angry dominance of the other person. There was this moment in Cincinnati in July, right before the All-Star break.

And I've not asked Tarek this directly, but I get the feeling that part of it was, OK, we hear a lot about the other guy. Here's what I'm going to do. Elie Dela Cruz was up. who obviously is a rocket ship and a star in the game. But Scooble struck him out, and there was just this massive scream that came out of him.

And I cannot help but think there's a little, like, Michael Jordan last dance in there of, like, oh, yeah, like... I've heard a lot about you playing defense, Gary Payton. Like, here's the fastball. There you go. There's a changeup. See you later. It's been fun.

And I really, the more I've done play-by-play, the more I really crave watching people who are just edge-of-the-bell-curve competitive because they tend to just be the most amazing feeder. And they do things just psychologically that are, you know, psychotic in the best way. Angry. Does he pitch angry? Oh, he pitches furious.

Like, I don't know what the world did to him on days that he pitches, but it did something to him. And like his catcher, Jake Rogers, who caught literally every inning he threw last year, will go out to the mound. And he's basically like a comedian slash therapist.

because he was like trying to get Scooble to smile, trying to get him stopped from like stomping around and like yelling at the umpire. But then you talk to Tarek on days off and he's just like, he's a regular, like normal human being who has like gone from 15 to one. And I just, I'm always endlessly fascinated at where that switch is.

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I do like really obscure announcers that like only like five people know. So I'm not going to play those hits. It's like the Bill Hader impression of the guy from Dateline, right? Keith Morrison. Like Bill Hader's like, I know how to do this, but nobody knows who I'm talking about.

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