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 i have a couple of those but uh i do a uh you know robbie hummel who's become omnipresent on college basketball like very well could be the next like huge analyst in college basketball if you watch him do a game he learned from matt painter as coach at purdue the that like when you have a scouting report on a guy but you don't like exactly follow the scouting report coach painter would come up and say this phrase and robbie robbie's kind of got like a

He's a little bit like, he's not brilliant at all, but he kind of sounds a little bit like it. And he'll be like, that's his deal. He goes over his left shoulder. How could you not know that? So if you watch Robbie do a game, he's going to, as he talks about the scouting report, he'll be like, that's his deal. And Amari Barnett goes right. Like that's his deal. That's his thing. Right.

So just watch for a Robbie game and you will hear that's his deal.

He is. First of all, I sent him a CD when I was a senior in college and I got this phone call and it was from a number that I didn't have in my phone. And I pick it up and he goes, Jason, Sean McDonough, how are you? And I was like, hey, Sean, you're just calling me, huh? And he's like, I listen to your CD. It's very good. Here are some thoughts.

And so I revered Sean for the way he sounds and the way he brings humor into it and the way that he used to just like snipe at Raph and Billis. Big Monday was really important to me as a college student, but as somebody growing up in this industry. So, you know, like McDonough just being like, right after he has Irish arthritis, he wakes up stiff in a new joint every morning.

Like that sort of thing is my kind of humor. Right. And so that every Monday was really, really important to me in my career. And there have been times in games where I'll just be like Jones baseline. And I'm like, oh, no, like you cannot you cannot actually do that. You know, it's it's why like if you do I an eagle too much, you're like, oh, a foreign facial. Right.

Then suddenly it comes out in games where you're just like, oh, what a drive. Oh, no, that's not even me. Like, that's totally somebody else. That's not good at all. Or you become Boo, where he's like, three is good. And there's, like, a slight dismissiveness to it, even though, like, you know he's really into it. So but that's the that's the scary part of all of it is you just become them.

So I did the Robbie impression during a game with Bill Raftery. I was like, that's a deal. And Robbie texted me, you're dead to me. To which then one of his assistant coaches at Purdue texted, love the Robbie impression. So it's mixed signals, really, that I'm getting.

uh you know it's uh it's just a little like low-key there's like a there's like a i i don't do a full-out version of it but when i talk to him he's like hey you know uh you want to do dinner tonight or uh what are you what are you like there's just like it's like a low hum sort of it's not perfect it's a refrigerator hum

He's a low hum, but he's the most empathetic, kind, low hum that you've ever gotten. Do you have any idea? Do you know Len Casper, the former Cubs TV announcer, now White Sox radio? Yep. There was a, I was out for a game with the White Sox and then Len was in on TV and there was a game winner that went over the Orioles right fielder. And he was just like,

And the problem with all of this is I just revere announcers. I love sounds and I love announcers. And I think people have thought I'm making fun of people, but I'm like, I love sounds. And so I just, I hear these moments and I get excited about them.

So then as a storyteller is just a number one. But then then you get to like specific people with specific sports. You know, I find Joe Buck to be truly phenomenal. His mind moves very quickly and sharply. I think Sean on college football is just unbelievably good. I thought Gary Thorne doing hockey was just unreal.

Like, there's a call of his that Paul Correa, when he was playing for the Ducks, he got knocked on the ground, and then he gets back up, and it's off the floor, on the board, Paul Correa. But right before he takes the shot, he's like, the crowd wants it. Slap shot, score, right? It's, like, it's bone-chilling how good it is. So there are just, like, for specific events, like, I...

totally underrated Andrew Catalan for the NCAA tournament. He has nailed some huge moments the past bunch of years. There are just so many good people. But yeah, I just enjoy the sounds we get to make while we do games.

Oh, oh, yes, I did. So the NHL had a lockout like many years ago. I was in Syracuse at the time. I was doing games for like Time Warner Cable. And I did a game on a Saturday at Cornell Hockey. And I'm not a big hockey guy. So I would like kind of muddled my way through it, figured it out. The next day, Doc Emrick did the game. the same series. It was like Colgate Cornell. Doc did it.

And I was like, yeah, I'm an idiot. I have no idea how to do this. Like you all think I'm horrible at this because Doc's the greatest. And I had to do the game the day before him.

and you know not like confronted i mean i like i said last year about a tiger pitcher just jokingly like that he wasn't all that skilled in fielding a ball and he came up to me in the clubhouse he was like he was like look at this and he showed me video of like him in high school right so i you know if you say it with the proper tone i feel like that's another that's what's important

Well, that that I don't know that I can help you with. But if you say it in a way that is like welcoming and understanding and you can be self-deprecating, too, I think, you know, people know, like as somebody who walks kind of funny, I'm not about to go and run the steeplechase. Right. So like that's not going to be a thing for me. So I just kind of do it in a self-deprecating way.

But if you're not willing to work on your tone, then I don't know that I could be of much help.

Oh, that's great. No, that's that's definitely upstanding behavior is what I would call that.

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