Jeremy
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Jeremy, I want to tell you something.
Jeremy, I want to tell you something.
Jeremy, I want to tell you something.
Jeremy, I want to tell you something.
Jeremy, I want to tell you something.
Jeremy, I want to tell you something.
And I was like, oh. And he's like, and he's still here every day. I see him. He sits in this bed. He's like, so when you come over, I want you to come upstairs and say hi to him.
Did you see him? You saw him up there, right?
Yeah. Like a Tom and Jerry melon. That's weird. You're not cut in half.
They're like, give it a name. All right, kiss it. Put its heart inside and yeah, all that.
Hattori Kaku rainbow. Hey, Kaku. Hey, Konnichiwa. Sumimasen. Hiyo, one coke highball please.
I've been taking the cat's toenails and putting them on this doll.
Inside joke. It's a secret. Even if I explained it, you wouldn't get it. You wouldn't get it. It's a thing between us.
He was like, give me Mr. Squiggles. You like that? You're so wiry today.
You basically get like a Raggedy Ann doll and you're like, yeah, she plays dress up when I'm not looking. Where do you find these guys?
Dump it out before we can get rolling.
I gotta put my blood on a piece of paper. I gotta do it. The hunter said he's going to pick me up. Jeremy was going to lend me his blood, but they said I can't use his for my name.
Welcome in!
Yeah, it's the usual suspects.
How did you not know this was going to come up? Hit it. Hit the button. Hit that. Just push your finger on the button. Hit the button. Hit it. Hit that. The switch on the wall. Flip it. Quick, hit it. Quick, while they're not looking. Hold on. And hit it. And hit it.
I got it. I got it. I got it. Ready?
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Jeremy, hit it. Hit it, Jeremy.
Okay, there we go. Redemption. Redemption.
Oh, man.
Huh. Well, be glad that I'm here for you. Somebody put it on the floor. Thank you for bringing that up.
That would be so fun. And you've got the in with Apostle, right? I do know Tyson, yeah. And who was the other guy that we played pickleball with?
No, it wasn't.
Okay.
I don't play video games.
I like to play Mario Kart with my kids. That's fine. Okay. Favorite of all time. You don't let them win, do you? Never. Okay. Good man.
It doesn't cost you anything. I think it's just roaming. If you went to Australia and tried to call home, then you would pay more. Unless you just get on Wi-Fi. Then you're fine.
I uploaded a picture of the three of you guys, and I got person on the left being Mike Wright would be played by Chris Hemsworth.
Person in the middle being Andy Holloway would be played by Ryan Gosling. Oh, Jason. And person on the right being Jason would be played by Jonah Hill.
Hey, I'll take it. Yes.
Well, kind of. Well, kind of? It's about 40% vanilla pudding, 60% mayonnaise.
You're not going to be slippery. You got to get your hat off in the rain, man.
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The other thing that was really huge from a woman's perspective growing up in this is sexuality was so shamed for women and girls. Things like movies and television, violence was okay to watch. My dad would watch things with fighting and violence, but anything that had to do with talking about sex or even close to resembling nudity or anything was forbidden.
And so I grew up with a lot of that sort of shame and guilt around sexuality as well.
So currently live in Camp Hill, just a little bit outside of Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. My brother and I grew up about 45 minutes to an hour from here. kind of between here and Philadelphia, a little town called Narbonne.
What I remember from it is very authoritarian and patriarchal. It was meant to mold us into discipline and doing what our parents wanted and what they thought was best. The father was the head of the household, always had the last say in any decisions that were made. We were not allowed to do things like go to the movie theater, dancing. We went to Christian school with curriculum that was
along the same lines like the evangelical religion.
So corporal punishment was definitely like a big part of that. I remember being spanked a good bit more than my brother does. It depended on the severity of, I guess, my infraction, like the type of spanking. So It could have just been by a hand or if I was more naughty, I'd have to wait for my dad to come home and spank me with a wooden spoon with a hole cut out.
And then on one occasion, I guess I was so bad that I got spanked with a belt.
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Hey, how's it going? Good. Nice to meet you guys. A little bit about me, a little background about me with my questions. I'm 43 years old. I'm married with two kids. I have a 12-month-old. I have an eight-year-old son. My career, I'm a physician associate. I work in primary care. with a growing focus on weight loss management and nutrition counseling.
My fitness journey in my 20s, I was very active. I worked at Valley Tool Fitness as a fitness instructor. I was in the Army. But I focused in, leaned very heavily on cardio, though I struggled to build muscle and hypertrophy definition. Life caught up to me just before I went to PA school. And with shifts in the ER, bad habits lead to gradual weight gain.
So by March 2023, I reached a turning point when hypertension, sleep apnea, GERD, fatigue, and low T made me make some serious life changes. So here's what I've accomplished so far. Weight loss. I lost about 67 pounds. I went from 257 to 190 pounds using mostly HIIT workouts and bodyweight workouts at first. I also used compounded form of semaglutide to help out with the weight loss.
Building muscle, I discovered your podcast around October 2023. which shifted my focus to muscle building and sustainable progress. So in training progress, I completed two rounds of MAPS anabolic three days a week, gained about eight pounds of muscle. I'm currently, or at the time of the email, I was currently in phase four of symmetry. Loving that.
Really got a mind muscle connection for the first time. um you know um individually on on working unilateral um and then nutrition i reverse dieted from uh really at the beginning of the first round of maps i was hitting about 21 2200 calories I went up to 27 to 2,800 calories now per day with about 200 to 215 grams of protein.
Despite the calorie increase at that point and NEAT, I kept at about 10,000 steps. I leaned out from 25% body fat to 23% on bioimpedance scale. Excellent. Um, and then, um, my main, uh, questions really would be, um, what's next. So, uh, currently, um, I'm, I would jump back into maps anabolic while I was deciding what I'm going to do next. Um, I'm in phase two. Um,
I've really enjoyed MAPS Anabolic. It's really, I'm getting my gains. Symmetry was wonderful. I'll do it again, you know, probably later this year. But I have a couple of your programs aside from the ones I've mentioned. MAPS Advanced, or MAPS Anabolic Advanced, MAPS 15, Performance, Aesthetic. My main question is I'd like to get down about 18% to 20% body fat.
continue with my strength increasing. And I really enjoy MAPS Anabolic, but should I explore some of the other programs for my goal? And then my next question would be, should I continue going up or stay the same? I've kind of stabilized at about, at that point I was 196. I've actually put on another Two pounds, which is muscle by bioimpedance. Should I continue increasing or stay the same?
And then I have a question on your coaching program, whether that would be a fit for me. I'm more focused on obesity management. I have an obesity management certification as a physician associate, and I use that within my primary care practice.
Um, and I'm integrating, you know, a lot of weight loss management and nutrition counseling with my current practice, but I'm also planning on and doing a coaching program outside of that, um, to help people with, uh, their, their transformations just like I did. And so I was wondering if that would, uh, be a fit, uh, for, you know, what I'm looking to do it, uh, to go ahead and do.
For sure. For sure. All that sounds awesome. Yeah. Every time that I do new stuff, you know, it just gets me like totally excited. So I like the idea of the strong program.
Not yet, no.
Awesome. Thank you so much.
Yeah, really, really good, dude. You did a great job. Thank you. That makes me feel really good. And so sometimes you lose sight of where you've come from and where you're going.
Yeah.
Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Right on, dude. Totally. I just want to say thank you guys for what you're doing. I really am stoked on how much you guys put out truth, you know, and I try to go ahead and put that value back into, you know, the people that I'm seeing on my end, whether it's medicine or, you know, the coaching side. So I'm thankful that you guys are available. Awesome.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, definitely. Yep. Awesome. For sure.
Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1. I just knew him as a kid. Long, silent voices from his past came forward.
And they had secrets of their own to share.
I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known.
I never expected to find myself in this place. Now, I need to tell you how I got here.
Bone Valley Season 2. Jeremy.
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Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1.
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.
Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1.
Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.
Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2 on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1. I just knew him as a kid. Long, silent voices from his past came forward.
And they had secrets of their own to share.
I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known.
I never expected to find myself in this place. Now, I need to tell you how I got here.
Bone Valley Season 2. Jeremy.
Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear the entire new season ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts.
If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.
If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.
I feel like I should knock on wood while I say this, but I feel like overall I'm doing pretty well. I have no major debt aside from my mortgage. I do have a good amount of savings, including about a six to nine month emergency fund. I am currently investing mainly in my Roth IRA that I have, that I've been investing in for the five or six years that I've had it open.
So I feel like most of the check the box, hey, do A, B, C, D are pretty well maintained. And now I'm kind of looking for that next level.
I feel like I'm kind of old school in this way. I still write out a paper budget. That's what works best in my head and being. So I literally go purchase by purchase and every month kind of tally in terms of how far over, under for total expenses and total income. I do also do a automatic transfer. Usually it's about $100 into my savings account at the beginning of every month.
And then at the end of every month, whenever I have a surplus, I usually say, okay, so much of this goes toward savings. So much of this goes toward charities. So much of this goes toward something else that I'm saving up for. How long does that take you to write all of your purchases out? I still am that person who asks for a receipt every time that I'm out shopping in person.
So it's usually like at the end of the night, I'll come back and I'll write down the two additional expenses that I have there. And then usually weekly, I'll go through and just double check my credit card statements or double check if there's anything that I missed for some reason. And I have all my automatic payments already written down as like a fixed expense for lack of a better term.
I feel like when it comes to personal finances, there's always the potential boogeyman of what are you not prepared for? I look to the, again, check the box things of like maxing out your Roth IRA and having a emergency fund. But I always keep thinking to myself, is there something else I'm missing? Is there something more I should be doing? And getting a little bit caught up in that anxiety.
The other thing that I think adds a little bit to that is in my current job, we do not have a 401k plan. So I have a 401k from a previous employer, but I also don't have that extra security blanket that comes with a lot of occupations that says like, hey, four to six percent of your income is already going to be saved for this other thing.
And instead, it's a much more manual process that I have to be cognizant of. So I think between that failsafe and the general anxiety of what else am I missing? Do I just have that nagging suspicion?
I have in retirement savings, I have about $33,000-ish in a 401k from a previous employer. I have about $74,000 in my Roth IRA that I look to max out every year. And then right now, post-pandemic, I have a large high-yield savings account that, honestly, I kind of treated as my makeshift 401k because interest rates were high.
But as interest rates are coming down, I'm now trying to think of what would be a better use for that money as well. And that's closer to around the $80,000 to $90,000 range.
I did, I think it's probably like three or four years ago, to be honest, at this point. And I think the number I came up with was in the range of like 1.3 million. But I have not done it recently. And that probably would be a helpful thing for me to do.
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It is just from my full-time job, or I have a couple other streams of income from part-time work as well. So total income?
Annual income is looking around a little above $130 a year.
I hope this doesn't sound too much like a PBS special, but I want to try and have what is as much comfort and ease of mind as possible.
What I think that looks like more for me is that in an ideal ideal world, I currently have a home in New York City and I would love to own a second property, ideally closer to family just because most of my family lives in the same area and to have that be somewhat consolidated.
i would love to do more traveling that's not the top priority but it's something there and then in my ideal world i feel like i work a few different avenues and i'm hard-pressed to believe that i will ever fully retire completely from working because i'd probably keep myself busy in some way but if i could have the opportunity to retire from full-time employment a little earlier than the 62 65 range i would love if that's possible
I've always had the goal with not a lot of evidence to back it up of 58. Okay. But generally late 50s is when I would love to say, I don't need to continue working 40 to 50 hours a week full, full time.
I do currently have a life insurance plan. I do not have a further disability insurance plan.
Yes, I feel very similarly and feel that same risk aversion. So this is very helpful.
Yeah, absolutely. And I almost feel like I should have my partner like yelling into the camera in the background here. I feel a lot of comfort and frankly, a lot of joy in work. But I think on paper, I could absolutely be seen as a workaholic. I work a job that currently I think it's on average, I pull between 45 to 50 hours a week. And just the nature of the work also is very on call.
There's a lot of times when you're reacting to scenarios or you're working unique hours because of that. And in addition, another thing that I really love doing is that I love teaching. So I work as adjunct faculty at actually my alma mater, and I do some different teaching around the city as well.
At some point, I can feel myself in the worst times when I'm at that point of potentially burnout or being extremely tired of thinking like, do I really need to put in this extra time for X amount of dollars that may or may not be actually making an impact?
And that thought and just kind of, for lack of better term, strategies around even this general anxiety of what are ways to help quantify when the opportunity cost of your time is valuing more than the money you would be earning is something that kind of rings in my head a lot since we can always buy more stuff, but you can't buy more time.
That makes a lot of sense, and I really appreciate that.
So not for me personally. Funny enough, we're having a lot of conversations about that with my parents right now, but I have not started that process for myself.
Yeah, I think that I sometimes, while I feel empowered by money, I feel also inhibited by money sometimes. So I think that that reminder, Elizabeth, is very helpful because we should also make money to have some fun. And while I do think I do have fun, it sometimes is only in moderation when I can allow myself a little more freedom.
I grew up in a very money conscious household and with two parents who worked incredibly, incredibly hard. Like my mom was in a similar position where she worked a full time job and my first ever job was in Planet Fitness with her as her part time job because I at 14 could work the same shifts as her so we could both make part time money. And my dad always worked six days a week growing up.
So I think that we grew up in a very scarcity mentality household of always wanting to have as much of a security blanket as possible. So while I now have more freedoms because of having more income and having more things at my disposal, I still always feel that tinge in the back of my head of you aren't as far as long as you think you might be, or there might be a boogeyman around the corner.
So it's been both a learning lesson of allowing some of that freedom while also trying to use the numbers that, as Sean astutely pointed out, that I kind of rely on as a means of defending myself in trying to find this freedom and more openness in my decisions around money.
I think my only main other question to pivot a little bit back to the retirement conversation is while the 401k is a little bit in flux, if I'll be able to get one with my current employer. Thinking about other means or vehicles to act as a replacement 401k, for lack of better terms, or other vehicles to consider when thinking about saving for long term.
Wanted to also get your thoughts on that in terms of if I would look at like a regular brokerage account versus a robo advisor account and just thinking about what else I can be doing, especially considering that I have this chunk of money in a high yield savings that I don't think it's getting its best use out of anymore.
Yeah, thank you both so much. I truly cannot thank you both enough for the time and the conversation. And I'm just so grateful. Thank you.
Yeah. No, I got told I was a horrible person and that my kids were going to hate me and all this stuff. Literally yesterday, I had to kick my mother-in-law and her husband out of my house because they were just completely disrespecting my wife and tearing her down and... seeing what was happening to my wife, I was like, you need to leave.
Like, I'm not going to sit here and let this happen, you know? And then, of course, it's just like, you're such a horrible person.
Oh, man. It was... Yeah. I mean... between trying not to explode and just become part of the problem and just like, no, we're just not doing this, you know, and, uh, but yeah, being, you know, being a dad, that's tough. Yeah.
No, it's tough, but it's so rewarding. You know what I mean? I've always told people like, uh,
you know like for me like we've got friends that you know i've turned them on to listening to you and you know got them going to church and stuff that just you know bettering their lives and watching watching things change and it's it's awesome and then it's just like when you get the people to come and they just want to kick you all you know while they can and try to make life hell and it's just like i don't have time for that that's right you know you don't when it's family and trying to explain that you know it's like my kids understand like we're
I told my wife, the only thing we can do is just give them as much of the truth as, as we can really give them without, you know, making it more than it needs to be to them. Right. But you know, they're, they're pretty receptive. I mean, our kids, well, that's my middle daughter's birthday today. She just turned eight today. So we're celebrating that too. But yeah, no, it's a tough one.
I don't, you know, I've always told people like not really having the parent's you know, that I would have hoped when I grew up, but trying to be that person now. That's your job.
When you have an example, you either... You choose to be like them or against them.
Yeah. No, and I think, honestly, talking to you, I'm super thankful to get to talk to you. It kind of helps validate your feelings when you feel like you're just fighting against the world that you don't have many people sitting behind you at this time, you know, because I'm early on into all this. And being that we're obviously on a different path than most of our family, and it's just...
like you said, it feels lonely at times and, you know, getting to talk to like, I've looked up to you, like as a mentor, you know, it's like, I told my wife, I was like, yo, Angie and DJ are doing a call-ins now. And she's like, oh my gosh, I don't think I could ever do that. And I was like, well, I sent in a question. And so getting to talk to you, I mean, it's just awesome.
You know, like, like I said, I really appreciate it. Like it helps me, helps understand that I'm you know if I'm not just losing my mind you know like why is this so hard you know.
Yeah and you know that's just like you get people who say oh you know you just you think you're better than us or you're this or that and it's like well I have I put in a lot of work to do what I've got you know I'm 32. And this is our fourth house. We've got 43 acres and cows and horses and, you know, giving our kids everything we can give them, you know?
And it's like, why can't you gotta be happy for us? You know?
Right. Yeah. No, nothing. You know, like I said, I can do the validation thing. I've been listening to you and you hear it, you know, and it's like, ah, But then, you know, it's like crazy in the same sense to even just be talking to you. It's like, I feel like, you know, we're worlds away. There's no way I'm ever going to talk to Andy. But like this, I mean, it's awesome.
Yeah. All right. And I appreciate, you know, I appreciate that. And, you know, I hope to keep, hopefully I can pass it on to the next generation and keep bettering others and myself, you know. You should be everybody's boy, I hope.
Doing good, doing good. We're getting some cars ready for the local car show tonight. Where at? We're in Oregon, Sio, a little tiny town.
there we go um they shut down the main street and yeah so i ain't got nothing cool like you but i got some uh old chevy blazer and a c10 that i'm taking down there bro that's that's cool i don't know what you're talking about yeah so what else yeah no uh go ahead oh go ahead i'll just say yeah i just uh yeah i enjoy seeing your cars that's just uh inspiration for me i'm
definitely into the cars and the motivation that way it definitely helps.
Yeah yeah.
So I guess my struggles per se would be in the making relationships with like-minded people on the same same path or even just finding those people um i grew up and kind of came really uh independent early on um grew up with divorced parents and my dad was not a great role model so um throughout that i had to kind of grow up young and uh got really hard to trust people and to you know give people
the chance, you know, and then getting, getting kind of burned a few times and then just made it harder. And so I guess looking for input that way.
I really validated a lot of, honestly, how I felt for a long time, but, you know, just feeling kind of like held down, you know, from people around me in a sense. And since then, you know, I have had a big change. And I, you know, during COVID, I left my job that I was at. I started getting told to put a mask on and got my construction license and just been doing my own thing. And
it's been good but it's been very challenging because I feel like it's you know the higher standards you start putting yourself to the more like it seems like you have a target on your back because everyone's like now oh you think you're better than us or this or that and the other and honestly been doing it mostly in family and well well brother you are better just own it like the quickest way to get over that shit is when they say oh you think you're better just fucking be like yeah
I was going to say, honestly, we've been having some just ridiculous family stuff going on. Nobody will be accountable for the truth. Your choices you make, the actions you do, you literally choose to make your own truth. And so many people just won't even accept their own choices and truth. And then it's like, you're the bad guy.
When we first launched the ability to collect tracing data, we were really emphasizing the performance aspect of that, the kind of application performance monitoring aspect, you know, because you have these things that are spans that measure how long something takes.
And so the natural thing is to try to graph their durations and think about their durations and, you know, warn somebody if the durations are getting too long. But what we've realized is that the performance stuff ends up being just a bunch of gauges to look at. And it's not super actionable, right?
Sentry is all about this notion of debug ability and actually making it easier to fix the problem, not just sort of giving you more gauges. A lot of what we're trying to do now is focus a little bit less on the sort of just the performance monitoring side of things and turn tracing into a tool that actually aids the debug ability of problems.
Yeah.
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And then made the phone call. How do you know it's a silencer? It's on mute. Oh, wow. Look at the gun. Look at the gun.
Now you're lashing out.
I don't think this will be pre-LeBron. I don't know. I think this is going to be like LeBron's first or second year. Well, he started cheering for the team when LeBron got here.
I'm going to put this to shame tomorrow. Tomorrow, I will show you three raggedy shirts. I'm going to go to Goodwill this afternoon and get my shirts back.
I was telling them back here that I want to ask my dad tomorrow about the Halliburton dad thing. Because my dad, never obviously with kids, but when I was playing sports growing up, other parents, coaches, officials, my dad, I've seen that type of... Like, almost face-to-face with my dad.
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Hey friends, it's JerBear here, and I'm here to tell you all about Boost Mobile, which is now a legit nationwide 5G network. So I must take a break from the jokes here for a second and put on my serious voice.
I just think that deciding that firing everyone is always the solution has been proven by organization after organization after organization to not be the best thing for organizations. So if you have a front office with a proven track record of creating teams from nothing over and over and over again, the team that they had the year before they acquired Jimmy Butler was...
pretty terrible the future was justice winslow josh richardson derrick jones jr and that was it and they turned that into jimmy butler so i'm not saying that they will do that again in terms of star acquisition but when you're in a place where you have an all nba center and an all-star guard who were both in their 20s i don't think that you're at this point of total destruction when you have all of these picks laid ahead of you for the very first time in what i
two decades like i think you're in the place that you would want a front office to be to move forward and i think your delusion is that you think that bam and tyler are the centerpieces of a championship team i have no reason to believe that those guys can't be part of a core that goes to and wins championships because they have been part of a core that has gone to multiple championships in the last five years alongside another elite player i
they need to acquire another elite player. I'm not saying that they don't need to in order for those guys to be able to win a championship. They would say that themselves, that they need another guy to be able to win a championship. But that doesn't mean that those two players who have proven who they are, especially Bam Adebayo, can't be a centerpiece of a championship organization.
That's organizations failing. That's not the standard that you want. You want consistency. I mean, an organizational reputation has to be part of that, no?
But David was also suggesting that Bam Adebayo's contract is not worth it now at $50 million.
The only way you do that is for something like Giannis.
Come on.
I do think there's an intriguing conversation to be had around what it requires to get Giannis if he is available. Oh, sorry. Okay.
Welcome to the show. No one said you.
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Yeah, you have an officiant. And the rabbi, the priest, the officiant... It would have been weird if there was a priest. Right before everybody exchanged... Jonathan... Jonathan's lovely wife to be. Before we exchange these rings, we want to give anyone an opportunity to say their piece, to object to this wedding. Does anyone have any objections?
I was thinking O3 Marlins. The first time I told my now wife that I love her, she thought I was talking to LeBron James because it was after an Eastern Conference playoff win over the Indiana Pacers in 2014. That last year he was here and things were looking desperate. And so I had been looking at my phone, talking about LeBron, seeing things on Twitter, and
And then just because everything was so great and she made some sort of joke and I said, oh, I love you. And she said, quote, are you talking to me or LeBron? We're married now.
I have a 2003 Marlins World Series champion shirt that is ripped apart at the seams at this point. But it's still there. I mean, it doesn't fit. I was eight years old when I bought it.
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The Braves also enjoyed him being in Euro 2. 5-10 with a 4-4-1 ERA in 2013 when the Marlins won 62 total games. Well, we lost 100 that year, Jeremy. That's right. Everybody had starter.
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Welcome to the Pitch Clock. Here's the pitch. A two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the Pitch Clock. Happy baseball season. Hi, everybody. I'm Harry Carey. Baseball's back. Harry Carey. Oh, come on. This time at the start of the major league season. We're not here in July. We're here in March. Ready for opening day.
Renewed. Season two. Yeah. Season two of the pitch clock.
We did something and it's back. I'm here. I'm Jeremy. He's Chris Cody. Hello. Adnan Virk will be with us soon to actually preview this baseball season. But for those of you who remember, Taylor Vipolis is our trivia master here. Taylor has a game for us that we're going to get started right now.
I'm trying to remember, was this guy around in this season? Oh, hold on.
Greg Biggio. Zero points. I don't have that. This one, I'm almost sure isn't there. Kenny Lofton. Zero points. Juan Pierre. Zero points.
I assumed Juan Pierre would be at the top there.
Four points.
This is the same issue I'm having, Chris. Was this guy around? I just thought of a random guy that I haven't thought about in years. That's why we do it.
I have one just like that. That just triggered something in my head that I'm hoping works out for me. All right, I got five names. I don't know how I feel about these. Yeah. I do, too. I guess I'll just stick with the five that I got, but I don't feel good about it.
What?
Yeah, exactly. My three that I have remaining, because I also had Pujols and Jim Tomei. Man, we are exposing ourselves quickly. Yeah. It's been 20 years. Leave us alone. A-Rod? Yeah, that one I should add. Four points.
How did I not think about anyone on the Red Sox? He was wearing reading glasses to show that time had passed. Adnan Virk. Now with me, we're going to do the... Actual MLB breakdown for you all. We'll get back to the trivia game with Chris in just a second. But Adnan of MLB Network, MLB Tonight. He'll be on MLB Network doing MLB Tonight on opening day on Thursday. Adnan, hey, man.
It's great to see you.
What's crazy about that is that I think I'm going to be in an even better pitching matchup between Sandy Alcantara and Paul Skeens. That's how good opening day is. That's how good opening day is, and we'll get to it. But basically what I wanted to do here was just sort of go through players and teams to watch as we can kind of set everybody up for what to expect in this baseball season.
So where I want to start with you is with the top five best players in Major League Baseball going into 2025.
It would be amazing. And I love that list. To me, one of my favorite players in baseball is Bobby Witt Jr. I can't wait to see how he follows up last season. And that actually leads perfectly to my next question for you, because sometimes the best player doesn't necessarily mean the most watchable. So, Adnan, who are your top five most watchable players in Major League Baseball?
Give me your top five best teams in Major League Baseball headed into this season. I imagine there'll be some of the similar names that we're used to.
The Midwest is not going to be happy with you, Adnan. But maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe a couple of those teams make this list. I asked you about watchable players. Who are the top five watchable teams?
And his mom is from Little Big League.
I'm going with a couple of big names here just to do it because I feel like they should be mentioned. All right.
All right.
How is that the case?
Jake Peavy. Jake Peavy. Not on the list. Don't have that one either. The last one's my favorite just because I wanted to say his name and mention him. Brandon Webb. Brandon Webb. Not on the list.
That's the year. Yeah, that's the year. Damn it. Roy Oswalt's on this list. Jeremy, now that he knows Dontrell Willis. I can't believe I didn't remember this was the D-Train year. That's offensive that we didn't get D-Trained.
I can't believe that we're starting this season with maybe the most upset I've ever been at myself.
David Price, not on the list.
Okay, my three that I have that he didn't, the two of them I'm going back to the well. Randy Johnson.
Doug Davis. What a name. That brings me back. All right, Adnan. Now, we talked about some of the best players, some of the best teams, the watchable players, the watchable teams. But some of those guys have switched teams. I think a lot of people always get caught off guard by trades and free agent movements.
So who are a few players, Adnan, that switched teams this offseason who you think could end up having a big impact?
Who are a couple of teams, Adnan, that you think might be able to surprise people this season?
That was what everybody anticipated. So there's no reason for me to believe that they won't still be a really good and competitive team. I'm going to make you give predictions at the start of the year so that inevitably we can make fun of you at the end of the year when they're wrong.
So, Adnan, I'm looking for your MVP in each league, your Cy Young Award winner in each league, and your Rookie of the Year in each league. Let's start with MVP.
If those two dudes win MVP, we're looking at a very fun baseball season. Who are your Cy Young Award winners? Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
This has been a really awesome tease for the pitch clock this hour.
Well, that's over in Studio B. I can get ready.
The laziest stat of the day ever. The laziest stat of the day ever. What would you have preferred? A stat of the day that was actually insightful.
Something that people who don't know the show might hear and repeat. Like, wow, Shohei Otani did all of that on half a tank of gas or whatever? That's what it should be. Now, Dan, I want to present a theory, if I may. I think that Jeremy was a plant. I think Jessica was like, hey, let me get multiple steaks on this. Jeremy, get Dan to say Jimmy Butler one more time.
And Jeremy said, I got it right now. I'll pretend I have a stat of the day. And then Dan, he knows Dan can't resist the stat of the day. It's like putting steak in front of him. Oh my God, a stat of the day. It's like tuna steak. A tuna steak in front of him. And so they say, okay, Dan, we got a stat of the day. And of course Dan takes the bait because how could he not take the bait? Look,
$73,000. So it's $168,000 on a $5 bet. And what I wanted to ask you guys is what is the correct way to hedge that?
He is the perfect person for DraftKings to pay, because as he just said, he's going to take all of that money right back into the Sportsbook app. They might as well be laundering their money right back.
Where's that music?
Do we know when this parlay bet was placed? Because if it was after May of 2024, then we're talking about this upcoming College World Series. No, no, it was last College World Series. All the four bets have won.
I have no idea.
Look, I'm not going to say it's in the same zip code as that stat of the day, but it's close. It's close, yeah.
I don't know if they can win it without Cooper Flyer. He makes it easier with Cooper Flyer. Yeah, Cooper Flyer.
This is why I was a journalism major, Dan. He couldn't sell it to his wife. That's the issue. There you go. Number one, number two. This is why it's giving you that kind of stat of the day. Arithmetic.
You plus me equals us. There it is. $50,000, Dan. $50,000 is a lot of money.
Hold on.
If a genie showed up now, Billy, and just said to you, hey, I can either give you $50,000 now or we can wait and see if Duke wins and I'll give you $168,000, what are you doing? Are you saying, no thanks, Genie, and you're walking away? No, I mean, I would take it. You'd take the 50 or you'd say, I'll hold out for Duke? No, I'd take the 50. There you go. That's your answer.
I love it. I love it. But also, I'm not fond of Duke. That's why. He just really hates Greg Paulus?
Dude, that's an interesting question. Who is the person? It's Christian Laettner. You think so?
No, it's J.J. Redick. J.J. Redick is another good one.
Yeah, Christian Laettner.
So you know the Vince McMahon meme of like, he's going and he's leaning back. That's Utah, right? The first one is like, what if I gave you Laurie Markkinen? Oh, that's pretty interesting. Then the next one is like, what if I give you Walker Kessler? Oh, and then the third one is, what if I give you Filipowski? Oh, and then the fourth one, Cooper Flagg.
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Not just to the wrong person, to a journalist, right? Like of all the people, like not my nanny, not like- Was it Adam? They said, yeah, Adam Schefter, right? Not Adam, wrong Adam. Adam Lichtenstein is who we're talking about.
For what it's worth, RG3's defense, as I heard it, not on the show, but behind the scenes as someone who got reached out to, is that his comment had nothing to do with Mina. He didn't even know Mina had said that or gone on the show. Okay. But because he didn't... I'm just telling you, I'm not... Don't shoot the message. Don't shoot the message, you guys.
But basically, he's saying that it was said, not... according to what Mina was talking about. It just happened simultaneously, like he had the worst timing ever, to which I responded to an intermediary, that why didn't you immediately just say, hey, by the way, I see a lot of people saying, connecting me to this, I'm not.
And then I got sent what his correction was, and it was as convoluted as anything I've ever seen. But I kind of saw the seeds of him trying to say, oh, it wasn't about me, but he said it in such a convoluted way that it didn't really land.
divisive and not only knew it would be divisive he knew the specific audience that he was attracting with it I would say Jeremy the only thing I would say is I'm willing to accept that he didn't know that she said that and had no idea but once he saw the fervor and furor instead of like let it sit there on purpose let it yeah that's fair absolutely because it's pretty easy to me if I was talking about something and someone said oh you said that about Dan Levitar I'm like oh no I didn't even hear what Dan said I would go immediately and correct that 24 hours he let that sit there yeah so you know it is what it is
Only if it makes it. Only if it makes it all the way. Get to the end zone, then yes.
The loudest place to have some quiet time. You're going to learn not to tell Dan things.
So he was late to basketball because he emigrated here from Jamaica. So he played soccer and volleyball. You got one of the two. He played soccer and cricket.
Okay. Guess what, man? When you like the sport, you know everything. You don't just go, oh, I know for the seven years.
Patrick Ewing wears 13s. Yes? It's up to you to confirm.
I worked with a guy, I know.
There are cameras there. Exactly right.
Because he thinks it's funny. Because he thinks it's funny. I'll be honest with you. By the way, 90% of the stuff doesn't make it out for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is you can't do that one, big fella. I'm going to tell you right now. You can't do that. I'll tell a story. Remember what he called Chris Bosh the RuPaul of big men? You guys remember that one?
So what happened was Shaq caught the ball and made a legal basketball move, and Chris Bosh over-exaggerated the reaction. Refs, toss him. Flagrant two, you're out. And this was before they could review these things. So Shaq comes to the back and sits. with us in the video room, and he's literally workshopping all the things he's gonna say about Chris Bosh at the end.
And we're like, big fella, you can't say that one. No, you cannot say that. So then I was like, what if I say he's the RuPaul of big men? And we all looked around the room and we're like, I think that's just on this side of acceptable.
What do you mean DEI? Amin was there.
It doesn't really mean anything. Does it not? And yet it means everything, right? It does. That's why it toes the line.
I'll give it to you, David. I think I know which one, but go ahead.
Thank you, David. Thank you. David, one last thing for the wheelhouse. Patrick Ewing went to as many NBA finals as Jimmy Butler. You can still throw that out there. Oh, wait, time out.
That's not correct. What do you mean? Is that correct? Yes. They went to the same number of – you know what?
Let me give you another one. Jimmy Butler played more NBA Finals games than Patrick Ewing did. You know why? Because Patrick Ewing didn't play in them second Finals. He was sitting, nursing a wrist injury by – who was the guy that hurt him and what city?
Yes. The other finals he didn't play, Dan, was because he was hurt. They lost to the Spurs in five games, but Jimmy Butler played in his five games. I also want to throw out real quick, David, they beat the Heat in the first round, 3-2. Who did they play in the second round that year?
His quote specifically was, why wouldn't you create four super conferences, 64 teams, and that's your governing body? Who else has a governing body which is an independent third party? Why don't four college conferences go, hey, we're going to do our own basketball tournament, 64 teams.
We'll sell that for $1.5 billion, and we'll divide that amongst our schools, and we'll further separate the haves from the have-nots.
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I heard penis. Then I heard Jewish.
No, there was like a three-second delay that felt like an eternity because you were wondering what's going to happen right now.
It actually is.
Yeah. How did the guy not know that there was a guy with a fake mustache and a beret in front of the stadium?
Also heat colors. Also heat colors. How about the fake mustache?
Yeah, but fake mustache, there's more hair to the mustache than there is the eyebrow. Plus, I saw a little bit of the glue, I think, on the backside.
Was it Barry?
Did he not look at his lookbook, right?
It also feels like if this score was opposite, Jimmy would have been center court waiting to score. That's exactly right. He would have been there. Where's Ben? Let me give him a hug. Where's Tyler? Let me pat him on the ass.
So, I mean, hold on. Hold on. I mean, respectfully, respectfully to Steve Kerr. He does a great job. He has no idea what he's talking about. Nobody in Miami is amped up. Brother, have you been to La Calle Ocho during traffic during primetime 5 o'clock rush hour? Please.
Thank you.
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Ich denke, es ist ein guter Ranking, wenn ich hier bin. Wir geben nichts weg. Danke, Jeremy. Ich kann es nicht glauben, dass Greg Cody mit Greg Cody zu mir zu tun hat. Ein Mitglied von den Hee Haw 3.
I didn't know that there was a single entity at all that could be that favorable, let alone a singular car from any type of brand.
Happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck.
A happy birthday to him. Wow. I don't care. Good luck.
And happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck. Cheese is 29.
To be clear, to be clear. I didn't do that.
You're listening to DraftKings Network.
It was truly remarkable, Dan. I mean, I'm not defending what the product looks like in the last several weeks or even this season. It's more the premise of the argument that stems from Mike Ryan claiming he's been right for two and a half years. That you've been wrong.
When the start of that was get rid of everyone, lose the play in game and has now become going to the finals twice is the worst thing that could have happened to the franchise. It's a bad spot we're in, Heat fans.
Okay, I will. I wonder if we can find this old footage and I don't know if it would still be available. But guys, when we tried to film the commercial last year at the Super Bowl for the Hee Haw 3, if you would have seen Greg's attempts at acting...
The amount of times we had to do the exact same shot where all you had to know was that you're turning over your left shoulder, not your right shoulder. Greg is what? And I like Greg, a talented man with a beautiful voice, not an actor.
You're right. It was on me and Yeti not being good teammates either and following Greg's direction.
Well, in our case, the director was a woman.
He's a short-sighted moron. What happened is the guys in there were talking about what this crew brought up yesterday, the idea of trading BAM at a bio. And I just reminded everyone that everyone in the shipping container wanted to trade BAM at a bio several years ago for Bradley Beal. And that is why I called them what they are, which is short-sighted morons. Got them there.
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It's pretty exciting.
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Are you staying warm? You look like you're coming out of the snow wearing that hood. In the last couple of times I've seen you on social media, you appear to be in the snow. Like, how cold have you been lately?
Yeah, I do. I do. That's why I live in South Florida. OK, I'm putting jackets on my cat and dog when it gets below 70. Not true. You don't do that. No, I don't. But if I did, I would do it when it was below 70. Juju, tell us how the great listeners of our show consumed today's episode. I was particularly good today, I thought. Did you share that feeling?
I know that's true. But, you know, when I'm in two days in a row, I feel like I got to ration myself, you I don't want to overload the listener. What did the listeners say about the show? I know Dan always asks you that, and I'm not sure how you consume that, how you figure that out. Is it just by tweets and everything? What were people saying about today's show?
Wow. Pardon me.
Wow. See, you sound like my wife when she's watching a Dolphins game. She's a fatalist. She's too afraid to be too optimistic because then you hurt yourself. But in all seriousness, there's a pretty good chance that you're going to get an Eagles-Bills Super Bowl. I don't want to jinx you, but just based on the odds, there's a pretty good chance of that.
If that happens, you have to root for somebody, right? You can't be neutral in a Super Bowl where you like both teams. So where do you lean there?
Is it?
Yeah, if you don't have a rooting interest, you almost have to root for the Bills, right, to win the Super Bowl. I mean, I remember in the early to mid-90s where they lost four Super Bowls in a row. Can you imagine making the Super Bowl four times in a row and losing each time? And if I remember correctly, they were lopsided. I'm a Dolphins fan, so you can sign me up for that, honestly.
Now, I have to ask you, let's say you're tailgating before a Bills game, dead a winner. What does it take to get you to be one of those fans that jumps on the table and crushes the table? Have you seen that?
It's insane. It's literally dangerous to your body to do that. Have you seen that? Would you do that?
What's the deal with these table jumpers? That's right. By the way, Juju and Christopher, how do we end this thing? I got a way to end it. Okay, good. Thanks for asking, though, Dad.
Wow. What's the record? It's never been 100%, right? The record's got to be like 96, I'm guessing. Right.
Exactly.
Really? Wow.
Not bad.
Ever since switching to T-Mobile, something weird has been happening. I get to cut lines.
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Ich habe einen ziemlich brutalen Beispiel von mir, als ich ein kleines Kind war und ein Jerk war. Mein Vater hat mich für meinen 10. Geburtstag nach Fenway Park genommen. Aber als ich groß war, habe ich mich nicht nur für die Marlins gewählt, sondern auch für die Yankees, weil mein Vater aus Brooklyn ist.
Und so bin ich nach Fenway Park gegangen, um ein Spiel zwischen den Red Sox und den Angels zu spielen. Und ich hatte ein A-Rod-Yankees-Jersey und ein Mann hat mir ein Bier gegeben und ich hatte es verdient.
That's a great point. It's so expensive. At a 10-year-old. I deserved it.
No, I wasn't that skilled. Okay.
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Hmm, etwas mit einem Stein am Ende, wahrscheinlich. Ist Rodney ein Stein? Nein, aber ich versuche nur etwas zu denken, das dich irgendwie nähert. Bist du sicher, dass es nicht Rod war?
Rodney Dangerfield.
Rodney Stewart.
He was. Only 21 minutes. I was kind of confused. Offensively, he was awful. His impact on the game was paramount, though, when he was out there.
Ich sehe Kobe, ich sehe Dwayne Wade. Ich sehe einen Mann, der Doppelteams splittert, wie es niemand in der Liga tun kann, der auf die Linie geht. Und es gibt dieses, ich meine, du hast es erwähnt, ich meine, das Internet-Diskurs um Shays, oh, Foul Merchant, Foul Merchant. Ich denke, dass die Leute nicht verstehen, wie man Fouls schießen kann und wie man darüber geht.
Und ich denke, James Harden hat es in so einer Weise gemacht, dass es so... Ich weiß nicht, rektlos, als ob er das Spiel verletzt hat. Er hängt andere Arme in, was Shay mit seinem Körperkontrollen und seiner Fähigkeit, Fouls zu drehen, fühlt sich mehr an als Dwayne Wade, außer Dwayne Wade war 6-3. Shay ist 6-6 und hat einen noch besseren Jumper.
Und seine Fähigkeit, das Spiel von der Linie zu kontrollieren. Ich meine, du schaust dich zurück. Ich habe es heute Morgen gemacht. Ich habe Dwayne Wade's Boxscores angeschaut. Ich habe auch Kobe's Boxscores angeschaut. Du wirst viele Boxscores sehen, die sehr ähnlich aussehen, wie die von Shea gestern Abend.
It relaxes me. Numbers. Sorry. I mean, I was preparing for the show that we do for four hours. I feel like that was helpful. I added a note, you know.
Yeah, that's also true. Crunching numbers.
Aber es ist so, wie er es macht, richtig? Es ist stylistisch, ich denke, eine der Gründe, warum Leute so seltsam fühlen, ist, dass sie nicht gewohnt sind, so einen Spieler in einem modernen Spiel zu sehen. Letzte Nacht hat Minnesota 30 mehr 3s als Oklahoma City.
Und das ist in der großen Teilen, weil so viel des Spiels war, Shea zu fahren, Doppelteams zu dividieren und dann Lobben zu anderen Jungs zu schießen, weil ihr Körperbewegung unglaublich ist.
Leute denken, er fällt einfach runter und macht Feuern, wenn er wirklich, wenn man schaut, er manövriert seinen Körper, Es ist einfach so, dass er so athletisch und so schmerzhaft ist, dass er Menschen in einer Art und Weise, die niemand in der Liga kapabel hat, in Kontakt mit ihm machen kann.
Der Playoff-Jimmy hat seine gesamte Legende gebaut. Der ganze Ding war auf dem, dass er die Freethrow-Line über und über und über wieder bekommt. Außer es war in seinen 30ern, wo Shea es in einer Art und Weise smooth macht und während er jünger ist. Und für mich, ich weiß nicht, wie man die letzten paar Playoffs sehen kann, was es ist, was Jimmy Butler gemacht hat.
Und dann nicht sehen, was Shea macht und sagen, oh mein Gott, er nimmt das sogar zu einem anderen Niveau.
Okay, er ist reportedly wert von 450 Millionen Dollar. Er will einfach nicht seine Autos verkaufen? Er bleibt arbeiten.
Es ist Pittsburgh. Genau.
Ich meine... So he reportedly did a show like 90 minutes after this accident. He just wanted to do a show anyways. And if you want, you can see Jay tonight back in L.A. He's doing some charity show. Guy doesn't want to stop working.
Maybe he's not worth 450 million, maybe he's broke. You know what I would do, now thinking about this? So, this is mean and borderline elderly abuse. So, I'm just gonna get out on the front end and say this. Clear out. Okay, so, like, we've gotten this out of the way. Borderline elderly abuse, but the ends justify the means on this situation. This is elderly abuse, but it's for a good cause.
So, as we've seen, Jay is prone to accidents. He caught on fire not too long ago also, I believe. There's a situation with a fire. So, Jay... Natürlich müssen wir ihn beschäftigen, weil ich glaube, dass er müde ist. Deshalb macht er diese Shows oder Gambling Deals. Ich denke, er ist nur müde und sucht für Dinge zu tun. Er will nur weiter arbeiten.
Wir erinnern uns, dass er das Tonight Show gegeben hat und es Conan gegeben hat und dann drei Monate später zurückgezogen hat. Es war eine sehr kurze Zeit. Er hat es sofort zurückgezogen. Ich denke, anstatt seine Autos zu nehmen, was du tun musst, wenn er eigentlich 450 Millionen Dollar wert ist, Weil das ist, wo es borderline älteren Verbrechen gibt.
Wir haben gesehen, dass wir manchmal mit verschiedenen Streaming-Services kämpfen. Wir wissen nicht, wie wir diesen oder jenen Kampf finden. Wir wissen nicht, wo diese Dinge sind. Streaming-Zeit. Ja. Also ich denke, was du mit Jay tust, wenn du seine Familie bist und du hast Zugang zu seinen Accounts oder so, sagst du zu ihm, Jay... NBC-Peacock braucht dich wieder. Jimmy, da ist was dran.
Jimmy wird sich ein bisschen Zeit nehmen. Sie brauchen den Big Dog zurück. Und was du dann tust, Du bautest ein Replicaset von The Tonight Show und Jay Lenos riesiges Gebäude. Und dann sagst du, weißt du was, Jay? Keine Sorge. Wir werden es umsetzen. Wir werden dir ein Zuhause-Studio machen. Oder du rentierst ein Studio, was auch immer. Du hast ihm ein Replicaset gebaut.
Ich denke, du machst das, aber dann ist er vielleicht dran, was da los ist. Oder du rentierst einen Studiospaß und bauen ein Replicaset, richtig? Und das Replicaset könnte eigentlich besser sein, weil in L.A., in Hollywood, meine Überzeugung ist, dass Leute einfach immer auf TV-Schlägen sein wollen, richtig? Also was du tust, ist, dass du ihm sagst, er hostet das Tonight Show wieder.
Und dann gehst du jeden Tag raus und machst Run-Thru's für das Tonight Show. Du kreierst eine Simulation für ihn.
Ich weiß nicht, ob du das weißt, aber du bekommst nur Extra's. Jeder will ein extra In-Studio-Audienz sein. Du kannst auch nur 100 Leute bezahlen.
Okay. I think you could just get them for free. I don't think you have to pay them. Oh, there you go. A sandwich. No, not, no.
To keep him safe, to keep him from driving. You just basically have him doing the Tonight Show every day. It just doesn't air anywhere. Right, thinking it's going to lead off.
And then you make sure he's off the street and he's fine. He's not walking down mountains for fun.
The mob knows. You seem to be stuck on two things today. You seem to be stuck on potential gambling debt and the unhoused. And I don't understand why we're stuck on those things in this scenario. My scenario didn't involve either of those things.
He's a big dog and he knows it. That's how you lure him back in. Because he's like, no.
So he doesn't want to do it to Jimmy. But then when you throw in the big dog, Jimmy needs you, big dog. And he's like, okay. Und dann kommt er wieder rein, legt seine Jacket an und fährt mit dem Motorrad. Aber auch mit dem Motorrad fährt man nur mit dem Treadmill und man sieht die Szenen, die sich umgehen.
Und dann kommt er wieder rein, legt seine Jacket an und fährt mit dem Motorrad.
He needs to still feel the rush. He needs to feel like he's traveling.
Du hast gesagt, ich? I gotta tell you, Swap Week was picking up steam yesterday. I had a very influential college voice reach out to me and say, I love Swap Week.
Just tell Papi that they renewed HQ. You build them a studio. You do the show. And then you just say like, Papi, one of the perks this time, they got you a driver. They're just going to send someone to pick you up every day.
I know why it is. I was told that Jay Leno only spends the money that he makes doing stand-up.
Like, this is what you saved it for. To have fun now.
Was hast du versucht zu drücken, Dan, damit wir es verstehen? Ja, danke, Billy.
Genau. Du bringst den alten Kass aus Cleveland. Und dann hast du einen der Fahrer. Ich möchte nicht mit dem Video in die Luft gehen, aber wir werden das machen. Ich weiß nicht, wer er liebte und wer nicht. Dann hast du den Fahrer. Be that person. And then the hope is they just get in such a chummy conversation that like Lucio or whoever just spends the entire time driving Papi around town.
And they're just talking and it's like, oh, Chino, I didn't know that you're a driver now. And it's like, yeah, oh, Kendry's back. Like, what are you doing, Kendry? Oh, he's driving now.
Exactly right. And then just every day they talk. It's always a different person from the past. Danny's there one day. Bruce is back. Is he? Is Myra back?
Wir haben das gemacht, aber wir haben es auf einem Mystery-Kreis benutzt, weil es einfacher war. Ehrlich gesagt, ich glaube, wir haben auch den Tin-Man gemacht. Ich weiß es nicht. Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass jemand schon einen Tin-Man gekleidet hat. Es könnte sogar Jeremy gewesen sein. Das könnte einfach etwas sein, was er gerne macht. Es könnte auch Dan gewesen sein, nur um Spaß zu haben.
Jeremy ist auch an dem Punkt, an dem er sich einfach nur für Spaß ausdreht.
Das war so ein guter Film, Operation Dumbo Drop. Ich meine, es war nicht, aber es war ein toller Film. Die Idee, dass wir Elefanten aus diesem Flugzeug rauswerfen, ist großartig.
Oder war es ein Helikopter? Nein, ich dachte, es war ein Operation Dumbo-Drop. Da hatten sie die riesigen Cargo-Fahrzeuge und sie haben sie mit Parachuten ausgelöst.
Ich habe immer... I've always been interested by the idea of like a plane's back, like the butt of the plane just opening up and then everybody just jumps out of it. Like I'll never find myself in that scenario, but I see lots of movies in which that scenario occurs. So it seems more common than it is.
Dennis Leary war in dem Film? Was für ein Cast! Ich glaube nicht, dass du mehr solo Parachuten kannst, ohne dass du eine Art Zertifizierung hast. Ich denke, jedes Mal, wenn du... Du musst zu jemandem gestrappt werden.
Dann muss ich zu jemandem gestrappt werden, wir müssen zusammenlaufen. Wenn du eine Klasse machst oder so. Weißt du, als wir das Skydiving hier für das Show gemacht haben, ich glaube, es war eine Red Bull-Serie oder so, ich erinnere mich nicht mehr, ein paar Jahre zuvor, I was like dangerously close out of character to saying, you know what, I'll do it. Wow. Because I'm never going to do it.
I think Tony ended up doing it and someone else. Who else did it or was it just him? Witty?
That's all I remember from that. Und dann haben sie eine andere Aktivation gemacht, wo es Helikopter waren, die Flips oder so gemacht haben. Und ich glaube nicht, dass das Video den Licht des Tages gesehen hat. Helikopter, die Flips machen? Ja, es war etwas Wahres, wie Stunt-Helikopter. Einige Dinge müssen wir nicht in Stunts machen.
Also Jay Leno machte ein Stand-Up-Show. Ich glaube, Jay Leno funktioniert immer noch, auch wenn er alles Geld in der Welt hat. Und er machte ein Show. Ich glaube, er sagte, es wäre in der Boston-Ära. Es könnte falsch sein. Und anstatt den Weg nach unten zu nehmen, weil sein Hotel auf der Hölle ist, hat er entschieden, ich werde auf die Seite der Hölle gehen.
Und dann fiel er auf die Seite der Hölle, 60 Füße.
Es ist ein gefährliches Spiel und er ist jetzt wahrscheinlich in den 70er Jahren, richtig? Das klingt ein bisschen dumm und ich wollte da nicht so eine Jay Leno-Impression machen. Aber an einem bestimmten Punkt hast du diese unangenehme Konversation mit deinen Älteren, deinen Eltern, deinen Onkels und Onkels, wer auch immer verantwortlich ist in deinem Leben. Du musst sagen, hey, weißt du.
Vielleicht ist es Zeit, die Autos zu verstecken. Und Jay ist reich. Jay, nimm einfach eine Golfkarte.
Was machen wir da? Oh mein Gott, schau dir Jaylanos Autos an. Er hätte immer irgendwo eine Spare. Wenn du älteren Menschen Autos wegnimmst, findest du... Ich hatte einen Freund, der das dem Großvater gemacht hat. Er hat den Großvater Autos weggenommen. Und der Großvater wusste, was los ist. Und er ist weggegangen. Als er weggegangen ist, haben sie... Bevor er die Türen gefunden hat?
Okay, also sie haben seine Haustür gekleidet. Und als sie seine Haustür gekleidet haben, haben sie herausgefunden, dass es passiert ist. Und er hat eine Million Kopien gemacht. Und er hat die Türen überall im Haus versteckt. So everywhere that they would clean, they'd find a new set of car keys that he hid in the house because he knew they were going to take away his car keys.
That's what I'm saying. Jay Leno would be impossible to stop him from driving. And it's not just driving, right? He flies too, or Harrison Ford is the one that flew. Did Jay Leno fly things too? Travolta. No, but remember Harrison Ford crashed an airplane. I remember Harrison.
Yeah, like Harrison Ford crashed an airplane and then like a couple months later it's like Harrison Ford flying again. It's like, why?
Like, what's wrong with you?
The hill is a cliff. Okay, hold on.
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Well, Dan, a fight we had led us to a divorce. But that's okay, cause how could you know that, of course? Me and Bianca didn't make it this time. But that's okay, Dan, because I have a new wife. I didn't come here to discuss my divorce, but that's fine. Now you know that I have a new wife.
You look good now, Dan. I think you look way better now. That's great.
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That QB throwing it. Or Gino Smith. That QB throwing it. Property. That QB throwing it. Kyler Murray. That QB throwing it. Let me see what you got, Bo Nix. That QB throwing it.
Michael Panix.
That QB throwing it.
CJ Stroud.
That QB throwing it.
I'll ask a lot.
That QB throwing it.
Are you that guy?
That QB throwing it.
Are you that guy?
That QB throwing it. Are you that guy?
That QB throwing it. Are you that guy? That QB throwing it. Are you that guy?
Are you that guy?
Are you that guy? Are you that guy? Better. Pretty good. As in that's better than before or needs to be better?
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Well, I guess the one thing that I would say is, yes, of course, corruption has always existed, David. And we as a country have constantly needed massive deals from the proper administrations to root out corruption and save us from disaster.
And basically, since Reagan was president, we have only slashed and slashed and slashed and slashed on regulation and welcomed more and more and more and more corruption and money into government. And this is that time where people are so fed up and frustrated.
Whether it's different or not, David, the perception is there for young people, for middle class people, for lower class people of this is enough. This rich guy and all of his rich friends profiting off of us, the laborer, There are people who are fed up with that. And it seems to be more brazen and more people have access to that information now than before.
So the rich guys are buying up the information places and making it unable for Americans to communicate with each other in that respect without it being suppressed. That's a problem.
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Ich denke, es sollte nicht.
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Oh, because he was being homophobic.
I was just ringing the this is homophobic bell.
Bells are a ringing, which was also pretty gay.
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God, Friday was a good show. That was fun. We don't have to criticize that one like we had to do yesterday's show. But I really, like, guys, I'm not going to lie to you. I walked in today with a much bigger head than I've ever had walking in here. And that's saying something because I know that I can be conceited.
So like instead of Kevin Bacon, he's Kevin Eggs?
Kevin Omelet would be good. Kevin Waffles? Kevin Omelet is really good. Kevin Waffles has to be a comedian, though. Or he does like kids shows. It's a singular Waffle.
I have never in my life received the sheer volume of praise from strangers on the Internet as I have over the last week for the day journalism died and the Arizona song.
Personally, I kind of hate it. Yeah. You got to fight someone, Jeremy.
A fist fight on the sidelines of the Marlins games? Yeah, Jessica would have.
You guys don't even realize the Molotov cocktail that Billy is throwing my way with that one. He is an anarchist. Kevin Colenche.
Yes. But he never admitted.
Yes. Woman. It's been incredible, though, guys. I mean, I feel like, honestly, I'm a little bit nervous. No, because I'll tell you. I'm now worried about the next time that I show up with a parody song because this sort of feels like, you know when an artist works for years and years and years at their craft? You should retire. And they ultimately finally release the album that gets the praise.
I could do the Billy Joel thing. I could just say I've got enough songs in my heart that I've put out there and it's over and I can quit on top. But I want to persevere and I want to know what it feels like to follow up the hit album with another hit. But now, I'm not going to lie to you guys, I'm nervous about it. And I feel like it has to be a really artistic endeavor.
So it might be a minute before I come back with what I'm hoping will be my magnum.
That's what it takes, man. REM, it took years and years and years and years for REM, and then one night they become an overnight success. And they say it takes 10 years to become an overnight success.
The people need more. They've been asking for it. They've really told me that this is something that's made me feel better. And, you know. It's something that I'm proud of.
I'm not a selfish guy. I might be conceited, but I'm not selfish.
One applause for three and a half years. I think I can... Live in this one.
Do you want me also talking about joining the Marlins TV broadcast? What was that? A reward? Yeah, for the songs.
Zybras. Wow, we're really going to play this, huh?
I know what all you want to say, but I think you'd attend my funeral if I died in LA. And I wonder if there is a place where nobody would show up for me when I pass away. I'm having dying dreams. Car crash in Tennessee. Or Santa Monica. My last breath in Raleigh. Need J. Cole to show up. And Klay Thompson's daddy. Michael Jordan for sure. And Shaq and Charles Barkley. Oh, what if I die?
It's just amazing. You would think Boeheim is just a guy who's an old school gamer, would just appreciate Everything that that is and that he would be someone accenting this is so impressive because he's seen how many legendary players go through moments of trial and tribulation and tournaments and all of these moments and then, you know, not come up with performances like this.
The fact that this guy was doing it while fasting is amazing. You'd think he'd appreciate it.
What time is it in Iceland?
Okay, and I will leave it alone after this, Mike. I understand that you make all the best points in all of the best discussions. Thank you. But for you to think that you know what's good for Aaron Rodgers better than what Aaron Rodgers thinks is good for Aaron Rodgers is an arrogance previously unseen from you.
He understands that the majority seem to be against him, and you guys are all wrong. Because when it comes to arrogance, you can look in a mirror and see a certain kind of arrogance. And when Aaron Rodgers looks in a mirror, it's an even greater arrogance than yours because he's accomplished slightly more than you have.
He didn't make a musical. I mean, in my field.
You think you're the Aaron Rodgers of your field?
Who are the top five executive producers all the time that you're putting in? Chris Carlin.
Embo.
I believe we've had two of the top executive producers of all time.
Everybody. Thank you, too. You mentioned Andy. Andy King, yes. Good timing between you and Stugatz. You're staring right at each other.
Or I could just tell the story now and we could be done with it because already it's got too much buildup and it's not going to live up to whatever it is you guys expect it to be.
You're going to pretend here that you don't love Matthew Kachuk more than you love anybody you've ever loved?
The idea, and I will leave it alone after this, I promise, that Mike Ryan believes this doesn't have value to Aaron Rodgers as a platform where he gets to espouse for however long he gets to espouse it. 30 minutes uninterrupted on whatever he wants to talk about. Like, my guess is he would take that in lieu of salary next year.
What is the ruling? Because for the last two days, I will preface the story this way, and just to catch Tony up, if you haven't been listening for the last two days the way that Tony hasn't been listening because he's been working too hard on his top five smells in Miami.
And you'd probably be right, but then if you're entertaining the business proposition. Thank you. That's how we finally got down to it. If you're entertaining the business proposition. Five minutes ago, I wish you said that. Yeah, okay. But the business proposition of this, where Stugatz is asking, does this have attention value next year? The answer might be no.
The other answer is it doesn't matter because McAfee and Aaron Rodgers can do whatever they want with that time and money and nobody else gets to decide. Disney doesn't get to tell McAfee. Nobody gets to decide but McAfee and Rodgers. And that's where it becomes interesting to me because Disney is running a business and eventually that has to show numbers. But not right now it doesn't.
Thank you. I appreciate all of your help there.
And ruffling feathers is not the same as you have the power to fire anybody. Because ruffling feathers, you can do plenty of.
And Mike Schur said that after he did some of the stuff that he did, that he'd never work at Disney again. And he spent the whole season there doing whatever it is that he wanted with Pat McAfee after that apology. Like after Mike Schur is telling you that will never work on Disney again.
I can't believe that today we have had David Sampson say that he belongs in the Hall of Fame and is better than Darren Revell. And Mike Ryan just put himself at the top of the Mount Rushmore of executive producers.
You have those still? I have those. Okay. So excited. How long is that segment? How much time do you need for new father observations? Probably 10 minutes. 10 minutes.
Stugantz, I wanted to ask you something, Stugantz, as I see that the Boston Celtics are, again, over the course of this season, they are beating up Cleveland when they go to Cleveland and beating up New York when they go to New York. And they've been uneven because I don't imagine that they're interested in all of the regular season games.
But I wanted to at the trade deadline because it happened loud and fast and a lot of things got lost in the last week when the Super Bowl is so big that, you know, Debo Samuel asking for a trade gets lost in the headlines. And there's so many trades.
There are so many trades in basketball that I'm guessing something I'm about to say has largely gone under the radar with people who don't care about basketball too much. Marcus Smart was the defensive player of the year and at one time with green hair, viewed as sort of the soul for why it is that Boston was good. He was the glue, Dan. Yeah, but the glue we are turning out to see in retrospect.
Whoa, glue's not quite as valuable as we thought it was as glue. Because he leaves. Well, no, but do you even do you know where Marcus Smart is right now?
I saw a picture that I believe was the saddest I saw in sports last week, which was the, and I was sad because the two people involved had to wear this uniform. Chris Middleton and Marcus Smart wearing Wizards jerseys and seeing the meme go around, who beats this duo? And seeing what happened in general to Marcus Smart's soul?
Like, you wore the green hair and you were the centerpiece of rah-rah, we're gritty Celtics basketball. And now as soon as they get rid of you, you're not... The wizard we thought you were, you're just a wizard.
And that's got to all feel bad, right? And I don't know whether Derek White is you or Drew Holiday is you, but whatever it is that you were supposed to represent, I got to think it feels really shitty to be Marcus Smart.
Like as shitty as it can feel for a basketball player to be like, I had green hair and Boston loved me and I was tough and I rebelled and I was the personality and I was a star and now I play for the Wizards. And nobody cares in Stugatz. I'll ask him again next week and he'll forget. He doesn't have any idea where Marcus Smart is.
Planar phasias. Did you not feel bad for Chris Middleton? Like, that was a champion?
We'll see. Wait to see. All right. They're the new father observations and they have now been properly teased. The story, Stugatz, is embarrassing to me. You're telling the story. I don't know yet if I'm telling the story, but just to get Tony caught up to where it is that we are. All right.
He was a great player. But he still, I mean. He could have been finals MVP.
I don't know when Stugatz is ever going to get tired of just the lazy, Danny makes $16 million.
He's never going to get tired of that note. It's hard to hit. It's his pay the teachers, pay the whales, pay the schools. Pay the wizards. Yeah. They're getting paid. Stugatz has this lazy, lazy reflex. You know how I connect to the audience? I'm just going to say, somebody make a lot of money, Dan.
I don't actually want you to feel bad for him. I just want to laugh at the idea that you think grit is valuable. I want to laugh at the idea of Marcus Smart is the reason people win. And last trade piece, get Marcus Smart at the deadline. You'll change your future because he'll play defense. He'll take a couple of charges.
We'll gift him a Defensive Player of the Year award because we love grit so much.
Yes. Anybody next to Pippen and Jordan would have become Horace Grant and Dennis Rodman.
Yes. Every single person who was the third player on those teams would have become those guys.
Excellent work, Chris Cody. That's why you're always the voice and glue that you are, the Marcus Smart of our proceedings. Top 35.
All I have told the audience, there are two things that I have promised the audience that I did not get to, and I like to keep my promises with the audience. One of them is the source on whether or not Walter Payton ran not wearing socks in the NFL, which sounds really painful and awful. Feetness. That is correct. That was, look, Tony, as if he's hearing the joke for the first time.
So I just want everyone to see what Stugatz was arguing there when, hey, Dan, if I give you two of the top 50 basketball players of all time, will the third also be good?
No, no, no. Please.
Please, wait. Jeremy, please. Please give me the centers of all of those teams. Just a parade. Cartwright. A river. A river of stiffs. Just a river of balsa wood. I mean, Luke, are you kidding me?
No, Bison Dele made them 72-10. I know, he was a revelation.
No. No, when they got rid of Luke Longley and Bill Wennington. And no, wait a minute. Who was the big?
Who was the giant? It wasn't Purdue. There was another giant white guy. There was another one. Wennington-Purdue. Longley. Was it Wennington? Did Wennington win a championship? The guy with the goatee on his neck? Wennington won a championship?
Tony, do me a favor, okay? Because when he says Bison Dele was a revelation. What a player. What was his real name? Brian Williams.
No, that is a tragic story. Killed, I believe, allegedly by his brother. You have to look at how overwhelming that team became when they got Bison Daylight. Because I'm pretty...
pretty sure that's the 72 and 10 team and i couldn't believe how unstoppable bison daily was because he played with michael jordan and scotty pippen where i'm watching him i'm like i knew that was a good player but now there is nothing that can stop that human being because i don't understand the intricacies of basketball enough to understand just how much pressure pippen and jordan are putting on an offense so that everything is just put back dunks
TNT did like a whole bunch of... It's a short documentary. And yes, and the mystery about how it is, he was lost at sea for a while. And then they found out he wasn't lost at sea, that there was an accident with his brother that may or may not have been an accident.
It's just a parade of balsa wood, like a river of balsa, seven foot balsa wood. So many knee braces.
Look, this is what I'm telling you. Those 72 and 10 bulls would have won the championship with that fat guy at your Y at center. What a special era in backup big men.
Just seven footers that you could have put a concrete slab in the paint. All a liability from the line.
Now you're caught up, Tony. Now you're caught up. That's it. Now you're caught up with that story. The second story is I've simply said for two days, hey, and it's been a tease, and people thought I'm teasing to keep the listeners just around to see if they hear the story. Time spent listening. It's one of the reasons our sponsors are so good, because we have uncommon listener retainings. TSL.
A little free elbow jumper. That was longly special.
But they had all six seconds because as they're shooting the ball, Pippen and Jordan are still double teamed.
Please put Chris Dudley on the screen right now. Please find Chris Dudley so that I can show the audience exactly what it is that, again, this was Stugatz's chief point. Do I think that anybody would have been Horace Grant next to Pippen and Jordan?
The answer to your question is, yes, I do think anybody would have been those people. That is the direct answer to your question. There he is. There he is. Dominating the NBA. What a time. From the center position. You know what all those guys were? Six fouls.
Oh, that's good video. Oh, wait a minute. Guys, please get that video. Thank you, Roy.
Chris Dudley's signature play in his NBA career. Now, keep in mind, Chris Dudley had a career that paid him. I'm going to guess Chris Dudley made millions of dollars for just being six-fouled. But please get me the video of Shaq dunking on Chris Dudley and purposely trying to hit Chris Dudley in the neck with his nuts.
And Dudley all just backed away, backed away, backed away, got stuck in Shaq's ass crack.
No, that couldn't have been in the same game.
Is that not the dunk that is Shaq's statue? The one on Chris Dudley's neck? Is Shaq's – play that again, please, so that I can see from the beginning all of the nasty here on Chris Dudley's just being backed up because you can't do anything because it's too strong and he's in good defensive position. And then here you go. Here's some of this. And then I'm pretty sure – It is Shaq's signature dunk.
Chooch. Okay. I am going to spend the last four minutes of what we're doing here analyzing this video with you guys.
Please go back again to the beginning of this because, and I want you to freeze it for me, okay? In honor of...
telestrated uh... cuba brown uh... now retiring uh... i want to boston freeze it not not stop okay roll it hold it right there uh... right there just stay for a second there the part that i want you guys to enjoy is uh... as shack ends up on the rim and his uh... his uh... legs are coming very close to being on chris dudley shoulders i want and please don't move it again i'm gonna have to fight someone in the video room
You just did again?
I want all of us to enjoy together the last little pelvic thrust of Shaquille O'Neal that makes Chris Dudley fly into the stands because of the sensuality around Shaq's nether region. Just the hip thrust of a little extra, I'm gonna knock you out of bounds with my penis.
That is correct. And this device of teasing Dan's racist story for two days would be a good device to keep people around. I'm not doing that on purpose. We're just trying to find the guests who now are not available until next Tuesday.
Now, I've done something unfair to Chris Dudley because it's not actually his penis. Shaq just pushes him.
But the visual for all time of I knocked you into the stands with my penis.
No, there wasn't a how's your uncle there.
There is absolutely a hey, how's your uncle. No, let's see it again. There's not a how's your uncle here anywhere to be found. That's not true. What you guys are saying is false.
There was not a how's your uncle there.
Number one blocks his shot.
So you guys are claiming that Shaq pushed Dudley because there was a how's your uncle.
All right. And now if we continue rolling this and forgive me to the audio.
Forgive me. What's the sound? What's the sound you make? What's the sound? No, is that happening to Chris Berman the whole time? What? Yeah. How's your uncle? That's the sound you make?
The thing that I want to accentuate from the video for the audio audience is after everything we've described, the amount of time it takes Chris Dudley and his athleticism to get up and off the floor, make it so that he's throwing a basketball at a Shaquille O'Neal who is at half court because it's his back and he has already done the hip thrust and push into the stands.
And so while Chris Dudley and Fury threw a basketball a long way, Shaq was much further away from
Retention is what I meant to say. Right. Thank you, Chris. You speak so well. Why don't you find that sound of you reading and see if we play it here in just moments because you were so good at finding the place where I got caught up in the air. Let's find the most embarrassing clip of you trying to read and then let's play that in a moment.
Tony, are you kidding? A racist.
Tony, do you feel like you're caught up?
All right. So this is funny. All right. What's the vote, Jeremy? Now or Tuesday? Now or Tuesday?
We're putting too much pressure on the story. But Mike, now or Tuesday?
Yeah.
Well, allegedly the guests will be available Tuesday. We'll see. President's Day on Monday.
The whites are... We like the pie. Who else is voting here? I need a decision on whether to tell the story now. Yes or no? Group?
I want to get to the story with Stugatz and the rest of you. This was a Diana Rossini story. And not surprisingly, this is a bit of a pop culture feeding frenzy type of story, because at this point in his career, Aaron Rodgers is better as a content avatar than he is as a football player who's going to change your football team.
Unless maybe the Steelers or the 49ers can convince themselves that the next version of Aaron Rodgers will give him more support than whatever is the Jets' dysfunction.
But the story that has caught the last couple of days, and this part, it's just funny to watch an organization that for 40 years has been so desperate for good quarterback play that Mark Sanchez resembles a shining light at the top of their organizational structure.
because he got to a couple of playoff games, and so not surprisingly, that desperate franchise handed over to a quarterback who was a little bit brain-fried and arm-fried, handed over to him a kind of power that doesn't have a lot of precedent in the sport for...
any position where Aaron Rodgers was basically doing what he wanted to do calling his own shots and furthermore doing the things that quarterbacks are never supposed to do which is bring attention to distractions from outside the huddle because you're doing a weekly hit on national television you're doing a weekly Pat McAfee hit and you're not talking about quarterbacking all the time you're talking about Aaron Rodgers enigma documentary Aaron Rodgers brand of Aaron Rodgers and so
The report from Diana Rossini is that the Jets told Aaron Rodgers no outside media, including McAfee, and that attendance was mandatory at mandatory practices, which is something he missed some last year and just took the fine. And in doing so, they realized they couldn't work together anymore.
That if Aaron Rodgers didn't have the same power to do whatever he wanted and the coach dared to come in and say, hey, you can't make this TV appearance, And you got to be at mandatory practices. That was too much for Aaron Rodgers. And now the relationship is over.
It's funny that you understand that, though, but when Pat Riley does it to Jimmy Butler, then we don't understand it. Or like, yes, of course, you understand right up until the player gets so much power that he actually becomes a problem, but you understand that the entire system, right, all of it, is...
made to weigh heavy on the athlete not actually having that much power right because the organization showing aaron rogers who's boss now is something that you're like yeah but when you could get aaron rogers you would have given him anything too to get aaron rogers anything but that was a different time dan he was coming off two mvp years i mean two out of the last three seasons he was the mvp of the league and coming to a team in a market that was starving for a quarterback but
the thing desperate the thing that i find most interesting about the conflict at the height of this particular power is which is actually more valuable at this point whatever aaron rogers can actually give you or aaron glenn's in charge now new sheriff in town what's actually more valuable i'm gonna go with that one yeah i am because i saw the old sheriff the old sheriff was aaron
I need a democratic decision from the group. Denied. On behalf of the audience, okay? I need a ruling here of some sort because the—
I don't know whether you guys find the business of this part of it interesting, but Aaron Rodgers being in business with Pat McAfee on ESPN for what is reported to be a million dollars with all of these guys, Belichick and everyone else, because McAfee cut a production deal that allows him to just slice off a bunch of money for people that he cares about and wants to make content with.
And Aaron Rodgers wants to keep both that relationship and that platform available because it's worth not just... It's a valuable platform.
No, but at this point, where do you think the thing has more value? Hey, Aaron, we'll give you a million dollars. Here's a weekly platform where you can just say whatever you want, Aaron, and everyone will be listening to your thoughts.
And you'll just be there and you will talk. I think that has more value to Aaron. So much value that he's confident enough at his age if he still wants to play. Okay, Jets, not interested in your deal. I'll go to the Steelers or 49ers and I'll still keep doing the McAfee.
soft-talking producer of South Beach Sessions who came back in here again and argued with me now the third time during today's show that he has decided to do that he has suggested to me that a guest or two that would be important to the telling of the story properly of how it is that I was racist in New Orleans and
autumn i'm uh famous is more important than good attention is more uh important than not having attention and you guys keep talking about currency as if it's money he wants to be current he wants to be heard he just made a documentary he's got a weekly platform on disney where no one can control what him and his friend are doing and they're doing it on the most mainstream of mainstream platforms and it looks like a giant bleep you
to whoever the culture is that objects to whatever he might have to say about anything because he gets to do it without objection while he's doing it and allows him to troll and just feed off of whatever the reaction is because it's at least in part meant to incite a reaction.
I don't actually believe that you're totally understanding what the value of this is in the modern age. Famous polarizing person. What's he going to say? Do I need to tune in? The entire Pat McAfee model is built like after it got to great success off the further success of Aaron Rodgers kept showing up only there.
Okay, and we can argue this, but if Aaron Rodgers gets to answer that, not you. And Aaron Rodgers, if he's willing to leave the Jets in order to continue doing that because he believes it's that valuable to him, I don't think any of us here are really qualified to speak to what it is that Aaron Rodgers actually values. It clearly has value. He continues to do it.
I find it to be a pretty interesting thing from a lot of different perspectives, given that. And I know we get forgetful. OK, so the punctuation is going to be look at the mess he made at the end. But the dude's legacy is that at the position top five all time. And you can argue about however it is that you want to argue about that.
And most of those years spent as an icon who somehow replaced Brett Favre was considered baseless. better than Brett Favre, improved the position beyond Brett Favre by eliminating the turnovers, and an icon for all time in a sport where when I'm in New Orleans and Joe Montana walks through the restaurant, I see what still happens all these years later because everybody turns around.
Aaron Rodgers didn't win like that, but Aaron Rodgers in terms of greatness is just as great as that guy was.
that those guests to properly tell that story will not be available until Tuesday of next week. Tuesday of next week. What is it, Joe Biden? I don't know why this person is so busy, but this person is critical to the story having support.
And same as anything else, by the way, like we can have this conversation when they do rip away Title IX if you want and parse the semantics of what this is versus when they ultimately rip away Title IX. But this is this is the first step in doing so. Right. I mean, we all see the writing on the wall, just like we've seen with any of the rest of this. I think we should panic right now.
I think it's a of a false equivalence in what we're talking about.
And the lack of resources going toward any of those other programs don't allow you to create the stars that exist like Juju Watkins right now or Kaitlyn Clark or any of the other stars that we speak about in any other women's sports.
1,000%.
I have an issue with framing this as if it has anything to do with merit, because the That's the reason Title IX was originated in the first place is we were not investing in women's sports the same way we were in men's sports. We were not giving equal opportunities. And if we're creating another, we all know that NIL runs college sports now.
And if you're not going to have, this is no different than a lot of the under the cause of DEI and ripping away all of these other opportunities for any level of equality. that we've instituted over the last 60 or 70 years in this country. This is just a microcosm of all of that.
Ripping away in NIL in particular a demand to have some level of financial equality for men's and women's sports is a major issue that's representative of all of the other issues that we're having right now, like Google kowtowing to removing Holocaust Remembrance Day and Pride Month and Black History Month and Hispanic Heritage from their calendars. It's all related, Dave.
Merit indicates that there is some sort of inequality in terms of how much they're deserving of getting this opportunity. And I... I just think that the merit element is an issue because that is the term that we are using to justify eliminating all of these types of programs across the board.
And I can understand that a privatized thing such as NIL is different than what goes on specifically in the government. But Title IX is a part of what we do within our government. And so I think that we're really blurring the lines all the way across the board. And that's an issue. Like merit is not... how this gets divvied out. It's powerful white men giving more to powerful white men.
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Oh, wow. That's pretty good. It's in there.
Oh. I didn't realize we had a substitute complicated legacy. Brought to you by Headquarter Toyota.
Oh, come on, Dan.
So he's too boring.
Right. You have a penny jar, huh? You don't have a penny jar.
In this segment.
Mine is gold. Nothing more needs to be said. I mean, the Sabres are one of the worst teams.
What are you gonna do? Stugatz!
Hi, Ken.
Oh! Oh!
Er hat den Catch gemacht. Wer hat sich um Odell Beckham Jr. interessiert? Dieser Catch war das Schlimmste, was ihm und seiner Karriere passiert ist, Dan.
I mean, I leave for a minute, you talk about Odell Beckham. I mean, you really nailed that phrase, that saying, Dan, by the way.
Oh, I'm Keith. I'm so tough. I'm a hockey player. Well, Keith, have you ever been mashed before? Have you ever had Genesis' toe in your ass, Keith?
I have a question. You're from Boston, right, Keith? What are your thoughts on Bill Belichick potentially being the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels?
Wie würde sein Rekrutierungs-Pitch auf dich arbeiten, wenn er in den Raum kam, in dem du mit deinen Kindern warst und gesagt hätte, hey, komm, spiel für mich, hier sind alle meine Superbowl-Ringe.
Did you tell Clayton to be our friend, too? Yeah.
And there's the question of who wants to hire him from North Carolina and who doesn't. Because it seems evident from the reporting that there's a very potentially rogue coaching search happening. There's a ton of disagreement among the people in charge about what to do and...
Die Part that I am baffled by is, and I just simply couldn't have foreseen in whatever it is that you made of the hypotheticals pre-pandemic.
Und die Falken haben schon auf ihn gepasst. Wir haben schon das Ding in dem College-Football gemacht, wo der Patriots-Coach mit dem Superbowl-Ring kommt und alle denken, oh mein Gott, er wird ein Genie sein. Und Charlie Weiss hat es nicht funktioniert. We've already done this in college football and it didn't work.
Nein, er wurde gefeuert, weil er nicht wusste, wie man ein professionelles Programm ausüben kann. Das ist der Aspekt davon, den wir alle hier ignorieren.
Weil sie verloren haben.
Out of all the scenarios I couldn't have imagined five years ago, this one's not top of the list.
No, David, if we do become friends with him, this could be our in for the heist.
Wir können in den Nachhinein brechen, mit der Hilfe von jemandem, der am Inneren arbeitet.
I've been waiting to talk about Wicked for like three weeks and it feels like this is finally the moment. Golden Globe nominations came out. Nice.
I haven't seen it either.
Oh, but Jeremy, I simply assume that what Samson is doing there is that's not worth it because it's going to get hurt. You cannot trust that body to not break down.
Sorry. Okay, well, but I meant it. You've known me to be insincere in this regard?
I've showered you with compliments. I knew exactly how many days you'd been gone. And I've missed you. I've been filled with longing. And today you're in the big chair. And I was happy to see you. You know this. For a long time in that seat, you've brought me comfort for 20 years. You know this. So I've missed you. Why would you not believe that?
Okay, ich mache das nicht mit dir. Ich mache das nicht mit dir. Du hast keine Kappe und deshalb mehr Geld für alle. Und Jeremy ist nicht falsch, wenn er sagt, ja, spiel es einfach überall. Wer kümmert sich? Es ist lustige Geld. Die Kunden werden mehr Spieler bekommen, die sie wollen. Du bist nicht genau falsch. Das ist ein Ace-Type. But why not? Because you're the Yankees.
Every one of these teams...
Sie können jetzt einen Christian Walker-Typen benutzen und eine erste Basis verbessern. Du kannst also die Werte, die du an einem Spieler sparen wenden kannst, in verschiedene Positionen. Und hoffentlich wird das dich dazu bringen, wo du es letztes Jahr nicht geschafft hast.
This is not a good complimentary place. This place is very bad for compliments, I would say.
Don't you assume, Samson, that once all of this continues to escalate with the Yankees are going to get pressure to be in this game, prices are going to skyrocket everywhere and you're going to explain to us what it means that the Dodgers have a billion dollars in deferred payments, so one can assume they'll keep getting more Blake Snells too, right?
Roy, why is Billy's thumb down behind you? What just happened with your thumb?
Explain to me how we could be such an unprofessional organization. How can that just happen to top baseball CBS Insider David Sampson, where you... You guys just have a small room.
This is a professional environment and you guys need to get out of the camera shot. Izzy, get the hell out of the camera shot. Everybody get your shit together. And David, baseball's finances are making it so that...
Because he probably doesn't believe you. No, the TV was asking if someone was sitting next to me thumbs up or thumbs down. I said thumbs down.
Wir reden über einen Kaffee-Mann.
No, we're not going to commercial, but look at what just happened here. David, that is wildly inappropriate. Optics, unfriendly, unkind, because you're a germophobe, and Jessie's just hungry. She's a desperate rat working in the shadows of this startup, in the startup living, and you're trying to be a professional over there. She's hiding in a corner.
So Billy and Jessica got the entirety of the back row. No encumberment. Mike Ryan has been banned for another day. So the college football is all going to come from over there. Do you miss him? The college football? No. But Jessica hasn't had time to talk about this except for one segment with us in the last two days. So I imagine she's coming hot too.
Hold on a second, I gotta help you here. If you're gonna do it that poorly, get your shit together, man.
Ja, also der Geld im Sport ist verrückt und mehr davon wird geteilt, aber du hast gesehen, was gerade am Boden der Standorte gestern passiert ist, richtig?
Wenn du einer der Leute bist wie Billy, der immer noch eine Begeisterung mit den Marlins hat, sie handeln ihren einen Namen, einen populären Spieler, einen Mann, den die Leute tatsächlich lieben, einer der letzten Ember der Verbindung zu jemandem, ja, dieser Typ ist lustig, er schießt große Home Runs und Rolli-Polli-Runs um die Basis, er sieht lustig aus, Ich kann mich daran verbinden.
Und sie haben ihn seit ein paar Jahren. Sie machen die Playoffs schrecklich in der Mitte der Pandemie. Es sieht so aus, als würden sie wieder im Spiel kommen.
Sie haben die Playoffs zweimal gemacht. Sie haben einen in der Pandemie gemacht und einen im Jahr. Nicht in dieser letzten Saison als in der vorherigen. Das ist korrekt. Er war auch unter Teamkontrolle, weshalb das besonders seltsam ist.
Okay, so walk us through with the former president of the Marlins, how you're hurt by that Berger trade, because he was the last guy out the door who had a name that anybody connected to.
Well, I mean, they still have Sandy on the team, but we'll see how long he's still on the team. They still have Luzardo on the team, but he's been the subject of trade rumors already at the winter meetings. They still have Yuri on the team, but we'll see when he comes back from his injury and how long he's on the team. I mean, it's just kind of like...
Das Schwierige an Jake Berger ist, dass du ihn unter Kontrolle hattest, aber es scheint so zu sein, dass er nicht jemand war, der das Profil von Peter Bendix passt, was dieser Team sein will. Er war nicht groß defensiv, offensiv hat er Home Runs gespielt, aber das ist im Grunde alles, was er tun würde.
Also haben sie ihn weggebracht und sie haben drei Vorspekte und jetzt werden wir sehen, was passiert. Und wir werden sehen, ob sie in den Draft bauen können. Und oh, bei der Weise, sie hatten Tide... für die höchsten Chancen in der Draft-Lotterie gestern den Nr. 1-Pick. Sie haben die Lotterie verloren und jetzt sind sie 7. Wir werden sehen, was sie mit dem 7. Pick in der Draft machen.
Das ist keine Garantie. Das Problem ist, dass man sich wieder mit jemandem verbindet, der eine erfolgreiche Organisation war. Aber man kann realistisch fragen, wie viel Input er hatte, um diese Organisation erfolgreich zu machen. Und ob das etwas ist, das er hier hinzufügen kann. Es ist zu früh zu sagen, aber es ist auch eine der Situationen, wo es so ist,
How many people do I want to give four years to figure out if they know what they're doing or not?
And they get rid of a lame duck manager that did his job by getting them to the playoffs. You want to parlay that into something that feels a little bit like what Arizona was doing. You're trying to parlay successes.
And I think the problem, Jessica, is that people are tired of hearing us talk like four days overdue on the 12th or 13th best team in college football. We really broke out into a sports radio show around college football.
But yesterday, while they're talking to the manager from the Dodgers, Casey McCullough or whatever his name is, first base coach from another organization, Watson. Dave Roberts. While he's talking about Berger and what he means to the team, they trade him a couple of hours later, right?
And as the baseball nerds laugh at you because you had the best odds for the number one pick and you end up at seven.
Also, in fairness, the manager situation, he kind of dumped them, right? They spun it as this was like a mutual parting of ways, but there were reports that they tried to extend him and he turned that down and said, you know what, this is not going to work out here and decided to leave.
Sie bekommen es einfach nicht richtig. Es ist nicht, dass sie nicht versuchen. Es ist nicht, dass sie genug Geld haben, um in dieser Atmosphäre zu kämpfen, kombiniert mit einigen Unwissenheiten.
Stop betting bippies. It's the only thing I bet. And wait to see is one of the lamest catchphrases there is anywhere. Thank you for your support. Wait to see is useless as a take. It really is. Wait to see. Okay, thanks for nothing.
Verzeih mir, ich bin hier nicht ignorant. Ich bin wirklich nicht ignorant. Waren Sie nicht in Schwierigkeiten, den Boden mit den Marlins nicht zu machen? Waren Sie nicht in Schwierigkeiten, Geld in die Räume zu schieben, weil, wenn sie einen Boden auf den Marlins schieben, alle anderen Teams verrückt wurden, weil Sie einen zu großen Prozent oder so nehmen?
Warte, ich glaube, ich habe hier einige meiner Fakten falsch. Jeremy, warte, warte, warte.
You're good. What did you get in trouble for? Because you got in trouble for something.
Really? Okay, Jeremy, look this up to see what we can cross-check against. The other teams were mad at you guys because you were not reaching the floor.
Thank you. Alright, we've got Genesis. Is she here yet today?
Schau mal, wie er lacht. Er ist so glücklich mit sich selbst. Es ist einfach furchtbar. Es ist furchtbar.
We've got to see if Genesis is ready to go, because I've got some tension here with Stugatz. I want Stugatz to do Genesis. He doesn't want to do Genesis. We'll see if I can talk him into it. Historically, I am not able to talk Stugatz into much of anything.
Ich dachte, ich habe auch von David gehört, und ich weiß nicht, ob das von dir oder von jemand anderem war, dass du auch einen persönlichen Vault mit Collectibles hattest, den du auf dem Weg raus nicht genommen hast, der hinter dir bleibt. Ist das so? Hm.
Wow, wow, warte einen Moment, warte einen Moment. David hat niemals sprachlos geradelt. Wow. David denkt, die größte Währung, die es gibt, ist seine Informationen. Du hast einfach in seinen Geist geschaut und ihm etwas gesagt, was er nicht wusste, was du über ihn wusstest. Und er denkt, er verursacht alle. Du hast ihn einfach sprachlos geradelt. Er war überrascht.
Wo hast du diese Informationen, Billy?
Sie haben eine Schale voller Kurios, die Sie hinterlassen haben. Wer hat sie bekommen?
War das wirklich ein guter oder ein schlechter Tag für dich? Denn sobald das schließt, weißt du, dass du wahrscheinlich auf dem Weg raus bist, oder?
Heist. I like it. Yeah. Gonna get that Jeremy Hermita Ball after all.
Like an Ocean's Eleven.
You guys really want this person accused of a second heist of Marlins baseball? We would get away with it, Dan. He's gotten away with it. Look at him. It's just numbers on a computer and he's out here laughing as the face of corporate greed.
He got his... Billion dollars and he got out of the game and now he hangs on to the game as an information insider, doing it in a way that's almost as fun as when he was inside the game. In fact, I would ask you that question, which is more fun? What you're presently doing right now, holding a microphone or being the president of a Major League Baseball team or the Marlins anyway?
Anything else from baseball yesterday that people would be seeking you out on because they got a little bit of it on Nothing Personal, but you were telling me that you'd embargoed some secret baseball thoughts for just our show.
Alright, this isn't the way to do this for poor Roy. Getting into the chair after seven days off when I've missed him. He gets in the chair and they're counting me in. Nine, eight, and Roy is like, none of my shit works.
Alright, so that's a good thing to learn from Robert. Nine seconds before going live. Nothing can go wrong there when you're in charge. It's great to see Robert scurry in and out of the room. Get total confidence when I look up and see that we're in the steady care of Roy and Jeremy as some sort of green witch situation.
Ich habe ihn nie panikiert. Ich habe ihn nie panikiert. Ich habe ihn nie panikiert. Ich habe ihn nie panikiert. wenn David Sampson gegen die Dinge, die wir hier tun, aufhört. Parteien unserer Publikation sind aufgeräumt, weil sie das nicht mögen, die Corporate Dinge, die Sampson repräsentiert. Und manchmal, wenn er für die ganze Woche herunterkommt, kann es schwierig sein, ihn zu anbinden.
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
But this week what we have is a genuine national baseball insider. He is a star at CBS. His baseball information is something that people go seeking because his expertise in baseball is very strong and he talks about stuff in a way that knows the business a lot better than most people. And we've got them locked up in another room all week.
And baseball's going crazy because it seems like the Yankees just spent money to win yesterday's PR with an injured pitcher because now it's just the Yankees spending 200 million dollars for PR even though it's a broken arm. You tell me if I'm wrong, David. Can we go to David here in the other room right now? Or your shit doesn't work on that either, Roy?
Alright, Robert. Robert is not in there and nobody is ready and that's all good work at the start of our show. Excellent. I'm glad we were all ready to do this like I asked for before the show. I don't know what he's eating. It seems like it's... It's a hot dog. Is it? French toast sticks doused in syrup maybe?
How do you guys imagine you would eat if COVID had taken your sense of taste? Don't you all feel like you'd be eating vegetables and healthy food instead of candy and French toast? Denken Sie nicht, wenn ich Ihren Geschmack wegnehmen würde, würden Sie nicht plötzlich eine Diät haben, die 100% sauber war?
I will have to ask him more questions about his expertise as he eats candy.
But I'm not even just saying a diet. If you tell me, as someone who's struggled with his weight all his life and doesn't even understand what it is or how it is that he eats sometimes, like still at 55 years old, Still don't know why it is that I'll want to eat a ton of things because whatever. Food was love in my childhood. I don't know what it is.
If you told me that I lost taste, it would be a mixed blessing and curse. I would hate that I wouldn't be able to enjoy food. Aber es wäre eine instantane Diät, bei der ich nur die richtigen Dinge essen würde, denke ich, für den Rest meines Lebens, wenn ich es nicht riechen könnte. Ist das nicht etwas, das ohne zu sagen geht?
Weil ich überrascht bin, dass Samson auf diese Art und Weise gegangen ist. Er isst immer noch Dreck.
Aber er könnte gesundes Essen essen. Er könnte Dinge essen, die für seinen Körper füllen, und er isst immer noch Dreck. Und ich verstehe es nicht. Es scheint sehr selbstdestruktiv.
But you're basically saying that eating then becomes about, it has nothing to do with taste. Exactly.
Genießt ihr Essen?
Ich esse es gerade. Ich liebe es. Wow, you don't?
Ich weiß nicht, was deine Essen-Habits sind. Ich habe sie gefunden, um sie schmutzig zu sein. Es ist, wenn du mit einem Stück Bacon in deiner Hand gehst, und keine Platte und keine Schnauze.
Ich weiß nicht, über 20 Jahre habe ich einige seltsame Essen-Habits gesehen. Für etwa zehn Jahre hat Roy direkt von einer Verpackungsmaschine gegessen. Zehn gleiche Jahre.
Now, Stugatz, when I see him eating, it's usually, I saw bacon sandwiches the other day, which confused me. I didn't know there was such a thing as just a sandwich with bacon.
But I did not even know there was a bacon sandwich. I was wondering if Metal Ark is like skimping on breakfast all of a sudden because we're, you know, hard times and we're making bacon sandwiches, which seems like not a cheap sandwich, but also doesn't seem like a real sandwich.
I think it might have had also mayonnaise or something on it. I don't know. I couldn't tell. It had something white near it. But it struck me as odd that it would be just a bacon sandwich. But you guys are looking at me with some sort of disgust. I marvel every day. We've got a company that feeds people breakfast and lunch.
I don't exactly speak the same language as Roy, so when I see him today in the big seat and he's had seven days off and I say, happy to see you, I've missed you, he doesn't believe me. Well, he has good reason.
Jessica, honestly, forgive me if that sounded as if I was patting myself on the back. I just remember. Wie ich es nicht konnte, dass ESPN unsere Leute ein Frühstück füllen kann, das auf der Clevelander auf der Straße stattfand. Das ist, warum ich den ersten Tag verletzt habe. Ich war wütend, dass ESPN kam und plötzlich ist ESPN auf dem Diner, was die Futter für die Kameramänner sein sollte.
Also, wenn ESPN nicht Leute zahlt, um Futter zu essen, habe ich nicht erkannt, dass wir alle während des Arbeitens essen sollten. Habe ich das falsch? Um überrascht zu sein?
I think part of it is we don't get breaks. And we're just working like, you know, seven hours straight sometimes. Yeah. Like a 15 or so. Yeah. I don't know what it is.
I'm with you, Billy. Because then if different people start taking lunch at different times, then it's like a situation where you can't get things done.
We need to start. Let's be honest. Und ich will hier keine Probleme verursachen. Ja? Jason isst mehr als sein Fair-Show. Und Fuentes, und Fuentes. Der Heavy-Hand, den Jason hat auf das Essen. Manchmal kommen wir nach dem Post-Game raus und das Essen ist weg. Und es ist so, als ob vier Leute heute hier arbeiten würden. Nein, Jason kam heute ein bisschen zu früh. Er braucht die Proteine.
Oh! Das sind die Dinge, die wir nachdenken müssen. Welche Zeit Jason isst, und in welchem Mood Kristen ist an diesem Tag. An den meisten Tagen ist es mediterranenisch, also das ist, was wir essen. Lammkuchen.
Okay, I am sorry. I just saw Robert howling with laughter in the other room and a stray shot came across my ears on a channel that no one's supposed to be in that just screamed, Talent eats all the food. Just a stray shot. That's wrong. I've got a channel in my ear I've never heard before, okay? Someone who is not supposed to be talking to me. Okay?
During the doing of a live show when all my executive producers shit has broken apart. Isn't supposed to be a stray shot. Talent eats all the food. Now I got director Jason trying to get in there before you guys because everyone's putting in their pockets and going home with it.
He's not on that channel. This was a private channel I've never heard anybody on. I've never heard that voice accusing talent of eating all the food. Ist das Harry? Harry! Mit Lucy? Wer war das? Ich wusste nicht, wer das war, der Talente von all dem Essen verurteilt hat. Talente machen da viel Arbeit.
Samson ist in der anderen Raum. Lasst uns zu ihm gehen und herausfinden. Zuerst einmal, habt ihr über das Ernährungswesen nachgedacht?
I've thought about that. Can you tell me what it is? Here I was patting myself. King Levitard was patting himself on the back for producing breakfast and lunch and Jessica said something that I hadn't even considered, which is production services, if you're working six hours a day, it's always with breakfast and lunch. Hadn't even considered it.
So you're saying that Metal Lark and its bacon sandwiches is producing bad food?
Okay, so we will find out what's going on with Jason in a second.
I am sorry that we disrespected your takes and your talent over the last couple of days because people are seeking you out for your baseball information. If you want, I am assuming... Nothing personal was consumed by baseball today, although he covers a lot of different stuff on his podcast. What is the most interesting stuff from baseball yesterday, David?
The Yankees, I happened to be talking to you when the Yankees news came in and you were legitimately shocked. You sounded like you were appalled by the idea that the Yankees would just try to buy $200 million worth of PR.
I'm coming to New Orleans. And I'm coming in this Dan versus Dan thing.
I'll be there to tell Dan Patrick to his face. That he's a fraud. Not a fraud. Not a fraud because all the things you said are accurate. He is a trailblazer. They used to say, when you leave ESPN, it's over for you. And Dan Patrick was a guy that showed everybody, like, no, it's not. There's life and lucrative things on the other side of that.
But he's a hack for doing all those Madison Island movies.
Gilbert is speaking from the truest point of view of a player. What he's giving is the player perspective, which isn't invalid, but it also is not the whole picture, which is why when I see Amazon announce, hey, this is our broadcast team, Taylor Rooks, Dirk Nowitzki, Blake Griffin. Great names. Great names. All funny people. All smart people. But you need another perspective in there.
You need another perspective in there, whether it's a coach, whether it's a former front office person, whoever. Because what a lot of studio shows are doing are leaning more and more on just the players. Billy says you're applying for work.
Me. That's what it sounds like. I didn't say that. I was just talking about... It sounded like you were saying that.
But like, look, Gilbert, like I said, he's speaking from a player's perspective. Also, Gilbert knows how to put a little extra on it. Right. Paul knows how to put a little extra on it. And also Paul is dancing on the grave of for him, the organization that represents the biggest rival. Right. He when he looks across the way, it's like that's the team I really, really didn't like.
So obviously these guys are going to do their thing in terms of a little dance on the grave of or the perceived grave of the Miami Heat. But I'm with Stugatz. I don't think Gilbert Arena saying that stuff bothers Pat Riley. I think Riley laughs at that.
I think when Dan Levitard says some stuff, that's different.
And also, numerically, you've proved that Drago's fist.
Well, Dan, first and foremost, I want to let everybody know that I am using my Peloton app right here, and I'm going to be doing a morning meditation. You know what? That's not the spirit of it.
Because it's Ms.
It's Aditi Shaw. Absolutely.
Dan, the important thing to realize here for everybody who is curious about Peloton, it's not just cycling and jumping up and down.
It's also other things like meditation. So I'm going to start the meditation and I'm going to meditate.
Dan, you cannot shake me outside of my energy zone. I'm meditating right now, thinking about Will Manso and the apology he owed me.
Dan, first of all, thank you, David. That was very informative. We need more people like you speaking truth to power and not being harassed and berated by Dan Levitard. Speaking of harassed and berated by Dan Levitard, hi, my name's Amin. We haven't met yet.
deep breaths because meditation in the morning is so important especially when you're focused on demanding an apology from Will Manso two years ago Will Manso was offended when I said the Boston Celtics were a way more talented team that the Heat had to overachieve and be perfect at every part of the execution in order to win which was at the time for me a compliment to the Miami Heat and being able to
To execute, but somehow Will Manso took offense and he berated me like Dan Levitard does because he said, if they're so talented, why didn't they win? And I said, sometimes it's not just about talent to win. He's fallen asleep, David.
Dan, if it comes to angering you or angering the sponsor... I'd rather anger you.
To be fair, Dan, you kind of saved it when you compared him to Bill Walton. I think you really appreciated that. I wonder if he knows Bill Walton is no longer with us. Is that a $50 fine for David? I don't know.
No, Dan knows. Dan, you knew, right?
Okay, I'm glad. I'm trying to meditate through God. Don't break me.
Thanos killed half of all existence with a finger snap. I kind of feel like the glove was really the weapon. The Infinity Stones was the weapon.
Thanos Jenkins.
Yeah, yeah, we do have a story. When I was in Phoenix, Grant Hill had an incentive, but it wasn't a team incentive. It was a sneaker incentive. So a lot of people don't know this. The sneaker companies will often have incentives in the deals. And for Grant Hill, I think it was to average like 15 points a game or whatever it was. And he needed... 25 in the last game of the season.
And Grant, you know, Grant at this point, he's an elder statesman. He's a role player. He's averaging probably like, you know, not like just shy of 15, but it usually comes on, you know, just getting shots here and there. But we knew we got to get Grant his money. So we force fed him the ball. He shot more times in that last game than he had shot in the entire season.
He shot more free throws than he shot, I think, in his entire tenure as a Phoenix Sun. And when he hit the number, the bench went crazy, and the announcers didn't know why. The Suns bench is really up in arms over Grant Hill making that layup or making that free throw or whatever.
Yeah, Mike Tannenbaum, where did he work also? ESPN. He's just calling everybody what to work with. It's so bad. It's so lazy, man. But Dan, what you're seeing is exactly what you described earlier, which is billionaires have toys. What? You think these people are sophisticated and discerning? No, they're just like, oh, he sounds pretty smart. Get him on here. Oh, there's a carousel going.
Dan, to be fair, in every carousel, there's one that doesn't work. Yes.
Can I play devil's advocate? He stars in a lot of shitty Adam Sandler movies. It's one of the perks.
First of all, yes, it would.
Give me the budget, I swear to God.
I've got three of them ready to go right now.
Not giving it away. Not giving it away for free. Give me the Adam Sandler budget, number one. Number two. Envy? Of course. Someone hands me hundreds of millions of dollars, and all I do is invite my friends to go to Puerto Rico to have fun, and then I fart, and then I cast my wife and my kids and everything, and then they hand me more hundreds of millions of dollars. Who doesn't want that?
Of course I'm envious.
That's fair. Dunkachino. That was real. He got Al Pacino, one of the greatest actors in the history of the medium, to do a fake Dunkin' Donuts commercial where he sang and danced about the Dunkachino. Are you saying Sandler is overrated? What are you saying? He's not funny? I'm saying Dan Patrick is a hack for doing Sandler movies. Dan Hacktrick. And you know what, Dan? I've decided right now.
Riley has done a tremendous job during Jimmy Butler's tenure, but I think it's fair to look at this situation as it's blown up, knowing the risk that he took going into this season of keeping Jimmy Butler around when you knew he wanted an extension and say, hey, if you were going to play it this way, maybe you should have traded him this offseason. Maybe this, maybe that.
Playing it out this way and trying to acquire more and hoping that the season would go the right way and that him playing more games would help elevate you in the East makes sense. It was a strategy that I probably would have taken, too. I can't believe you said that about Riley. I can understand people having questions. It's okay to have questions. It's just... The criticism is so nuanced.
It's not as simple. It's not just black and white.
Jeremy, you don't have a job anymore. Sorry. That's okay. How was I the one carrying water for this organization? By the way, you guys have talked about me for the last two years.
I would have been fired for that T-Rexecutive line.
He's right, though.
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I was even-handed yesterday.
Luis Urias not striking out a lot, maybe.
In the corner and is looking at it and just is like, why is that in here?
No, you can't go one ply.
I was very disappointed by deadline day yesterday. Our last bit of news before we left here was Norv Turner as a consultant for somebody.
But as soon as we left, all of a sudden you get some movement, some legitimate movement. You get Marshawn Lattimore traded from the Saints to the Commanders. The Commanders are a buyer here because they're 7-2 for the first time this century.
Ja.
Ich bin auf ihre Chancen schuldig. Wow. Was war der Nummer 1-Movement von gestern?
Wow.
The Bengals traditionally are a mom and pop shop run on coupons. One of the rare, cheap NFL teams. You do not find a lot of those. I want to ask you guys what you made, because when we were on yesterday, you guys were telling me that the Cowboys were sellers because they got Jonathan Mingo for a fourth round pick.
Can any of you explain to me why Mike Williams goes for a fifth and DeAndre Hopkins goes for a fifth and Jonathan Mingo goes for a fourth? Like, is that just Jerry Jones being Jerry Jones?
Amin came in here today on a red eye and didn't learn until minutes ago the result of the election. Came in purposely, didn't have his phone. And he had a sense from the general somber around here of what happened, but didn't actually know until seconds ago.
You understand? He's back to Tony Martin. He loves that move. David Boston, Tony Martin, he's been doing this in this market for 30 years.
Of course he's right. Nothing truer has ever been spoken on this show than what Mike Ryan just said. Greg Cody has saved in his computer, a computer that used to use couplers, saved the column where he just leaves open the name of receiver who was good three and a half years ago. Dolphins, go get him. He's been writing that column in this market forever. My entire life.
Ich sage nur, dass er immer für den Hälften, der drei und eine halbe Jahre her war, gut war. Tony Martin ist der größte Beispiel. Es gibt keinen größeren Beispiel, als dass Tony Martin den Lid aus deiner Defense mit tiefen Routen auslösen wird. Er hat es nie zu Ende gemacht. Nein, das ist nicht wahr.
He would have been the Super Bowl MVP if he had not gotten hurt.
Er wollte alle anderen Nr. 1s, die drei Jahre vor ihrem Primum waren. Odell Beckham kam nicht hier als Nr. 1, also wird er eine Column schreiben, eine Throwaway-Column auf deinem Nr. 3-Rechner. Aber wenn es eine Nr. 1 gibt, wenn DeAndre Hopkins drei Jahre nach jetzt gibt, Greg Cody wird für ihn in einem Dolphin-Uniformen antworten.
How many touchdowns?
Let's move on. There's nothing else to talk about. But David Boston.
I know what you were doing. Donovan Mitchell?
Notorious B.I.G., does Donovan Mitchell count? Because Mitchell's not really a first name. Mitch is, but there aren't a lot of Mitchells. It's the long version.
Paul George. Steve Martin doesn't work.
Tony ist ein populärer Name. Nicht populär. Es ist mit einem E. Unpopulär. Ich möchte auf die wichtige Geschichte des Tages kommen, die ich gestern nicht bekommen habe. Es war als Teil der Promotion für den Greg Cody Show, die Greg Cody veröffentlicht wurde. There has been a bathroom incident in the Cody household. And the backstory I want is this.
You brought Erlene, your wife, onto the podcast thinking what would happen. And give me the context I need to have for how shocked your father ended up being, Chris, by the fact that Erlene came on. Und sie hat Sachen dem Publikum gezeigt, die dein Vater, glaube ich, als sie es gesagt hat, gelernt hat.
Und er war ermordet, dass er im Publikum herausgefunden hat, dass seine Schwester weiß, dass er furchtbar ist.
But what was she brought on for? Give us the backstory on how it is that Earlene is summoned to be the arbiter on the podcast.
Also bringst du sie auf, um zu diskutieren, was du nennst, was ein kleiner Schlafzimmer-Verlust.
Ich kann nicht glauben, dass ich das Wheelhouse zu Amine geöffnet habe. Er flog in eine Rette. Ich kann nicht warten. Wir können darüber reden. Hooray!
People have been saying around here that everything has gotten shitty and this is the lowest rung. I used to think that the lowest rung on the televised ladder was Flavor Flavs reality show when a woman shit on the steps. It is no longer the lowest rung in the history of American television. We've arrived at it today. After that election, look at where we... Splash.
It's disgusting and you've got to do better than that. And once there's a plop situation, you're responsible for all consequences after that.
Das ist nicht das Schlimmste in ihrer Beziehung. Es ist nur ein Pile von anderen schmutzigen, dünnen Dingen. Es ist nicht das Schlimmste, es sind nur tausende solcher Dinge.
I don't think that's the right use of Finders Keepers. If I am to discuss what people are here today for, because they want liberal tears, and in some ways I do weep for my country liberally, I do want to sort of talk a little bit about what many of you woke up to this morning or went to bed with last night, where
America has spoken and America has spoken resoundingly that what they want representing our country in office is that, is everything that represents, whether you want to say hate wins or whether you want to say the white man's got a dynasty. Und es gab diese eine Verletzung, die Washington Generals, Barack Obama hat sie einmal aufgenommen, aber sie sind die Harlem Globetrotters.
Sie geben nicht die Macht auf. Und es ist eine Dynastie, die in Kraft bleiben wird, zumindest vier Jahre mehr, weil Menschen gesprochen haben und Männer gesprochen haben. Ihr werdet diese Macht nicht von uns nehmen. Wir werden das Körper der Frau übernehmen. and will be a threat to minorities and others.
And one of the reasons that it's such a difficult day for me is because, and people like me who are losers today, is that if I view that as a threat and then you view that as your preference, You become a threat. Like that's the America that I live in and I didn't think it was the America that I lived in. And it's naive.
One of the things that is happening here, because I am obviously heartbroken, sad, angry... Greg Cody ist hierhergekommen ohne Schlaf. Und das verspricht einen guten Show. Greg Cody hat die ganze Nacht aufgewacht. Er und seine Frau haben die ganze Nacht aufgewacht. Chris, offiziell, deine Eltern sind Großeltern, die auf der TV wandern, über die Zukunft von Amerika.
I can be shell-shocked today and not surprised at all because we had eight years of warning that this was coming, that America would speak. I just didn't expect it to be this resounding. I was surprised that it was close at all, the way that I view something as a threat to freedom. It seems obvious to me. Was Amerika heute entschieden hat, ist, es ist okay mit einem König.
Es ist okay mit einem religiösen König, egal was er in der Bibel verpackt hat, als ein Vergewaltiger, der kriminell, immoral ist, der nahe Jeffrey Epstein ist, der kreditabhängige Angelegenheiten von mehr als 20 Frauen hat, der Rassist und Rassistin ist und es nicht wie andere mag, das gewinnt heute.
I can't help but feel like I will keep fighting for these things, even if they lose and even if it becomes more threatening now in America than it was yesterday, that you are a voice for these things that is appalled by what it is that was just elected into office.
I'm also just as concerned, if not more so, about J.D. Vance being able to pull all the levers once they get, and having 10 years in office, because this might not get to 80. I can't believe that the Plan 1 of how do I stay out of jail, I have to try and topple over the way that democracy works.
And I feel surrounded, not just in this America, but particularly in this Florida and particularly in this Miami.
I'm just saying that he could go for 10 years because he could grab two years of this term and then just keep going. Like the thing that, I mean, Trump at 82 running for re-election when already what you got at the end here sounded between dementia and deranged. Like it felt like it was falling apart and that's what we're letting into office now.
It feels like we're going to have about four years of mental health skills deteriorating in office between the last two we've had and the next two we're about to have.
Apparently though the bodies of women weren't on the top priority of one vote voters or one issue voters where you look at economy and deportation as being higher than that. And so men stay in power and you will see the Dana Whites of the world and the Elon Musks of the world continue to get rewarded for four years. I don't know.
Und sie sind völlig richtig, sich fürchtet.
Wenn ihr diesen Show gehört habt, wisst ihr, wie man die Angst verhindern kann. Das eine Positive, das man heute sagen kann, ist, dass das, was da passiert ist, das Einzige war, was da passieren könnte, was nicht zu Gewalt führen würde.
I'm saying that this, like I was concerned about violence today, but this, like America spoken, this is not unclear. Like this, it was not close. Like I was surprised that polling had it close because look at what a white man in a suit has to be as a personality to be even to a black woman. Look at what has to be the disparity for them to be even.
I was surprised that that was even, but it ain't even even. America Spoken, America thinks, and it's across the board, it's not just men, although they stay in power, it's across the board, it's my people, it's Latinos, it's everybody saying, no, Trump, we want King Trump.
I'm hearing more criticism of Kornacki here than I have anywhere in the American media in the history of Steve Kornacki.
Both of you are down on... You're both down on old Steve.
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
Is your dad right about him when he says he's talking too much? Because that's not something I've ever heard as a criticism.
How is that dropping a name? They have this big sound.
Again, two that kind of things on just nonsense. Look, he hasn't slept. This promises to be a great one. I'm telling you that we have the possibility. A scared, sleepless Greg Cody is going to be walking into the walls. He's already given us two bored that kind of things.
You're projecting projection.
I feel like that's what we did yesterday with this exchange. Norv Turner zurück als Konsultant. Ich glaube, das ist es, was wir gemacht haben. Wir hatten den riesigen Geräusch von Projekten. Das war große Neuigkeiten. Hier ist große Neuigkeiten. Norv Turner zurück als Konsultant.
He's dropping names. He gets MSNBC.
I couldn't believe that in the eating area this morning you and Taylor cornered Rose and just buried her in hot stove talk. She had no interest in anything you guys were talking about.
I couldn't believe how much interest Billy had in the hot stove talk.
Das ist wahr.
Billy stomped out of the eating area yelling about you don't want Joey Wendell. The part that I'm confused by this morning is that I came in here today and I think... That if I were to either televise or broadcast in any way the Taylor and Billy Sports Show, that people would love it. That it got so deep into the Big Ten and the hot stove that I couldn't believe... You gotta put Indiana higher.
I couldn't believe the level of interest in sports in the eating area this morning.
I'm trying. You're basically a baseball elder at this point.
I am truly, truly... Shellshocked. You can't let Sabonis get an offensive rebound in that spot. Not with under a second left in the game. We didn't get to this somehow yesterday. We got a sleepless Greg Cody in with us. He doesn't understand why we've got toilet paper stacked up in the corner of the room. He didn't get the joke. He comes in, sees, you know, dozens of toilet paper rolls, one ply.
Things are cooking. I think that's why it's called.
You get MSNBC, too? No. Greg Cody, not to name drop, but he was watching MSNBC last night.
Did I? It's a boot. It's not just that you didn't retain anything you were saying.
Und es war auch warm. Es war kalt und es hat sie warm gehalten während einer schwierigen Zeit. Wie ist das? Darf ich nur fragen, denn ich bin hier verurteilt. Ich habe viele Boxscores gesehen. Ich habe dieses Jahr nicht viel Indiana-Football gesehen. Aber weil ich diese Boxscores gesehen habe, wundere ich mich. Sie geben dieser Mannschaft keine Chance gegen die Penn-State der Welt.
Wir bezeichnen Ohio State als eine andere Art von Tier. Aber glaubt ihr nicht, dass Indiana einer der legitimen Top-Teams in der Stadt sein könnte, basierend auf dem, was ihr gesehen habt? Sie haben nicht durch ihre ersten acht Spiele gefahren. Ich weiß, dass der Zeitraum nicht sehr stark ist. Und dann, als sie ab 10 Uhr am Donnerstag runtergingen, haben sie 50 Spiele gewonnen.
Worüber redest du, Billy? Ja.
Sie schießen jedes Spiel 50, egal, wer sie spielen. Es ist egal, wer ihr Verteidiger ist.
Okay, that's strange. I mean, they're about the same, I would say.
I'm four episodes in and I'm loving it so far so be careful with the spoilers, but I will say my one critique without This is no spoiler The time hops like we gotcha. It's just like oh my relationship with my father cut to no no seven years earlier We're here. We're gonna show you in one scene how I encapsulate my entire relationship with my father Oh, you should see my kids cut to seven years.
It's just like we gotcha and You can do time hops.
Isn't that how every show gets started?
Like with a pitch to a lead actor? Hey, I wrote this. No, man. No? How is every show pitched ever to an actor? I don't mean to undercut what you're doing, but it just seems like a pretty standard process.
Uh-oh. Hanging on every word. Yeah. You got to...
When I ask my wife to go on a date, she goes, but your parents watched her last weekend. What, am I going to ask my parents again for the third weekend in a row? I can't just be asking. We can't ask everyone every weekend, and then I get an earful. That's why I'm just like, okay, sorry.
It's not my computer.
It's brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Jeremy, take it over.
What?
Oh, yeah.
Hey friends, it's JerBear here, and I'm here to tell you all about Boost Mobile, which is now a legit nationwide 5G network. So I must take a break from the jokes here for a second and put on my serious voice.
One more time with you, Tony. Can we just be honest? Just one last time here. Just like Jessica, like I grew up watching this show. The first time I ever thought about, hey, sports TV seems like it would be something fun is when I was like 10 years old and my mom turned to me and said, who's that guy? You should try to do that. And it was you watching around the horn. That's great.
And I watched religiously all the time. Oh, lights out.
We're being assaulted by light. It literally looks like the heavens are projecting on us right now.
That was terrifying. But all that said, Tony, like... Even God was like, enough, Jeremy. All right. Fair enough. I was just going to say, you know what? I'm going to power through. Nonetheless, Tony, you were an inspiration to so many different people, including myself. And I was lucky enough to intern with your show and learn so much from the way that you treated people on the staff.
It created an environment that I wanted to continue to be a part of. It's why I aspired to be a part of a show like this, because I knew that Dan had learned so much from the offices that you were a part of in D.C., And learning from all of the folks who you mentioned before and Josh and Jeff and interning with Caroline. These are amazing people who do amazing work.
Thank you so much for being an inspiration for me and I know so many other young people.
It was the best thing in the world, you guys. It was a buy and sell on every intern. And they would do buy or sell.
It's one of the most special moments I'll ever experience.
I do. I still have it. I can find it somewhere.
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Well, that was kind of part of my question was what are you pardoning him from? Is it the potential child sex crimes that have been reported? Because that no, that's the thing here. Like we we as a show, we're all sort of gung ho about like, you know what? Here's another thing to agree with Donald Trump about. Let's get Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame. That guy sucks. He's a terrible human being.
Was. Who passed. He was. He's dead. And I don't know why we have to relitigate it now as if this is some big culture war that we need to get to. Oh, no. Pete Rose is injustice. I wonder why Donald Trump thinks that a guy like Pete Rose, who served time for tax evasion, needs to be thrown back into the public sphere as some hero and have his reputation brought back into everything.
It's crazy because John Dowd is the guy who reported all of this about Pete Rose. Former guy from MVP Baseball 2005. Yeah, that John Dowd. No, John Dowd, the lawyer, was the one who went after him. And if you think if you think for some reason that the only reason I'm going after Pete Rose is because of a relationship with Donald Trump.
Well, let me tell you, John Dowd is the lawyer who defended Donald Trump in the Russia probe from 2017 to 18. And I shit you not, the other lawyer that he decided to bring on was a guy named Ty Cobb. More baseball for you. Pretty unbelievable. Yeah, John Dowd hired Ty Cobb to defend Donald Trump. Not that Ty Cobb. A different lawyer.
It's just unbelievable that we would even spend any amount of time arguing that Pete Rose, that guy, deserves an opportunity to go to the Hall of Fame. What is the thing about character? They even talk about it. What are we doing?
Good.
I agree with you, David. There's already plenty of reason to keep him out. And then there's also all of that horrible shit about him as a human being.
But it has everything to do with it, right? Because if reputationally we're talking about pardoning this man for all of the things that we're having this negative skew about him publicly for, it's important to have the whole context of the man who is no longer here. I just don't understand the reasoning behind it.
That's right. Look, he already served his time for the federal crimes. So my question was like, what are we really pardoning for? And that was a sarcastic question. But Jeremy, pardons happen all the time.
And my question would be, is why are we doing that for Pete Rose? What does that have to do with anything or anyone? And why are we calling for MLB to get off their, quote, fat, lazy ass and do something about it? It's insane, David. We don't have to disagree. We agree on this, right? This isn't that crazy what I'm saying.
It's not that crazy to say we shouldn't agree with Trump on pardoning Pete Rose because that guy sucks. What's so complicated?
I'm allowed to not like Pete Rose and think he should be pardoned for those crimes.
Well, not on college campuses because they're going to pull off federal funding if you protest on a college campus. Anyway, Dan, back to you. Thank you, guys. Jeremy.
They're in a real relationship. She's French from Canada.
Just women. I just watched it happen to people in my family. Also, what?
That too. Yeah, that was Dan. That's one we can get into later if you'd like, Dan. Because that was f***ing crazy. Jeremy's right.
But those are friends since seemingly it looks like middle school, high school age. They've grown up together. They've gone on to live their own individual wealthy lives. And maybe the last time they got together five, six years ago, things were a little different.
Let's make it abundantly clear, not my dark report, just my fear. There's time. Four minutes still.
I think celebrating your love is beautiful, Dan, but you don't really want me on your side.
Terrible train track. The question was, Dan, if you had to choose, which one's got to go? Pat Riley or Jimmy Johnson? Oh!
He did say he loves his cookies and ice cream.
I think he confused the cookies and the ice cream, right? This is a clear case of just forgetting which dessert that LeBron loved that was actually confiscated. The story remains the same. The heat micromanaging LeBron James. But at the end of the day, there's a difference between cookies and ice cream. Can we eradicate at the end of the day around here?
Look, at the end of the day, sometimes you need filler words.
So the extra detail isn't just, hey, the story didn't happen. It's, and if the story happened, it couldn't have been cookies. It would have had to be.
No, I mean, it would be cool watching Jimmy get to play 30 games and then go on another 30-game run. This is the perfect thing to get the maximum Jimmy Butler.
What heat news?
Box score-wise, I'll tell you, Dan, to support your theory on Luka's dominance, Lakers have a pretty storied history. A lot of players, done a lot of things. He's the first Lakers player ever to, in one game, score 30-plus points, dish out 15-plus assists, grab 5-plus rebounds, make 5-plus threes, and be plus 30 or better in the same game. Ever. In the history of the Lakers.
Today old news. Sorry, Ron. But thank you. Keep doing the work of God. We need it. Ron, thank you so much, as always.
Because he's so tall or because he knows so much? Both. He's that kind of presence. He looked a little like Scarface though today. He doesn't usually dress that way.
Isn't there a hierarchy of who you're going to meet with and how you dress? If you were with the senator, I would think that he'd go button up and maybe in tie. If you go meet the president, you definitely wear a cravat. And if you meet like someone just in the city council, you can do a collared shirt with no jacket. I think that there's a hierarchy for dress code with who you're meeting.
What is the lowest rank of person that would make you wear a tie? So I don't wear ties anymore. So I don't wear them to funerals. I don't wear them to weddings. Yeah, I do not wear ties. This is also post-divorce. No, it's post-Wall Street. I moved to Florida and I changed the dress code with the Marlins. Really? I made everyone go and wear ties every day.
And someone said to me, you're going to live here.
Close.
Logan Morrison was like, that's bullshit. I wanted there to be a level of professionalism with all of our employees. And they said in Florida, here's the problem. I was coming from Montreal and New York. They said, your first summer, it's not going to last for a week with you wearing a tie. And I didn't know. I'd never been here during the summer. And I changed the dress code, summer number one.
That was me trying to bring Wall Street to baseball. That was you cosplaying as the New York Yankees.
No, it was not, actually. I mean, I like where you're trying to be funny, but no, it wasn't that.
College shirts, standard issue. Were you forced to pay for your college shirts? Hell no, man. They gave them to you free?
If we gave you free Levitard merch from levitardaf.com, would you wear it every day on the show? Absolutely. If we had the uniform, that it would be Levitard, different merch from the merch store.
No, but I'm asking for this show. Yeah. Would you wear, if we had a dress code. Would the shirts be made by Robert Graham? No, they'd be available on levitardaf.com, Pablo.
No, but you'd get to choose. It would be issued by the company, and you would get to choose anything on the website.
I just got a t-shirt. I'd like to think about that because I'd like to do more promotion, not just during the video breaks. I'd like us to wear what we want our audience to wear.
No, I agree. But as we're looking toward the future, we're trying to think of new things, new ways to promote what we're doing. And I agree that I said that to you. And I don't want to apologize. I want to say that I've evolved. And I'm looking at evolution accepted.
I appreciate it. Listen, I'm not perfect. I was not perfect in my last life. I'm not perfect right now in what I'm doing. I'm trying to be better. I'm trying to help the company.
Have you ever been to an NBA game? Have you looked at the bench of an NBA game recently?
Armani. I don't feel I don't. I dress nicely for every show when I'm in New York. I wear a blazer and shirt for every nothing. And shorts. And for every levitard.
You do see what I am every Wednesday. I'm in a blazer.
What are they?
They're thongs. I call them thongs.
And for those of you who are not watching on the Dan Levitard and Friends Network, Ron does not have enough wall space. It is quite clear from the shot that there are pieces of art that are strewn on the floor, leaning against curtains, which you shouldn't do with art, maybe against a fireplace, Ron. I'm very concerned.
You can't meet with non-decision makers. There you go. It's a big mistake that people make. If you have a decision maker against a non-decision maker, you have a waste of time.
It wasn't Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. But anyway, keep going. And so the meeting begins, Amin.
Maybe Seth was there.
And that is an incredible thing. I've seen that a million times. Have you guys not? When you're in sales, I got resumes sent to me many times saying it is really be my honor to work for the Rangers.
Because it's someone who forgot to.
Immediately. Any spelling mistake, put a P in my name.
Joke's on me, I guess. No, the joke's on him for calling you 10 years too early and not getting a job. The reason why he went to Under Armour has nothing to do with Kevin Durant, the misname or the mispronunciation or the fact that it was Nico instead of Phil Knight. It's simply what Under Armour was doing back then is they were doing irresponsible deals.
And startup companies and one did this a bunch of times. There's a bunch of companies. Oh, and one.
So that, to me, is what I wanted to mention, is that you can get all the players and get all the excitement and have the great press conferences, but if you speak to Kevin Plank or others who own Under Armour stock, they're despondent beyond repair. Well, yeah, if you look at the curve, 2021 peak, and then it's been a lot of value. And that's four years later.
And the market has been going up, up, up until the tariffs and well, till the tariffs started and then disappeared and the market rebounded, which is ripe for insider information. But
You've got to buy the dips. When they dip because of something Trump does, you buy that dip. Buy, buy, buy, because he's just making it up as he goes along.
This is not legal advice. This is not investment advice, obviously. But, Jessica, you can't think that when you're doing something that this is it.
It's the start of the WNBA season. All-Star weekend of what, the NBA?
Oh, I think it's based on the WNBA season.
Is the BAM stuff because of the shoe? What do you mean?
Bam cam, thank you ma'am, absolutely. So excuse me, they've been dating a long time, this was not news? The rumor had been out? Well, this is the whole thing, the degrees of launch. Is she launching it coincidentally with the shoe and with the announcement of the shoe? Well, that's what everyone was saying, that Bam needs to wear the shoe now, right? This is what I was trying to ascertain.
Because that would be a PR strategy, a business strategy to have the shoe announced, to have the relationship announced, to have Bam wear the shoe. It would be a...
Ron, I feel like respect would have been one more button higher to the chain. Maybe just one more.
I'm saying the mayor. The mayor. For Senator, you are a tie. You just made Ron McGill cover up the chain. No, he's not with the mayor anymore. He's with us. You should be unbuttoning buttons.
Do you say to your kid when you're bringing the kid to the game, cut, cut. to meet, photo, photo. Are you directing everything?
That's an outrage. Whatever just happened.
But do you have to be dead or decaying? Or is there a risk if I go on the balcony that the vulture will just take me?
He doesn't know who that is.
He has no idea who David Cassidy is. Ron, he didn't know who David Cassidy was.
Those pukas were so big.
Ron, I've been waiting for this moment and I'm going to ask you the most important question because it's a Bubba Meister, I think. The white that we see on the balcony from the vultures or bird poop that gets in your hair or on your clothes, I thought it was urine, not poop. You're right.
Happy birthday to him. I don't care.
I mean, a compliment truly from Ron McGill, of course. I'm super despondent that Ethan doesn't know who David Cassidy is because he doesn't understand the level of compliments.
Hawkeye is a character he played, not his nickname.
You had never heard of Hawkeye? I've never seen MASH. You've never watched MASH? Have you heard of the book, The Last of the Mohicans? I have. The character, name in the book? I'm going to guess it's Hawkeye. I'm going to guess you haven't read it. It's all good. Okay. We're all good here. There's nothing to see here.
Suicide is Painless.
Nope. It's David. There's also a Sean Cassidy who played the Hardy Boy. He was handsome too. Very handsome.
People would have felt that way about if he traded him for Luka Doncic. Like, that's the error that Wemby is in at the moment, considering his age and impact on the team.
This leads perfectly into my favorite conspiracy theory that I have seen about all of this, which you guys will enjoy because it involves ownership and manipulating politicians. So the theory that I believe stemmed from a Facebook post. is that, that's where it starts. I'm couching it with that from the beginning. All good theories begin with a Facebook post.
Is that the ownership group for the Mavericks wants to have gambling legal in Texas. And in turn, they want to use the threat of moving the Mavericks to Vegas to influence the state legislature to pass legalized gambling in the state of Texas. And the only way that by 2026... they could logically threaten to move to Vegas is if they get the NBA to approve it.
If they're a thriving franchise with a young superstar in Dallas, the NBA would never approve the Dallas Mavericks moving to Vegas. But if by then, this core group has come and gone... and Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving hasn't worked out, they can sell off the team, hit rock bottom, and potentially threaten to move to Vegas. And this is a perfect time for Amin to arrive.
Yeah, some of the latest reporting is insinuating that there could be a three-team deal between the Heat, the Warriors, and the Suns that lands Jimmy Butler in Phoenix and Kevin Durant back with the Golden State Warriors. I'm intrigued to see... How and why the Suns would make that move given the circumstances?
To me, the only logical explanation for moving Durant and bringing in Butler is if Booker genuinely wants to stick around for the long term and you're trying to extend a window with another competitive veteran wing. But you're a bad team right now if you're Phoenix. So acquiring Jimmy to then extend him given the timelines it might not make sense.
They might even be welcoming him in with the idea of clearing out cap space in the offseason and tearing the whole thing down.
I believe the Heat would be landing a combination of Andrew Wiggins and Picks and other salary fillers. Yeah, that's what I had heard from my guy.
100%.
Also, I don't care about watching him. I'll watch the highlight package. They're going to have a bye the first week of the playoffs. That's absurd. They might not.
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He wants Greer out, too.
He hates Greer. I get a nice little 10-second show every day. I walk by, a little fist bump. We all do.
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Inward? I thought he was going to say a star. Careful, Jeremy.
I love how everyone has their moment of the score they checked in on. Because I had one. I checked in. It was like 66 to 22 or something like that. I'm just like, this is an insane game.
I'm pretty good at this. That's a cookie he's eating. Yeah, I can tell.
Have you ever had a moment like that where you actually said to yourself early in your career where you said, I don't know this for me?
It's insulting.
Fights over at that point, right? Like whoever wins the genital biting contest, it's done, right? Oh yeah, no, it's over.
What if the raise was dependent on having another kid? You have another kid. You then get a raise.
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Well, what is he not allowed to say what he saw?
Why can't he describe what he saw?
Am I ignorant in not knowing the scandal surrounding the Prince documentary? Like, we all know the Michael Jackson stuff without actually watching a documentary. Am I ignorant in not knowing?
Yeah, like I'm watching the show the other night, we're there, and it bothers me that there is a young audience, maybe the age of some of you guys there in the shipping container, who may not understand how ridiculous this guy was. And even amidst all of the allegations,
Yeah, you almost don't know how to feel while I'm sitting in there enjoying it and like really loving this recreation of his music. And then there's the other part where it's like, all right, is it okay that I'm enjoying this this much?
Okay, but again, cowardice. Like, have you said this to him? Well, we just did.
What's Wild Willie Wednesdays? Yeah, who the f***?
Exactly. I think it's a new thing for your show, where you just shit on the person who's not here. That's what we do every time. It's not a new thing. It's every day.
The things I have heard about myself.
Well, I feel like we can move on. Zaslow, what other weird things do you do?
Everybody's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Are we making this because Kim Mulkey is Kim Mulkey?
Seriously, you're going to make this political right now?
I don't know. You just did it. None of us did it. We were having a good time laughing at you, and then you made it political. I mean, whatever, man. It's fine. But, like, it's just a video. It's okay. We were all laughing.
Are you ready, Dan?
Then we should wait for Dan. We can do a next segment. Well, he left, so we're here now.
No, Dan, we are not talking about the OG mall or OG Ananobi. We're talking about Jimmy Butler here outside the Kaseya Center with Metal Ark Media. I'm Jeremy Tasche and we need to be focusing on the details of this experience. What color will Jimmy Butler's hair be? What color will his shoes be? How petty will he be during the video presentation tonight? Not at the Kaseya Center.
That's not how you Kaseya it. It's the Kaseya Center here in downtown Miami reporting live for
Yes, Dan, we are looking forward to not only Miami Heat basketball tonight, but a spring training game between the Marlins and the Yankees at Lone Depot Park. You can expect to see the likes of Nick Fortes, Matt Mervis, and Eric Wagaman in the heart of the order for the Miami Marlins, reporting live from outside the Kaseya Center, Jeremy Taché, Metal Ark Media.
The final heat report is that Jessica's heat stroke will have to continue, as we will, without a doubt, continue to discuss this Miami Heat team, no matter who is on the roster. Whether it's Matt Mervis, Xavier Edwards, Otto Lopez, or Eric Wagaman, we will see an especially strong Heat team tonight because, Dan, as many former players say, that is how the cookie crumbles.
Reporting live from outside the Kaseya Center, I'm Jeremy Tasche.
Dan, we wanted to be the very first ones on this story as the energy gathers here outside the Kaseya Center. We have Dwayne Wade over my right shoulder, but we know that Jimmy Butler will be looking over both shoulders as the Heat approach him tonight. Jeremy Tasche, Metal Ark Media, here outside the Kaseya Center.
There is indeed a reflection off the building across the street. The voice, too. I don't like it. What, the sing-songy broadcaster voice? Yeah, keep that for your paid stuff.
I am selling grilled cheese. Is that what you said out here, Dan? Grilled cheese? No, they don't sell grilled cheese at Big Face Coffee, but they do sell $50 cups of coffee unless you're a Golden State Warriors employee, in which case that will cost you $30. $30. That's the latest report from Jimmy Butler and his camp here outside the Kaseya Center. Jeremy Taché, Metal Ark Media.
I mean, the energy is palpable, Dan. I've got Trevor from Georgia here with me. Now, Trevor was a fan of the Miami Heat because of Jimmy Butler. So, Trevor, what are your thoughts on Jimmy Butler's return to the Kaseya Center?
We're not going to talk about that any longer. All right, very good. No more conversation of that. Good report. We're calling it the butt-lar-mageddon.
From here outside the Kaseya Center, Jeremy Taché, Metal Ark Media.
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Oh, it's sad, but it's true, honey.
Oh, they're coming into view.
I'm Greg Cody and that's how it was back in my day. He's right.
I'm Greg Cody and that's how it was back in my day.
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Liebe, schau auf die beiden von uns.
Sie haben mich mehr wie ein Hee behandelt, aber ich bin ein Ha.
Und Greg. Franky Valley in den vier Saisons, da sind nur vier Mitglieder da. Franky Valley ist einer der vier Saisons. Greg Cody ist einer der HeHaw3. Und sie haben uns gefolgt.
You have to. Well, Yeti... Yeah, Yeti was also being a bit protective. And by the way, didn't invite me to leave the bar to protect my vocal cords.
This is one of my favorite things I've ever witnessed was Chris Du hast ihn alleine verlassen? Einen sehr tranken Greg Cody. Das ist auch in Teilen, weil wir vergessen haben.
Ja, aber wir haben auch vergessen, unsere Taschen zu beobachten. Also mussten wir zurückgehen und unsere Taschen beobachten. Also mussten wir zurückgehen und die andere Seite der Tür verlassen und einen tranken Greg Cody auf seiner eigenen Seite verlassen. Er hat gesagt, als wir endlich da waren, um ihn zu finden, dass er jemanden anrufen wollte. Er hat vergessen, wo wir gingen.
That's because he's the biggest star.
Ich bin überzeugt, dass er so ein Fan des Shows war, dass er die Wörter-Kombos, die Chris macht, kennt. Und er dachte, Greg Cody und der Goat, also Greg Coates.
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Greg, für mich, um kurz zurückzukommen, war es ein wirklich cooler Moment, dich hier zu sehen, weil ich natürlich jemand bin, der Theater liebt und performt und versucht hat, die Wahl zu machen. zwischen Performing und Sportmedia.
Und ich weiß, für dich, als jemand, der Sportkolumnist war, um jetzt diesen Traum von Performing in Vegas zu haben, musste es so emotional sein, weil es mich so emotional machte, dich als jemand vor mir zu sehen.
Yeah, let's make it clear, not performing for Wu-Tang, we are now members of Wu-Tang, Dan.
Mathematics ist kein Mitglied von Wu-Tang? Das passt nicht. Ich bin ein Mitglied von Wu-Tang, weil wir eine ziemlich tolle Tribute gespielt haben.
Look, Hee Haw 3 is a raging sensation right now. Bis zu fast 400 Follower auf Twitter, Dan. Ich meine, komm schon. An diesem Punkt sind wir eine starke Gruppe, die definitiv nicht auf einen Break-Up geht.
Nein, das ist es. Wir haben bereits Kämpfe über Merch. Das passiert bereits. It's going to be interesting to see how these egos play out. Look, we're members of Wu-Tang now. After our tribute to them where Greg Cody sang the words, oh baby, I like it raw, they officially welcomed us into the group.
I kind of felt like they weren't. No, they stopped the interview to say, hey, Wir haben es bereits gemacht.
I don't know if that's something we're supposed to bring out on air. Look, I'm a happy employee of Metal Ark Media. I don't know what the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody is doing in regard to the Hee Haw 3, but that's a Yeti Blanc and Greg Cody issue.
I mean, I did the work. I got the Emmy. My name's on it. It's not a fake name. It's my name. Emmy Award winner, Jeremy Taschen. Look it right in the camera.
I mean, I didn't go on stage to win my Emmy. They gave it to me because I didn't attend the Suncoast Emmys, unfortunately. I believe I was doing work for this company at the time. Editing. Editing. Editing things. But at the same time, I would say being on stage in Vegas performing, introduced by Flavor Flav.
Wu-Tang-Klan nach einer Performance zu haben, das war eine der coolsten Erfahrungen meines gesamten Lebens. Dank dem Mann, der gerade mit seinen Sonnenblasen da ist, Greg Cody von Hee-Haw 3!
As he had to do in the airport because of how drunk he was. Just gently. Career hospice? His career is just taking off.
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Kennt ihr auch diesen einen Freund, der morgens einfach so ruckzuck aus dem Bett und danach aus dem Grinsen gar nicht mehr rauskommt? Der sogar noch vor dem ersten Kaffee unverschämt gut gelaunt ist und mit der Morgensonne um die Wette strahlt? Furchtbar. Ekelhaft.
Not even once. Not even if Mr. Boost Mobile himself asked me to. There is nothing funny about it.
That can mess with some people. So Creighton making a fun little run as a nine seed is where if you want to get kooky and knock off a one seed in the second round, that might be the way to do it.
I'm going to take my sweater off. But Jimmy John's cookies are actually really delicious.
I love Jimmy John's.
Jeremy, how's your final four looking? I have three one seeds, I believe. I know the big upset that I have early, like when you're looking for what's going to change. In the, which side of the bracket is this? I'm not entirely sure. Oh, it's the south. So Auburn is the one seed in the south. And they've lost three out of their last four games going into March Madness. Creighton.
is a nine seed so they would play auburn in the second round creighton has a seven foot one center named ryan cockbrenner love him who is a four-time big east defensive player of the year i believe patrick ewing is the other player to have done that four times so you got a senior seven foot one center who can really disrupt things defensively to me that's the perfect type of team to look at and go
And how did that play out based on the results? Because the Heat, Tracy Morgan last night.
So as an unbiased member of the media, would you say it's coaching is to blame, or is it roster construction, lack of talent? As someone who's just fairly judging the teams and their failures, what would you say is the reason, and how do you fix that?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stukas Podcast.
They have a nice rainforest there. Where, Nevis? No, I'm saying Kits.
Yeah, you get Zip's line. It's fun.
Okay, great.
No, it's not a carpenter over here. He doesn't know. There's brackets aplenty. Yeah, there really are. You can do brackets for days. Give another bracket. Give another teaser.
Who books the guests, Christopher or Yeti? Both.
If there was budget cuts and you had to choose one, Christopher or Yeti, in terms of who is more responsible for the... putting out of the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody.
Who would you choose?
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I guess you can't put my Vick in a box.
You better watch out. You better just slide. You better not tackle. I think you might die. Sue, will you please get down? Two, will you please get down Two, will you please just get down Alright, that's enough of that.
Jesus Christ, Sue, will you please get down?
He's the best we've ever seen. Toad, get down! For six and eight! Like, okay, so you can be in the mix with the Colts! Get down! It's your brain! Not head first! Signed! It's Christmas! Christmas in the hospital is shitty! Get down! Get down! I'm worried about your brain! Get down!
You know, Brianna chicken fry sleeping over on a Friday grace had made her cry and her friendship's gone
Well they was raised up beneath the shade of the Boston Garden And well besties so Brianna's on TikTok creating a following And then a barstool show She's dating Zach Bryan now Grace is out But there's no love lost between Grace and Brianna now Cause you know Brianna chicken fry Sleeping over on a Friday night All right, I don't like what Jeremy and Lucy are doing to the show.
I'll be a Homer for Christmas Voting for the Heisman Trophy Oh, this is about me. He sings about me here.
Give Kim Ward every award Even if he should definitely have just finished number three
I'll be a homer for Christmas. Enough. Voting for the Heisman Trophy.
Give Kim one Every award Even if he should definitely have just finished number three
I just really wanted to know what he thought about the Heat and Bulls.
Too soon?
Yeah, does he get two rackets or is it just him on his own? Like, can he hit with both hands? I think one racket. It'd be confusing for two.
I don't know. Just for the extra reach. If you're playing two on one, get him an extra racket. I mean, they have two. Why not? Yeah, they have two rackets. He should get two rackets if he wants it.
When you're talking about how busy things are, are you talking about the Marlins?
Yeah, he did.
Give him his credit where it's due. I mean, that's all Mike.
The buttons are not in the right places.
Yeah. Are they not a little more depressing than motivating, though? Because every time I look at the shirts that I have where I'm like, oh, I'm going to get back into that someday, the more time that passes without getting back into it, the more I realize it's not going to happen. There's a sadness in how many shirts are getting into that pile.
Yeah, Dan, you mentioned on the show yesterday how good the Pacers have been. And I think it's gone under the radar because they made a run last year. And when they started slow, everybody sort of wrote them off. But in 2024, so like before the turn of the new year, they were 16 and 18. They were 10th in offense, 23rd in defense. But since then, they're 34. Don't tase me. 34 and 13.
fourth best record in the league behind OKC Cleveland and Boston top 10 in both offensive and defensive rating Jamal do you think there's a chance that Indiana can be the one that kind of messes this whole thing up for everyone in the east there's a chance but you know that they love to play with the pace they love to play up and down and the playoffs is just not sustainable to do it or at least teams historically have not kept that same pace so
They do. No matter who they get in the play-in.
It's like picking a run from the play-in teams in March Madness as well if you had picked Carolina as an 11.
They'll need another quarterback next year, though, right? Yeah, but if... From that standpoint, college sports is really...
Ryan Clark is dealing with the information that is out there.
I needed entertainment. I mean, I did.
Yes.
This would be their names in an odd world if they were named after something to do with taxes. That's the game I'm playing right here. I do have some OLI.
They're not really connoting taxes. If their parents were accountants and they said, hey, let's name our son Taxton Lynch. Like singer Tony Taxton.
That's a good one. Didn't make the list. Expense Ray Hipp. Todd Lightoff. Fraudy Couples. These are all OLI. Evasion Longoria. Dennis Extensionly. At number five, Fraud McGriff. The Crime Dog. What's the heavy tongue doing right now? He vages in Longoria. That's pretty good. Number four, The Accounting Crows. That's the one that got me before the show. Number three, Jermaine Diaris. Thank you.
Number two, Alex Len99. At number one, W. Poo Richardson.
Not my favorite.
No, it's a list. You guys aren't getting the list. You don't get the game.
There you go.
Very true. Yep. Got his ass. David Wright off. You don't think I thought of that? Too easy. You know what? I'm going to make my own list. Thank you. Okay. Why'd you say thank you to that? I like when people, you know, I've inspired him to make a list.
Waiting for Mike's list.
All right. Okay.
I guess. Fernando Tax-T's. That's closer.
It's okay. I love the group.
I mean, Flacco's an upgrade, right?
A dream.
His body's intact.
Okay.
But I love this question. Do backup quarterbacks deserve a Super Bowl ring? I mean, do they get to gloat about it? You didn't do anything.
stupid we have I don't get it it's like mind your own business guys like we have nothing to do with this no but Mike they're all connected I mean it's crazy talk what you're saying it's not connected if Carson Beck is getting a certain amount of course they're connected all the quarterbacks are connected now they're all you don't know the amount that he's making well you won't tell us if you just blame Duke what if you just blame Duke you can blame Duke because Duke actually let's blame Duke and move along Chris Cody I heard that people send you clips of you mispronouncing things and you won't play them on air I
I mean, it must have seemed sort of appetizing compared to that.
Yes, it makes me feel happy.
Yeah.
Oh.
And it's good for this quarterback to have some mystery around him in terms of whether or not he's going to be great and a good fit for Miami. He has had 52 touchdowns, 18 interceptions the last two years.
No, no, being right makes me great. Man, I'm buzzing right now. Mike feels great. Dude, this dude was so bad from the jump.
Don Levitard.
So were we.
During this window, it's pretty tough. That's a high end of it, but that's kind of the market for quarterbacks this cycle. The marquee quarterbacks got paid a certain number. I know what Cam Ward was making.
Carson Beck is not making what's out there. Does he get new cars? Carson Beck has made a lot of money over his career. Carson Beck, no, he's not getting paid what I've seen out there. I've seen crazy numbers.
You're going to note comment?
It's not what it's out there. Look, we know what we paid Cam Ward. We know that the market has moved up. We know what other quarterbacks have asked. I would say that Nico isn't that far off base asking for four. He is that off base asking for four in the spring. And I think part of in doing some digging is it's not the first time Nico's kind of tried to pull, like, You know, I got other options.
He's always looking for stalking horses. And there just comes a time where they might be over it. And when you jeopardize a spring game by holding out, that's certainly one of those times. And I can understand why Josh Heupel says enough of this. We can't let this continue be a standard around Tennessee.
If you recall, when Nico first came over to Tennessee, it was a reported multi-year agreement, and they've probably already gone back and fixed that. And he's saying, well, look, I'm the chosen one. I came, I delivered, you guys made it to the playoff. Yeah, I wasn't what you thought I would be statistically, but I was the guy under center, and we made it to the playoff.
And that's not totally out of line with where the market went. So I understand why that was the ask and can also understand Tennessee being sick and tired of it, saying we've already revisited your deal more times than we probably should have, given how you even came here. And you can't be holding our team hostage every time the spring window, every time a window opens up, we can't be doing this.
But look, there were a lot. Jaden Ott. entered the transfer portal yesterday. He's good.
He had a bad year last year. I thought the year before.
He had a 75-yard touchdown run against Miami that he stepped out of bounds, but nobody seemed to talk about that missed call.
Okay. Hold on.
It's not my business.
I mean, I know what you guys make. You want me to put that out there, too? It's not my business. That feels familiar.
Because the next time they shut you out of the WNBA draft, you can just stomp a foot and say, I've been to space. You mean to tell me I can't get in this draft?
No, I'm totally checked out. I'll watch the game. They'll lose. You won't watch the game. No, I'm not going to watch the game. Of course you will. You haven't watched one in two and a half years. The game's tomorrow?
I didn't. I didn't.
I can make more.
How much more are you going to talk?
I genuinely didn't hear anything. I know, you didn't listen to anything. It's all right. Just like you didn't watch the games, and that's okay. They're bad, but maybe they won't be. I took offense at calling Terry Rozier a good player. When the whole point is hard to think of a good player that has this kind of regression during their prime. Yeah, I solved your riddle, my guys.
He's not a good player.
We've had a good run alienating this audience.
You didn't tell us that they had Chapel Bill in parentheses Bill's version.
Yeah, it's Taylor's version. Like Taylor Swift. Come on, Dan.
The Belichick Way. Been trademarked.
Minor penalty, two minutes. High sticking. Been real hot and cold with these jokes today.
But they sent him up there because he was the Ohio guy. Like, all right, Ohio State, here's Vance's chance to have a moment. And then the base of the trophy just slips out of his hands and he fumbles around for it like he's dropping papers outside of his car. Someone has to yell there in the group, one of the players, fumble!
We can all agree the World Series trophy, aesthetically pretty, but doesn't really work for carrying around. Might get poked in the eye. So dangerous.
Maybe Clayton Kershaw making postseason starts. Guys like that that are historically great regular season pitchers, right? Pitchers specifically that then have a big start later in a postseason when they've struggled. But those are few and far between. There are not a lot of guys who were that dominant in the regular season and then... don't have those moments in the postseason.
That's the only thing I can think of because even a closer, you don't know whether you're going in that day or not. You don't have to wear that with you all day long unless you're someone like Brad Lidge that blew a big game and now you've got to go into the next one with a chance to win.
You know, Chris Paul had a pretty good year. Report of the news.
Over 50% on two-point field goals, 38% from three, seventh in the league in assists.
I know you think it's a marketing ploy, but how do you know this wasn't her teenage dream? Get out.
For three years you thought that, right?
That's right. It's time for Against the Spread. And it's brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Jeremy, what do we got?
Juju, do you agree with Mike that they would just take it back if you gave them the chance right now, the Mavericks?
That's why I wash my hair in the pool. It's a selfish thing, though. It's really just about, like, near a pool, there's a bathroom nearby. There's no bathroom near the beach. I'm not walking all the way to that bathroom. Okay, that's fair.
Dirk handed Luca the torch, Niko blew it out.
Does Palenka get to wear his jacket to another event, or was that just the event for that jacket?
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Who told you Walter Payton didn't wear socks? Because, like, I'm seeing lots of pictures of him playing football wearing socks.
Jeremy seemed very excited about this move and Mike seemed very not excited about this move. So there's like a wide raging spectrum of how to break down this trade. Am I allowed to give my opinion or am I a homer?
So it's not that the bit isn't working. It's that no one's done it right.
I do like our commitment to getting it right.
That's exactly right, Dan. That's exactly right. It was unbelievable off the bat where you got Alec Burns in there instead of Tyler Hero, and they were up 22-13 at a timeout. It was amazing. What a thrill. I put up Jeremy's tweet from before the game, obsessed with this starting lineup. And I was right to be. They got off to a 22-13 start despite shooting only 30-something percent from the field.
Ich bin hier, um zu sagen, was Jeremy nicht wirklich sagen will. Das ist alte Nachrichten, Mann. Das ist schon ein Moment da. Wir haben schon gewusst, dass die Miami Heat das tun würde. Sie wären dumm, das nicht zu tun. Sie wären ein schreckliches Team, das das nicht zu tun würde. Ein Organisation, das das nicht zu tun würde. Der Kerl hat dir gesagt, er wird nächstes Jahr ein Freie Agent sein.
Du musst das tun. Das war's für heute. Bis zum nächsten Mal. Sie haben sich gewechselt und gesagt, hey, wenn wir gewinnen, wird es nicht mit 43 sein. Es wird mit Defense sein, das sich auf Offense befindet. Sie sehen sich gerade so aus, wie ein Team, das man in einer Siebengameserie nicht treffen will. Also hat nichts mit Jimmy Butler entschieden. All due respect to Shams.
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Dann haben wir mehr als genug Fragen für David Samson. Bis zu 20 Fragen für David Samson über das Leben und das Lieben. Wir spielen ein Spiel von Ist er Mensch? mit David Samson. David, deine erste Frage. Ein Spieler auf deiner Mannschaft fragt, ob er Zeit für das Geburtstag ihres ersten Kindes verliert. Aber du bist in einer September-Playoff-Race. Was machst du?
Nummer zwei. Frage Nummer zwei. Jetzt gehen wir in die Liebe-Kategorie, David. David, wie viele Male in deiner Leben hast du dich lieb gefühlt? Judges? Oh, wow. Nothing? Nothing?
A moment of silence for those loved and lost. You have never, never felt love?
Du bist bei Grocery Store Checkout, David Sampson. Und sie fragen, ob du für Charity runden möchtest. Was tust du? Nope! Oh nein! Judges?
Nicht die Bar in Davy auch. David Sampson, Frage Nummer 4. Was ist der emotionalste Moment, den du mit einem deiner Kinder hattest?
Those details. No, that was a good one. Touching. Yeah, the responsibility of raising a child, I'm sure, was very exciting for David Sampson and the mess.
Whoa!
I appreciate the follow-up questions from the judges. Here, David, you're on an airplane and a couple asks if you will switch seats with one of them so they can sit together.
Du hast meine Karriere verloren. Nein, deine Karriere beginnt jetzt. Sei nicht nett, Dan.
Guys, I want to talk to you about something that I don't think we think about enough on a daily basis. And that's comfort, specifically when it comes to underwear. Because let's be real, when it's not right, you're going to feel it all day. And that's why I want to tell all of you about Tommy John.
Because the first time I put on a pair, I knew my underwear drawer would just simply never be the same. Tommy John hat vor kurzem einige ihrer Produkte an uns in den Schiffskontainern gesendet. Und das ist mein erstes Mal, dass ich Tommy John Unterhaut trage. Ich war wirklich überrascht. Durch den Komfort, durch die Strecke, die im Design vorhanden war, durch die Texture.
Es gibt eine echte Komfort. Und ich kann sagen, dass sie versucht haben, in unserem Fall mit Männern, dass wir sich komfortabel fühlen würden. Ehrlich gesagt, hat Tommy John das Spiel für mich verändert. Ich weiß, es wird ein guter Tag sein, wenn ich aus der Tür gehe und Tommy John aufhören kann. Bis zum nächsten Mal.
Special expertise as a loser and a Jew with Yeshiva University.
And I can bring you expertise on all of this. This is great, right? Because these are a bunch of guys. It's actually the opposite of great. It's the opposite. What makes it great as a story is that these are a bunch of guys who just play for the love of the game. There's no like road to Omaha. There is not some special prize at the end of their college athletic career.
It's just, I want to, it's exactly right. Guys who just love the sport and are there to continue to do it because these teams, these colleges are truly and utterly dreadful. You can watch it on laymanathletics.com, the first game of a doubleheader Starts it at 155.
So this is great because theoretically, Yeshiva could extend their losing streak to 100 and then snap it later in the day by splitting the doubleheader with Lehman. But of course, Dan, you were wondering what conference are these teams in? And that's what's really important here. Of course, Lehman is in the CUNYAC. I believe that's pronounced CUNYAC conference.
And of course, Yeshiva is in the Skyline conference. More competitive, thus why they have a 99-game losing streak. But there's some fun facts here.
But then you can snap it later in the evening, which is perfect. So they don't play on Saturday, obviously, because of Shabbat, which is why you have a Tuesday doubleheader here. This is my favorite. I read the bio of their head coach, Jeremy Renna. Jeremy Renna is a full-time retail senior executive and consultant, adjunct professor, high school baseball coach, investor, and executive mentor.
He's currently the head coach of Yeshiva Baseball, bringing a strong sense of positive team building, clear accountability standards within the framework of Jewish Tenets. It's amazing that everyone involved in this knows We're on the worst team in college athletics of any kind. And yet we're going to keep going out there and get our asses kicked game after game.
Dan, the lowest single ERA by any player in Yeshiva University history. 5.36. I think I was recruited by Lehman.
I just like looking at the difference in the rosters, Dan. If I read some names to you, I'm going to read some names to the group from one team and then the other. And you guys tell me which team you think...
would win this baseball game so one team has players named charlie hernandez oh john carlos pujos i don't like this game riel maldonado my boy cook i don't i don't like this game i know where he's going with this and our genus sanchez is a dangerous game and the bad team come on the other team nobody answer anything has zambie greenberg kobe cohen oh Noam Awonhu. Sean Green. Zvi Mochechen.
Jacob Weichbrot. It's a trap. AJ Zimbalist. Don't do this. And Zachary Goldberg. Dan, which team do you think is going to win the baseball game?
Dan?
Can you read that bio again about that coach? Eli Zerdak and Samuel Wiseman would like a word.
I was talking to you, Stugan.
Juju, it is always nice seeing you. Thank you for stopping by today. I wanted to ask you something because... Mike Ryan just got done talking about something that loops you in because I saw that you were working your NFL networking sources this weekend with the Tennessee Titans.
And we're reporting as a show, it sounded like, that we know everything that's about to happen in the NFL and that Louis Riddick and Deion Sanders are about to take over the Titans. So what can you report from this weekend of insider reporting all around the Titans? Because I saw that you're vying to become an NFL insider.
Oh, wow. Okay. So you're doing it right now. You're saying Cam Ward. I don't think that's the same report that Mike Ryan had, though. Mike Ryan's report.
Yeah. Okay. So you are, for those that weren't watching on video, where did that, how did, where did we, you, what is this world you live in where you have all of these things just sitting around like you've got.
But how much stuff do you have there? What is the general worth of a collection that is formidable of yours?
Well, it's a lot of stuff, and you look better than anyone else's Zoom. Did you see me walking around on Sunday in my apartment? Well, anyways, let's get to today's show because, Chris Cody, I never got to the Fox Sports lawsuit. I'm not going to put that here now with Juju. These are good vibes, so I'll have to get to that tomorrow. But what did we screw up today? What did we get right?
The last couple of days have been a frenzy because a lot of people have been wanting to talk after two weeks off.
I don't know if you saw what happened there, but Chris Cody did crush the carousel, but no one else was participating. At one point, Stugatz just muttered under me, my body hurts. It was the most bored carousel. And so I feel as a leader that me and Chris have to lead everybody. And all I got was like Mike Ryan lifted a leg and farted a couple of times.
It was such a bored effort from everyone involved.
Juju, I'm going to let people see behind the scenes. Do you know how pathetic I found myself as founder of the company trying to motivate someone other than Chris Cody? Can you participate in this dumb f***? carousel. We're doing carousel music. Can we participate? So what do I do? I lend my knees to the cause. And no one else wants to do it, and now you're here to criticize me for grunting.
It's because I was hiding my repressions under clenched teeth that I have to tell a group of adults who have worked for a long time with us that they have to do the carousel. Don't be bored around the carousel. Then Billy did a bored carousel.
No, you're right. You try not to be judgmental, but no, you got him. We do not, man. We don't have a lot of style around here. It's okay, though.
Those glasses costing whatever it is they cost make David Sampson unlikable.
And a few other things.
A super rule. A super rule.
Look, I don't think people understand. This trough, everyone's firing off a lot of sports takes. It is hard to get off sports takes that somebody else isn't already having. So Juju consistently, you've been baking the super rule for about 10 days now.
I love that three instead of the Mike Evans. Here's three million dollars for not concussing to and making the sports media talk for a week about our violence problem.
do you have anything else for us juju uh does the stat of the day competition appeal to you because i was talking during the break with people we should have a stat of the year at the end of the year where we've crowned a statistic for the year everyone loves those easy year-end shows if we were to do a competition all year i think people might enjoy a stat of the day should we be doing that was there any was there any fanfare for that on the internet
Yeah, he's disgusting.
You almost had it right. I give this to him. You think I should just give it to him? That's a good idea, actually. Yeah, his hat is disgusting. It's a hygiene problem. The norovirus was on – it's ground zero for that. It's like anthrax-ish right here.
I don't really understand what that even could possibly mean. I've realized I don't really know what a fax machine does.
They've maximized him. They've used him in his most effective way, both offensively and defensively. They built offensive and defensive game plans around him. They let him be the guy offensively. which for the majority of his career was part of the issue. He is such an alpha. He wants to be the man.
That, for that matter, was the complaint that he had about the present offense and why he kind of went after Spoh in that last presser before being suspended. He has always wanted to be the guy, and they were a bam out of bio and Goran Dragic injury away from winning an NBA Finals in his very first year. So they have built... They have, sure, competing in a more legitimate way.
They lost in six to the Lakers without their healthy number two and three players. And when you look at maximizing it, this guy went to three conference finals and two NBA finals with this franchise while not doing anything near that otherwise. So when you say... They didn't build the right things around them. They didn't give them enough help.
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Do you know what a Rolodex is, Jeremy? I only do because my mom still has a Rolodex. Handwritten. And that's the place where she keeps all of the passwords to the different streaming sites that she has. So every time I need to use her streaming password, she's rolling through that.
It's like all the same password, just like one has an exclamation point and one has a different number. Oh, yeah. Honestly, if you're trying to hack my parents' accounts, my name and some number, and you're probably good. Your name, your birthday. Probably.
I think it's fair to say that that statement ended up backfiring because Jimmy turned it into a total mess from there. And who knows if that was actually the thing that sent it over the line or... If they already knew Jimmy was about to make some sort of mess and were trying to publicly get ahead of that, we don't know behind the scenes specifically what comes in one order.
Yeah, there's a difference between kind of dogging it on the court and getting suspended from... Rumors leaking through the media that you're OK with being traded. There's a difference between that and the press conference that comes after the Indiana Pacers game where he's throwing his coaches, his roster under the bus. That's a different thing.
We're going to go into the season, and if you decide to opt out at the end of it, then we will just have cap space to be able to maneuver with the roster moving forward. And that's essentially what they're going to try to create in this trade is acquire expiring contracts and picks more likely than not.
They're taking a guy they traded, Hassan Whiteside, Josh Richardson, and a protected first round pick. They maximize the value, went to two finals, went to three conference finals. And on the back end, if they get that type of value back in expiring contracts, it was a success.
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And so there might have been a time where they could have traded Jimmy Butler to acquire picks and young players, but that was even earlier in Bam Adebayo's development, earlier in Tyler Hero's development, and they weren't willing to be a bad team that tanks for multiple years.
You talk about Orlando, you know, in the conversation you guys were having yesterday, it's like, well, during the Jimmy Butler era, They were winning 25 or 30 games a year for five years. That's why they're good now. It was miserable. Every single year, the Heat are trying to contend and trying to be in it, even if it's somewhat delusional.
That's part of what makes them the competitors that they've been for so long.
I think the capital part of it over the last several years has been fair. It's the reason why Boston has been able to do everything they've done. The team that they built around the stars that they have was built off the backs of a trade of Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to Brooklyn that stacked them with all this capital content.
to be able to continue to make moves and continue to make moves, including later on Drew Holiday, who they get from Portland, that was never going to happen for Miami, and Chris Stapps Porzingis, who spent the entire postseason injured and would have been a disaster for Miami individually, but works because Boston's so good.
The thing about Anthony Edwards or De'Aaron Fox, who's another example of someone who has an incredible relationship with Bam Adebayo or any of these things that you float out there in the sky. The difference between that and what happened with Damian Lillard individually is Damian Lillard was not willing to make a mess, right? Greg Cody, major penalty, five minutes, me maximum.
Just tired of hearing you talk.
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No, I don't think so. Just a text, Merry Christmas. No, because then you have to individually text everybody in. Where I'm sure this system, you can just kind of put it all in at once and then it'll mass text that out to everybody as opposed to an individual Merry Christmas text.
Cuban-born? I want to ask him how he got here.
If he already brought it up, I'm gonna make him go through with it. He has to. If not, I'll do it. I'll go there and I'll do the drums.
I see fat. Palenka on the trades, though. Luka being fat. Got him traded by Niko. Palenka calling up and tell him, see ya, bro. Go to Dallas, be the hero. Super suit like Frozone. What's up with all these motherfucking Lakers trying to seem competent? The whole damn legal hate them. F*** them all and their drama. How many teammates at LeBron? I mean, it's too many options.
Feels like every Hall of Famer but John Stockton. Okay, that's enough.
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It's buffering. The Florida Panthers are on the road against the Washington Capitals. And while you might be thinking, going on the road to Washington, a really good team... The Panthers have won three in a row. Washington has lost three out of their last four. We're taking the Florida Panthers minus one and a half against the spread.
I picked it. game just so I can tell Dan Levitard how to pronounce A-Men Thompson.
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It's become an unhealthy obsession.
It's still going? It's on a loop. Yeah, it's on a loop.
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Who decides who the Hall of Fame nominees are?
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Hey, this is Jeremy from Auburn. I'm going to do Bobby from King of the Hill Limited Fake.
Wow. Creep. I just like talking to people. I like going into stores and talking to salespeople and purchasing things.
Lose that body. Lose that body.
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Die Karte von Hegegold und die Goldkreation von Alexander Barkov, das war weltklasse.
Denkt daran, Dimitri Olof wird in der Off-Saison das Papier aufschauen und... Er hat ihn auf den Weg geholt. Er hat ihn auf den Weg geholt. Das war verrückt. Und nicht nur das. Er war auf dem Ball. Das war eine Penalität, die man nennen sollte. Er war auf dem Ball und dann hat der Ballkopf seine Ecke genutzt und ist vorne rausgegangen.
Vergesst nicht über Leon Dreisaitl. Sie haben zwei der besten Spieler der Welt. Aber dann wiederum, sie haben letztes Jahr gegen die Florida Panthers verloren.
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Almost like one of those pacts that people make on TV shows where they're like, hey, if we're not married by the time we're 40, you want to just go ahead and get married? It feels like one of those where both of them have just kind of reached a space in life where it's like, all right, we could settle for this.
He's just surrounded himself with a couple of organizations that didn't know how to build it around them necessarily and stars that didn't compliment him the way that LeBron had stars complimenting him.
I was fine with it. Let me make it abundantly clear.
And you'll remember the sound of the ball hitting somehow, like, I guess, back iron and also the net at the same time. It's so loud. It's the way that guys will viscerally remember the crack of the bat on a walk-off home run. You don't often get that sound on a buzzer beater.
You accidentally slam the refrigerator door a little too hard so you hear like the suction. Yep. Capcom for the win.
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You say it's the apocalypse. I say they are in the midst of the best. Chase in the NBA this season, Dan, for the 10 seed in the Eastern Conference. Oh, God. Do you know where we're at with that at this point? It's basically a three-team race when you look at it between Matus Bouzelis and them boys in Chicago. You got someone, Killian Hayes, I think, playing for the Brooklyn Nets these days.
That's pretty crazy. And Tyrese Martin. And then Paul George and Tyrese Maxey and the Philadelphia 76ers. All of them are two and a half games apart. You got Boozellis and the Chicago Bulls along with Josh Giddey, who's having a crazy few game stretch. They're the 10th seed right now. Technically a playoff team. Dan, they're 13 games under .500.
The Philadelphia 76ers themselves are 20 and 38 and could end up playing a first round series against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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The thing with Kevin Durant's career that's funny is obviously he came in a few years after LeBron, but he sort of followed that same model and path, which is LeBron at 26 goes to Miami, goes and wins a couple of titles, and then makes choices to go to two separate franchises after that where it's also worked out.
For Kevin Durant, he waited until his age 28 season, but he ends up at Golden State, wins a couple of titles, and tries to do the same thing, make another decision. He doesn't go back to Golden State because it's home and all of the things LeBron had with Cleveland. He tries to create another super team in Brooklyn. It doesn't work out. So he pivots. Let's go to Phoenix. Let's see if it works out.
Just kidding. I mean, Rachel Maddow, right? She's an example. She's terrible. Oh, yeah, true.
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Oh, he would crush you. I think you'd lose to Hackman, too. I've got to be honest with you.
Look at his face, man. It's such an angry face. Seriously, he would take you out to the woodshed. What is that phrase? I don't know.
You got to go away from the action where everyone is when you want to take someone out to the woodshed, when you want to discipline someone. You can't do it in public. You got to go somewhere private to do it, and the woodshed is private.
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There's a lot more of that on like TikTok, honestly, with a lot of people who are purposefully making you feel uncomfortable, whether it's going and approaching people as a purposefully bad singer and asking them to sit through songs that you're singing or pretending to act as a certain type of protagonist in a movie, but in real life and just making people feel uncomfortable with what they're watching.
But because it's all edited together and it's not live or in an interview setting, it allows for TikTok creators to do that a little more.
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Yeah, you know, it depends because Hanukkah shifts. It's kind of strange. It shifts on the calendar. And so a lot of the time... It's before.
That's right. And I celebrate Christmas with my wife's family. So for me, I have another holiday to look forward to. Then there's New Year's. So you're right. It's normally post-New Year's where things start to drag.
Let's plan a party. On day four of Greg Day's... Ten Days of Gregmas. Greg Days of Tenmas. Yes. We were planning Greg's 70th birthday party. So this is a day where Stugatz is literally openly flirting with WFAN. He's up in New York openly flirting with them. But Greg was really concerned about which co-workers to invite to his 70th birthday party.
It was genuine. Like there are a lot of things that we do that are bit. He was truly and genuinely stressed out about who to invite in this studio. So we'll find out who makes the cutoff. We'll be offended. Dan really forced Greg to examine all the possibilities. We'll also in this same episode hear about Greg's car accident in Ireland and why he felt that your wife is too critical of his cooking.
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Single-digit game last night. Comeback got it within two with four minutes left. But no, the team that got blown out by 50 points is somehow the same thing. Ridiculous.
Why would we let a woman speak for herself?
Don't forget the Blake Bortles years.
You had bread in your eyebrows? I don't think so, but now everyone thinks I did, so thanks.
He cooked everybody last night. It's funny. Look, Tyler is the guy they're going after on defense. It's obvious. And when they're putting them in the pick and roll, they're getting everything that they want. Tyler is going to need to take some pride in the defensive end if the Heat are going to be able to do anything in these next couple of games.
Tyler also had 33-6-5 last night efficiently and was clearly the best offensive player on the floor for either team until the final five minutes when Donovan Mitchell showed the type of first-team all-NBA superstar that he is.
It's just like they lost. They're down 0-2. The only reason they were even in that game is the differences that they made in the rotation, moving Davion Mitchell in the starting lineup, playing Niko Jovic and playing Pella Larson. I had no idea he was even available. Right. Niko Jovic ends up playing just to show you the disparity in these teams, right?
Like the Heat just decided to ride a hot lineup that included a guy who hasn't played since February for the final, you know, basically 15 minutes of that game. And that's the lineup that got them back in it because they're still in this space with this roster of, I don't really know who we are. I don't really know what we have. And so changing the math was what they tried to do early in the game.
They tried to get Wiggins involved and he couldn't get going. And honestly, that was part of the reason Bam ended up taking four threes with like two seconds left in the shot clock.
The emphasis that he put on spectacular was hilarious. The adjustments were real, and they were spectacular.
Had no legs, but the adjustments were a tour de force.
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It's a bad example.
He might want me to go out there and start bleeding now so that that way I can say things about adjustments and have gushing blood from my face.
You know, for Missoula, though, without Tatum last night, his adjustments were picturesque.
I think I know what happened here. Greg, you have been on this show for the last few weeks as we have tried not to spoil a very popular TV show. There is an actor who is on two different TV shows that get spoken around here a lot. His name is Walton Goggins. And I believe when you heard the name Andrew Hawkins, you thought we were talking about Walton Goggins and called him Walter Hawkins.
Am I right?
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I wanted Jimmy to lose in five. I wanted the Warriors to lose. I won't shy away from that. I didn't want the Heat to get potentially swept in the first round and have the Warriors go on some miraculous run, of course. But watching Jimmy Butler get hurt in the postseason is one of the worst things to watch. He's one of the greatest postseason performers that we have.
And as an NBA fan, as a basketball fan, you're miserable. And as a Heat fan, you don't want to see the guy hurt.
Everyone's being nice about it. I said, I think most Heat fans with a soul are looking at this and saying, hey, it's a shame that he got hurt. I don't think anybody wants to see that. I think there might be people who send the text of, I told you so, and that's a different thing. Knowing that the guy puts his body out on the line and being worried about paying long contracts and blah, blah, blah.
That's a different thing than I'm feeling glee over the fact that he's injured and won't make a run now, right?
Yeah, it felt like he was just kind of trying to gain his balance. But I actually think that that's part of it, right? If Jimmy was just like driving to the hoop and rolled an ankle without even stepping on anybody and it was that type of thing, a little bit of that, I told you so, maybe even creeps into what we're talking about. But when you see a nasty spill like that, I just don't think that...
First of all, hey, guys. Nice to be here again. I hope everybody has seen what the last year has given us with this topic. To answer your question, first of all, there is no authority on UFOs. That's the problem. There is no expert. We don't have all the information. that's become very clear. That's become very clear for decades. So people are trying to catch up, you know, including myself.
Now, the way you worded that, you know, Elaine, for me, it was accidental, man. This isn't a business model. This is something that I'm passionate about. I got interested in this because through George Knapp, who's a great reporter,
i realized we're being lied to and i'm like what's this big lie about why does it really matter if people are seeing ufos they've been reporting it our military's reporting it our militaries are filming it your government is telling you now that ufos are real that they're a craft of unknown origin that are unidentified that outpace outmaneuver and outperform our greatest weaponry then why is this a big secret we need to talk about this to get to ground truth
on what UFOs are, which nobody has a great explanation for.
Yeah, it's not a suggestion. If you go back in history and you just look at when people do Freedom of Information Act requests and everything is blacked out, it's over classification. You've done been told by people who ran these programs that there has been an operation to lie to the American public to diminish it. It's historic fact. that Project Blue Book back in the day was a whitewash.
The whole point of it was to, quote, demystify the UFO topic, was to get people to stop believing or being curious about the UFO thing. Even the head of Project Blue Book, J. Allen Hynek, later came out and said, yeah, we were told to diminish it and to dissuade the public from being interested. And this was a government program back in the day. So this still keeps going. This keeps maintaining.
The problem is, is that people that run these programs are now speaking publicly. George Knapp and I brought somebody on our show called Weaponize, Dr. James Lekatsky. He was the Defense Intelligence Agency representative for a UFO program that is now famously public. The New York Times helped break that story. And he told us, he told the American public, told us about one.
He said, we have a craft of non-human origin and we've breached the whole of it. I mean, this is an engineer, a physicist who worked verified in the UFO programs. You have David Grush testified under oath to Congress saying we have crash retrieval programs that are secret. They've been held for the American public. We're trying to reverse engineer these technologies.
and that people have been harmed and hurt for trying to come forward. Actually, he said people have died, trying to come forward to talk about this. This is all under oath in Congress. That was the big step.
I think that's why we're talking about this now is because patriots, people that have worked for our country in the intelligence agencies are now coming forward and saying, this is a reality and we can't be blind to it. Because if we're blind to it, then we're gonna be behind.
Right. I mean, so this is the thing. Look, I've seen the climate change even on this show. Don't think I forgot the first time I was on the show. I was getting some words from somebody back there. Look, that's the thing. This conversation is progressing with or without every individual. There are people paying attention now. And I think that's so cool. I don't mind taking ridicule.
I think this is important. I mean, I really think this is important. That's why my journalism is focused on this. You can attack people saying it, but we got to go to what are the facts? What's happening? You've now had six people testify in front of Congress telling you about the reality. You've had New York Times break stories. You have whistleblowers coming forward.
A lot of times people come forward through the media, through TV, through movies. That's just like the way it has to happen if you don't have the microphone at Congress. So the climate has completely changed. about this subject. Now why the secrecy? This is something that I'm still trying to understand after all this time of working on it.
The core of it, it may be our belief systems, it could shatter our belief systems, sure. But really I think there was good reason at the beginning. During the atomic era, when we started lighting off nukes and being able to blow up the world.
You know, I think that there was a secrecy that was put in place, a kind of architecture for our safety is kind of the idea for national security, but also just security of our planet. So I think what's happened is you see that the UFO topic at first was being covered up because if this is true, We better get a handle on these technologies.
If we can exploit this technology and get a technological advantage, whatever nation does that first, they win. If we can replicate these craft, if we can replicate what they do, it appears to be a different form or understanding of physics by the way these craft move. That's famously shown by the 2004 Tic Tac case with Commander David Fravor, who chased a UFO for the United States military.
He testified in front of Congress. So my thought is that is the reason the secrecy was first initiated, was to try to exploit the technologies before Russia, before China. You might have had Representative Gallagher on the show before, if I recall. He talked about that. It's called strategic surprise. So maybe that's the reason. However,
now we know ufos are real you've been told that but that's as far as it's gone and you can't put that away once that's been said there are more questions coming now is this going to shake the foundations of what we think about the universe about us about if you're religious about your religion i don't know i have no idea but i know if we don't address it we're going to have major issues
It looks like a slot machine in Vegas at midnight. It's just constant.
All around the world, 24-7, UFOs are seen, they're filmed. People also just want to tell me their experiences. You know, people you wouldn't imagine. They said, you know, this is not for public. This is for you to know as a data point in your research. It's incredible the amount of people that hit me up every day. You must be sitting on a lot of leaks. What's your process to confirm?
Great question. People get really mad that I sit on information. They say, well, if I just took my emails and put them out on the internet, it's not going to help anybody because the signal to noise. I take years. George Knapp and I have our own methods and our own sources. If we get leaks to us, if people leak stuff to us as journalists, it's a catch-all. We take them in.
We have to vet, verify who's the person. Can they stand behind that? Can we see their documents? Is the video worthy of putting out to the public People also try to trick us all the time. They would love for me to make a mistake, to put something out that is easily explainable later. People try.
So my process is trying over years with each case to see if I can verify the individuals and the information.
I hope that the average American individual can see that we're not on script, that we say it like we know it at the time. I think there's a lot of great power in individual hands now for journalism. And it's going to take a lot of people. There is no expert on UFOs. It's going to take a lot of people looking at this. So I hope they do.
You know, in my series, the most recent one is there was a military filmed, it looks like the gimbal UFO, that very famous one that's gone all over the media in black and white. This footage looks green. And this object comes up in Iraq during deployment in a combat zone. And there's a Marine who contacted me and you could hear what he has to say. And it looks like a saucer.
It looks like the gimbal UFO. That's a pretty cool piece of evidence.
Right, so this is something people are taking out of context that I talked about in my show. I am not saying that. I am saying I believe that to be a lie. And the reason why I put that in the show and people clip it to make it sound like I'm saying that, I'm saying it's I believe it to be a lie.
And the reason I'm saying that is because there's like a whisper campaign within journalists and within our community. We've all heard it, that this is all preparation of the battlefield and there's some craft coming. I don't buy that for a second. I know the origin of it. I've tried to run it down. So I was trying to warn people of being told what I consider to be that lie.
And look, if I'm wrong, we're all screwed.
Yeah, I mean, look, words are cheap. Everybody has said that they want to have more transparency on UFOs. Bill Clinton even, he actually tried to get transparency on UFOs to the American public. I don't know who's controlling that information, but presidents before haven't been able to. Is it different this time?
Well, I definitely know that some of the people that have been vocal about transparency on this are now in this administration. So I do hope I don't think transparency on this is going to come from our government. I think it's going to come from civilians and journalists.
Yeah, man, you did it to yourself. You wore the costume. Hey, guys, thanks so much. I'll see you next time. Thank you for covering this. Yes, sir.
No.
Well, I think it's vital, because we can all joke and say, well, you know, how is that D-Backs-Rockies-Rivalry going? But generally, these rivalries are special. I'll give you a few. The Freeway Series, the Angels sweeping the Dodgers in the Freeway Series, first time since 2010. Nobody saw that coming. Travis Dardot hits his first home run of the season. Kenley Jansen was able to lock it down.
Wasn't expecting that, the Angels. I thought the Ohio Cup was great. Terry Francona going back against his former team. They were great. Eli De La Cruz in the Reds. Andrew Abbott being able to pick up the win there in the Ohio Cup. But of course it is the Subway Series. As you know, I reside in North Jersey. Everybody was talking about Mets and Yankees.
And specifically Juan Soto, who to start the year, you know, he's in like 260s, but more like Juan Soso. And after this series, he's more like Juan No-Show. He goes one series. He did get a few walks, but he was not playing his best. And the Yankees, how about that offensive juggernaut? Bellinger, big grand slam as they take two to three.
No, I'm with you. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'll give it a 4. I think it matters. This guy was their closer. He's 4-1, 2.70 ERA, 25 strikeouts, 4 walks and 20 innings pitch, 99.6 mile per hour, 4-seam fastball velocity, is 5th among those who have thrown 250 or more pitches. Ja, because we actually test our guys. Good in the league for getting it done and shame on Alvarado for getting caught.
Well, it's interesting. A part of me says not as seriously as I'd like to, only because they were not facing stiff competition. And so when you're taking care of wins against relative weak things, you go, what does that mean? But the last thing that a win streak of this type, they went 15 straight back in 91. The season ended with that World Series title, of course.
Also, ehrlich gesagt, man, ich rufe für Minnesota, weil sie eine wirklich lustige Gruppe von Spielern sind. Aber letztendlich sagen sie, okay, sie haben eine schwere Zeit gewonnen. Letztendlich kommt es dazu, dass es eine große Höhle war. Ja. Sind sie die beste Mannschaft in der Zentralbank? Nein, sie werden immer noch für Wildcard kämpfen. Aber Glückwunsch ihnen für den Helfer.
Und ich liebe Rocco Baldelli, einer meiner liebsten Managern im Spiel. Ein großer Fisch-Fan, übrigens.
Definitiv Flores ist eine tolle Geschichte. Ich bin froh, dass du ihn erwähnt hast, weil die Giants haben einen kleinen Buzzer zurückgebracht. Aber ich gehe mit Javi Baez. Drei straight Seasons. Er hatte einen OPS-Plus von 71. Es war absolut furchtbar. Und du sagst, dieser Typ spielt schlecht, überall.
Zu einem Zeitpunkt war er exzellent defensiv und war ein guter Hitter, der den Ball wirklich schlug. Aber er war einer der schlechtesten Kontrakte in allem Fußball. Und dann, lo und behold, in dieser Off-Saison, A.J. Hinch, ich brauche dich im Outfielder, kein Problem. Bis jetzt ist er der vierte Beste von allen Outfieldern im Zentrifeld. Plus vier im Defensive Run Save.
Also nicht nur kann ich eine andere Position spielen, sondern ich werde Elite. Ich werde Top 5 von 30 Leuten, die diese Position spielen. Okay, großartig. Und er geht wieder zurück zu Maschgen. 120 OPS plus jetzt. Er schießt auf der Anzahl über 300. Er schießt auf die Kraft wieder. Er ist ein elektrischer Spieler. Es gibt kaum Spieler, die so charismatisch oder so flamboyant sind wie er.
Tim Kirchner hat mir gesagt, er ist der beste Tagger im Spiel. Das war wunderschön zu sehen. Und sie lieben ihn gerade in Detroit. Und es ist eine wirklich gute Geschichte, Jeremy. Ich bin froh, dass du es erwähnt hast, weil ich dachte, es war fast fertig. Und sie haben noch drei Jahre zu diesem Kontrakt. Das ist ein Desaster. Und stattdessen hat er noch zwei Jahre zu diesem Kontrakt.
Die Tigers gehen nicht irgendwo. De facto AL-Team. Und Baez ist ein großer Teil davon.
You're talking about him like he's dead. Yeah, they threw me off.
Man, making that movie Flight must have been something. That was an alcoholic palate. I'm drunk right now.
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A little southern twang there. A little George Bush in that one. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz.
Dan, this is part of the Tony Tonight series where we uncover. It's my love letter to Miami and the things that we do and the places that we go. A big piece of Miami history is highlight and understanding what that means in its context of the sport. and what it means to Miami and the Hispanic culture that comes from Spain down to Miami.
I talked to Mike, who's obviously a co-owner of one of the teams. Good get. Yeah, great get.
Were you fat? Yes, you could say that. You know, whatever. And then we got players, we got coaches, we got a whole bunch of people. So this is Tony Tonight Invades Miami.
highlight all right we're here with the king of the battle court we're here with the mayor of the magic city fronton mike ryan ruiz owner of the cyclones co-owner co-owner of the cyclone where's your other co-owner i think bahamar Yeah.
this sport is played in this country and battle court is a very unique version of the sport that is played nowhere else so it's battle court i feel like growing up highlight used to be a big deal right back in the 80s you would have this place packed thousands of people watching highlight yeah um the transition from then to now like what's what's happened with highlight as a sport
Did you know how much was going to go into being a highlight owner?
Do you think that Hi-Li is a sport that is accessible enough for kids to start growing up and playing it?
I have. Have you thrown the pelota against the wall? Not well, yeah.
What I like about Battlecourt is it almost has the idea of like a live where you get teams together and you can start rooting for someone. What's your favorite thing about Battlecourt?
Mi gente, thank you for watching Tony Tonight.
Little Rock, Arkansas?
To that point, it's like you have James Harden and Kawhi Leonard on the same team and like we don't talk about the Clippers ever. And they're not even the best team in their city.
Zazzle, why was it that you didn't know half the people on my list?
We were trying to figure out, like, is it alphabetical maybe? But then it was like, Jonathan. It's like, no. Zaslow.
It was you, Fredo.
It was you.
I like it. Dan, to be honest though, I think he needs the longevity, right? Like he's come onto the scene so quickly from the time that he was working in Philly and doing his own thing to now getting to Austin, doing stuff with Rogan and like really exploding in that scene.
He needs the longevity of what a Richard Pryor would do, what an Eddie Murphy would do, what a Dave Chappelle would do, where you have these year in, year out. He's putting out great specials. He's selling out these arenas. But he continues to evolve his act as he matures.
But the way that he's created moments in these interviews and relationships with the people that he's interviewing makes it so that the people who are being interviewed actually want to participate. Because we've seen, I mean, we see it on regional sports broadcasts. We see it during games.
It's Scott Van Pelt. And that matters. And I don't know that they're Stephen A included. I don't know that there's another personality at ESPN that could be hosting that particular show at that particular time that would be able to have the viewership comfort with the athletes and ability to be serious and joke around the way that SVP does. He's he's a singular talent at that network right now.
He has a chance to shoot up draft boards, too, with this March Madness because he's one of the top prospects. But late in the season, he's really gotten a lot of buzz.
Why would you do that?
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Dan, stall for me. I love Mike claiming UNC as a win for Miami, seemingly.
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I'll tell you, winning that game to break an 11-game losing streak would be worth losing every game for the rest of the year.
This is definitely the article being removed from somewhere over the last 24 hours that I'm most concerned about.
The common fan might not understand that Jimmy always makes a mess when he leaves and then has a really good start in the next place. So it's a great point. There's there's kind of I would imagine it's probably 60, 40 cheers for Jimmy, maybe 75, 25. I would. That's a lot of booze. I'm telling you, that'll sound more like booze.
In talking to fans around the arena, like there was a fan there yesterday wearing a Jimmy Butler Warriors jersey. I have a little integrity. Right. And the people. Well, but exactly. That was the response from every person I talked to around him in that section.
And when it ends that way, though, and you're looking at it from the perspective of a fan that that knows how the league works, knows how basketball works. When you're talking about the common fan that's just like buying tickets to a game and they're saying, oh, Jimmy's coming back into town. That sounds interesting. They're dumb. No, I'm saying that not everyone works on a sports radio show.
Not everyone works for a sports podcast and has the ability to look at it and say, oh, man, for the rest of his career, he'll be this. They might have just looked at it when LeBron came back into town and say he won two championships. We still have D Wade and Chris Bosh. Things are fine. We're going to be competitive. It's cool. Where that same fan might look at it now and go, hey.
Jimmy never actually won officially anything here. We had those great moments, but the way this gets sabotaged and leads to the longest losing streak of Spoh's career, it might leave the common fan a little more bitter than those of us with the perspective to look at the long term of both of their careers.
Some people will say, oh, Jimmy's coming back to town. He ruined everything. Let's go and boo him. And some people will say, oh, Jimmy's coming back to town. That's going to be an event. Let's go cheer.
That's the perfect description, honestly. That's exactly right.
A present day version of me almost did the same thing. I couldn't believe, you know, there was a part of me that didn't want to believe there was a chance the Heat could win the game. And down the stretch, they start losing with about two minutes. It was an unbelievable game. The fourth quarter was electric. It was such a fun game.
And I was, you know, hoping that I could get to be a part of fun energy after a close win like that and, you know, be able to fist pump toward an NBA league pass camera. And instead, I had to experience one of the more deflating moments of my work life at the very least, if not professional life. I mean, guys. It would have been to break an eight-game losing streak, the longest of Spoh's career.
I can imagine whoever I would have been able to talk to after the game would have been a really good interview. This is about you. Yeah. Of course it was about me.
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They just want to Stanley Cup. This is the coolest thing that's ever happened. We're on the ice. We're standing on the ice. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. It's happening. It's all happening.
This is the coolest thing ever.
I did. I took Roy's seat for the entirety of this playoff run. And I would like to say I should probably sit in that seat for every playoff run for the rest of our lives. I agree. Based off the way that this went, I apologize. But you've got to sit auxiliary. I sit there because the Panthers won the fucking Stanley Cup. Yeah, baby. Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Are you saying that this Stanley Cup is all because of you? I would like to take my place where the credit is due After Greg, after Roy. But above some others. Above some others. And just saying, go Ice Cats.
It's my favorite stats to look at right now. And Carson Kelly is one of the guys playing catcher for them. Pete Crow Armstrong leading, you know, the National League, I believe, tied for the National League lead and stolen bases at the time of this recording. Are the Cubs sustainable?
Ja, okay. Okay, ich lasse das. Du denkst an... Ich glaube, du denkst an Felipe Alou. Ja. Felipe Alou. Entschuldige. Ich lasse das. Noch falsch.
Sorry.
I'm going to allow Chris the chance to steal it. That's late. That was late to guess Bobby Valentine. That was late. Robin Ventura. Oh, okay.
Natürlich war es Willy Randolph. Verdammt.
Das ist so furchtbar. Es ist jetzt 2-1,5, dank Taylor's Blunder. Jetzt fühle ich die Druck. Taylor, what's the next question?
Von 2000 bis 2005? Ich gehe mit den Texas Rangers. Nein. Es ist nicht die Texas Rangers. Chris Cody mit der Chance zu stehlen.
Tejada hat einen MVP gewonnen. Und Giambi. Giambi hat einen MVP gewonnen. Also habe ich es für die falschen Gründe gedacht. Du hast es für alle falschen Gründe gedacht.
Also, lasst uns das einfach so machen. Chris Cody hat mich jetzt 2,5 zu 2 gewonnen. Es sollte 3 sein. Wegen von Taylors Fehler. Es könnte 3 zu 2 sein. Und er dachte, dass die MVP die A's gewinnt, weil er dachte, dass alle Pitcher mit ihren potenziellen Cy Youngs, dass sie nicht gewinnen würden. Das wäre der Grund, warum... Aber das Replay, ich wollte rein. Oh mein Gott. Hey, hey, hey.
Ich denke, es sind die Orioles. Und das ist nur wegen der Pitching.
zu den Orioles zu sein? Sind die Orioles die Mannschaft, die man langefristig schauen muss? Sind sie in mehr Schwierigkeiten, als man sie wäre, wenn man ein Braves-Fan wäre?
Das ist, wo ich mit euch zusammenfassen möchte. Für mich, ja. Vielleicht die coolste Überraschung der ersten 15 Spiele der Saison ist, dass durch 15 Spiele die Marlins ein Spiel über 500 Spiele haben. Das ist mit ein paar Spielen in der Division, mit den Braves und den Nationals und den Mets. Für mich ist die Marlins die coolste Überraschung der Saison. Habe ich das richtig gesagt?
A fun season to watch some pitching with the Marlins and the rest of this baseball season. For that, you need to follow these guys at Cespedes Barbecue on Twitter and I believe across platform. Jake Mintz, Jordan Schusterman, all their work at Yahoo Sports. Thank you, fellas. We gotta get back to our trivia game.
Das hat so viel geholfen. Taylor, du hast mich aus meinem Spiel geschlagen. Und jetzt fühle ich mich wie ein Verlierer. Guck mal. Bis nächste Woche.
Here's the pitch. A two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the Pitch Clock. Pitch Clock ist wieder da. Das ist Chris Cody. Taylor Vipulis ist mit uns. Unser Experte wird momentan hier sein, um über die 2025 MLB-Saison zu sprechen. Aber wie immer sind wir hier auf Pitch Clock. Chris? Das ist ein obnoxious Mirror hinter Taylor.
Ich wollte nur sagen, dass ich Taylor zeigen möchte. Taylor, ist das dein Kindertum, dein Elternplatz? Nein.
Das ist falsch. Oh, das ist falsch. Jeremy, Chance to Steal. 2007, ist das Jimmy Rollins? Das ist nicht Jimmy Rollins. Das war es nicht.
Ich hatte das. Ich hatte das. Ich hatte das. GQ ist mit mir.
Das ist Bullcrap. Es ist noch 1-0. Ich werde einen Asterisk dorthin legen, um mich zu verletzen. Chris bekommt einen halben Punkt. Ich bin 1-2,5. And now to the 2025 baseball portion of today. I have our experts with us. It's the fellas from Cespedes Family Barbecue, Jake Mintz and Jordan Schusterman. Guys, it's awesome to have you back here on the Pitch Clock.
And it's been a really fun start to the 2025 MLB season. I want to dive right into it with you. Wer ist ein Spieler im Major-League-Baseball dieses Jahr, der in den ersten wenigen Wochen zu einem heißen Start gekommen ist, der am liebsten für dich war? Ob das eine coole Überraschung ist oder ein Spieler, der jetzt endlich zu seinem Potenzial lebt, was auch immer du das sein möchtest.
That's exactly why we asked you, right? Two guys who people aren't necessarily going to be watching. You have an opportunity in those two players to see some elite baseball. Jordan, who has stood out to you so far?
Ich möchte an eine bestimmte Mannschaft gehen, weil vielleicht der spannendste Anfang der Saison der Cubs-Offense war. Overall. I mean, they're averaging over six runs a game. I think they have like 20 more runs to this point than any other team in baseball. You know, games played, changes, some of those things. But it's been crazy. It's not just Kyle Tucker, who's going crazy.
Bobby's dad's funny. We're fans of the show.
OK, so it's Sugath, LeBron, and Andrew Santino.
Hey, Andrew, quick question for you. Our show tries to be a great yes-and show. We're not. You are excellent at yes-and. What are some tips you can give our poor show to get better at it?
Wow. That was impressive.
We know that. We know. We're not going to say it out loud. Obviously, Andrew has to guess, but we know.
Dan, it's not just that. In front of any comedian, it would have been bad. But I'm such a huge fan of Andrew Santino and the Bad Friends podcast. Like if it was anyone else, if it was Carlos Mencia, I'd be like, ah, I'll take that L. It's just brutal.
Ah, the breaking news. It never stops. Adam Schefter tweets. That was no enthusiasm there. What happened? That was so boring. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Yeah. We are back.
This is actually not the happiest story ever. That's why I was getting into news breaking.
I was getting into serious journalists.
No, no one died. Yeah. Because you're going to hear the name and think, man. No. Lee Corso, the legendary ESPN broadcaster, will make his final headgear pick on College Game Day on Saturday, week one, August 30th. So we're not going to get the full season of a goodbye, but week one we will say goodbye to Lee Corso. That's pretty exciting because I'm happy for him.
I've been stressed out the last few years watching him on television, so I'm happy now that we can celebrate him and send him off. And hopefully he'll still be around. They need to keep the visual of him around, even if he's not on air as much.
Mike has wrote on Twitter, could this be in Miami? Because doesn't Florida, Miami play week one?
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It's my bad. Nico's not here, so.
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You're studying a pitcher's, like, what he throws on first pitches and second pitches. Scouting reports, yeah.
Somebody who gets hit by a pitch a lot will get hit 12 times a season.
Love a good like doo-doo-doo-doo-doo when you're like scanning your eyes on a website. Yeah. A little filler noise. Yeah.
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Thank you for standing up in the name of feminism, Dan.
Unlike our steaks, the producer's well done. Hanger?
And I'm like, that's right. But see, I already know that I don't like people. I'd love the experience of getting to know some animals and knowing what their personalities are like. I don't need to know more people. You're assuming the animals are going to like you, Jeremy.
They might not like me, but I'd rather have this really cool, unique experience that no one else in the history of mankind has been able to experience. Am I so wrong to want to speak to animals? I'd also love to know what my pets think about me.
Well, I really thought that I wanted to know what you guys thought about me when I didn't work here. And then I started working here and I learned what you thought about me. You guys might be convincing me that I might want to speak different languages instead of speaking to animals.
Good reference.
I think this is an unfortunate examination of the psyches of the people in this room because, Dan, you and I both wanted to know what animals think about us while Amin and Tony were like, yeah, let me know every language so I can go to whatever bar I want and talk shit with people because they want to use it for the fun and glory and we both want to use it to feel even more self-conscious than we already do.
Yes, it is, Dan.
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This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stuckatz Podcast.
Thank you, I appreciate that. There's one problem though, I've had an itch on my nose for the past 10 minutes and I can't get to it. I would love to scratch your nose.
Thank you, Chris. I appreciate you.
Ja, ich habe auch den Captain C auf meinem alten Shirt. Das hilft auch. Ich bin der Captain heute.
It should be assistant. You're assisting the captain?
Alternate.
We've got to start with her. because Roz won with the Warriors and she won with the Liberty. She is in the Rings Club along with me. My teams win. There you go. Good to have you on the team. Roz, the question is, if you cover a team and you win a championship, that team wins a championship, do you get to call yourself a champion?
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Because the first time I put on a pair, I knew my underwear drawer would just simply never be the same. Tommy John just recently sent some of their product to those of us in the shipping container, and this is my first time wearing Tommy John underwear. I was really blown away by the comfort, by the stretch that was available within the design, by the texture.
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Welcome to The Pitch Clock. Here's The Pitch, a two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is The Pitch Clock. Hey, fans of the Pitch Clock, there's another voice you're about to hear.
There it is. Yeah. Pitch Clock, we're here. It's another week of our baseball trivia coming at you with Taylor in just a second. We will then get to our baseball expert. But Taylor, it's me against Chris again. Why don't you tell us what our game is today?
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Yeah, and that was the bad. Hopefully, this is the good.
That's correct. All right. From the Brewers to the Tigers to the Rangers. How about that one?
Yeah. I think you made that easy, but it's the New York Yankees. Incorrect.
Chris Cody with a chance to steal. You jerk. You fully just led me into it and I let you do it. I didn't even second guess myself simply because Chris was like, oh, easy one.
This is heartbreaking. The stakes are way too high for getting the question wrong. And now we get to our 2025 MLB expert. David Sampson is here with me. We're actually both on Zoom, and I'm wearing glasses now, reading glasses, to show that time has passed.
Nonetheless, David, I wanted to bring you in today because Rafael Devers signed a 10-year, $315 million contract with the Boston Red Sox in 2023 to extend in Boston as their third baseman at MLB. That was a $313 million deal. This offseason, the Red Sox signed Alex Bregman to a deal. And to Devers' public dismay, Devers has moved to designated hitter from third base. He made public comments.
He didn't want to move, but eventually acquiesced. He moved to the designated hitter position. Now, just now, after a historically slow start to the season, Devers was finally starting to heat up.
But Red Sox first baseman Tristan Casas goes down to an injury, and with him being out for the year, Devers was now asked to potentially play first base for the Boston Red Sox, and this is where everything has gone awry because Devers publicly criticized the club for their decision-making, including Craig Breslow, the Sox chief baseball officer, who, by the way, was hired 10 months after
Raphael Devers signed his extension in Boston with then President Chaim Blum. So those comments from Devers included, quote, I know I'm a ballplayer, but at the same time, they can't expect me to play every single position out there. In spring training, they talked to me and basically told me to put away my glove that I wasn't going to play any other position but DH.
So right now, I just feel like it's not an appropriate decision by them to ask me to play another position. And finally, I'm not certain what issue he has with me. Devers said of Breslow, who played 12 seasons in the majors himself, he played ball. And I would like to think that he knows that changing positions like that isn't easy.
Your perspective comes from someone who worked as a president of business operations in Major League Baseball, where you have a deep investment in a player like Devers. And then you also have your president of baseball operations who you've hired to do this job. They're at odds. Have you ever experienced anything like this?
And what is your perspective about where things stand in this incredibly complicated story between Boston and Rafael Devers?
I just can't believe that the Red Sox didn't find a way
to not have these quotes be the quotes that are floating around about their franchise from their star player and there's a whole other conversation to be had about the fact that this all was done through a translator and how complicated that makes everything both in the locker room and out of the locker room but it's time for us to end this part of this segment and move on now it's officially round three i'm down three to one taylor what's my question
I don't even know if I'm going to have a guess. I have nothing. The Philly Dome.
Jeremy with the chance to steal. I don't have it, Taylor. Tell me what it is so that I can get upset. It's the Metrodome.
The only reason I knew Adrian Gonzalez was because it's Marlins history. There was no way I'm getting a question like this otherwise.
David, the Rockies are historically bad. But this team through 40 games, 7 and 33. That's the second worst record through 40 games in MLB history.
Hey, look, the first series that the Pope's White Sox played after he was named the Pope, they won two out of three against the Marlins. So they're headed in the right direction with him in power.
the visuals of him at the world series in 2005 is just it's absolutely mind-blowing it's like a break in the simulation uh david we've been this is where we're gonna wrap with you we've been focusing um i've been i've been referring to this as a golden era in major league baseball in terms of stardom i just think that there are so many superstars all around the league that it's almost difficult to be able to pay attention to all of them at once and so i've been having our guests
pick a star amongst a few that I can name to kind of highlight here. So over the last week, some of the ones that have stood out to me, you've got Shohei Otani. Obviously, at any time, we could talk about Shohei. But his late-inning heroics have been cool, and no one hits a late-game home run in a cooler way than Shohei Otani. There's Pete Grohl Armstrong in Chicago, who has just been spectacular.
Let's talk about him. On both sides of the ball. And the last one I'll name will be Kyle Schwarber, who, weirdly enough, might be having the best season of his entire career in a contract year here in Philly as they struggle. So Pete Crow Armstrong, it seems like he's the guy you want to focus on here.
David, thank you for highlighting part of it here. I know we spent a lot of time on transaction stuff when it comes to Rafael Devers, but that's why we appreciate your expertise. Thank you very much. And now it is time to get back to the competition between myself and Chris.
Locking it in?
I'm going to say it's James Shields, and I'm locking it in.
Why did I say? Are you kidding? Come on. Also, let's, Ethan, get on it. At some point in his career, they called him Jamie Shields. I promise. You said of Jamie Moyer. No, I'm not.
I can't remember.
It's like the pressure of this is really making every player who ever played disappear in my brain.
Fun fact while we wait.
Ethan just distracted my line of thinking with a Fun fact about Michael. What the hell was that? I ate it. What am I thinking about? The Brewers pitchers from 2007 to 2014. Helpful nugget.
He had a cup of coffee. Yeah, I mean, obviously.
Yeah, I don't feel confident. Yeah, I don't feel good about this.
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Roz, we've known each other a long time. I've told you all along that you bury the fact that you, I don't feel like you promote enough that you were a high-level player. You played at Stanford for four years. You're all defensive team and played for Nigeria, the national team. And you are a hooper first and foremost before you broadcast.
But I did want to ask you, you know, as we see the game has grown considerably on the women's side, how do you compare kind of playing against the elite players of your era versus the elite players today?
I wondered the same thing when I saw it on the sheet. I was like, good or gold? What's good and what's bad? I don't know. Am I playing the game incorrectly? No, I think the game, as presented to you by whoever came up with it, I'm not going to name his name, not really a great game. All right, good or gold?
That's just good. You're playing it right, Roz. Just saying no, that's how you play the game.
Working for a network with them in conjunction. He covers them, Dan. I'm not asking questions. I'm just asking if you want to ask questions. He's not banging drums either.
Bang! Well, I do, professionally.
It's not SAC. They're Athletics. Should be the Las Vegas Athletics via Sacramento, formerly of Oakland.
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Last night's different than some of these other games, I think. Like last night, they just got outplayed.
the Clippers are a better team they got outplayed from the jump and they never really had a chance in that game the games that you look at where you wonder what's going on it's the games against the Hornets it's the games against the Bulls and in both of those games it's floundering down the stretch but really what it is is building up a 15 to 20 point lead early in the game and not having the firepower to put it away and hold on to those leads in the second and third quarter it's
when you're up and you can't step on another team's neck and end a game. And that's because of the dysfunction that we've seen offensively and particularly defensively for this team. But the problem's really been they can't get Tyler Hero and Bam Adebayo to play well on the same night or for the same stretch. Hero was elite as a three-point shooter, as a scoring guard up until February.
And then since the start of February, excluding last night, he's shooting under 30% from three. Basically, since then, Bam Adebayo has played some of the best offensive basketball of his career. It's totally disjointed. And despite the fact that these guys obviously are getting along better than they did while Jimmy was here. They stink. They stink. They stink right now.
Well, I mean.
Yeah, give it like 30-game sprint, 30 games in the play. It's perfect. This couldn't have worked out better for Jimmy despite not wanting to actually go there from the beginning.
Well, when they win it.
You're wondering how it's going to go in the playoffs. I'm wondering how it's going to go 12 days from now across the street. Because the Heat are floundering. They're losing all these games. The team is frustrated. When they're missing open shots, when they're on a run, you can kind of hear smattered boos in the crowd. The fans are very frustrated right now watching the product.
And 12 days from now, Jimmy Butler and the Golden State Warriors are going to show up in this arena... that's going to be one of the regular season games to watch of the year, regardless of how the Heat are playing, because it's going to feel. And I'm intrigued to see the way that the crowd reacts, right? I think you're going to have a mixed group, honestly.
They might give you a moment in a timeout where they show a graphic. I highly doubt that there's a fully produced video. And the circumstances that have happened in the last few weeks with both franchises have only made it less likely. I wouldn't have expected it regardless the way it was sabotaged.
They did that with Max Drewson when he was here recently as well.
They're not doing a tribute. First quarter video.
Well, no, that's what they did with Max Streuss. My expectation would be that they would do the same thing. They might give him the Jimmy Butler, let everybody applaud, and they might do a Thank You Jimmy graphic, the same one you saw on social media. But honestly, they don't normally give tribute videos for anyone that hasn't won a title.
At some jobs, you could feel good about yourself. Which interview was that? I want to go back and watch it. No, I don't want that.
Okay, so here's... If we really want to get into the weeds, because I think that's what this show has become today. Over at the Kaseya Center, when you're interviewing post-game, traditionally, for the last forever, those interviews have just been over the air on TV. And this season...
Halfway through this season, there was a decision made that now these interviews are going to go out throughout the arena. And so it changes the perspective of how you conduct an interview. You're trying to play to the crowd. You're trying to get one of the players to acknowledge the crowd. That's sort of part of the yin and the yang, the balance of what this is. You're trying to get real answers.
You're also trying to get energy. And the first couple of times that I did this, I struggled. I didn't hold the mic close enough, so there was a little bit of feedback that because it's a different thing than when you're doing the interview for TV and those mics are less sensitive. I felt the pressure and the nerves. And in this scenario, it was the first time it went smooth.
I got, I think this might've been an interview with Tyler Hero and got him to chuckle about an all-star game. I just felt good about myself. I'm allowed to feel good about myself. This place refuses to let that happen.
I have a new song if you want it. Did you already make it? Yeah, it's ready. All right.
so no confidence strong i felt confident until you guys did what you've done for the last 45 minutes making fun of me and i'm not sure if we have it ready quite yet um because i needed to make sure that everyone has the lyrics because this is an important song i really put my heart into all right i want to play it in a second you do a good job chris chris is doing a good job when he says as a superhero i do love the superhero i've delivered the news like as a
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God bless football's happening in the other studio. I had to come into Studio A. I had to tell our director to stop testing audio because I needed to sing from several different distances from a microphone.
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It's one of the most remarkable. I thought that the chase for the 10 seed in the Eastern Conference was the most interesting chase. No, it's the chase for that division because you have the Heat with a real possibility, a team that's lost several games in a row, that looks despondent, that can't beat anybody good and can't beat anybody bad.
And yet they might very well win that division and hang a banner for a Southeast Division championship. Yeah.
If you only watched basketball for the first time last night, you would think Zubats is one of the greatest centers that's ever played the game of basketball.
This was not last night. I don't know why we're doing that. That's me feeling good about a good walk-off interview. That's a fist pump for myself. That's incredible.
I'm allowed to feel good about myself? Who did this? Who took this video? Why does this exist? It's grainy. I am sweating right now.
Man. This is journalism.
If you guys thought that I would be most embarrassed by that time I was caught licking salt and vinegar chips off of my finger, it's not. It's this. And I can't believe everyone in the studio betrayed me this way.
No. No. Guys. Guys. I don't even know.
I played baseball. I was a pitcher. That's what that was.
I might not play it here, all right? You guys might not see it because I'm the song and dance man over here. But at the end of the day, I'm more competitive than probably anybody in this studio. I'm surprised you didn't hop over the line.
I do think Jessica might be more competitive. I will not lose a competitive competition.
I'm really glad this is the most embarrassing thing that's happened to anyone regarding a broadcast in this hour.
That's right. Yeah, it's great. I'm really excited to get this one to you guys at some point, but that's kind of the environment here. Most mornings I'm showing up after taking about an hour and 45 minutes to drive in. Like this morning, I left my house at 635. I got here at 825. And then I'm running back and forth between studios trying to sing songs.
I mean, they're leading the league in something there. How does it feel in Heatland for you right now, Jeremy? Like me personally? Yeah, yeah, yeah. As a person, it's to kind of go out and be like, everything's great. I'd like it better than I did two weeks ago. It was getting really toxic around there. He's like reverse Chicken Little. Did Jimmy poop his pants? I saw that. I did see that.
I guess it could. He's just not hydrated. Which makes sense.
It's been a while since he's played, right? Takes a lot of days off. He does. No days off.
No.
I'm excited. Super excited. This is my first time doing Thursday Thunder in... In 2025? For sure in 2025. You're never here on Thursday. Yeah, I'm not a Thursday guy. Oh, that's right. By the way, Thursday Thunder is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. So how does this work? Walk me through this because we have the Thursday Thunder music playing.
He's going to be at All-Star.
I really didn't expect to have some of the best food I've ever had.
Two hands.
Stanton, a big country. How dare you say the Marlins didn't spend money? They signed Cal Quantrill yesterday. They are no longer the lowest spending team this offseason. Why don't you go talk to the Cardinals or the Brewers, Greg Cody? How about their owners?
They sold it by June. What are we doing? Revisionist history, guys. They really did. Enough time passes and anyone can look good. It's so bad.
Except Bruce Sherman.
Billy, I think yesterday it was agreed that it would need to be a tragic death for David Sampson for him to get into the Hall of Fame. Like tragic. He would have to have a tragic death. He would have to personally in order to potentially get into the Hall of Fame.
I did write that. I remember. But now Samson deserves to be in the Hall of Fame because he saved baseball? No, because Greg likes him.
That's fair.
Yeah, it's not the do your job of fame.
JT Blondie Black. Fullback or point star? Blondie Black.
The rich people who take advantage of the fact that they can influence power with their money.
I think no matter what, anyone in any private sector, they're trying to get the best deal for themselves. And in some parts of the private sector, no matter whether they're providing what we would view as a public good or not, having a baseball team in your town, public good to an extent. But when you're in the private sector and you're trying to get that best deal for yourself and yourself alone,
That's where we start to kind of blur those lines between what's OK, what's not morally, not morally. You're right. David Sampson's job. Make the most money I can. Get the best deal for me and my fellow people who are financially involved and move on.
But to be in the position to sort of just write that off as that's what he's supposed to do and then make that the case for him to be in a Hall of Fame is an interesting one.
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The Thunder are really good, Dan. We mentioned it yesterday.
Welcome to The Pitch Clock. Here's The Pitch, a two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is The Pitch Clock. The Pitch Clock.
Harry Carey, Chris Cody is back. You'll find out who our guest is coming up shortly. But first, we have to start with some trivia.
Thank you. Yeah, which was helpful, except I don't know. Um...
Oh! It was a Yankee. I didn't know he was a Yankee in 98. Yeah, that's... Ugh!
Not Brian Giles. My guess is Aramis Ramirez. It's not Aramis Ramirez.
Oh, it is Jason Kendall.
I'll guess.
I'm going to guess.
I know he's not. I was going to guess Carlos Beltran because I have nobody else. And I know he went from the Astros to the Mets. I know that. I know he didn't play for the Phillies. Now I'm starting to get a little worried because this was one of the easier ones. Yeah, of course it was. This is Billy Wagner.
And now David Sampson with us as our guest this week, our MLB expert here on the Pitch Clock. David, thank you very much for joining us here in the midst of what's going to be a very competitive game with me and Chris. But I want to talk to you about the competition happening on the field in Major League Baseball.
And we have to start with a guy who's going to be competing for another decade plus in the same city in which he's been competing, which is Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in Toronto. He signs a 14-year, $500 million extension. David, were you surprised to see this contract extension happen?
And how do you react seeing someone actually stay with the franchise they were with and not just signing with the Dodgers or the Yankees?
Let's talk about Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge, somehow after two of the greatest offensive seasons that we've ever seen, as you're watching what the peak of this is, for however long it continues. He's on the wrong side of 30 already. There's almost no way that it continues much longer than a couple of years here. Maybe.
So when you see this type of peak in terms of this hitter, how great is that hitter?
Especially as a Yankee, right? That's such a part of the narrative when you're one of the great Yankees, when you're the captain. It's about ultimately winning championships, whether, you know, in baseball more than in other sports, an individual player can only influence that so much. Are we going to go over?
GQ in my ear. This one's easy. Jerk. Very helpful. I'm overthinking. I'm going with Tori Hunter. It was Tori Hunter.
Oh, no. I should. Oh, I know. I know this one, too. I know this one, too. I get the same first, though. Yeah, all right. But let me finish writing it down. Okay, go ahead. Carlos Delgado. Carlos Delgado.
Carlos Delgado. Carlos Delgado.
Relax. I'm going to put all the pressure on. I'm Matt Delusional, and you're going to lose to me. You went with Keith Folk. I'll go Johnny Damon. Oh, yeah.
He definitely played for the A's and the Red Sox. I don't know that he was ever a member of the Yankees. But I could be wrong.
I've said this player's name on this show.
I was just like, who played?
Hold on a minute. Hold on a second. Hold on a minute. We both thought we got it. No, the guy he's thinking of. I know the guy I'm thinking of. First baseman. I feel like, no, that's not who I'm thinking of. Wait, do you have one written? I have one written. James Loney. Ooh, James Loney. You're not James Loney, but I like that guy.
No, right? It's the speedster in the outfield, Carl Crawford. Oh, no! Of course it's Carl Crawford! That was so easy. A moment I want to highlight with you, David, and there's some heart to this, which is a cool place to go with you on this first episode that you're on the pitch clock for this season. It's the Conines.
On opening weekend, Jeff Conine is the first inductee into the Marlins Hall of Fame. And that same weekend, his son Griffin not only starts on opening day. But then on the day of his induction, robs a homer, hits a homer. He was spectacular. He's had a really fun start to the season, which is exciting for a player who's, I believe, 29 coming into this season. How special was this?
And can you describe why moments like this one are so special for the game of baseball individually?
And watching and talking.
Look, we all have been talking a lot. We always talk about the AL East, the NL East as sort of the powerhouse divisions. I'm looking across the country and I'm seeing a great division in the NL West. It's partially because the Giants have been one of the great surprises this season. So, David, I guess what I want to get to here is. A, is the NL West the best division in baseball?
And B, are the Giants the biggest surprise of the season thus far?
Another surprising team here is the Braves on the opposite side of the coin. They've been awful to start the season.
We saw with the Marlins last year where getting off to just a horrendous start can completely derail everything. And so you've got some teams here that need to either turn it around or try to keep it up. But baseball, these first couple of weeks have been about as good as it gets. And if you're a fan, I hope that we've provided you guys in these first few weeks of this show –
with enough analysis to get you in get if you have any questions if you if you live in a specific area and you want to know who should i root for what team should i follow who are some players to follow reach out jeremy tache on twitter and blue sky david p samson across platform i'm sure i'm sure you'd love to hear from them but yeah reach out to me reach out to me hey let's get back to our game with chris this this is a tough one oh i'm looking at it now player nine
I don't think I know who this is. I got it, baby. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I got it. Go for the theater. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got to get it. Al Leiter. Chris Cody. It's Al Leiter. It is. Jeremy. Nope. Benito Santiago. Let's go. Wow.
This is a jerk move. Why would you land on this path? This is so obviously a player that we're just going to know is a White Sox. But we have to just...
Oh, man. Yes. All right. It wouldn't have mattered. Thank God. I guess either way, once you said the answer I had, it took away all the drama for me. I'm just thinking of long-term White Sox. Thank goodness. Hey, that's a second victory. Somebody has two wins. Somebody has none.
Yes. It's just like disappointed.
When I have discretion, Dan is always like, I mean, you don't have any discretion on the show. So what he wants me to have is creshen.
It must be so then. If our overlord says so.
Dan, I don't want you to be dismayed. I want you to be made.
Guys, all these things are distractions. James Franklin is only going to keep the tractions. He's going to get rid of the distractions.
Wait a second. Are you saying that they're going to dismantle the conferences and just have mantled independents?
I'm loving this discussion. Less cushion, more discussion.
There is a difference between Beijing and dying your hair. To me, dying your hair is when you've got gray hair and you turn it black. Beijing is like, I don't have hair, and I'm trying to give the illusion of it. No, he's got a lid on him.
He didn't have a barber. He had a painter. Someone with painter's tape right here and then the paint roller in the paint. And then roll it up.
No, I believe Roy, because at first I was kind of wondering, like, how do you do it? But now that you mentioned it's back to front, he's going back to front, and then it slips.
Well, it's because it's that turn. If you don't take that turn well, you slip and it goes forward. And what ends up happening is you destroy your eyebrow. And what Roy wanted to do was he wanted to destroy his eyebrow. He didn't want to destroy it.
No one's disputing that you wouldn't have eyebrows. No one should. But some people are puting.
Someone should be puting it. That's all I'm saying.
Greg, normally I would have sympathy for you, but you're the one who opened this door. You're the one who brought it to us. And now you're trying to dissuade us. Stop trying to dissuade us. Dissuade us.
Good looking man. He made a bet with his team. Hey, if we do this, if we hold the whatever to under 100 points, I'll shave my eyebrows off. And so the Hawks, who at the time weren't that good, did this miraculous thing on court and so man of his word.
I believe that's when he also shaved his head because remember Mike Woodson used to have a head of hair kind of like Stephen A. Smith's receding hairline but like thick hair where it was and he shaved everything off including his eyebrows. That's a lost bet right there.
Okay?
So tomorrow? It could be.
It could be. It sounds like you're dissenting when you should be scenting. I'm—
Yeah, well, you know what? Walt Disney didn't create his empire in a day, Dan. He was knee first before he was Disney. No, don't push that button.
You're always so damn strict. Why don't you be district for a little bit?
Can we agree that sick voice is a very cool voice?
It is a sexy voice.
Fart around. Scorsese. Disgusting. Really? It should be more gusting.
Closer, please. The sexy, sick voice, right? Like, we all wish we could have that voice all the time. Yeah, maybe.
Or perhaps the most timely.
I really wanted you to say, you guys keep saying I don't like Jeremy, and the only reason why you think I'm mean to Jeremy is because I don't like Jeremy. I wanted you to end with that one, I guess. I wish I had done that.
Tatum hatte wie viele? Mike Schur. Wer kümmert sich? Bums. Die Knicks scheißen. Das ist so viel schlimmer als das Verlangen in der Heimat.
Es gibt keine Körperbewegung für den Celtics Offense, die wirklich frustrierend zu sehen ist, denn selbst am Ende des Spiels, in der letzten Behandlung, wo Jason Tatum 1-on-1 gegen Mitchell Robinson geht, passiert nichts anderes. Also, als er versucht, 1-on-1 zu kommen und die Bewegungen zu nutzen, gibt es keine anderen Optionen für ihn.
Und wenn du dir das anschaust, gab es einen Streit, wo sie 16 mit etwa 8.30 Uhr zu gehen sind. 7 von ihren nächsten 10 Besatzungen endeten mit einem 3-Punkt-Attemptat. Wenn du 16 bist, mit so viel Zeit übrig, ist es nicht nur die Verletzung von 3s, sondern auch die Zeit, die du entscheidest, sie zu nehmen. Und das ist der Teil der Celtics Offense, der ein bisschen verwirrend ist.
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Es scheint also, dass Jay Fiedlers Vater Anthony Masons Trainer war. Aber es scheint nicht so zu sein, dass er legal Anthony Masons Vater ist, also weiß ich nicht, ob er legal ein Bruder ist.
Bruders, vielleicht. Er ist wie mein dritter Sohn. Ich glaube nicht, dass er mein dritter Sohn ist. Was meinst du?
Der kleine rote Baseball-Hat und Bruce Springsteens Hinterkopf auf dem Born in the USA Cover. Hat Hall of Fame.
Blues Brothers Fedora. Nein, er hat eine Bandana gewonnen. Viele Male während des Tours. Aber nein, das ist der Mandela-Effekt.
Wow. So far, long series. But yeah, it doesn't look good right now.
Mike Schur may or may not have called last night's performance utterly embarrassing.
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That started before they went to the NBA finals. I think it's important that we contextualize when we were...
We got Butler covered, though, right? You're not going to ask about that again. They won nine of their last ten games.
I can't keep having a conversation with a person who's going to talk to me like, I don't know what I'm talking about. I've watched every game in those two and a half years that he hasn't watched. I saw the box score, though. Dan, is this what you feel like with Stugatz? Is this it? Do I finally understand what you're... Whoa.
Imagine watching them every day and then being that wrong. It was good. I don't understand. Whatever. You're transitioning from one era to the next. You're having one season played 500 basketball, and it's the end of the world. Who would they be tanking for? Cooper? They're not tanking.
In their last five games, they're three and two, and they've combined, I believe, to lose by nine points to the number one and three seed in their conference. And last night was on the road without five of their players. They're a mediocre team. Terry Rozier has played horrendous basketball. He's been... Really, really bad. And that trade of Kyle Lowry and a pick to get him? Nightmare of a deal.
You defended that deal. At the time, it was the right move. You wanted Kyle Lowry shot into the sun!
I'm trying to just kick you. That's where Jimmy wanted to go. Jimmy wanted to go to Phoenix originally. He ended up in Golden State.
Yeah, that's right.
You talk about grout the way that David Sampson talks about gardeners.
I'm with you on that. I would rank, yeah, a walk-in shower ahead of the tub. It's the recipe for getting injured. At this point. Tub? The oldest show in the world.
Oh, that's worse. I didn't know you guys all didn't trust your own shower floors. I don't wear shoes in the shower.
You give them gloves, too, don't you? It's a laugh party. They're laughing at you, I believe. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Did you just say it's a laugh party?
It's a laugh party is what you get when you're using Google Translate four times.
And you get it back and it's like, oh. Laugh riot. Having a real laugh party. I think Roy's been amazing today. Oh, man.
Oh, my God.
I'd like you to do every read. You did 1-900-Flowers.
The back story of what's been happening on the show today is that we've been trying to prevent more heat talk from happening, and it's peeking through.
All right, Jeremy, you get 30 seconds.
I'm really glad we're talking about this instead. For Scott Boris. Why is Izzy wearing a hockey sweater? We are across the street.
Look, did he profile you as somebody who might want to make a political statement and also use a bathroom that he's not comfortable with you using?
Separate from the Hakez group chat.
We measured him yesterday, didn't we? Whoa.
Separate from the vultures. I found, by the way, I was in. Come on, man. We were measuring Ethan and David because we were trying to get a scientific verdict from Ron McGill on which of these two people would the turkey vultures circling the Elser perpetually be most likely to take away. And I found, I mean, I was on the balcony of my room last night and I was admiring the vultures.
And then I looked up and saw 100 of them perched on the floor above me. 100? I will, I will. There's hyperbole everywhere in his story.
Okay, perpetually during the migration season, they are circling the Elser. God, do you hate not being the smartest guy in the world.
That guy's polling at 0%. Way less interesting.
It's just depth. Wait, what? You loved P.J. Tucker. I didn't say anything about P.J. Tucker. Where is Ryan Cortez?
There are two different Steve Smiths. Both played receiver in the NFL. Steven A. Smith. Yeah, again, polling at 2%. Also a basketball player named Steve Smith.
They were also the pair of moray eels in The Little Mermaid.
Never saw it. You never saw The Little Mermaid? No, I wouldn't watch movies like that with my kids. I wouldn't watch movies like that.
But now it's Barack.
Let Cortez in. He's in the waiting room.
Is Cortez here?
This is what I'm excited to see.
Oh, no. Same. He has the same glasses. Ryan Cortez. Where were you when you found out that PJ Tucker was true? Japan, clearly.
Can you reveal where you are so we can emotionally have a visual on your actual true self?
Cortez has a framed photo of the back of Andy Ellsberg. That's right. That's an iconic photo, yeah. But explain the moment, though. I don't expect everybody to know that Andy Ellsberg's back is an iconic thing for you guys.
David said something to me in the break that I just want everybody else to know and be aware of. He's doing his Dan imitation. David, this is actually a real thing.
Cortez, I hesitate to point out the obvious metaphor here, which is that Andy Ellsberg has turned his back to you.
I just like how that euphemism, he's like a heat culture player who's not in the heat yet, means can't shoot, seems to try hard, would enjoy being yelled at. Good at defense.
Pretty damning argument there. Jimmy Butler has never been better than he was during that Sixers run. That should have been a finals run.
This is a genuine revelation to me. David said, you're peeing again at 11 a.m.
This friendship between Roy and Samson is really throwing me off.
I think that's what the Super Bowl is actually going to come down to.
But that's an interesting decision you're making there, right? Because you're inviting a whole other world of germs. Yeah.
Wait, what kind of toilet seat do you have?
I create a layer between me and the seat. You're talking about at a public bathroom. Yeah. I do it at people's homes, though.
No, I don't touch those. Would love a seat cover. No, we'll use a seat cover.
Yeah, I've got a sink that I send people to. Wait, do you send, is there a bathroom you send people that you think are dirtier than others? That's a yes. That's a yes.
There's a hedge. You've been a fight night. I've seen a couple of the bathrooms.
Now I'm reliving every instruction I was given. I mean, he limits drink consumption.
Yeah, flow max. I'm still stuck on the first thing.
Before we get into urology commercials, I'm still stuck on what David is doing in terms of his hovering. So you are just... You must not know any women. You're doing that? You're doing that? Yes, you're doing that. I know women that hover at, like, porta-potties. Like, my wife is not hovering at every toilet she sees.
What I wasn't sure about was whether David was on top of the seat and squatting, like, feet on seat.
I had David Sampson gargoyle.
If he has an angle.
What great athletes refer to as being in a flow state? Dick Trickle.
This was a problem at the spa for me last night.
Oh. Literally, it could be. Now we're in crazy town.
Yeah.
I'm reacting to Izzy's agreement with Amin.
That's been the thing, right? That's what's come back in this build. That's actually been what's come back to bite the heat a couple of times is, oh, no, we gave up these picks to make moves earlier on. And now what do we do come this moment at the same time? You need to maximize. Look, you have LeBron James and Luke.
Why are we talking about the emotions of rich people?
Sounds like we're having a Tiff.
I don't think that it should be the Lakers feeling like they overpaid.
Charlotte can feel good about getting a first round pick, a pick swap and a young player in Dalton Connect for moving on from a guy who has often injured and maybe won't be working with the core that they're building right now. They kick the can down the line. It's a timeline thing. It's a timeline thing.
That's the thing both of you were trying to say.
Yeah, just me in general is not great for everyone listening. But Phoenix is in a terrible spot now, right? Because they've shown Kevin Durant they were willing to move on from him. And their team is relatively mediocre. And Beal has been, as is obvious, an impossible guy to move, a contract to move. So what's to say that this offseason they don't decide now's the time to blow it up?
That they look at Houston and they take Devin Booker and they say, hey, we'll take all of our picks back plus more. Buddy, let me tell you something right now.
All of this was to set up is the idea of is Durant not an equally depressed asset come this summer and why overpay now and know that that type of guy could be available.
This is a fifth pursuit. No, I think that Phoenix is the most interesting team at the end of all of it. At the end of all of this, it's Phoenix that's most interesting because of the lack of movement, not the additions. They're the team that I'm looking at and going, look at those two guys who are now sitting right there on that roster.
And they've been doing it for a year. For everyone who looked at the Heat and said the same thing, it was a team that was forced to look internally and decide to go with a younger core in Miami. But Phoenix is in one of the strangest positions of any franchise in the league.
But he flexed the power to not get to Golden State and probably just didn't want to do any more than that. And Miami was sitting there and those two teams couldn't come to a deal. So he says, all right, I'll chill out in Phoenix, which is where I wanted to be to begin with. That at least seems to be where Kevin Durant is at.
It makes all of this that much more interesting that a player like that was available and now goes into a year where he's an expiring contract next year for anyone around the league to look at what's going on in Phoenix and go, is it? Is it worth moving something to go get that guy?
And would Phoenix be willing to do it now another summer into a season that, unless they go on some sort of really ridiculous special run that no one anticipates, will be another disappointment?
Well, those are all individual matchups this year is what Cortez is reading. And? Well, no. I mean, the sample sizes are obviously small. It's more the idea of going up against the other team's best offensive player, having someone in that starting lineup that's like, you know what? I don't want to team myself with Cortez.
I love you.
I gave the best Pete Alonzo stat that's ever happened, and they kicked me out of the show.
Welcome to the Pitch Clock. Here's the pitch. A two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the Pitch Clock. The pitch clock is back. Baseball. There's Chris. We're going to play a game in just a second with Taylor. We have our 2025 MLB expert, June Lee, joining us in moments. But Taylor, what's our game for today?
I'm going to give you guys a player from 2002.
Carlos Beltran. Who's going? Me. In 2002, Carlos Beltran was on the Royals opening day roster. Oh, my God. He was on the Royals. Good snipe there. Come on, man. That's where we got to start. All right. 1-0 lead.
He was not a Philly in 2002. He signed with the Phillies as a free agent going into 2003 and then got traded that season.
Where was he? Jeremy, you have a chance to steal. Can I steal back if he gets it wrong?
No. I don't think that's how it was. Was he a Baltimore Oriole that year?
Chris, he got Oriol'd again. He wasn't Oriol'd.
I mean, unfortunately, the double-stuff Oriol last week did not lead to a victory, so I'm not going to get too cocky. But it is 2-0 after one round. Jeremy, David Justice. There's two teams that came to mind immediately with David Justice. And in 2002, I can't decide if he was still with the... Talk it out.
I am... Well, I don't... I'm going to go ahead and guess that he was a... He said an A. He said an A, so that's his final answer. An Atlanta Brave. He was not an Atlanta Brave.
What a giant mistake. You looked at me like, should I say the A's? Now I'm panicked. Because now you have an opportunity to tie and I got cocky immediately in the first round. And now it's time for June Lee to join us here on this episode of The Pitch Clock as our 2025 MLB expert. June, we're going to dive into some of what you're doing right now in your work in just a couple of minutes.
But I want to start here on the Major League Baseball topic. And we're going to start with a team that is at the top of most people's power rankings right now, maybe the best team in the National League. It's the Philadelphia Phillies, who, at the time of this recording, since April 26th, are 21-6.
But, June, when we look at the Philadelphia Phillies, at this point, with the way they're playing, with what their roster looks like, Should we be considering them the cream of the crop in the National League and the real team to beat potentially over the Dodgers?
You mentioned Andrew Painter is a guy that the Phillies have been waiting on. And this week is the call up of a guy that we've all not necessarily been waiting on because this is a pretty early call up. But Jack Caglione, the former Florida Gator, who is now called up to the Kansas City Royals, one of the great.
power hitting prospects that we've seen in Major League Baseball in a long time so June what does it mean that the Royals are calling him up now what does it say about the player and your expectations of him and given the fact that they might lose a year of arbitration with him what does it say about what they think of what he will ultimately be
What's Chris's name here, Taylor? Robin Ventura.
Because I don't want to give you anything as you talk through this.
Yeah, it's never going to be that. And the Mets was where... I want to throw this at Taylor. The Mets were... Did it hit? I missed the camera. Nice reaction time. I'm going to go ahead and make my... Was he a Royal? He was not a Royal.
Chris, right city, wrong team. He was a Yankee. Oh, wow. In 2002, Robin Ventura was a Yankee, huh?
Not yet. All right, let's pick this back up. Round three. Great counsel. Huh. There's one. It's one of two teams.
Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and just say that at the start of that year, he was an Arizona Diamondback. Thank you. He was a Diamondback. Oh, thank God. I was just, I knew the other team. I was nervous. Yeah, the other team would have been the Brewers. 3-1 game here, and Chris Cody's up. Chris Cody, Chris Carpenter, a fellow Chris.
Yeah, it's one team. I genuinely, I genuinely, I know it's not. I know it's not. And I know that there's a team that he was on.
He was not a Cardinal. No way that he was a Cardinal. I cannot remember the team that he was on. Oh, was he a Toronto Blue Jay?
He was a Blue Jay. So it's 4-1. I'm down. 4-1. Headed into round four. My next name here.
Yeah. Yeah. There's plenty of opportunity. I want to talk to you, June, now about the work that you've been doing. Because for those who don't know, June has been doing work on his YouTube channel. The handle is IamJuneLee. And if you just look up June Lee on YouTube, you will find all of his work. One of the recent projects that you had was with Adam Ottavino.
So, dude, I want to dive into this with you. You squared off against a big leaguer. Tell me about this experience and what were your biggest takeaways from the time that you spent with Adam in the work that you're doing here on your YouTube channel?
There's some wonderful humanity in that piece as well. So I really recommend people go to June's YouTube channel and follow him on Instagram. But let's end here, June. Two guys that I want to focus on here this week, and I'm going to have you choose.
Either Ronald Acuna Jr., who's come back from his injury and gotten off to a ridiculously hot start, potentially influencing what the Braves can do this year. Or... The superstar that nobody ever seems to talk about, a guy who is always in the top 5 to 10 of every offensive category in baseball, Jose Ramirez, who's doing it yet again this season for Cleveland.
Which of these two guys do you want to focus on, June?
One of the great baseball players, not just of this decade, of this century. Go look at his statistics. He's been unbelievable. June, this has been an unbelievable conversation. June, we're going to get back to trivia, but thank you for joining us, and we'll have you back here next week. Jeremy, Gary Sheffield. Now, I know it's not Milwaukee.
And then I said I know it's not Milwaukee. Until it ends up being Milwaukee, which would be very funny. But I know it's not Milwaukee. I know it's not Florida. All right, I'm going to guess Yankees. He was not a Yankee. He wasn't there yet. I can't believe I can't remember where he was at this time in his career. LA. He was a brave. He was a brave. Of course he was a brave.
Sneaky amount of teams for Sheffield. Oh, he played for like nine different teams, right? One of the two teams I had written down here. You had Braves and Yankees. That's funny. If you don't get this one, maybe I need to stick with that. This is big. This is big. This is a huge, huge name.
Dude, I swear to you, I didn't have Chris. I didn't have a shot in hell of getting the Twins. But then you said both of them. I couldn't remember a team. A team that he played for. And now it's a 5-2 lead. Taylor, thank you. Jeremy, Armando Benitez. Armando Benitez was on the Mets. Armando Benitez was on the Mets. Ooh, did I just clinch a victory? Six to two.
Somebody has a four-point lead with three names left.
Chuck Finley. Chuck Finley. I've only got one name in mind. Yeah, so do I. Maybe there's a second one, but I've got one name in mind. Chuck Finley.
Phillies? Cleveland. Cleveland. Okay. And what are our last couple names just for the fun of it? Placido Polanco, Jeremy. Tigers. Phillies. Cardinals. Oh. Hmm. I don't remember that. And the last name? Come on. Kenny Lofton. I think I know this one. I'll go brave. Chicago. Which one? Cubs. White Sox. Damn.
I haven't been here in a long time.
Max Muncy started the year real slow for the Dodgers, then on April 30th was diagnosed with astigmatism and they gave him glasses. Max Muncy's stats headed into yesterday's games Before getting glasses, 28 games, a 180 batting average, 0 home runs, 4 RBIs, 34 strikeouts. Post getting glasses, 29 games, 275 batting average, 8 home runs, 30 RBI, and only 18 strikeouts.
I'm going to take off the table, Stugatz, the bad beat at the end of the night, the terrible gambling bad beat that costs you a lot of money. I'm going to take that off the table as one of the options in the question I'm asking you guys. Okay. All of sports...
I would not allow it. I wanted to see some emotion from Mike Ryan. I wanted him to fight for his team.
F-A-U, F-A-U.
The balls would not break a TV. The foam, I think.
You think Liam wants to see this? No, Lehman. Liam? Sorry.
They lost to Stanford.
Oh, no.
I usually get the coach of the team that beats UM. I didn't do that this year. I got the quarterback that beat UM.
Yes, I got the Honda Accord, yes.
That will be next week, Fran Brown. Okay.
That one's so good. It's over, buddy. You got about a month.
Like...
Welcome to the pitch clock. Here's the pitch. A two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the pitch clock. Pitch Clock is back after a pretty crazy first week of the season. And our trivia game is back to start here. It's me. It's Chris.
But it's also our resident baseball expert who will be showing off his knowledge of the 2025 season in just a moment, but has to be angry over the nostalgia trivia game that we always play. It's Mike Schur. Mike Schur, welcome back to the Pitch Clock.
Taylor, what are we doing today and why will we be disappointed?
I'm assuming. On the Giants. I'm going to say the 2001 Chicago Cub is Sammy Sosa. It is Sammy Sosa.
because there are some Giants logos on this piece of paper. Mike, share.
Do I want to do it? All right. I'm going to say it even if I might be wrong. I know this is his last year. I'm saying it. 2004 Giants. Is that Barry Bonds? Jeremy, I hate to say this.
It is Barry Bonds.
Get out of here.
Wow. I'm going to go ahead and say that the 2006 New York Met is Carlos Beltran.
Correct. That was the right move. 2001 Arizona Diamondback, Randy Johnson.
There he is. 2007 Yankees has to be A-Rod. All right, we've kicked Chris Cody out of the room. It is just me and Mike Schur. We're actually talking about MLB in 2025 because after a week, it's been a really interesting start of the season, but there is no story that has swept the globe more than than the torpedo bats. It's torpedoed our chance of talking about anything else.
Mike, what is your take here on this newly designed bat and the way really that this story has exploded over the last week?
Look, Mike, I genuinely hate to go negative at any point in Major League Baseball, and I particularly am not exactly excited to do it with you and your team. But as our resident Red Sox expert, I do feel like I have to ask you about Rafael Devers. Why? What's been happening? I haven't followed it clearly.
After being moved from his natural position, or at least the position he had been playing of third base, he has started the season to the point of this recording 0 for 19 with 15 strikeouts. What in the world is going on with Rafael Devers? And do you think that this is something that can and will be fixed with him?
I agree with you completely, partially mental, partially physical, but he also did become the first hitter since 1901 through five games for his team to have zero hits and 15 strikeouts. I mean, a truly remarkably rough stat that Taylor, the Yankee fan, just fed to me while you were giving me all of your very positive analysis. 2005 St. Louis Cardinal Albert Pujols.
Nope. No. Wow. Mike, sure, myself have a strike, but Chris Cody. Yeah, I'm chilling. Thus far with no strikes on the board.
So is it him in 09? I'm not going to go with him yet. I'm going to go back to 2001. And I'm going to use the Oakland Athletics. I'm going to say Miguel Tejada.
What year did he go?
Yes. Jeremy stays alive at his age. A lot of A-Rod, huh? A lot of A-Rod.
Good decade, huh?
Good strategy. It is A-Rod.
Wow. Nailed it. Had to as the Red Sox guy. I just said that I was going to not be risky and that I was just trying to put bat on ball. But this guy came to mind, and I feel like I have to say it. 2004, Dodgers, Sean Green. Oh, that's a good guess though. I really thought it was going to be him. He goes down swinging. Let's go to something positive.
Because, hey, our Miami Marlins, and I'm including you in that, Mike Schur, walked off three times in the opening weekend. They became the first team to do it in 22 years. And their in-division rival, the Atlanta Braves, got off to a terrible start to the season. Which of those two things made you smile more?
The Braves' terrible start or the Marlins' fluky and fun three walk-offs in the first weekend?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's how you pronounce it, right? Tito? Yikes.
It's great because it's totally changing the normal structure of the show.
Everyone knows I talk about it pretty openly. Do people just say, shut up, Jeremy? Yeah, literally almost every day. Every last segment. Yeah, it's because I have stuff to say.
Yeah, he does. I don't know what it is.
Yeah, but he hates me in a different way. In a way where he, like, you know, talks about it with real disdain.
I know.
But see, this is, I just try hard and everyone sees it and it's annoying.
We thought it was him, but yeah, we have similar voices sometimes.
I'm interested in the big picture ramifications. I'm super interested.
I want to know what kind of draft pick we're going to get if we lose, but... I also want to be a fan and I want to see my team win.
He's playing you like a harp from hell, and you're just going along with it, man. It's a riveting conversation. Etymology. Yeah, what is the origin of that? That's a great point. You know what?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz!
Cuervo.
Cuervo.
Again with me?
You said this is one of the arguments you made that's infuriating, okay? You said the Panthers would think it's classless. I got suspended at ESPN. You think what I did there that he thought was classy?
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You're talking national controversy? Please, let's get on the screen the video I've enjoyed so much the last couple of days of how I've gotten dragged into national controversy. Show me Steve Levy at his maximum Steve Levy doing television ever so graceful.
Tan too much from the Boca Beach Club and pointing to the camera with his left hand because he doesn't even need his dominant hand to be great at television. Connor McDavid's saying it now, and he's doing it on the biggest stage. Please buckle up.
Greg is mad. Greg is legitimately mad. And I knew this was going to happen.
Stat of the day. Well, okay. There's my father singing. Okay.
Unnecessary stat.
Please look it up. Not surprising that we would go to the depths of your self-involvement. Zaslow, please. I don't want to talk about his columns. And I don't actually. I do want to talk about this game and this next couple of days because I do believe in this team. Why would you not?
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I can't deny that. Rack him.
Greg, what'd you text me yesterday about the podcast? Our podcast.
There's your stat.
Yeah. I don't want to keep covering recycled ground because I do want to talk about the game, but I cannot abide Mike Ryan with the Steve Levy left hand pointing at me and saying that this is my fault when I was off that week. Yeah. I was simply off that weekend. When I came back, they were up 3-0. You cannot blame me for anything here.
This is not adult behavior. It's childish behavior.
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No, no. What I said was, don't misquote me. I'm not going to allow you to misquote me. What I said was that in my lifetime, I think there are five teams in this market that I have truly fallen in love with for a variety of different circumstances that I won't bore you with here. And the only one in my lifetime, it wasn't last year's Panthers for me.
It was not because this franchise has done to me what the Marlins have done to me, which is sort of kill my soul a little bit. And I don't want to watch mediocre stuff for 30 years and keep caring. So I was late to this particular party. But they have gotten my attention because what they can do right now.
is bigger than what they could have done last year, even though it would have been an upset, by slaying the most giant of the giants at the end. It's not just that you took your nemesis down and that was the appetizer. You took down the deserving champion that has ruled this state and made hockey matter in Florida. You took them out after they were your nemesis.
And then what you do is you take out the historic franchise that everyone in Miami hates because Boston's racist.
Did you just say he was overrated? Are you saying now for the first time? Are you doubling down now on also Marino is overrated? Are you saying that Marino is overrated? Is that what you're announcing today? Don Shula next. Yes or no?
As close as it gets.
Is Dan Marino overrated?
I genuinely and really do want to get to the micro about tonight's game. I can't tell you the last time I was excited about the idea of doing a pregame show because the minutia of the game is also interesting to me in hockey. It's been a long time since I felt that. And I will say as we're sitting here arguing among family and friends, and Greg Cody is hot right now.
Like Greg Cody told me during the break. He's mad. He's mad. In fact, because some people are going to be thinking that this is bit, you go ahead and tell the people what you just saw from Greg Cody during the break.
He's not mad at you. I was glad he's not mad at me. He's mad at Mike Ryan. He's really mad at Mike Ryan. He's really mad at Mike Ryan. Like he is. Okay, we'll get to that in just a second.
We'll get to the micro of the game in a second. But just macro, because I really do want to agree with Stugatz and Zaslow somewhere here on where it is that sports reaches us in the best places, in the very best places.
the last three years i think we can admit around here at this company life in america like super super hard okay for anyone listening to this for a variety of reasons the last three years have been really hard if you've been listening to this show and me falling apart grieving, falling apart for three years. The last three years have been hard.
To feel this particular medicine that takes you away from real life problems is why sports are the giant business that they are, because people care unreasonably about this medicine that soothes them and allows them to escape during a hard time. I'm sorry that we're fighting during all of this, because this is a legitimate lovely time, but this is what happens around sports,
everyone's falling apart and now greg cody during the breaks you heard he said he demands an apology from you he said he demands an apology i demand a thank you for the for fighting against the billboards i demand a thank you hold on a second how about and this is not surprising coming from you you don't respect your superiors because you don't think anyone is superior he
looks at you and says, I won't be called an idiot twice to my face on the air.
I know, but I just heard him say it. And he says, I demand an apology. He was telling me off air. He's not joking. He's demanding. He's not asking for an apology. He's demanding one.
Whoa. Jolly. Be careful with jolly.
My dad does have thin skin but thick toenails. Am I right, Dad? Yes, you are right about that.
Chris, I'm a little bit worried about your father. He's been coughing a lot. Zaslow is roaming around the premises here. He's he would never admit that being face to face with Zaslow would be a thing because he's a longtime newspaper guy and radio. You know, Zaslow is just a radio foof. But Zaslow's here and he's not happy. And your father has already begun his coughing.
Look at me. I am your career.
Too many pounds. This is Dan's fault again. You brought all this to air with my dad.
No. This is what you've done. This is what you've done.
Well, Mike did say in there, no, I'm sorry. I've told you how I felt about this for weeks. So no, I'm sorry is going to be what you get. No, I'm sorry is going to be the closest we come to an apology there. He did say the words, I'm sorry. It was just, no, I'm sorry. I've told you how I feel about this for two weeks.
I do want to get to the smaller stuff here, but this is genuinely tense now. And Jeremy, he was whispering to me.
Mike, I need you to stop with the bona fides here.
Well, he's very close to quitting. He's very close to quitting.
Well, he's also close to being fired. So, like, we're in both places. Once he gets there with the—I mean, he called me a dick the other day by text because he's totally—he's lost his mind, as many people have, because sports will do this to you.
It was while you were losing 4-2 to Edmonton, headed into the third period.
Yeah, that's never good. I'm sure that's going to help. That's never good. Jeremy whispered in my ear like a scared child. Jeremy was so scared. Well, no, he did whisper. He's like, can I leave the room? I want to leave the room.
I love how you make it that only two paragraphs distances you from it. You still said it. Calling him overrated in just two paragraphs instead of an entire column is still saying it.
And so I told him, do you want to switch seats with Zaslow where you have a cough button? He's like, no, I've got it under control. And I'm like, really, Greg? You've never had this under control. And he's like, well, I can't guarantee anything. And I'm like, I'm really worried about this cough in the first segment because this is an important show we're doing.
Well, I did say that my favorite part of the inside joke for only our audience, like the favorite part of the joke is that the people listening to this, when we put the billboards up, those people who listen to this show will know where the opinion came from, and so it will be all the funnier. Not that it came from an idiot, but that it's an idiotic opinion, and we all know it.
Boom. But me thinking that idiotic is not calling him an idiot. No, it's not.
Another pal?
That's a third pal.
How are we in three pal territory? How is this escalated? What's game seven going to be like? One of these. One of those.
That's what you got to do to McDavid. You got to do that. But we haven't broken out the finish him in a minute. And now it's getting aggressive. It's a three-pal situation and a finish him situation. It's a three-pal and a finish him situation on McDavid. And when you say scared, I'm not scared. There's plenty. It's running down my leg. I'm scared of him. I'm scared of him.
And I believe the best team wins in that sport. I believe the The Panthers are the best team. It's empirical. What they do in the third period is better than anyone in the sport. I saw it coming back even with what he did in game five. I saw it coming back. They were pelting Edmonton because they are championship worthy.
This is the most championship worthy team I have ever seen play hockey in this market. No, it is. This is the best Panther team there has ever been.
No, it's that they were a hundred point team all season. They play a style of play that wins this time of year.
There haven't been a lot of shows like this in our history. And your father has already begun coughing. What do I do about this?
And then on top of that, hockey can happen to you. Hockey can just happen to you because you hit the post a couple of times.
Slow the game down.
Isn't this just all – it's easy to say, but it feels like this is just all on Bob because that's the difference the last few games. If Bob is Bob, like from the first three – We got this.
I thought Ekblad was one of their big mistake makers.
You've passed out twice trying to prevent coughing once at Highline. You've passed out trying to stop coughing. That's true.
I believe. Are you a homer, Zaz? How does this work? Do you ever— I know you're scared, so you're projecting confidence at every turn, but I know you're scared of – it's not even the history of the Edmonton Oilers, though you could be scared of that, too. This is a historic franchise now being led by the second coming of Gretzky, and you're going into a building. Let me assure you of this, okay?
Edmonton's number one pride internationally is this hockey team and this player. That place cares about that player and that team in a way that gives it its name, its city name. Edmonton is known for what Gretzky did in that uniform, and now McDavid is the second coming of Gretzky. That building is going to be a total insanity.
He's a guy, though, he's staying who he is in the most critical times. Like, if he came in here today and wasn't coughing, that would be alarming. Like, he's a cougher. He's coughing today. What do you want from him? Yeah, that's a point.
Okay. All right. All right. Let him be who he is.
That depth is why, empirically, they're the best third period team in the league. The thing that I want to ask you guys, because The best third period team in the league is something that continually wears you down over the course of the game so that by the end, the way that you want to knock off Lemieux and Jager, it's too much. There are too many waves. It's too much of it.
Just like we need Bob to be, just like who he is. Yeah.
The thing that I want to ask you about, Paul Maurice, is this. I have seen over the last two years something that I did not think was possible, OK? Barkov, in whatever it is that they were doing before two years ago, was a source of great frustration for everyone in the fan base.
And then this style comes here, built around everything he does, and now it's best two-way player in the world, where I heard all the muttering complaints about this player for a really long time. And I don't know the sport well enough to know how much Paul Maurice has to do with that, but I extend from that, oh, you guys trust this guy like you trust Spoh. You...
You guys trust that this person will make the right decisions. You might have quibbles with where he's putting Montour every once in a while, but generally speaking, you're extending your trust to this human being as being smarter than you and trusting him implicitly.
He's gotten close. The face of joy has now taken four flights and landed in Edmonton. Roy Bellamy, who starred on Zaslow Show. Tell the people where they can find you so they know how they can get more Zaslow.
Roy was there with you yesterday, and he brought the charisma. I am told he smiled more than he usually does around here. He is not smiling right now. Roy, how bad was the flight, and how bad is your breath right now?
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And how are you feeling about things? We've got a lot of tension here back in the studio since you left. I think you might be enraged with Greg Cody right now as well. Mike Ryan has called him an idiot twice. What are your general feelings about Greg Cody right now?
Let's be careful with anything else. By you people, he means Panthers fans. Yeah.
Our Panther group chat, we're confident against the lighting.
Not just that, though. Roy's Hockey Show, if you want some of the deep in the weeds analysis of all the good stuff. He's been doing a great job with David Dwork and he keeps flying out to Edmonton. But I want to get at this tension that there is specifically with newspaper guys. And radio guys, because I've seen it for a long time in this market and elsewhere. And Greg does not respect radio.
And Zaslow doesn't respect some of Greg's columns. And you just derisively hit Roy with you're not a journalist. You just did that to Roy.
I mean, Roy is going to have a plaque in that arena.
What are we doing to each other? I don't like any of this. I genuinely hate it here. You're going at Roy now? All because you said something stupid! I'm not going at Roy. Just admit you said something stupid!
The better the fear, the better the fulfillment after you conquer the fear. Jonathan Zaslow.
Now you're going to attack Roy. You're just going to keep going at everybody.
That's right. You become two and two, and you're holding up the trophy, and you're in Edmonton.
The odds of that have to be astronomical. You always, Dad, go at it with Mike. Are you seeing yourself in the mirror now? You went at it with Roy. Can you take a step back? If Roy's attacking you for this take, can you see it now that maybe it was a dumb thing to say?
He's covered more Panthers games in the last month than you have your entire career.
I didn't make that up. Roy is a legend.
I agree. What are we going to Roy on?
You stepped on Roy saying the very strong, not quite a guarantee of, yes, I believe they will win, just sort of farted out of the side of his mouth. Do you think we're going to win?
Yeah! Yes, there it is. Roy, can you give me, with some bass in your voice, the best and most positive of analysis that you would put together because you actually believe in this team? I was saying before you came on here that historically, if you are... the best group of players, the best team that goes up 3-0, there is no coming back from that, even if you have Connor McDavid.
So explain to us in your basiest tone why it is that the Panthers will win tonight.
Ladies and gentlemen, we sent him to Edmonton for that report. Not quite a guarantee, but the vibes are positive and Roy is positive. You're doing well. Yes, Roy. Where can people find you after the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers hold up the trophy tonight? Where can people find you and David Dwork immediately?
I'm assuming that sometimes on a Friday that tonight would be one of the nights where people can find you after the game.
Maybe. Maybe in the next week. Well, tonight would be a night to capitalize. Who knows? Okay, very good. Who knows?
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Is there any chance that Greg Cody might be a little bit right about what he wrote about Conor McDavid?
I am unusually fired up for a number of different reasons. We've got mustachioed coughing Greg Cody in here face to face with Zaslow, two legitimate South Florida media legends. The original gangster, Greg. Greg, I'm worried about you. I'm worried about you. Do not stifle those coughs. Let them go. Just let them fly.
Your mustache looks ridiculous. You've been growing it for 10 days. Zaslow is legitimately enraged with you, and we've brought him in. To pacify that baby, Mike Ryan. I come in here today and he's like, you should be thanking me. Thanking me for protecting your ass.
To pacify this baby, Mike Ryan, who wants to talk with a real Florida Panthers fan deep in the weeds on all the important hockey things that need to be discussed today. And Zaslow is legitimately disgusted with you.
Yeah, he's trying to stare me down. No, he's not trying to stare you down. He is successfully staring you down. We will get to him in a second because he is fired up. So I love that I'm here with two old friends and that we've got this tension in the room to play with. But the thing I'm more excited about is that the next few days.
have a chance to create generational sports fandom in this town for a sport not unlike it happened in Tampa because everyone can fall in love with this team the very best way. because it beats the best at its best in the biggest moment. It's a giant hockey time in this town. And I can think, I can count on one hand the number of teams that I have truly loved in this market.
truly loved, and there is only one of them among that group that didn't win the championship. It was the 96 Panthers, a team not as good as this one, that taught me and my father about hockey. My father was weeping in the stands, getting swept in the final, and he thought the puck was made of metal. Because this sport is the best this time of year. That team was not as good as this one.
But what that team taught me, what that team taught me in going through the Boston Bruins and Eric Lindros and two McDavids, Yager and Lemieux, is that the best team wins this time of year. Not a team with one player. Not a team with one guy who's better than everyone else. But this guy's so good that he can take you down and he can make you a laughing stock from up 3-0 because he's that good.
And I am scared shitless. But I also believe in this team. I believe in its ability to be better in the third period than other teams. So let's get to the tension of the day. zaslow against greg cody because greg i could see a squirming around i don't blame you zaslow the floor is yours tell the people why it is you're so mad at greg cody
That was a hell of a stare down. You would have won the stare down Olympics on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. I blacked out for a couple minutes.
You have not liked Greg Cody's columns for a long time.
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Has anyone thanked him? I haven't decided if they're not going up or not. Well, they're not up yet. No, but they're not. But there's another weekend to think about it if they lose tonight.
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Is it? Yeah. Let's do the math on this. I'm doing some math in my head because I know this.
Right, so New Year's Eve is tomorrow. Right, Tuesday. Oh, so New Year's Day is Wednesday. Yeah, so New Year's Day is Wednesday. It's fun that we're learning this.
You know, I just don't have a party to go to this year. So I really haven't been thinking about it all that much. I was so preoccupied with Hanukkah, which is still going on. We hope you enjoyed the first half of our 10 days of Gregmas. But that was just an appetizer. Yeah, those were some individual Greg Cody Tuesdays. They stand alone.
They had narratives of the day, but not a narrative of full week. And this week, we're going to change that up. We're going to paint a picture. We're going to tell a story. To me, this is the greatest narrative that we had all year, which was the Connor McOverrated saga. So on today's episode, you're going to hear the origins of Greg's take and how the crew initially reacted to said take.
And you might have forgotten that he also had a hot take for Joey Chestnut that day, which is pretty random. So that one's going to be in there. But you'll hear the nerves of our crew kind of entering the Stanley Cup. Mm-hmm. And you guys all know the results. Panthers won it. But that's what makes this fun to go back and listen to. I had a great time listening to this when I went back.
And, you know, by the end of this week, you'll hear all the joy. So here comes a new week and day six of the 10 Days of Gregmas here on the Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gatz.
Roy, you know that moment when you're out watching puck and the server comes over and asks the table, what can I get you guys? And everyone freezes up. You know what you should do? What should I do, Mike? You've got to have some confidence. Or as Jagermeister calls it, shotfidence. I love it. If everyone's struggling, take control. Just order for the whole table.
The tequila that invented tequila.
Cuervo.
He's afraid.
Dan's afraid.
No, he already committed.
He's just in to prove he's not chicken. Ah, okay.
I mean, don't sell us short, Dan. I often spend three hours in makeup before these shows.
But everybody would see this and be like, well, that show's not going to be very good, right? The Batman had kind of a split audience. Everyone kind of respects the new vision on it, but it was actually released quite a while ago. This series comes out.
and you're skeptical but you're like i'll give it a try because colin farrell it won't fail because of his level of commitment he no matter what he will be committed and you watch it and haven't watched the entire series i will concede it's formulaic i will concede maybe sometimes it's overacted i will concede maybe sometimes it's overwritten and it's still awesome and It's great. It's fine.
Follow a formula. You want to be the Sopranos in a comic book world? Be that. The music's great. The performances are great. They get you to care. And it's not just, I would say that the Penguin is not the most interesting character in this show. He's probably like third. Ron Say?
They found a lot of great material here, and they showed that in this entire Gotham world, there's so much meat on that bone. And it actually makes me think that Batman's asleep at the wheel, because there's all sorts of evil criminal underworlding that's happening here that he doesn't step in one bit.
Early 80s. I have to be honest, I'm bummed that you set it up so well because I just wanted to talk about Evgeny Malkin. And you would have just been, the Penguin's taking over pop culture. Everywhere I see, everyone's talking about this Penguin. Evgeny Malkin has bounced back. However, they need some blue line help. That defense is a terrible situation.
This is going to be tough now. I wanted to have the excited conversation about look what's happening. He's on pace for 68 goals. He's actually going to break one of the game's unbreakable records and do it in fewer games than Wayne Gretzky did. Alexander Ovechkin was the story in the NHL.
I've wanted to talk about it so long that in the middle of me wanting to talk about it, he has a broken leg and is out six weeks.
Yep. Big time. They do not have blue line help. They've got guys that are willing to feed him the rock in front of the net. Credit to him. Everybody was having a go at him for his offseason training habits. But you know what I've never seen before? And, yeah, you can laugh at all these pictures of Ovechkin looking the way that he does, running on the beach and playing pickleball. Yeah.
I had never actually seen him go through an off-season training regimen that wasn't celebrating a Stanley Cup championship. So this dude has actually put in more work, and it shows in his play. I love the off-season that they had the Capitals. Even throughout this injury, the Panthers have a tough game against the Capitals tonight.
They look like a playoff team, and it was really cool to see Ovechkin with his old man game actually rekindle that goal-scoring form. Unbelievable that he was on pace to break it in fewer games than Wayne Gretzky. And now it's probably ripped away from us in more of a next-year conversation.
Roy, you know that moment when you're out watching puck and the server comes over and asks the table, what can I get you guys? And everyone freezes up. You know what you should do? What should I do, Mike? You've got to have some confidence. Or as Jagermeister calls it, shotfidence. I love it. If everyone's struggling, take control. Just order for the whole table.
A round of ice-cold Jagermeister shots. Damn, that's cold. Because apparently, we've all been drinking Jägermeister wrong. Well, how should we be drinking it? We should be drinking it ice cold. At zero degrees Fahrenheit. Roy, like Jägermeister, what else is infinitely better ice cold? The sport of hockey, Mike. It's in the name. It's ice hockey. Ice hockey. Yes. Regular hockey, not as great.
Not floor hockey. Ice hockey, real good. Damn right. Wherever you are, if you're hanging with friends or at the bar, call the shots. Cheers with ice cold shots of Jagermeister.
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A round of ice cold Jagermeister shots. Damn, that's cold. Because apparently, we've all been drinking Jägermeister wrong. Well, how should we be drinking it? We should be drinking it ice cold. At zero degrees Fahrenheit. Roy, like Jägermeister, what else is infinitely better ice cold? The sport of hockey, Mike. It's in the name. It's ice hockey. Ice hockey. Yes, regular hockey, not as great.
One of these people needs an interpreter.
Allegedly. A horse racing podcast with Shohei and Joe.
I said we get those two people, make a podcast.
Not floor hockey. Ice hockey, real good. Damn right. Wherever you are, if you're hanging with friends or at the bar, call the shots. Cheers with ice cold shots of Jagermeister.
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Please.
I didn't think I could go. It's so fun. Dan, this is a little bit of a segment that we put these concepts over. Make it seem like something that's super fun to be in.
Maybe be like, you know what? For Thanksgiving, Billy, I will be in that. Take his phone. I will be in that. Take his phone. Let's go. You make it sound amazing. Get his DK Fantasy app open right now. That's what you say. Pick it up.
Come on.
I mean, I'm a little sad at how this is going today, Dan. Like, it's Thanksgiving week. I'm not saying that it's time to do our turkeys of the year or what we're thankful for.
It's a great time to be a South Florida sports fan. You have the University of Miami. If you like the University of Miami, they could be playing for a conference championship for what? First time in a long time. They've never won the ACC. They're right in the mix to be in the college football playoffs. You have the Dolphins who are in the mix who could be competing for a Super Bowl this year. Yep.
You have a Heat team that's right in the mix also. The best hockey team in the world. In the NCAA. A couple good wins. In-season tournament. We have a lot to be thankful for. They are in the mix. We can't tell the seating yet because we're still in the play-in rounds of the group stages of the IST. But they could win very well, make it advance in the IST.
There's a lot to be thankful for right now. And FIU is kind of imploding, but we maybe get rid of Mike McIntyre because that whole situation was crazy last week, but we don't need to get into that.
Coach Mack? I like it. We don't need to get into it. We're not getting into that. You know what? The dawn of a new day may be coming down at the...
It was a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the League's Cup.
Yeah.
Well, when Fidel died the first time.
See, that's the guy right there. He has faith, Dan. He didn't give up on that team. He stepped in. They were about to trade him to the Ravens. And he said, no, we're not out of it yet. You know why?
I thought I saw a stat yesterday that Tua is undefeated against the Jets. He's undefeated against the Patriots. That's true. Can't beat the Bills. I think he has one win against the Bills.
What do you consider a success? Because if they make it to the playoffs and they win a game, is that a success? Because they're not at the same level as the Bills in terms of their record, right? But they played the Bills a couple weeks ago pretty tight, and we were even discussing should they have gone for a two-point conversion to win that game. So they played the Bills tight.
I mean, aside from the Bills.
No, the Bills are better. But what do you consider success, Super Bowl or bust for the Dolphins? Because they're not there.
Yeah, if they didn't lose their quarterback for four games. Like, they lost their quarterback for a significant chunk of the season.
Correct. That's why.
Forgive me. The Chiefs wouldn't have played a playoff game last year. We're never going to win the Super Bowl.
I don't believe in the Dolphins.
Does that change anything? If they beat the Packers? Or then they just beat one good team and do it again?
But they weren't supposed to lose their quarterback. They weren't supposed to lose their quarterback. That's what we're forgetting.
I am not. No. No. Who said that? Let's just get ahead of this right now. I am not predicting they will lose their quarterback. I do not want them to lose their quarterback. I am not rooting for anyone to get injured. Okay? If said things should happen, do not come at me. Billy was right. Billy's happy. None of that. I don't want this to happen. I'm just saying, historically...
This is when it does happen. That's all I'm saying. I don't want it to happen. I'm not predicting it. I'm not rooting for it. I'm rooting against it. Very strongly am I rooting against this happening.
I'd put packing peanuts in his helmet if I could.
No. We did. That's like saying Jim Cantore is rooting for category fives to hit certain spots so he can be right. No, he's just reading a map. That's all I'm doing. I'm just reading a map and I'm telling you how this has gone historically in the past. Potentially, this is something to look out for. I'm not saying it's going to happen. I'm rooting for it. I want it to happen.
I don't want it to happen. I'm rooting against it. I want to be wrong. Dan, I'm like you. I want to be wrong. I learned from you. I want to be wrong. Let me say scandalous thing and then say I want to be wrong.
How does the ACC determine who plays for the conference championship?
Clemson's only ahead of them because right now they've played more games.
It's a high-wire act, and I feel like we do a pretty good job, and I knew this is what we're probably going to be doing in the local hour today, in the max hour today on YouTube. and DKN and Peacock and all the places you can watch it. So I said, you know what? I don't want to say I'm saving it because I would say still check out Godless Football. A lot of fun today. A lot of fun. Lucy's on there.
We're talking about some college football. But we saved that for you, Dano.
Is it crazy to say that this game could potentially be the biggest game of Tua's career? And I say that because he can dispel so many of the doubts this weekend if he goes into a cold, bad weather, Green Bay, national TV and pulls off a win. I mean, to get them back to 500, which is kind of like part of the statement that is not great. But like...
There's already people talking about how important Tua is to this team. You see the Matt Ryans of the world saying no one is more important to their team than Tua is. So if you can go out there and you can win this cold weather game, I feel like it's an injection of confidence, a boost, Dan, that you can take moving forward and say, you know what?
When the Bills overcome the Chiefs and then you go back and first round potentially is back in Kansas City or a rematch from last year's playoffs in the first round, then you know you can do it in the cold, potentially. However, here's the flip side.
The flip side.
No one's talking about that, but this could be the biggest game of his career if he is to survive it.
I just said this could be the biggest game of his career, potentially.
Who said that?
On Thanksgiving.
Yeah.
It's a late one, though. We talked about this. The late game is when everybody's kind of tripped a fan. You know what I mean?
You also saw yesterday Skylar Thompson be Skylar Thompson yet again. Like, you try to get to a some rest. The game is a complete blur. You're like, you know what? We made it through. Dominating performance. He looks great. Let's rest him up. Short week. Going to play on Thanksgiving. Skylar Thompson comes in and says, nah. Let's have a little fun. Let's give the other team the ball.
Have them run back the other way for a touchdown. Do it back in there, buddy. We can't afford to lose this game.
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It's my worst nightmare. I hate it so much.
You have to pay in Trump coin.
Going back to the other tournament, I thought that that Back to the Future sound was the beginning of Springfield's Favorite Color. That was what I thought it sounded like.
That's why it's 16.
We should have reversed the order of this.
Yeah, that's worthy of its seating.
What about that lady from the local news when she fell doing the grapes? Did she go, ah?
It's here. It's with Jackie Robinson. Apparently, they called it the color line, but also referred to as the color barrier. It literally, by definition, it says the color line, also known as the color barrier, in American baseball excluded players of black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated minor leagues until 1947.
It's Jackie Robinson who broke it, and that's exactly where the term comes from.
Well, it's a perfect conversation transition because it's still baseball-oriented. Did you guys see what happened with the Orioles' AA affiliate, the Chesapeake Bay Sox? No. Because they are going to have a unique name for select games this season. Just like the Pensacola Blue Wahoos became the Pensacola Mullets for select games, the Chesapeake Oyster Catchers is the name.
And here's the logo of what they used for the Chesapeake Oyster Catchers. Now, I don't know about you guys, but that oyster... also looks like something else to me.
What's happening around it is great, because they released it, and what's funny is it seems as though they might not have... had anyone catch that on the front end. But after they tweeted from their official account, some saw an oyster, others saw something unexpected. We see an opportunity to turn viral laughs into positive impact.
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I know that they have been doing this for several years now, and specifically the Advancing Through Dancing cause is really great because it's a professional leadership workshop for everyone who's a heat dancer. And ultimately, at the end of it, what they did was they gave out a $10,000 grant to the winner who pitched what her business would be.
She runs a nonprofit, and ultimately she's going to use that money to help get her pilot's license because it has to do with aviation and being able to spread for a good cause. But it's like... It's it's inherently criticized.
Like if you go to social media and you see any of these posts, particularly with the heat, like even even the celebrations for Women's History Month, all you're going to see is replies of people saying fire Pat Riley.
And to bring it back to the Jackie Robinson part of it, that's why diversity, equity, and inclusion is important. DEI, again, we talked about this a little bit on Friday, but that phrase has been hijacked and turned into just a symbol for everything that the right doesn't like, no different than woke was, no different than critical race theory was, and no different than Black Lives Matter was.
They just keep taking these terms. They turn them into abbreviated terms, BLM, CRT, DEI, so that nobody actually knows what the words are. But diversity, equity, and inclusion are the reasons why you're able to build up a workforce that is able to produce something that's better than it would have been if it was just a bunch of white dudes. I asked you for a palate cleanser. I tried.
I always bring it back there. We ended up in the same place.
I mean, it's the death of expertise, right? Like that's kind of what's happened this century is no one cares to listen to someone who has researched or studied or has become an expert on whatever their topic is. They want to hear both sides of the conversation. It's why we let Mike Ryan talk about the heat when I'm talking about the heat.
because people want to hear the uneducated side when there's an expert right here who can tell you everything that's happening factually.
Yeah, I tried to make a joke about finding the baseball. You get it, Dan? Because of the spot that it is in the oyster? You get it? No, Jeremy.
Why is college a fun thing for Cooper Flagg? Like hanging out at Duke?
It's also like two of his teammates are going to be top, what, five to ten picks anyway. Also, they're going to leave. So all the friends that he's hanging out with, that's going to change. And I would imagine he gets away with more at the NBA level. Like you're talking about all these things. Oh, you could do and be the big man on campus at Duke.
I would imagine the structure of being on a college basketball team is probably even more limiting than it would be playing in the NBA.
But he made a lot more money because he left after being a rookie than getting hurt at Duke. Like Cooper Flagg just got lucky that that ankle injury wasn't a lot worse. If he gets through this March Madness unscathed, this man has to go to the NBA draft because if you risk another potentially big injury like Zion would have had in college, then you never get that contract.
But it's one less contract, right? Jimmy Butler is a perfect example here of at the end of his career. You're shorting yourself of one last contract. And right now, the contract that they're giving out to a max player at 35, 36 year old is two years, $120 million. Imagine what that's going to be when Cooper Flagg is there 15 years from now.
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I was just thinking of how incredible Ben Affleck is in terms of his weird dating life and what Lucy said. The fact that he's just oscillating between these Jennifers for, what, like 30 years?
Thank you for watching. Thank you.
It's one Jennifer or another? I'm trying, Jennifer. They're good Jennifers. They're good Jennifers. They are good Jennifers. Well, not J-Lo.
I'm not a J-Lo guy. We've done this before.
I don't have to be a J-Lo guy.
Thank you.
Two minutes right here in the shipping container for Trying to Leave.
Yeah, purple shirt guy ended everything for them. They were trending up for the first time in franchise history.
I mean, the reality is these endorsements are carrying over either way, right?
So you're going to make $12 or $13 million as the number one overall pick in your base salary, that you make $0 in your base salary in college, and all the endorsements that you're getting, the quote-unquote NIL deals, this is the same conversation we were having about Kaitlyn Clark last year, about, oh, if she stayed at Iowa, she'd get all this NIL money, but you're still going to get all of the sponsorships that come with NIL money if you're in the NBA.
And wherever Cooper Flagg goes, if he stays for another year, What makes you guys think that the Wizards and the Hornets aren't going to be the two worst teams in the NBA next year?
So give up $12.6 million. That's what the number one overall pick got this year in base salary. Give up $12.6 million. so that maybe next year the ping pong balls go the right direction for you?
You said that the other day. What does that mean?
No? I thought I'm looking handsome these days. I think you look great. Thank you.
I ran into someone from the Heat at the beginning of the season, the very beginning of the season, someone who I used to see all the time when I was on the broadcast. How you doing? Good to see you. How's everything going?
And the answer was, everything's all right, you know. It's dealing with Jimmy. And this was the very beginning of the season before anything became public with him being angry. His answer was, yeah, I mean, it's good. Just, you know, dealing with Jimmy.
Oh, my wife was not pleased with today's wardrobe. That's a great jacket. Thank you. My wife was not happy. I go into the closet in the morning. I pick out whatever is the handiest, whatever is the closest. The lights are not on in the bedroom. It's early in the morning. And she looks at me. She goes, that is a terrible, terrible outfit. And I couldn't care less. What do I care?
Yeah, but I feel like the way that you're phrasing it is that the Heat were done with it, and that's why Jimmy's gone. No, the Heat were totally good with it still happening. Jimmy's the one who made them get rid of him. He was under contract for this season and essentially next season as well. The Heat, by all accounts, wanted him to play out that entire contract.
I mean, like, it's an argument that we can go round and round about. I feel like you're saying it just to aggravate me that the culture is just something to sell tickets.
I mean, like, you're just trying to get under my skin here. You're not talking about a franchise. Billy? You're not talking about a franchise that's been terrible for several years. Yes, this has been a bad year. And I kind of feel like I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt to fix it in the offseason. Now, I think this is a huge offseason.
I think it's an offseason like maybe they've never had before because of the conversation around the team. But it's one bad season that they've had now.
And they'll get another one.
Yeah, they'll get another one. Because it's just talent. Well, it's hard to do this when you don't have any good players. They'll get another star. How many different iterations of winning teams have they had with Pat Riley there? They've done it over and over again. They're going to do it again. They'll get someone else this offseason.
At worst, it was 50-50.
All the little things. I do wonder what that was like behind the scenes because one of my, well, I mean, something that I feel like is fair to be critical of Bam about, when Jimmy was still here this year, and Bam's the captain, it's like, why are you allowing this behavior?
If you're Heat culture guy, and you're an extension of the coach, and you're an extension of Pat Riley, and you're the captain of the team, I don't feel like Udonis Haslam is allowing Jimmy Butler to go out into the game and shoot one-legged fadeaway three-pointers.
That's what it looks like.
But if you're the captain of the team... How are you allowing a guy to be on the floor with you and actively not try? That part bothers me. What's he going to do?
Oh, they got everything I need.
My wife's going to Europe on Wednesday this week. I'm staying in Cooper City.
Come on.
Why would Pat Riley, who doesn't travel with the team, send a text message to the servers on the plane and say, no more cookies?
What are we talking about?
It's Monday morning. I feel good about the tournament. I feel good about the Panthers yesterday. The heat snapped that streak, so they don't have to go into tomorrow with an 11-game losing streak. That's right. I said that. I own that statement. And you're getting me riled up over nonsense here. Cookies? You know that story's not true. It's stupid.
It's a suburb in Broward, and it's got everything I need, man.
Yeah. It's got a Publix. It's got a gas station in case I need to go somewhere. It's got a liquor store. I'm good to go.
65 inches, some say. I don't envision Santa as this giant you're making him out to be.
Wait, how tall are they?
Tell you what, a Jewish Santa would be 5'5.
It's a great question. I was not fully prepared for how cold the end of the college football season was going to be. Like when I'm going to South Bend, Indiana, I was not prepared for that. I need to do a much better job before next college football season. I was cold.
Yeah, I don't have coats.
Thank you.
No, no. And I was just wearing, you know, like hooded sweatshirts, you know, and hope that does the trick. In Wisconsin? It was so cold. Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was really cold.
Thank you.
those that seems to be problematic in those pesky one-on-one situations that everyone's going to get bothered by when they're gambling on these games does calipari feel better right now than the kentucky fan is angry i mean cal missed the second he lost the first round was five consecutive years before he left there and now coaching his ass off he's the best story of the tournament
And Patino has none of them. I love the attention that Calipari's got. I know he's super polarizing. A lot of people don't like him. You could say that he underachieved, even though he won a national championship at Kentucky. Think of what Calipari's done this year. That Arkansas team was terrible to start the season. Then they went to Lexington. Patino's putting out a video. Don't boo Cal.
You should treat him with respect. And Calipari goes into Lexington, and they kick the crap out of that Kentucky team. And then we get to the tournament, not only in the Sweet 16, but he beats Bill Self and Patino on the way. This is a grand slam of a year that Calipari's had.
I'm going to be honest with you. I think I'm at exactly... The right level right now.
Here's the thing, though. I like what happened. I don't like all the upsets. I don't like all the sin. I would like some madness. You know, we got the madness.
Maryland was the only madness.
There was not enough madness, but I don't like all the upsets. I like when the big teams win. I want the huge matchups in the Sweet 16. I don't need a 12 versus an 8 in the Sweet 16. I want the great games next weekend, and that's what we're getting now. I was fine with this weekend.
If you want to fight somebody, fight me.
On national TV, games on TNT tomorrow. You think anyone will be talking about that? Jimmy Butler coming in. They've lost, like, a game since acquiring him. And the Heat on an 11-game losing skid. You think I need that in my life?
Yeah, and I'll give you a storyline, by the way. Headline tomorrow night on TNT. They could steal it from me if they want. Warriors 0-1 over their last game. Heat 1-0. You want a storyline?
Lead with that. That's not a good lead.
Be fair.
No, I am mad because you know what's happening? You have everyone out there on their podcast. Everybody's got a podcast. Everyone's got a podcast.
Yes, but I'm a professional broadcaster, all right? Everyone's got a podcast. Also because Miami Radio kicked me out, so I got a podcast, all right? And everybody's got a podcast now, and everyone is taking pot shots. at Pat Riley. It's like, all right, we've all been waiting, apparently, for the opportunity to finally be super critical and put Pat Riley out to pasture, apparently.
And you know how you know that everybody's been waiting? Because the Heat were in the finals two years ago. It's not like they were in the finals 22 years ago. They were in the finals two years ago. So the very first opportunity to take a shot at Pat Riley, everybody's doing it now, and I don't like it.
Original employee.
You know I'm sitting right here, right?
So I don't know if he heard me or not. I didn't know if he was like... Okay, important detail. You said I had the headphones on? Yes. All right, come on. There's no way that I would just straight up ignore you.
And ignored him.
Okay. Oh, that's right. Forgive me. My apologies. I actually turned to Tommy Tighe. I said, show him out, please.
No, I take Beekman seriously. Really? You know what I mean? 90 Seconds of Midnight sounds like a band Jeremy would love. Yeah.
Yeah, for real.
Or his atomic...
And I got to tell you, it does feel at least to me, it feels like it checks out. Do you feel like those scientists are rooting for it to happen so they could be right?
I think so. They could die. Right. Yeah.
That's a thing. I don't think Putin's listening to Bill Nye, the science guy.
Here's when they adjust it. Here's when they adjust it, when they're bored and they want attention. That's when they adjust it.
Where's Jared Leto? He'll save the day.
But wouldn't it every day be the closest it's ever been? No.
I'd like Doomsday to keep an appointment. You know what I mean? Like if this is the day, this is the day. Like I work my schedule around Doomsday. Let's stick to a day and a time. Do we know the day and the time?
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Das ist genau richtig. Starting today, we will be delivering different episodes featuring Greg Cody as our star at the top of our Christmas tree. And today, we go back to the top of the year. It's January 30th. So think about where you were, what was going on in the sports calendar, all the things we could have been talking about. Right before the Super Bowl. Right before the Super Bowl.
And so, of course, we spent the day learning about... Greg's Aunt Bonnie being a hoarder. He taught us the proper way to eat a fried egg. He delivered a very controversial Back in My Day. He called out Angel Resto for some reason. He actually did a Back in My Day. Yeah. This is exciting. It is exciting. And so, yeah, enjoy day one of the 10 Days of Gregmas.
Well, happy holidays, everybody. Jeremy, we made it. We did. We're here. I mean, we're not actually here. We're off this week. But the people listening to this, they think we're here. In your hearts, in your minds. In your ears. We're working right now. I mean, we are. We did extra work so that you could hear us right now.
But we're introducing the content that you guys are going to hear this week and next. We might be off. Ja, genau. 10 verschiedene Episoden mit Greg Cody von dieser Saison. Die meisten von ihnen sind Greg-Cody-Tuesdays, aber es waren eigentlich nur ein paar random Dates, die in der Saison gemischt wurden. Und wir werden sie alle durchlaufen.
He wanted to show he had the Louis V on, though. That's why, Dan. He's got to make sure what's got the biggest baton on it. I'm going to put that on. And then he's got the Kung Fu Kenny pants on, which are crazy.
That's what you're saying. It feels like you're saying you're welcome to me. Like if I have to say something back to you, I got nothing else to say. OK, very good.
That's not Chris Cody. Who is that? I didn't really have time to order these. Who is that guy? Number four.
He had to be about that talk.
He's just so cooked today, it's crazy.
Two things.
Tell me, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do
Du hast es gefunden. Nein, ich werde das immer noch machen, weil die Panthers gewinnen. Die Panthers gewinnen, obwohl ich es mache.
Ich kann verstehen, dass Kacuk nicht schießt, weil er verletzt ist. Er sieht schlecht aus. Ich habe auch gesagt, dass er verletzt ist. Ich habe auch gesagt, dass er verletzt ist.
I did not.
That's right.
Yes, I was. You were very excited. Yeah, he's been a loser for the past year and a half. And once he put money down in this game, I knew the Panthers were going to win. And the way the Panthers looked in the first 10 minutes of that game, Oh, that was classic Panthers. The only thing that they didn't do was finish. What about the second 10 minutes?
It absolutely was a tale of two periods. But second and third period, it was game over. As soon as they got their first goal, I said on Twitter, currently known as X, that once you get Bob 2, that's it. That's how well he was playing. That last 10 minutes, that's how
Er hat seinen Vater am Freitag verloren und hat sich entschieden, Game 6 am Samstag zu spielen. Und er hat gespielt. Er hat ein exzellentes Spiel gespielt, aber er wurde mit einem Penalty auf einem Breakaway getroffen. So the Oilers won that series, huh?
I mean, there were two overtime games.
Yeah, but the Panthers are better at that style than they are.
I told you so.
Das zweite Tor für die Panthers hat sie wirklich geführt.
Can you hear me?
You better watch out, you better just slide. You better not tackle, I think you might die. Two, will you please get down? Two, will you please get down? Two, will you please just get down? He's throwing a pick not just once or twice, but three times in a must-win game, Jesus Christ. Sue, will you please get down? Sue, will you please get down? Sue, will you please just get down?
Josh Allen's winning non-stop. He's the best we've ever seen. And Dan once thought he wasn't good. All that take was just obscene. It might be worse than two gods on the cheap. Oh, you better watch out. You better not try to tackle anyone. Tua, please don't die. Tua, will you please get down? Tua, will you please get down? Tua, will you please just get down? Come on, Tua. Wow. Good job, Jeremy.
The whole thing's haunted. He's throwing a pick not just once or twice, but three times in a must-win game, Jesus Christ.
Oh, Christmas. Now you are going for Big 12 titles The Knights looking for their old approach Everybody knows Nebraska was a real sh** show Oh that offense was not right UCF, it was not long ago undefeated seasons were in sight. Did you know that transfers are on their way? All right, can we stop this?
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Happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck.
Kennt ihr auch diesen einen Freund, der morgens einfach so ruckzuck aus dem Bett und danach aus dem Grinsen gar nicht mehr rauskommt? Der sogar noch vor dem ersten Kaffee unverschämt gut gelaunt ist und mit der Morgensonne um die Wette strahlt? Furchtbar. Ekelhaft.
My daughter's off from school and the public commuting situation was a pleasure.
School stock market. Das ist normalerweise ein guter Weg, das zu tun. Aber ja, es ist eine Weihnachtszeit. Aber denkt nicht, weil ihr uns anschaut, dass wir die Truppen nicht lieben. Wir lieben die Truppen.
Ich liebe die Truppen so sehr, dass ich hier sein wollte, nur damit ich es auf dieser wundervollen Plattform sagen kann, wie viel ich die Truppen liebe und ich bin dankbar, weil ihre Aktionen, ihre Bravour, ihre Verschuldung mich ermöglicht, dieses wundervolle Leben zu leben.
Mann, das X wird seltsam, oder? Wer hätte das gedacht? Ich habe das nicht gesehen auf Blue Sky.
Es hat. Ich bin drauf. Ich bin auf Blue Sky. Ich bin mehr ein Threads-Gericht. Ich verstehe nicht, warum Leute auf Blue Sky gehen, weil sie nicht wollen, dass Mark Zuckerberg in den kräftigen Arm von Mark Zuckerberg fliegt, weil der Trauma, der sehr kurze Trauma, den jeder mit X hatte. Aber es ist nicht so, als ob du nicht auf IG postest. Just come on, it's already embedded. Get your same follows.
I'm over the threads.
Vielleicht bedeutet er das auch metaphorisch.
Anfangs mit seinen Schwierigkeiten war es klar, sich zu identifizieren. The offensive line situation isn't great, the coaching situation isn't great, but several weeks have gone by since. And he's not really doing anything with his level of play to mitigate everything that's working against him. Plenty of players have succeeded in the face of bad coaching.
Hell, Aaron Rodgers is the highest rated quarterback of all time. He hasn't exactly had a super dream run, a murderer's row of coaching in his career. You can overcome it. Caleb Williams macht zu viel, aber auch zu wenig.
Aber in der heutigen NFL müssen diese Jungs spielen, weil wenn du tatsächlich erfolgreich bist und einen guten Rookie-Quarterback bekommst, kannst du dein Team aufsetzen, um wirklich aggressiv zu sein innerhalb eines vierjährigen Windows. Also muss er spielen. Schau, andere Rookie-Quarterbacks spielen und nicht genau die Entscheidung verraten, mit ihren Verteidigern zu gehen.
Jadon Daniels hat die Commander-Franchise verändert. Die Leute sagen, Sean Payton hat seinen Franchise-Verteidiger gefunden. Die anderen Verteidiger spielen uns also ein Problem.
Tom Brady called that one of the greatest plays he's ever seen a quarterback make.
Ich würde weniger überrascht sein, wenn das, was er für fünf volle Sekunden hält, eine große weiße Scharfe wäre, als dass er Bosa da stehen lassen konnte und seine Arme für fünf Yards halten konnte.
Besonders wenn mein Beispiel Baker Mayfield ist. Es hat ihn vielleicht 50 Spiele gedauert, bis er gesagt hat, dass wir dich trotzdem nicht vertrauen.
And he also doesn't like to say Jaden Daniels. Couldn't you have just said Jaden Daniels, though?
Und wenn du Tickets zu irgendwelchen Konferenzspielen in der ACC möchtest, muss ich dir sagen, dass es einen Ort gibt, wo du in den secondary ticket marketplace gehst. Und das ist die GameTime-App. Das ist eine GameTime-App. Ich verstehe, Dan, dass du vielleicht nicht den ganzen Blick auf das Wide Receiver Room in Chicago hast, weil du immer Keenan Allen sagst.
Es gibt einen Rookie-Wide-Receiver aus Washington. Es gibt eine alte Waffe aus Carolina.
Ja. Aduin Zay.
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I'm still not clear on what Lucy said the storyline of the weekend was.
Sie hat auch einen Kommentar gemacht und du warst so, ich will nicht über Miami sprechen, ich will über Inter-Miami sprechen.
A team of destiny. There's no way that he's thrown four interceptions that many times.
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Well, no.
Ich weiß! Er hat nur vier Interceptions in zwei Spielen gespielt. Ja, aber es ist besser, wenn du nicht bist. Nummer 3.
If you start with Miami football... I was gonna go with Pitt's devastating and embarrassing home loss to the Virginia Cavaliers.
Es gab viele verrückte Anrufe. Ich weiß nicht, ob du Utahs Athletik-Direktor gesehen hast, aber er ist unabhängig.
Er ist 6-0, wenn er ein Toilett schlagen muss, bevor ein Spiel beginnt.
Great place to take a dog.
Man kann diese Spiele nicht verlieren.
We've all done it. You did all that you could with that story.
Der Athletik-Direktor hat eine Idee.
Es sah einfach aus, korrigiere mich, wenn ich falsch bin, Lucy, aber sie sind neu zu dieser Konferenz und ja, ich habe einige der Spiele gesehen, wiederum nicht mit Sound, es sah so aus, als hätten sie einen Grund, sich über ein paar Anrufe zu verabschieden.
Ich denke, in einem Vakuum, wenn man sieht, dass alle ein bisschen verrückt waren, war es nicht so schlimm, man kann verstehen, warum sie diesen Anruf gemacht haben, es sah einfach aus, als wäre es eine wirklich ausgestattete Reaktion von AD, was mich dazu geführt hat, dass er das vielleicht mit Zweifel in einer neuen Konferenz tun würde.
Not this year. Ich werde das nicht tun.
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Und er reagiert so, als ob er nur die Superbowl gewonnen hätte. Es ist wirklich frustrierend, wenn ein Team, das so viel gewonnen hat, selbst wenn er nicht das beste Jahr für sich hat, klar der beste Quarterback, vielleicht überhaupt nie. Und für sie die Glück zu haben, aufgrund dessen, ist es einfach ziemlich deflatierend, wenn man aktiv gegen sie kämpft.
Okay. Parenthetically, I didn't mean literally. Right, yeah, exactly. You're just going out there with a very bold topic that Patrick Mahomes is going to be in the Pro Bowl.
That's the type of opinions you're not hearing anywhere else. Exactly, thank you.
It's weird that I still want to talk Bengals Ravens. If that game was that good, then I don't want to pretend Saturday and Sunday happened.
I'm going to hemorrhage this NFL season because after every loss, I just like a fiery furnace, just keep throwing cash at the Rams, Niners and Bengals. I don't care if you keep losing, I'm going to keep trusting you because you're this close.
The good luck that the Chiefs have had this season, and sometimes this is met directly, is only followed by the bad luck the Bengals have seemed to have had this season. And I want to believe in them so bad, and I assume... Pretty good. Thanks for asking. Is that Honeycrisp? It's delicious.
I'm really upset that you decided to do that when I was off.
It's a holiday.
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Yeah, because every time they choose Bodie McBoatface.
Or I'm cringing so hard that I don't want to see what's happening right now. I find it all confusing.
Do you need it to be a... A reaction's fine, too. You're good with someone liking the text or loving the text?
I feel similarly. If I'm sending a text to you that I know I need you to read, if you haven't at least like reacted to it in some sort of capacity, it'll still be in my head that I need to follow up with you. And maybe you've seen it and moved on. And I'm guilty of this. I'm someone that will see a text and then think like, oh, yeah, I need to get back to them.
But I'm in the middle of doing this thing and then I'll completely forget about it and still have received the information I was supposed to receive, reacted accordingly, but then didn't respond to the text. And I always feel bad about it.
I think that the emojis are probably not as much of the issue as the secrecy behind the conversations that include the emojis would be my assumption if we're talking about micro-cheating.
No, of course it doesn't.
It's like the most professional way to go about it. So, you know, if an executive reaches out to you, just respond with that eggplant emoji.
How did you get here? Well, at first I had to take a shower. That was the first thing I had to do. And then I had to sprint over here. I'm so impressed by the fact that you were here before 945.
Well, and then you're just getting rid of them by the time you need to pay them. Right. Because that that often seems to be the thing. Right. When I'm talking about teams like the Pirates or the Marlins or whoever in the future, theoretically, this would be the way that a smaller market team could hold on to their stars in the long run. We just saw no discount. Well, no, that that's my question.
Right.
But so, for example, signing Sandy Alcantara when the Marlins did to the contract they did, which I believe was like five years around fifty five million dollars. Are you saying that doesn't that didn't save them any sort of money?
Well, he missed a year, and a pitcher is a different conversation, obviously.
Sure, but the pitcher part of it, I guess, is a different conversation because we end up having guys who miss full seasons in that respect at a far higher rate.
than what you see for position players but there's kyle raleigh there's jackson turio sound signed one of these a couple years ago the famous example is ozzy albies who signed for way cheaper than anyone would have anticipated and to me i guess what i've always viewed this as something that is team friendly that allows a player to guarantee themselves some money before they would hit the giant contract in their prime is that not the reality of how teams look at it when
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It's like the Otani 50-50. I could not believe that happened here. It was like one of the greatest single individual feats of athleticism I've ever seen on a field. And it happened here instead of in L.A. when they were going the next day. And he had already hit a home run to get within 50. And they were up by like 10 runs. Dave Roberts... easily could have pulled him out.
I mean, I imagine, David, that would have frustrated you in a way. If you were running the Dodgers, would you have fired Dave Roberts for not pulling Otani in that game?
So if it would have been, hey, if he gets there, take him out, and then he left him in anyway.
Okay.
Otani doubled to right in the first inning of that game off the top of the wall then singled to right in the top of the second yeah then doubled to center try and then oh was thrown out stretching it to third in the third inning that was when we all went oh no all right this is trying for a cycle He was trying to go for the cycle, and we were all like, oh, man, he didn't get the triple.
There's no way they're going to pull him after this. Then he came up again in the top of the sixth. Surely they're up 7-3 at this point, and he homers to right center. Now it's 9-3, and surely, I mean, obviously, Otani's going to get pulled. Nope. He hits again in the top of the seventh, homers again. Now it's 14-3. That's home run number 50. But don't worry.
He's going to come up again in the top of the ninth. And he homers again, and that's home run 51. So he had three home runs in that game. I think it was, what, three home runs, two doubles, thrown out at third. It could have been the cycle. I think there were 10 ribbies in there. God, what a moment.
What's crazy is that that's the greatest offensive game we've ever seen, and he has another game with a higher war accumulated in that game because he started and threw, I think, five shutout innings with 12 strikeouts or something like that.
What was the worst one that was akin to something like this? Because this is about as bad as it gets, right? You're disrespecting not only a legend of the Pirates, but a legend of baseball that is celebrated across the league, and you're coming off the heels of what just happened.
Verlander at 262.
I think that's the most possible of any of the ones you've named thus far. Just given where scoring is right now, that there could be one night where it ends up being a guy, whether it's like a Devin Booker or someone late in the season playing in an uncompetitive game that hits like 15 or 16 threes.
with the government website and Jackie Robinson and so everyone is is feeling the effects of like history of our great players of color being a race there's all of it is there anything that you ever dealt with that was even close to what this type of ire that you're sort of going out in front and and taking the heat on they got ire Jeremy I would say that what we did with Karl Barger and on retiring his number we didn't do that probably the way we should have and
Right, but along with getting to the foul line. That gives you 68. I think that's more possible than anything you've named. That's all I'm saying. I don't think it's going to happen, but I think it's the most possible of anything you've named thus far.
I think there's a chance that you never see another pitcher get to half of Cy Young's wins. Right. Five hundred and eleven career.
Right. But another like after Verlander, there's a chance you never see another pitcher get to half of the all time leaders wins. That's how much the game has changed there. So maybe just I'm just saying maybe maybe someone can get to 100.
Yeah, because what? It was a 16-year streak for Cal Ripken Jr. And he played 156 games in 2021. So that was when it started, was a few games into 2021. And now just three straight seasons after that of 162. So he's still got basically a decade of that to go, which is insane.
31.
I'm not buying it. But what would that injury have been otherwise? It just feels so specific.
Freeman played 162 twice, but has played 159, 159, 161 the three previous years before last year where he played 147.
Yeah.
In 16 years, he had like eight more batting stances than missed games.
And so what upsets you is that he made that decision and didn't communicate it to the Clementes, right?
So long as you communicate with the family that you just communicate, worked with.
And that was part of the Clemente's statement, by the way, was that basically their frustration wasn't even the decision, which I think we should be frustrated by the decision. You know, you make a decision to honor a player, even if there are other... ways that you've honored the player around a ballpark.
You've honored him in this public way that everyone can see when a ball is hit down that right field line. And now you're removing it to sell and make more money when you're a franchise and the Pirates that we know their fans are frustrated with them to begin with.
But the statement from the Clementes included the specific nature of the Pirates continue to do these things, not only without consulting us, but without sort of consulting their fan base at large.
If you were wanting to make this decision, though, right? And the Clemente family had an issue with it, then what? How does that conversation go for you in that that spot as the president of the team, right? Like, are you actually going for a conversation where you're actually caring what they have to say? Or is it just checking the box? It's just checking the box.
But even if they weren't, it keeps score family. This would be a problem, I would think, for any franchise given the value of the specifics of the player. If someone's pointing it out on social media and there's a conversation that happens, you think that essentially this goes totally unnoticed if you don't have a family that's actively participating in that legacy? Yeah.
You're very right. And I think that is important to sort of distinguish from the conversation we were having a couple of weeks ago and this one when I just brought up the Jackie Robinson thing, because those are two very, very, very different conversations that we're having. This is not completely erasing Roberto Clemente's legacy at behest of some governmental intervention.
This is a totally different thing. At the same time, I do think people have a right to be frustrated by, hey, here's this thing. We're already a franchise and a fan base that's frustrated, right, in a general sense. Then we've got this history, this pillar of not just a player, but a person that we all admire that's celebrated in this specific way.
And now so that the owner who we're already frustrated with for not spending money can make an extra quick. We're going to eliminate this thing that is a very public display of our love for our franchise's most beloved person. I think people have a right to be frustrated by that.
I understand your perspective, David, which is your frustration stems most from how could the president have handled this differently and in a way that wouldn't have caused such a stink for baseball, for his team? It's embarrassing.
But for a fan perspective, for someone who is a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates, their frustration is a different one, which is really like that's how we're going to go ahead and erase something that matters to all of us, even if it's one of several different public displays. One of the public displays of our love of our hero is now going away so that we could sell it for something.
100%.
Well, I wonder if for the Pirates and sort of sticking within that theme, we saw some contract extensions in Major League Baseball over the last week that I found really interesting. Not just Vlad Guerrero, who signs this mammoth deal that we could get into, but it's some of the other guys, right? And I forget the name of the player who just signed with the Red Sox.
Yes, Campbell, who signed an eight-year, $60 million deal. You see Jackson Merrill.
Right. I mean, he's barely played at the major league level. There's Jackson Merrill, who just signed a massive deal in San Diego. A different conversation than you're having because he at least had a full year of major league baseball. But I'm really intrigued by those types of deals for markets like Pittsburgh, like theoretically Miami in the future.
We saw Tampa do a little bit of this at different points in their run. Started with Evan Longoria. Right. He's the first one I can ever remember as one of these contracts. John Singleton was first.
So that's the question I guess I have, which is we've seen a few franchises here recently in the Padres and the Red Sox, two teams that think they're good and should be for the foreseeable future. But teams locking up young stars and buying them out of arbitration. Do you think that that's like a trend that you're going to see more of? Or is this just sort of a...
A conglomeration of circumstances that led to all of these individual guys being signed at this time.
So I guess my question would be, for example, with Campbell, right? He's come up, he's performed, he signs his eight-year $60 million deal. What you're saying is the eight years, he was already supposed to be under contract for six.
You're now guaranteeing exactly what the money is going to be in that stretch for a player who otherwise, if they didn't perform, might not reach the salary level that they're going to reach in those six years. And so it's six plus an extra two seasons on top of that, and then he could be a free agent. That's exactly right.
Well, no. It's like you win a boat, but you live in South Dakota. And it's like, oh, my God, I won this boat. It's like, great. What am I going to do with this boat? Sell the boat.
He was wronged. I mean, he was punished for studying and doing research and just having all of the information.
I don't understand how there's people that still go on Survivor and don't know how to make fire. It's harder than you think. But you should practice it. And especially if you get to the end, it gets down to a fire-making competition towards the end of Survivor.
So there's people who have been on the island for 40 days, 36 days, whatever it is now, and haven't practiced at one point in time, had no plan on getting there, what they would do if they were in that position.
So what would you guys do? You'd go and you'd have like, okay, it's time for survivor school today. And they'd take you out to survivor school. And then you'd go back to like the four seasons or whatever. And they're like, all right, in six days.
Sarah would be amazing on the show.
What was the experience like?
Okay.
Just making sure we're not breeding anti-Semites, you know, with bad experiences or something. No, it's the opposite. Exactly. Pro-Semites. I think we're, exactly. We're breeding love. Is this Sarah that went on to do, like, the challenge and stuff?
Yeah. You've heard of her. I have. She ran around the world with me.
I don't like meeting my heroes, and Sarah I would consider a hero at this point. They'd just let you down? Yeah, you know, I could always aspire and think, oh, what would Sarah do? But if I meet Sarah, then I know what she would do, and maybe I wouldn't agree. Like, I was finding out Sarah was here the whole time, behind the scenes, pre-survivor, trying to communicate with you illegally.
So, I mean, is that the kind of person I want enforcing the law? I don't know. Not to take shots at her as a police officer. Thank you for your service, Sarah, but... You know, just something to think about. If we're willing to bend the rules of Survivor, what other laws are we willing to bend the rules on?
No. I was very locked in on, what day was it? Friday, I think it was, when he scored the two goals and he was going for the third and then he didn't want to go in because he didn't want an empty netter. But then he went in and they were just feeding him the puck. And I don't know, Spencer Knight all of a sudden, who down here notoriously, Spencer Knight, thank you for your service.
But Spencer Knight all of a sudden decided he wanted to play goalie when Ovechkin was going for number three on him for the night and just wouldn't let him do it at home for whatever reason. So he has to then go and do it against the Islanders. Poor Wayne Gretzky was there and he was following him. That's like Roger Maris' family except the opposite, right?
Because the Maris family, let's be real, you're the Maris family of one thing, just that record, right? And they'll trot you out. They trotted you out when it was Mark McGuire and it was Sammy Sosa and we thought, okay, fine, we're done. Yeah, every couple of decades. We don't have to see Roger Maris' son anymore. Finally, we're done with that guy, right?
And then Aaron Judge is going to break the AL home run record. And he said, what do we do to celebrate this? Let's bring the Maris boys out again. So Maris' son is there and he's in Toronto and he's going around the world on this tour again, following the home run chase just to have someone spoil his father's legacy. It's really cruel what they do to the Maris family.
They like it because it's, you know, relevance for them. But it's really like, let's come here and watch someone ruin your daddy's legacy and everything that he's known for. You think that Gretzky was thrilled to be at the Islanders game last night?
If you're that, don't you stay the great one. Do you think that he regrets some of those assists now? After his goal record goes down, he's like, I should have been a little more selfish. Yeah, he had assists to spare. Exactly right. 700 of them. Come on, Wayne.
What's a good text window? You have a 5 o'clock nap?
What time do you wake up?
No, from your nap.
And it doesn't make you, like, more energized? At night, it'd be harder for me to sleep if I took a nap.
Really?
Oh, man.
Because you're tough to reach, too. I get back to you. Yes. I get back to you. But I have a difficult window, so it depends on having pickup and stuff like that. But bedtime usually starts, the process is like dinner, like 6-ish, and then there's bath, and then there's bedtime. And then it's usually like a process like 6 to 8, 30, or 9, depending on how it goes. Yeah, it's a long process.
Yeah, something written wrong. I'm not a caller. I don't really call people. I'm more of a texter.
The uh-oh is a confusing description. Like, I feel like, and I don't know, I feel like Jess doesn't hate me, but the uh-oh is like, oh, if he's reaching out to me, things must be bleak.
I wasn't talking about him. You're talking about me? I'm not pointing any fingers. Just saying. Wait a minute. Someone involved was. I'm sorry. Did Yager retire officially? Because I feel like Yager still has a run in him. Yes, I believe he retired. He's in Europe right now.
Donnie Baseball, please.
I know. The only manager I wanted you to fire and you guys refused to. Jeez. Couldn't do me a solid. I really liked firing managers. Constantly taking out pitchers when they're little no-hitters. Guys.
Yeah, it'd be awesome. The race ends and then they throw like a real like rabbit on the track and now it's like, have at it, dogs. You won. Yeah.
Do they know the difference? Well, no, that's why you throw a real rabbit on after the race and you sacrifice rabbits. Elderly rabbits that are on their way out. Oh, I'm saying sick rabbits. Honestly, like putting them out of their misery. Yeah, exactly right.
Do dogs still race? I thought that dog racing kind of went by the wayside.
I would have to go to Hi-Li. Hi-Li is like, at least my experience with Hi-Li here is it's very similar to your experience at the law firm where it's like, oh, come on in and here's some free money to bet. And then you can leave with free money. But on the way out, why don't you check out our casino? Oh, you want $80? That's free $80 you can spend in our casino today.
Well, what was his thinking that he wanted abroad and they gave him the check abroad so it wasn't income for the U.S. government?
You know, a lot of people on those home renovation shows, they end up losing the houses because the value goes way up. They can't pay the property tax on it. And it's like, wow, we fixed up your house and now you're homeless.
The price is right. Also, a lot of the people end up leaving without the prizes because they have to pay or show that they're going to pay on the way out. And they're like, oh, never mind. I had this great moment, but now I don't get any of these prizes. There's shows that I think...
I read, I don't remember which shows it was, where they give the prizes and if you can't and you're like in the audience, you can be like, yeah, I'll take that prize as long as you're going to pay for it. I need to look up which shows offered the prize. The prizes were up for grabs.
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Yeah, I mean, happy January 6th, Dan. It's a real shitty situation, which speaking of, I heard it smells a lot like poop over there. So that's not fun. But look, this is...
Listening to Paul Pierce say things about heat culture and running players out of town when the Celtics are what they are now simply because of the trade package that they received for Paul Pierce at the end of his career is one thing. But this situation did escalate from the place when you say everyone saw this coming.
No one saw this specific thing in the middle of the season coming, including Jimmy Butler, who showed up day one. to Heat camp and said, in extension, that's just money. I've made enough money in my career. He said of everything Pat Riley talked about him over the summer, I'm here to play games. Pat was right. He came in with that sort of attitude.
It's the reason everyone anticipated this would all at least play out over the course of a season. And if you wanted to argue that Mike did, that this team as constructed wouldn't be competitive enough to win a championship, you can feel perfectly validated today. And you can feel validated about where this all goes. But this has little to nothing to do with
made or not made over the span of the last few years, it has everything to do with a contract extension. It all comes down to the money. If the contract extension would have been offered this past summer, Jimmy Butler would still be perfectly happy playing for the Miami Heat and nothing would be any different outside of our arguments about whether or not the roster was good enough.
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If he had a contract extension... I would argue that his value would be worse. If Jimmy decided with money already signed, it would be worse off for the Heat, at least right now.
If Jimmy Butler got an extension, either he never would have said anything and he would have finished out his career in Miami like he said he was going to do, Or there would be teams all around the league looking at Jimmy Butler at his age and saying, I'm not sure I want to trade for a max player. I mean, Mike, I would have to think on that front you would agree.
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they built something around Jimmy in a way that no other franchise has for him throughout his entire career. And when I say built it around him, I mean, he got to be Jimmy in every manner in which you could be Jimmy Butler. Like, he was given... Sort of privileges in a way that a lot of other star players have not in Miami over the course of I mean, we're talking about the big three.
We're talking about Shaq and Wade when they were together. We're talking before that they built this whole thing around him and led him to a ton of success. I mean, in those first couple of years, they did great. try to cash in at deadlines and make moves to acquire guys.
For that matter, they got to the finals because of a move that they made in the first year that Jimmy Butler was here to acquire Andre Godala and Jake Crowder and make a run. They could have won the finals if they had not had Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic get hurt. So they built it around him.
It's just here at the end, no matter the moves that were going to be made, it comes down to a contract dispute. And I think the obvious change is in that Pat Riley statement.
When he says we're not trading Jimmy Butler, it's because the clear and obvious understanding from every party involved going into the year was, look, clearly this is just going to have to play out over the course of the year and we'll deal with it in the offseason. I don't think the Heat ever anticipated after everything happened
That their relationship has been contentious or not at any given moment. They kind of liked butting heads throughout a lot of this. They liked the on-court arguments where UD's breaking up Spoh and Butler. It's how they all click and how they all tick. It's fine. But now... At the end, this is more of an in-season public mess than they ever anticipated that Jimmy Butler would make.
And maybe they're wrong to not anticipate it because of the way some of these other things have ended. Not maybe. But I think they thought they could get through.
Well, the anticipation, they controlled the situation going into the season by not offering an extension and giving themselves the flexibility that if things didn't go well this year, Jimmy Butler would either opt in and they could trade it or he would opt out and they would get all of that money off of the books after all of the respect that
that did exist between these two parties over the last five years after everything that they did to sort of cater to what it was that Jimmy Butler wanted. The only thing that they really missed out on was that Damian Lillard trade. All of the other ones were just conjecture. This is... Not an ending that any star in the league has made outside of James Harden.
No one does this midseason in the way that Jimmy Butler has. And and sure, you can say that that they were wrong to not anticipate that. But they believed and or at least I believe that. They felt in the type of control with his contract situation that they would be able to move it one way or another, even if it was at this deadline.
But a major stink like this a month before it, I don't know that anyone should anticipate that considering what the relationship was for the last five years.
Happy new anus to you.
Yeah.
Wenn es um Westbrook geht... Doppelteamtum. Sie haben das Spiel für Kawhi Leonard sehr, sehr schwierig gemacht. Ich denke, dass wir Russell Westbrook feiern sollten, weil dieser Kerl, verständlich gesagt, wegen dessen, was in seiner Karriere so schnell passiert ist, in Bezug auf Effizienz, wir haben ihn aufgeschrieben, als ob er das nicht verdient, er ist das nicht und er hat nie selbst gewonnen.
In an era where Steph Curry was the most entertaining player, bar none, Russell Westbrook was the second most entertaining player. And he was in series after series that were interesting. He's been a part of all these different teams that have either lost in big moments or won in big moments or upset teams that should have won.
And he, in this game, that moment with the breakaway dunk, with the technical foul, where he's yelling at the crowd and getting them out of here. It's four years of rage.
Das ist so enttäuschend wie alles, was man auf einem Basketballplatz sehen kann.
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Ja, ich dachte, das war es.
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Nein, ich versuchte, einen gemeinsamen Moment zu haben. In Billys Verteidigung versuchte er nur, extra Informationen für dich zu geben, für den Kontext, wer dieser Harnes-Racer war, den er vorher referiert hat, damit du heute den Joke bekommen kannst.
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Das ist von Mason Miller, es ist ein Pitch über 101 Meilen pro Stunde, den Kyle Stowers auf der Spitze des Zones aufschlägt und fährt.
Yes, that's not. That a boy. Shake, little half hug. Yeah. Congratulate the man. Smiling. He just hit a walk-off Grand Slam. Ich glaube, ich kann ihm ein bisschen High-Five geben.
Das ist mein erster Major-League-Winner. Mein erster Major-League-Winner ist ein Walk-Off-Grand-Slam.
Er sagt, ich bin 9-2 dieses Jahr. Wenn die Heater unter 500 sind, ist es ein bisschen seltsam, dass ich über 500 Rekorde habe.
Ich bin noch nicht da, Greg, aber ich werde sagen, ich fühlte mich nach dem Spiel wie ein Gewinner. nach einem Walk-Off Grand Slam, wo sie ein Gatorade-Bath auf den Spieler legen und dann kommt er zu mir und wir teilen, was die Emotionen sind nach dem Spiel. Das macht mich gut. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich mich als Champion ansehen würde, wenn mein Team gewinnt.
Wenn die Mannschaft, die ich für die ganze Saison veranstalte und durch die ganzen Spiele geht, es ein Marathon ist. Du fühlst dich, als hättest du deine Rolle gemacht, wenn du Jonathan Zaslow wärst. Aber gleichzeitig... Nein, er hat sie nicht gewonnen.
Ich denke, wir sollten mehr über Jeremy sprechen. Ich denke, wir sollten nicht über, wer mich bezahlt.
Ich war so wütend, dass sie ihm das Gatorade aufgemacht haben, bevor er zu mir kam. Er hat sein Shirt ausgeschnitten und hat es auf dem Shirt aufgemacht, bevor er seinen Solo-Moment hatte.
Nein, das ist mein Mann. Seine Nachbarn sitzen in der dritten Baseline. Er musste ein bisschen Hallo sagen. Ich meine, komm schon, du musst das so machen.
Exactly that.
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Can you complain if you get the tickets for free? I think. Because you have Susie Essman paying multiple thousands of dollars for seats.
So if they're comped and they tell you, hey, instead of court side, we're going third row.
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Ja, es ist saubere Soap. Dr. Squatch verwendet großartige Soap, übrigens.
Das ist wahr.
Aber es war in ihrer Bathtub. Wir wissen nicht, ob es in ihrer Bathtub war oder nicht. Es könnte irgendwo anders gewesen sein.
Es ist eine limitierte Runde. Ich glaube, sie machen nur 5.000. Also müssen wir sie jetzt holen?
Nur 5.000 und wir sind fertig? Du kannst nur 5.000 pro Mal holen.
Chris, also Weihnachten hier bei den Metalock-Offices, all of a sudden siehst du ein kleines Quadrat und denkst dir, hm, was ist das?
Sidney Sweeney's Bathwater by Dr. Squatch?
I'll talk to the people at Dr. Squatch and see what we can do. Dr. Squatch!
I know somebody.
I don't know, Chris.
Unglaublich.
Naja. Nenn ihn Nerds Cluster.
Nichts ist schlimmer als zurückzukommen und zu sagen, Baby, guck, was ich für dich habe. Und sie ist so, ich hasse das.
Dann gibt es keine Anrufe. Oder die Bar von Soap, Sidney Sweeney's Bathwater. Das ist das, was ich habe.
Um es wieder zu verkaufen?
That's something you don't use. If you buy it for that price, you don't use it. You can't take it out of the box, right?
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Helping you move from one walk-up to another walk-up, probably. Move is a good one.
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Is that like a battery size? Educate. I don't know anything. You looked it up. You're making yourself sound more suspicious. Did I look anything up? Is he? He's trying to cover you.
I think he thinks he's trying to help us. No, I was told in my ear. I didn't look anything up. I'm just saying.
Quick exit, too, if you need to make a hurried exit. Izzy's a backing guy. All of a sudden...
Well, I don't mean just in case. You need to make a quick getaway. He's not wrong. You haul ass. I don't have to back up. Oh, there's an old lady.
But they're gonna be in a car and then you're gonna be running and then they're gonna catch you in the car because they're not gonna get out.
You're done with us? Today's your last day, thank God. Well, not yet. Not used to it.
Buddy, je nachdem, wann sie einen großen Pizza und einen Soda bringen, sage ich ihnen genau, wer spielt. Wirklich?
Genau richtig.
Zazzle sagte das vorige Woche, glaube ich.
Nein, er sagte, dass Schnitzel Schnitzel werden.
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I have an unbelievable update that I just found out from Coach Natalia of the Golden Oldies. Last year there were 21 Golden Oldies. Last year there were 21 of them. All 21 are back here auditioning this year and they're only taking between 18 and 20 dancers this year.
So automatically there will be a few cut, but if they want any new blood, which every year they try to cycle in some new dancers, there will be several dancers cut This audition process, I mean, there were literally over 100 people here in this room right now. This is cutthroat. And Greg, as you guys mentioned, is the bell of the ball.
But I think as soon as they realize he might take one of their spots, it might get a little intense.
Yeah, exactly. This is one of the most celebrated things that a lot of these people have going on because how many times do you get to perform in front of tens of thousands of people, you know, and show off your dance moves? So this is, guys, this is getting pretty intense. I'm like, my heart is racing. I'm really nervous about this now.
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I'm not going to ask that question. Well, why not? It's something that needs to be weighed, I believe, when making a decision. Because it's rude. It's ageist. No. Those people are lively, wonderful. They're beautiful. Well, they haven't been cut yet. Oh, we're getting some testing going on.
I mean, this is unbelievable. We've got an intense warm-up happening right now. There was just a whole speech before everything got started about, hey, don't focus too much on the numbers of how many people we're going to take.
You folks have an opportunity to prove it to us that you belong on this team, and I'm just going to let you watch for a minute because Greg is getting warmed up, number 251 right here, and I mean, look at him. With all of these folks who are getting ready, it's... It's a pretty intense moment as everybody gets warmed up. It's really mean that they made him wear his actual age.
Yeah. The guy with the red tank top, 239. Look at this guy. Yeah. 239 has been on the team before. No, for off-season Santa. He was on the team last year. So he's been preparing for this for years. He's a seasoned vet when it comes to the Golden Oldies. Is that Marlon's man in the back?
Is this the warm-up or is this the routine? It wasn't obvious by the camera crew that we've sent out. No, this is just a warm-up. They're just getting everybody nice and limber before getting ready to go because we don't want anybody pulling a hamstring or messing up a shoulder. Greg's shoulders are really kind of stressing me out a little bit.
I think I'm okay.
I'm just worried about Greg, if I'm being honest with you guys. Everybody else looks like they've been stretching over the offseason. That's not a stretch, Greg. Greg just pointed. The woman behind 215 looks like a ringer. I don't think she's 60. I agree. That's the thing that's amazing here is there are some folks where I'm like, really? You're 60?
Because the type of shape that they're in, it's really amazing. Yeah, it went quiet at the wrong time for Jeremy.
It's like an AAU tournament. And I do not see Greg touching toes.
I'm not kidding you guys. This is the first time my dad has stretched in years. And that is not an exaggeration. He's gonna be so sore. He's out of breath already. If you look at the rest of this group, Danny, can you pan to the rest of the group for a minute? Everyone is touching their toes. Everybody looks comfortable. And then there's Greg.
And if you go back to Greg, he can barely touch his knee. His leg is shaking. And he's just waiting to come back up from every single stretch.
I'm really worried about Greg's confidence after this. Can we talk to him? I think he came in feeling really, really good. I mean, if you guys have any questions, I can get in there and ask a question. He looks pretty locked into me. I have a question.
This is unbelievable, guys. This is the Southwest Focal Point Senior Center in Pembroke Pines. It is full. The parking was unbelievable. We all had to park on the grass because there were so many people here auditioning today for the Golden Oldies. I was told that between 100 and 150 people over the age of 60 years old will be auditioning for the Golden Oldies today.
All right, let me just go ahead and scoot in. Wow.
They just aren't participating.
How is he doing? Check in on him. I mean, okay, I'll check in again. Guys, he's trying to lock in.
He's not wearing socks now.
I love how he's just stretching, and I'm genuinely worried about my dad right now.
It's hilarious that this is before. Now it's real. It's drained out of it.
He's already regretting this. Like, this hurts. I think we got it. I'm worried about it. He's going to be sore for days, guys.
I want to make it abundantly clear, guys, that's why I was making sure that we weren't making fun of these folks because they are spry, athletic, and everything unlike Greg Cody. Those people stretch better than I do. This lady is putting my dad to shame right now. She's a lot. It's a real faffa. Unbelievable comparison.
And at 2.39, I'd be a little worried getting up there. Speaking of, Chris. You're the tightest shoe. Yeah, I know what's going on there. Visually, just so that everybody in the audio audience can understand what's happening. Look at 202 dancing. Leaning each way. Yeah, there are some folks that have rhythm as they're stretching, which is pretty spectacular. They're dancers.
Oh, I don't know the answer. I believe that there's a solo freestyle. What is my dad doing? Yeah, what is happening right now? Stretching it. What is he doing?
It's just so funny. If Danny, if we could put just Greg on screen with the two ladies right here in front of him, just to show the comparison of how limber and talented they are as compared to Greg, it is one of the funniest visuals I've ever witnessed in my life. 220 is a ringer. He can't even lift his ankle off the ground. Yeah, 220 is a ringer.
I believe both of these ladies right here in front were on the team last year. Oh, we've got some rhythm rocking here, guys.
Greg here being one of them, he's about to have a private dance lesson with the coach to be able to be sure that he's ready and prepared. Greg, how are you feeling about everything that's going on today?
Oh, I apologize. I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't.
I think they all just applauded after they stretched.
So make sure, people, if you want to find out, Whether Greg made the team or not, we're going to be posting stuff on social the rest of the day because we've got to go now. The show's over, and he's still out there as we're looking now. So we will post things. Make sure to listen to Best Back in My Day coming up next. on the post-game show.
I think he does. I think that what's happened here is he had no interest, and then the moment he showed up and felt as young as he looks in this group, with the athleticism that he was showing off. We were in a back room before, and he was doing high leg kicks. He was doing dances like this right here. I mean, I think Greg is ready and excited. He's a performer at the end of the day.
Right. Well, luckily there, it is the end of the day. I mean... Dinner will be served in the next 30 minutes. It's true. We'll have the early bird special will be coming in soon, guys.
But this is going to be great. I mean, if you guys want to follow with us, I mean, we could show you what this place is looking like. Well, hold on a second.
You would think that it was because of the Dan Levitard show and all the cameras that Greg was famous. But actually, I've heard three or four different people in here say, hey, is that Greg Cody of the Hee Haw 3? I couldn't believe it.
It's amazing.
Let's do this. All right, so we've got folks in here. We've got members of the Heat dance team welcoming everyone in. Hello, hello. And now this is what we've got going on in the auditions for the Golden Oldies. Look at all of these folks who are ready here for the Golden Oldies. It's really spectacular. I can't believe.
The ability that this group has, this organization, to bring in so many talented dancers. If you focus on it, Danny, if you want to focus in right over here, a lot of the folks at the front, they're the people who made the team last year. But you know what's not going to happen? any sort of gifts to those folks. They have to audition again.
So no matter whether they were on the team last year, they're on the team this year. Everybody has to audition again. Everybody needs to get prepared. There's going to be, I believe, 15 to 20 second long freestyle dances. There's going to be coordinated dances throughout the day. We're going to make sure that Greg is ready. I believe right now he's signing his waiver as we speak.
So Greg Cody is getting ready to go. What's the date?
The 27th.
I don't think so, although he looks ready to be the prize fighter in this situation.
Oh, I fully believe so. These people are here ready to earn their spot on a team no different than any other competitive team that you might find in a sport or otherwise. It's time to go find a number for Greg because these people are signing up and getting ready for what should be a really competitive day. So Greg, you go ahead and follow me.
We're going to get a number for you because look, these folks. Hello. Nice to see you. Everybody's ready. Look, we've got folks here in heat jerseys. We've got everybody ready in black, white, or red. It's really, I mean, guys, this is competitive.
Stretching happened. Any boat shoes? You know, as I'm scanning around, I see a lot more supportive sketchers than I see deck shoes. But if Greg had worn his other shoes that he was telling us about the last couple of weeks, maybe he would have been more prepared. Hi, how are you? Nice to see you. All right. Jeremy. This is my place, guys. I love to see you.
I could not believe the amount of celebrity. Greg just danced and literally received an ovation from the crowd behind him. And I've already had three different people ask me, is that Greg Cody? I've seen his picture at the bottom of the Miami Herald. These people are the target audience, the target demographic. How tired are you, Dad? This is really spectacular. How tired are you?
I do think these people probably think he's here as a bit of a gag, and they don't realize he's genuinely competing for one of their spots because I've had two different golden oldies from last year walk up and say, like, oh, I'm so nervous. This is a big day for us. We're re-auditioning because they have to audition again. And I was like, yeah, we've got Greg Cody with us. That should be fun.
And I don't think that they realize that he's actually here trying to take one of their spots. So once that starts, I think they're going to be upset.
I don't know if the sympathy applies as much as, you know, this might be Greg's crowd, guys. I think these are the type of people that are liking what they see, if you know what I mean. Baby! How many people make this team, Jeremy? I actually don't know the answer to that. I'll find that out before the next time I report back. My assumption is somewhere between 20 and 25.
Craig, if you had a couple of Miller Lights in you right now, how much more comfortable would you be in getting prepared for this?
So some sweet spot between two and four. You got to watch that line. Send someone to go get him some Miller Lights. We'll try to make that happen in the next 20 minutes. All right. We'll do that. After I ask your questions, I'll go get some Miller Light for him.
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The pressure's on.
Throw a Greer at him. You know, our enforcers. Well, if Barkov's not in the game, then somebody's going to have to take over the fourth line center spot. You don't think so? Because Anton Lundell is going to get lifted.
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Von dem was ich höre, mag ich es nicht.
Er ist in L.A., es könnte früh sein.
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Okay, also statt dass ihre Augen von der Kamera kaputt sind, hat sie jetzt Sklerosis.
That's a bar.
Das ist Jalen Rose, das ist für sicher Jalen Rose. Aber egal, ich würde es gerne ein bisschen organisierter machen. Aber das ist das, wofür er geht. Das ist das, was die Kinder machen.
Er hat eine tolle Haarfarbe.
Nicht so gut wie das Bild. Keiner von uns sieht so gut wie unsere Bilder. Seien wir ehrlich. Oder unsere Porträts von unseren Kindern.
This is kind of a tactical... It is.
It's like a fisherman's vest. Like multiple types of tobacco in each pocket. You know? Yeah. Wow. Oder du verkaufst, weißt du, gekauftes Jewelry an einem Konzert.
It's the final nightgown.
Professionell? Nein, ich wurde nicht bezahlt. Ich wollte nur sagen, verdammt, sign mich an!
Es ist nicht wirklich eine Pro-Flagg-Football-Liga. Nicht noch. Nicht noch, aber ich sage es. Ich gebe den Kontext, dass er am höchsten Niveau gespielt hat.
Weißt du, was ich meine?
Öffne die Schnauze, was magst du? Ich habe alles und es ist günstig. Ich mag das, Mann. Also ich wusste nicht, dass Jeremy eine Schnauze hat. Ich mag die Schnauze auch. Du machst das auf den Sinn. Ich nicht. Das ist wirklich so, wie ich das Wort jedes Mal sage. Und wenn du lügst... Wenn du lügst... Nein, nein, nein!
Ich weiß nicht, was es war. Jeremy, ich denke, du wartest mit Patty Mayonnaise damals. Erinnerst du dich an 1998, was... Das ist nicht gut. Wer hat das okay gemacht? Yeah, I mean, we didn't really have a competition committee back then, so it was a wild, wild way. They were like, let's race, let's tackle full speed in these all-star games. Cut on sand.
My union would be questioning things.
Ich würde sagen... Where do I sign right now? Really? For free? Really? Whatever it takes. The Olympics means that much to you or the sport itself? So, here's a story. When I was in the NFL, we got wind that Rugby 7s was coming to the Olympics. And, you know, Rugby 7s is, it's like, not as... Es ist wie bei Rugby 15s. Es ist wie ein gesperrtes Feld. Es ist wie ein 7-on-7.
Du gehst auf die Winge und dann geht es auf die Seite. Wenn du die Geschwindigkeit und Geschwindigkeit hast, kannst du gegen Jungs, die sich nicht an der Geschwindigkeit und Geschwindigkeit befinden, wirklich gehen. Ich will Olympian sein. Das wäre eine unglaubliche Sache. Ich habe also angefangen, in den Off-Seasons zu trainieren. Für Rugby 7s. mit einem Mann namens Perry Baker.
Wir waren in Columbus und wir haben trainiert. Das war in Ohio. Perry war ein D2-Footballer, der versucht hat sich zu konvertieren. Ich glaube, er war nicht eingeladen, aber er war schon lange aus dem Fußball. Und auf meinem Team war Johnson Badamosi, ein unglaublicher Rugby-Spieler in der Hochschule. Und Nate Ebner ging nach Ohio State, wo er für die Patriots gespielt hat.
Ich habe heute schon fast ein Sweater-Vest geworfen, aber ich habe nicht so viel gearbeitet, wie ich es normalerweise mache, also das ist wie eine Waffe. Das ist lustig, ich habe... Ich gehe Swirl, ich nehme ein Sweater-Vest, kein Unterzweck und ich zeige die Waffen. Jeremy sollte kein Unterzweck haben, das ist das... Warte, warte, warte.
Er war auch ein hochwertiger Rugby-Spieler. Also waren wir alle im Gruppen-Chat, und unser Plan war im Jahr 2016, Wir waren alle für den Rugby-7-Olympic-Team.
Nein, es ist nur Ball raus, in die Winge gehen und los. Well, long story short, die Browns würden es nicht machen. Die Patriots würden es machen. Nate Ebner hat in den Olympics gespielt, 2016. Er konnte das Trainingcamp verlassen, in den Olympics für die USA-Team spielen. Perry Baker war dann... Der beste Rugby 7 Spieler in der Geschichte des Sportes, wenn man ihn jetzt anschaut.
Er ist Dallas Bakers kleiner Bruder, wenn du dich erinnerst, Dallas Baker, der Ersatz für Florida. Aber ja, ich versuchte Heaven and Earth zu bewegen. Ich sage natürlich, weil ich nach Florida gegangen bin. Jeder weiß nicht wirklich, wer Dallas Baker ist. Aber ich versuchte Heaven and Earth zu bewegen, um in die Olympiade zu kommen.
Nein. Nein. Weil er hatte so eine direkte Speedlinie. Was war deine 40. Zeit? Er hatte mehr Zeit, um in den Sport zu kommen. Aber wenn du die gleiche Zeit hättest? Ich denke, ich wäre da oben gewesen. Carlin Ows ist ein anderer, der ein College-Footballspieler war, ein Trackrunner. Er hat sich gewechselt. Er hat die Olympia gewonnen.
Wenn ich in der Flagg-Football-Generation wäre, Ich würde hier wie LeBron James sitzen. Es ist nicht ein Sport, in dem ich mehr positioniert bin.
I was recently at a Dolphins practice. Maybe I haven't seen him enough. If you've seen him up close, you'd be like, I'll take him.
I like Tyreek Hill. Travis Hunter is probably choice number one. Because of his ability to do both sides of the ball. Quarterback is an interesting one. I would probably go with Lamar. Ich würde Kyler Murray nennen, aber Lamar kann nicht verlieren. Ja, weil du jemanden willst, der sich durch die Zeit bewegt.
Das wäre die Verleihbarkeit, wenn es so wäre. Das wäre krass. Ich glaube nicht, dass die Vikings das mögen.
Train camp to gear up for a vest? I'm going into camp to bring the Levitard Show to the damn gun show.
Und du sagst, er machte 360. Vollzykler-Windmühlen.
Wenn du den DNA-Trail folgst, ist es eigentlich nicht so hart, wie man es denkt, Mann. Es ist einfach so, dass Jason Richardsons Sohn wahrscheinlich ein Athlet sein wird, der ihn in die Position stellt, ein Profi zu werden.
Es war schrecklich.
Ich liebe Miles Garrett. Michael Parsons.
Oh mein Gott. Ich weiß nicht, ob du das möchtest. Miles Garrett ist ein guter Röscher. Er ist ein guter Röscher. mit Geschwindigkeit gegen andere, die auch groß sind. Er neutralisiert ihre Größe, ohne Blocker. Man könnte sogar einen Corner haben. Das ist Russland. Ich möchte Amon Ross St. Brown auf meinem Team. Das ist, was ich denke. Ich mag Amon Ross. Ich kann ihn sehen, der gut spielt.
Es ist wie das 7-on-7-Spiel. Ja, das ist es. Ja, weil es auch so ist, dass es 7-on-7 war, die Receivers, die Running Backs, die Tight Ends gegen die Secondary. Jetzt in der Hochschule, die Receivers bei den Linebackern, die Running Backs. Jeder ist hybrid jetzt. Jeder ist hybrid und es ist alles so.
Ich mag das. Ich würde auch jemanden wollen, den du nicht weißt, ob er... forget that they're playing flag football. You know, like a Vontaze Burfik was still in shape. Maybe he's not the best cover guy out here, but they don't... He might just do it.
Er muss zeigen, wie der andere Fußballer ist. Er wird geflogen werden. Aber der Rest des Spiels wird er sein. Sprechen wir über die Olympiade. Weißt du, was das bedeutet?
Mein Bruder war ein Defensivlehrer bei Penn State und er war Nummer 27.
Schön. Ich mag das, was du da gemacht hast. Also der Flagg-Football-Olympics-Moment ist etwas, das, glaube ich, das Gesicht des Fußballes für immer verändern wird. Wow. Das ist ihr Traum-Team-Moment. Weißt du, was ich da gerade versucht habe zu machen, richtig? Ja.
Ja, ich weiß.
Der Rock wird für seine Waffen bezahlt. Also ja, wenn wir ein Show auf HBO haben, bringst du die Waffen. Und ich spreche nicht über echte Waffen. Skeeter ist ein verrückter Name. Let's just go back to that real quick. Now that we're, you know, 2025, Skeeter as your best friend is a wild name. This is my boy Skeeter. What? Skeeter's like, I gotta go to the bathroom, I'll be right back.
Because there was like, you know, black people on Doug. But he was blue and he was like really into hip hop and he wore baggy pants and he was a rapper and a beatboxer. And he kind of had like little skinny dreads. So, the name Skeeter is wild. It feels like it was intentional.
Ich habe ein Tuxedo ohne Arme. Izzy ist der ultimative Chameleon. Du siehst aus wie jeder andere Person.
everyone will look like in the year 3000. It's the man, the woman version of Izzy.
Let's not talk about the Cardi B one.
Patty Mayonnaise, Mosquito Valentine and Doug Funny.
Ja, er ist so hoch auf die Mutter Ephraim. Er zieht alle auf. McDaniels, DiVincenzo.
Ich glaube nicht, dass du einen MF-er anschaust und sagst, ich will nicht mit diesem Mann umgehen. Jemand muss sagen, wenn sie gegen dich spielen. Sie haben keine Selbstvertrauen. Ron Artest war ein Motherfucker.
Kawhi Leonard ist ein MFer. Dylan Brooks ist ein Arschloch. Ich will nicht mit dir reden, aber nicht, weil ich dir Angst habe. Das ist das Gegenteil. Ich gebe dir Halle Burt, das ist ein Arschloch.
Sie machen dich in den Mother-F-er. Er bringt den Mother-F-er raus in Menschen, die Arschloch sind.
Es ist wie ein Gedanke, das ich noch nicht gedacht habe. Ich bringe das von meinem Gehirn direkt zum Mikrofon. Ich gehe hierher und komme nach unten. Dein innerer Arschloch.
Well, no, that's just when Dan's not here. Doug hat eigentlich einige Unterkopf-Musik-Banger. Ich weiß nicht, ob wir... Die Beats. Oh, die Beats. Killer Tofu ist ein Banger. Banging on a trash can. Drumming on the street light. One little voice is calling me, calling me. Wow. I've never seen this cartoon.
Killer Tofu. E-I-E.
I didn't. I wear this vest no bullshit probably four times a week for the last year. For real? It's like one of them things where it's a very easy outfit.
Or maybe the kids in my family just didn't watch Doug and so I didn't watch them.
Sie haben viele Bangers. Das ist wirklich eine neue Generation, weil du recently Kinder hast, also es ist an, sie haben Bangers. Yo Gabba Gabba.
DJ Lance Rock. They used to have some bangers on there. I met that guy, man. Maybe the Backyardigans. Backyardigans for sure. This is like all new age, I got recent kids type of situation. Old school Doug Funny music.
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And once those fleshy dominoes start tumbling into the Trump camp, Don't know what this had to do with what we were talking about.
Also, if we're establishing that we have to mention sexual assault allegations in the past, you can't just cue it up for an RFK sound. He's got that too. Well, they all do.
What is going on with the hat? So the Grit of Death punishment that I had is the team that made me lose and go to the Grit of Death is I have to wear their mascot costume. We'll keep it moving. Guys, I think as far as a media show goes when it comes to Jameis Winston, no one awkwardly reminds you more of his past than us. I genuinely think we're covered in that respect.
It's a difficult thing to talk about, and we always point to, like, that happened. We'll say since then, totally kept his nose clean, and is now a beloved character in the NFL. That's not true. He hasn't since as a pro?
Forgot all about that. Thank you. So remind me of that one.
We don't have to. We did it. We did it.
Did you see the pass of Jerry Judy over the top? It was an incredible pass.
It's where Dan started. It's like the first thing he said about Jerry Judy.
You guys didn't even know it happened. No, no, no. Actually, I think you got confused. I will go out and say I never heard that story. No, I knew about the Uber one. I thought he was talking about a new thing. I knew the Uber one. that I was talking about, but it's just, it's always said on this show. And I don't, at what point do we keep saying it has to be said and we said it?
Is that our responsibility?
Okay. Jeremy, I understand where you're coming from. You're assigning us a virtue that you're not assigning the people that broadcast these games. We're literally the only person. I think that's wrong too. We're the only show in the game, both covering it as like a league partner broadcaster, both in the podcast media space. We're the only one that consistently reminds you that this is happening.
I understand it's a responsibility, and I think we kind of live up to it.
He's the quickest guy ever at one point. Thank you.
What's crazy is how much the T.J. Watt thing played into last night. Having watched Miles perform, and I know his body's going through a lot this year. He's toughening it out quite a bit this season. But he got up for that game. It was visible. And that adrenaline was carrying over to the postgame. The T.J. Watt thing was in his head all week.
He's like, we're having a bad season and no one's talking about me because of it. I'm going to remind you.
I'm as big a Miles Garrett fan as there is. And I think they're so consistently great. What I give the edge to TJ Watt is TJ Watt has this intangible flair for the dramatic with a game on a line. You feel almost certain he's going to touch the football. Now, Miles has come up for his team in big spots, too.
But it seems like in seasons that their entire identity is TJ is going to make a game-changing play. He delivers almost time in and time out. And I think he's just got that extra little bit of clutchness in those big-time moments that are huge game-changing plays that Miles is just falling short of.
Roy, you know that moment when you're out watching puck and the server comes over and asks the table, what can I get you guys? And everyone freezes up. You know what you should do? What should I do, Mike? You've got to have some confidence. Or as Jagermeister calls it, shotfidence. I love it. If everyone's struggling, take control. Just order for the whole table.
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Don Levitard. For weeks, months even, during the regular season, I wondered aloud what Kevin Stenland did. And then about three weeks ago... It hit me. Stugatz. He gives them one of these, and he gives them one of those.
Should we get like a sounder, like a siren? Whenever we're talking about somebody who has something, we just play a little.
I don't know.
Don't forget, there was that one time against the Steelers where Miles Garrett swung a helmet at Mason Rudolph. Allegedly. Allegedly. And he accused Mason Rudolph of saying the N-word, but then it just kind of went away, and then what are we all to do with that?
What a heel turn. Jeremy, you in? I hate me too, no commas allowed on this shirt.
I mean, I'm with Jeremy. It's frustrating that there is a fatigue because in every facet of life, through politics, through celebrity, through even sport, you're going to have to do this. Look, everyone, 60 million people allegedly gathered around a TV to watch Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson. There's a ton of baggage there, too.
I think that our show in particular, because I'm just addressing our show, and I think our show and Jeremy kind of feels the need to maybe step on it a little bit more because no one else is doing it. No one else is doing it because it puts you in a really awkward position. You're going to be exposed. Hypocrisies are going to pop up every now and then.
We're going to have things like it's not a good look if we're talking about Jameis and Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones get mentioned and nada. So I understand our show is trying its absolute best. I think we've done the Jameis Winston shows. Hell, we did a year's worth. Nobody got into those allegations more than this show in the main media space.
You can frame it in occasional discussions, but I'm not going to hold it against you if Jameis Winston has a funny interview and you just want to revel in the laughs. It's something that several years ago, it's a part of his story. You don't need to tell his story every time he does something. Don't worry, if you're a celebrity, they just let you do it.
Shane Gillis Alexander.
Flanagan went nuts when that happened. Everyone had that bet.
There was one field goal where I thought it was good. You couldn't really see the ball in the air. It was just like, I think that's good.
I think he called a white guy David Njoku for sure. I saw that on the Internet.
Let's figure this out.
Let's figure out what it's called. It's McGillicuddy's. Don't worry about it. Wait, stay here. Come on. Let's find it.
No, McGillicuddy's. McGillicuddy's. Great place, by the way. Catty Corner to the Q or right across?
Is there anything that we need to clear with Jason Kelsey?
We just want to make sure. Are we good to go with Jason Kelsey? Nothing in his history. Are we good? Jeremy? Officer?
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Did we ever find the name to that bar? Here's the thing. I'm gonna find it.
I love this. This is a Friday. We're not doing the sound. The sound is not ready. There was an issue. We're not going to the sound. Let's move on.
What did he say?
Five consecutive Fridays, he's going to be hosting a late night show. He was on with Kimmel and revealed that, and now all the artwork is out on social media. My initial reaction to seeing that is like, oh, this is now a thing that's going to surround him that he has to guard himself.
This I'm here for.
against because he had the phone incident where the guy was clearly going for something and then just a couple of days later, it seems as though someone goes in with the intention to get over using Jason Kelsey and trying to get a rise out of him because he's already shown you he may throw your phone on the floor. So now he's going to have to totally shut it down before it spirals out of control.
I don't think we should do that. No, I think this is a great time for us to stick to the sports now. Yeah? Yeah. Just check out on the whole politics thing all together. Look, hey, we gave it a run. We lost. No, we tried hard. We tried so hard. We made sacrifices. Incredibly hard. Tangible sacrifices. We lost. Okay, capitulate. Remember the porn thing? That smoked.
That's crazy. He needs a pass blocker now. He needs a center.
But he's also going to have to pivot because very early in his media career, he's the guy that's going to go out into the crowd and chug a beer. And he's just like, I'm the everyman. I'm going to come down from Taylor Swift's box and be among you guys. And now as his profile increases, that shtick is going to get a little bit more difficult for him.
I mean, he did get a TV show like a month after smashing the phone. So, I mean, it seems like as long as he's not in the wrong, people are okay with it. Quick turnaround.
Yes, I want to see the clip as well. You're playing defense against me. I mean, it's not bleeped, this clip.
Chris has control of the sounder. I don't know how bad this is. It sounds like it's pretty bad. Can we just not and then wait a little bit? I understand it's tantric, but okay, we don't have the clip just ready yet. Let's play it. We can do it? Okay, fine.
He's got a sign.
I don't want.
A minor penalty, two minutes for ruining comedy. Good with not bleeping out his name, considering he's going to be running all those cinematic movies. Seems important.
Major penalty, five minutes. Screaming comedy.
That was pretty fun. The interesting part of that clip for me is you can see Kelsey there. He's having this interaction with this guy, and he does the math of, I don't want another one of these bad ones. So he gets out, and that's him doing PR right there. He's like, you know what? This guy hates me.
I don't want another Penn State thing, so I'm going to get out here, and I'm going to go try to fix it with this guy. You can see the wheels turning there of, this is going to be another thing. I'm going to go try to fix this.
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Quote, the way that you build a truly vicious nationalist movement is to wed a relatively small core of belligerent idiots to a much larger group of opportunists and spineless fellow travelers whose primary function is to turn a blind eye to things. We may not have that many outright Nazis in America, but we have plenty of cowards and bootlickers.
It is if that's how you get over. That's it.
He's survived that. He's just got to look out for him becoming meme adjacent in that, oh, this is a guy that we can go after. And it becomes like a pop cultural thing to see if you can get a rise out of Jason Kelsey. That's what he needs to navigate. And I actually thought he did a good job there trying to stop it before it becomes more of a thing.
Maybe a blood.
He also mentioned Morgan Freeman, who, Jeremy, has stuff.
And once those fleshy dominoes start tumbling into the Trump camp.
A legend.
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He is fun CTE. He's got the fun kind. You know how like with alcohol, there's some guys, there's like some fun alcoholics and some bad, mean, sad alcoholics. Same thing with the CTE. We're learning. It's on a spectrum. He's got the fun type.
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We might not be able to do it. You tell us. I'm just saying.
You know what Jameis did for me last night? He made me want him as the backup down here for Tua. I saw a guy that can play in cold weather. Come on down here. He'll build. He's a great team guy building up Tua, massaging his arm on the sideline. I can picture it all.
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With RFK sound. If you want to bring down the fun, I'm right here with you. I'm not really sure where the RFK sound comes in. Me neither.
The way that you build a truly vicious nationalist movement is to wed a relatively small core of belligerent idiots to a much larger group of opportunists and spineless fellow travelers whose primary function is to turn a blind eye to things. We may not have that many outright Nazis in America, but we have plenty of cowards and bootlickers.
Because when you're involved in something that feels cultish, there's no admitting that you're wrong, even when there's admission that you're wrong. I mean, the general defense was like, oh, well, you know, they're probably running all of this through an algorithm and the algorithm made a mistake.
Well, then what's your algorithm trying to do if it's removing Jackie Robinson from the Secretary of Defense's website from the Department of Defense? It's just really shocking to me that people are digging in their heels on this one. And it just feels like a pretty winning position. On the other side to go, hey, Jackie Robinson rocks, man.
This is the thing, right, with sports. I mean, you just brought up trans athletes, right? And this is why I thought Pablo's episode that he did on trans athletes a few months ago was one of the most important things we've done at Metal Ark Media. Because oftentimes what this administration is doing is using sports as a vehicle to point something out. Right. Take it as a minor thing.
Oh, we don't want, quote unquote, men playing in women's sports. And you make the trans community this divisive community that you attack, that you bring to everyone's mind. Hey, there's this bad thing and we need to stomp it out. And now you can see those same people who initially said this is just about sports, literally calling to remove trans people from society. Period. End of discussion.
Get rid of them. If you're going to start here with this conversation on Jackie Robinson and the history of race in this country, it's the same slippery slope, and they're doing it on purpose.
There are so many moving pieces to this over the last 48 hours, but essentially there was a story on a government website where... Jackie Robinson was celebrated for his military service, similar to a whole bunch of other military heroes that were celebrated here. And that story was removed from the government website. And when you went to go click on the link.
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To get to that story celebrating Jackie Robinson, the link had been changed to include the words DEI or rather the term DEI ahead of sports in the link. So initially there was a backslash and then sports dash all these different things for Jackie Robinson. The link was actively changed and led you to a page not found. Jeff Passan was the one who first put this out there. He was very mad.
He was rightfully furious about this. Jackie Robinson's history being removed from a government website as a result of stomping out diversity, equity, and inclusion seems like one of the worst things that we could do in the storytelling of our nation's history. And what was really wild is that the statements that
That's like the rule. Every 10 days is close to my house. Jeremy, you're like a two weeks guy? I'm a two weeks guy. You nailed it. Two weeks, three weeks if I'm really pushing it because I know I have a TV appearance coming up and I want to get a little closer to that TV appearance.
Sweetie Todd.
Passon received, and I can pull those up in just a second, basically doubled down on what it was that had happened. Not, you know, acknowledging maybe there was a mistake, maybe there was this. Several hours later, of course, the article was restored because that's what happens. These people try to do everything. And if you don't catch them, they'll just keep doing it.
So it's up to journalists like Jeff Passon to catch people in the act and force their hand. And so now the article is back, but only after These statements said things like, we don't see color, essentially, when it comes to Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier.
Because he's black.
Well, no, so this part is interesting too, right? Because they mean black. Well, right, because DEI hire all of a sudden has been like co-opted into being something that's negative. The way that woke was. Yeah, the way the critical race theory was before that.
If you said, Jeremy, are we going to talk about Jackie Robinson or foreplay? I definitely would have told you Jackie Robinson.
and here's to you jackie robinson your dei and what that means it just means
Huge deal. I'm going to read the statements here for you guys, and I apologize for the fact that these are somewhat wordy.
Probably. So Jeff Passan reached out about the removal of the story from the Department of Defense website, and this was the statement he received back. As Secretary Hegseth has said, DEI is dead at the Defense Department. Discriminatory equity ideology is a form of woke cultural Marxism that has no place in our military. It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion, and interferes with the services
Core warfighting mission. We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the department with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms. In the rare cases that content is removed, either deliberately or by mistake, that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct the components
and they correct the content accordingly, but there was a follow-up statement just a couple of hours later, because that one was obviously dumb. Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers.
The Marines at Iwo Jima and so many others. We salute them for their strong and in many cases heroic service to our country. Full stop. We do not view or highlight them through the prism of immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity or sex. We do so only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the war fighting mission. Like every other American who has worn the uniform.
DEI, discriminatory equity ideology, does the opposite. It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion, and interferes with the service's core warfighting mission. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Arguing that race, the Jackie Robinson story shouldn't be viewed through the prism of race is so insulting to not only Jackie Robinson and his memory, but all of the people who came before him and after him, not only in the military, but in baseball, like in sports. This is truly, truly, utterly offensive.
Over the last 15 years to take everything Dan has passionately spoken about on these airwaves and create a story that was born for him to speak about. Did he just not get to it? I have no idea.
It's really amazing. And the fact that... He broke the color barrier, and you want to insinuate that, in turn, color has nothing to do with his story. Like, look, Jackie Robinson was one of the greatest second basemen of all time. That's not why number 42 is retired.
Number 42 is retired because of what he had to go through, the racial epithets being hurled at him throughout his entire rise into being a big leaguer. And then, by the way... He is one of the greatest players of all time. So those who want to derisively call him a DEI hire, as if, by the way, that's a bad thing, and as if he was only included because he was black, you just flatly don't know ball.
You people want to side with these dorks that don't know ball? These nerds that don't know ball? That don't know anything about the history of our game? Our American pastime? You want to be racist and not know ball? I just can't believe it. I really can't. This is one of the most wild stories. And, like, continuing to try to shape this narrative that DEI is a bad thing.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
But, like, we all understand, right, all of these American individualists, what this means, right? Diversity. What's the opposite of that?
I saw someone tweet that the fact that at this present time, Mina could go on the air and basically say like, hey, Jackie Robinson's historical significance tied to his race and that that would make her a punching bag for for the right wing media just shows where we've gone generally in this country.
Like it's it's pretty amazing that just saying that out loud could turn you into some sort of symbol of, quote unquote, cultural woke Marxism.
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But they came all the way back. That part of it made it at least down the stretch.
That's correct. But at the same time, those final few minutes, you're looking at the clock and going...
Oh, boy.
Yeah, but he hyped up Louisville for everybody, and they got their asses kicked by Creighton.
No, no doubt.
Mike Schur handled this well in his book, How to Be Perfect, where he talked about sort of separating the art from the artist and the way that that he sort of drew the line ultimately after going through the different philosophical conversations was if you were a fan of someone, whether it was growing up or into adulthood or whatever, and then you learn these things about them, it's making the choice.
All right. I'm not going to consume anything new. That sounds like Michael Jackson. Right. And Michael Jackson is a good example of that where, hey, I listened to all of this music growing up. It was a part of my childhood.
I associate it with these positive memories that I have X, Y, Z. And so if they were to somehow find an unreleased album and then try to profit off of that now, no, I'm not going to. Well, that would be the line. I'm following Scher's line there because it's been an easy, oh, someone finally did this for me. I have direction as to how maybe I can morally justify one way or another.
Ryan Adams is actually a wonderful example, Mike, of like, there's some of that older music that, you know what? Damn good music. Maybe I want to go back and listen to it. It was a you know, you have whatever association with that artist. But now you know that these things have happened. Maybe you make the line of demarcation whenever those events happened.
Maybe you make the line of demarcation once you've learned about it. It's really complicated. It's why the art versus artist conversation is one that no one's really been able to solve.
Yeah, that's all it is.
Again, sliding scale. I'll just say, not Ryan Adams.
That part is interesting, right? They could be a player locally. Right. Does WPLG decide that their money is more worth it to try to do something similar to what's happened with the Panthers here?
Right.
WPLG, I'm just going to read based off of what their article says on their website about these negotiations.
This is what they have to say, is that after months of negotiations between the Berkshire Hathaway-owned television station and the network, the two parties cannot reach an agreement to extend the affiliation agreement, and as a result, ABC will pull its programming effective August 1st. Quote,
We made a generous offer to ABC, but it became clear the two sides were not going to agree on a new deal. This is according to WPLG CEO and President Burt Medina. Quote, broadcast television stations across the country have announced massive layoffs in recent years.
WPLG is proud that we've not had layoffs, but it became clear that if we accepted the deal ABC was proposing, we too would have been forced to lay off employees in order to pay the hefty price the network was demanding.
And they went on to basically say that at this point, the network TV model in association with with local TV isn't quite as beneficial as it used to be because you can stream so many of these programs on streaming services. So the benefit used to be, oh, people have to watch us on ABC to watch, say, the NBA finals or things like that.
But now that there are all of these sort of alternate channels that you can get through streaming now. They're saying that the benefit is no longer there.
It says they're going to have, quote, a massive expansion in local news and other local programming. That would be the wise move. They're claiming that the money that they would have been spending on paying ABC to be their affiliate, they're going to invest locally on new programming and things. Should we? We should be on PLG.
Some more than most.
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By the way, Bruce Matthews would like a word. Yeah, Bruce Matthews. Essentially, it seems as though the Lakers are the ones that went back on the trade with Mark Williams because of the physical. And so they end up with Dalton Connect coming back to their team, Mark Williams going back to the Hornets. And it was just a really awkward time. J.J.
Redick, when Dalton Connect had missed a game before the All-Star break, kind of, to me, left Dalton Connect hung out to dry by telling everyone that he still needed time to process what had gone down. Because to me, as a coach, you're supposed to kind of shield players from that sort of thing. But it let the media and a whole bunch of people on social media go after Connect.
It let Mark Williams go back to Charlotte. And it's just been one of the most awkward things I've ever seen. And I think there was a tweet yesterday or a post from Mark Williams that I'll try to go find now. It was from Jeff Schwartz.
The official quote from Jeff Schwartz of XL Sports Management is, the overwhelming sentiment after conferring with multiple nationally recognized doctors is that the Lakers should not have failed Mark Williams on his physical.
Well, especially because his story is so interesting, right? He was a guy who played junior college basketball and then transferred two more times before ending up at Tennessee. And then a first round pick who had moments, he had nine threes in a game for the Lakers during the summer league. He was like white boy of the month for the NBA where everybody was obsessed with him.
And oh my God, look at this dude hitting threes. Yeah, he was supposed to be the steal of the draft after the draft had happened. Everybody's upset that they passed on him. He's going to be the spectacular player. And then a little bit of struggle as a rookie, and then all of a sudden you're shipped to a team in Charlotte that's one of the worst teams in the league.
You had just been playing alongside LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Like, it's a strange thing to happen to a young 20-something, and he's not someone who has been through the business in the same way. He's not even the type of guy who we're going to start seeing who dealt with NIL in college and so saw some of what the business was like. This is basically Duncan Robinson.
But if Duncan had climbed so much at Michigan to be able to also be a first round pick. So it was the coolest story in the Lakers that embraced him. And then all of a sudden he's discarded. I can understand how he would want to kind of. Take a moment and take a beat before returning to the team.
Well, it's particularly interesting as MLB and ESPN have announced their kind of mutual separation moving forward after this season. Is this Amazon? I'm not sure where it goes. Amazon or Apple do seem like the logical places, right? And that Apple has already created a TV package around MLS and has learned how to do that. And they have an MLB game. And they have an MLB game already.
Amazon, obviously, just announced a partnership with the network regionally that carries so many teams and allows... Well said. Well, avoiding some certain things there. We're giving you credit, though.
Keep it going.
Appreciate you.
That's a lot better, actually. It felt condescending, but it wasn't.
There's a package for that network to be on Amazon Prime Video now. And so with that, you would think that that's a space where a certain network in Amazon Prime might be interested in getting in with MLB. Clearly, Major League Baseball, in what their statement was, This was a mutual thing. They talked about ESPN being like a declining network.
And as they try to figure out how to discuss hockey, they're leaning away from talking about baseball. So this is one of the most interesting inflection points in all sports, right? NFL is the only thing that we understand exactly how it works in terms of TV nationally, and it's going to stay that way. But hockey has had recent changes. Baseball is about to go through a change.
Basketball is about to go through a change going with Amazon Prime and NBC, which you can only hope. those two networks will know how to market the game better than ESPN has in the last 15 years. Because all ESPN has done is react to the decision and decide that, oh, ratings go up for the decision. Let's make everything about transactions.
Yeah, it's not always a good one.
100%. That's why the NFL is the NFL, right? You're getting it on CBS, on Fox. You're getting it nationally televised on broadcast television where, you know, Dan brought up yesterday or maybe several days ago that the Heat's ratings are down 56%. Well, a lot of that has to do with...
Fans who no longer are able to access the games via whatever their cable subscription might be and don't want to pay for whatever the monthly subscription is and in turn have been priced out regionally. And the Panthers are no longer on that network. So if you're a Panthers fan, you're watching via a different means. You know, we're not factoring in all of those things.
That's a huge one. There are plenty of Panthers and Heat fans who were watching Heat games as a result of the fact that they felt they needed to watch every Panthers game. And some, obviously, at a time, that would have worked vice versa as well. But when you have the Panthers kind of holding things up, there's some people there, there's some people with cable networks.
So these things are shifting in a way that's really fascinating right now. And the next five or so years for several of these different leagues are going to show us who is the second league after the NFL.
It still is, and it probably will be.
Yeah, I mean, their disparity when he's on the floor versus off the floor is dramatic, and they're the number two seed in the Western Conference, a Western Conference that has been unbelievably competitive. Now, the one thing, Tony, to Shea's advantage would be that they are running away with the Western Conference, and he has been so efficient and so dominant, but
The Nuggets are not a team with a great supporting cast around Jokic, and it's proven in the numbers you're talking about. Back in November, we were talking about this, and I brought up that when he was on the floor, they had the greatest offensive rating of all time. And when he was off the floor, they had one of the worst offensive ratings you would ever get over a full season.
That's the disparity of when he's there. He's such a singularly dominant force. And when you're talking like we've spoken about on this show before about value, there's nothing more valuable than someone who literally makes you one of the best teams ever when he's on the floor and one of the worst teams ever when he's off of it.
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That's exactly right. And with Wemby, he will go on blood thinners to fix this blood clot. But that's the whole thing. You really can't play sports on blood thinners. That's why heart issues become a thing and players are immediately out of the league.
So for Wemby, at least the reporting thus far and everything that the Spurs have said indicates, like Tony said, he'll be back at the start of next season and they'll go from there. They right now were a couple of games out of a play in spot anyhow. And so they have their own first-round pick.
If you're looking at the future of the Spurs, him now missing this amount of time and getting them in the top three or four of the draft and landing Cooper Flagg inevitably. Stop that. We can't let that happen. I'm just letting you know. We can't let that happen. You don't think that's...
a possibility that they end up in the top three and land, if not Cooper Flagg and Ace Bailey or whoever is going to be right there to help catapult them with De'Aaron Fox and Victor Wemby. I mean, look, it's the Spurs. All that said, this is a scary thing. Anytime blood clots pop up, you're worried for the future of anyone's athletic career.
With Wemby being everything that he is, not just as this athletic freak who was going to win Defensive Player of the Year, who's one of the most dominant forces in the league already in year two, You also have all these guys like Anthony Edwards across the league embracing. That's the guy. Wemby's the guy that all of us are willing to look at and go.
He has everything that's needed in terms of personality, in terms of demeanor, in terms of competitiveness to be out here as the face of the NBA. So when you miss that guy for the second half of the season and a chase for a play in spot, of course, that's awful news for the league.
For being right about everything involving hockey ever? Whoa. How are you right?
Yeah. I'm politicizing it.
What did you say? When I told you guys that inevitably Team USA would embrace Trump because the overwhelming majority of the roster is right-leaning. And so in turn, when he embraced the team, they would continue to embrace it and politicize it in a moment that only was being followed by the Abuelitas that you mentioned because of this political moment.
And all of those people will drop off the face of the earth and the tournament will never be a school again.
Let's do that and throw a blanket over.
And that it would have been embraced differently had you been said it. Because we were talking about this in the context of the NBA All-Stars and the NHL All-Stars. And obviously, if you were sending the NBA All-Stars up to Canada, this all goes a little differently. We would be rooting for them, too. Oh, it's not who we would be rooting for. I root for the United States of America.
I'm not anti-American. That's for sure.
Put it on the poll.
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I look, I get what you're saying.
You might have a different perspective.
Right.
Yeah.
It was only as intense as it was because of what the moment was. And that was what I was saying then. And it's what I'd continue to say now.
Trust me when I say that. You're right.
What I'm talking about is the gloms of people who have flocked to what this All-Star weekend was, who had zero interest in hockey before this. Press secretaries alike. Correct.
And so using it as a vehicle. That ticked me off. And the issue for someone on my side of the aisle, whether...
you're as far to my side of the aisle or a little bit closer to the middle it was a difficult thing to put all of that aside to find myself impossible for these guys who by the way like the panthers on the team matthew kachuk like these guys are awesome guys i'm not i'm not trying to disparage any of those human beings for what they were going through it was a pretty intense thing to have on your back on top of wanting to you know honor johnny goudreau there's a lot going
on there.
Who were kind of professional and rolling with this. Yeah, they did what they could, but I mean, obviously there's some bites that come out and I'll see them, anyone else will see them, you get frustrated, but you don't have a long in-depth conversation with other players on the team who might not feel that way. At the same time,
it became really difficult to view this game and this tournament through any prism outside of what an administration that is at the same time doing some of the most heinous things I've seen while I'm alive on this planet and then wrapping themselves in the American flag around this hockey team.
The other player quote that I had seen, I remembered seeing more, and it was Noah Hannafin who said, hopefully we can get the win tonight for our country and for Trump.
I'll take your word for it. Going to be difficult to beat that.
Mike Ryan plays for the Yankees?
I just love the way we were talking about this four days ago. It's the greatest event that was ever created in the history of sports and made the NHL far surpass the NBA in everything that we've ever imagined about leagues.
And if the U.S. won, it would have been the greatest thing that's ever happened. But as we said, it was just a geopolitical moment that was sweeping everybody up. And it will never, ever, ever, ever be as cool as it was four days ago. All right, shut up, Connie. You could do the Four Nations Cup for 100 years.
The NBA is dead. The NBA is doing a great job. Crazy people.
Well, the never-ending possible normally lasts from August 26th until November 17th. Now, you know, obviously the NFL season doesn't start until September. So when you look at the stats for Jordan Love during that stretch, 4,421 yards, 31 touchdowns, 22 interceptions.
Okay, McRib. To your list.
Is that not right? That can't be right. That can't be right. Not under 35 ever as a quarterback. Under 35 presently today active in the NFL. Oh, okay. Yeah.
I'm sorry. What is current? There are no actual. Effective quarterbacks under the age of 35 who have won a Super Bowl as a starting quarterback. Where does Stafford fall into this? He's over 35. You know what? Okay.
There's nobody... I didn't know his name was Fred. Yeah, his first name was Fred? Freddie. Freddie? Freddie Bolitnikoff.
No, you are. I know.
That's great that you asked, because I was able to compile that information for you. Interesting thing. Okay. Hey, Poppy. Subtle.
It turns out that the December to Remember sales event and the McRib are at the same time. The McRib normally comes back in December. So for both of those stretches... Jordan Love and his career has thrown for 2,157 yards, 17 touchdowns, and three interceptions. And Mike, before you ask, I remember you were asking me about the Dollarita.
Now, this is interesting because this year, the Dollarita was only back in May, not a time where football is played. And I look back in 2022, only in select locations for a limited time before the NFL season. So the only stretch that we can look at is 2023 for Jordan Love. During that stretch where the Dollarita was back, in October, 591 yards, three touchdowns, four picks. So not great.
So if you're a Packers fan, you've got to hope the Dollarita never comes back during the season.
In here or in the penalty box?
Eyebrows done, too. Was it like, hey, can I get a haircut before we go? They got barbershops in prison.
That's exactly what he'll do, is hopefully, in a way, this will just be a healthcare argument and case, because I said it on Mystery Crate, which aired this morning, it is essentially, with the way people have rallied around this figure, going to be the modern-day O.J. Simpson trial. I knew you were going to say that. It really is, because...
You have essentially a case of haves and have nots as Elon Musk is running the government, making millions off contracts for the military, cutting one hundred and ninety million dollars for pediatric cancer research and health care like this is only becoming more and more of an avatar for
So I sipped vigorously from a cup because I thought he had control of that room. I was doing some extra research here, Dan.
You got to let Gonzo laugh on that one. Jordan Love. Jordan Love. Turns out he loves Toyotathon. According to at BR Gridiron from Bleacher Report. Not during Toyotathon in Jordan Love's career. He has thrown for 3,829 yards, 29 touchdowns, and 25 interceptions.
But during Toyotathon, which lasts from about mid-November to the beginning of January, Jordan Love has thrown for 3,283 yards, 26 touchdowns, and 2 interceptions. Wow. That is incredible. That is kind of incredible.
Oh, I'm glad you asked, Mike, because I actually already did the research to figure that one out for you. That's ridiculous. During Happy Holidays, which is from the beginning of November until the beginning of January, so you add a couple of extra weeks on the front end, Jordan Love has thrown four. 4,088 yards, 29 touchdowns, and six interceptions.
So we're close to what he's doing in Toyotathon, but it takes until we get to Toyotathon to really limit those interceptions.
You know, I can do some research on that if you would like.
You know what? Actually, I already have those stats ready for you. I already have that ready for you.
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We'll get to that in the B block. Why is he in a pink mink? You guys didn't even ask that question? No, we want the joke to stand for itself. It speaks for itself. It doesn't, because I did it for LiAngelo Ball. Well, I'm not there yet. All right, I'll do this better. Let's go.
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So not even got a scholarship, dropped it and transferred. It was never even recruited. Never.
Let me call it in. He gets undressed.
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Billy Ray Cyrus got a baseball scholarship to Georgetown and later dropped out to become a musician. That one's up there because he had hits in multiple different decades.
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Ich versuche das. Als ich in der Hochschule war, ich glaube, ich habe das vorher schon erzählt. Mein bester Freund Warren und ein paar seiner Freunde sagten, dass sie in Heatgames reingekommen sind. Weil du so einen Pass aus der Schule bekommst und sie geben dir wirklich günstige Tickets gratis.
Aber sie nehmen das als Backup-Ticket, aber sie gehen einfach durch eine Tür, die so aussieht, als ob du weißt, was du tust. Und du sitzt, wo auch immer du siehst, in leeren Sägen. Er kam immer wieder mit entwickelten Fotos, das war in den 90ern, von ihm mit Basketballspielern, weil er nicht nur ins Spiel ging, sondern auch in den Lockerraum nach dem Spiel.
Und er hat Fotos mit Dan Marley, mit Charles Barkley. Also habe ich gesagt, okay, ich gehe. Ich muss das dieses Mal machen. Und natürlich bin ich nervös darüber. Ich fühle mich wie derjenige, der alles abgibt. Also gehe ich runter. Ich bin immer zweiter bis letzten in der Gruppe.
Nicht ganz nach vorne, aber okay.
Wir reden hier von Jugendlichen, ich verstehe es.
Und dieses Spiel, wir kommen rein und ich bin so, wow, guck dir das an, ich habe es geschafft. Und dann sitzen wir in der Viertelreihe für das ganze Spiel. Und das ganze Spiel, ich bin so, wow, ich werde die Geschichte erzählen, wie ich es gemacht habe, es wird das beste Teil davon sein. Sie waren nicht fertig. They wanted to go into the locker room. So I'm just like, oh God.
So somehow we all got onto the floor and we're walking past the security guard into the hallway where the players were going Three and three other people. This time I was last in line. All first three guys get in. Security guard turns around right before me. He's like, hold up, where are you going? And I'm like, damn it.
And then I have the option of either outing my friends or being like, I don't know where I am. And so I went with, I don't know where I am. And I had to wait for them outside. They come back two weeks later. Developed pictures of a bunch of Indiana Pacers.
Okay, also zuerst einmal... Richtig schnell, Roy, du hast dein ganzes Argument zerbrochen. Ich weiß, ich weiß. Denn es gibt nichts Dummeres als Patriotismus vor dem Spiel.
But if you're of age. Although if you're under, if you're not of age, you probably won't get punished as hard. So it's something to think about. Still don't do it though.
If you're
No, that's great. You've got a group of people together. Hey, this guy happens to be here. Look what he did for us. Congratulations.
That's absolutely insane. And so he brought that up and then got retaliated against and now he's suing the Phoenix Suns.
Okay, also Billy ist in der Mittellinie.
You good? Tony? I need a verbal yes.
Why are they already in the sky though? The sky is behind them. It doesn't really make much sense. Can we get like airport behind them or something? No, the sound is good. It's the visual.
Can I see some ID? Uh, no. Have they ever ID'd anyone on the flight? No, but the one in the aisle looks a little young. Oh. Leute, hier ist euer Kapitän. Er sieht auch aus, als wäre er nicht hierher gekommen. Wie heißt du?
Weil wenn du nur gut bist, dann werden sie dich auf dem Spielplatz zerstören. Warte, Jeremy. Du hast gesagt, du sprichst mit single Moms. Ich glaube, wir sehen uns gleich durch das. Nein, ich habe meiner Frau darüber gesprochen. Oh, okay.
Das ist ein gefährliches Spiel. Wenn Chris es irgendwo gesehen hat, dann ist es irgendwo. Chris hat es nicht persönlich gesehen. Er hat nicht für die Navy Seals gespielt.
Wow, können wir Kevin finden? Er scheint der perfekte Gast zu sein.
None of these people actually think you are their friend.
Ich liebe, wie du dich auf mich konzentrierst.
HelloCasting sounds like a great company name for podcasting. Oh, man.
Er hat so einen aggressiven Fistpump gemacht! Jemand ist zurückgefallen! Oh, da ist er! Was ist das? Das ist nur jemand, der zurückgefallen ist. Es ist ein Video. Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, wie man das nicht machen kann. Weil du die Frau gesehen hast, die gesagt hat, oh!
Ich kann nicht schauen, also nein, wir haben es nicht gesehen. Einen, den ich vorher gesehen habe, haben wir nicht gesehen. Also das ist der Kaviar da. Was zur Hölle tun die Dallas Cowboys, wenn sie am Abend spielen? Ist es nicht normal, dass es zwei Playoff-Teams sind? Das ist einfach so ein Nonsens.
Ja, es sollten die Washington Commanders gewesen sein. Sprich, ein Profil-Spiel. Du hast den einen Quarterback, den jeder sehen möchte, und ein Team auf der Reise, statt der Cowboys, von denen du nicht weißt, was du bekommen wirst. Das war nicht gut.
Ich habe ihn im Braille gesehen. Ich habe ihn gesehen und dachte, das ist ein guter Riddance.
Ich dachte, es wäre viel schlimmer als das. Ich habe nicht geschaut, aber ich dachte, es wäre viel schlimmer, als dass er von einem Polizisten angekommen ist. Ich dachte, es wäre ein Lüge, dass es zu viele Kinder gibt. Das funktioniert auch.
Hast du jemals die Bewegung gemacht, wo du nur sagst, als hättest du eine Hand auf dein Essen?
Ich weiß nicht, was das ist. Es ist lustig, weil so viele Leute haben über den AI-Witz nachgedacht. Aber sie werden es in Buffalo für den Fußball-Schedule veröffentlichen. Und es wird funktionieren.
I don't know what it is. Don't take Sky Rizzy if you're allergic to Sky Rizzy.
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They just straight up stole like the beam. Didn't love it. It goes all around the world.
Und die waren so, shut up! Wir haben random Leute, die tanzen und einen guten Zeitraum haben, um den Fakt, dass sie eine wirklich schlechte Krankheit haben.
He played for the Jets, exactly. He was in the enemy's uniform. Are there special instructions going on with what I'm supposed to be ignoring? Let's keep it going.
Yeah, sorry. Sorry to the Elsers. When the fire does come, Chris, you're going to jump out the window backwards.
Oh, you can pay your own way.
Was ist der andere? Vergesst nicht über die Grizzlies. Raymond Green mit seiner Tochter. Oh mein Gott, das ist einfach zu viel. Es sind die gleichen fünf oder sechs Veranstaltungen über und über. Wie viel Geld sinken sie in? Und ist niemand mehr bezahlt?
Ich wusste nicht, wer es sein wird.
Dieser Kerl. Er hat das schon lange gemacht, wenn er auf ESPN ist. Sein Hintergrund, er legt seine Kinder-Bilder da hoch und es ist so, ich weiß, was du da machst. Du bist ein besserer Vater als ich und du bist nicht. Chris? Er ist kein besserer Vater als ich?
That his mom gave him back, that his mom kept from when he was a kid?
Nein, das ist er, der versucht zu sein... Jeder hat seine Worte im Hintergrund. Weißt du, worum ich mich interessiere? Meine Familie. Das sind meine Worte. Meine Kinder. Das sind meine Worte. Nichts ist wertsätzlicher.
Ich glaube, er liebt seine Kinder, aber er will, dass alle denken, dass er der Vater des Jahres ist.
Siehst du, wie sauber das Papier ist? Wenn Kinder so ein Papier nach Hause bringen, sind sie so krumpelt, als wären sie in einem Backpack.
Ich möchte wirklich wissen, warum Dominique, während er sich ausprobiert hat, Jalen Rose auf der linken Seite ausprobiert hat. Ich weiß es nicht. Ich habe das mit Roy verabschiedet, bevor ich es gesagt habe. Das sieht aus wie Jalen Rose.
I haven't met him, but I do think he's a dick. Why do you say that? Oh. I mean, he's been doing this thing. I gotta grab this sound here. He's been doing this thing where, like, he just is so surly with the media. He doesn't want to give them a quote. They asked him the other day about his not talking to Bryson DeChambeau, the final round of the Masters.
And his answer was just like, I'm a competitor. I'm not out here to make friends.
Ich weiß nicht, ob es so ist, als wäre er gegen die Medien auf der Defensive. Es ist einfach nur ein Versuch, keine Headlines zu machen. Die PGA hat dieses lustige Ding gemacht, wo sie jedem Golfler gefragt haben, was sie von einem anderen Spiel nehmen würden. Justin Thomas sagt, ich nehme Schefflers Approach Shots. Einige andere Golfler sagen, ich nehme Prime Tiger Putting.
Ein harmloses Spiel, ein bisschen Liebe für jemanden anderen. Ich nehme Tiger's Mist. Und dann kommen sie natürlich zu Rory und sagen, lass uns das Spiel mit Rory spielen. Und das ist, was er gesagt hat.
Ich bin fokussiert auf mein Spiel.
Er ist einfach ein Dork. Er denkt, wenn er sagt, dass der Spieler X fährt, wird es eine Headline sein. Nein, Alter, wir spielen einfach ein harmloses Spiel.
But then the second half... The follow-up is just basically like, all right, fine, you don't want to play my game? Who do you like?
Wow! Izzy Gutierrez was clearly a joker.
Every two months you give it to a crappy celebrity. So it makes a little headline somewhere. So people see, okay, they do give those things out.
Ich denke auch, dass ich da sein muss, weil ich viele Leute sehe, die von Booten nach hinten fallen. Ich sage es dir, ich habe es gesehen. Vielleicht ist es nicht üblich, vielleicht war ich falsch, wie üblich es ist. Ich habe Leute gesehen, die von einer kleinen Distanz nach unten fallen, von einem Helikopter.
Ich weiß, was ich in meinem Leben gesehen habe. Nein, du weißt es nicht. Ich werde sagen, dass es nicht so üblich ist, wie ich es gedacht habe.
Ich schwöre, ich habe es gesehen.
Der Helikopter droht sehr tief. Es ist wahrscheinlich 10 Meter aus dem Wasser. Und sie gehen auf die Bar, die da ist. Und dann fallen sie zurück. Ich sage es dir. Ich sehe es. Und ich sage es. Ich war falsch. Es ist nicht üblich.
So this might be the video that you're thinking of.
Give it to me again. It's like a blob situation. Above a helicopter and he lands on top of it.
Do it again. Give it to me one more time. One more time, the blob. This is like heavyweights blob.
Er will wirklich die Welt verändern und macht alles. Ich brauche nur das Internet, um ein Beispiel zu finden. Und es zu retweeten.
Hast du es in Person gesehen?
Es war ein Video, ich denke, in meinem Geist. Ich bin wie mein Vater jetzt mit dem 100-Punkte-Spiel. In meinem Geist war es auf Video.
Ich werde einen Porter finden, der kein Junior ist. Es gibt noch einen Israel Gutierrez in der Basketball-Welt.
Ich bin ziemlich sicher, dass er mit Pre-Rolls für uns alle eingestiegen ist. Er ist wie, ich teile nicht mit euch. Ihr bekommt jeden. Er öffnet sich wie ein Zigarren-Gas.
Es ist einfach so, nein, hier ist deiner, hier ist deiner, hier ist deiner. Das ist ein schöner Flex. Es war ein Flex. Oder wollte er nicht meinen Germen teilen?
I thought it's more of like a fall backwards out of it.
I've seen Navy Seals falling out backwards into the water.
Wenn man sich jetzt anschaut, haben wir Navy Seals und sie fliegen aus einem Helikopter ins Wasser.
Ich habe das schon gesehen. Das ist nicht das, was das ist.
Du hast gesagt, dass sie nicht aus LL.com fliegen. Nein, nein, nein.
Ich will zurückkommen zu dem Geräusch. Als ich sagte, dass sie aus dem Helikopter fallen würden, dachtest du, dass sie nie aus dem Helikopter fallen würden. Es ist wie ein Spinnen. Du hattest alles verabschiedet. Nein, nein, nein. Ich werde es für dich beobachten.
And that's not jumping out of a helicopter?
But you just said they don't, Billy, a lot of people jumping out of a helicopter.
Du hast sarcastisch gesagt, Billy, du hast viele Leute, die aus Helikoptern fliegen.
Was bedeutet, dass Leute nicht aus Helikoptern fliegen.
Wir gehen weg von dir, sarkastisch zu sagen, Billy, du hast viele Leute, die aus Helikoptern springen. Das ist ein seltsamer Argument.
I'll find the video. I'll find one.
I love that the concern has turned from, oh, is Mike Tyson going to say something crazy to, is Mike Tyson going to whip my child in half?
I think that's Seacrest. No, it might not have been Seacrest. I think it's him. I think it's him realizing, like, oh, shit, I just said the most embarrassing thing possible.
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Yeah, you and Greg Cody, just gloves on, go ahead.
We have the voicemail.
Yeah, Tyson said right afterward, I was in my socks and he had his shoes on. He stepped on my toe because he's an effing asshole. I wanted to think it happened by accident, but now I think it may have happened on purpose. I was in a lot of pain. I had to reciprocate.
He then said, talking's over.
It's like a level of procrastination that you get to fulfill of, hey, I had to make this call, specifically calling somebody back. But now three rings go and they're not near the phone. I'm going to hang up.
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Do you think it's because you're now learning something about the game as they're telling you that story? Because you maybe don't know it on that intimate of level to where they're giving you their expertise? Or is this just their good storytellers?
Because to me, this is sort of similar to how there are a lot of basketball fans who tangentially follow it only through trades and rumors and aren't actually watching basketball. Right.
Carrie Underwood's back now.
I guess.
Even I'm not. No, hold on.
You don't know Katy Perry's tour schedule? Well, I know that Rebecca Black is joining her on tour.
Yeah, it is Friday.
Wow.
She did a boiler room set, too. How much money? If I can get like a cheapish ticket, like 30 bucks. What are they playing? What kind of venues are they playing?
Yeah, that I wouldn't probably pay for.
By the way, Barry Bonds led Major League Baseball in walks in 2007 as a 42-year-old. He had 132 walks. Aaron Judge last year in one of the historically great seasons of all time in the middle of his prime, 133 walks. People forget he's good. People forget how good Aaron Judge is.
Yeah, she got embarrassed recently. Her most recent singles have been trash.
The difference between going away and coming back, you're saying, of genuinely not releasing a record for a decade and then trying to come back and make something new?
Man, I really thought that you wanted to keep talking about female pop stars from 2009.
Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift continues to make music, all popular at the same time.
Lady Gaga, by the way, is the perfect example here of she was gigantic, has remained popular in terms of pop culture, but her music is... People really did not go crazy for the last couple of albums, but now she just released a new album that sounds a lot like the stuff she was making 15 years ago.
And that was the perfect play because she's playing to the nostalgia of the beginning of her career while making new music and took the time off to... act, which is sort of similar to what Justin Timberlake did between Future Sex Love Sounds and then the 2020 experience, that same type of thing.
So what you're saying is, like, Rob Nen needs a podcast.
I don't know. But what is that level of player? Like we need like a Jeff Teague caliber of player, a former big leaguer who was either a borderline all star or an all star once or twice. That type of level of big leaguer. If they a few of those guys started podcasts and just had a bunch of old big leaguers coming back. Joey Votto actually would be the guy to do this. Kevin Millar.
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Ooh, Kevin Millar's a fun one.
He seems to have good stories. Because he's played with so many legends of the game and was part of the 2004 Red Sox, so he's got that whole tie-in. Is there any way I can learn more about that team? Yeah, you can watch a documentary about it. Where? It was produced by Metal Ark Media on Netflix. Oh, wow. Okay. What's this Barry Bonds video?
It was over for him. This is what I was saying, Amin, about learning about the game. Because I think part of this is when you hear these stories, when you hear these guys talk about singular at-bats that they remember. There was this documentary with Barry Bonds and Greg Maddox where it was really about – it was a Greg Maddox documentary on MLB Network. But they broke down this singular at-bat.
Where he gave up a home run to Barry Bonds. And it was a similar conversation to what you're talking about, Tony, where they're going through each pitch and the sequencing and why they know, all right, now the count is two and one. This is the pitch he's going to throw me. It's why I'm going to hit a home run. And these are the things that if you're just...
you know watching the game casually and don't really know you don't understand like the chess match that's happening each pitch where greg maddox was not only setting up a singular at bat he's throwing pitches in the first at bat so that when he faces barry bonds the third time in the game in the seventh inning he has him off balance that's the stuff that to me like i eat up jeremy but like like you're like did you learn anything it's not about learning it's just i like hearing these two
He is 75 years old. Last year. That was last year. Last year, Mike.
He turned 75 on February 22nd. We didn't see the video. So it's been three weeks. It's been cold. It has been cold.
He's a bit chilly.
I also believe entirely in what Barry Bonds is saying, by the way. I think Barry Bonds, probably on five teams in baseball, could be a designated hitter against right-handed pitching. Because in the modern game, if his eyes are still the same as they were, Because this game has become so much about home run, strikeout, or walk. And he had the greatest eye in the history of the sport.
So at the very least, he'd basically go first pitch swinging on fastballs and try to occasionally hit one out. He might hit 10 homers in a season by lucking into it. But his eye was so incredible that I bet his on-base percentage could be good enough to that there are some teams in which he could be an effective designated hitter against right-handed pitching only. They are not going to walk him.
You don't think so?
You forget how good he was, man.
What I've realized is what I meant to say was in his last season when his body was breaking down and all of that. But I realized that what I now said was, oh, people don't remember that the greatest hitter of all time was good at baseball. That Gretzky guy.
I'm going to find some stats from that last season so you guys can see what I was talking about.
I'll back you up. You're right to do that. Bad ally. An ally, though, Dan. He's an ally. I am an ally. We established that earlier in the week. Caitlin Clark for Terry Rozier.
Also, prayers up for Dalton Connect.
We did that in like 10 seconds.
We just started saying don't look now.
Don't look down, but that could be a very dangerous offense. I'm worried for the Dolphins. That's the case. You also have the Bills. Whatever the Jets end up doing is going to be better than it was now.
Don't look. He peeked.
Dan, I know how much you care about the future of Derek Carr. But don't look now. But Kellen Moore wouldn't commit to Derek Carr as his quarterback moving forward in New Orleans. That's me. Don't look now, but that could be a really big deal in the way that that ultimately shapes their division, Dan. That's big. No, stop looking. No, don't.
I kind of want to look at that.
So you're saying if they have a losing season with Aaron Rodgers.
Don't look now. Don't look now. But the last time Mike Tomlin won a playoff game, Barack Obama was president.
Sounds like you're looking, Dan. I was looking.
That's actually not reckless speculation. He was on the floor asleep at a casino in Canada and was arrested for public intoxication. But there was a photo of him that sort of leaked out of him falling asleep on the floor in the casino. And he said, tied one on last night, not feeling great this morning, was trying to sleep it off. Unfortunately, it was on the casino floor.
I see this as a spinoff into a reality show for her at some point. That's what's going to happen, right? The Traders. I don't know where she ends up, but I want Belichick to be a part of it.
Yeah, that's the whole thing, right? We're not going to surround Bill Belichick with other random 20-something-year-old women, but that's the thing. Having the young girlfriend right now is like the crazy thing that he's doing differently, and he's in commercials, so why not make her a part of it?
That's essentially the brand at this point for him is, hey, I'm at 72 years old, and I'm going to be like, you've never seen me before.
My favorite part of that video is it's about 2 minutes and 15 seconds long. You get about 55 seconds into it. Yeah. And he goes, anyway, and then goes on for another minute and 15 seconds where he's talking about some juco kid that he wants to go. It is incredible. The little runt.
Chuckle. Chicken parm.
What do happen to those large scissors?
Who uses them?
Wow.
What better day?
Yeah, no matter how many turnovers you have in the fourth quarter, you love watching young stars in their first big moments. Hey, play through mistakes. Come up big at the end of games. That's why Jazz Heat was so special last night.
And when you see the Chris Haynes report a couple of days ago that says the Memphis Grizzlies and some other teams have been told not to trade for Jimmy Butler, that's not necessarily to say that if they traded for Jimmy that he wouldn't report and would make a whole mess of everything. But the reason that's happening is he wants to be in Phoenix or another place that will give him that extension.
And so the reporting has to be sort of around that.
Jeremy, hör auf! Geh! Jeremy? Geh! Geh! Scram! Geh! Geh!
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I think if you watch Mean Girls and you take out Lindsay Lohan, the three of them, they're a click. The Mean Girls.
No, he is. He is? He definitely is.
There's like a Jesse, Cynthia, Kirsten, Kristen.
So when we're making the show sometimes, we make jokes about things that aren't actual literally jokes, but we're trying to show something on screen that goes along with something that we're saying to make people laugh.
Is that how you feel about this show? Is that why you're springing this up?
I'm with you.
I thought it was going to be much meaner. We've threatened to beat them up before.
I thought they were going to come back with some venom.
Smoking?
We have so many more people than that talking over Dan.
I think if we did redo the open, I mean, are you in the open?
Oh. If we redid it, we should have it where you're on the toilet texting us you're going to be running late next time.
I don't think I've gotten a call sheet in three years.
Oh, Wolfson, yeah.
Sorry, the producer was talking in my ear.
Sorry, I was trying to produce the show because there was a photo that I wanted to show that they're now getting ready for us of two someones on the red carpet last night.
Took the world by storm. So she posted it before they announced it.
I mean, what happened was apparently nine voters split their votes, and they flip-flopped, basically.
But someone also voted Lamar Jackson in fourth place, which didn't end up costing him ultimately. But now people are very mad at that voter.
Should I hide this kid?
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Thank you. Thank you.
Don't worry, we'll post this whole thing on Twitter. Yes, I'm surprised, Pablo. I thought he was doing it himself, but now I feel like an idiot for thinking he was doing it himself. It makes sense.
Is it one person or did he hire like a firm?
Antonio Brown's a former wide receiver. No, no. Football is a game played in America.
So football evolved really from the game of rugby.
And so over time they allowed forward passes. He's very good at catching those.
There's this thing called the Big Bang Theory.
Whereas life as we know it was created from an explosion, a collision. And from that, we got Antonio Brown and Jeremy hypothetically running his accounts.
You should have said we don't have it. I'm going to miss them.
What would you be doing in the intro video? What would your bit be?
It was actually called the ARPnet in the 80s and the Soviets were very interested in discovering what it was because the Americans had it. Go deeper.
Well, that's already taken, so you need to pick something else.
There was this thing called the Big Bang Theory.
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Well, this is an interesting part of this story, actually. So what's happening here is Lamar Jackson is challenging Dale Earnhardt's trademark of the number eight, but not... specifically the number eight that was on his car in the years where he was driving the number eight. So Lamar challenged Troy Aikman last year for
E-I-G-H-T in all capital letters, the specific trademark of that font size of the word eight. This case is a slanted eight that is not in the style of what was on Earnhardt's car. Now, Earnhardt on his car, that was only while he was working for Dale Earnhardt Incorporated or Now, as DEI has crumbled around him, the trademark eventually lapsed. And this is just the truth.
DEI, Dale Earnhardt Incorporated, no longer exists. Dale Earnhardt Jr. did... Did not get along with Teresa Earnhardt, who took over upon Dale Earnhardt Sr. 's death. She let the trademark expire for his number eight. And so he is now refiling to try to get that number eight back. Lamar is upset, not with the one that was on his car, but a different slanted number eight.
It says his attorneys filed a notice of opposition on Wednesday.
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Why are you setting me up to defend Dale Earnhardt? Why is Dale Earnhardt the first one we go to? I'm confused by that.
Yeah. Yeah. Day 10, Jeremy. What are we celebrating? We're celebrating the Stanley Cup champion, Florida Panthers. All of the tension that you heard throughout this week, it's gone. Everyone's happy. People are hugging each other. There are apologies. There are proclamations. There's Greg Cody and there's Connor McOverrated. Everyone shares a lot of love in this one.
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This has been fun. I'm so glad you guys have. I mean, I hope you've enjoyed our journey over the last couple of weeks. It included finding out when Christmas was, finding out when New Year's was. Jeremy and I waking up every morning to do these. Yeah, it's really great. And we're going to Dan's for a Cuervo sponsored New Year's party. How about that New Year's Eve party? Pretty amazing.
So we'll see you for our first shows of the new year next week. Enjoy this one. Can't wait to be back live on the air with all of you. And happy 2025, everybody. Day 10.
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I have been wondering what is – I have like in my speech, Tati, you look – underline my brother's fiance. Careful. I just avoid that situation.
You have to like... Incredible. Thank you. That's why I'm struggling. Rapid appropriate. I think I was going to go amazing. I was going to go amazing. I think beautiful, beautiful... I'm obviously going to be... Stunning.
Breathtaking. Stunning, yes. I was trying to find that perfect word that's like not... Because Billy's worried about... You don't want to seem any kind of weird. Amazing, incredible, feel lecherous. Hot.
Don't say that. But yes, I don't know. So I'm trying to find the perfect word that I think will... I think stunning right now.
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That was actually a decent Mr. Beast.
If you listen to the show the last couple of days, we were singing.
I didn't walk in isolated with the only one with McDonald's. There's a whole bunch of McDonald's out there. I may have had a burrito. What's wrong with you? Okay, first of all, don't get so damn defensive.
About Luka? Yeah, about Luka.
I've put a circle in the middle of this room. The last person in it gets a million dollars.
We're going to pounce on that. It's like the most obvious. And he's a smart guy. Like he has to know what he's doing. And he's also a free agent.
On record. Have the players spoken out on this? Because I feel like there's two lanes on this. There's how the media perceives you and how your players perceive you. I don't know that the players dislike his style.
I was about to say, as someone who follows the NBA passively, give me the names that could be on the move because I have no idea.
A number two. Is that the worst take in show history? Oh, no.
Bad ones. Yeah, those are.
This Brad Marchand one.
That's right. I hit many a button. And he pointed at Roy. Don't look now. Rams head coach Sean McVay hopes Matt Stafford plays, quote, a couple more years. I see what you're doing there. You're not looking.
You better not be looking either.
That's what you get the game.
Patriots quarterback Drake May is, quote, pumped to play behind first-round pick offensive tackle Will Campbell. What's the wildest thing about this is he has never read better.
And finally, in a win for sports radio, because remember, Bill's GM, Brandon Bean, went on a radio show, got super. No, Billy Bean is the other GM. This is Brandon Bean. Don't question blindfolded Chris. I don't know anybody that's sharper than blindfolded Chris. He got super defensive on a radio show about, hey, we don't need receivers. You guys are idiots saying we need receivers.
A day later, they signed ride receiver Elijah Moore to a one-year deal. Lying season. That is a win for sports radio. Don't look, though. They needed Elijah Moore receivers. Wow. I mean, that is crazy. Like, if you're that GM. I knew that was coming. If you're that GM, you can't sign a receiver that next day after you went on a radio show and went after radio hosts for saying you need receivers.
Like, you're just basically saying, okay, hey, I know I went on this radio show, but let's get Elijah Moore in here.
I mean.
I actually am okay with this. They work hard at this hotel. Give them the smoothies for a day. Yeah, we love the Elser.
But that guy walked in.
Guys, if I ordered on Uber Eats a smoothie and I go downstairs to pick it up and there's 14 smoothies there, guess what? I'm turning into the Oprah of smoothies. You get a smoothie.
Wow. We're all here playing checkers. And what we've learned is that Billy really would have been the one who did that. It would have been Billy.
I have to give a best man speech. First time I'm ever doing it. I've been preparing for weeks, but I'm feeling the pressure of the last couple days. And I'm wondering if anyone here has any advice for me. Anyone given any best man? Stugatz, have you given a best man speech? Who's getting married? Your brother? My brother's getting married. Oh. My younger brother.
Stu, have you given a best man speech?
Yes, like you can do Spotify, Kidz Bop Kids.
Oh, there's Pink Pony Club. Like they have all the latest songs. Why would you have to change Pink Pony Club?
I mean, just the kids sing all the popular songs.
Not Kidz Bop.
It's not all hip hop songs. It's like every song you've ever heard. I didn't know this.
Am I going to work just my stand-up routine? No, I'm going to focus it on my brother and the bride.
Well, I have jokes written. I have not gotten up on stage yet.
I think just... Doing this job, I'm not that nervous about doing it. It's more of like, what's the tone? How mean do I want to be? I don't want to make this about me. It's about them. So it's really just the balance of how many jokes is too many. I've never done it before. Schefter's kid works for Nickelodeon. So no advice. No one has any advice for me.
Sorry.
Don't make this about you.
His brother would like it, though. I'm going to roast my brother a little bit friendly. A couple jokes, a couple singers. Isn't your brother known as the funny one? Well, that's actually one of my lines. I'm Chris, the older brother. Also the funnier one.
Last night was the rehearsal dinner, and one of her, not her maid of honor, she'll speak at the wedding, another one of her very close friends, and then my dad spoke. And it was funny. She went first, and she had it on a phone, and then my dad went up, and he made the joke of the young whippersnapper over there looking at her phone. I have, and he pulls out a scroll.
He's just like, I've done this. Longhand. I have bad news for you. You're set up for failure. Oh, I know. My dad's speech was great. Follow your dad. Luckily, he went last night and not at the wedding. Because if he was going, yes, he was great. How much room did you leave for sap at the end? My dad got emotional. Of course.
Guess what?
Yes, and he's a writer. The best columnist in Florida. I honestly thought while he was doing it, it might be funny on Saturday for me to just read what my dad wrote. Just start it.
I would have to start with the joke of, like, she used her phone, and now I will use... Yeah, you got to go second.
You got to do this.
It puts to waste all. I have put work into this, and I do have a speech of my own.
We didn't bring you up to him, though. He brought you up to us.
Bobby Q, I think, in Billy's defense. Just a joke. Not a big deal.
Nein, nein, nein, nein, nein.
These guys are trying to blame CJ Stroud. That was such a game of just aggressive line play. That first half was one of the weirdest halves I've ever seen. Move the ball, move the ball, move the ball. Turn over, move the ball, move the ball, move the ball. Turn over, sack, sack. The Dolphins, nine sacks on the season. Guess how many sacks the Jets had last night? Eight, yeah. Eight!
Das war nicht auf CJ Stroud.
Sie versuchen, Entschuldigungen für CJ Stroud zu machen.
Das hat nichts mit den Receivers zu tun. Er konnte gestern Nacht nicht atmen. Warum ist das so? Das ist auch so. Offensive Line. Problems and good defensive line for the Jets. It was just, what a crazy game. That game last night, the clash between the lines, every play, both sides of the ball, was great last night. Just the trenches. Last night was a game for the trenches. I mean, you're right.
I couldn't believe it.
You did make the he should be called Robert joke, no?
Im Hinterkopf macht es Sinn, dass er die Studie oder den Fragen nicht beantwortet hat, weil er nur ein emotionaler Tag war.
Die Frage, die wir ihm fragen könnten, die ihm vielleicht geführt hätte, ist, was du von all dem gemacht hast. Die Twitter, die nach dir kommen, die Kritik von deinem Broadcast. I thought maybe there that could have... He went on forever about the politics stuff. He's like, alright, if you insist, and he talked for 28 minutes.
Je mehr ich darüber denke, desto mehr denke ich, dass ich einen übergewöhnlichen Niederschnitt habe. Weil ich denke, wenn der Niederschnitt hier ist und der Hals hier ist, geht mein Niederschnitt weit. Ich denke, ich habe einen großen Niederschnitt. Ich habe einen verdammt großen Niederschnitt. Nehmt euren Finger darauf, wo es verdächtigt ist und dann, ja.
Ich denke, meine Klappe geht von hier nach da. Ich habe eine große Klappe. Alle Klappen gehen von hier nach da. Nein, meine ist größer als deine.
Gut, Dan, ich zähle die Freckles. You'll be here all day.
Where does the shin start and where does the knee end? A question as old as time.
I think the internet just saw my balls. The leg bones connected to the knee bone. I had video in my ear being like, get your knee down, quick, quick, quick.
I think he did and then he panicked.
I did give you a couple lines yesterday that you didn't credit me for.
Threatening our audience with our... They're not actually freckled, it's weird. Really? It's actually only where the sun shines. I don't believe that. I mean, I don't have a lot like on my belly. How about on your ass?
I'll show you my ass.
This show, this, what he just did... If you notice on the inside of my arm, much less than on the outside of my arm. Oh, wow. That's where the sun is more. Hair also, why is that? Does sun cause hair to grow? Does it?
We have another segment. We're doing Feisty Tua. After Ron McGill, we are doing Feisty Tua. Ooh, Ron McGill today.
At least he said it as a question, do you want to see my balls? Honestly. The answer is no.
I want to follow what Amin said. So they leave them in the school, lock the door so they can't get out, just like you can get them tomorrow?
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Es ist klar, da war ein Hals hier, aber bei Pickens gab es keinen Hals. Das ist die Unterschiede.
SB nominee.
Play of the year? Odell Beckham was nominated. Is that not on the Odell Beckham level of play right there?
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Die Frage, die die NFL beantworten muss, und ich bringe mein Knie hoch für das, wo endet das Knie und der Hintern starten? Das ist das, worüber wir hier argumentieren. Das ist ziemlich offensichtlich. Was ist das? Was ist das? Was ist das? Was ist das? Das ist eine gute Frage. Das ist dein Hals. Was ist das? Ich muss es fühlen. Für die Audio-Audienz, ich stelle mich an einen Punkt auf meinem Knie.
Einiges von Frecklen.
Halt den Zoom auf.
You still think it's fine, shaming freckles.
Are you talking about my knee? Yes. Are you bragging about having fat knees?
For Dan.
No big deal.
Yeah.
Environmental, yeah.
The Midas Mighty Standing Strong
Hey, Jade. I have a not fun problem. I sold a vintage guitar and found out 11 days later that the credit card that was used to buy it was stolen.
So it's an expensive guitar. It's a $10,000 guitar. Um, it was purchased overnight, uh, which is not normal. So I'm, I'm a YouTuber. I buy and sell guitars and I document the process. So this guitar sold. And then I called the customer first thing in the morning and we talked for about 20 minutes. So this person knew vintage guitars. They said, well, you know, it's going for my son.
And so I felt okay that this was a real person and a real transaction. I checked with my credit card processor. They said, this is legit. The money's on your way to the bank. So I held the guitar for a day until the transfer happened to my bank. And then I felt comfortable to ship the guitar. So I shipped the guitar.
Um, but the first red flag was that the customer never told me that the guitar got to them. Okay. Uh, and then, so for that was on a Thursday on the Sunday morning, I got an email from the credit card company saying, Hey, this is potentially suspicious.
And then I heard nothing else until 11 days later when they said this was a stolen card and we're going to take the money back, uh, tomorrow morning. Oh man. So I, so yes. So I called the person that bought the guitar. They've never answered. They never responded. Of course they haven't. Um, so I, well, so I was able to stop the money from leaving. Um,
So my bank was able to put a stop payment on the ACH coming back out. So I have the money, but I don't have the guitar. And now the credit card company has said that I have 90 days to pay them back.
Which I think that's unreasonable.
Right. So they have gotten their money back. They've gotten their money back, but you've lost your guitar. I found the person who had the card on LinkedIn, and they confirmed... They got the money back, but they also said they reported it the same day.
Right, multiple times, and I've lost the disputes. It's been two different rounds of disputes, and they say that I did not pass and I have to give the money back.
Right.
I can. I have all the receipts for those things. The communication with them, the screenshots of the card being the money coming to my bank.
Yeah, I bet I could. He's been very responsive.
Oh, do you hear James? That's a good question. It was a 1969 Martin D 28. So it was the last year of a Brazilian Rosewood back inside acoustic guitar.
Yeah.
Yep.
And thankfully, having done the Ramsey program for 10 years and being completely out of debt and, you know, It makes it to where this is a lot of money, but it does not break us. Way to go, Jeremy. Yeah. Gosh, that's been the piece through all of this. Good for you.
Absolutely.
Oh, I would love to have a pre-war Martin OM-42. Okay. A very pearly, very pretty guitar. Who played it? Eric Clapton has played one. I mean, that's the holy grail. Those are $100,000, $125,000. Wow. Yeah.
to long story short, we basically borrowed some money from a family member, my father-in-law and mother-in-law about a year and a half ago. Um, and we put a manufactured home there, use the money for that. We're paying them back pretty quickly. It feels like, um, made a dumb decision again before I started your book and went out and bought a toy. And it's kind of,
putting some stress on our relationship with them. They're thinking we shouldn't be spending money when we owe them money, and I just wanted your advice on that.
A four-wheeler.
$6,000, and we financed it, but it's almost paid off now.
Yes, yeah, and we've been paying that on time every time, obviously.
You know, that's a good question.
You know, our thing is we have a pretty good relationship with them, and things just kind of got awkward. So do I sell the toy, take a loss, and move on? Do I... You're the expert, I guess. That's my question.
Basically, we sold our house and had some money set aside to do this project, and it was just an idea that got thrown out there. And nobody thought it would really work. We were able to make it work. And we were pretty excited about that. There wasn't too much pressure there. It will most likely be our property at some point. So there wasn't too much for us on worrying with that.
Nope, I want to hear it.
It might get close. There's not a lot of them around to get a good idea.
Doing good. How are you doing?
Hi. So I'm calling. I'm curious. So me and my girlfriend are going to be moving in together, and I'm curious whether I should be covering the bills or not. No. All right. Are you ready for some context?
So I'm from Salt Lake City. She's from Salt Lake City. I work out of state. So I'm moving out of state to Cleveland, Ohio. She's going to be moving with me. And her work is very clientele-based, so she will have practically zero business out there. And I make more than enough to provide for both of us. And so it's not necessary that I need to. Sorry, say that again? How old is she?
We are both 19 years old.
Cosmetology. Okay. Okay.
I will. I will.
Yeah. I mean... Or maybe not. I don't know. I think I'm a good guy.
Um, so I work, I just work in the summer months and, um, and so I'm like, I'm like waiting to get back from working for the year and being able to like actually have open time, um, where then I could devote like majority of my energy and majority of, of like what I need to emotionally to a relationship.
Yeah. I mean, and she could get like a basic job, but
Hey, how are you guys doing?
Better than I deserve. Oh, I like that. I should use that. Yeah. Right. Um, okay. So basically I'll try to make it quick. Um, right now I am working a job in construction. Uh, last year I made about 150,000. Um, but I have an opportunity, I guess you could say in the same field, the same construction. But the thing is, I'll be making significantly less money.
I guess in the first couple of years, but then it'll kind of even out and then I'll at some point make more after I think like four years. Um, the new position would, yeah, the new position would be a lot less labor intensive, a lot easier on the body. Um, people that are in my role right now in my current company, Maybe the guy who's been here the longest has been there for like 10 years maybe.
The people I talk to in the other position have been there for like 30, 40 years.
I would have to cut a lot of stuff, which I'm perfectly fine with doing myself. Are you single? I'm not single. Me and my girlfriend have been dating for a few months now. Well, you're single as far as I'm concerned. She doesn't want me to take it because she's used to it. Right.
Right.
All I have is a car loan that I actually got once I got this job. I got a little excited making the extra money. So before this job, I was making maybe like $40,000 to $50,000 a year.
Well, my salary, I guess if I were to work 40 hours a week, would be around $120,000. I guess last year I did a little bit of overtime, so I made $150,000.
How do I say? I'm not running an excavator or anything like that. I'm more operating like a truck.
No, no, no. It's definitely not an emergency situation at all. It's more like, what can I see myself doing in the long run? I should mention also, this is a union job. It'll be part of the same union, just a different kind of sector, I guess you can say.
It's okay. I get it. It wouldn't be a 40% pay cut for four years. The first year would be 40%. The next year, 30%.
So it raises 10% every year? Yeah, I go up 10% every year until I'm at the 100%. I personally wouldn't.
Oh, okay. So on my car, I owe about 30. My plan was if I were to do this, I would want to pay off my car before I even consider doing it.
You scored brownie points right there, Jade. You scored some points.
Okay.
Even if the pay was like half of what it is now, I would still love it.
just to keep all the bills paid and food in the fridge.
Just to keep the family together, be a little bit closer to my partner's family. They're super close.
Exactly.
It's 3,000 miles. And I was told if I go back, I'm going back by myself.
She knows that it's not well, but she's kind of blind to it. And she just took a different job to work less hours, too. Which isn't helping anything.
I think she's just ignoring the issue.
I don't know. She doesn't tell me what her expenses are.
Just we're common law. We got two little ones.
I take care of the mortgage in one vehicle and she does the rest.
No, she is too.
It's getting there. That's for sure.
Okay. And if that doesn't work, should I jump back out to my old jobs just so that I know that my kids are fed?
The car is upside down by about $15,000.
She's supposed to make $85 a year, but she has a habit of not going to work.
Well, she works in health care, so they're begging for people to work there.
I'm in the construction.
I was working in a mining industry.
I've progressed up the ladder in my company a little bit already. Okay. And the next step would be to become a supervisor, but that's at least a year and a half out. Because I've asked my boss for more hours, and if he would be able to give me a wage increase, and he just said that I'm not there yet.
Oh, just trying to keep one foot in front of the other. How about yourself?
Well, hopefully with some answers to some money problems, but in a In a nutshell, I uprooted my family and moved, ended up taking about a 65% pay cut, and now everything's just starting to pile up and pile up, and I want to know if it makes me a deadbeat father if I move back to my old job where I'm making north of $150K versus south of $50K.
I fly out to California and I meet with Michael Schellenberger. In part three of our interview with the author of the Immaculate Constellation Report.
in part two of our interview with the author of the Immaculate Constellation report.
So you drove your horse and buggy all the way out here to meet this 14-year-old girl, didn't you?
Oh, you're going to give her a carriage ride? So you drove your horse and buggy all the way out here to meet this 14-year-old?