Tim Kurkjian
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
You won all the sounds. We won.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Well, I met Nickelback on an airplane once. The entire band was on the – and they – so I – somehow we got in a conversation with them. So I said, so who are you guys? And they said, we're Nickelback. And there was absolutely – No understanding on my part. And I said, honestly, this is so bad. I'm so embarrassed. It's not that bad. It's all right. I said, what is that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
And he said, oh, we're a musical band or a group or whatever they called it. So I was sitting with Nickelback. They explained who they were, and I didn't know who they were. That's how bad poor Pop-Pop is at so many things.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Pop-Pop, that's fine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
We have a segment every week, Dan, called Poor Pop-Up, because we go over something that everyone else in the world is capable of doing, except for me. And then Jeffrey, who is a magician at doing so many things. He can fix anything. He can figure everything out. He explains how the world works in our weekly segment called Poor Pop-Up, where I just explain what a dope I really am.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Stu Gatz, have you heard from your guy yet? I have not, no.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Well, I'm sure I accepted a pen. But back in the newspaper days, Dan, when I covered the Texas Rangers, they, of course, used to feed us in the press room every night. And it was for free because back then in the early 80s, the press room didn't charge as they do today. But my boss, Dave Smith, the guy who made me send the satchel back to the Memorial Golf Tournament,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
He made it very clear to the Rangers early on that we are not going to eat free in your press room. And he sent them like a $500 check so the beat writer, me, could eat for the season in the press room at Arlington Stadium. And then we had this discussion. Oh, my God. My sports editor and Doug Rader and I, Doug Rader was the manager of the Rangers in 1983.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Dave Smith came down to meet him and Doug Rader said, if we win the World Series this year, Tim will get a World Series ring because he's the big guy. To which my boss, not recognizing how Doug Rader was just pulling a string, they got in this huge argument whether I should get a World Series ring or not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Needless to say, they didn't win the World Series, but if they had, I promise you, I would not have gotten or accepted a World Series ring.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Timmy, you're wearing a beautiful, and we all noticed it, by the way, a beautiful Walter Johnson jacket. I'm wondering, did he hand that to you personally?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
You guys, as you may not know, Walter Johnson died on December 10th, 1946. I was born. I was born.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Well, if you would let me finish, he died on December 10th, 1946. I was born on December 10th, 1956. Ten years to the day after Walter Johnson died, I was born. How can you forget that when you go to Walter Johnson High School, you work for the school paper.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
All right. I have never been angry at you even one time, Dan. And you have asked me some of the dumbest questions in the history of radio. And I still have never gotten mad at you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
When did Rusty Staub die? Oh, no. I believe Rusty Staub. I know this. Rusty Staub died on opening day when the Marlins played on opening day. And... Happ hit a home run on the first pitch of the game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
No, I believe this. I believe Rusty Staub died that day. He did. Because we were talking about, you know, first pitch of the Marlins season is hit for a home run by Happ of the Cubs. Everyone knows that. And then we went through. And Rusty Staab, you know, hit a home run as a teenager and a home run as a 40-year-old. And he was the second guy to do that. Ty Cobb was the first.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
And they once asked Gene Mauck, the manager of the Expos, when Rusty Staab was a star there. Gene Mauck, who was a pretty funny, quiet guy, he said he has Boku power. And I knew what that meant even before I knew what the word Boku meant. So... I'm pretty sure that's the day that Rusty Staub died. Opening day, the Marlins, and first pitch home run. Tell us something we don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
That's valuable, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Let the guy make the call, huh? Swallowed, Billy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Oh, wow. Yeah, well, this is what we do on our podcast. I challenge my son, Jeff, again, not a baseball aficionado like his dopey dad. I said, Jeff, look at the starting pitching matchups today and tell me what you notice. And he looked and looked and looked and came up with the starting pitching matchup today was Gore May. So he found it. I was so proud of him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
And I told him, you know, the day you got married, the day you had a baby, I was so proud of you. But today might be the most proud I've ever been because you found Gore and May and put them together. Yes, I look at all the starting pitching matchups. There's no telling what you might see. Of course, Yvonne Nova faced Matt Cain several years ago. the Nova Cane matchup.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I would say Tim Kirchhen is probably at the top gold medalist in terms of guests that our fans love the most. I would say it's Kirchhen, Stan Van Gundy, and Ron McGill. I mean, this is an exciting day, Dan. We're talking baseball with Timmy Kirchhen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
That was always one of my favorites. And Chad Moeller, the only thing that baseball ever lets us down on, Chad Moeller, former catcher, if he had caught in that game, it would have been the greatest pitching matchup battery in the history of the sport, that Chad Moeller was the catcher for the Nova Cane game. I love it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Yeah, look at him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I would go with Dan, probably. Same, yeah. Every time on that. I know Stugatz has his ways of doing things. He got me to write something for his book. It didn't take long. You were great. But I think Dan is very persuasive because his use of the English language is absolutely breathtaking. And I'm not kidding.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
And I just think sometimes if you use the proper words and you're really good with the language, you can get people to do what you want to do. And Dan is not only better than Stugatz, Dan is better than just about everyone. But Stugatz should still try, though, right? Oh, of course. Stugatz is always going to try.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I think that's fairly obvious. Thank you, Timmy. Not always, but thank you, Timmy. I appreciate it. Timmy, if you tell me to shut up on this, I will. Joe Mauer is not a first ballot Hall of Famer. I mean, he's not, Timmy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
All right, Sugata, I understand your point. To me, you're either a Hall of Famer or you're not. It doesn't matter if you're a first ballot or not. So if you think he's a Hall of Famer, you should put him in on the first ballot. That's just the way that I think about it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Stugatz, you look at the first eight years, ten years as a catcher for Joe Maurer, there's really no comparable other than Mike Piazza, who's the greatest hitting catcher of all time. Johnny Bench is the greatest catcher. Yogi Berra is the second greatest catcher.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
But Joe Maurer did things that no catcher has ever done in the history of the sport when it comes to winning batting titles, all that stuff. So that's why I think he's a first ballot Hall of Famer. But again... I don't include first ballot. If he's a Hall of Famer, he's getting my vote. I don't care if it's the first ballot or the 10th. Wait a minute, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
All right. I have some skills when it comes to that. Those are my only skills. But I'm telling you, Dan, it's a baseball thing. We have another segment on our show called I Am a Seam Head. The first guy who came on, Mark Simon, can tell you who made the last out of to end every World Series for the last 70 years.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
The second guy was Judd Burch, who can name every umpire in the major leagues based on the uniform number on their jersey, which we didn't even know they had a uniform number. Then we had on Jeff Bennett, formerly of ESPN, who can tell you what every baseball card looks like from 1982 through 85. Front of the of the baseball card and back of the baseball card.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Birthplace, height, weight, Carly Ustremsky. I'm not making this up. And then we had a guy named Mike Pettica on last week. And you could go like this to Mike. He used to work for the Indians as an AP writer. 127 hits, 481 at bats, and in a matter of two seconds, he could figure that out in his head and give you the batting average.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
These are what seam heads can do, and I maintain they're more in baseball than any other sport. So, yes, I have strange retention of things, but on things that are really important, I can't remember anything.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I haven't even started yet. I know, but Buster grew up on a farm and he was telling me about milking cows the other day. Every time I think about that, I have to laugh.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Just a useless stuff to know. But that's kind of the point. Baseball is pointless, and that's what makes it so interesting. So just the other day, the Rays scored one run in the first inning, four runs in the second inning, nine runs in the third inning against the Red Sox. So I checked with the people who could look this up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
It's the first time in Major League history that any team has ever scored one in the first, four in the second, nine in the third. We played 150 years. We played well over 200,000 games. And that first three line score had never happened in baseball history. It's pointless. It's useless. It's stupid. But people actually care about that stuff, including me. Tim, what's your son Jeff's birthday?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
And his daughter was born on August 10th of 1993. She came a couple hours late. Otherwise, his daughter would have been born on his birthday on the night that Michael Lorenzen was pitching a no-hitter for the Phillies. Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Dad and mom were watching the Phillies on the TV in the hospital room thinking our daughter's going to be born on daddy's birthday and the night that Michael Lorenzen threw a no-hitter. We just missed out on that. What was the umpire doing home plates and jersey number? I'm not kidding you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
No, because we got in a discussion about milking a cow, and I told him I'd milked one cow in my entire life. It was a disaster at Ferguson Farm when my daughter was in the fifth grade, and I said he, meaning the cow, was not interested in giving up a lot of milk. to which Buster started to scream at me. Guy grew up on a dairy farm. I didn't even know that it was only the females that give milk.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
This Judd Burch guy, you could ask him on a random Tuesday night, no matter where you are, doesn't matter who's working second base in Texas. And he would say Adrian Johnson. I tested him on it. He can do these things. Weird people exist in baseball. And that's another reason I love it. And I'm not apologizing for it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Useless. Rusty Staub was a great cook, by the way. He used to pack his pots and pans with him on road trips. So if it was like a 10-day trip, he would get a hotel room that has like a stove and an oven, and he would take his own pots and pans and cook for himself on the road. Amazing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I think that's what my father-in-law is doing. Buck Showalter once asked me – this is so typical Buck Showalter. He looks at me one night randomly and says, give me a great player who's got a lot of freckles. That's what he said to me. And I can't even – I've never been asked this question in my life, so I just reflectively said –
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Rusty Staub, and he goes, I said a great player, not a really good player. He was angry that I guessed Rusty Staub. It was the best I could do. But imagine being asked by a former major league manager, who's the best player you've ever seen who has a lot of freckles? Wow. Didn't see it coming.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Buck is the same age as I am. I'm going to say it's late May of 1956. I'll be close on that. Can he really do this?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
May 23rd, 1956.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Well, the industry has decided that first base is no longer an important offensive position. So we take Luis Arias, who I love, but Luis Arias is not a first baseman, but they put him at first base because it's the position he can play where he can play every single day. We've gotten away from the first baseman hitting a lot of home runs and driving and runs.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Instead, we mix and match, and we go put a lot of people over there who really aren't first baseman. Plus, the days of the left-handed, it's a left-hander's position, fellas. Trust me on that. The days of John Olerud are over, where you find a left-handed thrower who can hit, really play defense, and drive in runs. We don't care about that guy anymore at first base. The average...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
The batting average for first baseman last year was the lowest since 1900. And the OPS was the lowest since 1968. And it's because the industry no longer values what a first baseman can bring, big time power. But they look, and with all the shifting, we need a really quick guy over there. We need somebody who can cover a lot of ground. And that's why Pete Alonzo took
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Did you guys know that? Of course we did. Male cows are bulls.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
all this time to just get a job because they looked at the body type, doesn't run very well, not a very good defensive player, only got a two-year deal, and he's off to a great start, by the way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Ha ha! Oh, God. We have Mel. Get this. We have Mel on our podcast next week on the day before the draft to talk to him about baseball. The best Mel Kiper, Dan, looks like, you remember, he looks what? Like the eagle who protects the young eagles. I'm pretty close on that. The protective eagle, Mel Kiper. How great is that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I have not, and that's a fact. I get everything cooked really all the way through. A couple times, steak was a little bit rare, but I just said, it's not important, I'll eat it anyway. So no, I've never sent anything back at a restaurant. Tim, have you ever played Domino's? I have. I wasn't very good at them, but I played Domino's.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I don't even know what that is, but I've only had two cups of coffee in my life. So if that has anything to do with coffee and both of them were on the radio because Mike Greenberg was amazed during the Mike and Mike show that I'd never had a cup of coffee. So I drank one and then another three weeks later on the air just to show that I've actually had a cup of coffee. It's really pathetic.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
But as you know, I
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
drink a diet mountain dew every morning with the box scores which is great in fact dan bought me a refrigerator uh that had diet mountain dew written all over it um but i had to i had to throw it out because the motor in it was broken and it sounded like there was a lawnmower in my room yeah a gift didn't go the way i intended to i just sent him a loud he had a good run with it and he had to throw it out and it was heavy how long did you have it uh about about a year
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
But I did go to Cuba, and I had a mojito, which I'd never had before. Whoa.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Poor Pop Pop. Yeah, we have several of them this week. Thanks, Dan. See you guys. I miss you guys.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I was just thinking about Jeff Van Gundy, too. God, he's so funny. Queen of hearts. Jeff Van Gundy. What was the first one I ever heard? Jeff Van Gundy looks like the queen of hearts. The medical examiner who does an autopsy while eating a ham sandwich. He remembers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Yes. Yes. A Secret Service agent. I walked by him at the White House. This was years ago. He didn't say hello. He just acknowledged my presence and said, Andy Reid looks like and kind of had an ellipsis after that. And then I walked away and he said, don't mind if I do. That was the Secret Service agent. Agent! Fellas, I'm not making this up.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Every day of my life, every day, somebody comes up to me and says something about the stupid levitard show looks like. Yesterday, a guy, like, tackled me at the grocery store and just said, Adam Silver looks like the lone french fry in a bag of onion rings. And then he just, like, kept on walking. That's how you do it. This is what your show has done to my life.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Well, that's inaccurate because I know Buster very well, and he might be the first guy to get out of the car and say, you jumped in line in front of me, move out. Wow. He wouldn't do it under the steering wheel. He would go right into the guy's face. Buster is a buster on every level.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
But, Timmy, you would do it under the steering wheel, right? You would.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Yeah, I'm not sure the last time I ever did that. But yes, I've told you guys I get a little bit more impatient in a car than I should. And it worried me that I read some story once. That your personality in your car is your true personality. So that worries me a little bit because I can get a little impatient while driving a car.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I don't know. I have not. Now, I have done it by myself, probably to myself, but I don't think I've ever done that to another human being.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
he's a commissioner there are more looks like about him than anybody else ridiculous jim jim rome looks like the guy who regularly takes practice golf swings in his office
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Well, thank you. He's the producer. He's the director. He's the co-host. He's the technical advisor. He is the marketing guy. He does everything for the show. All I do is show up now three days a week and provide some content. He does everything else.
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The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
And I told you guys, I drive from Maryland three hours to his house in Philadelphia to do the podcast, A, because it's better face to face, but B, if something goes wrong with the technology, he will be there to fix it, to repair it, whereas I, being the worst of all time at this, if anything goes wrong with my computer, I am completely lost.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I am the worst of all time at so many things, but nobody is worse at technology than me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
With all due respect to me, he should be driving to you. I mean...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
No, no, no, no. It's not all three. We just went to three days a week. So once a week, I'm driving three hours to my son's house to make sure that the show goes properly. We have learned how to do it remotely. He set up everything in my house, so I know how to do it. But no, he should not be coming to me as a one-year-old daughter, my granddaughter.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
So there's no way we're going to make him work when I'm the one that can easily get in the car and drive.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Right. Well, I always have had a great relationship with my son, Jeff, but it's gotten way better, if that's possible, through the podcast. Now we talk about 25 times a day. Who are you going to have on as the next guest? What are the questions for this week? What's the question quandary? We go over this every day. every single day. We're taping today at 11 a.m. And I can't wait.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
It has been the highlight of my entire career. And I don't care how corny that sounds. This is something we've always wanted to do. We laugh and we learn. And the good thing is Jeff's not a big baseball fan. So he's a good baseball fan. He doesn't know a lot. because he grew up watching Whose Line Is It Anyway instead of watching every baseball game every night like his dopey pop pop.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
So he knows so much about pop culture and music and everything else. And I don't know anything except for baseball and basketball and sitcoms from the 60s. So we're a good combination.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Timmy, the Padres, the best team in baseball?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
They are today, yeah. Now, that's going to change because everything changes in baseball. But, fellas, they got six shutouts already. Their starting pitching is really good. Their offense even hasn't really gotten going. Manny Machado, Jackson Merrill is hurt. Louisa Rice hasn't gotten going yet. And they still find a way to score runs. They're really good.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
But I'm telling you, fellas, the season began and I saw the six, maybe seven best teams in baseball were all in the National League and the Padres were one of them. So they are a very dangerous team and they're not afraid of the Dodgers. The Dodgers are going to be the best team in baseball before this is over.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
But right now, I would I just did our power rankings this morning and I picked the Padres first in baseball.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Well, I had the Braves definitely go into the playoffs and I'm not giving up on the Braves yet, but they have really labored. Now they got Spencer Strider coming back today, which is a real helpful thing because he throws 100 with nasty, nasty secondary stuff. But I thought the Braves would be obviously better than this, but once they get Acuna Jr.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
back and we're not positive when, that's been the big surprise for me is how they have struggled and how good the National League West has been. I knew the Giants were better. I knew the Diamondbacks were good. Padres are good. Dodgers good. But right now that is a historically good division three weeks into the season.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Yeah, I think team-wise, but Roy, the best part about this season is just how crazy and how unpredictable it has been, which has been every year. I mean, you know, Rafael Devers went 0 for his first 21, but first 19 at-bats, he struck out 15 times. In 19 at-bats, he's a really good hitter, at least at
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
At least two dozen times I've slapped my forehead this season saying, how in the world could this have happened? I mean, right now, Tyler Soderstrom is leading the major leagues in homers. Wilmer Flores is leading the league in RBIs. Jonathan Aranda is leading the major leagues in batting average.
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The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
This cannot happen in the NFL or the NBA that three weeks into the season, three players who are good players would be leading the entire major leagues. This is why baseball is the greatest game is it is way too good to be predicted. Good players are bad. Bad players are good. It makes absolutely no sense.
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The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
All the time. And look, I don't want to be Mr. Ethical here, but I was taught at a very young age in the newspaper business, you do not take anything from anybody. I did a golf tournament in 1981, the Memorial, and they gave me a little notebook to take home with me that said Memorial on it. And my boss, Dave Smith, made me mail it back to the golf course saying, you
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The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
You don't give any of our guys anything for free. Yes, people ask me for tickets all the time, and I just have to politely say no. One guy, former pretty good player, Sandlot player, asked me if there's any way I could get him on the field, he was 55 years old, to hit and see if he could hit a ball over the wall at Fenway Park. He asked me if I could arrange that for him.
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The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I think that was the last day I spoke to him because that was the most ridiculous request ever.
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The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Zaslow, I'll tell you what, I'm pretty certain that Timmy knows Eddie Vedder. I'm pretty certain.
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The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Is this a true story, Tim?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I met Eddie Vedder once at the ballpark in Wrigley, but typically I wasn't sure how great he was until people told me, hey, you met Eddie Vedder. He's like the greatest of all time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
That's how he's done his entire life, though. I mean, that's that's who David is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I mean, there are car accidents. We don't all end in a hospital gang.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I wasn't here Monday, but I'm assuming Dan and Greg covered the weekend with the crew. That was coming off Monday Night Football, though.
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Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
No, and I don't agree with Oakland being a great baseball town. You're making it sound like it's St. Louis. It was a great baseball town in the 80s.
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Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Oh, David, you're going to tell me Oakland's this great baseball team? It is.
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Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
No, what I'm saying is, really, what I'm debating is whether or not it's such a great baseball town. I do feel bad for the A's fans that lost their team. I feel bad for any city that loses a team that they've fallen in love with. But no one, and I mean no one, if you were to ask them, top five baseball towns in America, no one would have Oakland on that list. Nobody.
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Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I'd be okay with them relocating, actually. That'd be fun.
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Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I have my top 5 baseball towns if you want them. Alright, number 5. Number 5, New York. Number 4, Boston.
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Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Nummer 2, St. Louis. Und Nummer 1, Montreal.
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Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I said nothing about me. I told Dan to do it. Dan's not going to do it.
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Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Aber ich kann eine FedEx-Box holen und sagen, es ist aus dem Film.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
So you are claiming that you're a better movie watcher than Adnan. Seriously. And all of us. And everyone.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GOALLESS - The Divine Shadows (Season Finale)
My favorite is, still is Ole, Ole, Ole. Oh, yeah.
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GOALLESS - The Divine Shadows (Season Finale)
I don't know that one.
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GOALLESS - The Divine Shadows (Season Finale)
I want to stand with you on the mountain I want to bathe with you in the rain
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GOALLESS - The Divine Shadows (Season Finale)
Let your love be everything that you need.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
No, and he would have zero chance. Ja, genau. That was because Dan asked me a stupid question, as he always does, and I came up with a stupid answer. Buzz the Tower.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Wir haben es getimt. Chris, Mike, wenn es eine Konkurrenz ist und der Pitcher verliert, Jacob deGrom verliert, wenn du es in Spiel oder Kontakt machst, wird er nicht verlieren. Er wird sicher machen, dass du keinen Kontakt machst, auch wenn er auf und in schießen muss.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
No, you have it right. And I remember the Don Nelson play very vividly. Keith Erickson tipped that ball away from John Havlicek and Don Nelson shot it from the free throw line. And I'll never forget how high that ball went. And then it went straight through for an enormous bucket in a playoff game. But Halliburtons, as we know, went... Ich glaube, es ist 7,23 Meter in der Luft.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Ja, die meisten Spieler schauen auf ihr iPad oder irgendein Video-Device nach den meisten Spielen, um zu sehen, wie es aussieht. Und es brennt mich, es berührt mich ein bisschen, dass ein junger Spieler ein paar Jahre hervorgehoben wurde von seinem Spiele-Coach. Nachdem der junge Torhüter einen Bullpen geschossen hat. Wie ging dein Bullpen?
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Und der Torhüter sagte, ich weiß nicht, ich muss meinen iPad anschauen. Also konnte er dir gar nicht sagen, wie er für zehn Minuten im Bullpen war, bis er auf seinen iPad geschaut hat und es übernommen hat. Der gleiche Torhüter war danach, okay, du bist vor dem Juden, Basen verletzt, zwei Ausgaben, 8. Linie, 2-2-Zählung, welchen Torhüter schießt du? Und er sagte, was mein iPad mir zu schießen sagt.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
And that's my worrisome part, is that we've stopped watching the games to some degree, and we are watching our iPads and our Bats and our Bullpens instead of actually watching the game.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Ja, ich denke, ich habe es klar gemacht. Ich werde fast alles auf diesem Show machen. Es ist sehr anders als ich, aber wenn Dan mich fragt, dann mache ich es.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Ich wusste es nicht, aber du hast mir diese Frage vor zehn Jahren gefragt, also ist es möglich, dass ich mit dem Namen der Band vor der Form der Band gekommen bin, aber ich Nein, das wusste ich nicht, und ich bin entschuldigt. Was die intentionellen Worte betrifft, werde ich ausdrücken. Judge wurde intentionell in den ersten zwei Runden gestern gewandt. Denk an das für einen Moment.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Das ist in den letzten 30 Jahren fünfmal passiert. Zwei Mal zu Barry Bonds, einmal zu Freddie Freeman, einmal zu Albert Pujols und einmal zu Jose Ramirez. Aber zweimal in den ersten zwei Runden zu gehen, ist sehr ungewöhnlich. Und ich weiß nicht, wer der letzte Yankee war, der das gemacht hat. Also haben Sie mich tatsächlich verletzt.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Aber mein Wunsch ist, dass es Aaron Judge war, aber ich weiß es nicht.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Nein, ich bin nicht. Ich bin nicht. 61 Home Runs. Und dann die nächste Saison, noch einmal, um euch zu zeigen, wie die Spiele funktionieren, hat er vier Mal in einem Spiel intensiv gespielt, obwohl er nicht einmal im Jahr vorher intensiv gespielt hat.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Ich habe noch nie einen Schuss gesehen, einen Ball, der auf die Schottenklappe geht, über dem Backbord, so wie das. Und Brian Maggett, ein Freund meines, einer der tollsten Schützer je, hat mir gesagt, er hat noch nie so etwas gesehen. Und er schießt immer noch. Und er ist immer noch einer der tollsten Schützer je. Und er hat gesagt, ich bin raus, am nächsten Tag hat er gesagt,
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Right. Jeremy Tasche has a new show. It's called Buzz the Tower. I am the director and the producer of the show. Please watch. It'll be well worth it. It's really good.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Und ich habe das Foto gefilmt, um das Foto für 30 Minuten zu rekreatieren und nie noch so nahe gekommen. Er hat gesagt, ich verspreche dir, wenn ich das Foto jeden Tag für eine Stunde bis ich 90 Jahre alt bin, werde ich niemals das Foto rekreatieren können. Das war so verrückt.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
That's a good question. That's how you use a Tim Kirchen, Dan. Tim? I think I said it was Ron Hasse. He did. And then I pitched. He caught a bunch of no-hitters and was a good catcher. And he had some bad knees, so he was slow. And Chris, you came up with Benji Molina, right? Yes, Benji Molina.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Und Benji Molina, der einmal für den Cycle gespielt hat. Wie war das? Wow. Also Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron und Babe Ruth haben nie für den Cycle gespielt. Aber Benji Molina hat es gespielt. Ich möchte das Triple sehen. Es ist so gut. Es ist so gut. Die Sporte sind so gut. Und du hast recht, Dan.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Ich bin immer noch überrascht, wie die Probabilitäten und die Möglichkeiten sind, wenn du ein Spiel siehst. Und das Schuss habe ich noch nie gesehen. Und du hast recht. Ich glaube nicht, dass wir das wieder sehen werden.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
No, but Dan, this is why I'm laughing. I swear to God, yesterday I went to the Safeway and this guy comes up to me. I don't even know him. And he says, what's your favorite looks like on the Levitard game? I don't even know who he is. So I tell him, well, it's Jeff Van Gundy, who looks like the coroner who does an autopsy while he's eating a ham sandwich.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
And then this guy says to me, my favorite, he said, is Stan Van Gundy looks like the generic face on a pizza box. I came on right after him. This is unbelievable. What a position me next to Stan Van Gundy after a guy in the frozen food aisle asked me a question about the Van Gundy brothers.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Yeah, I used to host a show on baseball called the Seamhead Edition of Baseball Tonight, which ran every Sunday. I did that for four years and that was really cool. But this is by far the best thing that I've ever done and the most satisfying thing that I've ever done. Does Paul Feinbaum
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Isn't he the personification of the NCAA rulebook?
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
It's the playoffs, Dan. You can't use these during the NBA playoffs.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Speaking of strikeouts and lead-off guys, last night Lawrence Butler struck out four times in a game for the A's hitting lead-off. So that's 16 times this season that a lead-off hitter has struck out four or more times in a game.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Again, Dan, I bring this up because when I grew up, the lead-off guy was a pixie little second baseman shortstop who could run a little bit, put the ball in play and rarely struck out. No season before June has ever had 16 guys strike out four or more times out of the leadoff spot.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Just another reminder how much the game is evolving, that we just put our biggest and best players, whether it's Kyle Schwarber, Shohei Ohtani, in the leadoff spot, because they can get up more times. If they strike out four times in a game, it's not a big deal. So, yeah, that's just another thing that is changing in the game. You mentioned Aaron Judge, Dan.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I got asked the other day if Aaron Judge is going to hit 400 this year. The answer is a resounding no, nothing against him. It's just this is the hardest hitting environment that I've ever seen and no one will ever hit 400 facing the stuff that they face every day. The fact that he is that close to 400 and we're almost to June and he's 6'7", 282, Es ist ein Wunder.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Und es zeigt, wie viel er als Hitter beteiligt ist. Er hat immer gewonnen. Er hat immer gespielt. Er hat immer aus der Streichzone geschossen. Er macht das nicht so oft mehr. Deshalb ist er fast jeden Abend spektakulär gut.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
No, it's Field of Dreams, no doubt. My dad was the most important part of my life in every way. My dad was a really good player. My dad taught me and my brothers how to play the game, gave us a feel for the game. And that movie is all about a father and a son. So yes, it is my favorite movie. It always will be my favorite movie.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I like that Charlie Sheen was able to throw a baseball athletically. I was not expecting that. And he did, playing the part of Rick Vaughn, the pitcher in Major League. And today I'm going to the airport as soon as I'm done here to pick up my friend Rick Vaughn, who used to be the PR director of the Rays and the Orioles. Yeah, Rick Vaughn, big redhead.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Und Rick Vaughn hat wirklich hart in seinem Tag gespielt. Wirklich hart.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
There are probably a handful that could throw three straight pitches, 99, 101, 102. Maybe a handful, but that's three pitches in a row that's hard to do. Maybe a couple more, maybe one more than that could throw as hard as 102.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Right. And Mason Miller is tremendous. And by the way, that guy got sick a couple of years ago and he lost weight down to like 155 pounds. I weighed 140 this morning, by the way. He weighed 155 because of the sickness. Then he gained it all back and now he throws over 100 miles an hour again. And Dan, one more time, if anyone out there.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
Actually thinks they could put a ball in play against a major league pitcher today. You've got to be kidding me. And 102 is an incomprehensible rate of speed. Chris, sit down. You have zero chance. None of you guys would get a bunt down against Garrett Cole or anybody else. No. Left-handed, right-handed. No chance. Chris, you have a good swing, I can tell.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
But 102 is something that you have never seen or anybody else in that room.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
No, no. Mike, he's going to buzz the tower with the first pitch. He's going to scare the life out of you with the first pitch. And then you and everyone else in that room, Chris included, is going to be afraid to get back in there after he throws it at your face with the first pitch.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
I asked Dusty Baker once, he asked me about facing Bob Gibson. So he went to Hank Aaron and said, I'm facing Bob Gibson tonight, what should I think about? And Hank Aaron said, whatever you do, don't look at him. Whatever you do, don't talk to him. And if he knocks you down, do not charge the mound, because he will beat your ass. The same thing would happen to you, Mike.
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Hour 1: Chris Cote, The Showman (feat. Tim Kurkjian)
You point a bat at a Major League pitcher, he's going to kick your ass no matter what. Sorry.
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The Big Suey: The Billy Hamilton of Hockey
No, I think Edmonton has the two better players. They have the two best players in the world. However, the Panthers have the better team. Now, the Achilles here in this situation is Florida giving up stretch passes.
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The Big Suey: The Billy Hamilton of Hockey
So if Conor McDavid or Leon Drysdale gets behind the Panthers defenseman, I mean, that's going to be a breakaway one-on-one situation against Bob, and that's not going to go over too well. It's not like it's the Maple Leafs or anything. This is Conor McDavid here.
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The Big Suey: The Billy Hamilton of Hockey
All right, well, one, Wayne Gretzky is six feet tall, 185 pounds. Conor McDavid is six foot one, 194 pounds.
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The Big Suey: The Billy Hamilton of Hockey
Wayne Gretzky is that height.
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The Big Suey: The Billy Hamilton of Hockey
Clint Black, only 5'9". Yeah, exactly, yeah. You say that Conor McDavid is the fastest skater in the league. You know who's the slowest skater in the league? Clint Black. Matty Kachuk. Ah, champion, though.
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The Big Suey: The Billy Hamilton of Hockey
I mean, the regular season really didn't matter. I mean, both the Panthers and Oilers kind of rested up for this playoff.
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The Big Suey: A Cam Ward With One Cube
I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it.
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The Big Suey: A Cam Ward With One Cube
Hasn't been a good look for 30 years.
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The Big Suey: A Cam Ward With One Cube
Well, okay, what license did I take with Tim Duncan screaming on the court that was unfair?
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The Big Suey: A Cam Ward With One Cube
You shit your pants? You ran away shitting.