Dan Is Happy For Pat McAfee (feat. Pablo Torre) | Hour 1
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Summer is pretty much my favorite time to be a sports fan. The biggest soccer tournament of the summer just wrapped up. Baseball's on every night. Racing never takes a weekend off. And my calendar basically revolves around first pitches, green flags, and whatever game everybody's texting about. I realized I'm the MVP of my group. I'm always the friend that says, hey, I've got it. I've got a place. I've got some ice cold Miller lights. I got the TV. I got a big, comfy blue leather couch. Come on over. That's the behavior of a Miller time MVP. I almost never watch the big ones alone. I'd much rather be with my friends. And if I am alone, we're texting. We're sipping on our Miller Lights, toasting the day, toasting the big games.
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Before we get to some sound from Jason Tatum at a kid's camp that sounds like it's passively, passive-aggressively directed at Jalen Brown, I want to put in front of you guys another story that I feel misrepresents what I think, what I said, and how I feel. So in the first hour... I'm telling you that the New York Post is reporting that I say the Heat are furious over something when it's a whole lot of people and they're curious, not furious. I understand how that mistake can happen. But I never said they were furious because I didn't talk to anybody who was furious. There was nobody I spoke to who was furious. And so that's just blatantly inaccurate to say that anybody was furious, according to my reporting.
But the big lead had a headline, and I did not read this story because I have checked out for a while on reading things that are about me, at least in part because there are so many bad faith agitators who are just sort of using anything I say in order to write the story that they want to write. And my entire life, Zazz, I've been the one who has been arguing in defense of the media when people just do the blanket claim of the media is biased. And I say, no, some of the media is biased, but there are a great many people who are aspiring to objectivity, even though it's a bit of a human illusion. And there are plenty of people who are trying to not be biased. And I've been a defender. But there are many people now, more than ever, I would say, or more than in my lifetime, who are just simply bad faith operators who are taking whatever it is you say and figuring out how to squeeze the juice out of it so that they can get their clicks on conflict.
And so the headline on the big lead is something that I do not feel. It says Dan Lebitard's hypocrisy is clear with latest Pat McAfee ESPN claim the former ESPN personality isn't happy with McAfee's growing influence at the network. That's not true. It's just not true. I've never said at any point that I'm unhappy with his growing influence at the network. And the reason I know it's not true is because it doesn't exist inside of me. It's not something that I'm sitting here thinking, feeling in any way. So I know I haven't said it because it's not something that I feel. I think the opposite is true. I think you are happy for Pat and his story. It's not just that I'm happy for Pat and his story unlike any in the history of sports media.
It's also that anything that happens good for Pat is good for us. I remember how happy Pat was when we signed our deal because he's like, oh, now I know what we're worth.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:53
2
Did Dan respond to a misleading headline about Pat McAfee and ESPN?
6:53–15:55
3
How does ESPN monetize mega-talent like Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith?
15:55–20:53
4
What concerns did Dan raise about ESPN's post–George Floyd course correction?
20:53–27:13
5
What happened when Dan spotted Shakira at breakfast and why mention Donna Shalala?
27:13–40:17
6
Was Jason Tatum’s kids-camp remark a passive-aggressive shot at Jayson Tatum/Brown?
40:17–43:04
Speakers
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