The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Billy's Top 5 Things He Won't Miss (feat. Adnan Virk)
17 Oct 2025
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Chapter 3: How does the conversation shift to sports sponsorships and game day fits?
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Amin just asked me the question and I don't know the answer. Is there any man on television who it takes longer to get dressed in the morning than Cam Newton? Anybody in sports history of television? Because he's looking at the number of layers that Cam Newton is wearing right now. It's vest, it's bow tie, it's shirt, it's jacket. It's clearly not Adnan Virk.
Adnan Virk would not qualify as the person. It takes the longest amount of time in the morning to get dressed. But I don't have a better nominee. Barry Melrose. Cam Newton. No. Barry wears a suit, slicks his hair back, he's good.
No, he's got like a vest. That's a layered suit that he's got on there.
That's nothing near Cam Newton.
He sticks his hand in any body of water, toilet, sink, whatever, just gets his hand wet and slicks it back. Real good.
Put it on the poll. Does Barry Melrose... No, don't. Stop. What?
He's sick, guys.
Sick.
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Chapter 4: What is Adnan Virk's connection to the Toronto Blue Jays?
You guys are absolutely right about that. It's a sad excuse for a hat. There's no question about it. But the Jays are not a sad excuse for an organization, at least.
One of the things that I enjoy about the baseball lexicon is when new verbiage gets thrown in. You just said he shoved, which I assume is short for he shoved the baseball up there. And you guys now use this in baseball. Everyone says he shoved instead of saying the rest of the phrase. It is what it means, correct?
When did that become okay in baseball for announcers to just be on the broadcast and saying, hey, he shoved that baseball right there? Right up their ass.
We'd have to check with our buddy Boog Shobby, Dan. But I'm going to say within the last seven to eight years, I've heard that Moore become a part of baseball parlance. What are you looking for tonight? I think he's going to shove. Another expression I only ever hear in baseball, I never heard anywhere else, is the game got banged. Like, you know, my son's literally game.
No one says the game got banged tonight. But in baseball, if there's a rainout, they just say the game got banged. Everyone understands what that means.
So in basketball, there's a famous saying, it only takes one, right? It means, how the hell is he going to fall that long in the draft? Or who's going to draft him? Or who's going to sign that guy to that deal? And the saying is, it only takes one. Meaning, it only takes one team or one general manager to do it. But that's not the full saying. The full saying is, it only takes one asshole.
Yeah.
But they cleaned it up to it only takes one.
I didn't realize that shoved had been around for eight years. Did you know that, Tony? Were you aware?
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Chapter 5: What are the highlights of Max Scherzer's performance discussed?
No, no, baseball is running things right now. They moved the Leafs game to 2 o'clock Eastern, Red Wings Leafs, so everyone can watch the Blue Jays game at 5, which I was able to do with John Marossi and others. And the appetite for this team to win again, it's been a long time, Dan, since 1993. As you know, when those Blue Jays teams went back-to-back, they were the kings of the baseball world.
They were the ones acquiring Dave Winfield or David Cohn or Paul Mulder, all these hired hands to go along with the nucleus of Roberto Alomar and Devon White and John Ulrich. So it's been a long time since the Jays have been the envy of the baseball world. Everyone knows if they get there, they'd be the underdog against the Dodgers. But the ratings wise, you know, I was looking at the numbers.
Canada is a country of 35 million. They're getting numbers of 7 million. For example, that's NFL numbers. Like 30 million Canadians are watching if you extrapolate it in terms of the U.S. audience to Canadian audience. So there's a rabid appetite right now for the Blue Jays. I think people would love to see this team go deep north of the border.
And even I think in this country, they realize what an exciting team this is. Dan, let's talk a little bit about Vladimir Guerrero Jr. What he's doing is unbelievable. This is a superstar whose 14-year, $500 million contract kicks in next season. And I say this to you as a longtime, lifelong baseball fan. What's more impressive? Five home runs this postseason or only one strikeout?
As you know, Reggie Jackson hit a lot of home runs. He also struck out a ton. That's what you get with power hitters. Not with Vlad. Five homers and only 1K. That is remarkable bat-to-ball skills.
He also has this plate discipline that his father did not have as a great bad ball hitter. He's better than his father, is he not? And that's an impossible thing to say. His father's a Hall of Famer.
Yeah, I mean, his father was incredible. As you said, the bad ball hitter had a different body than Vlad. Obviously, he was tall and lean and kind of flailing all over the place. But I think what Vlad Jr. is able to do, the way he punishes this baseball, if you look at exit field in the sport, Virtually no one aside from Aaron Judge hits the ball harder than Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Even if it's not always home runs, it's hard contact every single time. And to have that kind of discipline, it's amazing. Thank God the Jays locked him up for the next 14 years.
You mentioned, though, Canada and Canadian pride and how many people are watching this baseball team. I'm not sure that the audience really understands that Canada doesn't beat America at sports. Like, the Blue Jays are the only thing that beats America at sports, and it was a long-ass time ago. Canada loses. The Raptors.
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Chapter 6: What are the top five things Billy Gill won't miss?
Maybe you could come on as early as Friday, if not Saturday or Sunday. And then I got a text from him yesterday that I need to respond to that I haven't opened yet because I knew exactly where it was. But it's like, hope the day went well.
was and i just saw dot dot and i was like okay this is just we're checking in to see when the availability might be he's not gonna stop no i know he's a bit of a stalker on this i need to get back to him i feel bad i haven't got back to him i have a lot of people to get back to that have reached out over the past couple days so like thank you to everyone who's reached out i'll get back to you except maybe not greg because we'll see how that goes
He's just trying to use you for clicks. If you've got any lovely or final words, those can be the final ones that you want as punctuation. If not, we're going to play the song here again and see if I can keep it together, Gilly.
You became the dew as you vaulted higher A useless sound not hard to find for you it was forged in fire every time you blew your mind skeptical at times but nuance always knows how to make us feel without you You won't be back, Jack, our favorite hypochondriac.
So bang those pots and pans into the sky.
To go where apple pies and eagles fly, it's hard to say goodbye. An onion won't be the thing to make us cry when it's hard to say goodbye. It really is like he died. We loved you, Gilly.
Past tense.
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