Jason Benetti's Top 5 TV Theme Songs | Hour 2
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Our friend Jason Benetti will join us, I'm sure, from some random hotel room somewhere in America, as he always does. But before we do that, I saw that he kind of got a shout out on last week tonight. They didn't name him by name. They just enjoyed his coverage of a squirrel running on the field. And they said they mocked him a little bit by saying that he sounded like he was broadcasting the Odyssey because he He gave it a lot of importance. We'll get his thoughts on that in a second. But first, can I hear that McAfee producer excited by just the ripping of Fauci? Yeah! Can you compare that to Howard Dean and the sound he made that ended his presidential career? Yeah! Let's put those side by side again.
Yeah!
Yeah!
He's the president if he does the first one.
Yeah!
You are so right about that, Jeremy. It's crazy. That ended political careers back then. He had shame about that.
It's not just, hey, man, you don't get to run for president. It's get the f*** away from us forever. I don't know. What happened to Howard Dean? Get out. Out. Whatever.
Jason Benetti joins us from, as I mentioned, the aforementioned hotel room that is his life, the backdrop of the entirety of his life. Jason, smiling an awful lot for a guy who just lost the ace and had baseball ruined and soon will have a sport that's totally locked out. Jason, welcome. Welcome to the show.
I'm smiling because I like the idea that even if I'm at a restaurant, I'm at a hotel. And even if I'm at the supermarket, I'm at a hotel. The idea that the hotel follows me everywhere, even if I'm driving, is really funny.
Let's play for Jason the sound of him doing the broadcast of a squirrel running on the field and somehow evading 70 grounds crew members.
The chase for the squirrel is on, and the squirrel is in the corner, and the squirrel is still eluding an entire horde of Grounds crew members. And the squirrel's free once again. Hemmed in? No, I won't be hemmed in. I have freedom on my mind. Trying to go between the legs, and eventually, he gets away again! And hops through the towel. And hops through another towel. The force field is activated. Towels can't stop him, or maybe they can. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank the grounds crew. Let's give them a round of applause. The Detroit Tigers grounds crew, thank you. Yes, Bill Miller, the group chief. He just got on his bike to thank the grounds crew and got booed.
It took 67 of them to catch one squirrel.
Benetti, what are your thoughts on how well you called that and how that seems to have imprinted all of America?
So multiple things. I think it would have landed even better had I just started listing states like Howard Dean, states that the squirrel was going to conquer. I think that I think that would have kept me in the populace nowadays. No, I the other cool part of it is like in a little mini sentimental. The clip that you heard of laughing at Bill Miller, the umpire getting booed was Kevin Brown and Ben McDonald from the Orioles broadcast. And Kevin and I actually did four years of triple A baseball in the same booth. So we were doing all of those years of minor league baseball as a plan, as a long con to get ready for Squirrel Gate. And there was literally a gate. So it is a gate. There was a gate that the squirrel wouldn't run through at Comerica Park.
I, you know, like you're just messing around. And then suddenly, you know, I'm getting I get back from the game Sunday night in L.A. And I look at social media and I have a bunch of tweets involving John Oliver. I said to myself, well, that's interesting, that, and went back and watched it. I think he's really funny, and I thought it was hilarious that he was mocking me.
Yeah, I thought it was disrespectful. I don't think that he knows about your greatness and doesn't care about your greatness, and I thought he really reduced you to just a commenter who was taking sports too seriously.
Yeah, he thinks that you're just some guy that's so focused on your job that you couldn't even call a squirrel without having some fun.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:13
2
How did Jason Benetti describe living 'amongst the hotel people' and why does he joke the hotel follows him everywhere?
5:13–8:55
3
What happened in 'Squirrel Gate' and why did John Oliver mock Jason's play-by-play?
8:55–22:27
4
Why does Jason say the Tarek Skubal trade sparked a rare unified reaction across MLB?
22:27–31:49
5
Which teams should have pursued Skubal and why does Jason think some GMs prioritize the long game?
31:49–36:57