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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: Can We Learn How To Throw a Knife?

25 Sep 2025

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Chapter 1: What insights does Mike share about Cal Raleigh's season?

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Me.

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Chapter 2: How are the Marlins still in the playoff race?

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I'm going to go into work. And now that's very much frowned upon. Like, I would love to have stayed home today, but I was like, you know what? I'm not going to miss two days in a row. I'm going to go in, and I'm just getting judgment left and right when I'm out there. I'm not doing anything. I'm not touching people's food. I'm not sneezing in their faces. I'm just existing.

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You don't feel like you're welcome? We missed you yesterday.

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220.192 - 223.116 Mike Ryan

I don't feel like I'm welcome. Wild Willie Wednesday was missed yesterday.

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I actually had. Robert told me, Robert who does something here.

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227.642 - 234.412 Mike Ryan

He's the head of our IT. He doesn't do something. Engineering, not IT now. He keeps everything up in the air.

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He tries. So anyways, Robert told me, go home. And I was like, oh, okay, welcome, Robert. Thank you for welcoming me in.

242.103 - 245.61 Mike Ryan

Do you want me to start with where Billy was right or where Billy was wrong?

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Neither. Ideally. Why? Did you see The Smashing Machine? Are you going to talk to me about that movie? I didn't see The Smashing Machine. This A24 of yours is something else, man. Let me tell you something. A24, everything they do is great. Watch The Smashing Machine.

260.665 - 268.174 Mike Ryan

A24 has a better studio pub than any studio making things right now. A24 is awesome.

Chapter 3: What record did the Phillies break during the episode?

1344.85 - 1366.641 Mike Ryan

The baseball playoffs are about to start. It's an exciting time. I do love this time of year. I can't believe what's happening with the Detroit Tigers. It's the single worst collapse in baseball history. They were 15 and a half up in the middle of July, and it's just not something that you ever see. But I want to talk about the home runs last night, and I want to talk about Cal Rally.

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1366.681 - 1382.341 Stugotz

The Marist family better be there, and we better get cut-ins. He can pass Judge. There's four games left. He can do this. Hell, he can catch Bonds. I wouldn't put it past him because nothing gets past Big Dumper. What's he got to do to pass Bonds? 13 more, I think. Well, to tie.

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1382.681 - 1388.05 Mike Ryan

In four games, are they still playing in Colorado? Do they have the four games in Colorado? He hit two last night in Colorado.

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1388.09 - 1396.944 Stugotz

Big Dumper, my boy, he's got pop, which leads me to a traditional sports radio topic. Who's the greatest FSU catcher of all time? Whoa. He is.

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1397.184 - 1398.226 Jeremy

Like two options, right?

1398.246 - 1417.973 Stugotz

I mean, no. No, you got three. You got Maurer, you got Buster Posey, and you got the big dumper. So we take them all at the peak of their powers. And again, Buster Posey, brilliant player. Tremendous defensive player as well. Dumper, platinum glove there, Zaslow. So I would say... Who was the Marlin that almost ended Buster Posey's career?

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Scott Cousins.

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Scott Cousins. That's right.

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Stupid Buster Posey ruined baseball.

Chapter 4: What is the significance of Cal Raleigh's home run achievements?

1580.912 - 1586.525 Mike Ryan

So three times as many people on YouTube watched as were watching.

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A couple people watched it twice, probably. But then there are also the people that watched it in groups, Chris. That's true.

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1592.06 - 1594.326 Stugotz

Some of us didn't watch it at all. Amen.

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When did we start, like, tracking the AL home run record? That's annoying, right? When it was Aaron Judge. But it's so annoying to be like, oh. Cal Raleigh's about to catch Aaron Judge for the AL homer. It's like, dude, what does that mean? What's the NL East record? It doesn't matter that we're playing interleague play season round now.

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The AL records and the NL records are completely irrelevant. No one's like, I'm an American League baseball fan anymore. That's not a thing.

1622.59 - 1642.156 Stugotz

It stopped being a thing when the umpires started wearing just MLB hats. That's right. Just call me Al Hats. Remember Al? That's right. Angels in the outfield. The greatest thing that Big Dumper did with this season is just rip away the facade of that whole Aaron Judge bullshit that we had to deal with a couple seasons ago.

1642.456 - 1643.698 Mike Ryan

You guys were so mad.

1644.159 - 1650.308 Stugotz

It was BS. And it was just because it was a Yankee. We all know now. The emperor has no clothes, Dan.

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So in 2012, Buster Posey's OPS was 957. Right now, Cal's is 959. His OPS plus is 172. Buster Posey's OPS plus was 171. And I think we all know what that means.

Chapter 5: How does the discussion shift to the impact of injuries on player performance?

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Cal Raleigh. Yeah.

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All right. Cal Raleigh. We're having fun here.

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NL Central. We are. A.L. Central. Now this one's tricky.

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A.L. Central. Frank Thomas is a great guess.

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1787.551 - 1791.477 Stugotz

Paul Conurco. Jim Tomey is a terrible guess.

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That's a good guess. That's a terrible guess. Who did Jimmy Fox play for? Jimmy Fox was in Detroit, wasn't he? Then there you go. That's him. But they may not have been in the Central then.

1801.252 - 1810.986 Mike Ryan

I don't think they were in this. There wasn't Central back then. Who did Hank Greenberg play for? The Hammer. There was not a Central back then. Fun game.

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Jimmy Fox played for Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago Cubs, so we didn't get any of that right. What about Hank Greenberg? The Hammer. The Hebrew Hammer.

1821.28 - 1822.382 Mike Ryan

It's a good nickname.

Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Marlins' playoff scenarios?

2080.953 - 2081.534 Jeremy

Old school one.

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Of course. And they're breaking this out. Like, that's not the Dolphins. Who is this team I'm going to be watching on Monday night?

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2089.084 - 2107.671 Mike Ryan

I cannot blame the Dolphins for wanting to wear a disguise when the world is watching so that no one knows who they are. Because this 0-3 football team, are you guys in agreement when I keep saying that this is a historically bad defense? Or were you fooled by the second half against the Bills?

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2107.685 - 2109.308 Stugotz

I think it's too early to tell.

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2109.808 - 2116.72 Mike Ryan

Early in the season, how much worse would you have liked them to be than not be able to stop any of the drives of the Colts and the Patriots?

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I think the part that's so surprising with this defense, I think one thing most of us would have agreed upon going into the season was they're going to be able to rush the passer.

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They got some guys who are going to be able to get after the quarterback, and maybe that'll be the one saving grace to having a terrible secondary is, all right, if you put pressure on the quarterback, that'll be okay then.

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Not only do they not get after the quarterback, but they blitz like the most of any team in the league through the first three weeks, and they still don't get to the quarterback.

2143.983 - 2163.392 Mike Ryan

Explain to me why, okay, you guys are surprised by a lack of pressure when I say the following, because Chubb's getting to the quarterback, but Phillips, you would understand why it is that his body is not right, and he might not be the same player he was. And Christian Wilkins was kind of important to them, and he was important to Seeler. Like,

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