The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: The Peanut Gallery (feat. Tony Calatayud)
20 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What despicable behavior did Dan reveal at the start of the show?
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Chapter 2: How does Amin defend the NBA against complaints about player absences?
That's bullshit last night, that the Warriors just shout for a month, hey, we're going to take that day off in Miami, and then it's Draymond Green out with an illness, Steph Curry, my ankle's sore, and he decided it was going to be sore four days ago, and Jimmy Butler's not playing either, and then leaving after the game without shaking anybody's hand, without six years of relationship.
That bridge is so totally torched that he doesn't have anything to say to anybody, but But it's too far. It's a bridge too far for Zaslow to come in and just be Jimmy Butler's a dick and the Warriors are bullshit.
I mean, you and I are on the same page. I was just a hell of a lot more efficient with it. Like, everything you just said is the Warriors are bullshit and Jimmy Butler's a dick.
It's a cosign. The behavior of a dick. Yeah, we don't take personal attacks. We just call out behavior. But look, the economy is well chronicled. People literally circle that game on their calendars, try to make plans. And this is the plight of the NBA fan right now. You make plans, you spend the money, you want to see the superstars. Steph Curry is an icon to younger generations.
And Dan is absolutely right. They come to Miami once a year. We're running out of time to see this player. And Jimmy Butler's return on that court with Steph Curry is something that people would save money to see. And...
The NBA has a huge problem because the Warriors kind of totally punted on the notion of playing this game, probably when the schedule came out and fans decided they were going to spend their money on that one.
It's a huge problem, and no one seems to care to fix it. We all talk about the ways that you can fix it, but no one actually wants to do anything to fix it. I do wonder, though, maybe Jeremy can answer this without me getting him in trouble.
Do the Heat still charge, and the Heat are not the only team that used to do this, do they still do the tiers package based on, depending on what team you're playing, it's a little bit more expensive to buy tickets? Are you talking about sobbing or wailing? I'm talking about price tiers. I have no idea. Because they at least used to do that.
And if they do, then the NBA is stealing money from fans.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of players missing games for fans?
He's kicking it back out to Charles Oakley, who's 15 feet away. That's an easy closeout. The amount of ground basketball players have to cover now is so much more. It's faster, it's further, and it's intense. And that's not even counting, again, the immense mileage that they put on their bodies prior to them even... shaking the commissioner's hand.
I mean, it is super interesting the way that you make the nuanced argument against the outrage of the emotion of, I pay, I want to see my stars play. The things that you're saying are accurate about
everything in terms of wearing these guys down but there's no solution to this problem if everyone keeps getting more athletic and all of that athleticism means more pace and all of that pace means everyone's as disposable as an NFL running back because we're going to run through these bodies faster than we ever did and LeBron with a 23 year career if we just keep spreading the game out we're going to make that a 12 year career because there are only so many miles you can put on all that tissue
They're basketball players. They spend all their free time playing basketball. I don't think they think it's disposable. I actually think it's the opposite. But too often, I want to learn from history here, too often we put Amin in the position where he has to defend the merits of the game. This has gotten worse as the league has put a focus on trying to solve this problem. That's bad.
It's bad enough that it's a problem to begin with, but it's even worse that the league is trying to impose sanctions on teams, levy fines, take away personal... 65 game limits. Yeah, take away awards and actually hit the players' wallets if they decide to do this. And it's still not working and it's getting worse. So what do you say about that and what is an actual solution here?
So I don't like the 65 game limit. I think it's ridiculous because the main reason is the voters have shown the ability to discern, hey, that guy didn't play enough games already. Nikola Jokic is his first MVP. People are not going to remember this because he's so great now. But when he won his first MVP, it was kind of like... Yeah, I mean, he's the only one who actually played.
Embiid was hurt a lot and Harden missed some games. That's how he won that first MVP. It was a default decision. And there was no rule that had to force people to say, now you know, Embiid only played 51 games or whatever. People knew. The voters know.
So I thought the rule, what it does, it's actually counterproductive because what happens is now you've got guys who are like, shit, I got to get back on the floor. Or else I'm not going to hit the minimums in order to qualify for these awards. And obviously the money and the incentives that are tied to a lot of these awards makes the incentive for a guy to rush back hurt.
And ultimately, what we want is players to play. We don't want healthy scratches, but I think we can all agree. We don't want a guy getting hurt because he's hobbled out there. I've got to prove to everybody I actually want to play.
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Chapter 4: How does the discussion shift to the topic of Give Miami Day?
Imported by Mass Jagermeister U.S. White Plains, New York. Don Libetard. It's not my favorite region. Context needs to be applied. I thought the context was applied. We'd like to rip that out of context. I was going for a thing. I have a family.
You're going to pretend here that you don't love Matthew Kachuk more than you love anybody you've ever loved?
I don't love Matthew Kachuk more than my daughter. Stugatz.
Now it's pretty damn close. This is the Don Libetard show with the Stugatz podcast.
I know you're brushing me aside with the second half thing, but why can Lionel Messi enter an Inter-Miami game and play in the second half and NBA players can't do that?
I am mocking you for the take on just have them play second half because you know too much about sports and the way these athletes train and take care of their bodies to treat them as a gas bag who just thinks you can get out there.
three minutes before tip-off with a bag of chips, and you don't have to prepare your body for two hours before the game in order to play the entirety of the game or half of the game. The ask or the request of whatever is rest and healing on that day gets ruined if you have to test your body for 20 minutes or 40 minutes. It's not a rest day. You're running through the body.
The impact is different. and the league has shown, hey, if we make shots at the end of halves and quarters not count, we've incentivized these players to take them, and the players are taking it.
You've noticed. Everybody loves chucking the ball now at the end of the quarter.
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Chapter 5: What are the emotional impacts of shame versus embarrassment?
These are all soft tissue injuries.
Guys, this part is really interesting. When the business and the most valuable assets are being stressed. to the point of breaking. Stress, and when I say stressed, by the broadcasters yelling about this, by the pressures to play, by the economic pressures of their life position, and by the disrespect.
Even Zaslow, 20 years in this market, shows when there's the feel or assumption that these guys, eight hours a day, aren't finally tuning their bodies trying to make sure that none of them break like that's what they're doing for eight hours every day twice a day in the weight room drills meant to be non-contact they don't go full intensity in practice but everything around
the practice they never know but everything around the practice is meant to keep these machines from not breaking it's not even during the season anymore that much about how much better can we make you that's training camp and an assortment of other things by the time the season arrives is how do we get our most valuable pieces to not break in the post then why are they breaking more
I don't know. I mean, it's explaining to you, wow, we're putting a stress on the bodies here. Guard more, guard farther, go faster, and the bodies are breaking. Like, that sounds like a pretty good explanation. Nobody wants to hear it. Nobody wants to hear it because they're like, what do you mean? Charles Oakley ran up and down. It's like, not like that.
Not being asked to take threes and not running twice as much.
Why is it only an NBA player thing? Like, why doesn't the hockey player need a night off?
Has hockey changed in terms of... I don't know.
It's got to be more physical. It has to be.
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