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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.
I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?
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The World Baseball Classic last night ended in controversy. The United States advances. They beat a Dominican Republic team that hadn't trailed in the tournament, was clubbing everybody, and is one of the best lineups ever assembled. The last pitch was not a strike. If they were still using replay, they would have overturned that as a strike. And after the game...
Soto's just saying, well, everyone knows we're the better team after they have lost. And there were a few things from that game that I want to cover with you guys. First of all. I was listening on the ride home from our Oscar and Selection Sunday watch party on the radio. And it was the television broadcast on the radio.
And I hear Aaron Judge hit a ball making the sound that Aaron Judge's bat is made. I hear I'm not watching. I hear the crowd. Make the noise that suggests to me that everyone thinks it's a home run. And the announcer does this, which was perfect. He says, did he get enough of it? He did not.
Because the ball is robbed at the fence by J-Rod, and then he recovers so well by saying, and Spider-Man robs Superman. But he was stuck in the air right before that, and Aaron Judge, whenever he hits a ball, I always think anytime the ball is in the air off that guy's bat, even if it's an infield pop-up, that it's going out of the stadium because he's got these superhuman dimensions.
that would make him one of the best baseball players ever if Shohei Ohtani did not exist to make his time now pale compared to Shohei's. But the game ends in controversy. Samson, what did you cover on Nothing Personal as it related to the specifics of that last pitch was simply not a strike?
I was trying to explain to people like Tony, who is sulking, obviously, that that's not why the DR lost. You have to understand that when you're playing the USA in the semifinals, you best be swinging. You cannot be caught looking because MLB would like the USA to advance.
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Chapter 2: What happened in the World Baseball Classic semifinal between the U.S. and Dominican Republic?
You have to be swinging. You cannot let the umpires decide the game. When Austin Wells is stopped at third base. You've got to have pinch run for him with O'Neal Cruz, and then he scores on that, and it's outrageous. It was mismanaged. Hey, Albert's new. Albert's new. I'll give him that. But the DR lost because of managing, not because of an ABS call.
So I didn't see the very end of the game. I'm old and I'm tired. And I woke up in the morning and I saw the controversy. I heard the controversy. I'm like, okay, this pitch must have been not anywhere close. And then I saw the video. And I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.
It's not even close to as egregious as I thought based on the conversation that I saw online about it not being a strike. And on top of it, It's two out, two strikes, bottom of the ninth, one run game. You better be swinging at that pitch.
Guys, it wasn't a strike. Like, you guys can keep doing this. That's not how baseball is played. I understand. But anything close, Dan. No, no. Not with instant replay anymore. You guys are using hundred- There's no ABS. But you guys are using hundred-year-old rules. These guys play usually under, I know the strike zone, and I can get it right, and they will fix it. with instant replay.
It simply was not a strike. And you guys are real casual about making it this absolute, David. This isn't the reason the loss. This is the reason for the loss. And no, the game would have continued if that was called correctly. It was not called correctly.
But the hitter's instinct on two strikes protect the plate.
Guys, this is the hardest thrower in the history of throwing baseballs, okay?
Isn't that more of an argument of, like, I better just swing if it's close?
It's easy for you guys to sit here and say how easy it is to swing at that pitch if it's close. I think it's easy. This man throws very hard, and he threw a breaking ball 3-2. Like, I'd say he throws 105, you gotta sit fastball, it's 105. He throws a breaking ball, it's out of the strike zone.
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Chapter 3: Why was there controversy surrounding the last pitch of the game?
Here is a last pitch that is clearly not a strike. Let's see how the kid Mero and his friends reacted.
Oh, no!
What? No! That's a fucking awful call. That is a fucking terrible goddamn call. You cannot call that. The sad straight bongo. Cannot make that call. Cannot. That's a great take. I thought he was complimenting his take that you can't make that call, but he meant not swinging. It was a great take.
How phony is that guy in the back row saying it's a great take? He's cheering for the U.S. He was excited, and then, because he and the other guy back there were wearing PR hats. He was cheering for the U.S. He was excited about the end, and then to make sure you're getting the guy's good graces who are cheering for DR in front, you got to let everybody know that was a terrible call. I saw you.
I saw you playing both sides.
I noticed that same thing, Zazz. What a phony. I was like, is he cheering as well? Yep. He's lamenting on audio and cheering in his history.
I'm glad with the result, but now let me make my friends know that I'm really on their side, too.
I want to see the whole thing again, and I want you guys to hear the incredibly sad. It's the saddest I've ever heard a bongo be.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the U.S. advancing in the tournament?
It's just one stray bongo sound in the middle of them and their despondence.
No! What? No! What? No! That's a fucking awful call. That is a fucking terrible goddamn call. You cannot call that. You cannot make that call. No! That's a great take. I hope the kid watched that back and realizes who his roots are. Actually, I'm fond of that guy afterwards. That's a baseball fan there. He knew he had his rooting interest. Guys, a dude found a way to make a bongo sound sad.
That is impressive. Forgive me because I'm going to play this a third time. The reason I'm going to do this a third time, though, is I want you to see and see if you can freeze it on the secret handshake between the two guys in the back because it wasn't just that he was happy about it. It's that the two of them were happy about it, and they gave a secret.
In the middle of all of their friend's misery, they tried to hide a secret handshake because they were happy. There it was. You saw it. You saw it. They tried to hide it behind that guy. Carl Anthony Towns is also Dominican. He is famously Dominican.
They love him in Washington Heights as a Knicks player, and he also had a reaction while he is festooned in the Dominican colors, and he's not happy about the call either.
The ball? The ball? Was it a ball that last we watched? Hell yeah, that was a ball, man. Some bull****. so that's what it comes down to though that the ump is from denver i did just look it up unfortunately
Unfortunately, he's from Denver? Yeah. So that means that, by definition, a U.S. umpire is going to purposely call a ball a ball.
If I'm hitting in that situation, that's more of the argument for you got to swing anything close there. We got Denver, Colorado behind the plate.
You know the umpires. You know the situation. You don't stop Wells at third. First of all, you pinch run for him. Also, they made a third out at third. There were some base running mishaps. It takes a great throw. I love making them make a play.
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