The Big Suey: This IS Sports...
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Why is Dan Le Batard's show unique?
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 Levitard 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? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.
This episode of the Dan Lebitard Show with Stu Gatz is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours.
What is the controversy surrounding the Jackie Robinson story?
So there was a story that I was actually pretty fired up about yesterday. It was like the topic du jour, and we didn't actually get around to it. I was stunned. I can't believe it. It's the Dan Lebitard Show with Stu Gatz, and Dan didn't want to talk about the Jackie Robinson story. It was on a T-form. This one's easy, folks. If you asked AI...
Over the last 15 years to take everything Dan has passionately spoken about on these airwaves and create a story that was born for him to speak about. Did he just not get to it? I have no idea.
What was the hallmark of a good show? Homework of a good show. I have good things that I needed to get to and he didn't get to. A Jackie Robinson race and sports story. A politics story. Well, Blaney was great.
Was good.
I really enjoyed that interview. While this is an easy topic for Dana and the rare winning position where the intersection of sports and politics meet... Ryan Blaney was great. He was terrific.
Yeah, I don't even care about NASCAR. I thought he was interesting.
Why is the Jackie Robinson story significant in sports and politics?
He was, but Jeremy, for the uninitiated, bring him up to speed on this Jackie Robinson story. And there are also friends of the show that got entangled in this, and I'd like to chew on that a little bit as well.
There are so many moving pieces to this over the last 48 hours, but essentially there was a story on a government website where... Jackie Robinson was celebrated for his military service, similar to a whole bunch of other military heroes that were celebrated here. And that story was removed from the government website. And when you went to go click on the link. To get to that story celebrating Jackie Robinson, the link had been changed to include the words DEI or rather the term DEI ahead of sports in the link. So initially there was a backslash and then sports dash all these different things for Jackie Robinson. The link was actively changed and led you to a page not found. Jeff Passan was the one who first put this out there. He was very mad.
He was rightfully furious about this. Jackie Robinson's history being removed from a government website as a result of stomping out diversity, equity, and inclusion seems like one of the worst things that we could do in the storytelling of our nation's history. And what was really wild is that the statements that Passon received, and I can pull those up in just a second, basically doubled down on what it was that had happened. Not, you know, acknowledging maybe there was a mistake, maybe there was this. Several hours later, of course, the article was restored because that's what happens. These people try to do everything. And if you don't catch them, they'll just keep doing it. So it's up to journalists like Jeff Passon to catch people in the act and force their hand. And so now the article is back, but only after These statements said things like, we don't see color, essentially, when it comes to Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier.
But why was it considered DEI, Jackie Robinson?
Because he's black.
But it's not a hire, he was drafted.
Well, no, so this part is interesting too, right? Because they mean black. Well, right, because DEI hire all of a sudden has been like co-opted into being something that's negative. The way that woke was. Yeah, the way the critical race theory was before that.
Well, they kind of changed up the acronym on that now in the press release that the Department of Defense, they said discriminatory equity ideology. It's remarkable. That's incredible.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why is Dan Le Batard's show unique?
0:13–0:48
2
What is the controversy surrounding the Jackie Robinson story?
0:48–1:46
3
Why is the Jackie Robinson story significant in sports and politics?
1:46–6:07
4
How does the podcast address the intersection of sports and politics?
6:07–14:06
5
What are the implications of John Cena's heel turn?
14:06–19:08
6
How does the WWE use audience dynamics in storytelling?
19:08–47:39
Speakers
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