The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Amin Claims New York Will Burn If The Knicks Win The Title | Hour 3

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

"He looks like a Crown Royal bag." Amin is back from heckling at the Sports Emmy's and he is definitely NOT mad that Pablo Torre Finds Out did not win. He is also back from New York where was outside Madison Square Garden for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, and claims the city is not prepared for a Championship. He also has his Top 5 Things Nick Wright Looked Like at the Sports Emmy's. Then it's time for the Pitch Clock, this week featuring Joon Lee and anchored by another edition of Jeremy and Chris going head-to-head in Statpad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Will tell you what happened better than my boy I mean On Thursday Weekend Weekend observations Is brought to you by Miller Light Legendary moments Start with a light

Weekend observations also brought to you by One Pulitzer is worth all the Emmys put together Oh God Dan roving mobs of deranged lunatics massive police presence road closures

arrests helicopters hovering overhead fire trucks ambulances all to celebrate Dave Damacheck was dead wrong day y'all remember that shit and he was like oh me instead the next are going to be good

you're about to lose in the first round nobody but you remember that. February I told you guys in February this is the best team in the East. Nobody listened. I was outside of Madison Square Garden after game four, Dan. Really?

I promised, yeah, I was there. I took footage. Okay, can we celebrate this for a second? I want to celebrate this with Amin for a second. Hold on on the weekend observations for just a second. Because at his core, Amin in the middle of being right at the center of the Knicks, that has to feel good for you as somebody who just loves everything about that. I love everything about basketball then

And the thing was I knew I was going to be in the city So I said, why else would I be anywhere else Other than right near Madison Square Garden Because I want to see the shit show happen And so it's funny, I ran into Jesus by accident Just in the street But when I went there It was just a mob of people

And then at some point I was like, wow, it's a lot less than I thought it would be And I realized the cops had cordoned off Madison Square Garden But I was inside this cordon. It looked like the most massive VIP section in the club ever. And there were people hanging over the barricades. And they were like, oh, I mean, I mean. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go, Nick.

So yeah, yeah, good for you guy. And then people started climbing over the barricades and climbing over structures and stuff, basically spilling into the VIP section. And cops started grabbing people and arrested people with nuts. All right. Back to it. I was outside MSG after game four. I promise you the city is not ready for our champion.

They will burn it to the ground. Dan, you and I, Greg, I don't know, Zaz, maybe you're old enough. I don't know if you are. Do you remember when the Bulls won six out of eight championships in the 90s? Do you remember after every one of those championships? This is a team that had the best athlete in the world, Michael Jordan, right? And they were dominant. And he never let them down.

Every time they went to the finals, they won it all. Every single time, Dan, they rioted. They burned cars and trash it. Like, they had never won it. anything in their lives. So now take that energy, give it to a city that hasn't won shit in 50 years, and then also infuse social media and viral videos

and trying to be crazy for crazy sake to get attention, the attention economy. The cidary will literally burn. There will be nothing left, ashes. The cidary will literally burn? Yes, the cidoree. Omidoreous. Ciddery-wanderie. Adam Silver said he plans to implement an AI system

to review calls in the NBA. I can't wait for a coach to call for a challenge and the review to come back. It wasn't a chart. It wasn't a blocking foul. It was a play on. And honestly, that's when the game got competitive. Because that's how AI.

I don't know if you guys ever notice every AI written statement. It's not of this. It's not of that. It was a that. And honestly, this, that, that. It drives me nuts how many threads and tweets are written clearly with AI. Because it follows that same.

Not this. Not that. It was a that. And honestly, it was kind of that. That shit is so dumb to me. Someone would take the time that I got to tweet this. But hold on. Let me make it sound professional.

Get the hell out of here. Go back to LinkedIn with that bullshit. Wemby. ordering the hit on Jared McCain It's like Goofy Putting out a contract on Piglet You guys talk about this at all? We talked

We didn't do it that way You don't think it's something inherently ridiculous About Victor Webb-Manyama being the one ordering the mob hit And it's like, who are you going to take out? Should we take out Shea? Should we take out Chet? Like, no Piglet over there

The TikTok Tick-Toker Tick-Tocker Was that when my mama? Get Zit TikTok. Wait a minute. I sound more to like Gobert. I imagine Gobert sounds like that.

They're both French. Generic French person? Yeah, they're both French. Yeah, that's how that works then. SGA. Avoix? Filed a cease and desist letter against the company using his name, image, and likeness

to promote an operation-style board game called Unethical Hoot. The law firm representing him is called Arant Fox Shift, LLC. Which means Shay is so locked in on beating Dierin Fox in the Spurs, he hired Arn't Fox. They got Deeran Fox. They got Arn't Fox. Aren't Fox.

These are the jokes. Please laugh. PTFO, nominated for three sports Emmys Tuesday night. The bad news. We went 0 for three. The good news. Kenny Hacons to let us know that analytically, We actually went two for one.

And James Harden assured us that we still had the better show. So we're good. Were you there? Were you at the sports Emmys? The hell? Of course I was. Oh, no. I'm just laughing because that whole event is so funny and stiff.

And you're a bit of an outsider among those people. Like that's just such a dry cleaning bag of stiffery. Dan, you want to talk about a stiff crowd. There you. At one point, this people win this. award for best editing. And the guy who, the guy who's doing the speech is an editor. And he's like, I'm so nervous and I'm fumbling.

And like, you know, I'm sorry. I apologize. I'm an editor. I'm not used to doing this to be in front of the mic. And I yelled out, don't worry. We'll get it in post. And nobody fucking laughed. You were heckling.

You were a great line. You were heckling at the sports Emmys? No, it was a joke. I mean, I was trying to make him feel loose. I mean, this is an award show. Do you ever hear a heckler joke Get a laugh at an award show? Not a heckler joke.

It was just a nice kind of like, hey, I got your... I'm like Mo Cheeks with the little girl who couldn't sing the national... You were not nice guy, Mo Cheeks. You are not like Mo Cheeks. Get it in Post is a funny line. Do you have content? Look, do you have content from you prowling

the sports Emmys with your meta-glasses? Well, you'll love this. Pull up that next picture, guys, because Nick Wright was one of the presenters. and I can only describe his outfit as patly ridiculous. Leave the photo of, please. Top five thinks Nick Wright looks like. You love this, Zaz.

Willie Wonka. He looks like he's in Hamilton. Das. O'L.I. Oh, I like that one. Hamilton's a good one. O'L.I. He looks like Willie Wonka, the harder years.

This is an amazing picture of Nick Wright. How have I not seen this? Number five. Because you don't follow me on Twitter or Instagram or anything. Number five, he looks like one of those AI reimaginings of a live action grimace. That's grimace from McDonald's if you don't know. As opposed to grimace the attorney. Number four, he looks like he's got an interview with the vampire.

In Detroit. Number three, he looks like a failed note. Put the picture back up. They don't need to see me. They need to see the picture. He looks like a failed magician hired for a company retreat in Reno. No. Number two, he looks like the same failed magician in Reno

has another gig across town as a prince impersonator. And the number one thing Nick Wright looked like on the sports Emmys night in his outfit is he looks like he's threatening to blow up Gotham. It's the Batman does not reveal his true identity. I mean, I'm sorry. I did not know you were there, so I will ask these questions, honestly. Were you with Pablo?

Did we come? Did Metal Arc Media come inches from, from Nick Wright having to hand Pablo a sports Emmy? Dan, you know me. I have a podcast

called basketball Illamati where we keep our third eye open. There is a very strong conspiracy theory that we had a La La La Land moonlight situation

where Nick Wright just read somebody else's name out of spite so that we wouldn't win. Wow. That can't be a real conspiracy. Why not?

That would be great. work from the Joker. That's what he does. He doesn't steal things. That's what he does. By the way, again, if you're listening to the pod, please go back and watch this on YouTube. Please, I can't, I can't describe you what he looks like. It's a great picture.

You just did describe what he looked like. You did it very well. I can't believe that he. It's like a Cron Royal bag. That he almost had the hand pop. Yes. Put the picture up. and ask the poll question.

Does Nick Wright look like the Crown Royal bag? Zoom in. Very good. Oh, crap. Hey, Zaz. Yo. What's happening in the Stanley Cup playoffs? Carolina's about to go to the final.

Nobody knows. Nobody cares. Shut the hell up. Donald Trump. Come on, man. I'm sorry, Roy. Donald Trump said he's planning on attending a Knicks game during the finals. I can't wait for him to bring up that if they had that ballroom,

they could have played the game at the White. house. Dan, are you like me? Have you reached the point? Just give him the goddamn ballroom. Just so he shut up about it. No, I haven't gotten there. You know he hasn't gotten there.

I am so scared that it's just going to be a billionaire bunker for all our data that they're going to hide it. After they steal all our money. They already did that, Dan. Wake up. And run the world with AI from there. They're giving billions to J-Sixers. 1.7, that's less than two billions.

Argentine police arrested two Chilean citizens suspected of being part of a gang that orchestrated burglaries at the homes of celebrities. I ripped this straight from the headlines, including Patrick Mahom, Travis Kelsey, Luca Dantz, and Mike Conley, Jr. One of these names is not like the other.

I feel like this is kind of a little personal, right? It's like, yeah, yeah, let's rob these super rich guys, the super rich famous guys think they're better. Also, that Mike Conley guy, we got to get him. I'm sick of tired of him. Wait a minute, Conley's career earnings have to be pretty giant, no? Like, he's got to be extraordinarily wealthy, no? A couple hundred million for sure.

I'm just saying, Dan, you're from Chile. You're in Argentina. You're like orchestrating this transnational gang of like home, Invasion people. The list comes back. Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, Travis Kelsey. Yeah, he's Dayton Taylor Swift.

Luca Donz. Oh, my God. He plays for Lakers. And the backup point guard for the Minnesota Timbuchar. All right, whatever. It seems personal. It seems like that. I feel like almost Mike Conley was the target all along.

And those other names are just to obscure the fact that they're going after Mike Conn. $295 million career earnings for Mike Connley. He did well for himself. He did well for himself. Kenny Smith. taking credit for creating the podcast world. It's like Dan pretending Miami invented traffic. Kenny thinks he was the first guy.

Me and Charles were talking and making jokes. Yeah, you guys did it. And that's where everything else came from. PTFO. I don't know if you saw this. The latest PtFO episode, they broke the up to now suppressed videos of slain guerrilla Harambe.

Remember him? Eating his own shit. which is a perfect metaphor for Tuesday night at the sports Emmys. We ate our own shit. It's a good line. I mean, it's a good line, but you're coming off as bitter. You're unbecoming. As a Pulitzer winner, everything you're doing right now sounds embittered.

You're allowed to not win a sports Emmy. It's possible that Pablo Tori finds out doesn't win all the awards. I mean, it sounds kind of ridiculous, though. You know, like how they give, like, the, there's a separate Coach of the Year award that the Coaches Association gives out, but it's like, what's the point? No one ever recognizes that award. So just kind of go with the flow.

You sound like Jaylon Brown bit, bro. Sound like Jaylen Brown after the 60s series. Well, hold on. This is your favorite season ever, huh? Yeah, I need a bunch of people's sunglasses behind me for Twitter. Yeah. Never mind. All right.

Georgia Tech baseball. Crush the Cains. There's no joke there. I just want to talk shit. But Mike's not even here, so let's toss that one. Greg Cody. Performing Cuxception on Zaz has to be one of the greatest show bits ever. So good.

It's amazing. I was laughing so hard. So good. The idea that Greg can say things right now that later is going to Cugs' Ads. Guys did not appreciate that enough, like the mastery. there. Also, one of the greatest show bits. Whenever we're congratulating anyone

as a group, Roy in the background, say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I laugh every time you do that, man. He said, hey, hey, it's happy birthday, Chris. He muttered grumbled, happy birthday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He muttered grumbled, happy birthday.

Like, he was so bored. He was so bored with the idea that Trista had been born. Yeah, yeah. Words, words, yeah. Yeah, yeah. A lot of people. Yeah. Happy, happy. You'd be happy. Yeah, whatever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were born. Big deal. Billy. New season of Bar Rescue. And we've got you covered here's the science of Bar Rescue podcast. Hosted by Real Life Bar and Restaurant Consultant, Chelsea Reynolds. Commercial Kitchen and Poo Truck vet Colin Cassard. And two guys who might be drunk in the front row at Nick Wright's Reno Show.

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John Morant posted a long-ass IG story message about how he's done a lot of good things behind closed doors and give it back and he lamented on no one ever talked about that stuff. And I think one of my favorite replies was a guy saying, he pointed a fucking gun at the Pacers team bus. What the hell is job thinking? Speaking of hell, what the hell was Sedano doing here? I still need clarification. You're going to keep doing that to him every week, aren't you? You're going to keep shaming him, but he doesn't have any shame

about it. Like, he's leaning into it. My goal is for him to never make another appearance on the show without wearing a robe. Juju, what are your thoughts here? Like, what are your thoughts at what's happening? He's neutralizing our ability to make fun of him because he's leaning into, yeah, I'm a robe guy. What of it?

Yeah, right. I don't care how much he leaned into it. You being a robe guy is hilarious, no matter what, Jorge. It's the hands for me, though. It's where he puts his hands. It's the hands. The hands and the captain, and I've already done the experience. That's the part that's funny because out of context, he's in a robe, he's doing his hands like this.

But the hands are closed is my favorite, actually. He was good at karate when he was young. I don't know if he was a white belt or a yellow belt, but he wore, he was one of the few Cubans running around. It's like the first belt, Dan. A white belt. I wasn't bragging about, I was. He said he was good at karate and the white belt. Did I say he was good at karate?

I meant to say he did karate and enjoyed karate. But now he was no. According to him, he was really good. Maybe he was. I'm sorry. I just assumed he wasn't. I thought that was just Cuban bragging. But also, not to cut you off.

Also, he also claims that his nickname was fourth quarter George. So do that with what you will. Bad nickname. Fourth quarter George would be a great nickname if you were a fourth quarter George that was winning NBA games in the fourth quarter. He's played pickup ball. There's still fourth quartered pickup. Well, there's that.

I mean, real quick here, before we let you go, actually, let's keep him for the post game. We're going to get out of the way reluctantly for, Jeremy Tashay. There are amazing things happening in baseball. What happened? Why reluctantly? Oh, we're excited for pitchcloth.

Oh, my God. You guys are going to love it. Stay tuned. And then most game, we'll do more. We've got some good trivia. June Lee is joining Jeremy. A lot of good stuff. You're going to find out.

It's going to be in seconds here. You're going to be able to find out with Jeremy. But I want to continue the post game with the mean because I want to ask him about the distinction that he makes between Chris Haynes' reporting and wind horses. is reporting and Simmons is reporting because there's a lot of different reporting on whether it is the Boston Celtics actually want Janice or he might end up there. And so I want to get a means expertise on the sourcing. Shabah, I don't mind putting in the work. But if I'm spending

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You don't get it. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. We really love. Let Ethan build a whole game around the Montreal Expos' career leaders and hits. He's been here all week just talking about last week's defeat. It's kind of sad, dude. Get it together. No, because of the Canadians.

No, I'm angry. I'm angry. Okay? I'm okay with Canada. I just wanted to be about baseball. Welcome to the pitch clock. Here's the pitch. A two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball tribute.

a game and an interview with an expert. This is the pitch clock. The pitch clock is back. Very excited to be back at it because I'm still obviously very angry about my defeat last week. So we're going to talk about baseball soon. Ethan, what's the game, man? Chris Cody, you won last week. Yes, I did.

Oh, thank you for reminding. Do you want to go first or second? I'll go first. All right, Jeremy, leave the room. Oh, one of these things. All right, Chris Cody, we're going to play Stadpad again. You remember how to play? No.

Okay. I'm going to give you a category. You've got to give me a player in a year. Okay. Today, last time we did home runs, today we're doing hits. Okay. So you want to get the most amount of hits possible. Okay.

All right. Your first category is a Houston Astro between 1980 and 2025. an outfielder. Okay. Astro outfielder hits. My answer is going to be. He's not a hit guy, but he had some good seasons. So I'll go Carlos Lee. He played first base, I'm pretty sure. He played some left field. Get out of here. Shut your mouth. Give me a year for him. 07.07. 190 hits. What years did he play there? 98th, first. He was there for a good chunk of his career for sure before he came to the Marlins, but yeah, nice pull Carlos Lee. Oh, 7.

All right. Your next category is AL East third baseman between 1980 and 2025. Okay. AL East, third baseman. Let's go with Alex Rodriguez. Yep, of course. 2009. Okay.

All right. So A-Rod this year. Not your best guess. Okay. 127 hits. That was in the 45th percentile. It's not good. Okay.

Next category. New York met between 1980 and 2025 that played first base. A met who had a lot of hits. I'll go with Carlos Delgado. The year, I feel like he was, he went, Marlon 05, 06. Delgado. Carl's Delgado. 06.

First base. Yeah. 82nd percentile, 139 hits. Okay. All right, we're going to go. Next category is a catcher

from the A.L. West. So the Astros, the Mariners, the Rangers, the A's, and the Angels between 2020 and

2025. So how many, how many AOS catchers between 2020 and 2025? Can you name? Dude. Let me just try to think of one.

All right, I got one. Yeah. Cow Rale. Of course. Last year, I'm guessing, yeah. You're in the 98th percentile again, brother. 147 hits for Cow Rally last year.

Jeremy will definitely say him, so that'll be a wash. All right. And your final category, this one's tough. A Cleveland baseball player at shortstop between 1980 and 2025. Cleveland Shortstop. This is easy. Francisco Lendor. There you go.

Give me a year. let's call it 2017 all right nice pull 93rd percentile 178 hits for Lindor that year so basically who's my second guy that I said

that's basically where Jeremy can beat me here A rod I feel like it's gonna be hard It's gonna be hard to beat me outside of that A rod Yes because you did pretty solid here You got an 82 a 93 a 98 and a 98 But then that 43's weighing you down your total score was 781 so that'll be the score that Jeremy will try to be.

Let's do it. All right, let's get him. Very, very excited to have June Lee back on the pitch clock. For those of you who don't already, you can follow him at June. That's J-O-O-N on Instagram, at June Lee on Twitter, and at I Am June Lee on YouTube, where he is doing really awesome work with some deep dives all around sports. You guys definitely want to go follow him there. June, I'm happy to have you back, and I'm actually going to start with a topic

that came up through your YouTube that is applicable all across Major League Baseball right now. You recently did a video with Adam Ottivino, former Big League pitcher, highlighting why everyone is throwing 100 miles an hour now. And like literally everybody. So what are the biggest things that you took away from that conversation that you think is important

for our pitch clock audience to know about before they go check out the full video? Well, I think that there's been this major cultural shift within baseball where this idea of throwing a hundred used to be almost like, oh, God gifted you this thing. And the way that major league teams now think about it is that it's much more so that you can just teach the guy. There's a couple things you can do mechanically. There's all the playo balls and the weight training and the way that torque is kind of evaluated and all the cameras. Like you can teach a guy to throw a hundred. So while there's obviously been this massive shift

towards velocity in large part because of the way that analytics have changed baseball. Scouting now, especially on the cutting edge of the sport, is now much more towards pitchability and how people approach batters on a plate, the kind of mix that they have. So I think we're going to start to see the swing back towards guys who know how to pitch more than they have in the last five to ten years. It's great to see that these teams are learning now how to induce velocity as opposed to trying to teach guys how to pitch so much later into their careers. It's going to be a really good thing for Major League Baseball.

But one of these guys that we all know throws a billion miles an hour. He's the poster boy for it right now is Jacob Mizorowski. And I neglected bringing up the Brewers over the last few weeks. This is on me. One of our listeners reached out to me via Twitter and was so upset as a Brewers fan that we have not talked about the Brewers. So I vowed to make the first topic from one of the teams today. the Milwaukee Brewers, who at the time of this recording, are 14 and 4 in their last 18 games.

They've taken over the lead in the NL Central. They're led by Jacob Misarowski, who I have the stat here. Six consecutive starts with eight plus strikeouts without allowing an extra base hit. No one else in MLB history has done that more than four games in a row. The guy's Electric. June, the Milwaukee Brewers and their success led by Mizorowski, what stands out to you about both? Well, Mizorowski is obviously the headline guy. He's throwing 105, and he's been this kind of,

you know, force of nature since he got up to the major leagues last year. But I do think that one of the things that has been overlooked for the brewer's success this year has been Kyle Harrison. And he's a guy who has two and a half wins above replacement. And I say as a Boston Red Sox fan has been the bane of my existence this season. I think the brewers are just the best player development system run organization in all of baseball, arguably like one of the best in all of sports, let alone in baseball. The brewers were giving up Caleb Durbin, who has been one of the worst offensive third basement in baseball to the Red Sox.

And people at the time in Boston were like, looks like a guy who might fit the thing and could replace Alex Breggman and the aggregate. And it has been one of the most lopsided trades in baseball in the early part of the season, in part because Kyle Harrison looks like a completely different pitcher. And this is a trend that the brewers have been doing, not just for the last few years, but the last decade dating back to the David Stern's era. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. We've gotten a lot better at talking about our mental health than we used to, right? People are more open about it, conversations are happening, and that's a really good thing. But asking for help? That still seems to be the hard part.

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dot com code damn don levatard can i tell you something i don't know it was maybe like a month ago and i decided to watch pitch clock and i told jeremy stugats this is a good show you're doing this is the dan lebatar show with the stu gats jeremy i hope we're playing stat pad again the number you're trying to beat the number you're trying to beat is 781 the category we're doing 7801 the category we're doing is hits Okay, and the number to beat is 781. Okay. All right.

Your first category. A Houston Astro Outfielder between 1980 and 2025. Got this, Jeremy. Outfielder. We believe in you. If it was infielder, it would be a lot easier, am I right? It would be a lot easier. There's a guy.

There are plenty of guys. I'm going to go Michael Bradley. Boom. In 20. Big? It's big. Are you thinking of Michael Brantley? Brantley.

Yes. Whoa. Michael Brantley, sorry. Judges? I don't know why my brain just combined him with Jackie Bradley Jr. Okay, so the other year I was going to say was 19. All right, we'll go 2019. 179 hits, 93rd percentile.

We should dock him. No, I feel. 10 hits, we dock them there? That's fine. Dock me 10 hits. It's a good start. I'm really, I'm feeling such a lack of confidence. As you should.

I feel bad about myself. All right. Your next category. An ALE's third baseman between 1980 and 2025. So this is your chance to make up some ground. Okay. You know what? I'll just go with it.

Evan Longoria 09. Nice, nice shout. Longoria, 81st percentile, 164 hits. So you're back in it. I mean, you're very much alive. Yeah, so you're beating me by like 20 right now, roughly. By my bad math.

Your next category, Jerry. where. A New York Met first basement between 1980 and 2025. Just know I nailed these final three. Like you have to be so good at these final three answers. I think if you go left eye open,

right eye closes. Who was the first basement on that team? I just don't think you, I don't think I know who the first basement was there. So I'm just going to go I'm going to go Carlos Delgado. I'm going to go, but I'm trying to think of what year he was there.

Fun thing is, can I tell him? I chose him too. I know you did. But it depends on what year. Yeah, I know. I'm going to go 07. All right. Is that what I said?

Chris Cody went with 06. Oh, thank God. He had the same number of hits in 06 and 07. The same amount of hit? He had 139 hits. So here's where we're at. You said he had 781? Yeah.

Yes. So I'm at 483. 22. 299 hits. And I have two players left. You're at 482. That's correct. Okay.

You have two players left. All right. Travis Kelty has bought his way into ownership here. Yes, the Chief's tight end, the fiancé of Taylor Swift. And he is a resident of Cleveland Heights, or at least originally from there. You may have seen him shotgunning a beer at the Cavs game. But what does this mean for MLB? for Kelsey, for Cleveland.

Like, I would imagine you find this to be very interesting. I think it's fascinating on so many levels. Less so about what it means for the guardians necessarily because, like, a celebrity having a minority stake is not necessarily going to impact the business of things. I do think that it's more emblematic of, like, the shift we're going to continue to see in how ownership groups relate to fans. There's all these conversations that are going around.

going on around sports right now, around ownership and getting athletes more involved. And I think as like kind of these ownership groups, especially as the kind of the wealth gap in this country continues to expand, I think we're going to continue to see more of these things because these ownership groups need people who relate to the general public. And Travis Kelsey is one of those guys. Ultimate relatable man married to a billionaire. Let's get to our star of the week. We always highlight one of the stars in baseball. this week I've got four on the list.

Let's start with Cateel Marte, who this is per just baseball. On May 12th, he was hitting 208 with a 625 OPS. As of today, he's hitting 275 with a 797 OPS, a ridiculous couple of weeks for him. Christopher Sanchez, who might just actually go win the NL. Syong, forget Paul Skeens, forget Jacob Mizorowski, carries into his Wednesday start against the Padres, a scoreless inning streak of 37 and two-thirds innings.

Then there's Munitaka Morikami. He's the guy we've mentioned before. Most homers by a rookie before June outside of Pete Alonzo and Mark McGuire. And speaking of Mark McGuire, Nick Kurtz, just snapped a 48 game on base streak, which tied McGuire for the longest in A's history. So Kurtz, Morikami, Sanchez, or Marte, who stands out to you, June? I will take Murakami, although I have an outside this list pick. to take Rafael Devers. Bring him up. Let's go. White hot for the Giants over the course last month.

He was almost a win and a half below replacement at the end of April. He was absolutely terrible. Giants fans were coming for his neck saying that the trade with the Red Sox was a bust on both sides. And he got up to zero wins above replacement yesterday, which means in last month, he's had basically close to win, a win and a half above replacement. It has been one of the hottest, you know, hitters in all of baseball. And so, you know, Burakami. I feel like you could talk about him for hours. It's funny to go back and look at the scouting leaks that were coming out about him in the past off season about whether or not he was going to be able to translate. And people talking about whether or not he's going to be able to hit fast balls above 95 miles an hour. I think that if you looked at his mechanics and you looked at Otani as kind of the precedent,

Otani also had a bad batting average on balls above 95 miles per hour coming to Major League Baseball. And he's obviously showing you Otani now. So I say this is someone who also has Mercami on my fantasy team. Like it's been unbelievable. And so it just feels like I open Twitter on an action night basis and there's just another Murakami homer going out of the ballpark. And crushing these homers. He's a blast to watch.

If you guys haven't been watching the Chicago White Sox and you have MLBTV, make sure you go do it. But also make sure you go watch everything June is doing over on YouTube. If you follow him on social media, he'll direct you there. but it's I am June Lee on YouTube. Everything he does is fantastic June. Thank you again, and hopefully we can get you to stop by again later in the season. Yeah, thanks for having me on. An AOS catcher between 2020 and 2025.

Just so I'm not going with that guy, I'm going to go with Shay Langalear's last year. Not a bad choice. I can't believe I listened to Ethan. So Chris Cody obviously went with with Cal Raleigh. Yeah, I did. And it was the best answer. I'm sure it was. Yeah.

It wasn't the best. Should have gone with it, but it was up there. Alright, 133 hits for Shea Langleyers. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. The 95th percentile, so still a really, really good guess. You have 615 hits. And you need what?

781, which means I need what? 156 to tie. 157 to tie. That means if he gets the guy I got, he wins. Just enough. Your final category. A Cleveland Greenberg. A Cleveland baseball player, a shortstop from 1980 to 2025.

It was, it, I can't think of how long he's been there. I'm going to go 2018 Francisco Linder. I went 17. So just to know, so you know, Chris Cote went 2017. Francisco Lendor. That year he had 178 hits. That was my year. You need 157 to win, Jeremy.

He should be good. 183 hits. Jeremy Tashay, you are the winner of this week's stat pad with 798 total. You are off the Schneide, my friend. This was a very good game. I like this game better. I like the versatility of knowledge, Ethan. I like that we don't just have to know a second baseman for the Montreal Expos.

Hey, I won. That feels good. I don't feel anything. I'm embarrassed for you. I feel weird.