The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Dan Promises Boog Sciambi THOUSANDS of Dollars To End ALS | Hour 1

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

"You're gonna go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmalee?" Boog is working to “End ALS” through ⁠projectmainst.org⁠, and Dan is ready to put his money where his mouth is. And that is a BIG mouth. He also tells us about Jacob Misiorowski, his beautiful calves, and the credentials hanging on his door before we get to last night's game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs, which was full of flopping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm wearing, Dan, you're wearing your end ALS shirt, right? And look at Boog. Boog, look at that head of hair on you. Look at that. Look at you. How are you, Boogie? How you guys doing? It's nice to see you this morning.

You got your end ALS shirt behind you there. That's the cum. No, it's the other one. Yeah. There you go. It's tough because it's, you know, mirrors. That's a Cubs version of the end of ALS shirt. You have for every Major League Baseball team available, right?

Yeah. Yep. All 30 and a portion of the proceeds go to Project Main Street to help people living with ALS. You can go to ProjectMainstreet.org and you can donate, you know, five bucks, ten bucks, whatever. Can you, I spoke to you about this recently, obviously, and you've been doing this for Project Main Street for 20 plus. years now. But can you explain to everyone in the audience who maybe doesn't know how much it's all grown and everyone you got participating in what you have going on in raising funds? Yeah, I mean, we're just trying to raise awareness. Unfortunately, it's a very underfunded

disease. It's a disease. I think, you know, do you think back, most people probably, I think half the people probably don't even know, remember what the ice bucket challenge was for. It was for ALS. And it was started by Pete Fradies. It was a BC baseball player, Pete and Pat Quinn, who have both since died. And I basically just wanted to reach out and get the shirts on, you know, and put him on social media. So we got, you know, Paul Skeens and Bobby Whit Jr. and Mike Trout and, you know, all the Cubs and around the league and, you know, Mark Few and Danny Hurley. And, yeah, a ton of guys, you know, and Hall of Fame guys. as well. So I had a good one. I sent the shirt to Greg Maddox and we had everybody take a picture and then say,

end to ALS and then say, hi, I'm Greg Maddox. Get your shirt on and wear it on June 2nd, Lou Gehrig Day. And all he sent me was a video that just said end owls. I love Booog's background now. I also hang all my old credentials on door handles. I do the same exact thing. Yeah. Yeah, there. What would happen if, like, if you got rid of those credentials, like, are you afraid that if, you know, that event happens again, they're not going to let you in?

What's the deal there? It's a great question. I don't really know why I have them. I'll go throw them out right now, live on the air if you want. I would. Yes, please do that. Do that for us? Declutter your house and just, do you have a favorite?

It's just declutter, yes. Do you have one that's your favorite? Do you have something in your house? Do you have a treasured bit of memorabilia? that is more treasured than all the others? I would say my press credential when I went to the Olympics in 2000, I looked really skinny on the picture,

so I like that one. Jack, no, you weren't skinny, you were jacked. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You were super, you were, you looked like Mike Allstott today. I don't think I have a real favorite piece of memory. I mean, at this point, it's, I mean, look, I had two Marlins' World Series rings. I guess I've got to say that those are the two things, right?

Can I tell you, there was one time when I was doing the show with Boog that I was scared because he grabbed me one time. He's very strong. He's so strong. Like, Boog's a big guy. So obviously already strong. But, like, he's so much stronger than you think he is. Well, I will explain to you when it is I learned it. Me and my brother attacked him from both sides.

And he lifted his arms like Chewbacca and threw us across the kitchen, the two of us. You're too strong, boo. It's unbelievably strong. It's ridiculous. And his calves, he would beat you over the head with them. I'm just old now. But thank you. We have a recommendation for you here.

We're trying to see, I don't know what the right amount of money is that I would have to offer you to do this for a Cubs broadcast. But Greg Cody has an assortment of catchphrases, 60 of them, that he is counting down. 60. Yes, it used to be 50, but now it is 60. and so we're just going to play them for you real quick if you want to write down any of these you tell me the amount of money I have to give to this cause

per usage because we don't know what's right we don't want to desecrate your broadcast but let's just play all of the He's kind of do though but for a good cause so go ahead and play them here for Boog and let's see which of them he thinks he can use

Number 60 I'm Fuller and Vern Fuller 59 where's my click click 58 hey but a finger up 57 punt 56 scrantin 55 I'm busy near one-arm paper hanger 54 George up Georgia oh fifty three I'm the kind of guy that 52 ball on the jack 51 hey hey with the monkeys baby 50 thank you Billy 49 I love him like a pet 48 who made it a salad 47 we're rolling now huh 46 your brain beating me 45 let's go states 44 driver comfort is paramount 43 dummy up save up 42 catches catch can

41 doesn't make it right. 40, so on and so forth. 39. Very good. 38, the Little League theory. 37. Nice hat, asshole. 36.

The others, they all learn from me. 35, don't go shower in to try to please me. 34, look at that jerk. 33, it's like a packing house in here. 32, what you learn? 31. He-ho, three, ba-dap. 30.

I'm not going to take a quiz. 29. Sassaprasse. 28. Would we break a window? 27. Hello? 26, who won 25 trailers for sale or rent.

24, you got to eat a peg of dirt before you die. 23, three words, we are the Lobos. And now 22, you're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmally. And number 21, Rappie Cack. Your thoughts. How many of those do you think you go working? It went really fast. in typical, like, I mean, I could work a lot of them in.

I don't really want to work much of them in. I'd be interested in possibly getting a little sassafras in there. How much would I have to give you to make it something that tempts you to, you know, push the envelope a little bit? Because you laughed at a couple of them. Would you like to hear the list? You're going to Buffalo with Bernie Farrelly. Like, what am I?

It's going to be tough. That's like taking me. Save that for the stretch. My old talk radio days. I'll send you the full list. I'll send you the full list so you can really drink it. But let's play it. Let's just play it for him again.

And just let's, I want him. Again, play it again. That's right. Well, I want him. We did it very fast to him. And so I want him to be able to absorb some of them. Let's play him like. But didn't he get to 20?

I thought he only got to 20. Yeah, well, he's updating it every week. So that's like we're still updating it. So the next 10 weeks he'll do the rest. You remember about those radio teases, boog? Yeah. Yeah, that's what this is. Played for him again. Go ahead and play for him again.

Okay, let's play it again. Number 60, I'm Fuller and Vern Fuller. 59. Where's my click, click? 58, hey, butterfinger, 57, punt, 56, Scranton. 55, I'm busy near one-arm paper hanger. 54. George. Georgia. 53, I'm the kind of guy that 52, ball on the jack.

51. Hey, hey, hey, with the monkeys, baby. 50. I love him like a pet. 48. Who made it a salad? 47. We're rolling now, huh?

46. Your brain beating me. 45. Let's go states. 44. Driver comfort is Paramount. 43. Dummy up.

Seabop. 42. Catch his catch can. 41. Doesn't make it right. 40. So on and so forth. 39.

Very good. 38. The Little League theory. 37. Nice hat. Ashole. 36. The others, they all learn from me.

35. Don't go shower in to try to please me. 34. Look at that. jerk. 33, it's like a packing house in here. 32. What'd you learn? 31. He-hop, three, Bada'ap. 30. I'm not going to take

a quiz. 29. Sassafras. 28. Would we break a window? 27. Hello. 26. Who won? 25. Trailers for sale or rent. 24. You got to eat a peg of dirt before you die. 23. Three words. We

are the Lobos. And now 22, you're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie. Parmally? And number 21, Rappi-Cack. One more time. I will not. I will give $500 for every one of these you use to project mainstreet.org for any one of these that you use. For any one of these that you use, how many do you think you can get in?

Because there are some, there are about 20 here that I don't think it's possible for you to get in. I don't think you have enough creativity in you to be able to get some of these in here. It's not his fault. It's not his fault. I don't think anybody could. He's doing a serious thing. He's doing a baseball broadcast. You don't think he'll work in.

You're going to Buffalo with Bernie. No, with Dan. He's not talented. That hurts. I think I could get a decent amount of them in. Don't make it right. I'm looking at them right now. You're the kind of guy that.

Nice hat asshole could be tough. We're rolling now. That'd be hard. That'd be hard. the one we want most and I might be willing to pay more for this is you saying like a parrot out of the side of your mouth very good please yes yes that's who please that's the one please that's the one three biday up though for strikeout that one made you happy you laughed harder at he ha three but day up he ha three I think I mean honestly the best part about heaha three and Chris probably doesn't even know this like

I remember hearing about he-haw 3 when Chris is like 11. That's right. I came over. I'm not even kidding. Were we like hearing about Greg umpiring and doing that and Chris being like, Dad, stop! It'd be weird if Chris was playing street baseball at 36 with his dad. It was last week.

All right. Can you do this? Is tonight the night that we're doing this, boom? Like are we doing this? it tonight or when would we be doing this? Well, so you want very good and you want

very good. I want you want... We want this count. And then you want He-Haw 3. Yes. And Sassafras. Yes. Sassafras. But you have some others here.

You could, your brain beat me. You could get $500 pretty easy here and there with a couple of these that wouldn't cost you very much. This count is fuller than Vern Fuller. Oh, that would be so good. This count is fuller than Vern Fuller is really good. And we've decided collectively we'll allow you to say bunt instead of punt. You allow me to say what? Bunt. Bunt. Bunt instead of punt. Bunt. You can always tell when a new business trend shows up because suddenly everyone starts talking like they invented it. Right now it's AI. Every company says they have an AI strategy. Every consultant says they have an answer. Meanwhile, most business are

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Okay, no, the home run call was that kind of swing, that kind of thing. Stugats. Oh. It's a good call. call. Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like, you're not tailing it to a particular name. You know, all that jazz. You know, you don't got to do that. You're just a generic call. That kind of swing, that kind of thing. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. I don't know that Chris Cody knows this story. Don't you secretly hate his father for a printed betrayal? You do this all the time with everybody around here. I will pay you for $1,000 for your going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmaly. I will donate a thousand myself to see how you do that.

Okay. I want to negotiate a little bit. I feel like, yeah, $1,000, you're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmali? I got to figure out a way to get that in. $1,000. It's a promise. You're not creative or talented enough. And then, all right, so very good.

Bernie Parmali, the parrot, very good. he-haw 3 this counts Fuller than Vern Fuller Hey, but a finger Guy makes an air Hey, but a finger Hey, but a finger

Are you doing it tonight though Or are we gonna do it June? I don't have a game tonight When are we doing it? June 2nd? No, you got too much to do June 2nd You're doing too much that day

I got too much to do June 2nd I could I could do it in the next probably a couple games I was going to say Friday but Apple TV is doing it Friday. So Saturday or Sunday? Just got to tell our listeners so they know to they know that they got to.

So like a weekday is better? Well, the Skeens game, you guys got Skeens, Thursday, May 28th. Skeens against the Cubs. I am not working that game. Oh. Sassafers. A hell of a gig you got.

Your brain beating me. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Don't you secretly have animosity towards? Greg Cody for a betrayal from many years ago. I don't think I let it go. I think I let, yeah, I won, I won like $10,000 playing blackjack, and then Cody wrote about it.

I was like, and when I talked to him about it, I was like, Greg, why, why did you do that? Or at least, why wouldn't you check with me? And he was like, oh. He's like, your brain beating me. Sorry. The crew here, unfortunately, has developed out of nowhere a giant interest in the brewers that just swept your beloved Cubs in a very difficult, in a very difficult division. It's an athletic team.

Oh, there's only one reason. I don't care about the athleticism. I care about throwing gas. Explain this guy to the audience because we have not spoken about their race. Yeah, Mizorowski. I mean, it's absurd. He's throwing pitches 102 miles. What's hysterical is that his fastball averages 100 miles an hour

and he gets extensions to the perceived velocity is. like 102. Yeah, he's the hardest throwing starter in the history of the sport, and he's striking out 40% of the guys that he faces. It's a joke how good he is. Yeah. Perceived velocity kind of feels like feels like temperature. Like the velocity is what it is. Get out of here with feels like velocity. Not you boo. No, I would say that it, I would say that if you just like open your brain up for a second, it would be, you know, it's basically, it's basically, it's basically your brain be how hard the guy throws and then he's releasing it closer my bigger beef is with feels like temperature i got news for you whatever it feels like that's the temperature but what he's saying

is this guy is also so long that where his release point is is closer to the batter than other human beings that's correct um yeah i get you on the feels like thing i understand i mean in miami you're not dealing with a lot of feels like temperature really oh yeah we are yeah we are because when it It gets humid. You know what when it gets humid. I landed the other day, and the pilot said it's 95. It's the middle of May. And 95.

That was a hot week, though, to be fair. It was. It felt like 105, though. It was like 46 last night at the end of our game. You guys have to remind me of the day we're doing this so that we can tell the listeners, because what Boog is doing here, he has dedicated a great deal of his care and time over the last several years to making something that is taking over baseball on Lou Gehrig Day, June 2nd. Go to Project Mainstreet.org. They are raising money for those living with ALS and

their cool T-shirts. You can get your own team if you have a favorite team. It's project mainstreet.org. Make sure to let us know, Boog, the day that we're doing this so that we can make sure that our listeners are there and enjoying. How many of those do you think you can get off if you had to take a guess? I'm going to try to get three or four of them in, three, four, five in that range. So I would love to get, if I can get, you're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmally. It's so good. I'll definitely try to try to get that in and scare up the cash from you guys.

Amazing. Will the reaction be to that? Yeah, I can't wait. So confused. Yes, it is confusing. Any other good ones on here before we let him go? Anything on here that has a degree of difficulty that we would pay more for. I think that if in a big spot a cub pitcher gets a strikeout and I really lean into he-haw-3, I think that's worth $1,000.

Yeah, you got to have a bidet up. That'd be great. You got to have the bidet up. You got to go. He-ha-3, little pause. Bada-up. So if it's only he-ha-h-3, it's $500. And if he throws in bidet up, it's $1,000.

That's a gag. Okay. Deal. Deal? Do we have a deal, Boob? Deal. All right. There it is.

He is the voice of the Chicago Cubs, the voice of Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN Radio, and Zaz had it right, a tremendous head of hair. Just really good today. Nice seeing you, buddy. I love you. Love you guys. The Janus conversation we were beginning to have got a little bit sidetracked as it was happening.

What are you smiling about, Tony? Good job. Booge is funny. man. I like boo. Makes funny faces, too. He does. He was magging a lot during the, during the, mocking. Yeah, he was on screen. He was looks maxing and mocking. He was like kind of raising the eyebrow, doing a little bit like the people's,

or not the people's elbow, but the rock's eyebrow. You had trouble, remember the people's one. No, I'm not a dork, so I don't know the shrimp throw my elbow. But you just said, he did a thing with his eyebrow and you didn't know that the word of the eyebrow. Thank you, Chris. Just seems weird. Yannis, the idea that this sport, not only,

has broken its main players, but has evolved somewhere beyond Janus, where trade interest in somebody who, when he first arrived at dominance, we kind of thought that that looked like an unprecedented physical human being, that the sport would this quickly evolve beyond his usefulness in a way that Zach Lowe and Bill Simmons are saying that the trade market is lukewarm on damaged goods is crazy to me. Well, I'll tell you what's also interesting is this is a league that you had to have veterans. Your best players had to be older and experienced. It was not a young person's league.

You do not win with young teams. And now it seems like everyone wants young guys. And the Thunder, the Spurs, they're going to be around forever now. They're probably the two best teams. They're super young. And it used to me that is not the formula for winning. And Janus is no longer super young guy. I'm going to say it again, though, this player?

Never available. Like, it's just not something that's usually so that you can change your franchise's fortunes, but there has been damage done here in a number of places, not the least of which is they haven't been good enough with him while trying to build around him in a way that the league has evolved past because he's not one of the good three-point shooters. It's not surprising that the market is lukewarm. You say that this player is never available. He's literally been made available the last two cycles. I think everybody's over this guy. It seems clear, but what I'm marveling at is, and Zaz, you know basketball enough to know this,

A player who caves in every single defense when he has the ball is usually not someone that you can get. He's someone that you either get and keep or you're stuck without being able to develop someone like that. Because in the history of human bodies, there have been very few that functioned that way. He before Wembeñama was popularizing, I can go from the free throw line and just reach over and dunk. Yeah. The reason teams are going to do it is because if, or whatever team winds up doing it, if the market is in fact lukewarm, like maybe the offer that the heat were making at the deadline, they could even pull back a little bit from that. That can't be accurate. It cannot be accurate that the market for Janus Antecompo is actually lukewarm. It's surprising to see what Bobby Marks threw out there in terms of the players. Because that's less than what we thought the heat were offering.

Yeah, it would be what we thought the minimum offer would be, which was Tyler Hero, Kelleweir, Nikoliyovic, and then a haul of picks from there. Wasn't even that much of a haul. I think he put in like two picks there, but... It was three. There's three. It's all the picks that they could trade

without maneuvering anything else. I think there is a maneuver they could make to make that four picks. If that's what the heat would offer, if that's what it would take, Tyler, Kello Ware, getting off Nikolovic, and whatever draft picks, you have to do that. Swap at the end, so it's two firsts and a swap in 29. One of the firsts is in 33.

Yeah, it gives a shit. You know, like, if that's what they'd be offering, you have to do it if you're Miami. Well, and you'd still have a lot of flexibility. Like, they still have, at the moment, Andrew Wiggins on a potential player option. And Norman Powell is a free agent. Now, you could also take those players

and do sign-in trades and ship them for other stars that you could then really start building something around if you don't want those to just be complimentary pieces. I'm looking at somebody in L.A. I'm looking at what you guys just put on the screen. That's not going to do it. There's no circumstance under which you're going to get them to take your shitty... Nix fan.

This asshole. Yovitch contract. And you're not going to get back his brother and Miles Turner and an assortment of contracts that they don't want. I mean, like, I hear you. but it's not like Bobby Marks doesn't know what he's talking about. Yeah, I'm not with us being like, get out of here, Zach Lowe and Bobby Marks telling us that the market is lukewarm. They have a hell of a better idea than we do.

Yeah, Bobby Marks isn't just throwing up bullshit. That's not going to do it, though. They're not going to take your bad contracts and you don't have to take any of their bad contracts. I don't think you're looking at this the right way. Undercutting our package. Yeah, Nick's fan over here doesn't understand that Tyler Hero is on an expiring deal. and Kelle Ware is a Uber talented young player

and Nikoyovic is 22 years old. You're not getting him at 30 million a year. You're getting him at, I believe, between 13 and 16 over the course of four years as a team, by the way, that would be purposefully now starting a rebuild. That's a guy you're perfectly comfortable taking a risk on.

And we're talking about giving up three first round picks. I'm telling you, the days of trading away five first round picks, Desmond Bain, Rudy Gobert, Mikel Bridges, that's done. Well, especially for a player at this age. Like at this age. Tony, you know that moment at a party or a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks?

I know it well. It's usually when I show up. Everybody goes crazy. Yeah, you usually take all the credit for it. But it's because Tony usually walks in with quervo. Walking like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quervo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night.

It has that effect on people. It does. You usually take the credit for it. But again, it's the quervo effect. It's like that moment in a big game. where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up, hooting and hollering. Keep it quervo.

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I think he got your ass. I got his ass. Chris won this one for sure. Not pathetic. It was great. This is the Dan Levitar show with this two guys. Can you guys tell me from last night's game how much this is going to escalate if we're two games in and we're already at Hartenstein's not playing basketball? And Wambayama's just being, like they're of course going to Z.

zealously try to protect their title by any means necessary on the line or not on the line. And what you have to do when you're talking about game planning for anybody over a seven game series is you have to physical Wembenyama up. You must do that. And you're going to do it with a team that's not only a defending champion, but a defending champion that plays very difficult defense. and many people think also doesn't mind dabbling in the dirty. Look, you totally have to play a super physical game once we get to this point in the playoffs. I love, I grew up with Heat Nix. I mean, I wish we, last night felt like Heat Nix, you know, not score-wise, but the style of play.

It was a battle every single time they had the ball. And I like that kind of physicality. But there's a difference between that and what looks like you're trying to hurt guys. Like, there's, I don't know what explanation Hartnstein can give for grabbing Stephen Castle by his hair from behind. You know, I don't know what kind of explanation Chet Holmgren can give for stepping on Wenban Yama's foot right as the free throw is shot. These are plays that will hurt. You're trying to do these things to hurt people. And this Thunder team now, like I know we had a mean on last week or two weeks ago.

when he was pushing back, he doesn't understand why people don't like watching the thunder. It's this. Like, they're dirty. We didn't even mention Lou Dort. I don't know why I said we. I'm the only one talking right now. I didn't mention Lou Dort, and Shake Gilder's Alexander is falling. Dan, every time he shoots, he's falling to the ground, man.

They're doing these super cuts on him, and now I can't get it out of my mind. I'm fixated on him. I'm locked in, and he's falling down every time. You say it's part of the game. It's part of his game. Yes, and I hate it. It's not good sportsmanship. Tricking the referees is part of his game.

He's trying to trick the referees into giving him a foul that he doesn't deserve. It's cheating. And that's the way that I look at it. Guys, we've been talking about James Hardin for six months on this show. James Hardin was the archetype of... Not in a positive life. I know, I know. People don't like him.

People don't like Embed for those reasons. But nobody's been worse at it. Or better at it, depending on how you look at it, than SGA. That tough watch, man. This Thunder team is... They went from darlings to, ooh, I don't like you, pretty quick. That's just the greatness of what they are, right? Like outside of SGA, there's a lot of guys who are role players who are good players,

but, okay, the Chet and Wemby thing, that's just them going back to the 17-year-old games in Fiba where they don't like each other, and Wemby's gotten the best of Chet for 10 years, right? Like, that's what that is. The SGA thing that's part of his game, Wembe's also, I don't know, we conveniently didn't mention, him diving at SGA's knees for a loose ball he wasn't going to get yesterday. didn't say that. Wemby, one or two times a game flies into the stands. Inexplicable, because he's a guy that's super strong and has a super strong core in legs and flies 20 feet into the into the court. Yeah. Like that's, he flops too. Like, I don't want to hear that people are playing him tough

and then he's going to get hurt. He flops his ass off. Hardinstein, though, is going to be a point of emphasis now, the remainder of the series as long as he's out there, played a lot more last night than he did in game number one. And, and so I don't know if you saw this, Dan, after the game ended last night, the on-court reporter, I think her name is Zora, Zora Stevenson, is that sound right? That's right. And she asked Shea-Ga-Otis-Alexander on the court what kind of difference Hartnstein made. Listen to this, Dan.

You all made a pivot defensively, Hart on Wembe. What kind of impact could Isaiah have tonight? I'm not sure if it was good, to be honest. Yeah. Break that down for me. Say again? Break that down for me. Why was his impact not good?

It was all right. It was good. It was good. Yeah, we want to switch it up, give them different looks. Yeah, that's what it's about. When you play as good players, you got to switch it up. Make sure the rhythm is not the same. We did that tonight.

Appreciate the honesty. Thank you. Yeah, appreciate it. Okay, first of all, excellent job by her. Excellent job. The follow. The follow was important. Excellent job.

Yes, that was terrific. That was weird, though, right? You just never hear that. Yeah. I don't know what to make of it, actually. Well, okay, so let's add a little bit more. So, obviously, that had every, one who is in attendance, the media members are now buzzing. Hey, you hear what She said on court

right after the game ended. And so we're talking probably like 25, 30 minutes later is when the players start to come out to the podium. Of course, Shea Gilad's Alexander is out there to address the media and he's asked about that. Is Shay, your answer on Hart in the post-game interview on the court was different than the one in here. Can you just kind of explain what was going on there? I didn't really hear. And then once I realized what she said, I gave her the the right answer. Yeah, at first I heard it wrong what she said. What could, I don't know if he's lying, I don't know,

but what could he possibly have thought she said if it was, if the answer was, I don't know if it helped. I don't know. I don't know what to make it. Let's play the original sound again just so that I can remind everybody, this is a human being, okay, that the league

is having some trouble marketing because the way we've done some of this stuff in the past with Michael Jordan and others, eh, you don't have to give any personality. We'll write the mythology around you. Just be yourself. This person's not easy to sell on sound bites because he doesn't say anything interesting ever. And this team with him as its face doesn't quite have a personality outside of its playing style other than their young guys who are having fun. And when I hear Shea Gilgis Alexander talk, I don't hear sales. I don't hear somebody

who is marketing himself. He's just being himself. And I did not understand what it is. He thinks the question was. You all made a pivot defensively hard on Wembe. What kind of impact did Isaiah have tonight? I'm not sure if it was good, to be honest. Yeah.

Break that down for me. Say again? Break that down for me. Why was his impact not good? It was all right. It was good. We wanted to switch it up. Give him different looks.

Yeah, that's what it's about when you play as good. players you got to switch it up make sure the rhythm is not the same and we do that tonight appreciate the honesty thank you yeah sure theories any theories we got any theories audience we got any theories been distracted just bored by the interview yeah it mean muscle memory type of thing and just looking around well yes i i i would say that anybody who's doing a halftime interview who doesn't want to be there and wants to just shut their brain off entirely can just go into We're going to be more aggressive or aggressive. Just say aggressive.

They all have a handful of cliches that they can go to. Watch in these interviews how often aggressive is the one that gets chosen there. But I don't have a theory on what just happened there. You could have made a grant if he just merely said, Bernard. You're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmali? I dare you to work that in, Booghambi. I doubt your talent.

$1,000 you were giving. I offered only $500 because I thought he was going to choose 20 of them. He only went three or four and now I feel cheap and I feel like I'm not charitable. I feel like I'm pro ALS all of a sudden. Yeah, I also don't want him to pick a weekend game. We got stuff going on. Let's keep negotiating behind the scenes. At Thursday would have been perfect schemes.

You have the TV to yourself. Give me a little afternoon matinee. You know, I'm a matinee marauder. You know that about me. I really, really found funny. Tony looking up the other day. saying of baseball day games, who's that for? Seriously, everybody's at work, everybody's doing stuff.

I know in Miami nobody's working, nobody's doing anything. The crown is yours. It's for their well-being because of the travel they have to do. Yes, and my well-being. Yeah, but it's for betting action at a time. There is no betting act, no other betting action. I know, but that's not what that's for. Baseball's actually smart to do that

because they have the betting audience to themselves during... It's called getaway day guys. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is. That's a little benefit, but it's because of travel. Uh-huh. And it's also ingrained in the fiber of the sport, and that's all great. We've talked about it the first time that it came up, and I'm the one that mentioned, yes, these baseball teams have to land in another city at not five o'clock in the morning, and that's the reason there are day games.

But Tony's curious and befuddled. Who's that for because you're watching in Tampa? You're watching nine people in the stands on a Wednesday at 2 o'clock. Jeremy is right, which is why you often see 135 p.m. NBA games. So I have Kyle Schwaber over one and a half bases. They play every day, guys. It's every day, not every other day. How many people would be at the 135 p.m. Wednesday afternoon NBA game?

If it's a matinee, I'm there. You know that about me. It would be such a good lane for some of these leagues to take to, actually make more day games. Hey, that's what the European expansion is for. They're going to have to do some of these evolutions. You saw that the NFL is going to have Wednesday night games at some point. There's not going to be a time where you can't get some sort of action on sports. Like, people are going to move into those spaces because everyone wants and needs the programming.

I did want to get back into a conversation though that we started the other day. you guys don't actually care, right? That Prime and Peacock and everyone, Netflix, they're not going to do journalism. Like, that's done. The journalism around where this is headed with these partnerships, there's going to be less and less discomfort and less truth between how it is these entities work together.

I've told you guys the story, and this is one of the places it can happen, but it can happen anywhere where there's power. When the concussion stuff was being reported by NPR and football didn't like the concussion stuff being reported and didn't like that one of their league partners, ESPN, had a partnership with NPR to report the concussion stuff. Eventually, John Skipper, the most powerful man in sports or person in sports,

at the time, realized as that was climbing up to him between his league partnership and the truth, oh, I'm the conflict. And he decided to stop concussion coverage. Got out of the concussion reporting business because ESPN was trying to do journalism where there was business. And there was the intersection where the NFL, the NFL players could look up and say, your brain beating me. Like right there, the reporting stopped because John Skipper looked up and was like, yeah, need the money. You good with that? Like, you good with that just being the new norm? Hey, y'all, it's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. Ever order furniture online and wonder what if? Like,

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