The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Bat Out Of H-E-Double Hockey Sticks

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

Dianna Russini is back to discuss the mess we got her into with the Robert Saleh firing and takes us deeper into the details of what led to the decision. The New York Mets got a huge win over the Philadelphia Phillies last night and Grimace played a major part in it. We revisit Sal Licata railing against Grimace and discuss Hawk Tuah's impact on this Mets' season. Plus, the New York Knicks hosted a celebrity basketball game that featured The Rizzler. Finally, we celebrate Mike Ryan's birthday by allowing him to talk about the Miami Hurricanes and celebrate his special day with a song. Help out Hurricane Milton victims with food on the frontlines: Give what you can to World Central Kitchen at Donate.WCK.org/LeBatard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to DraftKings Network. This is the Don Leventor Show with the Stugats Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. At about five o'clock this morning I was having a text exchange with Diana Rusini because Diana Rusini really loves her job and I hate Diana Rusini's job for her. On her behalf I hate that she was on with us and we were all enjoying ourselves

yesterday. We were doing top five ways that David Samson will have no sympathy for you if you die. And as we were doing that, Robert Sallow was fired and she just had to scamper away in a way that felt anxiety soaked and not fun and panicked. And I felt for her because I don't like the information age that we're in that makes our insiders a little bit crazy but she likes the adrenaline rush of her job. So welcome Diana we will not hopefully have this segment soiled by breaking news elsewhere that will make you crazy elsewhere and we can just talk football and be relaxed for a little while, but let's get to David Sampson's list,

his new list of more ways that people can die that he has no sympathy or empathy for. Any OLIs or are we just gonna do all five? So this becomes all OLIs, frankly, because we did the top five yesterday, but people were suggesting last night and then I started thinking about it, there are really a lot more that we left on the table. Alright so are we doing? I'm going right to number

five. Alright new number five is? Celebrity race car driving. Your piano reves and you're gonna crash and you're gonna die like he's in parenthood I'm not gonna feel badly for you. Number four? Sailboat guy in the hurricane. Can't be in a sailboat during a hurricane. Number three. This came from one of your listeners and it happens in Miami. The 90 mile per hour motorcycle guys

who weave in and out of traffic. Not my problem if you go flying. That's actually a pretty good one. I've thought that before when someone scares me speeding by me, I'm like what are you doing? And he pops a wheelie. No, what are you doing? Hey, pops a wheelie. No, what are you doing? Don't feel badly. Number two.

Sorry folks, but the Hurricane Hunter co-pilots, not the ones who are behind the plane. I'm talking the guys who are in the back taking the measurements, who are jumping around. That's dangerous. It's their job. It's so important. It's an essential job. Providing information for us. We need their help to save all our lives.

I believe that in Twisters, if you let the Dorothy go, you can get the readings in the Hurricanes. Storm chasers are different. These are Hurricane Hunters. Totally different thing. Number one, put it on the poll, Juju, who do you admire more, Storm chasers or Hurricane Hunters?

Number one. Or Dorothy. Number one, civilian astronauts. You're gonna get shoved up into space. This is a new thing that is now happening, that you can go into space, like the people who went to the Titanic. The same concept. I'm not having, I'm not very empathetic when it goes bad.

So when the Challenger exploded, you were like me. Those are not civilian astronauts. Not civilians, no. Those are NASA astronauts. Wasn't there a teacher on board? Yeah NASA was there a teacher on board yeah there was a teacher she was trained Christine McCall but she was trained to be an astronaut but you really talked about private flight yes okay I guess that's a good distinction but I still think Titan submersible should have made the list it's that's the same concept when you're going when you're doing that I'm sorry that's your not sorry I'm

sorry I'm not sorry Diana Rusini joins us she's the senior concept. When you're doing that, I'm sorry. Not my problem. You're not sorry. I'm sorry, I'm not sorry. Diana Ruscini joins us. She's the senior NFL insider for the Athletics. She's got her podcast, Scoop City. Any you'd like to add to this list, Diana? Any people that you are not sorry at all if they die, they've done something stupid,

and there are limits on your compassion. You don't want to extend compassion to somebody because you're all out of compassion. Yeah, I think the most consistent item that's part of all these situations that make me decide that I don't care enough about that person is when they have the camera attached to them, right? So this actually happened to me over the weekend

when that motorcycle situation, the guy flew by me, scares me, you know, because it's loud and they're going too fast. But then when I caught up with him eventually, uh, at a traffic light, I realized he had the GoPro on his helmet. Um, who's watching that? Like I would actually like you to put that up in the poll if you wouldn't mind. Who watches the GoPro's of people doing things that everybody does? Like I, I, I never understand that.

Diana, he's just watching game tape when he gets home, right? It's the same, it's the all 22 of, hey, maybe I would have hit that lean a little bit sooner if I would have sped it up a little bit faster, slowed down a little bit faster when I got over this Honda Civic, game tape. Yeah, maybe that's what it is. They just want to get better out there.

I just, the fact that they're doing it and going home to edit it and post it as if anyone wants to watch that, I don't understand. I never did. Diana, how many teams in the sport are punching themselves in the face because the architecture of where it is they find value made this offseason value the third receiver more than Derek Henry for one year, $9 million.

Dallas Cowboys are certainly doing it. You know, it's so interesting you say that though, Dan, because going back to free agency, when we all knew Derrick Henry was gonna be on the market, he didn't really, he didn't have some wild amount of teams interested. He definitely had some teams talking with his side, but I remember even talking to him on the record

about what was going on, and it kind of was assumed it was gonna be Baltimore the whole time. They just needed to try to get to a number that they thought was fair. So I actually think Baltimore went into it not even giving him a lot of money. It turned out that that he wound up getting a pretty good deal.

But yeah, there's certainly regret. And look, the Tennessee Titans now are struggling as you're as you're seeing as they're trying to rebuild what they are. They were Derek Henry. But now with with, you know, Brian Callahan, they are. They're trying to be more of a Bengals type offense. But that being said, it's gotta be tough to be a Titans fan knowing that

just watching Derek Carr on the Ravens, it feels unfair. It's like a superpower that they don't even need. Diane, I'm still reeling from the Jets decision and what Woody Johnson, my background is with front offices. Woody Johnson is going out of his way to let it be known that Aaron Rodgers had nothing to do with this. He's going so far out of his way that it almost feels like overcompensation.

And he said that he actually met with Aaron Rodgers Monday and coincidentally, nothing came up about the head coach. And I will tell you in 18 years, I never once met with a player where the manager did not come up or the GM did not come up every time. So is Woody just full of it here? Yeah, David, do you find in just your time in your career that the PR of teams is actually the biggest issue?

It's not even the decision making. It's who, why are you doing this? Why are you, who advised you Woody to say this this way? We all know what's going on. We all know that Aaron Rodgers has all the juice in that building. We all know that this is his ship that everybody is on and he's the captain of it.

Nothing has changed in terms of Aaron Rodgers' power. Now, based on the conversations I was having yesterday, I was told that Aaron knew Woody was contemplating it, but never said, are you okay if I fire Robert Sala tomorrow? That he walked in the building, everyone with power there, people in the front office, the GM, team president, people associated with Woody Johnson were aware that he was not happy and he couldn't make a move.

Even Sala was aware that he could make a move. No Salah was aware that he couldn't make a move, no one really thought he'd do it though. So when we talk about the shock of it yesterday, I think the shock was not only from the fan base and the media and obviously me, specifically on camera, but people in that building were shocked just because they knew that Woody wanted to give Salah a pretty long leash here to see what he could do with Aaron Rodgers since he didn't get that opportunity

to do it last year, but five games was enough for him. So you think all those statements were written after the firing? Because my experience is we write the statements before the firing. Are you asking me about, do I think the Jets did it? Like in the process that would make a lot of sense? No, I don't think the Jets did it? Like in the process that would make a lot of sense? No, I don't think the Jets did it

the process the right way. I think this is hard because you have an owner who wants to be great. He says the right things in terms of the winning and he made a good move in my opinion to get Aaron Rodgers in that building. But I think the amount of power and control they allowed Aaron Rodgers to have throughout this is what has

become the biggest issue here. And I think solid dealt with that a lot. They, they both claim they have a strong relationship. I actually think it's fine. I don't think it's tremendous amount of respect from a space of like, I think you're the best coach I've ever had. I think it was, look, we can make this work. You saw it was very open to listening to Aaron because he was told like, this guy knows how to win. He's a three time MVP.

He's got a Super Bowl. He understands culture. He understands how to make this offense go. But obviously we've seen the problems that they've had. And they're not making changes with Nathaniel Hackett in terms of moving on from him. He's on this coaching staff. He's not going anywhere. We'll just see if they decide to take the play calling away from him because that's

something Salah wanted to do. Salah was looking to make some changes there, but he wasn't able to do it before he got whacked. I was going to actually ask you about that because there were reports that he was going to take play calling away from Hackett and then Woody Johnson beat him to the punch and was like ah actually you're fired. So is that true? Can you confirm that that's the case and maybe that's what precipitated the firing when it happened? And also Diana can you give us some of the details that you had in your

athletic story that most people did not have on some of the things that happened here. Um, yeah, uh, Jess, I'll hit you first. So, so Sala had conversations with Joe Douglas and even with ownership about taking the play calling away from Nathaniel Hackett and promoting Todd Downing, who's the quarterback's coach. Um, and the reason why Todd Downing is respected, I know just from an offensive side of it in New York, has to do with his ability to connect with the players,

his understanding of what they wanna do, what Aaron wants to do, but also there's a connection there. You have Tony Dews, the running back coach, and Keith Carter, the offensive line coach. They all coach together in Tennessee. So there's a shared understanding of what they're trying to do. Nathaniel Hackett was kind of the one on the outside there of that group. So look, they've been trying to make it work.

It's not working. It's a little bit of Aaron. It's a little bit of this offense. Robert is out. So I think that's been the big question of, if the offense is the problem, why did you go with Salah when he's got a top five defense, top five special teams unit?

But as we all know, the head coach is responsible for that side of the ball as well. You're not just doing the defense. And he, despite a last minute attempt here to make a change, he, you know, he didn't do enough. He was spending a lot more time in the quarterback rooms. He was doing a lot. So, yesterday, you know, he didn't do enough. He was spending a lot more time in the quarterback rooms. He was doing a lot. So yesterday, you know, there was, I think there was a lot of gossip about how he was

escorted out of the building by police officers. Like, you know how it goes. The story breaks and all these wild fans weigh in and it appears that they have blue checkmarks that make them journalists. But he was escorted out of the building by the head of Team Security, who's really just a friend of Robert Sala. He's been there 20 years. Everyone's really friendly with this guy. He's not big and scary. He actually looks like he could be a character in The Sopranos if you Google Jets Team Security. So I think that was just part of the process.

I don't think anyone there felt that this was Robert Schaller did something really bad behind the scenes and he needed to be escorted out. Um, I think it's just kind of the procedural thing. It is, but it's excessive. It is procedural, but it's silly. He can't go back and get his family photos. Like he can't, he can't go back and get personal items from

his desk. He's got, he can't use the bathroom it it is Procedural everybody does this but it's silly It is it is it's it's always Probably coming from the lawyers in the building right is someone go I gotta be careful You know what if what if he takes the computer you know? All those secrets that everyone in the league wants because the Jets have been so successful over the years.

You know, it's funny, I was trying to think of times where I've spoken to coaches while they're getting escorted out or they're texting with me or whatever it goes. And I don't ever recall being on the phone or texting with a coach who was like, hey, hit you back in 20, wanna clean the office out. Most are trying to get out of there anyway.

Most are like, yeah, I'm good. Like, whatever, someone will pack me up, my assistant. Because at that point, you know, you don't really wanna do this whole big sad story of walking around the building, like, you know, with your hoodie up, I just got fired. So it's fine. I talked to Robert Sala yesterday.

You know, it's funny. Look at me, Louise. No, she's a reporter and she talked to Robert Sala yesterday. That's not fair to do that. And get a female one, please. I want to look at me, Louise. You were saying, Diana? This entire segment is a damn look at me Louise You were saying Diana

This entire segment is a damn. Look at me, Louisa. Um I like that that's even better. Look at me. Louisa Louisa. Yeah, Louisa is better than Louise I have PTSD so bad right now, by the way, hold on While breaking news Dan Oh the NFL never stops a massive blockbuster trade. We're looking at from Adam Schefter. Devante Adams has been moved to the Kansas City. This didn't just happen again. This did not just happen to her. Again, this did not happen.

Again, you're joking. I am not. I almost just threw up. No, here's the thing, Greg. if you said, or who said that? Was that Chris? Sorry. No, it was Greg. No, Tony.

I hate all of you. I hate all of you. I didn't do anything. If you said, jets are saints, you got me. But soon as you said cheese, I chilled out. Damn it, Tony.

I said you should have gone with the saints, Tony. We're just kidding. This sweat, like the back of my neck. OK, so yesterday, you guys shamed me on national television or wherever this is. Everyone was messaging me. That's our slogan in Metalarc, on national television or wherever this is.

People messaging me, oh, man, what a bad luck. You got smoked on national TV. All this, so I'm spending my whole day, and when you get beat on a story, you think you can make up for it by going hard on the reporting. I'm like, I'm gonna find every, I'm gonna find out what was in the vending machine

in the lobby of the Jets facility. That's how deep I'm gonna go on this thing because I need to. Do you have the Mophie with you, Diana, always? Mophie? The thing on the back of your phone. Oh yeah, yeah. So that's permanent?

I'm kinda notorious for this. I kinda roll with like 2% battery all the time so I need this because otherwise. What a life. Yeah, she can't run out of juice there. I want, please continue. Oh no, no, so David, real quick, since you're seem like to be the only person

who's empathetic to, and sympathetic to what I'm going through right now. I'm still coming off a little bit of the rush of that joke just now. Yeah, so yesterday I'm collecting all this stuff and we're doing a really good job putting a piece together and you know we got all sides of the story, we got all the good sources on it. And my son is in underwear for the first time because he's out of diapers and yesterday

was day one and I'm on the phone with somebody that I'm taking very good notes on. I need this person. They are very important in my story. And my my little guy, that's the one year old, is hysterically crying because he could smell the accident that just happened because my son does. He you know, he's learning. So I know we joke all the time that there's a lot of balance to this. But I'm telling you, it's like clockwork. If something big is happening in the NFL space, my children are going to poop. That's just how it goes. And it was part of the whole day. And I had a laugh about it.

Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at LeBataard Show. Is it a historic moment when your child has gone for the first day from diapers to underwear? And how bad do you have to want it to let your kid be soiled so you can find out what's in the vending machine? Diana's gotta do her job. You gotta want it. She's got, look, it is the crazy life of an insider.

She needs her information and sometimes the children have to sit in their own poop. Every time your kids poop, do you check your phone, like reflexively, see if you missed anything? At this point I may have to, I may have to. You know, maybe at some point this show will throw some funds in together and get me a nanny.

I will ask a question here about Mike Silver. Mike Silver is a long time reporter and I have, I felt bad for him today because the 49ers are two and three and people are saying that something is off in San Francisco. This part's weird, okay? Kyle Shanahan has now lost 18 games when he leads

by 10 or more points. In the history of the 49ers, second place there is Bill Walsh has lost eight of those. Losing 18 games when you're up 10 plus is a weird stat, but Mike Silver is reporting the following. Three players have told Mike Silver that quote, things are weird in San Francisco. Dynamite reporting, I love that.

You get it, if you understand it, you get it. Three people, not one, not two. What does that mean? Things are weird, Dan. For a while. So, so can you guys get me? Sorry. You're good.

Turn my mic off. So something, I've been in locker rooms with Mike Silver. I don't think I've ever seen anyone work a locker room like that guy. And look, he's- He's he's one of the best sports writers. I read everything he writes. So when he gets people to say the weird thing, it's because it is. It is weird.

San Francisco has been weird all summer. All summer. The vibes there are bizarre, right? Because of the injuries, because of the Trent Williams holdout, because of the Brandon Nyuk situation, all summer. The vibes there are bizarre, right? Because of the injuries, because of the Trent Williams holdout, because of the Brandon Iyuk situation, the trade. There's so much weird. So I do find that,

I find it funny that the locker room is saying it that way because that is the truth. That is what's happening there. I mean, one of their players got shot. It's been a weird year. They had a holdout. We forgot that part. Iuk's catch and passes between trees,

thinking that that's good enough. It's been, yeah, it's been, they're best players on the cover of Madden and no one really knows if he's ever gonna play again, effectively. Like, I saw a clip of Balmany and Mina Kimes wondering aloud if McCaffrey's career might actually be finished because of this injury. So yeah, weird is one way to put it. Also, they don't play in San Francisco.

It's like way out there. Three players say things are weird, but is it as weird as something that Tony and I are in agreement on? The Chiefs can't keep getting away with this. They're not. They can't keep getting away with this. They're not going to get away with it. I'm putting my name on that. They're not going to keep getting away with this. Your number one away with it. I'm putting my name on that They're not gonna keep getting away with this your number one guy goes down you trade for another guy. He's done Kelsey okay, whatever we'll see about that. That's good analysis

You get it right like they're feeding him now because they don't have anybody else They've been worthy good not 11 targets a game good weird the defense not great everything kind of pedestrian except they lead the league in One column they have Patrick calls from the official And their defense is kind of great. You just said why I don't think they're weird. Okay, so they knew that the defense is the reason why they won the Superbowl last year. Like they straight up admitted it.

But you're like, yeah, Steve Spagnolo is the reason why we're here. Chris Jones is the reason why we were able to do it. They did not want this year to be the year that they have to rely on the defense again. And we saw what they did in the off season and even in camp, what they did to the draft, everything I was hearing coming out

was Rashid Rice is unbelievable. He's really taken a turn in terms of improvement. Mahomes' trust is improved. And obviously he's out for the year. So what are they gonna do? They're gonna poke around before the trade deadline. Definitely. I don't think they're getting to Vonte Adams.

That's not gonna work. But I think they're gonna try to find an answer. And so I think they can, I have a hundred percent confidence that they can figure out a way to win the way this is right now. I don't have as much concerns as you guys seem to. Tony, you had her. If you had gone Jets, if you had gone Saints, you had her. But I wanted something from it to come out from left field. Maybe something that she

wasn't in on that somebody else had gotten in on. We were so close. We'll try next week. Diana, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate the time as always. Get back to Pampers Filled with Poop. I just feel like I jumped out of a plane without a parachute. So there's a way to die. No sympathy. No sympathy for the person who does that. Thank you, Diana.

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You know your role you play. I know my role. This is the Don LeVatar show with the stugats I want to get to a story here with Sampson because I'm enjoying the baseball playoffs and I'm confused by Chris Cody's contention that the Mets are lovable little underdogs now after being a ridiculously overpaid team that underachieved at the beginning of the year. But a lot of people are feeling this way about the Mets because they've done something that has surprised us we would have expected it perhaps before the season but they started so slow that the best thing in sports is a surprise and they have

surprised us recently and the most surprising thing about what they've done is they've resurrected the McDonald's character, the Grimace. They have given the Grimace a fame that, or it's just Grimace, it's not The Grimace. Which one is it? It should be The Grimace, actually. It's Grimace.

Okay. What do you want it to be? No, that's fine, it's Grimace. The handbook. But the purple thing that is now riding the subways and is their unofficial, I thought Mr. and Mrs. Met were their mascot, but it seems like Grimace has replaced them.

It's a temporary thing. I love Grimace going on the seven train with Mets fans because you know there's someone coming home from work on that train that's like, what the hell is this? What's going on right now? For the audio audience, it's Grimace jumping on a subway and just jumping around with a bunch of Mets fans. Gross and smelly. Grimace isn't their mascot, Dan. Grimace is their good luck charm. Grimace

throughout the first pitch and then they went on a seven game winning streak and then they ended up having a very good record in July, which is how they ended up in the position to make it to the playoffs and they hosted their first playoff game since 2015 yesterday at City Field. So Grimace naturally had to be in attendance. And several other Grimaces also were in the stands. I read reports that two of them were smooching a little bit on the Jumbotron, which I wish I had.

Two Grimaces. Doesn't Hawk Tuah girl deserve a little credit here too? Didn't she throw out a pitch and people were upset? I remember we had, he was our gas bag of the week. He was like, Hawk to a girl and grimace. They've had a good record. Hawk to a girl not getting enough credit here. Is that what you think?

She's gotten enough credit. She's at 18 minutes and counting. Of fame. She is one of the top podcasts in the country. Her time has not yet run out. It is, she's somehow still going strong. I'm so interested to see if she snags the exclusive with Kamala at some point later in this election cycle. But Chris, I don't know if they actually won that game. So I

don't know how much credit she should or should not be getting, but Grimace rightfully getting a lot of credit. There's also, of course, the lucky pumpkin. The Mets are, Seymour Weiner of course, they're running up the score on gimmicks right now to try to get them through this playoffs and so far it's actually working. That's a lot to go up against if you're an opposing team. They just have all the off-field stuff that needs to come together for a magical run. Phillies just have Bryce Harper's hair. $300 million dollar payroll. Oh and the fact that Cassiano always hits a home run. Oh, we can't, that guy cannot hit a home run this week.

Samson and I were talking on nothing personal here about whether you can have multiple teams of destiny because they're a planet, the Tigers feel just as destined as the Mets do. The Mets don't get to, just cause they've got Grimace, get to be more of a team of destiny than the tigers but let's check in with sal akata here this is the angriest you will ever hear anyone about grimace or mascots in general the Mets finally are playing well they go on a winning streak

they won father-of-all-hottest team in baseball eight of ten whatever it may be yeah and yet you've got some knuckleheads on social media and elsewhere giving of all people credit for this run, Grimace, that fat McDonald's mascot. That's who's gonna get called the Grimace Mets. I even saw Zoo Tweet about this. Oh, the Grimace Mets. And it's not just him.

Everybody's gonna say, oh, the Mets are five and O's and Grimace throughout the first pitch. That's really what we're talking about. Like the Mets are actually playing while they've won 5-0 and it's because Grimace throughout the first pitch. He's got good scout report. Scouts like him. This is what I mean like this is such it's such like minor league stuff. Yeah exactly. You know what I mean. Can you imagine him being with the Yankees? Five tool player. Yeah one thing about Grace, I think he could have stole some bags on the Yankees. Yeah, even him right off Trevino. Um, I know what you mean. The Grimace match. Yeah. I think Sal

colors his beard. There's a lot of great baseball action. And if you want to catch it, there's only one place to go. Not your TV. Silly. You want to be there. You want to see all see all the grimaces why don't you go to the game time map new customers you get a special deal $20 off your first purchase by using the promo code Dan that is promo code D A N you get panoramic seat views with a click of a button you get all in pricing all up front so there are no surprises at checkout and you get the game time low price guarantee they will match any price that you find out there in the secondary market and even go beyond that next level customer service

what time is it Chris Cody? Game Time! Dan on the other side of town at MSG the Knicks were having a celebrity and alumni basketball game. Who's who? Oh my god they had the real star of New York City playing there last night. Forget Grimace, The Rizzler was in attendance at MSG. Who's The Rizzler? What's The Rizzler? Who's The Rizzler?

You're the Rizzler! You fool! Who's The Rizzler? Can you believe that David doesn't know who The Rizzler is? Who is The Rizzler, and why are we talking about The Rizler? The Rizler is a kid that does this with his face for the audio audience He makes he like scrunches up his face and he grabs his she's got a ton of Riz Dan

Which is why they call him the Rizler Everywhere that's the I mean we're showing you the Rizler see look at this world that we're like look at this world We're living in we're Riz the Rizlers front He's with your buddy. Look at this world we're living in. We're the Rizzlers, front of Cam and Vinny from the Jersey Shore, just in the background. We're not even paying attention to him. Or our friend Sam Morell, he is in the middle of the photo as well. So the Rizzler is famous.

He got to meet the Rizzler? For being a heavy kid who. Whoa, not heavy. He's a tank. He's huge on TikTok. Yeah, that's the only huge he is. And he hangs out with Big Justice and AJ, and they were also there, and Big Justice had a huge bucket.

So we're not allowed to use the descriptive word big? How would you describe the Rizzler? If the Justice is big, then you say Big Justice. And he is big because he's Big Justice. He's also a child. Heavy is what I said. The Rizzler's, yeah. Have you seen him wash the pets?

I want to clarify. The Rizzler is not the same as Baby Gronk who did Riz up Livy. So those are separate things. Thank you for the clarification. I was wrong then. That's where my head was. Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show. Does Sal color his beard?

David Sampson is a little bit livid. I was gonna get to the feud part between Baby Gronk and the Rizzer and Big Justice. There's a bit of a three-way triangle feud there because Baby Gronk says he's the best at football, but we all know it's the Rizzer the way that he can command the Pats. Yeah, but we'll get to that later.

I mean, have you seen the bat speed from Big Justice? He's got a good swing. I mean, Jesus. Got a good swing. Fly call him big. David Sampson is livid. I'm going to share something I don't think that he wishes for me to share with you.

He came back in after being sent to the penalty box and he was legitimately agitated with me and said very firmly, don't do that again to me. And it's not because he's being sent to the penalty box. I think it's because he doesn't want to be around the germs of children who are just out there nonstop eating sugar and doing, there's a dog out there that he's afraid of.

Willow is some, he doesn't want to be around. And they're hanging in that penalty box room. My daughter, I think, is in there coloring right now. No, she's the one, is she the one wearing red, running back and forth, as though you're feeding her sugar out of the pixie stick? Yep. Okay, first of all, you cannot sugar shame anyone, David.

And second of all, I actually... I'm not running around like a chicken without my head. It's like mayhem out there. There's no room for anyone to do work. Obviously, there's no work to be done. But the fact is that Willow is the best behaved non-adult in the room. Wow.

The kids are out of their minds. I'll take the compliment. I'm not going after her again. I also will back you up on the kids getting people sick thing because I was with a baby a few weekends ago and everyone's like, oh the baby got her flu shot and she's like a little sniffly and I was like, oh that baby's sick.

And they're blowing snot out of that baby's nose left and right with that little snot machine thing. And sure enough, the next morning I woke up and I felt like ass. That baby got me sick like this. That's how it happens. vectors this entire thing is a Petri dish of disgusting this and I actually was trying to figure out I have coca out there and I'm asking you coke out there coca coca No, there may be out there given the behavior of everyone. I'm asking coca for an escape plan

I need an escape plan after the show because I can't walk through that. I should have brought Moncala because my daughter is a Moncala prodigy and she'd whoop any, I'm telling you, my daughter will whoop anyone's ass in Moncala. I don't know what that is. It's like, come on, you guys know, the game that has all the grooves

and you take the marbles and you put them in all the different grooves. Really? That would have kept her attention. I should have brought that game. Put it on the poll please, Juju, at LeBotard Show, our kids' disease vectors.

David Sampson is a germaphobe, this is a legitimate thing, and kids are illness-spewing machines, and I do think that he is genuinely uncomfortable. I will tell you that around, he was at my home the other day, and I had to leave for a second to go get something and when I came back Samson was fear on his face because I had left him alone with my dog and he thought my dog was going to eat him. Your dog was staring at me. He was legitimately afraid so the fact that Willow is the least afraid, the thing that he's least

afraid of out there, suggests to me that he really does look at children and see only sickness and disease and and Willow came in like a bat out of HG double hockey sticks this morning did you see that sprinted in that's called a dog being happy to see you oh no it wasn't it went right to the food square where by the way the kids square that's a new back and forth to the lebatard eating area David so you have you want Coco to create an escape plan for you like a president that's just been shot at I'm in except. I'm not gonna do any waving and I'm not gonna yell fight fight. I'm gonna yell elevator elevator Can we talk about when those snot thingies became a thing like when did we mechanize the little snot sucker? I just got one we had a baby shower for my soon-to-be daughter and I got like a

Thousand different things and one of them was like a little turkey baster that you take the snot out of and I was like What I was do with this and it's like oh you put the water and it goes that way and it takes down I'm like, oh cool. I'm not gonna do it. So gross. It's so disgusting. What about a tissue? Their babies they know how to blow their nose. So, so you gotta suck out the mucus for them. It's so gross. How many kids do you have? Do you not know this? They can't blow their own nose.

No, that's my question. What did you do for your kids? Because my parents didn't have a mechanical snot blower thing. You have three kids. I went to a baseball game for my kids. He missed their entire childhood. It's a bad question. You don't know about this.

You don't know that babies can't blow their own nose. There was only one thing that I was good at. You gotta try to reason with it. Come on. If that's stuck in there, blow your nose. Blow! I don't know English. Don LeBretard.

For weeks, months even, during the regular season, I wondered aloud what Kevin Stenlon did. And then about three weeks ago, it hit me. Stugats! He gives him one of these, and he gives him one of those. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats. ["The Stugats Show Theme"] Mike Ryan, I'm surprised by your amount of patience here and incidentally I should have said this earlier today.

Happy birthday to him! I don't care! Good luck! Happy birthday to Mike Ryan and as a gift here because we haven't gotten to it yet, I wanted to allow you some time to talk about the University of Miami we have a new song to play about the University of Miami football team I was sort of disappointed Mike because I gave the stat earlier this week and everybody just sort of yawned in my face when I said that Cam Ward in the fourth quarter had 277 yards

more than any player in seven years in the sport and i pointed out that i would didn't have that many yards in its game against ohio state all four quarters in michigan state didn't have that many in its game against oregon and all four quarters ucla didn't have that many as for to say it had a game with that kind of offensive output that came more to it had just a fourth quarter fs you know bad teams that issue didn't have one against Clemson. Michigan had 10 more yards in the entire game than Cam Ward had in the fourth quarter. Missouri, Air Force, both Rutgers in Nebraska,

Stanford, Duke, all of them had fewer yards for four quarters than Cam Ward had in a single quarter. He's leading the sport in yards, he's leading the sport in touchdowns. You can say right now there is no bigger star in the sport. You said it. I don't think that there's a bigger star in the sport right now.

Well, Shador is national campaigns. Travis Hunter. But yeah, those are the names right there. Cam Ward is a huge sensation within the sport. If you watch the local Panthers broadcast after the Panthers scored the first goal, people were doing the Cam Ward celebration, which a bunch of opposing players love to do when things are going well and then they cease doing

by the time the clock hits triple zero. It's been a weird week because I've been made to feel bad about Miami just getting over the line against the likes of Virginia Tech and Cal and I guess because these are ACC schools, people are convinced they're bad. That Cal, that's not a good win because you came back against them. We don't care that they won at Auburn because Auburn's bad, but we'll count that as a good win if Oklahoma does it at Auburn. So it's just, whatever, if people think

that Miami's strength of schedule is weak because Miami is beating these teams, like you wanna hold up, Miami is beating a ranked team. Well, Florida would be ranked if Florida beat Miami. They didn't. Virginia Tech might be ranked if they beat Miami. They didn't. Cal most certainly would be ranked if they beat Miami. They didn't. Cal most certainly would be ranked if they beat Miami.

They did not. So I think these are ultimately good wins because these are good teams that usually would beat certainly in Miami, but beat other good teams on nights that they don't have their best game. I think Miami is a good team. I think that what you've seen in the last four, in the last two games in those fourth quarters is an incredible you've seen in the last four in the last two games in those fourth quarters is an incredible quarterback that will not let the the turnovers get him down and I'm really excited because those are really special moments in what is shaping up to be a big-time season for this program. Miami is very good and it's good that they're winning all these games against other teams but I have to disagree I

don't think Cal would be ranked if they beat Miami. They were not receiving votes. They lost to Florida State earlier this season. I don't think Florida would be ranked. Well, that's what Game Day does historically, Jess. They usually go to places where it's not a tough opponent. Virginia Tech lost to Vanderbilt in week one. I don't think they would be ranked if they. Vanderbilt just beat somebody, didn't it?

It's just funny that Miami gets all this crap for barely beating the likes of Cal, but Alabama can lose to Vanderbilt and the shine doesn't wear off of them all that much. I mean, I don't know. I think that people are genuinely questioning Alabama in their secondary after losing to Vanderbilt. Well, Alabama and Tennessee went on the road

in their own conference, weren't able to beat unranked teams. Miami did that and people hold it against Miami. There was a guy that ranked Miami 16 overall. A guy that also coincidentally posted pics golfing all day during college football Saturday. But he absolutely went to bed. AP poll voters sometimes they make questionable decisions. I will not argue with that.

I will not argue with that, Mike. But Cal currently in F plus is like 60th right now. Cal also had the number one defense in the nation. If you look, they had the number one defense in the nation headed into that game against Miami. Yeah, Cal. On number one in what? Number one in defense. Look at this, look at this stats.

And it's just because Miami put up, they had 10 points, they held Miami to 10 points. Their defense, they have one of the best linebackers in the nation. He was playing like a man possessed. All what I'm saying is people think these teams are bad now and you're doing some of the same stuff because Miami ended up getting the win.

I 100% guarantee you Cal is absolutely ranked after that showing on game day. And if they dominate Miami wire to wire like it looked like it would be, they would 100% be ranked. Mike, remember back to work. Back to work. Yeah.

Off week though, bye week. I think, I get your frustration with the narrative around Miami. There are two ACC games in a row where it came down to the wire for them, but they won those. Very good teams do have to win close games. Georgia had a close one against Kentucky earlier this season that they ended up winning. People will hold that against them until they win against a team like Tennessee later this

season or Texas or someone else. The thing I think people are saying about Miami is that if you look down the road at their schedule Not a lot of ranked teams on it And it's it's possible that the only good team they play for the rest of the season will be Clemson Potentially in an ACC championship game obviously I think Louisville is pretty good They'll give them a good fight But you can't like the thing about Alabama is that Alabama is gonna get several chances throughout the rest of the regular season and potentially an SEC championship game to beat more top 10 teams Miami's not going to get that

chance no doubt no doubt and again my frustration is that they're not ranked victories because Miami's having the goal to win these games but you want to talk about Alabama schedule in Tennessee schedule not being comparable like they just lost the unranked games. They just went on their own and lost. They did. And you're ranked in the top 10 and a lot of them aren't. Yeah.

We are going to play a song in a moment. This is from Tim Reynolds and it's one of the reasons that Miami is being doubted. In their last two games they've allowed 72 points. They have only led for 15 of the 120 minutes. They were down 10 in one fourth quarter and down twenty in another fourth quarter and their two and oh in those games but i will say again of cam ward the best single-season passing season in the university of miami's history is burning

kozar with three thousand six hundred forty two yards fifteen touchdowns and sixteen interceptions cam ward's on pace to have a thousand more yards than that and 15 more touchdowns than that. No UM quarterback has thrown for more than 30 touchdown passes in a season. He's on pace for 40 touchdowns in a season. He's going to obliterate the school record book. He has a shot, we did a show that you were away for, but he actually has a shot at being the NCAA's all-time leading passer when you combine FCS and FBS, depending on how this season goes.

Not only that, how comfortable are you with this? Xavier Restrepo, by a wide margin, is going to be Miami's most prolific wide receiver in school history. I think he's only like, something like 200 yards away from the receiving record at the school. He's going to blow that away. Let me make you feel better, Mike.

Let me feel, on your birthday, here's a song. Here's the best birthday song that we can possibly give you. I have to set this one up, though. Mendoza, local kid, went to Columbus, was a starting quarterback for Cal, got absolutely rocked. Brock Osweiler felt really strongly that it was targeting. A lot of people felt some sort of way about it. Close call, but when he went to the sidelines,

he was checked up on and they decided to clear him a return to the game. I am told that this is a song through the perspective of that training staff on that sideline if one of the members of the training staff just so happened to also be a Miami Hurricanes fan. Can you hear the dog Fernando? Can you remember not too long ago you nearly lived by 26? Can you follow the light Fernando? You were humming right along we couldn't stop this jading on I could tell annoying calls for a crystal ball's drop were coming from afar

But they're closer now, Fernando Every second of this replay seems to last until release We were so afraid Fernando We were firmly in the top ten and thought we could crack the top five And I'm not ashamed to say the referee's announcement almost made me cry You first got hit in the shoulder pad It's not that bad, Fernando The rest have started with the U, you see

No targeting, Fernando It's necessary but what can you do? There's only one If they had to bruise your brain again They would, my friend Fernando We really hope nothing will see to eat Love Miami, Fernando God bless him and his family.

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