The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: But Don't Ya Think...?

Episode Date: December 11, 2023

This lsmp shade is grtting vwry frustratinb. Stugitz kicks things pff with his Weekens Observations,. Them, after our 11-minute bresk where Stu bothers Dam with his tskes, we welcome our contedt winner Mike and his friends to the stydio. Plus, Lane Johnson stats will bliw your mund, Brick Pordy is superb, and the rumor mill around thr $hohei Ohtsni contract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy's stew. Weekend observations brought to you by Miller Light. Great taste. 96 calories available for delivery. Din! His coach's Saddam. I'm sorry. His coach is set him up to fail.

What happened there? That's the quickest I've ever made a mistake during weekend observations. I mean mistakes are coming, more mistakes are coming but that's the quickest I've ever made a mistake. His coach is Saddam. His coach is set him up to fail. That that was a joke the second one was a joke I'm pretty sure you've screwed up on Dan before his coaches set him up to fail playing him behind the

horrific offensive line he was scapegoated and bench for Tim Boyle who will go down as the worst quarterback in team history that history includes a punter who was also their backup quarterback at Browning Nagle. There were reports last week that he didn't want to play behind that offensive line, but then he played and he didn't just play. He played the best game of his NFL career

and led the jets to wait totally unnecessary win at Dan just like that make no mistake about it Zach Wilson is back. That is a Stugot and Chris Cody bet if I've ever seen it Texans minus three and that is football Chris Cody bet if I've ever seen it Texans minus three and that is football Footballing guilty. Oh so obvious. I mean honestly the only people who could possibly bet the jets in that circumstance are people who are betting Football is gonna football today. I know it is That was a different guy at quarterback for the jets though. Yeah, the guy the same guy Aaron Rodgers, stay away. We're going to the playoffs. I remember it.

I'm he, Danny, was great. I know, felt the pressure. Maybe you were the ball. Was accurate. Felt the pressure all week too. Maybe you're future quarterback. You should try it for 10 years. CJ Stroud.

Blah, blah, blah. What? I'm just, I mean, he got concussed. He had less than 100 yards passing. He got a brain injury! Uh... Blah, blah, blah... I never thought...

We'd see something... Mean less... than LeBron's bubble champion chip. I was wrong. The in-season tournament... takes the cake. I love a cake. So do I. Former Jaguars employee accused of stealing more than $22 million from the team. I had no idea Nick

Folls made that much. It's not a bad joke. It's pretty good. Army Navy more than just a game Should have been bordled What You watch Army Navy Why the what no what are you kidding me? Whoa? College of very small to our wonderful troops Thank you for your service then that over cash I over cash. Like that is black. Like that. See that? Yeah. Yeah. Score was like 70 for maybe three zero for most of the

thank you to that intentional safety. Thank you for your service. Yeah. Yeah. Nick falls made $87 million in his career. What? Well, maybe you had it right the first time. Maybe it wasn't

portals, but not in not in Jackson bill. He didn't steal it all from Jackson bill. I think he did. No. he won a Super Bowl MVP from not Jacksonville You have any parlayed it way signed a four-year 88 million dollar contracts now with the Jaguars After winning the Super Bowl. Yes, you guys you nailed the right bad quarter back. Thank you all their money You have that game in Gillette Stadium to remind people who the real patriots are.

Age tradition, unlike any other, LeBron and Anthony Davis, celebrating a title on a neutral court. Do it on the road. It's tired of those two. Where do you think the Jays will play Robert Hershevik? Everybody was made so happy by the flight tracking of a shark. It was weird.

You know where the army game was won then? In the trenches. Yes, also, you know what it was? A game of inches. Jose Alvarado telling everybody what he would do with the in-season tournament prize money and then promptly getting eliminated. Hey Jose, don't count your chickens before they hatch. Nice, that's a good one. You like that one? Yes. Tyrese Halliburton, do it in the IST. You know on the broad James' personal record book, he's just one championship away from MJ.

Yes, I know. He thinks he is. I know. He's not in season tournament. Do it in the post season. Show Hey, Otani, change baseball. I was right.

Showtime. In season tournament, do it in the post season. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, just writing stuff stuff down. It can't be an in-season tournament if it's done during the post season. Do it in the post season. But you being confused this funny. Ten years, $700 million. The S is show hey, Otani should be replaced with a dollar son.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Gonna be tough for the angels to replace a player that got them zero playoff wins. It's crazy. You realize it makes no sense. It's as if I told you. It's as if I asked you, hey, listen to this. So Babe Ruth was on the same team with Joe D'Amejo, but no one remembers either and this is start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is start of the day.

Instead of the day is brought to you by Venno. Mike Trout has the same number of postseason RBI's as Andy Pettit. They both have one. Put it on the pole, please. Ju-Ju at Leventage show. Are you surprised that Mike Trout has as many postseason RBI as Andy Pettit? The rare IST final that had a regular season feel. What are we doing?

You crushing this tournament for no good reason. Travis Kelsey's pitch back to Cateriastone the greatest play that didn't count Yadda year Yadda year Malina. How do you say that Yadda? Yadda year Malina he returned to the Cardinals in a front office role basically means he gets to sit around and do nothing Yadda Pukinakua Fun name to say top five, fun name to say.

Top five most fun names to say. Wow. All right. Put it on the pole is Pukinakua a fun name to say at Levitade show. Number five, Coco Crisp. Fun. Number four, Reagan, Moeah. Number three, Pukin' Nukawa.

Number two, Booth Bonser. And number one, this is just me. It's my preference. It's my favorite name in the history of sports, Dallas, Comma G's. It's a good name. Yeah, power forward for the Paul. Here come the Oilers.

I like Josh Booty. Put it on the Polette Levitard show. What name is more fun to say? Josh Booty or Dallas Comma G's? The A-Chynneric Ten Hog stands for hot seat. Did I say that right? Oh. Club is in shambles.

Show Hay O'Tani. John Romps says thank you. Show Hay O'Connor. John Romps says thank you. Show Hay O'Connor going to a team that doesn't need him. Show Hay, the Kevin Durant is strong in you. Mike McCarthy had his appendix removed. She had asked the doctor to insert some guts while they were down there. Wrote that before last night's game.

It was a lot funnier then. Yeah, I don't know why you wouldn't have guts now. I don't know. Why wouldn't you just edit it or process information and make editorial choices? It's a fair point. Justin Fields. Give me some guts.

We're one. Just insert some guts. Justin Fields flashes. You agree? Yes show Hay O'Tani's next playoff game will be his first The show it show Hay O'Tani stands for show me the money. How many people are making that joke? The hey Stands for hey. I'm really rich. You know what the Dodgers did for show Hay O'Tani then They showed him the money. They backed up the Brgers did for Shohei O'Tani, Dan?

They showed him the money. They backed up the Brings truck. Good guess though. Trevor Lawrence overrated Gunner Gundy, son of Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy, transferring of Oklahoma State, the G and Gundy stands for going to be an awkward Christmas dinner at the Gundy households.

Gunner Gundy's a pretty fun name to say. You're right. 49. My gunner looks like someone that needs to get gunner. Put it on the pole at Levitar Show. Does Mike Gundie look like someone who would name his kid gunner? It does. Everybody that went to the Raiders Vikings should get a refund and a free ticket to a game next season

three nothing you know what the J and B stand for and Jake Browning Dan stands for Joe Burrow better watches back this Browning kid can play is good Joe Flacco at age 38 straight off his couch looks better than 80% of quarterbacks in the NFL and 100% of men his age. How possible is that I don't understand I don't understand how is it the it's that the other quarterback play has gotten bad right it's not because his quarterback play is that good he can't come off the couch like, did you see how Josh Dobbs looked? Yeah. Falling back to earth, the pastor now. Jaden Daniels should have thanked his defense in his Heisman speech for making him have

to score 50 points every game. Sure. Thank you. Dan, you know what the eye and in season tournament stands for? I don't care. It stands for it doesn't mean anything. Patrick Mahomes. It doesn't. It means nothing. He won a regular season game. Why does the eye stand for doesn't mean anything? It doesn't mean anything? It doesn't mean anything

Stay with me didn't even hear it and would it be a big surprise if you said you know what the eye stands for It'd be funnier doesn't mean anything Know the F and funny stands for fine Patrick Mahomes blah blah blah Taylor Swift blah blah blah Houston Texans getting unhealthy at the wrong time do you think Dan that Sean McDermott at any point during yesterday's game said to himself just not out loud just to himself this is what I was talking about with the 9-11 terrorists. What?

Did he think it? I know, but... Antquan Bolden Jr. scored 19 points in a college basketball game. He plays for Buffalo. Holy hell we're old. That's right. Speaking of hell,

orprials. Dan, those, or the weekend, observations. you're on a countdown clock. Imagine all the life experiences. Like I could go skydiving or Rocky Mountain climbing. Still gots. Roy brings up a point. And he's like, Roy does bring up a point. Like you might be risking paralysis.

And it's totally my best. Just totally a triangle, my best. What if God forbid it says you're gonna die in the car, guys? What if it says a week though? Like, or two days or a month? I don't want to know that. Well, then you just love deeper and speak sweeter and give forgiveness to those that you've been denying.

Someday, I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying. Do you have more, is that it? No, thank you guys for letting me go through that smoothly. VCC Don Limita Tarshou with this Tugat. I know that some of you in our audience over the last couple of years, I know, I've worn you out, I've been a bit of a misery around this fun, fun thing that we do for an assortment of reasons, but I'm about to share with you one of the reasons that might be funny to you,

but is slightly less funny to me. So after a very difficult 72 hours, and I've asked to gods when I come in today, so God said, I'm like, I'm just broken and beaten. Just help me wherever you can because I just, I'm on my knees. And the way that he helped me during the break is, and this is what I was getting throughout the break. It's a 10 minute break. Mike Ryan has finally stopped cracking the whip for a minute.

Like, I'm yelling at him. No human interaction. None, I can't have any. And he's like, let's go. We got to make more. More, draft kings wants more. And Stugans, the entire time is some version of, you know what I mean? They get up 2017.

And McDermott is just saying, that's what I meant, like play like that. That's what, that's what I was trying to tell them, like, I've been misunderstood. Perhaps this is the reason Mike was is to get right back on air. Yeah. So I don't wear you out with that nonsense.

I, but the whole thing, what do you think? That's just the thing you were doing. And I think you might have been. If not, you're probably not saying it out loud. He's probably scarred. But thinking it, it's like, I just need you to be willing to die in the name of a cause because we're six and six and Kelsey's flipping the ball backwards.

And I need help here because I'm going to get fired. And I just need you guys to care like that. That's what I meant. Be unified like that. And also I'm getting the bonus coverage of, I think he should have said in the press conference, McDermott's regards it saying, like he should defend that that's what he meant. Right. Well, I was saying that perhaps after that victory and everyone focused on a play in a

bank call, felt like we did a good job of moving straight past. I know, I know. But the end not understanding it. I think what Dan is pointing out is I was nervous. I didn't feel like it was a great observation and I chased him around for 10 minutes. I think he should have guessed they'd been like, I didn't get to say enough about this.

Yeah, well, you're right. That's correct. It was bad judgment, but what I'm saying is that's what's laughing. My general point is, at the point of it is not McDermott. The point is what it is to live with Stugat. I mean not helping you in the time of need. When you're in a band state is my point.

Yes. Mike Ryan, who are those people behind you crowding this shot? There's a lot of them. All right. The one. This assortment of bold people. This is my crew.

The one to the right of the lampshade is Mike. He's our contest winner from Day No Hio. Congrats Mike. You won our Miller Lite contest. And in an upset. Thank you Mike. He had three friends. Thank you Mike. What are we thinking? Mike for all.

I can do this. Rats on having three friends. They all. And during the contest, the contest they all took the opportunity to leave Ohio and come down to Miami in the month of December I think they're they're glad about that but we'll find out tonight when we go to our Miller Light watch party for Monday night football dolphin mall Vivo Miami the Miller Light stage over there open to the public, and all ages.

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What are we expecting tonight, Mike? Are you just going to be a lot of fun? No. Guys, fun. A lot of fun. A lot of fun. A lot, guys, fun, a lot of fun. A lot of fun. Miller, right.

They're both a lot of Miller, right? Yeah, they're all rough today. They're being told. A lot of. Yeah, I've been to this area. It's a pretty cool spot. It's all brand new to Dolphin Mall, lots of great TVs. Willow, I think, is invited because it's outdoor.

So, so come on out to, uh, Doral. Come on. Oh, sorry. And join us and Wiken is friends from Ohio. It'll just be us. Oh, no, it'll be a lot of people come on. Yeah, that's why we're telling people to come.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's no chance of it just be us. Well, these guys will be there. This is the first levitar show event in which it's been free and open to the public and not ticketed an opportunity to come out and hang with us and organically mingle with some of your favorite cast members,

not me, don't talk to me, but everybody else I'm sure you can't talk to. How cheap is the beer? It's a dollar off the user price over there. A dollar off, Danich, you drink 100 beers, that's a dollar off the use of price over there dollar up. Dan if you drink a hundred beers That's a hundred dollars off. Yes. Basically free. Mm-hmm. I'll buy some people some beers Go drink responsibly, so come on out of Dan will buy some people some beers. I didn't say I'm gonna buy people an Irresponsible number of beers 100 seems like a lot should always drink responsibly Dan will buy everyone two beers

Thank you, Dan. Thank you. Dan. Thank you. Dan. It's a dollar off a dollar off I'm changing the subject. Yes, okay another bad idea by me changing Probably should worry people a bunch of beer. Yes. Before you went too far down there. Want to go back to 9-11? Oh, no, thank you. No, thank you. I want to move on to a subject, Stugatts.

Want an uncomfortable laugh by Mike. I want to move on to a subject, Stugatts, that, as Jessica mentions correctly, we talk so much about the quarterbacks, the quarterbacks, the quarterbacks, the skilled guys, and they're the ones who win the Heisman. Last night to me, okay, because I've seen Dak Prescott be great before, and I've seen CDLAM be great before. But Dallas is telling me they're a different team, and one of the cool things that happened on again, a truly dreadful day of football is like, woohoo, so really?

We got a chance at San Francisco and Dallas for this, huh? We're gonna do it that way. Old school football eats up, eats up the players, eats them up, but you're gonna give me the magic stuff. You're gonna give me those two franchises. And not only that, Stu Gatz, okay? Because what's happening in football here is super interesting, okay? The 49ers, last two weeks, violence, violence, violence, let's fight, let's fight too.

Who wants to be tougher than us? Anyone, we got Trent Williams. Anybody? Oh, what about you, Micah Parsons? You got something for him? Well, maybe he does. Given I haven't seen Lane Johnson look like that on a play. Yeah.

So let me give you some Lane Johnson stats stash just so you understand because i've been watching i told you before like i've been enjoying watching some of these individual matchups of things that i think that are the skill guys but san francisco's good because they got a left tackle and whenever they run behind him whenever they run behind him is like it doesn't matter who you are the forty-nine is here to fight

and they're coming out with a boom box, and Trent Williams is at the front of that, because he's like, let's go. Who wants to fight? And in the middle of that, I'm watching Lane Johnson. I'm gonna give you some stats, too, guys. Okay. You wanna take a guess in 11 years,

and most of this bad stuff happened on the front end of Lane Johnson's career. You wanna guess how many holding calls have been called against Lane Johnson who doesn't have to hold to keep you out of the backfield in the last 11 years. 11 years, maybe four, four change a year, 47? So 16.

What? That's right, you played the game correctly. I cannot believe it. I cannot believe game correctly I cannot believe it I cannot Kiss about about once a year hmm let me give you some other numbers just so you understand okay in 2016 he allowed 0 sex in 2019 he allowed 0 sex in 2020 he allowed one sack in 2,021 zero sacks 2,022 zero sacks and in a game at the top of the division of the top of the sport trying to fight San Francisco. Micah Parsons says I'm going to go right through your ass and get to your quarterback Lane Johnson.

I'm not going to go round you. I'm not going to go round you. I'm going to go right through you and you know how I'm going to tackle your quarterback? You know how I'm going to go round you. I'm not gonna go round you. I'm gonna go right through you. And you know how I'm gonna tackle your quarterback? You know how I'm gonna make him hurt? By throwing you at him. And that's the top of the sport. Like that's the very top of that sport. And Dallas wants to be that.

That hasn't been that. CD-LAM hasn't been that. No. Mike McCarthy hasn't been that. Are these turnovers sustainable because that came with a lot closer than the final score would indicate but there were all these red zone turnovers by guys that don't normally make those turnovers you was jalen herds it was a j brown to bought a smith yes

i mean they didn't score an offensive touchdown because they kept giving the ball away but that's kind of been Dallas' thing all year. But they've always said that that isn't a sustainable feature. They have these ballhawks and it's been sustainable to this point in the season. Buffalo has the most touchdowns in the sport. Buffalo has the most turnovers in the sport. They're seven and six.

And Jalen Hertz is having a career year, but he's also having the most turnover in his year. I think it provided that San Francisco stays healthy. They've shown you in two head to head matchups where they've wiped the floor with both Philadelphia and Dallas. Now, Dallas is a different team now than they were back then. Are they better form? Do you still trust the Cowboys when it comes?

Tell you who I do trust. I trust Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers if they're healthy to make a deep run in the post. And I trust my comparisons. And when he went against Trent Williams, San Francisco drag Dallas, but Lane Johnson also, post season sacks allowed, zero.

And what is in that sports, two gods, can I be tougher than you? Because this is the other thing that's happening with some of these these defenses? I don't even remember who it was that said this for the Ravens But after they injured burrow it was sort of a matter of fact quote of like yeah, you play our defense That's gonna happen to you. We're gonna break your wrist like that's what we're doing out here Baltimore super physical Philadelphia has been dominant super physical

Micah Parsons super physical and the has been dominant, super physical, Micaparsans, super physical, and the 49ers want to fight you. Like, there was a brawl's the last two weeks. They are brawling in football where you're like, wait a minute, this doesn't happen in back-to-back weeks, this doesn't happen like this, this sustained. Let's go after DK Metcalf because he wants to fight Warner. Yeah.

What's so fun about San Francisco is they are super physical, but the offensive scheme that gets people on the outside because they have someone like Trent Williams is, you have this team that is more physical than everybody else and they are running downhill. They, that's where it gets scared. They're far to watch, man. They're not only more physical than you

from a standing position in the trenches. you let them play their offense if they're going to get ahead a steam behind them and it almost looks like when they call one of those outside pitches like their head hunting. I it's a great great way to play the game if you like watching car accidents because they are faster and more physical than everybody else. I told you Trent Williams was quoted the other day. I don't remember who they were playing again saying he had never seen it before where a corner just turned around and ran away from him in the other direction.

He was looking at his back. They're doing, they're doing with, and I'm surprised that's the first time that's happened. Yeah, I'm surprised too. Yes, trust me. I thought what's interesting about them, right? If they're healthy, most interesting is you saw the numbers. I don't know how good Brad Pertie actually is. He's gonna be the MVP or close to it.

But Debo Samuel, if he's healthy, is gonna get those Mount Yards and Ayuk is gonna get the same amount of yards. And oh, they've got McCaffrey behind him as well. And Kettle. Yeah, and they've got Kettle too. And they're running downhill and Trent Williams is chasing you and if those people are healthy they also want to fight you. Like I feel like everyone should just evacuate the stadium if they want anything. They're not even mentioning the defensive side

of the ball where they have chase young Warner and Bosa. But what is it like you're when you're seeing Diba run around in the the secondary they're doing exactly the same as the dolphins, but it's like there are more of them Don Lebertard. I mean they used to call me Chris karaoke stugatz Back row is bringing it today. This is the Don Lebertar Show with this two gods. I urge you to listen to Pablo Torrey find out he is doing exceptional work. Award-winning works to gods. He just beat out all the popular podcasts here recently. And one of these, I don't know whether it was the big lead or something else, just voted

the best podcast from all the podcast being done in sports, it was voted the best one. And one of the things that we talked about the other day that I thought was a super fascinating thing happening in American culture and baseball culture that crosses the divide to international super-start-um, where it resides and how cultures clash, how when the Japanese people with a star treat business a certain way

and America has exactly zero respect. Capitalism has exactly zero respect for how business is treated treated trying to remain private i do not understand how each hero was his famous as he was otoni before otoni as an international mystery and he managed to never say anything that offended a single sponsors to got's because the japanese athlete who's a star general has to be very

careful there like you always have to be careful about your sponsors, but the Japanese baseball star has to be super careful about what is attached to his image with the things that he says because he's getting money from sponsors. And there is a cultural grace in the privacy of we treat business matters respectfully, privately. Otani is not gonna tell you and his people are not gonna tell you of we treat business matters respectfully, privately.

Otani is not gonna tell you and his people are not gonna tell you the name of his dog because his dog might be named Dodger and he might go to the Dodgers, but yesterday, despite that, despite Otani and his people saying, please respect my privacy at this time. So hard for us to do. Culturally. Please, please respect my privacy at this time. So hard for us to do culturally. Please, please, this is a, you know, these are sensitive business matters.

Please don't leak anything about the meetings. We want to meet privately. Our star client, what does not interested in the way Americans do business, like an American sports media, that's not how he wants to do it. Please get bailiff respect his privacy at this time. Shohei Otani got swallowed up yesterday in a super fun storm that wasn't quite the decision for LeBron James, but birth the contracts to got bigger than Messys. Now Messys and international star in his contract is for four years and it's about $700 million,

but the whole game is changing now with a Saudi oil money and you are seeing, Stu Gotts, because I'm going to play this sound from David Samson. This was so many years ago and it was about Ichiro. The news at that time about Ichiro was that he is an international superstar, no Tani before Otani, was about to sign a giant contract and at the time david samson was the president of the marlins and when we delivered the news of whatever that contract was i don't even remember the number this was david samson's reaction

i i i'm i'm speechless by that contract i'm hoping that that report is false because there's no chance that the top of the line up that's a picture because there's no chance that the top of the line up that's against the search as anybody's worth that. And each zero is who's led his team to zero, nothing. I hope you're wrong, Ben. It's unbelievable. You know what? Everybody gets what they deserve.

And I guess maybe that'll be more luxury tax money and more revenue sharing money that'll have to give. But signing, I'm sure it can't't be true there's no way they give twenty million year to uh... each year at his age for five years there's no way it is true this isn't wrong it literally you'll take the sport down that contract the ridiculous contract

it can't be your sports out of control well sign each year or twenty million year for five years and the joke it's an excuseable it's complete mismanagement can't be true uh... ruin the sport otony signed for ten years seven hundred million dollars and you have stugots

such an interesting change in the business of this sport. The national pastime becomes a regional cable television product. The Dodgers who just got embarrassed in that market because they're spending more than anybody and they've got the best TV deal. The best TV deal should give you all the advantages. Freddie Freeman will get everybody,

hey, look who we're adding now. Otani, 700 million. It's a nightly TV show. Everyone loves it. We will make money off of this. We can afford it. We can share this money. Jessica, the spectacle part of this that you enjoyed yesterday because you're obsessed, you're obsessed or Saturday rather, you obsessed with the flight tracking was we got the whole show we got the Dan Gilbert's plane is coming here it's going there where's Otani going it's a big mystery baseball felt alive

man it did for a weekend it was amazing so there was a flight a private plane a bombardier I believe that left from Los Angeles from a private airport and was landing in Toronto and John Marosi works for MLB Network, tweeted that O'Tani was on the plane. So I think a fan maybe initially saw the plane and then he confirmed that O'Tani was on the plane. So for a few hours, everyone's like, oh my god, the blue jays are getting O'Tani

and then it turned out that the report wasn't true. And the short tank guy came off the plane, which is something that is amazing. It's just objectively hilarious but also something that like this happens in college football the time like there was a time that uh... i think it was can's fans thought that they were hiring michael each because they saw private jet going from key west to manhattan can's and then this random family got off the plane in the remedial there and they were like

oh shit it's not michael each so like this is this happens all the time in like flight tracker and it happens in basketball, it happens in college football a lot. You'll see a weird plane take off from Starkville and it's going to like, Missoula, and you're like, well, this could only mean one thing. And it usually doesn't. And it's just a fun thing to track.

So baseball had a taste of that this weekend. And Morose apologize because he got the report wrong. But it was like an electric like three or four hours for a lot of people that thought like, oh my God, this is actually happening and tons of reports coming out and it just was not true. There was a rented out Japanese steakhouse in Toronto, everyone thought that this was headed to North of the border.

And I got kind of caught up and it, and it was really funny considering that all of this was attached to a superstar that went so far out of his way to keep everything secret and to avoid what we saw on Saturday which is undoubtedly good for the sport because I follow baseball pretty passively and I was into every evolution of it. And I found it hilarious that it ended up being a Hershivek coming off of the plan to a bunch of confused international media. Good for the sport. Yes, it's great. It's great. And this is a sport. It's all centered around a guy that didn't want any of this hoopla. It's hilarious. Well, you know, it's weird

is that before the day happened where everybody was tracking the flights and seeing where show hey is and is he boarding a plane, is he not boarding a plane? No, he's at his house. What's going on with him is that articles were written by legitimate baseball writers who were saying what a shame it was and how bad for the sport it was and how it was such a missed opportunity for baseball that there wasn't a circus. And then they created a circus out of nowhere because they're like, you know what, we're not gonna get it.

So we're just gonna have the circus anyways. And we're just, I don't wanna say they were inventing things. Are you saying Marosi did this on purpose? No, I'm gonna say that I don't think that what was taught in journalism school was exactly followed when you're trying to figure out who's on this airplane and it's the guy from Shark Tank.

This was honestly bad for baseball because this is what it took for baseball to have the spotlight. The single most dominant unique player we've ever seen. Like it made me almost sad like for baseball, for Twitter, baseball, like Jessica was like baseball Twitter was actually a thing this weekend. And what it takes for that is Shohei Otoni. There's no other Shohei Otoni out there. We saw it. What we saw this weekend, we won't see it again. Like even like going back, I mean, I guess the Poo hosts was the last

contract before this that we were like this excited about. But it just made me honestly sad for baseball. Because it's a busy time, right? No, no, no, no. Now he's been playing a big market. No now but it's hard for baseball to stand out My point is that Everyone for like eight hours was talking about baseball and that only happens when you have an oh an Otani type player Which we don't we don't have any more of them. So that's it. I hope we enjoyed it baseball because you're back to Relevance you say this but you it's a fairly shocking take from you but you say this, but it's a fairly shocking take from you,

author of Zion's torn basketball shoe was good for Nike because any publicity is good publicity, you should want all publicity. This is not good for baseball because it shows us. Because there's a lot of Zion's out there. And there's a lot of guys wearing shoes. Where there aren't other Otani's out there. There are a lot of guys wearing shoes. What we had, we will never have again. There's no other Otani out there.

You say, here's the thing though, you're right about this portion of it and perhaps we will be denied it in baseball. But you know what there is? A whole lot of an invasive American media who can create this kind of thing around anything because when Billy complains here journalism died a little bit I will tell you the funniest time I heard or saw anything circus related like this I believe Walter Hudson at the time was the world's fattest man or close to it He was one of the heaviest people in the world and he was after they took the roof off his house, they had to crane him out of the house to take him to the hospital. And so the photograph in the New York Post, where journalism died, was Walter Hudson

in a crane over his front lawn with the quote from Walter Hudson and media members all over the lawn with microphones in the sky, I just hope it's not a circus. Otani wanted it to be a quiet transaction. You can't have a quiet $700 million deal. But it was until the last day. It was, and it wasn't his fault. He there. Except for that damn Dave Roberts was a real chatty Kathy and almost messed this whole thing up. What was he doing? Getting him? Yeah, but he almost didn't because why did he confirm that they had

a nice positive meeting? Because they had $700 million to give him. I guess. And bleep your cultural privacy in business. I'll say whatever I want Also, I don't know if they almost lost them because I don't know anything about this pursuit outside of getting it the plane wrong and they've dude from short tank walk Well, that's what's great though. That's what's great. It's like please respect my privacy and it's like I get off from short tank private plane Like you can't do better than that I'm playing private playing like you can't do better than that!