The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Empañada

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

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to get an update on Norman Powell but he's an expiring contract he's 33 years old he's going to be expensive because he can score efficiently and I don't think anybody would dispute that that is not only a good move for the Heat but it is the move before moves because now they have like seven small forwards and they don't need that many. Right, doesn't that mean they're gonna try and trade Wiggins now? I mean, I would assume that they're at least Wiggins, right? I would assume that-

And it opens a roster spot. He's a shooting guard. And, okay. Yeah, so it's like, when we're talking about their backcourt, this might actually signal that maybe they don't think they're gonna get Bradley Beal or Damian Lillard. I mean, obviously for this year,

this is a different conversation than Lillard. Well, what, you think they're starting a back court with Hiro at the point and Hiro and Powell in your back court? I mean, potentially, I don't know what the difference is with Bradley Beal. Like that, I think there's a chance that maybe Powell comes off the bench,

maybe Davion Mitchell comes off the bench after a few minutes. This is, or like you said, they move Wiggins and they start Powell at the three, but I don't think that in terms of roster construction, this has to be that I think it's just worth noting that he's played the primary points of his career at the shooting guard position and would be playing No, you're right. He's only six or four. You're right. You you replace Duncan Robinson's

Efficiencies from three at seven threes a game at about 42% and a much better individual scorer as an ISO player as well Like this is this is a very effective and a much better individual scorers and ISO player as well. Like this is a very effective offensive player who really, through the first half of last season, kept the Clippers afloat while they were getting healthy with Kawhi Leonard. Like he didn't start playing until I believe January

and Norman Powell was, a lot of people, again, wanted him to be an all-star for them because of the way that they were succeeding early. As an expiring contract, this is a really solid move for a team that keeps its flexibility next year. I know that that is breaking news. But more interesting to me is Greg Cody being the only person I've heard anywhere in the

national media being against the seven team trade. I haven't heard anybody else. Am I catching you off guard here? Why do you think one at Greg? Why are you moving away from the microphone as I shock you with your own opinion no you're not shocking me it I can't believe I'm alone to think that a seven team trade is a bit ridiculous that's all I mean it's it's it you don't see seven team trades in any other sport why would you see them in the NBA what are you objecting to make it make a team make a trade what are you okay with the three teams barely

before that's the line more than three team trade should not be tolerated really yeah that would be in my CBA really absolutely in your personal yes instead of Stu gots his personal record. We're gonna have Greg Cody's personal collective bargaining agreement Correct Still works with Cody it still works the Bargaining agreement that's fair. No, there's too much the whole Structure in the NBA NBA is too confusing. You know, the second apron, come on, luxury tax.

Come on. You're spot on. You're so right, Greg. Every other sport, if you wanna make a trade in the NFL, you know what you do? You call up another team, you make a trade. In Major League Baseball, you wanna make a trade, you call up another team, you make a trade.

In the NBA, you gotta get seven teams involved. It's ridiculous. You gotta have it's green mathematics to figure it out. This guy, he's with me. I tell you, Zaslow's- You're on point, Cody. He's growing on me, Zaslow. Zaslow thinks the whole thing is dumb.

The whole salary. So, can I read you this sentence here? This is a sentence from Bobby Marks, ESPN NBA front office insider, who is like all right he is terrific here is a sentence from Bobby Marx in talking about the heat all right if you sign Bradley Beal to a one-year 10 million dollar deal because you're spending more than 5.7 million dollars you're going to trigger the first apron what the hell does that mean yeah what does that mean thank you if I'm not on my second apron it means I spilled gravy on the first one

I don't want to do this with you guys because the problem with this is even if I go down the path of Explaining it it becomes Excruciating to listen to that and nobody you don't know aprons either. I'm not gonna take a quiz here Yeah, you shouldn't I'm gonna make i'm not going to take a quiz here yeah you shouldn't i'm going to make a gravy joke is what i'm going to do you know who loves the second apron barry jackson the aforementioned he loves all that the luxury tech second apron third apron well i i just want uh again to point out okay that greg cody as he ages is allergic to learning and new information, but is also replete with a combination of self-absorption and entitlement that makes him go into the eating area.

Eating area. I'm not home. I'm entitled. Yeah, that's the home of the aprons, the eating area. I'm not entitled to anything. I'm entitled to whatever I earn entitled. Yeah, that's the home of the aprons the eating area. I'm not entitled to anything I'm entitled to whatever I earn gotta wanna learn gotta wanna learn I Do want to earn I don't want to learn so much but I do want to earn you go into the eating area and there are a handful of What looked like burritos in there and you just sort of shout into the general ether, someone should put identifying marks on these. Labels.

Yes, exactly. Otherwise. You're looking at your free food. Right, I mean, it's a, you know. And you're giving people in the kitchen more work because you want something better identified. This breakfast buffet is not properly labeled! It wasn't properly labeled because it wasn't labeled at all.

Here's the situation, you've got, let's call them burritos even though they weren't, because they did have that burrito type shape. You've got 10 unidentified wrapped sandwiches. I don't know what those are. Are they savory? Are they deserty? Turkey, you know jam. Well, you you came in here. He was eating one of them I don't know what was in yours, but you're like, hmm This is fabulous and then there's a long pause still should have been identified though, right?

Because I had to ask what this is. Well, what was it? It was it was like a an Elvis Presley. It was peanut butter bananas Might have been a little bit of marshmallow in there. I detected it was very good. It was it was very good Can't eat much very caloric. I cut it in half That's neither here nor there But the point is what you don't want to do is unwrap a sandwich and then I see what it is and I'm like Yeah, I don't want to eat this and then I've unwrapped it But as long as you unwrap it in a way that no part of your hand is actually touching it

It's fine to like look at it like a little I don't want to we're all we're friends and family here No, I don't want to eat something somebody else is unwrapped You know I see Zazzle unwrapping a sandwich and then wrapping it back up? That's tainted. Nothing against you personally, Zazz, could be anybody. Why would anyone take that personally? Right, thank you. Tainted, touched by another man. Or a woman. Or a woman, right.

Touched by another potential eater. You can't say I'm wrong. If you're gonna put out food, you gotta identify it. You know what's worse is when they have like an empanada type treat. That's not how you say empanada. That's how I say it. It is wild on empanadas.

They try to label it like on the outskirts of it. It's like there's a little M there. That means meat, a little C for chicken. Okay, I never noticed that. You're looking on the empanada for it. It's not labeled like on a little stick. It's like on the actual empanada. I recommend incidentally, I don't know that you will listen to this because you're an enemy of Dominique Foxworth's.

I used to be, now we're best friends. Well, he did something on the second apron the other day because he's very familiar with it that was both interesting and entertaining, because it's Dominique Foxworth, if you'd like to know some more. He must have gotten gravy on the first one. Can I tell you my new favorite thing that I do at ESPN now? Alright, Dan, speaking of the food that's out there that Cody is complaining about right now,

it's my new favorite thing. You know, sometimes how I, right after the show here, I go and I'm on ESPN, like right after. For instance, today I'm on in afternoon drive. So I got a few hour break, right? Compose myself, get my thoughts together. I'm going to be terrific this afternoon. But anyway, my... What aboutose myself, get my thoughts together. I'm gonna be terrific this afternoon. But anyway, my- Go on.

What about now? My, my- That's my gimmick. My, one of my favorite things that I do now with ESPN, I tell the producers before we go in and go, guys, you wouldn't believe the spread we got at Levitard today. They, they are so jealous. I go, what'd you have?

I go, well for breakfast we had this, we had this and this. And then we did the show and I went out there and waiting for me. We had a whole new spread. They get, I mean granted Christine Leesey up there at ESPN, she bakes cookies and all that stuff. She's horrific, that's great. But they're very jealous. I tell them the food that I got a mouthful while we're doing production meeting, you know. And they're very, very jealous.

We're doing good eating here, Greg. I wouldn't be complaining if I was you. I love bragging to them about the spread that Dan's providing. Thank you, Dan. Greg Cody walks through here with pieces of bacon, no napkin, no plate, no nothing, just greasy bacon running down his hand. And he eats nonstop, but does complain about some of what it is that he's getting to eat there and does so with people who are very lovingly putting it out there for him. Yeah, but here's the thing. Nobody misidentifies a piece of bacon. You know exactly what it is.

Okay, it's not wrapped. You don't need to ask anybody, what's this with an empanada? That's not how you say it. Nailed it. I say it. All right. so you're now rivaling David Sampson. Do we have David Sampson saying the word boobs in Spanish? Tetas? Do we have him saying the shirt that my father wears a guayabera?

A guayabera. That's the worst of them. How about the breaded ham? Do you have croqueta or no croqueta over there? Not yet. You're entering that category now, Greg Cody, with empanada. I don't know why you're saying,

why are you putting an Enya over the end? You know, I, you don't want me to spell it out for you? I mean, it's obvious how to pronounce it. You don't have any shame about the fact that you're complaining about these things? Again, I'm complaining about a minute improvement that would be easy to make, okay? You've got three different types of food, scrawl, meat on one, you know, cheese on the other.

Since you're complaining so much today, I would imagine, and since you love to complain so much in general for a yesteryear that was more, that was fonder before, that was more romantic before. Are you with Billy Gill on not liking that all of a sudden, the first week of July here, the middle of July, when baseball is supposed to have and used to have the stage to itself,

and when it used to mean something, when the All-star starters were announced Now you live in an age where it doesn't matter at all when baseball is naming its all-star starters Are you like Billy Gill? Is this something that you long for Billy you you can wax wax? I think I'm just old honestly I think I'm just old and I care less about certain things because like yesterday a lot of the all-stars were revealed There's a weird voting system now where there's different voting aprons, if you will.

Did we ruin it for people with the Brinton stuff? Was this our fault? Let's take credit for this. Nah, I don't think so. I mean, there was a voting situation and then the most popular votes, I believe, Jeremy, you could correct me if I'm wrong, but the lead vote getter in each league

gets an automatic election into the All-Star game. And then I think top three or top four or something per position, I guess Outfield is different because there's more of them, but then the top certain number, then you vote amongst them, and then the winner of that gets a starting position, and then they name all of the other players,

which are named by the managers, and every team has a representative. And then, and this is a new thing as of the last couple years, the commissioner just decides, you know what? I want this person to be an All-Star. You must be so angry about that, right? Oh.

It started like, I feel like this little tradition started like two or three years ago, where they did it for Albert Pujols because they knew it was his last year, and then to make like rosters even or something, I don't know. They're like, you know what? We're gonna do this for Miguel Cabrera also. And Miguel Cabrera was like, cool, I'm not retiring though.

And he didn't retire that year and he played the next year. And then I think they've done it since. And then this year they did it to Clayton Kershaw because he got his 3000 strikeout I'm assuming. So now he becomes technically an 11 time All-Star even though this was just, he was added to the roster by the commissioner of baseball. It's just a whole lot.

I mean, I remember, I used to go home when I was younger, and I would vote, like, you'd vote 25 times per email, and then I'd create a new email. You would go to the games the weeks leading up to it, so you could get the ballots. Oh, get all the ballots, and then you'd go, and you'd be stuffing the ballots, and then you'd just be sitting there,

first row of the upper deck, feet up on the thing where the wire was that would keep it from flipping over the end. Yeah, because if you fell over you'd die. You're like, I'm gonna vote for Alex Gonzalez to be the shortstop. Yeah, it was basically you picked all the Marlins or I'd pick all the Marlins.

I'd have to find a pen if I didn't have a pen so you could poke the hole in it. You'd pick all the Marlins and then you would pick against the Yankees in the AL or you you pick all the Marlins, and then you would pick against the Yankees in the AL, or you would pick the former Marlins that were now starters on other teams in the AL. And then you would go and then you would drop them in the box before you left the stadium.

And then if there were still some ballots, you'd take those home and then you'd forget about them. And then they'd just collect dust and then your mom would scream at you and say, why do you have all these ballots? You throw these away. I was like, no, those are votes. What is the time period we're talking about?

We're in this century, right? We are in this century when you can remember an all-star game that you cared about in baseball. We're not back in a time where people are wearing suits and top hats to the game in black and white, right? Like we're in this century when people actually care about who's going to be named an all-star starter. Now obviously in baseball circles,

these arguments are gonna break out all the time over the person who was left off or the team regionally. Can you believe that? But can you imagine just as we talk now, we were talking earlier in the show about just the changes to college football that make a recruit offensive lineman worth $5 million. I would like for you to imagine in your mind that you really love a sport and the only time you can see it's stars is in one game in the middle of summer.

Because it wasn't that long ago where the all-star game mattered because you needed a network television to give you all the stars in the same place because you weren't getting to watch highlights that involved all the stars. Well, I mean, it also meant something and like the world series meant more cause there was no interleague play. So if you wanted to see Mike Trout, and you're a National League team, the only time you're gonna see Mike Trout

play against potentially one of your players on your team was in the All-Star game, because he'd play in the American League games, and if you were a National League guy, you'd only watch the National League. You'd also discover stars, because if you're only watching one league, only watching one team,

you see the same teams over and over again. You really know the people in your division, but then you would see like, oh, I've heard about Ichiro, but I don't watch a lot of Mariners games, and the Marlins don't play the Mariners often. Or at the time when they did introduce interleague play, you really only had one division

that you would play against that year. So you'd really only play against like four or maybe five teams from the other league. Now every year, every team plays against each other, so you can see these players over and over again. And the World Series used to mean something before in a league play, because you would obviously know this is the best EAL versus the best of the NL.

But now- We sound so old right now. I'm just telling you why it meant something back in the day. They just, the way the sport has changed, now you just kinda get a lot of this all year long, so the All-Star game doesn't mean as much as you used to. I used to go right after work at the mall and I'd go get a Ratellis pizza and I would go home take my Ratellis pizza sit down and watch the All-Star game it was such a night. Tuesday, that's the thing

about the All-Star game, was a Tuesday every year, day before home run derby on a Monday still is, the day after, ESPYs on Wednesday, that I would largely tune out of. When we were at ESPN, I'd be like, I love the ESPYs. I can't wait to go. I always looked forward most to the Celebrity Softball game. Yeah, same. Was it after the home run derby or after?

No, it's after one of them. It's after the home run derby. It was something that I was always excited about. And it was something that every year, Ravi would then tell us like, we have to fast forward, there's time constraints or whatever. And it's like, why do you guys schedule every year, Ravi would then tell us like, we have to fast forward, there's a time constraint or whatever. It's like, why do you guys schedule every year

for the Home Run Derby to end at 10 p.m. When we all know this is gonna go to damn near 11 o'clock at night. And then we're gonna watch two innings of the Celebrity Softball game, not know what the hell happened because they had to edit it because that game is played on Sunday,

which is something that I didn't realize until the All-Star game was here. And then I went to the Celebrity Softball game, and I had to endure, and I know this is gonna sound bad, I had to endure the Futures game before that if I wanted to see Celebrity Softball game. The crazy thing about the Futures game is you see now guys who are All-Stars,

who at the time I was like, I don't care who this prospect is from the Rangers, I just wanna see Pitbull sing whatever he's gonna sing at the Home Run Derby, and I wanna see Jenny Finch out there pitching in the celebrity softball game. And I wanna see- Ricky Henderson. Yeah, I wanna see Andre Dawson out there playing.

Yeah, too soon. Yeah, yeah. You said it with an enthusiasm that made it feel like you didn't know that Ricky had passed. No, I knew he had passed. It's the legend that I associate playing that celebrity softball game, him doing his like Ricky trot,

like he would just like hit a home run and then just get his little Ricky trot around the bases. Aw man, it stinks he's not here. Jeremy, you know something about me, right? You know when I'm grilling outside and it's summertime, you know how I supplement my summertime? Of course I do. I make it Miller time. Of course. That beautiful white can. Oh, and it's summertime, you know how I supplement my summertime? Of course I do. I make it Miller time.

Of course. That beautiful white can. Oh, when it's so hot outside, I just put it right to my forehead, right there. And I just roll it sometimes right on the forehead, cool my body down, and then I crack it open in some relief. And then that first sip, brother, does that first sip? That is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through. I'm just serenity now when I

just imagine that first sip of Miller Lite. Just think about it, it's making me happy. Dude, the sun is out, it's nice, you have your friends showing up, you got your family there, you just had your first sip of Miller Lite and you know what? You're happy, you're blissful, you're fulfilled. I've been stocking my cooler with Miller Lite for years and for good reason. It's brewed for taste. Only 96 calories and 3.2 grams of carbs. This year, Miller Lite turns 50.

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I invented it. It's going fantastic. My wife and I are staying home tonight. We're watching the debate on TV. We're going to do something special for dinner. Baby. It's a nice day for me so far Stugats! That sounds like a not a super nice night. The debate? Old people love that shit.

Yeah. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Old people do love that shit. And I'm old now. I can't deny it anymore. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats. Will Shane Gillis not attract a crowd to the ESPYs? I know that the ESPYs and award shows and televised appointment viewing is sort of a thing of the past, but it is the biggest thing going right now in comedy.

I would assume that people wondering whether Shane Gillis will norm McDonald it, whether he'll do anything to make it maximum awkward. He's such a big sports fan that I doubt he'll be anything other than respectful. He's not gonna, I doubt he'll go into norm McDonald. I'm out of respect with Shane Gillis right away. But he really likes the company of athletes. Yeah, but he made fun of Nick Saban to his face

on college game day. Alabama Jones, that was a great one. That was. Alabama Jones. I just the SP's Dave Dave Winfield by the way but he immediately felt bad after it though Shane Gillis like yeah he you could see he felt he's like is this not the fun show Dave Winfield is celebrity all-star game all-time Hall of Famer but I think the thing with these monologues I do it with SNL I don't feel the need to tune

in anymore because I know they're just gonna tweet out the monologue. So like, I get interested a lot of times in someone hosting something, but I don't feel the need to tune in at the time because I can just check it after. Since we're doing a Greg Cody Monday that goes back in time, I'm gonna tell you something that I did yesterday that took me back in time

that I believe is going to shock you. And the reason that I have to do it, I think is going to shock you. And the reason that I have to do it, I think is going to shock you even more. But we will do this as a poll question. I yesterday took the bus. I'm telling you guys. Revelation guys, mark that. I just, I thought of you guys, I do it often,

but I thought of you guys, what, yes, I do it often. Were you lost? No. Was it the bus or the trolley? Well it was the trolley good correction thank you Roy at LeBotard show up do you know the difference between a bus or a trolley because I thought I was getting on a bus and then when I got on it because the benches were wooden I'm like oh this is a trolley I didn't know when I got I did not know when I got on it that it was a trolley, and if you'd asked me, I would have thought of a trolley as being something with wires in San Francisco.

Yeah, that's what I thought. For those who don't know the difference, the difference is Dan will get on a trolley, he will not get on a bus. Do you know the difference between a bus and a trolley? Because- Isn't a trolley on a track? Like a train track? This was not, and it was very much a trolley because... Isn't a trolley on a track? Like a train track?

This was not, and it was very much a trolley, and it called itself a trolley, but it acted and looked like a bus. But what I was sitting on was the bench of a trolley. Did you have family in town from Las Vegas you were sightseeing with also? Why were you on a trolley? It was basically the metro mover,

that's what it was, on the ground. Were you immediately embarrassed when you sat down? Embarrassed why? Well, because you didn't know that you were getting on what is not a trolley. No, I just needed a free ride. It's a free ride. It's a lovely feature to have in South Beach

if it's raining, if for any reason. It's a good thing to have, but when you asked if I was lost, no, but what had happened is I had lost my wallet. And so I had a combination of things happening, and so I just needed to get back home in the quickest way to do it because the storm was coming, was the trolley. But the other thing that I wanted to tell you guys that I just didn't think is possible

and is going to, I think, leave you more shocked than you were to learn that I take the bus or the trolley. My car is in the shop because the panel on my driver's side door is loose, okay? So it's loose and when I try to close the door, it rattles and shakes. And I took it to the Mercedes dealership. And this is where I say you guys are gonna be more shocked than you were a second ago.

You wanna guess what they wanna charge me in order to fix this? Just, does anyone in the room wanna guess what, when I, I didn't think, I did not think it was possible. I legitimately did not think that the estimate they gave me was possible under any circumstance for any automobile. I mean it's a Mercedes at the dealership. Yeah at the dealership. I would say 1400. Nah I would go higher on that one 4500. Yeah that's what I was gonna say around four grand. Whatever the number is will shock me less

than you going on a bus. Why didn't you just come get your wallet? You live five minutes from here. Well I would still have to take a car or I would still have to do the same thing. So it was just easier to not do it. But again, I'm talking about the doors not coming off the doors. It's fine. I can close it. It's just it's just the paneling on the inside of the on the inside of the door. The inside my bad.

I was picturing outside. Okay. So does that change, but does that change your answer at all? Yes, 1450. 2900. What do you want my guess to be? One dollar.

What color is the interior of your car? Nine grand. What color is the interior of your car? That's, whew. I could do that with painter's tape. Easy. I could go to Hialeah and glue it. I'm not... I could do that for $50 and it's not great but I simply... I did not think it was possible. Did he tell you in person or on the phone? No it wasn't me. They told my assistant who took it in, they told her

written estimate quote $9,000. And I think that's more shocking than me taking the bus. But put it on the poll at LeBotard Show. What's more shocking? Dan taking the bus or trolley, excuse me, Dan taking a trolley. And I still don't have a clear idea of that. Can you get me a definition for the working differences between a bus and a trolley or a $9,000 door

repair of any kind. It seems as though the trolley bus, which is how it's referred to, it's powered by the electrical wires above, so it's essentially an electric bus where obviously a bus is powered by gas on its own and can go anywhere, but the difference between a trolley and a tram is that the tram is on a track and trolley doesn't have to be. How about that? Well, but this identified as a trolley, but it was not electrical.

It was a bus. But it very much identified as a trolley. It said it's the Miami Beach trolley, and it was very proud to be a trolley. And it was not a bus. If you're a bus, you want to be a trolley. Or if you're a trolley, you want to be a bus. Maybe depending on the location.

It feels more quaint to go on the trolley. So if you're on Miami Beach, they're like, ah, it's a trolley. At touristy area, you say you're a trolley you want to be a bus. Maybe depending on the location right you want it feels more quaint to go on the trolley so if you're on Miami Beach they're like ah it's a trolley. At touristy area you say you're a trolley. Right. South Carolina trolley's. Okay. How long did it take for them to fix it? No I haven't gotten it back yet because they were doing a diagnostic check and I absolutely refused to pay that much so I want my car back so I can go get it fixed somewhere else that's not gonna be that kind of unreasonable. Well I'm what they're gonna do now is it's okay We do for 7500 and then your diagnostic checks and be 1500 exactly exactly They're getting that money out of you one way or another trolleys can also be horse drawn was yours horse drawn Dan No, it was not for that. That's a carriage

Horse drawn I'll look up the difference I have I have been on a bus or a trolley much more recently than all of you, so when was the last time you guys were on a bus? It's been a while. It's been a minute, as the kids say. Why isn't your car under warranty? It's just over. It's expired.

Another good question. Why is a guy with a personal assistant worrying about a $9,000 bill? Wow. So $9,000 is not a lot of money. He can still value money. Just throwing it out there. You think, wait a minute, under what circumstances do you believe

anyone in our audience is believing that what I said was any kind of reasonable? I'm assuming most people in our audience think I'm lying. Like that they are like me, they cannot believe that what I am saying is true because it cannot be true. Like I legitimately think that I could superglue this and have not a great situation,

but certainly not a situation where I could live with myself because I had spent that much money to fix what's paneling. Like it's not even, it's just loose. It hasn't come off. It's only loose and I I don't know how any place in the world has the audacity to charge something like that for that it is outlandish I will admit that you could replace it with wood

paneling for like a hundred dollars like the inside of a 1970s station wagon right Studebaker have it cut specifically for the shape, you know, take it to a, you know, an upholsterer. He's right. While Bill used to be a carpenter, he could have done it for you. Yeah, that's right. Oh, your son betrayed you last week and said you're not any kind of handyman, that you came on here and said you were a handyman and that the family doesn't identify you as a handyman of any kind.

What? I reject that. That's ridiculous. Well, now what's true? What have you built? Whatever I'm asked to build. You know, it's not like people are saying, hey build me a divine. What? Yeah, he's not, yeah. What? I don't know. I'm not a master carpenter like my dad was. I'll say that. You identified as a handyman. A handyman. And then when

your son asks you what have you built your response is whatever they asked me to build and no one asks you to build anything. If you have a wall that needs painting I'll paint it. Yeah that's a painter though not a... That's a handyman. That is true though you do have a handyman. How about this when Dan gets his car back would you give it a look? I I would see what it would cost. I would fix that for a thousand bucks. Dad, you have a handyman! Well, for odd jobs above my pay grade, I hire out. Electrical, you got to go with someone that knows. Well, if I'm just replacing a faceplate or something like that, I'll do it myself. That's the one thing I can even do. Well, you know.

You are, the handyman's doing a lot of lifting there is a phrase if you're identifying as a handyman. I do. I told you that day, he thinks he's everything. He thinks he's salt life, which I should show you the outfit that he wore on a boat this weekend. I mean, good God. That's got nothing to do, we were in Key Largo at the time.

That's the, that's the capital of salt life, Key Largo. You think he's at home? He thinks he's a country soul? I am. Those are my roots. Country, country music, all that stuff. Aren't you from Massachusetts? Yeah, I was born there, but you know, I got a little bit of everything. How are your roots country music? Because that's my first love. That's probably my deepest love is country music. Aren't you a reggae soul too? I am, yeah. Just soul? I love soul music. Give me is country music. Aren't you a reggae soul too? I am, yeah. Just soul? I love soul music.

Give me some soul music. They stopped calling it soul music. Oh boy. Be careful. Why? What? The DEI thing? I don't know.

I don't know what it was. They just, you know. Did they? Did they stop calling it soul music? Put her on the poll please, that Levitide show. Did they stop calling it soul music? Billboard used to have a soul chart And then it became I think R&B rhythm and blues

Well, let me let I actually asked this question this weekend and this is Both a little bit graceless and also what I remember about Bobby Jenks who I don't know if the rest of you about Bobby Jenks who I don't know if the rest of you were as startled as I was to learn of a young man who was a champion reliever for the Chicago White Sox dying at the age of 44 for the you know at the age of 44 from stomach cancer and when I heard that news over the weekend for some reason more than champion more more than hard throwing reliever. What I remember about Bobby Jenks is that Ozzy Gian used to come to the mound and when he would call for him from the bullpen, he would put his hands out wide on his hips to like send me the heavy guy from the bullpen.

I want to pantomime again, old-fashioned baseball doing the pee for protest, writing it like you would on the steam of the mirror of your shower and also calling for the reliever from the bullpen by going heavy guy. And so I actually, because I thought of it, I reached out to Tim Kirch and just asked, because I'm not watching all the baseball games, and I'm like, hey, is the fat pitcher totally extinct? Like not endangered, extinct, is it gone? And he's like, yeah, it's gone.

That doesn't really exist anymore. That's not even something that you're gonna see in baseball. I'm on it. Was there any context in your message to Kirch and it was just, hey, fat pitchers, where are they at? Yes, the context was I was thinking about Bobby Jenks, yes. But this is why I say that it's graceless because it's a word association I do with

him but it was something that Ozzy Guion did as a manager that always made me laugh. But that also makes sense, right? When I tell you, when I'm telling you last week when we're laughing about the fact that every game there's somebody Every every night. There's somebody jumping over the fence to steal a home run It feels like in baseball because the athletes have gotten so good and you know The specialists have gotten so good and so it's almost so it's we we talk about bygone ages You know John croc famously said to of a woman

who walked up to him at a party while he was smoking a cigarette hey you're not supposed to be smoking a cigarette she said you're an athlete she said i'm not an athlete lady i'm a baseball player uh... but that's that day's done there's still there studs all over that sport and you almost you can't you can't get away with being a guy who's a little bit out of shape anymore because it allows you to throw a baseball harder.

Had you guys noticed that the heavy pitcher had gone extinct? At LeBittard Show, put it on the poll, at LeBittard Show, had you noticed that the heavy pitcher had gone extinct? Yes or no? I feel like it ended with C.C. Sabathia. Bartolo Colon, right? He's the final one and now he's skinny.

Sabathia like got skinny at the end of his career, but yes, he was definitely. And is still skinny, yes. But that, it's gone, right? The heaviest player in Major League Baseball is Aaron Judge. The absurdity of that human being, like the idea that he would get better, the idea that that player would get better, and, and, you know, I know I'm still not used to players all over the sport hitting what looked like pop-ups to me and having them go out of the park, but that guy, that guy routinely misses the ball and goes flying out of the park. He might end up going down, in terms of his peak, as the greatest right-handed hitter in the history of baseball. There has never been anyone Yankees or otherwise this dominant from the right side. And when you look at it, I mean, this is through 90 games of a season. So in 2022, when we thought it was going to

be his peak, he was hitting 274. He had 31 home runs, 66 ribbies. Then last year, one of the greatest offensive seasons of all time, he was hitting 310 with 32 homers and 83 ribbies. Through 90 games. Through 90 games. This year, he's hitting 360 with 33 homers and 74 ribbies. And when you look at weighted runs created plus, it was 163 to 211 to 224. He just keeps getting better. And for years, scouts of opposing teams have predicted his decline, and yet he only continues to improve.

It's amazing. I feel like it wasn't that long ago where people were questioning if he's really any good. Right, they just thought he was maybe a product of the lineup or is this just going to be a fluke where he's just this home run hitter for one season and he's proven over the course of his career he's one of the greatest right handed hitters of all time. What is his on base because the...

468. His OPS is 1202. I don't think that there's been a 500 on base guy since Barry Bonds, but when you look at what Aaron Judge is doing, it's only with that as the comparison that Mets fans can be mad at Juan Soto because he's walking instead of hitting home runs because they're not valuing his on base percentage. They want him to hit more home runs. They want him to hit twice as many home runs than he has because Aaron Judge has about twice as many home runs. I have a question on something that I've noticed

at Marlins games this season, and I wonder if it's the same everywhere else. So like on the scoreboard where they have the batting order for each team, they've replaced batting average with OPS. So when you go and you see who's coming up for the Marlins, you only see OPS every single time, not batting average anymore. That's stupid, it's too involved.

I don't like that. Kids of the ballpark don't understand what that means. Can I see both sides of this? I understand OPS is a better judge of it, but still, put average up there. It's too involved. I just wanna see average. We sound so old as a show.

I disagree with them, and also nobody wants to watch all those 220 batting averages. That's actually why. Do you think that's why they do it? Yeah, but we're seeing like 670 OPS and it's like, it was really funny. That's a great batting average. The other day, be like, oh my God, he's batting 930?

See, we're just confusing people at this point. Yep, it's confusing. You shouldn't have to sit there and explain to your six year old, on base plus slugging, slugging is this divided by this this many base like come on You involve what's the pitch clocks? This is a timeless game. You know what I mean where he goes out there Then pitchers would hit now. We have a DH speaking of you can watch the pitch ball on Thursdays I'm gonna touch over to that's what he was doing Jeremy

What is this? I? Hooked that it's not that it's an old show. It's that it's a proudly dumb one. What do you mean? We know all the new baseball rules and we just don't like them. I feel like baseball is one of our smarter sports around here. Well said. We're better with baseball than we are with most sports. I thought we fixed it.

Did we fix baseball? Under two hours. Why do they pay us?