The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Michelle's Horrible Advice (feat. Michelle Beadle)

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

"So... good stuff." Michelle Beadle is here to discuss a big birthday, the coolest person she's ever been around, friends writing books, Zion Williamson's weight loss, and to give Billy some dreadful advice. The crew also dives into last night's Wild Card results as Dan refuses to give up his bias for the San Diego Padres. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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always happy to see Michelle when she graces us, with her presence. Can you give us the Hampton Farms winner here this week on the Hampton Farms Nuttiest fan of the week, please, Chris? Yes, Stan. Congrats to the Virginia fans. They are this week's Nuddiest fan presented by Hampton Farms, the official snack nut of the tailgate. Keep an eye out for Lucy at Notre Dame this week. If you think you are your team's Nuddiest fan, and this was one of the craziest things I've ever seen. Usually when you storm a field, you have to jump down to something. This was just people taking off onto the field. Somebody had to get hurt in there. It did look like World War Z. It did look like.

like the fastest of the zombie apocalypse. I can't believe how fast they got out there. They are very lucky. There was not a penalty flag on the play because it would have been hard to retrieve everyone. Michelle, it is nice to see you. I've got a number of different questions, but are you someone who laments and polices the storming of the field?

Or are you someone who is pro-joy for everyone, even if it comes with calamitous injury? Well, that one was scary only because there was a player still down. So it was like, uh-oh. This is going to be a problem. I was watching with a friend of mine who's not a sports fan, and she was just like, is this normal? I'm like, it's not that it's normal.

That one looked particularly crazy. But no, look, when I was at UT, we went up to college station to watch Longhorns play the Aggies, and we beat them, and we stormed the field, and they have those soldier people, and they were rough with us, and we left and went back to Austin. So, like, it's a thing. It's a right of passage. As long as no one gets severely hurt, I think we're good.

I can actually, I can argue that that was safer than most, because a lot of times it's like a long drop and you see these people who aren't prepared and they hurt their ankles on a long fall sometimes. So I actually think while this looked dangerous, this was probably safer than a lot of field stormings. That's actually a great point. Physics, by the way, Dan, what's the vibe here?

I love this for you. I really think this is... It's just an honor of you being San Antonio at your core. I decided to dress up for you so that you would feel welcome here. Wow. I never really... That's like uncanny what's going on. on right now. I'm having trouble with the mutton chops. They keep falling off because they've got

eyelash glue on them and they get stuck to the headsets and stuff. Yeah, but I'm going for the gemstones here, Jesse Gemstones. Are you a gemstone? I'm a huge, huge fan. Love Judy, was just out in South Carolina, which I guess is where McBride has homes or a home and never saw him, but that would have been a, that would have been a good celebrity spotting for me, one that I actually would have enjoyed. She is the host of the NBA show, Run It Back with Chandler Parsons and Lou Will. Williams. Whenever I see the name, Lou Williams, for some reason, I just, do you know what I'm going to say here? I just think of his, two girlfriends. He seemed to have two girlfriends at the same time publicly and was okay with it and everybody was okay with it. Have you covered this material with him and Chandler on your show? I'm not on the show. Like our pre-show meetings honestly should be half of the show. They are, you guys know how it is. Not really the show being discussed at all. It's more about like, you know, if Chandler went to prison, would he be the guy who gets it or the guy who gives it?

Okay, good. Yeah, we have good, good 7 a.m. talk. Which one was it? He thinks he'd be the one giving, but no chance. He's no chance. He's too pretty, and he's pretty, he's pretty for prison. Yeah, he's going to be popular. But Lou, we've asked Lou, because I'm obsessed with it.

I mean, he did something before the word Thruple was just being thrown around. Lou was crushing that lifestyle and is so non-shadow. Like, you know, like, Lou's the coolest person I've ever been around. without trying. And so he just was like, yeah, everybody knew what was up. There's no lying. There's no secrets. Honestly, it's an honorable way to live. I would suggest he was probably more honest in his relationship than most people are in there. So kudos to Lou Will. And what are the, well, I don't want to ask too many questions here, but what are the unexpected things that might come up there that people aren't assuming would come up there that would be problematic when you

have an open relationship? Well, I mean, look, I would think from a person who's, not had an open relationship, or at least not one that I knew we were having, is that it's, you know, somebody gets jealous or the rules aren't followed or what, shut up, guys, or the rules aren't followed. But the way he was doing this, the way he talks about it, everybody was in, like, everybody was good. They were getting what they needed, both emotionally, physically, like they're all just chill. It made it sound almost like, huh, I'm just not wired that way, but sounded interesting. What are you expecting from your spurs and Wembeyanama? They were quiet last year once he got hurt and so the growth was a bit stunted on what that team would be

and now pop is gone you're expecting what from your spurs because nobody's talking about them well because it's playoffs or bust as far as i'm concerned and it's happening not play in playoffs uh i don't care what seed they'll be the last seed that's fine but i i think that there's um wemby's back from all accounts uh stronger healthy we all were watching him everything he was doing over the summer, you know, silence with the monks and just, just sort of taking over the world. And so, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm all, look, I'm a homer. What am I going to sit here and say, oh, another year of learning. No, man, we're not wasting any more time. It's like Wembe time. I don't want to waste any more years. He's had a nice intro to the league. Everybody knows

what to expect from him. As long as he stays healthy, knock on wood a thousand times. Yeah, we're doing this. Yeah, I'm weeing it, by the way, full spurs gear behind me. We are going to Take us on a tour here on what is behind you. What is some of the stuff here? Take us through some of the stuff here that's most meaningful to you. We got a Yoda. What's that candle? Is that a candle of your own face?

No, that's pop. That's pop. No, the other one. I didn't think that was your face. Yeah, I know. It could be my family. Time's coming. Tina Faye, we've got a glove from when Apple baseball kicked off and they spelled my name

wrong and sent it to me. I'm just honored. I was even on some sort of a list. My various merit. I'm not a good weather person. I'm going the wrong way. My very, you've been on television for a long time, Michelle. I figure you'd be better at this.

I haven't mastered a green screen. I haven't really had to do one. Spurs shoes and my Ricky Ricardo. Yeah, he's no longer an F1 driver, but he's still in our hearts. I got my marathon, my half marathons, my Timmy Duncan figurine. Yeah, no, it's just a, and then above it, a thousand pairs of shoes. It's a good setup. The Yoda, what's happening with the Yoda there?

I just he's just a you know it's like a god to me he's got interchangeable parts you can give him a lightsaber if you want otherwise he's got his nice cane I keep the cane up just keep us all humble you know how about the books pick one of the books there that you uh that you like that has some sort of meaning to you of any kind I'll filibuster for you here so you well no I like the I like the big bad book of Bill Murray um just because I think all things Bill Murray and then honestly I like hold on there's two of them right because they were written they were written by friends and you guys know how it is when friends write books you're like all right so my buddy bill shoning covered the spurs he did radio for the spurs for like i'm not even kidding 30 something years he just retired like just retired

and josh wolf is my guy and uh i will read anything that he puts out i go see him whenever he's in town um you know he was a single dad for a while and that's not usually the way that goes so he's got cool stories to tell let's uh put up on the screen here uh zion zion no no no embarrassment here zion with the skinny arms here. Zion has lost a ton of weight. Zion is as a unique, a basketball player as there has ever been. And I do wonder, even though I never fat shamed him, I do wonder how much strength gets lost with him being this kind of skinny. I don't know enough about the human body and what it takes to be him. What are your thoughts when you see Zion Williamson looking like this? Well, as a person who treats her body as a temple as well, I can tell you that when you lose weight,

you don't necessarily lose the strength because he's look he's got he's got all the advantages us mere mortals could only dream about a chef on hand i'm sure whenever he needs it if not provided by him the team for sure um they are surrounded by trainers and nutritionists and the best of the best in the world of physical being so i don't think he's i think if anything he'll be faster i hope that this will keep him from from being more injury prone um you know i think he looks great i think he looks the way we always wanted him to look. And that's horrible to say, because who am I to say what we want? But you guys know what I mean. As fans of the sport and as fans of Zion, I think this is sort of the dream, is like to streamline it and get strong. And, you know, the pictures are, by

the way, some of these pictures coming out of these media days are wild. It's just ridiculous. But this is, this is, this is, if I, if I, well, I just think I, I would have a hard time recognizing him if he was not wearing the uniform. What are you taught? Are you, this is not Jonah Hill, fat skinny, fat skinny. This is just Zion. But he used to be square and now, and now, now he looks like somebody who's a perimeter player. I know.

Are you not excited? Are you not excited? I am excited. I'm excited for healthy Zion, but I am legitimately curious whether or not any of his strength gets impacted by that because it's got, he's got to be 60 or 70 pounds lighter. Yeah, which by the way, but think about what you're saying. He's 60 or 70 pounds lighter. which means he can jump faster. He's going to be faster.

We've all been there. Like, carrying around extra weight. Me more than most. Well, then you know. Like, it's not fun. Everything's more of an effort. And you have to, like, just try so much harder to do what people are doing easily. I think this is going to be, look, again, knock on wood, because he's one of those guys that I

think we cheer for, but we never get to see it to fulfill everything. And I think this version of him, I've got high hopes. It looks great. I was surprised, but in a great way. She's the host of the NBA show, Run It Back with Chandler Parsons and Lou Williams. They have exceptional chemistry together. Let's play for Michelle some of what Nefisa Collier had to say. I have not seen or heard a player of this caliber go after leadership with this kind of intensity.

Caitlin Clark has notarized everything. She's co-signed all the points that Nefisa Collier made. Let's play that sound for Michelle, please. I want to be clear, this conversation is not about winning or losing. It's about something much bigger. The real threat to our league isn't money. It isn't ratings or even missed calls or even physical play. It's the lack of accountability from the league office.

Since I've been in the league, you've heard the constant concerns about officiating, and it has now reached levels of inconsistency that plague our sport and undermine the integrity in which it operates. Whether the league cares about the health of the players is one thing, but to also not care about the product we put on the floor is truly self-sabotage. The league has a buzzword that they've rolled out as talking points for the CBA as to why they can't pay the players what we're worth. That word is sustainability. But what's truly unsustainable is keeping a good product on the floor while

allowing officials to lose control of games. Fans see it every night. Coaches, both winning and losing, pointed out every night in pre-game and post-game media. Yet leadership just issues fines and looks the other way. They ignore the issues that everyone inside the game is begging to be fixed. That is negligence. At unrivaled this past February, I sat across from Kathy and asked how she planned to address the officiating issues in our league. Her response was, while only the losers complain about the refs, I also asked how she plan to fix the fact

that players like Caitlin, Angel, and Page, who are clearly driving massive revenue for the league, are making so little for their first four years. Her response was, Caitlin should be grateful she makes $16 million off the court, because without the platform that the WMBA gives her, she wouldn't make anything. And in that same conversation,

she told me, players should be on their knees thanking their lucky stars for the media rights deal that I got them. that's mentality driving our league from the top the league believes it succeeds despite its players not because of them michel is putting her hand over her smile the way macafe does when aaron rogers is talking like what are you what are you smiling about there i mean first of all yeah this is not going to end well for kathy but it's it's it's so it is shocking right this is not a woman this nefisa collier is is all class she is very highly involved not just in the

WMBA. She got her own league that she started with Brianna Stewart. So she's not someone who just sort of sits off to the side and watches. She's involved. She's engaged. She's in it. And you're right for somebody of her caliber to come out and say a prepared statement with receipts was a tough here if you're anybody that's not named Kathy. But I'll say this. Good for her. I mean, look, we've all had boss. You and I have had one of the same bosses who thought that they were the whole story and everything they did was why a company was succeeding and not because of all the people that were working hard to make it all happen. And sometimes when a suit will actually say that out loud, which, again, we weren't in the room with Nefisa Collier and Kathy, but I have to believe her, right?

Maybe there's a context to it that we're not getting and we'll never know. That being said, she's going to have to, she's going to end up leaving this. I don't know how you come back from this. I don't even know how you reach out unless you do some sort of tete-a-tete that's publicly watched from everyone. but you got undressed by one of the biggest names in the league who is respected by everybody and all of the things she said are sort of the things people have been whispering. You know, the money aspect of it all, I know everybody's got their different opinions on it. I'm not in their books, but I have to believe there has to be a way to pay a little bit more

than what they actually are paying. When you can triple that waiting tables, that's a tough sell. And also, the thing about, you know, Caitlin Clark making $16 million off the court bothered me, too. because how dare you? She came into the league. She was in college as a big deal. So it just felt like she was sort of trying to take some value away from what has been accomplished by these women.

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Your boy is Captain Sloppy. Stugats. Is this chumbo? This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stoogads. Michelle, can I ask you some life advice that I'm curious on? Yeah, because I'm killing it. Go ahead. Well, no, no, this is more like I'm interested in your perspective on this

because I had an incident about a week ago and I feel like you might have some insight on how I should handle this situation. How long should I have phone numbers for and how often should I purge phone numbers? Not including death. Because I feel like death I wouldn't purge numbers just because I wouldn't want to lose the contact. Now, here's the specifics of this scenario where I thought I should probably start purging and getting rid of some numbers. So about a week ago, I tested positive for COVID. So I did what I thought was the responsible thing.

And I reached out to coworkers because I had been at the office. I didn't think that I had that obviously. and then I said, you know what, let me go to a minute clinic. I'll get, you know, checked out. I probably have like some sort of like cold flu, whatever. And they're like, oh, you tested positive. So I'm like, I should probably text my coworkers and tell them, hey, just a heads up. If you're not feeling well, you should go get tested just in case and take the proper, you know, precautions here.

So I texted, you know, instead of texting, we have a lot of people here. So instead of texting like 15, 20 people on one chain, I did like little groups based on, you know, the departments or where I was hanging out with them or whatever, right? And I didn't want to tell everyone because I don't want to be out there freaking everyone out. There's people that would be unimpacted by this. So I went and I texted this group in this room and I said, oh, guys, just in case, just so you know, I tested positive. I don't want you to be, you know, worried, but I also don't want to be the irresponsible one that's just not telling you about this. And I had one coworker reach out and say, are you okay?

And everyone else just ignored me, which I was like, I guess I shouldn't even have told them. That's something. Land the plane. So then I texted that. Then I texted other different groups and one of the other groups that I texted, I had the person reach, one of the two people reach out to me and they said, hey, who's that number that you texted? And I was like, oh, that's, you know, this person. They're like, oh, that's not the number that I have for that person. And then I went back and I looked and I go, oh, that's not that person.

That is someone that I worked with almost 20 years ago at the mall that has the same first name. and I just have first names in there and not last name. So I texted someone that I haven't spoken to in nearly 20 years. And I said, I hate to, you know, tell you this, but I have COVID. And I feel so bad about this situation. But if you're not feeling well, you should probably go and get yourself tested. And again, I haven't spoken to this person in nearly 20 years. And this person, did they respond?

They did not respond, which part of me was like, wow, you've become so inconsiderate. And then I like was like, let me look up to see. They could be dead, which means then you can't erase the number now. Not dead. Not dead. Oh, Dean. Okay. I mean, great. This is a person of the opposite sex. So then I, like, look the person up and this person, me and my wife work together at the mall. So she knows this person.

So then in my head, I'm like, I wonder if this person now is going to reach out to my wife and be like, hey, husband's been texting me and he's telling me as COVID. And then it'll be a situation. What is the advice that you need from Michelle? Well, I'm trying to paint the picture accurately. So she understands the conundrum that we're in here. Yeah. And then when I checked her Instagram, I'm like, she's like in Asia right now. I don't think she's going to get this. Hopefully she's changed her number. In which in that case, I've not texted a total stranger telling them that I have COVID and they have numbers of my coworkers too. So what is the, I guess, line on when I should probably just remove contacts to protect myself from myself?

You know what? I don't, now that you're saying, I don't think I've ever deleted a number because I don't. So, you know, you have those friends that. constantly are changing their numbers so i always put their new i put their name with like the new date so i know whatever the last number was but do you delete their old one because i don't i'll just have like this person new and then i'm like yeah i will literally never need their old phone number but then they've got a new one afternoon so i'll put like new new new new 2025 and then was like chris new after chris new 2025 like i don't know no i put the actual date like sean elliott is known for changing numbers a lot so i constantly am like i don't know like right now i'm not even

100% sure which of these is the current one. Maybe there's even a new one. I have no idea. I would never delete anything because why. But at the same time you should mess with everybody and send her a picture of your wee-wee and let's get this thing started. Now that you've over-dust. You don't want to not ask this

advice. That is a terrible idea. If you're going to get in trouble with your wife, make it worth the time. Don't delete anything. Horific advice. Thank you for nothing, Michelle. Why would you ask me for advice? Hey, you have a birthday coming up.

Are you a birthday month person? No, but it is a big birthday. It's 50. Yikes. Yeah. So I kind of feel like if I'm going to do. And I got enough friends with money. Yikes.

I'm excited. Why did you do yikes? I was going to get 40. It's almost over. Yeah. It's very sad. But all my friends with money, if you're listening, put your monies together and get me something nice.

This is a big birthday. I don't want cards. I don't want a cake. I don't want a donut. I know. which y'all are working with. Let's do it. Let's make it happen. This is one where you text all the Sean Elliott numbers just to make sure he gets the message. Just so he knows.

Where does that rank 50s, a big one? Like where would we put that? Well, it's got to be top three, no. It's got to be top 50 for sure. I would think that I would think the order would be some combination of 150 and 18 or the three big ones. Wait, is it 18 or 21? 16 and 21, 16 you drive, 20. one you can drink.

10's a big one. 10 is not a bit. 10 is a big one. Double digits, Michelle. I have arrived. I have double digits now. No. Get this nine out of here.

I'm 10. Where is 50, Michelle? If you had to rank it and be accurate with the ranking, where is it in the top five? Honestly, I feel like it's one. And maybe it's because I'm sitting here looking at it. But also because, you know, when you are 21, 50 seems like 100. And I do feel like, you know, you don't know what you're going to

feel like when you're 50 you don't know we're going to look like when you're 50 like there's a lot going on and i i feel great so i'm just sort of like all right we're going to enjoy this one um plan a good vacation for next summer and then yeah like keep it moving do what'd you do dan uh we had a big party down here we had a moss miami party down here that was a part of the celebration where i invited just about everybody from my life down here for like that there were there were yeah where are you michel thousands of people there uh not invited but that's just classic uh Dan and me. This is the kind of friendship that I can't. To him. I don't care.

I played the wrong one. Wishing yourself. Happy birthday. Huh? Damn, Dan. Yeah. Michelle, thank you for being on with us. Always good seeing you. A reminder, she's the host of the NBA show, Run It Back with Chandler Parsons and Lou Williams. Always nice talking to you. Thank you for stopping in. You too, guys. I would love it.

Do it more often. I was watching during some of the baseball yesterday. and I saw that a commercial, Josh Johnson, not the former Blue Jay and Marlin, but the quarterback, Josh Johnson, has a commercial because he's played for 14 teams. And so he was just going through the jerseys, but none of them were authentic NFL jerseys because you have to pay for that. And whenever I watch the commercials and the commercials have an athlete who's not allowed to wear the gear that, because that costs extra to put the gear from the NFL, in your commercial, it cheapens the product for me. I can't take the product seriously, but I thought that was good work by Josh Johnson's agent to get him work when he has played for 14 NFL teams. I thought you were talking about there's some company that does the bit of

like, I need a backup. And it's just like random backup quarterback comes in to help you lift this paint, this picture in your, I think I know Case Keenum has been on there where he just shows up. You need a backup. I'm there for you. But John, that's a good agent right there. Baseball loves stories like the one that I'm about to tell, which is I was mentioning earlier with Dominique that the Yankee third baseman, McMahon, wears number 19, the way that Aaron Boone wore number 19 when he played third base for the Yankees. And the Yankees haven't done much beating of the Red Sox in the postseason since Aaron Boone hit that home run off of Tim Wakefield, the late Tim Wakefield. I saw that both starting pitchers were like two and three. So, like, basically they have no recollection of any of, like, the classic Yankee Red Sox stuff. The Red Sox were super hurt, right?

So they're starting a pitcher in a deciding game, Connolly Early, who shouldn't be in that situation pitching that game. But the Yankees were countering with Schlittler, who also hasn't started very many games. Do you realize how much adrenaline you have to be on to be Schlittler and throw double-digit strikeouts against the Red Sox when you've never done it at any. level. But I wanted to ask you guys if you saw when McMahon goes over the dugout railing and puts his hands on the dugout floor, you saw the Red Sox total indifference in that dugout about the situation that McMahon found himself in, which is a dangerous one. But there was one Red Sock who actually helped McMahon as he flipped over. And I'm wondering if the other Red Sox are like now mad at him because he did that.

I think, was it Wiser? There was only one Red Sox who helped, and a lot of people are pointing out, Derek Jeter famously went into the crowd one time to catch a foul ball. Face first, I remember that. And let's be real, this is better. Because the face first was, he could have stopped. Let's be honest. I remember being cynical at that, thinking he could have stopped or pulled up.

He dove into the stands there. His momentum was flying that way. To stop himself. The other option is one. What, fly into the wall? But this was actually a catch over the railing. That's the difference in what I'm saying here. Like, that was the momentum carries you over.

This, in this circumstance, to make that catch falling over the railing. It was spectacular. You're just shaking your head, yes? I mean, I just, the Jeter move is so iconic. Like, I don't know if I'm going to be seeing that years from now, that play. Wild card round. I get it. I get it why it felt big last night, but it was no.

I mean, Jeter had a couple. The most impressive Jeter play is the one in front of the catcher, right? The flip to the catch? With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot trackside. So being a fan for life turns into the trip of a lifetime. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Pre-sale tickets for future events subject to availability and varied by race. Terms and conditions apply.

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Stugats. All I have put in my body today is three cups of coffee and an entire cup of honey. Don't let him fool you. He said in the break that he's jittery. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.

I don't like a best of the wild card rounds. Yeah, I've been kind of like I've been dealing with my... I'm trying to work out my emotions here. I wish Michelle was here. ask her because she loved the last story. I've been trying to work out my emotions here on how I feel about the wildcard round because, like, game 163 was awesome.

Division round used to be the situation. We're like, oh, you can't celebrate the division round all that much, right? And now there's an extra round before you even get to the division round where, like, plays like this, a wild card round play when it's an extra added round to the playoffs, I feel like can't be where classic playoff moments live. And then to take it a step further, celebrations after you win the wild card round to get to the divisional round feel – that's where I'm trying to figure out, like, I want you to be happy about it. If my team was in it, I'd be happy about it. But we can't be celebrating it like we just won the pennant.

You know what I mean? Yeah, but you also celebrate once you clinch a postseason birth. Yeah, but this is advancing in the postseason. Yeah, there's too many celebrations, though. You could celebrate if you get in And then I guess you could celebrate To get to the World Series And then obviously you celebrate to win the World Series

But like the divisional round was always like Okay we're excited to get to now play in the championship round And now there's a wild card round To get to the divisional round To then get to the league championship To then get to the World Series I feel like we need to start saving some of our celebrations I love that you bring this up

I want to play a video here of Stanton After the game last night in Billy And you be the judge here Was he celebrating too much? You'll find a way to get it done. The only doubt was if that was a homer or not whenever I hit it. Thank goodness for that bonehead play

that the team was resilient enough and Cam was resilient enough to go out and it didn't mess up the chemistry or the moment. So that's good. And kids at home, don't do that. Future opponents, please do that. I love this.

on that place, so I'm just glad it worked in our favor, and it won't happen again. Champagne celebration, and you're giving a lesson to the kids at home. That's smirk at the end. He sounds like the rock. He did stand there, watch his home run, looked into his dugout, and should have been thrown out at second base because he thought it was a home run and it bounced off the wall. Usually he knows when he gets them. It was weird to watch him not know. I heard, I saw that that was like the fastest in his career he's ever run from first to second. Like, they can actually track all this stuff.

now and he was just so panicked that he ran. Which is saying something because that guy can no longer move. It's crazy to watch this person who was like the peak of athleticism. No, he was never a good runner. Get out of here. We're not going to pretend he was ever. No, no, no. I'm not saying he was fast, but he was an athlete and now he cannot move.

It's similar to watching Pujos at the end where it was like, oh, he could run a little at the beginning of his career and by the end he was in cement. But to have John Carlos Stanton this way, seemingly miss a ball like that. He normally knows that ball's going 500 feet. It was so bizarre to see it end that way. Is it reckless to say he seemed very drunk in that video where he was talking? Not reckless. And then I think...

Do you smell what John Carlos cooking? The follow-up question to that is, how did he get so drunk so quickly after the game? Like, he's a big dude. Like, how much could he have had that he was like that, that quick? I like to think he's probably not drinking a ton during season. Ah, so like one, half a beer and he's like, he's there. hasn't eaten much. Can you guys tell me because I did not see how the Dodgers celebrated.

The Dodgers have made this round 13 consecutive years. They can't celebrate them, I will say. They can't celebrate that round at all. If you're the Dodgers, you cannot be celebrating the wild card round. In fact, you shouldn't be playing in the wild card round. That's a story for another day. Sorry, Dan. I didn't see how they celebrated.

I did see there was a difference, though. The Tigers really celebrated getting past Cleveland, at least in part because of how much relief they had. because it was the most historic collapse in the history of baseball that Detroit allowed Cleveland, a Cleveland team that's not that good to catch up to them. So I assume there was a good deal of relief in being able to finally get past Cleveland because Cleveland spent the last three weeks of the season kicking Detroit's ass and putting on them a special kind of misery.

But the Yankees did not celebrate the way Detroit did on the field. It was a more muted celebration, even though for 20 years, haven't actually been able to get past the Red Sox in the postseason, which represents a total change from all of baseball history when it comes to the Yankees and Red Sox. The Dodgers was similar in that it wasn't a huge celebration on the field, but afterward, a ton of champagne. The photos and the videos coming out of that of Shohei Otani and everybody else, they

were celebrating, and that was beating the Reds. And in their defense, they do have a couple days off now. We can argue about, like, I think we talked the other day about, like, the disadvantages for the teams that had to skip this round because they're going to be Rust versus Rest kind of thing and I heard that they all had scrimmages because everyone's worried about having too much time off so all the teams that were off had scrimages intermaral scrimmages so good stuff you've got to in the uh buys among the buys I believe the only team that has are you guys laughing because Chris petered out

there so again I can't stuff are just laughing at him because he didn't close that with the dismount that you guys thought I brought a helpful nugget there with the intermural games The teams with the buys don't have a great deal of national interest, even though I'm interested in them. You've got Brewers, Blue Jays, and Mariners. The only national interest you're going to find is in the Phillies with the buy. But I don't, I think that you need the Dodgers and the Yankees to advance there to capture the imagination. But we had that last year. Like, yeah, it's, I mean, I guess maybe for like the, you know, common not really paying attention to baseball fan,

you would want the Dodgers and the Yanks. But we had that last year, and it didn't do, like, world-breaking numbers regardless. The Phillies are the team, I think, that in terms of entertainment value and giving people something different, like, obviously the Yankees are always going to be that powerhouse that attracts viewership. But I think if you ended up with Phillies, Yankees, or really any combination, to know you have Schwabber who put on that show in the All-Star game, Bryce Harper. Like, the name recognition is there with that team, and they would have beaten the Dodgers to advance, which would give you that storyline.

It's super strange to see because Phillies Dodgers is great, but it's super strange to see them both behind the Brewers, to see both the Phillies and the Dodgers have to bend a knee to the Brewers. And I want to talk for a second because we skipped past this when it happened because it was the late game, because the Reds were not a match for the Dodgers, didn't make it interesting. The Dodgers could have and should have lost last. year to the Padres in one of these short series because of how random baseball is.

But what Shohei Otani did in the first at bat of that series, where Hunter Green is throwing 101 miles an hour, and Otani's turning on it and sending it out of the park at 118 miles an hour, and it was his second most impressive home run of that game. He's doing stuff in the postseason that Judge has not yet done. done. I thought that the Yankees had a real good chance, even though the Red Sox are injured, of succumbing to baseball, because for the last few post seasons, they hit a lot of home runs during the regular season, and then they get to the postseason, and the home runs go quiet. And they go quiet, even if they're playing in Yankee Stadium where they have that favorable

porch. Aaron Judge is getting two hits a game, but they're not home runs. Singles right in the middle. And last night he was 0 for 3. Like in the deciding game, ultimately, they made history last night as the first wildcard team to lose game one and come back and ultimately win that three game series. But Judge didn't have a ton to do with that. I don't think anyone expected Aaron Judge to be what people have expected Shohei Otani to be. How do you mean? I don't think anyone thought that Aaron Judge was going to be the greatest baseball player of all time, which is the standard that Shohei Otani has. So like to say he's never done what Shohei has done. I don't think anyone ever thought outside of New York where they just assume

everyone is going to be the greatest thing ever. I don't think that was the expectation for Aaron Judge. Oh, no, but once they get to the postseason, Aaron Judge is now carrying around that he has not carried that team in the postseason. Like even Stugats was down here last year saying, hey, show me something in the playoffs, and he's doing it. Like he's doing the same things in the playoffs that he did during the regular season. Aaron Judge has not.

Aaron Judge, what are Aaron Judge's power numbers in the postseason? Go ahead and look it up for me. because he's carrying around the burden of, hey, Aaron, when are you going to show us power in a postseason? Because you're an absurd baseball player. And you just had one of the most absurd offensive seasons I've ever seen either steroid division or non-steroid division. The fact that Aaron Judge hit for power and hit for average this year when no one's hitting for average. Aaron Judge's career OPS in the regular season. is 1,028.

In the post season, it is 768. It is a giant drop-off in terms of his slugging percentage. And it has weighed on them for years. John Carlos Stanton is the reason that they made that run to the World Series last year. We learned this on the pitch clock this week. He's fourth in Yankees franchise history in RBI.B. John Carlos Stanton in Yankees franchise history. It's nuts.

It's a bit of a cheap player that he's. in because of the extended playoffs now, but yes. Of course it is. No. In all time in playoff history, in RBI? In all time, Yankees' postseason history. They play more playoff games. That's part of the reason. But how many home runs has a judge hit in the postseason? He has hit 16 home runs. That's in 61 games.

So those home runs are there, but not at the rate that you see in the regular season. And it's just a 212 career batting average in the postseason. So look, I mean, this. year he's off to a better start and the hope for him would be the moving forward it would be better but i mean look in 2024 he hit 184 and had a slugging percentage of 408 in the postseason he was not dominant by any means they made it there in spite of him in some ways billy how do you feel about the fact that jazz chisholm and miguel rojas and luiseraes that all of these former marlins are all over your postseason do you have any feelings about that

Uh, no, not. I'm not like not, I don't feel bad that they're there. I'm happy for jazz that he's there. I'm worried for jazz. I know Rojas honestly seemed like a pain in the ass at the end. If we're going to be honest, he was blocking everybody on Twitter. He was picking fights with people like, good for him, I guess, but. Him, I like say, how is he still in the league? I'm not crying over spilled milk on that one. How is he making that roster still? That roster is so good. How is he still making? He had a good season, to be honest with you. Like, he's a very serviceable. I was shocked.

I thought he's a starter on the Marlins and probably. nowhere else. Wait, he starts for them? Yeah, I mean, he plays a ton of games for the Dodgers. I was wrong on that. Like, he's a serviceable piece on the Dodgers. That's crazy. Also crazy. Roy got a glove from Apple the same way that Michelle Beatle did. No, you did. Your name's on the glove. Oh, it's my.

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