The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Pathological Liar

Episode Date: November 2, 2023

Movie critic Adnan Virk and former baseball president David Samson join the show to tease a Top 5 before breaking down the now-over World Series. Then, John Feinstein joins us and doesn't hold back on Bobby Knight. Plus, Mike Schur is here to defend the Heat, deliver multiple stats of the day, and grace us with a new Top 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunluba Tarshou with the Stugat Spatcast. I can't fix my hair, it's fine, go ahead. Oh, tell me, it looks like it's like accidental, but like stylish all the same time. Little cram or fire. It's just an action. You burn your hand through your hair, yeah.

It just needs to be helping. Getting worse like this. Yeah, it's just start. Let's talk about this first. Let's just ask for it. You know, let's talk about this because this segment of problem in general, David Samson tries to be a professional,

but Adman joins us from some, you know, best Western somewhere. They looked at him. Now unprepared for the segment, trying to fix his hair. He looks giant because we can't get proportions around here. Correct. Brad Williams looked like he was larger than me. And he's a little person in Hollywood.

You laugh, but Adman is giant and fiddling with his hair. And you're not going to fix it. It's a mess. You only do your hair correctly when you're on the big broadcast, when you're on MLB network, being professional broadcaster, guy. But Dan, once the lights are on and we're on air, his hair settles into an amazing television form of itself. Adnan, why is it that David Samson every week is right here on time and ready to go?

And you're hurtling from the, you know, the sinosphere from some sort of Scorsese movie that has made the ground vanish from beneath your feet. And you get here and you're just a mess. You're not, you're not ready, you're not professional, you're not, you're not promoting your podcast here correctly. Well, it's true, damn, what it is is a true film critic is up all night watching movies.

You know, when you're a critic, you're just, you're constantly bombarded with screenings and being sent information and you feel like the job never ends. So as the true critic that I am, I'm always a little dischivelled. When's the last time you saw a film critic and said that person looks pretty and proper and studied? That's the way it is. By nature of the job, you're just a little bit of a mess. So that's kind of what it is. I'm going to be honest with you. I have a news flash for you, Adnan. You're not a film critic. You are a broadcaster.

I'd like to point out that maybe Mike Ryan can help me out here. Where did I see Killers the Flyman? It was a critic's reading. That's right. So if I was invited to a critic, take that deep air, go. I have a critic. God is us. David is jealous about this and we can get into that in just a picture. Take that, Dave. There you go. I have a critic. You got his ass. David is jealous about this and we can get into that in just a second. But what's been revealed to me over the last couple of years is that basically, and I say this in the kindest way possible, Adnan as a broadcaster is a Thespian and an actor covered in broadcasting fraud and veneer.

But this is the real him. DeShavold film critic who is who he actually wants to be. And he's an imposter on television. He loves baseball, but he has to comb his hair correctly for MLB network because the real him has to be in disguise. That's why he's not a DSPN anymore. I think you're 100% right, Dan.

You've seen it in the magazine, Tirmie. I'm as broad as it gets. Thanks for making me transparent now of the audience. I'm revealing the true self, you've seen it. I'm just proud to let you know. As it gets, thanks for making me transparent now of the audience. I'm revealing the true self, but it's me. David, where are you on your jealousy? Because he is an actual critic. He has been anointed by Scorsese for Thessian lovers of film. He is allowed to be a critic.

It's the highest honor in this silly sphere of criticizing movies. Anybody can do what he does. I was actually more jealous of how good he was during the pregame and postgame on MLB network. So I must admit that that really is his lane. And despite the way he looks and how to shovel the is at some hotel. My guess is somewhere near the airport in Phoenix. It's not ideal, Adnan. But on TV with your purple tie, purple suit, I was watching and you were good. I appreciate that, David. I know how top of his feed of compliments somebody. So I appreciate you recognizing my skills as a broadcast. You're a good man. And I wish I go to the fair, but I appreciate your compliment.

The less. Ouch. And is he a good man? I have a follow on that because you said you're a good man because he complimented you, but do you mean? Well, at least I didn't do this, Dan. I didn't take the compliment, then compliment him back, which would have been incredibly intense here. I just lied and said he's a good man, which is also as you point out fraudulent.

Okay. I love that we're finally seeing the real you. Finally, he's been unmasked. Are we doing this segment because Chris Cody said we're now just catering. We're going to get to, do you guys want to talk about baseball? Or do you want to talk about movies meant to try and reach people younger than you because the segment is flailing because we're choosing movies from 35 years ago. I wouldn't mind

a little bit of baseball if it could Dan. I'll kick it to David. David, I know it was not an instant class. It comes the real series of five gamer. It did have an epic game one of course. Thanks to see your in Garcia. Couple of games

were blowing. But great year for baseball overall. A ten and 70 million fans. And how about base of play? Everybody's bonones, how long posties and games are, three hours and 22 minutes a year ago. This year, three hours and one minute, more stolen bases. I was a gas to the dime back to sack months. Didn't agree with Gagron. We're not doing it.

You're number three hitter with two on regardless. I was a great year for baseball overall. Agreed. I do agree. I'm just trying out whether or not metal arc is willing to send

you a microphone. It's funny. You say that as your shit cuts out. Okay, and we had these problems from LA too, and I'm trying to keep this fledgling enterprise on the on the air. It's been on the ground for a long time. I'm trying to get it into the. Don't let me go this way, Daniel.

Samson stopped laughing at me. The whole thing, but also the segment. And you love baseball and Samson, God almighty, they're working you too much. CBS cannot be paying you enough every time I turned on anywhere I was. I turned on Roku. You're there spitting gas baggery at me. It was definitely not gas baggery. It was fantastic baseball analysis, actually. A lot of it for a month, six weeks. And now that it's over, put a bow on it. I will put a bow on it by saying that there are two ways to rebuild the team and fan bases should recognize that you don't

need to spend half a billion dollars like the Rangers did. You don't have to trade for degrammed sign to grombed trade for sure. Or you can do it the diamond backs way. They wasted money on Madison Bumgarner, but they're made up of a great young team all the way. The Marlins one and oh three. That's why I really thought the diamond backs would win this year. And so every team should add hope that you can lose 100 games two years ago and make it to the world series this year. That's good for baseball. Also note Dan Maddog, Rousseau is yesterday in the sweet wearing a Toriel of all of Jersey, which I gotta say, it's hell of a story. You just inspired the diamond facts.

Dan, I think honestly, Mad Dog Rousseau is not going to eat nearly enough credit for inspiring Arizona next year. You've got to put yourself in the line. You're going to say, you know, wherever team is down, if they don't win, then Dan Lebert try to get a retire. Can we raise the stakes next year for you? Okay. Yeah, but I'd have to actually do it, right? I think this has been mildly

interesting that now Howard Stern has walked away from Mad Dog Russo because Mad Dog Russo changed his bet. Didn't retire. Was going to do a bikini down. I don't know. Somewhere in New York, he was going to wear a bikini and he had to be talked out of it by Stephen A Smith. So now first take, first take is the standard for not doing what you're supposed to do and disappointing Howard Stern. Yeah, I mean, he could have just listened boxers retire all the time. He could retire like a week. Okay, like flood made by the right back. I mean, I was a little disappointed in retire for longer than five minutes, but I'm telling you, he's taking credit for inspiring the airs of the Diamondbacks.

We talked to the manager, Troy LeVoli, who was laughing about it. You guys saw the video of the chanting mad dog after winning. I never thought a radio personality, even if somebody as irrepressible as mad dog Russo could inspire a baseball team, but evidently that was the case. David, does it infuriate you that the Rangers just spent a bunch of money and got the world series? No. Because it doesn't happen that often. I was much more emboldened by the fact that the Padres, Metz and Yankees were not in the playoffs. I actually took great joy in that even though it's bad for the game to have the Yankees and Metz not in

the playoffs. But I was thankful that they didn't make it because it shows that you can do it a different way and the right way. And the Rangers didn't just spend money. They did what I thought overspend on Simeon, but I was wrong. I thought they overspent on Seager, but I was wrong. But look at the number of rookies they have in their lineup. And Garcia is not even arbitration eligible. So Chris Young did a phenomenal job.

And there was a Marlon's draft pick on the mound that you may not have known, but his name is Andrew Heaney. So that made me happy that he got a ring. Are you in a position where you are, uh, you're rooting for a San Diego to happen. I can't explain what happened in San Diego. Snow was great. And they're line up. There's no, I mean, you can't convince me. Arizona is actually better than on paper than what that Padres team was supposed to be. I don't even understand what happened. Wait, Chris Young, the former really tall pitcher of the Reuters is now the GM. Yeah.

That's why I can't believe her. I, wow. All right. Cool. Baseball as you were. I can answer what happened in San Diego is they put together a team of names thinking that it would work. They're sort of like the clippers.

That's how I view the Padres, but they were, I mean, those players are indeed great and then snow for 30 games as an ace unlike any ace in the sport like that ought to be enough. It's not like it's not like the teams in the National League were that good at the bottom end of this, but that's, that's baseball. That's the whole point of baseball that you can have a sia on the ward winner, like the Marlins had sandy. And it doesn't necessarily translate because it's such a team game. It's not like the NBA where if you've got the MVP, the odds are you're in the playoffs and performing in the playoffs totally different. So the podra's were not a good team. They

had good individual players. They had major chemistry issues, major clubhouse issues, major front office issues, and all of it basically tanked the season. Maybe it's all Bob Melvin's fault. I'll be running the San Francisco Giants and they can figure things out. To David's point, the sad club, Dan, is now five teams, never going to world series. Raised in Rockies haven't been around long enough so how sad can you be? But five years we're talking about brewers of never-winter world series around since 1970, and the merers have ever even made a world series going back to 77.

So we'll see which one of these teams can end the hex. David, are you as Rara as Adnan is about baseball success this year because those games, Game One was magical and then you need the series to be interesting after that. And it was not. None of the games were interesting. You couldn't even do strategy stuff like they were all uninteresting games. Yeah, I'm not actually. I think the pace of play and pace of action is better, but I don't like it sort of like the NBA where everyone's just shooting threes and it's trucking duck. I don't like just sitting around waiting for the three run

home run. I think it's better baseball and smarter baseball to do it the way Arizona does when they win, which is to put the game in motion. But problem is players aren't paid for that. They're paid to hit home runs. And as long as that happens, I knew not penalized for strikeouts, you're going to have players on offense just going for home runs. David's point, teams that out home are the opposition were 25 and four of this postseason and Texas and Arizona, Texas was 11 and 0, Arizona, 7 and 0 when they

scored the first run. So that's like an NBA team. Hey, 10, 0 run the game's over. So it would have been nice to have some late drama and not to prove it, just home runs when ball games. And super rare, unprecedented to win all of your postseason road games. Like I don't it's that's is that a fluke? Yes, it's it's unheard of. It was it's 11 and no on the road for the postseason is just it's obviously a record and I don't know that it will ever be matched. Guys, we didn't have time for the movie stuff. And because you alienated young people even more by talking about something they want to talk about even less than the movies from 40 years ago, which is based on the second. Yeah, you got nobody was listening to this segment.

No, I found out Chris Young was a, that was wild. That is they, they all rose from their gentle slumbers to be like, ah, and then went right back to sleep. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, man. I thought it that is the proceedings. Don Lebatard. I actually thought you looked kind of good.

Stu got, I had the beards grown out a little bit. I got a little life in my face. They feel like little 10 Colorado San Francisco. Great time. You get life on your face. You got death on your face. I think you've got 40 to life on your face.

DCC Don Lebatar show with the StuGads. I rarely promise that an interview is coming up with such seal as John Feinstein is the guy to talk to about Bob Knight. On this day, this is a guy, John Feinstein, who wrote a biography of Bob Knight that was one of the seminal sports works that there have been. I think he's written 48 books and I think this is his most famous, so John Feinstein is joining us, but not via video, not via zoom. He is old timing. It's an old time he calls from the road. John Feinstein is with us, the author of season on the brink. Chris Cody, the floor is yours. It's the legendary John Feinstein. You think he's going to pull punches in this interview? I'm saying he will not. He's

always told it like it is. floor is yours Chris Cody. John was this guy racist? No, he wasn't racist Chris. He liked to make jokes about black, white, white, Hispanic, it was always to people he did. It was for employers. It always to people he knew. It was for our players.

It was people like me. It was to women. He always wanted to shock. And he could add very little to do with his liking Blacks or Jews. Maybe that's the man doing this like a woman. He was certainly a misogynist. But he, that was Bob, I think you should eat. If you think I'm a full bunch especially if you should read the column, I wrote Noosh

to post it. Which normally would have been called an appreciation for someone who's just passed away, but that would have been inaccurate. This is one of the things. I'll always be grateful for Bob. This is one of the things that he's... I'm just an executive. of the things. This is one of the thing that is. Forgive me, I interrupted you a couple of times. He gave you access to write the I'm not going to say the book that launched

your career, but certainly turned you into somebody who could spend the rest of his career writing close to 50 books. Right. right i was already at the watch it was it was my first book so you're absolutely right about that so how do you correctly you'll advise him as somebody who was impacted by his life and wrote about him prodigiously and uh... honestly because i think we learned the dirty side of bob night because you were reporting inside the belly of the beast on somebody who it might have seemed John I don't know if you know I don't want to medically diagnose him but he certainly had an anger problem at the very least

Regardless of the issue with my colleagues, with other players on IG tomorrow, I didn't have a G7. The IG's got Kyle, who's a great player in college. And you know, with administrators with his bosses, who eventually fired him, he found that some miles grant, branched in the president of Indiana fired him. He found that on Miles Grant, and the president of Indiana fired him.

So long after Miles Grant was dead, he refused to come back for his 40th anniversary of their industry in the 70s, because he was still proving to Miles Grant that he was suffering. He was, because Miles Grant had died a few years earlier, and the cemetery is earlier. So, as I said, I'm always grateful for the access by the, he also spent years attacking me for the book after it came out

because he said I was supposed to leave his for fan hell, which is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. We had discussed that he knew his for fanity. All this while for a fan hell, it was gonna be the book because if I left it all in, is for fattening. All this law for us to have it was going to be in the book because this fact, if I'd left it all and I'd still be writing. Had an impulse control problem as well, right?

So what is the proper way, John Feitz, what is the proper way, okay, to be respectful to the dead, to understand what this man meant to a region of our country, but to also go through him being an ego maniac who was drunk with power at the height of making coaches and to starleaders who, you know, Nick Sabin 50 years before Nick Sabin. He was an updating Miss Bullie dad. He's an exiled and bully people often. He was a pathological liar and he told the definition of that, it means you believe your life.

When he said, I told him, I believe the profanity of the book, I think he honestly believed that. But he was also, he's one of the great college coaches of all time based on his record uh... and as i said at the end of the column you know the old police here about how many lives you've got he has a lot of and a majority were further positive for the good

uh... he's been working with the way to get his attack but he also that's a lot of life not people who we did well people who he turned against and he cares attacking me. But he also touched a lot of lives, not in your good. People who he did well, if people who he turned against, there's an anecdote, and again in the column, which I had not written before,

because Jim Cruz asked me not to write a while, night was a lot, in which night it didn't cover church in night school and didn't think it was any good, and told his coaches to not reprimand him. And so they backed off and Calvertress who was from Heavensville, committed to Heavensville, where night cruise was coaching. Night then saw Jenny in a summer camp that said,

why are we recruiting this kid? The coaches said, because you told us not to. And he said, well, why don't you give a college if you can't just get in Indiana? But why did you take a kid from Indiana? I'm going to say to that. So he did come in and I'll put forth, and the office is going to be a big cat in Indiana.

And Cruz, having lost someone who arguably would have been a great inspire heaven's old history. All night to say if another coach did that to me, you would never forgive it. You know, that includes it played on the 76th championship, didn't coached under nightbreak years. And night started screaming at him about everything he had done for him.

And Jim filing said, you know, coach, the saddest thing about your life is you treat your and better than you treat your friends. And that was often true and sadly often true. And that's why a lot of people who were very close to him once upon a time, including my two-chestes, are no longer close to or no longer close to. Can you explain from inside the belly of the beast, a hungry John Feinstein gets to the top of sports writing by doing this book with this access? What does it then feel like the eight years after that to have this intimate experience where I am certain that John Feinstein, legendary journalist trying to be fair, trying to be

reasonable, trying to be objective, just did a journalistic book with a man who probably didn't have an appreciation at all for the journalism in it. You embed yourself in his life, and for eight years he attacked you when you dedicated your life to writing a complete look at this man's life. Where did you betray him? What was he seeing in you in the personal of the relationship, and how did it feel to be I imagine hurt by that, even though you're trying to be just a professional yeah as much as you might think and because I knew he was going to find something not to like about the book that's what I want he was never going to call me up

and say gosh I did a great job with a difficult subject he was going to find something not to like I was surprised and it was his profanity. It is not like he ever tried to hide it from anyone. But I wasn't surprised by it. And I knew what he was saying about me wasn't true. That was the other thing that made it easier to deal with for me. But I understood that this was part of who Bob was. And I was able to handle it. Here was disappointing. I actually wrote him a letter after he first started attacking me publicly. Actually, privately, I wrote him before that, and I said, Bob, you and I discussed the fact that for this book to have credibility,

it had to be true. it had to be true. It had to be honest. If I wrote a book about you and acted as if you never used profanity, people would just help you know, nightgate find the access and he wrote them a lot better. So I will say this, it was great to find when he decided to quote unquote forgive me years later, I was in Hawaii covering the Maui Classic and Indiana was playing, and so was Maryland, and I was with Gary Williams. And out of the blue night stopped us in a lobby and started acting as if we had never had any kind of falling out.

So I was asking you that my son, who was just been born a few months earlier, things like that. And so I, you know, I was happy when he talked to me, but Gary said to me, after all, in the case called you, why would you even speak to him? And I said, because he built my house. So, you know, I've had all sorts of different emotions about Bob. When I did my book on Red Hourback, he loved Red. He talked to me on the phone for two hours about red

and i you know i said to them at the end listen i know you did this for red but i'm grateful that you did it and he said i was happy to do it i do anything for red including talking to me i have to get out of here but in two minutes or less uh... john fine steen what do you do even though you're not a psychologist or his therapist you did embed yourself in his life how do you explain the roots of pathological liar

well i think you'd have to go back to the book because again he's the kind of access he gave me i went and talked to his mom i talked to a high school coaches people like that it started when he was a kid he was an old only child uh... he was basically raised by his mom and his grandmother because uh... his father was deaf and he couldn't really communicate with him on a regular

basis uh... he was the star athlete and uh... or below high-end and then went to a high-end state and almost never got the plot and he ever completely got over that. And I think he spent the rest of his life trying to be a bigger star that Jerry Lucas, John Hadelcheck, and Mel No, the worst remake of an actual championship game.

John, thank you for being on with us, sir. And if people have not seen a season on the brink, go ahead, John, on your way out, Radatattet. Name all the sports books better than that one. My book on Army Navy. All right, get out of here John. No punches held. Thank you for your service. See you later John.

All right, thank you. Oh my God, did I get filled with longing during that? It felt like 1980s AM radio. Ah, ambient noise. Good old days, yeah. On a coupler. Roy, thank you. Did you get nostalgic?

I did. When Big Bob Knight came to play final four tight basketball in Miami that one year and I greeted him with a column just ripping it. Oh man, it was wonderful hearing that man. All we need was a landline. We will have been set. Well, what's crazy about that doing the show as long as we have is that you surpassed for we would have no issue with that connection. We got a good line.

Good line. Good line. We'd all be really happy about it. Oh, wait, really? Yeah. Yeah. That was an excellent sound quality interview from our past. That's why I was filled with longing. Can we talk briefly about the start of that interview? I don't think you love that. Thanks for that, Dan.

Don Lebertard. Again, started on the breakfast line. What part of that interview? I don't think he loved that. Thanks for that, Dan. Don Lebertard. Again, started on the breakfast line. Oh, man, I've been singing a song to myself one morning while I'm breakfast blonde. Do do do do do. Still got you. Have you never heard the breakfast blonde song?

No, hit me with it. Okay, I wish I had some breakfast blonde. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da Hello Mike. Hello. How are you? Not great. Why? Heads think man. They have us right where they want us Mike. Heads. They have the entire, they have the entire east right where they want us. They're gonna be wrong about this one. They're, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're, they're really, they're really, they're really, they're really, they like sure. Like how's her? How about that? Told you man. He has a dog at him. I told you. He sure knew anything. Are you doing the thing again where you're, you know, it's not afraid, you are afraid of the heat, but not. No, he thinks that they're gonna win the,

the champion trip this year. Because he's logical. Yeah, come on. All right, Dan, give us a count in. I assume that we had already started because this is what the real relationship actually is between Mike, Ryan and Mike Sherr. They circle each other wearily and Mike Sherr is legitimately still scared of the Miami

heat, even as Amino has an thank you for joining us on what we're now calling Long Ball. It's taken a long time to get over here from Oddball. We've been waiting for him expectantly, but I mean, it doesn time to get over here from on ball. We've been waiting for him expectantly. But I mean, it doesn't like that what has stuck to him is he has already said the Celtics did not improve with that trade. And the Celtics yesterday scored 75 points in the first half and 80 points in the second half. They beat the Pacers by 50. They're clearly going to be good if they are healthy this year. And the Miami Heat start one and four. And yet, Mike sure is still out here declaring that the Miami Heat are going to win the championship, which is laughable.

It's not. It's not laughable. How many times we have to go through this? I don't understand. What do I have to do? Has any intern at any company ever overperformed their job title to the degree that I have? All I do is come on here and give you expert basketball analysis

in the face of all of your skepticism, and all I get for it is grief. I don't understand this. What do I have to do to you people? Well, because Mike's out again. They've started one in four. He's done with Josh Richter, saying Mike after five games is done with this basketball team. He's asking Pat Riley for apologies. He's yelling at me on and off air telling me

that I'm an apologist and a shill in a heat mouthpiece. Gonna are sometimes. I don't need this on you. Well, I have a top five list. Do you want to hear my top five list? I do. What is it about? Do you have a set of the day, too?

I have a set of the day, too. That's great. Of course I do. We're a full response for that. All right. I have a set of the day. But let me give you my top five list. It's the top five Pacers.

You didn't know where Pacers. Oh, this is fun. Yeah, there's one I know early season fun. Yes, go ahead. Let's do it. Number five, Bruce Brown. Yep. Number four.

Number four, Aaron Neesmith. He also got paid for Marcellto great, Aaron Nysmith. Number three, Buddy Heild. Got for long though, but gunning and coming out just three, three, seven, seven, three minutes trying to get traded. Almost was a heat culture person. Number two, another Celtic legend, Daniel Tyson. Oh, that's, we call Daniel Tyson. Oh, yeah.

Oh, we call him the team USA Slayer. Yeah. I remember, Jay, they read it. These guys go overseas and when they play for their country, they play a role that's different from what the role they play, and they'll be able to say, Daniel Tyson, we're doing Daniel Tyson things. Did everything, everything he did for the Celtics,

he did for Germany. And number one, Paser, you didn't know as a Paser, Mike Ryan Topshot legend, Obey Toppin. Still available. What is your stat of the day? Is it baseball related? We've talked a lot of baseball. We are continue to alienate young people with how much baseball we're talking around here. Yeah. I've got a bunch of stats from this World Series. World Series a playout exactly the way that everybody kind of feared it would, which is to say badly. Here's, you want to play the means, I got a bunch of stats, but there's one real stuff

that I'll lay out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Star of the day, Star of the day, and this is Star of the day. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one.

I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. went 11 and 0 on the road in this postseason, which is bananas. That's truly insane. And overall, in this postseason, road teams went 26 and 15 in the postseason. That's a 634 winning percentage. The Atlanta Braves, the best team in baseball this year, had a 642 winning percentage. So road teams in the playoffs essentially played like the Atlanta

braves did the entire season. That's a good saying. That's a great stat. And this is why he dorks out on the podcast with Joe Paznansky. Are you guys doing like emergency world series coverage because the regular season was so great. The skill was so great. Then the post season maximum baseball and the best teams left. And what you're great. Then the postseason maximum baseball and the best teams left and what you're left with at the end is a floating turd of nobody cares that the right. No, but nobody cares that the Rangers won, even though I can sit here and chill for baseball and like baseball and and enjoy the world series, but also see that the last four games right one baseball had everyone in their grip after a great postseason.

Those last four games did not deliver the way football does in the witching hour every Sunday. I mean, look, the Rangers, you could make the argument were one of the, I don't know, not the best teams, but they're in the upper echelon of teams all season. They also did what every team's fans want their owners to do, which is they stung for a long time and then they went out and spent a bunch of money. They spent it on the right guys. They got Seagull and Semy and all these guys, even though DeGrom fell apart.

So it's not a bad story and there's cool things that happen like native Aldi, who has basically cemented himself as a postseason legend. He threw six games in this postseason. His team won all of them. That's pretty amazing. He was great last night, even though he didn't have his best stuff. Bruce Bochi is now on four titles as a manager. There's only a handful of guys with more and they're all like old timers except for Joe Torrey. Also, Cory Seeger. Cory Seeger is another step where he. Cory Seeger is the only guy in any sport or one of two guys

in any sport to win the championship MVP twice in four years with two different teams. The only one that did it is LeBron. So there's cool stories. There's fun things that happen. But after a season where like baseball actually for the first time in my adult lifetime made a play to improve itself and actually get new fans, it was just kind of a bummer of a postseason, like all

the coolest teams were eliminated early. A lot of the biggest stars were eliminated early, eliminated early. In fact, pretty much all of them except for Seager. And it just kind of ended with a whimper. It's a shame because the regular season was so fun. So whatever, we'll get them next year. Do you have any other stats or is that it for if we have we used up all of that enough stats for you? I said no, I know it's enough. I just didn't know whether whether I had missed any. Yes, it's enough.

I'm sorry. I've offended you and how much you love this stat. Hakez and Josh Richardson went to combine two for 18 from the field last night. Wow. It's his fourth game ever in the in the NBA. He's 26 years old though. Perfect fair. No, the heat have the east right where they want us. We're all doomed. The worst, the longer this goes on, the longer they're in last place, the worse the future gets for me. And you know it's true. The Celtics look like world beaters after four games. The heat look like they're a lottery pick through five games. Come talk to me in April. It's going

to be bad. Yes, miss. Yeah, the honor of the middle has been speed now. Yes, miss. We'll Smith winning back to back to back world series. Yeah, that's cool. Braves two years ago last last year was at the... I don't understand this town cryer character. I don't understand how this game works. Sure, thank you for being on with us.

We appreciate it. Anytime. You sound defeated. I am. I am. This is getting, it gets worse every day. every day.