The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Motorcycle of the Sea

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

Lionel Messi is absolutely dominating MLS to the point that Miami fans think they might be getting Punk'd. Dan and Domonique continue to discuss the USWNT and why "being a pioneer sucks." Then, Tubby Smith's views on NIL and the risk of riding a motorcycle. Plus, we have Stugotz's Weekend Observations! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don Levertar Show with the Stugots Podcast. Stugots, Messi, Leonardo Messi, who has played three and a half games, is now the fourth leading score in Inner Miami history. Because every time he goes out there, he scores two goals and it's ridiculous and it made me think of LeBron and Bosch and Wade get on the stage and if it had been really easy for them to do it the way Durantid, 72 games, we would've hated it. We wouldn't have remembered it

and it would've been like really shitty. But the way they did it because it was hard, it needed to be kind of hard. And we all had to see it had to be kind of hard to respect it. If Messi's just gonna come into this league and score goals whenever he wants. You start to question the league, don't you? Well, yeah, seriously no one else has ever done this in this league. No one. I'm not a soccer expert

But my understanding of it is this is like if the three the big three came together to play in the g league And that's why it's so simple right I think it's too much is what I'm telling you. I think they've gone overboard on the messy and You can come and see his dominance. But why am I watching him play against guys who are clearly not as good as he is? Have we left open the possibility that we're as a as a market down here, South Florida sports getting punked because this just doesn't make sense what's happening right now. The Panthers make the final, the heat make it, we get messy, you and the Fond, it's just

like, I don't, we're being, the action kushur is about to show up, and just be like, this is all fake. Who? Aston Kutcher, sorry, Kutcher. What just happened to you? I misspoke, I said his name wrong. Everyone knew who I was talking about.

Let's just say, you know what, let's all do it. Let's just say where we were. You know what, you're right, we shouldn't keep it moving, let's stop. Say you think, what did I mean there? All the sports got together with Kuchin was like, hey, you know what? Let's just mess with Kuchin.

Let's not move on yet, let's stay here, Dan. I made a mistake, so it happened once. Do you remember those Kuchch balls? I love those, they were great. I actually bought some at the airport the other day way over price because they were like, they were out there and I'm surprisingly, an anxious flyer. So I'll go were out there and I'm surprisingly an anxious

flyer. So I'll go through the store and I'll get anything that I feel like will titillate me during my flights. I love a flight to the nation. Yeah, exactly right. So I saw it was two of them and the point of them is to put on your luggage so you can kind of see which is your like they're like luggage. Yeah, but I bought it once I was already in so my luggage was now gone. I didn't need that anymore, but I thought whatever. I'll play with the kushpa's while I'm on the flight. Love a good kushpa, but way over price like $9 for two of them.

They were mini kushpa's. You guys remember Rosie O'Donnell, too? I'll show. 15 hours on airplane yesterday. That's too much. No kushpa's. Really? How'd you do it? Reading books in Sadooku.

People like to make their bags stand out. I like mine to blend in. I don't want anyone taking my bag. No, dude. If it blends in, someone will take your bag. No, I need to check the label. Oh, you think that if your bag's too interesting, someone's gonna be like,

it's like, ooh, bet that dude's got some awesome stuff. What's in that bag? Nobody's looking at my bag. You know why? Because it's unnoticeable. But someone would think it was their bag and they'd take it by accident. Yeah, but you check the label and then you move on.

I had some flight camaraderie yesterday, which was really great. Flamaraderie. Yeah, a little flamaraderie. I was, isn't like, you know, my little row seats. And there was me and a woman who was speaking Spanish and then there was another guy in a seat. And he was just such a jerk

And I mean this woman just looked at each other like this mother and we just the whole flight we complained with our eyes without using any words in English or Spanish And I just felt so close to her. It was great Flamrottery Chris Cody Austin Kusher you have I want to salute you I want everyone to stop and sink into the quicksand of what is really right now our heroic leader having grown so much into the position of leadership that he looked around the room and he said to everybody yeah I made a mistake

and what's the group going to do oh look convenient everyone's going to bounce on me you know what I'm going to lead here Let's sink into it. And that's what happened afterward. Billion, Dominique, we're forced to make content. We didn't even talk about Rosie O'Donnell's show. True leadership from Chris Cody. When he's right, we did all new. We all of us knew exactly who you meant.

And yet all of us perked up, look, a weak one. Look, someone, someone. So used to it around here. Someone leaking confidence, everybody, like, like harpy eagles. Let's swoop down and sever his innards. What about teammates? I used to call out one of my teammates because he was from Florida and he would make up words.

I used to call him out and correct him and one time he told me and it was like cutting, but it made sense. If you can correct me, you knew what I meant. So I don't correct people anymore. And because it was like, yeah, you're just correcting me to be an asshole to show that like, oh, you read books. Like, if you correct me, you knew what I meant.

And I use that all the time now. And Chris is right, but it's also funny to roast people. Yeah, but I have to change this about myself because I have created this environment because I am that asshole I will correct you every time it's bidsley assuming you want to learn no no no Whether they need to learn it or not sometimes things need to be called I had a teammate who came over to me And we're about to get on the flight to go to a game and I'm in Colorado

This is a different teammate right now and he came over and said not that tofu and I was like huh Not that tofu and I was like huh not that tofu what and he pointed to his neck where he had a tie hang around it a food you know how to tie a tie and I was like no this stops here we I will not I don't know what he was from Texas I don't know what language you are speaking I don't know that accent but I will. I don't know what language you are speaking. I don't know that accent, but I will not, I understand what you're saying at that point, but I was like, no, I will not participate in Tio Tafu.

Wow. He also said, Newt one time, which is something that I loved and I kept. We were talking and he was like, oh, I should have Newt Tafu was like, that was, oh yeah, I like that Newt, good word. Add it to the repertoire. Nata Tafu, terrible phrase. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha like that, that's not a thing. That's a thing, really? Okay. And yesterday's reaction to that team was that for me.

Somehow I'm still surprised. Somehow I'm still the fool who's like, really you're going to make fun of these people. We're all rooting for the same team. Like, where are we all in America rooting for the American team to win? No, we're not. We're happy. They lost. Are you bothered by it?

Like, honestly, I didn't hear much about that until you started talking about it today. And maybe that's just, I'm not much of an ex-user anymore. The Twitter and it's not like some big social statements. Just I don't find Twitter interesting as much as I used to. So I didn't notice that. I just watched them come up short and I saw it and was like, that sucks. I wanted them to win.

That sucks, but I didn't really notice that people were rejoicing in it. I'm not surprised, but I didn't notice it. It was the least surprising thing I've ever seen. I expected it. I mean, the hard truth of it is people love to shit on women. That's their favorite thing to do and they had the perfect opportunity to shit

on someone who they don't agree with and who is a woman. Like, plain and simple, that was just gonna happen. But it makes me feel like an honest idiot that I would look at what, like, how politically disaligned am I with people that are in sports, are alleged area of expertise. I'm watching a group of women who are doing the best thing in sports that can be done, use the platform to elevate around the world girls. Now you can be someone who gets mad at the Barbie movie. I have not seen it. You could be the person

who doesn't like that message in 2023 for whatever. You love men, mention have the power, religion, have the power, whatever your reasons are for taking away, you know, the rights of a woman's body, everything else, whatever gets arch show called to woe that team was to woe woe is what allegedly lost from the weaponized the world cup but what that team actually did was elevate the entire sport in a way that had to be super fatiguing because they weren't just that it equal rights they were fighting for and they were trying

to be political activists as well the argument just doesn't make sense because they've been woke for a very long time. They were woke when they won. Like it's- Yeah, but they were winning. So people were waiting for them to lose before they criticized.

Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry if this is not the right way to feel but being a pioneer sucks. Like, you don't get to be a celebrated pioneer. Like, you make this point all the time, Dan, about what it took for people to actually celebrate Muhammad Ali. Like, during that time, he was not celebrated. So if you are trying to make systemic societal change,

it's going to suck for you. It's a sacrifice. It's a martyrdom, essentially. And like, it's a tough thing to deal with in any process. Like, you know, I've been heavily involved in unions since I was in NFL. And I just remember looking back at union history, all the success that we have current athletes have

and money and insurance and pensions, the athletes that actually made the sacrifice the players that actually gave up the sacrifices to get those things do not benefit from them. And that's just the way that you can say it that way. And that's the hardened capitalist way of sports. Everyone's disposable. But I would say to you before we bury what this team is, call them losers, question choking, PK's, whatever the details are these women for women in sports were allie

they were Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali didn't go from most hated man in america to most loved until he lost his ability to speak these women have not lost their ability to speak but they are no longer backed by the winning that made them conquerors champions and not just pioneers in their sport, pioneers across the world. That shouldn't be lost in the minutia

of whether you missed lost a game by millimeter. It's not lost in a minutia to people who care about it. Like people like you and people like me and people who care about that side and people who care about that side. That's not lost in it. But the point I'm making is not about society or is not about capitalism or is not about sports. It's not lost any, but the point I'm making is not about society, or it's not about capitalism or it's not about sports.

It's about sacrifice. Like if you are going to push forward any agenda, there will be casualties and not literally, but sometimes literally. And in this way, their public persona, their ability to go anywhere and be applauded, that's what they gave up. And that's what, like, should be celebrated,

but what comes along with that nothing in life is free. And it's a, like, should be celebrated, but what comes along with that, nothing in life is free. And it's a conversation that I have with, I was gonna say with my kids, but honestly with myself all the time, where it's like, look, I want all the good stuff and none of the bad stuff. That ain't how it works.

And like, I noticed that in this office and this community all the time is like, you complain sometimes about how things are not organized, how things aren't on top of thing or how everyone's not on top of things, but what comes with the loose, loosey Gucci nature of this organization is a fun atmosphere. And in other places, it's run like a military camp.

You may not have the fun, but people might show up all the time on a time. There's a trade-off, and everything in life, there's always going to be a trade-off, and you're gonna kill yourself trying to get people to have progress and also be celebrating. How amazing the stakes, though, it's still not seriously, the way the place that this team took the stakes, how amazing is it that this country that it did not care about women playing when they started and didn't care about soccer the way they do now. Remember Brandy Chastain handing down to other American women?

Something that would lead the world in strength for the stakes to get so high that them losing before the championship round is a source of laugh at them and dance on their grave. It's the highest compliment you can give to activists in our time that they would risk that pioneering martyrdom because, yeah, Rapinoe stands for something. It ain't losing. It's not what she stands for. Maybe yesterday, not to history. Don Lebertard. Yes, you can't talk about double-digit national titles when every single call of you winning the national title sounds like this Oh there's there's a stepping jack I'm running down this highlight

If the audio yeah And there's a wall-fool too better in pitching into another white guy and he avoids another white guy Oh my god another name the fighting Irish have done it again for the egg pie I'm not playing white people still got chubby checker Sorry And again for the egg pie and white people still got chubby checker I'm sorry I'm improv in here I He smells it differently. All right, he's name is chubby. Maybe you can hear me correctly. His name is chubby. Maybe you didn't hear me correctly. His name is Chubby Chackas.

It's an S at the end. I feel like that should be the largest of five. And Chubby Chackas. And Chubby Chackas. It sounds like a college football name. This is the Danele Batar show with the Stugats. Stugats's weekend observations are on the way. Johnny Manzel is going to spend a couple of segments with him.

I'm sure that Netflix documentary has to be interesting because just from what I'm reading aggregated about him saying he was bipolar, basically what I'm assuming is happening there is we're all feeding it Johnny Manzel as he's a college star and he's going through something of a mental breakdown and we're covering him as if he's not going through a mental breakdown, making it all the worst. It's putting out a fire with lighter fluid to we'll talk to Johnny Manzel about that. But I wanted to read a quote to you guys about Tubby Smith because college sports is just such a magical anarchy of chaos and commerce

right now where you see as soon as the players ask for money, everybody said, oh, man, the gig is up. Everything. Like there is the injustices up. Now everybody run for your lives. So you got like bowl representatives and their orange jackets running in one direction. And you got like packed 10 teams saying, we got no loyalty to you What history doesn't matter because just everybody's running to television dollars And it happened as soon as we gave the players some power So tubby Smith champion basketball coach says of N.I.L. and transfers and all that stuff quote I've been in this business a long time never seen anything like it

We had over 800 division 1 players transfer last year. We're teaching them how to quit. That's what we're doing. That's not going well. Let's quit. And then, Toby Smith does, this is exactly what you want to give young people when they want the rules changed because you've benefited from the rules and they haven't. He said he had a conversation with his father, and when he wanted to quit, his father said,

you're still getting your scholarship, aren't you? They're still feeding you. They're still housing you. You're still getting an education? Well, you can't come home. Your bed's taken, but you can join the army. She has a net worth of $13 million. That's all?

You got a gambling problem? I know. I was caught on. I've got a hobby made more than that. This is according to celebritynetworth.com, which I know is really reliable. Toby Smith has to have earned more than me. Toby Smith has a champion in Kentucky.

I'm gonna tell you the only thing I remember about Toby Smith at Kentucky. Can you guys put up that video of him on a motorcycle in Kentucky coming out on the court? He's wearing leather. He's wearing a lot of black. There's fire going into the sky. Oh, this is going well. This is going well. And it's not.

And he doesn't know how to ride a motorcycle. And now he's on his side and the motorcycle is on him. There he was going four miles an hour. Is there something I'm not understanding about the slipperiness of a basketball court there? No, he's just not an athlete anymore and it's pretty embarrassing and the bike is heavier than he thought. And he's annoying and I'm mad at him now. And might have nerd for thinking like motorcycles, risk for ward, one of the worst options.

So bad. I mean, especially the hogs, right? That's what they call those big ones. Like, I feel like they're not even cool. I don't like those bikes. They don't eat me. Billy, I'm with you though. No, of course, I don't understand.

Yes, the freedom of 100 miles an hour in your face because you're not protected by anything. I guess that's wonderful to somebody, but I'm not that flippant about life. That I'm not that brave. What do you say? It's not worth, it's not worth, the rush is not worth the risk because I believe that it is.

We don't know how to ride motorcycles. You get in a car every day. There's risk there. Okay, there's not that risk though, where if I make a mistake on a motorcycle, I am going to die more likely than if I get into a car accident by leaps and bounds. Anytime someone whizzes past me on a highway on motorcycle,

I'm like salute to you person, you are braver than I am, also you care about your life less than I do. And you have more confidence in your abilities of all kinds than I do. But you're always jealous, you're always jealous though, when there's a traffic jam and they just hit the lines

on you just like, I hate that. That's the only time I wish I had a motorcycle. They're cheating. I hate that. Really? I mean, I'm jealous then. Put my car a little bit in the way so they can't get by but then that'll just like

Confertation and I don't want to confrontation Your car out there and then you regret it immediately like oh, sorry go out it that'll I don't appreciate that How do you Billy that crab in a barrel mentality? I follow the rules. I know but I I am happy for them in that moment I'm like look yeah, you got you get there. Ride free, brother, ride free. I mean, look what happened to Bobby Patrino. Hey, what on a motorcycle? Things went real poorly. Do we trust internet networks?

Stugatsu says six million. Lie! That's low. We heard about that Vimo balance earlier. Yeah. The thing about motorcycles, they're like, it's not just you're trusting yourself. You're trusting everyone else around you.

They'll follow the rules and not in anywhere. Like just don't hit me with your car. Not anywhere, Billy, the driving here. Well, there's motorcycles everywhere. Yeah, but they're also dead bicyclists everywhere. The driving here is really bad. I love how around here we don't follow any rules except for the takeout delivery parking space at restaurants.

I don't like that. It's like there's the only rule we follow in society down here. We'll cut you off, we'll fight you on the way for a parking spot unless it's a takeout spot. We'll leave that one. That one's always empty. It's the one rule in South Florida that we are just like, nope, can't break that. That spot is for flanagans takeout only. I saw a cop parked in one of those the other day and I wanted to roll down my window, not gonna say, sir, this is not a reserved parking space for you.

I'm gonna tell you something. But, well, it's a cop. I'm not gonna be a cop. I mean, if you're a cop, why take that space? Just park it front, like, park wherever you want. Why is somebody getting take out better than me? That's the same, you're buying food,

I'm eating it in there, you're leaving with it. Why do get a good parking space now? It's like no, but just walk careful We're like a couple steps away from you saying why to handicap people get spots close No, they that I understand I just don't understand why this person doing take out needs a great spot I use the the child parking parking spot one time or one or two times those spots expecting others No, no, no the one that that has the little green thing on it that you hang and it's like you have a new child whatever you can buy the decal when you have the baby, right? So at the time, when I was growing up,

those were everywhere. I'm like, I cannot wait to have a kid so I can just park in the front with the stroller parking. Like this is the best, except they all disappeared, except buy by baby and then buy by baby disappeared. And then like that whole parking lot was that so it was completely useless. So I went to Michael's one time and Michael's

for whatever reason had one spot in the front that was reserved for that. And it was before Mother's Day. So I was like, you know what, I'm gonna take my daughter, we're gonna get something cutesy-woozy to give her my wife for Mother's Day. So you guys don't wanna shit on Tubby Smith about being and her friend?

We'll get to him, we'll get to him. And I'll look at that. So I'm there, I'm parked in the spot, right? And I'm like, oh my God, I can't believe I get to use a spot. It was a rush. And then a cop knocked on my window and was like, to use this spot, you need to have your child. And I was like, and I rolled down the back window,

I said, the kid's in the back. And I pointed at the kid and then a cop apologized to me. And I felt a rush. I felt like I could break all the rules that day, even though I didn't break any. It's like riding a motorcycle. It was just a rush to secure telecom and I felt a rush. I felt like I could break all the rules that day even though I didn't break any. It's like riding a motorcycle. It's just a rush to secure telecom.

I felt kids in the back. I felt that on a jet ski too. Jet skis are like the motorcycles of the sea where I wanna push it and hit it as hard as I could, but I also felt my hand grip slipping the harder that I was going, but I didn't wanna stop. And I thought this could be a problem if I ever buy one.

Do you think anyone's ever like laid out the hypocrisy to the college coaches? Are they open to understanding it? Because it seems so brazen. And I try, I've been trying to be more understanding and not be as arrogant, because I feel like a couple of years ago, I think I was really arrogant on TV all the time,

talking down to people about, and I hated that about myself. So I've tried to be more conscious of that in my regular life, and I just wonder if politicians is following this category, but college coaches, like, are they consciously like, no, I am not going to allow you guys to convince me, or do you think they don't,

they truly believe that what they're saying is right. Given one or the other, I think that while they they're similar Jetskis probably safer than motorcycles, if you fall off you could drown but you also have a life jacket on but you think that the water's harder than the street if you fall off but they say that if you hit it at the right speed it's just as hard as hitting concrete. Do you think the risk reward is worth it to be a college athlete? Like is the risk that you're taking in your career in your life? Because I know you think the risk reward is worth it to be a college athlete. Like is the risk that you're taking in your career in your life? Because I know you think the risk is just being a player, but it's not only that. And so on a serious note, I made a lot of sacrifices to play football.

And we've talked about this before. I realized like I couldn't take the major that I wanted. I couldn't do internships in the summer. I couldn't work. I couldn't do all these things that other students may do to prepare themselves to have a life after sports. There were certain classes I couldn't take because it was all to play sports.

And then I was a third round pick and honestly it wasn't worth it. I got a second contract, then I was like, it was all worth it. So for being an athlete, is that risk reward similar to that of motorcycle riding? No one ever really thinks of the negatives of a life jacket, right?

Like, sure, it'll stop you from drowning, but there's times you just want to go deep into the ocean and having that life jacket stops you, so it'll make the force a lot greater when you hit it. And no one ever thinks about the negatives of being a big time college athlete. There are plenty of negatives besides just your, the physical toll that it takes on you.

It's sacrificing that you're making for the rest of your life that will be hard to come back from. That I don't think people appreciate. And when we look at the coaches and they're like, oh, these guys moving from here to there, that's because their whole life is contingent on the decision that they make at this point right now.

Like the trajectory of their life can be impacted by their decisions, which is why it, to me, it makes sense if things aren't working out one place you should be able to go somewhere else. Sometimes not having a place to stop, though, is just like a Russian itself, right? That's why the hog life is for some. You just take the road and see where the road takes you. What did you run out of gas? 25 mil for Dan, huh?

Low! Low, low, low, really. What's Tubby Smith ever done? Oh, no, no, no, really. What's Tubby Smith ever done? Yeah. He out here acting like he's just the moral authority. Like, what's the sacrifice he's made? Somebody tell me, I'm being this serious question.

I don't wanna come down on Tubby Smith to be like a, what if he has like a great sacrifice? Yeah, I don't, that's why I phrase it as a question. That's why you guys need to start googling. He can't like his first name, right? He lives in Loebick. Or lived in Loebick, that's a pretty big sacrifice. That's gotta be. That's why you guys need to start googling. He can't like his first name, right? He lives in Loving. Or lived in Loving. That's a pretty big sacrifice.

That's gotta be a nickname, right? What's his real first name? Orlando. First name's not Tubby. Orlando Henry Tubby Smith. Orlando's a dope first name. It is. Wow, not the Orlando magic, though.

Big O. Oscar Robinson. Orlando, Iagary. That's the one. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha if you can ask a question, Tom Time. That resonated with me because I do the same thing. And like I've had full out arguments with my wife in my head, and then I never actually have the argument with her, which I actually think is probably healthy. Well, do you feel like you resolve the issue

when you have the argument in your head? Yeah, I feel better. I mean, sometimes it goes over the course of a couple days, but I think I've learned that the minor, whatever it is, while it may feel major at the moment, whatever she's done, to piss me off, may feel major at the moment, but I have the whole conversation in my head, I get it all off my chest,

and the thing that I always try to do, that I can't do in the moment of anger sometimes, is remind myself, we all in the same team. Her intentions are good. Her purpose is not to upset me. I have a friend that I text when I wanna text my wife something. Oh, that's a dangerous game.

And it's just like, he knows that if it's just a random thing about laundry, it's just me getting something off my chest. Right. Next segment, we read those texts. You trust this friend? I don't, so I don't tell, I never tell people negative things about my wife. Yeah. I don't, so I don't tell, I never tell people negative things about my life. Yeah.

I don't know. It's just like, it feels weird. Like, I feel like, I don't know. It's like, if I got a problem with you, I got a problem with you. You don't need to know about it. Don Lebertard. If I'm at the house with them and they're all rooting, I could just be like, yeah, rah, rah, rah. Go Yankees. Still got, you know, unsettling would be if I attended a live sporting event and someone behind me would just go,

rah, rah! Rah! Browns. Rah! Rah, rah, rah! This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. In this time for Stugats to share his game notes, no one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy's stew.

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gardens. Well, that places butterfly gardens. You think gardens? Yeah, you think so? Yeah, because you know they're all gonna be dead in like three days. I think my brother's service is gonna be at one. Oh, oh, geez. Lovely place's butterfly gardens. Yeah. Marriage, huh? I want to be at the butterfly gardens, but I can't stop caring about Kyle Trask. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K Better than ever actually take a break and it seems pressurized once she does and it seems like it could

hurt and it might be a mental health check and also yes she's great best ever. Uh, she's back. Yeah. Those of you who woke up at 5 a.m. for the US soccer game, I woke up at 715 a.m. and saw just as many goals as you did. Suckers.

Dan, you know what the S in soccer stands for? Suckers. Yeah, why you are on it. That was quick, but it's not. Wow. Suckers. It's amazing. I got two and a half extra hours of sleep.

So I'm just as many goals, suckers. Suckers, suckers. Yeah. Dan, you know what this Wednesday is? Wednesday? It's say day on stupidity. Is it really? Ron say all five, ten of them.

The penguin. Billy, why are you rolling your eyes? Is it not any good? You know, it was something that we all went through. He's got a book. Go buy it. And it's not the way. What kind of that, Billy?

You can't be so lazy selling stupidity that way. Are you promising the people it's not the way. What kind of that, Billy, you can't be so lazy selling stupidity that way. Are you promising the people it's not any good? Because Stugans is out here telling everybody it's gonna be worth listening to. We got to talk to Ron Say, boyhood idol. Well, it was a situation where like we were asking him obviously his all-time Dodger's team positioned by positions.

And then he was kind of telling us who didn't qualify as an all-time Dodger and who did and then I was just going and looking up names from like 1940 and throwing them at him as if I knew who they were and then arguing with him why I thought they should be in and they shouldn't be in right but he has the final say that's the whole gimmick yeah Billy what are you not understanding all it is about is how do I get to run say as the final say I got it at some point though I did text I need to stop this man's like 73 I need to be nice and what and still got to give you seven hours of

Material to cut into nine minutes. Well, that's it Extended interview with Ron say you dream that down to seven minutes He was out with us for two days Where was it? How does Brad Penny not have a podcast called a penny for your thoughts? Who would listen to that? It's totally fair.

I do not want penny thoughts for free. But it's still like what I need. My advice from Brad Penny. Billy, are you just not realizing that all Stugots has in the holster is final say or penny for your thoughts? Give me $7 million. Why did you think of Brad Penny this time?

I don't know. No idea. Max Scherzer thinks the answer to everything is a set of crazy eyes, a head of crazy hair, and a sprint to the mound. It does. Yeah. It works usually.

I mean, I miss that time in baseball. All right. I know people want me to, but I'm not. I'm not gonna make fun of Derell Revis, the greatest New York jet of all time. Not gonna do it. Dan, you know what the D in Derell Revis, the greatest New York jet of all time. Not gonna do it. Dan, you know what the D in Derell Revis stands for? I do not.

Donuts. It stands for donuts. How'd that get in there? The only thing Derell Revis is locking down these days is dinner reservations. What happened there? Chris, come on. Chris, did you not take these out?

Come on. We're gonna body shame. Revis Island. The only thing Daryl Revis is shutting down these days is the buffet. Oh, here. I mean, these are too easy. This is not right. You are you are politically incorrect. I've got one space America. Cancel culture. I got one space. I'm gonna make fun of athletes getting fat. You're not gonna take that away from me.

You know what the F and Dorel Revis stands for? Here we go. Fat. There's nothing. What? Dorel Revis looks like he could still play. No stackle. Revis Island.

More like Revis Pylind. A pile of food? A pie. Oh, I think a pie land, my bad. Yeah. You gotta say it quickly though, just you know. I'm done making fun of Revis. I don't believe you.

I'm telling you. Out of jokes. That was your best material? I mean... Lock it down reservation. It's pretty good. Shutting down. I had cheeseburger originally. He was shutting down the cheeseburger.

There was a cheeseburger joke. Shut down a buffet. I mean, how about that fat one, too, the F? Yeah, yeah, the F and Revis and Dorel Revis. Zach Thomas. Middle name is Frank. Zach Thomas looks like he could still plug a hole with the best of them. Top five things to use if you need to plug a hole.

Oh no. Number five, standard putty knife and some spackle. Okay. Number four, your finger. Oh yeah. Number three, a finger. Oh yeah. Number three, a bowderek poster. Number two, flex seal. And number one, Zack Thomas.

Oh look at that one differently when I thought it was gonna go. Did it huh? Watch out for the Rangers. You said watch out for the angels and they immediately lost six straight, long as losing streak of the season. Now I'm telling you to watch out for the angels and they immediately lost six straight, longest losing streak of the season. Now I'm telling you to watch out for the Rangers. They're good. Imagine the Grom was healthy. You said, watch out for the angels and they straight lost four at home to the Marin.

First time it happens in 2005. Did you start to bet on them? But against them as soon as you said, watch out for the angels. We'll start betting against the Rangers. Tiki Barber presented Ronde Barber into the hall of fame over the weekend you of course know what that means right then i do not it means a couple of barbers were cutting it up would have been funny if rather than ask tiki to present yeah rendez barber had asked michael straight ahead. Oh, come on. What happened? That was cool. It would have been funny though.

It would have. Poor Zach Wilson. He makes a great throw and Aaron Rogers gets all the credit. In fact, for the rest of his career, anything positive that happens will be because of Aaron Rogers. And anything bad that happens will be because of Aaron Rogers. And anything bad that happens, we'll be because of Zach Wilson. Seems like a classic loose, loose, loose situation. What happened there?

Speaking too much. Aaron Rogers was smiling and laughing as he walked through the pro football hall of fame, looking at all the bust. Top five things. Aaron Rogers had going through his mind as he was smiling and laughing walking through the Hall of Fame. Number five, how difficult it was to find a bus to anyone who played for the Jets. Number four, the idea of going in as a jet rather than a Green Bay Packer. Number three,

imagining the day Randall Cobb introduces him into the into the Hall of Fame. Number two, how the bleep Joe name is 173 touchdowns and 217 interceptions got him into the same room that he'll eventually be in. And number one, nothing. He was just on mushrooms. Are you with the on Sanders? There should be an upper room to the hall of fame that there are too many bus downstairs and got to put the upper in the upper room. You got to put the on Sanders? There should be an upper room to the Hall of Fame that there are too many bus downstairs and gotta put the upper, in the upper room, you gotta put the Deon Sanders. It's like nine guys that everybody's like,

yep, they deserve to be up there by themselves. I agree with that, yes. There should be a different room. They should not all be in the same room. Joe Nain, that should be in any of the rooms. Oh no. He's overrated. Got to your only super bowl.

I wasn't alive for it. It's done nothing for me. It's life. Well, brought by Jeff. If by some miracle, Zach Wilson eventually gets into the hall of fame. When the unveil is bust, it will be the face of our Rogers. Soccer. Game of millimeters. On a day that a UFC event any

boxing event took place who would have thought the most entertaining fight of the day would have taken place on a baseball diamond thanks again to Greg Giannaughty and the folks at WFAN for making a dream come true last week top five best moments for me at WFAN oh here, here we go. Number five. My seventh word on WFAN being a curse word on a show that I wasn't hosting. Number four. Meeting the great Eddie Scazeri. Number three. Hugging the great Eddie Scazeri. Number two. Pulling the great Eddie Scazeri in for a second hug and him accepting it. And number one, having a heater on a New York City street corner with the great Eddie Scazari.

That's a good day. Oh, man. That is a dream come true. Not for Eddie for me. No. And it's right there, a radio legend. Don't tell Aaron Rogers, the Boston Canton don't speak to one another. Jose Ramirez is not to be trifled with Tim Anderson, glass jaw, Dan, you know what the tea in Tim Anderson stands for?

Tomato can, an annual tradition unlike any other, the penalty kick conversation, P's. Tell me again, how soccer is alive and well in this country. Oh, don't leave this. Don't do this. Sorry. Rich Hill is still doing it. He's not very well. So is Lance Lynn. Better.

Dallas Kikel is a twinkie. What? You want some Sunday night baseball last night, did you? Little bat. Yeah. So the right side of it, Lance Lynn. I don't care what tour you're on, you shoot a 58, and you deserve some credit.

Bryson D. Shambo, hell of a day. 58. Speaking of hell, or Bryles, Dan, those are the weekend observations. Daniels, Dan, those are the weekend observations.