The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Poop That Ended Meadowlark Media

Episode Date: September 19, 2024

As David Samson chats with his agent because of his fury over needing to do a second segment, Jeremy is fired up to talk with Adnan about his favorite story in baseball: The Detroit Tigers. Then, the argument between Amin and David spirals out of control as David uses Amin's poop to criticize Meadowlark Media, but David and Adnan finally get to their Top 5 Movies That Remind Them Of The End Of Summer And Beginning Of Fall. Also, what do you expect from the new Netflix series "Starting 5?" Plus, it's time for a brand new episode of The Pitch Clock! Jeremy and Chris square off against the duo from Cespedes Family BBQ, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman, in Taylor's Trivia on Rookies Of The 2000s. Jake and Jordan stick around to chat with Jeremy about their favorite obscure facts of the 2024 season, teams that would shock them if they won the World Series, Shohei Ohtani's chancing of pitching in the postseason, and the best series to watch during the final week of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I was saying before yesterday, Adnan, that it feels a bit like the playoffs have already started because of the stakes on all of these games. The Yankees in Seattle playing late last night in a game Seattle has to have because they have to finish strong. We will get David back here in a moment to do the movie stuff, but at the end of this segment, we'll have Pitch Clock. It's a segment that Jeremy is doing, and if you love your baseball,

you are going to love this segment. If you don't love your baseball, you're not going to love this segment. That's not true. Well, you need to love baseball in order to love the segment. No, no, no, no, no. I think the beauty of pitch clogged, Dan,

is that it makes it accessible to those of us who maybe aren't as well versed in baseball as some of us are. Okay, but I would say that Jeremy's being in the middle of it also makes it something that perhaps people, if they don't want baseball, might not find it terribly palatable, because Jeremy's wandering around

and he won't shut up about the Detroit Tigers for Example and the gritty tides. I mean come on the gritty tides. Have you seen what they've been doing lately? It's amazing Javi Baez their highest paid player since he went out there 17 and 7 They were a team that was eight games under 500 in August and now they're a half game out of the AL under 500 in August and now they're a half game out of the AL wild card after sweeping the Kansas City Royals who had been a hot team themselves some stats for you I mean it's unbelievable because they only have four players who were batting above the league average in OPS they don't have a catcher batting over 200 they have a Cy Young award winner at the top of the rotation but their team

in the last 42 games they have a team ERA of 254 and a whip of just over one as a team. It's unbelievable what they're doing. They're one of the, they're my favorite story in baseball right now. Detroit Tigers fandom, I am with you. Please send me everything that you have about this team. I am obsessed with the Tigers.

I was trying to shake you off of all of this. I was going, no, no, no. You had your hand behind, your face behind the glove. How was I supposed to see? Well, that's how the pitchers do. I don't want the batter to see my account. Adnan loved it. Adnan, what's your favorite storyline in baseball?

Well, listen, I'm with him on the Tiger Strike. I think it's been amazing. The fact that they're a half game right now, the wild card spot is insane, because nobody saw this coming. And I want to focus specifically on Tarek Skubal. Last time, his number's going in, 16 and four, two and a half VRA.

He's going to win the Cy Young. He's nasty, he's fierce, he's ferocious out there. And a name that people probably haven't been paying attention to is Parker Meadows. He's been unbelievable for the Tigers. He's absolutely taken off. Whole Keith's been good. Matt Veerling, one of the few players that does have

playoff success, has been excellent. So I share Jeremy's enthusiasm. You just made up names. You just made up names. You just made up names, no? Parker Meadows sounds like a very upscale neighborhood, like a suburb. Where do you live? I live out in Parker Meadows.

Oh, that's nice. Ooh, fancy. Right next to Chicago, yeah. I also think, guys, the Mets Braves. It's unbelievable. The Mets are gonna be a playoff team. They're two games up right now in Atlanta. They're pushing, and matter of fact,

the D-backs for the second wild card spot. Again, who would have thought a team without Kodai Senga for much of the year led by Luis Severino and Sean Manaya and David Peterson would also be pushing for a playoff spot. Lindor's run up for MVP behind Shohei Otani. Otani's now at 48 home runs and 49 stolen bases. He's gonna be the first ever 50-50 player, but if it wasn't for him, Lindor would be the MVP.

And I'm telling you right now, fellas, I would not be shocked if the Mets been a deep run this October they make the playoffs watch out and with their MVP out for the last week they brought up Luis Angel Acuna if that name sounds familiar the younger brother of Ronald Acuna jr. he's now playing shortstop for the Mets he's homered in each of the last two nights as they've gone on to win and are extending their lead against the Braves so it's Ac a Cunha against a Cunha crime. It's gotta be awful for the Braves.

I mean, this has been amazing for the Mets. A Cunha, a Cunha. I said a Cunha. David Sampson has returned. He was shouting. Who were you shouting at? You're yelling at MetalArk people? What are you frustrated by?

Why are you yelling into your telephone? The mute was on. I was on the phone with my agent actually. We could tell you were saying, nope, I won't do it because you're pissed off. Who are you pissed off at? Everybody? No, I just did. I have a schedule that I had to keep. I was not expected to do a second segment this morning.

I've got another meeting I've got to get to here at LA. And we're doing this because of of work, which I don't quite understand. It was three minutes. You can't hold be liable for the second. It cost us the whole second ad, man. No, it didn't. We had to sit through through a mean going to the restroom, which delayed everything for today. You didn't have to. First of all, you didn't have to sit through anything.

I told you guys you could just start the show. I don't care. I'm not gonna be like, wait, what did I miss? It's your segment, it's not my segment. I'm trying to think. I've got IBS to me and I feel for you. I really do, but we're live. What am I, so I should shit my pants on air?

Don't eat milkshakes at night. Well, guess what? Guess what, first of all, Chris, how leaky are you, buddy? How leaky are you? Yeah, my bad. All right, number one. Number two, you know what? Sometimes it's just gas.

Sometimes it's a little bit more. Today it was a little bit more. All right, thank you. No, I mean, you guys wanna make it content? Let's make it content, Levitar. How leaky are you? That's what we're talking about. Making it content.

We're trying to do a show and we're dealing with people running off set. We're dealing with people being late. There are 19 people on this show. One person, the whole thing falls apart. What the hell? Oh, my God. I mean, have to go to the bathroom. What can we do?

We've just got to stall it all out. We've got to. What? How can we move forward? How can this country move forward? Can we hold an election with the means taking a dump? End of summer movies. I just think that you're responsible to me if you don't die.

People are responsible for their own jobs. And I think at MetalArk, if we were better at that, we'd be better in general. Yes, yes, that's what's holding us back, ladies and gentlemen. Wait a second, it's just a guy going to the bathroom, a guy being three minutes late, and he's in a diamond entire company, and David's in a little bunch. Adnan, no, it's not, Ad a second, it's just a guy going to the bathroom, a guy being three minutes late, and he's in diamond entire company,

and David's in a little bunch. Add that, add that. No it's not, no it's not, add that. No it's not, no it's not. The difference last year between the Rangers and the Diamondbacks was the Rangers didn't have to shit as much. They managed to hold their shit in,

and that's how they got to the top. Number one in the sport, you know what? Don't dump. Wait until you're a baseball guy. Now I'm a baseball guy. I shout out all my basketball knowledge and I came back with fresh baseball in me. And on a side note, I mean,

what really bothered me this morning, in addition to Burke being late, was your commentary on Jim Abbott. Do you have any idea what it was to do, what Jim Abbott did, and your imitation, as someone who works with physically challenged athletes, is embarrassing. It is, you don't have one arm, you have two.

And for you to try to imitate it, just say it is unreal what he did. He's got 1.75 arms. He doesn't have one arm. He's got an elbow, he's got 1.75 arms. He doesn't have one arm. He's got another arm. He's got an elbow. He's got a forearm. And somewhere in the forearm, then it doesn't quite finish.

I mean, stop. Stop. I'm just saying. An arm and three quarters. Wow. Yeah, I mean, look, there is no math when it comes to arms like that. Disagree with that.

I disagree, yeah. I am not in agreement with you. Let's get Jim Abbott, let's get Sarah Reinertson on. Does Sarah Reinertson have one and a quarter legs? I don't wanna do this anymore. I'd like to stop doing this. Can we get to end of summer movies, please? We're ending the summer right now.

I don't- We're ending it all. I don't like what's happening around here. It's wildly unprofessional. It is an indictment of our company. That you guys are talking about me taking a shit? Well, no, that you took a shit in the middle of us doing the show. That's unprofessional.

It's an indictment of our company. Having to take a shit is unprofessional. You can't be at a microphone as an adult controlling your bowels. You don't have irritable bowel syndrome, you don't have Crohn's disease, you're just someone who had a milkshake at midnight. How do you know my medical history? You had a milkshake at midnight because Chris Cody,

old leaky Cody over there, told everybody you had a milkshake. That was the diagnosis. The shat is open to the public. The shat is public knowledge. Here's the crazy thing. I told Dan before the segment, hey, you're going to have to start a segment without me. He said, all right, go ahead.

We didn't need any exposition. We really didn't. But also, I'll be f***ed if anyone tells me that, hey, you better just sit there and not take a shit. Nobody told you that. Well, it sounds like that's the messaging that's coming across. That's not. You have to tighten it up, I mean. There you go, see?

You said that it's what's holding the company back. That you can't control your bowel. According to David Samson, that's what makes us not quite number one. Because of my bowel movement. Number two. That's it. Yeah, thank you. Jinx. End of summer movies. Yeah, thank you. Jinx.

End of summer movies. This should be great. Number five. What we all do here at MetalArk. Stand by me. Yes! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Benny King.

Selfish, angry group of people I've ever been around. Number four. It's a miracle we don't do this show from train tracks. Number four. Reese. I love you, Reese. I love you, Olivia Newton. John, rest in peace. Number three.

I stopped on that the other day and I was just laughing with Valerie because one of those high schoolers was absolutely 34 years old. One of them. Yes, one of them. I think they all were. No, no, no, the oldest one was 34. There was a 30-year-old, there was a 29-year-old. The oldest one was 34.

Stocker Channing? I wish, I think that might be. She was old, dude. Just like the euphoria people are in high school. Number three, theater camp. Now, don't make fun of this, because you want to. Molly Gordon directed it. Ben Platt's in it.

One of my absolute favorite, favorite actors. And this is a movie about kids at summer camp and how seriously they take it. And one of the scenes when one of the children is accused of doping because she uses a special peer thing to make her cry during the scene and gets yelled at for being like a steroid user. It's classic. Great movie. Number two.

500 Days of Summer. If you think that's about it, oh don't give me that. That is one of the top movies of all time. Who gave you what? Who gave you what? I just heard like, I heard a horn it was just the fan fair what's wrong with the fan sensitivity he hasn't done this segment before it's cuz me me shitting has thrown them all away oh what is that sound what is that sound they're playing when I'm oh my gosh I mean my legs are crossed cuz I was supposed to be off the

air by now but I'm not running away. Am I? Number one, you know what? Let's stall them a little bit longer number one. I want to see I want to see it all I go fashion right on here all frickin day Let's say and let's not go on break we're gonna go live on peacock. It's a new marathon now right here. Here we go I didn't move one time during the Oscar show. We were on the air for eight hours. Didn't move because we were live. Sounds inefficient as hell, but go ahead. Really? It's one of the great successes

of the past year at Metalark. Really? Damn. I can verify that. I'll back up Seth. We are hard up. That was one of the great successes. We are hard up then.

My bad. No one said we were hard up. No, we're hard up if my bad. No one One of the great successes was an eight-hour show about the show was great. Oh, that was one of the great successes I mean we pulled something off successfully. Yes, that's Yourself like what that's the bar apparently so apparently so go ahead Well, we had more people fill out Oscar brackets than filled out March Madness brackets. How about that? I mean where more people thought much back. It's brackets here. Yes. No, no not Our audience mean our audience your metrics are weird as hell

But please continue and watch out for that horn number one Numbers Number one Please continue and watch out for that horn number one Number one about time How old are all of those movies what's the most recent of those movies Recent movies he's ever put on a list I was asking because I didn't know I wasn't asking to be sarcastic I should I should have he would have known I Would have had an idea by enough enough. You know what enough no I'm not going I gotta sit here and talk shit for the rep gotta talk all the shit. I shout out for ruining comedy not leaving Okay, can I get my list to all the real quick? No No, don't be quick. Ad man, do not be quick.

I want your list. Do not be quick. You're not proving anything by making Samson just sit there. Like you're not proving anything. I'm not proving anything. I just want him to be uncomfortable. Number five. I'll go all day.

Number five. Okay, I'm glad. We're not going off area. He's such a pathetic threat. I won't go all day by going all day. I'll go all day and I won't go all day by going all day. I'll go all day and I won't go all day. You are saying, he is staring at us and he is daring us to make him pee.

Number five, Adnan. The way, way back. The story about a disillusioned teenager stuck with mom's new boyfriend played by a surprisingly nasty Steve Carell ends up finding a very endearing Sam Rockwell. It's got water slides, it's got end of summer, it's a beautiful film. I know David you're passionate about the way way back. Are you David? Is that true? When he says I know you are he was looking for some chemistry from a broadcast partner you

say that to a broadcast partner and they go you're right at man, but you were refusing to play along with him number four autumn in New York Tony hasn't heard of a movie. We've met sure we're talking about Tony has not heard of one of these movies go ahead add then when owner rider Richard gear leaves are changing There's nothing better in New York. It's sweet. It's romantic It's a wonderful film that I really think captures the better in New York. It's sweet, it's romantic. It's a wonderful film that I really think captures

the greatness of New York in this area at the end of summer. Number three. Worst list ever. Number three. It's the worst category. Dead Poets Society. You got better.

Oh, Captain Mike Captain. I mean, Robin Williams is exhorting his pupils to stand up on chairs. Robert Sean Leonard, a young Ethan Hawke, who's turning off Dead Poets Society? Robin Williams at his best. Number two the list is getting better. Hold on. Silver linings playbook. Okay, wait a minute. Hold on.

It's relaxing. I can't believe the bravery and strength of one David Sampson as he stares down the water sounds of all kinds, the sounds of flowing liquids, nothing can make him pee. I'm see sweating though. Chris Cody was too busy with the sound effects to give you the fanfare there, Adnan. So mention number two again, please. Number two is Silver Linings Playbook.

He couldn't press two buttons at once? Yes, that's right. What does that mean? You think I have a water button, David? It's my fault, Chris. I shouldn't have picked that shit. Number, number. You would have had a water button.

Did you want to say anything about Silver Line's playbook? Silver Line's playbook, Whimsical Romance. It's genuinely funny. It's sweet, it's romantic. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence won an Academy Award. De Niro at Oscar nominated. It's not just for Eagles fans. I do think it's a great film. And number one, I'll have what she's having, When Harry Met Sally. If I think of end of summer, early fall, I'm

picturing Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan and of course Rob Reiner's mom stealing the scene of that unforgettable scene in Cats is Delhi. Tony, had you heard- Your list is so off the computer, Adnan. It's incredible. You don't think that's a great list, David? You don't think those... If I were on one Harry's list right now, you and I would hold hands and watch that movie.

We'd love it. I will not hold hands with you, and it has nothing to do with any sort of homophobia or any proclivities. It has to do with my absolute disdain for your behavior today. It was just an expression for the unity we would feel together.

Tony, that's a good list. Tony, how do you feel about, you've certainly heard of When Harry Met Sally. Yeah, last couple of ones from Adnan I heard. I don't think I had ever heard of any of the ones that David said outside of Greece, maybe. Did Greece was on the list? 500 days of summer, you never seen 500 days of summer?

500 days of summer you never heard of, Tony? Tony, not missing much. What? Very whiny movie. You guys Tony not missing much very whiny movie Very whiny movie as I was mentioning before pitch clock is going to be at the end of this hour David But before we get you out of here, and I just want to tell the audience the cinephile is Adnan Burke's podcast You should find that wherever you get your podcast. Nothing personal is David Sampson's podcast He reviews a movie every day on his podcast.

We were asking while you were storming around calling your agent, the single most interesting story, storyline in the playoffs, or headed into the baseball playoffs, according to you, is? The Milwaukee Brewers. Wow. They got rid of Craig Council.

He went to Chicago, he left them. They traded their number one starter, Corbin Burns. Their best player, Christian Yelich, is out for the year. Their closer missed half the year, the first half. And somehow they've got an underage guy who is unstoppable. And the Brewers are in the playoffs having won the Central when every predictor had them as third place in the Central. I think they're the top story. Underage guy, what does that mean? Jackson Shurio, he's 20.

He's not a three. Remember yesterday, I told you. 20 homers, 20 stolen bases, 20 years old, the youngest ever, you guys were so interested in it. You thought I was listening? Tony, Diddy wants Sanson to be his lawyer. Good seeing you guys, thank you. Sanson, yeah, unnecessary Diddy reference. Yeah, just terrible

Just just terrible truly terrible segment from get control of it. Yeah, sorry David Samson and Adnan Burke. Don't send him off yet. He still wants to stay. He said he wants to do this all day Yes, you I mean you're gonna back up the Oscars were unqualified success. Give us some backup on that Come on, the Oscars were yes, the Oscars were an unqualified success. No, the medal arc, the medal arc, nevermind. Thank you guys, appreciate it. Don't move, David. I'm watching. I see you on the Zoom screen.

This is the single lamest stare-off I've ever seen. So bad. And then daring David Sampson not to pee, and David Sampson like stubbornly and sort of arrogantly not peeing. Just staring straight ahead, showing, stubbornly and sort of arrogantly not peeing. Just staring straight ahead, showing, showing a meme that he is capable of holding his urine as a 55-year-old adult."

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I didn't realize we had a substitute complicated legacy chosen by- Brought to you by Headquarter Toyota. 441 Powerline Road. Second down to nine. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. The Netflix docu-series that starts, I mean, speaking of movies, The Starting Five is what it is. And there's this new age in documentaries and in sports documentaries where people are trading

access for a bit sanitized stories. I told you that Oprah just bought back her documentary from Apple because she didn't like it. She didn't like and I'm sure there's stuff in there that she did not like and she wanted it out of there and when they refused to do it, she's like, okay, I want my documentary rights back then. That's because she's an executive producer

on her own story, and that's why, right? She has that control. It's not like Apple said, we're doing this documentary about Oprah, and Oprah said, oh, I'm very honored and flattered, and then said, wait, you guys wanna ask me about that? Never mind, take that out. It's because it's her project that she's able to do that.

She's able to buy it back, right? And so this gets to the heart of why many of these documentaries are compromised, right? Because they, in order for the access to happen, they are giving executive producer titles, which gives control and credit to the subject. But in many of these cases, it's not even that. It's the subject that's saying, I want to do a documentary about myself that's even a higher level of compromise if you will that that I can say hey I got a great idea for a documentary oh what is it what is it about it's about me and if you're Apple or one of these studios you're like well Oprah moves units we

know this Oprah has a touch of gold, so it's like, yeah, I wanna be involved with Oprah, I also wanna do a good job of this, but you've ceded any control of any sort, and so that's where we find ourselves. What are you expecting from Starting Five? It's Anthony Edwards, it's Jimmy Butler, it's Jason Tatum, it's Sabonis, and it's LeBron James.

He buried the lead. Demonta Sabonis. I'll tell you what I expect, I expect it's produced by and it's LeBron James. He buried the lead. Demonta's a bonus. I'll tell you what I expect. I expect it's produced by Uninterrupted and it's about LeBron James. So I don't expect anything to be insightful in any way. Much like, you know, we talked about a couple of weeks ago, the Russell Westbrook documentary.

I don't think it was necessarily bad, but I just thought it was toothless. And you know, actually, I did learn something from the Russell Westbrook documentary. I learned that this player, this guy that everyone told me for years, doesn't care about what anyone says, he lives his own life, he does his own thing

by his own rules and all that, and I believed that. I used to believe that about Russ. And then I watched that documentary, and the cacophony of three voices, Stephen A. Smith, Skip Bayless and Colin Cowhert tells me he's listening all the time to those three people and he's in a prison of the reaction to what those three voices are saying. When Russell Westbrook is ornery towards the media,

he's not ornery towards Darnell Mayberry, who was a beat writer for a long time in Oklahoma City, or Royce Young, or any of these guys. He's ornery about what the three biggest voices were saying about him and applying it across all the entire landscape. And so inadvertently, I learned that Russell Westbrook kind of is sensitive about what's said about him even though he told us otherwise. Steph

Curry's documentary also very not good, not interesting at all. But what I learned is Steph Curry apparently does not want people to think of him as a silver spooner. He does not want the world. They never mentioned one time, my dad played in the NBA. They never mentioned one time, my mom was a high level D1 athlete. It was all about the little guy who couldn't, and I tried, and it tells me something, the omission, the things they did not talk about

in the documentary, tells me a lot about like, oh, this must be how you feel about stuff. So we're gonna learn some stuff, not what they want us to learn. What they want us to learn is going to be some banal, corny, you know, vanilla stuff. But we'll learn by what they omit. I was interested in my reaction to I'm more excited about this basketball documentary than I have been for quarterback receivers. Like football is bigger in this country.

I get more excited for football on Sundays than I do for NBA games, but for some reason, I'm more interested in Anthony Edwards, Jimmy Butler, LeBron James than I am in Amon Ross, St. Brown, and Patrick Mahomes. I don't know what I'm doing there, but I saw that preview for basketball, maybe it's the mask, the helmets.

I just feel like I know these players more. Maybe it's because I have my connections to LeBron and Jimmy that it excites me, but I'm more excited about this doc than all those football ones. That's exactly it, is you know these personalities already a little bit, so you know a little bit what to expect.

I don't expect to learn anything revelatory in this, but I don't think they've really pitched it as like this exploratory documentary. It's a series. We're just following along with what the season was and getting some fun tidbits we didn't get in live game coverage. So to me it's just something to complement the storytelling we've already had, not necessarily discover something new. In the quarterback wide receiver one that

we've been doing, like it's weird because they're just kind of boring. So you're hoping that in this stage in this other basketball one that they're not gonna be boring? Maybe? You were you were objecting to Sabonis. You didn't like him in this stage and this other basketball one that they're not gonna be boring, maybe? You were, you were objecting to Sabonis. You didn't like him in this group. It's not that I didn't like him, it's just like, how did he get that? It does fall out of the sky a little bit. What a gig for him.

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Here's the pitch, a two part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the Pitch Clock. Back here on another episode of the Pitch Clock. Very excited. I have Chris Cody with me for today's game and we're gonna be squaring off. It's gonna be a group competition

against our baseball experts, Jake Mintz and Jordan Schusterman of the baseball barbie cast. They're Cespidus Family Barbecue. You know them well and that's for Yahoo Sports. These guys are the best. It's a pleasure to have you guys here. And Taylor, we're just gonna go ahead,

throw it over to you. You let us know what our game is for today. Yep, the game today is three strikes and you're out. Teams are divided into two. So we'll alternate turns and alternate the person guessing. Okay. So it's kind of like, you have to trust your teammate. The category today is Rookies of the Years

from the 2000s 2000 to 2009 All right, so Jake or Jordan you choose which rookie? Are you going to choose off of this list? I will go first and I will do on hell, Baroa in 2003 Please should have been Hideki Matsui, but that is oh my god Salty that is not someone I ever would have gotten that was a mistake on your part. You should not have given us save that Yeah, you say that really good. I just thought it was good to come out hot I want to put my foot down and let these guys know we're not playing around Chris Do you want to go ahead and go first? I'll go I'll go I'll go

And I'm gonna do the opposite of them and just take the easiest one for me on the board Don troll Willis 2003 Mmm, that is correct. Yeah, we Willis, 2003. That is correct. Yeah, we're knocking off 2003. Yeah, 2003 is now gone. Jordan, after one round, we're tied. Jordan. All right. What is your first guess? I'm going to go with the fellow with a few home runs.

Mr. Pujols of St. Louis. There he is. Go with him. 2001. What year? Yes. 2000. Yes. Sorry. Sorry for Claire. But with the Cardinals, he was on the card. Yes, 2003. Yes. Sorry. Sorry for clear. But with the Cardinals, he was on the Cardinals.

Yes. Was Pujols. OK, time to move over to 2024 Major League Baseball. We've still got Jake and Jordan with us. And guys, I want to start at what maybe was my favorite moment from the last week. Helio Ramos became the first player ever to hit a home run into McCovey Cove

from the right-handed side, not a lefty pulling the ball into McCovey Cove, but a righty did it. Insane power. So I wonder, you know, this is sort of a fun fact, a tidbit. Is this your favorite fun fact from this MLB season, or is there another that stands out that you can think of either one of you that maybe trumps it?

I was watching it live and like I was like chopping onions for dinner and they said it on the broadcast and I was like what in the world? So yes this is undeniably my favorite just to think about how many lefties have done it and how improbable it seemed that a right-handed batter would ever do it. If it to be a game tying home run in the ninth inning, too, was pretty cool. I mean, we've we've talked about this specific instance for years now. And I know that, you know, my crew on the broadcast has been talking about this for far longer than we have.

Obviously, anyone that's been around the Giants has been thinking about this. But I've always just taken pleasure in looking at where when balls are hit to places in ballparks that we don't see, you could just kind of get a sense because we would watch so much baseball and we've probably watched, you know, 90% of the home runs that happen over the course of a major league season. And so, you know, when it looks a little bit different, but this is the one, this was the one at the top of the mountain. And there was a 10 minute period in the winter of 2022

when we thought it would be Aaron Judge. Right. Remember, right. Arson Judge was reportedly a member of two giants. And so when I when that news broke, it was like, oh, well, he's going to be the first guy. Alas, that reporting was not valid. This is fascinating. I'm going to go. Generally what you say when you don't have an answer.

I'm going to go 2004 Pirates, Andrew McCutchen. That's got to be right. That's a shame. Oh no, I'm an idiot. I had written down.

He ain't that old. It feels like he is. It feels like he's been in the league forever. I had written down that old. I feels like he is. It feels like he's been in the league forever. Now I'm a cut. Oh, what a mistake. Back to Jake. A layoff. I'm going to take Mr. Ichiro Suzuki in 2001, please.

Yep. There he is. That is correct. There is another Mariner in 2000. I thought that would trip some people up. It would have tripped me up. actually the people in this room that I'm looking at you jerk Chris is back up We have one strike on the board obviously Jake and Jordan do not Chris you look super confident. We go back to the Marlin. That's what I was gonna do Yeah, stay

You're here for a bad team Now, I know the two rookies. I know the two rookies of the year, and I am like 89% sure I have the years right. I think I know which one is right. I'm gonna go Hanley in 06. Hanley in 06 is right. There he is. All right. Nice work.

Now what's the strategy from Jordan here? Because I think- You know what? If Jake is gonna go with Angel Baroa, then I think I'm gonna go with Giovanni Soto. Good Lord. 2008, Chicago Cubs in 2008. Is that correct? That's a great poll.

You guys are so much better at this than we are. I am not gonna serve you. I'll start embarrassing myself here soon, but I thought the Soto season was, I mean, let's talk about Soto's who baseball players, you know, people should be talking about more. 500 million dollar player. That's the Soto season was I mean let's talk about Soto's who baseball play, you know People should be talking about my $500 player. That's for sure. All right. Well if this is the case, I just need to feel safe I'm gonna go with a Marlin 2009 Chris Coughlin. Yeah, it is Chris Coughlin. Yeah We are we'll never forget the Coughlin season ever. All right, we're back to Jake here

Oh, well, you try to trip us up with those two Mariners. Well, you can't do that because I know that Kaz Sasaki won in 2000. You've got to be kidding me. That is correct. Before each hero. Before each hero. He was just setting the stage for each hero. Kaz Sasaki. Is there a team currently in the mix for the postseason that if I called either one of you in about six weeks and said,

Hey, this team just won the World Series, that you would just be completely and utterly shocked by? Man, I don't know. Like, I just watched you think about the teams at the very bottom of the of the of the standing, right? The twins, I just saw them lose in very embarrassing fashion with my own two eyes last night. That would be a team that just because of how poorly they've played, but they still have some recipes that I could imagine now that they're healthier. So I don't know who is the thinnest. All right. Let me have one. Let me have the Mets. I'm going to say the Mets.

You would be shocked if it was the Mets. How is that possible given all the luck they've had this season? No, I'm wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. OK. All right. All right. Let's let Jacob. The Mets have the topsy turvy irrational magic behind them that you can envision propelling them. The Orioles are less likely to me than the Mets. Wow. Simply.

Yes, I know you're floored by that. The Orioles are the team that I am the most worried about right now because they've had a mediocre to below average offense for the last two and a half months. They have really two starting pitchers that you, healthy starting pitchers you can trust between Corbin Burns and Zach Eflin. And this was a team that had so much buzz over the first couple of months of the season because of how good the offense was. And with injuries and underperformance from guys like Adley Rushman, this team has really fallen down in the pecking order. I don't think they have what it takes to claw back the gap in the ALE

from the Yankees. And I can just see them getting bounced in a wildcard set. I don't know. I still think that that to your point, it is so wide open. The only thing I feel confident about is that the Astros are going to be in the ALCS. Other than that, I have no reason to believe anything is going to happen. And I was out of the bracket. Guys, I actually do want to talk to you about the Dodgers now, because to me, they are in maybe the most interesting position of any team headed into the postseason.

What percentage should the panic meter be at if you're a Dodgers fan headed into this postseason? And before you answer this question, just know there's sort of a secret weapon in the back of my mind that I'm gonna follow up here with in just a second. I don't think it's panic. I think it's a despondence. I think the way that the Dodgers have bounced

from October over the last couple of years in the first round to inferior teams, it's not even freaking out. It's, oh, here we go again. It's that meme. I think also, I just keep thinking about the news we just got yesterday about Yoshinobu Yamamoto and how they are gonna still be barely conservative

in terms of asking him to pitch on regular rest versus regular postseason rest. And that isn't necessarily as important in the postseason just because you do have a lot of off days. But at the same time, I mean, for most pitchers, you're expecting them to go on at least a little bit more shorter rest. And he hasn't even thrown five innings yet.

Jeremy, I'm going to jump your question here, which is about Shohei Otani. Yes, it is. It is about Shohei Otani. You're right. All season long, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been pretty steadfast that Shohei Otani is not going to pitch this year.

That they changed their tune. They're working and they're like, well, you're hurt. You're hurt. Oh, he pitches. Maybe he could pitch the swap in the Otani vibe about him pitching tells me that there's at least some level of urgency internally going on with the Dodgers. Chris, you're up. I'm gonna go 2008 Evan Longoria.

I'll go. Yeah, Evan Longoria, that's a good one. We're sending it back over to Jordan. I am now mildly struggling, but I think I'm gonna go with Prince Fielder. D-Ry! 2007? No.

2007? No! No! That is a strike! If that's a strike, does that mean I'm up here? As soon as I said it, I was like oops, wrong brewer. Alright, so 2007, I'm going to try to steal that one. I hope I'm right. 2007 Milwaukee Brewers Ryan Braun.

It is Ryan Braun. Alright, back in the game! Alright, so Jake,, it was broadness. All right, all right. So Jake, it's back to you. There you go. Both teams have one strike. Boys, you're welcome. 2004 Bobby Crosby.

Bobby Crosby. Which team, just for clarification? The Oakland, sorry, the athletics. No city. If you know Bobby Crosby, I shouldn't even ask for the name. Yeah, I don't know why you were bothering. Are we allowed to work collaboratively, or does Chris just need to, all right. Chris needs to do this on his own. The fact. I shouldn't even ask for it. Yeah, I don't know why you were bothering Are we allowed to work collaboratively or does Chris just need to alright? I'm gonna do this on that I can't think of any second 2005 Philly

It's cuz this is like the peak of my baseball life. I can't think of that one I'm gonna go Oh to Rockies Troy to Lewicki Not the same so same as right she ain't that old yeah Shame Same as Cut, she ain't that old. Yeah. Not that old. Damn it. That's a shame. Guys, as we head into a weekend full of baseball, just over a week left in this season, is there a series that maybe the folks listening to this or watching this should keep an eye on if they want to prep

themselves for postseason baseball? The Mets going down to Atlanta for three games next week in the penultimate series is one that we started to realize could be pretty juicy a few weeks ago and is now setting up to really be something special. There are a couple of other divisional matchups that are pretty compelling next week. The Mariners going down to Houston for a last gasp with the division, the Orioles in New York as well. I know those teams are a little bit farther back, but obviously the stakes for the Mets and Braves pushing for that last spot is is is pretty compelling. But if you really want to be ill with baseball,

then the only series for you, Jordan knows exactly what I'm about to say, is White Sox Angels. Now, maybe not for playoff baseball, the White Sox, who were on pace for the worst record, the worst winning percentage in baseball history, they have won, I think, three in a row right now. They beat the Angels last night. They're playing them again next week. They need five more wins to ensure that they do not have the worst

winning percentage of all time. The Angels, meanwhile, are playing to not have the worst winning percentage in all time. The angels, meanwhile, are playing to not have the worst winning percentage in franchise history. So if you want to see a particularly relieved handshake line at the end of the night, no matter what happens, you'll see that there. Well guys, thank you for the knowledge of 2024 baseball.

Let's send it back to our game and see how this competition finishes out. Jordan is up. What a dumb guess by Jordan. What is your next guess? I think I'm going to go with the Droya in 07. It is Dustin. Wow.

Dustin Pedroia, Boston Red Sox. Felt pretty good about that. And then for some reason I swerved to Prince in 07. That was stupid. So I think I have this one. I'm hoping for the best. I'm going back to 2002, but I'm going to go with the Toronto blue Jays, Vernon Wells.

All right. Well, it doesn't even matter at this point, but if you guys want to round out this round or just start, I mean, we've already lost. If you want to just name as many of them as you can here, feel free to rapid fire because we don't know anything. Okay, here's what I got. I got 06 is Verlander with the Tigers. Yeah.

04 is Jason Bay with the Pirates. Is 08 Desmond Jennings, or is that too early? No, he already said Longoria. That was Longoria. Oh, we had that right. I already said Longoria. Who's 05 Philly's? Philly's, Utley? No, that's that right. I already said Longoria. Who's 05 Phillies? Phillies?

Utley? No, that's too early for Utley, I think. I know the following person, one Ricky of the Year. I don't know who's the 00 Braves or the 02 Jays. I'm gonna say Eric Kinsky, 2002. Eric Kinsky was the 2002 Braves. I'll go through what we missed. 2000, Raphael Furcall for the Braves.

2002, Jason Jennings from the Rockies, Irokin Ski from Blue Jays. Jason Jennings. We got Jason Bay 2004 from the Pirates. 2005 from the Phillies, Ryan Howard. Oh! For the A's, Houston Street. And then 2009 from the Oakland A's,

the last one, Andrew Bailey. Andrew Bailey? That 05. Wow. That 05 is a punch in the gut. I knew both of those. Raise. 05 is unforgivable for everybody here.

Yeah, we honestly should feel so bad. I am ashamed. Other than that, I don't feel that bad. Hey, well that was a blast. Thank you guys for joining us on this episode of the Pitch Clock. I'm gonna go cry in the bathroom. So is Erikinsky.

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