The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Bring Back Sameness!

Episode Date: October 31, 2023

The crew continues to dissect the Dabo Swinney sound before getting to Greg Cote's Back in my Day on uniforms. Then, Stugotz keeps saying he doesn't care about sports, and Billy has a new proposal: we should implement spoiler alerts with sports. Plus, Greg Cote went to Cuba, and a few members of the Shipping Container go to the Bucket of Death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don't Labator Show with this 2GOTS podcast. We'll get to Greg Cody's back in my day in a second. Greg Cody during the break is trying to make me cry with some of the questions that he's asking me and one of the things that I do want to achieve before we leave today is something, whether it's me crying or getting in trouble or having some sort of big societal point, something going viral while I'm dressed

like this with no explanation for it. I think the funniest way to do it is Greg Cody making me cry with one of his questions. But before we get to back in my day and what his question was, can we just pair against each other? What I believe to be the Hall of Fame first ballot, number one, most dismissive way anyone's name has ever been set on this program, which was until today the way Dremon Green dismissed Rodney McRooter with this. Rodney. That's a great one.

I don't know that we've ever had a challenger around here to that, but does Davos Swinney talking about sports radio talk show, caller Tyler, rival Rodney? Tyler, wow. Pretty good. He hits the lure there. Yeah, it's really hard. Yeah. It's discussed, it's real, and it's palpable,

and it has the same sort of feeling behind it the same sort of undercurrent of hatred that the Rodney does. Rodney. Wow. I think Tyler might be better. Yeah, I do. Rodney. Yeah, I would vote Tyler. I can't. Raymon hits the rod. He does. Hard. Yes. Dabo hits the lure. Let's hear him again. Rodney. Yeah, single Rodney. Well, Rodney, the problem is that rodney has an unfair advantage of being a funnier name rodney is funnier than Tyler if if dabbo was saying Tyler or rather if dabbo was saying Rodney with the same sort of disgust

rodney's more dismissive the Tyler's more like I'm mad at you. Dabo, Dabo's pissed. Like that is, Tyler, you're not as good as I am. That is, you wanna come do my job. You wanna come do my job, Tyler. What are you, just someone who fights in wars? You're not me, you can't go foreign foreign the ACC. But you only have like maybe one kid. Possibly two.

Are you married? Not three. It is such a great, he got so fast. To third clip he lost me. The first two, I'm like, he's got a point here. The third one, he's just like, I'm married. I have kids. What have you done?

He ran out of things to brag about that he had accomplished. It's like I got two degrees. I've never failed. Tony Elliott. Huh? You find any Tony Elliott's. It's a good point. Not Tony though. It is. It does tell you how limited football coaches are generally. Then when you ask them what they've accomplished they say football things and I've got a wife and I got kids. That's it. I procreate. I broke creation. I broke creation. It's what God put me on her to do.

Leave the ball, I coach the ball. I got married. I went home from football. I got f*** like crazy. You would have thought I had no time to f***, but I did. Winning all those champion chips, you'd think would take all my time. But I was having sex on the side. I was making babies and sperm. I produce two walk-ons

One of which was a total liability on special teams Greg Cody you ready for back of my day. I'm not sure. I'm not sure I want to cry in this outfit So I think I don't blame you he had follow up questions from our two from last Thursday Yeah, he had a lot of probing boy did I probing questions wow those can wait those can wait Are you ready for back in my day? How is ready is all be how are you feeling about it? Ah? Oh, no, yeah, oh no he likes to do this Oh no. Yeah. Oh no.

He likes to do this. Yeah. Ooh, that pumps me up. All right, thank you. Thank you. Nice hat, buddy. And now, it is time to take a trip down memory lane. Here's your guy, Rick Cody, with back in my day.

Oh, my god. It's $5. We heard that. $5. Uniforms! Here's a fun fact. The first definition of the word uniform is remaining the same in all cases and at all times, unchanging in form or character. For generations, that was the perfect description, literally the fitting description of sports uniforms.

They were always the same. Home and Away Unies, that was it. No throwback uniforms, no temporary, specialty colors, franchises respected tradition once, new familiarity as an asset, something reassuring to fans. Now everything about sports is in tumult. I go to a dolphins game the other day and the end zone is painted like it was 1966. Why? The NBA's dumb in-season tournament coming up even features different courts. Imagine that, no wonder teams charge 60 bucks for a t-shirt and 20 bucks for a beer. Got to pay for new courts and ridiculous uniform changes. Nothing is sacrosanct. You see advertising now on fields on uniforms. In my lifetime, and I'm old, we'll see a Super Bowl between the Apple Chiefs and the Amazon Prime Packers.

And does the MLB broadcast really need the seventh and extra to be sponsored? Why even kid ourselves anymore that sports is about the fans? It's about the broadcast partners and sponsors. Fans don't matter. Major pro sports could play in empty stadiums and arenas and so make filthy money. Hey Raiders fan dressed like Halloween all year round and fat shirtless guy at a buffalo game in December. You're superfluous window dressing. You want to know why the white socks willy nilly take the field in 1976 throwback unies because they know fans will flock to the merch store to out fit themselves in the inexplicably trendy look. Same when the heat get up in those 1971 ABA colors. Now there's a new heat culture jersey where forever touting progress in what's new then suddenly the Steelers are clowning their

players by making them dress straight out of the 1940s. Chuching but guess what those ain't 1940s prices in the merch store. Baseball this past season unveiled that city-connected uniforms, the latest wave of Sartorial gimmickry designed to drain fans pockets because teams know we cannot bear seeing our neighbor be trendier than we are. Give me home and away duds that don't change, please.

Read the definition of uniform and and here bring back sameness i'm great kody and that's how it was back in my day put it on the poll juju bring back sameness yes i love great criticizing revenue streams that's right uh you didn't like those titans uniforms you didn't like the oilers look like the Houston oilers I like them back when they were the Houston oilers right you know paying the Boston Patriots you know every time has a place like I I used to dress in in big flare pants and five-inch heels when I was in high school I don't do that anymore you still wear shirts from the 1980s you got me on that one yeah but that just boosts his argument.

Exactly. Thank you. I referenced a Calcuzma earlier in the week, and here's the exact quote. It should be noted that Calcuzma is a Puma athlete, so he does have skin in the game somewhat in terms of the opposition, but he called out Nike for quote,

ruining the nostalgia of jerseys. Nike is ruining that nostalgia. Every year, it's a new jersey and what gets lost is brand identity. Who's the one on the right on social media? And I kind of agree. Damn right.

If you watch recent NBA finals, it doesn't make really any sense. The NBA did away once Nike came aboard with what your identity is as a home team. You have your road jerseys at home. None of it matters. It's not, you tune in to see the Lakers, maybe once out of every three times

they're wearing the gold jerseys at home. And it's a cash grab every year in the NBA, especially you have to have a new jersey. Sometimes it works. When the Miami Heat did their vice city edition jerseys, those sold more than all the other city edition jerseys combined. What I'm saying. But then you had the reignsome note jerseys, those sold more than all the other city edition jerseys combined. What I'm saying.

But then you've had the reigns of note jerseys of the last two seasons, these awfully lazy heat culture jerseys that they just trotted out. And it does get lost. What is your brand? If you watch the NBA finals from a couple of years ago, you see the Phoenix Suns were in a uniform that they stopped wearing two years later. You see the bucks weren't a color that's not in their color scheme. It's just, it's stupid.

At least for the finals, can we make sure that we keep in line with brand identity? Where are your homes at home? Where are your roads on the road? It's not too long ago where they stopped wearing alternates in the finals because that was too much of a risk. Preach. Amen. Have you seen what they've done to the World Series logo?

Surely you've seen what happened in the Super Bowl logo. How sad is it? Every year, it gets re-aggregated that this is what the Super Bowl logos used to look like. They would take on the shape of either the country at the time, in the time of 9-11, they departed from something that was a little bit more festive and in line with New Orleans.

But it would resemble the host city, and all those things were so cool, and now it's more uniform. It's just a lumbardi trophy and some Roman numerals. The World Series logo, just the same. And I read about what is why the NBA final same thing, less special. Why is this happening?

And the best reason that I found online and researching it was they're making it mobile device friendly, that you can actually discern on your mobile device when you see a finals logo or a championship logo, what year it is and what they're in reference to because some of the other stuff may be a little bit too busy. Screw that. Devices are getting bigger and better all the time. Let's bring back some character. You're railing, though, against sports being greedy, and I feel like...

Which is funny. ...all of that was revealed to us over the last three years in a way that simply can't be ignored, where all of it was accelerated so much to grab at the dollars that I don't know that that's something that we can rail again. I'm not telling them to stop grabbing the dollars. I'm not, I'm not saying stop printing these.

I'm saying stop, we're earned them so damn often. If you're home, we're a home jersey. You wanna have a special night or two on the calendar where you sell these jerseys and they're available for retail, go for it. But in the finals, there is a bit of pageantry that goes to these things that you'd like your home team to look like, well, a home team.

Damn right. Like your home team, yes. You want the Celtics looking like the Celtics, I agree. But Mike, the logo is sponsored now. The World Series logo you were talking about, it's sponsored by Capital One. And Capital One probably has to say in what that logo is going to look like.

I understand that, but what we end up getting is something boring, a boring design that's just super easy to see on your mobile device and that's what the priority. Not pushing the boundaries of creativity. None of that. I mean, bull logos is just the same. There's ways to make a cool, the Tocitos Viesto bull back in the day was a festive logo. You can have brain integration and have something that looks creative instead of the bland landscape that sports logos have become.

Not pushing the boundaries of creativity, the way that we did with Jason Concepcion and Shay Serrano. I am urging the audience. Okay. Chris Cody spent the first five minutes of that segment with his freckled face, squeezing between the fingers of his hand. And he was in a great deal of pain, but I am promising you. Don't listen to that on audio. It's bad on audio, but you got to watch that on YouTube. It's funny on YouTube. Don Lebertard. That's how it's going to end.

The mailing and end of the retirement, Chris, go get me this. It's just an A, B, him coming out and hitting the one or two notes of that kind of thing. And you know it. And then just giving us finger guns and leave it. Baby. You should listen to the Great Cody Show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week

is just say catch phrases. We even make songs about them. And you know what, is a song for crying out loud. That's great. Hopefully that's a sui nominee for best song. And you know it, baby, and you know it. Stugats! And you know it, baby, and you know it. And you know it, baby, and you know it.

And you know it, baby, and you know it. This is the Don Lebertar Show with this two gods I imagine that someone in the shipping container knows the answer to this question But I want to ask Greg Cody and Stu got this question Are you guys familiar with what in football is known as an octopus. Do you know what an octopus is? Either one of you in football no football no Shipping container does anyone other than Mike know the answer to this because I learned it this weekend I did not know that this was a thing and it felt like the way that you would teach football to fourth graders by explaining that at the end of Jacksonville scored the touchdown

for six points and also produced the two-point conversion afterward and therefore he had registered an octopus. Okay, nobody knew that. That was that was only Mike knew that. Everybody else was confused by that. Okay, it's not a real thing, that's a stupid idea. Yeah, well, I thought that Scott Hansen just invented it on the fly. I learned it on Sunday for the first time. I'm like, that's not even clever, Scott Hansen.

You're better than this, but I googled it and Scott Hansen did not coin the phrase. Sports Illustrated Mitch Goldrich came up with the term in 2019. We got to do better than that. It's not great. Is it for like eight fantasy points? Because they get six for the touchdown, eight octa.

Yeah, eight or what we're doing there. You got it. You got it. That's all so. It's just eight points. Putting two and two together, that guy. Six and two. I just think it's.

Yeah. Well, he's asking if it's for fantasy purposes, if you get eight fantasy points. Putting two and two together with another two and two together so that you can do it. Two and two is halfway there. Yeah, right. Octopus. Octa. That reminds me, the month of October, which a lot of people, you know, octagon eight, it's the 10th month though.

It's weird, yeah. It didn't always used to be the 10th month. And why would it be, why is October not the 8th month? It should be August, yeah. Put it on the poll, please, Jude. Why is October not the 8th month? Yes or no? It should be, they should trade with August.

It should be July, October, September, August. August, no, August. Just maybe August and September, back one. We need to talk to us trading months, shifting the calendar. Right. Like we need to get on. The Romans? Who?

I like May for the third month of the year, better than March. Why? Because three letters in May. Easier? Well, July could be the fourth then. New May madness. And breaking information from Davos Swinney who is responding to people criticizing his criticism of Tyler, what is Davos Swinney now saying, in defense of an unusual coaching tie-rade?

Davos said, I had some idiot- go old testament on me and he got an old testament response. In a press conference. Billy, because you have children now and are having trouble keeping up with all sports, you love baseball. Why do I have you advocating for the Secretcy of sports spoilers?

Yeah, I feel like we've adopted like this practice within pop culture and shows and movies and whatever where you can't talk about things for a certain amount of time to have everyone see them. Want the same thing for sports? I don't think it's that crazy. Game was late last night. Let's just not talk about it today.

I can watch it today Maybe I'll watch it tomorrow. Give me a week. Give me a week to watch the world series. I can binge catch up and then we're good Right, what's the difference between spoiling a game and spoiling a movie? Oh There was a good spoiler from last night. Well, don't tell me we'll talk about it next Wednesday But you're gonna be like he's got a week I got a week but they played a night I'll get to tonight on Saturday Right like I'm gonna binge this weekend. Okay. It's not a good week. We're trick-or-treating tonight like not today

There's an injury don't That's enough Mike next week There's a very good I Don't think there's ever been a more meaningless world series in my entire life That's the worst why don't think there has ever been a more meaningless world series in my entire life. That's the worst. Why? It's a no-one series. Don't do that.

Don't do that. Don't do that. I know I don't care, but I haven't cared for quite a bit. Right. And there have been more meaningful talked about world series. I don't see anybody talking about this. It's not my buddy master. You have made great wealth.

Yeah. Because people care about sports. And since you've gotten to 50 your main take on everything is I don't care and nobody cares and that's just not true of baseball people who like baseball and care about baseball. Of course if you don't get one of the big markets every time people are going to complain but if you like baseball, this World Series is fun to watch,

and that injury is a huge one. It is. Don't tell Billy though. He has to be in 14 hours ago. Game one, Least Watch World Series game, and recorded history. I watched that one. It was the greatest game. That was a classic World Series game.

Greatest game, one in World Series history, Brad. I'm not doubting that the games are good and competitive. And if you love the sport, you love the World Series, regardless, and you probably hate stories like that. And you hate stances like mine. I'm just saying, if I didn't have Jeff Passon on mobile alerts, I wouldn't know when these games are. No one I know is talking about it.

I was saying that. Outside of one Ranger fan. Baseball is snake bit. They had the great regular season attendance was the highest. It's been in like 30 years. They needed the big, big market sexy, great world series that everybody was wanting. I mean, they didn't get a chance. They had a chance with Phillies and Philadelphia and Houston.

The games are quicker too. That gave started just after eight and ended before 11. I did see it incredible. I did see a game of that series was on a bar and Buffalo that I was at and I know that the Astros mean something and get people riled up and Bryce Harper is exciting there's far less excitement around this match up it's just look I'm in a baseball chat and the baseball chats I'm even talking about it I mean don't watch them the people are I'm not in the arbitron family.

What do I care with the radio? I'm not, I hate it when people do that about things that I care for. Just look, I came out with a take that I think it's the least interesting world series ever and a stat back me up on that. So I think I win. A lot of people would say the Stanley Cup final

between Vegas and the Florida Panthers was the worst one they've ever seen. And it wasn't you, but if the ratings bore that out, I'd agree with you. But why do you care what everyone else is watching? What difference does it mean? No, but no one's debating whether or not the folks in Arizona are interested or whether or not Texas Ranger fans are interested or baseball fans are interested or gamblers are interested.

It general most fans, sports fans are not interested in this world. Let's do got any time I do that with any of the teams in basketball, baseball, and hockey. The only one that's an exception here is whoever's in the Super Bowl, people are going to be watching. But if I take the primary teams out of the big city teams, the teams that everyone has cared about for years, these are both teams that lost 100 plus games two years ago. They got here out of nowhere.

It's a surprising, it's been a fun postseason, but it's been surprising to find them there. I don't understand the coverage of sports being, I don't care because no one sports being, I don't care because no one else cares. I produce this show. This show doesn't care. Well, no, because I care.

Mike, don't tell me that I don't care about basement. Okay, fine. I take that back. You care. Billy cares, even though he's catching up at it. But you don't care enough to talk about it. No, my point, I don't have any engage. Well, yeah, when he's talking about it, who am I gonna look every time I talk to somebody, it's I don't care. You don't care enough to talk about no my point. I don't have any Engage when he's talking about every time I talk to somebody. It's I don't care. We don't care. Nobody's watching

I don't have anybody to tell the lay Bullshit bullshit bullshit. We get that you guys Tuesday you guys are taste makers you guys can make things interesting for me You guys have in the past made things interesting. I tried to make Garcia interesting to you. I saw a spoiler alert, he got hurt. What? Oh my God. That seems big. That Tuesday. That seems big.

It is weird, one of the people fighting for how interesting it is didn't watch. Who? You. Well, I'm getting to it. Ah! Ah! I think, I think individual time,

so I don't like the take either. That, oh, I'm not watching this as boring. I haven't watched, it's been boring to me for a long time. I do think there have been individual finals that have done nothing to me personally and sometimes the ratings bear that out. I didn't think Buck's sons was anything the right home of all his heat jazz.

Not good. That was not good. Yeah, I didn't think I was good. I wasn't a great finals either. No one cared. What was interesting was the run to the finals and the boss and stuff. And I understand what I'm doing is like a local bias for these things.

That also counts. I'm talking about what's interesting to me. I'm just particularly interested in the lack of interest surrounding this world series. And to your point, Texas is going for his first championship ever. Since 1972, they haven't won a damn thing. That's a pretty neat story. Arizona hasn't won since 2001. It's not like we're bored with these teams because they're winning every year. This is something

totally different. But as a casual baseball fan, it just doesn't interest me. But the Super Bowl is impervious to that. Every super bowl matchup is interesting. Everyone. But you never had this. You never had this. But you never had this. But you never had this. But you never had this.

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that they blew a bunch of saves and spent a lot of money. That's what I know about the Rangers. And I know that the diamond backs were pretty bad. And they got into the playoffs. Thanks to a drop. But they got in. Right. But they got in. And I know that the Diamondbacks were pretty bad. And they got into the playoffs, thanks to a drop- They got in, right. But they got in, and that's what's magical about baseball. And typically these magical runs have something of interest that can transform. I don't really know any of the players outside of Zach Galen.

They don't have marquee names. And I know I understand by watching it, I can learn these things. But that's not the case for some of the other teams I wear a lot. No, but to Billy's point, I have no doubt that if I watched it, I would be entertained by the World Series. But you have to get me there first, and this matchup doesn't get me to my television

sitting there watching baseball. This is, there are a number of things working against baseball, okay? Numbers and ratings across the board are down everywhere. Baseball, in general, as a sport, is now in the shadow of some other sports that have done a better job than baseball at creating stars. So at this point, the only thing that's getting you guys there is not a star player. Give me star teams. Give and that's what you're telling me and it's not there and that's fine. You're allowed to not watch. You're allowed to not be interested. You're allowed to tell me that nobody cares and that it's

boring because the ratings are down. But what I'm telling you is that the ratings aren't just down down. The ratings are all time worse bad. So which back in the panthers in. No, you're I think you're just I think no like in terms of cable ratings. It's sure that the whole playoff run set cable rating records for TNT. Well, one player and one team can make a huge difference. And like, yes, if Philadelphia is in there instead of Arizona, you have the Bryce Harper storyline. He's a star and you have a major market team in Philadelphia that people care about. They care, they root for him and they root against them.

Yeah, but see, guys, if it was the Yankees against the Dodgers, you'd say it's always the Yankees and the Dodgers, I don't want to watch. No, I'd be excited about that. You would, man. No, it's a classic matchup.. No, I'd be excited about that. You would, John. No, it's a classic matchup. Of course, anyone would be excited about that. If those two teams played, I'd be aware of the storylines. These are two teams that have played rather anonymously

and I'm kind of fascinated by the relative disinterest, not just from sports fans, but baseball fans too. Don Lebertard. I miss crank windows. Too many unnecessary convenience is now cruise control. Please I've got cruise control built in. It's called my right foot. It controls how fast the car goes. No buttons were steering wheel lever needed. Power steering. There's another one. Why don't I give my power to the car? The power that I once had, the car is a ton of metal.

I'm a damn college graduate. Stugats, Bluetooth, HD radios, satellite. I'll take AM please with Wolfman Jack talking through the static and I'll crank the windows down so everybody can hear. I'm Greg Cody and that's how it was back in my day. This is the Don Leverar Show with its two cats. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

With? Fine. On that podcast, he discusses going to Cuba recently. And I just learned, the rest of us just learned here, you just told us Mike was interested. It's the first time I've seen Mike genuinely interested in something that you have to say in a dozen years. It's been 12 years. Not since Tony Martin go get him.

Not since the column in which you encourage the Miami Dolphins to get deep threat Tony Martin in 1998. Yeah, that worked for a couple of games. I think he had one good game. What was Cuba like? What did you learn? It was fascinating. I'm so glad I went.

We stayed at the Nasi and Aal hotel, which is the greatest hotel on the island. Reminded me of the Wilp on the island. It reminded me of the Viltmore, very palatial, but the drive from Jose Marti Airport to that hotel was a squalor. It was just beyond depressing. You know, you look outside the hotel balcony. You see this beautiful water on a beautiful day, not a single boat on the water. No pleasure crafts. nobody enjoying the water that surrounds them for obvious reasons. It's just, it gave me a first time understanding of why so many people flee that country for freedom and to get away from oppression. The poverty rate there is 75%.

You see hundreds of people lined up around the block to get into a medical center because medical supplies are in such short supply. Or rations for food. Or rations for food. A hundred people at a bus stop to get a bus that's going to seat 20. But tourists living it up. El Nacional. Yeah, for drinking big drinks and enjoying the Taurus lifestyle is great there.

It is. And you know, there were guilt feelings for sure. Yeah, I'm going to turn to this episode because that perspective has always been fascinating to me how Taurus experienced it, how I know that there's a lot of people that have left that country, a lot of families that have left that country and I don't really know many of them that have actually gone back the people that are interested or people that don't necessarily have that emotional tied to it so I'm gonna seek this out. What's the name of this show? The Greg Cody show with Greg Cody.

Probably should be featuring Greg Cody but it's with for the time being. No the joke in my family was that I had bought a t-shirt that I threatened to bring to Cuba that said, a little bit of Todd Paddock, I think. I think that I'm self-rested in Cuba. And I decided not to wear that shirt. No, you're wife didn't let you. Yeah, she didn't.

She genuinely didn't. You didn't decide anything then. I was pretending to her that I was actually going to wear this. I was going to put it in my luggage. Right. And at some point I was going to wear it in Cuba. And for what? Just to get arrested?

No, she thought I was serious, and she was as mad as I've ever seen her in our marriage, because we went with another couple. She thought I was going to ruin the trip, that I was going to be jail, that it was going to be a big international standing. Ruin the wedding, not. Well, we went there for a wedding, but I didn't. I have the shirt on now, but I did. Let's see it. Let's let's rip it open.

And I want you to ring, read it again in your gringos in my gringos, a liberal Todd Padacuba. There it is. And your wife was furious with you. Yeah. Yeah. She did not, she did not even want to entertain the joking possibility. I would have gotten your arrested that I might wear this. Good joke. I am curious what would have happened. I was detained possibility. I would have gotten your answer. That I might wear this. Good joke. I am curious what would have happened. I was detained briefly at the Jose Marta airport. You say detained. It was part of the process where you show your passport.

Everyone goes through that. That's it. Wait a minute. It sounds like you just made yourself there. Like, you think you're stepping around you as if you were there for us. He and I, you went through customs. Or you just went through customs.

Okay. Between Christopher and myself, one of us was actually there and the other wasn't. So in due respect to Christopher who seems to know what went on there, let me explain what did go on. My wife and I were going through the line to show our visas together. A security gentleman pulled us apart, took me to a separate area and asked me six or eight questions. A different line? No, a different area of the airport. In a corner? It was a no. Where

you sequester. Where was there a single swinging light bulb of intent? No, there was not. But he asked me weird questions. I'm not used to being asked. Like, what is my religion? Right. And stuff like that. What do you ask you what you do for a living? Or what you little say?

And I said, journalist, I wasn't sure if I should or not. I'm not podcasting with the Greg Cody show. That's right. With Greg Cody. My ass. I should have handed him a little decal. A Greg Cody show decal. He thought I didn't.

Damn it. I'm familiar with Yeti Blom. I should have put a D.C.L.A. in the bathroom here at the Nassianah. But the weird thing about that, when you leave a Cuban hotel, the Nassianah, best hotel on the island, before you leave the premises, security goes up to the room and make sure you didn't steal a towel or anything, which I thought was pretty funny. Because if Marriott or the Hilton tried that in the US, travelers would be up in arms.

You know what's pretty funny, the deterioration of your costume over the course of the show, you now look like I imagine Donald Trump looks when he wakes up in the morning. Before he comes in. It doesn't even look like a lion anymore. Please use another analogy. Thanks for the phone.iring fewer horns, yeah.

We're gonna get to the bucket of death in a second, but Stu gots, I don't know how, at this point, you absorb game shows. I never see game shows live or taped. The only time I see Wheel of Fortune or Price's Right or Jeopardy is when something intergalactically wrong happens. A contestant has embarrassed him or herself with something that goes viral. So let's go to this before we go to the bucket of death.

Let's just go to this jeopardy clip where a bunch of people who are stensibly very smart about many things are not very smart about sports. A hall of fame by position 400. Joe Nemeth. Joe Montana. Mason. What is quarterback? Right.

Hall of Famer by position 800. Bill Russell. Bill Walton. They are basketball centers. Mason. Hall of Famer by position 1,200. Bob Feller. Bob Lemon.

Bob Gibson. 1,200. Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Bob Gibson. Oh, no. The baseball pitchers. This might be a long category. Two left, Mason. Let's try Hall of Famer by position for 1,600. Baseports fans, I believe in you. Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, John Stallworth.

They are wide receivers. Let's finish it off. Gump warsley shrimp waters. Westwood. It just sounds like I'm making people up. These are hockey golees. Ice hockey golees. All right. Wow. That is tremendous. Okay. That last one was tough. I had no idea. Where is the Grim Reaper? Where the Grim Reaper has been called out of human resources? Being late to a meeting? Paper? Yeah, we've got a number of people who need to go to the bucket here who aren't going to be here later in the week. Billy, you are first among them.

Go ahead and reach in there. It's my third week of safety, Dan. I will not be picking you today. The golden helmet of life, like you guys were gone. So then why did you put your hand over the helmet? Mr. Fake, yeah. Yeah. I'm going to put your socks.

Yep. Congrats on that. Thank you. I like your new look, really. You see it's going in now. No, no, this is it. That's the golden helmet of life again. Oh, wow. Welcome. Bob Bob Bob Lucy is going in now What does this is? At the Golden Helmet of Life again

Oh wow Welcome This is the door Swap helmet hold on Yeah, I'll give this I'll give this For now but I'm not getting my hopes up We also have imaging that never gets clear It's a double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double double BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM Yeah, I'm gonna rummage, Dano. I love a good rummage. I'm rummaging.

I am not respecting Stugat's pick of the Patriots for me, Leif. What? I didn't know what to do. I mean, bella check off a win. We're trying to bleep, man. That's not true. I'm not going to allow it. You've got to throw that back rule.

For the Iron Fist. By the way, the bucket of death is brought to you by KFC's new hot and spicy wings, order an eight piece of the new hot and spicy wings for $4.99 participating KFC today its finger lick and good. Seahawks. These Seahawks are on the road at the Ravens are a five and a half point dog. They're good. I'm putting them back. Are they good?

I don't know. You sure they're good? It's a fair follow up. I don't even know if the Ravens are good. No, you can do. You kind of know. That's a good. Fair follow up Even off the ravage Stephen A. Had a mat for this week Can you help it oh, geez, but Jaguar's for number two. I got the Broncos by week Where are the Broncos on this list? I don't see the Broncos on here. I think they might be a pirate. Yeah

Congratulations, Stregan. Thank you, Dan. The segment doesn't really work when people get good things The hell is this big apple? What does that mean? What the hell is this? Big Apple, who does that mean? Any of the New Yorker's. Any of the sports. You can take a Nick's team if you want. I've got to restart. I've got to figure out who's playing who.

You're not taking the giants. The Rangers, the Islanders. I think you got to wait till next WMBA season for the Liberty. You know I'm going to do that. All right, let's file it away. Congratulations. You get Liberty, game one. Okay.

Stugat was mentioning that this is a giant sports weekend coming off of what he was calling a sports equinox on Monday. Trust me, he did not coin the phrase sports equinox. I just said happy sports day And you know Mike said why and I said because all four majors. It's a rare time and it was yesterday not today We're all four of the major sports played on the same day 29th time ever. I believe that Really? Wow, yeah, and this weekend. What is it? Oh, this weekend and we have a weekend. I look for games at every level, every time slot. We have multiple games at each time slot.

Like the slate this weekend, college and NFL is so good. I know Mike's excited. You have Texas and Kansas State, you have Ohio State and they're going to Rutgers and that could be an upset possibility. You have USC in Washington, Missouri in Georgia. You have Alabama, LSU, what a Saturday, but the Sunday. Oh, The Sunday. Well, the world series games three all sales. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Sorry, Billy. I have dolphins chiefs 932 early. You have Seahawks and Ravens cowboys and Eagles, Bills and Bengals jets and chargers what about that we have a weekend how we have a weekend in selling the weekend just your third or fourth-word Rutgers how explain to me upset alert data tell me I mean come on to God's come on he was hanging around right direct siano is hanging around Michigan until he saw something that wasn't right with him.

And he changed, of course, a college football history. All eligible Rutgers. Yes. Oh, big one. Piscataway. All that. You're going to Iowa, Northwester. I know.

Against my will. How did you have Rutgers that high on your list of amazing sports weekend? I will. How did you have Rutgers that high on your list of amazing sports weekend?