The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Do You Feel Like You Won?

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

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Have you guys watched any Marcus Morris on first take? He is now today saying that if Janis and Damian Lillard lose in the first round, they should just go to Miami, both of them. And it's not the most interesting thing that he has said Marcus Morris see if you can find the bias in this says that Jokic is not a top 20 player of all time who I'll run a Google see if you can find the bias in this why is Marcus Morris saying that Jokic is not a top 20 player of all time is it because Jokic ended not a top 20 player of all time. Is it because Jokic ended his brother's career by pushing it? Honestly I wasn't sure which Morris it was so I

was just like one of the Morris's. That happens a lot with the Morris's I would say generally speaking. It's their fault for both of them having the same tattoos like it's not just that they're twins they have the same tattoos they're impossible to tell apart. Didn't the Pouncy brothers do the same thing like matching tattoos? It's a great trick. I have asked the McCordys this as well and the Barbers. Like they they have done things to prank people because they are pretending one to be the other. Never as famously as Ozzy and Jose Canseco did it when Jose Canseco had a charity boxing match and

his brothers showed up and was able to Reveal the fraud to all of us by having different tattoos than his brother did and so otherwise they would have gotten away with it They would have managed to fool everybody Tony when you say the Knicks are in trouble is it because they're playing Detroit in the first round or is it just more general? Than that it just feels like all year. They've really struggled against the top teams like you said like they're 0-10 against top teams between Cleveland between Boston and between Oklahoma City the Pistons are surging at the right time Cade Cunningham is playing amazing Malik Beasley is probably front runner for sixth man of the year

He's second in the NBA for made threes this season Do you guys know who the first is for made threes this the season? No, okay Mike I know you're a ball watcher. I Don't know the answer to Anthony Edwards is the Game is the leader in three-point field goals made this season with 320 Malik Beasley right after that at 319 but the Pistons are playing really well then it feels like the the The Knicks are a bit of a paper tiger when it comes to yeah Offensively, they're excellent.

Carl Anthony Towns, Brunson hasn't been playing because he's been hurt. How much will that affect them going forward? Defensively, they're not good, and the Pistons are going to kind of run them into the muck. I would say that I feel pretty confident saying this. Tell me if you agree or disagree based on just simply matchups because I will say again I like this Knicks team I think it's more talented than the Knicks team that New York fell in love with last year they New York does not love this Knicks team the way they loved last year's Knicks team that's a Carl Anthony Towns thing

but I would like the Knicks against the number four I would like the Knicks against the number five but I think the the Knicks against the number five, but I think the number six has a set of ingredients to make this possible. We might get to laugh at the Knicks in the first round. Like we're going to get set up to be able to laugh at the Knicks in the first round if this team that's more talented than last year's team under achieves and gets all those loud New Yorkers really mad and they're're all just gonna blame Carl Anthony Towns. After gassing up their expectations, them underperforming, under delivering on that promise,

it sounds like a barn you'd wanna be in, but a hard ticket to get. So that's quite the conundrum. What do you do? What do you do? You download the Game Time app. That's what you do. You create an account and you use code Dan

for $20 off your first purchase, terms apply. Download Game Time today, that's what you do. You create an account and you use code Dan for $20 off your first purchase, terms apply. Download Game Time today, last minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed, panoramic seat views, all in pricing, great ticket coverage. Game Time is what you need to be on to check and get yourself some big time meaningful playoff basketball tickets. I would like to offer to the group here, whichever one it is that you want to talk about because I imagine Roy has some preferences here. If I offer you by way of playoff preview if I say to you would you like to talk about Nuggets Clippers? Somebody who can win the championship is

gonna get knocked out in the first round. Would you like to talk about Lakers, Timberwolves? Yes, yeah that was good even though there was a question mark in there. Or would you like to talk about Sharks Wild and what happens when 15 goals into 15 goals to massive gold superstar making an appearance? Yeah, Macklin Celebrini. I would love to talk about Macklin Celebrini. I think I saw a player in a game level up. He's a very young player. He was number one overall draft pick.

Last week, I was locked in on a great sports day all across, on the pitch, on the hardwood, on the ice, though. My mouth was left agape as Kaprizov and Celebrini and Erickson Eck essentially went shot for shot. I saw in that game a player level up and Macklin Celebrini would not surprise me in the least if next year he's a top five player in the league. I think he's damn near approaching it right now. He's on a bad team. They're going to have to level up the talent around him, but they have a good player in Will Smith to do that. This dude is a brilliant hockey player to watch.

So I love watching greatness there, but turning my attention to the playoff matchups, I love the rivalry between the Grizzlies and the Warriors. It's been several years long. Remember the Grizzlies surprisingly knocked them out of the play-in a couple of years ago. John Morant is deciding to apparently double down. Triple down.

Triple down. Quadruple down on this perceived villainy of his. And now he's just gonna keep doing the hand gestures anyways. He did one in the direction of Steph Curry just last week. So to have that added juice to Grizzlies Warriors, given that now all of a sudden we're questioning the Warriors with these injuries popping up at the wrong time, that one all of a sudden we're questioning the Warriors with these injuries popping up at the wrong time. That one to me has the most juice, certainly out

of all the play-ins. I cannot wait to watch that game unfold. Nuggets Clippers though, Dan, like you said, one team could win the championship and one team is going home in the first round. Like we saw the Clippers, we've seen the Clippers be one of the best teams in the league for the last like month of the season. Kawhi's been playing incredible. James Harden, for as much shit as we give James Harden He's playing out of his mind right now like he's NBA first team level star like power right now Yesterday in the game, you know hitting huge shots Facilitating this is a team that could really really make something happen

And I think the issue is more Lakers Timberwolves and if you want to get into that there's some issues there And celebrini is obviously gonna win the colder trophy this year for rookie of the year But looking at the playoff matchups for the Western Conference. I mean look at the wild card tell me about the Western Conference I mean nuggets Clippers in the first round. We got Lakers Lakers wolves. We got half stars Well in the wild card right now You got the wild in the first wild card spot and the blues in the second wild card spot. They put the wild.

Yeah, they are divided by, no, it's separated by one point and the Calgary Flames are still in it. They have 92 points. They're two points beyond the blues. So that's going to be a wild card. Huberto might make the playoffs. Yeah, he might. He might.

The blues and the wild are nightmare wild card matchups to draw because the blues are playing the way that they did to close out 2019 like they are playing so well right now You do not want to face them and the Minnesota Wild are just all of a sudden Really healthy at the right time the NHL playoffs are gonna be insane Speaking of Minnesota too big for the Lakers Lakers have a big size issue Jackson Hays is their only big Dan They've been playing a lot of like medium-sized from five, six, five, six, seven, six, eight, six, nine, but they're gonna have trouble with Rudy Gobert,

with Nas Reed, with Julius Randall, with Anthony Edwards. There's a size situation there. Luke, put it this way, if you give me the chance to have Luca LeBron and dare I say Austin Reeves as the third who's been playing out of his mind, you give me that three, I'll take them pretty much against anybody. But, but the size difference is gonna make an issue.

So you'll take them against anybody, but you feel like they're gonna get eliminated in the first round. Maybe. Maybe. That's where we are. That's precisely right. Sports.

And one of the few regular season games I did get to watch some was Pacers, Bucks, in which Tyrese Alliburton had an unbelievable, yeah, wind probability defying four point sequence against them. And it's kind of under the radar, I guess, because the market that they play in. But as it was alluded to, as it was alluded to by Marcus Morris on first take, this is kind of like a blueprint series for what Milwaukee's got going on with Doc Rivers and Damian Lillard.

The Damian Lillard thing, I know they won the IST, but you kind of need proof of concept here. And if they bow out in the first round, he's right to seize on, this is roster changing dynamics at play for Milwaukee if they fail to get out of the first round. I really do enjoy the Pacers, just their style of play.

I really like Halliburton. Is that no one ever? No, I know. I know that this is not something that's being talked about, but I saw the way they came back against Cleveland. They score like crazy. I want to play some sound for you here of Isaiah Thomas. I asked when this sound was brought to my

attention which Isaiah Thomas is this and then I was told the old one which didn't feel right. It felt disrespectful. It was. It doesn't feel like you could say the Hall of Famer, you could say the Piston, the old one. You knew who I meant. Yeah, but I just thought it was wildly disrespectful. And here he is being disrespectful and old about LeBron James warming up shirtless on the sidelines, wearing Durag, question mark? I just totally 100% object to this. And if I was the GM or coach,

I would never let one of my players walk out on the floor looking like this. I mean, we are professional NBA league. We ain't summer league. We ain't, you know, at the YMCA. I think coaches got to go back to suits. After. I just mean.

After, mm-mm, Lutely. I just think. College Ampro. I just think the professionalism in our NBA league has diminished so much and and I Look, I like LeBron. I'm a fan of his so forth and so on but to walk out on the floor Before a game with no shirt on and shoot. I mean, come on, man, this where we at? What we doing?

Where we at? Now, if you want to, Adam Silver, if you want to find somebody, find that. Put a fine on that. Roy, why are you making faces? Oh man, just, just old man. It was shoot around. It was before the game. there was nobody in the arena.

What are we doing here? Why are we finding players for not having a shirt on? It's just old. Man, if Dan Dacich had that same take, that would go over way worse. Yeah. I didn't see a single gray hair on that NBA TV set. There was a lot of dye on that set.

I know some of those guys are longer in the tooth. Yeah. So you've got Steve Smith on that set. Yeah, I mean, we all know what's going on with Jalen. You've got Jalen Rose on that set. I don't know who that is between them. He's a host of some sort, it seems. A host of some sort.

Is that the dude that Sam Mitchell gave away his home address to? Oh, yeah. I think that might be the dude. It might be, yeah. I'm pretty sure you guys know that Steve Smith, maybe you don't know, that Steve Smith's nickname, do you guys know this?

Any of you know this? I believe I have this right when I say, and there's no reason for you to know it, it's a terrible nickname. His nickname was Tricky, which just stinks as a nickname, but I'm pretty sure it was given to him by Miami Herald readers. I believe he gave out was given to him by Miami Herald readers.

I believe he gave out the right to his nickname. I think a contest produced it. I just can't help but watch that. I know you guys are going old on this, but when Isaiah Thomas is sitting here talking about professionalism and he's got a sexual harassment case in the resume when he was an executive, like on professionalism

One is shirtlessness while taking shots. The other one is even less professional and jams You can't let your your players go out in the court looking like that. I'm like, he looks pretty great He's 40 years old put together. I'd be shirtless too all the time. I'd be shirtless during the game well, Billy Billy says Billy Gill says that in the flight back from the Super Bowl, that Njoku was on the playing shirtless. That Njoku goes everywhere. David Njoku, the former University of Miami guy and Cleveland Brown Titan, who is a, I mean he's a statue. He's a Greek statue. One of the best bodies I've ever seen. Yeah, and he knows it, and evidently he's just always shirtless. You can't go, look, you can be on the court shirtless before you can be on the airplane shirtless.

He was on the airplane shirtless? I know he's everywhere shirtless, but I think that the airplane, someone may tell him to put on a shirt. We have the clip here of Sam Mitchell not happy with a co-host on NBA TV. Oh, this is so good here. So they say this is a misunderstanding. They did another video after this one went viral in which they went to Sam Mitchell's home

to just show you, hey, there's no awkwardness here. These people are friends, but this seems like awkwardness. I'm surprised coaches get a paycheck for this show. You know, I think, like, maybe you should do this pro bono, my friend. You know, last time I looked at my check, it's pretty close. So hey, I'm taking donations. Why don't you come up off some of that money you got since you over there bragging about it?

I'm not bragging about it. Well, I mean, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you rent your beach house out down in Florida during the hurricane? Or do I need to go? How about your townhouse over at Buckhead? Hey, what's going on here, Sam? You wanna call me out?

I mean, come on. You screaming broke and hungry, let's just see it. You know, I know what you're having when you live, young fella, so you need to stop. I think we have snitches on the show today. No, we don't have snitches. We have truth tellers. Sam Mitchell.

We have truth tellers. So you're the one who crying poor destitute up here when Do I need to keep going on further more and more? Go to this game You're gonna stop messing with me on national TV, I told you about that Hey, do I need to give out the address?

That's former coach of the year, former coach of the year Sam Mitchell. Stay out of other people's pockets, man. He did not. That was awkward. Sam Mitchell, I will say this again, former coach of the year, Sam Mitchell, because he has been known for a long time to speak out of pocket and be okay, saying to people's faces things that they might not wanna hear. NBA TV host getting beach house too?

I don't know what's going on over here. It's going pretty well there over at NBA TV. We don't even know his name, the guy's got a beach house in Florida. That felt real though, did it not? Because they did. They went back. Rare is television quite that awkward.

Didn't Steve Smith have something famous happen on the sidelines with somebody? You're going to have to help me here, because there was an awkward moment between Steve Smith, who will find anybody. Not Stephen A. Smith. I know about that one. No, not that one. The one that has no choice but to consider running for president.

Oh, not Steve Smith. Yes, he says his pastor has told him to run for president. I saw that. You have left me with no choice but to consider this. It's incredible. Like, yeah, you got you got a choice. Now we have no choice but to consider running for the highest office in the land. Which Steve Smith are you talking about? The wide receiver.

Okay, because you mentioned him after a basketball topic, so I went straight to NBA Steve Smith. Yeah, fair enough. There's three different ones here, so. Well, that's what the A's for. And that's what the seniors for as well. Steve, that's what the Tricky's for. Tricky Smith.

Did he get this nickname while Run DMC was releasing that song? I asked you guys to look it up while I was talking. When you've got computer access, I asked you guys to look up how it is that he got the nickname Tricky, because I was busy doing what I'm doing here. I don't know how to answer any of your questions regarding Steve tricky Smith. Uh, other than to say that as a nickname, tricky is not dominant. Tricky is not excellent.

Tricky is not enduring. It's somebody who can trick you because you're not expecting anything from like it's, it's just, I I'd like to know like to know what the what the loss nicknames were what finished in second and third place that that tricky was the one that the Miami Herald if indeed I have this right I'm gonna try to find out if the Miami Herald readers actually gave him the nickname I asked artificial intelligence why is he nicknamed tricky and apparently he had deceptive ball handling skills and he had a signature move now AI could be wrong it's all wrong often he had a signature move that people referred to

as oh that's the Steve Smith move I don't remember that I don't remember a signature move from Steve Tricky Smith nor do I remember the details I need that we will soon find about Steve Smith, the wide receiver as a broadcaster. This was last year being on the sidelines. Was it an interaction with Jerry Judy? I'm seeing something where he called him like a third receiver. And then they had, there was the awkwardness of him doing that.

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Just visit Kinsta.com slash Dan to get started. That's K-I-N-S-T-A dot com slash Dan. Don LeBattard. But it's just his titties are sitting on the shelf that is his belly. Stugats. He said titties and it like shocked me a little bit. I wasn't quite prepared for titties.

This is the Don Lebatard show with the Stugats. Before we do that, can we just please, because I missed the useless sound montage, I want it to be in other sports. I want to point out again and again how many athletes and coaches just say things in order to say them because we need the sound bites to eat. But here, just give me what you can hear in terms of a baseball useless sound montage, please. Every time he walks up there, he's got that hitterish thing about him. He showed that he's a competitor.

For me, I'm just looking to get a good pitch to hit over the middle of the plate. He's a good hitter, he's very smart, and he cares about his teammates. He does. I love my bet. Obviously, you never want to give up any runs. We did a lot of good things right. We obviously didn't do some things right. You got to tip your cap sometimes.

God bless and raise up. Don't let off a guess. Keep scoring, keep scoring until you get that final out, and we're able to do that tonight. We don't give up until the last ounce made. I think what I liked best is we just found a way to win. We're winning games, and at the end of the day, that's all that matters, you know, is just get that win.

You go out there to win every game. I don't know, you know, I think, you know, I don't know. I just was, I don't know. I have watched the Smitty in action. Steve Smith did a breakdown on NBA TV. By the way, all the old analysts were wearing their game jerseys there. But pants also. Yeah, it was weird. Isaiah Thomas, who laments how LeBron dresses, he was wearing business

pants, but he was wearing his jersey with no sleeves and everybody had a lot of upper arms skin. But the Smitty move, it concludes with him saying, now it's a bit of a carry. It's like all good moves. It is tricky, but it only happens on the left side of the floor when you're up by the corner three, you travel, you carry the ball with you, you do a little skip, and then you power to the baseline, and you take it all the way to the cup with a slam dunk. But it is a very deceptive move,

which plays into the Nickname Band. That Miami Herald contest had 852 entries. Is that good? That's a lot. That's a lot of possible. It's not a lot. 852 is not a lot for someone to take on as their nickname. Put it on the poll at LeBotard show. Would you need more than 852 votes to accept those votes as your new nickname? I think that's different than entries though.

I think 852 possible nicknames were submitted. As far as votes go, it's probably much greater than that. Okay, so I misunderstood what it is that you were telling me. That's tricky. If I told you right now, hey, you're playing at the Y, or you're playing in order to become inclusive, the Jewish Community Center. You're playing in wherever it is that you play basketball.

And the person that you're playing against, I want you to create a visual in your mind. I'm telling you that you're going to a place to play basketball against somebody. And this is all the information that you have on that player. His name is Smitty, he's got a move called the Smitty, and his nickname is Tricky. That person is five foot six, pudgy, and plays with a headband. In my mind.

Calls every foul. But also going to kick my ass. Oh, he's gonna be good though? Oh, he's, oh yeah, yeah. With a game that's tricky. Yeah, I mean, how else would it be if you're five foot six? You gotta have some tricks up the sleeve. Look man, when Ja Morant calls Kalilweir a pigeon,

when Kalilweir is on him because he's grateful that Bam is not on him. And I'm watching what happens there where a 20-year-old of uncommon physical attributes can't guard John Morant because he too is of uncommon physical attributes. I can stop and remember my friend Jeff Miller, who was about half my size, and I could never block his shot. Anytime were playing basketball I'd get a hip I get

something would get my way I got it like I'm I'm clearly gonna block his shot I'm much bigger than him and he doesn't have an angle here and he's not faster than me and now the ball I'm retrieving the ball out of the hoop again because I can never get it because he's a tricky smitty that's the thing Dan when you're smaller in size you use things to try and like leverage your body to make sure you throw a chicken wing here a hip there all of a sudden you're going for a layup but then the elbow swings back you get caught with an elbow chicken wing to the back right and that's the thing you can you can start playing a little bit tricky when you don't have the size or the speed.

We know ball back here man. It was pointed out to me that Amin and I pretty much nailed the Wizard season when it came to a win-loss total before the season and pre-season oddball special. Your boy knows ball. Congratulations. Andres, I'm a ball-knower.

Can you guys play for me, please? A gas bag of the week. And I wanna get to a behind the bit here in a second because we've gotten away from celebrating our 20-year anniversary. I did want to ask you guys, in celebration of what is possibly us getting thousands of people out to see the part of Greg Cody's body over his belly button

that will be surgically either removed or altered so that we may gather as pilgrimage in order to see it on display in a glass case with lighting one day. I believe that to be the greatest achievement in our show's history. Do you guys have anything in the way of nominees, other nominees that you think might but won't knock that off as the greatest achievement in our show's history? Getting hundreds of people to see you in a speedo. We had the number one album in America on iTunes briefly.

Excellent nominees, but lesser nominees than what it is that I'm talking about. We've made David Sampson somewhat likeable. Have we? No. Yes. No, I think we have. You did? Yeah. By being more unlikable than him. Stu Gotz wrote a book before you did?

Yeah. That's a really good one. Stanzyk wrote a book for Stu Gotz before you wrote a book. Still a good one. That's a really good one. Oh, it has a really good one. Stanzyk wrote a book, Force to Gods, before you wrote a book. Still a good one. We're still around, which is a massive achievement. And not at all was in the cards for us when we started on an Upstart Radio station. All of them good nominees.

None of them as good as getting thousands of people to make a pilgrimage to see a toenail of an old guy, disgusting toenail of an old guy. Who's the Gas Bag of the Week? Let's find out together. We'll probably know by sound, right? This is not an obscure Gas Bag of the Week. It's not obscure. It needs a little setup. Cody Bellinger, center fielder for the Yankees, I guess missed some games recently because of food poisoning. Had some bad chicken wings.

This was not an acceptable excuse for one Chris Mad Dog Russo. Let's see. Is there anything else I want to bring up here in the beginning Kelly Cody Bellinger got sick on some chicken wings You know Cody did eat them and do why would you have chicken wings from a hotel? That's the you know make yourself a blue cheese sandwich and call it a day I mean jeez I mean he got sick on a Good cheese tomato on some potato chips on a of milk. That should carry you as far as that is concerned. We know about the draft, we'll be staying with that. Just holding it against him, the chicken wings.

You need to have a turkey sandwich, chicken wings. Gas bag of the week. Can you tell me who's editing that, that there would be a stray sentence at the end of that where he's just Teasing to the upcoming draft like who's our editor on this that we can't stop that after grilled somebody amazing By the way grilled cheese sandwich that you would transition. He's getting back into sports I argue for the merits of that because it's radio. Yeah Okay, I appreciate you guys arguing for the merits of that. We need better editing around here Editing if he gave time and temp I want that to even if it doesn't apply

He's just a master of the craft Behind the bit is something that we have been doing to celebrate our 20 year anniversary around here And in this case and we talked about this last week I don't know if you remember Tony, your nemesis, Billy Gill, somehow magically beating the Freeze in Atlanta, the Freeze, a sprinter, a former sprinter, I guess he's still a current sprinter, who is part of the shenanigans during Braves games.

They run the entirety of the warning track. It's a hell of a long run. Billy tried to pace himself. This is a good strategy by going slower at the beginning because the way the freeze catches you is, he doesn't slow down, you do. Like his speed never slows because he's got the stamina for the entire warning track. You of course have never run the warning track.

You're also afraid because that sounds fast what's coming from behind and you have taken inventory of how tired you are and how far that foul pole looks now that you're 40 yards away from it. Let's celebrate together Billy Gill somehow magically. Our fastest guy, Billy Gill. He beat Chris Cody in a race. He beat Paul Toria in a race. He beat a mean in a race. Billy's our fastest guy because he also beat the freeze. This is behind the bit. This is behind the bit. This is behind

the bit. A segment about when you used to like us and I used to like me and I used to like us, and I used to like me, and I used to like you. ["Race Track's The Freeze"] This is Race Track's The Freeze. Who is The Freeze? The Freeze is a person that the Atlanta Braves will bring out. You get a chance to race against this person.

If you beat the Freez, I think you got like a $250 gift card for gas or something. He was kind of everywhere. You'd see videos of everybody falling, everybody racing the Freez. And you get a little bit of a head start. And then what always happens is you get out to lead, the Freez ultimately catches up to you, you're celebrating your cocky and

then you get beat and embarrassed by the freeze. So we were headed up to Atlanta for the Super Bowl. We're trying to figure out different bits that we could do as a long shot. We're like, well let's see if we can race the freeze. Thinking everyone would be doing this but it was a football event so no one except us was thinking of doing this. The best part about the Freeze that I remember was we had to call him Racetracks the Freeze the entire time. This is Racetracks the Freeze.

This Racetrack was a sponsor. It had to go through legal with the Braze. It had to go through legal with Racetrack because they owned the bit. So we had to continue to call him Racetracks the Freeze every single time. I wasn't sure it was gonna happen. I went to my college and got a track uniform from then that was skin tight, which I gave them what I thought was the right size, but as you can see in the video, it was tighter than anticipated.

It was also a very cold day. I didn't get the head start I was supposed to get. So I asked a lot of questions beforehand because I ran track. I was a pole vaulter but I ran track so I knew this is a long distance and if I sprint the whole way I'm gonna gas out. So what I did was, in casual conversation, walking up to it, I was asking like, so how much of a head start do I get? Where exactly does the freeze start running? So I was just like playing it up,

like I was just curious as to how exactly this went. What I was really doing was taking notes in my head because they told me more or less where it is on the field the freeze would start running. So my strategy was, I'm gonna get to that point as slow as possible. And then when I get to that point, I'm gonna take off. So I have an actual head start

and we both actually start running at the same time. So even though he's a lot faster than me, hopefully I can last as long as he lasts in the running. Do you feel you won? Yeah I won. I crossed the finish line first. I mean I fell because I had the finish line been 10 feet further. Do you feel like you won? Had the finish line been 10 feet further, it would have been me and all the clips that you see of all the fans that run and trip and fall as the freeze is going and chasing

them down. So I fell across the finish line, but I definitely won. In the video, there was also a shot of me hugging Blooper, the Braves mascot, which pains me because I do not like the Braves. And then I have the traumatic experience of one, falling at the finish line. It's like a fake, it's hard dirt. So I had like a raspberry on my hand the whole time. It was all cut up.

I scraped my knee. I broke the pants that I was in from that innocent fall. I was feeling it forever and then worse than all of that was the video of me hugging the Braves mascot blooper because I do not like the Braves. I also think I should go out on top. I think that my racing days in terms of mascots and others should be done. I'm thinking of iconic mascots I want to race. Maybe the Fanatic but I also don't like the Phillies

So I don't know that I'd be able to live with myself if we had like a nice moment together Did you guys have any reaction to the news that? Paige Becker's had Joined Unrivaled the local basketball league that is ten weeks long Unrivaled, the local basketball league that is 10 weeks long. Unrivaled, John Skipper, the CEO of MetalArk, is one of the investors in that idea. Did you guys have any reaction to the reported details on Paige Becker signing that deal? Because the details of that deal, as they were reported, was that she's going to get for one 10-week period that she's going to get

for one 10 week period, she's signed a three year contract with Unrivaled, a made for television invention that is something that is happening around the schedule of the WNBA, 10 weeks that women have free, that they don't have to go to Russia anymore to make money. The reporting is that she will make more for those 10 weeks than she will make for the entire first four years

of her initial contract in the NBA. That's how badly, in the WNBA. That's the reason that Unrivaled has signed her, but they didn't give any of the actual numbers. Somebody reported it that way, that this is a league that is here, that is throwing around serious money, but they didn't give you the dollar amounts. They simply reported it as, this will be more money than she gets in her entire rookie contract. Because they know, even at the highest end, what that would be in the WNBA because of the rookie wage scale there. That's pretty crazy.

The reporting was interesting to me. They didn't actually give the number though. Like so this was all of this was a marketing exercise in reporting where every story had that detail without giving me the amount of money. None of the stories had the amount of money that I money. None of the stories had the amount of money that I saw. All of the stories had this represents more than she in 10 weeks, she will make more than she will in four years, which made me think that that was something that unrivaled was putting out there because it's a favorable thing for unrivaled to have out there. Come down here, ladies. We have a whole, we have a whole area of a city near the airport in Miami

where we're just making televised basketball. We don't need fans to do it. It's all part of trying to grab the TV streaming dollars so that you could flip that league, when you flip it, for real dollars. And that's some real money being thrown around where you can edge out the WNBA on something and send out a press release that can say to everybody,

look how poorly paid they are over there and look at how well we're paying over here. It's also much fewer players that you have to pay given how the league is structured and all the operating costs. It's three on three. Yeah, with all the operating costs that come with like having to have an expansive roster and all that comes with that in the W.

They built a campus though. Instead of going to Russia and being Brittany Griner, they went to Hialeah. You go to Medley. Which? Truck stops in Medley. It's funny when we talk about it though because for us it's like Medley. The only thing that's in Medley is literally like warehouses. It's not Russia, but it's Miami's Russia. It's like Medley. The only thing that's in Medley is literally like warehouses. It's not Russia, but it's Miami's Russia. It's close It ain't Russia, but it it ain't where I put a basketball league I'm confused by the airport

That we've got essentially a campus It's a campus and it has all the amenities it it has childcare campus and it has all the amenities. It has child care. It has the ability to have. It's basically the bubble. And you can leave the bubble. There's not, you know, a pandemic going on, but you leave the bubble and there's not an area you want to be in because it's medley. Closest thing is Doral. I mean, there ain't nothing close. There ain't no closest thing. There are airports flying out loudly nearby, but it is a strange place. Hey, where are the best women basketball players in the world? Medley! Is that right? I cannot explain

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