The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Jason Benetti's Absurd Observations & Limited Fakes

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

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cuervo.com. Please drink responsibly. Cuervo. This is the Don Leventor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. What's going on with our corn dog eating contest? Weren't we supposed to do that today? Where are you Greg Cody on this corn dog eating contest? I saw that there were corn dogs out there. Is that a piece of confetti that has fallen from the peacock announcement that we made? Right here. A piece of confetti. How many months ago was that? There is still, there's still falling from the roof here.

Still worth celebrating. Confetti here from our Peacock partnership, a partnership that will include a corndog eating contest. How did we get to a corndog eating contest? I don't even remember. I think Billy watched one. He watched one? Oh, he went to one.

That's how Domino got invited to your Domino tournament. Okay. That's binding, by the way. Speaking of which, that Domino tournament, if you don't play Domino got invited to your Domino tournament. Okay, that's binding by the way speaking of which that Domino tournament If you don't play dominoes, they're gonna be a hundred hundred and twenty people playing dominoes But there will be hundreds of other people there tickets available if you want to be Interacting with any of the people that are there We're trying to make this as I mentioned very intimate so that you actually get interactions with us. So what do I get when I win the Domino Tournament?

Has that been established? There will be prizes and there will be swag, but what's going on with our corndog eating contest? We're trying around here to connect the shows throughout the week. We have a show and we're like, hey, let's do, so we talked about a corndog contest, so after that show, we're like, hey,

let's do a corndog contest the next week. And then I woke up today and I was just like, is this, I feel like this is kind of, I don't want my dad to choke on a hot dog. Like, I'm worried about people throwing up. It's just like, is it actually that funny? Are we gonna be good at it? I just kinda like lost enthusiasm

for the whole thing this morning. Yeah, my problem with it was, and no offense to whoever procured the corn dogs, but I don't like a store bought corn dog. I have to eat a corn dog on a midway, on a carnival midway, Calliope music playing in the background. So you have carnival corn dogs

not being frozen at one point. No, they're home, they're handmade, hand-dipped. Yeah, they dip them into the corn meal, and they put them into the fryer, that's how Gregg really likes it. That's exactly right. I want to see it made. I think we bought like 20 frozen corn dogs.

Yeah, see, that's not going to work for me. I need it to come out of the oil. And dipped. Yes, and dipped. Tony knows. So you're not going to participate? You're not going to participate? I'm holding out for handmade, homemade corn dogs that I see dipped and extracted from the Earl.

That's what I want. So carnivals, fairs? Yeah a midway a carnival midway with Calliope music. Put it on the poll please at Levitard show is a corn dog does a corn dog taste better at a carnival than anywhere else? You know what I had at the Renaissance Festival this past weekend? A deep fried peanut butter and jelly. It was basically like funnel cake with the powder on the outside

and you bite into the center of it, some peanut butter and jelly. It was delightful. The Day County Youth Fair comes back on Thursday. We went last year, didn't we? Yes, yes we did. But this year it's a retro youth fair. Yes, it's a retro youth fair.

Oh yeah. Yeah, where they're trying to bring us all out back out there. That was my first, I went with Roy and our kids last year and that was the most impressive fair I've ever been to. I had never been. Wait, what? And I've been to fairs, I had never been to the one down in Miami.

To Dade County Youth Fair? Dude, it is the largest, like, any fair, people in their minds right now, they've been to fairs, it's like four times the size of your fair. I find that shocking to believe. How have you never been to the youth fair? I don't know, I'm a Broward guy. The Broward guy. I've done Broward fairs, they've been to fairs. It's like four times the size of your fair. I find that shocking to believe. How have you never been to the youth fair? I don't know, I'm a Broward guy. The Broward guy.

I've done Broward fairs. They're better fairs. Like I was just at the Renaissance Festival. I'm pretty sure it's like three times the size of the Renaissance Festival. That is a big fair in Miami. When you walk around a Ren fair, I picture you walking into just mirrors

where everyone there looks like you. Everyone at a Ren fair. No, I was actually way out of character. I wore like a white button down like I was on a cruise. Everyone there is like in full like medieval times. Like I felt, I was like the, I stuck out like a sore thumb there. No, you're thinking of a chili cook-off.

That's where I peak, right there. Yeah. People- We know. No, well, you wait a minute. Least surprising thing. Yes, a chili cook-off. This time's festival, I think you're misinterpreting Like I don't dress up like in that garb like everyone at those things is like way in character

I'm just like I'm not talking about costumes. I'm talking about pinkish flesh Chili cook off. See you always do this you turn everything into Key West Like a Renaissance festival is not Key West people. It's particularly white. It's like younger. Yeah Festival is not it's particularly white. It's like younger Dominicans love a renfair, but it's also really dressed It's like super into like whatever the theme of the weekend was like I think this one was was it steam punk or something? What I think steam goth seem punk is a thing steam punk that was like I didn't know what it was Everyone in my group was like, how do you not know what steam punk is? I was like, I don't know but it's apparently apparently like top hat, and like the old fashioned glasses.

Kind of looks like Burning Man a little bit. Pull up some steampunk. There you go. Okay, but you're doing costumes at a Ren Faire, and I'm just doing pinkish people with. You've never been then, because everyone does costumes. Why isn't a Ren Faire's theme just Ren Faire? Well no, it's like-

Why do you need a sub theme to a theme? No, one weekend is Harry Potter, then it's pirates, and then the next one is Steampunk. I'm telling you, this is what it is. It's every weekend, because it's like eight weekends, and every weekend has a specific theme, and I happen to go on Steampunk where everyone's got the monocles and the top hat.

Why weren't you dressed like that? Because I'm just there for the, you know, deep-fried peanut butter and jelly. You're saying, though, that you don't feel like the Ren Fair is per square foot a place that has your facial hair. No, so you're doing Key West again. They're just Dominicans, man, I'm telling you. Yeah, I mean, I went with a bunch of Hispanic people.

Chris does have like ginger Dominican beard though. Yeah, he does. You do have a Dominican beard. You absolutely do. At Levitard Show. Just a nice tape up and you're in. Go ahead and a Dominican beard. You absolutely do. At Levitard Show. Just a nice tape up and you're in. Go ahead and put it at Levitard Show.

Do Dominicans love a good Ren Faire? Quit calling it a Ren Faire. Use its full name, please. Ridiculous. Festival, not a fair also. Yeah, it's a festival. Renfest. Yeah, I dress like a minstrel when I go to a Wren Fair.

I don't know what that means. The time of the month? A minstrel. Like a minstrel show? If you say it again, I don't know what it means. Is that royal? I don't think we want an elaboration, honestly. I think we don't get any on the chair.

What's wrong with a minstrel? That when he said, let's move on. Okay. All right. Innocent mistake by me me if indeed it was a mistake that is not much of an apology you'll be the judge it's a medieval singer or musician oh i thought it was a period a medieval hence renaissance a medieval singer or dancer yeah uh two americas on that one yeah i just i just clicked images and I don't like what I see. Sorry. Yeah, I can't believe Greg just did this

Oh, dude, this is real bad One definition the other definition however, well, he said he dressed Dressed like a minstrel now you do a Google image search. How's that working for you? Not real good. Yeah, it's an education. But again, medieval musician. Let's stick to medieval musician.

People are allowed to make mistakes. I don't like any of this. I want to learn. I want to learn. I do want to learn. I do want to learn. I was referring to a medieval, akin to a court jester, is what I think about it. It was an unfortunate Google result.

All right, Greg, I want you to just simply take some inventory of Billy Gill's face and what Billy Gill likes when stuff happens on this show. I backed him off of that. Don't faith it. I don't know where you're going with this. I'm watching you delighting in this descent into- No, I like that God want to learn.

No, you should be watching me. You should be watching me. That is correct. That is- Glad you weren't judicious on the, Greg's right. Can you please get for me a couple of top five lists before we get to Jason Benetti, one of the great play-by-play men of our generation.

And he's going to be a guest here in a moment but we have here a couple of different top five lists we've got Mike Ryan's top five lists of acquisitions for his team that he hated and we have Tony's top five free agent winners so far in football which would you like to go to first Greg Cody since this is your day I'll take the first one. Okay, do you remember what it is? No. Top five acquisitions for Mike Ryan's teams that he hated. Do you have any OLI, Mike Ryan?

I do, these are top five acquisitions that I hated upon learning, that I was never behind it, didn't like it, when they signed them I was bummed. I think I know who number one is, but go ahead, OLI. Jimmy Butler. He's not a Jimmy Butler guy. I thought he was inefficient. Didn't like what he was doing in the locker rooms. Didn't think it would work out.

And he largely proved me wrong. He went to the NBA finals, you know, twice, as the best player on the Miami Heat team. So I got that one wrong. Number five, Romelu Lukaku. This guy. He missed a pen in the Super Cup, and then he went gallivanting to the NBA. on a Miami Heat team, so I got that one wrong. Number five, Romelu Lukaku. This guy. He missed a pen in the Super Cup

and then he went gallivanting around the Premier League and then he just held Chelsea hostage for like a huge payday. You knew his heart was never in it, came in and immediately went on a Sky Italia interview, trashing the club. Your Academy club, Romelu. I hated it from the moment you came back and you proved me right immediately.

Mike Ryan, I'm sorry. I'm going to put you on hold and do something I've never done before. I'm going to interrupt the top five list. As it happens, Jason Benetti is there, and I am ceding the floor to Benetti. I want to be kind, a kind host to our guests. So just hold on to it there.

Benetti, thank you for joining us. Can you tell us of a time that you hated, that one of the acquisitions that your team made? So I grew up in New Orleans Saints fan and they traded their entire draft for Ricky Williams once. Like literally everybody. And he had no rookies to hang out with. And he was, you know, a little bit of an eccentric guy

in the first place. And, but they, they you know they traded their entire draft for Ricky Williams and now knowing what we know about running backs in the NFL you know I maybe not worth the entire draft and I will say I jumped in in the middle of the list nobody ever says the word gallivanting positively nobody's ever been gallivanting in like a really positive light. That's a good point. Put it on the poll please, Juju. Does anyone ever use the term galavanting positively? This segment is presented by LinkedIn jobs. Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash

DLS terms and conditions apply. One of the many reasons that I love listening to you and one of the many reasons that I love listening to you in baseball, even though you do other sports, is because you have the space to do those kinds of absurd observations, and you seem to enjoy it a great deal more than your musty broadcasting brethren. So musty is a very, very funny word for baseball announcers, because I do think sometimes we all can get a little musty after a seven o'clock game goes 12 innings into a one o'clock start. Look I watched a lot of SNL growing up and I listened to a lot of like George Carlin

CDs and things like that and that sort of observational fun time is interesting to me. And also, like, let's be honest, over the course of, before the pitch clock, how much of like the three hour baseball telecast was really like gripping, like edge of the seat, top of the first time you ever rode it, amusement park ride, roller coaster thing, like it's not really that. So thank you for noticing, I think,

and apologies to anybody that's overly musty next to me. Oh, but the casual way you do this, I'm gonna say it's groundbreaking. I'm going to say that there is a conservative way that this is normally done, and you have brought it into the new age the way that you do it. I feel like you take pride in that.

Well, I appreciate it. I mean, I think part of it is just my own mind that gets kind of scattered, but I will say, like, part of where my sensibility comes from is from working a lot with Bill Walton. And I know we've talked about him before, but I loved that man. I loved him every time we sat next to each other.

I loved every time he would look at me and give me a little wink knowingly about something that he just said to me, even though he was still doing the bit. I mean, I love the man, and a lot of what I do is informed by him and the grave loss from not having him on the planet anymore.

You're calling games this year with Dan Dickerson who you also do a podcast with. Is there an adjustment there and at what point do you, do you think that there's a situation where you forget you're not doing a podcast and you're calling a game? You just kind of go into other things, let's say. Well, so we did a spring training game on radio and I was needling him about the challenge system,

right, where you tap your head in spring training and you can challenge a ball or a strike. And he then like, he got on a soap box and we realized that like four pitches were gone. It's not the ideal thing on radio, certainly. And we don't do a ton of games together where I think it's actually just going to be the one in spring training. And then Andy Dirks, Dan Petrie, among others, are going to be my partner. But like the reason I love baseball is because of those sides.

And Dan, you're talking about like like me and whatever I do but it's a we in a lot of ways like Andy Dirks who played for the Tigers when they went to the World Series a decade ago is a really sharp guy he's doing more games this year we were doing a game last year and he couldn't think of the term look-alike and all that came to his mind was the phrase resemblance person so we were talking about somebody looking like somebody else, and he's like, oh, that's his resemblance person. And I cannot get the phrase resemblance person out of my head. It's way better than doppelganger.

It's way better than lookalike, but you're just hanging out with people and talking, and, you know, like, I know you know this, bits just kind of happen. Like, inside jokes just happen, and baseball is a great, I guess, trampoline for it. I disagree with you vehemently that resemblance person is better than doppelganger.

I feel like doppelganger is just a phrase that you've gotten too familiar with, but the first time a person hears doppelganger, that is a better phrase than resemblance person. Funny word. You do college football, you do NFL, you do basketball. Baseball is your favorite though, right? So team baseball is just different than all the rest of them

because you get to know guys. Like you really, really get to know guys. You get to know their tendencies, you get to know what. Like you really, really get to know guys. You get to know their tendencies, you get to know what makes them tick. You can walk up to them and just say kind of asides and just see where it goes because you have a sense of their sensibility. Like today, I don't have the game in Lakeland. They're on the road. But I was in the clubhouse and the Tigers have this hot prospect named Jackson Job who very possibly could make their rotation this year as the four- or five-starter.

And I just went up to him, and I, like, this was the only piece of the conversation, but it lays the foundation for the future. I go, have you ever seen Arrested Development? He goes, no, what's that? I was like, it's a sitcom, but there's a character named Job on the show who's a sitcom, but there's a character named Job on the show who's a magician, and like, you should probably just know that it exists.

And then he started telling me about a nickname that he got from some other movie and all that stuff. And that's the only sport where I could, I could veritably say to you, like, at some point this might get into a show. Like this might actually be a portion of an inning at some point this might get into a show like this might actually be a portion of an inning at some point. I am fascinated by the evolution of baseball and how much better these people have gotten. I could I feel like I can make a decent

argument that you're a scubal is the best left-hander in the history of the world not named Kershaw. That the person throwing pitches from the left side that that's not a hittable human being and I've never seen a left-hander throw that way. He is. You take that, Dan, and all that he does on the left-hand side with the change-up that's so menacing and his willingness to add and subtract

and then add pitches and be really into pitch design and that sort of thing, and you combine it with this level of just like angry dominance of the other person. There was this moment in Cincinnati in July, right before the All-Star break. And I've not asked Tarek this directly, but I get the feeling that part of it was,

okay, we hear a lot about the other guy. Here's what I'm gonna do. Ellie De La Cruz was up, who obviously is a rocket ship and a star in the game, but Scoobal struck him out. And there was just this massive scream that came out of him. And I cannot help but think there's a little like Michael Jordan last dance in there of like, oh yeah, like I've heard a lot

about you playing defense, Gary Payton, like here's the fastball. There you go. There's a change up. See you go, there's a change up. See you later, it's been fun. And I really, the more I've done play by play, the more I really crave watching people who are just edge of the bell curve competitive because they tend to just be the most amazing theater

and they do things just psychologically that are, you know, psychotic in the best way. Angry? Does he pitch angry? Oh he pitches furious. Like I don't know what the world did to him on days that he pitches but it did something to him and like his catcher Jake Rogers who caught literally every inning he threw last year will go out to the mound and he's basically like a comedian slash therapist because he was like trying to get Scoobl to smile, trying to get him stopped from like stopping around and like yelling at the umpire. But then you talk to Tarek on days off and he's just like, he's a regular like normal human being who has like gone from 15 to one. And I just,

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Don LeBretard. you don't remember the idea. I was probably like that kind of thing Something okay. No the home run call was that kind of swing that kind of thing Stugats oh It's a good call. Thank you And plus it doesn't matter who's hitting it like you're not tailing it to a particular name You know all that jazz you, you don't gotta do that. You just do a generic call. That kind of swing, that kind of thing.

This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats. ["The Stugats Theme Song"] Greg, I don't think you were here when Benetti delighted us by breaking out his Sports Center voiceover guy. No, I'm not. I'm gonna introduce you now to him if he'd be willing to do it.

You will recognize the Pukey broadcaster from Sports Center who does some of these ads. Forgive me for doing this to you again, but my friend has not met your ESPN voiceover guy. So Jason, if you'd be kind enough to unveil him, I would appreciate it. The Dan Levitard Show, brought to you by Steak and Shake. New banana chocolate Snickers.

Crispity, crunchity, Kit Kat milkshake. That sounded delicious. You made my mouth water. Seriously, I want a bottle. Have you been working on any of the others since we saw you? You did Sean McDonough, you did Droopy Dog. Do you have any others in the arsenal that we didn't get to?

I do like really obscure announcers that only like five people know. So I'm not gonna play those hits. It's like the Bill Hader impression of the guy from Dateline, right? Keith Morrison. Yeah. Like Bill Hader's like, I know how to do this,

but nobody knows who I'm talking about. So I have a couple of those. But I do a, you know, Robbie Hummel, who's become omnipresent on college basketball, very well could be the next huge analyst in college basketball. If you watch him do a game, he learned from Matt Painter, his coach at Purdue,

that when you have a scouting report on a guy, but you don't exactly follow the scouting report, Coach Painter would come up and say this phrase, and Robbie's kind of got like a, he's a little bit like, he's not broly at all, but he kind of sounds a little bit like him. He'll be like, he's not bro-y at all, but he kind of sounds a little bit like him, he'll be like, that's his deal. He goes over his left shoulder, how could you not know that?

So if you watch Robbie do a game, he's gonna, as he talks about the scouting report, he'll be like, that's his deal, Namaari Barnett goes right, like, that's his deal, that's his thing, right? So just watch for a Robbie game and you will hear, that's his deal. How did you perfect the McDonough?

Explain to me why the love of McDonough? Because obviously he's someone who's viewed as a craftsman in the industry. First of all, I sent him a CD when I was a senior in college and I got this phone call and it was from a number that I didn't have in my phone and I got this phone call and it was from a number that I didn't have in my phone and I pick it up and he goes, Jason, Sean McDonough, how are you? I was like, hey, Sean, you're just calling me, huh?

And he's like, I listened to your CD, it's very good, here are some thoughts. And so I revered Sean for the way he sounds and the way he brings humor into it and the way that he used to just like snipe at Raph and Billus. Big Monday was really important to me as a college student but as somebody growing up in this industry. So, you know, like McDonough just being like, Raph, he has Irish arthritis. He wakes up stiff at a new joint every morning.

Like that sort of thing. Is my kind of humor, right? And so that every Monday was really, really important to me in my career. And there have been times in games where I'll just be like, John's baseline. And I'm like, oh, no, like you cannot, you cannot actually do that. You know, it's why like if you do eye and eagle too much, you're like, oh, a foreign facial, right? Then suddenly it comes out in games where you're just like, oh, what a drive. Oh no, that's not even me. Like that's totally somebody else.

That's not good at all. Or you become boo where he's like three is good and there's like a slight dismissiveness to it even though like you know he's really into it so but that's the that's the scary part of all of it is you just become them so i did i did the robbie impression during a game with bill raftery i was like that's a deal and rob Robbie texted me, you're dead to me. To which then one of his assistant coaches at Purdue texted, loved the Robbie impression. So it's mixed signals really that I'm getting. You don't do a boogshambee, do you?

You know, it's just a little like low key. There's like a, I don't do a full out version of it, but when I talk to him, he's like, hey, you know, you wanna do dinner tonight? Or what are you, what are you? Like, there's just like, it's like a low hum sort of. It's not perfect. It's a refrigerator hum.

It's a, he's a low hum, but he's the most empathetic kind low hum that you've ever gotten. Do you have any idea, do you know Len Casper, the former Cubs TV announcer, now White Sox radio? Yep. I was out for a game with the White Sox

and then Len was in on TV and there was a game winner that went over the Orioles right fielder and he was just like, over the head of Santander and the white sands win. And anytime I see Anthony Santander, there are members of the crew who will like hit me and talk back and be like, over the head. And the problem with all of this is,

I just revere announcers. I love sounds and I love announcers. And I think people have thought I'm making fun of people, but I'm like, I love sounds. And so I just, I hear these moments and I get excited about them. Is Vin Scully the best or if you have someone close to him, who is your second place?

So Vin as a storyteller is just a number one, but then then you get to like specific people with specific sports, you know, I find Joe Buck to be truly phenomenal. His mind moves very quickly and sharply. I think Sean on college football is just unbelievably good. I thought Gary Thorne doing hockey was just unreal. There's a call of his that Paul Correa, when he was playing for the Ducks, he got knocked on the ground and then he gets back up

and it's off the floor on the board, Paul Correa. But right before he takes the shot, he's like, the crowd wants it, slap shot, score, right? It's like, it's bone chilling how good it is. So there are just like for specific events, like I totally underrated Andrew Catalon for the NCAA tournament. He has nailed some huge moments the past bunch of years.

There are just so many good people, but yeah, I just enjoy the sounds we get to make while we do games. Hockey's the hardest, right? Oh, oh yes. I did, so the NHL had a lockout, like many years ago, I was in Syracuse at the time, I was doing games for like Time Warner Cable,

and I did a game on a Saturday at Cornell hockey and I'm not a big hockey guy so I would like kind of muddled my way through it figured it out. The next day Doc Emrick did the game the same series it was like Colgate Cornell Doc did it and I was like yeah I'm an idiot I have no idea how to do this like you all think I'm horrible at this because Doc's the greatest and I had to do the game the day before him. Jason, I wanna ask you some advice. So I've been doing some college baseball games this season

and it was pointed out to me about four games in that the players and the coaches listen back to these games because they go back to watch the film or whatever and they're watching it with the sound on. And I'm slightly concerned at the trouble that I'm going to get myself in in the future because I'm not changing my behavior in the types of. And I'm slightly concerned at the trouble that I'm going to get myself in in the future because I'm not changing my behavior in the types of things that I'm saying about certain players.

So I'm wondering if you've ever found yourself in that spot where you've said something about a player and then been confronted after the fact. And you know, not like confronted. I mean, I like, I said last year about a tiger pitcher just jokingly, like that he wasn't all that skilled in fielding a ball. And he came up to me in the clubhouse,

he was like, he was like, look at this. And he showed me video of like him in high school, right? So, you know, if you say it with the proper tone, I feel like that's what's important. Well, that I don't know that I can help you with. But if you say it in a way that is like welcoming and understanding and you can be self-deprecating too, I think people know, like as somebody who walks kind of funny, I'm not about to go and run the steeplechase, right?

So like that's not going to be a thing for me. So I just kind of do it in a self-deprecating way. But if you're not willing to work on your tone, then I don't know that I could be of much help. Well, my strategy thus far has been just do it to the opponents because I'll probably never see them again. Like when am I going to see Delaware baseball again, you know?

Oh, that's great. No, that's definitely upstanding behavior is what I would call that. What do you think the reaction would be if you broadcast an entire game as the ESPN voiceover guy? He's frozen. It's not that he's thinking. Deep question. What a question by Greg Cody. Number four Mike Ryan. Terry Rozier. Yeah. Hated him as a basketball player, always did. The only reason why he's not number three on this list is because by getting Terry Rosier we got rid of Kyle Lowry

Who I hated that's fanfare for the wheel number three Number two, this is real talk. This is me being honest Bradmore shunt I hated it. I can't believe that's ahead of Terry Rosier I can't believe there are three ahead of Terry Rozier and number one is obvious Deshaun Watson Stop being a fan Momentarily let's get camp. It was for several years. It stopped making you a fan of the Cleveland Browns I was I'm still not a fan of the Cleveland Browns, but but they get cam ward daddy's back

I'm still not a fan of the Cleveland Browns. But. But, they get Cam Ward, daddy's back. Tony, are you ready to do your? Dan, I was born ready. Top five free agent winners, any OLI? We've got two OLIs. Number one, the Indianapolis Colts. Oh, you're just doing teams.

Yeah, just doing teams. Winners of free agency. The Colts won OLI ratings. By the way, one of the better nicknames already in the sport for their quarterback Indiana Jones. Daniel Jones. Playing where? Indiana. Indiana was a dog's name by the way Chris. Second OLI the Broncos. Like what they're doing defensively getting a really good defense setting up for for the boy Bownicks. who's turned the corner by the way

He's made a leap or turn the corner. He turned the corner during the season, but now he's getting ready I thought he made a leap Leap in year one. I don't even know where I'm leaping to exactly number five the Jets Addition by subtraction. I'm very intrigued that what they could do with Justin Fields. Really? Number four. Number four, Minnesota. Shorten up the offensive line, shorten up the defensive line, re-sign Byron Murphy. Like there's a lot of things that they're doing there. That's not great analysis. There's a lot of things that they're doing there. Just that sensitive. I'm saying defensively they're getting a lot of guys.

Offensively they're getting a lot of guys because they got offensive line wise they got to figure out what they're gonna do a quarterback now. Greg Cody thinks the Dolphins need everything they need help at everything Yeah, especially now that they've lost Yvonne Holland, but they got Zach Wilson. So that is true and a guard number three Chicago Completely shoring up the offensive line got three good players got a couple good defensive linemen, too So again, Dan, what's it about? It's about the trenches, right? Can you protect the quarterback? Can you get out sexy not sexy? That doesn't matter moving number two number two the New England Patriots

Talking about short of a defense Braves came in said let me get a D tackle. Let me get a linebacker Let me get a safety. Let me get another corner. Very good Hopefully draft Travis Hunter give Drake may a little you know a little bit of weapon there But New England Patriots number two number one the commies. I Love what they do with Larry Larry me tonsil. I love the Debo Samuel thing. He's gonna play inspired ball I think they got a nice little linebacker to Jevon Kinloch I think was over at with the commies to the commanders make it a half number one Benetti has returned from his frozen exile. I want to play for him some sound of book shambhi doing robot baseball for us i don't know this was

many years ago if any of it holds up but i want to see if i can recruit him to do a new version of robot baseball for us and we welcome you back to the death star here at microsoft's wiggly field will shall be back for another great season of baseball obviously the big question as we enter this year is can anyone break Frankenberry's record of three hundred twenty six home runs last season? As always, I welcome back my partner in the booth, R2-D2.

Darth Vader doesn't like the call and he's coming out of the dugout. He's going to go over there and argue with Cowboy Joe Wefts. R2, I'll tell you what, it's a scary sight anytime you see Darth Vader with the lightsaber out. And here he goes, approaching Joe West. Oh, and Darth Vader has sliced first base umpire Joe West in half. Oh, Jesus, that's unfortunate. That escalated quickly. Would you be willing in any way to do an advancement to that particular idea that seemed like a good one many years ago?

Five trillion percent. Okay. Yes, absolutely, please. Can Boog and I do it together would be my question. When we did KBO Korean baseball together, we had the time of our lives. Can we do it together? That was not something that Boog described as the time of his life in a closet somewhere

doing Korean baseball. No, with us together, together as announcers, two play-by-play announcers. It's our dream we cut out the analyst. He's a, but he's a preparation freak and they would tell him before the game, hey, we're switching games to another team that you don't know anything about. And here you go, try and talk about but he's a preparation freak and they would tell him before the game, hey, we're switching games to another team

that you don't know anything about. And here you go, try and talk about their shortstop as if you know what you're talking about. Correct, absolutely. It was like, yeah, you know, you got the LG Twins and you got the Hanwha Eagles. Nope, they got rained out. You're doing Doosan and NC.

Congratulations, hope you enjoy it. You did not experience that the way that Boog did. Boog did not like not having proper preparation for those games at five o'clock in the morning. But what am I supposed to do? I'm way closer to my microwave than I am the game. So how am I supposed to do it with perfection? Like the whole idea is to just like, eh, roll it out,

see what happens. I don't suggest that you should do that for the final four or something like that. But I mean, it was basically just improv, right? I've never actually done improv, but KBO games were as close to doing improv as you could possibly get. I mean, when you have on July 4th, a competitive eater on as an interview guest, live from Lowe's where he's buying paint because he's redoing his house, that's pretty much where you know you've broken one of the walls down and he can fix it for you actually.

Boog Shambi was very popular in Korea. They made songs about him there. ESPN, Boog Shambi, wow! ESPN, Bouk-Shyang-Bee, wow! ESPN, Buk-Shyang-Bee, let's go, wow! Together, wow! ESPN, Buk-Shyang-Bee! ESPN, Buk-Shyang-Bee, wow! They didn't sing shit about you, Benetti.

No, it's not as catchy. It's got too many syllables. Wow! Are you in agreement that the Dodgers have kind of ruined everything for everybody? Nah, I think everybody else needs to follow the lead of the Dodgers and go after free agents and things like that. I mean, that's where I am on this is I everybody has the opportunity to do that. Everybody has the opportunity to do what the Dodgers want to do. And frankly, I don't think having the you know, to take robot baseball's terminology, a Death Star is bad for anybody. I think if every other fan base says as long as

it's not the Dodgers, which I feel like some people are saying, I have nothing against the Dodgers, but some people are saying that. I do tend to feel like that's good for the sport because you can just say like, hey, yeah, we have a villain now. I've never heard a Death Star describe that benignly. It's usually something that is viewed as something to be feared. Benetti is here to sell you on the-

Well, I was gallivanting. I was gallivanting positively through that. It's usually something that is viewed as something to be feared, but Eddie is here to sell you on the. Well I was gallivanting, I was gallivanting. I was gallivanting positively through the thought. Jason, nice seeing you, always good talking to you. Thank you, sir. Sorry about the internet in Lakeland, Florida. My sincere apologies. It's all right, we managed it.