The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Live Dogs (feat. Adnan Virk)

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

"Sciatica's bulls**t." The gang heads to the DenTek Bucket, and after another impressive Laker win last night, Zaslow has a take on how badly LeBron's plan has backfired before making a sucka move. Plus, it's the final edition of the Pitch Clock for the 2025 season. Jeremy and Adnan put a bow on an all-time great World Series, while Ethan tees up a game for Jeremy and Chris that tests how much they learned this Postseason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Here we go, guys. You guys realize how many people asked off this Thursday? It's a thin cast line here. I didn't put two and two. Wait, hold on, sorry. I didn't put two and two together. Now, look, I took a PTO day. Last Thursday was my first bye week at this thing.

Okay. But I've been here every week. This is absurd. Where do you go? I'm missing like four people. Where's Chris? Dude, he's like Bucket Day. Is he alive?

He had a dental procedure. A dental procedure? Fitting. Doesn't have that dent tech at night. What about the other stuff that happened yesterday? That's fine. It is curious. Didn't report in the shot.

No, he didn't. It was a little backed up. I was out there for the fireworks. I had to leave the chat, no fireworks. Wow. Any hoodles. Hey, hoodles. Well, let's go into the bucket.

They're done-tack bucket there. Yeah. Indianapolis cults. They are six and a half points favorite across the Atlanta Falcons. I'm not going to do much better than that. Oh, wait. That's in a way.

That's an overseas game. I don't like overseas. Nine-thirty start. Why don't you like overseas? You're xenophobic? America First Fall. I like that, actually. I'll keep it, Bill.

Indianapolis, here's America's team right now. Everybody wants them to win. Let's see. I'll give a nice little rummage. Okay. That one right there. The Minnesota Vikings. Tradeson Harkerty, look good.

You got the red-hot Baltimore Ravens, though. Come in the town, four and a half point dogs at home. It was surprising. Ravis is expecting the Ravens to go on this run. I actually like the, I'm going to put it back, by the way. But I like the Vikings as a home. dog yeah that's a live dog that's a live dog yeah I just don't think what is it live dog dog oh I've got the fine bucket plus death so you lost right away

that's my first off of the season hold on is there any money in the fine bucket nope I can't remember anyone getting fine I was the last one to pull that one okay took my own no what was in it did any was there anything in there yeah there's a good bit of money just a loss at the bucket Wait, what the hell? Yeah, that kind of sucks, man. Say, little our prize. I had the San Francisco 49ers. They are playing the Rams are four and a half point dog.

Home dog. So that's not a lot of them. That's a live dog. I don't think that's a live dog. Yeah. What is it? A live dog. Ha!

I got the Rams. Oh. Oh, there you go. Completely flipped. Remember the live dog, though. You're going up against a live dog. Is it really good? money?

That's like, say it the way that Paul Rudd says it. A live dog. One of the last time you heard anyone get fined on their show. I thought Dan said that he put like 500 bucks in there. When? Like one time that Jess won and she was complaining it was any money. And then Dan was like, yeah, we're 500 bucks. He's just making it up.

Dan, give me $500. I got the Jaguars. They're at Houston. They got the Kobe Myers. I'm going to keep it. Yeah. Davis Mills on the other side. No CJ Straub.

Jags Road phase. One of nine. point spread. I also kind of hate that. Hey, Reaper, you smell really good. Like, someone finally laundered your cow. What is that called? Cowell. Like Simon? Cow and cow.

No. Come on. That's Cowell. Even though you don't pronounce a... Samma Cow. Oh, thank you for your service. Oh, so you got a service academy? Army, Navy Air Force. Nice. All right, so Army is a 7th point favorite against Temple.

Mm-hmm. Navy is a 26.5 point dog against Notre Dame. Do that. And Air Force is a five and a half point dog against San Jose State. San Jose State's got a good lower receiver. Navy only has one loss. You should take Navy. Oh, man.

If I took them in a one, that would be so awesome. You can also get Coast Guard. Who are they playing? I don't know. Citadel. Wait, do they have to be football? They're playing the Citadel? Hold on.

Football. Do they have to be football? Can I get... No. I can't get a basketball? You really want to trust him? The everyone walked through that door I went to school with a guy to play the Navy by the way

High school It was pretty good I got the Eagles The Eagles are crying They're on a via No no Monday night Monday night

There are one and a half point dog Akron Bayerner I'm gonna sweat that out I also like that as a live dog That's a light dog We got a lot of light dogs this week What is it? Say it like Paul Rudd

It's a loud dog Not dog, baby. There's really no money? Thank you, Depp. No money. Maybe I'll let you hold a dollar. We'll see on Monday. I'll say, let me go a couple of your stocks, buddy.

We'll see. I love all those. I drool a lot, man. Yeah, I drool a lot on that. Live dog is hard to say. Every time I spoke. There's a live dog. Be on me on the camera caught one, I'm sure.

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Stugats. Stugats. Every cup game. And at what? This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Zaz. Yeah. What do you think about LeBron's playing, man?

Oh, you, look, I'm all over this. When everybody sees what I've been saying, I just want to make sure you all say props Zazlo Zazel had it first. You see the Lakers. The Lakers last night won again. They beat Wembawn Yama. That's right.

The Lakers are 7 and 2 now and ask me how many games LeBron James has played so far this season. Yo, Zaz. None. He hasn't played in any games. There's 7 and 2. LeBron's plan has completely backfired.

You know LeBron this is a silent protest he does not have sciatica it's total bullshit he wants there to be this narrative oh you don't want to sign me to a long-term deal oh you think that the team is lucas oh you're not going to allow me to to be a part of decisions hold on hold on hold on time to throw away all your journalistic credibility and get reckless here is something we like to call reckless speculation you're good okay so again everything that i just said and you know that LeBron wants to come back when the Lakers are struggling. Well, the Lakers are really good without LeBron.

This is unprecedented in LeBron's career right now, where a team that LeBron is on without LeBron is really good. Cooking. This is exactly the opposite of what LeBron was going for. I don't know if he's ever even going to play with the Lakers games. He wanted him to fall apart, right? Absolutely. When's LeBron going to be back?

Absolutely. Now they're winning games without Austin Reeves. There's one issue, 77. What about him? He's not going to let that happen. LeBron's not there. Okay, great. The issue is usually the team would tank, but now they have a generational player who's there to be like, yeah, that's not going to happen.

And the Lakers' front office, their MO to start to look past LeBron, to give the keys to Luca. Luca is the guy who they're consulting for decisions is all proving to be the correct path. And you know LeBron, if you hook LeBron up to a lie detector right now and ask him, is he happy with the Lakers 7 and 2 start? That little meter is going to be flying all over the place. Nope. He is definitely not happy. His plan has backfired.

I, man, it is kind of like staggering because also Luca was hurt. Luca missed games and they won through that. They've been winning. They're a good basketball team, man. Austin Reeves didn't even play last night. Austin Reeves didn't play last night. groin injury. God, I hate a groin injury. But like Jake

LaRavia, aka who's number 12? He played well last night. He's been lining it up. He's been lighting it up. He's been shooting well. DeAndre Aiton played well? How about that? I was surprised to see that. Even Brony had a basket. Well, okay. If LeBron

and LeBron leaves, Brony goes with him, right? Like the obligation extinguishes immediately. I don't know. But they're going to cut him? He's not going to go anywhere. Why would you keep him? Why would he leave? Where's his dad going?

Where's his dad going? Where's his dad going? You got to aggregate. You think that he's got to make a call and be like, hey, I need to get traded to... Absolutely. Wherever the old man is. You think the Lakers are all like, yo, LeBron, when are you coming back? Please hurry up.

No chance. No chance. No one's asked him. No one. No one's asked him. Plans backfired. He probably watched on the facility talking about. Feeling pretty good.

He actually, they went to Shams yesterday during the pregame show and it's like, all right, got an update on the bar and he's like, yeah, he's going to start doing five-on-five in the next week. Oh, he's going to ramp up? Even though it felt like late November was when things were going to happen. Now he's already on five-on-five. Temple Sack is bullshit. Got to ramp up? Mark is smart, man.

He's still alive. Hey, he's not a good player. So happy when he takes a shot. Yep. Please take all the shots down stretch. It's a weird build of a team, right, where it's like you have like Reeves and Luca who are really good. And then it's like everybody else is kind of like this mismatched pieces of like the scraps of DeAndre. Jake Learvie was actually playing good,

but then you got Marcus Smart running around there doing God knows what. Rue Hachemore turning a 17-foot turnaround jumper. They got whatever they could get their hands on, right? It's like... Who's available? Yeah, it's the supermarket shop till you drop. And the first things they got are like Austin Reeves and Luca right here. And they're like, oh, this looks good.

And this toe on top. Aidan's kind of big, wrap it around my neck. Like a python. So it's twofold this conversation, right? Because you got the Lakers who are... LeBron's plan is completely backfired. And the Lakers are... might be pretty good.

And last night, you may have seen the New Orleans Pelicans. Now, that team never wins. And they don't even have two in a row now. Yep, both without Zion, all right. And you know who the New Orleans Pelicans won a road game against last night? Luca's former team. Yeah. That's right.

The Dallas Mavericks dropped to two and six. So you have the Lakers who are awesome. and Luca for the most part looks pretty good and you have the Mavericks who were sold the Maverick fan was sold by Nico Harrison that their window to win is right now that team sucks

they're two and six and I don't know if anybody could have possibly seen this coming but Anthony Davis never plays How's Cooper looking though? He had his best game last night. He's been up and down He's been up and down but again it's one of those things where it's like

he's being asked to play a position he's never played in his life. But that also wasn't what Nico Harrison sold the Mavericks fan. It's not about Cooper Flagg growing and becoming a star, which he will, most likely. No, it's that their window to win is right now, and this trade helps them do that right now. The team sucks, and the guy they traded for is never available. Cooper Flag, by the way, last night he had this quote, which I loved. He says, this is the most I've lost since, oh, I think ever.

Like, it took a second to realize, oh, wait, I've never. lost this many games in my life. And that's what happens when you've lived a charmed life. He was beating up on little white kids in Maine and then he gets to Duke and he's like beating up on college kids and then you get to the NBA and it's like six losses in your first

three weeks of the season. That's more of the losses than he's probably had his entire basketball career. And he's not dominating like he would be in any of those levels. It's like, oh no, this is grown man basketball. Plus, I get guarded 94 feet and I have to take the ball up and create plays. He's going to be fine. Oh, for sure.

This is going to be good long term. Yes. In the long term, this is going to be good for him. They made a switch in their starting lineup last night. They bench Clay Thompson. They started DeAngelo Russell. Clay Thompson's been woof. Good for him, though.

I'm going to be honest with you. That's why. I'm happy for him. That tired legs. Like, last year he wasn't, he was kind of woofish. This year's been. I mean, like, here's one thing. It makes me sad that Clay Thompson isn't a warrior.

Not a lot of lift. But it's like, they got out at just the right time. and took the money that it would have been owed to him because you respect him and now you take that money and they spent it on 8 billion different guys. They're a much deeper team, they're a better team. Let me ask you, though,

if he never sustained the back-to-back injuries, his game would age with grace, right? This is all just a career undone by the widow maker in that sport. The Achilles and the ACL, right? That back-to-back. To get hurt while being hurt sucks. That's awful.

But you know about that Cardi B? Do you? Stefan Diggs? Yeah, he's got his. Yeah, he's got his. His S.O. is mixed up. Your black female rappers mixed up. Who is the one that he's with?

Meg the Stallion. You know about that Megan the Stallion? Megan the Stallion and Zazzle, the sucker. Yeah. That was a sucker move. That was a sucker move by you. Congratulations on your suey nomination, though. I got to say, Zaz.

That was bad, dude. You have good teammates here. We'll lift you. Thanks. Over your clear and obvious racism. Thanks. I'm going to say this. Zaz, because he won't be in tomorrow, great week, but, like, perhaps your most suck-a-week ever.

You've been a sucker so many times this week. What else do I have a sucker? Braun-Strauman? Sucker. No, I disagree. I'm, Bronz-Storman retweeted me yesterday. How could Bronz-Struman retweet someone who's a sucker? Pity.

He pities the fool. You know about that. I like that song What's the stand for? You know what it stands for I don't even say it There we go You know by that octopuses?

Y'amama I can't believe you did that I can't believe The Cardi B I mean I can't I can't believe you did that I can see where Zaz was going The Cardi B's been in the news

Because of Stefan did And them having a kid together Yeah you should get that hair system Because I can see the beat of sweat That formed on your forehead You're bald? There was a brief moment. There was a brief moment there where we all knew what happened.

And then he knew what happened. And there was just a little half a beat like, how do we spend this win for the old Jay-Z? The answer is we don't. We don't. You just sit in it. Sucker. Admit it. Like a sucker.

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Dan Lebatard. Can I tell you something? I don't know, it was maybe like a month ago. And I decided to watch pitch clock. And I told Jeremy. Stugats. This is a good show you're doing. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Hey, hey, hey, good. Bye. Hi, everybody. Are you sad? It's the last episode. No, don't be sad. Welcome to the pitch clock.

Here's the pitch, a two-part baseball segment. Combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the pitch clock. It's the final episode of this season of the pitch clock. I already did. Hi, everybody. Yeah, you did. In the cold open, that's how anxious we were to get this thing started.

So I've got some news. We have the results of the World Series winner. Obviously, that's the Los Angeles Dodgers. I also have in hand the results of our head-to-head trivia from throughout the year. I'm not going to reveal those yet because this game might play a factor into what the ultimate head-to-head results are. Adnan-Virks joining us as a sad Canadian to talk about the Blue Jays losing to the Dodgers. We'll get to that in just a moment. But Ethan, what is our apparently new and creative trivia game for our last game of the regular season?

And folks, we'll be back. The last game of the regular season, huh? Well, all right. You suck. Ethan, what is it? So, before we get started, I have a number in my head. Okay? Oh, we all.

Between 1 and 10. Jeremy. Take a guess. Seven. So you could just make it up. Take a guess. Four. It is four.

Jeremy, leave the room. Wow. What's this game? Adnan Verk. Now with us as our 2025 MLB expert. The last time I get to say that here in 2025. The World Series has ended. It was maybe the greatest world series of any of our lifetimes.

It was spectacular. It was an extra innings game seven showdown and an incredible baseball. game that was played, the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays, they win the last couple of games on the road. Adnan-Virke, we're going to put the Canada stuff aside for just a second. And I'm just going to

ask you, as someone who covers the game of Major League Baseball, as someone who is a fan of Major League Baseball, what was your reaction to this World Series? It was unbelievable, just watching those games and the ups and the downs and the thrilling cascades of emotion.

For the Dodgers, they are at the heart of the champion, just incredible resolve and composure to be down three, two, and to win game six and seven on the road when your offense was sputtering. Yamamoto is nothing short of heroic. I don't know about your lovely lady, but my wife is not an avid baseball fan, but even she was glued to game seven and she said, this guy's like Bumgarner. And I said, yeah, she's a Giants fan. Love that. And I said in some ways, Mad Bum is more impressive in some ways it's less impressive. She goes, what do you mean? I said it's less impressive because Mad Bum pitched more of game seven against the Royals in 2014. He pitched five innings. But it's less impressive because Yamamoto is

this on zero days rest. He just pitched game six and he woke up the next morning and now he's pitching game seven, two and two thirds in like the highest stakes possible. Like it is nothing sure of heroic what Yamamoto did for his team. And in terms of great stories, it's why you and I love the sport so much. We are avid sports fans. Of course, we love basketball and hockey and football. But what about baseball makes it the most special is that when you're two outs away from losing the World Series, it's not Mukhi Betz that's the home run or Freddie Freeman or Shoah Otani or Will Smith or Max Muncie. But Miggy Roja, The number nine hitter who crushes sliders and gets a slider that hangs, and he can be the hero.

And he can be the guy who doesn't make a smooth, effortless play at second base. He looks staggered like a drunk and double clutches, but someone makes the play as Smith's cleat goes up and then goes down. And it's the sport in which Andy Pahas, who had done nothing offensively, is in the game ostensibly for his defense and makes one of the greatest catches of all time. It's what makes the sport so special. So full credit to the Dodgers. This is not a situation. I think Jeremy where people said that if the Dodgers. when it's bad for the sport. I think it was great

for the sport. They're a Goliath. You love them or you hate him. That's three World Series in six years. Props of them, they deserved it. They really did. And like you said, I mean, those stories, right, to have Miguel Rojas, who began his career with the Dodgers. With Don Don Mattingly as his manager. To end it against Don Mattingly, on the other side

is the bench coach of the Blue Jays. And Rojas, who's really only in the game, because Pahas had been struggling so much, and they shuffled around that lineup, he makes a defensive play. Pahas makes a defensive play. the Maseroski moment for Rojas. It's so spectacular. And I mean, obviously the fans of this show, no, I couldn't get enough of it. It was a perfect World Series. And I'm so grateful for everyone

who followed along this show this year that they got to have a postseason that looked like this one. But now I'm just going to ask you, right, as a Canadian, we talked about what it would mean if on our episode last week, we talked about what it would mean if Canada was able to bring this World Series home. I think we all sort of anticipate. that they would, if not for these heroic efforts, really by Yamamoto, who ends up being the best Japanese player on the Dodgers in the series, despite Shohei Otani having the series that he did. But as a Canadian ad, Nan, how does this one feel? What's your reaction from that standpoint? It was awesome, man. I mean, the patriotism, the excitement, the numbers are robust,

by the way. Insane. Yeah, we talked about it. Please brag on it. We had 7 million people watching Game of the World Series for a country of 41 people to extrapolate that to America. Americans, which are 30 million. That's like 65, 70 million people watching a baseball game. It's unbelievable. Game 7 in America was 31 million. An average of 27, it hit 31 million. By comparison, and again, you and I are basketball fans.

I'm not trying to smirch another sport. No, please. NBA finals? This was 53% higher. Baseball was 53% higher than the NBA is game seven. So don't tell me basketball is great. Listen, Thunder Pacers, you couldn't even touch Dodgers, Blue Jays. And the rating, you only could count for one of the teams,

because Nielsen doesn't count the Canadian. households. That's right. So the numbers for Dodgers, for the Blue Jays and Dodgers was actually the equivalent of Yankees Dodgers last year. And as Fox said, the biggest thing is the number of games. Last year, a series is only five games. This year went seven. 15.7 million people on average watch baseball. That's a huge win for the sport, especially when an entire country of Canada was into it. First World Series in 32 years, the thought was Dodgers starting pitching would out pitch the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays starting pitching had a better ERA. The Blue Jays out hit them. They played great defense and they still lost.

the World Series. It's absolutely crushing. The good news is Shane Bieber opted in. He could have got a $100 million contract. He opted in $16 million next year with Toronto. That's great. I think Bobichette's probably gone. Maybe they can re-sign him. But hell of a season. Try to focus on the positives. Springer-dinger in Game 7 of the ALCS.

He's Savage Game 5 World Series. Vladi's entire postseason was incredible, but it still hurts. So, Cody, what we're going to do is we're going to see how well, how much you learn this postseason. So, Inside that packet, it's going to be a Sporkel-like game, okay?

You have every single packet in front of you. You can go to anything you want. I'm going to put a five-minute clock on, okay? You just throw out names at me, okay? And I'm going to give you get a point each time you get an answer. Oh, so this, okay, my bad. These are all of the games that we played during this postseason. Okay.

So it's, you have like the 2005 Dodgers, the 2005 Blue Jays, the 2001, Cleveland Baseball team, the 2001-Sal Mariners. And then you have MVP's and the final outs. Remember, the pitchers that were the final outs. That's the game we played during Game 5 of the World Series. So I'll count you in. It'll be a 3-2-1 count. You have five minutes to start just throwing things at me.

Ready? Three, two, one, go. Dodgers. All right, I forget what year this was, but we're cooking here. This is Hesop Troy at first base for the Dodgers. Correct. I'm going to keep cooking? Yep.

Jeff Ken. at second base. Yep. Caesar Asturis. Yep. Shortstop. John, Jose Valentin? Correct.

J.D. Drew. Yep. Right field. Milton Bradley. Yep. Feel free to move between things as you feel. I'm just cooking. Ryan Ludwig, left field.

No. Damn, that's what I guessed. I forget who that was. Ryan Langerhands? Nope. All right, I'm going to move on. Okay. All right, I'm going to go Indians now.

Okay. 2001 Indians. Jim Tomey at first base. Yep. Omar Viscale at short. Yep. Um Kenny Lofton and left

Correct Oh nope, nope, nope Not in the left In center field Not in center, sorry Yep I meant Yeah, okay

You're good Um I'm gonna move on All right Blue Jays Yep Um Eric Hensky

First base Yes Orlando Hudson Yep Um Cory Kosky Yes Great name

Greg Zahn uh yes roy halliday roy halliday is on here yes Vernon wells yep the hell is this left fielder fc oh i'm just gonna keep it moving okay Mariners 01 uh yep

Ichiro right field of course um Mike cameron okay Mike cameron yep I feel like I got this one wrong at the time Raulibanias left field not Raulibanias you did get that one wrong um Brett Boone

second base is second base yep John Olerud? John Ollarood, first base. Jamie Moyer? Yes. All right, let me go. World Series MVP.

You have the Hamel's one. Ninety-two, oh, eight. Okay. Levant Hernandez. Yes. You got that one right. Josh Beckett. Yes.

I'm like stressing out now. Big Poppy. Not on this list. Mike Lowell. Yes. Oh, whoa. Big Poppies on the other list, I'll give it to you because we're a Sporkel style. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sportical style.

Paul Canerco. Paul Canerco was not the World Series MVP. Kurtzillic. Yes, he was one of two for the Diamondbacks. I'll give you both points if you get them right. Madison Bumgarner. Yes, in 2014, correct. Oh, and you said Madison Bumgarner, and I'll give you two points because he got the last out of the 2014 World Series as well.

All right, let me actually. All right, Josh Beckett. Yep. Um, uh, uh, Uihara. Uihara, yes, one minute left. Uh, uh, um, I mean, come on, there's one you got a. Marion Rivera. Of course, that's two.

Uh, Keith Fulk. Yes. Um, Darren Erstad. No. You love that name. You love that name. Uh, um, um, Frazier

No Frazier for one Not Frazier I don't know I don't think Freeze Yes David Freeze was the World Series

MVP in 2011 Young Young Kim No Nope I don't know Five Four Alex Rodriguez

Derek Cheater Derek Cheater Derek Cheater won a world series MVP I'll give you that point and you're done

Woo that was fun dude you did good All right let's get to these next couple of questions

with some pace here as we're wrapping up the pitch clock because they're pretty simple. I want the first one. Your takeaways from 2025 Major League Baseball season overall. Great year for the sport. Attendance goes up, third straight season. National ratings were up on ESPN, on MLB Network, and on Fox. And just good stories abound.

Not only the Milwaukee Brewers, 97 wins, the most wins in baseball. Nobody saw that coming. So you get your smaller markets. Detroit's obviously. been a great baseball city for a long time to get them back in the playoffs, but also Cleveland, the way they finished the season was incredible. Seattle winning the division for the first time in a long time, getting to within one win of the World Series. We've been their first in 50 years. Obviously, Toronto getting back first time since 93. And in the National League, I mean, listen,

sometimes good stories are stories of futility. The Mets spend all that money. They were 83 and 79. It is always fascinating to watch a car crash and figure out what the Mets will do this off season. The Dodgers ended up winning the World Series, but San Diego had a good year. Philadelphia. season. They went 96 games. The Phillies, as Alex Avila said to me, everyone says, all the Phillies window is closing. The last seven seasons, their wind toll has increased every single year. Hopefully they can re-sign Kyle Schwarber and still the guy who, for me, must-see TV, as Paul Skeens.

What he did this season, sub two ERA and going to win another Cy Young, when his first time, excuse me, unbelievable. Great year for the sport. Great year for the sport. We talked about it all year long. It's a golden era for stars, and so many of those teams you just mentioned have those individual stars, like the big dumper, people who captivated. sports fans to bring them over to Major League Baseball.

And then finally, let's talk about those people. Moving forward, heading into 2026, we're not going to be gone for too long here with the pitch clock. Look out for us to come back in the next, you know, hopefully a few weeks. But as we look ahead toward 2026, what are some of the things that you're looking forward to at, Nan, whether that be teams, players, or just sort of overall in Major League Baseball? Well, I'll be at the winter meetings in Orlando in a month. Hopefully you will join me there for special pitch clock edition.

Let's do it in person. to awards. Yeah, I look forward to award season in November. I think a hotly contested race is NL rookie of the year. Kate Horton versus Drake Baldwin. Love the Drake. For most of the year, Baldwin was the guy, but Horton was incredible in the second half. And of course, the MVP race, which you mentioned, Judge versus Raleigh. In 2012, Mee won it because of the Triple Crown, even though Trout had the better numbers according to war. Very similar race in that judge's numbers across the border better. If you look at history, so Raleigh, first catcher, ever 60 home runs. That time, Miggie won. I think this time Judge wins MVP. But I'm really curious

how the race is going to go down. I mentioned skeins, the fact he doesn't have a winning record. He's going to win the sign, which is amazing. And yeah, what moves are going to be? Already the moves are coming down. Trevor's story opts in. He's staying with the Red Sox. Iman, not resigned by the Cubs. That's pretty shocking. Three years, 57 million. He's going to hit the open market. I'm genuinely

surprised that they're not resigning Imanaga. They much really like Kate Horton. Maybe they'll just give himaga a qualifying offer. But those free agents up there, what's Belanger going to get? What's Bregman going to get? What's Kyle Tucker going to get? Lots of major names to look forward to. Yeah, lots of fun. lots of stuff coming up, and that's all before we get back to another really exciting year of Major League Baseball.

Adnan, thank you so much for being our constant superstar here. You win the MVP of the pitch clock this year. But, you know, what we're also going to find out is who ultimately won the most trivia games between Chris Cody and myself. That's what's coming up right now. Just let me know when you're ready. I'll count you in three, two, one. Geez, how much time we're going to give to the three, two, one go. Blue Jays, Vernon Wells.

Yep. Russ Adams. Roy Halliday. Yes, yes, yes. Cleveland. That's all you have from Toronto. Kenny Lofton. I'll go back if I need to.

Roberto Alamar. Yes. Dodgers. Okay. Milton Bradley. Yes. I feel good about this. Hesop Choi.

Yes. Derek Lowe. Yes. Okay. Let's go 08 to 92. Okay. Mani Ramirez. Yes.

Albert Bouos. No. Oh, shoot. That's not. Germain Dye. Yes. Germain Dye. Josh Beckett.

Yes. You say Kermak for the first time. Randy Johnson. Yes. He was one of two. You can get the second one for another point. Kurt Chilling. Yes.

Paul Molitor. Yes. 24 to 09 or, you know, vice versa. Whatever. George Springer. Yes First Astros Yeah

Madison Bumgarner Yes And you get him for another point As well since you said his name He got the last out in 2014 Nice, thank you Cody Ross Should I say the point?

No Marco Scudorow No, NLCS MVP's Oh my God That's why I remember them If you get like three in her wrong You should lose a point No relax

You have three minutes left No problem 180 seconds Yeah, this is, I don't like this anymore. Coming back to last out. Brian Wilson. Okay, yep. Madison, Bumgarner, we already got.

You got that, yep. Bobby Jenks. Yes. It's, it wasn't Jason Marquis. It was somebody else on. Yep. You did learn. It's a different J.M.

Yep. Oh, shoot. Jason Mott. That's correct. Learning it. Josh Beckett. Yep. Really slow down, don't rush.

And since you said his name, you get him for the world. series MVP as well. He already said Mariano Rivera twice. Don't be given two eight points over here. Mariano Rivera twice. Yes. I can't remember the Angels. Jonathan Papelbaum?

Uh, yes. Yes, yes. The first one. The first one. Okay. And you guys both get Mariano Rivera for World Series MVP. Cody, your... Cool.

Oh, I get one more point. Yeah. Um, Wade Davis? Yes. Chiro Suzuki. Go around the diamond. Uh, Ichiro. Oh, back on.

On 01 Mariners, sorry. Yes. Beecherosa Zuki. Brett Boone? Yes. Okay. Is there a question mark there? Yeah, because whatever.

Talk it out. I hate you. Jeff Kent on Dodgers? Yes, Jeff Kent was on the Dodgers. Is Omar Veskel on the Cleveland team? Yes, he was. Eric Hinsky on the Blue Jays? Yes. Corey Kosky on the Blue Jays?

Yes. 20 seconds. I hate to stop it. Is that Greg Zon? behind the plate? Yes. 10. Stop it. That's not true. 50 seconds. 50 seconds. You jerk. Adrian Beltray for the Mariners? Uh, no. Okay. Um, have I gotten other World Series MVP's? Uh, Derek Jeter. Yes. Whoa, how many times are we going to give him credit for Jeter? What are you talking about?

That's the first time I have him down for Jeter. Yeah, that's the first time I said it. Um, who's that other Blue Jays guy? It's not Joe Carter. Who is it? 25 seconds. Shoot. Uh, the Angels. I didn't actually get that one, but I do know. It's not Garrett Anderson. It is, it's not Tim Salmon? Is it Darren Erstad? No. Think about that, Royals.

Outfielder. No, stop it. Centerfielder. You're a dick. No big poppy. Uh, Poppy one in 20th. Nice. Poppy one in 2013.

Five, four, three, two, one last guess. No. One. All right. It was Salvi Perez. It's in 26, 2014. Oh my God. What?

We have. A tie. Oh my God. Shut up. Yeah, it's 35, 35. That did not sound very common. It's 35, 35. It's amazing.

No, it's 3535. So what's the tiebreaker? So what is the tiebreaker? I did not consider that there would be a tiebreaker. Cody. Rocky. Who is the World Series MVP in 2023? Stupid game.

I know. Can you tell me who won? No. The World Series? The Texas Ranger. The Texas Rangers won the World Series in 2020. It's right. It's right there.

I got this one. Didn't I get this one earlier? Corey Seeger. Yes. Yes. I knew it. I was just like, I just need to find it. Congrats. On the title.

So I won. Cody wins. So who won the season series? The winner of the entire series is? Can I just say that I can tell by Jeremy's vibe that he's money? Yeah. It's me by one. Oh.

Even after this one? After that win, it's me by one. I was up by two. And ready for this? Up by two. We had three weeks this year where we included someone else in the trivia with us. And that person won all three weeks whenever we added someone else. So what I wonder is what would have happened if those had just been head to head.

Who did better those three weeks? Great question. Doesn't really matter. I won. Did you look this up? I won. Who did this? I don't know.

Who tracked this. I won. Shout out to game winners. I love it Gabe looking around. He's, like, afraid to look at me. You're dead to Chris. Hey, we'll be back with Pitchcock pretty soon, hopefully. See you then.

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