The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Spoiler Wednesday

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

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You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Hashtag you got this. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Do you guys remember the astronauts that were stuck up in space? Well, they're finally coming home. Wow. Ha ha ha. How long were they up there? Like nine months.

They were supposed to be out there for a week and then something happened to their craft, their spacecraft that got sent back home without them and now there's finally a crew going to the ISS to replace them and I guess rescue them. So they're coming back. Sullivan, can you try and get a hold of one of them so that I can find out what are the practical difficulties

in expecting to go to space for a week and ending up there nine months? I would imagine that there are all sorts of difficulties any of us wouldn't understand. I'd like to talk to an astronaut about it. How do you get eggs? That's the chief question, obviously, that we would all fall on.

Oh my God, they're gonna be so mad when they find out how much they cost now. I think they're going back down, I heard. I haven't bought an eggs. Sometimes I hoard eggs. That's probably bad, right? But I buy at the wrong time. They limit two per person at our grocery store now.

Yeah, I think I've seen that sign, but I'll go and if it's a price that I think is gonna go higher, I treat it like the stock market, my goods. So I'll go and if I get the sense that egg prices are gonna go up, I'll say, you know what? 8.99 is a lot for 18 eggs,

but it's better than 10.29, so I'm gonna get two batches of 18 eggs, but then you're playing with fire because you come back a week later and now they're 4.79 for 18. So it's really a dangerous game that I'm playing with my produce and with my goods there, but it's what we have to do, thank you for asking.

Maybe sell eggs outside the arena, the way they sell waters. That is such a good business, by the way. No, not the eggs, the water. If you could successfully sell water, honestly, and you have the right, I'm not a salesman by nature, we know this. It's like $4 for like a 24-pack, something like that.

You can get a 24-pack of water, right? Or's like $4 for like a 24 pack, something like that? You can get a 24 pack of water, right? Or even like you go to like a Sam's or a BJ's or a Costco, one of these big box stores as they call them, right? You can buy a 40 pack of water, you get that for let's say $6.99. If you sell it for a dollar each, right? You could probably jack it up to $2. You sell it for a dollar each,

that's $40 you made on that one pack. If you do $2, that's $80 that you can make. Now you need to find people. You can't do $150, we all know that. You can't be on the side of the street selling bottles of water for $150. Once you start breaking it into fractions of a dollar, things get complicated, people just keep driving by you.

But if you have the wherewithal to do it and go out there and sell that water, oh, the ROI on that, Dan. Yes, I agree. I've often thought that whenever seeing someone sell overpriced water, that that would be a good business. Can you guys please for me, before the end of the show, find me some short actors whose height would shock the audience. And also, I'd like to ask all of you recently, what is something that you have purchased that you have been alarmed by how much the price of that has gone up? Because a lot of people are talking about fruit. A cup of coffee, a cup of coffee is now at a price point that is totally absurd for a cup of beans.

I told you recently that a regular small smoothie with fresh fruit I saw for over nine dollars. Give me some shocking, some sticker shock that you guys have gotten recently on stuff that is a lot more expensive than it used to be. I use quite a bit of extra virgin olive oil in cooking. Olive oil prices have skyrocketed. I think they've doubled in the last year to the point now you buy like an average size jar of bottle of olive oil and it's like $18.99. It's like very expensive relative to what it was a year ago. I don't know why.

I think that a lot of people focus on like the main things, right, where you have a situation, and I've been down this path before, you have like the situation like the eggs, everybody buys eggs, or you have things that's like, wow, this now costs like $12 before it was 10. The ones that really add up are the things that were like multiples for a dollar, things that were like

a matter of cents, and now it's a lot. So like produce, fruits are things that we talk about a lot. I've been on the lime case a long time. Everybody knows that I've been on this lime situation a lot here where, you know, sometimes you can get nine limes for a dollar, other times you can get, you know, three limes for a dollar,

and you essentially are tripling the price, and you say, oh, what's a lime, 33 cents? Yeah, but when it was eight cents a week ago, that's a huge increase in price. So that's where you guys, if you're out there and you're the consumers and you're shopping, keep an eye on the small ticket items, because that's how they get you,

and that's how these things start adding up. I remember when a blow pop used to be a quarter. If I were to go buy a blow pop now at a gas station, I bet you that that would be damn near 75 cents at least. That is three times the price, and you think, well, it's still less than a quarter. If I were to go buy a blow pop now at a gas station, I bet you that that would be damn near 75 cents at least. That is three times the price, and you think, well it's still less than a dollar. Yeah, but before I could get four for a dollar, now I can get one for a dollar.

I bought gum the other day for six dollars. Six dollars. What kind of gum was this? Is that like neuro gum or something? The little small bucket of. When you're checking out at Publix and you just grab some gum to add it. It's six dollars. I bought a Cheeto last week that was $90,000.

Yeah. What did it look like? Let's look at this Michael Jordan Cheeto here, the flaming hot air Jordan Jumpman here. This is half ass. I agree with Chris. That's ridiculous. Okay, the Charizard Cheeto looked like Charizard.

Yes it did. We all agree, we all agree. If you saw that Cheeto, if you pulled it out of the bag and you'd be like, holy shit, that's Charizard. Right, we all agree, we all agree. If you saw that Cheeto, if you pulled it out of the bag and be like, holy shit, that's Charizard. This is supposed to be an Air Jordan Jumpman Cheeto. And I thought it was gonna be the Air Jordan logo. It's not, and he's making a layup. I don't know what this is.

It's asinine. Legs are barely spread. He's calling for the ball in the post. It is not the Jumpman logo. It's actually Thomas Bryant when LeBron ball in the post. It is not the, it is not the, it is not the Jumpman logo. It's actually Thomas Bryant when LeBron was breaking the record. It's Thomas Bryant calling for the ball in the post. Do you want to make fun of me, Dan?

Always. Okay, so when we were talking about limes a minute ago, I got very confused because sometimes we have guests that are joining us and they're just kind of like sitting in the Zoom and they're on the monitor, right? So like they'll hear what it is that we're talking about and we don't have a guest scheduled right now, right? But I looked up and I was confused

at which monitor I was looking at and I just saw Ronde Barber nodding along to everything that I was saying. And it's because Ronde Barber is on another show. And I was like, damn. I was like, Ronde is like really in on this whole lime talk right now. I didn't even know he was on the show today and I was just totally confused. I'm old. How did you feel about fake opening day today? The Dodgers of course win on their on their path to an undefeated season because they've taken baseball and broken it over their knee. How did you feel? What are the we had a Major Baseball game and the Major League Baseball season

start during our show, start at six o'clock this morning and end, the game ended during our show. What happened and what are the updates that you wanna give people? So the Dodgers, spoiler alert, I don't know if you are, if this is the fan base that records baseball games and goes home and watches them later in the day, but if you are, spoiler alert here, upcoming,

don't get mad at us, this isn't a White Lotus situation, this game was already played. So, the Dodgers and the Cubs kicked off the season at 6 a.m. today, and they finished the game before we even started our work day. And yesterday, Dodgers ended up winning, spoiler alert, Dodgers ended up winning 4-1 over the Cubs, they have another game tomorrow, again, at 6 a.m.,

so if you're up at 6 a.m., you could watch it. Or, I don't think you can even listen to it to boot go to Japan To cover the game. I was wondering that I think the broadcasters are doing it all remote. Oh, that's wack Oh lame. I heard Benetti was on the call. I'm not sure if he was there though. I felt so bad for Benetti He's such a great guest and he was so good last week and then I saw like the Fox promotional thing where they put out like the headshots of all the broadcasters are gonna be working on the show and like I saw the Fox promotional thing where they put out the headshots of all the broadcasters that are gonna be working on the show.

And I don't know if they provide their own headshots or if Fox takes the headshots for them, but poor Jason Benetti on- Bad headshot. Well, it's not that it's a bad headshot, it's that every single person who took their headshot and provided it to Fox for their broadcasting, you know,

games, teams, this year, whatever, by the way, if you're interested in baseball broadcasting, Friday I'm gonna be doing another game for FIU. Just a quick aside, during March Madness. Is it at 6 a.m.? Cause I kinda liked waking up to 6 a.m. baseball, I listened to it on my drive into work this morning, I watched it in the makeup chair.

I had it on Hulu on my phone and I was listening to the audio while I was driving. It was probably not smart. Anyways, so Jason Benetti, friend of the show, dare I say at this point in time, everybody takes their professional headshots, they're looking head on, big smile, whatever. Benetti is looking off to the side

like if he's on the poster for Step Brothers. So the poor guy, no one told him, send us a headshot where you're looking head on. So everyone is looking straight at the camera, except poor Benetti who just looks confused as though he doesn't know where the camera is because he's looking off in a different direction and I feel like if you're putting together

this promotional stuff, you have to reach out to him and be like, look, Jason, this is what we're doing this year. Try to send us one of those or just take another headshot where you're looking straight on. No one bothered to tell him. Everyone, Eric Caro, Dont Trail, Willis, everyone looking straight ahead except poor Jason Benetti. Are you sure that he's not someone who likes to zig when others are zagging? His sense of humor strikes me as

somebody who would do something like that on purpose because like you he enjoys the occasional awkwardness. Yeah that used to be the formula on record albums. Like if the Beatles would put out a record album, three of them were looking straight at the camera and then one guy's going like that, you know, just for effect. I like the vibe he's giving off in it. It's a good vibe.

I think he just has a good side. Cause like in pictures I'll tilt my chin down to the left a little bit. Cause like I want more of my good side showing straight on. I, you know Asymmetrical face I like what he's got going on more than Adam Wainwright. He has taken up a lot of that square. Yeah His left eye is looking at the camera his right eye appears to be wandering I like that like my man Eddie just to clean up here actors that are five seven Jesse Eisenberg Robert Downey jr. Mark Wahlberg James McAvoy and Rami Malik

Robert Downey Jr., Mark Wahlberg, James McAvoy, and Rami Malek. Thank you, Chris, for getting me an answer to that question, because I think some of those will be shocking to people. Please forgive me here, because I was not aware until you guys started making this reference over the last couple of days. I evidently ruined White Lotus for people, or I ruined the Walton Goggins penis scene for people? There's an ongoing contentiousness between our show and some of our fans.

Just in general. In general, but also specifically about spoilers. I have gotten a lot of feedback over the last month or so, but also four years that we spoil things and that we don't give good spoiler tags before we talk about things. And this is ramped up in the last three weeks because we've talked about White Lotus, which the first four episodes were kind of a spoiler,

spoilerless show in my opinion. Nothing really happened. But also you gave away on Monday that spoiler alert for Righteous Gemstone's episode two of season four. Walton Goggins had a nude scene in the first act of the episode, which some people felt was a spoiler, and we should have warned them.

Perhaps we just spoiled it again. But what else? I gave a spoiler tag! What is the spoiler there? Like, you're gonna see a wiener? No, if you're gonna see a wiener, you don't wanna know before. You don't wanna know before. I feel like there's a thing called consent.

I mean, I do agree that it was, I would have preferred to not know it was coming, but it didn't like ruin the episode. And also people were mad last week when we said that the first episode of the season was just a Civil War, Bradley Cooper episode. Which I also disagree, like we're not saying like, oh my God, Tony Soprano shot Pauly Walnuts in the head.

Like spoilers. That doesn't happen in The Sopranos by the way. Well, I guess that's a spoiler that it doesn't happen. Can we make a show rule because like, here's the problem, is everybody is watching at their own pace, right? So are we just not allowed to watch until everyone in the world has watched it and discussed it? Can we say like, hey, you know what, moving forward,

Wednesdays we will discuss the happenings of the Sunday night shows. And if you don't wanna know what happened on the Sunday night show, watch it before Wednesday, or we're gonna skip it on Wednesday. Spoiler Wednesday seems like a perfectly reasonable thing. Monday is a bit aggressive for a show that's on at nine or ten o'clock at night. I understand why people wouldn't have seen it.

And people got mad at us when we discussed White Lotus, I think on a Tuesday or Wednesday last week. But if we let them know, hey, if you want to watch this with us, it's like a book club. If you want to watch this with us, our visual book club, Wednesdays we will have our visual book club where we will be discussing the happenings of these two shows that we have been discussing and that are relevant in pop culture. I learned the hard way when I accidentally ruined the finale of Survivor of all things,

like two years ago, in which I thought I was the only person still watching Survivor and I said, oh no, a lot of people are still watching Survivor. Survivor has an insane cult following. I have a bunch of friends that are like so into Survivor. They're texting about it in our group chat nonstop.

I have no idea what they're talking about half the time, but they're like super into it. But I'm with you, Billy. I think generally we're trying to do our best when it comes to spoilers. We're trying to do our best. Spoiler Wednesday seems like a fair compromise. Dan, do you like Spoiler Wednesday

where we can talk about the Sunday shows? You're saying we're trying to do our best and I cannot make that allegation because I've not been paying attention to what the rules are here and I'm still not clear as we talk about it here. What would be the universal consensus on when I'm allowed to talk about certain Sunday shows. Like, when

would it be okay? And I'm asking the question not sarcastically, I'm asking sincerely what's the proper amount of time and is it show dependent? Because you weren't doing a Survivor spoiler the next day, Billy. No, I did. I ruined it the next day. You did it the very next day? I did, but I was excited because there was a girl from Miami D and she ended up spoiler alert She ended up winning the whole thing and I thought that you know Like if you watch Survivor and you're watching the finale, that's something that you watch the day of

White Lotus was that I thought that's something that people watch together. Well, yeah, I think that there's also debate Dan over What actually is a spoiler? Saying that someone's going to be naked in an episode, to me, like, yeah, I'd rather be surprised by it, but I wouldn't consider that a spoiler because it's not part of the plot, right? So people getting mad about, like, oh, finding out the first episode has Bradley Cooper in it,

like, you would have found that out within two seconds of the episode airing. I think Wednesday's a good cutoff for us to talk about specifically White Lotus and Righteous Gemstones because they're both on Sunday. And it's a Wild Billy Wednesday. And we watch those shows. So I feel like Wednesday is an appropriate amount of time.

You've had Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday to catch up. And if not, then check out that. We'll put it in the label. This is where we're gonna talk about this show. The other thing, Billy, is like if you really, really don't want a show spoiled and it's gonna like ruin your life if you find out like maybe Don't watch it when it airs

Or change your life and it's true that important if you're gonna be someone who gets mad about it That's serious to you. Watch the show. Really mad people. I'm not saying like people that are like, oh, I'm so annoyed I'm talking about people that are pissed. You can't care that much, but you haven't watched the show. So how can you care that much? So for example, we can't talk about how the masseuse was murdered until tomorrow. Well, we watched the debut of Righteous Gemstones, even though Levitard had sort of ruined it

by not only alluding to the episode, but really describing it in some detail. But I was pleasantly surprised to watch that episode and learn how wrong Levotard was I thought it was a wonderful episode. I loved the series and I loved that background story I thought Bradley Cooper's always good. I love him as an actor. Which did you like better? Episode one or episode two. I haven't watched episode two yet. Why don't you spoil that one for me? Well, I already did that for the audience in episode two. They yelled, you had John Goodman for like 10 minutes.

It's so funny. Okay. I mean, Walton Goggins. Spoiler. Oh wait, air this tomorrow. Being angry while nude, funny. Like it's not just, it's not just full frontal. For no reason at all, by the way.

No, no, totally. Totally, he's a realist. So we'll talk about that tomorrow. I guess we're doing that today. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow's Wednesday. That's Wednesday. Civil War episode we can talk about today if you'd like. Yes.

Danny McBride using two episodes of righteous gemstones to go full frontal nudity with these two things. One, someone enraged while naked is funny. to go full frontal nudity with these two things. One, someone enraged while naked is funny. Someone getting in a prolonged fist fight that goes from indoors to outdoors while full frontally nude with BJ, even funnier. This couldn't be more of a spoiler.

All right, so Tuesday will be our book club this week. Tuesday book club. Spoiler Wednesday on a Tuesday. Yeah, I'm gonna just keep doing it how I wanna do it. And everyone can get mad. How's that? I'm not gonna do it. Wait for Wednesdays, not gonna do any of that.

All the power to you, Dan. Thank you. Do what you wanna do. Gonna keep doing that. I like when you take the steering wheel and you take charge and you say, you know what? Screw you, everyone. I'm gonna spoil things on my own terms. Don't care getting upset and it's fine the ruiner this is a message

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Yeah, I do. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. And to my credit, my personality... In my humble opinion, followed by to my credit. To my credit. It's amazing. My personality does predate Curb Your Enthusiasm. Stugarts!

Oh, wow. I'm not going to say Larry David patterned himself after me. All right, put it on the poll, please, Jude. You did Greg Cody copyright Being an asshole long before Larry David This is the Don LeBathardt show with his two gods I'm totally fine with that as my nickname if you guys want to make me that. The thing he just spoiled was from season 3. That's not a spoiler. I'm catching on. You guys are making all your own rules when it comes to the spoilers like there's no consensus on this and if in the in the modern age when people can get things

more instantaneously than they ever have and you're also not giving me you're giving me a suggestion but you're not giving me what's a consensus because I could do this on Wednesday and still be accused of spoilers. Since there are no rules, I'm just going to talk about things on our talk show when I feel like talking about them. And if people then want to get mad, that is okay. They can call the West Virginia governor and the attorney general and make all sorts of noise about that and that controversy. I asked initially, caring about what the answer was,

you did not give me an answer on what the- We definitely set up a day and time- Spoiler Wednesday! We gave structure to avoid this situation. You said- We don't want to adhere to the rules, so that's fine. The Rewinner. Your rules, that-

We came up with it collectively to benefit everyone involved, But that's fine. All right, TBD what we do about Spoiler Wednesday. Are you guys, do you guys have any opinions otherwise on White Lotus or are we closing the category entirely on any White Lotus? Because there are only a couple of shows, is there a third show right now?

We've talked about Paradise quite a bit on this show, but when it comes to Righteous Gemstones and White Lotus, I don't think we have a third show as a show that we're all paying attention to. Is there a close third place on what would also require, hey don't spoil this for me so that I can have an antenna up for something that I'm going to immediately put that antenna in storage and never pay attention to it again. I don't know if we have a third one. I know people are really into The Pit on HBO, but I haven't watched it yet.

It's on the medical drama. I would suggest the Food Network Tournament of Champions. Wow! Because that's a seasonal thing, they do the bracket thing and it would really be a bummer to hear somebody say, well last night you watched last night so and so beat so and so. No that's clear because you can't be a spoiler on that show without saying who beat who. Jeremy, can we get an update please on Tracy Morgan? Yes, he has made a post to Instagram.

He posted a selfie from the hospital where you could see the back of his phone case and it has a Knicks logo on it. And he said, thank you for all your concern. I'm doing okay now and doctors say it was food poisoning. Appreciate my MSG family for taking such good care of me and I need to shout out the crew that had to clean that up. Appreciate you. More importantly, the Knicks are shout out the crew that had to clean that up, appreciate you.

More importantly, the Knicks are now one and O when I throw up on the court, so maybe I'll have to break it out again in the playoffs, hashtag go Knicks. The good news is, Dan, now we can laugh. He got so food poisoned on St. Patrick's Day that he puked on the court at a Knicks game. Give it up for Trace. It was not green, though green though like that would have been wild. It was just like all the green Like yeah, it was it looked like throw a horrible color

Do we believe food poisoning? Sure boy. I'm just saying what would you think? What are you just saying? It doesn't seem like you're just saying anything I mean, I'm not disparaging anyone I'm just saying food poisoning is an easy thing to go to If for example if I get you know shit-faced and I accidentally vomit on a court That's what you would do. Yeah, I just love that. You were trying you were like trying to approach that so delicately You know,, for example, if I get shit-faced, it was the perfect word to approach that delicately. Really a wordsmith, Greg, I appreciate you.

Greg, have you ever had violent food poisoning? Like, you can't control what's coming out of you. Honestly, I don't know that, I've had that feeling where you're running to the toilet and praying that you'll get there in time. I don't know whether it's food poisoning though. Like I never know that. Unless I'm ingesting something and immediately feeling like it was rotten, I don't know what

food poisoning is. It's hit or miss, right? It's one of those things where if you don't know, it's just like, it might be food poisoning. Now that Tracy's okay that we know he has food poisoning and thoughts and prayers, hopefully he recovers from the food poisoning quickly. Baseball started, and I don't know if you guys saw this, a couple stories. One of them, along the lines of illnesses,

Mookie Betts didn't travel with the team or is not playing in the series because he has a mysterious ailment that they don't know what it is where he's lost 15 pounds. Really? I didn't know that. Hopefully everything turns out all right there, obviously. And I hate to say this, and I'm wondering if you guys have ever thought about this,

and some of us maybe more than others, when you hear mysterious ailment dropped 15 pounds in a week, something that you're not concerned will be deadly or whatever and you'll recover from whatever. And again, and I hope everything's okay and we figure out what it is and we can move forward. I immediately thought, where can I catch this? And I know that sounds terrible,

but I thought, where can I get some of that? Because along the lines of food poisoning, there's some times that I have a situation where it's stomach involves and it's like, oh man, this is really bad, whatever. And then two days later I'm good, and I step on a scale and I'm like, whoa, stomach virus suits me, you know?

I've also, I can back Billy up on this, years ago got super sick for days puking, and I lost 10, 12 pounds. I got pneumonia in college, same thing, it was awesome. And I look in the mirror now, and I just sometimes think, that could help. I mean, we college, same thing, it was awesome. And I look in the mirror now, and I just sometimes think, that could help. I mean we could do it like, you know,

I will not eat gluten, I'll go on a paleo diet, I will stay out of getting into the sugars or whatever, or just give me a stomach bug, you know? Knock it out in three days, let me live my life, Lose. Porzingis recently had a mystery illness, put this on the poll please. And again, hopefully everyone's okay, and we recover from this and it's not serious.

Hopefully we're okay if we get stomach bugs. This is making me sad. Poor Zingus. That we all have eating disorders? It's not worth it when you feel, yes. This conversation. It doesn't feel that bad. This conversation or imagine if I was seven, nine.

What would make you sadder? Put it on the poll please, at LeBotard Show. Does everyone have the sniffles now at LeBotard Show? Because I did, we talked about this the other day. I do believe that everyone's just a little bit sicker than they used to be. And when you're talking about food poisoning, you're talking about, you'd know it

if you were food poisoned. You would just not have control of vomiting and everything coming out of every orifice, right? You'd have less control over that than you ever did because you had eaten something that was bad. And Tracy Morgan, who's battled with alcoholism, has been sober for nearly 30 years now. So your theory that he was hammered

doesn't really check out. No, I was just using that as an example. He was saying he wasn't saying that while saying it. He was saying, I'm just saying, but he didn't say it, he just asked the question, you know. Yeah, and it wasn't saying that while saying it. He was saying, I'm just saying, but he didn't say it, he just asked the question, you know. Yeah, it wasn't hammered, it was shit-faced. Yeah, I use myself as an example.

Yeah, he said if it was him, there's another baseball story that I teased, and also kind of a WNBA story here, because there's similar parallels to these stories. So, the Marlins recently put out an ad saying that, hey, if you used to play baseball in high school or college, why don't you come out? We're gonna have this thing

where you can play against our single-aid team on practice days and we'll pay you a sum of money. I think it ended up being $150. So former athletes or athletes that played high school, college, profession, whatever, I don't know if high school was involved, but you can come out and try out to be on this practice squad to play against the single-aid team.

And then yesterday it came out where Major League Baseball said, oh no, no, no, no, that is not gonna happen. We're not just gonna have a bunch of random people playing against minor leaguers. WNBA, the LA Sparks said that they were having an open tryout for a team of men to be like a practice squad to compete against, you know, the LA Sparks. And then that was met with a lot of creepy comments

on Instagram and then people like Cameron Brink on the team came on and said, I'm so sure that I like this idea. Very icky. Male practice players have been a thing in women's basketball for as long as I've been alive at least decades, decades and decades and decades. But, like Billy said, they put out this tweet and all of these creepy

responses were like just making horrible comments about the players on the team and she was like hey this is weird and maybe we need to do a full background check on every single person that we're bringing into our facility. It is a Marlins story though there's no outside of the A's there's not an another organization in baseball that would get the negative blowback of you're paying amateurs how much to play against your single A players. What are you shaking your head about, Cody? You're down on the Marlins in general.

Another season for the Marlins is starting and they have one baseball player anyone locally can name, they ran off a manager of the year and they are broken in every way, financial and otherwise, that make it so that opening day, which should be at very least the one day that you are guaranteed hope, you don't really have that either. Well, Skeen's is pitching, so it's gonna be a tough one.

That's a matchup, by the way. I don't know, I'm not here. Matchup of the year. Yeah, I'm not here to like be selling tickets for the Marlins, but opening day, saying a contour and Paul Skeens is gonna be electric. After that, I don't know. Game might take an hour and a half.

Yeah, ooh, you know what? They might even sell out that game, which will be unusual for the Marlins. I don't know what. Are you gonna finish the thought? Well, Greg was going, so I just. No, go ahead, finish your thought. Well, no, it's fine.

You see the Bananas sold out at football stadium today? 65,000 and the reports are that the Rays can't even sell out the Yankee Spring training facility where they're playing the entire season. Only 11,000 tickets need to be sold. Yeah, like there's a lot going on in the baseball ticket sales world at the moment. And the Bananas are like taking a victory lap on the raise.

I'm, look, I'm growing tired of the Savannah bananas. Yeah. Join the club. What? Oh my God. They were just down here in Miami, weren't they? I saw signs for bananas parking for like three weeks. That is one of the great sports phenomenons anywhere

that something would grow out of the ground and become didn't they get 65 aren't they making fun of the Rays because they got a crowd of 65,000 for a game and all they've done is make baseball fun it's the coolest like it's not baseball it's banana ball there's a huge huge huge difference but look at this crowd that's in there selling out NFL stadiums. And by the way, it's worth it. Because we went as a group to go see them when they were down here, not the most recent visit, but the visit before that.

This atmosphere is electric. Kids are having such an incredible time. And it's cool because that part of it, seeing parents and kids, that part really channels into like the nostalgia of baseball. Oh God, you're so earnest. Oh, fathers and sons. You're right.

I will say, in Jeremy's defense, I have not heard a single person say anything other when they go. It was awesome the entire time. I like that we have to defend me from disliking something. Well, no, I mean. And something that everyone else likes that is also universally thought of as fun

that Billy and Greg are tired of. No, we're not the only ones. I'm telling you, this is a thing. And by the way, you wanna talk about selling out a football stadium? How about the World Series down in Miami? Two different times they sold out. 1997 to 2003, 67,000 people.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it banana ball with your 65. It's a clown show. I eat banana ball. You're running around wearing capes, actual capes. Look at that dimension, that left field wall is 120 feet away. Get out of here, right field wall.

The Rays should lean into this and just get wrestling with it and be like, bring it bananas. You guys think you're good at baseball? Well, whoop your ass. I think part of this is if we're being real in another life, I'm on the Savannah bananas. You definitely, you should be on the Marlinsanas. Cause it's the perfect hybrid of baseball player

and Peter Kidd. I guarantee you, Jeremy looked into the Marlins practice squad thing. I mean, I saw the LinkedIn post. It's just a modern day Harlem Globetrotters, which I- What's wrong with that? I thought we had all outgrown that,

throwing a bucket of water on somebody, but oh, there's confetti in there, it's not water. Ho ho! I've seen a couple in there. It's not water. Ho ho! I've seen a couple innings of a bananas game. I doubt that. It's not baseball. It's just some bizarre hybrid. What does that mean? I've seen a couple innings of it. Please explain how you saw it.

We started the show with you, a Hall of Fame voter, consistently going to Marlins games and not knowing that for 10 years people have been batting the second, the best batter in a lineup second. Yeah, I haven't heard that quantified. I haven't said that. Aaron Judge bats second. Freddie Freeman bats second. They have all the good players.

If you're the Dodgers, you have so many good players. Naturally a good player is gonna bat. You just named a bunch of other teams. You have a lot of good players. Craig, you're not listening to him. Wonsoto last year. It's just, trust us on this, okay? You're wrong.

Let's see where he's going with this whole banana ball thing. Well, it's just, I don't wanna, I come off as too critical sometimes. If you love the, if you have little eight-year-old kids and you wanna take them to see the Bananas, enjoy the clown show. I'm just saying, for an adult baseball fan to go to a Savannah

Bananas game and really just be delighted by all the ridiculous antics it's just it's it's nothing that interests me. I can't like both. Then the kids are confused they go to a real game and they're like hey where's all the fireworks? Where's the picture on stilts? Exactly right where's the guy with the cape? Hey why is this so boring? I thought this was supposed to be fun. This is America's game. We're just sitting here. Moats in the outfield, get out of here. Yeah, it's not a sport.

But Greg, let people like what they like. No one's making you go watch it. If someone else, if Jeremy enjoys it. And I can dislike what I like. I still wanna know the two or three innings that you claim to have watched of banana baseball. I don't, you know, you're brain beating me. I don't break the date and time.

He's an abject lie. He's not here to take a quiz. Exactly. He just quoted, again, former Dolphins offensive coordinator Gary Stevens, who would walk into the media room and say, you're brain-beaten me.