The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Group Backtracks (feat. Dan Graziano)

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

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And it's brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. The crown is yours. Tony, kick us off. Boys, the association tonight, Western Conference Finals, kicks off. We've got the Oklahoma City Thunder at home against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Minnesota Timberwolves plus seven and a half. They've had a lot of rest, a lot of time to create a zone that can bother the Oklahoma City Thunder Thunder coming off a grueling seven game series against the

Nuggets and I take them Timberwolves. There's something there plus seven and a half. The eyes of the world are on Raleigh and no, not Raleigh, North Carolina. I'm talking about the big dumper Cal Raleigh. And the Seattle Mariners who are red hot and playing the Chicago White Sox. My M's are on a bit of a roll. Now I don't know who's towing the rubber today for the Mariners.

They have not announced it yet. But whoever it is I feel good about. These M's are streaking. I'm taking the Seattle Mariners against the Spritz. Oh, on the hill. Mariners against the Spritz. Oh, on the hill. I see that California is up 9-0 in the seventh inning in the ACC

tournament over your beloved Miami Hurricanes. I'm guessing you're on the wrong side of that. No, I didn't take action. I am on the wrong side of it. My team's losing 9-0 to a team that was 22 and 30 all season long. It's terrible. I'm not a big fan of what's happening in baseball, but I believe JD saved his job with that little

mani-dias-like run that he had over the last couple of weeks just to build up everybody's hopes. But this is hugely embarrassing. It was on mute, but I would have loved to have heard the in-game interview as he was down 9-0 because it lasted seven seconds. What do you do to get back in this game? I'm sure that question was asked. He looked pretty revolted by everything. You gotta fake a stomach ache at that point.

You gotta send him an assistant. Yeah. Well. Three. That's right. I do miss Jim. You gotta understand, this team finished below 500 last year. That does not happen at the University of Miami.

The University of Miami is a blue blood baseball program. This is, they don't miss regionals. That is not something that they do. If you think that's something that they do, you've been paying attention to baseball for a year. This is sad, but like I said, he's coming back next year, so hopefully what we saw a couple weeks ago is an indicator of maybe the arrow change in the direction it was pointing in, but I think said, he's coming back next year. So hopefully what we saw a couple weeks ago is an indicator of, you know, maybe the arrow change in the direction it was pointing

in, but I think it was fool's gold. I have not seen this man in a while. I've not talked to him in a while, not since we covered Marlins baseball together many years ago. And Dan Graziano, I will say at the time, was like me, heavier back then. He was, he was a man. Look, he's laughing now because he's the face of fitness now. He's a television person. He exercises every back then. He was a man, look he's laughing now because he's the face of fitness now. He's a television person, he exercises every single day, he's obsessive compulsive about it and Tony called him a liar

and I believe Greg Cody did as well. No, no, I did not call him a liar. I did call him a little bit of a braggart for saying that 1900 times in a row, to be exact, he had worked out. So it's days, right? Like it's not, it's something every day. that 1900 times in a row to be exact he had worked out. You know. So it's days, right? Like it's not, it's something every day.

So like maybe some days it's a long ride on the bike, maybe it's a walk or run on the treadmill, maybe it's dumbbells in the basement, maybe it's something short just to keep the streak going. But yeah, ever since March 2nd, 2020, when the gyms all closed, and I realized I had stuff in my basement that we got hooked, man. And now it's like, you can't let it stop now. Like the streak is its own motivation. Dan, how often do you look at the time

and it's like 11, you know, 45 p.m., and you're like, ooh, we can't break this streak, it's time for a five-minute sleep meditation here. Just keep things moving. That's my big fear, is that that's how it'll end, right? It's like I'll get to 1201. You and Cal Ripken, man. Hasn't happened yet, but yeah,

hopefully we can get this to 2000 here. I've looked at what the date would be and it's sometime in training camp time, so maybe back on the road, but been able to keep that going. I mean, look, Dan, when we met, I was 23. I now have a 21 year old son, so like it's become pretty important at this age,

whatever age I am, to you know, keep it going. Everyone was talking a big game before, now they're all tracking. It's so bad. They're ready to come at me with like questions about the legitimacy of this. Dan called you a fatso. Tony said that you were a liar.

Greg said you were a bragger. It's just crazy. I was fat when I was in my 20s. Yeah. All right. I have to ask you one question though. What during this long streak was the closest you came to breaking the streak? There had to be a day when you were sick and vomiting.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, not vomiting, but I did have two bouts of COVID during the streak, and those were days where, if you looked back, you might see I did a 10-minute stretch or a 10-minute arms and shoulders with some light weights just to kind of keep it going. I've got to put an asterisk on this if it's a 10-minute stretch.

All I was saying was asterisks. I was COVID-19-ing. What I'm saying is, if you look at 1,900 days, you're not going to see a lot of that, you know? Like, it's just not going to be there. There are certain things, but I mean, again, a 10-minute stretch is something. It's something. Dan, what about, you're on, like, a European vacation with your beautiful family. Like, do you ever have to stop your family? You got plans? Like, no, no, I gotta get something in. Well, I mean, I just, I do it first. Like, my wife and I went to Paris in March and and that would be we'd Wake up in the morning. We'd go down to the hotel gym and

Hotel Jim One no less there tiny Courtyard yeah, so no in Paris. I mean it was nice. What's the latest that you've ever done the workout? What's the latest time in the day in the 1900? All day in this one, I used to spend all day in the city doing shows. And then it was a day, couple years ago, where my wife and her sister, my son,

met me out for dinner. We didn't get home till like 9.30 at night. And the first thing I did was go right down there and knock it out, because I was afraid I was gonna lose my streak. That was probably two years ago. Do you ever get worried that you'll be on the West Coast and you get in the workout in the evening and maybe the app doesn't adjust the time and so they think that you're on

the East Coast and you let a day go by. Like is there a customer service line you would call to say hey the streaks will be intact? Yeah you got to get out of my head. I mean this is something I've definitely thought about. There's no question about it. What would I do because I check check and I check and make sure. When I'm done work, I did it register.

And sometimes before bed I'll check and just make sure. Because yeah, I worry about that. I don't wanna have to call and fight for it. I really did a 15 minute core class, why can't you just? So I don't know. Who would you call? You'd call customer service and say, we need to update my streak, I actually finished it.

Maybe I'd tweet at them, I have no idea. But it hasn't come to that and hopefully it I actually finished it. Maybe a tweet at them. I have no idea. But it hasn't come to that and hopefully it won't. Do you have a target end date? A way that you kind of want to end this? I was gonna say, what's the end date? How do we finish here? I don't have a target end date.

I try, every time it gets to, every time I clear another 100, I kind of start marking off, well, what's 50 more? What's 100 more? How long can we keep this going? Again, like you say, like you laugh about like 10 minutes stretch during COVID. If the streak wasn't alive, I might not be motivated to keep exercising now years later. So there was benefit to doing that. So no, I think

it's, I think it's just become an addiction. Do you have the longest streak in Peloton history? That's a question for them. I don't know. Well contact me. I would like to know. Can you tell me if you're jealous of Skip Bayless who says he hasn't missed a workout since 1998? Remember Skip Bayless used to live at the Residence Inn in Southington, Connecticut. He had a room there that he just never checked out of for like 12 years. I've never seen anything sadder than Dave Campbell by that pool at the Radisson with one of those silver things under his leathery red skin while smoking a cigarette.

One of those tanning things under his chin at two o'clock at the Bristol Radisson. With the reflective mirror? It was like, who uses them? Flurry days. Flurry days there, VSPN, some would tell you. No, I did did there were times though I'd stay at that residence in and I'd be on a treadmill and then next to

skip so I've seen him I've seen him on the grind let's stop being around the bush how's this trade Hendrickson saga gonna end I think it's you know it's funny like you don't hear him talking about a trade anymore like they let him go out there and and look for it and he didn't find a team that was going to give him the contract you wanted and also make the trade. So now he's talking about it, he's upset with the Bengals, he wants to be there, they want him to be there. I think they end up coming to some sort of resolution.

The Bengals have done that with their big guys this off season and I think it happens. I said to somebody the other day, like if I was doing a new contract with ESPN and I was out in the media talking about how slow they were being my agent will call me and tell me to shut up like this is not a good thing for Trey Hendrickson to be doing if he wants to get the deal he's looking for he looks like the more desperate of the two parties and I think the Bengals probably know that. I'm a little bit embarrassed by your behavior not yours Dan but everyone else here like you guys I mean there's been so much backpedaling and you guys weren't nearly

but i'd i said they were talking tough on yeah they were and i know i'm not bush that all of the year in here with your ten minutes stretches and all your muscles and that no one's got anything to say all of a sudden you cheat along them cody by the way i'm waiting look what what i call him a braggart, I don't mean him to take that personally. What I mean is that... Why would anyone do that? Yeah, what I mean is that people who work out a lot, people who are like...

Allegedly. Allegedly. People who are obsessed with working out and everyday... Those people who have to tell other people about that are not my favorite people. I'm just saying that. No, I understand. I will say that from time to time, as a result of the occasional tweets about it

when tagging Peloton, like sometimes pretty stuff will show up at the house. I see what you're doing there, Dan. I'm just saying, like every now and then. Opportunist is what I say. So, you know, it's not like there's no purpose to that. But yeah, obsessive, no, look. Play in the game. There's a like there's no purpose to that but yeah obsessive No look playing the game a guy when I used to cover the Giants

There was a guy at the Daily News Ebenezer Samuel and he ends up now for years now. He's right. He's been that immense Yes, it is. And if you look at him up on Instagram, he's like the fitness editor at Men's Health magazine So his job is to work out he is Fitness guy he is a bling him up. He is obsessive about He's a fitness guy. He is, look him up, he is obsessive about working out. He was when he covered the Giants. Like this is the job he should have had all along, the one he has now. So that's a guy who's obsessive about working out.

He wants to have superhero muscles. That's not me. I wanna live as long as I can. That's why I'm doing it. I just want, I don't wanna die young. That's pretty much my goal. He's also a fitness director and you're an NFL reporter. Exactly. You're right, he does it for a living.

It just happens to be the thing that he loves. So no, I'm not obsessive about it, just kind of enjoying the streak. Let me ask you something. How do you go about deciding what your daily workout is gonna be? Are you part of programs or what do you do here? Like you're like an Andy Spear guy,

you're like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do core strength here for 30 days and I'm gonna go by their workout that they suggest. Or you just wake, you're like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do core strength here for 30 days, and I'm gonna go by their workout that they suggest. Or you just wake up and you say, you know what, I want a little stretch today. I want a little power zone ride. So we're talking about, it's over five years now. So the answer to that question has changed

and varied over the time. Right now, they have a feature on that app that, you know, like here's your weekly plan, and I've just kind of been sticking to that to sort of see how it goes and it's been heavy on like, you know Strength training they tell you when you get to X age that that's that's a thing you have to do more of so I've been Trying to do more of it. So I've been doing that but there are times where You know, I'd be like I want to focus for this month on cardio stuff I want to focus for this month on cardio stuff, or I want to focus for this month on lower body strength. So periodically I have kind of changed up the routine.

Sometimes it's just winging it, and sometimes it's like, well, this is a structure, a plan I've put in place for the next month or two I'm going to stick to and see how it goes. Let's put this on the poll please at Levitard Show. Are we still making Ebenezers? And also is Dan Graziano a craven opportunist at LeBotard Show? I'm going to pin you down on this one. Tyler Lockett to Tennessee, is he going to join the long lists of great wide receivers that just can't seem to get it done in Tennessee

and that boom, that's the end of that career? I think what he's doing in Tennessee, I think, is mainly, he still can play, but I don't think he's there to be like their number one receiver. They're paying Calvin Ridley for that. So I think he's there, you know, young quarterback, maybe a young group, maybe they sort of help the veteran presence, you know, all those kinds of cliches, and maybe be a number two or number three wide receiver

for them, whatever it is that he has left. He talked to people in Seattle. I mean, they kept him sort of longer longer than I think a lot of people would anticipate because they just love him like he's you know that people in their front office say he's one of the best football players ever seen in my life. He's great to have around so I think there's benefit to Tennessee and having him even if he's not a 70 80 catch guy at this point. Thank you for the thoughtful answer. Did you win the trivia contest with Bomani Jones, yes or no?

So we got to the end of that and we asked Hembo who won and he said he hadn't been keeping score, which was very disappointing. But I think I got more right than Bomani did that night. The first question was a Dominique Foxworth trivia question that I got correct. So I was very proud of that on the Dominique Foxworth show. But I think I probably play it back and probably score it yourself if you really were wanted to know. I haven't done that because you know I'm not a braggart. Do you think that you're better at sports trivia than

Bumani Jones? Yes or no? I would guess that his breadth of knowledge in terms of how it can probably go into different sports probably exceeds mine. I was a baseball fan growing up, a baseball nerd growing up. I knew a lot of baseball trivia. The football has kind of fed on itself since this thing, this Hembo thing started about six years ago. Now I study a lot more just to be prepared. So I would say Bumani's probably better than me, but specific to the kind of stuff Hem both rose out there kind of figured out to some extent what he's they believe we can be a i don't think of you as someone who has a lot of

acid soaked football opinions but the way that you go after erin rogers has more acid on it than most of your opinions your present thoughts on erin rogers or what just waiting just want just curious what he's going to do uh... not trying to guess there's a whole cottage industry of people out there that they think they know what's going on and rogers head i don't know what evidence they have to support that idea i'm not among them

i'm curious to see what he does next aron rogers uh... is one of the greatest football players i've ever seen every time i've ever seen a plan person it've ever seen him play in person, it's been a pleasure to watch. When he opens his mouth on non-football topics, it's less of a pleasure, and I think sometimes it's worth mentioning that out loud.

Is this the fittest Dan Graziano there has ever been? Nope, I'm a little, I'm still not trying to knock off about six or seven pounds before the season. The season's rough, man. Once I get into airports and hotels and it's tough. Always slow stuff a little bit. That's what we're saying. That's all we're saying.

That's all we're saying. That's what we're talking about. When the 10 minute stretches start, yeah. But this time of year, I'm home a lot more and you can get into the routine. That's what happened in 2020, right? Like I'm stuck home. Everything I ate was regimented.

All the exercise was regimented. I wasn't drinking like a lot of people were and I think it helped. I went one direction while it seemed like most everybody was going the other one. He is still six or seven pounds overweight. He's Dan Graziano, one of the greats in South Florida history. A former fatso, no longer a fatso. Great dimples. I am proud of him. I am proud. Just watching his career blossom has been a real pleasure. Thank you for tolerating our nonsense, Dan. Good seeing you. Thanks for having me.

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I think it's pretty good. Yeah, okay two gods you think you're big time You're gonna die big time That is on my infamous scale of 1 to 10. That's a 7.6. Solid. Good job, Dan. That's a suey nominee right there. That's really good. This is the Dan LeBattar Show with the StuGats. Check the social media and shut up about the Trey Hendrickson thing is interesting because of course he's mad that everyone else is getting the money Well, he could be a missing piece including for the team that he was on

I don't know who's Cincinnati to be like, oh we got out golden. We're fine. No, you got issues pal He can't be a missing piece when he was a part of the problem last year when they were terrible at defense and couldn't stop Any he's not part of the problem That's like saying Seth Jones was the problem with the Hawks, the Blackhawks. Yo, Seth Jones my dog, watch it. What? Thought he was a spaz according to you.

I don't remember saying that. No, he's great. The Bengals were one of the worst defenses we've seen. It's 17 and a half sacks, two seasons in a row. He's great, I'm not saying he's not great. He didn't make that defense any good. That defense was porous. That defense is the reason Stugatz is still

arguing that the game after the Super Bowl should be played against the Bengals, just because of how much Stugatz respects the Bengal offense that couldn't do anything because their greatest opponent was the Bengals defense. Well, is it Joe Burroughs' fault the Bengals didn't make the playoffs? No, never.

It's kind of the same thing, going on the defensive side of the ball. Shouldn't have lost the first game of the season of the Patriots. The Bengals did not lose because of offense, they lost because of defense, a defense anchored by Trey Hendrickson. How many years is Joe Burrough gonna get a pass?

This Hendrickson thing got everybody talking. It is odd that the all of you backtracked on Graziano. He was here and all of you didn't want any part of that. No we pinned him down on Tyler Rocket too. I called him a braggart to his face. I want to ask you guys about what's happening in New York where Michael Kay is saying as the voice of the Yankees that he did hours and hours of reporting before the Mets and Yankees played and before Juan Soto was reprimanded for not hustling on a 102 mile an hour line drive that he hit against Fenway's Green Monster that could have and should have been a home

run in every park ever played but was a single in this one because he was jogging. He has said, Michael Kay has said, and this is not the way you want to start in New York with a new team when you've got a 765 million dollar contract the one controversy you do not want on the field is not hustling and now Michael K is saying that he has found that Soto is sullen that he is sad because he never wanted to leave the Yankees in the first place and now he is already sad with the Mets and I was just curious what you guys thought about Juan Soto and the Mets. And I was just curious what you guys thought about Juan Soto and the Mets and the idea

that you have lollygagging being accused when $765 million is supposed to be anti-lollygagging. I think it's a rough place to start that we're just in May of year one at a 15 and we're having this conversation about Wonsoto. I agree, but isn't it also kind of weird that he's in the same town but unhappy? Right, right. It's just odd. Things fans least like to hear or see. Their player not hustling and their player making that money bragging or lamenting how sad they are.

Nobody wants to see that or hear it. Michael K is reporting that he's glum. Sullen and glum? Glum is the report, forgive me, I corrected sullen. I changed sullen to glum. Which one's worse? Which one seems worse? The Mets are better than the Yankees.

Why does he miss the Yankees? This is just Michael K doing Michael K cheerleading for the Yankees. Oh, he really wants miss the Yankees? This is just Michael Cate doing Michael Cate cheerleading for the Yankees. Oh, he really wants to be a Yankee. Cate's been all over this. Even when he signed with the Mets and Cate mentioned details about that Soto's people,

they wanted a private jet for family to fly to games. They wanted a suite for family at all the home games. I don't know, C Kay's been all over it. He did say he spent hours reporting this, that he went to the ballpark very early in the morning and just kept talking to people about the status and the head of Juan Soto. That's what people say,

I spent hours reporting XYZ thing and then Zaz just says, ah, this person's not gonna get suspended on a dumb feeling and it ends up being right. It's like, oh wow, look at all this reporting he did. I don't know why you're saying it's a dumb feeling when I was right about Sam Bennett not even getting a hearing. That's right my sources ended up being right. That is correct. Well my sources say the sun's gonna rise tomorrow morning. Let's see if I'm right or not. Everybody knows that.

We'll see. Well we don't know that until it happens so we'll see. Can't predict the future. Have you talked to sources? Don't reveal them. Meteorological sources. Don't reveal them. Okay. No I would never reveal my sources. We'll see. I would go to prison for my sources, would you? I spent hours researching whether or not the sun's gonna rise tomorrow. I guarantee it is. Wow. Seems like a waste of time. One of the things I enjoy watching around here is the number of people who

don't spend hours researching anything, making fun of others who do and say so. Like who? Who do you have in mind? Well you just did it, Billy did it as well. If Michael K says that he spent hours doing that, I believe him. No I'm not. But you guys last time what you confronted, last time you accused anyone of being a liar, we had him on and then you all backtracked. How can you say I backtracked when I call him a bracket to his face, Dan will admit that. And I had no opinions on the matter initially. I was receiving the news.

I believe him now after you guys questioned him pretty hard. Which one's worse, Glum or Sullen? Glum. Sullen. I think sad is worse than glum. They both have the one syllable thing going for them. So that's why I think glum's worse. Put it on the poll at Levitard show, which one's worse, glum, sullen, or sad? Like I'm so sad I can't even muster up a second

syllable. You say the city is the reason he shouldn't feel shitty and because he's still there and he's the same city but I would say a clubhouse and co-workers and your daily work experience, if you're hitting well with the Yankees and the crowds are flush and you're in flushing and you're not hitting well and the crowds aren't, and your co-workers, you don't particularly get along with them. I've told you guys before that Chris Bosch said rather eloquently, you never know the sacrifices you're making until you're making it. No doubt.

I mean, you could be working at the same place for your entire career and have moments where you're unhappy. Look what happened with Jimmy Butler. He was happy until he wasn't happy. It's just odd because he's in the same city. He's making the same kind of money. Probably really hasn't changed up his routine outside of where he does his job which is also a very individual sport even though you're

traveling with these guys it's like your job is very much you're at the dish by yourself doing that so it's just odd the attendance difference also is 42,000 to 36,000 like it's not like he's playing in Miami. Or in Tampa. Why is that funny? I mean, nobody wants to hear Juan Soto complain about anything. I'll be honest with you. What are you sad about? Seriously, I'm talking to Juan Soto right now.

What are you sad about? Sullen, not sad, is the report. Kay also said Soto, quote, doesn't have a hop in his step, whatever that means. That's not a report. I mean, that is the report. Kay also said Soto quote, doesn't have a hop in his step, whatever that means. That's not a report. I mean, that was the report. Hours of research, hours of research, that's what we got. He doesn't have a hop in his step. If anyone said that there wasn't a Michael Kay,

you would make fun of them relentlessly. It's just Michael Kay's friends who are giving him a pass. He's not going to his funeral though. I feel like- He's not going to Michael Kay's or Michael Kay's not going to Dan's? He's not going to Michael Kay's. Maybe both?

I wouldn't either. Put some pep in your your steps Soto. That's what I would tell him I feel like I was making fun of him when I said reported Not having a hop in his step or whatever that means I do believe that that was making fun of him, but you can question my credibility and his research I guess I know the answer to it But if you're one Soto and let's say that he is unhappy, all right? If you're Juan Soto, and you were seemingly happy then last year

with the Yankees, why would you then sign for 15 years in a place that you don't know? I get it, it's the same city. But I'm happy right now, but I'm gonna commit myself to 15 years to a place I've got no idea. I think what ends up happening in a lot of these instances, this is a Boris client, right?

And I'm not saying that that's what's happening in this instance, but I've seen it happen a number of times with Boris clients, at least in part because he gets the percentage of the larger deal. They almost always select the larger deal. They almost always select the greater deal and in a lot of instances, it's a young player from another country and the dollars don't even make sense what the difference is between 500 million and 700 million, but you have an expert who's in charge of your finances and what's the difference? How bad can it be going from the Yankees to the Mets

when you've already gone from Washington to San Diego? How bad could it possibly be? And then you suddenly realize, oh, being the Yankee in New York isn't the second class thing that being the Met in New York is because it's the stepchild forever in that city. I don't know, I'm guessing we'll get my friend Michael K on and not question Tim to his face

tomorrow when we backtrack when he comes on and we're all his friend instead of just me. When Scott Boris signs a client, like yes, it's always the highest bidder with Scott Boris. I wonder though, when Scott Boris signs a client, does he tell them when the time comes, we go to the highest bidder? That's the way this, if we're working together, this is what happens.

I'd have you guys look up for me when Boris' clients don't go to just the person offering the most money. Scott Boris is so responsible for showing all of us how underpaid all of these athletes are when baseball can afford to pay Juan Soto this way. But I remember famously many years ago, I'm sorry, Scott Boris saying,

when talking about work stoppages and strikes, he said, baseball's the only sport anywhere in the world that goes down the grocery store, kicking the can down the aisle, denting the can, kicking it, ruining it, and then putting it back on the shelf and asking you to buy it. Because we're always talking about the money

until Greg Cody gets to the point where all he cares about Juan Soto is never hearing a word from him by way of complaint, because Juan Soto is never hearing a word from him by way of complaint because Juan Soto is just a bag of dollars to him and not like the best young hitter since Ted Williams. No, if Juan Soto is sad or glum because he has mental health issues, I would never make fun of him. If he's sad because he's making all that money and can't quite adjust to a new clubhouse,

then I have very little sympathy. And here's another thing, what you said was correct about the Yankees always owning that town, so does Aaron Judge. He's also in the deep shadow of Aaron Judge, the team he left. Easier to be on that team is the second notion than as the leader on the laughing stock. I should point out Soto's got an opt-out after five years, so if he wants to get out of that contract, he can, and my guess is that it'll be over Scott Boris' dead body.

I would think it'd be easier to be a Met. Less pressure, like less media, I mean, I know they still get a lot of media attention, it's just, I don't get it. Well, the pressure with the Yankees was on Judge, not Soto. Soto was... You just said being the number two with the Yankees would be more pressure than being the number one

with the Mets. No, I didn't say that. I said quite the reverse, actually. If you get to play in the shadow of Aaron Judge, it is easier than immediately signing the contract. Look, I know I make fun of that Robert De Niro movie, The Fan, because it was terrible. Hey, Bobby!

That's a good impersonation, limited fake Robert De Niro. As an umpire, again, I don't want to- What a twist. I'm gonna spoil the movie. Spoiler alert, even though it's not spoiler alert Wednesday. A little unusual to have a movie end, again, spoiler alert, in the rain Wednesday, a little unusual to have a movie end, again, spoiler alert, in the rain with the umpire

stabbing somebody with a knife, a player with a knife during play. Didn't want Primo dirty too. It's, put it on the poll at LeBattard Show, weirder thing in a movie, the running back shooting, opposing players in The Last Boy Scout, or the umpire Robert De Niro stabbing a player during play.

But the premise of that movie was that Wesley Snipes was playing under the pressure of a contract and the pressure of a contract made him a less great player. It is a thing. Like when you come to a city and are the savior for the Mets, an international and national laughing stock, and all of a sudden you've got 765 million reasons in that batter's box with you when you're swinging that make you think more than you should when you shouldn't be thinking. All he wanted was a thank you. Do you want to talk more about the fan? Because it feels like you do. I can't believe how much you know about this movie.

you know about this movie. It's a good impersonation he's doing. It was a terrible, a truly terrible movie unlike the previously mentioned Final Reckoning which we still haven't talked about. That's got an 86 presently on rock. 88 I saw. All right so it's ticked up a little bit. Exciting. I did get a report from someone that saw it. That said, it starts off a little slow. But by the end, boy, do they bring it home. Nice. And the way that the Mission Impossible movies work is they map out the stunts at the start,

and then they write a story about that. And there were several stunts in this movie that you wonder aloud, how did he survive this Billy says he might go to the movies I mean I'm looking now 249 those long that's Tom's whole thing is that you need to get your butt to the theaters because he saved theaters so you owe it to him to reward him for saving movies oh it to him to him? Yes, he saved movies. Did he? With Top Gun 2, yes. In the theater?

He saved more than just the movies. He didn't make an argument. He saved society, briefly. He was kind of an opportunist, if we're going to be honest, with Top Gun, right? Because that was supposed to come out in 2020. And then he held it back until it was just safe enough to go back to movies.

Had he put that out when it was supposed to come out, he wouldn't have saved movies. Dare I say, his career might be over. Well, at least he gave him credit for saving movies. That's what I heard. Now that I did hear that. Do you see that on the thing, it says, like, final reckoning, Mission Impossible, and then it says, filmed for IMAX.

So it's telling you, go to see it on the biggest screen possible. It was made to be seen on IMAX. Are you guys ever down for a two hour and 49 minute movie? Yes. Of any kind? I'm never excited about it. And maybe a movie will get me excited enough

that I'm like, okay, I'll sit through it, but I'm always gonna make a groan when I see it. I wish I wouldn't have seen it, honestly. If I would have just gone, I would have been fine, and then I would have looked at my watch after, and be like, oh, that was a long movie. I'm hoping the new Superman movie is four hours long. Really?

Superman's such a boring character. That's two long movies. 249 is two long movies. A movie should be a minute and 10 minutes. An hour and 10 minutes. He's right. That's it. Put it on the poll, should a movie be a minute and 10 minutes?

Put it on the poll. No, an hour and I corrected myself. Put it on the poll, should a movie be a minute and ten minutes. That kind of thing. That kind of thing. Exactly, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You gotta run those words together, Levatard.

Slur them a little bit. Thank you, thank you, thank you. So, the Dead Reckoning Part One, which is now just called Dead Reckoning because they gave up on Part One, Part Two. They were ahead of everybody on AI.