The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: What Kind of Shoot...?

Episode Date: September 26, 2024

Roy Wood Jr. is here to lend his commentary on Eric Adams, the Chicago White Sox stadium proposal, Diddy, Mark Robinson, and his show "Have I Got News For You" before being joined by Steve Korn-hacki for his Semi-Sure Bet of the Week combining presidential polling with college football. But what exactly is Korn-hacki's role here? Then, it's time for another episode of The Pitch Clock. Jeremy, Chris, and Mike Schur play a game of Taylor's Trivia on hitters from 2000-2009 with 20 hits in a single postseason. Schur sticks around to chat with Jeremy about Shohei Ohtani's unprecedented greatness, whether Ohtani or Aaron Judge actually had the better offensive season, and the better story between Jeremy's Tigers and the San Diego Padres. Schur also dishes out his World Series matchup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Jersey City, New Jersey, please drink responsibly. This is the Don Leventor Show with the Stugats Podcast. We have totally lost Amin Elhassan. He is buried in his computer, checking out all television themed songs, trying to disprove my theory that Sanford and Son has the best television theme song of all times. He continues to say it's the jefferson's roy roy wood jr is with us he's got uh... this great television show it really is

have i got news for you it is a a spin-off on the show that's been done in popular in the u k for thirty five years and it's about the weekly news events with comedians and his group of people is great and the first two shows have been great you can check it out on CNN and Max but before we get to that and what we're doing with Roy Wood what is the better television theme song between the Jeffersons and Sanford and Son? Jeffersons is the better of the two but the best theme song from that era is WKRP

and Cincinnati it's one of the most beautiful, saddest, it is exactly what comedy is. The KRP in Cincinnati theme song is one of the saddest songs. It's a dude writing a letter to a woman he knows he'll never talk to again and letting her know that he's working in a radio station in middle America. Roy, the saddest part about that is the Cincinnati.

Not the I'll never see you again. It's that he has to be. Broke my heart in two, but baby pay no mind. The price for finding me was losing you. This is not the greatest theme song ever. It's the dichotomy of it in me. Roy, the Sitt... The uh, excuse me, the Jeffersons is aspirational.

Listen, listen, let it ride to the first verse. He's tired of traveling. Never meant to be. Listen to that sad shit. So wait, the show is just a guy working in a midday part of the station? The theme song is a guy writing a love letter to a woman he'll never be with again. Just if you ever think of me, I'll be here with these miserable turds at the radio station. In Cincinnati.

Again, I will tell you, have I Got News for you is great. He's doing a great job with it, and it's on CNN. Saturdays at 9 p.m. Eastern. It streams on Max starting each Sunday. Got a lot of things to get to with him. How did you pick the people that you were working with on this show? Because, I mean, it is fun to watch

and you guys have great chemistry. You know, Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black above Comedic Beasts in their own regard. And you gotta remember, bro, this show is a British remake of a show that's still on for 35 years in England. So the format is tried and true of the panel stuff. So, you know, they came to me with some names,

but, you know, I kind of trusted them a little bit more with who they wanted to put around me because I'm not gonna question it. Like, these hat-trick productions is essentially the Bill Belichick, Bill Parcells of political satire in England. So you're not gonna question the personnel that they put on the roster.

So I'm thankful to be a part of it, man. It's just, it's a good ass time. We got a lot this week. The hardest part is that the week keeps evolving. We had a, I was in a slack with the writers for the show and we were talking about, oh man, it's crazy. You know what's going on with the VP debate. And then Eric Adams gets indicted.

I'm like, well, Eric Adams gets indicted. I'm like, well, we can scrap those jokes. Let's get to Eric Adams, because I got an assortment of things from pop culture to get to with you, a number of different news items, but what do you think is happening with Eric Adams as the news is now breaking about his indictment? He just made a statement or attempted to make a statement

and got heckled at his own press conference just now. I don't know why he did the press conference outdoors. I think it's bribery and like a bunch of you took money from the Turkish government to let Turkish people build cheap buildings in New York or something, allegations or whatever. The indictment just got unsealed as we're talking. I will say out of all of the indicted black mayors over the last few decades, he's probably the most charismatic, more charismatic than Ray Nagin.

Ray Nagin walked so Kwame Kilpatrick could run. And now we have Eric Adams, who always looks like he just left the club. He does. You think more charismatic than Marion Barry, huh? Yeah, well, I mean, Marion Barry's the OG of it all, but Marion Barry was a little bit more boisterous. He at least pretended he was for the people.

You know, Eric Adams was with Biden last night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when the indictment news came. Do you want to be in public when the bad news come out? He might even, and when you're around the president, they jam your phones and stuff. So he probably didn't even know that this was happening until he went back outside. That's got to be awkward. What are your thoughts on Diddy? We have made the mistake a couple of times in today's show of showing for some reason a picture of Eric Adams with Diddy.

What do you mean a mistake? You did exactly what you knew. You knew what you was doing. You showed that picture. Man, I know that Diddy's lawyer is not doing him any favors making all these statements. Like, Diddy's lawyer has just been running his mouth to the media, he's innocent. And then he said today, Diddy plans to testify at his own, if you don't shut your ass up,

are you trying to get the man murdered in jail? Costco saying the baby oil is that he likes to buy it in bulk from Costco, that was amazing. You've got to say something. You got to say some, it's some sort of, if it don't fit, you know, if it don't grease, it don't tease, I don't know. He's got to come up with some catchphrase, but don't spit ball.

This isn't open mic comedy. You can't spit ball your defense strategy in front of the whole world. If I'm Diddy, I'm praying for Eric Adams in my cell so that I know for sure that the food ain't poison. As a Cubs fan, are you thrilled to watch what's happening? Please stop distracting me while watching your television themed song.

Do you remember, believe it or not, I'm walking on air, the greatest hero. Please stop, I'm trying to work here It's it was that show didn't stand up to the theme song. Hey look. I'm not talking about theme songs here I'm not talking about the quality of the program. Although I did love that show as well Roy I told Dan I did not know that shows got canceled until I watched night court and they made a joke about misfits of science And I was like missus the science science got canceled? It could happen? Bye bye, bye bye.

I feel like Dan, honestly, with Diddy, we're going to see a reckoning with abuse culture and the power structures within hip hop. And I hope that if nothing else that comes from this, that there can be a complete tear down and evisceration of record labels and the ways that they prey upon young artists as well. Like just all jokes aside I really hope that we at least get that level of truth. I don't I hope he doesn't like that there isn't a quick plea in a settlement and they seal up everything. I'm also not saying show the ditty tapes in court, but there has to be a degree of accountability

with all of this. We have to get to Steve Korn hacky and your semi-sure bet of the week, but as a Cubs fan, are you delighting in what is happening with the White Sox where, unless they win all of their remaining games, they're going to have the worst record in the history of baseball? No one wants that. You don't want that. You don't want to see your friend completely down and out.

You want to see them just lose. You don't want to see them turn into the Vanderbilt of baseball, like with respect to Vanderbilt football. Like I don't, like it's, these are professionals. They still take the, and you know, baseball is one of those mental sports where if you think you can't do it, you won't do it. So all of the, half those guys are gonna get sent down.

I don't even know if you can laugh as a Cubs fan because we were supposed to be in the playoffs this year. So who really under, who underachieved? You can laugh as a Cubs fan. Let's put this up on the screen here. How do you feel about this marriage proposal via Jumbotron? I like that. I like that.

Because a lot of people feel like you shouldn't propose to a woman with a losing ass team, but who proposes at games other than die-hard fans? Because that is their cathedral, the sports stadium, right? If you are a White Sox fan, you have not known happiness since Tim Anderson got knocked out. You've been down and out, and whoever that woman is, Victoria, Vicki, or whatever her name was up on Jumbotron, she's been with that man. She's been with that man. She's been with that

man through thick and thin and now as the White Sox are on the precipice of being the worst of all time, the WOTE as they say in the streets, as they're about to become the WOTE, she's still there. You marry that woman and she knows that you could turn it around immediately. There's I can't remember which team there's a hundred lost team last year that's in the playoffs this year. And so that automatically means that the White Sox have a chance. They're opening up wild card slots left and right this time next year. There might be eight. There might be nine playoff teams in each league.

The White Sox can do it. And I think this is the perfect time as a man when you are sad and depressed and you look around and see who's still there and you be with her. Mark Robinson, I'm sorry. He should say no. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.

Before we go to Steve Kornhacki, Mark Robinson is declaring himself on a porn site, a black Nazi, the North Carolina candidate for governor, and JD Vance says the allegations are not necessarily reality. What do you see happening here? He's not going to step down. He already said he's not going to. He's lost half of his staff. He said he's coming. He's doing an investigation into who's slandering him. You slandered you. Nobody told you to go on nude Africa. There's a piece of me though,

I mean, vouch for me on this. There's a piece of me that feels like it was kind of a setup by the Democrats on Mark Robinson, because if you look at the comments he supposedly made on nude Africa, the verbiage doesn't feel black enough. It doesn't read like the way a brother would talk, even back in 1998 or whenever he was on this website. In one of the comments, he said the word dookie shoot. I've never heard a single black person say the word dookie shoot.

He said, grease the dookie shoot. Like, just tell me, just be honest. Have you ever, Dan, you're a minority. You've had minority friends in the Latino community. Do you say duke, el duque? What do you say? And duke is somebody different, and we respect it. Do not blaspheme against el duque.

El duque shoot. No one black says duque shoot, and that's the one thing that gives me one piece of belief that maybe Mark Robinson is telling the truth that it wasn't him and that he was set up is because somebody said dookie shoot. We have to get out of here, but not before telling everybody

that Trump is gonna be in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, Waltz is gonna be in Ann Arbor. This leads us to your semi-sure bet of the week. College football and politics merge. Steve Kornhacki is at the board. What do you need from him? Steve, we got seven swing states, we took seven big schools,

and the polling margins are pretty serious. Now, we compare the polling margins from Nate Silver's model on which candidate is in the front running, and we compare those to game day football victory margins of defeat. So in North Carolina, we got the Tar Heels. But when Donald Trump is winning by 0.4 percentage points

or less in the polls, Carolina is undefeated, winning by an average of 17 points. UNC upset over Duke. Swing state number two, we're going to Georgia. Now, when Trump has been within 1.3 percentage points of his presidential opponent, the Bulldogs win seven in a row. Take it to the bank. Georgia Moneyline. Ovalabend. Roy, I believe that Steve Kornhacki is confused because I think you're doing his material now. He's looking at us like... My bad, Steve. I'm just going to be breaking down the numbers for you, Roy, but if you want to keep going, I mean, you know, the numbers in advance, we can break down the rest of the numbers

for you. Obviously we have Georgia and UNC UNC over the dookies. You mentioned that a little bit earlier, but Pennsylvania, we have Pennsylvania here. It's a 1.5% percentage lead for Kamala Harris. Now what does that mean for Penn State? Trump has never led in Pennsylvania. However, when he is within 1.5 points in the state, the Penn State Nittany Lions are 3-0

with an average margin of 28.3 points. So what does that mean for you, Roy? You tell me. I'm not sure what that means. It means we're taking Penn State, Roy. OK, I like that. I like that I like that We have Wisconsin here Harris leads by two

2.2 points even when Trump is within 2.2 points He's never led but even when he is within 2.2 points like right now the Badgers have never won They've lost by an average of 32 points per game so Roy what does that mean USC to cover yeah there we go USC we asked you before the segment started do you know how to do this with corn hacky and you said I got it covered, no problem. Yeah, we're covering it. Let him keep talking. Give me another swing stat. Let's go to Arizona. The Wildcats in Arizona, they're 2-1 when Trump is within 1.5 points in Arizona,

but he has not been in that position since October 2016. They've also been down an average of 15 points in those games despite the fact that they're two and one. So Roy, who are we taking in Arizona at Utah? I like Utah to cover that spread. Give me Utah over that one. We'll take Utah here and then finally, this is a big one, two potential swing states. We have Michigan and according to the real Steve Kornacki, Minnesota back in place. So in Michigan, it's Kamala Harris plus 2.4 in Minnesota.

She's up 5.8 percentage points. And when we look at Michigan now in the last eight years during football season, you have not had Trump leading in Michigan. The Wolverines are 13 and 2 over that stretch. Only 3 and 1 though when Trump is within 2.4 points and an average margin of victory of 11 and when you look at Minnesota we mentioned that 5.8. Minnesota is 3 and 2 when Trump is within 5.8 points of the Democratic candidate. They're minus 2.5

in those games. So we do a little bit of math. Michigan plus 11. Minnesota minus 2.5. That means the Gulfers minus 8.5. Michigan is a 9.5 point favorite. Roy, in turn, what are we doing here with these numbers? What are we doing?

Minnesota's gonna cover the spread. That's absolutely right. Give me Minnesota. Get outta here, Jeremy. I would like a deeper understanding how the judgment gets made, maybe by a mean. We've got a professional comedian and we decided to throw it to corn hacky. We've got a man who is really funny and we decided to do more Jeremy. I work hard.

Get out of here, Jeremy. So we got a recap, Dan. We got a recap, Dan, real quick. To recap, UNC Moneyline, Georgia Moneyline, Penn State to cover 18, USC to cover 16, Utah to cover, and Minnesota back in play. That is the guaranteed semi-sure bet of the week. You're welcome. Have I Got News for you.

It is a legitimately funny news quiz show that doesn't keep score but pretends to keep scores CNN Saturdays at 9 p.m Eastern streaming on Mac starting each Sunday if you didn't get enough Jeremy now, how about some more next with pitch clock? Did you like my dookie joke or I can't believe that that went that poorly Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan I want to talk to you about the great taste of Miller Lite. Gonna cut right to it today, because it's football season as you know, and there's nothing more American than football and Miller Lite. It's a perfect pairing. I mean, even chefs would agree that this is better than any dish I can cook up. The way that Miller Lite hits your tongue when there's gridiron action happening, there's just nothing like it. And,

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I wish I could see that. It's terrible. Audio's great. This is the Don LeBattardt Show with the Stugarts. 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. Final week of Major League Baseball. We've got some great games going on this week, but first we have to start with a game of our own. Our guest is Mike Scherr. He'll be talking 2024 baseball with me in just a moment, but we have Chris Cody in here with me in Studio B to compete in this game against Mike. Taylor, let us know what's going on in the final game

we have of the regular season. You guys can see the papers now. The game today is three strikes and you're out where we'll alternate guesses, last person standing wins, getting ready for the postseason. So the list today is of every player that had 20 or more hits in a single postseason in the 2000s. So you have the year and the team logo. For the audio audience in 2000 it's two Yankees, 2002 four angels and two giants, 2003 three

Marlins and two Yankees, 04 is two Red Sox, a Cardinal, a Yankee and an Astro, then 2009 is a Yankee. Alright Chris you're up first. You just have to say the year. Year in player. Uh, I'm gonna go with 2004, Albert Jujos. The safest of bats, yes. I will go 2002 Giants Barry Bonds. That's a strike. What?

Alright, well this is a nightmare. He got walked too much. He got walked too much. This is a nightmare. I'm embarrassing my family on this. I don't know why I started this segment Wow. All right. Well, this is a nightmare. He got walked too much. He got walked too much. Yeah, this is a nightmare. I'm embarrassing my family on this. I don't know why I started this segment because I know my dad's watching

and he must be so disappointed in me. I'm sorry, dad. Mike, sure. What's your first guess? One of these, one of the Yankees is Jeter. Right. But I don't know what year Jeter did something there. He had bad post seasons.

Yeah, he did. That's what I'm thinking. I'll guess I'll guess 2,000 Yankees is Jeter It is there. Oh, all right. You're up Chris. I'm like this. You know what? I'm gonna play the game 2003 Yankee Derek Jeter 2000 Yankees is Derek Jeter. Yeah This is what I'm wondering is, do we go for it?

No, four or five, or oh nine rather. All right, 2003 Marlins, Juan Pierre. Juan Pierre is one of them. Mike is up right now. I'm gonna make a crazy guess that's probably wrong, but given that game that the angels came back and beat the Giants in the World Series in 2000, in 2002, I'm going to guess that one of the angels is Scott Speasio. It's not Scott Speasio.

You know what? When I have an angel make me smile. He started talking right there. I thought he was going somewhere else. So I'm just going to ride that wave. As we talk about this 2024 MLB season, that's coming to an end this weekend. And Mike, I'll preface with a couple of things here

for the listening audience. We record this on Tuesday. So as a result, we will not be discussing these wild card races in deep detail, but we're gonna make this a Shohei Otani based podcast instead. I hope that's okay.

Always. Because at the time of this conversation, he has 53 homers and 55 stolen bases. What is your favorite stat of his from this season? And also, is he not just the greatest baseball player of all time, but the greatest athlete who has ever lived. Because to me, that's what's going on right now. I don't know that there's an argument against him being the best baseball player who's ever played baseball, but my favorite side of the year is that

he had in the six for six game, three homers, two doubles, a single two stolen bases, 17 total bases, the most total bases. In fact, 19, if you count the stolen bases, the only 17 total base game without four home runs. But in that game, Otani had 0.7 war in a single game. That is absurd. That is an anomaly, a black swan event you can't possibly conceive of a game where an individual player gains point seven war in a single game. However, it is not the highest war he has ever accumulated in a single game because he had a game a couple of years ago where he both threw six and a third innings and struck out ten guys and gave up two hits.

And also, I think it was three for three with two homers. And in that game, he got point eight war. So you look at a game where he has arguably the greatest offensive I think it was three for three with two homers and in that game he got point eight war so you you look at a game where he has arguably the greatest offensive performance ever in history by a single baseball player and it is not even the most valuable game that he himself has played as a baseball player and to put in perspective that point seven war. Jake Berger has 28 home runs this season for the Marlins. He has a.5 war. Darren Erstead. Darren Erstead, number one on this list.

25. Wow! 25! Like that is- That's a safer guess, yeah. This is the prime of me watching baseball. I remember every game of that O2 Angels giant. There's an angel that's coming to mind

who I love as one of my favorite players, but I just don't know if it's possible that he actually had 20 hits. So, hmm. I mean, I'll go 2004 Red Sox, Big Poppy, David Ortiz. David Ortiz is one of the Red Sox. Chris, you're in the lead. I'm not going to win this, I'm telling you right now, because everything is jumbled in my head.

But I'm gonna stay with the Angels. The other Red Sox is likely Manny, but I'm gonna not guess that, I'm gonna guess Garrett Anderson. Garrett Anderson is the second Angel. Wow. After I just took a victory lap on knowing every game of this series,

it would be bad if I got this wrong, but I'm just gonna ride this wave. Tim Salmon. That's not Tim ride this wave. Tim Salmon. It's not Tim Salmon. Not Tim Salmon. No. That's a good guess though. Cocky.

So what I've gotta decide is do I wanna win or do I wanna try to just get ones that are interesting? See, the one that's standing out to me is the Astros in 2004. Is the 2004 Houston Astro Carlos Beltran? It is Carlos Beltran. It is. Yes. That's that's smart. That's a smart guess.

Right. That was the that was the year to 200 million dollars. Right. I wasn't sure if it was 2004 or it was 2005. So I'm feeling really good about that one. OK. So Mike back to you. I'll guess the other Red Sox in 04 was Manny.

It was Manny. OK. All right. I kind of want to go with my fun four was Manny. It was Manny. Okay. All right I kind of want to go with my fun Marlins guess, but I'm just too scared Do it man. All right, let's do this 2003 Marlins wanting that's who I thought you were gonna guess. Is it right? Okay, he had a great play. He did he was spectacular. So there's two other guys. That's a dumb guess I guess there's obviously the other guys. There's kind of three other guys that it could be. I will say, I'm gonna, I'm gonna play.

You know what? Here's the fun guy that I was thinking of before. 2002 Angels, David Eckstein. David Eckstein had 20 exactly. Yes! Whoa! David Eckstein! Oh my. Remember all those hits he had where like,

it was just a fly ball to left and like a dude fell down and he got a double and everyone's like, he's the MVP. That was ridiculous. Can't believe that. Yankees fans and their reaction on social media has been pretty funny to this Otani 50-50 thing because I've noticed a lot of them complaining that MLB has not promoted Aaron Judge in the same way at which

they've promoted Shohei Otani. Who has actually had the better offensive season between the two? Shohei Otani or Aaron Judge? It's not surprising they're complaining. Judge's year is absurd. It's he's going to win the MVP. So shut up. First of all, with the MVP. So shut up, first of all, he's going to win the MVP. And there is an angle you can cock your head at and you could make the argument where you could say the judge has been more impressive. He did a thing this year, which he has not done in previous years, which is essentially he stopped swinging at anything that wasn't right down the middle. And so basically he has gotten to the point as a hitter where he ignores everything that isn't the perfect pitch for him to hit.

And as a result, everything he hits, he's absolutely squaring up. He's barreling. He's destroying the ball. He and Otani both have there every time you see, like if you see judge singled in a game, click on the, on the MLB app, click on the on the hit and you will see that it has a one hundred and twelve point six mile an hour exit velocity. Like everything he hits to wherever it goes, he is absolutely rocketing. It does help that he's larger than Gronk.

He's six seven two eighty five and he is the strongest. He's Paul Bunyan. So that helps. But it is phenomenal what he's doing. I hate, I hate admitting this, but the guy is an other worldly hitter. And I, I don't think you can totally make, he's certainly not having a better year,

even though he plays the field than Ohtani, and Ohtani is only hitting because he doesn't play great defense. He plays an important position, but he doesn't play it super well. His base running is not elite. His speed is not elite. He has 10 stolen bases and hasn't been caught. But you could potentially make that argument. I don't think it would hold water because all in all, Otani's

offensive skills are more well rounded and more elite than judges. I'm guessing Nablack had 20 in one of these years. I'm guessing Knobloch had 20 in one of these years. I'm guessing Bernie did. I'm going to guess the other 2000 Yankee is Bernie. It's not two strikes. Two strikes on Mike. Sure.

Yeah, I'm going down. I'm not winning this one. Yeah. Anyone listening to this is absolutely shocked. At this point, I've lost track Chris two strikes. I have to strike Mike has two strikes and I have one strike. Well this happened I don't know but I feel great. I this is the best. This is the best I've ever felt playing one of these games dad. I'm no longer. Sorry, and this is another random I might lose here. I'm just gonna let's do this have fun

Giants oh to rich are really a All right, Chris has been eliminated. God, I was so- That's a good guess. I went from winning to losing. All right, let's see if I can keep it going. I'll go 2003 Marlins, Luis Castillo. It's not Luis Castillo.

It's not, damn, all right. I can think of the others who I think it might be. We're basically playing name the lineup from the Marlins, right? Yeah, name the lineup. That's exactly what it is, because I'm going next after that. If Mike gets this one wrong, I... Is it? OK.

There's only one other good hitter in that team, and it's Troy Gloss. So I'm going to say Troy Gloss. It is Troy Gloss. Damn it. Oh, damn it. Now the pressure is back on. I have four strikes. All right. Troy Gloss.

I... Why can't I think of who the 2002 Giants would have been? It's obvious. I know. Yeah, 2000. That's what I was going to say. All right. So I'm just going to stick with it.

2002 Giant, Jeff Kent. You lose there. You go to me into it. This is you confirmed me. Oh, all right, Mike, if you could get one right, you win. If you get it wrong, I'm still alive. I mean, the only, 2009 is the only title A-Rod had, so I'm gonna guess A-Rod.

It's not A-Rod. Yes! It's wrong! Eliminated, can I just keep playing? I wanna play this game. I wanna play. Can I play? Everybody has three strikes,

we'll do sudden death right now. We all tied. All right, sudden death. There are two teams in baseball in the second half that to me have been the best stories. It's my Detroit Tigers who we've already mentioned and it's the San Diego Padres. Of those two teams, I give you the Detroit Tigers, I give you the San Diego Padres. Which run has impressed you more? They both come with a little bit of an asterisk to me. The Padres are this sleeping giant who accumulated over the last five years an enormous amount of talent.

They made a huge number of trades. They stockpiled out. They signed a bunch of free agents. They've spent a billion dollars and they had just underperformed. They let Soto go, which was a really insane thing to do. And people were sort of like, oh, I guess they're waving the white flag on this group of guys. Tatis missed 80 games because of the suspension

and various injuries. It's just been this kind of cursed franchise. But it seems like what has happened is simply that everything just started clicking the way that I think they thought it would three or four years ago. So it's not like they came out of nowhere. They have enormously high price free agents up and down their roster.

The Tigers on the other hand, have no one. The Tigers have no one. They have Tarex Gubel who's going to win the Cy Young and he's great, but like name another guy on the Tigers, on your favorite team, the Detroit Tigers. And the weird thing about them is they have a couple of super prospect the guys like Spencer Torkelson was like the number two prospect in baseball. Guy's done nothing, right? He's not he's not good. Like and it's like a weird optical illusion when you look at their team stats because they don't seem to have anyone who's actually playing that great and yet here they are controlling

their own destiny and so I think they're the better story the asterisk though I will say is that this wouldn't be happening without a corresponding collapse by their AL Central brethren which is very sad because I want the Royals to make the playoffs. The Twins are always a kind of scrappy underdog team that I root for to make the playoffs, even though inevitably they just meet the Yankees and get swept in the playoffs. But that's the one thing you can kind of hold against the Tigers is that this would be a fun story, not a playoff run if it hadn't been for the collapse of the twins and the Royals at the exact time that the Tigers were surging.

Couldn't agree with you more. It's Parker Meadows coming up and performing. It's Kerry Carpenter, who has the third highest slugging percentage in the league with a minimum of 250 at bats behind Ohtani and Judge, which doesn't make any sense. Jackson Jobe gets called up. 10 of their 26 guys on their 26 man roster are rookies. It would be a really, really cool story. And finally here, Mike, I gotta end it here. We're at the moment, you know, just several days out

from the postseason starting. So I'm gonna put you on the spot. Who is your prediction to go to the World Series from each league and who is your prediction to win the World Series? Look, there's two possibilities. One possibility, which I would love to see is that Otani keeps doing what he's been doing

and like carries the Dodgers through and just has a David Ortiz 2013-esque playoff run. That would be great. But I think the more likely scenario just playing the odds is that it's the Brewers or the Padres or the Mets in the National League and that it's the, I don't know, the Guardians or some wildcard team from the AL kind of sneaks in and maybe it's the Tigers. Maybe the Tigers just go on a crazy run. I think that is the more likely scenario

than one of the big dogs taking it all. I'll tell you this, if the Tigers make it to the World Series, I will indeed be at a game. That will 100% be happening. 100%, you can join. Tigers Brewers would be a really fun World Series. Ridiculous, oh my God. All right, let's hope for some good baseball.

We've got some good baseball coming down the stretch. Several great games going on this weekend, but we have to finish our trivia game now with Chris Cody. Chris, you're up. How's it not Jeff Kent? That's great. Who was good for them? JT snow. I was like, I had it in my brain and it left. I was like, Oh, so Chris is back in the sudden death. Jeremy, this is a am I gonna now come in this has been a rollercoaster of emotions All right, I'm sticking with my Marlins 2003 Marlins Pudge Rodriguez. It is Pudge. Oh, thank God whoa

Do we have one more time we get all three now? No, there's no there's still one more How have we not guessed their best player? We didn't get Louie We don't we don't have that we don't have the 2009 Yankees still, right? Cause I guessed A-Rod and that wasn't it. No, we don't have the 2000 Yankee, another 2003 Yankee, a 2004 Yankee, and a 2009 Yankee. I think 2009 is Jeter. 2009 is Dark Jeter.

Oh my God. All right. So then I feel like, all right, Chris, you're up. Pretty good player. I mean, I'm just gonna let's go for all of it. Oh, for cheaters. Oh, for knocking. Yes. Yes. Oh, spectacular. OK. All right. Oh, my out has this. Yeah, you're out. You've been out.

I was back in, though. Yeah, we're all out. Everybody's out. This is just for fun. To 2000 Yankee Chuck Knoblauch. Not Chuck Knoblauch. I think he guessed that. So now each of us have been eliminated. Mike, you can get eliminated one more time. Or win.

Or win, I guess. What's your guess? Do we guess? Paul O'Neill, 2000 Paul O'Neill. It's not Paul O'Neill. Did we guess that? All right. Nobody wins.

This is turning into a soccer draw soccer draw. This is a disaster Ruben Sierra 03 I'll run through it 2000 Tino Martinez The 2002 giant Kenny Lofton what what? Whoa, even think of him being on the Giants in 2000 I did not he was on the Giants that went to the World Series? 03 clearly is Miguel Cabrera. We just didn't say it. Nope.

Mr. Marlin, Jeff Konan. Yeah. Oh God. And then Bernie Williams was the Yankee. Oh, okay. 2004, the last person that you guys missed, it was Hideki Matsui this year. Wow.

In 2004. I had the right guy in the wrong year. That's amazing. What a, this was a great game. Really good game, Taylor. Well done. That prepares us for the postseason and we'll have more pitch clock coming up this postseason. So can't wait for it. Mike, thanks for joining us. My pleasure.

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