The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: You Know Bout That? (feat. Jessica Smetana and Adnan Virk)

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

"I went to a cookie table wedding. Zas you know bout that?" Why do people keep underestimating Amin's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets even as they continue to sting the competition? Plus, it's time for another edition of the Pitch Clock as Jeremy and Chris are put to the test on their knowledge of the 2005 World Series. Adnan Virk is back to recap last night's incredible performance by Trey Yesavage that has pushed the Blue Jays to the cusp of their first World Series title since 1993. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And BAFTA Award winner Lenny James. You're about to have a plague of outsiders descend on your town. Let me tell you this. It's got to be consequences. Mayor of Kingstown, new season now streaming on Paramount Plus. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stucats podcast. Start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, and this is start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this year start of the day.

Start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, start of the day, We'll get to pitch clock in a second here. We'll get to Jessica in a second. But the stat of the day before the injury, Lamar Jackson led the NFL with a passer rating of 130.5, 10 touchdowns, one interception. He was at the time quarterbacking an offense that was averaging 32.7 points per game. That seems like a long time ago.

Jackson, 71 wins in 98 careers starts, fifth most by a quarterback in the first 100 career starts since stats were tracked in 1950, so he's pretty good. What I find interesting, and I brought up, in fact, on the most recent episode of Football America featuring John Hamm and also Jeff Schwartz, one of those two weighed in on this subject, which is, does Lamar Jackson, given the slate of injuries that he's gone through in his career, does he need a Kobe slash Michael Jordan style mid-career adjustment? Remember, they both attacked the rim and all of that and suddenly realized I no longer

have those hops and became mid-range jump shooters to great success for the remainder of their careers. Does Lamar need to do something like that now? And what did you deduce in all of your reporting on Football America that's available on Mondays and Fridays? John Hamm and or Jeff Schwartz and I agreed that Lamar Jackson's injuries are oddly not owed usually to him running. You think it would be him getting blown up by staying on his feet for an extra stride or two too long. It's odd. His injuries, if you think back on them, you rarely see them. They're rarely captured on video and look at it and say, yeah, you see it there. It's after the game. Wait, what happened to Lamar Jack? He's got a hamstring.

It was also the one you had COVID like six times. You remember? He's got COVID again? We all just had it last week. Put it on the poll. Did Lamar Jackson that one time have COVID six times? Again, pitch clock's going to be at the end of this segment and Jessica will be in a second. But there was a big NBA night last night. It's been fun so far this season. So let's rapid fire Zaz and Amin here doing a little something on the first, you know,

a couple of weeks of the NBA season. Amin, this is a new segment called, you know about that? You ready? I'm ready, let's do it. Does it have imaging or it's just a new segment that's called You Know About that? Just music. I like it. It's like a fake, serious, right?

Amin, what a week for this, Austin Reeves. 51 points, 41 points. Last night, game winner at the buzzer at Minnesota. You know about Austin Reeves? I know a lot about Austin Reeves. I know that he's been doing a great job, Zaz, of being more aggressive. Obviously, he's a lot more opportunity. No LeBron, no Lucidantz.

So now he's got all the responsibility of carrying the offense. It's made him a more attacking player. He's getting to the free throw line a zillion times more than he ever has in his career. And it's made him a better player. I will conclude, yes, you know about Austin Reeves. I mean, the Orlando Magic. They lost the Pistons last night. They dropped to 1 and 4.

You know about that Orlando Magic? I do know about that Orlando Magic. I was watching that game last night. Look, this is something where it happens a lot with young teams. You have the breakthrough season. The good season are like, oh, here we go. We've arrived. And then reality hits you because the scouting reports have caught up

and everyone knows what you're trying to do. They so have, I haven't given up on them, but they got to figure out how to be competitive on a nightly basis. I'm going to conclude, you know about that Orlando Magic. I mean, the Bulls, 4 and O, after beating Sacramento last night, you know about them Chicago Bulls?

I know a lot about them Chicago Bulls. Billy Donovan. Donovan. There you go. Oh, I know what that doesn't seem like you know a lot about. Come on, son. Billy Donovan. put in a new offense. It's a

offense that's moving, ball movement, body movement, motion offense. They got rid of the ISO kind of stagnant basketball. They've been playing for years with Zach Levina and DeMarterosa before that. Those guys are all gone. They know they have to move the ball around and have to go through Vucevich as a passer out of the high post. It's working

really well for them. Since you stumbled with the head coach's name, I'm going to conclude you don't know about them Chicago Bulls. I mean, the Indiana Pacers, they lost at Dallas last night. Oh, and four. You know about them Pacers? I know a lot about them Pacers. I want to say other than that one blowout loss that they've had, they've been competitive in every game. Guys, they are missing a lot of people, a lot of injuries. It's not just Tyrese Halliburton.

Nemhart has been hurt. Madden has been hurt. They just cut my man, James Wiseman, to sign... That's your man? You know, that's just a pillar word. But they cut him to bring in Mack McLung because they are so star for guardplay. Hell, even Johnny Fee. Furphy, who I've been selling everybody on, he's been hurt. They've been dealing with a lot of injuries, and yet, and yet, and yet, other than that one blowout loss, they've been in every single game. All right, I'm going to conclude, you know about those Indiana Pates. I got one more for you here, I mean, Zion Williamson, back in action last night, but the

Pelicans, the 0-and-4, you know about those Pelicans? They were losing by 40 points last night. Okay, so the Pelicans are not a good roster. Zion has missed a couple of games early on but even in the games he played not quite as compelling a matchup for the other teams that we had the highlights against San Antonio

and Victor Wemayama that was cool but last night I'm putting that more on the Denver Nuggets who are amazing! This is a crazy thing I wanted to say this yesterday and I forgot gone people 10, 20 years from now they're going to look back and say oh this is when Nikola Yoko started to quote unquote

drop off no he's better than ever it's just he finally finally has a supporting cast, and the game has never been easier for him. He doesn't have to do all that stuff. He can take eight shots and dominate a game now. All right, I'm going to conclude you know about them, Pelicans, and about them Nuggets.

Congratulations, Amin. An excellent debut effort, four out of five. Also, Austin Reeves' weird week where he made both the 40-point game and the 50-point game irrelevant to me. What's going on? They used to matter, and he made both of them irrelevant in the same week. So Austin Reeves achieving, somehow tells Dan,

Like, oh, that means it's a whack now. And Aaron Gordon won a 50-point burger? That still matters. It was 10 for 11 from 3. Dan's one of those guys. Like, oh, I got this new Rolex. It's really cool. And then he sees everyone else wearing it.

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the entire game, and they were clapping at the line of Scrimmage. And the only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on Mrs. Met in my face, Macsher. All right, so that's one thing. Stugats. There are a bunch of cheaters, Dan. And you know who should be cheating? Mrs. Met on Mr. Met. And he can watch if he wants. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugats. At the end of this segment, perhaps they'll explain to you how it is that you'll explain 100 years from now to your great, great-grandchildren, how it is that a rookie defeated the modern-day Babe Ruth.

I don't have an explanation for it. Splitter with a trap door. This guy's not good. Jessica, thank you for being on with us. I wanted to get to a couple of the stories that we talked about earlier with you. The Louisiana governor saying that basically he's going to have. more to do with choosing the next LSU coach than the athletic director. Have you ever seen that happen before? Can I start by saying hi to Dave because I haven't said hi to Dave yet? And I didn't

know Dave was going to be in the studio. And I just got back from Pittsburgh, Dave, and I was at a cookie table wedding. Zaz, do you know about that? I don't. Jessica, I couldn't have been more jealous. I saw the pictures on social media and I swooned. And I have to ask you a question very quickly. Pitt Panthers, Indiana Hoosiers National Championship game. How say you? Oh my God.

Is there a single thing that Indiana's bad at this year? Genuinely asking. They're going to go undefeated, right? I know we're in it and so it's hard to sort of contextualize. The Indiana Hoosiers are the second rated

team in all the land after the remarkable Cinderella year where you figure they're going to dip back down the following year that they are, it would appear, legitimate contenders to win the whole thing is just loco as an alum from Indiana University. And yet, who would I root for if they had to play my hometown Pitt Panthers? I don't know, but I suspect it's going to be in the next few weeks. I'm going to have to make that choice. I don't know if you're going to have to decide between those. Which cookie did you take? Like, are how many of the cookies did you take? What were your top three cookie choices? I had several Buckeyes. They were outstanding. Have you ever had a Buckeye, Dan? I don't know what a Buckeye is. Several what?

You know what a Buckeye is? Oh, there are these peanut butter balls. It's peanut butter and confectioner sugar, ground together, and then frozen and dipped in chocolate. They're delicious. They are outstanding little cookies. There were over 220 dozen cookies baked for the cookie table at the wedding. So there was a outstanding variety of cookies, Dan. You would have absolutely hated it because you probably wouldn't have been able to eat any of them. I was not able to eat that many

of them either, but I still indulged and it was delicious. Food goon. What's that? What? Dan, he's a food gooner. You guys read that article, by the way, the Harper's one about gooning? Yeah, Zach Harper's. Jack Harper's magazine? It's one of the most terrifying things I've ever

read in my life. But anyways, yes, back to another terrifying thing, Brian Kelly. So the governor of Louisiana, Dan, had this big press conference yesterday. You've probably seen the clips by now. But he said that he would sooner have Donald Trump pick the new LSU head football coach than let Scott Woodward do it, who is the LSU Athletics Director. So, yeah, it doesn't seem like a great situation there. I think they'll probably be fine because it's still LSU,

and I think a lot of coaches will want to work there. But anytime the governor of the state is on the microphone saying outrageous things about your school's athletic department athletic director is it's generally not a good thing can you tell me if you've seen enough vanderbilt football to tell me how good they actually are at the top of that conference and if they belong at the top of that conference so they're very good they play texas this weekend arch manning may or may not be playing he was in concussion protocol as of recording this i don't know if he's going to play or not but i think the real test for vanderbilt uh archmanning aside is, are they going to be able to score on Texas' defense?

Because we know Texas still has a very strong defense. But if the quarterback situation, if they're starting their backup quarterback, Matthew Caldwell, who did have to play against Mississippi State last weekend, he's played at, I think, three other college football programs like Gardner Webb, Troy and Jacksonville State, I want to say. That would be very interesting. And Vanderbilt could effectively end Texas's any chance of a playoff hope this weekend. And so that's a really interesting game, especially because if you watched last year, I think Texas was a lot better last year.

Vanderbilt was slightly worse. But Vanderbilt almost pulled it off in 2024. And I think, you know, they're just a much better team this year. She knows about those Commodores. Jessica, why does the national media, including the pollsters, continue to underestimate the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, despite their ability to sting the competition? Oh, I like that. That's a good question. I think they've been in several close games.

I don't know who... Oh, I get... Okay, now I get what you're doing. Is Az in a costume, too? I'm sorry. And you can bet on that. You're very shiny and bald today, and I don't know if this is part of a thing. Damn.

I'm an ass car driver. I didn't say it looked bad. I know you didn't. I don't mean bad. Why would you say that? Exactly. Anyways, I mean, did you watch any of the Georgia Tech Wake Forest game earlier this year where Wake Forest totally got the rug pulled out from under them by the refs?

Yes, I did, and I can say that those deacons got sent straight to hell. They will not see you in Valhalla. They won't see me at Valhalla. You can bet on that. I think Georgia Tech's defense is more of the... issue. Obviously, we know their quarterback, Haynes King, is incredibly tough. And they've just played in a number of games where they're not blowing anyone out. And I think that that has given people pause. But they're still one of the best teams in the ACC. I agree with you. I think

they should get more credit. How about Haynes King ruling over the Heisman Trophy voting? How about it? I don't know about that. Have you guys talked about Brian Kelly and the burnt end story yet this week? No. I feel like this will be one of the last chances we ever have to talk about this. I think we talked about it in 2021, but I want to bring it back up because it's one of my favorite Brian Kelly anecdotes. But when he was negotiating on the phone secretly with his agent about taking the LSU job, he was at a recruits house with Tommy Reese and the former Notre Dame wide receivers coach Della Alexander in Washington.

trying to get this recruit to come to Notre Dame, and he left the house that he was at for 15 minutes, took a phone call, apparently, and then came back, and the recruit and his family had cooked Brian Kelly this huge dinner. So this is from the Columbian, which is a newspaper in Washington, but the recruits name was Tobias Merriweather. He's no longer at Notre Dame. He did actually still end up going to Notre Dame. He's no longer at Notre Dame. But his dad, Don Merriweather said that Kelly stepped out for a 15-minute phone call. Soon after he returned, the coaches and family members sat down for a home-cooked meal featuring deviled eggs. barbecue shrimp and brisket burnt ends the visit continued for another 90 minutes quote he came back in sat down and acted like it was nothing maryweather said of the phone call he was cool as a cucumber about those burnt ends though kelly had three servings maryweather said whoa three servings

burnt ends are really good that's good it's just like kind of diabolical to know that you're about to accept a job but you still have dinner with the recruits family and talk about how great Notre Dame is and then take three servings of their burnt ends. I absolutely love that story. Would you be fine with two servings? Like, what's the line here? I think two is the line. Am I alone on this? If given the choice of being a pro, if money were the same, pro or college coach, I would definitely go pro because I would hate to have to go to people's houses in January and February and sit there and eat their food and their cookies and pretend that that would be the worst experience there is. I would definitely

be an NFL coach. I think some people probably like that aspect of the job, especially if they're getting good barbecue, too, on these trips. Jessica, is Mississippi State sneaky decent? Yeah, I think they're sneaky decent. They're not going to win. I mean, they haven't won a lot of games. They've lost a lot of close games, especially. I think this weekend will be another probably close game. Arkansas, I want to say it's like a four and a half point favorite right now. and Arkansas has not won a game since earlier the season before Bobby Petrino became the interim coach. But I feel like Arkansas has also been close. They've been scoring a lot of points.

I mean, their offense is, you know, they make some mistakes sometimes that will end up losing games for them. But this could be one of those teams. Like something, this is a something's got to give game, I think, Zaz. Mississippi State is not won a conference game in two years, Jess. You know who it was against? Ooh, Arkansas? You got it. Okay.

Well, that makes sense. me the internet minute for Jessica, even though it's usually something that's for Lucy. Oh, well, time to get in it. It's... Jessica's. Internet minute. I don't even know if she has one, but go ahead, Jess. Okay, so this has come to my attention repeatedly over the last year. And we did a segment, I want to say, in 2023 or 2024, where I talked about the top five ways to spot an AI altered video of a head coach or a...

any sort of public figure saying something that they never actually said. But what we have now that is permeating, especially Facebook, are these AI slop pictures of, I see especially college football coaches with long captions describing things that these coaches have done. Usually there's something that will pull on your heartstrings a little bit. This was one I saw last year after Hurricane Helene of Brian Kelly and Garrett Nussmeyer helping people clean up debris from the hurricane in North Carolina or this was actually the North Texas floods I see but I think there was also one after one of the hurricanes but these are just like fake completely fabricated AI slot pictures and people are sharing them on Facebook and if you

read the comments the comments are all Facebook users saying like this is amazing this is heartwarming this is great and believing that they're real there was also one that I saw people were talking about that was posted this this past week with Brent Venables it's like an AI generated image of Brent Venables. It doesn't even really look like Brent Benibles. In fact, this guy, whoever he is is smoking. It's homeless. It's hot.

It's a chin I'd want. But if you read the text, I can't read it because it's too small on my screen, but if you read the text, it's like an absurd story. And then at the bottom is the New York skyline before 9-11. Dan, apparently in the Venable story,

people were protesting outside the stadium. Yes, that was it. And Brent Benetables. He started singing, God bless America. He just grabbed a microphone outside the stadium and started singing God bless God. Hell yeah, dude. I love that. Jessica. It's just absurd. I don't understand this, Dan. This is not good. Between that in the gooning story, it's been, I've saw a lot of things on the internet. I don't like this. I'm halfway through the gooning story. My God. I mean, it's shocking. Second gooning reference of the day. Thank you, Jessica.

Check out her weekly Notre Dame podcast, The Echoes with Mike Golick Jr. Vannebals is going to love that photograph of himself. He has never looked that good. Thank you, Jessica. Pitch clock. Next. That's annoying. What? You're a muffler.

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This is a good show you're doing This is the Dan Levitar show With the Stugats Halloween's tomorrow Chris You going as anything? Ah Halloween It's one of my least favorite holidays Now that I have kids

A little better Still hate it though Let's start the show Roy Halliday Nice Fiss me Matt Holiday Jackson

Holiday The third one Ethan Ethan Holiday Ethan A Black Ethan Ethan Let's start the show.

Yeah. 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. The pitch clock is back. Jack. Hi, everybody.

There it is. Thank you. Hey, World Series is happening. That's cool. Adnan Verk's going to break it down momentarily I'm writing quite a heater on our trivia games I've won back to back I'm looking to make it a 3P today

It ends today Not today Bringing us into it Not Black Ethan Ethan Bedowski Ethan What is our Trivia game today sir

Jeremy before we start Yes barbecue or hot dogs Barbecue You are going to be Houston And you are going to be Chicago My favorite video game ever is MVP Baseball 2005. It's the greatest year of baseball ever. And that World Series was won by the Chicago White Sox in four games over the Houston Astros.

In front of you are the starting lineups from Game 4 of the 2005 World Series. There are simply numbers on a page. You have to tell me the position and the name of the guy. Do you want to switch teams? I don't know. I have four on here that I feel good about. All right. Let's just, I don't.

So we're going to try three strikes. if we get into a scenario like last week, we'll go first to a number. Jeremy, it's your honor. I'll go with the only name I know, and maybe I'm right. Right fielder number 16, Carlos Beltron. That is incorrect.

You've got to be fucking shitting that. We're not. What year is this, by the way? 2005. Dude, you don't know the second baseman for the asterisk? I mean, I know who it is. I was going to go.

Actually, that might not be him. He might be retired. That's what I'm saying. I have no idea. All right. I'm really, I'm really angry about that. Left field, number 22. for the White Sox, Scott Pesedney.

Oh, what a name, Cody. Doesn't it just bring you back? Why didn't I say hot dogs? This makes me feel so good, dude. Scott Pesedney. Our ever present 2025 MLB expert is here, Adnan Verk with me as his Blue Jays. Yes, I'm saying his Blue Jays.

The Canada man himself have taken a 3-2 lead in this World Series. He's not going to put his bias aside. We're going to have this conversation, and I'm going to let you all know. that he's excited, I'm excited. It's an exciting time when someone is just one game away from winning the World Series. Adnan, I have gone on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about Trey I Savage and how incredible his start was in Game 5.

But there have been all sorts of incredible individual performances in this World Series. So I've got you prepared for this one already. I'm looking for your top five individual performances in this World Series. series. It could be from one game. It could be from the entire series, whichever structure you prefer. And then let us know what you're doing. And let's get started with number five. All right. Let's do OLI first. Freddie Freeman, just because he did hit the walkout form one in game three, which was the longest game we'd seen since 2018. And his parents are both Canadian. And they got a raucous reception back there at Rogers Center. So Freddie

Freeman's a little OLA. Hasn't done a whole lot else the series. But did hit a home run to end that claim. Thank God for six and a half hours. Love that. Number five, I'm going to Bobuchette. Jeremy, the guy hadn't played since September 6. He's been back he's getting hits virtually every game he's playing good defense he's being effective i just think what he's been able to do he was second this league and hits with 181 he was 311 average 94 ribbies but you take a month off and come back on the world series and play a position you've never played before since the minor leagues like that's unbelievable so i'm going to give some love to bo buchette collectively for that offense absolutely for himamoto listen complete game in game two the guy was

ridiculous that splitter is one the most effective pitches in baseball and he's always been a big game pitcher. Last year in the World Series, one start. Six innings, one hit, one run, only one Soto got him. Other than that, he was nails. If you look at his career in Japan, every big game I checked, he's always pitched complete games as well. There's a thought that Japanese pitchers need the extra day of rest. They don't have as much durability. That's not the case of the Alamo. He was their most dependable start of this year. He threw over 175 innings in the regular season and the postseason, in the postseason, in the postseason, in the comes back with the Giants. Number three, Otani. Specifically, the fact, if he's on base

nine times in a single game, I'll never get over that. He smashes four extra base hits, two doubles, two home runs, five walks, later pitches that night, six innings made one bad pitch to Vladie who hit the home run, and then gets chased the seventh, a little bit of fatigue and, you know, gives him a couple more runs. The stat line doesn't look as good, but it should have been six innings, two runs, and really just one hit. The guy's a marvel, a freak. What he's doing is incredible. Number two, your boy, Trae of Savage. as Dan Leavichard was fond of saying when it came to our live cast for Game 5,

327 fans who he was pitching in front of single-A at the start of the year, 327, and then he had 55,000 watching at Dodgers Stadium. 46 days after reaching his fifth level of pro baseball. 46 days, and you're pitching Game 1 of the World Series, seven innings, three hits, one run, 12 strikeouts. You've already spoken about it, absolute masterpiece. The fact that he throws that ball from a seven-foot angle,

the tilt on that ball coming down, amazing. And number one is Vlad. Tashay, there was a time people were saying this guy's not worth $500 million. Imagine if Vlad was a free agent right now. When he's done this postseason, dude, the numbers would be gigantic. It'd be $600 million, right? You'd be getting maybe it'd be sold up type money. It's been remarkable.

The contract kicks in the next year, 14 years, $500 million. He's Canadian. He wants to play for Canada. He wants to play for the Blue Jays. He has put this team on his back. It's a collection of talentless Blue Jays offense. There's no question about it. But what Vlad is doing this postseason has been a story for the ages.

He hits the big home run off Otani, the big home run last against Snell. Every single big moment, Fly Jr.'s in the center of it. So what's amazing about what you just said is that Davis Schneider plays for George Springer, hits a lead-off home run off Blake Snell. He's not on this list. And Clayton Kershaw, in his individual moment where he faces one batter with the bases loaded in that extra inning game, he's trusted for one batter, and he gets it done with a bunch of pitches at 89 miles an hour.

But let's talk about this, right? because what has stood out as the difference to you here? The Dodgers take a 2-1 lead, and now the Blue Jays go win back-to-back games in Los Angeles. How have they been able to get this done and get themselves just one game away from a World Series championship? Yeah, I think the real key of this series, as we said coming in, was the Dodgers starting pitching against that Blue Jays' offense.

Dodgers' rotation at 1.40 ERA coming into the World Series. The Blue Jays, 80.5% in terms of contact percentage, best of baseball. So they're going to put the ball in play. They'll put pressure on defense, and they don't strike out. few strikeouts in the majors. And the Blue Jays have won that battle, period. Three games in Los Angeles, they put up five, they put up six, they put up six. This offense scores runs.

They were fourth in the majors and runs scored. But if you look specifically from late April on, you know, once Addison Barger gets called up late May, once Vars shows back, because him and Santander were out, this offense was pretty much the best in baseball. So they've proven that. It's a collection of talent, like I said, up and down a lot. You mentioned Davis Schneider. It can be Andres Jimenez.

On any day, it can be a different player. whether it can be Lucas or Straw or whomever it might be. But this team hits. Alejandro Kirk's been unbelievable for them behind the plate, big hit after big hit. And their offense really has been the answer for me. I mean, it's also pretty crazy to say they're starting pitching. Like Shane Bieber outpitched Shohayotani and Trayy Savage outpitched Blake Snell.

Those are also both true, which is kind of mind-boggling. Especially with Shane Bieber coming off of the surgery. I mean, these are two guys who both did not pitch for this team until after the trade level of time. Into September, I was there for Shane Bieber. first start against the Miami Marlins when we were doing that broadcast and it was absolutely fascinating to see this guy now pitching in this big moment and having that one. And look, the things that you said offensively, it's the reason why I said on the main show going into this series, if there was a team in the American League that had an opportunity that if they got hot

and played their best baseball that could beat the Dodgers, it would have been the Blue Jays probably from the start. Is number 11 the catcher Brad Osmus? That is correct, Jeremy. You are on the board. And number, the pitcher is easy. All right, relax. The pitcher is not easy.

What number? 41. I wouldn't say so. It's easy. Okay, enough with the hints. All right? I'm trying to play my mind games with Jeremy. I don't need you.

Yeah. I've had enough mind games from him. Bottom two. Ping ponging back and forth. Right fielder, number 23. I believe MVP based off of our previous list. Jermaine Dye. Jermaine Dye is correct.

He was the World Series MVP this year. I can't shoot off your paper. You're going to see all these names here and just get inspired. What's upsetting is that I know almost everything that's there. I guess I'll go with that number seven that we were talking about. Number seven, the second baseman. Come on. Just spit it out.

He thinks he still. Okay, that gosh, it's Craigbishop. Okay. No, you really did. You got in my head. So to set this up, Jeremy. has two right and one strike. Chris has two right and no strikes,

but he is on his third guess. Paul Knurko, 14. That is correct, yes. There's a lot of, like, pretty iconic guys on this team. These names, dude, these names. I'd be so happy. Okay. Shoot, is he, does that mean he's in right field?

What's his number? That wasn't his number. Oh, I'm going to go with 16 only because I got it wrong. Is it Lance Berkman, 16 in right field? No, Lance Berkman. He's not number 16, but you just implied that he's on the field. No, he is. I know he's on the team.

Shut your mouth. I know he played in this game. Clearly 17. All right. Anyways. Now, see, I'm so bad at this. I'm so bad at this. No.

I'm sorry. You monster, because now you're in my head because you said, oh, he's clearly 17. And I thought maybe he is 17. It might be center. But he could be, but he could be 26. He had some wheels at the end of his career. I'm going to throw up again. On me?

Yeah, it's on you. I thought you were asking if I was. going to throw up on you starting pitcher 34 yeah I'm not sure which paragraph Freddie Garcia yeah that is that is correct man this team is so much easier I didn't real I thought you guys might have trouble with this team I didn't realize done no the white yeah the white socks are a lot easier so I realize two strikes that's not true I'll be cleaning up you have two strikes I can't who's number 16 bro I could literally tell you number 14 I am asking you to just take a breath all right number 14

Let me see your seat. He's revving real high right now. I'm upset. It's because he's going to end my shot at a three-peat. I'm right there. I got your third baseman. Let me see you number one. Where's Carlos Felcher?

Let's preview game six because you got Yamamoto, you got Gossman. It's back in Toronto with an opportunity for the Blue Jays to clinch the world series. Which team has the advantage in game six? And what's your expectation for the result in this individual game at, Nan? Game six is in the World Series, Jeremy, have been good for the Blue Jays. That was when Joe Carter, of course, did his famous home run in 1993. We're 32 years since the Blue Jays have won a World Series. And the easy answer is the Dodgers will win because Yamamoto has been the Terminator so far this postseason.

But I don't think you want to overlook just how good Gospon's been. Yes, Yamamoto has a 1.47 ERA this postseason, but Gossman's a 2.55. Like, he's been an absolute ace for the Jays. And that showdown in game two, both of them went six strong. Only in the seventh Gosson gives up a couple of solo home runs. Max Muncie historically his own Gospin proved that. again. And it gives up the three runs. But there's no doubt that Gossman throw a quality start, and he can match Yamamoto, excuse me, zero for zero.

Having said that, I do think Yamamoto is incredible. And I think the Dodgers are able to answer in game six, which means we are going to have a game seven. I'd love to say the Jay's win on Halloween, trick or treat. We're going to have a game seven. This year's World Series November 1st on Saturday night. So we get to November then. We're going to find out who the new Mr. November is because someone's going to have to step up and have that moment in game seven adnan ultimately here who wins the world series and and i'm just going to say it since i know you're going to go blue jays since i know you're going to do it what what would it mean to canada and to you personally to see this blue jays team win the world series even though

if anyone here is watching our live stream i ragged on ethan for asking this exact same question totally finally did that jays you're going to win in seven was my prediction i said that excuse me on canadian television uh back before game one so i'll get the tape and be sure to post it on social. I was on CTV with Nathan Downer and Michelle Dubay, and they asked me for a prediction. I go, J's and 7. So if I come right, I will gloat happily because even maybe I didn't believe it totally in my heart, but I said,

they're going to will it to happen. Like I said, Jeremy, I think that Yamamoto helps propel the Dodgers to a game 6 win, but this Dodgers offense has been lifeless. There's no question about it. It's an overrated offense. They have not scored runs, and they've been limping ever since the NLCS. They hadn't faced particularly strong pitching until this Blue Jays team, and though

I do think ultimately Toronto wins this series in 7. It does give me pause that Max Scherzer starting at game seven, a guy who had an ERA over 10 in the month of September. But look at his last couple of starts. Like Max is good enough for a four and a third couple of runs, maybe five runs, you know, five innings, three runs. And then after that, your Savage will be available for an inning or two. I think Beaver could pitch an inning or two. Chris Bassett's out of the bullpen.

Hoffman has looked good so far as a closure of this postseason. So it's going to be maybe a little bit unconventional. Maybe Max Scher pitches into the fourth inning. And all of a sudden, John Schneider will go to that bullpen. But I do think all through the Blue Jays went in seven. this is an amazing story for Canada. 15% of the population has been watching these games. 7 million for game 1,

just under 6 million for game 3, which is still shocking is the fact the game was 6 and a half hours. So again, to extrapolate this, for a country of 41 million, when I say 7 million is watching 15% of the population, Americans, there's 330 million people in this country. That's like 55, 60 million people watching a baseball game. You only get those numbers, as you know, for the Super Bowl,

which is 9,500 million. That's it. like the NFC championship game, AFC championship game, let's think 35, 40 million, maybe 45, 50. You're not topping the 60 million. That's how much it means to Canada. It's the one team in town. And certainly for me at a personal level, it's been nostalgic.

You know, I was in high school when they went back to back 1415. The Blue Jays were the epicenter of the baseball world. Everybody wanted to come to Toronto, whether you're a Dave Winfield or Paul Mulder or David Cohn. If you wanted to win, you came to Toronto. And for the Blue Jays to be 74 wins a season ago, 94 wins this year, a number one seed on the verge of beating the Dodgers. it's it's almost too much for one man to handle i'm going to say this to you adnan uh first of all good

luck taking the ball out of max scherzer's hand in a game seven yeah right john schneider if you think it was bad at game three or back in the a lcs good luck taking the ball out of his hand and everything that you just set up i mean how storybook so storybook that it could be a movie and speaking of movies, Adnan Verk, the author of Sinophile. Go buy his book. The absolute best when it comes to movies. You can watch him on MLB Network. You can follow him on social media to see him gloat if the Blue Jays ultimately win this in seven games. Good luck to you, my friend. I am not rooting for the Dodgers, but I am rooting for them in game six just so we can get a game seven so that you can be right and we can have the greatest two words in sports game seven. It's a great moment

for patriotism. It's a great movement for Toronto. I appreciate you, buddy. All right. Let's go back It came between me and Chris. Who's 41? The starting pitcher for the Astros was number 41. Okay. I don't always think about numbers. I am trying to think of guys who were on that team. And I know one pitcher who for sure was on that team,

but I don't think this is him because he would have started game one. I guess. I guessed that 16 was Berkman. Yes, you did already I'm going to I hate Or 26 I hate you

I hate you I forget I think he wore 26 on the road And 17 at home Can you do that? He may have moved to center field To late his career I remember he got like

Late his career The latent career Moved to center field He got that knee surgery And then he was It rejuvenated him They put him back in center On this deep

Why don't I remember The third basement is a deep pull I am so proud of myself for this third basement. All right. I'm going with, I'm going with 26. I'm going with 26 being Lance Berk.

I'm going to be wrong. Come on, Jeremy. He vetted to you. It was number 17. All right. Well, hopefully, have you gotten one wrong? And that's it?

You've gotten any wrong? He has not gotten any wrong. So can I finish then? Can I just finish with what I think it is? I think what we should do is we should switch teams and see if Cody strikes out. I can just call out. No, no, no, no. Everybody, I lost.

I don't want to be embarrassed more. Jeremy Lusis. 14, Morgan Endsburg. That is correct. 17 is Berkman, 26 is Bagwell? Is he still there? Bagwell was not in the starting lineup. Carlos Lee.

No, no, no, no. All right, all right. Cody, do you want to take a couple more steps with the White Sox or are you done here? Oh, White Sox. Ray Durham. No, not Ray Durham. He was a giant in MVP, and both of them were giants in MVP baseball 2005. Who's 24 at third base?

I don't really know. Joe Creedy. Juan Uribe was the shortstop. Tadahito Iguchi was the second baseman catcher. A.J. Prisinski. I should have gotten that one. Oh, yeah. And Aaron Rowan was out in centerfield. Oh, I should have got that one. On the

Astro side, Lance Berkman was in left field. Willie Tavares was the center fielder. Jason Lane was number 16 in right field. Wow. Mike Lamb, Manning, first base, Craig Bizio, what you got? Adam Everett, the shortstop number 28. Morgan Endsberg. How how great is Adam Everett and Morgan Endsberg on the left side? Willie Tavaris is a callback. This team.

This team sucks. I have no idea how they got to the World Series. Because they had Roy Oswald, Roger Clemens, and Morgan bleepin-endsburg. Brandon Backy was their pitcher in this game, and then Brad Osmiss, you got behind them. I want everyone to know, I want everyone to know that this is bull-should. This is a bullshit game, and I don't want to play this game with the field anymore. We are back. Guess what?

We only have one more episode of the pitch clock left this season. Oh, I'm going to have a good one for you guys. Should it be that I never. calculate who actually won everything and we just play one and it is to decide who the winner was of trivia. Maybe loser leaves the segment forever? I'd rather not. I'd rather keep doing it. I'll take this thing. All of a sudden, it's, we're changing the name. Just, just end the episode. Oh, the football season. Cruel beast. Sometimes it gives. Sometimes it rifts. Sometimes it

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