The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: A Little Humility Goes a Long Way, Bobby

Episode Date: October 10, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Chris, Billy, Mike, Roy, and Tony. The crew was able to make it in-studio despite weather concerns, and we begin the show by taking a look at some of the images coming out of our state of Florida after Hurricane Milton made landfall yesterday. Then, it's time for some baseball. Fransisco Lindor and the Mets are a loveable underdog story with a bagillion dollar payroll headed to the NLCS, Bob Costas is getting ripped on social media for sounding bored during Yankees-Royals, and phed up Phillies phans. Plus, Dan has been reaching out to Rece Davis to discuss his touchdown call in UM-Cal, so why hasn't he responded? Is it because Dan wants to bring him on the show just to rip him? Help out Hurricane Milton victims with food on the frontlines: Give what you can to World Central Kitchen at Donate.WCK.org/LeBatard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Wow. That's why I directed the question right at you. There was no confusion about where the question was headed. It was, Billy, what's your problem with George Brett? What's my problem with George Brett? That's why I directed the question right at you. There was no confusion about where the question was headed. It was Billy, what's your problem with George Brett? He did say Billy. Really no need to repeat my question there. Well, I don't have a problem with him, but America has a problem with the fact

that George Brett is being showed more than the baseball games are in this situation. So you're watching the games, but you're really watching a George Brett interview that's being interrupted with you know playoff baseball. Which by the way let's play a game called toss out the stats. Oh I love that game. So toss out the George Brett stats you know what I mean? Toss out the 305 career average the 3100 hits that he has, toss out the MVP that he had,

toss out the gold glove he can keep, but toss all that out. I'm tossing it all out. Yep. Yeah, toss it all out. Toss out the 13 All-Star game. Right. Toss out the Silver Sluggers,

toss out the 1,500 RBIs. Are we tossing out the World Series? Toss out the World Series. Okay. You let him keep the gold gloves though. He can keep that one. You can just say toss it out once and then list a bunch of things. Yeah, but that would not be the efficient Billy that we've come to know and love.

Well, toss out those stats. What has he done? Got angry at umpire during the uh... Exactly right. A temper tantrum. You toss out all the stats, what has he done? Just really a temper tantrum. So why are we dedicating so much time to him? The gold glove he can keep, and this is the bone that I would pick

with the gold glove that he won in 1985. Pick that bone. In 1985, that's when the gold glove meant something, okay? Gold glove doesn't mean anything anymore. Back then, the 1980s, that was prime gold glove season, and he only won one. That's when you need to start racking up the gold gloves. You only won one gold glove in the 1980s.

Are you a Hall of Famer? And we toss out all the other stats. What has he actually done? How many gold gloves did Ozzy win? Great question, the wizard. Roy just whispered in my ear something that was very weighty and baritone. He just said hemorrhoids.

He had hemorrhoids? Yes, George Brett just said hemorrhoids. And. He had hemorrhoids? Yes. George Brecht. Toss him out. Famously had hemorrhoids. It's hard to do. Ray Roy. Can you guys tell me please,

why does one pick at a bone? I don't know why bones are indeed picked. Because they're still meat on the bones. Yeah. Yep. We gotta get it. I also wonder why we use the phrase sneeze at it. Like's nothing to sneeze at I was wondering about that earlier this week I actually wrote it down because someone said or started to say that something was to nothing to sneeze

I think of the big dog on the way in today. Oh wow Bo camper that I heard say it no I heard it today on our show Bo camper was on today He's on every Thursday with the big dog power our dog. I mean Kim Bo camper and Joe Rose were on this morning. Yep. Yep together talking about how great traffic was It's a throwback to when gold gloves meant something Put it on the pole at Levitard show Did gold gloves mean something really mean something back in 1985? And also I wanted to ask all of you,

because I think the reason they're talking to George Brett all the time is because they're trying to figure out ways to talk about the Kansas City Royals, and I want to ask all of you, who is the second most famous Kansas City Royal? Howe Morris. Patrick Mahomes. Wow.

Eric Hosmer. I would say Buddy Biancalana. All right, good talk. Sal Perez is the new royal? Yeah, he's always gonna be a royal. He's still there good Sal Perez is out. Yeah, he's always 2040 that's the one I know Dana. I had that moment like three weeks ago. I'm like Salvador Perez is still 31 usually they're at first base by now This is the down labor tourattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings.

Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. StuGuts comes waddling in today and by way of greeting before good morning says to me, you want terrible things to happen to the climate. I mean, you put yourself there, not me. You have positioned yourself as the guy who is rooting for a city to fall into the ocean.

I mean. I am not rooting for that in any way. I am. Dan, Dan. If a city would fall into the ocean, it would make your argument stronger. If so facto, everybody be listening to you more on climate stuff instead of yawning. And it would make you right,. Ipso facto, everybody be listening to you more on climate stuff instead of yawning.

And it would make you right, which is as you know, the most important thing. I would say the preserving of life is slightly more important than me being right. How slightly are we talking? Put it on the poll, at Lebatard Show, would Dan Value being right over people dying at Lebatard Show? What if we got both? What if it became an Atlantis situation Dan value being right over people dying at Lebatard?

What if we got both? What if like it became an Atlantis situation where a city magically then became underwater but that people like grew gills and they could live in it? I really don't understand what you guys think I'm being right or wrong about when there were 17 tornadoes yesterday. I'm not making up

that number, that's the number. And the the weather center here that's always giving severe weather warnings gave more of them yesterday than they ever have. And we're the unscathed part of Florida. Like basically nothing happened. I drove down here and there wasn't rain, there was a lot of branches in the streets and stuff, but South Florida or the places I was in, I don't know if you guys were and there wasn't rain there was a lot of branches in the streets and stuff but south florida or the places i was in i don't know if you guys were affected in any way there was some wind and some things knocked over on my balcony but it was very mild compared to the

the roof blowing off of tropic hannah field and i'd have no idea what's coming in the coming days of whatever it is that sarah soda is going to look like once uh... once we have something more than drone footage? We got away easy. South Florida did, no question about it. The drive in today was a breeze. I'm saying, like Dan, the easiest drive I've ever had, but we were lucky and we do have no idea

because when you're watching that hurricane coverage where they can't take you to, because the water has mounted up so high, they can't take you really inside the streets that have been flooded and so we have no idea to your point actually what happened and how bad it was for the rest of the state I'm assuming though that it was pretty bad. I have a pretty good idea I've got some of the footage I've seen and when I went to bed last night more than 2.3 million people had lost power so at the very least some people are going to be

inconvenienced and I assume there will be death and I don't want to undersell warnings about death as I feel like I'm you know living in the middle of unprecedented climate times because you guys tell me if you have seen that many tornadoes in South Florida, I'm sitting here worried about hurricanes, I'm worried about wind and flooding, and here are tornadoes all of a sudden that I just hadn't accounted for that are just sort of coming in before the hurricanes do.

Have you guys seen that before? Like I've seen occasional tornadoes, not 17 of them. Yeah, I always know that tornadoes are associated with hurricanes this was I think they were saying they hadn't really documented this many associated with a named storm hitting Florida I think the thing too is like actually seeing the tornado right like we hear about tornadoes like oh there was a tornado in West Hollywood you know okay whatever but when you see the visual of it down I-75 it's an actual tornado like if it's from twister that's where

we i feel like i haven't seen those before here i associate that and i know there are tornado warnings and severe weather warnings all the time in south florida but i associate that with a different part of the country this is not i also don't associate generally with hurricanes forming this way this quickly and doing what this one did in the Gulf of Mexico where it flies from Mexico over to the west coast of Florida. Like that's not something- Yeah west to east, generally not the move. That I'm used to seeing as well.

But I'm curious about this part of it for many people who don't want to hear me talk about climate anymore and want to hear me talk about climate anymore and want to hear me talk even less about politics. So I'm in the middle of this yesterday and I'm watching on television as Joe Biden is really struggling to just read, like really struggling, cannot make me feel soothed at all that I've got the leadership that I need during a time of crisis as he's yelling about Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that they are controlling the weather So I assume that they is the transgender and I'm not sure all the time, but they are controlling the weather and

That no, I'm no controlling the weather and that. No, no. I don't think it was trade gender. I know, Mike, I know. Oh, okay. I know. Well, I'm sorry. Joe Biden is saying.

Spring in action here. We don't know. Joe Biden is saying that that is ridiculous and stupid and I feel not soothed at all by the fact that he can't read. He's old and he's tired and he can't soothe me at all. He can read, he's just struggling to read with age. Let's't soothe me at all. He can read. He's just struggling to read with age.

Let's be clear. I mean, the guy can read. Stugats. In a time of crisis, when I'm looking for the soothing of leadership, he was having all sorts of difficulties with speaking words that he was trying to read. But this as Donald Trump is on the flagrant podcast with Andrew Schultz and they're running circles around him just laughing in his face is all they're doing and our leadership has to go on this podcast in order to try to appeal to a younger demo and look at what happens

here. This is what our leadership is doing as Florida is being assaulted in all sides by weather that is bought by the oil companies. I have a hard time doing it to them because I'm basically a truthful person. But frankly, no, but frankly. That's a basic. No, but frankly. It's a qualifier of basically, right?

You have a lot of caveats there. You have a lot of room for explanation, a lot of caveats there you have a lot of room for explanation along room for exploratory measures Just laughing in his face man that office used to mean something before he disgraced it this way like going on with Podcasters so they can laugh in your face about being truthful That's unbelievable that a guy with that mustache would laugh in your face about who you are. Oh relax on the mustache Do you not feel like you're in the middle of something that you have not seen before yes or no I've seen bad leadership, and I've seen storms hit, Florida So and I've seen those two things happen simultaneously. I don't think this is unprecedented Yeah, I mean I'm with you. I've never seen a guy hit so many big home runs

than Francisco Lindor. I mean, I am in the middle of something special. Do you think you can recognize a picture of him now? I don't know. Francisco Lindor, the coolest thing to me about that Grand Slam yesterday is the way that he rounded the bases as if he expected it. Confidence. He was so bad for them last year. He's been so bad for them since signing that contract and Francisco Lendor hit an enormous home run.

He feels like the MVP of the league ever since they moved him to the leadoff spot and he hit it with such a relaxed Stugats emotion. Yes. When he's rounding the bases, and I'm expecting Stugats, you've seen this from Pete Alonso and others, they hit the big home runs and they round the bases with a great deal of emotion. And Francisco Lindor rounded these bases as if this was the most casual stroll and unexpected thing he's ever seen

as the announcers do all the Hispanic for him I feel that's cheating at the end to just sort of sing your way out of the call. Whatever the Dracula guy. Is that the same guy or is that a different guy? Different guy. Lindor's been okay since, you been okay since he became a Met. First year he was actually pretty good, but he did round the bases like he expected that from himself with max confidence.

It was great to see it. Somehow the Mets are this lovable, scrappy underdog with the highest payroll in baseball. Stugat, Lindor, since he's been there, since signing that contract, has been a far lesser player than the one that he was in Cleveland until the last three months. Well, what he's done the last three months is legendary. What he's done the last three weeks is legendary.

He was top 10 in MVP voting last year though. Danny was, you want a silver slugger? I mean. Look at how his career started with the Mets and what it is that he was struggling with and what it is that they thought they were buying when they brought him over because he has been the face of their underachievement before this recent success and I'm a little floored to see him rounding the bases as if they're just getting started in New York with this stuff. How do you guys feel about seeing Giancarlo Stanton behind only Babe Ruth in terms of

number of home runs he hits per at bats in the postseason? He's one home run every nine at bats in the postseason. Only Babe Ruth is better in the history of the postseason. It just shows how stupid baseball stats are and how you can manipulate the numbers to tell you anything is the greatest thing you've ever seen. Like last week or the week before, we were saying Pete Alonso hit one of the greatest home runs in the history of baseball.

And then we were outside at the table today before the show just talking about the Mets and they were saying Francisco Lendor's home run was better than Pete Alonso's home run. So like in a week and a half, the Mets are single-handedly sweeping out all of the historic home runs in baseball history in the eyes of people watching the postseason right now,

which is just an incredible, I would urge everyone who's missing the postseason, tune in because what we're watching right now in the eyes of the people who sit in the table outside are the greatest things that have ever happened in the history of the game. Guys, starting to watch a little postseason baseball, now getting into it.

Okay, so the most baseball the most baseball scene all season saw the first three innings of Dodgers Padres Dano show Hey, oh Tony Dan fourth before last night 14 to 17 with runners in scoring positions 15 to 17 hit a nice little Well, it wouldn't be 14 and 17 and then 15 and 17. 15 and 18. It would have to be 15 and 18. Yeah, that kind of thing.

There's a walk in there. Sometimes that doesn't count. Tony, get this. Yeah, that's you. Shohei pitches also. No, no, I know that. He had a little Tommy John, which is why he couldn't pitch.

A little Tommy John. Little Tommy John. Not a big Tommy John. Little Tommy John. Little Tommy John. Just a little Tommy John. May make an appearance this postseason. Keep an eye.

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You have actively played defense against me today in a way that has rarely been this undercutting. Stugats. Defense wins championships, baby. That's show business. This is the Don Lebatard show with. Stugats! Defense wins championships baby, at show business. This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats! Billy do me the favor when going through all of baseball history not to just quote the Fuentes brothers as... Oh no, Ethan was involved in this too. As the people who who can tell you that the Lindor home run in the sixth inning is bigger than the Alonzo one

that ended up being unlike any homer in the history of the sport. And we're saying it was one of the biggest home runs in Mets history, not one of the biggest home runs ever. Those are two very different things. Not what that table was saying. Yeah, I know. Dan, you do it in New York,

it automatically becomes one of the biggest home runs in baseball history. That's how it works. Yeah, I mean, Joe Carter, you know, that guy. He did it in New York, it automatically becomes one of the biggest home runs in baseball history. That's how it works. Yeah, I mean, Joe Carter, you know, that guy. He did it in Canada. Yeah, but they weren't losing. They weren't down at the time. You're the only one who remembers that. If you remember correctly. Okay, Stugats, go ahead and give me all the biggest home runs in New York history. Can you give them all to me, please?

All the ones Lindor has hit in the last two weeks and Peter Alonso's. Go ahead, give me all the others. I'm waiting for them. I mean, you want Yankees and Mets or you just want Mets? Regular season count because Cliff Floyd had one in there. You're saying that the only home runs that matter are home runs that are hit in New York.

Yes. I want you to give me all these home runs that you're speaking of. I know. I'm filibustering for you so you have time to think of them. I'm filibustering for you, so you have time to think of them. The Mick and the 55 playoffs against, I think it was,

it wasn't the Red Sox. I can't remember who he hit it against. But it doesn't matter. He hit it in New York. I don't think you have to, you don't have the year right. Look it up. I mean, you guys look this up for me. Yeah, but the problem is.

Sounds right. Didn't Joe DiMaggio hit one that landed on a subway or something and never landed, technically, so it went 8,000 feet? Of course, Reggie Mr. October had three homers in a World Series game. Oh, yeah. Trish Chambliss.

Trish Chambliss, great first baseman. Marked down as a great dismissal, Roy offering up Joe Carter and Sugat saying, you're the only one that remembers that not a single American remembers that the Piazza home run post 9-eleven that's a huge one by the way quick update on the Mick 1955 playoffs he was hurt which is why the Brooklyn Dodgers were able to win 56. Get my years mixed up. Yeah.

The Mick is what he just wanted to say. He didn't know the year, the home run, the series, the opponent, the city. He didn't know anything. He didn't get anything right except the Mick. That's all he had in the holster. People are mad. Another one of these subjects, Stugance,

that agitates me because I perpetually am bothered by the way in modern times the expertise or the resume of truly historic people is sort of dismissed by people who arrive Johnny-come-lately and will tell you that they are really mad right now at the way that bob costas calls baseball games uh... the internet is furious bob costas made a couple of mistakes last night one of them was having a uh... a single that he called that wasn't a single because it was caught by the shortstop and uh... i suffer a little bit when al michaels is one of the great broadcasters of all time he's also in

his eighties and his lack of enthusiasm on calls is something that people are noticing on amazon as he's getting paid a lot of money we do not allow many of these people to age with grace or on their terms the espn does a good job of it with Dick Vitale and with Lee Corso but mostly will run you out of the game and so Billy what's been happening here on the internet with Bob Costas because for the last couple of years people are really bothered by the way he's calling baseball games when he's always been a

great baseball broadcaster by consensus by other broadcasters who are great at broadcasting. Well he's been really bad this series. Like he sounds bored at times, he seems to openly be rooting for the Yankees at other times. People are not happy with Bob Costas and his general lack of enthusiasm, his, you know, perceived biases,

which by the way, we can all agree, Bob Costas, if we go back in time, was rooting against the Marlins in 1997. It was rooting for Cleveland. Yes he was. I don't think there's anyone on earth that can argue the opposite of that. Everybody knows that Bob Costas, if we go back in time, was rooting against the Marlins in 1997. It was rooting for Cleveland. I don't think there's anyone on earth that can argue the opposite of that. Everybody knows that Bob Costas was rooting against the Marlins because he's this hoity-toity

baseball purist that didn't want a team in Teal to be winning a championship, and he didn't want a team in Miami winning a championship. So that's just, you know, I'd love to feel bad for old Bobby, but I don't, because of the way that he brutally treated my Marlins in 1997. He has what's coming to him.

I thought when he got double pink eye that that's what his punishment was gonna be for being so biased and so brutal and so nasty to the Marlins, but no, now it's this, a public downfall, and I couldn't be happier. He has what's coming to him. Wow.

Yeah, what? Did I say something wrong? He treated the Marlins poorly. Yeah, that one time, and I'm sure every other team out there can say the same thing about Bob Costas. A lot of people feel this way. A little humility goes a long way, Bobby.

That was said in a way that didn't feel humble, calling him Bobby. Really? Yeah, it didn't feel humble. I wouldn't say it wasn't humble, I'd say it wasn't respectful. Okay. I mean, they feel similar. They feel, calling Bob Costas Bobby. Yeah, it did. I wouldn't say it wasn't humble, I'd say it wasn't respectful. Okay. I mean, they feel similar.

They feel, calling Bob Costas Bobby. I'm sure he was called Bobby in grade school. If anything, I'm reaching out to him as a friend, I would say. So 65 years ago, you're referring to him as, what he went as seven years old instead of 72. Yeah, you don't think, actually, you know what? If we're gonna be honest,

Bob Costas, when he was a child, made people call him Robert, right? Like for sure, gonna be honest Bob Costas when he was a child made people come Robert Right like for sure like Robert Q. Costas or whatever his middle name is a hundred percent He never wanted to be Bobby. I'm surprised he even allows people to call him Bob Put it on the pole, please juju at LeBatard show in grade school. Did Bob Costas make the other kids call him Robert? Because this is part of what it is that's happening about people enjoying the downfall. People enjoying the criticism of this person. I'm always confused. I don't think you've heard. Correct me if I'm wrong. Is this, have you guys heard me do a lot of criticizing

of broadcasting and broadcasters? Like over the years have you heard me get insane with anger at the way someone is calling a game because broadcasters are somehow some of the most polarizing hated figures in sports Joe Buck I don't even get it I don't I have no understanding of how it is people feel about Joe Buck the problem with you is you watch all these games on mute so you're not listening to the broadcasters. So therefore, why would you rip a broadcaster? I mean, sound down. Yeah, baby.

I did run Tony Fiorentino. You guys got that guy fired. Out of the Heat organization. It wasn't you guys. He's still there, by the way. The coach is still there. Yeah, he's a community leader. Yeah, he's coaching.

He'll always be there. Clinics, though. He's not doing it. Family. Give him back to the kids. That's a good one. I did actually get mad at Tony Fiorentino quite a bit. You got me cornered on that one.

That is one that I did get angry about. Other side of the coin, big Tommy Tide guys. Huge. I've been trying to reach Reese Davis all week to talk about the shift that he pulled last Saturday, Cal and the University of Miami, where he worked from, I'm guessing before 4 a.m. I'm not, I think that he was probably up earlier than 4 a.m.

You're right, they had a 2.30 a.m. call time local. So 2.30 a.m. and then he's calling from 7 to 10 p.m. West Coast time, Pacific time, he's then calling the University of Miami game because the, was it Dave Fleming called that sick? Yeah, he found out essentially two days before the actual game. He didn't really get to take meetings with Mario Crisaball.

He had to do a crash course to prepare. And if you watch college game day, his voice was already starting to go during college game day. He sounded like he was under the weather, and then by the time the game rolled around, I heard, because I was at the game, I couldn't hear the broadcast,

that his voice was kind of wearing it. Oh my God, so Mike doesn't know what I'm about to play for him in a number of different ways, because I did call one of the things that we're about to find for you the single worst touchdown call I've ever heard in all my time listening to sports

even as I find it understandable. Just to be clear you reached out to Reese Davis because you wanted to talk about your thoughts of him having the worst touchdown call in the history of the sport. I wanted to talk Mike, I wanted to talk about this call here Mike. I'm gonna tell the audio audience when the score is in this touchdown. Mike hasn't seen this. Mike you're going to be amazed by this touchdown call that starts the comeback for the University of Miami when they're down 35-10. ["The Rocks!" crowd cheering and cheering continues.]

Score. ["The Rocks!" crowd cheering and cheering continues.] Whistles. ["The Rocks!" crowd cheering and cheering continues.] And they signal the touchdown. Whistles And they signaled the touchdown Martinez gets it in poor guy whistles in his defense That didn't feel like it was any sort of meaningful touchdown in the moment It was probably met with a proper amount of fanfare. 35-17.

It didn't feel like that was gonna matter. You say in his defense, I'll say in his defense, have you any idea what it's like to learn three hours beforehand, hey, you have to know all of the University of Miami's offensive linemen. You need to know the names of all of these numbers out there.

It was like Boog calling South Korean baseball games during the pandemic from a closet in his house. I just want to hear Reece talk more. Martinez, and then the flip out, and Arroyo gets into the end zone. That's a good player. Elijah Arroyo. First round of it.

And the game is tied. that was like the big tying call well I was okay Mike is that proper enthusiasm no he didn't exactly meet the moment and the game is tied he was totally. It's tied! And I'm tired! And the game is tied! That's pretty misery. Sounds like the away team broadcasted it. He was broken!

And the game is tied! So Billy's enjoying the Bob Costas comeuppance. No, I'm not enjoying it. I would not root for someone else's downfall. That's not in my nature. What? I'm just reporting the news as I see it.

People are not happy with what's going on. I like his voice on baseball. I don't care if he's making mistakes. Bob Costas, for me, means your game is a big game, and I just like hearing his voice on baseball. I can deal with the mistakes. I like his voice. Like the Al Michaels effect, kind of the voice. I like the way, yeah.

Like the Al Michaels effect, kind of the way, because people throw that at him sometimes, not interested in it, but his voice though, it just hits. Yes. Stugats though, I'm telling you that when I'm, and this has been happening for a couple of years now, I have not seen social media reaction like this for any other broadcaster. Not of this level of

passion and rage and and just general fury and it's weird for me to see it directed at this particular broadcaster because the career has been impeccable. The career of doing this it's been hard to watch how angry it is that people are getting that he would deign to desecrate their beloved sport by calling it less well than they would like it called. I would guess though, there's a number of people who are criticizing Bob who don't care about Bob's history. Didn't hear Bob in his prime. Don't know how good of a broadcaster Bob Costas was. I'm feeling like this is a good time to put in our annual request for Costas.

What do you think? Get him on the show? Huh? I mean, we get him once a year. You want him? Billy, can you email him? I don't know. This is not the time.

People don't like him. They're not gonna like us for having him on. Did you guess his middle initial because it is Q. I think we may have done a similar bit about Bob Costas and the Q in the past. If I'm rowing back and that's just one of those things got activated in the back of my brain that somehow I knew his middle name was with a Q. I'm also pretty sure we did the what's the origins of? Nothing to sneeze at who who who who Quinlan who?

Well put is that family name we could ask him if Puts in our annual request it would be one of be suspicious timing. I don't think we should do that today. Oddly enough, we did the nothing to sneeze at thing because of Rhys Davis. Wow, oh that's right. Oh, look at that. Because his call after Lou Holt's sneeze during a highlight was to say that that highlight

was nothing to sneeze at. And Lou Holt's sneeze sounded exactly like you imagined it would, like an old Ruta Baker from the 1920s honking at an intersection. Ruta Baker's always gonna make me laugh. Every time. I put it on the poll, is old Ruta Baker redundant? Because I do think once I've said Ruta Baker,

the old is baked in. Anything that Henry Rowan Gardner's manager called him in the cult classic Rookie of the year is okay in my book. The Q as a middle initial is the most obnoxious way to go. Is it not? Garden Hosa! Rosenbagger! Hey, it's Mike. I'm talking to you from the road right now because I am literally traveling to

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Alright, the right arm goes up into the air. Hyah! And then you finish it with a punch. The right arm flings way up into the air. Hyah! Hyah! And you finish it with a karate. I wish I could see that. It's terrible. The audio is great. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the StuGuardz.

I want to ask you guys this as it relates to some of the blowback that Bob Costas is getting, because I recognize it, because I too can appear to be sanctimonious and I can give off a whole lot of strident or I know more than you so I sort of recognize when this kind of personality type isn't liked very much but when you think of broadcasters who you enjoy criticizing when they fail or when they stumble around because you think they're giving off I'm better than you, what's the list of those media members? Stugats is an everyman. He connects with people because he is like fandom.

Who are the broadcasters who are giving off? I want to hate that person because I think there's a pomposity baked into the broadcast that I don't like and so I particularly enjoy, Whittingham has some of this. I enjoy when Whittingham fails or stumbles because he knows how good he is at it and so when he's less than good at it, I enjoy him being humanized and humbled. Those might just be the two.

Quinlan Irish Irish origin So it's Bob and winning here. I mean Cost is for sure on the top of that list cuz then he starts like sermonizing about this and then you're like buddy Just get to the ball. What's the count to one count? Come on? Let's play Reese Davis reacting with good ad-lib to exactly the way you imagined Lou Holtz's cartoon sneeze would sound. Also mentioned Amir Abdullah. Now Marshall, usually it's all Rakim Kato who did throw a touchdown pass in his 40th. Devin Johnson put up 272 yards

that's a Marshall record nothing to sneeze at. Craziest part about that clip is recognizing that Amir Abdullah is still in the NFL. Crazy, yeah. That is Reese's finest moment. I mean. I want to play the whole thing again, because my favorite part of that, my favorite part of that, OK, I think most of us would say the best part of that is clearly the sneeze. But my favorite part of that is that I hear it

come in two seconds early and so do you. You hear him winding up and trying to keep it down and the old man can't keep it down. So you hear the escalation and it's a little extra loud because he's unsuccessfully putting it down. Also mentioned Amir Abdulla. Now Marshall, usually it's all Rakim Kato who did throw a touchdown pass and it's all Rikim Kato who did to a touchdown pass in his 40th. Devin Johnson put up 272 yards that's a Marshall record nothing to sneeze at. Touchdown pass in his 40th. Massive buildup. We've all been there. Actually Reese's line isn't that impressive when you consider he had four seconds to prepare for it. Keem Kato, who did throw a touchdown pass in his

45th. Devin Johnson put up 272 yards. That's a Marshall record. Nothing to sneeze at. We can agree, right? We can agree that all of that was made worse by Lou Holds trying to prevent it correctly. That the sneeze wouldn't have been the disaster it was if he had just let it go from the start instead of trying to put it back in the cage. One more time. Keem Kato, who did throw a touchdown pass in his 40th. Devin Johnson put it up 272 yards. That's a Marshall record, nothing to sneeze at.

Pressure really built up there. And then we reached terminal velocity. His ears definitely popped. No doubt, but I think Dan is right. It's him trying to stifle it, which is what caused him to sneeze. If he just let it go, it would have been a benign sneeze if there was a sneeze at all.

I got to say, it's a bit of an upset here that in our crew of people and I think I could say this mathematically empirically in the history of our show Jessica has sneezed more than everyone else on our show's history combined. And she's a violent sneezer. Like it's not it is not a soft sneeze. It is something that comes from a different land and arrives here louder each time and echoes throughout the studio. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. tell me what you tell me what you tell me what you tell me what you tell me what you tell me

what you tell me You guys mentioned something being pressurized and terminal velocity you will be relieved to learn that I did find a single thing funny yesterday as tornadoes swirled all over the place and as fear gripped Florida. Here is Dugats former University

South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia waving the cock flag for everyone to see. That thank you guys for blurring out his butt. I really thought it was important. I thought the comedic effect of having his butt was better than a blurred out butt. We have partners, Dan. And there were children here yesterday. Come on, let's be grown up.

Also, Ethan's ability to know that that was Steven Garcia by looking at his ass was interesting. Well, you guys thought that that was just a South Carolina fan, and I said, I'm pretty sure that that's Steven Garcia, and then Ethan and the Fuentes brothers stopped talking about historic Mets home runs long enough to say, no, that is Steven Garcia,

that's clearly the former South Carolina quarterback. I can recognize him from his ass crack. How'd you know? Well, it was his Twitter account that he put it on. Oh, that helps. That helps. That's what I recognize. That helps, yeah.

Cheater. And I spent a lot of time memorizing the ass print of Steven Garcia since he was playing. He did play for 12 years. Yeah, that's right. That's a proud Hispanic ass. I know all of the Hispanic quarterbacks. I know when there's a Martinez running about

for a Nebraska and a Fernando running around for a California. There aren't that many of us. You're not one of them. I'm not one of what? You said there aren't many of us. Like you're one of the Hispanic quarterbacks. No, I'm just Hispanic.

I meant us as in Hispanic. I'm just making sure you realize you weren't a quarterback ever. I hadn't realized that. Thank you, Stigots. I appreciate you always sure you realized you weren't a quarterback ever. I hadn't realized that. Thank you, Stigatz. I appreciate you always being helpful in that regard. You got it. Can you guys get for me some baseball coverage that I believe the the audience will enjoy here? This is Colin Cowherd's show.

I want you guys to listen to this here and I want you guys to tell me if there's anything about this analysis that stands out to you uh... it's always good when the big major media players decide to give a little shine to the sports outside of basketball and football let's listen to uh... collin cowherd and jason mcintyre here breaking down some baseball let me tell you somethings come on the mats i know and the pod raise your business you see that that is a juicy World Series We've been waiting on Dodgers Yankees for you know who we're not mentioning the Royals. They'll probably win the whole thing Put it on the pole is Mets Padres a juicy World Series. I'll be lighting Dan. They're playing well gas bag

of the week What's wrong to take? I don't get it. Who doesn't want to burn Chief Super Bowl. It's a great alignment right there. It's never happened before. That's what I'm saying. Never happened before.

It is unlikely to happen, I don't think. I wonder today if people are criticizing the Phillies instead of celebrating the Mets. I do think it's unusual that not that long ago Stugats, they were up 3-2 looking like they were gonna go to the World Series. Philadelphia was a baseball town that felt like it was filled with uncommon electricity and then since then they have lost in five of their six playoff games that they've lost. They've scored all of though bryce harper is one of the best postseason players

ever philadelphia's fallen apart in a way that has made their fans very angry we have some of video and some audio of fans in philadelphia getting angry but i really do want to spend more time celebrating the mets than enjoying the defeat of phil, but they are going a little nuts in Philadelphia. Play that please. So there's a couple low points in my life. My dog passing away and I'm getting a grand slam. The grand slam took the cake. Courtney O'Neill was not a fan of that outcome. I feel like I might either check into AA therapy or an institute of some sort because this is crap, it's full of crap.

And she wasn't the only one. One woman told us she literally drove all the way up the east coast just to see the Phillies lose. I evacuated from the hurricane maybe six or seven hours ago. I drove 21 hours up here and I came here. My first stop I had no sleep, no sleep. I'm here from the hurricane and my Phillies are losing. I don't know what else to say. And two guys we met had to walk home in nothing but overalls with Phillies logos. We're fed up, we're fed up. We had such great expectations and now we're just done.

I've already hit the fifth stage of grief, it's called acceptance. Acceptance that this team will not win for the next five years probably. But Courtney hasn't reached that acceptance phase just yet. And I want everyone gone. I want the bartenders gone. I want Xfinity gone. I want my best friend gone. I want them all gone.

This is bull crap. Tony, what are you laughing about? I want the bartenders gone. I want Xfinity gone. My dad was giving me crap for rooting for the Mets, and it's just like, he's like, what about the Tigers? And it's kind of like Stu Gatz's thing with the March Madness.

The Tigers are a nice story, but I don't want the Tigers in the World Series. The Mets are the perfect example right now because they have the stars, and they have that good vibes going right now. So the Mets are the team to root for here. Get out of here with the Tigers. You want big brands in the biggest games, of course. You want Mets Yankees, So the Mets are the team to root for here. You want to make it here with the Tigers. You want big brands in the biggest games.

Of course you want Mets Yankees. You want Mets Dodgers. If you can get it in the NLCS, that's what you want. I mean, I think people would want Dodgers in the World Series over the Mets. No, I'm with you. Otani is a fun story too, but it's really just like my dad was making the case and I know that it could be

Tigers versus the Mets, but it's just like, I'm done with the Tigers. Nice story. You made your hot run. Enough with you. You must have hated last year's World like, I'm done with the Tigers. Nice story, you made your hot run, enough with you. You must have hated last year's World Series then. Yeah. Rangers in Arizona?

Well, thanks for telling me, cause I forgot. Yikes, just finding out. I'm rooting for Padres, Mets. Is that when Joe Carter hit that home run? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha but we had 10 seconds left in the segment. Stu Gatz here. The most important things in my life are my wife, my children, and of course, their safety. That's why I've had Simply Safe Home Security in my house for seven years now. I want you to have the same peace of mind that I and so many listeners experience every day, which is why I've partnered with Simply Safe to offer listeners 50% off a system. Just visit simply safe.com slash DLB to claim it.

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