The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Go To Hell, Virginia Basketball

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

Today's Crew: Dan, Stugotz, Chris, Billy, Roy, Mike. The show begins by torching Virginia basketball for their putrid performance in the First Four last night. Stugotz got duped by a fake trailer for a new Rambo movie, and the crew is amazed by Antonio Brown's social media. A ridiculous video of a Miami-crypto bro emulates everything the show both loves and hates about Miami. Then, Billy and the gang react to Jazz Chisholm's interview on The Pivot in which he takes out former Marlins captain, Miguel Rojas. David Samson joins the show to continue the discussion about Jazz, then discusses Blake Snell's contract and Scott Boras losing power in negotiations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You go straight to hell, Virginia basketball. Say hi to our Pryles for me. Just take the last 10 years of Tony Bennett with you. I don't care how many championships you've gotten close to or won. Just get out of here with that style of play. Please get out of here. I know a lot of people have been writing in over the last few days to get upset with our basketball talk.

Somebody writes in, anytime they talk basketball you just have to roll your eyes. The league has never been in a better place talent wise. And the way they let them play since the All-Star break has increased the intensity of the regular season considerably. I actually agree with you. I am not critical of today's professional basketball. I like it, but people have soured on it. Not me.

I enjoy what it is that I am watching, but you cannot tell me that you don't have a discrepancy when you're watching hockey and you see how much those games matter and how much people care and we're talking about the All-Star game and basketball and how little the basketball players care during the regular season. If you're watching hockey right now, there is not a lack of caring, there's not a load management problem, there's not any of those issues that you have with the customers feeling like the players don't care as much as they do. John Wall doesn't help when he says we're not playing any defense now

and Gilbert Arenas doesn't help when they talk about all of the complaints that they have about basketball, but those complaints are not mine. However, Virginia, go to hell. Have they won a tournament game since winning the national title? I don't believe so. How long did they go last night without scoring? How many real time minutes? 52 minutes in real time without a single point. Does that include half time?

13 minutes of game time without a single point. They missed 18 straight shots? time without a single point. They miss 18 straight shots. I associate Virginia basketball with playing like that, playing but not playing games in their 40s. I will say though, Stugats before the show hits me on the back and says told you to watch out for Colorado State. And it's true, he did. The Rams out of the Mountain West, Dan. He did tell me that. But also, as soon as the microphones came on,

I still heard the echoes of what he said beforehand, which is that he bet Virginia last night. What Stu Gotts does is he's wrong about everything and right about everything because he just spreads his money and lies and words all over the place and takes everybody, picks everybody so that he can tell somebody that he had that team. I'm still trying to wrap my head around an interaction

that I had with Stu Gotts before the show where he tried to explain to me that there's a new Rambo coming out. You know, Rambo, last blood. And Roy and I kind of looked at him weird. We're like, I think that already happens to God's, no, no, definitely new one coming out, bud. And I'm like, no, I Google it real quick.

Rainbow last blood came out five years ago. Must've missed it. And he's like, no, no, no, there's a new one. There's a new last, last blood. And so like, after an initial, it's like rainbow fresh blood or something like that. No, it's new blood. After a Google search, I'm like, I see, I go down the rabbit hole and I see what Sugatse saw, which was very clearly a fake trailer made for a new Rainbow movie. So all of

his Rambo thoughts, which were initially for a movie that was released five years ago, and then he reverse-engineers the truth, which is a different way of saying lies, and we found out that he ultimately fell for a fake internet trailer. It looked good though, right? How did they get him to look 10 years younger? And all those clips from the Expendables, wow. The part about all Stugatsian things

that can be the perpetual game of whack-a-mole, because I saw that interaction, okay, and I saw all of you telling him, Stugats, we talked about all of this five years ago. Like when it was happening, we talked about all of it, but it's sort of like, I don't know if you guys saw Antonio Brown went after Aaron Rodgers on Twitter, and he says, among other things, and you guys say,

I'm the one who's bleeped up. Hashtag CTESBN for some reason. Yeah, he's definitely paying somebody to run his account lately, right? I mean, I wouldn't put it past him that these are his thoughts, but his account seems like someone's running it. Has it improved?

Yeah, yeah, and he's really leaning into the CTE SBN thing. Yeah, branding. Branding? Yeah, it's his brand now. Yeah. Is that bad? Yeah, but recently it seems as though someone else is running this account.

The part, and you made me lose my thought there because I hadn't actually considered that Antonio Brown had somebody running that account for him because it doesn't have a lot of- It is pretty quick and witty of Antonio Brown to just like fire off. And you think I'm crazy when Aaron Rodgers is in the middle of the news cycle, right?

His account is now recently seizing on topics du jour and doing internet things. That's quite the social media account to take over. If you're just like a social media person looking for work, it's like, you, hmm. Earn your money. It's the safest one though, right? Because there's nothing you can do.

Nowhere to go but up. Exactly right. What if you say something crazy and you get in trouble? Well, time to be on brand. That guy walked, his final act as a professional is taking off his uniform and walking off the field shirtless in the middle of a play. But watching you guys try to corner Stugatz on it

when it was all very clear and the way the lies continued to stack on top of each other where you're looking things up and he's telling you to look them up and you're looking them up and then he's saying no it's new i know you guys have it all wrong and he's just hoping to drown you in fatigue it's trump it it's just drown you would like to just your keep looking things up and you guys you're if you keep showing to him and saying to him

we talked about this and what i'm telling you is that still got his brain is is fried as antonio brown and aaron roger thank you it's all it's all gone it's all been it's all been used up and he's winning and i'll tell you how he's winning i'd just looked up at the left-hand corner of my screen so that's been are you on behalf in private of craig carton here for months

on behalf of craig Carton deserving a second chance. And I'm looking at my screen and Craig Carton is up here and I'm just wondering whether anybody is going to say anything to him about the fact that he reported last week that Mike Williams was going to be a chief. Is anyone going to say anything to the felonious Craig Carton about he reported as news last week? Well, it seems like you're saying something I mean, but is anyone else going to say something about it doesn't matter No, so the truth has ceased to matter in any of the endeavors were partaking in he took a stab at something He got it wrong. No, he reported it as he reported it. No, no, no, wait a minute

No, no, no, it's not attitude though And I think there are certain talents that you can just classify it as. They took a stab at something. You're worried about his credibility, are you? It was not reported as a stab, and this is why I'm telling you Stugatz is winning. Like the media is moving over to where Stugatz is.

It's not like it's moving away from that, yes. In keeping though, with me and St still gots not knowing whether things on the internet are real or not i'd like to play this video of this alleged miami heat fan because while i believe i i understand why it is that people throughout the nation would think that this is absolutely a miami heat fan i believe that this is a put on. I believe that this is an actor. This is this is not someone that I the problem is Miami is replete with people

like this. But that you tell me whether you think that this can possibly be real. What's up guys? It's Hard Rock Nick, the Prince of Florida, the face of cryptocurrency and one of the richest men in the world. I want to remind all you Boston Celtics fans that we here in Miami not only got the best weather, we not only got the best food, we not only got the best, but we're going to do exactly what we did last year, which is take out the number one seed Celtics as the number eight seed Miami Heat. Remember that last year your bitch ass lost in seven to the eight seed Miami Heat. This year we're gonna get it done in April.

All right, I want you again, please just roll that again without audio, please. I don't want to hear it and I just want to ask the audience and on a Twitter poll at LeBittard show What is the fakest thing in this video? Is it the eyebrows? Is it the teeth? Is it the eye? Lashes is it the necklace? Is it the watch the watch or is it one of the richest men in the world? Yes The watch or is it one of the richest men in the world? Yes What is happening here, please someone explain to me This he has some this this has some Pharaoh undercurrent. Yeah, Xerxes from 300 right there without the without the muscles

No, but he's one of the richest men in the world right I think this is Part bit part. No. He's just an awful Floridian as well And he's leaning in if you go to his social media accounts. He seems pretty terrible This is real. This is real this character is certainly like this could be Sasha Baron Cohen for all I know it also looks Like it could be a bald cap. I think that I should do this as a grid of death punishment It looks like it could be a bald cap. I think that I should do this as a grid of death punishment. Oh, no. You would look great. You would.

You guys always say this. You can't just volunteer to do gridded death punishments, right? The Bears aren't playing this week. He just wants to do it. I have eight penalties due. How do you have more penalties than weeks in the NFL? You really need to get on paying up, Dan.

I've tried to, I rule with an iron fist, with you I've been, it's been more of a tin foil fist, but you really gotta start paying off some punches here. I lost like 12 times last year. I feel like you dressed up 12 times last week! There is a costume basket in my house that I dread walking past every day because it's so filled with wigs and top hats

I got your 50 shades room. We've always said you had that you would have worse season than the Panthers I mean, I was really bad. I just lost all the time and as for punishments cool All right tip of the cap moving on every day You got something going on now you see this and you're inspired I think somebody needs to pay this as a grid of death punishment this dude apparently has an only fans I'm gonna do some recon okay thank you for doing a little bit of journalism back there I think it's just solo videos by the way you can ramp it howdy folks it's Mike Ryan it's spring

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yeah, they are dead, they are not going to make it, you know, even if they win in, if they lose in Miami. I need to calm you down. That's right, if they lose in Miami, they don't get a chance in Boston, oh they are going to have their ass, you know what, in Boston, you know. Stugats. They were wrong. They were, are they going to lose their job?

No. Are they going to get a cutting pay? No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting what is the obvious. They are going to say, oh, the nuggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude. And you know what?

The heat are going to win it all. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. ["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"] He's not going to win at all. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. I also want to play some audio here, Stugats, of jazz chism. I was surprised, actually, that the Pivot made an appearance in Miami or in South Florida to visit jazz chism and to spend some time with him. And this is not audio that you hear very often especially not in baseball. Now let me set up for the audience a little bit of what has happened over the years with Jazz Chisholm in Miami with the Marlins.

He's become a star, he's flamboyant, he's charismatic, and he's at the crossroads where Bryce Harper was a few years ago where his style of play is aggressively flamboyant in a sport that historically doesn't like that stuff and it he doesn't he never Billy he never cites Miguel Rojas by name does he in this audio that we're about to hear but everyone assumed that it was Miguel Rojas because jazz chism for many years now has had a problem in that clubhouse with people who do not like that he's showy. That he sort of fractures some of baseball's unwritten rules in terms of you know not being sportsman-like in the way that they were in the 1920s when people were wearing when fans were

wearing suits and top hats to the game. So a bit of a back story here before you get that to what Dan is saying. Yes, there has been in the past a schism of sorts, I guess, in the Marlins locker room. A chism schism. Exactly right. And there seemed to be sides that were drawn and Jazz was on one side. And it appeared that at the time Miguel Rojas, who was named team captain, was on the other side. And he does not mention him by name here, but if you followed the team over the past seasons,

you knew this was kind of a thing. Now Miguel Rojas is no longer on the team, he hasn't been on the team. He's in Korea right now playing for the Dodgers. There's a game going on right now, incidentally. We do not usually, we're not able to say that very often. Regular season. At nine o'clock in the morning, playing baseball. Regular do not usually, we're not able to say that very often at nine o'clock in the morning. Regular season, yeah, began in Korea today,

I believe, for two games, and then they come back and they take a week off and they play spring training again and then regular season gets going again. That's dumb. So anyways, yes, there was a situation. This has been the case for like 15 years, too. It's happened, yes, it's happened a number of times, but most people just kind of miss it

because it happens, sometimes the game's like in the middle of the night because it's across the world. More people have notices here because it's Otani. Yeah, any well. So, Jazz and the team captain were at odds, there was closed door team meetings, lots of things happened. At one point, I think last season or the season before,

Miguel Rojas went and just started blocking everyone on Twitter and blocking all the media on Twitter. But sure stuff. The goodwill that he had built over the years kind of faded away when he was blocking the local media and Fish Stripes and Fish on First and all that. You don't block Cristina Denicola and think that you're going to get away with it. That's kind of what happened with Miguel Rojas. He overstayed his welcome here.

So anyways, he's not mentioned by name here, but if you know the backstory, you know that Jazz and Miguel Rojas were at odds over the years. And it's a couple years old now, because he's, again, not on the team and hasn't been for two seasons. But he went on the pivot and kinda just decided

to go in on Miguel Rojas, not by name. Because if I was sleeping or anything, nobody would even blink twice. They would let me sleep through a whole game. You know what I mean? decided to go in on the government's not by name and i was there and i would even blake twice they'll let me sleep the whole game and i mean i know that this happened they like this is i'll tell you about the art team captain well younger came in

saw me sleeping before the game like our before the game and like he knew we had a team meeting let me since they there is what you're doing before the game and like he knew we had a team meeting. Let me stay there and slept through the team meeting. And the coach came and woke me up 15 minutes before the game. The team captain. Come on bro, how's that a team captain? That's not a team captain, bro.

So that's why I say now? I know if I'm sleeping, Tim. Hey bro, come on brother, we gotta go. Anybody in the clubhouse would do that Like even up to Sandy to the Spanish boys to white boys to the black It don't matter who it is off our clubhouse now is so together. It's like bro We don't even see color in that clubhouse There's not a color in that clubhouse from the top to the bottom. There's not a color in that clubhouse

What are you laughing out about Mike? Spanish boys? That's one way to phrase it. But there there was a problem with jazz chism. I mean we were talking about this while it was happening that jazz chism and and Tim Anderson has spoken to this like the the black guys when they play flamboyantly sometimes, it gets stomped out in that sport in a way they're not having anymore. Like this is unusual to do this publicly. It's also a longer clip that he'll go on. I think it was an extensive interview

where he'll flat out say, you know, our team captain sucked as a player. He just was not a good player, which you kind of never hear. And he said, you know, I, for the first years, I worked all my career to get up to major leagues, and you thought this would be the dream? And I was so unhappy.

Like at home I was happy, but professionally, I was the most unhappy I had ever been. And it's just because of kind of the environment that was going on there. You'd see rookies come up, and they'd hit home runs, and they'd get excited, and they looked up to Juan Soto, so they started celebrating like Juan Soto and then instead of like congratulating this guy,

first or second game coming back, the team captain and then kind of like the captain's friends would go and sit down and be like, you're not Juan Soto, what are you doing? Respect the game, you're doing this wrong, blah blah blah. And then Jazz said he'd come over and try to like, you know, prop the guy up. Now, this is Jazz's side of the story,

not to say that it's not what happened, but we're getting Jazz's side of the story, not to say that it's not what happened, but we're getting Jazz's side of the story here, but it gives a little more insight and information into a situation that, you know, Marlins fans, which, you know, speaking to the nation here, a lot of people are not following the ins and outs of the Marlins clubhouse every day over the past years, but it gives a little more information

into exactly what was going on there when you knew there was kind of this rift. David Sampson is gonna be on with us shortly and from what he's done on social media, I'm thinking he's gonna side with Miguel Rojas. One of the reasons though, Stugatz, that this is interesting is because you don't get very often this back and forth

where Miguel Rojas is saying to Jazz Chisholm, you don't play the game the right way and Jazz Chisholm, you don't play the game the right way and Jazz Chisholm is now retorting with, you don't play the game well. You're not good at baseball. You stink and should have never been a captain. I told you before, Miguel Rojas should not have been a major league baseball player. I don't believe he's very good defensively, as a captain of a team that's just because the marlins are always uh... you know paying everybody in coupons and he was uh... a mainstay because the franchise doesn't

have any of those and they just made that guy the captain because he's professional guy but i understand why young flamboyant player wouldn't be here for a captain who hadn't done much of anything in the major leagues that was successful telling him how to be when jazz Chisholm is a good baseball player. It's not common where a team captain ranks 31st in their position at OPS over the span of their career. Like he like there's only 30 teams so that's not great. Well so that's kind of the thing right? Because he plays the game the right way. Well not just that. How did he get, right? Because he plays the game the right way. Well, not just that, but- How did he get to the Dodgers?

Well, the Marlins actually got him from the Dodgers, and then he ended up back at the Dodgers. But, I mean, he was on the Marlins, and like David will come, he was part of the Marlins when the sale happened, and then they got rid of a lot of their bigger stars, and he was a guy that was a mainstay at the time, and he was a guy that could be the Maray at the time and he was a guy that

could be the Marlins way. He also happened to be a shortstop when a shortstop took over the team and thought the shortstop is the most important position. This is the captain of the team. Who's our shortstop? Okay, he could be the captain of this team. And then I think he took being captain very seriously and like he even wanted to at a time do more like we When we were out at NFL opening night when the Super Bowl was down here in 2020 the Marlins had him going around

Doing interviews with people to try to have him be more of a face in the media and be more of this So great though think about what we're talking about. Do you realize? Miguel Rojas who isn't very good as a Major League Baseball player, being captain went to his head? Well I mean it's like it's like a high school kid. That's kind of where it falls apart is if the person that's supposed to be your team leader is not as good as the people that are supposed to be looking up to him and then he's going around when those people are succeeding and saying

you're not succeeding the right way and they're like, well you're not succeeding at all, shut up, that's how you have kind of a problem, it would seem. Jazz did say that he showed up on day one with like dozens of custom cleats, custom batting gloves, so the only thing, I'm on Jazz's side with this, the only thing I will say in Miguel's defense

is who likes the person that shows up on day one of a new job? If Jeremy had shown up with custom headphones and 12 headphones for two weeks, I'd be like, who the f*** is this new guy showing up with all these? So everybody can relate to the new person showing up at work and being like,

this guy thinks he runs the place. That's the only perspective I can kind of see where Miguel Rojas is coming from, but jazz is a top prospect. That's just the way it works in this business. I can see where Miguel Rojas. And you stink at baseball. There's that too.

I can see where Miguel Rojas is coming from on one as well, which is just this. If they name me the captain, I'll show them how to captain. I'm gonna be, they've just given me an enormous responsibility. They've got me, who stinks at baseball, wandering around the community, selling baseball to people because I'm the captain.

But he didn't, I don't think if you ask him, do you stink at baseball, he'd believe that he stunk at baseball. This is really what's going on with baseball though, right? Is that you have the different schools of thought on baseball, how you should play the game, how you should respect the game, and like you just had this going on within one team.

A lot of times you see teams are kind of aligned and each team has a style. This team had two different styles at the same time and you had the young up and coming star because like in complete fairness, like Jazz is not Bryce Harper. Like he's a young and up and coming star because like, in complete fairness, like, Jazz is not Bryce Harper. Like, he's a young and up and coming star, but he hasn't reached that level yet.

He's been on, he has a good, a big ceiling, but he's dealt with injuries. Last year he was injured a number of times. And he hasn't lived up to, I think, the potential that everybody think that he can get to. And it's not to say that he won't, it's not to say that he's not good, but you know, you found this with Jazz also.

He's somewhat of a polarizing figure in baseball in that he was the cover athlete last year, and people were not happy with that because they're like, what did you do to get this besides just kind of being flashy? So he's faced that criticism. What did Rojas do to get the C though? I mean. Well, I mean. That's another aspect of this is, it's being that criticism. What did Rojas do to get the C though? Well, I mean...

That's another aspect of this. It's being painted right now as Miguel Rojas was acting independently. That he was giving this captain C and he decided what he was going to do. And it's absent of any conversation that this is a directive from whoever made him team captain. You don't think whoever made that decision pulled him aside, hey, we got this new guy, Jazz Chisholm here, why don't you teach him how to be a pro? These are conversations that are had, and sometimes the team captain gets to be the bad guy so the manager can put their arm around Jazz Chisholm and build them back up.

This is all people managing. Good cop, bad cop. Yeah, this is all people managing. Good captain, bad captain. Well, but it seemed as though Madding, like Miguel Rojas would go and tell Jazz certain things, and then he'd go and complain to Don Maddingly, and then Don Maddingly would go to Jazz and be like, you know, Miguel Rojas would go and tell jazz certain things and then he'd go and complain to Don Mattingly and then Don Mattingly would Go to jazz and be like, you know

Miguel Rojas was saying the opposite of which which is like horrible management if I'm gonna be perfectly honest Like that's not what you should be doing as manager because you're just making the situation worse But Miguel Rojas was not acting alone. He did have other players who were on his side here Like what's this? I you are was on his side here Not to name names, but. Hey, he was a good player for them. Another guy. At the time, he had his moment.

I told you that Valerie only sings about one Marlin. It's Jesus Aguilar, Marlin's first baseman. It gets sung around the house, I told you that. Very strange. Okay. Cool. Put that in the list for March Sadness next year. Yeah. Yeah.

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And when it was time to get serious, he really took my hand and helped me to do that. Edward Jones, we do money differently. Visit edwardjones.ca slash different. Don LeBattard. David Sampson, weirdo. Because he was not, he was not the fun substitute teacher who'd wheel out a TV and play a VHS tape of Armageddon in science class.

He was the weird one who would eat an egg salad sandwich while clipping his toenails into the trash can and ranting about Ronald Reagan. Stugots. The guy kept talking about how his ass was smooth, smoother than a newborn's cheek. He wouldn't stop bragging about his bare buttocks to me. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugatz. I've got a number of not-adult silly things that I enjoy around here, Stugatz. You've heard me object to the fact that everyone claims that I like to dress up in costumes,

but I do enjoy whenever it is I'm dressed up in a costume to say something serious or newsworthy that ends up traveling and no one mentions while objecting to what I'm saying that I'm wearing a ridiculous costume. You admitted last segment you have a costume box in your apartment. But only because I owe so many penalties, not because I want to be. You also just saw someone you're like,

I could dress like that person for fun. It's just, I owe that many penalties and I thought of asking the room to do it, but none of you will do it. I lost four times. I did them all. I'd pay my debts. Good season at the grid. I was going to dress as a baseball player, but I got stolen.

Another thing that I also enjoy though is going after with commentary some of these fan bases that get in rage because they hear so few national people talking about their teams or their schools are their programs so someone who is uh... on twitter i am me a mom first but a boiler a close second writes the following this dude pointing at me

has completely lost all credibility and clearly does not have a clue. A lot of exclamation points and capital letters here. Plus, you are officially off the Christmas card list. Ooh. Ah, shit. Zach Eady, use this as motivation and prove all the miserable haters wrong.

I'm so sick of all the negativity, disrespect, and nonsense towards Zach. Is there a lot? Because I felt like I was kind of alone on that. Is there a lot of that toward Zach? A lot of praise. He's a great college basketball player. We're just seizing on why he's not going to be a highly touted professional prospect, but could use it as motivation. I don't think it'll make his feet move quicker. Somebody else writes in, David Sampson's going on tour. He's coming to the venue I work at.

What should I expect? Was this announced? David, was this announced? You're going on tour. It just was now exactly how we planned it, Dan. Thank you so much. What happened? You're going on tour.

What happened is that metal arc was supposed to get you on tour and didn't and supposed to get Pablo and me on tour and didn't. So I just went outside of you and Metal Arc and I got a promoter and I'm going on a six city tour starting April 2nd in Philadelphia doing live nothing personal with David Sampson shows 90 90 minutes, me on stage, there may be some guests, you never know, and I may be coming to a city near you. Dan, we got it together in weeks, and it's taken years for you.

What are the cities you're going to? We're starting in Philadelphia on April 2nd. I'll be in Atlanta, Boston, Nashville, Pittsburgh, and New York City. We're doing it at city wineries in those cities. So it's an intimate, like 300 people. Although of course, maybe only seven people will show up and it will be let it ride part de.

But I do feel as though people will be interested to see what we do. watch me do it live, there'll be interactions with the audience, it will be fun, it will be funny, and Dan, you're invited. I can't invite everyone because there's no budget for that, but you're invited should you choose to come. You should go to the entire tour, Dan.

I mean, be like a Samson head like a dead head you know tour with Samson when he made the reference to let it ride to I should tell the audience that it's the single worst promotion in the history of this show David Samson after much success every time we've done anything publicly we decided to see David Samson's favorite movie at the Hylia movie co let it ride It was raining torrentially not that that mattered. I hid behind a curtain because seven people showed up I'm really considering firing that event back up again for our 20th anniversary Let it ride part do why in Hialeah only this time the guy who wore flip-flops Oktoberfest who slid his foot underneath the bathroom saw,

will be there. But we've made up for it with the stained carpet, which was an unadulterated success. So I feel as though the Let It Ride failures in the rear view mirror, and that's why I'm viewing this tour. I think it will be a success. If it is, we'll go to more cities around the country,

but you never know until you try. So nothing personal is going live and starting April 2nd in Philadelphia Is there a place where people can get information on this if they want it? Yes, you can go to David Sampson podcast comm and all the links are there You can also go to the city winery websites and you can buy tickets there. There's also meet-and-greets There's all sorts of fun things that we're doing. There's merch on the merch store of my website, davidsamsonpodcast.com. I couldn't get it approved by your people to do tour merch on your website, but listen, what can I tell you?

Aren't you the people? Yeah. Aren't you in charge of the merch store? So no, I was in charge of getting the merch store up and running and so that all your orders would be fulfilled and that people wouldn't be as angry as they were. But now we've got your people who are doing the designs and putting stuff up and it's going great. Everybody is going great. People are not complaining, Dan. They're getting your merch, they're wearing your merch and I'm

very happy about that. I've got a lot of questions about baseball and other things, but let's just play some more sound from that Jazz Chisholm interview from the pivot for David Sampson here so that David Sampson can react because you just don't hear baseball players doing any of this very often. I'm like, I was already a team leader without being called a team leader.

But the vets, you can't be a team leader when you got guys in the clubhouse that's been in there for nine, 10 years. this very often. a good person. You're not even a good athlete at this point. You're just here and you're bringing down the young guys that are supposed to be good. Bro, like I watch someone get called up to the big leagues, supposed to be like top three prospects on our team, right? He gets up there, hits a homer, like first or second at bat hits a homer, right? His next at bat, he goes and does the Juan Soto shuffle, right? Like, he's a kid. His favorite player is Juan Soto. He just got to the big leagues. Tell me why he comes in the dugout after, he walks, get around the bay, he comes in

the dugout after, these vets sit on the side of him and start yelling at him saying, bro, you're not f***ing Juan Soto, bro, you shouldn't be doing that. Juan Soto is an all-star, da-da-da-da. You can't be doing that. Bro, what do you mean? He's having fun, bro. We playing our fucking kids' games. That's when I step in and say,

bro, y'all better back up off this boy, bro. This man is starting, he's playing every day for us. Why are y'all in his face? Y'all don't even play every day. Yeah. What's up? Like, get off my man, bro. He's supposed to be helping us win

when y'all bringing him down. Samson, what are your thoughts there? I'm barely recovered. I did nothing personal this morning. I played that video and I talked about it. Let me address something right now. In the hundreds, if not thousands of players I had in my career, Miguel Rojas is one of the best people

I have come across. So for him to say that Miguel Rojas is a bad person is incredibly disingenuous. Two, what have you done, Jazz? Nothing. You're not a team leader. You didn't walk in there as a team leader. The only thing that didn't happen to you

is you're lucky that Konine and Lowell and some of the other players weren't there when you got there, because they would have kicked your ass and that would have been the end of you. It is so unbelievable that he did this and there will be ramifications. He's not gonna walk into spring training today

and everyone's gonna be all jolly. That is divisive, it's wrong. Regardless of your view of Miguel Rojas and his talent on the field. He was named the captain because of the respect that the team has for him and that the league has for him. Jazz, you've never even played 100 games except once. The fact that you are on the cover of the show, thank Uncle Derek. That's the only reason you got that. I'm embarrassed for the Marlins right now. Isn't-

This is the time. Isn't he- Exactly. Isn't he made the captain at least in part because he's going to do the bidding of all of the company, all of management, given the position the Marlins were in, Miguel Rojas was going to be like a bridge between players and front office because he was going to be professional but

that tore apart the Seattle Seahawks when they all saw on defense that Russell Wilson was that. Yeah, I would not have named Miguel Rojas the captain. There is no reason that Derek Jeter did that. Not because he wasn't good, or not because he wasn't playing every day, because there was no reason for then a captain to be named. But remember, Derek came in and tried to bring the Yankees south, and he's the captain, et cetera.

But there are veterans who police the clubhouse, and they do it because they want you to win the right way, they want you to lose the right way, they want you to play the right way, and it you to lose the right way, they want you to play the right way. And it's not that they don't want you to have fun. When you're telling Sanchez, don't be Juan Soto, it's because you're not Juan Soto. You've got to earn that right. And what Chris said earlier in the show is spot on and that goes on in clubhouses.

If a player walks in with 12 pairs of custom cleats or anything like that or wearing all sorts of stuff, they're put in the corner. You just have to be more humble when you walk in and it's not about new age versus old age. It's about when you go to your business and you go to a new business, you don't do that. And Jazz did it. David, you say they want him to have fun, but it's they want him to have fun the way they would have fun. And Jazz wants to have fun the way Jazz has fun. How about we just have no one define

what my fun is going to be, what my reaction to hitting a home run is going to be. Nobody, not even a captain, especially a captain who is not very good at baseball. He is. Listen, not even a captain, especially a captain who is not very good at baseball. He is. Listen, he's a professional baseball player who's still in the big leagues. I know, but David, it's hard to take a guy seriously when he's trying to tell you how to react to you hitting a home run when he himself never hits a home run. I mean... Nolan Aronado of the Cardinals just came out this spring training and said how happy they

are to have Matt Carpenter, who's a bench player, who can bring leadership and professionalism to that clubhouse. So it's not always about the best player who is the leader in your clubhouse. It's ideal to have that happen, but it doesn't always happen. And I'm not telling players not to have fun. I loved when players had fun. I don't want them to get hurt in their post-game home run celebrations. What happened to Cody Bellinger when he tore his shoulder doing that John Carlos Stanton elbow thing? But what I want to make sure is that you're not in any way

inciting the other team or giving any motivation to the other team or showing up the other team because that's gonna cost us David stay there. Okay, because I'm gonna come back with some questions that I've got there's some things in baseball financially that I want to understand what just happened with Blake Snell did he really turn down 150 million from the Yankees like it's orasted to get 62 million from the Padres from the Giants rather like that's something that happened okay so he So he lost, Boris client lost 90 million dollars after having a Cy Young seize it. God bless him. Okay. Stay there and we're going to come back because there's baseball going on right now, Stu Gutz. There's baseball being played and also the Oakland A's payroll is shocking. It was 17 million dollars higher in 2007.

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