The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: International Women's Day

Episode Date: March 8, 2024

Today's Cast: David Samson, Ben Lyons, Jeremy, JuJu, Lucy, Mike, Roy, and Tony. We celebrate International Women's Day with some advice from Lucy Rohden on how the men surrounding her can make a woman's life better today. Then, David Samson and Ben Lyons preview their upcoming Oscar Watch Party. Plus, the Florida Panthers on NHL Deadline Day, the new Montreal Expos documentary, and Lucy's babysitting expertise. Also, David, Jeremy, and Mike discuss the upcoming Miami Marlins season and why they may actually be better than last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It is International Women's Day. Thank you. Lucy, more on that in a second. But to celebrate, I'm going to start things off. David Samson and Ben Lyons are joining us in studio today. Very excited to have them in this whole weekend because David, Adnan and Ben are gonna be hosting an Oscars watch along that we're gonna have

on our official YouTube page. The first time we've ever done anything like this. I'm very excited. It is a real true production. And you guys have watched all the movies. You're a resident movie experts. Ben, this is your first time on the show. Welcome aboard. Thank you so much. I've covered the Oscars many years on site, but I've never had the privilege of covering the Oscars in Miami

to put on the tux and the humidity. Very much looking forward to it. A little starstruck by the shipping container, not going lie, reminds me of my first carpet in 07, the year that departed one. I mean, look at Juju, he looks phenomenal. Who are you wearing, by the way? I'm wearing this shirt for my dear sister, Alice, in turn, wherever you are in the world, we love you, happy International Women's Day,

my sisters. Looks amazing, Juju. So yes, I'm very excited to be here, and I'm excited to hang out with you and Adnan because I've realized, well, first with Adnan, we are like this kind of like long lost brothers when it comes to movies and our love of film. And then in comes a real long lost brother,

and David Sampson, who is as weird and insane as Adnan. So to talk film with you guys on Sunday will be a lot of fun. I don't like being compared to Adnan in that way, nor can I, I don't think you fully appreciate how nice that onboarding was. I was. By Mike at all with Dan and Stu not here. It was not clumsy.

It was done really amazing. Your expectations of me are very low. I appreciate that. I also like the part where I trampled Lucy. Lucy, what is your advice for International Women's Day? How should us men celebrate? There's three things that you can give to the women that are important in your life today

to show them how much they mean to you. There's your credit card number, your zip code, and your CVC. That simple way to tell the women in your life how important they are. Feel free to send that information my way for international women. I was ready to take notes.

I had my pen out, Lucy. Well, write it down. Well, I know my credit card number. Just be notes. I had my pen out, Lucy. Well, write it down. Well, I know my credit card number. Just be safe. Mother's made a name too. Yeah, write it down and then hand it to me. I'll make sure it gets the air. War shower.

People. I got you. Don't worry. Name of your first pet. Spartacus. All right. Well, you should probably chill with that, honestly. You're in the public eye.

Movie guy. There you go. Spartacus. David, there was a local story that happened last night. Actually, a couple that I I wanna get your take on. Uneven Night in South Florida Sports, InterMiami get a good result in the Conca Calf Champions League. No, I will not explain that to you.

You're just gonna have to get that one. It's a losing position for me, but Luis Suarez, Form is temporary, class is permanent, 95th minute equalizer, 2-2 against Nashville, sneaky rivalry between those two and on international women's day. I want to, I want to messy, messy. You don't boo messy.

That's a robbery. Messy, messy beat them in the leagues cup final as you all know by now, uh, the first trophy and only trophy in inter Miami history was one in Nashville. Uh, I want to celebrate Katie Meyer and the Lady Hurricanes. They had a huge result in Greensboro against North Carolina. Awful game, truly terrible finish, but it seems as though the women are going dancing. Panthers lose with 27 seconds left. They were due. Roy, what is the rule on having nearly a half dozen sticks and a helmet in front of the goal for 30 seconds? It seemed really unsafe. And when the officials, who I think have the right to stop play, because this is a player safety thing, they just let it go. I kind of felt like, oh, bad juju here. No, no, no, no. Only way to stop plays if somebody gets hurt. That's pretty much it. Yeah,

but if you have a half dozen sticks and a helmet on the ice, someone is bound to get hurt. Yeah, somebody's bound to trip or there could be a bad bounce on the shot and maybe it gets through that situation. But no, it's not, it is a safety issue, but it's not that much of a safety issue for them to stop playing move the sticks out of the way. Well, Panthers lose with 27 seconds left. They don't get any points from that as the rest of the league. There's like six teams in competition for the president's trophy. Don't mind if someone else wins that.

In fact, have that go to Vancouver. I lived in Miami in Fort Lauderdale for a long time. I flew in last night for the Oscar party we're doing. I land in Miami airport, and I know that the Panthers are playing. So I had a half a thought to have the Uber go right to Sunrise And I used to live in Plantation and I thought this would be amazing I can go to a Panther game and then I looked at the time of drive and

I had it go to the Elcer. Yeah, I didn't do it. Did you watch it because the heat were also playing a national I ended up watching the heat and here. This is another great story at the hotel. I don't like touching hotel remotes, so I have to do it so I don't. So I do everything through the iPad. I will not turn on a hotel TV because it's disgusting. And so. What's for you Dave?

It was Clorox sanitizing wipes. Yeah. Card number. Keep the wipes on it though. Keep the wipes on it. You can wear rubber gloves too. You to you did latex gloves. I travel with latex gloves same here So you turn the TV on in the hotel and you just have Mario Lopez for like six hours And I don't turn the TV on just leave it on the only time I ever did is when I lived in a hotel For years and then I knew because I had my own cleaning people

And it's just a weird thing But in any case I was only able to watch the heat game and I was so unbelievable Mesmerized by the heat that they could be competitive with Luca and they are and your guy Terry I was gonna call you but yeah, I take my calls. What's the record with Terry Rose here though I think that's Terry Rose here a great game. He had a fantastic game limited the turnovers. I have this theory though That if he eats, it's not necessarily great for the team, but I'm going to give him credit. That was a good game. That was probably the best I'd seen him play in a heat uniform, maybe the Portland game. But what is their record with Terry

Rose here, Jeremy? Compiling that right now, but it's right around 500 actually. Great. They were playing their best ball without Terry Rose here. Now I know hero is out and that's a tough spot on the road. They've been playing pretty well. I wanna talk briefly, very briefly, about the Florida Panthers again, because the only goal scorer from last night was Gustav Forsling, who for the uninitiated

was maybe the first move that Bill Ziedel made. Chicago waved him. And he's come here, totally transformed his career, is compared to Nick Lindstrom for those puckheads out there by Ed Jovanovsky. He is a great player. It was bounced around because his contract was coming up that in the open market, this player might command nine to $10 million. He ends up extending with the Florida Panthers for about five and a half per. An incredible deal.

Now we're in a group chat with Mike Scher, in which he's basically boiled all of the Miami Heat success down to the state tax situation. But my counter to that was the Florida Panthers had been around for 30 years and they've been good for maybe five of them. You know, the state tax doesn't guarantee success. However, once you get momentum,

once you start having good pieces in your franchise in that front office and an ownership in place, then it is a huge benefit and a player takes basically a 50% discount to stay here. What kind of advantages did you have selling the state tax? Are you team Mike sure? Or are you team Jeremy and Mike? Well, I wouldn't know what team because I'm not in the group tax. So I don't know what you're talking about. Who's on what team? Well, I don't disagree that it is a huge benefit to these organizations in the state of Florida and in Texas. You can sell them on weather and also state taxes. But there have been plenty of successful organizations in California. Lakers, pretty damn good, pretty successful.

So I would not necessarily boil down a lot of their success to the say tax situation. The only thing that came up was tax equalization payments. So what that means is when we would sign a player in Florida, they would demand a tax equalization thing in their contract, which says if we trade them to a state where there is a tax, then they get that extra money. They get grossed up in their contract.

Really? Is that just a baseball thing or is that available in other sports? Anybody, anybody, you can do that. You can do that here. So for example, for all of you people in the shipping container, if you are asked to do work in New York,

you will have to pay it a New York rate versus the work you do here in Florida. So you can ask BIML or Dan to gross up your salary to account for the taxes you'd pay for the work you do in New York. Interesting. This is not really a storyline that you hear a lot, which is probably why agents, we see this. Gabe Vinson signed a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, and there might have been a way for Miami to make the math work with state taxes that you actually by taking less you get it here but the agents are always taking most money is it because of that provision in contracts it is up it's the equalizing provision it it makes

it so players don't choose Miami versus LA solely because there's no state tax PJ Tucker is another example there where he got three years, I believe it was 27 million from Philadelphia and he were offering just under that the net seemingly for him would have been more money to stay with the team he wanted to be with. And now he's out in LA miserable after the Sixers traded him. So, you know, that was seemed like an agent play. I did not know about this at all. And the most recent acquisition of the Florida Panthers was Vladimir Terasenko,

a 32 year old former Stanley Cup champion, former EA sports NHL cover boy, Vladimir Terasenko. And Florida was in negotiations with him in the off season. And he ended up signing with Ottawa, which was a really weird deal for him. And it was a one year deal. Well, they should have been up and coming. That is a real disappointment in the league.

But he was 32, he'd already won his Stanley Cup championship. It seemed as though there was a conversation because Florida ended up getting him at the deadline, which is today, for pretty cheap. And it seemed as though it was one of those deals where let me just take the $5 million or whatever that Ottawa is offering me, and I'll be down there in the half season. I just want to maximize my dollar.

The Canadian tax issue is yet a whole nother thing. Yeah, I was going to ask you what happens to the Raptors. What can you explain that? Nightmare. So one of the issues we had getting players to Montreal or the way you have players getting to the Raptors or the Maple Leafs, when you do work in Canada you have to file Canadian taxes, then you have to try to get credit dollar for dollar when you do work in Canada, you have to file Canadian taxes, then you have to try to get credit dollar for dollar when you do your US taxes. It creates an extra $5,000 or $10,000 in fees to your accountant because of all the extra

things you have to do and these players have to do it. It really is a pain in the neck because you often end up losing money and we haven't even spoken about the currency exchange rate. And there is no ability in a contract to do a currency equalization provision. That used to be the case in baseball. In the old days, the Expos and Blue Jays would get a payment every year from MLB, according to what the exchange rate was between the Canadian dollar and the US dollar. They took that away because the other 28 owners didn't like it.

And so they stopped that equalization payment and it was a crushing blow to the finances of the Expos and BlueJays. David, you just brought up the Expos and a lot of people in our audience saw that Netflix has ordered a documentary on the 2004 Expos and the exit from Montreal. And I know it's not on our production sheet,

but I'm intrigued. As you brought it up, it was the first thing that came to my mind was, do you have any sort of involvement? Have they asked you to be involved? What is your thoughts on this documentary in the Montreal Expos? Three, two, three, seven, four, one, nine, six. Oh, an Mx.

Wow, rather give up. Three, two, eight, six, nine, six, nine. Are you on an NDAball, but you, you don't mind leaning into some of these things. Do you David? So I of course that there's no question. I won't answer Jeremy. It'd be nice if an 857 that would have come up But it's good. We were talking about the expose I'm not sure you're aware of the conversations between Bimmel and Skipper and Dan and myself on this issue. I don't even have a salary here David, I am not clearly not involved in those conversations join the club I have a salary here, David. I am not clearly not involved in those conversations. Join the club.

If this goes well on Sunday, you may be onboarded officially. There's a lot of budget here at Metal Art. Okay. Good. It is not. There is. There is. We're interesting. It's about the old tax rate.

It's probably better down here than in New York. So there you go. We want everyone to feel good at Metal Art. All right. You want you to feel welcome. So you change the subject. I'm'm just gonna assume he's in it and he's the bad guy is there a lease date on that when's that come out I have not seen that yet I'll go ahead and read the right it probably knows so the the

exposed situations an interesting one because for whatever reason it's it's amazing being blamed for the downfall of two franchises it really is unreal congratulations thank you so much Roy I was gonna get a job with Vinny, with the Pigeons, while I wanted to move back and take them down. Great. I'm just gonna go franchise by franchise in Miami. But you don't know about me.

How's that different than any other job I've had? Oh, that's true. Well, he may just end up taking Metalark down. Yeah, oh. Listen, you're welcome. Dammit. So I know that you don't wanna talk about this. I've picked Metalark down. Yeah, oh. Listen, you're welcome. Dammit. So I know that you don't want to talk about this. I've picked up on that.

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But we can move the show along to what's going to happen on Sunday, which is the first of its kind, Oscar watch along for our company over here and for the Lebatard show Enterprise, bringing Adnan, Ben Lyons, David Samson in, I mean Titans of their respective industries. One of them to blame for the downfall of two franchises. Mm-hmm. This is a- Could have been a third.

I'm really excited about the Oscars. And I saw this comment, so I've been doing my studying. I've treated this like a real homework assignment. I've watched all the best picture nominees with the exception of two, and I will get to them. Which two are left? The zone of interest and past lives. Past lives.

I am not a xenophobe, that's just the way that it is. Rich, you're hard now. That is a beautiful romantic movie. I'm a romantic xenophobe, that's just the way that it is. It's just the way that it is. That is a beautiful romantic movie. I'm a romantic, you don't know this about me, but I love rom-coms and I love the thought of what love can be. Past lives will knock your socks off. It's devastating, it's wonderful.

Because you will think to yourself, where could I possibly fit into this story? Zone of interest, you do not fit into that story, you don't want to fit into that story, but it is very important do not fit into that story. You don't wanna fit into that story, but it is a very important, I think of the all best picture nominees, probably the most important movie, is zone of interest in terms of teaching people.

Barbie as well on International Women's Day, very important film in a lot of ways, right? But also- I'm entering to Lucy, I like it, welcome. But just the- Thank you for explaining Barbie to me. Ha ha ha ha. I'm just Ben, I'm just Ben.

I'm just Ken. You know, we're going to see Gosling perform, by the way, at the Oscars on Sunday. It's a really interesting list of films. You mentioned the ones you haven't seen, but if you look at the rest of the films, and some people, I don't know how it, where you stand on this, they wish it went back to the five films nominated for Best Picture. But when you have nine or ten, you really get something for everybody, which I think the Oscars should be. The Oscars shouldn't be just for this certain type of film fan who loves a certain type of film.

They have opened it up in the last 10 years, and especially internationally. You have two films nominated for Best Picture that are international films, all five documentaries that are not- An anatomy of a fall did not qualify as an international film. Well, they didn't say it wasn't submitted Okay, what that's why it's not in the category why not submitted by the country?

Okay, they submitted a different movie which didn't get nominated that because there's too much English in it No, it's because they literally chose the country chose not to submit it in that category I got to see this other French film that they thought was better than submitted in that category. I gotta see this other French film that they thought was better than Anatomy of a Fall. Anatomy of a Fall is amazing. Because Anatomy of a Fall so far, having watched 80% of these nominated films, it's the second most recent that I've seen, so this may be a hyperbolic take, but it's been my favorite movie of the year so far.

And I can't believe that it's not nominated for Best Foreign Film as it's nominated for Best Picture. So that's a funny thing about the Academy, but about 10 films, there can be a lot of people watching Sunday. Right now go to lebatardaf.com, that's the website for this show, and you can fill out a ballot,

and you all should do it, please. Go to lebatardaf.com, put in your Metal Arc Media email address, spread the word in the company, fill out a ballot, all you have to do is beat me, and you can win a piece from my memorabilia collection or win the whole thing and you're gonna get some cool metal arc stuff. And I'm trying to convince Mike to allow the winner.

And we already have thousands of entrants, the winner, the outright winner, to be recognized on the show. Yeah, I saw that. So you have an opportunity to, I saw it being mentioned on the webpage that you have an opportunity to join the LeBatard show. Yeah, I saw that. So you have an opportunity to, I saw it being mentioned on the webpage that you have an opportunity to join the LeBatard show. Terrible way to be surprised by something like that.

I'm not the EP anymore though, so that can be Chris's call or something like that. I wouldn't have done it, but go right ahead. You know, those NCAA brackets, they always ask you to put in the tiebreaker, right? Or the championship score. 45 seconds. It never comes down to that.

Have you guys ever been in a bracket? I'm in an ESPN one. It comes down to the actual final score of the championship game. I don't know how you do that on an Oscar pool. You're gonna make it a raffle. So ESPN on their bracket pool says the length of the first speech.

Oh, I like that. So I went for 45 seconds on the very first speech. The very first speech was probably one of the supporting categories. So you might have Downey Jr. in the first speech. The very first speech was probably one of the supporting categories. So you might have Downey Jr. in the first speech. Well, he's gonna go over. Are you giving away your pick? I've just, I said you might have Downey Jr.

We're gonna be releasing our picks at 4 p.m. live. Supporting categories always throw me for a loop. Not this year. This is a very long broadcast. This is longer than our NFC or AFC championship watch alongs. This is more akin to freedom than any one of those But we're gonna be there light numbers for the Tony show by the way. That's right. That's right the Tony show I did like 19 hours. By the way, there is there gonna be an MMA hangout

We got UFC in town, which is there is the hotels are crazy Exactly USC 299 over at the Kasey center on Saturday will be live at Grails in Windwood 7 to 8 30 doing MMA hangout live there and then head over to the fights You can catch us on socials and stuff and you got MMA hangout on the show today in our great Not the same type of excitement surrounding this card I know Mosfet always on the last card and was their first time in South Florida and quite some time But this is a pretty good card, right? It's a huge card

This is probably one of the best cards of the year if not the last couple of years I'd like you can go top to bottom from the pre-limbs to the main card and every fight is match made perfectly by the UFC. This is gonna be a huge, huge, huge hit. But to our other watch along, which will happen on Sunday, you guys are gonna be here at 4 p.m. Eastern. We have great guests slated to join us. And the reason why we're starting so early is

you guys will also be doing red carpet recap and reaction. guys reaction I love the fashion do you guys feel like you are prepared for that I am very prepared I am I'm a little judgmental so I'm slightly concerned how this is gonna come off because I'm judgmental both toward the men and the women because I feel like they use the Oscars as this moment to make a statement, and I always try to guess what the statement is, and I end up guessing wrong. Lucy, I hope you're here the entire time with us, because I want your input.

I wanna know, am I hitting the right notes with these fashion Estas? Well, I've already told everyone this. I wanna make it public. If Iowa plays in the Big 10 Championship game on Sunday, and God forbid they lose, I'm not coming in. Which I try to tell her like we're not really gonna bug you about that or remind you about that. It's about me, not you. It's International Women's Day.

Yeah, I understand, but I feel like this would be a welcome distraction. By the way, it's not just gonna be Ben, it's not just gonna be Adnan, it's not just gonna be David. We have so many metalarkers that have agreed to come experience this office watch party. We're gonna be in the other room dressed up, drinking champagne, which is always dangerous, especially around Dan, who was also slated to join us. Yes, he is. Willow, TBD. No, Willow, see you're wearing a bow tie. Okay, great. I can't wait to see her red carpet. Look, a lot of us are going to be here. I'll be here on the other side of the glass.

It's going to be a first of its kind. And I'm excited to see if this goes well, because get ready for the VMA's boys after that. Live from the stained carpet, go to lebatardaf.com, fill out your ballot right now, join us at four o'clock, can't wait, there's gonna be some surprises on Sunday, I'll tell you that. And this is why the Oscars matter.

Here we are on a great platform like this, you guys have built something really special down here, and we're talking about Anatomy of a Fall, we're talking about a French film, and Sandra Mueller's performance. What a great movie. It's incredible. What a great movie. It's incredible.

They gotta play 50 cents PIMP if that wins any awards, right? The orchestra's gotta do that. I assume that's what they'll do. And you played it, that was playing when we pre-show. People may not know this, this is two inside baseball, but you like playing music, and I rarely, if ever, know the music you play.

And today I did, and it made me feel like you're all into the Oscars. I played Shake Your Bon Bon before that by Ricky Martin. Did that didn't ring a bell? No, no bells. I am celebrating International Women's Day by going up to sunrise to watch Mr. 305. I'm watching Mr. 305 in the 954.

I missed the last stop. They did two nights over here across the street. The Trilogy Tour, are you familiar with this? I am not. It's in Rickey Iglesias, Ricky Martin and Pitbull. And I'm going to watch them in sunrise tonight. It's happening tonight? Yeah, yeah.

So it's also- Ben wants to go. Hold on, hold on. It's also Kai Ocho weekend. And I'm celebrating by spending two consecutive days in the nine-five-four. Yeah, because tomorrow, I'm very excited. Roy, I'll see you there.

It is the 2024 Kitty Caravan. That's right. We are over three so far when me and a large group of my friends go to watch the Florida Panthers play hockey, which over the last three years is pretty impressive because they've been pretty good at home. So we're looking to get off the Schneid, be Jonathan Huberdough in the Calgary Flames,

tell Witte FU as 30 people will gather outside the arena and shit in a bucket. Will you get a hotel in Broward? Or are you gonna go back and him? Yeah, he pays me. I love his daughter and I love kids. So I really enjoy babysitting her actually. It's fun for me. And I don't have a lot of friends,

so it's nice to hang out with somebody. You gotta stop bringing it so much because she's straight up said, she's my favorite babysitter. I've asked her several times. I'm like, so who else is watching you and she'll say their names. I'm like, so who do you like more?

And she's like, I like you both the same. I'm like, wrong answer do you like more? And she's like, I like you both the same. I'm like, wrong answer. She's a child. You've made it a competition. The wrong answer. She likes Miss Lucy. Miss Lucy brings arts and crafts. She also is gonna be watched by a couple

of women's basketball players from the Miami team. It's a cool little NIL program that I have. But I'm her favorite, don't forget. None of this was on the list. You have babysitters as part of an IEL program. It goes through compliance and everything. I doubt that. Part of the recruiting come down to Miami.

You could babysit my crying kids. Lucy said things the world over. Don Lebatard. Did you ever have a crush on a cartoon character? Oh, can I go? This isn't my question, but I did. Jessica Rabbit. Debate hard did you ever have a crush on a cartoon character? Oh? Can I go this isn't like question, but I did huh Jessica rabbit who frame Roger rabbit? Yes Yes, I was married to Roger rabbit even though he was a bunny and she was a humanoid But they were both cartoons two guts. I had a crush on Betty Rubble. Oh Wow Betty Rubble. Oh wow. What? That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Whoa, with a surprise

nomination from Stugans. Showing you his dirty, dirty, inner nine year old. This is the Don We discussed last Friday the Kitty Caravan in greater detail. I'm showing up two hours before the game to tailgate the Panthers don't necessarily encourage tailgating because they don't have porta-potties around so I had to purchase my own. And I baited and tested it. It's all fine. I know this is probably horrifying to you, David, as a germaphobe. But I got a tent that is in a backpack that opens up easily, a bucket and garbage bags that go around that, and most importantly, poo gel that'll make any of the human waste

gelatinous and easier to get rid of at the arena. It's going to be a great time. Thirty deep. Roy's going to be a great time. 30 deep. Roy's going to be there. By the way, I'm spending the next two nights in the 9.5.4. And if you want to go to that hockey game, I have a suggestion because I had plenty of friends that say, hey, this seems like a lot of fun. I want to join. Well, the game's sold out.

What are you going to do? I'll tell you what you're going to do. You're going to download the game time map. And you're going to create an account and use code Dan. And so many of my friends were thankful that I mentioned that little tidbit because you get $20 off your first purchase term supply last minute deals lowest price guaranteed. You get to see your view from the seat you're about to buy everyone that I know that I sold game time on thanked me afterwards. It's the best secondary market app out there. I guarantee it. Not no fun in games, no funny business where you're going to get

hit with all these surprise fees at the end. Pretty upfront pricing there by game time. So go ahead and do that. And David, maybe some fans in our audience may want to start doing that for Marlins games because Marlins games, according to a story that dropped yesterday, seem to be about to get a lot more fun. They are allowing instruments in the stadium, something that you've talked about before, something that seems like it's gonna be

incredibly annoying. We've done that. This is amazing that they did a whole press release about something that we've been doing for 20 years. So we always would allow anyone to bring in anything they wanted. We just couldn't get anyone to come to games or to bring in any instruments when they did.

But the number one goal was to try to match the Caribbean series Ruach, which means spirit in Yiddish, or to match the world baseball classic. So, and I don't know if you've been to a world baseball classic. I haven't had the pleasure. At Marlins Park, but amazing. Yeah, great energy.

It's the atmosphere, great energy. And we've tried to convert those people to Marlins fans, and it doesn't work. We were talking about the Vuvuzela's the other night at dinner. Remember those? A huge part of that World Cup a couple years back. I got crushed. None of you were alive, I assume, when I allowed, did Vuvuzela night a pro player? Mike?

None of you were alive? It wasn't quite the uh the this was a long time ago It didn't quite match the thunderous sound of South Africa's World Cup Which is I'm sure Going to be part of the issue when they you mentioned that you try to get this off the ground and nobody did it Which I always assumed that they would confiscate that because I've been at Marlins Park a handful of times And they've taken stupid stupid foam fingers away from me in the past.

So you've always allowed, when you were there, like you've always allowed. What do you mean by foam fingers? It was like something that was, it was a sound maker that they themselves gave out, and I had to confiscate it. I guess somebody wasn't on the same page. Not important.

You mean to tell me that they've actually been allowing this the entire time, and no one's taking them up on it? It happens in pockets and then what happens is if there's four people using instruments, then there's people who complain who are right near them. So really the problem that you're having with this sort of announcement is that if you don't put it in just a section, you could have it spread out throughout a park that's not full, and then there's no quiet area, sort of like a singles area, or an area not with no alcohol. There needs to be an area with no instruments for people who don't want them.

So that's interesting, because the last several years on the themed nights, whether it's, you know, like Caribbean Heritage Night or any individual country, that's when the Marlins have been encouraging people and then they've put their own band out there in the section in right field. Now with the encouragement of the entire stadium,

my understanding was that that policy had changed, at least with this ownership group. So are you saying like you guys had the policy of anybody can bring that in and then that changed? Or- We just wanted the policy of whoever would come, please come. Right, of course.

We just wanted fans, so I was- Yeah, that makes sense. I was so sad the just wanted fans, so I was. That makes sense. I was so sad the way they framed that. It's a great marketing strategy. But that's, please. Please, pretty please. I really want to pay the vision. With instruments on top.

Please, please come. One of the things that crossed my mind is like, how do the opposing players feel about this? Is this something that Major League Baseball would give you a guff over? It would only be the union if the players would complain. Baseball wants the Marlins to have more revenue and the opposing teams want the Marlins to have more revenue

so they don't get as many dollars in revenue sharing. So other owners are looking for the Marlins to help their attendance, so they will not. But if the players get annoyed, but they won't, they're in Miami, they're hungover, they don't care. It's not gonna be an issue. I'm just not convinced it's going to drive any sort of revenue to Marlins Park

because it never did for us, but maybe it's different now. Maybe the Caribbean series changed it. Lone Depot Park. Marlins Park. That's a fine. That's Lone Depot. Who are you to not care about corporate sponsors? You've been trying to get that stadium name

your entire time there. It got named and you've used it. It got named because of an MLB deal with Lone Depot what do you think that was a coincidence that all of a sudden bars what excuse me do you know the ALCS and LCS is sponsored by Lone Depot at the same time they announced Marlins Park was changing its name are you suggesting that Marlins Park is an added value deal I'm telling you how that went down. The deal for Lone Depot Park,

it is done as a separate naming rights deal, but it is not a coincidentally that it happened when Lone Depot did a national deal. What do you think the Marlins are gonna do this year? I am now a very loud and proud Mariners fan. I have gone about as far away as you possibly can from this wretched franchise that has just hurt me left and right. You're fully to blame for that. What do you think their chances are going to be? They were a playoff team last

year, a raining manager of the year. They added some pieces in the off season, one of which doesn't believe the moon is real. Yeah, that's right. Nick Gordon. I had him on Miami mic'd up this week and I asked him for his most controversial take and he believes the moon is not real not Not that the moon landing isn't real the moon itself. You can go listen to that my inventive So that's D Gordon's brother that is I also spoke to him actually about these iconic home run After Jose had passed away and it was really cool to hear his emotions as D's brother saying he you know He was talking to him a lot during that stretch, you would actually really enjoy

that part. Not grooved, the ball was not grooved. The ball was not grooved. Yes it was. You don't know that. Don't take away the most. Don't take away that moment. I know how much you love Jose.

By the way, you could groove a ball to me and I wouldn't be able to get home run. I had a text exchange with Dee recently because I had talked on nothing personal about one of the biggest disappointments of my career was him doing steroids and getting suspended for steroids and how he had said to me that he didn't do it and I said to him... Wait, how did this text message start to de-gordon?

Hey, do you remember that time he got pinched for steroids? No, he heard that I had talked about it. You mother bleeper from deep. Hold on. Not that far off to you. Except there was no bleeper. It was more like, hey, how you doing, Dave? It was more like that. I'll tell you exactly what started.

Love you, bro. Slash D was how it started. That stings. That's a setup. Oh, listen, I love D. and I had to set up it's oh listen I love D and I and I had explained on nothing personal. He was a player who was the heart of the team Oh No, no back here David keep continue. Oh, I'm so sorry. I should have incorporated more No, no, no, I don't think you incorporated enough you incorporate enough plenty

Incorporated more You incorporate enough plenty To make a very long story shorter D Gordon was a player who I never dreamt would do steroids and he did and the only way to get caught for what he got caught for Is by putting them in your tushy. There is no other way. It's not for diarrhea It's not for anything and D D kind of had the build where you'd be like well, what is this guy doing on steroids? He doesn't look like a steroid user, but if you actually saw what his body looked like

when he entered the league, you'd realize that he put on about 40 pounds since then. And we get, just giving him a long-term contract, we had guaranteed him a ton of money. I liked him with the Dodgers. I remember when he came into the, I remember seeing his dad play, obviously, and then, yeah, I remember actually being bummed

by that as well. Certain guys, when you hear they're on the juice, you're like, wow, they're real. It's one of the 10 calls I'd save my career that I'll never forget getting from Dan Hallam, the deputy commissioner, is the one who called, and I was with Mike Hill at the time, and we said, no, of course this isn't true.

So how hard did he pound you? Not at all. Whose balls are juiced? It's all good. He was good with it? Yeah. I mean, it's not like he can deny it. So that, here's the problem. It's in the past, it started with it? I mean, it's not like you can deny it.

So here's the problem. It's in the past. It started as, that's before Jose died. It was all right in that period of time. That was July of 2016, and it just started this horrible stretch of months for the franchise. Franchise altering, life altering for me in terms of the team that then got sold. But in any case, it's funny you mentioned Nick Gordon. he on the Marlins, bringing back to the Marlins, they have one of the top five rotations in baseball.

They have Griffin, and this is without Sandy this year, right? He's not pitching this. Yeah, no Sandy. Tommy John. Yeah, right. If their depth is decent, but will be tested, their offense is questionable.

They have Griffin, Kona who I hope gets called up and finally gets time because he can hit home runs, but he strikes strikes out but he deserves to get a chance there Garcia needs to be absolutely Jettisoned yeah, but I understand why they won't because I hated releasing players who I'd signed to long-term deals who sucked because it was too embarrassing So we would let them continue before we bite the bullet But he's got to go but I think the Marlins could be like the Diamondbacks. Yeah, they're actually, opening day lineup this year is better than last year's opening day lineup

when you factor in the fact that you have Josh Bell and Jake Berger in your lineup to start this year. You add Tim Anderson as an everyday shortstop who obviously is coming off an awful season the worst of his career. But if he can get anywhere close, not even to his career averages, just to like 70% of what he was, that's way better than what you were getting out of your shortstop position last year. And with a guy like Nick Gordon, I would

expect that there will be a bit of a platoon with him in Avi Garcia to start the year where Avi'll just face lefties, and then eventually he'll be out of the lineup. But it is, he's their biggest financial burden at the moment in giving him the money that he gave him. Well, the money sunk. Right, and the money's already sunk. So you gotta at least see if you can get something out of him, but a lot of people, because the Marlins didn't sign a major league free agent

so deep into the off season, their view was they're not trying, they're not trying to capitalize off of what last season was, but if you look at what they're going to look like on opening day as compared to last season, there's an argument to be made that they're actually a better team than they were even at the end of last year with some of the pieces that they brought in.

Yeah, they need to score runs and Tim Anderson needs to behave. One of the reasons that Chicago did not want him and did not offer him something, there is some concern about him off field and what he does in a clubhouse. So him and Jazz together need to be additive and not put themselves in exclusive place in the clubhouse and hurt the clubhouse. That's the place where I think Skip Schumacher has made such a difference. He has this really wonderful way of relating to the modern player and that he just recently retired from the game, but also has a sense of structure that these guys have

articulated to me was missing at the end of Don Mattingly's tenure, that he was so hands-off that there wasn't really a culture put in place. And Skip Schumacher has brought in sort of the cardinal way, and now a lot of the young guys really go by that. Jazz had an off-season of getting rid of McDonald's and sort of focusing on his nutrition and his workouts and is Trying to sort of bring himself into being that guy in the middle of the order for them It seems like with skip that Tim Anderson has come in with all of these questions of character concern But in talking to guys around the team and talking to some of the coaches like he has come in and just wanted to fit in

And be one of the guys and like he has come in and just wanted to fit in and be one of the guys. And when you talk about character concerns, of course it's early, but part of that was he was supposed to be a face of baseball, then had some stuff go on in his personal life. The Tony LaRusse is his manager and all of a sudden things start to spiral. This seems like the perfect fit where, hey, come in, be one of the guys that's going to play just about every day with a bunch of other fun young players and see where it goes. So focus on June. The way it works in a clubhouse is things don't get bad until you get to the dog days of summer.

It's all gonna be unicorns and butterflies now. But June, when you're not playing well, you're below 500 and Skip's voice starts to not resonate as much. That's what I'm gonna look for. But it is exciting that the season starts. Do you know that we are only 12 days from the regular season starting in Korea and 28 teams will start March 28th. So we'll see what happens. But I think the Marlins could be this year's time-ask because

someone's going to be. So there will be a surprise team. The over-under on DraftKings sports book for wins for the Miami Marlins is 78 and a half. That's a great market. There'll be better than 500 this year. I'll go on that. Yeah, I'm with you on that though. I'll take the over on that for the Marlins. Now I'm locked in on Marlins baseball all summer long. Let's go, Ben. Hey friends, it's Mike Ryan and a lot has changed over the years. But one thing that hasn't the great and dependable taste of Miller light. It was the original light beer until this day, it is still the best one!

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