The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Larry Bird's Offseason Program

Episode Date: July 29, 2024

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There are some fun things that I want to get to Stugatz, including that I drove in today and it made me like it filled my soul with something really sweet that I heard Solomon Wilcott and Ryan Leaf on a show called The Opening Drive. I heard- Wow. Well, but- Solly. Yeah, I heard their big voice announcer say,

take your morning coffee with a side of football. And I just got into my day the way that I wanted to. But before we get into talking with Juju and Tony and Mike and cody about the events of the sports weekend the big story of the day today and happy birthday to him i don't care good luck in every way stugatz has never been older this is the oldest he has ever been he has sort of shaved four days ago. He is, I don't know what the gifts are for his birthday.

We have a gift for him today for his birthday that we're going to surprise him with. Do you really? Wow. I'm very excited. The first time the show has gotten me a gift. I think, I think guys, you know what the surprise gift is, right? Everybody knows except for Stugats. In terms of gifts gifts where would this

rank on greatest birthday gifts that we could just give Stu gots to make him happy number one really hmm Tony hold on Tony but Tony you're aggressively knowledgeable there where I've got a show full of people who knows who gots for a long time is this the you're promising the number one gift that we could possibly get Stu gots to make happen. I know my guys, Stu gots. I know my guys, Stu gots. I know what he likes. Obviously he's done a lot of things. He's gone to the sphere. He's done God knows what with the dead. Like this, if we could do one thing for Stu today, it would be this. Mike, do you know what the gift is or do not? All right.

Juju, do you know what the gift is or not? Happy birthday No. It'll be a surprise for me too. Do you know what the gift is or not? Happy birthday Mike. Okay, so this is not a great room to ask. I know who it is, but based off Tony's guess, I'm thinking the dead. Oh, it's a person. It's a person. All right. Chris, go sit in the penalty box.

Go sit in the penalty box. Well, Tony was very smart to clarify. It's the best we could do today. If you were telling me perhaps that in a few weeks you were sending me back to the sphere to go to three more deading company shows that would be great and probably number one on my list but that is not today. Today is today. But it seems to you and the audience like we were getting you an actual gift and no one likes the guy like Chris Cody who ruins the surprise right off the bat. Right? Like already the surprise is ruined by

making it a who. He gave him too many details. You would have ruined it in like 30 seconds. I still don't know if it matters. Neither does Mike and neither does Juju. Yeah, I haven't actually given the punitive measures that we've just taken. Don't tell me. I'm not going to tell you. I'm just going to tell the audience and I'm telling Stugs right now that I really do think it's going to make him happy And it's hard to make Stu gots happy these days as he ages He's struggling with his age. It's always I've got my right arm hurts I you know, this is wrong. He's become full-blown old person who complains about everything He's always been that but it's now older person that does it. Trying my best to make him happy on his birthday.

We got Nadal and Djokovic on the red clay for possibly the last time. Yeah. It is not delivering right now. No. Thank God that clay is red, because it is a bloodbath. Well, it's making me sad, because Nadal is finished. I asked you who was winning, and you gave me a look like, duh. Nadal is getting crushed.

And so I am sad today, because Mike, we're seeing the very end of what is one of the greatest runs in the history of tennis. Yeah. The achievement here for Nadal was to get his body ready to actually be here for Paris because it wasn't looking like he'd have this sendoff. We kind of already said goodbye to him at Roland Garros, but he was trying to get his body ready for this Olympics and we got that.

And so in many ways the victory for this Olympics and we got that. And so in many ways the victory for him was just getting out there. Let me stop you guys for just a moment because I don't believe. Talking tennis. Yeah, no, I want to talk. No, I want to talk about this with you.

Nice little rally going. And I want to get to the stories of the day as well because I didn't expect to start with this. But Tony, just please find for me because I think we overlook this shit all the time away than furious me and not under respecting the people in sports and what they put their body through look at the group and adults not going to walk right the rest of his life because of what he's done to his feet because of what he's had to do in terms

of taking medicine shots to stay out there because you have no earthly idea how tough this human being is whose left arm is a a a human thigh bigger than his right arm because he's distorted his body to play tennis that way he might give us a moment we got a breakpoint oh boy look up for me Tony please just the pain that Nadal is in when you say get his body right for one last run because we saw three Michael Jordans dominate tennis for 15 years and he happens to be the third best Yeah, there's no not that's not on clay, but not on clay. He's good

Well, he's the best ever but not not on clay And so we got I do want to celebrate this for a moment because it is rare that we have sporting events going on Wow, how nice has it been to get up in the morning and you've got at the Olympics that are there through the the peacock coverage has been to get up in the morning and you've got at the Olympics that are there. The peacock coverage has been unbelievable. This is the first time we've had a streamer like this have these rights for the summer Olympics at a reasonable time. So you're watching all these things pretty much live as they're happening and so easy to follow.

And plus you got the gold zone, which has gotten tremendous reviews. I watched some of it. It's a whip around show like the Red Zone before Olympics. And it'll only get more exciting as you get more and more games of consequence here as we get into the medal rounds. I think Nadal has won 22 Grand Slams, if my math is correct, and yet he is the third best of that generation. That's crazy.

It is. And what's even crazier is that there are so many guys like that are fourth, fifth, and sixth, and seventh, that if they played in any other generation would probably be talked about as like all time great. This is a show that we did two weeks ago, but I think Nadal is kind of, he's entered that Tiger Woods territory. And I don't know if you guys saw a photo

of Tiger Woods' leg without a leg sleeve. His legs are just totally mangled from that but whenever you see tiger playing in a tournament and he'll get he's good for the birdie on the first on the first hole right and always get you excited yeah and you always kind of hope like this guy's got one in him he's not as good as he once was but he can be as good as he ever was just one more time no no still gots has been saying that about tiger here for the last three years predicts he wins every tournament.

No, and then he misses cuts. He won the Masters. He did, but that was before the car crash. Five years ago. Well, the other car crash. But I was saying he had one more rhythm before that for five years and then he won the Masters. I'm saying he's got one more. He's got one more. You've been wrong on Tiger Woods for five straight years. Every tournament, wrong. You always say he's going to win, misses the is the cut Tony what do you have for me on the doll so obviously there's been a lot of injuries with the doll as in any pro athlete who's been playing for so long but since 2005 he's had a symptom called the Mueller Weiss syndrome which is a rare condition that affects the adult navicular bone one of the most crucial bones of the human foot that connects the ankle to the bones of the foot and

there's no cure for it so he just basically plays on it with no cure and it's debilitating. He says he can't walk out. For 20 years he's been playing in that kind of pain because you have no earthly idea how hard it is to be tough enough to be third best of that era. An injury that I think has made worse on this surface and probably became a thing because of this surface that he excelled on. So, all right, so, but this is where I wanted to start with you, Stugatz, because we're talking seriously here

about pain threshold and recognizing greatness, measuring greatness, valuing greatness. Cause the two stories today coming in here are the Olympics in general, and I put it front and center at that. Team USA basketball because it's the great connecting point and I want to talk about LeBron even though people are really tired of LeBron because I don't think we understand how unfair we've been to excellence during an era.

Over the last 20 years social media mocking people, he was always chasing Michael, always chasing Michael. To see him holding that American flag and that flag means something different than it did twenty years ago but the thing holding it doesn't it's still excellence for twenty years today's ali you better appreciate it because it's today's ali that he could be the oldest player in the league holding a flag that doesn't mean what it did over the last twenty years and that he, I asked you all now, all of you, give me the greatest controversy of his career

because you just mentioned Tiger Woods, nobody does that. Social media age, 20 years, give me the greatest controversy of his career from 16, he's been exceeding expectations. To me, I think some people listening right now, they probably say China. To me, I think the greatest controversy in his career was a business decision that he made. Miami?

Yeah, he decided to come to Miami and he became a villain and he really struggled. Changing teams, exploiting free agency, and changing the entire power structure in sports, but throughout the time, chasing a ghost in Michael Jordan, and he would never be more first than Michael Jordan. And you know how hard it is to tackle Michael top tackle michael jordan is america's

ultimate winner not even brady could do it cuz he wasn't first so michael jordan is the winner not serena williams of all time not not yet not anyone but he won the game but we have watched for twenty years somebody who holds that american flag in the middle of the Olympics and once upon a time, right? Because we don't treat Team USA this way. We don't treat anymore what it is that we're watching of this team and make it feel like

it did when it was Jordan and Barkley. But imagine Michael Jordan at the end of everything, not shooting jumpers for the Wizards, trying to make Abe Poland some money, older all the way out without them still deserving of holding the flag how emotional you would have been watching it because you're so much nicer to him because the last twenty years and so much cooler to athletes and he comes out on the other end of this a different person but before i get into the all of that still got to because

i'd i'd do think the other story here locally is how it is that you measure a quarterback's value. And Tua has just signed a contract, and it pains me the way that sports and sports coverage have changed so much. I really don't know when this happened when we cared so much that it was fifty three point one million that the dollar amounts are so important to us where we don't do this anywhere else in entertainment not like this we might say look Deadpool is the biggest opener in a for an R movie ever

but we don't care we don't care what Ryan Reynolds makes in that movie nobody's talking about that. But in this case, we care because we're not certain if this particular quarterback is worth the $55 million for whatever reason. We don't have these concerns with Joe Burrow. We certainly don't have them with Patrick Mahomes. We have them with this guy. He did it for a year. They haven't won a playoff game. They were one in six against teams with winning

records last year. There are a lot of questions and a lot of concern. So I understand why we're doing it with 2A. Plus, the Dolphins did not have to sign this quarterback right now. They didn't have to do it, Dan. When you say, I want to have the macro conversation, okay? Because the micro conversation is absolutely, is he worth every penny right now this year salary cap sport i want to have the bigger conversation of how the sports coverage is changed in

twenty years that contaminates and corrupts the way we've used someone like lebron because when you know what everyone is making all the time your perpetually in sports media assigning value to them and then skip bales makes a career of saying you're not as valuable as you think you are, making us all more valuable. Like, the criticism game of 20 years that LeBron James has survived to hold that flag, Kaepernick couldn't survive it under that flag. And I tell you again, look at what happened when the temptation arrived for Tiger Woods.

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Fewer cows and carbs than premium regular beer. Don LeBretard. Uh, Chris Cody does an impression. Just be careful. Dangerous game. This is a dangerous game. I don't want to play this game. No, he was saying, man, I can do such a great Kendrick Berkley. No, I don't want to play this game.

He's like, man, I can talk to you. This is who we're going to trust with this. Let's let Amin do it, I think. Stugats. I think you could do it, Chris, because you did a great Charles Barkley. You're one for one there. Did no one just hear the segment we just did with Am mean we cannot be judgment is that the council from the local drunk on whether or not you?

Should do the impersonation of a black man stumbling over his words like you don't see the bad There was mosey moody moody Moses Moody Moses? Moses? Moody? Don't, don't, don't. You need that. It sounds worse. Chris, be careful man. We gotta, like, we cannot do this! It's too close to the line! This is where the line is! Something legitimately funny can't be funny because we're scared our ginger's gonna do something racist by accident. Carry the hell on, Dan!

Rachel. Dan, the line is where we feel alive though! This is the Dan LeVatar Show with the StuGats. LeBron James' greatest controversies are he was his own man in a way that was publicly vocal in a way Tiger and Michael never would. And when he carries that flag it means something different. He's not doing it just to sell sneakers but he will but it means something to him to be the oldest athlete in the game and to have survived 20 years of our endless bullshit about you're great but not great enough. Well I think people are obsessed with money particularly because it's a cap sports and

you kind of have to in the day of sports take them you have to get that in look Phil Mickelson probably has the worst sports contract in all of pro sports but no one cares primarily because it's golf and it's live golf at that but it's not a cap sport his ability to make that money isn't stopping his team from signing anybody else so you have have, like, I know there's Hollywood budgets assigned to movies, and even in Deadpool, they kind of make fun of how cameos affect the budget, but that's why people don't care so much. Mike, that's a neat rationalization for now.

We've been obsessed with the money of athletes before the Salomon Cup. You are right. The Olympics got you charged up, my man. Yeah. Like, it came in hot. I got a cool stat for for you LeBron James is four years older than Larry Bird was when Larry Bird was on the dream team Do you remember how old There is old there's Wilford Brimley old. Yeah, but pro sports old to me is

Larry Bird on the dream team. Yeah, where his back got wrecked by repaving his mom's driveway that Larry Bird on the dream team. Where his back got wrecked by repaving his mom's driveway. That Larry Bird. LeBron is four years older than that Larry Bird. And still a shining example for our culture. Like our culture we used to see in our superstars and our heroes take a big dive after a while. Like Dan said, it's been 20 years of an unblemished resume for an example to be made for children to follow him,

for an example for players to follow him, and now he got his son. He's gonna be in the history book, so to do all of that, and whenever it's two, everybody on the NBA, USA team is the man. But when two minutes left, everybody know, pass the damn ball to LeBron, he got a look in his eyes. And so with that still being like,

he said, older than Larry Bird, come on, man, you are a legend. I don't know, bro. Michael Jordan is the ultimate winner, but this, I think LeBron is the ultimate example. Example of what? Not winning though. No, example of a black culture being able to follow

a black example without a blemish on his record. To Juju's point, he spoke to it too. When he was being interviewed as he was there holding the flag next to Coco, he mentioned like for a black man to be holding this flag and set that example. He's always been aware of it, he's always aspired to be something in some respects sometimes something greater more impactful on social issues than he can be but he's also shown in his career that he can be super impactful. Just look at his time with the Heat and wearing the hoodies and the statement. If you

look back at the reaction to that now we see political statements made all the time even though that's more of a social rights issue, a civil rights issue, but he is always keenly aware of what the goal should be for a role model and he's never slipped up to Dan's point. His only slip up was a business decision. Right, no he's great and Dan he has received over these 20 years a lot of praise as well. I mean all we're saying is he's not as good as Michael. That's it. There's no shame in that. Stugats, it has always been delivered as there is shame in that and for 20 years a lot of people have profited off of how much crueller the coverage is of everything because we know everything about how much these people

make and we have an access to them that we didn't have during Michael Jordan's more mythological time. But with the money you're talking about actors we don't care about what they make if movies had a cap on them We would care I still got listen if right if we had a hundred million dollar cap for a movie and Reynolds took up 80 And we couldn't get to Caprio because Reynolds took up too much money. We'd be no last in Reynolds I mean the cap here the cap that you the thing that you guys do to rationalize the bad behavior of how often you spend You know putting a dollar amount on these people. This has been a total change in sports media, Stugatz. This has

happened over the course of our lifetime and it's before the salary cap that it started. The salaries in the paper, in the newspaper, knowing what everybody makes. When I'm watching Tua and you're talking about the micro of whether he's worth, like this is funny Stu Gots, that Tua's 53.1 million and Goff is 53 million. That's on purpose. That's absolutely his agent doing that on purpose. No, give us 100,000 more than Goff when we do it that way. It's not because everyone's saying,

how much does that $100,000 keep us from paying Jalen Ramsey next year, to God? That's not, and everyone's a capologist. We're just busybodies who wanna know exactly every dollar that everybody makes and be okay with wanting to know it. Like, we want that information. It's a total change in the way we cover these people. How much of the salary cap is Robert Downey Jr. eating up for doom? It's a total change in the way we cover these people. How much of the salary cap is Robert Downey Jr.

eating up for doom? It's doctor doom. Yeah, he didn't spend seven years in evil medical school for you to just call him doom. You hit the stat of the day music, Chris, and I aired last week and giving a stat that was wrong and ended up being wrong. I had said that Mark Sanchez had won more playoff games.

This bothered me all weekend. Really? Yeah, well, yeah, it did. It stuck with you. The stat of the day. You gotta let it go, man. No, it's the stat of the day. It's gotta be right. The stat of the day has to be right. It's all it's gotta be. And I said that Mark Sanchez had won more playoff games than the combination of Dak Prescott, Kirk Cousins, Lamar, Jackson, Kyler Murray and somebody else. And it turns out that Lamar Jackson won his second this year to make it so that that group of people has five instead of four. And so the stat, you understand what the point is. What's happening with Rafa? Rafa, he gave us the moment

Oh, he's back. Oh, he's broken Joker twice. It's four four in the second set all the feels I got goose He's talking to you right now It's Rafa. It's Joker. It's rolling Garros He's back. He wants to go five sets, right? Yeah Yeah, I don't think they can do that in the Olympics go five sets right? He always does. I don't think they can do that in the Olympics. It's kind of like boxing where I'm worried about the boxer's health and then I find out oh it's just three rounds. Go crazy folks. I just want to and I know this this happens every time Stugets that I talk about Lebron. Every single time it happens where somebody is out there saying you are giving

too much praise to this person. he doesn't deserve the praise and all i'm telling you is as close as someone can be in sports in the modern age to the degree will allow it because i'll leave was first right to the degree will allow it he is that combination of the modern michael jordan and the mock Muhammad Ali in the way that he is represented overcoming what the body must to be Rafael Nadal and him and and to get to a game yesterday that you're watching that he still Stugatz

great at his age. I want to talk about the the physical aspects because we we saw Brady into his mid-40s do things we'd never seen before, but the way that he played the position, he doesn't, look, if it's a foot race, we know that Tom Brady probably, if he had to lean on his athleticism more, he probably would have been out of the league sooner. But faster at 45 than he was at the combine at 22 because of medicine and science. Understood, and he totally changed and warped our perception of how quarterback should age to the point that we're still

struggling with it. LeBron plays a different sport and at a different position where he is fully reliant on his athleticism. There's mental IQ stuff too. He's a basketball genius. Don't get me wrong. But he still has to drive the lane. He still has to be strong.

That Larry Bird shit is not a joke And he is he is a case study for how far sports medicine has advanced I was talking about this with Chris Whittingham in a group chat like the other day about specifically about Larry Bird Larry Bird's offseason training plan one year was to stop drinking Miller lights Which you should never do never Which you should never do. Never do, never do. There's ways to manage your training though and still enjoy a nice Miller light.

Larry Bird, I've lost respect for Larry Bird. What? Yes, I've lost respect. This is brought to you by Miller lights. Well, it clearly didn't work, so it was a bad plan for him. But that's not a joke. He really hurt his back repaving a driveway. he LeBron is doing things that is probably gonna be super unfair for the generations that follow the same way that Tom Brady just wholly warped our

perception of what the quarterback position should age like he is unlike anybody else and we will only know how to really put him in the proper context until his career is over or he's long gone. I'm telling you to do it now is what I'm telling you. I'm offering you the opportunity to do it now because a step beyond what you're saying, Mike, is you could say all you want about science and use the extraterrestrial Tom Brady. But I listened last week to Carmelo and Dwayne Wade trying to tell me what their history was, change it in podcasts while he's still out here doing it. Science didn't do for them, science

didn't get them to holding this flag still playing for Team USA. Just want to make sure I'm clear, your lost respect for Larry Bird is brought to you by Miller Lite? Yes, that is correct. A shot of Miller Lite for your life. That's right. Larry Bird, I have lost respect for you because the way that you said that you got in shape is by stopping drinking Miller Lite. That was his claim. We don't know if it actually happened. The insanity, Stugats, OK, in a sport that changes so quickly

that imbede an international play looks a bit lumbering. It looks like a seven footer. A bit? What are we doing there? Jason Tatum can't get on the court. No, Kurt just made a mistake there. He's like, oh shit I forgot. Why do we insist on playing Joel Embiid like our third best center for international basketball because there's no three-second rule and every game starts the same like well we got to feed Joel we got to worry about Joel

meanwhile Tatum's feelings are being ignored. I think Steve Kerr did a great job explaining like, no, I'm the coach and Kevin Durant looked like Kevin Durant yesterday. He ain't look like Kevin. He like the God Kevin Kerr yesterday. And on top of that, brother, if my decision is to sit your ass at the end of this bench, the entire Olympics, that's my decision. I'm the coach. So sit over there NBA champion. Sit down. Hold cd hold on this that's not exactly how i'm

not going to do it and i mean that's that's the model but let's get the coach got his sound though because i think what he said is i feel like a total idiot yeah it's tough but jason handled it really well i talked to him today before the game that they may play out this way, just with Kevin coming back and the lineups that I wanted to get to. But that'll change. Jason's going to play.

Every game's going to be different based on matchups. He's a total pro. He's first team all NBA three years in a row. I felt like an idiot not playing him. But in a 40-minute game, you can't play more than 10. You really can't. And, you know, so I just, I think he's, he's an amazing guy, great player and handled it

beautifully and he'll be back out there next game. I was shouting at my television on a steel and dunk, Drew Essay, Drew Essay, and just so you know, Stu Gott, so that you're clear on this, the reason that Tatum did not play is because that's the best half Kevin Durant has ever played. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. LinkedIn Jobs has the tools to help find the right professionals for your team, faster and for free.

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You and me, both had tears in our eyes. We're like mom and dad of sentiment, and it's hard to get you to sentiment, man. That was a very emotional moment for us to see those guys. I'm telling you guys, you were on stage. Dan and I were both crying. Are you guys aware of this? Crying.

Like crocodile tears. We believe they were crying. No, crocodile tears are fakes. Crocodile tears are fakes. I thought they meant big. This is the Dan LeBataar Show with the StuGards. What birthday is this for you? Is it 52? It is 52.

I don't feel a day over 75, but it is 52. How are you feeling about things today? Is it your birthday? Will it be a celebratory day? I don't know what age birthdays stop feeling like something you feel like. About five years ago? Celebrate. Yeah. I don't know. age birthdays stop feeling like something you feel like you should celebrate. About five years ago? Yeah, I don't know. I'm not going to celebrate much. It's a Monday. I don't like birthdays on a Monday. I just want to get through the

show, have fun during the show today, get through the show, go home, take a gummy, maybe play some golf. I mean, it's what life is all about, Dan, at this stage of my life, you know? Gummies and golf. How was the New York experience? You spent last week there around your dream scenario. How did that go? It seemed like it was very polarizing. It seems like it was volatile. It was a bit uncomfortable. I don't care.

You know, at this stage, I go in there. I throw a couple of grenades. I have everyone saying out loud into microphones that they too won Evan Roberts' job. And you know, mission accomplished. I walk out, they talk about me today. Evan Roberts job and you know mission accomplished. I walk out, they talk about me today, they bash me, some people liked it, some people didn't like it. You know what, Dan, what can I do?

I'm not going to stay up at night worrying about pleasing everyone because you know what, I can't please everyone. I can only go and do these things and try to have as much fun as I can have and I felt like I had fun except for that one hour where my stomach was in such shambles I almost crapped myself on the air. What happened was that when you were confronted by that guy in half a hood? Oh, tyranny? No, this was just just bad food the day before. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. So it was just you just didn't feel good? You were just gonna crap yourself? There was a good hour where I left geo hanging several times

Because I wasn't really listening to what it is. He was saying I was focused on trying to keep everything inside Oh, that's yeah, it was it was not a great situation. My back was sweating. It's sweating just talking about it right now So about your stomach about has that ever happened to any of you where you can't not I'm talking about on air Oh, no, of course. This is happening. No not i'm talking about on a half on air of course this is happening i don't know i'm talking about on air but there's a lot of time we've put in over the years uh... where a bathroom situation makes it so that you can't concentrate on what you're doing for a full hour i don't think that that is ever happened to me i think adults generally have

control of their bowels better than that but i think this might be a new problem we've been doing this a long time just blame indian food generally have control of their bowels better than that. I think this might be a you problem. We've been doing this a long time. Did you just blame Indian food? I didn't say Indian food. I just said the food I had the day before. I went out, I had a nice brunch with Diana Racini and I noticed that we were at a place, I noticed that she took a single bite of what it was she was eating and I ate my entire thing and we ordered the same thing was an omelet she took one bite stopped eating I ate it all I asked her why'd you only take a bite she never answered because her face is always in

her phone and so but it dawned on me as I was thinking back to it in the moment you think you poisoned yourself you think you ate something I think she ate something she knew it was bad she forgot to tell me to not eat the thing that she wasn't eating because she was reporting. If that's not the life of an NFL insider right there in a nutshell, doesn't have time, put it on the poll please, Juju, at LeBittar Show. Does an NFL insider have time to tell their friends they might be food poisoned? And I was so hungry I ate mine-month they took a bite of her i mean i reached over she was a big net so i got a little piece off

and i had a bite of her so uh... but it was fun i had a good week uh... you know it was a little frosty up there i gotta be honest lost the just you know people are happy with me for whatever reason it take the program directors job i want everyone else's job on vocal about it uh... there was some people in that building who are not big fans of mine and quite frankly I don't blame them I was I don't know rolled over when that guy confronted he's big yeah oh he's

physically big yeah he's on my list of top five sports radio goons of all time it's him Dan Cilio I mean Sal Okada is also on the list but I like Sal a lot but those guys are big man they intimidate Dan I'm 5'7 I'm 52 years old what am I gonna do at this point? Well not say things that offend them. You're right. I apologize to them. We love you Stu guys you got a building full of folks here that's gonna ride and die for you brother so thank you salute to those big brothers who are quote-unquote big but we got your back. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Somebody's flexing. You don't give a damn about none of that weakness. Nowhere else, you feel me. Come on, bro, you our partner. You ride or die, bad boys for life.

I love you, man. Thank you. I feel your love, Juju, I do. I do. Kevin Durant had never dropped 20 points on 100% from the field in any half of his NBA career, including the postseason. He went eight for eight against Serbia.

That part, the part that was funniest about that game is Oh look When yokich is out there at Serbia and team USA are exactly even and then yokich has to go sit for a little while No, there goes team USA 29 and 3 We're forgetting to play players Well, they forget if it had gone deep in the game we would have tried to wear down yokich But he could have beaten all of the but he's not it before uh... but he can he can be out there just a cement mixer because this part's amazing right joellen b looks you know i mean come on man

so joellen b doesn't fit in this game look at it what do you mean he doesn't fit with every kind of basketball i've ever seen all but you'll get you can dominate no matter where I put him? No matter where I put him, doesn't matter who's guarding him, doesn't matter how you want to play the game. You want to play it on your knees? He'll beat you that way too. Everyone's got to play on their knees.

It's all in here, Dano. Right here, the heart. The joker got more heart than damn near the whole Serbia. And Bede got less than Philly. I want to get to Stugats in about 10 minutes what Mike is saying about the Gold Zone, the broadcast. So good. I was watching and I didn't realize because I didn't read much of the coverage when I heard Mike Turico's voice for the opening ceremonies and my wife and I were just spending the entire time laughing about how French it was. I'm thinking to myself, is that Peyton Manning?

That sounds like Peyton Manning. Why would it be Peyton Manning? It was so funny the very first Mike Turico hit, they pan out and it's just, here's Kelly Clarkson and Peyton Manning. It's just like what? No, but I hadn't seen Peyton Manning. I was just listening to his twang and I'm like, that's clearly Peyton Manning,

but why would it be Peyton Manning? Well, why not? Well, just, I mean. He's an Olympic hero. Right, I mean, duh. Flag football, next Olympics, what do you mean? I was, I legitimately, are never bothered to look it up it the information just came to me over the next two days that yes that is not

only kelly clarkson but it's it is paid manning but to recognize a quarterback by his accent when most people in america can't recognize it any of the wide receivers if they walk in and sit in your living room. I think it's a fairly amazing thing to have a voice that you recognize because it's been a part of your life for 15 years and you're confused as to why it's there.

And then when you think about it, you're like, nah, it should be there. Why? Because I recognize that voice. It's everywhere. Djokovic has done this occasionally in his career where he does not take a hostile crowd well and he shows his true self. He's a heel. He's a villain. He eggs them on. So Nadal was making a run here, fought off breakpoint after breakpoint. It's a best out of three in the Olympics and Nadal had tapped in, turned back the clock, tapped into his greatness and the crowd really rallied behind a Roland Garris hero in Raphael Nadal. They were booing Djokovic. So when Djokovic finally broke Nadal, he chirped

back at the crowd who was booing at him and he was talking to them and now he just won the match. In his celebration, he took his tennis racket and started playing it as a sad violin that bastard the Joker and that's how it ends for Nadal the Joker playing like the villainous Joker did you guys I saw this the other day Stugats the trailer for the penguin as have any of you seen the trailer for The Penguin? I have, yeah. And do you recognize, Mike, don't spoil it. Do you recognize who that person is?

Because it's not a, if I can show you a picture, if you were to get- Is it a spoiler if the movie already came out? It's a continuation of the Batman movie. Is it Ron Sey? It is not. The third baseman, the former third baseman for the Los Angeles Dollars. Is it Ron Sey? It is not the third baseman, the former third baseman for the Los Angeles dollars. Is it Minnie Driver? You can give, you can put that picture in front of Stugat of the penguin and he could give you a thousand

guesses and not be able to tell you. Throw it up on the screen. I have the video department find a video of the, or a still image of the penguin from this upcoming Max series which is supposed to be a bridge to the next sequel in the, in the rebooted Robert Pattinson franchise, which I guess is independent of the, uh, the DC universe. Is that Sidney Clasby? Sid the Kid. It's Martin Straka. Oh, let's please play, play this game.

All famous, all famous Penguins is all we're gonna do Tom Barrasso stew barns I don't remember him with the penguins. Oh, dude. It was a this award It was arguably the worst trade in Panther history. They got back Chris Wells. I know that they did if I didn't realize it had been to The penguins for God terrible trade what a glorious time that was when we were heartbroken by hockey trades We haven't even gotten to the Marlins trading their only star. They're the only player anyone recognizes. That statement. I have no connection to Jazz, but when he in his statement mentioned Miami Blue and Caliente Red, I felt that. Chris Cody, how did you feel about this? I take it that Billy is taking some earned vacation. He has been ground to a nub by all things happening around hereody how did you feel about this i take it that billy's taking some earned vacation he has been ground to a nub by all things happening around here

how did you feel about jazz chism being traded because he goes to the yankees and uh... i've not had this reaction before stugats this is not happening in the history of this market in baseball betraying this market again and again and stugats i will tell you uh... baseball was my first love in this market again and again it's to god's i will tell you uh... baseball was my first love in this market i uh... it's the first thing that i covered professionally in this market uh... the nineteen ninety three marlins will be it's what i grew up on before

university of miami footballer anything else i've cared about baseball in this market and baseball again again the way that makes me get no argument the commissioner baseball is treated uh... uh... south florida as a brothel they can't make the the business work here because a bunch of thieves in and greedy people come in and ransack our local baseball team pretending to try and make baseball matter down here when all that matters is the business of it

she can't get attached to players but when they traded jazz chism like i've been mad at him i've been in different i've been uh... just ravenously ravenously uh... angry anyway i don't get about sports share because of how brazen it is that they just keep using at a street i care about a street where my grandmother grew up to just ransack

South Florida they traded jazz chism and I was happy for him because now he'll get to play baseball in a place where people Will be seen Watch him and get to play meaningful game care and his personality can come out because he escapes the prison That is this this haunted franchise. I'm good with it I want Peter pen to Bendix to get a chance to do his thing Like if if we're gonna criticize every movie makes why'd we bring him here jazz is a good player I don't find him as a guy that we needed to keep he was one of the few people we can move So I totally get the move. I'm gonna let Bendix do his thing

That's where I'm at, but I think Dan is tired of getting the move. No, I know. I am too. I am too. I'm exhausted with the whole process. But of course you get the move. It's because they're never good. It's not just that. No, they made the playoffs last year. It's not just that. It's what man, look, the lifeblood of sports, man, is do you care about the people? Like, you can care about the team, but you can't just keep sending people off that fanbases care about without really but you can't just keep sending people off that fan bases care about without really betraying your customers. You can't do it so many times that you're not going to actually kill the business.

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