The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: One of Jesus' Favorite Churches

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

Today's Cast: Dan, Chris, Billy, Roy, Mike. Did you see what Shohei Ohtani did last night? Billy was there and is all fired up about his team getting absolutely dominated in the single greatest individual performance we have ever seen on on a baseball diamond. Jeremy saw it too, but despite trying to get the show to talk about baseball all week is not here for the one time we actually do. Billy has a take about Skip Schumaker after he refused to walk Shohei Ohtani despite the game being out of hand, leading to his historic 50th home run of the season. Plus, Mike Francesa had a terrible Shohei take, Miami has had some incredible baseball moments, Mike Schur is really pissed at the way we talk about baseball and Mike Ryan has a big announcement about some new content coming your way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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But we have a baseball numbers story to celebrate today. And Billy Gill in a crazy moment where he says to himself, I'm gonna go to the ballpark expecting to see someone hit two home runs and steal a base. Hoping to see that. Expecting it. Buying the ticket, paying your money because you expect to be rewarded for going to the ballpark with the bet that someone's gonna hit two home runs and steal a base. And the guy overachieves beyond those expectations and makes the Marlins

ticket the best value in sports yesterday. How many people were there with you yesterday? Oh, I mean after the game when they resold the tickets I'd say 45,000 at least when the capacity is like 37. I have a bone to pick with them but we don't need to get to that. That's for later on. That's for later on. We don't need to get to bone picking yet. Well here's the thing about bone picking, okay? You gotta bone pick your spots when you bone pick cause you don't wanna bite the hand. Bone pick your spots.

That sometimes lets you call spring training games. But here's the thing. Alright, if we're gonna resell tickets after the game. This isn't for now, we'll talk about it later. Samson was so happy to see them reselling tickets after the game. What happened to the guy who almost caught the ball and what happened to the person who did get the ball and then just walked out? Evidently Craig Mish is reporting that the person who got the historic baseball just left with it wouldn't negotiate anything

for the baseball. That seems nuts. It's a heady play. I saw ups and downs on those reports from Craig Mesh. I believe that at first they were not discussing and then they did discuss and then the person decided to leave with the ball. I also had read the person was unaware of who Shohei Otani was that ended up with the baseball, which is simply incredible.

Which kind of makes sense. If you have no clue about it and all of a sudden you have this thing and everyone around you is just freaking out, I'm gonna slow down a little bit, not gonna make any rash decisions, gonna take this thing home, and then I'm gonna get all my options

and then I'll get back to you. I like that baseball still honors that tradition because any other sport with a ball, if the ball goes into the stands, it's understood, it goes right back. People will find you and make sure you give it back. There's so many things to talk about about yesterday's game.

Like, I don't know the last time we've had a baseball story that we wanted to talk about so much. Billy, can you say we wanted to talk about so much, but all Mike and Chris want to talk about is Aaron Rodgers and Salah bumping each other last night. That was actually big, too. Like, everyone on the internet thinks they know what that is. I know what that was.

I know that it's the way we cover sports today, that you guys won a Thursday night Jets game that wasn't interesting. You wanna talk about a bump instead of a baseball guy who went 50-50 with the most amazing baseball game I've ever seen played by a single human being. And the only way it would have been better and bigger is if he had also pitched,

which he could do if he's healthy. It's like the inverse of Sposter and LeBron. In this situation, Aaron Rodgers actually achieved something that we didn't think he could do. And of course, he, at that time, were free-falling. We were into that story, though, for some reason. This one doesn't do it for us? Don't say that something you didn't think

Aaron Rodgers can do. I think Aaron Rodgers can play competent quarterback for that football team. Mike's the one out here doubting that. Yes. No, I'm not doubting that he can be competent quarterback for that football team. Mike's the one out here doubting that. That team? Yes. No, I'm not doubting that he can be competent. That's all they need. Okay, but don't project a false take on me. I think he can be competent. I just don't think he can be Aaron Rodgers.

What is it that he did yesterday? Beat the Patriots? Come on. No, he in an age of every quarterback is playing poorly. He's not gonna make the mistakes. Like I've got Kevin Clark rising in the industry telling me that all quarterbacks are bad because of how the defense has caught up to offense and Aaron Rodgers if he plays like that can beat all of the bad teams in the league which is what got the Dolphins into the position that they were in last year all that team needs to do is get competent quarterback play how did you fool me already? I wanna talk about Otani, not a bump. This is the Don Leventor Show with the StuGuts Podcast.

I am thrilled that Marlins correspondent, Billy Gill, you spent how much on a ticket to get into that historic event yesterday? I spent $27 for my seat there were cheaper seats, but I splurged. Where did you go myself? Where did you go to get those tickets? Game time yeah Were you a new customer? No, I've used game time so often that I couldn't use the promo code unfortunately, but you can oh, yeah Well, you can listening in the audience right now promo code Dan code Dan, create an account, you get $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply.

Download Game Time today. Chris Cody, what time is it? Game Time? Billy, $27 for how good a ticket because for all the historic stuff yesterday, that's the first time a Dodger has gotten to 50 home runs. Oh yeah, that's why I think a lot of people are there to see Sean Green's record go down.

Ah! That is during the middle of the game, he became the first player ever to have two home runs, two doubles, and two stolen bases. I shouldn't say ever, since 1901. First player to get two home runs, two doubles, and two stolen bases in the game. Can we just, guys, and we don't speak for everyone

in the baseball public, and I'm sure Mike Schur will complain about this to you later on. Can we just agree right now, if it happened before 1901, it didn't happen. Like enough of this since 1901 crap, like I don't care what happened in 1872. Like no one cares what happened on those teams. Those don't count, those records are not things anymore.

It's the first time ever, not since 1901 anymore. Moving forward, we are not acknowledging anything before 1901. In baseball. Put it on the poll, thank you, put it on the poll. If it happened before 1901, did it really happen at LeBretard's show? And if it happened after 2004, I won't acknowledge it.

Because you've checked out on most of baseball, but yesterday, we are living in a time of majestic athletic mastery, okay? Simone Biles, Serena Williams, Tom Brady, LeBron James, and this baseball beast who has mastered the game in such a way that yesterday he makes a number matter he makes two numbers matter again steroids destroyed all the numbers

baseball lost all of its historic greatness around numbers and yesterday that was not so because all of us are watching that happen to the marlin so when i say it's the first time since nineteen oh one to home runs to doubles to stolen bases in the middle of the game and then started topping that with a six for six there was also something else that happened yesterday that was historic and has never happened before to home runs to doubles to stolen bases

and a marlins crowd and a crowd at a marlins game that Billy paid $27 and how good were the seats that you got for $27? They're decent, they were like, I mean, there's this whole thing, I'd say they were row eight, but then there's like a whole alphabetical aspect to the situation where there's like the double A row and then there's like the A row.

So like, they're pretty good, they were like right by first base, we picked that first base side because he's a left-handed hitter, so I could see the trajectory of the ball. Should it go out? The game was so crazy, Dan. You're listing all the things that he did.

Six for six, three home runs, 10 RBI, two stolen bases. I was just hoping for two home runs and one stolen base, which I was like, this is reaching. But here's the thing about the game. He could have had four home runs because his first double hit the wall. He could have hit for the cycle because he got thrown out going to third base,

which he had no business doing. Also, that first stolen base of the two, he was out by 10 feet in just a terrible tag attempt and he was able to sneak by. But the 50-50, which he's never seen before, he did in the same game. He got his 50th stolen base and his 50th home run in the same game.

And his 51st stolen base and his 51st home run in the same game. It his 51st stolen base, and his 51st home run in the same game. It was an insane game to be at. Totally crazy. Can we just argue that Billy spent $27 to watch the single greatest game an individual has played in our lifetime? We can agree on that, correct?

Like none of us have ever seen a better baseball game played by an individual than the one that was played yesterday. I don't wanna be this guy saying, We can agree on that, correct? Like none of us have ever seen a better baseball game played by an individual than the one that was played yesterday. I don't wanna be this guy so quickly, but the third home run was against the middle infielder. It was so far. That home run was so far.

That was ridiculous. It was like 440 BS. There's no chance that went 440. By the way, let me share you a stat. I don't know if we have a stat today. Stat of the day, stat of the day, whatever. I don't know if it's sponsored. So here's a stat, courtesy of Optistats, okay?

Since RBI became an official stat in 1920, only one MLB player has had, over the course of his entire career, same game or not, a game with 10 plus RBI, a game with six plus hits, a game with five plus extra base hits, a game with three plus home runs, and a game with two stolen bases. That one player is Shohei Otani.

He did it all in one game. That's over the span of a career. There's never a person that has done all of that. And he did it in one game. When you talk about Bones to pick, Billy, because I believe the sports media feeds on bones to pick and it is something. He was a leadoff hitter yesterday had 10 RBI Dan, a leadoff hitter had 10 runs batted in.

How does that happen? The Dodgers are stacked. Yeah, they're pretty good. A seven, eight and nine getting on enough for the number one to drive you in 10 times is crazy. And I don't know if a lot of people know this. Here's another fun stat. The leadoff hitter hits first. So when he has his first at bat,

there's no one on base to be driven in. So he couldn't do that in his first at bat. So his 10 RBI happened from two to six at bats. And here's another thing. Normally you don't get six at bats in a game. That's not a thing that happens. The guy was almost three quarters of the way to the cycle in the third inning,

had he gotten to third base and not be thrown out. The reason that he got six at bats is because he's the leadoff hitter and they can't get him out. And so he gets six at bats because he's always on base, having the most ridiculous game any of us have ever seen. But I will say again, you've heard me lament around here for a long time that the sports debate culture and the

internet in general have made it corrosive to try and celebrate greatness. We are in an era of undisputed athletic mastery. And so, Skip Schumacher yesterday, and I want to read lips here. We're going to do this with Aaron Rodgers in a little bit, but I want you to read the lips of Skip Schumacher here. He's down 11 to 3 in the seventh, and there are runners on second and third in two outs. And of course, the play here is to walk Otani. You have to walk Otani. There's no reason to pitch to him here, but

The reason he pitches to him here is because they're 40 games under Schumacher is in the middle of this mess He's got a contract that allows him to get out after this year because he's a lame duck manager Because they saddled him with a bunch of garbage this year and here he is in the dugout and read his lips here on walking him He just says bleep that i have too much respect for this guy to walk him in this spot and he explained that after the game with more words but the amount of respect i know that uh... pardon my take does football guys mike zimmer's a football

guy schumacher's a baseball guy when i put when a baseball guys in the dugout saying i'm gonna get my head clubbed in here, but I'm gonna choose it because of how much I respect this guy. Listen to Schumacher talking about this after the game. I think that's a bad move, baseball-wise, karma-wise, baseball-god-wise. You go after him and see if you can get him out. And I think out of respect for the game, we're gonna go after him. He hit the home run.

I mean, you know, that's just part of the deal. He's hit 50 of them. He's the most talented player I've ever seen. He is doing things that I've never seen done before in the game. And if he has a couple more of these peak years, he might be the best ever to play the game. So I just, yeah, as a fan, yeah,

I wish I was in the stands, not in the dugout seeing it, but I'm proud of the guys that were attacking him and not scared of him. This is gonna be an unpopular opinion here, and I think I can understand the pushback that I'm going to get for this. I think Skip should be manager of the year. I don't think there's any doubting that Skip Schumacher

should be manager of the year for not walking Shohei in that spot because that damn Aaron Boone intentionally walked Miguel Cabrera when I went to see that 3,000 hit and delayed my trip to Detroit three days unnecessarily and you know what Skip said? He said, I'm not gonna anger the baseball gods. I know this moment. I'm not gonna intentionally walk him.

I respect him too much. And this man in that moment, when he could have been petty and he could have said, you know what, I've gone through it this year with this team. We're gonna lose 100 plus games, it appears. I'm not gonna give him this moment. He said, no.

For the best thing in baseball and the best thing here for this fan base, 100 plus games it appears. I'm not gonna give him this moment. He said no for the best thing in baseball and the best thing here for this fan base I am going to pitch to him. With a middle infielder. Excuse me. Be it a middle reliever or be it an infielder later in the game. I am going to give him his pitches and he is going to be great on my watch. I'm not giving him that free bag. He could have done it. He could have done it, Dan.

And you know what would have happened had he done that? He would have denied us the 10 RBI. He may have denied us, well, he would have definitely denied us one of the home runs. He may have denied the 50-50, and you never know. You never know what happens.

I don't wanna be doing gloom here. You never know what happens. Why are you standing up? I don't know. Can I not stand? Standing ovation. I think we should all standing ovation. I'm with you. Not for Shohei, for Skip. For pitching to Shohei. Mine's for Shohei. Standing ovation. Okay for Shohei. All right guys, come on. Stand up. Mine's for the middle infielder. Stand up. Mine's also for you for telling Chris to shush. By the way, you like this jersey? If you wanna see this jersey, tomorrow's the last day

they're retiring these jerseys out. Oh, thank God. But here's the thing about that. With them retiring a jersey, comes crazy sales because everything that's red is 50% off at that stadium. And by the way, when you go to pay, I found out more than 50% off. I got a dry fit Nike shirt that was tagged at $44.99 and I said you know what?

$22 is a pretty good price for a Nike shirt and then when I paid $14.99, so if you go check the prices, and I'm not going to say this, but here's the thing. I can't just get a Nike dry fit shirt for $14.99 with nothing on it if I wanted to, so some are saying putting sugar kings on it may have devalued it to the point that it's 14.99. I can't disagree with that because I paid 14.99. That's a great deal for a Nike dry fit shirt. Anyway, what are we talking about? Why not?

Because it's not a good look on TV. Nike dry fit? It gets tight to the chest. Did you have another bad interview situation? No, I'm just, the 201 was dry fit. Did you do the drawstrings at the, at the Pinterest game? I almost wore the exact same outfit

to interview the Panthers. You should have done that. Hey y'all, it's Mike and as you know it is football season. The all consuming football season. You live it, you breathe it, and you want to watch it as much as possible. Both on your TV but also sometimes you want to be a part of that atmosphere. But guess what? You don't have tickets, it's a sold out event. What are you gonna do? Well I'll tell you exactly what you do. You download the Game Time app.

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I may take it one step further. Wait a minute, we haven't... You're getting sexier by the moment. Slow down! We haven't even gotten... Stugats! Jason Sanders, you're unnoticed! Yeah! Oh my god.

What in spite of him? Oh, wow. I love you, Duke. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the StuGards. You want to get to my bone that I want to pick? No, I want to get to Roy. I've been wanting to for about 90 seconds now. Roy.

For about five minutes. Yeah, you said anger get to Roy. I've been wanting to for about 90 seconds now. Roy. For about five minutes. Yeah. You said anger the baseball gods. Correct. Gave up 20 runs last night. What are you talking about? Anger the baseball guys? I think they were pretty angry last night.

No. Yesterday was a great day for baseball. Are you crazy? You think the baseball guys were angry yesterday? The baseball gods were celebrating that one of their angels they sent down from heaven to grace us with his presence had a shining moment Amongst the crowd in what by the way would have previously been a rained out game because it was

Pouring yesterday. It was not a good day for baseball Thank You David Samson the gods were blessing the crops with their rain yesterday Because they wanted fruit to grow and they wanted things to come out of this earth to celebrate Shohei's great accomplishment which was coming later in that day. Or? No no no Jess has done nothing wrong she's not even here. Maybe the baseball guys are trying to flood the stadium. I need you to just sit down for two minutes in the other room and you can come back here and stand up. I'm coming to just sit down for two minutes in the other room and you can come back here

and stand up for a second. I'm coming back more charged. Okay, don't threaten me. You're out of control and I wanna just harness it. I want this badly. I'm gonna need it once Chris and Mike get started on talking about Aaron Rodgers and Sala. But I want to play for you a Gas Bag of the Week.

Mike Francesa once was talking about the idea of Shohei Otani to the Yankees, and this opinion here with Mad Dog didn't hold up very well. Gas Bag of the Week. I'm going to Otani now. No, funny, if the Yankees had gotten Otani. And they wanted him badly. Stand with an Abinia. No, not only with an Abinia, the question is, is he going to Otani now. No, the funny thing is, the Yankees had gotten Otani. And they wanted him badly. So he wouldn't have been here.

No, not only wouldn't have been here, the question is, is he going to embarrass somebody? Is he going to be as bad as everyone says he's been? Why are you so awful in French training? This is a guy who, people were talking about being the greatest player in baseball, they have the best player in baseball on that team. They brought a guy in and they were talking this guy up like crazy and he hasn't produced anything yet. The Yankees are lucky they didn't get him.

That sentence, that sentence at the end, just play that sentence again because if that's not something to put in the time capsule for sports media often thinks it is right and knows it all when sports media doesn't know anything, the Yankees are lucky they didn't get Otani is as bad a take as anyone can possibly have. Billy getting into that game for $27 is nuts and could only happen in our market? Maybe Tampa, maybe Oakland. I would have thought it would be dynamic pricing for the history that was gonna be made by him, buddy.

You needed a lot though. That doesn't seem like two minutes. You seemed like you got back fast. Well, you talk about the $27. What a deal on game time, and I'm gonna tell you. We're calling it price gouging dynamic pricing now. That's something that we're doing as a society. That's what they called it originally

when they started doing that, so. I was getting texts from people within the baseball community that just love baseball or watching the game and just love the moment talking about it. One was Mike Schur who was telling me, I'm scrambling to get tickets to Friday night's game to see Shohei, I can't find a ticket. I'm like, I paid $27 for this ticket

and I'm doing just fine. What was the crowd like though, Billy?? Honestly what kind of numbers did they really do because David Samson was delighted that the Marlins were selling unsold tickets to the game the way that he sold Roy Halliday unsold tickets to the game when Roy Halliday pitched a perfect game down here. It was a decent crowd. It was very Shohei leaning, the crowd, obviously. It was also a 440 start, which is like a weird start time, but it was a getaway day. So there was like a lot of Dodgers fans,

a lot of Shohei fans. It was a good crowd. Now, the bone that I had to pick, if we're gonna talk about this, has to do with the tickets being sold after. Now, I bought my tickets on Game Time, so I had digital tickets. They announced after the game,

you can go and purchase print tickets if you want for the game. So I made the line, I was standing in the line, and then I got to the ticket window, and they were selling them, advertised $25. Then there was fees included on a commemorative ticket, so it ended up being like 34 something, which is a little bit crazy.

And I ask, can you print the ticket to the seat that I bought? Like, can you print the seat that I sat in so that I can have a stub for the actual seat that I sat in? It seems unnecessary. But you're paying the fees for their convenience, right? Wouldn't any ticket work? Well, no, I wanted the actual seat that I sat in.

I'm now buying two tickets to the exact same game that I've been to. I already bought tickets. You should be able to just print the ticket I already had. This is costing you more than the actual ticket to the game. Yeah, the printed ticket after cost me more than my actual ticket to the game.

And they're like, no, we're just doing random seats. Which, look, I don't wanna abuse my position that I'm in. If there's someone within the Marlins organization that has access to the printer, I don't wanna abuse my position that I'm in. If there's someone within the Moreland's organization that has access to the printer, I will send you my seat location so you can print me my actual seats. Because you just printed me, and I should have walked away at that point and said,

you know what, no. Billy, control yourselves, control your emotions. You don't need to buy extra tickets. You're already at the game, that was enough. You have the digital ticket. You don't need a ticket stub, but guess what? Guess what? I bought the tickets regardless and they're for the 300 level which wasn't even open I'm seeing a photo here of you and Coogler. This is as happy as I've seen Coogler. He's stressed. He just had a baby Dad's night out yesterday Coogler looked that I've never seen him that happy. Uh, those are a lot of empty seats I'm seeing during what seems like

an active game. No, that was, no, no, no, that was after the game. If you, if you zoom in very tight, you'll see back there as Shohei somewhere being interviewed. Yeah. People cleared out by that point in time. I was staying around cause I was like hoping like maybe we get like a commemorative logo. I mean, obviously he's a visiting player, but maybe get something that I could take a picture of on the screen or something. There really wasn't any of that.

There was like, come back tomorrow to watch tomorrow and play the Braves and it's like, I'm good. Was it bittersweet for that crowd knowing that they could have had Shohei Otani? Man, anyone got two million dollars is all that guy went for. That's crazy. It's funny to think about.

The greatest player in baseball history has played for two million dollars. Well, he has that out, right? They let go of his employee You can technically hit the market again. What a bad day for you pay Gosh, if he could have just controlled his impulses a little bit He could have been along for this ride the interpreter could have had a good day yesterday When was the last time we might have had over two and a half bases you never know I'm not used to

The Marlins crowd giving the opposing player a standing ovation. I think the last time, tell me if I have this factually wrong, Roger Clemens during the World Series as the Yankees is the last time I remember seeing a Marlins crowd give somebody, I think Mark McGuire got the same thing when he hit a home run here, but I have not seen Marlins crowds, small though they are, show the kind of passion and reverence and respect to an opposing player to give him a standing ovation. Ken Griffey got one for his 600th home run,

and it was a worst crowd, and we're not gonna go over that story again about how I should have been at that game, but I had foot surgery and Dr. Cook didn't let me go, and I mixed the 600th home run of Ken Griffey Jr. Which at the time, I believe he was only like the fourth or fifth person to do it. You know, I was thinking about this.

We've had a lot of cool baseball moments down here in Miami. And I'm not gonna say that we as a fan base in the city don't deserve these moments. We've had a lot of cool baseball moments down here. We had this 50-50, which obviously is the first time that it has ever happened. We had Ken Griffey's 600th home run. We have had multiple World Series.

We had that Roger Clemens game, which as you pointed out, standing ovation from both teams, like the Marlins came out of their dugout, they gave him a standing ovation, and then that son of a gun decided he wasn't gonna retire anymore. That steroid using son of a gun who lied to all of us said, you know what, I'm gonna go play

for the Houston Astros. Completely making that moment irrelevant. He came back, he did that. We had the world, we have multiple world baseball classics. We had that great David Wright world baseball classic game which some of you might forget against Puerto Rico where he hit that jam job right off his bat that then dropped right in the right field line

and then everybody was running around. Why you took me back? USA, USA! I was at that game, that game was crazy. One of the best games I ever went to. The World Baseball Classic is so fun and I'm glad that you brought up the World Baseball Classic

because we had Shohei striking out Mike Trout, at the time teammates, in the World Baseball Classic for Japan to win the World Baseball Classic Championship right here in Marlins Park, which Shohei Otani last night said, one of his favorite baseball parks. Oh, music to my ears! That's like Jesus saying this is one of his favorite churches.

There's so many churches, Dan. I asked you the question. Imagine your church, Jesus' favorite. I want to ask you again the question about the crowd because you said it was a very pro-Otani crowd but we do not have a big Asian population in South Florida so we don't have a lot of Dodger fans also in South Florida and so I'm asking you, the energy of the place, you're saying wasn't necessarily Marlins fans, it was people who were respecting the moment like you that are baseball fans and were going there

to celebrate the fact that somebody unprecedented was doing an unprecedented thing. I mean, there's lots of Dodger blue in the crowd. The seats are blue, so it can be confusing. You don't know how many people are wearing Dodger's colors, how many are seats. There's lots of Dodger fans there. There's lots of Otani jerseys, but even the Marlins fans that were there,

myself included, were rooting for the moment. You wanna see this moment happen. And then when the home runs are coming and the team's already down by like 11, 12 runs, it's easier to just like lose the sense of competition and just be happy that you're experiencing this moment. By the way, here's another thing, just a note that I made.

So go on, we can go. No, no, it's all right, it's not important. Okay, here's another thing that I was noticing and I had a conversation with Kugler, I don't know if you saw Kogler's at the game too. He's telling me. You're not listening to anybody because you're just hissing.

I think it's important to see his face while I tell you this story. So like while the home run is about to happen, he's telling me these stories and these jokes that his grandmother and his dad used to make. And I didn't correct him, but as I was doing it, he had, there was a Japanese family right next to him with their camera out,

trying to capture the moment, and my thoughts the entire time was, God, I hope the microphone on this phone picks up this terrible story that he's telling me, so that their video of Shohei Otani's 50th home run is just him telling me this ridiculous story about his grandmother and his dad's inside jokes, and that moment is ruined on their phone.

There's no way that camera picked up his voice. He was talking pretty loud. He was talking pretty loud. He was talking pretty loud. There must have not been anybody in that stadium for him to pick it up. He was talking pretty loud. Softest talker I've ever encountered.

And by the way, here's another thing that that family arrived. I am so tired of your by the ways in this segment. They arrived in the bottom of the sixth inning, and they us like move into our actual seats like right next to each other. Cause we had like, you know, when you go with friends, you leave a little bit of room, you leave the room so both of you can kind of put your arms, you like open up the legs a little bit. So there's a seat in between us. The family arrived in the bottom of the sixth inning and I looked at him and I go, it's the seventh inning. Like where have you guys been? You came for this game. You show up in the seventh inning. Where have you guys been? You came for this game, you show up in the seventh inning? The most efficient trip to the ballpark ever because everything that he did happened after that.

Great day for that family. Great day for baseball. Just a great day all around. What a day. What a day. Did you guys enjoy it? Were you watching at home? Did you follow on your, did you miss it?

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see dkng.co.ftball. Don LeBretard. We didn't get to your guys' against the spread. You're right, you're right, you're right. I to your guys's against the spread. You're right. You're right. You're right. I don't have it against the spread because I wasn't prepared for this segment. You need an Ian in your life.

You have actively played defense against me today in a way that has rarely been this undercutting. Stugats. Defense wins championships, baby. That's show business. This is the Don Lebatard show with the Stoogats. I cannot express my gratitude often enough or fervently enough for our audience for giving us the strength to do some of the things that we've been able to do that over the last three and a half years for reasons that our most loyal listeners know and understand have been really arduous and our thing has taken a beating but now the winning is arriving in a number of different places.

We are partnering with Smartless. It's one of the biggest podcasts in the United States, most popular Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes, and it's the beginning of a partnership. It's not just this show, Goal-less, a soccer show hosted by Russell Howard and some guy named Chris Whittingham. It's every Monday, it's every Thursday, and it's on SiriusXM's app, and wherever it is, you get your podcasts. ["Smart List"] -♪ Chris Whittingham is a fancy lad.

But it's the beginning of several things we are intending to do with Smart List, so that's just the start. We've got a documentary series, a docu-series, the comeback on the 2004 Boston Red Sox. It's Big Papi and Francona and Pedro. That premieres October 23rd. And dropping today as part of our 20th anniversary celebration is a project that I and we are

very proud of and is just starting today. Our most loyal fans are going to really love this. I know that we are bombarding you with content on Fridays, sometimes it's way too much. We're not expecting you to listen to it all. As I've said many times, these are menu items, but I'm promising you, as someone who does not like to over-promise on these things, that our most loyal fans are going to love this oral history. Mike, tell people a little bit about it

because you've worked very hard on it. It's one of the reasons that you're doing other things other than executive producing this show, and it's a 16-part series that drops today. Yeah, the first episode drops today, and after that, we're gonna follow a every-two-week cadence for for this and yeah it's the the story of our show how we got to where it is right now and 16 episodes may sound like a lot but this show has had a lot of twists and turns and a lot of eras. This first episode is

gonna cover the first two and a half to three years of the show. We'll get to how the show was formed. There was so many things that I learned from this episode because I was around pretty early on, but only you and Sue were around for before the existence of the show. So we find out a lot about that and there's a lot of surprises there for legacy fans. We don't treat you like idiots. There's going to be some stuff there that if you've been with us for a long time, you're going to be rewarded for. And at the end of the episode,

there's going to be a super cut that will highlight some great sound from the era that the episode focuses on. Can you give us, without giving away too much, because when you're saying that you learned stuff, you're researching this, you're doing reporting, you're talking to a great many people, give us an example, just a tease,

of something that you learned that you did not know. There were things about Primetime Media Group specifically, and I was a Primetime Media Group employee. The Primetime Media Group was the conglomerate that turned to Stu Gotts to basically build the station out for them. Even though I thought I had a front row seat to a lot of what was going on with Prime Time,

some of the stuff that they were asking talents to do was pretty revelatory, and very sadly of a time and of an industry at that time. So there's a lot of good stuff here, and there's a lot of surprises that I think most people are not going to be expecting in this episode. Where and when can people get it? And you were ambiguous there.

I know you don't want to give away the goods, but I'm asking you to give away- There's a shock value to some in this episode. Where and when can people get it? And you were ambiguous there. I know you don't want to give away the goods, but I'm asking you to give away. There's a shock value to some of this stuff. So I know you don't want to give away the goods, but I'm asking you to give a morsel or a hint of something that you did not know as somebody who's a pioneering member of the show. Well, I said the prime time media group stuff,

but I wasn't really fully aware. And I know you talked about it some with Boog on your South Beach sessions, but I wasn't really aware of how close I was to being the Dan Leventhal and Boog Shambi show. And we have more than a few voices kind of weigh in and really detail what happened there. But for me, we've been working on this for some time, conceptualized it long ago, as we saw the 20th anniversary happen, coming down the pike.

I want the shock value a little bit for myself. I wanna see people's genuine surprise to some of the stuff that pops up in here. We've only gotten started in recording these episodes. I mean, some of these episodes are gonna be really difficult for us to record because there were some eras that were really difficult on us. Oh, we're going to show people the pain and the warts and all. This has not been skipping through daisies.

Like, there have been really hard times in the middle of this that have tested all of the relationships. Yeah, I'm hopeful that the reaction to this is good because this is about as rosy and positive and upbeat an episode as there might be in the entire series because as the show grew, I mean Biggie Smalls told you, you know, more money more problems. So we ran into quite a bit of that but I'm really excited about this and I think it's a nice little reward to our legacy fans and look we've been around for 20 years a lot of people's listening habits have changed

the way that we're available has changed, so I'm hoping. Maybe people loved us for a certain era. Maybe they loved us for the first couple of years and then couldn't listen to us. I hope this is an excuse for them to revisit our feed, let them know that we're still doing some kick-ass stuff to this very day. But I want people to come back because

if you were a fan of our show and maybe have the take, like they're not as good as they once were, or yeah, they were great, but when they went to ESPN, the show went to shit, oh, they were the best, but during the pandemic, like, we will highlight all those eras. So there's at least going to be an episode where if you don't like us anymore,

we're gonna cover an era where you did like us. And where and when, main feed, at what time? This feed that you're listening to right now, if you're listening to me on podcasts, it will be available on our main show feed. It'll have a different tile that Angel Resto designed, but every other Friday. So it's got to be a two-week cadence and it's going to show up on Fridays here on the Dan LeBattard Show with Stu Gott's feed. Yesterday on the show, we talked about baseball and among the many things that we screwed up yesterday for all of you who think that we've gotten a lot worse at everything is

that yesterday was Jim Abbott's birthday. Happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck. What are the odds? We celebrated one in 365 I believe is what the odds are. Is 365 years old? Actually, the odds are worse than that because that's the one time we've discussed Jim Abbott in many, many years.

And so I guess I have to multiply 365 by however many years we've been doing this because there are not great odds that yesterday on his birthday is when we would decide to accuse him of playing tennis as a hitter which is what Chris Cody did in a moment that was wildly disrespectful and I was trying to get everybody off of this subject yesterday unsuccessfully because I have no control over this and Mike sure left me a voicemail message. I have not heard this. Okay. He just said Mike sure is a very nice, decent, understated man. He said he left me a message screaming about how we talked about baseball yesterday and I just gave it over to Chris Cody. How bad is this

Chris? Cause I, I have not heard what it is that his critique is of our show. I like it. He it's, it's very Mike Schur and he does not hold punches. All right. So if you were not listening yesterday, I don't even remember how it is. We ended up on the subject of there once was a major league pitcher who did not have a hand. But Mike Schur objected to everything we were doing around

baseball. Listening to you guys talk about baseball is so painful. The most painful way that I spend my time is when you guys decide to talk baseball. I mean just you need to let Jeremy or someone fact check you as you talk about this. You need to have an ombudsman because it's awful. It's so bad. There have been ambidextrous pictures. Greg W. Harris was ambidextrous. There's like three guys in the miners right now who are ambidextrous. Also Jim Abbott had an arm.

He had two arms. He didn't have a hand, which is what allowed him to switch his glove back and forth. And like Shohei Otani gets caught stealing a lot. No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. He almost never gets caught stealing. And Tony's saying, I had no idea Ricky Henderson stole so many bags. It's the thing he's most famous for. It's the most famous thing about one of the most famous baseball players that he stole bases. I mean for god's sake just do me a favor and don't if you're going to talk about it this way don't talk about it. It's too awful to listen to. I can't take it. I just came

back from the dentist. I'm on my way home listening to this. It was so much more painful to listen to you talk about baseball than it was to go to the dentist. Tony actually said that? Yes. What? Yes, he flouts his ignorance in a way that, you know, makes me understand why it is Dugats loves him so much. 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

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