The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Aaron Judge Discovery

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

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I'd like to know the answer to this question from all of you, the place where you've been most surprised to run into a fan of the show, because I'm always surprised at the reach of some of this and have been for a long time. Australia, we have a big following. And the one that surprised me the most, although when it was explained to me, I understood it better. Our show is very popular in the Philippines. And it's because of Eric Spolstra. It's because of everything that happened in 2010 with our show and that team and Filipino Jackson and all of that stuff made him very popular in the Philippines. Zaz, every time Zaz goes somewhere, he tells me, whether it's the Grand Canyon or Notre Dame,

anytime he goes somewhere, he's surprised, even though he just joined us, that someone is walking up to him and catching him off guard. So what's the answer to that question around the room? What is the question? I would say the most awkward place I've met a fan is in the bathroom. stall at Octoberfest in Palm Beach. Is it awkward or is it random? What was the question is where

Zaz started the bidding? Where have you been most surprised to find a fan of the show? Oh, okay, because like, yeah, I remember now because you asked that and then you did a lot of talking after and then, like, you laid out. I forgot the, I didn't remember the question. I mean, when we were on ESPN,

it would happen whenever I would travel, like over to Europe, I would always run into folks. So the place that surprised me the most in terms of like sheer volume, was when I was in Hawaii. And I wasn't aware that we were essentially, for a while there, Hawaii's national morning sports radio show. That one caught me off guard, too.

When I went to Hawaii, I was treated the way that I'm treated in Miami. And I had no idea. Like, any restaurant I would walk into, all of a sudden it would have the tables ready for us and people would be excited. That's just a five-service order. It couldn't have been the bungalow that you had. No, it's what Mike said. It's the same thing that happened to Mike, except it happened to me.

You're being carried on a chariot. And that by Mike. So you can imagine how excited they were to meet me when they were excited down there to meet Mike. Just Mike? Purdue was a number one seed as? Kurt cousin looked like JCPini. Northwestern is gone from the tournament. Jim Harbaugh looks like a casket salesman.

Fairley Dickinson, 16 seed, rep by. Mike McDaniel looked like a college student on the Full Ride Scholars for e-sports. What a run. Jeremy has been wandering around here, muttering under his breath, not understanding why it is we didn't make a baseball-is-back jack introduction for him. We did it for basketball. We did it for High-Lye. We did it for looks-like.

We did not do it for baseball. We're getting to it. That's right. Pitch clock will be on the show today during the show. You will have an hour two. You will get some opening day celebration. And also a live pitch clock today at 3 o'clock with Jeremy Teshe and Chris Cody. Because baseball open last night, the Giants got clubbed.

The Yankees got four strikeouts from Aaron Judge and still crushed the Giants. Aaron Judge hadn't looked like that in a baseball game in more than a year. Good showing coming off at WBC for Judge. He has as many ribbies as the Giants do. You know he's 33. That one surprised me. Yeah. I was picking number one overall in the fantasy baseball, because I do fantasy baseball just so I can know some of these names.

And it was, you know, it's between Judge and Otani. So I Google the age just to see like, this is usually, let me see if one of these guys I can forecast him dropping off. Otani's two years younger than Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is 33 years old. Good pick. Honestly, I'm shocked how good Aaron Judge is. Put it on the Poll at Lebitard Show. are you shocked that Otani is two years younger than Aaron Judge, and also are you shocked

that Aaron Judge is 33 years old? When you draft Shohei Otani in your fantasy baseball league, the hitter. He could only be one? He's two different players in fantasy baseball. So somebody drafts him as a hitter, and somebody drafts him as a pitcher? I mean that some BS? This has been like the known rule with Otani for years. I just feel like, that's how rare I do fantasy baseball.

But I would just think you get this guy. Yeah, you use them both ways. Yeah, I've played in leagues where that's the case. Really? Wow, that's a cheat code. He exists as both players. No, no, no, no. It's mostly, trust me.

This is a standard. So in your league, two teams have Shohe Otani? One has Shohei Otani, the pitcher, who's a completely different person than Showholtani, the utility. That's whack. Right, as a pitcher, he's more, you know, normal. I was mentioning during the Shadow Show for a reason that we have a lot of fan base in the Philippines, as does in general, the Miami Heat, because their coach is Philippines. Jackson and the thing that I saw yesterday that I didn't believe was real.

The people here have been making fun of me because I didn't see that Jurassic Park Xfinity commercial until yesterday and I was confused. And it's the first time I saw it. And I'm like, those people aren't real. Like what have they done to these people's faces? At which point we were confused. We were like, is he talking about that commercial from a few months ago? Yeah, the one from the Super Bowl.

I didn't see it for the first time until yesterday. But because everything in the algorithm is tricking me, because I can't trust the internet because we're in a post-truth apocalypse. Basically, anything I see I'm questioning, and I didn't believe that the way that the Philippines was celebrating Bam Otobio's 83-point performance on a building, I didn't believe that this was real. There is like one shop there that does this every time. They congratulated Michael Jordan on winning at NASCAR and it was like somebody else's picture. Philippines is proud of you. Yeah, they do this and get the attention, and it works every time.

For the audio audience, we just put up a side of a building banner, celebrating Bam out of bio's 83 point performance, which what is clearly a photo of Dwight Howard back when he was with the magic. Blue Jersey. It's not even Dwight Howard recently. It's part of the greatest things I've ever seen. I mean, it is tremendous. But what you see around him, like that's Simone,

Fontechio in the background. They nailed that one. Yeah, well, but Simone Fontejo was happy. It's like Adnan-Virke's son. The part that I'm confused by is it looks like behind Dwight Howard. It's clearly the heat celebration that I think was BAM being interviewed. But they knocked out BAM and they put Dwight Howard in there. Like, I'm pretty sure the rest of that celebration is the Dwight Howard.

I'm sorry. Now I'm making the mistake. The BAM Audubio interview immediately after he had 83 points. Jeremy, is that background? Like, did they just swap out? Was BAM there? And now it's Dwight Howard, but they could have just used BAM? It just feels a little AI generated because if you look not just at the player that's supposed to look like Uncanny Valley, Simonee Fontechio,

over Dwight Howard's right shoulder. But then there's a player screaming. Is that supposed to be Tyler Hero? I think it's Vlad Golden. So I can't tell obviously. Were the heat wearing red that made? That's a heat player. The heat were wearing red.

Oh, then that's probably real. So it's got to be the same photo, but I just don't understand why there's Photoshop of Dwight Howard, clearly with veneers, by the way. Like, there's just something off about all of it. Look, the guy wearing the white headband there, is that not bam? Oh, that might be bam right there behind them. Holy shit, that's bam. That has to be bam.

That is bam. I'm sorry, does congratulations have an S at the end? No. Congratulations. Also, if you look down and says the Philippines is proud of you, it's just two U's. Right? It's not YOU. Who are they proud of, though?

Dwight Howard? Proud of you? Bam is in the photo. Yes, behind, engulfed by Orlando, Dwight Howard. That is correct. I mean, maybe they know that that right there is Bam at a bio and they're just like, you know how this picture would be better? Let's put Dwight Howard in it too.

He's more recognizable maybe to the. Filipino fan base. People in different parts of the country, they're different parts of the world, they play by different rules. They're like, you know who we love? We love Kobe. We're going to throw him in a Michael Jordan thing.

They're going to be hugging in them. We're just going to sell that. When I went over to Thailand, very famously for my honeymoon and brought COVID. They brought COVID. Yeah, brought COVID back. They have so many things for sale there that you cannot find that are very risque

and very, like, not good. But they sell them everywhere in every single street corners. The Miami Heat win last night. against the Cleveland Cavaliers to end their losing streak. It was a good win. Kalil Ware played very well and got the rarest of things. Filipino Jackson in the locker room giving him praise.

You see Kallel Ware back there, is that Dwight Howard? Kalil Ware is hiding in the background as he often does when Spoe is speaking because bad things usually come out of Spoh's mouth-headed Kalil Weir's way, but not after last night. Calell Damn right, man You're big You're big tonight

You're big More That's a lot The way that The way that Cleveland won against Miami To end their last Playoff run

Yeah, that's in the past Dan That is in the past So is last night's game Well they're playing them again tomorrow So I wouldn't look too far too far in the past. It's coming up again. What a roller coaster last night's game was.

Big lead. Blow the big lead. The group chat. Oh, we stink. We suck again. And then they have a good fourth quarter. Yo, Pella Larson's my dog. I love watching. How is this third quarter thing still happening? It's so crazy. It's crazy because it's been a decade. No, it was great because they had a little stretch here and it was

leading into the wind streak and then throughout the wind streak where they had won something like 11 or 12 straight third quarters. They had fixed the problem. And Solana, Alex Salana asked Spoh about it. Alejandro Salana. Look that Spoh gave Solana and then the next game it ended.

It hasn't ended. I've been hearing it called the third quarter for four years. This takes back to LeBron days. Yeah, it's back. We would always struggle in the third quarter for whatever reason. It's like part of, they should put that in the culture mantra that they put on the court occasionally. You know, hardest working. Worst third quarter.

Yeah. Worst third quarter. Oh, but that fourth quarter. That can't be a thing. What, throwing it in the saying? Yeah, that probably won't work. It has to be totally random. There's not an explanation for that.

That is not something that scientists, numerologists, analysts, that's not something anyone in basketball is going to be able to explain. In fact, it's got to be a weird anomaly. Like, I've heard that for too long, and that makes no sense. There's no such thing as a team that's only bad in the third quarter. I would bet that there are several teams and fan bases around the league that feel the same way because basketball is so random and is, as they say, a game of runs. And so you take those double-digit leads and then the team comes back. The thing, though, is that you've mentioned over the last couple of years,

the heat have blown more double-digit leads than anybody in basketball. They did it last night. They lose that game most of this season. And then they were able to pull it out last night with, like you mentioned, like Pella Larson diving on the floor for loose balls and Kala Ware, and bam playing together on the floor down the stretch. Let me give you some basketball stuff from last night because this is to have Yokic again last night. And I think don't we have imaging that is bored, get me the imaging that is just

bored of Yokic being great because he leads the NBA in rebounds per game. He leads the NBA and assists per game. He leads the NBA in triple double. Offensive though to Nick Wright that he's mentioned in the MVP conversation. Fourth, by the way. He's average. urging more points per game, rebounds per game, assists per games, and true shooting percentage than his last MVP season. And last night, he goes 23 points, 21 rebounds, 19 assists. He's got two such games on his resume. Everyone else in NBA history has zero such games in their history. Here's a stash of a day from that big man.

He'd gola. Godlike skills put on. display, but we're feeling so plaza, setting records all the time, we've become so indifferent. You have another stat. We're all born, what the hay, Yokit's stat of the day. We need Wembe versus Yokic. The sport needs it, the world needs it. Also, another quiet 50-point game from Jamal Murray who only has 50-point games.

He's back, Jack. Luca is the first player, Luca is the first player to average 40 points a game over a six game span all on the road since Michael Jordan in 1986. Man, for me, you already know, man, I stay at the post office shipping something out. Whether it's Levertar merch, my merch, it don't matter. When that stuff starts going, it can get messy fast. That's why I ride with Ship Station. You got to know. Ship Station's intelligence-driven platform brings order management, rate shopping, inventory and returns,

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All I have put in my body today is three cups of coffee and an entire cup of honey. Don't let him fool you. He said in the break that he's jittery. This is the Dan Leibatar show with a Stugats. Give me the other stat of the day music, Chris, not the long version, the short version. I've got another stat of the day for you that is Luca related. Start of the day, start of the day, this year, start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, this year, start of the day.

Start of the day, start of the day. This is the order. out of the day. Luca now has 60, 40-point games. That is more than Kauai

and Larry Bird combined. How old is Luca? 27. So seven years younger than Aaron Judge, because Aaron Judge turns 34 next month. And he just turned 27 February 28th. Think about what I just

said, because Kauai's been in the league for a long time. and Larry Bird obviously was in the league for a long time. That's crazy. That stat is crazy. But the craziest thing to happen last night in basketball was that Minnesota Houston overtime. You want to take a guess, Zaz? How many times in the last three decades? Just a team has been up by 10 plus points in overtime.

Just take a guess. Last three decades, how many times has a team been up by 10 plus points? 10, get up by 10 points. Not a lot. And when you are, it would be like really late in the overtime. It's been 180 times, okay? So basically over 30 times, it happens five times, an average of five times a season where a team wins in overtime by 10 plus points. But it's not happened at all that a team rallies to beat the team that got up by 10 points. Yeah, normally you build a 10 point lead with no time remaining.

It doesn't make any sense that the Minnesota Timberwolves, even in the, the age of three and even though you only need five threes to get 15 straight points, it makes no sense that Minnesota had the time in that game to erase a 13-point lead that Houston had. Can you imagine if you're betting on that game and you have Houston, and I'm assuming the point spread in that game was something that was close, and you have Houston in overtime, and you were rooting for overtime. You were rooting for the game to get to overtime and you're. you're up 13 points and then you lose the game because Minnesota does something that has net that hasn't been done since they since they began tracking this stuff which is they erase a 13 point lead in

overtime put it on the poll at lebitr show did you think it was possible for a basketball team to erase a 13 point lead in overtime because I didn't think it was mathematically possible to get up 13 points and then have time remaining in a five minute overtime to erase a 13 point lead. That's the most impressive part. They went up by 11. They went up by double figures just a minute 35 into overtime. So yes, the wolves had some time to come back, three minutes and 25 seconds. But I wonder what the math is. Like, with three minutes and 25 seconds left in overtime, time, could the Rockets have just had consecutive 24-second violations and the wolves just not had enough time to come back from an 11-point deficit?

Let me think about this for a second. So 24-24, you're going to make me do math on the show in real-time. Just call your math friends. Three minutes has... It's 205 seconds. So it's at least six possessions, seven possessions. Yes. If you do it that way, they can make seven-threes and come back on you.

It's not mathematically impossible even if they drain the shot clock. But it's pretty close. And the whole thing is an absurdity. Like, Tony, you know basketball. You've played basketball for a long time. If I come up to you and I simply say, there's a team up 13 in overtime. Do you think that can happen in a minute and a half?

Do you think in a minute and a half I can get to an overtime where a team is up 13? Again, you have to hit five threes in a row. Then the other team comes down and hits nothing. And at that point, the other team's packing it and being like, All right, we're not coming back. There's nothing to do here. Aaron Judge is two years older than Austin Hooper. That was shocking what you said, that Aaron Judge is 33 and he turns 34 in a month.

There were a lot of complaints about that Netflix broadcast. Baseball fans do not like their product bleeped with. They are very protective about their product. And do you guys know any of the details of what Netflix is bought for three years at $50 million? They get opening day, they get the home run derby, and they get the Field of Dreams game. Ooh, I like the Field of Dreams game. But that's what they get every year, opening day. They started the season on Netflix, and it appears that people are mad at Netflix

because it's not a traditional broadcast. This happened with Apple as well. This happened to Katie Nolan. Bert Kreischer, evidently last night, really annoyed people. Bert Kreischer can annoy people. and Bert Kreischer on your baseball broadcast is not something I would do. If Dennis Miller and Tony Kornheiser

don't work on the Monday night football broadcast and you think that is some kind of sacred, a comedian around baseball is just simply not going to work on the broadcast given what the customer base is. I saw some of it, but it appears to me a lot of the reaction that I'm getting and a lot of the things that I see that the Netflix debut broadcast did last night, it feels very similar

to what Netflix did with WWE when Monday Night Raw debuted on Netflix, where it became like just, hey, it's all about Netflix. It doesn't matter so much. Monday Night Raw is not the main attraction. MLB is not the main attraction. It's Netflix stuff. We're not just the broadcast partner.

We're the chief advertiser. Yeah. It was just an advertisement for itself. That was everybody's issue. And Kreischer was in the pregame in McCovey, and he's not doing a story, he's just being Burke Kreischer out there. And so that's one of several things. Like there were so many different promotions for their programming where they had

John Sina explaining the ABS system sort of incoherently. And they had Chrysher there and they had a teaser for the Stranger Things cartoon that's coming out. Like they had all of this sort of integrated to the pregame show on the broadcast when it's opening day. what you want in your pregame show is hype for the major league season. I was going to say you must be talking mainly pregame because I got home after the game it started and it seemed like a normal broadcast in the game.

That's right. The normal, that's the thing is a lot of the criticism came from the pregame show. Their broadcast was relatively traditional. I saw the broadcast though getting crushed for their spot with Rob Manfred. Yeah, because they didn't ask anything of note whatsoever as the league is in a really interesting time. Now, what do you expect? You never get those questions in a broadcast.

Exactly right. When Adam Silver joins the NBA broadcast, they just talk. They don't give them hard-hitting questions. Not necessarily hard-hitting questions, but like any questions about what's going on. They can have a canned answer. They don't have to push back. But they pretty much avoided anything that was of interest to people around the league when you're going to hear from the commissioner.

The part that is interesting to me about this as all of this changes, and I've wanted changes in broadcasting for a long time. But when you make a change and your customer base objects, then what ESPN does is they go grab Joe Buck and Aikman. They make them the most expensive things. And they say, please, fix everything we've got going on here by just making it the most traditional of things. That's what fans want. If you're inviting the streaming services into the game, if they represent the future of all of this, because you see that some of these regional networks are falling apart because they need the help of the.

big daddies here. You've got to allow them to change some of what it is that you're doing in the future, but baseball fans are going to be more reluctant than any other fans. I would love comedians to be around the broadcast. I would like more entertainment, and I can't think of a game that's slower other than cricket that would allow me for more room to have comedians as part of a broadcast. You already have a number of things that baseball has been willing to change. They are micing the players in a way that players are miced while making plays in the field because they want to give you more and more access. We were talking about the NCAA tournament.

Now that you find it all over HBO Max and everywhere else, they're interviewing the players at halftime. They're giving more and more access in exchange for this money. But you can only push the envelope so much and you can't do it with baseball fans. Like baseball fans are the last place that wants a comedian around their broadcast but it's the first place in sports that I want a comedian around the broadcast because the comedian has plenty of room to stretch out during a baseball broadcast. Well, that's why you get me on Marlins.tv, but what people wanted on Netflix was L. Duncan was

running point with C.C. Sabathia and Barry Bonds and Albert Pujos and Anthony Rizzo, like all of these people who are involved. Is that how you pronounce it? Yeah. Is that where you thought to interrupt him? Because me, I didn't even see Mike and Tony and I looked up and they were shaking their head and they were shaking their head about the same thing I was, I'm assuming, which is, if you want a comedian, that's why you go find Jeremy. That was one of the things. Also, I just discovered Aaron Judge is like a full year older than Anthony Davis.

That's crazy. But Poo-Hos? Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Are you surprised that Aaron Judge is a full year older than Anthony Davis? You were saying, Jeremy, who you could find... Poo-Holes with an L, by the way. You're asking me to say poo holes? Yeah, just, you know, say his name properly.

That's all. Albert Pujos. He's older than Harrison Barnes. Marlins. That's right. Where you find the comedy stylings of Jeremy? Where else are you going to get players who sound like candy bars when Lars Neutbar comes into town, Dan? He's older than Jonas Valenciunis.

It can't be true. You're making things up. No. You're making things up. I mean, this is according to Famousbletes.com. He's older than Bert Kreischer. Jonas Valchunis is on Famous Birthdays.com. Yeah. So is like an Antacompo that's not the famous one.

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Don Libotard. Punctuate this segment with what is your strike three call. Well, strike one would be, strike! And then you stand up and you give a good point to the right. Stugats. That's same for strike two. But strike three, you get down low. You got your hands behind the catcher.

All right, the right arm goes up into the air. Yeah. And then you finish it with the punch. The right arm flings way up into the air. Ha! Yeah. I wish I could see that. It's terrible.

Audio's great. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. I'd like some more of the names on that list of athletes who sound like candy. on it. I'm going on my email right now and find that list. Well, but let's include the audience here. Chodge is older than Victorola Depot. Let's include the audience on this game because it's a good game. Just athletes throughout sports history who sound like candy bars,

you can imagine either their first or last name being a candy bar. I don't want you to take the almond joys of the world and then just, you know, find some player named Joy. I want you to give you. Damn. I want you to give me just... You don't want it farted out? So you're not looking for...

I want it farmed out, not farted out. You don't want Frank Hershey? This is unbelievable. Or Oscar Charleston, too? I mean, Austin Rivers is out of the league. He's doing broadcast. He's broadcasting. And he's younger than Aaron Judge.

Aaron Judge turns 34 in a month. Mike is already waiting for the downfall. He's saying it was last night. Four strikeouts. That hasn't happened to Judge since 2024. Can you tell me, Jeremy, how many, balls have been hit harder than Jean-Carlo Stanton had a single in that game that was

115 miles an hour and I'm sure that he is at the top of the list of players in the sport who hit the ball the hardest. He's older than Shabazz Muhammad who famously lied about his age. Gary Sheffield was the guy who like the third base coach is afraid when Gary Sheffield would get up to bat and Stanton is probably hitting the ball so much harder, right? I really enjoyed.

I'm assuming so, although Gary Sheffield represents the best bat speed I've ever seen. Maybe there's somebody else who has better bat speed that somebody can think of. But when I think of bats speed, the first thing I think of is Gary Sheffield. Babe Ruth. He's older than Johnny Mansell. I heard a story Gary Sheffield told on all the smoke about Pedro Martinez hitting him. And it was just so funny to hear his analysis and see the accompanying video. Pedro Martinez, Gary Sheffield was told by some of his teammates to try and bother Pedro Martinez by stepping out of the box a couple of times, mid at bat.

And he did it a couple of times, and then Pedro just hit him. He was such a badass, Pedro. Pedro was a badass, but Sheffield was also a badass. And so you saw them staring at each other as Gary Sheffield sort of walked to the mound. And Sheffield is explaining to the All the Smoke Guys. he's saying, I was looking at Pedro's face to just see if he raised an eyebrow at me, if a lip moved, if he made one movement with his face, I was going to charge the mound. But Pedro just stared at him unblinking and never moved, like purposely never moved,

and nothing on his face moved. And so Gary's like, okay, all right. You're lucky. That's good. But if one thing on your, if one thing on your face moves, I'm going to go over there. One thing on your face moves. I'm going to charge the mound, and Pedro just stared at him without ever saying anything. Aaron Judge is older than Jarvis Landry.

You had to be lying about Burke Kreisher. You got me there. Let's get to some sound from Barry Bonds during the telecast last time. Old than the honey badger. Because I really do want more Barry Bonds with my telecast, and they, I don't know if they've welcomed him back to baseball. Like, I don't know what his situation is with that park. Jeremy, did they take down his statue? Weren't there some issues there because of the steroids where it felt like he was not somebody

who was very welcomed when baseball is good in San Francisco, as it has been for many years? San Francisco is really welcoming him back. What it is is he hadn't gotten a statue despite the fact that he should have. And in July of 2025, they announced he would be getting a statue in San Francisco. Okay, so finally, some of this stuff is thought, even though they haven't put him in the Hall of Fame, though he's the best player I've ever seen other than Shohei Otani. And here he is during the broadcast telling a story that I had not heard before about George Steinbrenner. George isn't here.

Well, I would have been the Yankees, but Steinbrenner got on the phone and they called us and they told me, Barry, we're going to give you the money, the highest paid player at that time. But you have to sign the contract by 2 o'clock this afternoon. And I said, excuse me, and I just hung the phone up. Wow. And I went to go get lunch and my, you know, Dennis, Gilbert, my agent, and they were like, what, do you know what you just did? I'm like, did you know what he just said?

I just said, forget it. And I went to go. By the time I walked down the street to go get lunch, I said, let me just think about this. The Giants called me and I said, I'm going home. Why is he talk like someone's holding his nose? George isn't here anymore, so I can tell the truth. It sounds like he's wearing a scuba mask and is at the bottom of McCovey Cove. George isn't here anymore, so I can tell the truth, right?

Do you believe that story? The part where I'm hesitant is the way that I remember it, it was always a foregone conclusion that he was going to leave the pirates and go to the Giants. But now he's saying that he was going to go to the Yankees, so I don't know. I like a couple of negotiating stories that I've heard in my time, but you guys have heard Dan Patrick on this show tell one of the best ones. ones, which is they offered him, Dan Patrick, the Price is Right job that ended up going to Drew Carey. He was offered it. But he had to accept it without knowing what it paid because Bob

Barker and they are just totally old school. So this suggests that Drew Carey took that job without knowing what it paid. Dan Patrick turned it down because he's like, what do you mean? I'm not going to take that job. It's got to be one of the best jobs. in the history of game shows, correct? But old school is accepting a job without knowing what the salaries? Well, I just think that Price is Right comes from a different time, and they probably want to know how much do you really actually want to be a part of the family. It can't just be about money.

I want to be a part of the family when I know what I'm getting paid. Have you been following what's going on with Bob Barker? The late Bob Barker and the documentaries being made about how toxic an environment that was? Yeah, about, you know, allegations of people being as sex. slave and whatnot. What? Evidently, Jeremy hasn't heard about this. Look up some details for me.

Aaron Judge is also older than Bob Bark. Back to Bonds real fast. The one thing I do like about that story, you don't get the most out of a negotiation unless you hang up on somebody. If you didn't have a hang up in this negotiation, you didn't get all your... Let's add David Stamson that. How many times has he hung up the phone as a negotiation tactic? I bet you it's more than once.

I'm interested in his thoughts on all the things from Netflix last night, but let's play that sound for him and find out whether or not he thinks that story is true or not. The job ended up being $10 million a year is what the salary was for Is that a cut for Dan or is it not a cut for Dan? Is he all right?

I'm going to go ahead and say that $10 million a year is a job. He would have accepted if he had known that's what it was. Which one's the craziest one? Anthony Davis or Jarvislay injury? Those right there are the two top of the mountain for me. Jarvis is out of the league, but Anthony Davis has been around

forever. George has been out of a league. Victor Oladipo is a good one. There's no way this guy can continue to be this good. He's got to fall off. He's got to. Traditionally, historically, I think Paul O'Neill is one of the only players

ever mathematically who has improved after that age. 33 years old is where... Well, right. Right. Yes, Barry Bonds also. How did he do it? I was doing non-steroids. Don't forget about me. Oh my God, that's a great Barry Bonds. I do two different classifications of baseball players.

There's the steroids and the non-steroids. There's normal human aging process, and then there's going through the pharmacy and changing everything and playing until you're, you know, 40 years old. But mathematically, this would be the time that Aaron Judge would drop off. And I don't assume that at 33 years.

old, but what I saw last night is as bad as Aaron Judge Ken look. He called his dressing room Daddy's Room. That's actually a play on for me. What other details do you have there? You're going to ruin this

for a lot of people. Bob Barker was considered America's sweetest man. He was dating many of the... Well, dating might not be the right term, but he was doing inappropriate with a number of... I don't like what we're doing here with the daddy thing, because that You need to hear how it's said.

I often around here, I'm like, Daddy needs a soda. But, like, if that was put in writing of, like, I'm walking around here saying Daddy needs a soda. Yeah, but we're even handing it to you. There's the rest of the context. But just that isolated way he's like, Daddy's, like, I might call my office here Daddy's on. I get you. That's why it's a play on. We'll keep taking data.

It can't be a play on. I need more info on Bob. Jeremy is telling us on the front end that he had sex slaves reportedly. Right now I regret this. The beginning of the quote was she told me Bob Barker made my life a nightmare. Then they said Barker always called himself Daddy and called his dressing room Daddy's Room and that for more than three years he forced this person to have sex against her will. Drew Carey's also got some kinks.

Not me, not like that. That's real bad. This isn't a kink. That's not criminal behavior. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Daddy would like to take that back. That's right, play on. This is two days in a row where I've kind of just walked into something here that I really regret. I think daddy's going to have to leave.

Who me? Other daddy. Uncle. I'll go. Minor penalty, two minutes, asshole. You usually have better judgment than that sex slave is not a, it's not a kink. Barry Bonds, as part of your broadcast, is that something that you guys want? And how do you feel in generals as about the overall of what I'm saying, which is I, I,

want more goofiness with my broadcast, but you're not going to get more goofiness with your broadcast when the fans are so serious about baseball. Like you cannot, this is a funny time to combine two things here.

Netflix is getting into the live sports game because Netflix wants to replace all of television. It wants to beat YouTube, wants to beat everybody. It wants to be the movies, wants to be television, has all the money in the world. And they're getting into the sports game because they want everything. But of course

if they're paying three years, $50 million which is nothing for them. That sounded really low to me. For sports negotiations? Well, but it's just three years and it's just a couple of games. It's three things, right? You said it's opening day. It's a home run derby. But in the NFL, that would go for like a quarter billion. Yeah, but it's the field of

dreams game. Yes, it would have a lot of money if it's the NFL, but not the NFL. Famously, not the NFL. I get the heart, because I'm going to come from a hardcore fan perspective and not that I'm a hardcore baseball fan anymore, but I'll come from that

perspective because I understand the hardcore baseball fan not wanting all the extracurricular stuff. It's how I felt when WWE debuted on Netflix. I don't want all this other bullshit. So like I get some of those complaints. It makes sense to me. Now some of the

complaints, I mean there's, you know, like the people complaining about L. Like they're just looking for a reason to get mad at L Duncan, okay? And those people obviously suck. But, But I get some of the complaints where you just want your baseball. I understand that. Well, but she referred to Home plate as what? Home base.

Yeah. That's a play on for me. No, that's a real play on. No, but wait a minute. Baseball fans are going to get upset with that. It can be a play on for you guys. Please. Baseball fans.

No, no. You guys are not. Live stream. You guys are not the baseball fans we're talking about. Dan, I'm the baseball fan. You're talking about I felt offended. Twitter. Speaking up, by the way, hardest hit home run ever?

Your boy, O'Neil Cruz. Finally. What are the numbers on the. velocities, the hardest hit balls ever, because Giancarlo Stanton hit a ball yesterday, 115 miles an hour, just a single. What are the numbers here? O'Neill Cruz hit a baseball 122 miles per hour. Shohei Otani is on this list. He's on the list. Stanton is on the top 20

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