The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Greatest Day In Baseball History

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

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and it says that the All-Star Game has ended in a tie. Yeah. I close my iPad, and I don't think about it again. i'd look at my i've had and it says that the all-star game has ended in a time yeah i'd close my i've had and i don't think about it again i'd come in this morning and what is happening inside of metal art media is a whole bunch of goofballs yelling each other about baseball being back and i'm like okay what what happened between me seeing that the all-star game ended in a tie again and

This room that hasn't wanted to talk baseball with me for five years five years I can't get anybody but Jeremy to talk baseball with me and Billy's occasionally willing to talk Marlins, but no other baseball I don't fall so it's and Today I walk in and you guys are as excited as I've seen you about sports since we began covering games. I knew that was going to happen. I was on ESPN last night immediately following the All-Star game and I led the show with here on the East Coast, people are going to wake up tomorrow morning, they're going to check the box score and the game ended six to six.

It's like, I can't believe we did this again. We had another tie. I saw it was a swing off on Twitter. I'm not gonna lie. Didn't really watch. Had it on at one point. Wasn't really watching the All-Star game. I saw on Twitter we had a swing off. I ran to my TV. I was like, I gotta check this out. First one ever.

Did you guys know that there was a swing off? No. Hell yeah. Did you know that it was a rule? The players didn't know. No one knew. Robbie Ray said that they found out with two outs in the ninth inning, when Dave Roberts came up to them and said,

hey, you guys aren't gonna believe this, but. They announced it on the broadcast during the top of the ninth, when it was six to five. So it was like, if the game gets tied, we have a swing off. It's never happened before, but the rules been in play since 2022. It's like, what? They changed that a while.

It just never goes to extra innings. I don't understand how no one knows the rule. Like as a player or manager, they never know the rules ever. Cause it's not like they change all that. The home run derby, I understand. Those rules are different every single year. But for the most part, like no one seems to ever know the rules of what's going on.

Put it on the pole, please, Juju. Does anyone seem to know the rules of what's going on. Put it on the poll please, Juju. Does anyone seem to know the rules of what's going on? Because I think that's an absolute that you're offering there. I'm going to say the grand majority of people playing sports know the rules. No, they don't. They told you.

I mean, you just said that they all said they didn't know the rules. So I would say the grand majority don't know the rules. I will say this. You know what rules change all the time? And this is a public service announcement that I want to give to America at this moment, or guess not America just like this state in general if you get pulled over going 30 miles an hour over the speed limit

You're a super speeder and they arrest you on the spot now You're going to jail or if you're driving over a hundred miles an hour. They take you straight to jail now Wait, does the ticket say super speeder? Yeah, but it's not like a cool badge of honor because again you go straight to jail now. Wait, does the ticket say super speeder? Yeah, but it's not like a cool badge of honor because again, you go straight to jail. They can arrest you on the spot and just take you to jail. That seems like a rule that changed on July 1st that they should inform everyone about.

But no, because the first super speeder they caught, three minutes after the rule went into effect, straight to jail. Ha ha ha. Ah ha ha! Saddle up, folks. What do you mean? straight to jail Saddle up folks. I mean You stumbled onto another wild Billy Wentz Hold on to your ass partners. It's about to go Do I? Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at LeBretard Show.

Would you be okay eliminating extra innings right now at LeBretard Show? Because I guess what happened last night, and we've got some Belichick stuff to get to and more LeBron information out of nowhere, but the All-Star Game last night, an exhibition game that I didn't have any interest in and I believe I have it right when I say in baseball all-star game history there have only been two controversies right I'm doing

this off the top of my head I don't know if there's been a third I think it's just one of the games ended in a tie and Bud Selig looked confused and it became a symbol for baseball doesn't know how to lead letting a game end in a tie and the other was Pete Rose breaking Ray ray fossey's collar bone and ending his career by you know colliding with him at home plate in an all in an exhibition game i don't think there's a third controversy but tie game is one of them and they fix that obviously because there is nothing better in twenty twenty five than just feed people instantaneous This doesn't take much attention span.

We're just going to put Kyle Schwab or up there to swing like a keg softball play. Well, so do you know, since you, since you like didn't see it, you'd shut off your brain. Do you know the rules and how it happened because they even fixed that it wasn't like a drawn out homerun Derby. It was three batters and they got three swings each. So it wasn't like three outs, it was three swings. So you had to, you know, what happened is, spoiler alert,

if anyone's going to go back and watch this swing off, Kyle Stowers decided, you know what, I'm gonna wait for my pitch. So he did take a couple of pitches where you're watching, all right, buddy, like, come on, let's start swinging here, exactly. It's a virtue, some people say. But he's there trying to, you know, take some pitches, get the right pitch, ends up, spoiler alert, only's start swinging here. Exactly. It's a virtue some people say. But he's there trying to take some pitches,

get the right pitch, ends up, spoiler alert, only hitting one home run. But that one home run, some are saying, I know that Schwabber wins the MVP. Some people are saying, Kyle Stowers, Miami Marlin could have been the MVP because he only hit one home run, but that one home run was the difference.

I don't understand how Schwabber, Dan, have you ever seen a player in Major League Baseball All-Star game who wins the MVP and no hits in the game? Spoiler alert. How does Schwabber win MVP and no hits? That, you know, to your point and Dan's point earlier, I don't like opening the box score and just seeing 6-6. I want those home runs to count as runs. I want to wake up and see what's 10-9 and be like, how did that happen? Started out slow, 2-0 in the first inning and then we had a bit of a lull and then 10- nine, how did that happen? Started out slow, two nothing in the first inning,

and then we had a bit of a lull, and then 10-nine, wow. Offensive explosion here. No hits. No hits. Hey, let's vote on the All-Star Game MVP. I vote for the guy who had no hits. Who had three home runs, technically. No he didn't.

Yeah he did. I looked in the box score right now, it's not there. Well, I mean, technically none of those stats count anyway. That's right. So I don't understand if none of them count, why they don't just throw them in there. It's the inception of stats that don't count? Yeah, there's an those stats count anyways. So I don't understand if none of them count, why they don't just throw them in there. It's the inception of stats that don't count?

Yeah, there's an extra stats that don't count. Wait a minute, are you telling me that there's a box score? And if I look at it the way that I've looked at a box score the entirety of my life and the way that a box score has been done throughout the history of box scores, and it's not gonna say that Schwaber has any hits in the box score? I'm showing you right now, here's the play by play, right there.

Bottom of the ninth inning. There's the third out. Did anything happen after? OK, bottom. Nothing. OK, wait a minute. Nothing. That's the play.

Nothing happened. So the box score, if I look at a box score right now, it's not going to say that Kyle Schwabber hit any home runs or even had a hit in the game. Never happened. First non-pitcher to have zero hits in the All-Star game and win MVP. He's also the first All-Star game MVP to hit three hits in the all-star game and win MVP He's also the first all-star game MVP to hit three home runs. I'll tell you what

I'm gonna give the voters who voted for the all-star game MVP I'm gonna give a little bit of credit right now actually maybe surprised to hear me say that but I'm gonna give a little bit Of credit because it takes some balls to vote for a guy who had no hits to be the MVP Kevin Burkhart was both frustrated and excited that there was nowhere on his score sheet to score this. He's like, there's nowhere to put it. I'm just doing dashes. This is exciting though. It's the first one ever.

He was like, he didn't know how to feel about it. There should be a different scorecard, I think, right? I think it should be in an envelope and it needs to be either sealed with wax or with a sticker. You need something that you go like a pen, that you go like, that you go across, like the nuclear football. I don't know if that you go across, like the nuclear football. I don't know if you guys have seen in movies

the nuclear football, it comes in a packet and you have to crack it open and then you open it up and that's where the codes are. You need one of those for an All-Star game swing off. And if you're wondering, why would someone like Stowers, relatively no name in baseball, be put in this extreme situation late in the game? It's because all the people that started the game left

after they were taken out. That's how it works there in the All-Star game. You just leave the game after you're out. A lot of players did too. You had the fans left too. I mean, relatively empty stands for a very exciting moment first time in history. Question, did you know that the guys that you could use

for this home run derby can be guys who were already taken out of the game? Like, like, it was a little confusing! I had no idea who you're allowed to pick to be the guys who hit you! I have a lot of questions, okay? So put this on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. Did you know the extra inning rules last night and the other thing that I want to discuss with you guys about this is my entire history covering baseball okay has been baseball writers write poems about what baseball is and it's always something beautiful because it's timeless it's about literally coming home writing these poems that have,

we've taken a bat to all of that with a couple of changes that we've made. I'm not objecting to this. I like the change, I like the growth. I love that baseball somehow is evolving to capture a new generation of people by being faster and better. But I said yesterday that you really are

distorting the integrity of the product of the game and the results and how it is you keep track of things. When in the tenth inning you put a runner on second and all of a sudden anybody can have an RBI with a runner on second and you're just distorting things. Those show up in the box score though. So it counts like for your stats RBI and run scored? And there are extra runs and it's a regardless it doesn't matter it's to speed up the game but the thing that

i wanted to talk to you guys about is the is the following right i'd i'd think i've made fun before of soccer ending in penalty kicks even though i'd like penalty kicks and you kind of have to do that and i've said it's like ending the super Bowl by instead of going into overtime just having the quarterbacks throw the ball through a swinging tire it's not the game they were playing before that right right it's it's a that I think everybody's in on the idea of of of give me something fast and

different because we really are we've gone from the game is timeless to now by rule let's wrap this up we're gonna wrap this up now right let's let's hurry up and wrap this up that's what what they gave you last night was super fun and exciting everyone enjoyed it Dan like every single person Billy I'm not complaining about it I'm telling you that it is a change that absolutely is unlike anything in entertainment, which we're having fun. We get more, we get more.

Yeah, yeah. Let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up. Let's finish up what we're doing. We need to get out of here. And it's because Roy's walking in today and he says under his breath while you guys are dancing around baseball's back, he's like, that shit was three and a half hours last night.

Yeah, man. We fixed baseball. We got a pitch clock and everything. And all of a sudden it's three and a half hours now. But boo hoo. It was close to midnight. But like, you guys understand the All-Star, first of all, the All-Star game doesn't count anymore. Like, it never did count,

but then it did count after the tie because it determined home field advantage for the World Series, but it's back to not counting, I think, because again, they change rules all the time. But the All-Star game always takes forever because there's a thousand substitutions. Like you're constantly taking out players

to try to make sure everybody plays, which is why at the end they're like, you know what, let's do something fun here. Dan, also, I don't know if you caught this, it was the first time in Major League Baseball that we saw that the challenges could be done on balls and strikes. I love that.

Four challenges, four successful challenges yesterday. I love that. Four challenges, four successful challenges yesterday. I love that. It was experimented yesterday. What? Stowarth was unsuccessful. Stowarth was unsuccessful, yeah. Three out of four were successful yesterday. So, I mean, very exciting.

You guys are beside yourself with enthusiasm about an exhibition game of Friendly last night. All of you are raving that it was perfect. Six-nothing becomes six-six, and then we all learn a rule together, about an exhibition game of Friendly last night. All of you are raving that it was perfect. Six-nothing becomes six-six, and then we all learn a rule together, and shortly thereafter are able to wrap up the night. And if you're gonna wrap it up,

just send me a couple of giant guys who are trying to hit the ball 500 feet, and let's all get out of here. Did you see how the game got tied in the ninth inning, Dan? I did not. In field single with two outs. Stephen Kwan, guy's fast. Two strikes, two outs. Steven Kwan, guys fast.

Two strikes, two outs, one pitch away from ending it. We almost didn't have a swing off. But then an in field single in this game of long ball and 103 mile per hour pitches, an in field single small ball is what sent it to extras. Or I guess not extras, a swing off. Baseball's back bad they fixed it it's incredible hey everybody it's mike down here in south florida as the audience well knows we've

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Yeah. That's the only kind he tells. It was a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the League's Cup. Stugats. Yeah. La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the

97 Marlins celebration because it was Levada and... Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats! The Savannah Bananas have gone way too far. We can all agree on that. Is there anyone objecting to this? Is there is there there's not a Bob Costas out there. Bob Costas famously objected to the wild card. The wild card was one of the rejected ideas that baseball back before it was willing to

change. Uh, there was very unpopular at first the wild card because you were distorting everything. Now it's very popular. There's no one out there complaining or lamenting that this ended in a swing off. I haven't seen anyone doing so, even like the old school baseball guys. Buster Olney last night tweeted out

that the All-Star Game was an ode to the pitch clock. And because in that broadcast, you had longer commercial breaks, the first ever swing off, hitter to hitter interviews, the stand up to cancer pause, the tribute to Hank Aaron, which if you haven't seen it, coolest thing I've ever seen in entertainment history. Yeah, ever.

Oh my God. You've never seen anything cooler. Go watch it. I saw it live. It was insane. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen. Oh my God. All right, fine.

And he's a virgin. The coolest tribute ever to an athlete. Oh, I mean, I'll think about it. All right, I'll go there. Coolest tribute ever. Coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. It was greater than the actual moment. Prisoner of the moment, that's fine.

All of it. Prisoner of the moment. All of it. But there were also pitching changes, a mid-game removal of Freddie Freeman, it got him innovation. Games still lasted three hours and 20 minutes. That was just the average baseball game like five years ago

Can we put on the pole was Hank Aaron breaking the home run record or last night's? Recreation of Hank Aaron breaking the home run record more Exciting cool which was which one was cool which was cooler the actual moment or the recreation the recreation might have been cool Did you see it dude?, they recreated it? Once Kershaw got taken out of Stopwatch. They started doing this stuff with technology and this VR this and that. It was awesome.

Where like the lights are off. They used the fireworks. The field is lit up and then all of a sudden, you hear the audio of the moment and then instead of seeing a video of the home run, what happens? They shoot a firework from a home plate over the outfield wall and then all of a sudden you see his steps being lit up on the base

pass as he goes around the coolest moment in baseball history last night. Baseball back I'm telling you Kershaw was miked up and he was telling us what pitch he was going to throw while he was winding up right before he let it go. That was too much. It was too much. That was too much. He literally in the middle of his windup, he goes, Smolte, what do you want me to throw? Smolte goes throw a cutter. He's like out in the middle of his pitch. I don't throw a cutter. And then he threw the slider. I'll throw a slider and said Smolte, I don't throw a cutter. Uncle Charlie's doing it. Some places that wasn't actually in a game,

the lights were out. There was a firecracker that went off at home plate. That's the coolest thing that- It didn't, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're trying to make it seem like it's one of those little light fireworks goes, boop, and that's it. No. It actually petered out in midair if you were watching.

It shot! They didn't want to hit the people. It petered out. midair if you were watching. It shot! It hit the people. It petered out. What do you want, kill fans? Hey, I'm not saying to kill fans. You just said you wanted fans dead. Petered out. Jonathan Zaslow of ESPN Sports Night.

Kill fans or I'm not impressed. What show is Sports Night? That's your show. How many test fireworks do you think they went through until they got the right angle? I'm like, that's where the Sports Night? That's your show. How many tests fireworks you think they went through until they got the right angle on like, that's where the ball actually. Should have kept testing. The ball, the firework went in the same direction

that the ball did. It was incredible. It was amazing. That was the coolest thing baseball's done in a long time. Until Kyle Schwaber hit three home runs on three pitches. Wow. MVP? Wow. Polar Bear didn't even have to come up.

So last night, apparently, based on what you guys are saying, last night was greatest night of baseball history. Yes. Welcome. Might have been the best night in what, I don't know, 20 years? In sports history, you want to say sports? Oh, you're going to get him upset. You know, I saw a nostril flare and your prisoner of the moment and your general enthusiasm,

lack of history in general, where you're assigning- When are you three years old? I'm starting to question, honestly, and I don't wanna do this. It pains me to do this. I'm starting to question who's making the decisions over there at the Four Letter Network that they're putting some Jemoke on air who's not even watching the game.

I know you're not talking about me. Call Justin Craig, say hey, why is Zazzo on the air over there? I know you're not talking about me. He didn't even watch the All-Star game. What's going on over there? I know you're not talking about me. I'm not. Best July 15th in sports history.

Wow. Best July 15th in sports history Wow best July 15th in sports history Well you won't even give us that best July 15th in sports history I got it I got to check back and see what else happened on July 15 do it right now What are you doing all the time? I'm doing a show No, but this is what they do they say the stupid thing and then bury you in paperwork and keep saying the stupid thing We're the stupid ones, we watched. Doing a show of crazy people is what I'm doing. Okay.

Greatest night in baseball history last night. What's the point of you guys watching if what you're gonna do after watching is lose all perspective and call it the greatest night in sports history in a game that doesn't matter? You guys didn't watch. It's like we're talking to crazy people.

I watched every second. You didn't watch any seconds. There was not a moment last night. Zero seconds you watched. There was not a zero seconds You watch there was not a singular moment last night where I'm watching that game I said, you know what? This is the greatest nine baseball history didn't happen. You're old and jaded. That's the problem here You don't enjoy sports anymore. You had your thing with the heat and then all of a sudden they got bad You switch your allegiances over to the Panthers

Yeah, your little tryst with the heat over there. And then all of a sudden, they've stopped winning championships and you said, I'm a Panthers guy now. You turned your hat around. You're wearing a backwards Panthers stupid hat. That's been backwards for a long time. Yeah, yeah, not a heat hat anymore. You got off of the heat. But guess what, if LeBron comes back,

which is the reports that's out there, is that LeBron James is coming back to Miami, I guarantee you, you're coming right back to the Heat bandwagon. Gonna lose your faith and your loyalty to the Panthers real quick if LeBron James comes back. I'm on to you. I don't like the words coming out of your mouth.

What is the allegation from Billy Gill that is the name of rising star Jonathan Zaslow's show on ESPN radio? What's the name of the show? Sportsaslow's show on ESPN radio. What's the name of the show? Sports Night, isn't it? What is it called? What's the name of the show I did last night? Sports Night? Yeah. That's what I called it.

Game Night. You want to rename it though. Well, I mean, Game Night sounds kind of cool. It's a movie. No, it's a TV show. Sports Night was a TV show. Game Night's a movie though. Yes. Jeremy has whispered to me that Babe Ruth

tied the all-time home run record on July 15th. That can't be. July 15th, 1921, he tied the then career home run record at 138 home runs. Okay, so. To think that it was 138 before he turned it into 714 is insane. He broke it at 138 before he turned it into 714 is insane broken at Second jobs as movers, it's like otani hitting 2,000 home runs

second jobs as movers. It's like Ohtani hitting 2000 home runs. So you thought though, Chris, that it was a little too intimate that it was a bridge too far to interview Kershaw while he's pitching. Literally, what pitch do you want me to throw? I mean, it's just, I get it. They're trying to access.

I like it to some extent, but it's just like, where's the line on this? How desperate are we for people to watch us that it's like, next thing you know, you're gonna be in people's bedrooms. I think the line is exhibition, real game. That's the line. So they've done this in real game.

They did Sunday Night Baseball. They do this in Sunday Night Baseball. Just to be clear, the accusation you're making, you think that some future evolution, now that baseball's changing, is, and now in the fourth inning, here we go to Kershaw at home having sex with his wife. He's on an off day, he doesn't start till Saturday,

so now we go to Kershaw, Kershaw, how you doing right now? Oh, it's great, it's great off day, I'm crushing this right now. Please stop doing that, please stop, stop moving your hips that way, and don't show us your bedroom at all. That's where we might end up. It was awesome also, like, for the people

that were feeling nostalgic, that didn't like too much change happening the All-Star game. We talked to Jack Wilson in the middle of the game because his son was playing. So Jack and Jacob Wilson were both being talked to at the exact same time. Jack Wilson might be a guy. Jack Wilson, former pirate Jack Wilson, All-Star 2004 All-Star I believe, looked like a pirate. Like an actual pirate, like a like a pirateeer. Player who looked most like their team name. Yeah, Jack Wilson looked like he could be a pirate in real life, not the main pirate, he wouldn't be the captain of this ship. I thought that we had closed this category years ago and I'm forgetting his name now. The Vikings had a defensive lineman, Chris...

Viking. Yes, he looked like a Viking. He looked... I thought we had closed this category and now I'm failing to remember who the character is that Jared Allen also had a little bit of Viking in him as a Viking. The hair was too dark. Minchu hasn't played for the Buccaneers, has he? Chris Hoeven? Yes, thank you. Is he number 90? Why did I forget his name? Just to be clear, has Billy insulted you by calling it Game Night? No, I mean, if he thinks that Sports Night is a better name than Game Night, that's

his opinion. That's okay. I mean, I didn't love some of the things he said about me and my fandom. It's kind of insulting. But whatever, you want to change the name of ESPN shows? It's your opinion. I didn't. It was a simple mistake.

I'm fallible, just like the rest of us, and I'll admit it. You are fallible. Yeah, I made a mistake. I'm sorry. You're a fallible man. It's gotten testy in here because the accusations are flying. I do believe that something that's happening here that is frustrating to Billy and the rest and I can understand how it would be so, it's happening throughout America where a lot

of people have very strong opinions on things they don't know anything about or have not watched or paid any attention to. For example, the sheer number of opinions that Chris Cody has given me on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast when Pablo Torre is doing the best work in sports journalism right now and Chris Cody is reducing it to what he found some guy named Moose on Twitter and that's why he's getting all those people to listen to a deep dive on Malik Beasley with Tom Haberstro and Amin Elhassen, that is deeper than any dive you will see because Pablo is consistently doing more and better work

than others that is being dismissed by people like Chris Cody as they wander from the bong to the keg stand because they just want to see cow-shwarper hit bombs and they don't want their journalism. I haven't done a keg stand in 15 years. Only because you can't anymore. Whoa. I haven't done a keg stand in 15 years. Only because you can't anymore. I can do a handstand. Do you wanna do one behind me right now?

Because I read something the other day, I would ask you guys this. I don't want my belly to show. All right, well, that's brave. So I think if you're gonna tell us you can do a handstand behind me, you're gonna have to kind of prove it, I think don't think that's something that I'll do it believe but I also wanted to ask the group this question because I don't know how this can be true, but I

Read the statistic the other day that only 15 percent of people over 40 years old Have the balance the correct balance and alignment of their bodies that they can put socks on while standing on one foot. Put socks on one foot to the other. I imagine all of you guys probably think you can do that, right? I would like to test that behind me over the course of the show.

Where we have people trying to put on socks. I don't know how they arrive at the statistic that only 15% of people over 40 can do that. I think it's in the census. But regardless. Like why would you think when you're putting on your socks in the morning, why would you say, I'm gonna do this standing up?

Who does that? How do you guys all put on your socks? One at a time. Yeah, one at a time. Be amazing if you do both at a time. Do any of you do it standing up? Put it on the poll. In a pinch.

At LeBotard Show, have you ever put your socks on standing up? So Chris Cody is now gonna do the handstand behind me, correct, or are you worried about your belly? Are you worried about? Think he tucked it in. Okay, he tucked it in Oh, that's good Okay, three seconds, but not a keg stand could even even get a sip out of the keg Dan Remember in a keg stand your legs are being held up by participants of said keg stay

Yeah, so it's different somebody's holding his legs up as he's drinking. You're not holding up yourself and then holding the nozzle like a gymnast I could see Chris is like a circus folk in another life What would you imagine that would look like like this just at the circus? Okay, so just a wandering circus bear? I didn't say a successful one. What a sad traveling circus you've put together. This guy has handstands. Well he juggles, he can juggle too.

Yeah, but that's not what you mentioned. That was the big entertainment. I think he could paint some fancy. Your shitty circus, your shitty circus idea. He's got a tit with a cannonball on the belly, different things like that. Over here you got the bearded woman over here with the crystal enhanced hands. This is how little talent generally surrounds Billy Daly around here,

that he builds a circus around somebody surprising him with a talent. I said I could see him in a circus, not that he's a talented circus performer. I would crush a circus. I think that you believe that. I'd be the energy guy out there before the show. What would you do? Just hype the crowd. Is that a thing circuses have? An energy guy? What do you think? Usually a clown. The ringmaster? Would you be a clown? It's not what I would prefer to do, but I'll...

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Hey guys, Cody in Tennessee. My hot take is that the worst athletic portrayal of an actor in a movie gotta be Vince Vaughn and Rudy. He's so bad, he is so awkward. I think it's Danny O'Shea, number 44. It is just cringe to watch. I'll hang up and Rudy. He's so bad. He is so awkward. I think it's Danny O'Shea, number 44. It is just cringe to watch. I'll hang up and listen. So hi there. First time, long time. This is Dan from Rochester on a mobile. Here is my limited fake sports center voiceover guy. This is sports center This is SportsCenter, brought to you by Boost Mobile.

I'll hang up and listen. This is Ian from Oklahoma and I'm motor oil raiser. My hot take is that the hibachi messed up. This is Ian from Oklahoma and I'm motor oil raiser. My hot take is the fourth of July fireworks are just like the hibachi at the fire. I messed up again I quit it's my favorite person ever all right great effort 305 486 got you made it somehow beyond an International pool of callers you made it with those probably tried a third time. He was going somewhere fireworks Hibachi

I wanted to see where it landed the Motorola razor So this is one of the many reasons that the talent around here surprises Billy anytime it appears because we've lowered the bar so low for what talent is around here. Tony's here. And I wanna go back to yesterday and I want to relive a moment

that is gonna be largely for the video audience. So forgive me, because we're still much larger in audio than we are in video, but I think I want the video audience to simply keep an eye on Cody and understand that for about five or six years, my old friend sometimes, just doesn't seem to know where he is.

I don't know how to explain this any other way other than how I'm about to show you, which is he's doing a show with us and he's been doing it for a while here in these studios where we look when a guest appears and David Sampson is right in front of us. I want you to watch Greg Cote here as he starts looking around the studio roof for david samson cuz he doesn't know where he he does not know what what happens to greg cody

here he forgets where he is and where david samson is and where anything saying in the world is greg cody has called this all-star decision, okay, a joke, a disgrace, and my favorite, criminal. A crime against baseball. It is a crime against baseball. Okay, is David still on? Yes, he's still here.

Come on, David. Why'd you just look into the sky? Come on! There's a lot of monitors. Come on! There's 15 TVs on the floor. Why did he look at the ceiling? None are in the ceiling.

No, look at that room. Look at that shot right there. Look at all those TVs. It's an easy mistake. But I'm pretty sure David was just on one of the screens. Yeah, you're right. There are all of these screens here and he's on several of them.

Why can't he find him? I want to show it to everybody again so you understand this is a, it's not his first time in the studio not his first time talking david samson not his first time talking to a guest i don't know what happened here greg cody has called this all-star decision okay a joke a disgrace and my favorite criminal

a crime against base is a crime against baseball okay because david salon heard it yesterday where you will hear that A crime against baseball. It is a crime against baseball. Okay, is David still on? Yes. Why are you looking here? That's nuts. He looks up in a way like we said to him, David is in space. He thought maybe David was going to be like, like, repel from the lights here into the studio.

David just being right here, Greg. Pablo Torre is going to join us here in a little bit here to talk about his latest groundbreaking journalism. I'm sure many people are interested in the Malik Beasley story, especially if I can give you the particulars. If I can give you more exhaustive reporting that you've seen from anybody using multiple sources to get to the bottom of some something that a lot of people are interested in why would Malik Beasley who if you're not familiar with his game is basically the best three-point shooter not by volume not

named Steph Curry just statistically and he was about to sign a three-year forty two million dollar or forty41 million deal. And that is evidently over now. And Pablo Torre, talking to Tom Haberstrow and Amin Alhassan, sort of digs deep to get to the bottom of a story that's got a lot of elements to it that people are gonna find fascinating. So he's gonna be here in moments to talk about that. But Chris, what is happening here? Because I see what Pablo Torre is doing, and it's unlike anything that you will find

in sports journalism today. I don't know if you guys have known or noticed, but all that media stuff that was in Hialeah before in Miami, that's not there anymore. Like, media is dying all over the place and people can't afford to presently do the work that Pablo is doing on some stories that are silly and some stories that are very serious but he's doing consistently interesting things that the people who are listening to it are loving every

single hour every minute of every hour because there's no fat in anything. And then there are other people in sports who just don't want to consume their sports that way. They're like, give me Kyle Schwaber, three bombs, and get me out of here. I don't want deep dives on anything. Give me cotton candy all the time. Just a diet of nothing but 100% cotton candy.

And that's fun too. I mean I just watched in my defense the clip that he put out on social, which of course is gonna leave some meat to like they want you to go watch the episode. So I watched the five, six minute clip and it looked like some guy tweeted about this. Something crazy happened in sports. Just before this some guy tweeted about this. Something crazy happened in sports.

Just before this, some guy tweeted about it. That was what I saw in the clip. Apparently they go, like, there's way more layers to this. It's like an onion. I only got the first layer. They didn't sell it well to you, though. The first layer on the outside, to me, just looked like, hey, this crazy sports scandal.

A few months before, some guy tweeted about it. And I was just like, I feel like maybe that's happened. People talk about things. But apparently, it goes even deeper and it gets it. And I was just like, I feel like maybe that's happened. People talk about things. But apparently, it goes even deeper and it gets crazy. So I'm into the episode. What I got from what I've seen is he really hates Carmelo Anthony and wants him to go down for some reason. Like he's really trying to implicate Carmelo Anthony

and bring him into this is what it appeared to me. I could be wrong. That's what it appeared to me. Seems like a big mistake in New York. We will get to the bottom of that with Pablo Torre. We'll find out some are saying. In moments, yes. Yeah, some are also saying patience is a virtue

for some reason. I don't know why it is that they were saying that earlier. Yeah. So you're enthused and have no complaints about anything baseball related last night. We have a pure day that has been identified by people here who have a sense of history and perspective as the greatest day in baseball history

and the best feeling in the history of sports. Greatest day in baseball history, oh my God. I think the only complaint would be that, you know, we know that yesterday we saw the greatest day in baseball history and it's all downhill from here so now what we just know it's gonna be disappointment moving forward oh my god it came into the tie I don't know if you saw no it didn't grace day in baseball I'm looking at the box story now I know I watch the game when I go to do game night I watch the games I don't just go

look at box score I'm not box score warrior like you are over there Billy exactly right you're watching that game last night and you're saying to yourself, wow, I can't believe it. I'm watching the greatest night in baseball history. Yeah. I mean, it's so- I woke up my daughters. I said, daughters wake up.

That's what you wake up your kids for? Just like that. Get the children. Daughters, wake up. You have to see this history. I thought you put them to sleep. You don't wake them up. You put them to sleep.

Not for the greatest night in baseball history, you wake them up. Wait no, I thought you put the kids to bed for that. wake them up. You put him to sleep Not for the greatest night of baseball history you wake them up. I thought you put the kids to bed for that. I don't think you wake them up for that Different game. Different game. You should be embarrassed. Last time I woke up one of my kids for sports It was in the middle of the Jimmy Butler 56 point game against Milwaukee Bucks Oh please who cares? You're waking your kids up for an exhibition For history! For history! You woke them up for Jimmy Butler?

How you feeling about that? Yeah! Yeah! 56! How you feeling about Jimmy Butler today? Fourth highest scoring game in history! How you feeling about Jimmy Butler today? How you feel about Jimmy Butler today? Wow, what a legend. They're gonna put him up in the rafters? No, they're not gonna put him up in the rafters. You know who they put up in the rafters? You don his haslam. I mean you're talking about a baseball game. Yeah Okay, no one cares you'll remember where you were for this swing off exactly right?

I remember what it was midnight. What else would I be other than my house? Of course I remember where I am. The Clevelander? What club was I at that night on a random Tuesday? I was home, it's midnight. Of course I remember where I was at. Talking about. Kids, were your kids watching with you?

No, they don't care, they don't care about baseball. Ingrates. When he first got called up and he was kind of chubby, Kyle Schorber did look like a cub. Do you have another good one? Because you've been searching for 10 minutes and that's in that. Yeah, I got another one.

Taylor Rogers has a twin brother named Tyler Rogers, both pitched in the major leagues, and Taylor pitched for the twins. So a literal twin. Kind of tough to beat that one. I can tell you how we're in July. We just learned on Get Up that in one sport, and I can tell you the sport

and I can tell you the position, we've established a new highest-paid player at a position. Try that again. A new highest-paid player at a position. Try it again. You wanna try it again doing a handstand? New highest-paid player at a position. And I would argue it's the least interesting position

for this to happen. Name me the least interesting position in sports to find out, ooh, we've established a new highest paid player. Hunter. Right guard. Yeah. It was a guard, Roy nailed it.

Trey Smith, new highest paid guard in the NFL. Why do we care about that? Not just that, but just anytime I see why yesterday it was Sauce Gardner, like why I'm genuinely asking. That's a curious contract by the way. He has not been good. We like to keep track of pockets, Dan. Yeah. Is that so that's it's as simple as that. It's because this is I don't know when this started, but somebody sending it said setting a benchmark for money made by an offensive guard is not something I've ever cared about in my life nor thought I had to care about my kids I told him about it so history July you you daughters wake up yes we have a new benchmark for guards history I'll never forget where I was when this happened excellent contributions from you that segment segment. Agitating sads, shouting history at him several times.

And don't think you got away with that Cleveland or you keep sneaking in on me.