The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Wickedly Talented, One And Only, Adell

Episode Date: April 6, 2026

"I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. Big respect. Big respect. Big respect. Big respect." So, 'The Big Suey' will hereforth be called 'Hour 1,' but not the first hour of the show, which remains the 'Local Hour,' and so the second hour is 'Hour 1,' not Hour 2, and that is because 'Hour 2' is actually the third hour, and the fourth hour is now Hour 3. Got it? Also, the best baseball play ever made was supplanted by another play over the weekend, but that play wasn't the greatest play of the weekend. Got it? Today's cast: Dan, Zaslow, Chris, Jeremy (on vocal rest), Mike, Roy, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by FedEx. These days, the Power Move isn't having a big metallic credit card to drop on the check at a corporate lunch. The real Power Move is leveling up your business with FedEx intelligence and accessing one of the biggest data networks powered by one of the biggest delivery networks. Level up your business with FedEx, the new Power Move. Do any of you have any feelings, emotional or otherwise, in terms of attachment to the name, the big suey, the hour of our program that is called the big suey? I don't know if anyone here knows the complicated history of the name, the big suey, but we are changing it today. We are retiring the big suey, and it is going to become simply the cleverly named Hour One. Oh, that's good.

It's going to become Hour One. Wait a second. Hour One is Hour One. No. now hour one is going to be hour two. What's our two named? No, technically our one is a local hour. That's the first hour we do.

No. No, the local hour is the local hour. That's the first hour. Then there's hour one, which is the second hour. So hour one used to really be hour two. Hour one. Our one used to be hour three. Hour one has always been our three since the big suey was in place.

But now we're getting rid of the big suey. It is retiring. Do any of you have an emotional attachment? to the name Big Sui because I'm curious whether Mike even remembers what the backstory was on what we were trying to do. Why wouldn't I remember the backstory? I was in the middle of that nightmare. Do you remember? Yes. I remember that whole nightmare. Okay, you want to tell people what we were trying to do? Yeah, ESPN took an hour. There was like the middle of the end with us at ESPN. And this is when they kept doing things. They kept doing things that felt like he was just like shot after shot. Like they took us off of ESPN to or ESPN News and they put us behind the paywall and then they decided to remove an hour

from our national show and we didn't want to remove an hour from our show or our audience so we decided to in the wake of their decision to remove an hour from our show do an entirely additional hour which is something we had already done with the local hour the local hour was ripped away from us on 790 um and those partners didn't keep us in the loop so we had already flirted with the concept of doing an additional digital hour just for our audience. And we said, let's just keep it going. So we devised the big suey. Mike is giving you a whole bunch of context. That isn't any of what I was thinking of. And it's also not anything I knew. I don't remember any of that. I remember that we named it the big suey because we eventually wanted it to just be the initials BSPN.

and we wanted to just be hiding in plain sight as we were feuding with ESPN. And all I remember was that the name was going to be BSPN. But then I was told long after we created the imaging and everything else for that, oh, Bill Simmons has already done that because his initials are BS. Yeah, we told Dan that pretty early, but he was still on this BSBN train. And we're like, you're just going to have to settle for it being BS. Yeah, and it was. It was all BS and now it's retired.

and now just, I'm glad we clarified this. I taught you something. Now it's hour one, okay? So it's local hours not hour one. That's the local hour. Yeah, that is so funny that all you remember is BSPN because you were like a dog with a bone on that. That's all you wanted.

Meanwhile, I'm just like in the foxhole, like, giving way too much information. So hour one is local hour. Hour two is hour one. No, no, no. Local hour is local hour. Hour one is the new big suey. Suey. Nice.

This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stucats podcast. Have a bit of an odd problem on my hand for my hands for this time of year in April, which is we've got way too much to get to today. There is too much video, too much audio. We've got a women's championship being decided over the weekend. Two of the most famous coaches not even involved in the championship game almost got into a fight in which Don Staley was threatening to kick Gino Ar. Emma's ass. We've got the national championship on the men's side being decided today. We have

from minor league baseball something that has supplanted what I believe to be the best play in baseball history. I maintain that the greatest play in the history of baseball is a home run going off of the head of Jose Canseco. I think the mathematical odds of that kind of clumsiness didn't have any precedent to that point in the history of either baseball or video. For that to be the player who that happened to, a fly ball that shouldn't have even been a double becoming a home run because it hit him on the top of the head, I thought was the greatest play in baseball history,

but now we have another here. Is this minor league baseball or college baseball? So this is college baseball. This is 10 feet in front of the warning track, 10 feet in front of the warning track. it seems like the ball hits the center fielder in the forehead and goes over the wall. That seems as a physics experiment, that seems impossible. And if they tried to do that, if they went out there and attempted to do that, again, they could try it for the rest of the time, and it would never happen that way again.

This is actually a treat for the audio audience because a play-by-play does work. Hit it. To right center field, it's going to hang up, and it is off the head of the center fielder. That's going to be a ground rule double. No, it's a home run. It's a home run for today, Vihas. Oh, my. It hit the head of the center fielder.

How good. So far, it went over the wall in right center field. And the umpire, I thought I was going to call it a ground rule double. He indicates home run. So I need to do this again just so that people understand what happened here. Because it wasn't even the best play in baseball. this weekend. I'm going to get to that in a second. So just to clarify, the greatest play in baseball history has been supplanted by the play we're just showing you right now, and it wasn't

the greatest play this weekend, okay? But in the play-by-play that you guys just heard, because you heard it correctly if you weren't watching the video, the center field or in center field on a routine fly ball to center field, the ball goes over the fence and right center field. It's not a small wall. He's in center field. And the ball goes. It's impossible for a ball to hit like that. That has to hurt so much. And no one feels better than the guy who hit a routine fly out to center field. And now he's jogging around the bases because the umpire is giving him the home run call.

I'm sorry. Why is that a home run? The play-by-play guy's right. How is that not a ground rule double? It hits something. It didn't hit the ground. It didn't hit the ground. It can't be a ground rule double if it doesn't hit the ground.

It hits something in the field of play. It's not the ground. About a player rule double. It's not a forehead rule double. You don't know the rules. I don't like it. I don't like it. But before I go any further on this, because I really can't believe what happened in an Anaheim Angels game.

And I've been telling you guys for years, do you not think it is weird that every damn week there's an outfielder stealing a home run in the big leagues? Every single week in the big leagues for several years now, somebody's reaching over the fence and stealing a home run ball. This isn't exactly San Diego Chargers zone, but they have been the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for 15 years. Okay. Thank you for that. But if it happens to the Angels, I believe it gets to us 15 years late. I believe people aren't celebrating what it is that we just saw this weekend. Remember they used to be the California Angels? I should bring that back, Jack. No, I don't remember that. The whole state. California Angels. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. If it happened to the Angels, does it? Does it take 15 years to get to the rest of us? But I want to talk about Joe Adele because I'm trying to think in the history of sports

what anyone regards as the greatest defensive thing they've ever seen. Locally in town, the greatest defensive players we have had are Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas. Perhaps you think of Alex Gonzalez. Hussein. Hassan Whiteside. Well, triple. Triple doubles with blocks would qualify. Alonzo, yeah, Alonzo Morning.

Who do you think of when you think of defensive play? It should be Barkov. I mean, I think the greatest defensive play is Pudge. I got the effing ball right here. That's a great shout. That's the greatest defensive play in Miami Sports history. I have the effing ball right here. I mean, Bosch had a big block in the playoffs, but best offensive player has to be Barkoff.

That's the first ballot. More so than Bobrovsky? because... Yes. Yes. Yes. Because Bobrovsky, during his time with the Panthers, was never considered the best doing it. That's fair. That's fair.

Barkov, you ask anybody up and down, this is the best defensive center. And so defensively, it is hard to celebrate things. But Joe Adele, and please, this reminds me, it's been 11 years since this magical clip right here. Please welcome the wickedly talented, one and only Adel Dazin. It's been that long.

11 years? Not as long as the Angels have been the Los Angeles. They used to be California. Yeah. What was he trying to say? Adina Mansell is what he was trying to say. Play that. Who cares?

Play that again. Play that again, please. Please welcome the wickedly talented one and only a dozen. It's great. It's John Travolta at an award ceremony being handed a card that spells phonetically and he's not a good reader. You're going to love this, Dan. This is a rough look for me. In 2016, they dropped the event.

I mean, now the shortened version so I could properly celebrate Joe Adele of the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim. Please welcome the wickedly talented one and only Adel. It is amazing that he stole three home runs. And the last one, he ends up in the right field bleachers because he fell over the entirety of the wall. Jeremy's on vocal rest because he threw out his voice this weekend with all the broadcast he was doing. and he wants to save it for tomorrow's live stream. But quickly, Jeremy, because I don't know the answer to this question. That was not the final out of the ninth inning, correct?

That was earlier in the ninth inning? Correct. Thank you. If that's the only word you say today, it'll be your most efficient show ever, and I'm here for it. Again, tomorrow we're going to do a live stream at 630. This is a little bit inexplicable. We have to plan these things well in advance.

So because the Panthers are out of the playoffs after losing by a combined score of 7,000 to 3 this week, against the Pittsburgh Penguins. They've been eliminated, so we're going to be watching a Panthers game. The heat have not been eliminated. They are the 10 seed, but they've got two games against Toronto. But we hope they are eliminated. On the road, and they've got a game against Atlanta,

so they're unlikely to be in anything other than the play-in game. And also we're going to be watching the first place Marlins. That's tomorrow at 6.30 p.m. And we're just going to be doing random shenanigans watching whatever it is that's going on in sports. but what are you guys expecting from the heat these last five games? If Spow and Bam and all of them are right with, we're better than this, we're better than this. The next five games would be a good time to prove it against Atlanta in Toronto, next four games, excuse me.

Not against Washington anymore. You got two at Toronto's as and one against Atlanta. What are you expecting? Because I'm expecting them to go one and two at best in those three games. My guess is they'll split the games in Toronto. And they could very well lose the last game to Atlanta because the Hawks could need that game. Like the Hawks right now are fifth. They're going to want to stave off number six.

They're two up on Philly. So that's up in the air whether or not the Hawks are going to actually need that game. And the Hawks never lose anymore. My guess is that they go two and two in these final five. I'm at a real loss for how it is that they've dropped to 11th in defensive rating. They've been terrible for about six weeks. and partially because they're playing good teams, but they're better than this defensively,

or they have been for the first 60 games of the season, then all of a sudden they're not. But I want to play Atlanta announcer Steve Holman. I know you guys did some of this Friday, but I didn't think that we'd have a clip ever that rivaled Steve Holman getting mad at the heat 20 years ago and saying, The Heat have resorted to thuggery!

But I am told that against the magic, we have Steve Holman, the same announcer 20 years later, still bringing it. In the lane, get it knocked away, but it goes right to Jonathan Camiga. Now to Jock who goes up and got filed hard. Jock Landale just got knocked down a terrible, dirty play by the Orlando Magic. This is what they do. They just knocked down Jock Landale and hurt him badly.

Oh my goodness. Somebody should get thrown out of this game. What a dirty, rotten team this Orlando Magic is. Oh, my goodness gracious. Jock Landale got knocked down hard. Dyson Daniels wanted to go over and help him. Pray to God that Jack Landale is not hurt badly, folks. That was a dirty, rotten play by Orlando.

I don't care what anybody says or anybody replays on this one. This is a dirty, rotten team. They get down by 30 points, and this is what they do. They are dirty, rotten players, every one of them on that team. Can't take to losing. The Hawks are going to be 4-0 against this team. They whine and complain on everything, and then they go to dirty rotten tactics. Badatsi has no business even being in the league.

Go-Go-Badazzi should be thrown out of the game, thrown out of the league for a play like that. He is a no-talent, dirty, rotten player. They're going to come over and look at this. They better throw him out on a flagrant two. There's no doubt that this should be a flagrant two. If they call anything else, it's wrong. The prior foul is an interview for a potential flagrant fail.

No kidding. Thank you very much, Ed Beloy. Mr. Obvious. Chuck Lindell walked off in his own power. How many times did he call things dirty rotten? Seven. You guys were counting? Yeah.

What a dirty rotten. team this Orlando Magic is. All right, so I've got something that was repeated seven times this weekend from basketball as well. And it is, I was laughing because it is rare for Yokic to show this much personality, okay? He's being interviewed by Dirk Novitsky and Taylor Rooks and Eudonis Haslam and Blake Griffin. And they've just won, and it was a great game. God Almighty, that game against San Antonio.

Yokic is gone for 43. times against Wembe. He calls Wembe the most unique player in the league, but he knows how to bump him and get him out of the way, and he's gone for 43 times against the best defensive player in the sport. And Yokic wins in overtime, and he's got the trophy over his left shoulder from when they beat the Heat and Jimmy Butler in five games while talking to Udana's, and in all of this, I want you to not only hear the Yokic joke, which is funny. directed at Udonus Haslam, but how immediately he takes it back by saying that he was joking a full seven times. This is true.

This is true. We did file a little bit in my own. I mean, yeah, you all win. We see the position. We see the background. I see it. I got three of them things now. Be careful.

Hey! I got three of them things now. Be careful, big dog. Not against me. No. I did have to go ahead. You're right. You're right. You're right. Big respect. And big respect. Seven out two. Three big respects. All right. But that is, though, that line, if you can cut up for me,

I'd like you to play the whole thing again. But Yokic saying that, that's a movie poster, not against me. The way that he delivered that with that accent has some mercenary assassin in it. This is true. This is true. You did file a little bit in my own. I mean, yeah, you all win. Yeah, we see the position. We see the background.

I see it. I got three of them things now. Be careful. Hey. I got three of them things now. Be careful, big dog. Not against me. No.

I'm joking. You're joking. I'm joking. I didn't have to guard you. You're right. You're right. Big respect. I counted four on the redo of big respect.

Six I'm joking. Four big respects. Seven. Seven I'm joking. Four big respects. Not against me. No. I'm joking, joking, I'm joking, I'm talking.

I didn't have to go, you're right. A dirty rotten player. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. If you're calling someone dirty rotten, are you over 70 years old? He is a no talent, dirty rotten player. Hey, it's Mike Ryan. And I want to talk to you about the random midweek hang that you have with your friends. Maybe it's an NBA game.

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Teammates can't shoot from three. Now they're going to see a different Jimmy. Now he's just, just playing. Nickel back in the locker room and... Stugats. Lady and show threes As they chase the nets for the six seed These five words in his head

scream are we winning games yet? This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Speaking of basketball and the Miami Heat, I want Zaz's opinion and everyone's opinion here as the Heat try to make this season interesting. When I tell you that Nikolaeovich since 2025, November 10th of 2025, is averaging six points and three rebounds on 34% shooting, and that they gave him a four-year, $62 million contract,

and that they kept him out of the Durant trade talks. Is there anyone that can explain that? Never mind, defend it. It can't be defended. There's no circumstance under which you can defend it, but how do you explain it? Well, Nicola's defense is that they've changed their style of play, and it doesn't fit him, and he has a hard time. That's his defense that he mentioned because he finally got to play the other night against Washington because the heat were up by 1,000, and he mentioned that that's why this has been such a big struggle.

But I know Mike and Amin, like, you guys really got into it last week when I was away also. And one of the things that I would certainly agree with you about Mike with the heat over these last few years is, They've lacked foresight. And one of those examples would be Nikoyovic, you know, where not just the four years, $60 million. And he literally never plays. But it's quite possible that they held him out of offering him for Kevin Durant. You know, and like, are we going to have this conversation?

I don't think we are. But are we going to have this conversation again in a couple of years from now where they wouldn't include Kella Ware in whatever, you know, trade X. Maybe he turns into nothing. Again, I don't think that's going to be the case, but they were holding back Yovich and they don't even play him. And so that is one of my big problems with the heat is the lacking force. And it's, hey, you should have traded Norman Powell at the trade deadline, okay? Because there's no way you're keeping Hero and Powell next season.

That's dumb. Like, why didn't you know that Hero and Powell are completely redundant skill sets, that they're not going to work together? It's stuff like this that I don't understand why they haven't. had the foresight to maybe see some of these things. They just missed the mark. Like, I mean, did the whole thing. Like, you don't know what was available to them. It doesn't matter.

They decided that they were going to keep writing with what they had. They decided against being sellers. There's always a deal to be made. They have guys on their roster. Are we to believe that they have the league's most undesirable roster? Because if there were no deals available to them, it's even more of a failure than we were even hypothesizing. Let's keep it on this one, though.

Just on this particular one. Yeah, it's catastrophic. It's a terrible, it's a terrible contract now. When we were all kind of nervous about it, but we're like, well, if he, if he progresses away that their development team thinks, and it's actually not a bad contract. That's the case with Lillard, too, right? Like, I don't think they wanted to include him in a potential Lillard deal. It's like, they never play him.

Yeah, from where I'm sitting, keeping guys like Ware and Jovich out of these deals doesn't really make sense to me, but they seem to like them, which is, you know, a strong disagreement that I have, and they find themselves in the playing again. You strenuously object. These are nothing years. These are wasted years. I think the part that's upsetting is that you have this great developmental team within the Miami Heat that gets these diamonds out of nowhere. But then they go on and just don't really get anything for them.

They leave and they go sign big contracts somewhere else, but there's no real return. Like with Yovic, it felt like people in the league saw around like, oh, wait a second. There's something there. If you can mold him in the right way, that's a good player for the next maybe seven to eight, nine, ten years. and now it's like how do you take on a guy who's making what never placed 45 million dollars you know for the next 60 60 after this year he'll make 45 in the next couple you know two three years it's an excellent point it's an excellent point by by tony in that they do develop these guys they develop them to the place in the marketplace where gay vincent goes and signs a huge contract but least for nothing but yeah you either the only times it ever goes either the heat signed them to a big inflated deal or they leave for nothing or someone else says and again they don't add to their assets, which the thing with this franchise over the last few years is that they've

obviously whiffed on a lot of trades. And the argument always is, well, they don't have enough assets. They don't have enough assets because they keep some of the more desirable ones off the table when it comes to trade talks. Or like this season, they don't do anything to add to them. That's one of the things that has also bothered me over the recent years with the heats when it comes to trying to make trades and what they're willing to give up. And this is also very much their MO when it comes to signing players in free agency where they attach a value

to a player when they're looking to trade and it's like this is what we're willing to give up. We're not going to go over this, all right? You're not going to bully us into making the trade. We are good with this trade but this is the price and it's like they're never willing to pay a little bit extra to get the deal done.

They're never willing to let it hurt a little bit to get the deal done. Can I keep you on this one contract. I understand the overall frustration that you have about a lack of foresight. They decided to pay this person when they and only they knew they were going to go up-tempo offense. They came out of the box and surprised us. We did not know that they were going to play with the fastest rate of speed in the league. Now, Yovitch himself says, in a quote, we're trying a lot of stuff. Last four years were basically the same team with the same record. And I guess they've tried different things. Some stuff suits you better. Some stuff doesn't.

I have to make it work. To give him four years $62 million is an announcement, we know something the rest of you don't. What did you know? What did you see? You have more information than us. You knew what you were going to do with your offense. You could tell whether he would fit or not.

And at this time, you could have gotten in trade talks with Durant with this player because you knew more than anybody that he wasn't going, or you should have known more than anybody, that he wasn't going to work in what you were doing offensively. but clearly they did not know. And how is that possible? If I could be a precise translator for Jeremy today who was on vocal rest, they thought that when they instituted this offense,

this would be a good thing for Yoavich, and it hasn't turned out to be. How can you miss that back? A big miss. Very bad. But how when you have all the information, you're in charge of the money, you know more than us in every single way, how can this player not be a player who can get on the court for you, that you're giving $62 million when you're not giving $6,2 million,

dollars when you're not giving much of anybody money. And Simone Fontechio is playing more than Nicoliovich. It doesn't make sense. So that's it. We're going to say $62 million doesn't make sense. We're just going to say that is an act of stupidity. That is that, like, give me what they've done worse than that. For all your complaints about all the things that they haven't gotten and Amin's complaints

on the other end, you don't know what they could have been offered. Well, I know that this was available to them. And I know that they had more information. than we did on every single thing. And I know they decided this was a good player, and this has not been a good player. Yeah, this fits at Waiters, James Johnson, Whiteside type of mold and in regrettable contracts. They're ice cold right now, just as a front office and as a franchise. They're in one of the worst spots you could be, which is not in the lottery and not a threat in the playoffs.

They're not adding to their assets to kind of get out of it. And we're just hoping that for the fifth consecutive year, the pie in the sky moonshot scenario of getting a whale finally works out for them with what they have. To Zazza's point, like, whenever you go buy anything, you almost, you go in with the expectation of like, I'm going to play a little bit more because it's what I want. They're not willing to do that. If you go to a car dealership, you're like, hey, I really want this car. And the guy's like, it's going to cost you a $2,500 extra. And you're like, it has to be on their terms. And that's the problem.

Nobody's going to play that game with you. You could have packaged Norm Powell and Yova to the deadline and give it to a contender, and somebody would have paid something. It's like it's okay for the deal to hurt a little bit for you to get what you want, and they're never willing to allow it to hurt a little bit. Oh, but this is going to hurt you guys more than a little bit, because I haven't even given you the worst part of this, because it gets worse.

His extension, $62 million extension, doesn't kick in until next season. So he's under contract through the end of the decade, longer than any other heat player is under contract. That's brutal. Right. They've been not playing him while he doesn't make any money. Next year. I thought it was this year that he signed it.

That's next year. That is brutal. Chris Cody has spent the last 40 minutes looking for a sound that will allow us to properly retire the big suey as a name. For those of you who are more confused than ever about what we're doing, the second hour of our daily show has been called the big suey for a long time. I'm going to guess about eight years. We're now going to change it to simply hour one. So it's not our one because the local hour is the first hour, but it's going to be local hour, hour one, hour two, hour three. And for those of you who do not know or don't have any of this history, okay, do you know what the word suey means

and the origins of suey on this show? Okay, you know, because I'm assuming a lot of people do not know that Luther Campbell of Two Life Crew one time came on here and he was reviewing a Kobe Bryant rap song. That's what he called it. He just said it's sewage. It's worse than sewage. It's worse than hot

garbage. It's suey. So later on when we were taking calls from car phones and landlines we had a rule of no pleasantries on the show. You cannot start the call with hey, hello, what's going on? We just wanted you to get to whatever

it is, your point was, and anybody who did start with a pleasantry got hit with the suey guillotine, which was just an assortment of random sound. So I want you to imagine somebody calls in, hey, how you doing, guys? And we just hit them immediately with something like this. So it's me versus you. My dad's in town. Can I offer him an invitation? Yarn!

And I don't wish that girl any bad luck, but I hope she gets hit with a car. He's got AIDS. Go, Ed Maloy! I love selling blood. Time Capsule. That was a good song I don't think that that was the best Sewy montage but it's a pretty good

So a guy would call in And for him to not be long You would hit him with that Which was long But entertaining See it's not It's not hey how you doing It's this

So it's me versus you My mom my dad's in town Can I offer him an invitation Yarned And I don't wish that girl any bad luck But I hope she gets hit with a car He's got AIDS Go ahead Malloy

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This is the Don Levitar show with the Stugats. I want to get back to Joe Adele for a second because I just can't believe that this happens. Do any of you find as fascinating as I do? Because it cannot be covered enough. It cannot be a, to me, it could not be a sports story that gets covered by the mainstream media sufficiently to say that in a single game, a guy reached, a shut out, a one-nothing game,

a guy reached over the fence three times to steal home runs. And on the third one, in the ninth inning, ended up fully in the right field bleachers and one of the coolest photographs you will ever see, given the historic nature of the moment, and I'm willing to say it's the best defensive thing I've ever seen at a sporting event. That three, I just can't imagine the mathematical odds against

being able to steal three home runs in a single game. And I don't know, like, all of them were clean, all of them were great, all of them were him reaching over the fence, And the last of them was the best of them and the most important of them. There are a few things that make all of it so cool. Like when you're growing up and you're playing baseball, we all would fantasize about stealing a home run. It's one of the coolest things you could possibly do.

Not only did he do it three times in at game, all three of them were legit robbing home runs. Like Aaron Judge, I think on Saturday, took away, you know, a home run from one of the Marlainters, but not really. Like, he just kind of stuck his arm up and, like, I don't even know if it would have cleared the wall. He's also a giant. Okay. He's also massive with like a nine-foot, you know, eight wings fan.

But all of these would have been home runs. And, of course, it was a one-nothing game. Now, I don't want to be this guy, Dan, all right? Uh-oh. But the third one, which is the coolest one. Don't do this. I've heard this. And it's on the short porch in right field, and he falls into the crowd.

Don't do this, Zad. Let him cook. How is that a home run? The ball is in the stands. The ball's in the stands. How is it not a home run? He catches it, but he's in the crowd. You're telling me you could just run into the stands,

10 rows up, catch a ball. Oh, no, it's not a home run because I caught it. He's in the crowd. How is that a home run? I'm just saying. The ball's in the crowd. Do you have eyes? Because he jumps from the field of play,

out of the field of play, where the ball is still in the air, catches it. And everyone lands in home run territory. So he should have taken it out of his glove, throwing it back into the field of play, and just made it a double? If a ball lands in the crowd over the wall...

It didn't land. It didn't land. He caught at it. Of course it did. They all landed. In his glove. But he is in the crowd. He jumped out. He hasn't landed yet. Right? Where you're not understanding is that he jumps. The out is in the air. The ball goes in his glove out. Exactly. He hasn't landed yet, right? So if he lands

then catches it, yeah, it's a home run. I think the part you're not understanding, Zaz, is that for it to be a home run, it has to hit beyond play. The ball has to land somewhere beyond the fence. It can hit, if it hits over the fence and falls behind the fence or even hit, there are times, right? There are markings in the big leagues

that something could hit a facade end up back on the field, but because it's gone over the fence, it's a home run. But the place it hits beyond the, the fence can't be a glove. Right. It can be anything but a glove. If it hits anything but a... Well, I suppose he could catch it in his hat as well.

He could. Bare hand, too. We saw that and only get their own. What if he jumps over the fence and then... Establishes himself over the fence. You can't establish yourself. It has to be in the air. Then he would have to jump up into the air.

Once you establish yourself over the fence, then you leap into the air as long as your feet are not on the ground when you catch it. No way. Leap back into right field. That maybe. He hops over the fence, builds up momentum. and runs, leaps, lands in the field of play. You have to bring the ball back into the field of play.

That's robbing a home run. That ball is over the fence. Wherever he stands on top of the fence and catches the ball like in Major League 2. Roy, that's clearly an out. That was Major League 2. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I'd have to look this up. I'm going to try and look it up during the break.

I'm pretty sure in a Japanese baseball game one time, there is a famous video clip of a guy standing on top of the wall. And again, that's Major League 2. No, I know. It's a Japanese player. It was in Cleveland. No, guys. They traded parchment for him.

Yeah. Mobbles. He had the audacity to challenge Serrano, and nobody did that. It was before the life insurance commercials. That's when Serrano was menacing. He named Wild Things Pitch, the master. Are you in good hands? I am not confusing. He had good hands.

I am not confusing. the Japanese player in Major League 2 with a real home run in Japanese baseball. Maybe. It also, no, not maybe. There is a chance in you're like low-key afraid of it. No, I'm, no. You're sweating.

I'm going to, no. We can't trust our memories, Dan. Do you know that? Did you know that? This could be a Mandela effect. I'm telling you that before I saw it in Major League 2, I had seen it in Japanese baseball. But I'm going to look it up during the break to prove myself to you guys.

Now, you may remember, you may not. remember that last year during the first half of a Vikings football game, speaking of defensive things, Isaiah Rogers had both like a 66-yard fumble return touchdown and like an 87-yard pick six in the first half of a game against the Bengals. And when that happened, I'm like, that's probably one of the best defensive halves anybody's ever had. The mathematical odds against Joe Adele catching three home run balls in a single game when the most home run robberies by a single player in the entire season last year was four for the entire season. And it's only because the home runs are getting robbed more than they ever have. Can someone please explain to me

what's happening there? How is it possible? Is it because baseball players are better athletes? It's because they're all trying to hit home runs. But how is it possible that I would go an entire Marlin season without watching anybody get a home run stolen? And now all of a sudden, every single week it's happening with somebody in baseball, and now it's happening three times in a single game. I mean, it should be noted that that Park's dimensions play to this. What was that?

They play to this. Like, that short porch in right is pretty unique. But at least that was just one of the three. you know, otherwise he's still at two. No, the other two weren't over there. The other two were closer to right center. Still a two. It wasn't, that's not where the other two were.

Again, Joe Adele is his name, and he just did something more memorable in an Angels game than Albert Pujols or Mike Trout ever did. I mean, it's an outlier, though, right? Like, you're looking at something that rarely happened. I think it's completely random. It's the BAM 83-point game. Like, why aren't people scoring more? It's like, well, we had this random guy do it. He had three stolen home run plays.

I think it's a weird, random baseball thing. I'm going to say it again. Joe Adele just did something more memorable in an angel's uniform than Mike Trout or Albert Pujols ever did. The wickedly talented one and only Adel. I want to go back to that original clip because you can't play John Travolta enough. He's trying to say Adina Mansell. He has a card in front of him that spells it phonetically. He panics and decides to do it with a flourish.

and it's a terrible idea. Please welcome the wickedly talented one and only Adel Dazin. Do you think when he walked off the stage you just think of himself, all right, I don't think anyone noticed it. No, I think he felt the panic immediately. Jeremy, don't waste too much of your voice. Pick your spot here.

We've been talking for 40 minutes without your help here, so pick your spot on anything that was said in the last 40 minutes that you'd like to either counter or address. Adela is one of the best outfielers in Major League Baseball defensively. Got a match killer. You guys are stupid. What do you mean?

I'm trying to celebrate something that I just... As you should. Zaz is an idiot. He doesn't like anything fun. Just trying to get a clarification of the rules. You're an idiot. Ball off the player or his glove goes over the fence. That's a home run.

Guy catches the ball. It's a fucking out. I'm telling you, I think the one that was ruled a home run should not be a home run. And the one that was not a home run should be. because you hate things. None of them were home runs. Well, the one that went out the kid's head. Oh, the one.

But I don't think it should have been. Oh, I see what you're doing now. He got tremendous chichung after that, right? Oh, for sure. It started growing almost immediately. You know when you hit your head and you get that chichung and you're like, oh, my God, I cannot believe it. That guy woke up this morning with a bowling pin. It was like in Looney Tunes.

A bowling pin out of his forehead. Like, he was 20 feet from the warning track. Like, it doesn't seem physically possible. If I just said to you as a riddle, it had. Hey, the center field are 20 feet from the warning track got in the forehead. Is there any way that it goes over the fence behind him for home run? No, is the answer to that? Hey, it's Mike Ryan.

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