The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Free Shirts

Episode Date: February 15, 2024

The crew kicks things off with today's Thursday Thunder, Mike worries he may have ruined attending future sporting events for his daughter, and EA Sports dropped the new NCAA Football video game trailer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. Here we go, Thursday Thunder. We are here. What was that sound to start? What was that sound? What did you start that with? What sound did you start that with? It's very loud. It's very loud. We're getting our bearings here.

It's thundering out. There's a lot of rain. But what was the sound you made at the beginning of this that made everyone drop their head into their hands because you started this so poorly? That's because I said something with my mic on. There's a lot of blue lights over here and sometimes you forget which one's which. What'd you say though?

I don't remember what I said. Thursday Thunder is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned and you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. We're gonna do Thursday Thunder guys. I love you guys. Where's your confidence at right now?

Not great. In Vegas. It's just sometimes there's music playing and I'm like, I gotta turn it down and I gotta talk. Should still probably turn it down a little bit. Yeah. It's still hot. Lucy, I got this. It's pretty loud.

Happy to help. All right. Thursday Thunder, we're gonna do over. I don't feel like you were. You're gonna have to lash out at Lucy. Otherwise you wouldn't have helped. She might the the people she needed to I'm just a girl Chris I'm just a girl trying to do my job badly over 12 and a half rebounds for Yana Santa the Kumpo and Rudy go bear those are the first two legs of our Thursday thunder

We like rebounds around here. You have a lot of missed shots in the game a lot of missed shots a Lot of boards a lot of things to eat up for those guys. We also like the under. No thunder in between. The under. Oh, he's literally over your shoulder. Over the shoulder. Right over the shoulder telling you when to hit the thunder. Trying to be helpful. Let him put his own spin on the show. No, he's owning it. Under 19 and a half points, Jonathan Kaminga. That's a real person. Of course it is. It's an important person to the Warriors.

Of course. That's what I'm telling you. Under 19 and a half points. That's our Thursday. But you're betting against him because you don't think Kaminga can score more than 19 and a half points. Camera crew, Kaminga all over Sugat's right now. He does have a little on his face from earlier. What? What? Kamen go all over Stu Gatz right now. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and you show your ignorance. I mean, it's like that guy Hartin. It's the same thing, but it's why Sam Morell is mad

at Stephen A. Smith for reducing him to that guy, Hartinstein. You do a weird thing with Hartinstein. No, that's how you pronounce it. I've heard the broadcasters pronounce it that way. He's saying Hartinstein, Sam was. You're saying Hartinstein. The broadcast, it's a shh.

You gotta watch League Pass, too. Yeah, but some people say Hartinstein, Stephen A. I will say shout out to League Pass, by the way. you get all the in in arena in stadium entertainment on league pass And I know that people know this by now But it never ceases to amaze me when you get to watch like a local band do the national anthem or like some weird Fingering half time somebody on a bicycle kicking plates on her head. She's a legend Yeah, but yes, Dan it is the absolute best, probably the best, most fine, whatever.

I'll watch the stupid nicks. But the in stadium entertainment is really what tickles me, that, and Clyde's outfits. I do believe there's a generational gulf there as well, where Stan Van Gundy and Steve Kerr both hate the in game entertainment that is a bombardment of stimuli at every turn at basketball games because they're like, shouldn't the game,

shouldn't Hartenstein be enough? Why do I need a T-shirt cannon of any sort? Why can't I just- Oh, I love the T-shirt cannon too. Little parachutes come out of the sky. I love a kiss cam. I do. I mean, we're not doing those very much anymore.

Oh, yes we are. Although I noticed- MSG is. UN still does it for men's basketball. Yeah. My daughter gets really disappointed when she doesn't get a T-shirt. Like, it's very disheartening to her. She's gotten a lot of T-shirts. We have courtside seats looking me loo for the women's games. So usually they see how press-fallen she is because she legitimately cries when she doesn't get a T-shirt. So she doesn't really understand the concept of going to a game and not being get a t-shirt. So she doesn't really understand the concept of going to a game and not being handed a t-shirt.

It's a very dangerous way to start things out. I love those moments though, where you can just be like, honey, this is life. I tried. Sometimes you don't get what you want. I tried. And then by the third go around, I'm like, just give her the fucking shirt.

It's a triple XL, just let her have it. You'll tackle people. I mean, you'll box them out. You'll tackle people. I mean, you'll box them out. You'll do what you have to do. She's happy now. She's crying. My dad wouldn't say you can't not get what you want. He would play the song by the stones. That song gives me so much PTSD. Really? So Juliet is in a situation where not unlike the Swifties who think you arrive at football and immediately win the Super Bowl. Juliette's, the way she's being formed in sports

is you go to a sporting event and they give you a free t-shirt. That's her life. Yeah, like 80% of the time. You sit courtside and you get a free t-shirt. 20% of the time that you don't, you cry. And then daddy buys you something afterwards to stop the crying.

That's what we're teaching her, but we're also saying not too much time in the iPad as a babysitter because we wanna have discipline as we raise the dollars. I mean, if you really wanna look into it, it's probably not great that out the gates you got courtside seats too, kid. This took daddy a very long time.

A child of privilege, she's going to be in sports because- My baby is spoiled. No, just to be clear though, it's not- I love her. It's not sports because my baby is spoiled. No, just to be clear though, it's not just that your baby is spoiled. She goes, she thinks the sporting experience is not merely to sit courtside at the game and be handed a T-shirt, but also the players wave at you

and interact with you during the game. And they hug you and they take you up for dunks afterwards. She's got a very skewed perception of all those things. She thinks it's totally normal to go to Disney once a month. If you took her to a game and she sat 300 level, how would she react? Oh, come on, I'm not sitting 300 level. I don't even, not even to teach her a lesson,

will I subject myself to 300 level? Apple tree, that's apple tree. I want to play for the audience a little bit of video here that had the entire... Who does that help? Had the entire room with goosebumps because I obviously am too old to be a gamer Stugots is too old to be a gamer, but EA Sports has put out its trailer I guess for a college football game that we keep getting told is coming soon is coming soon. Here's the trailer. ["The Trailer"]

Got something special for y'all. Little update for our fans from the big house to the bayou. From Carolina to California. ["The Trailer"] Yeah, it's about college football. We know you love it. Us too. The rivalries, the comebacks, the traditions and superstitions built by generations.

There's nothing like it. Turns out, we've been building too. So let's address the big Al in a room. Yeah, we've seen the post, the predictions, the doubts. We get it. It's been a minute. Let's just say this ain't the only jersey we've been working on. That's just say, this ain't the only jersey we've been working on. The game this sport deserves. Because pretty soon, this place will be full again.

Until then, cuter crowd noise. Ah! Oh, no! No! Let's go! I'm about to mother-f*** the portal so loud. Oh, oh the Mississippi. I'm warning you right now. When Akron makes it all the way to the top of the summit, I am breaking every rule. Oh, this is so great. We watched it out in that bullpen. This is my second time watching that now. And there were legit goosebumps everywhere in that newsroom because this game, it just means so much to people of a certain age.

There are so many men 35 to 40 on my timeline right now losing their minds. You would have thought a new national album dropped. They've been waiting for how long? Since 2014? We're still waiting by the way. I still have my doubts, all right? They were like, we've seen the messages. Yeah, that's my message because this is something that's been teased for years.

And because of all the legal headaches involved with making a video game based off of athletes who until recently weren't allowed to be paid based off their name, image, and likeness, it has not existed. And they were like, it's coming, it's coming. When? When?

I'll say July, but I'll believe it when I see it. Well, they actually use that doubt in this teaser trailer with all the believing I see. Which indicates pretty clearly that it will come out in July now. You don't do this unless, you don't make this commercial. You wanna bet? I mean, I don't know about it, Jim.

So much about college sports can change between now and then. I mean, where is the Pac-12? There's no Pac-12. There's two teams that own the licensing to Pac-12? There's no Pac-12. There's two teams that own the licensing to Pac-12. There's a lot that has to be figured out. We have to figure out a protocol for the college football playoff. Hell, FSU may successfully get out of the ACC. There is so many things that can change between now and then

that part of the issue is that it's such a fluid situation that you'll almost have to wow you really do have to go to the changing stop it never change never stop my players decided to you guys I'm gonna turn into David Samson