The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Happy Birthday, Sister Jean (feat. JuJu Gotti & Jordan Shusterman)

Episode Date: August 21, 2025

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Free access ends August 24th. Visit Ancestry.ca for more details. Terms apply. That's right. It's Thursday Thunder, and it's presented by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours. Juju, what's up? What's happening?

Congratulations to everybody who made a billion dollars last week on Thursday, Thunder. Straight through the nets. A winner, you feel me? And guess what? we're going to replicate that again tonight congratulations juju finally finally after so many two and threes you won one congratulations yes sir first leg we're going with emma misman for over 5.15 rebounds tonight against the chicago sky lock it in second leg we're going to stick with that same game because the liberty they just locked up in the

Couple vicious battles with the number one team in the league, the Minnesota links. So I think my sister, John Quill Jones, she going to take it easy tonight, man. Big Dubs, man. The big way. We're going to go under on John Quill Jones tonight. 15.5 points. Lock it in. And the last leg, we're going to Las Vegas, Nevada, with my sister, Asia Wilson.

they got the mercury coming in town and they're going to need her to get them rebounds you dig it so we're going over 11.5 rebounds on Asia Wilson thank you the alarm is back let me just do a little bit of cleaning up around here and bring up something I should have brought up a lot earlier today and did not to my epic failure your happy 106th birthday to Sister Gene. Chris Cody, do you have back there the Sister Gene, happy birthday, she imaging, because I've only got the male version over here.

Happy birthday to her. I don't care. Good luck. Also, Dan, the oldest person alive turned 116 today. 116? 10 years? Sister Jean is 10 years behind. She's never going to catch up.

It feels like Sister Jean has two birthdays a year, right? I feel like we're always telling her happy birthday. You rolled your eyes at Sister Jean's birthday. Why did you do that? Well, because of that, we were talking about it here before, and I think every single person in this room agreed, she's just like, we're celebrating her birthday two or three times a year. Like, it seems as though we're just making up birthdays.

I don't know why you would go negative on Sister Jean's birthday. I'm not. I'm happy for her. Good for her. I don't want to get to 106. Good for her, though. Ethel Catterham, 116. She lives in England. England?

Oh, my God. Imagine living 116 years. England? Oh, brutal. We can't be making Ethel's anymore, right? We've failed and not talking about Paige Beckers today in all of the stuff that we were talking about, Juju. She was amazing last night.

Yes, sir, bro. 44 points on 17 or 21 in a great game where I thought they could have pulled that game out at the end, but they had a couple of turnovers by a couple of people. excuse me pardon me by a couple of people I'm drowning right now I'm gonna need somebody to say something we've got $10 we've got seven people around here

to jump in and rescue I just couldn't believe watching her watching the highlight from last night because I didn't have a chance to watch it all live there were a couple of plays in there that were some of the most remarkable ball handling that I've seen in that league I mean she went behind the back

with like a hezie to get into the paint and she became she had the most points by a rookie in WMBA history first player in league history with 40 plus points on 80% field goals are better highest scoring game this year ridiculous game from her I mean truly amazing juju right it was the efficiency for me as well it's like timely buckets she was going back to back with rickia jackson for a while then rickia kind of gave out and and kelsey plum took over the game which we got to salute the big dollar oh july Kelsey Plum, game winner, at the buzzer. That's all that matter, getting a dub. But Paige is doing something that I don't think I've seen in my adult life or rookie do. Just be able to take over an entire game. Zazlo, can I get a ruling here on whether or not, and a judge ruling on whether or not Jeremy Tashay can use Hezzy

because he's in a big hurry on hesitation instead of saying hesitation. Jonathan Zaslow now presiding with prejudice. this. No respect. You guys got to stand up. Jeremy Tashay, is he allowed

to use the word hezzy? I'm allowed it. Really? I'm allowed. Thank you, guys. Look at the hesitation move. That'd be crazy.

You already get mad at me for being a broadcaster voice. Forgivable. I'm asking for a ruling. What a hesitation move. I got a ruling. Forgivet. But hezzy, because you don't want

use the tation you don't you're in a big hurry and so it's called the hezzie because it's called a hezy dan no it's a hezzy all right so it's a hezzy all right and with that hezzy uh with that kelsey plum made at the end of the game it also eliminated Dallas and chicago from playoff contention already so that loss was bigger than we thought you feel me so look the pace she's a rookie of the year though locked it in uh before we get to pitch clock here I want to update some polls but what do you have for me on a video that we did not get to during the show of a car crashing through a restaurant on a streaming couple. Right. I feel like never has there been an easier layer for a lawsuit or whatever the

case is that they're going to get. I see them on CNN. They were streaming if you don't know out there tasting food. And all of a sudden, a car crashes through the window on the couple lives. Man, what would y'all do in that scenario? Like, what would be your first move or first car? So you guys are going straight to the lawsuit portion of this here. You're not, the surprise of it at least you're going straight to strategic cashing in. Okay. Neck brace. Next time you see me on stream, I'm like, unsurprisingly, my childhood best friend is a lawyer.

He's the first person I'm calling. So all of you think you're going to react that quickly to a car crashing into your dinner. Without hezzy. Thank you. So, Ron Perlman was also the beast and beautiful. the other beast, wasn't he? And he looked just like the beast. Like, I think this was an early TV show.

There's never been a head like this. We're agreeing on this. Are all of us saying flatly? Are we universally discovering at the same time? The reason we know and love Ron Perlman is because he's got a flat face, unlike any head in the history of cinema. No, I have to correct you, Nancy Reagan. Oh. Put it on the poll at Levitard show.

Did Nancy Reagan have a face as long as Ron Perlman? We don't have to put that one up. Juju just got it. Better head. Do that. Better head, Ron Perlman or Nancy Reagan. I don't have to do that either. I can't believe you told a Nancy Reagan blowjob joke.

Oh, come on. I can't believe you just got it. That is him as the beast. Spinning image. What are the polls today before we get to pitch clock here, Jujo? What are the polls we have to update? Yes, sir. Right before the post.

Also, congratulations to the fake Justin Bieber who got the performer in front of an entire club got paid and everything, not even Justin Bieber. Didn't Charlotte Flair get caught taking a picture with fake Justin Bieber? Tough look. Very tough look. Of course, you know the wrestling angle to that. Dork. Who said that? Do you like Doubalan Tandres?

78% of the audience says, yes, they do. Who voted no there? Right. Is Penn State ever really the number two team in the country? 92% of the audience says no they are not. Damn. James Franklin. Pasha. What is that? Right. The only time I ever heard Pashah is on the TV show called Ghosts, which is a guilty pleasure of mine. I watched the entire TV show called Ghosts,

salute to ghosts. But 81% of the audience says, yes, Push your heart to James Franklin. In the last poll, bigger part of your Saturday mornings growing up. Bugs Bunny or Lee Corso. 56% of the audience says, Lee Corso, and those are your pose. Pitch clock. Next. I just shoveled down like nachos and like two tacos.

Oh. I'm sorry. Wow. Welcome to the pitch clock. Here's the pitch, a two-part baseball segment. Combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the pitch clock. Pitch clock is back.

Chris Cody's here. You're not going to do it. You're just going to stay silent after that burt. I just wanted to make it weird for you. Do the thing. Hi, everybody. There it is. All right.

You really did make it weird for me. Taylor's here. We both complimented his hat before we. we started recording, which is a rare thing for us to do. We didn't want to give him big head. So the pitch clock, we're here. Jordan Schusterman, Assessment of Family Barbecue, will be with us soon as our 2025 and will be expert. Taylor, what is our trivia game today?

We're going back to what we did last week with Scatterories. The category for this time will be home runs, career home runs. So you guys will get three rounds, three different letters where you have to name players. with that letter, and this time it's going to be aggregate score, so you have to go through three rounds no matter what. And the added wrinkle will do, if you get a double letter, double the points. Whoa, double the points. Okay. I used to play this game in high school. That's complicated. The first letter is P. Pedro Pascal. Peter Parker. Silence of thinking.

Hmm. What are names that start with? P. I have four already that I feel decent about it. How was that? I mean, I have, I have, I don't, I don't feel good. Um, I'm just trying to find a double. I'm trying to cook. I have five. I just don't feel good about them. So let's just, I don't feel great about mine either. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Jeremy, we'll have you reveal first. All right. My, my first one is, uh, the youngest guy I have on here. It's Prince Fielder. Yeah, I have that one, too. Prince Fielder is the third best P name. And, okay. He has three. He has three. 319 career home runs. Okay. All right, that makes me, that maybe makes me feel

a little bit better about my list. Next. Next up, I'm gonna go with one that I know is bad. Phil Rizzuto. Wow. Okay, gonna have to.

It's not a good one. How you spell Rizzuto? Double Zs. That's the fill you went with, huh? So Phil Rizzuto hit 38 career home runs. I knew it was gonna be bad. I didn't know it was gonna be that bad.

I also want to say something. Before everyone start talking about this again, it's harder when you're doing it. It's so much harder when the pressure's on. This one more than any other game we've played. Hey, guy playing along with us. You can just pause your podcast and think forever with no pressure. Don't be mean.

I'm going to counter your Phil risotto. Risotto. I made him a dish with Phil Nevin. He's got to have more than 30. I mean, I would think so too. I didn't say I felt good about it. I never would have. It's better than Phil risotto.

You don't feel good about it. Phil Nevin hit 200. Oh, man. 208? We're cooking, baby. Wow, it's over. Cooking with gas. All right.

So you don't have anyone younger than Prince Fielder? I have one younger guy than Prince Fielder. Pete Alonzo. Oh, my. It's not that many. What does he have, like, a hundred and eighty at this point? He's definitely in the 200s. Is he?

At the time of this recording, I can't believe it. Pete Alonzo has 254 home runs. You know who doesn't have 254 home runs? Pete Rose. Is that, do you remember? wrote him down. Wow, that's, you actually wrote his name down. Yeah. No, I know. Pete Rose close. Pete Rose has 160 home runs in his career. Honestly, truly better than I anticipated. Uh, you, you want to give the next one? I got a couple Pauls. Me too. Yeah. I got great. I got Molitor and O'Neill.

Yeah, I have the same. So just not even work. I mean, I guess you can tell us where, where, wow. Wow. You both have the same Pauls? Yeah, we have the same Pauls. I mean, aren't those the two Paul? Like, those are the Pauls. Are we, you know. So Paul Molter went deep 234 times in his career. Not bad. That was a guy that I just knew his name. Didn't know if he was a home run guy. Paul O'Neill, I'll guess, had 209 home runs. I'm going 317. 281 for Paul Neil. Basically the split difference. Taylor, is it 264 home run difference? Exactly. 264 home run difference going into the second round. And now our 2025 MLB expert is here.

It's Jordan Schusterman of Cestbitus Family Barbecue. You can check out their work literally everywhere. I feel like I'm constantly seeing what you guys are doing. Jordan, welcome back to the program. And you spent your weekend in Williamsport. Checking out everything from the Little League World Series, the Little League classic. Tell me about your experience in Williamsport.

What were the vibes around there? you know, what were maybe two or three of your favorite moments? It's a really overwhelming spectacle. The thing is, you know, trying to write a recap of an event like this is really difficult because not only do you, of course, you have the game, but everything that happens of the day, it's just constant. You turn around and you're seeing this moment, this interaction with a big leaguer and a little league or a big leaguer or just a fan or a coach or a country, right?

That's what it's all about because this is the, they put the world in World Series. I mean, we are getting real, you know, we like to. call we cover the World Series and then you know everyone's like oh this is in the world this is no no no this is it this is we got 10 different countries represented and 10 different states around the U.S. since they've expanded it to 20 teams and just that international flavor and those connections between the you know Lindor and Diaz with Puerto Rico yeah with with the Venezuelans with with the team Venezuela with with with randy rosarena who of course has you know Cuban born but has adopted Mexico as really you know he's a Mexican citizen and he's he's had

His kids there, like him with Mexico, Andres Munoz, Munoz, those are the moments that really stick with you. And just getting to see those is so special. We did a lot of AL here last week with Adnan in for her. So I want to talk about the National League a little bit with you. The Brewers, they've been surging. We all know this. They have been amazing. And I've tried to talk about them enough here.

I've had complaints that we haven't. I'm sorry. But the Cubs, they have not been so amazing until sweeping a doubleheader on Wednesday against the. those brewers. But the maybe biggest reason why outside of PCA's slump is Kyle Tucker completely falling off a cliff. Since July 1st, he has one home run. His OPS has dropped by over 100 points over that stretch. What in the world happened with Kyle Tucker here? How should the Cubs continue to approach it? And I mean, have you ever seen anything like this from from a player of this caliber?

Yeah, you know, we've had a couple super-duper stars have stretches where you're like, what is going on this year? I mean, I think about Juan Soto, but the Soto slump was really two weeks, two and a half, three weeks. And while it was overblown and I was not worried, it was like he was bad for a stretch. Three, two, three weeks is about the max that you'll see a player of this caliber go through. So now that we're pushing nearly two months, of really poor play

it's absolutely perplexing and I think what makes Tucker so interesting is him as an individual him his story coming into this season going into this new team for the first time

but with free agency approaching and let's remember for the first two months it was like this is it this is why you trade for Kyle Tucker he's leading the best offense in baseball oh my God we got to give him an extension now just like trying to give him

$450 million so he doesn't leave like that would be a discount and then it's a lot long season. It's a long season. There's a reason the Cubs are not, you know, giving him all he wants right away. And there's a reason that he's not taking it. Sometimes that works out in the player's favor. Sometimes it works out of the team's favor. I still expect Kyle Tucker to make a lot of money this offseason. But right now, we're not, we can't be worried about that. We got to be what he can be for the Chicago Cubs. And right now it's a very, very bad hitter. Now, the speculation

about him being injured feels warranted when you have a player this good that's playing this badly but you know people point to this finger injury that he had that was june first dude was awesome in june yep but i don't know man it is uh it definitely has kind of gone under the radar until this situation where he you know gets benched so that is uh that's why we had to talk about it the second letter is going to be f there's one that came to mind immediately i imagine it's the same yeah bro did i think of a double maybe I did too f is like a kind of tough name what do I not know names I don't know do you Chris how many names do you have I have six trying to decide who gets cut yeah I only

have I only have five I'll just go with these okay Chris start us off oh I I, Francisco Lindor. I have, oh, really? Yeah, okay. You have Lindor, Jeremy? I have Lindor. Okay. Okay, so Lindor is going to be

272 home runs at the time of this recording. Yeah, he has three home. What? Yeah, man. He's the Hall of Famer. Wow, that was a bad job. I mean, not picking him. I mean, I feel good about like four minor,

definitely more than him, but. Lindor's 213th all time on the home run. I decided to go with Fernando Tatis Jr. So Fernando Tatis Jr. has 144 home runs. All right. A hundred there to you, right, roughly? Yeah. You lost a hundred and twenty-eight to be there.

Okay. Okay. Should we just do our double? Get it out of the way? Yeah. Freddie Freeman. Freddie Freeman would have been the best guess in terms of double letters. Freddie Freeman, you both are going to get 358.

home runs. Frank Thomas. I also have Frank Thomas. The Big Hurt going to be the second best F name 521. Do you have the best one? I think so. I'm a legend. Yeah, I'm sure that I do. Frank Robinson. Yep. You both have Frank Robinson. Yeah, we do. Wow, Frank Robinson is the top F name. 586. Expo's manager. That's how I know him. You're going to win this one because we have to have that fourth one, right? Like, you probably thought of this one. I don't know. Who'd you think of? The crime dog. Interesting. I have a different Fred.

Okay. I have Fred Lynn. So, Jeremy, Fred Lynn is 155 all-time on the home run list with 3006 home runs. What a tease that was. Man, I thought I was about to get crushed on that. I mean, McGriff has more. I'm going to phrase it the same way. Fred McGriff, 29th all-time on the home run list.

Christ. With 493 homes. Oh, no. Yep. Going into this last letter, Chris Cody is up 323. It's going to be really tough for me to come. I feel like my whole thing is I'm just going to have to go with unique names and hope that we don't have any of the same ones and somehow I have an advantage.

But that feels impossible. Phillies, because this feels like a gigantic deal that not in baseball circles, but certainly I know on our show has gone under the radar. Zach Wheeler, one of the very best pitchers of this decade, certainly over the last five years, has a blood clot in his shoulder and does not have a timetable to return for the Phillies. How much does this just seismically shift what the National League looks like here for the foreseeable future of this season? Oh, it's huge. And obviously, a situation like that, you're hoping the best for Wheeler and just hoping.

that we can get him back, a guy who is having this awesome season, but it is an older pitcher and he's been very upfront being like, I'm not going to pitch forever. You know, like, he said he was going to retire in a couple of years. Maybe Wheeler does come back to the season. I hope that that's true. But even for this little stretch run, now what's fortunate for Philadelphia is

that at the very least, they they're in good position to kind of cruise to a top spot in the post, like in the seating, probably regardless, because of their situation, because of what they've earned over the last couple of months.

But once we get to October, now we're having a very different conversation because that game three, that game four, you know, Christopher Sanchez is awesome. Ranger Suarez is awesome. Lazzardo has looked awesome. It's obviously been more hot and cold, but the upside is clearly still there.

I think the other part that how it could affect it is, okay, you look at the bullpen. You got Duran, who's awesome. And I picked the Phillies to win the World Series before the season. I'm still riding with them. They've been playing great. but this is this is a huge deal indisputably a huge deal

going to be really fun to see if Jesus Lozardo can be the guy that he has been in so many different moments of his career but on that stage and that town as the potential number three starter for Philadelphia I obviously have have a soft spot for him as you know played against him in high school he ended my career he was on the mound

the last time I got to pitch incredible He was a freshman. Yeah, man, he was a freshman when I was a senior. I feel like I've told the story before on here, so the people listening probably are annoyed by it. But, hey, I'm going to mention it every opportunity I get. All right.

So, hey, are the Reds going to catch the Mets? The Reds are interesting because they have been hovering right there. I believe, you know, people have noted many times that the Reds have not been swept this season. They're, I think, one of the only teams to not be swept the season. That goes a long way, right? Their longest losing streak of the year is four games. Crazy. The longest winning streak is four.

five games. So that's why you can't. They've just been, it's like they clearly have emerged from this unimpressive middle of the National League. We are wondering, is there a twist left in this season? Because the same 12 teams have been in postseason position basically for two months. So wild. And the Reds are a compelling option.

The one problem is that they have, I think, the toughest schedule remaining. in baseball, or at least up there. They're going to really have to earn it. So I don't think that they're good enough to do that. But you still have to give them credit for not

falling on their face the way that so many of these other teams have just had two weeks of looking awful. The Reds have managed to avoid that and credit to them for that. I love watching games at that ballpark in the postseason because it's such a strange ballpark for teams that don't play there often. So

I hope they have the opportunity. One note, especially considering the Marlins, considering the NL, I did want to know our mutual friend, Danny Alvarez and his coverage from just a couple days ago. First time in MLB history, that two Venezuelan managers faced off against each other. It was Miguel Cairo with the Nationals. It was Carlos Mendoza with the Mets. I know Danny, who, again, is our mutual friend. And a friend of this program on the pitch clock, had a lot to do with getting that interview together, getting sort of the national recognition. here. I know there's stuff that's going to the Hall of Fame, potentially the Venezuelan

Baseball Hall of Fame. So check out the coverage that he had with Alex Srebase, and I know he's staying with Jake. So that ends up making all of this very full circle. Jordan, make sure to go check out his stuff with Cespittus family, barbecue, along with Jake. You guys rock. You rock individually, Jordan. Thank you so much for taking some time to hang out with us. Always a pleasure. Thanks for the invite. All right. Let's send it back to this game between me and Chris, it's not going to be a fun ending, I don't think. The letter for the last round is D. D as in dog.

Wow. I mean, I've already thought, none of these guys don't have a lot of career home runs, but I have three doubles. Wow. What? I just checked the top 75. There's seven D names. So how is that?

There's room. There's room for a comeback. I'm really, really. really really really struggling all right wait ready hold on hold on what happened I thought this was called pitch clock I mean geez I have no I have no chance all right Jeremy we're gonna need your five I mean all right I've got five oh lies I'm not happy with my Dante Bichette oh L I that's funny I left him in there yeah that's how bad your list is yeah I know so Jeremy you had Dante Bichette Dante Bichette's had

274 wow career home runs I'll take that Darren Dalton oh so Darren Dalton that sucks had 137 home runs no double it and it's exactly Dante Bichette that's so that's why I went with it just for fun that is so frustrating I can't even articulate God my next one is big poppy that's a good one I didn't have them on my list really my God I know I know So, I went with, again, I thought, I thought about Big Popper. No, I knew you would think of Big Poppy. But the guys with the most, you got, like, why?

How are you ever going to come up with people with more than that? David Ortiz is going to be the top D name. 541 home runs. Yeah. So it's over, but that's fine. We can't overlook that one. All right, I got three more and they're all like old Hall of Famers. Okay.

Go for it. Dave Parker. I don't even know if he hit a lot of. home runs just feels like a guy he struggled to get into the the Hall of Fame right wasn't he one of those guys that took a while yeah damn yeah just like just got in Dave Parker 339 home runs then I got Don Mattingly I'm mattingly too I was hoping you wouldn't yeah don mattingly 2nd22 oh so that should have been my cut I should have cut mattingly Chris what was your fifth name Dave Winfield Winfield's a good one

so David Ortiz was the top D name then Dave Winfield was the second D name yes this 465 had Don Baylor. Don Baylor had 338 home runs. So a good guess. I'm just not even going to write this down. I'm just going to assume it all goes to play. Dave Stewart. Dave Stewart had 264 career home runs.

That's a real baseball player. My last one was just for fun. David Justice. Thought of him. Didn't write it. David Justice pays homage to Miami. 305 home runs 305 It's still not going to be close

But it was a fun it was a fun effort I don't I'm not embarrassed by my effort there Everybody I picked had over 200 home runs I think that my big issue with this game is that I don't know names I've realized I don't know I'm a good name guy I don't know names I have a little I have facial blindness I have name blindness and apparently color blindness not color blindness Oh you see color?

I