The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Sparky Lyle

Episode Date: May 6, 2024

Remember to watch our live stream tonight with All The Smoke taking place during the Knicks-Pacers game! To end the show, we dive deep into the career of Sparky Lyle and his choice to enter games from the bullpen to the graduation song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I like how you read it like Taffy. Holy crap. Rick Flair is saying, Stugats, that in that last match that he had recently, he had an actual heart attack during the match. What? We were all worried about it, and he just kept wrestling through the heart attack.

He says he had a heart attack. Has anyone flirted with death more than Rick Flair? I mean, honestly. Put it on the poll. Been struck by lightning at Levitard Show. Has he been struck by lightning twice at Levitard Show? Has anyone flirted with death more than Ric Flair? I wanna circle back around, Stugat,

on something that ended a segment earlier. Jeremy very excitedly shouted out a great name from the past when he said Sparky Lyle was the one who invented coming out of the bullpen to music. We're not making Sparkies anymore, right? Put it on the poll please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Are we making Sparkies anymore?

I also don't think Sparky is his real name. No, I don't, but even as a- We're still doing Sparky Dogs. Even as a nickname. Sparky's almost like a, it's a pejorative now. Hey, Sparky. His real name is Al. That's why he. Sparky's almost like a, it's a pejorative now. Hey, Sparky. His real name is Al. That's why he's Sparky.

Is it Al or is it Albert? It's Albert, but Al was funnier. Albert Walter Lyle. Albert is pretty funny. I don't think we're making a lot of Alberts anymore either, are we? Like maybe some Al's, but not a lot of Albert's. I don't know if I have a timeline

for this person Sparky Lyle's. Like when you say that I think like 1800s okay, no you're not and it's also you're you're adding an s to it. That's not necessary. It's Sparky Lyle I'm Cuban Dan. What do you have to do? I like Sparky Lyle being in the 1800s and the music he came out to as a guy in Oregon It's about that actually because when Jerry mentioned it I asked him what's the song and he said pomp and circumstance. The graduation song? This one. He's throwing 88 miles an hour out of the boat and no one wants to see old Albert. I've got background on that story too because apparently the organist for the New York Yankees

at the time had seen Sinatra recently and they played this in that awkward period when nobody was talking during the show and they were changing sets and he viewed the closer coming into the game as that awkward moment and so decided to play this. This feels like funeral music is it is it graduation music is it it's not wedding music Graduation feels like graduation music yes, I think macho man came out to this song also come on. I'm pretty sure The wrestler why we know As opposed to what other macho man village people Is there a village person man or the song of the macho man? Hey, hey, hey What song is that? That's much of it. That's how it's long savage should have came out to that

Yeah, so what you were Sparky Lyles. He played from 1967 to 1982 what's crazy is he actually won the first Cy Young for any reliever in baseball He was a multi-time all-star won the first Cy Young You're just learning about him. Yeah He's also he had a great mustache and is credited with another great mustache Raleigh fingers for kind of Making the importance of the reliever known But what I also found out is he was known for being a prankster in the clubhouse,

and his trademark prank was sitting naked on birthday cakes for his teammates. Wow. Yep, trademark. Classic Sparky Lyles. Classic Albert. Let's, again, I want you to imagine this, okay? I believe at some point Sparky Lyyle pitched for the Yankees.

How big is this? Yeah, those were the Yankees when this happened. There you go. It's a good question, Jessica. I want you to picture, I want you to picture Yankee Stadium filled in swelling. It's not quite the age where people are wearing top hats and suits to the games, but in the area.

And now the Yankees are winning, and they're dynastic, and this is the national pastime, and Yankee Stadium is swaying back and forth. And here comes 87 mile an hour throwing Sparky Lyle, uncaged from the bullpen like a rodeo bull to come in the game and shut him down with what are now change-ups as fastballs. ["The Last Post," by John Williams, playing in background.]

That'll scare him.