The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The First Step Disqualification

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

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Against the spread is presented by draft Kings Jack Kings. The crown is yours Billy Today Today, the Giants and Justin Verlander are in Pittsburgh taking on Johan Oviedo. It's his season debut. Justin Verlander has not been great this season. Record is not great this season. However, his last game was against the Pirates, and they won that game. Pirates had a disastrous collapse this weekend against the Rockies. It was an interesting day on Friday.

Marlins and Yankees got a lot of attention, but the Rockies and the Pirates had an incredible collapse and a comeback by the Rockies, one of which was reminiscent of when the Rockies beat the Marlins on the 4th of July years ago, which was a very, very disappointing game. We're good, we're good. Sprint, sprint, sprint.

You're a fan, though. The Giants are favored by one and a half against the Pirates, who have been with disappointment this season. Against the Sprint. I'd take the Pirates plus one and a half. They put up a lot of runs in that loss the other day. Against the Sprint.

But I think. You're doing the run line. Yeah, one and a half? Against the Money Line. What? Against the Sprint. You're doing the run line, not the other day. But I think you're doing the run line. Yeah, one and a half. Money line. What? You're doing the run line, not the money line. Yeah, plus one and a half. I'm gonna take the pirates plus one and a half.

Yeah, it's a spread. Against the spread. It's a spread. Yeah, you can get this money line too. Yeah, nah, I wanna take the pirates plus one and a half. Yeah. It's against the spread now. I just wanna get the spread.

Yeah, it's a spread. Yeah, it's against the spread. The pirates plus one and a half against the giants. Against the spread. get the spread. Yeah, it's against the spread. It's against the spread. The Pirates plus one and a half against the Giants. Against the spread. Against the spread. You don't like that? Against the spread. You know what, I'm gonna do the opposite.

What? What? Do you want me to do the opposite, David? I'll do the opposite. The Giants minus one and a half. What do you wanna do here? I love the Pirates plus one and a half. I do too, but I don't know.

Justin Ferlanders is a shell of his old self. The Pirates have been one of the bigger disappointments this season, huh? Don Kelly, former Marlin. Oh, oh. Not manager of the year. No. All right, so I think we have the Pirates

plus one and a half against the Spritz. All right. We did it. We got Juju tapping his toes over there. How about Paul Skeens? You feel bad for him? No. No?

Not at all? How would I feel bad? He's a generational pitcher, dating, Livy. Done. Done. Yeah. He's doing fine. I mean, yeah, he can't get any run support.

He looks, he does not look happy. He looks happy to you? He started the Instagram game two years in a row. Yeah, he didn't look happy though. Seems happy to me. He may just have resting bitch face, but he's happy. Oh geez. Whoa.

Give me the point down. Okay, Juju. Juju, would you have sex with a fish in 100 years? Absolutely not. I do not partake. What if it's societally acceptable? Yeah. The show went down a couple of different turns

and twists and turns today. If it's society, is it the fish from Splash? Because if it's the fish from Splash, I don't know. We can make a couple of exceptions. That's all I'm saying. Well, yeah, moving on. This is neither here nor there. A baby wearing a crawl competition this weekend in Las Vegas at the Aces game

took his first steps during the crowd competition, not by dusting the competition. So I wanted to ask you guys, in my opinion, that's an immediate and instant disqualification. Yeah. What do you guys think? Cheater, cheater, cheater. It's like the difference between running and race walking. Like you always have to have one foot on the ground. You gotta have at least two limbs or three limbs on the ground, I guess. You just gotta be able to use all four. You can't go walking.

You're gonna buy that it was the kid's first step coincidentally. That's the other thing. No chance. No chance. What is this? Noah Lyles' child just running across as soon as he got on his feet? No way. Cheater. Yeah. Sketchy dad after the game. I interviewed the dad. He was walking away like he just stole something. I don't believe you, sir. Congratulations to that baby. I hope you have a long career in the Olympics, but I think you should have been disqualified and the prize money should have went to second place. Yeah. Yeah. What was the prize money? I think it was like $100 or something.

It was something. Whatever it was, give it to the second place, baby. Normally we just give like t-shirts, a prize pack. Pacifier. Yeah, rarely is it a cash gift for the crawl off or for any sort of fan thing. Yeah, it probably isn't. Also over the weekend.

Also over the weekend. Also over the weekend, there was a report of the second sex toy that hit the court, you feel me, which is very embarrassing. But there was also a third one that hit the court in this weekend in Atlanta. It went under wraps. It hit the court. It was as soon as the game was over, it hit the court. And one of the workers came and picked it up with his bare hand and put it under his shirt. I was like, you know, that brother loves the dream.

And I like to say, I don't understand this pandemic of throwing them. Like you said, Mike, earlier, football people have pads, helmets. If you hit one of them, it ain't gonna feel them at all type, but the women, if you get one of them, it ain't going to feel them at all type. But the women, if you throw that down and it hits them in the head, back arm or anything, that's an instant lawsuit.

You're going to jail for assault. I don't understand any motivation behind this pandemic of throwing the s**t. That's what I was trying to figure out, Juju, is the humor behind it. I mean, the first time you see it, it's like, wow, that's weird. But now if it's a running joke, I need to know what the joke is because I don't really find it funny. Right, it's not funny at all.

If you hit somebody, man, you are going to jail for a long time. Please stop throwing the dildos. Was it green though? It was green as well. What is that all about? It's just monopoly. Maybe it's the same thrower.

Who's using these dildos, Martians? The Incredible Hulk, maybe? So Juju, bad news is that they may go to arena jail that day, but the odds of them going to jail jail, like prison prison, very small. Yeah, and the security hasn't stepped up. We went to two games since that first one hit the hit the hit the court. But I still walked in with my keys in my pocket, my cell phone in my other pocket.

They didn't even check me. So it's like Atlanta security. You got to step it up because you want them checking for Dildos. I mean, at this point, check for that. Are you going to stop that? Yeah. What are we talking about? They're not going this point. How do you check for that? How are you gonna stop that? Yeah, what are we talking about? They're not gonna. Metal detector, you can't pick that up.

Right, the metal detector isn't picking it up. Are you expecting the pat down? Excuse me, sir, wait a minute, that's not a dildo. I'm just happy to see you. They're not gonna do that. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm telling you about desperate times and desperate measures. It's called a slump buster.

Yes, sir. Let me get you off that subject there, Juju. Noah Lyles and Kung Fu Kenny had a little thing, didn't they? Right, right. I think Kenny, you got to be able to lose with a bit of dignity, brother. You can't lose the race, even though he steered you down at the finish line, and then push him as he's still running. If that brother would've slipped and fell,

you already know it was a bad look. That's why you walked up to him and tried to shake his hand instantly, like, oh no, we're cool. Kenny, you sir are the joker of the day from yesterday for pushing that man after losing. Yeah, man. So for those who don't know,

Noah Lyles and Kenny Vidnarek competed at the US National Track Championships, competing to get their spot in Worlds, and they ran the 200, and Noah Lyles sort of came back and won the race and was staring him down and talking his stuff, and then Kenny, as they were still sort of slowing down, pushed him in the back, and I actually think Noah

is a little bit of a joker of the week candidate too because I'm with Benarik. First of all, he's got the great nickname, Kung Fu Kenny, and he wears the bandana thing, it's great. But he is always, he's very classy, he's very, you know, doesn't really talk, is just one of those quiet guys. And for Noah to just talk at him

and be sort of unsportsmanlike toward him when he's your own national guy, and he's again, very straight and narrow, very just like focused on his career, on everything. And I just think that like Noah's trying to bring his personality onto others that just don't wanna hear that crap. And again, I'm not saying there's anything wrong necessarily

with Noah's behavior, with his personality, but I think Kenny should clap back when, you know, don't talk shit to me like that. Like I was right there with you first of all, I'm also your boy. Like I don't really like it. I don't like it. Yeah, but you can't push it.

Once you put hands on people, everything changes. Use your words. I learned that in first grade. But you know what I love, Juju, is I don't know if you guys have watched that Sprint docu-series on Netflix. I think it's the best of the sports ones that they do. And to me, it just sort of reaffirms

how much the reason I love track. It's like, it's different than UFC, because you're not fighting, because you're not actually hurting each other, but it's mano a mano. It's just like the ultimate physical challenge for another person. And those rivalries I absolutely love,

which I know I just said that, you know, he shouldn't be talking shit to Kenny, but when you start these rivalries, man, like that's gonna bring a whole lot of interest to the sport and probably highlight it a little better here in the states. Right. Another rivalry over the weekend that we didn't necessarily get touched too much on today was Michael Parson versus Jerry Jones. I don't know what brother Jerry Jones is up to. He supposed to be having these conversations in private behind closed doors.

Don't tell everybody how much this doesn't matter. I think Michael Parsons has played his last game as a cowboy. What do you guys think? I do not, Juju, he's under contract. Jerry Jones would not, should not trade him. Do not give the player that power. He's under contract for 24 large ones this year.

Play. I side with J large ones this year. Play. I side with Juju on this one. If you're the aging owner of the now disgraced America's team, you haven't won anything in three decades, you're trying to get free agents, the last thing you want to do is to your best defensive player say, I ain't losing any sleep over it. I mean, come on. It's over the trade requests, not over't losing any sleep over it. I mean, come on.

It's over the trade requests, not over the lack of signing a contract. I understand all that, but it's still disrespect, unnecessary disrespect to the player. Yeah, very unnecessary. I don't think he's going anywhere. Yeah. I appreciate all that.

Well, what about him or Terry McLaren? Terry McLaren as well requested the trade and he had to go back to camp though because his money is a little different. They don't like getting fined. The reason why the Bengals guy, Hendrickson went back. He was just, he was losing so much money. Right.

He's like, what am I doing here? Yeah. Oh, that's right. Do your job. But they're already a struggling team. And now what does this do to the chemistry in the room? You know, you don't want a popular top tier player just feeling like Micah Parsons does right now. You just want to avoid that when you can.

And this was avoidable. You don't say this in public. You don't say, I'm not losing any sleepover. It's not a big deal. Come on, placate the guy. All right. It's fine. But this is what Jerry does.

Like he does this every year. He does this with Dak. I know, and he never learns. And then he's gonna pay him. That's the thing, he gets paid them anyway. He's gonna pay them anyway, and he could have avoided this and he's gonna sign for $260 million and everybody's gonna be like,

oh, that was a waste of two weeks. It's not wasted, we're talking about it. It's what Jerry wants. No, no, no, I was saying, for him, it was a waste of two weeks of national's not wasted, we're talking about it. It's what Jerry wants. No, no, no, I'll say for him, it was a waste of two weeks of national conversation. That's what he likes, so. We stumbled upon this. He always pays, and he always draws it out,

so you talk about it, and it's a talking point for much of the season until he cracks. And then the team stinks. Right. And he pays more than had he just done it originally. That's right. Well, you always pay for more if you wait. Buy a house when you can, because next year the house will go up.

We can't buy houses. That's why it's a weird strategy by him. No, we can't buy houses. Yeah. I'm trying. I mean, shows like this, you never know. As a society, affordable housing is a plague. Man, you're struggling today, Mike.

No side is ever. The weight of the world is on your shoulders. I mean. I'll see you in three years, Mike. Most people buying homes are older and wealthy three years. I Don't know. I like to also just comment. I like the mustache brother I know you waiting for the haircut later on in a week But I think the time select is working today my brother keep you keep you up the great work

Thank you. Appreciate that juju. I like your mustache too. What do we got on polls? I didn't call a lot of polls today, Juju. Yeah, I made up a couple just because I saw we weren't going the poll route, you feel me? So I just stumbled upon a couple that I could just put up myself. Tell me. Are we still making Dolores's? 91% of the audience says, no, we are not.

What does that translate to in Spanish Dolores? Pain pains not a great no may Abloh Also Sorry as An adult. Can you still do the monkey bars as good as you could when you were a kid as well? 80% as 80% of the audience says no they can't, and those are the polls. Boom.

It's just Mike and Izzy. No, no, I can still do a monkey bar too. Can you do 12, Juju? 12 is not that much. Yeah, pretty well. Listen people, have some faith in yourselves for crying out loud. There are three year olds going across

and skipping whatever sticks in the monkey bars. You can do it, David, trust me. Have some faith in yourself. I have faith in you. See you in three years. All right. Or tomorrow. I don't have a faith in us as a society,

but I have faith in you.