The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Golden At-Bat

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

Greg Cote has some Jerry Jeudy takes he didn't get to fire off after last night's "revenge game," and the crew debates whether or not Stugotz should be inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame for giving Commissioner Rob Manfred the idea for the Golden At-Bat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. I'm feeling a little bit of remorse here because I don't feel like Greg Cody got enough shots off today. Like he had some Jerry Judy stuff that we cut off. In fact, put it on the poll please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Can you win a revenge game if you lose show can you win a revenge game if you lose can you win a revenge game if you lose he had a bunch of jerry judy stuff he wanted to get to and we just cut him off we clipped him with another hard network

out to the floor is yours great give us whatever it is you had there because you want you cared about last night's game that's why the nfl always wins i go into that game. The Browns are awful Denver is pretty good, but pretty good and not a real sexy team and yet it turns out to be one of the great Monday night games of the or Sunday night games of the year Monday night rather So the NFL always wins, but Jerry Judy I've already said my my piece Oh, you didn't we cut you off and you didn't you didn't say tell you didn't have much more yeah judge Judy he said enough material on Jerry Judy I thought and your son saw through you

your son cut you off with Judy over here I don't want to pile on Jerry Judy he made an ass of himself okay he failed out of Denver he goes back to Denver in a loss and acts like he had a great game he did have a great game 200 yards yeah because quarterback threw a thousand passes naturally he's gonna catch some it was like no he averaged over like 30 yards per catch it was like seven catches for two hundred and nine-five yards in a touchdown. You don't go like this. You don't cup your ear to the home crowd when you're in the middle of getting your ass kicked. It was funny because there was a time when the Browns were winning and they showed the

bench and Jerry, Judy and Jameis were laughing and even the announcer was like, look how much fun they're having over there. And then they farted and lost. Right. Exactly. That's because his receivers don't know how to tackle. Judge Judy won. Judge Judy won. That's right. Get a real last name. All right. They're having over there, and then they farted and lost right exactly that's cuz his receivers don't know how to tackle Judge Judy won that's right get a real last name all right there It is get a real put it on the pole juju at Leviton show get a real last name judge Judy

I meant that for Jerry. Yeah, not the judge mm-hmm How do you feel about the judge? She's all right. What is the judges last name? I have no idea what her first name is. Justice, I believe. Does she have a first name, Judy, the judge? Does she? Yeah, I don't know. What is Judge Judy's first name?

What would your guess be? Your honor. Your honor, Judy. Yeah. Kind of limits your job prospects, I would think, if you named your honor. You know, it's better than some names. It's a blum.

I have failed today. What is this? Sorry. I have failed. Continue. I can't get fined anymore. It's all carte blanche. Yep.

Get the pen out of your mouth. This is, you guys have noticed, we will have more for you on Greg Cody Wednesday But you guys have noticed right at this pace that we're doing the show Greg Cody by the end falls on his face at the finish Line he's got nothing left. He's chewing on his pen in the middle of talking right? He's got very little in the tank, but tomorrow. He's gonna give you more of it Yeah, the place that I have tomorrow you can go to him earlier though. I mean Mike and Lucy were too busy I'm gonna give you more of it. The place that I- Perhaps tomorrow you can go to him earlier though. I mean- Agreed. Thank you. Well, Mike and Lucy were too busy yelling at each other.

You know what, I apologize to you, Dan. I do, you're right. I, can I make a revelation? I don't actually believe any of the things that I was saying. In fact, I swore to people that I wouldn't do it. However, I was certain by the head coach of our football program. What?

That's just legit. He said the front-facing media personality for my age can't be doing this. This is about politicking and making sure those SEC mouth breathers don't get one over on us. And I said, I see the picture that you sent of my daughter getting dropped off at school. I will do whatever you need me to do.

Probably will get left out. I would love to end the show there. I would. It's a good ending for the show. However, the place that I have failed today, and this can't be up for dispute is on one of the biggest weeks professionally of Stu gots his life, best-selling book, church on Thursday with Greg Cody. Billy, there's some controversy behind the scenes on whatever church with Greg Cody is on Thursday because you've gone and looked up on the website and there are details here

that are problematic. I was asked not to show them. I will say this is a ticketed event, so if you wanna go meet Greg in Stugatz, you need to buy a ticket. Ticket's $29, however, when you pay the $29, you get handed one of Stugatz's books. Yes, correct. The way it's promoted on the website

implies this is a Stugatz event that you're just gonna be at. It is. Okay then. 100%. No, but no, but that was not my intention of doing it. I did it so it would be a shared event, a split event. If that's the case, I won't do it. Well, no, I no, but that was not my intention of doing it I did it so it would be a shared event a split event if that's the case. I won't do it Well, no, I don't know about that. You can't let the fans. They will be there

I know exactly what happened here, and I'm fine with it What is this event on Thursday night is a Greg Cody insta gots event I'm only bringing it up in the context of on this week that is so big for stu gots in so many different ways stu gots and billy also and you cannot make enough of this nationally you can i'm convinced baseball and rob manfred realize wait a minute we change things a little bit look everyone will love us again we can change everything that rob manfred stole an idea

from stew gotch and from billy and is now making it his own yeah in baseball change the name when i think i can't remember for sure i think we offered him the idea on the air and i believe he laughed it off the air i know we asked him we learned some ridiculous questions about ball pit i can't totally remember if nick mccye was on with us as a weekly guest or if we asked rob man for this question but i thought that the idea of

a golden at bat for a magical at bat that billions to got are six years ahead of their time and now baseball's gonna steal their idea because billions to got to legitimate pioneers how does to got to write a book have a church signing and it's like third-place bronze medalist on amazing things he's done this week this is absolutely amazing that he stole my idea and i'm wondering to myself how rob manfred pitch this idea because he can't do it with a straight face. Like he can't walk into the Major League Baseball offices and say, hey, I have a great idea. He stole my idea verbatim, the exact way I presented it on the air. Yours was better.

Yours had smoke. Mine had smoke. Mine had magic. Yours. I mean, yes. Yours. His is just golden. Me too. So all I've ever said about baseball is when I go to a basketball game, I get to see LeBron James play 36, 38 minutes a night. When I go to a football game, I'm going to see a healthy dose of Joe Burrow if that's the guy I'm going to see. When I go to baseball games, I see Mike Trout come up for four times, four of bats every game. I need to see more. I want to see more of baseball stars as often as I can. And I presented the magic of bat where once a game you could take out, you can bat out of order and put in your best hitter in the ninth inning in a big spot if you need them.

And now it looks like Major League Baseball has taken that idea and they're going to run with it. And Rob Manfred, you should be ashamed of yourself if you are claiming that as your idea because you know good and well where you got that idea. And I believe you left me off the radio. But I can't totally remember. I don't, I don't. No, we definitely never asked him anything.

We just screamed at him for 25 minutes. Let's play the Jim Lee lecture. I filled in for Mike and Mike one day and I had Rob Manfred on. Oh. Yeah, and I believe I asked him about it right then and there. The plot thickens. Yes, and he didn't like the idea now. He's stealing my okay Well now we need to be careful because I was fooling around oh I

Because I don't know if he actually stole the idea from you But now we're making claims about having talked to him And we don't have any proof that we did talk to him about it all we have is this Jim Leland sound we did corner Jim Leland you and Billy corner Jim Leland, you and Billy cornered Jim Leland. Scariest call ever. And yes, and asked a very serious man. I told you he wasn't gonna play along with this,

but this interview was part of where these ideas came from. How do we feel about this one, Jim? We lower the outfield walls with safer landing spots behind them, such as water or ball pits. That's Mike Ryan's idea. I think it's a good one We're eliminating the outfield fences because kids love when outfielders when anyone jumps into a ball tank, okay You know that would probably be a little bit more exciting if you're what you're saying is so they you shorten the fences

So they would jump over the fence Good idea Jim, you know that that's really not a bad idea your short and the purpose of it would jump over the first cast yes yes yes yes yes good idea jim uh... you know that that's really not a bad idea still feels good after all this time what a big picture it's it's because we asked them three questions before that including the magic at bat i think that he rejected out of hand i'm pretty sure at that point we're trying to get a victory because he wasn't tolerating our nonsense and now now baseball's actually doing this because Billy and Stugats are legendary pioneers ahead of the game. Well, because it's a good idea. I mean, it is.

I don't want him to do it anymore, to be perfectly honest with you. That's kind of like, now Manfred likes this. Maybe this isn't a good idea. Also, Billy, control yourself. Don't say it. Okay, back to the show. It should disqualify him as commissioner of baseball, correct control yourself, don't say it. Okay, back to the show. It should disqualify him as commissioner of baseball, correct, like this is a step too far. Magic at bats in baseball for real by the commissioner, come on, that's a step too far. The bases are bigger, that's fine. Pitch clock, that's okay.

We're just now gonna be picking and choosing who's batting in the night, that's crazy, Bobby. Where's Bobby Manfred? Where's the line? Where's it stop? Little League? Thank you. Exactly right. You're taking that bat away from a little kid? Robot umpires replays? What's next? It's ridiculous. How about we put a man on second base to start extra inning? Oh my gosh, Pond's in the outfield. It's not even a game anymore. There's a hill in the middle of Houston and then there's not a hill. Like what are we doing here? Giant wall in Boston. None of it makes sense. What is this?

Danny might be right. If Rob Manford likes your idea, it might be a bad idea. Stugots, I am with you when I tell you, yes. If the pioneering genius is at the front of changing baseball on a throwaway show where we were like, how do we fix baseball? And you guys kept getting more and more ridiculous. I believe on this week when we're telling

one of our finest jokes, Stu Gott's bestselling author. I believe at the center of this, on a day where Billy had a yes and joke for all time that one of Billy's best jokes ever told is that he went to the commissioner with this idea, the commissioner stole it, and Billy knows how ridiculous it is. Billy is not offended by the stolen idea

because he gave it to the commissioner, and now the commissioner's being a fool. Like, let's change everything about baseball. Ha-cha-cha-cha, jazz hands, because I got some money the last few years totally changing baseball. Can't wait for the pawns. Could you imagine, Dan,

if this is the show's ultimate revenge against Manfred, is you have that contentious interview over the sale of the Marlins to Jeter and Sherman and that group. It goes hor- we can all agree, that interview went horribly. I kind of loved that interview. Well, no, it went very badly. I will tell you. It didn't go well.

It did not go well whatsoever. So that went very badly. We never spoke to the commissioner again. Baseball, really, it was hard to get any baseball players off for a very long time. Then there was the whole All-Star Game incident, which we don't need to get into that situation where maybe there were some votes missing.

Maybe there were some votes missing, but we never know. And then the ultimate revenge is he takes this idea and then all of the owners get together and they look at him and they go, this guy's off his rocker, he's outta here. And that's what cost him the commissionership, it's the magic at bat. How did you guys pull this off?

I am convinced that they blocked Lewis Brinson from being in the All-Star game. There was, listen, the SPN very much told us we could not mention that again after it was mentioned one time that we found the clause in the rules of the All-Star Game voting that any votes could be thrown out at the discretion of the Commissioner of Baseball. And they said, enough with the Louis Brinson game, this party is over. I didn't know that.

I wish someone had told me that. No, we told you. I told you the same. I told you while I was at the hospital The onion the onion again again with the onion The fact that he was at the Masters on Not doing a job, okay Mike's were on listen. No, that's fine. Leave the mics on here. Chris, something that's happening here, okay?

And I didn't know. Bullshit. Okay, hold on, hold on. It's an outrage. Everybody, settle down. I'm sorry. Okay, there's some stuff here that I don't know about that ranges from the onion to our beef with Manfred.

I didn't realize any of this was so. You guys are saying as we go off the air greg kody seemed disappointed saying to still got it's a national story the golden at bat thievery is a national story that we didn't talk enough about today that still got to and billy gave manfred

an idea that the owners are now thinking about passing. I need more details on this story, and Greg Cody is saying correctly that we have not talked about it enough today. He's also saying correctly that Rob Manfred at Major League Baseball should give me some credit, should give me the credit, is what he said. Is it you or Billy that should get the credit?

I don't remember whose idea it totally was. I don't know. It was a joint idea. How does the credit get given to you? Sometimes it doesn't at all. Why do you accept this proper credit? You walk in, you say, you know, there was this time I was listening to this radio show, sports radio show,

or I was on with this show, it was Stugats, filling in for Mike and Mike. And he actually planted the seed of a very good idea in my head, and I wanted to bring it past the owners. And then once it gets installed in the Major League Baseball, what you do is say, hey, just a quick shout out to Stugatz for planting the seed in my head for this great new rule.

Every single time it gets played? Yes, yeah. So every time someone does the Magic at Bat, once it gets implemented, because obviously it will, they just say this was Stugatz's idea. No no I'm good with a one-time thing that covers everything Manfred comes up to the podium. He says hey, here's a new rule credit to Stu gots That's it. What if we call those at bats like the Stewie? Hmm. I'll take naming rights. What about you by Stu gots his personal record book. Yeah

Yeah, a brand of wordy that long another brand attached to it, but I got a board bets By bookie. Yeah, how about this two guys? What if you just get in enshrined in the Hall of Fame as a contributor to the game? That's fair better yet that works deal. Yeah deal But what if the idea fails or is really Dan gets his Hall of Fame baseball though back? Oh Well, Greg has it. I know but then it goes to Stu Gatz. Yeah, but I've really changed the game here. I mean, baseball has not changed its rules in forever. This would be drastic, dramatic. I mean, think about what we're talking about.

Are we geniuses? We are, yes. Can we fix basketball next? Oh, it needs fixing. Definitely. Yes.