The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Worst National Anthem of All-Time

Episode Date: July 16, 2024

Mike brings Jeremy in to discuss last night's Home Run Derby, but it's really just an excuse to let Fergie off the hook from being the "worst National Anthem singer ever." (Update: since the time of this recording, Ingrid Andress posted a tweet saying she was drunk while performing and will be checking into rehab. We send positivity her way.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Alcohol in select markets. Yeah for details Jeremy Tashay returns to the show. You just heard his baseball segment there and I appreciate you following the sports Oh, I don't have to you're very well and it's a Midsummer classic. It's a big deal You probably covered this I'm not gonna listen. So I'm asking you directly Did they change anything about the Home Run Derby? Was it like a... Whoa, I recorded it. Spoiler alert.

Okay. I can tell you about the structure of it without spoiling it for you? Does that work? No, it's boring. You can just talk about it. Okay, so... What was it, yeah, what did they do?

Did they do anything differently? Yeah, so the first... Was anyone annoyed with it? Because we did this entire show and this is all a bridge to get to the worst national anthem of all time. Trust me, we'll cover that here in this post game show. But, uh, everybody that I knew that was in my circle was consumed with the video game dropping last night.

And I have never heard less about a home run Derby so much so that I don't even know what the rule changes might possibly be if there were any at all. So there were rule changes as there kind of seemed to be every single year with the home run derby it feels like they're constantly trying to tweak it but it was actually super competitive and really entertaining the first round every single hitter was not in a bracket they they were just competing against each other. So it was eight hitters and they had either three minutes or 40 pitches,

which when you work out the amount of time, it's just about the same. The reason they kept it to 40 pitches was just so that you didn't have anybody basically speed swinging through the entire thing able to out home or somebody else. It ended up seeming unnecessary, but that was just to make sure that no one got too many swings.

It was guaranteeing that everybody had the same amount of pitches that they could see. And I think what that did is it made the pitchers that much more important. It wasn't out. It was most important pitchers have ever been. I'm out on that because this contest, as long as I've seen it,

isn't so much about how far you can hit the ball and how consistently you can do that it's how good your pitcher it does help look it having a good pitcher really matters in this one and you saw multiple examples Billy since you recorded it I won't tell you specifically who suffered or you can say it from a good pitcher that's picture of all-time currently Robinson can oh dad no dad was the best that old man lobbing up pitches to Josh Hamilton. Well that was also an all-timer. But what was good is this was a really competitive derby.

So like the first round you had several guys within just a couple of home runs of each other trying to advance to the next round. You had upsets in that first round based off the betting odds. And then from there it was cool because everyone kind of learned what the strategy needed to be, how they could handle their bonus pitches,

how homerun distance could be able to factor into all of that. And so in the end, it ended with basically in the final few seconds, seeing whether or not the guy who went second in the championship round could homer in his final few pitches to get there, and it ended within, well, a Homer of each other. It was really, really entertaining,

and really, really fun. Billy, can you just shut your ears for a second to cover them up? Was DJ Irie there? I did not see DJ Irie. I didn't see him this year. First time in a long time. It was the guy from SNL that's clearly trying

to do a lot of marketing with baseball because he's Hispanic. What's his name, Marcelo? Yeah, the from from down here. Yeah, he's he's like clearly his agent is getting him involved in baseball Commercial he was doing like the intros for everybody who won Cover your ears to Oscar Hernandez It seemed like every team Mike you look like you don't know who that is Is that one person or two it seemed like every team that was represented had their second best home run hitter in the competition.

That's funny, right. The Dodgers, Ohtani wasn't in it, Phillies, Harper wasn't in it. Bryce Harper wasn't in it. It was just like, who's the second best home run hitter on your team? Alec Bohm was great though. He was really fun.

And what was awesome is every time that the cameras went up in the TV production element toward one of the players, they kept all the microphones on, and so you could kind of hear their side conversations. And Alec Bohm, when he advanced to the second round, he had a moment where he was just like, ah, just like everyone expected.

But just talking to himself, it just happened to be that the camera was near him. And so he had some funny moments. I think people really enjoyed getting to see some of the personalities there and the bonding between the players that stuck around to watch all of it. So for me, it was the perfect setup for tonight's all star game with Paul skeens on the bump. I'm stoked for that.

So I did it. As I mentioned, I didn't hear anything about the home run Derby until right now. However, I did see one thing, one thing transcended this event so much that it was shared in group chats all across America. And at one point while we were playing CFB 25, someone just put it up to the headset and said, listen to this, this is indeed, Fergie is off the hook, the worst national anthem I have ever heard.

Who is this? She was Ingrid Andres. She still is. And she is a, yeah, I guess, well, for now. Well, I'm asking you because you usually know like these contemporary singers. I've never heard of Ingrid Andres. They said she was a four time Grammy nominated country singer. And it's not like she is bad.

You guys want to hear the whole thing or just the parts that I like marked? No, whole thing. Whole let's do this. Oh, say can you see Let's do this. last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets's red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Taylor. Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave. Dallas, sorry, this is in Dallas, I guess. Arlington. For the land of the free and the home of the free. Yikes. Yikes.

Quiet. In the home of the brave. God bless America. Sounded like someone was poking her in the armpit at the end of every line. Like, eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Goes without saying. It sounded like someone was poking her in the armpit at the end of every line Goes without saying I'm not gonna say it it goes without saying What a riff whoa cuz the previous runs had gone so well for her too. She's like, no, let me go.

Tripling down. And the rock gets red glare. Oh, dude. Dude, there's like this IG account that does like impersonations of like the indie folk singer that just does like a cover of an 80s pop song. And that felt more put on. That is so bad.

At the, at the 63rd Grammys in 2021, she was nominated for best country song, best country artist and best new artist. Was that wishful drinking? Best country album. I apologize. Best country song. No more.

Maybe I'm just wishful drinking. More hearts than mine. Yep. I mean, contemporary music's littered with autotune. You got to live tune that thing. What's really amazing is her Wikipedia says, fans and critics drew comparison between Andre's performance of the national anthem and Fergie's rendition at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game.

They've already put it on her Wikipedia. Well, so what made the Fergie one iconic, outside of just how bad it was, was like Draymond's reaction to it and everyone trying to hold back laughter Was there an element of that? There was an Alec Bowman moment of him They showed him on camera and it wasn't even at the worst part It was like earlier on when you could tell it was going the wrong way

But it hadn't quite gotten there yet and you can see him kind of doing the same thing of like About to crack a smile kind of looking down on purpose knowing the camera was on him I'm kind of hoping that Jason Tatum runs into a bad anthem just so he can start copying everybody else's reaction to bad anthems. Oh, the thing with Fergie though, she was doing a thing. Like she was trying to make it a jazzy. She was doing her, yeah,

she was trying to make her own version of the Marvin Gaye. Maybe that's what was happening here. No. And it just went poorly. For the land of the free And the home of the brave Good for her, we know her name now.