The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Billy Pulls Off Some Wednesday S***

Episode Date: August 21, 2025

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And pitch clock, Jeremy, I don't like how again and again we segregate baseball on this show, where we just tell Jeremy, go out there and do pitch clock off there by yourself. By yourself, that's a little. Well, no, no, I've seen you. This is on every episode. I'm whooping that ass in trivia. That's what I'm doing. I have seen you on there.

I'm just saying as a show accessory, as a show segment that we're proud to have grown for people who want baseball. You can just go get concentrated chunks of entertaining baseball stuff over there and only over there. Because when I'm trying to talk about Schwerber, everybody will just make it about Otani and Judge, and that's all we're doing. Is he evil? I feel like we did a good three minutes on Schwerber. I think it's trending in an evil direction. He's getting paid. He's a Philly, too.

By the way, we nailed that. We were workshopping back here. I thought it was a Cubs. Dumbrowski is one of the greatest executives of all time. Dumbrowski, I mean, Schwerber, how do you project Schwerber into somebody who's going to stay healthy and hit 45 home runs a season, three straight years, the only person in baseball to do so? You make him a D.H. forever. That's how. It's incredible.

But he's a keg softball player. The home run he hit last night to get to number 45, he was off balance, and it didn't even look like he caught the right part of the bat. The guy can just hit fly balls that go out of parks when he, because he's just, he's, he's that physically strong. I feel like he would be insulted by keg softball player. Oh, but what he did in the swing off in the All-Star game was essentially like a keg softball player there, just simply because he saw three pitches and hit all of them out of the

ballpark. He's ridiculous. You think that's an insult? to call him a keg softball player? I do. I think he would take a keg softball player. Kyle Schwerber, another level. No, Adam Dunn, hold on a second.

We're talking body types? Adam Dunn is bigger than Kyle Schwaber. Adam Dunn is taller, longer than Kyle. Thank you, Billy. Kyle Schwerber is a little square of a human being. He's much smaller than Otanian judge. He looks, I'm not going to say he looks overweight because he doesn't, but he looks square.

And he goes and takes pornographic. HACs when he gets up there, and he's got three straight seasons of 45 home runs, and that concludes our baseball talk over here. He also just correction does not, but that's fine. Baseball famously desegregated sport, by the way. He only had 38 last year? He had 38 last year, 47 the year before, and 46 the year before that. Okay. Yeah, my close.

Three out of four. Am I counting playoff homers there then? Maybe. I don't know. That'd be weird because no one does that. Yeah. What a waste, huh? We count the World Series like it counts, but none of the other stats that happened in the postseason matter anywhere.

It would appear I've got it wrong, stole it straight off of the ESPN graphic. He also has 43 this year, so he hasn't gotten 45 this year yet either. We're close. They do keep track of home run stats. I mean, playoff home runs, it's not like they just disappear. Like, you can look up who has the most playoff home runs. Yeah, but they don't count towards your total at the end. Do you know we had our first Bob in Major League Baseball in 15 years?

It's a huge deal. Bob Seymour hit his first home run last night for your raise, Dan. The first Bob in 15 years. I would pause that it's a huge deal. I saw it. We had a whole conversation on this show like a couple months ago about how they're not making bobs anymore, especially in sports. Well, there is Bobby Witt.

There's bobbies. No, Bob's. Specifically. Bob How are we? Was the last Bob. He retired in 2010. But not only that, there were three Seymores in the raised Giants game last night, Bob, Ian, and Carson.

All three made their debuts this year. Prior to that, hadn't been a Seymour last name since 1913. Look at Mike's face. So not only if. 15-year drought for Bob's, 113-year drought for Seymour's. I mean, that's baseball guys. TV truck, as Mike likes to call you. I want you to zone in right now on Mike's face.

That's Ryan Bass. Because the reporting that was a huge deal there is that we've seen our first Bob in Big League baseball. Why don't you just give a shout out to the Ray's sideline reporter? Because he's the one who raised Jeremy. It was earned. So, Mike, your disgust is on a number. number of different levels here, but I'm assuming that your greatest disgust comes from, at least in part as we talk about whatever it is that we talk about around here, we are headed toward

a college football season about to start with something I can say pretty confidently isn't something we've seen before, which is we've been waiting two years to see this quarterback. He's going to come out with Texas. Does he have the quarterback chromosome of Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, who's the next future face of the sport. They're going to try and keep making it the quarterbacks. We're going to finally get to see Arch Manning. I can't remember another scenario off the top of my head where the expectation was so grand where you're waiting for,

oh, they're going to be the number one team in the country just because of the expectations for that name on the back of the jersey. Dan, has there ever been a season that begins with the Heisman Trophy favorite. He has the shortest odds, plus 600, Archmanning. The Heisman Trophy favorite has no resume in college football. I don't know of an instance like this. He did play some last year. Oh, give me a break. Come on. You see the competition? Couldn't we talk about. I'll give you a break. Give me a break. I'll give you that break. You said he didn't play? I told you he played. Zaz is a college football expert. I am. There are three college football experts right now.

It's Paul Feinbaum, Heather Dinnich, and me, all right? And I'm telling you, there's no resume. Breaks over, breaks over. All right, he played a little last year and got people excited, but now he's opening the season. Oh, my God, UT Texas, you all Monroe. What a resume. He's playing the defending national champion.

It's a top three matchup because, you know, the AP mess this one up. Yeah, that's kind of. How do you do that? That's BS, right, Dan. I mean, the AP, it was right in front of you. You got to make it one versus two. One versus two. And everybody knows.

Everybody knows Penn State's not the second best team in the country ever. I rewatched that Orange Bowl game. Man did Penn State throw up all over their jersey. And also, upon third viewing of this game, because it was a great game, still no completions to wide receivers from Jew Aller. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard show. Is Penn State ever really the number two team? I remember the narrative going into that play?

playoff game because they won a home game against SMU and then got Boisey in the playoff and everyone's like, Penn State, James Franklin, he's doing it. The easiest pass. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish were so broken. They were out of that game. Penn State, embarrassing. I don't think you just did what you just did, which is James Franklin, it's not broken anymore. Did you do a flex on James Franklin flex? James Franklin, flex. Push-aw. You didn't change any narrative. You took advantage of a terrified quarterback from SMU, one of the worst quarterback performances I've ever seen in my

life. That game was there for SMU to win. And then don't get me sorry on Boise. Nice little team. A solid little team. But that doesn't change a narrative, James Franklin. Pasha. Pasha. And then two chicken wings to the side. Are you flexing? You're flexing a Pesha.

Look, it's weird. Your insults. Yesterday it was, what was it? I made a musical guy. And today, today it's Pasha. James Franklin. Pishaw. Put it on the pole. well what james he's right who who uses pshaw anymore nobody uses pashaw what at levitard show have you ever heard anyone use dismissed someone else with the phrase pashaw uh to zaslo's point though when he says archmanning has not played against anybody I know we make all of these people into, I don't know, avatars and cartoons. I don't know what the pressure actually is of growing up in the Manning name.

But for two years, they've been incubating this kid who comes with the expectation of your uncles carry this league for 15 years fighting Brady. And they were the top of the sport. And we expect you to be good. Because Eli was good in Mississippi, and we all saw it before Mississippi was any good. Like, we know what these people are supposed to look like, and the pressure of that, I ask you. Like, I know we think these things are, you know, easier than they are. The pressure of this quarterback against Ohio State, the defending champion, a team that's super loaded with no resume.

On the road. With no resume, what are the reasonable expectations there? Go in there and win. I mean, that's literally the expectation. Go in there. Your first game as the man for Texas. Been waiting for years. Good one, Chris. Go in there. At Ohio State, they'll dot that stupid eye pregame and beat him. Corso's going to put on the Buckeye hat. You got to. Oh, man. That's another thing. Lee, has some guts. You got a zag there. You got a zag if you're Lee.

Have you guys submitted a video for Lee Corso? I'm thinking about it. Because they're soliciting homemade video. where you say what Lee Corso meant to you over the years. And I think I speak for everybody here. Lee Corso meant a lot to us. A fixture on our Saturday mornings. I mean, Lee Corso is as iconic to your Saturday mornings as Bugs Bunny was. He is an adult Saturday morning cartoon.

I'm thinking about putting together a little video for him. He means that much. Sunshine Scooter. We should put that on the poll. Bigger part of your Saturday mornings growing up. Lee Corso, Bugs Bunny. I'm going to cry. You are all going to cry.

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Stugats. Is this Chum Bucket? This is the Dan Leibatar show with the Stugats. Did you guys notice that? Arch, Ark, Manning was not on the Manning Award preseason watch list. DeMord has his name on it.

They want to jinx it? That's a conflict of interest. Is it? It has to be, right? How can he be the Heisman favorite to be the best player in college football, but not on the watch list for the best quarterback in college football?

They don't think he's worth watching. You know who won that one last year? I do. Tell him. I'm pretty sure it was Cameron Ward. Who wants it, who... I found this, like, we asked, like, why is he called Cameron?

I got the background on it I heard it too Is this a happen to know I happen to know Hold on a second Hold on a second Do you happen to know Do you know

Oh my God he knows He happens to know Come everyone Come and listen He happens to know Well informed So if he's going by Cameron Ward now And that's the insistence

And we kind of theorized When you say Cam in the NFL at that position Yeah You're still thinking Cam knew That's what I heard. So I think that that's part of the branding, but why wasn't he called Cameron last year if this is so important? You went the entire year, never heard that this was his preference. Everybody called him Cam. And a request came from the family, hey, for the awards, can we make it Cameron? It was important

to the family and Cam Ran at that time that he was recognized as Cameron Ward. So Miami didn't just like issue any personal request. Come award season, that's when Mr. Ward decided I'm going to be known as Cameron from here on out. Interesting. Gather everyone. Get the children. He happens to know. I just bought a jersey this. So wise.

But we still don't know why they just wanted that. They just wanted it. It was important to the family that his legal name was on the awards. And then going forward, you can theorize as we have that for branding sake, you're wearing number one and your name is Cam and you're going solely as Cam, we're still too close. I mean, Cam Newton's still very active in the media space. I don't have a lot of historical context for what it is that I'm about to say, so I hope the group here can walk me through when people were talking while I was away about football things,

and all of a sudden I'm hearing about an apocalyptic dolphin practice, which is not something I've generally heard of. But when I've heard of things that happen that echo throughout a droning preseason, of Rabel's in the middle of one huddle and he's getting bloodied and we're talking about that. But Cam Ward fighting a defensive tackle on his own team. I know people, you know, I know emotions run high. I know things get heated. But the only other time that I had heard about a quarterback fighting somebody on his own team

because you know not to fight the quarterback. Everyone knows don't fight the quarterback was Cam Newton fighting against, was it Josh Norman or others. But in that fight, Cam Newton was not the smaller human beings. what was reported about Cam Ward fighting a guy, is Simmons, he's a 360-pound person, is he not? Jeffrey Simmons, I mean, he's put together. He's the baddest guy in the yard. When you're going at someone from Tennessee, you don't want to go at Jeffrey Simmons. But that's how Cam Ward is.

And they asked him the very next day at practice, any lessons that you learn from your scuffle with Jeffrey Simmons? And he said, yeah, Jeff is strong. as shit. Six, four, 300 pounds. Okay, so he's not 360. Forgive me. No, and he's built like it is a cut 300. I don't want you to feel bad about getting his weight wrong.

I have a correction to a correction, Dan. Kowshawber does have 45 home runs. I was looking at baseball reference. Baseball reference is having technical difficulties, and they haven't updated their stats since Tuesday. So I don't know what's going on over there. He didn't hit seven home runs. Seven home runs since Tuesday?

Well, no, no, I told you he had 43 this year. It's 38 last year. I told you he had 43 this year. He has 45 now. They haven't updated the site in at least two days. But is there any particular reason as I was saying what I was saying about Schwerber? You just wanted to make sure that I had it right or you? Yeah, I mean, this is this, I'm sorry.

Is this not a journalistic entity as you pride ourselves? But I did have it right. Well, no, you didn't. He still had 38 last year. That hasn't changed. He didn't gain last year's home runs this year. Did he fix that? Yeah, no, that has not been corrected yet. Be cool if it carried over. Honestly, it would kind of. Or like you say, you know what? I have my career home runs. Let's move 72 is a lot in a season. Let's move this over. Or you say, you know what? Ken Griffey had like, whatever his max was, 61, but he had like 50 year before. He's like, you know what I want to do? Let's make it 110 for next season.

and that's the new record, you know? All right. You guys wanted to count post-season homeruns. Everybody knows that's a crazy idea. Forgive me here for... What's happening? Zaz, sorry, buddy. Billy's got a major penalty, only five minutes for it being Billy.

Billy. It's Thursday, buddy. See ya. Good call. Good call. Barber's still there, or what? You know, the Cameron Ward thing really reminds me of Mike to Jean-Carlalau-Stanton. And speaking of Jean-Carlo Stanton, 362 batting average, 429 on base percentage, 8.30 slugging percentage over his last 30 games.

Only the second time in his career he's done that. The other time was when he won the MVP here in Miami in 2017. Look at his OPS. On fire. It's crazy. Jimber, look at his OPS the last two weeks. It was not. It's like, it's like, it's 1,000.

I'm on my way out, but yeah, look at it. Just useless. Like, just fundamentally useless. Just making corrections that are wrong, not helpful, correcting corrections. and those being wrong as well. I mean, this is just 2040 in his last seven games of OPA. That's crazy. Baseball.

Got to go. I've just been trying to get him into a baseball conversation for like four months. Can't do it. That's the one he wants to have. Like four months I've been trying to get him into a baseball conversation. You missed a solid month of it. Let me tell you about that Jacob Marcy. I've been trying to get Marlon's information out of it.

Like, he cares deeply, but it's all hidden. all covered in scars. He doesn't want anybody to see it. There's a meeting in there, so we're good. I'm back. I'll go serve his penalty. Wait, but I'm looking in there. I'm looking in there right now. There's no one in there. Doors close. Me careful to me.

I'm not a firefighter. I don't need you in here. The penalty was not a request. You can leave and give me five minutes. Mike's serving it for him. No, no. He's volunteering his tribute. Nope. That's not how it works either. I would like you to leave because I don't need you here right now.

So it wasn't optional. You can leave. Thank you. All right. Yes. Go ahead. But Stanton's never been crazy. I was thinking at the deadline when people were like Stanton, he still got it or not.

I'm like, man, David Sampson keeps telling us the Marlins are still paying Stanton. What a story, huh? If the Yankees just release him and the Marlins just bring him back? Because they're paying him anyways, right? I'll go. Billy's got a major penalty, only five minutes for being Billy. For four months, I've been trying to get some kind of baseball passion out of him. I'm here if you want it.

I thought I made clear I don't want it. I don't want anything from you baseball-related at the moment. You've been a bit of a coward publicly. You don't want people to see that you care about the Marlins. You've been hiding in plain sight that it hurts. You don't give us anything. They go 4 and 11. Their season falls apart.

You don't give us the pain of that. It falls apart, but they've only lost a half game in that wildcard race. How about Maximo Acosta's first home run last night? But it's just trying to get some content out of him with a crow bar and it's on the Marlins. It's the one he cares about it. And he gives me nothing there as well when he could be a real Marlins expert because he actually care. It's the only thing he cares about. Chris, honest to God,

if I say to you, Billy cares more, Marlins or Dolphins, what's the answer to that? Yeah, Marlins, I think it's his number one. I would agree with you. His kids, his kids, and then the Marlins. I disagree. The kids have made him third place in his own household. When he goes to a Marlins game, Billy matters. People see Billy as a Marlins fan. Billy walks on the, FIU Campus and Marlins game are the place that Billy matters the most in town.

Pause up. They love and respect him. He's a celebrity over there. He looks down his nose at the baseball nerd fixing the Marlins. What just happened in the other room? What is happening with our toy department? Zaz's hair. What do you mean?

Is that Zaz's hair locker? It is. Zaz has a hair locker. I've been exposed. Oh my God. Look away. What a true. Oh, his hair is just gone. No, no.

What a tragedy. Take my eyes. How embarrassing. What a public, I cannot believe that happened live in front of people. What a shame. Zaslo was confusing Nick Wright and others into thinking that his look was hair, but no, there's his box of hair right there. Nick Wright. Is that really how Zaslo looks? Nick Wright is feuding again with Pablo Torre. He is

infuriated that Pablo Torre just, he did something where he, I guess he tagged the P-bodies on a crossword puzzle the other day. What a dork. What a dork. He tagged the P-bodies on a cross-word puzzle? It is, it is strange what Pablo is doing. He's like become the personification of what all the blue check marks used to be for liberal elite media. And it's like he's just the face of, I will condescendue. You said it.

I love him. Shoots on the other footmen. Obviously, I do too. It's just funny to see him morph and to see the future thing that's going to get weaponized because he'll beat you to death with his crossword puzzles and the Peabody trophies. Don Lebertard. While there's nothing official and conversations are still ongoing. Was that a fake chefter?

It was pretty good. It was excellent. I feel like there's legs. I tried at the beginning and then I lost confidence. confidence in it. Why? It was good. Yeah, you got this.

There's nothing official. Yeah, it's so good. Conversations are still ongoing. Stugats. It is trending towards Nick Siriani, remaining the head coach of the Eagles. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. That was an act of rebellion by Billy that has no place in a Thursday. You guys are in agreement on this.

That was some Wednesday. Yeah. Wednesday vibe. That's, like, that's, that's Wednesday going to his head is what's happening there. and now he can't be controlled because he's a renegade. Wait, are those his hands? Just chopped off my boner. We were talking about Cameron Ward fighting with a defensive tackle.

So how was that covered? And do you guys have any historical perspective for me on I thought we all understood you don't fight with the quarterback, not Simmons, not anybody? But here's the thing. We talked about this last week. Me and Zaza were talking about. I think Mike was here. You want a quarterback that's going to get out there and fight.

That's what I like. I like a dog. Michael Pennix also last week fought with somebody else on the other team. but was part of a scuffle. I want my quarterback, kind of like our men and women in uniform, running towards the battle. I don't want my quarterback running back from the battle. Sometimes starting the battle.

Exactly right. That's what I like. Okay, so when we examine how good these people are or aren't, Archmanning, I cannot remember a prospect that was coming in with this kind of expectation. Ed Orseron was just on the part of my take podcast, and he was asked if he could coach anyone in college football. Arch is as close to or maybe as good as Joe Burrow that I've ever seen. I've never said that about anyone else.

But has he seen it? At that position, I would agree. Didn't say it about Andrew Luck? Last year, there was someone with a lot of hoopla. Say what you will about Arch Manning. Go on. In high school, no one's saying this could be the greatest quarterback of all time. No one is even saying he could be the greatest quarterback in his family.

Everyone admits that he's great, but there's a long road there. Jeremiah Smith in high school, people were saying this could be the greatest wide receiver of all time. And dude lived up to it. To the Joe Burrow point, you didn't really know Joe Burrow until he burst on the scene, right? Like, he played at Ohio State. He had to leave. Like, he didn't really have a college resume either, and then he won the Hizman. Well, but Joe, the Joe Burrow examination to me, as someone who can have some difficulty

accurately telling you who's going to be good at the position, the thing that became confusing to me about Joe Burrow is he was surrounded by the best roster I've ever seen. So I'd already seen that once with Ken Dorsey. Ken Dorsey was not a professional quarterback. He was made to look like a very cool, great college quarterback because all over the place he had advantages that no other team in the sport had. Orgeron's Burrow team was so good, the best I've ever seen. That's the best football team I've ever seen.

I couldn't separate. Well, is Joe Burrow that good, or are they making that game that easy for him? And then he gets to the pros, and he also makes it look that easy. With one of the same receivers. But, yeah, Joe Burrow, very clearly great. I can't watch old Ken Dorsey game. So bad, Dan. It ruins my childhood.

Dude, it doesn't hold up. It is so much worse than you think. That's not what I remember at all. We were saying throwing a medicine ball back there. Anytime it's on at the sandbar, I'm like, yikes. Can't watch this. Really? Ken Dorsey had no arm.

It was not a professional arm. Stephen Morris had a much better arm. Ken Dorsey was throwing a shot put to Clinton Portis and Willis McGahey and Andre Johnson. Big old vascular one right now. Jeremy's shocky. Like it's all first round picks in every position. And your quarterback is just throwing a small medicine ball seven yard out.

It looks so heavy. Andre Johnson is open by 17 yards. You really want to get me excited? Talk about this quarterback we've got right now. Real good. Better fall camp. All right. So wait a minute.

So you're doing Carson Beck. You're now going to do Carson. He just said better fall camp than Cam. Okay. Wait a minute. Yes. Hold on. Oh wait, this is where the guy that didn't go to fall camp either year tells me that I'm wrong.

The only reason I'm going to ask you to hold on is because while I voted for Cam Ward for the Heisman last year, in my experience, only Vinnie Testaverty in the history of that position at the University of Miami, not even Jim Kelly, only Vinny Testa Verdi at that position in my history had I looked at and said, oh my God, that team is only good because. that guy is a professional talent. Obviously, Vinnie Testa Verdi had a bunch of talent around him, but I don't know. Like Cam Ward had some, but that team was good because Cam Ward was obviously a professional player. It's something I've never seen at the position at the University of Miami, not even with Vinny Testa Verdi, not even with Vinny, who had a professional skill set and was number one. 100% agreed, Dan, I think he's the best player that Miami's had in their program since Sean Taylor. And it was recognizable to me, and this is not something I've experienced. very much either. Thirty-six years watching in this market University of Miami football.

As soon as I saw him, I'm like, oh, my God, first game. Oh, that's a pro. Those are all pro throws. He is rolling around back in the pocket. He's way too relaxed back there. He's got this all under control. I don't think I'm going to see that from Arch Manning. Do you think you're going to see that from Arch Manning? Like, you think you're going to see in the first game a professional skill set against Ohio State that tells you immediately, oh, one of the best prospects I've ever seen. Yes, I do with Arch Manning. I don't think he's going to play the game like Cameron Ward did. I think very few players are capable of playing the game like Cameron Ward did. Cameron Ward is a bit of an artist. And when I say Carson Beck has had a better fall camp than Cameron Ward, because it's a bit of a rhetorical trick.

Cameron Ward didn't have the greatest fall camp. He was kind of messing around and trying stuff out. It was only until like install for Florida that we kind of realized, okay, this is the guy that we had here in spring. But Cameron Ward approaches the game in different ways. Cameron Ward was always running for his life at every other stop that he was ever at. So he had one of the better offensive lines in the nation, and rather than just play the game conventionally like he had been or waiting to the last second to make checks at the line because his blocking was so bad, dude just took the opportunity to improvise, drop way back in the pocket, and he had the arm to show it off.

Would you do me the favor, please, Chris Cody, of finding for me the ruling, the judge, stuff that brings Zaslow's weightiest pronouncements because I'd like a ruling from Zaslow. I'm going to have to change, I think, out of respect for Cameron Ward, his wishes and his family's wishes. I'm going to have to stop calling him Cam Ward, but it's going to take me a minute because it's super easy. It's how I've been saying it. I'm an old person. I don't want to change my ways. And the two syllables, I like it better. Cam Ward, they're inconveniencing me with changing his name on me when I've gotten used to it as Cam Ward. And so I'd like a ruling from Zaslow as a judge on how long I'm allowed to get this wrong

because I don't want to be disrespectful if he if he wants to if his mama calls him camera I'm going to call him camera it's literally what happened and and so I've got to do that I think but I'm not sure and how long before I start getting penalized for it because I'm being disrespectful if I don't make the change because he wants me to but I had trouble like Mark Superduper when he wanted to change his name to Super duper, it took me a minute. Ocho Sinko, when he did that professionally, it took me a minute. I don't get there right away. I've been calling him Cam Ward. So Zaslo, can I get a ruling here,

please? All rise, the Honorable Jonathan Zaslo, now presiding with prejudice. So the question at hand is, are you to be penalized for not calling him Cameron Ward? Yes. Okay. He's been called Cam Ward. his entire collegiate career, he gets drafted number one overall by the Titans. Now he wants to be called a whole new name Cameron Ward. My ruling, there will be no penalty for continuing to call him Cam Ward. Forgivable. With prejudice.

Forgiven. Okay. Because like you said there, all right, there have been other players who then change their name, Ocho Sinko, even John Carlos Stanton, but that was after they were established to ours. Cam Ward does not get to change his name when he hasn't even played a game yet.

No, no, no. How many games does he have to play before he can change his name? He could play as many games he wants, but if he sucks, you're not changing your name. He has to be good. You've got to prove something. If I'm going to acknowledge a name change. Really? Yeah, like you remember when Henry Walker was playing for the heat and all of a sudden he wanted to be called Bill? Nah, player, you're Henry Walker. And I never called him Bill.

So the answer is you will not be penalized. I don't remember that, actually. Thank you for remembering it as a two-time champion broadcaster. I think he has it switched. I think his name was Bill Walker and he wanted to be called Henry. That's exactly the point. And we were like, wait a second, you're Bill. Exactly the point.

He hit a game winner against the magic and I was like, you can be called whatever you want now. Not in my court. William Henry Walker, previously known as Bill Walker, then became Henry Walker. You know what? I'm not understanding this path. I don't understand this whole path. You just brought up one of the most obscure memories in the history of South Florida. And it's one of the most wonderful as well, where Henry insisted on being called Bill.

And this is just half hour from Jeremy reporting and Chris reporting that we have our first Bob in Major League Baseball in 15 years. I don't remember this controversy. It's a wonderful controversy. We should get Henry on and ask him if he's bill. I'll call him Henry right to his face. You're Henry player. Do you remember that game winner, though? I do.

That was so electric. It's cool. I was like, yeah, Henry, that was awesome. How do you feel about like Steve Smith, who then wanted to be known as Steve Smith Senior? Nah, nah, nah. Oh. Nah, nah, nah.

Prejudice. Randy Scott's mustache on Sports Center is totally ridiculous. He is being somebody. What are you shaking your head know about? Our friend Randy Scott. It draws attention. I love Randy. Randy Scott loves you guys.

He's a great guy. A great guy. I still text with him. Same. You're still holding on to that. That's all right. You're a legacy cast member. You're entitled to think he sucks and want him fired.

The mustache is drawing attention to the obvious hair dye situation that we have here going on. Which he admits to. He doesn't hide that. Yeah, but the shade. Let's go medium brown. Medium brownness fine. Pops, like the mustache makes it pop more. I'm with Mike on this.

Okay, I believe that you guys are not getting Randy Scott's sense of humor here. I believe Randy Scott is looking funny on television and making fun of himself and what he does for a living with a real comedian's grace. Now, he's a dumb dumb. He's not that aware. And I also believe, though, that when he offered up the vulnerability on Sports Center, that he takes a nap immediately after cutting his own lawn. It is one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard. What, without washing?

No, that's the whole thing. Yes, no, taking a nap after cutting your lawn, I understand being that tired. Not showering after cutting your lawn. It's got like the blades of grass all over him? Yeah, he's taking a nap after that. That's crazy talk. It is crazy that he moses own lawn.

Randy and Gary Streisky are the best duo doing sports. I agree 100%. It's just a damn shame he decided to go the same shade as Marco Rubio. I wanted to ask you guys off of SportsCenter, and I thought it was really cool. It was nice to watch Rich Eisen make his return. I was legitimately stunned that he hadn't done a sports center in 22 years, that longer than our show's been around has been Rich Eisen not doing SportsCenter. That time period confused me. Well, like you would have thought he would have made a guest appearance at some point? Is that line?

I did not think that Rich Eisen had left ESPN 23 years ago. That time went by very quickly. Our show has not existed long enough to encapsulate that time. So I was just stunned that his return to SportsCenter had taken 23 years. He never expected it, obviously. But it got me to thinking. SportsCenter has been that franchise's signature content epicenter forever. It's the most important thing there.

It is their jewel of how it is that they connect with their public. It has been protected. It is a wonderful jewel, one of the most enduring things there's ever been in the history of sports or entertainment. But we don't need highlights anymore that way. And so you've got Scott Van Pelt over here, and it's hard to make a noise with your anchor because people aren't really gathered around the television to watch television sports highlights anymore. But Eisen and Scott Van Pelt have a genuine audience connection, somewhere in the place where Corso has it, where it makes your corporation

stronger because the people inside of the community are people who take their audience with them and have an audience that cares about the totality of their personality. And so it's really cool to see SportsCenter morph into something that needs individuals more than the individuals need SportsCenter, because it seems to me that right now it's pretty disposable outside of a couple of people there right you can all the anchors are interchangeable they're professionals but that's sort of an outdated way of doing media business i thought of this the other day you guys got all excited on the local radio stuff when we were talking about it i saw a a just an announcement that g money was headed back to evenings on y100 and i'm like what does that mean glen rice is doing evenings i didn't

even know he was doing radio i'm like what does that mean that y100 still has evenings in the middle of the night. What happened of Michael Yo? He's doing Keynes content now. Really? Yeah, he's doing something with Dono. How's Mama Yo doing? I don't know. Oh. Where's Elvis Duran? Still national. Yeah.

Froggy, though, somehow, joins the national show remotely on Y100. It's weird. You want to do local radio talk? I'm your guy. Here we go. You know, Power 96 is now throwbacks. They're throwback jams. It's just the same catalog of songs. They still do the Power Hour, though, right? I don't think so. There are no more DJs?

You saw the midday shakeup on Y100? There, don't worry. La Gringa Mas Latina. Camarie switched over to English language now doing middays over at Y-150. High-Lai owner. I saw that, yeah, she's one of your rivals. Hey, speaking of Highlight, wasn't your draft the other day? We're feeling good about it.

Mike, fist me. I'll fist you right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Missed us, Dan? Look, we brought back Bueno. We got him in the draft. Inaki and Manu, you know that they were frozen. But check this out.

We had a tough decision to make. Do we go a Ratz or Unda? What would you do, Dan? We took the Unda. Solely based off of marketing because we want to play the Unda teka.

Or take the under. Yeah, yeah. Take theunda. Tonight, you have to face the Unda take-up player. We also have Stan who we made fun of last year. Hey, we have Sam. I don't think he's so thrilled

about being a back quarter, but Stan's there. But Billy, you've been critical, Billy. Manu, I'm telling you, we've been doing this song and dance with Manu for a few years now. bunch of different drafts. You can always tell by the look in Manu's eye

how he feels about the team. The last few, he's been not happy. This one, he likes our squad. I'm telling you. Hiro. We're back. And this is actually the last season at Magic City. So we started Magic City.

We're moving. Shutting it down? Bigger capacity. Like Highmark Stadium. So we're the first season at Magic City, we won. Guess what we're going to do? Bookend it. Oh, yeah.

Bookend it. You excited? Where is it going next? I can't wait to spend my 40th birthday there. Have you guys considered the idea of just like changing Manu's name to Henry or Bill to make it something that can reach more people locally? Not in my courtroom. Now is a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began.

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