The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Feel The Burn

Episode Date: June 12, 2023

The crew debates how much credit or blame goes to Bam Adebayo for the Miami Heat trailing in the NBA Finals and discusses Aaron Gordon's performance against Jimmy Butler. Are Heat fans blaming the wrong guy? Then, a discussion on the potential of beating Floyd Mayweather in a non-boxing fight and Connor McGregor sending the Heat's "Burnie" to the hospital. Plus, Dan wants to send a correspondent to the Trump indictment down the street, and John Sterling gets hit in the face with a baseball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Welcome to the big suite, presented by Giraffe King. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there.

That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, that face and the habitual liar. Dominique, your timing was impeccable that segment. He is doing planks during the breaks. I don't know when we're doing this plank competition, but at some point during the show.

Competition. I've been told we're doing a plank competition. Again, the last one was won by a 66 year old man, Greg Cody, that Jessica accurately said had old man dad core strength which was confusing to all of us. I don't mean this to sound like the ripping of BAM again and again. I don't because Jimmy Butler has not been in this series what it is that he had been to get you here. But seven turnovers in a game when the Miami Heat must win with discipline and not allowing the ball to go easily the other way so they can set their defense. They're having all sorts of problems scoring at least in part

because one on one they're telling bam go ahead and score. We will we will allow you to do what you want with midrange jump jumpers, take all you want, and then when you're under the rim, you break the rim because you don't dunk successfully when they need you to and get an offensive goal tending because of that. Like I'm just pointing out what happened. Like 17, seven turnovers essentially translates into,

I mean, I haven't seen the sample in this series, but when you consider how they are per 100 possessions, it's 19 points the other way because you're missing out on an opportunity to get points and Denver is getting loose on transition. And if you're lucky, it results in a two point basket and not a kick out three. So it's not a great play. It was like me every time I got happy when Julius Randall was touching the ball because it was a pick six the other way It needs to stop happening with bam a guy that shooting 50% missing three foot bunnies and on top of that

Turn in the ball over seven times and letting Denver get out and transition. It's not a good basketball play There's a reason why doing it that way has got you three one down. There is a recipe for Miami to win this basketball game. It's either shoot his sword from three or have Jimmy live at the line to make up for those inefficiencies. But you guys are picking at the one guy. I understand what you're saying. He hasn't been great to turnovers or problem. But he's 22 and a half and 13 rebats per game. They're counting numbers. He doesn't mind the game. It's not he passed. Caleb Morton last series was 19 a game against the Celtics.

He's six a game this year. And I'm as he's two. Yeah, but my expectations for Caleb Martin aren't what they should be for BAM. Isn't this has been a clear decision that the Nuggets have made to try to force BAM to be a scorer and Spowe doesn't have an answer for it. That's, I mean, when you go into the game, the expectation with Bam, Garton, Yoke, it's on the other end is that Bam, we need you for defense. We don't need you for scoring. They're forcing them to score and they don't seem to know what to do other than to let Bam work.

But if we're going to do that, Dominique, let's see the two-man game between Jimmy and Bam. Let's see that some pick and roll action. We haven't seen these actions this entire series. It needs to be Jimmy Butler. So I guess the ball as much as you. The point I'm making is we shouldn't be upset at Bam about the fact that the offense seems to be reliant on him. He's not like the offensive juggernaut. These are resentments.

These are resentments that we have towards Bam that are just coming out here. Well, no one. I agree with you guys. Bam has actually, it's not just counting stats. He's been good in this series. But Denver is allowing that. Dominique, I think you're placing the blame on Spowe, right?

Like counter. Let me just be clear that the blame goes on Denver's better than they are. That's where the blame goes. Hold on, the referee's all available. Let me start with a couple of things. I would not question his effort. It is maximum effort. I am

odd, legitimately odd, when space clears out Murray's trying to get a jumper with Bamguarding him and he can't. Murray can't get a clean jumper. He might have gone 12 assists in no turnovers. He was 5 or 17 in that game and I couldn't believe what I was watching. Open space Murray can do nothing with Bamguarding him. can't get off a clean jumper because he's afraid of his length That is he basketball over there. They're losing because they're scoring 90 points a game and they're scoring 90 points a game Because Bam can have all the jumpers that he wants take them all we're gonna take away your shooters We're not gonna let you win the way you win Which is shooting threes the way you won game two because you made all your threes not gonna lose that way anymore

Bam eat eat all you want and if you get to 90 points maximum effort I'm not gonna question that guy having to guard that giant like that just what that takes off on other him defensively I don't expect any points for him on often because it must be exhausting just to play that dude in the post well I think what everybody's saying is actually pretty accurate, but at the same time, the end result is 3 1 Denver. And Mike Malone smiles from year to year every time he sees BAM being the focal point on the offensive. But Mike, it's not 3 1 Denver because Miami's not guarding Denver better than anyone in the post season as guarded them. They are guarding a champion offense better than anybody has. The problem is they can't score. Their regular season heat team scoring.

They cannot shoot. And part of that is because they have put Jimmy Butler with Aaron Gordon, one on one, and they have put Yochitch with BAM one on one, and they're just saying, okay, go ahead. Yeah. What do you, I think it's,, what you got is 90 points a game. I think it's safe to say the defensive matchup

that has impacted this series most has been Gordon on Jimmy Butler. We mentioned entering the series historically. It's been a very big problem for Jimmy Butler. Aaron Gordon's numbers against Jimmy Butler were very good. And what you're hearing is resentment towards BAM because he can't be that guy if Jimmy is being taken out of his game. For the Miami Heat to win, Jimmy Butler needs to live at the line for a multitude of reasons.

Not just him though, I'd say BAM too. Like, you, you, BAM needs to get him in foul trouble, but I don't blame BAM for not wanting to go up against him. What I haven't figured out about this series in particular is, and it could be entirely possible that Yochitch has transformed him himself as a defensive presence at the cup, but this entire heat run size on the inside did not matter. It didn't matter. They got to the rim. They got to the line against teams that are better interior defense, which that

have comparable size. They're just not doing it anymore. And saying Jimmy's ankle is a reason, I think lets him off easy, but it's the best thing that I got right now. I think Jimmy got spooked by time, Lord, by Robert Williams in the last series. And to be right, you're not biting. By not biting on that pump fake,

he does not trust that pump fake move anymore. And it almost feels like the book is out on Jimmy Butler. That and the nuggets are super long. So whether it's Aaron Gordon or Michael Porter Jr. who sucks. By the way, I sucks. Or, or Joe. Be a lot better. You're right.

He's not good. He doesn't actually suck, but he is look terrible. Yes. 30 million. And eventually got benched. And Brown was the one that killed the heat. And you know, felt like he ended their season because Porter went to the bench.

With all those guys being that long guarding Jimmy, he doesn't have that pump fake. And if he's not quick enough to get around, he's not trusting his jumper for whatever reason, whether it be his ankle, whether it be something else. Like, where does that leave Jimmy offensively? But Derek White didn't have this length. Is it the ankle that makes him not trust it

or is it just teams realizing, no matter what against Jimmy Butler, you keep your feet. I have gotten next to nothing right over the analysis of this postseason and the way the heat have won. But one thing that I did say when we were when everybody was in the conference finals, that there were three teams remaining, only three that had bigs that caused a problem like none Miami had ever faced It was imbued it was Anthony Davis and it was this person

You saw what Brooke Lopez did to bam in the first game They were fortunate in going through New York and going through Boston Yeah, but I wasn't someone like that. Dan time lord and Brooke Lopez or like that. No. Yes Look at the defensive metrics on Milwaukee and they're better. Look at look at the first team All defense dude look at Brooke is a better interior defender than Yokech full stop. I'm not saying he's not I'm saying that Brooke outplayed Bam in that series that series was not won by Bam. Yeah, because Bam Has a more difficult matchup against Brooke than he does does even against Yokech. Jimmy averaged 40 a game in that search. And they went right at Brooke.

Brooke is a better interior defender. What's the difference between Jimmy Butler now and Jimmy Butler in that Milwaukee search? There's a high ankle sprain. Can you explain this to me, Dominique, because Mike Ryan and Jeff and Gundie gave voice to the same thing. And I don't get it.

I really don't. It lacks empathy and compassion. I think it dilutes a reasonable human analysis to say that when a guy is hurt, but still playing with a dead arm or a high ankle sprain, that if you're out there, you're good enough, and I say, well, you might be good enough to be out there, but you're probably not good enough

to be your peak self if you're injured. Then anyone listening to this, if any of us were having issues at work because we couldn't do our job as well, because we were injured, that might be an explanation instead of an excuse. I mean, I think it's an explanation and it's also seen as an excuse because I think Jeff's point and Mike will probably agree with this is at this point in the season everybody's got something and some people fight through it and succeed and some people don't and can't.

And so like Sam that you can just fight through a high ankle spray is not fair, but also you saw what happened to Yoke is in the last series, I mean in the last game and he still played well. So I think that's what it boils down to is you don't want to, like, I- Have you played less well than he's played in the entire series as soon as that's happened?

Michael got hurt. I think what people take you saying that is taking away credit from the team that wins by saying, oh, well, he's just hurt and you're not doing that. But I think it's part of the explanation for what's going on. It's true, but it's not, no one's going to give you a consolation trophy.

And I think that's what Mike is talking. It's like, it's about results. I think it's a variable like Jimmy Butler look pretty good game three against Boston. And that was closer to the ankle injury. What happened after game three and boss down here in Miami against Boston was Celtic staff got together. They put Derek White on Jimmy Butler and they just simply stopped biting on the pump fake. A pump fake that was still very much effective

after he rolled that ankle. Can you guys please? Because Stugat, uh, I don't know, it was like three of games ago, Three games ago. When Jimmy says it, I believe it, and Jimmy says every game we're gonna win. His words mean nothing anymore. Like they don't mean anything. He just says we're gonna win every time. But three games ago, you said whatever Jimmy says,

I believe, and when you came in here today, you said you didn't trust him, and why isn't he getting more criticism? Because he's not doing the things that he was doing the first ten games of the playoffs. He's not doing the things he was doing before he heard his uncle. Listen, I still trust him, but Jimmy's just not playing the same, okay? Like he averaged again nearly 40 points a game against the Milwaukee Bot. And then he did it again the next series. And so I had no reason not to trust Jimmy Butler, but if you guys want to look for the reason

the heat or not getting it done in this series, it's Jimmy Butler, you're blaming the wrong guy. You can hold Jimmy Butler up to Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant in the first two rounds. And then when he stops playing like those guys, just say, hey, it's Bams fault. I'm conceiting that. That's the big thing for Jimmy. I'm conceiting that, hey, it's Bams fault. That's the thing that I'm competing for, Jimmy.

I'm competing that when it comes to my Bams criticism. It is resentment for Jimmy Butler. He went at Proc Lopez who led the league in contested shots at the cup by a wide margin. Far more difficult defense of assignment than Yokech. Well, where's Tyler Hero? Heal already. Yep, it's all this game two.

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Oh, you know Hey, what's up, Nick? Good luck today. That shot on 18, my god, now. Whoo! Tall. You made it. That's how you embarrassed us. Yeah, I did. Boy. This is the Don Libertar Show with this two-gats. Floyd Mayweather fought over the weekend.

I know a lot of things are going on around. Yeah, I learned after the fight, only because there was a fight after the fight, much like the end of the last Panthers game where at the end, once you've lost to go down 3-1, just go ahead, throw all your rats, fight the other team, just it might be your thank you, Stugatzi. It might be your last home game and even after the buzzer sounds, just keep swinging. That's what happened with the Panthers, but what was funny about Gotti and Mayweather is clearly when the fight was stopped, Gotti was enraged and then he went to go fight Floyd, which is what he was already doing when

the fight was stopped. And that doesn't work against a professional fighter, never mind that fighter. So in rage, he went to fight Floyd, and then he got a right hook. Floyd just covered up and hit him with a right hook after the fight that made him go wobbling on. To cheap shot. It was not a cheap shot. He was defending himself, dude.

It was John Gotti, the third, too, right? Like, when I hear boxing, I hear Gotti. I don't think Mafia Gottis, but that was fake, right? Everything that happened after the fight I hear Gotti. I don't think mafia gotties, but that was fake, right? Everything that happened after the fight was like, didn't look fake to me. No, that, that was real. And I went back in other videos to do a deeper dive because skepticism in these situations, I think, is warranted. But it would appear during the fight. There was a ton of trash talk and a bunch of dirty hits behind the head. And you can tell when someone's legit mad. Right.

Gotty legitimately got mad. You can't box emotionally. You can't box and raise. Especially Floyd Mayweather. But Floyd must be having such a great time. He's like, I'm just propping up these moit-dos. Dude, all of a sudden, I'm just making millions of dollars because these guys don't know what they're doing.

Did you see when that became a real fight? Floyd was so in his element. He almost knocked Goddy out for real. Floyd is better than anyone I believe in the history of sports at just making people mad. He has made so much money off of just making people mad. We've had a bunch of ridiculous like debates and locker rooms and the Floyd Mayweather one popped up where we had linebackers when I was with the Ravens where we had a conversation about, could you beat Floyd Mayweather and a fight?

Like a fight, a real fight, not a boxing match but a real fight and I landed on the side of my linebacker. Like I feel like being 100, what is Floyd? 145? I mean, I don't give a damn. How good you punch, how quick your hands are. You're gonna eat a couple of those, they get their hands on you, it's over, right?

You didn't have a lot of punching power in his prime, and now he's an older man. Are you saying, all right, put it on the pole, Judeo-Atletha Tardt Show, couldn't NFL linebacker beat Floyd Mayweather in a non-regulation just street fight. I don't know, it's closer to you would think because the hands are quick.

He's gonna stun you off the top. You got to eat three and then get your hands on them, right? I was scared watching the videos because after the fight, you have Mayweather's camp and then the Gotti family mixing it up. Historically, just two camps that I wouldn't want to see mix it up. I got scared watching those videos and Gotti's granddaughter had some very

choice, borderline racist, maybe actual racist commentary on her IG, calling out Floyd's daughter. It looked ugly. Ugly, and it's actually a miracle that that event didn't spiral out of control. I mean, I feel like you could say that about every Floyd fight. Like, he instigates things. It's part of the appeal of him being one of the great streaming services of all time and one of the great sports businessmen of all time.

And if you believe 50 cent and others, a genius even as he evidently can't read. A genius at making money off of his brand in his name. Still, like he's not even jeopardizing any more his undefeated record or his legacy. He's just making a bunch of money on the side because people still want to see him get his ass kicked. The last time he jeopardized those things was against Connor McGregor, of course, but Floyd's kind of a boring fighter. Is he not defensive fighter? Was. Was. I mean, I think he jeopardized him Oregon's Logan Paul

because you could see that's where the size difference came into play like, oh, Logan can actually hang with him in that he's not going to get knocked out. Sure, we'll go to judges scoring cards and Floyd will win that way. But if this is a real fight on the street, eventually that size could matter. A lot of people, I want to show some video here,

and I have failed. I have failed starting the week without getting to a couple of videos that we must get to. One of them involves the Miami Heat and the truly terrible idea to put Connor McGregor shilling stuff in front of people. Because Connor McGregor right now, in the Floyd Mayweather sphere,

of most awful people anywhere who have fame. I don't know if I'd put him in my top 10, but there'd be a good list made there of just awful people who have fame. I'm encouraged that you call this a bad idea because my first thought when I saw this was like, ooh, this is a damn idea. Which is Chris, getting that battery costum

and have kind of a Gregor throw a punch at you. I knew it. It should be noted for the record that not every heat department was on board with what marketing was doing. And that's classic who vetted the pepper after it went wrong. You know what I mean? Tell us before.

Exactly. Is this not a first class organization? It is, but it has various departments and sometimes departments have bad ideas. And Floyd Mayweather wearing red velvet hue hefner pajamas of some sort came out. Maybe sober, maybe not, because he spent a lot of time publicly not being sober. And has, you know, got out there and the first thing he did while being booed was tried to sell people a drink of some sort. It's a spray, and it's like a Ben Gay spray of some sort where you like spray it on the

part that hurts. Right. And it goes, heels the pain. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And the mascot who we are trying, we are endeavoring to get for an interview. The mascot had to go to the emergency room because Conor McGregor hid him twice with

what looked like real swings. Everyone, a lot of people love to think that everything is fake. This was not fake. The mascot went to the emergency room and was not expecting to go to the emergency room. And I don't know whether it was the first shot or the second shot. Both of them were unreasonable shot. The second shot was totally unnecessary, like totally unnecessary.

I mean, you could tell the guy was down and out. The whole thing was unnecessary. Like, I guess I don't understand the, I understand you wanna have entertainment in between all the time, you wanna keep people entertained, but who wants to see Conor McGregor in a fake fight? That's never gonna make any money. No one's ever been interested in watching Conor McGregor in a fake fight, that's never gonna make any money. No one's ever been interested in watching Conor McGregor

pretend to box someone. Dan, I have something to say. I think this is on Jaxx. Jaxx is basically the referee in this point. And that second punch that you see Conor throw right on the button of Bernie. Jaxx has to go in and stop that fight, right? Because if this is a real fight, Jack sees that first shot

of the burning goes down and then all the sudden, he comes down with another punch. Jacks has got to throw his body on the way. Are there liability issues here? Is there a lawsuit coming? The mask. I'll show them for every dollar that they are worth. If I am this mascot, I am retiring on one of those

carnival cruise line boats and it's all for me. The mascot was dragged off the cord after the second party. Yeah, which is how you handle heavy drinks. I think Ang Cole. Can you imagine in the NFL if that was the way? I don't think Bernie's going to sue the heat, but if he does, I kind of understand. We need NBA, Su Conor McGregor, Su the heat. Whoever is sick, whoever is sick, it's thick, it doesn't matter.

We need the heat to extend this series. Just because I want to see Bernie and a neck brace really selling this thing for workers. Jeremy, forgive me, but he's not going, Bernie will not be at tonight's festivities at the arena watching a road game. I saw reported that he wasn't,

he wasn't available tonight. I haven't heard anything about Bernie's status for tonight. I just know that if I were in the position, I'd be looking at McGregor as well. I'd be in the same position. This is a matchup of now two mascots that have had workers' comp arguments because I don't know if you recall and it should be noted that there was a medical history back here on a reason why this happened, but still, it was funny. Do you remember when the Denver mascot got repelled from the rafters?

And it was a lifeless body. This is Rocky, who's the highest paid mascot in sports. 600 grand a year he makes. And he was descending from the rafters and clearly unconscious in the suit as he descended from the raptors. I'd love to know the backstory here was the human being in that costume. Did he pass out from the height? He was a human being.

It looks like a mountain lion to me. Yeah, it's a lion. Okay, but he gets to the floor. I should not be laughing at this. Turn off the lights so he didn't fall Look if you put someone in a mascot suit and they get beat up anything short of death I believe you have permission to laugh at because it's the costume. It's not the Not funny about her getting hurt

What up that was Jimbo fish I taught him out about her getting hurt. What up? That was Jimbo fish. That's kind of a poor Jimbo fish. It hasn't been out in a while. It's can. It's a little rusty. The Jimbo Fisher was not neither confident nor in prime form.

Jimbo I might have had a little case of the sniffles last week. See, if you listen to our show, you know that fake Jimbo Fisher is letharist when it comes to Mrs. Matt. Yeah. Canaan. Tell me more about the rocky situation. Well, we've got video up right now and it's like, you know, you remember the wrestler

sting? It's like that, but only dresses a mountain lion and totally lifeless. Lifeless descending from the raptors. Clearly, if there were a human being in there and it were an actual mountain lion, it would be a smiling. The thing is, it is kind of smiling. It is as it's lifeless, but lifeless. Like totally lifeless being brought down from the rafters on a wire. And then when the legs hit the ground, the legs don't have anything in them. The legs give immediately because the person inside, if there is a person inside,

is not in any way conscious while hanging from wires. The arms are swinging back and forth just enough that you might not be totally sure whether or not they're okay and to see the legs hit the ground it just immediately collapse. These arms are only swinging back and forth from the wind that is being blown through the arms in the descent. That is the only thing that's happening. Where are they holding him from? It looks like they're just holding him from his neck. Back to the neck, that's correct.

Does he hold any cat? It kind of looks like the Lady Gaga half-time show stunt that we said during Super Bowl 50 for people that aren't watching on youtube.com or the Draftings Network, you should be. It's very, it's very hard sometimes to remember that the mascots actually do have a person inside of them because it is very, the visual, it's just a giant stuffed animal, really. It's terrifying. Did they like just get nervous up there? Like, is there, do we know the backstory? There was a medical issue. Oh, dude, you put it on the pole please is Bernie the heat's mask got in costume phoning attorneys

Don't let a card Tony it kids you don't really realize how much time it just adds to your day And how little they bring to the table they bring nothing to the table Nothing to the table in fact the right to to the table. Nothing to the table. In fact, they're not to bring the table I was going to do that, but I wanted to go to play against me for you know what I would do I grabbed my keys. I had hop in my car now there's seven different bags. You got to take a Tatery five minutes ago to play an again. I'm still got Move everything around all of a sudden. You can't leave knives everywhere like I'm used to. Put it on the pole gear, Moat Levitard show, is there anything lazier than an infant?

This is the Don Levitard show with this two-gats. What an amazing conversation during the break, where a bunch of people who are local sports experts were asking each other What is Bernie and somebody said a parrot? Somebody said somebody was Mike Ryan and it shocked all of us. What is he a parrot? It's got a nose. He's a flame with a nose Bernie the parrot and Jeremy was saying that

Conor McGregor didn't intend originally to do that to Bernie, but that was the result of him being booed because he was booed as soon as he was introduced and was booed throughout being out there. And again, some sort of red velvet Hugh Hefner pajamas. Let's make it clear, this is not a report. This is just speculation. I know I'm known for journalism around here Mm-hmm, but the second punch does see you Time to throw away all your realistic credibility and get reckless Here is something we like to call rugless speculation You're good. So Connor was getting booed relentlessly by the heat crowd and it felt like

To me that first punch was choreographed thelessly by the heat crowd and it felt like to me that first punch was choreographed the top of the head but after getting booed so much by the heat crowd Connor. What else script? Second punch. He has an anger problem. Conor McGregor know. No, no, no. Why was he being booed so much? Is there a Miami Conor McGregor history there? Yeah, it's just Conor McGregor. Is there a heel? Okay. He is capitalized off of his mouth to make a lot more money

than most people in sports make off of their mouth. And this is what the cost is, that a lot of places that you go. But you wouldn't get booed there. I would not get booed at the heat serena. Sorry, I was making that. Oh, you would get booed at any arena. Yeah, any local arena. Capital, I was making that. Oh, you would get booed any arena. Mm-hmm. Yeah, any local arena.

Capitalizing off your mouth comparison. Well, my Connor Punch Dan, who would get booed, is Dan in the Bernie costume or not? That would be a face turn for Connor McGregor. Mike Ryan said that the whole idea to put Bernie out there with Connor McGregor was a Dan idea. Is that in reference to my idea of sending out a correspondent tomorrow to where the Trump indictment is for blocks from here?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, it is. Yeah, I mean, you got a track record. You got a lot. You got a lot.

You send a Latino into the proud boys. Yeah. No, I'm super excited about tomorrow. Yeah, a lot of ideas. You have a lot of ideas in there. They're very idea-y. He. He.

Four blocks from here, we've got a former president under the Espionage Act being indicted for keeping a bunch of boxes in classified boxes in his chandelier bathroom that has no class. Jimmy Carter? Did anyone else see the picture of all the file boxes at Marlago and think this kind of looks like the Clevelander Except for the chandelier. It can something similar vibes can something both be surprising and Unsurprising because if I asked you where he was keeping the boxes

It would probably look like something like that But you would also have expected a better shower curtain and probably not a chandelier in the bathroom. This is exactly what I expected. And I expected him to also show Kid Rock top secret, military intel. There's like a tackiness to it that is exactly what I was picturing. Like it's the marble with the chandelier with just a plain white shower curtain and just stacks and stacks of boxes on top of that have nuclear secrets if i may read a transcript from an audio recording that cnN

obtained and it's uh portedly former president trump and this is the quote all sorts of stuff pages long look wait a minute let's see here. I just found, isn't that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know? Except it's like highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this. Do you remember that scene in role models?

Where the guys like, I don't think you got a case. They caught you on video. Look at me. Can you believe it? Me stealing televisions. I can't believe it. You guys think it's a bad idea to go for blocks from here and have correspondence because if-

There isn't enough media coverage. If he goes to prison, he's not going to go by himself. He's gonna try and take the party, he's gonna try and burn it all down. Democracy, everything, it's not just going to be, he's not going to prison without trying to take all of America with him. I was in DC when they tried last time and it's a little dangerous. I don't know if you know what happened there.

I mean, maybe that doesn't escalate to this point now, but I do believe he's put up the Proud Boys Bat signal and they all coming down here for this foolishness. So yeah, I'm glad I don't work for him in a lot. Yeah, I'm not crazy about the idea, but I also know that Dan wants this and we're going to make Dan happy even though there was nobody really volunteering. You want some muscle with you or what? Yeah, bring Bernie.

I don't think anyone should go into the teeth of the proud boys, but okay, I'll do it. I mean, I've seen a couple of them at the Westchester Flanagan. I might be good. Yeah, I think it's gonna be fine. We've got the beard. He's got the skin. I drive past him every time I try to play soccer game at tropical. They're always on the sidewalk over there, so. But I'm a little nervous about it, just because,

yeah, his supporter base that goes out to these things have displayed that they play fast and loose with it. You just got a Barel Steu's hat. I think if you wear a Steu's hat, you're good. One of the trucker hats, you'll be fine. I'm going out there with you, Mike. I'm concerned about you, and I'll be there with you.

I don't want you out there alone. I wait a second. Hold on, Stu, because it's an easy way. There's a lot of people, an easy way for you to kind of just all the sudden be in the background and then poof your gun in your home. Yes, Nate. You're onto me, Tony.

I want to ask the audience to extend some forgiveness for, again, the jackhammering that is going on in the building all around us as they continue to erect a building that wasn't quite ready when we moved in to house something that is audio and needs jackhammers to not be in the background. But I want to play something here for the audience, Mike, and I want to ask whether this is funnier as audio or as video. John Sterling, whether this is funnier as audio or as video. John Sterling, he's in his 80s. I don't know whether it's upper 80s or lower 80s,

but John Sterling has been calling Yankee Games on the radio for a long time. And visually this was funny because it went about the way that you would expect a foul ball would go into a press box and hit an 80 plus year old man on the forehead. He's 84, so mid 80s. And the audio, I think, is special just because of how John Sterling immediately articulates pain. This is an 84 year old man and he's been a broadcaster for this team for about, I'm going to guess 30 years for a very long time and his voice wobbles in a way that is generally

charming, his voice. When he says the Yankees win and shakes his jowls and shakes his whole body and shakes his arms over his head, it is a very distinctive sounding and call to a game. But he gets hit with a foul ball here and not surprisingly, I don't think, he doesn't quite have either the vision or the reflexes to know that this is about to hit him in the forehead And it's can't feel good I but I'm I'm just wondering if the audience without the video is going to find it as funny as the audience with the video because right in the middle of it You will be able to spot and hear where it is and how it is he gets hit in the forehead

by a foul ball. Now the three two swing on a pop foul back here. It really hit me. I didn't know it was coming back that far. You know that foul ball actually hit me. It kind of glanced off my forehead. So I took one for the team. It was the owl, right? You can't play that enough. Where his glasses knocked a clean office

face by the ricochet. Yeah, his glasses were knocked off there around the first out. You can make that out. Stading the booth though. I mean, finished out the game, hockey player. Please show that again to us. I want to hear and see that once again video department. Oh, gosh. Now the three, two, swung on a pop foul back here. Oh. Oh. Oh.

It really hit me. I didn't know what's coming back that far. You know, that foul ball actually hit me. It kind of glanced up my forehead. So I took one for the team. It would appear he actually had the presence of mine to take his glasses off after he got hit. It looks like. Yeah, it looks like it bounced and hit him in the face. And I love baseball is the one sport where balls are glancing, right? Can we again, please see? You ever see a football glance? The video. I thought the glasses got knocked clean off by the foul ball. How does it go? He is staring straight at it as it comes toward him. And there is this, to me,

the, it might not be my favorite part of the video, but it's pretty dim close, is that it would appear that he doesn't realize what has happened to him until after it has happened to him when it seems to be because he's describing what's about to happen to him. It's I mean, he's looking straight at it. He comes as a foul ball. He didn't think it was coming back that far, am I? To the move.

Okay, but he's looking at it right up until it hits him in the temple. He stays clearly you follow his eyes. He looks like somebody trying to catch a punt like he this it's what the face would look like. Doesn't he say it's coming back here? Yeah. Swung on a pop bow back here. You hope. He knew it was coming back here.

He took his eyes off. I think he assumed it was going to go into the crowd. He was thinking what are the odds? What are the, I'm not going to get hit. I'm on air. He better never criticize an outfielder losing ball ever again. Have any of you stubbed a toe or anything

where the initial reaction is to vocalize the word out. Has that? Yeah, but that's after you hit it. I mean, you don't describe it's coming back here and not put your hands up. No one actually says, ow, ow and out are not things you say when you're actually hurt. Those are things you say when you're not actually hurt to suggest that something was uncomfortable. It is when there's a dump button around you and he's a professional throughout the experience. Shot you to the square.

You just go like that's what I, you don't say ow, ow. It was a clearly enunciated broadcastery ow and I do believe it's an important distinction to make. At no point did he consider putting his hands out. It wasn't a consideration his hands never move. File ball coming out here to hit me directly in the face. We'll see how this works. Ow. Ow. Well, do I have this right one more time? I just want to see do his hands never move? Hand his face and head don't move until after he's been hit by the baseball. Now the three two swung on a pop foul back here.

Oh, it really hit me. I didn't know it was coming back that far. You know that foul ball actually hit me. It kind of glanced up my forehead. That's what I took one for the team. I'm going to be a part of the team.