The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: I've Paid My Legal Tender

Episode Date: October 24, 2024

Dan WOULD write a book, but he won't tell us about the topic because he's afraid of the expectations. Dan and the Shipping Container are asking the important questions today like, "When did the Intern...et start?" Then, give that man his strawberries, tipping in a cashless society, and bananas are strawberries if you don't question it. Plus, despite being furious over a slight delay in the start of the segment, David Samson and Adnan Virk join the show to discuss the World Series and why people should buy into the hype while being disrupted by talk of kidney beans and traveler's checks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:05 never rely on a stranger again. Add yourself to any group photo through the magic of AI. Get yours with TELUS at telus.com slash Pixel 9 Pro. Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that.
Starting point is 00:01:28 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 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, fat face and the habitual liar. Dan, what's that in your hand? That was very natural, Mike, but I'm excited about this.
Starting point is 00:01:52 It is a coloring book meant to celebrate our 20 year anniversary. We've always prided ourselves around here on having a different artistic look. And I like some of the pictures here. There is Roy and Mike as as Riggs and lethal what is it? Thank you. Actually we can't use them to sell this book so don't say their names. Okay I bleep that all out. I also have a mean here falling in
Starting point is 00:02:17 American can't say that either. Greg Cody is wearing a you can say okay. Thank you What is he wearing he's wearing that Stugats is guy Mayor of flavor town day that book is so much thicker than Stu gots his book lebatard af comm it's lot of fun. I urge you to check it out. The Dan Lebatard Show with Stu Gott's struggling mightily to try to keep the book industry alive in this country by selling a whole lot of books. From zero books to like 14 books in a year.
Starting point is 00:02:59 I know, we weren't doing any books and then all of a sudden Mango Publishing started sniffing around the oil wells over here lion book We got a coloring book. We got out this that Dan. What are you gonna write a book? It's an excellent question The most I'm doing right now is coloring book is what I have for you levitard af.com I would I would have to leave what we're presently doing in order to do that. It's time-consuming Don't leave if you could write a book about any topic,
Starting point is 00:03:25 what would it be? It's the book I've been trying to write for 25 years that I will tell people about when I'm ready to have the burden of expectations of having to write it. It's a good book. Burden of expectations. Burden of expectations is a great word. Yeah, that's a good title.
Starting point is 00:03:40 Can you give us a fake answer for the sake of the show? I have pages all over the house that I've come back from a time when you would have pages to write on as opposed to the pre-computer. It's all over the place. It's gone from house to house. There is a book. There's a smattering of a book. You have a manuscript. Every, well, no, but it's pages are everywhere. Some are in storage. Sci-fi?
Starting point is 00:04:02 It's not a manuscript. It's not a manuscript. Were you the guy on the typewriter during Tua's press conference? That is a mystery we need to get to the bottom of. Izzy, you laugh, but I think that you started with something like couplers, like you're 10 years younger than me, but you are also pre-internet when you started this. Well, I knew that I was the young guy in the crew
Starting point is 00:04:22 when I was a young reporter. When all the other reporters were calling their computer their machines. Oh, my machine. I was like, what are you talking about? There's been one thing that I've picked up from the oral history, and that is very clearly, Dan does not know when the internet started.
Starting point is 00:04:36 Yeah. I feel like it was about 2004. Wow. No. What were you doing for 10 years? We were talking about the heap, and he stopped short of the most recent episode. He's like, I'm not gonna say it was pre-internet,
Starting point is 00:04:48 but it was pretty close. I'm like, what? I had a YouTube page. When did Facebook start? It feels like pre-Twitter, when do you regard as the beginning of the internet, because there's a famous clip of Brian Gumbel on the Today Show, the most popular show in America saying what is this internet
Starting point is 00:05:07 thing and I think that's early 90s that that show is existing so what do you guys regard as the advent of the internet because I really do sort of think of it as whenever it is Twitter started I know it's before that. Wow. I wasn't on Facebook and I wasn't on Instagram. Like I wasn't doing that stuff. When I was in high school. When I was in high school. Pre-social media.
Starting point is 00:05:29 You had an AIM? You had an AIM account? You were welcomed with you got mail. I should be saying pre-social media is what I should be saying. That's what you should be saying. That's what I should be saying. That's exactly right.
Starting point is 00:05:38 95? Thank you for the correction. Al Gore invented it, yeah. But this is one of the ways that I a job here's another and i am right about this i will not be wrong about this this is something i would say this is been my number one cause over the last three years and that the cause that i am absolutely most right on however i sound like this person and i look like this person when I do it. I paid by legal tender. I'm coming out with my sword. I paid by legal tender in this utopian place.
Starting point is 00:06:31 I had a wheelchair clap. I had a wheelchair clap. Arrest him. I dare you. Take that to arrest. He paid by legal tender. You will take his coins and you will let him leave with his strawberries. The biggest life hack is having an English accent. Exactly. Because if that were a Southern accent, he'd sound crazy. Yeah, Dan started off by saying, I sound like that gentleman. You sound nothing like that gentleman. I don't care what he complains about, I'm on his side. Give that man his strawberries.
Starting point is 00:06:58 You know how crazy he would sound if you were trying to barge through automatic doors saying I've paid my legal tender? I regret so much that I have not yelled that for those of you not not watching video here and everything we just did is Much better when supplemented not just by his accent but the way that he looks and everything that's happening there a Man tried to pay for strawberries with coins and they say we don't take coins here we do not want your coins he threw them all on the table and then barged out of the grocery store and he had the perfect sentence which i wish to repeat over and over again i regret that i have not made a public show of this and gotten arrested yelling i've paid my legal tender because this man is right. He's on the right side of history and the law That's God earned American money and he should be able to spend it in a restaurant or a grocery store to get his goddamn strawberries
Starting point is 00:07:53 I don't know about God strawberries and I'm offering exactly the right amount of money here so you people take Money, and I will take my strawberries outside You can't take that I paid by legal tender No no no, don't break your dog I paid by legal tender and I am going now with my strawberries The ovation he gets from the dude in the wheelchair
Starting point is 00:08:19 Is this your stocking place? You should be able to spend whatever you want This is an absolute joke. You want one, mate? It's the perfect phrasing. You want one? Do you want one, mate? It's the perfect phrasing for that scenario, Dan, because it's legal tender.
Starting point is 00:08:32 You're telling them you have to take this by law. Get me out of here. Absolutely right, and I am absolutely right. And in our cashless society, when you guys are gonna give all the numbers over to Elon Musk and he's gonna live on Mars with them I will be down here on earth swallowed by flames and sea with a dollar in the air shouting I paid by legal tender with my last dollar in my last breath you you will take my cash I
Starting point is 00:08:57 I you will not make me feel alone by having cash I won't have an aversion to credit cards is there something do you not like that it's not an an aversion it's the it's the way that I've always done this and I wish to be stubborn to the very end and stop with your wokeness. Do you not like rewards points? Something you can't get with cash. I like paying for with cash I like that baggage handlers at an airport that I don't have to Venmo them that they've lost their entire income because nobody gives them ten dollars anymore because nobody has ten dollars to give them tipping industry Yeah, huge blow. Oh my god. There's a cocktail reception. Just got the drink
Starting point is 00:09:33 Why do you think that all service industry has gone to total shit? We used to give them money for their services you know where I got a tip request from on the little screen there where you're paying a mechanic a You know where I got a tip request from on the little screen there where you're paying? A mechanic. A mechanic was asking for a tip. You already ripped me off, buddy. You want more money? I tip the mechanics. Since when? They have a labor fee! My dad is not a manly man
Starting point is 00:09:56 and my dad always used to fill his tire tub because he had no idea how to do it. He would just drive up to an auto parts store or a Jiffy Lube and be like hey, can you put air in the tires? You're like two bucks. I mean, that's not really going to a mechanic. That's just tipping a dude for free work.
Starting point is 00:10:09 I'd stop doing that and become a real man. With a family of my own paying legal tender. I feel like everyone, like every nail salon I go to, every hair place I go to, they all accept Venmo tips. I tipped someone two dollars yesterday on Venmo. Are you doing much in the way of tipping valets that way? Because I don't I don't think I've ever valet my car. Wow. Really? I tip drivers if the hotel the very fancy hotel provides a shuttle.
Starting point is 00:10:37 I asked for a QR. Anyone here tip Uber drivers? Absolutely. Within the app they allow you to do that. It improves your rating. Back in my day, they paid them well enough where you didn't have to tip. That was the whole point of Uber. I don't have to tip the guy. Bait and switch, right? It's a bait and switch.
Starting point is 00:10:52 Now it's like, hey, here's 37%. I gotta pay the guy 40 bucks more than my actual ride. Like, what are we doing? They got us in the tent with no tips. Whenever there's live music, Mike, they always have, somebody always has their Venmo thing right there, and I always make it a point to stand, the photo and stand there while I tip so everybody knows I'm tipping the performer
Starting point is 00:11:11 I'm not gonna let those people with the dollar bills get away. Yeah, I'm not just doing this for them to enjoy the know I'm doing this so people recognize and I was kind and polite The better move is you go up and go to take a picture then walk back in and never give the guy a buck Yeah, and then people see all this guy this guy. That's what he's doing. Stu Gotts has been pretending to be charitable. He's Venmos himself. The way that Stu Gotts does charity is, hey, does everyone see me doing charity?
Starting point is 00:11:35 It's actual fraud. And then he walks away from that. Because what it is is totally counterfeit. But he gets the credit without delving into his debit. He doesn't have to give any cash ever. You guys remember most famously, I'd love to hear this in the oral history because as much as I've loved the oral history and hearing Mark Hackman again yesterday with some people might not have context for what Mark Hackman was.
Starting point is 00:12:06 There was a time in this show. Mike, what's the oral history reception been so far? Overwhelmingly positive. I haven't really seen a criticism from a listener. Just like our Michael Schmidt interview? That has been the polar opposite. The only praise that I've heard of that interview has really been inside of this room, which I think speaks to a larger disconnect. Michael Schmidt is gonna be on with us again, because I enjoy doing that.
Starting point is 00:12:33 What? That's surprising. That's surprising, because I thought he didn't enjoy his time, but he was pretty difficult to read throughout the interview. But I did listen back. For everybody that was here in the studio and listening along, they all kind of felt like Chris's line about Stepson at the very end.
Starting point is 00:12:49 Oh no. At the very least, in not one. I don't know, I think he gives off a little eye and eagle. Like he's just hard to read, but also just funny and dry. And so I don't know if he necessarily took offense to the Chris Cody, he didn't take offense to much of anything. He's gonna do an opening to a show for us at some point next week. He wants to do a sports radio show but it was it was a bit awkward and I did think
Starting point is 00:13:13 the Stepson comment was out of bounds and I think that's where we lost him. I don't know if I want to know. I do think I offended people in the YouTube chat by saying I tipped someone $2. It was a $10 service. That's 20% I'm a good tipper That's a great tip. That's a great tip. Yeah, it did it kind of felt like He was diminishing the relationship between a father and son just because he was the dad that stepped up So I didn't hear the entirety of the interview I heard like bits and pieces cuz I was here, but I was doing other work This is the guy that said are we done yet? Is that that guy? Yes? Yeah, okay
Starting point is 00:13:46 You gave him a shot because I was listening you gave him a shot to like start up the first 30 seconds of a morning radio Show came out super flat didn't do it. No, he wants to do it now I know he wants to do it, but he had his chance and yeah You want to be mr. Johnny on the spot and come up with stuff to do I think he wanted to be mr. Johnny on the spot and come up with stuff to do? Do it. I don't think he wanted to be Mr. Johnny on the spot. I think you're projecting that onto him. When somebody knocks on your door,
Starting point is 00:14:09 when it's, sorry about that, when somebody knocks on your door and it's supposed to be Uber Eats and they leave at your door, right? That's the, you're supposed to leave it at the door, but they knock, do you adjust the tip and knock it down? Because I do.
Starting point is 00:14:19 I alter the instructions. When I want them to knock, I say please knock. And when I don't want them to knock. Do you ever want them to knock? Never. Sometimes, yeah. Really? Sometimes I want them to knock. When do you want them to knock. I say please knock and when I don't want them to knock. Do you ever want them to knock? Never. Sometimes, yeah. Really? When do you want them to knock? Sometimes I want them to knock.
Starting point is 00:14:29 When my ring is down, I'm like, I can't see the video here. But when I order something, especially if it's a meal, I'm watching them for the entirety of their drive to my house to see how, and then I get notifications as they approach, which always sounds very threatening when they're like, this door dasher is approaching, and I'm like, ugh.
Starting point is 00:14:48 What is that? Anthony usually gives me a hard time because I like peer out the window, I'm like, did you hear yet? And then when they do knock on my door, I hate that so much, I make it as uncomfortable as possible, so I try to answer it before they go away in my underwear. Are we done?
Starting point is 00:15:04 I want to understand from you guys a couple of different things that I don't totally understand. Earlier, Jessica, you whispered to me that Izzy acted with his ass off in the spin room that Jeremy created. I didn't see what Izzy was doing. What was he doing that made you say
Starting point is 00:15:24 that he was acting his ass off? There was a couple of cuties in that spin class. Oh, I wasn't acting. You were flirting. You were flirting. Did you get his number? You were flirting is what it is that you were doing while Jeremy did the spin class.
Starting point is 00:15:37 What were you spraying in his face? Me? That was the other spinners that were sweating profusely in front of him. It was really unbelievable, salty. That, as sweat is, he's still a little wet. Where is the strangest guy, where is the strangest place that you guys would be willing to say you do tip
Starting point is 00:15:56 that would make you a strange tipper? Because I think some people are having some disagreements. It seemed clear to me that what Tony was saying there is I don't Uber tip. You guys were like, of course I Uber tip. And Tony's like, no, I thought that was what we were doing with Uber, you were cutting some of the costs for me. What Uber's actually doing is ripping off its drivers
Starting point is 00:16:14 and taking away too much of the money. And so you would tip them because they're in the service industry, but Tony's saying, nope, not for me. Well, I got guilted into tipping Uber Eats drivers and Uber drivers, but mostly Uber Eats drivers. And then I just started thinking about it. I was like, I can order from the same place over and over and it's the same distance.
Starting point is 00:16:33 And the only difference is the price. So if I'm extra hungry, why am I tipping more if this guy's doing that or woman is doing the same amount of work getting it from point A to point B. So I don't do any percentages on Uber Eats. It's just a $3 or $4 tip every single time. My strangest tip is that, you know, like when they give you a check at a restaurant
Starting point is 00:16:51 or somewhere else and the tip is already built in, I will tip on top of that. Sucker. Like a double full tip or just a little bit more? Not a double full tip. I'll just give a couple extra percentage points. So it's a built in 18. But don't you feel weird putting in like a $3 tip?
Starting point is 00:17:01 We'll get to 20. If it's a built in 20, we'll get to 22. Just, you know, an extra few bucks. It makes me feel good and I also. And that's it. Yeah, that'll get to 20. If it's a built-in 20, we'll get to 22. Just an extra few bucks. It makes me feel good and I also. And that's it. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Because I pay cash, I would say that one of the strange places that I'm always leaving money is anytime I'm at the
Starting point is 00:17:16 grocery store, I'm giving the cashier a tip. I don't think most people are doing that. Are you going to Publix? Because you could be getting them fired. I'm not going to Publix. This is at Whole Foods. But I also think those tend, especially in Miami, to be pretty terrible jobs, like because people are rude, people just look past you, you're not a human being.
Starting point is 00:17:36 I believe that the service industry has gone to shit because of the lack of cash in our environment that kept the service industry in a place where people would be less bad and care more about service. Am I wrong when I say that it's hard to get a human being on the phone to use a phone as a phone? At this point, aren't you guys annoyed when your phone acts as a phone and actually rings and asks you to answer it?
Starting point is 00:17:58 You're annoyed at this point when your phone acts as a phone. I come out the gates yelling representative, but that's not the service industry. Talk to an agent. Talk to an agent. Talk to an agent. Agent. Agent.
Starting point is 00:18:08 So Dan, are you proclaiming that you are some sort of superhero because you are still carrying cash and saving our economy? I pay legal tender. That would be my superhero slogan phrase. I pay. Yes, the accent is better. I sound obnoxious instead of charming.
Starting point is 00:18:24 You should try it. No, I'm not. But Dan, strawberries are a night shade. Do you eat those? Wow. You were close to getting me to do an impersonation there, Jeremy. I was so desperate for your British accent.
Starting point is 00:18:34 I tried to save it. No, but yes, thank you for saving me. I don't eat very much in the way of strawberries. Good. Because there's bugs in those things. What? And pesticides and a bunch of stuff that you do. Wait, you don't want to wash them. Do you eat bananas? There's bugs in strawberries things and pesticides and a bunch of stuff. We do
Starting point is 00:18:51 Them bananas, there's bugs and strawberries. Yeah, hide do you eat but I do eat bananas. Those are strawberries Where are the bugs it's like in the little holes and like it's not If you actually wash it with a certain I think it's vinegar and some sort of you will see all the disgustingness I think it's baking soda. Yeah, you'll see all that stuff come up. It takes forever. I think that's why Tom Brady doesn't eat strawberries. I'm not gonna lie. I think that's the reason. No, I think it's an inflammation thing.
Starting point is 00:19:10 It's a pesticide thing. That's why he's eating all those damn pests. You guys are just gonna skip past Mike saying bananas are strawberries? I don't even know what that means. Okay, y'all just heard that and just kept it moving, decided to keep doing show, and you weren't stopping your tracks
Starting point is 00:19:23 by the idea that Mike just said, bananas are strawberries. Did any of you hear that, understand it, what was happening there? Because he seems to think he's right, and the rest of us don't know what it even means. Damn, people have their own set of facts now. If that's Mike's facts, then those are his facts. Okay, so bananas are berries.
Starting point is 00:19:39 Bananas are berries. Well, Mike, the other day you said that any boat with a bathroom in it is a yacht, so I'm having trouble believing you these days. Well, you don't think that's true? Which is untrue, it's a size thing. No, you gotta have, a guy told me, bro. Mike, you've been on my boat. Do you have a bathroom?
Starting point is 00:19:52 Yeah, there's a room in the front of the bucket. Wait, you have a bathroom in there? Yeah. You've been making me sleep the whole time. Of course I have, nobody's ever using that thing. Had my wiener out there, twisting in the wind. I didn't know you had a bathroom in that thing. That was not true, by the way.
Starting point is 00:20:04 That was happening when we got pulled over while I was peeing on the back of the boat, literally twisting in the wind. I didn't know you had a bathroom in that thing. That was not true, by the way. That was happening when we got pulled over while I was peeing on the back of the boat, literally twisting in the wind. Yeah, bananas are berries. Not strawberries. But strawberries aren't berries. So I got it, but yeah, still shocking. You eat a banana, you're eating a berry.
Starting point is 00:20:17 No, you were just wrong. I was wrong. That's why we moved on, Dan. But why would he say that? Well, that was an Uberber fact on the old like in finley's Whenever us two guys used to do sports centers Certainly, there are things like this that are correct tomatoes are fruits correct. Yes, and then as our berries That's true bananas are berries strawberries aren't berries still a shocking. Put it on the poll at LeBotard Show,
Starting point is 00:20:46 are bananas berries at LeBotard Show? Because I don't believe that that's a thing that people think is a fact. I see internet, man. I don't know what to tell ya. I don't think, berries to me typically look like berries, not bananas, but you know. Even Austin Powers said a twig and two berries.
Starting point is 00:21:04 He's not saying three berries. Pfft. That's good fact there. That's a good way to support your argument, I think. I wanted to ask Izzy here before we move on to other NBA things. The thing that we were talking about as it related to load management and the problem
Starting point is 00:21:25 of right off the bat at the top of a season as Obama is telling Halliburton, you guys need to try. You need to pretend to try. The season starts in Philadelphia where they're trying to catch Boston and Paul George and Embiid cannot play and Embiid says he's not playing back to backs for the rest of his career. Zion Williamson does not play his first game. Adam Silver has already said, obviously, that this is a problem.
Starting point is 00:21:52 What do you do as they head into this first season, or this season, first game of the season the last couple of days, what do you do with the fact that already the conversation, one of the main conversations is how hard are these people trying? How much do they actually care? Well, I don't, I won't read too much into the Zion one.
Starting point is 00:22:12 I feel like teams in the Western Conference in particular, because the conference is back to being really deep again, like they, I don't think that they're taking regular season games off. I think if you look at the Eastern Conference specifically, there are five teams that you just kind of know are going to be terrible. And that leaves basically the rest of the Eastern Conference to at least be a play-in team. So you get yourself right at the end of the season. It doesn't matter what your seat is. You're going to trust that you're going to do okay. The problem I have with that is,
Starting point is 00:22:43 if you're the Philadelphia 76ers, what example do you have of this ever working? I already know, okay, the Sixers, no matter how they treat Joel Embiid, there's a 90% chance in the postseason he is not gonna be able to play like his normal self. You can probably put a 50, 60% chance of that on Paul George, who's also missing the season early after a hyperextension.
Starting point is 00:23:04 And you're thinking, yeah, the 76ers are never going to get into a rhythm to be able to compete with the likes of the Celtics if they are healthy and doing well. So they kind of take the regular season and just, hey, I'll relax. When I can get it right, I'll rev up. And I think that's only possible
Starting point is 00:23:21 because the bottom of the Eastern Conference is so bad that you have multiple teams that you don't have to worry about. I think that Jeremy thinks that the most interesting thing in the Eastern Conference is what's going to make it into the playoff game, play in game as a ten seed. That's absolutely the most interesting NBA story this season. There's a chance, Dan, that a team loses 50 games and makes the playoffs. There's a strong chance,
Starting point is 00:23:47 because if you look at the Eastern Conference, and on behalf of the show, I will not include the Heat in this group. So you take seven teams that you know are good in the East when you look at the Celtics, Knicks, Bucks, Cavs, Magic Pacers, and Sixers. Then you have the Heat and the Hawks, who are going to probably be filling out
Starting point is 00:24:07 what would be eight and nine of those nine teams. Who is 10th? The Bulls are terrible. The Nets are terrible. The Raptors, the Hornets, the Wizards, the Pistons. One of those teams I just named is gonna be a playoff team this season. That is the best possible storyline for the NBA is the chase
Starting point is 00:24:28 For 10 with the worst teams of the league keep an eye on the Pistons this year Keep an eye Kate Cunningham is special Dan. I want you to keep an eye on Kate Cunningham in the Pistons No, he's not says is he no no he's not I put this in the in the Pistons this year. No he's not, says Izzy. No, no he's not. I had this, I put this in the group chat last season. I said, Cade Cunningham, he's all right. He is not special, he doesn't have, I don't think he has the athleticism to be special, I don't think he has the shot making to be special, I think he's a good lead guard,
Starting point is 00:24:57 might make an all-star game, but I don't think he is a number one on a team that's gonna do much of anything. We'll see. Okay, that is the way to retort there. I also remember that once upon a time, this might be unsophisticated basketball analysis, but I remember once upon a time,
Starting point is 00:25:13 people were arguing that Tony Campbell was a special player because somebody had to lead the nine win Timberwolves in scoring. Who? I thought you switched to football there with that name. I do not even remember who that is. I remember a Timber Wolf leading scorer, a terrible, do I have the name wrong? There was a Timber Wolf.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Kevin Martin? No, before that. Wasn't before. Was it Bucket by the way? Kevin Martin was always like in competition, be like a leading scorer. But whoever was the lead scorer for a terrible timber wolves team almost got to twenty points a game inefficiently and fooled people into believing that he could be something somewhere just because someone on these bad teams in the nba has to get
Starting point is 00:25:55 that team to a hundred points the way they're playing basketball these days shooting as many threes as they are so people get fooled into thinking a number one on houston or a number one somebody who looks like a number one in Sacramento Is an actual number one based on what it is Dan was right Wow What was taught so Tony Campbell put up a season with the Timberwolves is shocking more shocking than bananas being there No, but correct me if I'm wrong on this don't we do this all the time with the bad teams think tone Luthor in a riot a lot of people are saying a lot. I hear a lot of people trying to sell me on the fact that Cade Cunningham is someone special
Starting point is 00:26:30 because someone's got to be good on a bad NBA team. It's a battle of attrition, right? Like you look around and be like, oh, that guy sucks. That guy sucks. This guy is somewhat good. He can lead this team to at least something, but the bottle, he read all those, those teams and they're bad, right? Like he has an ability to score
Starting point is 00:26:47 I mean, he's not a great shooter, but you can get to the hole like he's good enough But the Pistons were the worst team in the league last year weren't they yeah? He didn't I think he missed some games there, but if you look at Kate Cunningham and think okay He's a special player who can lead a team What do you look at when you see lamello ball? Who's more explosive more dynamic has been in it for a few more years, has that desire to finally crack into the postseason? I see him as that guy who's going to break into probably the play-in and then just maybe have to win one game to get into the playoffs.
Starting point is 00:27:18 Tony Campbell led the 1989-90 Minnesota Timberwolves with 1903 points 23 points per game whoa I Wasn't I wasn't a young boy at that time. How do I not know who this person is? I've been born in sports history to announce the basketball players scoring totals Wasn't even invented yet Hey everyone, it's Mike Ryan you hear that that is the sound of me cracking open an ice-cold Miller Lite. Maybe if you're the lucky winner of the DraftKings Weekend Observation presented by Miller Lite Prediction Pool, you and a friend can come crack one open with me and the rest of the Day on LeBotard show with Sue Gotts. All you have to do is go to DraftKings
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Starting point is 00:29:48 Get yours with Telus at telus.com slash pixel9pro. Don LeBattard. All these high-paid analysts, I don't wanna mention names, TNT, ESPM, you know, oh yeah, they're dead, they cannot, they're not going to make it, you know, They are dead. They are not going to make it. Even if they win, if they lose in Miami. I need to calm you down.
Starting point is 00:30:11 That's right. If they lose in Miami, they don't get a chance in Boston. Oh, they are going to have their ass, you know what, in Boston. Stugats. They were wrong. Are they going to lose a job? No. Are they going to get a cutting pay?
Starting point is 00:30:23 No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting. What is the obvious? They are going to say, oh, the nuggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude. And you know what? The heat are going to win it all. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. Why is David Sampson already shaking his head as if he's filled with disgust? I could not hear because everybody was muted.
Starting point is 00:30:59 It seemed like Adnan and David were passionately discussing something, enjoying each other's company. And then as soon as the cameras start rolling, I've got David Sampson shaking his head sadly as if something bad has happened. Have we kept you waiting again? What is it that you're mad about today? We've just been sitting here for 10 minutes
Starting point is 00:31:17 watching you gesticulate vociferously on mute. And we wanted to start because we're both busy. The World Series starts tomorrow. We have a lot that we're doing and we're here to talk about baseball movies whatever you want But if you say 1015, let's start at 1015 Adnan you're nodding your head vigorously here. You're usually the reason that we're late here today is totally my fault I don't enjoy being reprimanded by Samson though because I kept him waiting ten minutes because I was just explaining something to Izzy over here that helps us do the show. I, you know, I have to do this show. First off, we're not late usually because of me. It was one time and David Samson was irate about that
Starting point is 00:31:55 which is why I was put in the penalty box. It's been five weeks since we've done this segment. The three-minute man was upset. We've took care of it. This is on you, Levitard. I'm with Samson 100%. Ten minutes of my time. You know how time I've got? That's a lot of equity I have here when it comes to my time. You're explaining things with Izzy? Let's go! Come on! You know what? I stand corrected. These two people are at the epicenter of a very important time in baseball. They are authorities on the subject of baseball. We were talking about tipping. And we were talking aggressively about tipping. So I want to ask you guys the opinion of this as I play it can you guys get me the legal tender set there's your answer tip no no no I've got a different question I want
Starting point is 00:32:31 to play a legal tipping a legal tender video for you to and ask where you two old people stand on this because this old man walks into this place and he's paying for something in coins these people are like this is a cashless store and he does not care you tell me where you stand on this I'm gonna buy some strawberries and I'm offering exactly the right amount of money here so you people take that money and I will take my strawberries outside You can't take that I paid by legal tender No no no don't break it down
Starting point is 00:33:04 No no don't break the door. Don't break the door. No, no, no, don't tell him. I paid by legal tender and I am going out with my strawberries. I paid by legal tender in this dystopian place. You should be able to spend whatever you want. This is an absolute joke. You want one, mate? Where do you stand on this, Samson? Cash and cashless stores. If they don't take cash, you can't pay with cash. Now, I love cash and paying with cash.
Starting point is 00:33:28 I still carry cash, but there are more and more places that don't take cash. David, why is it called legal tender? You have to take it, do you not? No, absolutely not, absolutely not. Where's that written? That's not a rule. I wanna say the Constitution, but I know I'm wrong.
Starting point is 00:33:44 Businesses get to define currency however businesses want. Businesses get to decide how they get paid, and you can choose not to do business with them. You can't just walk in with pennies for strawberries. If they don't take cash, they don't take cash. Go buy your strawberries elsewhere. You have to laud this guy, David. He's a British Larry David.
Starting point is 00:34:04 He's taking things to his own hands. He just wants his strawberries. I can appreciate the fact he was defined about this and clearly aggrieved. Because you and I know what it's like. We've been to stadiums and it's just all right, it's cashless only. Come on, I've got cash, cash is king.
Starting point is 00:34:16 I miss that bygone era. British Larry David, I think you're onto something there. David, how can you take up on behalf, well you always do. Like, you're always taking up on behalf of the business. This seems wrong. Take my cash. I'm just saying that you have the right to put whatever rules in place you want for whatever it is you're selling.
Starting point is 00:34:35 You're not forcing someone to do business with you. I would never want to give up business. My view is I'll take anything anyone wants to give, from barter to cash to travelers checks because I'm trying to sell something. If you want to only take it's like people who don't take MX or discovery. Well, whatever that's not smart, but that's the way you want to be. That's fine.
Starting point is 00:34:58 Of course, I'm taking the side of the company to decide even if they're stupid, but it makes me think of that scene in planes trains the automobiles. If Samsung is in a situation like that, like John Canyon, Steve Martin saying, I got $25 and a hell of a nice watch. And then John Canyon says, I have $5 and a Casio watch. David, you're saying that if I brought a bag of dried kidney
Starting point is 00:35:19 beans to Marlins Park, you would let me go in in lieu of paying for a ticket with cash? Like I could, you said you would allow bartering. Bartering. So I would personally, but no, working on behalf of the Marlins, kidney beans was not one of our accepted forms of payment. I would be happy to discuss with you the value
Starting point is 00:35:37 of the kidney beans. The Marlins should have taken anything of value they could have gotten. They were dry, they could keep it forever. You guys should have had dried kidney beans and resold them on eBay. According to FederalReserve.gov, there is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services.
Starting point is 00:35:59 Wow. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies. I think the argument against it is that it's discriminatory because you're weeding out people that can't get a line of credit. David is looking at you the way that Tony looked at David when he said travelers check. What is a travelers check?
Starting point is 00:36:16 What do you mean by that? With a Q-U-E. I'm traveling and then I need a check to travel. What's the, Dave, can you break that down for me please? I don't want to. Have you ever seen Best in Show? No. Yes, how much do you think I can bench? Let's just say that- They try to pay
Starting point is 00:36:31 for their hotel and travelers checks. When you have money that sometimes people, if you're staying in a hostel, they could take your cash. So what you did when you would travel around anywhere, hostel to hostel, you'd have something called the Traveler's Check, which you'd go to the bank and get, and it's literally an American Express Traveler's Check, and you have to cash them at the point of transaction.
Starting point is 00:36:55 And so it's not worth it to anybody. It's worth nothing, literally, nothing except for you, and with your ID you can use it. So that's how people would travel as poor people around the country back a long time ago. So you would get the check and then you'd give them the ID and then they're like, oh, you can use it. Why not just use a regular check then?
Starting point is 00:37:15 Because checks take days to clear and so nobody wants to take checks generally. Travelers checks are immediate, they're automatic. Adnan, why are you shaking your head? Because your time is valuable and people want to talk baseball? Damn, we have an iconic World Series here. We got the Dodgers and the Yankees
Starting point is 00:37:32 for the first time since 1981. Tony needs to know what travelers checks are about. No, travelers checks is what we're disseminating right now. This is what the country wants to hear, really. It's a history lesson, Adnan, I needed it. Tony, that was too much of a detour. Come on. The problem with this generationally to me
Starting point is 00:37:50 is you guys know what travelers checks are. And when you come on here and mention planes, trains, and automobiles, Jessica and Tony shut down. They don't care about anything you have to say there. We have a generational divide between how it is you guys. Look, baseball's got a generational divide. You care about Dodgers Yankees because it reminds you of 40 years ago. I don't believe that Jessica and Tony care about Dodgers Yankees. I don't think it means anything to them historically. Prenatal mania, come on let's go! Reggie Jackson in 77, game six. 70, 1977?
Starting point is 00:38:25 Yeah, that's right. You've seen the vintage video, Tony, come on. Dan opened it up to the group to say anything and on the platform where most people are listening, all he got was like, uh, like nothing. Crickets. You guys in pause, you can drive a truck through. I'll tell you what's happening here
Starting point is 00:38:45 in terms of the chemistry just generally between this segment when you guys come on. You guys care deeply about something the young people here don't care about at all. Like at all. That's not true. Jeremy's into the baseball. Jeremy is very excited.
Starting point is 00:39:00 The pitch clock, Yankees dodges. Let's go, Jeremy, take the floor. You explain, no, and then explain to people why they should care about this World Series more than any of the other World Series because this is hearkening to a time. There were three internet, it was actually, I'm sorry, three networks, and it was actually pre-internet.
Starting point is 00:39:17 These were the most important games in America when the Dodgers were playing the Yankees. Yes, first fall classic since 1956 to feature each league's home run champion. Okay, we're talking Mickey and Duke Snyder. First time ever two teams with 50 home run hitters. First time since 2012, you've got respective MVPs facing off in Judge and Ohtani. Of course, that was Miguel Cabrera, Buster Posey. Dan, this was the matchup that I think baseball fans dream of, because back in the day, it was 12 rules.
Starting point is 00:39:46 This is the 12th time we're getting this. Yankees Dodgers. The Yankees hold the edge 8 to 3. And there are so many great memories, whether it's Sandy Koufax striking out 15 in 1965, or Reggie Jackson's home run game. This is what baseball's all about. Samson, come on.
Starting point is 00:39:59 Back me up. Let's go. Bring up a Ron Steyer reference. I can't back you up, because you're using examples of people no one's heard of. That's the worst sales job I've ever seen. Can I tell you how to sell this year's World Series? Five of the six big three here are MVPs,
Starting point is 00:40:15 and the six might be the best hitter in baseball in John Carlos Dayton. Otani MVP, Betts, Freeman, Judge, Stanton, and Soto. Who wants better than that? Six great players in the sport. Go ahead, David. It's a great World Series, David. Stanton, and Soto. Who wants better than that? Six great players in the sport. Go ahead, David. It's a great World Series, David. It's a great World Series.
Starting point is 00:40:29 It is rare that in any sport, you truly get the best players on the biggest stage at the end of the season, who are healthy and playing. It is rare that you get the two biggest markets to play each other in any sport at the end of the season. Of course, this matters greatly, not just to the business on the field, but for the interest off the field,
Starting point is 00:40:49 where the ordinary fan, even if Jessica's not interested in this series, I promise you, if we get to a game six and a game seven, there will be a level of interest that even Jessica would say, oh, I actually will watch to see Ohtani, and she's gonna shake her head, of course, and on character on points say, oh, I actually will watch to see Ohtani. And she's gonna shake her head, of course, and on character on points say, no, I won't.
Starting point is 00:41:09 But I promise you that she will, and now just won't spite me. But the reason is that when you get deeper into a series, it raises the interest. And if you put stars in it, it makes it even better. So we have an opportunity in baseball to do something we haven't done in a really long time. And that's to get interest across all demographics, across all generations. And the hope is, this is the time to do it for baseball.
Starting point is 00:41:34 Is there match in that night? One of the things we run into here is that Jessica didn't want her college football interrupted by Aaron judges historic at bats. There's been a divide in how it is that people get into their silos on what they like and in that time baseball I don't know if demographically it has lost young people because their advance media is great but they do have an opportunity here if these are not ten to four games they have an opportunity with some drama and game six and a game seven to really get a lot of eyes that baseball hasn't had in a while at man not like you know transcendent eyes all with some drama and game six and a game seven to really get a lot of eyes that baseball
Starting point is 00:42:05 hasn't had in a while, Adnan. Not like, you know, transcendent eyes. All sports fans are interested because you've got the giant famous sparkly things playing against each other. Yeah, back in the day, Dan, as you said, when there was three channels, you had 44 million people watching the World Series in the late 70s, early 80s. Different generation. Last year, Rangers, D. Bacs drew 8 million. But this year, you're gonna get double digits. Like David said, these are two of the biggest markets, New York, LA. You're gonna get hate watchers, okay?
Starting point is 00:42:31 People hate the 80s, they hate the Dodgers, great. People hate David Sampson, they watch this segment. So there's nothing wrong with a little bit of animus going a long way. These are popular teams, they're also loathed teams. And it's gonna make for great, compelling action. Jessica, why are you making faces? Well, that shot at David Sampson in the middle of that.
Starting point is 00:42:47 Wow, that was uncalled for. My question is, what if you hate... It wasn't uncalled for, it was accurate. What if you hate both teams? Who am I supposed to root for if I don't like the Yankees or the Dodgers? You want colossal injuries all over the place. No.
Starting point is 00:42:58 Jeez. Golly. You're like, Freddie Freeman's hobbled? Let's see how bad this thing can get. Colossal injuries? That's not what we want to be doing here. Samson, you don't need to actually manufacture sales on this one, you're as excited for this
Starting point is 00:43:14 as a baseball series since blank. Since Marlins, Yankees, and 03. Only because you were involved, but just as a spectator that you're not involved in this would be as Perfect for baseball as anything could be that since the Cubs in 16 and the Red Sox in oh four Because any time you have a curse that's been broken or a big team that has not won in a long time That generates a bunch of interest so I would put those up there but this one, the 2024 with Otani being the playoffs
Starting point is 00:43:46 for the first time and him having the type of year he's had with Stanton Hot and Judge Judge and Soto on the Yankees, there is no scenario under which you've had a more star-studded matchup that anyone can remember in their lifetime, assuming they're under 50 years old. If Otani was going full shohei here and actually pitching in the series and hitting,
Starting point is 00:44:06 then you got me. But I've seen two really good teams against each other before. But what you do have the chance of having in this series, okay, the way that Otani struck out trout in that World Baseball Classic is so many cool storylines on Soto headed to free agency. They're gonna have to pay him
Starting point is 00:44:23 because he's the guy I fear most somehow even though erin judge is obviously uh... a beast and otani has the chance to be better then like three legitimate baseball giants physically stanton judge and i think so does like the best hitter plate discipline you've seen since ted williams he's got a chance to slay three giants in new york and be an international hero when he does it well i'll tell you ready is that dan and and baseball put a lot of resources behind otani in this postseason a lot of money spent overseas and it's paid off
Starting point is 00:44:55 already with the interest that japan has had in this world series and the game to start is another japanese player about three hundred million dollars yamamoto and so there's just all sorts of interest across all the different countries. So you're going to see a lot of press releases coming out from New York and Major League Baseball about all of the increased interest and ratings and numbers. And there will be great spin, great positivity. Honestly, this series is if you want to put it in another sports perspective, you take Steph's Warriors, you take LeBron's Heat or Cavs, you make them the Lakers and the Knicks, and that's what
Starting point is 00:45:31 you have here for the World Series because you have those markets and those level of teams and stars and transcendent stars that define a generation here in Otani and Judge alongside multiple other MVPs and superstars, that's the comparison you can make, is those two teams going head to head, but it's New York and LA. Had to bring the heat into it. Okay, I think I'm in.
Starting point is 00:45:53 He said Cavs. I think I'm in. I can't guarantee it. I can't guarantee it. Tony's in! Oh my God! Let's go! Oh my God!
Starting point is 00:46:00 I think I'm in too, when does it start? Tomorrow, right? Tomorrow. I got a hang. Yes. Oh, Saturday we got MMA too. When does it start? Tomorrow, right? Tomorrow. I got it. Yes. Wait. Saturday we got MMA too. Friday night is Rutgers at USC.
Starting point is 00:46:08 Oh no. It's Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights. It's actually after Jessica. It's a double header, I believe. I believe the World Series goes into the Rutgers USC game. We're back, Jess is in. What is the single greatest storyline? Give me one and only one.
Starting point is 00:46:22 You can only give me one storyline. Which is it. I'll give you judge Dan because he has not performed well so far sitting 161 this postseason is a 704 OPS that's league average it's rare to see the Yankees the underdogs may believe that they are the Dodgers are favor to win this World Series and judges yet to be judging he's going to be a two-time MVP he He's a rookie of
Starting point is 00:46:45 the year. He's a six-time All-Star, but he hasn't had a signature moment aside from that Holmanov Kloss in game three. So if the Dodgers win, they probably should win, but if Aaron Judge doesn't step up, I think Yankee fans would be pretty upset. David, the biggest storyline for me is Shohei Otani and how recently we were dealing with a big gambling scandal that got swept under the rug so quickly back when this season started in Korea.
Starting point is 00:47:07 And he has a chance to end that season winning a World Series, his first time in the playoffs, first time getting postseason at bats, and he has been a beast with runners in scoring position, hitting at a historic level, like 17 out of 21 times, he's getting a hit. And if he actually gets the MVP and has the commissioners trophy, he is the number one face of baseball in the entire world and then backs it up
Starting point is 00:47:33 with performance that does not happen every day. Both of you agree with me that Soto is the best hitter on the Yankees. Pure. Yeah, I was going to say Stanton, listen, his numbers have been great 794 slug in nine games this postseason. Every time he's there, he's hitting it. He's got the fourth longest drop by the way of any position player to make the World Series.
Starting point is 00:47:53 So his at bats or must see TV Dan because anytime he can go deep. But yes, pure hitter solo in terms of getting on base plate discipline and that power Cliff. Floyd said to me, nobody's better hitting an elevated fastball and Soto 95 up up in the zone somehow soto can take it downtown the pitch like that no one can do that i'd love to visit that so much just the fact that he seemed that the i'd be
Starting point is 00:48:14 you're in agreement that the at bat at to end that guardian series uh... was an all-timer when erin boone's the one saying it when he's saying an at bat for the ages just because you kind of knew that Soto was stalking him. He was timing him the entire time. It was like watching a cat play with a bird and it had injured. So that's what Soto does every at bat. He is known for that.
Starting point is 00:48:39 And in that particular at bat, Cliff Lloyd's right, Uncle Cliffy, no that's not Uncle Cliffy, just Cliffy said that he did take the high fastball. And that's just because he hit the home run. Who's Uncle Cliffy? Cliff Robinson. Oh okay. Cliff Robinson. Yes, good work David, good talking to you.
Starting point is 00:48:56 Thank you sir. I'll check. I'll feel it. I only had three questions. See you guys later, it was nice talking to you. Thanks guys. Louisville Boston talking to you. Thanks guys. Louisville Boston College at 730, so. Hey everyone, it's Mike Ryan.
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