The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Mission Kind Of Impossible

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

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The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard 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 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.

Ben Solak has tweeted after the Waller trade, quote, I am grotesquely fascinated by the 2025 Miami Dolphins. Put it on the poll, please at LeBittard show. Are you grotesquely fascinated by the 2025 dolphins? While there's a guy that you could see getting to camp and not making it out of camp, or also like, oh wow, he's still got something left in the tank and then he's a contributor, right? You have absolutely no idea. I mean, I think yesterday, most people,

aside from the very optimistic dolphins fans, were kind of like, hmm, this is kind of a weird one here. What do they think that they're gonna get out of him? He hasn't been that productive in a number of years, but maybe now his body's healed, maybe he'll be the guy that's 32, 33 that comes back and is gonna play again, and he'll be fine because he's been able to rest for a couple years.

But also, if he doesn't make it out of camp, I don't think anyone would be that shocked, right? But Mike McDaniel's probably pitching him. You'll be John who Smith, right? Mike McDaniel is on the hottest of seats Is he not like not the hottest they can be hotter He if the Dolphins do not I'm trying to think of what is viewed as a success for him this season When a playoff game. Yeah, but if he wins a playoff game, he's safe. He's good. Yeah, they haven't done in 25 years Yeah, but even winning a playoff game. Yeah, but if he wins a playoff game, he's safe, he's good. Yeah, they haven't done it in 25 years. Yeah, but even winning a playoff game, I feel like with this roster and the fact

that they're aging, you've wasted Tyre Kill. Like you didn't get out of Tyre Kill what you wanted to get out of Tyre Kill. I don't know, show up in a big game. I think if this team is, it sounds terrible, and I don't want this to happen, but I feel like if they just get back to being good in the regular season, get to the playoffs and lose again,

I think he might be safe. My apologies for spending this much time on a loser regional team that isn't interesting in the off season, except for doing things that people are like, huh? Where it's not interesting because you know they're getting better, it's interesting just because you have no idea.

Well, is it they were grotesquely interesting? We also do that with the Heath though, like they're by record a losing team, they're 37-45. Yeah, but in the last five years, they've been to the championship, and in the last 20 years, they took this city from the Dolphins

because of the amount of winning that Dwayne Wade did. This franchise, since you've been an adult, Billy, since you've been an adult, this franchise hasn't won a playoff game. It is a laughing stock nationally. Yeah, but if they win a playoff game, they have the city back. Like, they have leased the city to the other teams.

People are dying to get back on a good Dolphins team. Do you know how absurd it is what I'm saying, though? You were not, you didn't have a driver's license the last time the Miami Heat won, I'm sorry, the Miami Dolphins team. Do you know how absurd it is what I'm saying though? You were not, you didn't have a driver's license the last time the Miami Heat won, I'm sorry, the Miami Dolphins won a playoff game. Who was the youngest here since the Dolphins won? I was five years old. I was five the last time they won a playoff game.

So you have never seen them win a playoff game. My entire lifetime they've been mediocre. You've never seen them win a playoff game. Yeah, they're a mediocre franchise. Zadswell mentioned earlier the idea that next year will be the first in a long time that he believes the Miami Heat attendance streak will be in jeopardy. Can you guys find for me?

I believe the Miami Heat have one of the longest sold out streaks anywhere in sports. I think it's the longest in basketball. I think it goes back to 2010, I think. What happened that year? Oh Oh yeah, that's right. That's where that started. That would probably happen in a lot of cities. I'm gonna continue to a couple bad years in between. I know but it started in 2010 and some of the numbers since then I think have been a little bit suspicious where I don't feel like the arena's actually sold out.

You feel like it's been some empty seats? But it looks like they needed to keep their streak alive. So I don't know if I, I guess I'm accusing them of fudging numbers, but do you believe that that sold out streak is true? That they've been actually sold out all of those games since 2010? Billy is shaking his head.

No one believes that that's true if you're a reasonable person. There's plenty of tickets available for every game. They're not sold out every game. This is just David Samson attendance numbers for the Miami Heat. I don't feel comfortable totally making that accusation even though I know sports teams do that all the time.

But in Miami, I do have general questions if you've sold out for 15 years in a sports event whether or not that can ever be real. I don't understand so you're telling me that they cannot be sold out and they could just say another sellout. Well that's Samson said they were always lying about the numbers but right but Samson was never able to say we're sold out That is correct The thing that makes some of this difficult in this sports town is the last Game that the Dolphins did play in the playoffs

Wasn't on television locally because it wasn't sold out in time So there was a play the the last playoff game, the Miami Dolphins played. Lamar Smith game. Did not air locally because it didn't sell out. I drove to Orlando to watch the game. Did you really? I was in school at that time, but I was home from school.

And so I went back early to watch the game. You just drove outside. How far out is it? Three and a half hours out that you have to drive for the local, how far out do you have to drive in order to get the local broadcast when it's been blocked, blacked out locally? I don't remember, but I was like,

all right, I guess we're driving to Orlando today to watch the dolphins. I thought Orlando was like the place. I thought Orlando, the Orlando line was where it is that you could go see a dolphin game that was blacked out. Great game. You had to be able to see it in like Vero Beach or something a couple hours away.

I am glad that Zaslo's here as both a judge and journalist. He's also a doctor, a lawyer, and a race war expert. I'd like to get some rulings from him if I could as a judge in just a moment. We're going to get to that. But before we get to that, just the Damian Lillard thing from yesterday, an NBA executive has been quoted anonymously as saying that the Bucks are reckless, that bringing in that much Miles Turner for that much money is a super curiosity what are you laughing about why are they reckless why aren't they allowed to do with their roster

what they want why is it wreck I mean is it a bad choice yeah probably but it's reckless reckless for whom for the bucks but it's their franchise they could do they want their roster reckless because you might lose Yanis because it's not the move that he wants well what you think was more likely losing Yanis by bringing in Miles Turner or losing Yanis by not bringing in Miles Turner? I would assume the reason that that GM would consider this move or their flurry of moves reckless is the multiple years where when you don't really know how this is going to work out with the complimentary pieces,

where Giannis sometimes was kind of playing center last year, so how does Miles Turner compliment that? I can understand why a GM would look at what they're doing and go, whoa, you're committing a lot of money long term to a roster that if you don't have Giannis, is going to probably be a disaster. Which is more reckless, doing this or not doing it and risking losing Yanis, that's more reckless.

Well, I would say and will say that the Bucs have more information than we do and because they have more information than we do, I'm assuming that they're doing every possible thing to keep Yanis or they already know that Yanis is gone and so they're doing every possible thing to keep Yanis or they already know that Yanis is gone. And so they're doing every possible thing to replace Yanis. Wind horses said on television that if Halliburton hadn't gotten injured, the Pacers would have likely paid the tax and just tried to keep Miles Turner.

Dan, have you looked at the potential starting lineup for the Milwaukee Bucks next season? It is sad. Kevin Porter, Jr. Trent Jr., Kyle Kuzma, Giannis Miles Turner. Portis is in there somewhere right now. Six man, then I might trade him too. The thing that I wanted to talk about though from yesterday and I still want to talk about and for some reason I cannot keep the attention span engaged from our basketball fans.

They keep changing the subject on me to the future transactions as opposed to what happened yesterday which is I saw a headline that read Damian Lillard waved and it was confusing to me and I know he's injured and I know that he's the age that he is and I know that you've spent a year more than a year knowing that Damien Lillard isn't what he was. But to have a contract that has two years on it, $110 million and to have the bucks

say waved, we have no use for you and the punctuation on this part of your career has been about as disastrous as it could be for someone who was in your position at the end in Portland. It's not something we've ever seen before and for some reason around here yesterday, everybody wanted to skip right past it because of how quickly we will discard even the most famous of basketball players. How about that trade was just two years ago and literally all of the pieces in that trade are no longer

with the teams they were traded to. Boston, Portland, Milwaukee, none of those guys are on those teams anymore. It's only two years ago. The interesting part about that, because I remember what Woj wrote about Portland at the time and how it was a bit of poetry that was overwritten on behalf of, you know, just people being fascinated by GM transactions. But the Miami Heat did not believe the Boston Celtics could get into the game and create a Drew Holiday package to get Drew Holiday from them, and didn't believe that anyone had a better offer than what they were offering for Damian Liller. But once Boston

offered Time Lord and the pieces that they offered that were broken, right, Brogdon, just a bunch of physical pieces that were broken, the Heat did concede by their assessment that the offer that Boston made was better than the offer that they had on the table. And so, while we look at it in retrospect and say those were a bunch of damaged pieces like Brogdon and Williams and those guys didn't end up being any good, the bet that Portland was making

was that some of them would indeed be good. And the heat's assessment on that was that the pieces that were offered there were better than what the heat were offering. But the heat are likely saying to themselves right now, we're glad we didn't make the Lillard trade, right? I mean, even without the Lillard's going to miss most the next season, like even before that, they're glad they didn't make the trade, right?

They are, but I still want to simply concentrate as, you know, Damian Lillard right now has to feel a bit broken and shell-shocked, physically broken, but shell-shocked that he's in a position that the last part of his career has been so mangled that his headline has the word waved in it. Like, the last time I remember sort of being that Brandon Roy in terms of potential where I'm like oh it's just all over like there's just no there's no chance that he recovers from any of that I saw I got aggregated for saying that Lillard is now done as a star like that's the most obvious thing in the world is it not? That he's that he's done as a star that that person will never be an important player

It doesn't mean he can't make baskets doesn't mean he won't be a role player But leading a team being a centerpiece on a team or being the second best player on a team That's not a good team like his movement is gonna be affected by that injury in a way that has made the Bucs make the Assessment that has no value even though we have to pay it $50 million a year, just go away, just get off of the roster. I still can't really get my head around it, even understanding that this is a player that has been injured for a while,

and I guess a lot of people have moved on from Damien Lillard before I moved on from Damien Lillard. But you would acknowledge Damien Lillard yesterday, like even though maybe it was shocking originally when he finds out, wow, I'm getting waived, Damian Lillard was a big winner yesterday, like a huge winner yesterday.

I don't know if he got to a place where he liked Milwaukee, he adjusted to it, he was okay with being in Milwaukee, but his employer yesterday literally told him, here is all of your money, not a penny short, and guess what else? Go do whatever you'd like. Not limit, we're not limiting the things you could do. Here is all of your money and you can do whatever you want.

Which is essentially what he wanted two years ago and what he wanted was to come to Miami. He didn't get what he wanted. Well now you get all of the money and do whatever you want like he was a big winner yesterday Damian Lillard the athletic reporter that he was quote elated I'm sure what happened yesterday because of that exact thing he gets all of his money and now he can go choose wherever he wants to go he can pick whatever contender he wants to play for he was elated is how they put it. Also Chris Haynes though reported that Giannis didn't like what they did yesterday and we were talking about how

you always have to go to the roots on who's reporting what and why something's being leaked. Chris Haynes is known as being Lillard's guy. He's the one who has perpetual access to Lillard. What did you make of the report that Giannis wasn't happy about what they did yesterday trading four miles Turner? Not believable. It's just not. I mean, maybe Chris Haynes is bad information. Not believable.

Like Yannis is upset that in a year from now, he's not going to be able to play anymore with a 36 year old coming off of an Achilles injury. Chris Yannis upset about that? Chris Haynes' information is rarely wrong. Like this is not somebody whose information is disputed very often. I would think if he got that inclination from whoever it would have been that's close to Yannis,

it would be because he just didn't like how it was handled. Because the reports that are out there, including from Chris Haynes himself, are that Dame wanted to spend his time rehabbing in Portland so that he could be around his kids. We know his personal life has been a little wild in the last few years, and that was something he wanted to do, and apparently Buck's management

was not happy about that, which is what facilitated this decision, and if Dame was caught off guard, I can understand Giannis at least looking at his ownership in front office and saying, man, I don't love the way you guys went about that with a guy who I like. But then that's a super misleading headline then to say Yannis not happy with the way it went down. I don't know that it was a headline.

It was just a piece of the reporting. It could be more macro too. The way that they stretched and waived it. All of a sudden you got money on your books for the next five years where you're trying to get pieces to be a contender and you're looking around saying we're paying how much for Miles Turner? What his original salary is plus what we waived Dane for? Like that all adds up.

That's the recklessness that you're talking about, right? There's a tweet here from Yasi Ghazlan, and it says, the Damian Lillard trade had risk and the worst case scenario ends up happening. They're down Drew Holliday, an unprotected first, two swaps, and now they have to pay Lillard 22 and a half5 million a year not to play for them for the next five seasons.

But that's a, that is an effect of today's NBA where every one of these teams that has a star player is afraid. They're afraid of one day their star player coming into the office and saying, I'm not happy. And so as a result, this is the kind of stuff you have to do. Cause it doesn't matter if a guy signed to a contract, you're a free agent every single year that like that right there is the effect of today's NBA. If I'm Lillard, I Bobby Bonia. Give me five over the next 20. Jeremy, you know something about me, right?

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This is the Dan LeBattar Show with the Stugats. ["The Stugats Theme Song"] Let's put together the top five deferred contracts in the history of sports at LeBotard Show. Jeremy, do that quickly. I'm going to test you quickly. I'm not even going to give you very much time to do it quickly. Put it on the poll at LeBotard Show. Is every basketball player in the world a free agent while under contract? I saw a clip of Steve Phillips explaining why, because I guess he was at the center

of the contract negotiation there with Bobby Bonilla as to why it is that they did this deal with him where he would make all of that money. And it should surprise no one, it involved Bernie Madoff. So they were like, well our thinking was is that we owed him like six million dollars and we had this buyout that we'd pay him 29 over 30 years

and we had invested a lot of money with Bernie Madoff so we thought if we gave Bernie this six million dollars we're gonna make a hundred million dollars, whatever, we're gonna make so much money that this is gonna be financially such a great deal for us because Bernie's gonna make us so much more money that the fact that we're dragging this out for 30 years isn't really gonna affect the Willpons at all.

So this is a great idea. And they're like, wow, and he's like, you're welcome, Dodgers, for the idea. That's exactly what happened. The Willpons did have a relationship with Madoff where they thought they'd get more money and Bobby Bonilla was so terrified of going broke that he said, just give me a million dollars a year for 20 years so that I can know that I'm going to have money coming

in in 2025. Is today Bobby Bonilla Day? Yesterday? Yeah. I don't understand though. What would have happened to the Wilpons if they just gave Bobby Bonilla the yesterday? Yesterday, yeah. I don't understand though. What would have happened to the Willpons if they just gave Bobby Bonilla the six million they owed him? They couldn't afford to just give him the six million? No, they wanted more, it was greedy. They can afford to give him the six million, but they can make more money on that.

With Madoff. I have found some of that. They couldn't do both? They just, they wanted more. What do you mean they couldn't do both? Yes, they can do both, but they could make more money with Bonilla's money. And Madoff. And Madoff. more what do you mean they couldn't do both yes they can do both but they could make more money with Benias money and made off and made off then they could just giving that money what could go right nothing whatever go wrong there

you just give it off everyone knows Bernie made off totally solid don't have to worry about anything top five deferred contracts in the history of sports any ol eyes are we going straight to number five well I just have baseball contracts here but they're all pretty brutal. So number five, Max Scherzer. He signed a seven year, $210 million deal with the Nationals in 2015, but $105 million was deferred.

So he makes $15 million a year from the Nats through 2028. Of course he plays for the Blue Jays. Number four. Wasn't he getting checks from like three teams at one point in time? Brett Saberhagen. We're on the poll at Levitage Show. Did you know that Scherzer was a Blue J?

Did you know Verlander was a giant? Brett Saberhagen retired in 2001, but he receives $250,000 a year from the Mets. It started in 2004, it'll end in 2029. Oh wow, so this was another one that the Wilpons did, same thing, but Bonilla is the only one who gets stuck with it in Saber Hagen skates? I guess the difference of a million versus 250,000 and Bonilla, it's July 1st, but number 3, Manny Ramirez. In 2001, he signed an 8-year, $160 million deal with the Red Sox.

They deferred $32 million over 16 years. So he was received $2 million every year in that span, starting in 2011, ending in 2026. I heard Bobby Bonilla say that he gets more texts on Bobby Bonilla Day than his birthday. Purely for the money, number two, Shohei Otani. So it's a 10 year, $700 million deal, right? But over nine years, starting in 2034 I believe, he'll make $68 million per year over nine years. I know who my number one is.

I don't know if he's still being paid or not. Go ahead, let's see if I can get this right. I don't wanna ruin it by guessing it, but I think that what Jeremy might say here will be shockingly quiet that most people don't know what he's about to say. Do you wanna write it down on a piece of paper before I do this so that we can see if it's the same name?

Because this is one of my favorites. Doesn't trust Dan to be honest. No, I just love this as a payoff. Aren't we always looking for payoff? I think it has a little bit to do with honesty. Number one, Chris Davis. I got it wrong. Who'd you say?

Ken Griffey. Chris Davis, former Orioles slugger, signed a seven year, $161 million deal with the club in 2016 including 42 million in deferred money from 2023 to 2037. They will be paying Chris Davis. Would you have been honest if you didn't write it down? I would have been yeah because Ken Griffey I think is more shocking than Chris Davis but they might have been done paying him last year. Did they pay him his last installment last year?

Yeah, last year Ken Griffey Jr. received his final installment of 16 year deferred $57.5 million. So last year his final $3.593750 million payment. That's gotta feel good for all of them though, right? When that arrives, that one payment arrives 19 years later. You think like two weeks before, they're like, oh, let's go out to show, and he's like, nah, to me, two weeks.

In two weeks, we can go out to show, and he's with the whole family, not this week. I just imagine them writing a check where it's like, don't cash it for another week. Yeah, hold on. Just give me a sec. How old is Bobby Bonilla? He's 62 years old, and he's still getting paid

a million dollars a year by the Mets. Huge home run, 7 Marlins huge The Manny Ramirez story reminds me I've told it before but I will tell it again because it is just so great I used to live in Pembroke Pines in a cul-de-sac in Pembroke Pines called Silver Lakes It it wasn't a high-end neighborhood, it was my first home, I would say, it would classify as a middle class neighborhood. It's a nice neighborhood. No, nice, nice, but I'm just not a middle class.

Upper middle class neighborhood. You're better than that now. That's not what I meant by that, I'm framing this story for Manny Ramirez, but yes, I am better. Somewhere between upper middle class and lower upper class. Yeah. I would say-

You would never be caught there today. I wouldn't say that. I would never be caught there today. Maybe fleeing the authorities, I would get caught. The neighborhood take a turn, or was it really like hard times over there? Is that why you left? Yeah, neighborhood of crime.

Was it fight or flight? Mm-hmm, key flight. It is a very protected neighborhood, it is a cul-de-sac, and it is though not a neighborhood that you would be likely to find a famous person and certainly not one with the wealth of Manny Ramirez. Dan still has the house, it's now just his closet. Oh.

After Manny Ramirez signed his $160 million deal with the Red Sox, I know that's quaint now, right? I know that gets you a miles turner now. But back then it seemed like a ton of money, $160 million. Reckless. He's walking through what is largely a middle class neighborhood and he points at a house

and he's like, can I afford that? And it's one of these neighborhoods where the developer has only made three or four types of houses, there are no other types of houses. And in fact, I think it was just three types of houses in the neighborhood. And he points to one of them, he's like, I wanna buy that, can I afford that? And his agent, Gene Matos says, Manny,

you can afford this whole bleeping neighborhood, the whole thing, you can buy the whole bleeping neighborhood. The whole thing. You can buy the whole thing for your family and it wouldn't be any problem. But he had no concept of the amount of money that we were talking about. And I just wonder, like they were always finding uncashed. Right, wasn't there an accounting issue

one year with him and the team? Please look up for me a couple of stories here. I'm pretty sure Ricky Henderson, his first million dollar check, I believe the A's were like, why hasn't Ricky cashed that? It's because he just put it on his wall. I'm pretty sure Manny Ramirez always had a bunch of uncashed checks. And then there was I think it was was it Ariel Prieto, who came from Cuba,

gets a million dollar signing bonus and walks around with it in the jeans of his pants for a week because he doesn't understand what banks are. Like he doesn't even, he's from Cuba, and so he's got a million dollar signing bonus check in his jeans that they're telling him is worth an amount of money, but he just doesn't even, he doesn't know what banks are, what a check is, what any of it means,

so he's just walking around with the million dollar check. How did Manny not have direct deposit? Like he has an agent, he has a team around him and he was getting paper checks, like he needs to go to a teller every two weeks? I think that it might have been before. Is it possible that this is before direct deposit, that people would just be paid with checks?

I don't know when we invented direct deposit, but for some reason, Manny Ramirez was pulled over. I think I have this story right. I think Manny Ramirez was pulled over I think I have this story right I think Manny Ramirez was pulled over then made a new turn and was pulled over again and then they found the checks in his in his car and they found I'm pretty sure I have that right I can confirm the Ricky story in 1982 Oakland A's couldn't solve an annoying accounting error the answer was framed on Ricky Henderson's bedroom wall. Also, Ariel Pareto did have the $1.2 million signing bonus

check in his pocket for a week. Let's find that Manny Ramirez story and see if I go three for three here because we've got an assortment of checks for tens of thousands of dollars, uncashed checks found in Manny Ramirez's car. Is Manny still playing somewhere? Is Manny over 50 playing like in Taiwan or something,

still trying to play baseball somewhere? I don't think so. I think we saw him with his son recently. His son was at a showcase or something, but I think his son was praising his swing. So I think he may be done at the mo- For the moment, he may be done. But there's always another league that comes out.

Do you guys ever have jobs where like, when you got your physical check It was a race to the bank to make sure you got paid Because you weren't sure the funds were gonna be there for everyone my old job check balance one time Are you feeling that way with God bless football? No, there's no checks right now. This is strictly community service, and it's for my resume I'm seeing a month ago Manny Ramirez says he wants to return to MLB but as a hitting coach.

So I don't think he's playing it. He's still in the cages, Dan. I just saw a video, still in the cages. Just working on the craft. Put it on the polls. Do you assume that Manny Ramirez will still be in the batting cage past 100 years old? El Duque is still at Tammamy Park.

Like you think I'm joking. I don't think you're joking. My sister played a softball game against Le'Veon Hernandez a couple months ago. And I was like, how is that possible? It was supposed, she works at a school. Was he the pitcher? Okay, so it was a school and it was supposed to be,

I guess, like a bunch of schools. It was like a holiday of some sort that all the schools were off. So the schools have like these softball teams that are playing against each other that are supposed to be comprised of faculty of the school. And she sends me a picture and she's like, you'll never guess who I'm playing against.

And she sends me a picture. And I'm not here to shame anyone unrecognizable. It's like, who the hell is that? She's like, that's Levan Hernandez. I'm like, how is Levan Hernandez? Like, Levan Hernandez, is he a science teacher? Why is Levan Hernandez playing in a school versus school softball game at Tammy Emmy Park,

other than the fact that I guess we just gotta keep our juices going and we need the competition? First baseman he was playing at. Big target. I've seen him at the Highlife front on. He still looks like Levan Hernandez. Turns out, I guess he's doing some coaching at a school So he was eligible for this this roster, but they brought in a ringer Levon Hernandez is now playing

I don't know why it is you need to put quote marks around that Well cuz someone knows Levon Hernandez like we have a big softball tournament You want to come out there and then say when people ask you what's going on? Yeah, he's a baseball coach, assistant baseball coach. I will tell you, I have rarely been more scared doing anything in sports than what I'm about to describe for you. Showing up at Tamiyami Park for a softball game, looking, playing third base and looking in the opposing dugout.

And there are Jose and Ozzy Kinseka. Screaming line drives toward third base are not anything I want a part of if they don't hit the 500 foot home run that they are confident that they're gonna hit every time because those two guys were only there to hit the ball as far as a human being can hit it. Like, Jose Kinseka was only going out there.

The only reason, it wasn't to win, it wasn't to beat anybody up. It's to mash. It is just simply to swing and have everyone go, I can't believe how far that softball went. But when it didn't go far, it went screaming at the third baseman's forehead. And I was too close.

And I was scared of everything that was happening there because the way that the ball came off those bats, it wasn't Levan Hernandez. And Levan could hit too. That's why they call it the hot corner. Update on the Manny Ramirez story that you were talking about. Yes, he was pulled over in Cleveland in 1997. He was receiving three tickets, which were for illegally tinted windows, the stereo blasting

too loud, and there was something else that it's not saying right here. But when the cop pulled him over, he knew who Manny was. He said, Manny, I'm going to give you a ticket. And his response was, I don't need any tickets. I can give you tickets sped away, pulled around with an illegal U-turn and then received another ticket. And how many checks were found? There is no there's no details.

And I've just read three different articles and none of them have details of the checks. I'm like a dog with a bone on this. I played second base charity softball game I threw out Derrick Lee first base. Really? I picked that grounder up, threw him out. Wow. That's right. When Ozzie and Jose are there, you gotta play back on the infield right? You know Ozzie and Jose are not gonna bunt. You gotta play back. Agre back agreed what I'm telling you is you can't play back far enough I was in left field and I was still scared Like I was I wouldn't I did not have the arm strength to throw the ball from where I was to the first They cut off guys look if they had any kind of ball on the ground. They were gonna have an infield single

I was just trying to make sure there wasn't a dent in my forehead It's running if Pat Riley had punched me with a diamond in the forehead It's as who's the first bass been the the celebrity first baseman when you threw it. I don't remember But I was double play tandem. I was second base shortstop Michael. Oh wow What were you doing this game? Playing baseball no I know but it was a celebrity game. Yeah, like make-a-wish you know who I am I'm just asking he's a big star. What year was this? Maybe like 10 years ago. Zazz says a big rising star at ESPN radio 305-486-GOTS is the number.

I've got some more God bless football questions but we've got a Boost Mobile Boldest Take hotline it's 305-486-GOTS. It has been up and down. It's been better, but it's been up and down. How do you feel about this batch, Chris Cody? I feel good about this batch. It's the Boost Mobile Boldest Take, and it's presented by, of course, Boost Mobile, the newest 5G network in the country.

Hey guys, walking the dog. Isn't it weird how if you're up for something or down for something, it means the same thing? My boldest take is no one realizes how bad old school wrestlers were. Hulk Hogan, terrible. Finisher's a leg drop. Kidding me? Everyone does a goddamn leg drop. I ain't gonna listen.

This is Dan on a walkie-talkie. I don't like the expression, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Why? Who's getting cake and not eating it? Over and out. Hey gang, Ryan up in Washington state. One of life's underrated joys is opening a can of Pringles to find them completely unbroken and perfectly stacked. Amazing. Yeah this is Mark on a mobile. My bold take is that all things considered especially versatility, lemon is the most underrated fruit. I'll stay on. Don't try to take race-loved friends to the hole, cause you will not score. You know who that is, that is race-loved friends, who the F are you?

Yeah, this is Josh from Omobo in my car. My bold take is that Mission Impossible should be called mission kind of impossible because all the previous missions have been impossible yet they still solved them so it wasn't really that impossible. I think maybe mission kind of impossible. I'll hang up and listen. Hey there this is Todd. I just wanted to say I miss StuGuts. I'm not afraid to... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Is that guy okay at the end? And also put on the poll, is life's greatest pleasure opening a can of Pringles and having them all be unbroken at LeBittard's show? The telephone number again is 305-486-GOTS, 4689. We've mentioned Stugots, we've mentioned God Bless Football.

Billy, can you give me anything in the way of an update? Because I asked St got to this yesterday. I'm like, are you guys going to Lake Tahoe or not? And I got a plume of blue smoke he spit in my face, like from heaters and disease, and no truth. And so, I don't know whether you guys are going to Tahoe. I know that God Bless Football is going to be more often during football season. I know God Bless Football has new studios and is going to try and grow as a business. I don't know what's going on with Tahoe. Do you know what's going on with Tahoe? It's definitely a maybe on the Tahoe situation. Sugat is dead set on going. It's just a logistical thing and you know as you know Dan it's hard starting a business and now we're paying

for things out on our own So if I want to go to Tahoe, I'm gonna pay out of pocket to go to Lake Tahoe So I'm you know have to talk to the missus and say is this you know financially something we're gonna do and we're out there We have deals coming in soon. So at some point, we're not gonna have to pay out of pocket for these things But at the moment until those things are signed and the I's are done the T's are crossed These things are coming out of pocket. In the interim, you guys should support God Bless Football and StuPotty and StuTube.

He is working very hard on those things and that is the reason that he is around less because by the time of football season, he's gonna wanna be making God Bless Football a lot more often for you. But right now, you can get it. It's pretty easy to find all over the internet and he is doing, I don't know what the schedule is though Billy

because he hasn't informed me, it's nebulous and I've asked him several times like I want to promote the things that you're doing tell me what I need to know and again it's just it's a lot of smoke. No I mean it's again it's hard we're balancing two responsibilities at the same time. The schedules here are not super consistent so sometimes we have recording days that are one day and then other times we're not scheduled the same day so we're trying to make it work in the interim. But we're working on it. It's getting out there.