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Episode Date: July 14, 2025

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that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. This episode is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. So not that these are the measurements for running backs, but Najee Harris is 27 years old and he is one of only five running backs since the beginning of the century to begin a career with four straight thousand yard seasons. Not again that thousand yard seasons are the measurement, but he's also registered the fifth most rushing yards in the NFL since he was drafted. That's what I always think about actually when Najee Harris is that I always think he's a lot worse than he than his production would suggest. Well, but I'm always reminded like, oh, he's actually like by running back standards.

Quite good, quite productive. I don't like I am shocked by a number of the ways that the efficiencies have changed all of sports. But at running back, that was a place over the last five years where I got passed by because I was saying financially, of course you have to pay Todd Gurley. Of course you have to pay McCaffrey. Of course you have to pay Ezekiel Elliott, I was saying it, of. Rookie Ezekiel Elliott special. But you don't have to pay any of them Elliott I was saying it of. And rookie Ezekiel Elliott special.

But you don't have to pay any of them. It doesn't matter. I think. Saquon? I thought. We found the one. Yeah, Saquon and Derek Barkley. Derek Barkley.

Derek Barkley. Henry. I thought that if you asked me who is the stealer on offense, I could trust most the last few years, it was their running back. That's not saying much, but that offense was bad. And so what he was doing was particularly impressive to me because I felt like that offense was super limited.

How about Pat Fryer Muth? Good tight end for a year. A year? Yeah. I judge everything by the fantasy lens Najee Harris was never a top draft pick in fantasy drafts I mean he was always that's your measurement as a long time as the longtime Harold football writer

Your measurement is just how did he play for the Lobos? Yeah, okay, right? I don't know that he was ever a Lobo quite frankly, okay That wasn't good enough to be drafted by the Lobos not good enough for you to have Commentary on him on how good he might be because he didn't meet your standards as a fantasy. He's good He's not a top-tier running back and never has been that's that's not to denigrate him. I think I'm with you solid running back Yeah, right. That's right. Yeah, Greg. he had 3.9 yards per carry as averages in his career. Average, average. I mean, it's pretty good.

Average. He's just getting reps. He's running to the back of the old line. I don't like him. Not good. I don't like him. I don't like him. Second tier, maybe third.

If I keep handing the ball to Najee Harris, I keep getting first downs. 3.9 yards at a time. You try that. Let me get back to where it is that I was trying to get to before we derailed into fireworks talk and shark movies. I was talking about Connor McGregor and I was talking about just how well the combat sports can sell when they have personalities being maximum personalities. At his best, Connor McGregor is second only to Muhammad Ali in the history of trash talking publicly, not just in combat sports, that I've ever seen and Chael

Sonnen was awfully good at it as well. But in the recent years, many people have pointed out there are many videos on this subject of how drugged out, coked out Conor McGregor seems, how steroid inflated he seems because of how much his face head body has changed their jaws but but also recently he hasn't he's had trouble articulating he is had a good deal of trouble in interviews mumbling slurring what he did with Jake Gyllenhaal in an interview that people remember because it was something that just, I don't know that I've ever seen someone appear

this drugged on television before. Nevermind sports, I've seen Charlie Sheen interviewed telling everybody he's winning, but you tell me if you guys have ever seen video like this selling the movie Roadhouse, the remake, here's Conor McGregor clearly drugged. Jake's a consummate professional, 75 movies made. You know, I'm blessed to have entered into the movie

alongside him. He was patient with me. He gave me guidance and I just took it. You know, we had a good rapport on set. He has 75 movies made, I have 75 bar fights made, and that's it. We had a good back and forth. To me, and sometimes I had to remind him. I landed one punch. Once.

And he hit me with the door. Other than that, it was absolutely perfect. Video just put in the picture and picture please, just B-roll of Conor McGregor just generally seeming drugged out. But when's the last time he won a fight? Was it six years ago? Seven years ago? How long has it been since Conor McGregor won a fight? And yet his mouth has carried him so he is now starting after the proper whiskey he sold

for $150 million. His pay per views were the biggest, six or seven. after that the proper whiskey he made he sold for 150 million dollars he his pay-per-views were the biggest six or seven last six or seven biggest have all been him the Floyd Mayweather fight was crazy made a hundred million dollars off of that last win for the notorious Conor McGregor was Donald Cowboy Cerrone January 19th or 18th of 2020 wow Wow. So before the pandemic. All right. So five years ago and here he is though. This is Connor McGregor in his prime. He's selling, he's selling, he's part of this league that is just, what is it? Is it street fighting? It's bare knuckle. Mosfetal is doing this too, right? There's, there's a couple of bare knuckles, but this is bare knuckle FC. This is like

the highest bare knuckle you could be. Okay. That's not it sure is that's not saying much but let's hear what how Conor McGregor sold it he's great at sales it's a pleasure to be back here at the Hard Rock Hotel where you know this Saturday night we've a flagship event with a wealth of fighting machines topped by our heavyweight knockout sensation Luis Zalzambul Perdomo as he circles world title fight honors but that's not all as much as we love the Hard Rock Hotel here and as much as they love Bare Knuckle we have assembled our very first inaugural world champion summit before you all. Well as you can see beside me and in front of me some of the baddest men and women to ever grace planet Earth. This is what we're about

here at Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, the alien of combat sport. And may we rise above the night sky and rain down blows viciously on all our deniers and announce here today that Bare Knuckle FC has no love for the big glove so let's get going Bare Knuckle let's go Florida and let's announce some incredible matchups some shock signings and the most lucrative tournament in all of combat sport where we crown in an open weight the baddest man on the planet let's go give it up come on bravo that's one of the greatest promos you'll ever see are you a denier dan levatore

you know what happens raining down blows viciously no love above the night sky no love for the big glove. That was awesome. Those teeth aren't real, right? No. Not whatsoever. They're perfect. Yeah, it's fantastic. That's straight out of The Running Man. Let's go Florida! Get him saying planet Earth very knuckle Combat sports Which was which was better from interview land this weekend Conor McGregor doing that or Tony Derek Lewis is always a good interview nothing like the black piece Derek Lewis always has something to say always has a a trick up his sleeve. He showed up to the weight cut in a Speedo.

Like, he's the man. Let's listen to Derrick Lewis here, get the sound of this. He's always better after he wins, obviously. Yeah, when he gets knocked out, no much to say. He's not, he's not. Those big guys, though. I was watching Roy Nelson fight this weekend.

I was watching. You were this weekend, I was watching. You were? Was that on your YouTube algo? His top seven knockouts. Wow! You made me think of him when you rained down blows from the heavens. From the night sky, yeah.

From the night sky. The alien of combat sport. Nope. Planet Earth. I don't wanna hear from Conor McGregor anymore, I want you to have the Derek Lewis sound when I You're putting them through the ring here not putting him through the ringer. I asked him before the set you also What do you want next my friend, oh I've been going for two weeks, so I want my wife next. It's gonna be a lot of ground and pounding.

Ground and pounding, she know what it is, fine ass. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the Beast, Derrick Lewis. DC was loving it. You heard him giggling through the entire thing. The wife must be so excited. Didn't he moon the crowd? Once, yes. No, like just here.

Like over the weekend, no? I thought he did. I read that. You're like a dog with a bone on this one. Go ahead and look it up. Right guy, wrong time. He dropped drawers and mooned the crowd. Yeah.

I think you're right, Greg. Yeah. I hate to be right, but. Do you? Dropped drawers. That's right. I think you're right Greg. Yeah, I hate to be right, but yeah. Dropped drawers. That's right. He dropped drawers, mooned the crowd, or maybe just mooned the ESPN camera. I'll just turn the mic up. Don't worry about it. I'm eating the microphone. I couldn't be any closer to the mic. The proliferation of combat sports trying to take advantage of the television age is going to have some failure and debris around it.

Dana White has gotten greedy. UFC doesn't have quite as much Dana White promoting stuff. He's missing a lot of stuff because he's also doing powerslap. How's powerslap doing? Because I saw that it went away from television. I saw that TBS doesn't do it anymore And I also know that Dana White carnival barker and just promoter Boxing promoter and you should always question everything that those people say about everything

Not only claim that MMA would be the biggest sport in the world He was already telling people that all of power slaps Digital numbers are better than all other sports his line every time it's not true in the world, he was already telling people that all of PowerSlap's digital numbers are better than all other sports. That's his line every time. It's... Not true in any way. It's basically a meme at this point.

No, no, the social part is true. People love seeing just the clips of people getting slapped. Three seconds of somebody getting slapped and knocked out on the table instead of the hour and a half PowerSlap matches. Yeah, and I've heard Errol Hoani take it out and shame me for, I like watching people getting slapped like that. But how's it doing?

Best year yet, Dan. PowerSlap.com. Great digital numbers. Got it straight from Dana. Best year yet. Excellent. I'm glad that I got all of that information from you guys. Tom Brady went to one.

Yeah, okay. So the thing that those sports need is television, still. You can be great digitally, but you still need to get popularized. And Tony has the right fatal flaw for power slap because we're getting more and more primitive, more and more brutal. You've heard me talk recently about how odd I find it.

And I would say mentally deleterious to I know what that means have I may not have used it right that was crazy I word to to have to have murder and cults be such popular entertainment right now and in a society that has a lot of that in it, of course, the violence is going to rise to we're gonna have a UFC event on the White House lawn and power slap and bare knuckle and all of this stuff is gonna become more and more popular until, you know,

eventually we're just guillotining people in Times Square. Well, we do that already, Dan, especially this weekend we got Dustin Poirier with the jumping ghillies, gonna grab Max Holloway and put him out. Imagine an MMA hangout from the White House Wow You heard that lured John Jones off you heard I know you saw those tweets over the weekend Danny said he needed something to fight for fighting for his country now. He's back in now join the you saw the testing Well, not you saw but join the testing pool for PEDs

Even though that hasn't proved fruitful in the past with him, but the point is John Bones Jones now kind of peeking out of his hole, seeing where he's at. The combat sports are regressing. I think we should go back to the duel where two guys just have a pistol, pace it off, turn around, and fire. Because that's what-

What about jousting? Jousting, another one. Let's bring back jousting with the big white steed and the big lance, the Lancelot sir Lancelot whatever happened to him I'm serious slapping now kicking slapping I mean it's just no offense Tony because I know Tony's into the combat sports I know some no offense taken I just think it's it's too much I think when you get down to slap fighting what's it called that? That league? Power slap. Bring back duels.

Yeah, power slap. Well, and- He missed a big part of the duel, by the way, Dan. You missed taking off the glove and slapping the man across from you, then challenging him to a duel. Okay, that's fair. That's fair.

That would be preparatory to the duel. You're right, the slap. Put it on the poll, please. Let's bring back jousting. Yes or no? And I like how you guys reined Greg in in this time of gun violence throughout America when he went straight to duel,

all of you guys went to fencing. You guys, I liked it, just stabbing each other with swords. No, I thought he was talking about shooting. Someone in the face. But they walked, they thought they'd- But with an old gun. Yeah. With like the round bullet Yeah, that you you only basically get one shot like what happened the way Hamilton died. Yeah

The duel was a big thing back in the day, you know, I didn't make it up used to be a thing It's how you settled arguments two guys, you know fell out of the batwing door into the street in the Old West They had a duel. It was all over, somebody won, somebody didn't. You moved on. And somebody died. Well, or was wounded. Just in the sandy streets, I've seen those Westerns as well.

I've seen, I don't feel like that's how that happened, but maybe it is how it happened. Damn right. And the bar room had to have batwing doors, or it didn't count. What happened? Damn right. And the bar room had to have batwing doors, or it didn't count. You think, just to be clear, you think that that's how it was back in the day?

That the way that it is in westerns, that two guys would have an argument in a saloon and they would just go in the street and they would turn backs to each other and walk ten steps and turn around? Yes. I believe back then it was actually considered a steps and turn around. Yes. I believe back then it was actually considered a noble way to settle a dispute. When did it stop? When did it end? There's two states in which physical dueling is still legal. Nice. Yeah, you can't, no weapons, but in Texas and in Washington state a fight

between consenting adults can be legally allowed under strict conditions. Both states require clear consent from both participants and it has to be in a public setting. No serious bodily injury, police oversight to serve as referees and protect bystanders. You can in Texas say, literally meet me outside, we'll do this legally. Usually just before dawn. That's from Hamilton. Usually just before dawn. That's from Hamilton. The Dan LeBataille Show with StuGots is sponsored by Liquid IV. Listen, I'm not built for the heat.

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Here's your guide, Greg Cody, with Back in My Day. Shit, I hope I... your guy, Greg Cody, with back in my day. Adultery. This is the Don LeVatar show with the StuGats. Greg was from a different time Earlier today doing something that I thought Had largely gone extinct in sports He's mad about the all-star game in baseball. I thought we were done doing like the stakes No, he's mad about someone who's been selected to the all-star game. He's an outrage He's he's pissed off. This is some good

old-fashioned stuff here. People getting mad and arguing about baseball's all-star game. The Philadelphia Phillies are with Greg Cody on this one. Well, it's a rookie Milwaukee Brewers pitcher named Jacob Mizorowski. Mizorowski, yes. He throws 100-something miles an hour. I heard that guy's good. Yeah, well his first three games are like unlike any three games any young pitcher has ever had in terms of strikeouts and how hard he's throwing nobody can hit it. His total MLB experience consists of five appearances, five games and no wonder people it's it's a discreet, it's a crime against baseball. This kid should not accept his appointment to the All-Star team. He should say, I don't want to insult the history of baseball. I don't want to insult the dozens and

perhaps hundreds of players who had such great careers and always dreamed of earning an All-Star selection. I don't want to be given one just as some sort of a And I'm the it guy right now So baseball desperate for publicity is just gimmicky on give its gimmickry of the worst sort He's made five starts. It's an insult to common sense I'm serious when I say that I would think so highly of this kid if he would say I won't accept this I appreciate the offer. I cannot in good faith accept this. Give it to somebody more deserving, somebody who's put in years trying to make an all-star team. He's thrown 25 total innings and the Phillies have two pitchers who are a good deal better than him.

And Tony, it's a Suarez and a Sanchez. So our people... I'm gonna side with my guys, yeah. Yeah, our people, you know, Ranger Suarez has an ERA under 2 in 83 innings and Christopher Sanchez is also better in 107 innings but here are some of the Phillies quotes because they're as mad as Greg Cody is Trey Turner told the athletic what a joke that's f-ing terrible I mean that's terrible dude Nick Castellanos says it's turning into the Savannah Bananas gonna be awkward in the in the clubhouse when

they meet up well what if I told you guys that I'd prefer to see the Phenom than Suarez and Sanchez? What if I told you that everyone in baseball is talking about the guy who beat Skeens, who was better at being Skeens than Skeens when they faced each other? That baseball people wanna see the biggest bats try and swing against 100 miles an hour.

That's what they prefer to see. What's the game at this point? Wouldn't you say baseball has been pretty good? After my entire lifetime, baseball has been the sport most resistant to change and now is the sport most embracing it and to great success. Why wouldn't they change the game in order to give the stars, to put the biggest stars? If someone's, everyone's talking about a kid who's got 25 innings, everyone in baseball is talking about that kid, why wouldn't fans

wanna see him? I understand what you're saying, you're arguing on behalf of Merritt, but it's a game to see the stars, is it not? It's a game to see the qualified stars, which I don't consider under any circumstance somebody who's appeared in five games and has three good starts. So what?

This guy could flame out. A year from now, he could be, we'll be looking back like, whatever happened to that kid? Remember he had such a great start? They ridiculously named him to the all-star team after five games? Now look at him. A teary-eyed Mizorowski said, quote,

I'm speechless, it's awesome, it's very unexpected, and it's an honor. You want him to decline? Yes, absolutely. I think it would serve him so well. He would be a hero in all of baseball if he said, thank you, but I cannot in good conscience, accept an honor that I don't believe I've earned when there's so many players across baseball who have tried for years and years to be invited to an All-Star game and haven't made it. Greg, but the issue is if you're trying to get eyes that are not watching baseball to start watching baseball, right? Dan just told me Sanchez and Garcia. I don't know who the other... what was Sanchez and who?

Sanchez and Sixto? You've got to remember these things Sanchez and Suarez. Sanchez and Suarez. I don't know who those guys are, but I've heard... I don't watch baseball, but I know this guy Mizorowski or whatever because I've heard of him because of what he's done Right the whole point is to get guys like me who once upon a time used to watch baseball Now I'll tune in to watch him thrown in here too against a judge or an Otani or whoever I don't know what team he plays for Brewers, okay. No, I mean it's just patently wrong Brewers. Oh, places and brewers, okay. No, I mean it's just patently wrong. It is. Well, criminal, you, I mean, you've said it's wrong in a number of different ways.

It's a crime against baseball, yes. The commissioner should be ashamed of himself, to use a phrase. He should be. But now I'll watch, right? No, you won't! Yes, I will. The moment he's up, I'll watch. Let's just have an all-gimmick all-starick all-star team now we're talking throw in a couple of savannah bananas throw in this kid throw in the what when the guy who can who can reach a hundred and eight miles an hour on a pitch even if he stinks okay so uh... many years ago ridiculously billy and still gots made all of the arguments on behalf of making baseball more exciting including putting uh... ball pits on the warning track. Emote! And emote and yeah just all sorts of fun

things ridiculous things but baseball has embraced the gimmick and shouldn't it? Like I know that Greg Cody this has been a lament from baseball fans as long as I've known baseball fans the older older ones. They don't want change even though growth cannot happen without change. They don't want change and yet this sport has profited greatly off of the number of changes that they have made after many many years falling behind the other sports. It took them giving up the lead in the other sports but they're making those changes and so when Castellanos says it's becoming the Savannah Bananas I'm like is that an insult because sports is becoming the Savannah

Bananas. I mean how about we tone down the drama it really Major League Baseball was turned into Savannah Bananas was stupid. I love you man. It's ridiculous though. This is ridiculous though Dan like, like while saying that, five games and you make an All-Star game? Yeah, it is. It's patently ridiculous. And the dichotomy is that baseball, which now has a pitch clock just to appease people, is still drenched in history and harking back to its history as its strength. You cannot be beholden to the history of your sport and name and also are with five games but it's not okay so so you're not wrong but when i say

what about the gimmick what about change what about fun what about different baseball is doing all of those things better than it ever has you're you're totally distorting the integrity of what that sport is when you put a runner on second base to start the tenth in correct you're totally distorting the integrity of what that sport is when you put a runner on second base to start the tenth in correct you're changing that sport at its core but it's benefited from its changes they've been smart good changes you've heard me say before on this show this is funny to think about now there was a time that baseball was so precious about it's beloved

product that it turned out can you look up for me the amount of money that baseball turned down because they didn't wanna put a Spider-Man ad on one of the bases? Because at the time, the Spider-Man movie wanted some new promotion and they wanted to put an ad on one of the bases and baseball was so precious about, at the time about nothing

can be on the uniforms nothing can be on the field and since then all of those walls have tumbled down if you want younger fans don't you think that the gimmick has to be in play don't you think that you have to be willing to accept change that's outside of your demo you're either inner you're out on baseball at your age now baseball's got to take care of today's fans in tomorrow's fans not just yesterday or i get that but you everybody has to draw their own line somewhere

baseball sees the savannah bananas barnstorming the country and selling out stadiums that their own and will be teams don't even sell out. They sold out Fenway Park a couple of times. To call anyone the Savannah Bananas, you might think it's an insult, it's not an insult. They sell out football stadiums, Raymond James, one in Nashville.

It's incredible, but there is a great way for baseball to tap into the younger audience with podcasts. Yes. Listen up, time to think fast. Is this a real or fake podcast? To celebrate the home run derby and major leagues All-Star game, we have an all baseball edition. Wow.

Have a seat with Jason Benetti. Real or fake podcast? I believe that that is fake. That is a real podcast. Have a seat with Jason Bonetti. Easy Tiger with Todd Jones. That could also have been Jason Bonetti, but I'm going to say that that is false. Is Greg Cody playing this game? Did you want to play this game? Yeah, that's false. It's indeed made up. Justice League with David Justice.

Has to be true. Too perfect. This is the tell on these, okay? Whenever he's naming a player from the 90s, that player is not doing a podcast 20 years. Ryan Klesko isn't doing any podcast. That's what you would have thought, but then Deuce is Wild. Will Clark and Eric Burns.

Crazy. Justice League, real or fake? No, that's fake. All right, so you're split. It's indeed made up. On Base with Mookie Betts. Awful name for a podcast. Mookie does have a podcast.

Is it called On Base? I'm gonna say it is called On Base. It is, that's have a podcast. Is it called On Bass? I'm gonna say it is called On Bass. It is, that's a real podcast. And lastly, now we're talking with Chip Carey. Yeah, why not? Because it's fake. Okay, but why not? He should start that.

This reminds me of listening to Brian Scalabrini the other day when they asked him whether or not he'd be in favor of Don Staley being the next coach of the Knicks and he backed away from the microphone and he said, I stay out of things like this and I have found that I just say, why not? And keep it moving. So that is your contribution to this conversation

is to say why not? Yeah. Easy Tiger got me. Easy Tiger with Todd Jones. How is the Benetti podcast? How is Have a Seat? Take a Seat, what is it called? Have a Seat.

Have a Seat. What do you think the rejected names for Benetti's podcast were before he happened upon Have a Seat? It's honestly better than Mookie's name. Yeah, anything would be than On Base. All the names are taken. The reason this game became so popular last week is because all of the names in podcasting have been taken. You know how hard it is to find something new to call your podcast? Like, his choices, Mookie's were slugging

percentage and on base I Guess take a load off with Jason Bonetti. I Don't understand why it's have a seat is it because he just wants to give off the casual poetry of baseball making you I hope making you at home on the porch listening to a transistor radio Breaking news McDonald's international menu items are vanishing. McPizza bites missing in Italy. Big Rosti stolen from Germany. Teriyaki chicken sandwich disappears in Japan.

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I do, yeah. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. And to my credit, my personality... In my humble opinion, followed by to my credit. To my credit, my personality does pre-date Curb Your Enthusiasm. Stugots! Oh wow, okay. I'm not going to say Larry David patterned himself after me.

Alright, put it on the poll please, Jude. You did Greg Cody copyright Being an Asshole long before Larry David, okay All right, put it on the pole, please Jude you did Greg Cody copyright being an asshole long before Larry David This is the done libertar show with this two guards You understand what Cody's doing there is what people are doing with baseball all over the place who are his age Resistant to the things that that have obviously helped the sport. There's no disputing it, correct? I feel like you guys are having two different conversations right now. Like baseball, like progressing,

and them letting someone in the All-Star game after four games? Like I feel like this is two different conversations. Well, but we're talking about gimmicks. It's not two conversations because he, look at the choice being made by baseball which used to be our most precious historic game is to allow a person in the game because he's big arm and famous it's it's not merit it's we've got a famous dude in the era of Taylor Swift like

we're not gonna do this the way we've always done this and because the Phillies like they're pissed the Phillies are pissed Trey Turner is out here saying if Suarez isn't an all-star no one is that's right Tony I can't even get you enthused about a Suarez. I like I write for my guys, but also this guy is I don't know that's something about him. Yes. He's long and he throws the ball 104 miles an hour I'm in half inning piece pitch and and so I guess what I would say to you though, when you guys object to the lack of merit in it, that ship has sailed, man.

The things that sell now in sports are all wrapped in entertainment. We just, Conor McGregor is launching another league and he hasn't won a fight in five years because it's all meant to be consumed as entertainment. The alien of combat sport. See it used to be that you you got into the All-Star game on merit if you were at the end of your career and it was an honorary thing like with Clayton Kershaw this year okay but now we're going in the opposite direction we're saying all right you're

a rookie you've only played a few games hey you look pretty good in those last couple of starts be on the all-star team that's a totally different animal but I don't think anybody would disagree with that except you apparently no but I'm not I'm not disagreeing with it if you're doing this still on merit obviously this is not meritorious there's a there's a place for him it's

called the futures game where the rising star gets his showcase. Okay, I'll get to that sound in a second. I'm going to play all of it again because I know you guys enjoyed it and I want to get back there too. I'm bored by this conversation that we could have had. Because you're losing the argument. Of course you're bored by it.

May we rise! Merit. Argument loser. The alien! It's a good t-shirt. The argument loser. It's a good character. Argument loser. The alien! It's a good t-shirt. The argument loser. It's a good character. I like that character. I like that character.

Coming out and hosting a show. Swaggering into the ring every time. But he always loses. The argument loser. It's the easiest thing in the world to say that it is unfair if you're not making it merit based but i'm just telling you that the ship has sailed on merit being as valuable as fame not just in sports not just in entertainment everywhere everywhere merit is losing to fame agreed and so why would baseball resist

that and lose because baseball is america's past time the traditional game the game that that uses history as a crutch would you would you agree that i'm i'm not getting any extra fans if i put swaras in the game to not come back in one more person if not one if the currency if the currency is can i get you to watch the all-star game you know i started you have aani and Judge and a bunch of other meritorious stars. You need this kid who you'd never heard of a month ago in order to watch the All-Star Game?

That's baloney. Not nobody, with the possible exception of a couple of Brewers fans, nobody is watching this All-Star Game because of this guy. Not true. No, but it's- Otherwise wouldn't have watched. It doesn't have to be you're tuning it. You weren't tuning it before, but now Mizorowski, so you're tuning it. No, it's that you're watching the game and then Mizorowski's coming in and he's like,

Oh, that's right. This is the kid they've been talking about. Sanchez, you have no idea who he is. Before we get to the McGregor sound, would you guys- The alien! I want to get to that, but would you guys just look up for me please why something is baloney is it why because I don't know why something is baloney but let's play Conor McGregor here I should tell people that his for those in the audio audience his his shirt is unbuttoned to the middle he is wearing

a white jacket and sunglasses he has a cigar and uh... expensive jewelry on both wrists and this is connor McGregor in his prime he doesn't stumble on a word he has been having a lot of difficulty in interviews people have heard the punch drunk in a man think that he's drugged at all times but here he nails it what's good it's a pleasure to be back here at the Hard Rock Hotel where you know this Saturday night we have a flagship event

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And may we rise above the night sky and rain down blows viciously on all our deniers and announce here today that Bear Knuckle FC has no love for the big glove. So let's get going Bear Knuckle, Let's go Florida and let's announce some incredible matchups, some shock signings and the most lucrative tournament in all of combat sport where we crown in an open weight the baddest man on the planet. Let's go give it up. Come on. Wait, open weight fighting? We got bare knuckle open weight fighting? No got bare-knuckle open weight fighting? Rain down blows, viciously! Yeah, you know you have to have weight division to combat sports. No, you have to have weight division.

May we rise above the night sky! But they're the alien of combat sports. He's always seeming like he's on cocaine even if he's not on cocaine. I think he bothers denying it really. The alien! I haven't heard him asked about it. I would imagine that his body doing that for a living would be a great deal of pain. No, we're playing this video specifically so people can see how coked out he clearly is.

This is not sped up. This is him normally moving, like in a normal sense. And then obviously when you guys are around people that are also coked up, you gotta have one guy in the corner doing a couple of shadow bucks. I feel like there's a Tyson element to him now where if you're standing near him, you're afraid of him. Like you don't know exactly what he could do next. He's so twitchy.

He's so twitchy. he's so twitchy. The stretch. No, you guys have seen this. The criss side of the cross. You guys have seen this in every club in Miami, every happy hour. There's a guy shadow boxing in the corner because he feels really good in his body. It's a shadow box and a clap out dude. I am telling you that my algorithm just sends me now, there are a number of them Coke Town

McGregor videos. I've clicked on too many of them where it's just obvious that no one's at this energy level and I will say again hasn't won a fight in five years. How do you Google that? The combat sports! If you're out, I'm on the same algo. I saw a video of him like crossing a bridge over a mountain in the Alps and it's like, the video caption was like, Connor McGregor makes this way more entertaining

than it has any right to be. Give it up! And it's just him coked out walking on the... Video, I'm gonna go back there, okay? And during the break, we're gonna find all of these TikTok videos and we're just gonna run them next segment, okay? I want you to just put them in the corner

and run all of them so that you guys can all see someone we see every Friday, 5 p.m. happy hour, Blue Martini, this guy Pedro's in the corner. That is Blue Martini. And he's shadow-boxed. Pedro. And his weekend is about to get started because he made the sign of the cross before

before the loaded baked potatoes. Planet Earth.