The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Top 5 Things Of The World Series With David Samson

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

David Samson joins the crew to discuss his Top 5 things to look out for this World Series, fan engagement in baseball, his thoughts on Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo's retirement bet and the show laughs at Phillies fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, that face and the habitual liar. It's too good to have a confession for you. Okay. That I feel like the other room will relate to more than you will. Okay.

And it's something that I didn't want to tell you yesterday and I was trying to figure out how to resolve a potential bad issue that resolves itself thankfully. Okay. So now I feel like I can tell you because because I'm pretty confident it's been resolved. So yesterday we were, but you're not sure. You think?

I'm pretty confident it's resolved. I don't have a resolution for it. You sure will know. All right, so yesterday we were recording, we were recording part of God bless football that we're also gonna have expanded into stupidity because we interviewed Captain Lee, a boat captain from below deck,

and he was gonna pick games with us. And Stu got fell in love with him, and it was supposed to be a quick like 10, 15 minute interview that went on almost 50 minutes. I wasn't supposed to be apart. I was not supposed to be a part of it at first. Billy asked me to sit in and then I fell in love with the guy. No, not exactly true.

It's not that you weren't supposed to be part of it. It was for Godless football, so you were supposed to be part of it. It was for Godless football So you were supposed to be part of it But I was I had contingency plans in the event because it was the last thing a recording day in case Something came up and you were not part of it, right? So I had I had you know reinforcements lined up ready to go to do it with us Yeah, right? Yeah, so we did it with said reinforcements or said reinforcements and what we're gonna do is we're gonna release it on God bless football, but we're gonna have the extended like full version on Super Body because two gods love this guy.

Just because like, if you're gonna be honest, he's kind of like grouchy old captain and he just said wild shit. And two gods like loved kind of poking him and getting him to say that stuff. So like, as soon as it was done, he's like, oh, we're gonna do this that, whatever, right? And then I go and I look at my computer

and I don't see that thing happening on Zoom where it's saving the whole thing. You need to record it. And then I go and I hit downloads and I don't see it appearing in downloads. And I'm like, I was supposed to play golf, Billy. Well, I'm like, something is up here because I know for a fact that I hit stop recording

at one point and it said, you're no longer recording. And I'm freaking out because I know for a fact that I hit stop recording at one point and it said you're no longer recording And I'm freaking out because I'm like this has happened before but I know that I recorded this and Then I'm trying to figure out what did I do wrong? How did this happen? How am I gonna fix this? How am I gonna get this audio because there's no like Zoom archive that you can reach out to them if you forgot to record but Billy you're freaking out By the way world series will discuss with David Samson coming up here, but yeah, you can reach out to them if you forgot to record. But Billy, you're freaking out. And by the way, World Series will discuss with David Samson coming up here. But Billy, you're freaking out. You're freaking out because you knew it was good.

Like we were in it. And we know when we're doing something that's good and funny that our audience will like. It was good. I am freaking out because we, I also had then reached out and we came up with this plan of we're going to put the picks in Godless Fouble and have like a short abridged version and then we'll put the rest into potty. And then I already promised that to the people that made it happen. So I'm like, now I'm gonna have to go back with my tail between my legs and explain to them like it just disappeared. It doesn't exist. I don't have it, right? And then I get the most lovely welcoming,

comforting email that I've ever received in my life. Really? Yes. And it comes about two hours later and it says, your Zoom interview is now ready to be downloaded from the cloud. And what happened was, instead of saying, save on my computer, I hit save on the cloud, which I had never done before. And then it just reappeared. Wow. Two hours later, and I was like, thank goodness. Now I don't need to figure out what to do.

Two hours. Now I need to figure out how to get it out of the cloud. Because cloud technology I still don't understand. Where the hell is it? How do I get it? Who has all of our stuff in this cloud? But that's an issue for another day. Two hours is a long time to see.

It did take a while because it'll take only like five to ten minutes of your download to a whole thing. Right. It was a giant file though. What were you doing in the two hours before you got that message? I was parenting. I was going and I was like,

this is gonna be an issue that I'm gonna have to resolve but also I have to get my daughter from school. So this is an issue that I will resolve at a later time. At any point where you thinking, hey, you know, Stegas was gonna play golf and I told him to stay home for this and you know, what you feeling bad for me is what I'm asking. No, no.

At no point was I feeling bad for you. You play ample golf. And by the way, I, got my golf, got my golf, yeah. I have a friend who had to have back surgery because of the amount of golf that they played. Something happened. He's not swinging correctly, that's the deal.

Well, okay. If you have a good swing, your back should not hurt from golf. Well, I just I was told that the the issue was a repetitive motion had to have back surgery. It has to wear a neck brace now. What's for a little bit while covering really yet old money Charlie. He had to have back surgery because of golf. Oh, yeah. I was told it was golf related. Charlie always wears a neck brace, just so we could sue somebody. I don't think he needs to sue anybody. He does it, he definitely doesn't. He sued enough people, I think.

What is that? I don't have no idea. Charlie does not need to sue anyone. You are 100% right. Anyways, thoughts and prayers are Charlie's back. A neck brace situation. Really? Yeah.

Tees and peas. It's very nice of you. So we have this interview. It's saved. It's good. I think we're good. I was told it was there. I started downloading things.

I haven't heard for sure that we're good, but I'm pretty sure we're good. Right. I thought that it may be a cloud situation. Has that happened to you guys that you've had something just disappear? You thought you were recording and you didn't. And this is like, I'm now realizing as I'm talking, this is only interesting to us because we're the ones that have to deal with it. Like people who are listening to this show

or watching on YouTube that don't like have to do this on YouTube cannot relate at all. So you know what, nevermind. To take something out. Billy Lazy River. What's the time? Yeah, exactly. It happened to me.

And I wasn't recording. Yeah. You know what it was? It was Dan having an interview. Oh, man. What happened? You forgot who it was. I forgot who it was. it was Dan having an interview. What happened? He forgot who it was. I forgot who it was.

So, Nana? Was it the, no. The sit down, the big sit down. Brad Williams. It's John Amici. Ah, Amici. Yeah, that's even worse because they were talking serious race issues and, oh God,

the feeling of not having that. How'd you get out of it? What did you tell Dan? We don't have it? Oh, wow. That feeling of not having that. How'd you get out of it? What did you tell Dan? We don't have it? Oh, wow. That's not the answer. That's not the answer. That's not the way you go.

Unfortunately, that's the only answer. Now, Billy, the one thing is everybody that can relate to is doing something at your job that you were thinking that you were doing and that you ended up not doing it. I think everybody can relate to that. There's one thing that is universal, that cold sweat that hits the back of your neck or your middle of your chest when you know something

happened at work and you're like, damn, I don't think I did that or I didn't do it right. That's a terrible feeling. When you realized, when I was doing Tony's NFL road trip where I was interviewing different people from different teams, there was a packer's one that didn't get released because I didn't record it. You did, but?

Wow, what? Wow. What? One. Begin this season. Little preview. What happened to it? I didn't record it. So I did the entire interview and I was like,

you know what I hated record it, my bad. Here's what I hate about Cloud. What Cloud does, I get these emails all the time. They're like, thank you for using all your storage. Oh, that's so. Here's a link to purchase more. Like you're thanking me only because I have to buy more now. Yeah.

I do it on my email. I like, I pay Google whatever like $9 a year to have like more emails. And it's, I think it's strictly because I just have so many unread email. It's a scam. I mean, life's a scam. If you really break down.

No, you're not. Everything's useless. I'm like, it's a sad ebbro. Yeah. I'm really great at that. Not everything is useless. That's a sad ebbero. I'm really rubbing off on you guys. Well, there's always, there's always good plays for a very nice scam or scheme in the background. Right. Always good to have one in the back pocket.

Life is a scam and then you die. Lucy, how's your poll coming along? Where are you going? I haven't checked it in a minute, but it was a big landslide so far for Georgia, Florida, and 57.8% people think I should go to Jacksonville. Where are you thinking of going next week? Do you have that foreign advance or you don't?

I was actually just looking at the game. So next week would be, LSU, Obama would be really cool. Yeah. Notre Dame and Clemson. Have you been to Tuscaloosa before? Never been in Tuscaloosa. Never been to Clemson either. Or Iowa Northwestern with Stu Gatz.

Hmm. Not this year. Me and your dad, college lame day. Why would you? I would. I would. Like subject yourself to so many Iowa games. You're a fan, but like, you're gonna do it again.

I like to see my siblings. Oh, well, I see my family. So they go to every Iowa game? They don't go to every Iowa game, but my family goes to one or two games together a year and they're going to this game together. Nice. I know. That's nice. I wish sometimes I'm like, why didn't my dad go to Georgia for school? I went to Clark University. Well, why did you go to Georgia for school? I don't know. I toured. I didn't apply as this whole thing.

What was your college application process? Like how many places did you apply to? How many places did you get? Like wait listed, rejected, whatever. Okay, so I have a good story with this. So I applied to three schools. I applied to Iowa, which was the easiest application of my life. I didn't even have to submit a transcript.

I got accepted like the day my senior year started. They were like, come on by. You don't even, don't send us your transcript. We're not worried about that. We don't need direct critical. I was. So it was very easy. Got into Iowa. I played to Auburn and I applied to UNC. Now my dad wanted me to go to UNC. He did not want me going to Iowa. He wanted to stay. He, I was a huge party school. He didn't want me going there. And he was like, hey, if you get into UNC, that is where you're going. So I, at that point, knew I wanted to go to Iowa for school. So I wrote my admissions SAT UNC on why I wanted to go to Iowa.

And they wait listed me. Wait, what? You had to write an essay for UNC and you wrote an essay about how you didn't want to go to their school. I wanted to go to Iowa. And I got wait listed, which I think is super impressive. Was that a young Lucy kind of rebelling against that?

Or? Yeah. And he's so happy I went to Iowa. And he was so happy when my little brother went to Iowa. But he was like, yeah, you should definitely go to UNC because they had a really good journalism school in state. It's a phenomenal university. It is. But I did not want to go there. So I took matters into my own hands.

That's crazy. Yeah, it was like I was a very well-behaved kid. I was never rebellious. I didn't do anything except for that I feel like but the tarheels losses are more exciting than I was wins. I mean, yeah put it on the pulverite They are but it's too late now four years out of state tuition later here. I am sad Did you go to journal school? Is that what you graduated with? Yeah? Yeah? Do you like look at that and say, like, what am I doing?

Yeah, I sometimes I'll just sit there and be like, when I was wearing the Bobby Patrino outfit, I was like, I can't believe I got a degree to do this. I can't believe I did that. It's crazy. I'm just gonna sit back and be like, hmm, this is not what we were learning in class. I didn't learn any of this.

The game is changing, Lucy. Yeah, did it, did it. Every day, same year, Roy. I can't believe that you wrote an entrance like an admission essay about how you didn't want to go to the school and would rather go to an, like, so the closest thing that I have, and it had never occurred to me,

because like when I went to school, they would do like testing, like for honors, Spanish and stuff like that. And like, as an innocent little boy, I never thought of the idea of let me tank this so that my life is easier and I don't get into the harder classes. So I would like get in and ultimately they're like you're too dumb to be in this class, you're no longer going to be in honors next year and I'm like okay, I guess I'll not have to go

home and disappoint my parents with that information. When I could have saved myself that trouble of never going in. So like there were kids that were fluent Spanish speakers that intentionally tank like the Spanish like assessment classes to get into Gringo Spanish. And it was a cakewalk for them because it was like, you just have to like yo, me, no, me, whatever. And it's like that's obviously completely incorrect. And you get an easy A.

There was tanking going on in your school. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, it's great when to get to an easier Spanish class. I love it. 12 year olds were doing this. 12 year olds. The idea never occurred to me and that you wasted your time writing an admissions letter about how you didn't want to go there. It's just I had to apply.

Right. My dad said you have to do it and he wanted me to go there. I made sure and he's so happy now. He's so happy that I went to Iowa for the most part. Of course he is, but now he's stuck going to an Iowa Northwestern game. He was gonna go anyway, so at least now he has someone to go with. Well, he could have been at a UNC Virginia game last week,

so just a bad, but more exciting. I mean, David Samson, that, Don Lebatard, smart, Stu Gatz, more smart, this is the down libertar show with this two got. Time for our weekly sit down with former Marlon's president David Samson coming to us from a very sad room somewhere in Connecticut, I believe he is the host of nothing personal. You can check it out. He's killing it.

It's a great podcast. It's on five days a week and you get a check it out wherever you get your podcast or on the Draft Kings Network as well. Good morning to you David. How are you? I am awesome. This room is actually not as sad as it looks. It came with a painting in the background. It was so bad that I had to have it removed by security. But it looks like a sand room. It's a really nice But it looks like a sand room. It's a really nice, Billy, sand room or no. I feel like it's probably a nice room. Okay, yeah.

Like you have it set up, like the computer set up like on a grand piano or something. I have it set up. It's a two room. It's sort of like a mini suite. I'm here in Connecticut for three weeks doing post-season work for CBS. Right, pre and post-game work.

But I'll tell you when I do nothing personal, I like having a great background. But when I got here and set it up, it was so bad that I went straight white background. Uh, Billy, before we get to Christopher Maddog, where he's so because David, uh, he wants to talk about it. I do too. We'll play sound in a second. Were you laughing at Philly fan last night?

Well, okay. So David, I don't know. Cause I was, I spent the entire night just laughing at Philadelphia Philly's fans. I don't know if we're so loud. If you caught what happened. So last time when you came on and you were criticizing the Philly's fans, like they did it not like that. Like that clip got like a lot of views.

Thank you for doing that by the way. It got I think more comments than it did likes, which is never, never great when that's a situation, but it was like a lot of people were upset, right? And I, coming into the post season, kind of seeing how things played out with the Philly's fans, I grew up obviously a Marlon's fan. I despised the Philly's growing up.

I never wanted to see them succeed. But it seemed like a fun, cool environment. I'm like, oh, you know what? This seems like everybody's having a good time there. Like it's a different environment than we're seeing in the other games. Like, I would be fine, I guess, if the Phillies went on. And then over the weekend, I don't know what happened.

I feel like it was probably the Eagles game against the dolphins where I'm like, you know what, I don't want these people to be happy. And I know that I sound like a horrible person admitting that, but I'm like, I don't want them to be happy anymore. I think it would be hilarious if they found a way to blow this. And sure enough, they did blow it. And I'm wondering if you take pleasure or delight in the fact that they did that because

of the crap that you got from all, like basically the entire city of Philadelphia, just for that clip that you put out last week, where all you said was you don't think that they're a good fan base. I just didn't have them in the top five. No, the pleasure I took is that the fillies lost. So my background in 18 years in the NL East, anytime the Phillies and Metz lose, that's a good day. Did the brazen bothers you? No, I don't, you know me. None of that bothers me at all. And for Phillies

fanbase to think that there is good as the Cardinal fanbase, that's just funny to me. But what's great is that watching the Philly fans And leave I love it when we won 20 years ago this year on the road in Riggly I was happy you're watching the Cubs fans cry Oh me too. There was the old lady that was crying in the Nick Cubs I could oh, I was so happy and I felt bad because she's probably no longer with us But every time that they were laughing you can't laugh laugh at someone and feel bad at the same time. I can't. I can't. I can't. It was on the pole right. No, it was like, and at the time, I was probably like

16 or something, right? And I remember having like a moral conundrum, like, I know this doesn't make me a good person, but I'm taking so much joy in seeing all of these old people cry and devastated. Shot and Freud. It's one of the great words of all time. It's taking pleasure at the misfortune of others. Of course, when you win on the road, as you know in sports, it's way better to win a game seven on the road than it is at home because when the crowd goes silent and you saw it in Philly when they lost their game seven. You could hear a pin drop and all I kept thinking about is the fans and how they all had plans for the World Series and to go to these World Series games and then puff,

it disappeared. Well, Philadelphia has a city. Why should that fan base deserve anything? They boot Santa Claus for crying out loud. That's right. You're right, Roy. They deserve nothing. You know, in 2003, David, I think, well, obviously,

I wanted the Marlin's swing because I wanted the Marlin's swing. But there was just these like arrogance and like assumed, like, the cubs are there and there's not even a chance that the Marlin's going to make it. Bernie Mack is there in game six. Are he's calling them the champs when he's singing, take me out to the ball game. That's what I thought.

Grace does a game and, you know, like two innings to go. And it was just like, they're just so arrogant and feel so entitled to making it to the World Series that like, oh, it ended. Grace does a game and, you know, like two innings to go. And it was just like, they're just so arrogant and feel so entitled to making it to the World Series. That like, when they were crying, it made me feel extra happy. And I remember as a child thinking, I'm a bad person. I'm just not a good person.

No, no, that's what a series ended. Bernie Mac in the semi-dress and so really. He just did, yeah. Not bought, man. Too soon, Bernie Mac. David's still making his hat. I'm not a bad person. He danced it. Yeah. Not bought. Too soon. Pretty Matt. David's still making his head. Matt's person.

Billy it all for that. As a matter of fact, I think it makes you a normal person. Really? Well, you're strange, David. I mean, worse. People except the same people. You were normal. It's not what everyone else is normal is.

Okay. Wait, so you want an update on Russo? Because Christopher Maddog Russo because Christopher Mad Dog Russo who was on the show last week and he crushed it. He made a bet. He actually said, he made a statement. I'm going to play for you, David, that'll give you an update. Here is Christopher Mad Dog Russo on what he would do with the Diamondbacks won the series. I've been rolling in Arizona from day one. I, I, I, I'm stunned to be more walkie. I thought they'd get swept by the Dodgers.

I never thought they'd even go back to funny for a game six. Uh, I'll try it one more time. I would not be stunned if they won tonight. I would be floored, floored. And I'll say this right now. Just, uh, I'll say this right now. And Bob Ratesman right at the end. If they win the next two days, they win the next two games. And

when this series and seven games, if they win, I will, I will retire on a spot. He's working today, David. Just saying, you know, he is. Yes, he is. He's working today, doing his normal shift, mad dog radio, because he did not want to retire. It's one of those sports radio things that we do and we say something that we don't mean. Lord knows I've done it a thousand times over the 20 years of doing the show, but they came to an agreement. Howard Stern got in the way. And so Stern said, listen, you don't have to retire. Okay. But what you

have to do is walk around New York City in an Arizona diamond backs bikini with a sign that says, I'm a douche. Whatever. That's a joke. You're gonna risk that dog. Is that what you're gonna do? The fact is that when you say something like that, don't say something on the air that you're not willing to follow through. Well, I mean, it's not good. It's not good. It's not good anything.

He loses all credibility to me. And if you're going to say it, I figured when he said it, that he had some deal in place, that he was going to retire because he was old and done and didn't like it anymore. But to me, if you're gonna say it, say something else, say you'll do the show naked tomorrow.

You know, anything that you can actually do, otherwise you're taking your audience's fools, and I don't like that. I respect the audience too much. The audience will be glued to Mad Dog show today. It's all over. He's on first date, right? It's everywhere on social media.

He's already working. Yeah, he's on first date. Well everywhere on social media he's already working it's on first take well he clarified earlier even before saying hey i met radio not tv and of course that's fine wonder the other he should have retired but i love the fact that he gave bulletin board material to the diamond backs and they were chanted i don't know if you have the sound of this but during the

champagne celebration which don't get me started have the sound of this, but during the champagne celebration, which don't get me started, everyone used goggles and there are a bunch of wimps. But during the celebration, they were chanting mad dog, mad dog, loser, loser. And it really incentivized the Diamondbacks when they won that game seven. Really?

We don't have the sound for that, but that's what happened. So if you're a mad dog, you have to say, listen, I'm the reason the diamond backs one right I Would assume Philly fans hate him more than they hate me Wow, no, we do have the sound. No, that's impossible David put it on the ball to Philly fans hate David Samson More than Christopher Mad Dog Russo all the way around do they hate mad dog more than David Samson impossible We do have the sound of that I'm told all right let's play uh... uh...

uh... retire playing again roi uh... uh... the higher loser doggy's gonna love that though right david is the fact that they did that yes so he i get that he loves the attention i get that it's a good story but why go with the retirement line i don't know and it's a funny thing in

sports the whole bulletin board and making up reasons to get motivated that really came to the forefront during that documentary, The Last Dance, where we found out that Jordan needs to make up things, make up hatred, make up bulletin board material to motivate him. And it turns out that more players need that than you think. And you should know better than to provide it. And that is what was done in the Diamondbacks, just credit to them. And the Phillies just blew it. There's no other way to say it. Much like the Cubs did

in 03. They really did blow it. David, how upset is Major League Baseball? They're not going to say it. They're not going to admit it. But they have what I am saying is the worst world series in the history of the sport. How upset are they today? So they are. David, no one cares. I mean, honestly, no no one unless you're gambling or you live in Arizona or Texas Nobody cares nobody cares So it's pretty it's what I would say about some of the Thursday night matchups and then I fell unless you're doing fantasy or gambling What do you care about and so MLB looks at it does Fox have a problem with the matchup? They prefer Dodger's Yankees every time, of course.

But at the end of the day, they're advertising revenue, and the way they do the cost-benefit of these right steals, it's not impacted by a random year where there's the Rangers against the Diamondbacks. That's not how the valuations go, because under that theory, you wouldn't want the Blue Jays ever to be even being the postseason, because in Canada Canada you don't get to count that down in the you down here in the US. So all of that said there's a lot of really good stories both on the Texas side and on the Arizona side and we're going to have a chance to learn more about these stories and these players and during the course of the next 10 days on nothing personal I'm going to highlight some of these

names that you don't know like the the Arizona bullpen, lights out. A bunch of players you haven't heard of. Kevin Ginkel, who? He's a guy that if he were on your team, you know him, love him, and appreciate him, but he's been in Arizona where you don't. So things like that, Adelice Garcia, his story, the way he was wanted by nobody.

The Marlins could have had him, anyone could have had him, Anyone could have had him. No one wanted him and now look at him. So there's a lot of stuff to talk about. Is this gonna be his Randy or Rosarana postseason? It already is. Yeah. I mean, think about what he's done.

Now, you're mentioning that and we talk about Cardinals fans. Let's talk about the Cardinals front office. Garcia and Rosarana were both cardinal players who were let go because they weren't thriving there. And Billy, you've always been upset on the Andrew Miller and Cameron Maven stuff. And I only point out that every team in baseball has really good players who aren't really good for them and then go somewhere else and become really good. So it wasn't just me, it's every front office out there from the best to the worst.

All right, so our next segment, David, you will give us your top five keys to the series, storylines. What are we doing here? I want to give you top five things to watch for over the course of this world series. Okay, the worst world series in the history of the sport. We will do that next. We'll continue with former Marlon's president, David Samson. Don Lebertard. Give me a favor, Chris. Look up Gerald McCoy's IMDB. Let's see how many stats do God's gets right about what Gerald McCoy. IMDB. Look at movies. I'm going to check it out. Check out Gerald McCoy's IMDB. His profile focus grade. Stu God's. Okay, so I'm on Gerald McCoy's IMDB his profile focus great Stugots, okay, so I'm on Gerald McCoy's IMDB There was an acting credit in which he played Gerald McCoy in the league

Which was a popular show on FX then he played himself on the Dan Patrick show in episode 12.4 2018 and also something called the game day commute he played himself archive footage He was featured once on Roman's burning. I mean look at that This is the down lebertar show with this to got We continue with David Sampson here. He'll give us his five story lines to watch out for in the worst world series in the history of the sport We will do that in a second. He is the host of nothing personal. There is a game we're going to play here. After your five storylines, we'll get to your movie as well, David. We got a lot to cram in this segment here. We're not going to get to the NBA. Something tells me I know you want to talk about it, but Billy is just going to throw it in name. Okay. A random name. We'll do it after

your five storylines. And I have to guess whether that person is on the diamond backs or the Rangers. Okay. I forget with that. You ought to win that games, too. You've heard of these players. Well, I assume to prepare for your shows this week, you've been watching the MLB playoffs. For there. Yeah. No, I watch and just rooted for Philly fans to be miserable. And I got my wish. Your five storylines, David Samson, go ahead. Number five. Will Garcia stay hot?

Which team? If you haven't watched Adelis Garcia, he is a player who won the MVP in the ALCS. He can downright rake. He is setting records left and right. And it is hard to stay hot over the period of two series. But if he does it makes the rangers line up very difficult to navigate. All right.

Well, that's what we saw in the castianos. Nick Castiano's could not stay hot in the NLCS and he hit a home run. I think it's first up bad and then went like, oh, for 21, the rest of the series. It cost him and he was very hot against the braves and he and then all of a sudden he went cold, not uncommon, but but the Rangers need Garcia number four how many times will the Texas Rangers bullpen implode that's been the biggest issue with the Rangers as opposed to the diamond backs whose bullpen is lights out they've got your old friend a role this

Chapman who is the guy who won the World Series with the Cubs in 16 the Yankee So the Red used to throw a hundred twenty miles an hour Sid Finch Yeah, well it turns out he's not so lights out anymore and they've got really no one they can rely on other than their Closer Jose the clerk and even he has a tendency to give it up. So that's gonna be something to watch for number three Will Texas when it's first ever as a tendency to give it up. So that's gonna be something to watch for. Number three. Will Texas win its first ever World Series? Oh! For all the people who complain about how bad it is

to be a Marlins fan, I would only point out there's been some issues in between I grant you. Right. But in a matter of 26 years, you've got two rings. Yep. The Texas Rangers in their entire history have a doughnut. David, I think since 97, there are like five teams in Major League Baseball who have won multiple World Series championships, the Yankees, the Braves, the Dodgers, the Elite teams, and the Morlons.

Not the Dodgers. Oh, really? No. Not the Dodgers. The Cardinals. The Giants, Cardinals, Red Sox. Not the Braves. Right.

There's one more. Okay. The Braves won in 21. Okay, and that's it, right? That's 97. That's 97. Right. And the Rangers only have one pinnet Okay, and that's it right 97 and the Rangers only have one pinnacle right no, they went to about no the Rangers want to do world series Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh boy. All right number two David Sampson Will the diamond backs become the third franchise to be undefeated with multiple world series victories

undefeated with multiple World Series victories. Of course, I'm going to talk about our Marlins. We're 2-0 in the World Series. The Jays are 2-0 in the World Series. The Diamondbacks are 1-0 looking to go 2-0 and become only the third team to be undefeated at 2-0 in the World Series. David, we'll get to you number one in a second. Run differential. I don't want to hear about it again. The Diamondbacks were minus 15 this year. They're in the world series. David, we'll get to your number one in a second. Run differential. I don't want to hear about it again.

The Diamondbacks were minus 15 this year. They're in the world. There are four games away from being the best team in the sport. Run differential used to be the number one stat we looked at. And we thought that around 0 year, a 500 team, and obviously negative run differential, below 500 positive run differential year above 500.

And normally that's the case. But look at the Marlins this year. They had a terrible negative run differential below 500 positive run differential year above 500. And normally that's the case. But look at the Marlins this year, they had a terrible negative run differential, but they were so good in one run games that they were enabled them to finish above 500 to make the playoffs. Diamondback same situation, but at the end of the day,

look what happened in the Philly series. The Diamondback's lost game two by a touchdown on a field goal. I think it was 10-nothing. And then they won a game four-two. Guess what? You're losing the run differential, but you're tied in the series.

So I'm much more concerned in the playoffs about wins than losses. How much of this is because of the expanded playoffs? Well, the fact that there's two wild cards in it, the fact that more teams are in it and more fan bases are excited for longer, it's exactly what they had hoped for when they expanded the playoffs, and it will allow for more 84 wins to make the playoffs. 84 teams with 84 wins to make the playoffs, which will allow for teams with 84 wins to be in the world series. That's just how it goes because as we all remember in this part of the country with the playoffs, you just never know who's going to get hot in October and carry that all the way to a ring.

Well, last season we saw it too where the Phillies were a wild card team. They end up winning the national league. They make it to the world series. There's been pushback, I guess, because of the expanded playoffs. And I just, and obviously as it as, you know, a fan base that would benefit from this new other team that gets in because of the expanded playoffs. And I just, and obviously as a fan base that would benefit from this, and you have a team that gets in because of the expanded playoffs, and they could go on and run and make the World Series, I just don't buy that it's bad for the game that you have an 84 win team, make it to the World Series,

and you have the 100 win teams losing the first round. I just don't buy it. So let me tell you where that comes from. That comes from the players union. When they were at the collective bargaining table where you had to negotiate the expanded playoffs. What the union said is the reason we don't want expanded playoffs is we feel owners will not be incentivized to spend money to win a division or to raise their payroll

because they know they can be average, make the playoffs by sneaking in through the back door and then get hot at the right time and get the ring, which is what the owners want. So the union was very against it, and the reason it got passed is money. And with the expanded playoffs came more broadcast revenue, and it came more teams with higher revenue because more teams were in it for longer, so more local revenue, and that revenue ends up filtering down to players. So that's how the agreement came together. But it is true.

If you think about it, I don't want to spend an extra 30 million on payroll to try to win 90 when I know that I can win 85 and make the playoffs. Well, is it a, uh, did they feel the same way in 94 with the original wildcard? Well, that was only one, even in 03. There was three division winners and one wildcard and every team had a play in the division series. And that's the funny part you bring up to remember in 03 Giants fans were

furious. They went over 100 games with bonds and all of a sudden four days later, they're home because we beat him three games to one. And there was a lot of discussion. There's gotta be a bigger advantage to the number one seed. Give them more home games, give them a lead, make the road team win five out of four games,

just incense and say and stuff. It's baseball, it's playoffs. Sometimes the number eight seed beats the number one seed in the NBA, it's how things go. How much, and I don't know, and you would know this better because it's on the business side of baseball, how much do the ratings actually matter for the World Series?

Because people will complain to say, they matter the Fox, I mean. But here's my, here's my question. That's my question, because okay, here you go. You have Texas and they're gonna play Arizona, you're like, this is gonna be one of the worst rated World Series ever, these are teams nobody cares about. But it's not like they're selling the world series this week.

And it's not like they have a contract for Newell at the end of the month. So how much does it actually matter because that money's already come in? Hasn't it? Every negotiation from that the league does with its broadcast partners. It never once comes up who was in the World Series or what the matchups will be or hey we need make goods if it's teams that we don't like we want to refund or if it's teams that we do like we're

willing to pay more. It's never come up one time. The horse hockey you're saying. It is total horse hockey but it is a great narrative to put on Twitter and to put on do releases and MLB falls prey to it Where they release stuff when the ratings are good? They'll say ratings up 14.69 percent of course that could be from a bad number to a less bad number But stop with the releases about rating stop with the obsession over ratings It's a different world than when we watched goodbye farewell on men in 1983. It's just a different world when it comes to ratings.

That is not how the networks decide what they're gonna pay. We'll get to your number one here in just a second. Do you think baseball is ever gonna sit down? David, if you look at the playoff games and how much excitement there is in the stadium and people watching at home and the numbers are massive? And why? Because there's urgency, because there's stakes attached to the game. there is in the stadium and people watching at home and the numbers are massive. And why?

Because there's urgency because there's stakes attached to the game. Do they ever say to themselves, how do we take this and make our regular season games feel something close to what the post season feels like? Because in the NFL, in college football, you have some of that. I'm not saying they're exactly the same, but regular season games in the NFL, 17 of them. Each one means so much. In baseball, doesn't happen. Why can't they shorten the season? Well, let's say we cut it by half. How do you feel about a Tuesday night game in June? Excuse me in January when the heater plane and everybody's resting. You feel pretty good about that regular season game? No.

And they've cut it down by half. They only have 82. Right. So I guess we'd have to go baseball and basketball down to 17. Of course, it's a different sport. You're not going to do that. We're not a once a week sport.

So that's another narrative that we try. NBA load management was going to be one of my NBA topics. And already we get word LeBron's gonna play fewer minutes I'm sure he's gonna play fewer games as he should he's the oldest player in the league But at the end of the day you can't legislate against meaningless regular season games Except they're not all that meaningless because tie-breakers happen because of them a Little nugget if Philly had won, the reason Texas has home field advantage in the World Series is the Texas beat Philly in the first series of the

season. Okay. And that's how they won the tiebreaker. So every game matters, but it's hard to get the fans engaged 81 times, or as you know, basketball even 41 times. Right. So guys, what team is Jose LeClerc on? David mentioned him. Yeah, he just mentioned him stew. Well, I have a 55 shot here. The Rangers? Correct.

Yeah. What team is the role of this chat? I was shocked to hear that he's still playing. Chapman. I just mentioned him too, Billy. The Rangers? Correct. Yeah. How about that? Um, Chapman. I just mentioned Jim DeLily. I'm Rangers. That correct. Yeah.

How about that? I was trying really to see what his retention was of, because they were mentioned in the exact same sentence. I guess, no retention. It was strictly guesses. David Samton's number one storyline of the worst world series in the history of the sport is. Can it go seven? Because no matter who the opponents are, a long series gets more attention, it gets

more exciting. Because who wouldn't watch a game seven between any two teams? And that will be the key to how we look back at the World Series. Billy, you have any more for me? Josh Jung. An all-star. So now I'm just playing the game David he's got two Rangers there has to be a diamond back somewhere eventually diamond backs no

no and all star really yeah Jose Ruiz huh so you went diamond back you went Ranger Ranger you're not you're not. No, he's a diamond back. Yeah. This is terrible. Merrill Kelly. Hmm. It's a starter to God's. Really?

Yeah. There's no real starters these days except for Burlander. What's the need for me? He's right about the chorus. He's right about the chorus. He's right about the chorus. Yeah, the opener's no. Yeah.

Diamond back. He is a diamond back. Yes. We have openers now. Yeah. Um, Diamondback. He is a diamond. Yes! I know my name's more. Last one. Evan Longoria. Oh. Still playing?

Yeah. Longo. What about him? What team is he on? Uh, Rangers. Oh God. Andrew Hayley later. Diamondback's a good impression.

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