Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé

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Speaker 15 This is the Don Labatar Show with the Stew Gats Podcast.

Speaker 3 I want to put this on the poll, even though I know the answer to this question here amid our audience, just because we talk so much, too much about Chris Cody owning a Sesta Cyclones High Lie team.

Speaker 3 But I just want to put on the poll at Lebatard Show the question, do you know what High Lai is at Lebatard Show? And I also want to put on there, is the sports anchor endangered?

Speaker 3 Yes or no. Jonathan Zaszlo, who's in with us today, will have a segment on Highlight here with Tony and Mike toward the end of this hour.
But Jonathan Zaszlo's in here today.

Speaker 3 He's a rising star at ESPN, and he's a rising star at ESPN who's creating ESPN on ESPN crime because a coworker is mad at Jonathan Zaszlo.

Speaker 9 I never heard about that.

Speaker 3 And Jonathan Zaszlo's placement in a strange place that I wasn't expecting to find him.

Speaker 3 It is a strange thing. Jonathan Zaslow was under the banner headline,

Speaker 3 celebrity picks.

Speaker 15 College basketball celebrity picks.

Speaker 3 I don't understand how you're a celebrity. I didn't understand entirely how Jay Billis would be considered a celebrity

Speaker 3 at ESPN. These are just expert picks.
They're not celebrity picks. And somebody's mad that Jonathan Zaszlo gets to make picks and that they don't get to make picks.

Speaker 15 My name's right up top there. You got Dick Vital, and it's a picture of him, and it's who he selects.
And it's Seth Greenberg, and it's Jay Billis, and it's me.

Speaker 15 I'm right next to those guys, and there's my pick. Obviously, I picked the Florida Gators.
That's my alma mater. But I'm right there.

Speaker 15 I'm right there on the Tournament Challenge app where you can compete against celebrities like myself.

Speaker 8 I'm right there.

Speaker 15 And from what I understand, not everybody is pleased with me being, because apparently my picture, my name is one of the first ones there.

Speaker 12 Clinton Yates, ESPN Radio.

Speaker 15 I heard today he is not pleased that my name is right that my picture, my name is front and center, and he's not there.

Speaker 12 He's not happy about it.

Speaker 15 Hang with him, Clinton.

Speaker 3 Put it on the poll. Hang with him, Clinton.
Yes or no? Roy, I saw a look across your face. I didn't know what it is that the thought was.
So if you would like to share it with us, I'm here for it.

Speaker 17 Yeah, probably not a good idea for me to share that that right now.

Speaker 17 Clinton Yates,

Speaker 12 good guy.

Speaker 9 I'm going to defend him in most aspects of did you just no comment me, Roy? Yes, I did. I'm with him on that.

Speaker 16 You're putting me in a bad spot here. No comment to me.

Speaker 20 Roy, you were producing the day that he slept, the day that he was supposed to fill in. Yes, yes, I was there.

Speaker 13 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 I don't know what the look was on your face. I was confused by the look on your face.
Clinton Yates is complaining about something.

Speaker 9 I'm a celebrity picker.

Speaker 8 That's not my fault.

Speaker 9 Come on.

Speaker 3 I don't feel like any of those people should be classified as celebrity pickers if all they're doing is being experts picking games on that website.

Speaker 3 Like, it might be celebrities outside of ESPN, but I think if they're... I think.

Speaker 15 Well, it's because you're competing against us.

Speaker 15 You're competing against the celebrities. That's the point

Speaker 15 in the app, in the tournament challenge.

Speaker 3 Have you risen to the point that you should be somewhere on the marquee with

Speaker 9 Martel?

Speaker 15 For sure. Everybody knows, especially when it comes to college football, because I host college football tailgate on ESPN radio.
College football experts.

Speaker 15 You got Paul Feinbaum, you got Heather Dinit, you got me. Everybody knows those are your college football experts.

Speaker 15 College basketball, I'm not going to say that I'm exactly a college basketball expert, but certainly there are people out there who would like to compete against me.

Speaker 15 And that's why I'm up there with Seth Greenberg and Jay Billis and Dick Vitale.

Speaker 19 Zazzo, why was it that you didn't know like half the people on my list?

Speaker 9 Yo, don't worry about that. All right.

Speaker 15 All you need to know is that you can compete against me in the tournament app challenge. That's it.
That's all you need to know. No one's interested in how many players I can name.

Speaker 15 Nobody's ever thought about that.

Speaker 3 I was going to ask Tony what that look was on his face when I called Zaszlo a celebrity and why it is that he looked like he had walked into a bathroom that had left a lingering bad smell.

Speaker 3 But now I have my answer, which is he doesn't think you're a celebrity or an expert, he thinks you're just somebody whose face has enraged Clinton Yates on the website because it doesn't belong next to Dick Vitales.

Speaker 11 We're trying to figure out like is it alphabetical maybe?

Speaker 16 But then it's like Jonathan.

Speaker 15 It's like, no, Zaszlo's nobody ever starts Z at the beginning, so it's certainly not alphabetical. It's you're trying to get people to sign up on the app.

Speaker 15 And the way you do that is you put some of your biggest celebrities in the front. And that's why you have my face right there with my pick.

Speaker 22 Everybody wants to know who I pick. Pick the Gators.

Speaker 15 Everybody sees my face right there. And they're like, I would love to compete against this celebrity.

Speaker 3 I can't believe Roy no commented me.

Speaker 18 Talking about Clinton Yates here, man.

Speaker 3 I don't know what your relationship is.

Speaker 9 Jesus. Like, it's Clinton Yates.

Speaker 9 I don't know why. You were next to me as I was calling.
Where is Clinton?

Speaker 13 Yes, I was.

Speaker 9 I was there.

Speaker 16 The show has started. Where is Clinton?

Speaker 13 He overslept. That's what happens sometimes.

Speaker 20 I mean, you could have said that.

Speaker 8 I could have.

Speaker 15 Most celebrities don't oversleep. That's why I'm up there.

Speaker 12 That's right.

Speaker 3 Clinton Yates came after you, and I heard.

Speaker 9 I heard.

Speaker 3 I believe that Clinton Yates has a...

Speaker 3 I believe that Clinton Yates is

Speaker 15 justifiable.

Speaker 3 I do that with Y's and J's all the time. It's a Cuban thing.
I can't help it. I called him Ya Morant.

Speaker 9 That was hilarious.

Speaker 3 I believe Clinton Yates has a reasonable gripe because he's been at ESPN a lot longer than our beloved Jonathan Yaslow.

Speaker 3 How do you feel, Zaz, about White Lotus?

Speaker 15 Oh, my God, this White Lotus.

Speaker 9 Go on, I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 No, that's all right, Debbie.

Speaker 3 You tell me.

Speaker 15 Okay, all I'm saying is, I've been watching this white lotus now for three seasons, and I'm watching this one I watch every single week, and I really enjoy the show.

Speaker 15 Let's not, you know, brush that on the rug. I like the show, but I sit there and I watch this show every single week, and nothing happens.

Speaker 15 Nothing happens. Every single week, I sit there waiting for something.
Now, something kind of happened this past week, you know,

Speaker 15 a little incest. Something kind of happened this week, but for the most part, every single week, is there such a thing as a little incest? Every single week, I'm waiting for something to happen.

Speaker 15 And the only thing that ever happens in the show is in the final episode. Nothing happens the entire season.
I'm just sitting there with nothing.

Speaker 3 I think that's a fair criticism. I think

Speaker 3 I've said before, some version of White Lotus has had four episodes so far this season and produced about an episode and a half of material.

Speaker 3 But when he says a little incest, spoiler alert, because I've gotten in trouble for that this week, I did have a visceral reaction. It was a strangely visceral reaction.

Speaker 3 Again, spoiler alert here, so that he's left it vague enough that you don't know who the incest is between.

Speaker 3 And I'm not actually sure, because I don't know how this particular definition works, but brothers...

Speaker 3 kissing on the lips in a way that's not French kissing made me recoil, even though they're actors and not actually brothers.

Speaker 17 That's the right response.

Speaker 3 They tricked me, they tricked me into thinking that they're brothers, and I did have a recoil on that that was instantaneous on, wait a minute, adult brothers kissing, that feels an uncommon kind of wrong for me in a way that I haven't seen on television before.

Speaker 19 Unless you betray your brother and Michael had to kiss Fred on the lips in Cuba to let him know it was you Frederick.

Speaker 15 Yeah, that was okay. It was you.

Speaker 9 No one recoiled.

Speaker 15 Like that was like, yeah, I get it. I get what he's doing there.
What we saw saw in the white lotus, like, I don't get what he's doing there.

Speaker 15 And, and part of the weirdness, I guess, was that one of them seemingly really enjoyed it, and the other one did not like it at all.

Speaker 17 Well, he was questioning whether or not he liked it, I think, is really what's cool.

Speaker 18 Well, they were on X,

Speaker 17 they were on several things and a boat.

Speaker 3 Again, I should have said a bunch of different spoiler alerts, and I did not

Speaker 9 recover. People were going to be because of the implications.

Speaker 3 But I thought I was okay because it was last Sunday, and now it's Thursday.

Speaker 9 You guys told me.

Speaker 11 Well, we're supposed to do Spoiler Wednesday, Dan, not spoiler Thursday.

Speaker 15 But that didn't make you like, that didn't shock you as much as Sam Rockwell's monologue, right?

Speaker 3 Well, that's another spoiler.

Speaker 15 How do they put both of them in the same episode? A show that gives you nothing. Every single week,

Speaker 15 every year, nothing happens in this show.

Speaker 21 They gave you both of those in the same episode.

Speaker 11 Saying nothing happens in White Lotus.

Speaker 13 Nothing happens.

Speaker 11 You're someone who doesn't like foreplay.

Speaker 11 That's what White Lotus is. White Lotus is just hours and hours of foreplay.
You're being

Speaker 9 an expert? Wow.

Speaker 12 I mean, quite the visual we've got.

Speaker 9 I mean, yeah. Oh, did you see that?

Speaker 3 I mean, we don't need to be doing foreplay after incest.

Speaker 3 We don't need to be. They did.
They literally.

Speaker 9 No, I'm not talking about the incest.

Speaker 3 No, but they literally gave you that last week. They gave you what is the promise of whatever that party is going to become between brothers and others.
What are you guys smirking about back there?

Speaker 13 Oh, my God. Jeremy.

Speaker 10 Just picturing Jeremy.

Speaker 13 Let me see it. Let me look at your top.
I did see that thing.

Speaker 9 Let's see it.

Speaker 8 Say CTC. I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 3 You did create, Jeremy, for everybody the discomfort of, really, Jeremy, you're going to be confident foreplay guy.

Speaker 9 I like it.

Speaker 9 Do you do that piss bomb?

Speaker 11 Everywhere else, I am a confident person, just not this studio.

Speaker 3 Well, but that one.

Speaker 9 Hell yeah, brother. Look.

Speaker 13 A lot of people

Speaker 3 can be confident about their abilities foreplay. Very few would say so out loud among their friends.

Speaker 9 Real ones, though.

Speaker 3 The number of people who would say, put it on the poll at Lebitard Show, are you good at foreplay

Speaker 3 at Lebitard show? And do you want to hear your friend talk about how he's good at foreplay? Because there are two things that I don't want to imagine among any of my friends, any of them.

Speaker 3 I don't want to imagine any of them embarking upon foreplay. I don't want to imagine any of you wiping your ass either.
Those are the two things I'd like to keep out of my life

Speaker 9 forevermore. A little secret?

Speaker 13 Just say Ryan Lingerhans

Speaker 18 over and over again with your tongue.

Speaker 3 I thought it was Sidsippus.

Speaker 3 I thought that's what you were doing.

Speaker 8 Well, you know, depends.

Speaker 3 I don't want to talk about this anymore. I find myself to be deeply, deeply disturbed by everything we're talking about.

Speaker 18 But I did get you thinking about Ryan Lingerhans.

Speaker 3 I didn't need that in my life. Thank you.

Speaker 8 Think about him the next time.

Speaker 3 I really don't want to think about any of this anymore. The thing that I did want to ask you guys,

Speaker 3 because I'm watching something happening here that I haven't seen a lot of, and I would ask you in my entire life, I haven't seen a lot of it.

Speaker 3 And I would ask you if you guys believe that what is presently happening is going to be enduring for Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis is the most popular comic in the world right now.

Speaker 3 After, what are you guys laughing about back there?

Speaker 10 I'm just saying Ryan Langerhan. I'm just taking this thing for a walk.

Speaker 9 See how it works. Taking what? A walk?

Speaker 9 Why don't you run up the flagpole, see who salutes? And you?

Speaker 3 Please, I don't want to. I don't want to imagine.

Speaker 9 Oh, no. I'm into that.

Speaker 9 You got to.

Speaker 9 I'm bleeping that.

Speaker 16 Way too far on that one.

Speaker 13 Audio audiences are doing it.

Speaker 9 You're doing it wrong.

Speaker 22 If you ain't, you're doing it wrong.

Speaker 8 Bones, I'll fist you.

Speaker 3 The thing that I wanted to ask you guys about Shane Gillis is he is presently selling out arenas in less than a day, where he puts the tickets on sale and they sell out right away.

Speaker 3 And that's not something I've ever seen in my life of any comedian.

Speaker 3 But whatever it is that you imagine to be the most enduring comedians, because I remember Kevin Hart famously sold out a football stadium and was the first comedian to do that, not just in Philadelphia, but that any of us had seen.

Speaker 3 And the question I'm asking you guys: is Shane Gillis going to go down with Richard Pryor and all of these all-time greats as he's done Saturday Night Live twice in the last 11 months, and he is helping Saturday Night Live more than Saturday Night Live is helping him.

Speaker 3 And he's done it twice in 11 months after being let go by Saturday Night Live without ever appearing on Saturday Night Live. So there aren't a lot of stories like this.

Speaker 5 I mean, first things first, he's got to get out of the West.

Speaker 3 Shit. Shane Gillis Alexander is the joke he's making there.

Speaker 9 Oh,

Speaker 9 that's what it was. It's never good when you have to explain it to the co-host because he's just.

Speaker 11 He's still just Alexander, might not be a good thing.

Speaker 3 You didn't even say get out of the West in what sport.

Speaker 9 You just, you went somewhere. Yeah, in hockey.

Speaker 15 I knew the sport. I knew the sport.
I didn't get the reference, though.

Speaker 9 But then when it was.

Speaker 9 I like it.

Speaker 18 He was smiling like I said, Ryan Lingerhaw.

Speaker 9 I like it.

Speaker 19 Dan, to be honest, though, I think he needs the longevity, right?

Speaker 19 Like he's come onto the scene so quickly from the time that he was working in Philly and doing his own thing to now getting to Austin, doing stuff with Rogan, and like really exploding in that scene.

Speaker 19 He needs the longevity of what a Richard Pryor would do, what an Eddie Murphy would do, what a Dave Chappelle would do, where you have these year in, year out. He's putting out great specials.

Speaker 19 He's selling out these arenas, but he continues to evolve his act as he matures.

Speaker 22 That's an excellent point for Richard Pryor, as an example, and Kevin Hart, who's shown that he has longevity.

Speaker 22 There's also Andrew Dice Clay and Dane Cook, guys that were like the biggest acts at the time, but of the time.

Speaker 9 Dice is back, by the way.

Speaker 3 Joe Rogan's numbers, as he continues to help an era of comedy that looks different than most before it,

Speaker 3 his numbers have dropped. He's no longer the number one podcast in America, Midas Touch, has almost doubled his numbers recently.

Speaker 3 And part of the reason for it is a lot of his listeners are really upset about the Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, that class of richness, talking to them about the sacrifices that they need to make on behalf of America.

Speaker 3 They're upset about Elon Musk. Elon Musk, you guys have been watching what's been happening with Tesla and the Tesla stock and how it is.

Speaker 3 He is just getting obliterated because we were talking earlier about likability.

Speaker 3 It seems like Elon Musk isn't polling well with anybody because it's almost impossible to be likable when you're that rich, when so many of the people absorbing you have the issues that they have with and around money.

Speaker 3 They just, I don't know who gets to be the rich person who's hugely, hugely likable.

Speaker 9 When there's the billionaire who people like.

Speaker 3 Famous for being rich. Right.

Speaker 24 And Bill Burr kind of nailed this one on the head.

Speaker 18 They also don't like being told what to do by a guy that, no, this system kind of worked out for you.

Speaker 22 Like under Joe Biden, you became the richest man on the planet. Like, what is your problem?

Speaker 16 As a billionaire, like, how are you so mad with this country?

Speaker 22 Why do you want to change everything about this country when it kind of worked out?

Speaker 11 Because it's not just white people.

Speaker 3 The place that Elon Musk finds himself in at the moment, I'm curious whether he knew what he was in for, whether he could have had any idea.

Speaker 3 Because anyone can get around and get behind the idea of yes please slash government inefficiency that seems like a great idea to to just slash that but the uh intended and unintended consequences of that when you're doing something like paying 44 billion dollars to be the popular high school kid who has bought twitter my guess is that he had not accounted for the backlash on we don't like you like i thought that was what he was trying to buy.

Speaker 3 It wasn't just power and influence that he was trying to buy. I thought he was trying to buy.
Do you think he thought this was going to make him popular?

Speaker 3 I thought he didn't think it was going to make him this unpopular.

Speaker 22 Yeah, because usually if he politicians that climb aboard the Trump train, it's worked out. Won the popular vote, and they do see, at least within their own party, their star ascend.

Speaker 22 It hasn't been the case for Elon Musk.

Speaker 22 That could also be because part of the campaign, even though he was adjacent to the campaign, the size and scope of his job, it wasn't really a campaign issue.

Speaker 5 So there is a bait and switch aspect to all the power that he's getting.

Speaker 13 But yeah, this is billionaires.

Speaker 8 It's a type of super villain.

Speaker 22 It's like a bond villain type of guy.

Speaker 20 No one's like, bond villain is a path to likability.

Speaker 22 No, he's Lex Luthor, is what it feels like, right?

Speaker 3 I don't know how it is that you get to likable when what people associate with you is you're the richest person in the world. And he's not anymore, right?

Speaker 3 Like the amount of, if you can give me some of the numbers on how much money he has cost Tesla recently and himself, it is a bit breathtaking, and I don't even understand it how it is that you can lose these sums or make these sums of money, even if you are on the cusp of innovation and the future and a gasless society that runs on electric cars.

Speaker 11 Elon Musk is still the number one richest person in the world, and that'll only get better because the commerce secretary was on Fox yesterday telling everyone to buy Teslas.

Speaker 9 But it's super legal.

Speaker 19 But imagine you have somebody who is the richest person in the world, has gone through all these things, and is still the richest person in the world, even though he lost all this money on stock.

Speaker 19 So, how far ahead was he to then tubble to then still be there?

Speaker 3 Bezos gave away, I'm sorry, lost half of his wealth in the divorce and then quickly made it right back immediately after being divorced because of the separation between the wealthiest people in the world now and the people who don't have money.

Speaker 22 Yeah, percentages on interest.

Speaker 24 Like, you can make that back very, very easily.

Speaker 22 The Tesla thing, though, like, there's a subtext to why he did that thing at the White House too, is because when he purchased X, he borrowed money to purchase X.

Speaker 5 And as collateral, he put up shares of Tesla. So if it dips below a certain price, that puts the X thing in jeopardy.

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Speaker 3 Let's go now here to this highlight thing that Mike and Tony did.

Speaker 3 I'd like to watch this together because

Speaker 3 what would you guys tell people by way of tease on what this is?

Speaker 6 Well, I would love for people to come out on Friday night. The Cyclones are playing.
Fridays are open to the public. It's the only day that Battle Court is open to the public.

Speaker 21 It is free to attend.

Speaker 24 We are going to have a big crew out there.

Speaker 18 A lot of people from the show are going to be rooting our Cessna cyclones, even though they're just the Cyclones now.

Speaker 6 It's hard.

Speaker 22 Cessa Cyclones is so close to my heart.

Speaker 20 But we're going to be out there causing a ruckus, causing a scene.

Speaker 16 Cheap drinks.

Speaker 20 Come on out and have a good time with us.

Speaker 19 Dan, this is part of the Tony Tonight series where we uncover. It's my love letter to Miami and the things that we do and places that we go.

Speaker 19 A big piece of Miami history is Highlight and understanding what that means in in its context of the sport and what it means to Miami and the Hispanic culture that it comes from Spain down to Miami.

Speaker 19 I talked to Mike, who's obviously a co-owner of one of the teams.

Speaker 18 Good get.

Speaker 9 Yeah, great get.

Speaker 6 Well, this was also several months ago, so I'm going to be made very uncomfortable with how I look.

Speaker 9 Fat? Were you fat?

Speaker 5 Yes, you could say that.

Speaker 8 You know, whatever.

Speaker 19 And then we got players, we got coaches, we got a whole bunch of people. So this is Tony Tonight.
Invades Highlai.

Speaker 8 All right, we're here with the king of the battle court. We're here with the mayor of the Magic City, Fronton, Mike Ryan Ruiz, owner of the Cyclones.
Co-owner. Co-owner of the Cyclones.
Co-owner.

Speaker 8 Where's your other co-owner? I think Bahamar.

Speaker 8 It's a nice spot. Yeah.

Speaker 8 He's already in Cancun, depending on how you look at it.

Speaker 13 The season hasn't exactly gone our way.

Speaker 8 How does it feel to be an owner of a Highlight team? Battle Court team. Battle Court team.
There is a difference.

Speaker 8 For the uninitiated, there is the great sport of High Lai, which originated in the Basque region. And what Battle Court has done is applied a team concept to it.

Speaker 8 It works kind of like team racquetball in a sense. Florida is the only place where this sport is played in this country.

Speaker 8 And Battle Court is a very unique version of the sport that is played nowhere else. So it's Battle Court.
I feel like growing up, High Lai used to be a big deal, right?

Speaker 8 Back in the 80s, you would have this place packed. Thousands of people watching High Lai.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 The transition from then to now. Like, what's happened with Highlai as a sport?

Speaker 8 Well, I think the sport is right now at an exciting inflection point and it's accessible nationwide via YouTube, the High Lai app, watch ESPN and ESPN 3.

Speaker 8 I wasn't quite at the age where it was peaking and it was a place to see and be seen, but I'm of the age where these places started closing down.

Speaker 8 Damien High Lai is still kind of cooking, keeping the sport alive, but there used to be plenty of other places nearby where you can watch High Lai, and it kind of got said and our show has a very proud history of trying to do its best to revive it.

Speaker 9 Pelota! Pelota!

Speaker 8 A real natural fit that the Levitard show and cast members adjacent to it are linking up with Battlecourt and trying to revive it. I think you've been out here for a game before.
Multiple times.

Speaker 8 It's a fun atmosphere.

Speaker 8 We get people into it. Our side in particular starts chanting and acting all sorts of ridiculous.
It's a real fun way to spend a Friday night. And all I want is people to give it a chance.

Speaker 8 Did you know how much was going to go into being a high-light owner?

Speaker 8 I can't lie, when I was first approached by the fine folks at Battle Court, I thought it would be largely ceremonial and just an opportunity to cosplay Chris Cody as this ridiculous sports team owner that would parody some really outrageous sports owners.

Speaker 8 But a funny thing happened when we first got involved. We really liked it and they really empowered us to really manage the roster.
We built relationships. I watch so much High Lye.

Speaker 8 I'm not gambling again.

Speaker 8 I honor the code. I don't take action in the sport, but I like scouting.
I like pretending like I know what I'm talking about. Like I said, we have a proud track record.

Speaker 8 If you follow the sport closely enough, you can kind of GM it. Do you think that High Lie is a sport that is accessible enough for kids to start growing up and playing it right now?

Speaker 8 We were talking about that before.

Speaker 8 It's a hard sport to get invested in because anybody can pick up a pickleball paddle. Anybody can pick up a racquet or soccer ball or a pig skin and toss it around.

Speaker 8 This is,

Speaker 8 there's not many places down here where you can pick up a sessa.

Speaker 8 Number one, they're very hard to find, they're all handmade, and find a wall where you can fire off a pilota at 100 miles per hour without doing some serious damage is a very dangerous sport.

Speaker 8 So I know it's really difficult to play. Have you put on a sesta? I have.
Have you thrown the pilota against the sky? Well, yeah, it's very hard. It feels unnatural.

Speaker 8 You want to turn your wrist, you want to turn your elbow, you want to do all sorts of things that'll actually injure your arm. I have the ultimate amount of respect for people that do this.

Speaker 8 Maybe you'll have the opportunity to put

Speaker 8 a CESA on your arm.

Speaker 8 It'll feel very unnatural. I always have to remind myself of that anytime there's like an unforced error and I get frustrated with the player.
What they're doing out there is insane.

Speaker 8 It's like, how about you doing it? I would literally die.

Speaker 8 Not joking. If you put me out there in an intense regulation game of Battle Court, I would die.
There's a million decisions that they have to make

Speaker 8 in a given three-set match that their life literally depends on.

Speaker 8 What I like about Battle Court is it almost has the idea of like a live where you get teams together and you can start rooting for stuff.

Speaker 19 What's your favorite thing about Battle Court?

Speaker 8 Well, it's going to sound corny, but in getting to know the sport and getting to know the players and knowing people's backgrounds, it's this is a passion play.

Speaker 8 These people are deeply passionate about this sport. There's no other way that they would find themselves here on the one place on the planet that plays this brand of high lies.

Speaker 8 The least I can do is take the time with you, speak in front of cameras and a Ford Art platform on the Levatard show, to really let people

Speaker 8 pound the table for something that is really cool and gnarly. Like,

Speaker 8 people shouldn't really be doing this. It's so dangerous and cool to look at, especially when someone's diving after a remote off this one huge piece of glass.
I think two players have broken.

Speaker 8 That's a hard, this bulletproof glass. Two players have broken with just a serve, and they dive into this net full speed and find a way to acrobatically not injure themselves.

Speaker 8 I mean, how how can you not love it?

Speaker 8 Can you explain to me some of the intricacies of the words in Highland? Because there's a lot of great words in Highland. Chula.

Speaker 9 Kicks to the inside perfectly to score.

Speaker 1 Chick-check. Reyna.

Speaker 27 Backhand to the outside. That's saved by Julin.

Speaker 8 Robote.

Speaker 27 Line. He passes.

Speaker 27 Robote saved by Julin.

Speaker 8 Something very specific to Battle Court here: the Magic City bounce.

Speaker 8 I'm not exactly sure what the Magic City bounce is. Anytime the ball does something you don't expect, you just say, ah, Magic City bounce.

Speaker 8 There are a couple players here that have like signature tosses.

Speaker 8 Lopez on the Cyclones has this crazy backhand shot.

Speaker 27 What a catch by Lopez. Here's the backhand.
Low runner.

Speaker 8 He's new to the game of Battle Court. He's been playing over in the Basque region on courts that are three times the size of this.

Speaker 8 So you can imagine on this battle court fronton with that bulletproof class, a player that's known for his backhand shot. It is a gnarly shot.

Speaker 8 Do you have a favorite player? Our team captain, Manu.

Speaker 8 Not Ginobli for those.

Speaker 8 No, but in terms of stature in the sport, he's better than Manu Ginoble. Wow.
He's the best back quarter in the world. And he has been on the cyclone since Battle Court's inception.

Speaker 8 There are are a lot of great people here in the sport. I struck up a friendship with Mike Carballo, and I have the ultimate respect for Manu.

Speaker 8 So those two guys, they're lifelong cyclones, no matter what happens, even if they're other incarnations of the Cyclones.

Speaker 8 Anybody that's ever won a championship with the Cyclones or plays for the Cyclones this year has this beautiful bomber jacket that cost me way too much money that I'm not telling my wife about.

Speaker 8 She's not going to see this. Cynthia, do not watch.
Mike Ryan Reese, thank you. The mayor of the Magic City Fronton, the king of Battle Court himself, the owner

Speaker 8 of the Cyclones. We dropped the Sesta just the Cyclones.

Speaker 8 Oh, it's an honor.

Speaker 19 Thank you for watching, Tony Tonight.

Speaker 3 Did not have Mike being more pear-shaped than Manu.

Speaker 3 Was surprised by that. Got caught off guard.
Mike looks good, man.

Speaker 12 And he looked good then.

Speaker 3 There was more of him then. There's less of of him.
There's more to love. Less of him to love these days.

Speaker 3 The Boston Celtics have just sold for a record amount of money for a North American franchise, topping the Commanders that went for about $6 billion.

Speaker 3 The Boston Celtics have sold a good time to sell coming off of a championship.

Speaker 3 I'm a little surprised that it's more than the most expensive football team.

Speaker 15 I hope the new owner relocates them.

Speaker 9 That would be hilarious.

Speaker 9 Wherever, man.

Speaker 19 F them.

Speaker 15 To Seattle or something.

Speaker 20 See about it. Little Rock, Arkansas.

Speaker 15 Whatever.

Speaker 15 I hope they lose the team.

Speaker 3 Did I just hear you mutter or whisper? Was it mutter, whisper? F them?

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 15 Anyone, anyone want to step to that statement about the Boston Celtics?

Speaker 20 No.

Speaker 18 Cosign.

Speaker 15 Anyone? Nope.

Speaker 9 I'm going to wholeheartedly agree. Thank you.
F Boston. Thank you.

Speaker 3 That's a lot of winning that's being done in Boston, though, with their basketball team where they win the championship and then sell for more than a football team. It's like that's or sell more.

Speaker 3 Sell for more than any football team ever.

Speaker 24 Do they get a banner for that?

Speaker 13 They should.

Speaker 9 New guy.

Speaker 11 Does David want to come back on and tell us what a bad business investment it is to buy a sports team because you're going to lose money?

Speaker 15 New guy got ripped off.

Speaker 3 They made $6 billion in three years.

Speaker 15 Classic overpay.

Speaker 10 Speaking of Boston, what do you think of Martian?

Speaker 15 I'm excited for Marshan. I'm really excited.

Speaker 9 I am.

Speaker 20 I'm excited. I look at you different now.

Speaker 15 You know,

Speaker 15 look, I'm trying to win another Stanley Cup here. All right.
You're talking about I'm looking.

Speaker 18 Why'd you bring this loser aboard?

Speaker 15 He's one of the great postseason players. All right.
He's a rat, but he's now our guy.

Speaker 20 All right. Last two postseasons, I haven't been impressed with him.

Speaker 15 I was very, well, we knocked him out last postseason.

Speaker 15 But now he's on our team. And if the guys in that dressing room are okay okay with it, then you kind of need to be okay with it.
All right.

Speaker 15 You're not above the team.

Speaker 18 That is a pretty good point.

Speaker 15 If the guys,

Speaker 15 if Sam Bennett is okay with it, Mike Ryan, you better be okay with it.

Speaker 3 We were talking about Shane Gillis Alexander earlier. And for those of you who do not remember, this is something that happened.

Speaker 3 The Oklahoma City Thunder traded Paul George for Shane Gillis Alexander and five first-round picks.

Speaker 15 You leave a little bit of context out when you say it like that, though.

Speaker 18 Danilo Galinari.

Speaker 9 No, that's what you were getting.

Speaker 15 That's not the context. All right.
It's a little bit unfair. I'm not trying to defend the Clippers.
All right.

Speaker 15 It was a great trade by Oklahoma City, but you kind of need to add the Kawhi Leonard part.

Speaker 17 Come on,

Speaker 3 well, I will talk about Kawhi Leonard for a second here because I find his story to be hugely interesting in the shadows, in that it would appear that his body broke down during and with the watch and care of the San Antonio Spurs, and that whatever his gripes are that have never been made public in his voice, that he left San Antonio at least in part because of everything done to his body that has subsequently harmed his career in a way that is obvious because we do not talk about Kawhi Leonard anymore.

Speaker 3 And when it's the Clippers getting 50 from somebody, they're getting it from James Harden.

Speaker 15 But I think we don't talk about him anymore because there's nothing to talk about. Like there's nothing new.
We've been doing this with Kawhi Leonard. He left in 2019, left Toronto in 2019.

Speaker 15 So we're going on six years.

Speaker 22 Oh, no, but insane.

Speaker 3 No, but my point on that is it is in the middle of the super team era. Kawhi Leonard won a championship by himself.
And whatever that cost his body is something we haven't seen that dude since.

Speaker 3 Like it's been that six years of what should be his prime or something close to his prime when he was at the height of his powers and at the top of the sport, his body has clearly betrayed him.

Speaker 19 To that point, it's like you have James Harden and Kawhi Leonard on the same team and like, we don't don't talk about the Clippers ever. And they're not even the best team in their city.

Speaker 17 They're really good, though.

Speaker 11 Like that's the crazy part is they've been good without him. And when he's there, they can beat just about anybody in the West.

Speaker 11 That's what's really wild right now is there are all these teams right around the play-in. You have the Timberwolves who made a run last year.

Speaker 11 The Clippers, they have the same, not the same winning percentage, but they're both 18 games back. So they're sitting at seven and eight.

Speaker 11 And then you have Golden State right there as the sixth seed, just a game ahead of them. So all those teams are vying to square up against whoever the three seed is.

Speaker 11 But, man, when you're thinking about being Oklahoma City or Houston or the Lakers as these one, two, and three seeds,

Speaker 11 the Clippers, to me, of all those teams, might actually be the team I want the least. They're deep.

Speaker 3 They're big.

Speaker 9 They could have won the Cliff and Chica's there. Man, they're good.

Speaker 3 They could have won the championship last year if they'd been healthy.

Speaker 24 Yeah, but

Speaker 15 I think part of the reason that I'm shaking my head is we've seen this movie before. We're going to get to the playoffs, and he's not going to play.

Speaker 11 No, that's totally fair. And for that matter, when you're looking at one of the other teams there, it's Golden State,

Speaker 11 Jimmy is going to be there for the playoffs because he hasn't played for a year. So he's going to be available.

Speaker 3 Going back to Boston and trades for a second, can we look back at the Mookie Betts trade? Can we examine

Speaker 3 the Mookie Betts trade that has to have Boston Red Sox fans still upset?

Speaker 11 Well, it's really crazy because when you look back at it five years ago, obviously Mookie Betts now just won a World Series with the Dodgers. They're one of the greatest teams you've ever seen.

Speaker 11 And the Red Sox were on a path when they had Mookie Betts and a whole bunch of these other guys coming up. Xander Bogarts, who's no longer there as well.

Speaker 11 The reason this came up recently is because Alex Verdugo was an outfielder for the Yankees last year.

Speaker 11 Not the best season. Still a free agent, kind of surprisingly.
He's been a big league player for several years, but he was the headliner. in the Mookie Betts trade.

Speaker 11 So when you look back on February 10th, 2020, the Red Sox traded Mookie Betts and David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for Alex Verdugo, Jeter Downs, and Connor Wong.

Speaker 12 Woof.

Speaker 11 That was the trade that they made. And

Speaker 11 the fact that the Red Sox are even a competitive franchise when they made a trade that bad shows you that they've actually done a pretty good job.

Speaker 11 Otherwise, that is one of the most overwhelmingly terrible trades I can think of, maybe in baseball history. Mookie Betts is one of the best players of this era by a long shot.

Speaker 3 We were talking with David Sampson earlier this week, and he objected to what was a prisoner of the moment contention.

Speaker 3 He alleged that I was saying that this Dodger roster, you can make the argument, that's the best roster that's ever been assembled. And the over-under on wins for them this season is 104.5.

Speaker 3 And he mentioned the Mariners team of Randy Johnson, Griffey,

Speaker 3 that won, was it 111 games or 104?

Speaker 9 116, I believe.

Speaker 3 116 games, but that team wasn't over, under 104 and a half before the season. I've never seen a team that is expected to win 104 games.
That's not something that I've seen in my life.

Speaker 22 Can you imagine taking the over?

Speaker 18 I haven't been to the Dodgers over in the season, a 104.

Speaker 3 I mean, what is that? Like,

Speaker 3 you can assemble the argument that Betts, Freeman, and Otani, you put those three together, that whatever you thought Babe Ruth's murderer's row was in 1927, 100 years ago, that it's not as it's not the Dodger lineup of today because they got Ruth and they got Betts and they got Freeman and they got Freeman like they've got Babe Ruth.

Speaker 11 Maybe the closest that you have in terms of an era of free agency is the 98 Yankees, but I don't think there's anything close to what you're seeing.

Speaker 11 They have a player better than Babe Ruth and he might not even be their best hitter on their team.

Speaker 15 Folks, the leaves are turning.

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