Hour 2: The Lord's Cable (feat. JuJu Gotti)

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One of the great things about being in the chair, and I, and listen, it's been great, you guys.

This has been, thank you for the opportunity.

Truly enjoyed it.

That said, I get to do things my own way, which I like, which means that we can do all the baseball we want.

So, I want the post-game to be just baseball, just pitch clock, which means we get to get juju right now.

I like pitch clock.

I actually, I had watched it for the first time.

It was like a month or two ago, and i text jeremy right after i was like hey man i just watched pitch clock for the first time it shows a lot of fun it was really nice i really appreciated that and it's been really cool because last week we got the or two weeks ago we got the most views that we've ever gotten on an episode of pitch clock

keeps increasing and it's been really exciting chris cody being a huge part of that constantly kicking my ass in trivia is i think a big reason why people like to see me suffering great but it's been a lot of fun it's been great and now we're getting to the most important part of the season you got to stay with things it's a grind

but guess what juju starting right now with

thursday thunder

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yes sir welcome back to thursday thunder we took a knot on the head last week from jake paul roundhouse knocked us clean out But this week, we back, baby.

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I think it's very clear to me, Juju, that Sophie Cunningham needs to

be a part of that because she needs some money.

She keeps getting fined, Juju.

What's going on with that?

And why is it like, is it 500 bucks or 300 bucks?

It's 500.

When is she going to stop?

Right.

Is she that rich?

Like, it doesn't matter?

Yeah, fortunately, my sister got a bankroll sitting tall, and she got a lot to say,

especially with her having that new podcast.

I predict she going to get a couple fines down the line as well.

But my sister, her wallet ain't thin.

She got it.

She going to support it and she's gonna say what she what needs to be said so she's she's been very critical of officials right that's what the find is yeah she's been critical of officials and uh she's doing it on her podcast it's a new podcast that mike it's a real podcast it's not a fake one and but she keeps doing things that get her find like she's some sort of sort of spokesperson for uh the truth like speaking truth to power but at some point I think you say to yourself, wow, I need a different approach.

The first one was a TikTok video that she did, and then she she was like text.

She didn't really say anything.

It was just like a trend, but she like added the refs and then they fined her 500.

And then in the first episode of her podcast, she was critical of the refs again.

So they find her $1,500.

Oh, so it has been

escalating.

It's been getting more and more of these fines.

Oh, then she's got to stop now.

I assume that's it then.

She's done.

I don't know, man.

I think somebody should chip in and help her pay some of these fines from people around the world because if you're watching these games, you will see these referees are inconsistent

to say the least.

You feel me?

My bad, Billy, I cut you off.

No, I was going to say, I mean, it's getting attention for her podcast, but if it keeps getting higher and higher at a certain point, like how much money are they going to find her and how ridiculous is it going to get?

Because the WNBA can't find anything too ludicrous either based on what they pay their players.

So it's not like they can find her $20,000 if her salary is $70,000 or something.

So it's got to be like $1,500 seems kind of high on the scale of what fines would be.

And at the end of the day, what she's doing, you say, Juju, that the referee is inconsistent.

I'm pretty sure that we talk about every sport with umpires, referees, there's inconsistencies everywhere.

But she's doing something that's making her get fined.

It feels like she's doing it on purpose.

That's where I need your help, that she's doing it.

for a purpose.

Therefore, you have to counter that with a fine where she will realize that the juice is no longer worth it and she will stop.

I assume that's what the WNBA will

I think the juice is definitely worth it.

And I've been taking trying to find out approaches and avenues on my show, The Alley Ooop, which needs your help, ladies and gentlemen.

Like I say, we right now, we on at I not, it was eyeball hoops, but we changed the DLS hoops on YouTube.

Subscribe if you can.

Even if you don't watch women's basketball, just come over there and tell us about how you feel.

Why do you hate it?

Tell me how much you hate me.

Just please pull up on us.

We're not a part of the levitar feet, neither here nor there.

But on that show, I'm trying to figure out avenues on how I can become a referee.

Should I do some high school games?

Should I do some middle school games?

I want to work my way into being a WNBA referee because something has to change.

You got to work your way up.

You can absolutely start by doing high school games.

And that is what, first of all, did you guys see what happened with Jen Powell?

Amazing.

I didn't see it.

Nobody.

Jen Powell is the first female umpire in Major League Baseball history.

That'll be this weekend.

She's doing Marlin's games this weekend, and she's got the plate on Sunday.

Nice.

She's got the plate, and I hope that we criticize her.

I want equal opportunity criticizing.

We have to give her the business when she gets the calls wrong, Juju.

You got to do it.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, like you said, like my dog Mike said a couple weeks ago, and also how we discussed on the Alley Oop a couple of weeks ago with T.N.

Tran and Katie Kershaw from the Jocular podcast.

We should be allowed to hate some WNBA players in the same way that we hate NBA players.

My dog ain't wrong, man.

If you want to hate Angel Reese, as long as it's basketball, hate away.

So I hope sister get them calls right Sunday, or guess what?

She's wrong.

And let's attack.

So this is interesting, right?

Because in the other sports, you know, you have female referees in basketball.

You have, you don't see it in hockey in the NHL.

I don't think there's any female officials.

You have it in the NFL.

There's, you know, female umpire, side, not umpire, but there's side judge, line judges, back judges.

And the difference between those sports and baseball, the officials in the other sports,

they don't engage with the player who is angry at a call.

They're actually supposed to de-escalate the situation.

But in Major League Baseball, with the home plate umpire, they escalate the situation every now and then because they argue back with the player who or manager who is yelling at them.

Like that, that's that'll be an interesting look if she gets into an argument with the player or the manager.

We've never seen that before.

I think, well, what about Violet Palmer?

Juju, she was, I think, 1997, became an NBA referee.

So been around for 25 years.

And I would assume she's ejected players?

Absolutely, but there's no arguing.

They don't yell.

She just hears the arguing.

Well, I mean, she may say something, she tees you up, throws you out, peace, and then you're taught to walk away at that point.

Major League Baseball umpires, they'll go nose to nose and yell with you.

So you're worried about the kicking of the dirt?

No, I'm not worried about the kicking of the dirt.

I just think it's an interesting scenario that you could potentially have a manager or a player and for the first time ever, a female umpire just nose to nose and yelling at each other.

That's an interesting optic, no?

Yeah.

Like last year, Joel Embiid had an incident where he got a technical file and I think an ejection, and he had to be restrained, held back for wanting to get at the referee who was a lady.

So, yeah, that poses an interesting dynamic, especially

right,

right?

But doesn't that mean that it's working?

She knows what she's.

We did it.

You're right.

We did it, David.

I believe that that is when you know you have equality.

Like, we've arrived.

So, I'll

be a star show.

We're a very progressive society.

I believe that if Joe Ellen Bi goes after a referee, because that's what he does, he should not see the whole purpose is don't see the gender.

Sometimes quality looks like Title IX.

Sometimes it looks like a neon green dildo being thrown on a playing surface.

These are all steps.

You have to walk before you can crawl.

Right.

Also, I agree earlier what you guys said about this is the wrong type of progress with ESPN.

Do I got to subscribe now?

Is my YouTube TV going to handle it?

Like, I think the Varicose veins were worth it.

I support it.

I would name them the Joker of the Week if I hadn't already given it to Kenny Medarik.

You can't push me and then try to shake my hand in my face.

Stick with one or the other.

Don't push me.

But at the same time,

I agree 100%.

And good luck if you subscribe through Apple and you just get a receipt at 9.30 p.m.

Eastern Time and says, thank you for your payment to who?

Juju.

I don't even know what I just paid.

Juju.

what are these billing cycles i get an email from apple like every three days hey here's your receipt how am i getting a receipt on the 17th that doesn't make any sense they scatter these they they count on you just being confused by it probably you probably signed up on the 17th no

no this is not that that is not an option that's exactly how bill me on the same exact day so i can get a flood of bills and be like what the hey it starts the day you subscribe No, you have to

button my

now.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, because you were now trying to

excuse me, sir, you signed up on the

14th bullshit because I just bought a car yesterday.

I gotta pay that motherfucker on the first.

I bought a house on the 27th, I gotta pay that motherfucker on the first.

Nice.

Don't do that.

What?

Because I have Instagram premium now.

I'm married to the 14th.

Everything on the fing first.

Juju, thank you.

Do you have any polls before you go?

Yes, man, that was how Mike's doing.

That's the second time Mike don't wow me today.

Also, we had to say about Trump earlier.

Oh, my God.

Hell of a day.

Do you want it, Veins?

I love you.

I give you Veins.

All I want to know is where I can watch Backlash.

All the Veins.

The Lord's Cave on.

Juju, we need Mike to take a breath.

Maybe take a sip, get a shake.

Yes, sir.

Did we do any polls?

I'm sorry, this whole week, I feel like I've ignored the poll system because I've just tried to do baseball and make it my own.

It's all good.

You haven't ignored the shirts, and they've been wonderful, brother.

But we had one good poll today, one important one.

Do you call it a pocketbook or do you call it a purse?

85% of the audience says they call it a purse.

15% is a win for you, David.

I can't believe 15%.

You thought it would be 99 to 100%.

I don't even believe those 15% that they call it a pocketbook.

Those 15% are 70-year-old Jewish women.

How great are you doing?

I knew that we had that many in our demographics.

Exactly.

You're welcome.

Draft Kings.

You're about to have a hell of a lot more if you keep losing weight, pal.

Juju, thank you, man.

Thank you.

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Stugats.

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This is the Dan Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

How special we got Juju not on a post-game.

Got him here.

Now you're doing what you want, you know?

Big macher.

God, we didn't speak enough Yiddish this week.

I really was hoping to speak more Yiddish.

Translation on all of them, please.

Yiddish macher is like a big man, or I wanted to say schmeckle.

Wanted to say shmuck.

Wanted to say so.

There's so many things you can do.

Schmuck?

I mean, there's a lot of things, not like Mike, which causes everyone to go crazy because he's swearing like a drunken soldier.

The one I use the most is schwitzing.

And when I'm sweating, I'm Schwitzing in here.

That means for the record, I don't like the Browns anymore you don't have to ask me the question through a Browns fan prism I'm just as confused as regular NFL fans as to why they have 17 quarterbacks why they drafted one in the third and one in the fifth how Joe Flacco is back and how we're just learning that he's Italian and how that's being reported on when I thought that that was he's Italian

I thought that was implied because of the last name I thought he was Jewish

Flacco?

Yeah,

I didn't I don't know enough about the the tribe to know.

I mean, have we had a Jewish quarterback since Fiedler?

What about the guy?

Starting quarterback, at least.

What about the guy with the Matzah BYU who had a leave BYU?

Red Cloth, right?

He was Jewish.

Yep.

But in the NFL, starting quarterbacks?

Bernie Kozar?

Kozar.

Not Jewish.

Jewish.

Damn it.

We had Josh Rosen for a minute.

Ah, yes.

Dr.

Rosen-Rosen.

I need to bring to your attention that I tried last last night.

You asked me before what I do after the show.

Yeah, yeah.

And I forgot to mention there's something very important that I do.

Yesterday, I tried to learn the difference between AI and not AI so I could improve.

Because you got fooled.

Because I got fooled.

And it turns out I came across an interview

that was Florida adjacent.

A newscaster did an interview with a...

kid who got killed in the school shooting in Parkland.

Hold on.

He did an interview with the kid who got killed.

Yes, and it was an AI avatar.

It was insane.

Was it like a made-up kid or it was

Keene Oliver?

That's awful.

It was truly, truly one of the most despicable things I've ever seen.

That's awful.

It's the same thing.

Is that your view, though, of like the Tupac?

What's it called?

When

a hologram?

Hologram.

It's a slightly different thing.

I'm saying it's a way different group.

Create an AI version of a

Mystic.

Yeah, at least Tupac.

It's for like entertainment.

And to get his opinion on things and basically regurgitate what you think through the voice and image of

a young person who was killed.

So just to be clear,

does it work that whatever the AI was answering was according to what he was programmed to answer by the interviewer?

I don't know, right?

Maybe, maybe, maybe there's a world in which the AI is programming some of the things that his father, Manuel Oliver,

has said about Joaquin.

So no permission was granted.

Is the assumption what

the assumption I'm saying?

It was granted by his parents.

Yeah, so still, either way, I feel like it's just to use the likeness of at this point, right, like to use

AI to

recreate this child.

Am I hearing this correctly?

You said that the parents did grant that.

That does change.

That does change it a little bit for me.

It changes it.

all right according to variety and i'll just read you the first two like paragraphs here for some context jim acosta the former cnn chief white house correspondent who now hosts blah blah blah whatever uh published an interview with ai generated avatar of joaquin oliver who died at age 17 in parkland in the parkland school shooting in 2018 the interactive ai was created by oliver's parents who granted a casa the first quote-unquote interview with the recreated version of their son on what would have been his 25th birthday can we now get a re-vote?

Yeah, still odd.

It's a little different to me now.

It's a little different.

It feels different now.

I still find the decision to make it kind of gross.

I personally don't like it, but I feel different about it.

I felt like all of what Billy read was implied.

I don't think Jim Acasa would just go rogue.

This is no doubt provocative.

It's certainly dicey and worth criticism, but I thought the buy-in from the parents was implied.

Jim Acasa does have a reputation.

So I thought that it was certainly above board with the parents.

No doubt.

Do you remember the movie iRobot?

Yeah, it was horrible.

Try to forget it.

Love that movie.

Love Bridget Monaghan, Tom Brady's ex.

Love Will Smith in that movie, the whole package.

But one of the things is a hologram appears, and the guy gets to basically live forever with messages to the current people post-death.

The concept here that I thought interested me is that once we die, we have a chance to live on looking at our best.

By the way, he looked great.

He never will age.

Spewing messages that are his,

actually his, with parental control or spousal control or family control and permission.

That's up to debate as to whether or not they're his because he's no longer around to speak for himself.

It's dicey.

But Jim Acasa, as a journalist, if this is presented to you,

you...

deduce however you can through your ethics as to whether or not this is something that you should do.

There isn't

why do it.

Why?

That's fine.

This is not journalism.

No, it's not journalism.

It's all shock value.

Why?

I will say that this isn't the first time that we've seen something like this.

This is the first time that we've seen a journalist interview a victim like this.

We've seen journalists interview AI before when doing AI stories.

And we've seen

attorneys turn to AI and have victims who are no longer here speak in the courtroom as themselves and speak about their families.

I've seen these clips.

Can't someone write this?

No, no, no, they're not witnesses.

It's for effect.

It's for closing arguments where they say, look,

and the victim,

the victim was speaking to

the alleged shooter, saying what he took away from them.

I was a hardworking man.

I was a military veteran.

I was a patron.

It's a victim impact statement done by a victim.

It's not testimony.

It is not correct jury doesn't get to use that in its deliberations so let's make sure we're no i'm yeah thank you for helping me clarify but yeah it's all for effect can i ask you something

what do the parents gain from allowing this like what are they trying to want their child to keep living with and not have it happen to any other children i think that's a that's a point that this you can disagree with it but they feel like they're helping with this and you're talking about it and bringing attention to a cause that is very clearly close to a lot of people's minds.

Look, the way I responded to it was at this point under the assumption, genuinely, that I wasn't sure that the parents were involved.

And I was just so frustrated because we have seen these misuses of AI.

We have seen

whether it's the Tupac thing or way worse with deep fakes of all sorts of different stuff, people using AI for their own confirmation bias on whatever topic, left, right, down the middle, it doesn't make a difference.

I still am kind of grossed out by it because,

like we were just sort of saying, this child is gone and you doing your own advocacy on behalf of your child is one thing

to generate their image or likeness for your own mourning is another thing.

To then

use that to preach a political message through his words, through his voice, is a third thing that does feel like potentially a bridge too far.

And look, how am I to judge parents who have lost their child and are trying to figure out how to use their lives to make sure that what happened to him doesn't happen to anyone else?

But it just feels like

we have already opened the floodgates on AI in a way that is really, really problematic and we're not going to go back.

And the more that things like this just become acceptable, no different than the way we talked about within politics, where things have just gotten to to this place that's so out of control that we allow things that 10 years ago would have been insane to consider.

I'm worried that we're going to continue to justify things that go this direction, where today, yes, it's with permission, but tomorrow.

Mark my words, Jeremy, 10 years from now, you'll look back at this and this will be good and plenty.

You'll be living inside the Oculus Rift by then, anyways.

But

while I know that you're concerned, and everybody is, I will remind you that AI told Billy earlier today that Hideo Nomo hit a 574.

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I tried to better myself last night doing this AI stuff and I came across this.

Then I came across another story and I was ready to go public with it in the show.

And our producer, Matthew Coca, the producer Not the Personal said, wait a minute, may not be real, that Howard Stern got canceled, that the show got canceled.

So who do you trust on the Howard Stern beat?

How do you, I told Coca, what do you want from me?

Because he keeps saying you're wasting my time because I'll text him ideas for stories and he'll be like, these aren't real.

And it's making me insane.

So.

The headline said canceled while the article said just not renewing.

I don't know if we're.

No, that's not it.

The question is, is it true that he is not being renewed or that it's not renewing?

Because we don't have the right sources yet, according to Coca.

Everything I've seen, and I, for, I stopped listening to Howard about four or five years ago.

Before that, I was a religious listener every day for probably 25 years, since I was 16 years old.

Every day on the school bus, I had my little radio, and I was a religious listener.

Did you get beat to a pope?

Sorry.

Why?

Why would you just say that?

No, he was a cool kid.

Cool kids listen to Howard Cern.

So, I mean, a religious listener for 25 years.

And

I grew out of it a few few years ago because honestly the show changed.

Like the show's not even remotely close to what it used to be.

Well, in that he's not off and on.

But

I saw all the reports yesterday and everything I'm reading, like I don't know what to believe.

And everything I'm reading is, oh, they're going to make him an offer, but it's going to be like a super lowball offer, which he obviously is going to have too much pride to accept.

And it's going to come to an end, their relationship with Sirius XM.

So I don't know what to believe.

I trust Jimmy Trayna on the Howard Stern beat.

He has reported on him.

He's a fan of his, and this is what he had to say.

There was a question posed to him on X.

What are your thoughts on Stern?

Why wouldn't Sirius let him make it seem like it was his choice?

He responded to this by saying, I didn't want to get into this, but people have been asking me about this non-stop.

The report, and he did quote, report in quotes, came from the sun.

Now, for the uninitiated, the sun is a rag.

It's a tabloid, and they get a lot of stuff wrong.

You may be able to hold up a couple of things this tabloid has gotten right, but not super reputable.

That was me editorializing.

We continue with the tweet.

If anyone believes that report, they are a very stupid person.

His contract is up in December.

He's on vacation until after Labor Day.

His show did not get canceled.

That still leaves room for it to not be renewed, but the reports that it was canceled and this has been co-opted by the right on social media and

the misinformation cycle has totally fanned the flames on this.

Go woke, go broke, all that.

He has not been canceled, and he's due to return after late.

Why wouldn't he have just said that we are back?

I mean, give him time.

It's been 24 hours.

He's on vacation.

I mean, how?

Yeah, how he's on vacation.

No, but I'm saying that Jim Train a guy.

It seems like he used the word canceled purposefully.

And when you say it opens the door to non-renewal, you don't non-renew Howard Stern.

They don't just call him like the day before the contract.

Right.

SiriusXM probably has a good idea of what direction they're going.

And that being said, the reports are inaccurate inaccurate because he hasn't been canceled.

By all indications, he's going to come back after Labor Day to do his show, and he wouldn't be doing that if he were canceled.

Well, is it canceled?

Like, is it fair to say then that Colbert was canceled?

Because that show is over, but obviously they're fulfilling the remainder of the contract.

Renewals and cancellations really are semantics.

It's effectively the same thing.

And Howard shtick on air, I also, not as much now, but listen to Howard a lot throughout.

His shtick for the last 10 years is this is my last contract.

Like, I get it.

And it goes down to the wire.

That's what I mean.

Like he'll turn.

He could just go to air when he comes back from vacation and be like, I'm not renewing even if they wanted me.

I don't know what's going to happen.

We'll see.

I don't have a deal.

They're running storyline for Howard every year for like 10 years.

Yeah.

I'm going to need a list of ways to confirm stories because Jim Tranny, you would assume you can use that, but you can't use the sun.

And then blue checks don't matter anymore.

Is it only CNN, Fox, MSNBC?

I mean, do we just list the different main news outlets and say say if it doesn't come from them, then it doesn't come at all?

I, I, it, the whole thing has been bothering me because I, one day wasn't good enough, and I can't do it today, Zaz, because I'm leaving.

Here's also the thing.

I mean, Howard's 71 years old.

So?

But, like, eventually he's going to stop doing the show.

He's made billions with an S off of this show.

Stop doing it eventually.

In every contract, he does this show less and less.

And talks about how badly he wants to not be.

And how he hates leaving his house.

It just rings familiar.

I'm not, I don't, I can't figure out.

I understand this seems like spin, but if it is spin, it's a brilliant spin from the king of all media because he's been setting, he's been planting the seeds for this exact spin for close to a decade.

Yeah.

So you think he is at the root of this?

Now, this is an angle I didn't think about.

I couldn't believe the last contract that he got.

It doesn't really...

None of the serious XM contracts that Howard Stern has received seem to make a lot of financial sense, and yet he keeps getting them.

And every time everyone's bewildered, he does the show less, seemingly gets paid more.

But along the way, as Zaz and Chris has said, he's said, I don't think I'm going to do this much longer.

This is probably my last contract.

I think what the politics of it have been is that there is some sort of thought, and Dan had this thought.

with

on this show that the Colbert, we had an issue.

I was a guest one week and I explained that the Colbert issue was totally financial-related, and his view is, no, it was totally political-related.

And the fact that he had criticized the deal with CBS and Paramount, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

I mean, how would we be in that?

Yes.

Yeah, his show got very political.

He's critical of the right.

Right.

So that's what people are saying: is that SiriusXM, and what I would argue is that SiriusXM looks at its bottom line.

They look at his show and they say, well, wait a minute.

What we're paying him, the billions with an S total in totality, we no longer can do that.

So then we go to Howard Stern and say, okay, we can talk about a renewal, but you're used to X.

It's now going to be Y.

And when people are told that their value has changed, they tend to not want to do the same job.

If you go to Colbert and say, please keep doing this, but we can only afford to pay you $3 million, he's going to say, pounce it.

Howard's going to spin this into a win, and he shouldn't address this story whatsoever until he returns from vacation after Labor Day.

He's just in the Hamptons.

I mean,

he's able.

I mean, I don't know what he's doing.

Yeah, he's able, but why would he do that?

That doesn't serve him.

What serves him is being quiet, let other people spread around their opinions on the matter.

And he returns from vacation after Labor Day, and then you hear it from the horse's mouth.

And just by saying, I told you so,

I guess it's a good plan.

I guess I.

That would be the plan.

That would be the way that Howard Stern would always leverage this type of chatter.

He's the king of all media.

The king.

He'll spin it off like, they think I want to come back?

Okay, so I have not made progress is the bottom line.

AI versus not AI.

What's a good story?

What's true?

I don't think there's a way to make progress.

Everybody else seems to do it.

Mike seems to say that everyone his age and that I'm an old guy.

No, Mike definitely gets fooled sometimes with that kind of stuff.

I get fooled, I don't know, all the time, but I definitely get fooled.

I've gotten fooled.

There's just things you have to check.

I mean, I think you're just upset that you got, like, really taken for a ride with that story of the couple who was lost.

I saw that story, and I was like, this looks fishy.

And I googled it, and it was like, fake news story, fake news story.

The things that are easiest to fool you are the things that you want to believe.

For example, there's a video of the president doing his

dance on the roof.

I looked at that, I'm like, man, I really wish that was real.

No,

see, I don't know.

It's not real.

He doesn't do that.

I don't know.

But just to show you how far gone we are, no joke, when I saw one of my campers when I was there last week, he follows me on Instagram.

And the picture that we shared a couple weeks ago of me as like my all-county photo playing baseball from high school.

We didn't share that yet.

He said, said, well, hold on.

We shared it on the show.

It wasn't my decision.

But

he saw that photo and he said,

wait, that's a real photo of you?

I thought it was AI.

Wow.

That's just a photo of me.

It's because you looked thin?

Oh, because you were tall.

Which was it?

Tall, short, tall.

Good at sports.

It's because you were the first.

My face looked a little different because I was 17 years old.

Also, Sage Rosenfeld's not Jewish, but turns out J.T.

Daniels and Aaron Murray, both of their moms are Jewish.

And Rod Carew.

Converted.

Converted.

And A.J.

Dillon.

How does that work?

Actually,

I believe that's

a chandler.

It's incorrect.

He wore a Jewish star.

Yeah, but that's a different thing.

There are plenty of

players in the Dominican Republic as well who will wear the star of David but are not Jewish.

I don't think I ever saw a Dominican player in my career wear a Jewish star.

Yeah, I saw it

in the academy, the Mets Academy.

When I was recently living there.

Or when you were in the academy.

When I was there.

For two and a half months.

Flamed out, elbow hurt.

Not playing there to teach English.

But that's a story for another day.

That's nice of you.

It's an eye wash when we pay people to teach the Dominican players.

It wasn't paid college credit.

Yeah, that's how it works.

And then we get to say, hey, look, we're trying to take care of these players.

I did my best.

I tried to help, but you are.

I did teach them things.

No, just for optics.

It's optics.

Once they're ready.

But even if the teachers do a good job, it's still just for optics.

Because once we realize that they're not going to be big leaguers and we're not even going to use a Visa on the TV.

Andre Simenez was there.

We just...

All-Star.

We just let him go.

We're going to get a while.

I mean, if they met Rosario to get gold.

Yeah, they were really good.

Do you know the majority of those players, though, don't make it?

Oh, the majority of them are cut after a year.

And they just send them right back to where they are, and it's terrible.

Yeah, it's really rough.

But they got to meet Jeremy, so.

And by the way, they all sign up for it.

They all want to be in the academy.

If they can be in for a year, they will do it and then get to talk about it forever.

And it's a part of their life.

And we totally take advantage of it.

And I feel terribly about it, but we're not the one who's not.

I'm so sure you do.

No, you don't.

I've been ready, it's kind of con man over here.

It's no, this is not just the Marlins.

This is all 30 teams do the exact same thing.

Do not think we're special.

It's the part when you say, I feel terrible about it with a smile.

Because you just, you understand that you're, don't you feel for people when you're giving them a dream that you think can be attained, but you know it can't be, but they think it can be.

Jose Altuve is who everyone holds up as Jewish.

No, as the example where a guy who was signed for no money, who had to try out for days and days and days and days, he wasn't even scouted, and then ends up getting signed and now has a Hall of Fame career.

And every player, particularly Venezuelan players, look at him as this, you know, shining star to hold up as an example of if he can do it, so can I.

Borderline Hall of Fame.

He's a freak, though.

Borderline Hall of Fame.

He cheated.

Oh, okay.

Man, see, it is crazy.

I was shocked.

He got booed loudly every single at-bat.

Why is that a shock?

Lone Depot Park.

I'm surprised that people outside of maybe

Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, the teams that the Astros beat in 2017, I'm pretty surprised that he still gets that treatment around the league considering how great he's been since it happened.

It's like this show a little bit, in that the memories are very long.

Just very, very long.

It just surprises me considering like a lot of the steroid guys didn't even get that.

You know, like once it happened, A-Rod didn't get booed at every single park that he went to for the years after that.

He got booed by certain fan bases, but there were plenty of places he went where it was fine, and he was the worst of them.

The worst of the steroid guys?

Well, in terms of the public reputation, right?

Because it was twice that he had to admit to cheating, twice in a public interview after denying it, it was pretty rough.

I mean, he didn't have to testify in front of Congress and ruin my childhood dreams.

That was the worst day of my childhood.

The worst day of your childhood.

I mean, I lived a pretty privileged childhood.

Like, who in particular was in front of Congress and I'd say, like, McGuire.

I'm like, my favorite player of all time.

I know Palmero did the fan.

Mark McGuire is still to this day my favorite baseball player of the world.

Not here to talk about the past.

That was the worst part of your childhood?

It was awful.

I cried.

I cried watching that.

Are your parents still married?

Yep.

So that's why it was the worst.

Yeah.

No, I've lived a really privileged child.

Did you ever had a mole removed?

Oh, yeah, that shit sucks.

Wisdom teeth?

Yeah, but that was kind of funny.

Yeah, it was kind of funny.

I had really big, chubby cheeks.

He break a bone.

Did you ever?

Yeah, I mean, I'm just asking like top-line stuff.

Ever get caught cheating?

Emotionally, that was rough.

Yeah, do you ever get caught cheating?

I cheated on

a

homework in my seventh grade

Spanish class, and I just used to write like random words in because I knew she didn't check.

And then the one time Senora Costa checked the work and she saw that all I was right, I was like, banana, apple, like just writing not even words in Spanish.

And she checked, and she gave me the, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

And oh, man, it was awful.

But Maguire was worse.

Maguire was way worse.

Awful.

Seems like you were the Maguire Spanish class.

Yeah.

Doing it for a long time.

You finally got caught.

I mean, how long were you manipulating Senora Costa?

A couple months.

Wow.

Oh, that's not as bad.

Maguire was years.

Well, she's out there listening.

He said, I just hope she knows.

I still feel bad about it.

I don't.

I really do.

I don't think so.

I just immediately it came to mind.

You're smiling.

You are smiling, and your smile looks great, like your arms.

Thanks.

Thank you, everybody.

So, before we go, Zaz, Billy, Roy, Mike, Cody,

Jeremy, I've enjoyed this.

What?

And now it's time for me to go.

Oh.

That's it.

You had me here for four days.

And Mike, the first five minutes of our nothing personal interview, memorable.

Memorable.

Better than my appearance?

The audience was all over it.

David, I'd say this week, you made it weird only like three times.

Hey, all right, yeah.

You hit the under.

Like, seriously, over under.

Six and a half.

Yeah.

Ooh, that's crazy.

You had a great week,

pusho.

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