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Yesterday, I advertised a Jeremy Tashay live stream today in honor of the baseball playoffs.

He has run off with an older woman and decided he's not going to do that.

So we will get to his explanation in a second before we cover the baseball playoffs.

I am told that Mike Ryan is going to give baseball a shot today, that Jonathan Zaszlo is going to declare whether something is a big game or not a big game today, even though I thought the playoffs were always big games, but Jonathan Zaszlo

is the judge of these things.

And we've got Tony, who's out in the field, about to give us a top five on football.

I wanted to give you guys a couple of statistics here.

The two touchdowns Darren Waller scored in 34 minutes last night with the Dolphins represent

what

he did in 12 games with the Giants.

12 games with the Giants.

It took him to get the two touchdowns he had last night with the Dolphins.

That was a big dub for you.

I'm happy for you.

That is a big win for Dan Levittard colon ball nowhere.

I was a little off in my assessment of Darren Waller going into this season and really through the first couple weeks of the season.

I think it's important to point that out in case you.

You were going to be gas bag of the week until Don Legreca knocked you off.

I'm sorry about that.

You almost got that.

Another stat, though, for you, Greg Cody.

You were a little uneven today whether you were assessing that Tyreek Hill's injury was season-ending and then you made it career-ending.

I hope I'm wrong.

By the end of the Rossini interview, I believe you killed Tyreek Hill.

We've come quite a way.

Right.

I believe that it could be career-ending, and I sure hope.

But local hour, you said it could be season-ending.

Possibly season-ending.

So there's quite a variance there.

Also, to clean something up, there are three teams that allow a higher rushing average per attempt to their opponents.

It's Bears, Ravens, and Giants.

Is that it?

No.

Bills,

Bears, and Giants.

Keep an eye on that Bills defense.

Stinky bad.

They've been playing bad teams.

I think they're tough.

Ed Oliver has been out.

That changes things.

It really does.

Their pass rush is good.

I understand why it is people think that they haven't beaten anybody.

I should also mention none of Tyreek Hill's $36 million next year is guaranteed.

So that's one of the reasons that he'll probably not be around.

Oh, his Dolphin career feels through.

And it's another thing beyond the humanity of it and seeing a leg, you know, twisted that way.

It's another reason.

It's disastrous.

He did have trade value.

And

now he no longer has trade value.

And he's a human, so it's horrible to see a human being go through that pain.

That's what I said.

You did say that on the front end, but you were just positively reinforced.

Ring of honor for Tyree Kill?

Where?

Kansas City, maybe.

Before we get to baseball, however, and before we get to the Clippers, because they started talking yesterday and they shouldn't have,

let's go out to Tony out in the field.

I don't know where it is that Tony is.

Where is Tony as we get to his top five?

I have not seen him.

I've not been told anything here.

I've been told that it's top five in the field and they've concealed him from me, but they've said that he's sweating a great deal because it's hot out there, even though the mornings have been nice in South Florida the last week.

Nice little breeze.

there has been a breeze because there are so all it took was a couple of hurricanes forming right off the coast in order to get us a little bit of breeze tony where are you joining us from

Welcome Dan to Doral.

I know this is the first time you've probably ever been to Doral electronically, but we were at Doral Legacy Park.

A beautiful day out today and we're going to be trying to kick some field goals in between the top five.

So I'm very excited.

This is a bit of a physical act.

So we'll see.

I actually lost one of the balls, kicked it over the net over there, so we have to actually go find that one.

Or maybe I can expense it.

You let me know.

How many field goals are you going to kick?

After every one, you're going to, how many kicks?

How many field goals are you going to attempt?

We started with five because I had the top five, one kick for every every bullet point.

I lost one, so now we have four.

So we got four kicks.

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Why are you laughing, Greg?

What's it?

Because he's lost one of the footballs?

Yeah.

Yeah, I am.

Also, it doesn't look like he's drawing a 50-yard field goal like Greg Cody.

How long of a field goal are you trying, Tony?

Dan, right now I'm at 40 yards.

We tried it from 35 and I kicked it over the net.

So I'm at 40 right now.

If you want, we can move back.

At the last one, we can try a 50-yarder.

But right now, we're at 40.

We're comfortable with 40.

You're not getting help from Mother Nature.

That looks windy out there.

It's a bit of a win.

I'm going to have to hit it with a bit of a draw.

So that's what I'm practicing on right now before you guys, while you guys were talking to Darren Waller.

Great interview, by the way.

Let's have a bet here.

How many, what's the over-under on field goals made?

Billy, you're always a positive supporter of all things.

Tony, we can nail them all.

I think five, six out of five, if that's even possible.

Greg, what would be your reception?

We only have four balls, though.

What are we betting?

Over-under, he's going to kick four of them.

Do you think he's going to make what's the over-under on the bet?

Half?

Over-under is 1.5.

uh i think he's going to make two okay i mean some would say that he's kicking off a t and that's not exactly kicking field goals you need someone to hold it that's more of a kickoff some would say a t is an advantage that feels a little bit negative what you're doing there i didn't say it some would say that some would say he's a yeah maybe you who doesn't have a holder what were your thoughts on priests earlier do we have olis here tony

We've got two OLIs, Dan.

We'll run through them real quick to get to the top five.

Number one, OLI,

don't be fooled by the mirage of the Chiefs offense.

I'm going to lay that seed in the ground right now.

Do not be fooled by the mirage.

Okay, I think they took advantage of a bad Ravens defense.

I don't know if we're going to see that output offensively throughout the season for the Chiefs.

Maybe when Rasheed Rice comes back, we'll see a little bit better.

I think this is a bit of a mirage, though, Dan.

It's more than that.

That's the first time since the middle of 2023 that he's thrown four touchdowns in a game when we all expected him every game to throw four touchdowns in a game.

That's how he got past Marino at such a young age.

It is a mirage.

Go ahead.

What do you got?

What's your other OLI?

All right, my last OLI here.

I'm going to toss to a video.

J.K.

Dobbins has become my new favorite player in the NFL.

Roll the tape.

What does it mean that a Spanish singer is going to sing in a Super Bowl?

It means a lot.

Solo, solo escucho.

Solo escucho reggaeton, y dimbo, y vachata,

haci que me gusta mucho.

Que bad bunny, y que bonito el bonito el bonito el conejomalo

el

borico el borico sieno mi gusta mucho that's awesome I mean Dan, what can you not love about J.K.

Domins?

Guys, guys overcome 8,000 injuries and only listens to Tregueto dembo and bachata.

Hoy primo mio es el mio vamo

mike, would you do me a favor, please?

Rodriguez from Washington, can you give me the nationality?

Because whenever I've got in the backfield

a Hispanic guy, I'm always surprised by it.

I need to know the guy in Washington, Rodriguez, what is his nationality?

Let's start with number five, Tony.

All right, number five.

Hold on.

Okay, wow.

Okay, this is okay.

This has never happened before.

We've just got to be able to do it.

What just happened?

Beam in.

Yeah, I know.

So this is very important.

I just got a message.

Joe Zagaki wanted me to say in the top five.

Cab Scatabo plays football the right way.

I mean right way.

Excuse me.

Why did Fuentes come into the screen to whisper a joke to you as if he's not on camera?

Joe Zagaki had mentioned to Fuentes to tell it to me, so that's how that worked out.

Why can't he get the ball that you lost?

Because it's over the fence.

You see the fence back there?

About 45 yards away, Billy?

I kicked it over that fence, so it's in the bushes in the house.

We got to go find it.

Chris Rodriguez is Puerto Rican, which to many in the audience, just to clarify, given the tweets around the halftime show, is also American.

Bodico, stand up.

All right, number four, Dano.

Seattle is a sneaky playoff team.

I like what Seattle's doing, Dan.

Best defense in the league right now, according to DVOA.

McDonald's a defense.

They are good.

Sam Darnold looking good in more ways than one.

Nice body on the kid.

Did we change number five?

Did he do number five or did he start with number four?

Number five, Dan, no, number five was Cam Scoutable plays the white.

I mean, right.

Okay, my bad.

Fuentes now.

Okay, I was trying to kick it.

I got this right.

I'm sorry.

I got distracted by Fuentes being out there.

Are you going to now try?

Are you going to kick one now?

You're going to try and kick this?

Here we go.

Yeah, I'm going to kick.

Yeah, I'm going to kick this one right now.

I'm going to give the mic to Fuentes, and I'm going to let it rip, okay?

I can still hear you guys, so you can make fun of me.

All right, let's see here.

He's going to try this.

This is...

He didn't do the thing where you take like three steps back and to the left.

Oh, that's wide violence.

It looks good.

Wide variety.

Short, too.

Short.

Yeah, that was short.

It was short.

That bet.

He's wearing leggings, though.

How is your bet looking good?

I mean, I picked two, and he's already made one.

He needs to get two of the five.

Yeah, but

you needed him to make the first one.

Short the distance right now, though.

I think he's going to get one.

His win, too.

It's tough, guys.

It's tough.

It's really easy from the start.

No, it's hard.

40-yard fear goal is hard.

Greg Cody, one of the most ridiculous things ever said on the show is a 65-year-old Greg Cody saying he can make a 50-yarder.

He would have that take

had he not gotten hurt yeah he wasn't old at that time yeah the hips look good though fluid yeah i like your gait pal number three

number three yeah what do you first of all what are you even doing here what after the after the take you had yesterday what are you even doing there what are you what are we doing about the punch after monday night football what are you what are you doing you you still believe that players should be allowed to punch other players during the game are you crazy yes the ball yes the ball i'm punch the ball But if you miss the ball and you end up punching a player, that's got to be a penalty.

You can't run around punching guys.

Bad take.

Bad take.

Number three, speaking of playoffs, the Ravens are still going to win the division, guys.

Whoa.

Still going to win the division.

That division sucks.

That division sucks.

The Steelers are not that good.

I think the Ravens are going to come back.

They're still going to win the division.

They're still going to make the playoffs.

Roussini says, no, take off your headset and try again.

Let's see if Greg Cody will say he's looking good after he misses this one, too.

Tony, try the three steps back.

You got to measure the left.

Measure, dog.

No, you're just going straight.

There we go.

Come on.

There we go.

Now we're talking.

Yes, yes.

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

He did skip a step.

It seems like.

Yeah, your footing's going to be off.

Counting's hard for some, some would say.

Is that negative for those?

Oh, man.

That was all wind.

That was wind.

Yeah,

that was far to the left.

This is very hard.

I was listening here, guys, as you can tell.

How close were you going to go?

You got to win.

You kicked it over the fence.

Good job, Fuentez.

35 yards.

So it was just five yards further up.

It was just deli.

Not easy.

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Number two.

Number two.

Giants landed a bullseye with Jackson Dart.

Did they?

I don't think.

Did they?

Yeah.

No, they did.

They did.

They did.

They did.

They did.

They upgraded actually.

It could have been worse, Dan.

They upgraded over Russell Wilson.

It could have been worse, Dan.

100%.

100%.

Let me explain to you something before you go here, Tony, about Jackson Dart, because I didn't say this about what he did during the game yesterday.

I mentioned that he punched a dude with a stiff arm.

He danced in the end zone on his touchdown.

He had a moment in the concussion protocol.

And also on a third-down call running play that he didn't like, he started screaming on the field at dayball.

That on a rookie is balls.

The attitude, he's got the attitude, but they ran the ball an awful lot.

I don't trust that.

I'd bet the Saints and your beloved Spencer Rattler to win his first game as a Saint this weekend.

Number one, number two.

What are we on?

Oh, I got a kick for number two.

Here we go.

Yeah, I got a kick for number two.

He's got a kick for number two.

He's got to make this.

Never three steps back, Tony, and then two to the left.

He's not measuring.

He's got to make both of these.

Greg, your bet's not looking good.

He's got to make this.

I don't think he's going to make any of these.

What's the vibes thing?

He thought that it'd be five.

I think he's getting this.

No, that's far to the left.

Very short, too.

No, I don't think it's short, but he's hurting because he is an athlete.

He fancies himself our best athlete, even though Chris Cody has his objections, and so do

today.

Yeah, look at him.

He's a shit.

You should have to think where he's holding his back now.

Be careful.

Be careful, Tony.

You don't want to.

Nelly man.

You have a baby.

What if he goes old school and kicks it straight on?

Yeah, well, my dad tried that with the 50.

It didn't work well.

Or a drop kick, like, drop it on the ground and then the old Bledsoe.

Throw it.

Throw it?

That's a pooch punt, right?

Like, I can't do that.

The old Bledsoe?

Yeah, he did that in a game against the Dolphins.

Was it?

Drew Bledsoe did?

That was Floody.

That was Drew Flutter.

No, I think that was Doug Fluty, yeah.

Yeah, you know.

Okay, the Bledsoe, as I like to call it, when Floody does it.

He said she said.

Number one, Tony.

Number one, Dan, the old dog, Matthew Stafford, still has it.

That's the thing.

And what I mean by it

is, everybody.

Balls.

Balls.

Still got balls.

The old dog, Matthew Stafford, still getting it done, Dan.

Oh, that's Tony's top five.

Here we go, father.

The old dogs still got got balls.

Come on, Tony.

Let's finish.

Put it on the poll at Lebatar Show.

Does the old dog still have balls?

Here it is.

Come on, Tony.

Make one.

Rooting for you, pal.

Tony, are you going to do straight on?

I honestly think it's easier if Fuentes held with a finger.

I think it's honestly the T, I don't think, helps him here, if I'm being honest.

Yeah, it gives him elevation.

It's important that you be honest about these things.

Here we go.

It's a beautiful day in Dorrell.

Come on, make one, Tony.

I could make one.

Oh, boy.

What about taps?

What happened?

That's okay, that's okay.

He did like

that.

He did.

It's okay.

What?

Yeah, he's just pointing at his leg.

He hurt himself.

Did you pull him?

Pull something?

Yeah,

no!

No!

You can't do that!

No!

No!

Hey!

No!

Switch legs!

He pulled something!

Don't make him do it!

Don't make him do it!

Cardimo's not gonna be a bad thing!

Tony thought he could do that!

There is no

doubt, I don't know what he is doing.

Don't make it.

Cardamoff blow kisses.

How?

No.

No, this can't be real.

You still kick, pal.

No, no, that's a human resources issue.

We can't have him injure himself more.

I'm already

probably liable.

For those of you in the audio audience, he went up to the ball and then just walked off and hurt himself and now is laying on his side on the 45-yard or 35-yard.

He's pointing to the lower point of his hip.

That is

the best.

I'm sorry, Tony.

We'll check.

Was that a bit?

Is he trying to fool us?

Okay.

I think he's hurt.

I feel Jimmy.

No, I think he's hurt himself something.

Come on, do not.

His ego's hurt.

He would never back up.

He's hurt, okay?

I don't care if I'm hurt.

I'm still kicking that ball for the audience.

Yeah, I will tell you that this is a dad body situation, is what's happening here.

He used to be

a young man and an athlete, and it's just,

he's not resting enough.

He's not getting enough sleep.

He's not eating correctly, and he's not the athlete that he used to be.

Pathetic.

Great teammate, Dan.

You are.

I'm sorry to say all of that.

Is that positive?

Yeah, he said that positively.

As a matter of fact, great teammate.

And I'm sure Tony's warm-up kicks were amazing.

He's wearing spikes.

This is pathetic.

Custom spikes, it looks like, too.

Those are spikes.

Those are Jordan's spikes.

Those are Jordan's spikes.

Those are really good shoes.

All right.

Can you play the song that makes fun of Cody about the time that he delusionally thought he could make a 50-yard field goal and then just injured himself?

I've

In an 80s shirt

and a 70s haircut,

and on the show, he's like a knuckleball, curveball.

I can hit a home run, Kershaw, Verlander.

Don't matter who is throwing.

I don't care.

I'll hit them 400 feet in there.

And then great.

I can take D, Wade and Bosch.

I'm the double team.

Find the open man.

And even if they're guarding me, I don't care.

I'm draining threes from everywhere.

And I can kick field gold.

Field goals.

Like my idol for Drevis.

I'll hit from 50 yards at least.

Even though I'm missing PATs, I'm good enough to place wagers.

Wagers.

And win the money from Labatar.

And then I'll...

I think I just bought my quad.

Tony's legitimately hurt.

I don't think he's faking any of that.

No, no.

Look, he's too proud.

He's got that Cuban machismo pride.

That's why you don't go up and miss the last attempt.

Yeah, you can take the last kick.

No,

he does.

He's not a quitter.

He looks great.

He's still with us if you want to talk to him.

Yeah.

Tony, I'm worried about you.

Guys.

Yeah, no.

On the last kick that obviously I pushed wide left, I felt a little bit of a click in my in my in my hip.

And you tried to play through.

It's not a big deal.

You tried to play through.

I did, I did.

So

the last one, when I marked back, I was like, all right, I'm going to have to give this one all I got, but my leg might go further than the ball kind of situation.

Like my leg might rip off from the hip and like dangle off into

the end zone.

And

as I was going for the approach, I felt the hip go, mm, I don't think so, puppy.

And that's how I had to pull up.

I I had to pull up, guys.

The real ones say not today.

I know.

No, oi.

The great ones do.

The great ones.

They feel very positive.

Yeah.

No, I'm talking about the great ones.

I'm just letting him know what the great ones say.

That implies

not a great one.

No, I'm trying to motivate him.

It's not that positive, man.

What do you mean?

I think

you're going to have to do this again tomorrow.

No falsehoods.

I said the great ones say, I'm trying to motivate him.

I don't understand what you're doing.

I don't know.

That was not positive.

I didn't feel very positive.

No, you tried to be positive today.

You failed.

You're out.

You got to do it again tomorrow.

Tomorrow, say Zero words.

That's what you get.

But it's a wild Billy Wednesday.

Well,

that's okay.

Reap what you sow.

You've got to say something positive.

You reap what you sow.

There's consequences.

You keep thinking they're not consequences to things.

You didn't say something positive there.

There were three balls out of five that he decided himself to throw somebody out of the time.

There we go.

Just rip off the Mustang.

Just let it go.

Welcome back.

Just rip it off.

Go kick the ball.

Get up and kick the ball.

What are you doing?

Or I have Fledges Fuentes kick the ball.

Why do you have 15 people out there?

Someone kick the ball.

We were promised five kicks.

Someone kick a ball.

I knew you could.

Kick a ball.

I'm proud.

Someone put the ball down and kick the ball.

Man up.

Who's there?

Or woman up.

Whoever's out there.

Is Rose out there?

Rose, kick a ball.

We need a payoff, pal.

Someone.

Where's Danny?

Kick a ball.

All right.

Fuentes, you want to give it a try?

Fuentes going to kick the ball.

He's been waiting for it.

No, he's going to kick the ball.

Good time.

If he kicks this ball, he gets Tony's family.

Let Fuentes do do it.

Look at that lettuce, though.

Let's go.

Let's go ahead.

Look at those cats.

Fuentes wasn't ready for this.

Do you realize how great it would be if Fuentes nailed it?

Fuentes, I am begging you to make it.

Oh, he's got good form.

He's going to go begging.

You don't have to have two introduction.

Can you put the right arm up here?

Here we go.

Come on, Fuentes.

Oh, wow.

Just like Luke Rosa.

Just like pot-bellied Nick Folk.

Oh, Tony!

Loser!

You loser!

That was great effort.

Jelly boy.

It's hard to do.

Jelly boy.

Slice an angry.

Whoa.

Slice.

Jeremy, why did you make me a false advertiser?

I said you were going to do a live stream.

We were going to cover baseball correctly.

We weren't going to have baseball totally segregated like we totally do around here too often.

Why are you not now doing a live stream when we've got four playoff baseball games today?

So I was going to do a live stream.

We were trying to bring in different friends of the show to be a part of it.

Started getting some wishy-washiness.

And then I got a call from Jane Levy saying that unfortunately she couldn't make it.

She was given tickets to the Yankees-Red Sox game in New York.

And I said, oh, man, that's such a great decision.

Obviously, like, go do that.

Don't worry about the live stream.

She's like, oh, I wish I could go.

No, but she did then say, well, that's part of the reason I'm calling you.

I have an extra ticket.

Would you like to go?

And I said, are you serious?

And she said, would have been great if she's like, yes.

I've been assessing with you and I've taken you.

So I'm about to head out of here, and I bought a lot of second flights in New York, and I'm going to go to the Yankees-Red Sox game with my new best friend, Jane Levy.

I love that for you.

I'm so excited.

She's so wonderful.

He's got put out right.

That's a big first date.

He really is.

Pressure's on.

How bad do you want these tickets, pal?

Yeah.

I already have the tickets.

It's the implication, though.

No, we're just best friends.

I don't

know.

The best relationships start as friendships, right?

It's true.

I met my wife when I was 12.

There you go.

How old is she?

16.

Really?

That's what's up, right?

Wow.

When did you guys start dating?

When I was a little bit older.

How old was she?

Don't pin them down on this one anymore.

Well, it's the same age difference, four years.

And how old was she when you started dating?

In her 20s.

And how old were you?

Yeah.

Four years less.

14.

Oh, boy.

All right.

Everybody just piped down.

That's what's up.

Proud of you.

Thanks.

It's good stuff.

Anyway, I'm going to have a great time at at this Yankees game.

Go to Yankees Red Sox in the playoffs.

Which state were you in?

Florida.

A state of bliss.

Do you want me to do the baseball live stream?

I can do that.

Who's playing?

Want to wait first pitch, right?

We got guards, tigers.

Yeah, Scoobel on the mound.

All right, I'll do it.

I can baseball this thing up.

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Don Lebatard.

You don't remember the idea?

I was probably like, that kind of thing.

Something.

Okay, no, the home run call was that kind of swing, that kind of thing.

Stugats.

Oh, it's a good call.

Thank you.

And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it.

Like, you're not tailoring it to a particular name.

You know, all that jazz, you know, you don't got to do that.

Oh, that would be a great call.

Oh, that's a good one.

That's a swing, that kind of thing.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Big game or not a big game, it is time for some new imaging that we have around here.

This is part of Saszlo's legacy here.

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Are you ready for big game, not a big game?

What are we we doing this on, Zaslow?

Are we doing it on each game?

Are we doing it on just today?

Because I assume all baseball playoff games, wild card or not, are big games.

Dan, we're dealing with what's in front of us.

We have four Major League Baseball wild card games.

Howdy, folks.

Welcome to big game

or not a big game

with Jonathan Zaslow.

first up here Dan

one o'clock on ESPN the Detroit Tigers at the Cleveland Guardians game one American League Wild Card now the Tigers Dan they have a starting catcher called Dylan Dingler you know that fool I'm writing this down it'll be hugely helpful for my live stream at 108.

The Guardians they have Jonkenzi Noel.

He might not start for Cleveland.

He might only be hitting 162, but his nickname is Big Christmas.

That's right.

Don't be surprised if he hits a big home run today or if he has a big series overall.

Tigers,

Guardians, game one.

That's a big game.

Big game.

That's a big game.

I will be surprised if he hits a home run.

Isn't Scoobel pitching?

Scoobel is on the mountain.

That's going to be really interesting.

He's got a 0.68 ERA against the Guardians this year, but third straight start against him in about a week and a half.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Sorry.

I'm sorry.

Sorry.

Sorry.

You made your choice.

Yeah, exactly right.

Next up, 3 p.m.,

ABC,

Padres

at Cubs.

Game one,

National League Wild Card Series.

Now, this game, like you heard me say, it's on ABC.

That's a little bit weird, right?

But you know what that means.

Padres, Cubs, Wrigley Field.

That's a big game.

Big game.

Can you name some players for me?

I'm just trying to follow.

Is that Tatis still around?

Andre Dawson.

Big game.

Sean Dunstan.

Big game.

Mark Grace.

Big game.

Next up.

Tatis does lead off for the Padres.

6 p.m.

Did Kyle Tucker figure it out?

ESPN.

Red Sox

at Yankees.

Game one, American League Wild Card.

Both starting pitchers have a last name.

That's a verb, Dan.

You got Garrett Crochet and Max Freed.

That's right.

Those are verbs.

Very important grammatically in the English language.

Now, these two teams, they hate each other.

You know about Pesky Pole, Dan?

I do.

It doesn't matter because the the game is in Yankees Stadium.

Red Sox at Yankees.

Game one?

Obviously.

That's a big game.

I got one.

I'll be there.

I know.

Where are you sitting?

Did you ask her where you're sitting?

I got really good seats.

That would have been a funny follow-up.

Like, where are the seats?

What are you guys wearing?

Like, what do you wear to this?

You're just going to wear a t-shirt and jeans.

Oh.

Thanks for asking.

Okay.

Are you coming up with a list of like conversation pieces?

You don't want any like downtime, you know?

A bottle of wine for her parents, maybe.

You're going to want to wear some sweatpants if you catch Madrid.

I'll have her back home before curfew.

Good lord.

I got one more for you ass here, Dan.

9 p.m.

ESPN.

Reds at

Dodgers.

Now, the Reds, they kind of stink.

They got in because the Marlins beat the Mets.

The Marlins did them a solid.

The Dodgers, they shouldn't stink.

You would think the Dodgers with their payroll would have had a buy.

But nonetheless, here they are.

If they lose in the wild card series the reds oh

reds dodgers game one

that's not a big game it's not a big game

that's not a game

that's not a big game

nope nope dodges are gonna smoke them reds don't belong not a big game not a big game Okay,

big surprise there at the end.

I thought all playoff games were big games.

You didn't know that I was going to say that.

A real surprise there.

Put it on the poll at Lebatarge aren't all playoff games big games I want to get to some of the clippers reaction here from media day to all of Pablo Torrey's reporting but first we've got Ray Hudson's call of the day

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This is what they want.

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Here's a whipped in ball beautifully delivered again.

Do you think they've cleared it?

Do you think wrong?

Mickey, onto it, like Dracula onto a plane of liver.

And he absolutely detonates this.

One touch to control.

Second one to send it home with a dozen roses tied around it.

Have Roy just say the word weak and let's make it call of the week.

We're going to run out of calls to try and get to the World Cup.

No, that's crazy.

We've got to just put Roy's voice in there just saying weak.

That reminded me on my dad's podcast this week.

He called the Monday Night Game last night between Jets Dolphins the game of the week.

W-E-A-K.

Good line by him.

He's a writer.

The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody.

What's on there?

What are you doing with the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody?

We actually have a guy, you may remember.

he used to be on this show.

Stugatz is with us on

the Greg Cody show.

That's a good guest.

How's he doing?

We had some fun.

He's good.

He's good.

He's good.

Of course, we ask him all the questions you'd think we would ask him.

And so you've got to listen to that.

Christopher interviews me and got some information out of me that I barely remembered, such as starting a field on fire to the point where the

fire department had to be called.

Here, I have this story actually.

I was very young at the time.

Let's let the audience listen to this.

I think we actually once started a field on fire.

It was the summer and everything was, you know, lightable.

Everything was going to light.

And we lit a fire in a field.

You know, no structures were damaged.

Nobody was hurt.

And it obviously stopped.

Well, we took off and watched it from a distance.

I think

it was.

A fire truck came.

Yeah.

Wow, that's intense.

And you guys didn't get in trouble?

No, because nobody ever knew.

You know, I mean, I don't mean to imply that there was a big bonfire covering a whole block.

I mean, it was probably put out, you know, within 15, 20 minutes.

As a kid, Greg and his friends starting a fire in a field.

Yeah, well, he asked me if I had gotten into any trouble.

I didn't really get in trouble, but that was a mischievous kind of thing to do.

You said you also stole gum from

the middle.

I never did that.

Who didn't?

People who don't steal didn't.

You go in a store, you put a pack of juicy fruit in your pocket.

No.

I mean, I was like six years old, seven years old.

So this started at a really young age for you.

Well, it didn't continue, but it started, yeah, when you met your wife, Zaz.

That's what I was just going to say.

That's when you started dating your wife.

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Can you get for me, please, some of the sound from Clippers Media Day?

Lawrence Frank talked, and also Ramona Shelburne.

Was this a back and forth with Kawhi Leonard?

Because Ramona

was asking difficult questions at Media Day, and I have noticed, and surely

the audience that is making Pablo's numbers explode because Pablo's the only one with good information here.

The audience has noticed that no one is covering this well because they can't.

I don't even blame the media.

I'm not even saying that this is about partnerships or compromise conflicts.

It's just too complicated a story for much of the media to be be able to cover it correctly.

And so you've got a whole bunch of people refraining from covering it and it's conspicuous in its absence.

How is it?

Pablo's laid it all out there in really digestible ways.

I don't think it is.

I think what makes it difficult for these media companies to cover this is because the NBA basically has partnerships with all of them and they don't want to talk about this.

But in terms of being easy to follow and report on, the reporting's been done for them.

It's not like networks don't talk about stories that aren't reported initially by them.

So I don't buy that.

I think something larger is at play, Zaz.

I found myself really,

I don't know if angry is the right word, but I was certainly annoyed watching the response from not just the president of the Clippers, Lawrence Frank, but also specifically Kawhi Leonard.

So they're doing media day and Kawhi Leonard is up there, you know, on the podium.

And Ramona, like, it's not a one-on-one.

It's in the regular press conference setting but she clearly it's like hey everybody kind of you know step aside Ramona's got a few questions here

what is your understanding of the endorsement deal that you had with the company that that was that's been talked to aspiration and did you perform any services for them

when you say understanding what do you mean like the of the contract you signed and how much money you were to receive what you were supposed to perform for those services I understand that full contract and and the services that I had to do um like I said I don't deal with the conspiracies or the clickbait

analyst or journalism that's going on.

So

that's what it is.

I think the allegation was that you didn't perform any services for them.

Is that accurate or did you?

I don't think it's accurate, but it's old.

This is all new to you guys.

The company went bankrupt a while ago, so we already knew this was going to happen.

You were named as like the largest creditor in the bankruptcy filing, right?

Did you actually get the money that was owed to you in the contract?

No.

The company went belly up.

It was frauded, as everybody knows.

If you want any more questions or more details about that company, you need to ask the owner or whoever else is involved in the fraud that went on.

Right, I think they said they owed you $7 million or something, right?

I'm not sure.

I got to look back at the books, but no, it's more than that for sure.

Do you have any idea of how much you actually made on that?

No,

it was like two, three, four years ago.

Yeah, like the whole thing made me really angry.

I mean, first off, he understands the full contract, but then, you know, when he's asked, did he perform or not perform what he was supposed to do for the endorsement deal?

I don't think that's accurate.

Well, listen, man, if you understand the full contract, you know if you performed or did not perform what was asked of you.

And then the whole, you you know, this is old news.

This is just new to you guys.

Kawhi, we're all just finding out about it now, all right?

You know, not to compare it to a crime, because in his case, like a crime was not committed here, but if we find out about a crime from a couple of years ago, you knew about it.

It's it's we're just finding out about it now.

So we're going to treat it as such.

It doesn't matter that you knew about the crime that took place and it was a few years ago.

Like who cares about it?

You can't say not to compare it to a crime and then call it a crime.

Well, he he was given ample opportunity to detail and outline what he did to earn some of that money.

And he didn't.

Like, if you actually did, if this is a false story and you actually did stuff for this company to ostensibly earn all that money, you have every opportunity to say in detail what you did in a way that would be verifiable.

It's all playing dumb.

It's just playing dumb.

Well, this was interesting to me.

The Clippers had plenty of time to prepare for what they did yesterday.

And I understand Kawhi being clumsy around this because he is not a good spokesman, not a good public figure.

Not someone you would want to endorse your product?

Not somebody that should be speaking about

accusations like this in a way that is sophisticated.

Maybe he's just sparing us boring details.

Like, Greg, what did you do day to day four years ago at the Herald?

Like, you don't want to tell us everything you did.

He's just sparing us.

Here is the Clippers president, Lawrence, being the opposite of Frank.

Which was, has Dennis Robertson, Kawhi's uncle, ever asked for any extra benefits that wouldn't be allowable under the NBA settler cap directly to you?

There's been a lot coming out of his asks.

Yeah, look, Dennis knows the rules.

Kawhi knows the rules.

Mitch Franklin knows the rules, and we know the rules.

Is that a yes or a no?

Yes, we all know the rules.

What?

What?

That's with preparation.

Like, they had weeks to prepare for this day, and that's the best they could do.

Did you rob that bank?

We know the wall.

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