The Big Suey: David's Gift (feat. David Samson)

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David Sampson, somehow, and I don't really understand how he's doing this, and I'm about to ask him why he's doing it, continues to trudge through and

do nothing personal every day because he has a special relationship with his audience.

He appreciates his audience.

I assume that's a big part of the answer.

But what he's going through at home is true horror, and I won't delve into too many of the details here.

You can catch up on nothing personal if you want to know.

But one of the details I did want to ask him about as someone who cares about him and knows about him because he's got a sick child, daughter in the hospital, is he seems particularly ill-equipped to be trapped in a hospital as someone who likes his control and, you know, is a bit of a control freak, and he's in a situation that leaves him pretty powerless.

So David, thank you for joining us.

And before we get to the sports of the day, why are you still working at a time that it must be very, very hard to work?

Well, I'm only doing three shows this week.

And

I took two weeks after this happened.

And I wanted to get back because I missed the audience.

I missed the feeling of

trying to be normal, of trying to control stuff.

And the thing about having someone who's sick with my daughter is that I can't.

plan anything.

So during today's this morning's show, two things have happened is that an appointment, doctors don't care about my schedule.

When an appointment changes, like in the middle of a live show, sometimes I just have to go because I don't get asked to, for, whether, are you free on this day at this time?

There's no, it's not mutual at all.

And then you wait 45 minutes.

So

what I'm trying to say is that we had a 9.40 today

and it's not 9.40 or whatever time you're listening to this.

And I get a lovely text saying, hey, sorry, are you okay?

15 minutes late.

Cody couldn't get himself together and I can't stay long today

because I was supposed to be gone, but then it changed.

That's Greg Cody.

That's all Greg Cody's fault.

It's very low on your list of problems and complaints at the moment, but blame Cody.

No, I just don't understand.

If you told Cody, I didn't know.

I spoke to Billy last night, if I could say that, Billy, and

I was...

happy to talk to you and and thankful.

I don't know if I'm allowed to say that.

I don't know what else to say anymore.

Well, David doesn't know how to be a human being, and I'm going to betray him now by expressing one of the ways that he tries to be a human being but fails while you cannot express that either.

No, I'm going to.

No rules for anyone.

I have to now.

There's this lying button.

All of you guys, all of you guys were deeply touched that David sent you a gift until you started talking and realized he had sent you all the same gift.

And then Roy realized that he hadn't gotten the same gift that you guys got.

And so what was a very thoughtful gesture by David ends up in

disaster.

He still actively is.

I did not want to do this.

And we all said don't do it on air.

I did a place on my wall waiting for that.

Yes.

Let me tell you how offended I am.

Dan,

that's just now.

That's just wrong what you're doing.

That's just wrong.

What was the gift?

One of the coolest things I've ever received.

Absolutely.

Genuinely.

If you can't figure out why certain people in the company got that specific gift, and Roy, if you're listening, it wasn't a Panthers gift.

It was a Marlins-related gift.

He loves baseball.

I know that about him.

Bro, we know that about him.

He's the only one here who hit a home run at the old Marlins Park.

I saw it went right over my head.

It was very impressive.

Petalbat.

Dan, that...

Listen, if you guys are really pissed, then I have nothing to say to any of you.

Like, if that's really how you feel,

then I didn't say they were pissed.

No, whoa, I didn't say they were pissed.

I said they were touched.

They were all touched.

And then they started talking, and they realized they gotten the same gift.

And then Roy realized he hadn't gotten a gift because they all talked about how thoughtful your gift was.

That's how it happened.

I'm not saying that they were pissed.

They were not pissed.

They all thought it was thoughtful, so thoughtful that they mentioned what a great gift it was.

And that's how the cat left the previously aforementioned bag.

I didn't mention it at all.

Yeah.

And I wrote.

Are all the notes the same?

Well, we didn't get her notes.

I kept it to myself because I assumed you sent me a nice personal gift.

And then just a couple of minutes ago, when the three of them were talking about a gift they received, received My heart sank I only didn't tell Billy just because I was like wow Billy would love this more than anyone.

Okay, so if you if you must know and this is a bit of a spoiler alert for upcoming episode of Mystery Crate I yesterday we were talking on mystery crate and I was saying how like you know just how kind of this happened and a timeline whatever and I was like you know and I had a conversation with Dan last Monday was like a really emotional day gone whatever and then I get home and I see this giant box on my doorstep and it's from David Sampson and how how like it was such an emotional day and like forever I'll remember that the day that I came in and had this conversation and said I'm going to be leaving whatever I opened this really thoughtful gift from David Sampson with this nice note whatever and then Chris is like got the same gift and I was like whoa like what happened here I had this memory I was like what a sweet man he sent me this thing it's a difficult time obviously for him as well and I'm never gonna forget that on this hard day for me it ended with this very thoughtful gift and then he's like not as thoughtful I got one too so then Jeremy's like me too it's not any less sweet to me I'm telling you no really made me cry it did I mean come on crocodile wind me let me tell you guys it's it so

I also David was wondering

we were talking and I was also wondering David I said you know what is this is this David potentially showing in my face you weren't at this game and you will never have been at this game I'm sending you this lineup card so you never forget what I did to you you son of a f ⁇ so I'll give you the background because now you've done it Dan and it's so wildly inappropriate of you

but you've that's your choice it's your show it's your name on the show i'm happy for you it's really nice so the background is that i was lucky enough to be at ichiro's game in 2016 when he hit his 3000th hit in colorado And I had the foresight at the time to get lineup cards from that game and have them done and authenticated as the lineup cards from the game.

And I asked Don Mattingly and managers sign lineup cards and I asked Ichiro to sign the lineup card because he started that game and it had been a big thing.

Would he play that day and get his 3,000th head on the road or not?

Then I got game tickets from that day and I asked Ichiro to sign those.

And I had them for 10 years.

This happened in 16, nine years.

And I said after my daughter got sick, I started trying to control those things I could control.

So I started doing things that I had not done, one of which was to get these framed.

And it was no small thing.

I got them framed, and I had a certain number of them.

And I had to make decisions on who would get them.

And now, if you want to feel badly enough, I will tell you, well, I'm not even.

Go on.

No.

Okay.

I will.

When you go through and you make a list of who you think would enjoy it, who it would be meaningful to.

And I had allocated in my head that it would be for

my three children would get one and people I've worked with who have a relationship with baseball or with Ichiro,

including someone else in our company who got one, Dan.

And I forgot about a name.

And so I took one away from

my sick daughter thinking, A, she doesn't doesn't like baseball b will she not even know if i she doesn't have one cheap trick he just played on us now because i didn't wow once it's all one of the names it's an elaborate dance

it's an elaborate dance he just did to show

this is what you must feel like a real asshole dan this is what he just did

he and you should he just checkmated me because he made his list he makes a lot of little lists he made his list and roy wasn't on it and look at how he just did it this is why he's the grand negotiator that he he is.

That was sophisticated what he just did to me.

It was very good.

It was very well done.

Fine.

I put my sword down.

That's the reason you didn't get Roy one.

So that's it.

Thank you.

I'm not giving up.

Anything else you want to talk about today?

Roy can have mine now that the emotional aspect of this has been so diluted.

I will say this, like, it was a replica, and at the time, at the time,

it was a replica.

Okay.

It's authentically signed.

No, it is signed.

I'm saying it wasn't the one that was in the dugout.

It doesn't matter.

None of that matters.

I don't even know if they weren't plastered all over the dugout, and maybe there were.

It would be funny if it's like wallpaper on the dugout that day.

Billy is right.

It doesn't matter.

No, it doesn't matter.

I will say this, though, because

they do sell replicas of this thing, but these are not the replicas that they sell.

These are like hand-marked by Don Mattingly with all of the changes in the game.

So whether or not it's the one that was in the dugout in the day, it's not like one that you just buy.

He went in there and it changed the lineup, who came in to pinch hit, what the pitching change.

Like all of that is marked, which is not something that's available to the public.

So, Billy, the way we do that is when something special happens, we will ask, and you have to ask Major League Baseball, and the umpires, and the other team, because there's one official lineup card.

And when and everything's authenticated, there's a sticker on your lineup card.

So, it's actually authenticated.

You can ask for permission to get more lineup cards, just like you can ask to change bases in a big game.

You can ask to change bases more often so you have have more things to give or to sell or to give to charity or to just have in your collection.

And so this was a game where we had a thought that he's going to get the four at bats.

He's going to get the 3,000th hits.

So we asked for more lineup cards and I had a total of 18 of them made.

And I've had them with me all this time.

And I just now got them all framed and was able to FedEx them with notes to people.

That is true of how that is.

Genuinely, David, one of the the coolest things I ever got.

Genuinely, thank you.

Like, sincerely.

And Dan, apologize.

You ruined this moment.

Well, I'm not going to apologize.

And furthermore, he just claimed he sent me one, and his daughter can have the one that he sent me because I have not seen the one he claimed.

I didn't send you one.

You were cut from the list.

Oh.

Okay, but it's okay because the last time I sent you something, that you just don't, your place is cluttered.

You have no attachment to it.

I thought there'd be no meaning for you to have it.

And I thought that Pablo would actually want one.

And so Pablo got one.

See, I knew you did not.

I knew that you thought that that was him saying he also sent one to you.

He was scolding you by saying your name.

He wasn't saying he also sent one to Dan.

He was saying that sent another one.

Dan.

Don't take it personally, David.

One year I remember is like one of my first years on the show.

Like I got Dan a Christmas gift and I wrote like a nice, what I thought was a nice like handwritten Christmas card.

And then we came back from the break like two weeks later.

And so I was still on the desk and I was like, all right, I'm throwing this in the trash.

So it's not just.

I was repressed back then.

I wasn't somebody more than made up for it.

I miss that guy.

Lewis always tells Dan when he leaves, I love you.

And Lewis just goes, Thank you, Lewis.

Thank you.

I had the same relationship with my father.

This is a true story.

My father, my brother and I would say, I'm saying this as more than 30 years, not joking, me and my brother, Dad, when we say I love you to you, you say I love you back.

Yeah, and so I just became my father.

I was repressed, but not anymore.

I love you, Billy.

I love you, David.

But not Lewis.

But not Lewis.

Thank you.

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You were that kind of sad this morning, taking the barrage of anger from Stugatz because you hadn't booked him enough interviews.

I, the only reason I keep bringing this up is because you not are throwing a big party on Thursday.

You're doing it, and I want people to support what you're doing because Stugatz has not made this easy.

Stugats.

Um, well, you know, I, well, yeah, you know, this is the Don Lebatar show with the guys.

So, the thing I wanted to talk about with David, because he's having some trouble finding, you know, the importance in things that used to be important.

Baseball, you care about it deeply.

These playoffs have been great.

The level of play is absurd.

It's a totally absurd level of play.

You've gotten used to it because it's been like this for about six or seven years.

Pitching overwhelming.

What have been your big baseball takeaways?

What have been the things that have reached you?

I just can't believe everyone throws 98.

It just at any point in the bullpen, every starter.

And it turns out, like last night's game with George Kirby, when the Mariners got off to the 2-0 lead, and you're thinking, my God, are the Mariners going to go to their first World Series?

This is Hollywood stuff.

Like Mike Scherstoff, Ichiro, goes into the Hall of Fame.

His number is going to be, is retired.

There's going to be a statue and they're going to get a World Series appearance and then maybe even a World Series victory if anyone can beat the Dodgers.

And everything's going great.

You got Kirby on the mound.

And all of a sudden, Vladimir Guerrero says, okay, I think we're going to win this game.

And the Blue Jays put a 13 spot and Kirby had a wear like seven or eight runs.

And you realize that, A, the Blue Jays are just a way better team than the Yankees, which is something that we can talk about.

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Oh, but Cody, Cody, Cody, we know he's a boob, but Cody yesterday is if he doesn't know what Monster Mashers Toronto is even without Bachette.

Cody is at risk of having to walk from here to Seattle on that knee because he thinks that it's he thought at 2020 that it was guaranteed that it's going to be Mariners-Dodgers, and that's foolhardy in this sport.

Well, it's 11%, Cody.

There's 11% chance when a home team loses the first two games of a seven-game series that that team will go on and win the series.

The Yankees did it in 96.

The Mets did it in 86, and one other team did it, but that's it.

But clearly, it's not over if you are Toronto.

I think the Dodger-Milwaukee series, and I hate to say this for my friends in Milwaukee, who I love and the city I love and for Yelich, who I want to get a ring.

But it is, I think you're going to see the Dodgers again from the National League.

But in the American League, the Blue Jays, think about the game tonight.

I mean, Max Scherzer has no business pitching a postseason game.

He's a number nine starter right now with a number one starter's mouth.

That's what he is.

And you're looking at Luis Castillo, not the Marlins second baseman, but the Marlins pitcher who we traded five times.

He's going for the Mariners, and they have the clear advantage.

If they go up 3-1, you got to believe.

But even then, Toronto can do three in a row without a real big issue.

So this series is up in the air, Chris.

We know we have to get you out of here.

It's not Chris Cody.

It's Greg Cody that's got to walk to Seattle.

Oh, excuse me.

How can Greg Cody walk?

I'll probably end up doing it for him.

He said 58 days it'll take him, so he's going to do it.

You think it takes 58 days to walk from Florida to Seattle?

It takes that long to fly to Seattle.

It takes 60 days, but Greg said he could do it in 58.

Now, he also has an appointment tomorrow at the doctor because he has a trick knee right now that he has to have possibly surgery on.

So it may be delayed, this walk of his.

This is worse than the onion trick.

It's worse than any pepper that could be eaten.

You can't make Greg Cody.

I've done some races like this.

You'll kill him.

You'll kill him, guys.

He can't walk across country.

He made the bet.

He's the one who said it.

He shocked me when he volunteered it.

He said, with the Mariners up 2-0 and with the Dodgers up 2-0, if it's not Mariners-Dodgers, he will walk to Seattle.

But that, he didn't mean that.

He didn't say what he means?

No,

he obviously didn't.

The question is, what will you make him do?

I would make him fly to Seattle.

It's just as bad for Miami.

I want to get to your movie review for a second, but I also want to talk again about the Expos documentary that you are in.

When is that coming out?

You are featured in the trailer.

I assumed you'd be the star and a star villain of this film.

You have now seen it, yes.

Yes.

Netflix, it's amazing what happens when you have a sick daughter.

All sorts of ills can be passed over.

So Netflix contacted me.

They wanted to be a part of the premiere in Montreal, which was my plan.

I was going to do a live nothing personal with old Expos players and all sorts of things.

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We'd like you to watch the movie.

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And it comes out October 21st.

And let's just say that the trailer that Netflix cut, the people who made the movie, I'd like to ask your Hollywood people this, the people who made the movie didn't cut the trailer.

Netflix cut the trailer, and it's not exactly how the movie goes, I'll say.

But I am certainly in it as a featured interview, sort of like the narrator that carries the story forward.

And I make it clear that it is all Derek Jeter's fault, obviously.

Sorry, the local Canadian partner's fault that the Expo's left.

Wow, that was something interesting that just happened with your short-circuiting of your brain chemistry.

That wasn't on paper.

No, he just instantaneously blamed Jeter.

I blamed Jeter for, like, I was going to call Jeter and blame him for my daughter's sickness, but I thought that I wouldn't do that.

That seems a bit like.

No.

Did you send Jeter that you threw a card at him?

No.

No, I definitely cheetah.

He wasn't on any list.

No.

I'd like to know where the pictures are of us from the 03 World Championship that he had removed from Marlins Park.

Now that he's been fired, I was going to speak to Bruce Sherman and see if we can get those back somehow.

Even if he doesn't want to put them up, maybe they could just send them so I could have them.

But they're all gone from the ballpark.

No, obviously Derek had nothing to do, nor would he even wish this.

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I've heard from a lot of people, but I've not heard from Derek Jeter.

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But no, I didn't kill the Expos, Dan, at all.

And you'll watch the movie and you'll discover that it was Canadian people who killed the Expos, not me.

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I kind of agree this is a trap game.

Stugats.

I kind of do too, but I wanted to pick the top ones

against the spread.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Nothing personal is the name of the podcast.

I urge you to listen to it.

He is doing an extraordinary thing because of his connection with his audience.

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But the audience is helping him and it helps him in some way to have a couple of hours a day, I would assume, where he's thinking about something else.

We're running out of time and he's got to go.

So let's combine two things here.

First,

his movie review, but also let's have the bucket come in here and let's have him also select from the Dentech bucket so that he can suffer the punishment.

if he loses.

Give us your review while we're doing the bucket here, David, and we'll just say in the interim what it is that has been selected.

I've had enough punishments, but I'm happy to do it again.

But I'm reviewing a movie that I thought would be the perfect movie for me to watch during this time, and it's called The Threesome.

How do you watch a movie called The Threesome and not think of Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin, and Josh Charles?

Great movie.

How do you not think that you are about to watch something in the middle of the night that's going to actually give you a distraction?

And it turns out the threesome is about a threesome that happens where they don't show anything.

Zoe Deutsch, nothing.

And then all of a sudden, she's pregnant.

That's what the movie's about.

It's about in a threesome when both of the girls get pregnant and what happens after that?

It is the most mistitled, mislabeled, mistake movie, wasted time, time that I don't have.

And I kept hoping, is there going to be like a pregnancy threesome?

Is there going to be something else that will draw my interest?

and it was about like

abortion it was about all of these other political topics were you hoping it was going to be porn yes

Jeremy what did you select called the threesome I took the bangles but I'm putting it back okay

what are you getting now here let's see what we're doing here David you could have just watched porn

I got the Giants

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Bad pick, Jeremy.

The Giants are at Denver.

They're a seven and a half point dollars.

I don't know how I put back minus five or plus five and a half and got something worse.

Mike Ryan is going now.

Have you ever been to the bucket, David?

Yes, except you didn't make me serve the punishment, which I thought was weird because you make people serve punishments, but you didn't make me.

You have to serve the punishment.

You always.

It's just because Billy's been running the punishments and now Yodonis Haslam is running the punishment, so we're going to fix that.

I have a plus one credit.

I'll apply to David on that one.

Mike, what did you get there?

Got the Seattle Seahawks against the Texans.

I will be keeping that.

All right, what are the

pick?

We're going to do that, and we're going to get your punishment.

Thank you for volunteering that you had one.

What is the point spread in that game?

They're playing the Texan foul.

I'm good.

All right.

I'm good.

It's three and a half.

It's all right.

Yeah, be calm.

Be cocky about the results of that.

I was with the Cowboys last week.

I was the only guy that lost.

That'll serve you.

Now I have to dress like a cowboy.

Go ahead, Billy.

Final rummage.

Get it a good rummage there.

And then, Billy, could you pick for me in honor of your daughter?

Is this for you?

Is this for you?

No, this is for me.

I got a good.

This is a Billy Rummage.

I got a rummage in here.

I got.

Swat.

Oh, are you kidding me?

No shitting away.

He's going to be a brother.

That's like one of the best things in the other helmet.

He got the old Sawaparoo there.

You can put it back.

All right.

See here.

Come on, get a good rummage.

Get a good one.

Oh, I got the Dentech golden helmet of it.

He got both of the best dishes in there.

However, I do have that swap if I want to swap with someone.

Can you gift me with it?

I got the Lions.

Monday Night Football against the Bucs.

The first end of the doubleheader.

Five and a half point favorite.

You want that.

You've got to keep that.

I can't believe how well.

That's the best.

That is the.

On your final trip to the Dentech bucket, you just did better than anyone's ever done at the bucket.

David wanted him to pick for him, but.

Ah, look at him.

He's back, Jack.

All right, pick for David here.

David, the good

here that you might want are Buffalo or Baltimore.

They're on a buy.

You have one put back, David, so you get to decide here.

We got the Patriots.

Do you want the Patriots?

They are a seven and a half point favorite at the Titans.

Ray Bulls returned.

You're going to want to keep that, pal.

I will keep the Patriots, please.

Okay, so you have to pay the other punishment, though, that

we forgot about.

So we'll figure out how to do that.

We'll stay on top of it.

That was two years ago, Dan.

Well,

it it expired.

That's the Metal Arc way.

No, no, no.

Stugat still owes a freestyle from the Clevelander that he's got to do on the stage at the Clevelander from seven years ago.

Well, he's got to come in first.

Yeah, well, that too.

I got the Browns.

We got the Dolphins.

Yeah, Browns, two and a half-point favorite at home against the Dolphins.

No, I can't.

Don't be a coward.

What's the matter with Stugger?

You've been yelling and screaming for that they got to fire everybody, and now you're afraid of them.

I root for the Dolphins.

You're a coward.

No, I want to root for them.

It's not that I'm afraid.

You're a coward.

Steelers.

Third time of football against the Brungos.

Tonight.

Yep, tonight.

Tonight.

Five and a half points under the ball.

I like it.

Upgraded.

I got the Raiders.

The Raiders are.

The Raiders are at the Chiefs.

12.5-point underdog.

Keeper.

Keep it.

Keeper.

You're so anti-chief.

You might swap, yeah.

And you got the Browns.

All right.

The Browns at home against the Dolphins.

You can swap, though.

Well, it's up to.

I can't swap again.

What the teams?

Browns?

What do you get?

Steelers?

Chris?

You want to do business with me?

Lions.

Lions, what do you have?

Over here?

You got the Giants.

The Giants.

Joxon Dart.

I got the Pats.

Pats are a good favorite.

I'll switch with David.

I'll take the Patriots.

Wow, David.

David.

That's the Golden Helmet of Life.

Congratulations.

You just heard about that gift.

Yeah, that's stunning.

David, congratulations.

A little gift from Billy there because he hates the rest of us.

Thank you, Willie,

for just really making that worse than it needed to be, as always.

Thank you, David.

Bye, David.

Love you, dude.

No, you don't.

We do love you.

We do love you.

That's not true.

We do love you.

And the beard is a good look, by the way.

Oh, my God.

Stunning.

My daughter loves it.

That's why I have it.

That's great, dude.

I hope to grow it to be Letterman size.

Thank you, David.

Big hug from over here.

Zaz is going to be in South Bend this weekend.

I want to get to some college football stuff, but first I want to go to the Vatican because I can say in the history of Catholicism, in the history of religion, in the history of God, him or herself, that you have a situation with the Pope that has never before

been possible, where the Pope is a Cubs fan, and I have not seen this video, I have not heard this audio, and obviously I can't translate Italian.

So I hope that this all speaks for itself.

They lost.

Go comes.

Go comes.

They lost.

Says the Pope.

Just dismissively, just like they lost.

And in flawless English, I cannot explain to you how disorienting that is.

I also can't explain to you how much closer to God it brings me.

Well, he also before like either screamed they lost in either Latin or Italian or something at them first.

And then he said they lost in translate.

I love a troll pope.

I got to be honest with you.

A pope that's out there giving sports hot takes.

I mean we thought we had the pope in Francesca, but now we have a pope pope that's talking sports.

Like this is great.

And Dan, I was thinking this.

I don't know what you guys feel about this.

You're going to South Bend this weekend, Zaz, right?

Yeah.

I don't know if you've heard this, but Notre Dame, very Catholic.

I know.

I heard about that.

You know about that touch on Jesus?

I've heard.

And then there's also that statue that I think you put like gum on or something that we found out.

No, Jessica was confused just someone put gum on someone's finger that one time.

And she's been telling people all these years that that's what they do, which is not what they do.

So don't put gum on statues.

Now, Dan, Notre Dame has played in Ireland a number of times because they're Irish, but again, they're also Catholic.

So, I'm proposing Notre Dame play a game in Vatican City.

You have a Chicago Pope, you have a Catholic team.

Could you imagine a game at the Vatican?

We already saw a concert there like two weeks ago.

We're about to see an MMA match on the White House lawn.

Yes, go ahead and play the Pope again talking about Cubs baseball.

Does he first say it in Italian?

They lost.

That's awesome.

Then he translates himself.

Do you think he's ever doing like Pope duties and he's just in a bad mood because the Cubs lost?

What I think is there are a whole lot of people there next to the Cubs fan wanting to get closer to God and have some acknowledgement and being like, really?

Like that's what happened?

Like I want a blessing from the beyond.

And the Pope's sitting here doing a sports talk radio show while he's in the Pope Mobile?

Well, he's a White Sox fan, so I think part of it is, like, do your research.

Yeah.

I put a letter in a note in the Wailing Wall.

You know, you put notes in it.

It's a very religious place in Jerusalem.

I put a note in the Wailing Wall hoping that the Dolphins would win the Super Bowl.

What a waste.

That really does seem like a waste.

It hasn't happened yet.

Wasting wall.

Dork.

Mike mentioned something.

I meant to bring this up.

How old were you when you did that?

That wasn't like now, what?

Right?

I was 18.

oh okay god 18.

and you're what 58 now 40 years ago that's some bullshit take that back you look good for 58 he does you too that's some bullshit it's a couple bullshits right there how old are you

since you did that the dolphins haven't won a playoff game yeah i put it in merinos last year marino

i i genuinely don't know how old you are it's because you wear this backwards hat that keeps you so young looking thanks man i appreciate that

And I shaved my beard so I look like a kid again.

I got like a Benjamin Buttons thing going on here.

And he writes a skateboard to work.

I think you put an S on button, and that's what old people do.

Yeah, that's what I do.

I put S's where they don't belong.

That's exactly how that happens.

But Mike enjoys calling other people dorks.

And one of the things that he did earlier this week is he said, No, I've never scored a baseball game because I'm an adult who has sex.

But there are many parents who have sex who score baseball games, including Greg Cody, because they have children and they score baseball games.

Oh, people that score, they do have sex.

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever written 6-4-3 on a scorecard?

Touch me, they have sex.

Not four-play, 6-4-3-play.

Put it on the poll

at Lebatard show.

So backwards, Kay, if it's looking.

Who's cooler, person who has sex or person who keeps score of a baseball game?

Can't wait to see the results.

When they bat around the order and you have to figure out, well, what am I going to do next in the next inning?

What are you looking forward to in South Bend?

Because it does really appear.

I do think if we're not doing any rankings, if we're not doing anything other than just watching football, I think most of the people listening to this would say that Tulos Notre Dame is one of the better teams in the country because they played with Miami and Texas A ⁇ M, even though they lost to Miami and Texas A ⁇ M.

I said to you yesterday that there are not a lot of teams in the country that would be, like Miami is, a two-touchdown favorite against Louisville.

I think Notre Dame might be one of them.

I don't think I can name five teams in the country that the money would say, I've watched football this year and I believe that team to be a two-touchdown favorite against Louisville.

I think everybody would be scared of Louisville's Louisville.

Lull.

Louisville.

I think Mike is saying it properly.

That's right.

Okay.

Name the teams that you guys believe would be two touchdown favorites against

Ohio State.

Yeah, I think that's it.

Miami

is

13 and a half now.

I think Notre Dame might also be favored like that.

I think Texas AM might also be favored like that.

Depends on what you're saying.

Oregon at home, maybe USF if you put them in Alabama uniforms.

I don't think that Oregon at home would be that kind of favorite after what happened with Indiana.

They might be bad.

Well, I'm here to tell you, yes, Oregon might be bad given what happened against Penn State and given everything we've seen that's happened around Penn State.

But I remind you.

I'm not sure if I'm thinking sportsbook, you can get Oregon to miss the playoffs north of plus 200.

I remind you, though, as we do transitive property of trying to figure out, not just in college football, pro football.

Like, I think a lot of people, it's a crazy thing to say after this many games, but it happens with the randomness of injuries and kids, who's good.

Who's good?

You got like, I ask you, you're watching an awful lot of football.

And if I ask you who's good college and pros, you're going to have a hard time giving me 10 teams, like total, 10 teams that you know to be good.

That's an an issue with us too because good football teams are like nine win teams 10 win teams you're a real good football team but we've made good like championship good or bust and what happens with louisville uh and miami i think uh the money is doing this for this reason when i say again and again and it's not something i've done before when i i it isn't over the last 20 years You will not find me saying that Randy Shannon beating Oklahoma at home makes Miami good.

You will not find me saying that after two wins against Notre Dame, the only top 10 wins that Miami has since 2017, that Miami is back in good.

But this is why I'm willing to say it.

It's not even the victories against Notre Dame, Florida, or Florida State.

It's not any of those victories that make me say it, although in the cumulative, I do think they can beat you a ton of ways.

16-play drive at the start of the third quarter against Notre Dame.

Just hold the football game.

The way they've won Florida State, Florida, and Notre Dame games are one kind of impressive, but those games look close on the scoreboard, even though they weren't that close.

The one that makes me know that Miami is good is the win over South Florida because I know South Florida is good.

And I know no one else in the country thinks this.

I'm telling you, South Florida is good.

And they dragged them the whole game the way they could have to Florida, Florida State, or Notre Dame, but they let their foot off the gas.

Against South Florida, what they did is they they dragged a team that I believe could be in the playoffs good.

I'm not even kidding when I tell you that the South Florida team, if I put it in an Auburn uniform, you guys would be saying, if I put it in an Alabama uniform, you guys would be saying that's a top 10 team because the athletes on that team are really good athletes.

I've been saying all season on ESPN radio, I think USF's a playoff team.

And this is the team, by the way, that's given up an average of 31 points the last two weeks to Charlotte in North Texas.

They are not good at defense.

They are good at offense.

Just confirming.

And those athletes are really good.

I love their playoffs.

They're going to be the fifth conference champion.

They're going to win the American, and they're going to make the playoffs.

It can be a flawed team, Jeremy, or even half a team and make the playoffs.

There are so many half-a-teams out there where they've got one good unit, and those are going to be in the playoffs.

I mean, the fifth conference champion.

Yeah, no, there's going to be a choice.

There's always a group of five team that will make it now with the new.

They're going to be that team.

Of course.

South Florida was slowed by Florida and Miami because Florida and Miami have playoff good defenses.

South Florida is not going to get slowed by many people.

South Florida should be respected the same way we're respecting Louis.

Because

Louis has done it longer and is going to get respect for offense and big-game surprises.

But that South Florida team, I'm absolutely telling you,

Jeremy, if you watched, I did watch that Charlotte game.

They were up 23-0 in the first quarter and they dropped six passes right in their chest against Charlotte.

That game was not in any way close, but yes, their defense is flawed, absolutely flawed, but their offense is not.

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