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Roy, can you find me whatever sound we have back there that makes fun of the Yankees?

Just anything from the files that we have of things that have made fun of the Yankees over the last 20 years?

What do you have there?

Now the 3-2 swung on a pop foul, back here.

Ow!

Ow!

Ow!

Keep that, that'll work.

It really hit me.

I didn't know it was coming back that far.

Just keep the ow, ow, ow parts of that and cut out all the other fats.

Ow!

Yeah,

kind of like it hit me.

Nope, ow.

More of it.

It hit me.

Let me hear the whole thing, just all of it.

Now the three chews swung on, a pop, foul, back here.

Ow!

Ow!

Ow!

It really hit me.

I didn't know it was coming back that far.

I think it's better as just three hours and then ambient noise.

Motion.

Tire sound, please.

Ow.

Let me hear what other sound you have to make fun of the Yankees today.

Roger Clemens is in George's box, and Roger Clemens is coming back.

Oh, my goodness gracious.

Of all the dramatic things I've ever seen, Roger Clemmens standing right in George Steybreter's box, announcing he is back.

Roger Plutmans is a New York Yankee.

Kind of an overreaction, no?

I think it's the last great moment the Yankees have had.

Goodness gracious.

We won a World Series after that.

Goodness gracious.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Because my timelines have...

Hold on.

Hold on.

Give me the number, the names of the teams that have won a World Series more recently than the Yankees.

The Cubs and the Red Sox.

The Royals?

The Nationals?

The Nationals.

Goodness gracious.

Giants, maybe more than once.

Rangers.

The Rangers.

Wow.

Giants three times.

Goodness gracious.

Happy New York Sufferers Today, Day.

Billy ran in today, though, and this is super rare for Billy, where I can hear the smile in his voice, and he's just talking about white Corvettes.

Goodness gracious.

What are you up to?

I'm up to nothing, but I'm prepared to maybe have to be involved in some nonsense, which, you know, sometimes I'm down for some nonsense.

So we talked about this yesterday.

Greg was complaining that he got a Corvette for his birthday, a white Corvette.

He didn't like a white Corvette.

And then you made a bet with Nick Wright for $5,000 over a game that I don't think either of you really care all that much about, which is like weird.

But I enrich people's stuff.

You're just betting $5,000.

Like, it's not.

Yeah, like that.

It was strange.

And then he said that he bought his dad an old car that was not white.

It was C phone green,

if I remember correctly.

And then we somehow found a 1993 Chevy Corvette that was for sale for under $5,000.

So we decided, unbeknownst to Nick Wright, to possibly change the stakes of this bet.

So he may think that he's going to be owed $5,000, but may in fact receive a 1993 Chevy Corvette that needs a transmission.

So then we're trying to figure out how do we get this Corvette to him if he loses and what does he do with said car with if he wins if he wins under a hundred grand 100k miles by the way that's good

no transactions who needs a transaction

exactly right yeah that's one of those things there's a man or woman mission thank you how

you were great yesterday by the way thank you

did you hear the news dan start spreading it how

face off now the time is here

Pixel up and you're changing on the fly.

Hitchhikers, hip tricks, you're gonna make a cheer.

Got the bombs turned to turbine riding high.

Now it's time for action tonight.

It's gonna burn this barn right up.

Slapshot will light the lamp so nice.

Let's go for a break away on the chase

We'll be standing on our heads till we need a match center ice

Hockey is backtrack

Hockey is backtrack

Hockey is backtrack Maybe it will be you at a center ice

The Nationals winning a World Series more recently than the Yankees and the Cubs winning more recently, and the Red Sox winning more recently, and the Rangers, and the Royals winning more recently,

while the GM is never in trouble, but the manager is in profound trouble,

reminds me of what's happening or what's been happening in Florida with the Dolphins.

Cashman is still there?

Oh, yeah.

He's got a lifetime job.

That's right.

Really?

Yeah.

For that franchise.

That's right.

When they haven't won a World Series since 09.

That's

really.

How?

The Yankees' failure

when it was wide open for them.

Schubal got hurt.

And then the Blue Jays just became something that I legitimately have never seen before happen to the Yankees.

And I think anyone in baseball.

The way the Blue Jays were hitting is crazy.

The Yankee ERA of the starting pitchers was above 16, just as the starting pitchers.

For the entire ALDS, the Yankees had an ERA of nine.

But Aaron Judge will forever have his moment.

He covered his guy.

He had a big ad bat in that ninth inning.

He handled his.

They can't take that away from him ever.

Game three of the 2000.

25 ALDS.

I mean, and I will say this to Jeremy's credit.

We could have witnessed history if he hit a meaningless home run yesterday because here's the thing about Aaron Judge that's great: when your team is bad and it's, you know, you're always on the brink of elimination, every game becomes an elimination game.

So everything that you do becomes more historic because you did it in an elimination game because you immediately are down and on the brink of elimination, which Derek Jeter, to my memory, was never eliminated from me.

Keywords there is team stinks.

I don't think Derek Jeter ever.

No, he never lost.

No.

Not once.

And he's great on TV, if we're going to be honest.

Oh.

Roy, would you get me again that moment on Fox?

Because I don't think anything says 2025 more than Pedro Martinez, Alex Rodriguez, and Big Poppy just standing around trying to figure out how to say Schlittler.

And then Big Poppy just says something that makes people who have been more scared of how things look than he is, because A-Rod and Jeter have more consequences about how things look than David Ortiz.

So what you end up have happening on television, because Schlittler's the one who ends up trying yesterday to keep them in the game.

He held down Toronto enough more than anybody else did for the Yankees.

But this was the moment of that series.

Again, I want to give you the history.

Derek Jeter doesn't want anything ever said or bad about him publicly.

He has a pristine image.

A-Rod, you know how pristine he likes things to look.

David Ortiz cares slightly less.

Every single one of you pronounce his last name.

You care first.

Schler.

Oh, well, he's the master.

Schlittler.

Schlittler.

You now, now your turn.

Tony, Hitler.

Oh, my God.

Jesus.

Incredible judgment for me.

Let's go to a break, guys.

I'm going Cam.

My bad.

I put Pedro there.

Yeah.

Drone network.

You just had him in the side there.

Come on.

He's with Jimmy Rollins and Curtis Granderson.

The Grandy Man.

My bad.

Aaron Judge did as much as he could have.

Aaron Aaron Judge played well in that series.

Aaron Judge was hitting everything in that series.

600, Dan.

It's so funny.

Toronto's eighth hitter.

Is that Clement?

Mm-hmm.

How many hits did he have in that series?

You ready for this one?

So Trent Grisham of the Yankees went two for 17.

Volpe went one for 15 with 11 strikeouts.

Ben Rice went two for 11 with five strikeouts.

Jazz went two for 14.

Cody Bellinger went three for 16.

That means they were combined 10 for 73.

Clement had nine hits.

Every time I saw that guy hitting, he was choked up on the bat, hitting a duck fart right in front of an outfielder.

That's baseball.

I like that.

Choking up, duck fart.

There we go.

You could see the vibration off the end of the bat in that last one.

It was amazing.

The Yankees keep throwing these high-priced starters at him.

They don't have Garrett Cole, and he just keeps going up there.

And every time he was up there, I felt he was closer to holding the top of the bat than the bottom of the bat.

And it's just like

hit the ball 97 feet right over the second baseman's head, right over the shortstop's head, and then wait for Vladdy Guerrero to get back up so he can have his nine hits.

That's what wins in the postseason, though.

That's why the Yankees keep losing is because they're home runner bust, and you need guys that can actually have those duck farts to right center.

Because in the modern game, there are so many teams that are so swing and miss.

And when you get to the postseason,

it's either Schwarber hits two home runs or you lose.

It's Judge hits a bunch of home runs or you lose.

And that's the spot the Yankees found themselves in yet again.

Did you guys enjoy it?

Billy, did you enjoy watching the Yankees lose or is that something that has now become cliché since 2009?

Did I enjoy watching them lose?

Yes.

You sound like Pam Bondi repeating the question.

I did enjoy watching them lose.

Did I enjoy watching Clint and Kershaw fall apart?

Easy.

What is that supposed to mean?

Shoehorned.

Strawman.

How much did you enjoy it?

Kershaw or the Yankees?

Well, I didn't even ask you about Kershaw.

You went to Kershaw.

I didn't care.

I wasn't thinking about Kershaw.

I didn't ask you any.

You were the first one to mention that Kershaw blew up.

Most people were sleeping during that.

I watched Kershaw coming out of the bullpen.

He's a hoss now, huh?

This was sad.

It was sad to see him come out of the bullpen.

The last time I watched him pitch, Dan, he was at least 40 pounds lighter.

He is thicker.

Aren't we all, though?

That's fair enough.

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show.

Aren't we all thicker now?

And to do it in front of his maybe hero, maybe not.

Maybe we're just pretending hero, Sandy Kofast.

Someone needs a memo from the War Department.

Wasn't asking you about Kershaw or the Daniels.

They let him finish that game.

They would have let him give up 60 runs if he was going to give up 60 runs, right?

He wasn't even on the roster the first round.

So then they had him there.

And that was honestly just a respect thing for Kershaw.

I was like, okay, this is his last season.

We're going to send him back out there.

We already lost this game.

It doesn't matter if we win or lose.

We're up 2-1.

Or we're up 2-0, I guess, against the Phils.

He's going to get his moment.

I mean, I'll tell you what.

It was prime playoff Kershaw.

So the fans did get that if that's what they were looking for.

Didn't ask you about Kershaw.

Yeah,

I didn't know if we knew we were going to get there or not, so I decided.

The Yankees, though.

I mean, cheese.

Ow!

They stink, huh?

Yankees?

And then they asked Aaron Boone, are you going to be back next year?

And he's like, I'm under contract.

Buddy, you're not going to be back.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news here.

It's not going to.

What is this fool doing that I see over here on the screen?

It's Zaszlo joining us from Europe.

I have been told by Roy that he is on delay, which doesn't bode well for wherever it is that we're headed now in terms of audio and video.

Before we get to Zaszlo, though, can you just play the manager of the Blue Jays, Roy, John Schneider, making fun of the Yankees in his own clubhouse yesterday?

because really, I have not seen a baseball team hit the way that Toronto hit in that series.

They just clubbed and dragged the Yankees all over the place.

And so, John Schneider,

the Blue Jays manager, and I would forgive Mike Ryan for thinking that Cito Gaston was still the Blue Jays manager either time, given that we just told him that Cashman is still the GM of the Yankees.

But let's go ahead and play John Schneider making fun of the Yankees with one punctuation of sentence that just makes fun of Sinatra, makes fun of New York, New York, makes fun of the idea that you guys are winners.

Every single one of you in Bullfen Game, Nathan Lucas, Miles Straw, all you that takes everybody every day.

Start spreading the news, bitches.

We're going!

Bad dude, there was a mean idea.

He never even got to spread the news.

He wanted to tell us what the news on where it is that they were going, but they didn't let him spread the news because they spread champagne all over his face.

Play again how they drown out their manager and whatever it is that he was going to say after making fun of Sinatra and New York, New York.

Every single one of you bullpen game, Nathan Lucas, Miles Straw, all you that takes everybody every day.

Start spreading the news.

We're going

to wait till they get a load of scoobel.

The courtesy on this video is Ariel Hawani.

Was he there?

He's just there.

Anything that happens, Canada, he's there.

Just getting soaked and just like, oh, shh.

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Don Lebatard.

That was a long story.

Yeah, it's the only kind he tells.

It's a short one for me.

I tried to speed it up for you guys.

You forgot about the Leagues Cup.

Stugats.

La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlin celebration because it was Levant.

Well, when Fidel died the first time.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

What is going on with Zazzloville?

Do you want to introduce him?

I saw people complaining that he's now in the company Slack.

I saw people complaining that as soon as his podcast shoots up the rankings, he does it the special metal arc way, takes a long vacation and just goes to Europe so that everything could die as soon as he leaves.

What is happening over there, Zazzla?

Where are you joining us from?

I'm at Windsor Castle, my dogs.

How are you guys?

What's going on?

What are you at?

A Motorola Razor?

What is that?

I'm on a regular phone.

Look at this.

I'm at a castle.

There's a castle behind me.

You know about that Windsor Castle?

Nah, now that's a manner if i've ever seen one how is it possible

how is it possible that zazzlo's reception is better than tony's when tony was like three stories ahead of us or above us like three days ago and there's no delay here with zaz it's a good question

metal arc media useless comment by billy

absolutely is there any other kind

uh zaszlo what were you gonna say before billy interrupted you because you're calling us on delay oh it's just gonna be like you know have you ever been at a castle matter of fact if you look behind me here, you got one of those guards.

You see that dude right there?

Like he's guarding the castle.

I think he was just doing a TikTok dance a few minutes ago, actually.

But I got one of those guards behind me.

I'm just, I'm running this place, man.

I was hoping to run to the king.

I didn't see him, though.

I was going to pull like a Black Panther move where I was going to be like, yo, you know, this is your king.

But that fool was scared.

He wasn't anywhere to be found.

Why weren't you here for the Panthers raising another banner, giving out their rings?

Why are you about as geographically far away from your team as

you?

you

can be?

Dan, let me break something to you here.

All right.

Wives, they love money.

Oh, for the life.

And when you get the money, which I'm getting now, when you get the money, which I'm getting now, you know what they want to do with it, Dan?

They want to spend it.

And one of the things they like to do is travel.

So here we are.

I'm in London.

Why are you in the Slack and why are people complaining that you're in the Slack?

What is the story?

Complaining?

What are you talking about?

Complaining?

I'm up in the ante.

I love that Zaz is in the Slack because he is doing it as pure Zaz.

I don't think he understands what the video dump is for.

I think he

understands.

You're just making it a vacation album, but I like it.

Look, like he sent this and with a caption of you know about that Stonehenge?

He's seeing the world on Yetal Arts Money.

One time he saw a statue of like some English like figure and he was like I know that fool.

I don't know that fool was a caption.

Yeah, so he lives a gimmick Dan.

Oh wow.

Surprisingly, we can confirm it's an iPhone and not a

Motorola razor.

I hope to say that word.

Are you guys just telling me that Metalark is providing Zaz for the first time with culture in his life?

You haven't been to any of these places before?

You basically haven't been outside of Pembroke Pines, right?

First of all, I didn't know that the video dump is not my vacation scrapbook.

No one, like, I got to plead ignorance on that one.

Was that wrong?

You know, I don't know.

But I haven't been out of Cooper City in many, many years.

I had to update my passport.

I haven't been to Europe in 25 years but i'm here now i run this place now spreading the word look i'm even wearing my levatard show gear look check it out you guys realize that uh that he uh is climbing the ranks at uh college football at espn and just recently like bought things other than the junk that's in his closet so that when he travels to wisconsin he's not doing so in an in a 2006 uh miami heat uh t-shirt do underco undercover cops look like that in europe as well?

You do look like a very bad undercover cop, like 21 jump streets spin-off.

Like

you're dressed like a high school.

Whatever, man.

Whatever, man.

Hang with him.

I don't know what to tell you.

That looks like someone that would tweet at me.

He doesn't know who Bad Bunny is.

I like Bad Bunny.

Thank you for joining us.

Anything else you're going to put in the Slack?

Where else are your travels taking you?

Yeah.

When are you back?

I'm going to put a lot more things in the slack i got some great pictures of buckingham palace uh i met up with joy taylor out here yesterday i might throw up some pictures of me and her which is in the slack uh

hey that's my gimmick

buddy you better come back here and take back your gimmicks you can't just leave on vacation as soon as you get hot that's not the way that works it does around here but no other media entity is that the way it works you know what happens the listeners they want me more they're like where are you zaslow where are you and And then when I come back, I'm going to come back to a king's welcome.

That's exactly what's going to happen.

This is a good plan by me.

I know what I'm doing, Dan.

Okay.

Thank you for joining us from Stonehedge and from a castle.

We appreciate your worldly travels.

Come back and tell us about it.

By the way, I'm five hours ahead of you.

Dan, do you understand how time zones work?

Yeah, generally.

Okay.

All right.

Just make a choice.

Who wins game four tonight?

Phillies or Dodgers?

You already know the results.

Oh, you want the spoiler?

Yeah, spoiler.

Phillies forced to game five.

You love it.

It's great game.

Great game.

Philly's forced game five.

Yep.

Thank you.

Don't tell anyone I told you.

It's kind of breaking the rules on time travel.

All right.

I'll see you guys later.

Just going to make it clear.

He's still four hours from watching that game.

Thank you.

It's an important correction.

He just wanted to make from Europe a Lord's time zone joke because the further inside you go on the jokes, the more about him he can make it, which makes him fit right in around here.

One of the things that I most enjoyed about yesterday's Yankee game is the bases getting loaded in the bottom of the eighth and hope rising up.

It lasted for one pitch, that hope.

That's what I liked.

It's the bottom of the eighth, and now we got to watch in the ninth sort of

mill out of the ballpark in the ninth inning because you know your season's over because you had one pitch of hope.

You were just trying to get everything back to Judge, the only one on your team that can hit.

And you needed to load the bases in the bottom of the bottom of the eighth.

And then your season goes to die because there's no way for him to hit a seven-run home run in the ninth.

And there's also not a fan base in the world that thinks every fly ball is going out of their ballpark more than the Yankees because their short porch and right, they just kind of think every time the ball is hitting the air, it's going to be a homer.

So you could hear on the fly ball for just a half a second the

it was fun to hear hope die at the feet of the Toronto Blue Jays, who might again win a World Series before the Yankees.

The Mariners might win a World Series before the Yankees.

The Brewers might win a World Series before the Yankees.

Tigers.

The Tigers might win a World Series before the Yankees.

I would imagine the Mariners are scared right now.

I would imagine you would have to be if you have the chance of facing Schubel and he's going to strike out 14 of you.

You got to go the very hardest of ways to to get to the next round.

GK's got to muster up something special.

That's right.

George Kirby on the mound towing the rubber for the M's.

If I could have one guy going against that guy, it's GK.

What is it that you guys expect when you put these pressure of expectations on people where Aaron Judge isn't doing enough, even though he's doing everything because baseball is obviously a team sport until you give the ball to Schoogle?

Because the pitchers, you give them the ball.

And this is the reason that you have Scoobel.

You have Scoobel to win this game.

It's the reason that you're asking your Cy Young pitcher to just take away from Seattle a season's worth of momentum.

The best Seattle season that we've had since they had Griffey and Randy Johnson and A-Rod on their team.

I'll throw Pedro in there because whenever A-Rod's around, I just throw Pedro in there, even though Pedro Martinez didn't pitch for that.

You're starting to get it.

It would have been real good with Randy Johnson or Pedro Dan.

You guys didn't seem to enjoy this as much as I did.

I do this very rarely where I enjoy watching people lose.

I didn't do that.

I didn't make Floyd Mayweather one of the richest people in the history of sports because I was rooting for him to lose.

I did this some with Sabin and I always lost.

I would tune into Alabama and then they would just run the sport forever.

But the Yankees, I tune in all season for that bottom of the eighth yesterday, for that swing, for the bases are loaded, for oh, you dared to hope, and now you realize realize it's all gone how quickly can you get to the subway it's a fascinating thing that happened to your fandom because you grew up being a Yankee guy and now you root for them to lose it's really a testament to how awful New York is how awful New Yorkers in Miami are it's not it's a special breed New York

you guys seem to enjoy it up there well actually not really because they fly down here but it's it's made Dan have a miserable experience with New York sports I wouldn't say that it's miserable like I would say that it's just just grown from we only had the Yankees here in spring training once upon a time with the Dolphins, and it's the only major league team that we had down here, only major league sport that we had, and we only had it during spring training, and then we got all the other sports.

And so I did what my Yankees, what my fan, my parents did rather.

My parents grew up Mets fans.

I've told you the happiest I've ever seen my father, happiest I've ever seen him.

1986, the ball rolls through Buckner's legs.

He dances around the living room in tidy whiteys that are above his navel.

I remember my father dancing like that because I've never, my father doesn't really show joy that way.

I also remember those underwear above the navel.

Old man Aweelo style.

Do you all have a father or an Ahuelo who wears the tidy whiteys that you remember from childhood over the navel or is that just me?

Was that just my

grandfather did the cloth boxers like the ones you get in prison they're like very long and clothy so he didn't go tidy whiteys but he had like long like they were up here like you said past the navel but like cloth boxers so they're like past his knees but also past his navel at the same time billy nothing like this in your family history of somebody

my parents were usually dressed so i don't really know their underwear situation to be honest well i look i've told you my father is somewhere on the asperger scale uh he did this i was in my late 40s you donnis haslam and the heat are on the road in a playoff game against Chicago, I think.

He is so scared.

I'm in his living room.

I don't have an explanation for you on this.

I don't think that this is normal in fandom in any way.

I'm there with my girlfriend.

My brother is there with his girlfriend in the living room.

My father is so scared by what's happening at the end of that heat game that he just takes his slacks off.

He's standing in the living room.

Yeah, it's strange behavior, Pal.

His house, though, his rules.

It is his house.

His house has rules.

That's exactly what he's like if we were at your house and then you did it i'd be like oh dan's house his rules yeah i mean i think i identified there was this one time where triple h was beating somebody up and he forgot he wasn't already wearing a shirt and he pantomimed taking off his shirt so it's probably something similar

So I guess you guys, I'm the only one.

I thought my childhood was the normal one

with an auelo in the tidy whiteys.

I guess not.

So they were Mets fans and Yankees fans?

No, so this is what happened because Kids Rebell.

They're Mets fans and then they became Marlins fans because the Marlins came to town and their son was writing about the Marlins players and grandma likes Chuck Carr and all of a sudden

the allegiances.

Wait a minute.

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah.

Rest in power.

I did not know that.

Yeah, a couple years ago.

A couple years ago.

Yeah, it was sad.

We talked about it.

I think.

I did not know that.

Send flowers to the late Carr family.

It'd be ill-timed.

Like, oh, we just heard about Chuck six years later.

Sorry about that.

Let's send that car to Nick Wright instead.

Ooh, what if we send the Carr family a 1993 Corvette with no transmission?

Chuck would have liked this.

Chuck would have liked that.

Chuck maybe had a Corvette.

To him.

I don't care.

Good luck.

Mike Ryan's birthday today.

I thought that was for Chuck Carr person.

Like, what?

I was like, wow, what an honor to share a birthday with the great Chucky Carr.

The late Chuck Carr.

Carr.

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I'm sess.

No, it says.

Oh, ses.

Don Lebatard.

That's not my favorite region.

Context needs to be applied.

Going for a joke.

I thought that context was applied.

We'd like to rip that out of context.

I was going for a thing.

Yeah.

And

I have a family?

You're going to pretend here that you don't love Matthew Kachuck more than you love anybody you've ever loved?

I don't love Matthew Kachuk more than my daughter.

Stugats.

Now it's pretty damn close.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Congratulations on your birthday.

Is this a big one?

How old are you?

I'm 40 today.

Oh, it is a big one.

Did we decide then which are the big ones?

Because Michelle Beadle was on with us on Friday, and I thought 50.

So you got 16 you got 18 you got 21 you got 50 you got 100.

40's not as big as 50 is it 40 seems pretty big 40 40's a new 30 though so how do you do that math well then 30 is big

what are you doing are you doing anything special for your birthday or are you at dinner tonight and uh this weekend i'll be at las rosas i have a dj set late night uh great punk band from portland coming over portland

yeah have you seen that dan i know i've been late but damn inflatable chickens everywhere uh is are birthdays still happy once you reach a certain age?

Because you just said, I'm going to dinner.

You said it wasn't quite.

Yeah, no, I got a big thing on Saturday at Las Rosas.

Gonna be celebrating with friends, open to the public.

Come watch me spin.

Lots of train drops at Jupiter.

Why is everyone just staring at you as if

you were speaking a different language?

Number 250 on that list yesterday.

I bet you that list was reverse order.

That list was awful.

Well, explain to me what you guys did here because I don't understand what you guys did.

This is what happens to me, okay?

And I don't, maybe you guys are producing the show differently than you used to.

With no context whatsoever, no one informing me of anything.

I get handed a list, okay,

of many, many different papers that is just, and nobody has said anything to me.

I'm walking in to do the show that's in my head, and someone hands me several pieces of paper that are 250 songs listed in order, ranked in order, 250 of them.

And Ethan, who's got an opinion about everything,

tells me that runaway is

very low on the list here, that runaway deserves to be very high on the list.

But no one's discussed anything with me about why I'm being handed this, why we're doing this, and why Ethan's giving me an opinion.

Now, before we get here, hold on a second, because I know you guys are desperate to talk as if I don't know that sometimes you guys just trick me, you're usually more subtle than this, to talk about the things that you want to talk about by not just merely handing me something that I don't necessarily want to talk about.

But Ethan's opinions right before this was yelling at everybody why it is that Gainesville is not as terrible as Oxford.

Yeah.

I mean, we can agree.

Having, no one here has been to Oxford, right?

No.

Safe to assume.

Yeah, Ethan's sucks.

Bad town.

Yeah.

Ethan sucks.

Is that what you said, Billy?

Well, we can agree.

I thought that's where Mike was headed.

No, it wasn't where I was headed, but I mean, you're entitled to your opinion.

Ethan's, you know,

he's fine.

He's a good a good kid.

Chatty.

Chatty.

A little chatty.

Definitely.

Yes, definitely.

A lot of chatty.

Yeah.

But, man, like, what we did was, and

I'm being told.

That's true.

What?

I'm being told that they get into it quite a bit on mystery, great, so that is appointment listening for me.

What we did was the same thing that we've done for 20 years.

Hand you a paper.

Here's a list.

List radio is a great fallback.

You are lucky to have such a great team around you.

And I mean, there were already two Kanye songs on that list.

Are we going to put a runaway in there?

I don't know.

Probably not.

Also, I'll clarify, we don't get into how chatty Ethan is.

We get into this list of songs because that's what you want to listen to, not Chatty Ethan.

I don't want to do a list of 250 songs that has no context that we were not talking about at all.

I do want to talk about Gainesville and Oxford because the conversation that Mike and Ethan were having, I wanted on air, but unfortunately, many of our good conversations happen off.

air.

I wanted it on air without Ethan's involvement, which was Mike just telling Ethan again and again, no, no, you guys really need to keep Billy Napier.

He does this thing

where you get stronger during the season and you should keep him forever.

He should fight for that coach.

They love that coach.

That they play so hard for Billy Napier.

Billy Napier has to stay in Gamesville, should be given a lifetime contract.

He should.

I mean, you don't see teams fight for an embattled coach, and they've shown this year over year.

They love their head coach.

You see that spread at College Station?

Very difficult place.

And out of all the college environments that I've been to, traveling to as a University of Miami fan, that's the nuttiest place.

College station is genuinely intimidating.

The swamp, nothing.

Doke, nothing.

Honestly, not a big deal.

College station, you feel that place.

Only a seven and a half point spread.

You know what that tells me?

Even the bookkeepers know.

They love that coach.

He's a good coach.

In today's modern age of crazy football, they already have the collective thing nailed down.

You got the coach that they fight for.

You got to keep Billy Napier.

They're going to save his job again.

I hope so.

God, I hope so.

We were talking yesterday about

an assortment of college football things and what we never got to.

I erred in not getting to two things yesterday.

One is Odell Beckham secretly getting suspended for six games based on a Dolphins career.

Get me the stats, please, for the Dolphins career.

Because I remember having the conversation with me and I'm like, he seems like he'd be useful in this offense.

He seems like someone who would be good for the Dolphins as a third receiver,

given just who Odell Beckham is.

But his stats were truly dreadful while he was here.

And then I learned while he's out of the league entirely,

he's on the pivot podcast.

He's saying, yeah, I'm suspended for six games as I make my comeback.

Nine games, nine catches, 55 yards.

Ow!

Nine catches, 55 yards for a receiver that upon his arrival, we were arguing, did he just make the greatest catch we've ever seen?

And he's one of the greatest receivers we've ever seen.

Really strange career for Odell Beckham.

Greatest catch ever.

I think consensus, right?

Greatest catch ever.

Unbelievable catch.

Was a superstar in New York.

Goes to Cleveland.

Really disappointing tenure there.

Everything around that franchise around that time was really, really odd.

Then arguably would have been MVP of the Super Bowl had he not torn his ACL in that game.

And then

a six-game suspension at at the end of his career where he's no longer going to play ever again.

It's like finding out who the Zodiac killer is now.

Like, all right, congrats, whoopee.

Give me a second here.

Jeremy, can you get me the stats of Odell Beckham in that Super Bowl before he got injured?

Because I think in that first quarter, he might have had a better first quarter than he had his entire Dolphin career.

I'm not even kidding.

It wasn't nine catches, but I think it might have been more than 50 yards.

Not nine catches, but certainly over the yards.

He was going to have, he was going to have a 15-catch game because their game plan was meant to stop people other than Odell Beckham.

He had two catches for 52 yards and a touchdown, as opposed to his nine catches for 55 yards and no touchdowns as a Dolphin.

How many?

So he played a quarter in that Super Bowl, correct?

He got hurt in the first quarter and it basically ended his career.

That getting hurt in the Super Bowl, it would have been a great comeback story to go to Super Bowl MVP as soon as you get out of New York.

It kind of was.

It was weird, like, because everyone recognized what they were watching on that field that, oh, it was the Browns that were the problem.

At the time, people were saying, oh, it was Baker that was the problem.

And I guess the Rams just have a secret sauce.

Another point that I didn't get to make yesterday before we get to these 250 songs and the whatever Ethan thinks about number 233.

We were talking about Jonathan Gannon, and everyone here was like, $100,000 is a lot of money.

That's a good penalty for putting your hands on an employee who already feels bad enough.

And I didn't mention at any point, but Jerry Jones got a quarter million for inadvertently using the middle finger.

So the fine there is worth two and a half, like the fine for power there over a middle finger is two and a half times as much as Jonathan Gannon putting his hands on an employee.

Now we're not penalizing the crime.

We're penalizing the position, correct?

We're penalizing, we're not even penalizing the act.

We're just penalizing how much money do you have and by percentage, how much of it can we take.

It's not about how bad the act is.

I'll look it up, but I'm assuming that there are certain rules, certain fines that they can't go beyond.

It's like in hockey, there's like strange $50,000 fines where it's like, that's the maximum allowed.

Owners are subject to a different fine structure, I think.

I would think coaches are too, though.

I would think that...

But one involved fans also, and the other was a player.

But which do you think is worse?

If I just tell you, which is the worst act, a coach putting his hands on a player or Jerry Jones saying that inadvertently, because he's 80 years old, he gave a middle finger that he didn't mean to give.

Inadvertent, one of these.

There you go.

Whoa, where'd that come from?

My bad, I can't control my hands.

Put it on the poll at Levantard show, Juju.

Have you ever given an inadvertent middle finger to somebody?

Because Jerry Jones's explanation really was it was an accident.

But when I put those things in front of you guys and I say one $250,000 fine for an accidental middle finger from an owner, and there is precedent here, Bud Adams, we mentioned here in an old light blue vinyl suit, went middle fingers with kickstands, we said, right?

They had kickstands.

It wasn't just two middle fingers shot up.

He was using the index finger and the ring finger.

He was using them as wings.

That happened in 2009.

He was also fined $250,000 for conduct detrimental to the league.

So that's the standard middle finger fine for a rich guy?

Now, he did two, I think.

So I think Jerry could come out and say, I should have only been fined $125,000.

I think what Mike is saying about fines being maximums, I thought that stuff had to be collectively bargained.

I thought with owners and coaches, because they don't collectively bargain as a union, that you can fine them whatever it is that they should be fined for behavior.

I did find a larger owner fine for David Tepper.

He got fined $300,000 for throwing a drink at fans.

Belichick got $500,000 for Spygate.

And Bruce Arians, which we talked about yesterday, same sort of thing, physical altercation, he got 50,000.

So

I guess the difference in the optics.

He got off light.

Yeah.

So, what do you guys do with that?

Do you care?

And does any of it matter?

We're really just finding people.

How much money do you actually have?

I know they'll say it's about the position of power.

We're going to hold these people to a higher standard, but it can't be argued that what Jerry Jones did was worse than what Jonathan Gannon did.

No, I don't think

it's ownership precedent.

I think it's a different thing entirely.

Yeah, but the Jonathan Gannon one was like, it was a rare time where I'm like, that fine seems fair.

I'm good.

Also, Jonathan Gannon was fined by the Arizona Cardinals, not the NFL.

So they decided their own fine for him.

When the Falcon situation happened with Shadur Sanders, where Jeff Ulbrick's kid called Shadur Sanders and faked the thing, he got 100K too.

So it's like

hitting a player or calling somebody on a prank, your kid doing it.

What a wild story.

Also, Shadur telling the Ravens he didn't want to go there.

How'd that work out?

I wonder if the Cardinals tried to do Gannon a solid by pre-fining him, like they do in college, where it's like, oh, we already handled this situation in NFL.

Like, don't worry about any further punishment.

Like, we took care of this.

You don't need to come in and give him a bigger fine.

You don't need to suspend him.

You don't need to do anything.

Like, we handled this.

Like, self-impose the way Michigan did with the, what was that guy's name?

The sign stealer.

Connor Stallions.

Connor Stallions.

That's such a porn star name.

I don't understand how you just like, you're suspended for two games.

Pick which two you want.

That's so crazy.

Give me better porn star names in sports than Connor Stallions if you have.

And no, we've got to get rid of Magic Johnson and Randy Johnson and all the overt ones.

Give me some names.

Let's go active to make it hard.

Better than Connor Stallions.

And I want to spend the entirety of today's show making fun of the New York Yankees because you can't play enough for me the sound of John Sterling

being hit.

Give people the entire context for that in the event they weren't listening to the shadow show.

Now, the 3-2 swung on a pop foul back here.

Ow!

Ow!

Ow!

It really hit me.

I didn't know it was coming back that far.

And here is Susie Waldman in the greatest Yankee moment there has been since Lou Gehrig.

Roger Clemens

in George's box, and Roger Clemens is coming back.

Oh, my good, goodness gracious.

Of all the dramatic things I've ever seen, seen, Roger Plutmans standing right in George Steybridge's box, announcing he is back.

Roger Plutmans is a New York Yankee.

In the last 25 major league baseball seasons, the New York Yankees have won the same amount of World Series as the Miami Marlins.

Goodness gracious.

Billy comes in here just slightly more radiant than he usually is, and I can't tell if it was Kershaw.

It was hate watching.

It was hate-watching baseball yesterday.

Can you hate watch something you love?

Yeah.

Yes, you can.

You were doing that with Kershaw last night.

I was doing it with the Yankees.

Again, I don't think baseball made me feel better this entire season than that bottom of the eighth inning where the Yankees loaded the bases and were just begging the season to get back to Aaron Judge.

Please, giant man, carry us, carry us to the next round because you're hitting 600 and no one else on the team.

We don't have a good pitcher.

We don't have anyone who can get a base hit for us, but please just get us to one more at-bat.

And then they all just went home.

Even those random Rays games in late June didn't get you there.

Also, Carrie Wood.

Not active, but.

Okay, but that's Taylor Swift's lack of subtlety where everyone's turned on her, by the way.

Jeremy, you were first to the party, but everyone's turned on her.

They are very mad about the lyrics that Travis, that Travis Kelsey, they prefer her heart broken than swelling with joy in wood.

Hmm.

They do.

I'm a trendsetter, Dan.

What can I say?

Her pain is something that makes better music than her happiness.

That seems obvious.

That's always been the case in everybody's music.

But again, be happy.

Just make interesting sounding music.

It's fine.

Let your lyrics be, you know, happy, go lucky, but make it sound good.

Looks like Bat Bunny is taking over the place, like I said a couple of weeks ago, as the biggest artist on the planet, especially after whatever the flop she put out.

I mean, I can't tell you, but.

It did break like every streaming record ever, but

I have a shameful admission, Dan, from last night/slash this morning.

So, Kyle Schwarber hit an absolute like bomb.

Which one?

He hit, well, the one that left the stadium, like he crushed it.

So, I saw a graphic this morning that I didn't realize was from ESPN Deportes, and I was like groggy when I saw it when I woke up.

And it was talking about the distance of the home run.

And I read it as Kyle Schwarber had five 455 pies, and I was assuming that this was like over the span of the season or something.

I was like, who's keeping track of that?

It seems like he's had less pies than he's had in past seasons.

Like, I read it the same way.

I read it the same way.

It was so confusing to me.

Pies SPS and span SPS is feet.

Like, that explains the weight loss.

Less pies this year.

So, Mike tunes in last night, and wow, he's like, Clayton Kershaw has been eating an awful lot of pies.

Wow.

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