Hour 1: The House I Could Have Built If They Let Me (feat. Tony Calatayud)

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The thing that I just heard, and I wish we had this audio, and I wish we were secretly recording Tony because I can't believe it happened.

He's at FIU Stadium, and he actually said into a hot mic, sort of muttering to himself, the house I could have built if they had let me.

If they had just let me.

Now, the only information we have on Tony's FIU career is he tried out as a walk-on one time.

They didn't even give him a football.

He was just throwing air passes, and then he went home, and they never gave him his real chance.

But can you guys please explain to me who overheard that and why it is that he was muttering that into the microphone when he was off air?

I heard it and it's just as tony as it can be.

Least surprising thing I've ever heard

at the time.

It was Christobal.

Wow.

Wasn't Cristobal.

Classic poor coaching decision.

Was Christobal your coach when you walked on?

No, Dan, it was not Mario Cristobal.

So I would have walked on around 2013, 14.

I think that's when they were in kind of flux.

Christobal had just left and before Butch Davis, I want to say.

So it was kind of somewhere in between.

Was it

Long Krueger?

Was it Isaiah Thomas?

Might have been Long Krueger.

No, it wasn't Isaiah Thomas.

Ron Turner.

I think I made him an NBA coach.

Ron Turner.

Coach at like Oklahoma.

Yeah,

Long Krueger, I don't think it was, but I think it was Ron Turner.

But yeah, Dan, I did say it because I have to test the mic when I go to things.

I get Ron and Lon confused all the time.

I'm sorry, Tony.

I missed that.

I didn't understand why he was employing the Illinois basketball coach at FIU.

But this isn't.

We hired an Illinois football coach.

FIU basketball and football are a bit of a way station here for minor league football under the University of Miami.

And Tony tried out without a football, with an air football, and he could have built that.

Is that Pitbull Stadium?

Dan, I am right now in the Pitbull Stadium, in the Bowels of the Pitbull Stadium, walking into

one of the tunnels here.

And if you can see right over my left shoulder right here, that's actually where I was when I was trying out.

So about midfield, maybe the 45 yard line, they had a fake under center like this.

And I was ready to call my plays and I was ready to call my stuff.

Three step drop.

Okay, boom.

We're throwing.

All right, give me a five-stepper.

Okay.

One, two, three, four, five.

Bounce, bounce, throw.

But Tony, do you know?

Do you know why?

Did they not have enough footballs?

Like, how many guys were out there?

And why wouldn't they just have brought out like a dozen footballs that everyone could have reused?

Yeah, or at least a nerd.

No, see, that's a great point, Dan.

Yeah, no, that would have been a great point.

They actually had tennis balls that they were using for the wide receivers and the DBs, which I could have thrown the tennis ball.

But the information that I was given as to why they didn't have footballs for us to try out was because that would have actually taken away practice time and some sort of NCAA bylaws that if they would have brought out footballs for the walk-ons, they would have actually lost a day of practice with the real team, which I didn't feel...

really great when they said that to me.

I was like, well, we're trying to make the real team, aren't we?

And he's like, yeah, but you know.

And then I was like,

he's like, all right, my Steph Dark.

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I like the idea of Tony arguing with the coach why he can't have a real ball.

It was a quick argument because he's like, yeah, the real team.

And then I was like, okay.

And then he said five-step drop.

And then I just went back like a robot and started doing five-step drops.

Quick question.

Had they used not a real football, like maybe a nerf football or maybe one of like that Nickelodeon ball we have behind us here.

Does that count as practice or no?

No, I think it's got to be pig skin, right?

I think if it's pig skin, then they can, then they can get docked.

But if it was foam, if it was maybe some sort of animal skin that wasn't pig, maybe we could have used it.

But again,

that's 10 years in the past, Dan.

It could have been the house that I built.

Tony says he's loaded today.

Top five, too many OLIs.

Let's get through this.

Let's start with the first OLI, Tony's top five observations from the NFL weekend.

We'll bang out through the OLI really quick.

Michael McCorkle Jones keeps getting it done, Dano.

Thank you.

I was waiting for that.

Appreciate it.

That's my second OLI of Raves Revenge game.

Yeah, Michael McCorkle Jones.

McCorkle.

Michael McCorkle.

I'm going to ask this one to the class.

Ask Trey McBride who he'd rather have at QB.

Did you guys see the stats with him and Kyler Murray versus him and and Jacoby Brissette?

Do you guys know that stat or no?

Brissette targets him so much

and throws touchdowns to him.

Imagine that.

You have a really good tight end.

Kyler Murray's like, you know what?

I'd rather not throw touchdowns to him.

I'd rather throw touchdowns to Michael Wilson.

But Jacoby Brissette's like, man, this guy's really good.

Let me throw him the ball in the end zone, which is usually a good thing when you have a guy who's 6'5 and runs a 4'6.

But alas.

All right, second last OLI, Jags.

Just when I think I'm in, they push me back out of me.

They're not serious people.

Dan,

do you want to say the text that you told me on, you texted me privately when that game started?

Yeah, sure.

I just said

I have just bet the Jags, and I know I'm going to regret it.

Like, I know the game had not started.

I'm still simultaneously down 21 people.

Yeah, it's a lot.

No, because I believe in them athletically, but they're not serious people.

What do you mean by that?

Insane, Dan.

Insane.

No, I'll tell you.

Thank you for asking the question.

I'll tell you what I mean by that.

What I mean by that is the Jags,

every good play that they had in yesterday's game was undone by a penalty.

So they had,

at one point, the announcer said, and the 11th and 12th penalty of this game, wipe out a third and seven sacks for the Jags.

Again, the Rams are playing three tight ends and one wide receiver.

Three tight ends and one wide receiver.

When I'm telling you that Stafford and Devontae Adams beat the Jags by themselves by just standing there and watching them implode, they're not serious people.

Like,

Matthew Stafford is doing no look passes in the Super Bowl because he knows exactly where to throw the ball.

It's really three inches.

Brian Thomas, you hit him and hit him with a face mask.

Trevor Lawrence cannot be trusted to do anything but buck

and Bronco like a Clydesdale.

They're fools.

There I said it.

They're fools.

They exhibit the behaviors of a fool.

Yes, they're not fools.

Just act like fools.

I don't know.

You haven't been watching the Jags that closely, Ben.

All right, last OLI.

Oh, shit.

Here come the Chiefs.

Dan, I think we were wrong.

Woo!

So wrong.

Wow.

So Rashi Reichs makes a big difference.

Pretty good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's good.

Pretty good.

Yeah, and that precision thing where you can throw it to one guy seven times, and every time it's going to be open.

Yeah, it makes everybody a little bit better.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, we'll get into the top five now.

Except Baker.

Number five.

Baker doesn't need anybody.

Baker doesn't need precision with anybody.

Get somebody off the couch.

You'll catch a touchdown with Baker.

Only if we could teach that to Trevor Lawrence, who is still, again, throwing touchdowns to nobody, but throwing the ball to Parker Washington of all people.

Anyways, we'll get off to number five here.

The Eagles are going to be all right.

The Eagles are going to be all right, Dan.

Remember, I said that.

Jalen Hurts had the best

team on both sides.

Jalen Hurts had the best game non-Drake May division that was had by any quarterback in the league yesterday.

And is it not funny to you guys the way these guys now treat fourth downs?

God almighty, they've gone in the other direction.

Now these guys are throwing deep on fourth and one all over the place because it's a calculated advantage because everybody's selling out to stop the yard.

It's crazy.

Dan, I will say this, though.

Brian Flores, for as much flack as we gave him here in Miami, has figured out the tush push.

I don't know if you guys have talked about it.

He has.

I was getting here to the field.

Okay, you line up a guy just on the floor, just in front of the line of scrimmage.

Don't let him be on a three-point stance or a five-point stance.

Just lay him down horizontally on the floor so the guys can't get underneath him.

It's probably the greatest way to stop the tush push.

I wonder if people are going to use that going forward against Philly or not.

I think the next movie, you stack defensive tackles on top of each other.

Lying on top of each other.

Wow.

Just like

you have four guys.

It's so funny.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You build a wall.

Yes.

Shout out to Stan Van Gundy.

You're screwed if they do play action, but

they go wide.

We're trying to stop the tush push, guys.

Come on.

What are we doing?

They throw a fade to AJ Brown against the corner who's six inches shorter.

Number four.

The Cowboys aren't dead yet.

Keep an an eye on them.

I know their defense isn't great.

Keep an eye on the Cowboys.

Keep an eye on them, Dano.

Tony, their defense is so good.

Keep an eye on them.

What happened to Trayvon Diggs where he got hurt at his house and is in concussion photo?

Concussion.

An accident in his home.

When Dex Prescott is healthy, that team is always a 12-win team.

Now, they may not make it to 12-wins, but when he is healthy, they win.

We got to get used to that.

Bingo.

Bingo.

Number three.

through three quarters, I was getting ready to vehemently defend the top five intriguing teams list I did earlier this season where Dan laughed at my Giants selection and called it garbage.

Then in the fourth quarter Denver scored 33 points and I realized I still won the take because

I'm a pro Bo Nicks guy.

Not being take a cannibal Dan, that's the best part of my job.

Bo Nicks, 33 points, two rushing touchdowns, two passing touchdowns in the fourth quarter that that Jackson dart interception was an absolute backbreaker.

And then the Giants kicker missed the extra point.

I could have kicked the extra point with a bad leg and made it maybe.

No, no.

No.

How's that lawsuit going, by the way?

I would have pushed it wide right.

I'm actually in talks with your wife to see what's going on here.

Good.

To figure out how I can sue the company.

You need your support?

I might make a good appearance over there.

Yeah.

A lot of...

People won't touch this case, Daniel, because of your name around the city.

But I finally found an attorney who I think knows you enough to make something happen so i'm very excited about that i need your support exactly right

number two

gonna continue to beat the drum on this but the colts are the most complete team in football

So that's an interesting thing that happened, huh?

Like, it can't even be denied right now.

In terms of efficiencies marching down the field, they'll put 38 on anybody in a way that's a bit different than the way Kansas City does it, right?

Because they've got the great, they're still using the great running back.

Nobody needs one of those anymore, but they've got one that's better than all the rest.

And Tyler Warren, who's a really good rookie tight end.

Michael Pittman, the ghost of Michael Pittman, all of a sudden catching balls all over the field.

They've got 19 guys that can just go out and get a 55-yard bomb.

The Colts are exciting, and defense, Luanna Rumo's got the defense playing really well, Dano.

They are the most efficient offense this century when it comes to points per draw.

I saw that.

No, but beyond that, I remind you that a couple of weeks ago, Zaslow over here was telling us Harbo's the greatest coach there's ever been because the Chargers had two good games of defense.

All right.

No, but the Colts can do that against anybody.

He was right back then.

I was talking about what they were at that moment.

Can't be late with an opinion, Dan.

Have we had a younger ghost of than Michael Pittman?

Why was he a ghost?

Because he hurt his ankle?

I mean, for years, like, I didn't do anything.

No, he hurt his back, hurt his ankle.

He was all over the place getting hurt in the injured reserve and whatnot.

And then all of a sudden, he's just catching passes from everywhere from Danny Dimes.

Crazy.

Jalen hurt.

Good one, Greg.

Thank you.

All right, Dano.

Number one, we can only save this for the hometown team.

Dano, I'm going to give you a couple of letters, and I want you to see what they stand for, okay?

You ready?

Yep.

All right, one of the M's in Mike McDaniel stands for.

Oh, are you going to insult him?

Moron?

Miserable.

Muerto.

Oh, I'm sorry.

He's a muerto.

I didn't realize you were doing it.

You are.

Okay.

We are playing Spanish.

Okay, umuerto.

Mueto.

Yeah, that's good.

Do you know what the C in Chris Greer stands for, Dan?

Come mienda.

Yeah!

All right, Dano.

I thought it was gonna be cool.

Chris Greer stands for comemienda.

Ooh, that's another one.

All right, but you forgot to.

I don't want to call these people.

It's calling Chris Greer a shit eater.

I didn't say it, you did.

Eater of shit.

You trapped me.

He exhibits the behaviors of someone who eats shit.

Yes, that's correct.

Sticking with

the shit sandwich here.

The M in Miami Dolphins stands for?

Miedda.

Mahong.

Ah, Mahong, another, a synonym for Miada.

Just a singular piece.

Yes, one turd.

Just a singular piece of pump shit.

It's not even a pile of it.

It's just a single turd.

That's right.

A Mahon.

Just one single turn.

Set apart from the others.

One lonely turd.

Patrick Mahon.

That was a good one.

He's breaks on his game today.

Unleashed.

Dan, what does the T in Tua stand for?

Oh, for the love of God, Tony.

Tremendami.

Tremendami.

Tremendamieta, Dan.

A tremendous turd.

That's right.

A collection of tremendous turns.

A collection of tremendous turds is correct exhibits the behavior of a collection of tremendous turds all right these are all important distinctions you're doing important work tony thank you for your help he is making the distinction i've got one last one okay i thought that was number one another i've got one last one no no no that's a continuation last one we'll save it for the boss one of the e's in stephen raw stands for what dan

no say

you got to think about this one got to think about this one think about what he's doing where he sees his team right now one of the E's in Stephen Ross stands for.

You ready?

Yep.

He's in Cohonao, Dan.

He's in Cohonao.

That's what he is.

That is right.

He's in Cohonao with the team.

That's right.

He has lost.

Encohonau with the team, Dan.

It's he.

So, how do I translate in cojonal?

It's without.

He's so upset.

He's so upset that he's without balls.

Yeah, his balls fell off from how upset he is.

De Pinga.

Man, China?

No.

Well,

okay.

I didn't think we could descend further than turds, but thank you, Tony, for taking us.

I liked that one.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

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We got to get rid of these cucarachas in the house.

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That's right.

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I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.

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This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

I did want to talk for a second because I've rambled.

Being told Tony has one more thing.

Really quick, really quick.

Dan, tomorrow behind me, Vice City situation at FIU Stadium.

The FIU Panthers pause up are playing Kennesaw State right here at 7 p.m.

at Pitbull Field.

They may invite me to

be on the field here.

I don't know.

That's what I've been heard from my boy Darren, who's letting me know, give me a thumbs up.

I don't know.

Okay, so thank you.

I'm glad we went back.

Honorary captain.

Okay, so yes, honorary captain, by the way.

Seems like it was probably contingent on him getting that last line out there.

That's what access at Pitbull Stadium costs us.

What gives you that suspicion, Mike, was that

how smoothly he threw it just in the middle of the day?

One more thing.

At the end of the day, what does the FNFIU stand?

One more thing,

after I've given you in Cohonado as the last one more thing, I forgot the more important one more thing, which is why I got access to this stadium that I could have built if my air passes a million years ago hadn't violated NCAA practice rule.

The I and FIU stands for, I gotta get this one in, boys.

Worry with those practice throws, Tony.

I don't want you to get hurt out there.

By the way, really quick, there's one more thing.

There's one more thing.

Really quick.

I promise you.

I promise.

It's really quick.

Look what I discovered back here.

Danny, switch over the camera really quick.

This goes back to last week we were talking about this.

Here we go.

Hold on, hold on.

Can you guys tell me what that looks like right there?

That seems to be a goalpost, right?

That looks to be a goalpost right here.

And where the kid was on

Apple come in.

That was such a still shit.

So, wait, so heavy.

Oh, wow.

Look at that.

Okay, so it's not that heavy.

That's a 000 pound look at that

look at that weight distribution you wish i learned look at that tony kaladiud finds out tony kaladiud finds out a new podcast where we're going to pick them both up he exposes that looks like a dollar store field post feel goal post thank you for doing this tony good work asinine conversation last week Good work, Tony.

We appreciate the help.

I don't think

could the bigger schools have bigger ones?

Heavier, heavy ones.

FCS goal posts.

Is that that what you're saying?

What are we doing here?

How do you imagine the tryouts are for the bigger school where the kid goes out who throws air passes there?

Like, do you realize how far from the very fringes of football Tony was throwing walk-on air passes in a stadium where he couldn't even get footballs?

The big schools do air passes, but you wear full pads, everything, full contact.

He could have built that house, though.

So, I want to talk to you, though, guys, about the,

I've rambled a bit on the subject, but the precision of football, right?

Because I do get fascinated fascinated by the idea that Devontae Adams, who I didn't think was a number one wide receiver, has dedicated his life over the last 15 years to, I will run exactly 14.3 yards on this route.

I'm going to practice it and I'm going to keep practicing.

It's not going to be 15.3 yards.

It's not going to be 13.3 yards.

On Devontae Adams, you were right at the time.

That's what I'm saying.

Can't be late with an opinion, Dan.

He was bad.

He had a lot of drops his first season, but the idea that athletes of this caliber would dedicate themselves to staying atop money by being as precise as the Rams demand you must.

McVay's ahead of the game, got to stay ahead of the game.

Tua can get stripped down to nothing that fast.

McDaniel too.

He was first to, I'm the next Belichick.

I can have any broadcasting job.

I'm smarter than everyone else.

I'll do it if I've got Whitworth.

I'll do it if I've got Gurley.

I'll do it if I've got Goff.

I'll do it if I've got Stafford.

I'll do it if I have no wide receivers yesterday.

And I'm going to London and playing at 6 a.m.

for my fans.

And I'm going to drag Jacksonville that has all the number one picks in their offense because I'm a better organization, because I'm the Rams, and I will be feared by everyone in the playoffs.

Because the military school we run on numbers and precision,

just get Puka's hands open.

It doesn't have to be the rest of him, just where his hands are.

You can't be sloppy against that.

You can't, when Brian Flores is working his way back into the league because a discrimination lawsuit is laughed at as everything he told you about the organization comes unraveling, unraveling.

And he's devising, how do I stop that play that Jason Kelsey is arguing for as that team wins 20 of 21

because there's a play that can't be stopped.

No, Flores, let me see if I can figure out how to stop it.

These are military schools.

They're giant economies that are studying all day and night to how do we beat the Eagles.

And you fall behind like that.

The precision of the Rams is a tribute to excellence.

And Stafford, I will add, because Stafford survived everything that the Lions were organizationally got out.

And I'm telling you, if he plays them in the playoffs, he's going to beat them.

And I'm telling you that if he played for that team right now, he's the one who could go get Mahomes because they figured out at the top of the game that if you're healthy and precise, Drew Brees was trying to beat them.

They've got a precision that is so crazy that Jacksonville with Travis Hunter out there, they're just slinging it.

So Devontae Adams has never had that kind of game and Stafford hasn't either.

And they've got no wide receivers.

Remember before the season started, we weren't sure.

Like, it felt like Stafford wasn't going to play this year.

That wasn't that long ago.

He's the fourth best quarterback in the league, right?

After Alan Mahomes and a healthy.

I want to talk, though.

I want to get back to talking about the idea, though, of when we're doing this stuff that we're watching happen with Belichick, where you see how quickly someone can get stripped of genius.

The quarter, McVay cut bait on golf so fast.

Nobody cuts bait that quickly on, like, nope, let's go get Stafford.

We were just a Super Bowl team.

People hold on to their jobs.

They're afraid.

But if you're in your early 30s and you're actually smarter than everyone else, you're not pretending all the time and you get the right quarterback with which all you have to do is, yep, Matt, I'll support you everywhere.

Just keep being that precise, please.

Meet me at precision.

Keep throwing the ball there and there and there every time.

No look passes.

Mahomes did that yesterday.

You saw Mahomes did the no look pass because he's feeling comfortable again.

And Rice is pointing to him like this.

The miles that these men run in feet that get deon sanders amputated toes like in precision of no we'll do it 14.3 yards 14.3 yards

it's all right dan that's a little too much i've broken deon sanders's toes and if you say they just need booka's hands open for fourth time this show we're stopping you penalty box i probably deserve it i just can't believe that there's a machine that's more precise than all the others in that game like it it you we marvel and value all this stuff.

And then Baker Mayfield gets out there, and we can't explain how it is that

he got to 35 points when none of his receivers are there.

Compare it to what we just happened in Miami, which was a Ferrari with a spark plug that went wrong.

Like, a fragile thing that if a leg breaks, you're done.

You're finished.

Historically so.

Yeah, but accuracy was supposed to be to his strength, and it is.

Going into yesterday, he had the best red zone passer rating in the league.

His completion percentage was like second best in the league.

So, accuracy, you mentioned precision.

Accuracy is supposed to be his forte.

So, theoretically, Mike McDaniels agrees with McVay.

He just can't pull it off like McVay does.

Yeah, but it's not just the accuracy with two of these days anymore.

Like,

and I know Xavian Howard said this after week number one, but it really does appear if the first option in the first second of the ball being snapped is not there, it is panic time.

I agree with that.

I agree with that.

And plus, his lack of a running option is just extreme to the point where he's one-dimensional in a way that hardly any other quarterbacks are.

Doesn't even make sense to me when you're talking about that.

Was number one in the league in passing.

Like the second option and third option were there because he was getting rid of the ball faster than everyone else was, faster than Tom Brady ever did.

Before we go any further, I've got a couple of things that I'm remiss on.

One, I have failed today, that it is a couple of hours into the show, and I've not mentioned

that in a baseball game, unlike anyone I have ever witnessed, and whoever it is that saw Babe Ruth play, does not have the story to tell that we do if we're not numb to these things.

The idea that Shohei Otani hit three home runs in a playoff game to clinch a World Series berth, one of them out of the stadium, and also struck out 10 men throwing a ball 100 miles an hour, makes him an extraterrestrial that has never existed on Earth before.

And that game is the single best playoff game a player has ever played, Babe Ruth included.

Like there is no, there, there's no getting around.

We saw that by leaps and bounds, the most amazing athletic feat of the weekend was Shohei Otani, and there is no close second place.

There will never be a close second.

Only 12 hitters ever had hit three homers in a postseason game.

Only 26 pitchers ever had recorded 10 strikeouts in two hits or less and no runs in a postseason start.

He did both.

That's projustic.

I mean, he's the only pitcher they're letting hit nowadays, though.

So how's anyone else wants to do it?

It is superhero athleticism.

It is stuff you will tell people about 100 years from now, and they will not believe it existed.

Timeout.

Chris, what did you just say?

What in the world?

What other pitchers are hitting in today's baseball?

That's why.

Because they're not allowed to.

Oh,

if Max Schurz is like, if you put me at plate, man, I'll take one yard.

That's what you're saying?

I'm just saying, one pitcher is currently hitting these days.

They should let more pitchers hit.

hear the numbers i just said you're not wrong

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Don Lebatard.

You don't remember the idea for that?

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.

You just got to do that.

Oh, that would be a great call.

Oh, that's kind of a call.

That kind of swing, that kind of thing.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

I mean, I'm not saying any other pitcher would be Otani, but

half of the Major League pitchers hit 488 in high school, right?

Keep talking.

Like pitchers in high school were probably the best hitter on their team as well.

Who's the pitcher?

Hey, Jeremy, what'd you hit?

Who's the pitcher that's being held back right now?

Who could be hitting?

Okay, you guys need to stop doing this because you're really minimizing the level of expertise that it's taking present day to hit a baseball.

Like, pitchers can no longer do that.

No, Otani is a unicorn.

And look, by some metrics, he's having a bad postseason in that he's hitting like 208 or something, but he's got five home runs and two pitching victories.

There's been nobody like that.

There's got to be a pitcher right now.

That's like, let me get some A-Bs, coach.

That could help.

12 hitters ever.

with three homers in a postseason game.

12 hitters that were just hitters have ever hit three home runs in a postseason game.

One of them went out of the stadium.

I have not seen that there before.

I have looked for it.

I don't, maybe that happens all the time now, that he plays there.

No, they put a marker out in right field for Kyle Schwarber's homer in an earlier round this postseason because nobody hits the ball that far.

And he hit it like 30 feet further as he struck out 10 guys in a game.

It is absurd beyond absurd and that you guys would make it a conversation of I want to see Chris Hammond hit more.

What a pull.

I swear I was going to say Mike Hampton.

He won bad.

I also had Chris Hammond in my whole

Mike Hampton right now

saying, hey, give me 600 bats.

Damn right.

He could hit.

I can't believe you just pulled Chris Hammond.

You're looking at my brain.

Yeah, pinch hitter in the World Series.

Oh

you don't think there's any pitchers.

I know I'm obviously,

oh, Tani's great.

There's got to be some pitchers out there like, coach, let me get an A B.

But this is the part.

This is the only part.

I understand.

This is the part that frustrates me.

I would say, just in general, wherever it is, that language barrier and baseball and foreignness makes someone not the star they should be.

Because in the sport of Mike Trout, somebody who hits and pitches what he just did is so Ruthian, so super heroic.

The people who appreciate baseball understand that no other human being who has ever lived has that collection of talents in his body.

It's the kind of game he just had.

If we sent a major leaguer to play against sixth graders, where he'll hit three home runs and one of them will be further than any of the sixth graders have ever seen.

He's playing against all other major leaguers.

They can't hit him at 100 miles an hour and he hits the ball further than I've ever seen it hit.

And he only started pitching again in the middle of this season.

Yeah.

He had not pitched in over a year.

Dan, I kind of need CSI baseball to take a look at the Anaheim Angels or Los Angeles Angels or California Angels or whatever angels they were.

Like you guys had Trout and Shohei at the same time and you were horseshit

and pools.

How did that happen?

How is that possible?

And Rendone, they paid $250 million for him too, and then they had no pitching is how it happened.

I think you could put every major league pitcher in a high school game right now.

against one of

the better high school pitchers, and and not one of them would have the game Shohei Otani just did in the MLB post.

It's lunis.

It's total.

What that man just did, like what I was beginning to say is, I wish the American media knew how to cover this person in a way that would grant him the stardom, that would make him a bigger thing beyond over the land.

This is no problem in Japan, obviously, right?

They recognize the history of the game.

Hell, the game grew as the

cultures shared it.

And what has been birthed is the single greatest baseball player that has ever existed, someone who would make Babe Ruth pale in his shadow.

And the playoff game he just had is something they will talk about 100 years from now.

How much is he making this year?

$2 million.

That is hilarious.

Eagle value.

That's crazy.

But there is one measure by which Babe Ruth continues to be the most talented player ever, and let me give it to you.

And you think I'm setting this up for a joke.

I'm not.

This is the truth.

Early in the 20th century, baseball players used to work during the offseason to make extra income.

Babe Ruth

worked during the offseason singing on a vaudeville stage.

So I want to see Otani do that.

Okay?

What's got you there, Dan?

Gotcha.

Can we look that up, see if it's factual?

How much Babe Ruth earned singing in a vaudeville show in the offseason to make extra companies?

A lot of players did it because they were trading on their name.

They were celebrities, so people would go to the vaudeville.

They would be shows.

They'd be shows.

And there's the great Babe Ruth

before television, cable, or the internet.

That's good.

Influencers of their day.

It's kind of like how every athlete has a podcast now, the 1920s.

Yeah.

Yes, Babe Ruth did sing in vaudeville during tours in the 1920s.

He performed a variety of yaks that included singing, telling jokes, and even trying his hand at mind-reading.

These performances were part of his postseason tours and were popular attractions due to his celebrity status.

Booyah!

Being Babe Ruth, Booyah, was not allowed back then.

Yeah, that would have had you sat in a different section.

Booyah.

I don't know why you would then do it.

I don't even know what that means.

I got a thing.

Do it again.

That's a three facts, Jack, from the Greg Cody Show, by the way.

That fact on Babe Ruth, I'm there for you.

People, I'm there for you.

The other thing that I'm remorseful about today is that I have not gotten to Zaslow's travel story

that Mike Ryan embargoed from me earlier the show.

What are you saying?

Oh, yeah, about this.

I want to hear it.

You don't know anything about it.

Two people know about this story, and Mike Ryan embargoed the story.

I've never had such trouble getting a story.

I wanted it.

Neither one of them would give it to me.

What happened?

All right, Dan.

Well, you know how I travel with ESPN, college football campus, or this weekend I was in South Bend, all right?

Notre Dame, USC, fun game.

You know how they treat me with the travel?

They treat me very well.

Matter of fact, sometimes first class available, like when I flew home yesterday, I sat first class.

They treat me very well, ESPN, on my travel but I book my travel okay I book it through a system it's on me obviously they pay for it I have a certain status blah blah blah so I'm flying to South Bend on Friday morning but I have to stop through Chicago through O'Hare Airport okay fine I've done that

okay I've done I you can't fly straight to South Bend South Bend is tough from Miami they have one terminal there's like six gates it's really small it's gonna take a couple do they still call it international airport which is my biggest they do because they apparently have one flight that fly it probably flies the Caribbean, so they get to call themselves an international airport.

Anyway, it's a ridiculous place to put a football stadium.

I'm flying to South Bend through Chicago, and when I get to Chicago, a very short layover, I'm walking over to my gate.

Okay, no big deal.

I get to the gate, I sit down, I see on the board there it says South Bend, and it says the time of the next flight is two hours and 45 minutes.

And I'm confused as hell.

I'm trying, two hours and 45.

That's how long it took me to get here from Miami.

Two hours.

I take out my phone.

I open up a map of the United States on my phone.

Illinois and Indiana are right next to each other.

How can it be two hours and 45 minutes?

I send Amber Wilson a text message.

Amber, I'm sitting here at my gate.

It says two hours and 45 minutes.

Is that possible?

She says, are you sure you're flying to South Bend?

I go, I think so.

She goes, it's not possible.

I go, right?

I'm really confused.

It gets to the point where they're calling the boarding groups.

Group one, group two, group three.

American Airlines, I'm flying.

They get to my group.

I'm one of the first people to board.

I get, you know, got good status, Greg.

I get up.

I show my boarding pass on the American Airlines app.

They scan it.

You're good to go, sir.

So I'm walking.

And it's one of those deals where you got to go outside, you know, because it's a really small airplane.

You know, I see it.

I saw the seating map.

It's, you know, two seats on one side, one seat on the right.

I'm in one of the ones yeah get my got a lot of room all right small plane i'm i i'm walking through the terminal gate now i take the steps downstairs

there's a bus waiting for me

no it's a bus is it taking you to the plane the bus on the side of the air of the bus the the on the side of the bus it says american airlines i'm like okay cool shuttle bus taking me to my plane like a minute no big deal i get on the bus I sit in the first seat.

It's going to be a quick flight, quick, quick ride, 30 seconds.

I sit in the first seat.

I don't even take my backpack off.

I sit in the first seat immediately behind the driver.

People are starting to get on.

They're looking at their phones.

They're sitting in assigned seats.

Why the fuck are you sitting in an assigned seat on this bus right now?

And all of a sudden, this woman is standing next to me.

She's confused.

I'm apparently in her seat.

I'm looking around at all these people.

She got that good bus seat.

I say to the bus driver, are we taking this bus to South Bend?

She goes, yes.

I go.

Now it makes sense.

Okay, I'm in the wrong seat.

And I get up and I go, you know, I'm in 4C.

I get up and I sit down.

I'm so confused.

And then, and then moments later, the bus driver.

She, by the way, if you're wondering if there's going to be, you know, drink and snack service, there's not.

But the bus driver, she gets on the PA.

She gets on the PA and she says, just so everybody knows, this bus is heading to South Bend.

Some people might be confused.

I'm sitting on this bus.

I can't believe it.

You thought it was two airplanes, two little airplanes.

Two hours and 45 minutes.

You had no idea the second leg of this first-class flight was a bus.

Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show.

Can the second leg of your first-class flight ever be a bus?

This woman then gets on.

We haven't gotten out.

We haven't gotten off the, you know, we haven't pulled out yet to leave.

She goes, we're waiting for the go-ahead to pull out from the air tower.

I'm like, woman, air tower?

We're on a bus.

Air tower.

I mean, you're a seasoned travel veteran.

Has anything like this happened to you?

Have I ever taken an American airline?

I mean, why would anyone book a bus through American Airlines?

Why would the bus say American Airlines on it?

You're not an airline, and you're a bus.

And it was just a normal terminal, like one of the gates?

Completely normal.

How full was this flight?

Oh, the bus was full.

Was it a cheap flight?

Did you think, wow, this is a cheap flight?

I don't know.

I don't pay for it.

ESPN does.

I have no idea.

Why would I assume that when I'm booking my air travel through American Airlines

that it might be a bus?

Was there any turbulence on the drive?

South Bend, South Bend is about a three-hour drive from Chicago Airport, right?

So you couldn't just take another small flight anywhere closer to that.

The funniest thing was, when Zaz started the story, I was going to say, you flew to South Bend?

Why didn't you just fly to Chicago and drive from there?

I thought there was a different Chicago in another state.

That's where I thought we were going.

I text Amber Wilson.

I said, you're not going to effing believe this.

And then I just wrote, I want to go home.

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