Hour 1: Mike Elko's Sausage Fingers (feat. Matthew Berry)

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He's created something out of nothing there. What are the details we need to know, Tony, about what you're doing this weekend?

Last one of the year, Dano, we got the Bannonweight Championship of the World. We've got Marab Dewalish Vili versus Pyotr Jan 2.

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going to be cards gonna be fun cards gonna be fun but paramount plus we're gonna be there so 9 p.m.

start in the next part of the year but for the last one uh 10 p.m start dev flamingo on saturday uh zadzlo how did the airlines rip you off uh this week

i'm surprised and delighted to have you here today i was expecting you to have to go somewhere as you usually do i am i'm in on fridays now dog but i am going somewhere this afternoon.

Yeah, I'm in on Fridays now, playoff. I like that.
Well, get used to it, man. This is the drill.
I'm in on Fridays now. This is my last weekend.
I'm going to the SEC championship game.

I'm leaving this afternoon, and then I'm here on Fridays. That's right.
Okay, so here's what happened. So I'm taking my wife for Valentine's.
We're going to Vegas.

She's never been before. So we're going to Vegas, all right? And, you know, we're perusing the flights.
We want to get a good deal. Do we do non-stop? Do you go for the cheapest flight?

Yeah, usually non-stop. We found a great flight.
This was two days ago. Found a great, actually it was yesterday morning.
We found a great flight coming back from Vegas, flying back here on JetBlue.

Non-stop, Dan.

A buck 75.

That's an incredible. One way.

That's a top tooth. Good deal.
175, non-stop. Not even at the crack of dawn.
It's like 11 a.m., you know, Pacific time. Do I need to explain time zones, Dan? You understand how time zones work, right?

So, anyway, I go to book them both, but the price for the two of them, it ends up being like 500 bucks. Like, whoa, 500 bucks? When I had just one person, it was only 175.
Okay, I'll back out.

I'll buy them each individually. All right, you know, 175, 175.
Get the good deal. So I book mine, 175.
Great. I go back to book my wife's, 450.

Within minutes, they changed the price and even said that value is not available any longer. I'm like, all right, well, as of right now,

I'm the only one flying back from Vegas. I know what happened.
You weren't grouped together in the same tier. Yeah.

You don't know what happened? You don't know if the price went up the moment your one ticket made availability, make the price go up because there were fewer tickets available?

And then I had to explain. No, but there were lots of seats on the plane still.
That's the bull.

And then my wife, she's like, hey, you know what? Why is there only one ticket booked? And I was like, sheepishly embarrassed. Well, here's what happened.
So she's like, so I'm not flying home.

I live in Vegas now.

You know how sometimes you see like on a ticket, only one left. I never believed that.
Maybe that was the case. Well, that's true.
I looked at the seating chart. There's like 30 seats.

Maybe they offer a certain amount at a certain price. Dynamic pricing, guys.
So right now, I'm flying home. She's still at the hotel.
We'll see what happens.

My suggestion for Valentine's Day would be to do the opposite, but you do you. You want to take romantic advice there from Jeremy Trichet? I mean, aren't I being like a good husband then?

Hey, you know, we're going home, but you can still stay and have fun. I'm going home, though.
That's like nice, right? Because I'm cheap, because I don't want to spend the extra couple hundred.

Yeah, you do that. Because I'm romantic.
Wearing your finest Shawn Michaels t-shirt while you do it.

I mentioned earlier, and I'm sorry that that Tom Bogart is being ignored

of the last 45 minutes. I did notice during Damashek, he was in his phone, but so was Mike Ryan.
Damashek, do better, okay? Garlic breath, you've got Mike Ryan and Tom

in their phone while you're talking. I'm sorry, I was tweeting out SOS ratings.

But you've got the World Cup draw today, and I know the two of you are interested in this, even if Tom is saying he doesn't love the nine hours of programming.

It's supposed to be 90 minutes. We'll see if they stick to that.
So I said, without much data behind me, I'm like, this is the third biggest audience in sports. And I looked it up.

I said that it might touch a billy. Highest audience for this specific event is 300 million viewers.
The biggest audience in the history of sports was France versus Argentina.

Messi finally wins the World Cup. 1.5 billion people were watching that.

But when you you look at things like social impressions and people that finally get around to this, this is arguably the third biggest audience in the history of sports potentially today.

It's more than double what you would see for the biggest Super Bowl audience ever. And it is a spectacle.
It's in Washington, D.C.

We've mentioned that they're going to honor the president of the United States of America with a newly invented peace prize because he didn't win the Nobel one.

But all of it is going to be pure FIFA.

A salute to Johnny Infantino, a salute to America, and if you put in a random FIFA entertainer generator, who performs at this thing, it spits out Andrea Bocelli first. We got him.

It spits out Robbie Williams second. And then it spits out Nicole Scherzinger third.

Does it ever spit out the village people? I wonder whose call that was. I'm not at liberty to guess.
But the village people are also going to be there. They're still doing it.

The village people are still doing it. I don't know whose call that was.

it seems random are they gonna win the peace process they can't still be doing it you're gonna see the dance and you're gonna see the village people doing the dance and you're also gonna see a proud miami hometown hero danny ramire is a part of this broadcast oh that's falcon yeah heidi klum and this guy glad to see him finally getting some work kevin hart gonna be part of the proceedings

Are you not stunned that the village people are still out here doing it? Put it on the Paulette Lebetard show. I was surprised the other day to see that AC DC is still touring.

Yeah, still running around there in a schoolboy outfit.

At almost 80.

That's got to be 80 years old.

I can't believe I didn't think that the village people were still a thing. Did you guys know that the village people were still a thing? Yeah, because of who's president.
Of course I did.

I mean, did you see the temptations performed halftime last night? There's like one original temptation left. There's also one original member of the village people.

I saw Prime showed like four seconds of the temptations. They're like, temptations, halftime show.
And they they went 10 seconds and then went to break.

Tom,

what are you looking forward to today? What are you interested in?

I imagine it's just the soccer. You don't have much time for the entertainment? Correct.
And I have a dream and a nightmare potential World Cup draw for the U.S., if you're interested.

That's what you look out for here. If you're an American, if you've got

allegiance, you want to avoid the group of death. You're the host nation here, so you should get a favorable draw, especially since it's going to be pretty corrupt.

You got the United States of America and FIFA. It's like the superpowers of corruption right now.

So don't you think that because they're hosting, because it's Washington and because, as you mentioned, FIFA is another word for corrupt, aren't you assuming that the United States will get the dream draw?

They're not going to see Italy early, are they?

I hope that it's not fixed, but we shall see where the ping-pong balls go.

I can't guarantee it. It is fixed.
What are you kidding me? Is there a possibility that they could be grouped with nations we are presently threatening war with? Because I think that's a possibility.

That's a good storyline. Yeah.
Like Venezuela, the United Kingdom. Iran.

Iran. Like, who else? Like, certainly nations that are on our travel ban list are at play here.
Yep. What are the dream and worst scenarios? Which one do you want first?

I want the dream scenario first. A little optimism.
All right. The dream is USA in first.
Second pot, Australia. Third pot, Scotland.
Fourth pot, Cape Verde. Oh, wow.
And you like that.

Those countries suck, you're saying.

Relatively.

It's not the nightmare. It's not the worst teams that you can get.
All those teams are hoping for U.S., though, right? Yes. Yeah.

I'd be nervous about that draw. Mexico is kind of down bad right now.
Tom can speak to that. Like, of these host nations, Canada's not in the worst spot, which when they announced the host nations,

you'd be most fearful of Mexico, and their program's really not in a good place. Yeah, they're struggling.
They're playing most of their games in America for money.

And then some of the players have come out and said, no wonder why we play in America because all the fans hate us. And the nightmare scenario?

Nightmare is we get Colombia in the second pot, Norway in the third, and then Italy in the fourth.

And no way of knowing whether or not any of this is corrupt. We're assuming it is not corrupt.
It's a little difficult.

Well, people do assume, people do make the allegation with the NBA and the lottery balls that there is corruption there. FIFA is among the most corrupt things that you will find.

Put on the poll at Lebatard show. More corrupt in sports.
FIFA or boxing? FIFA or boxing. Take a choice.

Because I think the first thing I think of when I think of corruption in sports is FIFA. It's not boxing.
The NCAA is up there pretty close. Here we go.

You would tune in on Monday to find out. But I would part of that is curious.
I am curious to see like what we do with Erling Hollande. Like, how do you, how does the United States?

I hope we don't find out. How does the United States go up potentially against the likes of Erling Holland, who would just toy with the U.S.'s back line?

How tall is he? Excuse me, because he just seems bigger than anyone else who plays soccer. He's like 6'4 ⁇ , and he's faster than everybody else, too.
6'4 in soccer is pretty big.

Yeah, it's pretty gigantic. I think the U.S.
tallest player is 6'4.

The idea that

we will get

that you would get a million five

1.

I'm sorry, 1.5 billion people to watch anything is crazy to me.

Uh, I understand that Messi's last game or Messi's World Cup final obviously would be spectacle, but the idea that somebody would be that kind of draw and then have a game this weekend that Tom is saying, yes, soccer people are interested in this game, but when you talk about 1.5 billion as a number, that's not just soccer people.

That's people who are just finding, I mean, to think of anything as 15, what are we talking about? 150 times the super, like, what are 15 times the Super Bowl audience, right, is 1.5 billion.

That's just nuts. That's not.
No, it's not. It's a global game.
I did the numbers wrong there

on the amount of audience that you would get for a game. I just can't imagine 1.5 billion people watching anything.

It's a bummer because the energy around this one, and I'm a huge soccer fan, and I've been waiting literally since I I was a child for the opportunity to host the World Cup again.

And given the current climate and how people viewed the US, I'm not as pumped. And I wish that the soccer team was in a place that I had more faith in.

When this was first announced, I'm like, yeah, that's enough cycles away for us to actually have a chance to win this thing. Because host nations,

there is a lot of Cinderella stories there. So I'm hopeful and I know I'm going to be smacked in the face once again with politics.
And I'm going to hate it.

And it's going to take a lot of the air out of the situation for me but I am still charged up to see where the U.S.

gets grouped and I hope against hope that I can find a way to muster up that childlike enthusiasm because the one in the 90s changed my life.

I have so many vivid memories of Alexi Lawless and the final in the Rose Bowl and I'm I've been really like looking forward to this my entire life and I'm I'm a little bit more optimistic.

Pochatino has the team playing a little bit better. I think his strategy that we were a little hard on really cultivated a lot of depth for the United States there, but I don't know.

It's a bummer that I'm not as excited as I once envisioned. Last time I was on the show, all it was was negativity, pessimism, because that's where the program was.

Things have turned around in a better way. It is still not, Mike, I don't think that you'd think it's on a strong footing, but it's for sure better than what looked like rock bottom.

Will we know the locations today of the games? Yes. And the U.S.
and the group stage two games, I believe, in LA and one in Seattle.

So, Chris, you should reach out to your father because both he and I in Los Angeles, last time he mentioned the Alexi Lalas team, the last time that we watched all of that together, your father and I were in Los Angeles, and it was so hard to get a hotel room because the World Cup was in town that we were in a tiny motel in downtown Los Angeles, which I've never stayed in.

I've stayed in hotels in Tallahassee that are bad. I've stayed in bad hotels.

I've never stayed in a worse hotel than the one I stayed in with your father at the World Cup because we just simply couldn't get rooms because when the World Cup comes to your country, it's total insanity.

DTLA in the mid-90s?

Oh, yeah.

Like

just reach out to your father and ask him to describe what he remembers. What I remember is him drinking at the motel bar, which was one of the saddest

motel bars. There was a motel bar?

Yeah, the Night Stalker say hello? It was all tiki, though. It wasn't a real bar.
Like, it's a folding chair. It's four folding chairs and a desk.
It's not a real bar.

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Did they serve Miller Light?

Always. Always.
And it is. That's all that matters.

That is the only thing that matters. You need to get some information from your father on this, though, Chris, because he'll have good details.

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Where's the motherfucker Roiz is a great question? Stugats. Running, huh? He running today, huh? I'm ready.

This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats.

I wanted to go back for a second and talk some college football here because Mike Elko, what happened to him after the Texas A ⁇ M Texas game where he's trying to do a press conference and he's bothered because he was on the doorstep of going unbeaten in the SEC.

He was on the doorstep of beating Texas and, you know, just having an undefeated team. Having a buy.

Yeah, having an undefeated team and no, no shame in losing to Texas if you're Texas A ⁇ M. You've been doing it the entire time that Texas A AM has existed.

But here is Mike Elko trying to talk after the game. And basically, so many people are having fun in the locker room that he's outside of, that is evidently the Texas locker room, or fans that he

can't be heard really and gets annoyed.

We didn't play the way we needed to play. Could we close the door and run a professional press conference, please? My gosh.

Glared. That last four seconds.
He didn't get that pissed off when Stugatz said he was ugly.

When Stugat said when he was on God Bless Football, and Stugatz told him that compared to Marcus Freeman, even he had to admit he was ugly. Second takeaway from that was mighty sausage fingers.

I've only seen that once before in my life. I've never seen that video before.
That's a lot of fun.

Speaking of Stugatz, see if you can see what part of the body Mike Elko has that is exactly like Stugatz's. And here's a hint: it's the sausage fingers.

We didn't play the way we needed to play. Can we close the door and run a professional press conference, please? Mike gosh.

Sorry.

Mike Elko reminds me of something that happened two years ago when he was hired. Do you remember how Mike Elko became the Texas A ⁇ M head coach? He wasn't the

Stoops. They didn't want Mark Stoops.
Mark Stoops. They took Kentucky's head coach, who Kentucky decided to fire a couple of days ago.
I think he's owed $37 million by today.

I mean, just, it would have been a disaster hire.

And Aggie Nation made sure that wouldn't happen.

I just vaguely remember. They would not abide by Mark Stoops being their program's head coach.
Like, how close were they to actually? The deal was done. He was boarding a plane.

Like, he was the coach. He won the search.
And they threw a rash and a Dan. They threw both of them.
Both of them? Both of them. A rash and a shit.
I thought it was a rash of shit.

It was just a rash and a shit. Our former caller? No, not a rash.
I thought it was a rash of shit. You're saying it's a rash and shit.
Both of them. Yeah.
Or what some other people call a hissy fit.

And they made their school not hire. Mark Stoops and hire Mike Elko instead.
This happened once before where the Tennessee fans didn't want Greg Chiano, I believe. Oh, yeah.
Remember that?

I guess that one worked out. Chiano's not lighting the world on fire over at Rutgers.
But they were invoking Penn State as a reason why to not hire him.

But a lot of times we like to hold up when fans thought a head coaching hire was going to be bad

and you're stupid.

You got to let the pros decide. This time the fans were on the money.
And Texas A ⁇ M is one of the best teams in the nation. They're in the college football playoff.

And it's all thanks to their passion, them taking to the streets in the way that Premier League fans have changed the history of soccer. They stopped Super League.

The only thing close in this nation to the power that the fans have in Europe is college football in college towns. And those fans deserve to be saluted.

How about when WWE fans got rock out of the main event of WrestleMania so Cody Rhodes could finish his story? How about that?

If you want to talk wrestling, now we have our opportunity to talk about, is Heyman your favorite uh professional wrestling manager like in the history bobby heenan bobby heenan for me but heyman's like right there all right so uh heyman had a moment the other day uh that was great professional wrestling manager heel moment where he just shoves a kid there's a kid in his way and he didn't want to see the kid and he just physically uh moves the kid in a way that's aggressive and I think could constitute something close to assault.

Good security there. Yeah, they just let him right through.
They let the kid through, and Heyman's got no time for that.

One thing I never understand, and Paul Feinbaum does this too. Must be a Paul thing.
You already got the horseshoe. Do you need to dye the horseshoe? Put it on the poll.

Once you have the cul-de-sac for hair, should you be dying it at Lebatar?

Like, what's the logic there? Walk me through this process. Let me dye this so people think I look young.

Well, walk me through the process of why it is Brock Bowers insists as a young person to continue continue to

Brock.

Well,

because I've never seen such dominance with that hairline.

Terry Bradshaw used to be the standard here. I sort of actually

deduct respect and credit from a champion if that's the hairline. And I get very few chances to do that with dominance.

I'm going to have a hard time explaining to anybody who comes 50 years from now who didn't see Bowers play.

Like Tony, Tony will tell you here that he just looked up Barry Sanders' stats and he was shocked at what it is that he saw. Very good.
What he saw.

It'll be hard to explain to your kids how it is that Brock Bowers was better than Rob Grinkowski or any tight end you've ever seen with that hairline. He's got to go bald.

He won't look strange at all if he were to just go bald. Yeah, Jason Witten dominated at that position with a bad hairline, but not to the level of Brock Bowers.
And Jason Witten sold out.

Remember, he started painting on his hair when he went on Monday night football, turning his back here. I like Brock Bowers kazuntite.
I like Brock Bowers actually holding on to this.

Like, make us rethink what that position is supposed to look like. Tom, you're laughing right now because the way that that sneeze went into his hand,

I heard that his hands got wet, and I was just going to ask you, are you going to go need to get a tissue?

Because the sneeze was muffled, but it was muffled in a way that allowed me to hear the dampness of your hands from what came out of your nose.

It was like a three, though, on the scale of how wet it is. He caught it.
A three? What's a 10?

A 10 is like mucus, like where I can like.

like he has to change his clothes separate my hands you could like see the he caught he caught his sneeze and here's the thing because he was thinking his mouth was open and some of the wetness also came out of his mouth so the fact that you have a tissue on the ready there for what sounded like a very wet sneeze that was only muffled by your hand you know you're gonna search the take drive for my sneeze

it was damp it was it sounded the sneeze sounded damp thank you get me the reese davis talks to loholts one of the great moments of improv in the history of ESPN.

I'll get the longer version.

I heard you say the F-word one time with Shell Nader.

This is Mirabdua. Now, Marshall, usually it's all Rakeem Cato, who did throw a touchdown pass in his 44.

Kevin Johnson put up 272 yards. That's a Marshall record.
Nothing to sneeze at. So wild pass professional.
Good from Rich.

That's good stuff.

That's what you call a callback. I love Rich's work, Rich Davis' work.
Let's go ahead and just play that again so that people can be alarmed at what that sneeze sounds like.

Because if I told you without context that that sound was a sneeze, you would not believe it. Also, mention Amir Abdullah.

Now, Marshall, usually it's all Rakeem Kato who did throw a touchdown pass in his 43.

Kevin Johnson put up 272 yards. That's a Marshall record.
Nothing to sneeze at.

Do me the favor.

I I want to hear the whole thing again, just one more time, so that people can

hear before the sneeze arrives, the seizing in Lou Holtz's body right before the sneeze as he tries to keep it down, but he fails. Also mentioned Amir Abdullah.

Now, Marshall, usually it's all Rakeem Kato, who did throw a touchdown pass in his 44th.

Devin Johnson, 272 yards. That's a Marshall record, nothing to sneeze at.
You know what I was saying? You don't know they're the good old days while they're happening.

Late nights with Reese, Mark May, and Lou Holtz.

Those ended up being the good old days.

Did you see they announced the Hawaii Bowl? Do you know what the Hawaii Bowl matchup is? It's Cal versus Hawaii. Do you know the head coaches in that game? Oh, yeah.
Timmy Chang versus Nick Rolovich.

Yes. I chased so many late night bets with those two quarterbacks at Hawaii.

Where is Mark May these days? Where's Trevor Alberts?

Questions I do not know the answer to.

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underneath them by their head coach Paul Maurice, who did the thing. Remember how the run was sparked last year? Stugats.
He called him a bunch of Ps and B's. He did the thing again.

Called him a bunch of P's and B's. And then, boom, five unanswered.
You win the division. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Matthew Berry has reappeared.

We accused him of being in hiding. Matthew Berry.

Matthew Berry.

Matthew Berry!

We accused him of being in hiding after he suggested that Ashton Genty was someone that we should ride, but that's okay because he's had one hell of a season.

And who could account for the idea that Dallas would all of a sudden start playing defense and Ashton Genty would have six carries for seven yards in a game? Nobody could account for it.

Matthew Berry has been exceptional this season with his football information. Where are you joining us from, Matthew? I am in beautiful Orlando, Florida, Dan.

My daughters, I have twin daughters that are 14 years old and they do competitive cheer. And we won the state of Connecticut.
We placed in the New England regional and we are now at nationals.

I'm wearing my proud cheer dad t-shirt today. So we compete for a national title later today.
I'm very excited.

Do you guys, can you guys tell? I should have known that that was Orlando. There's something about that hotel that makes it look like he's in Orlando.

Can you answer one of the questions we were asking before the show? What is the appropriate amount of money to give your daughter for her first tooth if you're the tooth fairy?

Maybe $10, 10 good amount good answer

maybe for tooth number two yeah no uh mike ryan went 20 and i thought that was a little rich a little rich for a child i feel if they get older you can go to 20 but for their very first one you want to if you start at 20 you kind of kind of kind of build up right well

you got no room to grow this is what i was complaining about he goes the other way he was saying he was going to go down and all of a sudden the kid's going to think that the uh tooth fairy's unemployed or having a hard time.

They're six, Matthew. You control the narrative.

I just, I know, but I don't know.

I just, you know, of all the things you want to save money on, your, your kid's teeth aren't really, you know, the tooth fairy isn't where you want to cut corners, I feel like. Uh, go ahead and

play,

play the music again so we can get him fired up for his uh

Matthew Berry,

Matthew Berry,

Matthew Berry,

Matthew Berry.

Dan, over the last four games, games, no team in the NFL allows passing touchdowns at a higher rate than the Arizona Cardinals, the quarterback they faced this week.

No quarterback in the NFL has a higher touchdown rate than Matthew Stafford. Stafford's going to throw a few against Arizona.

In Joe Burrow's first game back from injury last week, the Bengals were fifth in pass rate over expectation. And over the last four weeks, no team in the NFL has a lower pressure rate than the Buffalo

Bills, I should say. So you're telling me Joe Burrow gets Jamar Chase back and is going to have a clean pocket in a game where he's got to go back and forth against Josh Allen?

I'm in on Joe Burrow this week. Since week nine, the New Orleans Saints allow the third most rushing yards per game to opposing running backs.

They've also given him a rushing touchdown to an opposing running back in five of their past six games.

And in Bucky Irving's first game back last week, he had 81% of the Buccaneers running back rushing attempts and 100% of their goal-to-go rushing attempts, Bucky Irving anytime touchdown coming this weekend.

In the two full games that Chase Brown played with Joe Burrow this year, he has 45 touches, 45.

And of the seven running backs that have gotten at least 15 touches against Buffalo this year, most of them have scored at least 16 fantasy points.

Kyle Monungai, the pride of Rutgers, has four straight games with a rushing touchdown. He's also gotten 71% of the Bears' goal-to-go rushing attempts over the last four games.

He now has back-to-back games with over 50% of the team's running back rushing attempts.

Since, let's see, over the last three weeks, the 13th best wide receiver in fantasy football is Jacoby Myers. He's averaging almost 16 points a game.

He's got a 23% target share in that fray in that stage. And this week's opponent, the Indianapolis Colts, have allowed at least 90 receiving yards to an opposing wide receiver in three straight games.

They won't have Sauce Gardner on Sunday. Speaking of the Colts, one of their former players, Adnan Mitchell, believe it or not, since Adnine Mitchell has joined the Jets, he has a 30% target share.

And he's got an end zone target in all three weeks. He hasn't always caught them, but he's got an end zone target in all three weeks.

And over the last four games, Miami allows the seven most fantasy points per game to opposing wide receivers since week seven.

Kyle Pitts has a 23% target share, and only two teams allow more receiving yards to opposing tight ends than the Seattle Seahawks.

You powered through illness there, did you not?

Because

you're playing hurt.

It's been a lot of travel, honestly.

We had, you know, Thanksgiving and then down here to Orlando. And I'm in Kansas City on Sunday night for Sunday night football.
So just a lot of travel, I think, is where that's

coming from, Dan. Can you tell me, I think it was it, it must have been two weeks ago.
Maybe it was, maybe it was last week. I'm not remembering.

But uh, two of the suggestions that you gave for touchdowns came in in the first, uh, I'm gonna say, five minutes of football last week.

Uh, it was Bucky Irving and somebody, or it was two weeks ago, Bucky Irving and someone else, where two of the suggestions you gave us on the show landed as soon as the football day started, correct?

I think, I, I, I, I think, yeah, and I think, I think it might have been Kyron Williams. I don't remember.
It was a couple weeks ago, but I think it might have been Kyron Williams too, but

maybe, maybe someone on the show remembers better. You know, I just give out the advice and then I move on, so to speak.

So, yeah, but I feel like it was Bucky Irving and Kyron Williams for the calls. Thank you, Matthew, for the information, as always.

Appreciate it. Appreciate you playing Hurt as well.
Matthew Berry, Matthew Berry,

Matthew Berry,

Matthew Berry.

By the way, Dan, one last thing, if I can mention it.

Dan, am I there? Yeah,

bear it. Can you mention it? Don't you bear it?

I'm at a loss. Can you mention it, man? I didn't know if I'd been cut off.
I didn't know if you guys had moved on. Oh, no, no, no.

I just, I would like to thank all of the members of your staff for playing in a guillotine league. Oh, no.

None of them were able to bring me down, but

I do appreciate

playing.

This was cheating happening. My defense.
I ignored every single one of those emails. It was me and Matthew, the last two.
Wait a minute.

That was what he did there. It was just such a sh sandwich for you guys.
Thank Thank you all for playing, but it was just to tell us that he beat you all. That was

very

guillotineleague.com.

That was very well done. Can't sing if you don't know you're in it.

Thank you, Matthew. Appreciate all of the information this year.
Good luck to your daughter. We will continue to sing.

Kick it up to 20.

Did you guys see that Doug Gottlieb threw a chair yesterday? I did. Doug Gottlieb, who is hosting a radio show while also coaching a college basketball team,

hosting a daily radio show while coaching a college basketball team,

got very upset because let's see if we can find out how it is that his team lost this particular game because I think they were up double digits with three or four minutes left.

And unless Tracy McGrady was playing for the other guys, Tracy McGrady once scored 13 points in 35 seconds. I don't know how you lose the game that he lost, but he threw a chair against the wall.

He coaches, is it it Green Bay, Wisconsin? Is the name of the program?

Wisconsin, Green Bay. Really? Okay.
Nice to see you. The dub goes first, but not for him.

He threw a chair after the game. Were you guys aware that Tracy McGrady scored 13 points in 35? Well, that was an amazing game, of course.

You're aware of it. I'm not sure everyone.
One of the more famous

a lot of points in a short time things. Okay, but Tony was looking up Sanders stats earlier after.
Dad, I'm doing a thing.

It's also decades apart.

Yeah, but I do think that we have the ability to make a pretty good segment here where we're introducing young people to things in sports that old people know happened, but they might not know happened.

And if we showed some of them 13 points in 35 seconds and they weren't aware, like even if I don't tell you, if you don't know this and didn't see it, you would tell me it's mathematically not possible for a basketball player to score 13 points in 35 seconds.

Never mind, in today's NBA, where they shoot threes like that, in that NBA, that's totally nuts. 13 points in 35 seconds doesn't even make any sense.

And they, you know, they didn't exactly shoot a ton of three-pointers back then. And he hit probably three three-pointers during that stretch.

Yeah, that was back when players tried in the regular season. There was also a seven-foot-six guy on the floor.
He was seven. He was the best.
I loved that. Yeah.

I loved watching Yao. He was really?

What? He was amazing. Look at me when I talk to to you.
Over here. You know, I'll be honest with you, I didn't know who was talking to me.
You thought it was Tom? We know it's not Tom.

Well, first I looked at Tony, and then I looked at Chris.

I wasn't sure.

You mentioned loving watching Yao Ming. I mentioned that Zach Eady was a plague at Purdue, and I didn't want to see him in the NBA, and that he would have nothing but foul trouble in the NBA.

But he's been pretty good. I mean, Emphasis is terrible, and he does have foul trouble, but what are you shaking your shoulders for? Was it a looter in a riot? Yeah, he's there.
Okay.

He's a terrible, terrible team, and he's all all right. He's having a good time.
Hang him with you.

Okay. No, but wait a minute.
I thought he wasn't going to be able to get on the floor in the NBA because he's cement-footed and he would just get six fouls in three minutes every time.

And that's not what's happening to Zach Dee. He had 32 points and 17 rebounds on 16 of 20 from the field.
Somebody's got to score on a terrible team. 16 of 20 from the field is pretty good.
Yeah.

What is actually shooting rebound? At the rim. Dunks and layups and little hook shots.

He's not being run off the floor.

Because they're terrible. They have nobody to play.
Yeah. Somebody's got to score.

But he could be so terrible that they would be replacing him with a more like a differently terrible guy he could score 32 points even against g league did they win that

they did win that game by eight points against the sacramento kings uh tony did you want to argue with zaz about the loving of no just it's just a weird thing like yao ming like tracy mcgrady on that team like there was a bunch of fun guys in that league it's like yao ming oh i'm not i'm not propping up yao ming

at the expense of tracy mcgrady i just loved watching yao he was incredible and and you know by the way that rockets team one of those years, they won like 25 games in a row.

They won shit in the playoffs.

Good team. Those Rockets teams were...
Was that 07? That was around there. That was the record that the Heat were chasing.
Yeah, somewhere. No, the record that heat were chasing was the Lakers.

It won like 33 in a row. But obviously he did pass.
It was like 69 Lakers. You weren't around yet, Mike.
I wasn't. But Yao Ming, you better put some respect on his name.

I want to thank Tom Bogart for being with us here from the Athletic. Any final thoughts here, Tom? I've got to catch a flight to New York here.

I'm going to try and do the show from New York next week. I'm not very happy about going to the freezing temperatures of New York.
Any final thoughts here?

And thank you again for the expertise and for spending this time with us today about the World Cup draw today and Inter-Miami playing in the final this weekend. Thanks for having me.

But in this game this weekend, while I sit in Miami, I think the Vancouver White Caps are going to win.

Send them out, Dan. You get out of here.

I never want to see you again in my city.

I'm not joking. Get out of here.

I'm going to carry him over my shoulders, nacho. I was going to let him promote stuff, but not anymore.

If you think we're going to promote that, you're from the athletic. We got another thing coming.

Damn,

who's going to do the show over here? Yeah.

Joanne Howard was on that team. It can't be Mutumbo.
Matumbo, too. Pointy elbows.

He's doing my loo. Skip

on that team.

Bonzi Wells.

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Boodball.

Football. Football.

Football. Football.
Foodball. Stugats.

Foodball.

Football.

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

Oh, that's good. I love that rocket seam so that 2007 rockets was fun.
You see what I'm saying? Yao Ever is 25 a game. Dude, I'm telling you, you bring up Yao ever again on this show.
25 and 9.

He was awesome. You know who else was on that team?

I mean, tell me.

Running me with him on the front line? Chuck Hayes.

All undersized centers.

A foot shorter than Yao Ming, and he was throwing elbows. You've got to mix it up.
Elbows, but, man, if Chuck Hayes put a hip into you, you'd go flying 10 feet. Right for Alston?

I've skipped to my Lou, of course. A young Steve Novak on that team, by the way, rookie Steve Novak.

Yeah, you can't leave him open. I used to love watching those Rockets team.

McCrady McCrady was awesome, and Yao was like my favorite, man. I loved watching.
What a disappointment.

The feet, though. You're 7'6, 310 pounds.

That team was just loaded, but so was the West. Yeah.

Let's do a podcast on it. Ooh, the West in 2007? Yeah.

And he was there. Wow.
You think they'll get some get some ears? I think people would love that. Yeah.
Those Phoenix teams were sick. The Phoenix teams were incredible.

Seven seconds or less, those Phoenix Sun teams would be the slowest in the NBA now. Wow.
That's kind of hard to imagine, right? That's a crazy stat, Zaslow. Why is Tom Bogert still here?

What's up, guys? You got something on the 07

Rockets or no? More of a Knicks guy. Yeah, Tom knows ball.

I named him my dog Mello. More of a Knicks guy.
I mean, what a last couple of minutes. I named my dog Benny.
He's a Knicks guy, and he believes Vancouver. He's a Vancouver guy.

What a stretch here for Tom. You're kidding me.
Zaz, do you remember what the Vancouver nickname is? White Caps. Hey.
This guy knows ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to try and watch some of it on Saturday. I got the SEC championship game.
I'm going to be in Atlanta. But see this right here? This is my phone.
And I can watch the game on the phone.

I don't even have to try and find somewhere. Because I think if I walked into an Atlanta bar right before the SEC Championship and asked them to put on MLS, I think they would laugh at me.

You'd be shocked. Tom can attest.
Great MLS town. Yes, it is, but you'd still get a highball glass thrown at your forehead.

Thomas Mueller, Vancouver's best player, one game he was unavailable and he decided to just go to a bar in Vancouver to watch the game with fans and stuff.

And the bartender was like, nobody has ever asked us to put on Apple TV MLS.

tom you don't think it's weird that you know it was a whole big to-do david beckham into miami what six years ago i believe it was they get the team and now they're finally in the mls cup and it's like david beckham's in hiding we haven't even heard from him that's weird no he was at the f1 race this this last weekend right like he wasn't at the semifinal which was surprising because the joke about beckham was in the early days when miami were bad you didn't see him and then messy came and he's he's pitch side every game oh it's just weird like i just i don't know i guess i got an issue with the the way the team promotes their team.

I know you probably, as someone that covers the sport, you're probably tired of people complaining about how they promote it as a means of promotion.

But I am a little surprised that Beckham isn't more front-facing because of the things that you outlined. They're in the championship.
Messi's on the team.

This is the standard that most casual sports fans would hold against inner Miami in terms of this Messi thing being a success.

And he's charming, affable, speaks a language, unlike Messi, and likes doing press when the opportunity comes. Exactly.
Messi doesn't do anything.

He did an interview. What he does to be the ambassador of this game is just by being here, and that's enough.
A lot of people criticize him for that. I don't think that he owes it to us to do that.

But Thomas Moore is the opposite. He does all of the requests.
He's always, he wants to grow the game and stuff. But Messi, he's done one single press conference, and that's it.