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"MY CALVES HURT!" Dan is jubilant because he found a way to begin the show by pitting Tony and Jeremy against each other over something David's been advised not to discuss: Cuba. The hour only get...

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Chris Cody, what's happening behind you?

- Yes. - Well, why is Tony yelling? Why is Jeremy yelling?

Is anyone else involved in this discussion?

- No. - Well, Royce, I'd say dip the toe into the water. - What was that? - What was the toe that Roy dipped into these hot Cuban waters?

- It's all my fault, basically.

- What was his fault? - I was immediately fired up. Tony walked in and I just, you know, we have some friendly banter around here when it comes to politics and I just hit him with the jab

of your boys taking over Cuba. And then they just went. And the next thing I know, they're yelling at each other and I'm like, I caused a ruckus back here and dance like I'm going to air with it.

- So here we are. - Well, because they were, yeah, I like when Jeremy and Tony yell at each other. I have said before, we don't have enough sparks around you. - Oh, yeah.

- We don't have, wait a minute. - What do you mean? - My inner monologue doesn't get here until 10 a.m today. What was that?

What was that? That, no, that was, that was Jeremy as Mike as my inner monologue. - Talk to the inner monologue. - I've got an objection to the inner monologue.

Let me explain something to you. The inner monologue likes to go in and out of thinking like me and then saying things Mike wants to secretly say. That is not inner monologue. It's bullshit.

He needs to stay in character.

Like him just saying things he's always stopped.

- Explaining the show. Tony, what is the nature of your argument because David Samson just had me on nothing personal to mine, all my Cuban feelings. - Ooh, what happened?

I was in the list because I was wondering what you mean. - What do you think happened? He's like, hey, Dan, how do you feel about Trump? He's gonna build hotels on your parents land. - Yeah, well, it hasn't been our land

for a very, very long time. Almost a generation essentially. And to be honest, the people there have nothing.

And when I say nothing, I mean, less than nothing, right?

The electricity grid has completely failed. They have no electricity, they have no food, they have no water, they have nothing. So if you're telling me they're gonna build something, something is better than absolutely nothing.

And the problem is you can't give them nothing 'cause they don't have the essentials for life. - I have the electricity health care. - I haven't talked to very many Cubans about how they feel about this latest development,

where you have the just really awkward foreign policy where just an orange corrupt felon is sort of deciding, I think I'd like that over there. That seems like a lovely island. I'd like God's out of build some hotels there

if I could, but I would assume that every Cuban generation wants the people of Cuba to suffer less than they're presently suffering. - Yeah, I feel like that's an easy stance, like they are suffering probably the worst

in the world right now, like they have nothing. - Not the worst, Haiti's got it worse, there are places that have worse, it's pretty bad, but it's pretty bad. It is what Tony's saying is so, it's stuck in the 1950s

and the island's been rotting for 70 years. And they're in a place, they're gonna be displaced, they're a country. - Where are they gonna be displaced too, right? 'Cause we say, - Exactly, exactly.

- But anything right now is almost better than Cuba, which is like point, they have a place where they live. - A place where they live. - Terrorists is no different than what we talk about in Gaza, which is if you're ultimately displaced

from the land in which you live. Now you're in Nomad and you're trying to figure out where to go, the poverty is obviously terrible from many, many, many people around the country right now. It only will increase when you have people taking your land

and that's not the land you from your home. - But that's, that's the land you live in. - Jeremy, this situation is-- - You live in a home and the government owns the land. - It's a country with one of the highest literacy rates

in the world. - How's that their life expectancy from 60 to 80 since this regime started, which is greater than the United States? Like, these are things that they do at education

and healthcare well, there's not much to do with it. To do what? What, what, what, what do they do? They send it to where? 'Cause it's not helping the people there, right? The people there have to take their own supplies

of medicine to the hospitals because they don't have.

So when you can read, great, that's amazing.

How's that gonna put food on my table? How's that gonna have me own the house that I'm in? How's that gonna help me with the doctors that are so incredible? We don't have the medicine, we don't have the supplies.

We send supplies over there for families over there to be able to go take certain-- - Well, I know how we're gonna feel about the COVID vaccine but they did produce their own COVID vaccine when other Western countries wouldn't share it with them.

Jeremy, you're in violation.

I'm just saying the only thing I learned

when I moved to Miami is you don't enter these conversations. - This is my fault. - I know. - I'm scared of it. I'm quite a-- - And my family is cute.

I'm rarely quiet. - Oh, you're a Cuban? - I'm half Cuban, yeah. - Oh, I take it back. - Cuban can speak halfway.

- He has spoken halfway, and that's why-- - I was speaking a lot. - He was speaking a lot angrier and louder during the break than when the microphones got turned on. - This is the Dun-Lebapar Show with this Thug-At-Spotcast.

- They have a trade blockade that's been in place since 1905. - Uh-huh. - So how is the country able to do anything? - Democratic presidents, Republican presidents,

everybody down the line could have done some--

- Oh, I think-- - Oh, I think--

- They sat on their hands at the same time. - They agreed! - He's done a terrible job on this.

That's why I don't want the United States intervening that

with this guy. - Who do you want, Russia? - I don't want anybody but-- - Not doing it with Donald Trump. - That's gonna displace them in this respect.

- Okay, so you want Putin there. - What are we doing? - Not for disinjecting with Trump, they've been their-- - They've been their for-sistened here in the Russian town. - What do you want to do?

- Doug disingenuous. - They're heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis. - Dave, help me out here. - I'm not hurtin' for me. - Not hurtin' for me.

- Well put, you know what? - That you're welcome.

- That's better, honestly, than it's better.

- I'm not allowed to talk about Cuba. - 100% only, two minutes to lay a show. - You can't come out with a box fight about it. - You're a professional talking.

Your first words can't be, yeah, you're my y'all.

- I actually want to talk to say about Cuba, but I don't remember. - Get out. For two minutes. - Thanks, Cody. - You're supposed to be a professional broadcaster.

Nothing personally speaks very well for two hours, right before we start. Then our show starts and what we get from him is a cookie monster sound. - And David's defense, that's definitely the advice he's been given over the years. This is just go, "Ahh, I also absolutely, I'll leave to two of them knowing he couldn't say anything." - I want to play back.

- That's right, I want to play back. I want to play back for him, Chris, get the sound of how he started today's show so that he can be embarrassed by how he started today's show. Tony and Jeremy were arguing about the idea that Cuba is going to fall soon. I imagine people in Miami will be celebrating this the way that men as well and we're celebrating in the street. Anything that gets that regime out is going to be something that's going to be celebrated by Miami.

- I, like Jeremy though, wish it weren't this orange corrupt, felonious tool doing it because he's just going to put hotels up there. And it's not because he actually cares about the people or democracy. - You know, he doesn't even wait when you're a star, they just let you do it.

- So let me get to some of our looks like tournament before we get to have a couple more things if you want him to interject or not?

- Yeah, go ahead. - Okay, perfect. Chris said no, I'm going to listen to Chris. - No, I just gave good executive producing. - Chris, Chris, no, Chris, no. - You can't do that. - You can't do that. - You can't ask for the ball. I throw you the ball and then you just hit on the ball.

- Both of you get out of here. - Wow. - Roy, you get in the seat and helps me with the looks like tournament because I have now kicked out the people who are going to help me execute this. Because what they just did right now is ass and I wear Tony asks for the ball, ask me to throw him the ball. I throw him the ball. And then Chris Cody, my teammate comes in and knocks the ball out of everybody's hands and says don't do that.

- I would never do that to you, Dan, because we are a collective.

- So anyway, I want to do some looks like tournament here to get people updated on where we are with this thing. Thursday, Duke is the number one overall seed. That means our number one overall seed is... - Fernando Mendoza looks like the cashier in a 1960s McDonald's poster. - It's so good. It's just it's so good. So CNN is going to be gone soon. That means the 16 seed is this.

- Tony Cornheiser looks like the judge in a 90s legal thriller that keeps admonishing the defense with careful counselor. - You're on a very short leash. - George is an eight seed. Georgia is represented by... - Rod McGill looks like you're recently divorced mom's first date. Who, when you answer the door, is vigorously chewing his gum and combing his hair with a palm comb as he leans ever so slightly back to gander at the size of the home,

while never once acknowledging you with his eyes. - He is a bit lecturous that way. Can't be trusted around your mom. Number nine St. Louis is the foe that means this is up against McGill. Brent Vennables looks like the small town sheriff in a movie that ends up being corrupt after he spent the whole movie telling your wife he's corrupt.

- So we will get back to more looks like in a second, but I want to get into yesterday's show because Jeremy's got some critiques, some thoughts and some observations on yesterday's show.

But I've got a yes or no question for David Samson because I left here feeling like yesterday's show was unresolved. As you guys made me feel crazy about something that I was arguing when I thought I was simply right and everyone disagreed with me. The yes or no question is the following. Was the pitch the United States through to the Dominican Republic to eliminate the Dominican Republic from the World Baseball Classic? Was it yes or no a strike? - Yes.

- Now was it called a strike? Was it called a strike? Not was it called a strike? Was it called a strike? - No. - No. What? - It may be a ball today. - Minor penalty two minutes to lay a show. - Wow. - It wasn't a strike, David. - Nobody would say it. - Nobody would say it. - Nobody would say it. - Nobody would say it. - Nobody would say it. - Nobody would say it.

- Nobody would say it. - Nobody would say it. - Nobody would say it. - Nobody would say it. - It's not a strike, but I didn't ask you whether it was called a strike. I asked you whether it was a strike.

- Was it a strike?

- Was it a strike? Was it in the strike zone? Yes or no? - Yesterday it was a strike. - Was it in the strike? Get out of here. - Get out of here. - It was a ball. - Yes, a ball. - Jeremy, give me your general critiques and thoughts on yesterday's show. - Well, that was the first one. The fact that you were alone on acknowledging the fact that

what Pedro Domo did on that obvious ball four. - Amazing plate discipline.

- So incredible. To lay off that pitch, that slider is in that situation. - obvious ball four is wild. Several inches off the plate. This is not yesterday's baseball. - Yes, that's baseball. - That's this much. - No. Right. That's a whole lot of baseball. - That's about three or four inches of baseball. - That's a lot in the game of baseball. - In the difference in meeting Jeremy's talking about how great it was that he didn't that he took that pitch.

It's not so great they're home right now. It's not that great. - That's why it's frustrating.

That's why that game ending that way is such a shame because look, with the United States have still won the game. - Very possibly. - Mason Miller has been unhittable and the next battery would have faced absolutely could have gotten out. But the fact that it ends by taking the opportunity away from them on a ball four.

It's not like he was caught off guard. He watched the ball all the way in.

He's recognized slider and he said, "I'm going to spit on that pitch because that is not a strike." - It was a break or break that. - It was incredible out there. - It was incredible out there. - It fouled off pitches before that. He laid off another pitch that was impossible to lay off before that. The part about this that's just wildly frustrating to me as this stuff can be rectified

with instant replay, but we're not using it now. And the game is over now when a regular season baseball game would not have been decided this way. Miami wants this game permanently. Miami wants the world baseball classic because these games have been so great.

Aaron Judges saying that the atmosphere is better than the world series is because it is got so much

soaking of Hispanic flare on everything that's happening, but the idea and you guys have to follow me down this path.

You never want a game of any consequence being decided at the end by an old guy who's not playing.

You never want the conversation around stakes to be. It's being decided by the judgment of somebody. At the end of NBA games, the rest stay out of the way. You rarely get, think about how many NBA games are played and how rare it is for you to get a controversy. Not the last two minutes of a game, the last play of the game. Think of how rare it is for a passenger appearance on the last play of an NFL game.

You do not as an umpire make the wrong decision to eliminate somebody's season. It's a shame that it ends that way. I mean, look at the NFL. You bring that example up. They literally changed the rules forever on replay because of the one example of that in a consequential situation. But look, I mean, it happens. These things have happened throughout the history of baseball. There are plenty of strike three calls where the ball is off the plate.

The biggest reason we're having this conversation and the frustration behind it is you're looking at a guy who is quite literally been unhittable over the course of however many innings at this point in Mason Miller and a league in which they're now going to be adding ABS. You're going to be able to challenge pitches like that. And Padoma would have been correct to challenge it. So that's the part where in a week and a half from now, you're not going to see that same thing happen.

Jeremy, I think another thing too was the momentum, right? Everybody was standing.

Everybody was fired up. It could have been strike three and then you've talked about it. Live on her name as game where he had 17 strike up. So whatever it was, he was all over the plate and they were calling them strikes because of the momentum of what was going on in the game. So it feels like that that up was sitting there saying like if this thing's close, he was calling that all over the Colorado. He was calling he was consistent, which is why it does matter.

It does matter. It's why he's got a swing. But I think we're not talking about it. We're not even disagreeing. I don't think anybody, like I'm on the side if he should have swung.

I'm not disagreeing. It stinks that the Empire made that call. It stinks that we got to see that it was a ball. It was a great abat. We will not hit that pitch. We're not disagreeing on that. But also, you guys won't give us an inch of if it's in baseball.

You know why he shows you guys swing. But you know why he shouldn't swing the back because he wouldn't hit it. It's a ball and he wouldn't hit it. It's an unhittable pitch. That pinched that spot. He's not gunna hit it.

Hold on a second. Why do you say that? Why isn't it unhittable? Watch the game. Throwing it. It's three and two and you're sitting on 104 mile an hour. Fast money through your breaking ball.

It's not possible for to put a bat on a ball.

Maybe Flatty Guerrero's dad could have doing it. He gave me the stat of the day. Give me the stat of the day. Give me the stat of the day. Give me the stat of the day.

Give me the stat of the day. Give me the stat of the day. Mason Miller has thrown 272 consecutive pitches without allowing a hit. So he was due and that was the most unhittable of all of them. That was so nasty.

I think Chris though is on to something where the other side, which of course is you, Dan, won't give us literally an inch. Well, it's because you're wrong. Yep, but what's one of the things? What's one of the things that are literally coach.

Always tells us growing up.

Every literally coach tells you. Keep your eye on the ball. If it's close, protect the plate.

If it's close on two strikes, you have to swing.

Every literally coaches told us that. So I'm with Chris like you won't even give us that inch. Let me tell you one funny thing, Dan, that you're missing. That's a five dollar fine for coughing and clearing your throat into the microphone. It's just, it is.

It's a fine. And you have to pay. Are you care to make fine? It's because you've been doing it all morning. And do you have cash on you?

Do you have five dollars? Because I'm tired of being the only one who puts any money. There are hundreds of dollars now in the fine bucket. They're all my dollars. And I'm about to take them all back because I'm the only one doing this.

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With this 2-Gots. Show change for 100. It's your money out David. Yes, we do. Okay.

You don't tone patronize me. Okay. We have change for 100. Go ahead. Go sing.

Give us the money. It's outside. Go go get it. You want me to go get it right now.

Everyone knows you pay your finds immediately.

Honor, probably. You in. You owe 200. You owe 200. On a record pace today.

I can't pull it away. It's like a lot of a senator's game in here. Like a degenerate. Zaz did take my hundred dollars. Took it to Vegas.

You know what he also told me? Because I told him. Just played the 16 in the 19. So he goes there. He loses the hundred dollars immediately.

And he says. And then I look up at the board. And the previous two numbers were 16 in 19. And I see where to God.

See I always wear your God.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? No, it's definitely a bad thing. Swear to God. Dan told me. Put it on 16 in 19, which I did.

All right. But I also did it knowing. I looked up at the board. And I swear to God. The last two numbers were each 16.

You gotta just talk at that thing. That's where you're telling me that. That's where you're telling me that. I will get to last night's game in a second. Because you guys rooting for Italy.

Were you guys generally rooting? No. You were not rooting for Italy. No. You weren't rooting for Italy.

You weren't rooting for Italy. You weren't rooting for Italy. You weren't rooting for Italy. So that I could say that the USA team is playing their minor league team. The crowd is such a huge part of this world-based world-classing.

You cannot convince me. I don't care how good the games are. When I say we, I just mean everyone in general would not care even remotely as much about these games if it weren't for the crowd. The crowd is such a major thing. Miami is angling to be the permanent host for this game.

I don't know that a whole lot of people would object to the Super Bowl being permanently down here because of how well Miami does the big events and then you get the good weather as well. Samson is going tonight. He's been going to all the games. Do we have the sound of Aaron Judge? I know I paraphrased him, but Aaron Judge doesn't give off of a lot of emotion.

He's not necessarily a statue emotionally, but he's not someone who gets swept away in the emotions of baseball. And I'm not even sure very often how useful emotion is in baseball because emotions not useful in surgery. I think you have to not have emotion. You have to sort of steady yourself. You can't have a whole lot in the batter's box inside your head other than the present moment.

He's there in Judge talking about the World Baseball Classic crowds.

There's always been a crowd here that probably had all the buddy's magic bullets.

They see the number of bigger events, which is like I said the passions these fans have represent in their country, represent in each other's favorite players. I try to take a moment every game that I look around and appreciate the crowd. Yeah, he dreamt about the World Baseball Classic. Wow, I owe money from yesterday. Well, I don't think you say any dreamt about the World Baseball Classic.

You say any dreamt of playing in front of crowds like this, which is why he said that this crowd, he's been in the World Series. And he said, "Just crowd is better than the World Series crowd." Give me the $5. You have $5 there. I don't know what the second judge is in the fine bucket. I'm looking at you have $5.

Get what do you open yesterday? To dictate how I pay the fine. Okay, Mr. Control guy. Well, here, then go give it to Carl, so he can give me a chance. Bon appellate, too.

What is your answer here? So undisciplined. Just go ahead and handle that outside. Carl's got the fine bucket money. That's not in there.

Penalty. I asked someone to bring the fine bucket in. I don't want to keep leaving. I'm looking, but it's all, get me change. I'm getting it for you.

You have to go get it yourself, though, because I'm busy doing something.

I don't think you like now. I know, but I need to get you out of the room. Just say, "Go get change." I've told you that several times. Oh, I've got a button to press.

Let me keep pressing it. This is what you do tomorrow. Which part? Bon appellate, two minutes to lay a show. Wow.

What other complaints do you have about or criticisms? Do you have of yesterday's show? I also love my evenings. I'm, I'm telling you. I look forward to every day.

Every day.

Every day.

Right at the end of the big suy.

I start thinking about what time I'm going to get to go home. And then enjoy my evening. What do I have to do when I get home? What am I going to get to do tonight? I've got what on the same page.

Yeah, I love my evenings. I love evenings. Tonight, I got to go out and do something. It's going to really suck. So I'm not going to enjoy my evening tonight.

Yeah, tonight's going to be. Love stay in a home. Enjoying my evening. I would love to go through arbitration here.

You mean I get to present you with the value that I bring and compare it to people around the country?

In terms of how much they make to do the thing. I would love this segment. Love to go through arbitration. That would go so poor for Jeremy. Are you kidding?

Oh, my God. With the value that I bring to this show? Oh, my God. No one said we don't bring value. But I think you may have some hurt feelings.

Oh, I understand. My feelings get hurt here every day. I don't worry about hurt feelings. I know the value I bring and oh, my God. arbitration compared to national salaries would be a dream.

The magic on the help. Just so you know, me big shot running a company. Maybe part of the problem with metal arc is you can't add. Do you have change of a hundred here? Also speaking to the mic.

Do you have change of a hundred here? Just that curiosity because your math is about as bad as your finger. Paltty finger. He, oh, it's a hundred and forty five dollars there. I think there's money missing there.

Obviously. Get me his waltz. He can't have missed remembered. He can't have gotten the math wrong. Someone stole it.

[BELL RINGS] Minor penalty. Two minutes to lay a show. [MUSIC PLAYING] You want to get a misconduct, man?

Should I call this math? Can I get a game is conduct?

I'm going to have to go to my car because he's got a stuck in the mud.

I'm going to go to my car to get him change in the mood. I'm going to change in the middle of our show so that I can get the five bleep and dollars and have somebody around here pay a fine. You would hate arbitration, Jeremy, because the things that would be said in arbitration that are meant to keep your value down would be things you would find

personally hurtful and then never forgive.

You'd be with that different than the show every day. We're kinder to you. You might be. You know what? I don't think Mike is.

Okay, we're going to do arbitration. We're going to do arbitration. You're going to do it. We're going to have an arbitration hearing. You're going to let me prep a little bit.

Yeah, yeah, you can tell me. I think I know what your value is. I don't think I undervalue you. I don't think you to argue that I undervalue you personally. But I don't think you like what I have to say.

The satisfaction on yesterday's show of hearing that bongo sound. And then thinking, oh, man, I hope Chris uses that for weekend observations. And then he did. Oh, what a feeling. Jorge Pasada.

Being an assistant coach for Italy, despite being born in Puerto Rico and having parents who are Dominican and Cuban is pretty great. I was surprised to hear that you guys don't. weren't rooting for Italy, though, you're just rooting for an exciting crowd. That Italian team was was an underdog.

I didn't even understand some of the stories being told about how they formed the Italian team. It's not merely that it took all the guys that couldn't make team USA and made a team.

No, but Jeremy, weren't they telling the story that basically are trying to fill out the program by

driving around Italy in a van just looking to see it. If a local cafe, someone's eating Feduccini. Hey, you want to play second base? Yeah, they went by so baros. They said, "Couple for it."

And it's what Survelli's doing now apparently. They said that he moved to Italy and he bought a van. And he's just been driving through the country trying to recruit for the program, which I feel like there are details of that story that are missing. Because where is he going?

Who is he asking? What is he doing? Are there little leagues in Italy? They don't get it. They don't get it.

But I love it.

Because I think it's like the fact that this guy is taking this upon his shoulders.

And he's a mentor to so many other players that are still in the game. I find it really impressive and it's cool that they're building this program around a bunch of guys from Jersey. I'm going to make you guys laugh right now right now on get up. Factor fiction. Two of us should be the Falcons week one starter.

March. It's encroaching in my top five dance. Something or nothing. You've got a top five. You've got a top five to NFL free agency.

Something or nothing. Oh, really? You have that. Okay, we've got to teach it. Okay, but so you have five.

Some things are five. Nothings are a mismasher. Something else for you to decide. That's for you to decide. I'm going to lift you the name.

Then you're going to tell me something. Or nothing. Very good. I look forward to that. Jeremy, any other critiques from yesterday's show that we should get to.

And I want to get to David and the present world baseball classic because the final has been set up. That's the ballpark he built. Was David Samson doing like Dave Portnoy does in pictures and standing on his tipping Toes next to you, Tony. Is that what he was doing?

Yes. Well, let me turn that on for you. There you go. My calves are blown.

I can't do it anymore.

But I had no idea.

First of all, I'm still sitting on TV.

You're way shorter. That's the first thing I get like, wow, you're really tall. First of all, I know what's going on. Go ahead and put you on my shoulders. I ain't feeling great.

So I'm just digging into it. And this is where Mike is. I'm not going on your shoulders. I hadn't forget it. Go ahead.

No, I will not. David, why not? I am not going on a shoulders. His calves are blind. I may do whatever you want.

I'm not getting on Chris Cody Scholar. I'm not going to do it, Dan. I will not do it. Don't you do it. Don't you do it.

Don't you do it. Don't you do it. Don't you do it. Do me a little bit. Best days that I make that come at me.

It's my fault, too. Wow. Everything's my fault. I don't know that one. You can't lead us down a path.

Tremendous shitty. Is what that is in. Spammy me. Tremendous shitty. We could have had the payoff visual of you doing the show on Chris's shoulders.

That's good for the show. Like there's, it's indisputable right now. You're playing defense against us being able to do the show correctly. My calves hurt, Dan. Be it on someone's shoulders.

Take all it. Put us off. Put it on the pole at Levitar Show.

Does being on someone's shoulders hurt your calves?

That's a, that's a pole I never thought we'd put up.

That's going to be 80, 20 for sure. You've seen Never Play Chicken before. Wow. You've seen Never Play Chicken before. You've seen Never Play Chicken before.

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Medviso Stoyah. Don Levitar. No one else here is willing to do a Trump or a Biden. That's not true, Dan. Okay, Tony, you can cut out a thousand impersonations.

That's not bad, man. It's finally terrible. Pretty good. Still gots. Yours is terrible.

You just got to get a little redder. Little pinker. You're right there, man. Yours is not that you're buying. What do you mean?

I think it's good. It's actually not bad. It's not terrible. It's not terrible. We've got to come together.

It's a little bit. Little pinker. Little George Bush. That one. This is the Don Levitar show with their Stugads.

[MUSIC] David, you're going to have to leave. I'm sorry that I keep doing this to you. Because I want your world-based ball-classic takes. You actually care about these games.

You're going to these games. It's your ballpark. You built the ballpark. You're excited and proud to see that kind of emotion in your ballpark.

You were hoping that that's what that place would feel like.

And then Heath Bell ruined it all. Heath Bell. If nobody did it, you fell. Why do you have to say that name? I saw a Heath Bell jersey in the ballpark.

What? What? Not really. I almost confronted the person. You should've been like, how could you do this?

Why? This may be a stupid question, but whatever. Why do the people last night, the Venezuelan fans, and even the night before the Dominican fans? Why do they care so much more than I do?

I'm an American. Why do they care a hundred times more than I do about the result of that game? You have all the sports. You have a plethora. You are so spoiled.

Americans are so spoiled that our attention deficit disorder is fed from a thousand different places. Venezuela doesn't have a lot of sports things to be proud of. So you pour all of your love into the one thing and then you attach regional identity to it. Like this is why. This is why Castro used the Cuban baseball team the way that he did.

The propaganda tool where he was so proud that the island of Cuba has nothing in his powder of than the Cuban baseball team. Nothing.

There's not anything because that's how they get represented to the world.

And it's sterling like it's it's just excellence. And the funny thing is they can't play on Miami during the pool play because they'll all

defect and leave, which is why they're never here unless they make it to the final round.

But again, why would they leave Cuba? It was a huge thing when the world baseball class started that in order for Cuba. They had to be guaranteed because nobody else to Japan. You get pool play over in Asia. That's part of the deal.

But Cuba would not be in Miami and we wanted them as the Marlins. We wanted, but it was an absolute no because they thought they'd come with a team and leave with the trainer. You keep going to these games and tonight you're going with your son because it's what you imagined one day all of that would feel like.

You somewhere within your robot wiring, some emotions are felt about everythi...

Correct.

I walk around the concourse to promenade level.

I'll go up to the upper deck and I just, I'm beaming because people are having the best time.

And I do do informal polling. Will you become a Marlins season ticket holder? Will you go to Marlins games? And I'm batting zero. Of course.

Because they just. And it was I I saw Venezuela and so I spoke to because I was at Japan Venezuela, not all from Miami. There were Venezuelans who flew to Miami. Of course they said no, you know, we're leaving after Venezuela leaves. But the Miami Venezuelans, they're not Marlins fans.

And that bothered me. I asked simply why. I wonder if all of them are even baseball fans or they're just there because they, you know, it's Venezuela. So I didn't ask that that would have been a good question, but what I was told by most of the people. I would say eight out of ten Venezuelans who I spoke to who said they weren't Marlins fans.

It wasn't about ownership. It wasn't about trading players. It wasn't about any of that. It was just majorly baseball was not something that interested that it was Venezuelan national baseball. It interests them.

Yeah. I can't sell it. You know, chicken thigh.

You want it to go up a dime?

David, never go. You're supposed to go up a dime. You're supposed to go up a dime. You're supposed to go up a dime. You're supposed to go up a dime.

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You're supposed to go up a dime. You're supposed to go up a dime. Quack. Quack. That's a third set.

That's a professional broadcast. Your metal arc media is building around. Quack. I was a slide piece. I threw him down.

He had no. He couldn't swing out. He's like, oh, I was about to throw it. I'm just booting. Was it just booting?

Yeah. I think it was. What do you think? The rush is your better day. What do you think?

Quack. That's how you started today's show. I'm quiet. That's enough. People get the points.

I have some stuff for David that was actually pro David from yesterday shows. One, when you were trying to think of the example of the time that the heat won in MBA

Finals because the other team was missing players, were you thinking of how we always

talk about how they lost to the Lakers because Bam and Dragons were hurt?

No. Damn. I like to say he should have. But no, I wasn't. When you guys were talking about state run media in Cuba, Dan dismissed you because you said

McCarthyism was before the Cuban state run media, which it was. Dan said you were wrong. I'm sorry. Say again. You kept.

Why is that not a penalty? No. Because you've done this, David mentioned in Cuba when talking about state run media by saying it was before McCarthyism. It was not McCarthyism came first.

Just wanted to help David there. It was really responsive. Okay. David, thanks for using the variety of pronouns that you use when talking about the fan who gave the Drewski poster.

You said he or she or they. Way to go. I'm an ally. Yeah. Thank you.

Good job. Well done.

The thing about Dan that I've learned by being around here for a number of years

is don't upset him with being truthful if that truthfulness involves a criticism. My father also taught me that the higher score has to go before the lower score. Good pair. That is top tier parenting number one, right at the top. Period.

Has to be there. Tristan, I did say goodbye to each other. That and the golden rule. David is accusing me of something. We are now 35 minutes into a segment that began with me asking for Jeremy's credit

systems. The whole segment has been 35 minutes of me requesting Jeremy's credit systems. That one just didn't seem to be terribly entertaining. Like that. I didn't even understand what he was saying.

Fairly the first time. You can use that in the arbitration case. Yeah. That one also. Bad judgment is something that will come up in your arbitration case.

So with Marty Supreme.

Did you say he doesn't like it and I think this is a case.

We always talk about three Americas with white Hispanic.

This is a case and I'm afraid to separate us because the times in which we are in. This is a case of four Americas. Every Jewish person watched Marty Supreme was like, yeah. I know that guy. Chris, do you think that you can turn David Sampson's

Gaff at the start of today's show into some EDM music?

Do you think that you could find some public domain sound that would allow you to mix and match a professional broadcast or David Sampson's. Is there arbitration? Yeah, I can do this one. I'll use that in my arbitration case.

All right. Let's see how quickly you can do that. Go ahead and toss it over your shoulder, Jeremy. You can go outside now and see how quickly you can do. You don't want to get mad about the heat first though.

Do you have more? You have more criticism? Well, yeah.

I was laughing because I think God for Trista.

Because as started talking about how frustrated he would be. If the heat had a wind similar to how the lakers did, and then he turned on a show and heard people dismissing it. Is that it doesn't matter because they're not going to win a championship this season. That is our show.

That is all we do. All heat season long is just dismiss every fun game. Because oh, man, I don't think they're the big three error heat. Also dismissing the seven game win streak because the heat lost to the magic

who have owned them all year and saying, like, oh, well, see that's why

they're not going to win against anybody when that's the only team that they've lost to consistently all year and they won't face to every play. Let's do this, okay, because what are they now? Six, seven games over 500 or the eight games over five hundred. This is the stretch of the season right now.

Playoff start right now. Yep. This is the stretch of the difficult games. They have the seven game winning streak. Couple of them against the net Milwaukee.

A whole bunch of with Orlando. Yeah, but a bunch of crud in there. But Orlando's streak now includes Miami. Yeah, and they lost to the hawks and it includes Miami. All these teams beat each other up in Orlando's own the heat all year long.

If not for Orlando, he would be in like third place.

If the heat are going to avoid the plan, like right now is going to decide it. I think right now. This game is such as crazy, by the way. I'm going to read it for you. Charlotte LA.

Lakers Houston San Antonio baseball series with Cleveland. I just can't accept Charlotte. I know how to steam. Just you're not watching. You're not watching.

Just saying can't accept them is just being in that good team category. Can't do it. He don't talk tonight in Charlotte. As they were last time when they won Tyler hero went crazy.

But now Jeremy, it, I think that's fair criticism from Jeremy to say that we were spoiled by the big three era.

Dwayne Wade says that town is dead now because he was spoiled by the big three era. And everything pales compared to not an exact quote from the way. He's a dead now. I'll tell you. I'll tell you.

Three and three in this stretch here. Yeah, I agree. Three and three would be great. If you would have told me going into the greater miracle. Going into the seven game stretch, I would have said going four and three would have been spectacular going.

Three and four would have been like, okay. What's that? You did what you had to do. Going two and five you'd be worried because we're trying to win. What about one and six?

Well, you've stopped all of this is such nonsense. Oh, three and three. We got to do this during this high clock. Do you do that? Like, do you do that through all stretches in a season?

No, but there's only 14 games left. And they're trying to avoid the play in. So you're assigning a stretch that they have to have for you to be satisfied. Well, because these are all good teams. I understand, but it doesn't matter if they go two and five or five.

They're going to be tested right now. We're going to not to play off. But it doesn't matter if they go five and two or two and five. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to whether or not they have a likely to get in a ring.

That's fair. So we're going to zero. You can't be a person listening to you. He wasn't listening to you. Well, it's just seven.

It's been seven. I was out of the room. Matter bell. I do make four not one. I do.

I'm not leaving. All right. I'm done. Leo. I'm done to Caprio.

That's fine. He should go. I'm sick and tired. And by the way, Jeremy, you're criticizing the show not Dan,

but Dan takes it as though it's criticism of him. You're too scared because we're all too scared. God forbid that we're left here alone, you know, without Dan, to criticize him because he's the omniscient guy

who knows everything about nothing. Well, you defend me in my arbitration case.

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