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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan Wants To Guillotine The Shipping Container (feat. Matthew Berry)
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Dan Le Batard
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Stugats
That means two all beef patties, special.
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Matthew Berry
Sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun, and medium fries. And a drink.
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Dan Le Batard
We may need to change that jingle. Prices and participation may vary.
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Billy
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Stugats
Mike and Alyssa are always trying to outdo each other. When Alyssa got a small water bottle, Mike showed up with a 4 liter jug. When Mike started gardening, Alyssa started beekeeping. Oh, come on. They called a truce for their holiday and used Expedia trip planner to collaborate on all the details of their trip. Once there, Mike still did more laps around the po. You were made to outdo your holidays. We were made to help organize the competition. Expedia made to travel.
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Dan Le Batard
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Stugats
The last couple of days, Jeremy has been at the whiteboard and he has been giving you two team tiebreakers in Major League Baseball in the National League because the Marlins were playing meaningful games the last week of the season. Two team tiebreakers. Three team tiebreakers. Four team tiebreakers. Five team tiebreakers. Six team tiebreakers. Let's go out to Jeremy right now and find out what the latest update is on Marlins baseball. Jeremy, you have bored us with the permutations. You've done a lot of math. That's never good in audience. Where are we now? What is the latest update?
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Billy
Thanks, Dan. It's over.
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Stugats
Okay, very good. Mike Ryan watched his first Marlins game of the Season last night. Yep.
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Dan Le Batard
First Marlins game.
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Stugats
We lured you in.
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah. Look, you guys support me often when I have passions high. Alai, hockey and what have you. I wanted to be a team player and get aboard and boy, did those fish put on a show for me.
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Stugats
Yeah, they lost one nothing against the Phillies. Not a very interesting game.
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Dan Le Batard
I mean, there was plenty, Plenty of times where I'm like tying run at the dish.
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Stugats
Yeah, yeah. And then it wasn't.
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Dan Le Batard
I was.
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Stugats
I thought.
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Dan Le Batard
I thought that last had at bat, though. Deep, deep fly ball to center. It could have been a go ahead play right there. I was. I was in and then I was. I just went on living my life watching NFL football.
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Stugats
Billy, you want to give us a eulogy, a trilogy? What do you want to give us for your beloved Marlins? They're the team you care about the most.
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Mike Ryan
The Marlins have passed. They came into this season with not much hope and expectations and surprised many served their purpose. They got us from basketballish hockey season to the NFL, had us smile, had us laugh, had everybody in Miami doing the fish one more time.
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Stugats
I don't feel like that's accurate. I don't feel like everybody in Miami was doing the fish.
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Dan Le Batard
I wanted to do the fish. I wanted to do the fish. I gotta tell you though, not the greatest hook for me to make my return to baseball here.
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Mike Ryan
Rain delays kind of stunk in this series.
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah, they didn't exactly cover themselves in glory. I would love to have gotten excited about the players that you guys were telling me about, but nobody did anything.
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Mike Ryan
There's still time. There's one series left. I mean, they're out of it, but they could spoil the Mets season.
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Billy
That's going to be fun.
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Mike Ryan
Sandy's pitching tonight.
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Dan Le Batard
I'm back to pretending I watch Mariners baseball.
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Stugats
We're going to talk about that in a second. But there have been more weather delays in college football than there usually are the first month of the season. Correct. This is an unusual thing. We've got two hurricanes off the coast of Florida, you know, headed this way. We've got hurricane activity. This has been an unusual weather circumstance. And it's the new normal. Right. Where a number of college football games are being delayed by weather. I have this wrong.
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Dan Le Batard
No. Back in my day, this wasn't a thing. Back in my day, we would just brave the elements, play through lightning. I don't understand that. I don't remember growing up. Do you remember games being suspended for like two hours? I was really confused. I would argue that the best weather Miami's had For any game this season was against usf. And that's the one with the weather delay. I don't understand it.
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Billy
These are like the lessons that. That I learned from my dad playing baseball because his high school coach at Beach High, Skip Mart, used to say, hey, when the lightning's there, just hold that metal bat higher. Show the lightning who's boss.
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Dan Le Batard
That's right.
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Mike Ryan
Classic Skip Mart.
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Stugats
Die.
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Dan Le Batard
We're not gonna die. We're gonna be fine.
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Stugats
We're not gonna die.
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Dan Le Batard
Only one spaghetti model has it headed this way. Dan.
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Stugats
It's multiple hurricanes, though. I was learning last night while watching one of the few weather forecasts that's still allowed to exist. I'm watching it and they're explaining to me, I didn't know this before, that the two hurricanes can't actually combine to become a more giant hurricane. That's not the way Sharknado.
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Dan Le Batard
A super hurricane.
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Stugats
Well, I just saw there was something. There was a super typhoon last week or earlier this week.
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah, those are hurricanes, but just on the other side of the world.
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Mike Ryan
Stay off the weather Channel. We'll tell you when you gotta worry.
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Dan Le Batard
Dan.
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Mike Ryan
Don't worry. We'll tell you when to get some water.
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Dan Le Batard
Well, good. Nice little run here for us, actually.
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Stugats
I've got plenty of distilled water in.
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Mike Ryan
The car, by the way. I did look that up. You can consume distilled water, however, if you drink too much of it, you may have some deficiencies in minerals that your body needs.
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah. Distilled water rips away basically all the essential minerals and all the general ph balance goodness that it brings to your body. You're just making yourself wet.
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Billy
It's also pretty crazy that with all of this rain and all of these rain outs and all of that, that the Rays played their first ever season without a roof after their roof was destroyed and had zero rain outs this season.
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Dan Le Batard
That's a good stat.
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Billy
That's crazy.
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Stugats
Let's see if we've got a better stat of the day than that. A pretty good start of the day.
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Dan Le Batard
Start of the day.
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Stugats
Start of the day. It is the start of the day.
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Dan Le Batard
Start of the day. Start of the day.
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Stugats
It is the start of the day.
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Dan Le Batard
Start of the day.
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Stugats
Start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day.
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Mike Ryan
Dan. While the world is watching to see if Big Dumper will set the AL record for home runs in a season because we celebrate AL records, Aaron Judge quietly set the American League record for intentional walks in a season with 36. As pointed out by obvious shirts on Twitter. In 2004, Barry Bonds had 120 intentional walks.
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Stugats
I was gonna say he wasn't anywhere close to where Barry Bonds was. I saw him intentionally walk that season with the bases loaded like it was a lunacy. And we were talking earlier this week about 500 Home Run Club. And I had mentioned, are there guys in the hall of fame who aren't 500 who have 500 home runs? Is there anybody who has 500 home runs who's not in the hall of Fame non steroid division? Because I think all of the guys who have 500, correct me if I'm wrong on this, Billy, are guys who we associate with steroids and therefore keep out of the hall of Fame. You've heard me give the stat before on Barry Bonds. It is an amazing stat that if you took away all of the stolen bases and all of the home runs from his seven MVP seasons, he would still have 400 home runs and 400 stolen bases, which is something no other player in baseball has ever done that season. From Barry Bonds, obviously. 73 home runs and 100. 136 intentional walks with 73 home runs is the best baseball season there has ever been. But Aaron Judge has been better this year than the Big Dumper. Like, and has been better for four, four years. He's had a four year run here. Better than any player in the sport offensively.
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Dan Le Batard
I mean, probably most important defensive position in the sport that Big Dumper excels at, Platinum Glove and all. So I think that matters. Also the protection that Aaron Judge has in that lineup also enters the equation. I last checked DraftKings sportsbook and I guess there was a lot of hype for Big Dumper. He overtook Aaron Judge fairly recently and became a nice little favorite on almvp.
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Stugats
That's just because he's new though, right? Because people have grown weary of Aaron Judge's metronome excellence.
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah. And I think that there's just like kind of a real curiosity around a catcher doing this. He's got a couple different elements going for him. The Seattle Mariners being relevant again and perhaps some Yankee and Aaron Judge fatigue a little bit. The novelty of it probably plays into the equation, but also the excellence. I mean, you can't really go wrong with either of those two candidates. I think one defensively puts himself over.
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Billy
The other, even if not defensively. Like, look, Aaron Judge metrically has had the better season. But there's an argument, and I think a pretty good one to be made that what Cal Raleigh is doing in terms of excellence, hitting home runs in a single season is the most impressive single season home run display we have ever seen of any kind. Because everyone else ahead of him, he's about to get to 60. Whether he does or not, everyone else ahead of him was either tainted by steroids, performance enhancing drugs or a Yankee a a very famously easy ballpark to hit home runs in. I believe currently it's the third easiest ballpark to hit home runs where In Seattle it's 19th. He's also a switch hitting catcher. The wear and tear on the body as a catcher to be able to have the longevity in a season to hit 59 home runs. You could argue that just simply as a home run hitter. This is the most impressive season there has ever been in the history of baseball.
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Stugats
It has to be non steroid division.
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Billy
Because when you're, that's why it's impressive.
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Stugats
When you're being walked 134 times or whatever it was intentionally and hitting 73 home runs, no one's ever going to do anything like that again. You will see that once in your life, lifetime. It will be medically, pharmaceutically aided and it'll be the last time you see anything like.
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Dan Le Batard
And if we want to take the award literally, I know Aaron Judges is extreme, is extremely valuable to the New York Yankees, but they're the Yankees. Cal Raleigh is more valuable to his team I think than Aaron Judges even to the Yankees.
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Billy
You say that. I will tell you that that Mariners lineup in a lot of ways is better, especially in the second half of the year once they added Suarez than the Yankees lineup has been throughout the year. When healthy, sure, but they've dealt with a lot of injuries this year. The value that Aaron Judge has provided has been more necessary this season than previous years despite them having that payroll. But if you just look at the pure excellence, I mean hitting 60 home runs, doing that, especially if over the weekend he passes Judge and hits three home runs. Somehow this weekend it's been a really spectacular season and maybe the most impressive ever.
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Dan Le Batard
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Stugats
So college football this weekend are the Georgia, Alabama game and Oregon, Penn State, are those on at the same time?
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Dan Le Batard
Primetime games, rare big time SEC game that's on at night. Usually the big game of the day in the SEC is in that 3:30 window. Very small line. Two and a half in Athens. Surprised by that? I guess we'll see what FSU is tonight. But if Alabama goes into Athens, you start looking at FSU a little bit different and college Reese Davis already tipped the hand like if FSU handles business, even if they don't, college game day is probably headed for Tallahassee. It'd be cool for FSU to edge one out here and for that game to mean a lot. But I'm very curious to see what Georgia is. I'm not exactly sure what to make of the sec. I know what their reputation is, but the teams at the top of that conference, Dan, lsu. I have the transit of property thing. I know Miami played Florida better than LSU did. They were both at home. And that LSU performance against Clemson gets less and less impressive when you consider the teams that have also done this to Clemson and look more impressive doing so.
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Stugats
I don't know how you guys do this when it comes to point spreads, okay? Because I too was surprised by that point spread when I saw that George is favored at home by only two and a half. When I feel like a couple of weeks ago when Alabama was losing to fsu, we were all saying oh that's all over in Alabama, everything there. DeBoer is not going to be able to replace Saban. He's going to be fired here soon even though he's got long contract and the buyout is prohibitive. I feel like all of us buried Alabama a few weeks ago. So to see Georgia at home, Kirby Smart is 1 in 6 against Alabama. To see Georgia at home favored by less than a field goal gives me pause because anytime I see a point spread that I don't understand, I simply assume I'm wrong. The most recent example, the Arizona Cardinals were a one and a half point dog last night and I didn't understand it going into the game. I'm like why would Seattle, why would anyone believe in Seattle this way? But the money tends to be pretty smart in these regards. It's not Vegas that's smart, it's Vegas that sets the odds that gets betting on both sides and the money. When I am going into a game and I think something is free money, I always think I'm wrong. And I'm so bad at this that I'll often bet against what I think just because I. I'm not even kidding. I'm not joking.
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Dan Le Batard
I'm not joking responsibly. Of course you're betting against what you think responsibly.
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Stugats
I am not joking when I tell you that my temptation last night when I see a point spread that I don't understand is to say, okay, I'll go against what I think is going to happen in this game. Because I'm assuming that there are people out there who know a great deal more than I do about what they're doing with their money. Here I'm the jackass who's got jugs of distilled water in his car without realizing why it is that my skin is getting drier than it used to be and has peanut shells all over the floor of my car.
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Dan Le Batard
You're just making yourself wet with that water. Dan. One last note on Alabama Georgia. I spoke to George Sedano. Not a look at me Louie, just for context. He's called the last two FSU games. He says their corners are good, but they gamble. You look at Alabama's receiver room, that's the best in the country. It's crazy that Ryan Williams is not the best receiver on Alabama anymore, considering what he did as a 17 year old. We all know what Isaiah Horton is capable because he's a MIAM transfer. He's capable of a lot except for catching a seven yard slant when the team needs it the most against Syracuse. But he's a third receiver in Alabama. Bernard has been unbelievable crazy to say that Ryan Williams, who had one of the best true freshman seasons of all time at 17 years old, isn't the best wide receiver there, isn't the leading wide receiver there. Their offense is figuring stuff out. Very curious to see what happens in that game.
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Stugats
Put it on the poll please. At lebatard Show. Do we all know what Isaiah Horton is capable of? Yes or no? Matthew Berry is here and and he is here to give us, as fast as he can, as much fantasy information as he can. And I have promised him that if he makes himself available for us throughout this season, I will indeed partake in all things fantasy by the end of the season and I will become somebody you don't. What are you making faces?
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Mike Ryan
That's not how fantasy works. You don't just decide I want to be Part of a fantasy league the.
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Dan Le Batard
Last week of the season.
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Stugats
I'm going to commit after I get a look. I don't.
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Dan Le Batard
Is this for next season?
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Stugats
I don't think that you guys understand how little I trust any of you to actually commit to anything. When I say something, I mean it. And so I am promising that if Matthew Berry does indeed give our audience this information that it craves in condensed form, that I will participate in fantasy in a way our audience enjoys and feels after this season.
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Dan Le Batard
Dan Levatard, how dare you question my commitment? I am suffering through this punishment that you have put me through because a random football team lost.
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Stugats
I am suffering through having to pay you. Donnis Haslam. Too much money to enforce rules around here because you guys do not respect the rules or respect anything. I can't get my father to do anything. Tony just left the show chasing my father.
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Dan Le Batard
Paid this thing off super quick.
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Stugats
No, you guys are terrible. You don't respect anything.
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Mike Ryan
You should have joined our Guillotine League. It's awesome.
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Billy
Yeah, I mean, mostly they don't respect me.
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Stugats
I would enjoy guillotining just about all of you. I would.
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Mike Ryan
Rough week for Roy. He was chopped last week.
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Stugats
I'm sorry, Roy, did you have. Did you have Green Bay?
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Dan Le Batard
I had Jordan Love as a quarterback, but we don't have teams. That's not how it works.
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Mike Ryan
Did you have Green Bay?
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Dan Le Batard
Did you think it was a Survivor League?
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Stugats
That's what I thought.
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Dan Le Batard
And this guy's talking tough to us, questioning our commitment.
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Stugats
Forgive me for thinking a Guillotine League and a Survivor League were the same thing. Both of them sound a bit ominous. There are life or death circumstances in both names to the leagues. Forgive me for thinking they were synonym when I'm dead. Matthew Barry, we have an open for you. We have gotten around to making an open for you. Thank you for making the time for us. We know that you are very busy, so let's give him his open, please. Matthew Barry. Matthew Barry.
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Matthew Berry
Matthew Perry.
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Stugats
Matthew Barry. He is our fantasy guru. He knows a lot more than most people. Obviously, if I don't know the difference between a Guillotine League and a Survivor League, I know next to nothing about what we're talking about. What is Cam Newton wearing right now on television? A bow tie with that hat. What are the studs in his hat? Matthew Berry. Get us started here.
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Matthew Berry
All right, the Las Vegas Raiders, top five in the NFL and in terms of most receptions allowed on deep passes. Oh, by the way, this weekend they play Caleb Williams of the Bears. Caleb Williams is top three in the NFL in deep ball rate, percentage of passes. Obviously they go at least 15 air yards. So a team that's bad against defending the deep ball has to play a quarterback that's really good at throwing it other side of that other side of that matchup. By the way, the Bears are also bottom five of the NFL in touchdown rate. The bottom five in yards per pass attempt allowed. And so far this year Geno Smith is actually top eight in the NFL in pass attempts per game. It's a 47 and a half over under. I'll take the over. I think a lot of offense in the Raiders Bears game Randomly every single game this year the Broncos allowed at least 89 rushing yards from scrimmage to an opposing running back. They faced the Bengals this week. This is the week Chase Brown gets up to snide. He's got 83% of the Bengals running back touches. By the way, he also has a 12% target here in the year they're using him in the past passing game Broncos allow the seven post receiving yard to opposing Running Back Last week on the Denver side of the ball, J.K. dobbins had a 85% running back rush share. Bengals have allowed at least 125 rushing yards to opposing running backs in back to back games. It's a J.K. dobbins week. Omarion Hampton Omarion Hampton last last week got a ton of usage and this week has an unbelievable match. He had a utilization score of 96. It's a scale of 1 to 100 on how much a running back is used or any player is used in in data that projects fantasy points. Anytime you score over a 90 you earn RB1. He's locked in as a top five fantasy football running back and every single game this year, no matter who the quarterback is, Garrett Wilson is at at least a 37 target share. Dolphins have allowed a touchdown to a wide receiver in every single game this year. No wide receivers throughout this year has gotten more targets than Chris Olavi of the Saints. He's got a 32 target share and oh by the way, he's a 16 point underdog to the Bills this weekend. Let's see, last weekend Matthew golden had an 84% route participation. He had 77% of the packers air yards. It hasn't worked out for him yet, but this is the week that he goes off against the Cowboys defense that has allowed more yards and touchdowns and deep passes than any team in the NFL. No team is allowed more yards to opposing tight ends than Carolina Panthers. It's another Hunter Henry week for the Patriots.
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Stugats
Excellent as always. How are you doing so far with your information? How successful have you been this season? How does this season feel? Because the early parts of a season can be hard to figure out what. What is actually happening. Right?
- [24:47]
Matthew Berry
Yeah, I mean, overall, pretty good, I think. Have I hit everything? I have not my big ride or die. Omarion Hampton had a big week last week, so I just mentioned him. He was my. He's my one player that I sort of planted a flag on and said, this is my ride or die. He was going about running back. He was going about 30th, I think inside the top 30 overall. And he's, you know, he's. He was a top five fantasy running back last week, so obviously been helped a little bit. There was an injury to his teammate. Najee Harris opens up more playing time for him, but he looked the part. He had a huge production, I think has another big week. So that's been. That's been really good. A lot of the picks have gone well. One pick that I got wrong, which is sort of what you're asking, is James Cook. My concern in the preseason was last year, James Cook played less than 50% of the snaps, wasn't involved in the passing game, and was just scoring touchdowns at a really high rate. So the argument was, well, there's just no way James Cook can keep this insane touchdown rate up if he's not getting a ton of usage either, you know, on the ground or in the. In the passing game. And yet he has. He's playing less than 60% spend of the snaps this year for the Bills. He's playing less than 60% of the snaps. He's got an under 15% target share. He's just, you know, he's not a heavy part of the passing game for the Bills, and yet he's scoring every week. The Bills probably have the easiest schedule in the NFL. They're blowing teams out, and when they're getting in close, they are giving it to James Cook. So Cook's a top three fantasy running back. And so it's one of those weird things where I was completely right about all the reasons why he shouldn't be picked high, but yet he still is because he's getting just insane touchdown usage.
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Stugats
Worthy's coming back for Kansas City. Do you expect their offense to look any different?
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Matthew Berry
I think it'll look a little bit better. Mahomes just hasn't looked Mahomes, Ian, especially on those deep passes. They found a little something with Tyquan Thornton, but I think having Xavier Worthy, who developed more of a connection with last season, it's certainly just look, getting a good player back for that offense is going to be helpful. You know, I mean they're out there with with again Tyquan Thornton had a nice game on on Sunday, but like it's Tyquan Thornton and Hollywood Brown, you know. And so I, I yes, I do think it will help the offense, just especially the deep passing of Mahomes which has seemed off this year.
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Stugats
Tell the people where they find everything it is that you're doing because as I mentioned, his fantasy information is wildly valuable. People really do appreciate it and he will make your team better and make you more informed. Where do they find you on all the things you want found on well.
- [27:12]
Matthew Berry
Fantasy Football Happy Hour is my show every single day. We follow you guys on Peacock. We're on at 5 o' clock on Peacock. We're also live at noon on YouTube so you can check it out. You can also see it on demand on YouTube, Peacock, wherever you get your podcast. Fantasy Football pregame Sunday morning 11am Eastern on YouTube and Peacock, we get you ready for all the games. We answer more questions than any other pregame show. And you can go to FantasyLife.com and get a free newsletter from me and some of my, some of my friends. We sent it a free five minute read. It's easy. It's free newsletter that gets you everything you need to know about fantasy football for that day. And you know, listen, it's a free newsletter. If you hate it, just unsubscribe. But you go to fantasylife.com and check all that out.
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Stugats
Appreciate the time Matthew. Thank you sir.
- [27:54]
Billy
Matthew, real quick. Before you go, before you go, before you go. Club set open this week?
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Matthew Berry
Yes, Club set is open this week. Club set is always open, but especially this week. He's their number one wide receiver. I don't know why people keep ranking Jerry Judy over Cedric Tillman. Club said always open.
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Stugats
Thank you Matthew. Appreciate the time, sir.
- [28:12]
Matthew Berry
Thank you.
- [28:13]
Stugats
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- [28:45]
Matthew Berry
I need to find her.
- [28:47]
Stugats
From acclaimed director Paul Thomas Sanderson.
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Dan Le Batard
You can save that girl.
- [28:52]
Stugats
Today experience what is being called the best movie of the year. This is the end of the line. Not for you. Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Taylor, Benicio Del Toro, Tiana Taylor, Chase Infinity. Let's go.
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Dan Le Batard
Here I am.
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Stugats
One battle after another. Now playing only in theaters. Experience at an IMAX rated R under 1700 minute without parrot. Don Levitard.
- [29:15]
Dan Le Batard
We're gonna win, Stu. We're gonna win. What an old reference. This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.
- [29:31]
Stugats
I don't know if you guys saw this, but south park has a different relationship with, I'm gonna say entertainment than just about anything I've ever seen in my life. I have always preferred the Simpsons. I have enjoyed the way that south park hates Family Guy for not actually saying anything meaningful. But what happened with south park last week is something that I was really having trou remembering when and where I'd ever seen anything like it happen. They are famously procrastinators. They get to do whatever they want creatively in a way that no one gets to do whatever they want creatively. And last week they just missed an episode, wasn't ready in time. And because it was happening around the Kimmel stuff, people were wondering, well, were they censored? Were they kept from doing it? No, just didn't get it done in time. Wanted to do it particularly well. Want to always have the freshest stuff off of news events to react to. And it wasn't ready and everyone just had to wait. I don't know what kind of calamities that causes in the backgrounds, but I was wildly impressed by the amount of power that you have to have to just simply blow deadline, not show up for a scheduled appearance because your work's not ready. And everyone's going to have to wait, not just your employer. America is going to have to wait. And what are we going to all do? We're all going to wait, and they're going to do it the way that they want to. When? When those guys talk about the notes that they get on their episodes, what you get is something unlike anywhere else in entertainment where the arguments are, are we gonna have to blur the penis? No, we're not gonna blur the penis. And so the President of the United States has a tiny penis running through his south park episodes. While he tries to impregnate Satan.
- [31:39]
Dan Le Batard
I think the nature of their deal isn't necessarily you, err, on this date, just give us a certain set of episodes. I don't know. They had an anniversary some years back where they did a documentary on how chaotic it is to put an episode together. I don't know if you watch that, Dan, but basically it's over the course of 70. It's over the course of 72 hours. It's not the crude construction paper animation of the the earlier seasons. They can put these things together fairly quickly and that I imagine they basically threw out half an episode so they can keep it up to date because they went at the FCC chair quite a bit in this episode and a lot of that stuff evolved over the weekend. So yeah, they probably worked really hard on an episode, didn't necessarily make their deadlines, and they decided to scrap a fair amount of it. It's pretty wild. They have incredible creative freedom. Cable television, pal. No oversight from the FCC there, only leverage. We know that Paramount, given what happened with Colbert and their merger and how much they prioritize, that does bow at the. Does bend the knee. But the one exception that they have in their company seems to be the.
- [32:46]
Stugats
South park cash Adam McKay mentioned in the making of Don't Look Up. I learned so much in talking to him about just how much the industry has changed. And I don't know how much I'm allowed to necessarily say here, but I'll try and talk around some of the things. Spoiler alert. If you have not seen Don't look up, it ends with again, spoiler alert. The world ending. And generally speaking, that's not Hollywood friendly. There were fights around the movie seven where contractually Brad Pitt had to get put into the movie seven that it could end the way that it was supposed to end. Because people don't like dark endings of movies. They don't want studios. People who are responsible for the money don't want to send the customer home feeling all manner of dark. So the way that the negotiations ended up working with Adam McKay, as it revolved around creative freedom and as it gets more difficult as five companies run all of Hollywood and entertainment, is he could only have the creative freedom that he wanted if he kept the movie under a certain length. If it went over the certain length, then he lost some of those creative freedoms. But he was able to end Don't look up with the World ending. But as he was making the movie, the absurdities that he was writing in fiction as one of the People responsible for a generation of comedy and film. The things that were happening in real life were making obsolete things that he was writing fictitiously as jokes that couldn't possibly, possibly happen, where he's making the billionaire weirder and weirder about things he's doing. And then things would happen in real life that made things that he was imagining seem like he was copying the news when he was writing them before the news happened. The guys at South Park, I, I am really enjoying what it is that Colbert and the guys from south park can do as they are being more creative and more hostile in mocking what it is that's happening in America, which seems to resonate more than sermonizing or screeching, even though those have their profit centers too, if you sermonize and screech. Because when you look at the very top of what is happening in the podcast industry, people who are giving the strongest opinions and the strongest conservative opinions are the ones that are having much of the great success these days. But I, it was, it was super strange to watch somebody who's wildly creative and was writing fiction watch real life events be weirder and more dangerous than the things that he was just sort of conjuring from his imagination.
- [35:59]
Dan Le Batard
And that was when the Biden administration was in place. Right now, in their haste to try to get the Epstein stuff out of the news, we thought they were flooding the zone in the first few months. It is. Every day there's like three things that happen that are just like, like bonkers. There would be massive scandals for other administration. I'm not getting like, this is my opinion, but there's like several Watergate level scandals that just don't even get covered anymore because of how crazy the news cycle has been.
- [36:31]
Stugats
But Steve Bannon, Steve Bannon told you that all of that was going to happen? And I was wildly naive about some of the things that have happened in the last 10 years because I didn't understand when Breitbart was taking anything that I would say on ESPN and doing what is now being done to Wilbon when he talks about Bruce Pearl. I did not understand the threat that, that, that now seems quaint of just the Tea Party. Like I didn't understand what was happening anytime I was talking about a black athlete and it was becoming headlines on Breitbart. And then this community of people was getting mad at me. I, not unlike Mike Gundy, wasn't able to change with the Times fast enough not to be fooled by what it is that happened with the Times because Steve Bannon and some of the things that you see in Project 2025. Yeah, just flood the news stream with scandal, and all of a sudden we become numb to scandal, and you can have 100 watergates a year and it doesn't even matter anymore.
- [37:41]
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, the flood. The zone coming from Bannon was. Was pertaining to policy, and now it's pertaining to policy and diversionary tactics. The ISIS are. Was caught reportedly accepting a bag of $50,000. Megyn Kelly takes Twitter and says, we don't care, and you just indict James Comey instead. It's just a radical time that we're in right now. And that wraps up politics.
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Stugats
That's it. That's about enough of politics.
- [38:11]
Dan Le Batard
That's as political as we've been in months. Like, dead on. Like op. I'm proud of us. Enjoy your Fridays, people. Big football Friday.
- [38:20]
Stugats
I am encouraged by the way that the creative community has in the last couple of weeks been pretty loud, because I don't know whether Damask is right or not on Kimmel, that it's the idea that powerful people have decided what was decided. I prefer to think that the people spoke up on behalf of Kimmel, and it had to be, and it had to be heard. But you saw that. That Hollywood did indeed rally around Kimmel, and so, too did the folks on the right who were trying to protect their microphones. Because, as I was saying yesterday, I really do believe that America's core principle right now, that is the strongest, is just selfishness. It's just strong, strong selfishness. And so people are protecting their microphones because they don't want to have their free speech control.
- [39:13]
Dan Le Batard
Okay, a little bit more politics.
- [39:15]
Stugats
I can't segue from that back to Arizona, Seattle. Like, want me. You want me to talk about. You want me to talk about Arizona, Seattle? You want me to predict.
- [39:23]
Dan Le Batard
That's a great game. Great game. But the pivot has been like. We were obviously joking. Brendan Carr made a joke online, the guy that co authored Project 25. He was joking as if we didn't hear what the President said on the airplane. Now, I am encouraged, though, by that whole Kimmel experience. Not just because Kimmel's back on the air, but because there was consensus that this is wrong and. And it finally forced a pivot. Now, the pivot is to lie to the American people and gaslight them and say what they heard and what they read wasn't so. And that you were joking the entire time. Awfully convenient. But you did make them capitulate, even if the capitulation was More lies. They realize that's too far.
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Stugats
When you see that Kimmel's ratings were what they were and it doesn't even count all of the stations that he was preempted on.
- [40:15]
Dan Le Batard
Like there were Major markets, Washington D.C.
- [40:17]
Stugats
Giant Giant markets were not televising. Like what an enormous backfire. Like the thing about this that concerns me is that the next time they do won't be as ham handed as it was that time because they made it too clear what they were doing. And the objection was obvious. Next time it'll be done more in the shadows. But to have it backfire not just with ratings but now with with the affiliates and Sinclair being penalized by getting bombarded by calls saying no, we want our Kimmel. You cannot strong arm Disney or Americans this way. By not televising this, Sinclair has entrenched itself. The idea that Sinclair is now getting hit over the head by a bottle by its viewers demanding Kimmel when no one's been demanding Kimmel for the last 20. That's not something that's ever happened before. Right now you're not getting any flooding of your station or bad publicity for being someone who doesn't air Kimmel until right now.
- [41:27]
Dan Le Batard
Quickly. It's going to be a really busy weekend with a lot of sports and I cannot wait to hear Amin's observations on Monday. And this reminds me that there is an incredible DraftKings pool. This was super popular, lot of signups last year when we did this. I tried to play, was not eligible because I am on this show. But I would like to make a prediction because it's a cool game. Open up your, your app, toggle the top menu to pools and you'll scroll down a little bit and you'll see the weekend observations prediction pool. You can guess things like who's the first person that's going to be back. And my prediction for this little spoiler for the audience. I don't know anything here but I think Xavier Worthy is going to make a difference in this game. I think Patrick Mahomes is going to be the quarterback that's back. Jack.
- [42:07]
Stugats
You with your chief's opinion.
- [42:09]
Dan Le Batard
So I mean you with yours. I like my hand. I'm doing the Nick Wright easy thing. I'm taking the greatest quarterback we've ever seen and I'm going to say he's pretty good and he'll figure it out.
- [42:19]
Stugats
And you will ignore about, I don't know, 20 games of data that suggests that their offense is constipated and is going to stay constipated.
- [42:27]
Dan Le Batard
Same way you ignore that the receivers are hurt. Does it ever feel like you're a.
- [42:31]
Stugats
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Dan Le Batard
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- [43:00]
Dan Le Batard
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Stugats
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Dan Le Batard
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Stugats
Don LeBatard there's sunglasses in boxes Hospital ending our lives all the same St it's the final night gown.
- [43:56]
Dan Le Batard
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Stugats
Hey Cal, Riley's hitting 60. Homer's dance unimpressed and he's not alone. It's true. I can tell you why. Oh Mark Mc.
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Billy
A few years back judge at 62.
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Stugats
But most of you were mad cause.
- [45:03]
Billy
It broke into UVA at Duke in.
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Stugats
College football week five.
- [45:10]
Billy
Cause of old Mark McGuire.
- [45:15]
Stugats
It's like Barry Bonds took a knife.
- [45:17]
Dan Le Batard
And he held the blade and threw.
- [45:19]
Stugats
It to slice our chance at being amazed. Semi so sir hitting 66 made it so we can't be dazzled by shit.
- [45:30]
Billy
Only 80 could light my fire.
- [45:36]
Stugats
So we blame Mark McGuire Bon so so and McGuire oh Mark McGuire. There is nothing that old sportswriters like more than Bruce Springsteen. I don't know why it is you would say that. I'm not impressed by 60 home runs. That seems like a totally unfair characteristic.
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Billy
Well, just yesterday you said like oh all these guys are just hitting 60 all the time. And that's really tough to do. I don't know if you know that.
- [46:11]
Stugats
I said tough to hit 50 all the time. Not. Not 60. I understand that he's only.
- [46:17]
Billy
The 70 is still pretty impressive.
- [46:19]
Stugats
Yeah, it's still pretty impressive, but there are more guys. It 50 used to mean something. The 60 yard field goal used to mean something and the 50 home run season used to mean something. I didn't say I wasn't impressed by the big dumper. Billy's not impressed by having to call people for service on stuff. What is going on with you in the service industry? What's going on with you needing stuff from others? You don't like to need others?
- [46:45]
Mike Ryan
No, it's not that. I just. There are some things that I'm embarrassed that I need assistance on and I was wondering if you guys had similar things that you are embarrassed. Like, what's the most embarrassing thing that you need help with? So my phone now for like two weeks, I have the little switch on the side that's supposed to mute it, like off. So this should not be making sounds yet. It continues to make sounds, but I don't want to go to a phone store to have that fixed because I'm sure there's a simple fix that I just am not aware of. And when I go in there And I wait 90 minutes, they'll. They'll fix it in three seconds. So it's. It. I was curious if you guys had dumb things that you also.
- [47:20]
Stugats
Have you asked for help on this from anybody around here, is it?
- [47:24]
Mike Ryan
Yeah, no, I mean, I've asked for. And they say you go to this setting, go to that setting. And I still keep getting notifications every. Every day. So I have to go and I put my phone away from the microphone so I don't get fined. I stick it underneath a backpack or something else so it doesn't make a lot of noise, but it just continues to make sounds for some reason. I don't know what's going on.
- [47:40]
Stugats
So you're like me and Cody now. Is this the aging process for you?
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Mike Ryan
No, I think that this is a technological error. This is a. I don't know if you know this. They, they. They have new iPhones come out basically every like six minutes. So now they're by the iPhone 17 that has like some massive thing on the back of it to take, you know, pictures that honestly are not as good as Galaxy Pictures, if we're gonna be frank.
- [48:02]
Dan Le Batard
People aren't. Damn right. People aren't liking this one.
- [48:04]
Mike Ryan
Well, this is an iPhone 13. So I'm about like seven versions behind, because I know what you're saying. It's really just four. But there's like S's and P's and C's and D's in there. In the middle there's 0.5. So this is an older version of it. So I think that now it's just intentionally being sabotaged, that I go and I get a new phone.
- [48:23]
Stugats
Well, haven't they been accused of that before? Haven't they had to pay?
- [48:26]
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, they paid a settlement then for that.
- [48:28]
Mike Ryan
All sorts of settlements.
- [48:29]
Dan Le Batard
Round rounding.
- [48:30]
Mike Ryan
Where does that money go? Because it doesn't go to the people. Like, you're entitled to, like, 6 cents. But if I don't claim my 6 cents, where does that money end up?
- [48:38]
Dan Le Batard
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