Hour 2: Baker's Chocolate (feat. Jessica Smetana & Adnan Virk)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – "Hour 2: Baker’s Chocolate"

Featuring: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Jessica Smetana, Adnan Virk, Mike Ryan, Chris Cody, Alex, Jeremy
Date: February 19, 2026
Recorded at: The Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

The second hour of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz is a lively, chaotic blend of sports banter, pop culture hot takes, Olympics oddities, confectionery controversy, and passionate nostalgia for baseball. Featuring Jessica Smetana and Adnan Virk, the crew debates the crisis in Reese’s peanut butter cups, unpacks heated curling scandals at the Winter Olympics, and closes out with the return of their enthusiastically nerdy baseball trivia game, “Pitch Clock Jeopardy.” The episode captures the show’s trademark style: a blend of irreverence, playful arguing, and genuine expertise.

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Key Discussion Points

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1. Programming Announcements & Olympics Coverage

Timestamps: 00:07–01:13

• Stugotz announces his upcoming absence for a week, with Zaslo and Damoshek covering.
• Jessica is dubbed the “Winter Olympics correspondent,” updating on the US-Canada women’s hockey showdown.
• Diplo is flagged for a future guest spot (“South Beach Session”), reportedly involved in the Olympics Closing Ceremonies.

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2. Fred Hoiberg Clip & Accountability in Sports

Timestamps: 01:13–02:56

• Dan raises a scenario, speculating if Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg would have lost his job if, in a rage, he struck a student instead of a staffer.
• Dan: “If in his rage, he had hit that student in the head, I think he wouldn’t have a job today.” (01:13)
• Mike and Jessica dissect the incident, joking about bad aim:
  • Mike: “If his aim is that bad... maybe he shouldn’t be a basketball coach to begin with.” (02:19)

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3. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – Recipe Change Scandal

Timestamps: 03:00–05:24

• The panel passionately debates allegations that Reese’s has changed its iconic chocolate and peanut butter formula:
  • Mike cites Brad Reese (descendant of the Reese’s founder), who claims a “compound coating” has replaced real chocolate and “peanut butter style creams” have taken over the filling.
• Chris Cody: “This is an affront to America.” (05:09)
• Mike switches allegiance to Justin’s peanut butter cups:
  • Mike: “The Reese’s cups no longer taste like chocolate-covered peanut butter. They’re just…” (04:45)
• They debate the evolution of taste buds and what qualifies as “milk chocolate.”

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4. What Counts as Candy? The Chocolate vs. Candy Debate

Timestamps: 05:24–07:13, 10:24–11:46

• Jessica asserts a Hershey’s Kiss is “a chocolate, not a candy.”
• Mike brings in FDA labeling requirements for “milk chocolate”: at least 10% chocolate liquor, 12% milk solids, and 3.39% milk fat.
• The group riffs on the tricky nomenclature and rules around chocolate and candy, leading to a poll suggestion:
  • Stugotz: “Is chocolate candy? Yes or no?” (10:24)

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5. Baker’s Chocolate – What Is It?

Timestamps: 11:46–13:14

• Dan, Jessica, and the crew try to define baker’s chocolate, its culinary purpose, and why no one eats it straight.
• Mike notes it's essentially pure chocolate with no stabilizers; Chris adds it’s “more like the unsweet type.”
• Chris Cody: “It’s unpleasant.” (13:14)

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6. Winter Olympics: Curling Scandals & Oddities

Timestamps: 13:36–18:12

• Mike describes a scandal where Sweden accuses Canada of a double touch (touching the stone past the hogline) in curling.
• Swedish fans caught it on alternate camera angles, shaking the sport known for its “gentleman’s code.”
• Mike Ryan:
  • “It’s really put a damper on things in the curling world.” (15:02)
  • “Do I have a take on it, Dan? Yes. I would say stop touching the stone past the hogline, and we’re all good here.” (16:08)
• The panel jokes about not understanding curling strategy and the volume of curling events at the Olympics (“It’s never gonna end”).

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7. Olympics Highlights: Dogs & Drama

Timestamps: 17:56–19:00

• Mike shares a viral story: A dog named Nazgul ran through the finish line during the cross-country skiing event in Italy.
• Jessica is skeptical: “I don’t trust that dog whatsoever.” (18:08)
• They look ahead to the women’s figure skating finale and the US-Canada women’s hockey gold medal game, noting skater Alyssa Liu’s comeback story.

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8. Banter: Baseball, Pitch Clock, and “Pitch Clock Jeopardy”

Timestamps: 21:35–41:30

• A Jeopardy-inspired baseball trivia game, “Pitch Clock Jeopardy,” between Chris Cody and Jeremy, with Dan acting as host.
• Categories include: Steroid Suspicions, Hall of Famers, Old Faces Final Places, Stat Leaders, Name That Face.
• Classic Le Batard Show barbs about the buzzer system, “Name That Face” boasting, and deep-dive stat questions.
• Notable banter:
  • Dan: “Next time, I’m going to make sure we have a daily doubles and final Jeopardy. Buzzers that work.” (41:30)
  • Chris Cody (mid-battle): “We can break down the tape.” (30:49)

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9. Adnan Virk on MLB Hot Topics

Timestamps: 26:12–37:02

• Tigers’ Offseason Moves & Framber Valdez’s Deal:
  • Tigers are “all in” for a World Series run, giving out big money contracts.
  • Adnan: “We’re going all in on this season and try to win a World Series.” (26:12)
• Bryce Harper and Phillies Drama:
  • Debate over Harper’s “elite” status and public call-outs by GM Dave Dombrowski.
  • Adnan: “Bryce Harper will always speak from the heart… He needs to bounce back after a disappointing year.” (27:42)
• Player Support for Dodgers’ Spending:
  • Machado, Harper, and even Aaron Judge support LA’s big payroll.
  • Commentary on MLB CBA and recent union news.
• Spring Training Overrated & Overlooked Teams:
  • Phillies: Overrated due to back-to-back postseason stumbles.
  • Pirates: Overlooked, hoping for a .500 season and breakout prospects.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Dan Le Batard (on Hoiberg incident):
  “If in his rage, he had hit that student in the head, I think he wouldn’t have a job today.” (01:13)
• Chris Cody (on Reese’s):
  “This is an affront to America.” (05:09)
• Stugotz (on ‘chocolate as candy’):
  “Is chocolate candy? Yes or no?” (10:24)
• Mike Ryan (on curling scandal):
  “It’s really put a damper on things in the curling world.” (15:02) “Stop touching the stone past the hogline, and we’re all good here.” (16:08)
• Jessica (on baker’s chocolate):
  “I don’t use candies.” (12:17)
• Chris Cody (on Pitch Clock Jeopardy technics):
  “We can break down the tape.” (30:49)
• Adnan Virk (on Tigers’ moves):
  “We’re going all in on this season and try to win a World Series.” (26:12)
• Adnan Virk (on Bryce Harper):
  “He needs to bounce back after a disappointing year.” (27:42)

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Segment Highlights and Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |-------------------------------------------|-------------| | Show Announcements, Olympics, Hoiberg | 00:07–02:56 | | Reese’s Recipe Scandal, The Candy Debate | 03:00–07:13 | | Baker’s Chocolate | 11:46–13:14 | | Curling Scandal & Curling 101 | 13:36–18:12 | | Olympic Oddities (Nazgul the Dog, Liu) | 17:56–19:00 | | "Pitch Clock Jeopardy" Segment | 21:35–41:30 | | Adnan Virk’s MLB Analysis | 26:12–37:02 |

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Conclusion

This episode is quintessential Le Batard Show: spirited, digressive, and brimming with inside jokes. Whether they're hotly debating the legitimacy of a candy bar, clowning the idiosyncrasies of curling, or stoking the competitive flames of baseball trivia, the crew delivers entertainment and insight in equal measure — with just enough off-kilter energy to keep fans and newcomers hooked.

If you want to know what’s up with Reese’s, curling ethics, MLB drama, and who can recognize obscure 2000s baseball faces the fastest, this episode delivers it all, alongside the banter and laughter fans expect.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Stugats]

We'll get to Jessica in a second. And if you want more coverage of sports outside of our show, the hockey show and all of its participants on Sunday are going to be doing a live watch of what I hope is USA Canada, gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Jessica has become a bit of our Winter Olympics correspondent. I told you, Diplo is going to be here later today to do it. South beach session. He's evidently involved with the closing ceremonies. And I should tell people I'm going to be out beginning tomorrow for a week because I'm going out to California to do more south beach sessions. So I will not be here tomorrow. And next week, Zaslo and Damoshek and the custodians will take care of you. But that.

[Chris Cody]

That it's not even football season.

[Adnan Virk]

What does he got to say?

[Stugats]

Pitch clock, though, is going to be at the end of this.

[Jessica]

What does Dave have to say about. All right, everything.

[Jeremy]

Challenge accepted.

[Chris Cody]

You guys just want over the pitch clock part. Excited?

[Stugats]

Yeah, I was trying to advertise pitch clock, and instead you got a whole bunch of fake damage there.

[Chris Cody]

Back, back, back, back, back.

[Stugats]

But we're going to do some baseball talk here at the end of this hour as Jessica comes in here, though, something that I brought up yesterday, I want to play for Jessica, the different camera angles that we have of this because you guys correctly said that Fred Hoiberg won't get into any trouble for this. And yet if in his rage, he had been a little more physically off and actually hit that student in the head, I think he wouldn't have a job today. I really do think he would have lost his job for hitting someone that way. Jessica, do you think I have this wrong? There are a number of things in this video, including a one armed man that Mike pin this whole thing on. But are you of the. Are you of the belief that if this was 3 inches of difference in his rage, that he would have actually been fired over this? If he had caught this student in the side of the head, in the ear, he actually hit. He hit a staffer from the other team by the head. So it's not like his aim was great.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, then he did immediately go up to that staffer and be like, hey, man, I wasn't trying to make contact with your head. I was trying to smack this little jerk cell phone out of his hand. So that I guess if his. If his aim is that bad, then yeah, maybe he shouldn't be a basketball Coach to begin with. I mean, you can't have aim that bad where you hit someone in the head instead of their phone.

[Jeremy]

I love the staffer. The staffer keeps it moving. He, like, gets slapped in the head. He's like, what the hell?

[Chris Cody]

I'll just keep walking.

[Jessica]

I've never seen, like, the prototypical shrug with one arm to, like, the guy with the guy in the lion is, like, doing, like, the shrug, but it's just the one.

[Mike Ryan]

Guys. There's weird stuff going on at.

[Jessica]

There's so much going on in this clip.

[Jeremy]

Iowa. I saw that, Jess. I know what you're talking about.

[Mike Ryan]

You guys need to get Lucy on.

[Jessica]

Care to share with the class or not?

[Stugats]

No, no.

[Jessica]

Are you talking about the.

[Chris Cody]

The.

[Jessica]

The.

[Jeremy]

The fraternity?

[Jessica]

Yeah, the house father that nobody can track down because, like, exactly. Mike seen in weapons.

[Jeremy]

Like a cop going downstairs to a basement full of a bunch of people that are trying to join this fraternity.

[Adnan Virk]

And it's.

[Jeremy]

The cops are like, everyone take your blindfolds off.

[Chris Cody]

This is over.

[Jeremy]

And none of them are doing it. They're all just like, I will not stop doing this until I'm told to stop.

[Dan Le Batard]

White privilege, Dan. White privilege.

[Stugats]

There are also more important things going on in the world. Like the allegations that have crushed the Reese's Peanut Butter cup community.

[Alex]

What?

[Stugats]

We are still in agreement that that is the best of the peanut butter cups that exist. They have never been made better than that. You were disagreeing with this?

[Mike Ryan]

Nope, not even close. I have been. I'm out on Reese's, Dan. I. I want to say 10 years ago, maybe eight years ago, was on a bit of a Reese's kick. And then all of a sudden, I was like, I can't eat these anymore. Like, I think I've change. My taste buds have changed, but now I'm onto them. Because the heir of the Reese's company or the. The founder of Reese's, his name is Brad Reese. He wrote a social media post and said they've Hershey's has changed the recipe and this is extremely disappointing to him as you know, someone who has the. Reese. Reese. Reese, last name Dan. And I'm with him because something's changed. They've changed the peanut butter, They've changed the chocolate. It's terrible. Now I can't eat them. I eat Justin's peanut butter cups I have every single night, and that is how I satisfy my sweet tooth.

[Stugats]

Okay, so you're doing either almond butter or sun butter. You're doing it slightly.

[Chris Cody]

What is sun butter?

[Adnan Virk]

What is that?

[Stugats]

It's not sunflower. It's not that milk.

[Jessica]

Right.

[Stugats]

You're doing something that's dairy free with that. Or no dark chocolate.

[Mike Ryan]

Better. They're just a higher quality. They're just more delicious. They taste like peanut butter cups. The Reese's cups no longer taste like chocolate covered peanut butter. They're just.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, Brad Reese says that they've replaced milk chocolate with compound coatings and the peanut butter with peanut butter style creams across multiple Reese's products. I mean, this is an affront to America.

[Alex]

It sounds awesome.

[Jessica]

He's right.

[Chris Cody]

He's 100% right. He's 100% right.

[Stugats]

Processed food is a problem.

[Chris Cody]

What is peanut butter style cream? What does that supposed to mean?

[Jessica]

Milk chocolate.

[Stugats]

I didn't realize until Jessica did that particular gymnastics routine around Reese's that the Reese's weren't plural. I didn't realize. I didn't realize until right now that it was possessive. That it was one Reese who then becomes Reese's. Only when you make it possessive. I thought it was a family.

[Alex]

Yeah, but also, why are pieces. Why are you and Jess calling it Reese's? It's Reese's. The guy's name is Reese.

[Mike Ryan]

Here we go again.

[Alex]

Here we go.

[Jessica]

I'm on Team Zaz.

[Alex]

It's Reese's.

[Chris Cody]

You're being racist.

[Alex]

I don't call you smitten. Is your tanners if it's plural possessive Reese's.

[Jessica]

He should have let the original stand.

[Alex]

You're right. I would go back, regret that part. You know, it was better in my head before it came out. So let's just move on, all right?

[Mike Ryan]

No, we're not moving on because of all of the things that I have said on this show in five years that have gotten me hate messages. Mispronouncing Reese's Pieces is probably the number one people hate. People hate when we say Reese's Pieces. So I'm gonna keep it going.

[Alex]

It's not a real Reese's Pieces.

[Chris Cody]

What is that?

[Mike Ryan]

You wouldn't understand. It's a candy that I no longer eat. I mean, actually, the pieces aren't that bad. Those are still love a pieces.

[Jessica]

Jess, where do you stand on calling these chocolate candies? Candies? Because it's. That's not what a candy is. It's chocolate.

[Chris Cody]

It's chocolate.

[Jessica]

It should be divided. Chocolates and candies. I don't consider a Hershey Kiss a candy. I consider it a chocolate.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, it's the opposite. So apparently you can only call it milk chocolate if it has, like, a certain percentage of chocolate in it versus you can call anything candy because it's candy. I don't know. I read all of this this morning. This is where it, like the, the Maha stuff. We get in the, in the weeds with it because like, yeah, there's an element of yeah.

[Adnan Virk]

What.

[Mike Ryan]

What the hell are they putting in Reese's Cups? I want peanut butter and chocolate to it. But then it's also like, I think measles should be eradicated. So I'm not really entirely with you there.

[Jeremy]

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[Jessica]

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[Alex]

Don LeBatard I don't like smutty either.

[Mike Ryan]

Stugats women stay home in the kitchen where they belong.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Stugats]

Put it on the poll at Levitard show. Is chocolate candy? Yes or no? Because I do think of chocolate as candy, but Mike is making it its own category. He's saying it's not candy, it's chocolate.

[Jessica]

Are you considering vanilla candy? I don't.

[Stugats]

Yeah, but you don't have, like, vanilla's a flavor nobody's eating. So it's chocolate, but nobody's eating. Nobody's eating a piece of vanilla.

[Mike Ryan]

Chocolate can be a flavor. So this is what was in ABC, the ABC News article I read. The U.S. food and Drug Administration has strict ingredient and labeling requirements for chocolate. To be considered milk chocolate products must contain at least 10% chocolate chocolate liquor, which is a paste made from ground cocoa beans and contains no alcohol. Products also must contain at least 12% milk solids and 3.39% milk fat.

[Jessica]

I think these are different things. I think there's a chocolate bar and a candy bar.

[Stugats]

Those are the same thing. A chocolate bar is a candy bar. What do you mean? Wait a minute. Hold on a second. A candy bar. It's not always chocolate because you have some that are just made of nuts. But I think of. I think of candy bars as being chocolate bars.

[Jessica]

I view them as two different worlds.

[Alex]

Wow. So if somebody hands you a Hershey's, you know, no almonds. So it's just the chocolate that's not a candy bar?

[Jessica]

No, it's a chocolate.

[Alex]

Wow, that's interesting.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, no, apparently not anymore. Apparently now it is a candy bar because there's, like, not even that much chocolate in it. That's the allegation.

[Jessica]

Oh, if we're getting technical, then yeah, but I totally siloed the two things.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, what would you call baker's chocolate using food? Chocolate chip cookies.

[Chris Cody]

I don't know what that means.

[Adnan Virk]

He stumbled. All of us.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know.

[Jessica]

I don't know.

[Mike Ryan]

There's a specific percentage of cocoa in it, because certain recipes, there's bittersweet, there's semi sweet, there's dark chocolate, and you have a certain percentage of.

[Chris Cody]

Are we talking chocolate chips?

[Jessica]

Could you repeat the question? Because I'm pretty sure I should have answered cookie.

[Chris Cody]

Is there 13?

[Mike Ryan]

There's no, like, filler product in it.

[Jessica]

I'm gonna say cookie chocolate.

[Mike Ryan]

That's why it melts better.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. You use baker's chocolate for chocolate chip cookies.

[Chris Cody]

I don't.

[Jessica]

Okay. Yeah. I don't use candies.

[Stugats]

I think what baker's chocolate is, and I don't want to get stuck in the mug.

[Chris Cody]

Do you know what baker's chocolate is?

[Jessica]

Clarify.

[Stugats]

I think what it is is a chocolate that's so dense and bitter that you use it for cooking and it needs to be cooked. Otherwise it doesn't taste quite like chocolate.

[Mike Ryan]

It becomes like chocolate. You mean it's just chocolate, though. It's not like. There's no, like, stabilizers in it.

[Stugats]

But I don't think people eat baker's chocolate. You. You're the. You're the one who actually baked so that you can help us with this. But I thought that nobody would eat baker's chocolate without it being baked.

[Mike Ryan]

No, it's just. It's just a chocolate. It's just like a chocolate bar. I mean, the flavor isn't what you would associate with, like, a Hershey's bar. And you like those gourmet chocolate bars you get at the store that have, like, all the fillings and stuff in it. Those are better just to eat out, like, as a brick of chocol. But because baker's chocolate can be pretty bitter, Dan. Depending on the percentage.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Baker's chocolate is going to be a little more like the unsweet type.

[Stugats]

It's unpleasant.

[Chris Cody]

It's not. It's not as Much of a tasty treat like a chocolate candy bar would be cocoa.

[Stugats]

I don't think it's cocoa.

[Chris Cody]

I've never seen that product in my entire life. I've been a baked, semi sweet chocolate square.

[Stugats]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

There's other brands.

[Jeremy]

That candy looks like something my grandma would eat.

[Mike Ryan]

There's like, GR Deli bars.

[Chris Cody]

Those are goated. I love Ghirardelli.

[Stugats]

I have a lot of Olympics to cover here before we get to pitch clock here. And when I say I have a lot of Olympics to cover, every single time I watch walk past the television anywhere in public, the only event going on is curling. How many different kinds of curling are there?

[Mike Ryan]

Why is everyone curling, Dan? Because there's the men's curling, there's the women's curling, and then there is the mixed team curling, which the US Won silver in. It was very exciting. But I think the unfortunate thing about curling right now, Dan, is that this cheating scandal has kind of rocked the world of curling. Chris, Cody and I were talking last week about how curling is this quote unquote, gentleman sport that, you know, relies on a lot of trust and understanding of the rules. It's not a highly legislated sport. Like, you know, the NFL is, for example. There's a little bit of, like a code, a curling code of conduct that everyone kind of agrees in, you know, a social contract, if you will, in the sport of curling. But last week, Sweden accused Canada and men's curling of touching the stone past the hogline. A double touch.

[Alex]

Double touch.

[Adnan Virk]

Dan.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know about that.

[Alex]

Double touch.

[Mike Ryan]

And past the hog line, Dan. And it rocked the. It rocked the curling world. And then apparently there were, you know, Swedish people in the stands taking videos from a specific angle that normally wouldn't be on camera to catch the Canadian team doing it. And it's really put a. Put a damper on things in the curling world.

[Stugats]

Let's get the audio of that so that people can appreciate all of the scandal around curling.

[Chris Cody]

Apparently it's okay. Touching the rock after the hogline.

[Stugats]

I don't know.

[Chris Cody]

Or touching the rock.

[Adnan Virk]

Who's doing it?

[Chris Cody]

You don't know it.

[Adnan Virk]

Who?

[Chris Cody]

It's a couple.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a couple.

[Adnan Virk]

Who?

[Chris Cody]

I haven't done it once.

[Stugats]

You can.

[Chris Cody]

You haven't done it once? I haven't done it once. Okay, I'll show you a video after the game. How about you walking around on my

[Adnan Virk]

peel on the last day and dancing

[Jessica]

around the house here? How about that? Come on.

[Chris Cody]

Oscar just showed you a video. I don't give a. They Were standing here. They didn't call it.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, it's intense.

[Chris Cody]

I see.

[Mike Ryan]

It's intense. And very good one. I've also heard people be like, hey, the Swedish guy shouldn't have done that. You should have just talked to the ref or the official and not, like, confronted him like that. That's against the. The spirit of curling, too. And to be clear, I know almost nothing about curling. I couldn't be further from an expert on curling. I've been watching it nonstop for 14 days. But this is not my sport. So I. Do I have a take on it, Dan? Yes. I would say stop touching the stone past the hogline, and we're all good here.

[Alex]

You know that hog line?

[Mike Ryan]

The. The hog line. Well, I don't think we're allowed to show video, but there's a hog line, and that's where you have to release the stone before it crosses the hog line.

[Jeremy]

Like, I get the scoring of this. Like. Like the most stones in it. It, like, cancels each other out. Like, I get it in theory, but I've never watched the sport so much and still have no clue about the strategy.

[Jessica]

How is there so much curling?

[Jeremy]

Like, I'm just always, like. I'm always trying to predict, like, oh, they're gonna probably do this here, and I'm always wrong.

[Stugats]

Are you an expert in the cross.

[Chris Cody]

Cross country again? See ya, buddy. Get out of here.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're almost to California, bud.

[Chris Cody]

Cut it up.

[Adnan Virk]

Oh, God.

[Chris Cody]

See you, Dan.

[Dan Le Batard]

Minor penalty. Two minutes for leaking confidence.

[Jeremy]

Somehow the second time today, he almost said that.

[Chris Cody]

It's worse than when he referenced that sister point.

[Jessica]

Almost.

[Chris Cody]

Is that one?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that's.

[Mike Ryan]

Of course, he's an expert in that.

[Alex]

You are right about the curling. Like, curling.

[Jeremy]

They.

[Alex]

They probably. I feel like they started before the opening ceremony, you know, and it's just. It's never gonna end.

[Jeremy]

It's like there's like 20 teams, and it's like there's round robins.

[Chris Cody]

They have to play.

[Dan Le Batard]

So many understand it.

[Jessica]

Is this a replay?

[Mike Ryan]

No. We're in the playoffs now. The U.S. women's team advanced, but the U.S. men's team did not. And I believe the. In the men's side, the Canadian team that was accused of cheating did advance, but the Swedish team did not. They were at the bottom of the table, so unfort fortunate for them. But yeah, there's just. There's a lot of teams. Like Chris said, there's a lot of teams and there's a lot of games and there's a lot of ends. I Learned what an end was. Sometimes you got the hammer, sometimes you don't have the hammer. As far as cross country skiing goes, there was a dog yesterday that was named Nazgul that escaped from his house somewhere in the mountains in Italy and ran through the finish line with the skiers. It was adorable.

[Alex]

Oh, Nazgul.

[Chris Cody]

Nice.

[Mike Ryan]

You know, kind of an evil name for a dog. I would say probably the second most evil name you could give your dog, based off of Lord of the Rings.

[Jessica]

I don't trust that dog whatsoever.

[Mike Ryan]

It's cute, though.

[Jessica]

I mean, I like all dogs.

[Jeremy]

It was at the finish, too. It wasn't like, just like, one of the laps.

[Chris Cody]

It was like, at the peak of

[Mike Ryan]

the race, it finished with the two, like, top racers. It was awesome. What a moment, everyone. I love the Olympics. We have figure skating today. The women's figure skating finale. The US Has a figure skater currently in third, Alyssa Liu, who actually retired from figure skating two years ago or four years ago when she was, like, 16 and then was like, I'm going to come back. I miss it. I like figure skating after all. So she's 20 years old and has already retired and then come back, and now she's in third place and has a chance to finish on the podium. And we also have the US Women's hockey gold medal match, which I know you guys will be locked in for. I'm going to go watch it with Lucy. US vs Canada. Tons of drama. So I'm going to be so sad when all this ends.

[Alex]

All right, Jess. Of course, you could check her out. Weekly Notre Dame podcast. These Echoes with Mike Golick Jr. Great job, Jess.

[Mike Ryan]

Thanks. I'm gonna do an Internet minute next week where you guys are gonna learn how. How to looks Max next week.

[Jessica]

Oh, I'm all in. Learn clavicular thing we'll discuss. Yeah, I mean, I don't endorse it, but I know about it.

[Chris Cody]

Hit myself with a hammer.

[Jeremy]

You guys want to hear Dan's mistake?

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Stugats]

An expert. Jessica. In the cross. Cross country.

[Chris Cody]

See ya, buddy.

[Jeremy]

Tony, See you, buddy.

[Stugats]

He was so happy.

[Chris Cody]

He was a strike three on the black, and I was like, you're out of here.

[Stugats]

You were so happy. I haven't seen you this happy since you and Greg Cody both did a first down together.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, you got it off the ground. I got it off the ground today. Greg talked about that for weeks.

[Alex]

First down.

[Stugats]

Jessica, thank you for being on with us. So many verbal mistakes. Pitch next.

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[Alex]

Don LeBatard can I tell you something? I don't know, maybe like a month ago and I decided to watch pitch clock and I told Jeremy stugats, this is a good show you're doing.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levitar show with the st.

[Chris Cody]

Welcome to the pitch clock. Here's the pitch. A two part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the pitch Clock. Baseball's back. Hey, full squad. Hey, hey, hey, everybody. Full squads reported this week. We're excited. I've drank a lot of coffee. I'm ready for baseball. And Ethan has a brand new trivia game for us. Ethan, I have a thing in my hand. Oh, there's a thing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Guys, this is pitch Clock jeopardy. Let's go, baby. So that's what the buzzards are for. Please stop buzzing the buzzer so that we don't waste our battery in here. As you can see on your screen, we have a board. I'm going to introduce the categories to you boys. All right, the first category is steroid suspicions hall of famers, Old faces. Final places. I'm going to show you of an athlete.

[Chris Cody]

Nice.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're going to tell me the last baseball team that they played for. Stat leaders. And then name that face. This is going to be the staple of pitch Clock jeopardy. I'm going to show you a picture of an old baseball player that we love. You're going to tell me who it is.

[Chris Cody]

Okay? I love this idea. Well done by you. We each have a buzzer. You Have a monitor that will register. I'm number one, he's number two.

[Dan Le Batard]

The board is yours.

[Chris Cody]

Ooh.

[DraftKings Announcer]

Okay.

[Chris Cody]

I want to be like the cool Jeopardy people. So I'm going to go steroid suspicions for a thousand.

[Jessica]

Thousand.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, all right.

[Chris Cody]

Is there double jeopardy?

[Dan Le Batard]

There is not double jeopardy. Though never formally charged, this Rangers outfielder hit 40 plus home runs five times and was implicated by his own teammate in the 2005 book. Juiced Chris Cody.

[Jeremy]

Juan Gonzalez.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is correct. Chris Cody on the board with a thousand points.

[Chris Cody]

No, I knew that one.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, Chris Cody, the board is to you.

[Jeremy]

We'll go name that face for 200.

[Dan Le Batard]

Name that face for 200. Who is this? Chris Cody.

[Adnan Virk]

That is.

[Chris Cody]

What's the timer?

[Jeremy]

Richie Sexton.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, Richie Sexton.

[Stugats]

That's correct.

[Chris Cody]

I was gonna lose my mind. You've said Richie Sexton like all the

[Dan Le Batard]

time on the show.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, my God.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, the board is yours.

[Jeremy]

400. Same category.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who's this?

[Jeremy]

Jared Omezica.

[Jessica]

That's me.

[Chris Cody]

No, I got it, bro.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got it.

[Chris Cody]

Jeremy, you can't.

[Jessica]

It.

[Chris Cody]

It's Alfredo Amez,

[Dan Le Batard]

who I think made a noise.

[Chris Cody]

Do not jump the gun. Both of our things made a noise.

[Dan Le Batard]

Remember, you got to wait for me to say who it is.

[Chris Cody]

Hall of Famers for 600.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. The all time leader in F4among pitchers, this player was awarded induction in the Hall's first ever class.

[Jeremy]

Do you get negative points for getting it wrong?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes. Jeremy.

[Chris Cody]

Cy Young.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cy Young is the correct answer. Note the awarded in the clue. I was proud of myself for that one.

[Chris Cody]

Well done, Jeremy.

[Dan Le Batard]

The board is yours.

[Jeremy]

Let's.

[Chris Cody]

Let's do old places final. That's what I mean. For 200.

[Dan Le Batard]

Alex, where did Carlos Sambrano finish his career?

[Jeremy]

Marlins.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris Cody. That's is correct.

[Jessica]

Let's go.

[Jeremy]

Name that face for 600.

[DraftKings Announcer]

Okay.

[Chris Cody]

Darn it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy got it.

[Chris Cody]

He heard mine first. I got it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I heard his.

[Chris Cody]

Don't look at it.

[Adnan Virk]

Look at that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don't look at the screen.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, I knew the answer. It's okay.

[Jeremy]

Why are we showing the answer?

[Jessica]

It's okay.

[Chris Cody]

You know what? I'm going to. I know.

[Adnan Virk]

I knew it.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is moving fast.

[Chris Cody]

I'm going to go ahead for everyone's sake, because I heard his first. Even though I. I still. I mean, I. It. It registered mine. I heard his first. You also gave away. The answer is Jeff Francor. I knew it was Jeff Francor, but I'm gonna go ahead and. Nope, I'm just gonna say moot point. Adnan Virk. Back with us. Hey, it's February, which means full squad, everybody's there. We have some important baseball to get to. Including what seems like the last major domino to fall in free agency. Adnan, you brought up framer Valdez the last time we spoke. Now since a three year, 115 million dollar contract with the Tigers, that's after they lost an arbitration to Tarek School. He's going to make $32 million this year. Two major left handed arms for Detroit. Adnan, what does this all mean when you talk about the money? When you talk about how it could shift things in the American League? What did you make of this Valdez signing and how it impacts baseball?

[Adnan Virk]

Here's what it means. The Tigers realized that Tarek Scuba is a goner after this season. If they're going to keep him, they would have, right? And there's a reason why he wants 32 million in arbitration. Because he wants a 10 year, $320 million contract and they're not going to do that. So they tried to go cheap in the arbitration. 19 million. How are you going to win that case? What possible criticism? Do you have a school who's a two time science award winner back to back. So of course he's going to win the case. He gets his 32 million and rather than saying, well, let's just trade school or punt in the year, no, no, we're going all in on this season and try to win a World Series. And even if school leaves, hey, he gave us a World Series and then he left, you know, at least we can stomach that. We'll give you three years, almost 40 million a year, which is a ton of money for Franber Valdez. He gets his money, he's got opt outs, he's good to go. And by the way, 19 million is what the Tigers were offering school. They gave him 32. What's that difference? $13 million. That's what they give Justin Verlander to come back. The future hall of Famer at the age of 43. He can be your number four or number five starter after Jack Flaherty and Casey Mize.

[Chris Cody]

Something very interesting that happened back in October was when Dave Dombrowski, the Phillies general manager, talk about Bryce Harper and mentioned that after a season that was subpar in terms of the, the Harper standard, he, he kind of refused to call him elite. Then Harper went on to wear a shirt that said not elite in one of his workouts during this offseason. What do you make of this entire situation with, with Bryce Harper Dabrowski and the Phillies in general after letting go of Nick Castellanos as well.

[Adnan Virk]

I think what's happened with the Phillies camp is that that his agents, his representatives were kind of bugging the face. And, hey, we should reopen the contract for Bryce because he's outplayed his contract. I think Debraski and company said, well, no, look, we gave you a 10 year, $300 million contract. 330, whatever it is at the time made a lot of sense, and congratulations on outplaying it. But let's see how the rest of the contract ages. And then he has a disappointing season by his lofty standards. A.129 OPS plus, he only hit like 261.844 OPS. And so Dave knows exactly what he's doing. He's like, you know what? I'll use the media to make my point, and maybe this will motivate him and say, listen, he's a good player, big part of our team, but he was not elite. Whether or not he can be elite, that's up to him. So he clearly knows what he's doing. Dave knows that I work the media, and Bryce Herbert, to his credit, isn't going to take any crap and says, well, hang on a second. I've sacrificed for this team. I work my butt off and you're going to call me out the media? Like, I. I don't need that motivation. And I liked, in fact, what Bryce said yesterday in that, hey, when I signed here, I was told that whatever happens stays in house. So when you're publicly calling me out, that's not staying in house. That's the part I didn't care for it. So. So, yeah, I think the good thing is Bryce Harper will always speak from the heart and say what he feels like. Dave Dombrowski knows what he was doing, which is trying to motivate his player. And he's still got six more years of the Phillies, so he's not going anywhere anytime soon. We'll see what price Harper does this season. He needs to bounce back after it was, again, by his standards, a disappointing year.

[Chris Cody]

Well, I'll do Name that face for 800.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. Who's this? Jeremy?

[Chris Cody]

That's Cesar Sturris.

[Jessica]

Correct. Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't know how good you guys would be at this one.

[Chris Cody]

Name that face. Face. Come on.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right.

[Chris Cody]

Name that face for a thousand.

[Dan Le Batard]

For a thousand. Who's this?

[Jeremy]

I just.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cody.

[Jeremy]

Because I got too excited.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, you did. I have no idea who that is. I couldn't have less of a Clue. This is a Pittsburgh Pirate.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes.

[Chris Cody]

Well, I mean. Yes. I'm just describing for the audio audience. That was his.

[Jeremy]

That went on.

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I didn't push mine.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was Cody.

[Chris Cody]

True.

[Jeremy]

Oh, now mine. Now you got mine. Now mine works.

[DraftKings Announcer]

This is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do you have a guess, Quantrill?

[Chris Cody]

No, that's not count.

[Jessica]

Quantrell.

[Chris Cody]

It's Rod Braha. Let's go with old faces. Final places for 400. Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where did Aramis Ramirez finish his career?

[Chris Cody]

That is a difficult question, Cody. Brewers. Jeremy. No.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Pittsburgh Pirates.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. I'm gonna go ahead and let that just be a negative 400 for you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

All right. Board is still mine. Board is yours. Let's go. Steroid suspicions for 800.

[Dan Le Batard]

This Blake Street Bomber turned his career around in Colorado and exploded for 132 home runs in his age 35 to 37 seasons, but was never implicated in the steroid scandal.

[Jeremy]

I don't get it. Steroid suspicions, but this guy wasn't implicated.

[Chris Cody]

I'm gonna go ahead and punt. Oh, nice. All right, cool. Steroid suspicions for 600. Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

He hit 190 home runs between 2013 and 17, but is perhaps best known for having the longest hit list streak of all time. Time going 62 plate appearances without a base knock between 2018 and 19. Jeremy.

[Chris Cody]

That is Chris Davis.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is correct.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, that time. I knew it. I got it right. No, I. 100. We can look at the. We can break down the tape.

[Dan Le Batard]

You can see in slow motion off the buzzer. Jeremy.

[Jessica]

You know what?

[Chris Cody]

We haven't gone over to it yet.

[Boothill Casino Announcer]

Alex.

[Chris Cody]

Let's do stat leaders for a thousand.

[Dan Le Batard]

In 2016, this Baltimore slugger became the four straight Oriole to lead the altar in home runs.

[Chris Cody]

Fourth straight Oriole.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes.

[Chris Cody]

So it was over the course, 2013 through 2016.

[Dan Le Batard]

Bump, bump, bump. The answer is Mark Trumbo.

[Stugats]

Whoa.

[Chris Cody]

Mark Trumbo. Holy cow.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy, it goes back to you.

[Jeremy]

Let's.

[Chris Cody]

Let's scoot back on over to hall of famers for 400. I'm to going.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. This hall of Famer amazed us in the field, but his career high in home runs is six, and he hit over 300 just one time.

[Chris Cody]

Whoa.

[Jeremy]

So, like, vague.

[Chris Cody]

Jeremy. Azie Smith.

[Dan Le Batard]

Azie Smith is the correct answer. Let's go, Jeremy.

[Chris Cody]

Hall of Famers for two. Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

This fireballing right hander leads hall of Famers in strikeouts and walks, but never won a Sai Young.

[Chris Cody]

I guess I have an. I have enough of a lead. I'll try it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go ahead.

[Chris Cody]

Is it not Cy Young?

[Dan Le Batard]

It Is not Cy Young.

[Mike Ryan]

Damn.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cody, the answer is Nolan Ryan.

[Chris Cody]

Let's Jeremy back here. Let's head back to. Let's head back to steroid suspicions for 400.

[Jessica]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Believe it or not, Barry Bonds did not lead Major League baseball in home runs from 1995 to 2005, but finished second to this icon. Jeremy, was that you know.

[Chris Cody]

No, that was Chris.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, Cody, go ahead.

[Adnan Virk]

Gross.

[Jeremy]

Griffey.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not Griffey.

[Chris Cody]

Jeremy, you have a guess who is Alex Rodriguez.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is incorrect as well. The correct answer is Sammy sosa.

[Chris Cody]

Steroid suspicions for 200.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, this show favorite slash 297, 396, 637 with 50 homers in 1996, but never hit more than 24 home runs in any other season.

[Chris Cody]

Jeremy, who is Brady Anderson?

[Dan Le Batard]

Brady Anderson?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, we've talked about.

[Jeremy]

Everyone talks about the Brady Anderson year.

[Chris Cody]

Adnan, let's stick with some words from Bryce Harper that were also followed by words from Manny Machado because a couple of guys at the the top echelon of the game, at the top echelon of salary in the game and both of them in their own words. Manny Machado may be using a bit more profanity than Bryce Harper did, but basically saying I what the Dodgers do. I love what the Dodgers are doing in paying all of these guys, getting Kyle Tucker, like making major additions to their team. It was really interesting to me to see these two guys in particular who have major contracts who play in the National League putting voice to. We love the Dodgers in their spending, specifically going into a season like this one, which we all know is coming up against the CBA with all of this going on. What did you make of of those comments from Harper and Machado and what it all means?

[Adnan Virk]

Well, I think it was interesting, right? Basically the players are saying, hey, rather than criticize the other owners for spending. No, we love it. Because why wouldn't players love owners lavish spending? If the Dodgers are spending, that means other teams suspend. That means players make more money. So it kind of makes sense what Manny Machado is trying to say. Like, yeah, I love it man. These guys go out there, they get after it. The Padres thought they could contend with the Dodgers in terms of payroll. That's now changed with ownership differences and now, now there's $150 million in difference in payroll with San Diego in LA even crazy. Yeah, I think it makes sense that upper tier players would go, yeah, I love it man. They spend money, they're trying to win. And even Aaron Judge coming out publicly and saying, yeah, I was frustrated with the Yankees were doing like, man, guys were getting signed, we weren't doing anything. You know, the Yankees are basically trying to run it back. They won 94 games a season ago. So they are a really good team and they'll get Garrett Cole back and Carlos Rodon back early in the season. But they didn't do much. So even Aaron Judge, a three to mvp is going, hey, like let's spend, let's do something here. And with regards to Tony Clark, I mean, I did not see that coming. That was definitely a surprise. Again, I, I mean for him to step down. I guess the good news is for the players it's happening in February rather than October because we all know the CBA is expiring in December 1st. But Bruce Meyer has been the guy in terms of negotiating the contract, so I guess he'll take a larger role. I would imagine it'll be kind of his role, but yeah, that was pretty surprising. Tony Clark out.

[Chris Cody]

Let's talk about actual major league baseball headed into this spring training. So we're just a couple of days in now and Adnan, narratives wise, every, every team has different expectations. I want you to give me one team as we head into this spring that you believe is being overrated and another team that you believe is being overlooked.

[Adnan Virk]

So I'll give you the one with the Phillies being overrated.

[Jeremy]

I just think.

[Stugats]

Right.

[Adnan Virk]

It's a bit of a concern because again, you had 96 wins a season ago, but back to back years you've lost the NLDS and you didn't upgrade, you basically just kept. So it was critical that you retained Kyle Schwaber. You did that, that you resign jlt Real Muto, who's not really the, you know, hitter he once was, but he's still good as far as handling a pitching staff. But you lose Ranger Suarez. Now Christopher Sanchez is a stud, but Zach Wheeler is not starting the season of the team. Hopefully, you know, he can step up and be the Zack we all know and love and Andrew Painter can be that guy. And I know Duran is a great closer. But back to back years now it's the seventh and inning guys, right. Who've been an issue with Matt Strom or Orion Kirk Ring. So I don't think the Phillies are a better team in the middle. Mets are certainly an interesting team. A team that's not getting talked about in Germany. This is probably wishful thinking on my part. The Pirates, you know, at least they've got. I, I just want to see this team. We just want to see 85 wins.

[Chris Cody]

I love this.

[Adnan Virk]

Listen, 71 and 91 a season ago. So I don't think it's inconceivable a 10 win improvement just to get them to 500. At least in the conversation around the third wild card. SK is a stud. We know that Jerry Jones back at some point. Mitch Keller's amazing. Connor Griffin's the number one prospect in all of baseball. Connor with a kid, he's going to get called up at some point. And offensively they signed a few guys. You know, Ryan O'Hearn was signed. He can hit you 20, 25 home runs. Marcelo Zuna, El Oso, Big Bear, he. This guy had 35 home runs two years ago. So maybe he could issue 30 home runs. They've got Brandon Loud not coming for the race. Maybe he can issue a 30 home run. So they've got a few bats now and maybe this is the year. O' Neill Cruz figures is out. Brian Reynolds is still there. Listen, Pirates 500. I'd love it.

[Chris Cody]

I think it would be amazing. There's two things with that one. Connor with a K. Connor Griffin made me feel older than I've felt in my life. When he said that his favorite player to watch growing up was Ronald Duna Jr. That just made me feel ancient. And then also our friend Dave Damek, he's going to be really, really, really happy that you mentioned those Pirates because back in November he was trying to tell me that he thinks the Pirates could have a good year. So good for Damek to hear that prediction from you that they're being a bit overlooked. Adnan, we'll talk to you in a couple of weeks as we're getting ready for the world Baseball Classic. We'll dive into all of that and where things stand in spring training. But now we do have to get back to this game of baseball jeopardy between Chris and myself. Let's do stat leaders for 200. Alex.

[Dan Le Batard]

This icon of the game led the league in average, stolen bases and hits in his rookie season of 2001. Jeremy.

[Adnan Virk]

Chris.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris Ichiro is the correct answer.

[Chris Cody]

What are we. What is. What's this technology? He's just getting it wrong.

[Dan Le Batard]

I literally watched.

[Chris Cody]

He's getting the number wrong.

[Dan Le Batard]

I watched your finger go down first

[Jeremy]

and prove that that first one, that that could have been me as well.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, Chris, the board goes to you old faces.

[Jeremy]

Final place is a thousand.

[Chris Cody]

Ooh. Trying to get himself back in it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where did Deion Sanders finish his career? Cody?

[Jeremy]

I was. I was pushing that button.

[Dan Le Batard]

Regard. Yeah, I knew you were.

[Chris Cody]

I'm going to let you go ahead and get this one wrong, Reds. Yes, that is the correct answer.

[Jeremy]

800. Same topic.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where did Roberto Alomar finish his career? Cody.

[Chris Cody]

All right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Something's wrong with that buzzer.

[Boothill Casino Announcer]

Don't look.

[Chris Cody]

I didn't. I didn't touch it. I also knew the answer.

[Jeremy]

I knew it, too. We just have to.

[Stugats]

We're going to.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're going to do what we did

[Chris Cody]

with the J score there.

[Dan Le Batard]

I took the gun a little bit.

[Jessica]

Believe him.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, I'll give him.

[Chris Cody]

Give him the 800. Here's where we're at. It's a 2400-1600 game. There are six slots left on the board. We have hall of famers for 800 and 1000. We have old faces, final places for 600. And we have stat leaders 400, 600 and 800.

[Jeremy]

Since I definitely.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is anybody's game.

[Jeremy]

Stat leaders 400.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wearing a cap under his helmet, this speedster blazed his way to the MLB league with 65 stolen bases in 2003.

[Chris Cody]

That was Jeremy Juan Pierre.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is correct.

[Chris Cody]

Hall of Famers for a thousand.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. He hit.366 with a 1.172 OPS, 49 home runs, 33 stolen bases, and 177 waiter runs created plus in his 1997 ML NL MVP season. But it still took this outfielder 10 years to get into the hall of Fame.

[Chris Cody]

10 years. What am I missing here?

[Dan Le Batard]

Bump, bump, bump. Larry Walker.

[Chris Cody]

Hall of famers 800.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes. He hit one of the most famous home runs of all time, walking off the 1960 World Series for the Pirates. But has the lotus lowest weighted runs created plus of any player in the hall of Fame? Jeremy.

[Chris Cody]

Bill Mazeroski.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is correct.

[Chris Cody]

Old faces, final places for 600.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right. Where did Nick Johnson finish his career? Coach Cody.

[Jeremy]

Marlins. No, I know he was on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, why did I do this? Yankees.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Baltimore Orioles.

[Chris Cody]

All right, but we both got minus 600 there, so it's okay. Let's do stat leaders for 600.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. This future hall of Famer won the MVP in 2014, leading the league with a 177 ERA, one of three times he has had an ERA under two.

[Chris Cody]

You, Jeremy. Who is Clayton Kershaw?

[Dan Le Batard]

That is correct.

[Alex]

Jeremy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Murdering this board.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you very much.

[Dan Le Batard]

And the final question.

[Chris Cody]

Let's close it out.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stat leaders for 800. He led the NL in F war and led the league in caught stealings in 2012.

[Chris Cody]

Whoa. An F war led the league and caught stealings in 2012. Would be up. Oh, Jeremy, who is Yada or Molina?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, Cody.

[Chris Cody]

You have a guess.

[Dan Le Batard]

The NL MVP in 2012 was Buster Posy.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, of course.

[Jeremy]

I thought you meant that as base running, like.

[Chris Cody]

All right, well, all right.

[Dan Le Batard]

So Jeremy got that one wrong. So the final score is 2800 to 1000. Next time, I'm going to make sure we have a. A daily doubles and final Jeopardy.

[Chris Cody]

Next time, we'll do daily doubles. We'll have final Jeopardy Buzzers that work. We will all answer in the form of a question as that is what Jeopardy's all about.

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