Is Matt Olsen On His Way To The Hall Of Fame? | Hour 3 (feat. Jack McMullen)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: "Is Matt Olson On His Way To The Hall Of Fame? | Hour 3"
Date: May 7, 2026
Special Guest: Jack McMullen (Just Baseball, Miami Marlins Radio Voice)

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Episode Overview

This episode, recorded from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, delivers the signature Dan Le Batard Show blend of irreverence, sports banter, and pop-culture digressions. “Hour 3” starts with an extended, hilariously intimate discussion about men's underwear habits—an emblem of the show’s offbeat chemistry—before shifting to an in-depth, trivia-driven segment called “The Pitch Clock.” Guest Jack McMullen brings expert insight on Major League Baseball, giving thoughtful analysis on everything from the latest injury news to MVP races and the evolving Marlins roster.

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Key Segments, Insights, and Memorable Moments

1. The Great Underwear Debate

(Starts ~01:26)

• The crew launches into a candid, comedic discussion about how long men should keep their underwear and various preferences for sleep attire, led by Mike, Ethan, and Dan.
• Range of underwear longevity: Mike admits to owning pairs from the early 2000s; Dan says he replenishes only when prompted by his wife.
• Boxers, Briefs, or Free-balling?
  • Boxer briefs win group approval (“Boxer briefs just took over the world, man.” — Mike, 02:17)
  • Dan: “I mostly free ball, but when I’m not, I go boxer.” (02:35)
  • The crew jokes about the infamous “wiener maze” in underwear and the challenges of navigating it.
    • “I call it the wiener maze. Because why—who uses that?” (Dan, 06:26)
    • “My wiener would end up just frozen, laying there for all of time. It’s like Nicholson at the end of The Shining.” (Guest, 13:16)
• Conversation briefly digresses into grown man pajamas and the oddities of sleep habits.

Notable Quotes

• "It flops over and then, you know, it doesn't. I'm very happy with [my set]." — Dan Le Batard (03:24)
• "I need control. They can't just be flopping around everywhere." — Mike (03:01)
• “I would say, here’s Johnny.” — Mike, joking about his boxer maze, (13:39)

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2. Pitch Clock: Baseball Jeopardy & Trivia

(Starts ~23:25, with trivia at ~24:03)

• “The Pitch Clock” is introduced as a two-part segment, combining nostalgic trivia with a live expert interview.
• Categories include: MVP 2005 Ballparks, Traded Marlins, Paths to Cooperstown, Iconic Calls, and Who He Play For.
• Lively, funny competition between Chris, Jeremy, and guest Jack McMullen, demonstrating deep (and sometimes embarrassing) knowledge gaps about mid-2000s stadiums and players.
  • Example: Mix-up between Petco Park, Safeco, and names like Pacific Bell/SBC Park.
• Memorable Moment (26:59): “That’s my dyslexia.” — Jeremy, playfully excusing a wrong answer.

Notable Quotes

• “Let’s start with Paths to Cooperstown for a thousand.” — Jeremy Stugots (24:51)
• “I’m done embarrassing myself.” — Jeremy, after missing several park names (31:57)
• “Only in this situation… you’re dealing with all the mechanics of that. I’d rather just take the long way home.” — Stugotz, on navigating underwear with tight pants (17:31)

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3. Jack McMullen on MLB: Injuries, Surprises, and Marlins Moves

(Interview begins ~27:16; Marlins news ~35:09)

3.1. Tarek Skubal Injury Fallout

• McMullen breaks down Tigers pitcher Tarek Skubal’s significant elbow surgery and its ripple effects:
  • Financial loss for Skubal (potential loss of $100 million in future earnings)
  • Devastating blow for the Tigers' competitiveness and trade potential
  • Broader MLB storyline—missing out on rare back-to-back-to-back Cy Young possibility.
• “We were talking about this guy being a $450 million pitcher… The difference between 450 and 350? It’s $100 million.” — Jack McMullen (28:33)
• “It’s a franchise-altering injury.” — Jeremy Stugots (29:33)

3.2. Spotlight on AL Surprise Teams

• The Rays “keep getting away with this” — pulling off winning seasons with unheralded moves.
  • “Nick Martinez is outstanding. The ERA’s in the low twos… Tampa does this every year.” — Jack (30:58)
• Quick takes on surging Royals and shockingly competitive White Sox.

3.3. Miami Marlins Analysis

• Joe Mack Called Up, Augustine Ramirez Sent Down

  • “Joe Mack immediately became for me a top five defensive catcher in Major League Baseball.” — Jack (36:00)
  • Focus is now on solid defense and limiting stolen bases. Mack’s offense is a question mark; Augustine Ramirez “never really found his footing” this year.

• Chris Paddock DFA, Rotation Changes

  • “This is gutsy... you commit $4 million to this guy [Paddock] and after six or seven starts, you just decide it’s not good enough.” — Jack (37:51)
  • Upcoming rotation spot likely to be filled by Braxton Garrett or “sexy” prospect Robbie Snelling.

• Marlins Culture Shift?

  • Fast personnel moves signal a front office expecting to compete: “We can’t accept any more of these starts where you’re out of it by the second or third inning. We need someone pitching better than that.” — Jeremy (38:11)

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4. Golden Era Player of the Week & Matt Olson MVP/Hall of Fame Talk

(Segment begins ~39:01)

• Quick discussion on MVP favorites and under-the-radar player shoutouts.
• Jack McMullen:
  • “Matt Olson, that’s my guy. I do think this guy should be considered one of the front runners for National League MVP at this point. He is hitting the crap out of the ball... 110 laser beams and rockets everywhere you look.” (39:52)
  • Praises Olson’s defense at first base and his role as the “constant presence and leader” for the Braves.

Notable Quotes

• “As a guy who had to follow up Freddie Freeman, which was an impossible task, he’s lived up to everything they could have asked for.” — Jeremy (40:30)
• “If you really love the way that baseball should be played, slap a toothpick in and watch Nico Horner at second base. That guy’s a throwback, man.” — Jack (39:33)

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5. Lightning Round: More Trivia & Iconic Calls

• The episode closes with a rapid-fire trivia sprint, focusing on iconic calls in baseball history.
• Memorable miss: Jeremy guesses “Joe Carter” when asked about Jack Buck’s “We’ll see you tomorrow night” call (41:49). The correct answer is “Kirby Puckett”.
• “That is correct. Joe Angel.” — Chris Cody, nailing a Miami broadcasting legend (42:09)
• “In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.” — (Chris, quoting Vin Scully’s call, 43:39)

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Segment Timestamps

• 01:26 – 21:18: Underwear banter and sleepwear discussion
• 23:25 – 24:03: Introduction of Pitch Clock segment
• 24:03 – 35:09: Baseball Jeopardy (stadiums, Marlins trades, player paths)
• 27:16 – 31:08: Jack McMullen on MLB news (Skubal, Rays, Royals, surprise teams)
• 35:09 – 39:01: Miami Marlins roster analysis with Jack
• 39:01 – 41:05: Golden era/MVP/player of the week, Matt Olson Hall of Fame chatter
• 41:05 – 43:52: Iconic calls and trivia closeout

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Episode Highlights & Tone

• Classic Le Batard Show energy: Irreverent, funny, and unfiltered—particularly during the underwear and sleepwear section.
• Nerdy sports deep-dive: The Pitch Clock trivia and McMullen interview are sharp, knowledgeable, and often fast-paced.
• Memorable, meme-worthy quotes: From discussions of “the wiener maze” and “shirt cocking it” to baseball’s most famous calls, the show’s language is playful and self-deprecating.
• Listener takeaway: Even if you came for the Matt Olson debate, you’ll stay for the layered sports insight, unique guest perspective, and the crew’s chemistry.

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• “Boxer briefs just took over the world, man.” (Mike, 02:17)
• “I mostly free ball, but when I’m not, I go boxer.” (Dan Le Batard, 02:35)
• “It’s like Nicholson at the end of The Shining.” (Guest on underwear, 13:16)
• “It’s a franchise-altering injury.” (Jeremy Stugots on Tarek Skubal, 29:33)
• “Matt Olson… I do think this guy should be considered one of the front runners for National League MVP at this point. He is hitting the crap out of the ball.” (Jack McMullen, 39:52)
• “If you really love the way that baseball should be played… watch Nico Horner at second base. That guy’s a throwback, man.” (Jack McMullen, 39:33)
• “In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.” (Chris Cody, 43:39, quoting Vin Scully)

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Useful For...

• Diehard fans looking for both advanced baseball analysis and trademark show humor.
• Anyone interested in the latest Marlins news or National League MVP debates.
• Listeners who appreciate trivia, nostalgia, or the lighter side of locker room talk.

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For a complete experience, cue up the episode and jump to recommended segments based on your interests:
Sports talk starts at 23:25 | Marlins analysis at 35:09 | Matt Olson/Hall of Fame at 39:01.

Transcript

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[Chris Cody]

this is the Dan Levator

[Dan LeBatard]

show with the Stugats podcast.

[Ethan]

So I mean, why are you confused about how long you're supposed to hold on to your underwear as a male? Why is this something that like you're not sure about?

[Mike]

This has been a problem that's dogged me for years.

[Ethan]

Really?

[Mike]

Yeah. I'll be doing my laundry and I come across a pair underwear as like, oh, it's got a little tear in it right here. I've got, this is current one right now. Usually it's with ones that have been with me through the hard years, but this one was a fairly new pair, like maybe three years old.

[Ethan]

That's still considered new.

[Mike]

Yeah, for underwear I got Doc. I got underwear for like the early 2000.

[Guest or Co-host]

How often do you remove it?

[Dan LeBatard]

As.

[Ethan]

I mean I replenish whenever my wife feels it's time for me to replenish

[Host or Co-host]

my underwear every Christmas.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

You're a tighty whities guy?

[Ethan]

No, no, I do boxer briefs.

[Guest or Co-host]

Okay, good. Yeah. So I think we can stipulate here. Everybody does boxer briefs.

[Mike]

Took over the world, man.

[Ethan]

I remember there was a time, great,

[Mike]

there was a full ass boxer time in my life. You never went full ass box.

[Host or Co-host]

I know I had full ass box.

[Ethan]

No, I always. To me boxers were always very uncomfortable in south Florida.

[Dan LeBatard]

It seem too free.

[Ethan]

Yeah. I can't wear shorts under my shorts.

[Host or Co-host]

The brief makes me feel better about myself.

[Dan LeBatard]

I mostly free ball, but when I'm not, I go boxer. Yeah, I have a lot of shorts with lining.

[Host or Co-host]

I can't sleep that way.

[Mike]

No, I can't do it.

[Dan LeBatard]

I sleep free balling every time.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Oh, I hate that.

[Dan LeBatard]

I cannot sleep with underwear.

[Host or Co-host]

What do you do with the guys?

[Jeremy Stugats]

You're Winnie the Pooh.

[Dan LeBatard]

What do you do with shorts on? No, I. I have shorts on, but shorts, no. No underwear. Why would I put a layer under my, my sleeping shorts?

[Mike]

I need control. They can't just be flopp around everywhere.

[Host or Co-host]

A lot of flop, dude. It's so uncomfortable.

[Guest or Co-host]

My wife, my wife said I would sleep nude. I would sleep in the nude. If you wanted to, I would lay bare with you. And I said, I don't like that feeling. It's too free.

[Host or Co-host]

You lay on your side, it's just like.

[Guest or Co-host]

Yeah, well, you turn over, you're slapping the things are slapping around. Might get slapped across the cheek for all I know.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm pretty happy with my set, but you know, it flops over and then, you know, it doesn't. I'm very happy with.

[Jack McMullen]

Once it flops, it flops.

[Host or Co-host]

I find you have to adjust more

[Jeremy Stugats]

when you sleep in the nude.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't adjust.

[Mike]

No, it's because it's just too free, dude. I need control.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I have to put your ass in your lane.

[Mike]

That's what the underwear does. It keeps them.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right. Yeah, I'm familiar with what underwear does. I'm wearing. I happen to be wearing underwear right now because I'm wearing white shorts and I don't want you to see the outline.

[Guest or Co-host]

Joe Boxer. Like, is that. That was a well known brand. Are they like gone under now? Because nobody does.

[Mike]

They're still around though.

[Host or Co-host]

Okay. I am curious about these holes you guys speak of. I don't get holes in my underwear.

[Mike]

Okay. This particular pair, although as I said, this is a problem stalking me through the years. But this particular pair I'm talking about fairly new, Right. Where the elastic is. You know how you know it's got the elastic says Hanes on it or

[Ethan]

whatever around your waist.

[Mike]

Yep. That part has torn asunder from the fabric of the majority of the under.

[Ethan]

Well, you know why that happens?

[Interviewer or Analyst]

The elastic.

[Mike]

Because I pulled it up too fast probably at some point. Right.

[Ethan]

I mean, I feel like that happens to me when I'm putting it, when I'm stepping into it and I step wrong and like it rips.

[Chris Cody]

Right.

[Host or Co-host]

So but maybe step better Other than

[Mike]

this slight tear that is kind of visible only if I'm pointing to it. I know it's there, but I don't know if anyone else. Obviously no one would know. You can't see my underwear, but say I'm having a conjugal visit. Like, I don't think she would notice it either, right. Unless I pointed it out.

[Ethan]

So I'm like, are you making the conjugal visit or is she.

[Mike]

Come on, man. I'm always in jail. But the. The. The point is it is functionally still doing its job. I had no. I don't. I don't feel anything. Right. No floppage.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't know how someone in Arizona or South Florida electively just signs up for underwear.

[Mike]

Buddy. Let me tell you something, man.

[Ethan]

It's.

[Dan LeBatard]

Can't.

[Mike]

In a magical time.

[Host or Co-host]

Not that hot inside.

[Mike]

The magical time called the 20 CB. You used to wear your underwear and then you had basketball shorts underneath the jeans. Then you wore jeans over there.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Just in case. Just in case a basketball game pulled

[Dan LeBatard]

up and then changed.

[Mike]

I've got to be ready at all times, 100%. So this is. Look. Having underwear that doesn't.

[Dan LeBatard]

That place had. Wherever you did that. That place had seasons.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

I was here.

[Jeremy Stugats]

It's too hot.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, it was here.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

Here's where I did it.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Big, big baggy jeans.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

You had the N1 shorts underneath.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm familiar that most of the time I'm in ac. It's for that three seconds that I'm walking from AC to AC where you get all damp.

[Ethan]

I never understood, like, I. When I was in high school, I would say 75% of the boys wore boxers. I never understood that they were never comfortable to me. Anytime I'd put jeans on the boxes rise and they're all scrunched up. And I again, I like having my shit tight and with the boxers all over the place.

[Host or Co-host]

You just brought me back to that feeling though. I'm with you. I wasn't. I'm out on boxers. But that feeling of pulling, like them down a little terrible when they're cloth

[Interviewer or Analyst]

boxers like the prison ones.

[Host or Co-host]

I'm saying the relief and like, oh, you're pulling it.

[Dan LeBatard]

I like the opposite thing. I don't like it when I'm like bunched up all tight. I got to be loose.

[Chris Cody]

I got to breathe.

[Guest or Co-host]

You mentioned the holes in underwear.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's weird.

[Guest or Co-host]

The one that they put in there, the manufacturers. The dick hole placed in there. Yes. I call it the wiener maze. Because why.

[Dan LeBatard]

Who uses that? Has a.

[Host or Co-host]

Some boxers think of that I was

[Guest or Co-host]

gonna say, Mike, I don't think any human being has ever tried to navigate or had their wiener navigate the unnecessary material maze that they put down there. Like, it would have to be a hole that just go like the boxer hole. Makes sense. The boxer hole is big and it's. And, and it's. It cuts a pretty wide swath. And your wiener can, you can grab pretty easily, but you know, a thumb and an index finger, a middle finger, whatever you want, pull it out there.

[Dan LeBatard]

But not.

[Guest or Co-host]

Not the maze.

[Mike]

Not.

[Guest or Co-host]

Not the maze.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

You got to go up and around the corner.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you for the helpful visual representation.

[Guest or Co-host]

I'm trying to do it with my hand. I'm showing it.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

No, no, we see that. We see that.

[Mike]

The maze. The maze is great because it doesn't want you to have the accidental flop out. Like you're just there. Cuz that you ever felt that you're walking around and your dick is out.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're like, whoa.

[Mike]

Inside your jeans. But like, it's out. It's like, ah, what the hell is happening?

[Host or Co-host]

Scary.

[Mike]

It doesn't feel good.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's like wearing shoes. When you're completely naked, you feel more naked.

[Jeremy Stugats]

The maze sticky in here.

[Mike]

The maze is there to. To kind of prevent against that. But the problem with the maze is there's two situations where it becomes really, really, really impractical. Number one, somehow whenever I have to really go bad, it's like, ah, come on, God damn it. And you could see your dick and your mind's not doing this. Like, oh, no, that's a wall.

[Dan LeBatard]

Where's the opening?

[Mike]

Where's the opening? Right. Then the other part. Time. Not proud to say this, but if there's even like a slight chub situation going on, all of a sudden, all the like, elusiveness, how it like finds its way around screens and stuff. Nope. Now it's like crashing through. And I'm like, that hurts. That's not fun. And usually at that point I pull. I just pull down. I'm like, you know what? Everything gone. Let's go.

[Host or Co-host]

The monster behavior is when you go with the basketball shorts up, like through the leg, up from the thigh. That's monster behavior.

[Guest or Co-host]

I've done it. Then you don't have to see. Well, because then you don't have to untie the thing at the top.

[Host or Co-host]

If there's. If there's other people in the bathroom with you. That's just a.

[Mike]

It's an aggressive exposing thigh to everyone. Hey, you want to see my hamstring while I take a Leap.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Yeah.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

I will say this around the main situation. Tommy John, I don't know if you're familiar with. They've got, they've got a top, but

[Dan LeBatard]

where you just go over the top.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

Instead of opening through the side, you

[Jeremy Stugats]

just flip it up like this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Boom.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

Right through the top.

[Jeremy Stugats]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Don LeBatard, you're getting started on the breakfast flan.

[Mike]

Oh, man. I've been singing a song to myself all morning long. Breakfast flan stewgats. Have you never heard the breakfast?

[Dan LeBatard]

No. Hit me with it.

[Mike]

Okay. I wish I had some breakfast fun. Breakfast fun. Where can I find a breakfast like that?

[Jeremy Stugats]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Guest or Co-host]

Well, I. So am I. I'm not in the minority here. Nobody uses that thing. Are you? So, I mean, you're.

[Chris Cody]

You.

[Guest or Co-host]

Actually, you're a sheep. They put that in there. It was an idea they had. They didn't really think it through. And decades later they're like, well, we haven't heard any complaints. Well, here. My complaint now.

[Mike]

I don't know.

[Guest or Co-host]

No one would ever use that dumb thing. Why would ever. There's no way you. How does your Wiener even navigate its way through the bends. It's. I. It's like Nicholson at the end of the Shining. I would just. My wiener would end up just frozen, laying there for all of time.

[Ethan]

It is just like Nicholson at the.

[Guest or Co-host]

My wiener kind of looks like Nicholson put that on the pole.

[Mike]

I would say, here's Johnny. I would say that it depends on where I am. If I'm at a urinal, then I just gotta. I gotta use that doorway.

[Ethan]

Can we put that on the poll today, please? Juju, Does Dave's wiener look like Nicholson at the end of the Shining?

[Host or Co-host]

I try to use the doorway, but not all my underwear have it. So I'll, like, reach in there. I'm like, oh, this one doesn't have it.

[Dan LeBatard]

You got nothing there.

[Guest or Co-host]

No. It would be blue and frozen if it got. If it got stuck in the wiener maze as it was intended. I assume directed by Kubrick When I try to pee. Directed by Kubrick.

[Mike]

But, you guys, we gotta go back to my original question. At what point do you guys say, you know what? You had a hell of a run to the glue factory?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's hard for me to notice that the underwear have holes because it's not something that I inspect for. It's one of those things, like, if I catch it, then it's. Obviously, it's gone. But there have been some pairs that have holes in it that I just never get around to it. I just instinctively throw it in the hamper.

[Mike]

I had one where it was like, the bottom.

[Guest or Co-host]

Inner thigh.

[Mike]

Yes, I have those two. It starts this.

[Guest or Co-host]

This illustration is too much.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

No, no, I'm with him here. I'm with him.

[Guest or Co-host]

It starts thin, right?

[Interviewer or Analyst]

It starts to thin.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Can we zoom in a little, please?

[Guest or Co-host]

The means getting a pap smear. I think, in a second.

[Mike]

So, like, that part right here starts to fray and pull apart. But again, the underwear overall is doing its job.

[Guest or Co-host]

Yeah, but now I'm losing comfort.

[Mike]

It doesn't. I don't feel it.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

It starts to rub me.

[Jeremy Stugats]

The whole peer comfort is paranoid.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's why I think you lose comfort the second you make the decision to put underwear on. I feel.

[Mike]

Well, you're out of this conversation. You are out of this.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm wearing underwear today.

[Mike]

No, you're not.

[Guest or Co-host]

Yes, I am.

[Dan LeBatard]

Because I'm wearing white shorts and I don't wear.

[Mike]

You're doing it under protest. You cannot be.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm doing it out of respect for my fellow man.

[Host or Co-host]

Don't wear underwear tomorrow.

[Ethan]

I can't believe you don't wear Underwear to bed. You're just shirt cocking it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I want to be comfortable. Why would. Why would I want it? Why would I want to wear underwear to bed?

[Interviewer or Analyst]

He's got shorts, but no underwear underneath my shorts.

[Dan LeBatard]

Why don't I put on two layers, hop in my bed?

[Interviewer or Analyst]

Why don't just boxer.

[Chris Cody]

No shorts.

[Host or Co-host]

The visual of Mike Poohberry is great.

[Guest or Co-host]

You know, in a related matter, I say the boxer industry must have gone under or close to it. Also, grown up man pajamas has. Does anybody.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

I see you in pajamas?

[Guest or Co-host]

Oh, no.

[Host or Co-host]

My wife makes me do it on Christmas Eve.

[Guest or Co-host]

I wear jammy pants, but, like, the

[Host or Co-host]

whole thing jammy sometimes, brother.

[Mike]

I'm a proud owner of a zillion old pairs of basketball shorts. That's my go to bed.

[Jack McMullen]

Right.

[Guest or Co-host]

Those are jammies. That's me too. But I'm saying, does anybody. Does any grown man in the 21st century wear both parts of the pajama?

[Dan LeBatard]

I've got a pair of Zubaz that I use as pajama pants, and those are exceptional pants to not wear underwear in.

[Host or Co-host]

While we're here, do you guys ever. While peeing, like, you have tight pants on and you try to pee, and then it's like, it's hard. You don't get it all out.

[Jack McMullen]

Yeah.

[Host or Co-host]

And there's like, the little spillage.

[Ethan]

Of course.

[Host or Co-host]

Yeah. What happens there?

[Interviewer or Analyst]

Why?

[Mike]

Let me tell you.

[Host or Co-host]

When you're wearing, like, a tight belt and, like, I don't want to undo everything, so I'm like. This thing where I'm going to. Aggressively.

[Dan LeBatard]

Chris is mentioning is one of the perils of wearing underwear.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Because you don't have that layer to pick up some of the spillage.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

And so, like, you'll have the awkward situation where it might run down the pant leg.

[Guest or Co-host]

Yep.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, no.

[Host or Co-host]

We've all been there, though, with tight pants. That's where it happens.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I don't wear belts.

[Host or Co-host]

If you're wearing a suit with tight pants, you don't want to unbuckle everything. You just like, force flip it down, and then, like, it's hard to get everything out.

[Jeremy Stugats]

See, this is the advantage of. Of the pathway of the underwear.

[Dan LeBatard]

I like how all your suits. We just have to understand, if you're wearing a suit, it's a tight suit. The gambit is, you guys know, when you're wearing dress pants, they're tight.

[Guest or Co-host]

Thank you, Tashay. You're also taking that long way home.

[Mike]

Only.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Only in this situation that Chris Cody is describing, you got a tight pant and. And you have You're. You're dealing with all of the mechanics of that. I'd rather just take the long way home, as it were.

[Dan LeBatard]

How many suits you have?

[Ethan]

I have a lot of suits because I used to be a broadcaster with the Miami Radio.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right, new question. How many suits you have that fit?

[Ethan]

Good question.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Maybe, like, three.

[Ethan]

Yeah. But also, like, I. I chose this profession so that I don't have to wear stuff like that.

[Mike]

I like the idea that had, like, all the choices of professions. He got out of college. What am I going to do? Should I be an engineer? Should I be mayor? Should I be a doctor? And he said a banker. Radio. No suits. And that's like, I found my calling. So, sorry, Pentagon. I'll be doing this instead.

[Guest or Co-host]

I think it's funny you bring that up, Zaz, because I literally, in the last week, have been talking about this with my wife and other people, too, because I'm vain. And now I will bring it to you. I think I've reached an age where dressing like everybody here is basically dressed, which is basically. Let's call it what it is, slovenly. I think it's become untoward. At my age, I'm thinking about legitimately just becoming a suit guy day in and day out.

[Host or Co-host]

I could see it. I could see you.

[Guest or Co-host]

As I get. You know, as I advance in age, I think it'll make a lot of sense for me to walk around in a suit and a tie. I don't mean like a. Like a cool guy. Like get a cool black T shirt to wear underneath my suit. No, I mean with a tie, maybe even a hat.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I'd prefer to wear a suit every day. I love that.

[Guest or Co-host]

You know what, Tashay? You and me park our cars in the same garage.

[Jeremy Stugats]

That's right.

[Guest or Co-host]

We're gentlemen. You and me.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Yeah. I like. I like showing up places, looking good, looking put together. Like. I try.

[Guest or Co-host]

Society drags you and me down. We would be pointed.

[Jeremy Stugats]

That's right.

[Ethan]

I don't need to wear good.

[Mike]

Sounds awful.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Well, neither do I.

[Mike]

It sounds awful. But I must admit, since we're winning a Pulitzer, kind of feel like I need to start dressing up more.

[Host or Co-host]

Definitely got to wear those glasses always.

[Mike]

And, you know, the T shirt. Great T shirt. I love this T shirt, but it doesn't really go with the glasses. Doesn't go with the. With the whole Pulitzer motif beneath you. It is. You know what? Maybe I'm parking my car in the same garage. Dave, Damagehead.

[Guest or Co-host]

Let's be suit guys together.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Suit day tomorrow.

[Mike]

Can we?

[Guest or Co-host]

Friday.

[Mike]

Can we drink old fashions while we do it.

[Guest or Co-host]

My suits are 3,000 miles away. Otherwise, I'd be all in.

[Jeremy Stugats]

You're in Miami.

[Dan LeBatard]

You got to get a tailor.

[Host or Co-host]

There's a Kohl's right next door.

[Guest or Co-host]

Oh, you know what? Yeah, get it. Get a nice summer weight.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Little linen. Yeah, Linen blend suit.

[Guest or Co-host]

I could wear the hell out of a linen suit.

[Ethan]

I can't even imagine sleeping naked. Seems horrible.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Yeah, it's not bad.

[Guest or Co-host]

I don't want to make me feel

[Host or Co-host]

better that he does the basketball. I was thinking fully nude.

[Jeremy Stugats]

That's just a lot.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, I don't know. I got one when I'm in bed. One layer is fine. I mean, electively being like, I'm going to bed and I'm deciding to put two layers on my lower half in Miami, Florida. Get out of here.

[Jeremy Stugats]

No, I want you guys to know, and I want you to visualize it. I sleep naked. Pitchcock. Next.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hey, Roy, buddy. Yo. You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together in unison knows to stand up on their feet? Oh, absolutely, Mike.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

You've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Oh, delicious.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Cuervo, man. It's that high five, a random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it Cuervo.

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[Ethan]

Don LeBatard can I tell you something? I don't know? It was 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.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Host or Co-host]

You're not better than me for not wearing headphones.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I mean I have technically headphones. I have an earpiece here. But you just. I'm hiding it from the camera. From the, from the behind the scenes camera. I'm hiding it from the real camera.

[Chris Cody]

You gotta put two fingers.

[Host or Co-host]

You think you're better than me. Let's start the show.

[Jeremy Stugats]

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.

[Guest or Co-host]

Hi, everybody.

[Jeremy Stugats]

The Pitch Clock. That's where we started. I'm Jeremy. I'm better than Chris. That's Chris. He's not better than me. Ethan's over there. He's not better than either of us. But he does have our trivia game for today. Chris pointed over at Olivia. Olivia's over there. We'll have Jack McMullen of Just Baseball and the radio voice of the Miami Marlins with us as our guest. He's great. Very excited to have him here.

[Chris Cody]

Gentlemen, this is Jeopardy. Welcome back. Pitch Clock Jeopardy. We are back, folks. Now I have made an editorial decision to keep games closer. You will not be penalized for a wrong answer.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Garbage Categories here are MVP 2005 ballparks, traded Marlins paths to Cooperstown, iconic calls and who he play for in MVP baseball.

[Chris Cody]

So just to clarify paths to Cooperstown, you will get an image of a Player's career path. So the teams that they played for, you will tell me who that player is.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Okay.

[Guest or Co-host]

And.

[Jeremy Stugats]

And just for the audio audience, when we get that image, I will.

[Chris Cody]

I will read them off. Once I'm finished reading them off, you guys can then buzz in.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Perfect, perfect, perfect. All right, let's. You know what? Let's start with paths to Cooperstown for a thousand.

[Chris Cody]

Thousand. The Braves, the Yankees, the Cleveland baseball team. The Blue Jays, and then the Braves. Once again, this is a pitcher.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Oh, I think you're just. You're gonna have to do that thing where we go.

[Chris Cody]

This is Phil Necro.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Okay, brother.

[Chris Cody]

Phil Negro. Okay, Jeremy. So nobody gets Phil Necro. Let's go to.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Yeah, let's go to MVP 2005. Ballparks for 200.

[Host or Co-host]

You keep it when you get it right.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Nobody.

[Jack McMullen]

I didn't get it wrong.

[DraftKings Announcer]

Yes.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Nobody got it right.

[Chris Cody]

What was the Seattle Mariners ballpark named in 2? MVP 2005. I know this, Jeremy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, wait.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Oh, Petco Park.

[Host or Co-host]

My. That's my.

[Chris Cody]

Say again.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, good.

[Chris Cody]

Wait, what was that?

[Jeremy Stugats]

Petco Park.

[Chris Cody]

That was wrong. This is the Seattle Mariners. That was the San Diego Padres.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Oh, I'm an idiot.

[Host or Co-host]

Okay, I got this.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Damn it.

[Host or Co-host]

Safe.

[Guest or Co-host]

Go.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct. You're on the board.

[Jeremy Stugats]

That's my dyslexia.

[Host or Co-host]

Give me 400. Same cop.

[Jeremy Stugats]

That's a little dyslexia on my porch.

[Chris Cody]

What was the Washington national stadium named in MVP 2005? Chris. I know this was recently knocked down.

[Host or Co-host]

It's President's initials, rfk.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Wow. Well done. Wow. All right, so six.

[Chris Cody]

Cody off to a flyer.

[Host or Co-host]

All right, we'll stay in the Same category for 600.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. The Arizona Diamondbacks ballpark was named Jeremy Chase Field. That is incorrect.

[DraftKings Announcer]

I don't know.

[Host or Co-host]

Progressive.

[Jeremy Stugats]

No, that's.

[Chris Cody]

No, that is the current name of the Cleveland Guardians Ballpark. This was Bank One ballpark in 2005.

[Dan LeBatard]

God.

[Chris Cody]

Chris Cody. Would you like to remain in the same category or like, you like to go somewhere else? All right. The San Francisco Giants was named Chris Cody, pnc. Nope. No, that is.

[Mike]

No, that's.

[Chris Cody]

Yep. That is Pittsburgh.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Is it? I'm just gonna. Since I. It doesn't mean negative AT T. No. Yeah, that's AT T now, right?

[Chris Cody]

It was Oracle then.

[Jeremy Stugats]

It was.

[Chris Cody]

Sorry, it's Oracle now. Yeah, it was AT&T before. Look who just.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Hey, Jack, you do better than this.

[Chris Cody]

Well, that was the Giant stadium named in 2005.

[Jack McMullen]

Pacific Bell.

[Chris Cody]

This guy very close. It was SBC Park. Bell park was just before that one,

[Jeremy Stugats]

Jack McMullen of Just Baseball with us here. He is also the radio play by play announcer of the Miami Marlins. And Jack, I'm really excited because we actually have some Marlin stuff that we can chat about. But I want to start with you with what was really the biggest news of the week in Major League Baseball. Tarek Skubal.

[Jack McMullen]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Having surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow. And for those of you who are not doctors like myself, that essentially means that either bone fragments or ligament fragments are just kind of floating around in there. That's the technical term. This is crazy news because Scubal had won his arbitration battle making $32 million this year. A guy who's an impending free agent. We have no idea where things are going with him and the Detroit Tigers. And now he's out for at least two to three months here. Yeah, there's a lot of fallout in this. So I'm just going to say for Tarek, Scubal, for the Tigers and now for both of their futures, what does this mean?

[Jack McMullen]

It just sucks, like all around. This totally sucks. And I'll start with the school front and then I'll go to the Tiger front. Then I'll go to the baseball front in general. But for school, it sucks because this guy could be looking at, you know, $100 million loss this offseason and we're saying, what do you mean?

[Jeremy Stugats]

Like he's going to come back, he's

[Jack McMullen]

going to throw for six to eight weeks at the end of the year. And if he looks like school and if he's, you know, sitting 98, bumping it up to 100, 101, why is he not going to get his money? Because this is, I believe, his third elbow surgery in his career. We were talking about this guy being a 450 million dollar pitcher. So we have never seen before, he can still recoup that value and become the highest paid pitcher ever. But the difference between 450 and 350, it's.

[Jeremy Stugats]

It's a hundred million dollars.

[Jack McMullen]

Yeah, hold on. It's a hundred million dollars. That is a huge, huge thing there for Tarek School on the Tiger front, they run into a really interesting situation where, number one, they have to survive this summer.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Right.

[Jack McMullen]

They need to get through it. Without Tarek School, I think you can make the argument that Scubal is more valuable to Detroit than a guy like Ronald Acuna is to the Atlanta Braves.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Wow.

[Jack McMullen]

Number two, if things did go south for the Tigers, God forbid they could have traded him and they could have gotten a king's ransom in return and now they cannot.

[Jeremy Stugats]

It's a franchise altering injury.

[Jack McMullen]

100% so. And then baseball as a whole, like we were going to be talking about the first guy to win back to back to back Cy Young awards in the American League. I believe in major league history, I think the only guys that have won the Cy Young three years in a row, Maddox in the early 90s and Randy Johnson in the late 90s, early 2000s. Like that's it, folks.

[Chris Cody]

Crazy.

[Jack McMullen]

Just amazing.

[Jeremy Stugats]

You got the Rays, who everyone constantly doubts every single season. I believe most projections had them sit in a couple games under.500 this year. And here they are 10 games over. They're eight and two in their last 10.

[Jack McMullen]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Then you have the Royals, who started, I mean, dreadfully, but they're also 8 and 2 in their last 10, finally playing much better. Bobby Wood Jr. Of course, is tremendous. And then how about this one in the Chicago White Sox, who at the time of this recording are a game under.500. They're 7 and 3 in their last 10. Mudataka Murakami, we highlighted last week as the superstar that he is. But of these three teams, which one would you sort of like to dive into and break down here? Because they're all have sort of interesting aspects to them.

[Jack McMullen]

I'm gonna dive into Tampa because they're doing the thing like the weird Tampa thing again, where the roster, it makes no sense that they would be winning eight out of 10 games and they'd be sitting near the top of the American League east, which is an absolute gauntlet. But that's what Tampa does. It took like a couple of starts for him to get his feet under him. But Shane Mcclanahan has been nails. Nick Martinez, a Belen guy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right.

[Jack McMullen]

Miami, I mean, Nick Martinez signs a one year deal, I think like 10 million bucks. And Nick Martinez is outstanding. The era is in the low twos. Brian Baker was just kind of like this float around. Maybe you get a low leverage, seventh inning kind of guy for a couple of teams. And Brian Baker has nine saves at this point. So it's just amazing to see Tampa do this again.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Like it's the old.

[Jack McMullen]

Like he can't keep getting away with this. Yeah, yet they can. Tampa every single year gets away with this. It is a factory, man. It's just amazing what they do every year.

[Host or Co-host]

We'll go a thousand.

[Jeremy Stugats]

All right.

[Chris Cody]

What was the Arlington ballpark named in the old Texas Rangers ballpark?

[Host or Co-host]

2005.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I'm gonna hate myself just because you

[Host or Co-host]

don't get negative here. Something just popped into my head. American Family something.

[Chris Cody]

Nope, that is the current. That is the current name of Miller. Of the old Miller Park.

[Jack McMullen]

That's.

[Mike]

It.

[Chris Cody]

Is American Family Field in Milwaukee.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I'm done embarrassing myself.

[Dan LeBatard]

Pass.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. This was Americ West Field.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Cody]

So, Chris, the board is yours.

[Host or Co-host]

Alex, I'll go first. Never traded Marlins for 200.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. He was the first overall pick in 2000, but never actually appeared in a game for the Marlins.

[Host or Co-host]

Chris Cody, Adrian Gonzalez.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Yep.

[Commercial Narrator]

400.

[Host or Co-host]

Same category.

[Chris Cody]

This hall of Famer played in just five games for the Marlins in 1998 before being traded for the second time that season. 98. That is correct.

[Dan LeBatard]

Jeez.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, Jeremy, the board is yours.

[Jack McMullen]

Let's stick with.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Traded Marlins for 600.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. Drafted by the Marlins in the 1999 Rule 5 draft, he was moved along with $50,000 to the Minnesota Twins in exchange for Jared Camp.

[Host or Co-host]

I mean, only I know Dan Uglo is a rule.

[Guest or Co-host]

Oh, all right.

[Chris Cody]

I don't know anyone else, Jeremy.

[Jeremy Stugats]

No, that's Johan Santana. That is correct.

[Chris Cody]

Jeremy, the board is yours.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Traded Marlins for 800.

[Chris Cody]

Acquired and traded within a year. This outfielder currently finds himself on the Kansas City Royals.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right.

[Chris Cody]

Answer is Starling Marte.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Who he played for in MVP for 200.

[Host or Co-host]

Okay.

[Chris Cody]

Wouldn't this just be who he played Rafael for? Call. Who did he play for in MVP baseball? 2005.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Atlanta Braves.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct. Jeremy, board is yours.

[Jack McMullen]

400. Jason Schmidt.

[Chris Cody]

Chris Cody, Woody.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Giants.

[Chris Cody]

That's correct.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Y. Your hat helped me.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Six on. Oh. 600.

[Guest or Co-host]

We'll stay.

[Host or Co-host]

We'll stay.

[Chris Cody]

Hank Blaylock. Jeremy.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Rangers.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct. Where do you want to go, Jeremy?

[Jeremy Stugats]

800.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. Brad Osmus. That was Chris Cody, Astros. That is correct.

[Dan LeBatard]

Man.

[Chris Cody]

Nice pull.

[Jeremy Stugats]

N. What am I at right now?

[Chris Cody]

You're out by 200, and Jeremy is at 1800. Very competitive game we got going on here, boys. Jeremy or Chris, the board is yours.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Alrighty.

[Host or Co-host]

Give me a pass. The Coopers down for 200.

[Chris Cody]

Expos, Rockies, Cardinals. Jeremy, Larry Walker. That is correct. We are tied at 2,000. Jeremy, the.

[Guest or Co-host]

Wow.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Wait. Hold on a second. Look at this. Competitive game.

[Host or Co-host]

Oh, shut up.

[Dan LeBatard]

Plenty of time.

[Jeremy Stugats]

400.

[Chris Cody]

All right, here we go. The A's, the Yankees. Yankees. The A's, the Blue Jays, the A's, the Padres, the Angels, the A's, the Mets, the Mariners, the Padres, the Red Sox, the Dodgers, who took this path.

[Host or Co-host]

Give us a time, because I. You got it for the thousand.

[Chris Cody]

He played for a long time. He retired in the early 2000s. Jeremy.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Ricky Anderson.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct.

[Jeremy Stugats]

600.

[Chris Cody]

The Reds from 1986 to 2004. Was that Chris Cody?

[Jeremy Stugats]

Yeah.

[Host or Co-host]

Barry Larin.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct. And then 800, 800. The twins, the Rangers, the Pirates, the Cleveland baseball team. The Twins, the Angels. This is a pitcher.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Bert.

[Chris Cody]

Be home. Bly Levin.

[Host or Co-host]

Let's go. Who we play for for a TH000?

[Chris Cody]

Mike Sweeney. Chris.

[Host or Co-host]

Just cuz you can't get punished Royal.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, that is correct.

[Mike]

Let's go.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Big one. That's a huge, huge, huge. Let's talk about the Miami Marlins. We have you here. You watch them every day. You call their games on radio. We can, we can do this. And there's actually some, some interesting news regarding the Marlins. They called up one of the top prospects in baseball, I believe number 54 via MLB Pipeline, Joe Mack, a huge prospect. He gets called up. Augustine Ramirez sent down, which is also notable considering he finished third in Rookie of the Year in the National League last year. And then as on top of that, you know, moments before we started recording this, Chris Paddock DFA'd by the team, which is notable just simply in the fact that the Marlins haven't often eaten millions of dollars this early in the season. So as you sit here as a guy who's literally around the team every single day of the season, what do you make of all of this news surrounding the Marlins as they're sitting here a couple games under.500.

[Jack McMullen]

Yeah. So I'll start with the Mack Augustine swap. Yeah, it seems like a prioritization of defense. It seems like you are put best foot forward defensively. Joe Mack. I, I think you can make the argument just watching him with the catch and throw, with the framing, with the blocking. Joe Mack immediately became for me a top five defensive catcher in Major League Baseball. He is amazing at mitigating the running game. The Marlins have struggled mightily in terms of limiting the stolen base for years. For years. And now you've got a guy that can do that. Is he going to hit? We'll see. It's really hard to hit in Major League Baseball. There's no doubt. I think we also learned that with Augustine Ramirez.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right.

[Jack McMullen]

Augustine was amazing through the summer last year offensively and then in September he starts to taper off a little bit and this year he never really found his footing. He's putting the ball on the ground a lot and he's striking out a little bit and yeah, he's drawing a Couple more walks. But it just doesn't feel like Augustine has the same like fear that he will invoke in an opposing pitcher right now. So I guess like for, for Augustine it's a chance for him to recalibrate in Jacksonville and for Mac, it's just a chance to prove that you are major league ready with Paddock.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Let's just wrap up with that real quick. Just, it's, it's of note and it means that we, we don't know, at least at the time of this recording, but it means either Braxton Garrett or Robbie Snelling will join the rotation for the Marlin.

[Jack McMullen]

Yeah, and I guess like the easier one would be Garrett who's already on the 40 man roster. But the sexier one would be Robbie Snelling who was coming off five no hit with nine punch outs last time. Like 18 starts in AAA.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Fit is nasty.

[Jack McMullen]

Yeah. ERA well under two. So both those guys kind of in spring training find their footing. Braxton looking a heck of a lot better than anybody thought he would on the heels of Tommy John surgery. They're also without a lefty in that starting rotation. Like they were going righty Sandy, righty Yuri, righty Meyer, righty Paddock, righty junk. It'll be good like regardless of who they turn to, just to mix things up, to just have a southpaw.

[Jeremy Stugats]

So.

[Jack McMullen]

And to your point, like, this is gutsy. It's a very gutsy move to take your, one of your marquee free agent signings over the winter. Like you commit 4 million bucks to this guy and for you to diagnose this and say, you know what, through six starts or seven starts, you're just not good enough to pitch for us right now. It's impressive that the Marlins pulled the trigger on this that quickly.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Yeah, I, I'm, I'm certainly not happy for Chris, who was nothing but a great guy around the clubhouse, a leader to some of the younger pitchers. But, but from a perspective of someone who was around the Marlins, observing the Marlins, if you're a Marlins fan, it is exciting to see the team at this stage saying, you know what? We do believe we're a team that's sitting here trying to compete for a wild card spot. We can't accept any more of these starts where you're out of it by the second or third inning. We need someone in there who's going to pitch better than that. It's going to be either Braxton, Garrett or Robbie Snelling. I wouldn't be surprised to see either of the other two. Yeah, up. Up at the major league level sometime soon, depending on what's going on. And, you know, Jack is a good radio voice because he used the term southpaw to describe a lefty. Let's go ahead and wrap it here. We'll, we'll. We'll go quickly here.

[Host or Co-host]

Okay.

[Jeremy Stugats]

We always do a golden era player of the week. Basically, what I want to do here is mlb.com just put out a list of their, like, top five MVPs in, in each league. So the names that haven't been mentioned, partially because I've tried to avoid them, partially because some of these guys just haven't popped up. We have Ben rice, Bobby Witt Jr. Mike Trout, Matt Olson, Corbin Carroll, Nico Horner. If you're paying attention at home, all of those names are worth looking up to, see how their years are going. But Jack, I throw it to you. One guy that you want to highlight

[Jack McMullen]

here, I'm going to pump fake first because if you really love the way that baseball should be played, the good old days of baseball, slap a toothpick in and watch Nico Horner pick over at second base. That guy's a throwback, man. I missed that game from three decades ago. That's the kind of player that Nico Horner is.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Those of you watching the pitch clock, that's literally who you are. So go find Nico Horner.

[Jack McMullen]

But Matt Olson, that's. That's my guy. I do think this guy should be considered one of the front runners for National League MVP at this point. Like, he is hitting the crap out of the ball. I mean, it is like 110 laser beams and rockets everywhere you look. And then the double accumulation, too. He's a really good defensive first baseman. This is an MVP award, the most valuable player. So he's. So team result has to matter. And I think the best player on the best team should be rewarded. I think Baldwin's really good, but Olson has been more of that constant presence and like that leader and that veteran. And the offensive numbers do look a little bit better. So Eileen Olson, right now, he's my favorites.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I love that he's a steadying force. He's a guy, you know, in a day and age of so much platooning, every single day, no matter what, he's going to be there and it's going to be helpful to them. As a guy who had to follow up Freddie Freeman, which was an impossible tas, and he's lived up to everything they could have asked for. Listen to Marlin's games On the radio. Listen to everything he does with just baseball. Jack, thank you so much for being here. Hopefully we can have you back here in studio. I didn't even mention it to the audio audience. I'm sure you figured it out through the crisp tones, but Jack's here in studio with us, so you're actually our first in studio guest of this season.

[Jack McMullen]

That's huge. Hey, knuckle bump.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Knuckle bump. Fist me. All right, back to the trivia game where hopefully I come back.

[Host or Co-host]

Traded Marlins for a thousand.

[Chris Cody]

Caleb Smith was involved in the trade for this current Padres starting pitcher.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Okay, hold on. Yeah, There's a time where I would have known.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Host or Co-host]

Thank you.

[Chris Cody]

Michael King is the answer.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I was not even starting with the Yankees.

[Chris Cody]

And so now the only category left is iconic call. So Cody would take it from the top. Iconic calls for 200. Jack Buck's iconic we will see you tomorrow night. Call followed a home run in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series by this outfielder, Jeremy.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Joe Carter.

[Chris Cody]

That is incorrect.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Damn it.

[Chris Cody]

That's the answer is Kirby Puckett. We will go to 400.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Jeremy.

[Chris Cody]

This local election legend punctuated every win with these familiar words. And the Marlins are in the win column. Chris Cody.

[Jeremy Stugats]

Okay.

[Host or Co-host]

Joe Angel.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct. Joe Buck got to recreate his father's most famous call in game six of this World Series. What year was it? Was that Jeremy or was that 2012?

[Host or Co-host]

I was gonna say no, it's definitely the freeze. Like Cardinal.

[Chris Cody]

I said, yeah, but that was not 2012.

[Host or Co-host]

No.

[Interviewer or Analyst]

13.

[Chris Cody]

No. Yeah, it was pretty.

[Jeremy Stugats]

It was.

[Chris Cody]

It was 2011. Cardinals, Rangers.

[Dan LeBatard]

So mad.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I was knew the same thing. I was thinking, that means I lose. It's stupid. Wrong answers don't go.

[Chris Cody]

You can get. Oh, no, I can win these last two and be right.

[Host or Co-host]

Had wrong answers.

[Jeremy Stugats]

I wouldn't have guessed as many times.

[Chris Cody]

He got to use his trademark. It is out of here. On Barry Bond's 756th home run, Jeremy.

[Jeremy Stugats]

John Miller.

[Chris Cody]

No, you idiot. That's the radio announcer for the Giants.

[Guest or Co-host]

I don't know.

[Chris Cody]

Dwayne Kuiper is the name of the Giants television broadcaster. And the final question.

[Jeremy Stugats]

That's not an 8 change.

[Chris Cody]

The result. Yes, John Buck steals the shine with I don't believe what I just saw. But Vin Scully was not far behind with these words on Kirk Gibson's legendary home run in the 1988 World Series.

[Host or Co-host]

What's the question?

[Chris Cody]

What?

[Jeremy Stugats]

What are the words that I thought it was?

[Host or Co-host]

I don't believe what I just saw.

[Jeremy Stugats]

No. Oh, it's what did Vince Gully say?

[Chris Cody]

Jack Buck's call, famously.

[Host or Co-host]

Yeah, but you wrote Joe Buck, and I think unprobable. The improbable happened very, very close.

[Chris Cody]

I will give it to you. In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.

[Guest or Co-host]

Yeah.

[Jeremy Stugats]

And you know what it was? It was Chris Cody beating me in jeopardy.

[Chris Cody]

That's the improv, ladies and gentlemen.

[Jeremy Stugats]

This sucks. Olivia, you're not allowed to come here anymore.

[Dan LeBatard]

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