Local Hour: At The Old Ballpark (feat. Dan Le Bajinx, Clayton McBlewit & Hal Habit)

Summary

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: At The Old Ballpark
Date: April 8, 2026
Broadcast from: The Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Special Guests: Greg Cody, Hal Habib, Chris Cote

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Episode Overview

In this “Local Hour,” Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and their extended crew (Greg Cody, Chris Cote, Hal Habib, and others) gather -- somewhat weary after three shows in 24 hours -- to unpack a disastrous night for Miami sports teams, joke about local fandom, and share their usual blend of sarcastic banter, running gags, and pop-culture goofs. The conversation spirals from South Florida sports heartbreak to catchphrase debates, all with their signature blend of irreverence, local color, and self-deprecating humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Miami Sports Trifecta of Failure

• Premise: The show reflects on a rare night when all three local teams (Panthers, Heat, Marlins) managed to collapse spectacularly — a fact that both unites the hosts and provides endless comic fodder.
• Chris Cote (02:25): “The spectacular choke job by all three teams, right?... It’s fun to me that you guys were celebrating the mediocrity of all three of those teams.”
• Panthers: Blew a game in the final seconds, missing the playoffs.
• Heat: Lost badly, likely to also miss the playoffs.
• Marlins: Lost after a promising start, reinforcing their reputation for mediocrity.
• Dan Le Batard (03:16): “Funny? Well, we were going for funny. We're often going for funny. Funny is a success.”
• The panel jokes about personified “jinxes” (Dan Le Bajinx, Dan McBlewit) for the teams’ streaks of bad luck.

2. Local Banter and Catchphrase Countdown

• Greg Cody’s Catchphrase Concert: Chris Cote continues the wildly self-referential “catchphrase countdown,” reciting Cody’s personal lexicon from his eponymous podcast.
  • Chris Cote: Reads out catchphrases, e.g. “Look at that jerk” (06:27), described as his car-based road rage mantra.
  • Dan Le Batard (07:22): Questions if this is a pressure release, or if it ramps up Cody’s anger instead.
  • Chris Cote (07:33): “That’s the beginning of it. But it’s also what could be the end. Yeah, I’m letting off steam. I don’t want that other driver to think I don’t notice what he’s doing. That’s so idiotic.”
  • Producer/Sidekick: Acknowledges that in the car, Cody is especially vocal about bad drivers, noting a “road rage leaning.”
  • The panel probes whether these catchphrases are invented on the spot or truly part of Cody’s everyday life.
  • There’s much meta-discussion about the exclusivity of the catchphrases and their podcast, “The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody.”

3. “Jinx” Theme and the Miami Fan Experience

• Blame and Jinxing: Dan and the staff embrace their reputation as local-team “jinxes,” underlining the superstitious and emotional quality of South Florida fandom.
  • Dan Le Batard (18:12): “I understand the Marlins fan base is very mad at me for everything I did last night. I was not only Dan Leb Jinx, but I was also mcbluit.”
  • The hosts replay moments from the previous night’s botched livestream:
    • Confusing replay highlights for live sports.
    • Playing the shell/cup game incorrectly at a Marlins watch party.
    • Chris Cote showing up dressed like “Puka Nakua’s lawyer”—a running joke.
    • Papi (Dan’s father) hilariously botching the lyrics to “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

Memorable Moment:

• Stugotz (25:35): Mock-singing Papi’s version:
  “Take me out to the park / Buy me some peanuts and crackers. Yeah. I don't wanna be late for chicken food.”
• The hosts replay this moment for comedic effect, marveling at how many lyrics Papi mangled.
• Greg Cody (27:31): “He was possessed by a demon midway.”

4. Miami Heat’s Playoff Hopes and Giannis Talk

• Broader NBA Discussion: Disillusionment over the Heat’s likely fate (“the Heater going to miss the playoffs”) and frustration at the franchise’s stagnation.
• Giannis Antetokounmpo: The group debates Giannis’ cryptic interviews about potentially staying in Milwaukee.
  • Greg Cody (20:13): “It’s 100% certain that he might.”
  • Chris Cote (20:16): “He’s playing both sides brilliantly... not outwardly alienating his Milwaukee fan base in case he winds up going back.”
  • Producer/Sidekick: Points out everyone “sees past the facade.”

5. Marlins, Rockies, and the State of Baseball Fandom

• Colorado Rockies Player’s Critique: Audio of a former Marlins minor leaguer (now with Rockies) trashing the Marlins’ lack of visible fandom, contrasted with Denver’s support.
  • Rockies Player (34:36): “When I walk around Miami, I never saw a Miami Marlins jersey... they are really excited about the Rockies. They want the Rockies to be good.”
  • Chris Cote (35:09): Fires back, noting the Rockies’ own ineptitude: “It's easy taking a shot at the Marlins, but dude, you play for Colorado. You had the worst record in a century last year.”
  • Greg Cody (37:14): “He could have gotten that message out without punching down towards the Miami Marlins... takes an easy shot.”

6. Baseball: Analytics vs. Feel & The Sandy Alcantara Debate

• Postmortem of Marlins Loss: Passionate discussion about the controversial decision to remove Sandy Alcantara late in a game he was dominating, substituting bullpen “math” for “feel.”
  • Dan Le Batard (39:14): “A pitcher of Sandy's excellence on this particular streak gets to decide whether he wants to be in that game or not at the end. You should not take that baseball from that kind of excellence.”
  • Chris Cote (41:12): “You got to have a feel for the game. You got to have a respect and a faith in your guy.”
  • Sports Analyst 1 (43:40): “Are we taking into account the analytics for fourth time through the lineup when it’s the ace on the mound?... What are the numbers then through the fourth time?”

Tommy Hutton, Marlins Broadcaster, Criticizes the Move:

• Tommy Hutton (43:55): “When you take a guy out, you got to make sure the guy you bring in has better stuff or you have more confidence in him than the guy that's out there presently.”

• Local flavor: Debates about whether Miami or Colorado is more “devoted” as a baseball city, with Miami’s own panel resigning themselves to small crowds but proud history.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Chris Cote (02:25):
  “The spectacular choke job by all three teams, right?... it was just hilarious.”
• Dan Le Batard (03:16):
  “We were going for funny. We're often going for funny. Funny is a success.”
• Chris Cote on road rage catchphrase (07:07):
  "I have a sort of a road rage leaning that I have to really work to contain. And when I say 'look at that jerk,' that’s usually the fire starter that gets me very angry at some malfeasance by another driver."
• Papi’s “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (25:35):
  “Old game. Take me out to the park. Buy me some peanuts and crackers. Yeah. I don’t wanna be late for chicken food.”
• Greg Cody (27:31):
  “He was possessed by a demon midway.”
• Rockies player (34:36):
  “When I walk around Miami, I never saw a Miami Marlins jersey... they are really excited about the Rockies.”
• Chris Cote (35:09):
  “If you’re going to play for the Colorado Rockies and brag about the state of that franchise compared to anybody, you have nothing to stand on.”
• Dan Le Batard (39:14):
  “A pitcher of Sandy's excellence...gets to decide whether he wants to be in that game or not at the end."
• Tommy Hutton (43:55):
  “When you take a guy out, you got to make sure the guy you bring in has better stuff or you have more confidence in him than the guy that's out there presently.”
• Stugotz (25:35, 27:42):
  Repeatedly mock-sings: “Buy me some peanuts and crackers. Yeah. I don’t want to be late for the game.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:42] – Show intro; Greg Cody enters after marathon sessions.
• [02:25] – Recap of the Miami sports debacles, “all teams choked.”
• [04:38] – Chris Cote’s catchphrase countdown (“Look at that jerk”, “It’s like a packing house in here”).
• [06:07] – Explanation & origin of “Look at that jerk.”
• [09:10] – Hal Habib’s role as eyewitness to Greg Cody’s alleged 50-yard field goal.
• [12:26] – Catchphrase list methodology: “17 number one seeds.”
• [18:12] – Dan takes the blame for the Marlins “curse”, and sets up clips from a disastrous livestream.
• [25:35] – Papi’s botched “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”
• [29:20] – Flashback: Papi performing the song at a Marlins game years ago.
• [34:36] – Rockies player describes difference in fan support between Denver and Miami.
• [39:14] – Sandy Alcantara bullpen debate and anti-analytics rant.
• [43:55] – Marlins announcer Tommy Hutton’s reaction to pulling Sandy.

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Final Thoughts

This episode encapsulates the contemporary Miami sports experience — collective heartbreak, snarky optimism, and a bit of communal self-loathing — seasoned with the unmistakable humor and rhythm of the Le Batard universe. It’s a fun, dense listen, equal parts sports analysis and local family roast — perfect for anyone who loves South Florida, inside jokes, and passionate, irreverent debate.

For Miami fans, it’s catharsis. For everyone else, it’s sports radio at its weirdest and most entertaining.

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Transcript

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[Dan Le Batard]

Three shows in 24 hours is excessive. We're not likely to be very good today or fresh, but into the breach steps heroically. Greg Cody of the Miami Herald.

[Chris Cote]

Thank you.

[Producer/Sidekick]

20 carries.

[Dan Le Batard]

Fresh 20. Just 20 carries. I want to give him 40 carries.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, I want. I want high 30s plus a couple of looks on passes. I want a total of between 35 and 42 touches.

[Dan Le Batard]

Keep asking for the ball in the post. We will deliver it. Do you have any thoughts on a live stream you were not a part of last night as we were celebrating things locally and ended up blowing up in all of our faces. Mine most of all.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, for sure. Leba Jinkx the first comment would be the spectacular choke job by all three teams, right? I don't have to go over the litany, but the Panthers blow the game with 20 seconds to play. The Marlins make Clayton McBluitt and Dan. It's just ridiculous. And then the Heat, of course, lose by 100 points. So it's fun to me that you guys were celebrating the mediocrity of all three of those teams, really, because the Panthers are out of the playoffs, the Heat are unlikely to make the playoffs, and the Marlins, off to a good start against the two worst teams on the planet, are going to come back down to earth and be mediocre as always. So I just thought the whole premise of last night was kind of funny to me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Funny?

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, we were going for funny. We're often going for funny. Funny is a success.

[Chris Cote]

Well, you had a perfect night then, because the way that the three teams choked, it was just hilarious.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do Zaslo, do you believe that we will be carried today by Dan lebo, Jinx and McBluitt and a couple of

[Sports Analyst 1]

other puns like he's so good with names.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

So thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do you think? Because that's two carries right now for negative three yards.

[Chris Cote]

Whoa, Leva Jinx.

[Greg Cody]

You got to stay committed.

[Chris Cote]

You did.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's fine.

[Hal Habib]

We're going to keep.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're gonna got a good D tackle

[Chris Cote]

in the A gap, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're gonna run. We are committed to the run. We are going to continue on an outside zone.

[Hal Habib]

Hand him the football, you lever.

[Chris Cote]

Jinx is in the family of when I used to refer to you as Lebatardi when you were late for something. Whoa.

[Producer/Sidekick]

I didn't know where we were going with that.

[Dan Le Batard]

He did break out Lebatardi when I was 10 minutes late. That is good thing. One time.

[Hal Habib]

Lebatardi is good. Leopard Jinx less good. Mcbluitt less good than that.

[Chris Cote]

Well, you got to go Clayton McBluit. You can't just go McBlue it.

[Greg Cody]

He's right about that.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Zasla, what are your thoughts about the two carries so far? What are we doing on third and 13?

[Sports Analyst 1]

I'm willing to be committed to the running game.

[Chris Cote]

Thank you.

[Stugats]

This is a good start. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Dan Le Batard]

Number 50.

[Chris Cote]

I am Fuller than Vern Fuller. 49. Where's my click click? 48. Hey, Butterfinger. 47. Punt 46, Scranton 45. I'm busy in a paper one arm, paper hanger. 44. Georgia, Georgia 43. I'm the kind of guy that 42 ball on the jack. 41.

[Stugats]

Hey, hey.

[Chris Cote]

With the monkeys, baby. 40. Thank you, Billy. 39. I love them like a pet. 38. Who made it a salad? 37. We're rolling now, huh? 36. You brain beating me? 35. Let's go States. 34. Driver comfort is paramount. 33. Dummy up, save up. 32 catches, catch, can. 31. Doesn't make it right. 30. So on and so forth. 29. Very good. 28. The Little League Theory. 27. Nice hat, asshole. 26. The others, they all learn from me. 25. Don't go showering to try to please me. And now that ends the first half of the catchphrase concert. Wow. And the second half has begun.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody is the podcast if you want updated and exclusive. And before we have it, catchphrases, Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody is the exclusive home of such things. But we make it slightly less exclusive when he comes in and shares some of them with us. So are we on in the podcast? Number 24 and number 23.

[Chris Cote]

Correct.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, so you're willing to share those here because they've already been released earlier this week.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, it's not an ideal situation, but I would do it for the show.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. Thank you for sharing with us two days later something that had been embargoed because it's proprietary and exclusive to you and you like your best things to appear on your show, not our show.

[Chris Cote]

Who wouldn't?

[Dan Le Batard]

24.

[Chris Cote]

Look at that jerk.

[Producer/Sidekick]

This is a big one.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, what is the context?

[Hal Habib]

When do you use that?

[Chris Cote]

It's mostly. It's not something I say publicly a lot. I said it privately in my car just the other day when a big ass pickup truck back not only backed into a parking lot, but backed over the line. Meaning.

[Dan Le Batard]

So it's directed at cars usually.

[Producer/Sidekick]

This is 95 in the car. I don't think I've ever heard this outside of a car.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Are you by yourself in the car?

[Chris Cote]

I am.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Or not saying it to yourself out loud?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Or it can be in the passenger. Like there are times where I'm driving him to work. Anyone that gets in my lane, look at this ass. Look at this jerk.

[Chris Cote]

Right?

[Producer/Sidekick]

He's a big. He's. He's mean. On the road, when it comes to

[Chris Cote]

other drivers, I. I have a sort of a road rage leaning that I have to really work to contain. And when I say look at that jerk, that's usually the fire starter that gets me very angry at some malfeasance by another driver.

[Dan Le Batard]

So I would think that that would be the pressure release that you're releasing the valve on. What Is your customary rage by saying, look at that jerk. And therefore, you're slightly less angry. You're getting angrier.

[Chris Cote]

That's the beginning of it. But it's also what could be the end. Yeah, I'm letting off steam. In effect. I don't want that other driver to think that I don't notice what he's doing. That's so idiotic. So I'm saying to Christopher in the car, look at that jerk. Sometimes just look at this jerk. It can be this or that at

[Producer/Sidekick]

the 95 turnpike exchange, you know. You know, there's the sheep that just wait in line, and then there's the people that kind of cut in. Yeah, that's the.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Like I catch someone slipping.

[Producer/Sidekick]

My dad is a sheep. He'll his. He gets in the back of the line and just goes car by car. And if anybody gets in, it's, look at this jerk.

[Chris Cote]

No, but I also. I kiss the bumper of the guy ahead of me so that I'm not the SAP who you cut in front of.

[Sports Analyst 1]

You know, you're not letting me catch you slipping, right?

[Chris Cote]

You can cut behind me because that's the other guy's responsibility.

[Dan Le Batard]

You cleared your throat into the microphone. That is still a fine around here. So that you owe $5. I'm sorry to do that to you, but it is. It's. It's a universal fine at the fine bucket.

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[Chris Cote]

It's in my wallet.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where's your wallet?

[Chris Cote]

It's in the bag there. Where's your bag right now? You want it?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, yeah, because we don't want to forget. And you have a habit of leaving here without paying your fines. That is a joke about a Herald.

[Hal Habib]

That is.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is a Miami Herald from our 80s named Hal Habib, who then became a Palm Beach Post reporter on sports. And he just made the joke. Hal Habit.

[Chris Cote]

He's important in my life because he is the only living witness to when I actually did kick a 50 yard.

[Dan Le Batard]

Nobody believes you at all. And I will witness.

[Producer/Sidekick]

We had him on the Greg Cody show, and he was unsure.

[Dan Le Batard]

He. Well, he said it may have been 40 yards. He doesn't remember, but he's sure it wasn't 50.

[Hal Habib]

He's.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hal Habit was sure that he was your witness in your notary, and now you're calling him a liar.

[Chris Cote]

I'm calling you a liar for Doubting that he doubted me.

[Hal Habib]

He did doubt you.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was on our show.

[Hal Habib]

We all listened to him. He's got six carries for negative four yards so far.

[Greg Cody]

No, no, he's at seven yards a clip right now.

[Chris Cote]

Thank you.

[Greg Cody]

Wearing the defense down. He's going to pull away for 40.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Now, we are in the first 15 script here, so he's supposed to do well here.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have follow up questions on. Look at this jerk or that jerk. When you are in the car alone, is it said out loud as a catchphrase or is it. Or is it simply thought?

[Chris Cote]

Sometimes both, but generally it's said out loud, sometimes in a murmur.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Is it ever said without being thought? Because you said sometimes both.

[Chris Cote]

I mean, sometimes I think it and don't say it aloud. You know how that goes. Look at that jerk.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I'm thinking to myself, and what sometimes will follow that? Like, like you. You say it. But does it ever escalate?

[Chris Cote]

I generally say asshole after that.

[Producer/Sidekick]

And there's always like, if the car can see him, there's a hand gesture.

[Sports Analyst 1]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, but that's where.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the end of the rage. You say your road rage adjacent. That the worst that it's ever gotten is a wave of the hand.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. I don't instigate with a finger because I feel like this is kind of benign.

[Sports Analyst 1]

And you time the wave with when your windows are passing. Right. Oh, they can see it.

[Dan Le Batard]

So they can see.

[Chris Cote]

And another common thing, particularly if the perpetrator is in front of.

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[Chris Cote]

I'll. I'll go like, I'll go like this.

[Producer/Sidekick]

No, he is a big, like, I'm gonna gesture to let you know that you're. He gives. He, he'll Matumbo finger you too.

[Chris Cote]

Well, of course, because there's so much annoying to, to observe.

[Greg Cody]

Sounds invasive.

[Dan Le Batard]

Number 23.

[Chris Cote]

It's like a packing house in here. There should be hams hanging from hooks.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Now this proves that he's just doing this as he goes. Because if you remember, this was said a few weeks ago on the show. He said it walking in when he was cold outside. So that just proves that he, in that moment just inserted that into number two.

[Dan Le Batard]

You have any fear that because he's

[Hal Habib]

making up this list as he goes

[Dan Le Batard]

along, he's not going to have 23 more?

[Chris Cote]

No. Here's the thing. I'm going to, I'm going to reveal something that's a little inside baseball. I counted the number ones on my list. Like there's And I counted 17. So there are 17 ahead on this list that are prime wagyu beef.

[Producer/Sidekick]

17 number ones. You've just confused everybody.

[Chris Cote]

Okay, there's 17 that are one quality or top 10 quality.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you have 17 number one seeds in your 50 team tournament.

[Chris Cote]

That's right. I'm like the women's NCAA. There's nothing but number one seeds.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Who made it. The shallot wasn't a number one seed.

[Chris Cote]

No, it was not.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oddly enough, an excellent list. And we encourage you to check out the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody where he you up to date on the catchphrases that are being made up as he goes along. Sometimes written down because he just thinks of one on the way in after he has said it.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Just so we're. We're clear, There you have five more entries and then there are 17 number one that are tied for the best.

[Chris Cote]

I wouldn't say tied for the best, but best quality.

[Dan Le Batard]

What elite, you had 17 number one seeds.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, you've heard of the elite eight? I've got the elite 17.

[Dan Le Batard]

You said that you have 17 number one number one qualities. That suggests seven number one seeds. Seeds. 17 number one seeds. That suggests that you have 17 worthy of any one of those. If they were your last one, we would all agree and say yes, obviously that's a number one.

[Chris Cote]

Well, the seed of the top 50. And, and the, the, the root methodology here was that early on we had a list of like 75 or 80. Early on I invited and allowed Christopher and Yeti to rate rank all of them with a 1, 2 or 3. 3 meaning not very good. 1. Great.

[Sports Analyst 1]

How'd you feel about that assignment in between?

[Producer/Sidekick]

It's one of those what is my life assignments.

[Stugats]

Well, how about this?

[Dan Le Batard]

For what is your life? Your father today comes in here, sits in the chair and says, why is my son dressed that way?

[Chris Cote]

It's a fair question.

[Dan Le Batard]

He looks like Puka Nakua's lawyer. That is the reason that we have dressed him like that. Okay. I don't believe that you have seen the photos that we have used on our show of Pukinakua's lawyer. That would indicate to you how just how much your son looks like that. We will, we will put that on the screen now for you. And you can, you can see how, how obvious a replica that is.

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[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

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[Hal Habib]

how it's gonna end the the mailing it in the end of the retirement. Chris, go get me this. It's just gonna be him coming out and hitting the one or two notes of that kind of thing and you know it. And then just giving us finger guns and leave it baby.

[Chris Cote]

You should listen to the Great Cody show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catchphrases. We even make songs about them. And you know it is a song, for crying out loud. It's great. Hopefully that's a Suey nominee for best song. And you know it baby, and you know it.

[Stugats]

Stugats and you know it baby and

[Chris Cote]

you know it's

[Stugats]

this is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have wasted enough time here. Go ahead and let me have it. I understand the Marlins fan base is very mad at me for everything I did last night. I was not only Dan Leb Jinx, but I was also mcbluit.

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[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

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What you did, what you did is indescribable. Last night.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think we can describe it. Give us a second and I'm going to start the bidding. Get me first because we have some clips from last night and the one that I would like to start with is just the start of our livestream. Thank you for everyone who joined us. It was a lot of fun even though we're losers and all the teams not only lost but lost and choked and basically we ended the livestream right before two of them choked and the Heat choked as soon as the game started. So just a disaster of a night. And also zaz two time championship broadcasters just saying flatly, the Heat are not going to make. They're not going to be in the playoff.

[Sports Analyst 1]

They're absolutely not going to be in the playoffs. They're going to finish 10th. That's where they are right now. And if you finish 10th, you have to win two road games then to get into the playoffs. The first road game, which would likely come at Orlando, who the Heater05 against this year. So, like, let's have a common sense discussion here. The Heater going to miss the playoffs. And it's especially frustrating because, yes, it's the whole, you know, we like our team. You're going to be 10th. How do you like your team if you're 10th? But last year it was an historically bad elimination from the playoffs and their response is to finish 10th the next year. It's like, it's so disappointing where this team is right now.

[Dan Le Batard]

While Giannis gives an interview in Milwaukee saying again to the local columnist that he is 100% on the idea that he might still be a buck after this season, that he might resign. He's 100% on that he might. There's 100% possibility, like, it's not over is what he's saying. He's giving an interview in which he's saying this isn't over. He still cares how all of this stuff looks.

[Greg Cody]

It's 100% certain that he might.

[Chris Cote]

He's playing both sides brilliantly. He really is brilliantly. Yeah. He's playing everybody. He's playing the media, he's playing everybody who knows what he's saying in private to his agent.

[Dan Le Batard]

But how is it, how is this brilliant he's doing? There's damage to the Giannis brand.

[Chris Cote]

I. No, I, I think he's brilliant because he's not alien. He's not outwardly alienating his Milwaukee fan base in case he winds up going back, you know, while. But everyone knows, everyone be going, I want out of here.

[Producer/Sidekick]

But everyone knows how he really feels.

[Local Insider]

Yeah, we see past the facade of like, oh, I don't want to be traded, but Sean says the only team that I want to be traded because they met me over in Greece was the Knicks. And like, all these different things, like, like, you're playing with our emotions. We know exactly what's going on. You want to be the guy that has no ego. You want to be Mr. Humble, but on the other side, you're the bet one of the best players in the world, and you're going to have the ego of, like, I want to go be a champion somewhere else. Like, just say it. Just say it. Come out and say it.

[Greg Cody]

What.

[Sports Analyst 1]

What can possibly change over the summer or even into next season? Like, the Bucs still don't have the assets to drastically improve the teams that Giannis is happy. Like, there isn't a whole lot of precedence for a player making a mess. And then the team actually ends up fixing everything and the player's happy. Like, the only one I could possibly think of was Kobe Bryant. All right, he created a mess. The team ended up fixing it, and, you know, away we go. He finishes his career there. Like, nothing's going to change with Giannis. They're gonna. They're definitely going to trade him this summer.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want to put though, in front of Greg Cody some of the things from last night, and I would like for you to tell me which of these things you believe to be the funniest. Now, we started the livestream last night with me making just a truly brutal mistake just to start the festivities on the evening. Watch what happens here. And festivities they are. We will have a number of local people here that you care about to celebrate what's happening. The Marlins are starting right now. And there it is. The. The seven infielder trick. Works where you just put infielder right behind second base.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Highlights from the last game replay.

[Greg Cody]

We're playing the Reds.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, my bad.

[Sports Analyst 1]

That was the last out.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, let's keep making fun of Chris, though.

[Hal Habib]

I did think that that was the first day.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait a minute.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Chicago white.

[Hal Habib]

I can't tell that the sun is out. I can't tell that it was a day game from the angle that they were.

[Greg Cody]

Sandy was on the bump.

[Hal Habib]

Okay, so this is real. This is live right here.

[Dan Le Batard]

And Sandy is back on the bump here. And I will not for your perusal, but I think we have four better than that. And we will see how Greg Cody votes on this one. My father came in yesterday. Jeremy was the ham and cheese in stadium announcer and they decided to play a cup game. Is this. What is the New York game called? Three Card Monty. The shell game is called Three Card Monty. Here is the cup game, but we've made a fatal flaw in its execution.

[Chime Advertiser]

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[Producer/Sidekick]

Poppy, can you show us where the ball is?

[Stugats]

Here's the big bowl.

[Producer/Sidekick]

There's the ball, number two.

[Chime Advertiser]

All right, are you ready to shuffle these around?

[Stugats]

I never lose the shuffle.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where do we Think the ball is Frankie.

[Chris Cote]

He did it so fast. Let me help.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Hey, fans, where do we think the ball is?

[Chris Cote]

2. 3.

[Hal Habib]

You said 2 clearly enough.

[Producer/Sidekick]

I think it's 2.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think it's 2. 2. Is it 2 that's incorrectly played?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

So we didn't play that game.

[Hal Habib]

Right.

[Dan Le Batard]

We put the number on the COVID And also look at that flea market mascot in the background. Dan Hippo. Is that Dwark? So we've got Jorge Sedano. About 10 minutes into the conversation, he realizes something that Greg Cody did not realize. Ten minutes into the conversation, Jorge Sedano makes an observation about your son.

[Producer/Sidekick]

That's a good example of the Marlins. They won't play a guy who's hit three home runs this season. It's like he's got the hot bat but still sat two games in a row because it's Lefty.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait, is Chris dressed like Puka Nakua's attorney?

[Producer/Sidekick]

That's right.

[Stugats]

Guy right there.

[Chris Cote]

Good job, George.

[Greg Cody]

Would have thought Bud Adams, but you nailed it.

[Hal Habib]

What? That is just tremendous.

[Sports Analyst 1]

He loves it.

[Hal Habib]

That's Sedano. Noticed that.

[Chris Cote]

Nailed it.

[Hal Habib]

But it took him 10 minutes until we were.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was trying to find it.

[Chris Cote]

He's like, where have I seen that before?

[Greg Cody]

In la. He's been talking plenty of Puka Nakua.

[Hal Habib]

You realizing that 10 minutes in. Because he's been there. He's been staring at you.

[Dan Le Batard]

But I hadn't seen him. I hadn't seen him yet. Until then. I didn't realize what he. I saw him briefly. I didn't notice him until then. This right here is magic. My father. This might not be shocking to any of you. My father doesn't actually know the words to Take Me out to the Ball Game, but he thinks he does. And so stuff like this ends up happening. Papi, what do you remember about that experience? Lay out for the songs and I got confused.

[Stugats]

Old game. Take me out to the park. Buy me some peanuts and crackers. Yeah. I don't wanna be late for chicken food.

[Sports Analyst 1]

It's an updated version.

[Local Insider]

It's the REM.

[Dan Le Batard]

So good, man. And then the reason that Lefty Jeremy Tache thinks the Marlin should have a promotion. I believe they'd sell out for this. Of executing me live on the mound tonight because of the number of ways that I leverage inks this game. This is how my evening ended. Bases loaded with one out and no outs. Doesn't mean anything anymore because there's so many strikeouts.

[Chime Advertiser]

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[Dan Le Batard]

All the time. All the time. This game goes into the bottom of the 10th inning with the Marlins down a run and a runner on second base all the time. This ends in a. Oh, there's no way.

[Chris Cote]

There's no way.

[Chime Advertiser]

I hate you.

[Sports Analyst 1]

What a night.

[Dan Le Batard]

What was the funniest thing from among those things, Greg, which did you like the best?

[Chris Cote]

I liked all of them. I'm always a fan of your dad's, and I think him botching the words so good of one of the most well known songs in American sports was number one. Yeah.

[Producer/Sidekick]

This was the best part.

[Stugats]

Buy me some peanuts and crackers. Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

What is it he's doing with his voice?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the inner monologue microphone. He was speaking at the wrong microphone. Greg, why don't you.

[Producer/Sidekick]

I wasn't here.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know, Greg, We've been doing it here with you several months now.

[Greg Cody]

He was possessed by a demon midway.

[Chris Cote]

That's what it sounded like. That's part of the quality of why I voted that song number one. I can't get over it.

[Greg Cody]

Became Andre the Giant in Princess Bride.

[Stugats]

Buy me some peanuts and crackers. Yeah. I don't want to be liquor.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's exactly what it sounds like. Such a good shout.

[Producer/Sidekick]

My mike.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's exactly it.

[Stugats]

Anybody want a peanut? Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan.

[Hal Habib]

Put it on the poll, please. Could you hear the pituitary problem in Andre the Giant's voice?

[Stugats]

I don't want to be late for the game.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Because that is kind of what the lyric says.

[Hal Habib]

No, it's.

[Producer/Sidekick]

That is the gist of what, like, the song is saying, root for the

[Stugats]

team playing at home.

[Hal Habib]

I don't. I don't think what he's saying is, I don't want to be late to the game. I think the general spirit of take me out to the ball game is that I don't ever want to leave. Like, it goes without saying that you don't want to be late for the game.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Like, that's being at the gay.

[Chris Cote]

I don't know,

[Hal Habib]

Chips. I thought you were gonna go tater tots here.

[Stugats]

I don't care if you just leave me here.

[Hal Habib]

We can do different versions of taking you out to the ball game. I think my favorite part about him getting that wrong, though, and I'd like to play the entirety of the thing again is we've already set it all up. All you got to do, dad, is it's called take me out to the ball game. And then he blades lands the dismount with the ballpark.

[Dan Le Batard]

Papi, what do you remember about that experience?

[Producer/Sidekick]

Lay out for the song.

[Stugats]

Take me out to the park Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack.

[Hal Habib]

I don't want to be late for take.

[Chris Cote]

And so

[Sports Analyst 1]

it's an updated version.

[Local Insider]

It's the remix.

[Stugats]

That was a long time ago.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was a long time ago. My father actually did this at a Marlins game many years ago. You will see the teeming crowd that gathered for this promotion. Let's see if he gets the words right here. I have not watched this or seen it in a long time. Keep an eye on his lips here, Zazlon. Tell me if at any point he's faking it or if in this particular version, because I don't remember. If he got the words right here, he would have no reason to have memorized the song. Maybe he was reading it off the Jumbotron. If he got the words right. Let's see what we've got here.

[Stugats]

Take me out to the ball and take me out with the crowd all. 1, 2, 3, slide O.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Did pretty good there.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, nice crowd.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Did pretty good.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Like, I think there was four routes.

[Chris Cote]

There had to be 5,000 people there.

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[Dan Le Batard]

Hunters, Saja Boy's Breakfast Meal and Hunt Trick's meal have just dropped at McDonald's they're calling this a battle for the fans. What do you say to that, Rumi? It's not a battle.

[Chris Cote]

So glad the Saja boys could take breakfast and give our meal the rest of the day.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is an honor to share.

[Chris Cote]

No, it's our honor.

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[Chris Cote]

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[Dan Le Batard]

You can really feel the respect in this battle. Pick a meal to pick a side

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard, you don't remember the idea.

[Producer/Sidekick]

I was probably like that kind of thing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Something.

[Chris Cote]

Okay, no, the home run call was that kind of swing. That kind of thing.

[Stugats]

Stugats.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, it's a good call.

[Chris Cote]

Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like you're not tailoring it to a particular name. You know, all that jazz, you know, you don't got to do that. Oh, that would be a great call. Swing. That kind of thing.

[Stugats]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[Hal Habib]

Can you guys get me, please, the

[Dan Le Batard]

sound of Colorado Rocky traffic. Troy Wilson talking about Johnston. Oh, I'm sorry.

[Chime Advertiser]

Shows how much we should take his comments seriously.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's see what Troy, including yours, let's see what Troy Johnston has to Johnston or Johnson?

[Chime Advertiser]

Johnston.

[Dan Le Batard]

He played for the Marlins for several games.

[Chime Advertiser]

Let's see, 44 games.

[Producer/Sidekick]

What he plays for the Rockies now. And the Rockies were in town last week.

[Colorado Rockies Player]

So coming from the Miami Marlins, When I walk around Miami, I never saw a Miami Marlins jersey. I never saw a Miami Marlins hat. I saw nothing of the sort to when I'm walking around downtown Denver, they are really excited about the Rockies. They want the Rockies to be good. This is a sports town. We are trying to put a good product on the field. I think Paula's done a great job of that. I've never seen so many supporters of one team that I've actually been a part of and that I've been on. So this city and this team wants to win and we're going to try to put the best product every night and do our Best to win.

[TurboTax Advertiser]

Dork.

[Chris Cote]

I mean, it's easy taking a shot at the Marlins, but dude, you play for Colorado. You had the worst record in a century last year.

[Producer/Sidekick]

But he sees a lot of people around town.

[Sports Analyst 1]

They've lost 100 games three years in

[Chris Cote]

a row, and this guy's saying, oh, we're a great team. We want to win. Our fans are terrific. Bull.

[TurboTax Advertiser]

It's ridiculous.

[Greg Cody]

Some context here. He does have an axe to grind against the Miami Marlins. He was in their minor league system for a very long time. He thought he should have been called up way sooner than he actually was. The Rockies have given him a chance. And. And like that clip right there is a pretty prime example of a dude sounding a little bitter and taking some easy shots.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, he's angry. But it is funny. The lack of self awareness and Greg Cody immediately turning on him when we played the clip. Because you were making fun of the crowd, like you were making fun of the crowd. And I just played the clip to reinforce what you'd already said. And then you immediately turned on him. Your ally who supported what you said and said that he's a jerk. Did you just call him an asshole?

[Chris Cote]

I may have, yeah.

[Producer/Sidekick]

I called him a dork.

[Chris Cote]

What he said was. Was asked. But no, I preface it by saying he's taking an easy shot. The Marlins are the easiest team in baseball to make fun of, and I do it all the time because of their crowds and because they have the cheapest owner in the game. But if you're going to play for the Colorado Rockies and brag about the state of that franchise compared to anybody,

[Sports Analyst 1]

truly one of the awful franchises.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, you have nothing to stand on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, but he's not wrong that they support their team. They're better than we support ours. You say they have nothing. What do you mean? They do better attendance. And there is regional pride in that baseball team that you do see worn in the community. What he's saying is not inaccurate, but

[Chris Cote]

it's unfounded pride is what I'm saying. If I'm playing for the Colorado Rockies, I might brag about the attendance with the caveat. I can't believe that many fans come out to see the product we're putting on the field. That's what he should have said.

[Dan Le Batard]

Again, though, where's the inaccuracy in what he said? He is. He is indeed. You can hear the bitterness in his voice. In fact, it is odd to hear a baseball player talk this way because baseball players just don't do very much of this.

[Greg Cody]

He's a new player on the Rockies. Local Pete writers and radio guys, they love hearing that stuff. The fans love hearing that stuff too. He could have gotten that message out without punching down towards the Miami Marlins. He almost goes out of his way to shot at the Miami Marlins.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yeah. And it's coming from someone who, as. As you. You would expect at his age, who has zero context, who. Who does not know any of the history of the Marlins and the fan

[Greg Cody]

base or really other fan bases because he's played his entire career in the minors. I'm sure the Rockies seem like real big time because they have a downtown stadium. Zazz. And a lot of fans walk to the game over there. I. I've never seen a dude that looks like that walking around Little Havana.

[Chris Cote]

The thing is, if. If you play for the Rockies or the Wizards or the New York jets, it's fine to brag about how many jerseys you see around town, but you're still playing for bad franchises that lose continuously.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Rockies are not punching down. This is not the Rockies punching down. They're at the bottom. This isn't even the Rockies. This isn't. No. This is not a level. Punch the Rock.

[Producer/Sidekick]

No, we're down there too, Dan.

[Chris Cote]

They're taking an easy shot.

[Dan Le Batard]

1. One franchise has won two championships. The other franchise has never won anything or played any meaningful games anyone remembers.

[Greg Cody]

I guess I'm framing it in the context of the discussion he's trying to have. Which is better fandom. And guys, we gotta be honest about this. Right now, it's the Marlins and Rays in terms of people coming out to the ballpark. It's an easy argument. And the Rockies do draw better than the Marlins. So in that respect, it is punching down.

[Dan Le Batard]

They draw better while performing a good deal worse. Can you give me, please, the number of time the Rockies have made the playoffs since entering the league in 1993?

[Sports Analyst 1]

5.

[Greg Cody]

We're proving his point, though. Five times by saying, like, they don't have the on field success and yet the fans will come on out. You had Sandy on the. On the bump, and I counted 37 people.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, let's. Let's talk about what happened last night for a rude.

[Producer/Sidekick]

It was 3700.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's talk about the removal of Sandy from that game because during the live. The live stream last night, David Sampson was lamenting some of the computerization of baseball that leads to now so many special specialists all over the place that the Marlins can have a guy hit a couple of home runs and then not play him in the next game because they're doing so many different matchups. And the amount of science around every pitch in that sport now where the third and fourth time through a lineup, they're yanking pitchers because all of the arithmetic shows that when a pitcher has faced a lineup two, three and four times, no matter who the pitcher is, things get vastly more perilous. And so baseball has figured out, get me a fresh arm that's still throwing, throwing 100 as opposed to the live arm starter who's at 91 pitches. It's one of the reasons that the complete game has largely died in baseball. But Sandy threw one last game and had the kind of stuff in this one to throw another one. He was at 90 plus pitches with one out in the ninth inning. He had just walked a man after a double and they came and got him. And to my way of thinking, a pitcher of Sandy's excellence on this particular straight, Drake gets to decide whether he wants to be in that game or not at the end. You should not take that baseball from that kind of excellence. There aren't very many guys. I would give that right in baseball. But if, if Scherzer's allowed to do it in the World Series, when Scherzer is at 40 years old and had an ERA of 5 for two seasons, if Scherzer is allowed to have the resume, Sandy in that spot with this nowhere team where he's the only excellent thing and you have to carry, you have to let him carry you this. To me, I don't see what it is that anybody in the sport would object to if Sandy had been left in that game 100%.

[Chris Cote]

And we're not playing the result here. I said, and I think many fans did, when you saw McCullough going to the mound to take him out at that time, you're immediately saying, what? That's so stupid. I hate it when you're a slave to analytics. You got to have a feel for the game. You got to have a respect and a faith in your guy. Sandy Alcantara, the way he played in his first three starts is illuminating. It's by far the best thing about this early Marlin season and to take him out. It wasn't just that the move proved terrible and exploded in their faces at the time. It was just. It was just terrible.

[Dan Le Batard]

You can make the argument though, that the Marlins have never had anybody better, maybe Cabrera, but never had anybody better than this person. Better at doing anything than this person, Miguel Cabrera. I said that.

[Producer/Sidekick]

But he's, he's better no I'm just saying sustain Better. Yeah, I meant not in the conversation. Better.

[Greg Cody]

I sustained.

[Hal Habib]

Okay.

[Local Insider]

It's been a long day, Dan.

[TurboTax Advertiser]

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[Sports Analyst 1]

Put them in the.

[Producer/Sidekick]

You said in the conversation.

[Greg Cody]

Just look at that face.

[Dan Le Batard]

I said maybe Cabrera.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Yes, maybe. It's definitely okay.

[Chime Advertiser]

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[Chris Cote]

Okay, I'm going to mention, I'm going to mention Stanton as well.

[Chime Advertiser]

But he did win an MVP with the Marlins.

[Chris Cote]

Yes.

[Sports Analyst 1]

The place that. I have a problem with it last night. And I'm for analytics. I am. But it can't be the be all, end all there does, especially in baseball. I think there needs to be a little bit of a feel for the game, a feel for the team. You could say whatever you want about Jack McKeon and the bird Seeds, all right. Sitting on his chest in the dugout. But Jack McKeon felt that Josh Beckett's going to be okay on short rests in Yankee Stadium in game six. And guess what? He pitched one of the greatest games in the history of the World Series and the Marlins won the World Series. If he went with analytics there, Josh Beckett would not have started that game. But especially last night when, and I understand, you know, four time through the lineup and the averages go up. Okay. The part that I have a problem with that kind of stat is are we taking into account the analytics for fourth time through the lineup when it's the ace on the mound? Because I'm pretty sure those numbers are all encompassing for all starting pitchers. But how about if we're talking about one of the best five pitchers in all of baseball? What are the numbers then through the fourth time?

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's go through some of Tommy Hutton's in his final season. Tommy Hutton is always a good voice for the fan. Tommy Hutton can get emotional, can get the chap to ask Tommy Hutton. Let me hear Tommy Hutton on this decision as it's happening.

[Q]

I know there are always questions about, okay, how you going to handle a pitcher? And Clayton's been asked this. I heard him ask this on a radio show. Well, what about September? If you know how you going to handle him? When September. You know what? Eight or ten more pitches right now to get out of this game isn't going to bother Sandy Alcantara in September at all.

[Dan Le Batard]

See, he's getting pissed off there and now, now he's elevating. He's getting, he's, he's finding the words as he gets pissed off.

[Q]

Too many bad things happened after Sandy came out of the game. When you take a guy out, you got to make sure the guy you bring in has better stuff or you have more confidence in him than the guy that's out there presently.

[Producer/Sidekick]

Well, then you'll never take Sandy out.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Well, by that logic, but like, like what was I saying last night? You have the runners now first and second. Who would you rather have on the mound? Sandy Alcantara or anybody in your bullpen? How is the answer not Sandy Alcantra,

[Dan Le Batard]

Sandy or anybody in the history of your franchise?

[Sports Analyst 1]

How can the answer not be Sandy Alcantar?

[Producer/Sidekick]

Like It's Sandy at 95 pitches. Like there is one hit in the inning.

[Sports Analyst 1]

One hit. You give up one hit in a game that you're pitching a shutout for what, the third consecutive game because you give out a hit, all of a sudden we're in trouble here. Have a feel for your team.

[Chime Advertiser]

I would have kept Sandy in two, but that's mostly because I hate giving a reliever an inning with runners on base. Either make that choice before the inning, which has nothing to do with the amount of pitches that you've thrown. If the premise is you're going the fourth time through the order and there's the potential to face Sal Stewart. Sal Stewart has the fourth highest OPS in the National League. The guy rakes.

[Local Insider]

Local kid, by the way. Yeah, I know his brother.

[Chime Advertiser]

Really good, really good player.

[Greg Cody]

Good shooter, by the way. Good shooter.

[Chime Advertiser]

Playing at home, home, like playing at home in front of his, you know, home crowd. Whatever. He hadn't, he'd only had one hit earlier in the game. I can understand the logic of, hey, we're going to face this team the fourth time through the order. Every single pitcher, no matter how great they are, fourth time through. If you're not a guy with a ton of strikeout stuff, which isn't Sandy's game, He's basically like when he's at his peak, Greg Maddox, but he throws a hundred as opposed to, you know, peppering at 93, 94. That's what makes him so elite. But being in that situation, you do have to have the feel to know where to go. And I understand Anthony Bender against a right handed hitter, it makes sense logically. But to not ask Sandy, which is what he advocated for, which is if I'm pitching that well, you gotta ask me before you take me out of that game. I can completely understand where Sandy's at. And every fan, every person in the organization would have been okay if you go down with the ship with Sandy.

[Stugats]

If they don't win, that's less than desirable.