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Dan Le Batard
Chris, why are you laughing?
Stugotz
Because we just got Good Friday energy in here. Roy burnt his hand and I can't wait to hear how.
Roy
Fantastic.
Stugotz
We should get to that later. Let's tease that. I feel like people will stick around for that.
Dan Le Batard
You're laughing that Roy burnt his hand.
Roy
I appreciate.
Stugotz
Well, no, I'm curious about that because Roy came in and was like, I burnt my hand. And when Roy says something, I'm like, I gotta follow that.
Billy
No, but, but not really because like you said, Roy, burn his hand. I'm like, what happened? Like, save it for air. It's like you're not really following it. You don't actually care what happened to Roy's hand. You're just trying to fill time on the show with Roy's trauma.
Dan Le Batard
Were you cooking, Roy? Yes, sir, that's exactly what I.
Billy
That wasn't my guess. I thought it was an iron.
Roy
He thought it was a curling iron. Like with what exactly? There's no camera.
Billy
Curling iron or regular iron? Any type of iron? Golfing iron, whatever.
Roy
The album iron. Yeah, yeah, I don't think that.
Billy
Cast iron skillet.
Roy
Yeah, kind of. Yeah, I forgot that. Well, we'll save it for later.
Dan Le Batard
No, no, go ahead. We're here now.
Roy
We're Here now.
Joe Rosario
Okay.
Dan Le Batard
Give it a little treat to the Shadow show audience as a reward for them tailgating before the show. Give them the most prized of possessions. Roy has come in and from his mouth, content has spilled.
Roy
All right. So, yeah, I had some tri tip steak that I seared and then put in the oven. And then I took it out, put it on the stove, put the stick on the cutting board. And then Aneed came in and said something that probably annoyed me or knocked me off my kilter. And then I forget I didn't have the oven mitt on and touched the handle, which just came out of the oven for about 30 minutes and on 425 and burnt my hand.
Stugotz
Blaming a need is a move.
Billy
That's crazy.
Roy
Well, I had to in this situation. I wouldn't do it.
Billy
You definitely don't.
Dan Le Batard
It's your hand. Like she.
Billy
You're the one that grabbed it.
Dan Le Batard
She didn't put it there. It was your hand.
Roy
Yeah, but now my mind is off of the fact that, hey, this pan was in the oven piping hot.
Stugotz
I've done this move because with like a steak or a nice piece of red meat, you want to sear it. Get that sear. But then you want to finish it in the oven. So I've done the move of putting it in there. But you got to remember, Roy, like.
Roy
Yeah, I gotta remember. Yeah. Unfortunately, I did not remember. And now I got blisters on my face.
Billy
This is a crazy lack of accountability. My wife probably said something that annoyed me.
Roy
No, no, it wasn't probably. She did say something that annoyed me. It wasn't probably.
Billy
What was it?
Roy
I don't remember. I got a burnt hand. It made me forget what she said.
Billy
I don't know.
Dan Le Batard
Did you immediately blame her for it?
Roy
Yep, I did.
Dan Le Batard
Okay. All of that sounds flawed.
Roy
How?
Dan Le Batard
Well, you burnt yourself with your own adult hand and your own adult will and your own adult choices. You can react to your wife's annoyances however you wish to react. Many people don't react by immediately burning their hand.
Stugotz
The story delivered sounds like a classic.
Billy
Scene out of a 1970s sitcom.
Roy
A 70s sitcom?
Billy
Yeah. When you could just say, oh, my wife did this. I'm not at fault for anything.
Stugotz
That would not be written into a show today. No, in the 80s, that would be a big thing to start an episode.
Roy
No, we're not blaming all the wives for anything anymore. Or husbands.
Billy
Are you longing for that time? I'm confused here.
Roy
I'm not maybe turn.
Dan Le Batard
You wonder if Roy is longing for the early 1970s.
Roy
Jefferson's or something.
Billy
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.
Dan Le Batard
This is a legitimate punishment. I am uncomfortable. I am wearing leather in South Florida. It is tight and hot and steamy and already sweaty in places that I'd prefer to not sweat. I am Jesse Gemstone if it's not clear from the mutton chops. Mutton chops that I am sure over the next three hours will fall off. And these sunglasses. I can't really see anything. Never mind being able to read my notes or the headset isn't in the right place. I'm gonna have difficulty doing today's show because of this outfit that is swampy in nature. And look how happy Jeremy is. You're happy because I am honoring the audience by doing a punishment that's supposed to feel like a punishment. Unlike Billy doing the Ted Lasso and just throwing on a phony mustache that.
Billy
Wasn'T part of the mustache. Gained me an X. Thank you.
Chris Cody
It was.
Billy
He even said it goes above and beyond. We reached out to UD and UD said that I think I have immunity the next two weeks as a result.
Stugotz
That's not true.
Billy
Oh, yeah.
Dan Le Batard
You can't really make things up. And even though we're shorthanded and I can't actually see what it is.
Billy
Theater of the mind board says no.
Dan Le Batard
But it's not the theater of the mind when you're just lying.
Billy
Well, I mean, there's been no evidence that UD actually is in negotiations.
Dan Le Batard
I don't. The evidence. The evidence is that I don't lie and I don't make things up. And so neither that. No, you. You were perpetually doing that. Did someone take my lying penalty out of here? I can't actually see what.
Billy
Saying there's no evidence that the UD thing is real.
Dan Le Batard
But okay. There will be shortly because I'm negotiating.
Billy
Will tell you that I got a couple of weeks off.
Dan Le Batard
Let's see here. You know what? I don't have a lying one here anymore.
Billy
Did it ever exist?
Stugotz
Penalty, two minutes.
Dan Le Batard
Personal valve and foul out. You're going to have to leave for a second.
Joe Rosario
Even though we're shorthand.
Dan Le Batard
You're going to have to leave for two minutes because you're offensive. I want to talk about the baseball and I also want to talk about the football. But the first thing that I want to do is celebrate that. Finally, guest booker extraordinaire Chris Cody has tracked down a guest that we've been trying to get for, I'm going to say six. Six weeks and do you want to give me any of the backstory here, Chris, before we show the video and who the guest who is who will be joining us in 20 minutes, how did you finally find him? Without giving too much away, I'd like the video to be the surprise on who the guest is. But how did it come to be?
Stugotz
I was made aware of this person and where he was, so I got a contact for and I just had to kind of keep circling back. I didn't get a response the first couple times and I finally heard back last week and I was just like, this will slap next week. So join us.
Dan Le Batard
Okay, I just pulled off my ear. Earphones that are a little sweaty and it pulled off the mutton chop. So I'm gonna need some help here shortly. But let's go ahead and play the video for the audience and for the audio audience. Just know this is the ump who got hit multiple times with with wild pitches and foul balls in his foul balls. And so we will be talking to him in about 20 minutes. But go ahead and play that video.
Stugotz
It's the first one, takes one. Doesn't fall to the ground.
Dan Le Batard
No, that time he just bent over. You heard the pain.
Stugotz
Number two, still standing.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah.
Chris Cody
So impressive.
Stugotz
Crouched over. And here's the third one. And that's when he goes down. And on the third one, he, right behind home plate, lays in the fetal position.
Dan Le Batard
The coaches awkwardly walk over, stand over him.
Stugotz
So umpire Joe Rosario will join us today to tell us about what happened here. Because it seemed painful.
Dan Le Batard
Get for me just the three different groaning sounds that he makes so that I could play them for him and get his actual reaction to all three of the sounds, play the entirety of the video again so people can enjoy. So the audio audience, which will not have the pleasure of these particular videos and put it on a poll as well. Juju at Lebatard Show. Is it always funny when someone else gets hit in the foul balls? But listen to how the escalating O's come gutt from his nether regions.
Stugotz
That one, he's like, I can wear this.
Billy
Number two. Stay alive, Ryan. Good job, bud.
Stugotz
First two are Homer Simpsonish.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. The third one he's just done.
Chris Cody
I think it's important to note that this is definitely like 10 and under travel baseball. So these are not. This is not high school baseball. You might be thinking when you hear the ping off the bat and the velocity at which this is hitting this man in the nether regions. No, no. This is 10 year old baseball for sure. And it makes it so much funnier.
Dan Le Batard
The umpire's name is Joe, but when the coach said the way to stay alive, Brian, I thought he was talking to the ump. But on, on the third one, I don't have proof that the ump is alive because he does go into the fetal position. Not unlike, as I said, Tony when he, you know, hurt his hip trying field goals. I meant follow up questions on Tony who says that he's suing me and Meadowlark because I didn't ask him to do any of that. Like I learned he was kicking field goals when he started kicking field goals. Like, I don't know how I'm responsible. Is this, is this a needs fault? Is this the fault of Roy's wife for annoying him that Tony hurt his hip? Because I didn't ask Tony to do any of that.
Roy
Yes, it is.
Dan Le Batard
Okay, we will blame a need then. She is a receptacle for our blame.
Stugotz
I have the sound of the guy saying way to stay alive, Brian.
Dan Le Batard
I've got a lot of questions for this umpire and I don't know how to tease something better than that. Like I don't. I believe time spent listening. We're going to have a giant spike right now. Many, many times people tune in and they're like, ah, Dan's there, I don't. Cody's there. I'm not interested. Or Stugot isn't there, or Zaz isn't there. I don't want to listen anymore. I don't want to watch anymore. But I believe this guest and a grilling of follow up questions will make this guest someone that people stick.
Stugotz
And when he sees you, he's going to be like, I like this show.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, the games yesterday. I do not blame the Padres at all for feeling like an umpire ruined their season, ended their season. The Cubs were in a position to baartman. They were their, their pitcher Keller hit two batters after Xavier Bogart was given, you know, just an end of season reaming by the umpire. That will not be a strike year. They're changing Jeremy to robots next year. Correct. Like they're.
Chris Cody
Well, they're changing to the ABS system. So you'll have a couple of challenges which to me is the perfect hybrid between the two. Like if you have those two challenges and you get to continue to keep them when you're correct, that feels like the right way to go about it to keep the humanity while still making up for moments like, well, I want.
Dan Le Batard
To talk for a second. The Cubs, historically, I know that Joe Madden and the Cubs erased this. But historically, their fans have expected the worst and earned that expectation. In fact, I saw that Jake Arietta and Ryan Dempster were the ones singing the seventh inning stretch yesterday. It's because they wouldn't dare to invite Kerry Wood and Mark Pryor to do it because the Marlins ended those two people. And they associate those two people with, we were better than the Marlins. And the Marlins won the World Series. So they brought Arrieta and Dempster back to sing the seventh inning stretch. And in the ninth inning, they were prepared to cough that entire thing up. Merrill hits a home run. I told you yesterday, I've liked the Padres a lot for three. And baseball's random. Baseball's weird. The Padres bullpen is championship worthy. It's the best bullpen in the sport. You Darvish has nothing left. You Darvish. It was sad to watch him go out there, get three outs, and they yanked him off the field as fast as possible. So Merrill hits a home run to make it three one. And Bogart, who, who. He was great in the Bogarts. Excuse me. He was great in the series. He's a professional hitter. And he worked the count to three two. And it was ball four. It was obviously ball four. And I think the umpire got swept away with. I'm at Wrigley Field. This is exciting. I'm going to do something exciting here. That did not deserve to be a strike call. The Padres are mad afterward. Do we have any footage of the Padres? Were they, like, out of control?
Stugotz
To me, like, I. The umpires are leaving the field walking, like, from the field to their room and going through the dugout, and the Padres players have to be held back.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, let's play the B roll of that. Because the Padres did feel like their season was ended by the umpires, and it was. Because what happened right after that. If you watched everything that happened after that, the, The. The game would have gotten, first of all, to Tatis. And the way the. The rest of the inning played out because there were two hit by pitches right after that, they would have tied the game. They would have been able to tie the game and be in a more threatening position if they had not been gifted that out. And so Manny Machado. Let's play the sound of Manny Machado getting testy with reporters afterward. And I get it. I get why the Padres would be emotional and bothered by this. Let's listen to this.
Jeremy
I know it just ended, but how.
Dan Le Batard
Do you assess a season like this? I mean, I mean, what type of Question is that, dude, my guy. How do I assess the season we just lost?
Joe Rosario
How do you think I assess the seat?
Dan Le Batard
How do you think I assess it? I don't know. That's what I was asking you. Tell me, what is. What's a loss we lost? How do you assess it? It's a loss. You're. You lost. Fair enough. Come on, dude. I mean, you could ask better questions than that. Let's go.
Stugotz
Come on.
Dan Le Batard
You know, wait till the last second. That's a good question. Like, what's wrong with the question?
Billy
He looked happy, too, if we're gonna be honest.
Dan Le Batard
Oh, he's faking it. He looked happy the way Tyreek Hill looked happy as he came off the field. We were all like, wait a minute, he shouldn't look that happy. Is he faking happy?
Billy
Did you see the video? Like, someone took following Tyreek Hill's, like, ambulance. Like, are they. I think I weren't following him, but they were, like, next to him on the expressway as he's being driven to the hospital. And he's like, facetime. He's on. He's still smiling. Like, I. He seems content with, like, that injury, I guess, or he was, like, at peace with it. I don't know.
Stugotz
Just seems like someone who doesn't really know how to control, like, all of his emotions either way, good or bad.
Billy
I don't know.
Dan Le Batard
Can you get us that video? Because while you've seen that video, when you're talking about that video, that would be good video for all of us to see if you can get it to the video team. Because we have assessed what we have said is a strange reaction from Tyreek Hill. But I do understand basically just about any reaction when you've just realized that your 36 million non guaranteed next year went from I was gonna get that 36 million to now I'm not guaranteed that 36 million. I think any reaction after that that doesn't harm people is going to be an acceptable reaction, even if it is curious, because I don't think that he could possibly be happy. But if I had to theorize why he was happy, it's because he doesn't have to play for these Dolphins anymore. Like, if, If. If there's anything to be seen here, maybe he feels like, okay, I don't actually have to run over the middle anymore. For a team that's going to be 4 and 13.
Billy
I don't know. There's going to be a big week for the Dolphins against the Panthers. You see the big news.
Stugotz
The two Offensive linemen that are out.
Billy
Chubba Hubbard's out, too. So Rico Dowdle game, which is great for me because I picked him up a couple days ago in fantasy. But the Dolphins, all of a sudden, sneaky two and three and a lot of people wrote them off.
Dan Le Batard
Huh? I don't know why you're assuming they're going to win a road game.
Billy
I'm just. It's a feeling. I'm feeling good about this one. Dolphins, a sneaky two and three, and then, you know, don't let this team get hot because if you look ahead after that, I mean, you may face the Ravens without Lamar Jackson. That's a couple of weeks away. So who knows? The Chargers, obviously, that's going to be a test.
Stugotz
Chargers are also missing two key offensive linemen. I'll keep bringing it up, folks.
Billy
Well, that's, you know, that's two weeks from now. We don't know. We thought the Chargers were, you know, a godly team, top tier. And then last week they kind of let us down. So keep an eye on the Chargers this week for a preview of what next week game is. And then there's the Browns. The Browns are a mess. You could be looking at a potentially 3 and 4 team here maybe in a couple weeks.
Dan Le Batard
Not gonna do that with you. Refuse to do that with Falcons.
Billy
We don't.
Dan Le Batard
All of those teams are looking at the Dolphins and saying, we have an easy one coming up next. Again, perfect trap.
Billy
That's how you trap them. Classic trap game against the Dolphin.
Chris Cody
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Roy
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Jeremy
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Chris Cody
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Jeremy
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Chris Cody
I mean, to think that people were celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Light as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.
Jeremy
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Chris Cody
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Dan Le Batard
Don LeBatard.
Billy
I may take it one step further.
Dan Le Batard
Wait a minute.
Stugotz
You're getting sexier by the moment.
Dan Le Batard
Slow down. We haven't even stugats.
Billy
Jason Sanders.
Stugotz
You're unnoticed.
Dan Le Batard
Wow. Oh, my God.
Joe Rosario
What?
Billy
In spite of him.
Dan Le Batard
Oh, wow. I love you, Duke.
Billy
This is the Dan lebatar show with the stugats.
Dan Le Batard
Let's watch Billy's video here. Thank you for sending it, Billy. Let's watch this video. And you can just see Tyreek Hill in the back of the ambulance still smiling while on the FaceTime that he was on. In the. In the wheelchair. This feels slightly invasive. I regret doing this. I don't. I don't think that. I don't think that whoever chose to fill their socials with, I'm going to chase this ambulance down. I don't think that that person should have done that.
Stugotz
You guys see the opposite angle? There was another angle of the same Tyrique video. It's definitely not AI. Definitely not AI. Where he happens to fall out of the ambulance.
Billy
Oh, no. Did that happen?
Dan Le Batard
Okay.
Stugotz
I mean, it's a different angle. I'm not sure whether it was real or not. See, look.
Dan Le Batard
Oh, no.
Billy
Tyreek.
Dan Le Batard
Oh, no.
Billy
For the wheels.
Dan Le Batard
That is definitely not artificial intelligence. That is obviously a nice landing.
Stugotz
He landed nicely.
Billy
Is it bad to love AI? I think I might love AI.
Dan Le Batard
Put it on the poll, please. Juju at Lebiton. Joe. Is it bad to love AI?
Roy
The legs going up, man.
Dan Le Batard
When. When you guys think, is his leg crooked? That's not right. It's. Oh, no. I regret doing all of that. I should have asked more questions before I followed Billy down a path. I should know better.
Billy
After all, I did have that video of the guy falling out of the air. That was not me.
Dan Le Batard
Okay? I just shouldn't have rewarded any of the behavior from anyone chasing down Tyreek Hill's ambulance. But when I think of surprising games this year in football, because you mentioned the Giants beating the Chargers. The Giants, I believe in that game, were less than a touchdown underdog. The biggest surprise point spread wise. Jeremy. See if I've got this wrong. I think Cleveland winning at home as a seven point dog against. Against Green Bay was, until last night, the biggest surprise of the season. But what the 49ers are doing is really and truly unbelievable. Because Kyle Shanahan is supposed to be bad in one score game. Statistically, he is bad. He has Mac Jones starting last night. And it does make me wonder to see Mac Jones look like that after I see what he looks like in New England, what I see, what he looks like in Jacksonville. To see. To see Mac Jones throw 49 passes and only two of them be truly inaccurate. To see Mac Jones walk in into the stadium looking this way with his pregame outfit when he doesn't have, among others, he does not have his first wide receiver, his second wide receiver, his third wide receiver, he doesn't have his top tight end, he doesn't have his top defensive end, and obviously the 49ers don't have their top quarterback. To see Kyle Shanahan do that with Brock Purdy, to get to a Super bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo and have Mac Jones look that way. I know, Bill, that you and God bless football and in other places have been critical of Kyle Shanahan because he doesn't win those one score games, but he seems to have an ability to make quarterbacks look better than they are. Because the other thing that the 49ers are is 4 and 1 when they don't have an interception this year and they don't have a rushing touchdown. So they have not had a rushing touchdown, they have not had an interception, and they're 4 and 1. That last night was the most impressive victory I have seen a football team have this entire season because it doesn't make any sense that they would win that game. That's Mac Jones's reaction when he was asked about an interception he threw. And then he said the defensive guy didn't have to do anything. I threw it right at him.
Billy
Did Bill Belichick ruin Mac Jones?
Dan Le Batard
Did Mac Jones play for Urban Meyer, who was the coach of Mac Jones in Jacksonville? That made Mac Jones look that constipated. And it's still a bunch of underneath stuff, but he was accurate on everything. Two of 49 passes were inaccurate last night. And that's crazy, though.
Stugotz
Like, I didn't know when I saw this suit. I thought they were gonna get their ass kicked. But then they win, so maybe he's doing something right here. Is that.
Dan Le Batard
What.
Stugotz
What kind of red is this?
Roy
Magenta or something?
Dan Le Batard
What is that? So he's got a half red, half black jacket. He's got shoes with no socks on. It looks like it's a bit of a tuxedo bottom on the pants. The pants look a little bit high too. Do they not with the stripe down the side?
Stugotz
That's style. It's scarlet. I'm being told it read well.
Dan Le Batard
We're not qualified as a group to talk about anyone else's fashion, but this looks ridiculous.
Stugotz
I'm with you. Jeremy likes it.
Dan Le Batard
I don't agree.
Chris Cody
I think he looks great, especially after the win. It does look better after you win a game like that. If he had gotten destroyed, it wouldn't have been good. Also, it was Doug Peterson, and it was last year that he was in Jacksonville. You guys realize that that was last season.
Dan Le Batard
Okay?
Billy
He wasn't honestly that bad. I'm looking at it.
Dan Le Batard
It's crazy.
Chris Cody
He was better with Brian Thomas Jr. Than Trevor Lawrence was, which continues to be the case.
Dan Le Batard
I'm going to say this again because I want everyone to see what's happening in San Francisco. No wide receiver, 1. No quarterback 1. No tight end, 1. No wide receiver, 2. No wide receiver, 3. No defensive end, 1. And I want to get into the decisions made at the last part of the game. We'll get into it with Dominique Foxworth. He's going to join us later. Michelle Beadle is going to join us as well. No comments, okay? Don't say anything to them about how I'm dressed. Let's. Let's just wait for a natural reaction to see what it is that they have to say. But you guys saw the way that game ended. Okay, first of all, you didn't have to watch anything except for about the last three minutes of regulation and then overtime. Matthew Stafford makes it look very easy late in the game. Puka Nakua makes it look very easy late in the game. That throw to Atwell late by Matthew Stafford was crazy good. But the Rams got the game one. And then Zaslow hates the punching of the football, but the punching of the football on the goal line with Williams knocks the ball out. And they kept going to Williams. And they went to Williams late on 4th and 1. And they should. He's great, but he was not great at the end of the game. He lost that game. And at the end of the game, on 4th and 1, I'm not used to coaches going for it there. Still, after all this time, I don't think a lot of them would have. I think a lot of them would have taken the field goal in the tie game. Even though the 49ers have had kicking. I'm sorry, the Rams have had kicking issues. And so I want to ask Dominique about all that because maybe the tide has indeed turned and it is normal to trust your offense above all things. But Al Michaels was saying at the end of the game, this is why you pay McVay, big bucks. This is why you trust your play call. This is why you trust your quarterback. And I'm looking and I'm like, what I trust is Fred Warner is awfully close to the line of scrimmage and Fred Warner knows what it is that you're going to do. And Fred Warner is not a blockable human being. And so they get stopped on fourth and one to end the game. And it's the single biggest surprise I've seen in the sport this year. Do you guys have a nominee for me on anything that. Because Cleveland winning against Green Bay. But, but Cleveland was at home like that Stafford. And we know that's a good Rams team. Like all of us would say that that is a good Rams team that the two losses the Rams have this season, they could easily be unbeaten.
Chris Cody
I don't know that the Falcons are very good, but they were five and a half point favorites against Carolina who beat them 30 to nothing. That's a Carolina winning anything 30 to nothing.
Dan Le Batard
No, but Carolina is an easy game. They're going to make the Dolphins 2 and 3 this weekend because Billy's totally unafraid of them.
Billy
Well, no, not just that. I mean we mentioned the Brown real quick. They did. If you guys remember correctly, they made a quarterback switch. Dylan Gabriel is going to be taking over the helm. He's got a rough one this week against the Vikings. Who knows how that one's going to play out. I mean it seemed you probably lose that. Then you have the Steelers, a tough test. That's a, that's a rival of theirs. And then you may be coming into the following week against the Dolphins with questions again at the quarterback position. So I mean don't look too far ahead. Week seven might be kind of a get right game.
Chris Cody
A potential matchup of left handed Hawaiian quarterbacks to and Dylan Gabriel. So a real rarity.
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Dan Le Batard
With what is your strike three call?
Stugotz
Strike one would be strike, and then.
Billy
You stand up and you give a good point to the right stugaats.
Stugotz
That's same for strike three. But strike three, you get down low.
Billy
You got your hands behind the catcher, all right? The right arm goes up into the air and then you finish it with the punch. The right arm flings way up into the air.
Dan Le Batard
I wish I could see that. The audio is great.
Billy
This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.
Dan Le Batard
We have to stop right now. Stop all things, because the great Joe Rosari is now with Us, and we've been trying to find him for a long time, and he has made himself available. Back in August, as the home plate umpire, he was hitting the privates three times in one game. And I have a ton of questions. Joe, thank you for making the time. I am assuming that at this point you have shaken off all that pain or has there been lingering effects?
Joe Rosario
No, no, we've shaken off all that pain.
Dan Le Batard
All right, so let's go through these one at a time here. How. How many innings apart were these three horrible foul tips? Please watch this with us here. Actually, before you answer that question, just watch this with us. And at the end of this, just take me through your thoughts in general.
Joe Rosario
Okay. Ouch.
Stugotz
Go number two.
Billy
Stay alive.
Dan Le Batard
Ryan. Ryan.
Stugotz
Joe, does that bring you back?
Joe Rosario
Oh, yeah, that brings me back.
Stugotz
So what happened? So when this happens, three in a row, one game, you're a grizzled vet in this game. I'm sure you've had it happen once in a game. You have it happen three times in one game. What happened to you afterwards?
Joe Rosario
I have not. What happened to me afterwards is I. I started to urinate blood, so I had to go to the hospital for an ultrasound to make sure everything was okay. The doctor said just don't get hit there again.
Dan Le Batard
I've got a ton of questions here. So how long have you been umpiring, Joe?
Joe Rosario
About 35 years.
Dan Le Batard
How many times total before this game had that happened to you in 35 years?
Joe Rosario
Twice.
Dan Le Batard
So. And so in 35 years, you'd only been hit that way twice. And it happens three times in what game? So what was happening here? Was it the incompetence of the catcher?
Joe Rosario
No, it was not. Every one of those shots were foul balls on the inside part of the plate. And it's. It's very unusual for that to happen because usually if there's a foul ball, you get hit on on the opposite side. But this. These were inside pitches, and they would. It was not the catcher's fault at all. I mean, the catcher had no time to react on these.
Dan Le Batard
Do you wear a cup?
Joe Rosario
Oh, yes.
Dan Le Batard
Okay. So, gee. All right. So I assume the third of these is the one that hurt the most. Do I have that wrong? Wrong?
Joe Rosario
No, that. That by the time I took the third one, Dan, it was. It was horrible. You know, I just. I couldn't even breathe.
Dan Le Batard
Did you continue or did you stop umpiring? And did they have to cancel the game?
Joe Rosario
No, no, I continued. I took. I took about 10 minutes just to, you know, be able to catch my breath because of the discomfort, but I was able to continue. And as a matter of fact, my, my partner, he's got bad knees. Yeah, that's why I was behind the plate. And even Sunday, the next day, I was right behind the plate again.
Dan Le Batard
Look at that. Look at that day later.
Billy
Hold on a second. You went to the hospital, man, you were peeing blood. And the next day you were back out on the diamond.
Joe Rosario
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Dan Le Batard
What are the rates? I used to get paid $15 a game to umpire. What does an umpire get paid to endure that.
Joe Rosario
For that age level? You're getting paid $70 a game to do that. So it's not that, it's not that, you know, it's not that bad, but it, it's great. It keeps you in shape and just keeps the weight off. That's why I do it. I enjoy it.
Billy
And what's the copay at the er when you go, like, how many games you have to do to make up for that?
Joe Rosario
It's probably more. The co pay is more than what I got paid for.
Dan Le Batard
So by the time that you're getting hit the second time, are you still stinging from the first time?
Joe Rosario
Oh, yes, yes. Nauseous is all. Heck, everybody, when they see the video, they assume that you're not wearing the cup, but even a cup doesn't give you that kind of protection. You still feel it. You still feel it. So I was nauseous by the time the second one came around. By the third one that came around, I just, I was, I was down and out.
Dan Le Batard
How long did you stay down after the third one?
Joe Rosario
Oh, probably about seven or eight minutes. I just, just so nauseous and I had just had to catch my breath on that.
Dan Le Batard
Did you notice the general callous indifference of coaches who wandered over and weren't paying any attention to the fallen umpire?
Joe Rosario
No, I was actually more concerned about, about what was going on with me. I, I, I couldn't pay attention. Tell you all the, the coaches and the, they were all good. They were all concerned. Especially after the third one and I'm laying there in, just in a pile. So the coaches were pretty good. They came over, make sure that I was okay to continue.
Billy
After the third one, I imagine the strike zone is wide open. Right. Like anything that's anywhere in our clothes. We gotta get out of here. Like, I gotta go checked out here, kids.
Joe Rosario
Well, it's the flinch. You know, you train yourself never to flinch. As a good umpire, you don't flinch. But that day, after the third One, my feet were very happy and I was flinching like, like all heck.
Dan Le Batard
On, on after the third one, did you just start placing your hands over your private.
Joe Rosario
Yeah, and that's a, that's a mechanic that we're supposed to use anyway. You're supposed to do that. You're supposed to leave your fingers dangled. So the theory is if it hits, it's going to hit your fingers, not break the fingers and then just deflect it a little bit. But yeah, I was. The biggest trick was not the flinch.
Billy
So this is your fault then?
Joe Rosario
I would like to blame it on, I'd like to blame it on, on somebody.
Billy
The kids, the brat just. The kids are brats. It's the kid's fault. You could say it was the kids fault.
Joe Rosario
Nah, those kids were good. The skill level that these kids have playing elite baseball is incredible. It's, you know, it's incredible. They throw hard. As a matter of fact, I believe on two of those I got. There was a nine year old girl that was pitching and she threw hard. I think she's the one that did the most damage.
Stugotz
Joe, parents talk to you hear a lot about parents like giving umpires crap. How often is that a problem with you? Have you had any wild stories? Stories?
Joe Rosario
Oh, yes, I got one that, that's why I initially when my assigner called me about, when he, when he called me, I thought it was about. Because there was a, I did a rec game and there was a fight. Two mothers going at it, rolling on the grass, fighting it. This, you know that, that happened this past year. And that's what I thought about the, the initial call was, was. But it's incredible. The two mothers were going at it. The kid, what started was a kid got hit on the hands. He was swinging, which is a dead ball strike. So I called it. Now the grandfather that was there was going crazy, wanted to fight me in the parking lot. And this guy was, I'm 66. This guy was at least five years older than I am. He wanted, he wanted the fight. And then the mother came over and started yelling at another mother and it just. The coaches ended up forfeiting the g. Both of the coaches, they were great people. They said no wait, this is just too, too much. And. And then the mothers started going at it and you know, the crew, the police came down and took the two mothers away in cuffs. So that, that was my, that was my. Yeah, I know.
Dan Le Batard
Did they not know the rules? Did you just keep telling them it's a dead ball? You can't swing. If you get hit, you swing, it's a strike.
Joe Rosario
Yeah, you tell them that. You try to explain it. I usually don't talk to parents and grandparents, you know, unless it's an informative type of thing. Well, they want to know and, you know, I'll, I'll do that. But yeah, they, they. It was, it was just horrible. I just. I couldn't. I just couldn't believe it. I mean, you know, a guy, a guy that, that wants to fight me in the parking lot, two mothers just rolling, literally rolling on the grass till the cruisers got there. But this is the stuff that we put up with yearly.
Dan Le Batard
It's $70, so. So you gotta, like, it's worth it. You thought we were calling you, though, about that dead ball instead of your dead balls.
Joe Rosario
Yes, that's what I initially thought.
Dan Le Batard
The, the situation that you found yourself in happened in the first time. In what inning?
Joe Rosario
The first time it happened, I think it happened in the first inning.
Dan Le Batard
Second time?
Joe Rosario
Second time I believe it was in the third inning. And then the third time, I believe it was on the fourth inning.
Dan Le Batard
All right, so this is a bad stretch and the games are seven innings long. So you toughed it out after that. And what were you feeling the next three innings? What can you be beyond the flinc and beyond the fear and beyond the general throbbing or numbness? What are you feeling the next three innings?
Joe Rosario
Oh, just complete nausea. I was as nauseous as all heck. I just couldn't. You know, even though you're wearing a cup, you still feel it. So I was nauseous. And it was just. It was just hard. The hardest part was the focus. Keeping your focus on the game. You know, there's a. The temptation is to always just cross your legs on the next pitch, but, you know, you keep it. You know, you just stay in there. You try to hang in there as best you can.
Billy
Joe, I like you. You seem like an old school salt to the earth type of guy, and I'm a little concerned and I hope that you share my concern, but I don't want to lead you here if you are familiar with this artificial intelligence, this AI that's out there. And you know, it's fine to ignore when it doesn't really affect you, but I don't know if you've caught on to this robot umpire situation that's going on now in Minor League Baseball and they're trying to bring up to Major League Baseball. How do we feel about that? Because I feel like they're trying to come and take your jobs. And I like you, a classic guy. I like the human element of the game. So I'm worried about these robot umpires.
Joe Rosario
Yeah, I don't think that's ever going to fully replace umpires. That's part umpiring, is. It's part of the game. Good calls, bad calls, they're still all part of the game. The reviews that they do now, I mean, the technology is. Is, you know, is pretty good, but you'll still need umpires. You'll still need to be able to have umpires out there, even though the technology. Well, even this video of me getting hit, that's sub. That's subject to the new technology that they have on the. On the backstops now. So. But I think the technology is there. It's going to be there to help. I don't think it's going to be there to replace the umpires.
Billy
I mean, it's part of the game, I think. Right. Imagine a robot getting hit in the twig and berries. Not nearly as funny, obviously. It's only funny because you're okay. But, I mean, it'd be a disservice, I think, to it missing. Let me ask you something as an umpire. How's your hook? Do you have a quick hook? Do you have a long hook? Like, what's the. What's the word that a. That a parent or a coach or a kid has to say that? Joe says, you know what, buddy? Now you've gone too far.
Stugotz
You're out of here.
Joe Rosario
It depends. My hook, depending if it's a tournament and a tight game, believe me, like, if it's a tournament, you know, the coaches and.
Billy
The S word. The S word. Is that an automatic hook? The S word?
Joe Rosario
Yeah.
Billy
The F word. Automatic hook.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah.
Billy
And automatic hook.
Joe Rosario
Oh, yeah.
Billy
All right, good.
Joe Rosario
Yeah. The. The other thing, too, is, like, a lot of times coaches will complain about. About the balls and they'll mumble a little bit in a tight game. And you let that go. In a tight game, everyone's trying to get an edge.
Stugotz
I got an idea here, Joe. All right, you're gonna be the umpire. Now, I'm a parent, okay? So just tell me. I'm gonna say something. You tell me what you do.
Billy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stop us when we get there.
Stugotz
Hey, hey, Blue, get your head out of your ass.
Billy
No, too far.
Joe Rosario
A word that's gone out of here.
Billy
A word.
Jeremy
All right, kids.
Billy
All right. Joe. Joe. Stop me when I hit the line. Darn it.
Joe Rosario
No, that's good.
Billy
Dang it.
Joe Rosario
That's still good.
Billy
Dang nabbit, that's still good. God damn it, you ump.
Joe Rosario
That's not good.
Stugotz
What's your. Get out of here. Give us your. Get out of here. What's that?
Dan Le Batard
What is the ejection? What does it look like, the ejection?
Joe Rosario
You just. You point at them, you turn away, put your hand out, you're out of here.
Billy
Gone.
Dan Le Batard
They're gone. Chris, you want to give him your third strike?
Billy
Call.
Stugotz
Thank you.
Dan Le Batard
Get. Let's see if we can get a grade from Joe.
Stugotz
One and two.
Dan Le Batard
Go ahead and do the whole thing, but let's get his assessment. We would like a grade from Joe on Joe.
Stugotz
I put two or three years in when I was in my teens. Here we go. Strike. One and two are the same. So I'll give you just. Oh, so that's one and two. That's one and two. And then the, you know, the big dog here.
Roy
Oh, wow.
Joe Rosario
That's good, Chris.
Stugotz
Thank you.
Dan Le Batard
That's good. That's good.
Stugotz
He said. Nice.
Dan Le Batard
A B plus, A minus. Minus. B minus.
Joe Rosario
Give that a solid B plus.
Dan Le Batard
All right. Congratulations, Chris. We're gonna play these for you here.
Joe Rosario
You.
Dan Le Batard
Based on just sound, tell us whether this was the first time you got hit in the balls, the second time you got hit in the balls, or the third time you got hit in the balls.
Joe Rosario
Okay, that last one was the third time.
Dan Le Batard
No.
Stugotz
All right, here you go. I'm gonna play it here. I'm gonna play a little louder for you. Here it comes. Here.
Dan Le Batard
Ryan.
Billy
Good job, bud.
Joe Rosario
That was. I. I think that was the. That was, I believe, the second time.
Dan Le Batard
Yes. That's good. He's got a good awareness here. Let's play another one for him. See if it's the first one or the third one.
Joe Rosario
That, that I, I. If I'm not. Mistake. That's the first one.
Stugotz
You're wrong, Joe. That's the third one.
Dan Le Batard
That's the worst of them. I'm sorry to say that. Yeah, that's when you hit the ground. But you can be permitted. You were in a state of disorientation and nausea.
Stugotz
So now, guess what, Joe, you're out of here.
Dan Le Batard
Yes. You're out of here. Good seeing you, Joe. Thank you for being on with us. Real quick before you go. Did the ump steal the Padres season yesterday?
Joe Rosario
No, I don't think so. I don't think so. You can't blame it on. I don't think you can. Well, you can try to blame it on the.
Billy
You're out of here.
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Episode: Local Hour: Roy Blames His Wife (feat. Umpire Joe Rosario)
Date: October 3, 2025
Summary by Podcast Summarizer AI
This "Local Hour" episode, recorded at the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, brings together Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew for a classic, free-wheeling blend of South Florida sports talk, pop culture banter, and original silliness. The show features a much-anticipated and hilarious interview with youth baseball umpire Joe Rosario, who recently went viral after being hit three times in the groin during one game. There’s also a deep dive into baseball and football drama, some memorable moments of accountability-dodging, and the show's signature blend of undercutting each other's stories with good-natured ridicule.
Roy details a recent kitchen mishap:
“You burnt yourself with your own adult hand and your own adult choices… Many people don’t react by immediately burning their hand.”
— Dan Le Batard (03:57)
“No, no, it wasn’t probably. She did say something that annoyed me. It wasn’t probably.”
— Roy (03:41)
The Segment Build-Up:
“Listen to how the escalating O's come gutt from his nether regions.”
— Dan Le Batard (09:17)
Interview with Umpire Joe Rosario (33:36–48:38):
“I started to urinate blood, so I had to go to the hospital for an ultrasound… The doctor said: just don’t get hit there again.”
— Joe Rosario (34:54)
“By the time I took the third one, Dan, it was horrible. I couldn’t even breathe.”
— Joe Rosario (36:16)
“It’s $70, so you gotta… like, it’s worth it. You thought we were calling you, though, about that dead ball instead of your dead balls.”
— Dan Le Batard (42:35)
Playoff baseball debate:
“The Padres did feel like their season was ended by the umpires—and it was.”
— Dan Le Batard (13:51)
“What type of question is that, dude, my guy. How do I assess the season? We just lost.”
— Manny Machado (14:43)
| Time | Segment Description | |---------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:31 | Show content starts; Chris laughs about Roy’s injury | | 02:42 | Roy tells the story of burning his hand—and blames his wife | | 05:00 | Dan complains about his costume punishment, details discomfort | | 08:44 | Tease/build for the Joe Rosario umpire interview; viral groin-hit video breakdown | | 13:51 | Padres playoff controversy; umpires under scrutiny | | 14:43 | Manny Machado testy post-game interview | | 33:36 | Umpire Joe Rosario joins the show; recounts viral incident and years of officiating | | 34:54 | Joe details urinating blood, hospital visit, and coaching through pain | | 40:25 | Joe’s story about mothers fighting at a youth baseball game | | 45:20 | Discussion of AI/robot umpires | | 46:43 | Joe judges ejection-worthy phrases and gives Chris Cody a B+ for his strike-three call | | 47:38 | Joe is played clips of his own groaning after being hit and guesses which was which | | 48:38 | Joe’s verdict: No, the ump did not steal the Padres’ season; he’s “out of here” (show ends segment) |
This episode is a great example of the “Local Hour” at its finest—mixing viral sports absurdity (Joe Rosario’s viral groin mishaps), real behind-the-scenes perspectives on youth sports, baseball analysis, and the ever-present possibility that the dumbest injury or worst decision can become the day’s funniest story.
For new and returning listeners, this is both a hearty laugh and an unexpected look at the toughness—and hazards—of keeping youth sports running.