Local Hour: START SPREADIN’ THE NEWS, B******

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Local Hour: START SPREADIN’ THE NEWS, B******"

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – Local Hour, October 9, 2025

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Episode Overview

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Billy Gil, and the rest of the crew dish on a rich stew of sports topics, with a local Miami flavor and a heavy focus on the New York Yankees’ latest postseason demise. The episode is peppered with mockery of the Yankees’ misfortunes, playful debate about sports fandom, birthday banter, and a check-in with Zaslow from across the pond. Throughout, the tone is irreverent, comedic, and at times, gleefully mean-spirited toward baseball’s most storied franchise.

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Main Discussion Highlights

Relishing the Yankees’ Postseason Collapse

• Yankees Mockery Soundboard
  Billy Gil calls for classic sound clips mocking the Yankees, including the iconic “Ow, ow, ow” from a mishap in the Yankees’ booth and the legendary Suzyn Waldman “Roger Clemens is back!” moment:

  • "[The 3-2] Swung on, a pop foul back here. Ow! Ow! Ow! It really hit me. I didn’t know it was coming back that far." ([01:00])
  • Billy and Dan riff on how these are the last real “great moments” for the Yankees, noting teams like the Cubs, Red Sox, Royals, Nationals, Giants, and even Rangers have won more recently ([02:14]).

• The $5,000 White Corvette Bet
  Dan recounts the bizarre side plot of possibly paying off a friendly $5,000 sports bet with a 1993 Chevy Corvette (notably, one that needs a new transmission), illustrating the show’s signature embrace of absurdity ([03:11]).

• Postseason Pain
  The panel reviews the Yankees’ stunning flameout—a team built for power, again undone by its all-or-nothing approach, while the Blue Jays succeeded with “duck farts” and choked-up contact hitters ([09:25]):

  • "That’s what wins in the postseason, though. That’s why the Yankees keep losing: their home run or bust.” – Mike Ryan ([09:56])
  • The crew laughs about the Yankees’ “hope” dying almost instantly in the 8th inning, savoring their pain as only South Florida transplants can ([24:03]).

• Blue Jays’ Manager Trolls Yankees
  Dan plays celebration audio from Toronto’s manager John Schneider, who tweaks the Yankees by referencing Sinatra’s “New York, New York”—only to be drowned out by celebratory champagne:

  • “It takes everybody, every day—start spreading the news…” — John Schneider ([13:23])

Reflecting on Fandom, Hate-Watching, and Sports Joy

• Dan’s Evolution as a Former Yankee Fan
  Dan unpacks his journey from Yankees fandom as a South Floridian (explaining they were the only major league team he could watch as a kid) to actively rooting against them. He contrasts it with generational Miami sports fandom, sharing vivid family memories like his dad’s euphoric reaction to the ‘86 Mets and quirky anecdotes involving navel-high tighty whities ([27:26]-[29:45]).

• The Joy of Hate-Watching
  The sheer schadenfreude of watching the Yankees and Dodgers fail is dissected:

  • “Can you hate-watch something you love?” – Dan
  • “Yeah, you can.” – Stugotz ([46:43])

Timestamps & Memorable Quotes

| Timestamp | Segment | Notable Quote/Sound | | --------- | ------- | --------------------| | 01:00 | Yankees soundboard | "Ow! Ow! Ow! It really hit me..." ([01:00]) | | 02:23 | Soundboard, Yankees last 'great moment' | "Roger Clemens is a New York Yankee." | | 05:06 | List of teams with more recent World Series wins | "Nationals winning a World Series more recently than the Yankees and the Cubs...and the Rangers and the Royals..." ([05:11])| | 09:56 | Yankees’ approach criticized | “That’s what wins in the postseason, though. That’s why the Yankees keep losing…” – Mike Ryan | | 13:23 | Blue Jays manager trolls Yankees | "It takes everybody, every day—start spreading the news..." – John Schneider ([13:23]) | | 24:03 | Death of Yankee hope, 8th inning drama | "It lasted for one pitch, that hope..." – Dan ([24:03])| | 27:26 | Dan on rooting against the Yankees | "It's a fascinating thing... you grew up being a Yankee guy and now you root for them to lose." – Stugotz ([27:03]) | | 46:43 | On hate-watching baseball | "Can you hate-watch something you love?" – Dan<br> "Yeah, you can." – Stugotz |

Unpacking Baseball’s Fickle Nature and Cultural Touchstones

• Baseball Nuances and Fandom
  The crew marvels at postseason randomness, lists teams that might beat the Yankees to the next title, and waxes on the eerie hopefulness (and futility) experienced by Yankees fans in high-leverage moments ([25:12]).

• Derek Jeter/Aaron Judge Comparison
  The show contrasts Judge’s personal heroics with the failures of his team, noting how every playoff game feels “historic” for Judge now because the Yankees are always on the brink ([06:35]).

• The Problem with Sports Fines
  Dan draws comedic parallels between NFL disciplinary fines—owners getting heavier penalties for gestures (e.g., Jerry Jones’ accidental middle finger) than coaches for actual misconduct. “Are we really just fining people based on how much money they have?” ([41:44])

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Lighter Segments & Side Conversations

International Zaslow

• Zaslow Drops In from Windsor Castle “I’m just running this place, man…I was hoping to run into the king. I didn’t see him though.” – Zaslow ([18:46])
• He describes his wife’s love of travel and journeys through Europe, much to the amused skepticism of the rest of the gang ([20:01]).

Birthday Banter, Lists, and Absurdities

• Birthday Celebrations In classic fashion, the crew debates which birthdays “count as big ones,” before wishing Mike Ryan well ([33:36]).
• Song Lists and Show Production
  Billy and Ethan’s argument about “top 250 songs” lists devolves into jest about the show’s production style ([35:39])—“List radio is a great fallback.” – Stugotz

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Noteworthy Quotes & One-Liners

• On Yankees’ Decline:
  "In the last 25 Major League Baseball seasons, the New York Yankees have won the same amount of World Series as the Miami Marlins." – Mike Ryan ([46:23])
• On Sports Schadenfreude:
  "I didn't make Floyd Mayweather one of the richest people in the history of sports because I was rooting for him to lose…” – Dan ([26:29])
• On Hopeful Fanbases:
  "There’s also not a fan base in the world that thinks every fly ball is going out of their ballpark more than the Yankees…” – Mike Ryan ([24:34])
• On Generational Fandom:
  "I’ve told you the happiest I’ve ever seen my father…was 1986, the ball rolls through Buckner’s legs. He dances around the living room in tighty whities that are above his navel." – Dan ([27:26])

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Final Thoughts and Episode Tone

The episode is a raucous, fast-moving celebration of the Yankees’ playoff misery and the peculiar pleasures of sports hate-watching. Through sports talk, soundboards, trivia, and side stories, Dan and company deliver their signature wit, blending nostalgia, local Miami color, and pure comedic timing. Whether you’re a Yankee hater, baseball fan, or podcast loyalist, this episode is both cathartic and highly entertaining—a perfect snapshot of the Le Batard Show’s appeal.

For those who missed it:

• The Yankees get roasted relentlessly.
• Dan’s journey from childhood Yankees fan to gleeful Yankees antagonist is explored.
• Memorable baseball soundbytes, family and fandom stories, and irreverent tangents abound.
• “Hate-watching” is officially celebrated as an essential sports fan experience.

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Episode must-hear moments:

• Yankees soundboard and Suzyn Waldman moments ([01:00]-[02:23])
• Blue Jays mocking Yankees with “Start spreading the news…” ([13:23])
• The “death of hope” for Yankees fans in the ALDS ([24:03])
• Zaslow’s Windsor Castle adventure ([18:46])
• Giancarlo Stanton etymology, generational fandom, and tighty whities ([27:26])
• The hilariously unimportant “top 250 songs” debate ([35:39])

If you ever wanted a safe space to gloat at the Yankees’ expense and bask in playoff schadenfreude, this is your episode.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy Gil]

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[Billy Gil]

At the Home Depot. Roy, can you find me whatever sound we have back there that makes fun of the Yankees? Just anything from the files that we have of things that have made fun of the Yankees over the last 20 years. What do you have now? The three two swung on a pop foul back here. Ow. Okay, keep that. That'll work. It really hit me. I didn't know it was coming back that far. Just keep the ow, ow, ow parts of that and cut out all the other fat. Ow. Yeah, kind of.

[Stugotz]

It hit me.

[Billy Gil]

No more, more of it. Well, just.

[Stugotz]

It hit me.

[Billy Gil]

Let me hear, let me hear the whole thing. Just all of it. Now the 32 swung on a pop foul back here. Ow, ow, ow. It really hit me. I didn't know it was coming back that far. I think it's better it's just three ows and then ambient noise motion to.

[Stugotz]

Keep the entire sound please.

[Billy Gil]

Pow. Let me hear what other sound you have to make fun of the Yankees today. Roger Clemens is in Georgia's box. And Roger is coming back. Oh, my good. Goodness gracious. Of all the dramatic things I've ever seen. Roger Clemons standing right in George Stibrider's box announcing he is back. Roger Clemens is a New York Yankee.

[Stugotz]

Kind of an overreaction.

[Billy Gil]

No, I think it's the last great moment the Yankees have had. Goodness gracious.

[Stugotz]

Won a World Series after that.

[Billy Gil]

Goodness gracious. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Because my. My timelines have 1 in 09. Hold on, hold on. Give me the number. The names of the teams that have won a World Series more recently than the Yankees, the Cubs and the Red Sox.

[Stugotz]

The Royals.

[Billy Gil]

The Nationals. The Nationals. Goodness gracious. Giants.

[Stugotz]

Maybe more than once.

[Mike Ryan]

Rangers.

[Billy Gil]

The Rangers.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

Giants three times.

[Billy Gil]

Goodness gracious. Happy New York suffers today day. Billy ran in today, though, and this is super rare for Billy where I can hear the smile in his voice and he's just talking about white Corvettes. Goodness gracious. What are you up to?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm up to nothing. But I'm prepared to maybe have to be involved in some nonsense which, you know, sometimes I'm down For some nonsense. So we talked about this yesterday. Greg was complaining that he got a Corvette for his birthday. A white Corvette. He didn't like a white Corvette. And then you made a bet with Nick Robert for $5,000 over a game that I don't think either of you really care all that much about, which is, like, weird, but rich people's stuff. You're just betting $5,000 like it's nothing.

[Stugotz]

I'll give you points.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, like it was strange. And then he said that he bought his dad an old car that was not white. It was seafoam green, if I remember correctly. And then we somehow found a 1993 Chevy Corvette that was for sale for under $5,000. So we decided, unbeknownst to Nick Wright, to possibly change the stakes. So he may think that he's going to be owed $5,000, but may in fact receive a 1993 Chevy Corvette that needs a transmission. So then we're trying to figure out how do we get this Corvette to him if he loses? And what does he do with said car if he wins?

[Ethan]

If he wins under 100 grand. 100k miles, by the way.

[Stugotz]

That's good, but no transmission.

[Ethan]

Who needs a transmission?

[Stugotz]

What is a transmission?

[Ethan]

Exactly. Right?

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's one of those things.

[Stugotz]

Or woman Mission. Thank you.

[Ethan]

You were great yesterday, by the way.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you.

[Stugotz]

Did you hear the news, Dan? Start spreading it how.

[Dan Le Batard]

You'Re changing on the fly Hip checks, hat tricks are gonna make them cheer.

[Billy Gil]

Got the box.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chirping, riding high now it's time for.

[Stugotz]

Action Tonight's going to burn this bar.

[Billy Gil]

Right up Slap shot will light the.

[Dan Le Batard]

Lamp so nice.

[Stugotz]

Let'S go for a.

[Dan Le Batard]

Break the way on the chains to Grizzly cup we'll be standing on our heads till we need them at center.

[Billy Gil]

Height Hockey is back, Jack Hockey is back, Jack Hockey is back, Jack maybe.

[Dan Le Batard]

It will be us. Center ice.

[Billy Gil]

The Nationals winning a World Series more recently than the Yankees and the Cubs winning more recently. And the Red Sox winning more recently. And the Rangers and the Royals winning more recently. While the GM is never in trouble, but the manager is in profound trouble. Reminds me of what's happening or what's been happening in Florida with the Dolphins.

[Stugotz]

Cashman is still there.

[Billy Gil]

Oh, yeah. He's got a lifetime job. That's right.

[Stugotz]

Really?

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

For that franchise.

[Billy Gil]

That's right.

[Stugotz]

When they haven't won a World Series since 09.

[Billy Gil]

That's really how the Yankees failure. When it was wide open for them, Skubal got hurt. And then the Blue Jays just Became something that I legitimately have never seen before happen to the Yankees. And I think anyone in baseball, the way the Blue Jays were hitting is crazy. The Yankee. The Yankee era of the starting pitchers was above 16, just as the starting pitchers for. For the entire ALDS. The Yankees had an ERA of 9. But Aaron Judge will forever have his moment.

[Stugotz]

He covered his guy. He had a big at bat in that ninth inning. He handled his.

[Dan Le Batard]

They can't take that away from him ever. Game three of the 2025 ALDS. I mean, and I will say this to Jeremy's credit, we could have witnessed history if he hit a meaningless home run yesterday. Because here's the thing about Aaron Judge that's great. When your team is bad and it's, you know, you're always on the brink of elimination. Every game becomes an elimination game. So everything that you do becomes more historic because you did it in an elimination game, because you immediately are down and on the brink of elimination. Which Derek Jeter, to my memory, was never eliminated.

[Mike Ryan]

Key words there is team stinks.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think Derek Jeter ever.

[Billy Gil]

No.

[Stugotz]

He never lost.

[Dan Le Batard]

No. And he's great on tv, if we're going to be honest.

[Billy Gil]

Oh, Roy, would you get me again that moment on Fox? Because I don't think anything says 2025 more than Pedro Martinez, Alex Rodriguez and Big Papi just standing around trying to figure out how to say shitler. And. And then Big Papi just says something that makes people who have been more scared of how things look than he is because a rod and Jeter have more consequences about how things look than David Ortiz. So what you end up have happening on television because Schlitler is the one who ends up trying y to keep them in the game. He held down Toronto enough, more than anybody else did for the Yankees. But this was the moment of that series. Again, I want to give you the history. Derek Jeter doesn't want anything ever said or bad about him publicly. Has a pristine image. A rod. You know how pristine he likes things to look. David Ortiz cares slightly less. Everything one of you pronounce his last name. You kept first.

[Stugotz]

Oh, well, he's the master. Schlitler, Slitler, you now. Now your turn. Incredible judgment for me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's go to a break.

[Billy Gil]

My bad. I put. I put Pedro there.

[Stugotz]

Dominican.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Strong network.

[Ethan]

You just had him in the side there.

[Mike Ryan]

Come on. He's with Jimmy Rollins and Curtis Granderson.

[Billy Gil]

The grandy man, my band. Aaron Judge did as much as he could have. Aaron Judge played well in that series. Aaron Judge was hitting everything in that 600. Dan, it's so funny. Toronto's eighth hitter, is that Clement? Mm. How many? Yep. How many hits did he have in that series?

[Mike Ryan]

You ready for this one? So Trent Grisham of The Yankees went 2 for 17. Volpe went 1 for 15 with 11 strikeouts. Ben Rice went 2 for 11 with five strikeouts. Jazz went 2 for 14. Cody Bellinger went 3 for 16. That means they were combined 10 for 73. Clement had nine hits.

[Billy Gil]

Every time I saw that guy hitting, he was choked up on the bat. Hitting a duck fart right in front of an outfielder, that's baseball.

[Stugotz]

I like that. Choking up duck fart. There we go.

[Mike Ryan]

But they could see the vibration off the end of the bat in that last one. It was amazing.

[Billy Gil]

The Yankees keep throwing these high priced starters at him. They don't have Garrett Cole. And he just keeps going up there. And every time he was up there, I felt he was closer to holding the top of the bat than the bottom of the bat. And it's just like hit the ball. Hit the ball 97ft right over the second baseman's head, right over the shortstop said, and then wait for Vladi Guerrero to get back up so he can have his nine hits.

[Mike Ryan]

That's what wins in the postseason, though. That's why the Yankees keep losing, is because their home run or bust. And you need guys that can actually have those duck farts to right center. Because in. In the modern game, there's so many teams that are so swing and miss. And when you get to the postseason, it's. It's. It's either Schwarber hits two home runs or you lose. It's judge hits a bunch of home run home runs or you lose. And that's the spot the Yankees found themselves in yet again.

[Billy Gil]

Did you guys enjoy it? Billy, did you enjoy watching the Yankees lose? Or is that something that has now become cliche since 2009?

[Dan Le Batard]

Did I enjoy watching them lose? Yes.

[Billy Gil]

You sound like Pam Bondi repeating the.

[Dan Le Batard]

Question, watching them loose. Did I enjoy watching Clinton Kershaw fall apart easy?

[Ethan]

What is that supposed to mean?

[Stugotz]

Shoehorned straw man?

[Billy Gil]

How much did you enjoy it?

[Dan Le Batard]

Kershaw or the Yankees?

[Billy Gil]

Well, I didn't. I didn't even ask you about Kershaw. You went to Kershaw. I didn't. I didn't care. I wasn't thinking about Kershaw. I didn't ask you any. You are the first one to mention that Kershaw blew up there. Most people were sleeping during that.

[Stugotz]

I Watched Kershaw coming out of the bullpen. He's a horse now, huh?

[Billy Gil]

This was sad. It was sad to see him come out of the bullpen.

[Stugotz]

The last time I watched him pitch Dan, he was at least 40 pounds.

[Billy Gil]

He is thicker.

[Dan Le Batard]

Aren't we all, though?

[Stugotz]

That's fair enough.

[Billy Gil]

Put it on the poll at Le Batard show. Aren't we all thicker now?

[Dan Le Batard]

And to do it in front of his maybe hero. Maybe not. Maybe we're just pretending hero. Sandy Koufax.

[Stugotz]

Someone needs a memo from the War Department.

[Billy Gil]

Wasn't asking you about Kershaw or the.

[Dan Le Batard]

They let him finish that game.

[Zaslow]

He would have.

[Dan Le Batard]

They would have let him give up 60 runs if he was going to give up 60 runs. Right? He wasn't even on the roster the first round. So then they had him there. And that. That was honestly, was like just a respect thing for Kershaw. I was like, okay, this is last season. We're going to send him back out there. We already lost this game. Doesn't matter if we win or lose. We're up two one or we're up to nothing. I guess against the Phils, he's going to get his moment. I mean, I'll tell you what, it was prime playoff Kershaw. So the fans did get that, if that's what they were looking for.

[Billy Gil]

Didn't ask you about Kershaw.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that's just. Yeah. I didn't know we were going to get there or not. So I decided. The Yankees, how they stink, huh? Yankees. And then they asked Aaron Boone, you're gonna be back next year. And he's like, I'm under contract, buddy. You're not gonna be back. I hate to be the bearer of bad news here. It's not gonna. What is this fool doing that I see over here on the screen?

[Billy Gil]

It's Zaslow joining us from Europe. I have been told by Roy that he is on delay, which doesn't bode well for wherever it is that we're headed now in terms of audio and video. Before we get to Zaslow, though, can you just play the manager of the Blue Jays, Roy? Make John Schneider making fun of the Yankees in his own clubhouse yesterday. Because really, I. I have not seen a baseball team hit the way that Toronto hit in that series. They just clubbed and dragged the Yankees all over the place. And so John Schneider, though, the. The Blue Jays manager. And I would forgive Mike Ryan for thinking that Cedo Gaston was still the Blue Jays manager either time, given that we just told him that Cashman is still the GM of the Yankees. But let's go ahead and play John Schneider making fun of the Yankees with one pun of sentence that just makes fun of Sinatra. Makes fun of New York, New York. Makes fun of the idea that you guys are winners.

[Stugotz]

Every single one of you.

[Billy Gil]

Bullpen game.

[Stugotz]

Nathan, Lucas, Miles, straw. All you. It takes everybody, every day start spreading the news.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're going.

[Stugotz]

That dude was a mean ipa.

[Billy Gil]

He never even got to spread the news. He wanted to tell us what the news on where it is that they were going, but they didn't let him spread the news because they spread champagne all over his face. Play again. How they drown out their manager and whatever it is that he was going to say after making fun of Sinatra and New York, New York.

[Stugotz]

Every single one of you.

[Billy Gil]

Bullpen game.

[Stugotz]

Nathan, Lucas, Miles, straw. All you. It takes everybody, every day start spreading the news.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're.

[Billy Gil]

Wait till they get a load of scuba.

[Ethan]

The courtesy on this video is Ariel Helwani. Was he there?

[Dan Le Batard]

He's just there. Anything that happens, Canada, he's there getting soaked.

[Stugotz]

Just like, hey, Jeremy, old buddy, old pal.

[Billy Gil]

Hey, Mike.

[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

That's right.

[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

It'S been around for 50 years, and they've been a part of our show for almost 20. We're approaching incredible partner status with Miller Lite.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, to think that people were celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Lite as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.

[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

What's that?

[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

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[Billy Gil]

Dan Lebatard.

[Zaslow]

That was a long story.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, it's the only kind he tells.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys.

[Stugotz]

You forgot about the league's cup.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlin celebration, because it was Levon.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, when Fidel died the first time.

[Billy Gil]

This is the Don lebatar show with the st. What is going on with zazlovilly? Do you want to introduce him? I saw people complaining that he's now in the company slack. I saw people complaining that as soon as his podcast shoots up the rankings, he does it the special Metal Arc way, takes a long vacation and just goes to Europe so that everything could die as soon as he leaves. What is happening over there, Zazzle, where are you joining us from?

[Zaslow]

I'm at Windsor Castle. My dogs. How are you guys? What's going on?

[Ethan]

Putting a Motorola razor.

[Billy Gil]

What is that?

[Zaslow]

I'm on regular fun.

[Stugotz]

Look at this.

[Zaslow]

I'm at a castle. There's a castle behind me. You know about that? You know about that? Windsor Castle.

[Dan Le Batard]

Now that's a manor if I've ever seen one. How is it Matter of fact, how's it possible those reception is better than Tony's when Tony was like three stories ahead of above us, like three days ago. And there's no delay here with Zaz?

[Billy Gil]

It's a good question. Metal Arc media.

[Ethan]

Useless comment by Billy.

[Mike Ryan]

Absolutely.

[Billy Gil]

Is there any other kind? Zaslo, what were you going to say before Billy interrupted you? Because you're calling us on delay.

[Zaslow]

Oh, it's just going to be like, you know. Have you ever been at a castle? Matter of fact, if you look behind me here, you got one of those guards. You see that dude right there? Like, he's guarding the cast. I think he was just doing a TikTok dance a few minutes ago, actually. But I got one of those guards behind me. I'm just. I'm running this place, man. I was hoping to run into the king. I didn't see him, though. I was gonna pull like a Black Panther move or else he'd be like, yo, you know this is your king. But that fool was scared. He wasn't anywhere to be found.

[Billy Gil]

Why weren't you here for the Panthers raising another banner, giving out their rings? Why are you about as geographically far away from your team as. As you.

[Zaslow]

Dan, let me break something to you here, all right? Wives, they love money. And when you get the money, which I'm getting now. When you get the money, which I'm getting now, you know, they want to do with it, Dan. They want to spend it. And one of the things they like to do is travel. So here we are. I'm in London.

[Billy Gil]

Why are you in the slack? And why are people complaining that you're in the slack? What is the story?

[Zaslow]

Complaining? What are you talking about, complaining? I'm up in the ante.

[Stugotz]

I love that Zaz is in the slack because he is doing it as pure Zaz. I don't think he understands what the video dump is for.

[Zaslow]

I think, oh, I understand.

[Stugotz]

You're just making it a vacation album. But I like it look like he sent this and with a caption of, you know about that Stonehenge.

[Billy Gil]

He's seeing the world on metal arts money.

[Stugotz]

One time he saw a statue of, like, some English, like, figure, and he.

[Zaslow]

Was like, I know that fool.

[Stugotz]

I don't know that fool was a caption. Yeah. So he lives the gimmick, Dan. Oh, wow. Surprisingly, we can confirm it's an iPhone and not a Motorola razor.

[Ethan]

I have to say that word.

[Billy Gil]

Are you guys just telling me that metal arc is providing Zas for the first time with culture in his life? You haven't been to any of these places before. You basically haven't been outside of Pembroke Pines, right?

[Zaslow]

First of all, I didn't know that the video dump is not my vacation scrapbook. No one, like, I got to plead ignorance on that one. Was that wrong? You know, I don't know. But I haven't been out of Cooper City in many, many years. I had to update my passport. I haven't been to Europe in 25 years. But I'm here now. I run this place now. Spreading the word. Look, I'm even worn my Levitard show gear. Look, check it out.

[Billy Gil]

You guys realize that he is climbing the ranks at college football at ESPN and just recently, like, bought things other than the junk that's in his closet so that when he travels to Wisconsin, he's not doing so in a 2006 Miami Heat T shirt.

[Stugotz]

Do undercover cops look like that in Europe as well?

[Billy Gil]

You do look like. You do look like very bad undercover cop. Like 21 Jump street spin off. Like, you're dressed. You're dressed like a high school Whatever, man. Whatever, man.

[Stugotz]

Hang with him.

[Zaslow]

I don't know.

[Stugotz]

That looks like someone that would tweet at me. He doesn't know who Bad Bunny is.

[Zaslow]

I like Bad Bunny.

[Billy Gil]

Thank you for joining us. Anything else you're going to put in the slack? From where else are your travels taking you? Yeah, when are you back slack?

[Zaslow]

I'm gonna put a lot. A lot more things in the slack. I got some great pictures of Buckingham Palace. I met up with Joy Taylor out here yesterday. I might throw some pictures of me.

[Billy Gil]

And her in the slack.

[Zaslow]

Hey, that's my gimmick.

[Billy Gil]

But you better come back here and take back your gimmicks. You can't just leave on vacation as soon as you get hot. That's not the way that works. It does around here. But no other media entity is that the way it works?

[Zaslow]

You know what happens? The listeners, they want me more. They're like, where are you, Zaslow?

[Stugotz]

Where are you?

[Zaslow]

And then when I come back, I'm gonna come back to a king's welcome. That's exactly what's gonna happen. This is. This is a good plan by me. I know what I'm doing, Dan.

[Billy Gil]

Okay, thank you for. Thank you for joining us from Stonehenge and from a castle. We appreciate your worldly travels. Come back and tell us about.

[Zaslow]

By the way, I'm five hours ahead of you. Dan, do you understand how time zones work?

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, generally.

[Zaslow]

Okay.

[Billy Gil]

All right. Swing a trick, whatever.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, who wins? Who wins game four tonight, Phillies or Dodgers? You already know the results.

[Zaslow]

Oh, you want the spoiler?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes.

[Zaslow]

Phillies forced the game five and love it's. Great game. Great game. Philly sports game five.

[Mike Ryan]

Yep.

[Billy Gil]

Thank you.

[Zaslow]

Don't tell anyone I told you. It's kind of breaking the rules of time travel. All right, I'll see you guys later.

[Mike Ryan]

Just going to make it clear, he's still four hours from watching that game.

[Billy Gil]

The. Thank you. It's an important correction. He just wanted to make from Europe a Lord's time zone joke. Because the further inside you go on the jokes, the more about him he can make it, which makes him fit right in around here. One of the things that I most enjoyed about yesterday Yankee game is the. The bases getting loaded in the bottom of the eighth and. And hope rising up.

[Dan Le Batard]

It lasted for one pitch that hope.

[Billy Gil]

That's what I liked. It's the bottom of the eighth, and now we got to watch in the night sort of mill out of mill out of the ballpark in the ninth inning because you know your season's over because you had one pitch of hope. You were just trying to get everything Back to judge the only one on your team that can hit. And you needed to load the bases in the bottom of the. In the bo 8th. And then your season goes to die because there's no way for him to hit a seven run home run in the ninth.

[Mike Ryan]

And there's also not a fan base in the world that thinks every fly ball is going out of their ballpark more than the Yankees because their short porch and Right. They just kind of think every time the ball's hit in the air it's going to be a homer. So you could hear on the fly ball for just a half a second though.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Oh.

[Billy Gil]

It was fun to hear hope die at the feet of the Toronto Blue Jays, who might again win a World Series before the Yankees. The Mariners might win a World Series before the Yankees. The brewers might win a World Series before the Yankees.

[Mike Ryan]

Tigers.

[Billy Gil]

The Tigers might win a World Series before the Yankees. I would imagine the Mariners are scared right now. I would imagine you would have to be if you have the chance of facing Skubal. And he's going to strike out 14 of you. Got to go the very hardest of ways to get to the next round.

[Stugotz]

GK's got to muster up something special. That's right. George Kirby on the mound towing the rubber for the M's. If I could have one guy going against that guy, it's gk.

[Billy Gil]

What is it that you guys expect when you put these pressure of expectations on people where Aaron Judge isn't doing enough even though he's doing everything? Because baseball is obviously a team sport until you give the ball to school. Because the pitchers, you give them the ball. And this is the reason that you have scubal. You have Scubal to win this game. It's the reason that you're asking your Cy Young pitcher to just take away from Seattle a season's worth of momentum. The best Seattle season that we've had since they had Griffey and Randy Johnson and a rod on their team. I'll throw Pedro in there because whenever a rod's around, I just throw Pedro in there. Even though Pedro Martinez didn't pitch for that.

[Stugotz]

You're starting to get.

[Billy Gil]

Would have been real good with Randy.

[Mike Ryan]

Johnson and Pedro Dan.

[Billy Gil]

You guys didn't seem to enjoy this as much as I did. I do this very rarely where I enjoy watching people lose. I didn't do that. I didn't make Floyd Mayweather one of the richest people in the history of sports because I was rooting for him to lose. I did this some with Saban and I always lost. I. I would tune into Alabama, and then they would just run the sport forever. But the Yankees, I tune in all season for that bottom of the 8th yesterday for that swing for the bases are lo. For. Oh, you dared to hope, and now you realize it's all gone. How quickly can you get to the subway?

[Stugotz]

It's a fascinating thing that happened to your fandom because you grew up being a Yankee guy and now you root for them to lose. It's really a testament to how awful.

[Billy Gil]

New York is, how awful New Yorkers in Miami are. It's not.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, it's a special breed, New York. You guys seem to enjoy it up there. Well, actually, not really, because you fly down here. But it's made Dan have a miserable experience with New York sports. Sports.

[Billy Gil]

I wouldn't say that it's miserable. I. I would say that it's just grown from. We only had the Yankees here in spring training once upon a time with the Dolphins, and it's the only major league team that we had down here, only major league sport that we had, and we only had it during spring training. And then we got all the other sports. And so I did what my Yankees what my fan. My parents did, rather. My parents grew up Mets fans. I've told you the happiest I've ever seen my father. Happiest I've ever seen him. 1986. The ball rolls through Buckner's legs. He dances around the living room in tighty whities that are above his navel. I remember. I remember my father dancing like that because I've never. My father doesn't really show joy that way. I also remember those underwear above the navel. Old man, abuelo style. Do you all have a father or an abuelo who wears the tighty whities that you remember from childhood over the navel, or is that just me? Was that just my.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was just you.

[Ethan]

My. My grandfather did the. The cloth boxers, like the ones you get in prison that are, like very long and clothy. So he didn't go tighty whities, but he had, like, long. Like, they were up here, like you said, past a navel, but, like cloth boxers. So they're like past his knees but also past his navel at the same time.

[Billy Gil]

Billy. Nothing like this in your family history of somebody.

[Dan Le Batard]

My parents were usually dressed, so I don't really know their underwear situation, to be honest.

[Billy Gil]

Well, I. Look, I've told you, my father is somewhere on the Asperger scale. He did this. I was in my late 40s. You, Donis, Haslam and the Heat are on the road in a playoff game against Chicago. I think he is so scared. I'm in his living room. I don't have an explanation for you on this. I don't think that this is normal in fandom in any way. I'm there with my girlfriend. My brother is there with his girlfriend in the living room. My father is so scared by what's happening at the end of that Heat game that he just takes his slacks off. He's standing in the living room. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

It's strange behavior.

[Ethan]

His house, though. His rules.

[Zaslow]

It is his.

[Ethan]

His house has rules.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, that's exactly what he said.

[Ethan]

Like, if we were at your house and then you did it, I'd be like, oh, Dan's house, his rules.

[Stugotz]

I mean, I think I identified. There was this one time where Triple H was beating somebody up and he forgot he wasn't already wearing a shirt, and he pantomime taking off his shirt. So it's probably something similar.

[Billy Gil]

So I guess you guys, I'm the only one. I thought my childhood was the normal one with the. With a. With an ao in the. In tighty whities. I guess not.

[Dan Le Batard]

So they were Mets fans and Yankees.

[Billy Gil]

No, I. So this is what happened because kids rebelled. They're Mets fans, and then they became Marlins fans because the Marlins came to town and their son was writing about the Marlins players, and grandma liked Chuck Carr, and all of a sudden, the allegiances. The. The. Wait a minute.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stugotz]

Rest in power.

[Billy Gil]

I did not know that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, a couple years ago.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, a couple years ago.

[Dan Le Batard]

You. Yeah, it was sad. We talked about it, I think.

[Billy Gil]

I did not know that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sent flowers to the late car family. It'd be ill. Ill timed. Like, oh, we just heard about Chuck six years later. Sorry about that.

[Billy Gil]

Let's send that car to Nick Wright instead.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ooh, what if we send the car family a 1993 Corvette with no transmission. Chuck would have liked this. Chuck maybe had a Corvette to him.

[Stugotz]

I don't care.

[Billy Gil]

Good luck. Mike Ryan's birthday today.

[Stugotz]

I thought that was for Chuck Carperson.

[Ethan]

Like, what?

[Stugotz]

I was like, wow, what an honor to share a birthday with a great Chucky car.

[Billy Gil]

The late Chuck Carr.

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[Stugotz]

Don Libertard it's not my favorite rejoin.

[Ethan]

Context needs to be applied for Going.

[Stugotz]

For a joke and I thought the context wasn't we we'd like to rip that out of context. I was going for a thing and you're gonna have a family.

[Billy Gil]

You're gonna pretend here that you don't love Matthew Tkachuk more than you love anybody you've ever loved.

[Stugotz]

I. I don't love Matthew Tkachuk more than my daughter. Stugats Now. It's pretty damn close.

[Billy Gil]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. Congratulations on your birthday. How is this a big one? How old are you?

[Dan Le Batard]

You?

[Stugotz]

I'm 40 today.

[Billy Gil]

Oh, it is a big one. Did we decide then which are the big ones? Because Michelle Beadle was on with us on Friday and I thought 50. So you got 16, you got 18, you got 21, you got 50, you got 100. 40 is not as big as 50, is it?

[Stugotz]

I don't know. 40 seems pretty big.

[Ethan]

40 is a new 30, though. So how do you do that Math?

[Stugotz]

Well, then 30's big.

[Billy Gil]

What are you doing? Are you doing anything special for your birthday?

[Stugotz]

I got dinner tonight and this weekend I'll be at Las Rosas. I have a DJ set late. Night night. Great punk band from Portland coming over. Portland?

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Ethan]

Have you seen that, Dan?

[Stugotz]

I know I've been late, but damn inflatable chickens everywhere.

[Billy Gil]

Is are birthdays still happy once you reach a certain age? Because you just said, I'm going to dinner. You said it wasn't quite right.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, no, I got a big thing on on Saturday at Las Rosas. Going to be celebrating with friends, open to the public, so come watch me spin. Lots of train drops of Jupiter.

[Billy Gil]

Why is everyone just staring at you as if you were awkward? You were speaking a different language.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's number 200. You on that list yesterday.

[Stugotz]

I bet you that list was reverse order.

[Dan Le Batard]

That list was awful.

[Billy Gil]

Well, explain to me what you guys did here, because I don't understand what you guys did. This is what happens to me, okay? And I don't. Maybe you guys are producing the show differently than you used to. With no context whatsoever. No one informing me of anything. I get handed a list, okay, of many, many different papers that is just nobody has said anything to me. I'm walking in to do the show that's in my head, and someone hands me several pieces of paper that. 250 Songs listed in order, ranked in order. 250 of them. And Ethan, who's got an opinion about everything, tells me that Runaway is. Is very low on the list here. That Runaway deserves to be very high on the list. But no one's discussed anything with me about why I'm being handed this, why we're doing this, and why Ethan's giving me an opinion. Now, before we get here, hold on a second. Because I know you guys are desperate to talk as. As if I don't know that sometimes you guys just trick me. You're usually more subtle than this. To talk about the things that you want to talk about by not just merely handing me something that I don't necessarily want to talk about, but Ethan's opinions, right before this was yelling at everybody why it is that Gainesville is not as terrible as Oxford.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I mean, we can agree having no one here has been to Oxford, right? No safe to assume bad town.

[Zaslow]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

Ethan sucks. Is that what you said, Billy?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, we can agree. I thought that's where Mike was headed.

[Stugotz]

No, it wasn't where I was headed. But, I mean, you're entitled to your opinion. Ethan's, you know, he's fine.

[Dan Le Batard]

Good kid. Chatty. Chatty. Little chatty, definitely. Yes, definitely chatty.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. But damn. Like, what we did was. And I'm being told that's true. What I'm being told that they get into it quite a bit on Mystery Crate. So that is appointment listening for me. What we did was the same thing that we've done for 20 years. Hand you a paper. Here's a list. List. Radio is a great fallback. You are lucky to have such a great team around you. And, I mean, there were already two Kanye songs on that list. Are we gonna put Runaway in there? I don't know. Probably not.

[Mike Ryan]

Also, I'll clarify. We don't get into how chatty Ethan is. We get into this list of songs. Because that's what you wanna listen to. Not chatty Ethan.

[Billy Gil]

I don't want to do a list of 250 songs that has no context that we were not talking about at all. I do wanna talk about Gainesville and Oxford. Because the con Mike and Ethan were having, I wanted on air. But unfortunately, many of our good conversations happen off air. I wanted it on air without Ethan's involvement, which was Mike just telling Ethan again and again, no, no, you guys really need to keep Billy Napier. He does this thing, oh, he's great. Where you get stronger during the season and you should keep him forever.

[Stugotz]

I should fight for that coach.

[Billy Gil]

They love that coach that they play so hard for. Billy Napier. Billy Napier has to stay in Gainesville. Should be given a lifetime contract.

[Stugotz]

He should. I. You don't see teams fight for an embattled coach. And they've shown this year over year, they love their head coach. You see that spread at College Station, Very difficult place. And out of all the college environments that I've been to, traveling to, as a University of Miami fan, that's the nuttiest place. College Station is genuinely intimidating. The Swamp. Nothing, Doak, Nothing. Honestly, not a big deal. College Station, you feel that place, only a seven and a half point spread. You know what that tells you? Even the bookkeepers know they love that coach. He's a good coach. In today's modern age of crazy football, they already have the collective thing nailed down. You got the coach that they fight for. You gotta keep Billy Napier. They're gonna save his Job again. I hope so. God, I hope so.

[Billy Gil]

We were talking yesterday about an assortment of college football things and what we never got to. I erred in not getting to two things yesterday. One is Odell Beckham secret getting suspended for six games based on a Dolphins career. Get me the stats, please, for the Dolphins career. Because I remember having the conversation with Mina. I'm like, he seems like he'd be useful in this offense. He seems like someone who would be good for the Dolphins as a third receiver given. Given just who Odell Beckham is. But his stats were truly dreadful while he was here. And then I learned while he's out of the league entirely, he's on the Pivot podcast. He's saying, yeah, I'm suspended for six games as I make my comeback.

[Mike Ryan]

Nine games, nine cats catches, 55 yards.

[Billy Gil]

Nine catches, 55 yards for a receiver that upon his arrival, we were arguing, did he just make the greatest catch we've ever seen? And he's one of the greatest receivers we've ever seen.

[Stugotz]

Really strange career for Odell Beckham. Greatest catch ever. I think consensus, right? Greatest catch ever. Unbelievable catch. Was a superstar in New York, goes to Cleveland. Really disappointing. Ten years there. Everything around that franchise around that time was really, really odd. Then arguably would have been MVP of the super bowl had he not torn his ACL in that game. And then a six game suspension at the end of his career where he's no longer going to play ever again. It's like finding out who the Zodiac Killer is now. Like, all right, congrats. Whoopee.

[Billy Gil]

Give me a second here. Jeremy, can you get me the stats of Odell Beckham in that super bowl before he got injured? Because I think in that first quarter he might have had a better first quarter than he had his entire Dolphin. I'm not even. It wasn't nine catches, but I think it might have been more than 50 yards.

[Stugotz]

Not nine catches, but certainly over the yard.

[Billy Gil]

He was going to have. He was going to have a 15 catch game because their game plan was meant to stop people other than Odell beckham.

[Mike Ryan]

He had two catches for 52 yards and a touchdown, as opposed to his nine catches for 55 yards and no touchdowns as a Dolphin.

[Billy Gil]

How many. But so he played a quarter in that Super Bowl. Correct. He got hurt in the first quarter and it basically ended his career that getting hurt in the Super. Super Bowl. It would have been a great comeback story to go to Super Bowl MVP as soon as you get out of New York.

[Stugotz]

It kind of was. It was Weird, like, because everyone recognized what they were watching on that field, that, oh, it was the Browns that were the problem at the time. People were saying, oh, it was Baker that was the problem. And I guess the Rams just have a secret sauce.

[Billy Gil]

Another point that I didn't get to make yesterday. Before we get to these 250 songs and the. Whatever Ethan thinks about number 233, we were talking about Jonathan Gannon, and everyone here was like, $100,000 is a lot of money. That's a good penalty for putting your hands on an employee who already feels bad enough. And I didn't mention at any point, but Jerry Jones got a quarter million for inadvertently using the middle finger. So the fine there is worth two and a half.

[Stugotz]

Like the.

[Billy Gil]

The fine for power there over a middle finger is two and a half times as much much as Jonathan Gannon putting his hands on an employee. Now, we're not penalizing the crime, we're penalizing the position. Correct. We're penalizing. We're not even penalizing the act. We're just penalizing. How much money do you have? And by percentage, how much of it can we take? It's not about how bad the act is, I hear.

[Stugotz]

I'll look it up. But I'm assuming that there are certain rules, certain fines that they can't go beyond. It's like, in hockey, there's, like, strange $50,000 fines where it's like, that's the maximum alone. Owners are subject to a different fine structure, I think.

[Billy Gil]

I would think coaches are, too, though. I would think that.

[Dan Le Batard]

But one involved fans also, and the other was a player.

[Billy Gil]

But which do you think is worse? If I just tell you which is the worst act, A coach putting his hands on a player or Jerry Jones saying that inadvertently because he's 80 years old, he gave a middle finger that he didn't mean to give, like, inadvertent.

[Stugotz]

One of these.

[Ethan]

Here you go.

[Mike Ryan]

Whoa.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where'd that come from?

[Ethan]

My bad. I can't control my hands.

[Billy Gil]

Put it on the poll at Levittard show. Juju, have you ever given an inadvertent middle finger to somebody? Because Jerry Jones explanation really was it was an accident. But when I put those things in front of you guys and I say one $250,000 fine for an accidental middle finger from an owner, and there is precedent here. Bud Adams, we mentioned here in an old light blue vinyl suit, went middle fingers with kickstands. We said, right, they had kickstands. It wasn't just two middle fingers shot Up. He was using the index finger and the ring fin. He was using them as wings.

[Dan Le Batard]

That happened in 2009. He was also fined $250,000 for conduct detrimental to the league.

[Billy Gil]

So that's the standard middle finger fine for a rich guy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Now he did too, I think. So. I think Jerry could come out and say I should have only been fined 1:25.

[Billy Gil]

I think what Mike is saying about fines being maximums, I thought that stuff had to be collectively bargained. I thought with owners and coaches, because they don't collectively bargain as a union, that you can find them, whatever it is, that they should be fined for behavior.

[Stugotz]

I did find larger owner fine for David Tepper. He got fined 300,000 for throwing a drink at fans.

[Mike Ryan]

Belichick got 500,000 for Spygate and Bruce Arians, which we talked about yesterday, Same sort of thing, physical altercation. He got 50,000. So I guess the difference in the.

[Stugotz]

Optics, he got off light.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah. So what do you guys do with that? Do you care and does any of it matter? We're really just fining people. How much money do you actually have? I know they'll say it's about the position of power. We're going to hold these people to a higher standard. But it can't be argued that what Jerry Jones did was worse than what Jonathan Gannon did.

[Stugotz]

No, I don't think. I think it's ownership precedent. I think it's a different thing entirely. Yeah, but the Jonathan Gannon one was like, is a rare time. I'm like, that fine seems fair. I'm good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Also, Jonathan Gannon was fined by the Arizona Cardinals, not the NFL, so they decided their own fine for him.

[Ethan]

When the Falcon situation happened with Shador Sanders, where Jeff Ulbricht's kid called Shador Sanders and faked the thing, he got 100k too. So it's like hitting a kid, hitting a player or calling somebody on a prank, your kid doing it.

[Stugotz]

What a wild story. Also shoulder telling the Ravens he didn't want to go there. How'd that work out?

[Dan Le Batard]

I wonder if, like the Cardinals tried to do Gannon a solid by pre finding him like they do in college, where it's like, oh, we already handled this situation. NFL, like, don't worry about any further punishment. Like, we took care of this. You don't need to come in and give him a bigger fine. You don't need to suspend him. You don't need to do anything. Like, we handled this like self imposed.

[Billy Gil]

The way Michigan did with the. What was. Was that Guy's name, the sign stealer.

[Stugotz]

Connor Stallions.

[Billy Gil]

Connor Stallions.

[Stugotz]

Such a porn star name.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't understand how you just like you're suspended for two games. Pick which two you want. That's so crazy.

[Billy Gil]

Give me better porn star names in sports than Connor Stallions. If you have and no, we got to get rid of Magic Johnson and Randy Johnson and all the overt ones. Give me some names.

[Stugotz]

Let's go active to make it hard.

[Billy Gil]

Better than. Better than Connor Stallions. And I want to spend the entirety of today's show making fun of the New York Yankees because you can't play enough for me. The sound of John Sterling being hit give people the entire context for that. In the event they weren't listening to the shadow show. And now the three two swung on.

[Stugotz]

A pop foul back here.

[Ethan]

They really.

[Billy Gil]

I didn't know it was coming back that far. And here is Susie Waldman in the greatest Yankee moment there has been since Lou Gehrig. Roger Clemens is in Georgia's box and Roger Clemens is coming back. Oh, my good. Goodness gracious. Of all the dramatic things I've ever seen. Roger Clemens standing right in George Stybrenner's box announcing he is back. Roger Clemens is a New York Yankee.

[Mike Ryan]

In the last 25 Major League Baseball seasons, the New York Yankees have won the same amount of World Series as the Miami Marlins.

[Billy Gil]

Goodness gracious. Billy comes in here just slightly more radiant than he usually is. And I can't tell if it was Kershaw. It was hate watching. It was hate watching baseball yesterday.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can you hate watch something you love?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, you can.

[Billy Gil]

You were doing that with Kershaw last night. I was doing it with the Yankees. Again. I don't think baseball made me feel better this entire season than that bottom of the eighth inning where the Yankees loaded the bases and we're just begging the season to get back to Aaron Judge. Please, Giant man, carry us. Carry us to the next round because you're hitting.600 and no one else on the team. We don't have a good pitcher. We don't have anyone who can get a base hit for us. But please just get us to one more at bat. And then they all just went home.

[Mike Ryan]

Even those random Rays games in late June didn't get you there. Also, Carrie Wood, not active, but okay.

[Billy Gil]

But that's Taylor Swift lack of subtlety where everyone's turned on her. By the way, Jeremy, you were first to the party, but everyone's turned on her. They are very mad about the lyrics that Travis That Travis Kelsey. They prefer her heart broken than swelling with joy and wood.

[Mike Ryan]

They I'm a trendsetter, Dan. What can I say?

[Billy Gil]

Her pain is something that makes better music than her happiness. That seems obvious.

[Mike Ryan]

That's always been the case in everybody's music. But again, be happy. Just make interesting sounding music. It's fine. Let your lyrics be, you know, happy. Go lucky, but make it sound good.

[Ethan]

Looks like Bad Bunny is taking over the place. Like I said a couple of weeks ago as the biggest artist on the planet, especially after whatever flop she put out. I mean, I can't tell you, but.

[Mike Ryan]

It did break like every stream record ever.

[Dan Le Batard]

But yeah, I have a shameful admission, Dan from last night slash this morning. So Kyle Schwerber hit an absolute like bomb.

[Billy Gil]

Which one he?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, the one that left the stadium like he crushed it. So I saw a graphic this morning that I didn't realize was from ESPN deportes and I was like groggy when I saw it. When I woke up and it was talking about the distance of the home run and I read it as Kyle Schwaber had 5, 455 pies. And I was assuming that this was like over the span of the season or something and was like, who's keeping track of that? It seems like he's had less pies than he's had in past seasons. Like, I read it the same way. He's looking.

[Billy Gil]

I read it the same way.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was so confusing to me.

[Billy Gil]

Pies is BS in Spanish. BS is feet.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like that explains the weight loss. Less pies this year.

[Billy Gil]

So Mike tunes in last night and wow, he's like, Clayton Kershaw has been eating an awful lot of pies. How?

[Stugotz]

Hey, Jerry, old buddy.

[Mike Ryan]

Ol pal.

[Billy Gil]

Hey Mike.

[Stugotz]

I want to talk to you about Miller Lite. You and I have bonded over these last few weeks talking about our shared love of Miller Lite.

[Mike Ryan]

That's right.

[Stugotz]

A great partner of our show for practically its entire existence.

[Mike Ryan]

It's been a partner of this show since I was 10 years old and.

[Stugotz]

It'S been around for 50 years and they've been a part of our show for almost 20. We're approaching incredible partner status with Miller Lite.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, to think that people were celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Lite as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.

[Stugotz]

You're talking about the moments that are made better by making those times those special times. Miller time. Jeremy, there's nothing like cracking open Miller Lite with your crew this football season. It's especially true whether it's a touchdown you didn't see coming or just arguing about fantasy lineups you already know you're gonna lose. Miller Lite has been the taste you can depend on for 50 years. Brewed for flavor with simple ingredients, rich toffee notes that iconic golden color. And here's a kicker. Jeremy what's that? It's just 96 calories.

[Mike Ryan]

I still can't believe that we say it every week. I can't believe it.

[Stugotz]

It's just 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. It's the original light beer since 1975 and still hitting different five decades later. Miller Lite Great Taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.