Local Hour: The Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: The Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played

Date: October 28, 2025

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Episode Overview

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew dissect sports and pop-culture hot topics in their signature irreverent, rapid-fire style. Today’s "Local Hour" is dominated by reaction to what’s been dubbed “the greatest baseball game ever played”—an 18-inning marathon in the World Series. They also veer into Miami Hurricanes football, Halloween quirks, and, as always, delight in Greg Cody’s unique take on life.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Halloween & Studio Shenanigans (00:34–04:09)

• Greg Cody shows up in a Halloween skull mask.
  • Not a punishment, just a festive mood ("I'm foreshadowing what I will look like in about, hopefully 15 plus years when I'm laid to rest." – Greg Cody, 00:48)
  • Mask quickly proves uncomfortable, leading to playful critique from the crew.
• Roy and Halloween:
  • Discussion about neighbors who don’t celebrate due to religious reasons, leading to ribbing of Roy for being “that neighbor.”
  • "Can you tell I'm a grinning. I'm a grinning skeleton. I'm grinning behind this mask." – Greg Cody (04:01)

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2. The Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played: The 18-Inning World Series Epic (04:27–31:26)

a. Who Actually Watched? (04:27–08:47)

• Exhaustion and endurance:
  • Most of the crew admits they fell asleep before the finish—except Jeremy, who claims to have survived the whole thing.
  • "Let's just point out who's lying about having watched the entire game last night... so many liars today." – Mike Ryan (05:17)
• Viewing tactics & late-night snacking:
  • Crew shares strategies for staying awake (standing, eating Cheez-Its, wandering the room, etc.)
  • "I watched the 17th inning in my bed on my phone... Ohtani makes the final out of 17. I'm like, oh my God." – Kyle (08:05)

b. Highlights & Memorable Moments (07:10–17:06)

• Clayton Kershaw's late-game heroics:
  • Came in with bases loaded, worked out of a jam: “I’m so happy that Clayton Kershaw got that out... would have been the punctuation on his Dodger career where he's just sort of hanging on...” – Stugotz (22:09)
• Sandy Koufax and aging Dodgers:
  • Light-hearted debate on whether Kershaw looked older than Koufax in the stands: "Did Clayton Kershaw look older than Sandy Koufax last night?" – Stugotz (06:05)
• Freddie Freeman’s historic walk-off:
  • Becomes the only player with multiple World Series walk-off homers: “Is Freddie Freeman the second greatest Brave that there has ever been?... Is Freddie Freeman the most likable player in baseball?" – Stugotz (15:52)
  • "Do Freddie Freeman’s teeth look like Matt Dillon in Something About Mary?” – Stugotz (16:58)

c. Game Analysis & Historical Perspective (21:21–27:31)

• Absurd length and tension:
  • Comparison with triple overtime hockey; everyone admits the game’s length tested even the most devoted fans.
• Jeremy’s in-depth stats and bullpen breakdown:
  • Dodgers and Blue Jays emptied bullpens; starters like Yamamoto warming up in extras.
  • “The Will Klein story—insane. The guy who threw four innings... had a 5.16 ERA going into last night—throws four shutout innings.” – Jeremy (23:07)
  • The ball wasn’t carrying, and repeated heartbreak at the warning track set up Freeman’s unlikely homer.
• Enduring Ohtani awe:
  • Discussion of when to walk Ohtani: “He’s the greatest athlete who’s ever lived... end of discussion.” – Jeremy (27:32)

d. Media Authenticity & 'Cliff Notes' Version Watching (28:47–31:26)

• Admitting use of highlights and recaps:
  • "Do people in the audience know what Cliff Notes are?" – Stugotz (29:51)
  • Greg Cody and the crew get nostalgic about Cliff Notes as the “original cheat sheet.”
• Calling out media who pretend to have seen everything:
  • "Put it on the poll... Are there going to be a lot of liars in the media today about having watched all 18 innings of that game?" – Stugotz (28:34)
  • "I'm going 90% of the people on television and radio today... did not [watch the whole thing]." – Mike Ryan (28:47)

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3. Greg Cody's Unintentionally Hilarious Burps (10:57–14:52)

• Iconic 'Brad,' 'Sack,' and 'Asswipe' burps:
  • Greg tries to explain the phenomenon to much crew amusement.
  • "After he burps, he always closes his burp like a gymnastics routine... with a word of some sort." – Stugotz (10:57)
  • “It’s just a sound that comes out...” – Greg Cody (13:53)
• Audio clips of various burps replayed and analyzed.

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4. Miami Hurricanes Football: Stubbornness, Identity, and Shannon Dawson (32:42–44:57)

a. Press Conference Heat (32:42–34:11)

• Shannon Dawson's press conference reaction:
  • Tired of questions about inside runs: “They can keep asking, and y’all can keep asking it, but I’m not gonna change what we’re doing.” – Shannon Dawson (33:27)
  • Discussion of the intricacies of running outside from the shotgun, team identity, and fan frustration.

b. Offensive Stubbornness vs. Adaptation (34:12–41:34)

• Statistical breakdown:
  • Debates about inside vs. outside runs and their effectiveness, with PFF stats cited.
  • “UM’s outside runs are averaging 4.2 yards per carry when they try it—and that’s good enough.” – Stugotz (38:43)
• Team limitations and creativity:
  • Need for “tendency breakers” and critiques that Miami is “married to a certain plan” even when it’s not working.
• Back-and-forth on Carson Beck, trust, and play-calling:
  • “I think they should put the ball in the game, in his hands more than they do...” – Greg Cody (41:34)
  • Argument over whether the season is “derailed” and if Beck’s Heisman hopes are dead (“He will not be invited to that room.” – Stugotz, 42:11)

c. Miami’s Playoff Path & Endgame (44:22–44:46)

• Debate on Miami’s playoff chances:
  • “If Miami wins out, they are in the playoffs.” – Greg Cody (44:46)
  • “You can’t say it definitively when we’re talking about people’s opinions... Rankings are opinions; they’re not statements.” – Mike Ryan (44:38)
  • “The path to the playoffs is actually easier if they don’t make it to the ACC championship game...” – Dan Le Batard (45:00)
• Classic Le Batard crew banter closes out the segment.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:48 | Greg Cody | "I'm foreshadowing what I will actually look like in about, hopefully 15 plus years when I'm laid to rest." | | 05:17 | Mike Ryan | "Let's just point out who's lying about having watched the entire game last night... so many liars today." | | 08:47 | Jeremy | "I was just like, falling slowly all over the place... so that I could watch what was the most brilliant baseball game I've ever seen." | | 15:52 | Stugotz | "Is Freddie Freeman the second greatest Brave that there has ever been?... Is Freddie Freeman the most likable player in baseball?" | | 27:32 | Jeremy | "God, he's amazing. He's the greatest athlete who's ever lived. He is. I mean, fact, end of discussion." | | 29:51 | Stugotz | "Do people in the audience know what Cliff Notes are like? ...Is Cliff a person?" | | 33:27 | Shannon Dawson (audio) | "They can keep asking it, and y’all can keep asking it, but I’m not gonna change what we’re doing." | | 38:43 | Stugotz | "UM's outside runs are averaging 4.2 yards per carry when they try it, and that's good enough." | | 44:46 | Greg Cody | "If Miami wins out, they are in the playoffs." |

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Segment Timestamps

• Halloween/Hijinks: 00:34–04:09
• Baseball Game Discussion:
  • How late did you last? 04:27–08:47
  • In-game highlights & player analysis: 07:10–17:06
  • Authenticity in watching: 28:47–31:26
• Greg Cody’s Burping Routine: 10:57–14:52
• Miami Hurricanes Football:
  • Press conference/Running game: 32:42–34:11
  • Stubbornness, stats, and play-calling: 34:12–41:34
  • Playoff/debate: 44:22–44:46

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Episode Tone & Style

Smart, quick-witted, full of friendly mockery, the hosts revel in inside jokes and detailed observations—never missing a chance for tangents or meta-commentary. The camaraderie of the group brings layered humor and a caffeine-tinged restlessness appropriate for dissecting a marathon night in sports.

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Summary prepared for listeners who crave the show's "local hour" energy and want all the main takeaways, even without catching every inning live.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

What are you doing here?

[Stugotz]

Cuervo? Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

The tequila that invented tequila. Roximo. Cuervo.com Please drink responsibly.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo. Greg, the Shadow show is not a visual experience. So how would you describe to the people through that mask what it is you're aspiring to today? What is your punishment?

[Greg Cody]

It's not a punishment. I'm foreshadowing what I will actually look like in about, hopefully 15 plus years when I'm laid to rest.

[Mike Ryan]

Geez, why don't you go ahead and fix your mic there, Greg?

[Stugotz]

What's that, 15 plus years?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Okay, so because it's not a visual experience, nobody knows that you're wearing a skull.

[Mike]

A skull looking like Skeletor Dog.

[Greg Cody]

No crossbones, just the skull.

[Stugotz]

What are you supposed to be doing in terms of grid punishments?

[Greg Cody]

I have. No, this is not a punishment.

[Stugotz]

This is. This is just you for Halloween.

[Jeremy]

Has no grid.

[Stugotz]

Okay, so, okay, so you just wore this mask because you were in the mood. You already started complaining before we even started that it's too hot, that you're not going to be wearing it all show. But you chose to do this. You're not. It's not even something you have to do. You just simply chose to do it.

[Greg Cody]

It's a temporary thing. Sure.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. It's like when you put one of those things on Instagram that lasts about a minute and a half. You know Instagram.

[Mike]

Oh, it's a disappearing message.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, you see it and then it's gone. Yeah, whatever that is.

[Mike]

I just told you what it is.

[Greg Cody]

A disappearing message.

[Dan Le Batard]

Something like that.

[Kyle]

I think. I think he meant Instagram story, which lasts 24 hours. I did. Yeah, but you said it only lasts a couple minutes.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, I was thinking of. What's that thing they used to have that lasted 6 sec. A vine. I loved Vine. My most popular vine was I did one on the 4th of July and in six seconds I recited the whole Pledge of allegiance. You got to go back. If vine is still Available. You got to listen.

[Stugotz]

Do you think you can do it right now?

[Kyle]

If vine is still available in 6.

[Greg Cody]

7 seconds, I can still.

[Stugotz]

All right, let's see if you can do it. Go ahead and try and do it right.

[Greg Cody]

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and Two thirds of 139.

[Stugotz]

Okay, that was longer than six seconds.

[Greg Cody]

You did not.

[Jeremy]

Greg's defense, it was definitely under six seconds.

[Stugotz]

You need to try to do that again and honor America a little bit better. Let's try it again.

[Greg Cody]

I'll do it on the 4th of July right now. Let's not disrespect Halloween, okay? Let's take them one holiday at a time. I'm like a coach taking him one game at a time.

[Mike]

I thought it had been more like let's not disrespect the anthem.

[Greg Cody]

Well, you know, it's just words.

[Stugotz]

As opposed to Halloween, which is an important spiritual holiday you wouldn't want to disrespect.

[Greg Cody]

Yes, that's right. Know some people are spooked by Halloween. I have a neighbor up the street. I'm not going to name them here, but they're name them. They're very religious people. Okay. And they do not put up any Halloween directions because they think it disrespects.

[Mike]

It's a pagan holiday.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Roy, I don't agree with that, man. I got all my decorations up. They look fantastic.

[Stugotz]

Why you dragging Roy into this? Roy didn't ask to be dragged. That's canon.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, canon.

[Kyle]

He's openly admitted that he also doesn't celebrate Halloween.

[Mike Ryan]

That is correct. We don't celebrate Halloween at the house religion.

[Stugotz]

You are the neighbor that Greg is talking about that all the other neighbors are judging for being anti costume and name.

[Kyle]

You don't want to name them though.

[Stugotz]

Of their God, but I respect that.

[Mike]

Look at Greg's face. He's judging Roy.

[Greg Cody]

Can you tell I'm a grinning. I'm a grinning skeleton. I'm grinning behind this mask.

[Stugotz]

You're going. You're going to last about 15 minutes in this. I can already tell you start complaining very early. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Stugotz]

We've got a frozen frenzy tonight, all of the hockey teams playing. And also our baseball is back. Intro is not yet ready. So we cannot celebrate the greatest baseball game ever played. That I don't believe anyone here except for Jeremy lasted until the end of. Mike Ryan got woken by his television and, you know, groggily ran over to it to turn it off because surely the game still not going on at 2:30, but it was still the game. It wasn't a re air. It wasn't one of those rears you get of the Marlins, of the Rays the next day of a night game the day before because they've got to fill the programming that had to be confusing to people last night at 3am to be stumbling towards your television and to see an empty Dodger bullpen and Shohei Ohtani walked five times in a game.

[Mike]

I feel like today all around on, on radio, on television, all the sports shows like let's just, let's just point out who's lying about having watched the entire game last night to be so many liars today.

[Stugotz]

You, you got to figure that very few people made it through that who aren't die hard baseball fans, but everyone's.

[Mike]

Going to portray that they saw it.

[Stugotz]

Well, I got caught up this morning, right? I was watching this morning with my wife. She had a whole lot of commentary on what we were watching. She asked why Clayton Kershaw, she doesn't know who Clayton Kershaw is obviously, but why he looks so old. She thought he was in his 50s. I'm like, that's the greatest left handed pitcher ever. And she's like, it looks like the Big Lebowski. It looks like Jeff Bridges from the Big Lebowski.

[Kyle]

Looks like the dude put up this photo.

[Stugotz]

He said if it was lefty it'd be close. They brought in Jeff bridges in the 12th inning. I don't know if, if you guys saw that particular at bat. Dodger fans that had to be as scared as they were all season, bringing him in with the bases loaded, seeing him go to a 32 count, seeing him, seeing him throw two balls that he got bailed out on with foul balls and get out of the inning. But put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Did Clayton Kershaw look older than Sandy Koufax last night? Because the other thing that my wife had as commentary was Sandy Koufax was in the stand. She's like, that person's too old. Be dealing with two baseball games, essentially 18 innings of baseball. And I'm like, but he began the game as a young man, as a toddler. He started and he's just 90 now. I wanted them by extra innings, I wanted them to just start putting runners on second again like they do during the regular season. It's dumb that they do it differently during the postseason than they do it during the regular season. The regular Season rule is just, hey, let's wrap this up.

[Mike]

Well, I mean, we. We saw that. That was the hockey version last. That was the Stanley cup playoff version we saw last night. I mean, we get that game last night. Once a playoff in the Stanley cup playoffs, where they end up playing two games and. All right, we got it for baseball. Now, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that I saw the game.

[Greg Cody]

I'm not.

[Stugotz]

We don't get a lot of three overtime games in hockey, Zaz. We don't get a lot of.

[Mike]

You'll get it once. Once a postseason.

[Dan Le Batard]

You get one that goes to like 2am 20 innings.

[Greg Cody]

Koufax would have been in the bullpen. Look, even if it's a triple overtime hockey game, it doesn't last six hours and 39 minutes. That's excruciating. It may. It never.

[Stugotz]

It was great. It was. No, wait a minute.

[Jeremy]

Brilliant.

[Stugotz]

It was great. It's the greatest baseball game any of us have ever seen.

[Greg Cody]

It would have been if it ended in 12.

[Stugotz]

Well, if any of us had seen it, it would have been the greatest baseball game anyone had ever seen. If anyone had seen it. To complete.

[Kyle]

I chose to go to bed after 17. I watched the 17th inning in my bed on my phone. And then Ohtani makes the final out of 17. I'm like, oh, my God.

[Jeremy]

So you stayed up until 2:30 to then just miss one inning of action?

[Kyle]

I mean, I'm falling.

[Mike]

I was 17.

[Kyle]

I'm falling asleep. Woof.

[Greg Cody]

I can tell you why. It was the seventh inning nap. That's what you needed. 17th inning nap.

[Stugotz]

17Th inning, 17th.

[Kyle]

I wish you had a photo like a. Like a fly on the wall staring at me while I was just crushing pretzels in the 14th inning.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's the move, right? In order to stay awake for these late games. Like, I'll go get a box of Cheez Its.

[Jeremy]

You know, I'm wandering around my living room. By the 12th inning, I was ready to fall asleep.

[Mike]

You gotta stand.

[Jeremy]

And so I stood for basically the rest of the game. And I was just like, falling slowly all over the place, stumbling just to keep myself awake so that I could watch what was the most brilliant baseball game I've ever seen.

[Dan Le Batard]

How. How we feeling about this over here?

[Jeremy]

Are you green with envy?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a little dark. I don't know. It's on the line. Can we have like a first base ump to check the swing here? Did he go, Is this racist Roy checking the swing?

[Mike]

Why asking Roy?

[Greg Cody]

All right. Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

He did not. God, you gotta think about it a little bit.

[Stugotz]

I saw that all of a sudden the bolts were being put in Jeremy's neck right before we started. We forgot that part of the costume. I do wanna go back for a second on Greg Cody and just marvel at the greatness that is Greg Cody. I have an assortment of Greg Cody sound that we're going to get to in a second from the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. But I just want to sort of rewind on the telestrator what happened seconds ago and warn the audience that we're going to get a worse version of Greg Cody than we usually do because this mask is distracting and will weigh him down. These costumes are hard to do. Every time I do one, I leave here with a headache. Like physically leave here with headache.

[Mike]

You look spent yesterday in your big wool suit.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, it was hard to do. It is hard to do. And what Greg just did. And you will see this deteriorate over the course of the show. He tried to make a seventh inning stretch joke about the 17th inning nap. He called it the seventh inning nap. The joke didn't make any sense. He shouldn't have spoken. He instead spoke poorly, botched the joke, then tried to correct it. And it wasn't a joke worth telling in the first place. Even if he had told it correctly.

[Mike]

Seven doesn't divide into 17. Like maybe if it was the 14th, you could have said, you know, 14 inning.

[Stugotz]

I don't think they're saying the 17th inning nap. I don't think anyone correlated that to the seventh inning stretch.

[Greg Cody]

Seventeenth. Yeah, it worked. If I'd gotten it, nailed it first and said the seventh inning nap, it would have killed. But nothing is better for a joke that didn't quite hit than over analyzing it and reviewing it like this guy just did. You know, that's what really works. So thank you for that.

[Stugotz]

Let's go back to the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody. This is something he's been doing since I've known him as a young. Like back when Greg Cody was a young person, there was a time Greg Cody has been. Because he drinks so many beverages, used to be a ton of diet soda as well. He's perpetually burping and after he burps, he always closes his burp like a gymnastics routine that has a dismount in it. He always closes his burps with a word of some sort. There's a few.

[Kyle]

Like there's a few that he does.

[Stugotz]

Well, I've only the one I've heard most Often I believe, I believe the gold medalist is Brad. To just say the word Brad after. After a burp. What are the bronze, silver and gold medalists of words that you always say after a burp?

[Greg Cody]

I've been told they sound like words. Okay. The one that can be misinterpreted as Brad is probably my most common. And the other one, of course, a lot of people say it or say the sound is sack.

[Kyle]

Let's tackle these one at a time. I have everything we're talking about here. So these are all in the wild while taping the Greg Cody show within the last couple months.

[Stugotz]

Let me. But let me reframe it for the audience, okay? Because I do want to understand when this began, how this began, and want to explain even better to the audience what this is. It's you. To you. As a sonic experience, the burp sounds like a word that you then conclude randomly with the name Brad.

[Greg Cody]

Well, no, no, I don't say Brad. People think it sounds a little like Brad. The problem is this, okay? When. When a dog barks, he doesn't really say bow wow, right? He says something that in the cartoons it says bow wow. They don't say bow wow. When a human being burps, it doesn't sound like the word belch. I'm not going belch. So when anybody burps, they emit a certain sound. I have been told that a couple of my random sounds sort of sound like words. You know, I can't help that that's on the listener. That's not me.

[Kyle]

Let's go through these. So here's the first one, like you said, Dan. The most common. It's just a Brad.

[Dan Le Batard]

Brad.

[Kyle]

That's the most common one. You'll hear bread because it's like you're clearly burping. You could just stop there, Brad. Like, why do you say Brad?

[Greg Cody]

To get it out to, you know, you're loosing into the wild. The burp.

[Kyle]

All right, and this one is from this most recent episode we were doing Greg doesn't know movies. And this one's my favorite. We got a sack in the wild.

[Greg Cody]

What's next?

[Stugotz]

Moving on.

[Greg Cody]

Sack.

[Stugotz]

What?

[Kyle]

I think, I think. Damn it. Luckily we can isolate.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, what's next?

[Stugotz]

Moving on.

[Kyle]

Sack, Explain yourself.

[Greg Cody]

My favorite part was Michael going, wait, what? I. I can't explain that. It's just a sound that comes out and we.

[Dan Le Batard]

Your mic wasn't on.

[Kyle]

And we punctuate with Ass wipe.

[Greg Cody]

What are you doing tonight? You got anything fun going on?

[Stugotz]

Let's try it. Again. Swipe. Flawless wipe.

[Greg Cody]

What are you doing tonight? You got anything fun going on?

[Mike]

Hey, just what goes on with his life.

[Kyle]

He says it like it's normal, repeats it back and then just ask me how my day's going. Play it one more time.

[Mike]

Did you sniff the ass wipe after you like it sounds like you sniffed wipe.

[Stugotz]

Ass wipe.

[Greg Cody]

What are you doing tonight? You got anything fun going on? When I whispered it afterward, I was mocking myself because that's another sound that people tell me sounds like ass wipe. So I'm mocking myself. Self deprecating sack. All right.

[Stugotz]

I believe this is exactly the appropriate coverage that we should have after the greatest baseball game ever played. The greatest World Series game ever played. Freddie Freeman is now the only player in the history of the World Series and the history of that sport, which obviously has a lot of history to have multiple walk off game winners. This one straight to center field off a left hander. Little like the beginning of that at bat. You could see that he scared little by how much, how much he had him timed. Hits a foul ball that is screeching and then works a 31 count. The 32 pitch should have been ball 4, but instead they called it a strike. And then what happens is he hits the ball still over the center field fence. Is Freddie Freeman. I know Hank Aaron exists, okay? And the advanced metrics will tell us more about on base percentage and slugging. And Hank Aaron will forever be, I assume, the greatest brave. But is Freddie Freeman the second greatest brave that there has ever been? Because Dale Murphy won a couple of mvp.

[Mike]

We're only doing hitters.

[Stugotz]

Well, I think I'm. Well, because you want to do Greg Maddox.

[Mike]

Yeah, like I want to do Maddox and Glavin.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think Larry's better than small.

[Stugotz]

You think Chipper Jones is better than Freddie Freeman?

[Mike]

I think they probably hold Chipper in higher regard.

[Stugotz]

The reason I'm doing, the reason only doing hitters is because they play every day, right? So I, I don't think of, I, I, well, I guess I could say that certain best players in franchise histories are pitchers. But when you do, when you play once every fifth day, I don't think of you as.

[Mike]

I think Mike's right. I think about, I think it's chipper. I think Mike's right. But I will tell you, I, I feel like, I feel like. Is Freddie Freeman the most likable player in baseball?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, no, no.

[Mike]

Why do you say that?

[Stugotz]

His teeth, those teeth were gleaming. Those perfect fake teeth were gleaming as he rounded the bases. They are Perfect.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's like a mask.

[Stugotz]

They are perfect. They are too perfect. Your objection is that they're. Your objection is that they're too perfect.

[Dan Le Batard]

Matt Dillon and something about Mary. What are we doing?

[Mike]

So likable. Freddie Freeman. How do you not root for him?

[Stugotz]

Put it on. Put it on. The poll at LeBatard show does. Do Freddie Freeman's teeth look like Matt Dillon in Something about Mary?

[Mike]

What a movie.

[Stugotz]

They do look a bit oversized and they do look a little bit too perfect. Especially perfect while rounding the bases. How many of you, Roy, did you. I know that Chris reached out to his father and asked him by text, how far, how deep did you get into the game? And he said, by the time the chief scored the third touchdown, I was out.

[Kyle]

So that's not that game.

[Stugotz]

The World series. The.

[Greg Cody]

The fourth touchdown when the football game scored became 28. 7. I went to bed. I don't know exactly when that was in the baseball game, probably like the.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

Don LeBatard. You don't remember the idea?

[Kyle]

I was probably like that kind of thing.

[Stugotz]

Something.

[Greg Cody]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats. Oh, it's a good call.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like you're not tailoring it to a particular name. You know, all that jazz, you know, you don't got to do that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, that would be a great call.

[Stugotz]

Swing.

[Greg Cody]

That kind of thing.

[Mike Ryan]

DCC Donna Levatar show with the stugats.

[Stugotz]

It was Jeremy. I want some of your thoughts as someone who did get to the end of that baseball game. There have to be some statistics from that game that have never been seen in the history of the sport. I I don't think that Dodger fans were more nervous at any point than when Clayton Kershaw was in the game with the bases loaded. And my guess is that they were questioning Dave Roberts, even though he went lefty on lefty for bringing in Clayton Kersh in that spot. I'm so happy that Clayton Kershaw got that out because the last outing of Clayton Kershaw's postseason was a total disaster and would have been the punctuation on his Dodger career where he's just sort of hanging on as the greatest left hander ever to just get a ring that he didn't deserve because he wasn't doing much of anything effective by the end.

[Jeremy]

Dave Roberts had talked about wanting to bring in Kershaw at some point during the World Series, but that was like, like with the hope that you had an 8 to 1 lead in the ninth inning. That type of deal where maybe that ends up happening in a clinching game and he gets to be on the mound. That's really honestly what I'm, I'm kind of rooting for at this moment. But to see him in that moment come in and throw six pitches, five of which were sliders at 89 miles an hour and one of which was a fastball at 91 miles an hour because that was the hardest pitch he's thrown since July of last year. The guy has nothing left in that arm. He's got the grays everywhere in the beard. And he comes in in the biggest moment. Three, two bases loaded, two outs and gets out of it. And you thought, oh man, well, surely the Dodgers are going to walk off now. And then there were six more innings played.

[Mike]

So what's going to be the fallout now? Because they use like 10 pitchers last night and, and they're playing again tonight.

[Jeremy]

Everybody was used. Yeah, I mean, Shane Bieber, the starter for today, was out in the bullpen getting ready. Yamamoto, who threw a complete game in game two, he was out warming up in the bullpen in the 18th inning. I mean, Will Klein be crazy? The Will Klein story. Insane. The guy who threw four innings.

[Stugotz]

He pitched four innings and he only allowed a couple of hits.

[Jeremy]

One hit, one hit to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. He's a guy who's 25 years old and had a career 5.16 ERA going into last night. He throws four shut out innings. Mind you, that's like five hours after Tyler Glass now only threw four and two thirds to start the game and allowed a couple of runs himself.

[Mike]

I mean, for Toronto, this Eric Loud Pitched more than the starter, Matt Shirt.

[Kyle]

That's right.

[Jeremy]

He threw four and two thirds innings and Max Scherzer only threw four and a third. So.

[Mike]

So is everything screwed up for tomorrow, for tonight?

[Stugotz]

Of course. Of course.

[Jeremy]

Everybody's thrown, but it's gonna be one of the.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

And.

[Jeremy]

And these are the two teams that had the most comeback wins in baseball. There are two teams that, by the way, have bad bullpens. Those are mediocre bullpens for teams that have gone to the World Series. The fact that they pitched the way they did, I. That's why it's the greatest game ever played. Because you had a bunch of nobody.

[Mike]

And there's going to be carryover.

[Jeremy]

And in the middle of it, you had C.L. shaw come in there as the first ballot hall of Famer.

[Stugotz]

That's not why it's the greatest game ever played. It's the greatest game ever played because it went 18 innings. The fact that the bullpens are bad is particularly interesting when you consider the Blue Jays really mash. They really hit the baseball. They had four runs by the fourth inning and finished with five runs. Once they got into that bullpen, which is the Dodgers only weakness, the Dodger bullpen is the only weakness that baseball team has. And it gave them, this is crazy to say, 14 innings against that offense of one run baseball, 14 innings.

[Kyle]

Those bullpens did pitch well, but it should be noted that the ball was not flying like they were. They kept commenting how it's going to be colder tonight. So. Or no, it was colder last night. It's going to be warmer. The ball will be flying better tonight. And I loved hearing Smoltz throughout the game just deteriorate and get annoyed with how every ball. How many balls to the warning track were there an extra innings?

[Jeremy]

Well, that's what it was.

[Kyle]

Everybody felt like they were excited about a ball leaving the park and then it would just be. It was a game of inches.

[Jeremy]

In the 13th inning, you had a bunt from Miguel Rojas that was like one of the most beautiful buns you're ever going to see. It almost hit him in the face. It almost hit him in the face and he laid it down on the sacrifice bunt. And then you end up with intentional walks to both Ohtani and Bets to load the bases to get to Freddie Freeman, where you're thinking, all right, here's his moment where he'll walk off and he hits a bomb and it dies at the warning.

[Kyle]

He can tell right away. Right away he could tell it wasn't a.

[Jeremy]

But then in the next inning, in the 14th, Will Smith comes up and he thinks he got all of it. He also dies at the warning track. That's why the Freeman home run is so crazy, because the temperature was dropping the further we got throughout the game. They kept mentioning it's going to be 90 degrees tomorrow. The ball is going to be flying. Every reason for tonight's game to be one of those games where it's like 11 to 9 because bullpens are tired, starting pitchers are going to need to go deep. And oh, the starting pitcher for the Dodgers, it's Shohei Ohtani.

[Mike]

Dan, you know about that.

[Stugotz]

Ohtani, he's a pretty good baseball player. They didn't want to be pitching to him last night and he hit a home run anyway early.

[Kyle]

Can I beg the question? Okay, you decided after four. Why'd you make that face?

[Stugotz]

Because you can't beg the question. That's not appropriately.

[Mike]

Start by begging.

[Kyle]

I'm gonna beg this question.

[Dan Le Batard]

It begs a question.

[Kyle]

Why didn't they walk him earlier in the game? First base was open on three of his first at bats. You just, just figured out that he's good after four for four. Because after four for four, they're like, now we clearly can never pitch to him again. I mean, I, I, a little hindsight here. Like what? Like you're just gonna throw to him until he goes 4 for 4 with two doubles and two home runs. Oh, and then you're gonna have this, this groundbreaking idea, hey, let's not pitch to him anymore. Probably should have done that the first three at bats when he didn't, when first base was open.

[Jeremy]

I mean, the, the second home run.

[Kyle]

You'Re started the game. Walk him.

[Jeremy]

Okay, so he starts the game with the double and you're saying you should have intentionally walked him to begin the game. Do you think they're going to do that today?

[Kyle]

I'm just saying they made the decision midway through the game. We're done pitching.

[Jeremy]

Well, yeah, because he was 4 for 4 with four extra base hits, two of which were home runs and the second one was a game tying home run. But when you're up by one, you're not going to intentionally walk him to get to bets where now they could take a lead. You let the solo run hurt. Hurt you.

[Mike]

Yeah, but idiots.

[Jeremy]

God, he's amazing. He's the greatest athlete who's ever lived. He is. I mean, fact, end of discussion. Greatest athlete who's ever lived. Lived. Do you know, do you know who he's in Conversations with both on the mound and at the plate. I'm going to. All right, I'm going to go out and I'm going to go try to create a Venn diagram of all of the different people he's just joined.

[Kyle]

Statistically, you go.

[Jeremy]

I'm going to go. You guys are going to miss me, but I'm going to go.

[Stugotz]

No, I'm not normally in favor of your Venn diagrams, but if it means you'll leave, I'm going to be in.

[Dan Le Batard]

Favor of you too.

[Stugotz]

I'm going to be in favor of that and you can leave for a second.

[Jeremy]

Have fun having this conversation with a bunch of people that have not watched the game.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, we're not gonna have the conversation.

[Stugotz]

We weren't having fun with the conversation that was with the person that was watching.

[Kyle]

I'm also skeptical that Jeremy watched it.

[Stugotz]

Are you?

[Kyle]

He was in the group text until like 1am I know. He popped up at 3am there's gonna.

[Mike]

Be a lot of liars today.

[Kyle]

Are you just saying there was a big gap in the group text. He was involved until like 1am and.

[Mike]

Then I'm willing to hear this.

[Kyle]

It was just. It was me and Kyle seal off in the. Into the wee hours. I didn't see any of Jeremy in.

[Dan Le Batard]

The group that name up.

[Stugotz]

Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Are there going to be a lot of liars in the media today about having watched all 18 innings of that game?

[Mike]

I'm going 90% of the people on television and radio today who are talking about the game and claim they saw did not.

[Stugotz]

Well, but what is your ruling on this? Because what I've been doing and I've been doing this for a while with. Because there's just so much going on in sports. I don't know what these are called. Used to be called Cliff Notes. When we were talking about getting condensed versions of a book that it was just 30 pages instead of 300 pages. But I. So I watched that game last night for a few innings on the front end. And then when I get caught up, I'm watching the. The boxed form of like 15 minutes of. Here are all your important moments in the game with all of the fat cut out, which our algorithm gives you on just anything, anything you want to watch. If there's a football game that you have not seen on YouTube you can catch, they'll give you in 15 minutes everything that you need so that you're not actually missing anything. They can cut all the fat out of it and so do people in the audience know what Cliff Notes are like?

[Mike]

Is that still like the original Cliff Notes?

[Stugotz]

I don't know. Probably not. Is Cliff. Who is Cliff? Is Cliff a person?

[Mike]

Is the guy who took all the notes for us? Dog.

[Mike Ryan]

Who?

[Greg Cody]

Who?

[Stugotz]

What is the history of Cliff Notes? Is it named after somebody whose first or last name is Cliff? Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Do you know? Have you heard of Cliff Notes? First of all? Because I imagine there's a generation that doesn't know about Cliff Notes.

[Greg Cody]

You know who has. Right here. That's the original cheat sheet. You thought AI was cheating in the classroom. Cliff Notes was the original.

[Mike]

Save me in school Cliff Notes.

[Greg Cody]

Why am I reading Grapes of Wrath? Cliff Notes can give it to me in a minute and a half. I write a book report. I haven't even opened a book. Cliff Notes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Save it. Back in my day.

[Stugotz]

It's perfect, actually. Give him the back in my day music and see if he can do a Cliff Notes version. Right here it is a Tuesday. He hasn't tried to do a back in my day in over a year.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I'm too busy singing songs for the Levitard show, producing music. You know, it's tough to do everything. Dan.

[Mike Ryan]

Cliff Notes was started by a Nebraska native by the name of Clifton hilligrass in 1958.

[Greg Cody]

There it is.

[Stugotz]

So it's his first name. And he even shortened Clifton. Like he just kept. It wasn't even. It wasn't his name wasn't Cliff. It was Clifton.

[Mike]

No one would say, hey, can you get me those Clifton Notes? Cliff Notes. So much better.

[Greg Cody]

Clifton. I would refuse to ban it.

[Stugotz]

I would have guessed that Cliff was his last name. Wouldn't you have guessed? No, no, no.

[Greg Cody]

Who do you know? Jimmy Cliff. Are you insane?

[Dan Le Batard]

Jimmy Cliff.

[Greg Cody]

Jimmy Cliff. There you go. I like it.

[Stugotz]

We have talked a lot.

[Greg Cody]

How do they come?

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[Stugotz]

Don LeBatard. Punctuate this segment with what is your strike three call?

[Kyle]

Strike one would be.

[Jeremy]

And then you stand up and you.

[Stugotz]

Give a good point to the right stugaats.

[Kyle]

That's same for strike three. But strike three. You get down low, 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.

[Stugotz]

I wish I could see that era of audio's gray.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Stugotz]

We have talked a lot about the baseball game, but I did want to talk about a couple of things locally. And one of the things that I wanted to talk about locally is the feisty Shannon Dawson. He gives good press conference. He is. He is better speaking spicy than. Than any coordinator that I can remember in the University of Miami's history since Gary Stevens. What, what is he upset about here? That the fan base is complaining about how stubborn he is about running it straight up the middle even though for two games there's been nothing straight up the middle.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's set the tone with this eight second clip, please. And so the question about the ball hitting up the middle, I mean, they can keep asking it and y' all can keep asking it, but I'm not.

[Greg Cody]

Gonna change what we're doing.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was pretty much the entire press conference. He goes a little bit more into detail. Now, look, Miami is primarily a shotgun team. It's hard to run outside in the shotgun. You have limited options. And he tries to. You don't know ball. The assembled press infatuation of how do.

[Greg Cody]

You want me to get the ball.

[Dan Le Batard]

Outside with the running back? It's a question here. How do you do come up the offensive. You may run off. Okay, I'll run option with Carson.

[Stugotz]

That's smart.

[Dan Le Batard]

Genius toss fleet. You run cost fleet from underneath. Yeah, we'll go underneath.

[Stugotz]

How does that impact the defense, though?

[Dan Le Batard]

You know, what you're saying obviously makes total sense, but.

[Greg Cody]

It does.

[Stugotz]

But you've got a gap here.

[Dan Le Batard]

I gotta ask that question a lot. I don't think it makes total sense, to be honest.

[Jeremy]

Yes.

[Mike]

Why did he beat a dick?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, because Shannon Dawson. Look, he had the greatest offense in the history of the University of Miami, aided by one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play at the University of Miami. A quarterback that would often check out plays at the line of scrimmage. But Shannon Dawson has been a really tremendous hire for Miami. That being said, this isn't a good faith discourse because the problem isn't that you're running a gap. That's a team's identity. The problem is you're running a gap when teams are selling out to stop the A gap.

[Mike]

Right like when he says, I'm not going to change. Well, that what? Why wouldn't you change if someone's not working?

[Dan Le Batard]

He has shown in his time here that he can be a bit stubborn and I think the blueprint is out on Miami how to beat him. Them not super disciplined. They'll have pre snap penalties. Maybe you can bait them into it. It'll put them in bad running situations and they're still going to have a running game that lacks creativity. Again, not asking to become an outside zone team. Not asking to find a way to run a stretch from a shotgun. Asking for about four outside runs a game, which is an uptick from what we usually do. And they usually do have big plays there. I think for Shannon Dawson, I get where he's coming from. There's a lot of people saying, why are we running up the middle? That have no idea how it works. I get that. The problem is you're running agap when teams are effectively stopping it and you don't seem to have an answer.

[Stugotz]

So let me ask the group this question because I've told the story before. Jimmie Johnson, when he was coaching the championship Cowboys was always asked, why don't you run more screenplays with Emmett Smith screen passes? And he's like, we're not good at it. We don't, we don't do it well. He's tired of this question and I understand this question. It's easy to be the offensive coordinator from section 129 when things aren't working. You've always got a better solution. So the frustration, he keeps getting the question because over the last two games, after a few games when I thought they were going to run up the middle on everyone all season because their offensive line looked that good after two games of total constipation up the middle. When the coach is telling you this, honestly, as someone who has more information than all of us do, how do you want me to do it? We're not good at it out of the shotgun. And Mike and we keep saying, well just try it a couple of times to the outside. We see people out of the shotgun throw pitches to the side out of the shotgun. I see the Chiefs do it like there are plenty of people doing it yet you can run outside out of the shotgun.

[Dan Le Batard]

In Shannon and Miami's defense, it's only one and a half guys games in the second half they broke through agap. Finally you asserted your will and you broke teams down and it didn't matter that they had an advantage in the box. But to Dan's point a little bit more creativity. It should also be noted that Shannon Dawson did not design the running game. That responsibility landed primarily on Alex Mirabal. Shannon Dawson calls the plays, but you have to have tendency breakers. Miami has very clear tendencies. We saw it against Notre Dame even when they failed to get a first down, and we saw it a little bit against fsu. Creativity in the play calls help you ice a game, and Miami struggled in that department. And I think that ultimately the stubbornness there, unless they infuse some creativity and have some tendency breakers, that might be this team's undoing.

[Greg Cody]

I think an alternative to pitching wide is to throw real quickly to Fletcher in space like the Dolphins have been doing successfully with a chan. You know, there's another way to get a wide play without the traditional piss.

[Kyle]

I feel like they did that a lot on Saturday.

[Dan Le Batard]

Zigaki they had some varying levels of success. We've seen it be successful with CJ Daniels and Malachi Toney. There was one bewildering play called to Elijah Lofton, who I'm a fan of, but sustained an injury in fall camp and is not in the same kind of shape that he was last year. He was always a heavier guy with a weird body type, kind of a tweener that you didn't know what exactly to do with. But getting them in space doesn't seem to be the move so far.

[Stugotz]

The numbers say otherwise on what it appears to your eyes is happening because Pro Football Focus 79 of their runs have gone directly up the middle. Those runs are averaging 4.1 yards per carry. Also, another 54 additional interior runs have gone between the guards and tackles, and Those are averaging 5.5 yards a carry. But UM's outside runs are averaging 4.2 yards per carry when they try it, and that's good enough.

[Dan Le Batard]

The context there, though, is maybe those numbers got fat, let's see, after fsu, because there's a line in the sand when it comes to how teams decided to play Miami once they established their tendencies. And the running game since FSU hasn't been what it was pre fsu. And that's because FSU decided we're going to make Carson Beck beat us. Now, they lived by the sword and died by the sword in that game. Carson Beck made them pay, made incredible plays out of play action. You had the combination of a team selling out to stop the run game in this first half that was very troublesome if you were a Miami fan and Carson Beck wasn't checking out of it and we Were also not trusting him all that much to make the big plays. And that was a little concerning to me. And I'd hate to see Miami season get derailed because they were stubborn.

[Stugotz]

Wait.

[Dan Le Batard]

And married to a certain player.

[Stugotz]

Wait, wait, wait. It already has been derailed. It just hasn't been totally derailed. It. Look, Louisville gave everyone the blueprint. Gave everyone the blueprint on how it is you beat this football team. And the offensive coordinator just put his name and voice on. I'm not changing. Keep asking all your questions. I'm answering honestly. We don't do that well. We don't know how to do it. When he throws the question back at the media, how would you like me to do it? He's telling you flatly, I have not had success with this over the last, you know, six of the last eight quarters. And I get this question a lot and I'm tired of this question. He's not telling you. I appreciate the question. He's not answering the question by saying we're going to do anything differently. He's saying in your face. I don't care how upset you are about this. If you're going to beat us, you're going to beat us because you've stopped us from running up the middle. We're going to continue to try to do that. And we think we can wear everyone down the way that we wore Stanford down.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a gutsy move.

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[Dan Le Batard]

He may end up being right. But when you put your name to those quotes and you go at people like that, if you have another first half against Stanford or you have another game that you add against Louisville, like it goes, it's held against you that much more so ballsy from Shannon Dawson, who I again, I hold this man in very high regard. I think he's a really good offensive coordinator, but I think this team is a little bit stubborn. And quite frankly, when Tyler Van Dyke short circuited, that wasn't all Shannon Dawson either. Mario Cristobal got involved and said, hey, he's turning the ball over too much. If we don't turn the ball over, we win these one score games. Let's dial it back some. So I would think that there's an element of Mario Cristobal also seeing a four turnover game and getting a little spooky.

[Stugotz]

But let me ask you guys the question of stubborn, please. When he says stubborn and the counter to that is no, this is our identity. It's who we are. You're being stubborn about that. No, it's who we are. It's who we're going to be and it's who we are. Is that stubborn or is it only stubborn after you've lost to Louisville?

[Greg Cody]

I think everyone begins to question it after you finally lose. But I don't think they trust Carson Beck enough. I think they should put the ball in the game, in his hands more than they do Carson Beck going into the Louisville game. Carson Beck was the Heisman Trophy front runner. He. He still could be. They just, they. They've taken the ball out of his hands.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm with you. I think it was an overcorrection to them getting spooked by Louisville making tremendous plays. And yet you made a sizable nil investment in this player. He has proven throughout his time not just here but in Georgia, he can shake off some turnovers. That's part of.

[Stugotz]

You've said you're with Greg Cody. I'm not. He is. He's. He's thrown himself out of the Heisman conversation. He will not be invited to that ceremony. It does not matter what he does the rest of the season. That four interception game in a loss that people were watching. He will not be invited to that room.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. That loss though, was an anomaly. Louisville beat Miami with surprises, with gimmickry. With two quarterbacks, three quarterbacks on one or two plays on the field at the same time, you can. Could visibly see on the sideline. The Miami coaching staff did not know what had hit them. And I think that's an outlier of that game. And I don't agree that the season has been lost or ruined or whatever word derailed.

[Stugotz]

You said you. The word was the season will be derailed by that. It already has been derailed. It just. Look, they're better than Louisville and in that game there wasn't that much proof of. And it wasn't just gimmickry. They were beaten. They were. They got too roughing. The passer calls. They did not deserve. They got a fumble at the end of that game. They did not deserve that game. That game could have very easily been them blown out at home in the fourth quarter if Louisville had just held on to the football.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think Miami's gonna get blown out, blown out, blowed out or debacled because they have. They're really good along the lines. And it's hard to blow out teams along the lines. There was a 4 turnover discrepancy between those teams. And Miami was not in position to get blown out. They were in position to tie the game at the very end. There's not many teams in America. That's how you know Miami's ceiling is very, very high and that you have the situation. You have the trick plays that work. You have the gadgets, you have the quick release. You don't have Ruben Bane doing. By the way, Ruben Bane was the highest rated pass rusher yet again by Pro Football Focus despite not getting a sack. He absolutely wrecked it for 48 snaps on Saturday. But this is, this is the trouble with when you get into the playoffs, single elimination. You're going to run into a team that has answers for you. And I don't know if you display enough faith in your quarterback or enough faith in your, in yourself to kind of do set aside your identity a little bit and mix in some tendency breakers.

[Mike]

I mean, your season has been derailed. When you need help just to qualify for the ACC championship game, but not.

[Dan Le Batard]

The playoffs, if you win out, you're well, well, probably. No, no, no, no. Most likely, probably. If Miami wins out, they're in the playoffs.

[Mike]

You can't say it definitively when we're talking about people's opinions. The rankings are opinions. They're not statements.

[Dan Le Batard]

They are 100%.

[Greg Cody]

If my wins out, they are in the.

[Mike]

I don't know how you could say that when it's people's opinions.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know how you could even open the door to that. It's asinine. If they win out.

[Stugotz]

They don't control their own fate in the conference is what he's saying.

[Greg Cody]

They can get in the playoffs without being in the package.

[Dan Le Batard]

The path to the playoffs is actually easier if they don't make it to the ACC championship game because if they lose that game, they'll hold it against them.

[Stugotz]

That's asinine. That's totally asinine.

[Dan Le Batard]

Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo, what are you doing here?

[Stugotz]

Cuervo? Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I do know that to be true. But even during AD reads like Cuervo, I think he could lay out especially for one of our great partners.

[Stugotz]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo, Cuervo, the tequila that invented tequila. Roximo Cuervo.com Please drink responsibly.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.