Local Hour: The Greatest Day In Baseball History

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz Episode: Local Hour: The Greatest Day In Baseball History
Release Date: July 16, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, hosts Dan LeBatard and Stugotz delve into what they are calling "The Greatest Day In Baseball History." The discussion centers around the unprecedented conclusion of the All-Star Game, which ended in a tie and was subsequently decided by a novel "swing-off" rule. The conversation explores the implications of this event, the reactions from various personalities, and the broader impact on the sport.

The Unprecedented All-Star Game

The episode kicks off with Chris Cody expressing his surprise upon discovering that the All-Star Game ended in a tie:

Chris Cody (01:51): "Imagine my confusion this morning... the All Star game has ended in a tie."

Dan LeBatard and the team discuss the lack of awareness about the new rules among players and managers:

Dan LeBatard (03:57): "No, they don't. They told you... They all said they didn't know the rules."

Introduction of the Swing-Off Rule

The hosts break down the newly implemented "swing-off" rule designed to prevent games from ending in ties. Jonathan Zaslow provides insight into the players' awareness of the rule:

Jonathan Zaslow (03:34): "The players didn't know."

Billy Gill adds context about the announcement during the game:

Billy Gill (03:37): "They announced it on the broadcast during the top of the ninth when it was six to five."

Dan LeBatard critiques the lack of player and manager familiarity with the rule changes:

Dan LeBatard (04:16): "It's not like they change all that. The Home Run Derby, I understand those rules are different every single year, but for the most part, like, no one seems to ever know the rules of what's going on."

Reactions to the Swing-Off

The conversation shifts to the actual implementation of the swing-off in the game, highlighting key moments and player performances:

Dan LeBatard (06:46): "Only hitting one home run. But that one home run was the difference."

Billy Gill remarks on the unprecedented nature of the MVP selection:

Billy Gill (07:34): "I don't understand how Schwaber... win MVP at no hits."

Jonathan Zaslow emphasizes the historical significance:

Jonathan Zaslow (09:02): "First non pitcher to have zero hits in the All Star Game and win mvp."

Historical Comparisons and Integrity of the Game

Chris Cody voices concerns about the integrity of baseball with these rule changes:

Chris Cody (10:28): "We keep track of things when in the 10th inning, you put a runner on second and all of a sudden anybody can have an RBI with a runner on second and you're just distorting things."

Dan LeBatard counters by highlighting ongoing rule changes in sports:

Dan LeBatard (04:54): "Or if you're driving over 100 miles an hour, they take you straight to jail... It's a public service announcement..."

Fans' and Media's Reception

The hosts discuss the mixed reactions from fans and the media regarding the All-Star Game's outcome:

Mike Ryan (09:26): "Kevin Burkhart was both frustrated and excited that there was nowhere on his scoresheet to score this."

Jonathan Zaslow praises the entertainment value added by the new rule:

Jonathan Zaslow (18:15): "It's a cool tribute to the pitch clock... the first ever swing off."

Technological Innovations in Broadcasting

Dan LeBatard highlights the technological advancements in broadcasting the game:

Dan LeBatard (19:00): "They recreated it with technology and this VR... firework from home plate over the outfield wall."

Conclusion and Future Implications

As the episode wraps up, the hosts reflect on the significance of the day's events and speculate on the future of baseball:

Dan LeBatard (42:41): "I think the only complaint would be that... we just know it's going to be disappointment moving forward."

Billy Gill shares a personal anecdote to underline the event's impact:

Billy Gill (43:35): "Last time I woke up one of my kids for sports, it was in the middle of The Jimmy Butler 56 point game against Milwaukee... you're waking your kids up for an exhibition for history."

Key Takeaways

• Unprecedented Tie: The All-Star Game ended in a tie, a first in baseball history, leading to the implementation of a "swing-off" to determine the outcome.
• Swing-Off Rule: Introduced to prevent future ties, though many players and managers were unaware of it beforehand.
• Historical Significance: Kyle Schwarber won MVP without recording a hit, marking a unique moment in the sport.
• Technological Enhancements: The game featured advanced broadcasting techniques, including VR elements and fireworks simulations.
• Mixed Reactions: While some praise the innovation and excitement it brought, others worry about the integrity and tradition of the game.
• Future of Baseball: The event signifies a potential shift in how baseball embraces changes to engage new generations, though it raises questions about the sport's evolution.

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Notable Quotes:

• Chris Cody (01:51): "Imagine my confusion this morning... the All Star game has ended in a tie."
• Jonathan Zaslow (09:02): "First non pitcher to have zero hits in the All Star Game and win mvp."
• Dan LeBatard (19:00): "They recreated it with technology and this VR... firework from home plate over the outfield wall."
• Billy Gill (43:35): "You're waking your kids up for an exhibition for history."

This episode provides a comprehensive analysis of a landmark event in baseball history, blending insightful commentary with spirited debate among the hosts. It captures the excitement and controversy surrounding the All-Star Game's conclusion, offering listeners a detailed perspective on the evolving landscape of the sport.

Transcript

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[Chris Cody]

Imagine my confusion this morning, Zaz, when I walk in here today and I decided to shut off my brain. Last night. I was not gonna pay attention to the All Star game and not do anything other than try to rest my head. And at three o' clock in the morning, I wake up, I go to the bathroom, I look at my iPad and it says that the All Star game has ended in a tie. Yeah, I close my iPad and I Don't think about it again.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right?

[Chris Cody]

I come in this morning and what is happening inside of Metal Arc Media is a whole bunch of goofballs yelling at each other about baseball being back. And I'm like, okay, well, what happened between me seeing that the All Star Game ended in a tie again and this room that hasn't wanted to talk baseball with me for five years. Five years. I can't get anybody but Jeremy to talk baseball with me. And Billy's occasionally willing to talk Marlins, but no other baseball, no falsehoods. And today I walk in and you guys are as excited as I've seen you about sport since we began covering games.

[Billy Gill]

I knew that was going to happen. I was on ESPN last night immediately following the All Star Game, and I led the show with here on the east coast. People are going to wake up tomorrow morning, they're going to check the box score. And the game ended six to six. It's like, I can't believe we did this again. We had another tie.

[Mike Ryan]

I saw it was a swing off on Twitter. I'm not going to lie. Didn't really watch. Had it on at one point. Wasn't really watching the All Star Game. I saw on Twitter we had a swing off. I ran to my tv. I was like, I gotta check this out. First one ever.

[Chris Cody]

Did you guys know that there was a swing off? Not. Not. Did you know that it was a rule?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

The players didn't know.

[Billy Gill]

No one knew.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Robbie Ray said that they found out with two outs in the ninth inning when Dave Roberts came up to them and said, hey, you guys aren't gonna.

[Billy Gill]

Believe this, but they announced it on the broadcast during the top of the ninth when it was six to five. So it's like it. If the game gets tied, we have a swing off. It's never happened before, but the rules been in play since 2022.

[Chris Cody]

What?

[Dan LeBatard]

They changed that a while. It just never goes to extra innings. I don't understand how no one knows the rule. Like, as a player or manager, they never know the rules ever. Because it's not like they change all that. The Home Run Derby, I understand those rules are different every single year, but for the most part, like, no one seems to ever know the rules of what's going on.

[Chris Cody]

Put it on the poll, please. Juju. Does anyone seem to know the rules of what's going on? Because I think that's an absolute that you're offering there. I'm going to say the grand majority of people playing sports know the rules.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, they don't. They told you. I mean, you just said that. They all said they didn't know the rules. So I would say the grand majority don't know the rules. I will say this. You know what? Rules change all the time. And this is a public service announcement that I want to give to America at this moment, or I guess not America, just like this state in general, if you get pulled over going 30 miles an hour over the speed limit, super speeder. You're a super speeder. And they arrest you on the spot. Now you're going to jail. Or if you're driving over 100 miles an hour, they take you straight to jail.

[Billy Gill]

Now, wait, does the ticket say super speeder?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, but it's not like a cool badge of honor because again, you go straight to jail, they can arrest you on the spot and just take you to jail. That seems like a rule that changed on July 1st that they should inform everyone about. But. But no, because the first super speeder they caught three minutes after the rule went into effect. Straight to jail.

[Mike Ryan]

Saddle up, folks.

[Dan LeBatard]

What do you mean?

[Chris Cody]

Whoa, you stumbled onto another Wild Billy Wednesday. Hold on to your hats, partners. It's about to get wild. Put it on the poll, please. Juju at LeBatard show. Would you be okay eliminating extra innings right now at LeBatard show? Because I guess what happened last night, and we've got some Belichick stuff to get to, and more LeBron information out of nowhere. But the All Star Game last night, an exhibition game that I didn't have any interest in, and I believe I have it right when I say in baseball, All Star Game history, there have only been two controversies. Right. I'm doing this off the top of my head. I don't know if there's been a third. I think it's just one of the games ended in a tie and Bud Selig looked confused and it became a symbol for baseball, doesn't know how to lead, letting a game end in a tie. And the other was Pete Rose breaking Ray Fossi's collarbone and ending his career by, you know, colliding with him at home plate in an all in an exhibition game. I don't think there's a third controversy, but tie game is one of them, and they fix that, obviously, because there is Nothing better in 2025 than just feed people instantaneous. This doesn't take much attention span. We're just going to put Kyle Schwarber up there to swing like a keg softball player.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, so do you know, since you. Since you like, didn't see it, you'd shut off your brain. Do you know the rules and how it happened? Because they even fixed that. It wasn't like a drawn out home run derby. It was three batters and they got three swings each. So it wasn't like three outs. It was three swings. So you had to, you know, what happened is spoiler alert. If anyone's going to go back and watch the swing off. Kyle Stowers decided, you know what? I'm going to wait for my pitch. So he did take a couple of pitches where you're watching, like, all right, buddy, like, come on, let's start swinging here. Exactly. It's a virtue, some people say. But he's there trying to, you know, take some pitches, get the right pitch. Ends up spoiler alert. Only hitting one home run. But that one home run. Some are saying, I know, I know. That Schwaber wins the mvp. Some people are saying, Kyle Stowers, Miami Marlin could have been the MVP because he only hit one home run. But that one home run was the difference.

[Billy Gill]

I don't understand how Schwaber. Dan, have you ever seen a player in major league baseball all star game wins the mvp? Had no hits in the game.

[Dan LeBatard]

Spoiler alert.

[Billy Gill]

How Schwar win MVP at no hits. That, you know, good game.

[Dan LeBatard]

To, to your point and Dan's point earlier. I don't like opening the box score and just seeing 66. I want those home runs to count as runs. I want to wake up and see what 10 to N and be like, how 10 to 9. How did that happen? Started out slow, two nothing in the first inning, and then we had a bit of a lull then 109. Wow. Offensive explosion here.

[Billy Gill]

No hits.

[Dan LeBatard]

No hits.

[Billy Gill]

Hey, let's vote on the all star game mvp. I, I, I vote for the guy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Who had no hits, who had three home runs. Technically. No, he didn't. Yeah, he did.

[Billy Gill]

I looked in the box score right now. It's out there.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, I mean, technically, none of those stats count any.

[Billy Gill]

That's right.

[Dan LeBatard]

So I don't understand if none of them count, why they don't just throw them in there.

[Chris Cody]

It's the inception of stats that don't get extra stats. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you telling me that there is a box score and if I look at it the way that I've looked at a box score, the entirety of my life, and the way that a box score has been done throughout the history of box scores, and it's not going to say that Schwaber has any Dan in the box.

[Billy Gill]

I'm showing you right now. Here is the play by play right there. Box of the ninth inning. There's the third out. Did anything happen after.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, bot.

[Billy Gill]

Nothing.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, wait a minute.

[Billy Gill]

That's nothing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Nothing happened.

[Chris Cody]

So the box score. If I look at a box score right now, it's not going to say that Kyle Schwerber hit any home runs or even had a hit in the game.

[Billy Gill]

Never happened.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

First non pitcher to have zero hits in the All Star Game and win mvp. He's also the first All Star Game MVP to hit three home runs.

[Billy Gill]

I'll tell you what I'm going to give the voters who voted for the All Star Game mvp. I'm going to give him a little bit of credit right now, actually, you may be surprised to hear me say that, but I'm going to give him a little bit of credit because it takes some balls to vote for a guy who had no hits to be the mvp.

[Mike Ryan]

Kevin Burkhart was both frustrated and excited that there was nowhere on his scoresheet to score this. He's like, there's nowhere to put it. I'm just doing dashes. This is exciting though. It's the first one ever. He was like. He didn't know how to feel about it.

[Dan LeBatard]

There should be a different scorecard, I think, right? I think it should be in an envelope and it needs to be either sealed with wax or with a sticker. You need something that you go like. Like a pen that you go. That you go across. Like the nuclear football. I don't know if you guys have seen in movies a nuclear football. It comes in a packet and you have to crack it open and then you open it up and that's where the codes are. You need one of those for an All Star Game swing off.

[Mike Ryan]

And if you're wondering why would someone like Stowers, relatively no name in baseball be put in this extreme situation late in the game? It's because all the people that started the game left after they were taken out.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

That's how it works there in the All Star.

[Mike Ryan]

You just leave the game after you're out.

[Dan LeBatard]

A lot of a lot players did too. Yeah. The fans left to the rel. I mean, relatively empty stands for a very exciting moment. First time in history.

[Billy Gill]

Question. Did you know that the guys that you could use for this Home Run Derby can be guys who are already taken out of the game? Like. Like it was a little confusing. I had no idea who you're allowed to pick to be the guys who.

[Chris Cody]

I have a lot of questions. Okay? So put this on the poll plays at lebatard show. Did you know the extra inning rules last night? And the other thing that I want to discuss with you guys about this is my entire history covering baseball, okay. Has been baseball writers write poems about what baseball is, and it's always something beautiful because it's timeless. It's about literally coming home, writing these poems that have. We've taken a bat to all of that with a couple of changes that we've made. I'm not objecting to this. I like the change. I like the growth. I love that baseball somehow is evolving to capture a new generation of people by being faster and better. But I said yesterday that you really are distorting the integrity of the. The product of the game and the results and how it is you keep track of things when in the 10th inning, you put a runner on second and all of a sudden anybody can have an RBI with a runner on second and you're just distorting things.

[Dan LeBatard]

Those show up in the box score.

[Billy Gill]

Though, so it counts, like for your stats. RBI and run scored and they're extra runs.

[Chris Cody]

And it's. Regardless. It doesn'. It's to speed up the game. But the thing that I wanted to talk to you guys about is the following. Right. I think I've made fun before of soccer ending in penalty kicks, even though I like penalty kicks. And you kind of have to do that. And I have said it's like ending the super bowl by, instead of going into overtime, just having the quarterbacks throw the ball through a swinging tire. It's not the game they were playing before that. Right, right. It's. It's that I think everybody's in on the idea of. Of. Of give and different. Because we really are. We've gone from the game is timeless to now by rule. Let's wrap this up. We're going to wrap this up now, right? Let's. Let's hurry up and wrap this up. That's what. What they gave you last night.

[Dan LeBatard]

Last night was super fun and exciting. Everyone enjoyed it, Dan, like every single person.

[Chris Cody]

Billy, I'm not complaining about it. I'm telling you that it is a change that absolutely is unlike anything in entertainment, which. We're having fun. We get more. We get more. Yeah. Yeah. Let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up. Let's finish up what we're doing. We need to get out of here. And it's because Roy's walking in today and he says under his breath, while you guys are dancing around baseball's back. He's like, that shit was three and a half hours last night.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, man, we fixed baseball. We got pitch clock and everything. And all of a sudden it's three and a half hours.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Boo hoos clock tomorrow.

[Dan LeBatard]

But like, you guys understand the ulcer. First of all, the All Star Game doesn't count anymore. Like it's an. It never did count, but then it did count after the tie because it determined home field advantage for the World Series. But it's, it's back to not counting. I think again, they change rules all the time, but the All Star Game always takes forever because there's a thousand substitutions. Like you're constantly taking out players to try to make sure everybody plays. Which is why at the end they're like, you know what, let's do, let's do something fun here, Dan. Also, I don't know if you caught this. It was the first time in Major League Baseball that we saw that the challenges could be done on balls and strikes. Four challenges, four successful challenges. Yesterday. It was experimented yesterday.

[Billy Gill]

What was unsuccessful?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, three out of four were successful yesterday. So, I mean, very exciting.

[Chris Cody]

You guys are beside yourself with enthusiasm about a, an exhibition game of friendly last night. All of you are raving that it was perfect. Six. Nothing becomes six. Six. And then we all learn a rule together and shortly thereafter are able to wrap up the night. And if you're going to wrap it up, just send me a couple of giant guys who are trying to hit the ball 500ft and let's all get out of here.

[Dan LeBatard]

Did you see how the game got tied in the ninth inning, Dan?

[Chris Cody]

I did not.

[Dan LeBatard]

Infield single with two outs. Stephen Kwan, guys, fast two strikes, two outs, one pitch away from ending it. We almost didn't have a swing off, but then an infield single. In this game of long ball and 103 mile per hour pitches, an infield single small ball is what sent it to extras. Or I guess not extras. A swing off baseball's back. They fixed it. It's incredible.

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[Chris Cody]

Don LeBatard.

[Billy Gill]

That was a long story.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it's the only kind he tells.

[Dan LeBatard]

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

[Stugotz]

You forgot about the league's cup stugats.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

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

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. Savannah Bananas have gone way too far that we could all agree on that they've taken the game.

[Chris Cody]

Anyone objecting to this? Is there. Is there? There's not a Bob Costas out there. Bob Costas famously objected to the wild card. The wild card was one of the rejected ideas that baseball back before it was willing to change. That was very unpopular at first. The wild card because you were distorting everything. Now it's very popular. There's no one out there complaining or lamenting that this ended in a swing off.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I haven't seen anyone doing even like the. The old school baseball guys. Buster only last night tweeted out that the All Star game was an ode to the pitch clock. And because in that broadcast you had longer commercial breaks. The first ever swing off. Hitter to hitter interviews. The stand up to cancer pause. The tribute to Hank Aaron. Which if you haven't seen. Coolest thing I've ever seen in entertainment history.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Ever.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, my God. You've never seen anything cooler.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Go watch it.

[Billy Gill]

I saw it live. It was insane I've ever seen.

[Mike Ryan]

All right, fine.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's a virgin.

[Mike Ryan]

The coolest tribute ever to an athlete.

[Billy Gill]

I mean. Yeah. All right, I'll.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I'll go there.

[Billy Gill]

Coolest tribute ever seen in my life.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was greater than the actual moment.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Prisoner of the moment. That's fine.

[Billy Gill]

All right.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Prisoner of the moment. But there were also pitching changes. A mid game removal of Freddie Freeman. It got him. Innovation. Games still lasted three hours and 20 minutes. That was just the average baseball game like five years ago.

[Dan LeBatard]

Can we put on the poll? Was Hank Aaron breaking the home run record or last night's recreation of Hank Aaron breaking the home run record? More exciting. Which was.

[Chris Cody]

Which one was cool?

[Dan LeBatard]

Which was cooler, the actual moment or the recreation?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

The recreation might have been cool.

[Stugotz]

Did you see it? Dude?

[Dan LeBatard]

They recreated it.

[David Sampson]

Once Kershaw got taken on a stop watching.

[Dan LeBatard]

They started doing this stuff with technology and this VR there was that. We're like, the lights are off firework. The field is. Is lit Up. And then all of a sudden, you hear the audio of the moment. And then instead of seeing a video of the home run, what happens? They shoot a firework from home plate over the outfield wall. And then all of a sudden, you see his steps being lit up on the bait paths as he goes around. The coolest moment in baseball history last night.

[Billy Gill]

Baseball back.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm telling you, Kershaw is miked up, and he was telling us what pitch he was gonna throw while he was winding up right before he let it go.

[Chris Cody]

Too much.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was too much.

[Mike Ryan]

That was too much. He literally, in the middle of his window, he goes, smolty, what do you want me to throw? Smolty goes, throw a cutter. He's like, in the middle of his pitch.

[Dan LeBatard]

Multi.

[Billy Gill]

I don't throw a cutter.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

And then he threw the slide.

[Mike Ryan]

I'll throw a slider instead. Small T. I don't throw a cutter, Uncle Charlie.

[Chris Cody]

Let's do it that way.

[Billy Gill]

That wasn't actually in a game. The lights were out. There was a firecracker that went off at home plate. That's the coolest. It didn't.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're trying to make it seem like it's one of those little light fireworks. Goes. And that's it.

[Billy Gill]

No, it actually petered out in midair. If you were watching shot the people. It petered out.

[Dan LeBatard]

What do you want to kill fans?

[Billy Gill]

Hey, I'm not saying to kill fans.

[Dan LeBatard]

You just said you wanted fans dead.

[Billy Gill]

Petered out.

[Dan LeBatard]

Jonathan Zaslov, ESPN Sports Night. Kill fans or. I'm not impressed.

[Billy Gill]

What show is Sports Night?

[Dan LeBatard]

That's your show.

[Mike Ryan]

How many. How many test fireworks you think they went through until they got the right angle on? Like, that's where the ball actually kept testing the ball. The firework went in the same direction that the ball did.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Incredible.

[Mike Ryan]

It was amazing. That was the coolest thing baseball's done in a long time.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Until Kyle Schwarber hit three home runs on three pitches.

[Pablo Torre]

Wow.

[Dan LeBatard]

Mvp.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Dan LeBatard]

Polar bear didn't even have to come up.

[Billy Gill]

So last night, apparently, based on what you guys are saying, last night was greatest night baseball history.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Billy Gill]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

Welcome.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Might have been the best night in what?

[Billy Gill]

I don't know, sports.

[Chris Cody]

You're going to get him upset. You don't. I saw a nostril flare and your prisoner of the moment and your general enthusiasm. Lack of history in general, where you're assigning.

[Billy Gill]

What are you, three years old?

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm starting to question. Honestly, and I Don't want to do this. This. I, I, I. It pains me to do this. I'm starting to question who's making the decisions over there at the four Letter Network that they're putting some jamoke on air. Who's not even watching the game.

[Billy Gill]

I know you're not talking about me.

[Dan LeBatard]

Call Justin Craig, say, hey. What? Why Zazo on the air over there, he didn't even watch the All Star Game. What's going on over there?

[Billy Gill]

I know you're not talking about me.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm not.

[Chris Cody]

Sports.

[Mike Ryan]

Best July 15th in sports history.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

Best July 15th in sports History.

[Billy Gill]

You got to be kidding me.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, you won't even give us that. Best July 15th in sports history.

[Billy Gill]

I got it. I got to check back and see what else happened on July 15th.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do it right now. What do you do?

[Billy Gill]

I'm doing a show.

[Chris Cody]

No, but this is what they do. They say the stupid thing and then bury you in paperwork and keep saying the stupid thing where the stupid ones do watch.

[Billy Gill]

Doing a show of crazy people is what I'm doing. Greatest night in baseball history last night.

[Chris Cody]

What's the point of you guys watching if what you're going to do after watching is lose all perspective and call it the greatest night in sports history In a game that doesn't matter.

[Dan LeBatard]

You guys didn't watch. You don't you. It's like we're talking crazy. You didn't watch any second. There was not a zero seconds you watched.

[Billy Gill]

There was not a singular moment last night where I'm watching that game. I said, you know what? This is the greatest night in baseball history. Didn't happen.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're old and jaded. That's the problem here. You don't enjoy sports anymore. You had your thing with the Heat, and then all of a sudden they got bad. You switch your allegiances over to the Panthers. Yeah. Your little tryst with the Heat over there, and then all of a sudden, they've stopped winning championships. And you said, I'm a Panthers guy now. You turned your hat around. You're wearing a backwards Panther stupid hat.

[Billy Gill]

Instead of staying backwards for a long time.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Yeah. Not a Heat hat anymore. You got off of the Heat. But guess what? If LeBron comes back, which is the reports that's out there is that LeBron James is coming back to Miami. I guarantee you, you're coming right back to the Heat bandwagon. Gonna lose your faith and your, you know, loyalty to the Panthers real quick. If LeBron James comes back, I'm onto you.

[Billy Gill]

I don't like the words coming out, you know.

[Chris Cody]

Jonathan, what is the allegation from Billy Gill? That is the name of rising star Jonathan Zaslow's show on ESPN Radio.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's the name of the show? Sports Night, Isn't it. What is it called?

[Billy Gill]

What's the name of the show I did last night?

[Dan LeBatard]

Sports Night. Yeah, that's what I called it.

[Billy Gill]

Game Night.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wow.

[Billy Gill]

You want to rename it, though?

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, I mean, Game. Game Night sounds kind of cool.

[David Sampson]

It's a movie.

[Chris Cody]

No, it's a TV show. Sports Night was a TV show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Game Night's a movie, though.

[Billy Gill]

Yes.

[Chris Cody]

Jeremy has whispered to me that Babe Ruth tied the all time home run record on July 15th.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

That can't be July 15th, 1921. He tied the then career home run record at 138 home runs. To think that it was 138 before he turned it into 714 is insane.

[Mike Ryan]

He broke it at 138 and then just kept going. That's crazy.

[Chris Cody]

How have I never heard that before? And he pitched to. And the guys, they must have pitching. No, they had second jobs as movers.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

It's like Otati hitting 2,000 home runs.

[Chris Cody]

So you thought, though, Chris, that it was a little too intimate, that it was a bridge too far to interview Kershaw while he's pitching?

[Billy Gill]

Literally.

[Mike Ryan]

What pitch do you want me to throw? I mean, it's just. I get it. They're trying to access. I like it to some extent, but it's just like, where's the line on this? How desperate are we for people to watch us that it's like, next thing you know, you're going to be in people's bedrooms.

[Billy Gill]

I think the line is exhibition. Real game. That's the line.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

So done this in real game.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

They did Sunday night baseball.

[Mike Ryan]

They do this in Sunday night baseball.

[Chris Cody]

Just to be clear the accusation you're making, you think that some future evolution now that baseball's changing is. And now in the fourth inning, here we go to Kershaw at home having sex with his wife.

[Mike Ryan]

He's on an off day. He doesn't start till Saturday. So now we go to Kershaw. Kershaw, how are you? You doing right now? Oh, it's great. It's great.

[Dan LeBatard]

Off day.

[Chris Cody]

I'm question this. Doing that. Please stop. Stop moving your hips that way and don't show us that your bedroom at all.

[Mike Ryan]

That's where we might end up.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was awesome. Also, like, for the people that were feeling nostalgic, that didn't like too much change. Happening in the All Star Game. We talked to Jack Wilson in the middle of the game because his son was playing. So Jack and Jacob Wilson were both being talked to at the exact same time. Jack Wilson might be a gap. Jack Wilson, former Pirate Jack Wilson, All Star 2004 All Star, I believe looked like a pirate. Like an actual pirate. Like a. Like a pirateeer player who looked most.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Like their team name.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, Jack Wilson looked like he could be a pirate in real life, not the main pirate. He wouldn't be the captain of the ship.

[Chris Cody]

I thought that we had a shmee character closed this category years ago, and I'm forgetting his name now. The Vikings had a defensive lineman, Chris Viking. Yes, he looked like a Viking. He looked. I thought we had closed this category and now I'm failing to remember who the character is. That Jared Allen also had a little bit of Viking in him as a Viking.

[David Sampson]

The hair was too dark.

[Chris Cody]

Minchu hasn't played for the Buccaneers, has he?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Chris Hovind.

[Chris Cody]

Yes. Thank you. Is he number 90? Why did I forget his name? Saj, just to be clear, has Billy insulted you by calling it Game Night? No.

[Billy Gill]

I mean, if he thinks that Sports Night is a better name than Game Night, that's his opinion. That's okay. I mean. I mean, I didn't love some of the things he said about me and my fandom. Like, it's kind of insulting, but whatever. You want to change the name of ESPN shows, it's your opinion.

[Dan LeBatard]

I didn't. It was. It was a simple mistake. I'm fallible just like the rest of us. And I'll admit it, I made a mistake.

[Billy Gill]

You are fallible.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I made a mistake. I'm sorry.

[Billy Gill]

You're a fallible man.

[Chris Cody]

It's gotten testy in here because the accusations are flying. I do believe that something that's happening here that is frustrating to Billy and the rest, and I can understand how it would be so it's happening throughout America, where a lot of people have very strong opinions on things they don't know anything about or have not watched or paid any attention to. For example, the sheer number of opinions that Chris Cody has given me on the Pablo Torre Finds out podcast. When Pablo Torre is doing the best work in sports journalism right now, and Chris Cody is reducing it to what he found some guy named Moose on Twitter. And that's why he's getting all those people to listen to a deep dive on Malik Beasley with Tom Haberstrough and Amin Elhassan that is deeper than any dive you will see, because Pablo is consistently doing more and better work than others. That is being dismissed by people like Chris Cody as they wander from the bong to the keg stand because they just want to see Kyle Schwaber hit bombs, and they don't want their journalism.

[Mike Ryan]

I haven't done a keg stand in 15 years.

[Chris Cody]

Only because you can't anymore.

[Mike Ryan]

I can do a handstand.

[Chris Cody]

Do you want to do one behind me right now? Because I read something the other day. I would ask you guys this.

[Mike Ryan]

I want my belly to show.

[Chris Cody]

All right, well, that's brave. So I think if you're going to tell us you can do a handstand behind me, you're going to have to kind of prove it, I think. I don't think that's something that I'll do it believe. I also wanted to ask the group this question because I don't know how this can be true, but I read the statistic the other day that only 15% of people over 40 years old have the balance, the correct balance and alignment of their bodies that they can put socks on while standing on one foot. Put socks on. One foot to the other. I imagine all of you guys probably think you can do that, Right? I would like to test that behind me over the course of the. Of the show where. Where we have people trying to put on socks. I don't know how that static. I don't know how they arrive at the statistic that only 15% of people over 40 can do.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think it's in the census.

[Billy Gill]

But why would you think. When you're putting on your socks in the morning, why would you say, I'm going to do this standing up? Who does that?

[Chris Cody]

How do you guys all put on your socks?

[Dan LeBatard]

One at a time? Yeah, one time.

[Billy Gill]

It'd be amazing if you did both at a time.

[Chris Cody]

Do any of you do it standing up? Put it on the standing up. In a pinch at Lebatard show, have you ever put your socks on standing up? So Chris Cody is now gonna do the handstand behind me, correct? Or are you worried about your belly? Are you worried about.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think he tucked it in.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, he tucked it in.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wow. Oh, that wasn't long enough.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Pretty impressive.

[Chris Cody]

That wasn't long enough.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Long enough.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, that's good.

[Chris Cody]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

Three seconds.

[Chris Cody]

But not a keg stand.

[Billy Gill]

Couldn't even.

[Chris Cody]

Couldn't even get a sip out of the keg.

[David Sampson]

But Dan, remember, in a keg stand, your legs are being held up by participants of said keg stand.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[David Sampson]

So it's different. Somebody's holding his legs up as he's drinking. You're not holding it up yourself and then holding the nozzle.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're like a gymnast. Thank you. I could see Chris is like a circus folk in another life.

[Chris Cody]

Life. What would you imagine that would look like?

[Dan LeBatard]

Like this, just at the circus.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, so just a wandering handstands. Circus. Circus.

[Dan LeBatard]

I didn't say a successful.

[Chris Cody]

What a sad traveling circus you've put together.

[Dan LeBatard]

He can juggle too.

[Chris Cody]

But that's not what you mentioned. You just did that. That was the big entertainment.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think you should paint some face.

[Chris Cody]

Your shitty circus.

[Dan LeBatard]

Your shitty circus hit with the cannonball on the belly. You know, different things like that.

[Billy Gill]

Over here. You got the bearded woman over here. Yeah, Chris doing hands handstands.

[Chris Cody]

This is how little talent generally surrounds Billy Daly around here. That he builds a circus around somebody surprising him with a talent.

[Dan LeBatard]

I said I could see him in a circus, not that he's a talented.

[Mike Ryan]

I would crush a circus.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think that you believe I'd be.

[Mike Ryan]

The energy guy out there before the show.

[Dan LeBatard]

What would you do? Is that a thing circuses have? An energy guy?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. I mean, what do you think?

[Billy Gill]

They're just usually a clown.

[Dan LeBatard]

The ringmaster. Would you be a clown?

[Mike Ryan]

That's not what I would prefer to.

[Chris Cody]

Do, but I'll start. Bearded lady is what I would go with.

[Dan LeBatard]

Close your eyes, exhale. Feel your body relax and let go.

[Chris Cody]

Of whatever you're carrying today.

[Greg Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

1-800-Contacts.

[Greg Cody]

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[Roy Bellamy]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Billy Gill]

Don LeBatard My algorithm on Instagram is Dan it's all boobs.

[Chris Cody]

Stugats.

[Billy Gill]

It's a good algorithm.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is the Don Levatar show with the stugats.

[Chris Cody]

Can you get the boldest take of the day for me please? I want to go to phone calls because I miss the community of clever people who used to compete to be clever around our text machine and our phone lines. The telephone number for the Boost Mobile hot take line is 305-486-GETTS, 486-GET-4689. Let's see what we've got there. Roy.

[Dan LeBatard]

The Boost Mobile boldest take is presented.

[Chris Cody]

By Boost Mobile, the newest 5G network in the country.

[Pablo Torre]

Hey guys, it's Eric on a mobile. My hottest take from the weekend is that Vince Lombardi looks like white Malcolm X. Hi, this is Brandon calling from a desk phone. My hot take is that if you are not a state then you should not have state in your university name. For example, San Jose State University should just be San Jose University City. Thanks, I'll hang up and listen. Hey, this is Josh in a car. My limited fake David Samson guy of hey guys, Colin from North Dakota on a mobile. My bold take is I think that hard shell tacos should be eliminated and we should all eat them the way that they're intended as nachos. I'll hang up and listen. Hey guys, Cody in Tennessee. My hot take is that the worst athletic portrayal of an actor in a movie. Gotta be Vince Vaughn and Rudy. He's so bad. He is so awkward. I think it's Danny O', Shea, number 44. It is. It is. Just cringe to watch. I'll hang up and listen. Hi, there. First time. Long time. This is Dan from Rochester on a mobile. Here is my limited fake SportsCenter voiceover guy. This is SportsCenter brought to you by Boost Mobile. I'll hang up and listen. This is Ian from Oklahoma, and I'm Water, oil, razor. My hot take is that the hibachi messed up. This is Ian from Oklahoma on a Motorola Razor. My hot take is the 4th of July. Fireworks are just like the hibachi at the fire. I messed up again. I quit.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

It's my favorite person.

[Chris Cody]

All right. Great effort. 305-486- Got you. Made it somehow beyond an international pool of callers. You made it with those.

[Mike Ryan]

He probably tried a third time.

[David Sampson]

He was going somewhere. Fireworks, hibachi. I wanted to see where it landed.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

On the Motorola Razor.

[Chris Cody]

So this is one of the many reasons that the talent around here surprises Billy anytime it appears, because we've lowered the bar so low for what talent is around. Tony's here, and I want to go back to yesterday, and I want to relive a moment that is going to be largely for the video audience. So forgive me, because we're still much larger in audio than we are in video. But I think I want the video audience to simply keep an eye on Cody and understand that for about five or six years, my old friend sometimes just doesn't seem to know where he is. I don't know how to explain this any other way other than how I'm about to show you, which is he's doing a show with us, and he's been doing it for a while here in these studios where we look when a guest appears and David Sampson is right in front of us. I want you to watch Greg Cody here as he starts looking around the studio roof for David Sampson because he doesn't know where he. Watch what happens to Greg Cody here. He forgets where he is and where David Sampson is and where anything sane in the world is. Greg Cody has called this All Star decision, okay, a joke, a disgrace, and my favorite criminal. A crime against baseball.

[Mike Ryan]

It is a crime against baseball, okay?

[Dan LeBatard]

Because. Is David still on or did he.

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Billy Gill]

Why are you looking here?

[Mike Ryan]

Why'd you just look into the sky?

[Dan LeBatard]

Come on. There's a lot of monitors.

[Billy Gill]

Come on.

[David Sampson]

There's 15 TVs on?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Why did he look at the ceiling? None are in the ceiling.

[Dan LeBatard]

Now look at, look at that room. Look at that shot right there. Look at all those TVs. It's an easy mistake, but I'm pretty.

[Mike Ryan]

Sure David was just on one of the screens.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, you're right. There are all of these screens here and he's on several of them. Why can't he find him?

[Chris Cody]

I want to show it to everybody again. So you understand this is a. It's not his first time in the studio, not his first time talking to David Sampson, not his first time talking to a guest. I don't know what happened here. Greg Cody has called this All Star decision, okay, a joke, a disgrace, and my favorite criminal, a crime against baseball.

[Mike Ryan]

It is a crime against baseball.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay, because.

[Mike Ryan]

Is David still on?

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Billy Gill]

Where are you looking around.

[Mike Ryan]

Until he sees David, he looks up in a way. Like we said to him, David is in space.

[Billy Gill]

He thought maybe David was going to be like, like repel from the lights here into the studio.

[Mike Ryan]

David just being right here.

[Chris Cody]

Greg, Pablo Torre is going to join us here in a little bit here to talk about his latest groundbreaking journalism. I'm sure many people are interested in the Malik Beasley story, especially if I can give you the particulars, if I can give you more exhaustive reporting that you've seen from anybody, using multiple sources to get to the bottom of something that a lot of people are interested in. Why would Malik Beasley, who, if you're not familiar with his game, is basically the best three point shooter, not by volume, not named Steph Curry, just statistically, and he was about to sign a three year, $42 million or $41 million deal, and that is evidently over now. And Pablo Torre talking to Tom Haberstrough and Amin Alhassan, sort of digs deep to get to the bottom of a story that's got a lot of elements to it that people are going to find f. So he's going to be here in moments to talk about that. But Chris, what is happening here? Because I, I see what Pablo Torre is doing and it's unlike anything that you will find in sports journalism today. I don't know if you guys have known or noticed, but all that media stuff that was in Hialeah before in Miami, that's not there anymore. Like, media is dying all over the place and people can't afford to presently do the work that Pablo is doing on some stories that are silly and some stories that are very serious. But he's Doing consistently interesting things that the people who are listening to it are loving every single hour, every minute of every hour, because there's no fat in anything. And then there are other people in sports who just don't want to consume their sports that way. They're like, give me Kyle Schwab three bombs and get me out of here. I don't want deep dives on anything. Give me cotton candy all the time. Just a diet of nothing but 100% cotton candy. And that's fun, too.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, I just watched, in my defense, the clip that he put out on Social, which of course is going to leave some meat to like, they want you to go watch the episode. So I watched the 5, 6 minute clip and it looked like some guy tweeted about this. Something crazy happened in sports. Just before this, some guy tweeted about it. That was what I saw in the clip. Apparently they go like, there's way more layers to this. It's like an onion. I only got the first layer.

[Chris Cody]

They didn't sell it well to you, though.

[Mike Ryan]

The first layer on the outside to me just looked like, hey, this crazy sports scandal a few months before, some guy tweeted about it. And I was just like, I feel like maybe that's happened. People talk about things. I was. But apparently that goes even deeper and it gets crazy. So I'm into the episode.

[Dan LeBatard]

What I got from what I've seen is he really hates Carmelo Anthony and wants him to go down for some reason. Like, he's really trying to implicate Carmelo Anthony and bring him into this is what it appeared to me. I could be wrong. That's what it appeared to me. Seems like a big mistake in New York.

[Chris Cody]

We will get to the bottom of that with Pablo Torre.

[Dan LeBatard]

We'll find out.

[Chris Cody]

Some are saying in moments. Yes, yes. Some are also saying patience is a virtue for some reason. I don't know why it is Virtues.

[Dan LeBatard]

Got you to heaven.

[Chris Cody]

Other people say that earlier. Yeah. So you're enthused and have no complaints about anything baseball related. Last night we have a pure day that has been identified by people here who have a sense of history perspective as the greatest day in baseball history and the best feeling in the history of sports.

[Billy Gill]

Great stay in baseball history. My God.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think the only complaint would be that, you know, we know that yesterday we saw the greatest day in baseball history and it's all downhill here. So now what? We just know it's going to be disappointment moving forward.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, my God. It came into the tie. I Don't know if you saw.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, it didn't.

[Billy Gill]

Grace stain baseball. I'm looking at the box right now.

[Dan LeBatard]

I watched the game. Game. When I go to do game night, I watch the games. I don't just go look at box school. I'm not box score warrior like you are over there. Exactly right.

[Billy Gill]

You're. You're watching that game last night. You're saying yourself, wow, I can't believe it. I'm watching the greatest night in baseball history. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's.

[Dan LeBatard]

I woke up my daughters. I said, daughters, wake up.

[Billy Gill]

That's what you wake up your kids for.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's just like that. I said, children, daughters, wake up. You have to see this history.

[Chris Cody]

I thought you put him to sleep. You don't wake them up. You put him to.

[Dan LeBatard]

Not for the greatest night of baseball history. You wake them up.

[Chris Cody]

I thought you put the kids to bed for that. I don't think you wake them up for that.

[David Sampson]

Different game.

[Billy Gill]

You should be embarrassed. Last time I woke up one of my kids for sports, it was in the middle of The Jimmy Butler 56 point game against Milwaukee. You're waking your kids up for an exhibition for history.

[Dan LeBatard]

For his. You woke them up for Jimmy Butler. How you feeling about that?

[Billy Gill]

How you feel.

[Dan LeBatard]

How you feel about Jimmy Butler today? How do you feel about Jimmy Butler today? Wow. What are he, legends? They're gonna put him up in the rafters? No, they're not gonna put him in the rafters. You know they put up in the rafters. Raptors. You, Donna's Haslam.

[Billy Gill]

I mean, you're talking about a baseball game.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, okay.

[Billy Gill]

No one cares.

[Mike Ryan]

You'll remember where you were.

[Dan LeBatard]

His swing off. Yeah, exactly. Right.

[Billy Gill]

I remember it was midnight. Where else would I be other than my house? Of course I remember. Cleveland, what club was I at that night? On a random Tuesday, I was home. It's midnight. Of course I remember where I was at, kids.

[Dan LeBatard]

Were kids watching with you?

[Mike Ryan]

No, they don't care.

[Dan LeBatard]

They don't care about baseball ingrates.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

When he first got called up and he was kind of chubby, Kyle Schwaber did look like a cub.

[Chris Cody]

Do you have another good one? Because you've been searching for 10 minutes and that's.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Yeah, I got another one. Taylor Rogers has a twin brother named Tyler Rogers. Both pitched in the major leagues and Taylor pitched for the Twins. So a literal twin. Kind of tough to beat.

[Chris Cody]

That one.

[Mike Ryan]

I can tell you how we're in July. We just learned on get up that in one Sport. And I can tell you the sport and I can tell you the position. We've established a new highest played player at a position. A new highest paid player. New.

[Chris Cody]

You want to try it again? Doing a handstand.

[Mike Ryan]

New highest. Putting on a sock player at a position and I would argue it's the least interesting position for this to happen. Name me the least interesting position in sports to find out.

[Dan LeBatard]

Out.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, we've established a new highest paid punter.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right guard. Yeah, it was a guard. Roy nailed it.

[Mike Ryan]

Trey Smith, new highest paid guard in the NFL.

[Chris Cody]

Why do we care about that? Not just that, but just anytime I see one yesterday it was sauce Gardener. Like why I'm genuinely asking. That's a curious contract by the way.

[Dan LeBatard]

He has not been good.

[Mike Ryan]

We like to keep track of pockets, Dan.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Is that so? That's. It's as simple as that. It's because this is. I don't know when this starts started but somebody sending it. Setting a benchmark for money made by an offensive guard is not something I've ever cared about in my life. Nor thought I had to care about.

[Dan LeBatard]

I woke up my kids. I told them about. It's a history. July you you said daughters wake up. Yes, we have a new benchmark for guards history. I'll never forget where I was when this happened.

[Chris Cody]

Excellent contributions from you. That segment agitating says shouting history at him several times and don't think he got away with that. Cleveland, do you keep sneaking in on.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

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[Greg Cody]

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