Local Hour: The "Most Penalties In One Hour" Record-Breaker

Summary

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: The "Most Penalties In One Hour" Record-Breaker

Date: March 17, 2026
Recording Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This episode epitomizes the chaotic, irreverent, and sports-obsessed energy of the Local Hour, but raises the bar (and “fine” bucket) with a near-record number of playful infractions. The cast delivers rapid-fire takes on Miami's sports scene, the fallout from controversial baseball umpiring, the spectacle of the World Baseball Classic, and perennial show in-fighting. Running throughout: a surprisingly candid discussion about the conditions in Cuba, personal stakes in arbitration, crowd energy at Miami’s major events, and a relentless parade of fines and penalties for minor show offenses. The vibe is argumentative, messy, and hilarious as ever—with more interruptions, ejections, and inside jokes than usual.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Cuban Politics, Foreign Intervention, and American Hypocrisy

(Starts 01:33)

• Backstage Banter Turns On-Air Battle:
  Chris Cody sparks heated debate after joking about “your boy taking over Cuba,” referencing Trump’s interest in Cuban development.
  • Tony: Defends any development as better than the current deprivation in Cuba, describing “less than nothing” in terms of electricity, food, and water availability.
    • “So if you’re telling me they're gonna build something, something is better than absolutely nothing.” (03:08)
  • Dan: Expresses the discomfort of “an orange, corrupt felon” (Trump) having an outsized say in foreign land.
    • “Every Cuban generation wants the people of Cuba to suffer less than they are.” (03:32)
  • Jeremy: Draws parallels to Gaza—displacement, poverty, and the challenge of ‘outside help’—noting high Cuban literacy and life expectancy as overlooked positives.
    • “Country with one of the highest literacy rates in the world…life expectancy…greater than the United States.” (05:06)
  • David Sampson: Admits he learned in Miami to avoid this topic entirely—and is mock-ejected from the conversation for noncommittal input.
    • “I'm not allowed to talk about Cuba.” (07:04)

2. Penalty Mania & Show Fines

(Ongoing, first penal mention at 07:05, recurring throughout)

• The hosts hand out (and incur) “minor penalties” with gleeful frequency: coughing into the mic, non-answers, derailing conversations, unresolved payment for fines, and much more.
• Chris Cody and Tony are ejected (briefly) for interrupting the show’s “looks like” March Madness segment with bickering (09:14).
• The “fine bucket” becomes a meta running joke—with Dan frustrated he’s the only one actually paying fines:
  • “There are hundreds of dol—the fine bucket—they’re all my dollars…I’m about to take them all back.” (18:06)
• Ongoing disputes about David owing money, requiring change for a $100 bill, and mock drama about who’s really paying.

3. World Baseball Classic – Controversial Call Fallout

(Starts ~11:10, continues in depth)

• Dan: Asks David Sampson, “Was the pitch…to eliminate the Dominican Republic…a strike? Yes or no?”
  • Debate ensues over umpiring (Jeremy: “It was a ball”; David: “It was a strike”).
  • Jeremy delivers a passionate critique of the game-ending at-bat, crediting Perdomo’s discipline and bemoaning the lack of instant replay:
    • “The fact that it ends by taking the opportunity away from them on a ball four…these things can be rectified with instant replay.” (13:12)
    • The crew laments that such moments “shouldn’t be decided by an old guy who’s not playing.”
  • Stat of the Day: Mason Miller has thrown 272 consecutive pitches without allowing a hit (17:10).
  • Ongoing argument about whether to “protect the plate” on near-miss pitches; old-school vs. analytics debate.

4. Crowd Energy & Miami as Sports Host

(Begins ~23:15, deepens with Aaron Judge quote at 24:41)

• Mike and others assert that the electric crowds, not just the play, elevate the World Baseball Classic in Miami.
• Dan suggests Miami should be the permanent home for major sports events, citing its handling of the WBC and Super Bowl.
  • “Miami is angling to be the permanent host for this game…I don't know that a whole lot of people would object to the Super Bowl being permanently down here.” (23:46)
• Aaron Judge (audio):
  • “The crowd we had when we played against Mexico, it’s bigger and better than the World Series… the passion…there’s nothing like it.” (24:41–25:15)
  • Dan & Mike highlight that even reserved megastars like Judge are “swept away” by the atmosphere.

5. Arbitration, Self-Worth, and Intra-Show Value

(Begins ~26:33, revisited 28:49, 29:00)

• Jeremy claims he’d love to go through show salary arbitration, confident in his value (“Oh my God, arbitration compared to national salaries would be a dream… Oh my God!” – 27:18).
• Dan warns the process would be emotionally brutal (“You would hate arbitration, Jeremy…” – 28:49), sparking meta-reflection about criticism on the show.
  • Segment becomes a mini roast of show personalities, especially about the readiness for hurt feelings, perceived contributions, and show hierarchies.

6. Building the Italian WBC Team

(Starts ~29:28)

• Discussion about the underdog status and quirky assembly of Team Italy, led by Cervelli “driving a van around Italy” to recruit players—mostly “guys from Jersey.”
  • “I find it really impressive…they’re building this program around a bunch of guys from Jersey.” (30:44)
• Laughs at the lore and practicality of forming a national team in such scrappy, absurd ways.

7. Miami Heat: Expectation Hangover from the Big Three Era

(Begins ~44:49, detailed at 45:31)

• Jeremy critiques the show’s (and Miami’s) habit of downplaying this Heat season because it’s not the Big Three era, echoing Dwyane Wade’s sentiment that “the town is dead now.”
• The panel debates whether surviving upcoming games and barely staying above .500 is meaningful (“Would three and three be great?” “Yeah, I agree.” (46:53)), and David mocks the tendency to over-interpret every win/loss streak.
  • “It doesn’t matter…to whether or not they have a likelihood of getting a ring.” (47:42)

8. National Identity, Sports Obsession, and Why Latin American Fans Party Harder

(Begins 37:22)

• Mike: Asks why Venezuelan and Dominican fans care so much more than Americans about the WBC.
  • Dan: Blames American sports abundance and attention span:
    • “Americans are so spoiled. Venezuela doesn’t have a lot of sports things to be proud of, so you pour all your love into the one thing and attach regional identity.” (37:42)
  • Tony & David explain Cuba’s outsized pride in baseball, and why its WBC teams never play pool games in Miami ("they'll all defect").

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Dan Le Batard (on Trump and Cuba):
  “It’s just really awkward foreign policy where just an orange, corrupt felon is sort of deciding…‘I’d like Gaza to build some hotels there, if I could.’” (03:32)

• David Sampson (after evading Cuba talk):
  “I’m not allowed to talk about Cuba.” (07:04)

• Jeremy (on baseball officiating):
  “You never want a game of any consequence being decided at the end by an old guy who’s not playing.” (14:12)

• Aaron Judge (on the WBC Miami crowd):
  “The crowd we had when we played against Mexico, it’s bigger and better than the World Series…there’s nothing like it.” (24:41)

• Dan, on show fines:
  “I’m tired of being the only one who puts any money…they’re all my dollars. And I’m about to take them all back.” (18:06)

• Dan (meta):
  “We are now 35 minutes into a segment that began with me asking for Jeremy’s criticisms…the whole segment has been 35 minutes of me requesting Jeremy’s criticisms.” (43:28)

• Mike (on Latin American fans):
  “Why do they care 100 times more than I do about the result of that game?” (37:22)

  • Dan: “You have all the sports. Americans are so spoiled…” (37:42)

• Tony (on why Cuba can’t play pool games in Miami): "Because they'll all defect and leave.” (38:25)

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Episode Structure & Timestamps

[01:33] Cuba Debate & Political Tensions

• Chris Cody, Tony, Jeremy, Dan and David Sampson on Trump/Cuba, current conditions, and failed American policy.

[07:05] Penalties & Fine Bucket Antics Begin

• Show starts playfully enforcing minor penalties for derailing, coughing, feuding.

[11:10] World Baseball Classic Strike Zone Controversy

• Was it a strike? (Dan, David, Jeremy); implications for WBC format and use of replay.

[13:12] Plate Discipline & Replay Debate

• Jeremy lauds Perdomo's discipline; Dan rails against game-ending umpire decisions.

[17:10] Stat of the Day

• Jeremy: “Mason Miller has thrown 272 consecutive pitches without allowing a hit.”

[18:06] Fine Bucket Drama Escalates

• Dan's frustration with unpaid fines; continued show ejections.

[23:15] WBC Crowd Energy; Miami as Sports Host

• Discussion of Miami’s status as the “correct” host city for big events; Aaron Judge audio.

[26:33] Show Arbitration, Meta Value Debate

• Jeremy advocates for arbitration; Dan warns about emotional fallout.

[29:28] Team Italy WBC Construction

• Cervelli’s recruiting van; Italian underdog narrative.

[37:22] Why Latin American Fans Care More

• Passion, scarcity, identity—Dan, Tony, and David on national pride.

[44:49] Heat Season, Post-Big Three Hangover

• Meta-critique of how the show and Miami perceive current Heat compared to glory days.

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Noteworthy Show Dynamics & Running Themes

• Unstructured Chaos: The cast’s constant feuding, penalty-calling, and abrupt ejections create a sense of gleeful disorder.
• Meta Comedy: The show continually references itself, its own rules, and the nature of on-air value/criticism.
• South Florida Identity: From sports fandom to political discourse, the tone is shaped by Miami’s volatility and multicultural tensions.
• Participation and Passivity: Several segments underline who leads and who avoids uncomfortable topics—especially regarding Cuba and show finances.
• Absurdity and Argument as Art: Every topic, from international diplomacy to how much cash is in “the bucket,” is mined for maximum squabble and satire.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This Local Hour is fiery and unusually penalty-laden, using South Florida sports and politics as a lens for bigger questions about community, fandom, and who really controls the narrative—on the field, in the streets, or behind the microphone. The banter is both local and sprawling, the personal is always political, and the show’s ability to spin chaos into comedy is on full display.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Chris, Cody, what's happening behind you?

[Chris Cody]

Chaos.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, what. Why is Tony yelling? Why is Jeremy yelling? Is anyone else involved in this discussion?

[Chris Cody]

No. Well, Roy's, I'd say, dipped a toe into the water.

[Dan Le Batard]

What was the toe that Roy dipped into these hot Cuban waters.

[Chris Cody]

It's all my fault, basically.

[Dan Le Batard]

What did.

[Tony]

It was his fault.

[Chris Cody]

I was fired up. Tony walked in and I just. You know, we have some friendly banter around here when it comes to politics, and I just hit him with the jab of your boys taking over Cuba. And then they just went. And the next thing I know, they're yelling at each other, and I'm like, I. I caused a ruckus back here. And Dan's like, I'm going to air with it. So here we are.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, because they were. Yeah, I like when Jeremy and Tony yell at each other. I have Said before, we don't have enough sparks around. Oh yeah, we don't. Wait a minute. What do you mean my inner monologue doesn't get here till 10am today? What was.

[Chris Cody]

I was here.

[Dan Le Batard]

What was that? That? No, that was. That was Jeremy as Mike as my inner monologue. Talk to the inner monologue. Well, no, I've got an objection to the inner monologue. Let me explain something to you. The inner monologue likes to go in and out of thinking like me and then saying things Mike wants to secretly say. That is not inner monologue. It's bullshit. He needs to stay in character like him, just saying things. He's always. Stop explaining the show. Tony, what is the nature of your argument? Because David Sampson just had me on. Nothing personal to mine. All my Cuban feelings. Ooh, what happened?

[Tony]

I wasn't listening because I was in the meeting.

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you think happened? He's like, hey, Dan, how do you feel about Trump? He's going to build hotels on your. Your parents land.

[Tony]

Yeah, well, it hasn't been our land for a very, very long time. Almost a generation essentially. And to be honest, the people there have nothing. And when I say nothing, I mean less than nothing. Right. The electricity grid has completely failed. They have no electricity, they have no food, they have no water, they have nothing. So if you're telling me they're gonna build something, something is better than absolutely nothing. And the problem is you can't give them nothing cuz they don't have the essentials for life. Food, electricity, healthcare.

[Dan Le Batard]

I haven't talked to very many Cubans about how they feel about this latest development where you have the just really awkward foreign. It's just really awkward foreign policy where just an orange corrupt felon is sort of deciding. Yeah, I think I'd like that over there. That seems like a lovely island. I'd like Gaza to build some hotels there if I could. But I would assume that every Cuban generation wants the people of Cuba to suffer less than they're presently suffering.

[Tony]

Yeah, I feel like that's an easy stance.

[Chris Cody]

Like.

[Tony]

Like they are suffering probably the worst in the world right now. Like they have nothing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not the worst. Haiti's got it worse. There are places that have it worse. It's pretty bad, but. It's pretty bad. It is. What Tony's saying is so it's. It's stuck in the 1950s and the island's been rotting for 70 years.

[Jeremy]

They're in a place, they're going to be displaced. They're a country.

[Tony]

Where are they going to Be displaced too.

[Jeremy]

Right. Because we say.

[Tony]

But anything right now is almost better than Cuba, which is my point.

[Jeremy]

They have. Unless they send them to one of these terrible. This is no different than what we talk about in. In Gaza, which is if you're ultimately displaced from the land in which you live now, you're a nomad and you're trying to figure out where to go. The poverty is obviously terrible for many, many, many people around the country right now. It only will increase when you have people taking your land. And that's not you from your home.

[Tony]

But that's. Jeremy, the situation. And the government owns the land. They don't own.

[Jeremy]

Country with one of the highest literacy rates in the world. How's that Their life expectancy from 60 to 80 since this regime started, which is greater than the United States. Like these are things they do.

[Dan Le Batard]

Education and health care. Well, there's.

[Tony]

To do what, Dan?

[Jeremy]

To do what?

[Tony]

Hold on. What do they do? They send it to where? Cuz it's not helping the people there. Right. The people there have to take their own supplies of medicine to the hospitals because they don't have. So when you. When you can read. Great, that's amazing. How's that going to put food on my table? How's that going to have me own the house that I'm in? How is it going to help me with the doctors that are so incredible? We don't have the medicine, we don't have the supplies. We send supplies over there for families over there to be able to go take syringes.

[Jeremy]

Well, I know how we're going to feel about the COVID vaccine, but they did produce their own COVID vaccine when other Western countries wouldn't share it with them.

[David Sampson]

Jeremy, you're in violation. I'm just saying. The only thing I learned when I moved to Miami is you don't enter these conversations.

[Chris Cody]

This is my fault.

[Jeremy]

I know.

[David Sampson]

Just don't.

[Jeremy]

I'm scared of it.

[David Sampson]

I'm quiet.

[Jeremy]

My family is Cuban.

[David Sampson]

Rarely quiet. Oh, you're Cuban.

[Jeremy]

I'm half Cuban, yeah.

[David Sampson]

Oh, I take it back. You can speak halfway.

[Tony]

He has spoken halfway.

[Dan Le Batard]

And that's why he was speaking a lot angrier and louder during the break than when the microphones got turned on.

[Stugats]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

[Jeremy]

They have a trade blockade that's been in place since 1959. So how is the country able to do anything?

[Tony]

Democratic presidents, Republican presidents, everybody down the line could have done something, sat on

[Jeremy]

their hands, done a terrible job on this. That's why I don't want the United States intervening now with this guy.

[Mike]

Who would you want?

[Dan Le Batard]

Russia.

[Jeremy]

I don't want anybody doing it with Donald Trump. That's going to displace them in this respect.

[Tony]

Okay, so you want Putin there?

[Jeremy]

What are we doing? Disingenuous.

[Chris Cody]

They've been there.

[Tony]

They've been there for years. The Russians have. What are we talking about? You're heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

[Chris Cody]

Dave, help me out here.

[David Sampson]

I. Not a word. Well put.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well put.

[David Sampson]

You know that you're welcome. That's not.

[Chris Cody]

That's better.

[Dan Le Batard]

Honestly, Dan, it's better.

[David Sampson]

I'm not allowed to talk about Cuba.

[Mike]

Minor penalty, two minutes delay a show.

[Dan Le Batard]

You can't come out of the box like you're a professional talker. Your first words can't be.

[David Sampson]

That's what I'm taught to say about Cuba.

[Dan Le Batard]

Get out for two minutes.

[David Sampson]

Thanks, Cody.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're supposed to be a professional broadcaster. Nothing personal. He speaks very well for two hours right before we start. Then our show starts and what we get from him is a Cookie Monster sound.

[Jeremy]

In David's defense, that's definitely the advice he's been given over the years is just go.

[Tony]

I also.

[Jeremy]

Absolutely.

[Tony]

I leave to him knowing he couldn't say anything.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want to play back, dad.

[Chris Cody]

Any thoughts?

[Dan Le Batard]

I want to play back for him. Chris, get the sound of how he started today's show so that he can be embarrassed by how he started today's show. Tony and Jeremy were arguing about the idea that Cuba is going to fall soon. I imagine people in Miami will be celebrating this the way that Venezuelans were celebrating in the street. Anything that gets that regime out is going to be something that's going to be celebrated by Miami. I like Jeremy, though. Wish it weren't the this orange, corrupt, felonious tool doing it because he's just going to put hotels up there. And it's not because he actually cares about the people or democracy.

[Jeremy]

You know, he doesn't even wait. When you're a star, they just let you do it.

[Dan Le Batard]

So let me get to some of our looks like tournament. Before we get to.

[Tony]

I have a couple more things if you want me to interject or not.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Tony]

Okay, perfect. Chris said no. I'm gonna listen to Chris.

[Dan Le Batard]

No.

[Jeremy]

I just gave good executive producing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris said no, you can't do that. You can't do that. You can't ask for the ball. I throw you the ball and then you just shit on the ball. Both of you get out of here. Wow, Roy, you Get in the seat and helps me with the. The looks like tournament because I have now kicked out the people who are going to help me execute this because what they just did right now is asinine. Where Tony asked for the ball, ask me to throw him the ball. I throw him the ball. And then Chris Cody, my teammate, comes in and knocks the ball out of everybody's hands and says, don't do that.

[Jeremy]

I would never do that to you, Dan. Because we are a collective.

[Dan Le Batard]

So anyway, I want to do some looks like tournament here to get people updated on where we are with this thing. Thursday, Duke is the number one overall seed. That means our number one overall seed is Fernando Mendoza.

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Looks like the cashier in a 1960s McDonald's poster.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's so good. It's just. It's so good. So Sienna's gonna be gone soon. That means the 16 seed is this Tony Kornheiser.

[Jagermeister Announcer]

Looks like the judge in a 90s legal thriller that keeps admonishing the defense with careful, counselor. You're on a very short leash.

[Dan Le Batard]

Georgia's an eight seed. Georgia is represented by Ron McGill.

[Jagermeister Announcer]

Looks like your recently divorced mom's first date, who, when you answer the door, is vigorously chewing his gum and combing his hair with. With a palm comb as he leans ever so slightly back to gander at the size of the home while never once acknowledging you with his eyes.

[Dan Le Batard]

He is a bit lecherous that way. Can't be trusted around your mom. Number nine, St. Louis is the foe. That means this is up against McGill.

[Jagermeister Announcer]

Brent Venables looks like the small town sheriff at a movie that ends up being corrupt after you spent the whole movie telling your wife he's corrupt.

[Dan Le Batard]

So we will get back to more looks like in a second. But I want to get into yesterday's show because Jeremy's got some critiques, some thoughts and some observations on yesterday's show. But I've got a yes or no question for David Sampson because I left here feeling like yesterday's show was unresolved as you guys made me feel crazy about something that I was arguing when I thought I was simply right and everyone disagreed with me. The yes or no question is the following. Was the pitch the United States threw to the Dominican Republic to eliminate the Dominican Republic from the World Baseball Classic? Was it yes or no a strike?

[Jeremy]

Yes.

[TurboTax Announcer]

Not.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was it called a strike?

[TurboTax Announcer]

Not.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was it called a strike? Not. Was it called a strike? Was. Not. Semantics? No.

[David Sampson]

What it may be a ball today.

[Mike]

Minor penalty, two minutes delay. A show.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

It wasn't A strike, David, Nobody would

[Mike]

say, I give you the strike.

[David Sampson]

I give you the wrong answer that you don't like and you give me the bounce.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, nobody. It's not a strike. I didn't ask you whether it was called a strike. I asked you whether it was a strike.

[David Sampson]

And I said, yes, it's a strike.

[Mike]

Was called a strike.

[David Sampson]

And a strike.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was it a strike? Was it in the strike zone? Yes or no?

[David Sampson]

Yesterday it was a strike.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was it in the strike? Get out of here.

[Mike]

Arguing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Get out of here.

[TurboTax Announcer]

It was a ball. Yes, the ball.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy, give me your general critiques and thoughts on yesterday's show.

[Jeremy]

Well, that was the first one. The fact that you were alone on acknowledging the fact that what Per Domo did on that obvious ball four amazing plate dissonance was so incredible to lay off that pitch, that slider in ball four, that situation obvious ball four is wild. Several inches off the plate. This is not yesterday's baseball. This much.

[Chris Cody]

No. Right.

[Jeremy]

That's all holding up.

[Chris Cody]

I'm holding up about 3 or 4 inches.

[Jeremy]

That's a lot in the game of baseball.

[Mike]

In the production meeting, Jeremy's talking about how great it was that he didn't. That he took that pitch. Not so great. They're home right now. Not that great.

[Jeremy]

That's why it's frustrating. That's why that game ending that way is such a shame. Because look, would the United States have still won the game? Yeah, very possibly. Mason Miller has been unhittable and the next battery he would have faced absolutely could have gotten out. But the fact that it ends by taking the opportunity away from them on a ball four, that it's not like. It's not like he was caught off guard. He watched the ball all the way in. He recognized slider and he said, I'm going to spit on that pitch because that is not a strike.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was. He was correct.

[Jeremy]

He was an incredible at bat.

[Dan Le Batard]

Fouled off pitches before that, he laid off another pitch that was impossible to lay off before that. The part about this, that's just wildly frustrating to me as this stuff can be rectified with instant replay. But we're not using it now and the game is over now when a regular season baseball game would not have been decided this way. Miami wants this game permanently. Miami wants the World Baseball Classic because these games have been so great. Aaron Judge is saying that the atmosphere is better than the World Series is because it has got so much soaking of Hispanic flair on everything that's happening. But the idea. And you guys have to Follow me down this path. You never want a game of any consequence being decided at the end by an old guy who's not playing. You never want the conversation around stakes to be. It's being decided by the judgment of somebody. And at the end of NBA games, the refs do stay out of the way. You rarely get. Think about how many NBA games are played and how rare it is for you to get a controversy. Not the last two minutes of a game, the last play of the game. Think of how rare it is for a pass interference on the last play of an NFL game. You do not, as an umpire, make the wrong decision to eliminate somebody's season.

[Jeremy]

It's a shame that it ends that way. I mean, look at the NFL. You bring that example up, they literally changed the rules forever on replay because of the one example of that in a consequential situation. But look, I mean, it happens. These things have happened throughout the history of baseball. There are plenty of strike three calls where the ball is off the plate. The biggest reason we're having this conversation and the frustration behind it is you're looking at a guy who has quite literally been unhittable over the course of however many innings. At this point in Mason Miller and a league in which they're now going to be adding abs, you're going to be able to challenge pitches like that. And Perdomo would have been correct to challenge it. So that's the part where in a week and a half from now, you're not going to see that same thing happen.

[Tony]

Jeremy, I think another thing, too, was the momentum, right? Everybody was standing, everybody was fired up. It could have been strike three. And Dan, you've talked about it, the Levon Hernandez game where he had 17 strikeouts or whatever it was. He was all over the plate, and they were calling him strikes because of the momentum of what was going on in the game. So it feels like that that ump was sitting there saying, like, if this thing's close, I'm punching him out.

[Chris Cody]

Denver, Colorado.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was calling.

[Jeremy]

He was consistent, which is why it does matter. It does matter.

[Mike]

That's why he's got a swing.

[Jeremy]

But I think

[Chris Cody]

we're not even disagreeing. I don't think anybody. Like, I'm on the side if he should have swung. I'm not disagreeing. It stinks that the umpire made that call. It stinks that we got to see that. It was a ball. It was a great at bat.

[Jeremy]

He will not or cannot hit that pitch. That is an unhittable pitch.

[Chris Cody]

But we're not disagreeing on that. But also, you guys won't give us an inch of.

[Jeremy]

If it's in baseball, you know why he gotta swing, but you know why

[Dan Le Batard]

you shouldn't swing the back?

[Jeremy]

Because he wouldn't have hit it. It's a ball, and he wouldn't hit it. It's an unhittable pitch. That pitch at that spot. He's not gonna hit it.

[Mike]

Why? Hold on a second. Why do you say that? Why is it an unhittable.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because watch the game. Throwing it. It's three and two, and you're sitting on 104 mile an hour fastball. He threw you a breaking ball.

[Mike]

So it's not possible for. To put a bat on a ball.

[Tony]

Because it's a ball. Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Maybe Vladi Guerrero's dad could have done it because he wants you all the time.

[Jeremy]

Give me the stat of the day. Give me the stat of the day.

[David Sampson]

Wow. Wow.

[Chris Cody]

Calling your shot.

[Stugats]

Start of the day. Start of the day. It is your start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day.

[Jeremy]

Mason Miller has thrown 272 consecutive pitches without allowing a hit.

[Chris Cody]

So he was due.

[Dan Le Batard]

And that was the most unhittable of all of them.

[Jeremy]

That was so nasty.

[Mike]

I think Chris, though, is on to something. Where.

[David Sampson]

Where?

[Mike]

The other side. Which, of course is you. Dan won't give us literally an inch.

[Jeremy]

Where. Well, it's because you're wrong.

[TurboTax Announcer]

Yeah, but.

[Mike]

Okay, but what's one of the things. What's one of the things that. That our Little league coach always tells us growing up? Every Little League coach tells you, keep your eye on the ball if it's close. Protect the plate if it's close. On two strikes, you have to swing. Every Little League coach has told us that. So I'm with Chris. Like. You won't even give us that inch.

[David Sampson]

Let me tell you one funny thing, Dan, that you're missing.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's. That's a $5 fine for coughing and clearing your throat to the microphone. It just. It is. It's a fine, and you have to pay.

[Chris Cody]

Are you a big fine?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's because you've been doing it all morning. And do you have cash on you? Do you have $5? Because I'm tired of being the only one who puts any money. There are hundreds of dol. The fine bucket. They're all my dollars. And I'm about to take them all back because I'm the only one doing this.

[Chris Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard.

[David Sampson]

We love you. We've got you. We've all got each other. Let's go right now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats.

[David Sampson]

1, 2, 3. Brett 1.

[Stugats]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[David Sampson]

No change for 100.

[Chris Cody]

Get your money out, David.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, we do.

[David Sampson]

Okay.

[TurboTax Announcer]

You don't. Don't.

[Chris Cody]

Don't patronize me. Okay, we have change for 100.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go ahead, give us the money.

[David Sampson]

It's outside.

[Jeremy]

Go.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go get it.

[David Sampson]

You want me to go get it right now?

[Mike]

Everyone knows you pay your fines immediately. Minor penalty, delay a show.

[Tony]

Yo2hundo on a record pace today.

[Mike]

I gambled it away.

[Chris Cody]

So it's like an Ottawa Senators Panthers game in here.

[Mike]

Like a degenerate.

[Dan Le Batard]

Zaz did take my hundred dollars, took it to Vegas. You know what he also told me? Because I told him, just play the 16 and the 19. So he goes there, he loses the hundred dollars immediately, real quick. And he says, and then I look up at the board, and the previous two numbers were 16 and 19.

[Mike]

Swear to God.

[Jeremy]

See, I always wonder.

[Chris Cody]

God is That a good thing or a bad?

[Mike]

No, it's definitely a bad thing. Swear to God. Dan told me, put it on 16 and 19, which I did. All right. But I also did it knowing I looked up at the board, and I swear to God, the last two numbers were each 16. You got to just pocket that. That's weird. Tell me that's weird.

[Dan Le Batard]

I will get to last night's game in a second because. Were you guys rooting for Italy? Were you guys generally rooting? You were not rooting for Italy?

[Mike]

You want the crowd tonight? You want. You want the incredible crowd?

[Chris Cody]

I was rooting for Italy so that I could say that the USA team is playing their minor.

[Mike]

The crowd is such a huge part of this World Baseball Classic. You cannot convince me. I don't care how good the games are.

[Tony]

We.

[Mike]

When I say we, I just mean everyone in general would not care even remotely as much about these games if it weren't for the crowd. The crowd is such a major.

[Dan Le Batard]

Miami is angling to be the permanent host for this game. I don't know that a whole lot of people would object to the super bowl being permanently down here because of how well Miami does the big events. And then you get the good weather as well. Sampson is going tonight. He's been going to all the games. Do we have the sound of Aaron Judge? I know I paraphrased him, but Aaron Judge doesn't give off of a lot. A lot of emotion. He is not necessarily a statue emotionally, but he's not someone who gets swept away in the emotions of baseball. And I'm not even sure very often how useful emotion is in baseball, because emotion's not useful in surgery.

[Mike]

I think you have to not have emotion.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. You have to sort of steady yourself. You can't have a whole lot in the batter's box inside your head other than the present moment. But here's Aaron Judge talking about the World Baseball Classic. Crowds.

[Miller Lite Announcer]

World Series.

[Aaron Judge]

I was in this. The crowd here, the crowd we had when we played against Mexico, it's bigger and better than the World Series. It's just, like I said, the passion that these fans have representing their country, representing some of their favorite players. There's nothing like it. And that's what you dream of as a kid, I was bent in my backyard playing wufen ball. This is the moments in dream of big spots, big situations.

[Jeremy]

Just.

[Aaron Judge]

It gives me chills right now thinking about how special that was.

[Jeremy]

You know, I try to take a

[Aaron Judge]

moment every game to kind of look around, appreciate the crowd, appreciate the Moment. Just blessing the really good.

[David Sampson]

Yeah, he dreamt about the World Baseball Classic. Well, I owe money from yesterday.

[Mike]

Well, I don't think he's saying he dreamt about the World Baseball Classic. He's saying he dreamt of playing in front of crowds like this, which is why he said that this crowd. He's been in the World Series, and he said this crowd is better than the World Series crowd.

[Dan Le Batard]

Give me the $5. You have $5 there.

[David Sampson]

I want change.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, but I don't.

[Jeremy]

Wait a second.

[Dan Le Batard]

You can't do that. I'm looking at you. You have $5. Get. What do you owe yesterday?

[David Sampson]

Dictate how I pay the fine. Okay, Mr. Control Guy.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, well, here. Then go give it to Carl so he can give you change.

[Mike]

Minor penalty.

[Chris Cody]

Too many are setting records here.

[TurboTax Announcer]

So undisciplined.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just go ahead and handle that. Outside. Carl's got the fine bucket money. There's chance in there.

[David Sampson]

That's a penalty. Ask someone to bring the fine bucket in. I don't want to keep leaving unhooking. It's a. Get me change.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm getting it for you. You have to go get it yourself, though, because I'm busy. But that's not a penalty right now. I know, but I need to get you out of the room.

[David Sampson]

And you just say, hey, go get change.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've told you that several times.

[David Sampson]

Oh, I got a button to press. Let me keep pressing it.

[Tony]

This is.

[Jagermeister Announcer]

What are you gonna do tomorrow?

[Dan Le Batard]

Which part? Like,

[Mike]

minor penalty. Two minutes delay a show.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Miller Lite Announcer]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy, what other complaints do you have about or criticisms do you have of yesterday's show?

[Jeremy]

I also love my evenings.

[Mike]

I'm telling you, I look forward to every day.

[Jeremy]

I look forward to my evenings every day. By about right at the end of the big sui, I start thinking about what time I'm gonna get to go home and then enjoy my evening. What do I have to do when I get home? What am I gonna get to do tonight?

[Mike]

I'm glad we're on the same page.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I love my evenings.

[Mike]

I love evenings like tonight. I gotta go out and do something. It's gonna really suck. So I'm not going to enjoy my evening tonight. Yeah, tonight. Tonight's gonna be love.

[Jeremy]

Staying at home, enjoying my evening. I would love to go through arbitration here. You mean I get to present you with the value that I bring and compare it to people around the country in terms of how much they make to do the thing. I would love this segment. Love to go through.

[Mike]

That would go so poor for Jeremy.

[Tony]

Are you kidding?

[Jeremy]

Oh, my God. With the value that I bring to this show. Oh, my God.

[Mike]

No one's saying you don't bring value, but I. I think. I think you may have some hurt feelings.

[Jeremy]

Oh, I understand. My feelings get hurt here every day. I don't worry about hurt feelings. I know the value I bring and. Oh, my God. Arbitration compared to national salaries would be

[David Sampson]

a dream, just so you know. I mean, big shot running a company. Maybe part of the problem with metal arc is you can't add. Do you have change of 100 here?

[TurboTax Announcer]

Also speaking to the mic, do you

[David Sampson]

have change of 100 here? Just out of curiosity, because your math is about as bad as your finger. Penalty finger.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's $145 there. I think there's money missing there.

[David Sampson]

Obviously it can't be his fault. He can't have misremembered. He can't have gotten the math wrong. Someone stole it.

[Mike]

Minor penalty. 2 minutes delay a show.

[TurboTax Announcer]

You're gonna get a misconduct.

[Jeremy]

Man should have called his math.

[David Sampson]

Can I get a gay misconduct?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm gonna have to go to my car because he's got us stuck in the mud. I'm going to go to my car to get him change in the middle of our show so that I can get the five bleeping dollars and have somebody around here pay a fine. You would hate arbitration, Jeremy, because the things that would be said in arbitration that are meant to keep your value down would be things you would find personally hurtful and then never forgive.

[Jeremy]

How is that different than the show? Every day we're kinder to you.

[Jagermeister Announcer]

No, you're not.

[Jeremy]

You might be all right.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know what?

[Jeremy]

I don't think Mike is okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're going to do arbitration now.

[Jeremy]

Arbitration.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're going to do it. We're going to have an arbitration hearing.

[Jeremy]

You know, let me prep a little bit or.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, yeah, you can. You can tell me. I think I know what your value is. I don't think I undervalue you. I don't think you'd argue that I undervalue you, not you personally.

[David Sampson]

So.

[Dan Le Batard]

But I don't think you'll like what I have to say.

[Jeremy]

The satisfaction on yesterday's show of hearing that bongo sound and then thinking, oh, man, I hope Chris uses that for weekend observations. And then he did. Oh, what a feeling.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jorge Posada being an assistant coach for Italy despite being born in Puerto Rico and having parents who are Dominican and Cuban is pretty great. I was surprised to hear that you guys Don't. Weren't rooting for Italy, though. You're just rooting for an exciting crowd. That Italian team was. Was an underdog. I didn't even understand some of the stories being told about how they formed the Italian team. It's not merely that it just took

[Chris Cody]

all the guys that couldn't make Team USA and made a team.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, but, Jeremy, weren't they telling the story that basically they're trying to fill out the program by driving around Italy in a van, just looking to see it if a local cafe. Someone's eating fettuccine. Hey, you want to play second base?

[Mike]

They went by Sbarros. They said, come play for Italy.

[Jeremy]

Cerveli's doing now, apparently. They said that he moved to Italy and he bought a van and he's just been driving through the country trying to recruit for the program, which I feel like there are details of that story that are missing because where is he going? Who is he asking? What is he doing? Are there. Are there. Are there little leagues in Italy?

[Tony]

You don't get it. You don't get it.

[Jeremy]

But I love it because I think it's like the fact that this guy has taken this upon his shoulders and he's a mentor to so many other players that are still in the game. I find it really impressive. And. And it's cool that they're building this program around a bunch of guys from Jersey.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm going to make you guys laugh right now. Right now on get up. Fact or fiction? Tua should be the Falcons week one starter.

[Chris Cody]

March.

[Tony]

It's encroaching in my. My top five. Dan something or nothing.

[Dan Le Batard]

You've got a top five?

[Tony]

Got a top five. NFL free agency, something or nothing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, really? You have that? Okay, we've got a tease it. Okay, but. So you have five somethings or five nothings or a mishmash of something.

[Tony]

That's for you to decide. That's for you to decide. I'm going to lift you the name, then you're going to tell me something or nothing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Very good. I look forward to that. Jeremy, any other critiques from yesterday's show that we should get to? And I want to get to David and the present World Baseball Classic because the final has been set up. That's the ballpark he built. Was David Sampson doing like Dave Portnoy does in pictures and standing on his tippy toes next to you, Tony? Is that what he was doing?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

He says his calves.

[Tony]

Let me turn that on for you, David.

[David Sampson]

There you go. My calves are Blown. I can't do it anymore. But. But I had no idea. First of all, on tv. On tv, you're way shorter.

[Tony]

So that's the first thing I get. Like, wow, you're really tall and personal.

[David Sampson]

I know what's going on.

[Chris Cody]

I'm going to put you on my shoulders.

[David Sampson]

I ain't feeling great, so I'm just digging into it. And this is where Mike is. I'm not going on your shoulders, man. Forget it. Go ahead. No, I will not, David.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why not?

[David Sampson]

I am not going on his shoulders.

[Tony]

His calves are blown.

[David Sampson]

Sign me. Do whatever you want. I'm not getting on Chris Cody's shoulders. I'm not going to do it, Dan. I would rather. Don't you do it, Dan.

[Jeremy]

Don't do it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Two minutes.

[Chris Cody]

This is my fault, too. Wow. Everything's my fault.

[David Sampson]

I don't know that one.

[Dan Le Batard]

You can't lead us down a path. Tremendous shit eater is what that is in Spanish. Tremendous shitter. We could have had the payoff visual of you doing the show on Chris's shoulders. That's good for the show. Like there's. It's indisputable. Right now you're playing defense against us being able to do the show correctly.

[David Sampson]

My calves hurt, Dan.

[Mike]

Being on someone's shoulders takes all the pressure off.

[Dan Le Batard]

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Does being on someone's shoulders hurt your calves?

[Jeremy]

That's a.

[Chris Cody]

That's a poll I never thought we'd put up.

[David Sampson]

That's going to be 8020 for sure. You've obviously never played chicken before.

[Jeremy]

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[Miller Lite Announcer]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Mike]

See moneylion.com Don LeBatard no one else

[Dan Le Batard]

here is willing to do a trump or a biden.

[Jeremy]

That's not true, Dan.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, Tony, you can catch a thousand impersonations. That's not bad, man. Finally. Terrible. Pretty good Stugach.

[Jeremy]

Yours is terrible.

[Chris Cody]

You just gotta get a Little redder, a little pinker. You're right there, man.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is yours is not that you're biting.

[Jeremy]

What do you mean?

[Tony]

Oh, his is good.

[Jeremy]

That's actually not bad.

[Chris Cody]

Not terrible.

[Jeremy]

That's not terrible.

[Dan Le Batard]

We got to come together.

[TurboTax Announcer]

Little Southern, little Bush.

[Jeremy]

Little George Bush in that one.

[Stugats]

This is the D?

[Dan Le Batard]

Ler show with the two gods. David, you're gonna have to leave. I'm sorry that I keep doing this to you because I want your World Baseball Classic takes. You actually care about these games. You're going to these games. It's your ballpark. You built the ballpark. You're excited and proud to see that kind of emotion in your ballpark. You were hoping that that's what that place would feel like. And then Heath Bell ruined it all.

[Jeremy]

Heath Bell? What are you doing to Heath Bell? Why'd you have to say that name? I saw a Heath Bell jersey in the ballpark.

[David Sampson]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

What?

[TurboTax Announcer]

No.

[Jeremy]

I almost confronted the person. Should have been like, how could you do this?

[Mike]

Why? This may be a stupid question, but whatever.

[Jagermeister Announcer]

Why?

[Mike]

Why do the people last night, the Venezuelan fans, and even the night before, the Dominican fans, why do they care so much more than I do? I'm an American. Why do they care 100 times more than I do about the result of that game?

[Dan Le Batard]

You have all the sports. You have a plethora. You are so spoiled. Americans are so spoiled that our attention deficit disorder is fed from a thousand different places. Venezuela doesn't have a lot of sports things to be proud of. So you pour all of your love into the one thing, and then you attach regional identity to it. Like, this is why. This is why Castro used the Cuban baseball team the way that he did, as a propaganda tool where he was so proud.

[Jeremy]

The.

[Dan Le Batard]

The island of Cuba has nothing it is prouder of than the Cuban baseball team. Nothing. There's not a thing. Because that's how they get represented to the world. And it's sterling. Like, it's. It's just excellent.

[Tony]

And the funny thing is, they can't play in Miami during the pool play because they'll all defect and leave, which is why they are never here unless they make it to the final round. But again, why would they leave Cuba? That's great.

[David Sampson]

It was a huge thing when the World Baseball Classic started that in order for Cuba, they had to be guaranteed because nobody else. To Japan. You get pool play over in Asia. That's part of the deal. But Cuba would not be in Miami. And we wanted them as the Marlins. We wanted. But it was an Absolute no. Because they thought they'd come with a team and leave with the trainer.

[Dan Le Batard]

You keep going to these games, and tonight you're going with your son because it's what you imagined one day all of that would feel like, right? You. Somewhere within your robot wiring, some emotions are felt about everything that you built there. Correct.

[David Sampson]

I walk around the concourse, the promenade level. I'll go up to the upper deck. And I just. I'm beaming because people are having the best time. And I do do informal polling. Will you become a Marlins season ticket holder? Will you go to Marlins games? And I'm batting zero, of course, because they just. And it was. I saw Venezuelans who I spoke to, because I was at Japan, Venezuela, not all from Miami. There were Venezuelans who flew to Miami. Of course, they said, no, you know, we're leaving after Venezuela leaves. But the Miami Venezuelans, they're not Marlins fans. And that bothered me. I asked simply why.

[Mike]

I wonder. I wonder if all of them are even baseball fans or they just there because they, you know, it's Venezuela.

[David Sampson]

So I didn't ask that. That would have been a good question. But what I was told by most of the people, I would say 8 out of 10 Venezuelans who I spoke to said they weren't Marlins fans. It wasn't about ownership. It wasn't about trading players. It wasn't about any of that. It was just Major League Baseball was not something that interested them.

[Mike]

Right.

[David Sampson]

It was Venezuelan national baseball that interested them. Yeah, I. I can't sell chicken thigh.

[Dan Le Batard]

You went into the upper deck. David never goes to the upper deck. There's dust in those seats in the upper deck.

[David Sampson]

There's no way.

[Dan Le Batard]

You had your own bathroom. You're doing your questionnaire. No way. You know about that upper deck, see? Oh, no.

[David Sampson]

I had to speak in very short sentence.

[Jeremy]

Oh, boy.

[David Sampson]

It happens to be true. It is not exact.

[Chris Cody]

Can we replay that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's. Let's replay something else. Let's. David's a proud professional, okay? He prides himself on some.

[David Sampson]

I'm just giving you the 100.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, listen, listen. Let's listen to how David started speaking today's show when it is that we presented to him the hot potato topic of Cuba. We got to play that sound for McGill and ask him if it's a toad being stepped on.

[Chris Cody]

That's third sound.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's a professional broadcaster. Metal Arc Media is building her out.

[Tony]

And that was a slide piece I threw him, Dan.

[Chris Cody]

He had to.

[Dan Le Batard]

He couldn't swing at it. He's like, oh, Just Putin. Was it just Putin?

[Tony]

Yeah, I think it was. What, you think the Russians are better?

[Jeremy]

Dave, what do you think?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's how you started today's show.

[David Sampson]

That's enough. People get the points.

[Jeremy]

I have some stuff for David that was actually pro David from yesterday's show. So 1. And when you were trying to think of the example of the time that the Heat won in NBA Finals because the other team was missing players, were you thinking of how we always talk about how they lost to the Lakers because Bam and Dragic were hurt now, Damn.

[David Sampson]

I'd like to say yes, I should have, but no, I wasn't.

[Jeremy]

When you guys were talking about state run media in Cuba, Dan dismissed you because you said McCarthyism was before the Cuban state run media, which it was. Dan said you were wrong.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm sorry, say again?

[David Sampson]

You can't.

[Chris Cody]

Why?

[David Sampson]

Is that not a penalty? No, I just accused you.

[Jeremy]

Dan dismissed David mentioning Cuba when talking about state run media by saying it was before McCarthyism. It was not. McCarthyism came first. Just wanted to help David there. It was really dismissive. David, thanks for using the variety of pronouns that you use when talking about the fan who gave the Drew ski poster. You said he or she or they. Way to go. I'm an ally.

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[David Sampson]

Thank you, Jeremy.

[Jeremy]

Good job. Well done.

[David Sampson]

The thing about Dan that I've learned by being around here for a number of years is don't upset him with being truthful if that truthfulness involves a criticism.

[Jeremy]

My father also taught me that the higher score has to go before the lower score. That is top tier parenting. Number one. Right at the top.

[David Sampson]

Period.

[Jeremy]

Has to be there.

[David Sampson]

Tristan, I did say goodbye to each other.

[Chris Cody]

That and the golden rule.

[Dan Le Batard]

David is accusing me of something. We are now 35 minutes into a segment that began with me asking for Jeremy's criticisms that the whole. The whole segment has been 35 minutes of me requesting Jeremy's criticisms. That one just didn't seem to be terribly entertaining. Like that. I didn't even understand what he was saying to me the first time.

[Jeremy]

You can use that in the arbitration case.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that one judgment. Bad, bad judgment is something that will come up in your arbitration case.

[Jeremy]

So with Marty Supreme Juju said he doesn't like it. And I think this is a case. We always talk about three Americas with like white, Hispanic. And I think this is a case and I'm afraid to separate us because you know the times in which we are in. This is the case of four Americas. Every Jewish person watched Marty supreme and was like, like Yeah, I know that guy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris, do you think that you can turn David Sampson's gaff at the start of today's show into some EDM music? Do you think that you could find some public domain sound that would allow you to mix and match professional broadcaster David Sampson?

[Chris Cody]

Mr. Arbitration just for this one.

[Jeremy]

I'll use that in my arbitration case.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, let's, let's see how quickly you can do that. Go ahead and toss it over your shoulder. Jeremy, you can go outside now and see how quickly.

[Jeremy]

You don't want me to get mad about the Heat.

[Dan Le Batard]

First though, do you have more, you have more criticism?

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I was laughing because thank God for Trista because Zaz started talking about how frustrated he would be if the Heat had a win similar to how the Lakers did. And then he turned on a show and heard people dismissing it as AD doesn't matter because they're not going to win a championship this season. That is our show. That is all we do all Heat season long is just dismiss every fun game because oh man, I don't think they're the big three era. Heat also dismissing the seven game win streak because the Heat lost to the Magic, who have owned them all year and saying like, oh, well, see, that's why they're not going to win against anybody when that's the only team that they've lost to consistently all year and they won't face their playoffs.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy, let's, let's do this. Okay. Because what are they now, six, seven games over.500? Are they eight games over 500? This is the stretch of the season right now. Playoffs start right now.

[David Sampson]

Yep.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. This is the stretch of the difficult games. They have the seven game winning streak, couple of them against the Nets, Milwaukee,

[Jeremy]

a whole bunch with Orlando.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. But a bunch of crud in there. But Orlando streak now includes Miami.

[David Sampson]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

And they lost to the Hawks. It includes Miami. All these teams beat each other up and Orlando's own the Heat all year long. If not for Orlando, the Heat would be in like third place.

[Mike]

If the Heat are going to avoid the playing like right now is going to decide it's, I think right now.

[Jeremy]

This stretch is crazy.

[Tony]

By the way, I'm going to read it for you. Charlotte, LA Lakers, Houston, San Antonio, baseball series with Cleveland.

[Chris Cody]

I just can't accept Charlotte is. I know hottest teams just you're not

[Tony]

watching ball, you're not watching ball.

[Chris Cody]

Saying can't accept them as just being in that good team category. Can't do it.

[Mike]

Heater dog tonight in Charlotte as They

[Dan Le Batard]

were last time when they won. Tyler Hero went crazy. But. But now Jeremy. I think that's fair criticism from Jeremy to say that we were spoiled by the big three era. Dwyane Wade says that town is dead now because he was spoiled by the big three era. And everything pales compared to the.

[Chris Cody]

Not an exact quote from Dwayne, but paraphrasing Dead now is dead.

[Mike]

I'll tell you. 3 and 3 in this stretch here be a miracle.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I agree.

[Mike]

Really?

[Jeremy]

Would three and three would be great. Like if you would have told me going would it be greater a miracle Going into the seven game stretch, I would have said going four and three would have been spectacular. Going three and four would have been like, okay, you did what you had to do. Going two and five. You'd be worried because you're trying to catch a word.

[Mike]

What about one and six?

[Jeremy]

Well, that's bad. You stop.

[David Sampson]

All of this is such nonsense. Oh, three and three. We got to do this during this. Do you do that? Like, do you do that through all stretches in a season?

[Mike]

No, but there's only 14 games left and they're trying to avoid the play in. So you're.

[David Sampson]

You're assigning a stretch that they have to have for you to be satisfied.

[Mike]

These are all good teams.

[David Sampson]

I understand, but it doesn't matter if they go 2 and 5 or 5

[Dan Le Batard]

and they're going to be tested right now. We're going to.

[David Sampson]

It's not the playoffs.

[Chris Cody]

It does matter if they go 5 and 2 or 2 and 5, it's.

[David Sampson]

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to whether or not they have a likelihood of getting a ring.

[Chris Cody]

That's fair.

[Jeremy]

So we're going to do exactly.

[Dan Le Batard]

He wasn't listening to you.

[Chris Cody]

Wow. Is this a seventh penalty?

[David Sampson]

I was out of the room.

[Mike]

Minor penalty, two minutes, four.

[David Sampson]

Not listening to the. I'm not leaving.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right?

[David Sampson]

I'm done.

[Chris Cody]

Leo DiCaprio.

[David Sampson]

That's fine.

[Stugats]

He should go.

[David Sampson]

I'm sick and tired. And by the way, Jeremy, you're criticizing the show, not Dan. But Dan takes it as though it's criticism of him. You're too scared, cuz we're all too scared. God forbid that we're left here alone, you know, without Dan to criticize him because he's the omniscient guy who knows everything about nothing.

[Jeremy]

Will you defend me in my arbitration case, Mike?

[Chris Cody]

You know I have one rule to live by, right?

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[Chris Cody]

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Everything else?

[Chris Cody]

Everything else?

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Wearing clean underwear every day, well, that's

[Chris Cody]

just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth, obviously smart, but not a rule.

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[Chris Cody]

Okay, maybe there are two rules. But the one that is a hundred percent that I insist on completely, Jagermeister must be drank ice cold or don't drink it at all.

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Damn, that's cold.

[Chris Cody]

Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.

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