The Big Suey: Magical Sprinkle Juice

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

“The Big Suey: Magical Sprinkle Juice” – September 8, 2025

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Episode Overview

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the extended crew dive into the drama of NFL Week 1 and broader sports pop culture. This “Big Suey” episode touches on the excitement of football’s return, deep dives into Dolphins despair, discusses the viral “Phillies Karen” baseball controversy, and showcases the panel’s signature blend of analysis and humor. The show is marked by honesty (“A Moment of Truth”), playful debates, and classic, rapid-fire South Florida energy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. NFL Week 1: Football’s Seismic Return

(02:43 – 06:39, 12:58 – 17:16)

• The group marvels at the wildness of Opening Sunday in the NFL.
• Dan Le Batard on the significance:
  “Sundays are holidays around here.” (03:23)
• Packers dominate the Lions, but Dan places that news lower on the “big things” list after a dramatic slate of games.
• Chiefs under scrutiny with offensive struggles; injuries to key players like Rashee Rice and Xavier Worthy are highlighted.
• Major focus on the Bills’ dramatic late-game win over the Ravens, spotlighting Josh Allen’s MVP-caliber heroics against what was clearly the “better” team.
• Steelers get praise for pulling off a win led by Aaron Rodgers against his former team in a game all expected to be a dud.
• Ravens’ knack for blowing high win-probability games is discussed:
  “It has happened eight times since 2021... No other team has had it happen six times.” – Chris Cody (20:30)

2. Dolphins Dismay and Schedule Outlook

(07:23 – 09:27, 26:20 – 26:56)

• Greg Cote dishes out the “most vicious” column about the Dolphins’ hapless performance, but cautions against overreacting to a single game.
• Deep dive into the Dolphins’ brutal upcoming schedule, with the team potentially off to a rough start.
• Mike Ryan: “You may be looking at the Saints and the Saints honestly look like they had a shot yesterday.” (08:23)

3. Quarterback Watch: Cam Ward & Bo Nix

(09:28 – 13:09)

• Cam Ward’s debut for Miami is given tempered praise—“competence,” not “greatness.”
• Mike Ryan impressed by Ward’s composure in Denver’s tough environment:
  “Historically a really difficult place to play opening week at Mile High...He was Tennessee’s best player on offense.” (10:25)
• Greg Cote calls out “low expectations” driving the evaluation.
• Bo Nix–Sean Payton pairing is discussed as a media narrative more than established fact.

4. “Magical Sprinkle Juice” & Sports Fandom Euphoria

(16:21 – 17:16)

• Whimsical segment on the meaning of “Sprinkle Juice,” representing the intoxicating unpredictability of the NFL’s return and the emotional roller coasters of Sunday’s games.
• Chris Cody: “It’s magical. The way Andrew Luck is magical riding his bicycle through your future.” (16:37)
• Panel marvels at how each NFL time slot delivered chaos, culminating in an electric prime-time finish.

5. “A Moment of Truth”: Confessions About Watching Every Game

(17:16 – 21:09)

• Dan and the panel introduce a candid segment revealing they didn’t actually watch every minute of every game.
• Dan Le Batard (18:06): “I was dozing a bit. I was dozing.”
• Greg Cote confesses: “Number one, I didn’t watch a single second of Cam Ward on Sunday. Number two, I did the exact same thing...” (19:11)
• Mike Ryan and Roy add their own “truths,” underscoring the absurdity of sports pundit bravado.

6. Viral Moment: “Phillies Karen” at the Marlins Game

(22:44 – 30:12, 33:54 – 36:13)

• Recap of the bizarre, viral incident where a woman (“Phillies Karen”) wrests a baseball from a father and son, sparking outrage.
• Multiple angles and “Karen” going fully unhinged with middle fingers to the crowd and indignant entitlement.
• Dan Le Batard: “The father has gone, and he’s done interviews with his children, but we still don’t know the identity of this Phillies Karen...She was giving everyone around the middle finger while holding up the ball.” (24:27–25:02)
• The group debates whether the father should’ve stood up or did the right thing by handing her the ball to avoid a scene.
• Reflection on how viral shaming on the internet can spiral out of control:
  • Chris Cody: “Her life will feel ruined to her for however long this lasts.” (34:46)
  • Roy: “Yeah, but she brought it on herself, the sheer entitlement.” (35:19)
• Discussion of how these culture war moments overtake social media on football Sundays, uniting fans in collective disgust.

7. Tennis: Djokovic’s Humble Concession

(36:56 – 41:44)

• A rare sports moment: Novak Djokovic, post-US Open loss, openly admits the next generation (Alcaraz, Sinner, etc.) are better now.
• Chris Cody: “I know it’s a small morsel but it was shocking to me...I’m not used to that level of greatness conceding.” (40:57)
• Greg Cote calls the admission “refreshing.”
• Side discussion on the evolution of men’s and women’s tennis and the current competitive gulf.

8. Steelers-Jets Recap & the Aaron Rodgers Effect

(42:10 – 45:26)

• Jalen Ramsey’s game-saving play for the Steelers hailed as a culture-defining “win now” move.
• The crew contrasts Aaron Rodgers’ sharp performance this year (4 TDs) with last year’s struggles—key for Steelers optimism.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the roller coaster of NFL Sunday:
  “Every time slot delivered chaos, and the night game was better than any of it.” – Dan Le Batard (16:46)
• On Cam Ward’s debut:
  “Just competent, just competent.” – Chris Cody (11:40)
• On the “Phillies Karen” fiasco:
  “Her life will feel ruined to her for however long this lasts.” – Chris Cody (34:46)
• On being honest about not watching every second of sports:
  “This is where Stugatz’s disagreements with Wilbon begin and end…Wilbon pretends like he’s seen all the games.” – Chris Cody (19:42)
• On Djokovic bowing to the young stars:
  “That level of greatness never says that out loud…Just saying these guys are now better than me. My time is done.” – Chris Cody (40:57)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• NFL Week 1 Reaction & Biggest Storylines: 02:43 – 06:39
• Dolphins Schedule & Local Football Woes: 07:23 – 09:27, 26:20 – 26:56
• Cam Ward/Broader Quarterback Discussion: 09:28 – 13:09
• “Moment of Truth” Admissions: 17:16 – 21:09
• Phillies Karen Viral Baseball Incident: 22:44 – 30:12, 33:54 – 36:13
• Djokovic’s Acceptance of Tennis Generational Shift: 36:56 – 41:44
• Steelers Over Jets (Rodgers’ Big Day): 42:10 – 45:26

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Tone & Style

The episode is marked by sharp wit, group rapport, and the blend of sports analytics and irreverent pop culture that defines The Dan Le Batard Show. The crew isn’t afraid to admit what they don’t know, make fun of each other's hot takes, and bring in South Florida flavor, all while offering real analysis and poignant commentary on the broader sports and media landscape.

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For those who missed the show, this episode is a whirlwind tour through the emotional highs of NFL Week 1, the absurdity of viral sports moments, and genuine honesty about the realities of sports commentary. It captures the magic, chaos, and communal joy—magical sprinkle juice—of game day, Dan Le Batard style.

Transcript

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[Greg Cote]

I'm sorry.

[Chris Cody]

I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in Restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys.

[Roy]

I've done it.

[Billy Gil]

And now here's the marching man to.

[Chris Cody]

Nowhere, Fat Face and the Habitual Liar.

[Billy Gil]

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[Chris Cody]

I am interested in talking to the group about what were the big takeaways from the weekend because in professional football, just a terrific week one crazy. The end of the one o' clock hour games and the last game would be the best of the games is football introducing itself, reintroducing itself to us in the most seismic way possible. It's a very well run league. The teams are very competitive with each other, the games matter and Sundays are holidays around here. And college football even got engulfed this weekend because it didn't have anything as interesting as what it is that was happening yesterday. So many interesting things that I'm putting low on the list. Woo. The packers bullied the Lions there and Micah Parsons is a defensive player anybody would want to have. And good God, the Packers dragged the field with. Listen to this stat. There have been three quarterbacks ever who have won 13 games in a season with two different teams. It's Brady, it's Manning and it's Goff. It's Goff. And Detroit for all its offense was ransacked by a Packers defense that I thought was plenty good last year and now has Micah Parsons.

[Billy Gil]

Tonight will be interest because you got Bears Vikings tonight. And if the Bears offense is good, Caleb Williams, Ben Johnson, then the the chatter is going to ratchet up a bit about Detroit no longer.

[Chris Cody]

But the packers bullying the Lions to me is still low on the list of like biggest things in the league to talk about today. And I'm including the Chiefs from three days ago in here.

[Billy Gil]

They stink.

[Mike Ryan]

The Steelers winning a game that they haven't been capable of in a couple of years, getting that performance from their quarterback and that quarterback being Aaron Rodgers at his former team. That was really interesting to see because Aaron Rodgers was really good and so was Justin Fields. We all assumed that game was going to be ugly. Get out of the stadium alive.

[Billy Gil]

It was the lowest total of the weekend, right?

[Chris Cody]

37 and a half. 37. No one expected offense from that game. And then all of a sudden you get offense and both of those teams, you know their defenses are good. So if you're getting good offense, it's not because the defenses are suddenly bad.

[Mike Ryan]

And much like college Football gets drowned out. Not a lot of John Mateer conversation on this show because he looks like the over at Oklahoma. But I think Friday's game was really interesting, really good. And while the Chiefs are expected to fix that offense without Rasheed Rice being suspended early on in the season and a shoulder dislocation for Xavier Worthy, there's talk he may need surgery. He's going to be out for an extended period of time. Those are guys that take the. The deep shots downfield.

[Billy Gil]

Sure. The Chiefs are fixing the solvents.

[Mike Ryan]

I thought Justin Herbert also looked outstanding.

[Chris Cody]

The Chargers looked formidable before the fourth quarter yesterday. The Harbaughs looked like they had the two best teams in the sport. Like the. In terms of just everything that you were watching and what they did to the Chiefs, how they did it to the Chiefs. We can assemble the argument. Could we not that right up until the end of that game yesterday. And now the thing falls a little bit on Harbaugh. Even though Derrick Henry fumbled. What the Ravens were. All of us saw this correct. Going on the road. We're watching football. We're watching it from Eagles, Cowboys. If you're saying who was the best team in the sport until four minutes in last night's game, all of us are saying the Ravens. Correct. Who's the who looks like the best team in the sport? Okay, maybe packers, maybe Colts. Fair enough. But the seismic nature of football returning, ending with that game played that way that the photo that you have at the end of your Football in America night is Josh Allen being carried off by his teammates. Because we're all watching, hey, the MVP doesn't have enough. The Ravens are better, but they've got the mvp. And so now we're watching a unicorn and Centaur run around in the backfield for the Bills. And the Ravens are better. And we know the Ravens are better. And you can't expect Josh Allen to always do that at the end of games. It's not a reasonable request.

[Greg Cote]

Well, sort of. Not in the super bowl, though.

[Chris Cody]

It's not a reasonable request. Don't say sort of. They've never won anything. They haven't even gotten to a Super Bowl.

[Greg Cote]

Like, look, Greg, I mean, the Ravens and the Bills suffer from the same malady, which is they're both great teams. They both have great quarterbacks. How about you win something?

[Chris Cody]

We'll get to football in a second. Roy, why are you laughing?

[Dan Le Batard]

The head.

[Roy]

Your head going into.

[Chris Cody]

I'm going to tell you why. Because. Because I've done this show for a long time, Greg. Cody, look Greg Cody, print journalist, looks down on all of us, fans included. Like this room is still reeling. The room is still reeling from the number of times you hit both me and Zaslow in the face. Last segment with the wet fish. If you read my column.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah, right. Because my column was about the most vicious column I'm able to write. And so I don't want anyone to think that I'm letting the Dolphins off lightly just because I say it's one game. Okay, it can be both. You can exorciate the Dolphins for a absolutely hapless, hopeless performance and still think. But it's only one game.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, but next week at home versus the Patriots, I mean, they are a slight favorite. You think that's a get back on track game, right?

[Greg Cote]

It better be.

[Dan Le Batard]

So that's one and one, then you have at the Bills on Thursday night.

[Greg Cote]

No chance.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, so that's one and two then the new look Jets.

[Chris Cody]

No, I'm not gonna let you do this. I'm not gonna let you sneak one of these in.

[Dan Le Batard]

Justin Fields.

[Chris Cody]

Okay.

[Greg Cote]

All right.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm just trying to figure out that feels like it could be a loss and you're staring down the barrel of 1 and 3. If. If you beat the pace, you could be sitting at 04 and then the Panthers is a get back game.

[Greg Cote]

They could go oh and 17 after.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Panthers is the Chargers. The Chargers. Dan just said they look like one of the best. Then the Browns. The Browns is anyone's guess. Is Flacco gonna be healthy? We don't know. At Atlanta then versus the Ravens, then the Bills again. Commanders. I mean, you may be looking at the Saints and the Saints honestly look like they had a shot yesterday.

[Mike Ryan]

Is that a win?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm not sure.

[Mike Ryan]

Saints.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think I'm going to be in Atlanta for that game. Not really. Oh, wow. Stop the presses. Chris is going to Atlanta for that game. Oh, if you want to see Chris, he might be there.

[Chris Cody]

The Dolphins.

[Mike Ryan]

Falcons. Well, you were talking about the Saints.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

This is the easiest part of the Dolphin schedule.

[Dan Le Batard]

Didn't you say 7 and 1, dad?

[Chris Cody]

What you say?

[Greg Cote]

No, what I said was the first eight games.

[Chris Cody]

I'm not doing this anymore. Get the Dolphin stink out of here. Look, I. I was mad. I was mad yesterday at that Jags Carolina game and the weather because all of a sudden that scent is lingering into my four o' clock games. Get out of here with that game. Jags, Panthers, Please end at 4:00'. Clock. Don't stay around. Don't be. Third quarter in the middle. Of my four o' clock games. Enough with your.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was that, was it like a weather delay?

[Chris Cody]

Yes, weather delay. One of a couple of weather delays screwing up my YouTube TV. It's like I had a nice four game plan here. Two things though locally that we did not get to that I did want to get to.1, Cam Ward's debut, he made a couple of the throws that you want made and now after the game there's been talked about, well, Calvin Ridley, you know, he doesn't have to put that much zip on it. He does. He has to put less zip on the football. But Cam Ward made a couple of the throws that could have kept the Titans a little closer than the eight point result looked like because the Titans were in that game and Cam Ward looking competent in the first game out. I don't want people to take for granted a guy coming out in his first game just because we've got used to like fast forwarded learning curves on quarterbacks. And on the road at Denver with the team that everyone was talking about, Sean Payton and Bo Nixon, they turned the ball over a ton and still won by eight points. Like they turned the ball over. But Cam Ward's competence was encouraging. If you're from Miami.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, and that's. That was a prism and I, it took me by surprise. I knew I was going to be pro Cam Ward, but I was on the edge of my seat this entire game demanding players make a play for him. Look there. It wasn't perfect by Cam Ward. Look, they didn't score touchdowns.

[Chris Cody]

He wasn't throwing the ball and completing it down the field.

[Mike Ryan]

He, I mean receivers got to make some plays for the guy too. I do think that especially on those seam routes, some touch could have been there. And the loop D shit that you got away with with the best offensive line in college football last year, it's not going to be the same. But I would say that most people entering this season would have told you Denver's best defense in the league. That is historically a really difficult place to play opening week at Mile High. Especially when they have a defense like this. He was Tennessee's best player on offense. They got issues along that offensive line. He's got to help them out a little bit more. His receivers have to help him out a little bit more. But I thought that was very encouraging. I think he's going to be just fine.

[Greg Cote]

But, but that's a low. I don't want to be the guy criticizing everything. But that's.

[Chris Cody]

Except the Dolphins.

[Greg Cote]

Okay, but, but, but that's what you draw the line when we say Cam Ward had a great game, it's based on low expectations based on how good Denver's defense is.

[Mike Ryan]

For the record, no one said Cam Ward had a great game. They scored zero touches.

[Chris Cody]

Just competent, just competent.

[Greg Cote]

He was 12 for 28. He averaged four yards.

[Billy Gil]

A lot of drops, a lot of.

[Mike Ryan]

Drops, a lot of drops and a lot of plays just not made. And especially on that last drive, like everybody was keeping an eye like, can, can do this? Can Cameron do this with, you know, no timeouts? He had the ball way too many times on the opposing end to knock him away with points. He took those loop these sacks. He's got to clean that up and he will learn to clean it up. But I was encouraged by it.

[Chris Cody]

On third and 10, driving on enemy territory with a one possession game. He made the throw. You need to throw to Calvin Ridley and Calvin Ridley was pretty good at catching footballs. It had too much on it for Calvin Ridley and it's a fair complaint if you watched any part of that game. Two things became obvious. One of the things that Mike's talking about, the loop de loop in the backfield, that's not going to happen anymore. So you either learn very quickly to move up and shoot up through the center of your pocket and use your athleticism or, or you don't. I think he'll learn it. It's one game. It's one game on the road under difficult circumstances. His team's not very good. That defense everyone expects something from and it has the defensive player of the year. He didn't make the kind of mistakes that cost you the game. And at the end of the game, he made the throw to Calvin Ridley that you have Calvin Ridley in order to make that catch at this point in his career, I would say he.

[Mike Ryan]

Did make some mistakes there that, that didn't help Tennessee win that game, but he was the best player that they had over there. Talking point from this game, if I may, who would you rather have going forward, Bo Nix or Cam Ward?

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow. Either. Either of them.

[Chris Cody]

Well, the thing that happens with that though is that people are pairing now Bo Nix and Sean Payton as if that's a magical sprinkle juice that you can throw on something and it'll be better than all of the other teams. I don't believe that, but people are believing that because they saw a pretty quick jump or what they think was a quick jump from Denver last year. Again, that game somehow to me, low on the list of games from yesterday. Can we for just a moment examine how the evening ended. Okay, because it's an insanity. For the Ravens, a team we all know to be good and one of the best franchises for the last 15 years to again have a 90% win probability. Up 15 all game and obvious to the eye, better than any team in the sport that you've watched for the last three days.

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[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Mike Ryan]

Dan, I have a question.

[Roy]

What is Sprinkle Juice?

[Greg Cote]

That is a good question.

[Chris Cody]

Hell is Sprinkle juice.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah, sounds good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Are you like watering?

[Chris Cody]

Is this watering something you get like.

[Mike Ryan]

Liquid on your hands? You Just like either juice or sprinkling or magic juice.

[Dan Le Batard]

Are they sprinkles on ice cream?

[Billy Gil]

Is it a liquid?

[Chris Cody]

It's magical. The way Andrew Luck is magical riding his bicycle through your future.

[Mike Ryan]

Great diversionary tactic. Yes, it's magical. Show me again.

[Chris Cody]

It's magical. Sprinkle juice. The insanity of yesterday, you guys would agree to have it punctuated that. Way to go. To go from Cowboys, Eagles play the game they play. Chiefs, Chargers play the game they played. The one o' clock games end with insanity happening and Aaron Rodgers and the jets in the middle of all the games. One score, everything. Then you get to 4 o', clock, then you get to the. The night game. And the night game is better than any of it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can we play a new segment called A Moment of Truth? All right, so this is how A Moment of Truth works. So we come on here, and obviously we're experts on every sport because we watch every game of every sport. So we know everything about every sport. Every game of every sport. Because that's what our profession is. So we come on and we talk about every game of every sport because we watch every.

[Billy Gil]

That's what being an expert's about.

[Dan Le Batard]

Exactly. Every game of every sport. We have nothing else going on in our lives but to watch every second of every game of every sport, college included, which is a tall task on Saturdays because there's a lot of college games. But rest assured, audience, we watched every second of every game of every sport. A moment of truth. I fell asleep with five minutes left in the game last night. I said, you know what? This game's over. I fell asleep and that was my moment of truth.

[Billy Gil]

Well, did you fall asleep or did you say, this game's over, I'm going to sleep?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a great question. So I moved from the front part of my manner towards the back part of my manner. And I was watching it in bed as my wife was doing, I don't know, preparations for the kids for tomorrow or whatever. And I turned it on and I was laying down and I was watching. But I will. Moment of truth. I was dozing a bit. I was dozing.

[Chris Cody]

I think it's fair, Billy. I think you're allowed to be tired as a father from all the football.

[Dan Le Batard]

I was dozing. So then my wife came in, and then I said, is this a battle worth having? Keeping the television on, knowing I'm probably gonna fall asleep, or do I turn it off? And at that point, glasses had come off. Oh, glasses were off. So I was doing a lot of listening. And then I was seeing a lot of blurry colors running back and forth into each other, around each other, what have you. But it was blurry and I was just listening. Took off the glasses, put them on the nightstand in the manor. And my wife said, are you. So I was like, I'm watching, I'm watching. And she said, are you sure? I said, no, this one's over. And I turned it off. And then I turned over. Man, now is my mom.

[Greg Cote]

I have two moments of truth. Oh, you got one?

[Dan Le Batard]

Two. I got two.

[Greg Cote]

Sorry. Number one, I didn't watch a single second of Cam Ward on Sunday. Number two, I did the exact same thing as Billy. There's four and a half minutes left. It's a 40 to 25 lead. I even remember saying, thinking to myself, the Bills would have to score two touchdowns and two extra points, whatever. And just a two point conversion.

[Dan Le Batard]

They missed a two point conversion prior. And I was like, now this is too much.

[Greg Cote]

And then. So I trusted. I trusted the Ravens.

[Chris Cody]

I like this segment. A moment of truth. Like, where it is that you just. You didn't have enough to see everything that you're talking about, so you're blustering your way through it. This is where Stugatz's disagreements with Wilbond begin and end. Like, I think Stugots has more right than wrong in him on the Wilbon feud when he says Wilbourne pretends like he's seen all the games because he talks as if he's seen all the games.

[Mike Ryan]

Anyone that that's heard Mike Wilbon talk college football knows this moment of truth for me. I did doze off. I saw the comeback. I saw. I saw the big play. But I did learn this morning that Derrick Henry fumbled because I was asleep there at that point.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, I saw the end of the game. I saw it this morning. I was like, crap, how did this happen? Now I need to go back and watch this. So I had to go back and watch it.

[Chris Cody]

I think it's reasonable. I think it's reasonable. Put it on the pole.

[Mike Ryan]

Truth.

[Chris Cody]

You fell asleep and called the game over last night with five minutes left. Yes or no? Like, because I think you're in the majority, not the minority. I think that's a reasonable. Especially the way the way the Ravens looked all game. Like, under what circumstances are they getting stopped? Under what circumstances is Derek Henry fumbling? Like they've got a win probability that makes it so that they are somehow the only team that always gets in that position and the team that blows it in that position most often like in the sport. It has happened eight times since 2021 where they've got a 90% win probability and they blow the game. No other team has had it happen six times.

[Roy]

I have a moment of truth.

[Greg Cote]

Oh.

[Roy]

If I didn't have money on the game, I would have fell asleep.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, gambling.

[Chris Cody]

Oh. But Roy got the bad beat. This has got to be the most common of the bad beats. Right? This happened to me two or three times last season with Mahomes.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah.

[Roy]

I had two bets on the game. One of the bets were on the Ravens. Derrick Henry anytime Touchdown Lamar Jackson over one and a half touchdowns. That didn't hit Derrick Henry rushed yards.

[Chris Cody]

And don't care about all your other bets. Couldn't care less.

[Roy]

Yeah, well I. That one, the one touchdown didn't hit that. That cost me 200 but okay, don't.

[Chris Cody]

Again, don't care.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's get to the interest.

[Chris Cody]

The bad beep is.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know. I like the nuts and bolts.

[Chris Cody]

I don't know why you would think all your bets are interesting or why anybody.

[Roy]

Because I don't talk in the show.

[Mike Ryan]

So wait, did you have anything in the early window?

[Roy]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't care.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't care what your Saturday action.

[Roy]

Like didn't have anything on Saturday like.

[Dan Le Batard]

Going on in Russian hockey or anything.

[Roy]

We should be aware of anything yet.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Roy]

And it's back in two weeks.

[Mike Ryan]

I like the Hawkinson overs tonight. You want a tail?

[Roy]

Yeah, yeah, I think I might. I got. I gotta get my money back.

[Chris Cody]

Cool.

[Mike Ryan]

That was good.

[Roy]

Yeah. So the bad beat was I had Josh Allen over one and a half touchdowns. Over 231 and a half passing yards.

[Dan Le Batard]

Downs or passing touchdowns with that one.

[Roy]

And a half anytime touchdown.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, that's crazy.

[Roy]

And he hit that. But over 34 and a half rushing yards. And that's what got me because he knelt down three times and lost five yards.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm sorry.

[Dan Le Batard]

That hurt.

[Chris Cody]

That hurt.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sorry.

[Mike Ryan]

What do you think J.J. mcCarthy is going to do tonight? He's got a young quarterback. Say lean on the tight end. This is where I like Hawkinson.

[Chris Cody]

Chris Cody wants already J.J. mcCarthy over Tua. He has bailed. The other local story that I did not get to in the local hour and I should have because somehow it. It resonated across the entire pop culture sphere. It is so strange to me the moments like this that end up catching. A friend of mine mentioned this morning saying that after this scorned child at a Marlins game had a ball taken away from Him. And you just saw from every camera angle possible, somehow a woman behaving in a way that was so foul and so grotesque that the Internet recoiled and the Marlins ran out and gave this child a basket full of gifts. And they should have given this woman, like, a car or something for bringing this much attention to the Marlins on a football Sunday, to bring this kind of attention, because this woman was terrible. And the man, her a father brings the child his son a baseball. And then the woman just takes it from him, berating him. Billy, why are you laughing? Why are you laughing?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm getting confused. This is what happened. A home run was hit by a one of the Phillies. And then there are Philly fans there. A dad runs over, grabs the ball, gives it to his son. They're celebrating. Then this crazy woman goes by and starts screaming at him in his face. The man jumps backwards when she tapped him on the shoulder, because he was. He was taken aback. He was surprised by what was happening. Then she was yelling at him, that's my ball. That's my ball. Or something like that. And then finally, this man who was embracing his son, hugged him even, because he was so loving of his son and so happy to share this moment, just says, you know what? Fine. Take it. And brushes her away, takes the ball out of his glove, and then gives it to this woman who people are calling Phillies Karen.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you, Billy. That was very good. You did it much better than us.

[Dan Le Batard]

And then that's when things got interesting, because then the camera saw it, and then this was going around on the interwebs, and people were getting very mad, which, by the way, they still have not found who this Phillies Karen, as they've. They've named her, is. But the father has gone, and he's done interviews with his children, but we still don't know the identity of this Phillies Karen. But more videos have come out from different angles where there's people behind, where you can hear her screaming at the child. Then there's another video from the top where people are booing this Phillies fan. And she's giving them the middle finger.

[Billy Gil]

Oh, yeah, she's giving everyone around the middle finger while holding up the ball.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, she was a bit, some are saying, unhinged. I don't know exactly what was going on there, but the Marlins gave them all these goodies. And then after the game, he met the Phillies player that hit the home run, who signed a bat for him, and they all went out. And you know what? I think the biggest trauma of all is that at the end of the day, they're still Phillies fans, and the guy did nothing wrong.

[Billy Gil]

It's a lot of soft energy there with that guy, though.

[Roy]

Well.

[Chris Cody]

Well, wait a minute. Says the father whose teenage son calls him sugar tits.

[Billy Gil]

Okay? But when it came down to it, I beat his ass. I'm still man of the house. What are you implying the guy should have done? I want it.

[Chris Cody]

Let's talk this out. Yeah. No.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stand on business.

[Greg Cote]

I'll tell you what he said.

[Billy Gil]

I will tell you a couple of things he should have.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. All right, well, we'll get to that in a second, because everyone's doing this one, too, today. How meek of that man to feel in today's America. Like he doesn't have quite a lot of. Of options here on optics, as he's being berated for taking a baseball from someone who believes, and everyone believes that she does it. That's been wronged. And then when we have 40 different camera angles, everyone realizes, wait a minute. This woman's just being. She is romping all over the arena, grabbing baseballs and making up stories, and everyone sees her unmasked. And it's the way this thing ends up going viral, because everyone, no matter your political leaning, is appalled by the behavior of this woman. Everyone.

[Dan Le Batard]

A kid with her, maybe I'll give her a little leeway, but. No, there's no kid with her.

[Chris Cody]

He doesn't rip it out of her hand.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a scrum. The ball's on the ground.

[Billy Gil]

It's just not even in her row. It's actually in his row.

[Chris Cody]

Exactly.

[Mike Ryan]

It's just.

[Chris Cody]

What options does he have there? Like, I know a lot of people are not. Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

Not give the ball.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah, get out of my face.

[Billy Gil]

The ball was in my son's mitt. Not give her the ball.

[Dan Le Batard]

I like, though. Like, I would have done what he did.

[Chris Cody]

Just the p. Like, just like.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, you want this? Is that important to you?

[Chris Cody]

Go ahead. You like?

[Dan Le Batard]

I. I think he played it perfect.

[Chris Cody]

Not me.

[Roy]

She tried to grab him.

[Chris Cody]

What are you gonna do?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's assault.

[Chris Cody]

You're just.

[Billy Gil]

Well, it's not about what I'm gonna do. It's what I'm not gonna do. And that's take the ball out of my son's mitt and give it to her. That's definitely what I'm not doing.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. And Cody is for sure not giving up the ball.

[Greg Cote]

Hell, no.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's for sure.

[Greg Cote]

She was not entitled to the ball based on what I saw.

[Chris Cody]

Look, the way that I'm looking at.

[Dan Le Batard]

That and forgive plenty in time.

[Chris Cody]

I don't, I don't have kids, okay? But I'm looking at a father in the middle of that who is embarrassed that he's in the middle of a scene that was just lovely for him a second ago cuz he was bringing his child a ball. And now he's in the middle of being yelled at by somebody. And while all of you. I get it. In retrospect, oh, he looked meek or. Oh, come on, buck up. I understand how he might want that whole commotion to get away from his son because already what was a beautiful moment has been ruined. And now also we're gonna emascul him today because hey, dad, we would have done it better. We would have never given him the ball. Okay, I get it. I, I understand how it is. All of us would arrive at armchair quarterbacking. Even that one Dolphins played fine, but.

[Dan Le Batard]

That guy should have done it differently.

[Chris Cody]

But, but that, but that woman, everyone is pouncing on her because everyone sees, oh, you put dad in a bad spot and you ruined that kid's good feel good.

[Dan Le Batard]

And you didn't have a kid with you.

[Billy Gil]

The balls are for the kids.

[Chris Cody]

It's just like if there's a rule.

[Dan Le Batard]

Of baseball, you give a ball to the kid.

[Billy Gil]

I was thinking to myself, or after the game or after that happened, that woman right there, I mean, she looks like she's probably like in her 50s. So she probably has a son or daughter for that matter. And that, that son or daughter is seeing these replays. Some like, oh my God.

[Chris Cody]

But what kind. Look, I don't know what a look again, I'm not a parent. But what do you want to show your child in that moment? And today that child wins. Correct?

[Billy Gil]

Totally.

[Chris Cody]

That kid. That kid wins. I don't know if you want any of this kind of attention around any of it, right? Like, because I don't know any of you. I don't think if your d. If you're her or if you're the kid, you actually want the attention that ends up coming from this. You might want the gifts. But I don't like, I don't know about how you guys feel about it, but this incessant sort of energy of people need to argue about everything on the Internet and then things on the Internet becoming real to a woman like this who's now going to be shamed pretty, pretty provocatively by people who are mean, who will come at her for their variety of reasons that just turns all of this into an avatar where sports spills into, you know, politics.

[Billy Gil]

But you know what? With the woman, it wasn't, yes, she is being shame and continue being shame for her, but it wasn't even like she reacted poorly in a moment, in an instance. It was so much carrying on. Like it was. It was the whole yelling to get the ball and then it was all the interactions afterward. Like it was a whole thing with this woman. It wasn't even just like in a split second I behaved poorly.

[Greg Cote]

I think it's pretty easy to determine what the guy should have done. If I'm in the middle of that scrum going for the ball, if as the guy who walked away with the ball, if I realize, you know what, she had the ball and I took it out of her hand, then I'm probably going to give it back.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Greg Cote]

If I have every bit as much entitlement to that ball, if not more, as she does, I'm going to turn around on her and say, get out of my face. You did not get that ball. I got that ball.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Hey.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, yeah. Fishtail palms.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

I know, but it was so cold in my hand.

[Mike Ryan]

We took that first sip. It was crisp. It was refreshing. Oh, man, there is nothing like cracking open a Miller Lite with your crew and your inner circle bones.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hell yeah, we fist bumped.

[Mike Ryan]

Whether it's we, we actually really did. Whether it's that touchdown make a sound.

[Dan Le Batard]

But it just thought, bam, boom.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Roy]

Want to talk about home security for a minute. For the longest time I thought it was just alarms and sirens that once somebody breaks in you deal with it. But when you think about it, that's already too late. That's reactive. I had my car broken into on my property a while back. The only thing I could do was call 91 1. That's reactive. I don't like living things up to chance. That's why I decided to install SimpliSafe. Why? Because they flipped the idea of home security by making it proactive. Their Active Guard Outdoor Protection uses AI powered cameras to actually identify people lurking around your property. And here's the key. SimpliSafe's monitoring agents step in before anything goes down. They'll talk directly to intruders through the camera, light them up with spotlights, and even call the cops if they need to. That's not reacting. That's stopping crime before it starts. No contracts. No hidden fees. That's why they've been named best home security system by U.S. news & World Report five years in a row and they back it up with a 60 day money back guarantee. SimpliSafe is offering Lebarton show listeners 50% off a new system with professional monitoring. Plus your first month is free. Visit SimpliSafe.com DLB to claim the offer. That's SimpliSafe.com DLB there's no safe like SimpliSafe.

[Chris Cody]

Don LeBatard. The boy is Captain Slappy Stugats is this chum bucket.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. According to the the timesofindia.com There, there are two women who have now come out and denied being Philly's Karen. One of the rumors had a school district denying that they employed said Phillies Karen, that that person is not an employee of theirs. And they had not fired said employee because rumors are going around that Phyllys Karen had lost her job in the school system. Which I think some of us, I don't know if we can all agree. I think some of us would agree that's probably a bit much firing a person over this incident.

[Greg Cote]

But this is what social media and the Internet do, right?

[Chris Cody]

Right.

[Greg Cote]

Like, it's as if she robbed a bank. It's as if there's grainy footage of this woman running out of a bank with two big bags of money.

[Chris Cody]

Just so that you understand what this public shaming just does to people, her life will feel ruined to her. Like, we can say it's not, but her life will feel ruined to her for however long this lasts. And we can dismiss that and say that that's a silly thing to think, but in your football Sunday for this to make a live wire appearance on, ooh, let's all hate this person that feels good shaming her for what is clearly bad behavior. I know it shows no perspective to say her life will be ruined, but it'll feel that way to her.

[Roy]

Yeah, but she brought it on herself, the sheer entitlement.

[Chris Cody]

Well, that's what, that's what everyone is going to say.

[Dan Le Batard]

Same behavior.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct. It is insane.

[Dan Le Batard]

I feel like if you behave that way, you probably don't, like, look back and think, like, oh, I was wrong. I feel ashamed of this. I feel like you probably are surrounded by people who are like, mine are like, like, yeah, that's your ball. Like, you didn't do anything wrong.

[Billy Gil]

That's what I'm saying. It wasn't like a singular second where she behaved poorly. It was so much carrying on. Like, I don't think this woman looks back at and says, wow, I regret this.

[Dan Le Batard]

You do. See sometimes where there are, like, fights over balls and stuff like that, where, like, then, you know, the peer pressure round, just like, like, the guy, for instance, just gave her the ball because, like, maybe I was wrong. I'll give her the ball right where Fans are booing, whatever. Then the person like, ah, you know what, you're right. And they go and they give the ball back. But. But this person then went and was giving people the middle finger, was egging on the crowd. So, like, clearly she did not think she was in the wrong at all.

[Chris Cody]

I don't want to go too much further today. Forgive me for this because I'm sure we will be enveloped throughout the show. All football things.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're thinking Dolphins at Jets, Dec. 7. We didn't get to that.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, we haven't quite got that one.

[Dan Le Batard]

Might be a trap game after that at Steelers. So it could be a look ahead trap game. And then the Bengals, I mean, hosting the Bengals in December.

[Mike Ryan]

This might be the softer part of their schedule. Saints, Jets, Steelers, Bengals.

[Dan Le Batard]

Bengals looked. Bengals looked, you know, gettable yesterday.

[Greg Cote]

Joe Burrow against those Cornerbacks is that 1 and 3.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, you mentioned the Bengals. I don't know. On the list of goats, how do we smell? Can anyone here spell the name of the Browns kicker? It's got a Y, a Z and a K in it and one vowel. And I don't know how to say it or, or spell it.

[Greg Cote]

Misses it, missed it.

[Chris Cody]

I don't think that's correct. I don't know. Can any of you spell it? Do any.

[Mike Ryan]

Because if S, M, Y, Z, T.

[Chris Cody]

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Would any jury convict today Myles Garrett, who almost had three sacks on three straight plays and a safety on one of them. If he strangled, missed it with his bare hands, like just with his bare hands. If he just. I'm not saying that it ends in death. I'm just saying that if we had video today of Myles Garrett choking his kick by the throat and again, no harm done. It's just bad optics. All of us would say yes, of course, we understand. Everybody understands. Put that off to the side. Put Bengals in another slow start and Browns off to the side. Because also this weekend, something that I thought bears noting in tennis, okay. And I think Greg Cody, both. We were both there in Key Biscayne when it was announced to sort of everyone at a 21 year old Yokovic was gonna be somebody who challenged Federer and Nadal and he had not won majors yet then, but it was just clear to everyone in the sport. Not that he would be this because no one could have imagined him being 24 grand slams. No one could have imagined that. But with top Federer and Nadal, I don't want the football weekend to blow out the fact that after losing at the US Open after 17 years of dominance, he just said, yeah, after. In five sets, I can't beat those two guys. Like, they're, they are now too good. You do not hear somebody at his level of greatness just bow down and say, no, they're better now. It's obvious when you're still out there expecting him sometimes to win, but it's also obvious the young guys are going to have more stamina five sets than someone that Someone who's that age. He's going to age the way a tennis player must, not the way Aaron Rodgers all of a sudden did on Sunday.

[Mike Ryan]

Even in the Big Three era, though, when you had Federer, Djokovic, Nadal doing their thing, you had Vavrinka be feisty, you had Andy Murray come out for a brief moment in time, it was a Big Four. I'm watching the last few Slams and I'm like, man, I miss having a third guy in the mix because there is a wide gulf in the ATP ranks right now. Those two guys are really, really good. And when the third guy is Djokovic at the end of his career, you don't really have a third guy at this point.

[Chris Cody]

You guys are with me, though, that, that level of greatness. Never says that out loud. When it's the third. Still the third best player in the world.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah, I thought it was refreshing. I really did. I. I give Jokovic credit for doing that. You know, Federer retired. Nadal is fading fast. Yokovic is the last of the Big Three.

[Mike Ryan]

Nadal's done. Nadal's retired.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah, he's. Well, okay. He's. Isn't he still playing?

[Mike Ryan]

No, he's famously retired.

[Greg Cote]

Okay, so Yokovic, why you gotta say it like this?

[Chris Cody]

Because of how stubborn Greg is. Like, he's not going to concede the point. He's just not going to conc.

[Greg Cote]

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

[Chris Cody]

But stubbornly and not immediately. If you're wrong, you're wrong. Stubbornly and not immediately.

[Mike Ryan]

We had a lot. A bunch of emotional goodbyes to him.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

There were a lot of emotional goodbyes.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah, you may be right.

[Mike Ryan]

I may be crazy.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah. I'm not saying.

[Mike Ryan]

For me, the story is not so much. The ATP ranks because ATP is. There have always been like a consistent. There's always been a consistent final in the ATP for the last 25 years. On the WTA side. Serena spoiled us and kind of ruined that sport because you see a lot of challengers come and go at that sport. And for Sabalenka to Have an extended period of run here where she's taking the Slams, making the finals while Coco is still inconsistent at this part in the career. I thought Sabalenka's consistency is a story and also Osaka's dream comeback falling just short. But the WTA was more interesting than the ATP side and honestly pretty disappointing tournament on the whole. Not a. Not a lot of shock results in that tournament. It was kind of a bummer.

[Chris Cody]

You say not a lot of shock results. I'm telling you though that I know it's a small morsel but it was shocking to me. I mean Federer and Nadal never ceded the space to him that way vocally. Just saying these guys are now better than me. My time is done. Like we're. I just. I'm not used to that level of greatness conceding I. They never know. They always think they're going to come back. For him to say after 17 years of whatever that's done to his body where he runs off again. Go read about Nadal's foot problems. He's going to be walking with pain for the rest of his life because he finished third among these two. I don't know what Federer's body's going to feel like because he's a robot who never showed you any emotion. But even at the end he wasn't saying Djokovic is going to take my shit.

[Mike Ryan]

No, but he kind of sunset his career. He skipped a lot of tournaments and he wasn't really up for the fight once Djokovic finally hit his form. In part because Djokovic hit his form.

[Chris Cody]

Happy birthday today to one of the best doing it in football. I can't wait to see what it is that she has to say about yesterday's results. Happy birthday to Mina Kime.

[Roy]

Happy birthday to her.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't care.

[Billy Gil]

Good luck.

[Chris Cody]

Let's talk for a second about Steelers, jets and the ending of that game and Jalen Ramsey as part of win Now Steelers signaling to all in that game, in that stadium, to the Jets. Here's what the quarterback looks like when he's a part of a good organization. And we all know what he looked like when he was a part of a bad organization. All of a sudden today and this is some kind of weird miracle that we're talking about. Josh Allen instead of the four time MVP of the league looked like somebody who can win a game on the road against the jets in a way that he did not look like last season when the jets had him throwing the ball nine yards at a time. I Have to be gas bag of the week and thinking that the Steelers were going to play football like Ben Roethlisberger played at the end. It's all seven yard slants from here and you can do that with DK Metcalf, but DK Metcalf will also get you four catches for 80 yards. And the jets didn't have a whole lot of that even with Garrett Wilson last year. To have the jets lose that way where the win now Steelers of we're an organization run right give you Jalen Ramsey at the end taking out your best player. Garrett Wilson's the one you gave all the money at the end of that game. He loses it at the end because they asked him to make a play and Jalen Ramsey took it from him. That's what Jalen Ramsey is to. That's why he's there. And he won the game at the end. That's an entrance that gets you the kind of love in Pittsburgh where you create hope for a franchise because wait a minute. The four time MVP is going to look like four touchdowns. No interceptions. Throwing the ball down the field on a defense we know to be good. That's going to be our offense. We haven't had that offense here since Roethlisberger was taking us to the Super Bowl. We didn't have that offense here year when Roethlisberger was in the last three or four years of his career and running around back there like a skyscraper with legs.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can I give you a counterpoint on the Steelers and Aaron Rodgers? They. They needed Aaron Rodgers to go 22 of 30 for 244 yards and a touchdown to barely beat the jets and score 17 points in the fourth quarter. Like that's.

[Billy Gil]

Oh, he had four touchdowns.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, four touchdowns. They had to score 17 points in the fourth quarter just to beat the Jets. Like he's not going to do that every week. That it's the.

[Chris Cody]

I know. But he did it on the road against the defense we think is good defense. And he was feeling himself after the game.

[Roy]

You spoke about the meeting with Aaron Glenn on McAfee a few months ago, beating him. Is there significance in that since he.

[Mike Ryan]

Basically told you to your face that.

[Roy]

He didn't think you were right for that team?

[Chris Cody]

Yes, that's what he did.

[Mike Ryan]

So there's significance in beating him.

[Chris Cody]

I was happy to beat everybody associated with the Jets. He didn't have a game that looked like that all of last year. It was the lowest total on the board. People were expecting under 37 and a half and it wasn't. And he did it to a good defense, and he did it playing offense that was not constipated. You don't have a lot more that could have felt better than that if you're a Steelers fan. It's exactly what they wanted this off season, to get Mike Tomlin to get people away from him. Because they can win a game like that in the playoffs. They can outshoot you even if you have a good defense.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

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