The Big Suey: The House of Dick

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

The Big Suey: The House of Dick

Date: March 10, 2026
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Big Suey brings the Dan Le Batard Show's signature blend of irreverent sports talk and pop-culture commentary. The crew dives into the World Baseball Classic (WBC) and its linguistic controversies, the globalization of sports (especially baseball in Japan), March Madness vs. WBC, and the chaos of NFL free agency. Notably, the cast break down the meaning behind a viral Spanish insult from Randy Arozarena, debate the evolving role of sports information brokers, and play a round of "Big Move or Not a Big Move" assessing NFL off-season headlines. As ever, the show is laced with banter, fines for mistakes, and a guest appearance (via video) from Greg Cody, reporting live from his cruise vacation.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. World Baseball Classic & Cultural Translation

• Randy Arozarena’s "House of Dick" Incident
  The show opens with Dan breaking down a shocking phrase uttered by Randy Arozarena about teammate Cal Raleigh:

  • Phrase in question: "vete pa’ casa la pinga" (rough translation: “go to the house of dick”) [04:10]
  • Dan explains the word for “slut” differs in Cuban and Mexican Spanish, creating linguistic confusion and controversy.
  • Zaslow clarifies: "I think it was in jest, but he told the big dumper Cal Raleigh to bete pa' casa la pinga, which means basically, you can go to the house of the dick." [04:11]
  • Jeremy provides context: After being snubbed on a handshake during the Mexico-USA game, Arozarena was frustrated, possibly leading to his colorful language. [04:48]
  • The crew debates: Was it a joke or legit beef?
    • Roy: “When I saw the quotes in black and white, I’m like, oh man, this is… a spicy meatball.” [07:14]
    • Stugotz: "Either he’s really angry with him, or they’re very close. I don’t think there’s an in between." [07:24]

• Handshake Snubs & Catcher Culture

  • Discussion about the reluctance of catchers to shake hands, possibly due to pine tar rules and ejection risks. [06:27]

2. Baseball’s Globalization: Japan’s Rise

• Le Batard’s Reflection:
  Dan reminisces about witnessing Japan’s ascent in baseball:

  • "Japan has the greatest baseball player who has ever existed…" [11:34]
  • Point: As the NBA grew globally (Giannis, Jokic, Wemby), so too did baseball in Japan, producing Shohei Ohtani.
  • "I’ve seen the evolutions and it’s a crazy evolution to see Japan not be any good at baseball… Over the last 35 years, they’ve caught up." [12:00]

• The Shohei Ohtani Effect:

  • Jeremy: "You can say flatly, right, that Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player to ever exist." [14:44]
  • Aaron Judge’s greatness overshadowed: "He might be the greatest right-handed hitter I’ve ever seen… He won’t go down as the greatest player of his generation because Ohtani exists." [15:04]

• World Reactions/Betting Odds

  • USA: -105; Dominican Republic: +340; Japan: +360 (per DraftKings) [12:38]

3. March Madness vs. WBC

• Jeremy stirs the pot: "I heard the blasphemy that Jeremy had: it’s better than March Madness." [15:31]
• Roy is skeptical of WBC's quality: "Get out of here with hyping this tournament… these games are garbage." [16:08]
• Dan counters: "The montage we just showed showed a bunch of game-winning home runs, walk-offs, people celebrating…" [17:10]
• Banter over atmosphere, quality of play, and cultural spectacle.

4. NFL Free Agency Chaos: Big Move or Not a Big Move

• Raiders’ Spending Spree
  Dan: "…the Raiders have spent tens of millions… they don’t have a quarterback." [19:17]

• Game Format:
  Rapid-fire debate on whether recent transactions are "big move" or "not a big move" [From 29:16 on]

• Sample Moves Debated:

  • Jalen Phillips to Carolina, 4 yrs/$120m [30:34]
    • Stugotz: “That’s a big move. Carolina made the playoffs last year... Go and get a really good player.” [30:44]
  • Alec Pierce re-signs Colts, 4 yrs/$114m [32:26]
    • Stugotz: “Not a big move... I’d rather keep Michael Pittman.” [32:37]
  • Wandale Robinson, Titans, 4 yrs/$70m [34:08]
    • Stugotz: "I’m going big move... If you draft Cam Ward number one overall, you gotta give him a little bit of help." [34:18]
  • Travis Etienne to Saints, 4 yrs/$52m [34:29]
    • Stugotz: “I like it… That’s a big move for New Orleans.” [34:37]
  • Kenneth Walker to Chiefs [34:44]
    • Stugotz: "Yeah, I'm going big move there. Running backs really good history with Andy Reid and Kansas City..." [34:52]
  • Devin Lloyd, Carolina, 3 yrs/$45m [35:39]
    • Stugotz: “Not a big move. Mainly because I don't know that fool well.” [35:45]
    • Roy: “I appreciate the honesty.” [35:56]

• Greg Cody’s Tradition of Being “Right”

  • Video dispatch from cruise in Tortola, BVI: Cody celebrates calling the Tua cut/Malik Willis signing on the Dolphins. [39:43]
    • Greg: "Here I am, not doing my job... just drinking a rum drink on a beach in Tortola... Dolphins have cut Tua Tunga Vailoa as expected and signed Malik Willis, which I predicted they would." [39:43]

5. Sports Journalism & The “Information Broker” Dilemma

• Schefter, Florio, and Agent Influence
  • Dan highlights a combine 40-yard-dash controversy: Schefter relays an agent-supplied (Drew Rosenhaus) narrative; Florio calls him out for it. [25:44]
    • Dan: “That transaction, to me, is not merely… not journalism. It’s not merely a conflict of interest.” [26:25]
    • Roy: "Shouldn't you understand that that's part of the deal? That's how Adam Schefter becomes the gold standard." [27:10]
  • Debate: Does the public even care about this conflict, as long as the news is first?

6. Inside Jokes, Fines, and Show Dynamics

• Language Fines:
  • Roy is fined $2 for "Puerto Rican" confusion; fine bucket is now sponsored [09:34, 09:54]
• Self-Deprecation & Banter:
  • Roy accuses Dan of "contagious" affliction of always being right, yet disliked: “Is that affliction airborne?” [23:04]
• Bickering over banality:
  • Stugotz, Zaslow, Roy, and Jeremy riff on nearly catching balls, elevator encounters with Giancarlo Stanton, and Greg Cody’s vacation timing.

7. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Baseball, Language & Teammates:

• Dan [03:33]: “I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody’s fries if they’re just there.”
• Zaslow [04:11]: "He told the big dumper Cal Raleigh to bete pa’ casa la pinga, which means basically, you can go to the house of the dick.”
• Jeremy [04:48]: “He was smiling, but he was clearly frustrated… Cal Raleigh the catcher for USA… won’t shake his [Arozarena’s] hand.”
• Roy [07:14]: “When I saw the quotes in black and white, I’m like, oh man, this is, you know, this is a spicy meatball.”

On Global Baseball:

• Dan [12:00]: “Over the last 35 years, [Japan has] caught up. Like they’ve made it. Just like internationally, the world has caught up to us in basketball.”
• Jeremy [14:44]: “You can say flatly, right, no one here disputes that Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player to ever exist.”

On NFL Free Agency:

• Stugotz [30:44]: "That’s a big move. Carolina made the playoffs last year… Go and get a really good player."
• Dan [32:08]: “He just stared at us as I was mortified… He actually smiled, actually. Giancarlos. He knows he’s a Whiffer.”

On Sports Media & Reporting:

• Dan [27:21]: “I’m not supposed to do interpretations on the truth when it’s journalists giving it to me.”

On Show Culture:

• Greg Cody [39:43]: “I’m recording this on a beach in Tortola… Dolphins have cut Tua Tunga Vailoa as expected and signed Malik Willis, which I predicted.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Randy Arozarena’s Insult & WBC Teammate Drama: [03:59] – [08:56]
• Baseball’s Globalization & Japan’s Ascent: [10:07] – [15:28]
• March Madness vs. WBC Debate: [15:31] – [18:22]
• NFL Free Agency Recap & “Big Move or Not?” Game: [19:17] – [36:31]
• Media Ethics – Schefter, Florio, Reporting: [25:44] – [28:42]
• Greg Cody’s Tortola Dispatch: [39:43] – [40:57]

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Takeaways

• Sports are more complex—and funnier—than ever: Whether it's language misfires, the internationalization of baseball, or the farce of NFL free agency splashes, the crew explores the lighter (and occasionally serious) underside of headline sports news.
• Inside jokes & running gags are the show’s heart: From fines for misused words to tossing shade at each other’s sports takes, the interplay keeps the mood light and the discussion unpredictable.
• The lines between journalism, entertainment, and self-promotion in sports media are blurrier than ever: Even as they poke fun, the cast acknowledges the audience’s changing appetites for information and how reporting is adapting—ethically or not—to meet it.

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For listeners and newcomers alike, this episode is a whirlwind of sports satire, mischief, and real talk about sports, language, and media—with enough inside jokes to reward long-time fans but plenty of cultural insight for the curious outsider.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

Shot clocks, big shots, upsets, aces. TGL playoffs are here. First, Atlanta Drive starts their repeat run against Los Angeles Golf Club. Then Rory's Boston Common golf and Tigers Jupiter Links face off in their playoff debuts. Who will advance? Keep up its playoffs. Tune in Tuesday, March 17, at 6:30pm and 9pm only on ESPN and the ESPN app.

Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show, the podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast?

[Stugotz]

I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that.

[Dan Le Batard]

In fact, 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.

[Dan Le Batard]

And now here's the marching man to Nowhere, Fat Face and the habitual liar.

[Stugotz]

This episode of the Dan Lebatard show is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours.

[Dan Le Batard]

The World Baseball Classic is great. Yesterday, a player on Panama tried to fight his own manager, and it wasn't the most hostile thing that came out of the World Baseball Classic. There are different dialects of Spanish. Not all Spanish is the same. And actually the apology I'm about to make now is a couple of weeks late because a couple of weeks ago during a wrestling segment, we said something, a word was said that is a slur in Mexican, but in Cuban is just the word for slut. It's not a slur, but in Mexican it's not. In Cuban it's not a slur, but in Mexican it is a slur. And Randy Arrocarena, he was great in Tampa and has been less great in Seattle. He's a great player, but I've legitimately never heard the kind of words you're about to hear in Cuban Spanish, where he makes the distinction of, I'm speaking one kind of Spanish now, but now I'm gonna speak Cuban Spanish. And he's talking about the big dumper, a very popular and his teammate. I'm going to translate this for Zaslo when it's done, but it's legitimately shocking. When I heard this said of a teammate, I couldn't believe that it sounded so nice at the beginning when he's like, well, his family, his parents are really nice. But then he really tells the big dumper to go bleep himself. Listen to this. All right, so he starts with, thank God for his parents. They're very well educated. They met me in the hotel lobby the other Day they told me how proud they were. That's nice of me. Yeah, that part was nice. But I'd like to do refrandel dia with Tony here on la casa del pinga, which first of all, he told him to take his good to see you and shove it up his ass. That's not nice. This is a teammate of his. This is just legitimately crazy to hear. And look. So let's play refrand el dia with Tony here so you can hear where it is that Randy sent his teammate.

[Zaslow]

Wow, Randy. It's the first time that I've ever heard this phrase be uttered in a press conference or in some sort of like media availability.

[Roy]

Right.

[Zaslow]

Even if it was on a phone.

[Dan Le Batard]

About his teammate.

[Zaslow]

About his teammate. I think it was in jest though, Dan. I will. I will, you know, give that to Randy. I think it was in jest, but he told the big dumper Cal Raleigh to bete pacasa la pinga, which means basically, you can go to the house of the dick.

[Stugotz]

That's what I thought it meant.

[Zaslow]

That's exactly what it means. So it means a couple of different things. Even though you're saying beta la casa la pinga, that could be go to a very far away house of the dick because it may be very, very far. Or just go to the house of dick because, you know, come on, you

[Stugotz]

know about that house of dick.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy, can you give me some context here? Was he fooling around? Was he just playing? Because they smiling?

[Jeremy]

Jim, I look, he was smiling, but he was clearly frustrated because the context for this is Randy Rosarena goes up to bat and goes to shake Cal Raleigh's hand. Renee Rosarena playing on the Mexican team. Cal Raleigh the catcher for usa. So he goes and sticks out his hand to shake his fellow Seattle Mariners teammates hand and rally from underneath the mask. Just goes, good to see you and won't shake his hand. And this is two baseball world baseball classics in a row where this has happened with team USA for Randy Rosarena because he tried to stick out a fist bump for Will Smith, the catcher of Team USA last time. Just look, these guys all play in the same league. He's trying to be a good guy. Just trying to be the good guy. Hey, what's up? Especially now with Cal Raleigh, his teammates expecting like, look, it's one thing I can understand Will Smith going, hey man, we've played against each other in, in the World Series when I was on the Dodgers and you were on the other naked.

[Zaslow]

It's got a point.

[Jeremy]

House A dick. But the. The thing that happens here is that it seems like something that should just be an easy exchange, even just give him, like, you know, the glove to whatever. Instead, afterward. Again, I've never heard someone speak like this about anybody, let alone a teammate after a game.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've heard a lot of people in Spanish speak this way about others.

[Zaslow]

On the record.

[Stugotz]

On the record, Dan.

[Roy]

Record. You hear this at the clubhouse, walk through West 32.

[Dan Le Batard]

I wasn't doing players. I've just heard all of that a lot in my life. I've never heard it publicly. One teammate to another.

[Zaslow]

Casala pinga is insane. Like, I've never heard that in all the Cuban. In all the. In everything. Nobody's ever said that before.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can you guys tell me whether or not you think this explanation works for you? Enrique Rojas of ESPN says that catchers have been afraid to shake batter's hands for fear they might get pine tar on the ball. They can get ejected from the game if that happens. That's the explanation. Because there have been. It's happened a couple of times now where the catcher is trying to go fist bump with somebody.

[Stugotz]

Fist bump. Like, you're not getting anything.

[Jeremy]

Give him a fist bump or the glove even. Just.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, but hold on a second. So we've got. We've got two different things here. And Lost in Translation. We should be the show in America that can help Seattle and everyone else navigate whether this should be a giant controversy or just a little joke between friends.

[Roy]

It's a play on for me. I. When I saw the quotes in black and white, I'm like, oh, man, this is, you know, this is a spicy meatball. Who make it a salad.

[Zaslow]

Who make it the salad.

[Stugotz]

I think like Randy Rosarina. He'd almost have to be like. He knows that if he's being serious, he is starting a major, major thing. And I have to believe that he's smarter than that, that he wouldn't even if he was serious, that he wouldn't be trying to start a major thing with his teammate. So I think either he's really angry with him or. Or they're very close. I don't think there's an in between.

[Roy]

I don't think anybody's really close to Randy Rosarena. Like, he's a strange guy. He has a reputation inside of baseball. I'm actually shocked he knows Cal is his teammate.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can we please check in with anybody in Seattle who can explain to us? Because we should be the show that is more qualified to analyze. Is it a joke? Or is it a giant controversy? Because these are. Whether you think they're baseball stars or not, these are two baseball stars.

[Roy]

Like, no, no, no, exclamation point. They're baseball stars. Cal Big Dumper was a phenomenal.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's not the one that made me put the stars with a question mark.

[Roy]

You've been talking about Randy for years.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, I loved him with the Rays. He was less good with Seattle. I thought he was going to help put Seattle over the top. I just don't think. Even though, look, he's one of my favorite Cuban baseball players ever. A free swinger. I. I went three years never figuring out how anyone ever got him out. Like, I love him, and he's a very good player. I don't think he might necessarily qualify as a star, even in baseball.

[Zaslow]

Agreed. Like, there's bigger names and bigger stars. And I think just on the Dominican team, I can name five guys that are kind of bigger than Randy. But the funny thing is, a lot of people are looking at this being like, okay, wait a second. This guy who's Cuban, who's playing for the Mexican team is trying to salute the guy who's on the USA team, who's also on his team in real life. It's like just a lot of, like, peg points of like, he can't play on the Cuban national team because he defected and he can't go back.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think he defected through Mexico. That's why that. That is why he's playing for Mexico.

[Stugotz]

Rules are lax.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I want to talk a little

[Roy]

bit about the world baseball class Dominican now.

[Dan Le Batard]

And one of the things.

[Roy]

Puerto Rican. That's a fine.

[Zaslow]

I was going to say, I didn't see him out there at bp.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is. That is a fine.

[Roy]

That is the fine.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is absolutely a fine. And you have to pay the fine. And we're being more diligent about making sure that we pay the fines because the fine bucket now has sponsorship.

[Roy]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Roy]

Moneylion make money easy. What's that five bucks?

[Dan Le Batard]

That is a $2 fine.

[Roy]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

You owe $2.

[Roy]

Get that QR.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want to take you guys briefly, though, through a conversation about how SP globalized in a way that has happened that is really cool. We have seen in basketball the way that the NBA reached out to the rest of the world. And in doing so, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jokic and Luka have become legitimate stars. Wemby because the sport has gone global. I'm actually old enough to remember when the United States exported baseball to Japan and played exhibitions in Japan and how Japan used to get its ass kicked in these games because they were in the formative years of developing baseball and culturally. This one's interesting to me, right? There are no Japanese basketball stars. There are no Japanese football stars. I don't know if there are many or any Japanese hockey stars, but Japan has the greatest baseball player who has ever existed. Because over the last 35 years, the sport has dominated that culture. The body types, right, aren't made for basketball and football. But maybe if the sport had been there for 35 years, a Shohei Ohtani somewhere would appear in Japan and make it so that those sports would be the ones Japan's pretty good at. Soccer, okay? But generally speaking, the sports that require the giant and physicality give me all the Japanese football players that there are. But baseball, they've got the best baseball player who has ever existed and Japan can now beat us in baseball. I've seen the evolutions as, and it's a crazy evolution to see to watch Japan not be any good at baseball, to. To watch the United States go over to Japan, play against Japan in early exhibitions and Japan get trounced again and again and again. And over the last 35 years, they've caught up. Like they've. They've made it. Just like internationally, the world has caught up to us in basketball. Once we exported the sport, Japan has absolutely caught up. Is Japan favored to win the World Series as they did the World Baseball Classic, as they did when Shohei Ohtani was both pitching and hitting home run,

[Jeremy]

the US was favored and I think Dr. Might have even been second. But I'm going to look now at the ads on DraftKings.

[Zaslow]

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[Roy]

LeBatard comic D Frog here live from Meadowlock Media Studios here in Miami. Stugats the Germans are advancing on France in World War II.

[Stugotz]

This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugach.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is a little bit crazy to think of how it is if you're old enough to watch just how the sport evolved because of the concentration culturally of the country on that sport where anyone who wants to play sports culturally, baseball is what it is you're going to try and chase because Ichiro and now Ohtani are your groundbreakers and your pioneers that made American baseball not the best baseball necessarily anymore. Because you can say flatly, right, no one here listening to this disputes that Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player to ever exist, given that he's kind of Barry Bonds but also pitches like. There's no dispute on this, correct?

[Jeremy]

Absolutely not. And, and the, the shame for Aaron Judge is he might be the greatest right handed hitter I've ever seen. He might be genuinely having the greatest peak of any hitter ever. And yet he won't go down as the greatest player of his generation because Shohei Ohtani exists.

[Stugotz]

How long has Shohei been in the majors now? What, six years?

[Jeremy]

Maybe longer than that.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, yeah. Because it's the point that, that I'm trying to get at is that's never happened before, right? Where you have a player who's been in the league for that short amount of time and we're just giving the consensus greatest ever.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, what's never existed as well is somebody who hits like that and also throws 100 miles an hour.

[Jeremy]

Also. Eight years.

[Stugotz]

Eight years.

[Jeremy]

And he'll be doing it for longer.

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you guys feel in general about the World Baseball Classic? Because I heard the blasphemy that Jeremy had where he was saying that it's better than March Madness. When we've said March Madness is the greatest thing just because it's concentrated uniforms running up and down and your gambling money is running up and down on a Thursday morning. You're watching the ACC tournament starts today, correct?

[Roy]

That's correct. Dan. I love conference tournament time. We got a banger in the Big 12 with their glass court. Did you see this? I did not. Yeah. They're basically playing on an LED screen in the Big 12.

[Stugotz]

I don't believe you.

[Roy]

Arizona State versus Baylor at 12:30. I think college basketball is having a tremendous year. John Shire won ACC coach of the year. I guess he won it because he had to overcome the loss of Jay Lucas. I don't know what we're doing there.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Roy]

And the phantom punch.

[Dan Le Batard]

But Jim Boeheim was giving Jay Lucas the ACC coach of the year. Jim Boeheim was raving about Jay Lucas.

Yeah.

[Roy]

Jay Lucas deserves it. I mean, yeah, I understand he lost the number one draft pick and he had to overcome that adversity in getting possibly the number two overall draft pick the following year. It's Duke. What are we doing? Jay Lucas deserves it. Maybe he won national coach of the Year. And losing in the acc. That's a weird ACC thing that they got going on with their teams. But it's incredible. And I don't want to knock the wbc. I am trying desperately to get into it. I like the WBC because the atmosphere translates. But get out of here with hyping this tournament up just yet. Like all you got is a crowd because these games are garbage. Garbage baseball games. There's been like one good.

[Dan Le Batard]

The montage we just showed showed a bunch of game winning home runs where there were walk offs and people celebrating at home playing.

[Roy]

You would loop the same one over and over again. 90% of all different.

[Zaslow]

Whoa.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you just make all Latin people the same?

[Jeremy]

I can't believe he's been racist two days in a row.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow.

[Roy]

It's. It's not good. I don't need to see some of these nations try to play like God bless him. Chechia. Great middle reliever coming out of the pen. I don't need to see 15 0.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you. Roy, Control your room. Get him out of here. With special racism. Not after accidental racism.

[Roy]

Oh, I'm not going to the penalty box. It was one home run.

[Dan Le Batard]

You gotta get outta here. You gotta get outta here.

[Roy]

Are you telling me there were two good baseball games in this thing? I challenge you. There weren't two good baseball games. Challenge? What are you talking about? We don't have challenges. Hey, put on FS1. Israel's losing by 16 out of here.

[Zaslow]

He was right about that. I was at the Dr. Israel game, and it got ugly quick.

[Roy]

What'd you expect?

[Zaslow]

Tatis hit a. Hit a grand slam right to my section, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. What'd you expect?

[Roy]

Come on.

[Stugotz]

Hold on. What does almost caught the ball mean?

[Zaslow]

Six rows down. If I wanted to go get it, I could have gotten it. But the problem is I was. You know how when you're in left field where you see, like, where the bar is on top and then you have that, like, little section in left field? There's like, the part there with, like, the band sits. Jeremy would know. The band sits up there. I was right there on that ledge where the. Where the handicap. Yeah, you go with the. With the wheelchairs. So I was there.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think we're saying you got scared anymore. No, I'm sorry to do this.

[Zaslow]

Minor penalty. Two minutes.

[Roy]

Rambling.

[Dan Le Batard]

Rambling should be worse. It should be worse. I don't have here. I don't have here. Use the wrong word in 2026.

[Roy]

What's the right one?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, it's not. It's not even count anymore.

[Jeremy]

And I'm a snowflake.

[Zaslow]

I almost caught it, though. If I wanted to, I would have gotten it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Get out of here.

[Jeremy]

Accessible.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think that. I don't think we're using that as the word anymore. I want to get a little bit caught up here on some of the football moves because I just saw to Zaz's point earlier in the show about some names that are moving around getting giant dollar amounts that he does not recognize. Get up. Just put on the screen all of the tens of millions of dollars the Raiders have spent to try and fix everything on the first day of free agency. And I don't think that ever works as I really don't think. The Patriots for 20 years always sat out the first day of free agency because it was only the losers who were doing what the Raiders are doing. But the Raiders went yesterday signing a whole bunch of guys when they don't have a quarterback at the moment. Although people think they're going to take Fernando Mendoza and they are in a world of hurt. I want to play with the group here. A game of big signing or not a big signing. And you were. All of you were making fun of Mike Evans. And I'm remiss in not making more fun of Tony from last week because he had a top five list of top five low key Free agent signings. And Mike Evans was on it. And Kenneth Walker, the Super Bowl MVP was on it. Those can't be low key. Mike Evans has a radar. Mike Evans has a thousand yards receiving.

[Zaslow]

We thought he was done last year,

[Dan Le Batard]

but he's got a thousand yard receivings in every season of his career.

[Zaslow]

That's why I called it low key.

[Dan Le Batard]

But Kenneth Walker was just a Super Bowl. Is that. How can that be low key? How is that?

[Zaslow]

Because if they really cared about Kenneth Walker, they would have resigned him. They didn't care. Now he goes to the Chiefs. It was a low key signing because how do you let the MVP of

[Roy]

the super bowl walk Roy? Can we put on FS2? Great Britain just cut it to 8. I can't believe.

[Jeremy]

I can't believe you're dismissing what but Czech electrician Andre Satoria did today. 4⅓ scoreless innings against Japan. The guy is an electrician. He's smaller than me.

[Dan Le Batard]

His fastball barely breaks 80 miles an hour. Last time around he struck out Shohei Ohtani.

[Jeremy]

That's the coolest shit in the world.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was throwing slop.

[Roy]

It's not.

[Jeremy]

It's not.

[Roy]

I just told you there's basketball on an LED screen today at 12:30.

[Jeremy]

I reclaim my time. I reclaim my time. This is really cool to get to watch. It is way better than watching a 16 seed lose by 70.

[Dan Le Batard]

Before we get to this, big signing or not a big signing because I do want to get people caught up on this. I wanted to see if you guys had any opinions on this because, you know, I'm interested in the rise of the information broker in the NFL. The Schefters, the Ian Rapoport, the Jay Glazers. I'm fascinated by it because of what a mental health challenge it is to the robots who have to do this and have their life both get more lucrative but crazy because they don't have any time to themselves. They have to follow everything. But I don't know how the audience at large feels about Mike Florio. He seems to suffer some of what I suffer from, which is you can be right, but you make your point so obnoxiously that nobody likes you anyway, even if you're right. And so Florio, I think, does a really great job job as not just a hustler, but an information man who's willing to also call out other information people.

[Roy]

Is that affliction airborne?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's not contagious, although you seem to have gotten some of it. Yeah, you seem to have gotten some of It.

[Roy]

Oh, no.

[Zaslow]

It's getting on me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, we do have some people.

[Roy]

You've been right about the heat for four years. No, I have. I was right about the Panthers. All they had to do was put us in the cfp, and I was right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Roy, you're not the person here who is afflicted with this. This has not been. You seem to be immune to this particular contagion.

[Roy]

Yeah, because I keep it quiet.

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[Stugotz]

Don LeBatard.

[Greg Cody]

Quiet, man. Yes. You know, I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife. Despite that gratuitous line in back in my day. I wish you were here. My wife, I really miss her. No, I don't. That's the thing about being married, you know, you're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife. I've been gone two days. I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife. I'm sorry. I call her. I'm on the phone with her. 30 seconds. You know, what am I. Hello?

[Stugotz]

All right.

[Greg Cody]

All right, we'll see ya. All right. And then, you know, I'm gonna see her in two days. How's jumping, Charlie?

[Dan Le Batard]

Good.

[Stugotz]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

The thing that I wanted to get to with you guys is there was a guy at the draft last named Tate who ran a 40 time. That Schefter immediately came out and said, well, that 40 time wasn't right. He's faster than that, and he's a Drew Rosenhaus client. And Florio immediately came out and called out Schefter on it, saying, you're just doing an agent's work for him there. You're not passing information. When are these times wrong? When are the. They're at the scouting combine. They're doing precision timing. You're taking the word of Drew Rosenhaus, but not saying that it's coming from Drew Rosenhaus. You're reporting as fact that that guy might be faster than we think he is. What did you take? Or what do you make of the fact that the information. We've known this about Schefter for a while, right? He had that giant controversy where he was sending a Washington Commander's executive. Basically something he'd written to get it edited by that Washington commander's gm. What do you make of this as well?

[Stugotz]

You're also leaving out the part where then Florio posted screen grabs of text messages from other people who were at the combine and they were timing the players and they all had, you know, the time or extremely close to the time that Florio was saying, and he. And he posted them all there. So. So it feels like it's what you said, that the agent in this case, Drew Rosen.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I love that Florio does this, that he's willing to do it. Not many people are. But I wonder how the audience at large. Schefter's a giant. Schefter in this business is the person

[Stugotz]

and the sausage, and he's pretty untouchable.

[Dan Le Batard]

The sausage is made, though, in a way that's dirty. That transaction, to me, is not merely. Not journalism. It's not merely a conflict of interest.

[Stugotz]

But what's. What, what. What's the repercussions?

[Dan Le Batard]

There don't seem to be any. But it's at least in part because nobody cares. Like, it's not because it's not wrong. It's because nobody cares about the wrong. They want their information from the information guy, and they don't care how the information guy gets the information. And while I'm wagging a finger at it and scolding and being right in the wrong tone, so everyone gets mad at me for talking about it, it makes me no less right to say that ain't right.

[Roy]

Maybe this doesn't sound right, but shouldn't you understand that that's part of the deal? That's how Adam Schefter becomes the gold standard.

[Stugotz]

But when did it become part of the report?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm not supposed to do interpretations on the truth when it's journalists giving it to me. They're supposed to be giving me objective facts.

[Roy]

I mean, there are journalism aspects to what it is that he does, but I think he's a personality first and foremost.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, but I don't think that that's how. I mean, he came up in newspaper. Look, this is the golden age of ESPN is trafficking in the credibility of newspapers to make themselves. I've talked about all of this before, but the short part of the story is ESPN had no moral obligation to become a journalism company. They decided to do so because they thought it would be good for business to get into the journalism business. They've since largely gotten out of it, even though they just hired a bunch of Washington Post reporters because journalists are now more available because the media is either collapsing or collapse.

[Roy]

Well, you know who else came up in newspapers? Stephen A. Smith.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, but Stephen A. Smith is now widely viewed as an entertainer who he himself considers himself a journalist. But I think people do understand that what he's doing on first take, that's not journalism. No matter how much he tries to apply some journalism standards to it. First word in ESPN is always entertainment. There's no J in there.

[Roy]

I get you. But I think even this little gambit is still subjective. Like he could be faster. Like he could be.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, but he's taken. But what's. What's happening there, though, is you're taking Drew Rosenhaus's biased information, you're presenting it as your own, and it's not impartial information and also not likely to be accurate. Not likely to be accurate.

[Roy]

Carnal tape does seem faster to me. I was surprised. I watched him plenty. You know what?

[Jeremy]

What?

[Roy]

I'm confirming Adam Schefter's report.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Roy]

Tate is faster. You happen to know.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's not a happen to know. See, he doesn't play with the happen to know because he's playing the line between journalist and entertainer. And when he does happen to know.

[Roy]

Yeah, you know, when I'm a J.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, you do journalism. So what's the game? Big signing or not a big signing?

[Stugotz]

I think it's actually big move or not a big move.

[Roy]

Because there are trades. You gotta be able to hedge your bets for that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, so do you want to throw some his way? Do you guys have. I don't know. So. So the biggest move so far. We were talking about Malik Willis here locally and you mentioned Kenneth Walker to the Chiefs. I think Mike Evans is not a low key signing. I think if you can get Mike Evans, as San Francisco has gotten Mike Evans, that's a big signing. But the biggest one so far is blank. Before we get to big move or not a big move. The one so far that you guys say is the biggest is. That's the biggest.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, yeah.

[Roy]

Max Crosby.

[Stugotz]

That was a trade.

[Roy]

Well, I mean, what are you signing?

[Stugotz]

Like I said, that counts because this is big move or not a big move. Excellent job, Mike.

[Dan Le Batard]

They corrected Zaz and he walked back his position. What the Rams are doing is also interesting with McDuffie and their biggest weakness the second half of the season, they were a play away was their defensive back play. But what do you have for us, Tony, that you're going to throw Zaz's way?

[Zaslow]

Former Miami Dolphin. Jalen Phillips moving from Philadelphia to the Carolina Panthers, signing a four year, $120 million deal, 80 of it guaranteed.

[Stugotz]

Zaz, that's a big move. That's a big move, Carolina. I think Bryce Young is on the ascension. I like what I saw from him last year. Can't always be a star in your first year. Carolina made the playoffs last year. Go and get a really good player. You know, he's got to stay healthy. Of course, we can say about anyone. I go, big move.

[Dan Le Batard]

Good for Jalen Phillips, incidentally, because that's a guy you root for.

[Roy]

Yeah, it's a guy that almost medically retired in college.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that guy's body has been through it. For him to get a big contract, to be traded to Philadelphia, to be successful in Philadelphia, and to be someone who's a successful edge rusher. Even though in Miami that last year he was the king of. Almost like he had so many plays. Oh, that Chargers game where he almost made the play.

[Zaslow]

The new Whiffer, like your dad. Who'd your dad call?

[Roy]

The wish?

[Dan Le Batard]

Stanton.

[Zaslow]

Stanton.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, to give people the entire context of the conversation, because it's a good one. My father on television for several years would simply refer to Giancarlo Stanton as the Whiffer. And then at an apartment in Miami beach, an apartment complex, we get onto an elevator with Giancarlo Stanton and Ricky Nolasco, a giant Giancarlo Stanton. And I'm like, dad, don't. And my father's like, what? What? He's a Whiffer. Just says it right in front of him in a really confined space.

[Zaslow]

What does Stanton do?

[Dan Le Batard]

He just stared at us as I was mortified. Yeah, but what's he gonna do? My father's a 75 year old man. He's gonna. He's gonna bury him in the elevator. But it was. It's. He actually smiled, actually. Giancarlos. He knows he's a Whiffer.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, he knows. He struck out 200 times.

[Zaslow]

ZAZ. Second biggest contract doled out over the. The weekend. Alec Pierce staying with the Colts four years, $114 million. Big move. Not a big move.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm going.

[Stugotz]

Not a big move. Because essentially this move cost them Michael Pittman. Right? I don't know. Like, I. I think I'd rather keep Michael Pittman at the number that he was making as opposed to Alec Pierce and sign him to that. I don't know. Does Alex Pierce, Alec Pierce, scream to you, like, big time number one wide

[Dan Le Batard]

receiver Greg Cody last week this was shocking to me. Had never heard.

[Jeremy]

He also called him Alex.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, it was.

[Jeremy]

I've never heard of Alex Pierce.

[Roy]

Is that the fewest catches ever to get to a thousand yards?

[Dan Le Batard]

I also have to tell people. My apologies not telling you earlier than this. Greg Cody is on vacation somewhere. So he was not. He was scheduled to be with us today, but I got in here today and he was not here and his son's not here. And again, the longtime NFL writer for the Miami Herald did not know who Alec Pierce was last time. He wasn't.

[Zaslow]

Here's part of my Loki signings too.

[Stugotz]

Did you see posted a video from out on a beach yesterday. Live reaction.

[Roy]

It was really important for him to inform everybody from that beach how right he was about both things. He predicted they'd get rid of Tua and he predicted they'd get Malik Willis Fuentes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can you do me the favor of getting that video? So we have the spirit and the feel of Greg Cody here on a

[Roy]

Greg Cody Tuesday rare statistical tie in the NFL. Alec Pierce tied to Sean Jackson for fewest catches to get to a thousand yards.

[Jeremy]

Did Greg give you that virus that

[Zaslow]

we were talking about before?

[Jeremy]

Dan?

[Dan Le Batard]

No. People love Greg Cody. Greg Cody's not afflicted with his message, getting contaminated by how obnoxious he is.

[Roy]

He's just rarely right.

[Zaslow]

True.

[Roy]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

Zaz. New York Giants wide receiver Wandale Robinson now the number one target for Cam Ward over in Tennessee. Wandell Robinson four for 70. Big move. Not a big move.

[Stugotz]

I'm going big move.

[Dan Le Batard]

Move.

[Stugotz]

You know, if you draft Cam Ward number one overall, you got. You got to give him a little bit of help. Even if it means you overpay free agency. You inherently overpay every time. But I like, I just been boof.

[Zaslow]

Travis Etienne goes from Jacksonville to New Orleans. Does that spell a problem for Alvin Kamara? ETN four years, 52 million.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I like it. I think ETN is a really good player. I think it's a good move. I think it's a big move for New Orleans. I like it.

[Zaslow]

Kay Walker, three Super bowl mvp, low key a lot. We're saying now the Chiefs get their number one guy. How do you feel about that?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I'm going big move there. Running backs really good history with Andy Reid and Kansas City and I especially like it because there was thought that maybe Kansas City would wind up trying to. To acquire in the draft Jeremiah Love. But I. I would rather have Kenneth Walker and draft another player.

[Dan Le Batard]

So.

[Roy]

Yeah, you think the Super Bowl MVP to the team of a generation is a big move to you?

[Stugotz]

Hey, I only have two choices. It wasn't like, hey, Zaslow, tell us what you think is the biggest move. And then I said, kenneth Walker. I was asked, is Kenneth Walker a big move or is it not a big move? And obviously the answer is big move.

[Roy]

Yeah, you like that move?

[Stugotz]

So I don't know what you're talking about or trying to accomplish here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Mike, I just asked you seconds ago, before we started playing, big move or not a big move, what was the biggest move? And you said, malik Willis, which is astronaut.

[Stugotz]

Well, I got confused for a second. What's a move and what's a signing?

[Zaslow]

Another guy on the move from Jacksonville heading over to Carolina, Devin Lloyd. Three years, 45 million. Really?

[Stugotz]

I'm going, not a big move. Mainly because I don't know that fool

[Dan Le Batard]

well. But that sort of disqualifies.

[Roy]

I appreciate the honesty. Appreciate the honesty.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know what? I don't actually.

[Zaslow]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think headlines. Great. I don't think that. I don't appreciate. I don't appreciate the ignorance in the honesty.

[Roy]

Did you not watch that Monday night football game against the Chiefs? He was all over the field.

[Stugotz]

I'm doing afternoon drive on YouTube. Espiante, by the way.

[Roy]

And you're going to know all about

[Dan Le Batard]

him by that with Harry Douglas or you, Freddie. Oh, it's Freddie Coleman. All right.

[Roy]

Yeah, let's go.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do you have anything else?

[Zaslow]

One big move that happened, too. Yep. Huh.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't get to decide whether it's a big.

[Zaslow]

Well, I'm telling you, it's a big

[Dan Le Batard]

move, I'm telling you.

[Zaslow]

From New England. He's deciding joining Tuatanga Vailoa in Atlanta. The one and only one year. 3.25 milli. Austin Hooper moves over to Atlanta to be their number two tight end. Big moon. Not a big.

[Stugotz]

Not a big move.

[Zaslow]

What do you know?

[Roy]

No, nothing.

[Stugotz]

Kyle Pitts is the guy there. Who cares about number two tight end

[Zaslow]

blocking tight end, full circle moment for

[Roy]

Austin Hooper, who is somehow, I think, only 31 years old.

[Dan Le Batard]

You've been talking about Austin Hooper for a while. The Patriots offense was largely Hunter Henry, giant runs and occasional passes to Stefan Diggs. Were any of you surprised that Stefan Diggs was let go after just one year?

[Roy]

Not at all.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not at all.

[Roy]

All.

[Stugotz]

No. You get one good year, and it's like, all right, it's a powder keg. Let's call it a day.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's get to that video, please, of Greg Cody on vacation being right and feeling the need from a beach somewhere to give you his dolphins opinions. From, from I'm going to guess the Caribbean somewhere. I'm not totally sure where. Did you see this as low.

[Stugotz]

I think it's posted online.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. And it was just. It felt to you the same. It felt like he was just. Just going to be right. He wanted to make sure that everyone knew that he was right.

[Stugotz]

He's got, he's got to let you know that if Greg Cody is going to be right, see he's on vacation. He's likely, you know, he's got a few drinks in him. He's not going to say hey, let me do work. All right, that's not a strong suit. But if he finds out that he was right about things. Hey, hey, hey, Christopher, fire up the iPhone here. I got something to say that's so.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait a minute. You don't think he's not filming himself in the video that we are? No, there's locate now there's a camera. And you're assuming that Chris is on vacation with him. The Cody's tend to take cruises together.

[Roy]

I am confirming reports but it sounds like he's reporting from the Virgin Islands. Or at least they were virgin before he got there.

[Zaslow]

No, but they're in two separate vacations, Dan. So Chris was somewhere else, Greg somewhere else.

[Stugotz]

Oh, they're not together.

[Zaslow]

No. Two different Caribbean vacations.

[Dan Le Batard]

But the Dolphins got a quarterback and that's a bad time for the legendary Miami Herald columnist tonight. Have a microphone to not have an ability to get to people. He believes that everyone wants to hear his informed opinion.

[Stugotz]

Well, I think vacation the first day of NFL free agency, that's bad timing.

[Zaslow]

To be fair, nobody had any idea that NFL free agency was March 9th. We had no clue.

[Dan Le Batard]

To be fair to Greg, it is strange that Greg would decide to go on a quick vacation the day that NFL free agency starts at noon when the Dolphins are in almost total upheaval and changing the entirety of their friendship.

[Stugotz]

When's his next scheduled vacation?

[Roy]

NFL draft, probably the Super Bowl.

[Dan Le Batard]

You think he'll just take off on the Super Bowl?

[Roy]

Stop throwing stones, Devin Lloyd. All right guys, a Pro Bowler, you should know better.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Cody's love a cruise. They are trashy. And let's see if you can tell from his hair here whether Greg Cody is trash.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so as I'm recording this on a beach in Tortola, the Dolphins. Dolphins have cut to a tunga puloa as expected and signed Malik Willis, which I predicted they would and advocated that they do. And so congratulations, dolphins, for following my advice. But here I am, not doing my job, basically just drinking a rum drink on a beach in Tortola, which, by the way, Tortola to me always sounded like a pasta type of pasta or the actor, you know, the famous American actor John Tortola. But instead, it turns out it's the biggest island in the British Virgin Islands. And we're here on the first stop of our cruise. Had a great time so far. A lot of drinking, a lot of partying. Won some money in the casino, which is always a bonus. Did well in the slots, did well at roulette. Loved the big wheel, the big clicking wheel, and took a master class in how to make a tenderloin. Had a bourbon tasting. It's been fantastic. We'll come to you again soon.

[Zaslow]

See you later.

[Greg Cody]

The sea right in my background.

[Roy]

See you later.