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David Sampson
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David Sampson
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David Sampson
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David Sampson
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Billy Corben
Welcome to the Big Sui presented by DraftKings.
David Sampson
Why are you listening to this show?
Billy Corben
The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast? I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.
David Sampson
I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?
Billy Corben
I've done it. And now here's the marching man to Nowhere Fat Face and the Habitual Liar.
David Sampson
Do you know how bad the takes had to be yesterday for us to be an hour into reviewing how bad the takes were and no one's even mentioned Chris Cody saying he'd rather have Zach Wilson than Russell Wilson.
Greg Cote
What a sad conversation this Zach Wilson conversation is. It's so sad.
Stugotz
The name.
Greg Cote
Everyone coming at me on Twitter. Oh, I'd rather have Minshew. I'd rather have Jameis. Like, it's just this, the names that are getting thrown at me.
Dan Le Batard
Chris. It's an insane hill to die on. I'm sorry.
Greg Cote
I'm not saying that he's great. I'm saying show me a quarterback with more Upside.
Jessica
Well, you're saying he has upside because of how terrible he's been, so you just assume he can't get any worse.
Greg Cote
No, it's because of where he was drafted, Backup, like. Right. That's what I'm saying.
Chris Cody
No, no, no. But you can't do that with the Dolphins. You can't say, but he's your backup because that's what we did last year.
Dan Le Batard
Well, not me. Last year I was like, they should sign a better backup because they shouldn't.
Jessica
Have let Mike White go.
Greg Cote
If.
Stugotz
See that.
Greg Cote
If that's what we're doing here, we had to make Lotus White over Zach Wilson.
Dan Le Batard
Heated season three of White Lotus.
Chris Cody
Oh, you took my.
Greg Cote
That is the thing. Like, the names that are being thrown back at me are so sad.
Jessica
Well, that's because that's class that Zach Wilson is in.
Stugotz
Yeah, exactly.
Greg Cote
But my point is he's in that class and he's probably the youngest guy with the biggest arm. Like, you can't make the argument for any of these other people over having more upside than Zach Wilson, you know, Gardner, Minshew.
Jessica
So no one's going to change their opinion.
Dan Le Batard
But the argument was, was, I'm Wilson or Zach Wilson, Was it not?
Greg Cote
Yeah, you said that.
David Sampson
I.
Greg Cote
And if you say the next five years, who's. Who can be better. I don't think this year. Okay, well, do it this year.
Chris Cody
Russell Wilson's going to be better this year. Okay.
Greg Cote
And I don't think you can say that for sure. In Mike McDaniel's offense. I could make like, I think Zach Wilson could be just as good as Russell Wilson in this offense.
Chris Cody
No, because Russell Wilson would come to this offense and then he'd be a higher version of that, too.
Greg Cote
I. I disagree. I disagree with that. I saw Russell Wilson last year and it wasn't good.
Chris Cody
And Mike McDaniel's offense.
Greg Cote
No, in a worse offense.
Chris Cody
Okay, that's my point. If you're going to.
Dan Le Batard
It was actually.
Stugotz
If you're going to say he got.
Dan Le Batard
Bench being in a worse offense, if.
Chris Cody
You'Re going to say that Mike McDaniel is going to sprinkle pixie dust, if you're saying he's going to sprinkle pixie dust and Zach Wilson. If you're saying he's going to do it a third time, that happens. Or do it a fourth time, if you're saying he's going to sprinkle pixie dust and Zach Wilson's magically going to get better potentially, then the same pixie dust would apply To Russell Wilson as well.
Dan Le Batard
The Russell Wilson Steelers conversation is an interesting one that I feel like we've already had several times. But I don't think he is the only reason to blame for the Steelers imploding at the end of the season. And I do think that in a better world where there's not animosity perceived on my part between him and Arthur Smith, it makes sense for them to just re sign him for a year because they're not going to get anything better. That being said, Zach Wilson wouldn't be better either.
Greg Cote
I'm not saying Zach Wilson's good. I'm saying of all these names that I have in front of me, I get saying if I'm Mike McDaniel, I get saying I'm looking at all these people, I could do something with that. That's all I'm saying. It's not a terrible deal. Everyone's just like, oh, they shouldn't have signed Zach Wilson. They should have signed Blank. All those names. Sad. Every single one of them.
Chris Cody
So is he okay?
Greg Cote
But I would argue, like, I think in that group, he's equal to all those people, is all I'm saying.
David Sampson
All right, enough. Enough. Less. Less sad than the other sadness.
Jessica
David, would you rather be listening to this conversation or waiting on hold and we just are late to a segment start?
David Sampson
Sampson's furious right now. He has been seething. He has been a volcano of fury. Just take me through your rage right now as you've had to listen for the second time to a Zach Wilson conversation.
Stugotz
Well, that's coming after listening to an entire 37 minutes relitigating stuff from yesterday. So I was just trying to decide at what point we'd be willing to go to today's show. It's totally up to you. You're the leader of this intrepid team. So let me know.
David Sampson
What else did we get wrong yesterday? What else?
Amin Elhassan
Oh, man. I mean, Chris is so obviously not the type of guy who goes to a Ren fair normally. He's a chili cook off guy. He told you. It's obvious. Look at his face. That's a chili cook off guy, not a Ren fair guy.
Greg Cote
What are you guys doing? I was thinking about this yesterday. Renfest is like theater kids.
Chris Cody
Yeah.
Greg Cote
That love to dress up.
Stugotz
I should be at Renfair.
Amin Elhassan
Chris should be at the chili cook off.
Stugotz
This is obvious.
Amin Elhassan
And I can't believe that this show had the gumption to. To get a takeoff that was that bad. It was really. I was really disappointed.
Stugotz
Shame.
Chris Cody
Honestly, Dan's head Was on the table. He's totally checked out. And he heard gumption. And it was like Marty McFly at the Enchantment under the table.
Stugotz
Dan, does your microphone actually work? Like, are we having technical.
David Sampson
What else did we get WR yesterday?
Greg Cote
What else did we get covered?
Amin Elhassan
A lot of tried to convince people Aaron Rodgers was good. That was an interesting one.
Stugotz
I don't know.
Chris Cody
What's that about?
Amin Elhassan
That was pretty crazy.
Jessica
Trying to convince people James Winston's bad, too.
Chris Cody
James Winston would be.
Amin Elhassan
Said he'd be buttoned up.
Stugotz
Honestly, you guys, so sad.
Dan Le Batard
Attacking Billy on that was some of the best work yesterday.
Chris Cody
What Jamis was. Did you see him on Fox J? First of all, James was. Yes. He threw 30 interceptions. You know what he had after that 30 interception season? LAIC. And he's never thrown 30 again.
Jessica
Thank you.
Greg Cote
It'd be funny if we signed Jameis.
Jessica
No, not we. The Steelers.
Chris Cody
He couldn't see. Like, the whole point of the thing was he. He didn't know what he was throwing at. Like Rosanna Red.
Dan Le Batard
Oh, and now he's amazing. He had. He didn't throw any interceptions when he was playing for the Browns.
Chris Cody
Not 30, not 30.
Jessica
I'll tell you what. Someone stole that take from me later in the day.
Chris Cody
The Lasik take. The.
Jessica
The. Could you imagine Jameis Winston on the Steelers? Someone stole that from me. A major player who draftkings took it and they put it on their account. Could you imagine Jameis Winston?
David Sampson
Yeah, Sampson, what are you shaking your head about? What's the. What's the matter? You just want to get to today's show. You want to get to things today and I can't get control of the show? Is that the problem?
Stugotz
I'm just watching time move inextricably on past what I expected it to be. I'm very interested in Jameis Winston and Lasix. That's tremendous. That's tremendous. Charlie Sheen type major league insight that he couldn't see and now all of a sudden he can see. Therefore, the jets have made a good signing.
Chris Cody
Look at all the pictures of him pre Lasik. He's always squinting. He's always squinting and then all of a sudden, not squinting.
Stugotz
Do you know how many times, I mean, we would say to players when they were in a slump and we do the Charlie Sheen thing, We'd say, hey, listen, can we by chance check your eyesight? So we would do it during preseason physicals. We'd have them all do the eye chart and do all this stuff. But anytime we had scouted someone or signed someone that we thought would be better. And when they weren't performing, it didn't occur to us that we were bad at evaluating. It occurred to us that maybe they needed glasses. It's so asinine to try to cover up your lack of ability to choose good players with some sort of physical issue regarding eyesight.
Chris Cody
No stone unturned.
David Sampson
Just so that you guys know, I'm not in a position to make this particular correction given that yesterday I confused Chanho park and Hideo Nomo, but I think think that David Sampson just confused Winston and Justin Fields. And you need, you need to pay a fine for that because Jameis is not Jameis is not with the New York jets and that's not a mistake that you can make.
Stugotz
I will pay the Venmo fine. I did on this morning's Nothing Personal. I did a bit of a quarterback was going to be in the show, Daniel Jones going to the Vikings. And I couldn't get to the topic because we only had 50 minutes for what to do the whole show. So I couldn't get to it. And so I now have an entire day to worry about how I'm going to deal with all the quarterback carousel tomorrow.
Chris Cody
David, yesterday we got the sad news that Junior Bridgman passed away. Junior Bridgman, your Wisconsin roots. I'm sure you're familiar with Junior Bridgman. Dan was the guy that was in the Kareem Abdul Jabbar trade, but he was made more famous by everything he did after his playing career, which was he invested in franchises and he became one of the great business success stories that the NBA and NBPA would bring around. The players say, look, this is what you do with your money.
David Sampson
Like so they remembered as an entrepreneur even more than a basketball player, he was a billionaire.
Chris Cody
And the most he ever made in any NBA season I believe was like $365,000. And so, David, I was wondering who is the Junior Bridgman of baseball that you would introduce players to a talk about like this is what you do with your money off the field.
Stugotz
So not Pudge. But I was going to do and I did something for on also on this morning's show, when I did a obituary for Junior Bridgman, I tried to come up with a top five list on the fly of business leaders, former basketball players or former athletes. And I have Junior Bridgman there. And I put Magic Johnson in the top five. I put Shaquille O'Neal in the top five. I put Jamal Mashburn in the top five. And I put Junior Bridgman in the top five. And then I struggled. I mean, I need a fifth NBA player who has had a level of post career success that is off the charts financially. Who do you got for me?
Dan Le Batard
Michael Jordan.
Stugotz
Michael Jordan.
Dan Le Batard
Seems kind of obvious.
Stugotz
So the reason why I didn't have Michael Jordan and now that I think about it, I guess he has to be is I believe that a lot of the wealth came from according to the movie air, came from a contract that he signed as a player that gave him continuing in perpetuity rights from the Jordan brand of Nike. Not that he should be pooh poohed for such a business deal, but that was not necessarily post career.
Chris Cody
Karam Butler is as a lot of stuff, a lot of Burger King franchises, I believe because when he was a kid he worked at Burger King and that was one of the things that kind of saved him when he was recovering kind of from some poor life choices earlier. So Karan's up there. I don't know if he's. He's not at the caliber of those other five guys that we just did.
Stugotz
He get it from Junior Bridgman because his the majority of his wealth was from buying franchises of Wendy's and Chili's.
Chris Cody
Yep.
Stugotz
And of course there's now 10% of the bucks that he bought last year. And people didn't realize that he is a major owner of the was of the Milwaukee Bucks.
Chris Cody
And also another name is Andre Guadalupe who would be like the 21st century of this and investing in tech. And the biggest example of that was he invested in Zoom before the pandemic. And so when the pandemic took off and everyone started using Zoom, Andre Guadal is like ching Ching. Right.
Stugotz
Basically that's a winner for me. Dan. There's been so many players. We talk to them about financial prudence and we try to explain how to save money. And not many players are good at it and they don't really understand it. And agents don't help because we try to get financial advisors to advise the players but agents really get in the way of that because they want total control of the players. And so they'll start investment arms a lot of these agencies where they'll try to talk about and get another percentage above just the fee for doing the contract for do being an investment advisor for the player. And we always advise our players to go in a different direction than that. You do need diversity when it comes to your agents and your money managers. But you're right, Dan. I'd Say it's the biggest problem that faces players in their post career is that no matter how much money they make in their career, they don't realize they'll never make more again. And of course, we just did a top five of those who do. But those are the exceptions, not the rule.
David Sampson
Well, I wanted to talk about Shaq for a second and I wanted to talk more broadly with you and Amin, whether someone like Elon Musk whether it's even possible to be running that many companies. Well, given what it actually takes to run a company. So Shaquille O'Neal obviously has a lot of different interests and Amina's in the tank for Shaq. But Shaq cannot make this particular mistake when being an analyst who is keeping up with the times. Listen to Shaquille O'Neal talking about the Pistons and just having no idea what he's talking about. It's a great player.
Chris Cody
I like the way he's playing. I like what Chauncey is doing. Those guys play hard.
David Sampson
My favorite player on that team is Isaiah Stewart. Big body, hard guy, like to knock people out, push people out.
Stugotz
No, I can't let this go.
Jemele Hill
Who's doing it? You said Chauncey.
Chris Cody
Chauncey's the coach, right?
Jessica
Okay, Portland.
Chris Cody
No, Chauncey coach is Portland.
David Sampson
That's what I mean. You know, first of all, I don't watch Detroit.
Chris Cody
How about that? Boo Boo.
David Sampson
I made a mistake. But a trailblaz. No, but I, I mean, and I asked the question sincerely, how much attention can he be paying attention to everything.
Chris Cody
Chauncey, Billups, Hideo Nomo, Jameis Winston, that's all the same, right? It's a guy, roughly.
Stugotz
Yeah, you can't, you can't blame him for that sort of mistake. I understand he's an analyst on inside the NBA making a ton of money to do it, but those types of things happen. So I don't criticize Shaq for that. The correction should have been made. It was made. And I just wouldn't have doubled down by saying I don't watch Detroit. That's not what I want my top analysts to say. I want them to like the whole league. But Dan, I'm not going to criticize Shaq for that one.
Greg Cote
I can't believe Shaq would be that uninformed. Check out a Sunday night college, college basketball watch party.
David Sampson
You were so confident grabbing that and then you just stuttered and stumbled your way wild.
Amin Elhassan
I mean, the, the Pistons are one of best stories in basketball this year. And J.B. bickerstaff going from Cleveland to Detroit and doing this with Detroit is like one of maybe the five coolest stories in the league. I know Detroit's not like the sexy team to watch, especially the last several years, but you would. That's a, that's a pretty basic one that I would think Shaq should know, right? I'm not asking for inside the NBA to be in depth analysis. It's entertainment.
Chris Cody
But to be fair, to be fair, that was. First of all, that was why they had the topic. Because you're talking about the Pistons and Shaq's like, I'm not going to watch the Pistons. And Candace and Vince are telling him no, they're actually really good. You gotta watch them. And he's like, I watched them.
Amin Elhassan
And that push and pull is great, right?
Chris Cody
And so he does that. And then my thing was this. I thought he just had a brain fart because he's talking about Detroit and Chauncey Billups. I thought he meant like Chauncey Billups, Detroit or whatever. But then when he doubled down on that second. Isn't he the coach at Detroit? Ah, damn.
Stugotz
Not great.
David Sampson
The other thing that's interesting about Detroit and Monte Williams changed the entire salary structure for coaches there, got the highest paid job in the history of basketball and was gone in a year. And everything got fixed as soon as he left. Like, that's nuts. That part of the story is a total insanity because coaching salaries doubled based on what Monte Williams got for one year in Detroit.
Chris Cody
You know what's funny is when I was thinking about this the other day and J.B. bickerstaff and the year he's having, even though Kenny Atkinson is doing better with the players he had last year. And it made me wonder, I wonder what Mark Jackson would have been like if he had gotten another job somewhere, how he would have been thought of because J.B. bickersav was like, oh, you bought this team isn't winning. And now it's like, JB Bickers have a pretty good coach, huh?
David Sampson
Sampson, though, when it comes to Elon Musk, okay, Tesla is tanking. It's lost like 70% of its value in Germany and Australia. Trump is on the lawn doing a Tesla commercial. Can Elon Musk possibly be running and governing? Oh, this while taking, I don't know, $17 billion in government subsidies for the last 10 years. And his SpaceX stuff exploding over Turks and Caicos and his, his businesses are kind of hurting right now. Is it possible to be in a position that he's in and govern any of those businesses correctly?
Stugotz
Well, you can look at Warren Buffett as someone who runs one major company, Berkshire Hathaway, but then underneath him, what he does is he buys companies that maintain their operators. And so he chooses his investments that way. He doesn't pretend to run all of the companies that he owns. What I assume Elon Musk is that he has operators for his businesses that are doing the day to day. He is involved, obviously in the major strategic decisions. He will be involved, but not every day in the operation of Tesla or any of his other investments. I don't know how he'd have the time to do it. So the answer is there's only 24 hours in a day. And it is very difficult to actually be hands on with all the different things that he is claiming to be hands on. So my guess is he's far more of a chairman than he is an actual CEO of these companies.
Chris Cody
Man, we don't give Stugach enough flowers, man, for getting that one right. Years ahead of everybody.
David Sampson
He was, he was. There has been no take that he's gotten more right than that one 10 years early. I miss that character. I don't know Billy, where it is that Elon Musk is, but I would love at any point to see him again.
Chris Cody
I also miss Billy doing the Elon Musk impression.
Jessica
Remember that those masks disappeared. I don't know where they ended up.
Chris Cody
They ended up with the fine bucket.
Dan Le Batard
I think if you did an Elon Musk impression now probably wouldn't be able to air it over television.
Stugotz
Yes, you would. We do a lot worse than that. I think that the issue that we're seeing now is just the timing and the way things are happening. The announcement yesterday that everyone in the White House is getting Teslas, it just is such a bad look with all the slashing they're doing in aid to foreign countries and all of the trade wars and the stock market is plunging and all of the things that they're in theory trying to fix. There was really no reason for that sort of PR moment that they took yesterday. I thought the timing was strange for it. It wasn't going to really have such an impact on the stock. It wasn't going to impact Elon's wealth. It was some sort of favor for him, but the timing just didn't seem necessary.
Chris Cody
Have you guys ever seen like on my TikTok algorithm is weird. So I see like car reviews and they've got the EVs from China. And when I watch these reviews and watch what these cars Are.
David Sampson
No, there are better cars being made all over the place.
Chris Cody
But it keep them terrorists up there because. Yes, like the. For $47,000, the type of car is damn near a spaceship.
David Sampson
No. And they don't explode. And you know, they change the way that they look over 13 years.
Chris Cody
That's super rare.
David Sampson
That the body of a car wouldn't change.
Chris Cody
Then they got a car that's full electric that also has a gas tank that when you run out of charge, you can pour gas into it and then it runs on gas and then the gas engine charges the electric battery all over again. 700 miles.
Stugotz
It's called a hybrid.
Chris Cody
No, but. No, this ain't. When you say hybrid, people think of like a Prius. This thing was like an SUV with an incredible. Well, like a full electric engine that also can do gasoline, as opposed to a hybrid like a Prius where the gas is required to keep charging the engine. You can't charge it separately. It was.
Stugotz
It's called a plug in hybrid.
Chris Cody
All right, whatever.
David Sampson
Okay. I don't know why it is you guys are doing this exactly. In terms of disagreeing, I think Amin is generally right when he says that China has surpassed this automobile and they have a finer model electrical model than Elon Musk does.
Chris Cody
David. By way of example, plug in hybrids here that are available in the United states get about 100 miles. 150 miles to the charge. This thing gets 700. Like that's a massive difference in terms of performance and efficiency that they've mastered over there that literally these cars are not available to us here because the tariff structure is such that it is preventing them from entering the market.
Stugotz
I have to change my home movie review. I was going to review Ed Begley's movie who Killed the Electric Car, but you've totally ruined it. So now I can't review that. I'll have to do something else.
David Sampson
Dan, I'd like to do a review of Stugot in 2018. Talking about Elon Musk.
Billy Corben
What a quack. Elon Musk. He's lost over $2 billion in the last month. He's going to have to start selling bonds because he needs to raise money. Otherwise Tesla's going to go under. It's a bad, terrible business model when all you do is talk about the products you're going to create and then you don't produce them. Where's the revenue? What are you selling? Dreams? Ideas? What do you say? You're not selling anything tangible. You're just selling me a bunch of noise.
David Sampson
Ha. About that Musk.
Billy Corben
What, are you going to Mars with that? Stick that in your rocket and smoke it.
Stugotz
Boy. That's a good one.
Chris Cody
We play that chief sound all the time. We should be playing this a lot more often.
Amin Elhassan
This is more right than that Chief sound is wrong, potentially.
Dan Le Batard
This was around the time of that whole cave rescue debacle. I think that was when a lot of people were like, hang on a second.
Stugotz
I'm sorry, are you saying that take is actually a correct take? I want to make sure I'm getting the show properly. What about.
Dan Le Batard
I can assure you you're not.
Stugotz
Let's just start from there, because I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. But I would point out that far from defending Musk, which I shan't do, given his role as an unelected official in the government and what he's doing, I will say that what he's done on the business side for Tesla, notwithstanding the recent slide where there's been a slide all over the place, he has created wealth in a way that prior to Trump becoming president, he was creating wealth for himself with reckless indifference toward other people, obviously. But it's hard to call him not a successful businessman.
Billy Corben
What a quack.
David Sampson
You using shant there? You regret it?
Stugotz
No, I love the word shant.
David Sampson
All right, put it on the poll at Lebiton show. Is the person who used this, uses the word shant an asshole? No, I'm just asking. What do you mean, no? Leave it. Leave it to the people. They'll decide.
Chris Cody
Chris and I are in a shant.
Stugotz
But why would you use the word asshole in the poll? That is a leading poll that you're getting people to say that. That's what I am for using it. That's. That's. That's just not fair, Dan. You're. You're stacking the deck.
David Sampson
What's the word you'd like me to use? Because shant is the thing that. I mean, when you go past tense, shant, it just feels like a jerk move.
Stugotz
I think the poll question is, does the person who uses shant by definition use gray Poupon?
David Sampson
That's a terrible.
Chris Cody
That's a terrible poll question.
Greg Cote
Stick with the original.
David Sampson
Like, he comes in here, tells us how to do our show, and just comes in, doesn't know who the jets quarterback is.
Chris Cody
This is why we make you wait to talk.
David Sampson
Come in and tells. Tells us that Elon Musk, you know, he shant, you know, be on his side on any other thing other than he makes tons of money.
Chris Cody
Have we ever had a poll question come back 101%?
David Sampson
Yes. Yes. Thank you, David. Thank you. Yes, the world's richest man makes a lot of money. He's good at that. Yes, that's correct. And also $17 billion in government subsidies in the last 10 years. He's good at that too. Shant.
Chris Cody
I think I just shan't myself.
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Stugotz
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Stugotz
Dan Levatard Go pee pee.
David Sampson
Stugats.
Stugotz
Go pee pee.
Jessica
This is the Dan Levatar.
David Sampson
I want to ask you guys. Yesterday I stumbled around. This was. This was bizarre. Of all the things that we got wrong yesterday, this is high on the list. I don't know if the seven words you can't say on television is still a thing or not. But yesterday I stumbled around on the Spanish word for boobs because I didn't think I could say one of those words. And I don't know what stands standard I was using. So let's put up the baseball cap here for the Texas Rangers. And we were talking about this right here. And is this is the seven words you can't use on television? Is that still a thing, David? Network television?
Stugotz
So yeah, the FCC still has. Obviously that's why there is delays when you watch live shows, because you cannot use those seven words now. It's the funny. That's the George Carlin take of it. But I actually, when thinking of the seven words, I don't think that this is one of them. And this is where you're going to make fun of me. And I did this this morning too, and I did it wrong. Is it taytas?
David Sampson
No, it Is not put that in the club. Guys, please. You could not. You could not have said that in a way that was covered in more starch.
Stugotz
That's how I said it this morning. I was trying to figure out what is the proper way to say it, and I couldn't.
Chris Cody
To be fair, Katie Nolan pronounced it titas. I heard that on. On Casuals. Yeah, Podcast. I said. I told her she's never sound water. She sounded like ketchup on tacos. Titas.
Stugotz
Well, can you say the word please? That's what you're gonna.
David Sampson
Well, you're not. Okay, it sounds like you're saying tater getting creepier.
Jessica
Start with it. Like. Like you're starting the first part of Tesla. Teh.
Stugotz
Tetas.
David Sampson
There you go.
Stugotz
Good coaching.
David Sampson
Billy is Spanish instructor. Something that I would like to do with you.
Dan Le Batard
David's just been saying tits, tits, tits, tits, tits, over and over for five minutes.
Chris Cody
Dan. Also, to answer your question, the FCC only applies to over the air. So technically, cable can say whatever. That's why on the Shield or some of these other shows, they drop F bombs, which, by the way, they used to not do, because the networks, the cable networks were worried the FCC would then say, hey, we need to extend it over to where cable is as well.
David Sampson
But tetas is one of those words in English.
Chris Cody
I don't think so.
David Sampson
You don't think so?
Chris Cody
I believe that the.
Dan Le Batard
It's obscene and profane as the. As the FCC standard. But the George Carlin bit, it is one of those words, and I think that they get transposed with one another.
David Sampson
Okay, so, okay, I did not know that. David, how does this happen? How does all. How is all possible? What do you mean? It's impossible.
Stugotz
It's impossible here. So there are so many levels of approval that happen when New Era comes out with a cap app. First, the clubhouse manager gets an email that has all of the new designs for the upcoming season for authentic on field items. But that email goes to the team president, it goes to the head of marketing, it goes to the gm, and then we have to send back an approval that we approve that which baseball has designed. And before baseball sends it to you, they approve it from what New Era sends. So there are multiple levels. So it can't be. And I blame 80% of this on Texas and 20% on MLB and 20% on New Era. And the reason why I'm going 120 is that this mistake is so crazy to me that 100% is simply not enough to not have the sensitivity or sensibility to proofread or to say out loud, take a look at what? Do you have a picture? And I didn't prep the video guys, sorry. Do you have a picture of the Angels hat, by chance was also pulled.
David Sampson
Okay, well, we have a picture of an A's hat that was used creatively here. We do not have the ability to immediately get up for you an angel's hat, but we do have the ass hat right here, which is a great insult.
Dan Le Batard
And also a hat that says ass.
Stugotz
It is an ass hat that it's almost unreal that these were not paid attention to by anybody. And everybody, including Texas, has bilingual employees. And so we would check. And of course in Miami you're much more thinking about that. But we would check everything for. Am I missing something? As a non Spanish speaking team president, I had a consigliere who was completely bilingual and Cuban and he would check everything for me to make sure I wasn't missing something.
Chris Cody
Yes, but Samson, what about the Astros one that says assholes finger popping each other's assholes. We weren't finger popping each other's ass. Hoes.
Jessica
I think that's one of the words.
Chris Cody
Is it assholes?
Stugotz
I prefer the anals one, but that's just me.
Amin Elhassan
Take the club, please.
Chris Cody
What a great show we're doing. How about the Bobon hat? Someone give Bobon that hat for his birthday.
David Sampson
Let me, let me hear again. I'd just like to see in the history of South Florida whether boobs has ever been said quite this gringified. Taytas with a question mark.
Stugotz
Tay toss. I'm giving you all I got Captain Taytas.
David Sampson
It's just asinine.
Chris Cody
I got David in the backyard with Taylor Swift with the ball like.
David Sampson
David Garrett Cole, the Yankee ace. They're paying him an awful lot of money. Or what used to be an awful lot of money in this sport. And now he's going out with Tommy John surgery again. And the human arm is not made to do that. I really don't know or understand the science of how it is that baseball continues to have arms like that break down when paying that much money. Explain to me both the finances and the devastation caused by the Yankees losing that particular pitcher.
Stugotz
Well, it hurts. You're not supposed to sign pitchers to long term deals because they're never going to work out. The examples maybe are Scherzer and Verlander as two deals that did work out, but the overwhelming majority do not. But owners don't seem to care about the analytics. They get told this by the commissioner's office, we are shown spreadsheets of all of the contracts that we all signed. And it used to be in the early 2000s, Bud Selig would put contracts on the board that were bad, but not call out the teams that did it, not assign it to a player or a team as the, as his career winded down and as Rob started. They forewent all of that and they just would put it right up there. Look what the Marlins did. Or look. And then they'd go team by team with all the bad contracts. But the real mistake that's happening right now is Yankee fans seem to think that The Yankees have 27 extra million dollars because of an insurance policy they had on Garrett Cole. But what they're neglecting to understand is while you do get the 27 million, that's the amount of payment from an insurance company after you fight with them. But Garrett Cole's entire salary still counts toward the luxury tax. And so if you take that 27 million and put it back into your team in the form of Sandy Al Contra as an example, you are going to the next level of luxury tax penalties. So they are not going to reuse that money. They're going to keep that money and use it to pay down debt or use it to balance the books. But it's a real pickle the Yankees are in. But it's of their own making because of the contract they signed.
Chris Cody
David, would you say that pitchers are the running backs of baseball in that way? Like they're important, but it's also, you.
David Sampson
Don'T want to invest, but running backs aren't paid that way anymore. Like, they're not running backs. They've. They've actually made the position cheaper.
Chris Cody
But I mean, I wonder in football, could you get premium running back play with shorter deals?
Stugotz
I get what you're saying, right? Like, I mean, that's a, that's actually an interesting question. Take a look at a team like the Rays and what they do and what we tried to do is we want to bring pitchers in pre arbitration, meaning they're making the league minimum. We want velo pitchers who can throw 96, 98 can touch 100. And we're going to throw them out there until their arm falls off and then cycle through and get the next one. And so that is what front offices have been asked to do for all of these years. And you've seen that starting pitching has become less important because they're not going as many innings yet at the tip top of the market, it stayed where it is. But if you look at the middle class of starting pitchers, they really are being eliminated. And if you look at the middle class of bullpen arms, they're being eliminated because the view is take guys and just cycle through them and it doesn't really matter whether or not they get hurt. It only matters when you have them long term, which is why teams shouldn't sign the players to these type of deals. You got it? I mean in the cba, basketball did it for the owners. I believe they put it in that there's a maximum number of years that you can sign a player to.
Chris Cody
Yep.
David Sampson
Billy, is he going to recommend because the Marlins have Sandy cheap, is he going to recommend that the Marlins trade Sandy now because you don't want to start signing these guys long term?
Jessica
David, do you recommend that the Marlins trade Sandy now because they're not going to sign him long term.
Stugotz
He already is signed long term. He's in the middle of that long term contract. Sandy will be on the next contract by the time the Marlins are ready to win again for their next window. He is guaranteed to get traded, but you get more for a starting pitcher at the deadline than you do at the beginning of the season. So while it will cost the Marlins about 8 1/2 million to throw Sandy every 5 days on 100 loss team, it is still worth the 8 1/2 million because of the prospect capital they'll get back at the deadline from a team that is winning and ready to win this particular season.
Jessica
Well, that's why I guess they put out there the whole thing that they're going to have him on innings limits so he'll be available in October for a team which they then went and denied that like early they had to. Sandy said he hadn't heard that, which honestly made last year's trade so weird when they got rid of a rise like a month into the season where you didn't have the off season desperation of some teams and then you didn't have the added desperation of the playoff teams at the deadline, which I didn't really understand the timing of that one.
Stugotz
So position players are less valuable at the deadline and more valuable in the off season. Pitching is more valuable at the deadline, especially bullpen pitching, than it is during the off season. So arise is a position player and what you had was an overaggressive general manager and AJ Priller Preller willing to do what Peter Bendex considered was an overpay and you knew you weren't keeping a rise. There was no way to do it. It. So anytime you get an overpay, you're going to pull a trigger.
David Sampson
Do you have a movie that you're going to review for us, or do we knock it out?
Stugotz
No, I have one that I want to talk about, and I really hope that some of you saw it. It's called this is the Tom Green documentary.
David Sampson
I was interested in it, got 10 minutes into it, saw that he was the one doing it, and lost interest.
Stugotz
Did you lose interest in the last dance after 10 minutes?
Chris Cody
Got him.
Stugotz
Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know if my microphone's working, but. So, yes, Tom Green did do this documentary about himself, and it happens to be a fantastic documentary. And he's not really saying that he's anyone other than who he was. He's someone who had a moment or two of fame. He is someone that now continues to actually do good work, and it goes through some of his trials and tribulations. I was enthralled, and it did not matter to me that he did it it. Because in this day and age, Dan, people are doing their own content all the time. All the players and all people are involved with their own production companies, and they're really editing their own content. So I didn't find that to be as outrageous as you did. And I was totally entertained and interested, and I went back and I did a double feature after watching the documentary, and I watched Road Trip again, which is a movie that I assume Amin has seen, but nobody else in the room.
Chris Cody
I was going to be an extra in that movie they shot at Georgia Tech.
Stugotz
That would have been your third movie.
Chris Cody
I know, man. Look at the career. Got myself a little bit of a career going, but, yeah, I couldn't make it at class.
Stugotz
What? You had class? You telling me you couldn't be an extra in Road Trip because you had class?
Chris Cody
Yeah, I mean, I was just.
Stugotz
Look where it got you.
Chris Cody
There you go.
David Sampson
Do you guys not prefer a documentary that is made by people other than the person who is the subject of the documentary? Or are you?
Dan Le Batard
I think, of course, unless it's, like, really good and they have, like, you know, like, the Last Dance, they had the archival footage that made it worthwhile. But, yeah, you know, you're gonna get a different version of the truth.
Jessica
But that's like. Also like you were talking about watching the Baldwin show. Like, that is just a show for people to kind of like Alec Baldwin again or make him seem relatable. After the situation on Rust.
Stugotz
I really made a mistake there, Billy, by talking about that his New York City apartment wasn't big enough. He had everyone going, great. And I watched the first episode. I did not watch the second episode yet. But I can't stop. It's sort of like a train wreck. I'm watching it and I can't stop. But when he complained about the size of his New York apartment that lost the ability to be relatable.
Jessica
Well, he also, like I was reading. So he bought that original.
Dan Le Batard
You have a house in East Hampton with, like, several different toilets depending on what time of day it is or who's here.
Stugotz
I do not have a house in East Hampton, but thank you for mentioning that.
Jessica
What's your toilet situation? Just so we clarify all of this.
Chris Cody
We like to call it a sitch.
Stugotz
I have enough toilets that should. I have stomach issues. I have an opportunity to let every toilet recover.
David Sampson
Wow.
Stugotz
Okay.
Dan Le Batard
Spiritually, I was right. Sorry, Bridgehampton. I don't know where your house. David, you've got a lot of toilets. That's my point.
Jessica
How many toilets do you have? Stop being evasive. And does J. Cole write his own music. We need answers today, people.
Stugotz
I have enough toilets that I'm happy to count for you, but it's going to be three. Four. Four and a half.
Jessica
What's a half toilet? You have a urinal.
Chris Cody
Wow.
Stugotz
A half bath is when there's a toilet but not a shower.
Chris Cody
I was hoping for these.
Stugotz
Did you? No one's heard that expression?
Jessica
Yeah. I thought we were counting toilets, but.
Stugotz
In order to count toilets, I'm counting bathrooms and then I'm calculating whether they're halfs or full.
Dan Le Batard
He's got 10 bathrooms. He could all day. That's what he's telling you.
Stugotz
I'm just telling you that I have some stomach issues and I've got a level of anxiety that leads to stomach issues. I don't stress eat on the opposite of that. And I just had the conversation with Coca today. I said, what do I do if during the live show I have to use the bathroom? Because I've had some emergencies happen during the course of Nothing Personal. And he said, the show goes on. Wear a diaper if you have to.
Jessica
That's such a fear of mine. I know. It's like a ridiculous fear, but, like, I used to think about that all the time when we were on 7 90. Like, if I was doing a show and I just have like some sort of stomach issue and we have like a three minute break. I'm. I'm in really bad. I'm in really bad trouble. You know what I mean, like, if I was hosting the show and I just had to have a bathroom emergency, I don't think I could do a live show for that very reason.
Chris Cody
Also, David, we live in a time where everything's wireless, man. Just grab and take it to the bathroom. See? Brent, grab this thing. The camera's on top of it. Sit it down, bring the microphone, hold it right here.
Stugotz
And then I've got the greatest metal arc setup of all time. It's a.
Chris Cody
It's a toilet that you're sitting on.
Stugotz
You can't move this stuff to the bathroom.
David Sampson
Billy, you're on a live show right now. Samson, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate it.
Stugotz
Tay Toss.
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Podcast Summary: The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Release Date: March 12, 2025
In this episode of The Big Suey, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz, along with co-host David Samson and guests Chris Cody, Greg Cote, and Jessica, delve into a range of topics spanning sports analysis, financial advice for athletes, critiques of prominent sports figures, and lighthearted banter. The conversation is marked by candid opinions, humorous exchanges, and insightful commentary.
The episode opens with a heated discussion about the performance and potential of NFL quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Zach Wilson. The hosts debate whether Wilson's experience outweighs Wilson's upside, exploring the complexities of quarterback evaluations.
Greg Cote (02:17): “I'm not saying that he's great. I'm saying show me a quarterback with more upside.”
Chris Cody (03:06): “Russell Wilson's going to be better this year.”
Dan Le Batard (04:06): “The Russell Wilson Steelers conversation is an interesting one that I feel like we've already had several times.”
Key Points:
The hosts transition to financial advice for athletes, emphasizing the importance of sound financial management and highlighting successful athlete-turned-entrepreneurs.
Chris Cody (09:21): “Junior Bridgman passed away. Junior Bridgman, your Wisconsin roots...”
Stugotz (10:49): “Michael Jordan. Seems kind of obvious.”
Dan Le Batard (12:03): “And another name is Andre Guadalupe who would be like the 21st century of this and investing in tech.”
Key Points:
The discussion shifts to Shaquille O'Neal's role as an NBA analyst, questioning his depth of knowledge and ability to keep up with current team dynamics.
David Samson (13:25): “Shaq cannot make this particular mistake when being an analyst...”
Stugotz (14:00): “I don't criticize Shaq for that one. The correction should have been made.”
Amin Elhassan (14:27): “The Pistons are one of best stories in basketball this year.”
Key Points:
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to analyzing Elon Musk's capacity to manage multiple high-profile companies simultaneously.
David Samson (17:00): “Is it possible to be in a position that he's in and govern any of those businesses correctly?”
Stugotz (17:37): “He chooses his investments that way. He doesn't pretend to run all of the companies that he owns.”
Chris Cody (18:31): “Man, we don't give Stugach enough flowers, man, for getting that one right.”
Key Points:
The hosts evaluate the advancements in electric vehicle (EV) technology, particularly comparing U.S. EVs with those from China.
Chris Cody (19:47): “...these cars are not available to us here because the tariff structure is such that it is preventing them from entering the market.”
David Samson (21:02): “China has surpassed this automobile and they have a finer model electrical model than Elon Musk does.”
Key Points:
A segment is dedicated to reviewing Tom Green's documentary, offering differing perspectives on its authenticity and entertainment value.
Stugotz (40:07): “Tom Green did do this documentary about himself, and it happens to be a fantastic documentary.”
Dan Le Batard (41:50): “I think, of course, unless it's, like, really good and they have the archival footage that made it worthwhile.”
Key Points:
The episode concludes with humorous exchanges about everyday topics, such as bathroom emergencies, television censorship, and personal living situations.
Dan Le Batard (29:12): “You could not have said that in a way that was covered in more starch.”
Stugotz (43:40): “In order to count toilets, I'm counting bathrooms and then I'm calculating whether they're halfs or full.”
Jessica (44:29): “I can't stop... have to have a bathroom emergency.”
Key Points:
In The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat, Dan Le Batard and Stugotz, along with their co-hosts, navigate a diverse array of topics with a blend of humor, critique, and insightful analysis. From dissecting quarterback performances and financial strategies for athletes to critiquing media personalities and exploring technological advancements in the automotive industry, the episode offers a comprehensive look into current sports and pop culture narratives. The lively exchanges and notable quotes provide both entertainment and thoughtful perspectives, making it a valuable listen for fans seeking in-depth discussions and engaging content.
Notable Quotes with Timestamps:
Greg Cote (02:17): “I'm not saying that he's great. I'm saying show me a quarterback with more upside.”
Chris Cody (03:06): “Russell Wilson's going to be better this year.”
Stugotz (14:00): “I don't criticize Shaq for that one. The correction should have been made.”
David Samson (17:00): “Is it possible to be in a position that he's in and govern any of those businesses correctly?”
Stugotz (21:02): “China has surpassed this automobile and they have a finer model electrical model than Elon Musk does.”
Dan Le Batard (41:50): “I think, of course, unless it's, like, really good and they have the archival footage that made it worthwhile.”
Dan Le Batard (29:12): “You could not have said that in a way that was covered in more starch.”
This comprehensive summary encapsulates the essence of the episode, highlighting key discussions and memorable moments for listeners seeking an overview without tuning into the full podcast.