The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz XX
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[13] Why are you listening to this show?
[14] The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast.
[15] I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that.
[16] In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.
[17] I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.
[18] That hasn't happened to you guys?
[19] I've done it.
[20] And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.
[21] Maybe Mike McDaniel feels like he controls all of this.
[22] And he's like, okay, Tua, you think you're worth 50?
[23] This season, the offense is going to look different.
[24] You think you're going to have those stats?
[25] And they try to have a successful season while undermining Tua.
[26] So they're going to tank just to not pay the quarterback.
[27] But try to tank their offensive quarterback stats.
[28] Chris, go sit in the penalty box for two minutes for a real estate.
[29] I'm obviously his own job.
[30] We call it tanking for Tua.
[31] I'm obviously joking a little bit, but what spot are the dolphins in all seriousness, what spot are the dolphins in if they have to in a contract year?
[32] You don't want him.
[33] If he has the year he has last year, he's gone.
[34] No, you can sign him.
[35] The problem is that indecision is making the price go up.
[36] Every day that they wait and don't sign him, he costs them more and more and more than had they done this a month ago, a year ago, whatever.
[37] So at a certain point, they need to make a decision on him because they're going to price himself out.
[38] If they think he's too expensive now, a year from now, what is he's a year from now, what is he going to be?
[39] It's not going to go down.
[40] Correct.
[41] This, well, it could if he gets hurt, first of all, which you guys skip right past.
[42] And if they undermine them.
[43] I mean, but it's the NFL.
[44] Anyone can get hurt on any given play.
[45] That is correct.
[46] You can't not sign players because they may get hurt one day.
[47] Correct.
[48] That is also correct.
[49] I would say to you that what it is that you guys are presently doing, that is the mind bleep of this, and it is why you're stuck in this particular purgatory is you're saying it's bad leadership because they haven't signed him.
[50] And I'm saying the only reason I think they have good leadership because they made him look like that.
[51] And I didn't think it was possible.
[52] And so we are stuck in between the two things because I don't believe two is that good.
[53] I believe two has been made that good by the circumstances that have surrounded him.
[54] And if I were him, and I don't mean it as a slight to say, I don't believe he's that good.
[55] What I'm saying when I say, I don't believe he's that good is best passer in the league.
[56] Look at all the numbers.
[57] The offensive numbers are off the charts.
[58] I don't believe he's that.
[59] I believe that is a system product.
[60] I believe that he's what Jared Goff is.
[61] And if you pay him what Jared Goff got, I would shrug my shoulders and say, okay, fine.
[62] If it's more than Jared Goff, because the market stipulates that, and you then prevent me from getting all the other pieces I have to put around him in order to make him successful, you're putting me in a position where I'm paying him too much.
[63] And I trust these people to not overpay on these things.
[64] It's more important than ever.
[65] You're all fantasy GMs out there.
[66] You all question every GM you think your Sunday league that you know what you're doing.
[67] You don't have to handle the salary cap permutations.
[68] And in this particular case, I don't feel comfortable tearing up so much of my value in the one guy.
[69] I'm particularly afraid of getting hurt.
[70] Still, they can try to protect him.
[71] They can try to play the Brady game.
[72] They're going to roll him out more.
[73] If he's going to be light, he's going to be rolling out around the pocket more and he's going to be in more positions where he can get hurt.
[74] I do believe he's more susceptible to injury than the average player.
[75] I believe that we spent a year talking about that.
[76] It's not saying that his bad leadership because they don't sign him.
[77] It's because they keep being in this purgatory position.
[78] They don't make a decision one way or another.
[79] And like you say, they've surrounded him with all these pieces.
[80] Anyone can do it.
[81] We saw what happened when he's not there.
[82] Anyone can't do it.
[83] You could find another piece to go in this system.
[84] But like, he's very much a part of this system and why.
[85] it has been successful.
[86] They're playing to his strengths.
[87] They're surrounding pieces around him that he can work with.
[88] If they let him go, they're going to have to start over from scratch.
[89] I agree with what you're saying, and I would also add to you that wherever it is, the differences on where they assign value, my guess is that Gardner Minshu would put up some decent numbers with this particular offense as well, given that they have a bit of a cheat code.
[90] This isn't to say that Gardner Minchew is too, but you understand what.
[91] what I'm saying.
[92] If they could do it with Tua, they could find a golf to do it with as well.
[93] Like it's not, we are in agreement that it can't be anybody, but we're in agreement that if I give you one of 15 guys and pay him at value, there are 15 guys who could do it, right?
[94] Okay.
[95] If one of them is golf, then it should be noted that Jared Gough is making $53 million a year.
[96] The second highest paid player in the history of the NFL at the time he signed that contract.
[97] If he's not that good and if he's not worth that money, well, guess what?
[98] That's the market right now.
[99] That's what the Dolphins have to deal with.
[100] Greg, the system indicates he is good enough to make that money, right?
[101] Like they were just in an NFC championship game and they were playing very well and like he's kind of turned the tide.
[102] Him and Ben Johnson, the O .C., have turned the tide on what this lion's offense is because of Jared Goff's ability to throw into the middle.
[103] If they offered to a Jared Goff contract, I think he would sign it.
[104] Of course he would.
[105] They're not getting close to a golf contract, which I think is what the problem is here.
[106] Now, the difference between Jared Gough and Tua is Jared Gough got them one game away from the Super Bowl, which Tua has not.
[107] Right.
[108] Trevor Lawrence got paid.
[109] You could make an argument, and I would, that Tua is as good or better.
[110] Jordan Love, who's really done very little in Green Bay, is about to get his.
[111] And Tua's over here going, what about me?
[112] When's my payday?
[113] And I don't blame them.
[114] And the dolphins have to blink, or else a year from now.
[115] Goff has also been in it.
[116] a Super Bowl.
[117] And he's won playoff games.
[118] But he got that contract because he took them one game away from the Super Bowl.
[119] He got that contract because he made it the best Detroit Lions team any of us have ever seen.
[120] And sometimes that gets you paid.
[121] Tua kind of did that, at least in this generation.
[122] The best offense, the best offense we've seen this century from the Miami Dolphins.
[123] Which is what he's in charge of.
[124] Tua also is a victim of the Brian Flores era, right?
[125] Because we saw how he looked under Brian Flores and assume that's who he was.
[126] And then when we see how successful he's been now, we assume, well, that's because of Mike McDaniel.
[127] And we assume that his success in college was because of Nick Sabin.
[128] So we have two coaches that we give all of this praise to in terms of their successes in college back with Nick Sabin.
[129] And now where we have this genius mastermind offensive coach in Mike McDaniel, so we credit him with the success.
[130] And then with Brian Flores, we kind of attributed to, well, to his sucks.
[131] And that's who he actually is.
[132] And he's only good because of his coaches, which I don't know if that's fair or not.
[133] It was actually pretty funny.
[134] I think probably that Greg Cody has been in the dolphin facilities where this would have taken place.
[135] But Brian Flores has these office or had these office sort of floor to ceiling glass windows that you could press a bunnet and physically sort of frost them.
[136] I've seen those.
[137] I wanted to get this for my house.
[138] But that was sort of...
[139] Very expensive, I assume.
[140] That's what Tua was walking into, though, when the office would go...
[141] Like, can you imagine whatever the coldness is when you're not getting along with your coach?
[142] And a physical frost just goes over the windows because of what Flores had and the sort of separation is the Belichick way.
[143] I...
[144] This part, man, as someone who will tell you that I value the small things that make me happy now more than I ever have, the pollution that money can be when you've already found people who believe in you, the way that these people clearly believe in a Tua, they have rehabbed the confidence that Flores could have destroyed during a delicate time, a style of coaching that really runs Belichick right out of the league.
[145] Because that's not how we deal with this generation of young player.
[146] The job is hard enough.
[147] mental frailty can get punctured at any point when you're doing what these people are for a living and Tua is sleeping at night with whatever his fears and pain are of is my brain okay.
[148] I'm making decisions about my brain and my future mental health in ways that are truly terrifying.
[149] To have a group of people in management who support you the way this group of people have supported Tua and then have the disconnect be over a few million dollars, that poison to me is really something that is a contaminant that I feel for the people involved because there's a human being underneath that helmet and I wouldn't want to get so caught up in what the other guy has that I forget how tough my first year was when I had a coaching staff that didn't actually believe and understand me in a way that made me feel properly supported.
[150] There is, there should be a value to that.
[151] And I'm not the guy who's asking others to take discounts, but I am asking Tua to look into a mirror and have a self -assessment on value that does give the franchise some credit for what that value is.
[152] But that's also a very pro -management view on this situation, right?
[153] Because you could also say, well, Mike McDaniel looks kind of pedestrian at times when Tua is not out there making things happen.
[154] Mike McDaniel looks like he doesn't have solutions to certain problems.
[155] Mike McDaniel looks like the second time team see his team play.
[156] They've figured him out.
[157] Mike McDaniel looks like when he has the backup quarterbacks in, his offense doesn't work.
[158] So I would say that he's helped Mike McDaniel as much as Mike McDaniels helped him because we don't have any evidence of Mike McDaniel succeeding without Tua.
[159] As a head coach, we don't, but it's only because he hasn't been a head coach outside of Miami in the backup situations that they have been here haven't been top five picks.
[160] They haven't been top five talent at quarterback.
[161] I'm trying to tell you that his quarterback isn't, like, the argument they're making is, like, you're not a top five quarterback.
[162] But I'm not, I'm not being pro -management.
[163] I'm being pro -happiness.
[164] Do you know how fun it is to play the game the way Tua gets to play it?
[165] He wasn't allowed to play it that way in his first year.
[166] And the disconnect of who's responsible for that tore apart Brady and Belichick.
[167] You don't think it's going to tear apart two amateurs like Tua and McDaniel, too?
[168] Let him play out the contract, run the shit out of the ball.
[169] Okay.
[170] When you say it's not pro -management, it is pro -management when you're saying it's just business.
[171] They're not disrespecting them.
[172] It's just business.
[173] The fact of the matter is there's one flawless quarterback in the NFL, it's Patrick Mahomes.
[174] You can have a criticism of every other starting quarterback in the league, including the ones making $50 million a year.
[175] The market has spoken loudly in just the past year or two, where every quarterback who signs an extension is practically, destined to be the biggest paid player in the league until the next contract.
[176] I don't think Tua is asking to be the biggest paid, but he's looking at eight or nine quarterbacks making $50 million a year, and he's going, I'm better than that guy, that guy, and that guy, I want mine.
[177] I got it out of my system.
[178] I hadn't done it for years.
[179] I hadn't done it for years.
[180] I know I did it 12 minutes too long.
[181] It was fun.
[182] I don't think it was fun.
[183] It was great.
[184] It was a lot.
[185] I think it was necessary.
[186] I don't think it was fun.
[187] Ask Jessica if she thought it was fun.
[188] It was a lot of two.
[189] We've had worse topics.
[190] Well, we just haven't done.
[191] We have not.
[192] I love Tua talk.
[193] I think if we clip you saying Tua's not good, we will do numbers, numbers, Dan.
[194] I am surprised that we have not had that conversation for three straight years every day.
[195] Because it used to be what sports radio was in this market.
[196] I want to make America great again.
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[205] Don Lebertard.
[206] Surely every time you're watching this, you recognize that your wife is laughing, that she married, she married Larry David.
[207] Yeah, I do.
[208] Yeah.
[209] One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion.
[210] And to my credit, my personality...
[211] In my humble opinion, followed by to my credit.
[212] It's amazing.
[213] My personality does predate Curve Your Enthusiasm.
[214] Stugats.
[215] Oh, wow.
[216] I'm not going to say Larry David patterned himself after me. All right, put it on the poll, please, Jude.
[217] You did Greg Cody, copyright being an asshole long before Larry David.
[218] This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.
[219] What have you guys done to me?
[220] What did you guys throw into the algorithm?
[221] I've tried to stay out of the Tua conversation.
[222] I've probably stayed out of it for more than.
[223] a year.
[224] I have not had any kind of opinion that could be grabbed and aggregated and thrown as chum into the water.
[225] There are very few sports topics that get this kind of engagement.
[226] What have you guys done to me on the subject of Tua?
[227] If the Tua conversation was a pool, this is what you just did.
[228] Don Blatard.
[229] How is going on with Miguel Lille?
[230] That was the cannonball button.
[231] That's not my fault.
[232] That button says cannonball.
[233] Back to you, Dan.
[234] All right, good work.
[235] To be fair Dan, these are your own words.
[236] that were posted on the internet.
[237] Right, but what is being done with those words to misrepresent me as you guys often do?
[238] How is that a misrepresentation?
[239] I just playing your own words misrepresent you.
[240] I don't know.
[241] Chris was laughing at me. I don't know how you edit stuff.
[242] I don't know what you guys do to put me in bad situations.
[243] What have you thrown into the chum stream of getting to an engagement?
[244] Just a good old -fashioned quarterback is the worth a conversation, Dano, getting back to the roots, and people love it.
[245] All right.
[246] If the topic was a pool, you did cannonball.
[247] Well said.
[248] Yeah.
[249] Excellent work is the executive producer.
[250] Jessica, the number of things that I would like to get you involved on today because I didn't like the way that that two, a conversation went and the way that it boxes you out.
[251] I mean, to be fair, I have my own opinions, but I thought you guys handled it very well.
[252] So I said, I'll sit this one out.
[253] I'll let Tony, Tony's right, Billy's right, you're right, Greg's right in small parts.
[254] I don't think any of us are completely right.
[255] Everyone's right.
[256] You know, there's a lot of sides to this thing.
[257] Everyone's right.
[258] Everyone's wrong.
[259] And that is why there have been months of indecision as the price goes up on this.
[260] because I do think it's a legitimately fascinating subject for a market that has had trouble replacing quarterback since Marino.
[261] Like, it's an unbelievable run of never having someone who's this kind of valuable and then arriving where you still can't determine what the value is of somebody because the sport has changed so much, management has changed so much, he's changed so much, and you're just confused as to what the value.
[262] We're all sitting here in the value assignment business.
[263] It's salary kept.
[264] You've got to win in the margins because you've got to be better with your money than the other guy is with his money.
[265] And we're all sitting here like, what's he worth?
[266] And we're arguing about it.
[267] And everyone's a little bit right and everyone's a little bit wrong.
[268] I mean, the dolphins obviously don't want to pay him as much as he wants to get paid.
[269] They've had their reservations, which is obvious because of how long this has taken.
[270] And Tua rightfully wants to extract as much money out of his career as he can because the window he has to make the amount of money that he could.
[271] make being an NFL quarterback is very, very small.
[272] We all know this.
[273] So I don't blame him for wanting to make more money and thinking his value is higher than what the dolphins think it is.
[274] And this is how negotiations work.
[275] Unfortunately, they're very clearly not seeing eye to eye on it.
[276] And so that's why I think the dolphins have botched this from the beginning.
[277] They've waited too long and the price has just gone up, like Greg said.
[278] But at the same time, I don't think Tua is wrong for not wanting to budge and sign something that he doesn't think is worth what he's worth a few months ago when the negotiation started.
[279] So it's kind of a shit show, to be honest.
[280] The other thing that I wanted to bring you in on because I felt this never happens to me where I get to see that something on the internet is fake before someone else understands and tells me that something is fake.
[281] I'm almost always on the wrong end of that.
[282] And I don't know how the rest of you, listening to this and in this room, grew up with your parents, or grandparents chirping about sort of the dangers of propaganda, the dangers of misinformation, the dangers of not being able to have information or information sources you trust, and how corrosive that can be to democracy, to freedom, to confusing and disorienting a public that simply cannot trust its eyes, its ears because of how well propaganda has worked.
[283] But rest assured that in my childhood, there was very little talked about more that engendered fear than the idea of propaganda or the government being able to shape agenda in a way that has control of the facts and information in a way that confuses.
[284] And I believe that right now, in 2024, we're all living in whatever the modern equivalent was for what they were feeling in the 60s that looked more like McCarthyism and all that stuff.
[285] But the modern thing that's happening right now, is that it becomes very hard to tell what's real and what's not real.
[286] My wife was fooled by an AI video of Mike McDaniel talking about Tyreek Hill and the number of children that Tyreek Hill has had out of wedlock.
[287] And she doesn't know anything about sports.
[288] And it seemed real and it looked real and it's AI.
[289] And you can't tell from the distortion of the lips and the way that everything's moving.
[290] You cannot tell that it's not him talking.
[291] And the only thing that gave me access to it is like, no, Valerie, coach would never talk that way publicly about all of what is happening there.
[292] Although, man, it would sure as hell be a hell of a lot.
[293] Like, that's one of the refreshing ones, McDaniel.
[294] He's one of the ones who actually says the interesting things.
[295] Nobody's willing to touch this subject at all in the dolphin facility.
[296] But the thing that I wanted to ask the young people here is, are you guys better about not being fooled by?
[297] all of this stuff?
[298] Or do you guys also now get got because it's getting better and better and it's getting more sophisticated about how to fool you on things?
[299] Like AI, I'm getting better at detecting it.
[300] I got fooled by Paul Maurice videos were circulating during the Panthers playoffs that were clearly fake.
[301] Panthers never won.
[302] One or two of them may have got me, but like AI, I'm improving at recognizing it.
[303] It's all in the mouth.
[304] If you can't really tell what the person's saying via the mouth, you know it's AI.
[305] Didn't I do a top five list once of like top five ways to detect AI videos after there was some Dabo Sweeney video last year that was viral.
[306] That one was real.
[307] Anytime I think of Dabo Sweeney, just take a Tyler.
[308] But one of the reasons, if I can, I don't remember everything from the top five, but one of the ways you can tell if it's AI is if the person is saying something, that is ridiculous.
[309] That is usually the number one town.
[310] There was a Biden one that was making the rounds yesterday and the day before that I was like, huh, clearly AI.
[311] No one's being fooled by Leon Edwards.
[312] You mean he didn't say his brain was applesauce in real life?
[313] That's crazy.
[314] No one is being fooled by Leon Edwards, correct?
[315] I don't know, Dano.
[316] Obviously, the...
[317] I haven't seen it.
[318] Let's see this thing.
[319] The welterway champ is fighting this weekend in London, doing a training, a running, you know, training with his coach.
[320] All right, looks real so far.
[321] And then this happens.
[322] Yeah.
[323] All right?
[324] So far looks real to me. I'll be the judge of this.
[325] He's jogging in a park.
[326] Pick up Hoops game going on.
[327] They throw him the ball.
[328] Oh, kicks it one shot.
[329] Totally fake.
[330] Right into the hoop.
[331] 100 % fake.
[332] That's real.
[333] Again, this is a left kick that ended Kamaru Usman's run as probably the greatest welterweight that we've seen in a long time.
[334] He's standing at a three point line.
[335] Someone tosses him the ball and in the air he one time kicks in.
[336] Yeah, lovely drop.
[337] The length of the court into the other hoop and that is a thousand percent fake.
[338] What?
[339] I don't know.
[340] I don't know.
[341] I don't know.
[342] So, Dan, this video reminded me of things that I would see in my childhood growing up, usually on commercials from PTI when you were doing them.
[343] And I made a top five list of the most incredible things that we've seen from back in the day that might have been real or might have been original AI.
[344] We don't know yet.
[345] Billy, do you remember?
[346] Because if I remember correctly, one of the first times that I ever saw a video of any kind that was meant to purposely distort how good someone was athletically, it was Michael Vick throwing a football out of us.
[347] Oh, okay, hold on.
[348] That might be on the list down.
[349] Okay, all right.
[350] But that's the first time I even remember seeing, wasn't there a viral commercial campaign that had an assortment of athletes doing it?
[351] We're getting to it, Dan.
[352] Number five, Chris Chambers catching three balls with two hands.
[353] That's one of them, I remember.
[354] Here you go, he's there.
[355] He's like, all right, oh, you guys want to see me catch a football?
[356] All right, here we go.
[357] He's got his gloves on.
[358] He's walking down.
[359] Juggs machine's about to throw a ball.
[360] He's backwards, by the way.
[361] He's got his back.
[362] back to him.
[363] He's not back.
[364] Bam.
[365] Bam.
[366] One more.
[367] Yes.
[368] And he catches three footballs.
[369] You're going to tell me that's not real, Dan?
[370] Come on.
[371] What year was that?
[372] Looks like 0 -4?
[373] That was Chris Chambers as a charger.
[374] I didn't even remember him as a charger.
[375] Number four, that was number five, Chris Chambers.
[376] Number four, the aforementioned, Mike Vick, doing a lot of different things during the football.
[377] One, knocking the guy six yards back after a quick out route.
[378] He's another one.
[379] See, quick pass.
[380] It's not even a hard throw.
[381] It's a lob.
[382] I think this is the one out of the stadium.
[383] Here you go, go, go deep.
[384] Go long.
[385] Oops, I overthrew it.
[386] It's out of the...
[387] Yeah.
[388] All right.
[389] Still going.
[390] I could do that with an orange.
[391] For those of you...
[392] It didn't go out, it bounced.
[393] Is that USC stadium?
[394] And imagine, like, if someone throws a ball at you and they're, like, throwing that ball 40 miles an hour, think about the fact that you jump up and a car hits you at 40 miles an hour.
[395] You'd bounce back like that.
[396] For those of you who didn't see the video, it was a...
[397] a just a little, tiny little flare.
[398] Out route.
[399] It wasn't even an out route.
[400] No, it's just a little...
[401] It's just a little toss to his running back out of the back field, and his running back goes flying 10 yards, like Jason Statham being pulled by one of those rubber cords in a stunt.
[402] Like, it was a four -yard little toss, and the running back ended up going seven yards on his back because the ball was allegedly thrown so hard.
[403] The inch matters.
[404] You know when they throw in front of the sideline, before the game and like the receiver catches it and tosses it to the quarterback.
[405] That's what they were doing.
[406] It's a checkdown.
[407] Number three, LeBron James making five full court shots in a row, which is incredible.
[408] Perfect form, by the way.
[409] Regular form.
[410] Look at that.
[411] 75 feet.
[412] Cash.
[413] Are these all commercial campaigns?
[414] What?
[415] This was viral before viral.
[416] Oh, a little spin turnaround?
[417] I don't remember this one actually.
[418] Cash.
[419] Is this, so this is 2009.
[420] So it's sort of...
[421] He's shooting it from the other baseline.
[422] Just casually taking full court jumpers.
[423] incredible.
[424] I mean, you're going to tell me that's not real, Dan?
[425] It's, yeah.
[426] Give me a break.
[427] It's not real.
[428] Hmm.
[429] Number two.
[430] Number two, rest in peace, Kobe, the Mamba, jumping over a car.
[431] That.
[432] Watch this, here we go.
[433] Kobe's getting ready.
[434] Shelf on his feet, defensive stance.
[435] He's doing the birdman shaking the hands.
[436] Here we go, defensive stance.
[437] On your toes.
[438] Bam.
[439] Nailed it.
[440] Jumped over Mercedes -Benz, Dan.
[441] I didn't know that wasn't real until right now.
[442] That was real.
[443] That was real.
[444] That's 100 % real.
[445] Debt perception.
[446] Did Blake Griffin jump over a Kia?
[447] That was so fake.
[448] Was that fake also?
[449] He jumped over the hood.
[450] Yeah, the hood.
[451] And number one, probably the greatest athletic feat of any century.
[452] Lawrence Moroni jumping through both windows of a car.
[453] Here we go, look at him.
[454] He's got a ball.
[455] He looks like he's a running back.
[456] He's running, running towards a car.
[457] Whoa.
[458] No. Come on.
[459] What are you going to tell me that was a real?
[460] Jumping through both windows of a GMC.
[461] Come on.
[462] There is no name in the history of the show that Stugats has called more often and been told by the person answering the phone that I am getting on a flight right now than Lawrence Maroney.
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[478] Don Lebertard.
[479] You have some hot takes today.
[480] Joe Chestnuts of fraud.
[481] He called Connor McDavid overrated before the show.
[482] What the hell was that, Greg?
[483] Yeah, no. I love it.
[484] Stugats.
[485] Roy, let me explain it to you.
[486] And not that you need to, you know more about hockey.
[487] And this is coming from a guy that's watched Connor play six times.
[488] Right.
[489] If that.
[490] This is the Don Levitar show with a Stugats.
[491] One of the many great pleasures that come from having done this show for such a long time.
[492] And my God, what a privilege it has been.
[493] I don't mean to make it sound so past tense.
[494] But given what Stugats is doing these days, I am past tense.
[495] and I want to talk nostalgically with you because I do have a great deal of gratitude for what it is that we get to do every day.
[496] I'm genuinely concerned about what the next few years of all of this is going to look like.
[497] We have had an amazing run.
[498] Nobody gets to do 20 years of this nonsense.
[499] These kinds of shows end up falling apart.
[500] There are breakups.
[501] You don't make it to your 20 -year anniversary.
[502] Go ahead and look at it.
[503] look at all the shows ever who have done it there aren't very many this is not it doesn't even make sense gregg you're a writer that my career specifically would go to eliminating all other things and just being this show in its 20th year and a lot of people who watch and listen to this show never know it's one of my great prides what's a bit and what's not a bit over 20 years.
[504] Stugat is publicly flirting with WFAN in a way that is not respectful to Meadowlark.
[505] We are paying him this week to not be here doing a guest host thing at WFAN where I'm told those offices are right across the street from Metal Arc. A three minute walk, I think.
[506] Is he going to go to Metal Arc while he is?
[507] there yes or no is he going to go visit the the 20 employees we have in our new york office all of it built by the way this thing is growing and expanding trying to do things differently in a new and collapsing media age he's got a foot out the door in a way that flirts publicly with new york but new york doesn't want to pay him and so he's out there on the air saying what today chris in his first day his guest host week is not a full week He may not be there Friday.
[508] He didn't do Monday.
[509] He's doing Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
[510] What's the content that he's making?
[511] He's saying that he's available for a contract.
[512] He's saying you're afraid of some host there.
[513] We have a clip of it.
[514] Let's play this clip, actually.
[515] I'm afraid of some host at WFAN.
[516] We're going to play again.
[517] We're going to play a clip.
[518] And Dan, you tell us, is this true or is this false?
[519] So they said what they had to say, Dan and I, listen, Dan and I, you know, Dan would be the first one to tell you, he too.
[520] was terrified of Sal Likata, okay?
[521] I have no idea who that person makes.
[522] Why are you terrified of Sal Likata?
[523] Why are you terrified of Sal?
[524] Who is Sal Likata?
[525] Why, you're afraid of him?
[526] How would I be the first one?
[527] Why is he speaking for me in New York through a flammy fake laugh, telling his lies about people I don't know?
[528] Can I tell you something that got back to me?
[529] And it's like an awkward, like, it's a weird story to tell.
[530] But so he was over at the golf tournament that he goes to every year, right?
[531] And he ran into Josh Allen.
[532] And apparently, according to him.
[533] Wait, wait.
[534] Was it actually Josh Allen or was it a country singer that looks like Josh Allen?
[535] I'm told it was Josh Allen.
[536] I saw Josh Allen was out there.
[537] So he had a conversation with Josh Allen.
[538] Apparently Josh Allen asked him, how's Billy doing?
[539] Which I was surprised to hear.
[540] And then he told Josh Allen, you know, Billy's afraid of you.
[541] So it seems as though this is a move that he does.
[542] does when talking to people that he just says that other people around him are afraid of said person he's talking to.
[543] But I don't really understand the point.
[544] How should the audience and how should I feel about what is presently happening?
[545] He did a move last week.
[546] And Chris, he's gotten very good at this with you and in general over the many years that he is, you know, slippery and sneaky.
[547] He lies to people about what has been allowed.
[548] So he told me, he told Carl that he was going to be in New York.
[549] told Carl that he had told me that he was going to be in New York.
[550] And he hadn't told either of us and then just surprised everybody with something that has been in the work since last year.
[551] Like he knows he's going to try and get up there over the summer to see if he can get a week in New York that gets paid for by somebody.
[552] The problem is that he will say it, but the way that he says it is what leads to the confusion.
[553] Because he did say last week, I'm going to be on WFAN, but he didn't say specifics as to when.
[554] So he's right in saying he did say I'm going to New York.
[555] I did say I'm going to be on WFAN.
[556] It's just the details.
[557] And then like as someone who received his schedule one time, I saw how confusing this can be because he'll send you like he'll send you like, you know, here's the next 12 weeks of my life.
[558] This is what I'm going to be.
[559] But like he'll actually send you every single week.
[560] And some weeks are I'm here.
[561] So then you get lost in there.
[562] when I'm there, when I'm here, and then those aren't always updated also.
[563] So, like, the truth is buried in, like, a little nugget of, like, a bunch of, it's like a needle in a haystack.
[564] The truth is in there somewhere.
[565] You just got to find it.
[566] And he'll give you the haystack.
[567] And he's like, well, it was in there.
[568] And then you just didn't see it.
[569] He had texted me and Chris last week.
[570] Like, guys, next week, me, him and Chris are starting to record something for something we want to do for football season.
[571] And he's like, next week for sure, buddy.
[572] He's, like, locked us in.
[573] He's like, you guys good next week to record?
[574] We're like, yeah, no problem.
[575] Where did you tell you that was airing?
[576] Nowhere yet, but maybe WFRAM, I don't know.
[577] What is it?
[578] It was a Draft King's pitch show.
[579] We don't want to give too much away.
[580] We're still working on it.
[581] My rhyme with Schmanessie.
[582] Philly's face.
[583] Jessica, what am I supposed to?
[584] I'm legitimately asking you here, because you often ask, is this a bit?
[585] Is this not a bit?
[586] I don't know how to handle the fact that we are all in a contract year, and I'm not making it up when I tell you, I have had to hold Skipper by the collar from not just really going crazy in a way that ends Stugats' relationship with our show.
[587] And Stugats knows that I'm always going to do that for him.
[588] And so he takes advantage of it.
[589] Actually, you know what I thought was super interesting?
[590] I don't know if you guys noticed this.
[591] It was to me the most fascinating part of the Warriors breakup that nobody talked about.
[592] Clay Thompson told Steph Curry, do not go to management and try to get me more money because you, Steph, want me to stay here.
[593] I want management to do that without your interference.
[594] And I thought that was unbelievably wise, not just proud, but wise, because I have not had the wisdom over 20 years of always having to go in on the back end of negotiations to make.
[595] employers who will not allow Stugats to have the leverage over our situation.
[596] So I always have to go in and get Stugats the proper value for Stugats and the amount of resentment that that has caused over the years that I had no idea would be circling around in the place where you're not being properly respected by your employer.
[597] And that's the respect you want.
[598] You don't want it from Steph Curry because of how much he values you.
[599] You want to get it out of your out of your employer, I was really surprised that Clay Thompson had the wisdom to ask Steph to back off so that they could just break up.
[600] Don't you kind of say that, though?
[601] Don't you have to say that?
[602] I think if you're Clay Thompson, it makes you look nothing but good to say that when even knowing that Steph Curry behind the scenes may say, hey, we need to keep Clay.
[603] Let's get this done.
[604] But why can't it just be, like, why does it have to be nefarious something that Clay Thompson is doing because he's concerned about how you're going to receive him saying the right thing or the wrong thing?
[605] When all he's doing is telling somebody who he loves and that they've done amazing things together, I want to be valued by my employer here, not by somebody who has power over my employer.
[606] I just think it makes Clay Thompson look nothing but good to say that.
[607] It's like in a microscopic level, if I'm looking for a. raised from the Dan Levitard show, I tell you, I don't want you to make this happen.
[608] I want somebody else to value me and do that.
[609] When in fact, I do want you to make it happen, but it makes me look good to tell you I don't.
[610] How should the audience feel about what is presently happening?
[611] I think they're tired of hearing about Stugats.
[612] But I do have an update about Sal Laccata.
[613] We have awarded him gas bag of the week multiple times.
[614] My bad.
[615] I didn't mean to disrespect the Sal Lackato who I really fear.
[616] the Mets maybe you were afraid of that are you afraid of grimace some people do have a fear of grimace yeah there was a whole viral trend with milkshakes the Mets stopped winning now the grimmis is no longer lucky for the Mets the Mets have gone back to just being 500 middling the other one was about Juan Soto looking for walks I believe so I think you also said that he looks like his co -host and that you couldn't tell the difference between the two of them they both looked identical your words I believe not mine not sure where the fear eliciting comes in I I'd be the first to tell you that I fear Sal Lakata of WFAN.
[617] But thank you for bringing up Juan Soto because I was watching some Yankee baseball, which was really raised baseball this weekend.
[618] And I saw a whole lot of people in Yankee uniforms who don't belong in Yankee uniforms.
[619] But Soto is one of them, and he's great.
[620] And Judge, Aaron Judge is somehow better.
[621] And toward the end of a raise game where Fairbanks, I don't know, do you follow Pete Fairbanks at all?
[622] You have no idea who I'm talking about here, right, Greg?
[623] The closer for the Tampa Bay Rays?
[624] No. All right, he's an unusual.
[625] He could walk in here in uniform, and my dad would be like, who are you?
[626] Right, with the name Fairbanks on the back.
[627] I still wouldn't know who is.
[628] Yeah, you'd say that's Connor McGregor.
[629] Yeah.
[630] So Fairbanks is fun to watch because he throws 100 miles an hour.
[631] I don't know how anybody hits him, and people do.
[632] But he's also an unusual interview.
[633] And at the end of that game, they were winning 6 to 3, and then somebody hits a double and, or Soto.
[634] hit a double and Aaron Judge is coming up as the tying run.
[635] And I guess was he asked, Chris, was Fairbanks being asked whether they should have put Judge on base because Judge has been such a beast this year that he shouldn't pitch to Judge?
[636] I don't want to get, I don't want to get confused here.
[637] I think it was there down by three.
[638] Judge hits a double, or his Soto hits a double.
[639] And now it's the guy was saying should you have walked Judge, but that would have brought the tying run to the play.
[640] Okay, well, I was watching the game.
[641] So here's the situation, right?
[642] Fairbanks is leading six to three in the ninth.
[643] Soto hits a double off of the wall to score run at six four and now Judge is up.
[644] And these are the only two guys who can hurt you.
[645] Soto and Judge on the Yankees, they're terrifying, the both of them.
[646] And so Soto's on second.
[647] Judge is batting with the ability to tie the game and the count goes three to and frankly as soon as Judge hit it.
[648] It ended up being a real high fly ball to center field, but I thought he hit it 500 feet to center field.
[649] And I guess they asked Fairbanks, should you have just put Judge on base as the tying run.
[650] I think after so does double, if Kevin would order or walk to judge.
[651] We want to put the winning run on base?
[652] We want to bring the winning run up?
[653] We want to bring the winning run to the plate.
[654] It's been done.
[655] I trust myself.
[656] Okay.
[657] Right?
[658] I'm going to try and get the...
[659] Wow.
[660] It's a funny stare, though.
[661] Good answer.
[662] You're looking, Tony, like you don't think that that is anything other than the common response.
[663] The normal response from Fairbanks.
[664] And I love the Southern Twang, too.
[665] He's like, you want me to bring the win -and -run on base?
[666] Like, what?
[667] Well, Aaron Judge is pretty impressive, right?
[668] It's been done.
[669] I trust myself.
[670] It's been done this season, hasn't it?
[671] Hasn't it?
[672] Didn't they do it with Ramirez in Cleveland with the Guardians?
[673] And they said it hasn't been done since Barry Bonds, and he says, I'm better than Barry Bonds.
[674] You want to know a weird baseball thing that happened, and I know this because Mike Scher's a crazy person, he was texting me about it.
[675] So yesterday in the Red Sox and Rockies game, they're in extra ratings.
[676] It's a tie game.
[677] the Red Sox score a run in the 10th inning, but it's in Colorado.
[678] So the Rockies have a chance to score or whatever, right?
[679] Or actually, no, the Red Sox take a two -run lead.
[680] So they're up seven to five in the 10th inning, right?
[681] That's safe in Colorado.
[682] Okay, so the way that extra running rules work, there's a runner automatically on second base.
[683] The Red Sox pitcher intentionally balked so that the runner would go over to third base because they were concerned that he was going to be sending the signs to the hitter.
[684] So he intentionally balked, same a bat, the hitter hits a two -run homer.
[685] Intentional balked tie game.
[686] That's not the best of the Fairbanks sound I can play for you because we've been playing Fairbanks Sound here.
[687] I know that you guys are tired of my raise coverage, but I just love how goofy this guy is.
[688] Pete, can you kind of run through what was going on in the ninth?
[689] Maybe you didn't like some of the balls that were coming in?
[690] Yeah, they were horrible.
[691] We mark that down, all caps for me. Horrible.
[692] no excuse though didn't throw strikes and that's what happens when you don't throw strikes you get punished for it so I'd love to see those come out of the humidor tomorrow in a little better shape before they get rubbed up but you know that's nobody to blame but myself for not being able to adjust to some of the quality issues dry or not smooth or what was the issue there's just overall bad I'm not going to elaborate further than that they were not uniform from ball to ball so there's no I mean dry smooth whatever you want to say just non -uniform didn't feel right.
[693] Just make it tough for you to grip and can I get the ball where you want it to go?
[694] Yeah, it's tough to throw your slider when the bar goes that way out of your hand.
[695] The humidor is only in Colorado, right?
[696] The humidor?
[697] The humidor for the baseballs?
[698] No, I think they have them everywhere now.
[699] Do they?
[700] Yeah.
[701] Humidor.
[702] For cigars, not baseballs?
[703] Come on.
[704] Let me hear some more Fairbanks sound, please.
[705] Was it just a matter of command, location, selection, anything specific?
[706] No, I thought it generally sucked.
[707] I didn't think it was a specific suck.
[708] I thought it was like an all -encompassing type of suck.
[709] So, you know, we're going to try and rectify that.
[710] But for right now, I'm going to be pretty pissed about it.
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