Hour 1: Two Weeks of Weekend Observations

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[18] It is time for Stugats to share his game notes.

[19] No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy, Stoo.

[20] Weekend observations.

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[22] Dan, it's my favorite week, third favorite week on the sports calendar.

[23] The history, the gusty wins, the lack of sun, golfers playing in ski caps, Royal Trune, and Dan, just like that.

[24] Make no mistake about it.

[25] Open Championship Week is back.

[26] You guys are going to do a golf and tennis show, aren't you?

[27] You and Mike Ryan are going to...

[28] This is how we age.

[29] We were good on tennis yesterday.

[30] Yeah, we were solid.

[31] If I do say so myself.

[32] Would Howard Bryant say that?

[33] Howard Bryant, who once tore both his hamstrings getting out of bed, he really knows tennis.

[34] He's been trying to advocate for tennis.

[35] No place for it at Metal Arc. You guys are saying that you just did the best six minutes of tennis in the history of this show?

[36] No, I'm saying we did.

[37] six minutes and for that I'm grateful and I also did limited fake Pierce Brosnan from 1997.

[38] It was on Chris I encourage you please to keep working we need a Trump and we need a Biden, you're the only hope we've got.

[39] And Nolan right.

[40] Soon enough I'll get you to Biden ask me for it.

[41] Donald Trump playing golf the day after someone tried to assassinate him.

[42] Hockey player Dan, if you think Africa is hot.

[43] What, Roy?

[44] You should try Las Vegas on for size.

[45] Please don't compare them to hockey players, please.

[46] Don't insult me like that.

[47] Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[48] Stugats, you guys don't understand.

[49] There's a lane Stugats knows it for the asshole.

[50] He's the closest thing to the right that we got.

[51] We're too woke.

[52] What?

[53] We're too left.

[54] Stugat says, I'm annoyed by all of them, and he's a man of the people.

[55] That's the way you play at Stugats is a good lane.

[56] I was helping Pablo out there.

[57] Have you met Tony?

[58] If not, you can meet him on Wednesday.

[59] Fair enough.

[60] For the Tony show.

[61] And ensuing best ball draft, and it's all presented by draft kings.

[62] They need to do that show.

[63] Hustle Gang's going to be there.

[64] Look, you tell me there's not a good show and Stugats and Tony trying to grab more sports audience on the right with a show that just says, we're right.

[65] Tell me there's not money in that.

[66] We have to put the town on alert.

[67] Jose Alvarado leads Puerto Rico to their first Olympics since 2004.

[68] I only tell you that to tell you this.

[69] His nickname is Grand Theft Alvarado.

[70] It's good.

[71] It's a good one, Mike.

[72] It was a good one.

[73] It's all I can do.

[74] He also says Volcano at one point.

[75] He never actually says that he's from Europe because he does attempt an American accent, but it's mostly just have to put the town on alert.

[76] Group A in Olympic basketball, Canada, Spain, Greece, Australia, otherwise known as the group of death.

[77] Greece is adopting a six -day work week.

[78] Who do they think they are?

[79] Metal Arc Media.

[80] Dan.

[81] Greases?

[82] Greases, yes.

[83] All the way up from two?

[84] Yes, they're up to six.

[85] What?

[86] You know what the Mennelark stands for?

[87] Wait a minute.

[88] Minkinos.

[89] Hold on a second.

[90] What am I being accused of making everybody work six days a week?

[91] I'm not accusing you of anything.

[92] pointing it out but is that an accusation than anyone else other than Stugats is willing to make while expense accounting us from Tahoe for the word of work I could speak a word into a microphone I would never cower to my co -founder asking me that direct question over microphones football seasons just around the corner folks oh dear God God God help us oh man Carlos Alcaraz defeats Novak Djokovic Dan you know what the sea and Carlos Alcaraz stands for?

[93] I do not.

[94] Changing of the guard.

[95] Oh, sorry.

[96] No, I was just going to say, like, that was, well, I imagine, this is what I would say.

[97] I imagine that you guys, I don't know everything you've talked about, but I imagine if you did six minutes of tenets, holy shit, the era of tennis that we just came through.

[98] Oh, my God.

[99] Those three guys, all Michael Jordans at the same time of their sport.

[100] I was a solid four and a half minutes of it.

[101] Yeah.

[102] Yeah, pretty great time we came through.

[103] Yeah, we dedicated 30 seconds to the 2008 Wimbledon final.

[104] Yeah.

[105] I mean, Alcaraz beat one of the Jordans in straight sets.

[106] I know because they're getting old.

[107] It sucks to get old.

[108] Where we were taking is, like, who can actually challenge this guy?

[109] Who's the Nadal?

[110] Who's the Novak Djokovic?

[111] Who won?

[112] Fritz.

[113] I like Fritzie.

[114] Yeah, we've got some good Americans.

[115] Yeah, we do.

[116] Tennis isn't a good place.

[117] It really is.

[118] We just need these other guys to come online, sinner Medvedev.

[119] You always think it's going to be in a bad place.

[120] Serena's out.

[121] You know, Djokovic, Federer, they're out, and Adala's out.

[122] But there's always guys working.

[123] There's kids working around the world in, at their craft.

[124] There's always the next great tennis player right around the corner.

[125] I fall for it every time.

[126] Medvedev, properly online, just more consistent.

[127] Let's see emotions get the best of them.

[128] I'm such a man. Put the town on alert.

[129] We buzz saw through children, hitting a ball lonely, and create them very young.

[130] into these robots who risk their mental health to hit a racket, hit a ball again and again and again, devour our young, feed on them.

[131] Yes, the tennis machine churns on, fed by tiny young people who shouldn't be so competitive at nine years old hitting a ball.

[132] The fan who caught Carlos Santanas, 30 for 30 ballpark home run, asked for giant season tickets in exchange for the ball.

[133] The twins declined.

[134] He got batting gloves.

[135] Hey, pal.

[136] Next time, get a lawyer.

[137] Are you Don Johnson?

[138] I just did that.

[139] Hey, pal.

[140] Mike, I meant to ask you, I'm sorry to interrupt you, Stu guys.

[141] That's okay.

[142] You were accused by Greg Cody.

[143] I'm sorry Greg Cody is here.

[144] Not here today.

[145] I don't know why he's not here.

[146] You were accused by subpoena by Greg Cody of elderly abuse and what else?

[147] Age discrimination because you hit him with three pals.

[148] Yeah.

[149] Three pals.

[150] Stugat's only used one.

[151] But he said hey in front of it.

[152] Hey, pal.

[153] Which is an homage to Miami Vice, and we can't let it go unnoticed.

[154] We have to put the town on alert.

[155] It wasn't even written down.

[156] What's the status of your legal thing with Cody?

[157] Turns out that's not a real law office.

[158] Where's Cody?

[159] He's coming back from Europe.

[160] How dare he take vacation during an important time?

[161] I mean, the Espies were on.

[162] Open Championship Week.

[163] We dedicated 12 minutes straight to Celebrity Golf.

[164] In this week's edition of July, first date debated, who was under the most pressure to win a title?

[165] The Cowboys, the Lakers, or the Yankees.

[166] What are we doing?

[167] Sports television.

[168] Give me $30 million a year.

[169] That's what we're doing.

[170] And it's the Cowboys.

[171] I know, but that's what you're doing.

[172] I mean, Skip, look, man, Skip built an empire over there, and now he leaves and he's too old.

[173] Aging sucks.

[174] And what are you looking at?

[175] Well, because you were talking before this show, if Skip gets a day on first take, oh, imagine that lineup.

[176] He deserves a day with Shannon, a day with Skip, a day with Mad Dog.

[177] He should get, he should be able, like football players, like athletes do, go back to his original team of first take.

[178] Have a day and retire there.

[179] I guarantee.

[180] I guarantee.

[181] Great idea.

[182] Thank you.

[183] That's going to happen.

[184] That is going to happen.

[185] Skip is going to show up and have a dedicated day.

[186] Let's do it this.

[187] Let's do it right now.

[188] Let's do it right now.

[189] Let's urge ESPN.

[190] It likely won't be Shannon's day.

[191] Shannon and Skip will not be there the same day.

[192] Please give us that day.

[193] Man, that Bayliss deserves to go out like that.

[194] Mad Dog and Skip on the same day, though.

[195] I mean, that's what Dream is.

[196] No, but a rocket ship.

[197] ESPN is claiming that first take can exist without Stephen A. Smith.

[198] That's what they're claiming.

[199] Please, dear God.

[200] ESPN, I'm imploring you.

[201] Let us have Skip Bayless Day one last time at first take just so all of us in sports media could shoot a rocket out of our ass and get one last great show out of hating LeBron James for 20 years.

[202] Is that what they're claiming when they say Stephen A will give you $18 million a year but 25's a little too much?

[203] Billy, if you guys want to talk about this?

[204] No. You brought it up.

[205] I mean, there's good shit here.

[206] Oh my God, is there good here.

[207] There is.

[208] I promise you.

[209] McAfee has a deal for $30 million a year with his production deal.

[210] He can pay for Sabin and he can pay for, oh my God.

[211] And why wouldn't Stephen A want more than all of that?

[212] They'll get it or?

[213] I mean, a chair just came over with him.

[214] Fox where they can take their whole outfit wherever they want to go if Shannon wants to break his contract.

[215] How much pent -up media observations do you have over the last half a month?

[216] I can only imagine.

[217] I mean, the floor is yours.

[218] Go ahead.

[219] And you got mana from heaven with the Skip Bayless news yesterday.

[220] It was healing.

[221] Here's an excuse to talk about it.

[222] Oh, it was healing.

[223] As if it's fresh.

[224] Please let me escape to sports.

[225] It's the ultimate irony.

[226] Please let me escape to sports so I don't have to talk about an assassination attempt.

[227] It's unbelievable that that's where I end up at the end of my career.

[228] If I told you before your vacation to Africa that all this would happen and then the Monday after it, the lights would turn on in this studio.

[229] Mike's crack open and it's your former executive producer and Stu Gatz left with a task to address our audience on the matter.

[230] Would you have gone?

[231] To a healing place of love and laughter and life with my wife and a good friend.

[232] Now I would have just been here sitting in the seat.

[233] That's correct.

[234] I'm still on page one.

[235] Yeah, it's going to be the minute.

[236] Woge tweeting, Paul George to the Sixers at 3 .30 a .m. The Scoop's life has to be a misery.

[237] God.

[238] It really has to.

[239] So bad.

[240] You know what they say, Dan?

[241] You snooze, you lose.

[242] I feel bad for all those guys.

[243] They have to be crazy people.

[244] I feel bad for Shams.

[245] He was sleeping.

[246] I know, but they can't sleep.

[247] They can't sleep.

[248] sleep.

[249] Not allowed to sleep.

[250] Well, I found a second thing to say.

[251] Woj is lurking at 2 a .m. I mean, what is Shams doing sleeping at 3 .30 in the morning?

[252] Terrible job.

[253] Oh, my God.

[254] Your job is to stay awake.

[255] Just wait for her text.

[256] Pent -up media observations.

[257] Those guys are paid so much to be made crazy by their jobs.

[258] Soccer isn't soccer.

[259] If the Italians aren't good.

[260] Fair?

[261] Baggio?

[262] That's about all you know.

[263] That's the only one I know.

[264] That's about, okay.

[265] It's a long time ago.

[266] Dallas, if you think you're a Clay Thompson away, I got news for you.

[267] You're not.

[268] Does he look old?

[269] Does he look broken?

[270] Does he look like he's not going to look the way that you look with Golden State?

[271] It looks like he can be an upgrade over Tim Hardaway, Jr., though.

[272] Isaiah Hartenstein.

[273] Nice.

[274] You got it.

[275] Yeah.

[276] We left New York.

[277] They treated them like Patrick Ewing there.

[278] They really did.

[279] Congratulations.

[280] In Oklahoma City, you go back to being Isaiah Hartenstein.

[281] But that's what he was.

[282] Yeah, but it was Patrick Ewing.

[283] Now he's Hartenstein.

[284] He sold out for the money, unlike Brunson, right?

[285] Brunson took a discount, right?

[286] He did.

[287] That happened while I was away.

[288] And they're saying Bridges is going to do the same thing.

[289] Who does that?

[290] Bridges.

[291] that's not a thing we're doing anymore in sports, is it?

[292] Brady.

[293] It's a little suspicious.

[294] A Mets Nationals game, finished it under two hours.

[295] I missed the long games.

[296] Why are we in such a rush?

[297] I do.

[298] Dude, I miss them.

[299] I was at a Cubs game for the first time ever a couple weeks ago.

[300] I was stunned.

[301] My wife and daughter went to the bathroom in the seventh inning.

[302] The game was over by the time they came back.

[303] It's one wild.

[304] Slow it down.

[305] It's so great.

[306] They fixed all of it.

[307] Why are we rushing?

[308] We're rushing everywhere.

[309] That was the one place, baseball, where you didn't rush.

[310] It was timeless.

[311] It was timeless.

[312] Yes, there are no clocks.

[313] Yes, it was timeless.

[314] Now they've got a clock on it.

[315] Why?

[316] Because hurry up.

[317] Two hours we need all our money.

[318] A hot dog eating contest without Joey chestnut isn't a hot dog eating contest in my personal record book.

[319] Stugatsbook .com.

[320] What's happening with that?

[321] We're writing it?

[322] We're selling it.

[323] Why do you think he was at Tahoe?

[324] A couple of blurbs.

[325] Got someone else to write a chap there.

[326] You were collecting blurbs in Tahoe?

[327] Maybe I asked Jason Kelsey.

[328] You've asked a lot of people that contribute to this book.

[329] I hope they're all getting like a nice fruit basket or something.

[330] We're figuring something out.

[331] We don't know what it is yet.

[332] I'll get back to you on it.

[333] So it's Stugat's using all his powers to write a book that hasn't been written using every person he can ask something from in the next few months.

[334] Listen, the book has been written.

[335] It's been delivered.

[336] We're ready to go.

[337] Just waiting on you, pal.

[338] People are saying, me. Forward.

[339] I wrote it for you already.

[340] How can it both be written, delivered, and you're waiting for someone?

[341] Well, I mean.

[342] Me?

[343] What do you mean?

[344] Me?

[345] I sent you the forward already.

[346] I know.

[347] A little lengthy.

[348] Oh, he wants it edited.

[349] Why are you blaming me for this book?

[350] I'm not blaming you.

[351] The book is fine.

[352] The book is, it's happening.

[353] It's going to be released in early December.

[354] November 26, 20th.

[355] late November, right in time for the holidays.

[356] There you go.

[357] But the book is, Don, listen, I saw Jay Billis and Tau.

[358] I thanked him.

[359] He's a co -author of the book.

[360] I thanked him.

[361] I said, we're going to do something for charity.

[362] I mean, and your forward was great.

[363] I mean, I just haven't gotten through it all yet.

[364] That's all.

[365] I know you've asked me a couple of times, but it's on me. It's not you.

[366] One piece two yet?

[367] I actually, forgive me. I'm just legitimately stunned by this because I wrote it for Stugats.

[368] And I said, I think this is too mean.

[369] You asked me to make it mean.

[370] and I'm roasting you and this doesn't feel right and can you send it back to me if this is like not gentle enough I need your wife to read it like this doesn't feel right to me I have to read it first okay I'm getting to it hey Bertoletti do it against chestnut and then do it against Kobayashi and then do it 15 more times Cubs reliever Colton Brewer broke his hand after punching the wall in the dugout.

[371] He fought the wall and the wall won.

[372] That's pretty good.

[373] That's like the first good pun you've had in about seven months.

[374] That's excellent.

[375] Thank you.

[376] If you didn't have pigs in a blanket on the 4th of July, guess what?

[377] You didn't celebrate the 4th of July.

[378] Is that right?

[379] Put that on the poll, Juju.

[380] Is that right?

[381] I don't feel like that...

[382] It's not right.

[383] That's your...

[384] That's not my...

[385] The fact is wrong.

[386] He's been pretty consistent about pigs in a blanket his entire broadcast career.

[387] Thank you.

[388] I thought it was cocktail hour at the wedding you wanted.

[389] It's that Masters Week.

[390] I mean, what are we using pigs?

[391] Is that a July 4th thing?

[392] Yeah, of course.

[393] I mean, no. I've never been at a, I've never been at a 4th of July party where someone brings around a tray of pigs in a blanket.

[394] You've never celebrated the 4th of July.

[395] How about that?

[396] But wait a minute.

[397] Are pigs in a blanket?

[398] Go to J .J. Wattshouse.

[399] Are they actually hot dogs?

[400] They're not hot dogs.

[401] He's saying they're hot dogs.

[402] They're not hot dogs.

[403] Well, they kind of resemble that.

[404] But you did, like, introduce a new thought in that he might not actually know what pigs in a blanket are.

[405] And he may have been confusing them with hot dogs this entire time.

[406] For his whole career?

[407] For it, Mike, that can't be.

[408] For his whole career, he's thought pigs in a blanket.

[409] Mike.

[410] You can't.

[411] A Wikipedia says in the United States, pigs in a blanket are small hot dogs.

[412] Thank you.

[413] Many hot dogs.

[414] I had Nathan's.

[415] I'm telling you.

[416] I mean.

[417] He may not actually know.

[418] Bed's about to end.

[419] The Jason Deer Paul top five athletes that canote the 4th of July.

[420] Talent on a net.

[421] His name he writes.

[422] O 'L