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

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[20] Dan?

[21] you know what they say, you save the best for last.

[22] And tennis is no different.

[23] The hard courts, the grunts, the obnoxious fans, Arthur Ash, prime time.

[24] And of course, the beautiful surroundings of flushing meadows.

[25] And Dan, just like that, make no mistake about it.

[26] U .S. Open Week is back.

[27] I thought college football would be your...

[28] That was last week.

[29] You're a real.

[30] Still, I thought two weeks in a row, I thought you would just hit college football.

[31] Damn, we've got a huge doping scandal in the sport, too.

[32] We do.

[33] It's a big one.

[34] What a great couple of weeks.

[35] You have college football, the U .S. Open, the NFL.

[36] The NFL, that's Sunday where you have the NFL and then the U .S. Open men's final at 4 o 'clock.

[37] What are the great days on the sports calendar?

[38] One of them.

[39] You're amazed, aren't you, that there are 31 divisions?

[40] one college football games on Thursday?

[41] Yeah, I wish they were 32.

[42] Come on.

[43] All eyes on Boulder.

[44] That one, all lies on Boulder.

[45] In honor of the U .S. Open, top five athletes who don't play tennis, but have a great tennis name.

[46] OLAI.

[47] Raphael Santana.

[48] Will Zalotoris.

[49] Yari Curry.

[50] Pete Marevich.

[51] Don Newcomb.

[52] Number five.

[53] Nicola Jokic.

[54] The Joker.

[55] Number four, Joachim Noah.

[56] I mean, that's cheating.

[57] It's cheating.

[58] Come on.

[59] You went with a Joker and Noah in your first two.

[60] I think you're cheating.

[61] It's cheating.

[62] He went, his dad was a tennis player.

[63] Yeah, I know.

[64] Yonik Noah.

[65] How about Henrik Stenson?

[66] Number three, Peter Forsberg.

[67] Number two, Carlos Arroyo.

[68] It's a great tennis name.

[69] It is number one, Andy Van Slyke.

[70] Dan, there's a doping scandal surrounding a player whose last name is sinner.

[71] Sinner, yeah.

[72] How are you not all over this?

[73] Here come the D -Backs.

[74] That, by the way, is infuriating.

[75] The D -Backs and the Marlins were the same team, and now the D -Backs are the hottest team in baseball.

[76] Well, they are still because Josh Bell's there.

[77] Mm -hmm.

[78] Right.

[79] I can see why Florida State wants out of the ACC I wouldn't want to play Georgia Tech either the rambling wreck they got a shot they do not they do their coach is 5 and 0 against ranked teams he's due the college football season should never start in Dublin Ireland it should always start somewhere in the south or the Rose Bowl no in between maybe Texas some people are calling you a xenophob, like, for just deciding that things belong only in America.

[80] The baseball and China thing, like, really.

[81] I'm not saying don't play games overseas.

[82] I'm saying, you know, start the season here and the season here.

[83] That's all I'm saying.

[84] It's not saying don't play them overseas.

[85] He's saying play them in America.

[86] By the way, that was a direct quote from Sugatz.

[87] I don't think they've opened the season in China.

[88] I'm just putting that on him.

[89] He said that.

[90] He did say that.

[91] It would be fair to me when you have.

[92] It would have been bigger news, yes.

[93] It would have been bigger news if they had decided to start the season in a communist country, yes.

[94] I feel like we would have heard that somewhere, but maybe Sugats did.

[95] Question.

[96] How do we fall for it every year?

[97] I'm sprinting away from that.

[98] With DJU.

[99] Every year we fall for it.

[100] That's not true.

[101] Every year we fought.

[102] There was something there last year.

[103] First drive, I thought they were the best team in the country.

[104] I mean, I felt for it.

[105] And the second drive, you thought Georgia Tech was the best team in the country?

[106] The D and DJU stands for Doesn't matter what team he plays for.

[107] They always lose.

[108] Brent Key is now 5 -0 versus ranked ACC opponents.

[109] Big game, Brent.

[110] Oh, that's your reason.

[111] That's all I got.

[112] I'm glad you clarified with the ACC because I didn't remember him being Georgia.

[113] Although we played him tough last season.

[114] Bobby Dowd.

[115] Proclaiming Georgia Tech is going to be good because their coach is 5 -0 against ranked teams.

[116] You would agree today, right now.

[117] They are the number one team in the country, right?

[118] The only one in O team, they beat a ranked opponent.

[119] I mean, on the road in Dublin.

[120] They're not the only one in O team.

[121] The only one in O team should beat a ranked team on the road in Dublin.

[122] Well, it's a neutral site.

[123] Keep up, Mike.

[124] Sorry.

[125] Sorry, my bad.

[126] Number 10, Florida State.

[127] losing to unranked Georgia Tech.

[128] You know what the F in Florida State stands for?

[129] Frauds.

[130] Wow.

[131] And phonies.

[132] Can you call yourself the worldwide leader in sports if your college football halftime show's analyst is the lesser -known nacho?

[133] Put it on the poll.

[134] Just that, the way he said it, too, too.

[135] Can you call yourself the worldwide leader in sports if your college football analyst is the lesser -known archo?

[136] show.

[137] Trevor Madditch joined in progress.

[138] I saw him and I saw Madditch.

[139] I'm like, still doing it.

[140] You see those eyebrows?

[141] It felt so good.

[142] What do you think is going on there?

[143] What do you think is going on there?

[144] Those eyebrows.

[145] What is your theory as our vanity correspondent?

[146] It's the same color as the hair.

[147] That's my theory.

[148] I'm not, I'm not going to mock anybody.

[149] I'm not mocking to me either.

[150] I'm a fan.

[151] Always have been Trevor Madage.

[152] The number of people who always comment anytime they're seeing me and they don't regularly consume us that my eyebrows look like unruly caterpillars, I'm not here to comment on anybody's physical appearance.

[153] It's not the physical.

[154] I'm commenting on a hue.

[155] I say that it was slowly morphing into Ryan Day.

[156] As long as college football is around, there's always a place for Trevor Madage, right?

[157] I mean, he's one of the great analysts of our lifetime.

[158] I appreciate, actually, the thing that I appreciate about Trevor Madage beyond his name is just him bringing his general thickness.

[159] to the proceedings.

[160] Yes, you need it.

[161] Talk about meat -poned.

[162] Oh, seriously, having me walking into the studio today.

[163] I was on, like, one of the security screens.

[164] I was like, oh, what Ohio State's up to.

[165] Let's check in on Coach Day.

[166] Oh, shit, that's me. Arthur Ash, top five athletes that canote cigarettes.

[167] O 'LI.

[168] Craig Carton.

[169] Not really an athlete, but.

[170] That's all right.

[171] One of these days, I'm going to be showing up asking where Lou Holtz is and complete the transformation.

[172] It's going to be in the mirror.

[173] Robert Pack.

[174] Al Leiter.

[175] Number five, Marion Butts.

[176] Number four, Arthur Ash.

[177] Number three, Eric Winston.

[178] Number two, Jeff Kent.

[179] And number one, Jeff Smoker.

[180] Cool, Papa Bill.

[181] Liverpool.

[182] Looking good.

[183] Aren't they?

[184] Yeah.

[185] I don't feel bad for a single Florida State fan that had to hop on a 15 -hour flight across the pond back to Tallahassee from Dublin after watching their team lose as a double -digit favorite.

[186] I don't feel bad for one of them.

[187] You get what you pay for.

[188] I don't know if that makes any sense.

[189] What do you mean you get what you pay for?

[190] A lot of people are saying they feel bad for Florida State fans.

[191] They have to travel all that way.

[192] They lost the game.

[193] You have to travel back on.

[194] I don't feel bad for any of them.

[195] I mean.

[196] But what do you mean you get what you get what you?

[197] you pay for they paid a bunch of money and they got a loss right and you know what you get a flight home a sad flight home and i don't feel bad for you you have to do risk reward when you do these dan okay you have to say to yourself it might be a long 15 hour flight home after florida state loses with dj you but when you say you get what you pay for well i don't know what that knows that's just you wanting to use a cliche there that doesn't make sense yeah i don't know what happened wad soto arid judge john carlos stanton hit back to back to back home runs The Bronx Bombers.

[198] Taylor.

[199] Aaron Judge is on base 47 % of the time.

[200] Mm -hmm.

[201] That's nuts.

[202] If Aaron Judge was doing this in the 90s, he'd be our most famous athlete.

[203] He'd also likely be on steroids.

[204] The A and Aaron would have stood for anabolic steroids.

[205] It would have.

[206] Andrew Diostein or whatever that stuff was.

[207] I'm not even certain he's the most famous player in his own sports.

[208] right it's either him or show hey otani it's show hey otani i think you can make an argument for bryce harper not a good one no not in 2024 you can't possibly have a better summer than the 12 year old who hits a walkoff to win the little league world series walk off bunt small ball dano that was so much fun Florida, Little League World Series champions.

[209] Florida.

[210] Sam Howell is a Seahawk.

[211] SMU.

[212] Snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

[213] Bronco Mendenhall is coaching New Mexico.

[214] The Lobos.

[215] As long as college football is being played, there will always be a spot for a guy named Bronco Mendenhall.

[216] Huh?

[217] It's a great name.

[218] Thank you.

[219] Choked it away.

[220] You don't play Montana State.

[221] You don't play Montana, Montana State, the Dakotas.

[222] You stop playing those.

[223] You stop, you never schedule those.

[224] Noah Liles is making demands for a race with Tyreek Hill.

[225] Noah, newsflash, Olympics are over.

[226] So is your 15 minutes.

[227] You wouldn't be interested in that race?

[228] Nah, football started.

[229] I'd be interested in that race.

[230] Next summer.

[231] I'd be interested to watch something.

[232] would be a lot faster than Tyreek Hill.

[233] Spencer Rattler.

[234] A little something I like to call it, Factor, Dano.

[235] Not at Oklahoma.

[236] He didn't have it.

[237] He does now in the NFL.

[238] South Carolina kind of rekindled some of the excitement.

[239] Put it on the poll at Lebitard show.

[240] Did Trey Lance improve Dak Prescott's bargaining position?

[241] That was something.

[242] Five interceptions.

[243] How crazy is it?

[244] How crazy is it that we've gotten so used to quarterbacks not making mistakes that when someone throws up one of those fouts games, we're like, what the hell is that?

[245] What is five interceptions?

[246] You can't play that position?

[247] I love a cowboy collar neck roll on as a linebacker.

[248] Did you see Georgia Tech's middle linebacker?

[249] Yeah.

[250] That's why.

[251] You get me a linebacker with a cowboy collar neck, and I like our chances.

[252] Drake May can scoot.

[253] sneaky athletic Taylor Drake May B Drake maybe Mine Is it maybe one word or may be two words It's M -A -Y -Dash B -E Oh wow It's a dash in the middle of it Yeah Drake Maybe Oh there's a question mark in there too Oh of course there is Oh that changes everything Yes Walking like cadence into that one Yeah I do But a dash I didn't have it being a dash That's the way Yeah, I do it.

[254] College football, I'm not calling it the two -minute time out.

[255] It's the two -minute warning.

[256] Stop trying to make me say what you want me to say.

[257] Stop trying to make it a thing.

[258] It's not a thing.

[259] It's already there.

[260] It's called the two -minute warning.

[261] I'm an idiot that was screaming, get out of bounds.

[262] Having forgot that that role was in place.

[263] Yep.

[264] I lost a preseason bat, Cowboys, Money Line.

[265] I wanted to be mad at Trey Lans.

[266] But I have only myself to blame.

[267] I bet a money line preseason.

[268] I want to yell at Trey Lund.

[269] I do.

[270] Dak Prescott, that is such a great observation by you should write these.

[271] I mean, it was pretty funny to have Trey Lans go out there and throw the ball 50 times and all of a sudden Dallas to realize, oh, we don't have another answer if that gets hurt.

[272] Sugads, who doesn't actually write his own observations.

[273] I do.

[274] You should write them all.

[275] Keep an eye on Trivion Williams.

[276] That's mine.

[277] Regardless of what part of the spa I'm in, I always feel the need to whisper.

[278] Top five places, where regardless of where I am, I feel the need to whisper.

[279] O -L -I, library, hospital.

[280] Number five, Temple.

[281] Number four, watching the last dance.

[282] Number three, Cooperstown.

[283] Number two, Canton.

[284] You've been to the Hall of Fame?

[285] Yes.

[286] The NFL Hall of Fame?

[287] No. Oh, you haven't?

[288] Then you haven't been to the Hall of Fame.

[289] Barbecue Hall of Fame?

[290] You should whisper there.

[291] I meant Canton.

[292] Number one, Augusta.

[293] Do you do the thing where you're watching tennis or golf with your wife and then you catch yourself whispering in a conversation?

[294] All the time.

[295] I've caught myself doing that.

[296] Someone's lining up a drive.

[297] Put it on the poll, please, Jude.

[298] Do you whisper to your wife while watching golf?

[299] Whisper to your wife while watching golf?

[300] on television.

[301] Did you just try to one -up me on the fact that you've been to Canton and I haven't been?

[302] Is that what just happened there?

[303] Yes.

[304] Because we forced you to go with Bisselli and that was the time.

[305] No one forced me to go with Bisselli.

[306] I paid my own way.

[307] I joined Tony Bisselli.

[308] I had a great time.

[309] I went to his party.

[310] We're friends.

[311] I mean, afternoon drives.

[312] Jacksonville end game.

[313] Are you forgetting that we had to push you into doing that?

[314] Yeah.

[315] I mean, no, I'm not forgetting.

[316] Picked a bad year.

[317] You should have waited for Dwight Freeney, who you've been friends with.

[318] I could have hung out with MJ.

[319] You're right?

[320] Not that the cons, I'm sure, weren't great company with you in Besselli, but...

[321] I sat next to the cons.

[322] K -H -A -N, not C -O -N -S.

[323] There were three cons, then.

[324] You were one of them.

[325] Hey.

[326] There's another Nakuwa.

[327] He's on the Saints.

[328] Samson Nakuwa.

[329] Couple of Nakuas, cutting it up.

[330] Fanatic's lawsuit is going after Marvin Harrison Jr.'s father.

[331] Fanatics, listen to me. No, no. Please, I care about you.

[332] Be careful.

[333] Be very careful.

[334] The most dangerous of games.

[335] Are we at the point where he's now Marvin Harrison Jr.'s father and not Marvin Harrison.

[336] Yes.

[337] We shouldn't be saying that name out loud.

[338] Please stop saying that name out loud.

[339] Matt Breda, back with the Niners.

[340] The Marlins are calling up Griffin -Conine, son of Jeff Conine, Mr. Marlin.

[341] How about that?

[342] Make you feel old?

[343] Mr. Marlin, I'm with Chris Cody.

[344] Never in the history of team nicknames has there been a player more average as the nickname holder than Mr. Marlin, Jeff Conine, who I believe played for 17.

[345] Not exactly Mr. Cub.

[346] Not exactly.

[347] How many teams did Jeff Konan play for?

[348] I think it's the Orioles and the Mets twice and the Marlins twice.

[349] Eleven Chargers got stuck on an elevator for hours.

[350] I wouldn't put it past Jim Harbaugh to stage an elevator getting stuck in the building.

[351] Jim Harbaugh says he wished he could have got stuck on the elevator with the players.

[352] I believe him.

[353] The quotes were so good, Stugats.

[354] They were so ridiculous.

[355] quote, Justin Herbert's a leader.

[356] He was a rock.

[357] He kept everyone calm.

[358] Everyone kept their poise.

[359] You get in those situations and it's a test of wills.

[360] He loves a test of wills.

[361] He does.

[362] Jim Harbaugh would schedule adversity into his day for the hell of it.

[363] Speaking of hell, Arp Riles.

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[377] Don Libetard.

[378] And I feel like Rebecca, I can't pronounce her last name, but she's a great Jim.

[379] Androgy.

[380] Androgy.

[381] That's why you're good, man. I got to tell you.

[382] I feel like her jumps, her vaults were better.

[383] She stuck the landing on both.

[384] She should have won the goal.

[385] The only reason she didn't is because her name is not Simone Biles.

[386] Your thoughts?

[387] Stugats.

[388] No. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.

[389] I've got excellent Stugats.

[390] Thank you.

[391] I've got some stats of the day.

[392] I want to run by you guys and have you guys tell me which it is that you think is best.

[393] City twice, Baltimore, twice for a Jeff Conner.

[394] Six teams.

[395] Not 16.

[396] Six teams.

[397] Six teams.

[398] And the Marlins twice.

[399] And the Marlins twice as well.

[400] Royals, Marlins, Marlins, Orioles, Fills, Reds, Mets.

[401] Wait, so the Orioles twice as well.

[402] Yes.

[403] Orioles also twice.

[404] Well, six organizations, ten teams, right?

[405] I don't know if that's how that works.

[406] Well, 17 years, so you can say 17 teams, technically.

[407] Right.

[408] Six franchises.

[409] Right.

[410] Every year the team is different.

[411] So it wasn't 16, it was 17.

[412] Six organizations.

[413] Six franchises.

[414] Ten years in the NL, nine, and the A .L. But once, you know, the Interleague play, then that's all mishmash, you know.

[415] I've got...

[416] Stats of the day?

[417] A couple of stats of the day for you.

[418] Give me the music, please.

[419] Start of the day, start of the day.

[420] In this year, start of the day.

[421] Start of the day, start of the day, start of the day.

[422] In this year, start of the day.

[423] of the day, start of the day and this year's start of the day start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day you tell me, Stugats, which of these two you think is better.

[424] Okay.

[425] This is from my good friend, Barry McCockener.

[426] LeBron James average 27 .2 points per game when Frank Gore entered the league.

[427] He averaged 25.

[428] point seven points per game when Frank Gore's son entered the league.

[429] That's one stat.

[430] The other stat.

[431] I don't know if you saw what Shohei Otani, you mentioned during your weekend observations that Shohei Otani is the biggest star in the sport.

[432] Did you see how he got to 40 -40 over the weekend?

[433] No. So he gets to 40 -40, 25 games faster than any player in the history of the sport.

[434] Okay, he gets to 44.

[435] He's got a legitimate chance at 50 -50 the way that he plays.

[436] and he gets to 40 -40, 25 games faster than anyone else and does it on a walk -off grand slam.

[437] I've watched way too much raise baseball.

[438] Siri tried to climb the wall.

[439] He's a great center fielder, but Otani's ridiculous.

[440] And so walk -off grand slam to get to 40 -40.

[441] Very cool.

[442] According to MT Money DFS, Otani is having the 11th best offensive season of Barry Bonds' career.

[443] Greatest that ever.

[444] That wins.

[445] Otani is having the 11th best offensive season of Barry Bonds' career.

[446] Yeah, but Barry couldn't pitch for shit.

[447] Neither can Otani this year.

[448] Not this year.

[449] That's all right.

[450] We've seen him do it.

[451] Mike, think about that.

[452] It's kind of a part of it, though.

[453] I know, but think about the season he's having, and it would be the 11th best season, Bond's ad.

[454] Can he get 50 -50?

[455] He might get there.

[456] He's got to, he's got a, he's got, an outside chance.

[457] How many times does Bond's done 50 -50?

[458] I'm asking out of curiosity.

[459] I don't know a bond stole 50.

[460] I don't think there has been.

[461] I don't think there's such a thing as 50 -50.

[462] I don't think anybody's done 50 -50.

[463] I don't think anybody's ever done 50 -50.

[464] That would be pretty rad, yeah?

[465] I mean, he's got there, he's gotten their 25 games faster.

[466] There are a couple of things in baseball happening that haven't happened in a really long time.

[467] The White Sox got to 100 losses faster than any team since 1916.

[468] Like this is what we're watching with the Chicago White Sox is a historic not seen in a century awful.

[469] Zero talking on ESPN about baseball today.

[470] Zero.

[471] In fact, we've been canvassing what's been on first take, and for 43 minutes, they've been talking about the Denver post -columnist being banned from Colorado.

[472] All right, well, you mentioned that on Thursday, all eyes are going to be on Boulder, and I wanted to ask you guys something, because Stugats, the columnist is named Sean Keeler and he has been banned because of what the Colorado Buffaloes are calling sustained personal attacks he is called Dion a false prophet he's called him deposition Dion he's called him Planet Prime and this is my favorite he's called him the Bruce Lee of BS wasn't that Bruce Lee I don't think of Bruce Lee as being BS.

[473] There was a whole controversy, and I'm not saying it.

[474] I'm just doing what Quentin Tarantino did.

[475] There were a whole bunch of controversy from his surviving family because of how he was portrayed when many people around that industry finally liked that someone was actually portraying Bruce Lee the way that he was in real life, and it became a big thing.

[476] But let's get back to, and put it on the poll, Jujer, at Levitart's show, was.

[477] Bruce Lee bullshit, which is blasphemous.

[478] They're going to come after you.

[479] No. And by they, I mean his family.

[480] Right.

[481] I'm saying it's bullshit.

[482] Dangerous game, Dan.

[483] I'm not doing the dangerous game.

[484] I'm putting it as a poll question.

[485] It's just a question.

[486] The audience decides.

[487] This is not my doing.

[488] This is Mike's doing.

[489] I would not ever accuse Bruce Lee of being bullshit.

[490] But Sean Keeler says that he's the Bruce Lee of BS, and I just wanted to ask you, Stugats, because the heat on this is now in a really unusual, unreasonable place.

[491] If he's going to decide he's going to fight the media the way he's always fought the media, the place that this gets ratcheted up to is unlike any that any college football game is enduring.

[492] Any college football coach is enduring.

[493] College football coaches have all sorts of problems with the media all the time.

[494] But we haven't played a game yet.

[495] Stugatser hasn't been it's one season and the noise around.

[496] around this man and this team are not any kind of sane.

[497] I get that this is like a compelling, interesting story, but 40 straight minutes to start first take, like this seems ridiculous.

[498] It does.

[499] It does.

[500] Makes me wonder who has that game on Thursday night.

[501] Yeah, when you say that's ridiculous, I remember, you guys remember, I don't know if this got a lot of traction.

[502] It's ESPN.

[503] They have the rights.

[504] Chris Carter recently said that he wanted to punch Skip Bayliss in the, face and told him during a segment not to ever disrespect me that way again because they were talking so much Tebow and Skip Bayless said to Chris Carter when Chris Carter said if throwing a football is important for a quarterback Tim Tebow is not a professional quarterback and Skip Bayless said to him that's why you never won a Super Bowl what that's yes but but the reason I bring it up is because they're going to cover Dion the way they covered Tebow it's the easiest thing in the world 40 minutes of Dion, you know what's the only thing wrong with 40 minutes of Dion?

[505] That's not 50 minutes of Dion.

[506] They will eat up all of that and it will be trafficking in whatever the sports fan will argue about because they'll prep up the game for three days from now.

[507] They'll get to 50 minutes, by the way.

[508] I wish I was actually hearing this conversation, though, because Stephen A and Shannon Sharp, they have their relationships with Dion.

[509] In fact, Stephen A was actually speaking for Dion as to why the last time he had a press, conference interaction that didn't land the right way.

[510] He was kind of speaking for him, even though there were other journalists that are also close to Dion saying something totally different.

[511] The one who got put on the blogs was Stephen A speaking for Dion Sanders.

[512] So it's a curious spot that they're in, but right now they're feeding the machine because they are the machine.

[513] I don't know what they're saying either, but I am willing to bet I'd place money on what I'm about to say, which is in those 40 minutes, of all the things they're talking about, one of them is not an assistant coach going to ask Saudi Arabia for money for NIL.

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[534] Don Lebertard.

[535] There is no question.

[536] Dan Lebertart show included.

[537] Anybody else, that this guy is the best.

[538] best player on the planet.

[539] Whether he wins the Stanley Cup or the Kotsmite this year, there is no question about it.

[540] Stugats.

[541] Overrated, wait.

[542] Yeah, overrated.

[543] What's going on?

[544] Dan Levertart.

[545] How you doing?

[546] Are you living in an all -altered world or right?

[547] Oh, my goodness.

[548] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.

[549] Stugats making this an even more exciting and action -packed time than it feels like for sports fans because football is here and there's just a lot going on.

[550] about to be bombarded with stimuli.

[551] One of our favorite times of the year is when we get to go over the past year and remember nostalgically all the things that went wrong and all the awards to give out.

[552] There are usually a lot of them to give out in our suey's.

[553] And your category, the one that I think of when I think of you, is dismissals.

[554] That is the Stugat's honorary category.

[555] I think it's the best one.

[556] Like, I expect you always to win this category.

[557] Right.

[558] I expect myself to win the category every year, but I am told that Billy Gill had a hell of a year.

[559] I mean, don't.

[560] Let's not sleep on Stugats.

[561] He still brings it in this category, but I would say if there's someone else coming for his throne, it was Billy this year.

[562] Billy, how do you feel about being a challenger in this category?

[563] Do you think you can knock him off?

[564] So proud of him.

[565] Not great, to be honest with you.

[566] All right.

[567] Who's the voice?

[568] Let's find out together who the voice of the Sueys is this year.

[569] And now the Suey nominees for Best Dismissal.

[570] Gil dismisses Canada.

[571] But now that Canada is being all Judgy McJuggey over Greg Cody and now that they're, you know, they think they're holier than thou, I hope the Panthers win.

[572] Oh, finally.

[573] And I hope that Canada never wins.

[574] This is what it took.

[575] Greg Cody being criticized.

[576] I hope that Canada never wins a Stanley Cup again.

[577] And these miserable Canucks up there who think that they're better than the rest of us, that they know hockey better than everyone else, get the show.

[578] How about you get the cup?

[579] Which you haven't for 30 years.

[580] And you're not going to this year because Connor McOverrated is going to choke and vomit all over himself all over again because he's no Wayne Gretzky who did it all on his own and needed no help ever.

[581] Hockey.

[582] Mina Kimes dismisses Dan's flannel.

[583] Did you get lost on the way to Home Depot today, Dan?

[584] Like what's going on with the flats?

[585] Get his ass, Mina.

[586] You look like you're about to ask me to, like, check the oil on my car.

[587] Or, like, come over and, like, look around and point things in my house that need to be fixed.

[588] Stugatz dismisses Bo Nix.

[589] Bo Nix.

[590] Blah, blah, blah, blah.

[591] Come on.

[592] Dan, you know what the N and Nick stands for?

[593] Not the NFL.

[594] You know what the B and Bo stands for?

[595] Better start thinking about getting a job.

[596] Billy Gill dismisses Disney adults.

[597] Adults, if you're waiting 45 minutes to meet Mickey Mouse, reprioritize your life.

[598] Dwayne Wade dismisses Paul Pierce.

[599] Have you ever wanted you just tell Paul to shut the fuck up?

[600] Very subtle.

[601] Very subtle.

[602] Well, I mean, listen, rent is expensive in America.

[603] And I'm living in rent -free now, so let them keep going.

[604] I like living rent -free.

[605] Mike Ryan dismisses Victor Wembenyama.

[606] Not a good basketball player.

[607] Not good.

[608] He's just told.

[609] Billy Gill dismisses Messi.

[610] This fucking guy, they pay him how much to come here and play for Inter -M Miami and MLS.

[611] He's digging around in some stupid Copa tournament that doesn't matter.

[612] Buddy, you won the World Cup.

[613] You won the international tournament.

[614] You're going to win.

[615] Why are we playing this other ridiculous stuff?

[616] He's already also won that.

[617] tournament.

[618] So what is he doing?

[619] Like enough already.

[620] Who agrees to have their employee come and just not show up to work to go work at another company and then have him get injured?

[621] Stugas.

[622] I don't get it.

[623] Stugas dismisses Reggie Miller.

[624] I don't want to hear about Reggie Miller.

[625] I mean, he has somehow inserted himself into this series.

[626] I am tired of Reggie Miller.

[627] Reggie Miller was nine and 33 for his career on the road against the Knicks.

[628] He had nine seconds.

[629] Take those nine seconds away and Reggie Miller, according to Dan, who was asked by Boochambi at the Versace Mansion many, many years ago, Reggie Miller, not a Hall of Famer.

[630] Great moment.

[631] I am tired of hearing about Reggie Miller.

[632] The shipping container dismisses Dan's flannel.

[633] Dan, you look like a divorced dad and a great one at that.

[634] I have a divorced dad.

[635] I can attest.

[636] You do.

[637] Like on a first date.

[638] Like you're the divorced dad that has your ex -wife being like, what?

[639] Now you look good?

[640] Now you're putting it together?

[641] Where was this effort when we were together.

[642] What's your what's your gambit?

[643] Guess what?

[644] Dollaritas are back.

[645] Billy Gill dismisses Mets groundskeepers.

[646] It's the groundskeepers.

[647] Don't get me started on them.

[648] I don't know what they're doing.

[649] They don't seem to care about their jobs.

[650] They're like, ah, the season's over and they're just playing around.

[651] I don't know if you saw what happened last night.

[652] Last night there was a three -hour rain delay.

[653] At one point, the groundskeepers were taking group photos on the field instead of keeping the ground or whatever it is that they do.

[654] Like, I don't know why they were taking group pictures.

[655] They were laughing about.

[656] They were removing the tarp, making puddles in the outfield, not the puddles that we've wanted in the outfield to make the game more fun.

[657] The puddles that cause games to not continue.

[658] They've just been an absolute disaster.

[659] This grounds keep her team.

[660] Don't get me started on them.

[661] Greg Cody dismisses Michael Phelps.

[662] Do respect to Michael Phelps.

[663] Oh, boy.

[664] Can you be the number one professional athlete of your century when people only give a shit about you two weeks once every four years.

[665] Billy Gill dismisses whales.

[666] If the whales want to continue to exist on this world, they will stop fucking with human beings.

[667] I'm telling you that right now, okay?

[668] There's not a human world under the water.

[669] There's a sea world on earth because we capture the whales and then we put them in tanks.

[670] If we wanted to end the whales, we would end the whales, so they need to stand down.

[671] Dominique Foxworth dismisses his son's Dap.

[672] I took my son to the barbershop, get a haircut, and my man. Gave out some limp -dap.

[673] Oh, no. Damn, damn, damn.

[674] I disowned him.

[675] I threw him right under the bus.

[676] I was like, whose kid is that out here dishing out, limp -dap?

[677] Grandma Smetty dismisses Grandpa Smetty.

[678] I don't think I ever got that many roses in my whole life.

[679] Certainly not from your lovely grandfather, God, may a soul rushed in peace.

[680] Jeff Jarvis dismisses AI.

[681] It's macho waving by the AI boys to think that they're ever going to be so, they can make the machine that's so smart.

[682] smart and smarter than us all.

[683] So they're smarter than us all.

[684] It's crap.

[685] Don't panic about it.

[686] Don't worry about it.

[687] They're all part of a cult called Tesquriel.

[688] They're nutballs.

[689] Chris Mad Dog Russo dismisses Halloween.

[690] I wouldn't just for Halloween.

[691] That's another complete waste of time.

[692] I didn't like Halloween when I was a kid.

[693] As a kid you did it?

[694] And I couldn't stand it.

[695] What a joke running around getting candy.

[696] I couldn't.

[697] And nobody comes to my house because I'm a rough cookie.

[698] I leave all the lights off.

[699] No little kids bouncing around.

[700] And if they come, I give them more tutsi rolls because that ruins teeth.

[701] Mike Ryan dismisses Mario Cristobal for not kneeling.

[702] Fuck you!

[703] Good.

[704] You!

[705] Let it out, Mike.

[706] I screamed that.

[707] And I was like, no, the bottles!

[708] No, the bottles!

[709] F*** you!

[710] You stole it from us!

[711] Not Christopal, though?

[712] You didn't do that.

[713] No, I was screaming at Crisoball before that in the first down.

[714] Kneel the fucking ball!

[715] What the f*** are we doing?

[716] There you go.

[717] What the .

[718] That's all we wanted.

[719] Survive in advance.

[720] What the fuck?

[721] The shipping container dismisses UM.

[722] This team is just an average college football team.

[723] Well, he's lost the team.

[724] Mario has lost the team.

[725] My team did not lose.

[726] No, I'm telling you, though, Keynes fans have this persecution complex.

[727] Like, they are hated by the NCAA.

[728] They're built up.

[729] Anytime that UM starts 4 and O against a crappy schedule.

[730] Everyone wants the Kings to be good.

[731] Other teams are.

[732] ACC have to work way harder to be ranked than Miami.

[733] Miami is Giff -Rapted rankings as soon as they start any season 4 -0 and they find a way to blow it every year.

[734] If we go back over the last 10 years, they've probably lost to every ACC team at some point.

[735] It's not like they just lose to the same one every year.

[736] They've lost to all of them.

[737] Virginia, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Georgia Tech.

[738] It's just a different team every year.

[739] I'm just so over.

[740] This team is just an average college football team.

[741] Paul dismisses Drake.

[742] First of all, Drake is boring.

[743] Drake has always been boring.

[744] Drake lives and dies off his producers.

[745] Drake has never said an interesting thing.

[746] Quote me a Drake bar that matters.

[747] Not one.

[748] Not at all.

[749] Oh, that's interesting.

[750] You have trust issues with women.

[751] Oh, wow.

[752] You did it all yourself.

[753] That's every Drake song.

[754] I did it all for my team and I hate women.

[755] That's it.

[756] Stugatz dismisses Joel Embed.

[757] I'm tired of Joel Embed.

[758] I got to be honest with you.

[759] Every 10 seconds, it's drama.

[760] He's either hurt.

[761] He's all.

[762] the floor.

[763] He's grabbing his shorts.

[764] He's grabbing his ankles.

[765] He's bent over.

[766] He's tired.

[767] He's mad at a teammate.

[768] He's mad at a referee.

[769] He's never mad at himself, though.

[770] Stu.

[771] Never mad at himself.

[772] And then that boneheaded decision when you're already hurt to toss one off the backboard and throw it home at the Mecca.

[773] Are you crazy?

[774] That was the dumbest decision in the history of NBA decisions.

[775] Stu Gotts dismisses the 76ers.

[776] I'm tired of them.

[777] They're fan base, the whole team, the organization, I can't stand them.

[778] I can't stand any of them.

[779] Nick Nurse, enough.

[780] Complains about every single call.

[781] Those guys limping around, complaining, I've got a headache.

[782] I've got this.

[783] My leg hurts.

[784] Maxie faking injuries.

[785] Then going out fourth quarter, having the greatest fourth quarter that the mecca has ever seen.

[786] Stu Gauts dismisses Robert Kraft and Arthur Blank.

[787] Robert Kraft should be ashamed of himself.

[788] I'm serious.

[789] I mean, the way he is smearing Bill Belichick after.

[790] he left New England.

[791] With that documentary, with this report, another deep dive by Seth Wickersham, he should be ashamed of himself.

[792] Bill Belichick has raised the value of his franchise exponentially.

[793] He has won him six Super Bowls.

[794] He has made that lousy organization one of the, one of the marquee organizations in the NFL.

[795] And I don't understand what Robert Kraft is doing, calling Arthur Blank, and he should be ashamed of himself as well, because Arthur Blank, your own decisions.

[796] What the hell are you doing?

[797] You're going to let Bob Craft impact who you're going to hire a head coach.

[798] Get the hell out of here.

[799] Your organization is lousy.

[800] It will always be lousy.

[801] You'll never be good.

[802] At Bob Craft, the only reason your organization is good is because of Bill Belichick.

[803] Stugas dismisses Bill Belichick.

[804] Belichick has done nothing since Brady left.

[805] He made the playoffs one.

[806] I think at the very least, he should not be a first ballot Hall of Famer.

[807] They should make them wait like 10 years to get it.

[808] He's an overrated coach.

[809] Stugatz dismisses Kyrie Irving and Luca Donchich.

[810] He was lousy, and he's lazy.

[811] I mean, I'm so.

[812] Play defense.

[813] No, sprint back, play defense, rotate, stop leaving guys, shooting open threes.

[814] He's lazy.

[815] He is lazy.

[816] And Kyrie Irving, the audacity of that guy to come out who has lost 12 straight now to the Boston Celtics.

[817] Leader guy, I've changed, saying all the right things, doing all the right.

[818] things except when he steps on a court in Boston.

[819] That was an all -time lousy NBA finals performance.

[820] He should be ashamed of himself.

[821] People call him one of the great offensive players of all time.

[822] Great handle, best handles.

[823] Oh, he's got handles.

[824] He's got handles.

[825] You know what he had?

[826] No threes last night.

[827] He was terrible.

[828] Rachel Weiner dismisses her dad, Stu Gots.

[829] I had Rachel and Emma both home, and I was in a fight with Rachel.

[830] And I said, if you roll your rise one more time there's going to be a problem.

[831] A big problem.

[832] And she said, really, what are you going to do?

[833] Oh, God damn.

[834] I mean, that's where she...

[835] I didn't have an answer.

[836] The sod father, George Toma, dismisses Roger Goodell.

[837] They just don't give a damn, you know.

[838] And I could help them to levy this problem.

[839] But you think that will ever happen?

[840] No. If they don't do it, we have to take it to the government.

[841] Yes.

[842] Yes.

[843] Yes.

[844] That is that serious.

[845] We have to take it to the government because of the plea for playing conditions, and they don't give a damn.

[846] For Cooper Cup!

[847] They're injuring the players, George.

[848] They're injuring them.

[849] Because they don't give a damn, Dan.

[850] The only one that's going to do is George Pete told him we're having a meeting, and if they don't listen, we go to the government.

[851] Billy Gill dismisses the Knicks.

[852] Your team choked, okay?

[853] You guys had this, and you choked, and you were embarrassed.

[854] on your home court and you're giving them a standing ovation when in reality they deserve to be boot off the court for that performance.

[855] Especially brunsick.

[856] That was loser mentality by those fans saying, we're so proud, we're so happy.

[857] No, you guys got punked.

[858] Mike Ryan dismisses Jason Tatum.

[859] That dude was a coward.

[860] That dude was a coward.

[861] Don't tell me the aggregated 10 points and let that be the headline.

[862] That dude disappeared.

[863] He was chicken -e -personified on that court.

[864] Get out of here.

[865] He got lucky because Jalen Brown hit Ongagasso of all times.

[866] And Rick Carlisle just blew that game.

[867] That dude was a chicken.

[868] Mike Johnson dismisses Greg Cody.

[869] This is Mick Ridiculous.

[870] Absolutely.

[871] I said, I'm all about clickbait, reader engagement, pandering to the home crowd.

[872] I get that.

[873] But if you know anything about hockey, and I'm assuming Greg might.

[874] Stugats dismisses Shohay Otani.

[875] Shohay Otani is overrated.

[876] He has had one 100 RBI season.

[877] One.

[878] He has never taken his team to the playoffs.

[879] The next playoff game he plays will be his first playoff game of his career.

[880] He can't pitch next year.

[881] $700 million seems like a lot of money for a guy who's 29 years old and had one 100 RBI season and couldn't make it to the playoffs with Mike Trout.

[882] He's overrated.

[883] Stugats dismisses the Kansas City Chiefs.

[884] Dan, this time of year, everyone talks about teams they don't want to see come playoff time.

[885] I want to talk about a team that I actually want to see come playoff time.

[886] I want to see the Chiefs.

[887] I want Patrick Mahomes strolling into my stadium with max confidence.

[888] I want Travis Kelsey.

[889] I want Taylor Swift.

[890] I want the team that lost to Jordan Love.

[891] I want the team that lost to Aidan O 'Connell.

[892] want the team that trailed 17th and nothing to Jake Browning.

[893] That is the team that I would like to face to the playoffs.

[894] That's the team indeed that I would want to face to the playoffs because that team is not very good.

[895] Wow.

[896] Welcome back, Suey's Stugats with a late run there.

[897] He had a lot, a rare double ashamed of themselves.

[898] Show -A is overrated.

[899] Bill Belichick did everything for the Patriots.

[900] Bill Belichick is overrated right after that.

[901] put a couple of things on the poll.

[902] Billy, though, I think you made a strong challenge.

[903] A big, strong year of dismissals from Billy Gill.

[904] Put these on the poll, please.

[905] Do groundskeepers keep the ground at Levitard show.

[906] And also put on the poll, do tootsie rolls, ruin your teeth.

[907] Mad Dog says he doesn't do Halloween.

[908] I don't know if you guys saw this story.

[909] Did you guys see that Snoop Dog in order to avoid all of the pictures that the parents want when he takes his grandkids to birthday parties, Snoop Dog admits to wearing full -on costumes where he's not recognized as Snoop Dog.

[910] So, Grandpa goes to the grandkids' birthday parties, but is in such a costume that no one recognizes that Snoop Dog is at the party because he doesn't want to be bothered by the parents.

[911] Now there, Barney's smoking a joint.

[912] It's a little odd.

[913] I imagine, right?

[914] Because it'd be hard for him to just do it with makeup.

[915] So it's got to be like he's in a mascot's costume of some sort.

[916] And the mascot, Barney, does smell like marijuana.

[917] At a certain point, though, you have to, like, you guys doing five hours of makeup to avoid six photos?

[918] Like, what are we doing?

[919] I don't think it's five hours of makeup.

[920] I think it's Chris's idea.

[921] I don't know exactly, but I think he is just hiding inside some sort of thing where you can't tell it all that it's him.

[922] It's not makeup.

[923] It's a costume.

[924] It's a bit of a uniform.

[925] Also, there's a lot of confidence in words.

[926] not leaking out that Snoop Dogg's that person's grandfather.

[927] That's just a weird conversation.

[928] Didn't you tell me that was Snoop Dog's great kid?

[929] You could mess with your friend.

[930] You go up to your kid like, guess who Barney is?

[931] Well, it's not just that you can mess with your friend.

[932] It's that if you then know that Snoop Dog is there, all you get is a picture with Barney.

[933] And then you tell people, look, I took a selfie with Snoop Dog.

[934] No, you didn't.

[935] It was just a Barney costume that smelled like marijuana.

[936] Look, I know I've had a few beers, but Barney spoke and he sounded just like Snoop Dog.

[937] Ha ha ha ha ha ha.