Darren Rovell
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
That is Darren. Darren in the studio. Yes, it's him. There is nothing that hurts me more than to say I bought followers. You're taking away all my work. Darren, is that you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I was in 1A.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
By the way, what's behind you, that hotel? Do you think that's a collectible? Do you think that's something that has value?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Why don't we post that? Where should we post that to let the world decide? It seems like we should let the world decide. Where does that go? It won't go on my Twitter feed because it'll accuse me of being biased, but where should that go? Is that on the Levitard page and
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
You're on Levitard every day. And I'll take that advantage that more people will know me unless it's rigged. And, you know, I don't know how we'll figure that out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
OK, I don't think Stu Gatz and independence has ever been in the same sentence. I'm sorry. I wish it would.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Listen, I respect everything you do. I respect you as the longtime Marlins president. I actually do love your show and do listen to it. But but there is there is no no way that that you are more recognized than me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Well, it's helping. It is helping. I'm trying to stay calm. You put him in a tough spot, David. I did put him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
It is a jerk off. Yeah. That was not part of the contract with the airline.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
It's true. It's the worst part of the segment.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
It's really unclear his role, so we have to be careful with what we say. Listen, nothing personal.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I started ESPN when I was 21 in June of 2000.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Yeah, I mean, it was hard when I started there, and I was like, wow, I'm here already. But... Yeah, I mean, I spent 13 years at ESPN and then went to CNBC, which was like being, going from like the nerd at the business, the nerd at the sports network to the cool guy at the business network. And, you know, but I love sports business. I've loved how it's evolved.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I've loved how I've, you know, how David's been involved in this, how you talk to team presidents and CEOs. And, you know, people used to, I mean, Dan, if you think about the old ages of radio station, when people used to call up and,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
and didn't know anything about anything and because they didn't know about their owners capacity to spend ur they they they just weren't smart they didn't sound smart and i think the fan wants to be smarter now so that is helped the development of sports business you view yourself as a pioneer in this particular genre right that you you
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
He would still have his position, but I would say that, yes, I was the first ever national sports business reporter. Before there were concrete beat people, something was going up in Miami. They'd take the guy who's in the community or the political and move him over to sports for a second. But there wasn't anyone nationally covering it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I mean, listen, in the beginning, it was very tough on Twitter. When I was at CNBC, they would say, hey, you know, we pay you. You know, we don't want you to break news on that. And everyone would say, oh, no one wants to know what someone's eating for lunch. And so in the beginning, there was a lot of dismissing. And a lot of that was by 2010.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I was probably maybe the first or second journalist on Twitter. By 2010, Twitter had recommendations on who to follow. So if you click sports, I was in the top 25. And that led to the growth that it did. But I have never bought a follower. And I have never not tweeted something out of my account. All 250. 50,000 tweets have been pushed by me. All right. Is it fair to say you blazed a path?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
No, no, no, no. Because the team side, I'm not. That's absurd. The team side would always exist. That's literally absurd. Hey, my show, my questions. Thank you. No, the team side would always exist, but maybe there would not be interest in nothing personal. And I have nothing personal on this, but there'd be not the same amount of interest in nothing personal if it wasn't for me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
So thank you, David.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
You are telling your experiences. I am telling the experiences of 250 presidents. So knowing that, I would say just because you have personal lived experiences doesn't mean that I don't have credibility having talked to presidents more people about the job in the same job that you have.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Well, only if I'm not a real reporter. If I'm a real reporter, I know things and I learn things. I don't just report what people tell me. I am knowing what else is going on behind the scenes. That's what a reporter does. A reporter doesn't just turn on the microphone and then transcribe it. I'm actually learning what's happening behind the scenes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
So when LeBron is about to sign with Reebok and someone's telling me he's going to sign with Reebok, I have to figure out he's going to sign with Nike. And I can't report the Reebok part. So I think you're taking away the complexities of reporting.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Do you want it to be called the Gulf of Samson?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
You're totally taking what you need to spend a couple days at a journalism school. You're totally taking—now, Passon and Schefter, and not to rail on them, but the guys who are breaking news and breaking to Twitter, and normally they're right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
But the idea of, like, that there's no analysis, that there's no reporting, that there's nothing behind the scenes that happens other than what people tell me, that's not a respect for journalism. Right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I am much more credible than you. Having credible with what, Darren?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Information. I am more credible with information. Yes. OK, so what are you arguing in terms of credibility?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
So over time, you're basically saying, I have learned nothing about business as I've reported on it. I didn't say that at all.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I was at the airport at 4.53. It was direct. Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
In your whole life? In my whole life. I haven't either. That's so impressive. I've never missed a flight.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
We need a logo for that. Can we get up?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Okay, that's slightly disappointing. I was hoping for him to say he did so that I could accuse him of having Loria art.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
That should be where some of your memorabilia is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
It is true. He does have it, yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Yeah, I don't.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Don't you have like Martin Luther King rookie cards or something? No, no. That's just I have a lot of Martin Luther King stuff, but people don't like that because I'm a white man collecting it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I do. I do. I do. And there should be nothing wrong with that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Can he respect him or not, David? Well, I would think that Martin Luther King would want me to flex him on Martin Luther King Day. I mean, it's a day for him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Okay, I brought some things to flex. What do you have?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
That is Viagra. That is from the collection of Crystal Hefner. I bought it from her estate. Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
No. Oh, no, no, no. That's pretty good. Hey, I'm only 46.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I was actually thinking about putting blue jelly bellies in there, but I don't think. Aaron, what is the value of that? So you want to guess how much I paid for it? Hmm. $5,500. I paid $8,000. Wow. Who said $20,000? And what's it worth? What do you imagine it's worth? I think I could probably sell it for $25,000. Would you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I think I've actually had it long enough, so if there's a listener who wants to offer me $25,000, I'll sell it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Now, you want me to tell you why? Why? Because I know things that other people don't know. So let's talk about it. Let's get going here. All right. So I knew that in that bottom right corner, or however you're looking at it, I knew that that was the best George Washington signature in the world. What? Okay. It was from 1799. Okay. And the best George Washington, this cost me $23,000, okay?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Now, the worst George Washington's $9,000. The best is $23,000. When the card people and the movie people get into collecting historical autographs, and in 2026 is the big year, the 250th anniversary of America, that widening is going to happen like it happens in cards. PSA 1 Jordan rookie, $1,500. PSA 10, $1,500. $180,000. So this will be worth over $100,000 in the next four years.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
So I'm predicting markets. It's an arbitrage game. When I'm doing memorabilia, it's fish in a barrel. I know something that you don't. So I know that. Hold on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
The auto is a nine. I wouldn't say the envelope is a nine. All right. So this is this is an example right here. So this is a Jimi Hendrix ticket. Wow. Clark University in 1968. I went there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
In Worcester. Okay, ready for this? So I happen to know when this goes up. This is the first time that Jimi Hendrix played the National Anthem that was famous a year later in Woodstock. I buy this for $600. I then get PSA to grade it, and it says on the flip, it now says debut of the National Anthem. Now it's $15,000. That's why I don't lose because I know something that – He doesn't lose, Dan.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
You don't. I don't lose.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
You get it. Overall, so there are things. So I went into the VHS category. I thought that VHSs, sealed VHSs, would be something big, and they weren't. And I lost in that category. So I spent $75,000 on VHSs, and it didn't turn out. But overall, on a day-to-day basis... I have outrageous returns. 50, 100, 200x returns.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Do you want to see my Excel spreadsheet? Yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Everyone's not as smart as me. That's right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Darren Rovell is the best.