David Samson
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
that if they're looking down at me too much in a negotiation or in when we're talking about what their role is going to be that they'll get distracted by that power play so i would try and to this day i do that i try to do as much sitting down as possible because everyone when you're sitting down generally if you lift your chair up i do this with skipper dan when we record with skipper
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I put my chair way up so it looks like my head is on the same level as Skipper. And sometimes he notices it when we're recording a show and he gets pissed off and he'll say, put your chair down or he'll try to raise his chair to get that dynamic back.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I don't even understand what that means. Well, you just said how many inches you were. Well, when you're 5'5", you generally say 65 inches. Do you?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Does anyone say they're 5'5"?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I'm five five.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
It's just, it's the same thing. You have to worry about hitting your head on a ledge when you're walking through on a small door. I don't have to think about those things. I don't hit my head on rafters. So we each have our cross to bear.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
No, when you're the president of a team, you don't have to do that. As a person, member of Metal Ark, I do have to do that. There's a lot more racing today than there was in my previous life. But no, I didn't have to race. But there were some photos where it was just packed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
and the obvious how small i actually am but these players many of them are just big and in the nba it's a totally different story you talk about steve kerr at six four you go to an airport and have steve kerr just walk i was in an airport with mark jackson and he was just walking and he was a head taller than anybody else in the airport and he is known as not a big guy in the nba so it's a different world in the nba
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I sat down in the front row of our team photos. So I was sitting down, whereas players are standing behind me. The coaches and the front office sits down on chairs in the front. So that was never an issue. Did you make sure a short player stood behind you? No, it didn't matter, actually. Players were assigned spots in the team photo.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And we would do things where if a player didn't show up for a team photo, we'd have a stand-in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
and we would just then plant the face on the body of the stand-in to make it as though the player was there for the team photo and that's actually a funny story if you take the team photo too late in september you got a bunch of scrubs on the team that you've called up who make your team photo and then are forever in the history of who your team is so we would try to plan the team photo when we had like our best team around to be in the photo so we could lock in that great team
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
It's so silly to look back on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
No, he never missed. He never missed. He was at every team photo, and he was – Stanton was great to have as a player. He was Mike and then Giancarlo, and he was always around.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
The best example where someone talked about size in a way that I didn't love, but we were we were close was Logan Morrison. And Logan would would only have I don't know if you know that name, but he was a Marlin once upon a time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
It happened when I was team president. And that was one of those things that our owner did that I couldn't believe because Logan wanted that number. That was his number. And Logan had just lost a parent, I believe his dad. And we had flown to the funeral and we were trying to be nice. And Logan said, by the way, I wouldn't mind being five as we were entering the new ballpark.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And so the decision was made by the owner. All right, we're going to put Barger in a plaque and put five up because he wasn't a player. And that's just wrong. And I said it. And I got overruled. I asked Logan to change his mind and he wouldn't. Logan was the guy who only liked to talk to me standing up on a level on a level ground.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And so he always had that sort of height over me racing to the ledge. And he's a big guy. And, you know, we showed him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
If we're talking about his salary, if we're talking about negotiating sort of where we see him on the team, where we don't see him as he's approaching making money, if there's something going on with team rules that he wasn't happy with. When I was talking to him about Twitter back in the day,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
i was very public on your show dan i would talk about our current player who is using twitter and we told him stop using it because no one cares if you tweet from the minor leagues and he told me that i'm wrong twitter is going to be the thing the the vessel for players to get their point of view out because you don't do it as a front office and i just i was dead wrong and it turns out that logan was totally right but he did it in a very physically daunting scary way
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Yeah, so that is a great the player empowerment that we talk about in the NBA. I can say a lot of it started with Logan Morrison, where he basically said that he doesn't want me speaking for him. He doesn't need to be PR or to be media trained because he was communicating
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
with people who he thought would increase his brand and give him an opportunity to make more money through sponsorship, through relationships, whatever the case may be. And I explained that no one cares about you, actually. They only care that you are a professional baseball player. So please try to focus on playing better. And he told me, you're missing the point.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
There's an entire industry here that is not really related to talent or to performance.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Which words?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Oh, that was the concept of what we talked about. That's amazing. He really understood where this was going way before I did. It reminded me of me not believing that people would ever read a newspaper on the internet, on their computer. I assumed no one would ever do that. They'd want to hold the paper.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I've just never been able to truly see into the future in that way, in terms of technology or personally. But the fact is that I've spoken to Logan since and we're still in touch. And we still talk about the fact that he was the start of this amazing thing where players, you describe it as taking agency.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
He would describe it as, I want to control all the news around me and how I look and how I sound. And I'm going to monetize that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
That's your segue. I'll just say this about Logan's dad's funeral. Were he not a player currently on the team who he needed to perform better, I would not have gone to that. Probably didn't have to say that part.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Oh, no. How many? I like Tommy just fine. He wanted too much money, which is why I lost his job with Fox at the time. But no, I like him fine. Had plenty of contact with him, but not funeral worthy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Oh, many. Practically my whole time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
If I'm in Florida doing your show and it's after 1 p.m. and I can get a ride so I don't have to drive, I would go.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
It's not your best one, Chris.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Absolutely not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Yes, I probably would. Josh Beckett's a funny one. He's loving retirement. He's fishing. He's got a bunch of kids now. He's living his life. And we talk every October 25th. So we talk once a year on the anniversary of his Game 6 performance. And you can't call that person a friend, but obviously we have a connection.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And we haven't talked about his funeral, though we both suspect that it's coming soon for both of us. But I think I would have to.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
It's a check-in text, and then sometimes it segues into a phone call where we'll catch up. But it's just sort of acknowledgement that we shared something, and we mark it on that anniversary. And to him, it was no matter what he did with the Red Sox, October 25th of 03 was the number one moment of a career for both of us. And so it's fun to talk to him about it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
What's happening? What's happening?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
It's based on age. It's based on stress. It's based on just because you're rich and retired at a young age doesn't mean you don't have stress and anxiety. And it doesn't matter if you go fishing all the time. It still can impact you. And both of us have this weird sort of view that it could be the eighth inning and we're going to take the ball for the ninth. But I've always lived my life that way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I've always assumed that a week from Tuesday will be it for me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
i'm probably going to be dead before ken so i don't have to make that decision but uh if i did i i probably would say no jason stark yes ken rosenthal i was just gonna ask you about jason stark and you took it from me bud selig that one we've talked about uh yes i will be going to the commissioner's uh funeral it's a setup though rob manfred yes
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
No, I go to them because I want to honor. So I'm a big fan of honoring people more when they're alive and what you do for people when they're alive versus what you do. I think going to a funeral is less important than going to a birthday party or being in touch with people when they're alive. But there's some people that I just want to show my respect for.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And also there's a part of this that, oh, I'm sort of important that I can go or I would go to these funerals. So I do get ego out of it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I can't believe I'm admitting this on the air but I do think about that like oh I can go to that funeral and I won't be an outcast at that funeral because I have a relationship with these people that's a horrible thing can we not you can you edit that out actually okay get right yes please end the live portion of our show just edit that out we've gone too far uh David before you get out of here it's a great game we need to play it when
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Sebastian Stan was nominated for The Apprentice, and he was really good in The Apprentice, but he was way better in a different man, which is sort of the updated version of an old movie with Eric Stoltz and Cher called Mask. And it's about a real a deformed person. And it's played by a real deformed actor. He's really has that issue.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And it is unbelievable the way we react to people with physical deformities. And it's horribly sad and incredibly hurtful. And we all do it. And we pretend we don't, but we do. And Sebastian Stan goes from deformed to not deformed and realizes that life may be better deformed. And that is an amazing sort of concept.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
You're putting me on the spot, so I assume you have the answer to that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Is it condition? Is that what we're going with?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
yeah excuse me well i when i said mask i assume people knew or at least would google what that meant but yes it is it is from the neck up it is a deform it is a physical deformity is how i would describe it but it doesn't change the way the person is it's like screaming at a blind person thinking that they don't hear properly it is weird how people
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
interact with people with physical disabilities i see it with people in wheelchairs and i do a lot of work with with people with athletes who are uh have paralysis or loss of limbs and it is just weird how people interact as though they they have some sort of mental issue when in fact they don't at all it's just a physical issue and sebastian stan played it so well that frankly i mean i
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I was so happy he was nominated, period, for two great performances this year. But I would have preferred it for different man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
You're stumbling over a photo that's put up without anyone giving you warning that you're going to see Sebastian Stan and the actor who played the person with the condition who really has that condition. And you're fumbling trying to outboard me while this video photos.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Talk to the coach. I'm just upset, I mean, that not only did you not get to the free throw line, but basically you backed up and then you traveled and then threw up a brick.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Oh, I just thought he was hogging the audience this time. I wasn't as concerned about me. I was just very concerned about the wizard situation.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And you get shot right in the head.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I can tell you that when you put together a bad team, you know you're putting them together as you're doing it. And you get to spring training and you pretend that, hey, screw them. Screw all the people who know what they're saying. We can do it together. And the players are all looking at each other in the front office, each other and saying, we're going to lose a hundo.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
We just don't have enough. And a bad team is when you don't have enough good players. It's not about the players. Not I mean, I mean, what you were saying is is funny to me because you should know this. You can have good players that have bad results. You can have bad players that have good results.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
What makes a bad team is when you have a combination of bad players who don't in any way get a greater sum than just the parts. And that's what I specialized in is putting players together whose sum was less than the parts.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
No, I think the existence of when you've got Poole and Kyle as your one and two, you know going into every game that your one and two is worse than every other team's one and two.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And that's what causes you to try too hard or to take the extra base when it's not there or to try to throw ahead of the runner instead of to where you're supposed to throw it to and stop a runner from getting a scoring position. You do these things because you're pressing because you know you have a talent gap. Is that how you felt when you had Tom Kohler as your number two?
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Tom Kohler was really a bulldog. If you look back at him, actually, I don't want to.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Tom Kohler was eight years away from making $18 million a year for what he provided. So you can yuck on Tom Kohler's yum all you want, but we loved having him in the rotation. And we loved when we gave him the ball because he was going to give us a chance to win because he was going to rest our bullpen, which was going to be helpful for games going forward.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
And the offense knew that if they put up runs, which we would have a hard time doing, that Kohler would be able to do a shutdown inning, which is important. So don't hate on Tom Kohler. That's just wrong.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
That's a noble pursuit, what you're describing. It's not as easy as you may think to find nine innings times 162 games to find anyone to pitch. No, but Tom Culler wasn't that. He was a huge winner in the minor leagues. When we called him up, he just found a way to win games.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I understand it now.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
uh hendrickson was the worst what's the second worst when you do those lists of things that you guys did when you're like oh my god we're gonna be bad well it was not great having uh chen as our opening day starter because we were trying to salvage him and he was overpaid but no i i think that the problem we had when hendrickson started for us you remember he was in the nba i mean do you remember him in the nba long sport he was like six nine yeah
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
He was a very – he may have been our – I think he was the tallest player I ever had. He was definitely – maybe I'm wrong.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
He was 6'9", 240. Yeah, I had him as high – Volstad was tall. Sean West was tall. Andrew Miller was tall. He was maybe a six foot seven lefty. So we had a bunch of tall guys. But no, there's no correlation. And the thing is, when Hendrickson's out there, he's so tall, you think it's going to be good. And then he comes out throwing... you know, 88 and you realize, wow, this is not going to work.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
I remember that opening day and when we were scheduling, you know, your opening day starter the first week of spring training, but you don't tell anyone so you can make this big PR announcement. And we knew that Hendrickson was going to start opening day, so we didn't want to announce it.
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
We were hoping for an injury of some sort or some sort of some God's work that would make the announcement land better. So I remember we worked with our PR guys saying, all right, When do we want to slip this in like Jerry Jones introducing Schottenheimer? How can we get it out there that we are absolutely going to lose 100 games and it didn't work? John Rauch was 6'11".
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The Big Suey: Would You Attend Their Funeral? (feat. David Samson)
Well, I'm used to that. So, yes, I'm only 65 inches. So I definitely there are pictures of me all over when I'm talking to players or talking to a Stanton. And it makes you feel even smaller. So I would do a lot of my meetings with players where I would stand on the top step of the dugout when a player was in the dugout trying to change the power dynamic, because I always felt
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
I have no idea. I would say that it seems hard to imagine that he was late to basketball, but I guess it's possible. So I would assume it's not tennis. Can I steal? Yeah. Okay.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
Cricket. Cricket. Huge in Jamaica. That's a wheelhouse, I mean, right there, knowing what he did in Jamaica.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
David thinks his name's Alan, but other than that, we're close. I was just looking over at the signed pair of GameU sneakers I have, and he doesn't spell out his full name. All right, here's a question. But he does sign it with C33.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
Amin, do you know his foot size? So there's a funny thing about this story. Patrick Ewing does not have large feet at all. And I would assume as I'm looking, it's probably only a 12 to a 13. And that's it.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
I literally could care less how big his foot is. I have the shoes because of the meaning of those shoes in my life, not the fact that they're a 12 or a 15 or a 20. I have Shaq shoes because I can live in them, and those are like a 24, Amin, and those are just shocking. They're so heavy to even lift. Patrick's shoes are just normal.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
My best guess would be six. Me too. Six. It was number six. The wheelhouse, ladies and gentlemen.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
And they have the same number of rings.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
It was 1999 and I don't remember. I mean, I just know that it was a nightmare that he couldn't play. That was when I believe we beat the Heat as an eight seed that year. That was the Allen Houston shot in Miami. Game five. But 1994 was when Jordan was retired and we got seven, he got seven finals games. So he's played a total of seven finals games. Two finals, no rings.
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Hour 1: So...Do You Hedge?
They played the Pacers in the third round. The second round would have been, could have been the Hawks. Yes, and what was the series? We would have gotten that. It didn't go seven, so I'm going to say six. Sorry, it was a sweep. Go ahead. Go back to your little wheelhouse.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Even when they sign long-term NIL deals, if they're not paid or there's any way to get into the portal, which there is, they just go to the next highest bidder. And what Skipper was saying is what he wants is just a super conference. He wants Yankees Red Sox every day, every game on national television.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
He wants North Carolina Duke every game, every round of every series and every round of the NCAA tournament. And to me, one of the exciting things are the upsets and what he countered with is that an upset would be anybody who's not favored. If it's North Carolina-Duke and North Carolina's favored by five and Duke wins, that's an upset that would make fans happy.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And I just had a fundamental disagreement. It's really fun to root for the underdog during these tournaments.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
It is shocking to me what a socialist capitalist he is pretending to be in that instance. And that was part of what we talked about on The Sporting Class, was that it's hard to have it both ways the way he wants it. So I hear that quote and I heard it live, Jeremy, And I just tried to push back a little bit and talk about a world where that exists because wouldn't you look at the U.S.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
and argue that there's a world where it's a really few number of haves and a real big number of have-nots? And how is it that you are coming to grips with that? And he's suggesting that there is a college basketball formula and football and professional sports formula where you are focused solely on the haves.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
So what's interesting about that, and yes, of course, I've seen it and covered it, what fascinated, do you remember who led that? It was led by the American owners of EPL teams who were trying to do things like John Henry couldn't do as owner of the Red Sox, because he doesn't have the votes, because he would do it right now today. He would create a Super League and Major League Baseball.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And would he do it with his penguins? You know, wait to see. But in terms of baseball, that's what he's wanted. Why would, except when he owned the Marlins, why would I pay money for teams to beat me when I can just keep paying the teams around me who are as big as I am and we can keep a bigger share of the money? And what we used to say to him, John, what happened to you?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I can't believe how you've changed given what you now own versus what you did. But do you think that your revenue would be the same if your schedule was that you played the Yankees, Dodgers and Cubs 50 times each in 150 game season? So the argument has always been that you need to have a full league.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Billy, it's baseball season, baby.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And what John Skipper was saying is, was sort of an amalgam of the concept, which is keep it at 64 teams, but forget these automatic bids from these ridiculous conferences that no one's ever heard of. Forget Yale having an opportunity to beat Texas A&M in the first round. Just keep it to the four main conferences. So then what happens, Amin, is the ACC and Big East say, here's an idea.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Why don't we merge? This was Dan Hurley thinking about this, talking to Coach K. Let's form a 2019 conference and see if we can't be the big man on campus. And so where everybody is simply going to is they want the lion's share of the money, the year in which they deserve it, and they don't think about the years in which they stink. And that's how this happened.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I need to know who is your first pick because there are a lot of players that people may not be focused on because of your inside information. You may be able to get somebody really good.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
It's two things. One, it's people saying that Yankees, Dodgers were in the World Series last year. Look how broken baseball is. But the year before was the Rangers and Diamondbacks. So you certainly can't look at a one year sample. And the second thing I would offer you is we talked about Steph Curry earlier in the show today.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Steph Curry has made a commitment that he wants to see, and I mean, this is not my wheelhouse, Davidson. He wants to see them become a force. If he wants to pour in the type of money required to do the type of recruiting to make Davidson look like and feel like Duke, I'm all for that. Let him do that for his alma mater and let teams decide which years they're going to really go for it or not.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
That makes it like any other league where sometimes you're winning, sometimes you're losing, but never be in the middle.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
So I'll give you a spoiler alert. The first pick should always be Jimmy Butler. That's right, Billy. You didn't think that I was not listening to the start of the show, to the entire first segment, where your guys are talking incessantly about Butler and the ridiculousness of that video. There's no way Pat Riley should have approved. You weren't talking about that, were you?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
It's already all out. What do you mean an episode is coming out on Sunday?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
It's Wednesday, it's safe. It wasn't him, it was Isaacs, by the way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
It's annoying. I have no illusion that I'm anything other than Jewish. I would like to just point out. I don't know what that means. He's got an illusion about that.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
You've literally never heard that, Dan.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
You brought it up, Dan. I brought it up. You did bring up the penis. You're talking about penises. Not yours.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Well, I can only elongate the segment if you'd like me to, but the fact is that it is thought to be that Jewish men do not have large penises. That's been the expression and people often say, hey, I'm Jewish only from the waist up.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Mine either.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Can we talk about adolescence for two minutes here without spoiling it?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Okay, that is... So did you know watching this show that the father is also the writer? Did you know that going into it?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Okay, so Stephen Graham wrote a four-episode arc called Adolescence, and he cast a kid who had never acted before.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
He had never acted before. And one of the rules, he had never taken an acting class when they did the casting. And Stephen Graham has gone public with this. We would not look at video or tape or auditions of anyone who had any acting experience of any kind. Like in your eighth grade school play, I would have been eliminated for doing my sister Eileen in seventh grade.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
This guy, Stephen Graham, said we're going to find a kid who is completely – my sister Eileen, is that an old reference too, Dan? Are you making fun of that?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
No, no. That's the name of the show. I know. It's a play. My sister Eileen. Go ahead.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
What?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Him. Him? That's fine. I'll ban him later.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
That was me losing a fiver is what that was.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
You can't make up the fines. They're agreed to. Well. So CBA? Yeah, we have a set fine that people are supposed to pay into the Venmo bucket. And what I just did was a word garble. And a word garble is a fiver. Is it? Are we fining for word garble?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
So $5.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I was saying to Tony that what they did with this kid is they brought him in and they just said, they gave him the script and they just started talking to him and saying, can you read some lines? They cast him and he ends up giving what is probably the best performance by a child actor without recency bias or hyperbole that you'll see in your life.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Yeah, because that was Billy saying, David, and I got a text here offline, which no one's supposed to know about. Hey, we only have a second to talk about baseball. We got to talk about Butler. So that's why I want to do that. It was very important to me to get to Jimmy.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And will he grow up to be an amazing actor and to be Daniel Day Lewis or Denzel Washington? Who knows? But he'll always have adolescence. But the reason to watch the show is that it is. And I watched it with subtitles, even though it's in English, because there's so many references that Stephen Graham makes in the dialog. It is really about how you deal with a child.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
and how you deal with the internet, and how you deal with thinking that you know what your child's doing when they close their door, and how kids, we all used to close our doors when we were growing up, except when we closed our doors, we were maxed from where the wild things are. It was just our imagination.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Now, kids, when they close their doors, it's actually opening a door to the entire world, and it scares, don't do it to me, Dan.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
What a wild things are. Are we going to argue over the point that kids, when they're sent to their rooms with electronic devices, have access to more things than when I was growing up and got sent to my room? It's a different world. And parents are on the other side of the door, not understanding what's actually happening with a child.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And it should scare the bejesus out of us. And when you watch this four episode arc, you are seeing a manifestation of what could be happening in your very own house with your own kids. And it is horrifying. And it's not a horror movie. It is horrifying, but it is so well done, so well acted. And I just think it's critical that you all watch it.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I actually talked about it in my MLB preview show on Nothing Personal, which I don't have a clip for you to show, which I wish I had, but I don't. But I did a whole preview of the season, but I did work in the craziness of the decision of whether or not you do a video, whether who approves that, how it works, because we have that kind of stuff all the time, Dan. So what would you have done?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Oh, because of the way he left, there's no video. We would not have even told the umpire to pause the game at the first at-bat of that player if that player came back to have an at-bat against us because normally you have to get permission from the umpire, actually, in order to pause the game for the player to step out, tip the cap, get the ovation from the, you know, 749 people there.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
So we don't do that. We wouldn't have done that for a player who left in that way.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
resent the implication dan that that listen we did not honor bobby cox because bobby cox said things that were against our organization i'm sure it's somewhere that you can look up it was it became a big deal but we stuck to our principles that if you're going to be critical of us we're not going to open a window for you to be celebrated. So I don't think that it's about class.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
It's about accountability, which is a concept that I wish more people understood. You can't act like Jimmy acted and expect that it's gonna be butterflies and unicorns when you come back. It should be, you're an enemy on the different team. See you later. And you're welcome.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I would have liked a full-page ad in the paper from Jimmy thanking Pat Riley for allowing him to get paid this season because I would have suspended him the rest of the year. Or if the union made me, I would have sat him at the end of the bench for the rest of the year.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Yeah, I would do that for a team in my city, absolutely, but that has nothing to do with rewarding player empowerment or rewarding what Jimmy Butler did to get himself out of Miami. You're comparing apples to peanuts.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
An alternate universe. I mean, and let's go to the universe where there was no video. Are you spending the first 40 minutes of the show talking about the fact that the Heat are a classless organization for not honoring Jimmy Butler with a video and then imagining that it would have been whether it was a great one minute video with with sound or whether it was an ordinary video?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Is that what your position would have been had there been none?
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
This will make Dan crazy, but I want to mention the name John Condon. John Condon was a very famous announcer at Madison Square Garden. And when a former player would come back, he would announce, and he was an amazing announcer. And when a player would come back, and number four, Jimmy Butler. And it would just be in sort of a matter of fact, get the job done, you've got to announce this.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
He did that. Because it was, hold on. Are you comparing Patrick Ewing? He did not talk his way out of New York. That was what New York shows.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
It was one of the worst trades in the history of the Knicks. The fact that they took back assets for that when they just could have let him go. He just didn't want to be let go, so the Knicks moved him. But without debating Patrick Ewing, we're talking about how the Knicks handled his return.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
He did not leave in a blaze of hatred and rancor when it came to his relationship with the public and with the Knicks the way Jimmy did. Jimmy had been suspended, I can't remember, I mean, is it twice or three times during the course of this season alone? It was not like that with Patrick.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
You can't say something's unorthodox, actually, when it's in the four corners of a CBA. You know that. You have to operate within the confines. It's actually a bargain.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I mean, it would be petty larceny at best, unless you got this amazing sandwich from the deli. That's my point, David. What Jimmy Butler did was grand theft auto. It's not just that he missed a plane. This was a pattern of behavior over the course of years. Even when they were winning, you had a heat organization that couldn't stand him.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
No one booed Patrick Ewing when he touched the ball. As a member of any team, he was celebrated every single time. It's just a bad example. I do know there are players that we could have mentioned, you could have mentioned. You could have mentioned a Latrella Sprewell as an example. But Patrick Ewing to me was just a bad example.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
So I would never heckle the Knicks. That's incorrect, actually. I would only heckle the road teams because I was lucky enough to sit two rows behind the owners of every team that came into the garden. And it was about 20 feet from the visitors bench. So Charles Barkley is giving me the finger and threatened to fight me. And it's been a whole it was a whole part of my life. It was a Robin.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Oh, God, I'm having a moment on live TV. I was going to say Robin Thicker.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
I'll capitulate. In the 80s and 90s, NBA, that's my wheelhouse. That's before I was ever in the sports business. I was so deep into the NBA that I can talk about Larry Demick all night long, Lionel. Please don't. Please don't. I can do whatever you want, but you don't accuse me of not having an NBA wheelhouse.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
That's a true story, Billy. What a crazy thing that they have the portal open during the tournament when we should be focusing on the Sweet 16. And you all got what you want. You wanted players to get paid. You wanted them to be in the union. Now 700 plus of them go into the portal. It's crazy.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
Well, that's actually always been my position, Dan. I'm the one who fought with the union in baseball. I wanted players to get free agency immediately and have it every single year. And now a player in baseball, they have to be with the team for six years before they get free agency.
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The Big Suey: The Patrick Ewing Wheelhouse (feat. David Samson)
And the union would never agree to it because they thought that players wouldn't be able to earn their pay each year. And you'd be actually losing money as a player to do that. And I was willing to say, always be free. And that's what college players are. They are free agents.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Dan, I'm begging you here. I am actually, and there may only be seven listeners who care about how much I am begging you to stop doing what you're doing.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
sammy's every time you talk you're not backing off begging you oh that's sammy sosa was in chicago did anyone see that did anyone see sammy sosa's quote from yesterday he showed up at spring training first time in like 20 years he had a day taunt with the ricketts family and he was speaking to young players about how to be successful and all he said is you really have to work
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
extra hard to be successful and then even harder to be a superstar. And all I kept picturing is whether he would call him like into a corner and unzip that toiletry kit and say, look at the needle. That's the way to do it. Now, I know what a detente is, but Amin doesn't, if you could tell him. It's when things get better.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
It's when all of a sudden people are getting along when they didn't get along and now everything's good again. It's like in a relationship, like with a partner or a significant other, and there's a problem. And instead of going the divorce route, you go the mediation route that then leads to a rekindling of the love or an extension. It's a detente.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
No, I would stay in Florida with our team. So we would go to Jupiter and we would stay in Jupiter from let's say February 15th up until the last day when we would try to find exhibition games to play and get paid to do it before the end of spring training. So I love to stay in Jupiter.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
And there were times that I could have driven back and forth to Plantation, but would choose to stay up in Jupiter, which some people commute. I chose not to. And spring training is rebirth, even when you think you're going to stink. Like Bruce Sherman of the Marlins said, hey, take the over 63 and a half.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
I don't think he should be talking about gambling, but he was very bullish on his team going over 63 and a half. And that's really saying something, isn't it? So it's a time for hope. It's the best preseason in sports, right? By far. By far.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Oh, that's not true. I mean, that's not. Believe me, that's not true. The players and staff can party pretty hardy in spring training. Now, when the Marlins were in Vieira, I'm not sure. Maybe this is again, Dan, seven people who know what Vieira is. But that is a place that is in the middle of a belt in Florida. That is not where you want to be to party.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
But when you're in the Palm Beach area and Fort Lauderdale area, you are loving life.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Wasn't asked to.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
This is a neck that needs to get dumped on. Party pretty hardy. I believe that's an expression that is not Heinz related. I believe that when people party, you can either party meekly or party heartily. And I was saying to party hardy.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
I will bet. Well, let me you are now impugning me and or Coca. And that is absolute horse hockey that you show me the proof of being asked to have cut a commercial. And then I will say I'm sorry.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
That's a really good voice. I like that. The character needs, yeah, needs to flourish. I don't like the covering of the microphone, so I don't get it fully.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Even though I'm 57.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Oh, God. Now I know you've gone too far.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Don't you forget that.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
We're going to work on that proof.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
So after, at about 4.52 a.m. as the credits were rolling, my head was that I thought Chalamet was better in a complete unknown. And going into it, because Adrian Brody had won up until the SAGs, he had won every award, I was assuming that I was gonna be all in on Brody. He was good, don't get me wrong. And the movie is a is a masterpiece.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
It deserves the nominations it's getting, the production design, all of the the way it looks, the way it feels. Brady Corbett is the director. Really, truly an amazing movie. But Chalamet and a Complete Unknown was better. And his speech at the SAG Awards is what got me there. I loved it. I have it. Great.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Thumbs up from our director.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Damn right, Billy. Every last thing.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
He's the best. You don't see acceptance speeches like that often, where you just acknowledge, I wanna win. And he's on the Oscar trail right now, where he's doing a whole bunch of things, campaigning.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
In the current day of campaigning, thank God, it's different than the way it was done in the Harvey days, you know, when Shakespeare in Love won, which is a movie I loved, but in hindsight, so angry about how it all went down. He's campaigning to win an Oscar, wants to be the youngest Oscar winner, best actor ever. And for him to admit it, what's wrong with that?
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
What's wrong with saying that you want to be the greatest and that this is a sign that you are on your way to be recognized by your peers that way? And a bunch of people were negative about that speech, and I was not one of them.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
No, he's way younger than that. Please check that.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
But my view is that Daniel Day-Lewis, he's going to be Daniel Day-Lewis in his 50s. My view is he's 29 because he's 29. But everyone can keep correcting me in the second. No, no, I'm wrong. Daniel Day-Lewis is 67. I believe that Chalamet has a chance. Do you remember him in Love the Coopers?
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
We did it. Just move on. Dan, I really don't want to do what you're doing right now, but if you're going to do it, we'll do it. Chris Cody read the intro. This is the segment that's sponsored by LinkedIn. He did it exactly as he was supposed to do, and now you're supposed to do the segment.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
Has Ralph Fiennes been bad in any movie ever?
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Ray Fiennes is 62. Why was there a negative? There is some talk, folks, that Ray Fiennes could sneak away. You know when they say that if there's a split at the top between Brody and Chalamet and then all of a sudden you got the third guy come in and take it? Ray Fiennes.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
I don't think he's going to win, though people should see Conclave because we could be days or weeks away from watching a real life Conclave. Obviously, I hope the Pope fully recovers and everything's fine with him. But at the end of the day, this movie is about what actually happens behind the scenes.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
I want to review an important movie that I hope you'll all see. It's a documentary, and it's not nominated for Best Documentary, but it's called Don't Die. Oh, okay. And it's about this guy who spends millions of dollars in order to stay young and live forever. It's called Don't Die, the man who wants to live forever. And it goes through what he does.
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And it seems like a pyramid scam, because he's trying to sell products and get people to come to conferences, but he's got a routine that would make my routine look like Levitard's routine. And what it does is it basically gives you a shot. Now, he could still get run over by a bus. You could still meet an untimely, unfortunate death in myriad ways that family members can have happen to them.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
However, he looks really good. And what if he's right? That's what I was thinking when I was watching the movie. Is there stuff I can do more than I'm doing now, not as much as he's doing, that would enable me to get double hinds, which is really what I'm trying to get to. I want to get to a buck 14. That is sort of, I want to be at fourth and a half inning right now. I want to be at 50%.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
To do that, I keep wondering, should I do anything differently? And this documentary gave me a few ideas, some of which I'll take, some of which I will not take.
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So that's actually taller people shrink. I'm already shrunk. Oh, David.
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I love the idea of short people growing as they get older.
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The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)
I do not believe that is accurate, actually. I think tall people get shorter. I don't think short people get shorter.
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All people get shorter. But I'm already short.
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They did. So when I said I would do some and not all, I am not involving my son in this. I am not trying to take his blood or do transfers. Now, it's funny because it's just doping, if you think about it. And doping has been a scandal that happens to be a PED in sports and cycling. And there's great documentaries about that. Or you can just bring on Lance to talk about it.
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But this is an example where he's trying everything, but something's working decently well because he looks damn good. It's Brittany Renner's birthday, by the way.
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Well, David's getting to 114, guys. That's a hierarchy. Dan, we've just begun. I don't want to be eulogized by you. You don't need to say anything other than happy birthday. Have a great day. Goodbye.
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because they thought that that was the under or the over they don't believe you i'm guessing they think you're watching let it ride all day well i i think that there's more people than you think who don't believe that but that's perfectly okay too we're all good it doesn't matter i i work efficiently some days i work more hours than others some days i sleep more than others but in general i try to get a lot done because dan there's a lot to do every day
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Yes, I understand. If I could spend less time per day trying to get in touch with you, I would be able to sleep more and live longer. Okay, because you want me working 15 hours a day, too. I just want you answering a text or a call once in a while.
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Party hardy, David.
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Well, it didn't go up in smoke because now Major League Baseball has an entire package that they can sell to a different broadcaster and a different outlet to replace that money. MLB wanted to get away from ESPN because you couldn't find ESPN. This is really remnants of Skipper where you can't find highlights.
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in package a or b or c of sports center baseball tonight disappears the promotion for baseball just stopped with espn which as rob manfred said has become sort of a declining uh decreasing platform and so the rights deal that baseball had with espn what had a mutual opt-out after three years of the deal and both parties said you know what i think we're both going to be okay without you and
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And the proof is going to be in the pudding. If MLB cannot sell the package that ESPN had for more than 550, then they lose. If they can sell it for more, then they win. And I would take the latter bet if I were you.
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well but i i would take linear but i would want though there to be a streaming part of it so i i know i'm not answering exactly what you're saying i mean but you know that very few if any platforms are really going to be one or the other now you could talk about netflix and apple and and what they're trying to do there but at the end of the day i'm let's change it to i want to reach the most people possible
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whatever that is, if the money's equal. Now, if I can make more money and reach fewer people, I'm gonna make more money and reach fewer people.
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Yeah, this has been going on for years. ESPN had actually been signaling when they negotiated this deal, and it was announced in 21 that there'd be this opt-out. Every time we re-upped with ESPN, including in the Skipper days when I was a part of that, It was done with our fingers and toes crossed because we didn't feel loved, appreciated.
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It very much is like a divorce where sometimes you stick it out for longer than you expect to stick it out because you don't exactly know what to do next. Or you have a fear of what to do next. Or is it going to be just as bad next? Or do I want to be with the devil I know versus the devil I don't? And that's not me discussing devils as people. It's that's that's an expression.
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But this has really been what just happened there.
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What? It is.
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I do. Who left him off here? And so here's the question. There's about a 48 to 52% chance that I'm going to get some sort of text or communication from my ex-wife. And so I wanted to be sure in case there was someone listening to the show who may contact her, that that contact wouldn't come back to me that, oh, I referred to her as the devil. You just made it so much worse though.
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You were worried you called your ex-wife the devil.
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Big difference. As you were, David. I appreciate you, Amin, and with friends like you who needs agents. You know, if you're going to be in Hollywood, Amin, you've got to learn to play that just a little bit better. Wow. Jessica, getting back to the day. devil we know and the devil we don't.
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The big question with MLB was, do we have a deal in hand where we can go to the owners and say that we are going to opt out of this deal with ESPN? We know that ESPN is not our friend. We are not happy with them. Do we know that we can do better? And my view is it would not have been a mutual opt out if they could not do better.
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Well, you know, at the end, everything is always worse than it was when it got to the end. But Dan, I'm not talking about the resources. I'm actually talking about ESPN made a business decision and we never blamed them for it. We just commented on it, that the business decision of when baseball games get moved to ESPN2 instead of on Big SPN or what gets simulcast on ABC as well as ESPN.
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or where in the Highland Sports Center when he used to matter whether you're in the first block or not, what kind of you're talking about, Tim Kirchner, you're talking about some of the best people who cover baseball who are employed by ESPN. But at the end of the day, they invested more money in other properties.
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like the NFL, like the NBA, and therefore they wanted to support the properties that they spent more money and invested more money in. And that's their decision. That works fine.
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But there's no coincidence that Fox announced yesterday, right after the ESPN MLB breakup, that Fox is leaning even more into baseball with some really cool things that they're broadcasting and more expansive service and time and resources and money. That's not a coincidence.
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Of course, it's the same with the NBA. The NBA left Turner, they left WBD, and they're going to get a whole lot of love and attention from NBC and Peacock.
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No, what I'm saying is we're gonna know for sure, because there's gonna be an announcement by baseball that they have a new deal with the package of assets that used to be with ESPN. And if that package, believe me, we'll find out, is the package worth less than 550, then MLB was wrong. If it's worth more than 550, they were right.
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That was pretty. That was something. So what I do do on my birthday, it's a 24 hour day. So my day, I watched the Mavs Lakers, and that got me past midnight. And then I watched the Brutalist. And then, of course, there's people I'm in touch with in various time zones, starting around 3.30, 4 a.m., starting with texting and conversations. And I will push straight through.
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So I stay awake every birthday. I'm awake for the full 24 hours because I don't want to waste a minute of it. I find it to be laughable that people want to sleep on their birthday, like blow off one third of it. You'd fall behind in contacting people who are reaching out to you with such love and attention, like on Facebook, that you really need to respond to. But I do do that.
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And the other thing I do every single birthday and it's going to you're going to make fun of me, Dan, because you think I do this on purpose. There isn't a birthday that goes by. that I don't watch Let It Ride. You're going to laugh because you think that's all I talk about, but it just happens to be true. It's just pathetic.
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Mark that laugh, please.
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Nothing gets by. Wait, did only seven people in the audience get that? No, your ketchup joke? Why is that a joke? That's more a description. Jessica said double nickels and I said Heinz. So are you okay with a birthday text? It sounds that doesn't offend you if someone just text you. Well, it's interesting. There's a hierarchy. So there's there's the Facebook message.
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Then there is the email, the text, the phone call. And then the picked up phone call is obviously the top of the food chain that when someone calls and then I pick up, assuming I'm not doing a show, which I'm scheduled to be doing for most of the day, actually. But That's how I look at it.
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And when people are in a different place that I thought they would be, that can lead to a problem with expectation in terms of either surpassing or falling way short of what I'd expected. How do we feel about the day after happy belated birthday? I go with happy 364 days before your next birthday.
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I'm not a big believer in that. So I think that all the devils we know are sort of Kaiser Soze like, that they're right here in plain clothes.
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I would say, realistically, 15. That's all. But I do watch. But I count. So above the 15 is a movie that I'm not going to review on nothing personal. Like my Let It Ride, 85 minutes today, that will not count as work. But the brutalist I'll review on nothing personal. And yes, that was a three hour and 25 minute movie.
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But Jessica, there was a one minute intermission on the home brutalist in the theater. It's longer, 15 minutes. But for home, when you spend the 1999, it's only a one minute intermission, which is barely enough time to do anything.
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i am sitting here wondering how that promotion just happened and how thrilled i am for people to engage with good follow and laughing at the fact that that no other promotion's ever done so i can't wait for the nothing personal promotion and so you can listen to me sing humanly which i did on today's show because uh i was working as a waitress at a cocktail bar and that much is true david did you cut a promo for nothing personal
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As you get further away from when their start date was, you start to conflate it. And if I told you right now to guess what year the Civil War started, I would hope that you'd say, hey, sounds like 1865. But if you said 1845, I'd say wrong, but close.
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Number five is a adult who had an accident outside of the bathroom. It's a nightmare. Number four. Number four is someone who thought it would be wise to take their beer cup and fill it with ice cream and then drop it on somebody in a fight.
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a good move it's a terrible move it's disgusting and it caused us to actually have to no number three the number three grossest thing that ever came to my desk after a game was when the bat boys with an opposing team and i don't want to make up the team because i can't remember they had a tobacco combination that i hadn't seen before that they couldn't get off the dugout floor
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and it caused extra time, which was extra money, to get the dugout ready. If you've never seen a dugout after a game, you don't know what I'm talking about, but it is heinous.
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Sticky, brown, and disgusting, which could describe my number two. Number two, and this is just me with children, I did not want to put any children's bathrooms or changing areas. And the second grossest thing, which to me is very patently offensive, is when somebody, and it's happened more than once, left dirty diapers not in a refuse place. They left it out in the open. That is unacceptable.
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That was my number two in the rankings. Okay. Number one. The grossest thing that ever happened to me is when someone got hit with a foul ball and it opened a gash in their head. And it was their fault because they were on their phone. And it was a quick settlement. But when you go visit them and they're going into the ambulance, it is really gross because the head really does bleed tremendously.
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And a foul ball can really open up the noggin. And I found that to be gross.
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It's funny. You don't start with four grand. You start with a signed ball and a jersey, and you work your way up if you absolutely have to.
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Oh, because that's the first thing we do. We go to the videotape and we see whether or not someone who gets hit in the noggin was on their phone. Because if not, then we settle for more. If they're on their phone, we settle for less. If we see that someone's paying attention to the game and they get hit in the head, we're going in, forget the ball. We're going to start with a meet and greet.
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We may even start with the first pitch.
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Yeah. And that is the truth. That's the legal truth.
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But they people file lawsuits because you get one eight hundred lawyers who are willing to do it on commission. Thirty three percent. And so they will just waste our time and our money. So we call it a nuisance payment.
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We went pretty far with several of them because they were being so unreasonable, but we never actually went to trial. So every one of them ends up as a settlement, but it's just a matter of when you settle.
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5K? Less than that? It depends. 5K is a good number. If you get yourself 5K from a little knock, we didn't really like paying people who said, oh, my back hurts, my shoulder hurts. I want to see blood for 5K. I want to see bruising. I want to see seams in your arm for 5K. Don't tell me you have a headache. I'm not interested in that.
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That's the utility infielder sign jersey.
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Listen, some people like a Meziga. I don't really understand your position here that you're saying that I'm being unreasonable. Some people are more than happy to take away signed items from a game.
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You get to keep it. i love where your head is because bats are a different story than balls and the way you work with bats is you don't get to keep the bat that hits you because often the player wants it back so we promise the players that we will go for a trade and that's a twofer you get two unused actual bats for every gamer that hits you when you're in the stance. So that's the general rule.
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Now, if the bat splinters and it's wedged in your arm, then you keep the broken bat because the player doesn't want it. On top of that, you're invited back and you may even get to meet the player depending on how wedged in the wood is.
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That's the rate of impalement.
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Yeah, laugh as you want, but kids actually get premiums. That is where I'm very reasonable. Listen, I'm not heartless at all. If you're an impaled kid, that is worth more than an impaled adult.
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No, just normal shoes. Normal shoes. Sneakers. Normal shoes is worth something. If you're wearing rubber sole shoes and you trip because we have a wet spot, so that's something the cleaning crew knows during the game. With no sign, no sign up that says wet floor. So we've got these yellow V-shaped things that you put in the bathroom when there's the wet spot and that absolves you.
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That's how you get to the utility. If we don't get to, you could be looking at a lower ball for that. If you slip and fall in a wet bathroom or on a concourse where there's been something that spilled, you're getting starting nine.
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There we go like that. It's about the worst case scenario for me as someone who would trip on that sort of item. I never had that happen, so I never had to make that negotiation. So I don't know where it would end. But you would clearly have the upper hand were you to take advantage.
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Well, you said pro player, so I'm in the clear because I'm a tenant of pro player. I didn't control the security of pro player. And so while it would make me angry that security would be late to a fight like that, that would be a Dolphins, Wayne Huizenga slash Stephen Ross issue at Lone Depot. Yeah.
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If that would happen, we would have a problem because it is not the expectation that there would be a third party who would get hurt in a fight. So that person would have two causes of action, one against the people who are fighting.
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And the odds are, depending on where the seat location is and I'm being general, but it generally works is that you're not going to get much blood from a stone in that regard, which is how the team then ends up getting sued.
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we would then counter sue the two people fighting and we would figure out how to get the insurance companies to settle if that third party actually did get hurt so you think Bob Nutting is cheaper than this wait I'm sorry you're calling me cheap because of payroll or because of how items are settled in a legal situation just general uh unwillingness to give things away
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Oh, I think that the people who work for me and the fans in general would say that that is not my reputation at all. Actually, my reputation is that when people are deserving, they get paid. And when people are deserving, they get items. When there is something that I made a mistake on or my staff did who reports to me, of course, I'm responsible for that.
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And I would never shy away from responsibilities. What I will not handle or stand or pay for is people trying to get one over on me, trying to get something for something they don't deserve.
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It's like asking whether or not a fart joke will ever be not funny. Is it? I think the answer is no. It's always funny. He's always funny.
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immediate ejecting. If you're hurt, we'll take you to the ambulance, to the hospital. But if you in any way get onto the field of play, going for a foul ball or not, you are immediately ejected. There are signs up that is very clear on your ticket and the signs in the ballpark that you may not interrupt or go onto the field of play. What if I'm in the Clevelander?
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I would say that anyone who by mistake gets into the Clevelander architecturally, that is impossible. The only people who could get into the Clevelander would be your left fielder in that manner. It would be very difficult the way the ballpark is built to fall into the Clevelander. I've never seen that and I don't believe it's physically even possible.
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Well, I would say that if you have an over-under from DraftKings or anywhere where the win total is 162, I would encourage you to put all of your hard-earned money on the under. The Dodgers will lose a game. Their over-under, I believe, is around 104.5, which is one of the top over-unders you'll see.
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And what you saw in these two games is that even without Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts, they have the ability to score runs effectively. Their starting rotation is deep when healthy, and their bullpen is deep, especially with new Marlon, old Marlon Tanner Scott, who they didn't even use for the save this morning. They went with Alex Vessia, and they've just got options upon options.
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If they're healthy, they're going to win 110 games, and they've got a chance to go for the Mariners' record of 116. The Cubs are despondent. They flew all the way to Tokyo. No Freeman, no Betts, and they still could not go away with a split.
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I think there have been, Dan. I mean, that Mariners team, I think, was assembled and was was potentially a better team than what these Dodgers are. We saw what the Dodgers did last year when the rotation was completely injured. They still were able to.
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it's deep there's no question and of course i'm jealous of it you know thinking back to trying to compete against that you're saying to me is that the best roster ever assembled i'd have to i'm not willing to make you can make the argument is my point yes you can definitely make the argument
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I mean, and you ought to make the argument when your payroll is almost 400 million dollars, you and you've got Otani in at 46, which is where Otani is slated in that payroll because of how the math is done. You've got to be able to win games.
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It really makes Mets fans despondent when they think about the amount of money the Mets spend on players and they don't get the results the Dodgers are getting. You have to expect the winning that the Dodgers are doing.
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He's got two. So it's interesting. You're talking about the White Lotus and you're talking about Sam Rockwell, who his real life partner. Spoiler alert. Why is that a spoiler?
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I think that you may see Tracy Letts at some point. When you ask people to go to Thailand for seven months, they're gonna say, hi, I'm Leslie Bibb. I'll say yes, but I'd like to bring my partner. And Mike White says, your partner, Sam Rockwell, bring him, we'll use him. And then Sam Rockwell appears. I don't think anyone who's paying attention was surprised to see Sam Rockwell on the screen.
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I think he said, oh, that makes total sense. Why sit in his room all day while his partner is filming? And he ends up getting such a great starter.
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It reminds me of the Christopher Walken monologue in Pulp Fiction in terms of subject matter and And now maybe that is considered spoiling. But the reason why it's getting so much attention is that, A, it's Sam Rockwell, one of the best actors alive.
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And B, it's done in a way that every time the scene continues and it almost looks like one take, you're looking and saying, there's no way he's going to. Oh, my God, he just went there. Well, that's it. He won't go further. And then it's further and further. And then when you're done with the scene, you're saying to yourself, this is brilliant, right?
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Because you don't even know what it has to do with the show. Nothing. Nothing.
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i i think you feel better i mean i'm sorry to do that to you again but no i'm just asking like i i'm hoping i want you in light of the irresponsible journalism that happened and befell the show about mental illness i'm just asking do you feel better telling me that you don't understand signage or you don't understand the concept of sales or quadrants i'm just curious if you don't like miro do you feel better
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Well, that's not true. That's not true at all. You have had a good time because you've gone to a game with your daughter. And you said that you had a very good time and made a memory with her. Yeah.
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It's not a new ballpark anymore. Let me start with that. This is now entering season number 14. But what I also will say, Mike, about Comerica and about some of the traditional ballparks, when it was being negotiated with the city of Miami and the county of Miami-Dade, nobody wanted a traditional park because they felt that would not reflect
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Miami and the newness and the new money and the Latin aspect of Miami. No one wanted a Camden Yards. It actually was part of the deal that the project would not be an old style retrofitted ballpark. So it was never even a possibility.
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But well, in Vegas, Mike, they're building the same looking thing. They're building the Sydney Opera House again in Vegas. And it's not it's it's closer to Marlins Park than it is to Comerica.
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Oh, I think that that's an argument that people in Pittsburgh would say that Bob Nutting is. I think that people in Chicago would say that Jerry Reinsdorf is. And I think I could probably keep going and go city by city. You have total location bias in that. And the fact of the matter is the Marlins at the payrolls they've had
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they should have been able to win because there's teams in the playoffs every year. Even the Marlins themselves were in the playoffs only a few years ago. And so far be it for me to defend Bruce Sherman, except to tell you that I think it's the results that you're playing, not the payroll.
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Well, there's no actual salary floor. I think what you're referring to, Dan, is that the union has an opportunity to file a grievance. And there was a grievance filed against us and many other teams over the years when the union thinks the payroll is too low. It should be very telling to you if no grievance is filed against the Marlins this year.
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It means that the union looked at the books, which they do every year. They get our financial statements. And they see exactly the revenue and they see the losses and therefore they see that there is no grievance to be won. Sometimes they just file it for PR, but other years they know there's nothing they can do.
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The Marlins are putting out a payroll that is really related to the revenue that they have, which is bleak.
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No, I take pleasure in knowing that that is the laziest take of all time from someone of your stature, that you would say that an ownership group, because they paid too much. It's like saying you bought a house for too much, so therefore you don't mow the lawn. It's completely ridiculous. Or you let the pool turn into moss because you paid too much for the house. Did they overpay for the Marlins?
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You bet your sweet bippy they did. But that has nothing to do with the ongoing operation.
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They overpaid by probably four to six hundred million dollars, given where the other bids were.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
So it's not my problem. So I don't take satisfaction. It's if you overpay for a house or a car or a piece of memorabilia or you overpay and whatever it is you're doing, that means you can't allocate toward other things. That really has nothing to do with the seller at all.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
oh we actually rehearse that mike we rehearse if something happens that interrupts the field of play you rehearse it with your cleaning crew with your security what you would do if there has to be a stoppage because normally it's going to be a spilling of beer or a throwing of popcorn or something that would get on the field but of course you plan for the occasional vomit
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
And the way you do it is you are sprung into action. You've got people who are assigned the mop, people who are assigned the pail. You've got people who are assigned the spray. You've got people who understand what to do about giving free stuff to the people next to where the vomit happened or where the spill happened in order to make sure that your customers are happy.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
So you go right to page 68 of the playbook and that is what the Knicks did and you keep on going. So it doesn't matter whether it's Tracy Morgan, or a person to be named later or nameless later. They very well knew what to do. And it's gross, but it's the least gross thing.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
At the end of the games, I would get a report and it wasn't labeled this, but I would label it like the top ten grossest things from the game. Like what happened in the bathroom at Section 104? And you get a report of, hey, there was a stuffed toilet or there was a spill or there was people who were over-served. And vomiting barely makes your top 10.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
Yeah, but you don't do it with vomit. You do it with you just spill stuff. You spill a liquid. We didn't put chunks in it. We didn't do anything like that to make it vomit. We would just do it with water. We wouldn't even do it with sticky stuff like beer, even though beer is the most commonly thing. The most common thing that spilled in your ballpark is beer.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
But no, you don't practice with actual beer.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
Yeah, but I don't start a fire every time I do a fire drill.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
well maybe if you did you'd be better prepared for a fire wow okay I don't even know how to respond to that I do not believe that it is appropriate to start a fire in order to practice what to do active shooter drills we do all the time we don't have an active shooter who is actually shooting at people but we are prepared with what to do when that happens that was unnecessary
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
I don't recall anybody even being over served. Obviously, we have a lot of celebrities who came to games over the years, and I don't recall ever having to kick anyone out or having a crossword with them. I don't I certainly recall throwing people out every game. There's people who go to the medical center and you get a full report of everybody who goes for liability purposes.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
Most of the time they're over served or they've been hit by a foul ball and you got to keep track of that. But we would I was never told over 18 years that, hey, there's a celebrity here. And if they're going to be over served, it would be in the suite where I was. And so we would be in control of that.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
It is just me trying to appeal to you and the demographic that you bring when you're on the show. And I believe the expression is, bet you're sweet, Bippy. You need to stop doing all of that.
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The Big Suey: You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
All right. All right. Let's just give me 10 seconds. Just pretend you're not there and that Greg is running the show. Greg, I have been saying bet your bippy on nothing personal. And I had someone reach out to me at David Sampson podcast dot com, who was in college, who loved laughing and said, you're doing it wrong. It's bet your sweet bippy. And I've never said anything.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
So, Dan. And the argument started because when I got in touch with Nick, he was not aware that I was president of the team in 03 when the Marlins beat his Yankees. And so he did some sort of ridiculous Google search of some sort, or maybe his PR people or his brother, who is a star of my favorite movie, Fearless, number one. Somehow he discovered that I crushed him in 2003.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
And he had this this visceral anger about that. thinking that they were the better team when, of course, they were the far inferior. Oh, my God. Your team was so far inferior to us in 03. It's not even worth discussing. Wow. Well, we were flat, flat as a button. I mean, you know, you won that Bartman series. What'd you win? You won Steve Bartman.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Steve Bartman had nothing to do with it, Nick, and I told you that via text. I asked you not to bring it up because it had nothing to do with Steve Bartman. He was just sort of the easy thing because of the Billy Goat curse. I asked him not to bring it up.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Really?
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
They were an afterthought.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
I hope you like your pennant ring. This guy is good.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
That's all you got in 03, a little pennant ring. Oh, you won the title in 04. Oh, no, sorry, that was the Red Sox when you had a 3-0 lead.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Hmm. Well, I had issues with both of them because they were both incredibly unfair to me and to our team over the years. And the way we would figure out who we disliked the most was always based on the most recent column. And we would try to get them to write something positive. We would beg for it. And none of them ever did. Cody was rude with great reach.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Dave Hyde was way more biting and way more grumpy about it. and way more angry about it. So to me, it was a tie for the sort of lascivious, prurient writing that I wanted no part of.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Would you have that sort of same sort of calm? Hey, Juan, man, thanks for last season. Love you. Good luck in flushing. Or would you be willing to show him that rage right with him as our guest?
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Because we show you Michael Kay and all of a sudden you become this almost uninteresting normal guy.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
It certainly felt that way to me because the vigor and the passion, all of a sudden Michael comes up sounding like a robot with an outstanding holiday party day technological issue. And I saw Nick sort of recoil as Michael was about to discuss whether or not he knows, loves, and appreciates Nick's rage.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Don Levitard.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
We've got you. We've all got each other. Let's go right now.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
One, two, three, Brett. One, two, three, Brett.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
But watching... Michael, I would ask... Someone, a fan like Nick, your job is to try to explain what Brian Cashman and Hal Starmer's plan B is. And are you willing to and able to convince Nick that the plan B that you've seen is actually making the Yankees a better team when DraftKings has a futures line that says the Yankees are the exact same? Their win total is 93 and a half with Soto.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
It's now 93 and a half with Freed and with Williams and with Bellinger.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Cody.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Cody, that's a fine.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
They always do it, Dan. It's his specialty. He wouldn't go to your funeral. No, he wouldn't.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
I said that I wouldn't and neither would you, Dan. Now, Nick may be there holding up some sort of sign of protest or some sort of sign of love, but I would say, Dan, that's an easy game. Would you go to Michael Kay's funeral? I'm a no on that. Now, maybe if Bob Costas were doing the eulogy, we'd have to reconsider. Wow. Would you go to Bob Costas' funeral, David? Of course he would.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
It's become more of a possibility recently, but it depends on timing.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
No, no, I don't think you would, Michael. I don't. You're too busy. You're doing stuff every day. You wouldn't cancel like any plan you had to go to Nick Turturro's funeral.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
And if I were 6'4", I could dunk.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Bye, guys. You're welcome, Dan. See you. Happy holidays. You're welcome.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
I would tell you that Mike Ryan is having me watch movies that make me incredibly uncomfortable. And I did it for you, Mike. I watched Heretic. Heretic is a movie with Hugh Grant, and it's about the Book of Mormon. Hi, my name is Elder Cunningham, Josh Gad, except two Mormon missionaries go to a door, Hugh Grant answers, and it starts the process of an amazing theological discussion.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
The first part of the movie is really cool about everything you think about religion. And then it gets weird when you realize there may be no way for them to ever leave, which was my worst nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt anxious. I felt nervous.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
i was texting mike while i was watching because i was doing it in the middle of the night i didn't press send i did send later mike you're welcome but i was scared so i ended up with all the lights on by the end i had the theater door open and i stopped watching the movie to do laps around the house to make sure there was no one in there all in all it was an uncomfortable uncomfortable watch but an important watch where you can have great discussions
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Just hit leave, Michael and Nick.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
I get scared all the time, Michael, and you can't watch it. You have young children, I believe. 10 and a 12 year old. That is way too young. They may not watch this movie. You will be stuck with them in your bed for the rest of your life.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
This is a total disaster. Oh, it's great. Knowledge. All right. A couple of things of cleanup. Number one, Nick, the Yankees absolutely know you exist and they love you and appreciate you, but they're not going to give you anything free. Number two, Bob, we love you. I agree that sometimes there are people who don't get you.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
but we get you here at the Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gatz and Nothing Personal with David Sampson. So please just know that Nick is speaking on behalf of Nick at a particular moment. Thank you. Back to our regularly scheduled late segments.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
Nick, that's all he does. That's his job. He's the best ever of describing what you're supposed to look at. Now you're looking at it in a different way. You're wrong.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
I just think, Nick, that during your mania, you may not have realized that Aaron Judge was not exactly the recruiting perfect person for Juan Soto, because what we've discovered, which I think you know as a baseball fan, it's not that all the players love each other off the field. And Aaron Judge, really, he wasn't interested in recruiting Juan Soto.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
And it turns out Juan Soto didn't really need to play with Aaron Judge or enjoy playing with Aaron Judge. So your mania regarding him not choosing Judge, you know, of course, he was choosing himself, which he's been doing his entire career.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
No, you've got it right. They had a plan B that they just thrust themselves into by signing Freed to an absolutely outrageous contract, thinking Cody Bellinger is the answer to their centerfield prayers, who's so overpaid it's hard to imagine because he won an MVP once upon a time. And then Devin Williams, he is dicey because you can't build your bullpen during the offseason.
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Hour 1: Nick Turturro's Yankees Fan Rage With David Samson And Michael Kay
We know that doesn't work, but the Yankees had to respond to Nick because Nick lost his mind. So Brian Cashman had to make all these moves because Hal was worried that Nick was somehow going to throw a bat in his general direction. So they've been signing players sort of like drunken sailors.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
It's pretty shocking that you want to discuss this now because this has been going on for decades where there have been power brokers both outside the government who don't want to be in the government because they have more power not being the president or not being in the Senate. They have power pulling the strings.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
We've been dealing with this with sports where you have owners who have been very quiet about their support of the right, except all that's changed is they're less quiet. And when you look at someone like Miriam Adelson name, you didn't mention who took over the Mavericks from Mark Cuban. Her husband was the number one far right. Absolute what I would call
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
Let me talk about Sheldon Ellison for one second. He was such that his wife couldn't be approved as owner of the Mavericks, so they had to have the son-in-law as the control person. So the NBA could have plausible deniability that they were kowtowing to people who have those views.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
Except in sports, they've always wanted people around them who have those views because they're always interested in maximizing their valuations and their relationships with government because they need the protections the government provides. What Donald Trump has allowed for is people to be more open.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
When you've got the Ricketts family, when Tom Ricketts was approved as owner, he was approved to own the Cubs only knowing that it was a trust that his father was funding. But his father could have nothing to do with the operation of the Cubs. So baseball could say, oh, we're not far right. But it's horse hockey. Of course, Joe Ricketts has been involved.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
Todd Ricketts has been involved in the operation of the Cubs. We just lie to the fans in order for them to believe that we are woke, that we are far left, that we care so much. But they've never cared, ever. They just hide it less well these days.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
They are just devious. Pablo, people have known that forever. What's actually different now is something that you're not focusing on. It's that they've got the support of over half the country. We can talk all we want about where who's the president. The fact is, when you've got 70 million people It is not, this is the country we are.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
We elected Trump to office and now these owners and these billionaires, they've got the cover that they never had before. You don't need to work in the shadows when you have popular support. And that's what they have. Mark Zuckerberg knows that he's fine on Facebook.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
He looks at the stock price of Meta and he recognizes that it's being bolstered not by people who disagree with him, but by people who agree with him. So he's going to lean into that.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
We've seen the movie. We all saw Social Network, Pablo.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
That's right. Pablo, your desire to be so ahead of us intellectually gets in the way of actual discourse because the corruption that you're discussing has existed since Jefferson, Burr, Hamilton. There's been government corruption since the beginning of time. Now you're saying they didn't vote for corruption?
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
But Pablo, there's nothing unique about what's happening. It's just not hidden anymore. That's the only thing. If you want to say that's what's unique, then we can talk about that. But the level of corruption now by the big go back to when go back to Ford, go back to when cars started, go back to the wheel or the go back to the wheel.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
When I'm talking about corruption, when I'm talking about power, yeah, oil. Are you just naming old things now? No, I'm naming every level of corruption that started with the caveman.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
The middle class has been disappearing for decades. Number one, number two, one of the most commonly common misconceptions is people saying, oh, this is different. This isn't like it was. This is worse. This is getting out of hand. If you go back to the 70s, to the 60s, go back to the 20s, go back to the 1800s for crying out loud. People have the same point of view. This can't get any worse.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
The problem you have, Pablo, is that you're trying to explain to people something that they already know. You're not helping them find out something. You're not giving them an epiphany that, oh, my God, look who I voted into office. I had no idea what he was about. Of course they know.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
Maybe in 2016 they didn't know, but in 2024, of course they did, which is why all of this shouting into the wind is not necessary because this is our country. You like it or not, this is what we wanted and this is what we have.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
And guess what? I think you should buy stock and flip phones, Pablo. That's what you should do. Invest Violet's money in flip phones because that's where we're going to start going backwards. Because the world has spoken. The people have spoken. They don't want this sort of progress. They don't want this sort of connectivity. They are being, the wool is over everybody's eyes.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
You got this one right, Pablo.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
Back to school, Jessica. That's my college. University of Wisconsin. Thank you.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
It's Rodney Dangerfield. Great movie.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
And he wasn't shirtless. He had a skin-tight red tank top on with his beer belly. He was Van Wilder before Van Wilder.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
It was filmed at Wisconsin, Dan. It was so good. If Jessica's going to say Rudy because of Notre Dame, then you have to say that Wisconsin is back to school. Chris, did you just make a face because he called it Notre Dame?
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
The story is there's there's a team that has a falcon as a mascot. And when you have a falcon, you have a falconer who's the guy who controls the falcon and says, come back to me. And this guy got a penile implant because he wanted a button that he could press to control his erection and make sure that he can have sex whenever he wants to for however long he wants to.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
And then he posted pictures of it on his social media account. That's private. but somebody took a screenshot of it and then posted it publicly, and he got canned, absolutely fired, and he's shocked that he got fired for this penile implant. You had Jess sending this to you?
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
It's a button.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
She knows.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
Dan, help me right now because this is it. This may be the moment. This is it, huh? After all we've been through, this could be it. Is that a rosebud motel next to you? Hey, Schitt's Creek, how about that? That's my Hanukkah gift for my kids. The first episode aired 10 years ago yesterday.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
We're going to need to cover for Dan now because he's gone. We've lost him. So I'd like to talk about something. I'd like to talk about what it is to fire a player when you are reading a book on the sideline. And I'm sorry, Dan, you may not want to go there, but A.J. Brown's career with the Eagles is done. And I am so lit up about this subject.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
because I don't understand why the coach is absolutely supporting his ability to be distracted like that on the sideline, and we're allowing a player to say, oh, this had nothing to do with the fact that me and Jalen Hurts don't like each other, and I had one catch. I think it's an outrage.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
Jessica. It's just a spot. It's just a book. Whoa. It's a button, David.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
He won't be an Eagle, Stu. He won't be an Eagle. You cannot have someone on the sideline who is doing that. You cannot bring your pregame preparation onto the sideline. We just wouldn't allow it.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
He was reading to become better at his like he's he's preparing for his next by Matt that in the middle of a game, he needs to read a passage in order to remind himself what inner excellence is. Give me a small break. It's the middle of a playoff game.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
I mean, he won't even be targeted next week. Really? Maybe again, one target, one catch.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
You've never heard of basketball players, teammates, not passing each other the ball? Of course, yeah. Freezing a guy out? Yes, but this is a playoff game where you don't have a ton of time to think about stuff, you know? Oh, I think you think about it very deeply and strongly. And I think that A.J. Brown is going to walk himself right out of the playbook.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
Here's the book that I'd like him to read next weekend. How about the playbook or the unemployment income book? There's a whole book that we give you when we fire you, which is Cobra. It's how you can apply for unemployment. It's all the things you can do when you've been canned. That's the book I'd like to see A.J. Brown read.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
Well, those are big-time anti-Semites over there, and you don't want to generalize, but that team that he works for is well-known for their bad behavior, both fans everywhere in the organization, not a very inclusive place. But I guess being an anti-Semite is fine, but a penile implant, that's the line that you can't cross.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
I just don't see what the benefit is to Jerry Jones. When Deion went to the Buffaloes, it added a bunch of NIL money. They got a bunch of extra revenue at the school level with season tickets, etc. And it put their program on the map. The Cowboys valuation isn't going to go up with Deion Sanders. They need to win games and they need to win games in January and February.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
And to even flirt with Deion Sanders is a very funny thing for Jerry Jones, the GM, trying desperately to get away from Mike McCarthy and all the losing. So trying to go opposite of what McCarthy is because Deion's done nothing, really never been an NFL coach, obviously. And you could say that his success in Colorado was based on maybe his son and the Heisman Trophy winner.
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The Big Suey: Pablo Torre Could Have Saved The World (feat. David Samson & Pablo Torre)
I think this is a flirtation that will not actually result in a contract because there's just no ancillary benefit to Deion Sanders joining the Cowboys. Squash Allen.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
Well, you can look at Warren Buffett as someone who runs one major company, Berkshire Hathaway, but then underneath him, what he does is he buys companies that maintain their operators. And so he chooses his investments that way. He doesn't pretend to run all the companies that he owns. What I assume Elon Musk has is that he has operators for his businesses that are doing the day to day.
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He is involved, obviously, in the major strategic decisions. He will be involved, but not every day in the operation of Tesla or any of his other investments. I don't know how he'd have the time to do it. So the answer is there's only 24 hours in a day, and it is very difficult to actually be hands on
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with all the different things that he is claiming to be hands-on so my guess is he's far more of a chairman than he is an actual ceo of these companies
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
Yes, you would. We do a lot worse than that. I think that the issue that we're seeing now is just the timing and the way things are happening. The announcement yesterday that everyone in the white house is getting Teslas. It just is such a bad look with all of the slashing they're doing in aid, uh,
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to foreign countries and all of the trade wars and the stock market is plunging and all of the things that they're in theory trying to fix. There was really no reason for that sort of PR moment that they took yesterday. I thought the timing was strange for it. It wasn't going to really have such an impact on the stock. It wasn't going to impact Elon's wealth. It was some sort of favor for him.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
But the timing just didn't seem necessary.
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I have to change my whole movie review. I was going to review Ed Begley's movie, Who Killed the Electric Car, but you've totally ruined it, so now I can't review that. I'll have to do something else, Dan.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
Boy, that's a good one.
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I'm sorry. Are you saying that take is actually a correct take? I want to make sure I'm getting the show properly.
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Let's just start there because I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. But I would point out that far from defending Musk, which I shan't
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
do given his role as an unelected uh official in the government and what he's doing i will say that what he's done on the business side for tesla notwithstanding the recent slide where there's been a slide all over the place he has created wealth in a way that prior to trump becoming president he was creating wealth for himself with reckless indifference toward other people obviously but it's hard to call him not a successful businessman what a quack
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
I love the word shant.
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Chris and I are in a shant. But why would you use the word asshole in the poll? That is a leading poll that you're getting people to say that that's what I am for using it. That's just not fair, Dan. You're stacking the deck.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
I think the poll question is, does the person who uses shant by definition use Grey Poupon?
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
so yeah the fcc still has obviously that's why there is delays when you watch live shows because you cannot use those seven words now it's the funny that's the george carlin take of it but i actually when thinking of the seven words i don't think that this is one of them and i and this is where you're gonna make fun of me and i did this this morning too and i did it wrong is it tatas
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
No, it is not.
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That's how I said it this morning. I was trying to figure out what is the proper way to say it, and I couldn't. To be fair, Katie Nolan pronounced it T-tas.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
What do you mean it's impossible? It's impossible. So there are so many levels of approval that happen when new era comes out with a cap. First, the clubhouse manager gets an email that has all of the new designs for the upcoming season for authentic on field items. But that email goes to the team president. It goes to the head of marketing. It goes to the GM.
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And then we have to send back an approval that we approve that which baseball has designed. And before baseball sends it to you, they approve it from what New Era sends. So there are multiple levels. So it can't be, and I blame 80% of this on Texas and 20% on MLB and 20% on New Era. And the reason why I'm going 120 is that this mistake is so crazy to me that 100% is simply not enough.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
to not have the sensitivity or sensibility to proofread or to say out loud. Take a look at what, do you have a picture? And I didn't prep the video guys, sorry. Do you have a picture of the angels hat by chance? It was also pulled.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
It is an asset. It's almost unreal that these were not paid attention to by anybody. And everybody, including Texas, has bilingual employees. And so we would check. And of course, in Miami, you're much more thinking about that. But we would check everything for my missing something as a non-Spanish speaking team president.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
I had a consigliere who was completely bilingual and Cuban, and he would check everything.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
everything for me to make sure i wasn't missing something yes but samson what about the astros one that says assholes they're finger popping each other's assholes we weren't finger popping each other's assholes i think that's one of the words is it assholes i prefer the anals one but that's just me take the club please
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
I'm giving you all I got, captain.
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Well, it hurts. You're not supposed to sign pictures to long term deals because they're never going to work out. The examples maybe are Scherzer and Verlander as two deals that did work out, but the overwhelming majority do not. But owners don't seem to care about the analytics. They get told this by the commissioner's office. We are shown spreadsheets of all of the contracts that we all sign.
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And it used to be, in the early 2000s, Bud Selig would put contracts on the board that were bad, but not call out the teams that did it, not assign it to a player or a team. As his career winded down and as Rob started, they forewent all of that, and they just would put it right up there. Look what the Marlins did. And they'd go team by team with all the bad contracts.
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But the real mistake that's happening right now is Yankee fans seem to think that the Yankees have 27 extra million dollars because of an insurance policy they had on Garrett Cole.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
But what they're neglecting to understand is while you do get the 27 million, that's the amount of payment from an insurance company after you fight with them, but Garrett Cole's entire salary still counts toward the luxury tax. And so if you take that 27 million and put it back into your team in the form of Sandy Al Contra as an example, you are going to the next level of luxury tax penalties.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
So they are not gonna reuse that money. They're gonna keep that money and use it to pay down debt or use it to balance the books. But it's a real pickle the Yankees are in, but it's of their own making because of the contract they signed.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
I get what you're saying. I mean, that's actually an interesting question. Take a look at a team like the Rays. And what they do and what we try to do is we want to bring pitchers in pre-arbitration, meaning they're making the league minimum.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
We want velo pitchers who can throw 96, 98, can touch 100, and we're going to throw them out there until their arm falls off and then cycle through and get the next one. And so that is what front offices have been asked to do for all of these years. And you've seen that starting pitching has become less important because they're not going as many innings.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
Yet at the tip top of the market, it stayed where it is. But if you look at the middle class of starting pitchers, they really are being eliminated. And if you look at the middle class of bullpen arms, they're being eliminated because the view is, take guys and just cycle through them. And it doesn't really matter whether or not they get hurt.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
It only matters when you have them long term, which is why teams shouldn't sign the players to these type of deals. You got it. I mean, in the CBA basketball did it for the owners. I believe they put it in that there's a maximum number of years that you can sign a player to. Yep.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
uh david do you recommend that the marlins trade sandy now because they're not going to sign him long term he already is signed long term he's in the middle of that long-term contract sandy will be on the next contract by the time the marlins are ready to win again for their next window he is guaranteed to get traded but you get more for a starting pitcher at the deadline than you do at the beginning of the season
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
So while it will cost the Marlins about $8.5 million to throw Sandy every five days on a 100-loss team, it is still worth the $8.5 million because of the prospect capital they'll get back at the deadline from a team that is winning and ready to win this particular season.
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Well, they had to.
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So position players are less valuable at the deadline and more valuable in the off-season. Pitching is more valuable at the deadline, especially bullpen pitching, than it is during the off-season. So Arias is a position player, and what you had was an over-aggressive general manager, an A.J. Preller, willing to do what Peter Bendix considered was an overpay, and you knew you weren't keeping Arias.
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There was no way to do it. So anytime you get an overpay, you're gonna pull the trigger.
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No, I have one that I want to talk about, and I really hope that some of you saw it. It's called This is the Tom Green Documentary.
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Did you lose interest in The Last Dance after 10 minutes? Got him. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know if my microphone is working. But so, yes, Tom Green did do this documentary about himself. And it happens to be a fantastic documentary. And he's not really saying that he's anyone other than who he was. He's someone who had a moment or two of fame.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
He is someone that now continues to actually do good work. and it goes through some of his trials and tribulations. I was enthralled and it did not matter to me that he did it because in this day and age, Dan, people are doing their own content all the time. All the players and all people are involved with their own production companies and they're really editing their own content.
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So I didn't find that to be as outrageous as you did. And I was totally entertained and interested. And I went back and I did a double feature after watching the documentary and I watched Road Trip again. which is a movie that I assume Amin has seen, but nobody else in the room.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
What, you had class? You're telling me you couldn't be an extra in Road Trip because you had class? Yeah. And look where it got you. There you go.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
I really made a mistake there, Billy, by talking about that his New York City apartment wasn't big enough. He had everyone going great. And I watched the first episode. I did not watch the second episode yet, but I can't stop. It's sort of like a train wreck. I'm watching it and I can't stop. But when he complained about the size of his New York apartment, that lost the ability to be relatable.
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Well, he also like I was reading.
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or who's here i do not have a house in east hampton but thank you for mentioning that well what's your toilet situation just so we clarify all of this we like to call it a sitch i have enough toilets that should i have stomach issues i have an opportunity to let every toilet recover
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
I have enough toilets that I'm happy to count for you, but it's going to be three, four, four and a half, five. What's a half toilet? You have a urinal? Wow. A half bath is when there's a toilet but not a shower.
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i was hoping for this did you ever no one's heard that expression oh yeah i thought we were counting toilets but in order to count toilets i'm counting bathrooms and then i'm calculating whether they're halves or full he's got 10 bathrooms he could all day that's what he's telling you i'm just telling you that i have some stomach issues and i've got a level of anxiety that leads to stomach issues i don't stress eat on the opposite of that and i just had the conversation with coca today i said what do i do if during the live show i have to use the bathroom
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because I've had some emergencies happen during the course of Nothing Personal. And he said, the show goes on, wear a diaper if you have to.
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I've got the greatest metal arc setup of all time. It's a camera. It's a toilet that you're sitting on. You can't move this stuff to the bathroom.
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Well, that's coming after listening to an entire 37 minutes relitigating stuff from yesterday. So I was just trying to decide at what point we'd be willing to go to today's show. It's totally up to you. You're the leader of this intrepid team. So let me know.
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Dan, does your microphone actually work? Like, are we having technical issues?
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I'm just watching time move inextricably on past what I expected it to be. I'm very interested in Jameis Winston and Lasix. That's tremendous. That's tremendous Charlie Sheen type major league insight. that he couldn't see, and now all of a sudden he can see, therefore the Jets have made a good signing?
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Do you know how many times, I mean, we would say to players when they were in a slump and we'd do the Charlie Sheen thing, we'd say, hey, listen, can we by chance check your eyesight? So we would do it during preseason physicals. We'd have them all do the eye chart and do all this stuff.
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But any time we had scouted someone or signed someone that we thought would be better and when they weren't performing, it didn't occur to us that we were bad at evaluating. It occurred to us that maybe they needed glasses. It's so asinine to try to cover up your lack of ability to choose good players with some sort of physical issue regarding eyesight. No stone unturned.
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I will pay the Venmo fine. I did on this morning's nothing personal. I did a bit of a quarterback was gonna be in the show, Daniel Jones going to the Vikings. And I couldn't get to the topic because we only had 50 minutes to do the whole show. So I couldn't get to it. And so I now have an entire day to worry about how I'm gonna deal with all of the quarterback carousel tomorrow.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
so not pudge but i was gonna do and i did something for uh on also on this morning show when i did a uh obituary for junior bridgeman i tried to come up with a top five list on the fly of business leaders former basketball players or former athletes and i have junior bridgeman there and i put magic johnson in the top five I put Shaquille O'Neal in the top five.
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I put Jamal Mashburn in the top five and I put Junior Bridgman in the top five. And then I struggled. I mean, I need a fifth NBA player who has had a level of post-career success that is off the charts financially. Who do you got for me?
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
So the reason why I didn't have Michael Jordan and now that I think about it, I guess he has to be is I believe that a lot of the wealth came from, according to the movie Air, came from a contract that he signed as a player that gave him continuing in perpetuity rights from the Jordan brand of Nike. Not that he should be poo-pooed for such a business deal, but that was not necessarily post-career.
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Did he get it from Junior Bridgman? Because the majority of his wealth was from buying franchises of Wendy's and Chili's. And of course, there's now 10% of the Bucs that he bought last year. And people didn't realize that. He is a major owner of the Milwaukee Bucs.
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That's a winner. For me, Dan, there's been so many players. We talk to them about financial prudence and we try to explain how to save money. And not many players are good at it and they don't really understand it. And agents don't help because we try to get financial advisors to advise the players, but agents really get in the way of that because they want total control of the players.
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And so they'll start investment arms, a lot of these agencies, where they'll try to
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talk about and get another percentage above just the fee for doing the contract for do being an investment advisor for the player and we always advise our players to go in a different direction than that you do need diversity uh when it comes to your agents and your money managers but you're right dan i'd say it's the biggest problem that faces players in their post career
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is that no matter how much money they make in their career, they don't realize they'll never make more again. And of course, we just in the top five of those who do. But those are the exceptions, not the rule.
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The Big Suey: We Talked About an Asshat (feat. David Samson)
yeah you can't you can't blame him for that sort of mistake i understand he's an analyst on inside the nba making a ton of money to do it but those types of things happen so i don't criticize shaq for that the correction should have been made it was made and i just wouldn't have doubled down by saying i don't watch detroit that's not what i want my top analysts to say i want them to like the whole league but dan i'm not going to criticize shaq for that one
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
Am I confused here, Mike? Is Title IX being rescinded or is it the allocation?
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
That's my point.
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And I'm just curious. I'd like you to think about one thing, Jeremy. Imagine if a podcast comes out and it doesn't have an audience, really, and there's no commercials, there's no monetization, but Metal Ark is forced to give that podcast a percentage of its on-air time. It's not based on a return on investment.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
It's based on nothing but, oh, let's do this for this show, which has not proven to do anything for the bottom line. Do you think that's fair?
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Then it's my fault. I didn't realize that in the middle of a show, there's a crisis that requires you to do this. But that's fine. I believe in you and your ability to discern crises.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
I don't believe it's not an argument to keep saying that merits the wrong word. It's a false equivalence. I'm asking you a very simple question, and I understand if you don't want to get into the debate because it can get personal in a way I don't mean to get personal. But I'm asking a simple question that what we're saying with this ruling is that we're going to keep giving money to players.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
They're going to keep getting paid, but we're going to pay the players who are good. We're going to pay the players who can be helpful to a program. And the program being profitable is exactly how these other sports can survive.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
I've heard that argument for 20 years. If you don't invest in something, then how can you bear the fruits of that investment? You know how much money baseball spent trying to find an Indian baseball player? So much money. And finally, they said, you know what? This is stupid. We can't find anybody. I think they had those two pirates, guys.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
They were trying to open up that market the way Yao Ming did for China in the NBA. At some point, you just say to yourself, wow, this is throwing good money after bad, which is the single most important economic principle.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
And there are companies that have tremendous budgets for R&D. And there's a percentage of breakage in all of those budgets where you don't assume that there will be any fruit that comes from that investment. Pharmaceutical companies do it. Media companies do it. It's a very common thing.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
But at some point, you've got to allow the companies to make the decision of where they're going to buttress an investment and where they're going to cut it off.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
I don't know what sour smell taste is. I merely am just sitting here. Can we start, though? Have we even started yet?
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
We've got you. We've all got each other. Let's go right now.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
One, two, three, Brett.
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I got the call that this was happening. Yeah. And what I thought the call was is, hey, it's the we're doing something and we'd like to bring you back to be a part of it because I haven't been invited back to do anything and I haven't been back in seven years. You think that they were inviting you to be a part of something Hall of Fame related?
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
not to be inducted but to be part of a ceremony to be part of recognizing the past i was not recognized during the anniversary or even invited to like watch it the anniversary of the world series championship so i thought that that's what the call was but in fact it was a call preparing me for the fact that the marlins were doing a hall of fame and wondering whether i'd be willing to cover it cover it like mention it in my show right uh isn't that what cover it means
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
I am overwhelmed with gratitude. Overwhelmed, like it towers over me every day. It makes me feel four foot five. That's how heavy the gratitude is that I carry with me every day for being in your orbit. Of course, I love you and your show.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
i'm guessing david thinks he should be in the marlins hall of fame and i'm not i'm not certain he's wrong i mean he did win a world series as team president and got a ballpark opened yeah uh and so do i think that i should be in the first class absolutely not do i think that when you look at important figures in the history of the franchise am i in that conversation i don't i don't know how to argue against that
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
I did not kill baseball. I saved baseball in the market, actually.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
Mike, I would like you to never go to a game or an event. I'd like you not to have a moment with your child. I'd like you to just pretend that the park doesn't exist. Me too. And when it comes.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
You killed sports on that burial ground. I'm not going to, first of all, the smell of the orange bowl. This is what we want to protect in Miami.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
But I also understand having been there last week when you were in New Orleans, I should point out, regardless of your view or the audience's view, we were on time. Oh, so you're going to blame me for this? It's hard to not blame you because I've been there with you. And somehow you just get into conversations during a break that's supposed to be 30 seconds. And I have Chris Cody just texting me.
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Just I just wanted one or two square blocks around the Orange Bowl. And listen, the Hall of Fame, it's not necessarily about who you like or what trade you didn't like. It's about people who mean something to the organization. What is it? What is your view of Karl Barger? Is he someone who should have had his number retired or not?
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Is it because he died young?
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Business. We're trying to have a functioning company where we acknowledge and take care of our sponsors and we do things that are monetizable so that you all can get paid. Are you actually asking me how and why we do this? Could have just said, David, you got a top five. Go for it. Jesus, Dan. Can you can you onboard that better?
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Just say Valentine's Day is coming up on Friday, February 14th. And I assume that everyone's going to do something nice for either themselves or someone else.
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and david do you have a top five list and i would have said this top five is brought to you by nick's professional makeup shop now at nick's cosmetics.com or a retailer near you and then i would say get the music ready i've got a top five sports movie kisses let's do it all right there's music huh
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Oh, no, I have OLI.
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This is OLI just for you, Stu. Rocky, the kiss between Rocky and Adrian.
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I have another OLI, and this one's for you, Dan. The kiss between Richard Dreyfuss and Terry Garr at the end of Let It Ride when he says, I'm having a really good day.
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Hey, man, sorry about this. I can't get him to stop.
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It's a Hall of Fame movie.
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And I will take that to my grave, which may be coming sooner than you thought. Can I go to number five, Chris? Sure. Top five sports movie kisses. Number five. For the love of the game, the kiss between Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston. That was hot.
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Kissed off the glass. Number four. Onions. The wrestler. Kissed between Marissa Tomei and Mickey Rourke.
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Tomato. Tomato. Uh... I'll get to the Venmo bucket in a minute because I actually followed the rules of the Venmo bucket and Venmo'd money into the bucket. And I was made fun of by certain people saying that nobody actually does the Venmo. That's a different sponsor.
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Stay with Nick. The number three sports movie kiss, which is brought to you by Nick's Professional Makeup, is a movie called Love and Basketball. There is a kiss between the characters, Quincy and Monica. You may want to watch that. Number two, who's not interested in tennis?
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Okay. Number two, Challengers. There is a three-way kiss between Zendaya, a guy named Mike Feist, the actor, and Josh O'Connor. If you haven't seen Challengers, the score should have been nominated for an Oscar, and it wasn't. This scene when they're on the bed, you're thinking to yourself, what am I about to see? And then you don't see it.
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He's right about challengers, though. Number one. The number one sports movie kiss of all time is in a movie called Major League with Rene Russo and Tom Berringer at the end after they've won the pennant and they kiss in a way that makes you feel like sports is life.
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One of the rules that I changed at the Marlins is that I no longer accepted Cuban time. When I got to Miami, that was a thing that I was told that, hey, the meeting may not start on time because we have something called Cuban time here. And I said, I don't know what that means. When there's a game at 7.05, the game's at 7.05. When there's a marketing meeting at 3.10, it's at 3.10.
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I wanted, Mike, I didn't know you were in because I can never understand the schedule, but I did watch Nosferatu and I do want to review it with you on the air because it's still with me.
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Well, I won't watch horror movies until you ask me to. And the jump scares in the beginning, I almost didn't make it through. Nosferatu is nominated for multiple Academy Awards, especially in a category that you wouldn't expect, cinematography. It is one of the... It is one of the most beautiful film shot of the year. Why do I say it?
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Because you are looking at Lily Rose Depp, who got her way past the idol. You are looking at one of the scars guards who is playing in makeup that should win best makeup. And he is 10 feet tall playing the... How much do I owe? Just tell me. Seven. Seven dollars. I'll pay whatever you want.
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Whatever we want. Seven dollars. I'll memo anything you want. I don't exactly know how to get the door bird to go on silent when my phone's on silent.
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I'm happy I I will acknowledge it I'm mortified by it I don't know what to do about it finish your review my review is that if you have an opportunity to appreciate filmmaking and you can get through the fact that it is a period piece that is scary that's in black and white that has blood that is a strange sex scene maybe the strangest sex scene I've ever seen.
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And Mike, I consider Nosferatu for my top five kisses of all time when she goes in to kiss the vampire, which we can talk about. But I felt like the open sores took away from the beauty of the moment, but not the artistic value of it. It's a movie, Mike, that I absolutely loved. And here's a secret for you, Mike.
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I watched it twice because the first time through, I had my eyes covered for a decent percentage of it. And I wanted to get the whole experience with eyes wide open.
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With a bag of candy. Yes, I can't deny that any of that is not true. I do. I did watch the movie twice alone and I did do it when it was light out and I did do it in a room with lights on first time through because I didn't want to add to my level of fear. However, there was no candy during the movie. I was too scared of choking because I was anxious and I felt my throat closing.
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So I don't really understand how you can use a great culture with amazing smells that I'm jealous of as an excuse to be late.
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So I don't eat candy when I'm watching a movie when I have anxiety.
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Darren Revell right now is like, man, what happened?
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David. I'm going to say it could be me.
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You'll have to hold on, please. I'm getting a call from my agent. I'm live on the air, so I can't talk now. That's how important I am that I'm getting calls while on air because there's barely a time I'm not on air. For you. With such gratitude, I say that.
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i would say that i am more recognized i mean now we're getting into an ego thing but i'll do it and i and i know darren well friend but here we go i am more recognizable than darren revell more people could pick me out of a lineup than darren revell and when it comes to business acumen for someone who's done it and been there and is able to articulate it in a way that an audience can appreciate understand and laugh at i think that i have a leg up there as well
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Totally needless. Needless. And it keeps going now. He started a new company called Clicked Media where they do memorabilia stuff. Now we're helping.
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Clicked?
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Yes, CK. Slow down. CK. Clicked. Rapers. The movie with Adam Sandler. We know that. Okay, there you go. With an E-D.
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The Big Suey: David Samson's Case For The Marlins Hall of Fame
Well, he wouldn't explain it to you at all. So there you go. It is extremely interesting to me. And I didn't say that A-Rod was bad at business. I said that he wanted to own a team as badly as Derek Jeter wanted to own a team. And having the two of them both want to own the same team is what drove up the value of the Marlins to heights that it never should have gotten to.
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The competition between A-Rod and Jeter continues to this day. And don't be fooled by the acts they have on Fox. Those guys are not friends. And the reality is what Alex is doing in Minnesota, where he's putting in hundreds of millions of his own money, where Jeter put in nothing, really, and got a salary, actually.
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what A-Rod is going to own a percentage of the Minnesota Timberwolves that Derek never came close to with the Marlins. So A-Rod's actually seen his truth come to pass. And it happened because he got a favorable arbitration ruling because the octogenarian owner of the Timberwolves, a guy named Glenn Taylor, sold the team to A-Rod and Mark Lurie. years ago for $1.5 billion.
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Now the team is worth more. So Glenn Taylor was trying to get out of the deal, saying that A-Rod and Mark didn't properly finance it. It went all the way to an arbitration and the arbitrators ruled two days ago that A-Rod gets the team. So now they have to get approved by the National Basketball Association and Adam Silver and the owners, which they will.
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And they will then take over a team that many people think will leave the Timberwolves in a better place than it was under Glenn Taylor. And I, for one, am excited to watch him run a team because it's way different to plan a team or to run a team.
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And I think he's got a chance to be really good at it because he's always been willing to learn and listen and engage with people who have done things that he hasn't done. And if he keeps doing that, he's going to be really good. Of course, the number one thing he can do is not sign a contract, the likes of which he signed with Texas. That will be the best first step.
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So so let me just be clear about that, Stu. That's OK. If you look at that. I'm with you, by the way. Hold on. OK. That means that Darren Revelle, go look at the Levitard show. That means that that Darren Revelle is that much bigger than Dan and the Levitard show. And it's not even close. Right. No, I agree with you. And the value of him and his company and his show puts everyone else to shame.
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You don't think you're more recognizable than Darren Rebell?
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Yeah, I mean, it comes off strangely, actually.
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It's a fame-off. I'm not saying that he's not known or that he's not a cool guy or a dorky guy. I'm saying that when it comes to sports business, if you've got two choices of where to get info from, you're going to go to me, not him. And I'm also saying if you've got two people to make an appearance in an event, you're going to go to you and not him.
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it's a business they're running a business and it's it's like with metal arc or any business you want to give the money to the people who are producing and to the people who can generate revenue that's the reality of what these programs are doing and you're gonna see programs disappear and become less relevant because programs are losing money
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And when you've got private equity investments or you've got collectives who are funding players and teams, it's based on merit as it should be. And this will be challenged in court because there's everything that he's doing is being challenged.
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But there are certain things and not just the penny and hopefully the nickel going forward that are going to be changed that will actually be to the better. I just don't agree with the way in which they're going about it. But certain things make sense to me.
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i don't want to be told who to pay money to because i am putting and some imputed value of someone's worth based on something other than what their actual worth is why are you shaking your head mike
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But Mike, we're not pulling back, actually. This is not putting a cap on what NIL can be. This is actually just talking about the distribution of it. And when you talk about investment in gymnastics or other women's sports, when a Caitlin Clark comes around, there's a ton of investment that goes into it in order to try to bolster that and then duplicate that.
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So these opportunistic investors or collectives will still exist. But you have to have personality. You have to have Twitter followers. You have to have the ability to show a return on the investment. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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I don't disagree, and I'm not happy necessarily where we are in many of those regards, but I was trying to just explain the difference. I was trying to simply explain the difference of what this attempt is being made. It's to have allocations according to merit. And you say... Merit is the wrong word.
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It not even eight minutes Canadian. It's 9.52. Yeah.
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The only possible excuse here is that something majorly acute happened. That is the only way that you could make a change like this, three games to go. When the Hawks fired Hubie Brown, they were not in the playoff race, and that's the closest example we can find in the association.
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But now the problem is you had the vice chairman, the owner's son, go out and explain why he did it, and the explanation was incredibly bizarre. He made a statement and then went on TV saying, there were a lot of very disturbing trends. We evaluated this very carefully. As though to say that in a power struggle between the GM and the coach, the solution is to fire both. That's not the solution.
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You choose a side and you fire one of them and you don't do it with three games left. There's no need to because as a leader, you can empower the winning side of the power struggle and you can neuter the losing side without creating this sort of havoc. There was simply no upside to it.
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I expect the Denver Nuggets players to have a players-only meeting today before they play the Kings, and I expect them to just go play and ignore the idiocy that was exemplified by the front office.
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I spent my career chasing Amy after winning the World Series in 03. I know exactly what they're doing. Obviously, you want to do anything you can. You're not throwing away any season because you never know when you're going to do it again. So you try every year to do it. The Cronkies actually believe that this will make the difference in the Western Conference. And of course, it's silly.
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They promoted the assistant, the great Rick Edelman's son, to be the coach. Is he going to put in a whole new system in the draft, in the players, in the minutes? It's preposterous. There is no change that will happen with the Nuggets. Their fate is their fate. And all it does is make them look silly.
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Yeah, we had it in the Marlins organization where we had fights between general manager and manager or general manager and head of player personnel or general manager and AGM. And it was always a power struggle that exists in any company you have that. And that's why I'm telling you, you choose one side or the other, but you choose it at a point that makes sense for the organization.
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When you put the grenade, the John Morant grenade that was thrown into the Nuggets right now, You can't believe or imagine that it's going to be able to effectuate change quickly, as quickly as is required with three games left until the playoffs. There is nothing Edelman can do that's different than Malone.
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He's not going to change the players or the minutes because the owner could have had that done 10 games ago or 20 games ago. And so what they were evaluating, I can't figure out for the life of me. But for me, power struggles, we solve them. We choose a side and then we fire one of them. and keep the other and empower them more until they prove they're not good and then we fire that person too.
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Yeah, we chose Larry Beinfest until it was chosen Dan Jennings over Larry Beinfest. So power struggles change and The only thing that's common is that they're always existing in any company, and it's incumbent upon the owner, the president, to choose in that power struggle. It happens not in sports, it happens on Wall Street, it happens everywhere. And with the Nuggets, what they did is they said,
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Here's an idea. We're going to actually get rid of both of you. And in my experience, because I've considered this, the problem is then you've got to bring in somebody and you've got to start with the GM. Because if you hire a coach first, then you're basically emasculating whatever GM is brought in. So then you have to start with the GM.
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So you give an interim tag to Edelman and then start again during the offseason. Why didn't you just wait?
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We don't talk about this much, and I loved Jack McKeon. And if you go back and ask the players in 2003, what did you think of Jack McKeon? They would say, God, we loved him. He was the cuddliest old man. We didn't know what the hell he was doing. He didn't know half our names. He was doing things that were so outrageous that we couldn't stand it. But it worked.
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We happened to win games and then we won the World Series. By the way, two years later, we fired him because it wasn't working anymore. And so sometimes it's just about the moment and it's about having the right players getting this magic pixie dust and then you spend the rest of your life chasing it.
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Yeah, well, earlier he was fired during the season, if you remember. And Greg, you may have covered this. He got fired during a game. In October? No, it was not in October. It was during the actual regular season when he yelled at our owner during a game to sit down and shut up. So we fired him. And then the players did a mutiny.
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So we rehired him for the rest of the season, knowing we were going to fire him. And we begged him not to be the manager of the year. But we knew there was a chance because we had overperformed initially. giving the payroll, but it didn't stop us. But that was a power struggle between all of us and Girardi.
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It's a strange one, but you certainly don't invest a lot of money and time. You call up the writers and say, hey, excuse me, any chance you cannot vote for a guy, we're about to can him.
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Oh, we wanted to fire Girardi at the opening press conference, Larry and I, from minute one. We didn't want to hire him. He was not on our list, but he was a forced hire. And from the opening press conference, we knew that we were going to have a problem with him because he was making demands for coaches like Bobby Meacham and Mike Harkey and Gary Tuck to be hired.
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And he was just a nightmare from minute one. And we told the owner, we don't want to work with him. And the owner said, he's the manager. That is the decision. And so when Girardi, we led him to water. because Jeffrey liked to sit next to the dugout and yell at umpires and players, and we knew Girardi didn't like it, and we waited for that pot to boil and simmer.
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When Girardi stood up and yelled at him, we cheered up in the box. Up comes Jeffrey. Jeffrey says, get rid of him. And we were like, are you sure? Get rid of him right now. We're like, yes, baby. We walked down after the game and said, Joe, you're fired.
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Well, the in-game firing was Girardi, not McKeon. And so what happens is Jeffrey comes up and says, fire him. So we go down and we're standing outside the dugout and we get word in like, Joe, you're about to get fired. Just so you know, finish managing the game, but you're done. He comes in after the game and we say, by the way, you can't do that. You're gone. And we were so happy.
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But then that was a team of young players, as you recall. And those players, it was Uglin, it was Hanley. They loved Joe Girardi because he was a player's manager. It was his first time managing. He didn't really know what he was doing. And they did a mutiny in the clubhouse. When we told the players, just like Kroenke has to tell the Nuggets players, hey, Mike Malone's gone.
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The players basically said, you know, we're not going to play. And I said, of course you're going to play. We'll send you all down. Like, you're going to play or you won't get paid. And they said, no, we're going to go to Jeffrey, and we're not going to play. And so we then had to crawl back to Jeffrey and say, uh-oh, we got to keep Girardi for the rest of the year.
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But we'll can him the minute the year's over. But these players are being ridiculous, and they're just young infants, but we're going to have to acquiesce to them. It was a nightmare, Greg. I don't know how much the media was aware of that as it was happening, but you were all outside the clubhouse while all of this was happening. The mutiny happened when the clubhouse was closed after the game.
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So I was sort of the coordinator of the event of the time with Saquon. I was helpful in trying to get that accomplished.
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You kind of sound like a pimp. All right, now, coordinator. There was no sex in the green room.
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there is that now if you're a rock star on tour i would say that there could be sex in the green room or in the after show but in this case no this was a green room at a bar mitzvah at a venue so the detail is that i was asked to help foment an appearance by a football player And the thought was that the bar mitzvah boy's favorite player was Saquon Barkley.
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And would I have any ability to help bring Saquon Barkley to this child's bar mitzvah? And the answer is, of course I could. I did. And it was a about a five month process, but it all worked out in the end. And he did make the appearance and he couldn't have been better.
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Well, I'm not going to talk about it. I'm just saying that the promo that you asked for, I'd like. It's all good. That's how you're leading the segment? You just talked.
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Why don't we talk about what a great promo was that GoodFollow just had and encourage people to watch GoodFollow and engage with it and stop pointing out the things that aren't done by MetalArk or by me and things that are done we should focus on, like how great GoodFollow is.
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So his agents were great. His mother's great. He's great. But the fact of the matter is that we identified him as a guest many, many moons before he was going to break Eric Dickerson's record, many moons before the Eagles had their run to the Super Bowl. And I did have the mother of the bar mitzvah boy calling me every five minutes saying,
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for two weeks in between the NFC Championship and the Super Bowl saying, what are we rooting for here? Is he going to blow us off if he wins? Is he going to blow us off because he's angry if they lose? And of course, when the Eagles had that big lead at the half, she called and said, and what's your decision? So I did have to speak to the agents after the Super Bowl.
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And as you'd imagine, there is a rate card difference once you're a Super Bowl champion. But a deal is a deal. And once you sign a deal, that's your deal. And Saquon, again, could not have been a better choice in terms of the way he acted and how great he was. But it's more than an hour. There's travel time to the venue. He doesn't live in New York anymore. So there's travel time to the venue.
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There's travel time back home. So it's a pretty big commitment from him. And the good news is that he wrapped it around other appearances at much higher rates because he's able to do that in a way that with our deal, we had a contract signed already.
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There were people who asked him for a hug. And I said, as his protector for the time he was there, I played the bad guy. And I said, there will be no hugging. So I started with that. I allowed a few fist bumps.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
No, I'm a big hugger, Dan. I love hugging, but there's no reason to have people hug Saquon. So I had a list of me as your answer. We had agreements on how many photos would be taken or how many things would be signed or how long he'd be there. And I had very, very detailed lists that I still have with me that have each photo and each thing that's signed. So it was extremely organized.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
And at the end of the time, Saquon said he's never had an appearance quite like that one. where he was so well respected and handled in a way that made him realize that, yes, I had run a team before and been around athletes before.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I mean, he had to be back in the car. The deal was that he'd be back in the car at 730 on his way out the door. He was back in the car at 729. And to get that done... the rush of people who had to be parted. I mean, he's a major, especially at a bar mitzvah you're talking or anywhere. Saquon Barkley is an A-lister when it comes to 13 year old boys and their parents.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
And having been a former giant and having just won the Super Bowl, there was a tremendous amount of activity. And I did not have security hired because I didn't want to pay for that or have anyone pay for that. So instead, I was the security. And the irony is that I counted. I mean, you'll be pleased with the fact that my brain was working.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
There were 12 of the 13-year-old boys who were already taller than I was, and they were awfully aggressive, but yet I somehow was able, even in my blazer, to fend them off Heisman style.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Oh, that's a great blazer. You were lead blocking for Saquon Barkley. I was actually, and it's funny because yes, I am smaller than he is by a lot. And there were bigger people around me, but my voice was strong. And remember, I had incentive to do this, which is I wanted to be protective of him and how great he was and all of the great charitable work, all the cool stuff he does.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I didn't want him to have a bad taste in his mouth about bar mitzvahs because there are certain people who don't make those type of appearances.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I absolutely did.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
He hinted at that. I'm still looking for graphics help. So the answer is... I have no I don't know. I just know that when you asked me to join, it was for two years and the two years is up this month. So this is your opportunity to get rid of me permanently. Are you coveted? I guess you'll just have to figure that out if you do like nothing personal when you listen.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
How do you do it as a security guard? No, when you're 65 inches, you do everything with your voice. I do nothing physically because that's going to be a losing proposition. So I do it with my voice.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
But he can only go to 64. There's going to be very little shrinkage, Billy. I'm with you. No matter where I swim.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
No, I didn't say bar mitzvah to bar mitzvah.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
It would not be out of the question for Saquon Barkley to be able to make that amount of money. It just would not. Do I think it happened Saturday? I'd have no way to know, but I would doubt it. There's a nice hug with me and Dominique. Although that was more of a dab than a hug, I believe. Dab. Damn it. Damn it.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I want it to be so cool right there.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Yeah, it's not uncommon to promote when you are playing against a team that has a former player of yours. It is uncommon to do it at that time. My issue with this, Dan, was the timing. And I mean, I can tell you that there has gotta be a big mistake that they announced this season ticket price increase. And let me tell you how the math should have worked.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
If I wanna increase my gate revenue, I'm gonna increase floor seats because you get a lot more bang for your buck by going from 300 to 400. And then you do by raising tickets in the upper deck from 20 to 24. And then it looks like you're doing a 20% price increase. You're really always solving to maximize your revenue.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
And what I told my salespeople after a bad year is we want to announce no increase
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
increase but we are going to increase revenue by increasing certain tickets but we want to be able to have a pr statement that says overall there was no price increase and we wouldn't then get into specifics about where there were and where there weren't i never would have allowed an announcement of plus 8.6 after a season of folly that the maps have had david is there any universe where if you're looking at
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
So I would have, after what happened with the Mavs, I would have actually announced a decrease. Mm-hmm.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
i would have found a way to announce the decrease but having it actually not be a decrease in revenue because of what we did in certain sections because you're right and nico harrison he's not blameless here did you read his statements i talked about it on today's nothing personal which is for today tomorrow there'll be another one at 8 a.m live but today i talked about nico's statement about kairi irving comparing kairi to kobe
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Well, I don't expect it's the irony of you not knowing that. It's obvious why you don't know that, because when I ask you to engage in conversations because you're the one I have to talk to, it's all good. I'm not the one. I'm not the one.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
And what a great person Kyrie is and how important he is to the fabric of the city and how much they love him and how it was so bizarre to me that I just asked Nico during the show that I did if he could just shut the yapper for a hot second, because I think he's not helping himself at all with all the things he's trying to do.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
There was no reason to go to the Laker game and have a stare down with Luka. There was just no reason for that. You can go to the game as the opposing GM and not be on TV on the court during practice like that when you know the cameras are on you. So everything he does is purposeful, and I think it's all wrong.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Language is meant for communication, Dan, and I believe the listeners of our show know exactly what I meant and the listeners of your show do, too. And what they're asking themselves now likely is why are you even commenting on my use of yapper and hot second when we could be doing a movie review or something else in our remaining time?
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Whoa. Okay. So listen, renewals in general are for old people who have no other option but to say, hey, we might as well stick it out no matter how miserable we are. I'll start with that. And I'll end with, you don't get a gift. I'm not going to attend. I want no part of a vow renewal of any kind. I think it's absolute horse hockey, personally. People, all right, you're in love.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
You're still married. What are you, showing off because the rest of us are divorced? Oh, for my 25th anniversary, I'm going to renew my vows in Vegas. Give me a break. I'm totally out on vow renewals. I think it's ridiculous. Maybe grandparents can do it like the notebook. Give me James Garner doing a vow renewal, but that's about it. He is right. It is flaunting.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Jess is handling your negotiations, David. I'm not laughing because Jess couldn't. I'm laughing because Jess isn't. I'm simply laughing. Of course you can't. that we have so much to go over right now in the world of sports business and interesting things to talk about.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I would, except they practice usury and it makes me crazy. I wanted to go where they filmed season two and they upped it to like four grand a night after it came out. And I said, that's absurd because I was able to ascertain from a travel agent that it used to be about 1K a night and they pushed it up to 4K and I found that to be offensive. So I was a hard pass.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
But the answer is I would go to a place where White Lotus was filmed because it looks amazing. Do you have any relationship with Mike White through Survivor or you haven't met him that way yet? I have not met him. He is a Survivor player.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Yes, he does. It's from his cast, mostly from his tribe, though this season he actually put someone from his season, but not his tribe in the series. But yes, he does do that, which is really cool. Mike White, when he was on Survivor, was a great player and he made it far, really far and did not win the game.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Someone gave me a list recently, because Survivor 50 is coming out, a list of all of the people in sports who made it longer than I did, and one of them was the recently retired Jimmy Johnson, who was also on Survivor, and he did make it further than I did, and frankly, so did John Rocker.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Oh, I mean, I think it's brilliant that they raised the rates because they only raised the rates to the point that people are still booking. If the place is unbooked, then they're going to lower the rates again. I believe that you should raise your prices as far as you can until people stop buying your product. And if it's different people, it's different people.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
If you price yourself out of certain people, forget it. Maybe the Dallas Mavericks don't care about the 20,000 people that go to games now who are angry because there's 20,000 new people who love Anthony Davis and love an injured Kyrie Irving. So they're raising their prices. So I'm all in. I just said I wouldn't pay the four grand a night to go to that because I wouldn't.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Well, I don't know that it's biblical. I mean, I believe it's just definitionally an overcharge. What laugh is that?
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I just think that that laugh does sound horrible, and it's not my view of love in general, sort of. Sort of? Sort of. That's the sound I think I made right after we got the final vote in the county commission. That's sinister. I didn't mean that. I didn't laugh. You did it again.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I appreciate that, and I think you're doing that because you know how old I am and how short-term that would be. Oh, you're my favorite. Thank you, Amin. There you go.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Is this not the same program you're using to make your voice sound good on the opera? Is that really the natural sound of the laugh? The natural sound of evil. The Skeletor, right?
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
That's really a problem. What's the movie you're reviewing today, David? I have a real complaint and I'm upset about this and I'm not over it. I'm not reviewing a movie. I'm not reviewing the fact that I lost to Adnan in the Oscar ballot. I'm not going to talk about the Oscars. You covered it well. Adnan and I covered it well in the after show recap.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I'm talking about a TV show on Max called Bookie. And I don't know if any of you have ever watched it. It's two seasons.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I loved it. yeah me too and i was shocked when it got cancelled now it's 22 minutes an episode it's not exactly high budget in the way that white lotus has changed in season three with all of the i don't know which of you is watching it but i assume jessica if you're watching it you've noticed there's way more budget being used in all of these non-dialogue shots
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
of of all of these interesting visuals, more so than ever. And Bookie was just good. 22 minutes of good dialog, good story. It was it can't be expensive to make unless Sebastian had some sort of contractual requirement, which I don't think he did. So I just don't know why it was canceled. So I'm hoping, I mean, that somebody picks it up. Yeah, because that can happen.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
So is he willing to – have you asked him? Is he willing to keep doing it but under a different studio? I'll ask him. Sure. I'll send him a message right now. Can you ask him now? Yeah. Call him?
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
What's up, big dog? Are you willing to do Bookie season three with a different studio or is the show dead forever? Okay. You really can just text him like that?
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I was just going to say, Billy, the number of times that Pat Riley's on the team plane, my guess is you can't get through one hand of fingers, fully fingered, not Alphonseca style per season.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
You can do it in one text to me and you can say, hey, it's been a minute. I'm live on the air right now. Quick question for you. Would you be interested in doing a season three on a different network? Got it.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
have a follow-up dan because it is true that i have a direct line to my doctor and after last week i was so despondent that i did call the doctor to talk about this because i wanted to understand what i was in for i don't like surprises at all and it was told to me that short people shrink less and i am in position where there could be a lack of shrinkage
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Listen, would that surprise you?
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
See you later.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
No one's disputing that. This is an accomplished doctor. This is not like a Cracker Jacks, Box Holiday and Express type of thing. This is a famous doctor who said that the chance of me shrinking is de minimis. You go to McGillicuddy too? Look at me, Louie, because I have a doctor. Famous doctor.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Ask Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz. Well, those are not the type, hold on, those are different doctors. That's not the type of doctor. Now, I do see and pay attention and talk to doctors like that from time to time, every Wednesday at 6 p.m., but that is not what I'm referring to.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I'm referring to a medical doctor, a cardiologist, because I do have a 32% issue that he did tell me about on the call when he told me I didn't have shrinkage. He said, I've got some other things that we have to deal with. Not ideal. If I were you, I would not look at me long-term.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Well, first, let's talk about the pardon of Pete Rose by Donald Trump. The only thing he can pardon him for is for his conviction of the federal crime of tax evasion, for which he served a five month sentence. He actually served five months. You can do a posthumous pardon of that. You can wipe the slate clean. You can do anything you want when it comes to a federal crime.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
If you're the president, the president has zero say zero in terms of eligibility for the Hall of Fame. What the president can do is threaten baseball with a couple of ditties.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
And what I talked about is the two ditties that Trump has is the owner's tax loophole, which they use that we've talked about on this show, where when you buy a team, you get to depreciate the assets of that team, which just means you get a tax break for five years. And Trump is threatening to close that tax break. That's a big one. And the second one is the antitrust exemption.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
He could threaten to take that away. But all I can do is threaten to do it if you don't reinstate Pete Rose. But even Trump may know that reinstating Pete Rose does not therefore put him into the Hall of Fame. It makes him eligible.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Speaking of that Russia probe, the Ukraine shit, that's crazy, huh? As soon as Dan gets the reins back to the show, we can possibly continue to talk about the issue with Pete Rose was talked about with the commissioner 10 years ago before he became commissioner and whether or not as part of becoming commissioner,
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Should we take Pete Rose off the permanently ineligible list and give the writers an opportunity to decide what to do with him? And the decision was made at the time. No, we're going to stay with what Giamatti decided and what Selig has enforced and been passionate about. And then the gambling money came into sports in a very direct way. And it became clear that there had to be a third rail.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
And the third rail is not everything you described at all, Jeremy. is the betting on baseball. That is the reason why there has not been any thought to take him off the permanently ineligible list.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
And I think it would be a very bad move for baseball to take him off that list even after he's croaked because I don't want anyone to think that betting on a sport that you are playing in even to win is a good idea.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
But Jeremy, again, you have to look at the Hall of Fame and there are decisions that writers make. Dan, you can ask Dan. He was one of the lucky few who had a ballot to vote people into the Hall of Fame. And I'm not sure what percentage character played in his voting process.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I can't figure out, frankly, and I'm trying very hard to listen as everyone talks at once, what Jeremy's point is, because I know he knows that a presidential pardon has nothing to do with any crimes that have not been charged to Pete Rose or his character flaws or his gambling. The pardon as defined, the power of the pardon is for federal crimes.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I understand that pardons happen all the time. Pardons happen all the time for people who have served their time already. That is a very common use of presidential pardons because it does wipe your slate clean. So, for example, have you ever been convicted of a felon? You actually get to say no.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
You have to go through the pardon list of everyone who gets pardoned by every president in order to have the position you're taking. No, you don't. I don't.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I take it back. You may have any position you want. That's the beautiful part of what is and could potentially be in the future our country.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I was. So it's a true story. I was at a bar mitzvah where all of a sudden a special guest was introduced and the special guest was Saquon Barkley, who was there prior to signing his deal that became made him the highest paid running back ever. And he is now having spent one hour with about 120, 12 and 13 year old
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
boys and girls at a bar mitzvah who were better behaved than the adults at the bar mitzvah, who were elbowing the kids out of the way to ask Saquon to do the hurdle. And you can see the way he was dressed, which was in a nice puffer jacket. He was dressed very nicely, actually. He wasn't going to do the hurdle. And part of the deal of Saquon coming was, hey, I'm here for the kids, not the adults.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
And the adults were a bunch of babies. They were out of their minds. And we got Saquon to autograph a couple of things, including Super Bowl hats. And so Saquon autographed them and they were for the kids only.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
I'm just saying that the adults in general were poorly behaved, and I had the opportunity to meet him and be helpful in this project of having Saquon Barkley attend the bar mitzvah, and therefore I was able to secure a chapeau.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
He is so good, Billy. I've done so many appearances with athletes in my career. He's one of the best, most interesting, friendly, well-natured athlete I've been around. He was so pleasant and good. He was there with his fiance and a great friend of his. And there was just nothing bad to report. And there was breaking news that happened while we were together. And that was the Debo Samuel trade.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
It broke Saturday night while we were in the green room waiting for the appearance to happen. And his reaction to the trade fascinated me because at first I presented it in a funny way. Hey, breaking news, Saquon, Deebo Samuel's been traded. And he said, to the Eagles? And I said, what's the worst case scenario? Because that's where he was traded. And he said...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
Yeah, I just think with a few weeks left in any sort of deal, there's no reason to start promos after two years of being with you. That's all. Too little, too late.
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The Big Suey: David Samson, The Saquon Barkley Handler
nfc east and i said commanders and he said at least it's not miles garrett so it is true that he was thinking about his sort of health and safety and miles garrett being a bigger issue but he acknowledged that getting firepower around a young quarterback is a smart way to get better if you are a football team but he certainly is looking forward to uh trying to defend their super bowl title because he doesn't want to he wants to have to pay pat riley
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh, his middle name is Bruce. How come I knew his middle name and not his first name?
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Still just gal.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I love that look. Great look.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
You had to have immediately become the most hated person in the entire organization.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Imagine if Dan made us wear a suit and tie every day to the office here.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I liked having a uniform, but it has to be comfortable.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
It's a little casual. I feel like I'm also the only person here that actually dresses nice.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
And JerBear wears the occasional nice cardigan. I will give him credit for that.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
But you know what? Credit for evolving because some people don't evolve. I'm trying to evolve. I'm trying to be better.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I don't want to wear the same thing Dan Levittard's wearing.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Poor Chris Cody.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
You know what I mean? Yeah, by that explanation, you and Dan should be dressing the nicest of all of us. You're our executives that make the most money.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Cargo shorts and sandals.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I guess we are wearing the same thing to work.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Oh, Jeremy, get on it.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Is this the Nike Steph Curry presentation?
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
What is the truth here?
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I've gotten resumes like that, too. I was working at SB Nation. It was like, I'd love to join Bleacher Report. And we immediately threw them out.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
Or there was one that was like, dear sirs. And I was like, mm.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
It hit right at the peak, and then the Steph Curry 2s came out, and that's where it kind of... Right, their stock was doing really well in the mid-2010s, but it's not doing so hot anymore.
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Hour 2: Thong Sandals, Uric Acid, and Evolutions (feat. Ron Magill)
I've been thinking the same thing. Oh, God, don't kid yourself.
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Except if this is finally it.
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I'm not playing the market daily like that.
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Whoa!
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Speaking of signature shoes though, Asia Wilson's signature shoe is coming out in May and it looks phenomenal. Can I say? Sure.
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On what?
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A May release? Like it should be out now? All-Star weekend.
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I think the league, like the first game though is May, so it's going to be right when the WNBA season starts.
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Yeah.
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Her jersey was just retired this past weekend, too. It doesn't really matter when they launch it.
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I feel like it'll be really cool when she walks out on the court for the Aces' first game in the shoe, and then it goes on sale. And all the other stuff that they're releasing with it, I want all of it.
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Am I mixing stories? Okay, so her jersey was retired at South Carolina this past weekend, and that's where the video was of her talking about BAM that some are calling a hard launch. It's a hard launch.
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No, a hard launch is like you're like, you don't post anything on social media for two years and then all of a sudden you post a picture and you're wearing an engagement ring. That's a hard launch. That felt bad. We already know that there's like obviously something going on with her and Bam. And the camera, whoever the camera person is, I know they didn't see this coming, but you gotta cut to Bam.
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You gotta cut to Bam. You gotta cut to Bam.
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They're just going to keep doing stuff like this and not let us see any canoodling. That's my point. That's my thing. A canoodle is a hard launch.
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I think it was an Olympics-related Miami giving the key to the city thing.
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Wait, yeah, Jeremy, you can get the gossip on this.
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He's not that young anymore. Am I right?
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I was going to say smile.
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I thought his name was Bruce. Bruce Cassidy?
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Or if I do, I take my own car. I always have to have an exit strategy from any position I'm in. So the answer is I wouldn't go to a zoo where, like in one car, where, oh my God, are you done with the monkey exhibit?
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Speaking of vultures. Those are insane. Have you stayed in a room at the Elster where they come to your balcony?
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Go up to the top floor of the elevator. You don't need food. They will come. I switched rooms. They thought, oh, David Sampson, you come here a lot. Let's put you on the top floor like a VIP. I walked in the room. I looked at all of the white. It's really urine. It's not bird poop. I think it's actually urine. Let's really find out what this is. Go ahead. But those birds come to your balcony.
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I would assume I'm amongst the lightest. I think Ethan's lighter than you.
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Save this debate. I think the game is done, probably. Although after last night, maybe 139. A lot of stone crap.
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You do this inches thing. 5'6". He's 66 inches. He's got me. That's it.
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I have an issue with buildings where there's supposed to be some sort of correlation between what floor you're on and how sort of unique and how upscale it is to be on a high floor. Because they get more expensive as you go higher, in New York at least.
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So in theory, it's supposed to be more expensive, and that's what they do. And I've always viewed it the opposite, that I get scared up high, and I ask for the lower floors.
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It's totally normal. It's meant to make me feel abnormal that I have these feelings, but I do get the jelly legs. I do have the vision.
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Well, you guys, that's what you do. That's your bit. Whenever I'm on any balcony, I keep my hand on the door. Again, I don't know if I'm the only one. Because the vulture might come. No, it's just so I'm grounded.
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There's no room for furniture. So I feel as though you have to have your hand on the door.
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It's a lot of love. A lot of love at Radio Row. I don't like Billy leaning in the way he was leaning in. I thought that he was critically ill. We went through this yesterday. Now he's on air doing his job, which is great, having recovered from being— Wait, what are you mad at? That video appeared to me as though Billy was instead of facing out, he was facing toward the guest while talking.
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I assume you all noticed that right there. When you are sick with norovirus or whatever it is that he had, don't you think you ought to be speaking straight ahead?
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I don't think he should have gotten it. I think three-peat is used too often by too much that to give it all to one person, I think it was a mistake by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But he has it.
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What kind of, what, Dr. Seuss? Antibiotics take 20, take 48 to 72 hours to kick in. Okay.
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And is Billy wearing the same shirt as he is behind us? He sure is. Can we go back to that video? Yep. Is there a chance that that's the shirt that I'm looking at? No. Nope.
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Kyle Brandt behind Billy's like the more intricacy What was the name of the guy who designed that shirt Robert Graham Robert no one's ever heard of Robert Graham Tim Robinson a little shocked our g1 I without his own show.
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Did you notice that? What happened? Again, I noticed it on the video. Did anyone not see it? He got what? Go on. Do you know what cupped is? I thought you said something else.
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I didn't notice that. So I don't, I guess we should go back to him and maybe I saw it wrong.
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Right, like why would he cup himself prior to Super Bowl Radio Row?
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New Yorker, that's not a great sound. Look, that was horrifying.
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So the sound of an earthquake is the sound of a train. If you've ever been in an earthquake, it sounds as though a train is coming into your room when you're in an earthquake. The sound of this, it's hap... Wait, you guys are making this up, right? No, it's a plane. It's just a plane. They can't come this often.
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And now they get nothing. And I'm not on that. Now, but Pat did say, thank God. He gives most of the money to charity. That's always my favorite. Most. And we can all define what that means. But the NFL had to do a deal with him because I want the NFL to not use it. Just say back-to-back-to-back.
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I lost my train of thought. I'm very sorry, but that scared me.
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It's a cyclical thing. If you live down here, you agree with this. If you live on Miami Beach, I came down to Fort Lauderdale as a spring breaker way back in the 80s. What was that like? It was fantastic, but not for people who live there. Hot water bottles, as far as the eye could see. No. Napoleon.
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It's a bit of an issue that they increased the parking to $100 so no one can park.
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Which is crazy. But it's like when Ultra comes to town, the people who live right around here, they leave. They don't want to be around for that type of festival. But the people who go to it are super happy and high and loving it. So I'm completely in favor of what my bitch is doing. They've done it for an economic reason. And they've said that it's better not to have these spring breakers.
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Oh, it is a different shirt. Judges rule. But it's the same. I bet you it's the same make. They're both loud. No, I'm saying the same designer. Oh, the brand's loud. Is that a brand? No, I'm just kidding. It's just a loud shirt. Okay, thank you, Chris. Can we find out what brand that is? Does he have a deal? I'm currently Googling Robert Graham.
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Stan flashes. David has no idea what's happening at this point. I'm not going to be embarrassed about shirts that I like. I like designs. I wore one last night. I know you did. And I think I look better than your windbreaker, your members-only windbreaker. I think my windbreaker looks great.
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That's not the shirts I buy. Those are limited edition, very unique pieces.
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My objection is that there's a rule that you're told as a celebrity or as a child of a celebrity. It's a very simple rule. Did Alan Alda teach you this? When you're pulled over, Vince Namoli did. Anybody? Vince Namoli, former owner of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Vince Namoli got pulled over in Tampa and said, do you know who I am? I am the owner of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
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So I missed that. So Vince Namoli came to an owner's meeting after that and said, hey, here's a lesson. Don't ever say that. And so that is what is taught in owner's meetings. The first time you get the handbook, you never talk about- The guy who tried to do this and didn't get away with it said, pro tip.
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Can you help me? Is this the Jordan who was with Scottie Pippen's ex-wife? Was he with Scottie Pippen? Scottie Pippen, there's a woman in the video.
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he used it on stage. So my recollection, and this is back maybe before many of you were born, I believe when they had won their back-to-back, he was on stage the way you do after a parade, and he then said, I'm sure we can find this out, he said, how about a three-peat? And remember when LeBron went to the, was it LeBron and the Heat? Let's do four, let's do five, not one.
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You nailed it, that's exactly what it was. And how many did he go to?
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No, no, it was not five, not six, not seven. And he ended up being at four finals with two titles? I think it was a lot of premature exuberance by Riley at that time, but it's been paying off ever since. And we give into it. Companies give into it who are experiencing three-peats.
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I find it hard to believe that people don't want to see a three-peat because I've never seen that in my life in the Super Bowl.
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Do you like how Kelsey came out yesterday and said, we're not going to go through this again. I'm not retiring. I was one of the guys who thought Taylor would make him retire because I thought she said, I really don't want to date someone whose head's getting bashed in. I'd like him to be able to put three sentences together to make a paragraph. So I thought he'd win it and then walk.
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But apparently, not only is he not doing that, he's already said, win or lose on Sunday, I'm back.
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Listen, I give everyone the benefit of the doubt. I don't yuck on other people's relationship yums.
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You think they're just grunting? I mean, at least 50%. I have them having real conversation about life, about future, about... I'm picturing them like embracing, just like cuddling in the bed and she's like rubbing his head like, is your head hurt?
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You don't need this. You guys are funny. I think they're just as normal as we are. I do that with my wife all the time. How's your head, honey? Come here. You rub her head and say, how's your head?
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What do you love? I love a lot of things and a lot of people. I don't love fun and CTE in the same sentence. He malfunctioned trying to say the word love. I had my wires crossed.
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We played it yesterday with Diane and it was a disaster.
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i will pour some water into the mouth of someone i'm with and i will because i won't give them the bottle to drink from even when they say i won't put my lips to it it turns out when they try they end up touching lip to top so i will pour just a little bit lip to top you say i i don't like lip to top judges i think that's very human the part where you'd say i'll pour it into your mouth
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Now, that is funny because when I'm shorter than the person I'm with, I'm not going to jump on a rock to do it. So they have to kneel? They've got to kneel.
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What are you saying? What excuse are you using? Oh, man. I don't want to go. I'm learning in my post-divorce life, honesty has taken over as a real possibility in every situation where previously it was not even contemplated. And now I try for the honesty. I don't want to go out with those people. I've learned the exact opposite.
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I do not like doing things I don't want to do.
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No, because I did so many things I didn't want to do for 29 years. And I eventually said, I don't want to do that anymore. It didn't work. It was a great run. But wait a minute. Are you going to say that 29 years is not a good run?
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They've got to go to these boring-ass dinners. It's the empty nest thing. You have your kids to deal with, and all of a sudden, that's the time. Majority of divorce is either after the year or after the empty nest. That's the majority. The itch is the seven. That's different. Because when the kids disappear, you realize, oh my God, now what are we going to do?
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No, no. But then I'm a no. I've watched a kid who's under three months old because I can do that very well. I'm really good at changing diapers, and they don't move. So I can go about my day, and when you put a kid who can't crawl or turn over, you can just keep them where they are, and you can go away for a minute and come back, and they haven't moved.
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Once they start to crawl or roll over, you have to watch them. You can't even shower.
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Love a buffet. Guess that counts. I will tell you exactly when. There are great breakfast buffets in Tokyo hotels. Like, really, really good if you've ever been. And you can go there, and it comes with the room. But did we outlast the music? You have to be in Japan. Thank you. Because they're so clean. That's how it works. And there's no.
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Are you anti-Kool-Aid because one time the Kool-Aid was such that it poisoned all of those?
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I'm just saying. Every time you have some Kool-Aid.
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He doesn't love a zoo. I love the zoo. You just don't like the zoo? Is that the... Ever since I went on a safari, I've never been back to a zoo. Oh, it's just, it's beneath you now. No, not, well... It's like, it's just, you've experienced the joys... I also don't want to be out of control of a situation where I don't go anywhere with friends and their family because I don't want to be trapped.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
You said it was a road game. It was a road game. And all the home crowd knew that you were the parent of this player? Yeah, because I'd been talking the whole time.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Dominique, sorry. I'm sorry.
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Dominique, what hotel are you staying at? What is happening right now? Why would you ask that? Because I thought you had this amazing thing to talk to him about. It is. It's the Super Bowl. Who's going to win the Super Bowl? Yeah. The best you have?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Oh, that's not. That's just it here for a second. Dan would have kicked Amin out for that, I would assume.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
There was an actor named Alan Alda.
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He's still alive. M.A.S.H. It was the Hawkeye and M.A.S.H. And there was an episode of M.A.S.H. called The Joker. And when I spoke to Alan Alda about it, when I met him, I asked him about that episode and he didn't remember it. and I recall being devastated. How can it be? And now that I've done 1,200 nothing personal shows, I absolutely understand that you don't remember things that you do.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
He remembered lines at the time he recorded it, and it changed my life. And I said to him the next time I saw him, I don't know if you remember, but we talked about this episode that you did not remember filming, and I thought that you were crazy, and now I realize that you're normal. and the concept of people who pretend that they remember everything they've done, you can't do it.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
And then he said, and you are? No, he, thank you.
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He does, wait, explain to me what you mean, because he is a podcaster. in his 80s. He embraced technology.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
No, this was, you're absolutely wrong. I'm sorry, I didn't tell it right. I was 20 years old. I hadn't even started law school. I hadn't even finished college. You talk about the second meeting where you say, I was 23 years old.
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What is happening here? I just happened to know him. And you can play it, whatever. He's Alan Alda. It's not even worth it. We're not going to play it. He's got Parkinson's. He is in his 80s. And he does this really cool podcast now. I feel like we should play it now because I feel bad. You should feel bad. Alan Alda is my acting hero, and personally, he is an amazing person.
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He's an amazing person. He commuted back and forth from New York to L.A. to film MASH because he wouldn't move his family to L.A. for that 11 years. What?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
If it's just in your ear. Dominique, in New Orleans, there's been a lot of talk. I do want to get a quick thing in while we still have Dominique. There's so much talk. Roger Goodell coming out and talking about how things aren't scripted, how the Chiefs aren't favored. The head of the NFL Referee Association released an entire... Scott Green. Scott Green. Scott Green.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
I've interviewed Scott Green before. He released a huge... on episode 190 of PTFO about how referees only cover two games per year for a team and that you'd have to have every referee involved in this sort of corruption and they're the best in the business, et cetera.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
As a player, and we talk to players a lot about this, did you feel ever that there was any sort of refereeing that in any way went either for you or against you?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Stop the show for that. Poor Chris Middleton. You say Bucks, I think Giannis. Well, no, Giannis gets some help now. He gets Kuzma.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Ah, the move before the move. Love the move before the move. Oh, this is a pre-move. Yeah, that's breaking news. All right. Thank you, Dominique. You got us back on track.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
We show it through salary, Dominique. We show it through salary, through title. You don't need to show it through sack grab.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
But you announce it to your group text when you're doing that, the way Dominique does?
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Dominique, does anyone say no when you ask them to go back?
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I thought that was like an immigrant thing. It's a dry cleaner thing. Always a dry cleaner, right? They just put it up where you can see it. Restaurants do it, too. Do they? It's in the kitchen.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
No, that's one of the great brands. We got to see if they can send us some clothes for a sponsorship. I'd like to get on that. Wait, so Chris Cody wears the same shorts as David Sampson? They are the most comfortable clothes possible. Am I the only one?
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Do they come with pickpocket protection? Yep, zippers. They're zippers, but it's not great because the zippers actually, in the flying pants that I have, the zipper is more of a vertical zipper, and it's a little tight to get as much in the pockets. I'm a big pocket guy.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Dominic, are you excited to go to New Orleans? Because you're not there and there's a lot going on there. All of Metal Ark is there. They're having the time of their lives. And when we asked you to be on the show, we thought you were already part of what's going on and you haven't even left yet.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Have you been asked to go on God Bless Football yet with Stu Gatz? No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, we got to change that. I mean, apparently, God bless football. The number one football podcast in America. Award winning, as you know, Dominique.
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The Big Suey: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (feat. Domonique Foxworth)
Oh, hold on. We're back on Chris's shorts.
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That's my worst nightmare.
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Why don't you try a C note next time?
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You won't even give someone one minute of show unless they can do something for you?
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
I didn't want to miss it. I wanted to talk about it with all of you because it is true. And this happened. Her husband really started this with her. And when he passed away, she took the mantle.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
It was my job for 18 years. Why'd you sign Heath Bell? I mean, those were questions that were asked of me that you all blamed me for doing, and that was my job. It is Nico Harrison's job. Have you ever noticed you don't see owners at the firing press conferences? You see them at the hiring press conferences. That is a very common thing that owners think people don't notice.
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Local Hour: David and Pablo's Awkward Moment
They send out the president or the GM when you're making a move or an unpopular trade. But then when it's a huge free agent signing, then the owner comes out. And so I think that it's important to know that one of the privileges of ownership is that you get to decide when you have your meat shield out and when you don't. But Adelson, as you know, you keep calling her the owner of the Mavericks.
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Clarify. You should clarify that it is her son-in-law who is the actual governor, the actual owner of the Mavericks, because she would not be approved by the NBA.
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If Popovich traded Wemby, would Popovich get crushed like this? He would? Yes. So Popovich hasn't earned the right.
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I mean, there's so many things that Jeremy said are so ridiculous.
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Yes. Yes. Legalizing gambling in Texas is not in any way correlated to Luca being on the Mavericks or not. It's just that is when they are deciding where to legalize gambling, when you're lobbying, whether you're DraftKings or anyone else lobbying for legal gambling, you are not focused on who is actually on the team in the state or city where you are going.
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That is our challenge. That's gonna be an easy hurdle. That's sort of like the hurdle when you start a PTFO. Right on the ground. I just want to get right over the bar on the ground. That is what I said. I'm already over that. I'm not jealous. I'm happy to be here in Florida with you. and Jeremy and Jessica and Chris.
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Well, the league used to run the Expos. And there were a bunch of deals done by Omer Minay as the GM of the Expos. Remind us why the league... Major League Baseball was running the Expos? Because we sold the Expos to Major League Baseball so they could run the Expos and move them to Washington and become the Washington Nationals.
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And so we could get the Marlins, and so John Henry could sell the Marlins and move to Boston. Because the trust that owned the Red Sox wanted to cash out, and baseball wanted to make sure that John Henry got them. It's a three-way deal, basically.
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It was a three-way. And there were a lot of trades that were done. If you go back and look at Expos transactions after 02, and there was a lot of talk that they should be vetoed by Selig, and he would not veto them. And so the Expos made a bunch of bad trades.
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Great. They put in a guy named Tony Tavares. to be the president. They had a GM named Omar Minaya, who some of you may know. From his days with the Mets. And they ran it knowing that they were trying to cut expenses, didn't care about revenue, didn't care about attendance, didn't really... Well, now it's sounding worse. No, but that wasn't their job.
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Listen, the only thing David Stern would do was sticky envelopes. I mean, that's really the extent of his involvement.
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Frozen. It's frozen. Why are you making it sticky?
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What is a frozen envelope?
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And is that now, did you find out that that's officially what happened?
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But never confirmed. But what sticky substance do you have on the envelope? I thought that it was stuck to the, and when it, my video surveillance showed that when they twisted the ball with the envelopes, that the Knicks one stayed at the bottom and didn't twist like the others.
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Having Ewing on the Knicks is just business.
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they need and it's funny you have a league now where the knicks have not been able to perform in a couple decades the nfl is a league where the cowboys people laugh i did this on nothing personal today if the nfl were scripted the cowboys would be in the playoffs and in the super bowl way more than they are and the giants and jets would not be as bad as they've been for a long time you wouldn't script
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it without the Cowboys. I just, it's all horse hockey.
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I kind of wish. You're doing his voice that way.
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It's just a means thing.
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Oh, Lord. Let's not show that again. Oh, man. I didn't know what to do.
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Wow. That's actually my intro to Nothing Personal. It's every day we show it. And the audience loves that. When I jump into his arms, that's part of our 30 second intro.
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I don't think you can cut it that close.
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Wait, that didn't seem awkward.
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It's the little, it's the slight pull. Wow. That was, Jessica, are you as disappointed as I am in that video?
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No, but he's called it the most awkward thing ever.
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Oh my God, what is this dance? I don't remember what we were doing or why we were doing it. We had to do dap class. We did dap class. And I don't think you passed. It's amazing when everything is on camera.
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It's not exactly that, but it's a good place to start.
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Are these fist bumps and handshakes happening while eating the crab? No, you can't do anything. Once the stone crabs come, that's it.
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No, they come pre-cracked. I know, but are you okay with that? Yeah, I wouldn't be able to. You'd get too many cuts on your hands.
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That's a good question by Jeff.
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There was a lot of that, a lot of the hands up, a lot of extra napkins, a lot of me clearing the table so there's room for all of the stuff. While Pablo just sort of sits there oblivious, eating dinner with Pablo is an interesting thing in that your level of oblivion, other than focusing on your social media, is quite interesting. Other than focusing on my social media. What does that mean?
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It means you're setting up pictures and you're posting and you're doing things while we're supposed to be focused and getting work done and you're focused on what your next post is. I went to dinner and David went to work.
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You didn't get permission? I did not get permission. But look at the glee. It's a happy place. You didn't blur out the people in the background. I think it's fine. They are not on social media.
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It's a great shirt. Don't you yuck on a Robert Graham yum. That would be inappropriate.
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Thank you. I enjoyed going to dinner. I enjoyed being in Miami. I don't feel like we're the substitutes.
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I'm not. Embrace it. I've got 20 things that I think that would be interesting to discuss and that Dan would be proud that we're discussing. And you want to focus on your social media. Well. And not being upset with Amin.
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Jeremy, there's one thing that you're missing in this analysis, is that what Pablo was really saying is he was at the restaurant reading his phone, getting what he thought was inside information, that we may have to leave dinner at any time, mid-claw, that this trade was imminent, definitely happening, and that he had somehow this connection. My guy's never wrong. I have a guy. He has a guy.
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I have a guy. He wakes up this morning, and it turns out the guy is not the guy. He's just a guy. Yeah, Jeremy has the same guy, it turns out. Apparently, that guy is waiting until 3 p.m. tomorrow, just like every other guy. And you were offended to be so normal and out of the loop. Can I clarify with Jeremy, though?
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You get a plaque. You literally get a plaque. Are you going to give someone a plaque? I mean, for being the 100th? No, no, no. I'm going to get a plaque. Oh, so you just want people to join your show?
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yeah it's it's the plot not the subplot so the money with the trade i don't think i i don't agree i think you have to focus on the truth that nico was not alone there is a report this morning that jj reddick knew about the trade during the knicks game before the knicks game and that he was super excited and he was in a great mood and all happy which would track that the coaches would know while jason kidd sat there pretending i had no idea looking like someone stole his lunch money
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Wasn't that amazing? Do we have a photo like of Jason Kidd? Is there anything worse than being forced to go to a press conference and having to be the what's the word for when you're not in the know?
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We staff press conferences in advance. You say who's going to be up there. And if someone makes a big issue, if a player makes a big issue or the GM, you can get the AGM. But you need someone from the baseball front office to take the heat off you as having made the decision. And I don't know why Nico would bring him up there just to say that he's been neutered.
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That's the most generous interpretation. That's awesome. That's no meddling. Isn't that what you guys want from your owners? Letting the basketball and baseball people make the decision? You always complain about that. The owners are too involved.
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I don't really care who does it. So you can meddle if you're good, but don't meddle if you're bad?
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And all of you in there in that room crushing me when I told you that Mark Cuban, when he sold the team, was done. And Mark Cuban was coming out and saying, oh, I'm still the head of basketball. I'm still maintaining my power. And I said, of course not. He sold the team. He's not the governor. He's not the alternate governor. He's nobody. He's nothing. He sold.
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But Mark Cuban made us all believe that he's involved until the Luca deal. And then he said, oy, I better let people know I got nothing to do with this. So he basically changed his story. You also said A.J. Brown would never play for the Eagles again. I can't. I didn't say I got everything right.
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I just want to be clear, Jessica, and I'm happy to go at this right now.
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Are you right in everything you say every time you say it?
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So that's a stupid threshold to even talk about. But the fact about Mark Cuban is simple. The Samson line. It's the Samson line is we're all going to be wrong if you're willing to take a position. Even you, Pablo. I disagree. Well, that's exactly. That's you being you. But you're not right all the time.
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I don't want to take a victory lap. I want to explain the way it works when you sell a team is you don't get power. And Mark Cuban trying to mislead all of you bothered me greatly. And now the fact that he needed to separate himself from the Luka deal is hilarious. No, it's legitimately funny.
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Like he's been waiting. It's not been a month since he sold.
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i would say i wouldn't comment only in that that would be one of scores of lawsuits that every team gets standard uh we ended up not being able to shoot like hard things like hot dogs too high it's why when you go to a game it stinks only the people with good seeds tend to get stuff these days because we were told by lawyers don't shoot stuff into the upper decks not that we had the upper deck open all that often but don't
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Don't shoot stuff too deep because you could end up hurting someone. Did someone get hit by a t-shirt? I sort of remember that, but it didn't matter enough to me. I'm gonna say maybe that's a 10K issue at best. So no bag with no t-shirt, no hat. No, that was that would know because once the lawsuit comes in, then there's no conversation at all except with the lawyers.
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And then you're just talking settlement.
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I think that's too many, but I would say over the course of a year, at least 10 every year. It's not 100 a day, but at least 10. And that's actual filing of suits related to things that happen in the stands. There's all sorts of other lawsuits that happen just during the course of a business. And we weren't the only team.
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You sue your corporate sponsors when they don't pay or your season ticket holders when they don't pay. Every team does that as well. But you're talking about slip and fall cases. Specifically, I would say 10. Most frivolous one that you've received or that you remember? I mean, to me, remember my perspective, I find them all to be frivolous.
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But I think the most frivolous lawsuit I ever saw is when we were blamed for the divorce of a couple. There you go. And the argument was that... The wife was flirting with players and managers down near the dugout and that caused the divorce. And so we were sued and we were blamed for the dissolution of the marriage.
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Oh, you can put anything in a legal argument, of course. But yes, this was an interesting one. I actually got served personally for this one, being blamed for having introduced the woman to a player or a manager that then led to some nefarious activity that then led to the dissolution of marriage. Of course, I had no recollection. And of course, that's not actionable. Of course, that's ridiculous.
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So of course, it was dismissed summarily immediately. I never appeared, never testified. I only had to do one or two depositions on it.
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party it's like blaming a bartender for your slump buster it just doesn't really make sense to me wait so was there more to this relationship than just like the introduction so allegedly there was uh an introduction that led to things that happen after people are introduced i mean not every time people are introduced
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I'm a big Jack Wagner fan. All I need is just a little more time to be sure how I feel. Is it just in my mind?
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Dan Levatard. Tatas. Stugatz. Tatas.
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Ooh. I do not know of what you speak. Oh, hold on. Do you know how many times, hold on. This is insane that you're, Dominique, you of all people in this room, if you wanted to meet someone in the stands, do you agree that there's someone in your clubhouse or in your organization who could effectuate such meeting?
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81 on the road. Right. Like a bunch of nerds, man.
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I have not reviewed it on the show and I've seen two of them is my guess. Wow, which ones? How many Madeas have there been? Too many. Amadeus? Like seven? What's Medea? Five? I think he means Medea. Oh. Medea, Medea, tomato, tomato. So you've seen a couple of them? Which ones did you see? I think I've seen two.
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So you're only talking about home games then, because on the road you said there's no time to meet anybody because you have dinner, curfew, play, win the game, you said. Yeah. Yeah. And then fly out. So you mean the home games? Speaking of these type of things, you think Zion Williamson is a bust? Oh, I think that I've been talking about that on Nothing Personal for years now. How?
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No, I don't care how good you are when you're on the court. If you're only on the court 30 games a year. you can't be considered a successful player. Now, would I rather have John Morant or Zion? I've said from the beginning, I'd rather have John Morant, and that's given all of his off-court issues. Frankly, I'd probably rather go E, none of the above, but Zion's out of chances for me.
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They gave him that huge max deal, Amin, which made me crazy, a total waste, because every year with him, it is something, and they just shut him down now, and you're gonna say, oh, it's for tanking, there's nothing to play for. No, I want to see that guy actually play and perform, not have him sit the way he always does. I think Zion Williamson is a clear bust. You're so angry about it, though.
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Teams are scattered. The sports world is scattered by players who have this intoxicating level of skill that when they're on the field, it's just so good. It's like poetry, except they get hurt all the time. And at some point, you just realize that's what you have here. You have great skill. Sometimes you say great skill, no head.
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And you need both a head and skill to succeed at the big league level or at the professional level. Sometimes you have a great head and that overcomes not perfect skill. But the hardest thing, as you pointed out, is admitting to yourself when it's time to move on. And one of the lessons you learn at GM and president school is you're not gonna get everyone right.
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And I'd rather be wrong early than right late. And Zion is a case for me where I don't want to throw any more good money after bad. I want to move on from him and reallocate my resources, start again. And if he ends up being healthy and good for ten more years after this with someone else, that just counts as one of the bad. But I'd like my chances.
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David, how much does job security factor into that decision making?
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Or Fast and the Furiouses.
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so it's why we like signing our gms to long-term deals because we didn't like gms no matter what you say it's a normal reaction that you don't think about five years from now if you're not going to be there five years from now and if you're on the last year of your deal which is what the yankees do they never extend people until their contract runs out and they hope the people are loyal enough to think about the future that may not benefit them
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I have found that that is a rare trait for employees or presidents to have. It is totally normal to think about yourself and to act in your self-interest. It's actually expected at certain levels of the corporate ladder. And so having people, that's why you give stock options and stock to people at public companies, because it's in the best interest of everyone for the stock to go up.
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In sports, it's really hard. So we tried to ameliorate that by doing longer term deals.
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Well, a lot of those exist. Go back to Patrick Ewing's lottery. And maybe I'm wrong, but I think everybody had the same odds because it was your logo in an envelope in a jar. Yep. Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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One nothing Tyler. You can't get a movie made these days and he got 11 of them done with the character. Is that a more successful franchise than what Eddie Murphy did with his, oh God. Nutty Professor. I'm having a moment. Nutty Professor. Clumps. Who's got the better, bigger franchise? It's gotta be Tyler Perry.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Right. That is a very sad statement, but a very true statement. And it comes on the heels of a Val Kilmer passed away last night. And I was thinking about the Batman franchise and I was thinking about all the different actors who have played Batman and where Val sort of stands. And is it because he was sick young and that becomes more sympathetic?
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Are people going to remember Batman forever as a better movie than it actually was? I think about whether or not sort of early tragic death changes people's reputation and the art that they made. And I think it really does often.
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He tore his knee.
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So this is a good example where you don't get to do this unless you've signed a waiver, a specific liability waiver. So we could get away with absolutely nothing, but we'd probably give him a nice bag on the way out the door. Uh, and that's about it, but he is really up to himself. He's got to show insurance prior to doing an activity like that.
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You don't just get like when you have fans running in the outfield, what's the one Atlanta does, um,
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The freeze. The freeze. When they have to beat the freeze. Can't you just picture the guys like pulling a hammy or something? So in order for that to work, you do sign something. So no, I would just apologize to the guy, say tough break and help him to help him to the doctor.
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A t-shirt, a hat, a giveaway, maybe throwing a bobblehead, maybe an autographed ball. If it's actually torn, I'd probably, that's, a torn ACL is probably an autographed ball. If it's ACL, MCL, and meniscus, probably an autographed bat.
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Alphabet soup. Then you get to meet somebody. If you tear the PCL also, we'll take you down and we'll have a player visit you on your way being wheeled into the ambulance.
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He can't continue. And it's really just embarrassment. Yeah, you need the MRI results. This is not based on the honor system.
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I literally don't understand the words you're saying, but it must be me. I don't know if I have a bad connection. I think I hear you right. But but Dominique, no, there is not a scenario under which we would pay for the surgery of someone who gets hit or hurt during an on field game that we would play in between it.
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No. And Dominique, I would encourage you. I understand what you're saying, but I would like you to find one. You try to make me out as the only team president who acted this way. Find another team that does that when there's an injury. to a fan, whether it's a foul ball or someone slips and falls. You may do a settlement for a lawsuit. We talked about that on a recent show.
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But paying for the surgery? Find me one other team that does that.
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So let's start with why every player doesn't have one bats. I'm trying to think of the football equivalent to a piece of equipment that you use that is so personal. It's so based on feel and that there are major differences between bats, both in length, All within, it could be shoes for a football player. In the NBA, shoes too.
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In the NBA, I can't think of anything, maybe how you tape your legs or how you tape your ankles or the shoes that you wear, the sneakers. Why everybody doesn't wear full high tops is funny to me because it can help protect the ankle. But in bats, to me, the only equivalent I can think of is a golf club where golfers have a certain feel of what clubs they like.
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How are you? I wish I were in the building. Sadly, I'm just on a little square, but my voice is strong and my bottom is fresh.
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If you talk to a baseball player, a bat is second-
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most personal item to their glove but a bat is how you make your money and what the torpedo bat is it's not new at all players have been using it non-yankees have been using it including last year but what it does is it gives you analytically a better chance to have hard contact when you hit the ball where you're supposed to hit it it doesn't mean that it's the right configuration for every player because
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: My Voice Is Strong and My Bottom Is Fresh (feat. David Samson)
When a player holds a bat and I've spoken, Ichiro is a great person to talk to. He treats his bats like their family. He wasn't allowed. We were not allowed. Part of the deal with Ichiro is we weren't allowed to travel his bats with the other equipment because there's a bat case that all the bats go in.
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The Big Suey: My Voice Is Strong and My Bottom Is Fresh (feat. David Samson)
His bats were totally in a separate case, totally separate, never to be lost and never to be touched by anyone, by the way. It's a feel that you have, not just at the bottom, but it's the weight and how the weight's distributed. And what the torpedo bats do is they distribute the weight differently. And some players just don't want that. So it really is a personal choice.
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The Big Suey: My Voice Is Strong and My Bottom Is Fresh (feat. David Samson)
The other bats are not in first class. They're not in coach. They're in steerage. So where is Ichiro's bat? They are shoved onto the plane in a way that would make your eyes water. But Ichiro's bats were special.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: My Voice Is Strong and My Bottom Is Fresh (feat. David Samson)
So when you say humidor, I associate that with a mechanism inside that does something with temperature. Is that accurate? Yeah, so it's not a humidor. It was just, it was a protective case that very much would not let them touch any other bat, would not let them touch each other. They were very much separated. Bat segregation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
Well, the politicians there made it so it's not even a petty crime. You can do whatever you want. You're not going to get stopped. The police were told specifically, let it go. So that was the, when I was growing up in New York and you went to the park or you got delivered by the chief is how that would work. Not Robert Parrish, but it could have been. Now everything's out in the open.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
Never went to the tie door, huh? No, no. Too scared.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
It's now cigarettes in New York. That's the change.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
So you've decided that your plan is whenever you're in Miami, you have not the four Audis, but you get the fifth rental car. And you drive the rental car down and back. Yes, just on I-95.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
Love you, Brad. Tell him Stugatz sent you. So this is it. This is the moment when it happened. Because he's gone his whole career with you. He hasn't yelled out to Audi until today. I think they finally said, dude, you got to mention my name from time to time. It's been a one way relationship.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
I'm laughing because were you in London where you often think that no one's in the driver's seat but they're driving on the other side?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
Could versus would. Is that the big difference?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
When you were flying back from L.A., did you think there was someone flying your plane? Yes. You did. But there's not. Do you know what they were doing in the cockpit?
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
They were watching Adolescence.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
Would you just die? You'd get off the 18 hours and just plots right there.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
Airplane. The greatest ever of that genre.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
I went with Nobody because I love Odenkirk, and I miss Better Call Saul. More than Tarantino and Fincher. Because I think they have a chance to botch it. Too many people involved.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
Is he going to say, I would live on Mars? I couldn't. But you can't. Well, I wouldn't either. That's a good one. I wouldn't either. I can't even see myself living on Mars.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
Do you want a top ten list of athletes and actors and rich people who don't take care of kids after impregnating women?
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
I'm a Dick Van Patten guy. I think eight is enough. I didn't know where that was going. Eight is enough. I think he should have stopped at eight. And there's a way you can stop it. You just get snipped, clipped. It's one way you're free to roam the country, which Elon likes to do.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
But then why wouldn't he give money to support the kids?
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
That's really the point to listen to is there's a difference between supporting people. There's like Warren Buffett. He doesn't plan on giving any of his estate to any of his heirs. None of it. You'd think growing up in Warren's house, hey, I got a good shot here. I'm going to be loaded.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
There's a bunch of rich people who decide that they're going to let their kids do it the hard way, the way they had to Do it. Bill Gates. So, Elon Musk, why can't he just have enough, give enough money for them not to would live on the street? They could live in a mansion, but they can't live in a two bedroom.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
examples where people would just ask for amounts that are just not reasonable. Just because you can afford something doesn't mean you should afford something.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
No, and thank you for putting me in that saddle.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
You put that saddle right on that horse yourself. You try to make yourself out as this person, except when people try to extort you or try to take something from you, you stand up and you buck like a bronco saying, hey, when did I become the teeth that everyone sucks off?
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
He could do that, but he wouldn't. Yeah.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
Well, I'm just asking for you to give me a number. Should every woman who has a child with him get $200 million? Then everyone who has sex with him but doesn't have a child, that's $50 million because you took the time.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
It has nothing to do with the limits of cash. There is an amount of money. I'm simply asking. And you're not willing to give me a number. You say he uses money as toilet paper. Is it a billion dollars? Because he's got enough.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
I'll play your game. Five million a kid. Five million a kid. That seems fair. That is a very reasonable number. Plus education. Yeah. Like just $5 million in a trust that grows.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
But I do think... You don't look down or you don't have $5 million?
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
I believe they were monopoly dollars.
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Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal
You wouldn't give them the money?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Yeah, I don't think players think that way, actually. I think that it is the exception, not the rule. I think players are very understanding in terms of communication at the deadline. I was an executive who would communicate with my players when we were talking about them at the deadline and just tell them the truth. Yeah, of course, there are people calling on you. You're a good player.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
You want people to call on you in baseball.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Yeah, there's a lot of flirting. It's like trying to see how much your house is worth and then pretending that you're rich because your house has gone up, but you're not actually monetizing it so you don't have the money. We would often say, hey, what would you give for Stanton? Like, how badly would you want him?
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
And I wouldn't go to Giancarlo with conversations like that because you're having those talks every day, really, with other teams on all sorts of players.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Did Diana just get jealous about the GBF guests? Is that what we just witnessed?
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
All right.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
You're the booking agent for Diana Stu? Yeah.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
I deserve it.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
I deserve it. I deserve it. I deserve it. I deserve it.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Your mics are still hot, Stu and Diana.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Wouldn't be able to find her if she walked right past you.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
That is a good guess. Good luck.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
You can ask whether he pees in the shower. Yep.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
for many, many years, but he then went rogue against Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter when he got fired. And so I would Zoom into Glenn Geffner's funeral, but I would not attend in person. Wow. So he went into the middle stage from no chance to a Zoom to attend.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
So did Jews, Diana. But the game doesn't call for that.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Minnie in the midday. Minnie. No, no. I enjoy playing cards with him. I enjoyed him. He does a good job. No, I would not. Sorry, Craig.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Oh, wow. No. What? No, I would not. I'm sorry that he will be dead, but I will not attend it. You guys all lie during this game. It's unbelievable.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Thank you, guys.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
I don't think Stu would go to anybody's funeral, though. He would not be inconvenienced.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
that I don't want you to castigate yourself for not covering it. I covered it on Nothing Personal, and then something else came up, so I tried to cover it again. But we're in an exercise where you've got 300 minutes for a 50-minute show. And the thing with Justin Tucker, it is a completely different allegation than what the allegations were against Deshaun Watson. Completely different.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
And it is Justin Tucker I don't think survives. I think that he will be let go by the Ravens because his performance tailed off this year. But I don't want to compare this to the Deshaun Watson. It's equal. It's horrible. And he doesn't deserve no woman deserves to have that done to them in a massage. But the allegations against Watson were far different. And I pointed that out on the show.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
And I don't think maybe that was a factor in you not.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Far like I mean, Deshaun Watson was accused of sexual assault.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
The number of people who go and get happy endings, obviously there's a power dynamic, whether you're Justin Tucker or whether you are Robert Kraft or whether you are Mr. Anonymous going to one of the massage places. The fact is when you go for that, when it's not the atmosphere where happy endings happen, that's when the issue happens.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Because there are plenty of massage places where you go and everyone knows what the price of entry is. And so my thing with Justin Tucker is that he was getting massages. The thing I didn't know is were they in those sort of spas where that's happening? Because Deshaun Watson was getting them done purportedly as sports massages and he was then assaulting the women.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
And I don't know if Justin Tucker was at one of the strip mall places.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
It's not right, but I... Let me stop you and just ask you to think about this.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
No, because... half of the allegations from the Me Too movement and what they did in New York, which was opening up the right for women to say, hey, this happened to me 20 years ago, we're gonna toll the statute of limitations and make this year open for you to allege and get some sort of, if you can, some sort of payback for what happened to you way back in the day.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
And so it doesn't matter when it occurred. And often the rule of statute of limitations is five years from discovery of an act. When you remember an abuse, then it starts to run.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
I just feel like the audience does not care about the setup and they care about what you say and they love you and they love your show. And for you to MF your setup, it just didn't interest me. I want to hear what you have to say.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
I really appreciate that you both are here, and we're sorry to have kept you waiting.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Andrew Perloff and Ryan Leaf is not a list of everyone. Stugatz, Stugatz, Stugatz. Like that is bare minimum effort on just dropping names on people you've seen. You're selling us Tuesday Super Bowl week. Who's there? Perloff and Ryan Leaf.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
The NFL is a league where teams can change their fortune from one season to the next. So for him to sort of speculate that the Browns will never have a shot, that he can't win there, I think there is money at stake here. And, Diane, I just would point out to all of the great listeners here that your sources don't care where you are situated on Radio Row.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Yeah, but she cares. I mean.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Yes, that's good. That's it. Poop City. Just keep an eye. Just call your Joe that the entire week. Yes, change all of your graphic imaging and change it to Poop City this week from the Super Bowl.
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Hour 1: Poop City (feat. Stugotz and Dianna Russini from Radio Row)
Which is why if you're Billy Gill, you got a problem. Because Billy Gill, Diane, is going to be near you at all times. Like eight times a day.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
I would like to have gone for the first time. Yeah, you weren't invited to that one. Nope.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
I just think you did it purposefully, and I thought that it was silly. You had everybody go. It was the biggest budget item of the year in the company. Everybody was there.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
Name one person in front of a microphone who makes his living with metal work in front of a microphone.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
Pablo didn't go. Pablo doesn't think of himself that way. He wouldn't lower himself to be a part of that. Wow.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
Do we have a time zone issue? Is there a chance that Stugatz thought that it was 10 o'clock Central?
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
Oh, God. Are you kidding? Are you sure? I'm positive, yes. Like, what do you mean? Like bodyguards. Whose sole job, not producer bodyguards, just bodyguard bodyguards?
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
No, her grandmother does not think she's a star, not a star because of YouTube and seeing her on YouTube. She believes her granddaughter is a star because all grandparents think their grandchildren are stars.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
You're supposed to not keep using a typewriter when there's a computer available. It is true that people long for the day of when a player would be on a team for an entire career, but those days have been gone for 40 years. I mean, the Robin Younts of the world are the exception, not the rule. And so stars change teams.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
What shocks me about this is the position the GM took, Andrew Berry, who said, hey, give me two number ones. I'm still not trading him. I will not trade this guy. That's more GM malpractice. You've got to trade somebody if there's an overpay. And it seems like someone would overpay for Myles Garrett.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
I don't want to be forced to trade a player because they say they're unhappy. The Marlins did it with Derek Jeter when Yelich said he was unhappy and they made a terrible trade. You cannot let players dictate whether you move them and taking an ad out in a paper and putting it in bold font and saying, I want to win a Super Bowl. It's not Cleveland to Canton. Give me a break.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
The only power they have is what we give them. That's the fact. It's like blaming a player for signing a big contract. The owners decide to agree to the contract.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
Literal examples of players who stop playing because they want to be moved. They stop playing well. Are we saying that Luka was feigning injury?
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
Jimmy Butler has chosen not to play in order to get Pat Riley to trade him? Is that the position that he took?
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
I really have a problem right now, Dan, because I can't get Greg going. He told me just now that the whole break threw him off, that he's very concerned about his outfit, that he thought he was wearing a blazer. And what I've said to him very clearly is we've never needed him more than we do now as witnessed by the length of all of the break and all of the people not here.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
Do you think it's a coincidence that all of the guaranteed portion of Miles Garrett's extension in 20 are finished and now he's into the unguaranteed part? Do you think there's any part of this where he's trying to get guaranteed money? Yes, of course. So then what are you talking about? This is all just posturing by Miles Garrett that he's hiding under the I want to win a Super Bowl.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
And you're going to guarantee that you're going to win a Super Bowl because you're traded? I was thinking about this on Nothing Personal. What's the list for Andrew Berry? I'll take from you guys. What's the list of where he should be traded? Chiefs?
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
There's a lot of bad. I happen to totally agree that the Cleveland Browns with Haslam and Watson are finished, although Watson, I think, is likely finished. But you can't. Giancarlo Stanton did this to us. He said, I want to win a World Series. I won't go to the Cardinals. I won't go to the Giants. I want to go to the Dodgers or Yankees. Went to the Yankees a long time ago. No ring yet.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
It's a lot harder than you think. So we don't allow a player to just say, I want to
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
You're saying you didn't know he wanted to be traded. Did you know or did you not know?
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
So, Greg, one more time for you. Can you please get yourself together? I'm sorry.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
Lucy, I want to thank you because that's a very soft applause. I'd like to make it much stronger.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
No, I'm thankful to you, Lucy, because you did it right. When you see that 900, you cannot proceed. You cannot spend that kind of money on some ridiculous venture by Cody. You get the shirt for $9.99 and you get yourself to the Super Bowl as...
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
If I thought that the juice was worth the squeeze and that $900 would actually generate any sort of attention, then I would think about it.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
We are being sponsored and paid for Lucy to do a challenge that is just as good in the T-shirt as it is in the $999.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
I do remember last year's show, and I remember the fact that I'm still, exactly, I'm dealing still with the budget reality of last year's show.
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
It was a nightmare, so you can forgive me trying to save the $900, which I'm trying to spread to the talent. Lucy?
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The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
But we've included her going, and it's sponsored, and the T-shirt is just fine. So I'd like you to move past it. The problem is you're stuck on this, as though we don't know that you're showing the Billy thing on a loop. Don't treat us like fools. Let Lucy go, and it's going to be fine.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
No, because he makes his living with a microphone, and we're trying to uphold the standards of actually of intelligence, not of babbling. No matter what is going on with the show, you don't want to mistake less and fewer.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
I do, actually. I think that's why it's such a popular show, and I think that that's the beauty of the show, is that we are actually smart people. We do that good. We do this show.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
We need it better from Greg. It's a short staff today. It's not a crowded room.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
Greg, I want you to think back to when you were young and you didn't have open sores on your arm and you were totally writing and talking as though you were a professional Hall of Famer to be. I want you to channel that and recognize that we need you. We need you at Metal Ark.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
Dan, your friend, your mentor, the one who has given you the very platform that you take advantage of every single day to his detriment mostly. You need to come through for us in a way the start was so bad that I would have benched you. Dan wants you to come back strong. Can you do it?
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
Who are you proposing to, exactly?
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
Do you know that 80 percent of the people cannot name all of their eight great grandparents? And so we are merely three generations away from being forgotten.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
You're in the 80%, Chris.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
Yeah, my bad. I played that game wrong. I do know their names. Okay. It's your great-grandparents, Chris. That's the 80%. Everybody can name their grandparents.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
I'm not going to take a quiz.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
An archive, for sure. I don't understand. I thought two minutes means you have to get out of the chair. Do you give him different treatment?
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
Snitch, not snitch.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
You can be healthy when you're on your way to a place and then sick at the place. That's a possible outcome.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
There's nothing worse in my head than the bathroom at Radio Row. And Billy Gill is going to need it because this won't go away with antibiotics immediately. And I'm trying to imagine how the route would be back to his room, whether there's time for that. Or does he have to do the radio row bathroom? In which case, that's a deal breaker.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
I've got a dirty blanket to my left. It's it's gross.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
And now we're talking about leadership this early.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
It's true. I had to do it on a laptop into a random camera without a mute button. And the people in the control room were yelling, but it wasn't you couldn't even be on the show. There were no cameras.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
It is impossible for me to believe that both LeBron James did not know, but most importantly, that Nico didn't shop this trade. I believe that there were teams who call on players. We did it every day. You're calling on players you think are untradeable, and you call on them, and either a deal can get done or not. You do not get one trading partner and make the best deal for your team. Period.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
So I don't believe him.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
We corroborate anything. I mean, we're so.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
You have to understand that the GMs are trying to answer to their owners who call them up and say, are you telling me that we were not in on Luca? And then the GMs say, I had no idea. That's not the real world, because the owner would say to the GM, you didn't call just during the course of your day.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
Self-preservation is one of the great tactics of people in the sports world.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
Did anyone leak this trade? That's why everyone is so butthurt.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
There is no trade where three people know about it. There is no such thing as a deal like that in sports.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
Because I hope that's the last time he uses less incorrectly.
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Local Hour: Gabe's 30 Seconds On Luka Doncic
That's a perfect use of the word less.
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PTFO - The Fax and the Furious: How One Screeching Machine Upended Sports — and Society as We Knew It
Well, it is now official. No more regular season. No extended version of the playoffs. And for the first time since 1904, no World Series, Brennan.
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PTFO - The Fax and the Furious: How One Screeching Machine Upended Sports — and Society as We Knew It
So finally, after all this stuff, he called me and he said, I think I'm ready to come back. So I wrote three or four different versions of a press release for him to announce that he was coming back. But he just didn't feel comfortable that it captured what he wanted to say. So I said, well, why don't you freaking write one?
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
David, where are you on this? You got to leave some room, Juju, and I appreciate absolutely the promotion of nothing personal. Airplane bathrooms are F.E.U. for emergency use only. But I only have them at about a seven point five.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
Oh, any of them. Of course, number two would be a 7.75. And that in my life of travel, and I can keep count, it's not even on one hand, including trips to Asia and Australia, that I've actually done that. And it was always based on sickness.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
I have. It doesn't matter. There is no denying facts. It doesn't mean he's a bad guy. It means he had a bad taco. It's not the end of the world. It was just hard to ever forget. It's the only thing about losing smell and taste that actually is redeeming.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
That is a 6.9.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
So I think it's important. To add juju that when I had little children, I had to go to water parks with them in my efforts to be a fake good father. And I would attempt and would go in the water park. But since my youngest got bar mitzvahed, I can tell you I've never been to a water park and I will never go again.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
And I've alerted my children, should they have children, that I'm not the grandfather to take them to said water park. So I'm done with them forever.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
At least a dozen. Remember, I had three kids and so at least a dozen. How about you, Juju?
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
David? Yep. It depends on the length of my fingernail. If there's any risk of a bleeder, I won't put the finger up there. But if there is not and I'm in private and I've got something that needs to get taken care of, I will do it. But of course it requires obviously sanitizer, both pre and post.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
David? So for me, during marathons, during some athletic endurance events, and on Survivor on the island, I had to do that. But that's what it takes. It's either to be on Survivor or to be in the middle of some crazy event where I would have no choice but to do it. Other than choosing death, I would not prefer to do that, but I would not die to not do it.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
I don't care. I don't care if it's my child or my lover. That is a hard never. Hard.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
So Juju, this is so good. I keep inside pants and outside pants. And when I get home, my outside pants come off and my inside pants come on. My inside pants do not see the light of day ever. David, I'm going to tell you right now.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
That's about a three because I have sanitizer with me at all times, so I'll do a post-sanitize if I have to do that, but that one is only a three for me.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
Yeah, I have no problem with the outdoor shower. You do it to get the sand off your feet because I don't want one grain of sand in my car, in my house. So I'll use that to get rid of any sort of dirt, sand or anything just to get me to the shower in order to get my inside clothes back on. So I would have that as a one or even a zero.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
The airplane bathroom. It is absolutely disgusting. I find it to be hard to fathom when I have to use the bathroom and I have a whole system. I've got wipes and I've got tissues and I've got paper towels. I don't actually touch anything inside the bathroom, including the handle on the outside of the bathroom, right outside the cockpit. It's a whole thing that I do.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
And I really try not to do it even to go pee pee.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
So yeah, bathtubs are gross. So Juju, I would only add that it's not just bathtubs in hotels. My hotel situation is I have towels and I put towels down everywhere in the room because I don't want to sit anywhere where there is a couch, because believe me, the blue light gets to the couch faster than the bathtub. So I don't touch remotes. I don't use TVs inside hotel rooms at all, ever.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
So hotel rooms are a problem for me, and that's not ideal.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
When I was a kid in Wisconsin, we would bowl a lot. When I was in college, I was on a bowling team and I would wear bowling shoes, but I would personally do the wiping and the spraying at the bowling alley, not let the guy for two bucks an hour who's smoking a dube do it. I wanted to try to clean it, but I never spent the money to buy my own bowling shoes.
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Postgame Show: The Germ-Off (feat. JuJu Gotti & David Samson)
I'm in. Let's not kid ourselves. If you're giving me that opportunity, listen, I am happy to do a post-shower, maybe a pre-shower, whatever it takes. But that's... I'm in.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
No, I'm in the Otis Saga Hotel in Cooperstown. Not a retirement home. It's a place where Hall of Famers are. So I agree with you. It looks on the old side. It is on the old side.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
You're on a wooden chair.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
I had the weirdest thing happen in my room today is that while I was in the bathroom and getting ready for my shows and going to sleep, I was thinking about which Hall of Famers were in this room because this is where the Hall of Famers stay when they get inducted in July and all the Hall of Famers come back and we're here today.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
to introduce the new class of hall of famers and i and i never think this way because i always want to assume i'm the first tuchus to be in any room i'm in because otherwise it's too gross but i was thinking like what if johnny bench like squatted right here and i assume that something happened just like that in that hotel just visually definitely haunted like there there has absolutely been ghost ass on that toilet
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
yeah there are people in the industry who know the truth about this which is that sort of ai engagement has been going on for a long time and somehow it just came out and you'd have to wonder what is it a coincidence that it's around the brutalist which is obviously a controversial topic it's a three and a half hour movie that will make people examine things
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
they prefer not to examine but the movies in you and as you know mike uh there's a lot of fake stuff in the movies as a matter of fact everything is fake it is now tom cruise may do his own stunts good for him but there's a lot of stuff going on in mission impossible that may not exactly be as it seems and the way movies are edited and cut and the way in which they're filmed
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
It's all meant to make the audience think something is happening for art's sake that's actually not happening. And if you think AI, the whole reason for the strikes was what AI was going to be used for. And if you take it even further, could AI replace certain things? And the answer is it certainly can, and it will.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
I just hope Pat Riley stands his ground, actually. I hope that he tells the other teams, whether it's Phoenix, it doesn't matter who, that this is the package he wants and he won't take anything less. And if Phoenix can go out and get it from Utah and myriad other teams and deliver to Pat a huge win for his franchise, then I'm happy to trade Jimmy. Otherwise, I'm happy to let him sit.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
shooting nine shots game playing 24 minutes a game, suspend him for whatever he does and try to save the money for Mickey. I'm in on all of it. I think that Pat Riley is over player empowerment. And he is manifesting this sort of angst and sick of it. And he's doing it all directed toward Jimmy and I'm here for it.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
But in terms of his team, and our team, I hope that he does not give in and trade Jimmy without getting back what he wants.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
Haven't you ever been in an atmosphere in a relationship where people are separated or divorced but living in the same house for whatever financial reason or people at work who don't get along but show up just to get their paycheck and you can tell who those people are that they're trying very hard not to do anything so they get suspended or they get fired?
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
This happens in every workplace in the world and basketball is no exception to that. And the thing is, in sports, we try to give in to players so much because we're worried about PR.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
Well, Pat Riley, with age and with success, hopefully is getting back to the point where his give-a-shit meter has lowered to the point where he doesn't get impacted by anyone saying or thinking anything about what he's doing. And that's why I think Jimmy Butler should just rot at the end of the bench. I wouldn't trade him even if I got the package I wanted for spite alone. But I think Pat...
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
I'm just telling you what I would do to Jimmy Butler for what he's doing to Pat Riley if I were Pat Riley. But I think Pat understands that if he can get the exact right package, he'll take it.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
So the minute we left, Greg, Christian Yelich did it to Derek Jeter. And Derek Jeter sent Christian Yelich to the Brewers in what became one of the worst trades the franchise has done, except for the ones I did. And that was a major thing when the player doesn't want to be there. And Derek Jeter actually went public saying, I don't want players around who don't want to be here.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
Stanton many times said to me that he wanted to be traded. He wasn't happy with the direction of the franchise. And we had just said to him, you know, we're not trading you. As a matter of fact, we're going to offer you so much money that we're going to make you stay here forever, which is what we did.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
So there were players throughout, but a lot of them were side players like a Jeff Baker, who is just a miserable, unhappy player. And what you do in that case is just release them.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
Well, I do a live show for Metal Ark from 8 to 8.50 a.m. Eastern, and the Oscar nominations come out at 8.30. And so for the last many years, I have missed the live announcement, and I asked Coca, the producer, to feed the nominations in my ear as they're happening, and he refuses to do it. Because we're in the middle of a show. So then I end the show and now I have to talk about them tomorrow.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
But I'm already caught completely up to date. And it's one of the great sadnesses of my life that I miss the live nomination announcements. I used to love it. I would. There were times during owners meetings when I would step out because they would happen on normally on a things were different this year because of the fires, but normally on a Tuesday.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
when I'd be in a meeting or a Thursday, whatever the day is, and I would literally step out and watch it live, but not this year, Dan.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
It actually leads with 13 nominations and it helps that it's in the international category. It's unbelievable. The story itself is unbelievable. Forget the fact that it's the first trans woman to be nominated for best actress and her performance as Amelia Perez is the best of the year. But Demi Moore is certainly leading right now to win best actress.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
but you've got songs you've got music you've got a story you've got drugs you've got sex you've got selena gomez you've got an unbelievably gripping tale of what it is to be in a cartel and decide that you've had a crisis of conscience and it makes you change your entire life including leaving your wife and kids in order to live your truth
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
and living truth when you've been part of murder and mayhem and money is quite difficult it it's an extraordinary movie and before you criticize it you should watch it
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
No, I think it's anything without an exclamation point or a part two or Ryan Reynolds doesn't get enough attention. So this is just a movie that's not for everyone because it requires your head and your heart. And there's a lot of movies out there that are made for the lowest common denominator. And this is not one of them.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
And one of the great criticisms of the Oscars is that it really brings movies that are not widely seen to the forefront. Well, go see them because they're really good. And you shouldn't be afraid to learn. It's like, oh, this won the Pulitzer Prize. I can't read it. I'm going to stick with just reading Stu Gatz's book. That's not how it's supposed to be.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
You're supposed to read books that improve your knowledge and intellect. And I think that's the same with movies.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
movie that we reviewed last week chasing chasing amy had a lot of people from inside the lgbtq community criticizing the movie chasing amy as though it did not properly portray what it is to be lesbian or that you can become not a lesbian if you have ben affleck everybody's so quick to stand up and try to criticize
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
to me i look at amelia perez i look at it as a movie i don't look at it as a trans movie or an lgbtq movie or a black and white movie or a musical i look at it as see what the story is see what the acting is the writing the directing the music and it's got all of that and so that is the reason why i'm a supporter of it david challenger's biggest snub not getting a best score nomination
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
Well, Atticus and Ross, as you know, they basically, the minute they put a note down, they're going to get a nomination. So that was a big surprise. The Challengers got nothing. There was a possibility in a screenplay, but original score was supposed to be it. And listen, the movies that were nominated in original score category, there are no schleppers in the category.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
The biggest snub of all for me happened in the documentary category. But you're right. Challengers not getting any love was certainly disappointing.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
And you know how scores happen in that the movie is filmed. There's no music to it. And then you go into a edit bay and the movie is playing and there's the director sort of watching over the people doing the score and they're adding music. It changes the whole movie. Scores to a movie actually are maybe the single most important thing that gets done after filming, even more so than editing.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
Yeah, that's not true what you just said. It's not just because it's not Academy worthy in acting or in directing or in writing does not mean I don't love being entertained. I've seen every single one. I don't like when you put me in the box because it serves the show or serves you to have fun. Forgive me.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
Well, the reason is that you guys do that without me, and what I try to do, including the movie I want to review today, is a movie that I don't know if everybody's going to see, and if even five listeners or whatever your reach and roar is, if anyone gets out of their comfort zone, and just the way Mike Ryan has me get out of mine and watch movies that I otherwise would not watch, including what I'm watching this weekend, Mike, is nominated for four Oscars, is your best movie of the year.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
Are you saying Nosferatu? I just didn't want to say Nosferatu. I wanted you to say it because it's your movie.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
Well, I'm hoping it's not a jump scare horror movie because the last movie that you said I shouldn't watch, it really wasn't a horror movie. It was just a horror to watch it. So I do view those as different. The genre of horror to watch, you can put Schindler's List in that. Horror movie to me is, you know, The Exorcist and The Shining. But I assume that Nosferatu is not that sort of movie.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
At least I hope not.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
I'll start with that. That's a verbal crutch that I do that comes off as hugely condescending, and I shouldn't do it. Because when I say, as you know, what I'm really saying to someone, whether it's in a negotiation or just in a conversation, is, listen, idiot, I don't want to have to say this again. If you don't know this, it should be sort of imputed knowledge.
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Hour 1: Getting Right To The Meat With David Samson
So it's really said negatively, and I will try to cut that out of my speech patterns.
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Local Hour: Mark's Wife Emmy
All right. This is David from Toronto. I'm working. I want to be watching with you, Dan. You're my idol. I'm plowing a graveyard. And not only that, I don't even have a windshield. It's plastic. If I don't deserve this, nobody does.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
It's just absurd. It's absurd. Stugatz. I'm talking about people who I fire who deserve it, who have done something that actively requires me to fire them. It is my unadulterated pleasure to do so. This is the Dan Labatar Show with the Stugatz. Stugatz.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
That's just so spot on that you would actually allocate resources to prove something that is so obvious. Remember, you're stuck with people surrounding you who have this view of me that's based on a trade, that's based on one thing that happened so many years ago that people can't remember. You got Billy upset and Mike, I've ruined his life. Let me tell you something.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
At the end of the day, the majority of people don't care about that. And Darren Revell is funny. sort of, and whether or not he has, I think Stu told me 1.9 million Twitter followers. Let me tell you something. How many of those are in the United States of America? Let's start with that. What does that mean? What? What does that mean? What difference is that? Oh, I'm sorry. You're right.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Nobody buys followers. I'm wrong.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Everyone's Twitter following is a realization.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Yes, it's not an avatar. It's not AI. It's me. Well, it's hard to know what's you and what's not you and your social media presence. Is that a joke about my age? No, we're the same age. We're the same demographic. I don't participate in triathlons. So I might not be as good shape as you. And I'm very sorry that you had to be flown in for this. It's so funny.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
And I assume that it was coach, even though Dan said first class, that would not track. No, it was first class.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Yeah. Wow.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
What is that hotel? The motel behind you, David? Yeah, that was a Hanukkah present for my daughter, Kira, from Amazon because I love Schitt's Creek. So no, there is no value to that. Good show. Except my personal attachment to it and me trying to be a better father by putting it on set. Are you going to attack my fatherhood now? next?
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I'm not impugning anything other than you're not as well recognized as I am. If you put our faces next to each other and said, who's who, people would be able to identify me and not you.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
But if you do that, I think we can we can actually find someone independent, someone. Stu Gatz could identify people in his circle in his life who are independent.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Well, the credible part is just because there's not many voices out in the atmosphere that have the business experience that I've had. And I'm willing to talk about it in an honest way. That's what nothing personal is. That's what my time is with you on the show. And I don't know that there's a peer that can do it only because they haven't actually done it.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
and in terms of being recognized i think survivor plays a part in that i think the marlins play a part you play a part in that dan obviously and stu gots so i think all in when when you forget the 1.9 million twitter followers which i'm happy to talk about at any time darren how that number happens and the work you did to get that because obviously we do it wrong at the levitard show but that said i think it's pretty much unanimous
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
that no one would recognize darren for being a business person other he's a reporter who did well and now is the founder of a company that i have great respect for but it's not like being the founder of metal arc you're putting me in a tough position here
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
I don't know why you're talking in that voice.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Yeah. Whoa. There's a lot of things this is, and that's not one of them.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
We did. Yeah, we all agree. Dan, you really got the room cooking on that one.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Oh, I would like to give everyone free rein. And I will say to everyone that any thought I have toward each of you is not in any way correlated to how you answer the question. But you're in the media world. You're in the sports media world. Are you telling me that when it comes to sports business, you would rather hear what debt now forget personalities, forget your view of me outside of it.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
But you'd rather hear what Darren Revell has to say about a sports business topic versus what I have to say about it.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
That's not exactly accurate. Really? But good one. You can't afford him? Name your price. Oh, I just think that Aaron's rate is way lower than my rate. Whoa. Wow. Interesting. Oh, my God.
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Hour 2: The Jerk Off (feat. David Samson and Darren Rovell)
Well, he can't believe it. You have to understand what he's saying. He at in June of 2000 at ESPN is a 21 year old. And I don't disrespect the age. But what you are doing is reporting on news. What I'm doing is making news. Oh, that's a ball. That's a ball. And that's a big difference. And what I do now is talk about the news that I made.
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But they're telling you what they want you to hear, what they want you to know.
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No, and no, I'm not, actually. It's a hugely important job, and we're learning that now in today's world where there is a rush toward bad reporting.
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great example that's a great analogy he played the game he saw it with his own eyes and and you know and no coach would ever be more credible than a player Jeff Passon is a great example of someone who has the view that he's run a team Scott Boris has the same view And they report, they get scoops. Jeff Passan breaks news all the time. He's the breaking news guy. That means he's got connections.
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It means he's got people who talk to him, who give him information, whether it's from the union or the league. And the information is given purposefully, mostly, sometimes due to relationships. But at the end of the day, that doesn't give him any credibility as to why the decision was made or what's really going on.
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That I'm not impugning you as a journalist. No, you're impugning journalism overall. No, that's absolutely wrong. I'm merely telling you that I'm not a journalist. The question was not. Dan, you may have set this.
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Information.
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the ability to analyze and teach and educate things that are going on in the world of sports business.
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Yes, you did, because you said, I'm just a journalist. You and I started, we're different ages. We've been in the business world a different amount of time. You are very good at what you do. Again, not the question. We were brought here today. You were flown in, which blows my mind, given meetings I've been having. But let's just pretend that, that it was a smart move.
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But the question was- It was cheaper. It was at 6 a.m. from Newark. So those, the early flights are the cheaper ones. Connected and direct.
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You don't even need to be there 67 minutes in advance if you have clear and you're not checking it back. But I have yet to miss a flight, and that's a record that I don't want to miss.
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They both never missed a flight. I would imagine, I can't imagine the type of person who would miss a flight, except if I were to imagine one, it would be Dan. Yep. I thought this was a memorabilia off. Yeah.
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No, I would not. I would suggest that I have a collection that my kids won't throw away when I croak, but I do not have the type of things that Darren has.
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It's not where my memorabilia is.
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Show him the UPS box, David. It's not where I am right now.
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Okay, there's multiple, but that's a pretty good one. Bowie's glasses, I think. Yeah. No, not Bowie. Darren, I also have from Castaway the pocket watch with Helen Hunt. That's great. The watch. The Wilson volleyballs are in the $100,000 to $200,000 range. There's many of them, but that's a tough one.
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don't have an actual Wilson volleyball uh I instead went with those things from Castaway I've got a bunch of sports memorabilia that I enjoy that I have never marked to market it doesn't matter to me at this moment and I would say the most important piece of memorabilia I have is the jersey from the last win um that Jose Fernandez had oh that's that's cool That's like the game. That's right.
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Well, Darren, to be fair, what you tend to do on Martin Luther King Day is you tend to post the memorabilia. I do.
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It just seems like an unusual flex on Martin Luther King Day.
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No, I think he'd want you to flex him on every other day. You have 364 days. All right, let's not get lost in the weeds on this one.
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See, that's ridiculous, Darren.
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One more. There is no collector in the world who ever says what Darren is saying. There's no collector of art, collector of books, collector of memorabilia, collector of stocks, purchaser of stocks. Is that Bob Dylan? But, David, that's why he's the best.
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What are you laughing about? I'm laughing because if it were this easy, everyone would do it.
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It's not easy.
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Don Levitard. Oh, I like firing people. So I take the opportunity to fire whenever I possibly can because I can use it as a learning experience for them and try to help them out and try to point out what they did wrong. But in this case, the employee was enough levels below where I was that I did not do the firing, but I had it done within moments of discovery.
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There were more nos than yeses. But the baseball season just has a different rhythm than the football season. You're playing 162 games in 185 days, and that's after 30 spring training games in 34 days. So it is just the grind of the season that the staying in cities later, that rarely comes up because there's so few off days during the season.
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But there's stuff that other stuff is where the permission comes. It's in the clubhouse. It's special treatment for guests. It's location of seats. It's things like that that come up. Hotel rooms.
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To have a player take both a wife and a girlfriend on a family trip on the plane. That's amazing. That was the end of our families traveling with the team. Wait a minute.
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We had to make a whole set of rules, Pablo. You want to find out? We had a whole set of rules that I developed with Larry Beinfest about what relationship was required to travel with the team on a family trip. And I said, I can't deal with this.
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What was the criteria? What were some of the criteria? I needed proof of wedding. I didn't want engagement. I didn't want, I needed proof. I'm talking like a document. Proof of wedding. Engagement wasn't good enough. No, no. Engagement. You need paperwork. I want paperwork.
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No, it's a pain in the ass, Pablo, to deal with this. It really was not fun. The traveling secretary would come to me and talk about the layout of where rooms are in the hotel because where players were, this is such a bigger deal than people would think. You have to have girlfriends in a different place than wives, different floors, different parts of the stadium where people are sitting.
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Oh, I said ham. I've literally never eaten ham in my life. Religious reasons. That's on me. Pablo, I am despondent right now. Yeah. That's on me. You don't seem like a tuna guy. Certainly not from a store or restaurant, no. A store or restaurant? Where the f*** are you getting your tuna? I'll make my own tuna.
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Certain family members don't sit near each other. It's a whole magilla.
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And picture a stadium that's not faux. It's a total nightmare.
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Yeah, that's a whole other thing is trying to discern injury from... not wanting to do infield or not wanting to take BP. And so we're monitoring always the trainers and the training staff. And that's why we mark everything down of any player who walks in and what they say, what's bothering them. We do it both for coverage and workers' comp purposes, but also to understand who's just hung over.
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And so what I would try to do with the players is just say, be honest. We don't want to put you on the report if you're just on the training table because you have a headache and your headache is because you were out all night. Do it. Go sleep in a dark room. But we're only going to put you on the report if you're hurt.
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So that's another funny thing that goes on during the course of a season behind the scenes.
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team sports so it's like all right that wants to do that with his career it's not going to impact the way i hit or the way i feel well some of them i i think that if i did the math i was a president for 208 sunday games roughly if i had a guess nothing more fun than math let's do some more math 205 of 208 someone came in hung over on us for a sunday game from a saturday night to an afternoon game uh and more than one player some players were better
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I love you, Miguel, and I've said this to your face, but Miguel Cabrera could hit the ball and he would just aim for the middle ball. And it was just incredible what he was able to do. Other guys were not able to perform when they were hungover.
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No, no, I will make tuna from a can with Miracle Whip and Dijon mustard and green onion and avocado and cucumber. I will make that. Obviously, always with water and you drain it, but I will never order tuna in a restaurant. The sandwich so far sounds like it's going to be terrible. It's amazing. You just haven't figured out what it is. David, do you want to make the big reveal?
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Many jobs of the black man. I got to do everything around here. That's right. Player empowerment's a real thing.
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The hardest thing to do is when a player's been empowered and they're really, really worth it. And then time passes and they're not worth it. And it's really hard to claw back the power that you've given the player.
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I want to tell you a story. I'm serious here. My wife and my two daughters, they begged me to buy a Peloton. So I bought a Peloton. And then I watched that Peloton sit in my office and stare at me. So you know what I did one day? I looked at it. And so I decided to get off my ass and I jumped on the Peloton because no one else was using it and I paid for it. I mean, so why not?
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Then I realized eventually that they bought it for me. And I got to tell you, way more challenging than I could have ever imagined. Peloton coaches are walking the walk. I love the coaches. I do the Grateful Dead one. It's fantastic. They have a sub three hour marathon runner, military trained athlete, a former college basketball player, and so many other well-rounded coaches on their team.
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All this experience really shows in their classes, which are never short of challenging, especially for me personally. So I jumped on it that first time. It was challenging, more challenging than I thought. And then I wanted to beat the bike. And so I kept jumping on it. And I absolutely love it. I mean, I'm the only one who uses it. But again, they got it for me. I mean, I had no idea.
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That's a little passive aggressive, don't you think? Find your push. Find your power with Peloton at OnePeloton.com.
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What's the big reveal? It's turkey with Tijo mustard, lettuce, brie, cheddar, onion, cucumber, jalapeno. Oh, I see. That's a build.
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Well, you can't judge a book by its cover. Yes, I have always, I've never been what other people would consider overweight, but I have always had a tremendous body dysmorphia issue. And so I view myself right now, actually, as not as looking about as bad as you can look at the end of a day like this. So I know what you're talking about.
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And I've looked at all sorts of herbs and all sorts of ways to lose weight. And it turns out that the best way that I ever found to lose weight was to be actually sick and I had a disorder. And it turns out that that's probably not the best plan either. So it's a multi-billion dollar industry full of bad plans.
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I was an anorexic for a bunch of years while I was running a professional sports team. While running marathons, I was sick. When did it develop? When did it develop? It really started when I was very young. I always had this weird view of myself.
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I'm always, even as I sit here today, all these years later, all I'm thinking about when I do shows or when I'm in public and when I'm in private, it's every moment that I'm awake is I'm thinking of my stomach. It's all I think about. So if you ever look at me in pictures, I'm often, I cross my hands over my front so people can't see. I'm very cognizant of how I look from the back, whether or not
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I'm flat down by the waist. And when I see a little roll or something like that, it makes me insane. It's a horrible thing to have what I have. And it was years of therapy. I was down to 117 pounds in a very public job. And I thought that's the best I've ever looked. And I still look at those photos because they're on Google. And I still view them as the best I've ever looked in my life.
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And I would run 20 miles and purposely not eat the entire day. And while running a baseball team. That's how you lose weight. And now I'm about as heavy as I've ever been at about 139. I used to weigh myself about 25 times a day. Before and after every time going to the bathroom. Before and after every course of a meal. I mean, I was sick. I really have never talked about that.
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That's a disappointing thing to say out loud.
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I've been with you both. And Dominique, you are obviously a very fit, attractive man. And Pablo, I always assumed you were resting your arms, not covering anything. I thought they were on the ledge. I'd say that you look good in butter. There's no question about that. But listen, Pablo, I love you and I love us. But you are not a butter face. But this is a serious issue.
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I hate that we're making light of it. I'm not happy to admit. no one wants to talk about this stuff. And I'm not happy to have to talk about it. It's uncomfortable, but I'll tell you that It's not better because I still think about it every day, every day, all day. I think about what I look like, how I feel. I'm very hyper aware of every little thing that happens.
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I used to be a tremendous picker if I had a blemish anywhere. And so I had to wear gloves to stop myself from picking. So I'm aware of all these things that people struggle with and it's not easy. And now I would choose to be a public figure, which I am, but guess what? We're all public figures because of social media.
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And so even if you're not in the world of media with your feed or your Instagram or Snapchat, there's kids and adults going through this and it sucks. It just downright sucks. It drains the life out of you. It makes you exhausted to have to be a certain way all the time. And that's the world. And now I'm a part of it.
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Well, there are only seven. Okay, well. I'm just saying it's not. I've had more people ask me that. You ran on every continent? Yeah, there's only seven.
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I think there's a lot of people who are just struggle with this and what the dysmorphia is, is that you see something that other people don't see, which is why with you two, I do it all the time, both on and off camera. I'm always testing, hey, are you sort of hearing what I'm hearing and then reacting how I'm reacting to this?
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Paavo and I spend hours talking about this, and Dominique and I, we've talked about this sort of thing. That's where the testing comes from. I'm always testing.
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I'm ready to go, Dominique. So this is David's superpower.
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Yes. My mother and father got me the same desk set three years in a row. The same exact thing when I was in eighth, ninth, and tenth grade. It was a pencil holder. It was a thing where you put your papers on. There were no computers at the time. It was a three-piece set. One was for pens and pencils. One was for a stapler. And one was the square thing that you put on top of your desk.
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Three years in a row, same one.
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Oh, that's the worst. Yes. Okay, I was just making sure. I mean, I... A little hard to tell sometimes. Surprise. Oh, my God. It was horrifying to me at the level of, at the lack of attention to detail or the absolute care.
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Oh, it's just lack of knowing me or lack of paying attention, lack of care, lack of all that stuff. It's horrifying. It's horrifying. It makes you feel totally unappreciated or loved. It's terrible. It's the same freaking thing three years in a row.
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I re-gifted it to my son for his 21st.
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It's, listen, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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One time I got a coupon saying that I would get a bike, and it was just a picture of a bike, and I never got the bike. I ended up with just the picture. So I do not traffic in coupon gifts at all.
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I have one. When I was 13... i had a bar mitzvah and the hottest girl in the grade came to my bar mitzvah and she came in a purple skirt and i remember the outfit and i was in love with her so much and i didn't think i had a chance that she would come to little old me my lunchtime bar mitzvah and she came to that and it was the greatest gift i've ever gotten in my life
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Congratulations.
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I think she just came. What do you mean? That was the gift? Yeah, I don't think that he got a kiss or anything. A kiss? Don't be ridiculous. I barely got a glance or a gander, but it was good enough for me. We were in the same space. Good for you, Goose.
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Oh, I don't mean to. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. You guys are not playing it right. I'm just giving you stories. You guys, I'm so sorry. I'm very fortunate. Literally, I'm the luckiest person I know. So don't feel badly for me. I'm more than fine. More than fine.
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Take that as a compliment. I found out that the depth of Dominique's competitive nature knows no bounds.
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That's a good one.
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Let's first say that it was 765 over 15. Let's then say that there is no scenario under which Juan Soto chose the Mets because there was a suite included in the deal.
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The way these deals are negotiated is that you get to the rider after, which is season tickets or suite on the road meeting a hotel room, whether or not you pay for that or whether you have the player pay for the difference between a regular room and a suite.
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When there's season tickets, where the location is for the player's family, whether it's in the regular family section or elsewhere, all of that is extra stuff. No player that I've ever negotiated with had it as a dispositive moment. You're not including the sweets? It's absurd. And by the way, last thing on this, if the Yankees really were competing to win,
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All they had to do was gross up the amount that they were paying Soto and tell Soto to buy the suite. And Soto would have been at par. Gross up, meaning the price of the suite each year. You can even include what the taxes would have been on that. I've been grossing up people forever. It is normal. So it's, thank you. I handed that to you.
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I'm so glad that you're paying attention because you're not on your phone. So I don't buy into this notion that that went into the decision-making process.
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But they are till they're not, Dominique, because I never gave a no trade clause for a long term deal ever until Giancarlo Stanton. And it was a deal breaker for him. And we gave him a no trade clause. So everything is principled and everything's culture until it's not until Barry Bonds wants a recliner. And you say, come on, nobody has a recliner. Hey, I'm Barry Bonds.
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All right, we're getting the recliner for you.
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I do, Dominique, because think about that as a player. You're paying attention. You know contractual provisions of all of your teammates. And if we give an advantage to one teammate in the guarantee provision that we didn't give to another, they know it in about 45 seconds.
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I have a sandwich that I had to custom build myself, which I did.
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Almost every year. So the two examples in sports or baseball is when you're drafting someone internationally from the Dominican and the Busconi wants you to take the kid's brother, the kid's cousin and the kid's second cousin. And you give, you know, 50 grand to each of them just because you want to spend 800 grand to get the good player. And so you're willing to take on all the extra stuff.
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And it goes all the way to the big leagues where with Vladimir Guerrero, we had to give a roster spot to his brother, Wilton Guerrero. We even got Wilton Guerrero through arbitration because Vladimir, which is Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 's father, Vladimir Guerrero Sr., a Hall of Famer, he had his brother and mother with him in Montreal. They lived together.
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They ate meals together, and Wilton was part of the package. And so for us, it was necessary until he became too expensive because he was getting service time and not really all that productive.
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Yo, check out the build on this sandwich. I did custom build the sandwich, and I can't test it and look at it because of our delay. I've been sitting in place for 15 minutes waiting, and I could have gotten the order myself and checked to make sure that it was right, and now I have to think about it through this entire show. which also does not make my brain happy.
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Absolutely not. And it's an amazing thing what you're saying, Dominique. I had not heard that before. That's a position I would not still value in terms of a roster spot in basketball where there's so few of them. My growing up, there were 11. I think now there's 15 or 16. It's still not very many. That's an amazing piece of real estate. And the whole Bronny thing, don't even get me started.
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The Lakers stink.
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PTFO - Share & Gift & Tell with Domonique Foxworth and David Samson
Do you know what your teammates have when you're traveling? Yeah. So you just said that with some certainty. Do you get a room list with the actual room numbers? Of the players in where they are in the hotel?
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PTFO - Share & Gift & Tell with Domonique Foxworth and David Samson
No, I would do a joining room slumber party. You used to have roommates. Early on, 30, 40 years ago, players in baseball, they would room with a teammate in a double room. Now the keys are on the table, Dominique, but there's numbers. They put the number, but often it's with names that's not the real names. They check in under fake names.
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PTFO - Share & Gift & Tell with Domonique Foxworth and David Samson
But you know that if you've got the same last two numbers as the team president, you know that's a suite. And so we would fool around with what we do with certain envelopes so that players wouldn't know who has the suite.
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PTFO - Share & Gift & Tell with Domonique Foxworth and David Samson
You're not catching me in a great moment.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
by hiring Aaron Taylor Johnson and his abs. Dude, those abs are sick. They're so good.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
It's reckless journalism. He hasn't been named. I said he's rumored. So that's not reckless. I don't think I get the button.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
He doesn't own any part of the IP.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Is that why they killed him?
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Which one do I start on? Well, they're streaming now, of course. You can get them anytime you want.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Let me get Broccoli on the phone and we'll get right on that.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
You have to adjust, though, for time. You have to adjust.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
There's no way the box office even.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
I was just channeling Adnan.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Who's kidding? Did you watch it? It looked like he was performing.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
I think I'm going to take the under! We had fun with it. I like the birdcage. I like the window as closed.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
I happen to know. Bop.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
He doesn't belong in the class with Nick Cage. In terms of cartoon characters? He's not. Nick Cage is a brilliant actor who actually, one of the best movies he's made recently was him playing himself. And I'm completely blanking because I'm just ready to get to Tony.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
It's the bottom of my Tarantino list.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
It's that I was robbed too, and I had personal security as well, because you have the view that it will help you, and then you realize if someone wants you, they want you. And burglars really have nowhere to go but athletes, because with remote working post-COVID, people are home all the time now.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
If you channel surf, you can find it.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Are you the old man from The Old Man and the Sea? Yes. You went to the lifeboat drill. You have to go to that.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Well, no, it's a nightmare if you're a burglar. You have to go to a place where people are out. They're not looking to find the armed guard.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
It's not on anyone's list, Mike. Nobody's.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Empty homes. You can go anywhere. Nine to five. You were good. COVID, man, it crushed me.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Mine would have Ed TV on it. I don't even know what that is.
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I could get it down to five. It can be shorter. Easily. All right. Well, let's do it quickly then. Number five, A Few Good Men. Every single time.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
That's the movie. Ah, you. Number four, Fletch. Fletch is a great movie.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Because that's from the 80s, and you get the afro joke. Number three. Number three. Ed TV. That's Matthew McConaughey. Jenna Elfman. It was the beginning of the Kardashians. Who doesn't want to watch that?
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Number two. Castaway. Castaway. I love The Lonely and Cast Away. I will watch that. I'll actually make sure I find it.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Number one. And the number one movie that I will always watch, Stranger Than Fiction.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
There's a ton of neighborhoods in South Florida that the cars get broken into. You're told even when you live behind a gate and back when I was down here, they would say, lock your cars in the driveway of a nice area in Plantation. Lock your cars.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
It was in the glove compartment, though. Was it in the crack in between the seats that you couldn't get to?
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Yeah, once it's in the crack, you don't go back. You can't find it. Yep. My hands are too small. Stuff just gets gone.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
The baggage.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
And with an injury where he denied that there was a sprain and then the heat announced, by the way, there's a sprain. It turns out that the agent is highly incentivized to lie and And you're going to think that's a take as an executive. But for Shams, when his currency and he's new at this now and he's not in the pole position, he's brand new.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
If he opts out, then it didn't age poorly. It means that he's worth even more than what the team is worth.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Oof, that thing sucks. Is he going to be the New Bond? The rumor is he's the New Bond, and you may have seen The Savages with Blake Lively. That's him, too.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
And you know what else he's in?
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
texted me and said, or posted or something, all of this perfume or cologne, wondering like, it's really something.
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Hour 1: Shams Called Out Over Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors
Edward. Oh my lord. That's the seminal movie, not this Nostradamus thing.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
I think the majority of people want neither to win. Well, I mean, that's not going to happen.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
I thought Roy was a pleasure to be with today, a pleasure to work with. He interjected at moments of the show that forwarded the show, didn't grind it to a halt at all. Thank you, David.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Good job. So he's in a lane now where he's now going to have to do songs like once you start. Already got a text from Dan saying that I should be doing that even more often. Oh, so that's it now. That's great.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
I'm with you. I think he should have done that.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Pelicanese, that's what he said. No, but it's Juju. I had him being sent to the Wizards. Yes, sir. I like that. I like where your head is at, Fox.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
I thought it was pretty shitty today, honestly.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Good job. At least he showed up today.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Hats off. I'm sorry that... that I had that impact on you. That's a fine memo. That's a fine memo.
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Postgame Show: Spliff Notes (feat. JuJu Gotti)
I'm going to end it with an award for Pablo. It's hard to steer this ship. And, man, you conducted, Pablo. You win the award for the best person to sit in Dan's chair who's not Dan, who's in this studio today.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
grout is just going to be disgusting, especially when you've got people washing themselves in that area.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
He's disgusted by gardeners?
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
As long as they're outside.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Now, I do not wear shoes in the shower. I do not go as far as wearing shoes in the shower, nor do I travel with my thong slippers.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Only when you say smooth like that. That's the only time it's gross. Dolphin smooth.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
The times that I put a scrub brush to the shower, which I have one of those sleek, white, smooth bathtubs in my master. I'm sorry, are we calling it that anymore? No. My main bedroom bathroom. And when I scrape it, I'm just like, wow, I've just been standing on that for the last week and a half.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Can you imagine the gathering now at his house? It's just a bunch of people with those socks on holding their hands like this so they don't want to get anything dirty. Trying to sort of ration their drinks, trying not to drink too much, and trying not to seem too sloppy lest he kick them out of the house. You make it sound not fun, Izzy. You make it sound not fun. Oh, no.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Yeah, and then I followed with another ad and made it very robotic. It was very weird back to back. I'm very jealous.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Well, it's funny because David tried to convince me that I was making a political statement by buying this fairly expensive jersey. Izzy, I asked. He asked. Well, but he thought that that's why I did it. And that's kind of a leading question. Not a leading question, but it suggests that that's what I would do.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Yeah, I'm at the point where I don't even watch the news, so I don't even know what's going on with tariffs or Canada or anything. There is actually a bit of a funny story to this. I bought this by accident. We famously have spoken about the hockey group chat that Mike Ryan started on the show.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
So we're on the text thread, right? And I think it was Ethan, well, it was Ethan, who mentioned that his birthday, no, let me rephrase. Somebody had pointed out that these jerseys were now on sale. It was the Four Nations jerseys, and it was for sale at the Iceplex where the Panthers practice, which is over by where I live.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
And it just so happened that I saw those texts as I was a block away from said Iceplex. And then one of the very next texts was, was Ethan, who, I don't know if you know Pablo. Ethan is someone who works here.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Where'd you start from? So Ethan sent a text that said... Ron McGill measured him, technically. said my birthday's Tuesday as if to suggest, hey, somebody should buy me that. And I'm not somebody who just goes around buying people gifts, even though I do on occasion. But sometimes it just feels like, oh, it's a perfect set of circumstances. I'm going to buy him this as a birthday gift.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
I will seem like the greatest person in the world, right? That's really my intention for all this. And so I get here on Monday or Tuesday, I can't remember, and I ask somebody else who works here, Mally, if he thinks that Ethan already bought this jersey. And turns out he did already buy this jersey. I asked Ethan to confirm.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
So rather than return it and get, you know, a little bit of money back, I ended up keeping it for myself. So now Ethan and I can match whenever we hang out, which is never.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Is that open? There was a gentleman at the Iceplex when I went in there who got too close to the windows as the Chicago Blackhawks were practicing, and he got yelled at. And I was like, wow, that's an experience. Black hawks. Black hawks. Right.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
By the way, Chris Cody now knows what Davion Mitchell looks like, so he's three for three. Man, he looks like a nice player. Davion Mitchell also might be the P.J. Tucker of the perimeter. That guy is such a good defender. That's it. You're talking about Andrew Wiggins, Bam, Kal-El Ware, Davion Mitchell. Like, this team could shut some people down.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
He went from loving the heat, I just want nothing but to come back there, because they tried to get him, and then he went somewhere else, and she's like, yeah, I definitely want to come back. Oh, sweet, I'm back. Holy shit.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Steve Smith, Smitty from the city. I cried when he got traded from the Heat.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Eels, that's what they were.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
If there's a P.J. Tucker poster behind you... Oh, man.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Was it in the eating area?
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
No doubt. Jinx. Listen, the other day on Mystery Crate.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
The other day on Mystery Crate, we did a top 10 list of the best numbers. And I believe 69 did crack the top 10. It was a very confusing list to listen to, but it was a very good. Don't worry, though.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Oh, yeah. They're doing that, huh?
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
By the way, you know, last year's, this year's Super Bowl licks. Next year, also Super Bowl licks. LX. Oh, yeah.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
This wasn't why this phrase was invented, but that is the ultimate pecker checker.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
I'm fine with sitting to pee. It's just a comfortable thing. I don't need to make all the noise. I don't need to do all the splash. On the road, if you will, not at home, I'm standing every time. Splash. Splash. deal with whatever splash situation you can, but you avoid the touching and the awkward position that you're hovering over the toilet seat.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
What other demands do you have of your guests? This is very straight. I keep, there's a, I mean, it's not that unreasonable.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Do you explain them or do you hand them over?
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
And do people leave immediately like Homer Simpson's dad out of the bar after he walked in? Let's put it this way.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
What do you mean doing weeds? We're definitely not talking about that. You're having people over immediately after pulling weeds from the garden.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
You said you weren't a billionaire, but how many bathrooms do you have? It's an upset that you allow kids in your house.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Yeah, your quads are burning by the time you take a long pee. That's exactly correct.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
Yeah, no, there's a lot of things about showers. Like, don't even get me close to a shower drain. I don't care if it's mine. I don't care how clean it supposedly is. It's the grossest place in the world.
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Hour 2: David Samson's Rules For Using The Bathroom
That is the most disgusting. I didn't even watch that scene. I had to cover my eyes and find out when it was over. But the tiled shower floors, right? Where sometimes they firstly get wet and you step on and maybe they feel slimy and you're like, ooh, they did not do a great job of cleaning this floor. Or I don't want any grout under my feet while I'm showering because I just feel like every grout
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Mark Williams, 43 games in 22-23. 43 doesn't sound like 81, but maybe there was something different. 23-24, 19 games. It's box score stew over here.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
The present is what matters to us. But the Nets have been doing that back in the Pierce-Garnett days. I think the Nets did the same thing. They mortgaged their future. It didn't work. Then they had to start again. And it hasn't. It's forever. But the question of who has the ability to start again, right?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Did you forget about Chicago? The Cubs did it with Theo. They lost 100 several years in a row. Baltimore's a big market. They lost, and guess what? They were there. Wonder World series, it can be done. You just have to do it right. And it's not as market related. Owners don't necessarily think the way you're saying.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
They don't have a GM in place saying, oh, take me through the tank and I'll fire you right when the tank's done and I'll have someone else.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
That's two. That's good work. And you were late today.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Crushing it.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
You were saying, David, no owner. When owners walk into a room, they're cool. People take photos. They want autographs. They're not like, oh, my God, you lost 100 games.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
They want to be near ownership.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
No, go back to Steve Ballmer. Steve Ballmer's the number one example of this.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Getting booed in the garden. Jim Dolan does a lot of things. Listen, our owner used to get booed, and there were negative things. Me, there were negative things from this very show. Believe me, it did not in any way get into my life.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Seriously, where did this go wrong? The mistake is— Why do we care?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
They have thin skin, most of them. I would grant you that. But what we're really supposed to be talking about is the Lakers. And did the Lakers make this move because they're in win now? That's why they were willing to overpay in order to get with LeBron?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
And again— I'm the only one saying it's an overpay right now?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Buford, and Sam Preston. Yesterday, he said, I can't wave a wand and manufacture a big man. Did anyone else see the quote by Rob Palenka? We need a big man, but I can't wave a wand and make it happen. Well, of course you can wave a wand. All you have to do is overpay. and they did it to Charlotte, and all of a sudden they got a big man.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Why are you holding your phone? I'm sorry to interrupt, but this is the perfect time for this. I just got the email confirming the polishing of the World Series trophy. Oh my god. Yeah, because we're all after that. I'm sorry, you sent your trophy out to be polished? You have to.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
No, we're actually talking about winning it all, which I thought was exactly the through line of what the Lakers are doing to win now. What does it cost to get a World Series trophy polished? I'm sorry, did I misunderstand what the conversation was? All the time. You misunderstand it all the time. To me, we're talking about the Lakers trying to win it all.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
No, it's from Tiffany. You bring it back to Tiffany. Tiff. So is the NBA trophy.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
It comes in that. Of course I knew what we were talking about because I'm paying attention and I'm on time.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Oh, this is a true story. I brought the trophy to Tiffany wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt, and I was stopped by, Tiffany has a ton of security in the New York store on 57th Street, and I looked schleppy. I had a toque on, and I had a hoodie and sweatpants, and I was carrying a World Series trophy, and the assumption was that I had pilfered it.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
It doesn't come in a box. Yes, it does. It was in a Tiffany bag, but it falls down so the flags are poking out like a little groundhog on February 2nd.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
So, no.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
yes david samson finally got to feel that because he was holding the literal world series trophy in the tiffany lobby yes and i was stopped multiple times and the only way to prove it because i had no there's no receipt for it i had to have them google and that was hugely mortifying dude I just love the idea. And then they let me through. There's a penalty for this, right?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Major asshole.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Can we do that one? Is he? Yes, it's on your stream deck.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
It looks like David climbed out of the trophy. That was the picture that was used that enabled me to get it polished.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
So it's working?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
This is what you tried in baseball. It was called the cone tax. And the irony is the cone tax is now the Dodgers tax. It's a level of threshold that is punitive. And now there's picks involved, draft picks, placements in the draft, and in a capped sport. it becomes even more critical to have these punitive things. And I would argue it's been working. You have an owner right here in Miami.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Mickey Arison, for all the love that we give him, is the best owner in South Florida. He focuses on the luxury tax tremendously year over year. Izzy just will not agree with anything I say today. That's fine. That wasn't me singing. Are you going to deny that Mickey Arison is... How is David not aware of how the show works?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
I have been trying, David. I am trying to do the show. I'm leaving. That's it. Chris, play the sound.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
In the Big Easy. How about that? NFL Blitz legend. Was that guy, DeVito, was he wearing a championship ring?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
That is a great, you found out. You just did Pablo some justice. We interviewed him. He was wearing the same ring?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Boy, those are locked down. It's a big sample size.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
If they have a lead, they won't need to.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
That's not a take. That's idiocy. There's two rings from LeBron. Two. How many rings from PJ Tucker?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
It's not. That's what we're doing. No one cares. We've been doing it too long. We haven't spoken about Pete Alonzo. We haven't spoken about the Lakers. Nobody wants to hear about Pete Alonzo.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
I feel like Amin, Izzy, and Jeremy have to raise their hand, whether they have or not, just because that is what they trade in. It's their job. He was a first-round pick for the Hornets.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Oh, he's not really good.
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
He's always injured. You don't think the Lakers overpaid for Williams? I'm sorry? Did the Lakers overpay?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
Won't he? What? The 2031 pick. Yes. Luke is 25. It's 2025 already. Yes. He'll be 31. Is that past his prime?
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The Big Suey: Polishing David's World Series Trophy (feat. Ryan Cortes)
It'll be deep in his prime. The end of his prime.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
So who's in Jha's ear, would you say? Is it his agent, his parents, his sponsors, his friends, his family? And the question is, are they in his ear from a business standpoint saying, hey, be you, be unapologetically you, it's not gonna cost you a dollar? Or are they saying,
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
What does that mean? You took a shower? Today's bursting at the seams. So at the end of I'll tell you, you know, Dominique, I have no secrets from you. I do nothing personal live from 8 to 8.50 a.m. And during the course of the show, I build up sweat because I'm sitting and talking. So what I do in between shows is I freshen up.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
Well, I've got a good schvitz going because I'm drinking tea right now, so it will require a post-show cleanse. But I will say that I appreciate you helping and having me and paying attention to nothing personal, but I leave you with this. Okay, leave it. The Dodgers are 8-0, the Braves are 0-7.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
The likelihood that either one of them will win or lose 116 games continues to be low, low like likely never to happen. Therefore, when you're feeling so good about something and conversely, you're feeling so bad about something. Just know that feeling is what gives you the frame of reference when things get better. Words to live on. I love it. See you, David. Way to go, David.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
I'm fired up that their fans are so ridiculous that they waited in line for a bobblehead that was being given away to all fans in attendance. What happened there? Why do you have to wait in line? Why do you hate fans? That's awesome. Like, they're excited. They're excited. But do they have that much time on their hands that they're happy to stand in line?
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
Listen, if you're the Marlins and you only give away 5,000 bobbleheads, because that's the most sponsorship you can get, and you know you're going to have a turnstile of 10,000, that means 5,000 people aren't going to get it. And here's a funny little side note. We don't actually give away all 5,000.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
We keep a pallet for ourselves and our employees and the player and to give away if there's customer complaints, but nobody ever counts that. But if you give to every fan, why wait online?
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
They're not on time. They were early and they were doing it because the Dodgers previously, there were not enough fotani bobbleheads for everyone. And the Japanese sponsors said, we don't want unhappy customers. We want to pay for bobbleheads for everyone. Don't you think it should have been communicated that you don't need to wait online?
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
No, if you're going to talk Dodgers, no, you should be saying to yourself, can they catch Seattle? That's really the intrigue. And the fact is they only have a half game lead on the Padres or that the NL West has only lost three games outside of the Rockies who don't count. What a tough division, what an exciting division. But how despondent would you be to be 8-0 and only have a half game lead?
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
It really is something. But can a team catch 116 wins when their over-under on DraftKings was 103 and a half? Is there a way to check what the current over-under is on DraftKings? Does the win total change? Obviously, when you're 8-0, I assume the win total for the season changes. I wonder if it's reached 116 yet.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
You just want to be angry. Be happy. I mean, I'm not happy with what's going on, but I'm so happy that we can be distracted by doing the show and not watching what's happening in the markets right now and the reality of what really what the tariffs mean to the sports world. It's a big story. And obviously we talk about companies and cars and manufacturers
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
These tariffs that were imposed actually impact sports and sports teams in ways as well, like bobbleheads. Bobbleheads just got more expensive, I promise you that, because they're not made in the U.S. of A. What? So, oh, no, they are not. They get on big, big... ships and they come across the water and then you have to get them through customs.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
And then they're in big pallets that get delivered 50,000 of them to Dodger stadium. The size of those pallets people are, it's incredible when they get delivered and how you have to store them before you give them away. And then the forklifts you need to bring them to the different gates. It's a whole thing that happens.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
Well, that includes 3,000 standing room down the line. So they did sell out all the actual seats, but because it's a AAA stadium, there's a bunch of places you can go to engage with the game but not actually have a seat. which doesn't work well when it's 100 degrees outside in the middle of summer.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
But I think what the aths are really despondent about is the fact that will they be in Sacramento three years or four years? What's going on in Vegas? Can they get that ballpark built on time? Budgets now are a nightmare. Think about this with building new stadiums at the moment or even refurbishing ones.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
All the increased expense of metals and materials that flows down to a budget for these new stadiums and arenas. And it's going to have quite an impact on pricing. And the public doesn't pay the overruns. The owners do, which is why owners are saying, oh, I'm not so sure I want to build this ballpark without more public money.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
Are you talking about in Sacramento or are you talking about in Vegas?
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
So both. That's the interesting part. Right now, teams are looking to build villages like St. Louis did, like Atlanta did, like we wanted to in Miami and it didn't work. You want to get that ancillary revenue. But don't forget the deal with Vegas is only for nine acres, which, by the way, isn't even big enough to have a ballpark.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
Tropicana. It's right down there. There's no room. Yeah, it's small. And so all of the ancillary development goes to the going bankrupt Bally's company, not to John Fisher and the afts. So the whole deal is problematic in that regard. And for Sacramento, how do you make an investment when you're in a temporary city? Are you going to build a village around a AAA park?
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
And then when the village is open and ready for business, you're already gone from Sacramento. That doesn't make sense. So you're just going to end up with nothing.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
All right, all right. I mean, I know what he's talking about, but who says that? that's what you have to call them chris if you look at box scores well that's what mlb mlb sends out a book every year of how teams are referred to nicknames uh a pronunciation guide and this year we were all told that it's the aths and if you look at box scores it'll say a-t-h Instead of A's or OAK or SAC.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
You can't call it sports laundering anymore, can you? It's just sort of normal. Saudi Arabia won. They tried to make it so that the conversation was not about the way they treat people and the human misogyny and death and murder. So instead they just keep investing money and then it becomes normal and they knew it. And we fell right into it. And the Live Golf is such a great example.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
When Live Golf started, Greg Norman was the CEO. It was gonna be this behemoth. They signed all these players, gave them all this guaranteed money. And now Brooks Koepka comes out and says, man, I thought we'd be further along. I thought this would be better. And then the new CEO comes out and says, I don't know what anyone's talking about. We're doing great.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
We don't need the PGA because we've got Saudi money and we've got the world. We don't have the US, but the US, that's like FIFA saying, man, I wish the US were better. They don't really need it.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
And I think you have to realize, Dominique, that that was a pretty nationalistic point of view, because Liv would tell you there's a lot of people watching Liv. They're just not in the U.S., but they have major broadcast deals around the world. Yeah, it's bad time in the U.S. when you're in Australia or when you're in Singapore, but not when you're in Australia and Singapore.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
So I think that when they look at their media revenue, their non-U.S. revenue, it's damn good.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
What's up, David? How are you, buddy? I am bursting at the seams right now. I'm drinking tea because I can't swallow exactly, but I'm watching the stock market plunge. I'm watching tariffs increase. I'm watching companies panic. I'm watching Mike Schur as the baseball expert of Metal Ark. Are you guys kidding me, Jeremy? Seriously.
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
Like, I don't quite understand it. Yeah, I want to be careful here, and I want to get this right. Is that, and this is, I'm happy to admit what I am, which is middle-aged and white. Is what he did an expression that is commonly associated with guns, or is it a celebratory thing that you do when you score or do something right that's actually not sort of a gun salute type thing?
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The Big Suey: The Black McAfee Show (feat. David Samson & Jason Goff)
I don't know the answer, and I assume that's what the investigation is, and are other players doing it too?
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Let's pump the brakes on comparing us to the last dance. Like Dan already outlined, you're a one-time champion. It's like Van Vliet going like, alright, we're in our last dance phase here. Let's relax. Let's win more than one.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Ich denke, du gibst mir eine Geschichte, die mich vielleicht für Basketball-Gedanken einstellen kann. Ich denke, das hat viel damit zu tun, wie humanisierend dieser Clip war. Das ist der lustigste Jokic-Clip, den ich jahrelang gesehen habe. Er spricht mit Kindern und sagt flach und klar, dass er der dominantste Spieler ist, vielleicht der größte Offensiv-Force-Job jemals. Und ich dunkle nicht.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Ich tue das nicht. Wenn du also die Tatsache hast, und es gibt mehr als eine Tatsache, wenn es um den Nuggets geht, hast du diesen Jungen, der ein bisschen mehr Affable ist, und jetzt hat er alle Tools, er ist unabhängig, aber er hat all diese Ängste über dieses Team, und du nimmst noch ein bisschen Last-Dance-Element, dann bin ich auf die Nuggets.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Ich verstehe nicht, woher Cavs und Thunder-Fans kommen, aber wir haben diese Diskussionen über die NBAs, dass die Leute nicht mehr so gut tun, und es passiert alles, wenn... It's not really working for the customer at large.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Und es gibt immer wieder Skepsis für jüngere Teams, die in der alten Theorie aufwachsen, dass man ein bisschen leiden muss. Aber in den wenigen Jahren, die wir haben, haben wir in den Expanded Playoffs und in dieser Zeit der Load-Management-Ära schon ein paar schreckliche NBA-Finale. Vorher war es ziemlich präsentabel. Du hast eine regelmäßig gewaltige Saison
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Und die Fans sagen, nein, ich vertraue dir nicht, dass du in der zweiten Runde durchgehst, wie du es letztes Jahr getan hast. Du bist auf deinem Gesicht gefallen. Also, wenn du ernsthaft sein willst und du willst, dass du ein bisschen Adversität in der Postseason beheben willst, dann werde ich dir aufmerksam machen.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Correct me if I'm wrong, also historically in terms of like really touting the game and trying to be the type of entity that gets as many possible people in the tent and lifting up the product, that's not really what TNT has done with its basketball coverage. It doesn't really lift up the product.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Half the time it's the guys taking the piss about like being bored on another blowout that's at halftime and they're just joshing each other and that's what people are drawn to, the personalities, and they're just perpetuating that.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Und er ist groß. Ja, er ist sehr groß. Und ich habe mir gedacht, wer ist dieser große Kerl? Du siehst dich aus wie ein Pro-Wants-Kommerz.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Ich glaube nicht, dass du das tust, aber lass uns sehen. Sie schaut jeden Abend mit Lehman. Sie schaut die Knicks mit Regularien.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Wirklich verrückt. I saw think pieces calling for Draymond and Turner to evaluate the relationship with Draymond. Yeah, that's a real bad look for Draymond.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Ist er unbüßt? Ist er unbüßt?
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Ich mag es, in einem Graveyard zu gehen, wenn es einfach ist. Nein, das ist seltsam. Chelsea spielt direkt neben einem echten, alten, gothischen Graveyard und ist auf dem Weg nach den Gründen. Ich mag es, durchzuschauen und die Geschichte zu sehen.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Alright, but pick a number between 10 and 15.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Das ist, wo Greg hatte ihn.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Now is a good time to remember where Tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented Tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here?
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Die Champions-League muss einen größeren Lockerraum haben. Absolut. Die neue Facility ist großartig. Einer der größten Upgrades von Team HQ. Ich bin in der Klasse, dass ich in der Klasse bin. Ich denke, die meisten Panther-Fans... Es hat einen Moment gedauert, um sich zu wärmen.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Aber als sie wussten, was sie verdient haben, was nichts ist, und dass sie die Boston-Fans verletzt haben, ohne etwas auf dem Eis zu tun, Aber für mich... Ich werde ihn immer hassen. Ich mag es, ihn zu hassen. Ich bin sicher, es gibt ein Hypothetical, das man schafft. Ein gewinnendes Ziel, die Panthers in die Stanley Cup-Final zu senden.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Well, I do know that to be true, but even during ad reads like... Cuervo. I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners. Sweet, delicious Cuervo. Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion. Cuervo. So, enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo. Cuervo. The tequila that invented tequila. Proximo. Cuervo.com.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Oder ein großes Ziel in die Stanley Cup-Final, wo ich einen Schuss machen kann. Aber als jemand, der auf meinen Händen sitzt, jedes Mal, als Alonso Mourning bei der AAA eingeladen wird, und dieses Level von Resentiment behält, denke ich nicht, dass ich auf dieses Spiel aufhören werde. Ich werde Brad Marchand immer hassen.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Was war das Geräusch? Das ist wahrscheinlich der PR-Mann, der Roy invokiert hat. Ich dachte, du würdest Face-Licking machen.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Yeah, I'm down. I don't like him as a person or a player, but whatever. He's a fourth liner. It's alright. Maybe sometimes we'll swap Greer for him. He's a fourth liner? Yeah, yeah. I mean, go through our wingers. Who do you rate more? Bad player, bad person. Occasionally, if we want to spark, maybe dress him occasionally. That's cool with me, but I'm playing Greer over him. Not taking Jesper out.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Not taking Mackie out. Are you taking Mackie out? I'm not taking Mackie out. Verhage seemed to figure it out a little bit.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
Let's not marry ourselves to the idea that Brad Marchand has to play every game.
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
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Hour 1: Roy & David Smell Like Brian Skrudland
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
I was going to text everyone at the end of the show. Billy, I'm whatever, Billy. Thank you. So I was going to text at the end of the show.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
I found you today not to be obstructionist, Billy, but I didn't feel like I had you. Really? I felt like you were a little tired, a little blase. Really? A little disinterested. Oh, I don't think so. Maybe even uninterested. No, I don't. But I enjoy you anyway.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
I think that you gotta know that things that happen in the world of online polls and online voting, there's gonna be some bad stuff that happens.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
Never say never. But fans, you- I love you all, but you're scoundrels. You know when you put fans, when people say, oh, the fans are gonna choose the nickname of the team. They do that in Utah. You know they're joking. Like it doesn't, the fans really don't get to choose that.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
So when you said fans will choose the winner of your tournament, you didn't really mean that, did you?
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
I want to end today by talking about an issue of cheating, since that's what we're talking about. And I think I'm guilty of it. It turns out that there are ways now that people cheat on text that I was not aware of. This is a new thing. If you use the wrong emoji at the wrong time, it can be considered by your significant other as cheating. And I'm a red heart sender.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
And apparently when you send a red heart, you are cheating on your significant other. What if you send a blue heart? Different. Apparently there's different colors. And purple heart means something. Please someone help me. Apparently there's different colors.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
They keep coming out with new emojis. They just came out with the bags under the eyes emoji.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
Yeah, that's a good one. What does that mean?
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
Meaning I don't want to hear it? Meaning stop texting me?
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
Oh, that's the covering the eyes, not the invisible face. That's on me. My view is this, that I don't like when I text people and they don't respond. And a respond can be a thumbs up. I don't get offended. It can be a heart. It can be a K. How do you feel about a reaction?
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
Because here's why. I want to get it off my list. I need to make sure that the people I sent the text to have gotten the text, read the text, and understood the text.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
I think what we learned today is that there's a lot of misunderstandings that can happen with language and a lot of things that go wrong. And now there's a bigger language that we're all supposed to learn. It's the text language. It's the emoji language. It's the way we communicate. And I think that giving people a benefit of a doubt may be okay.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
If I'm sending a red heart to you, it doesn't mean that we're having an affair.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
But the context matters to all of it. It means thank you. It means I appreciate you.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
No, because I don't even know what that means.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
I don't send eggplant emojis. Really? I have no idea.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
No, didn't even know that existed. Hold on a second. I'm just catching up here. Is the eggplant emoji for a penis? No. Oh, then I missed it.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
I feel like that you're all putting me in position to look foolish when it comes to emojis, so I shan't be using an eggplant emoji ever. Send like an eggplant peach question mark. Yeah. That sounds sexual to me. No. What? Dinner and dessert. All right. Now I'm going to be forced to look right now after the show, which is right now. Thank you, guys.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
I've loved today. It felt strange. Thank you guys for a small group, small room. We've never all worked together. Just this, the five of us. So thank you for coming in, Roy. Thank you. We had some sickness. We had some issues. I appreciate that you came in. I believe you got the call at 640. I did. So thank you for that. Totally prepared to have the day off. Thank you.
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Postgame Show: Dinner & Dessert
So given the drive from Broward County, I'm thankful. And Jeremy and Jessica, thank you for having putting up with me for a full day like this. It was great. It's got to be your worst nightmare.
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Hour 2: The Height Requirement
I do believe we should have an expectation of privacy. However, it's become unrealistic. I'm merely a pragmatist. I would like to just point out to people that if you have that expectation, it's okay to have it, but don't fool yourself into thinking that you actually have it. And you may all think that you do, but you don't. And it is what it is.
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Like, do people really care whether you go to LA Fitness or McDonald's? My car does, apparently. Do people really care what video you're watching as long as it's not how to make a bomb? Now, of course, there's certain categories you try to avoid, but in general, the reality is that no one cares what we do 99.99% of the time. So I just wouldn't panic. That's the theme of the show today.
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The through line to the show is people are panicked. They're panicked about their sports teams, they're panicked about their money, they're panicked about their retirement, whether they have it, whether they can retire, the state of the world, climate change, the president, everyone's panicked. I think the through line here is that we need to be the voice of calm.
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I didn't wait. I didn't say that. Now you just put words in my mouth. I didn't say everything will be fine. And I didn't say not to act. I act all the time. And so do you. But what I would say is when you act out of panic, you rarely act efficiently.
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I'm in for that. Okay. I'm in for even gravely concerned. Oh, wow. I'm willing to go that far. Put the ante. But that is way below panic. I just don't think anything good happens when people panic. Gravely concerned. I'm gravely concerned. I'm going to change the way I do things. I'm going to go to LA Fitness because I'm gravely concerned that I got a bad calcium score in my arteries. Therefore.
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Now it is true Florida's in the final game tonight. It is true that he won two titles, but the Basketball Hall of Fame for two titles? Two, Mickey Arison? Mickey Arison. I love Mickey. Unbelievable for our community. Unbelievable. He's in the Hall of Fame before Robert Kraft is in the Hall of Fame in football? He's the most important Hall of Fame owner in the NBA, Mickey Arison?
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Tums. No, different thing. Okay. Bone density is down. This is the one. I know what you're talking about. This is the one that people suffer when all of a sudden you're in the middle of a show and then boom, the lights go out. Oh. Because you have the big one. Wheezy, I'm coming home. Oh. Is that another reference?
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He never said, Wheezy, I'm coming home?
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At least I think it was Norman Lear. Those shows were ahead of their time. Go back and watch All in the Family. You can't have a show like All in the Family now.
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Nor should you, except at the time it was groundbreakingly funny. I want to get back to the panic part. Are you at your best as a journalist on deadline? That's a great one. Are you the procrastinator that you do things right at the last minute?
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So work with me here. Just try. Like Houston Duke.
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So the thing about the panic that comes to play, because I was that way too. I'm a procrastinator, but I always have a plan of knowing when things have to get done and I know how much time it'll take me to do it. But what I find is panic impacts efficiency. So I found that I wasn't as good doing a paper or doing something that I had to do.
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If I waited past that inflection point of knowing that I had to start it to finish it by deadline, if I tried to squeeze, it's like trying to do one more thing before you have to go to the bathroom. Am I the only one who does that? You have to go to the bathroom. You try one more exit in the car. I can make it one more rest stop. I can make it one more one more errand.
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And then all of a sudden you need a new pair of undies. I can't be the only one that's happened.
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Yeah, screwed, came over. That means you're practically at Disney World. I used to love getting to that junction. Oh, yeah. It's a landmarker. It means you're making progress. It's a meaningful thing. For those of you who don't know, when you drive from South Florida up to Orlando, which for some reason you have to do as a parent.
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I couldn't believe it. You, of course, Jerry, must have been over the moon because you have content, you have post-game shows. Did you get to interview Mickey?
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As a parent, when I was raising kids in New York, it was never even a thought that you'd go to Disney World. It's far and it's expensive. Then I had a child living in Florida and it was, yeah, of course you take this kid to Disney. Right of passage. But in New York, there's no right of passage to go to Six Flags. Why would you want to do that?
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Well, I'm saying you're in New York.
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But it was an obligation. It was not a choice. And that's what always bothered me about it. It was not even a keeping up with the Joneses. It was not about socioeconomic position. It was everyone goes to Disney. Period. Hard stop. I'm against that. And I was forced to do it. So go to Universal then. Well, they're too short in the beginning. Yeah, because it's all like roller coasters and stuff.
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It's all big rides. I used to cheat with height at Six Flags in Illinois.
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Let me talk about litigation for one quick sec, if you don't mind. Please. I was not aware, because I was a kid and I was always short, and all I cared about was going to the ride, and back then, And I have a tattoo of it now. It was the, oh God, with the road runner. It was the coyote and his hand would be out and you had to touch the ledge in order to go on the ride. With the top of your head.
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With the top of your head. So I went through a stage where I would spike my hair. Because if you spike your hair, listen, it's the closest I could ever come to a fro. And it gives you three inches, which can be the difference maker. And so I go through all this, stuff in my shoes. That's a Tuesday. Talking about the napkins, the brown napkins like we have here at Metal Art. Exactly.
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These are the ones you get at the place. Just stuff them in the shoe. Stuff them in. That gives you two inches easy. Yeah. until I found out that the reason for the height restriction is the belt on the roller coasters. And if you're too short, the belt becomes ineffective and you can die. And then I stopped having my kids lie about height.
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It is, it's actually, it stays with me to this day. If you ask me about the bullying I got for being short, which I did for sure, the biggest impact of being small was at amusement parks, was for height. And there were many things. There was like, with like jet skiing or there's certain things you, there was one at a, what's the thing? Oh, come on guys, when you're, when you, bumper cars.
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Bumper cars, you had to be a certain height to have your own bumper car, and I had to go with a parent.
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So I used to actually in order when there were class trips to amusement parks, I would be sick. because I didn't want to.
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I also, we had class ice skating trips, and my mom made me use my sister's ice skates, which were white. Oh, figure skates? Figure skates. And I refused to go to skating wearing white skates, and so I would be sick every single time we went ice skating as a school. Parents don't think of these things. I couldn't afford my own skates five times, so my sister had skates.
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Then I used them and they were white skates. And there's this thing that white skates are for girls and black skates are for guys. I don't know if that's a thing anymore. We live in Florida, I have no idea. So no one figures skates?
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So they stopped so you guys may not you may be too young for this There used to be white skates and black skates for figure skaters. And that was a thing. I It's very sad.
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So Joe Lakob? Lakob? Correct me if I'm wrong. Lakob? Lakob? Yeah. Lakob? With a B. He'll be in the Hall of Fame.
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Why not at this point? What shocked me more was the timing.
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Don Levitard. We love you. We've got you. We've all got each other. Let's go right now. Stugatz. One, two, three, Brett. One, two, three, Brett. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz. All right, I gotta talk about something else if you don't mind. Sure, it's your show today. Do you think it's possible that religion can cure you?
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You know the people who say they found Jesus, they found the Lord?
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No, it's about Russell Brand. It's about Russell Brand who's being charged with things left, right, and center and saying, hey, I was a bad guy, but now I found the Lord. and he released a video. If no one's seen it, you should check it out. It seems to be the greatest way to make an excuse ever for your behavior. You just say, I was young, stupid, and I had not yet found God.
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Why do you hope he found the Lord?
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ticking guys off the list who are on that list over the span of years in which they've owned these franchises but maybe maybe i'm wrong so all you need you okay jessica all you need are you need time rings and you need to be loved so how come i'm not in the hall of fame
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In theory, he is using it for good. In theory, he's now a good person. I'm sad about it only because I enjoyed watching him work. And he's at the category where I'm not going to separate art from the artist. I pick and choose when I do that. And Russell Brand doesn't rise to the level of the separation for me. Like Michael Jackson, I still listen to his songs. I'm willing to.
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I'm willing to watch Kevin Spacey movies. But Russell Brand, I don't care enough about him. Once he does what he did... Allegedly, I think we're done with him. Still watching The Cosby Show? No. That's a great one. And I don't eat Jell-O. Or pudding. Jeremy has no idea the reference. I didn't. Is that a young, is that an old reference also?
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Bill Cosby was one of the great endorsers of a product in history.
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He was a huge, huge endorsement guy back before, bigger than Athletes. Bill Cosby, do people realize the length and depth of his stardom?
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Yeah, he was on TV. You couldn't go through a set of commercials during his heyday during a sporting event. Forget a regular show on TV. You couldn't go through and not see Bill Cosby on a commercial.
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That's interesting. That's like a player trying to buy a team. There aren't many players who can buy teams. Because he was on NBC. That was the Cosby Show Network.
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And there was a time, 8 o'clock. Was it Tuesdays at 8? Tuesdays, yep. Tuesdays at 8, he ruled. And didn't it go into Seinfeld? Cosby, A Different World, into Seinfeld?
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Used to matter, those hours. No one talks about that anymore.
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But for White Lotus, I was in front of the TV at 9 o'clock. I assume everybody was last night. It's what we do.
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But as an executive, I could have been.
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Can there be a game that we go to where there's no winner? Does there have to be a winner in the NBA? In the NBA, yeah, I think someone has to win eventually. I'm just asking because it seems like the Sixers and Heat don't want to win. The Heat want to win. They can't get a home game in the playing, can they?
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What's the DraftKings line tonight? Because the Sixers are a disaster.
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I think the NBA is ridiculous right now. I'm loving it. I'm following it. I'm a big fan of the playing tournament. We had a conversation about tanking on this show on Nothing Personal as well. But the Sixers... They're a team that you have to be embarrassed about in every possible way.
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As an executive, I can only tell you that when you double down on a player, the way that the Blue Jays are doing on Vladimir Guerrero now, the way they signed him 14 years, 500 million, the way the Sixers did with Embiid, they bring in Paul George, they bring in Tyrese, and they're all hurt, they all stink. And as an executive, you can't give up.
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And that's the worst thing for fans because you just keep doubling down. You double down. You say it's going to change. It's going to get better. They're going to get better next year. And the Sixers, it's done if you're a Sixers fan.
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That has to be the point. I think we need to eliminate what ifs from professional sports because what ifs do nothing. And fans are such a fan of that concept.
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I would like to. There should be no what ifs. You shouldn't be allowed to say, hey, we were going to be good, but what if this guy played better? What if that shot had gone in? We can do a top 10 list of the what ifs that people use for their sports teams. and their life. It's actually just rationalization for a disappointment in life on any level. You say, but for, what if?
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I think we should outlaw all of it because it gives people easy excuses. It gives Daryl Morey the ability to say, hey, don't judge me. What if all our guys were healthy, who I signed? Then I'd be the greatest executive ever. What if Flag had not missed the shot? Or what if they'd gotten the rebound? What if they'd gotten the ball in bounds? I'm not a fan. It's sports. It happened.
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Does everyone out of Miami know the Ray Allen shot?
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What if no one got unhappy? Utopia? Dystopia. Yeah, there you go. Do you guys have someone in your lives who you count on to give you sort of grounding? I have someone in my life who gives me grounding because when I think there's a major story or something that's hugely important and I mention it to her and she says, I have no idea what you're talking about.
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And this is a well-read, educated person. Do you have anyone in your life, Billy, who does that when you think that something is totally major and then you realize, oh, God.
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So that's pretty common. No one has seen this or knows about this. I think only my mother listens to my show every day. I don't think, my father, when he was alive, my father would call after every show and criticize it. How old's your mom? Every show. When I was running the Marlins, my dad did the same thing. We'd lose a game.
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My dad would call and say, how could you not have taken out this pitcher? How did you allow Yelich to strike out there? You got to pull him for a pinch hitter.
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at gunpoint while he was home, and he released his security footage, and you'd think that someone of his means would have better security. How you can identify someone from that footage?
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Teslas are very expensive to fix, I've heard. I've been in an Uber Tesla. I've never driven a Tesla.
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I wouldn't do the self-drive thing. Oh, no.
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I'm way too controlling for that. I would like to try the parallel park thing, but I'm also too scared to do that. I'd do my own parallel parking. I'm more nervous about the car crashing by itself than being controlling. And the irony, of course, is that it's supposed to be safer than you're driving.
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because there's no human, you don't close your eyes, you don't get distracted, you don't look at your phone, all the things that are so bad for drivers that are part of the world, that this is the future. Automatic driving, taxis without drivers, this is coming.
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That'd be terrible, I don't want to work out. Wait, imagine a car that measures your health. And that it takes you to the place to do something like you're not allowed to go. Think about what would happen to coronary artery disease if people weren't allowed to go to McDonald's.
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So you got to get past that fact. Everyone knows where you are and what you're doing at all times. Not everybody cares, but everybody knows. Big brother. Big Brother, that's not a conspiracy theory. That's just a fact of our existence. Now, you can be the guy or the girl or the person. Do you put anything over your camera when you're not using it on your MacBook? You do that?
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The NBA and its Hall of Fame is a sordid story. I don't find it to be as amazing as MLB's Hall of Fame, but it's still cool when people get in, but it seems like it's easier to get into the NBA Hall of Fame. But what happened this weekend with the announcement of this class, I will be the first to tell you that I was blown away. One, that Billy Donovan is in the Hall of Fame.
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You know, there are people who do that because they think that somebody's watching them. And I don't mean like Jeffrey Toobin type stuff. I mean, they just, whatever. They don't want to be seen, period, by the deep state.
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Yeah, that's all on him. Well, I'm certainly not saying. He did it to himself, literally. He did it to himself. One nothing Billy. I'm not of that view that we're at risk in that way because I've always learned, there was a teacher I had in high school who said, everything you say or do, be prepared for it to be on the front page of the paper. And that's before I was in a public job.
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And so that's why I've always been fine. Like everything I've done, if it's on the front page, it's on the front page. And I think if we all live that way, I think it would be a better world. If you were all prepared to read everything you did. on the front page of the paper.
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I'm a snob for various reasons, but I feel like what Gino does, if you're a basketball coach, I feel like it's more important than being a track coach. Wow. And I'm a track guy. Are you? But I ran, I ran the hurdles. No one would do it. I was a short hurdle runner in high school and I had great incentive to get over them.
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And so is that wrong of me to say that winning basketball titles is more important than track and field titles?
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I can't be the only sports snob. I can't be. The guy who's the best bowler in the world, and I used to know his name, and it's not John Turturro from the movie, but it's... You mean the, I don't know, like, who are... Who do you think you are?
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No, he was... I mean. That was famous.
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But no. Norm Duke? No. I'll notify. It's one of those things you notify. But no matter how good you are at bowling, you don't get to be in the conversation with LeBron. Don Carter? Don Carter. Is that really? Don Carter. Yeah. He was good. Yeah. Paula Carter, a good bowler, too. But guess what? I don't care how good you are at bowling. Pete Webber.
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He's trying, though. He's trying to up the ante of bowling, which I respect.
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Yeah. That's right. Is it possible that the University of Connecticut women's basketball team is the greatest, that program? We were talking about unbreakable records, and I was thinking about Ovechkin, the goals. I've got a top five list I'm going to get to of unbreakable records. But then I started thinking about, and I watched the women's final, Paige Beckers, what they did.
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I'm working on a charity event. Really? I'm thinking about this. I'm trying to raise money to cure Parkinson's. My best friend has it. One, two, three, Brett. And he never gets cured. He just gets worse every year. There is no cure. It's an absolute disaster. And all we do is raise money and it doesn't work. But we're not going to give up. We're going to keep trying.
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Am I missing, is it the Celtics dynasty in the NBA? Is that the only other one that we could argue read our back?
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I was thinking about a 24-hour bowl-a-thon. Bow straight for 24 hours.
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Well, if you have five people on a team, you're only bowling once every five.
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No, you bowl for 24 hours.
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Well, but sometimes you have to wait. Like when you go get a drink at a bowling alley, sometimes your team has to wait for you.
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No. How do you stretch out a game to four hours?
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Dislocate a shoulder. Well, I did think about if you bow for 24 hours, I'm going to have to bow lefty for part of the time. Because I don't think my right arm will be able to actually... But just use a lighter ball. Use like an eight pounder instead of like a 12. I think no matter what size ball you have, doing that motion over 24 hours is not tenable. Why did you settle on bowling for this?
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Great question. It's not settled. There's been a few things that are up in the air, like a dance-a-thon, a 24-hour dance-a-thon. There was a talk about doing a 24-hour. We did a 48-hour running race last year. That was good, but we're not in shape anymore. We don't want to run for 48 hours straight. So we talked about one time Brett, to raise money, did a lobster roll-a-thon.
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He ate seven lobster rolls in seven hours in seven places. Raised like 50 grand, too, and vomited. But it was a good one. Didn't cure Parkinson's, though. Too much mayonnaise.
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He hasn't had a lobster roll since. Totally made him crazy. The thing about bowling for me and the reason why, by the way, the Domino Tournament, for those of you who had tickets, just know it is postponed. It's not canceled. The Poppy's Domino Tournament with Ricky Williams was scheduled for April 13th. It's been postponed. Dan did a video on Twitter at Levitard Show.
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If people watched that, him telling you about the postponement, did anybody see that? Am I the only one still on X? Yes, you are. I am? Yes. So you didn't watch the video at all?
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We're all on a team here. Is anyone paying attention to anything?
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The human brain is funny because what you remembered was the last second of the video only. The eyebrows was at the end.
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But did you hear what he said about the logistics people? No.
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It certainly sounded that way to me. Ah, OK. I wanted to come here and be with you guys and do this show today. On your last day. Listen, he's in tomorrow, I believe, not today. So I believe I'm safe for today. And the reason I wanted to get the extra plug in for the postponement of the Domino's tournament was in an effort to maybe get back on his good side.
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for having screwed up the logistics so badly. And I'm a logistics guy, but he's not easy. So bowling. 24 hours. Would you guys fly to New York to do it? How much would you have to get paid? Or would you donate your time No, I would get paid. When is it? You'd have to get paid? When is it? Thank you. I appreciate the honesty. I just want to know your rate, and then I'll decide.
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I don't say pop. I don't know why. Give him some water.
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Yeah, people say bubbler. The reason why bowling is I think that we can get a lot of money, and more importantly, we can get bowling shirts that are unique, your own bowling shirts, and I was going to get some celebrities to sign bowling shoes and auction those off as well. Personalized bowling shoes.
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Saquon Barkley was wondering why David was running around that bar mitzvah with a bowling shoe. Saquon Barkley would sign a bowling shoe. Yeah. He's very nice. When is this? When's our target date here? We're going to do it in September. September. Yes.
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It's 24 hours. We would probably do it from Friday at 7 to Saturday at 7 in that range.
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No, 7. So that's an issue, but we're going to have to.
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Yeah. We could have one lane where people are manually putting the pick-up line. Or just dropping it into the thing that does all the work for you.
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Yes. Everything's a competition.
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I love where your head's at. Jeremy, the donation, you have to raise a base amount for Michael J. Fox. We want to raise that to try to cure Parkinson's, but we are going to have it so that there will be prizes that will go to winning teams, teams who raise the most money, teams who bowl the best will have a prize for the best individual game. I assume somebody will break two hundo. For sure.
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Yes. Anyone who flies in who is a celebrity gets their travel paid for.
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You'd be surprised to hear how many meetings went into that.
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This was before I was with Metal Ark. Nothing personal was not a part of Metal Ark at that point. And I remember watching you guys do that, thinking to myself, I want to do this. I want to broadcast for 24 hours. I want to do something. That's why I love the 48-hour runs. I love the overnight ultras.
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Well, there's obviously a lot of reasons why it may or may not happen again. Yes, I'm trying to not bring that up again. It's something that happened. But what I am trying to bring up is the whole idea of raising money through something that is hard to do, but anyone could do. Anyone can bowl for 24 hours if they choose. Anyone can be on the floor of the Senate for 25 hours. It doesn't take. Yes.
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There are people who twitch like for seven hours in a row, one stream playing video games. There are people, I bet you there's someone who plays, right now I bet you there's someone in the world in the middle of a 24 hour video game, Bender. What was the guy who got paid to watch a show It was a huge thing. I should have prepped this. I didn't think I'd think of it.
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Do you remember that he couldn't get out of his couch? He had to watch every episode of a show and he ended up getting super sick because he went crazy. He couldn't stand up. You'll think of it. You'll get back to me. Jeremy's checking.
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Oh, you get like bed sores or something? You do know what I'm talking about because it was very easily said. I'm talking about someone who would watch every episode of a show straight through, not able to move.
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Wow, I feel like the doughnut thing is why he got sick I mean did he have to eat a doughnut every hour be a lot of dough doing some research It's a lot of don't thought about an eating challenge. We talked about that. Well, that's the whole I don't mean the pepper thing No talking about like I had a hostess cupcake the other day.
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I didn't had one of us since childhood Do you ever eat food from your childhood that you have not eaten in decades? And then you just do it now because I just stopped eating it at some point. Oh No, but I'd stopped eating Hostess cupcakes, and then I saw them at the checkout, and I said, you know what? I just went to the doctor.
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I don't think so. It's the same oil from like 30 years ago. Yeah, that oil you don't change. It's probably the same pan from 30 years ago. Yeah, it probably is. That's what you're supposed to do. I'd never have done that because I don't barbecue or cook at all. But you're supposed to keep it dirty that somehow the flavors stay in it and it helps your food.
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But under that theory, then you wouldn't have to wash anything.
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Because if you're cooking, like any pan you cook in, any pot that you cook stuff in.
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The burnt cheese you got to get out of there. And I always have to soak it. I always try to quickly eat when there's cheese on the plate that's been microwaved for something. I eat quickly or transfer plates to clean the plate immediately. Otherwise, it hardens up, and then you're stuck with a dish in your sink.
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You just put your tongue on it. Tongue on the top of the mouth, there's a little trick that you'll all have. You'll never burn your mouth or get brain freeze again. If you get brain freeze with ice cream, just stick your tongue to the roof of your mouth.
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I believe that Simpsons have said that Trump would die on April 12th of 2025. And that was prior to him being president. It was a Simpsons episode. And Jeremy, I may have this wrong because this is another weird overnight brain thing, but I believe the Simpsons have done a lot of predicting of a lot of things.
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And they had an episode of Trump in a casket on April 12th, not knowing, of course, that the tariffs would happen and not knowing that the market... Please, everyone, be calm. The markets are open. Can we get an update? I'm not even looking at my phone. I assume the markets, the futures were down. There was going to be a 1500 point drop on the open. Did it happen?
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I thought they did a bunch of predicting.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to show you how to do it. Thank you.
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You guys are tough. To call that a drought. I think that people in Chicago, fans of the Cubs or Red Sox, would tell you what a real drought is.
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Doesn't drought mean long?
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Can you be a three-year drought?
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Now, a drought when it comes to crops, I view very differently than a drought that is titles. Really? Why? They're very different droughts. One actually stops your ability to do business, maybe permanently. And one is just, hey, we made it to the finals.
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I'm counting this as one dynasty. I was thinking about this also last night. This was my 3 a.m. thought as I was thinking about how to put in context what UConn did. I view that if you, like with the Spurs, with the Warriors, if the Astros win again in three years, let's say, if the Chiefs win again in two years, I view it all as one.
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I think that he's gonna love this one looking back more than the others. I think that he's gonna say to himself that, wow, I have extended my greatness. And the way he was celebrating, did you see the dance he was doing as he was waiting at the end of the game? He did this sort of, he looked like me when I dance. I have one move, like the belt move or the dice move.
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The belt move is when you have your hands over the belt and you whip it off, but not actually, you pretend you're taking your belt off. And you do that with the belt? What? You've never seen the belt move? No. And then do you, like, lasso someone? Yes. Yeah, but it's fake. It's not a real belt. Wait, no one's done the belt move? No, no, no, of course, but... It's the... Oh, God. No one's seen it?
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What's the success rate on the belt move? Do you guys not go to bar mitzvahs?
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And you've never seen the belt move?
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You have to build up to the belt move? That's a great question and something I think about. I split the dances at bar mitzvahs or parties into sections. So anytime there's a lot of fast music at once, that's a section. Then they do a slow song. That's the end of a section. And then there's another get up and go after you eat the main course. The belt move is good for once a section.
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The dice move, I can do all day long. Let me see the dice move. The dice move is this. Okay, don't do that. All day long. Easy. Oh, I'm always, you're always moving and dancing. I love dancing. That's a gift. That's, no, that's a great move. Easy one to do. Sometimes if I'm feeling a little lucky and happy, I'll do the John Travolta, Uma Thurman move.
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Oh, you are doing Uma's. I mean, that's when I'm really feeling good at a bar mitzvah.
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Yes, because the belt move is special. I have to be in the right frame of mind with the right people around. I have to make sure my kids are nowhere to be seen because they're embarrassed by it all. So that's very important. The belt move is the one that embarrasses them, not the dice? I threw up at my son's bar mitzvah. Really? Why? Not ideal. I had too much to drink.
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I was on the lawn beside my son's bar mitzvah. Did people see you throwing up? Well, since I was in charge of transportation for everybody and we had large vehicles taking people various places and the transportation couldn't move because I was unable to board said transportation, I would say yes.
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Oh, I think it's, oh, there's David again. This tracks.
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It used to back in the day when I had kids and I had more of these parties on a weekend that I may or may not have wanted to go to. I would often do things that would go too far. too far, too much. In terms of alcohol consumption. So at my kids bar mitzvahs, you have to give a speech. Other kids bar mitzvahs, you can start right in at the appetizer hour. You can even pre-party.
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But when you're hosting, you can't drink at all until you're done with talking. So I made a commitment to my family that I would not do anything to change my mental state until after I was done. And then you had to catch up. Then I played catch up. Very common with Fathers of the Bride or Fathers of the Bar Mitzvah Boy. It's the catch up that kills you. You can't do it.
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You just have to be at your pace. But yes, I wasn't mortified. It was a sign of like, oh, there's David again.
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It was a good party. I want to get to, I want to get back to UConn because I want to make sure Gino understands the love that we're giving him here because maybe we don't do enough on women's sports. It's unreal what he's done. Maybe I could argue the greatest coach in the history of all college sports.
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And you're going to think that's recency bias and hyperbole, but I dare you, John Wooden was a good one. I dare you to come up with a college coach who has been more successful than Gino. and you're going to have to think about it, and maybe you'll get back to me, maybe you won't. In the meantime, is there a chance that we have a stat of the day about this?
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Let me digest that. To beat six number one seeds, so you can still be a number one seed, because you can do that in the final four of the final. Over a career. But are we saying there's four number one seeds in the tournament?
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But how many number one seeds are there?
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No, I'm just asking for clarification.
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Is that a major number?
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How many losses does she have?
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Come on. It's not there. It's not part of the stat of the day.
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That's a great stat. The most you can do is three per year. And so to do that, you'd have to win it all. And if you're a one seed, the most you can beat is two. Because you're only in the final four in the final. Yeah. This year, Florida's a one seed. They're going for two defeats of a number one seed. Tonight. Yeah. Is it still nine o'clock? It's way too late.
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I thought they were thinking of moving it to way earlier. Did I make that up?
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Someone check on that for me. I thought that they were changing the time of the final game because it used to be after 9 p.m., and I thought they were moving it significantly earlier. Well, you don't have to say p.m. when you say 2100. That's true, 2100 hours. It's just 2100.
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Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here? Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up. Well, I do know that to be true, but even during ad reads, like... Cuervo. I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners. Sweet, delicious Cuervo. Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots.
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Do you think it's like the boat in The Price is Right? I always laughed at that when they go out and there's this big boat that someone wins.
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How do you take delivery? I always thought about that, that you have to handle the stuff that you win on The Price is Right. It's one of my favorite game shows, but you really have to be careful. There's a great documentary about someone who was gaming The Price is Right.
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I've had a major issue with that. I don't like punishing people who do extra work. That should be rewarded. The fact that he's willing. There are people on Survivor, as an example, who practice the puzzles in advance. They build 3D models. They're doing all sorts of stuff. And old school Survivor players are upset with them. And I'm the opposite.
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I think it's the greatest thing ever if you're willing to do that. I tried to sit in the driveway. I tried to make fire before I went on the island. I had flint and a machete.
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You actually do practice before filming starts. You go to the island and there's a whole pre-show and part of that is making fire and making shelter. You know those palm fronds that you have to weave them and you do it by hand? It takes a lot of practice and you have hours, days, a week before the show starts and you have to learn how to do it.
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Well, it always starts with, hey, are you up? But I think it gets interesting talking about what order to talk about stuff. Like I wanted to start with.
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And I could never, I'm terrible at that kind of stuff.
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So as a matter of fact, you are at a resort, but you're in a tent on the ground. So you can start adjusting to living outside. Like Fyre Fest. Well, except you're told in advance what it will be like. And you don't pay, you get paid. And secondly, it's not Survivor School. There's a whole thing. You have to do medical checks. You do mental health checks. You do cast photos. You do interviews.
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You meet with the producers. There's all sorts of pre-show stuff that you have to do. Are you isolated from the other contestants? No, but you're silent. You're not allowed to talk. Huh. So for me, it was the worst part of the game. They give you books you can read, et cetera. I read Animal Farm while waiting, but I hadn't read that since high school. And it was really interesting.
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Very interesting choice to read right before doing Survivor. Why do you think it was one of the good choices? Listen, they're not screwing around. I can only imagine the headspace that put you in. And you eat three meals with everybody, but it's all in silence. And there's guards making sure.
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No, no, about a week. Okay. I got in trouble. I almost got kicked out of Survivor before I got kicked out of Survivor because I was communicating with one of the fellow castaways. Her name was Sarah Lucina. I didn't know her name at the time. We had never met. We had only seen each other in silence. And our tents were next to each other, and I was so lonely that week.
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with no ability to talk to anyone but the shrink and the producers, that I tried to communicate quietly in the tent, but they have guards out there watching, and I kept getting in trouble.
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It seemed important because we were going on air in only seven hours and 13 minutes. And so I was calculating in that remaining time, can I get through everything that I have to get through? And again, I swallowed my phone.
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And I didn't stop. So then we started communicating through sneezing, where we would sneeze and then we got to say, God bless you. And then we had, we ended up becoming friends. We're still friends to this day. It's all part of my 1.47 a.m. text issue last night. You texted her? Yeah, what was Sarah up to? She's on the Central Time Zone. Oh, so it's only 12.47.
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So that would have been a candidate, except she's not doing the show today. It was really for all of us to figure out where we wanted to go after Ovechkin.
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Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, let's talk Survivor.
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She would 100% come on. She's a police officer in Iowa. She's one survivor. I don't know if you know that name. And I was the first Jew she ever met. Oh. And?
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After meeting you, of the Jewish people? She's not converting, she's not going to temple anytime soon, but she certainly enjoyed meeting me.
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Oh, well. Wait, do you want an intro? No one's Johnny T-ball. Get out of here. Billy, you want an intro? No, no, no.
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Seems like the opposite. Yeah, no, I'm fine. Wait, I think it feels like I want to do a shiddach here. A who? A shiddach. What is that, Yiddish? Yes. You want to translate that to English? It's a meeting. I want to do some sort of connection.
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You're willing to lie and survive even if you're not a liar. You have to. It's part of the game. You have to pretend you're something you're not. I think we're all familiar with that, aren't we? Eh, not really. I know I am. It's sort of like imposter syndrome to the 10th degree, isn't it?
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For sure. So, Dan does do that. He's been told not to. He's really trying to improve on that. But I actually... Is he? No. Yeah? You know, he's trying. He's totally trying. Is he? No, no. Are you still getting the 5 a.m. emails? Yes. Because he learned how to schedule emails. Wait, what time did you get the email the other day?
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Folks, it's Mike Ryan. And you know that Miller Lite has basically been a partner of this show for almost 20 years. And as we celebrate 50 years of Miller Lite, that means for a large chunk of it. And look, I didn't go to school for math. But I'm pretty sure that's like 80% of the time that Miller Lite's been existing. They've been with our show.
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And I'm so grateful for it because we truly believe this. If you listen to us back in our radio days, throughout our times in national radio, to the pirate phase, to now, you know that Miller Lite has been a huge supporter of ours. And I've always been a huge supporter of Miller Lite. Why? Because it's got taste you know you can depend on. A great beer trusted by beer lovers for 50 years.
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Don Levitard. Oh, I like firing people. So I take the opportunity to fire whenever I possibly can because I can use it as a learning experience for them and try to help them out and try to point out what they did wrong. But in this case, the employee was enough levels below where I was that I did not do the firing, but I had it done within moments of discovery.
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It's just absurd. It's absurd. Stugatz. I'm talking about people who I fire who deserve it, who have done something that actively requires me to fire them. It is my unadulterated pleasure to do so. This is the Dan Labatar Show with the Stugatz. I was thinking about Wayne Gretzky being forced to go to all of Ovechkin's games. Did you watch?
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He promised me that he would schedule emails. How long ago was that conversation? It's been three or four days. Maybe three or four days. Yeah, all right. So then we're good. It was before that. Oh, there's a whole new sheriff in town. It's all about the scheduling. He had a funny thing that he did.
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Please tell me you watched Gretzky present Ovechkin and shake his hand and give the thumbs up. Please tell me that I'm not the only one who saw Wayne Gretzky with his smile.
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Oh, no, definitely not at all. Despondent. And you could tell with the smile. Now, he may have been three sheets to the wind. However you want to say it, that's not irresponsible journalism. It is personal experience. He's a lush? He enjoys a cocktail from time to time. He's the great one. He's got his own wine label in Canada. Think about what he does. He's in the business of being Wayne Gretzky.
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It's an entire business. Every day, you can't escape yourself. You are who you are. And his business is being the great one. And so he's there. Janet Jones, who I, if you know who that is, his wife.
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He's still the great one to me.
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The assist record is unbreakable. 1,963 assists Wayne Gretzky has. And I believe second place right now active, I think, is also Crosby. And I think it's down at like 1,000 points.
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I think you're the...
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When he scheduled something, he doesn't like to interrupt Nothing Personal, which is done at 8 a.m. live. This morning, of course, he texted the entire Nothing Personal show and I didn't respond. But he's also potentially in a different time zone. And so he said, I'm going to send an email, but you won't get it. It's scheduled 8 o'clock. Don't look. It came at 11 o'clock Eastern.
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I'm trying to imagine how that would go with Gretzky, who took more pride, I believe, in his assists than his goals.
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I think when you lose this record, and this can be put on the poll by Juju, please. When you lose the record for all-time goals, do you go from the to a? I don't think that that is the threshold. But I don't want to ruin the poll because people may disagree with me. But don't do it just for disagreeing, Jessica, when you fill out the poll. Don't just say.
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I want you to vote with your conscience.
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With your belief system. I'm going to stick with D. Just give me a hint, Jessica. Which way are you going?
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My vote, my choice is that you're never going to tell me what you voted.
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I'm just going to have to guess.
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Maybe I'll text you tonight before 147 and just see what you voted.
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Well, given what time you go to bed, it's going to have to be around six hours.
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So it's got to be eight hours before? Yeah. Or are you now just, hey, leave it at work? If you don't get to me by the time we leave work, then don't bother me.
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Maybe tomorrow morning.
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Oh, no. I can't text you, though?
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Always have an answer.
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What a gift. Cherish that as long as you have it. Yeah, I don't. First of all, I think that's hyperbole. I doubt that you could nap seven and sleep nine. That would be 16 hours a day of sleep. Like, unaided. No drinks, no Ambien, just straight up.
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Ooh. You should try it. You may like it.
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I mean, not if you can give 16 large. I think that everyone needs to tell me their... I think that's the right thing. I'm going to actually make that as part of my thing with Metal Ark. I would like a window. Give me your window. Everyone has a different schedule. I wouldn't have known that you nap at five. I don't want to interrupt your nap.
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He scheduled it for 8 o'clock, his time zone.
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And I'm happy to actually follow that window. And I'm smart enough where I could actually have individual people. Like, Billy, do you put your kids to bed like it's seven?
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That's a three-hour process. That's terrible. It's a tough process. Can I try to make that more efficient for you? You want to come put my kids to sleep and be my guest? I'm funny how I put my kids to sleep.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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No, I didn't do that with my kids. No, I read them a book. I was joking. Okay, good. Thank you. Because listen, with you and me, you never know. But my view of my kids sleeping, sleep to me was the most important thing for my kids. Because I wanted, it was selfish. I wanted not to have to deal with them. So getting them on a schedule as quickly as possible was critical.
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And doing it the same way every night, no matter where you were, no matter what time zone, because then their brain sort of understands that, okay, after bath, it's PJs. After PJs, it's one book. And then you beg for the second book. You say, good night, moon, shut her down, lights out. The biggest parenting mistake is when people let their kids control their nighttime routine.
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And then you end up without a nighttime routine and then you're just screwed. I gotta be honest, it feels like you're lecturing me on parenting. No, I'm saying my, I would never lecture anyone. No, I'm the opposite guy. Women do that a lot. I noticed when- Oh boy, what does that mean?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It means mothers would get together and they would sort of compare each other's kids' routines and what they were doing and making judgments on food. When I got together with guy friends, we never did that. We just talked about when are we released from duty? Like what time do your kids go to bed that you can then be free? And do they stay asleep? So it's not women, men. It's not a sex thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Do you not like the text that says, are you free? No. You just want the phone call. You want the phone right off the top. Just call me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's just who's responsible. I loved, I was the diaper guy in my household. I did all the diapers. Dealing with shit, huh? I didn't mind it. I did not. It's the weirdest thing. I did not mind it.
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Smaller than two minutes? Like, is it down to one minute?
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Wow. That's a huge window.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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7 a.m. to 4.30. I thought you were going to say you can text me from 7.01 to 7.03.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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See, I was taught by people younger than I that they like the warning first. Like, hey, can we talk? Or, hey, are you free?
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Thank you. Thank you.
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So for me, I'd have to do the warning text.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, I get that. So everyone you work with is either a huh, a uh-oh, or an ignore.
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It's such a great list we could make of who we work with, who gets what when a call comes in or an email. anything from the ignore to what's even worse, which is the uh-oh, or for me, the worst is what you did with me, actually, Jessica, which was the ugh. Like, that made me feel terribly lonely and upset.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I've actually called you before with stuff that was going on. I called you about a story, but I did the text.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I wish it didn't have to be that way, especially last night, especially knowing all the different topics. I don't know how to lead with anything other than the nonsense we started with with Ovechkin. It's history. We could talk about obviously what happened to Duke over the weekend, and we will, we should. We can talk about, because I think we have to, let me check my contract.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I have to do LeBron and the Cowboys and the Heat and the Marlins and the Dolphins. Very fine print. And we have to do Panthers. And tomorrow we have to re-litigate all of those topics. No, no. Well, you may, but I wouldn't do that. No, we have to talk about UM basketball. We could also do that.
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I like doing Ovechkin. And the reason I want to talk about Alex Ovechkin is that I am a sucker for watching things that never happen, that I expect never to happen. It's why I rooted for the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl. I wanted to see the three-peat because I've never seen a three-peat.
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When I was lucky enough, and this is a total hit the button, which someone else will do, I went to Gretzky's last game ever, and it was really cool. I mean, I was in New York. I didn't fly for it. It was there. But the thought was in New York and certainly in Edmonton that Wayne Gretzky, the great one, the GOAT, that record will never be broken.
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I think that there are records that we view as those that are untouchable. And the goal number by Gretzky to me was one of them. And then Ovechkin out of nowhere, he's getting closer and closer just for fun. Do you guys know who's next to break Ovechkin's record? Active? What's your number one guess?
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I'm lucky. I don't sleep and last night was the perfect night for me because there was so much going on over the weekend trying to figure out all the different things I wanted to discuss. The problem with the loneliness of not sleeping is who am I going to call? I went down the list. Can I reach Roy? Is there any way to get to Billy or Jess or Jeremy? Who's going to answer my texts?
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273. So now let's say that Sidney Crosby is better than Ovechkin in scoring. Let's say he's McDavid. Let's say he scores 60 goals a season. Get me an age on Sidney Crosby.
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Roughly? Does he have five more years? Five more years of scoring 50 goals? No, not 50 goals, no. It's out of the question. There's no chance. We watched a record last night, and I kept thinking about the business of the record because Ovechkin did it on the road. They could have sat him against the Islanders and had him come home and break the record. But the Capitals are playing for something.
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They're playing for home ice in the Stanley Cup.
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Aren't they behind Winnipeg?
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Right, but for the Stanley Cup, they got to catch Winnipeg. Yeah. So they got a reason to win, and so they're going out there trying to win it. So, of course, you play Ovechkin. What we do when we have a player who has a chance to break a record, we actually give them the choice. We would ask, we had spoken to Ichiro before his 3,000th hit, do you want to play in Colorado?
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Do you want to wait until you're back in Miami? And he said, put me in, coach. I want to win the game, I'm ready to play. Asshole. Wow, okay. That's really, that's not Ichiro.
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Of all the words to describe Ichiro, that's not one.
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I think I saw him playing in Europe at the age. Isn't he 58? He is not 58 years old. How old is Yager?
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Is he older than Gordie Howe?
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Yeah. He's got like two seasons left. Gordie Howe's dead, by the way. But Gordie Howe scored goals in the NHL, I believe, at 52 years old.
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How is it that someone, I'm 57. I can barely get out of bed and forget getting on skates. But can you imagine the possibility of scoring a goal in the NHL at 52? Yager's done. He'll never score again. On the ice. In the NHL.
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In the NHL, he's not doing that. Billy. Yes. It wasn't me. I'm not blaming you. It's time for me to tell you the truth. So Mattingly, because I really hate Don Mattingly. You do not. I hate him. How do you hate Don? He sucks. Now you're just being argumentative. No, I don't like him.
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Donnie Mattingly is one of the great players, Hall of Fame players, short of back issues. Longest tenured manager in Marlins history. We didn't fire Mattingly when we could have.
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That there would be an opportunity for improvement. That the dream could be alive.
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It's a carrot. It's I always felt in baseball. That's more human over those 18 years. I always felt like the dog at the track. I always feel badly for those dogs. Of course you go and you bet on them and it's horribly inhumane, but they're always chasing that thing that goes around the track. I think, is it a carrot or a bunny? It's a rabbit? Literally, it's not a real rabbit, it's a metal rabbit.
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Yeah, mechanical rabbit, yeah. How mean is that? They never catch it. You want it to be real rabbit? No, I want them to be able to catch it. Like for winning, you should, instead of winning money just for your owner and for the fans who bet on that dog, shouldn't that dog get the rabbit?
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The two dog got the rabbit. Wouldn't that show the other dogs that they ought to be running faster?
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And I must tell you guys that I went over. I didn't contact any of you.
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I'm talking euthanasia. Exactly right, rabbit euthanasia. This would be the ultimate thing in dog racing.
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No, it's a whole thing. Really? When I was a summer associate at a law firm, they took us to a dog track, and we were told that you always do the trifecta 215, and that it will hit once during the course of a day of races. How long ago was that? In 1991. Wow. Is that before Jessica was born by chance?
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Well before Jeremy and I were born. So I was in law school and in law school you go to your summer associate at a firm and they do like events in order to woo you to, it's a bait and switch. They let you go to a dog track and a race track and baseball games because then they work you 100 hours a week. once you get the job. So it's ridiculous.
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So you go to the dog track and you get a coupon, like for a drink, but it's your own money if you want to gamble. But we were told 215. And so you bet the trifecta every single time. And wouldn't you know it, 215 hits almost every time. It's a little bizarre, almost like it's fixed. Almost like the rabbit's fixed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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This was approximately, so my night was, I got to Miami, check into the hotel, and then White Lotus, so I watched that till about 10.46, because I didn't start it directly at nine, it was an hour and a half. Then, this was about 1.47. approximately when I wanted to reach out.
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I'm not giving tax advice to any of you. But if you don't deduct your losses, you really don't need to declare your wins. On the slot machines, though, they give you an actual tax form if you hit a big slot win at a casino. But if you put $1,000 or $1,000,000 on black and roulette and win... They give you the chips. They give you the money. You don't fill out anything. But on slots, you do.
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When I'm winning that much money, probably I would have to declare that, wouldn't you? The greatest example of someone doing something noticeable and not declaring was the first ever winner of Survivor. When everybody was watching, a guy named Richard Hatch won Survivor in 2000. He was the one who was naked on national television.
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And he decided to take the million dollars and not declare his income. And he got caught and convicted of tax evasion. Of course. Yes, he did. And because they didn't withhold it. You're supposed, listen, if you withhold, which is what you'd get with a normal paycheck, there's tax withholding. You still have to file your taxes and you still have to declare what your income is.
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That idiot didn't do it.
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Survivor had just started. It's the same thinking as the people on The Price is Right who are betting a dollar, who bid a dollar on the showcase and then win. And you know how they always say the retail value of this showcase is $14,469. You get taxed for that. So just FYI, like remember when Oprah gave a car to everybody? Tax for the car.
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You can't take that car if you can't afford to pay the tax because it's taxed.
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They're amazing people in Florida for a living. They actually will help your property tax bill go down. They take a percentage of it. Do you guys do this if you're homeowners in Florida? They're tax assessment lawyers. And if your house is worth 600 grand, they'll make it so your house is worth 300 grand.
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No. These are legitimate. These are legitimate lawyers. It's done. The players, we all did it. It's not a scam at all. It's approved by the state of Florida, the Department of Revenue of Florida. Totally legit. But they take a cut.
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So you should 100% take a look. There's a way to fight what your assessment is. But when the home renovation comes, it didn't occur to me that that is one of the things that comes with it.
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And the reason I remember is I was thinking maybe I could reach out to Dan, who's in a different time zone, but then I just swallowed my phone. It's like a ref swallowing his whistle.
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I'm going to say, God, I think it's, I was going to say, I think it's a complete unknown because their one chance was Timothee Chalamet, and he doesn't win it. So a complete unknown, eight nominations, 0-4.
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Demi less in this instance rather than Demi Moore. I mean, that was that was because this is this is the moment. Right. She never got nominated before. This is your one chance. She's not going to get another nomination. We all know that. The substance, by the way, is like it's so shocking. It got this much attention. Like this is a horror movie, which is gruesome and grimy.
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And when Mike Ryan recommended it to us, I was like, I'm not sure about this. And you don't like these types of movies. So it was it was like the fact it got this many nominations is remarkable.
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open adnan yeah onan opened the show coming out of demi moore's body yeah like you're getting that the prime real estate all right number one takeaway well it's a great sign for independent film because that's what anora was this was truly an independent way made by sean baker which he's really passionate about he goes it was six million dollars we used every single one of those dollars to make him way which was authentic and lived in as i said before a comedy
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A drama, a tragedy. It's a wonderful, beautiful film. And also The Brutalist, which is an independent film financed by Brady Corbett. A story about an epic immigrant, the rise and fall. Guy Pearce, by the way, one of the biggest winners of the year. I love him. Finally got his first Academy Award nomination. He's so great in The Brutalist for Best Supporting Actor.
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Those are a couple of big winners there. And I just think, as you said, cinema in general. It really did well. My biggest loser, by the way, in addition to just the year itself, the run time. The whole point of 7 p.m. Eastern, David, was they know the Oscars goes 3 1⁄2 hours, sometimes 4 hours. So it used to always start at 8 o'clock Eastern and then go till midnight.
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Everyone's like, oh, my God, wait for your late local news, et cetera. So they move it to 7, and the thought is, okay, we're hoping for 3 hours. Even if it's 3 1⁄2, 1030 is still reasonable. But this 1045, I know maybe it sounds like I'm quibbling over 15 minutes, but it felt bloated.
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Yeah, there's no question. I mean, I'll be more even more specific and mention Mikey Madison, who's had, you know, just this is really her moment was great and poor, better things, the show. And I love the fact Sean Baker acknowledged Tarantino when he won. It was quite the love your work. And by the way, there would be no Mikey Madison without you.
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So thanks for casting once upon a time in Hollywood. which is something that people do forget. So I think that was definitely one of the bigger wins of the night. Obviously, it's Sean Baker in a row. The fact that this guy's going home with four Oscars, he does set a record in terms of that category. And I do think Adrian Brody's the big winner of the night, in addition to The Brutalist.
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The fact that The Brutalist was, again, a movie made in VistaVision, which is something they used in the 1950s. Brady Corbett is a former actor-turned-director. If Inora is the biggest winner of the night, The Brutalist still did very well. To be able to say we got best actor, best score, and best cinematography still feels pretty good.
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Thank you very much. Thank you, Dan. That's very nice of you to say that you are proud. We did have the number one best baseball podcast last year and the number one best business podcast last year. All nothing personal.
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And then somehow we got metal art this year and Pablo took over the sports business category and was recognized as having the best sports business podcast, except that's the one I'm on. called The Sporting Class and Nothing Personal Now is the third best baseball podcast, I'm here to tell you that that makes me a loser. There's nothing to be proud of.
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And I'm thrilled to death with everything I've won. But yesterday I was not a winner.
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I just don't understand what Pablo is trying to do when I'm aware of the resources that are given to Pablo to help him win. The fact is that he's got groups of people who do nothing but make sure that he's nominated and wins awards. And that's fine, Pablo. And you can look at the structure of what you do and you can have your Pablo Torrey finds out. But how many times do you ask that?
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I am helpful to do the sporting class, everyone. And that wins. But then it's your thumbnail that does it. And then you're the one who's tagged. So you didn't win just one gold medal. You won two gold medals.
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Don't tell me what I mean, Pablo. What I mean is actually you've got myriad people working because Metal Art gives you all these people to do all this stuff. And it's me and Coca. That's it. Oh, by the way, we do it every day. And it takes you weeks to do one show. Oh, but it's very in depth because you find out rap.
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That's great. That's great, Pablo. Wait a second. You're calling what we do a hot dog stand.
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Pablo, love a hot dog. Dan, we're good here. We're good here, Dan, because you now know, at least now we know what we're dealing with, is that Pablo, and he's so highfalutin, he is so condescending toward nothing personal and toward what we do, and it just manifested itself with a description and a comparison of that should make you as nauseous as that hot dog.
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Look at all these wins I've had, Pablo. You don't see me out there with all medals and rings every single day. Those are credentials, by the way. You got some credentials.
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Hold on, Mikey. This is the all-star game ring, which is really cool. Wait, you got a ring for hosting an all-star game?
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um all-stars get a ring every year if you're an all-star you get a ring and this is a ring that was for being a 2017 all-star and i did get one because we hosted it um this is the marlins world series ring but i have several can i get a cup of coffee and uh do you have like the third place baseball podcast
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No, I think that we have a weird. Thank you, sir. Pablo, can you mute yourself when you're engaging with the general riffraff, please?
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I want to make sure. Pablo trying to be popular by befriending his coffee man in the cart on the street who has no idea who he is.
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Third place is for losers.
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Thank you. Hard to disagree with that.
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Don Levatard.
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We've got you. We've all got each other. Let's go right now. Stugatz. One, two, three, Brett. One, two, three, Brett.
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The Hockey Show: Talkin Cawlidge Hawkey With Bucci
Yeah, that's correct.
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The Hockey Show: Get Off Rose's Plane
Maybe he should have fought, though.
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The Hockey Show: Get Off Rose's Plane
He was saying no. He's pointing to the scoreboard that they were up 3-0 at the time. What happened?
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The Hockey Show: Get Off Rose's Plane
The Maple Leafs came back to win 7-3. That's karma. Fight your fights, Arbor Jack guy. You learned a lesson.
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The Hockey Show: Get Off Rose's Plane
Well, and look what happened this time, though. He ducked Ryan Reeves, and they got dunked on. They lost 7-3. This time, he fights. Fight your fights. They're losing when he fights, and then they came back and won. Fight your fights. Fight your fights, and you'll win your games. There's a lesson to be learned here.
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The Hockey Show: Get Off Rose's Plane
Lessons learned. What the hell are you doing, Rose? While Ryan Reeves was talking, she took out scotch tape and taped her mouth shut. You're supposed to talk as the host of the show.
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I think Connor McDavid was really pissed at the end of that play, and rightly so. But I think McDavid may have been trying to draw a penalty because he wasn't really fighting back that much. Look, Connor Garland, 5'10", 170. Connor McDavid, 6'1", 195.
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No, but I'm saying Connor McDavid is not going to get manhandled by Connor Garland unless he wants to get manhandled by Connor Garland. So you're saying he was flopping. Why couldn't Connor McDavid stand up for himself, throw him off? You clearly got a size and weight advantage there. You're saying he was flopping.
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I'm saying he was, I don't know, I'm saying he could have thrown him off if he wanted to. He really looked like the submissive as we watched that video over and over again. He looked like he was just taking it from Conrad Allen and then he got pissed off when nothing happened at the end. So that's just my two cents.
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I don't think you're going to see that in the playoffs because, A, McDavid isn't going to let himself get taken out of a play for 30 seconds with a playoff game on the line. I just don't see that happening in another situation. The more I watch it, the more I'm wondering, why was Conor McDavid not fighting back harder? It really looked like he was just taking it.
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Well, for a cross-check to the face out of nowhere, they'll call that. But for all that dipsy-doodling, gripping, clutching, all that, I don't think so. But I also think you've got to fight back. Conor Garland wasn't doing all that much. They were literally just sitting there on the ice for a good five seconds, barely moving. What are we doing, guys?
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The Hockey Show: Get Off Rose's Plane
So, Avery, I want to move a little bit past our frustrations with what happened against the Edmonton Oilers in Vancouver tonight. So I want to talk to you about the trade deadline that's coming up in less than a month or just over a month now. I think maybe five weeks. It's on March 7th. There's been a lot of talk.
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Up in that neighborhood, speaking of Vancouver, of JT Miller, as he's probably on the top of everybody's trade deadline list. You're hearing a lot about Brock Nelson. The goalie market, maybe not as high in demand. I think John Gibson's probably the best one out there. But as we get closer, and as somebody who's up in that neck of the woods, what are you hearing about JT Miller?
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And just what's your take on the deadline as it's coming up?
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Avery, I want to switch gears and go out east now. I don't know if any of us can answer this question, but I'm just going to put it out into the atmosphere as I talk about it. Has a goalie making the league minimum ever won the Vezina or the Hart? Probably not, right? We got a guy this year who is definitely in that conversation, and his name is Logan Thompson. When he's not distracted by nachos.
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Look, who's not going to get distracted by nachos? I feel for him there. I'd get distracted by nachos if I was in the crease or any real snack food when you're on the ice, to be honest. Logan Thompson's making $776K this year, which to us is a lot of money. To an NHL guy, not quite as much. Now it's not quite as much. Well, for real. This is a guy who I saw him get traded at the draft last year.
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He was at the Sphere signing autographs as a member of the Vegas Golden Knights. And while at the table signing autographs, he gets traded to the Washington Capitals. Now the Capitals are one of the best teams in the league this year. Thompson is certainly in the conversation for the Vezina. Obviously, Connor Hellebuyck's kind of running away with it. But as we saw, Jacob Markstrom got injured.
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You never know what could happen. But either way, Thompson's having an incredible year. And I just wanted to get your take on such a... Such a unique situation where a goaltender not thought of as a whole lot heading into this season, obviously not, and really taking the lead over one of the best teams in the East this year.
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As somebody who's been covering the league for a while, Avery, I wanted to get your opinion on something that I read in The Athletic. I don't know if it was yesterday. Maybe it was this morning. It's hard to keep track. Apparently, communal hangouts and drinking is down in the NHL and gaming and THC gummies are up in the NHL.
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And this may be a sign of the times, but I can remember as a teenager going after Panthers games across the street to the Wolfgang Puck restaurant and following, I think, Lance Pitlick. I got his autograph in the bathroom once. It was just the coolest thing because you had access to the players as they were out hanging out. Now we don't have that anymore. And it was just kind of saddening to me.
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And as somebody who's covered the league for a while, I just wanted to get your take on whether you think this is kind of the sign of the times now.
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No, you're just crazy. I think we're seeing the bias, though, because to your point, Avery, Connor McDavid right now, 20 goals, 45 assists. Nathan McKinnon, 19 goals, 56 assists. So who's the playmaker now?
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They got some good, good players in Edmonton.
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Because Rose is producing now. Rose is pushing buttons. This is why we can't trust Rose in the big chair.
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They did. They won twice against the same team.
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No, I don't think if you watch the replay that there was any kind of like ill will or intent there. I think it was a funky angled hit because they were going into the corner. Reinhardt was coming from up the ice. Lundestrom was coming from behind the net and the way that and he moved like right at the last second. So it was it was just a funky play. The penalty was deserved. It was it happened.
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It should have been like that. But I don't think I think nothing supplemental from the lead was right because it's Sam Reinhardt. He has zero reputation for that kind of thing.
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No, it's rough for a few teams. It's funny because so many teams right now are in the playoff race, whether it's in the East or the West. But the bottom of the Western standings, it's getting a little murky down there between the Sharks and the Blackhawks. But you've got Nashville, you've got Anaheim, Seattle. Are they going to get their stuff together?
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Utah is trying to figure out if they're going to be a playoff team or if they're going to be what. But it's not quite as compact as the East right now.
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No, it's Sam Reinhardt. He's not a guy that's out there headhunting. He's not a guy that's a big hit guy. He's not like a Barkov.
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Apparently, Rose, what's the deal?
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It was a little concerning at first as the Panthers took a couple penalties. They gave up the power play goal to fall behind, which are things that they've been trying to avoid. But they snapped into form rather quickly. It was Reinhardt that actually got the first goal of the game for Florida to get things moving. And they kind of did well in Anaheim. Five goals was strong.
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It was a tighter game, I think, than the score would allude to. But overall, I mean, when you beat the same team twice in a row by an 8-2 combined score, one in each building... It kind of shows how Florida is used to the travel. They've had some playoff success. So I thought I took that as a good sign heading into the trip.
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And we know he can score because he had eight goals in the first 11 games of the season. We know that the guy can put the puck in the net. So him getting that one, hopefully that'll get him going again for Florida. Because they could use a little offense on that line. That line, by the way, with Bennett... and Luster Einan and Sam Miscavige. We need to talk about Sam Miscavige.
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And what I really liked about Mackie Sam Miscavige, he's a player, dude. It's not the scoring. His defensive play has gotten so good. He's taking the puck away in the neutral zone. He's back-checking like a beast. He's really rounding out well. I'm excited for what he's going to do.
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Yeah, it's what Paul Maurice has not done much of in his two-plus years as a coach is play Sasha Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk together consistently. It's something that they'll go to late in games if they need to, but now we're seeing it for, what, seven or eight games at this point? And they've been overpowering.
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Yeah, but I like that they have kind of the options. I wouldn't want to play that consistently throughout because you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket. I like the idea of spreading the wealth when you have a team that's deep enough to do it. But I do like that they're doing it now for the time being.
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Get them acclimated to each other so that way when you do go to this, whether it's in the playoffs or down the stretch, they're that much better at it. They're that much more familiar.
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It's a big two. Because that was, as you said, shutdown city was like their bread and butter. So to see those struggles. But again, midway through the season, if you're going to have it happening, this is kind of the time to do it. Because this is when you're going to work through your kinks or whatever.
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But yeah, a little bit concerning considering that's been an area that they've been so good for a while now.
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Yeah, now they're, what, 5-2 on the second end of back-to-backs after that loss to the Kings. And there have been a lot of games this year, I don't have the number in front of me, but where they haven't scored first and they've been able to come back and win the game. I think what my takeaway from this week is so far is Spencer Knight is rounding into form that I love.
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This kid is playing lights out since, what is it, I guess since the start of the year. Four starts, three and one, five appearances. But his goals against is 1.12, and his save percentage is 960. That's like elite, elite numbers. And granted, it's small sample size, but this is Spencer Knight. This is what we've kind of expected him to become.
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So if this is him kind of getting on that runway, I'm very excited for what the future could bring.
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This is like that 70s show when they would all get high in a circle. That's what that reminded me of right there. What is your take, Rose? I don't understand.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm excited. I'm hoping that we get to see Yaroslav Iskarov in goal when Florida plays San Jose, just because he's one of my favorite young goalies to watch. But yeah, it's been a rough season for the Sharks. Better than last year. And Macklin Celebrini has been a lot of fun to watch. He's a really good player. He's a great two-way player. They're hopefully getting their stuff done.
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Did the Panthers ever have a bad fun team? No, no, no.
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We were on the ice with the Stanley Cup, as Ethan loves to remind us.
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Thank you to whoever, to you, the listener, the viewer. Thank you for not turning the show off when you saw Rose in the main chair today. Thank you for riding it out with us as we go through this trial period. Trial period? What? Sorry, Roy. This is not happening again. Thank you to Roy for his patience as we navigate this situation.
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What is yours, Dave? My win hot take? What am I doing?
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My hot take. Okay, I've got two. My first one, players need to stop crashing into goalies, and defensemen need to stop helping players crash into goalies. It's happening all the time. I get you need to defend. I get you need to play hard. But you've got to be aware of your goaltender, and you've got to protect your goaltender. Stop.
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Thank you, Roy. She's fitting right in. She's just like Roy, dude. She fits right in.
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Am I wrong? Am I wrong that players, that defensemen are pushing guys into goal? It's not a stop. Is it going to take a Jacob Marstrom going down for something to actually happen, Rose?
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Doesn't make any sense to me. Just to finish Ethan's thought, behind Markstrom and Olmark,
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uh nhl goalies from sweden anton forsberg philip gustafson sam urson and philly jojo who everybody loves little jonas johansson but yeah it kind of falls off a cliff a little bit after the top end so it'll be interesting to see how that preach was saying they're gonna have to call urson and then he made the joke of uh you know getting joey decord get some swedish nationality test determined that was a lie so now you're playing because miami court's now what are you doing
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I love that. I love how all of his extremities kind of went in a different direction there for a beat.
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He caught himself, and here comes the fun part, right? Where they just start wailing. Oh, they wailed already. Oh, did I miss the whales?
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Correct. It was like, we were talking about this before, like Craig Metavish back when Roy and I were growing up watching hockey. You guys probably have no idea, but he was like the only guy in the league for years that didn't wear a helmet.
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He had this big curly-haired thing, and it must have been like 10 years maybe about that, that he was like literally the only guy in the NHL that didn't wear a helmet.
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They can regulate it, but... I don't even want to think about a world where hockey tries to take out fighting from hockey. Can you imagine just the response? Yeah.
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They need to let out that aggression, right?
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I actually had a second hot take. Can we get back to that for a second?
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I'm just asking. She's the host today.
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Okay, so the other night in Toronto, Toronto was playing Columbus, and Columbus won, which was, you know, nice. But... So when a goalie loses their stick, generally, they are able to take a player's stick instead, if a goalie's stick gets broken or whatever.
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So in this case, Columbus Goaltenders, that's Merzlikens, I think, lost their stick, picked up Austin Matthews, whose stick was on the ice for some reason, and then Matthews decides, well, bleep you, I'm going to take your goalie's stick, and he tried to play with his goalie's stick. My hot take is, why is this illegal? Why is it illegal?
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If the goalie drops his stick and can pick up a player's stick. Did he get a penalty for this? Yes. I didn't know that.
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Okay, well, thank you. My win of the week, and I kind of dedicate it to Roy and to Ethan because you guys give me crap for crapping on the Sabres, but my win of the week is for UPL. Ucho Pecalucan and Buffalo's goalie for making this ridiculous save on our buddy, little Connor Garland, as Buffalo won in Vancouver the other night.
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Buffalo is actually, since they went on that 13-game losing streak, they're actually above .500, which is interesting. That's amazing.
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However, to be fair, they have lost 4-6 and 7-11, so they are still the Sabres. Some love for Buffalo, above 500 since the losing streak, and UPL with a pretty ridiculous save for a big win in Vancouver. Yes, Laughing Cow?
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English. Next. What? HR is going to come for this. We have HR? I don't know, but all this talk about stuff, I don't... Rose is trying to find the button to push. Roy's talking about Connie Lingus back there. And I'm just sitting here like, what, can we just talk about hockey?
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I think I'm living it right now. No, my fail of the week is not the Buffalo Sabres, Roy. It is the San Jose Sharks. Because they were winning 5-1 in Nashville the other night with like seven minutes to go in the second period and lost immediately.
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I feel bad. Like, what do you do if you're a coach? As you got a big lead. You're just staying there. But no, for your goaltender. Because Georgiev just got pummeled. And they were pumping goal after goal after goal. But he's got the lead. But do you switch your goal even though he's ahead and maybe try to give your team a boost? Because they're obviously getting shelled.
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And the wave of the Predators is coming on top of them. And that whole sentence is something I'm not comfortable with. But the whole issue with the San Jose Sharks. Stop laughing. I can't. The whole thing with the Sharks, like, I really thought for a minute, for a beat, that maybe they were turning things around.
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And then they traded Mackenzie Blackwood, and it's just been falling apart a little bit since. But that right there, that was rough.
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Fails of the week, Dave. My fail of the week is us as a collective hockey community. What did I do? For our collective lack of an understanding of the man that is Matt Rempe, what are we doing with this guy? Is he a lug on the ice that just runs into guys and gets called for penalties at this point?
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He's got speed. He's got hands. We just can never see them because he's out there like a freaking Frankenstein on the ice. Look at this. Look how quickly he gets up the ice. Nice. There is skill with this guy and we can't really see it because he's been branded and partially rightly so. But I just feel like there's more to the man than what we see. And now he's like the referees.
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Every time he sneezes or he looks at a guy, he's getting called for a penalty. I don't know.
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So I just think there's more to Matt Rempe that meets the eye. And I think maybe we're starting to really push him into a corner and maybe unfairly so. I don't know.
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Well, they've got, what, three back-to-backs in the next two weeks? Because I think they've got a road trip coming up where it's a back-to-back, two days off, and then another back-to-back. Very strange what the schedule makers have done to the Panthers.
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And it didn't even go to the goalie.
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Seems like there is. You know, they want to be obviously cognizant of how to protect these guys on a regular basis. And, you know, athletes, they're creatures of habit. So any type of adjustment or change and they're going to go, whoa, I don't like this. Hold on. Sometimes you got to force the issue.
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And, you know, even when you show them these types of videos and you show them what happened to other guys. Some guys are stubborn. So from a GM's perspective, they want to make sure their guys are safe. And some guys have been wearing neck protectors. And I want to take over to our in L.A. has been a big proponent that he wants.
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He's been wearing it even in preseason games and wants that to be a regular thing for the rest of his guys. I think the more we see this, the more this is going to come into play. whether they make it mandatory or they grandfather it in, like you said, for the younger guys coming into the league. Well, we'll obviously have to wait and see.
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But yeah, Tommy made a nice plea, a good argument, an emotional argument, to have this instituted across the league. We'll see exactly where that goes. Everything is optional right now, including the Kevlar protective socks and things like that, which obviously helped Josh Anderson. Even at the end of that video, he's kind of looking out just going, wow. I got lucky and he did.
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And it's again, just a reminder for him, his teammates and even people, other people around the league. You got to protect yourselves because it's a fast, high impact sport and anything could happen.
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It's more of a comfort thing, honestly. Like these guys, again, creatures of habit. They've been doing this since they were, you know, four years old, five years old, and they haven't had to wear it. And they feel like it's going to be restrictive in some fashion, which, you know, when you're on the outside looking in, you're going, that doesn't make any sense. That's silly.
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But when you're playing it, You don't have to put something else on that you're not accustomed to or used to. It's in the back of your mind. Eventually, I think it will get pushed in fully across the board. But until then, you're going to see a little bit of resistance from the players and them wanting it to be their choice, which I get to a certain extent.
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But I think eventually this is going to be a mainstream thing in the National Hockey League.
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Yeah, Ethan, just kind of thinking about, like, Martin Brodeur wore the same chest protector for, like, 30 years. Like, look at Matthew Kachuk. He wears the same ratty piece of whatever shirt. Like, these guys wear the same gear for 20, 30 years. So it doesn't surprise me that there'd be pushback and starting it from a lower level would make sense.
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But Dave, I wanted to talk to you about something else that kind of came out of the GM meeting. Something that I've been clamoring about for a while, and it sounds like it's not going to happen, is an extension of the three-on-three overtime from five minutes to ten minutes, just because I think it would cut out like 95% of shootouts, which I think we'd all be in favor of.
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So it doesn't sound like that's happening. It also doesn't sound like there's going to be any rule changes in the immediate future. And it sounds like the playoff format is going to stay the same, because Gary Bettman said he loves it the way it is. Why are they just adverse to change? Are they just really happy despite what like what the I guess what guys like us are saying?
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It seems like Gary's just very happy with the status quo.
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Yeah, there haven't been any big need for like, you know, big rule changes. They reviewed goaltender interference. They reviewed some of the other different plays off sides, just making sure that everything's kind of aligned there. With respect to the playoff format, their argument, and it's worked, and I understand it. I don't agree with it.
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I think it should change too, but I get why they're so strong on this one. To have the rivalries kick in right out of the gate has meant a lot for the league in terms of its ratings and everything that's tied to that. So for the potential to see Colorado-Dallas in the first round –
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even though that's like a conference final Stanley cup final type of matchup in terms of the caliber of these two teams, it's going to draw a lot of attention right out of the gate when the playoffs begin. And that just means more eyes. That means more potential revenue, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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So from a league perspective, they feel that that argument is valid and that's why they don't want to change it. And again, I get it, but my preference would be, I'd rather see that as a conference final, for example, um, But the potential to have Tampa, Florida in the first round, Toronto, Ottawa first round, Colorado, Dallas first round, Edmonton, LA first round.
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There's so many different storylines tied to it. It just boosts ratings significantly. And again, good for sponsorship. And then you hope that the viewership continues round after round after round with all the hype that's built up in round one. That's the league's argument.
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It's going to change. I don't know if we'll have an all-star game per se next season. There will be an all-star weekend. To what extent, that's what they're trying to figure out over these next few weeks here. I think the skills competition is going to stay. They'll tweak a few things there.
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But because everyone is going to be in New York and they're all going to fly to Milan for the Winter Olympics, I think there's going to be some type of international flair to it. Obviously, piggybacking off Four Nations, leading into Olympics, it makes sense to do something in that type of format. To what extent, I don't know yet because they don't even know. But there will be an All-Star weekend.
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I don't think the game itself will happen. I think there will be other activities around it. A skills competition, maybe an expanded one. I'm sure they're going to bring three-on-three in some capacity back as well in some type of competitive format.
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Yeah, there's a little bit of confusion with regard to that. And publicly, the league and its entities, including the GMs, they don't like to criticize the refs publicly. So we'll see what they're saying behind the scenes. Eventually, that will probably come out. But there's some head scratchers. And a lot of people, you know, they wonder why... Certain calls aren't being called.
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Certain penalties aren't being called. Why are they just letting everything go? In Toronto, I sit in the press box, and Toronto's management staff is right above me. And you get to hear a few comments being made as to why that wasn't called, that wasn't called, and how was that called, but the last four weren't. I mean, I've even sat there. I'm sure you guys have too.
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You sit there and you start, well, that should have been one. Well, that's a hooking call. That's interference. That's this. That's that. And they kind of let it go. If it's consistent across the board, then I don't think people have much of a problem with it overall. But if it varies game by game, then that's where the concern really starts to factor in.
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So even if they're calling less, if they're letting things go, as long as it's the same in October as it is in June – Teams really don't have much of an argument and they're comfortable with that at the end of the day. They'll be heated in the moment, but at least they'll go, well, at least they didn't call that crap in November and December.
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And all of a sudden they're calling it now or vice versa. The league just wants and the players just want consistency. If the penalties are lower and they're letting guys get away with more stuff, so be it as long as it's the same from game one and as it is to the last game of the cup final.
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Dave, it is March 21st. We are less than a month away from the Stanley Cup playoffs beginning. And as I look at the standings this morning, I noticed something very interesting. I noticed that all seven Canadian teams are either in a playoff spot or within two points of a playoff spot.
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So we've got a legitimate chance of having all seven Canadian teams in the playoffs, which would give your nation basically a 50% chance of winning the Stanley Cup for the first time in, I don't know, like 50 years? How long has it been? Since 1993. So... It's been a while. What's the excitement level up in your neck of the woods? Are they getting jacked up generally?
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I know that it's very compartmentalized with who roots for who, but it seems like this should be the time for Canadian hockey fans.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Yeah, well, I'm in Toronto, so the vibe's a little different here. It's a combination of... The hell with everyone else. We just want the Leafs to win. And this team's not even good enough because they lost a couple nights ago and blow this team up, even though they're tied with the Panthers in points. I think in the other markets, like Ottawa is hyped.
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Montreal, ridiculously hyped right now with what they could potentially do. There's a lot of pessimism in Toronto. There's a lot of pessimism in Vancouver, too. They're very similar in that respect. Edmonton's hoping that McDavid and Dreisaitl are healthy as they're getting looked at, I think, today as well. So they're hyped.
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They want a chance at the Stanley Cup again, but they want to make sure their guys are good. And Winnipeg is just, I mean, they're rolling and they're waiting for Game 83 because that's what, they're so focused on postseason play that they just want that to get going. I think more Ottawa, Calgary, Montreal players
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Those are the markets where everyone's really hyped up about the potential of making the playoffs. The Habs weren't expected to. Calgary wasn't really expected to this season. And Ottawa was hopeful. But there needed to be a lot of things to go right for the Sens, and they have this season with Travis Green behind the bench. So I think it's more of a selective market-wide type of –
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excitement and exuberance for the potential of making the playoffs in those three markets versus pessimism in Vancouver and Toronto and expectations in Winnipeg and Edmonton at usually a pretty consistent high.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Ooh. Ooh. That's a great question. That's a really good one. I would imagine... Definitely not Montreal. Right. Probably not Ottawa.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
I think they were kind of like, all right, cool. We'll watch and... You know, the Blue Jays suck, so they couldn't deal with that in the summer. I think half of them were cheering for Edmonton and the other half were like, whatever, we just like hockey, go Florida.
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There was like a collective sigh, like a hand on the chest. Matt, what are you doing? And then they're like, OK, it's safe. It's good. We're okay. I think that was the Cupkeepers' reactions, too, when that happened outside Elbow Room. But it was, like, there's a crazy, obviously there's a crazy passion for the sport and for everything tied to it, but it's also, like, market-driven.
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In Toronto, I'm sure there were more fans cheering for Edmonton than there weren't. I would imagine Calgary would be the same. Vancouver, I don't know if Toronto would be all on board with that. And definitely Winnipeg, I don't think they would care. But definitely they don't want Montreal and definitely not Ottawa getting anywhere near a Stanley Cup.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Great Panthers like it.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
The Cup run that the Habs were on in 2021 when they lost to Tampa and beat Toronto in the first round, that was all hands on deck. Just anything against the Habs works well for Toronto fans.
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The NHL KHL stuff. That's that's never going to happen anytime soon. There you go. Thank you. So that's that's really the end of that. with respect to the CBA, I've never seen the NHL and NHLPA still harmonious before, uh, going back to like the 2003, four lockout or four or five, whatever it was.
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Um, and the, and the previous one, and I've, I've never seen it even in the last regime, the tensions were always high. Like you could, you'd have to walk on eggshells talking about it. Um, I've talked to Gary Bettman and the Deputy Commissioner Bill Daley and the Executive Director of the NHLPA, Marty Walsh, and his number two and Ron Hainsey, former NHLer.
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Everyone's reaction has been, we're good. We'll figure it out. We're not too concerned about it. I've never seen that before. And keep in mind, they had to agree on everything tied to Four Nations because it was a joint venture between the NHL and NHLPA. they had to agree on bringing the world cup back because again, joint venture. And they did that relatively seamlessly.
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Um, they had to agree on the, on the cap numbers for the next three seasons and the projections that are moving forward. And they did with, with relative ease. Um, The negotiations, as Bettman said this week, are going to start in April, but they've had discussions across the board for the last little while, for the last several weeks.
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So I don't think they're at a point where these talks, these negotiations are going to have to fine-tune anything because there will be some sticking points.
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I know the players are going to want to have a chat about expansion and where those revenues go because right now that is strictly shared by the owners and the team and the leagues, excuse me, the league and the teams argue that, well, we're giving you new jobs and So that's where your influx of revenue kicks in. But that's going to be a talking point along with a few other things.
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But there's nothing pressing that is going to risk any pause in labor peace. The goal is to get something done this summer. Maybe, I mean, the very aggressive goal is to get something done by the Stanley Cup final. Again, aggressive, we'll see.
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But I would be shocked, based on everything that's happening right now, I'd be shocked if by next season, at the latest, we don't hear that the league and the NHLPA have extended their CBA several years.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
No, the Panthers did not look like their usual selves. They weren't physical. They weren't really playing up on the balls of their feet. Montreal took it to them for a good two and a half periods. And by the time Florida woke up, it was definitely too little too late.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Another former Panther. Goodness gracious.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
We don't know what he took.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Yeah. I mean, I'm thinking like silhouettes, like Mark Messier comes to mind, like a recognizable.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Yeah. Well, I'm curious now, how much was he getting offered to shave that mustache? Because, like, at what point do you really have to start considering these offers? Like five figures, six figures? Like, what are we talking here? That's that's the follow up question that I have for Lenny McDonald.
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Well, that's the weird thing, right? Is an arm upper? Because, like, it's dangling. My arms are dangling to my lower body.
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There's different rules.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
They're operating within the rules that are made. It's like with Matthew Kachuk and LTIR. They're not making the rules. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
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Who could that be? Tobias Bjornfot. Bigfoot, I think, is the nickname I've heard once or twice, which is a pretty cool nickname.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Five years ago. See, I think Goldie said it was the same Goldies, too.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
It would have been Bob for the Panthers five years ago. Elvis has been in Columbus for a while.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Is Barkov getting a little bit more aggressive lately, does it feel like? Shoot! What the puck? Well, it feels like he's shooting a little bit more over the last week or so. Like, even that overtime shot.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Because if he does break that record tomorrow, what would that be, Zaz?
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
I was trying to set you up for a bad news for the Panthers.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Fun, exciting. Yeah, I mean, Logan Thompson has been amazing. You remember when he got traded during the draft, and people were like, what's going on with Washington? But yeah, he's been spectacular. Jacob Chikrin, another amazing addition for them in the offseason. He's been great. But just a fun team to watch. I wonder, guys, how good are they going to be when the playoffs get here?
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Because I remember a Panthers team a few years ago. Really fun, really exciting. A lot of end-to-end, a lot of high-scoring games. They didn't really fare that well once playoff hockey went around.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Brain severance, regular season and playoffs, right?
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
We'll be scowling from the press box. Yes. Yes. Yes, we will.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Are they like the Toronto of the Western Conference? They can be as good as hell in the regular season, but nobody thinks they're going to do it in the playoffs?
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
He can still play for a few more years if he wants to.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
I guess as soon as you're in the realm of he could do it this game, which five goals in a game isn't that crazy for a guy like Ovechkin. So, yeah, that would make sense. All right. Hopefully he gets it done in a timely fashion.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
If there was anywhere this was going to happen, though, Utah. Yeah. Yeah. communal kind people from what I've been told I haven't been there but seems like a happy place right I don't know correct me if I'm wrong fellas but it seems like this is like Winnipeg maybe all Canada Calgary Edmonton I don't know Adnan would know Canadian geography better than we would
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Sokachev said, it's insane.
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He's doing a service to everybody. That's a knock-on-wood joke. You don't do that right now. Yeah, not right now.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Oh, man. I used to lose a mentality. The lady in the background is the guy's going off. You can hear her. She's like, I love you. I used to love you.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
She was saying that to the guy who was screaming.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
She was saying it to the guy. He's like ripping Tavares a new one. Thank you for speaking for us. That guy is getting laid. Or he got laid that night, for sure.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
Talk dirty to me in bed about John Tavares.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
He got scratched recently or was held out of practice.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
It's okay now. It's not in the cup. All right, wins of the week. David. My win of the week goes to a young man in the OHL by the name of Jake Carabella. This young man had something happen to him the other night in a game against the Flint Firebirds. He lost his cup. And there it is if you're watching on YouTube. The cup's just kind of hanging out in the ice.
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And the first guy they show is a guy named Wang, which is just hilarious. But anyway. So the ref goes and grabs the cup, picks it up, takes it over to the bench, gives it to Carabella. And you know what he does? He says thank you and he shoves it right back in his pants. Is that one of the most hockey things I've seen all week? Yeah, he used a towel.
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If I got to do that, I would just hit guys.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
I'm not going to try to score on like 25 other goalies. I just want to go out there and bang around.
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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
I just want to go out there and hit people. That's hilarious. Ethan.
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#BecauseMiami: A Miracle Has Happened
Hear this from David Sampson. And politicians should know that when they support these deals, they think they're doing the right thing for themselves and their community, but they're also looking out for their own political futures.
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#BecauseMiami: A Miracle Has Happened
And any politician who has any notion of any other political office other than where they are, generally, when you support public financing of stadiums, you've pretty much hit your ceiling.
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#BecauseMiami: A Miracle Has Happened
These five commissioners are voting on the biggest real estate deal in the history of Miami. And if you thought the Marlins Park deal was sh**ty, wait until you get a load of this. The city wants to give billionaire Jorge Mas, David Beckham, and their inter-Miami soccer team a 99-year no-bid lease below market value on 131 acres of parkland at Melrose.
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#BecauseMiami: A Miracle Has Happened
That's Miami's single largest piece of public property. They want you to think this is about a soccer stadium, but it's just another real estate hustle to pave paradise and build a hotel, office park, and shopping mall. Miami is one of the poorest cities in the country. We need help. Instead, we get welfare for billionaires. This is a billion dollar heist happening in broad daylight. Don't.
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#BecauseMiami: A Miracle Has Happened
Bend over for Beckham. Take it from me, someone who actually negotiated with your politicians and almost single-handedly ended stadium public financing. Almost. I'm David Sampson, and I approved this message. So at the end of... I thought I'd be the final guy who f***ed you. It turns out I'm not.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
You know the Marlins bus? Have you ever seen the Marlins bus around town? It was John Henry's motor coach. He bought from scratch a $2 million motor coach that's like a tour bus that had couches and TVs and direct TV. And he would drive it back and forth from his house in Boca to pro player and then to spring training and back. This was his bus.
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And a condition of the sale is he wanted to keep the bus. He wanted to have the bus for him in Boston. And right before the deal was closing, it's my famous and favorite bus story, is I called John Henry and I said, by the way, we're taking the bus. And he lost his mind. He hung up on me.
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He started swearing because I just wanted to give, I was so annoyed with the way that Lucinda and David Ginsberg were acting that I said, you know what? I don't care. I'll walk away from this deal over this bus. John Henry at a black tie event, he was at a wedding. He walks out of the wedding, he calls me and he starts swearing at me, right?
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Saying, I'm telling you right now, this is my effing bus. I'm not even talking to you about this bus. The fact that you made me step out of this party about this bus, this is an outrage. I said, John, let me be very clear. Enjoy your wedding. There is no deal without the bus. Click. Next phone call I get is from Major League Baseball, Bob DuPay.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
You're going to blow up the biggest franchise swap historic. You're a part of history, David. And you're telling me over a $2 million bus, you are going to blow this transaction up. I said, Bob, I'm telling you now, no bus, no deal. David, are you being serious? Are you flexible in this in any way? I said, Bob, I will die on the bus.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Two days later, John Henry gave up the bus and he really didn't talk to me much after that. And we still have the bus.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
It's even better than that. We're selling to Jeter. Jeter is not paying attention to anything other than the fact that A-Rod is not getting the team. That's all Jeter cared about. Literally, that was it. So there's an asset in the deal. It's an asset deal, which means you're buying assets. He was buying the assets from us, from Jeffrey. And one of the assets was the bus.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
So how old is this bus now? It's by the way, this bus can go forever. This bus can go to a million miles. It's got 50,000 or a hundred thousand miles on it. And this bus, it is gold. I am sitting in PJ Loyola's office. With Jeff Conine.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
He's the head of communication. The guy who hates all of you guys because you do nothing but manipulate me.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
He can't even listen to these local hours, right? He has like PTSD from a sweat standpoint. So he's worried. So we're sitting in his office, me, Jeff Conine, and Loiello. I said, Conine, this team is being sold, but I have a crazy idea. Let's call Jeffrey and let's buy the bus. The two of us. So we call Jeffrey and say, hey, Jeffrey, we want to buy the bus from you.
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And Jeffrey said, well, I don't care. Does Jeter, does Jeter think he's getting the bus? I said, who cares? We're just going to take it out of the deal. Jeter won't care. He won't know the difference. Jeffrey Loria sold the bus to me and Conan for 10 grand, 10 grand. So we, Conan and I started a company. to buy the bus, it's called WGTFB LLC. We got the effing bus LLC.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
So let me just explain to you what happened from day one is that we were told by Bud Selig during negotiations, just so you know, if you think you're going to come into baseball at this level of investment, and all of a sudden move the team and have it not work in Montreal, you will not get permission. You will not get the votes. You have no chance to move this team. You are a new owner.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Do you really want to go to Montreal? It is an absolute disaster up there. But you really want this? And we agreed to go and try. With no promise, no guarantee, no ability to canvas the owners, which is what I would do going from Montreal to Florida, making sure that we had the votes to actually get a deal done.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
I had no access to the owners, no ability to actually try to figure out what position we were in. We had no choice. What we did say is the downside is limited. The upside is infinite. And that made it a business deal that was worth it, even with how horrible the PR was, even though how much we were not liked from the beginning.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
And it's nice that you wanted to hug and felt that we were so great from the beginning, but we were not painted that way by our own partners because we would go into meetings. We negotiated before we got the team that it wouldn't be just me trying to get a TV deal, that we would bring these limited partners, Steve Bronfman, the new limited partner, Jean Coutu, the man,
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Pierre Michaud was so widely respected, and Jacques Menard was the number one banker in Montreal, that they would come and they would negotiate. They would be helpful with the provincial leaders, with the people who had the money to put into a stadium. They knew these partners, Ariel. They knew that in order to get a stadium and save baseball in Montreal, there would have to be public money.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
They knew that we were all broadcasting, budgeting to have higher broadcast revenue. They approved all of the financials before the deal was ever done. So you're acting as though they were shocked when the numbers didn't hit that we had to do a cash call. But that is revisionist history.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
Listen, you can question any one of my business principles you want. You can be as angry as you want. It doesn't matter. The real question we're asking is, did we come in and lie about trying to save baseball in Montreal? And my answer is, there was one limited partner
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and one organizational executive for MLB who did not know exactly what we were going to do and then did do as it related to the TV deal, to getting the new stadium, to bringing in corporate sponsors. Everybody knew the plan.
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My apologies.
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The Hockey Show: I Don't Know Hockey, I Just Know Barky
David? Yeah. No, after the game he had, it's hard not to think otherwise. But, I mean, hopefully Jordan Bennington gets a little bit more respect for his big game ability. But, no, I mean, you know, putting me, putting it under my head, off the top of my head, the first guy that comes to mind after that game yesterday was certainly Jacob Slavin.
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Because even Connor McDavid, for the goal that he scored, he admitted like he wasn't quite as dynamic as he should be in his and many of our opinions. So, yeah.
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Eichel's play defensively throughout was really solid in this tournament. Maybe that's an eye-opening element, too. He was probably USA's best player all around.
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Yeah, I saw the Kachuk brothers after the game last night, kind of, you know, doing what players do, hanging out with family or whatever in the inside of the arena. And just watching Matthew trying to get up and down the stairs a little bit, clearly he's dealing with something. So hopefully it's nothing that lingers too much into the Panthers season.
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Well, I think it's probably a little bit more long-term considering Demko's got, you know, quite a few less miles than Sergey Bobrovsky does. Bob's done. His contract is done after next season. Well, both of them are, Bob and Knight. But, no, I think Vancouver, if Lankanen is...
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But I think at the end of the day, as good and as entertaining as this tournament was and... You know, the what happened to Matthew Kachuk and Charlie McAvoy. Is that just kind of you take it, you take the good with the bad for something this amazing because it's hockey, right? Like they're not going to do what football does in the Pro Bowl and make it like a mockery of the game.
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Like they're going to do it. They're going to do it right. Flag hockey. No, is that just like is this just gonna be an acceptable thing that I think like we want best on best, right?
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long-term, what he's appeared to be this season and in bits and pieces of the last couple of years on some lesser teams, then their goaltending situation, assuming Demko gets healthy and once he's healthy, he's good to go, their goaltending situation would be pretty solid moving forward for a while.
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The Hockey Show: I Don't Know Hockey, I Just Know Barky
Sarah, I wanted to get your take, and you kind of just alluded to it a little bit, but just as somebody that's been in that building so many times, I wasn't sure how that would compare. And so if that's comparing to Game 7 Bruins Leafs, that would be a big thing.
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But I was a little bit surprised, just based off of how pro-Canada the crowd was in Montreal last Saturday, that there were so many Canadians that I don't know if infiltrated is the right word. I mean, there's talk about guys that drove like 30 hours to get there. But were you... I was a little surprised that it wasn't more of a home ice advantage feel, were you?
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Scoring the winning goal that no, I don't think we any of us were surprised by that. What did surprise me maybe the most surprising thing of all yesterday was the treatment by the crowd of Brad Marchand. He got booed on his home ice loudly. And that was like, wow. So I don't know what as the Boston girl, what's your take on that?
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The Hockey Show: I Don't Know Hockey, I Just Know Barky
I wanted to ask about the big stage before the airport guy talked over me. But speaking of a big stage, just generally, how do they leave a guy that open? He had an entire dance floor of space to score that goal. Come on, America. You can't leave such an amazing tournament and leave that with a taste in our mouths. But that's it. I'm stepping back as the American after that.
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The Hockey Show: I Don't Know Hockey, I Just Know Barky
Sarah, you brought something up before talking about Carolina that kind of made me think of something that's really been interesting me as we head toward the trade line, and that's the goalie market. I feel like Carolina has got to be the front runner, if nothing else, to go after John Gibson or maybe another goaltender on the market. I feel like he's the number one guy out there.
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But do you get that sense that they need to bring in a goalie or are they going to kind of try to ride it out with Anderson and Kochenkov and see if that works this time?
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The Hockey Show: I Don't Know Hockey, I Just Know Barky
Wow. I agree.
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The Hockey Show: I Don't Know Hockey, I Just Know Barky
Nothing special.
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The Hockey Show: I Don't Know Hockey, I Just Know Barky
I'm just agreeing with your hot take. There you go. He's kind of been saying this all week. They're fighting over the hot take. Come on, guys. You don't have to fight. You can share the hot take.
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Hellebuck's helmet. Hellebuck had the best helmet, I think. Like that glittery gold shiny. I don't know.
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I think the Panthers went undefeated in this tournament, Roy. I don't think the Panthers have lost in like two weeks.
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No, I think for Finland, what stood out for me, Barkov does his thing, and what Ethan was just saying about Anton Lundell kind of showing off a little bit more on the international stage, what we see on a more regular basis from him. But I thought Nico Mikula, his usage was really high. They had him in a lot of different situations, a lot of tough assignments.
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So I thought particularly his effort, while he's not going to get a lot of credit for how he played, I thought the effort that he put out there and just what they did with him in terms of the situations, I thought he did really good.
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Similarly to Mikkola, where they just gobbled up minutes that he was used a lot. Just like with the Panthers, right? Gus Forsling wasn't getting much power play time. I don't think he got any power play time, actually. They definitely used them shorthanded. But both Finland and Sweden just really kind of struggled to get their footing.
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As Ethan alluded to earlier, this really did feel like... Actually, I'm sorry. I think it was Rose that said it earlier. This really just did feel like it was just an America-Canada and everything else was just secondary. Great analysis by Rose.
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Great analysis.
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Well, you guys kind of shared it. There was a primary assist and a goal on this one. Who had the secondary assist on that?
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Okay. 4-0 was really good.
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No, no, no. If we can wrap this up sometime soon, I'm actually thinking I'm going to wrap this up. We have a minute left. Oh, you want some alcohol. Okay, that's what it is. I wasn't going to go there, really. I do, too. Me in airports, it's alcoholic.
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See you next week. There's no clocks in here.
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It was a gradual build for Sam Bennett. Like, he scratched, he played, like, I think eight, seven or eight minutes in the first U.S.-Canada game. And then John Cooper started to realize, oh, yeah, Sam Bennett, impactful player. There's a reason I hate this guy. Yeah, so it was nice to see that Benny got a little bit more play.
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But kind of getting back to what you just said before we wrap it up, Ethan, your point about... Oh, wait, I'm sorry. Am I getting wrapped up?
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Fans like Rose that just tuned into the American game, people know who the Kachuk brothers are. Hockey fans, sports fans, everybody knows who the Kachuk brothers are and what that could mean for hockey moving forward. I'm very excited to see. Sorry, Rose. She's gone.
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On O Canada, it felt like the overhit. Like it was drawn out. I would... I honestly, like, I felt like, based off of what happened in Canada for the first game, like, I was expecting more. And to hear the way that fans have reacted to it, like, it was some great situation. I don't know. Maybe I just set the bar too high in my own head. But the anthems were, I mean, it was so politicized.
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A lot of this felt very politicized throughout it because of what's going on, nothing to do with hockey, with America and Canada. But... I don't know. Like we you know, you know, Alex Baumgart, who covers the Panthers, you know, down and down south with us. He's up here. He got almost attacked by a bartender at my hotel because he's like, yeah, I'm Canadian. And the guy just freaked out.
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He's like, oh, you can't boo the like seriously, like F-bombs. The guy had to like leave work. So this is like gone way beyond hockey. And it's just considering hockey very much as a stay in your own lane kind of thing. It's been a little weird.
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She took a moment.
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It was a little weird in the building, though, because everyone else obviously didn't know she was going to pause there. So the whole unison singing kept going. Yeah. And then like two seconds later, the song finished again. So you got to get on the same page when you do something like that.
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That's the beauty of it.
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at its best it was great like there were it was pizza and valleys like and i guess my bar going into it was what we experienced last year in the year before in like the stanley cup final and all that but like at the best moments of the game like it was loud there were usa chants there were johnny hockey chants it was great and i maybe i'm unreasonable in thinking that you
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that wanted them to keep that, you know, throughout and the buzz in the building throughout. But there was definitely periods of low and that maybe surprised me a little bit. But the crowd was loud. It was not as one sided as I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be much more pro USA, and it was maybe 60, 40, you know, 55, 55, 35. There was a lot of red in the building, a lot.
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And it really, like when Sam Bennett scored to tie the game, I was like, whoa, like it got really loud in there. And then obviously at the end, like it could have been a home kind of goal, the way that those Canadians made that kind of noise. It was pretty cool. And I mean, it was one of those situations, Roy and Ethan and Rose, I guess. Yeah.
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When you're watching a play... Just because you said that, I'm going to call on your math.
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I've been hitting the head with a lot of hockey pucks, okay? Leave me alone.
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Yeah, all the U.S. goals that they'd given up before this game had been off rushes or zone entries. Nothing in no end zone extended periods of time that led to goals for the U.S. So to see the Canada, the Canadians, I can't talk today.
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I do. Just coming across the news wires as we are doing the hockey show, Kevin Lankanen, perhaps some may call him the goaltending savior in Vancouver this year, has signed a five-year extension worth a pretty reasonable $4.5 million per year.
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No. See the Canadians able to capitalize in ways that other teams had not throughout four nations had me as somebody that was watching from the American perspective a little concerned for the U.S. just because there were areas that they had done so well for so long. And it seemed like early on Canada was finding ways to exploit that.
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Granted, this is his first, you know, you want to call it breakout year or whatever, but a pretty steady move by Vancouver to get him long-term for that price. I mean, Thatcher Demko, Been a little hurt this year. He came back, then he went back out again. So obviously they want to shore up a little bit of insurance there. I know they got Shelobbs, who was amazing during the playoffs last year.
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Yeah. I mean, see, there was, what I was just saying before is like, there was like a moment where everything kind of slowed down. And when the putt came out of the corner from Mitch Martin, and by the way, credit to Mitch Martin, who you did not mention, but he had the primary assist on both of those, the Bennett goal and the McDavid goal.
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So he went from a quiet tournament to having a really big impact on that last game. But it was just like, it happened in slow motion. Like all of a sudden there was McDavid and,
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spotlight on him nobody around alone in the slot and like i felt like we all had time to reach down and grab our phone and open the photo app and put it up there and start recording like it just it all felt like it was like in slow motion and there was zero chance that that goal that puck wasn't going in the net so it was even from an american watching it was still pretty cool to see it play out and to see the best player in our game right now pull it off
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Well, Slavin was ridiculously good in that game. Zach Renstein also had a really good tournament for Team USA. But, I mean, look, Quinn Hughes was missing throughout. They couldn't get him out there. You know, Jake Sanderson was fine. But the depth there, I think, maybe played a part. Also, we haven't mentioned once so far, Jordan Binnington was unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
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Oh, my goodness. Hellebuck was great early and throughout, but Jordan Binnington stole that game and allowed them to get it to where McDavid scored. Credit to Binnington. That was great.
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But I don't know, Roy. I'm pretty pleased with this move for Vancouver. I think it's smart on their end.
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If there's one team in the West that terrifies me, if the Panthers were to match up with them in a possible Stanley Cup final, it would be the Colorado Avalanche. They are a matchup problem for the Panthers, and the way they're playing hockey right now is terrifying. And this leads me to my question, Adnan, which is I was watching the game last night, and
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You know, obviously, Colorado got off to that great start. Then, you know, Edmonton comes back. But I'm watching that game and I'm looking at Nathan McKinnon and I'm looking at Connor McDavid and I'm asking myself, are we sure that Nathan McKinnon is not the best player in the world?
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So I'm going to ask you, Adnan, because he's got the Stanley Cup and he's might have two consecutive heart trophies after this season is all said and done. Are we sure Nathan McKinnon is not the best player in the world?
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Jeremy just walked in, wanted me to say hi to you, and also that you were wrong about Complete Unknown.
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The Sandman scared me so much in Spider-Man 3. I left that theater terrified.
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Their last 21 games, they're 17-10-4, I believe, which has them on pace for like an 110-point pace or something ridiculous like that. So since they picked up Dante Favreau off waivers for Nashville, they're playing like an 110-point team. So the switch got flipped with Favreau.
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I can see Rose's heart breaking through the glass here. Oh, my God.
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That Detroit game was rough, huh?
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Sam Bennett needs to start scoring, huh?
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No. Mazurkins. I can do it. Adam Fantilli. Yeah, Fantilli. Cole Sillinger. And Sean Monaghan. Very good. Yeah, you just made up a name.
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It's also been a week of, like David said, outplaying teams and losing. They probably outplayed Detroit last night. And lost. They outplayed the Bruins and lost. The Philly game, they got outshot. That was a great performance.
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And even they much outplayed the Devils and had to go to the shootout to beat the Devils. So, I mean, the Panthers, the puck just won't go in. It's so frustrating. Like watching all these games, like we're going to talk about all these games here real quick. Like every single one of them, it feels like the Panthers have all the chances and the puck just refuses to go in the net.
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You had Carmen go to the game? Yeah. You sent a correspondent?
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Yeah, but this goal by Reinhardt here that we're playing the video of against the Flyers just shows everything that's amazing about Sam Reinhardt. Makes a play in his defensive end, works around a defender, and no slouch in Travis Konechny, and then finishes Rousset past the goalie. Like, he's been the star for the Panthers the last week or so, and they need him to get going. He had been quiet.
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Now they need their other guys, Barkey, Chucky, Bennett, hasn't scored in 19 games. They got to get him rolling again. Verhege's got to get one to go, like,
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Sorry to interrupt, David. I thought Knight earned that start after the way he played in New Jersey. I had the thought, too. I think Maurice kind of realized I should have gone back to the hot hand in this game because they had a day off, like... I thought Knight, you know, that poll was kind of him acknowledging, like, Knight should have started this game. And he was good after he came in.
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Bob also might need a wake-up call. Think about 2023. Alex Lyon, that whole thing was kind of a wake-up call, and then Bob carried him to the Stanley Cup Finals.
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I don't think this is much of a hot take, Roy.
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I mean, Jesus Christ. This was a good shot from Kachuk, I thought.
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Kachuk is refereed, officiated differently than any other player in the league. He got that call off of reputation because the scrum breaks out and they're like, well, we got to throw Kachuk in the box. We're starting this. It's crazy.
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As long as it goes against Matthew Kachuk is the other thing.
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Rose, who would be the best karaoke singer in the NHL?
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Alexander Barkoff.
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I'm just saying. I wouldn't put it past some hockey players. Maybe not Ovi, but I wouldn't put it past some hockey players. Roy, what's your favorite of the week? Superstitious.
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We were spoiled. I've got to fail the week, guys. Did you see this Marit Cider fall? Yes, sir. This is... One of my favorite things in sports is when you're reminded how hard sports are and just how athletic these guys are that even the most athletic guys can be made to look like idiots sometimes. So we have the video here of Marit Sider of the Detroit Red Wings.
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He's skating back and he just eats shit in the most cartoonish way possible. Like this is just the most drawn out fall I think I've ever seen on a hockey surface.
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It's one of the greatest falls I've ever seen. It just sounds like it should have some Hanna-Barbera sound effect underneath it. It's so good.
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No, I mean, he just fell. It would be embellishment if he were trying to sell a penalty, but he fell. Maybe that's what he was trying to do.
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So you lead me perfectly into what my question was originally. So amazing segue without even realizing it. But I'm putting my Panthers hat on for a second. Who in the East is going to compete with Florida come playoff time?
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Because for the reasons you mentioned, and so many others that were already on the team before the trade deadline, when they were already considered one of the cup contenders out of the East, who's going to compete with them, Emily? Because it looks like it's kind of set up for another Florida fight. Cup final run, whoa.
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See, that was an F word coming before cup. That wasn't supposed to be a swear word, but it's okay because it's our show. But if I'll rephrase my question. Try. Who in the Eastern Conference playoffs will compete with the Florida Panthers?
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No respect for the Metro. I love it. I love it.
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I think Vancouver making the playoffs would feel a little bit unorthodox considering the season they've had. It would be a moral victory for them. I'd rather see Utah. Honestly, I'd rather see Calgary.
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Oh, that's your opinion.
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No, it was kind of their second in a row because they had just beaten Columbus in a similar fashion. Another shutout win. At that point, they had given up, what, one goal in four games, I think, after that Buffalo win. And it was just nice to see them rounding back into form after the Four Nations break and considering the guys that were out of the lineup.
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Florida's, they're chugging along right now. Yeah.
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Absolutely on fire. The fans are still saying night, though. Three shots on goal in the third period of that game.
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Very unorthodox.
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This is a Panthers team that generally gets like 70, 80 shot attempts per game, if not more. Like they're...
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offensive zone puck on their stick possession team so to see boston kind of flip the script on them and do to florida what florida generally does to other teams in the third period take them to shut down city the panthers usually take teams there they're not brought there so that was a little jarring and as ethan brought up earlier glaring the uh aaron ekblad injury in that game
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Remember our reaction when, because as this is all happening, I'm firing off text messages and I'm trying to find out whatever I can. And I actually got a text from a very good source that said second round pick. And I showed it to Roy. And we looked at each other like, no way.
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They're not losing that game in the playoffs.
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I'm still surprised after going there for the Four Nations and staring at all the banners they had. I'm still kind of shocked that Boston has only won six Stanley Cups ever. Like, it's Boston.
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Was it 1970 to 2011? Just about, yeah. Something like that. I'm not sad about it. Only six Stanley Cups. Boo-hoo. Don't cry on your Super Bowl trophies, Boston fans.
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72 to 2011. They had... Thank you. The Celtics, on the other hand, had a shit ton of banners. Yeah. A lot of numbers. All right.
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Battle for first.
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Well, it was not a great goal by Bob. Even Paul Maurice addressed it after the game. He was like, when Bob gives up one he doesn't like, he usually doesn't give up another one. And he didn't. But, I mean, if that's the worst that they're going to do, they get caught in a line change and they give up a bad goal, the goalie wants to get back, I can deal with that.
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As opposed to making a mental mistake or a guy falling or something like that. And they still didn't win.
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Before we move on, just a quick question. Just going through the timeline of your story. Why does it take you 90 minutes to get a haircut? You have less hair than I do.
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You're moving past the point here. Like why do you have to go to Aventura, which is like a nightmare.
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It's going to be so weird. When he suits up for his first Panther game and he's at that Panther jersey. I mean, any jersey other than Boston is going to be strange. But a Panther jersey, considering the history they've had the last few years, and the fact that he picked for it. He's like, y'all been kicking my ass. You knocked me out two straight years. That's respect, right?
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His first three games, 22 minutes, 18 minutes, 21 minutes. His last two games, 28 and 27, 57. Wow.
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My win is Simon Benoit of the Toronto Maple Leafs tried a Superman punch in a hockey game. Oh, wow. And he paid for it. Oh, my. Dude, but how cool is that? Like, that's something that you see out of, like, an MMA movie trailer. Like, that's what, like, Iron Man does to Thanos. Like, you don't see that in a hockey game. And, I mean, credit to Michael Kisseling from Utah. Like, he was pumped.
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He probably saw that coming. He's like, oh, my God, this is happening. I'm getting hit with a Superman punch.
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Always have a counter for that. Always have a count for that. That was amazing. I love that. More Superman punches. More Superman punches so you can look like that. Guys flying across the ice like, let's go. We're going to fight. Let's fight it up.
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Don't be surprised.
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What I love about it is he had zero time to push. He turned his head and just dove and plucked it right out of him.
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Logan Thompson, he kind of had a chance to turn his body and get a little bit of steam built up before he made that dive. Olmark was down on his knees. He basically had to fall. He had to use whatever core strength he had. That was such an impressive save. As if I needed a reason to love Linus Olmark anymore. That guy's awesome. Fails of the week, David. Fail of the week.
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Carolina Hurricanes, you failed. And I'm sure we're going to get into this more. But holy, how do you make a trade for Mikko Rantanen? And no disrespect to Logan Stankhoven, but this is a team that's win now. Getting first round picks is not helping you win now. Unless you're going to turn them around and flip them, which they can't do at least until next season.
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So just a total fail by the Rico Rantanen trade. Apparently, Rantanen had a list of only four teams that he wanted to sign long-term with. How do you not realize this is Carolina? And I think Rod Brindamore, their coach, kind of vented about it on a radio show after the trade deadline. We have the audio. Ethan, can you hook me up, please?
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She deserves that. Well, she's supposed to be Steen, but she's on the chat. She's watching the show. Because she loves us.
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Well, but that's them realizing, like, look, we're not probably going to win the Cup this year. We didn't make the improvements other teams made. So they kind of had to pivot and focus a little bit more on the future. But that's tough. When they made that Branson and trade, that was a win-now trade, obviously. Yeah. And blew up in their faces. So, you know, a cautionary tale, Roy.
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What are we doing here?
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Sharky's too cute. Sharky's such a nice shark. Sharky's too cute. Yes, yes. You can't. I understand the fans are a little disgruntled, but to take it out on your own mascot?
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You remember a few years back, didn't a fan fight Victor Erat? Yes. It was not staged. I remember reaching out to Sunrise Police. Assault charges, yeah. That was legitimate. So mascots, we've got to protect our mascots. Protect the mascots. Ethan, you'll fail.
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It's almost like goaltending is hard or something.
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If that's the bar, that's not anything I don't think anybody that's dealing with NHL wants to hear right now. But that kind of leads me into the next thing I wanted to bring up, and that's just the intensity and the physicality that we've seen in the first two games. I wasn't sure what to expect in that regard, because it's best on best, but it's not...
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The fact that they're so intent on hitting, that they're taking it so seriously, that it has a playoff feel, a little bit surprised but quite pleased with what I've been seeing. Have you been surprised by how into it the players have been to this point?
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Yeah, even at 32, I don't think he's got a lot of wear on those tires. I think especially the last few years, whether it's been injury or whatever, I think he's pretty fresh and he's ready to win. Roy, your hot take?
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You wear a suit. You wear suits and ties at this level, young man.
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So I want to talk to you now about another head coach in this tournament, and that's John Cooper behind the bench for Team Canada. I was a little taken aback when the game ended the other night and I started looking through the stats. I started looking through the sheets and I saw the ice time for Team Canada and it really threw me a little bit just because you would think.
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When you're building a team for something like this, you have your choice of guys. You know how you want to build your lines. And you would think, at least I would, that they would build a team that they could roll their four lines. And that is not what John Cooper did at all. I think Brad Marchand played 11 minutes. Keneckley played 10 minutes.
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I mean, obviously, Shea Theodore going out through off the back line. But forward-wise, I was just confused because you would think that you'd want to keep guys fresh. It seemed like Canada maybe fell off a little bit after a really hot start. So I'm curious... Do you think that's something they're going to continue as the tournament goes on? Or maybe they'll even things out a little bit more?
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The thing about Team Canada, Anthony, that scares the bejesus out of me, and I mean this is no surprise, I guess, based off what we saw, but that power play, that top power play particularly, that's like an all-star team and then some. Is there going to be any strategy more important when facing Team Canada other than stay out of the bleeping penalty box?
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You're asking a Canadian how Sidney Crosby played in Canada, dude. Oh, damn it.
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So looking ahead to Saturday, we've talked about how insane it's been up there for the past couple of games. And there's been a lot of talk about just the atmosphere overall, not just in the Bell Centre, but just around the city of Montreal that it's been buzzing with this tournament. So now we get USA Canada, which I feel like everybody's like jacked up for at this point.
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The Americans look great. The Canadians are stacked. What do you think as somebody works in that building, knows that city, what's it going to be like on Saturday?
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And even Rose is getting sick of Sidney Crosby. Look at this, Roy.
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Yeah, but you had to like the assist in overtime, Roy. The game-winning primary assist, right?
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And Matthew Kachuk got it started with the power play goal early in that second period. And really, the game kind of flipped on a switch because Ottawa was up 1-0 after the first, despite the Panthers out shooting them. I think it was like 16-8, 16-9, something like that. Linus Olmark was really good, as he has been most of the season for Ottawa.
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But yeah, the Panthers, when they get rolling, dude... they're like a freight train. And that second period, it felt like the Panthers were really in their comfort zone.
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Some kind of way, Ethan, is the random dudes walking around behind you while you're talking.
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Yeah, College Mike with his very first appearance on the hockey show.
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He's playing arguably, Roy, one of the best players in the world right now, even at his advanced age. Not saying that. No, I'm just putting it in as a caveat. But still, he played that quite well. It's not his job to get the trailer. It's his teammates' job to get the trailer. Correct.
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The way that he ran his lines and the way that he juggled his ice time has just been kind of questionable for me. It's a one-game sample size, so I'm not beating too much into it yet. I want to see what happens against the United States on Saturday. But with a team as stacked as Canada, do you think that they'd want to build it up in a way that they could roll four lines?
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And they did not do that at all.
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Three on three for 10 minutes. Dude, I've been saying for a long, long time now, if you just expand overtime to 10 minutes, you're going to cut out on like 90% of shootouts, which is kind of what we all want at this point. So hopefully they're going to take a long look at this and consider bringing it to the NHL because I don't really see the downside to this.
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Canada wins in overtime, they'll both be tied with four points, which would be pretty cool heading into the deciding game. There's really no-lose situation for us, the fans.
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If Sweden wins, Finland's done. Yeah. Finland is must, must win on Saturday. And that's as big of a rivalry game as you get.
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What about your college buddy? How excited is background guy?
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You mean like a team losing a deciding Stanley Cup final game 8-1 in the other team's building, like that kind of feeling?
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It does get a little overplayed, I guess. I'm a fan of B on B. I don't even want to say it right now. B on B. Well, I don't know. I feel like you've just pointed out that it's played out, so I don't want to say it. But I am a fan of what it is. But yeah, we've been hearing it a lot. So yeah, I'm with you on that. Yeah, I'm tired of it. Wait, does Rose, do you have a hot take?
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What's your hot take? My hot take is... I don't know how hot it is, Adnan, but I think it's kind of common sense as we talk about at this point. But I think that John Gibson, goaltender for the Anaheim Ducks, soon to be goaltender for somebody else. He is going to have a ginormous impact on the Stanley Cup playoffs this year is my hot take. I don't know where he ends up.
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Don't they offer, like, the different, like, levels of jersey? Like, when I was growing up, you had, like, you know, your base crappy jersey with the iron on, then you got, like, you're halfway there with kind of iron, or patched on a little bit.
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No, no replicas. Four nations, one jersey.
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Yeah, my kids don't need to eat this week. Let me get you a hockey jersey. I mean, Jesus.
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My winner of the week, it's a goalie fight. It's in the KHL. But I've never seen one like this. These guys were in the handshake line. Torpedo had just beaten up Akbar's. And the goalies, they're chatting in the handshake line, whatever. Yeah, what are you going to do with this after the game? Yeah, well, you only gave up five goals. Oh, yeah, I only gave up one goal.
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And then all of a sudden it turns into they're pulling each other's jerseys. Same numbers. What's going on? The backup goalies actually had to get in there and break it up. And bust his ass. Oh, yeah. One guy took a blocker to the forehead. That guy eats it right now. Goalie fights generally are not pretty. It's hard to keep your balance with all that gear.
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It's hard to get a good punch thrown because you've got this big, bulky stuff. So goalie fights generally are fun, but they're not pretty. But at the post-game handshake line, this is universally what people love about hockey. Everybody's like, oh, I love the handshake line. What the bleep? So I like this fight.
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But if it's going to happen somewhere, like the KHL...
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Well, that's great awareness by him to realize mid-chirp that he's dealing with Shifley. So then he starts throwing the flip and this flip and that. And then for me, the best part of that was Lombie coming into the end. Did I just hear that correct? That's just... Perfect. I loved every minute of that.
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He's talked about wanting to go to Carolina and Edmonton, which obviously two of the top contenders would make sense. John Gibson and Edmonton scares the bejesus out of me because he's so consistent offensively. I don't know if it would work there because I don't know if Stu Skinner is ready to give up his crease or if they do that.
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Oh, my God. I have two. We'll start in... I think it was in Vancouver. It was a game between Vancouver and Toronto. William Nylander, one of the best... Okay, we're going to go with the other one. We'll go to that. The Bakersfield Condors of the AHL. Great name. Great logo, actually. But they decided to have an actual condor come onto the ice for the national anthem.
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The keeper, the bird keeper or whatever, who was bringing the bird on the ice, ate it, busted his ass, fell... So the bird, wings full, just flapping around the ice, no idea where to go. The bird keeper is just trying to recover. The bird goes on the bench. Players are scattering everywhere. It went exactly the way that you think it would.
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There's definitely bird shit somewhere in the Condors Arena. I'm going to get a Zamboni for that. But if that's not a fail, I don't know what is. You don't bring live mascots to hockey games. It does not work. And it was a carpet. A carpet. Well, they didn't have a carpet for the guy carrying the six-foot wingspan bird on the ice. There's just so many fails. But, yeah, we're laughing.
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Again, cool mascot, cool jersey. Give it up for the Condors.
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My second fail of the week, as I mentioned before, William Nylander of the Toronto Maple Leafs. One of the best goal scorers. One of the most exciting players. He gets a breakaway. Comes in all alone on Kevin Lincoln and forgets to shoot the puck. Oh. To the point where he actually backhands it in the opposite direction.
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But John Gibson is going to have a major impact on the playoffs within the next month or so. That is my hot take. Adnan, do you agree?
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There's nobody behind him.
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It was, oh man, that was rough. And didn't we just see somebody last week try a back pass on a breakaway, and it was like an awful fail? But this one, there's nobody within five feet of him. Yeah, you're right. He whiffed on it, and he tries to recover. Oh, my God. So, you know, maybe that's just how good Kevin Lankanen has been this year, that he's got like a force field around his stick.
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And maybe he should have been playing last night against the Americans. But that was, if that's not a fail, I don't know what is. He had a breakaway. He at least had a shot on goal, guys. All right.
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That was worse than the Nylander thing, to be honest. Yes! I mean, that's a great net front. Matthew Kachuk would be proud. Holy moly, he forgot what side of the ice he was playing on.
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You don't even care enough to give a full belly laugh.
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So, Roy and Adnan, you guys don't have the context of this.
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It's just running. Montoya just takes off. It's the temptation island.
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Yeah, Rose is obsessed with the cinematography of that scene.
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So, he's chasing after his girlfriend who he just saw on TV cheating on him with another dude. It's like a temptation island thing in Spain. And... What are they, Rose? They cheated on each other like three times during this?
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No. I mean, isn't that the definition of FOFA? Going on to a show like that? Bleep around and find out? No, it's FAFO. You know what? That's why I'm not an acronym guy. DEI. You find out and then you bleep around. Okay. You check the terrain. All right. There you go.
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I think it could be a yes to Anora. You got my vote. I just heard about the 30-second opening, but I'm in.
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Correct. No, it didn't, but Showgirls did, and Showgirls was a classy movie.
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The Big Suey: Caitlin Clark Is Time's Athlete Of The Year (Feat. Jemele Hill)
I appreciate that. It makes for a very good workplace that you're that concerned about how I'm sitting when we're talking about an important subject. It's distracting. It's distracting how I'm sitting?
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This is our first time, and it's been an entirely negative experience based on the way you were as a player and a teammate and the way you are now as my teammate and our teammate. You walked in dripping.
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Not now. I'm sacrificing for the squad. When you're playing football. I'm just suggesting you could have taken some medicine. You could have come in. I thought that maybe your voice default was this phlegmy, but then the drip gave it away. And before the show started, Dan, he said, excuse me, Dave, which means he just knows me from you calling me that. Is there a cough button over on this seat?
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It's like a question, though, right? It's like a question. Exactly. It's possibly black. Yes. I'm sorry. Can you help me, please? I thought Santa was not real, but Jesus was. Did I miss that?
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Am I going down a rabbit hole of religion and color here?
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And I said, yes, there is, my good friend. And you helped me find the cough button, which is important in entertainment. Had I known that it was not just Stugatz phlegm, I would have.
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And I'm like, yeah, I don't have that, bro. I was telling you that what I'm suffering from is not contagious. So I'm going to be just fine.
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Not this second. I've been sick. I've been plain hurt. It's what you do. You have a tummy ache? I've had a tummy ache since two days ago. The candy. It was the candy. No, it was not the candy. It was a bad taco, I believe, but not relevant. It may have been food from the kitchen here. Not relevant. What's relevant is I'm here and I'm not contagious.
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Flynn.
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Yes. The commanders are fading fast. Jake Hainer and them boys.
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I was like, I don't know him either. That seemed wrong.
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I happen to know the Saints are going to win. That's a terrible pick by you.
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That's the thing that could happen. My family had an accident. There's no time for the explanation. I gotta leave. I'm leaving the game. We had players who had a death in the family. A parent died during the game and We didn't tell the player until after the game.
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Like, that's all about the business. It's happening more often, though. It just happened with the Ravens a couple weeks ago, and he's not going to get to play. Johnson's not going to get to play. He was suspended for one game.
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He had just been traded. Trade deadline acquisition. He was like, ah, I don't feel like playing. I can't even imagine that level of player cockiness.
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Pat Riley in his prime going out of the front office. I wouldn't want him to coach football. We're all talking football?
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Although maybe he'd be good at it. You said any coach, Dan.
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I don't know what you're upset about. He said at the press conference, I'm not leaving. He was asked straight up, are you using this as a stepping stone to get back to the NFL? Nope, I'm not leaving.
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guess because it's in his contract. So you can guess if you so desire.
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It's defined in his contract.
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The Hockey Show: It's Deadline Day!
No, he doesn't really have the hockey skills. He doesn't have the hitting skills. He's not a hockey player.
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Yeah, it was fun last year when he first came up and it was like, who is this mammoth guy fighting Ryan Reeves? And that was, you know, I enjoyed it. But I think now it's the novelty is worn off. And if it's just going to be him hurting guys, like it's dangerous.
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Rosie digging into the box score here today. I'm impressed.
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Look at Rose. 60-40. And she said his name right, too. Samuel Erson.
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Nick, I wanted to talk to you about the team as we look at your background, the team that you cover, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the team in your backyard. I know we're not going to get too much into the deadline things to happen because timing of recording this and everything. Toronto, I feel like just based off what's happened already, like Florida's been very busy.
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A lot of teams in both the Atlantic and the Metro have been busy leading up to the deadline. Toronto, not so much lately as they, I don't know, are they leading the Atlantic today? Are they one point back? I'm not sure.
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Thank you. Thank you, Ethan. Amazing contribution to the segment. So being that Toronto's right there, they've been in first or second all year. Are they going after a center? What moves do they need to make for you to feel comfortable for them heading into the playoffs?
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Hockey's too serious for that, man. Can you imagine that on a hockey bench during a game as there's like line changes going on?
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Do you what will need to happen for you to feel confident with Toronto heading into the playoffs? Because obviously, I mean, I feel like every year it's shit or get off the pot for Toronto. But as competitive as you just mentioned, as competitive just as the Atlantic Division is, let alone the entire conference, like what needs to happen for you to be confident? Like, OK, this could be our year.
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Wait, is it like five games now or six games? It's crazy. Yeah, five. That was insane. That save by Vladar.
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He's trying to get away. He's trying to get out. And then the goalie takes his place, falls backwards. Somehow, right, where is it? There, catches the puck. Behind the goal line.
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Behind the goal line. And this is something, side issue for me. I think every single goalie should have black laces in their glove instead of white laces. Because that way, in a situation like this. No, it's not cheating. Bullshit, that's not cheating. Bullshit, that's not cheating. That's part of your equipment.
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You can't do what Patrick Wye used to do and have giant jerseys and freeze the underarm. You can't do that anymore. But you can put black laces in your glove to hide the puck in those situations, so that's not a question.
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Starting to see the Panthers go to that place that they like to go around playoff time. They're taking all their opponents there, Roy. You know what I'm talking about. Shutdown City.
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A lot of hitting, a lot of physicality, but everybody was kind of behaving themselves. I think Paul Maurice kind of summed it up well afterwards that that was like a playoff game. It was. Where, like, the last time they faced each other, there was a lot more of the extracurricular stuff. This time, both teams are fighting for their position.
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Tampa Bay's trying to get into the top two with Toronto and Florida and the Atlantic Division. And that was also... A new guy's first game with the Panthers, and he fit in pretty well, too.
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Allow Jones the chance to step up on the PK. He had over four minutes of penalty kill time that night. Four to one. Seven for seven on the penalty kill against Tampa. And Tampa has the best power play in the league on the road. Fourth best overall. At least that's what it was when they played the game. So, I mean...
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Turn on your mic when you talk. I told you. I told you I was going to go in.
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Well, look, we're through two of the three games.
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They've kind of been pretty good in those situations. Because nobody scares us, Roy. Nobody scares us. Nobody scares us. Who scares you?
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Two snipes. Shoot the puck. Yeah, he hit a post that game, too? Yeah. I'm not going to believe that. I like aggressive Barky. Thank you for not believing that.
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Yeah. Did they play last night?
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Did something happen last night?
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I don't know what they saw that let them think like that. Because usually for these things, they're pretty cut and dry. But that one, from every replay I saw, was way too hazy to see if the puck hit the netting. And that's tough to pick out anyway because, hey, black netting, black puck. Wake up, goaltenders.
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What I really loved about that game, and as I was watching it, I'm kind of thinking of it from a Columbus perspective, frustrating. Like, they couldn't do anything. They had zero space with the puck. Every single Panthers player was moving their feet. They were on top of the balls of their feet. Columbus is usually... They shut them down early.
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I might have done okay in that game.
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They gave up how many goals in those three games we just talked about?
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Two shutouts and the single goal to Tampa. So they're rounding into form at the right time of the season, Roy.
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Buffalo starts the season on a five-game losing streak. Like opening night, they've already lost five in a row. Buffalo. I feel bad for them, man. They don't have any bad karma. They haven't signed any people that you hate. Yeah, that's true. Come on, Buffalo. That's true.
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Are we talking like Chris Wells? Okay, maybe not.
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He's an athlete. He's six feet tall.
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We're going to get on the ice. I'm going to put on the goalie gear. You're going to wear all your player gear. We're going to have a little fun.
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Wins of the week. David. My win of the week, we're going back to the outdoor game in Columbus over the weekend. That was actually a really fun game. The Blue Jackets beat the Red Wings, and I don't think they've won since. But during the game, Red Wings coach Todd McClellan, who is just a general fun, cool guy it seems, he had a little chirping for Showtime, Patrick Kane on the bench.
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I think we have the video if we can play that.
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No, but Patrick Kane, one of the best players in the league. He's been around forever, Hall of Fame bound. Not above getting chirped by his coach.
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No, he doesn't chirp. He just shits on you.
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Did you see the interview with him on the bench? No, I did not. Oh, man. I don't know if I've ever seen him like that consistent, like that long of a giant smile. His face was lit up. He looked so happy. Like that made me really, really happy to see him so happy after the way everything played out, you know?
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No, it was better than last week.
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Now he can be the next one for your Blackhawks.
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Which would, you know, if he's not going to do it with the Panthers. Might as well do it for the Blackhawks. Go do it in the Western Conference.
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All right. My hot take this week, no video. This is just me letting out some gas. What? Not in this room. It's trade deadline day, right? Yeah. We're all excited about trade deadline day. Why are there hockey games on trade deadline day? Why is there anything other than trade deadline on trade deadline day? It should be just trade deadline. There should be some kind of
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Coming in with hands like that and then dropping the shoulder mid-deke is not easy. And that's why you saw Connor Helleblik's hips kind of fall out of his goalie pants for a second there. That was pretty smooth.
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What are we watching on our sleepover?
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What would we watch? Miracle. We're watching Miracle. What did you say? Miss Congeniality? Oh, but Miss Congeniality 2 is her favorite. Well, I do like that William Shatner is in the Miss Congeniality movie. He's pretty funny.
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It's funny. One of the rare instances where the sequel holds up to the original.
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All right, my fail of the week comes from another Panther game this week. Jake Gensel, you poor, poor guy. First, he gets high-sticked, an uppercut high-stick in the goal, right in the top of the goal crease. Double minor on that one. But now, look, Braden Point comes in. Gensel's on the ice in pain. Doink! Hits him right in the head with a shot.
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In the span of, what, five seconds, not even the guy takes a stick to the mouth, gets a puck to the head. Thank goodness it was a backhand shot.
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Oh, man, would have cracked his head like Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs. But that, I just felt bad for Jake Gensel. And then they didn't even score on the power play.
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moratorium on trades for like a couple of days leading up to it so that there's a big backlog and we have a big thing today and the trade deadline itself should not be at three o'clock in the middle of the afternoon it should be in prime time so we can sit here all day watching things happen and then get together for the big finale at the end of the day we're already super hyped about trade deadline day i think they need to soup it up like the super bowl and make it a whole thing that that's nhl
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Pizzagate: We Investigate the (Real) Government Plot to Stuff You with Cheese
Yeah, so this month's long journey that I've been on for you, it started with a 48-second TikTok video that went viral, and you're going to love the username here, Pablo, CupcakeTheDestroyer21. And here's what she had to say.
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Right. Subtropolis, the NFL connection, is actually owned by the family holdings of Lamar Hunt.
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The same Chiefs who are in the Super Bowl this week.
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I mean, I had my harness set up and I was ready to go spelunking into these cheese caves on your behalf. But this is where Cupcake the Destroyer 21's conspiracy starts to unravel. We emailed the chiefs. We went back and forth with an official at Hunt Midwest, which owns Subtropolis. They graciously offered to show us around the caves, but there was a catch. There's no government cheese there.
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Yeah, and in fact, it goes further than that because there's no government cheese anywhere anymore, Pablo. And even in those other caves that I mentioned, Springfield and Craft, they were very clear about that. They do have cheese, but it's not government cheese.
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Springfield Underground even has a very helpful part of their website that says, like, we do not have government cheese in this facility anymore. And then there's Kraft. So I reached out to them. They didn't respond to me. But I do have a document from 1970 from the USDA that says that Kraft was one of the holders of government cheese.
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Pizzagate: We Investigate the (Real) Government Plot to Stuff You with Cheese
Yeah, so during the Reagan administration in the 1980s, they started giving away the cheese that was in the cheese caves. And at the same time, they stopped buying so much cheese from dairy farmers. So they're reducing the amount that they're taking in. They're starting to give it away.
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It was such a problem for Ronald Reagan to have this much cheese in these caves that he actually decided to give it to poor people. Like, that's how distasteful he found it. That even Ronald Reagan was like, let's help poor people out here for a second.
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He's probably rolling over in his grave just thinking about that one part of his legacy.
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Well, Pablo, I didn't say all that. What if I told you that I discovered that the government is, in fact, in the stuffed crust pizza business?
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And, in fact, that stuffed crust pizza is only the tip of the udder. All right.
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Look out, folks. Pablo Torre is reporting right now.
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So what is happening here? So to answer that part of the question completely, we're going to return to our friend Michael Moss, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter.
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Yeah, the easiest way to think about this is essentially it's just a tax. For every hundred pounds of milk that dairy farmers sell, and the equivalent of that is like $20, DMI, Dairy Management Inc., gets a few cents on those purchases. Right, and so in the timeline here, we left Ronald Reagan in the 80s.
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And it goes even further than these advertising campaigns because DMI actually embeds food scientists in America's biggest fast food and restaurant chains and pizza chains. And the goal, the explicit goal here is put more cheese and dairy products on the menus.
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We're talking about McDonald's. We're talking about one of the biggest successes was in Taco Bell. 2016, they come out with this new menu item called the Quesalupa.
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Pizzagate: We Investigate the (Real) Government Plot to Stuff You with Cheese
And DMI has a food scientist who actually works in Taco Bell headquarters in California.
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Pizzagate: We Investigate the (Real) Government Plot to Stuff You with Cheese
Embedded inside the very building. And he actually helped come up with the concept for this. He helped create the quesalupa, and DMI helped to market it.
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Pizzagate: We Investigate the (Real) Government Plot to Stuff You with Cheese
And they're all over the place. DMI helped develop Domino's recent cheesy tots and cheesy breads. They even claim credit for helping McDonald's ice cream machines stop breaking down so frequently. I mean, really? It's a big problem.
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I mean, if they had, wouldn't you claim credit for that? Like, that would be the government's most successful and popular operation since landing on the moon, I think.
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Yeah, so that is another place where the conspiracy is a little loosely held, right? It's complicated. It operates as a nonprofit, and it's overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, famously part of the government, and a board of farmers. But most of its money comes from those taxes that we were talking about earlier. Right.
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Pizzagate: We Investigate the (Real) Government Plot to Stuff You with Cheese
Yeah, and you know, some fine minds actually came together to answer the question of whether this was the government. The U.S. Supreme Court took on this question in 2005.
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A group of farmers sued another one of these promotional agencies that worked in the beef industry, and they were essentially saying that they were being forced to participate in these advertising campaigns in violation of their First Amendment rights.
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Shame if you had all this cheese spoil in cheese caves, right? So the Supreme Court answers this question, and they say it's not a First Amendment violation because DMI's speech was protected as government speech.
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which seems to answer the question of whether or not this body is part of the government. And this tension, what dairy management's relationship is with the federal government, our friend Michael Moss incorporated this into his article in 2010 in The Times.
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And his concern wasn't so much that the government was hiding this stuffed crust pizza conspiracy, but rather that it was promoting harmful behaviors.
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And prevent a stock market crash by buying, with taxpayer money, an insane surplus of cheese. Which the government has stored in underground cheese caves. And what the government ends up doing to justify their purchase of all this cheese is to tell Domino's and various pizza chains to figure out ways to put more of this cheese inside their products.
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Yeah, it sort of reminds me of when I was a child, I went to this dentist, and after you got done with your cleaning and you walked up to pay your bill and book your next appointment, they had freshly baked cookies on the desk.
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Exactly. I reached out to DMI about this and they said, and this is a quote, these partnerships aren't just about, quote, more dairy. They're about creating something people love and showcasing the versatility of the dairy foods the US dairy farmers provide us every day. It's a win-win for innovation and consumer choice.
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And then they say, in 2024 alone, we helped launch new products such as Domino's New York Style Pizza, Taco Bell Chillers, Domino's Five Cheese Mac and Cheese, and Taco Bell's Cheesy Chalupa.
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Pizzagate: We Investigate the (Real) Government Plot to Stuff You with Cheese
And they have results like the Chiefs. Since they started partnering with Domino's in 2008, that company has doubled its use of cheese. How can Domino's double the amount of cheese it's using? It's a pizza company already. It's impressive the way that DMI is able to put cheese onto these menus.
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Pizzagate: We Investigate the (Real) Government Plot to Stuff You with Cheese
And how are we ruling on this? So to answer that question, I had to make some calls. I reached out to Pizza Hut corporate. They didn't respond to me. But finally, after weeks, months of searching, trying to find someone who was in the room at the time that this pizza was invented, on an old press release, I found the number of the man behind the mystery himself.
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He was traveling, so we were only able to talk on the phone. But allow me to introduce you to Tom Ryan.
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Tom worked for Pizza Hut in the 1990s, and I should say he later developed the McGriddle at McDonald's.
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He later co-founded Smashburger.
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Critically, he did not work for DMI, but his true legacy, arguably, is that he and this team that he was working with, they created the original mass market stuffed crust pizza.
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Yeah, the way he describes it, creating stuffed crust pizza was a math equation.
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Unassailable, really.
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I can't say that anytime I sit down and have a pizza that I'm thinking, where's the value in this slice? I'm just sort of like lightly stoned and eating it.
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Yeah. And so I asked Tom, I wanted to know, when they created this iconic menu item, did they know right away, like, we've done it? Like, we've advanced pizza in a way that no one has in hundreds of years?
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Yeah, and CupcakeTheDestroyer21, although she's a crusader, she's not alone. There are Reddit threads about this. There are posts across social media about this. There are news articles in reputable newspapers and magazines that keep citing this. And it stems back from this front page story in 2010 in the New York Times.
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And Pablo, I'd like to call your attention right there at the end to something that he said, April 1st, 1994. And if you'll recall, DMI wasn't founded until 1995.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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This investigative reporter uncovered a memo in which two Pizza Hut officials, they call themselves the Lord of the Cheese and the Lady of the Cheese. Because of course they do. thank their government partners and agree to begin putting more cheese in the pizza, including in the crust. As the Lord and the Lady wrote, quote, let's sell more pizza and more cheese, exclamation mark.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Even more than that, the Super Bowl is the biggest pizza delivery day of the year. According to the American Pizza Community, which is a real organization, they estimate that there are 12.5 million pizzas ordered in America on Super Bowl Sunday, including 11 million slices from Domino's alone.
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Just for the show, Pablo. That's the level of professionalism I didn't expect.
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I just need to warn you, Pablo, that this truth, it goes beyond the crust of the earth, beyond the crust of the pizza. This is an investigation that took us from dairy farmers in the Great Depression to social media influencers with huge followings to quasi-governmental agencies to the highest court in the land and all the way to the top of the United States government. The deep dish state.
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The real Pizzagate.
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Yeah, and so to get into the theory, we need to do a little investigation. And so to start, we had to go back in time.
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Of special importance to children and... For more than a century now, dating back to the Great Depression, the U.S. government has believed that dairy was a safeguard of our national interests, a way to get high-quality calories to Americans during hard times for the health of the nation. And so federal milk marketing laws take effect in the 1930s and the 1940s.
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And then coming out of World War II, the government guarantees that it will always buy milk and dairy products from farmers at a certain price point, even if no one else wanted this milk.
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It's absolutely true that the dairy industry, like the rest of America, was struggling during the Great Depression. I mean, they called it that for a reason, right? And the really important thing here is the way that our government works with two senators in every state, it has a rural bias. So the dairy lobby is and was a real thing.
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And lowering dairy prices and reducing these subsidies was seen as anti-farmer.
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So Jimmy Carter actually campaigned on this in 1976 in the presidential primaries, and he was a humble peanut farmer himself.
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I mean, the last time I was here, you had me investigating this viral conspiracy about whether there was a movie called Shazam! starring Sinbad, not to be confused with the movie Kazaam! starring Shaquille O'Neal. Right. And we asked him about it because that's how seriously I take these internet conspiracy theories.
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Well, we're talking $2 billion in the 1970s, which is a huge amount of money today.
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And it essentially created this imbalance between supply and demand in the dairy industry.
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So, Pablo, liquid milk famously expires quite quickly. There's a little date on the top of the bottle. What we're talking about here is converting it from milk to cheese, which can then last for a lot longer. It can be stored for many years sometimes. In fact, you know, aged cheese is a commodity that people enjoy.
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Pizzagate: We Investigate the (Real) Government Plot to Stuff You with Cheese
So Reagan comes into power, and he discovers that there are billions of pounds of government cheese in storage.
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By 1984, the government had a problem, which is that for every American citizen, there were five pounds of cheese in storage. Our national cheesy birthright.
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Yeah, so I started off by turning to the author of that 2010 New York Times article. He's a great investigative reporter named Michael Moss. He later wrote a book called Salt, Sugar, Fat, How Food Giants Hooked Us. Yes. He's a Pulitzer Prize winner. And he's the one who uncovered that memo from the Lord and the Lady of the Cheese that said, let's sell more pizza and more cheese.
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And he turned out just to be the perfect tour guide.
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So Michael explained the origin of the cheese caves, which date back to the Reagan administration.
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Right. And there are a couple of places now where government cheese was once stored. In Missouri alone, there's a place called Springfield Underground. And then there's also Kraft.
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Well, Pablo, there is an NFL connection here. Let's take a look at this place underneath Kansas City. It's called Subtropolis. So, Subtropolis exists because limestone in Kansas City was mined for concrete, and now there's a climate-controlled space in the places where limestone was once. There's 6 million square feet down there. That's more than 100 football fields.
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There are almost 2,000 employees. And crucially, it's always 65 degrees down there, which makes it the ideal temperature for storing things like government records, old Hollywood film reels, and crucially, every episode of Seinfeld.
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Yeah, no, you got the slick back hair thing going with the sweat. No, it's a good look, Billy.
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I don't know, man. I think it might be a little fun.
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Billy, I wanted to talk to you about the Detroit Red Wings, which is maybe a sentence I haven't said out loud in a while. But they've won, what, seven in a row now? They've crept into a wildcard spot in the East. They're playing great under Todd McClellan. My question is, is this just the new coach bump or are the Red Wings really turning it on?
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Are we going to see them possibly entering the playoff conversation when we get into March?
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Definitely not Boston, right?
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Well, you get credited for an own goal. It doesn't count towards your goal total. No, I know that. It's an error. It's in the E column.
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Hmm. Billy, we've been having a lot of fun this year watching Alex Ovechkin chase history. I think now he's 15 goals away, if I'm not mistaken, from Tyne Wayne Gretzky, which he's going to do it this year, as long as he stays healthy. And it's been so much fun to watch. But it made me think about another amazingly good goal scorer in Russian that you actually played with.
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I was going to say back in the day, but yeah, I guess it was kind of back in the day now. Mr. Buray? Yeah, Mr. Buray. The few years that you played with him... What was it like having a guy that ridiculously good watching him behind the scenes? Like, was he like a crazy work ethic kind of guy, first guy in, last guy out kind of mentality? Or did he just kind of show up and the goals just went in?
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I don't need another anti-goal stat attached to my goaltending stats. I don't need own goals attached to my goals against average. Enough of you and your goalie fraternity.
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I think I got hit by a water bottle.
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Yeah, like the first ever goal credited to a goaltender, Billy Smith.
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He didn't shoot it in the net. He made a save and then Colorado Rockies shot it into their own net. That's correct. That's pretty much why that is. All right, so that's my hot take. Clearly nobody agrees with me.
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Roy, what's your hot take?
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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A 10-game suspension? That's an eighth of the season.
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Our kids, Tyler and Claire, learning to skate that they need to keep their balance on each other?
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These are NHL players. They don't need sleds. These are the best players and staters in the world. I'm sorry, but I don't buy that.
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They're actually tied with Tampa. Tampa's had one less game played, so they got the percentage. Yeah, they got the percentage. They got the tiebreaker. Fun race to watch play out, man.
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Panthers-Senators potential playoff series sounds fun, doesn't it?
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Yeah. Well, they're not allowed to fight each other. But what happens? All bets are off in the playoffs, right? No.
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All right.
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Yeah. Well, the lead's not going to keep putting guys in if they continue to repeat offend and to put other players' safety at hazard. Like, you just got to protect everybody else.
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Can you share awards? Like a co-MVP? The Jennings selfie goes to two goaltenders.
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It's one or the other. But I've actually put a lot of thought into this in recent weeks. And I've been kind of on Team Reinhardt since last year just as somebody coming up. He's going to score 15.
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The conclusion I came to is that Barkov, what he does defensively, and I don't mean broadly and statistically, I mean the plays he makes with his stick, the way that he separates guys from the puck, the way that he accelerates and completely ends plays out of nowhere. I don't see anybody doing those specific things.
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No disrespect to Sam Reinhardt and what he's doing, and he's an amazing defensive player, but I think Sasha Barkov is on another level. where I'm at. Wins of the week. David? My win of the week, Porter Martone. Prospect. Prospect for the NHL. He's playing in the OHL right now for the Brampton Steelheads. He did a Q&A recently with Bardown, and they asked him like 100 questions, or whatever it was.
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94 questions, says he wears number 94. But so many of the non-hockey related answers were hockey related. Like, what kind of toothpaste do you use? Oh, I don't know. Whatever would keep my teeth in because I play hockey. Ah! you know, what kind of shows do you watch? Well, you know, whatever, you know, NHL tonight. Yeah, like every single thing was hockey related. I'm so here for it.
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This kid is, what is he, like 17 years old? He hasn't even gotten to the NHL yet.
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It's Bull Durham all over again. It's Crash Davis, but maybe it's a goalie instead of a catcher. But Porter Martone, I can't wait for him to get to the NHL. He's such a hyper-focused hockey guy. It kind of makes me think of Matthew Kachuk and somebody that just eats and breathes and sleeps hockey 24-7. So I just thought that was cool. That's my win of the week.
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That should count. I kind of agree with that because it's so rare when a guy will actually agree to drop the gloves with Sam Bennett. It's not like he doesn't want to fight. The guy wins every fight he's in. He is a menace. I would never want to face him. So anytime somebody's got the balls to drop the gloves with Sam Bennett, I think there should be some kind of reward.
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Deceivingly good fighter.
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Dave. Hot takes. All right. Well, hi. Welcome to the show. Hey. Good to be here. How you doing? My hot take. Earlier this week, Ricard Raquel and the Penguins, they were playing the Devils. He had one goal disallowed right there that he kicked in the net. Yeah. That goal did not count. Later in the game, he accidentally kicked the puck in his own net. That goal did count. Yeah.
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Films of the Week, David. I'm afraid, boys, that we're going back to Buffalo for my fail of the week, but I feel like this one is kind of a universally agreed-on thing. Earlier this week, Tage Thompson got absolutely leveled by Stefan Nosen of the Devils, and nobody on his team did a goddamn thing.
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He's laying there on the ice, face down, and everybody's just skating around, palms to the ceiling. What happened? The guys on the bench, there's guys on the bench that were standing up in furious, but they can't do anything. It shouldn't matter. This is hockey. This is the highest level of hockey. This is the NHL. Your teammate gets run like that. Look, we've talked about this before.
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Clean hits, you leave them alone. That's not a clean hit. The guy's freaking helmet went popping off into the second row of the stands. Nobody did anything. That is embarrassing. It's disgusting.
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So little, so late. Words were said. The guys got heated, and then they went out the next... It's like, no... No, this is, your guy was bleeding on the ice. You missed your chance, and now you just look like fools.
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There's just nothing that was good about any of that. The more I see it, the more I hate it, and I'm sure that a lot of those guys in the Buffalo sweaters feel the same way. Twice! Twice! I don't know what the hell's going on in Buffalo.
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So my hot take is if it's not in the crease and it's not dangering to the goalie with you kicking your feet around, why can't that be legal?
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You're really kind of hitting a broad scope here on the Northeastern today.
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Yeah, I really...
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Why can't a player try to kick the puck in from anywhere on the ice? If it's legal to deflect it off his skate, why can't he just kick it? If it's a safety thing outside of the crease, that's fine. And this comes from a goalie. What's the problem? It's not soccer.
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So the only thing I thought of when I saw it is that he had a deal with Paul that he was gonna make X dollars. And Saudi Arabia came in and said, listen, Canelo. Guess what we have? We have X plus Y. We have whatever you need because we have a budget. We don't have a budget. Give me four fights. And Canelo, it was a deal that got done in a day. which is hard to do deals like that.
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So Canelo had a call. What I was dreaming about last night is the call from Canelo to Paul because Paul didn't discover it on Twitter. There was a deal that obviously had an escape clause and he escaped in a day. Unless that was a deal all along. Now we're talking conspiracy. We'll see what Jake Paul's next move is then.
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Is that an insult to your geniusness that you don't want to call him a genius because you don't want to be associated with someone like a Jake Paul? Does it offend you because people view you?
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Boy, oh boy. I was going to say, you can't answer that question and look good there, Pablo. If you're in the business world, what Jake Paul's done and you don't respect it. Both Paul brothers.
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I don't mean that they can go on Celebrity Jeopardy or Family Feud. I'm not, or they can go to Harvard. I'm not talking about equals MC squared.
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I think you can be a genius without an Ivy League education.
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But I think... You're a genius straw man builder.
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You know, I don't care. Dan Levitard, for four hours a day, five days a week, gets a huge loyal audience to listen in a fractured world, to listen to even when he's not here, to listen to what we're doing. And you're not going to call Dan a genius for the ability to put together in his mind a show that grabs people's attention? It's genius.
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No. I'm chantless. Okay.
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Please do not ask him to describe cubism, Jessica.
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Is that 27 years or 27 seasons?
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Listen, when you come up with a way to do what everybody else does with their steak, but they happen to do it either this way or they do it this way. I don't like any of those movements from you, David. None of them. And I love all those movements. Do you? Do you? Every last one of them. You ever see how much salt he wastes?
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You good, David? You all right? Yeah, there's a couple things going on, and I'm trying to focus on the show as we end the week. I didn't want Pat Riley covering up the sponsor, Boost Mobile. But we do want to put him in a home for, quote, geriatric old people. We're trying to do everything right, and I want to be in a dog-safe environment. There's so many wires I was worried about.
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You want to be in a David-safe environment? There's so many wires. There's open wires.
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Dogs do chew wires.
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I was very worried about her. Her? Her. That's why she said she. Very worried.
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Yeah. Directions. We all know that. Directions. Directions? Just, do you trust him to get you from point A to point B? That's what you get a GPS for.
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That he won a Grammy. It would have come out though, because they've been rehearsing all week. Don't we assume there would have been a leak? That would be big news if he were playing that song. Or if he weren't playing that song.
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And the NFL controls it. There's a set list. It's all totally rehearsed. The move in, the move out. But doesn't the NFL want to be, like, viral? Like, isn't there part of the NFL?
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What is, what am I, I'm not doing anything journalistic.
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It's inappropriate. I'm tired of you. It's bullshit that you've been in that chair the whole week. Hold on. Why couldn't Amin sit in the chair? Why couldn't I sit in the chair? You're great in the chair, Amin. Thank you. I just find it hard to imagine that it's just, and now he's pressing buttons, putting people, whatever. He's asking questions.
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You're not, I could have started with that button with his whole Kevin Love stuff.
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Is that you again? You're not good. So how would you advise Kendrick Lamar? The juice is not nearly worth the squeeze. Here's how the damages work.
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Because a lawyer's job is to protect a client from doing something that would put the client in a position of weakness, either financially or criminally or civilly with specific performance. You don't want to have your client do that. There's no way that Kendrick Lamar has anyone around him suggesting he does anything. But there's no formula.
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Hey, there's 100 million people watching the Super Bowl on TV around the world. There's 60,000 in the Caesar Dome. Therefore, it's $1 per person. That sort of math is not how they do it.
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So there's nothing in there about the amount because there's more people.
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Yeah. They're going to just say, oh, you were scared. Not everyone. Drake's going to be fine. Is there a market for this? Because I would say he will not play it.
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Southern would have made it better with a drawl. Southern, not prospector.
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I was very focused on Jake Paul all night. This Canelo thing? Oh, that's a big thing. It's a big thing that Canelo, they had a deal and then Canelo changed his mind.
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wait wait wait wait wait wait i missed this this is major news they announced a fight and then canelo said i got a better idea i'm not going to fight paul i'm instead going to do a four series fight with an actual fighter which left paul with nobody wait well so how did this happen boy i hope i didn't miss this this is my moment to bring something deal with riyadh season nixon jake paul bout this is according to mma junkie
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After it was announced that it was a brilliant Netflix move, more people than Tyson Paul would have been Alvarez Paul. And because we would have watched Paul get his ass kicked, they were going to do it at 200 pounds. And it was going to be huge money, huge everything.
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What, David? DraftKings, the crown is yours. Oh, you're just theatrically giving a thumbs up. I like when Chris starts the segments that way. A, it means we have sponsors, so there's business being done. B, he's doing it with aplomb and with gravitas. You know what?
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So I'm going to get back. So you're Jake Paul. Ruth Kanda forever. Think about what you've done in business. You are at the height. You announced something with Logan, a reality show. You are fighting on all cylinders, operating on all cylinders. You get to announce this Canelo thing, which is going to be the biggest thing ever. And in one hour, it all got usurped. And now what's he going to do?
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He's totally screwed, I mean. Yeah, he absolutely is. He's going to have to fight his brother for real? No, he's not going to fight his brother. He's got to do something. He's got to have a fight that follows up Tyson He had to the two things announced first against his brother. It turned out to be wrong It's just a commercial for reality show.
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He wants to be a genuine, winning fighter.
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A triple switcheroo.
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All right, I've got a non-Crosby question for you, Arda.
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It's not necessarily a positive one, though, because it's about the Boston Bruins. They've lost, what, 10 in a row right now? Yeah.
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This is going to be the first year that they finish last in the division since the 90s. We're two years away from this being the best regular season team of all time. Is this something that we kind of saw coming, Arda? Or is this Boston thing, where did it come from? I'm kind of shocked because we've gotten so used to Boston being so good for so long.
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Okay. Credit to the journalist there for the quick follow-ups.
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The look on McMichael's face after, he was as surprised as the rest of us, I think.
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groin injury yes and so and for a guy whose game is predicated on speed as we know anthony duclair he's a fast guy he flies up the wing that's like what his bread and butter is yeah to basically cut one of his legs out from under him with a groin injury like even when he came back i'm willing to bet that he wasn't at 100 just because you know how groin injuries are they can take a long time for you to heal yeah now you can play through it but when your game is based on being able to move your legs at 100 speed speed speed
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Got to hold him accountable so it doesn't happen again.
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We're about two weeks away from the playoffs, and I guess we all have been following the playoff chases, the standings very closely. My question for you, there's a team that's been pretty hot in the Eastern wildcard race for a while now, and that's the Ottawa Senators. They've leveled out a little bit, but they're a team that's been playing very well.
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And then you've got the Blues out West that are just on fire right now. And I think back to a couple years ago when the Panthers as a wildcard two team beat that Boston Bruins team, went all the way to the final. Is there a wildcard team that you're more afraid to play? I would think the Blues right now because of how good they are, but Ottawa's been playing well.
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The Montreal Canadiens have won three in a row. Wildcard teams are very fluky when it comes to this time of year. So are there any that you're really looking at as like a playoff team that could make some damage?
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Like that would really cut into his ability to perform at the best of his abilities. So it's not terribly surprising. What is surprising is for the coach to call him out so publicly like that.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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He's such a nice guy. He's a nice, good man. He deserves to be happy. All my experiences with him, when he was here in Florida, since he's left Florida, because he's come back here a lot. He calls South Florida his home away from home when he's not playing hockey. He's growing the game down here.
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2-1 against Tampa so far.
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He's got roots down here. To see that, I remember when we were talking about this before the season, when he posted that picture on social media after he had to cut his dreadlocks off. And it was like, what a bleep. It was the saddest thing. Yeah, and trying to put on a smile, and I'm sure that he wanted to be a good team player and everything, but I just feel for the guy.
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Just let the guy play hockey. Is that such a bad thing? Just let him go do what he's been born to do. Let him go play hockey.
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Penalty kill is terrible too.
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I thought they were terrible on both special teams. Maybe I'm thinking of somebody else.
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And moving forward, because it was all great for Duke in the offseason. I remember we were kind of surprised when they signed him to the four-year deal, $3.5 million AAV. So he's still got, what, $10.5 million on the books for the next three years? Is that something that a team is going to be willing to take on? For a guy who we know what he's capable of, but he's been hurt all year.
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So he's had a down year. Is anybody going to be willing to take that on in a trade potentially? Is he going to come back next year and play for Patrick Waugh again? Assuming Waugh comes back, which I guess some are expecting him to for the Islanders. After this season, I don't know.
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We know what he's capable of when he's healthy. We've seen it. It's the lower body injuries that hurt, whether it's been an ankle, whether it's been the groin right now. It's tough.
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Makes me think of Vincent Trocek back when he finished his time with the Panthers. He went on to Carolina and then the Rangers. His last year or so with the Panthers, he had suffered two different ankle injuries. Yeah. Speed was such a big part of his game that it took him a while to get back to where he's.
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But now, you know, Vincent Trocek is the great two-way center that we always knew he would be. Guys have to heal. When their game is based on lower body strength, they got to go through it.
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Well, the Rangers are not having a great year, but I think his career-wise, I think he's doing okay.
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My win of the week, it's in St. Louis. The middle of the country. One of the best teams in the NHL lately. What have they won? 11 straight games now. It all drives back to something I know we love. Ethan, I think you love it. You're a baseball guy. It's Jobu. Jobu.
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Major League Two is great.
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In terms of one-liners, some great one-liners, some great comedy. Story-wise, it's very whatever. It's a sports movie. But no, Major League Two is worth a watch. But anyway, back to my win of the week. I disagree. Next time, Adnan's on. We need to get him talking about it. Okay, yeah. That'll probably be two weeks from now. After Four Nations, the Blues were out of the playoffs. They were 25-26-5.
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Eight points out of a wildcard spot at Four Nations. Eight points back. That was, what, a month ago? Since they've played, what, 21 games? And they have points in 19 of them. 17-2-2. 11 games in a row. It's all Jobu. Nobody is drinking Jobu's rum, which I think is the key. It would be very bad if you drink Jobu's rum. Yeah. But man, how cool is this? He travels with the team.
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He gets his own locker. Like guys have said, like they'll get like the crappier locker because Jobu gets veteran presence in the locker room or something. He's apparently he's made speeches in the locker room. A couple of players have said that Jobu has made intermission speeches that they won't reveal what he says. And Jordan Binnington says he does talk. You have to speak his language.
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And also Jordan Binnington, Ethan. We talked about him at Four Nations. Has anybody carried their Four Nations weight?
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Such a legend. I met him when I first started covering the Panthers. I met him during a Ranger game in the press box. I was so starstruck. You're used to seeing those amazing broadcasters up there, but something about Sam Rosen. I mean, he's just like, it's a power play goal!
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Oh, is this in Chicago? No, that wasn't in Chicago.
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and the first time in their program history
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All right, Fails of the Week, David. From the same game, actually. My Fail of the Week is from when Penn State defenseman Nick Faja lit up UConn forward Tristan Frazier. He tried pulling the Michigan in overtime. Here it is right here. And boom! Leveled him. Oh, what a beautiful, beautiful hit.
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The Michigan has been going on for like 30 years. Can we get like a new Michigan? Because I feel like that's like the move that everybody celebrates, but it's been like three decades. It's being defended by goal. Like the goalie was ready. He wasn't going, even if he didn't get leveled, but man, new Michigan.
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The Zegers flip. Make that the new Michigan. That'd be cool.