The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Hank Azaria Show With Not Stugotz
Wed, 14 May 2025
Wild Billy hijacks an interview with Hank Azaria that leads us to an epic game of "Would You Attend Their Funeral?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Hank Azaria and what brings him to the show?
Chapter 2: What is the controversy surrounding Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame?
Can you guys please play the video of the late Pete Rose when he was on with us recently talking about, I really, I couldn't help but sort of laugh darkly at the idea that baseball would put him in the Hall of Fame or consider it after his death for the first time when he was only living to feel whatever it is that it felt like to be the fountain of youth of a Hall of Fame.
But let's listen to Pete Rose saying he didn't want the award after he was dead.
In the future, several decades from now, let's say Major League Baseball then makes the decision after Pete Rose is long gone to enshrine him in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. How would you feel about that?
Well, to be honest with you, I wouldn't want to go in the Hall of Fame because I think the Hall of Fame, OK, and don't get me wrong, the Hall of Fame is for two things. It's one for the player and it's two, three, excuse me, three things. His family. Okay, his fans and his teammates and everybody who was associated with him. That's more than three. They don't help me when I'm six feet under.
How in the hell is that going to help anybody? I mean, I still go out. Today, I go out and try to sell the game of baseball, and I'm not even in the game of baseball. But you guys will agree, my name is synonymous with the game of baseball. I have all the records. You know, and that's all baseball is, is statistics. It's all about statistics. All you guys on TV talk about it.
How many home runs you got? How many RBIs you got? How many runs you got? How many gold gloves you win? How many MVPs you win? How many World Series are you playing? Those are all questions that I can answer with no hesitation at all.
Makes me angry, man. I was already annoyed because I think it's cruel to allow him. Remember, he's not in the Hall of Fame now and he probably won't still get voted in. But he's allowed to be voted in now. And I think it's cruel that not only are we going to ban you for life, but guess what? We're going to allow you in when you're dead.
And now hearing him say, pretty much the way that I was looking at it anyway, I think it's cruel. And I think it's really weak that Rob Manfred, this great thing that he just did yesterday, no it wasn't, no it wasn't. The hard thing to do would have been reinstating him while he's still alive.
Put it on the poll at Levitard Show, was that a garage sale cap Pete Rose was wearing? It's exactly the kind of cap I would associate with an 85-year-old who has stopped caring. Might be Gucci.
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Chapter 3: How did Hank Azaria get involved with Bruce Springsteen impressions?
What's going on? Have you guys fired Sugatz? Lots going on.
No, he just signed a long-term deal.
All right, I just was worried. I don't know. He just can't be controlled. Yeah, I understand that. I could have told you that a long time ago. Saved you a lot of time. Well, hi, Stugatz. Who's the new guy? Sorry, I've been lost in my Springsteen world.
According to Barrett Sports Media, that's Jonathan Zaslow.
According to Barrett Sports Media, that is Jonathan Zaslow.
That's confirmed? Okay, all right.
Confirmed. Confirmed. The rule is you got to replace someone with the same first name as the other person who sat in that seat. So it was Jonathan Wiener. Now we've got Jonathan Zaslow.
Hank, I see. Nice jersey. Yes. Thank you.
You are feeling better about your Knicks than you have at any point in 25 years, correct? It's 100 percent.
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Chapter 4: What are the current dynamics of the New York Knicks fandom?
That's a tough call. The majority of people, if I go. I'm with you. In New York? All fans care about is winning.
Hank played it perfectly. You say the sentence of felt bad about that, but I'll take it.
Nobody was lying. Yes, he played it perfectly, but it's not felt bad about that. Well, did you? When he went down, were you hoping it was an ankle and he was going to play the fourth quarter, like play in the next game?
no you know by the way he was writhing around i was sure it was one of those landed on an ankle things right and then when they showed the replay finally and you see it was non-contact no i can i can tell you honestly when i saw the non-contact nature of that i felt really bad i was like oh no you just never like to see that as a basketball fan just go oh that's awful you know that's awful i think the point
Yeah, go ahead.
I'm sorry. No, everyone's pointing out that you were purposely trying to show that you were jacked there with your biceps. You were insecure because you said you were 61, and then you just gave off the guns, and everybody was looking at... I don't know what you mean.
What are you talking about? I'm standing here. What do you want from me? Are you off of scuba?
It's hot in here.
It looks like 60 also triggered something else, pal.
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Chapter 5: Who are the biggest Knicks fans among celebrities and insiders?
Is he the most beloved Nick ever already?
Chapter 6: What is the debate about Ben Stiller's Knicks fan status?
Chapter 7: How does team ownership impact the Knicks' recent success?
Nobody was lying. Yes, he played it perfectly, but it's not felt bad about that. Well, did you? When he went down, were you hoping it was an ankle and he was going to play the fourth quarter, like play in the next game?
no you know by the way he was writhing around i was sure it was one of those landed on an ankle things right and then when they showed the replay finally and you see it was non-contact no i can i can tell you honestly when i saw the non-contact nature of that i felt really bad i was like oh no you just never like to see that as a basketball fan just go oh that's awful you know that's awful i think the point
Yeah, go ahead.
I'm sorry. No, everyone's pointing out that you were purposely trying to show that you were jacked there with your biceps. You were insecure because you said you were 61, and then you just gave off the guns, and everybody was looking at... I don't know what you mean.
What are you talking about? I'm standing here. What do you want from me? Are you off of scuba?
It's hot in here.
It looks like 60 also triggered something else, pal.
Have you realized that you feel more for men than you thought you did? This is natural. Many men have different feelings. There's nothing to be ashamed of.
Is that, I, it's your, it's my favorite character of yours, of all of them, Claude. Claude from Alan Kim Pauly? My favorite of all of them. Is that guy, the French guy? You don't have a favorite, do you? Do I have a favorite? Yes, that, the character you played there, yeah, it's just my favorite of all your characters, and you've played thousands.
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Chapter 8: What financial advice is shared in the Monarch Money sponsored segment?
No, well, wait, many points there. They tried to hang on to Hartenstein. They just, they literally couldn't. He got 18 million more or something going OKC. Like they just couldn't match it. And then the guy, I don't think he wanted to leave, but he couldn't turn down that money. And, you know, Leon Rose has made a series of incredible decisions.
I mean, he might have gotten a little lucky with Jalen. I mean, remember when Jalen first got here, we all thought we overpaid for him. But he's good. And he's turned into this superstar. Nobody saw that coming. And... Leon Rose and World Wide West have just made a bunch of decisions that have been great.
But the fact that they were allowed to even make them is astonishing because that just wasn't the case a bunch of years ago here in New York.
Hank, you're obviously a huge Knicks fan. When you see some of the celebrities that are sitting in the front row, they're sitting courtside at the Garden. Do you ever say to yourself, man, I care so much more than that guy does?
Oh, all the time. Look, I think there was an article in the Post today that finally broke down what goes into being allowed sitting at courtside. That's what you'd imagine. You do have to really be a Nick fan.
They kind of draw the line there, unless you're dating either someone who's genuinely a Nick fan or is such a huge star that there's no way they're going to keep them out of the front row there. But yeah, you know, but it's literally it's like it's kind of daunting. You know, people applaud. It's like a popularity contest.
You know, people either really are into you or they're not once you go on the jumbotron. Ben and I talk about this all the time. We like dread the moment we're going up on the screen. We're like, oh, God, I hope I get a decent response. Otherwise, they're not going to have me back next time, you know. But I'm just I like what I like.
I'm such a big fan that they're kind of happy to let you sit 10, 15 rows up. They have a nice little suite for folks sort of out. And I kind of prefer that because it's a great view of the game and there's less pressure on you as a celebrity up there.
Hank, is it wrong for me to say I look at Ben Stiller now differently? I kind of lost respect for him because he just seems to be such a regular ass Nick fan. He's like all the people I grew up with. And I'm like, I wanted something more. I wanted a mystique around him. I want him to be cool courtside. I said he's jumping up with like the hype team in the tunnel.
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