The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: IT'S SUEY SEASON!

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

THE SUEYS ARE BACK! Before we get to a LOADED Best Dismissal category, Stugotz kicks off the hour with his Weekend Observations. Stu covers Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, why you DO NOT schedule Monta...na State and has multiple strong Top 5s to share. Then, Dan has a couple of stats of the day for the show to pick between, including one that Stugotz believes is the ultimate stat of the day. Finally, it's time for the Best Dismissal category to kick off the 2024 Suey Awards. As always, there is a ton of Stugotz but keep an eye on Billy as a dark horse in this year's category! You can vote for your favorite Dismissal and all the other Suey categories right here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfa6UL3-pWsiF76FZh33eHKh4Utps-CR9h3D5lc6huzhN415A/viewform! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:49 Great taste, just 96 calories available for delivery. Din, you know what they say, you save the best for last. And tennis is no different. The hard courts, the grunts, the obnoxious fans, Arthur Ashe, prime time, and of course the beautiful surroundings of Flushing Meadows. And Dan, just like that, make no mistake about it, US Open Week is back. I thought college football would be your... That was last week.
Starting point is 00:01:28 You're a real, you're a still, I thought two weeks in a row, I thought you would just hit college football. Damn, we've got a huge doping scandal in the sport too. We do. It's a big one. What a great couple of weeks, you have college football, the US Open, the NFL,
Starting point is 00:01:43 the NFL, that's Sunday where you have the NFL and then the US Open men's final at 4 o'clock. What are the great days on the sports calendar? One of them. You're amazed, aren't you, that there are 31 Division I college football games on Thursday? Yeah, I wish there was 32. All eyes on Boulder. For that one, all eyes on Boulder. All of that one, all eyes on Boulder. In honor of the US Open, top five athletes who don't play tennis but have a great tennis name. OLI.
Starting point is 00:02:15 Raphael Santana. Will Zalatoris. Yorri Curry. Pete Maravich. Don Newcomb. Number five, Nicole Jokic. The Joker.
Starting point is 00:02:39 Number four, Joakim Noah. That's cheating. It's cheating. It's cheating, it's cheating. Come on. You went with a joker and a Noah in your first two. I think you're cheating. It's cheating.
Starting point is 00:02:50 You went, his dad was a tennis player. Yeah, I know. It was Yannick Noah. How about Henrik Stenson? Better? Number three, Peter Forsberg. Number two, Carlos Arroyo. It's a great tennis name, it is.
Starting point is 00:03:08 Number one, Andy Van Slyke. Dan, there's a doping scandal surrounding a player whose last name is Sinner. Sinner, yeah. How are you not all over this? Mm-hmm. Here come the D-backs. That, by the way, is infuriating. The The D backs and the Marlins were the same team.
Starting point is 00:03:29 And now the D backs are the hottest team in baseball. Well, they are still because Josh Bell's there. Mm-hmm, right. I can see why Florida State wants out of the ACC. I wouldn't want to play Georgia Tech either. The Ramblin' Wreck. They got a shot. They do not. They do! the SEC. I wouldn't want to play Georgia Tech either. The Ramblin' Wreck. They got a
Starting point is 00:03:48 shot. They do not. They do. Their coach is five and oh against ranked teams. He's do. The college football season should never start in Dublin, Ireland. It should always start somewhere in the south or the Rose Bowl No in between so maybe Texas some people are calling you a xenophobe like why just deciding come on things Belong only in America the baseball in China thing like really I'm not saying don't play games overseas
Starting point is 00:04:21 I'm saying, you know start the season here and this season here. That's all I'm saying That's saying don't play him overseas. He's saying play him in America. By the way, that was a direct quote from Su Gatza I don't think they've opened the season in China I'm just putting that on him. He said that You think there was a me when you it would have been bigger news Yes, it would have been bigger news if they had decided to start the season in a communist country, yes Feel like it we would have heard that somewhere, but maybe so gots did
Starting point is 00:04:53 Question how do we fall for it every year sprinting away from that with DJ you Every year we fall for that's not true every year. We're there last year first drive I thought they were the best team in the country. I mean, I fell for it. And the second drive, you thought Georgia Tech was the best team in the country. The D in DJU Stanford doesn't matter what team he plays for. They always lose. Brent Key is now five and0 versus ranked ACC opponents. Big game Brent.
Starting point is 00:05:30 That's your reason. That's all I got. I'm glad you clarified with the ACC because I didn't remember him beating Georgia. Although we played him tough last season. Down to Bobby Down. Proclaiming Georgia Tech is gonna be good because their coach is 5-0 against ranked teams.
Starting point is 00:05:49 You would agree today, right now, they are the number one team in the country, right? The only 1-0 team, they beat a ranked opponent. I mean, on the road in Dublin. They're not the only 1-0 team. The only 1-0 team to beat a ranked team in Dublin. On the road in Dublin. Well, it's a neutral site. Keep up, Mike, keep up.
Starting point is 00:06:06 Sorry, sorry, my bad. Number 10, Florida State. Losing to unranked Georgia Tech. You know what the F in Florida State stands for? Frauds. Wow. And phonies. Can you call yourself the worldwide leader in sports
Starting point is 00:06:23 if your college football halftime shows analyst is the lesser known hot show? Put it on the poll. Just that, the way he said it. Can you call yourself the worldwide leader in sports if your college football analyst is the lesser known hot show? Trevor Maddich joined in progress. I saw him.
Starting point is 00:06:43 I saw Maddich. I'm like still doing it. Did you see those eyebrows? It felt so good. What's going on there? What do you think's going on there? Those eyebrows. What is your theory as our vanity correspondent?
Starting point is 00:06:52 It's the same color as the hair. That's my theory. I'm not gonna mock anybody. I'm not mocking them either. I'm a fan. Always have been Trevor Maddich. The number of people who always comment anytime they're seeing me and they don't regularly
Starting point is 00:07:07 consume us, that my eyebrows look like unruly caterpillars, I'm not here to comment on anybody's physical appearance. It's not the physical. I'm commenting on a hue. Yeah. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] I say that it was slowly morphing into Ryan Day. As long as college football is around, there's always a place for Trevor Madditch, right?
Starting point is 00:07:30 I mean, he's one of the great analysts of our lifetime. I appreciate actually, the thing that I appreciate about Trevor Madditch beyond his name is just him bringing his general thickness to the proceedings. Yes, you need it, yeah. Talk about meat-poned. No, seriously, happened to me walking into the studio today. I was on one of the security screens, I was like, oh, what are Ohio State's up to?
Starting point is 00:07:53 Let's check in on Coach Day. Oh shit, that's me. Arthur Ashe, top five athletes that can note cigarettes. OLI, Craig Carton. Not really an athlete, but. One of these days I'm going to be showing up asking where Lou Holtz is and complete the transformation. It's going to be in the mirror.
Starting point is 00:08:16 Robert Pack. Al Leiter. Number five, Marion Butts number four Arthur Ash number three Eric Winston number two Jeff Kent's and number one Jeff Smoker. Cool Papa Bill. Liverpool looking good. Are they? Yeah. Alright. I don't feel bad for a single Florida State fan that had to hop on a 15 hour flight across the pond back to Tallahassee from Dublin after
Starting point is 00:09:06 watching their team lose is a double-digit favorite I don't feel bad for a one of them you get what you pay for I don't know if that makes any sense what you mean you get what you pay a lot of people saying they feel bad for Florida State fans they the travel all that way they lost the game you have to travel back home I don't feel bad for any of them I mean but what do you mean you get what you pay for? They paid a bunch of money and they got a loss. And you know what you get?
Starting point is 00:09:29 A flight home, a sad flight home, and I don't feel bad for you. You have to do risk reward when you do these, Dan, okay? You have to say to yourself, it might be a long 15-hour flight home after Florida State loses with DJU. But when you say you get what you pay for. Well, I don't know what that means.
Starting point is 00:09:44 That's just you wanting to use a cliche there that doesn't make sense? for, I don't know what that means. That's just you wanting to use a cliche there that doesn't make sense? Yeah, I don't know what happened there. Wad Soto, Aaron Judge, John Carlos Stanton, hit back to back to back home runs, the Bronx Bombers, Taylor. Aaron Judge is on base 47% of the time. That's nuts. If Aaron Judge was doing this in the 90s, he'd be our most famous athlete. He'd also likely be on steroids.
Starting point is 00:10:13 The A in Aaron would have stood for anabolic steroids. He would have. Andrew Diesteen or whatever that stuff was. I'm not even certain he's the most famous player in his own sports. Right? It's either him or Shohei Otani. It's Shohei Otani, I think.
Starting point is 00:10:32 You can make an argument for Bryce Harper. Not a good one. No. Not in 2024. You can't possibly have a better summer than the 12 year old who hits a walk-off to win the Little League World Series.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Walk off bunt, small ball, Dan O. That was so much fun. Florida, Little League World Series champions. Florida. Yeah. Sam Howell is a Seahawk. SMU, Snack Victory from the Jaws of Defeat. Bronco Mendenhall is coaching New Mexico.
Starting point is 00:11:09 The Lobos. As long as college football is being played, there will always be a spot for a guy named Bronco Mendenhall. Huh? It's a great name. Thank you. Choked it away.
Starting point is 00:11:23 You don't play Montana State. You don't? You don't play Montana, You said it. Montana State, the Dakotas. Yes. Youoked it away. You don't play Montana State. You don't play Montana, You said it. You said it. The Dakotas. You stop playing those. Mm-hmm. You stop, you never schedule those.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Noah Lyles is making demands for a race with Tyreek Hill. Noah, news flash, Olympics are over. So is your 15 minutes. You wouldn't be interested in that race? Nah, football started. I'd be interested. Next summer. I'd be interested to watch someone be a lot faster than Tyree Kil.
Starting point is 00:11:54 Spencer Rattler. Little something I like to call it factor, Dano. Not not at Oklahoma. He didn't have it. He does now in the NFL. South Carolina kind of rekindled some of the excitement. it on the pole at LeBattard show did Trey Lance improve Prescott's bargaining position Five interceptions, how crazy is it? How crazy is it that we've gotten so used to quarterbacks not making mistakes that when someone throws up one of those fouts games
Starting point is 00:12:23 We're like, what the hell is that what is five Interceptions you can't play that position. I Love a cowboy collar neck roll on as a linebacker Did you see Georgia Tech's middle linebacker yeah, that's why yeah You get me a linebacker with a cowboy collar neck and I like our chances. Drake may can scoot. Sneaky athletic. Taylor. Drake may be. Drake may be. Drake maybe. Mine.
Starting point is 00:13:04 Is it maybe one word or maybe two words? It's M-A-Y-D-H-B-E. Oh wow, it's towards a dash in the middle of it. Yeah. Drake maybe? Oh, there's a question mark in there too. Of course there is. Oh, that changes everything.
Starting point is 00:13:19 Yes. Walking like cadence into that one. Yeah, I do. But a dash, I didn't have it being a dash. That's the way I do it College football, I'm not calling it the two-minute timeout It's the two-minute warning stop trying to make me say what you want me to say Stop trying to make it a thing. It's not a thing. It's already there. It's called the two-minute warning
Starting point is 00:13:44 I'm an idiot that was screaming get out of of bounds! Having forgot that that role was in place. Yep. I lost a preseason bet Cowboys Moneyline. I wanted to be mad at Trey Lance, but I have only myself to blame. I bet a Moneyline preseason. I want to yell at Trey. I do Dak Prescott that is such a great observation, but you should write these I Mean it was pretty funny to have Trey Lance go out there and throw the ball 50 times and all of a sudden Dallas to realize Oh, we don't have another answer if that gets hurt Sugats who doesn't actually write his own observation. I do should write some. I do. I write them all. Keep an eye on Traveon Williams. That's mine. Regardless of what part of the spa I'm in, I always feel the need to whisper. OLI. Library. Hospital. Number five, Temple. Number four,
Starting point is 00:14:55 watching the last dance. Number three, Cooperstown. Number two, Canton. You've been to the Hall of Fame? Yes. The NFL Hall of Fame? No. Oh, you haven't. Then you haven't been to the Hall of Fame. Barbecue Hall of Fame? You should whisper there.
Starting point is 00:15:13 You said Cooperstown. I met Canton. Number one, Augusta. Do you do the thing where you're watching tennis or golf with your wife and then you catch yourself whispering in a conversation? All the time. I caught myself doing that as someone's lining up a drive. Put it on the poll please, Juju. Do you whisper while watching golf, whisper to your wife while watching golf on television?
Starting point is 00:15:36 Did you just try to one-up me on the fact that you've been to Canton and I haven't been? Is that what just happened there? Yes. Because we forced you to go with Baccelli and that was the time Yes. Because we forced you to go with Baccelli and that was the time you- No one forced me to go with Baccelli, I paid my own way. I joined Tony Baccelli, I had a great time,
Starting point is 00:15:51 I went to his party, we're friends, I mean- Stoogott. Afternoon drives, Jacksonville, end game. Are you forgetting that we had to push you into doing that? Yeah, well. I mean, no, I'm not forgetting. Picked a bad year year you should have waited for Dwight Freeney who you've been friends with could have hung out with MJ you're
Starting point is 00:16:09 right not that the cons I'm sure weren't great company with you and Vasili but I sat next to the cons I mean KHAN-S. There were three cons, though. You were one of them. Hey. There's another Nakua. He's on the Saints. Samson Nakua. Couple of Nakua's cutting it up. Fanatics lawsuit is going after
Starting point is 00:16:40 Marvin Harrison Jr.'s father. Fanatics, listen to me. Please, I care about you. Be careful. Be very careful. The most dangerous of games. Are we at the point where he's now Marvin Harrison Jr.'s father and not Marvin Harrison?
Starting point is 00:16:56 Yes. We shouldn't be saying that name out loud. Please stop saying that name out loud. Matt Breida, back with the Niners. The Marlins are calling up Griffin Conine, son of Jeff Conine, Mr. Marlin. How about that? Make you feel old? Mr. Marlin, I'm with Chris Cody. Never in the history of team nicknames has there been a player more average as the nickname holder than Mr. Marlin, Jeff Conine who I believe played for seven teams?
Starting point is 00:17:31 Not exactly Mr. Cub. Not exactly. How many teams did Jeff Conine play for? I think it's the Orioles and the Mets twice and the Marlins twice. Eleven Chargers got stuck in an elevator for hours. I wouldn't put it past Jim Harbaugh to stage an elevator getting stuck in the building. Jim Harbaugh says he wished he could have got stuck
Starting point is 00:17:54 on the elevator with the players. I believe him. The quotes were so good, Stugats. They were so ridiculous. Quote, Justin Herbert's a leader. He was a rock. He kept everyone calm. Everyone kept their poise.
Starting point is 00:18:07 You get in those situations and it's a test of wills. He loves a test of wills. He does. Jim Harbaugh would schedule adversity into his day for the hell of it. Speaking of hell, our priors. Dan, those are the weekend observations. Stugatia from my friends over at Simply Safe.
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Starting point is 00:19:46 I've got excellent Stugats, thank you. I've got some stats of the day I want to run by you guys and have you guys tell me which it is that you think is best. Kansas City twice, Baltimore twice for Jeff Koner. Six teams, not 16, six teams. Six teams. And the Marlins twice. And the Marlins twice as well. Royals, Marlins, Royals, Orioles, Marlins, Orioles, Phillies, Reds, Mets. Wait so the Orioles twice as well?
Starting point is 00:20:16 Yes. Orioles also twice. Well six organizations, ten teams right? I don't know if that's how that works. Well, 17 years, so you could say 17 teams, technically. Six franchises. Every team is different. Every year the team is different. So it wasn't 16, it was 17. Six organizations. Six franchises. 10 years in the NL, nine in the AL.
Starting point is 00:20:37 But once, you know, the interleague play, then that's all mish-mash, you know? I've got- Stats of the day? A couple of stats of the day for you. Give me the music, please Start of the day start of the day in this year start of the day Start of the day start of the day in this year start of the day Start of the day start of the day in this year start of the day
Starting point is 00:21:01 Start of the day start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day. Hey. You tell me, Stugats, which of these two you think is better. Okay. This is from my good friend Barry McCaulkin LeBron James average 27.2 points per game when Frank Gore entered the league He averaged 25.7 points per game when Frank Gore's son entered the league
Starting point is 00:21:45 That's one entered the league. That's one stat. The other stat, I don't know if you saw what Shohei Ohtani, you mentioned during your weekend observations that Shohei Ohtani is the biggest star in the sport. Did you see how he got to 40-40 over the weekend? No. So he gets to 40-40 25 games faster than any player in the history of the sport, okay? He gets to 40-40, he games faster than any player in the history of the sport.
Starting point is 00:22:05 Okay, he gets to 40-40. He's got a legitimate chance at 50-50 the way that he plays. And he gets to 40-40, 25 games faster than anyone else and does it on a walk-off grand slam. I've watched way too much raised baseball. Ciri tried to climb the wall. He's a great center fielder, but Otani's ridiculous. And so walk off Grand Slam to get to 40-40. Very cool.
Starting point is 00:22:30 According to MT Money DFS, Otani is having the 11th best offensive season of Barry Bonds' career. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Greatest stat ever, that wins. I mean. Otani is having the 11th best offensive season of Barry Bonds his career Yeah, but Barry couldn't pitch for shit neither can Otani this year. That's all right. We've seen him do it
Starting point is 00:22:58 Mike think of a part of it though. I know but think about this season He's having and it would be the 11th best season Bonds had. Can he get 50-50? He might get there. He's got an outside chance. How many times has Bonds done 50-50? I'm asking out of curiosity. I don't know if Bonds stole 50. I don't think there's such a thing as 50-50.
Starting point is 00:23:16 I don't think anybody's done 50-50. Kinceko at 40-40, I believe. I don't think anybody's ever done 50-50. That would be pretty rad, yeah. I mean, he's gotten there 25 games50. That would be pretty rad, yeah. I mean, he's gotten there 25 games faster. There are a couple of things in baseball happening that haven't happened in a really long time.
Starting point is 00:23:32 The White Sox got to 100 losses faster than any team since 1916. Like, this is, what we're watching with the Chicago White Sox is a historic not seen in a century awful. Zero talking on ESPN about baseball today, zero. In fact, we've been canvassing what's been on first take and for 43 minutes, they've been talking about
Starting point is 00:23:54 the Denver Post columnist being banned from Colorado. All right, well you mentioned that on Thursday, all eyes are gonna be on Boulder and I wanted to ask you guys something because Stugats, the columnist is named Sean Keeler and he has been banned because of what the Colorado Buffalos are calling sustained personal attacks. He has called Dion a false prophet. He's called him Deposition Dion. He's called him Planet Prime, and this is my favorite. He's called him the Bruce Lee of BS.
Starting point is 00:24:33 Wasn't that Bruce Lee? I don't think of Bruce Lee as being BS. Oh, dude, there was a whole controversy. And I'm not saying it. I'm just doing what Quentin Tarantino did. Right. There were a whole bunch of controversy from his surviving family because of how he was portrayed,
Starting point is 00:24:51 when many people around that industry finally liked that someone was actually portraying Bruce Lee the way that he was in real life, and it became a big thing. But let's get back to, and put it on the pole, Jujurat Levitage show, was Bruce Lee bullshit, which is blasphemous.
Starting point is 00:25:08 Yeah, they're gonna come after you. No, it's. And by they I mean his family. Right. I'm saying it's bullshit. Dangerous game, David. I'm not doing the dangerous game. I'm putting it as a poll question,
Starting point is 00:25:17 it's just a question the audience decides. This is not my doing, this is Mike's doing. I would not ever accuse Bruce Lee of being bullshit. But Sean Keeler says would not ever accuse Bruce Lee of being bullshit but Sean Keeler says that he's the Bruce Lee of BS and I just wanted to ask you Stu Gotts because the heat on this is now in a really unusual unreasonable place if he's going to decide he's going to fight the media the way he's always
Starting point is 00:25:44 fought the media the way he's always fought the media, the place that this gets ratcheted up to is unlike any that any college football game is enduring. Any college football coach is enduring. College football coaches have all sorts of problems with the media all the time, but we haven't played a game yet. Stugatser hasn't been. It's one season and the noise around this man and this team are not any kind of sane. I get that this is like a compelling, interesting story, but 40 straight minutes to start first take like this seems ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:26:14 It does. It does. Makes me wonder who has that game on Thursday night. Yeah, when you say that's ridiculous, I remember that you guys remember, I don't know if this got a lot of traction. It's a ESPN. They have the rights. Chris Carter recently said that he wanted to punch Skip Bayless in the face and told him during a segment not to ever disrespect me that way again because they were talking so much Tebow and Skip Bayless said to Chris Carter when Chris Carter said if throwing
Starting point is 00:26:44 a football is important for a quarterback tim tibo is not a professional quarterback and skip bala said to him that's why you never want a super bowl what that's yes but but the other reason i bring it up is because they're gonna cover d on the way they covered tibo it's the easiest thing in the world forty minutes of dion you know what's the only thing wrong
Starting point is 00:27:06 with 40 minutes of Dion? That's not 50 minutes of Dion. Like that's, they will eat up all of that and it will be trafficking in whatever the sports fan will argue about because they'll prep up the game for three days from now. They'll get to 50 minutes by the way. It'll be interesting.
Starting point is 00:27:21 I wish I was actually hearing this conversation though because Stephen A and Shana Sharp, they have the relationships with Dion. In fact, Stephen A was actually speaking for Dion as to why the last time he had a press conference interaction that didn't land the right way, he was kind of speaking for him. Even though there were other journalists
Starting point is 00:27:41 that are also close to Dion, saying something totally different. The one who got put on the blogs was Stephen A speaking for Dion Sanders. So it's a curious spot that they're in, but right now they're feeding the machine because they are the machine. I don't know what they're saying either, but I am willing to bet I'd place money on what I'm about to say, which is in those 40 minutes of all the things they're talking about, one Oh we had the appetizer last week but now it's time to feast. College football is back. Don't miss any of the action, jump in with Draft King's Sportsbook.
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Starting point is 00:29:11 expire 168 hours after issuance for additional terms and responsible gaming resources see DKNG.co slash FT ball. Don LeBattard there is no question Dan Lebatard show included. Anybody else that this guy is the best player on the planet. Whether he wins the Stanley Cup or the Cotsmite this year, there is no question about it. Stugats Overrated, wait, some say overrated. Dan Lebatard, how you doing? Are you living in an altered world or what? Oh my goodness. This is the Dan Lebatard, how you doing? Are we living in an altered world or what? Oh my goodness. This is the Dan Lebatard Show with the Stugats.
Starting point is 00:30:00 Stugats making this an even more exciting and action packed time than it feels like for sports fans because football is here and there's just a lot going on. You're about to be bombarded with stimuli. One of our favorite times of the year is when we get to go over the past year and remember nostalgically all the things that went wrong and all the awards to give out. There are usually a lot of them to give out in our sues. And your category, the one that I think of
Starting point is 00:30:28 when I think of you is dismissals. Like that is the Stugats honorary category. I think it's the best one. Like I expect you always to win this category. Right, I expect myself to win the category every year, but I am told that Billy Gill had a hell of a year. That's all I'm concerned. Let's not sleep on Stugats.
Starting point is 00:30:47 He still brings it in this category, but I would say if there's someone else coming for his throne, it was Billy this year. Billy, how do you feel about being a challenger in this category? Do you think you can knock him off? So proud of him. Not great, to be honest with you.
Starting point is 00:30:58 All right, who's the voice? Let's find out together who the voice of the Sues is this year And now the suey nominees for best dismissal Billy Gill dismisses Canada But now that Canada is being all judgy McJugstein over Greg Cody and now that they're you know They think they're holier than thou I hope the Panthers win oh finally Stanley Cup again and these miserable Canucks up there who think that they're better than the rest of us that they know hockey better than Everyone else get the show how about you get the cup which you haven't for 30 years And you're not gonna this year because Connor Mcoverrated is gonna choke and vomit all over himself all over again
Starting point is 00:31:47 because he's no Wayne Gretzky who did it all on his own and needed no help ever. Hockey. Mina Conns dismisses Dan's flannel. Did you get lost on the way to Home Depot today, Dan? Like what's going on with the plants? Get his ass, Mina. But do it in song.
Starting point is 00:32:04 You look like you're about to ask me to check the oil on my car. Get him. Or come over and look around and point things in my house that need to be fixed. Stu Gotts dismisses Bo Nix. Bo Nix, blah, blah, blah. Come on.
Starting point is 00:32:17 Dan, you know what the N in Nick stands for? Not the NFL. You know what the B in Bo stands for? Better start thinking about getting a job. Billy Gill dismisses Disney adults. Adults, if you're waiting 45 minutes to meet Mickey Mouse, reprioritize your life. Dwayne Wade dismisses Paul Pierce. Have you ever wanted to just tell Paul to shut the **** up? Very subtle. Very subtle.
Starting point is 00:32:39 Well, I don't I mean, listen, rent is expensive in America and I'm living rent free now. So let him keep let him keep going. I mean listen rent is expensive in in America and I'm living rent free now. So let them keep let them keep I like living rent free. Mike Ryan dismisses Victor Wemba. Nama. I'm not a good basketball player Not good. He's just tall billy gill dismisses messy this fucking guy They pay him how much to come here and play for inter miami and mls. He's taking around In some stupid Copa tournament. It doesn't matter. Buddy, you won the World Cup,
Starting point is 00:33:07 you won the international tournament, you're gonna win. Why are we playing this other ridiculous cup? He's already also won that tournament. So what is he doing? Like enough already. Who agrees to have their employee come and just not show up to work to go work at another company and then have him get injured?
Starting point is 00:33:23 I don't get it. Stugastis dismisses Reggie Miller. I don't want to hear about Reggie Miller. I mean, he has somehow inserted himself into this series. I am tired of Reggie Miller. Reggie Miller was 9 and 33 for his career on the road against the Knicks. He had nine seconds. Take those nine seconds away and Reggie Miller, according to Dan, who was asked by Boog Shombie at the Versace Mansion many, many years ago, Reggie Miller, not a Hall of Famer. Great moment.
Starting point is 00:33:49 I am tired of hearing about Reggie Miller. The shipping container dismisses Dan's flannel. Dan, you look like a divorced dad. Yeah. And a great one at that. Yeah. I have a divorced dad. I can attest, you do.
Starting point is 00:34:02 Like on a first date. Like you're the divorced dad that has your ex-wife being like, what, now you look good? Now you're putting it together? Where was this effort when we were together? What's your gambit? Guess what, Dollaritas are back. Billy Gill dismisses Mets groundskeepers.
Starting point is 00:34:16 It's the groundskeepers. Don't get me started on them. I don't know what they're doing. They don't seem to care about their jobs. They're like, ah, the season's over and they're just playing around. I don't know if you saw what happened last night. Last night there seem to care about their jobs. They're like, the season's over and they're just playing around. I don't know if you saw what happened last night. Last night, there was a three hour rain delay.
Starting point is 00:34:28 At one point, the groundskeepers were taking group photos on the field instead of keeping the ground or whatever it is that they do. Like, I don't know why they were taking group pictures. They were laughing about they were removing the tarp making puddles in the outfield, not the puddles that we've wanted in the outfield to make the game more fun, the puddles that cause games to not continue. They've just been an absolute disaster. This groundskeeper team. I don't get me started on them. Greg Cody dismisses Michael Phelps. Do respect to Michael Phelps. Oh boy. Can you be the number one professional athlete of your century when people only give a shit
Starting point is 00:35:05 about you two weeks once every four years? Billy Gill dismisses whales. If the whales want to continue to exist on this world, they will stop f***ing with human beings. I'm telling you that right now, okay? There's not a human world under the water. There's a sea world on earth because we capture the whales and then we put them in tanks. If we wanted to end the whales, we would end the whales. So they need to stand
Starting point is 00:35:28 down. Dominique Foxworth dismisses his son's dap. I took my son to the barbershop, get a haircut and my man gave out some limp dap. Oh no. Damn, damn, damn. I disowned him. I threw him right under the bus. I was like, whose kid is that out here dishing out limp dap? Grandma Smetty dismisses Grandpa Smetty. I don't think I ever got that many roses in my whole life. Certainly not from your lovely grandfather
Starting point is 00:35:53 got in a mask, so rest in peace. Jeff Jarvis dismisses AI. It's macho waving by the AI boys to think that they're ever going to be so, they can make the machine that's so smart and smarter than us all so they're smarter than us all it's crap don't panic about it don't worry about it they're all part of a cult called Tesquiao they're nutballs Chris mad dog Russo dismisses Halloween I wouldn't guess the Halloween that's another complete waste of time I didn't like Halloween when I was a kid.
Starting point is 00:36:25 Hmm. As a kid you didn't? And I couldn't stand it. Fishposh. What a joke. Running around getting candy. I couldn't... And nobody comes to my house because I'm a rough cookie. I leave all the lights off. No little kids bouncing around. And if they come, I give them more tootsie rolls because that ruins teeth. Mike Ryan dismisses Mario crystal ball for not kneeling
Starting point is 00:36:59 Not crystal ball though you didn't know I was screaming at crystal ball before that in the first down The shipping container dismisses UM this team is just an average college football team right yeah Yeah, he's lost a team Mario is lost My team did not lose. I'm telling you though Kane's fans have this persecution complex Like they are hated by the NCAA they're built up anytime that UM starts 4-0 against a crappy everyone wants the case We're good. Yeah other teams in the ACC have to work way harder to be ranked than agree Miami Yeah, Miami is gift-wrapped in rankings as soon as they start any season 4-0. Yeah, and they find a way to blow it every year. If we go back over the last 10 years, they've probably lost to every ACC team at some point. It's not like they just lose to the same one every year. They've lost to all of them. Virginia,
Starting point is 00:37:55 Virginia Tech, Clemson, Georgia Tech. It's just a different team every year. I'm just so over. This team is just an average college football team. Spencer Hall dismisses Drake. First of all, Drake is boring. Drake has always been boring. Drake lives and dies off his producers. Drake has never said an interesting thing. Quote me a Drake bar that matters. Not one, not at all.
Starting point is 00:38:16 Oh, that's interesting. You have trust issues with women. Oh, wow. You did it all yourself. That's every Drake song. I did it all for my team and I hate women. That's it. Stu Goss dismisses Joel Embiid.
Starting point is 00:38:27 I'm tired of Joel Embiid. I gotta be honest with you. Every 10 seconds, it's drama. He's either hurt, he's on the floor, he's grabbing his shorts, he's grabbing his ankles, he's bent over, he's tired, he's mad at a teammate, he's mad at a referee. He's never mad at himself though. Stu. Never mad at himself. And then that boneheaded decision when you're already hurt to toss one off the backboard and throw it home at the mecca. Are you crazy? That was the dumbest decision in the history of NBA decisions. Stu Gotts dismisses the 76ers. I'm tired of them. Their fan base, the whole team, the organization.
Starting point is 00:39:05 I can't stand them. I can't stand any of them. Nick Nurse, enough. Complains about every single call. Those guys limping around complaining, I've got a headache, I've got this, my leg hurts, Maxie faking injuries, then going out fourth quarter having the greatest fourth quarter that the mecca has ever seen. Stu Gotz dismisses Robert Kraft and Arthur Blank. Robert Kraft should be ashamed of himself. I'm serious. I mean, the way he is smearing Bill Belichick after he left New England with that documentary, with this report, another deep dive by Seth Wickersham,
Starting point is 00:39:39 he should be ashamed of himself. Bill Belichick has raised the value of his franchise exponentially. He has won him six Super Bowls. He has made that lousy organization one of the, one of the marquee organizations in the NFL. And I don't understand what Robert Kraft is doing calling Arthur Blank, and he should be ashamed of himself as well, because Arthur Blank, make your own decisions. What the hell are you doing? You're gonna let Bob Kraft impact who you're gonna hire a head coach get the hell out of here your organization is lousy
Starting point is 00:40:12 It will always be lousy. You'll never be good at Bob Kraft The only reason your organization is good is because of Bill Belichick Stu. Gus dismisses Bill Belichick Nothing since since Brady left he made the playoffs once I think in the very least he should not be a first ballot Hall of Famer they should make him wait like 10 years to get it he's an overrated coach Stu gots dismisses Kyrie Irving and Luca Donchich he was lousy and he's lazy I mean I'm so play defense no sprint back play defense rotate stop leaving guys, shooting open threes.
Starting point is 00:40:46 He's lazy. He is lazy. And Kyrie Irving, the audacity of that guy to come out, who has lost 12 straight now to the Boston Celtics, leader guy, I've changed, saying all the right things, doing all the right things, except when he steps on a court in Boston. That was an all-time lousy NBA Finals performance.
Starting point is 00:41:08 He should be ashamed of himself. People call him one of the great offensive players of all time. Great handle, best handles. Oh, he's got handles. He's got handles. You know what he had? No threes last night. He was terrible. Rachel Weiner dismisses her dad, Stu Gotts. I had Rachel and Emma both home, and I was in a fight with Rachel and I said if you roll
Starting point is 00:41:28 your eyes one more time there's going to be a problem. A big problem. And she said, really? What are you going to do? Oh god damn. I mean that's where she... I didn't have an answer. The sod father, George Tomah, dismisses Roger Goodell.
Starting point is 00:41:42 They just don't give a damn, you know, And I could help them to leave it as prop, but you think that'll ever happen? No. If they don't do it, we have to take it to the government. Yes. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. We have to take it to the government
Starting point is 00:42:00 because of the plea for playing conditions and they don't give a damn. For Coober Cup! Yeah! They're injuring the players, George! They're injuring them! Because they don't give a damn, Dan. The only one that's going to do it is George P. Tomo having a meeting and if they don't
Starting point is 00:42:18 listen we go to the government. Billy Gill dismisses the Knicks. Your team choked, okay? Oh, I know. You guys had this, and you choked, and you were embarrassed on your home court. And you're giving them a standing ovation when in reality they deserve to be booed off the court for that performance.
Starting point is 00:42:35 Especially for Ed Sinclair. That was loser mentality by those fans saying, we're so proud, we're so happy. No, you guys got punk. Mike Ryan dismisses Jason Tatum that dude was a coward That dude was a coward don't don't tell me the aggregated ten points and let that be the headline that dude disappeared He was chicken Personified on that court get out of here. He got lucky because
Starting point is 00:43:00 Jalen Brown hit a gagasso of all times and Rick Harlile just blew that game. That dude was a chicken. Mike Johnson dismisses Greg Cody. This is Mick ridiculous. Absolutely. I said I'm all about clickbait, reader engagement, pandering to the home crowd. I get that. But like if you know anything about hockey and I'm assuming Greg might... Stu Gotts dismisses Shohei Otani. Shohei Otani is overrated. He has had one 100 RBI season. One. He has never taken his team to the playoffs. The next playoff game he plays will be his first playoff game of his career. He can't pitch next year. $700 million seems like a lot of money for a guy
Starting point is 00:43:48 who's 29 years old and had one 100 RBI season and couldn't make it to the playoffs with Mike Trout. He's overrated. Stu Gotts dismisses the Kansas City Chiefs. Dan, this time of year, everyone talks about teams they don't want to see come playoff time. I want to talk about a team that I't want to see come playoff time. I want to talk about a team that I actually want to see come playoff time. I want to see the Chiefs. I want Patrick
Starting point is 00:44:11 Mahomes strolling into my stadium with max confidence. I want Travis Kelce. I want Taylor Swift. I want the team that lost to Jordan Love. I want the team that lost to Aiden O'Connell. I want the team that trailed 17 to nothing to Jake Browning. That is the team that I would like to face in the playoffs. That's the team indeed that I would want to face in the playoffs because that team is not very good. Wow, welcome back, Sui's. Stugats with a late run there. He had a lot, a rare double ashamed
Starting point is 00:44:49 of themselves. Showay is overrated. Bill Belichick did everything for the Patriots. Bill Belichick is overrated right after that. Put a couple of things on the poll. Billy, though, I think you made a strong challenge. Yeah. A big strong year of dismissals from Billy Gill. Put these on the poll please. Do groundskeepers keep the ground at Levitard Show and also put on the poll do tootsie rolls ruin your teeth. Mad Dog says he doesn't do Halloween. I don't know if you guys saw this
Starting point is 00:45:18 story. Did you guys see that Snoop Dogg in order to avoid all of the pictures that the parents want when he takes his grandkids to birthday parties, Snoop Dogg admits to wearing full-on costumes where he's not recognized as Snoop Dogg, so Grandpa goes to the grandkids' birthday parties, but is in such a costume that no one recognizes that Snoop Dogg is at the party
Starting point is 00:45:45 because he doesn't want to be bothered by the parents. And over there Barney's smoking a joint, it's a little odd. I imagine, right? Because it'd be hard for him to just do it with makeup, so it's gotta be like he's in a mascot's costume of some sort. And then the mascot Barney does smell like marijuana.
Starting point is 00:46:03 At a certain point though, you have to like, you're a guy who's doing five hours of makeup to avoid six photos, like what are we doing? I don't think it's five hours of makeup. I think it's Chris's idea. I don't know exactly, but I think he is just hiding inside some sort of thing where you can't tell at all that it's him.
Starting point is 00:46:21 It's not makeup, it's a costume, it's a bit of a uniform. Also there's a lot of confidence in word not leaking out that Snoop Dogg's that it's him. It's not makeup, it's a costume, it's a bit of a uniform. Also there's a lot of confidence and word not leaking out that Snoop Dogg's that person's grandfather. That's just a weird conversation. Didn't you tell me that was Snoop Dogg's grandkid? You could mess with your friend, you go up to your kid like, guess who Barney is? Well it's not just that you can mess with your friend, it's that if you then know that
Starting point is 00:46:41 Snoop Dogg is there, all you get is a picture with Barney. And then you tell people, look I took a selfie with Snoop Dogg, if you then know that Snoop Dogg is there, all you get is a picture with Barney. And then you tell people, look, I took a selfie with Snoop Dogg. No, you didn't. It was just a Barney costume that smelled like marijuana. It's like, look, I know him, I've had a few beers, but Barney spoke and he sounded just like Snoop Dogg. Ha ha ha ha ha.

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