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are businesses, and Pablo Torre finds out is a business. And so I should tell you by way of promotion that Stugatz is doing God Bless Football more often and is trying to get a running start with pilots on being around five days a week on God Bless Football as he grows that. Why don't you tell the people, Stugatz, how it is they can get to where it is they need to get to in order to find all things Gots on God

on StuTube. You can also find StuPodity as well. We have a new episode that's out right now. We had Tim Legler on, so he was pretty interesting. You can go to youtube.com slash atstugatz790. That's where you go. He was pretty interesting. It's not much of a sale for Tim Legler, though. He was pretty interesting. Isn't that StuGatz salesmanship? I'm just letting you know that there's an episode out

right now. We did an episode. We did two episodes yesterday. So we're doing Stupotity. We're trying to bring that back. It's doing very well. I appreciate everyone's support. We're doing that three to four times a week. We'll get to five times a week with God Bless Football once football rolls around. I tell you, when I hear that Tim Ludger was pretty interesting. Who? Tim Ludger. Legs. Legs. Legs was great. Seems to be a tough one for him. You put like six or seven L's in Legler. Yeah, I did.

It sounds like you after 12 beers. You don't know what's in here. You don't know what's in here. But no, when I hear that he's pretty interesting, it makes me want to listen. Thank you. I mean, what? Pretty interesting. That's big praise. He was pretty interesting. It's not like maximum sales. Sturgatz is a great salesman. There's a ceiling with Tim Legler, and pretty interesting is the ceiling, and so he hit the ceiling. I was proud of Tim. I don't think that's

the ceiling with Tim Legler. He's one of the best doing it. I think Tim Legler... He was great. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I'm not... That's not usually you. That's not usually you. I want to ask all of you this question about... You've heard me lament in various ways the degrees in which sports coverage changes so that one of the talking points after

Shea Gilgis Alexander and OKC gives us a championship that I guess people are sort of confused by because they're looking at it and are like, well, aren't all these guys supposed to suffer for a few years before they get that good and celebrate in their early 20s winning the NBA championship? They just suffered last year. They seem indifferent. That's the part that annoyed me the most.

They're young and there's something unsatisfying of customers feeling, for whatever the reasons are, like they have more joy about what the history of the story is than these kids out there that are in their early 20s and didn't even need a veteran of any kind to win the entire sport.

At Barstool Sports, Mark Titus says of Shea Gilgis Alexander, quote,

And Bob Ryan. I love this. I'm not going to say he speaks for all of us here, but he speaks for an indignance that comes from Greg Cody's 1919 baseball age. He says of Mark Titus, who is this shithead?

Classic Bob. I would say it's not classic Bob in that Bob has never been this aggressive throwing shit from on top of Mount Sportswriter. When a columnist does this to you, Bob Ryan does not normally hit anybody with who is this shithead. Mark Titus is what is new Boston sports, is it not? Is Barstool not new Boston sports coming to take the city away from Boston? He's not really a Boston guy. Barstool did...

rise up from Boston, but we were talking about Mark Titus when he had his Club Trillion blog. What was he, Ohio State? He's an Ohio State rotational player. I mean, his point is that SGA is not fun to watch. Do we disagree? He's not. I kind of see the point he's making. Obviously, he was saying things that were strong takes, but he's not the most fun guy to watch. Okay, but what do you want? You don't want

mid-range? I mean, you don't want somebody who can get every shot that he wants, that everyone has to get out of the way because he's going to score 35 quietly, usually efficiently. What are you laughing about, Billy? I'm just not going through Bob Ryan's replies, which is great because someone tweeted out to people still eat baked potatoes. And Bob Ryan said, you know what? I need to reply to that. He said dinner tonight. Then someone else said super serious question to people over the age of 50 still read newspaper.

And he said, what kind of stupid question is this? It seems as though Bob Ryan's spending a lot of time on Twitter answering people's questions for some reason that aren't directed at him. He's just looking up questions to answer. We used to play Explain Your Tweet with him a lot. There was one that he had over the weekend that was a

as a certified banger. It was, I was on the beach between 16th and 17th Street in North Beach Haven, New Jersey, listening to my transistor radio when Jim Bunning threw his perfect game against the Mets 61 years ago today. Where were you? Oh,

Greg, where were you? I was at the Cleveland game. What was the date again? I'll tell you where I was. It was Jim Bunning's perfect game against the Mets 61 years ago. Greg, you can't do this. You've made up that you saw Wilt Chamberlain's game when famously there's no video of it. He saw it. I gave him a chance. I saw it. I gave him a chance.

1961? Well, I was six going on seven, so I don't have a vivid memory. Again, that was 61 years ago. Bob Ryan hitting you. Good chance you were home. Bob Ryan hitting you with who is this shithead?

That one stings if you're Titus. Yeah, he's been in the media game for 20 years and he's had a respectable career that Bob should have been made aware of over the last few years. Someone tweeted out, am I the only person in America who's never owned a pair of Crocs? And Bob said, hell no.

Bobby. I'd like to bring back, explain your tweets. I'd like to bring back Bob Ryan. I heard, I was driving around this weekend. I heard Peter Gammon's on the radio. Get out of here. Telling stories. Still doing it, huh? Diamond notes. I believe, I believe last weekend, I don't know if this was a taped interview or not, might have been Peter Gammon's day at Fenway Park. Really? I think so. How did I miss that? I'd go. I'd go. Well, speaking of older,

Not this old, but speaking of ESPN personalities or people that you grew up on, Stugat, Max Kellerman is about to make his return. And Max Kellerman has been a prodigy in our business since he was 14 years old. And I'd be curious, just people listening to this, what story?

they would think of max kellerman leaving first take and i guess probably taking some of the nuance with him because uh... one of the complaints that steven a had about max kellerman in getting him fired was that max was offering context to an argument show when he wanted to do an argument show and since then it's become more and more of an argument show although

I guess we probably all know at this point that Shannon Sharp is not likely to ever work at ESPN again, right? I don't know. Well, but I mean, I think we can reasonably assume that Shannon Sharp would like it to look like he has a chance to return. I don't know that you can be Disney and allow any of what happened.

in there. Does he need to? I mean, it helps to be on that platform during the week, but Stephen A has made it. I mean, I don't know how many people care about this, but Stephen A just sort of works independently now. He got the deal that allows him to just be on first take and then do everything else, and in doing so, first take has been a giant for a long time, Max Kellerman fell by the wayside, and I think we can say Stephen A profited off of his decision there in

every way in a way that was really good for Stephen A and ESPN, but less good for Max Kellerman. So I searched Max Kellerman on social media because I saw he's calling a big time boxing fight and it feels big in part because Max Kellerman is calling this fight. It's his first

boxing match in 24 months. He's partnering back up with Jim Lampley, who just himself returned from a six-year hiatus, calling boxing matches... You're saying Max makes the match feel bigger. Just being on the call. You get Lampley and Max together on a call, and boxing has...

Been missing those two on a call. I know I grew up on those two voices. That speaks out how long Max Kellerman's been in the business, and he's still a young man. But Max Kellerman, I was searching his name on social media, and there's a lot of positivity about, man, we didn't realize how good we had it.

when Max was over there. And what's happened is, as Stephen A has leaned into the politics and sometimes going right of center or at least not nearly as progressive as Max's takes were. Remember when Max was there, a lot was going on in the country. It's not like

less is going on now but his voice one of the great insults and indignities of steven a's career is on his show terrell owen saying on that show that max was blacker than steven a max was often on the right side of these issues and the more prevalent they get to steven a is more and more comfortable talking about politics on first take even that man perhaps they should have let it

ride out a little bit longer. That showed of age with some grace and Max's voice would have been a little bit more pronounced and more appreciated as the times evolved and as Stephen A's career also evolved. Peter Gammon's day is January 9th. Was proclaimed in 2009, so just 16 years off on your take.

Bob Ryan has defined himself as a Jersey guy in the questions, not a Boston guy. He replied to a question, do you like black coffee, no sugar, no cream? Bob Ryan has said, only way to go. Then someone else tweeted, no one truly loves cauliflower, right? And he said, can't imagine.

Put it on the poll, please, at Labotard Show. Does anyone truly love cauliflower? Yes or no? What do you think Max Kellerman's price would be? Because everyone has a price. What do you think Max Kellerman's price would be to call a Jake Paul fight?

because I cannot imagine that Max Kellerman likes the Jake Paul boxing circus, and he views himself as a boxing historian and a gatekeeper for boxing. But why are you doing that views himself? He replaced Larry Merchant. Larry Merchant was the longtime voice of boxing. It's a big deal that Lampley and Kellerman are doing this fight and boxing.

This is as UFC has its worst year at the top of 2025 diluted, but at least in part by some of the ESPN plus diluting of how many matches that they have on UFC. Boxing is trying to make some sort of comeback here. And Max Kellerman is purposely choosing the sport that he loves the most since being a prodigy from 14 years old to make a pretty loud return to

After two years of silence have shown us what? Because super unusual for Max Kellerman to just disappear and now return and have value in a new media economy as somebody who sat out the last two years and comes back pristine after first take becomes something else in his absence. So what do you think he would charge to do a...

a fight of Jake Paul. Everyone's got a number. Everyone has a number, but this is very much below him in what he stands for as a boxing broadcaster. What do you imagine Max makes per fight? That's a question I wouldn't know. I think because of contracts, he never had the opportunity to call one of Jake's fights because of different broadcast rights and him being tethered to HBO at the time. I could see him doing it. When he was calling ESPN, they didn't have the Jake Paul fights. Every time that I looked up that he talked about Jake Paul, he didn't really poo-poo him

to borrow a phrase from earlier, he broke it down seriously and did toe the line that some of these cards are really good for the sport. They got good boxing cards there, especially the women's boxing game. So he has broken them down seriously. So I think he would. - You think he'd do it? - I think he would. And look, this fight is being run by TKO, right?

TKO has Logan Paul as a wrestler in WWE presently. There's all sorts of rumors of them partnering up with the Saudis and doing more of these boxing events. And Max Kellerman has been brought into the fold. So I imagine it's only a matter of time before he's calling one of these Paul brother fights. When I say Max Kellerman is a prodigy, I believe he was on New York cable television as a boxing analyst at 14.

I believe he had a show at 14 years old and that was his introduction to media and he is extraordinary on boxing. It's his favorite sport. I believe Marcellus Wiley has called him a genius and I do believe that that is so of Max Kellerman. And so it was interesting to watch the changes in first take over the last four years, but also happy to see that Max is returning. And I would imagine with many opportunities, I would imagine

that Max with freedom can now grab a number of different jobs that might be more fulfilling than what he was doing in his earlier life. I don't know what the contract language was. Remember, he got bought out of his contract and he hasn't done anything really for 24 months. And it seemed as though he was satisfied sitting out and seeing what the media landscape would be. And I do think that people learned to appreciate him more in his absence rather than him just moved on to the next thing and try to stay in the cycle. It's an interesting case study. He was 16 when that show started. That's fine. Okay.

Is it a fine? Do I deserve a fine? Yeah, it's a fine. Too fine for Gavin's, too. That's a big fine? I'm not a young man, really, but I'm 39 years old, and Max Kellerman was one of the voices of boxing and known as a boxing historian when I was a little kid watching documentaries about boxing and boxing.

How old is Max? He's 51 years old. It's crazy. It doesn't seem like Billy has any interest or enthusiasm for Max Kellerman's return. Well, he asked a question. No one answered it. That's not a fair thing to say. I'm not throwing a party. Hey, it's a Max Kellerman watch party because he's coming back after being gone for two years. I have no problem with Max.

I'm just asking if he would do a Jake Paul fight. I agree with Billy. I mean, I'm not going to watch a boxing match because of who's calling it. You know, I just am not that interested. But you don't love boxing. Well, I used to. I used to.

Well, when I ask you— We all used to. But if you love boxing, you're not watching for Max Kellerman. You're watching for boxing. It does feel bigger when he does it, just like when Troy Aikman and Joe Buck are doing Monday Night Football. It feels like a bigger game. The broadcasters make it feel bigger, but you're not tuning in for the— I mean, you've been saying that for years. Anyone can be broadcasting. You're not tuning in for them. I bet.

people are tuning in for Canelo versus Crawford and this is a fight that people wanted to see for a long time and you have Jim Gray as a part of the broadcast, Mark Regal, friend of the show, I think, on the broadcast. This is a first fight that feels legit in quite some time. It was...

one that people have been wanting to see and to have these voices from your past come back, who were always on the big fights, give it more legitimacy when boxing has kind of become a celebrity circuit and it's been Saudi cards and it's been big and gaudy and what can we make, what production can we put around this and make it feel bigger? It's been quite some time since people have been wanting to see just two guys, two pugilists go in a ring

and fight it out. Those guys on the call certainly make it feel bigger. Greg, is there an announcer that you've actually gone out of your way to watch? Not. Like, because he's calling the game. For me, it's Vin Scully. I would go out of my way to watch games I didn't care about because he was calling the game. Yo, Chicken Thot. I don't disagree with that. I mean, what are you? How many of you?

There can't be a

There are no dissenting chickens. I think you'd be shocked at the amount of people in our audience that had MLB extra innings that went to bed with an LA Dodgers late game and Ben Scully just doing his thing. By the way, huge, huge, huge update for Dan on Peter Gammon's day. Turns out the city of Boston, Peter Gammon's day, that was the one that was declared in 2009. But,

Peter Gammons did throw out the first pitch on June 15th, Red Sox against the Yankees, and it was declared by the Boston Red Sox themselves. Peter Gammons' day. So congratulations. He has two days? Yeah, journalism's day. One at Fenway and one with Boston? Yeah, that's right. That's a special guy.

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Don Levitard. You owe me everything. You owe me everything. You have added 10 years to my career. Yes, I have. This man has. You haven't. That man. Who the hell are you? Stugatz. Ah!

Who the hell are you? Bullshit. You're a rude young man. You're a fool. You're a fool. I already called you a fool. You're a fool right back. You can't call me a fool. You're an idiot again. It's a fool wrong. You're an idiot twice. You're an idiot for dismissing how much I've helped you. This is the Don Levitas show with the Stugats.

Greg, would you ever throw out a first pitch at a game when you're covering the team in the market? After I retire, maybe. I did have a day in Fort Myers, so that was big. Okay, so we've gone back to the wheelhouse. Please get me the sound from that day. He loves to relive that day. But I do want to, for just a moment, talk about...

I was waiting for Tony because he's going to be in Vegas this weekend, and it has been a really disappointing year for UFC. I've sort of checked out over the last many years on my fight game allegiances that Stu Gatz has made fun of because I really have enjoyed over the years the science of pitting mixed martial arts against each other and also...

the lunacy that is making your living fighting other human beings for money. And you have heard and seen my distaste for Dana White and all things UFC, and chief among them is using and paying that labor force 20% as he gets rich, sloppy, and powerful. And now I'm reading reports that he doesn't even do the press conferences very much anymore because he's moved on to other things, and there has been a dilution of product

where ESPN Plus is asking you to pay for ESPN Plus, and then you've got to pay for pay-per-view, and you still get commercials, and they're doing too many fights. So they get decent main events, but they've got a problem, right, where they just sell us O'Malley and build him up, and he's a fraud because they just need... And they're giving a Mexican fighter Rodriguez fights that he shouldn't have just because they've got to get product out there. And I've always loved boxing more, but this particular carnival has taken over, and now boxing has been taken over by the Paul brothers, where McGregor's tough...

UFC hasn't been the same since McGregor left. I am stuck in an algorithm where I am just getting an assortment of McGregor Coke videos. Just McGregor on Coke where it's just highlights. I'm stuck in an algorithm. I can't stop watching them. Is there any other kind? No. I mean, it's just him clearly coked up.

And the sport has... But here's what I wanted to talk about. The sport has not been the same. He had seven of the top fights pay-per-view of all time. A legitimate star. Goes into boxing. Makes it a circus. You guys say that doesn't cheapen anything. He made $100 million. Mayweather made $300 million. And somewhere the Pauls get rich and laugh. But the fight game, the arts, the people who love...

What the science of this is- - The sweet science. - It gets engulfed by the circus. But I didn't want to go as long as I have without mentioning the retirement of John Jones, one of the great athletes of my time and one of the great disappointment. I do not understand how a fighter of that magnitude, one of the best pound for pound people I've ever seen in the fight game 50 years,

how he would have the demons that he would have that would prevent him from being remembered like George St. Pierre or Anderson Silva or whoever it is that you consider the best of all time. He retired so quietly while looking like he was ducking a heavyweight fight at the end of his career. And it was not the punctuation that a champion of that magnitude deserves, but his excellence is just marred by the amount of medicating that he was doing

that made him reckless and specific to the fight game as an individual brand that has some demons because how do you think these people climb to the top of fighting other human beings for a living? There are going to be demons all around the disciplines. It could be posturing, though. Don't you believe? He's taken extended leaves of absence and sometimes it's because of suspensions. He is...

publicly been posturing for a mega fight inside of the UFC. It could be a part of that. To your earlier point, there is a bit of a dip in stars. They were running and they were building guys up, guys like Izzy Adesanya, but then they kind of fall off. We saw it recently. Sean O'Malley was thought to be a star. He kind of falls off. Right now, Tuporia, the guys aren't really... Perea is probably the

the biggest star of that bunch in terms of title holders right now. They're trying to build guys up. Successfully, I think, with Patty the Batty, that's someone you should keep your eye on. No, they did it successfully, but it was bogus and they do have a problem. I don't want to bury this. It's not being bogus with Patty the Batty. Like, I'm done

doing that narrative. He's proved his bona fides and he's proved to be legit and now I think he's certainly worthy of it. But I get the skepticism. I was there too with the hype machine around him. But this happens to the UFC. They have a lot of stars leave or retire or fall off and they have to build back up and I think what's happening right now is one of those build back up phases. Isn't it skeptical when any fighter or boxer

Who's aging, says he's retiring. Yes, but he's 37. This is a fight for him to avoid. The last seven months would have been the time to sort of cash in on this. And when it comes to negotiating with Dana White, I expect the labor to perpetually be screwed. It's the business model.

The Aspinall fight is one of those fights that could help breathe life into the UFC. I also don't blame him for avoiding it and at 37 that's not a weight class that I want to see him at. He's the best light heavyweight I've ever seen. I don't need to see him challenged as a heavyweight. He chose the right path with two guys that he knew he could beat the last two fights. He also had a pretty badass send-off if that's the last time that we saw him and

He's the GOAT. He's the greatest of all time, well within his rights. Stipe was retired when he beat him. He doesn't want to fight the type of the... If I were him at 37, I wouldn't want to fight the top heavyweight either. That's fair. He's at an age where... I think his legacy is pretty well cemented because it's already...

way complicated anyways. And I think everyone would concede, even if he loses to Aspinall, that that's the greatest fighter they've ever seen at the height of his game. And he's still a what-if cautionary tale, which is wild. Ariel Hawane says, I'm tired of beating around the bush. I don't want to hear the goat talk when it comes to John. I'm sorry, you cannot be the goat if you have multiple PED infractions on the record. You cannot be the goat if you didn't want to do what others did for you. Time-honored tradition, you fight the top contenders. Not only was Tom Aspinall the top contender, he was the interim champion for almost two years.

Is that unfair? No, that's more than fair. No, it is fair, but it is also, to me, a little bit difficult to do legacy talk on someone that I'm saying to you is a pure talent. What I'm watching, really loving the fighting game, is as skillful and artful a magician as I've ever seen before.

Do it. Marred by an assortment of drug infractions and recklessness, and now at the end, punctuation that feels like cowardice when this man was afraid of no one. This man had, you can say he's not the GOAT if you want, but this was a man everyone feared fighting. No one knew how to beat this human being. The only way he could be beaten was his own demons with his recklessness, a way where the drugs would get a hold of him. He's bald.

balls are juiced. We were talking about signature moves in athletics and who has a move that sticks in your mind. John Jones spinning back elbow. Just the most for

ferocious weapon in the history of combat sports. Regardless, Tony's going to be in Vegas this weekend doing the UFC fight because he has made that into a hustle around. He really loves what he's doing on Saturdays. Really popular. It does well, too. And it's a fun watch. You learn a lot. It's not your traditional oohs and ahhs of a watch along. You're getting really good analysis as well. Remember Dana White told us that UFC would be bigger than the NFL? Yeah.

He said it would be the biggest sport in the world. And internationally, it's a giant. Look, I know everyone listening to this knows what my problems are politically and otherwise with the UFC. Dana White is a bully. It's been a bummer to see him rise to power on a...

uh carnival barker uh crusade where he's got a monopoly and what gets chewed up is the athlete because it's no unions and you know you got you got you got champions like living in the car and stuff i don't i don't think i'm over well i that's probably an oversell and i shouldn't say it that way if i don't have it on me but there are just details on how it is even these champions have to work because the pay is not good enough this is a brutal way to make a living you got

We lose sight of it, right? When you get all the pay-per-view and what you're throwing into the machine, more fights than ever, is a diluted product and it's all meat. It's go fight each other and injure each other. You're fighting for money. It's caged barbaric spectacle. And I've always loved...

the bravery and people willing to do that in front of others when it's just them, no teammates, and you're fighting your fear in front of people. It's gladiator shit. Can I throw a theory at you? When is the UFC media rights deal up?

Spires at the end of the year. This is a pretty good leverage point for Jon Jones because how does Dana want to impress a new broadcast partner with a brand new deal? I'm sure every negotiation that he's having with a potential broadcast partner is, can we get the Aspinall-Jon Jones fight? If you're Jon Jones, now is a perfect time to pull this move and say, I'm done forever because it maximizes your own leverage as UFC is negotiating, possibly invoking your own name in these broadcast rights deals. Do you know how crazy it has to make...

the fighters in UFC to see McGregor make $100 million over there, to see Ngannou make more than he ever made in his fighting career in UFC. Boxing spectacle. Go get the pay-per-view money. It's been jarring to see the business jostled like that.

on both fronts. Do you guys, I know a lot of people think of me also as whenever I say anything anti-ESPN, they're just assuming it comes from a source of bitterness. But when it comes to the ESPN Plus app and the complaints MMA fans have of, you're making me sign up for a Windows 98 app and then I'm just signing up for the right. I don't want ESPN Plus. I'm just signing up for the right to then pay-per-view what is a now diluted product that

they blame ESPN for. Is that a fair criticism? I'm not on ESPN+, so I don't know how advanced it is or it isn't. You get plenty of free cards that come with just your ESPN Plus membership, and

That also gives you all the other sports that are on ESPN Plus well within their rights to charge a premium for a premium live event like a big time UFC card. It has been rumored that there's not going to be one standalone home that they're going to try to divvy up the television rights. TKO kind of learning a little bit from their WWE side of the business. So it'll be interesting to see what kind of promises he's making. What is their flagship home? What kind of cards?

will go on other broadcasters, will those other broadcasters feel like they're second banana when it comes to these conversations? It's combat sports. You can't really guarantee, the only thing that you can guarantee is bigger names, and right now they've got a name problem.

Can you guys please find for me, and also it doesn't help when all the guys from Russia want to take it to the ground and ground and pound you, and it's not an entertaining style. Style of fights haven't been great. It's not an entertaining style. But that's why, patty to the batty, you've got to kind of root for them. At first I was like, this is all phony. They're just feeding them cheap guys to try to get them over and do this Conor McGregor redux.

No, he shut me up promptly in the last two fights. I feel like we have lost Billy and Chris. Chris is yawning actively. The old-timey baseball player has no interest. Don't leave me in breakout. Yeah, no, Stugatz wasn't interested in this either. I will say, if you're looking to us for information in sports, since Stugatz said the Mets were the best team in baseball, they've lost 9 of 10. That's unfortunate. And yesterday on the show, we gave you one sure bet.

We gave you Trevor Rodgers of the Orioles is going to give up some runs. And he threw eight shutout innings, allowed three hits. Best start as an Oriole. Shut out the potent Rangers. Like, truly terrible advice from a show. Best start of his career, he just shouted. I said of Trevor Rodgers, my only analysis of Trevor Rodgers is yes, yes, yes. When you throw from the left side, you can be big like that, throw hard, and have an ERA of five for the rest of your life in the big leagues.

Eight innings of shutout ball from a dominant Trevor Rogers over the Rangers. Lowering his season ERA to 1.3-something. But last year, that ERA, woof. That is three starts. I, incidentally, if you're looking for your baseball information here or on a broadcast tomorrow night on YouTube with Tim Kirchner from 6 to 10 p.m., said last year the Orioles would be good for a decade.

I also had the analysis of the Orioles are going to be so good, the Yankees will be closer to the bottom of the division than the top. The Orioles now have no pitching except for Trevor Rodgers. No team in sports is good for a decade. Like every year someone wins a championship and you're like, you know what?

This team, they're the favorite to win next year. Next year, they finish like eighth seed. I just thought farm system and arms. They had so many young people. Warriors kind of did it. So many young people. There's some teams that have done it. Warriors kind of pulled it off. Lakers, Celtics, 80s. I think locally you have a team that's built for it, certainly. The Heat kind of did it. Patriots did it. Let's go to Greg Cody. Greg Cody Day. Was it Fort Myers? Was it where? Minor League Baseball? Yes. Here is Greg Cody after 50, no, wait, 70 years living in South Florida, still having trouble with the last.

names. I just misread it. Just like Legler. It's tricky. I also have a sad news station promoting Greg Cody night. Greg Cody night. Okay. Saturday, it's Bark in the Park night at the Fort Myers Miracle Game. The Miracle take on the Lakeland Flying Tigers at 6 o'clock.

Ooh, an oatmeal. - It's the oatmeal. - The dog-friendly event includes doggy pools, adoptable dogs as well, even treat bags for your own puppies. It's also Buddy the Elf Night, so if you dress as Buddy the Elf, you get a special ticket offer. There's a Santa hat giveaway, a car giveaway, and it's Greg Coat Night. - Coat. - Greg Coaty Night.

Okay. That is the greatest promotion I've ever heard. That is so much better than Tim Legler is pretty interesting. Bury the lead. That is how you sell an upcoming event. I'm so sad that I missed everything that was going on. Saturday, it's Bark in the Park night at the Fort Myers Miracle Game. The Miracle take on the Lakeland Flying Tigers at 6 o'clock.

Ooh, an oatmeal. It's the oatmeal. The dog-friendly event includes doggy pools, adoptable dogs as well, even treat bags for your own puppies. It's also Buddy the Elf Night, so if you dress as Buddy the Elf, you get a special ticket offer. There's a Santa hat giveaway, a car giveaway,

And it's Greg Coat Night. Who's Greg Coat? Greg Coating Night. What an amateur. Okay. You should retire that guy. Greg, can you just lay out for a second so we can get the full comedy of the local broadcast instead of just barreling in chest first? I mean, we'd already played it three times. You don't know who Buddy the Elf is? From Elf, the movie with Will Ferrell? No. It came out after Swing Vote. What's your favorite color? Did you just criticize that guy's broadcasting? Yes.

As you should. Number 13, Yeltsin and Carnation. I got it right eventually. You did, yep. This broadcast had four things to sell in front of Greg Kotenike. Which is ridiculous. What an insult. You are not the main event here. They can't even get your name right. If I were writing this as comedy, okay?

If you gave me this as fiction, I'd have indigestion interrupted by oatmeal in the middle of my broadcast. Indigestion. And then I would also have the comedically great reaction of the broadcasters trying to do chumminess while not knowing the name of the headliner. An adopted dog? After Buddy the Elf and an assortment of adopted dogs. Saturday, it's Bark in the Park night at the Fort Myers Miracle Game. The Miracle take on the Lakeland Flying Tigers at 6 o'clock.

Ooh, an oatmeal. It's the oatmeal. The dog-friendly event includes doggy pools, adoptable dogs as well, even treat bags for your own puppies. It's also Buddy the Elf Night, so if you dress as Buddy the Elf, you get a special ticket offer. There's a Santa hat giveaway, a car giveaway, and it's Greg Coat Night. Coat. Greg Coat Night. Amateur. Off in the distance.

The best part of that that I forgot about, in that clip, a throwaway line is also a car giveaway. Somebody in our suite, one of our friends, the guy he brought, won the car. And we felt so uncomfortable because we were like, we were the special, like, he gave away the car. The guy rejected the car. It was a used car. I know, but.

It's still worth thousands of dollars. You guys tell stories horribly. It starts in the beginning. What happened? There's a car given away. Your friend won. It was a used car. It was a car given away. What kind of car was it? Who did he give it to? First of all, I don't remember it being a used car. It might be. I'm not saying you're wrong about that. I don't remember that detail. It was just a car giveaway that in the seventh inning, anyone who had a ticket. How do you not remember that detail? It's an important detail. And they announced the name and.

Like the people on making the announcement were in our suite. I think my dad made the announcement. My dad picked the winning thing. So when the winner comes from the suite that the person, we all were just like, so the guy was literally like, the guy was like, I'm good. I don't need the,

car. I don't need to use car because it was a $700. No, it was not. It was like a nice truck. Now we're getting your friend just gave away a truck. A friend of a friend. $700 clunker is what you're there. There's some details missing. Who's Shams? Who's Barry Jackson? Whose information is right? Because it doesn't sound like your information is right. 100% right. We rejected a car. The only dispute here is whether the car was used. This is what I want. I want you to

Play it again. I want everyone to lay out because Cody did it again. Did you get Santa hats at least? Thank you for not laying out. Just immediately ignores what I'm saying. Doesn't hear anyone except his own voice in his head. Can you play for me again, Greg Cody, toward the end of this? I need you guys to listen to how the anchors get out of this. Saturday, it's Bark in the Park night at the Fort Myers Miracle Game. The Miracle take on the Lakeland Flying Tigers at 6 o'clock. 6 o'clock.

Ooh, an oatmeal. It's the oatmeal. The dog-friendly event includes doggy pools, adoptable dogs as well, even treat bags for your own puppies. It's also Buddy the Elf Night, so if you dress as Buddy the Elf, you get a special ticket offer. There's a Santa hat giveaway, a car giveaway, and it's Greg Coat Night. Cody. Greg Cody Night. Okay. Is that okay? Nine things he advertised. Nine. Okay.

One of my favorite things John Oliver does is just local newscasts. We're going to miss them when they're gone. Going to miss them. You think they're gone? I don't think so. I actually think there's more of a demand for hyper-local stuff, given how everything is presented. It was a used car. See? Yeah.

Of course it was. A $700 clunker, you called it. The shell of a car. Where'd you get that from, by the way? That doesn't have an engine. It was a used car, courtesy of Dixie Buick GMC. There you go.

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