The Big Suey: Mission Kind Of Impossible
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Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.

Ben Solak has tweeted after the Waller trade, quote, I am grotesquely fascinated by the 2025 Miami Dolphins. Put it on the poll, please, at Levitard Show. Are you grotesquely fascinated by the 2025 Dolphins? Waller's a guy that, like, you could see getting to camp and not making it out of camp or also, like,

Oh, wow. He's still got something left in the tank and then he's a contributor, right? Like, you have absolutely no idea. I mean, I think yesterday most people, aside from like the very optimistic Dolphins fans, were kind of like, hmm, this is kind of a weird one here. Like, what do they think that they're going to get out of him? He hasn't been that productive in a number of years, but maybe now his body's healed. Maybe he'll be the guy that's like, you know, 32, 33 that comes back.

and is going to play again, and he'll be fine because he's been able to rest for a couple years. But also, if he doesn't make it out of camp, I don't think anyone would be that shocked, right? But Mike McDaniel's probably pitching him. You'll be Johnnie Smith, right? Mike McDaniel...

is on the hottest of seats. Is he not? The hottest? Not the hottest. They can be hotter. If the Dolphins do not... I'm trying to think of what is viewed as a success for him this season. Win a playoff game. Yeah, but if he wins a playoff game, he's safe, he's good. Yeah. They haven't done it in 25 years. Yeah, but even winning a playoff game, I feel like with this roster and the fact that they're aging, you've wasted Tyreek Hill. Like, you didn't get out of Tyreek Hill what you wanted to get out of Tyreek Hill. I don't know. He'll show up in a big game.

I think if this team is, it sounds terrible and I don't want this to happen, but I feel like if they just get back to being good in the regular season, get to the playoffs and lose again, I think he might be safe. My apologies for spending this much time on a loser regional team that isn't interesting in the offseason season.

except for doing things that people are like, huh? Where it's not interesting because you know they're getting better. It's interesting just because you have no idea. What was it? They were grotesquely interesting? We also do that with the Heathen. They're, by record, a losing team. They're 37-45. Yeah, but in the last five years, they've been to the championship, and in the last 20 years, they took this city from the Dolphins because of the amount of winning that Dwayne Wade did. This franchise, since you've been an adult...

Billy, since you've been an adult, this franchise hasn't won a playoff game. It is a laughingstock nationally. Yeah, but if they win a playoff game, they have the city back.

They have leased the city to the other teams. People are dying to get back on a good Dolphins team. Do you know how absurd it is what I'm saying, though? You didn't have a driver's license the last time the Miami Dolphins won a playoff game. Who was the youngest here since the Dolphins won? I was five years old. I was five the last time they won a playoff game. So you have never seen them win a playoff game? My entire lifetime they've been mediocre. You've never seen them win a playoff game? Yeah, they're a mediocre franchise. Yeah.

Zaslow mentioned earlier the idea that next year will be the first in a long time that he believes the Miami Heat attendance streak will be in jeopardy. Can you guys find for me? I believe the Miami Heat have one of the longest sold-out streaks anywhere in sports. I think it's the longest in basketball. I think it goes back to 2010, I think. What happened that year? Oh, yeah, that's right. That's where that started.

That would probably happen in a lot of cities. But it continued a couple bad years in between. I know, but it started in 2010, and some of the numbers since then, I think, have been a little bit suspicious, where I don't feel like the arena has actually sold out. You feel like there's been some empty seats? But it looks like they needed to keep their streak alive, so I don't know if I'm...

accusing them of fudging numbers, but do you believe that that sold-out streak is true, that they've been actually sold out all of those games since 2010? Billy is shaking his head. No one believes that that's true, if you're a reasonable person. There's plenty of tickets available for every game.

They're not sold out every game. This is just David Sampson attendance numbers for the Miami Heat. I don't feel comfortable totally making that accusation, even though I know sports teams do that all the time. But in Miami, I do have general questions. If you've sold out for 15 years in a sports event, whether or not that can ever be real. I don't understand. So you're telling me that they can not be sold out every

And they could just say, another sellout. Well, Samson said they were always lying about the numbers. Right, but Samson was never able to say we're sold out. That is correct. The thing that makes some of this difficult in this sports town is the last game that the Dolphins did play in the playoffs was

wasn't on television locally because it wasn't sold out in time. So there was a play, the last playoff game the Miami Dolphins played, Lamar Smith game, did not air locally because

because it didn't sell out. I drove to Orlando to watch the game. Did you really? I was in school at that time, but I was home from school, and so I went back early to watch the game. You just drove outside? How far out? Is it three and a half hours out that you have to drive for the local? How far out do you have to drive in order to get the local broadcast when it's been blacked out locally? I don't remember, but

I was like, all right, I guess we're driving to Orlando today to watch the Dolphins. I thought Orlando was like the place. I thought the Orlando line was where it is that you could go see a Dolphin game. Great game. Worth a drive. You had to be able to see it in like Vero Beach or something a couple times.

hours away. I am glad that Zaslow's here as both a judge and journalist. He's also a doctor, a lawyer, and a race war expert. I'd like to get some rulings from him if I could, as a judge, uh, in just a moment, we're going to get to that. But before we get to that, uh, just the Damien Lillard thing from yesterday, an NBA executive has been quoted and honest anonymously as saying that the bucks are reckless and

that bringing in that much Miles Turner for that much money is a super curiosity? What are you laughing about? - 'Cause why are they reckless? Why aren't they allowed to do with their roster what they want? Why is it, I mean, is it a bad choice? Yeah, probably, but it's reckless. Reckless for whom? - For the Bucs.

It's their franchise. They can do what they want. It's their roster. Reckless because you might lose Giannis because it's not the move that he wants? Well, which do you think was more likely? Losing Giannis by bringing in Miles Turner or losing Giannis by not bringing in Miles Turner? I would assume the reason that that GM would consider this move or their flurry of moves reckless is the multiple years where when you don't really know how this is going to work out,

with the complementary pieces where Giannis and sometimes was kind of playing center last year. So how does Miles Turner compliment that? I can understand why a GM would look at what they're doing and go, whoa, you're committing a lot of money long-term to a roster that if you don't have Giannis...

is going to probably be a disaster. Which is more reckless, doing this or not doing it and risking losing Giannis? That's more reckless. Well, I would say and will say that the Bucs have more information than we do.

and because they have more information than we do, I'm assuming that they're doing every possible thing to keep Giannis or they already know that Giannis is gone and so they're doing every possible thing to replace Giannis. Windhorse has said on television

that if Halliburton hadn't gotten injured, the Pacers would have likely paid the tax and just tried to keep Miles Turner. Dan, have you looked at the potential starting lineup for the Milwaukee Bucks next season? It is sad. Kevin Porter Jr., Gary Trent Jr., Kyle Kuzma, Giannis, Miles Turner. Portis is in there somewhere, right? Sixth man, and they might trade him, too. The thing that I wanted to talk about, though, from yesterday, and I still want to talk about, and for some reason I cannot,

to keep the attention span engaged from our basketball fans

They keep changing the subject on me to the future transactions as opposed to what happened yesterday, which is I saw a headline that read Damian Lillard waved. And it was confusing to me. And I know he's injured. And I know that he's the age that he is. And I know that you've spent a year, more than a year, knowing that Damian Lillard isn't what he was. But to have a contract that has two years on it, huh?

$110 million and to have the Bucs say, "Waved! We have no use for you and the punctuation on this part of your career has been about as disastrous as it could be.

for someone who was in your position at the end in Portland. It's not something we've ever seen before, and for some reason around here yesterday, everybody wanted to skip right past it because of how quickly we will discard even the most famous of basketball players. How about that trade was just two years ago, and literally all of the pieces in that trade...

are no longer with the teams they were traded to. Boston, Portland, Milwaukee, none of those guys are on those teams anymore. It was only two years ago. The interesting part about that, because I remember what Woj wrote about Portland at the time and how it was a bit of poetry that was overwritten on behalf of, you know, just people being fascinated by GM transactions. But...

The Miami Heat did not believe the Boston Celtics could get into the game and create a Drew Holiday package to get Drew Holiday from them and didn't believe that anyone had a better offer than what they were offering for Damian Lillard. But once Boston offered...

Time Lord and the pieces that they offered that were broken, right? Brogdon, just a bunch of physical pieces that were broken. The Heat did concede by their assessment that the offer that Boston made was better than the offer Boston.

that they had on the table. And so while we look at it in retrospect and say those were a bunch of damaged pieces like Brogdon and Williams and those guys didn't end up being any good, the bet that Portland was making was that some of them would indeed be good. And the Heat's assessment on that was that the pieces that were offered there were better than what the Heat were offering. But the Heat are likely saying to themselves right now, we're glad we didn't make the Lillard trade, right?

I mean, even without the Lillard's going to miss most of next season, like even before that, they're glad they didn't make the trade, right? They are, but I still want to simply concentrate as, you know, Damian Lillard right now has to feel a bit broken and shell-shocked, physically broken, but shell-shocked that he's in a position where

that the last part of his career has been so mangled that his headline has the word waved in it. Like the last time I remember sort of being Brandon Roy in terms of potential where I'm like, Oh, it's just all over. Like there's just no, there's no chance that he recovers from any of that. I saw, I got aggregated for saying that Lillard is now done as a star. Like that's the most obvious thing in the world. Is it not that he's,

that he's done as a star, that that person will never be an important player. It doesn't mean he can't make baskets. It doesn't mean he won't be a role player. But leading a team, being a centerpiece on a team, or being the second best player on a team, that's not a good team. His movement is going to be affected by that injury in a way that has made the Bucs make the assessment. That has no value, even though we have to pay it $50 million a year. Just go away. Just get off of the roster.

I still can't really get my head around it, even understanding that this is a player that has been injured for a while. And I guess a lot of people have moved on from Damian Lillard before I moved on from Damian Lillard. But you would acknowledge Damian Lillard yesterday, like even though maybe it was shocking originally when he finds out, wow, I'm getting waived. Damian Lillard was a big winner yesterday.

Like a huge winner yesterday. I don't know if he got to a place where he liked Milwaukee, he adjusted to it, he was okay with being in Milwaukee, but his employer yesterday literally told him, "Here is all of your money, not a penny short, and guess what else? Go do whatever you'd like." Without limiting the things you could do, here is all of your money.

And you can do whatever you want, which is essentially what he wanted two years ago. And what he wanted was to come to Miami. He didn't get what he wanted. Well, now you get all of the money and do whatever you want. Like he was a big winner yesterday, Damian Lillard. The Athletic reported that he was, quote, elated with what happened yesterday because of that exact thing. He gets all of his money and now he can go choose wherever he wants to go. He can pick whatever contender he wants to play for. He was elated is how they put it.

Also, Chris Haynes, though, reported that Giannis didn't like what they did yesterday. And we were talking about how you always have to go to the roots on who's reporting what and why something's being leaked. Chris Haynes is known as being Lillard's guy. He's the one who has perpetual access to Lillard. What did you make of the report that Giannis wasn't happy about what they did yesterday trading for Miles Turner? Not believable. It's just not. I

I mean, maybe Chris Haynes is bad information. Not believable. Like, Giannis is upset that in a year from now,

He's not going to be able to play anymore with a 36 year old coming off of an Achilles injury. Chris Yannis upset about Chris Haynes. His information is rarely wrong. Like this is not somebody whose information is disputed very often. I would think if he got that inclination from whoever it would have been, that's close to Yannis. It would be because he just didn't like how it was handled.

Because the reports that are out there, including from Chris Haynes himself, are that Dame wanted to spend his time rehabbing in Portland so that he could be around his kids. We know his personal life has been a little wild in the last few years. And that was something he wanted to do. And apparently Bucks management was not happy about that.

which is what facilitated this decision. And if Dame was caught off guard, I can understand Giannis at least looking at his ownership in front office and saying like, man, I don't love the way you guys went about that with a guy who I like. But then that's a super misleading headline then to say Giannis not happy with the way it went down. I don't know that it was a headline. It was just a piece of the reporting.

It could be more macro, too. The way that they stretched and waived it, all of a sudden you got money on your books for the next five years where you're trying to get pieces to be a contender, and you're looking around saying, we're paying how much for Miles Turner? What his original salary is plus what we waived Dane for? That all adds up. That's the recklessness that you're talking about, right? There's a tweet here from Yossi Ghazlan, and it says, the Damian Lillard trade had risk and the worst case scenario ends up happening. They're down Drew Holiday, an unprotected first.

two swaps, and now they have to pay Lillard $22.5 million a year not to play for them for the next five seasons. But that's a, that is an effect of today's NBA where everybody

every one of these teams that has a star player is afraid. They're afraid of one day their star player coming into the office and saying, I'm not happy. And so as a result, this is the kind of stuff you have to do because it doesn't matter if a guy's signed to a contract. You're a free agent every single year. That right there is the effect of today's NBA. If I'm Lillard, I'd Bobby Bonilla it. Give me five over the next 20.

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Don Levitard. John, can you rate my Al Pacino from that billiard scene in Carlito's Way if I do it for you? I think it's pretty good. Yeah. Stugatz. You think you're big time?

- Well you're gonna die! Big time! - That is on my infamous scale of one to 10. That's a 7.6. - Solid. - Good job, Dan. - Good job, Dan. - That's a suey nominee right there. - This is the Dan Labatar Show with the Stoogads.

Let's put together the top five deferred contracts in the history of sports at Levitard Show. Jeremy, do that quickly. I'm going to test you quickly. I'm not even going to give you very much time to do it quickly.

Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Is every basketball player in the world a free agent while under contract? I saw a clip of Steve Phillips explaining why, because I guess he was at the center of the contract negotiation there with Bobby Bonilla as to why it is that they did this deal with him where he would make all of that money. And it should surprise no one. It involved Bernie Madoff.

So they were like, well, our thinking was that we owed him like $6 million and we had this buyout that we'd pay him $29 over 30 years. And we had invested a lot of money with Bernie Madoff. So we thought if we gave Bernie this $6 million, we're going to make $100.

million or whatever. We're going to make so much money that this is going to be financially such a great deal for us because Bernie's going to make us so much more money that the fact that we're dragging this out for 30 years isn't really going to affect the Wilpons at all. So this is a great idea. And they're like, wow. And he's like,

You're welcome, Dodgers, for the idea. That's exactly what happened. The Wilpons did have a relationship with Madoff where they thought they'd get more money, and Bobby Bonilla was so terrified of going broke that

that he said, just give me a million dollars a year for 20 years so that I can know that I'm going to have money coming in in 2025. Is today Bobby Bonilla Day? Yesterday, yeah. I don't understand, though. What would have happened to the Wilpons if they just gave Bobby Bonilla the six million they owed him? They couldn't afford to just give him the six million? No, they wanted more. It was greedy. They can afford to give him the six million, but they can make more money on that. With Madoff. They couldn't do both? No.

They just wanted more. What do you mean they couldn't do both? Yes, they can do both, but they could make more money with Bonilla's money. And Madoff. And Madoff. Then they could just giving that money to Bonilla. What could go wrong? Right, nothing. Whatever go wrong there, you just give it all. Everyone knows Bernie Madoff, totally solid. Don't have to worry about anything. Top five deferred contracts in the history of sports. Any OLIs or are we going straight to number five? Well, I just have baseball contracts here, but they're all pretty brutal. So number five, Madoff.

Max Scherzer. He signed a seven-year, $210 million deal with the Nationals in 2015, but $105 million was deferred. So he makes $15 million a year from the Nats through 2028. Of course, he plays for the Blue Jays. Number four. Wasn't he getting checks from like three teams at one point in time? Brett Saberhagen. Yeah.

We're on the poll at Levitas show. Did you know that Scherzer was a Blue Jay? Did you know Verlander was a giant? Brett Saberhagen retired in 2001, but he receives $250,000 a year from the Mets. It started in 2004. It'll end in 2029.

Oh, wow. So this was another one that the Wilpons did. Same thing, but Bonilla's the only one who gets stuck with it and Saberhagen skates? I guess the difference of a million versus 250,000 and Bonilla, it's July 1st. But number three, Manny Ramirez. Yes!

In 2001, he signed an eight-year, $160 million deal with the Red Sox. They deferred $32 million over 16 years. So he's received $2 million every year in that span, starting in 2011, ending in 2026. I heard Bobby Bonilla say that he gets more texts on Bobby Bonilla Day than his birthday. Yeah. Purely for the money, number two, Shohei Ohtani. So it's a 10-year, $700 million deal. Right. But...

Over nine years, starting in 2034, I believe, he'll make $68 million per year over nine years. I know who my number one is. I don't know if he's still being paid or not. Go ahead. Let's see if I can get this right. I don't want to ruin it by guessing it, but I think that what Jeremy might say here will be shockingly quiet that most people don't know what he's about to say. Do you want to write it down on a piece of paper?

before I do this so that we can see if it's the same name because this is one of my favorites. Jeremy doesn't trust Dan. Doesn't trust Dan to be honest. No, I just love this as a payoff. Aren't we always looking for payoff? I think it has a little bit to do with honesty. Number one.

Chris Davis. I got it wrong. Who'd you say? Ken Griffey. Chris Davis, former Orioles slugger, signed a seven-year, $161 million deal with the club in 2016, including $42 million in deferred money. From 2023 to 2037, they will be paying Chris Davis. Would you have been honest if you didn't write it down?

I would have been, yeah. Because Ken Griffey, I think, is more shocking than Chris Davis, but they might have been done paying him last year. Did they pay him his last installment? Yeah, last year, Ken Griffey Jr. received his final installment of 16-year deferred $57.5 million. So last year, his final $3.593750 million payment. That's got to feel good for all of them, though, right? When that arrives, that one

One payment arrives 19 years later. You think like two weeks before, they're like, oh, let's go out to Shoney's. Like, nah, babe, two weeks. In two weeks, we can go out to Shoney's with the whole family. Not this week. I just imagine them writing a check where it's like, don't cash it for another week. Yeah. Hold on. Just give me a sec. How old is Bobby Bonilla? He's 62 years old, and he's still getting paid a million dollars a year by the Mets. Huge home run game seven, Marlins. Huge.

The Manny Ramirez story reminds me, I've told it before, but I will tell it again because it is just so great. I used to live in Pembroke Pines in a cul-de-sac in Pembroke Pines called Silver Lakes. It wasn't a high-end neighborhood. It was my first home, I would say. It would classify as a middle-class neighborhood. It's a nice neighborhood, yeah.

Nice, nice, but I'm just not... Nice middle class, upper middle class neighborhood. You're better than that now. That's not what I meant by that. I'm framing this story for Manny Ramirez, but yes, I am better than that. Somewhere between upper middle class and lower upper class. Yeah. I would say... You would never be caught there today.

I wouldn't say that. I would never be caught there today. Maybe fleeing the authorities, I would get caught. The neighborhood take a turn or was it really like hard times over there? Is that why you left? Yeah, neighborhood of crime. Was it fight or flight? Key flight. It is a very protected neighborhood. It is a cul-de-sac. And it is, though, not a neighborhood that you would be likely to find a famous person and certainly not one with the wealth of Manny Ramirez. Dan still has the house. It's now just his closet.

After Manny Ramirez signed his $160 million deal with the Red Sox, I know that's quaint now, right? I know that gets you a Miles Turner now. But back then, it seemed like a ton of money, $160 million. Reckless. He's walking through what is largely a middle-class neighborhood, and he points at a house, and he's like,

Can I afford that? And it's one of these neighborhoods where the developer has only made three or four types of houses. There are no other types of houses. And in fact, I think it was just three types of houses.

in the neighborhood. And he points to one of them. He's like, I want to buy that. Can I afford that? And his agent, Gene Motto, says, Manny, you can afford this whole bleeping neighborhood, the whole thing. You can buy the whole thing for your family and it wouldn't be any problem. But he had no concept of the amount of money that we were talking about. And I just wonder, like they were always finding money

Uncashed checks. Right, wasn't there an accounting issue one year with him and the team? Please look up for me a couple of stories here. I'm pretty sure Ricky Henderson, his first million dollar check, I believe the A's were like, why hasn't Ricky cashed that? It's because he just put it on his wall. I'm pretty sure Manny Ramirez always had a bunch of uncashed checks. And then there was, I think it was, was it Ariel Prieto who came from Cuba and

gets a million dollar signing bonus and walks around with it in the jeans of his pants for a week because he doesn't understand what banks are like he doesn't even he's from cuba and so he's got a million dollar signing bonus check in his jeans that they're telling him is worth an amount of money but he just doesn't even under he doesn't know what banks are what a check is what any of it means so he's just walking around with the million dollar check how did manny not have direct deposit

Like he has an agent, he has a team around him, and he was getting paper checks. Like he needs to go to a teller every two weeks. I think that it might have been before. Is it possible that this is before direct deposit, that people would just be paid with checks? I don't know when we invented direct deposit, but for some reason, Manny Ramirez was pulled over. I think I have this story right. I think Manny Ramirez was pulled over.

then made a U-turn and was pulled over again. And then they found the checks in his car. And I'm pretty sure I have that right. I can confirm the Ricky story. In 1982, Oakland A's couldn't solve an annoying accounting error. The answer was framed on Ricky Henderson's bedroom wall. Also, Ariel Pareto did have the $1.2 million signing bonus check in his pocket for a week. Yeah.

Let's find out that Manny Ramirez story and see if I go three for three here because we've got an assortment of checks for tens of thousands of dollars, uncashed checks found in Manny Ramirez's car. Is Manny still playing somewhere? Is Manny over 50 playing like in Taiwan or something, still trying to play baseball somewhere? I don't think so. I think we saw him with his son recently. His son was at a showcase or something, but I think his son was praising his swing.

So I think he may be done at the moment. For the moment, he may be done. But, you know, there's always another league that comes out. Do you guys ever have jobs where, like, when you got your physical check, it was a race to the bank to make sure you got paid because you weren't sure the funds were going to be there for everyone? My old job check bounced one time. Are you feeling that way with God Bless Football?

No, there's no checks. Right now, this is strictly community service, and it's for my resume. I'm seeing a month ago Manny Ramirez says he wants to return to MLB, but as a hitting coach. So I don't think he's playing anymore. He's still in the cages, Dan. I just saw a video. Still in the cages. Still just working on the craft. Put it on the polls. Do you assume that Manny Ramirez will still be in the batting cage past 100 years old?

El Duque is still at Tamiami Park. You think I'm joking. I don't think you're joking. My sister played a softball game against Levon Hernandez a couple months ago. And I was like, how is that possible? It was supposed she works at a school. Was he the pitcher? Okay, so it was a school and it was supposed to be, I guess, like a bunch of schools. It was like a holiday of some sort that all the schools were off.

So the schools have like these softball teams that are playing against each other that are supposed to be comprised of faculty of the school.

And she sends me a picture and she's like, you'll never guess who I'm playing against. She sends me a picture and I'm not here to shame anyone unrecognizable. It's like, who the hell is that? She's like, that's Levon Hernandez. I'm like, how is Levon Hernandez? Like, Levon Hernandez, is he a science teacher? Why is Levon Hernandez playing in a school versus school softball game at Tamiami Park? Other than the fact that I guess we just got to keep our juices going and we need the competition. What's the game?

First baseman he was playing at. That makes sense. Big target. I've seen him at the highlight front on. He still looks like Levon Hernandez. Turns out, I guess he's doing some coaching at a school, so he was eligible for this roster. But they brought in a ringer. Levon Hernandez is now playing in faculty versus faculty. I don't know why it is you felt the need to put, quote,

Well, because someone knows LeVon Hernandez. Like, we have a big softball tournament. You want to come out there and then say when people ask you what's going on, he's a baseball coach, assistant baseball coach. I will tell you, I have rarely been more scared doing anything in sports than what I'm about to describe for you. Sure.

showing up at Tamiami Park for a softball game, looking, playing third base, and looking in the opposing dugout, and there are Jose and Ozzie Canseca. Screaming line drives toward third base are not anything I want a part of if they don't hit the 500-foot home run that they are confident that they're going to hit.

every time because those two guys were only there to hit the ball as far as a human being can hit it. Like, Jose Canseco was only going out there. The only reason it wasn't to win, it wasn't to beat anybody up. It's to mash. It is just simply to swing and have everyone go, I can't believe how far that softball went. But when it didn't go far, it went screaming at the third baseman's forehead.

And I was too close. And I was scared of everything that was happening there because the way that the ball came off those bats, it wasn't LeVon Hernandez. And LeVon could hit too. That's why they call it the hot corner. Update on the Manny Ramirez story that you were talking about. Yes, he was pulled over in Cleveland in 1997. He was receiving three tickets, which were for illegally tinted windows, the stereo blasting too loud.

And there was something else that it's not saying right here. But when the cop pulled him over, he knew who Manny was. He said, Manny, I'm going to give you a ticket. And his response was, I don't need any tickets. I can give you tickets. Sped away, pulled around with an illegal U-turn, and then received another ticket.

And how many checks were found? There's no details. I've just read three different articles and none of them have details of the checks. I'm like a dog with a bone on this. I played second base charity softball game. I threw out Derek Lee at first base. Really? I picked that grounder up, threw him out. Wow. That's right.

When Ozzie and Jose are there, you've got to play back on the infield, right? If you're playing, you know Ozzie and Jose are not going to bunt. You've got to play back. Agreed. What I'm telling you is you can't play back far enough. I was in left field, and I was still scared. I did not have the arm strength to throw the ball from where I was to the first baseman. You're the cutoff guy. If they hit any kind of ball on the ground.

on the ground, they were going to have an infield single. I was just trying to make sure there wasn't a dent in my forehead. If Pat Riley had punched me with a diamond in the forehead. Zazz, who was the first baseman? The celebrity first baseman when you threw out? I don't remember. But I was double play tandem. I was second base. Shortstop, Michael. Wow. What were you doing in this game? Playing baseball. No, I know, but it was a celebrity game. Yeah. Like Make-A-Wish? You know who I am? What?

I'm just asking. He's a big star. What year was this? Maybe 10 years ago. Zaz is a big rising star at ESPN Radio. 305-486-GOTS is the number. I've got some more God bless football questions, but we've got a Boost Mobile Boldest Take hotline. It's 305-486-GOTS.

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at Levitard Show. The telephone number again is 305-486-GOTS, 4689. We've mentioned Stugatz. We've mentioned God Bless Football. Billy, can you give me anything in the way of an update? Because I asked Stugatz this yesterday. I'm like, are you guys going to Lake Tahoe or not? And I got a plume of blue smoke he spit in my face, like from heaters and disease. And I'm like,

And no truth. And so I don't know whether you guys are going to Tahoe. I know that God Bless Football is going to be more often during football season. I know God Bless Football has new studios and is going to try and grow as a business. I don't know what's going on with Tahoe. Do you know what's going on with Tahoe? It's definitely a maybe on the Tahoe situation. Sugata is...

He's dead set on going. It's just a logistical thing. And as you know, Dan, it's hard starting a business. And now we're paying for things out on our own. So if I want to go to Tahoe, I'm going to pay out of pocket to go to Lake Tahoe. So I have to talk to the missus and say, is this financially something we're going to do? And we're out there. We have deals coming in soon. So at some point, we're not going to have to pay out of pocket for these things. But at the moment...

until those things are signed and the I's are dotted and the T's are crossed, these things are coming out of pocket. In the interim, you guys should support God Bless Football and Stu Podity and StuTube. He is working very hard on those things, and that is the reason that he is around less, because by the time of football season, he's going to want to be making God Bless Football a lot more often for you. But right now, you can get it. It's pretty easy to find all over the place.

No, I mean, it's again, it's hard. I mean,

We're balancing two responsibilities at the same time. The schedules here are not super consistent. So sometimes we have recording days that are one day and then other times we're not scheduled the same day. So we're trying to make it work in the interim, but we're working on it. It's getting out there.

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instant relief and then that first sip brother does that first sip that is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through i'm just serenity now when i just imagine that first sip of miller light just thinking about it's making me happy dude the sun is out it's nice you have your friends showing up you got your family there you just had your first sip of miller light and you know what you're happy

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