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Happened better than my boy, Stue. Weekend observations brought to you by Miller Light. Great taste. 96 calories available for delivery. Dan. His coaches sat him. I'm sorry. His coaches set him up to fail. What happened there? That's the quickest I've ever made a mistake during weekend observations. I mean, mistakes are coming, more mistakes are coming, but that's the quickest I've ever made a mistake. His coaches sat him. His coaches set him up to fail. That was a joke. The second one was a joke.

I'm pretty sure you've screwed up on Dan before.

His coaches set him up to fail, playing him behind a horrific offensive line. He was scapegoated at bench for Tim Boyle, who will go down as the worst quarterback in team history. That history includes a punter who was also their backup quarterback at Browning Nagle. There were reports last week that he didn't want to play behind that offensive line. But Dan, he played and he didn't just play. He played the best game of his NFL career and led the Jets to a totally unnecessary win. And Dan, just like that, make no mistake about it, Zach Wilson.

Is back. That is a Stugat and Chris Cody bet, if I've ever seen it, Texans minus three, and that is football, footballing.

Guilty.

Oh, so obvious. I mean, honestly, the only people who could possibly bet the jets in that circumstance are people who are betting, Football is going to football today. I know it is.

That was a different guy at quarterback for the jets, though.

Yeah, the same guy that you said, Aaron Rogers, stay away. We're going to the playoffs. I remember it.

I mean, Dan, he was great. I know. Felt the pressure, got rid of the ball.

Was accurate. Felt the pressure all week, too. Maybe he's your future quarterback. You should try it 10 years.

Cj Strowd. Blah, blah, blah. What? I'm just, I mean. He got concussed. He had less than 100 yards passing.

He got a brain injury.

Blah, blah, blah. I never thought we'd see something mean less than LeBron's bubble championship. I was wrong. The in-season tournament takes the cake. I love a cake.

So do I.

Former Jaguars employee accused of stealing more than $22 million from the team. I had no idea nick Foles made that much.

It's not a bad joke.

It's pretty good. Army-navy, more than just a game.

It should have been boredled.

What? Did you watch Army, Navy? Why the?

No. What?

Are you kidding me?

Whoa. Apologize. It's to our wonderful troops.

Thank you for your service.

That overcashed him the last play. Did you see that? What do.

You mean.

It was?

The score was like 7-0 for maybe 3-0 for most of.

The game. Thank you to that intentional safety. Thank you for your service.

nick Foles made $87 million in his career.

What? What?

Well, maybe you had it right the first time. Maybe it wasn't Portal. But not in Jacksonville. He didn't steal it all from Jacksonville.

I think he did.

No. He won a Super Bowl MVP from not Jacksonville.

Yeah.

But he parlayed it. Well, he signed a four-year $88 million contract with the Jaguars.

After winning the Super Bowl.

Yes, he parlayed it.

Congratulations, you guys.

You nailed the right bad quarterback that stole all their money.

Thank you. You have that game in Gillette Stadium to remind people who the real patriots are. A tradition, unlike any other. Lebron and Anthony Davis celebrating a title on a neutral court. Do it on the road. I was tired of those two. Where do you think the Jays will play Robert Hershevik?

Everybody was made so happy by the flight tracking of a shark. It was weird.

You know where the army game was won, Dan? In the trenches. Yes. Also, you know what it was? A game of inches. Jose Alvarado telling everybody what he would do with the in-season tournament prize money and then promptly getting eliminated. Hey, Jose, don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Nice. That's a good one.

You like that one? Yes. Tyrese Halliburton. Do it in the IST. You know on LeBron James's personal record book, he's just one championship away from MJ. He is. I know. He thinks he is. I know. He's not. In-season tournament. Do it in the post-season. Show-hah, Ohtani. Change baseball. I was right.

Show-time. Wait a minute. In-season tournament. Do it in the post-season.

I don't know. Just writing stuff.

Down, Dan. But it can't be an in-season tournament if it's done.

During the post-season. Do it in the postseason.

You being confused, this.

Is funny. Ten years, $700 million. The S. It's show hey O'Tany. Should be replaced with a dollar son. Yeah, it. It's going to be tough for the angels to replace a player that got them zero playoff wins.

It's crazy. You realize it makes no sense. It's as if I told you. It's as if I asked you, Hey, listen to this. Babe Ruth was on the same team with Joe Di Maglia, but no one remembers either of them because they never won anything. Start of.

The day. Start of the day.

This here, start of the day.

Startof the day.

Start of.

The brought.

To.

You by Venmo.

Oh, boy. Mike Trout has the same.

Number of postseason RBIs as Andy Pettit.

They both have one.

Put it on the pole, please, JuJu, at Levitard Show, are you surprised that Mike Trout has as many postseason RBI as Andy Pettit?

The rare IST final that had a regular-season feel.

What are we doing? You crushing this tournament for no good reason.

Travis Kelsis, pitch back to Cedarius Tony. The greatest play that didn't count. Yadiere? Yadiere? Melina. How do you say that? Yadi? Yadi here, Melina? He returned to the Cardinals in a front-office role. Basically means he gets to sit around and do nothing. Yadi. Pukka Nakua. Fun name to say. Top five most fun names to say.

Oh, wow. All right, put it on the poll. Is Pukka Nakua a fun name to say at.

Levitard show? Number five, Cocoa Krisp.

That's a.

Good one. Fun. Number four, Reagan Mawaya. Number three, Pukinukua. Number two, Boof Bonzer. Number one, this is just me, it's my preference. It's my favorite name in the history of sports, Dallas Connoisse. It's a good movie. Yeah, power-forward for the Paul. Here come the Oilers.

I like Josh Boody. Put her on the Paulette Levitard show. What name is more fun to say? Josh Boody or Dallas Conneges?

The H in Eric Ten-Hog stands for Hotseat. Did I say that right? Club is in shambles. Show-hey O'Tanya. John Rom says thank you. Show-hey O'Tanya. Going to a team that doesn't need him. Show-hey, the Kevin Durant is strong in you. Mike McCarthy had his appendix removed. Should have asked the doctor to insert some guts while they were down there. Wrote that before last night's game. It was a lot funnier then.

Yeah, I don't know why you wouldn't- It's got guts now.

I don't know. Just don't.

Read it.

Why.

Wouldn't you just edit it or process information and make editorial choices?

Fair point. Justin Fields.

-doc, can you give me some guts? Weird one.

Just insert some guts. Justin Fields. Flashes. Do you agree?

Yes.

Show-hey-o-tanya's next playoff game will be his first. The show, it's Show Hey O'Tani, stands for Show Me the money.

How many people are making that joke?

The Hey stands for Hey, I'm really rich. You know what the Dodgers did for Show Hey O'Tani did?

They showed him.

The money. They backed up the Brinks truck. Good guess, though. Trevor Lawrence, overrated. Gunner, Gundy, son of Oklahoma State head coach, Mike Gundy, transferring from Oklahoma State. The G in Gundy stands for going to be an awkward Christmas dinner at the Gundy household.

Gunner, Gundy is a pretty fun name to say. You're right.

Mike Gundy looks like someone that would name his kid Gunner.

Put it on the Polat Levitar show. Does Mike Gundy look like someone who would name his kid Gunner?

He does. Everybody that went to the Raiders Vikings should get a refund and a free ticket to a game next season. Three-nothing. You know what the J and B stand for in Jake Browning, Dan? I do not. Stands for Joe Borough, better watch his back. This Browning kid can play. He's good. Joe Flacko at age 38, straight off his couch, looks better than 80% of quarterbacks in the NFL and 100% of men his age.

How possible is that? I don't understand. I don't understand how is it that the other quarterback play has gotten bad, right? It's not because his quarterback play is that good. He can't come off the couch like, Did you see how Josh Dobbs look?

Yeah. Falling back to earth. The pester. Now, Jaden Daniels should have thanked his defense in his Heisman speech for making him have to score 50 points every game. That's true. Thank you. Dan, you know what the I in in-season tournament stands for? I don't care. It stands for It doesn't mean anything. Patrick Mohom. Wait a minute. It doesn't. It means nothing. He won a regular-season game.

But why does the I stand for doesn't mean anything?

It doesn't mean anything. Stay with me.

Didn't even hear it. And would it be a big surprise if you said, You know what the I stands for? It'd be funnier. It doesn't mean anything. You know.

What the F in funny stands for? Fine. Patrick Mohomes. Blah, blah, blah. Taylor Swift. Blah, blah, blah. Houston, Texans. Getting unhealthy at the wrong time. Do you think, Dan, that Sean McDermott at any point during yesterday's game said to himself, just not out loud, just to himself, This is what I was talking about with the 9/11 terrorists.

What?

Did he think it? I don't-Anquán Walden Jr. Scored 19 points in a college basketball game. He plays for Buffalo. Holy hellworld. That's right. Speaking of hell. Marp Riles. Dan. Those are the weekend. Observations.

Dan Lebertard. I think I'd like to know when I'm going to die because I romanticize the idea of living like you were dying. When you're on a countdown clock, imagine all the life experiences like I could go skydiving or Rocky Mountain climbing.

Still got. Roy brings up a point, though. Roy does bring up a point. You might be risking paralysis. That's a pretty direct- You just totally trample on my bit. You're just.

Totally trample on my bit. But Mike, what if God forbid it says you're going to die in a week. What if it says a week, though, or two days, or a month? I don't want to.

Know that. Then you just love deeper and speak sweeter and give forgiveness to those that you've been denying. Someday, I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

Do you have more or is that it?

No, thank you guys for letting me go through that smoothly.

This is the Dan Levator Show with.

The Stugats. I know that.

Some of you in our audience over the last couple of years, I know I've worn you out. I've been a bit of a misery around this fun, fun thing that we do for an assortment of reasons. But I'm about to share with you one of the reasons that might be funny to you, but is slightly less funny to me. So after a very difficult 72 hours, and I've asked Lugust, when I come in today, Stugarts, I'm like, I'm just broken and beaten. Just help me wherever you can because I just'm on my knees. And the way that he helped me during the break is, and this is what I was getting throughout the break, it's a 10-minute break. Mike Ryan has finally stopped cracking the whip for a minute. I'm yelling at him, No human interaction. None. I can't have any. He's like, Let's go. We got to make more. More draftings. Let's more. And Stugass the entire time is some version of, you know what I mean? They get up in 2017 and McDermott is just saying, That's what I meant. Play like that. That's what I was trying to tell them. I've been misunderstood.

Perhaps this is the reason Mike wants us to get right back.

On air. Yeah.

I don't wear you out with that nonsense.

But.

The whole-What did you think? That's just the thing you were doing.

I think you might have been. If not, you're probably not saying it out loud. He's probably scarred. But thinking it, it's like, I just need you to be willing to die in the name of a cause because we're six and six and Kelsey's flipping the ball backwards. I need help here because I'm going to get fired. I just need you guys to care like that. That's what I meant. Be unified like that. Also, I'm getting the bonus coverage of I think he should have said in the press conference, McDermott, Sugats, to say, like he should defend that that's what he meant. Right.

Well, I was saying that perhaps after that victory and everyone focused on a play and a bad call.

Felt like we did a good job of moving.

Straight past. I know, but the entire- Not.

Understanding anything in the past. I think what Dan is pointing out is I was nervous. I did feel like it was a great observation, and I chased him around for 10 minutes.

So you think he should have yesterday been like, I didn't get to say enough about this.

Yeah, you're right, Chris.

That's correct. It was bad judgment, but what I'm saying is that's what's lapping. My general point is, and the point of it is not McDermott. The point is what it is to live with Stugart.

And me not helping you in your time of need.

When you're in a bad state is my point.

Yes.

Mike Ryan, who are those people behind you crowding this shot?

There's a lot of them.

All right.

The one- This assortment of bald people. This is my crew.

The one to the right of the lamshade is Mike. He's our contest winner from Dayton, Ohio. Congrats, Mike. He won our Miller Light Contest. Thank you, Mike. And in an upset, he had.

Three friends. Thank you, Mike.

What are we thanking Mike for?

All he did was enter a contest. Congrats on having three friends. They all- Participated.

And during.

The contest, Billy. They all took the opportunity to leave Ohio and come down to Miami in the month of December. I think they're glad about that, but we'll find out. Big sacrifice for them. Tonight, when we go to our Miller Light watch party for Monday night at the football at Dolphins Mall, Vivo Miami, the Miller Lights stage over there open to the public in all ages.

Guys, whatever we chant, you chant. Okay, that's what.

You do. I think Miller Light is the chant.

Miller Light. Miller Light. There you go. Miller Light.

Miller Light. What are we expecting tonight, Mike? Or is it just going to be a blowout?

A lot of fun. Guys, fun.

A lot of fun.

A lot of fun. Miller Light.

Miller Light. A lot of Miller Light. A lot of.

Miller Light. Yeah, dollar-off today, I'm being told. A lot of Miller Light. Yeah, I've been to this area. It's a pretty cool spot. It's all brand new to Dolphins Mall. I'm bringing Willow. I'm bringing Willow. Willow, I think, is invited because it's outdoor. So come on out to Doral.

Come on.

Oh, sorry. And join us and Mike and his friends from Ohio.

It'll just be us.

Oh. No, it'll be a lot of people. A lot of people. Yeah, that's why.

We're.

Telling people to come. So there's no chance of it just being us.

Well, these guys will be there.

This is the first Levitard show event in which it's been free and open to the public and not ticketed an opportunity to come out and hang with us and organically mingle with some of your favorite cast members. Not me, don't talk to me, but everybody else I'm sure you can.

Talk to. How cheap is the beer?

It's a dollar off the usual price over there.

A dollar off? Amazing. Dan, if you take 100 beers, that's a hundred dollars off. It's basically free.

I'll buy some people some beers.

There.

You go. Drink responsibly, though.

So come on out and Dan will buy some people some beers.

I didn't say I'm going to buy people an irresponsible number of beers.

A hundred.

Seems like a lie. You should always drink responsibly.

Dan.

Will buy everyone two beers. Thank you, Dan.

Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Dan. Thank you. It's a.

Dollar off. It's a dollar off, practically.

You're good. Well, let me think about it. It's two dollars.

Off if you buy two drinks per cent. You should not come out. Two dollars off? Changing the subject.

Yes, okay. Another bad idea by me. Changing the subject.

I.

Probably shouldn't buy people a bunch of beer.

-yes. -before you went too far down there.

Want to go back to 9/11?

-no, thank you. I want to move on to a subject, Stugat. I want an uncomfortable laugh by Mike. I want to move on to a subject, Stugat, that, as Jessica mentions correctly, we talked so much about the quarterbacks, the quarterbacks, the quarterbacks, the skilled guys, and they're the ones who win the Heisman. Last night to me, because I've seen Doug Prescott be great before, and I've seen C. D. Lamb be great before, but Dallas is telling me they're a different team. And one of the cool things that happened on, again, a truly dreadful day of football is like, Oh, so really? We got a chance at San Francisco and Dallas for this, huh? Yes. We're going to do it that way. Old school. Football eats up the players, eats them up. But you're going to give me the magic stuff. You're going to give me those two franchises. Then not only that, Stugat, okay? Because what's happening in football here is super interesting, okay? The 49ers? Last two weeks, violence, violence, violence. Let's fight. Let's fight, too. Who wants to be tougher than us? Anyone? We got Trent Williams. Anybody? Oh, what about you, Mike to Parsons?

You got something for him? Well, maybe he does, given I haven't seen Lane Johnson look like that on a play. So let me give you some Lane Johnson stats just so you understand, because I've been watching. I told you before, I've been enjoying watching some of these individual matchups of things that I think that aren't the skill guys, but San Francisco is good because they got a left tackle. Whenever they run behind him, and whenever they run behind him, it's like, It doesn't matter who.

You are.

The 49ers are here to fight, and they're coming out with a boombox, and Trent Williams is at the front of that because he's like, Let's go. Who wants to fight? In the middle of that, I'm watching Lane Johnson. I'm going to give you some.

Stats, Stugat. Okay.

You want to take a guess in 11 years, and most of this bad stuff happened on the front end of Lane Johnson's career. You want to guess how many holding calls have been called against Lane Johnson who doesn't have to hold to keep you out of the backfield in the last 11 years.

Eleven years, maybe four or four and change a year, 47?

So 16. What? That's right. You played the game correctly. I cannot believe it. Oh, my God. I cannot believe it. Chesskiss. About once a year.

Let me.

Give you some other numbers just so you understand. Okay. In 2016, he allowed zero sacks. In 2019, he allowed zero sacks. In 2020, he allowed one sack. In 2021, zero sacks. 2022, zero sacks. And in a game at the top of the division, at the top of the sport, trying to fight San Francisco, Micah Parsen says, I'm going to go right through your ass and get to your quarterback. Lane Johnson, I'm not going to go around you. I'm not going to go around you. I'm going to go right through you. You know how I'm going to tackle your quarterback? You know how I'm going to make him hurt? By throwing you at him. That's the top of the sport. That's the very top of that sport. Dallas wants to be that. Jack hasn't been that. C. D. Lamb hasn't been that.

No.

Mike McCarthy hasn't.

Been that. Are these turnovers sustainable? Because that game was a lot closer than the final score would indicate, but there were all these red zone turnovers.

By guys that don't normally make those turnovers. It was Jaylen Hertz. It was AJ Brown. It was Devonte Smith.

I mean, they didn't score an offensive touchdown because they kept giving the ball away. But that's been Dallas's thing all year. But they've always said that that isn't a sustainable feature. They have these ballhawks, and it's been sustainable to this point in the season.

Buffalo has the most touchdowns in the sport. Buffalo has the most turnovers in the sport. They're seven and six.

And Jaylen Hertz is having a career year, but he's also having the most turnovers in his year. I think it provided that San Francisco stays healthy. They've shown you in two head-to-head matchups where they've wiped the floor with both Philadelphia and Dallas. Now, Dallas is a different team now than they were back then, so in a much better form. Are they?

Do you still trust the Cowboys when it comes-.

I'll tell you who I do trust. Who? I trust Kalshane and the San Francisco 49ers if they're healthy to make a deep run in the postseason.

I trust Micah Parsons. When he went against Trent Williams, San Francisco dragged Dallas. But Lane Johnson also, post-season sacks allowed, zero. What is in that sports, Dugots, can I be tougher than you? Because this is the other thing that's happening with some of these defenses. I don't even remember who it was that said this for the Ravens, but after they injured Burrow, it was a matter-of-fact quote of like, Yeah, you play our defense. That's going to happen to you. We're going to break your wrist. That's what we're doing out here. Baltimore, super-physical. Philadelphia has been dominant, super physical. Micah Parsons, super physical. And the 49ers want to fight you. Like, those are brawls the last two weeks. They are brawling in football where you're like, Wait a minute. This doesn't happen in back-to-back weeks. This doesn't happen like this. This sustained. Let's go after D. K. Metcalfe because he wants to fight Warner. Yeah.

What's so fun about San Francisco is they are super physical, but the offensive scheme that gets people on the outside because they have someone like Trent Williams is you have this team that is more physical than everybody else, and they are running downhill. That's where it gets scary.

They're.

Hard to watch, man. They're not only more physical than you from a standing position in the trenches. If you let them play their offensive, they're going to get a head of steam behind them. It almost looks like when they call one of those outside pitches, like they're head hunting. It's a great way to play the game if you like watching car accidents because they are faster and more physical than everybody else.

I told you Trent Williams was quoted the other day. I don't remember who they were playing again, saying he had never seen it before, where a corner just turned around and ran away from him in the other direction. He was looking at his back. They're doing with.

Not-i'm surprised that's the first time that's happened.

Yeah, I'm surprised, too. Yes, trust me. I thought what's interesting about them, if they're healthy, most interesting, is you saw the numbers. I don't know how good Bradfordy actually is. He's going to be the MVP or close to it. But Debo Samuel, if he's healthy, is going to get those mount yards, and Ayouk is going to get the same amount of yards. And they've got McAfrey behind him as well. And Kiddle. Yeah, and they've got Kiddle too, and they're running downhill and Trent Williams is chasing you. And if those people are healthy, they also want to fight you. I feel like everyone should just evacuate the stadium if they want anything.

You're not even mentioning the defensive side of the ball where they have Chase, Young, Warner, and Bosum. But what is that?

When you're seeing Dbo run around in the secondary, they're doing exactly the same as the Dolphins, but it's like there are.

More of them.

Don Levitard. I mean, they used to call me Chris Karyoke.

Still Stugats.

Kariote. That back row is bringing it today.

This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugats.

I.

Urge you to listen to Pablo Torre Finds Out. He is doing exceptional work, award-winning work, Stugats. He just beat out all the popular podcasts here recently. One of these, I don't know whether it was The Big Lead or something else, just voted the best podcast. From all the podcasts being done in sports, it was voted the best one. And one of the things that we talked about the other day that I thought was a super fascinating thing happening in American culture and baseball culture that crosses the divide to international superstardom, where it resides and how cultures clash. How when the Japanese people with a star treat business a certain way, and America has exactly zero respect, capitalism has exactly zero respect for how business is treated, trying to remain private. I do not understand how Ichiro was as famous as he was, Ohtani before Ohtani, as an international mystery. And he managed to never say anything that offended a single sponsor, Stugats, because the Japanese athlete who's a star generally has to be very careful there. You always have to be careful about your sponsors. But the Japanese baseball star has to be super careful about what is attached to his image with the things that he says because he's getting money from sponsors.

And there is a cultural grace in the privacy of we treat business matters respectfully, privately. Ohtani is not going to tell you and his people are not going to tell you the name of his dog because his dog might be named Dodger, and he might go to the Dodgers. But yesterday, despite that, despite Ohtani and his people saying, Please respect my privacy at this time.

It's so hard for us.

To do. Culturally. Please, these are sensitive business matters. Please, don't leak anything about the meetings. We want to meet privately. Our star client is not interested in the way Americans do business and the American sports media. That's not how he wants to do it. Please, Kipp Baylor, respect his privacy at this time. Shohay O'Tanya got swallowed up yesterday in a super-fun storm that wasn't quite the decision for LeBron James, but birthed the contract, Stugart, bigger than Messi. Now, Messi is an international star and his contract is for four years, and it's about $700 million. But the whole game is changing now with the Saudi oil money. You are seeing, Stugat, because I'm going to play the sound from David Samson. This was so many years ago and it was about Ichiro. The news at that time about Ichiro was that he is an international superstar and Ohtani before Ohtani was about to sign a giant contract. At the time, David Samson was the President of the Marlands. When we delivered the news of whatever that contract was—I don't even remember the number—this was David Samson's reaction.

I am speechless by that contract. I'm hoping that that report is false because there's no chance that the top of the line of… Forget that there's no chance anybody's worth that. And Hitchiro, who led his team to zero, nothing. I hope you're wrong, Dan. It's unbelievable. You know what? Everybody gets what they deserve. And I guess maybe that'll be more luxury tax money and more revenue sharing money you'll have to give. But signing, I'm sure, can't be true. There's no way they gave 20 million a year to Hiro at his age for five years. There's no way.

It is true. This isn't wrong.

It can't be, Dan. Literally, it'll take the sport down, that contract. It's a ridiculous contract. It can't be.

Your sport's out of control.

Well, signing Hiro to 20 million a year for five years is a joke. It's an excuseable. It's complete mismanagement. It can't be true. Ruined the sport.

Ohtani signed for 10 years, $700 million. And you have, Stugats, such an interesting change in the business of this sport, the national pastime becomes a regional cable television product. The Dodgers, who just got embarrassed in that market because they're spending more than anybody and they've got the best TV deal, the best TV deal should give you all the advantages. Freddie Freeman will get everybody, Hey, look who we're writing now. Ohtani, $700 million. It's a nightly TV show. Everyone loves it. We will make money off of this. We can afford it. We can share this money. Jessica, the spectacle part of this that you enjoyed yesterday because you're obsessed, you're obsessed, or Saturday rather, you're obsessed with flight tracking was we got the whole show. We got the Dan Gilbert's plane is coming here. It's going there. Where's Ohtani going? It's a big mystery.

Baseball felt alive, man. It did for a weekend.

It was amazing. So there was a flight, a private plane, a bombardier, I believe, that left from Los Angeles from a private airport and was landing in Toronto. John Morosie, who works for MLB Network, tweeted that Ohtani was on the plane. So I think a fan maybe initially saw the plane, and then he confirmed that Ohtani was on the plane. So for a few hours, everyone's like, Oh, my God, the Blue Jays are getting Ohtani. And then it turned out that the report wasn't true, and the Shark Tank guy came off the plane, which is something that.

Is.

Amazing. It's so good. It's just objectively hilarious, but also something that this happens in college football all the time. There was a time that I think it was Kansas fans thought that they were hiring Mike Leach because they saw a private jet going from Key West to Manhattan, Kansas. And then this random family got off the plane and there were media there and they were like, Oh, shit, it's not Mike Leach. So this happens all the time in flight tracker. And it happens in basketball. It happens in college football a lot. You'll see a weird plane take off from, like Starkville, and it's going to, like Missoula. And you're like, Well, this could only mean one thing. And it usually doesn't. And it's just a fun thing to track. So baseball had a taste of that this weekend. And Marossi apologized because he got the report wrong. But it was an electric three or four hours for a lot of people that thought like, Oh, my God, this is actually happening. And tons of reports coming out. It just was.

Not true. It was a rented out Japanese steakhouse in Toronto. Everyone thought that this was headed to north of the border, and I got caught up in it. And it was really funny, considering that all of this was attached to a superstar that went so far out of his way to keep everything secret and to avoid what we saw on Saturday, which is undoubtedly good for the sport because I follow baseball pretty passively, and I was into every evolution of it. I found it hilarious that it ended up being Hercevec coming off of the plane to a bunch of confused international media.

Good for the sport.

Yes, it's great. It's all centered around a guy that didn't want any of this hoopla.

It's hilarious. Well, you know what's weird is that before the day happened where everybody was tracking the flights and seeing where he is and is he boarding a plane? Is he not boarding a plane? No, he's at his house. What's going on with him? Is that articles were written by legitimate baseball writers who were saying what a shame it was and how bad for the sport it was and how it was such a missed opportunity for baseball that there wasn't a circus. Then they created a circus out of nowhere because they're like, You know what? We're not going to get it. We're just going to have the circus anyways. I don't want to say they were inventing things, but I'd.

Say- Are you saying Marossi did this on purpose?

No, I'm going to say that I don't think that what was taught in journalism school was exactly followed when you're trying to figure out who's on this airplane and it's the guy from Shark Tank. This was honestly bad for baseball because this is what it took for baseball to have the spotlight. The single most dominant, unique player we've ever seen. It made me almost sad. For baseball, for Twitter, baseball, Jessica was like, Baseball Twitter was actually a thing this weekend. What it takes for that is Showhey Ohtani. There's no other Showhey Ohtani out there. What we saw this weekend, we won't see again. Even going back, I guess the Poohos was the last contract before this that we were this excited about. But it just made me honestly sad for baseball.

Because it's a busy time, right? No, this is great.

Now he's in a big market.

No, but it's hard for baseball to stand out.

The O-season tournament's going on. My point is that everyone for eight hours was talking about baseball. That only happens when you have an Ohtani-type player, which we don't. We don't have any more of them. So that's it. I hope we enjoyed it, baseball, because.

You're back to irrelevance. You say this, but it's a fairly shocking take from you, author of a Zion's torn basketball shoe was good for Nike because any publicity is good publicity. You should want all publicity. This is not good for baseball because it shows.

Us- Because there's a lot of Zions out there, and there's a lot of guys wearing shoes. There aren't other Ohtanis out there. There are a lot of guys wearing shoes. What we had, we will never have again. There's no.

Other O-Tanya out there. You say, Here's the thing, though. You're right about this portion of it, and perhaps we will be denied it in baseball. But you know what there is? A whole lot of an invasive American media who can create this thing around anything. Because when Billy complains, here, journalism died a little bit. I will tell you the funniest time I heard or saw anything circus-related like this. I believe Walter Hudson at the time was the world's fattest man or close to it. He was one of the heaviest people in the world. And he was, after they took the roof off his house, they had to crane him out of the house to take him to the hospital. And so the photograph in the New York Post, where journalism died, was Walter Hudson in a crane over his front lawn with the quote from Walter Hudson and media members all over the lawn with microphones in the sky, I just hope it's not a circus. Ohtani wanted it to be a quiet transaction.

It was. You can't have a quiet $700 million deal.

But it was until the last day.

It was, and it wasn't his fault either. Except for.

That damn Dave Roberts, who was a real chatty Kathy and almost messed this whole thing up. What was.

He doing? Getting him?

Yeah, but he almost didn't. Because why did he confirm that had a nice positive meeting.

And go on record. Because they had $700 million to give him? I guess. And bleep your cultural privacy in business?

I'll say whatever I want.

Also, I don't know if they almost lost him because I don't know anything about this pursuit outside of getting the plane wrong and the dude from Shark Tank walking off.

Of there. Well, that's what's great, though. That's what's great. It's like, Please respect my privacy. And it's like, Guy getting off from Shark Tank private plane. You can't do better than that.