Transcript of Hour 1: Billy's Top 5 Things He Won't Miss (feat. Adnan Virk)

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This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugats podcast.

Amin just asked me the question, and I don't know the answer. Is there any man on television who it takes longer to get dressed in the morning than Cam Newton? Anybody in sports history of television because he's looking at the number of layers that Cam Newton is wearing right now. It's vest, it's bow tie, it's shirt, it's jacket. It's clearly not Adnan Verk. Adnan Virk would not qualify as the person it takes the longest amount of time in the morning to get dressed. But I don't have a better nominee.

Barry Melrose.

Cam Newton. No.

Barry wears a suit, slicks his hair back.

He's good. No, he's got a vest. That's a layered suit that he's got on there.

It's nothing near Cam Newton.

He sticks his hand in any body of water, toilet sink, whatever. River just gets his hand wet and slicks it back. Real good.

Put it on the poll. Does Barry Melrose-No, don't.

Stop.

What?

He's sick, guys.

He's sick?

He's sick. I've been over here like, Hey, let's stop. No one's taking a cue.

You can't make fun of him, maybe. He's sick. He still slicks his hair back. My fault. I didn't know that.

That has nothing to do with his disease.

Adnan Virk is with us now, and he's got a hat on. The bill is a little ragged. He is celebrating the Toronto Blue Jays in a way that is clearly and obviously buy I think- It's the worst bill I've ever seen on the hat. It's a bad bill. It's beaten up. It's an old hat. 200 bucks? It looks a little too comfortable. He's the host of MLB Tonight, Amazon Prime Monday Night Hockey. You can listen and subscribe to his NHL unscripted with Verk and Demers on iHeart. And his book, Cinefile: Interviews, Essays, and tales from the Red Carpet is available now. That's his real passion. He pretends to care about sports. It's movies that he cares about the most. Max Scherzer last night had the best old guy performance of the evening. I don't know how he did that, Ednan. Thank you for joining us. He's been terrible for a while. He's 41 years old, and he's the original 100-mile-an-hour thrower, and he's out there farting 94 miles an hour, and he's a dinosaur. And he scared his manager and yelled at him, and Schneider ran back to the dugout and said afterwards, Yes, I was scared.

I shouldn't have been out there. I was only there for a couple of seconds. I shouldn't have been out there. That is lying that day. No, but it was totally crazy. All of it, I've not seen. The way that managers usually represent is I'm in charge. That guy ran back to the dugout because he looked deep into both of Max Scherzer's different-colored eyes, and he was haunted, and he just ran back to the dugout. In terms of impressive willful things you've seen in baseball, and then Max Scherz are going back and getting back some Mad Max to save Toronto's season and beat Toronto's ace, how impressive does that one rank? Old guy performance, willful performance.

Dan, it was remarkable because if you go by the numbers, Luis Castillo had a 0. 70 ERA in his last six starts going into this game. So for the Marini, you see, all right, Luis Castillo is going to shove. He's going to be brilliant. And for Scherz, as you mentioned, He's been tired for a while. He had a 8. 79 ERA, his last four postseason starts going back to 2002. As far as recent vintage, his last starts in the month of September had an ERA over 10. And in the first ending, an ERA of 12. 64. There's no reason Max Scherzer should pitch like he did last night, and yet he was throwing his fastest fastball in a year and a half, and he did so with a curveball, which he basically invented later in his career. He threw 10 curveballs all for strikes, and four of his five strikeouts came on that very same curve ball. But all that gets obscured by, as you mentioned, that wonderful tet-a-tet with John Schneider. Now, when Schneider runs to the man like that, as Buck Martinez and Dan Schulman said, that's him basically going to check on his pitcher just to say, Are you good?

Well, Max clearly was furious and yelled, I'm good. Let's go. And John Schneider scurried back to the dugout, terrified to do anything else. Max Scherzer. I don't think Dan would have been hysterical if Brandi Roserina had then taken him deep. But thankfully, Scherzer gets out of it. And then they said, They can't take him out in the next setting. Everyone He's scared to take him out. He starts a sixth ending, gets a couple of outs. This time, John Schneider quickly motions to his left arm, allows nothing to be said. But 87 pitches, as you said, a willful performance at 41 years of age. That was Max Scherzer's 500th start, regular season and postseason. He's thrown over 50,000 pitches in baseball, and he gets his first win since the 2019 World Series. Remarkable. And as you said, it saved the season. The Jays lose that. They're down 3-1. They're probably cooked. Now, it's a best of three. Toronto has got a home field.

Can you explain, though? You just said 2002, you went back to... He's been good before 2002. What was the stat you just gave us from 2002?

I apologize. His postseason is 8. 79 ERA, his last four postseason starts going back to 2022. We left that one.

Okay. I was like, What are you talking about?

That doesn't sound like a good picture. It's been 20 years.

Okay, but it has been three years since Dinosaur Scherzer Had a fastball that scared anybody.

And he's the first pitcher ever to pitch for six different teams in the postseason, which is both a nod to his longevity and the fact he hasn't stayed in one place for too long. Max is a hired gun. Wherever he goes, he's looking to bolster his reputation. Again, he's a Hall of Famer. We all know that, but he has not pitched like this, period. Think about this, Dan. He hadn't pitched since September 24th. He wasn't on the roster for the division series. Toronto could have lost against the Yankees, and Max Scherzer would not have seen the mound. And yet in their most pivotal start of the season, the first time the Jays are in the CS for the first time in nine years, they turn to this 41-year-old grizzled veteran, and he shoved. He was brilliant. Two runs in five and two-thirds of Max Scherzer at this day and age. That could be the last start of his career. Incredible.

Adnan, does this hat hold any sentimental value?

I hate this hat. I feel like he bought it worn.

It's not like I've had this hat for so long.

I don't think it is. Right before the segment started, I saw him do the move of totally scrunching it up. I'm like, oh.

That hat sucks.

Mike and Chris are absolutely right. It's my eldest son, Yusuf's hat. Mike is right about the nostalgic value. He's now 17. He's had this hat forever. I know.

It still sucks. I was like, That's fine. I wanted know what nostalgia we were dealing with? Now that you've said that, hat sucks.

Barry Melrose territory. Is this an acceptable thing?

Hat sucks, a dirty one.

It's not my best hat. The brim is brutal. You guys are absolutely right about that. It's a sad excuse for a hat. There's no question about it. But the Js are not a sad excuse for an organization, at least.

One of the things that I enjoy about the baseball lexicon is when new verbiage gets thrown in. You just said he shoved, which I assume is short for he shoved the baseball up there. You guys now use this in baseball. Everyone says he shoved instead of saying the rest of the phrase. It is what it means, correct? When did that become okay in baseball for advertisers to just be on the broadcast and saying, Hey, he shoved that baseball right up their ass?

We'd have to check with our buddy, Bookshopby, Dan, but I'm going to say within the last seven to eight years, I've heard that more become a part of baseball parlance. What are you looking for tonight? I think he's going to shove. Another expression I only ever hear I never heard anywhere else is, The game got banged. My son's literally game. No one says, The game got banged tonight. But in baseball, if there's a rain out, they just say, The game got banged. Everyone understands what that means.

In basketball, there's a famous saying, It only takes one. It means, How the hell is he going to fall that long in the draft? Or who's going to draft him? Or who's going to sign that guy to that deal? The saying is it only takes one. Meaning, It only takes one team or one general manager to do it. But that's not the full The full saying is it only takes one asshole. But they cleaned it up to it only takes one.

I didn't realize that shoved had been around for eight years. Did you know that, Tony? Were you aware?

It's like a dealt situation. He's dealing right now. He dealt.

He shoved.

The Hat, are you a Blue Jay's fan? Is your son a Blue Jay's fan? What's the emotional investment in one of the better Blue Jay teams that we've seen in a long time when I do believe that baseball and this country are ruined rooting for the Mariners to be the team that represents the American League against the Dodgers?

Yeah, as you guys have said in the show, Dan, it's the US versus the world. I understand this is a pro-American contingent here on the show. But for the Blue Jays, I was just back home for, as we call it, Canadian Thanksgiving. I got to tell you, I was there working for Amazon. You mentioned the Monday Night Hockey. We did the Leifs Red Wings game, which they moved the game up for baseball. Think about that. This is Canada. Everyone says religion is hockey. No, no. Base is running things right now. They moved the Leifs game at 2: 00 Eastern Red Wings, Leifs, so everyone can watch the Blue Jays game of five, which I was able to do with John Morosi and others. And the appetite for this team to win again. It's been a long time, Dan, since 1993, as you know, when those Blue Jays teams went back to back, they were the kings of the baseball world. They were the ones requiring Dave Winfield or David Cohn or Paul Mulder, all these hired hands to go along with the nucleus of Roberto Alomar and Devon White and John Allred. So it's been a long time since the Jays have been the envy of the baseball world.

Everyone knows if they get there, they'd be the underdog against the Dodgers. But the ratings-wise, I was looking at the numbers. Canada is a country of 35 million. They're getting numbers of seven million. For example, that's NFL numbers. Like 30 million Canadians are watching if you extrapolate it in terms of the US audience to Canadian audience. So there's a rabid appetite right now for the Blue Jays. I think people would love to see this team go deep north of the border. And even I think in this country, they realize what an exciting team this is. Dan, let's talk a little bit about Vladimir Guerrero Jr. What he's doing is unbelievable. This is a superstar whose 14-year, $500 million contract kicks in next season. And I say this to you as a long time, lifelong baseball fan. What's more impressive? Five home runs this postseason or only one strikeout. As you know, Reggie Jackson hit a lot of home runs. He also struck out a ton. That's what you get with power hitters, not with Vlad. Five homers He's at only 1K. That is remarkable bat to ball skills.

He also has this plate discipline that his father did not have as a great bad ball hitter. He's better than his father, is he not? That's an impossible thing to say. His father's a Hall of Famer. Hitter.

Yeah, I mean, his father was incredible. As you said, the bad ball hitter had a different body than Vlad. Obviously, he was tall and lean and flailing all over the place. But I think what Vlad Jr. Is able to do, the way he punishes this baseball, if you look at exit field in the sport, virtually no one, aside from Aaron Judge, hits the ball harder than Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Even if it's not always home runs, it's hard contact every single time. To have that discipline, it's amazing. Thank God the Jays locked him up for the next 14 years.

You mentioned, though, Canada and Canadian pride and how many people are watching this baseball team. I'm not sure that the audience really understands that Canada doesn't beat America at sports. The Blue Jays are the only thing that beats America at sports, and it was a long-ass time ago. Canada loses The Raptors. Okay, but I'm saying when it comes to generational allegiances and who's the team that my parents are going to pass down? It's going to be the Blue Jays of Ceto Gaston because Canada never gets to be than America in sports. Fine, you chose the outlier, but the Blue Jays matter to Canada because the Blue Jays have made Canada feel like a winner. No one in hockey has done it.

No, there's no question about that. Canadian team has not won since 1993. The Leaps have not won the Cup since 1967. But Mike and Tony are right to at least mention the Rafters in Kauai. 2019 was a massive moment for the country. We all know the impact that guys like Steve Nash and Vince Carter have had on basketball north to the border. But I would agree with you, Dan. People have asked me, what's a bigger deal? If the Blue Jays won the World Series or the Raptors winning in 2019, I would say the Blue Jays because that's a generational thing. Again, the Raptors is massive when they win, and basketball is huge. As Amin knows, north to the border. But I do think if the Blue Jays won, this would really just wrap up the entire country. It's huge.

It's all dwarved by the least.

How quickly we forget Toronto FC's 2017 title reign.

The thing that triggered the thought for me, Adnan, is the idea of, while I'd forgotten Toronto's Raptors because Kawhi Leonard was a mercenary, the Vladimir Guerrero family is royalty in Canada, at least because Vlad Jr's dad is the one who made the Expos matter.

Right. I'm still trying to figure out who killed the Montreal Expos, but I I look forward to watching this Netflix documentary trying to get some answers on this. But yeah, I mean, father and some review. People forget Dan. Vlad's Canadian. I'm like, No, he doesn't just play for Canadian team. Vladimir Guerrero Jr is a proud Canadian, and he is thrilled to be in Toronto. He's the emblem, the cornerstone of that franchise. From the Expos to the J's, people love the Guerreros.

You just made a reference that made me think we've gone too long without talking to Billy Gill, who has a top five list of the things he will not miss from around here as he leaves. Adnan, as part of Billy's goodbye today, I cannot wait to hear how many O-L-I's this one has. Oh, no. Things that Billy Gill will not miss around here. Here.

It's the top five things that I won't miss from here. We have some OLIs, as you mentioned.

I can't wait to hear how many OLIs we have.

We have 34 OLIs. Oh, God damn it.

I knew this was going to be.

Just a quick 30. 34 OLI, and we get the top five. Oli number 34. Lamb for lunch three times a week. That was crazy.

Roy eats all the lamb, by the way.

Lamb is great. What?

Bro, eat all the lamb. Lamb's not bad, but three times a week is excessive.

These ungrateful people, Dan, you're feeding them lamb. This is a luxurious meat.

Bro, you don't eat four lamb chops.

I eat two. Oli number 33. Wondering where Where's Stugatz is when he's supposed to be on a Zoom recording? Oli, number 32. Wondering where Stugatz is when he's supposed to be in studio for a recording? Oli, 31. Just generally wondering where Stugatz is when he's supposed to be on a Zoom recording. Ola, number 32, wondering where Stugatz is when he's supposed to be in studio for a recording. Ola, 31, just generally wondering Stugatsis. Olai, number 30. Parking in one parking garage, running across the street, and dodging traffic to enter our office in another parking garage. Olai, number 29.

That's happened at two different places. I know.

Olai, number 29. Tony's top five.

You know what? Better than I thought it was going to be. I thought that was the top five for sure.

Ola, 28. Samson.

Wow.

There's a lot of people out there. I just want to get ahead of this. There's a lot of people out there saying, Samson's the reason that you're leaving. Samson's the reason that you're leaving. They're tagging him and it's this whole thing. He's going through all this stuff. Please, he is the reason, but leave him alone. Olai, number 27, Taylor. Olai, number 26, Jeremy Songs. Olai, 25, Tony's Clearly Made Up Stories. I thought I was out in Skate there. Olai, number 24. Lying to intrepid journalist, Mike Sure about how normal the environment is during an interview for Slate magazine. Oh, man. Had no clue.

I thought he was in college.

Olai, number 23. Gino. Keep an eye on Gino.

Things you're not going to miss.

Jesus. Keep Keep an eye on Gino. I'm telling you, keep an eye on Gino. Bad egg. So Gino, Francis just took a share. Keep an eye on Gino. Star of football America?

He thinks he's got everybody fooled.

Olai number 22, talking about Pat McAfee. Ola, 21, talking about Joe Rogan. Oli, 20, talking about Shane Gillis. Oli, number 19, Rose spilling her matcha every Wednesday and only on Wednesday. Oli, number 18, asking Dan Patrick what love was like growing up for the fourth time because he didn't answer the previous three times. Olai, number 17, Keeping up with what's bothering Billy Corbin.

You, too. Too low.

Olai, number 16, Mike Fuentes pretending he doesn't care about anything while wearing a black bass pro-shop hat. Olai, number 15, Mike Fuentes, pretending he doesn't care about anything while wearing a blue bass pro-shop hat. Olai, number 14, Mike Fuentes, pretending he doesn't Olai 13, Bass Pro Shop hat. Olai 13, Willow. Number one for me.

Olai 12, Mike Frentz is pretending he doesn't care about anything while wearing a Red Bass Pro Shop hat.

After Willow. Olai 11, Jess burping in the makeup room. Olai 10, That Other Dog, Ethan, Clearly, kicked. Oli, number 10. That other dog, Ethan, clearly kicked. Oli number 9. Zazdo talking about his manner. Oli, number 8, knowing Dan must have talked to Adam McKay recently because we spent 40 minutes debating whether or not we're going to die from the rising ocean water or the sky being on fire, even though those probably would have canceled each other out. Oli, number 7, the you being back. Getting out in time. Olai number six, Chris combining words. I thought I was going to be missed.

Oh, no.

Kurds. Olai number five, pretending a means impressions aren't all exactly the same. Olai, number 4, Louis. Olai, number 3, Lucy talking about Jasper the Doll. Olai, number 2, Jason showing me eating or yarning or playing on my phone while a vice presidential candidate is talking about how he'd fix the United States. Olai number one. Robert Quinlan-Costas.

All right, hold on to this.

Bobby Q.

I want to tease the five till later, now that we've finally gotten to the five and made Adnan sit through all five while he's got hockey and baseball information that he wants to give to the American public. We'll get to Billy's top five before the end of the show. Also, Jeremy saying that he wants to get in and say goodbye to you in a more loving fashion. We'll see if we get to that as well. I will remind people again that Adnan's book, Cinefile: Interviews, Essays, and tales from the Red Carpet is available now. Are you, like a lot of people, hoping that the Dodgers lose because you can't break baseball just because you got the best TV contract and you get into the playoffs for 13 straight years and you have all the best players?

Yeah. My main issue, Dan, it's not animus towards the Dodgers for that reason. It's just as a baseball fan, if I don't have a dog in the race, I want as much baseball as possible. So I'm training for the brewers yesterday to make this a competitive series. Once it goes 3-0, I'm like, Well, it's a feta complete. This thing's done. So game for today, I guess if Milwaukee would like to extend the agony, I suppose we can do that, but then this series is going to be done in five and in rather short order. It's certainly frustrating for Dodgers' haters, but at the same time, I applaud them for their excellence. Their starting pitching, Dan, this postseason has a 1. 54 ERA. That is unbelievable in today's game. With so many people saying, Well, starting pitching doesn't matter. It's all about bullpins. They said, No, we're going to go ahead and get the best starters available. And how about this? We're basically going to punt in the regular season. We really don't care about it. We'll Coast and win the division. Maybe we'll win 90, 95 games. We the number one seed. Who cares? Because come playoff time, Blake Snell will have thrown 70 innings.

For Blake Snell right now, it's June first. He's as fresh as a daisy. He can throw eight innings with no problem whatsoever. Yamamoto has been a horse for them. O'tani, we don't even need him to start game four. And Tyler Glassnell starts game three. He's an ace on most teams.

That's the thing I've never seen before. A team built in baseball for the playoffs is not something I have seen before these Dodgers.

Right. They clearly said to themselves, Dan, We don't care about the regular season. Even if we get in as a wild card, what do we It's all right. We'll win the division. We don't even have a buy. It's fine. We'll win no matter what because we have the starters. We have the horses. Offensive, they have not been a juggernaught. They scored three runs against the brewers. They're scratching out some runs. Muki Betz has been better. O'tani has done virtually nothing offensively. Had a triple Yesterday, his first of the postseason, he's been awfully quiet. It's guys like Tommy Edmund stepping up. You're Max Munzies. Those ones getting timely hits. It's their pitching. And even the bullpen, Dan, which should have been a weakness, they just moved the starters to the bullpen. We don't have a closer. We'll get Rocky Sassaki to be the closer. Great. No problem. He can get three outs for us.

This is good for baseball, right? For the Dodgers to be just a machine that keeps going back.

It can't be good for baseball that the Dodgers are the new Yankees, that they are- That's great for baseball. That they are just money. We will throw money at everything, and everyone will drown in our money.

I'm torn on it. I mean, a part of me says, yeah, in any sport, if you have a team that feels dynastic, if it's either love them or hate them, that's good for the sport. If the Cowboys are rolling in football- Panthers. Panthers He was in hockey, big win for the Flyers, by the way, Cody. Keturian, two goals, two assists. But I think ultimately, if you look at the sport, maybe back-to-back titles is good for the sport, to a means point. The Dodgers go back-to-back. La is a huge, robust fan base. But then the Dan's point, if it goes three straight years, the Dodgers, and you're spending your way to a title, that causes a lot of acrimony throughout the sport.

You can't break baseball just because you got the best TV contract.

But do you fault a team for willing to do whatever it takes to win? Back in the day, Dan, we'd applaud George Steinberg and say, He cares about winning more than anybody. He'll spend $200 million. Are not the Dodgers following the same script?

I guess, except that I always thought that someone would and had a chance against the Yankees. What I'm watching from the Dodgers starting pitching, what I'm watching that Shoheya O'Tani doesn't have to get a hit. It doesn't matter. He can strike out all the time, and they don't need it. That's crazy.

Yeah, it is funny when Shoheya O'Tani's offense can become an afterthought. We've seen it's well documented. When When he pitches, his offense suffers. So I've been of the mind now, once you're three out, you don't need Ohtani to start game four. Now, it's just a luxury. Now, it's fine. Well, we'll start. We'll have a bullpen game. What the hell? It's okay. Clayton Kershack can start. Billy's favorite. Just for Billy's farewell, Clayton Kershack can start.

That's what the Yankees never could do. The Yankees never had any of what you just said. Hey, we'll keep Babe Ruth in the dugout. We don't need him today. What insanity is that?

Yeah. Listen, it's not going to get any better anytime soon. If you're a Dodgers hitter, all these guys are locked up. Imagine if Saisaki is actually healthy next season and pitches a full year. Imagine if these guys are actually healthy and pitch the full year. Then they're even scarier. But it doesn't matter to them. Again, the regular season doesn't matter to the Dodgers. It doesn't matter to a lot of teams now. The extra wild card, you go, let's just get 85 wins and get in the play-ups and get hot at the right time. And so far, it's working to a T when it comes to this Dodgers script.

Adnan, thank you. We will talk to you soon. Appreciate all of the insight. Catch him, the host of MLB Tonight and Amazon Prime Monday Night Hockey. Thank you, sir.

Love you guys. Billy, we will be missed. And by the way, I just want to read Dan's lovely blurb to me for Cinefile. Adnan Verk is ill, sick, trouble, diagnosed with acute Scorsese. His addiction to film is neither healthy nor sane. He really thinks the world needs more of his thoughts on movies. I hate that he's right. The great Dan Leventer. Thank you.

Thank you, Adnan. We appreciate it. Can you get for me the last time, Jeremy and what Jeremy's got going on? Because he wants to get in on the show. It's crowded today. We want to get to our emotional goodbye to Billy, and Jeremy keeps trying to horn in on what it is that we're doing to talk baseball. And what are you doing in the bullpen, Jeremy? What do you have for us to honor Billy today? No, Dan, I just really appreciate the space that Billy has provided for me to be able to talk baseball, to talk Marlins with him.

I'm wearing a Marlins hat in his honor today, and it's because we had times talking about that team.

I remember when you swallowed him whole on that 2018 opportunity for him to be out at opening.

Oh, what?

Shut up, Jeremy. Shut up, Jeremy. Please just wrap it up. You are not Billy.

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Chris Cody, Amin, has somehow fallen in love with Joe Mazula. I don't know how you about Joe Mazula. I asked nick Wright after Joe Mizzula won the Championship. A serious question. Is he a good coach? Still don't know. Why have you fallen in love with Joe Mizzula?

His quotes are great. He's just like, you know I don't know. He's just got a vibe with the media. But this year, teams do this. We've played in softball games. Before seasons, teams do media games. Baseball does softball. And the Celtics, we're going to have a media game where media people play versus each other. And at the last second, Joe Missoula announced, not this year, this year, you guys are playing against coaches. So we have a B-roll here of them playing this game. It's harmless. You see Mizzula there walking past mid-court, and he celebrates a basket here. And you'd think it's a game-winning basket, and this It was like, wow, a close game. And you watch Missoula here, he gets a fist pump, and he fist pumps, then they pan over. The coaches are winning 57 to 4. I love the fact that he's just like, You're not playing the media this year. You're playing the coaches. We're going to rock your ass. We're going to boat race you 57 to 4. He's growing on me. I mean, I like Joe Mazula. I like it. I like it.

Look, I think he's in the same place that Mike McDaniel was in. The difference is he won a championship. Mike McDaniel didn't. But it's still the same thing, which is all this cute stuff is cool when you're winning. Oh, the quirky answers and a T-shirt says God, Jujutsu, and coffee, and all that stuff is cool when you're winning. When you're winning, when you stop winning, the patience and the tolerance for all the quirkiness goes right out the window. And so this year, I think the Celtics are going to be good still. They still have good players. They had Anthony Simons, who I think is going to be really good for them. But it's like, we'll see how much appetite Boston has for them when they're not dominant, when they're not the best team in the league. Also, to Jay King of the Athletic, who was in that game and then wrote afterward, and he was ashamed and embarrassed. I texted him. I read it and I said, Pathetic article. Pathetic article, Jay King.

Did he have any of the four points?

You should have gone even harder. You should have roastet Missoula for bad decisions, wearing down his coaches with a full-court press. Then I said, You got to double down, man, and don't let any of those coaches get injured this year. If they do, you immediately tie it into too many minutes during a meaningless game. And then afterwards, he said, Jalen Brown asked everyone, Does anyone want to do media? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. When he says that, you say, Let's do it. Because we're not like these little ginsy, snibly whining. He's like, Oh, I had a bad day, and now I have to talk to the media. It's part of your job, Man up.

How many points did you have scored?

Me? Yeah. You know what I would have done? I would have locked up Joe Missoula. Wow. You would have said, I'm not even scoring tonight. You're not scoring. You're not scoring. And by the way, if he gets by me, I'm throwing something dirty. Hey, chicken wing. A chicken wing. I'll let him know. We're not here. You know what? We're here to compete. We're not just here like, Oh, my God, you got to be so good.

No easy ones. No easy ones.

Get out of here. Matthew Berry is here.

Matthew Berry.

Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry.

It ended quicker than I thought it was going to. There you go.

That's what she- Got to get the timing down. Go ahead.

All right, here we go. In every game this season, but one, the Detroit lines have allowed multiple shutdown passes, and among their issues, deep pass attempts. Their bottom five of the NFL in both yards and touchpoints allowed on deep passes. Who did they play this week? Baker Mayfield. Who, by the way, only one quarterback in the NFL has more deep pass attempts Then Baker Mayfield. Start Baker. I don't care who his wide receiver are. By the way, other side of the ball, last week, the Tampa Bay Bucaneers have allowed at least 340 passing yards to an opposing quarterback in two straight weeks. Those quarterbacks, Mac Jones and Sam Darnold. Don't get cute, you're starting Jared Goff. By the way, in the two games since Braille and Allen went on IR, Brees Hall has gotten 82 % of the Jets running back touches. I know you're like, the Jets are awful. But get this, three of the last four running backs to get at least 15 touches against the Carolina Panthers have scored at least 16 fantasy points. They've also given up two receiving touch downs to opposing running backs. Don't get weird about it. You're starting Brees Hall.

Okay, over the last four weeks, no team has allowed more rushing yards for a game or a higher yards for carry against the running backs than the Miami Dolphins. Dan, I'm sure you're aware of that. They've actually up at least 20 fantasy points to an opposing running back in four of their past five games. Believe it or not, the Browns are actually favorite in the game this week. So Quinchawn Judkins should have a nice game against Miami. No team in the NFL has allowed more rushing touch downs to runningbacks than the Tennessee Titans. They've, in fact, given up at least one rushing touch down to a running back. In every game this year, believe it or not, Ramondre Stevenson has seen 83 % of the Patriots goal line attempts over the last two weeks. I think Ramondre gets in the end zone against Tennessee and Vrabel's revenge game. Over the last four weeks, only two teams in the NFL a lot more phone and some points to opposing wide receiver than the Colts. Lad McConkey has five red zone targets in just the past two games. The three games that Rashe Rice played last year, he had a 34 % target share.

Everyone in fantasy football has been waiting to get Rashe Rice off their bench, onto the field. You know who else has? Hachma Holmes. Don't get cute. You're starting Rashe Rice this week. For three straight weeks, Travis Hunter's route participation has increased. Last week, it was a season 8, 86 %. And Liam Cohen of the Jaguar said, This week, the team is making a priority to design and call more plays in which Travis Hunter is the number one option. Last week, only one tight in ran more routes than Kade Atten. And with all the injuries to the Tampa Bay's past catchers, Kade Atten saw a target share of 26 % last week. Over the last two years, when Atten gets at least a 20 % target share, he averages almost 15 fantasy points for a game. And last week, last one here, Dan, only four teams allowed more yards for a game to opposing tight ends. Then the Miami Dolphins, they also give up the seventh most fantasy points to Titans. David and Joku is banged up. This is a Harold Fanon week for the Browns.

Harold Fanon is- Matthew Berry.

Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry.

Matthew Berry.

Watch and stream full episodes of fantasy football happy hour with Matthew Berry, NBC Sports Peacock. Get personalized info and tools for all things fantasy and sports betting at fantasylife. Com. I really can't believe what Matthew Berry just said. I He thought 18 months of Patrick Mahomes be less than Patrick Mahomes because he didn't have his wide receiver. Matthew Berry is saying, Baker Mayfield don't care who his receivers are. Receivers do not matter. Take Baker Mayfield. What insanity is that?

Baker has managed it. Last week, Tez Johnson, Cameron Johnson, again, Kade Otton, he made Ameca Bukas, currently the betting favorite to be offensive rookie of the year. We'll see because of the injury, if that happens. But Baker has just made everyone great. Baker has made everyone great. And Mahomes, I think, hasn't had to do that just because his defense has been so good over the last couple of years, and they've had people in or out as well. But look, Mahomes is great. He's the goat. He's amazing. He's a Hall of Famer. I get all that. But if I had an MVP vote and you took it today, Baker Mayfield is the MVP of the NFL.

Matthew, good seeing you. A total insanity. Everything he just said. I cannot believe it's the middle of the season in 2025, and Mahomes needs receivers. But not Baker. Baker doesn't need receivers.

Okay. You disagree with that take?

No, I I just can't believe that it's true. Yeah.

Look, Mahomes has been good the last couple of weeks as well. I mean, again, Xavier worthy and Hollywood Brown. He was missing Xavier worthy for a few weeks. I think it's a fair criticism or question. I don't know, Baker has been playing better. It is insane to think that.

No, it is. It's totally nuts. Matthew, thank you. We appreciate the time. We appreciate that you make it quick. Our apologies that the Zoom and the music left you totally vulnerable there, going as fast as you possibly without the music you need to booie you. We'll do better next time. Thank you, sir. We probably won't do better next time. Why are you going to lie to him? He'll see you being totally honest. He'll lie to the man. We're going to have Billy's top five and the club. We're going to put it in the last segment. To say goodbye to Billy in a way that finally gets to his top five, 34 Oli's on things that he won't miss. I honestly thought it was going to be 1 million and 34.

I thought my impression sound different.

Don Lebatard. Photography is not as hard as it is. It's made out to be. Now with computers, you can make anything look like anything, Dan. It's almost cheating. It's not fair. If you push a button and it takes a thousand pictures, you're going to find a good one in the batch.

There were a lot of photographers there taking thousands of pictures. One got that photograph. Okay, good retort. Stugatz.

Haven't you ever passed by photographers? I guarantee you, when that shot was taken, we didn't just hear... That's not what you heard. If you were by that camera, In my ear with that.

He does a good camera.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz.

Only the greatest of expenses on how to celebrate Billy Gill's final segment on the show with us. We have an assortment of toys that suggests great enthusiasm. I have a glass stick.

Crack it. It's fun. I just cracked mine. I think I already did. No, you got it earlier.

Before we get to this party celebrating his punctuation, Billy Gill's 15-year extraordinary run on our show. Chris Cody, tell people about the Watch Party. We're going to do very close to Billy's hood, closer to Tony's hood. My hood. We don't do this very often. The hood, A Rod's hood, the Watch Party with Miller Light. Give people the details.

That's right, Dan. We're throwing a Miller Light Watch Party for Thursday Night Football, Dolphins versus Ravens at Flanigan's in Kendall, Southwest 88th Street, and Kendall Drive. Join us Thursday, October 30th for a Halloween block party. Costumes Encourage. The whole crew be there. Dan, Chris, Roy, Tony, Jeremy, Amin, Dave Damscheck, and more. Party starts at 6: 00. Billy?

I do want to do the top five things Billy Gill will not miss about being here for 15 years. Hell of a run, Gil. 15 years doing any job is a hell of a run. Billy?

After all those years, Dan calls you Gil for the very first time.

Let down his vulnerabilities for on the last on the same basis. We're pressed. Number five. Well, no, there's a new Ola lie. Ola lie number 1B. Dan interrupting the top five to get to Adnan Verk talking about George Steinbrenner. Number 5. Danny B. Remembering to bring everything on a trip except one thing, and that one thing was usually the thing that made all the other things work. Yes. Thank you. Number Number 4.

I thought you were going to say Danny B. Bringing something up at the end of a meeting.

No, that's Jason's role. Number 4. The useless sound montage.

It's so good.

Number 3. Finding out things that happen in the company from awful announcing. I still am. Number 2. The grid of Dentech punishments.

You didn't have to suffer many of them.

Number one thing I will not miss from the show, being asked where people is.

What a triumphant return for Billy Gill. Would anyone like to say anything heartfelt here in the last couple of minutes that we officially have with Billy Gill? Or do you just want to talk more about Joe Flacko and Max Scherzer? I mean, loss and all that. Aaron Rodgers.

Look at pretty good this season.

That throw- Outside of the couple of interceptions. That throw, Aaron Rodgers made a throw longer than anyone has made in the league since 2017. That Hale Mary throw, no one's thrown a football that far since 2017.

I just like this opportunity to plug episode 169 of Cinefo. Billy was on that one. We did speed Cruise control.

Has Greg Cody asked you to be on his podcast yet? Yeah, your dad's going to be so mad at me because he texted me a couple of nights ago asking for comment on his article, and I was like, No, I will not give you a statement for this thing that you're leaking. No, I'm not participating in that. Then he's like, Well, come on my podcast. I was like, Please don't do that. Then later, he's like, Incidentally, while I have you here, maybe we could do a podcast episode Maybe you could come on as early as Friday, if not Saturday or Sunday. Then I got a text from him yesterday that I need to respond to that I haven't opened yet because I knew exactly where it was, but it's like, Hope the day went well. It was, and I just thought, and I was like, Okay, this is just we're checking in to see when the availability might be.

He's not going to stop. No, I know. He's a bit of a stalker on this.

I need to get back to him. I feel bad I haven't got back to him. I have a lot of people to get back to that have reached out over the past couple of days. So thank you to everyone who's reached out. I'll get back to you. Except maybe not great because we'll see how that goes.

He's just trying to use you for clicks. If you've got any lovely or final words, those can be the final ones that you want as punctuation. If not, we're going to play the song here again and see if I can keep it together, Gilly.

You became the dude as you vaulted higher. A useless sound, not hard to find. Our love for you, it was forged in fire every time you blew your mind. Skeptical at times, but nuance always knows how to make us feel without you on the show. You won't be back, Jack, our favorite hypochondriac. So bang those pots and pans into the sky. To go where apple pies and eagles fly, it's hard to say goodbye. An onion won't be the thing to make us cry, when it's hard to say goodbye.

It really is like he died.

We loved you, Gilly.

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