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This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.

So, Amin, why are you confused about how long you're supposed to hold on to your underwear as a male? Why is this something that, like, you're not sure about?

This has been a problem that's dogged me for years.

Really?

Yeah, I'll be doing my laundry and I'll come across a pair underwear, like, oh, It's got a little tear in it right here. I've got— this is current one right now. Usually it's with ones that have been with me through the hard years, but this one was a fairly new pair, like maybe 3 years old.

And that's still considered new.

Yeah, for underwear. I got— dog, I got underwear for like the early 2000s.

How often do you improve it, Zazz?

I mean, I replenish whenever my wife feels it's time for me to replenish my underwear.

Every Christmas.

You're a tighty-whities guy?

No, no, I do boxer briefs.

Okay, good.

Yeah, I think we can stipulate here everybody does boxer briefs.

Boxers took over the world, man. I remember there was a time—

they're great—

there was a full-ass boxer time in my life. You never went full-ass?

Oh no, I had full-ass boxers.

No, I always— to me, boxers were always very uncomfortable.

In South Florida, it seemed too free. Treacherous.

Yeah, I can't wear shorts under my shorts.

The brief makes me feel better about myself.

I mostly free ball, but when I'm not, I go boxer briefs. Yeah, I have a lot of shorts with lining.

I can't sleep that way.

No, I can't do it.

I sleep free balling every time. Oh, I hate that.

I cannot sleep with underwear.

What do you do with the guys?

You're winning What are you doing?

I have shorts on.

You're gonna sound like you're pooing it.

No, I have shorts on, but—

Shorts, no underwear.

Why would I put a layer under my sleeping shorts?

I need control. They can't just be flopping around everywhere.

It's a lot of flop, dude.

It's so uncomfortable. My wife said I would sleep nude. I would sleep in the nude.

Lay bare.

If you wanted to, I would lay bare with you. And I said, I don't like that feeling. It's too free. You lay on your side, it's just like, yeah, well, you're turning over, you're slapping, the things are slapping around, you might get slapped across the cheek for all I know.

I'm pretty happy with my set, but you know, it flops over and then, you know, it doesn't— I'm very happy with my set. Once it flops, it flops.

I find you have to adjust more when you sleep in the nude.

I don't adjust in the nude.

No, it's because it's just too free, dude. I need control.

I have to put it somewhere.

Stay your ass in your lane. That's what the underwear does. It keeps them right there.

Yeah, I'm familiar with what underwear does. I'm wearing— I happen to be wearing underwear right now because I'm wearing white shorts. Shorts, and I don't want you to see the outline of my penis.

Is Joe Boxer— like, is that— that was a well-known brand. Are they like gone under now? No, they're still around.

Because nobody does male boxer briefs.

They're still around though.

I am curious about these holes you guys speak of. I don't get holes in my underwear.

Okay, so this particular pair, although as I said, this is a problem that's dogged me through the years, but this particular pair I'm talking about, fairly new, right where the elastic is, you know how it's got the elastic that says Hanes on it or whatever?

Around your waist?

Yeah. That part has torn asunder from the fabric of the majority of the underwear.

Why did that happen?

Well, you know why that happened?

Because I pulled it up too fast probably at some point. Right?

I mean, I feel like that happens to me when I'm putting it— when I'm stepping into it and I step wrong and like it rips.

Right. So, but—

Maybe step better.

Other than this slight tear that is kind of visible only if I'm pointing to it, I know it's there, but I don't know if anyone else— obviously no one would know, you can't see my underwear, but say I'm having a conjugal visit, like, I don't think she would notice it either, right? Unless I pointed it out.

So I'm like, are you making the conjugal visit or is she?

Come on, man, I'm always in jail. Um, but the, the, the point is it is functionally still doing its job. It— I had no— I don't, I don't feel anything, right? No floppage.

I don't, I don't know how someone in Arizona or South Florida electively Just signs up for underwear, buddy.

Let me tell you something, man.

It's—

can't— in a magical time inside the magical time called the 20 CB, you used to wear your underwear and then you had basketball shorts underneath, and then you wore jeans over there just in case, just in case a basketball game pulled up, and I'm ready to change. I've got to be ready at all times. So this is— look, having underwear, that doesn't—

that place had— wherever you did that, that place had seasons, right?

It was here.

It's too hot.

No, it was here.

Here's where I did it. Big baggy jeans, you had the And1 shorts underneath.

I'm familiar that most of the time I'm in AC. It's for that 3 seconds that I'm walking from AC to AC where you get all damp.

I never understood, like, when I was in high school, I would say 75% of the boys wore boxers. I never understood that. They were never comfortable to me. Anytime I would put jeans on, the boxers rise and they're all scrunched up and I didn't— again, I like having my shit tight, and with the boxers all over the place—

you just brought me back to that feeling though.

I, I'm with you.

I wasn't out— I'm out on boxers, but that feeling of pulling like them down a little—

terrible when they're riding cloth boxers like the prison ones.

I'm saying the relief and like, oh, you're pulling it.

I got—

I like the opposite thing. I don't like it when I'm like bunched up all tight. I gotta be loose. I gotta breathe.

You mentioned the holes in underwear.

Yeah, it's weird.

The one that they put in there, the manufacturers, the dick hole placed in there. Yes, I call it the wiener maze because why? It's not Who uses that?

Some boxers think that way.

That's what I was going to say, Mike. I don't think any human being has ever tried to navigate or had their wiener navigate the unnecessary material maze that they've put down there. Like, it would have to be a hole that just goes— like, the boxer hole makes sense. The boxer hole is big and it cuts a pretty wide swath and your wiener can— you can grab pretty easily. but, uh, you know, a, a thumb and an index finger, a middle finger, whatever you want, pull it out there. But not, not the Maze. Not, not the—

not the Maze. You got to go up and around the corner.

Thank you for the helpful visual representation.

I'm trying to do it with my hand. I'm showing it.

No, no, we see that. We see that.

The Maze, the Maze is great because it doesn't want you to have the accidental flop out. Like, you're just there because that— you ever felt that? You're walking around and your dick is out. You're like, whoa, inside your jeans, but like it's out. It's like, ah, what the hell?

Scary.

It doesn't feel good.

It's like wearing shoes when you're completely naked. You feel more naked.

The maze—

sticky in here.

The maze is there to, to kind of prevent against that, but the problem with the maze is there's two situations where it becomes really, really, really impractical. Number one, somehow whenever I have to really go bad, he's like, ah, come on, goddamn it! And you can see your dick in your mind's eye doing this. Like, oh no, that's a wall.

Where's the opening?

Where's the opening? Right. Then the other time, not proud to say this, but if there's even like a slight chub situation going on, all of a sudden all the like elusiveness, how it like finds its way around screens and stuff. Nope. Now it's like crashing through and I'm like, that hurts. That's not fun. And usually at that point I pull— I just pull down. I'm like, you know what? Everything gone. Let's go.

The monster behavior is when you go with the basketball shorts up like through the leg from the thigh. That's monster behavior.

I've done it.

That's—

then you don't have to see that. Well, because then you don't have to untie the thing at the top.

If there's other people in the bathroom with you, that's just a—

it's an aggressive exposing thigh to everyone. Hey, you want to see my hamstring? Well, I take a leak here.

I will say this around the maze situation. Tommy John, I don't know if you're familiar with their underwear. They've got— they've got a top butt where you just go over the top instead of opening through the side. You just flip it over, boom, right through the top.

What?

What?

What? What?

What?

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I say, yeah.

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Don Lebatard!

You getting started on the breakfast flan?

Oh man, I've been singing a song to myself all morning long.

Breakfast flan!

I'm not in the minority here. Nobody uses that thing. Are you saying— so I mean, you're saying you actually— you're a sheep. They put that in there. It was an idea they had. They didn't really think it through. And decades later, they're like, well, we haven't heard any complaints. Well, hear my complaint now. I don't know. No one would ever use that dumb thing. Why would ever— there's no way you— how does your wiener even navigate its way through the bends? It's like Nicholson at the end of The Shining. I'm my wiener would end up just frozen laying there for all of time.

It is just like Nicholson at the end of The Shining.

My wiener kind of looks like Nicholson.

Put that on the poll.

I would say— here's Johnny. Uh, I would say that it depends on where I am. If I'm at a urinal, then I just gotta— I gotta use that, that doorway.

Can we put that on the poll today, please? Juju, does Dave's wiener look like Nicholson at the end of The Shining?

I try to use the doorway, but not all my underwear have it, so I'll like reach in there. I'm like, oh, this one doesn't have it. I just talked about—

you got No, it would be blue and frozen if it got stuck in the wiener maze as it was intended, I assume. Directed by Kubrick. When I try to pee, directed by Kubrick.

But you guys, we gotta go back to my original question. At what point do you guys say, you know what, you had a hell of a run, to the glue factory?

Oh yeah. It's hard for me to notice that the underwear have holes because it's not something that I inspect for. It's one of those things like if I catch it, then it's gone. Obviously it's gone, but there have been some pairs that have holes in it that I just never get around to it. I just instinctively throw it in the hamper.

I had one where it was like the bottom inner thigh. Yeah, but I have those too.

It starts— this illustration is too much.

No, I'm with him here. I'm with him.

It starts like thin, right?

It starts to thin in the inner thigh.

Can we zoom in a little please?

Amin's getting a pap smear, I think, in a second here.

So like that part right here starts to fray and pull apart, but again, the underwear overall is doing its job.

Yeah, but now I'm losing comfort.

It doesn't— I don't feel—

it starts to rub me.

The pure comfort is—

literally, that's why I think you lose comfort the, the second you make the decision to put underwear on, I, I feel.

Well, you're out of this conversation. Yeah, you are.

You are wearing underwear today.

No, you're not.

Yes, I am, because I'm wearing white shorts and I don't know what you're doing.

Under protest. You cannot be trusted.

I'm doing it out of respect for my fellow man.

Don't wear underwear tomorrow.

I can't believe you don't wear underwear to bed. You're just shirt cocking it?

Yeah, I want to be comfortable. Why would I want to wear Under Armor to bed?

You're pooping everywhere.

No, I'm wearing shorts.

He's got shorts but no underwear underneath the shorts.

Why would I put on two layers and hop in my bed?

Why not just boxer, no shorts?

The visual of Mike pooping in his bed is great.

You know, in a related matter, I say the boxer industry must have gone under or close to it Also, grown-up man pajamas.

Has—

do you— does anybody—

I see you in pajamas.

Oh no, my wife makes me do it on Christmas Eve.

I wear jammy pants, but like the whole thing, sometimes, brother.

I'm a proud owner of a zillion old pairs of basketball shorts. That's my go-to bed.

Amen. Right, those are jammies, right?

Amen.

That's me too. But I'm saying, does anybody— does any grown man in the 21st century wear both parts of the pajamas.

I've got a pair of Zubaz that I use as pajama pants, and those are exceptional pants to not wear underwear in.

While we're here, do you guys ever, while peeing, like, you have tight pants on and you try to pee and then it's like, it gets hard, you don't get it all out?

Yes.

And there's like a little spillage?

Of course.

Yeah, that's the worst.

What happens there? Why can't I get it all out?

Let me tell you this.

When you're wearing like a tight belt and like, I don't want to undo everything, so I'm just like gonna do this thing where I'm gonna aggressively—

What Chris is mentioning is one of the perils of not wearing underwear. Yes, because you don't have that layer to pick up some of the spillage.

Yes.

And so like you'll have the awkward situation where it might run down the pant leg.

Yep.

Oh no.

We've all been there though with tight pants. That's where it happens.

I don't wear belts.

If you're wearing a suit with tight pants and you don't want to unbuckle everything, you just like force flip it down and then like it's hard to get everything out.

But see, this is the advantage of the pathway of the underwear.

I like how all your suits— we just have to understand, if you're wearing a suit, it's a tight suit. The gambit is, you guys know when you're wearing dress pants, they're tight?

Thank you.

Oh, they are.

Tashay, you're also taking that long way home, huh?

Only in this situation that Chris Cody is describing. You got a tight pant and you have— you're dealing with all of the mechanics of that. I'd rather just take the long way home, as it were.

Zazz, how many suits do you have?

I have a lot of suits because I used to be a broadcaster with the Miami Radio.

All right, new question. How many suits do you have that fit?

Good question.

Uh, eh, maybe like 3?

Yeah.

But also, like, I chose this profession so that I don't have to wear stuff like that.

I like the idea that Zazz had like all the choices of professions. He got out of college, "What am I gonna do? Should I be an engineer? Should I be mayor? Should I be a doctor?" And he said—

A banker.

Radio. No suits. And Zazz is like, "I found my calling." Sorry, Pentagon, I'll be doing this instead.

I think it's funny you bring that up, Zazz, because I literally in the last week have been talking about this with my wife and other people too, because I'm vain, and now I will bring it to you. I think I've reached an age where dressing like everybody here is basically dressed, which is basically— let's call it what it is— slovenly. I think it's become untoward at my age. I'm thinking about legitimately just becoming a suit guy day in and day out. I can see it.

I can see you being—

As I get, you know, as I advance in age, I think it'll make a lot of sense for me to walk around in a suit and a tie. I don't mean like a, like a cool guy, like get a cool black t-shirt to wear underneath my suit. No, I mean with a tie, maybe even a hat.

I'd prefer to wear a suit every day.

I love that.

You know what, Tashay? You and me park our cars in the same garage.

That's right.

We're gentlemen, you and me.

I like showing up places looking good, looking put together, like I tried.

Society drags you and me down. We would be pointed at.

That's right.

I don't need to wear a suit to look good.

Sounds awful.

Well, neither do I.

It sounds awful, but I must admit, since we're winning a Pulitzer, kind of feel like I need to start dressing up more.

Definitely got to wear those glasses always.

And, you know, the t-shirt, great t-shirt. I love this t-shirt, but it doesn't really go with the glasses. It doesn't go with the whole Pulitzer.

Motif beneath you.

It is.

You know what? Maybe I'm parking my car in the same garage.

Dave Dameshek, let's be suit guys together.

Suit day tomorrow.

Can we do Friday?

Can we drink old fashions while we do it?

My suits are 3,000 miles away. Otherwise I'd be all in. You're in Miami. You got to get a tailor.

There's a Kohl's right next door.

Oh, you know what? Yeah, get a, get a nice, uh, summer weight.

Yeah, a little linen. Yeah, linen blend suit.

I could wear the hell out of a linen suit.

I can't even imagine sleeping naked. Seems horrible.

Yeah, it's not bad.

I don't want to flop it around.

Makes me feel better that he does the basketball. I was thinking fully nude.

That's just a lot.

No, no, no, I got one. When I'm in bed, one layer is fine. I mean, electively being like, I'm going to bed and I'm deciding to put two layers on my lower half in Miami, Florida. Get out of here.

Now, I want you guys to know, and I want you to visualize it. I sleep naked. Pitchcock next.

Don Lebatard.

Can I tell you something? I don't know, it was maybe like a month ago, and I decided to watch Pitch Clock, and I told Jeremy—

Stugatz.

This is a good show you're doing.

This is the Don Lebatard show with the Stugatz.

You're not better than me for not wearing headphones.

I mean, I have technically headphones. I have an earpiece here. You think? But you just, I'm hiding it from the camera, from the, from the behind the scenes camera. I'm hiding it from the real camera.

You got to put two fingers.

You think you're better than me? Let's start the show.

Welcome to The Pitch Clock. Here's the pitch: a two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is The Pitch Clock.

Hi, everybody.

The Pitch Clock. That's where we started. I'm Jeremy. I'm better than Chris. That's Chris. He's not better than me. Ethan's over there. He's not better than either of us, but he does have our trivia game for today. Chris pointed over at Olivia. Olivia's over there. We'll have Jack McMullen of Just Baseball and the radio voice of the Miami Marlins with us as our guest.

He's great.

Very excited to have him here.

Gentlemen, this is Jeopardy! Welcome back, Pitch Clock Jeopardy! We are back, folks. Now I have made an editorial decision to keep games closer. You will not be penalized for a wrong answer.

Garbage. Categories here are MVP 2005 Ballparks, Traded Marlins, Paths to Cooperstown, Iconic Calls, and Who He Play For in MVP Baseball.

So just To clarify, Paths to Cooperstown, you will get an image of a player's career path. So the teams that they played for, you will tell me who that player is.

Okay.

And just for the audio audience, when we get that image, I will read them off. Once I'm finished reading them off, you guys can then buzz in.

Perfect.

Perfect.

Perfect.

All right.

Let's—

you know what?

Let's start with Paths to Cooperstown. For $1,000.

Wow.

$1,000. The Braves, the Yankees, the Cleveland baseball team, the Blue Jays, and then the Braves once again. This is a pitcher.

Uh-oh.

I think you're just— you're gonna have to do that thing where we go—

this is Phil Necro. Okay, Phil Necro. Okay, Jeremy. So nobody gets Phil Necro.

Let's go to—

yeah, let's go to MVP 2005 Ballparks for $200.

You keep it when you don't Yeah, nobody— I didn't get it wrong.

Yes.

Nobody got it right.

What was the Seattle Mariners ballpark named in MVP 2005?

I know this.

Jeremy.

Oh, wait.

Petco Park.

My—

that's my pick.

Say again? Oh, good. Wait, what was that?

Petco Park.

That was wrong. This is the Seattle Mariners. That was the San Diego Padres.

Oh, I'm an idiot.

Okay.

Chris Cody.

I got this.

Damn it.

Safeco.

That is correct. Chris Cody, you're on the board.

That's my dyslexia.

Give me $400. Same category.

That's a little dyslexia on my part.

What was the Washington National Stadium named in MVP 2005? Chris.

I know this.

Was recently knocked down.

It's President's initials. RFK.

That is correct. Wow.

Well done.

Wow.

All right.

So 600.

Chris and Cody off to a flyer. All right.

We'll stay in the same category for $600.

Okay. The Arizona Diamondbacks ballpark was named? Jeremy.

Chase Field.

That is incorrect. I don't know.

Progressive?

No, that's—

no, that is the current name of the Cleveland Guardians ballpark. This was Bank One Ballpark in 2005.

God.

Chris Cody, would you like to remain in the same category or like you like to go somewhere else? All right. The San Francisco Giants was named— Chris Cody.

PNC.

Nope.

No, that is—

no, that's— yep, that is Pittsburgh.

Is it I'm just going to— since it doesn't mean negative. AT&T?

No.

Yeah, that's AT&T now, right?

Or was it? It was Oracle then.

Oracle!

It was Oracle then. Sorry, it's Oracle now. Yeah, it was AT&T before. Look who just walked in.

Hey, Jack, you do better than this.

Well, that's the Giants stadium named in 2005.

Pacific Bell.

This guy.

Very close. It was SBC Park. PacBell Park was just before that one.

Jack McMullen of Just Baseball. With us here. He is also the radio play-by-play announcer of the Miami Marlins. And Jack, I'm really excited because we actually have some Marlins stuff that we can chat about. But I want to start with you with what was really the biggest news of the week in Major League Baseball. Tarik Skubal.

Yeah.

Having surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow. And for those of you who are not doctors like myself, that essentially means that either bone fragments or ligament fragments are just kind of floating around in there. That's the technical term. This is crazy news because Schubel had won his arbitration battle, making $32 million this year. A guy who's an impending free agent. We have no idea where things are going with him and the Detroit Tigers. And now he's out for at least 2 to 3 months here. Yeah, there's a lot of fallout in this. So I'm just going to say for Tarik Schubel, for the Tigers, and now for both of their futures, what does this mean?

It just sucks. Like, all around, this totally sucks. And I'll start with the Skubal front, and then I'll go to the Tiger front, then I'll go to the baseball front in general. But for Skubal, it sucks because this guy could be looking at, you know, $100 million loss this offseason. And we're saying, what do you mean? Like, he's going to come back, he's going to throw for 6 to 8 weeks at the end of the year. And if he looks like Skubal, and if he's, you know, sitting 98, bumping it up to 100, 101, why is he not going to get his money? Because this is, I believe, his third elbow surgery in his career. We were talking about this guy being a $450 million pitcher, something we have never seen before. He can still recoup that value and become the highest paid pitcher ever. But the difference between $450 and $350—

it's, it's $100 million.

Yeah, it's $100 million. That is a huge, huge thing there for Tarik Skubal. On the Tiger front, they run into a really interesting situation where, number one, they have to survive the summer.

Right?

They need to get through it without Tarik Skubal. I think you can make the argument that Skubal is more valuable to Detroit than a guy like Ronald Acuña is to the Atlanta Braves.

Wow.

Number 2, if things did go south for the Tigers, God forbid, they could have traded him and they could have gotten a king's ransom in return. And now they cannot.

It's a franchise-altering injury.

100%. So, and then baseball as a whole, like we were going to be talking about the first guy to win back-to-back-to-back Cy Young Awards in the American League, I believe in Major League history. I think the only guys that have won the Cy Young 3 years in a row. Maddux in the early '90s and Randy Johnson in the late '90s, early 2000s. Like, that's it, folks. So easy. Just amazing.

You got the Rays, who everyone constantly doubts every single season. I believe most projections had them sitting a couple of games under.500 this year. And here they are, 10 games over. They're 8-2 in their last 10.

Yeah.

Then you have the Royals who started, I mean, dreadfully, but they're also 8-2 in their last 10, finally playing much better. Bobby Wood Jr., of course, is tremendous. And then how about this one in the Chicago White Sox?

Yeah.

Who at the time of this recording are a game under.500. They're 7-3 in their last 10. Munetaka Murakami, we highlighted last week as the superstar that he is. But of these 3 teams, which one would you sort of like to dive into and break down here? Because they all have sort of interesting aspects to them.

I'm going to dive into Tampa because they're doing the thing like the weird Tampa thing again, where the roster— it makes no sense that they would be winning 8 out of 10 and they'd be sitting near the top of the American League East. Which is an absolute gauntlet. But that's what Tampa does. It took like a couple of starts for him to get his feet under him. But Shane McClanahan has been nails. Nick Martinez, a Belén guy, right?

Miami.

I mean, Nick Martinez signs a one-year deal, I think like $10 million. And Nick Martinez is outstanding. The ERA's in the low 2s. Bryan Baker was just kind of like this float around. Maybe you get a low leverage 7th inning kind of guy for a couple of teams. And Bryan Baker has 9 saves at this point. So it's just amazing to see Tampa do this again.

Like it's the old, like, he can't keep getting away with this.

Yeah.

Yet they can. Tampa every single year gets away with this. It is a factory, man. It's just amazing what they do every year.

We'll go $1,000.

All right. What was the Arlington ballpark named in the old Texas Rangers ballpark in MLB Baseball 2005?

I'm going to hate myself.

Just because you don't get negative here, something just popped into my head. American Family something?

Nope.

That is the current name. That is the current name of Miller— of the old Miller Park.

That's it.

Is American Family Field in Milwaukee.

I'm done embarrassing myself. Pass.

Okay. This was AmeriQuest Field.

Oh yeah.

So Chris, the board is yours.

Alex, I'll go for Traded Marlins for $200.

Okay.

He was the first overall pick in 2000, but never actually appeared in a game for the Marlins. Chris Kotecki.

Adrian Gonzalez.

That is correct.

Yep.

400, same category.

This Hall of Famer played in just 5 games for the Marlins in 1998 before being traded for the second time that season.

98.

Jerry Diatza.

That is correct.

Jeez.

Okay.

Jeremy, the board is yours.

Let's stick with Traded Marlins for 600.

Okay.

Drafted by the Marlins in the 1999 Rule 5 draft, he was moved along with $50,000 to the Minnesota Twins in exchange for Jared Kemp.

I mean, only I know Dan Uggla was a Rule 5 guy. All right. I don't know anyone else.

Jeremy.

Oh, no, that's— Johan Santana. That is correct.

Jeremy, the board is yours.

Traded Marlins for $800.

Acquired and traded within a year, this outfielder currently finds himself on the Kansas City Royals.

All right.

The answer is Starling Marte.

I'm going to go I'm gonna go Who He Play For and MVP for $200. Okay.

Wouldn't this just be who he played for?

Rafael for call. Who did he play for in MVP baseball?

Atlanta Braves.

That is correct. Jeremy, the board is yours.

$400. Jason Schmidt.

Chris Cody.

Giants.

That's correct.

Yep.

Your hat helped me.

Thank you.

$600.

Oh, you're up.

$600, we'll stay.

Hank Blalock. Jeremy.

Rangers.

That is correct. Where do you want to go, Jeremy?

$800.

Okay.

Brad Ausmus. That was Chris Cody.

Astros.

That is correct. Man, nice pull.

Nah.

What am I at?

Right now you're up by $200.

And Jeremy is at $1,800. Very competitive game we got going on here, boys. Jeremy.

Or Chris.

The board is yours.

Alrighty, uh, give me a Pass the Coopers Down for $200.

Expos, Rockies, Cardinals. Jeremy.

Larry Walker.

That is correct. We are tied at $2,000.

Jeremy, the first choice.

Wow. Wait, hold on a second. Look at this competitive game.

Oh, shut up. Plenty of time.

$400.

All right, here we go. The A's, the Yankees, the A's, the Blue Jays, the A's, the Padres, the Angels, the A's, the Mets, the Mariners, the Padres, the Red Sox, the Dodgers. Who took this path? Give us a—

give us a time, because I— you got it for the thousand.

You played for a long time. He retired in the early 2000s. Jeremy.

Ricky Anderson.

That is correct.

$600.

The Reds from 1986 to 2004. Was that Chris Cody?

Yeah, Barry Larkin.

That is correct.

And then $800. $800.

The Twins, the Rangers, The Pirates, the Cleveland baseball team, the Twins, the Angels. This is a pitcher.

Bum bum.

Yeah.

Burt "Be Home" Bly Leven.

Let's go with who he played for for $1,000.

Mike Sweeney. Chris.

Just because you can't get punished.

Royals.

Yeah, that is correct. Let's go. Big one.

That's a huge, huge, huge. Let's talk about the Miami Marlins. Sure. We have you here. You watch them every day.

Perfect.

Call their games on radio. We can, we can do this. And there's actually some, some interesting news regarding the Marlins. They called up one of the top prospects in baseball, I believe number 54, via MLB Pipeline. Joe Mack, a huge prospect. He gets called up. Agustín Ramírez sent down, which is also notable considering he finished 3rd in Rookie of the Year in the National League last year. And then on top of that, you know, moments before we started recording this, Chris Paddock DFA'd by the team, which is notable just simply in the fact that the Marlins haven't often eaten millions of dollars this early in the season. So as you sit here as a guy who's literally around the team every single day of the season, what do you make of all of this news surrounding the Marlins as they're sitting here a couple of games under.500?

Yeah. So I'll start with the Mack-Augustin swap. Yeah, it seems like a prioritization of defense. It seems like you are putting your best foot forward defensively. Joe Mack, I think you can make the argument just watching him with the catch and throw, with the framing, with the blocking. Joe Mack immediately became, for me, a top 5 defensive catcher in Major League Baseball. He is amazing at mitigating the running game. The Marlins have struggled mightily in terms of limiting the stolen base for years, for years. And now you've got a guy that can do that. Is he going to hit? We'll see. It's really hard to hit in Major League Baseball. There's no doubt. I think we also learned that with Augustine Ramirez, right? Augustine was amazing through the summer last year offensively. And then in September, he starts to taper off a little bit. And this year, he never really found his footing. He's putting the ball on the ground a lot and he's striking out a little bit. And yeah, he's drawn a couple more walks, but it just doesn't feel like Augustine has the same, like, fear that he will invoke in an opposing pitcher right now.

So I guess, like, for Augustine, it's a chance for him to recalibrate in Jacksonville. And for Mack, it's just a chance to prove that you are major league ready.

With Paddock, let's just wrap up with that real quick. Just it's, it's It's of note and it means that we don't know, at least at the time of this recording, but it means either Braxton Garrett or Robbie Snelling will join the rotation for the Marlins.

Yeah.

And I guess like the easier one would be Garrett, who's already on the 40-man roster. But the sexier one would be Robbie Snelling, who was coming off 5 no-hit with 9 punchouts last time. Like 18 starts in AAA.

Fit is nasty.

Yeah. ERA well under 2. So both those guys kind of in spring training find their footing. Braxton looking a heck of a lot better than anybody thought he would on the heels of Tommy John surgery. They're also without a lefty in that starting rotation. Like they were going righty Sandy, righty Uri, righty Meyer, righty Paddock, righty Junk. It'll be good, like regardless of who they turn to, just to mix things up, to just have a southpaw. So like, and to your point, like this is gutsy. It's a very gutsy move to take your one of your marquee free agent signings over the winter. Like you commit $4 million to this guy and for you to diagnose this and say, you know what, through 6 starts or 7 starts, you're just not good enough to pitch for us right now. It's impressive that the Marlins pulled the trigger on this that quickly.

Yeah, I'm, I'm certainly not happy for Chris, who was nothing but a great guy around the clubhouse, a leader to some of the younger pitchers. But from a perspective of someone who was around the Marlins, observing the Marlins, if you're a Marlins fan, it is exciting to see the team at this stage saying, you know what, we do believe we're a team that's sitting here trying to compete for a wildcard spot. We can't accept any more of these starts where you're out of it by the second or third inning. We need someone in there who's going to pitch better than that. It's going to be either Braxton Garrett or Robbie Snelling. I wouldn't be surprised to see either of the other two.

Yeah.

Up, up at the major league level sometime soon, depending on what's going on. And, you know, Jack is a good radio voice because he used the term southpaw to describe a lefty. Southpaw. Let's go ahead and wrap it here. We'll, we'll go quickly here.

Okay.

We always do a Golden Era Player of the Week. Basically what I want to do here is MLB.com just put out a list of their like top 5 MVPs in each league. So the names that haven't been mentioned, partially because I've tried to avoid them, partially because some of these guys just haven't popped up. We have Ben Rice, Bobby Witt Jr., Mike Trout, Matt Olson, Corbin Carroll, Nico Horner. If you're paying attention at home, all of those names are worth looking up to see how their years are going. But Jack, I throw it to you. One guy that you want to highlight here.

I'm going to pump fake first because if you really love the way that baseball should be played, the good old days of baseball, slap a toothpick in and watch Nico Horner pick balls off second base. That guy's a throwback, man. I miss that game from 3 decades ago. That's the kind of player that Nico Horner is.

Those of you watching the pitch clock, that's literally who you are. So go find Nico Horner.

But Matt Olson, that's, that's my guy. I do think this guy should be considered one of the front runners for National League MVP at this point. Like he is hitting the crap out of the ball. I mean, it is like 110 laser beams and rockets everywhere you look. Uh, and then the double accumulation too, he's a really good defensive first baseman. This is an MVP award, the Most Valuable Player. So team result has to matter, and I think the best player on the best team should be rewarded. I think Baldwin's really good, but Olsen has been more of that constant presence and like that leader and that veteran. And the offensive numbers do look a little bit better. So Eileen Olsen right now, he's one of my favorites.

I love that he's a steadying force. He's a guy, you know, in a day and age of so much platooning every single day, no matter what, he's going to be there and it's going to be helpful to them as a guy who had to follow up Freddie Freeman, which was an impossible task. And he's lived up to everything they could have asked for. Listen to Marlins games on the radio. Listen to everything he does with Just Baseball. Jack, thank you so much for being here. Hopefully we can have you back here in studio. I didn't even mention it to the audio audience. I'm sure you figured it out through the crisp tones, but Jack's here in studio with us. So you're actually our first in-studio guest of this season.

That's huge. Hey, knuckle bump. Knuckle bump. Fist me.

All right. Back to the trivia game where hopefully I come back.

Traded Marlins for $1,000.

Caleb Smith was involved in the trade for this current Padres starting pitcher.

Okay, hold on. Yeah, there's a time where I would have known this.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Michael King is the answer.

Current Padres starter.

I was not even halfway there.

With the Yankees.

And so now the only category left is Iconic Calls. So Cody would take it from the top. Iconic Calls for $200. Jack Buck's iconic "We will see you tomorrow night" call followed a home run in Game of the 1991 World Series by this outfielder. Jeremy.

Joe Carter.

That is incorrect.

Damn it.

That's fucking 90s.

The answer is Kirby Puckett. We will go to $400. Can you believe this, man?

Jeremy.

This local lection— legend punctuated every win with these familiar words, and the Marlins are in the win column. Chris Cody.

Okay.

Joe Angel.

That is correct. Joe Buck got to recreate his father's most famous call in Game 6 of this World Series.

What year was it?

Was that Jeremy or was that Chris?

Yes, it was me.

2012?

I was gonna say 2012.

No.

It's definitely the Freese, like Cardinals-Rangers.

What year was it?

Yeah.

But that was not 2012.

No, no.

Uh, 2013.

No.

Yeah, it was pretty—

it was 2011 Cardinals-Rangers.

I'm so mad. I think we both knew the same same thing. I was thinking, yeah, that means I lose. It's stupid. The wrong answers don't go negative.

Oh no, I can win these last two and be right.

Had wrong answers, I wouldn't have guessed as many times.

He got to use his trademark, "It is outta here," on Barry Bonds' 756th home run. Jeremy.

John Miller.

No, you idiot.

That's the radio announcer for the Giants.

I don't know.

Dwayne Kieper is the name of the Giant It's television broadcaster. And the final question.

That's not an 800.

It cannot change the result. Yes. John Buck steals the shine with, I don't believe what I just saw. But Vince Scully was not far behind with these words on Kirk Gibson's legendary home run in the 1988 World Series.

What's the question?

What are the words that Vince Scully said?

Oh, I thought it was, I don't believe what I just saw.

No, it's What did Vince Scully say?

Jack Buck's call, famously.

Yeah, but you wrote Joe Buck.

In a thing improbable—

And I called it John Buck.

In a thing improbable, the improbable happened.

Very, very close. I will give it to you. In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.

Yeah, and you know what it was? It was Chris Cody beating me in Jeopardy.

Chris Cody, winner of Jeopardy, ladies and gentlemen.

This sucks.

Olivia, you're not allowed to come here anymore.

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I say, yeah.

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