Transcript of Top 5 Items That Create Fanfare | Postgame Show New

All right, let's bring Juju aboard here. Juju, uh, good to see you as always. And I, I have some questions here, all right? Because no one I know is on top of the WNBA more than Juju is, and I want you to help me out here because I saw yesterday, you know, Caitlin Clark, who's been terrific so far the early start of this season, the, the Indiana Fever, they took on the Seattle Storm and there was like a double header, you know, on whichever channel was— maybe it was, it was Prime or I don't remember, but There was a whole big to-do on social media yesterday, how Caitlin Clark was not in the graphic for them promoting the games. Like, was that a big deal? What was that about? Why are people freaking out over that?

Right, it's because her fan base usually weaponizes every single thing. Everything she's a part of, they gonna weaponize it, man. This is much to-do about nothing, man. The NBA do it all the time. We just try to highlight different players. We know Caitlin over there, we know the GOAT is here everywhere we need to be, but let's highlight some of these less known players. Let's put Raven on the, on the, on the sheet, man, on the promo. So I don't think it's any type of deal at all. It's just internet fodder.

Like, Raven Johnson, I, I, I think she was a top 10 pick. Like, she's supposed to end up— I know she's gotten off to a slow start, but she's supposed to end up being a really good player for them, right?

Absolutely. Her and Aaliyah Boston, up and down the roster. Demir Dantas. Like, everybody is on that, that roster now. It's constructed to be the team that is— like, Cade Cunningham doesn't have around him right now. That roster is constructed just so she could have the support she needs. So I think that everybody up top, from the top to the bottom of that lineup, needs to highlight at least once in the season. We know Caitlin, come on, y'all.

All right, so everybody needs to calm down, that's what you're saying, right?

Yeah, Dave Portnoy, man, come on, not this one bit, bro. Like, come on, bro, calm down. We don't gotta weaponize everybody against everybody all the time. We can like— look, bro, I can like Angel Reese, I can like Caitlin. There's no rule that say we can't do that, man. We got to come together in this country, bro.

All right, I got another thing I need you to help me out with because, uh, you're certainly a lot cooler than I am. We could see by the way you dress, you're into fashion. I'm not into fashion. Uh, at my hometown mall over the weekend, the mall that I went to growing up as a kid, the Aventura Mall. All right. Hey, and there was a whole thing at the mall this weekend, like people, there was a stampede or something over these these AP Swatches, you know what I'm talking about? They had to shut down like a whole, a whole, a whole deal for these watches. Do you know what was going on?

Absolutely, man. They don't even got no wristband or nothing. They just stop watching. I'm like, bro, what in the hell is going on? See, that's the real deal. They just show—

that's the real stuff.

SGA got the, the Thunder, them, that's them big boys. I'm talking about them Swatch guy, them pop Swatches. Boy, they are so weak. But at the same time, the internet how it got behind it, it created a craze. And now some of those $400 watches are being sold online for 5 bands, 10 bands, 'cause you couldn't get one. They so ridiculous, fights breaking out, they mace the whole crowd over and over. So it made me think, bro, what are some of the silliest things that Earth has stood in line for, bro? And I got an OLI, I'm gonna start a top 5 right now. OLI, pick a Jordan, any number. And I'm guilty of that too. I gotta raise my hand. I'm guilty of that. I used to stand in line, and guess who's standing in line two blocks down? The thieves and the robbers. Hey, little bro, you just got them J's? They're mine now. Number 5: Trader Joe tote bags. What was that, America? Like, come on, bro.

Put it on the poll at LeBittard Show. Trader Joe tote bags. What was that, America? Yes or no?

What? Number 4, right? Number 4: The pink Stanley Cup. Ladies, I'm looking at you.

That was—

the Targets was going, right? Them Targets was looking like the Wild Wild West. Number 3, the Popeye's chicken sandwich. That was crazy.

I remember that one was wild for a damn sandwich.

I was interested, I sure was, but I would have been down to stand in line for 3 days for a sandwich. Number 2, Yours truly, the Swatch AP, man. If it was like the draw-ups that came out 2 weeks ago, we thought, oh damn, they might be some nice wristwatches. But when they came out with them, uh, pocket watch colorful, uh, stopwatches, I was like, boy, stop. The world still went crazy. Yeah, see, those would have been nice. I thought that's what it was.

That's what we all thought they were. That's what we all thought they were. We thought we were going to get APs for $400. We were like, okay, perfect, about to buy 20 of them. Right? And then all of last week we were waiting, we're like, all right, we don't know what this— what the SKU is going to be, we don't know what it's going to look like, we don't know what colors are going to come out. And then all of a sudden we heard Royal Pop, and then they go back into the archives and like, Royal Pop is going to be a wrist— uh, uh, uh, what is it, a pocket watch that you could put over your— like on a chain. So you wear the watch as a chain. I'm like, I'm not gonna wait for that. I— Dan, as the expert in horology here on this show, I—

what?

As the expert in horology on the show, I was like, I'm gonna go outside and I'm gonna sleep outside and wait for this watch. If they were the wristwatches that came out, I was gonna be there waiting for 5 days. Then we realized it wasn't that, couldn't do it.

Yeah, I was gonna get my chedur on all season and dare y'all to say that's not an AP. The number one most ridiculous thing that we stood in line for, Earth, January 6th. Come on.

Sit in line for that?

Back to you, Dan.

Got right to the front.

It didn't feel like a mob, more of a mob mentality. I didn't feel like that. We were just in line. We've got—

nothing happened.

We've got a couple of top 5 lists to get to still yet because Jeremy's got one and I've got to get to my top 10 list. But let's update the polls here for a second. What do you have on poll updates, Juju?

Oh, while I pull up these polls, let us in, by the way. Mind y'all, right, I'm not gonna say the 4, uh, greatest words in sports that Amin said, but When James Harden got traded to the Cavs, I came on here and said, hey, the reason this is going to make more sense is because here he doesn't have to do anything in the Game 7. All he has to do is rely on the boys. Dano, not here nor there. Biggest announcing team in football: Chris Collinsworth and Tirico, Nance and Romo, Brady and Burkhardt, or Buck and Aikman?

What do you think's gonna come back here? What do you guys think is going to come back here? It's going to be Buck Aikman.

Sounds like we have an overwhelming winner.

Yeah.

Right, 57% of the audience says Buck and Aikman. Aikman.

Aikman.

Play the sound real quick of Troy Aikman not having a conflict whatsoever. I don't feel there's a conflict, but I will say I'm pulling for the Dolphins.

It's perfect.

Over/under on Dan Marino's career rushing yards: over 18.5 or under 18.5? 62% of the audience says under 18.5. Yeah.

Damn, the internet is wrong. We were wrong, right?

Also too, I think you're a little wrong too, Dan, on the Jaden Duren— Jalen Duren escaping. We got to get you a burner account because they are roasting my boy marshmallow style online. You can't scroll 2 posts without seeing Angel Reese ex, all this. So yeah, he getting it.

Oh, I meant— I'm sorry, I didn't mean the internet. The internet will find the people to roast. I meant mainstream television is what I meant. I didn't see that he was getting scorched the way that, for example, Harden always gets scorched when That's the kind of series that he has.

Yeah, mainstream ain't what it used to be, big bro. The best TV shows and the best people talking about basketball, number one is on DLS Hoops on YouTube. Number two is you got to find you a secular show to watch because the big guys are too busy arguing with my boy Jalen Brown and shit like that. Neither here nor there, should we still be okay with making fun of bald people? I'm sorry, Sass. 79% of the audience says yes.

Bullshit. Yeah, it's still okay. Sorry.

And last poll, 5 King Kongs versus 1 million Vin Diesels. Who you got? Close one. 53% of the audience says 5 King Kongs. Damn. And those are your polls.

Thank you, Juju. Jeremy, what is your top 5 list before I get to my top 10 list on things I did to make ESPN angriest?

Top 5 parts of being on my road trip with the Marlins over the last week. A couple of O.L.I.s. O.L.I. Having time during the day to be a human being. Crazy, just working at night, not having to do two jobs at once, it was awesome. Another OLI, not having to really deal with much other media while you were on the road. It was pretty much just the broadcast. Number 5, working with people who respect me and think I'm good at my job. Number 4, exploring new towns. Minneapolis and St. Paul. Lovely places. Is that the same as the OLI one? No, totally different. 'Cause going through a new town and actually getting to see—

Nude towns?

Did you say nude towns? Yeah, nude towns. Yeah, nude towns. That's what I said. They got those towns. Yeah, for sure.

Nude.

That's what I said. That's what I said. Now going back to number 5.

Shut up.

Number 3, staying in first-class hotels. Oh man, I looked like Hollywood Sedano the entire time I was there. It was incredible. You know, little pro tip I learned, take the slippers from inside the robes that they give you at these first-class hotels, take 'em on the flight and take off your shoes. Now you walk around in slippers. You're not walking around barefoot. I had a nice little conversation with the San Antonio Spurs while I was there about the Wembley ejector. Wait a minute. So you are walking around, you're playing—

where are your socks?

With slippers on. Well, hotel slippers. Just go ahead and wait until number—

get the dogs out on the plane.

Number 2, chartered flights. Guys, mini top 5 within it. Number 5, first-class-sized seats on the entire plane. Number 4, flight attendants learning your favorite drinks and snacks and adjusting for your next flight and leaving them at your seat. Number 3, the meal that you walk on and grab at the beginning of the flight, little charcuterie board. Number 2, learning Everything that they tell you about planes is bullshit, including airplane mode and needing to be seated for the descent. Number one, the second meal that they give you on that chartered flight. And then number one, baseball, man. It was awesome. Target Field, beautiful.

Did you say nude towns?

Yeah, naked towns, ass. Naked towns.

Do you guys all remember the first time? I don't know, this might not be the first time that Jeremy's gotten an expense account, but do you guys remember the first time on the road that you got an expense account? Because I do. I remember being in Omaha, Nebraska, and thinking it was the most amazing thing that anybody would pay me to do any of this. Do you guys remember or not remember? Like, Jeremy, was this the first time that you've had an expense account?

That was the first time I was on the road. So that was the first road trip I've taken. There was a per diem, time to walk around, be in beautiful hotels. It was unbelievable.

Let's answer my question. Do you guys remember the first expense account that you ever had on the road?

Never had that kind of job. Yeah, I would spend what I would spend responsibly and then like put in to be reimbursed, but I never got a per diem.

But that is what an expense account is to have. That's what it is.

That's what I'm counting it as.

Yeah.

Jeremy, what was Kyle Seelhoff like on the flight? Just, just a delight. He was great. Just minding his own business. He looks like a plane farter to me. No, no, definitely not. Now you've gone too far.

What have you done? Why would you do that?

You talk about other people looking like plane farters?

I'd say it to Kyle's face.

All right. Would you?

I'll text him.

I don't believe— I don't believe—

I mean, text us, not his face.

I don't believe that you would do that.

I just wanted to tell you that I have his phone number.

All right. Here it is. My top 10 list on the things that I did to bother ESPN the most. Number 10: Didn't return my direct boss's call for 8 months.

How to fire your ass too.

I didn't get fired.

Chris Cody did.

Number 9, called the UFC the sewer immediately after they signed their contract with UFC with Tony Kornheiser on FaceTime. Number 8, got into an argument that my agent called the worst conversation he's ever seen anyone have in a meeting outside of Bobby Valentine over our t-shirt sales. I'd like to thank Trog for his contribution to the oral history. Number 7, sold Deadspin my Hall of Fame vote. Number 6, the First Take battery.

Yep.

Number 5, yelling at them because they took us off in New York. Number 4, the billboards. Number 3, Hiring back Chris Cody.

Wait.

Number 2, I wrote the best thing I've ever written about China and the relations with China, and they wouldn't run it. And number 1, what I believe to be the funniest video in the history of our show. Here is a confused Billy Gill who was left to produce our show and could not hear while I was— what I was doing, but But the director was smart enough to try and foul this up by putting Billy on the screen instead of me so that other people in the industry wouldn't aggregate this, but they had to aggregate it anyway with a confused Billy Gill at the top. This tweet from Nick Wright: If you're listening to people chant, send her back, about a Somali refugee who serves in Congress, uh, Nick Wright writes, I don't talk politics on here, but this isn't political. This is obvious.

This is abhorrent, obviously racist, dangerous rhetoric, and not calling it out makes you complicit. The 'send her back' chant and the 'go back to where you came from' are so antithetical to what we should be.

It is so right what he is saying there. It is so wrong what the president of our country is doing, trying to go down getting reelected by dividing the masses at a time when the old white man, the old rich white man, feels oppressed, being attacked by minorities, Black people, brown people, women.

That's who we're going after now—

Black people, brown people, women. And that's the, like, let's do it as the platform.

That's what you're seeing. And the only way we can discuss it around here, because this isn't about politics, it's about race— what you're seeing happening around here is about race, and it's been turned into politics And we only talk about it around here when Steve Kerr or Popovich says something. We don't talk about what is happening unless there's some sort of weak, cowardly sports angle that we can run it through, when sports has always been a place where this stuff changes, where stuff— wait, man, Muhammad Ali was fighting for this stuff in the '60s. Bill Russell and Jim Brown are really old. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is old. These people who were fighting the most powerful among us in sports who are fighting in the real— in the civil rights era for things, atrocities happening to Black people that we're still paying for now in a country where this is our greatest sin. I forgot about the art of conversation.