The Dan Le Batard Show

It's the David Samson local hour! We begin with Bally Sports' finances and its impact on Major League Baseball, how MLB team payrolls work in lockstep with revenue, and how owners create their own socialist haven within their leagues. Then, Shohei Ohtani's future, the NCAA and "employees," and Damar Hamlin's interview on GMA before we get to David's movie review.

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Volcanoes are having a moment, Stugotz doesn't know his New York Knicks, and Dan thinks John Jaso was a power hitter.

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Mike Schur joins the show to share his Stat of the Day and scream the names of utility infielders into the void. Chris Cote is stressed about his style for NBA All-Star Weekend. Did Elon Musk buy himself a replacement for high school popularity with Twitter? And with Aaron Rodgers heading into darkness, it's time to meditate with Stugotz.

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John Woodrow Cox of the Washington Post joins the show to discuss his reporting on gun violence in America. He discusses the latest shooting at Michigan State, why our laws don't evolve much, money in the gun lobby, and why we need to start looking more holistically at who the victims of gun violence are. Then, Stugotz refuses to call the Chiefs a dynasty, Tony's Top 19 Quarterbacks, Roy's Top 5 sports goats, and the future of Kyler Murray.

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John Skipper and David Samson join Witty for another sports business hour post-Super Bowl! They cover Super Bowl TV viewership, the potential of a pay-per-view Super Bowl, the money in streaming, length of sports television deals, owners operating for "the now," Forbes valuations of teams, Tom Brady's future in the broadcast booth, Disney and ESPN's future, and more.

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We start the show by going back to a couple of topics we didn't spend nearly enough time on yesterday: hurling objects at the grocery store and the potential fury of Ed Kelce. Then, Derek Carr may prevent Aaron Rodgers from being a Jet, JuJu Smith-Schuster gets called "TikTok boy," and we discuss the end of the sports scapegoat.

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It's time to take a look at Mike and Witty's incredibly sad XFL group chat.

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On the 5-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Stugotz's hometown of Parkland, the show discusses the shooting last night on the Michigan State campus. Dan, Stu, and the Shipping container share their fears and anxieties over living in a country seemingly no closer to solving its gun issue then it was a decade ago. Then, we bring the show back to some lighter topics with Greg talking to himself in the bathroom, top grocery store items to throw at someone, the Top 5 people you'd like to help you fight the aliens, business cards, and hope for bad teams in the NFL offseason.

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Mike Schur joins us to name No. 5 Starters Whose Names Make You Smile, open some baseball cards, and continue to stake his claim as the biggest Miami Heat hater in all the land. Then, do we underestimate the greatness of Andy Reid? Plus, we determine why Greg can't stop sharing details about his new best friend Ron Magill, debate who to go to for top shelf football analysis, teach Greg and Stu about Chat GPT, and discuss Joe West's Wikipedia scandal.

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Is it an insult to have your number "honored" instead of "retired"? Then, Dan, Greg, Stu, and the crew put the greatness of Pat Mahomes is put into perspective and discuss their expectations for the rest of Aaron Rodgers' career and whether or not he'll end up with the Jets. Plus, will George Toma, the Nitty Gritty Dirtman, always be remembered for his failure? And we get all the details on Calmly, Greg Cote's new racehorse.

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