The Dan Le Batard Show

And so even before Moneyball, right? And Moneyball to me, look, as sports analytics nerd guy, Moneyball, of course, is what I also think of. Billy Bean, the GM, starting the Saber Metric analytic revolution, all that stuff.

But I feel like the entire time with the A's, underrated in the concept of Moneyball was the word money. Like it was math, but it was also born out of what? It was born out of a fundamental cheapness that the A's had in terms of how they operate.

Moneyball aged so poorly, man.

I read Moneyball myself but you've known

Bill Polian once said something to Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, about why a play worked or didn't.

All of which is to say that even before Moneyball, right? And Moneyball to me, look, as a sports analytics nerd guy, Moneyball, of course, Billy Bean, the GM, starting the Saber Metric analytic revolution, all that stuff.

Money ball. Hey, geez, money ball, man.

At the start of the Moneyball movement, when they started hiring young people who were good at math and modern, Paul DePodesta left the Oakland A's and wanted to run a baseball team.

The Moneyball strategy is finding the value and trying to win with that.

There's no such thing as Moneyball outside of baseball. Baseball doesn't have a salary cap, so you can go ahead and figure out inefficiencies and cheap play and value in ways that...

something is going to be unveiled which is believe it or not Stugotz's book cover

we don't know if this book is actually going to appear anywhere it depends on whether or not Jessica and me and an assortment of others who are working for free write this for Stugotz or not

The Stugots book that's going to be available at some future date after Jessica me and others and Stan Zick are done writing it.

I have an actual copy of it here. Actual copy of it.

It's a journal.

By the way, love the book, Stu.

Excellent writing by Dan Stanton.

That chapter in particular was excellent.

Just completely discrediting Joe Maurer.

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. This is the Dan Le Batard Show with the Stugotz Podcast. Look at David Samson. He's got his reading glasses on. He is here to support and promote the best-selling author of much acclaimed Stugotz. You have your personal copy, Samson.

And I went on Amazon and I bought the book because, Stu, I don't know how else I'd get the book.

I actually only bought four. I apologize. You should have bought eight. But okay, anyway, go ahead. But I bought them at retail.

And I will only tell you that having read the book, Stu, what makes me smile is that you have arguments in here that are so asinine that you are going to end up not taking credit for them, which is why you're saying you didn't write them.

And his personal record book currently sits at number seven on the bestseller list in Amazon sports and outdoors category.

Stugatz's personal record book climbed up the charts.

when you write a book and you become an author and hopefully you'll be able to experience that one day, you get something called an Author Portal. And I have a username and a password and today I remembered it for the first time because today the book is on sale.

The day that, and it happens with every book, Dan, you don't know this, but it happens with every book that you write. One of the books arrives at your house. And you open that box and you see stacks of the book that you wrote. It's a thrill!

I open this up, and I see that it's Stu's book, and I've heard a lot about it. And he had asked me to write a review about it and just sort of pump his tires about how great this book is going to be.

reading this book at least five times by now, that it's like going on a lazy river of Stugatz's mind. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but I didn't want the ride to end.

Do a little commercial for the Stugatz book, which is available in bookstores now, beginning to get today. It is a real thing. It exists.

This book is a real thing, and Stugotz wants it to be a New York Times bestseller, and we want it to be a New York Times bestseller.

And it launches tomorrow. Like the preorders are crazy already. All sorts of gifts to the people who have gotten in early.

But this thing is happening. I've seen the book. It exists. And tomorrow it's no longer a broken promise.

It's not a lie anymore. This is a very real thing. Stugotz, beginning tomorrow, is going to officially be a published author.

My name is on the cover of a book that was written by Dan Stanzik and published by Random House.

The title of the book is Stu Gatz's personal record book.

The Real Winners and Losers in Sports.

I used the personal record book as a throwaway line once at ESPN when I was talking about Kevin Durant saying, I don't care what the record books say in my personal record book, which I don't have. But now I do.

you will get two bonus chapters of my personal record book.

There you go, unlike The Pride of a Lion There you go Which is very suitable for children Particularly middle school or, you know That's right

Prominently displayed at Books and Books in Coconut Grove, by the way.

McGill has been enlisted by Mango, by Books and Books, and their wonderful owner, Mitch Kaplan. Mitch Kaplan bought thousands of Pride of a Lion books in order to give them away for free when Ron McGill makes tours of schools and other events.

Ron, you remember that book we collaborated on? I do. It is. Screaming up the charts. It's been doing great. It's a bestseller. It's an editor's pick.

I hadn't read the book, believe it or not, until a couple of, until last week. Really? Yeah.

It was, I took your advice on that because I remembered you saying that. And it was true.

A cautionary tale, though, when Pride of a Lion first came out, I was all thrilled. I run to my local Barnes & Noble. They never carried the book.

I love Mango. It's a wonderful local publisher. But it's not the NFL. Random House is.

You can get Pride of a Lion, the book that he did with Greg Cody. It is still available.

I'm a little worried about Greg because I see his latest book that came out yesterday back in my day, but I don't see Pride of a Lion, which I wonder if that's discontinued or we've forgotten about.

I happen to be reading The Pride of a Lion and these two slices of bacon were right in the book, right on page 85.

No, but Jessica's got a Lord of the Rings tear maker.

The feedback from the Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power tears was, I just want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who listened commented.

I haven't watched any starting five because I spent my whole week binge watching the second season of the Amazon Lord of the Rings show.

And to be honest, coming into work today, because I just finished it last night, it's been a little hard to think about sports because that really consumed me for the last four days.

It's so gory, and I love that Aomer from The Lord of the Rings is in it.

Taylor and I have been trying to put together a video where we put all the Sex and the City characters into the tier maker, like we did for The Lord of the Rings, just for no reason, just because...

That's Lord of the Rings. The director's cut's better and the studio was right.

Lord of the Rings, you know the Lord of the Rings director's cut? It's four and a half hours long. Oh my God. It's so long. The Return of the King is so long.

Ewing and all the other 80s and 90s Knicks are like those radioactive green ghost soldiers in Lord of the Rings who needed to be a part of something good before their curse could be lifted.

As if he just read, you know, the Pride of a Lion book or perhaps the Back in My Day book. Right. These are my two recent books.

And of course, books and books and Coral Gables is a legendary local bookstore that carries the Back in My Day book, by the way.

I slayed a Deadline Dragon for the back of my day book that's coming out later this year.

I had to write three original book exclusive Back in My Days and it was weighing heavy on me.

Wait, you have a second book coming out?

Yeah, there's a Back in My Day. They're serializing the best of it's a highly.

This second book from Greg. So two in one year, Stu Gatz's personal record book, because it seems like now there's a race to the bookshelves.

Back in My Day book signing and the Stugatz book signing.

He has decided on this day to give us the gift of a Back in My Day.

It is a sort of fresh Back in My Day.

And he'll read one more Back in My Day next week.

Buy books, they're on pre-order, Back in My Day, and that kind of thing.

Tony has a new edition of Greg Cody's Back in My Day, modernize it a little bit and bring it back.

I've got The Wizard of Oz helmet, so I get to pick a lion, a tiger, or a bear.

Ah, the Wizard of Oz.

It's been a while since I've seen Wizard of Oz.

So a fan reached out on Twitter and pointed out that in the Wizard of Oz, this fan asked, should the person not be allowed to take anyone from Kansas as well?

Because they're not in Kansas anymore.

It seems like the magic is gone there.

I wouldn't take the Jayhawks at all this season in football.

Kansas City Chiefs are not in Kansas.

All right number five the Wizard of Oz

I don't understand why this wizard is here because we pulled The Wizard of Oz number four Merlin

The witch at the end of The Wizard of Oz.

I don't know if you can dictionary.com says to give umbridge to someone to feel umbridge at a social snub or to take umbridge at someone's rudeness. So you can indeed give umbridge. As a Harry Potter fan I really don't like that one.

It was a big lecture hall and a Harry Potter sort of auditorium.

I got these Harry Potter. This whole Harry Potter chronology for our soon-to-be kids.

the president is named in the files more than Harry Potter is named in the series of Harry Potter books.

Oh, Harry Potter. The book.

I said to myself before I fell asleep, I had the window and I was like, wow, The Devil Wears Prada.

I buy tickets in advance for Devil Wears Prada.

I mean, like Meryl Streep me saying and Devil Wears Prada, that is all.

The Knicks haven't lost since Karl-Anthony Towns made a cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2. ... I like the first one, Devil Wears Prada. I love The Devil Wears Prada. But the second one was just okay.

Sitting beside me, he gently pulled my sweatpants down, up and down like a horse drawers.

He flexes his hips, so his **** pushes against me. Yes, right there. He runs his teeth along my shin. He's back. Then he slides into me again. So slow, so sweet, so tender.

He pruts his nipple clamps. He pruts his nipple clamps. He pruts his nipple clamps. He's a sexual mentor. My mouth is already open from panting. I open wider and he slides a large cool metal object between my... Shaped like an oversized baby pacifier.

Poppy reads a passage from Fifty Shades of Grey, page 78.

Christian trails a spoonful of ice cream down the center of my body, across my stomach and into my navel. He kisses each of my breast and the finish of my nipples hard. Then follows the line of ice cream down my body, and licking as he goes. This way, he murmurs, and abruptly, he's ***ing me.

He leans over, releases my hands, and pulls me upright so I'm practically sitting on him. He nuzzles my neck, biting down, and he flexes his hips, deliciously, slowly, ***ing again and again.

He smiles against my neck, and his fingers curl around my jaw and throw, holding me fast for a moment.

And I totally forgot about when we had Boppy read passages from Fifty Shades of Gray.

And now, Boppy reads a passage from Fifty Shades of Gray, page 121.

And now, Boppy reads a passage from Fifty Shades of Gray, page 75.

And now, Boppy reads a passage from Fifty Shades of Gray, page 437.

I don't think you guys had the ability ... to make me long for my father talking about Fifty Shades of Grey, but you managed it.

And we have... reading from Fifty Shades of Grey, page 343. I groan and run my fingernails across his neck. I sit down unto him, reveling in the fullness of my possession, washing his unravel beneath me. I feel like a goddess. Anna, touch me, please. I lean forward and steady myself with my hands on his chest. I strip off my clothes and quickly clamber into the shower, anxious to be under the cleansing stream of water.

Papi reads a passage from Fifty Shades of Grey. Page 69. I groan and run my fingernails across his neck. I sit down unto him, reveling in the fullness of my possession, washing his unravel beneath me. I feel like a goddess. Anna, touch me, please. I lean forward and steady myself with my hands on his chest. I strip off my clothes and quickly clamber into the shower, anxious to be under the cleansing stream of water.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final most essential command.

We should ban Orwell's books. You know, we should ban 1984. No one's saying that.

But whatever dear leader says, it's like the famous George Orwell quote from 1984. The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

God wrote something on the wall to the Jews in Babylonia or something.

The expression comes from the Bible in which the prophet interprets some mysterious writing that a disembodied hand has inscribed on a palace wall telling King Belshazzar that he will be overthrown.

It's like seeing Donald Trump holding the Bible upside down. He doesn't totally know how to hold something.

What's your favorite book of the Bible? He can't come up with one. He says both Old Testament and New Testament, all of it, all the verses.

He says the Bible means a lot to him, it's incredible, the whole Bible is an incredible, I joke very much so. He says it's his second favorite book of all time after Art of the Deal.

He was old in The Godfather and that came out in 1972.

I have seen The Godfather too.

I'm literally just repeating what The Godfather said.

But in Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, he transforms himself into a six-foot bat.

I remember in the Dracula book, he's on a ship.

I rewatched Bram Stoker's Dracula.

I haven't seen it. I don't know what it's about, but it's based on some sort of source material because all my friends have said, oh, the book was great.

Project Hail Mary, I think, tapped into this thing that Ted Lasso did, which is like, man, I didn't know that I needed an uplift. I didn't expect. That's the kind of movie it is? I didn't expect this to be so uplifting and hopeful.

maybe it's because I saw Project Hail Mary and I'm now moved by space discovery.

The Carol hat or the Project Hail Mary hat?

I watched Project Hail Mary this weekend. They're different. They're not like us. What a movie. I was surprised. I was pretty surprised. It's got great reviews. Everyone loves it. Everyone does. I thought it was going to be some shmarmy, like, feel-good movie.

One Battle After Another and Hamnet. And there's movies that are fully emotional and really smart movies.

It's about the creation of Hamlet, but it is called Hamnet.

the first Irish actress to be nominated in a movie called Hamnet, Tony.

I'll agree that it's a powerful film... Hamnet will be a film that will be justly rewarded... I had it at number four in my top ten.

Number four is Hamnet. Not Hamlet. Hamnet.

It's boring and pointless. That's what it is. It's Hamnet without any artistic touches to it. Hamnet, by the way. Don't get me started on that one.

And his book, Cinephile, Interviews, Essays, and Tales from the Red Carpet is available now.

I will remind people again that Adnan's book, Cinephile, Interviews, Essays, and Tales from the Red Carpet is available now.

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

And joining us on Sunday, Cinephile is the name of the podcast and the book. The podcast, you can look at and you should at old episodes because he does a lot of stuff that is worth reviewing there. His expert knowledge of movies is second to none.

And the book is called Cinephile as well. It is available wherever it is you get your books.

Baseball is for everyone. That everyone includes Adnan Virk, you know from his book, Cinephile.

I read Dune.

I'm not finished with it, though, but I like it so far.

I heard it's a I know Star Wars took like inspiration from Dune.

I think about Dune, right? Dune. All these great characters. The guy's name? Paul. Yeah, Paul Atreides.

I read an entire book Eckhart Tolle wrote about The Power of Now, and he writes about fear, regret is the past, and fear is whatever it is you think you control in the future.

Eckhart Tolle writes about a lot of that. I've written a lot of books like his and all his books. What we imagine could happen, far worse than what's usually going to happen.

I read an entire book Eckhart Tolle wrote about The Power of Now, and he writes about fear, regret is the past.

Because there's a book called The Body Keeps the Score, which is like the number one book about like trauma. And they talk about how trauma was first with like war veterans and like what they went through there.

They talk about how trauma was first with war veterans and how it shows up later, like a car sitting in a grocery store parking lot that the brain tells you has an explosive in it.

Because there's a book, there's a book called The Body Keeps the Score, which is, like, the number one book about, like, trauma. And they talk about how trauma was first with, like, war veterans and, like, what they went through there. And, like, they'll come home and they'll see, like, a car sitting by itself in a grocery store parking lot. But they're, and their body and their brain will tell them, like, that car has an explosive in it when it's just, like, a car sitting at Publix or something.

And so I think, like, in what, like, I can notice him, like, trying to make things happen, like, in the game. Like, he's trying to pull the trigger, but it's almost like his,

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings.

like harry potter like why they got you under the stairs like harry potter they don't get