Guys, I have to apologize to everybody who did the show with us today. It was so hectic and so busy and so weird that I wasn't able to go to you guys as much as I wanted to just to talk about stuff because the show was moving so fast today. Chris, you looked uncomfortable all show. Billy, you looked really uncomfortable during the breaks. Like that costume seems to have been something that really weighed on you a little bit. First you, Chris, like what shape are you in after wearing other than round?

It was in bad shape before the costume. Yeah, but he was wearing like a box all show, you know, that garbage can costume. It was a good costume, but you were uncomfortable also.

Yes. I had to like sit leaning forward or else you couldn't even really see me. It wasn't a box by the way. This is an actual trash can. And if you know that, you can't see it really. But I used an actual trashcan that I was sitting in, holes that I cut out of it.

So it was my back is really hurt. Yes.

Judging by the listener reaction on Twitter, it seems like outside of legs, they enjoyed your costume the most. Our listeners. They did.

It's a fun it's a funny costume and a good costume. So good work there. Billies was also funny but funny last year when he wore it. And it looks uncomfortable. It looks, it looks really unwieldly.

It's, it's very impractical to to be doing something and so like it's uncomfortable it deflated. I had to change the batteries at some point in time. I had to find a screwdriver because for whatever reason the battery pack requires a screwdriver. To do that, I had to find the batteries and then I had to follow along with looks like so I had to take it off because I couldn't see through that and then the games I had. So there's, you know, a lot of it's not the easiest to do the daily activities in while you're wearing.

Plus I couldn't find my iPod, so I had to put the headphones on underneath it and then put the cord through the sleeve. And then I was cutting that off and I had to switch. It was a happy Halloween, everyone.

It did feel like I'll show you guys were sort of fighting and wrestling with your with your costumes. Was there anything you guys wanted to get to? Like LaRusso? We didn't even get to talk about. LaRusso headed back to the big leagues at 76 years old.

Whatever the mike unhinged Mike Shear calling in my coach, Mike Sherril, Alfonso Ribeiro call. Make sure you check and see if he'll come on here.

That's not exactly how an open invitation works. He can say, hey, open invite, they don't call in and you're like, I'm getting. Yeah. Anyway, he's pretty much told you want to come today. I mean, he's already done so with his actions. I mean, what are his actions to show up that might reach out to him.

It was on the group text. You do the thing where you're like, hey, let's see if Mike sure has any time, but you've essentially done it. Bye bye bye. See seeing him on the text.

Oh, I put him on that text. That's my bad. Yeah.

You know, I liked I liked La Russa saying that this is a win now move. You don't say, Tony, this is going to be a ten year rebuild.

Seventy six. No way. Believe what happens to the Hall of Fame. He's already inducted into the Hall of Fame. They take it very seriously. So does lovers have to wait five more years after he retires to get in D.C.?

This seems like the type of move that Tony La Russa would rant at someone else for doing. You're already in the Hall of Fame. You're embarrassing the Hall of Fame by going back to the game after being inducted. What are you doing? This shouldn't happen. Bradstone.

Didn't they already get rid? Didn't they get rid of Rick Renteria for being too old school? What's going on here?

Did you see their email announcement of season ticket holders? I don't know what was going on behind the scenes, but maybe AJ Hinch was in the mix because they put out a graphics Tony La Russa had signed. But the signature on this sort of baseball card graphic that they put out there was AJ hinges on it.

It was really funny. And AJ Hinch has now been hired, right? Tigers.

I was he hired. Are they negotiating a deal right now?

I think it's the Tigers are are working with them. I am going to give the audience those promised thoughts from Mike Shaw via Twitter. Here he is, Ken. Tremendous on Twitter, our friend Mike Shaw, he is a, you know, one of the big show runners in Hollywood on Brooklyn, nine nine, the good place. And he did Parks and Rec. He created Parks and Rec.

It's very important that we clean this up. Hinche has not been hired yet, but he is talking with the Tigers about taking over that very imperial position. More important that the White Sox clean that up, because that's a very bad PR mistake to hire Tony La Russa and put the signature of AJ Hinch on there. But what Mike Shaw writes, and he was steaming yesterday, and this is basically all you need to know about the La Russa hire, because he's also got that bad moment on our show four years ago where he's talking about Colin Kaepernick in a way that sounds not only wrong side of history, but it sounds like he was a bit ignorant as it regards ripping Colin Kaepernick for seeming in an insincere person when he didn't know.

Colin Kaepernick, but he was saying he knew him because he's managed on the West Coast before because he knows the West Coast was in the proximity of them. So basically so here is what Mike Shaw has to say. The White Sox are young, fun as hell, and predominantly Latin. So who do they get to manage the team? Naturally, a 76 year old white guy who hasn't coached in a decade supports the Tea Party and Glenn Beck and was arrested for being drunk and asleep at the wheel of his SUV.

Hard to overstate how exactly, precisely wrong La La Russa is to coach this team specifically. Just perfectly wrong. If you were trying to sabotage the White Sox like Trump sabotaging the post office, you'd hire La Russa. He's the Louie, the joy of baseball managers. I'm losing my mind when we talk about alienating young people and losing market share. Baseball deserves everything it gets. I know he's just a manager, but it's hard not to predict that one of the most fun and dynamic young teams in the game just got more boring and worse.

Tim Anderson is great and fun and loves to flip his bat, looking forward to his two game internal suspension for not respecting the game after he had to walk off to beat the Yankees and pumps his fist a little too hard.

Wow. He's very upset about it. I really give it that much thought. You don't give anything that much thought. Why? You are allergic and incapable of thought. It's just Lorusso. I have.

Because why would you? Because if you care about baseball, you know what I keep hearing these people care about baseball. Like that's kurkdjian today. They're afraid. Yeah. They're afraid their game is getting so distorted that they don't even love it as much. And when you see sort of society spill into baseball this way. Where Tony La Russa is being sent in to manage a guy on the White Sox who's exciting, but he himself has told us that he finds baseball boring and he got all sorts of trouble because he finds baseball boring because he's a bad flipper.

Well, maybe this is a step in the right direction for baseball and for Tim Kurkjian, because I will tell you this, OK, Tony La Russa is not coming out to grab Blake Snell after five and a third or sixth inning.

That did that, in fact, did the mixing and matching. I remind you of Dave Stewart. If you walked out to the mound and tried to take the ball out of Stew's hands, he would punch you.

I know, but La Russa invented the change. A bunch of relievers. You're absolutely right about that. But that was a long time ago then up in California.

Cool. Long enough. This East Coast bias is obvious. And you didn't go to me when we were going to the to the costumes and stuff. You asked Chris in the Midwest. You guys obviously in Miami, you don't want to talk about the L.A. Dodgers. That's fine. We've talked about the Rays long enough. Are we suspending Justin Turner forever? That's my question to you. I mean, he went out there to be a broker because he celebrated with somebody with a cancer survivor who celebrate with a team with a city that is under siege right now.

If you want me to be honest and you didn't ask me how the traffic was today, you didn't ask me how my kale smoothie was today. I'm going to have an avocado burger later on for lunch. I mean, the East Coast based on the show is sickening. So I'm hoping that some point you guys can get your act together and us here in L.A. can actually start listening to the show.

Tony, I really appreciate it. OK, because I did not give your Halloween costume enough attention and you just took it by force by being in character. Daniel Day Lewis as George Sudano. I salute you for that. That's a big hack by you. And I salute you all around for correcting me and getting your costume out into the universe because you deserve it. It's a good costume. And I should have gone to you for more sardonic impersonations if you want to wear it next week.

Fake Sudano is welcome here. OK, if you want it, he has to wear the costume. Yes, you've got. But if you. I have just told you, you've just earned a spot. Look, speaking of earning spots, OK, you have just earned and inherited a spot on next week's show as only horse. I know you will get more my time, but you have to be in character all week as you sit down. So I'm fine.

I'm glad we're table it.

I'm glad we're doing that to you next week. Mike does not think it's fair. Mike thinks it's wrong of me to do this. I think it's inside.

It is inside. And so what we are inside, we're a secret joke for the audience here in the post game and Big Susie and the local our and many of you who have been listening for a long time know the story of Juju Godi. And we're going to give you a little more of this story of Juju Goudey because. He is a guy who represents the spirit of this show in a way that is a bit hard to articulate, but I am going to attempt to articulate it.

The greatest compliment that we get around here, I think. I don't I haven't actually spent a lot of time talking about this with the guys, but it's when someone tells us that we brought them through a dark time, that as creatures and characters that exist in their head through this intimate medium where it's not largely visual, and to many of you, we feel like your friends, we feel like people that you know and want to hang out with and want to watch games with for the ones who care about us the most.

Joujou Goudey was in a super dark place. And this doesn't even make sense. What I'm about to tell you. Right. It's a bit incongruous, but this young black guy who does hip hop on the side, he befriends Greg Coati of the Miami Herald and befriends him in a way that's unusual because during his darkest time, Greg Cody of the Miami Herald was doing things on the show that ended up making him laugh.

Does it make sense in Congress? What does that mean? Yes, incongruous. It doesn't make sense. It's something. Oh, is not. I'm glad I can help you with that anyway. So you godi basically credit Greg Cody in some ways. Laughter during a dark time for saving his life at a time that I believe he was, he was homeless, or at least I think he was living in his car. And so anyways, incongruously, Joujou Gotti has a tattoo of Greg Cody and now he's gotten a tattoo of a bunch of the show's characters to symbolize.

I would imagine that whatever that is and we're proud of it and we're happy to have him be a part of what we're doing.

Many of you have also noticed that he's exceptional at social media. Many of you have like dude got so much that allegedly you got him fired from the job that he was at because you called too much and he no longer had a job. And so because he's earned it and proved himself around here, because you really seem to like his social media presence, we have hired him to do our social media stuff, not just not just on weekends, but he's going to end up doing it for us.

And and we're looking forward to what that produces right now. As soon as I'm off here, as soon as we get off here, he will be handling our social media accounts for, you know, the foreseeable future, which means rest in peace.

Unsigned tweets from Dan Levitan and has to sign all of his tweets now as well. Juju, it's really fun. Over the weekends, we were trying Juju out for the better part of a year and a half and he's proven himself. We got what we were looking for in terms of new followers and more eyes. Looking at some of the stuff that we were doing. We got a kick out of it. And you did, too. So, Juju, congratulations.

You've earned it, pal. Do I still put up the poles? Yeah, yeah, it's a good question. You could go to jail, right? Sorry, sorry. But that's so.

Would you like that off your plate? Yermo. Would you like. That's fine. Would you like to handle that? Because we I mean he's higher now. We're we're paying him money like that's I'm sure Joujou would be happy.

It seems like a waste of JuJu's time, though. I mean, is it. Why how? Well, I mean, we have someone doing it. We want Juju to be really creative. We need to chew on the big picture. On the big picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chris, this announcement seems to have been something that you were surprised by. You reacted with genuine joy at that.

I mean, I just didn't know that news. I I'm kind of close with Juju, so I'm just extremely happy for him because I know he's wanted to be a part of this as much as we'd let him. And that's a big step. And I'm just happy for him.

He's a warm, sweet man. Juju got it. He really is. He's just a nice, caring man, very thoughtful person. So I'm super excited for him. That is a great job. Bye bye, Juju. And a great job by Udaan getting them on the staff.

Mike, can we take some calls here. Just let's bang through them because these people have been waiting for for a long time. Let's just unscreened, let's just do some two calls because we promised these people we were going to do some two calls. A congratulations to Juju Goudey. We are happy to have him around as another member of the team. Let's go ahead and do we have names are just lines.

These are on screen. Dan, who is kind of tricky because the Tim Kolchenko, I couldn't get rid of two calls to get Kertesz in baseball calls without it being another two calls. So it was a confusing day here on the Today show. So we're going unscreened here. Line one, you were on the air right now.

Do you do? Flaming Lips. All right. Keep going. Two was waiting for my cable line to you are live and on the air. Two, two, two, two, two, two. One of the things aren't really we may have a good team.

But sure, let's go and change to our backup QB.

He is Mo and he looks right. Check out that ball man, the spiral tight, but I still look down the steal.

But what he sees the field field in Miami.

Honestly, you could have stopped after Tulga. I've had a really good. No, I salute you. Yes. I mean, you had us out, though, at the very beginning.

Thank you for calling. Line three. You are now on the air. Or two titles in law, Brian Ford is benched, Fitzpatrick, my final quarterback is You Still Gonna Go Away? And a tour to tackle the Stephen Ross as Brian Florio's If you get hurt more. No, no, no, no, no. If you have my doctor to call Matt Matt for the job. Well, Targo the law. Not much help since Coolbellup might as well.

I know. Go back to yellow and say I got this because we check.

Are you think Tom Brady.

No, no, no. Get that bad.

No, we'll need him. Bravo says well done. Thank you very much. Yes. Good work. Do we have many more? Shall we end on that note? Because I we're not going to do a lot better than that. But we also I feel bad for these people have been holding all show.

These people haven't been holding all show. They're just still calling because they're mental. What are you guys at risk for the biscuit?

I would like I don't I have an idea. Dan, give them your phone number and they could call you sing to you. I'll do that right now. Yes. And then we end on a high note. All right. So who's going to give it out? I will just tell them.

How is that going to entertain the audience? You'll tell us how good it is. Line six, you're on the air, go ahead. You guys still thinking two songs? Yeah, go, go, go quick.

I got to talk about how long he runs and rolls here on the promo. All right, I'll take it. We actually have a celebrity submission. I mean, can't really call Zach Harper a celebrity, but Zach Harbor, who's been doing some Twitter streams with great work for the athletic, he sent me this voice note submission. So let's go ahead and give him some shine. All right.

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