Stranger Than Fiction: Behind the Scenes of the Yankees Wife-Swap Scandal

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.6 • 31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the early 1970s, two pitchers for the New York Yankees agreed to the wildest trade in sports history: They switched wives. And children. And furniture. And pets. But this sex scandal cut way deeper than the tabloid headlines. David Mandel — veteran writer for Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep and The Simpsons — laments his big-screen adaptation that never was... even though the ultimate passion project could have starred Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. And we go deep inside a story that's equal parts swinging and missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what
0:05.0	this sound is.
0:06.0	No, but it's quite a thing. The Yankees now have a manager, three coaches, and a marriage
0:10.0	counselor.
0:12.0	Right after this ad.
0:15.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Dave Mandel, I should say that I have been on a bit of an odyssey that has led me to you.
0:37.0	Uh oh.
0:38.0	Well, uh oh, in a couple of senses that I want to explore and excavate with you, but how should I introduce you because there's a lot to introduce I suppose?
0:47.0	I don't know, you know, sometimes I feel like, you know, you can kind of just go in chronological order or you can just kind of go what my I guess
0:55.8	Tombstone will say which is the guy that wrote the Bizarro Jerry yeah that's sort of I think
1:00.6	how I'm gonna that's sort of as good as it's going to get, vis-à-vis death.
1:04.8	So yeah.
1:05.8	Okay, so Bizarro-Jerry, if you are not familiar, is one of the greatest episode of one of the greatest television
1:14.9	shows in American history.
1:16.6	And Dave Mandel, longtime Seinfeld writer,
1:20.5	was in fact responsible.
1:22.4	So he's Bizarro Jerry.
1:24.0	Bizarro Jerry?
1:26.0	Yeah, like Bizarro Superman's exact opposite.
1:30.0	Who lives in the backwards bazaar a world?
1:34.0	Up is down, down is up.
1:36.5	He says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives.
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