The Extreme Bonilla
The Distraction: A Defector Podcast
Defector Media
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Drew and Roth drill down on the most important story in sports right now: is Tommy DeVito’s agent proof that we’re living in a simulation? Because it’s just too on the nose. But first, Roth unspools the effects of Shohei Ohtani’s signing, on the current baseball picture and the sport as a whole. And we’re a little late on it, but we need to go through the incredibly ridiculous stories about Sean McDermott, because there’s more than just “the 9/11 hijackers were a solid unit.” And as always, we dive into the Funbag.
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Stuff We Talked About
- The McDermott Problem, Part I: Blame Game - by Tyler Dunne
- Who is Tommy DeVito's agent? Meet Sean Stellato.
- Tommy DeVito Ranks Sandwiches with Cugine
- Cavs owner's letter mocked for Comic Sans font
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Credits
- Hosts: Drew Magary & David Roth
- Producer: Eric Silver
- Editor: Brandon Grugle
- Production Services & Ads: Multitude
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About The Show
The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're back! It's distraction. I'm through that's Roth. How you doing Roth? I'm good man. How are things? |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, things are good. I'm almost uh... Next week is the week before the Christmas week off and I already know I am so going to mail it in that week. |
| 0:18.0 | I am just, every time I'm going to go on vacation for a week, the week before I'm like I'm already in full |
| 0:24.1 | vacation mode I am just not interested in doing fuck all. See that sounds smart |
| 0:29.7 | because the thing that I do is book myself for a ton of shit and then just crawl across the finish line and like |
| 0:36.3 | emerge from an airplane just as a kind of a gelatinous mass vibrating with anxiety and then like people just feed me and let me drink |
| 0:45.8 | until I'm normal again and then I go back home because the season's over by that |
| 0:49.0 | point. That's very good. No no no I I enjoy half-ing it to the finish line because that's the American way. |
| 0:55.6 | But lucky for you, this is not the half-ass week. It's the week before. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah, this is the, you're fucking fired up right now. People can't see see it, but you've got you got eye black on like Chris |
| 1:04.8 | Ho van. You're all like just freaking out. I'm ready to I'm ready to try and as a treat for |
| 1:10.6 | you, Roth, we're gonna talk baseball. I don't believe we're going to talk |
| 1:14.8 | baseball in December, but we are because this week the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first |
| 1:19.9 | major league baseball team to sign former Anaheimian League superstar Shohai Otani. Major League |
| 1:23.4 | Superstar Shohai Otani. |
| 1:26.4 | I mean it's incredible. |
| 1:27.5 | He's finally going to Major League Baseball. |
| 1:29.4 | We're all very excited for Otani. |
| 1:30.8 | How much do you see... |
| 1:31.8 | No posting fee there. Yes, how much do you see the Otani signing as a prime chance to |
| 1:36.2 | dramatically increase not just his own profile, but all of baseballs, Roth. |
| 1:41.6 | Into Orange County? |
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