The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Jim's Clothes

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

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They're four and one against teams with winning records. They're the number one seed in the NFC. know people talk about their offensive issues. The number of three and outs they have alarming for a team that has won 20 of 21 games. It's weird to see a team with that much firepower be constipated on offense. But that Rams game showed you, if you want them to beat you that way, they'll do it too. Like if you want them to go ahead and throw it down the field to AJ Brown, they will on fourth and six and Matthew Stafford will lose a game that if they played it again today, the Rams would be favored. And that's crazy to say. Like, because of

the problems that Philadelphia is having on offense makes them look like they did yesterday. But I want to ask you guys something that I was thinking about during that game because the margins are so small. Every week in the NFL, you're looking, oh, the reason that the Patriots beat the bucks is because Diggs got his toes in on Fort Down in that small sliver of real estate and it changed the entire football game. Do you think you can imagine how maddening to these disciplinarian coaches who want to control everything but can control so little, pre-snap penalties are. And I just, I want to articulate

this in a certain way for the audience because what these people do for a living is insane in its precision. They practice eight and nine hours a day, so they have this much of an advantage knowing where a guy is going to be, how they can get one step on somebody because the route has to be 8.3 yards. And we're going to practice it all week, eight hours a day. And if you don't keep doing it, we'll get a younger person. in here who would like this paycheck. It's a military school of we will be precise. To my way of thinking, there should not be a false start on offense at home the entire season from anyone on my team ever. The bare minimum is you know the snap count the way we're practicing all

week. We're in meetings at night. You're away from your family. We are doing every single thing to make sure we're this much better than the other guy. Don't give me a false start the entire season when we're at home. Like you guys explain to me how that happens with military soldiers who are being trained through fatigue and everything else. In the fourth quarter, the snap count is this. You don't jump. Unless you're the Eagles on the tush push, then you can jump

whenever you want. The refs will never call it. I didn't realize you were such a hard ass as a coach. Where was this when you were coaching the 13-year-old? Holy hell, day. Was it there? I'm now playing scared. Sitting next to Bobby Knights. I just don't understand it. I just don't understand it. All you got to do is don't move until the quarterback does this. We know it and the

defense does it. Every time they tell it to us in the huddle, I just don't understand how what happened so much. I'll give you procedure penalties. I'll give you shifting penalties. I'm just talking about what they're doing all week. I can't imagine how exasperated coaches get with. Really, it's fourth and short. I need a yard against them. They win the Super Bowl because they always get that yard and no one gets it against them. Can you not give me a full start? You're hitting a coach. You're hitting a player on the sideline like Gannon. Take it easy. From Arizona. I'm not, I'm shiv. You just bump me. I'm shiving the center with like

Oh, that's worse! Like, yeah, no, I am absolute. You know the snap count. You have the ball in your hand. It's the snap count. You're kicking players in the ass during a game. No, I just told you. Shitting.

Kicking a player in the ass is not as bad as shiving them with a metallic object that I hid in the locker room. Shiving the center is quite the visual. Do we need more tears? Do you understand what I'm saying, though? I find this maddening. That game was decided by things like that. I mean, the dolphins have to lead the league in pre-snap penalties. Definitely pre-game starting penalties.

Yeah. Are you guys with me that you're not. now at the point where you expect that 64-yarder to go in at the end of the game, even if it's in a Lambeau winter. I hate it. I hate it so much. One of the most fun things about football, you know, when I was younger was Marino gets the ball with 50 seconds left, and somehow he's got to get 60 yards in this final possession to set

up a field goal. And now, eh, you need like 120-yard pass, and then the kicker can come in and win the game. I hate it. What do you like about football? I like... You don't like football. You're telling me you like kicking then. You're a huge fan of kicking.

You don't like kicking. You also don't like punching. No, no, no. You don't know about that. What about that punch yesterday? You know, that was an important punch yesterday? Can I give a PSA real quick? I'm tired of everyone. You hate football?

Let me give a PSA real quick. You know what a PSA is? Yes. I can see you look like you don't know what one is. You want me to tell Chris and Casey gave me a PSA. I know what it is. Hey, that's my gimmick. I'm tired of people sending me messages on Twitter when someone punches a ball out.

No, you're not. You love it. I'm tired of it. No, you're not. You know about that land man? It's too many. That'll definitely stop it. I'm so tired of getting, do you know about that land man?

Do you? What you're doing now will definitely stop it. That's literally the message I'm getting. Do you know about that land man? Every time there's a punch anywhere in a high school game, college game, or professional games. Last night it was a huge one. I mean, you never see Jalen Hertz.

That never happens to Jalen Hertz. Should have been illegal. I agree with Zaz. The punch. Do away with it. Boxing ring? Okay. That's right.

Football field? Nope. That's right. You're literally allowed to... See, a guy got thrown out of a game the other day, right? Because he punched another player, but if that guy was holding a football, been totally okay. Make that make sense. Tony, Tony has made me laugh, okay, today a couple of different times, but nowhere harder than when he comes in this morning, okay? We have something interesting happening in South Florida.

We are the envy of the world in this respect. Yeah, well, you say it's cold, but it was 53 was the low this morning. So the rest of the world is going through winter, and there is legitimate cold all over the United States that it's going to be really deeply unpleasant for people. But yes, it's 53 in South Florida, and all of us were rattled by this. But Tony came in, and this doesn't happen to him very often.

He's a confident individual. He came in feeling a bit judged as inferior as he drove in, and I was surprised by it because it doesn't happen to him very often. What happened? So on a beautiful day like this, you like to drive the car, You got the windows down a little bit.

You're cruising. Greg, I know you like that. That nice little cool breeze going in. Yes, thank you. Obviously, we come in in the morning early. I'm usually here about 8 o'clock. And today was especially easy because there's no traffic. Oh, the Veterans Day.

Salute to the truth, by the way. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. Thank you. So I'm driving in. People are out. I see joggers. A lot more joggers today.

And I'm looking over and I'm like, they think they're better than us. Because it's cold outside and you're running. And you think you're looking at me in the car saying, Fat slob, you piece of shit. You're driving in the car. So a lot of shirtless joggers today. A lot of people jogging, Dan. Smug shirtless joggers today.

They think they're better than us. Guess what? You're not. You're not better than us just because you run. They are fitter than us. Not as good as us. Debatable. Let alone not better.

Sometimes they're a little bit fitter. You don't see a lot of big people running. That's fine. You see thin people running and that's fine too. Superior people, they would say. They would say that. And I would probably tend to agree if they are running in times that we would not be running. They are probably a little bit superior to us.

But I felt the job. What? I felt the judgment from the car, and I looked at him, and I was like, I wanted to scream, you suck! All right, put it on the polls. Put it on the pole. You do that? No, I belittle joggers. Like, I will pull up next to a jogger with my car and start going at the exact same pace that they're running, and then all of a sudden I'll gun it and leave them in the dust. And the car driver is superior. I mean, the jogger, what's he doing? He's going like five miles an hour. It takes them forever to get there. Yes, it takes them forever to get it. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show.

Does the jogger feel superior to you? Don't even let me start up on the bikers, too. The people that think they're Lance Armstrong. The people that think they're on the Tour de France. Guess what? You're not. You don't have to wear the skin tight shirts. Yes.

And the pants that I can see your... Oh, my God. I don't mean to see it. Terrible. How about you just... You can see it all. Dan, I know you're talking... I know on the beach they do that.

I feel like you guys are feeling judged by exercisers. Just yesterday on the show, Greg. You walked in with a cane. A couple of weeks ago, we were dissecting your trickney on the board there, and it seemed like that happens because you sleep crisscross applesauce. Your knees are in bad shape. And I asked your son just yesterday, when do you think your father last time he just put on clothes and went to go exercise? And he didn't know how to answer the question, but he thought that it was decades old and it had cobwebs on it. Well, I'm not wearing biker shorts.

I'll tell you that. But when was the last time you purposely went out and said, because he said that you told your doctor when your doctor asked you, do you get? get any exercise while I walk around the house yeah I have a long house it's like a big old shaped house no I do I don't I would say it's just a standard house no it's a long it might it's it might not be a standard house but it's it's not so long it's just it's a pool room it's a family room and it's three bedrooms in a kitchen yeah I fired that doctor by the way he's belittling my workout regimen I'm walking up and down my house he's going no I mean yeah cardio and sweat and you know

Look, just to be clear on what is long house. Dog? It's two hallways. It's two hallways. Long hallways. A kitchen, a living room, a family room. It is three bedrooms. A game room.

Okay. But that's the, okay, the family room and a pool room. Yes. It's a substantive house. But when I think of length, I'm going to say 3,000, 4,000 square feet? Something like that. 4,000. It's a big house.

A giant house. Three thousand. I'm telling you guys, Roy. I've seen your house. It's very similar size to your house. Okay. My parents' house, like, they spend their money on vacationing. My parents' house is not a lavish house.

Greg, Greg's children's bedrooms are small children's bedrooms. Right, I had small children. You've got... I need your support. Especially when they were young, they were like really, really small. You have three bedrooms on one side of the house, a master bedroom and two bedrooms. That's one hallway. Then you have a living area and a kitchen and a pool table.

area. And an eating area. That's the kitchen. The commissary. The house is a normal length. No one would consider this exercise. The point is, I'm doing to work out every day. I'm going to do this. Next time I go to your house, I'm going to show, because when you say walk around the house, what you're talking about to your doctor

is, I walk from my office to the garage. That's what you literally say. And that walk is probably 30 steps. And it's to get a beer. Right. But when I'm going into the garage and out, I'm ascending and descending. There's one step. There's one above average side step.

There's one step into the garage. There's one step. And another one back out. That's the same step. Yeah. Twice though. Different exercise. It's not once.

It's twice. Once you're descending. If he had an Apple watch, it would say two steps. I would say getting... I do plenty. Believe me. I get my exercise. That's exercise.

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Don Libetard. I got somebody here making fun of me. How old do you have to be to reference Checky Green? Man, I went comedically there with the funny name of a comedian. That's on you for. not knowing who Shecky Green is. Oh, you got to know who Shecky Green is. You don't have to know who Shecky Green is, but I...

You're your ally. No, no, yeah, I don't like my allies here. The King of the Borsh Belt. Stugats. I have the soul of a borsh belt comedian. I should be in the Catskills in 1945 opening for Shecky Green. That's why I was destined to be. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

Greg, what is the last time you purposely tried to exercise? I mean, I exercise every day in my life. Greg, you put on gym clothes, you put on pants, and you said, I'm going to go for a walk outside, something. I put on Jim's clothes. I borrow his clothes. I put on Jim's clothes. I need your support.

But I see people running a marathon, right? And I'm like, all right, you're. You're huffing and puffing for three and a half hours. You know how fast my car can go 26 miles? I get the distance that you take four hours to run, my car can traverse in what? A few minutes? Yeah, 20 minutes. I like the idea of Greg riding side by side with the marathon and just screaming out his window.

Why? Grinning maniacally at them, keeping the same pace and then speeding off with a cackle. He peels out. Why? That's the perfect question. To be fit. to be healthy. Come on, Jim Fix died. He crashed into a tree and died.

The guy who invented running, dies running. Who invented running? Jim Fix invented running. Who the hell is Jim Fix? Hey, look it up. Everyone stop right now. This is a good segment. I want imaging for the next time he says look it up because this is actually a priceless one and he can help us with it back in my day,

but I would like you to look up the history of Jim Fix, please. I would like the years of Jim Fix. and I would like to verify Greg Cody's accusation that Jim Fix, who invented running, died running by running into a tree. With a tree thing, I'm a little vague on, but the inventor of running, recreational running, and exercise running, died running. Okay, that's a good reason not to run. What is the backstory of Jim Fix?

Can I get the back in my day music so that I can get the support, the factual support for what it is that Greg Cody is saying? Because, again, I will tell you that the key element to that story to me, which appears to be untrue, is that Jim Fix, the inventor of running, died running into a tree. That's the part of the story that got my... The part that got my attention

was that Jim Fix was just running around and the dangers of running are so bad that he ran into a tree, hit himself, and died on the side of the road. This is a still photo so it doesn't show it what's about to happen and this photo is that Jim Fix. That's not true. She sees Diana Rusini's kids being attacked by a deer

and he runs to save Diana Rossini's three-year-old and he runs into a tree and dies. Okay. Jeremy, what is accurate here? James Fuller Fix was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running. He's credited with helping start America's Fitness Revolution by popularizing the sport of running

and demonstrating the health benefits of regularly jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age. Hello! Now, in Greg's defense... No tree. In Greg's defense, we don't know whether or not when he had that heart attack. If he happened to stumble into a tree, he maybe could have died while running into a tree. This Jim Fix thing is, you'd think my dad's joking.

This is his reasoning for not being active. He has examples, friends of his, who were very active and have passed on. He has examples of people who are workout people and they've passed. So he won't wear Jim's clothes. So he just has this theory of. He doesn't believe it. He thinks he's like, he's gotten to where he's at without working out. So he's just like, I'm good.

Dan, this is like when your dad was like, oh, the guy that ate the salmon. That's why I don't eat salmon because he was healthy. Thank you for the guy. But that he didn't die. It's a great story, Tony. And thank you for bringing it up because my father has been stubborn about this. And I need to tell this story. My father for years has said, tell us the story this way.

Fred Dreyer, former Rams tough guy, detective on television, famous football tough guy. He's like, Fred Dreyer every day. for 20 years all he ate salmon and broccoli and went running salmon and broccoli and went running Fred Dreyer died running and that's why I don't eat salmon he ain't lying no he was lying because Fred Dreyer's not dead well still technicality no but this is the thing my this is the part that my father's been telling this story for for years now and we called him on the internet we showed him we called him on it we just showed him hey dad that story's not true Fred Dreyer's still with us he's He is not dead.

He did not die from salmon while jogging. You can eat salmon now, and he's like, I don't believe that. Yeah, plus he'll die eventually. Well, he's 79 years young right now. Yes, he's still alive. And you have not answered the question of when was the last time. You exercise. I guess you're here not to take a quiz, but you have evaded the question.

So it's been more than 10 years, though, yes? Yeah, I'm not going to take a quiz, like you say. And I'm not belittling people who work out. I'm just saying it's not a panacea for health or longevity. You know, if you want to jog, if you want to run marathons, more power to you. If I want to run past you with a, you know, like a grin of a donkey eating briars, while I run past you and leave you in the dust, I'm going to do that too. Tony, he's been using that.

I don't know what to do with that one. Tony, Tony, he's been writing, grinning. Some big salmon just fell right on the table then. Listen, Tone, he has been writing, grinning. like a mule-eating briars. Or a donkey. They're interchangeable. Yes, either one.

Yeah, God rest his soul, Edwin Pope, the great. It's not even his line, Tony. He stole it from Edwin Pope. Stoll it from Pope? That's all his line. Listen, not only did he steal it from Edwin Pope, I recall laughing with your father at how overwritten it was. Like, it wasn't a compliment.

The late Edwin Pope, no longer with us, I'm like Fred Dreyer. The late Edwin Pope, legendary columnist Greg Cody steals his lines, but that one, we mocked, grinning like a donkey eating briars, yet you can imagine it. A donkey just chewing on hay, but that's so, so you jaw, so past joggers, you're grinning like a mule or a donkey eating briars, and then you speed up and leave them in the rear rear mirror. And if they were to look in your rear mirror, what they would see is some, a human being grinning like a donkey eating briars.

Well, I'm shouting out the window. So he-haw-free. Badaip. Come on, Greg. Tom now for top five, Tony's top five. Greg Cody's saying, he doesn't know his own lines. Oh, you got to help him with him. He-Haw-3.

By-da'am. Luckily, that's O-L-I. He-Haw-3, but-D-A-M. Thank you. Roy, do me the favor of, I'd like to get from earlier in the show, his dueling hellos when he was right about something. I want to hear, I want you guys to hear the different. between Greg Cody roaring in the first hour with a hello that hasn't lost steam and his hello in the third hour when he is losing steam.

In the interim, top five Greg Cody saying stone. O'LI, we had Pee-huh, three. Bada'am. O'LI number two. Which doesn't work with Jumpin' Charlie, I'm guessing. Everyone was disappointed in that video last night that there was no bird. What happened? I know this should have been.

Well, so this is the back story. Called him a jerk. Wait a minute. He is a jerk at times. Greg. Yes. Before sending your dog that chews up sofas and pillows, and you say is trained, away to boot camp, you told us that the way that you train the dog,

Jumping Charlie, is by disorienting him with a sound that was. So that stopped working, and then you sent him off to boot camp. So you stopped doing the bay because the base. Now it's like, Charlie! Stop it! Charlie! No! No, the bay continues to be a disarming sound.

Like, if I need to distract him for whatever he's doing and I hit him with a bay, it does get his attention. He gives me that cute dog. I love when dogs do that. The ear, you know, the head-tilt. Yeah, I love that. This is a hell of an O-A-L-I. It's a good O-L-L-L-A.

Trailers for Sale and O-Rent. Tony honors me with this little. $0.50. Rooms to rent. Rooms to Rent, 50 cent? Number five. This is a deep cut, but I like my Greg Cody, deep cut, okay? I would love if this ends with him weeping, sobbing, or some form of just getting emotional because of how you've touched him.

Number five, dummy up. Yeah. Nice. Can you explain dummy up to the audience that hasn't heard dummy up, Greg? It's more like when you got to get ready for something. Like, get ready, dummy up. Like, I'm coming inside right now, dummy up. If people are chattering and extraneous noise and everything along, dummy up just basically.

Get focused. It's a very polite way of saying, quiet down. Weird for you to choose that, Tony, given that I've never heard him say it. Oh, no. You never heard of dummy up? Come on. The audience is don't understand him. It would be a way like out here before our pre-show, like, hey, let's go, everyone.

Dummy Up. Let's go. We're going to talk right here. Perfect. Yeah. Number four. Hello. Get me the dueling hello's because he was so right in the first hour.

Or injured like. Hello. That's amazing. You became an old-timey, 90-year-old showgirl. Hello. Yeah, that was Ethel Merman. There's no question about it. Or injured Mike.

Hello. Lo is from Family Guy. Or Injured Mike. Hello. Peter. Number three. Brad. Brad.

What a great list. Whoa. That's got. Zaz just got hit with a taste of wetness. Brad. Zaz was truly disgusted by the gurgling bubble that came out of that first sound. Brad. I mean, like I could smell that clip.

Thank you. Well, it's Brad. Brad. Number two, baby. Oh, yeah. Baby. Oh, yeah. Much different than bur.

It is. Totally different. That's why babies are, you know, number. too. Obviously, it stands in the pantheon of Greg Cody's sayings. Thank you. At number one, come on, we all. There is no other phrase that Greg Cody is remembered by, says

that kind of thing. That would have been your number one as well? It might have been. Yeah. Or it might, you know. What about, you know, he forgot. You never know. Oh, you never know. It forgot it. Forgot it while offering up, dummy up. I know. And you know it, though, has been.

Oh, and you know. You know it. Yeah, and you know it. No back jack. That's a fact jack. It's a lot to get to. You create your own list. He's got, yeah, doing it at home.

Best list wins nothing. Have a contest. Just, you might get some tears. I think it would have been wonderful if at the end somehow you had gotten the cadence on this, on a nostalgic, emotional cane using Cody. If you got him just weeping at the end to Brad, to his burp where he's just so touched and so honored that your list was so. Oh, yeah. Listen to the hello.

again and tell me you're not seeing someone at the end of a 1950s play come out, an old woman an old woman coming out and really hitting that last note which she's really pleased with how everything's going. Or injured light. It's like a vaudeville stage.

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This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. We're as, he's going, can we talk about Norman follows a little? Actually, Mike McDaniel is where we're headed. The sound has now been confirmed. The video has been confirmed. The audio has been confirmed. That was indeed in a black mat cart, a black mat car. Mike McDaniel trolling past the elbow room.

The elbow room is filled with Bill's fans. It is confirmed. One of the most confusing victories of the year after a confusing week in which the dolphins do the rare thing of, hey, this is a rare thing, right? Everyone's in trouble a week ago. All of us around here were howling, oh my God, I've never seen it this way before with the dolphins. It's going to be GM, coach, and quarterback all swept out to see who's next, what's next, everything's starting over. and then the owner says, nope. I'm going to get rid of the GM in season, weird, unusual, but not the coach.

I believe in the coach. I'm not going to trade the wide receiver. And now I'm betting on the quarterback for another year. I am going to bet on Waddle McDaniel and Tua. I'm stuck. I'm stuck because that contract's going to be hard to move. And so next year I'm going to bet on maybe McDaniel, Waddle, and Tua, can dig me out of this. They've got an easy schedule for a month. By the end of this month,

we're not going to be saying McDaniels lost his players anymore. Like, whatever happens the next couple days, they may lose one of the games, they may win all three. Whatever it is, it's not going to be McDaniel. We're not thinking the next three opponents are so bad that if they put up a six points against Cleveland or a six points against Baltimore, you'd be confused by it. I'm pretty sure they're going to be successful over this stretch. Like, I, I, I, I, I think they're going to be winning some games. So here's McDaniel, and in his own words, let's get the sound, because he has confirmed that that was indeed him swinging past it.

Well, he hasn't confirmed it. He did not confirm it. Okay, you tell me what it is you guys hear here. But there's a picture of you strolling down A1, strolling down the elbow room, I guess, near A1A. Looks like your car, looks like you, looks like your watch. Is that AI or is that real? Well, you know, that's why like the good old days, you know,

the throwbacks of your where you could trust, you know, the internet and the images, because, you know, it is pretty detail that, you know, I do live in that area, but, I mean, AI, right? That does last with a shit.

What? I mean... Are you confirming or did I? I mean, I live in that area. AI is real. That's what I got for you. That's great. The jokesters back.

They're three and seven. Like, they're three and seven, you know? I don't know. Look, I'll just say it. I think it's lame. I think it's lame. They're three and seven. The Buffalo bills, despite what the dolphins did to them this past weekend, own the dolphins.

They own them for like a good 10 years now. They never beat them. So it's cool that the dolphins beat them this weekend, but there's still three and seven on the year. And, like, McDaniel's doing a victory lap or on elbow? room. Is it lame if he literally is just driving to his house, though? Why is his window down? And the arm out the window, too.

It's a nice day. It's a Sunday evening after he finally has a happy thought for the first time in six months. It's a boss move, okay? He's gone from car crying to leaning out into the elbow room. He was car crying. Look, man, this dude was car crying. He had elbow room. By the way, when you drive down A1A, even if you're not around elbow room.

What? Oh, whoa! No, that's, come on. That's disturbed. His arm was out. out of the car. That elbow rim! It's a boss. It's a boss. That kind of thing.

It's a boss move to roll down your window. When you're driving down A1A, you just roll down your window. Yeah, you do. Hell yeah. Tony, you had the hammer. You just had to hit him again in the back of the hand. What a rim come from? Elbow room.

Where did the rim come from? McDaniel stuck his elbow out and Zaz's ass defended. Driving a Bentley too. Again, doesn't like football. Guy does not like football. Just corny. There's three and seven. Let me tell you something here.

Okay. Ooh, kitties. With everything that McDaniel's been through this season, he's allowed to enjoy a big win over the Asian opponent. Everything has been through you. Say that like somebody's done something to him. Another thing. Nobody deserves a comeuppance more than the Bills and Bills fans. Plus, get out of our elbow room.

I was grinning like a donkey eating briers earlier today when we were talking about, has the Bills window closed? Has it ever opened? Listen, they haven't won any. anything since 1965. They haven't been in a Super Bowl since 1993. When Sean McDermott says at halftime, we got to get back to playing Buffalo Bills football. What kind of football is that exactly? Something that hasn't won in 60 years? What is Buffalo Bills football? The window was never open. The bills were never better than the third team in the AFC when Lamar Jackson's healthy and Mahomes is playing. It's a fallacy that the Bills ever had a Super Bowl window.

It hadn't shut because it hasn't never opened. That is fire from Greg Cody, 60 years of losing football in Buffalo. This is the best hope they've had since those Super Bowl teams. But we have breaking news here that might make some of you grin like a mule or a donkey eating briars. Nico Harrison has been fired by the Mavs. I don't know what Greg Cody is celebrating by throwing his hands up in the air. I'm celebrating because for what two years now, This has been a story that only that city cared about,

but it's somehow become one of the biggest stories in the NBA because he makes an unpopular trade. His fans won't get over it, and now all of a sudden they get what they wanted, and now all the fans are happy again because they have their scapego. Just to be clear, the report is that he will be fired at a.m. Central meeting, which will be in six minutes. Well, Shams Sharaniah followed up that tweet saying the Mavericks are firing Harrison.

Just want to make sure we're going to be. I am so annoyed, Dan. I am so annoyed because you can confirm. Everyone can confirm. Tony, confirm it. Oh, wait a minute. You know what? You know what?

I'm sorry. He should be annoyed. We got distracted with Greg Cody Kane talk and Zazzo had this story. I'm so annoyed. Hours ago Zazzo had this story. He came in here saying he did say this. This is true. Shams is two hours late to the story.

Zaz came in here today saying I've got locked down. Nico's going to be fired. I'm so annoyed. Tony, I said that, right? You said it. No, you came in. You don't like football, but you said it. We didn't get to it because Greg Cody was weeping and hugging a piece of wood.

And that's what we said. But you had that story before that. Zaslow, the journalist. Zaslo, the insider. Here's the thing about journalism. If you have a big story, you sort of have to break the news. You're right. You have to tell somebody that you know.

No, no, I did tell them. I didn't say it into the microphone. He had it and I got distracted. Look, I'm going to take, I'm 100% this is on me. Zaz has so much news. Zaz has so many journalism credentials. Zaz is spilling content. He told us before the show, hey, I got that Nico Harrison's going to be fired and I didn't get to it.

That's the God's honest truth. He was to this story, two hours before Shams, and he said he had it locked down. 847 a.m. I looked at you guys and I said I'm going to mention on the show today that Nico Harrison is getting fired. Yeah, it's a shams that you never got to it. I still don't understand why you threw your arms up in the air

when Nico Harrison was fired as if you had won something. No, because finally, I didn't predict it. I'm super baffled. I mean, it would have been pretty easy to predict, but I never predicted it. That's not what Zazzal was going to report it. He was not going to report it. He was not going to predicted. He was going, he won. But then he never got a round to report again. We had graphics and that's

true, but it's my fault. It's not his fault. It is absolutely my fault because again, I was distracted by you hugging a piece of wood. Pre-snap penalty by you. I had to get to my take on false starts. It was more. It could have been right there. That would have been a good place to get to it. But instead, I was railing for nine

straight minutes about the idea that there would be pre-snap penalty. Nobody hates the false start more than you. Had to talk about Jim Fix. Instead, I could have my name up there. Sonathan Zaslow is reported. I broke the news he died running into a tree. Hello. Thank you.

Dan, I'm so annoyed. No, you should be. I'm just still laughing at how right Gregoni is. Thank you. And how good that hello is because I want to show you the difference at some point between the first hello and the second hello. So you see how you peter out. No, the second one's better.

Hello. We'll get to the second one in a second. But before, Zaslo, I'm sorry. I want to publicly apologize to you, privately apologize to you. This one is all my fault. He had this story two hours ago. But what do you make of it now that it's so? Because rare has an executive.

I was confused, Greg, by your take, something only people cared about regionally, whether a GM. Yeah, that's not true. We learned this man's name, and his, I would say, the general public learn this man's name as a reason to laugh. at incompetence. As a joke on the internet, the Dallas Mavericks, who used to be run by Mark Cuban, are now run by a buffoon as they go through an ownership trade transition because nobody ever in the history of sports makes this trade without at least calling around.

It's not Anthony Davis broken player for huge superstar in his prime. Lakers are going to be fine for 10 years if he stays healthy and they have their transition out of LeBron. Rico Harrison is the face of sports executive incompetence. He's been running a foul of ownership here since lucking into Cooper Flagg, who's supposed to be a franchise player, but the Mavs don't look very good for a lot of reasons. And his response to that was, I'm glad the fan base is finally starting to see the plan. The plan to get lucky. They had like a 1% chance. He would have had that spot by the way.

The plan. the play look uh he obviously deserved to be fired the team is three and eight this he said the he said the up the window to win is right now which is why they're making the trade and the guy that they made the trade around the guy who the reason that they only called the lakers and did not call around was because of everyone in the league nico harrison identified anthony davis as the guy that he wants and that guy never plays he's never available the team is three and eight, they're terrible. But here's also the thing now. The ownership is firing Nico Harrison and it's like, holy shit. You allow the general manager to make a franchise

altering move. At the very least, you can argue that the ownership wanted him to make the deal. I don't believe that. But you do have to agree that the ownership has to sign off on the deal. So you sign off on that deal. And as an added bonus, just so. People understand sort of the reverberating historical context on this. It is the single most stunning and heartbreaking trade in the history of all sports in that market. There has been nothing close. There's nothing, a close second place to you allowed an executive who is now fired 18 months ago to make the single most stunning and heartbreaking decision in the history.

Eight months ago. In the history of the market. Yeah, eight months ago, you allow him to alter the course of your franchise, and then you don't let him see it through? Now, it never should have happened in the first place, but you can't allow him to make this move and then fire it. It's all you get a do-over on the move. So, like, what do you see through?

An Anthony Davis who doesn't look great, who's not playing, Kyrie Irving, who's hurt, we don't know when he's going to come back. Cooper Flagg, who, okay, he's good right now, but let's see what it is. He said if you're willing to, if you're willing to it, If you're willing to say you got it wrong in such a short period of time, you can't allow this big of, this big of a move to be made in the first place. If he's, if eight months later, he's worthy of being fired, that's not a person who should be in charge in the power structure of being allowed to do that. If eight months later, you're going to decide this person is not the person for the job. It's crazy.

And so what ends up happening there, and this is the part that doesn't get talked about enough. Like, you had an ownership change there that didn't have an appreciation for what the value of this asset was. And so they desecrated everything that Mark Cuban did there. Like, they just didn't understand what they were doing because they put a boob in charge and allowed him to make the most seismic trade and then becomes the fall guy for the economics of you didn't want to give the guy you worried was going to be fat hundreds of millions of dollars. I think this signifies what you don't see all that often, which is the power of fans. I think if the Dallas fans hadn't reacted as if their franchise had committed mutiny.

This is not the power of fans. This is the weakness of ownership. This is not the power of fans. I don't think if those fans reacted the way they did, that he would necessarily have been fired right now. The Dallas Mavericks had like a 20-year sellout streak at home. It ended last night. Greg, I understand that the groundswell would have happened in any market with this superstar. Any market, like this, Dallas is not a unique sports market.

Any market would have been outraged by the everything of that. Yeah, but this was sustained. This was 18 months later or whatever. No, as he said, eight months later, and I'm going to say it again to what Zaz is saying. Like, as a show of incompetence from leadership, the scar that this leaves on Dallas sports is permanent. You will rarely find in the future. you won't find in the past something that will hurt the Dallas fan base like this to know that a bozo traded away a superstar in his prime who's never available

and eight months later new ownership decided that he was a bozo oh yeah you were right like that's a level of of leadership and competence that has very little precedent in a market like you just don't get a superstar like that that has that emotional connection of Oh, we get to watch the next 10 years of hope there. He's better than everybody. And we chose a GM over him and a player who can't play ever. Hello. Folks, listen up.

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