The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Don & Joe Bailey Are Not Related

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

"I think it's the shoulder pads or that he looks like he would pay a couple $50,000 to watch them have sex." Remember when Mike Tomlin was too hip-hop for the Miami Dolphins? As Mike Ryan would say, SO DO WE! Plus, Tony is trying to break into Columbus High School, and Jer-3mmy calls out Zaslow and Dan's foolishness. Today's cast: Dan, Greg, Zaslow, Chris, Jer-3mmy, Mike, Roy, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So make every dish the greatest and eat the goat. Oh, they go off there. This is how I always wanted the shadow show to start. With him not being aware of it, people being, like, confused in here because we're doing other things. Greg Cody has been wrestling his headset for a full four minutes. Zazlo has been laughing in his face. Zazlo, is Don Bailey Jr. a local South Florida sports legend? Yes.

Chris Cody didn't know who he was. That was embarrassing. That's not knowing who he was is putting it incorrectly. You said Zagaki and his partner. I was like the guy that does games on him. Yes. drew a blank. I knew DBJ. I forgot Don Bailey. Yes, I don't listen to a lot of broadcasts of Miami Hurricane games. I watch them on TV. I'm sorry. You don't sound sorry. You sound defensive and defiant.

And I do remember you not knowing who he was. Like, you're now softening it because of your shame. This happens around here with multiple codies. Instead of sinking into the truth and the joke, they get defensive and start fighting. And next thing you know, Jeremy, he knew all along that it was Jeremy's brother. And you're not unlike your father here. Like, you're going to develop some of the things. You did not know who Don Bailey Jr. was. And it is embarrassing. I know who Don Bailey is. You know Don Bailey Sr.

More than Don Bailey Jr., right? No, junior, I know. You know about those rugs? I do. Are you kidding? I'd like to pose for one of those. Are you kidding? Let's do that before the show is over.

Hey, that's something that can happen. I'm kidding. No, no. In fact, we can go make. Dumbest things you could have said. Before the show's over, all of you help me have, as the punctuation on the show today. You met Dan? Greg Cody.

Greg Cody doing show on his side on what appears to be a bearskin rug, and I always thought that Don Bailey Sr. was nude because I don't... He's wearing underwear the color of the rug, but... Very masculine-looking. And I don't think it was a bearskin. I think you might be conflating the Bert Reynolds photo. Thank you. It's not bearskin, but I'm for the audience. Shadow Show. Oh, I can see where you think that's nude. Yeah. I did think it was nude throughout...

Like, that's been up for, I don't know how long. In fact, can you please looked that up for me. I'm sure you could... My whole life. My whole life, I feel like I have seen that. The sign for those... This is just audio only. Well, it's... The YouTube audience is seeing this. No, that's a shadow show. No, I think they are seeing this. We did this for them? I think we did it just for them. I think we broke character for a moment to give them the Don Bailey Jr. And the reason I said the bearskin rug and Bert Reynolds, they can find that too, is to conjure for the audio audience the amount of sensuality that Don Bailey, Sr. is trying to give off with his nudity here.

He just passed away December 21st, 2025, I'm being told. I think not too long ago, 93 years old. Don Bailey Sr., I think, maybe for his 90th birthday, tried to recreate that photo. And it was great. We should do it as homage to him. Before the end of the show today, I want Greg Cody giving takes from a bear skin,

the equivalent of a bear skin run. Yeah, I don't know if that's going to happen, Dan. I believe it is. Yeah, we'll see. Oh yeah, Pablo, what's good, bro? Oh, we're gonna'alli, my gente! Look, how Cuban are you, okay? I'm gonna get up a good, God!

Here we'll be, de facto, who's the Cuban? What's gonna be in that aluminum thing? Dipping out. Cortadito? Cookies, cookies, always cookies. Daly. I'm in the duchas, I'm in the house. I haven't even left yet.

Dahl! D'A! They're two pallas. I don't know what Talco is. Oh, Jesus. He's a guy. Blank. Prick.

I imagine it would be like your mama. For your mother. Compota, is that like the raspberry compost they do on Great British Baking show? Saludo. Hey, that's great to hear. How do we feel about it? The hurricanes. Oh, yeah, the hurricanes.

The United States am ya, the hurricanes, leaving the heart of our family. How did I do? Guess what we're doing the party? We're doing it at Bird Bowl. This talco of baby powder, the same thing? Yes, you do fish. What kind of Cuban are you?

I love you, Miami! Basketball is back? Better be talking about Jay Lucas. I'm telling me right now basketball is far from being back. Although I do have an eye on the John Moran situation and the Yannis situation. Hey now. We'll get to all of those things. At some point, I suppose, we'll get to the University of Miami being a tournament team, because they are.

They've only lost twice. But football is everything that has been consuming us around. here and I want to start with Mike Tomlin for this reason. Back when this show was starting, and this isn't really journalism, but it was kind of journalism, there were things happening around the dolphins that were chaotic and funny. And one of them was that a person named Joe Bailey was hired to find a new CEO for the Dolphins. I love this story so much. I'm glad we're starting with this. Because to watch what's happened in the last 20 years has been unbelievably funny if you're not a Dolphins fan.

They were thinking about hiring a CEO, and so they hired somebody to go hire that CEO, and he did a worldwide global search. It was like a search firm. Yeah, and the head of that search firm did a worldwide global search and found the best candidate in the mirror of his bathroom. He appointed himself the CEO, I can do this job. And then when it came time to hire a coach, Mike Tonlin was available to him, and that person was overheard by employees at our station saying that Mike Tomlin was

to hip hop to be hired by the Miami Dolphins. Now, never mind that Mike Tomlin is the opposite of hip hop. They went with Cam Cameron, by the way. Yeah. Who is also the opposite of hip-hop. Like, if I may, because this story about Mike Tomlin being so hip-hop, like, no one knows the origin of it. You may.

I've heard everyone. Like, I'm the guy. Like, I asked, like, we were talking. I was producing the Dolphin Hour. It's a great scoop. or interning at the time. Just so, like, you want some credibility behind it. The conversation went as such.

I was talking to Joe Bailey and Jimmy Cephalo was there. Oh, yeah. It sounds like it happens to know. This was, but, like, I've heard it for 20 years, and, like, everyone's like, oh, is that true? Let me stack my credibility against it. Yes, it is. We were talking about the Dolphins Head Coaching Search.

I volunteered, as any 19-year-old intern would at the time. I'd wait for people to stop talking and offer up my own. opinion. I like Mike Tomlin. You did that back then. Back then too. No, no, back then. Back then, back then, too? You don't do that anymore. Back then, too. You were doing the Mike Ryan show for that. Back then. Back then. But I said, I like Mike Tomlin. I nailed that one, by the way. And Jimmy Cephalo goes, Joe, you met with Mike, right? What'd you think? And he kind of pushawed to hip-hop. So that's how that story went. It's 100% true. And this is in front of you. And Brandon Goosey.

Do you imagine the balls on Joe Bailey to say something like that in front of two kids? Well, do you imagine the balls on Joe Bailey doing a worldwide global search and finding the best applicant in his bathroom mirror? Because that, to me, is the audacity of what happened there. But in the 20 years since, like to see what's happened in the 20 years since, can Jeremy, please find for me the list of dolphin coaches, the number of dolphin coaches that they've had since then. But the extraordinary circumstance of the following, which is, after being proclaimed to hip hop 19 years ago as a young man, Mike Tomlin since then, no matter his team, has had a winning season every year since. That is almost a statistical impossibility. Do you know how hard it would have been to get good odds on that? 19 years ago, will this person who's too hip hop for the last, will this person who's too hip hop for the, the Miami Dolphins, according to their search firm head who appointed himself the CEO,

will have a winning season every season since so that yesterday, after eight straight seasons of not winning a playoff game, he steps down and people are surprised and eulogizing him because they are indeed amazed. Well, the Steelers have had only three coaches and this one is stepping down after 19 years. We all understand you've got to win playoff games in eight years. But what is the, I think Zaz might be able to do this off the top of his head. Dolphin coaches for the last 19 years since the dolphins thought that Mike Tomlin was too hip-hop. Let's get Zaslow to try and see if he can get all the interim coaches here too. All the names since Mike Tomlin was not hired by the Miami Dolphins.

But to have that put against the dolphins never winning also in those 20 years and having this assortment of leadership changes while the Steelers had only Shulen charge for 19 years, they put, They basically put Shula for 19 years. They got a chance to hire another Shula. I want to get Greg Cody's thoughts on hiring Chris Shula because to me, there's no better candidate than that. That's the best candidate there is for the Miami Dolphins job, I think. And it's not just the name.

It's go get me one of the McVeigh guys who's going to do things smartly and differently and youngly. But give me your list, Zadzlo. See how close you can come. I'm pretty sure I could do it. Cam Cameron. Then you had Tony Sparano. Dan Campbell, interim coach.

You're skipping a different interim coach and different head coach. Jim Bates? Oh, Todd Bulls. Todd Bulls is the interim coach post-Spran. John Bates was once that. Todd Bulls, all right, Sparano, Dan Campbell, Adam Gase. Joe Philbin. Philbin was before.

Brian Flores. And here we are, Mike McDaniel. That's right. Are you missing interim coaches? It's Cam Cameron, Tony Sparano. Spirano's interim coach. when he was fired midseason was Todd Bowles in 2011. He had three and a half years of Joe Philbin.

His interim coach was Dan Campbell in 2015. Then Adam Gase for three years, Brian Flores for three years, and Mike McDaniel for four. And one thing all of those coaches have in common is that none of them had been an NFL head coach before. And that's the only thing that concerns me about them hiring Chris Shula, is that I think there's a segment of the dolphins who finally want experience in that seat. McDonald wasn't a head coach. It doesn't matter that you don't care. McVey wasn't a head coach. No, but that's not how we're doing it anymore, Greg.

That's just not how we're doing it anymore. I'm telling you that's part of the thinking within the golf. If you look at the playoff teams, though, there are like Sean Payton went somewhere and turned it around. Like there are examples of both. I don't think there's a right way to do it. You can get a young guy. There is a right way to do it if you don't have a quarterback, and it's billed with someone with stability who's, you don't have a quarterback. Tomlin wouldn't help them this year.

Tomlin's tried for eight years to win without a quarterback. That's how it goes. Like, don't Domlin, don't Harbaugh. Those guys can't fix it. They win you the press conference in the off season. Get me somebody who I could tie to a quarterback so I could build the architecture for the future. I'm not sure that's how it goes. He's still making the playoffs without a quarterback.

Usually you suck. I'm saying it's not good enough. Ultimately, at the end, Pittsburgh fans are fed up with Tomlin, even though I don't believe that they should be. He has gotten the ceiling from that team. That's the best you can do with Mason Rudolph playing games for you all the time. Right. Well, Chris Shula obviously is the opposite of a quarterback whisper. I mean, if you're thinking quarterback first, I'm not sure you hire a defensive coach. But no, I'm not anti-Kris Shula at all. I think he'd be a good hire, but I'm not one of these people who says,

oh, you got to go get Chris Shula. He's going to be great. We don't know that. We don't know that he's a head coach. We still don't know that Mike McDaniel is a head coach. He's an offensive coordinator. Is Chris Shula going to make a great head coach? A lot of people seem to think yes, and I'd love to think yes. but nobody knows right now. I think when you don't have a quarterback or, you know, if you have a first year quarterback, I think hiring a defensive head coach is a mistake. I think it's a mistake because eventually, like, okay, so I'll hire a great offensive coordinator. All right, good, good, good.

And then that guy inevitably leaves because he's a really good offensive coordinator. And now you're changing the offense with the young quarterback. Like, if you don't have a quarterback or if you're drafting a rookie quarterback, I think you need an offensive head coach because there's no threat of him leaving. But I don't know if they're going to have a quarterback. And when Greg Cody says the I don't know, we could literally almost apply that to anybody. Because if I put Tomlin in here and we're horrible on here right now, we also don't know. Like we don't know anything about what that person can actually build because they don't have a quarterback.

But except that we've seen 20 years of their work. There's a track record that there isn't for a Chris Schuller or anybody else who hasn't been a head coach. I've seen 20 years of his work in a place where he has. has organizational stability and support all around him. That does not mean he can take it and just pick up and leave and take it with him. I think that stays there. The Steelers have had the three coaches in all of their existence. I can see Tomlin bouncing around from here.

I can see this next job not working and then him getting a third job because I'm telling you, we give these guys too much credit on leadership when what they inherit is very often something that is so sprawling, especially when you're leaving a place you've been for 20 years, that has function and you're going to a place of dysfunction, they get there and they're like, what the bleep is this? My attention to detail doesn't work here. Who are these people? What's wrong with them?

Yeah, I do think somebody out there loves Quinn Ewers as an option. McDaniel did. That's why he gave him three games to prove himself late in the season. Oh, you think he did that because he loves yours? I think he did that because he was desperate. and wanted to see if the guy, yeah, I mean, yeah, for sure. He did that because Tua couldn't get hurt as an injury risk in the salary. There was no reason to play Tua whatsoever, so they went to the next guy.

It could have been anyone in the world. They could have signed Cleo Lemon again. Yeah. Like it could have been anybody in the world playing quarterback for them. It would not have mattered. They just needed, Tua was going to sit no matter what. It wasn't about enthusiasm about the future. Happy New Year, everybody.

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Stugats. Oh, it's a good call. Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like, you're not tailing it to a particular name. You know, all that jazz. You know, you don't got to do that. You're just a generic call.

That kind of swing, that kind of thing. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. I want to get into with Cody some of the details that I gave you earlier this week because I don't know the right way to fire someone, but I know that this is the wrong way. And the way that it happened with the Dolphins, Mike McDaniel is conducting his exit meetings. He's in the middle of a day full of these. He's got a lot of players that he's sort of explaining what next season's going to look like, how they did this season, whether they're going to be.

hear what what he wants from them. So he's behaving as if he's still got a job. Stephen Ross walks into the room and it's described as kicking down the door. Like there was not an announcement, an appointment, there was no warning of this. And the player is sitting there looking at the middle of his exit meeting. It's what happening here. And McDaniel finally, you know, sort of, we'll pick this up later. Like, they're middle managers, okay? We forget this all the time. Look at how Bashati behaved yesterday as the Raven's owner and remind yourself that the owners are the one in charge and all these people that we spent all this time talking about on television, all middle managers, all of them. McDaniel's like, oh, okay, I guess this meeting, we'll pick this up later,

and then he was fired. That's where and how he was fired, didn't know he's going to be fired, that's the end of the exit meetings. What are your thoughts on what happened there, how it happened? Where do I start? The owner totally misplayed this. It was an active indecision by Stephen Ross. You know, Black Monday is when you fire the coaches. That happened to five or six other guys on Monday, and McDaniel on Monday is having a press conference saying, I'm not only still here, but I'm going to be in on the general manager hire. Okay, so at that point, Thursday, three days later, you assume McDaniel's getting one more year, which I think had been the assumption all along, especially since they fired Chris Greer and then finished the season

five and three. So this is a flip-flop on Stephen Ross. Nobody knows exactly what the change of heart was? Well, let me ask you something there. Is it a flip-flop on Stephen Ross, or had they decided within their GM interviews over those days, they really like this John Eric Sullivan, and John Eric Sullivan does not believe that McDaniel is the right coach? It's possible. Yeah, that's possible. But, you know, did they have any interest in Harbaugh? If they did, then you don't want to hire a GM before you hire Harbaugh because Harbaugh wants to have his say in the GM. So, that's going to all come out. To me, Harbaugh is still the king of the available coaches.

I know some disagree. If I have a chance to get John Harbaugh, I'm going to hire them. Apparently the dolphins felt differently, and now let's see the way they go. What are your thoughts? Because everyone here was eager to hear your dolphin thoughts, and we haven't gotten to enough of them. You are a dolphin apologist, dolphin Homer, the author. Historian. Dolphin historian as well.

The author of a dolphin's book. Fins at 50. Your thoughts on their management structure and the argument that Mike Ryan and I have been having for about 10 years. I believe Stephen Ross is the worst owner in the history of this town, even though he's done some good things that don't have anything to do with football. Stephen Ross has been great at development, at building around the stadium. at bringing in F1, at bringing in tennis, at doing all these other ancillary things. The only thing he hasn't done is put a winning team in his stadium, the stadium that Joe Robbie built, by the way.

I always like to remind people that, which is why we're getting the World Cup. Because Joe Robbie had the foresight generations ago. The stupidity, bankrupted his family. It did. But it was good for... Good foresight, though. Good to the town. It was good for the town.

Joe Robbie did what no other owner has the balls to do. which is build his own state. Go bankrupt. Okay. Well, you know, you can put a bad slant on Joe Robbie if you want. I'm not putting it on Joe Robbie. Thank you, Joe. Thank you, Joe.

Thank you, Joe. I'm not putting a bad slant on Joe Robbie. By saying he bankrupted his family? That sentence is not a positive. It's a fact. I don't know if that's how the way you talk. It doesn't seem like you're building up the family at the moment. No, not at all.

I'd love for rich people to go bankrupt on my behalf. It's a fact. Zazzo wants $50 million a year for Harbaugh. No, I don't want that. I'm saying if Stephen Ross wants that, he can do it. I think they should have gone after Harbaugh. The timing was right. Now, whether Harbaugh wants them, he's vetting teams.

Teams aren't vetting him. And quite frankly, unless he's enamored of Quinn Ewers, there's no way he's going anywhere near the Dolphins. Can you imagine coaching Lamar Jackson and then being enamored with Quinn Ewers? Put it on the poll at Levitart Show. Can you imagine coaching Lamar Jackson and then being enamored of Quinn Ewer? A theory that I like about John Harbaugh was, He was going to take a week to himself and be with family.

Before he started accepting any phone calls, I think he was just waiting to see the result of the Bills game. It is funny. Let's get the Bishati sound. This person we hear from him, I don't know, every 10 years. He comes out in what can only be described as a mafioso suit every time. I don't know who his tailor is, but it is clearly someone who tailors gangsters. I've come around on this guy.

I like him. I think it's the shoulder pads or the fact that he looks like he'd pay a couple $50,000 to watch them have sex. So here is here is Bishadhi and last time I think we saw him was just how casual he was in front of microphones during the Ray Rice scandal like yeah yeah whatever's

happening down here. I know you guys are all troubled by it but I'm above all of this I've got a lot of money and my suits are tailored by somebody who's a mafioso. Here's Bishadie talking about how much longer Harbaugh would have last. He's actually reacting to the Tomlin news and saying how much

longer hardball would have lasted if Loop had made a 44-yard field goal. If Tyler Loop makes that field goal, is John Harbaugh still here coaching this team? For a week. Wow. I'm back. It's very disrespectful, Harbaugh. It really is.

It is. It totally is. I love how it just undercuts every talking head topic to-jure talking point from the last week. If he makes a field goal, you know, Tomlin's a guy that's up. Nope. I know we talk about them a lot, the coaches.

We care about the coaches. These guys view those guys as meathead middle managers. Like, we're the money, we're the power. You win for me. I'll get someone else who wins for me. Here he is talking in general just about the Tomlin firing. At Pittsburgh? He did?

Is it official? That's what I keep hearing. So is he a candidate here? Oh, Mike, wouldn't that be? Awesome. His teeth. Only if John takes the Pittsburgh job. Funny.

Wow. Wouldn't that be interesting? I don't know. That thing last week, maybe disqualified him for my opening after our kicker missed a kick. Oh, he's pounding his chest like King Kong. Did Mike Tomlin do that after they won? After that win, he kind of looked at the camera. I was like, did a...

I just like that he admitted he's into swapping. He does look the way that you say he looks. He looks leathery. He looks like a great deal of success. But again, when I tell you guys, I actually learn this

at ESPN, the gulf of difference between who's in charge, the number one, Skipper and the number two. How about Biscotti just looking around the room? Is he a candidate for it? Is it Biscotti or Bishotti? Did you make them in the airplane cookie?

I did because I'm always thinking like my dad about cookies. I always go for that cookie first. It's like cheese it or it's sun chips or it's the pretzels or those cookies. I always go with those cookies. But if they're the garden salsa. It's always the garden salsa. I like the garden salsa. I do too, but I like the sometimes I have the balls enough to say can I have the cookies and the sum chips.

Can we put up the Telestrator real quick because there's a still image of Bashati and Secret to Aging. He's looked like that for 20 years. It seems like there's a G&T in his hand. If not, there should be. You know what? Thank you for doing that because I every once in a while will be watching like just old comedy roasts. And Dean Martin was drunk across two decades on television doing all of his performance. And smoking cigarettes during his act.

Yes. And he always had a drink in his hand. And I seem to recall that when he was talking about the Ray Rice stuff, Bishotty or Biscotti was also holding a water that he drinks smugly. It's a cigarette that I drew. I don't know. Thank you for explaining that. All right, let's see if you have the restraint to not draw a penis.

Put a little smoke thing at the end of the cigarette. That could look like something else. That could spell out peepee. Greg, the dolphins, when you see Harbaugh is vetting teams, they're not vetting Harbaugh and he's not even making a phone call. Like he's doing phone interviews and Zooms with others, is not doing anything with the dolphins. What gives you the confidence in anything that you've seen publicly or even reported by

people reporting things that the dolphins don't want in public that suggest to you that they know what they're doing here? First, Diana Rusini said yesterday on this show that the dolphins have been in touch with Harbaugh, which I believe, I believe Diana Rusini when she says that. But that he hasn't talked to them, he doesn't want to talk to them. It's being reported that he, it doesn't seem like there's much interest there. No, because when they hired a new GM, they eliminated themselves from Harbaugh. Do I trust anything the Dolphins do at this point?

No, I don't. I agreed with them firing, and they can say he stepped down, whatever. They fired Chris Greer at midseason. I totally agreed with that. For 15 years, he had failed at his job. McDaniel, you could have made an argument he had earned one more season. Let's see who replaces McDaniel. At Medcan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health,

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All right, we got to go back out there. That was big. Wake him up. Uh-oh. He doesn't want to be bothering anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result. He needs something that happens. You can see it. Mother Effing. Can we bother? Are we bothering you right now?

Turn on your microphone. My microphone's on. Stugats. Paint the scene. The paint the scene is I've got to go to work. Good night. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. No evidence that they know what they're doing. Have you seen a fact, a reported detail, anything that suggests to you, okay, they know what they're doing?

Okay, the GM hire has a track record with Green Bay. He doesn't have a ton of experience. He looks the part, though. At being a GM. Yeah, I'm a little confused. they were pretty decisive on the GM. If you allow for the fact that Chris Greer was in a job failing more than any other GM ever has, they eventually got too decisive.

Yes, but he had the job and stability longer than anyone with that failure resume has ever had that job. Right. So let's see who he makes for a coach. They moved on one pretty quickly, and everyone seems to think this person's fine. I know the McDaniel thing could have been handled a little bit better. But look, I understand we have a differing opinion on Stephen Ross. Daniel thing had been handled. What did they do wrong with McDaniel?

They just waited a little bit. They waited three days. They gathered as much information as possible and made a decision. It was just good for four years. Putting him out there on Monday to do that press conference where he says I'm going to be part of the search and firing him three days later just seems like you're not really, you're flying by the seat of your pants. Yeah, that's all sloppy. Yeah, that was sloppy. But I think if I could piece what happened together is every single one of their GM candidates were asked like, what would you do here?

And they were all like, well, we'd blow out the head coach. and Harbaugh became available in those couple days. Yeah, but I honestly think it has more to do with maybe the information that popped up when they were interviewing all their candidates, and their recommendation was move on from Mike McDaniel. I just saw Tony pop up, and Tony is a hustler, and Tony is trying to do something here. We are the Cuban epicenter of sports in Cuban sports history in America, because it's Mendoza against Cristobal in Kebol-A.

and Tony has gone to Columbus, which I can't believe. He's outside of Columbus at the moment. Well, he's trying to get to Columbus. And Mike, and everyone here tells me that I don't understand what a bubble I live in and how much Miami hates me and how much Cuban Miami hates me and how much Columbus hates me. And he doesn't think, well, Tony is always confident. But everyone here thinks Tony can't get into Columbus

because if you're not familiar with Columbus, it's facility. It's a college facility. Like, they've got a lot of money. and when you go into Columbus to train, you're like, holy shit, this is not like anything else in Miami. All the Cuban money is in these facilities where they're very good at sports, and they've made it important to be good at sports, and it's not welcoming to me as somebody who is El Gusano in Miami. So, Tony, you're confident you can get in there because you're confident about everything, but nobody here's confident you can get in there.

Yeah, correct, Dan. Hello. As you can see, I'm sitting right now on the one concrete block in a median on 87th Ave and 32nd Street, right between three different schools. I got Banyan Elementary to my left. I got Christopher Columbus High School behind me. And I've got St. Brendan right down the road, which is literally right there next to Columbus. So right now we're standing in front of the Fernando Mendoza, Class of 22 Heisman winner sign, which is what I wanted to get you here. It's a bit of a fortress. Columbus is a bit of a fortress. There's a lot of people on golf carts driving around. A lot of people watching and little. looking and kind of pointing and seeing what you're doing. So I've made a couple calls. I've made some contact with a couple of different people. I'm certain we're going to be able to get in later on. And maybe have some surprises along the way. You're certain? I've already made the calls. You're certain you're going to get in there. No one here believes that. No one. He always knows a guy. Yeah, but you were certain that Davis Mills was going to be a champion quarterback.

Hey, he's still alive in the playoffs. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. First off, did not say champion quarterback, said there's something there. By the way, he kept them afloat. By the way, did you know the Texans won like eight or nine straight games or ten straight games? Who was in there? Davis Mills. Thank you.

I don't think this is the way to get in there, but I really would like to sort of write the word crystal ball on the top of the F and Fernando just to... Stop stirring shit, dude. Just to, you know, put your mark there. We're moving mountains here to make this happen for you. Oh, you want me to start burning a contact. And people out by it. Like, it's worked for us for 21 years.

Sorry for... Sorry. No, it hasn't. We haven't moved the mountains. You know, you don't get everything you want. We got the most Cuban game ever played in our town, and the mountains haven't been successfully moved.

It's working out for me, even though the head coach won't come on our show. Maybe a couple of hills. It is working out for us spectacularly. Are you not seeing how... I love the car is just going by. It is. It's good.

It's good audio. Sean, I'm going over here. I'm literally standing on the median. Like, this is where I'm dangerous. Next to a light pole. like I'm actually on the median right now. Let's see what we have here.

Speeding fines doubled, by the way. I'm keeping an eye out here. All right. We will check in with you later here. Do you have anything else you want to tell the people about Columbus, though? Because it's my understanding that all ESPN especially, but that all the major media entities that are trying to tell the stories of this game are trying to go to that school because a Miami school has never been in the position

it is for this game. Yeah, so I've already had word from my contacts here at Columbus saying that CNN is going to be here today. So I'm trying to, trying to finago, trying to cube them, Miami, my way into, oh yeah, we're with CNN. We're here at DLS. We go first then CNN. All right? Tell them that. Maybe.

I'll try, but my contact said that we may have some surprises along the way. You don't try, you do. But I'm, thank you exactly right. Just do it. So really. Interesting. So there's a fortress here. We're trying to break in.

We're trying to get in. I've already made contact. Don't try. They told me it's certain. That yeah is certain. Greg. Greg. Jesus Christ, Greg.

Craig. What just happened there? Greg, you're doing a show with us. You're on air doing a show with us. You're not just talking to Tony or your son. Me cago to a mother, Greg. Thanks, Trio. Tony, thank you.

We'll check in with you later in the show. I won't remind anyone that you. said Will Levis was going to be Dan Marino. See you later. No, no, no, no, no, no. I said if you squint, he had some buddies that looked on. That would be enough of him. Bye, Tony.

We don't need them to defend his position. Speaking of people who should be faded down, let's go to Jeremy Tachet here in a moment because Jeremy Tashay came in here swaggering today, and he thinks everyone here is really dumb. So we go now to Jeremy Tashay. Jeremy, why do you? think that everyone here is really dumb.

Well, Zaz and Dan, I mean, you guys are fools. Like, how stupid do you feel after watching Bam and Abio dropped 29, 9, and 4 on the Suns last night? A really good team right after you said he should be traded. Hey, Dan, remember when you said Bam should stop shooting threes? I know. And then he hit two threes right in your face to take the lead. How many did he hit last night? He went four of six from three last night.

And one of them we thought was a three in the fourth quarter's toe was on the line. So he kind of hit five. It would have been five of seven. I mean, he's spectacular. Like, to watch that guy have the type of game that he did defensively to anchor that team against the team in the Suns again, that's been really good. That's eight games over 500 in the Western Conference. To watch a guy like that. And then to watch you guys, to watch you guys trade the man who is now second in heat franchise history in scoring.

Okay. His value will never be higher. That's the best he's ever shot. Is he still trading him? Okay. I cannot believe your dumbass would trade BAM at a bio. Okay. A player who has been nothing but spectacular for this organization the entire time he's been here.

Meena! Here's what I said yesterday. I would trade BAM not because I don't like him, not because I don't want him on the team. I do want him on the team. In theory, I don't want to trade BAM at a bio. But I don't believe, based on all the information we have in BAM's career, I don't believe you can build a championship team when BAM's salary goes up to $50 million next season. Like, just, that's, I don't believe it's possible. I don't believe he's a good enough player.

And I think he's a player you could win with, but not at $50 million. So, you know, it's not like with Tua. I don't think you could win a Tua. I don't care if they're paying him a dollar. I think you could win with BAM, but not at $50 million against the salary. They're not going to win a championship with the core of BAM, Tyler Hero, and Norman Powell. It's just not going to happen. Now, trade BAM for Yannis. There. Okay, we'll get to that stuff in a second because Yonnas booed his own booing fans last night.

And Rachel Nichols is reporting that John Morant wants to be in Miami. That is his preferred destination. But can you tell me, Jeremy, that game last night was a lot of fun. It's awesome. Put it on the poll. be illegal to have Dylan Brooks and Grace and Allen on the same basketball team. Dylan Brooks lost the game with his silliness and he was super annoying and you'll have to give me some historical context. I have not seen Norman Powell that mad. Norman Powell does not like he kind of strikes me

as maximum professional guy and he's just out there to really grind through his job. So when you've annoyed Norman Powell enough that he wants to fight you, you're being particularly annoying. How rare is it for Norman Powell to react that way to somebody. I have never seen Norman Powell react that way to anybody. Like, he is one of the most professional people I've ever been around in sports. Okay, you've been working for six minutes. You're covered in embryonic fluid. I'm sorry, I'm holding two Emmys right now. You want me to get here. Hold on that. Here's my, here's my third Emmy, Dan. You have any Emmys? And again, look at that shirt. You have any Emmys? I do not. I don't respect television. Nick Wright is next. There's a reason they call me J. Remy. I'll give you 45 seconds

on the Marlins before we get to Nick Wright as a reward for being right just yesterday and only yesterday about your Miami Heat? First of all, first of all, I'm right every day about the Miami Heat. Second of all, Ryan Weathers and Edward Cabrera have been traded away from the Miami Marlins. They were two pieces of the Marlins rotation. Now, Ryan Weathers barely pitched last year. So they just traded him to the Yankees for four prospects. They acquired Dylan Lewis, who's a high upside center fielder, and they required three other prospects. The reason they got those prospects in particular is because they really fell in love with the value that they could get there because those are the guys they were discussing in the Edward

Cabrera trade. Edward Cabrera just had a career year, a guy that you couldn't really rely on up until this past season, the Marlins pitching staff and their new throw nasty strikes mentality really unlocked something in Edward Cabrera. So they feel like they're selling high on him. They acquire Owen Casey, who was the best prospect that was traded this off season. A left-handed hitting outfielder with a lot of power, a lot of potential. He was just blocked in Chicago, but they called him up late in the year. He's a dude who has a real. raked in AAA. So with him, they acquired a major league ready bat who's going to contribute this year. They acquired six other offensive prospects to be able to really continue to stack

their farm system. And this is what you're going to see from the Marlins. They're going to find value where it's necessary. All right. That's enough, man. I said 45 seconds. I thought we were going to have a timer. I thought that we had a whole thing that we were going to do. And instead it's just him yammering. Talked Marlins before Keynes? What the fuck? I mean, weird. Yeah, that's crazy. Mike Ryan, I, you're being someone who is getting, and it's only Wednesday, your levels of agitation, of emotion, you're coming in here every day, ripping Alabama's quarterback, you're ripping, you're finding ways to be more and more emotional,

and we're still four days out. I don't think you're, four games, no, it's more than four days. I think I've been chill. Five days. I think I've been chill. Monday 5. I reject the way that you're framing me for the audience. You're not emotional?

No, I think I've been great this entire run. I can be shoving her up everybody's ass. I haven't done that yet. You haven't? Not yet. You demanded apologies from both me and Zasloh on Monday, and you said Billy Corbyn. Appropriately. That was a very popular stance.

It really was. The comments on Twitter, which can be nasty. See you to agree. Okay, well, we should all follow that. It should be a life principle to follow the comment. on Twitter. I think you're framing me in an incorrect fashion. I'm sitting pretty. What's up? We'll get to you in a second, but we've got Nick Wright waiting. So let's talk. Man, there's a lot going on in sports. And Nick Wright has a lot of opinions. So let's speed him up and get as much

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