The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Nerd Boy

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

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You can't be a Sean Michael's guy and a Brett Hart guy. That's right. Those people don't exist. Well, that's right. And I'm a Brett Hart guy. I'm on the right side. No, you're not. No, huge red flag. Ladies, if you're out there dating somebody that's a wrestling fan, number one, don't. Number two, if they're a Brett Hart guy, run for the hills. You were disrespecting, Mike Ryan.

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It's Bears Vikings now, and we've all moved on. He's like, wait a minute, I want to get on the train. So, Tony, I'm going to let you get back on the train here to talk some dolphins here by giving you a handful of stats of the day from yesterday and that dolphin game, and you pick what you think, is the best, what should have been the stat of the day yesterday

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The Washington Commanders take on the Green Bay Packers. Coverage begins Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern only on Prime Video. Here are your choices from the stats from that Dolphins Apocalypse that has everyone in town saying that was the end. Like it doesn't even seem like an overreaction to have the season go down the toilet and what was a must win game, according to Billy and Greg Cody. Only for the fan base. Yeah, what kind of bullshit was that?

We didn't even call him on that. Last, never mind. Here are your stat choices, talking. The 43 yards in the first half was the fewest for the Dolphins since 1991. The Colts scored on all seven of their possessions. That's the first time that's happened this century that a team had failed to record a stop the entire game. This century. And that stat was given as like, and that's as far back as we looked.

Like, it's too many games. We can't look further action. They said, like, they were doing that stat during the game. They're like, maybe we'll look this up more, but just know that this century, this hasn't happened. The Colts hadn't scored on their first five possessions in a decade. That hadn't happened. And they had 13, I'm sorry, they had 315 play drives, and they had five of that all last season. All last season and in that game, they had 13, I'm sorry, 315 play drives.

Which is the best of those stats? There is a lot to unpack there. Okay, let's start with the 43 yards. Because Mike said it in my ear, they were playing a different sport in 1991. 43 yards when you have that head coach, that quarterback, those wide receivers, that running back. All of those guys are fast, can get on the outside and beat anybody. And then all of a sudden Xavier Howard says, you know what, we just took away his first read. and it's kind of over.

He doesn't play quarterback after the first read is taken away. A guy who was out of the league last year, by the way. Right. On the Dolphins, who saw two in practice every single day and said, if you kind of take away his first read, it's kind of over, right? And we just saw the fruits of that with a Colts team that we looked around and said, was there anything good about the Colts off season? Did they do anything special?

Was there anything that was otherworldly that they did? Not really. They signed Daniel Jones. They got rid of the quarterback who they thought was going to be the future in Anthony Richardson. Now he's gone. they got a bunch of guys on the outside and then Jonathan Taylor, that's really it. Have you answered my question

of which of the stats is the best? I did, you weren't this thing. Yeah, 1999. 191, 41's 43 yards in the first half. I thought that he was saying there's so much to unpack here. Let's start with the first one. Although that is the first one, yes. And then he added to it.

And then I added a little bit of juice to him. It was a little fire hose of a football Tuesday because you've got to understand it's a rare Tuesday that feels like a Monday. Exactly right. He's got a lot to say. I have a stat I could add to it to go on your stats, Dan. The Dolphins.

Well, more specifically, Tyree Kill has not had a catch over 30 yards in a year! That doesn't even make sense. That doesn't because that's like his whole game, isn't it? Week 1 against the Jags last season, his last catch over 30 yards. Wow. He got arrested that day. He did. Well, detained, not arrested.

He hasn't been the same since then. He has not been the same since that... Does he have a case there? Since that very moment, you can chart it statistically, since he was arrested, everything that's happen to the Dolphins makes you forget. Barry Jackson pointed this out. It wasn't that long ago that they were eight and two and atop the division over the bills and you thought that they were going to beat Josh Allen all the time because Josh Allen had to come down here and throw 50 times until his arm fell off and he still couldn't beat the Dolphins until he beat the Dolphins like

whatever it is, seven straight times. How did the Dolphids have a three game lead on the Buffalo Bills in like week 13 less than two seasons ago? It wasn't that long ago. And listen to the this, okay, because if you didn't think it could get worse, because I thought the only ways that that home opener could have gone worse is if Tyreek Hill and Tua had been injured. That's the only thing in my imagination that would have made it worse than I've never seen that Dolphin Game played. Well, it would have been worse if it were actually a home opener, because I would have loved to have seen that unfold in front of the fan base at Hard Rock Stadium. Fair enough, but one of the things that you feared, okay, like I don't know how the day could have gone

much worse when in Pittsburgh Jalen Ramsey is winning the game at the end and uh Zavian Howard is running around on the field when he's been your best corner for five years you won nothing you wasted it and now you can't cover anybody and you told him and good lord was his off field stuff troubled like there's some soul selling going on here with Tyree Kell and the rest like the Zavian Howard stuff off the field is nuts he's a disaster but a disaster but he was uh great for them as a corner and then listen to what he said after the game because certainly you could have imagined that this was so you saw that it was so because tony's saying first read you take away the first read that's how you stopped toa nobody could stop to it when this team was right

don't tell me you take away the first read and it's that easy but zavian howard seemed to know where everything was going and look at what he says after the game yeah we knew um you know it's a a lot of a bang, quick throws in the middle. So I told him, man, clawed the middle and made sure they throw the ball outside. And we clawed the middle and made, I think we got two interceptions by clogging the middle and guys come up with interceptions. Now, there's something to this, and league catches on guys. Guys come out looking incredible.

Carson Wentz was almost an MVP candidate, and I know he got hurt, but the league adjust. This actually happened to the Philadelphia Eagles after they made their first Super Bowl. Jane Steichen goes away. Their whole offense was primary read, lightning quick. Jalen Hertz is as decisive as anyone we've seen with the football. And then the league caught on in one offseason. And they had to totally reshape their offense after they lost the Tampa Bay Bucks last season, which was a really incredible job by Kellan Moore. But this stuff happens. And the transcendent talents, they rise above. They adjust to the adjustments. And it seems as though Mike McDaniel and Tua are out of answers when it comes to the league's answer to them.

That's my biggest issue with McDaniel. It was a conversation last year, week-to-week basis. Why isn't he making adjustments? I don't know about that stuff. I'm not in the room with them. But I do know he had eight months between the end of last season and the start of this one to have us not have that same conversation after week one. And we're having the same conversation.

That to me is a major problem. the conversation we're having that we weren't having before is so much of it's all over it's all over it's all over no perspective no anything they can't block again they're going to get destroyed up front they've been figured out and that kind of thing after week one in my lifetime whatever city it's happening in has always been an overreaction it's never not an overreaction after week one if everyone is howling get everyone out of here that is in the history of the the sport always been an overreaction in week one and it doesn't feel like an overreaction after the way that game was played it's not losing 30 nothing like you're down 30 nothing and that's

not happening to anyone else in the league and you're like 30 nothing like all the other games are close 30 nothing you can't stop them at all and it feels worse than this team has felt since when tell me since when it's felt this kind of we've got to start over again the end of Brian Flores where you didn't know if you had a quarterback and felt pretty helpless but One thing that I've kind of read from the fan base is there was all sorts of narratives about this team and the culture stuff. And it feels like the Dolphins fans really tried their best to practice patience. Give it time. Tua's got to be healthy.

This is a hugely important year for us to evaluate and nobody wanted to go out there with really toxic takes. I mean, a few days ago is the healthiest two is going to be all season. Right. And everybody was just, all right, we're in this together. Start of the season. Fresh start. Let's go. Let's go get them.

we kept the faith and then they give you that effort as unprepared as any team has ever looked really in week one. And we're talking about learning lessons. After week one, that was the mantra. We're going to look at the film and learn a lesson. Learn lessons. We were approaching critical mass and I think after that performance and how listless they look and how undisciplined and how unprepared that they look, everybody is finally ready to let out that emotion. When he says, and you're at a loss for words, we're going to learn from this. What can be learned from this? Don't be silly. What can be learned from this? I will tell you one thing. that should be learned from this

that not enough people are talking about. To a better not get hit that much all season. That better not happen all season where your offensive line can't even protect him when he's got the fastest release in the league from being, you need to protect him and I think it's a stupid thing to learn, but they better have learned it in week one

because without him, without him, it looks worse than that. Believe it or not, that's the worst game he's played. You just reminded me of the best thing that happened in that Dolphins game. The one time where I was like, that's good. It was a blindside sack. And he got right back up. And he got right back up

and he didn't fumble. You're right. That was just like I looked around everyone I was in the game. I was the best play in the game. I was like Tua. He held the ball there. Best play. Yep. And he got up. That was the best play the dolphins had in the entire game. I was like, yes. Put it on the pole was the best dolphins play that Tua got blindsided

and did not fumble. I mean, he got annihilated on that play. It was like, You had five seconds to be like, oh, my God! Right. The season was over in that moment, but he got back up. I was like, that was an awesome play. A season's over just a little bit later now. Yeah, a positive.

You know, you keep saying it's an over, you know, is an overreaction after week one. And while technically you're right, Dan, it is week one. But that's not where the reaction from Dolphin Fan is coming from. It's very clearly a continuation from last year. So it's not a small sample size. And it's not an overreaction to one week. The thing is, though, when you guys say, think about where the expectations are on this team, because I do think it's not only funny but accurate to say that the best play in that Dolphin game

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Football. This two guts. This is the Dan Lebatte d'an Lebatar show with the Stoogats. Do you know how low the expectations have to be? When? I'm satisfied that it's a sack and he's not hurt and everyone gets up and hooray because what I was expecting on the other side of the extreme was not merely him being concussed or the ball flowing off toward the sideline.

I thought his head and his helmet was going to come off. He was hit so cleanly without any awareness of what was happening behind him. I was expecting his entire head to roll off the field. So I'm like, all right, let's go play. Career ending, I was expecting. How about when Daniel Jones got hit by Matthew Judon? And I was thinking, if Tua got hit like that, that was bad. The thing is, where's the Calvary coming for this team?

Right? Like, what piece of this team, offensive, defensive? Can you say, okay, this is the part that's going to weather the storm and get them to a place that they can fight for a wild card spot, maybe fight for the division, if the bills. Nothing. They've got nothing. Zero.

You can hope that Josh Allen gets hurt, and I still think they're a favorite this weekend against the Patriots. Are they still a one and a half point favorite against the Patriots? That's where you are. That's in the class that the Miami Dolphins occupy. A team that was a bad team last year, oh, if our young quarterback finds his rhythm, they got more hope than you got because they at least have a younger quarterback.

They have a fresh regime in there. They have a proof of concept with a head coach that has gone in the playoffs against Tom Brady in his last game in a Patriots uniform and one on the road. They got way more hope. You got Mike McDaniel, and the whole thing about Mike McDaniel is like,

how's this going to work? This whole general vibe going to work when we face real adversity. And I got to tell you, I'm at the point now. I hate to do this and be this guy, all right, but I can't help it. I'm at the point now with Mike McDaniel where the stuff that I thought was really fun with him and his personality, the first couple years, I really don't like anymore. Like when you got the pants rolled up to the knees and you got the shiny, you know, neon sneakers, and you got the big watch. Meandering answers. Just answer a question. It's like, this is not cute anymore.

I hate being that guy, but I don't like it anymore. Okay, well, when you say you hate being that guy, imagine my conundrum as I hate being the guy I'm about to be right now. And I've been this guy laundering Tyree Kill for a while as part of like, oh, that's so fast and it changes everything. And dolphins haven't had hope in 25 years. And look, here comes speed. And hooray, hooray, 70 points. and the most exciting the dolphins have been in the last 25 years this entire century

in a sport where everyone's close and they make sure that if you're this kind of bad, you get rewarded so the Lions can go from what they've been to what they are now where you're like, the Lions lost at the Packers'Hall. Yeah, a good 35-year plan that the Lions executed. Their window closed. But I have to say this about Tyreek Hill

because it came out again yesterday and he was simmering on the sideline. Have a few more games like that and see where it is the Tyreek Hill experience. Ticking Time bomb. Oh, my God, he's going to embarrass everybody here so much if there are three more games that look like that. But I need to tell you, because I was talking about this, Hard Knox did some laundering for him, too. And when his story was told on television, it was happy marriage stuff.

And what a nice love story at home. TMZ released yesterday that his ex has alleged multiple domestic violence allegations in a new court filing yesterday. She says there are at least eight instances, including one where he shoved her to the floor, stood over her and then ripped off her necklace and ripped parts of her hair out, causing cuts and bruises. He also allegedly spat on her. And we kind of knew this was what it was coming in because it had a bunch of incidents that if those are public, what about all the other ones we don't know about because someone's afraid of you. And that relationship was volatilely and in public in ways that, you know, his house calls. fire and that's not even his fault, but just a calamity of stuff spilling into the streets that also includes this person has always been a danger to women and children. He's all, he, the, he was that

with the chiefs. He was that before the chiefs and he's that in Miami. And so if we're going to talk about him this much, let's take some culpability on all the hope he created around here. This was a deal with the devil, man. They, they, they sold their soul for 18 months of speed. Yeah, you should said all that on the front end because it was all true and now the second that he's not performing it just feels correct correct it sounds like look i'm sorry it's i've apologized for this already i'm just saying every time i talk about tyrie kill i don't know the right amount to bring this up every time without running off the people who are going to tell me i'm woke and always talking about the shit that is off the field and uh you know you you guys say i ruined football all the time

for you with whatever it is that i do in my in my moralizing this one this one has been a deal with the devil throughout. We've known it, though. Yeah, you're getting buying from the audience right now because he's not good for them anymore. So that's usually how it works in sports. Yeah, that's how sports work, man. Like, I'm guilty of that too. I'm laughing my ass off after every, you know, 60-yard touchdown reception the first couple years. And now it's like, yeah, you're an embarrassment to the team that I like. I wish you weren't here anymore. And like, I'm guilty of that because I'm a dopey sportsman. But I guess it also plays into kind of loosely to what we were

talking about the Mike McDaniel thing like this. All right, this is all working. Tyreek Hill can be a good vibes guy. If vibes are good, he's getting the ball and he's producing. But when this team faces adversity, who is the leader? Who is the unquestioned leader of this team that can turn the ship around? And you look to the head coach and all the things that were cool about him and eccentric about him when things were cool and like, oh, this guy's a breath of fresh air.

How does that work when you feel like your franchise is at an important crossroads here? and this is the kind of narrative that surrounds him on cable television. Look at what Rex Ryan had to say. This was stuff that was out there. Kevin Clark said on part of my take last month that his co-workers at ESPN, there's like a weird vitriol from guys that used to be in the league towards Mike McDaniel's whole general vibe. Of course.

And so check out Rex Ryan on GetUp just reveling in what was happening with Mike McDaniel. audio's not working we'll come back to that in a second it was explosive Dan we'll get back to Rex Ryan in a second because this is the space the dolphins find themselves today and it's a space

no other team in the league is not the Saints not even the Giants in a tabloid city even though they've got their own problem with Russell Wilson this team played a game so putrid so outclassed by a league

that was playing professional football while this team was not playing professional football that the stink of it is such that with all the great football that was played over the last few days it's still lingering that the laughing stock in the league is the team that you're laughing at in the entire league is this one

because everyone's looking at it and saying saying, oh, that's all doomed. He's going to be the first coach fired. He's in over his head, and everyone's reveling in. What happened, boy wonder? What happened? You had the offense that put up 70 and you changed your look and you all of a sudden had Miami style.

Telling Dan Marino to his face, Dan, we're coming for all your records. Said that to Marino. The league is laughing at the demise of arrogance. This happened. The first time I learned it is when Charlie Weiss came to Notre Dame and said, I have a significant coaching. scheming, advantage, and all the other coaches were like, you do, do you?

Or you had Tom Brady. You do, do you. I mean, look what's happening to Bill Belichick. But here's the quote from Mike McDaniel, since we don't have the video, McGenius guy or whatever the hell he is, nerd boy, their team has no respect for their coach, and they play like that, they're soft, every part of this football team. That would have been good audio to have. Explosive, I told you.

Rex Ryan's chattering. Too odd for TV. Yeah, he's laughing. Rex Ryan, look. McGenius or whatever, nerd boy. This is a victory for everyone who's against the analytics. Like when Rex Ryan, you know what football is about? It's about snacks, kid.

It's about the things in my gut and loving a woman's feet. I know what good football is, and it's not what you think it is, nerd boy. It's Mark Sanchez, and I'm going to beat you 12 to 10 in the dirt. This league is so silly. It really is. Look, I'm listening to ESPN radio on the way in this morning, and each guest that unsportsman had on had to be asked

about how pathetic the dolphins are. Do you realize how crazy it is that that's the story? There was a lot of good football played this weekend, but the misery of this is so delicious because it's not just some boring... It's not even like a Dick Geron or somebody going... or an Iberflus flaming out in incompetence. You're watching a comeuppance that the league is enjoying because it seemed like for 18 months when they had Tyreek Hill speed.

Oh, Mike McDaniels figured out a way to win without offensive linemen. All their running backs are going to be good and score 18 touchdowns. They don't even need to block anybody. McDaniel's going to out-scheme everybody. There are a couple of teams that come around where the entire nation just enjoys reveling in their misfortune. It's perpetually the Dallas Cowboys. But there was that Philadelphia Eagles team that won the offseason. with Nandiyosawa, the dream team, where everybody was...

Vince Young was the backup. Yeah, and the Browns with Baker and O'Dell and Jarvis Landry where it doesn't line up with all the other bad teams. That's a good one. No one's having fun at Carolina's expense. The expectation is Carolina's going to be bad and they look bad, whatever, that doesn't move the needle. But these guys who thought they were good, the nerve, this coach who thought he was

smarter than everybody else, this whole blueprint that was hanging on by a tether because it's built around a quarterback who can't stay healthy. Who's always been super polarizing. Super! They're enjoying this one, and I don't blame them. It's interesting, too, to know that everyone

laughing at the dolphins right now is laughing at the only three people on the dolphins they care about. There's three of them, and they're polarizing. The three of them are polarizing. And the fourth dolphin nationally, you'll have, I mean, maybe somebody

name Waddle, but this is their holy trinity of what it is that's going up in flames. And all three of them, Tyree Kill was not allowed to talk in Kansas City in front of microphones. They gave him a team over here because he was fast. Mike McDaniel rode that to, I'm a little bit smarter than Rex Ryan's chattering teeth on television. Oh my God, is Rex Ryan going to enjoy my demise? And then the most polarizing of all of them. Think about what I'm saying here.

the most polarizing of all of them was the guy at quarterback that we couldn't figure out is he good because he's good or is he not good is he good because he's got boy wonder McGenius nerd boy do you know how long Chris Greer has been around 25 years that's close haggard now ask how many playoff wins since he's been with the organization

zero zero Chris Greer has been around for nine years and eight months it's the longest tenured NFL GM ever without a playoff win ever you don't get to keep that job for a decade without a playoff win longest 10-year GM in history

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Greg Cody, not his son. His son is out on the Dolphins. We're announcing to the nation in a way that has to feel like overreaction. Please tell me that after week one, it's an overreaction to say, everyone

saw on Sunday that the Dolphins season and the architecture of it is over. I mean, look, they should, should beat the New England Patriots. And that'll be the best penicillin.

But this is absolutely a Waterloo game for Mike McDaniel. Another must win. Forget must win. No, but just for the fan base. This is Waterloo right now. Like, they're going to be boots to asses if they lose this game to the New England Patriots. True or false, there are big-time boo-birds in the first half this game. Oh, they better get a couple first-downs.

They better get a couple of first-downs. You can't go for it. the boo-birds. You can't go from must-win to Waterloo to the boo-birds in week two. You guys are begging here. But it's not, to Zaz's great point, this isn't about a one-week sample. It's not a one week. No, it's about

like fans going to the end, to the absolute ends of their patience with a blueprint that was flawed. And on top of that, has an unlikable character, damn near at the center of it. And they're over the shit. I can talk about

dolphins for four hours. I will not because there are a couple of other things locally that I wanted to get to, including finally, after an extraordinary week for spitting. I don't think spitting has ever had a bigger week. It was a hawk to a thing. That was huge. Well, but that's one person instead of, that's a great point instantaneously. Wonder where he got it from.

Thinking about it all the time. A spit off here, Dan. We've got four spitting incidents. The first of them was buried by U.M. Notre Dame. So locally, it didn't seem like a lot of people were paying attention to Luis Suarez. Again, I will tell you, Roberto Alamar is the best second baseman I have ever seen, a Hall of Famer. I only think of him when I hear his name as he spit on an umpire. Was that, was it Steve Palermo?

Was it Steve Palermo? I think I remember the umpire's name just because this was such a galling thing to see televised someone, a man so disrespectful that he was spit in another man's face. And it's happened four times in 10 days. Luis Suarez did it to someone who works in Seattle during a, League's Cup final. Then after that, you have Dak Prescott spitting at the feet

of Carter, Jalen Carter. And Carter then spitting on his chest. Then you got the Gator game. And I don't know who the player was that cost them the game against South Florida for a spitting incident. Where are we with this? With Inner Miami, because you're out on them as a team, but they finally got around to a penalty.

It's amazing. No, but it wasn't them that got a round to a penalty. MLS got around to a penalty. Interimiam he hasn't penalized anybody. Leagues Cup initially penalized, and it was a heavy punishment for Luis Suarez. No, was not. You could say with a fair amount of conviction that Louis Swarres, we'll never play in the Leagues Cup again.

And that's going to sting. Sergio Bousquet also got Leagues Cup. We don't know if Sergio Bousquet's got to play ever again in the Leagues Cup either, because who knows how much longer in his career he has. So your band, you might retire. Your band, you might sign with another team in another league. Now, I understand. Sergio Piscets, by the way, threw punches in that scrum, and MLS is not disciplining.

That's right. MLS came down and tacked on what League's Cup did, because League's Cup is a joint venture between Apple, Liga, Emekis, and MLS. But in New Miami hasn't done anything. They're so gutless in Riamlemy. Louis Forres put out a statement and apology like four days after the fact, which was just total BS. But here's the suspensions from MLS.

Louise Swaris got three games. Three games. And Bousquet's, zero additional punishment. Through punches. Yeah. And this is like really in the weeds for MLS fans, but it was great to see Stephen Lennhart mixing it up on the Seattle sideline. He's got his credential revoked. Stephen Lennhart is one of the craziest MLS players of all time, but that's just a nice little nugget for MLS fans.

But yeah, so only three games in the, now all the casuals fans are like, you have to win MLS cop. So this does affect their chances in that Louis Swarres still scores goals for them, and he's going to miss three MLS games. I can't root for Inter-Miami right now. I'm not into it. Because it's football season. Everybody's over it. It plays a small rule.

Zaslow, I feel like you're a bit of a fraud here. Why? Because I believe you're just going with the flow and taking easy positions and coming very comfortably to places to – You don't actually care about this team very much, and now you're out on them because they're behaving poorly. In Miami? I'm an inaugural season ticket, hold.

Holder. How dare you? I spent my harder money. How dare you? How dare you? Saying I'm a fraud. Do you have seen tickets room? I mean? Were you a founder's club member? That is a founding supporter. A inaugural season ticket holder. You're saying, you're saying that I'm incorrect. It's a little much now. When I accuse you of conveniently being out, and not just because football season started, but because you don't actually care that much anymore. Not because you don't like the team. you just you stopped caring about them before them and then you don't like the team yeah it kind of coincided the you know the the massive hike and ticket price to me not caring as much that that played a part played a part but what do you mean i'm taking the easy stance are people taking the sense they're good with spitting should that be in the stance that i took no you're taking the morally

outraged stance of i'm out on this team they're unlikable i don't like how they represent me at the convenient time the same way I just did it to Tyreek Hill. Well, to be fair, though, a couple weeks before that, right here, sit in this chair. I told you that I'm thinking of being out on Inter-Miamy, remember? Because they're shady as hell. No, but it happened over the course of the show. You were thinking about it, and then 14 minutes later, you were out because we were talking about it. You don't care that much.

It's not like the decision. I had a good thing. Mike made a moral decision to be out on the Browns because Deshawn Watson was offensive to him. You should be offended as an Inter-M Miami person. In inaugural season. vouched prices as soon as everything got good over there and priced everyone out in Miami. That has a lot to do with how vocal the fan base is. You have two really angry fan bases right now at their teams.

Dolphin fans and Inter-M Miami fans feel ostracized for the same reasons that Zaslow indicated over there, which is they've been priced out. This is not about the people that it is a halt to get up to that stadium. It's like 10 minutes from Boka. And traffic because we're overcrowded. It's two hours to get there from Miami. If you want to get there from Miami at the time of the game, it's going to take you two hours. It is an absolute commitment to support this team.

And they're doing very little. Now, this is not a small thing. They got the greatest player ever. That's something. You know, that's pretty awesome. Forever when they talk about it. Checking the good column. There's going to be that weird stretch where he was wearing pink and that's really cool for us.

Would it kill him to talk everyone tomorrow? Or once? I think he hates it. it. I think he hates it. He does hate it. He does. I mean, how bored is he of interviews? The messy thing kind of hangs over the discipline and certainly Inter-Maiami's reaction to it because Louis Suarez is messy's boy. But let's put the attention on Luis Suarez, who's damn near 40, and he's had two biting incidents, one on a really grand stage at the world. He's 40? He's teething like he's four. He's 40. This guy's like almost 40 years old. It's a crazy thing.

to say about a human being of any kind. Never mind, a famous athlete. He's got multiple biting. I'm talking to a kindergarten teacher. Like, at least Bousquet's, at least Bousquet's, he's throwing hands. What are we doing? Like, this is what we're doing? This is how we're solving the complex.

We're biting and we're spitting. Have we tried time out? I'm convinced that this is a theory I've had for years. When Zendon Zadon head butted somebody and got into it, I'm like, yeah, of course these guys even fight knowing that they can't use their hands. Like, I'm going to, I'm not going to use my hands. I can never use my hands. I'm going to bite you and I'm going to head butt you.

Yeah, but the sedan thing was pretty damn cool. I mean, yeah, that was, well, biting's not cool. No, biting is not cool. Biting is not cool. Biting is not cool. Biting is not cool. At Levitin'ard show, does anyone think biting is cool? Headbutting is fine.

Head budding's cool. Rather cool. Like, do you understand what it is? Do you understand the balls it takes to use your own head as a weapon? Like, I don't care about this collateral. I'm gonna... That really hurt. I told you, one of the most impressive things I've ever seen in my life is a very patient, patient friend of mine who is good at mixed martial arts, was driving behind somebody who was doing wheelies on a bike and stuff and purposely slowing him down as he tried to get around him.

Very patient, very patient, very patient. Finally, the guy throws down his bike and comes out of my friend who just gets out of his car and head butts him and leaves him in the street. That's wild. No words? No words. Nothing. Nothing. Just on sight.

Crumpled in the street and didn't want to do it. Like, was just trying. It wasn't mad about it. He's not patient. I mean, didn't want to do it. That is not a patient man. Someone like that. They're secretly waiting for that opportunity.

Oh, this guy's going to do that? Perfect. Let me go slow. They wait for this. So he comes over here. He's been percolating. Perhaps for decades. He's been internalizing.

That wasn't even about that guy. That's probably about his dad. I think he gestures it every day in the mirror before he leaves his house. Like, who is today the day? I got it wrong on the umpire. It was John Hirschbeck. It was not Steve Palermo. And Brendan Bet is the name of the spitting gator.

I want to get to the gators in a second. But are these calls any better, Chris Cody? The telephone number, come on. Come on, people. 305-486-GOTS. 305-486-4689. The creative community around this show has always been the best one there is in sports media. You guys have stunk at the phone call.

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