The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Touchable Untouchable

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

"They eat you up and swallow you." The trial of the century has the crew ready to go, but you know who's not? The cruise-addled Greg Cote. Also, Miami is trying to do the impossible against Mizzou, we relive the Jai Alaites of yesterday's livestream for the Cyclones, and Dan breaks down in tears over the Dolphins reportedly holding onto De'Von Achane. Today's cast: Dan, Zaslow, Chris, Jeremy, Mike, and Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why did I come in here today and Afro Man was playing? Dan, trial of the century. We just witnessed it. Trial of the century. Power to the people. What are you talking about trial of the century? Trial of the century, Dan. He was on trial, which we'll talk about later on in the show.

I have video. Well, I just asked you about it now. What do you mean we're going to talk about it later? But the thing is, we're in the shadow show. I can't show you video in the shadow show. He's got the nuts, Dan. He's got the nuts. You're asking me for something I cannot give you.

No, yes. Information? I can give you information. I came in today and Afro-Man was playing. And now you're telling me later in the show you have video accompaniment, which only means that we want to show what Afro-Man looks like. That's all it is. That's all you want to do. Also what he said. I wouldn't know an Afro-Man song. I would smack me in the face.

I think you would. You don't know about that Col 45 and two zigzags? I don't know what any of those words mean. You were in Santa Fe when, because I got high, came out. Oh, yeah, I know that song. That's his song. the one. That's the only one. I was going to go to class, but then I got high. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not even his best song. He's got way better songs. He doesn't have any more. What are you

talk about? Code 45 and two zigzags, baby, that's all we need. We can head to the park after dog. Smoke that tumble weed. As the marijuana burns, we could take our turns, singing them silly rap songs. Stop and hit the ball and light Cheech and Chong. That's from here to Hong Kong. That kind of thing. Roll of the 88th Cadillac Coopteville. I miss him. Not surprising. Greg Cody blew a gasket yesterday.

I don't know who ended up winning the bet. I thought he would be useless today. I end up being right. He's useless today. He cannot work. He was feeling very bad yesterday. An all-star return performance from him, but it gutted him.

It, it's... Not enough for him to miss bowling, but... See, this always happens with him. He texted me on the way home from Boy. Like, you know what? Gotta go to the doctor tomorrow. Not feeling good. Oh, wow.

If he says, though, that he's got to go to the doctor, he's usually fighting. The number of times, I have spent no, I've spent more time with him in my life trying to encourage him to go see a doctor than any other thing I've spent doing with him other than covering games. Now he goes to the doctor just to get the good stuff. Like, he's like, I needed Z-pack. Got to go in. No, that's not the good stuff.

It's what he needs. We all need a Z-PAC. There is something going around in this place. I need to get whatever Jordan got before that flu game. I have this theory that whenever they say basketball players are sick, they feel better than I do on my best day. I was surprised that yesterday you guys weren't interested at all in the conversation of whether basketball players play high off of the conversation that we were having,

the Alabama player, Aidan Holloway, who got caught with 2.1 pounds of, marijuana and you guys I mean I talked to somebody who would know and they said that that would be worth about $4,000 that that's what that would cost and given NIL money I would assume that a lot of players have that

much marijuana. Just a quick correction because I misunderstood when you brought it up yesterday as well I think your friend told you how much a pound is worth and he was arrested for 2.1 pounds. No that's not what he said. I asked him what would Dan 2K a pound you're getting it from the plug you're

going to direct. Okay, but he deals, he's the one who would know what it would cost, what it's worth, not what he sells it for, what it's worth, like what it's worth to him to sell it. This is what he does, and this is what he said. He said, that's how much it's worth. And I, I don't know. I wouldn't have any way of knowing, but in the NIL age, that didn't sound like having that much. I'd be doing the Reggie Abercrombie. It's Reggie, right? It didn't sound like something that would be worth risking, never mind a scholarship or jail time, just what the salaries are now in college? Like this, the thing I was asking you guys is, is this a drug dealer?

Is this just a guy who had a lot of weed on it? I think it's a guy who had a connection and he, like, supplies for the team. And technically, you could say, oh, then he's dealing to the team. But, like, that's not really what's happening. I don't feel safe saying that because that's a way that the cops can go back and be like, oh, you have this amount because you have the intent to distribute. They're going to use that. Right, which is not true.

Even though that's not really what he's doing. Correct. Which, like, that might be personal consumption, which might, under the law in certain states is okay up to a certain amount. That amount, I don't know what it is in Alabama. He was going to play the game, but then he got high. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. Way to go, Miami of Ohio, taking out Andy Enfield. and them boys.

Boopie Miller, turns out not hard to kill. I want to update already teams that are gone from our tournament, even though I don't feel like the tournament has actually started. So unfortunately, UMBC is gone,

which means the loaded Adam Silver Conference ends up losing this. Adam Silver looks like a magician's won. Fortunately, though, because Howard won, Adam Silver also advances. Adam Silver looks like the last lollipop in the jar at the doctor's

office. That is now facing overall number one seed Michigan represented by... Michael Smith looks like the high school teacher that motivates his students by sitting in a chair backwards. It's a good one. That is really good. It's why it's a number one seat. That's why

it's Michigan, which has seven footers setting screens for each other the last couple years. Seven footers everywhere. Where do these guys get all these people from? SMU, as we mentioned, is gone. Andy Enfield and them boys. That means that Bruce Pearl is gone. Bruce Pearl looks like the nightclub manager

that is a $100 bottle special before midnight. So many guys that look like that in Miami. Just that, where you look at them and because of their look and their skin color, you're like, I have no idea where that person's from, but it's not here. Like, it could be almost anywhere in the world, but I don't know what language or accent

is going to come out of that person. It could be anything. It could be anything. But it's going to offer me $100 for a bottle and a table. And a hookah. But the loaded Zaslo conference marches on because lovable Miami of Ohio is represented by. Jonathan Zaslo looks like the guy in an arcade who puts a stack of quarters on the Pac-Man game to send a message to any kids that he's going to be there a while. That faces Tennessee, number six Tennessee, which means this is formidable for Zaz in the next round.

Pete Alonso looks like a police officer who, even when he's not working, still asks what's your 20 when waiting for you to arrive? In the South, the play-in game was 16 Lehigh. They were up at the half, but they end up losing the game. That means the loaded Kurt Signetti conference loses a valuable team. Kurt Signetti looks like the dad that never says, I love you. But fortunately, Kirk Signetti advances as Prairie View, the 16. Kurt Signetti looks like your accountant who, unbeknownst to you, is in the middle of a crippling divorce. Better team won. That's a great one, dude.

That one's so good. Cripling divorce is good, but that will be eliminated quickly by Florida, which is represented by. Larry Bird and Adam Silver look like the couple in that famous painting American Gothic. Holy crap. The best Larry Bird one we've ever gotten is looks like an old Ukrainian woman. Amazing. That dominated basketball. An old Ukrainian woman, it's inexplicable.

Go look at the highlights. You will not be able to understand or explain anything you're seeing. Nothing like Larry Bird has ever existed in the sport, just totally confounding. He was so good. We feel the same way about Yokic. Understood, but at least Yokic, I understand, because it's seven feet tall. Right, right. It's not the grace of Larry Bird.

It's able to hold the ball over its head, and nobody but Wembañama can hit it. And that's how he's able to just keep it away from everybody. The shoot over everybody. I love the way you referred to Yokic as It. Yeah, well, that's true. It is inexplicable. It is. It is a loaf of bread.

NC State is gone. Mike, Miami's going to play here tomorrow night at 10.10 p.m. in Missouri. So late. 10.10 in Missouri. So late. That's unfair. The thing that I want, yes, they're playing in Missouri against Missouri. They're playing.

It's a higher seed and the lower seat has the advantages. So, yeah, it seems unfair, Dan. But when I saw NC State here getting eliminated as an 11, and I also was confused why it is Miami was seated lower than Louisville, and I was confused in general why Miami wasn't getting more respect. It's just because the ACC is terrible outside of Duke, correct? I'm done hearing about this. ACC is.

But that's why it's happening, right? bad now because of the injuries. They're a little overrated. But this narrative about the ACC has existed for the last few years, and there's always an ACC team in the final four. And I think this year, it's especially wrong. And we'll see how this tournament plays out. I guess what I would say to you without intending to step on your defensive button is the reason that's happening by the committee, I've watched, I like the Miami's team. I think it's going to be really hard to win in the tournament when you can't make threes and when you can't make free throws. and the style in the three-point age,

nobody can shoot in college basketball, but that's generally not the style that wins this time of year. I'm assuming that the committee and everyone else is regarding Miami in a way that's worse than me. Yeah. While I'm sitting here watching most of the games because they don't believe in the ACC, that that's the reason that's happening.

That's why there are teams from other conferences with less impressive records in Miami than are ranked higher, The general thought is SEC, Big 12. I think the Big 12 is the best of them all. Big 12, SEC and Big 10, and then the ACC. It's not your daddy's ACC anymore. And we hear this all the time. And March kind of tells the truth about that.

This is, Jeremy said, like, man, this might be the one time that your persecution complex about Miami is real. There's been more than one time. Yeah, I would say, like, the CFP kind of proved us right immediately. I don't know. They put you in there. But this is super difficult. And I don't want it to be. This is a smashing success for a season.

And I'm not capitulating already or accepting defeat. I do think Miami has one guy on their team that is crucial to this time of year. And it's Trey Donaldson. That it needs to be him. He does the things in March that win you games. When Miami survived against Drake, when they went on a deep run, Nigel Pack was doing those things. I think Trey Donaldson can do those things. I don't trust Alan and they have an assortment of things that you trust true.

I mean, yes, he's been good since he's come back. Yes, more so. I would say more so. And I also think that the combination that you like, okay, in Renu and Uday, Uday, Uday does nothing but dunk, but he's more physical than almost everyone he's playing against, both offensively and defensively. Rayneux struggled against SMU. He can struggle against size because he's a little undersized in the post.

In college, he's got size and he can grab some boards. I think our size is fine. We'll see if we make it against Purdue because they got a little bit more. But we're a very good rebounding team. It is essentially what we bring in the table. Correct. And they do things in the paint and only in the paint and they grab offensive rebounds as well. But I've seen Rayneu.

His skill set is really nice for a post player. and I was surprised when SMU and a big seven foot stiff ended up smothering him because he wasn't... He wasn't able to do the seven-footer. Yeah, the seven-footer had the game of his life. Like, if you've watched SMU three times and that guy has never shown up. And he stifled Ray New and it was confusing to me.

But regardless, NC State is out of the tournament and that means that this, another Adam Silver casualty, is out of the tournament. Adam Silver looks like the four-star general in a post-apocalyptic movie, faced with the daunting reality of an alien invasion and the likely end of humanity as we know it, who says, staring off into the distance,

they're already here. We're the aliens now. That shouldn't have lost to this. Adam Silver looks like an Apple Watch charger. Yes, it should. That's so good. Better team doesn't knows when. That means in the next round,

they face BYU, which means they face this. Dave Damashek looks like a realtor that would buy a billboard that reads, license to sell while posing like James Bond. I wanted to ask you guys, based on the news yesterday, if you could give me some theories on the following. The Miami Dolphins and their new brain trust had information leaked yesterday.

A. Chan, for reasons that I'm confused by, they decided to say he's staying. Talking about Travis? Yeah, he plays for the Saints now. Devon A. Chan. Oh, okay. I know it's emotional. It's tough when you think about how they may wind up trading Devani Chan.

He's not gone. Dan, he's not gone. Dan, he's not gone. Dan is such a emotional about pronouncing last names. He gave him. It's Castellanos or Castellanos. You don't want to lose players you like. It's complicated.

He's so fast. What did you make of losing him of the leaking of the news? What did you make of the fact that the dolphins are getting rid of everybody and they're raising their hand and offering to Adam Schaefter? Not this guy. This guy's untouchable. Help me. I think it's the opposite.

I think it's them putting it out there that it's where we're saying no to your calls. So if you want to, you know, if you want to acquire HN, you better come in hot. I think I think it's – Better come and prepared. Yeah, I think it's them putting the bat signal out there. You think that that information would be a lie? You think that you're going to open the relationship with your fans here, not merely by trading everybody, not merely by – And this part, I think we keep glossing over, and I don't understand why we're glossing over it.

Cody seemed confused by it yesterday when I said, this has no precedent in the history of this franchise, what they're presently doing. This is rock bottom in a way that we've never seen before where they're just getting rid of everybody, but not A. Chan. Not at the position where you're using up all his miles. You're using up his body. It's the most disposable position. Yeah, he's good, but you got 20 touchdowns from Mostert the year before. Like, yes, A.C.N. is good. But you can get that just about anywhere, and this is the untouchable guy.

So on top of everything else you're doing, you're also going to leak information that's going to end up being wrong because you're trying to trick other teams into upping their offer. You're going to have to pay H.N. a lot of money. Like, he's going to get a pretty good contract. And it doesn't seem like when they know that they're going to be bad, why would they want to pay a player right now a ton of money? Like, no one on this team right now, since they got rid of Waddle, no one on the team makes any kind of real money. So why would they want to have a player make a ton of money and his best years?

At a position, by the way, where they eat you up and swallow you up. You know what? That I even tried to say that, all right? But in a position... Do they eat you or swallow you? Which one do they do? Eat you up and swallow you? There's always that shift after college hoops ends,

where you think things are going to slow down, and instead, it's just different sports pulling you in. Now it's baseball every night. You swear you're only half watching, and then suddenly you're locked into the seventh inning. Then you flip over. It's the cars making left turns for three hours, and somehow you're locked in.

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Stugats. It's a good algorithm. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. In a position where they chew you up and spit you out. There it is. Eat you up and swallow you is what happened there. Where they eat you up and swallow you, chew you up and spit you out is a totally different thing.

You ended up saying sort of the opposite of what you meant to say, correct? I decided I'm going to take the work. that I said and make them totally different words. That's the remix. But eat you up and swallow you. Yeah. Number 28 on Greg Cody's catchphrases next week. It's not merely pornographic.

It's not merely something that I would hear or read in 50 shades of Greg. It's like my wife would read. It is also the opposite of what you meant to say, which is chewing someone up and then doing the opposite of swallowing them, spitting them out. I don't think anyone's ever saying. eat you up and swallow you? Like what does that mean? Put it up. Put it up on the poll at Levitart show. Has anyone ever said eat you up and swallow you?

The problems with my voice to help me. Welcome back to the right time. My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening on ESPN radio and the ESPN app. Welcome back to the right time with Bomani Jones here. We're going to be joined by Brian Winhorse. our insider at ESPN here very shortly. I'm good. Something got caught down my throat. Sorry about that, Brian. In the meantime, how do the Cavs not have a general

manager right now? Well, someone are... Your nemesis, Brian Windhorse. You're not my nemesis anymore, all right? I've grown up. Number one, draft pick in your Tool Hall of Fame? Not a draft pick. It's an inductee.

Sorry. Yes, and he was the inaugural. You're going to tell me, after the segment, you've had you're going to tell me how to say things well something as important as the tool that we call the fame let's just make sure we get it right uh you guys uh are just thinking so you you guys in our post in our post truth world where almost all of the media is compromised what you guys are telling me now is that news comes out yesterday that adam schfter is reporting and you're simply assuming this is a lie that adam shepter

is being made to launder in public to create the first relationship with the fans is, not only do we fumigate the building, we throw lies out there. That's how we're going to introduce ourselves to Miami and its fan base as we get rid of everybody they care about. It doesn't have to be a lie. I mean, like, things change. You know, we didn't know that Team X was going to offer us three first round picks, so we have to do it. You're saying they're doing this to manipulate, which makes it a lie.

He's not untouchable if he's touchable. Like, he's not untouchable if we could change the offer and make him touchable. Oh, but that happens all the time, no? I don't, I don't believe that Shea Gilgis Alexander is available in a trade right now. I don't believe Yokic is available in a trade right now, no matter what you offer. Yeah, I didn't believe Luca either, but also A-chan's not that. He's not. And this franchise was not where the Mavericks were.

This franchise is very clearly getting rid of talent. And you've often told the story about how Pat Riley at an event's like no one's being traded. We like where we're at. Pat Riley got here. Pat Riley's very first year here. Before they even played a game, I read in the newspaper on a Friday, a quote from Pat Riley, we are not trading Glenn Rice. I woke up the next morning.

They traded Glenn Rice. I saw that A-chan alert, and I was thinking, man, he's available. This is part of the game. This is what you do to sound the alarm. Hey, call us. Dan, our whole life is a lie. Why would Schaefter be the one to tell the truth and everything? It's like we're looking at across the world, lies everywhere.

And the only truth, the only truth bearer is Adam Schaefter saying, Halfley really likes A-Chann, he's not going to train. Also, why would the tipping point with Dolphin fans, like, oh, I can't take it? Like, why would Devon A-chan be the tipping point? The part that I'm actually most interested in isn't what you guys are doing. It's just the resignation to we're being lied to. We accept it and we're running everything through the filter, even the NFL's top information guy.

I'm just sort of amazed that that's not a world that I have lived in before now, where everyone's doing that, where I know that something that's being given to me by the most credible person that there is in the sport when it comes to information is a lot. in a manipulation based on new leadership that I've never met before. I don't know anything about. Like, I didn't make that assumption.

I'm still not making that assumption. I assume that thought they were telling us is they really like him. They intend to build around him and we're done doing this stuff. We just traded Waddle. I thought they were talking to their fans. I didn't make the leap that you guys made. I'm still not doing that. You guys have adjusted to post-truth stuff that I have not adjusted to.

I'm sitting there saying somebody leaked to Adam Schaefter information that they think they want somebody to have. I didn't think it was teams. I thought it was their own fans. Look, I understand blending worlds. I don't think this is exactly trying to look at how much coffee is in Bibby's Cup. This is just posturing that has always existed. It's been a move in the social media age. I'll look up how many times someone's reported on a team really liking a player

and not field an offer. And this player is a part of their future. And at the very next moment, in a couple days' time, you realize, Oh, that tweet right there drummed up a lot of interest. Yeah, you're saying because it's Adam Schaefter, you are believing that it would be the truth. To me, when I look at the major information guys at the moment, when it comes to transactions in particular, when they're doing features and things like that, sure, like it's journalism. But when it comes to transactions, I fully view them as mouthpieces. And we normally see this happening around a trade deadline.

The reason it feels a little different is because you're in an off season. There are no final dates ahead of you. So the fact that these trades have happened right here like a month before the draft, the need to communicate something like this right now doesn't make a huge impact. But this stuff happens. Baseball is right at the top of the list when it comes to this. As you approach July 31st, you start hearing all sorts of stories about who's untouchable and who's not in farm systems.

There's breaking news right now. Cade Cunningham has a collapsed lung and is going to be out for an extended period of time for the Detroit Pistons. They struggle a great deal without, you know, with Cade Cunningham in their scoring points offensively. I would say more importantly on the front end because I know we get very quickly to, oh, now Boston's the favorite. Oh, Detroit's done, everything else. Collapsed lung seems terrible. It seems like, it sounds like something. I don't know what that feels like. Can you guys look up for me what a collapsed lung feels like. Dude, I've been looking up what a

collapse lung feels like all the time because I went to the doctor and I'm at risk of having one at any moment. It sounds, I don't know what you guys think. How would you even know if you had a collapse lung? How would you look up while something you feel real? You know, believe it or not, it's the shortness of a breath.

Just like that? Yeah, just like what happened to me right there. Trying to get that line out. Sudden sharp, stabbing chest or shoulder pain that worsens with deep breaths or coughing. Just pain on one side, especially when taking breath. But that's all like heart attack symptoms too, right? Right. That's what I thought. One side

I'm having a stroke. The other side I'm having a heart attack. I can't breathe. At some point you're hoping for a collapsed lung, right? If that happens? Well, that's why I encourage everybody to check their coronary calcium scores because also in that scan, you can find out whether or not you have a blister on your lung. What happened to me? Collapsed lung, I don't know. If I give you two phrases

from medicine, obviously heart attack, those things that are fatal are obviously the scariest. But when you just think of discomfort to things that you're living with that are difficult, you know, herniated disc, fractured testicle, there are certain phrases, collapsed lung, blood clots, there are certain phrases that catch my attention and Cade Cunningham having a collapsed lung is something that makes me just immediately feel for the person and whatever it is their discomforts were before even getting

the diagnosis because I imagine, it just sounds truly terrible. Rupured testicle. Yeah, I said fractured testicle. You said fractured, but exploded? I'll take a fracture every day of the week. Twice on Sunday. Which is worse? Rupured testicle or fractured testicle?

It might come back 100%. Fractured means you can kind of put it back together. Rupured? There's no putting that thing back together. Fractures like Humpty Dumpty. Real quick on the Schefter thing, I wish there were a way to sample sports fans because I think that there's like a general base level understanding that insiders across all sports play a game.

and that teams reach out to them, put this out there, and in exchange, you'll get the scoop. Is that not what happens? I thought that that's the understanding, and Dan's approaching it like this isn't common knowledge. And when I see stuff like that, I'm like, oh, Schepter's just playing the game. Because normally, though, where there is trust, where there is credibility, not that game. like that's not the people you trust and the people who are credible are not playing games with the truth the people you trust and are credible because they tell you the truth and do and say credible things but to what zaz says like it could be the truth this very second and then all the sudden they add a first

round pick and they're like you know what right they're right uh where are my gloves come on heat winter is hard but your groceries don't have to be this winter is hard but your groceries don't have to be this Stay warm. Tap the banner to order your groceries online at walla.com. Enjoy in-store prices without leaving your home. You'll find the same regular prices online as in-store. Many promotions are available both in-store and online, though some may vary. Don Lebertard.

If Daniel Day-Lewis did it, you'd be jerking off all over yourself. Oh, come on. Yeah, I would be. Crescent description. I mean, what is it? What is that? I'm just saying. You know what?

That's me. That's me. Daniel Day-Lews said yesterday. I see that photo of Daniel Day-Lewis looking like Lincoln before he's about to start filming Lincoln. And you know what I do? I mean, Stugats. I jerk off all over myself. That's what I do.

Lincoln, who you outed the other day? Don't make this a rejoin. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Here's a great example. In the NFL, when there's like the round of coaching hires and the coaching carousel comes out, I think people understand Adam Schaefter is repped by the same agency. and putting people's names out there, increase their value and awareness and name recognition. And it's, you know, scratch my back. I'll scratch yours.

Okay. But the things that have happened to information and truth, okay, just follow me down this path for a second, because I know you guys think you have this right. And you may, for all I know, but just entertain the hypothetical for a second that I have it right, that he's actually untouchable because you guys are presenting the theory that there are, is a team in the NFL right now that's not interested in A-chan that now, because of this Schefter report has been fooled when they can just tell all 32 teams, they don't have to tell Schefter, they can field any call and just say no, you guys are saying that a GM is being fooled by or now is more interested the way my wife gets when you tell her she can't have something and all of a sudden

someone else bought something that that she wants. I like that. That happens with your wife too. That happens with everybody, I think. I don't think that's just why. I feel like it's more the teams they're already negotiating with are sitting now back being like oh man, maybe we do need to give that extra second or like, you know, maybe we have to throw in their, they

want that extra pick. Look, they you would just tell the teams. You don't have to tell Schaefter, you have relationships with these GMs. You could just tell them. Nope. I mean, I'd one phone call as opposed to 31. I'm curious if the other teams around the league Now reach out to Schaefter privately and say, hey, is that really?

What's the deal with that thing? Like, do they actually like him or is that just the thing? Also, I don't think that there's like a uniform approach. And Dan, you very, you may be right here. Like, this could just be straight up. The dolphins don't want H& out there. But keep your third eye open. This is where it ties into the post-truth point, which is it could be any number of things.

And you just absorb it and you move on with your day because we're all cooked. I think the premise is to manipulate not, the GMs, but the fan basis perception, right? Hey, we say Devon A. Chan is untouchable. We need some good PR. We end up, not just that, but when we end up making that move, it's, guys, he was untouchable, but we were just so blown away by the offer. That's not untouchable.

That he became a piece we had to move. You see it happened with starting pitchers in Major League Baseball all the time. We're building around this guy. We're building around. Watch Terrick Scoob will come July. watch Terrick Scouble. They want to win the World Series. Why am I watching him?

But if they're just out of it, he's about to be up for a contract extension. He's in the last year of his deal. And the Detroit Tigers will say, we're not going to move him, we're not going to move him, we're not going to move them. And if the Dodgers come in or the Yankees come in, it's, hey, everybody in our farm system,

they're going to make the move in and to say, hey, he was supposed to be untouchable, but we were just so blown away by the offer. That's not untouchable. I don't know what you guys are missing about the word untouchable. Untouchable, it doesn't mean anything. Everything has the price. The Dolphers are fighting a proxy war and Schaefter is the outlet.

I have things that are untouchable, but if you... Hey, what is that? If you come correct. Upside down pineapple? We can talk. Dan, if an owner in pro sports comes out and says, this team is not for sale. Don't you think that they're trying to get the word out? Like, hey, come, give me your offer.

Like, bam out of bio is untouchable, right? We talked about that before. If the Oklahoma City Thunder offer their starting five, I don't think BAM's untouchable anymore. He's not untouchable then. Okay, but that word gets thrown around all the time. It doesn't mean anything. Okay, it's supposed to mean untouchable.

Words are supposed to mean what they mean. Like, you guys are now changing not only the language. You're changing what truth is. You're changing what reporting is. You guys are attaching your cynicism to everything in a way that distorts it. It's not cynicism. I grew up in the WWF Golden Era. To quote Ted DiBiase, everybody's got a price.

You know about that million dollar man? You know that? I do. Jay Billis is picking against Miami in this game. He says, quote, Miami's had a great season. No team improved more year over year than the hurricanes who picked up 18 more wins. But I like Missouri in this one, led by Mark Mitchell's 18.3 points per game. This is a coin flip.

So take the upset pick. Joe Lunardi is also picking Missouri. He's on the other side here. Miami is the seven. It is not surprising at all. when a seven loses to a 10. A home court advantage is an advantage unlike any other that you give this time of year. The tournament, like in this respect, we're not wrong in saying Miami was done dirtier than anyone else was.

The higher seed was punished. Yes, I think you're absolutely right there. I do think that if this game were in Tampa, I'd feel good about it because Miami does things that can affect. Missou, the rebounding being one of them, and Missouri tends to over-pursue on defense, and Miami's got some athletes, and they will kill you in transition. That's something that Miami is excellent at. So I think it's going to be a great game. I think it would have been a great

game anywhere, but for people that think these two teams are pretty tight, yeah, the game being in St. Louis, Missouri, prime time locally, that's a pretty big advantage. Yeah, I just want to clarify, like when we say home court advantage, it's not actually their home court, it's their home state, the same way Mike just said, I'd be comfortable if they were playing at Tampa. So we had Jay Lucas on a live stream with us on Sunday. He has been great for the University of Miami.

If you do not know his story, I imagine a lot of people listening to this don't know who John Lucas was, not just that he was an NBA player, and a good one. But the thing about John Lucas that was most impressive is how he helped people with addiction, how many people he helped with addiction. he himself overcame horrible addiction that had him, you know, sleeping in his own urine in puddles in the street. And now his son, it is really cool to see them at the games together to see how proud his father is. His son is 37 years old. He is responsible for the greatest to turn around in the sport this year.

And one of the greatest any of us have ever seen, right? To go from 7 and 24 to flip that to 24 and 7, all new staff, all new players, wildly impressive. and he gave us an interview on Sunday. I think the SID might have helped him change his tone some because the way he was talking about this Sunday isn't the way that he was talking about the rest of the week. So you're playing against Missouri in St. Louis. Does that feel right to you?

I mean, it's kind of been our story for the year. You know, we've kind of been kind of disrespected and looked over, so it just kind of goes, and I like it. We've won on the road more than it. anybody in the country. So this is just another road game for us and business as usual. I didn't know that before he said it, that they had won more on the road than anybody in the country. That was not something I knew. He also said during that interview that he loves their style of play, which is just throw the ball at the shot clock and go get it. Like they are a very

athletic team, and Mike is right when he says they've got a good enough point guard to be the kind of point guard that you need this time of year, even though late in the season, I would have liked him to be a little bit better. Yeah, he wasn't great down the stretch, especially that last game. That was Miami's worst game of the season. But that might be a good thing for Miami. I thought Jay was very good postgame. But Miami's got a couple of guys that doesn't matter the defense you play on them.

They can get their shot off, which is hard to do in March. How come you're not going? To Missou? Yeah. It's late. High-Lie game. High-Lie game on Friday. All right.

I just thought you would have went. No, I'm an owner of a champion High-Lie team. So I'm going to... Tough one, yes. I was very disappointed. I was very disappointed by your team, our team yesterday. I liked our broadcast. I was impressed by our broadcast.

One of the rarest things you will see anywhere in American sports broadcasting, a live broadcast of High Lie. It felt wonderfully weird. Manu did not rise to the occasion. At the very end, the punctuation on that was horrible. for those of you who do not know what Hialai is, I don't know if we have any high alights, but the last play of the game was a disaster.

The last play of your day was a disaster. And I think they foiled your broadcast by giving a poor representation of both what this sport is and what your team is. Did you guys light up your team? Did you yell at your players? Were you upset with them? Manu showed no emotion.

He was... That's vintage Manu, though. He never does. He pulsates indifference. That's right. His face does not change. Yes, that is. A fair criticism of Manu.

And body language as well. Yes. Yes, you're right. Proceed. We do have some highlights, we have a good culture, though, Dan. I don't have to light up my team. Good room.

I had guys reach out to me. Sorry, boss. We'll be better. My players know that they didn't put their best foot forward. That's the worst performance that we've had in maybe a year. And the timing on it is crap. How do you respond to sorry boss? You say, like, don't let it happen again?

We're champions. They're little bumps in the road. The regular season, no one goes perfect. You're going to win some, you're going to lose, some, you're going to draw some. They couldn't handle the bright lights. They could not handle a live broadcast. I felt like it's fair criticism to say they choked yesterday if it's their worst performance in a year as champion. It is.

And Dan, the pressure was on. This was the biggest highlight match of the week. Let's relive some of it here. We have some highlights. Our first one here is the only good thing to happen. We won the first set of the day, and this is us reacting to it. This is a good poloca going on. Let's go!

Let's go! Let's go, Cyclones! The Undetaka! Gong me, Fuentes! Gong me! I love the Undataka. And we went on to take a commanding five bagel lead in that second set, and it all went sideways from there.

Not very much excitement provided by the Cyclones, but we'll dust ourselves off, and we'll be at the Jammer. tomorrow night. Free entry. For those that want to catch the world's fastest game, the champions take the battle court once again tomorrow. Seven o'clock first toss.

We'll see you there. Dan, we also had the referee take a Pilota to the ankle. We have that clip here. This guy's got no interest to play. Oh, put the sound up. Barba! He hit Barba! That's one of the taxi players. El Barba.

Look at the beard. This guy fills in when there's injuries. Let's check up on. Did he miss that shot? Yes, David. That didn't even score? Our front court judge is okay. That is a painful.

Right to the ball of the ankle. Yes, David. The refs are like taxi squad players. Okay, hold on a second. The referee, if a player gets hurt, the referee then just plays on the team that needs an extra player? Not in that game, I believe, like,

there's a guy waiting to play if someone were to get injured. El Barba is sometimes a taxi player that fills in. They rotate. It was his turn to be an official, while someone else was a taxi squad. I don't like in middle school where they like the...

We like Barba. Barba was an injury replacement to an injury replacement last year and had to be taken out of the game. In middle school, in volleyball, the kids judge the games that they play right before. They do? It's very inside. Please put picture and picture. Just put that clip again and again. It's really funny to see this poor referee fall face first into the netting.

And if you've never fallen in netting, it's hard to get up once you've fallen in netting. especially if you've had your ankle hit by a polota. So go ahead and put picture in picture. That's a great highlight from that match yesterday. I thought it was the greatest of the highlights to have the referee fall hurt into netting he couldn't get out of. Yeah. I don't know if you can see.

I don't know how, I mean, these broadcasts are dazzling 480P, but he does have crazy facial hair, El Barba. It's what he's known for. That net will eat you up and swallow you. We have that sound if Zaslo would like to hear it. is it's Spanish for the beard. I did not realize I'd be tuning into your live cast, live stream on High Lie,

and all of a sudden, deadliest catch would break out where I've got somebody like a fish stuck in a net. At a position, by the way, where they swallow you up and swallow you up, and you know what? F*** that I even tried to say that, all right. But in a position...