Transcript of Local Hour: Don & Joe Bailey Are Not Related

This is how I always wanted the Shadow Show to start, with him not being aware of it, people being 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.

Not knowing who he was is putting it incorrectly.

You said Zagaki and his partner.

I was like, The guy that does games on. Yes, I drew a blank. I 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. I do remember you not knowing who he was. You're now softening it because of your shame. This happens around here with multiple Coties. 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 he was Jeremy's brother. And you're not unlike your father here. 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 senior more than Don Bailey Jr.

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 me?

Let's do that before the show is over.

Hey, that's something that could happen.

No, in fact, we can go make- Dumbest things you could have said. Before the show's over, all of you help me as the punctuation on the show today. You met Dan? Greg Cody doing show on his side on what appears to be a bearskin rug. I always thought that Don Bailey senior was nude because I don't- Underwear. He's wearing underwear the color of the rug.

Very masculine-looking.

I don't think it was a bearskin. I think you might be conflating the Burt-Renthalts photo.

Thank you. It's not bare skin, but I'm for the audience. Shadow Show.

I can see where you think that's nude.

I did think it was nude throughout. That's been up for I don't know how long. In fact, can you please look that up for me? I'm sure you- My whole life. My I feel like I have seen that.

The sign for those, This is just audio only.

Well, 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. 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 Jr. 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, Don Bailey- 93 years old. Don Bailey Jr, 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.

We'll see.

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Billy Corbin..

I don't know what talco is.

Jesus. He's a guy who is a blank prick.

I imagine it would be like your mama.

. Compote, is that the rasberry compote they do on Great British Baking Show?

Hey, that's great to hear. How do you feel about the Huracanes? Just a second chance.

Let's go.

How do you feel about the Huracanes? Guess what we're doing the party?

We're doing it at Bird Bowl. Is this talco and baby powder the same thing? Yes, you doofus.

What Cuban are you?

I love you, Miami.

Basketball is back? Better be talking about J. Lucas. I'm telling you right now, basketball is far from being back. Although I do have an eye on the Ja 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 consumed zooming us around here. 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 journalism, there were things happening around the dolphins that were chaotic and funny. 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. It's so good. 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. 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. Then when it came time to hire a coach, Mike Tomlin was available to him, and that person was overheard by employees at our station saying, that Mike Tomlin was too 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 was also the opposite of hip hop.

If I may, because this story about Mike Tomlin being so hip hop, no one knows the origin of it. I've heard everyone. I'm the guy. We were talking, I was producing the Dolphin Hour. It's a great scoop. We were interning at the time, just so you want some credibility behind it. The conversation went as such. I was talking to Joe Bailey, and Jimmy Cefula was there.

It sounds like it happens to know.

This was. But I've heard it for 20 years, and 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, but- Back then, too? You don't do that anymore.

Back then, too.

You were doing the Mike Ryan show for them. Back then.

You haven't stopped talking since.

But I said, I like Mike Tomlin. I nailed that one, by the way. And Jimmy Cefalo goes, Joe, you met with Mike, right? What did you think? And he pushed Shad to hip hop. So that's how that story went. It's 100% true.

And this is in front of you.

And Brandon Guzia.

Can 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, 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 extraordinary circumstance of the following, which is after being claimed 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 Miami Dolphins Seasons, 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 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 Zazlo 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 Shula in charge for 19 years. 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 McVay guys who's going to do things smart Gertly, indifferently, and youngly. But give me your list, Zadzlo. See how close you can come.

I'm pretty sure I could do it. Kam Cameron. Then you had Tony Sperano, Dan Campbell, interim coach.

You're skipping a different interim coach and different head coach.

Jim Bates? Oh, Todd Bulls.

Todd Bolls.

Todd Bolls is the interim coach. Jim Bates was once said. Todd Bolls. All right. Sperano, Dan Campbell, Adam Gase.

Adam Gase is in there.

Joe Philbin.

Philbin was before.

Brian Flores. And here we are, Mike McDaniel.

I think you're going to- That's right.

So you went Cam Cameron. Are you missing any interim coaches? It's Cam Cameron, Tony Sperano. Sperano's interim coach when he was fired midseason was Todd Bolls 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.

Oh, I don't care. Mcdonald wasn't a head coach.

Well, it doesn't matter that you don't care.

Mcveigh 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 Dolphins.

If you look at the playoff teams, though, there are... Sean Payton went somewhere and turned it around. 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 build 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. Don't Tomlin, don't Harbaugh. Those guys can't fix it. They win you the press conference in the offseason. 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 because his He has gotten the ceiling from that team. That's the best you can do with Mason Rudolf playing games for you all the time.

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 Chris 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 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, Okay, so 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. 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 Harbor in here right now, we also don't know. We don't know anything about what that person can actually build because they don't have a quarterback.

Except that we've seen 20 years of their work. There's a track record that there isn't for a Chris Schuler or anybody else who hasn't been a head coach.

I've seen 20 years of his work in a place where he 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 stealers 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, that they get there and they're like, What the What deep is this? My attention to detail doesn't work here. Who are these people? What's wrong with them?

I do think somebody out there loves Quin yours 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 he do that because he loves yours?

I think he did that because he was desperate and wanted to see if the guy... That's right. 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. It could have been anybody in the world playing quarterback for them. It would not have mattered. They just needed to what was going to sit no matter what. It wasn't about enthusiasm about the future.

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Don L'Hébitard. You don't remember the idea for a home run call?

I was probably like, That thing.

Something? Okay, no. The home run call was, That swing, that thing.

Stugatz.

It's a good call. It's a good call. Thank you. Plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. You're not tailing it to a particular name. All that jazz. You don't got to do that. You're just a generic call. That would be a great call. Up, up, and away. That swing, that thing.

This is the Dan Levatard 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 explaining what next season is going to look like, how they did this season, whether they're going to be here, what he wants from them. So he's behaving as if he still got a job. Steven Ross walks into the room and it's described as kicking down the door. 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. Mcdaniel finally, we'll pick this up later. They're middle managers, okay? We forget this all the time. Look at how Baschadi behaved yesterday as the Raven's owner. And remind yourself that the owners are the one in charge and all these people that we spend 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 was 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 act of indecision by Steven Ross. Black Monday is when you fire the coaches. That happened to five or six other guys on Monday. 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 that At that point, Thursday, three days later, you assume McDaniel is 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 Steven Ross. Nobody knows exactly what the change of heart was.

Well, let me ask you something there. Is it a flip flop on Steven 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 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 him. 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 of- Historian. Dolphin historian as well, the author of a dolphin's book.

Fins at 50.

Your thoughts on their management The structure and the argument that Mike Ryan and I have been having for about 10 years, I believe Steven 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.

Steven 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 remind people that. Why? 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 or minor? It was good for 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-Go bankrupt. Okay. Well, you can put a bad slant on Joe Robbie if you want.

I'm not putting it on Joe Robbie. Thank you, Joe. I'm not-Thank you, Joe. Thank you, Joe. Thank you, Joe. I'm not putting a bad slant on Joe Robbie.

I'm saying- Like saying he bankrupt his family? That sentence is not a positive.

The way you said it. I don't know if that's how the way you talk about it.

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. Zazel wants 50 in a year for Harbaugh.

I don't want that. I'm saying if Steven 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 Quin Ewer's, there's no way he's going anywhere near the Dolphins.

Can you imagine coaching Lamar Jackson and then being enamored with Quin Ewer's?

Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Can you imagine coaching Lamar Jackson and then being enamored of Quin 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 Baschotti sound. This person, we I 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 of $50,000 to watch him have sex.

Here is Baschadi. Last time I think we saw him was just how casual he was in front of microphones during the Ray Rice scandal. Like, Yeah, whatever's happening down here. I know you 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 Baschadi talking about how much longer Harbaugh would have lasted. He's actually reacting to the Tomlin news and saying how much longer Harbaugh 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 hardball. It really is.

It is. No, I love how it just undercuts every topic de jour talking point from the last week. If he makes a field goal, Tomlin's the guy that's up.

I know we talk about them a lot, the coaches. We care about the coaches. These guys view those guys as meathead middle managers. 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.

Is he a candidate here?

Mike, wouldn't that be awesome?

His teeth.

Only if John takes the Pittsburgh job.

Funny.

Wow. Wouldn't Wouldn't that be interesting? I don't know. That thing last week maybe disqualified him for my opening after our kicker Mr. Kick. Oh, he's pounding his chest like King Kong. Did Mike Tomlin do that after they won?

After that win, he looked at the camera and was like, I did that.

I just like that he admitted he's into swapping.

He does look the way that you say he looks. He looks leathery. He does. He looks like a great deal of success. But again, when I tell you guys, I actually learned 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 us?

Is it Biscati or Biscati? Whatever. Did you make him an 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 sun chips?

It's always the garden salsa.

I like the garden salsa.

I do, too, but I like the... Sometimes- That's good stuff. 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 Baschadi, 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 You know what? Thank you for doing that because I, every once in a while, will be watching just old comedy roasts. And Dean Martin was drunk across two decades on television doing all of his performances.

And smoking cigarettes during his acting.

Yes, and he always He always had a drink in his hand. I seem to recall that when he was talking about the Ray Rice stuff, Biscotti 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 We'll 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.

Spell out PP. Greg, the dolphins, when you see Harbaugh is vetting teams, they're not vetting Harbaugh, and he's not even making a phone call. 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 reported by people reporting things that the dolphins don't want in public that suggests to you that they know what they're doing here?

First, Diana Rucini said yesterday on this show that the dolphins have been in touch with Harbaugh, which I believe. I believe Diana Rucini 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 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.

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He doesn't want to be bothered anymore. Now it's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result. He needs something that happens. You can see him mother-effic.

Can we bother? Are we bothering you right now?

Turn on your microphone, Greg.

My microphone's on.

Stugats. Paint the scene.

The paint the scene is I got to go to work. Good night. This is the Dan Levatard 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. 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 takes 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 His opinion on Steven Ross. Why could the McDaniel thing have 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 then made a decision.

He was in the club 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 a little 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, What would you do here? And they were all like, We blow out the head coach.

And Harbaugh became available in those couple of 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 Quebolá. 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. 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 a college facility. 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. 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 is 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 Avenue, 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. Brandon 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. There's a lot of people watching and looking and pointing and seeing what you're doing. So I've made a couple of calls. I've made contact with a couple of different people. I'm certain we're going to be able to get in later on. Certain? I 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.

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 play.

First off, did not say champion quarterback. Said there's something there. And by the way, he kept them afloat. By the way, did you know the Texans won eight or nine straight games or 10 straight games? Who was in there? Davis Mills. Thank you.

You're welcome. I don't think this is the way to get in there, but I really would like to write the word Cristobal on the top of the F in Fernando.

Stop stirring shit, dude.

Just to put your here to make this happen for you. You want me to start burning a contact that people are having your car. Stop sounding so put out by it. It's worked for us for 21 years. Sorry. No, it hasn't. We haven't moved the mountains.

You don't get everything you want.

We got the most How has the 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 cars just going by. It is. It's good. It's good. It's good.

I'm literally standing on the median. This is where I'm dangerous. Next to a light pole. I'm actually on the median right now. Let's see what we have here. All right. Speeding fines double, by the way. I'm keeping an eye out 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 going or 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 finagle, trying to cube in Miami my way into, oh, yeah, we're with CNN. We're here DLS.

We go first then CNN. 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. 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. Greg.

Greg. Jesus Christ, Greg. Greg.

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 tu madre, Greg.

Gracias a ti. 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, I said if you squit-Bye, Tony. He had some That will be enough, Moreno.

Bye, Tony. We don't need him to defend his position.

Speaking of people who should be fated down, let's go to Jeremy Tashay 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?

Zaz and Dan, you guys are How stupid do you feel after watching Bam and Abayo drop 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. Then he hit two threes right in your face to take the lead.

How many did he hit last night? Five? Did he hit five last night?

He went four of six from three last night.

One of them we thought was a three in the fourth quarter. His toe was on the light. Oh, yeah. So he hit five.

It would have been five of seven. I mean, he's spectacular. 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.

His value will never be higher. That's the best he's ever shot.

He had it. You still trading him?

Okay.

I cannot believe your dumb ass would trade Bam out of bio. A player who has been nothing but spectacular for this organization the entire time he's been here. Mita.

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 dollars next season. I don't believe it's possible. I don't believe he's a good enough player. I think he's a player you could win with, but not at $50 million. It's not like with Tua. I don't think you could win at 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 a salary.

The Heat are 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.

I'm suggesting that- Okay, we'll get to that stuff in a second because Yannis booed his own booing fans last night. That was great. Rachel Nichols is reporting that Ja 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 was awesome. Put it on the poll, should it be illegal to have Dylan Brooks and Grayson 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... He strikes me as maximum professional guy, and he's just out there to really grind through his job. So when you Are you 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. 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.

Congrats on that emmy, by the way.

Here's my third emmy, Dan. You have any emmies?

And again, look at that shirt.

You have any emmies? I do not. I don't respect television. Nick Wright is next.

There's a reason they call me Jeremy.

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, I'm right every day about the Miami 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 Wethers 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 unlocks 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 offseason. 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 raked in Triple A. So with him, they acquired a Major League ready bat who's going to contribute this year.

They acquired six other offensive prospects to 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.

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.

Marlins before Keynes? What the fuck?

That's a little weird right there. That's crazy.

Mike Ryan, you're being someone who is getting, and it's only Wednesday, You're levels of agitation, of emotion. You're coming in here every day, ripping Alabama's quarterback. You're finding ways to be more and more emotional, and we're still four days out. I don't think you're... No, it's more than four days.

I think I've been chill. I think I've been chill. Monday, five. 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 could be shoving her up everybody's ass. I haven't done that yet.

You Not yet. You demanded apologies from both me and Zaslow on Monday, and you said, Billy Corbin.

Appropriately. That was a very popular stance.

It really was. He was speaking for America right there.

The comments on Twitter, which can be nasty, seem to agree.

Okay, well, we should all follow that. It should be a life principle to follow the comments on Twitter.

No, 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 sports information as we can from nick Wright. He's next.