Transcript of Postgame Show: Celebrating Tony

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Deposit and Hilton honors. Membership required for 15% discount terms and conditions apply. I have now finally exhaustedly and on behalf of our show, all of Miami and heat fans everywhere, arrived at great, great remorse at how diligently and zealously we have covered this Jimmy Butler story, because while Jeremy was super fascinated by every last detail, Stugatz and Greg Cody totally checked out on that conversation. They were tired of Chris Haynes, Chris Haynes' notes. They were tired of Jimmy Butler talk of any kind. They wanted that segment to not be 20 minutes shorter. They wanted it to be 35 minutes shorter. I saw Stugatz light up only one time during it, and it was Haynes' brief.

That's it. I mean, Jesus Christ, enough about Jimmy Butler. He does not deserve the attention this show is giving him.

Yeah, there was a little Butler fatigue there. It went on and on and on.

I could have asked 15 more questions, Greg. There was so much meat left on that bone. There's so much to the story.

It's boring.

I feel like the bone has been picked pretty clearly.

This is a 20-18 team and a guy who hasn't played more than 64 regular-season games in any season down here with the heat. I'm tired of hearing about what Jimmy Butler is upset about and what he doesn't appreciate. I'm tired of the heat, by the way, too. And what they're doing, I'm tired of the story. It doesn't deserve our attention. No one cares.

It's like the fourth time through this, too, with him. It's always the same. Everybody knew this was going to happen. And then, no, no, no. He cold. We're going to change him. We're going to change Jimmy. And then you go and you piss off every team around the league and you try to strong, We're going to get Damian Lillard for absolutely nothing. They're like, No, the F, you're not. We're going to trade him anywhere but Miami. And then you're convinced because you've been going around just sweeping up superstars all this time, and now you're shocked that someone wants to do it to your superstar because it's going the exact same way. And now, what you've always benefited from is happening to you and you don't like it. And now you're trying to think you're going to hold some other team hostage and get rid of this malcontent and somehow benefit your team. And that's not the way this works whatsoever. So you suspend him and he's going to come back and he's making his TikTok videos where he's like, you know what, boss, it should be more supportive, not so critical. And he's taking all these vealed shots.

We somehow think that when he comes back from suspension, things are going to be magically cured when they don't trade him at the deadline because they want a king's ransom for Jimmy Butler, which they're not going to get.

Do we think that, though? Do we think things are going to be magically-No, that's what they're trying.

That's the spin, the heat culture. It's not interesting. It's boring.

You guys can always be sucked right back into it.

No, I will not be sucked back into this.

That's the whole story. Thirty-five seconds. We're done. We don't need to talk about it ever again.

Why is there such a big difference? I was looking at Jeremy's face, okay? And whatever it is that is the exotic club equivalent of money raining from the sky because everyone is having the best of nude parties. The look on Jeremy's face was, please give me more information about what Jimmy's upset by, why he's upset, who's upset, whom in this Ego Pride Fest. You guys are telling me you're tired of this story. I thought the juicy details of whatever it was was a breakup was the permission we're giving ourselves at every turn to be interested in, do you want to talk about Cade Cunningham or do you want to talk about how it's all screwed up with Zion and he's going to be available to someone soon. Because the moment Jimmy Butler gets traded to Phoenix, we're going to be having a conversation about whether they're actually good enough to win the West.

We will not have that conversation. They're not good enough to win the West. Get out of here. What are you He's easy. A 35-year-old Jimmy Butler with a 37-year-old Kevin Durant? They're not within anything.

As soon as that trade gets made, will they become favorites in the West? No, because OKC exists, but people will fall in love with three big names winning now, trying to win now. That is something that will... You're not going to tell me that that's not interesting to people. That's the interesting place for him to end up. It's exactly the team that would take him on. This is what he was supposed to do in Philadelphia, but it was Embiid's team, and it was Ben Simmons' team, and he had to play the role of the third guy, and he did it great. They lost to Kawhi Leonard by a shot, and it was closer than Embiid would ever get. He'd be going there to be the third guy.

I'd be interested if they were doing this 10 years ago. Durant's 36. Jimmy's 36. Booker's young. That's great, but he's just one. All right.

Forgive me then. I will go somewhere else conversationally if you're indeed tired of Jimmy Butler. Back to the Pistons? No, not the Pistons, although we could have talked-Not even Detroit cares this much about the Pistons. We could have talked about the Pistons for a while. That was a fun game. You don't want to talk about it because your Knicks are at the center of hope again. This is their best team in a long time. At home, they got slayed by the Detroit Pistons. But The thing I wanted to ask you that I got away from early in the show is, Tony's expecting a hero's return from paternity leave because he's had a child. I thought we were going to celebrate that as a show because I think he wants a celebration of having a child, and Billy doesn't want to celebrate that.

I'd rather talk about the pistons of Jimmy Butler than Tony, to be honest. Tony, here's a behind the bit, and I don't think you guys are aware of this. This is behind the bit.

Let's be clear, real quick. Tony didn't have a child. I mean, he did technically, but he didn't do any of the whole thing. He now has a child, but he didn't have the child.

I don't know if that was a necessary correction. Well, it is. It always is. I think someone thought he pushed out a child.

Who gives some credit to his wife?

Is it a child? Celibate the wife, not Tony.

You want a little behind the bit? When we had the 24-hour marathon, I think we told this story already. When we had the 24-hour marathon, it was Tony's debut, and he made this entire bit where he bought a Rick Flair costume and a robe, and he had this feathery I love them. Wig. He talked to all of his people that are here, and he wanted this big unveiling of, Tony is now part of MetalArk Media on the 24-hour marathon. I'm like, Bud, this isn't a Tony-athon. This is a 24-hour marathon. No one cares. The big returns is something Tony seems to really want at some point in time. Did he say he wanted one for this? Is that what's going on?

No, he did say he wanted one for freedom. He requested all of that. The Feather Boa, the big introduction. I'm going to make the magical jump from producer to star talent that was missed by Metalark and Bomani. Do we get that sound? Did we wrestle that away from ESPN? I think we did. The Who the Hell is Tony from Bomani Jones was some legendary sound here on Tony thinks he's something around here that he's not quite yet. But the way for him to become that is to hustle his way into MMA shows and have the audience caring about when he or his wife have a kid, because Stugatz is correct. He didn't do much of anything yet.

No, they don't, if we're going to be honest. The audience doesn't care if they're going to be a kid.

You don't think that Tony Which is a big party for the having of a child?

No, I know that. I'm sorry. The audience doesn't care about Tony or his kid.

Or the Pistons.

Or the Pistons. Or Jimmy while we're at it.

Greg, you had a great show today.

First two hours. Until the last hour and a half.

But that's okay. You did tune out.

You give us two good hours every Tuesday. We're good, Greg. There you go.

For the rest of time, we will sign up for that.

It's good you didn't have the Jimmy Buffet segment first because I might have gotten dropped. Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler..

I always say that.

Who do you think is more connected to the heat? Jimmy Buffett or Jimmy Butler? Wow, I would say Buffett. I would say this. I think that the heat would retire something for Jimmy Buffett before they would retire something for Jimmy Butler, as things presently stand.

Are you kidding me? Like, Jimmy Butler's jersey is ever going to go up on the rafters? I don't think so. Come on. No way.

Who the the hell is Tony?