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Greg Cody, we're doing 4 hours live. They're not actually 4 hours every day this, uh, this week. Uh, they're 38 minutes, 40 minutes, but we are trying to do the entirety of the show live, uh, for you today. And I, uh, I don't feel great about everything happening with the puppets. It, it, It bums me out, but I think I can lift the mood around here just a little bit because those of you who have been with us for a really long time, 20 years, 790, know what this is because you've grown from kid to parent to maybe grandparent on our 20 years of time listening to us. You know the name Sid Rosenberg. It is embedded in the early days of Miami radio when I would say that Miami Sports Radio was among the hottest things going in the country. I would say the lineup that we built at 790.

Best in the country at a time.

Uh, yes. Was, was it when Sid was on there? Was it before Sid was on in midday? The best 790 lineup there's ever been was when?

Yes, yes, I think it's Sid in the morning, and then after Sid was Sidano, and then Boog, and then you. That lineup there, I think, rivaled any lineup in the country.

And Kevin Rogers with Brandon Guzman. Oh, K-Rog.

And so Sid Rosenberg, I didn't know much about him. Uh, I Sid Rosenberg had a lot of drug troubles, and I had at least one meaningful spiritual loving moment with Sid Rosenberg, at least in part because of just— I'm gonna say how generally hurt he seemed. And yeah, I just, I had a moving moment with Sid Rosenberg who seemed troubled the entire time I knew him, like just deeply troubled, grabbed by a addiction and always in a state of sort of recovery. So it's been sad a little bit, right, to just watch as the country has become what the country's become. Everything that's happened to Sid, that includes now him being just like really red. Like, just, I don't know how to say it other than whatever the fury is that roils within him.

That's purple, Dan.

Well, I just, I don't know what's happening here on this video, but it was shocking. I can't believe that's not AI. I can't believe that that's real in any way. Roy, you're just laughing, but I really question with great sincerity what happened here. I don't— this is not— this is not— he's not— is he okay? Is he well? Is he— he's not sick, right?

That is a nuclear shade of plum.

Yeah, what sickness would make you plum?

That can't be real.

No, no, it's very real.

Oh, it's real.

That's the mortal version of the devil, that guy, what I'm looking at right now.

I need to explain to the audio audience, this is a color of skin I have simply never seen on a human being, no matter how burned they are. Look, I've I've seen Zagacki. I saw Zagacki and it's Sports Radio Hall of Fame stuff. Zagacki got a sun tan, sunburn so bad wearing sunglasses that he did a game and his eyes, or the area around his eyes, were clearly white and the rest of him was broiled and charred and red. But it wasn't this. This is miles beyond this.

It is not even close. If you can close your eyes and picture the Zagacki picture with the redness around his face, now take that 47 times more.

This isn't a sunburn.

That's what Sid looks like.

This is the color of his skin.

No, it looks like he's holding his breath and he held his breath for like 5 All right, I need to explain to the audio audience that does not know what this looks like. This is a shade of purple I have never seen on a human being before. This is realms beyond red. This is not red. He looks like he's coming out of makeup. He looks a bit like Hellboy.

All right, so Dan, so you've given us two people that he looks like. We did put together a couple of compilations to let you know, all right, does he look like this or does he look like that?

Oh, you did this? Okay.

Yeah, we have a couple of them.

Look, help, the answer's Hellboy. You're not going to do better than Hellboy.

Oh, I think I have a couple better, I do. Let's put up the first one here. Yeah, we got Sid looking very purple.

I mean, look at that.

Okay, this is not a normal thing that we have here. I just need to explain yet more to the audio audience that this is not a skin color that any human being has ever had that hasn't been painted on them.

So this is our first one. This is Vision from Marvel.

Oh, Dan, that's—

remember WandaVision?

Look at that, that's Vision.

He's so much more purple than Vision. Like, this is—

okay, so you want to go purple? All right, let's bring up the next one. Oh, Thanos, Dan. Thanos is purple as all get out.

Sid looks very similar to Thanos.

He's got the bald head. Guys, Thanos.

Thanos is purple.

Thanos is light-skinned purple.

Okay, how about this?

Thanos is light-skinned purple.

He's right, he's right, he's right. How about this?

Yes.

A little bit more purple. Barney?

Barney.

Purple enough or not purple enough?

It's better. Barney is better than any others you have shown me, but I'm saying Hellboy, and I think he's more purple than Hellboy. I've never seen a human being this purple who's not coming out of makeup.

We have another purple, another purple person that was very famous a couple of years ago with the Mets. Can we pull up Grimace?

Grimace Rosenberg. Now we're getting closer.

Now we're getting closer.

Look at the resemblance.

Okay, what has happened to Sid Rosenberg? Mike Ryan, I see you sitting out this conversation. Why is he sitting out? I see Mike has faded to the back of the room. He doesn't want into these waters with the political nonsense that is Sid Moser.

Mike doesn't like talking about politics.

I don't take him seriously.

I mean, he spoke at the Republican National Convention.

Yeah, but that's typically not a political forum, Dan. Dana White's done it for 3 straight RNCs and he's not political.

Uh, Zazz, I will ask you again, and Cody, I will ask you again. What happened?

Here. Is Sid okay?

Well, he's never been okay.

No, but what I mean is, if he legit— if that's not doctored, if that's actually the way he looked—

You don't want to say something and then find out that he's actually sick.

This is what I'm going to accuse Sid Rosenberg of right now publicly, even though I too fear the political waters that bring the Tea Party and Breitbart and Shitstain and their army of Sids. Sid Rosenberg has been charred from the inside as his hatred for all the things that America has become as immigrants overrun ICE and has mushroom cloud exploded from inside on the politics of rage trying to protect his country from like the LeBittard Show in the afternoons. Those boys are awfully Latin. I believe that Sid Rosenberg has been charred from the inside. Do you have a better theory than me? It's not yet gotten to totally burnt, it's just in the purple stage. It was red in various phases, it was pink before that, but we've just gotten to purple. It's a purple stage of hatred in this country, somewhere between white and black in the racial divisions of this country. It's dark purple.

So you're saying the internal temperature is climbing so fast—

Yes, a lava volcano of hate from inside that has purple lava, not white, not black, not red, sort of green. There's a lot of green in there.

We've seen people like their skin color change. Like we saw Michael Jackson, we saw Sammy Sosa.

I've never seen this.

We've never seen this color.

No, Sammy Sosa was unprecedented. Look, Michael Jackson was strange. Sammy Sosa was another kind of strange. Sammy Sosa was in the same realm where it seemed everybody just assumed he was trying to look whiter. He goes the other way. Sid in the modern times goes dark purple, like whatever the spectrum is of ridiculous race colors on the stupidity of what we do around, oh, this person's white, this person's black, this one's purple.

I have another one for you. I'm gonna bring up Hellboy to see what you think of Sid and Hellboy.

See, this is closer, but even more purple than Hellboy. Look, come on guys, do I have this wrong? Never in the history of Earth have you ever seen this on this shade of skin on anyone. Yes or no?

How about Red Skull from the Marvel Universe?

Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah, there it is.

That one is good. That one is also charred from the inside. I think the red one might be the stage of Sid that there is when the last of the hatred eats him up from the inside. That might be the next stage on the spectrum of cancerous racial opinions. Did I ruin it?

I don't know, we're looking around.

Mike, what do you think?

I don't have any thoughts here.

Nobody's got thoughts.

It's a little— it's a little dangerous.

What's dangerous? No human should be that color.

Well, I think someone speaking to the J-Post would not like to be compared to Red Skull, given what you know about the background of the character. Well, Zazz, you and I gonna rule here?

I think it's all right. Uh, I want to go back a second and just stew in some of Zazzlo's shame for a second, just real quick. Zazz, what happened with what it is we were trying to do with the Rich Paul stuff?

Oh man, like Dan said, Dan said during the break, Zazzlo, did you, did you get everything off your chest you wanted to about Rich Paul? Like, no, and I don't want to anymore. I'd like to move on because I'm not happy at all the way that that went. Yeah, no, I performed very poorly there. I have a lot more things to say about— I have more clips, and I want them to go in the garbage.

No, I want the Rich Paul segment that you want. As soon as you become full-time, you're flatly refusing to do stuff that you wanted to do.

Yeah, now that I'm full-time and I have an actual deal, I can say no to things. And you want— you want to know if I have more to say about Rich Paul, and I do not.

So whatever your criticism of Rich Paul was going to be, we did it so poorly in execution that it makes you retreat from whatever your opinion was on Rich Paul.

Not even close to meaningful enough.

Alright, so the World Cup is 9 days away, okay? And I really do want to get— we are about to head into a slow time in the sports year, and it's my favorite time when it's slow because we can do what we want and we don't need too much sports. However, In the middle of this is the biggest sporting event there is. And so it doesn't actually get to be slow because it kind of ends up being both the hockey and the NBA playoffs in one, because all of a sudden all of our Latin friends are engaged in a way that they usually aren't. What's that Colombia-Portugal ticket going to go for when we're talking about Knicks tickets and what it is that's happening in right now in New York? What you said, $4,500 to get in the building on Wednesday night.

—for Game 3, yeah, $4,500.

What's about to engulf South Florida, and Greg, you can speak to this some, I think we're about to have the most expensive ticket we've ever had in town because of what the World Cup in this city with Colombia involved. What Colombia— everything over the last 30 years that has lived here or in Colombia wants to be inside of that stadium.

Right. And, you know, people are so aghast at how much they're charging for World Cup tickets. Well, demand equals dollar amount, and the demand is Great. And so the dollar amount is great. I don't know why everybody's up in arms that you have to pay a couple of thousand dollars to get a seat at a World Cup game that's that level. Well, I— Colombia in Miami.

I think it's because they've— and Mike can correct me if I'm wrong— they've never been this expensive, right? That's right. The World Cup happens in countries and there are countries who are playing at that venue that are super popular and they've never been priced like this.

But to, to explain to America, lest you not know, Columbia playing in Miami, a World Cup game, is the biggest thing in this city given our Colombian representation.

Tony, you know that moment at a party or at a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks? I know it well.

It's usually when I show up, everybody goes crazy.

Yeah, you usually take all the credit for it, but it's because Tony usually walks in with Cuervo. I walk in like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuervo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night.

It has that effect on people.

It does. You usually take the credit for it, but again, it's the Cuervo effect. It's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up, hooting and hollering. Keep it Cuervo! Keep it Cuervo, baby! Summer always hits different once the big games start stacking up. Now you've got finals games on every other night. Baseball's rolling all week, racing on the weekends, and suddenly everybody's looking for an excuse to get together. The other night, a buddy texted me, "We've got the game on, come through." I figured I'd stop by for maybe an hour. That was optimistic. Next thing you know, everybody's locked into the game and we're all part of the coaching staff. Somebody's yelling at the ref, somebody else is suddenly an expert on pitch strategy, and nobody's even pretending they're leaving early anymore. It's one of those nights where you take a sip of Miller Lite, look around, and realize, yeah, this is exactly what summer is supposed to be. That's why Miller Lite is always part of these nights for me. It's clean, refreshing, easy to drink when it's hot outside, and perfect for long nights hanging with friends, watching games.

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Get in price for that first Colombia game, which is at the end of this month. It's Colombia and Portugal. $3,300 to get in price.

And Portugal also has one of the best players in the world.

So if you want to take your family of 4, you're Colombian, you got 2 kids, you want to go see your country. Uh, $13,000.

Or you can fly to Guadalajara like I am to watch him play Congo. Granted, not an opponent of, uh, Portugal stature or skill, but it's much cheaper to do it that way.

Oh, but Sazh, what I, what I would say to you about this that I do find interesting, when, if you are to shake your head and say, yeah, expensive tickets to expensive games, well, the people who get priced out though, when Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic That's the World Baseball Classic. That's not the World Cup. When they won the, uh, World Baseball Classic, the number of Venezuelans that I saw in our city who were just overcome with joy at sports being the best possible thing that they can feel in their hearts— whatever you think Knicks fans are feeling now— they were so happy with the World Baseball Classic. Colombia playing in this city and some people being able to go to the games with their kids and stuff? That ticket being priced out for poor people is a real shame because every poor person also wants to be in that game. And them getting this expensive makes it so that people who aren't as big of fans as the ones who are the biggest fans have absolutely no access whatsoever to the biggest game this town has seen for Colombian soccer.

The problem is the primary market and the fact that if you do want to go to this event and do things the right way, which is tickets go on sale at blank time. I'm going to get by my computer. I'm going to try like hell. You've got no shot. No shot. And if you do get through, the face value is an absurd amount of money, the likes of which we have never seen for a World Cup. And then the secondary market's going to do its thing. You don't have a shot because all the scalpers and the bots are going for the tickets, and then it's going to the secondary market. And it's a damn shame because This is the world's most accessible game.

And for some context, comparing the Colombia game to other games that are taking place down here, Saudi Arabia and Uruguay, getting price for that is $400.

Sure. Which is what?

Which is reasonable for a World Cup match, in my opinion. Oh, but reasonable, guys.

Give me just historic context. Greg, you are a columnist, but you are a columnist who, even while working at the Miami Herald, doesn't speak very often on behalf of Hispanic people. Colombia playing a World Cup game in Miami compares to what in terms of the number of people—

Colombia playing Copa America final against Argentina in Miami. And we all saw how that went.

What is headed our way? My, my larger point on talking about the World Cup and what is headed to Miami, I've told you guys before that Miami's dressed up as a big international city. It's a spring break town in a spring break state. It's just covered in the drug money. So when Formula One comes here, it's funny. Like, because our— yeah, no, we're not big time. We look big time, but what's happened in this city over the last few years is a lot of artificial money comes into the city and makes it a real weird place economically, where the richest of the rich are here, all of them, because of the homestead exemptions and everything else. The second homes are all here, and you can't live here as a poor person anymore. It's just not— it's not possible. Hialeah is the fifth least affordable— or yeah, least affordable housing market. The Colombians who generationally came through this town cleaning the houses, however it is that immigrants come here and make a population and a life for themselves, that is such a passionate fan base about that one sport. The regional identity I was telling you about with Venezuela and the World Baseball Classic, there's nothing like this The way those people feel about their team as an identity where patriotism is the best thing in sports.

Where the Escobar brothers, you know, you can get shot for allowing an own goal because the Colombians are so crazy about their soccer and also proud of their Pablo Escobar ties. The Escobars weren't related.

That would have been even more complex.

I thought the 30 for 30 was the Escobar brothers. There's two Escobars. Oh, my bad. That was a good one.

Yeah, that was one of the best. Dan, that's another $5. I'm very excited for— I mean, the World Cup, obviously it's the biggest sporting event on the planet and it's not remotely close. You could argue it's the biggest event, period, that the planet has to offer. But we are literally positioned across the street from the Fan Fest and we are going to feel in South Florida, certainly in Miami-Dade County, like we are in a different country. I mean, many people would argue listening to this that it already feels that way, but there is going to be so much national pride. You are going to feel when you drive here to work in a couple of weeks like you are playing a road game. There is going to be yellow shirts everywhere. The Colombian people down here are especially proud. It is an infectious energy. I said before, Juju botched the poll question, uh, that that it is almost a requirement in Miami. You need to have a yellow Colombian national team jersey with James on the back just because a couple of times every couple of years they throw the absolute best party in sports.

It is infectious. It is vibrant. It is the best things about national pride and sports meeting together. Cannot wait for that energy. So much so that I am seeking it out. I know it's going to be here in Miami. I'm glad to be near it. I'm going to Mexico to be near it some more. I'm not Colombian. I just love their passion for the game. I'd argue Juju nailed that poll question.

Zaslo, the things that Mike is talking about here, when you consider Colombian culture and what it's like for a proud people to be proudest of their team than they are of anything else, like we— I don't think we have anything like that here. Like, whatever it is that the US Olympic hockey team did, it wasn't our only sport. Like, whatever is a region's attachment to just one thing that they export to the world— they're known for their cocaine because of who Pablo Escobar was, not one of the brothers. Colombia as an entity has more pride in this thing than anything. It is the biggest thing. And, uh, I just don't think that people know what's about to ransack Miami. We don't have— we don't have the infrastructure for this. Wait, the poor people are going to be climbing all over each other to try and be around whatever is happening with that team, wherever it's happening, in hotels and busses. Like, the insanity— you think the World Baseball Classic was crazy? That's how those countries feel about their baseball. Columbia feels about soccer and only soccer that way.

I think people will get an idea of what's coming to Miami because when Colombia faced Messi in a Copa America final, it was one of the more infamous stadium disasters of our lifetime.

Where we climbed up through the air vents like Die Hard?

That's exactly right. Who knows who's still there? Trapped. But this is not Copa America. This is the World Cup. This is Cristiano Ronaldo and a really good Portugal team. That's one of the favored sides against Colombia, who plays a style that can keep them in any game. And for whatever reason, when those guys put on that yellow shirt, they all play so much better. The police presence—

infrastructure. That's what I'm here for. The police presence. Good timing, Puppet. The police presence in that game is going to be unprecedented. And what amazes me is that Colombia is that passionate despite not being a good team. They're not an elite side. Colombia, they're outside the top 10 in betting odds. I mean, they're nobody's favorite.

Yeah, the market prices favor some of the European teams and Brazil has a more favorable market price. But if you follow Brazil during qualification, it's not the same Brazil. They made some mistakes. When it came to the qualification process. I do have to defend the puppet, which I'm not exactly thrilled about, because Jeremy's operating the puppet from under the table. What? And here, when we do nonverbal communication, we wave a hand. Puppet's hand was waving, calling for ball.

Mike Ryan is bringing back Morally Abhorrent. It was a very popular podcast during the last World Cup. There are all sorts of things around these games that are questionable and corrupt, and nobody cares when Colombians are climbing over ice to get into the arena.

4 years ago when we came up with that name for the Qatar World Cup, I didn't think that the name would be held over 4 years later, but— Evergreen. It still tracks. Yeah. Still seems morally abhorrent. FIFA, United States, all of it.

Greg Cody, I am told, and I'm sorry it has taken this long to get to this, I am told that every 4 years, very big, not quite as big perhaps as how Colombians feel about being able to see their team in Miami, But every 4 years you pick your favorite World Cup team and you pick the Greg Cody Podcast featuring Greg Cody with sponsors, that team outside of America. It's not let's go States here. It's, it's your giving your allegiances and your interest to another country. Has that announcement been made yet? Because every 4 years— very— how long has the podcast been around?

We were born in 2020. We've been—

this is our 6th year. So this is the 2nd time doing this for the World Cup, and everybody waits around to find out who is the team Greg Cody is supporting, who is the team that is not the United States that The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody is supporting this year.

Yeah, we have a major reveal on my latest episode, but I'll share it with you here. The official World Cup team of The Greg Cody Show podcast is Côte d'Ivoire. Aka the Ivory Coast. French-speaking. I think they're ranked like 35th of 48 teams. They're a sneaky underdog. They're not at the bottom, but they're nobody's favorite. They're in a tough group with Germany. They've never been out of the group stage, Côte d'Ivoire. That's C-O-T-E, by the way. Spelled Cody from where I'm looking. It is. Côte d'Ivoire.

Is that the reason? If we're being honest here, where self-absorption resides and narcissism is king, is this your favorite team just because their first name looks like it's Cody?

That may be a factor. I'm not saying that's not a factor. Another factor is their best player, his first name is Wilfred. Okay, uh, Wilfred, uh, I think his last name was Yaha. Okay. Woo!

So I think you're referring to Wilfred Zaha. Zaha, who did not make the national team roster for the World Cup. I was actually going to ask you your thoughts about it because good expertise.

You just spotted a Wilfred and said, that's my team. Well, so there's my name and there's my Wilfred. There's my analysis.

First of all, it's an outrage that he did not make that team with a name like Wilfred, who was my father's name and my son's middle name. Wilfred Zaha. He was a big favorite to make that roster. It's an outrage that he didn't.

You'll be happy to know there's a different Wilfred. What's his name? Wilfried Singo.

You know about that Wilfried Singo? I do.

No, you don't. Yes, of course. No, Greg. Greg. Côte d'Ivoire, ladies and gentlemen.

Greg. He's right about that.

And that's another Greg Cody first out.

Don Lebatard. He has been great. He's made great hires. I said all. We've said all. He said all that. We've said all that.

Everyone has heard everything. Everything you're saying, it's all been said.

Okay, you got to understand one thing, Stugatz. Me maximum. That's right. I say it, it hasn't been said. Okay, understand that. You're the mayor. Until I say it, it hasn't been said.

Me maximum. This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stugatz. I just, I want to get it. I want to go dive deep, deep into the narcissism before we get back to sporty things. Coupe de voie. Sporty adventures. Yeah. If I'm giving you 100% of the pie chart on all of the thinking, research, emotions that went into picking the team that you were going to pick as your favorite to celebrate the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. With, right? How much of the percentage out of 100% is you chose that team just because their first name looks like Cody? I don't want to quantify it, you know.

I'm not here to take a quiz. I'm not here to take a quiz. I mean, come on.

Well, you didn't know Wilford was on the team, and so I feel like you are here to take a quiz if you're identifying a favorite and the research you've done doesn't even do us the courtesy of knowing whether a guy's on the team.

I know this. I know Côte d'Ivoire is the leading— world's leading exporter of cocoa beans. That I know. Who won? You all did.

Who won? No, we didn't all win. We all lost and he wins. That's what happens around here all the time. What happens is I'm caught— what did you fine me for? I got $5 out. I'm asking Roy, where's the fine bucket?

I don't know what I'm fined for. You made Pablo Escobar brothers with a Colombian national team player. He might have been behind the murder of— instead of the two Escobars, I made a Cain and Abel situation. The Escobar brothers.

Okay, I got a name wrong and that's a $5 fine. What is the tally at on where it is? I have to pay for things before this gets really expensive. ProjectMainStreet.org. Boog's at 1 o'clock. Boog has a live auction and there's a lot of good stuff to buy there and you should be a part of what he's doing. It's a big part of his life and his day-to-day. Can we get Bonetti on? Are we— I meant to ask you guys to reach out to Bonetti to make sure that we can give him some coaching and some criticism on whatever it is we feel like he got wrong with his first batch of donations here that means I'm in for $880 so far. That's not so bad.

It's a little bit more than that because it's another $80 on top of that because the Boog money off for me and then the Greg Cody money for me.

Processing fee. Processing fee.

10% or 11%? Well, 11% credit card processing fee.

Would you like to round that up for charity?

That's how they get you. They do that at the grocery store.

I just say no. Yeah, I say no. I help plenty of charity. I do. Not, not this time. On my own time.

So you've noticed this. So now when people ask you for this particular charity, do you get less charitable because you're like, no, this is a grift, I'll keep my change, thank you, I don't like that you're trying to take my credit card pennies and put it round up here so to grift your game up so that Bezos gets it?

Yeah, to the Human Fund.

Money for people. Yeah, I do that too. It's called name, image, and likeness.

Why are we putting that on cuck t-shirts for Zaslow and he's not getting anything out of it, including business? Nothing. Including business, which would seem to be like— if I believe our audience should support two good causes today, I believe it should buy cuck shirts to just support Zazz because it's an inside joke. That's, that's what you're buying. It's what you're— be the first.

Yeah, plus you're letting the world know.

No one would do that. It's, it's just a bad marketing campaign.

Someone calls you a cuckold, nope, wait a second, look at the shirt.

I don't think anyone's going to wear the word cuck on the front of their shirt. I believe that's— well, That makes it worse. That does, that does.

But it is also helpful to know that it is not, you know, a personal message. It is strictly for a Jonathan Zaslow type of message.

Who's buying that? Who are we selling to? I don't understand our business strategy.

Selling to non-cucks. I don't think you understand what you're doing. Like, the majority of people are non-cucks, so you got a massive audience that are non-cucks. You have a couple cucks who wouldn't wear the shirt.

You could sell this shirt to someone that truly believes Zas when he claims that.

Can you get for me, Roy, uh, Jason Bonetti warming up, right? This was calisthenics for both Boog and Jason Bonetti. These are 5 catchphrases, but I believe today is the day that they're going to give us our payoff. Jeremy, I am concerned though. I don't want to force anybody to pay $30 to watch this because they got to go to MLB.com to actually have a sports-adjacent appearance. Well, tough shit. I'd like to—

if that's how you watch an out-of-market game, what am I supposed to do? Would you like to tout piracy? You want me to pirate the stream?

I got a guy.

I mean, MLBX has been around for like 30 years. Tony, I want you I want you to help our audience.

Look, nobody else is going to be any kind of interested tonight in Tigers-Rays except for me. I'll find the Rays wherever it is they're playing. I love having some baseball. Yeah, but I've got, I've got the Rays and just the Rays. I don't need the rest of baseball. The Rays are what it is that I'm watching.

Do you subscribe to Rays.tv and not Marlins.tv?

I told you, I told Valerie, I had this conversation with you guys. I told Valerie when she asked me, what do you want? What don't you want? Because we've got way too many things here. I'm like, whatever we got. We got Rays baseball. Like, just make sure we got Rays baseball. I don't— whatever else happens, I don't care. Just Rays baseball. And oh, make sure also Red Zone. Make sure Red Zone.

Rays Red Zone. Anything else? Those must-have?

Yeah, because it's not even the same network. It used to be there was a network that had the Heat and everybody. Nope. À la carte. Well, Rays baseball.

Well, I got to imagine some people found that confusing. Can Greg Cody find a Rays or a Marlins game on his television? Can you find a— can Can you find a Marlins game on your television?

As a matter of fact, I asked my wife over the weekend, Sunday I think it was, what channel are the Marlins on? And I think she told me MLB TV. So I punch in the MLB TV channel and it's 4— it was like the baseball red zone. It's like 4 shows happening at once, including the Marlins game. That's right.

So you don't— you have MLB TV, but you don't use it?

You've never seen it before? I have. I just don't keep track of what number, you know, 213. He watches a lot of Marlins games. 268. I don't know. I watch a fair amount, you know. I mean, you know, they go from winning 4 in a row to losing 5 in a row. That's Marlins Marlinsing. I mean, you know, it's a frustrating team to watch. How'd they do last night? I think they won. Who won? Who won? The Marlins did. They did.

They beat the Nationals. I'm with Tony on this, though. It does have to be confusing to a generation of people to wake up at, you know, stumble out of bed at noon on a Tuesday, whatever generation of people is stumbling out of bed at noon on a Tuesday and being like, so the Cardinals are playing at 1:15 today, a baseball game. At 1:15 on a Tuesday, or a Wednesday. Why are they doing that? Yeah, it's just a bad business. Who's this for? Like those Cook shirts.

Like the Cook shirts. Yeah. I'm at work. What am I gonna take? Hey boss, I gotta take a 30-minute lunch. I'm gonna go grab a half inning of a game and I'll be back at work.

Perhaps it's for people that want to download the new DraftKings Sports app. Now live in all 50 states.

Imagine wearing that shirt. And you run into someone who you haven't seen in a long time. What are you wearing? Hmm.

Is this in reference to your Roman Reigns shirt?

I believe the day game is the day game in baseball on Wednesday. While practical matters are just for the team to be able to travel and not get into the next city at 4:00 in the morning because these schedules are a bit crazy. What a happy— I'm going to say monetary coincidence for baseball because they didn't know that baseball was going to get into the business of, uh, money moving on games in a way that was socially accepted. And so baseball now has a time slot to himself. That's what football's trying to grab, all the time slots. Like, give us Wednesday, we want all the nights. Baseball's like, no, we'll take these day games, we'll carve up our little piece to where nobody— everybody who wants any kind of baseball, uh, fun and action, or any kind of sports action I can check in on a Wednesday at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.

That is true. I mean, that's a fun part to look at, but to go to the games, like, there again, there's 11 people in the stands. Like, everybody must look around, but it's not about going to the games.

Mike likes having the park to himself. Like, that's— it's lovely to see Major League Baseball. Describe the dream. It is. I mean, when you think of the Marlins always playing in empty stadiums, that is a nice ballpark. They're playing Major League Baseball. The Major League Baseball is good, whether it's, you know, good enough to win more games than they lose, probably not, but you have all of the place to yourself. It's like an amusement park for, for just you and 3,000 people on a Wednesday afternoon.

I like when there's no one there. I get my manspread on.

And you have a super handsome, talented in-game host.

Make that a t-shirt too to see if it sells less. Manspread. Josh Appel. Get my manspread on.

You're supposed to do that when no— when everybody's there, Zazz.

Step your game up. Get my manspread on. Zaslo needs a lot of room. He needs a cavernous stadium with 40 seats empty.

He likes to be comfortable when he's watching.

So that he could get his man spread on, horrifying everybody.

I don't want to be anywhere near his man spread on.

Don't worry, he'll be off in the corner.

How is Sid Rosenberg being purple not the worst thing we've envisioned today?

The worst thing we envisioned today is a defensive line that features Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett.

How was that allowed to happen? I want to shake my fist at somebody. Why do they get all the good players? Smarter. What do you mean? That was available to everybody. Apparently not.

Just like Luka wasn't available to everybody.

Since when? Why didn't anybody tell us? When the— did this slip through the cracks when the NFL Network and the ESPN information people had to get all their information tight? And they say, hey, you got that Miles Garrett thing?

Yeah, I got the Miles Garrett thing. No worries. Do you think David Sampson could be on that defensive line and it would still be the best defensive line in football. You know what's more horrifying?

That manspread looking like Sid Rosenberg. Raz, your manspread looks like Sid Rosenberg?

Well, if he doesn't manspread.

Mike Ryan just asked the best question that we've asked around here in football since how many yards would a shopping cart with a mannequin arm have at the end of the season if Peyton Manning was running your offense. We all agreed it would be Dallas Clark.

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