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So how we feeling today? It's Tuesday. Chris was not here yesterday. We know Monday Chris is a shit show, so usually Tuesday morning he'd be good to go. It's like we're gonna get a really good version. But we were confused yesterday, Chris Cody, because You are out on Monday, so does that mean we skip right to, you know, Tuesday Chris, who we like, or is today essentially your Monday and you're not going to be really good?

Well, I did go to Epcot over the weekend, so it's definitely going to be a Monday Chris. Now granted, my Monday, I was not at Epcot. That was not yesterday. Yesterday was travel back day, so I had a little bit of a buffer, but I feel like it's still going to be a Monday Chris, so be prepared.

Drive, or did you take the Brightline?

Little B-Line.

Okay.

Really? Yeah, that's a treat.

That's nice not having to make the drive back from Disney unless your beeline back gets delayed for 2 hours and then you're sitting there being like, I could have just drove and I'd be halfway home.

You killed somebody, didn't you?

No, I did not. Somehow it was the most packed. It was usually Brightline's a smooth experience. It was my first time dealing with the delay on Brightline and the place was packed. I was sitting on the floor for a couple of hours.

Darwin's hand. You know what, Billy Corbin, shut up. You got to be an idiot to get run over by a train. There, I said it. There's alerts. They ring bells. Stay off the tracks.

There's a train coming.

There's a train coming.

When these things go down, let's not cross anymore. Yeah, that's a good barometer.

It's not like someone's just casually walking down the street and a train just smashes into them. That's not what happens.

It's not the end of Back to the Future 3 where the train just appears from out of nowhere. And even then, even then the gates came down and the bells went off.

You know, Billy, you got your priorities out of whack. We should be pro-public transit. And I understand, look, the Brightline and how it came about, like you can dig into it, that's alright. But rail travel is not a bad thing, alright? And getting run over by a train is especially hard to do in this day and age.

They call it the murder train, but I don't believe it's ever committed murder.

Never.

It's an embarrassing way to die. I mean, if we're being honest. Now, I feel bad for anyone who's been hit by a train and died. Clearly. But in the— if I get hit by a train and die, I wanna massage my obit a little bit. Like, I wanna explain—

Write it for us.

You know, just like, I don't know, the train veered off the track.

Okay, yeah.

For example.

I'm with you.

I'm running in a field and all of a sudden a train off the track is chasing me.

Running in a field with orphans that you have helped basically find new homes.

Yeah.

This is the last little party for the orphanage because we're shutting the orphanage down. All the orphans are done. Greg Cody did it. He placed all the orphans, and while he was getting ready to light the candles on the cake, one for each orphan who had found a new home, the train derailed.

Derailed.

And then rolled, rolled, rolled until it got to the middle of the field, and just as Greg was looking up, and the kids were like ready for their first slice.

Yeah, and there were a flock of nuns who were about to be hit by the train, so I pushed all the nuns out of the way.

Yeah, I've never read an obituary that goes quite like that.

I mean, generally leave out.

The editor's gonna, to have a look-see. Look, you can slip on a subway. That's a different type of death. I won't knock you as much if you die via subway or Metrorail. Things can happen.

Because you're in a confined area.

Right, but yeah.

And also, people push.

Yeah, and there's no rails there. But the conventional train—

You know about those pushers?

The conventional train with rail work road guards and whatnot. Come on. What year is this? And most of the time that's happening, it's because someone's trying to pull some sort of insurance scam and they didn't get out in time or something like that. Stop the insurance scams. Don't worry about the train.

You said, "What year is this?" and I'm trying to think, has there ever been a year where people get caught off guard by something going choo choo from miles away?

I'm sure at some point there was a tipping point like, "Ah, we should probably block this intersection." I'm sure, you know, the Model T was putt-putting around like, "Oh, I could see where this is an issue. We've had a handful of bad experiences." But since, you know, we started having the good old-fashioned American infrastructure that we've come to know and love, and you got all these bells and whistles. I mean, how you getting killed by these trains? I know they're moving a little faster, but the alerts also moved along in lockstep.

Talk to me!

So again, we are assuming the 2-hour delay had to have been for murder, right? Or excuse me, excuse me, for vehicular manslaughter.

It was wild because they got so backed up that like when I took off, there was like a train gonna go out the next like 10 minutes. It was supposed to be every hour.

Yeah.

And there was some delay where I was supposed to go off at like 9:30. I didn't go off till 12 and then there was one at 12:30 and 12:45.

Chris, was it your decision or was it your wife's decision? Like, whose decision was to take Brightline?

Well, we're doing it on the— we liked it on the way up because we were going, you know, whose decision was it though?

So we know who to blame.

The joint decision.

Joint decision.

That way you can, you know, they have a— if you get the premium, you get like an open bar on the way up.

Smoke the joint just before the decision.

Whoa.

I'll never understand the cars that stop on the train tracks. Like, I'll be at the stoplight and you got the car— like, I'm not saying the bars are down, you know, yet, but the cars that will stop on the tracks, like, like there's traffic and traffic lights backed up.

And so instead of just waiting on this side of the tracks, like, no, I've got to close that gap. I have to close the gap, right?

I almost, I almost think to myself, I hope a train comes. Like, I, I don't understand.

You stop short?

Of the track? Yeah, of course.

I'll be on the track sometimes.

What?

Yeah, we found them.

Yeah, yeah.

Why would you do that?

Because especially— and Mike knows because it's in his area too— 97th and Kendall, right before the Palmetto, there's a train there that only goes by twice a day, once at like 10 o'clock in the morning and once about like 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah, I do, because my parents— my in-laws live right there. But that night, that light is notoriously short. So if I'm not over on the tracks, I'm not making it.

You're not going to make the light.

Yeah, and I need to make the light because I got to go.

That train's not killing people though.

It is.

It's just the Brightline.

Because the Brightline. Was it because it's new? I don't get it.

I don't get it. Because it's faster? I don't understand. I don't get it. I don't understand how you die via train.

Maybe, maybe someone tied you up, you know, to the tracks.

Oh, but that's what I would be doing.

I would be mustached and have a top hat.

That would be the headline. Unless Billy Corbin's across it, then he'd still find a way to blame the damn train.

So, Chris, you went to Epcot. Where else did you go?

That's it. Just Epcot.

Just Epcot.

Visited my wife's family friends up there the next day.

And as a kid, Epcot was always like the last park I wanted to go to.

And then you turn 21 and it's like, Epcot's kind of good.

Chris, was this an adults-only thing?

Yeah, it was a joint bachelor party.

Oh, you saw AJ Burnett?

I did. I ran into AJ Burnett.

No wonder he took the Brightline.

AJ Burnett.

Exactly.

Yeah, I know. I was in England in the pub. Like, and we started in Mexico, so we were, you know, by the time you get to the pub, you are—

great pub.

You are friendly.

Did you say anything to him?

It was basically like 20 of us. And I, of course, as Tony knows, no one spots somebody out in the wild better than me.

I mean, he's all tatted up.

I know that's true.

No, but, Chris, you don't get it, though. Chris, we went to the Super Bowl together. We've been to a bunch of—

I just have an eye.

He's got an eye like a sniper. He's like, oh, you see that guy right there?

So I have—

I'm good at it too, actually.

I go up to my buddies and I go, it's not very often in your life when AJ Burnett's right behind you. And then they like both like, Oh my God. And then I actually did the— because I was like, let's not do this to him. So as we're walking out, I didn't want to do the whole—

you do the—

I do the big fan, AJ, little dap, and I walk out. And then my friends, my friends are the biggest jerks. And then I walk out and leave. And then 10 seconds later, Chris, come back. It's like one of my stupid friends is like, this kid works for a podcast. You should go on. The next thing I know, I'm being summoned back over by one of my friends being like, 'Hey Chris, you should get him on your pod!' And I'm just so mortified.

I literally—

I tried to wave it off like, 'No, no, I already said hello. Please don't make me come back.

The interaction was good.

I don't want to ruin it.' I have 10 people being like, 'No, seriously, Chris, come back.' And then it's just this awkward thing where AJ was being so nice. He's just like, 'Yeah, DM me, I'll come on.' And I'm just like, 'Sure, dude.' Which, we should have him on. It's not that I don't want him on, I was just so mortified by that whole thing.

DM him right now.

Do it. Do it, you coward.

Hey, right now.

All right, I will.

See if you get a hold of him. We'll get him on the show today.

Today?

Yeah.

Damn him right now.

Come to think of it, I think I saw AJ Burnett at Universal one time. I think I have a picture with him like 15 years ago.

Does he live in Orlando?

I swear to God, I'm gonna ask my wife.

What you tend to do when you're in a group like this and you see a celebrity—

he's a Disney adult—

you check, you look up the net worth and you're like, man, he probably goes to Disney whenever he wants. That dude made a lot of money.

You think he's had the annual pass?

I'm just saying.

Let me tell you something. The Lopez twins, I just saw this weekend they went to Disneyland again. I tell people all the time, like, yo, they are living their wildest dreams. Like, they have a house on the property here at Disney World. And so everyone's like, wow, so they made all that money and got to go to Disney all the time. They were going to Disney before they played in the NBA. Like, their family trip would go to Disneyland every year. The brothers—

so they were destined to be Disney adults no matter what.

No matter what. Like every year.

You know what Disney Adult is, Greg?

No, but I'm marveling at the idea that you need pro athlete money to go to Disney World. I mean, anybody can go.

Have you seen— when's the last time you went to Disney World?

It's been a year. It's been a few years.

What would you guess the price, the get-in prices for a Disney park these days?

Basic? Basic get-in?

Which we know everybody has to then buy the FastPass, but okay.

Okay, per day, I'm gonna say roughly $75.

Oh my God!

Greg.

You are out of touch.

Greg, you think Bob Iger's buying the Lakers and charging $75?

You are so out of touch.

At the door? Hell no.

It's a lot closer to $200 than $75.

What? Yeah. Give us another—

Come on. Waa waa waa waa waa!

Thank you. What if we break a window?

$75? That'd be amazing if it was $75.

Greg, that's lunch.

Okay. Exactly.

Family of 4, you're— and this is— obviously you have to get the FastPasses because you have kids. Family of 4, you are well over $1,000.

I don't get the FastPasses. I tell my kids, hey man, we're game planning the day. We're running straight, we're running plays and stuff like, okay, 40 minutes away. Yeah. Oh, it's all crazy. And then don't let a ride be shut down because now we got our eye on that ride.

We're running action.

Oh, absolutely.

Floppy.

Absolutely, man. But like, here's the deal, because for years my kids go to Disney wherever they want. Dad worked for Disney, got myself a little pass.

Yeah.

Show up, me, 3 kids. Let's go in.

Da da da.

Free parking. 25, 30% off of concessions, off of merch, all that stuff.

So like, where do you make magic?

Yeah.

And then you see that, I say ESPN, and they're like, whoa, welcome home.

They're waiting.

They would be waiting for me to say something like the Disney Store at this mall over here. I'm like, no, I have a real job.

The free parking.

Well, first time I went with my pass and she said, where do you make magic? I was so fucking confused.

It's in the bedroom.

What does that mean?

What to say?

Why do they ask, where do you make magic? I don't get it.

It's the Disney way of asking, where do you— where are you?

Where do you work?

In the Miami Heat Radio Network.

Studios.

Okay. Oh, I get that now. What costs more for a family of 4, a day at Disney or a day at, say, a Heat game? Is it comparable?

Oh no, Disney a lot more.

Disney a lot more.

A lot more. A lot more. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah.

I mean, look, Heat games are obviously very expensive, but, you know, you could do it economically if you want to.

You don't have to— like, here's the deal.

You don't have a lot of choices with Disney.

Yeah. For a Heat game, I don't have to get great seats. I can get okay seats that are still expensive. But then the concessions, there are things that are semi-affordable. Disney, everything is expensive and it's all made to influence your children to say, "Daddy, I want that!" And again, luckily for me, I had my kids desensitized and known, "Hey, now, we're not getting everything over here. Just pick one thing or whatever." But it is, it's all meant to tug at the heartstrings and the purse strings at the same time, kind of like, Geppetto, just right.

Okay. Do they still have the giant turkey thing?

Of course.

The emu leg.

Yeah.

Yeah, of course.

I'm mortified sending this message, by the way.

But he told you to.

I know I'm doing it. I'm just saying I don't feel good about this.

Well, tell us what the message says, please.

Hey, AJ. Oh, great meeting you the other day at Epcot. What else? I got to run.

I got to go.

Any shot you want to jump on the podcast we talked about any time before 11:30 Eastern works for us. We can do any day this week if today doesn't work.

But Chris, also stop downplaying it like you're doing out of the basement. It's the Dan Levitart Show. It's a pretty big show. Are you—

are you—

I think you need to mention it's the Dan Levitart Show.

Yeah, I assume that was said to him before I was—

if he said my buddy does a podcast, that means he has no idea that you work for the Dan Levitart Show.

He's probably super familiar with your dad and Dan because they were around the park plenty.

Greg, am I wrong?

Wait, hold on, around the park plenty may be stretching. I have met AJ Burnett.

No, but in like Oh, like when he was pitching for the Marlins.

Danny used to be in the clubhouse back then.

Yeah, when he was pitching for the Marlins, you were seen there more often.

More often, you're right.

Greg, have you written anything about AJ Burnett in your career?

Uh, I think back when he was—

Threw a no-hitter.

Of course, yeah.

He threw a no-hitter.

The ol' 8-walk no-hitter.

So Chris, this is what you do. You pull up your dad's old columns talking about AJ Burnett in a positive fashion. Yeah. My dad has fond memories of covering you as a Marlins.

That's right.

And he'd love it if you were on the show.

What's he doing now, AJ?

Going to Epcot with his family, living life.

Is he like retired at age 40?

No, he's actually pitching tomorrow.

Yeah, yeah, he's in the 4 spot for the Pods.

I meant retired from public life.

I did reference one thing to him that he hit me with the like, if let's all play the game, if I'm gonna reference something to AJ Burnett where he's like, oh, this thing that everyone can't— like everyone brings it up every time they talk about it. What's the thing I'm bringing up? It's not the no-hitter. Come on, guys.

He hit the pickup truck.

There it is.

Yeah.

I'm like, he's the guy that hit the window in the truck.

Smashed the window in the truck.

And he just, he did the thing of like, oh, of course you want to talk about that.

But anyways, don't mention that.

Dan Levitar.

I don't think it's strange for me, but like.

Mike Ryan. Oh boy. This is the Dan Levitar Show.

Here's the lead from a Greg Cody column. Trade AJ Burnett for a bat and a Band-Aid.

Oh no.

No.

It's the first thing that comes up when I Google Greg Cody AJ Burnett.

AJ Burnett.

What year?

I'm not denying it, but that cannot be true.

Let me check.

Hold on.

'02, '04, '05.

Chris, don't mention your father anymore. Never mind.

Is it too early to judge the season a failure? By Greg Cody.

I mean, AJ Burnett did have a sour exit from the organization, so that was probably Greg piling on a little bit there.

I would say this, Greg, in the moment, you are exactly the columnist that this market needed to hold people accountable.

Yeah, right.

You were our white knight.

Thank you very much.

The problem is now, as a member of the show, it's working against us horribly because how are we gonna get any— we can't get Dan Marino on.

You're not the hero we wanted on. You're the hero we needed.

Yeah, was the hero we needed back then, but not right now.

I like to pretend Dan and I have a pretty good relationship, but, eh, you know, that kind of thing.

I mean, how— we framed it, of course.

Hold on a second. We don't think Marino thinks very highly of you is what you're saying.

Well, the last time we were in each other's company was, um at the introductory for the new head coach and GM, which was like 7 months ago. And we were both out there and we schmoozed a little bit. You know, we shook hands, we pretended like all is well. But then I've asked him to be on my podcast a couple of times and his, his guy politely turns it down. So I have to think that he doesn't do anything. Yeah, that's true.

Do they, do they say, oh, Dan's not got time or nah, he's not going to do that? Street?

No.

Do you get that? He's politely declining.

Yeah, he's politely declining. Yeah, it's okay. It's fine. Is it? Yeah, I have nothing against Marino.

You get super sensitive though when people say no to your podcast.

Well, it's okay. I don't ask twice. Let's put it that way.

Let's go, Lowell!

Bench Mike Lowell. Drop Juan Pierre in the order. Banish Al Leiter to the bullpen. Trade AJ Burnett for a bat and a Band-Aid. Do something today!

Yeah, those are '05 headlines for sure.

It was a different time. You're trying to sell some papes.

Yep, that team had a lot of expectation.

Yeah.

Speaking of which, did anyone— so I'm not watching the Marlins every night, but last night I was watching the Marlins. Jeremy convinced me, big series with the Phillies. And so I'm in the Zazzle Mansion family room and I got— I'm watching my stories obviously on the big TV. Greg, Monday Night Raw's on.

Sure.

And how big is it? Uh, my, my, my big TV in the Zazzle Mansion family room is not that big.

Yeah, 65.

No, I think it's 55.

Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Like, I don't know. I'm always tempted to get a bigger one because I know it's— I should probably have a bigger one. I've had this TV for 10 years, but it's, it's good TV. Like, I don't know why I need another one.

I don't believe in getting rid of TVs that work.

It's a great TV.

We just did that.

Yeah.

Yeah. We traded up and we moved this set to that wall.

Yeah.

Well, that's okay. That's okay.

That's okay. You can get demoted. You won't get fired in my house.

No, no, I did not fire the TV set.

Yeah, I don't have anywhere to put this 55— like, there's no other room or bedroom that I would put this 55-inch set in, so it would— like, I'd be getting rid of a good TV somewhere there, and I don't see the point in that.

Do you have an outdoors, like a patio?

I do, and I have a TV out there, yeah.

I love that Jazz and I both refer to it as a TV set, even though it really hasn't been a set. A set is like the old Magnavox console. Yeah, it was like this long 10 years ago.

Wood had legs that were standing outwards.

Before this TV, I very famously in the Zazzle Mansion family room, I still had a projection TV.

Oh wow. How is that working out?

I loved it. Yeah, I loved it.

Got a nice blank wall for that to project onto or—

No, no, no, no, no. You don't put it on the wall.

You talk about— Oh, I'm sorry. It was like the first flat screen, right? Yeah.

And it was huge.

Yeah. Yeah.

You would roll it. You would roll it.

Yeah.

If you needed to, you could roll it out of the room.

What'd you do with it?

We put it on the curb.

No, it's going to be worth something one day, man. Okay. It's going to be worth something. All those TVs are worth something.

Jeremy, get out of here.

Not anymore.

Marlins.

Look at him sneaking in. Jeremy sneaking in because I mentioned how I watched the Marlins last night.

Oh, no.

I'll call you if we need you, Jeremy.

I thought it was because he heard AJ Burnett's name. He's not even working today, how's he here?

Came from his house when he heard AJ Burnett.

Did you send him the picture?

He spawned in right when someone mentioned Marlins. Waiting for us. So, I got the Marlins on the smaller TV in the Zaslo Mansion family room, and the Marlins are— they're down 4-1. Okay, you can bring it— alright, bring him in. The Marlins are down 4-1 in the 7th inning, 2 out, 2 strike, 2. And Javier Sanoja's at bat with bases loaded.

Tying run on first base.

Yeah, and it's a game that that the Marlins just haven't been able to put anything together. They're down 4-1, bases are loaded, and Sanoja hits one down the right field line, which is called foul. And if it were properly called, all 3 runners easily score. Okay. And you see on the replay, the Marlins immediately challenge Sanoja. You rarely see this type of emotion from a player. He, he is angry as he's running toward first base because he knows that ball was fair. They show the replay.

Uh-huh.

It's one of the worst calls you'll ever see.

And the umpire right in front of him and the umpire is 6, 7 feet from where it hits the line.

The, the ball. It's not one of those where like the chalk, you know, it gets dusted up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think the ball completely hits fair territory. It was—

I thought it hit the line.

I mean, it hit the line. Splitting hairs, clearly.

But that's the point.

Wait, what was his name?

Javier Sanoja. Am I saying his name wrong?

Sanoja.

Okay, whatever.

I was just—

50 cents.

All right.

Yeah.

And so the question here is not, are the Marlins going to win the challenge? They're going to win the challenge. It's how are they going to make a ruling here? You know, which has always been the thing when you add replay to baseball. So you can't just assume runners are going to score.

You know, it's one of those things where the umpire calls it Foul. So it's like the play stops, whereas if he were to let the play play on and then you can go back and reverse it. So he basically— you got to err on the side of calling that fair if it's close. That's the real mistake there.

This is sort of like the touchdown rule in football.

Let it play out.

Let it play out. Let it be a touchdown and you can always go back and change it.

I'm surprised that they actually have the rule that they can, you know what I mean? They call a play dead and they're actually doing the right thing of like, this is what would have happened. So we're just going to—

well, that was the initial debate when we added replay to baseball, which which is, are we just going to assume that runners— that, that the runner from second was going to score? Which, yeah, we can assume that. And we should also assume that the runner from first was going to score. But they did not grant the runner from first. They put the runner from first on second. They scored the other 2 runs to make it 4-3, which sucks. And Clayton McCullough comes out and just gets ejected immediately.

Instantly.

Yeah, immediately. And I kind of feel like in that spot Like, I know— so you get ejected if you argue balls and strikes immediately. I think you also get ejected immediately if you argue a replay, right? I think that's the same rule.

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, don't you just let the manager have his say when he clearly got screwed in that spot? Why does he get ejected?

Well, he kept yapping though after he was thumbed.

He—

he—

no, what I'm saying, he shouldn't have been thrown out. That's what I'm saying.

Probably.

He's the one who got screwed, right?

He— yeah, he Well, he did get screwed, but I think two things. Number one, the umpire who blew that call standing right there and watching it—

staring right at him—

should have been immediately fired from baseball.

He should have been ejected.

Rob Manfred should have materialized on the field and bum-rushed him off the field and out of the sport. Number two, I think the umpire ultimately made the right call to allow only two runs in, because if he allows all three runs in, then the other umpire is the one coming out and getting ejected and protesting.

Would he? Is that what would have— like, would that have happened?

I think so. And I think the safe call for the umpire was let 2 runs in, but not that third. I thought it was fair. Now my wife's watching the game with me. She's outraged like most, as she should be. But I think that it was the safe call.

I'm with my dad. Once the awful call is made, like our true beef here is just don't make that call. Once the call is made, I get where the rule has to be. It gets so subjective if it's just, all right, you know what, I've decided here that that runner on first you need— I know Jeremy's telling me that the rule actually states that—

Jeremy's dying to get in here.

Go ahead.

The rule is technically that it's up to interpretation of the umpire. So they're supposed to assume what was supposed to happen. Like you mentioned, in baseball you can't assume the double play. That's the way that earned runs end up factoring into games. But the way that that rule technically works is that the umpires decide where those runners end up. And so what they claim in this circumstance was with 2 outs, And Otto Lopez rounding second base. He was the runner from first, rounding second base.

This happens to be on the replay right now on one of our monitors here in the stream. I mean, is this the first time you're seeing this?

That's the first time I'm seeing the play. It clearly hits right.

Clearly fair ball.

Clearly fair.

Like, you rarely see—

I don't think it hit the line. I think it was totally in play.

Even, even if it hit the line, you never— like, these guys are normally so automatic about this call.

It's like he wasn't even paying attention to the umpire.

Shocking.

And he was looking right at it. He's right there.

Do they get eye checks every year? The umps, right? Because once you're like, you need corrective vision, you got to be out, right? That's it. That the whole job is being able to—

you got a union.

But I'm just saying the whole job is being able to see things. If you can't see, they kind of compromises your ability to do the job.

But the Marlins already had beef with the umpires at this point because in the half inning before that, John King was on the mound and it is monsooning. Like it is pouring rain to where after each pitch, John King is getting the ball back and throwing the ball out because the ball is too wet. He told the umpire, I can't feel the ball, I can't grip the pitch. And so multiple runners walked in that inning. They ultimately scored 2. It was a 2-1 game going into the bottom of the 6th inning. Now, the Marlins did score in the top half of the 6th, in part because it had started raining and Christopher Sanchez was not as sharp in that inning. Griffin Cohn drove in a run. So you gotta give them that. But it started raining hard, and because the radar said it will lighten up at some point, they didn't put the tarps on the field. But Clayton McCullough, in that half inning before, had to come out and talk to the umpires and be like, guys, what are we doing here? He can't grip the ball. He's— after every pitch, he's needing to discard the baseball even when he's throwing it for a strike and getting the ball back.

And so they were already frustrated with the umpires. Then to start that at-bat with Sunohara, Sunohara's walking into the box, they call him for a pitch clock violation on the hitter. So he starts the at-bat down 0-1 already, and it was the like second or third time in the game where the Marlins had been called for that, which I haven't seen basically all year long, having multiple of those called. So they're already frustrated with the umpires, and then this line drive ends up clearly fair, it's called foul, it costs them the run, they end up getting out of the inning. And in the end, look, the Marlins walked a bunch of hitters, their relief pitchers didn't help. Every time they scored a run, they allowed another run to come back.

One of the worst challenges you'll ever see.

Oh my God, it was awful. It was an awful challenge from Vodnik on the hill where it was a pitch.

It was 5 inches outside. He challenged the ball 4 that was called.

The ball was 6 inches, but it was seemingly just out of frustration at that point. Like, no, of course it was an awful, awful, awful decision. And to put your team in that spot, I can imagine there was a conversation after, like the pitchers on the Marlins. That might be the first challenge I've seen from a pitcher all year.

It was embarrassing.

They do not challenge as pitchers.

And clearly there was a level of frustration with the rain and everything that was going on. But even then, in the next half inning, as the Marlins had had all of these issues with the mound, now when the Phillies are on the mound, oh, we're going to change out the thing on the back of the mound so that they can, you know, kick out their spikes better so that that way the Phillies pitcher— like, it was over and over and over again, including the same umpire later in the next inning, a check swing Debatable. Debatable. Unreal Muto. And hey, no makeup call. Yeah, it's baseball.

All right, give me a makeup call. Thank you, Jeremy. Everybody, fun day.

Hey, thanks.

Well done.

Marlins got hosed.

There you go. Give it up for Jeremy. All right, MLB should give him the win.

So it was fair, it was foul. I wasn't listening to Jeremy.

It was fair, but it was really foul.

Gotcha.

You know, so it was foul but fair.

It was foul and then they made it fair, but, but that, that was foul.

Foul all over the place.

Javier Sanoja. Whatever. I'm not going to be embarrassed by that.

Javier Sanoja.

It's close. You were close.

Yeah, whatever. Javier Sanoja.

You have him like as being like Serbian or something. Okay, maybe I did.

Yeah, maybe he is.

Maybe Javier Sanoja. I don't know that he's not Serbian. I don't think I'm going to assume just by looking at somebody that I know what they're about.

That's a good point.

Javier Sanoja. I would never do that.

You don't see color. I like that about you.

Down, Levitar!

Jessica thinks you're pathetic.

I saw the look on her face. It can never be the lane to victory.

No, I think Jeremy's pathetic.

Jeremy, you should hear him back here.

It's so sad.

Most absurd theater kid basketball analysis line that I've ever heard from him.

Jeremy Tatché.

My dad was talking about the adjustments that Spo made and criticizing him last night. And Jeremy, just back here, his adjustments were spectacular.

It's just like they lost.

They're down 0-2.

This is the Dan Levatar Show.

Greg, you are, you are upset after the AP poll came out yesterday. The first AP poll of the college football season preseason came out 2 weeks after the coaches poll came out. Yeah, everyone likes the AP poll. We don't care about the coaches poll. And the Canes are ranked number 7. It's almost virtually the same. I think Texas and Notre Dame were flip-flopped between one and the other. You think the Hurricanes are ranked a little bit too low.

I do, and I was prepared for the AP poll because like you say, other polls have come out and, you know, ESPN rankings and blah blah blah. Everybody's a sheep, they're all lemmings, they all follow each other. So the thing is, let's rank UM about 7th. And the reason I think it's too low is, is for the simple facts. They're like, I don't think Indiana should be ranked particularly high, but they should be ranked high because they're the effing reigning champion. Miami's the reigning runner-up. Okay. Why should they be ranked appreciably lower than 2 when they're the number 2 team in the country returning? They scored big in the portal with another quality starting quarterback. Mario Cristobal has proved himself by this time. I just think they're low. If I'm taking the over-under on where they finish, I'm going to take the, the over on that. I don't— maybe Mike feels—

so you think they finish as like the 12th seed because higher?

No, higher in the ranking.

That is always confusing if, you know, like, like when we're at the draft, you know, you want to, you know, I want to get a higher pick. Well, what does that mean?

It's very confusing.

Yeah, that's true.

I do think they'll finish the season higher than 7, uh, in large part.

But you mean closer to 1 or a higher number?

Let's say better or worse.

I think they'll be better. Yeah, I think they'll be closer to 1. Uh, the main reason outside of them I think genuinely, even though they lost a good amount of talent, I think they replaced that talent, right? And they have developed some guys. I think I'm excited about the quarterback. I think Miami is more talented than they were last year. And right now Miami is only slotted to play one ranked team. So when you're trying to handicap, because every year with the exception of 2019, a team that is in the preseason top 10 ends up unranked. Last year we had 3 and then you have the, the nerve to say, I don't think Ohio State's going to be number 1 at the end of the season, everyone loses their mind. A big part of why Miami is positioned well is how weak the ACC is.

Right. And so if, if you're trying to analyze the, the mindset of the electorate, okay, I don't know how many voters there are, 80, 100, whatever. Is it that a lot of people don't quite trust Mario all the way yet? Is that A lot of people think they overachieved last year. Like, what explains number 7 to you?

The conference.

But, but the conference—

I'm just saying that the perception, that whole, the whole thing. If we were an SEC team, they'd probably be ranked 3rd.

Okay. Yeah, but.

All right. But that's a point for when we're trying to project whether or not they're, they're going to run through this schedule that they have. I understand the Big Ten is the best conference in America. I do. I think it can be simultaneously a little overrated, but also the best. I think this stuff will figure itself out. Ohio State has a tough schedule. Georgia has a tough schedule. Georgia, Texas. I don't see it like this is where the SEC thing does play. Even though Texas did improve their skill talent across the board, they spent a lot of money and acquired a lot of guys at flashy positions. But the things that were impeding them last year remain. Now, I think they underachieved last year and you can have your questions about Sark, But for them to just be slotted over Miami kind of disregards everything that we saw play out last season. So I'm with Greg, but I think that was the absolute floor. I would have gotten, you know, what, what is Texas A&M doing above us? We beat them, but we'll see. All this stuff is silly. I do hate how it frames the discussion for the entire season, but Miami is going to do its thing and Miami will be there in the end.

The place where— we talked a little bit about this yesterday— I mean, the place where the preseason polls I think do wind up meaning something sometimes, unfortunately it could be in a negative way. You know, if you got a team here who is being completely overestimated and you beat them the first week of the season, you get credit for beating a ranked team, right? When no, they weren't any good and the voters didn't know what they were talking about, or the beginning of the season, you beat a team that's not ranked and they end up finishing the season ranked. You don't get credit for beating a ranked team because we were all uninformed.

Or worse, if you lose to an unranked team and they end up being one of the best teams in the country, but at the time they were—

it's not a good loss.

It's not a good loss for you. But that's why I asked, do the polls actually matter?

Yes, I think it does as a result.

Yeah, but does it— they tell us that they take it into account when they're, when they're sorting through resumes, but the committee when the committee looks at it, we use the example of I lost to a team that was unranked. Well, that's a bad loss. But then at the end of the year, like, oh, that team actually went undefeated and they were one of the best teams in the country. The committee is like, well, but at the time they weren't. So no, they don't do that. They take it into account.

Yeah, it's kind of dumb. Like, wait, should I not beat this team because this team is ranked 22 right now? But if I beat them, then they cease being ranked.

Yes.

For Miami, you're trying to see how this season plays out. I think most people, they're, they're an underdog at South Bend, right? So I think most people are like, well, that's probably a loss. Well, if that's the loss, let's look at this resume. You're going to have a who did they beat discussion when it came— when it comes down to Miami this year as they're trying to rank these people. Now, they ultimately have to get to Charlotte. They've only been to Charlotte once. They have to win that game. If they win that game, they'll boost their resume likely against a ranked opponent. When I saw the rankings, Clemson, unlike the coaches poll, is unranked in the preseason AP poll. So that, that would have been the only other ranked team on their schedule looking at the start of the season. However, there's teams like Virginia Tech. That game at Clemson, we'll see that most people have LSU beating Clemson week 1, but by that time they could right the ship.

I'll be there for that.

Yeah. And Pitt, like, you have 3 teams that are going to be hovering around that. Will they be ranked? Will they not be? SMU and Louisville. I was glad to see Louisville ranked.

I'll be there for that.

You'll be there for that. All right. So I— all right.

If you say a game I'm going to be at, I'm going to tell you. I appreciate it.

But I do think Miami has to worry about the perception of their conference.

Right.

And the preseason just solidifies that, that this is a 2-conference world and the media is going to do its part and in pushing that narrative through, even though when it comes to the SEC, the emperor has no clothes.

And the ACC is must-win. You mentioned Charlotte. ACC, absolute must-win for Miami. They're such an overwhelming favorite this year, which they weren't last year, more so than last year. I think they get like, what, 165 out of 180 first-place votes to win the ACC. They have to win. As long as conference championship games continue to matter to the CFP, must-win ACC this year for Miami.

Is SMU the next best— supposed to be the next best ACC team?

Yeah, according to these rankings.

Been a pain in the ass for the Hurricanes.

I want to know the one AP voter that voted Miami number 1.

Let's get to the bottom of it.

Greg, you got to find out.

Let's get Pablo on that.

Who's the AP guy?

He's busy.

Who's the local AP guy?

I think it's Jordan McPherson, who, you know, he might—

he knows, he knows what he did last year.

I know.

He knows what he did.

He knows what he did last year.

Trying to make up for it.

He knows what he did last year.

Compensating.

Let's say, let's You made Miami's path a little bit harder, old Jordan.

I'm going to—

and he had a whole bunch of excuses.

I'm going to—

he was right here. Don't worry. Yeah, I told him. That was an on-site. When the kids say on-site, that was on-site.

You told him, you know what you did? Yeah, on our side.

Yeah, he was right here, right there.

He knows what he did.

Yeah, there was a ranking that we could have— that we could have used, and he had Notre Dame ahead of Miami.

Our own guy.

My own guy.

My dad's going to text him.

We're going to see if it's him and tell him we know what he did.

Javier Sanoja.