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Chris, your father just looked me dead in the eye and threatened to write a tell-all book. And I looked at him, I'm like, well, you've written two books already, and our audience has helped make them bestsellers, and Stugatz's book is killing it. Yeah. The audience has made all... We are single-handedly reviving the...

Read a book in your hands industry. Right now, one has to assume that Kindle is doing better than just books, right? Just than all books in terms of the publishing industry versus Kindle. Kindle has to be doing better, right? I would be very curious about that. I'm going to find out from you.

I'm going to ask my source at my publishing house to get that information. Let's do it this way. How many people do you know that own a Kindle versus how many people do you know that own one book? Hmm.

I know a lot of people who own books, but only because I know a lot of old people. I've never seen a bookshelf full of Kindles, but I've seen a bookshelf full of books. Good point. Thank you, Billy. You have a source inside the book community, huh? I do, yeah. Really? He can give me pretty much that exact answer, which I'm curious about. But I want to say one thing, and I don't mean to offend the Kindle crowd. But a Kindle is a bookshelf that you don't see. What do you mean?

What are you talking about? It's a digital book show. Bunch of books in there. Well, if you're listening to a book, you're not reading a book. I'm not doing that. Yeah, we're not doing that. You haven't read a book. Chris, did you nail your Kindle to the wall on accident? Can you not have multiple books in your Kindle? If you get different Kindles...

I think you guys are screwing with me here. I don't know because I've never had Kindle. What's the limit for books in my Kindle that I can have? Maybe two. Yeah. Maybe. I would assume that it's just the number that you can download. Two. I want the book in my hand. I still want to do it that way. Thank you. I don't like reading books on computers. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show.

Do you like reading books on your computer? Because I can't do it. And I don't know if this is just creature of habit. You like what you like. You're familiar with what you're familiar with. And then you get to a certain age and you don't want to change anymore. But I've tried Kindle and I don't like it. I don't. That's not how I want to read a book. And I don't know.

If this has something like taste and texture, where I'm speaking to a bunch of young people perhaps that don't know or care what it feels like to have a book in your hand because that's not the way they do it. And so because they're not familiar with the way I do it, the Kindle's the most normal thing in the world. Right. I like the tactile feel of actually turning a page, the sound of pages being turned, and...

And also, the bookmark. You know, you can have an official, actual bookmark. I just rip a corner off a piece of paper, and that's a bookmark. You know, you create your own bookmark. Yeah. Right. And it enhances the enjoyment of reading an actual book. You don't fold a corner over at the page? The old dog. Yeah. I don't like it. Doesn't respect the book. I like a pristine page. Right. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

For sure. I like to feel the print of the letters also sometimes. It's almost my own version of Braille. I don't know how to read Braille. I respect anyone who can. Right. And sometimes I'll go over the pages and just kind of feel it. Sometimes the words, I don't know if it's the word that's sharp or the ink that's sharp, but sometimes I feel like a little cut almost on my finger when you go over it. Yeah. I've never done that. Oh, you got to. Are you reading off of a literal stone tablet?

No. My Kindle. Oh, okay. That reminds me that our bathroom signs here in our offices have Braille, but they don't actually have texture to it. Yeah. It's just Braille that's printed on. Huh. Yeah.

You can only see it. Yeah. That's not great, but I don't believe we've ever had anyone here who would need to use it. Isn't that the lamestream media? Just the optics of us caring.

But you're saying that metaphorically, right? On optics? Because it's not... It looks like we're prepared. It might be like building code required to do it, but I guess the follow-through of actually making it...

Braille. Like for real. As opposed to something that looks like Braille. But if it's only Braille to sight, it is fundamentally useless. That's right. Yeah, but it's there. That's the important part. It's not just virtue signaling. It's only virtue signaling. Like it doesn't have any other practical purpose. You got it. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Stugatz.

Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. I don't know how much we have left like this in sports now that Nick Saban has left Alabama and Floyd Mayweather is no longer fighting. But tuning in to watch a team lose...

and tuning in to a game that you don't care about at all because you're assuming that Cooper Rush can't do anything, but you do enjoy laughing at the disgraced brand of the Dallas Cowboys that now is at the bottom of a division with a team that just benched its quarterback for financial reasons more than football reasons. And we're going back to Tommy DeVito. This is not what Jerry Jones had in mind when he said they were all in offensively.

on this season. But people are talking about his team, Dan, and he cares about that deeply. They're talking about his team, but they're talking about his team in the worst ways, and now we will go back to the conversation of should the old man be in charge? Because his fingerprints are all over that, and his ego is all over everything there more, and they're broken. It's not just that they're physically broken at quarterback. We've been questioning that team plenty before they gave that quarterback a chance.

the money. So now what? Because the Dallas Cowboys season is over. They exist last night on primetime television only for us to laugh at them. They have now lost, I told you this before,

It had never happened in the history of the sport. Down 20 plus five straight home games. Now it's six. Like, you don't see anything this bad in that sport. It's the Cowboys and it's Jacksonville. And it's not even the Panthers anymore this way where it's like, oh, you're playing at home and you can't come from within 20 at home? Like, you don't have a chance against real football teams.

When you ask what's next, they're a year removed from being 12-5. So whether or not you think Jerry should give up power of that team and decision-making power and overseeing everything, he's not going to do it. So what's the point of having that conversation? They are a year removed. With Jerry doing it,

from being 12-5. When you say what's next, Jerry's going to have to change the way his approach to hiring head coaches. Like he's tried it with Mike McCarthy. He's tried it with Puppets.

Now be the puppet. Let a guy like Belichick walk in and do what Bill Belichick does. He didn't like that when he did it with Parcells. They finished 12-5 three straight years, but McCarthy's beginning to resemble Wanstead to me. That's fair. Wanstead was going 10-6 and 11-5 as well, but...

But what? The thing just kept getting worse on his watch until it collapsed with a 4-12. Yeah, when you keep having great regular seasons and then don't do a lot in the playoffs, it almost makes the hurt worse. The only asterisk on behalf of Mike McCarthy is that his starting quarterback is lost for half the season, which is not nothing. But last night, they're behind 20-10,

fairly late in the game. They have a chance to go for a field goal to make it 20-13, a one-score game, and he goes for it on like fourth and 13 or something and doesn't make it. That's a bad coaching decision. It just is. In retrospect, and even then, I'm saying, be behind by one score. Give yourself a chance. You got four...

I'm shocked that Jerry Jones hasn't fired Mike McCarthy. He told Diana Rossini that he's not doing that in season, that he won't do it in season. That gives him everything he wants. It gives him attention. It gives him the feeling of power, that he's making a bold move. I don't know what the forward path is with the status quo.

He should fire his structural engineer first because there's pieces of metal falling off the ceiling. A lot of people making the jokes about the roof falling in, right? Because that looked like it could have been much worse than it actually was. Just a piece of metal falling from the

from the sky. And then there was a second one that they had to bolt down on the catwalk before the game could start because they were afraid that one was going to fall. Is this just debris from whatever it is that they were doing for Jake Paul and Mike Tyson? Like, is this like, why would the roof be falling in the middle of a Monday night game? It was apparently the first time that they had opened up the roof in quite some time. So I guess over the extended break from actually opening it, some pieces fell.

Where are you guys on the Houston Texans? They're one of the good teams, right? As long as their wide receivers are healthy, they're one of the good teams? For me, they're not the top four in the AFC. I think they're a good team that is very, very far from being a great team. Although Joe Mixon. Very, very far from being a good team? I think they're far from being a great team. I don't think they're Baltimore. I don't think they're Kansas City. Do they have the same record as Baltimore right now? They made it.

to the divisional round last year. Yeah, it could be. I don't think they're very far. Maybe I'm more bullish than them, but I think them with their full complement of receivers, I know Diggs is injured now too, but Nico Collins does make a difference there. Yeah, he does. A big difference, yeah. Both teams are 7-4, Dan. Yeah, he's really good. And Joe Mixon, to me, has been the difference in that offense. He has reinvented. He's having his best season at like age 28, which is ancient for a running back. But

But you're right. If they still had Stephon Diggs, they would be an awesome offense. All right, what's Cody doing here between good team? I want to do this because I think you're all doing it. I think everyone listening to this does it, where they're saying they do their brackets and their tiers. What is he doing where he's saying that the Houston football team...

is just okay, is what he's saying. He's saying they're very, very far from being one of the best teams in the league, and I don't think they are. I like to say they're good with a chance to be great. That's what I like to say. They're good. There's no doubt that they're good. They have a chance to be great if everyone's healthy. I think they're second-tier good in the AFC in a category with the Los Angeles Chargers. I don't think they're Baltimore and Kansas City.

I think we need to go through their schedule, Dan, and determine the good wins and then the good losses. Because they have a lot of bad wins. Like they've beaten the Patriots and the Jaguars and the Bears. But they also have one really good win against the Bills. So what do you do with that? I don't know what Cody is doing with the Chargers, okay? This was a stat Adam Schefter put out over the weekend. The Chargers went into the weekend allowing 13.1 points per game.

It is the first time, I'm sorry, the second time in 20 years that a first-time coach has had the lowest point total on defense. The other time that it happened was when Harbaugh also was with the 49ers in 2011 or 2014.

And I didn't think of him as a defensive coach. Do you guys think of Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh, as a defensive coach? Because he's a quarterback, I think of him as an offensive and a quarterback coach. But he's now had these two defenses, and I don't think what Cody's doing is fair to the Chargers. I think the Chargers are a very good football team with the best defense statistically going into the weekend in the league.

I'm looking at the league and the standings. Not that I need to because I know the AFC. Buffalo's better. Pittsburgh is better for me. Baltimore is better. And Kansas City is better. I think any of those four teams would be favored over Houston on a neutral field. Jim Harbaugh came into the league as a guy reputed to do really well with quarterbacks. He had Josh Johnson in San Diego when he was in the college ranks ascending. Then he had Andrew Luck. And then what he did with Colin Kaepernick. So that became his identity a little bit. But then in college, he showed you the type of

football that he wants to play, which is very complimentary of a hard-nosed defensive style. The Chargers also have a better record because they already had the bye, so they're 7-3 as opposed to 7-4. Right.

But you do have to factor in the conference. I think that's fair. The AFC is a much more difficult conference. If the Chargers were playing in the NFC, I think a lot of people would feel like they have a much better chance of making a deep run in the playoffs. I'm a big Texans guy, though, to put a bow on it. Will Anderson being in and out of the lineup, I think defensively they have enough pieces. I really highly rate their head coach and his ability to scheme on the defensive side of the ball. And they have offensively a ton of weapons when they have

a full compliment or close to a full compliment of those weapons I think they're as threatening as anyone inside that conference to pluck one of those guys that you consider tier one when they don't though CJ Stroud has proven he right now can't get them past it without all of his weapons that is true but it's been a season and a half so give him a minute we've changed the way oh I mean we're not we're not writing him off it's just CJ Stroud has regressed slightly his sophomore season and he's shown that without all of his weapons healthy he struggles a little bit there is no question about

that he has not been the sensation this year the first half of the season that he was uh last year but i i just caution everybody about how we're doing some of these measurements on these quarterbacks more quickly than we have ever done them so that anthony richardson has played like nine games and we're already like nine games total college pro everything i'm

And we're yanking him in and out and making assessments very quickly on this stuff. C.J. Stroud was the sensation of last season. Raises the expectations and as soon as his people get hurt, now Cody's saying they're very, very far from being a good team when they've got the same record as Baltimore. Like that's how it happens when we start moving around. Oh, the quarterback's playing a little less

Well, yes, you did say they're very far from being one of the top tier teams. I think you said very, very far, actually. Let's replay the tape on that one. I don't know about that. Replay the Kindle. He said they're good, not great, which is not crazy. I mean, everyone can't be great. I think they're good, not great. They're second tier to me. Okay, the thing that I find interesting about how it is that we do these evaluations is if you're willing to concede to me,

that a team in this sport is one of the good ones, one of the 10 you think are good, then they're close. Okay, that's fair. Well, because, I mean, all you've got to do is end up winning small sample size games, and next thing you know, you can be one of these teams that, you know, Eli Manning's its way into a Super Bowl. I'm just saying, for me, Houston is not a great team. I think Denver would have a great chance against Houston.

You know, I mean, they're there. You lost me. I think Cincinnati, the way Joe Burrow's playing, I don't care what their record is. They would have a chance against Houston. Yeah. Bo Nix has been good. He's been really good. He's the it guy now. You know, he went from being should they have drafted him at all? And now he's the it guy. I haven't looked at the offensive rookie player of the year betting odds lately, but Nix is shooting up the charts. Greg, would you be surprised if the Texans were playing in the AFC championship game?

I would. But how? Because I think there's four teams better. Okay, but if someone gets surprised? Yeah, that's happened. I mean, it would surprise anybody if Houston knocked off a Pittsburgh? Yeah, it would surprise me. Okay. I mean, but they'd have to knock off a Pittsburgh and a Buffalo. That's, I think, what surprises Greg, is they'd have to go through two good teams to get to the AFC Championship. They beat Buffalo already. I mean...

Do you guys agree with the assessment that if you're one of the top 10 teams, you're close? This season, with parity the way it is, I would agree with that. I don't think they're a bad team. I don't think they're an average team. I think they're a good team. But is there really a long shot among the good teams? Well, the Vikings are a top 10 team. Do you feel like they're close?

See, I don't think the Vikings have any real shot at the championship. I agree. I don't like their quarterback, and I've told you I don't like their quarterback, and I don't like any of the teams who don't have a good quarterback to win a bunch of playoff games and playoff games on the road and then win the Super Bowl.

Bowl. What I'd like to see is Lamar Jackson get to the Super Bowl so he can have the comfort of playing against an NFC team because the teams that he plays against a lot, like Pittsburgh, he does not play against well and he ravages everybody in the NFC. He could get the Lions though. I think we're coming down too hard on Greg for saying that they're a Tier 2 team and his

I think tier one is two to three teams. Greg's being fair. Houston's right there among those upper level tier two teams. But to get to an AFC championship game, assuming they win their division, all they have to do is win one road game against the likes of a Pittsburgh or a Kansas City. I think the AFC has shown you even Kansas City is –

as good as they've been. They're in tight games. If you play Lamar Jackson in the playoffs, as Houston did last year, that can be close, as Lamar has shown throughout his playoffs. So I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility at all. The question is, if the Texans are in Tier 2, are the Dolphins also in Tier 2, Greg? Because are you putting them in Tier 3? Yeah, they're in Tier 3. Oh, okay.

Even though they're about to be 6-7, right? If they win Thanksgiving night in Green Bay, they're the sneaky tier 2 team. I can't believe what I just saw. It was out of the corner of my eye, right? It's Billy and Stugatz, and it's a bit like whack-a-mole. It's like, oh.

Tear talk? Yes. It took us 20 years to have a tear. What he did was not tear talk. What he did was say very, very far from being one of the best teams. There were two varies. That's a different conversation. It's a different conversation. The tears is one conversation. I'm not doing that with you guys. But if you guys want to do a very, very, a double very situation conversation, I will have that conversation with you. We've been having it for 10 minutes.

I don't use double vary. You did. No, I don't think so. I want to hear the tape. Okay, we're going to go back. And when I do it, okay, we're going to punish you at the end of the show today. When we play that tape, there's going to be a punishment at the end of the show that you're going to find out that you got this wrong because it is specifically what it is that I'm objecting to.

I think you're very, very wrong. Okay. Thank you. You already have it? Wow, that was quick. They already have the sound of what it is that Greg Cody has alleged. This is big. Everything is on the line right now, Greg. I mean... Well, he doesn't know when it is that he uses these verbal crutches to get to his thought because he does it quite a bit with inefficient language. And I'm watching him at all times. What do you mean? That kind of thing. I think they're a good team that is very, very far from being a great team. Oh, man.

Through technology, the second very was spliced in. Correct. You can tell. His mouth didn't line up with that. I reject that. You spliced in the second very. Chris is good at that. It's not AI. I can't believe they found it that fast. That's a miracle. It's almost a miracle. You think they were able to also edit it that fast to misrepresent you? It's AI. Oh.

Yes. On a bad arm week, they're doing this to you. All right, so you're saying this feels like a dubbed, subtitled movie. I want you to watch your lips here because you think the AI also altered your lips? I think they're a good team that is very, very far from being a great team.

He was saying far during that second very. Technology can do just about anything. All right, we end, we punctuate the show today with Greg Cody's punishment. I'm going to determine it secretly and we will get to it by the end of the show because he got it wrong.

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Don Levitard. All right, we got to go back out there. That was big. Wake him up. Uh-oh. 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 it. Mother effing. Can we bother? Are we bothering you right now? Turn on your microphone, Greg. My microphone's on. Stugatz. Paint the scene. Paint the scene is I got to go to work. Good night. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.

Let's not talk about the good teams. Let's talk about the bad teams. And let's talk about specifically what the Jets have done to Mike Francesa. Listen to Mike Francesa here. The internet is accusing him of being broken. We made two plays. How did we make two plays? We don't even know how we made two plays. But we're up 14-13. Let's go. Let's get five minutes up.

I heard Fireman Ed. I heard Let's Go. I heard there was a lead. And then the whole Jets season collapsed again as it does every Sunday. Play that again. We made two plays. How did we make two plays? We don't even know how we made two plays. But we're up 14-13. Let's go. Let's get Fireman Ed up. He still got it. It doesn't feel right to me. I don't know the correct way to do this.

To end your career. But I thought he was retiring. And it doesn't feel right to me to watch him shouting into a microphone after a Jets game by himself. And it doesn't seem like he's in a radio studio. I don't know if that might be in his house. It probably is in his house. I think he does a daily podcast. No, no. He does do a daily podcast. He should have a better ending, you're saying? There's something about... Well, he already retired. This happened... We just saw this happen in the Yankee...

The Yankee booth in his 80s, where once you retire at a certain age, it's what Bobby Bowden said, there's only one major event where people gather after that for you. So you stare at your retirement after a creature, a lifetime creature that talks six and a half hours a day on the radio, and then you go into retirement and it sounds awfully quiet and you have to come back to hear the sound of your own voice. I just... Well, he loves that. That'd be great.

Well, but he retired. So at one point he was done with it. Right. And and like they love sports. Both those guys love sports. There are any number of people who have been in this business for a long time who do not love sports. So you see the enthusiasm that's genuine on Russo anytime you hear him talk when you hear him on first take. But there's something about seeing Francesca. That's a legend right there. Yeah.

No doubt. And it feels like you're listening to him from a bus terminal. And it just, it doesn't feel right to me. And I know that sounds judgy, but that guy's had a monster career. And so it just, I don't know where he is physically doing that, but it doesn't seem like it's a studio. It seems like it might be in his home. And so I...

It does feel judgy, though, right? I shouldn't be doing that. But it makes me actually a little bit sad. Yeah, I think this is a real bad look for you. Yeah, Mike is 60-something years old. He is doing it from his house on most occasions. I think Mike has it figured out. He comes on. He gives 30 minutes of hot takes about New York sports. He gets paid a lot of money to do the podcast. And then he goes golfing. I mean, that's his day. Get your money, legend.

What you do at the final third of your illustrious career is your business, and I'm sure you have your fans. And if you have a studio in your home, more power to you. I do sort of mourn the death of impartiality or even the pretense of impartiality because the one thing I heard there most was our Jets and we're this, we're that.

It's fine. He can be a Jets fan. Stugas is a Jets fan. He's actually not a Jets fan. I think he just has 25 years of covering the Jets, and he's frustrated by the Jets because they make the same mistakes, a calamity of errors, every single year. I'm curious why you're lobbing that at him. You're famously a Dolphins fan. You root for your home teams. No, that's not true. He does it in the shadows. It's well known that I grew up a Dolphins fan. But I don't refer to the Dolphins as we.

On air, in print, I certainly don't, you know, Levitard might disagree. I try not to come off as a homer. I try to come off as someone who looks at the team fairly. Okay. With an impartial vantage. I don't think, this is the one criticism of you I've never understood. The homerism, the Greg is only rooting for the Dolphins. You tried to trade away the franchise's greatest player ever. What homer on earth would do that? That's fair.

Billy's got it right. That was a direct hit, Billy. Thank you. All right, so I will make the argument on the other side because while Greg Cody doesn't say we when talking about the Dolphins, although his son does, and while Greg Cody aspires to objectivity, I know that every Sunday and Monday that the Dolphins happen to play since the beginning of time, he thinks they're going to win, and he wants them to win. So he's wearing this cloak of objectivity. Wrong.

Greg, Greg, it is not wrong to say that you almost always pick them to win, almost always think they're going to win, and you're always rooting for them to win. The first two, I would have to look up the numbers on that. Certainly, I haven't picked them to win every game this year. But for you to say I'm rooting for them to win is flatly wrong. I'm not. My wife is.

You're abstaining. You're eating chips and drinking Miller Lite, and you're abstaining from having an interest when watching in the game who wins? That's what you're claiming here on air. You're going to stare at us and lie and say that you are actually watching objectively. Yeah, and you're lying by suggesting otherwise. And believe it or not, you may disagree, I know more about what I'm feeling and thinking than you do.

Let's talk to your mom about this, Chris, because she knows more than both of us. I invite that. Wow, man. I think you guys are playing with fire. I've seen these things go sideways with Greg. You're calling into question his integrity as a journalist, and he's going to start taking this personally. I take it personally already. He's playing on the back end of a back-to-back,

on a bad arm week, I think you should probably just... He started with the AI stuff with his mouth. Going down a direction that you're not going to be able to come back from, pal. You know what I do root for? I root for what I think would be a column I want to write. Them winning. You stepped on the landmine, my friend. They've been warning me and you didn't see that there was a landmine there. That's what he's getting to. What I'm getting to is if the Miami Dolphins come back from

their terrible record and somehow reached the Super Bowl for the first time in 40 years, yeah, I would like to write about that. That would be a wonderful story. Clicks for Cody. When the Dolphins went 1-15 back in 07 or whenever it was, that was pretty interesting to write, that calamity. The worst thing to write is a $500

Wow.

Let's play again the sound. This was Greg Cody earlier in the show. We'll get back to that in a second. Greg Cody earlier in the show, not altered at all. We have the proof he will be punished by the end of the show. I think they're a good team that is very, very, very, very, very far from being a great team.

So Greg Cody is enraged. Look, this might be a silly thing because I happen to believe that objectivity is an illusion. It's not a thing that humans can actually be. It's only a thing they can aspire to be. I agree with you. And so that's what your father's doing.

He wants the Dolphins to win and has to hide it somewhere. From himself, from everybody. He wants them to win. He's wanted them to win since he was a kid.

You don't actually put that away anywhere. You just try to write about him fairly. Umpires, referees, they have their biases. You try to put them... Judges, they have their biases. You try to put them aside to do something that's factual, and he's trying to do something that's objective. But you're in no way actually objective. You're just trying to be it. Well, when somebody asks, what's one of your goals as a columnist...

You don't say to be objective anymore because you're right. Objectivity is almost an impossible task if you have human feelings, particularly if you've grown up a Dolphins fan.

Fairness is what I aspire to. And I want to be fair in everything I write. I don't want to come off like a cheerleader. I don't think I do, despite you trying to paint me as that. And I know what I know in my heart. And if you want to say that I root for the Dolphins to win every game, go ahead. Your heart is aqua. Your heart is aqua. Yeah, but to Billy's point, that Marino column, I mean, that saves Greg. Armed with hindsight, that was the best column you've ever written. It certainly was probably the most...

Talked about. Yeah. Yeah. Right. But it protects you. He did an interview in front of the Miami Herald building and his face was silhouetted and his voice was distorted like an FBI informant. They could do that at that time? Yeah. That was great. That was really funny. That's so good. I remember that. Brilliant. Greg Cody did indeed try to trade Marino and it is a very good argument against his general Homerism. Yeah.

He hasn't written a column like that since. He is a columnist, actually, that I would say comes closer to objective than wildly opinionated because he doesn't write a lot of things that are on the extremes of takery. Isn't that

point of a columnist, though, to give us your opinion, give us your take? Greg's not out here acting like he's Bob Woodward, who, by the way, journalistically has had some questionable choices in the past 10 years. So Greg's giving you, the reader, his opinion as a South Florida guy, and I think that's the job, right? And I don't hold back. I mean, the column I wrote in this morning's paper online right now on the Marlins manager hire was pretty harsh if you're a Marlins fan and don't like the truth.

What I wrote was he's going from the mountaintop of the Dodgers to the hinterlands of Miami. And is this guy insane for taking this job? And so I'm going to write what I feel like writing. You know, if the Miami, if the Hurricanes... But that's a different bias. Yeah, you're a Red Sox fan. Stugatz was just whispering in my ear, he doesn't even like the Marlins. Like, that's a different bias. You're more likely to rip the Marlins than you are the Dolphins. See, there again, like...

You keep—I'm not a fan. Oh, God. You understand that, right? You are a fan. You've been a fan since a kid of the Dolphins. When I go to—OK, I'm covering every Dolphin game, either remotely or in the stadium, so this doesn't apply to the Dolphins. When I go to a Marlin game, quote-unquote, as a fan, if they hit a Grand Slam home run, I'm not cheering. I'm their—

I'm there even neutrally as a spectator because I don't want somebody who might recognize me to say, look at this, Homer, cheering for the Marlins. No, I don't give a shit whether our teams win or lose. Now, I will say this. I write for my readers. My readers are fans of these teams. And so if our teams are winning...

Look, what I have... A lazy that-a-boy, and then he reaches into his pockets to grab him some cigarettes. I mean, he does it for the fans. I mean, who could complain about that? He cares about his readers. Look, I would have loved to have written that Lionel Messi, in his first full season with the team, led Miami to the MLS Cup. I would have loved to have written that. It doesn't make me a fan or a homer of that team. It makes me wanting to write what I think a lot of my readers would love to read.

Didn't you have season tickets for that team? Christopher and I had season tickets for it. No, we did. And I'm fine with that. So am I, by the way. What's the scandal in that? Nothing. There is no scandal. You're a season ticket holder. Bad arm week, man. We are all Team Greg back here, by the way. Oh, he knows we are. I'm in your corner, Greg. Aligned with you here. Bad arm week and you're doing this to him. It's ridiculous. Terrible. It's...

Don't get me started. No, you crossed the line. Okay? You crossed the line. Mike, it's happening. I'm good, right? Oh, my God. You're on the line. I mean, to make something of the fact that Christopher and I a couple of years ago bought...

season tickets and how many games did i actually go to two it was an investment honestly uh i mean i i simply was laughing at the comedic perfection the bad investment the staccato effort of you being asked directly a question after everything we've talked about and then you admitting to yes i'm a season ticket holder i was laughing because it and you are funny okay like they're

But just the way that the music of that played out, it made me laugh that way because it's naturally funny for her. Because I also saw it happen because it swung with your great ally, Billy, who whispered it into Sugatsu's ear. And then it shot across as a question. I said, don't mention Tom Herman got fired at FAU. Rough week for the owls. That's Greg's alma mater.

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Tony is out on, let's see, oh, look at this. Tony's at Versailles. Look at this. I love that place. Anytime that anybody comes to Miami and says, where can I get authentic Cuban food? This is where I send them affordable, reasonable, reasonable food. There's nothing left in America that is as reasonable a price as that authentic food that Tony is standing in front of right now. Yet Trump doesn't pay the bill. That's correct. Walked out.

On a $9 retempanisado. Tony, what do you have for us today? We've got a bunch of OLI on your top five.

We absolutely do, Dano. Good morning live from the most economical place on the planet, Bedside Bakery. This is a double. We're in front of the bakery right now. The restaurant's actually on the other side. So I wanted to bring you here because the same as you, when somebody asked me from out of town, where do I go for Authentic Cuban? Right here on La Ocho y La 35. Right on Olga and Tony Avenue. Dan, right here in front of Versailles. First off, I want to say...

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We're going to start off here. Last night, Brandon Aubrey, Mr. Automatic, except for the 40-yarder. But that was a network-wide jinx. So we're going to throw that one off the record. Did you see how he kicked the 64-yarder? It looked like he just kicked it with real no power behind it. Jessica's rolling her eyes at you. I don't know what it is that happened. No, no, no.

on here is everyone's been saying like, oh, what happened to kickers in the NFL? Well, last time I checked, Chris Boswell had six field goals this weekend. Kickers were just fine this weekend, according to Jessica. This is not a Tony thing. This is an everyone else thing. That's an indictment on the Steelers offense kind of thing. Ola number two. Yes, they did. Ola number two. Brock Bowers is the best weapon at tight end, not named Taysom Hill.

Dan, Taysom Hill lined up at quarterback, at fullback, at running back, at tight end, at wide receiver, at quarterback. Mr. Do-It-All. Seems fun to be him on a Sunday like that, except for the interception. Once a year. Yeah. But the interception was a bomb. He threw it 65 yards, you know? Even that was fun. It is what it is. All right, starting off, it was fun. When you're supposed to look out and...

and drop instead of running for a 75-yard touchdown, but you say, no, it's my turn, and you run for a 75-yard touchdown, I like that. All right, starting off at number five, is Bo Nix turning the corner? Okay, we're doing this officially as a show today. Put it on the poll, Juju. Bo Nix, it guy?

He's turning the corner. Dan, last week I told you, look out for Bo Nix. Comes out, has a four-touchdown game against Atlanta. Starting to turn the corner on being a quarterback that was, eh, to a quarterback that's being, hmm, hmm, intriguing. Bo Nix. Oh, he's made the jump from... Exactly. Thank you, Stugatz. How is the jump? The jump is... He's turning the corner.

It's like a corner turn. He's about here, but then it's like here. Right. So that's where that game was. Instead of here, it's here. So it's a quick turn of the corner. But what are the street addresses? Hmm and hmm. Yeah, exactly. He went from being like hmm to like hmm to the corner.

The corner turn. Hmm. Okay. Yeah. You're taking a little bit of a longer look at him now. How's their three stops on one corner? He's starting to make you think, Dan. It's one of those three-way stops. You're making him think, and you've got to stop. Is it a roundabout? One of those weird roundabouts? No, because you don't stop at those. You just keep going at those. No.

You don't just keep going. Yeah, I don't think that's how those words. You do. I think in France you do. I think you just keep going in France. That is France. Thank you. We're at Betts High. Very close, by the way. Very, very close. Number four. Not very, very close. There is one in France. Very, very, very, very, very, very close. Number four. Nobody does a TCB game like Dan Campbell and the Lions. Nobody. Nobody.

What's a TCB game, Dan? I don't know. Take care of your business. Taking care of business. I put a Y in there. I made a yogurt storm. That's a fine. It's a TCB game. Take care of business. That's what we do for the Lions at Dan Campbell. Nobody does it better. Number three.

I'm starting to feel bad for Joe Burrow at this point. Really? Yeah. I have a couple of stats here. I don't know. I wasn't listening yesterday. I don't know if you guys mentioned these. Two little back-to-back Joe Burrow stats for you. Not by Mr. Siv, by the way. These are authenticated and real. Not like Mr. Siv who confused me and Aaron Rodgers. All right. Joe Burrow has lost three games this season in which he has had three touchdown passes,

300 yards or more and zero interceptions. The most such losses in a season in the Super Bowl era. Crazy. If he could undo it. Nobody has been better and loss. Do you think he'd not bleach his hair? I mean, he's playing well. It's not his fault. Another another little stat here for you quickly. Joe Burrow in the Bengals. Seven losses this year.

He's completed 67% of his passes for 2,200 yards, 18 touchdowns, two picks. Seven losses, by the way, for the Bengals. So just tuck that one in for later. Number two, Mike Tomlin can single-handedly will a team to victory like nobody in NFL history. I think he can. I think he actually has that ability. I do. Just because he wants it? Yes. Yeah.

He just wants it more, Dan. He doesn't blink. He says to Boswell, hey, you're going to kick a six and win the game. And he kicks six and wins the game. Somehow, someway, Lamar Jackson, who's been the best quarterback all season, looks like Snoop Huntley out there. I don't get it. Ouch. I don't think he says anything to his kicker. I think he just wills it in. I mean, that's what he does. Oh. Yeah. I feel like Tomlin just kind of gives one of these and he looks at him and goes, head nod. And then that's it. And then Boswell knows what the deal is. Yeah.

Alright, so this is what we're doing number one. Okay. This is what we're gonna do with Tomlin now. It's his top five. Okay Thank you. Number one Dan. I'm sorry to say this for everybody in the Bay Area, but the 49ers window is officially closed I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I am

Wow.

and win them all and then win the Super Bowl after I say this, by the way. It is what we're all rooting for. Thank you, Tony. This is, we interrupted Greg Cody in what was the most indignant sports media rant objecting to being a homer.

Since Bo Bach was on the air in Atlanta and was spouting while shaking a bottle of pills at us because he was objecting to how somebody had called him a homer. And he's not even a journalist like you. He's just a sports radio guy, although he does have a newsletter.

I mean, you don't know anything about what you're talking about. And you have the nerve to call up here and say to me that we're trying to upsell the Falcons to you? Sir, you're not a Falcons fan. You haven't been. And if you have been, you don't know what you're looking at. Stop being a homer, bro. Get out of my house. I'm the last one who's a homer. Don't you ever call me a homer. Who the hell do you think has been saying the truth since 1973 on Atlanta radio? Who?

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