Local Hour: A Little Love For Rick Weaver

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How dooms get more done.

Walt Disney World Resort.

Very much.

And I say, I won't weigh more of that.

Isn't that it?

I saw that one coming.

Did you?

Yes, I did.

Roy saw it coming a mile away.

I don't know what weigh more is.

What does it?

It sounds like a company, like a place where you would get insurance or something.

Well, it does sound like a company.

And I would say actually what it is makes me feel like if we've been in the 80s or 90s,

it's what I'd give a company name that's going to in the future destroy us.

Like I'd say, the evil company waymo, even though I don't think necessarily that waymo is evil,

what it is is these driverless cars.

Have you pulled up next to any of these cars that have all of these cameras

but don't have a driver and a rideshare thing?

I got to think that whoever's driving taxis these days has to feel like they're in big trouble just in general.

Like they thought they were in big trouble with Uber, but now there are just cars

making their way through the streets that don't have any drivers.

And yesterday on 395, there was a two-hour delay because one of them just stopped on an exit ramp

and nobody could get it to move.

They're mostly, they're like 99% they are all automated, but somewhere there's somebody with a joystick

that can get both these things and the little carts that are delivering food

that you've seen all over the city, and we're not ready for any of it.

Like it's not quite advanced enough that it doesn't come without great error.

And so every once in a while, these things are being like hit by a bright line

because they're getting stuck in places they shouldn't get stuck.

Yeah, I have seen them in downtown Miami leaving the studio.

In fact, I've seen a couple of them on my head and I was near a rooster.

I had no idea what they were called, but I'm anti that.

Well, they're two different things.

Waymo is a driverless car.

The other thing is just something that's, they're little carts that are delivering food.

Yeah, I've seen those two, I'm anti those as well.

I don't like it.

I'm going with the little delivery cart, you know, bringing my food, but the Waymo?

No, I'm not.

I don't even like if I seat on the road, I'm changing lanes.

I get a lane further away from those.

Agreed.

I asked you to do about how the little delivery cart did for him yesterday.

I saw him tracking it down on foot.

You should have video tape chasing one on the street.

What are you doing out here?

You were out here on on this game.

Boulevard chasing one down the street.

Literally, yes, I didn't, I was disheveled.

I didn't have my bun up.

I was in search of the streets in France because I ran in the system.

So did you find it?

Like, where was it?

It took an hour and a half, bro, for me to get a burger and fries from down the street.

It's probably tough.

You can't like, yo, hey, over here, like it's not going to know.

You're scared of these?

The Waymo?

Oh, I don't like it.

I'm getting a car, there's no driver.

I'm just, here I am.

Take me to where I'm supposed to go.

Car without a driver.

I don't like that.

All right, we're going to get you to do this tomorrow.

We're going to put you in one of them.

We're going to put you in one of them and see where it takes you.

I want more more details on what Juju was doing.

Physically chasing it down the street.

Where were you at?

Classic us.

I said he's terrified of something.

Put a camera in his face.

Do it tomorrow.

This is the Don Levittar Show with this two-gots podcast.

There are a few things here locally that I want to get to that include

Inter Miami going to the White House, but not a parade.

The Panthers at the Trade Deadline.

I'm assuming they're going to be sellers and they're going to be some popular

players who leave a controversy that surprised me yesterday.

People really mad on behalf of Tua and his feelings that the organization

did not wish him a happy birthday yesterday.

But and the University of Miami basketball team being legitimately good.

I'm still not used to the University of Miami basketball team being legitimately good.

But a local icon, I think I didn't ask you this.

I don't think when we were going through Zazlow, the South Florida sports

broadcasting legends, but Tommy Hutton classifies correct as a broadcasting

legend locally and he announced yesterday that this is going to be his last

season with the Marlins.

And also the scene of this to me was symbolic.

Just cold, sender block room with like a few, a few straggling reporters.

He is a legend, but he's a rose growing in a sewer because Marlins baseball

doesn't produce a lot of legendary things.

So here's Tommy Hutton saying this is going to be his final season as a Marlins

broadcaster.

So I guess I'm supposed to start before I'm asked questions.

This has been in the in the planning for a while and I just decided and people

have asked me why I've decided to make this my last year.

And the best answer I can give is that it's just time.

I'm healthy, I feel good, I have an opportunity to make the decision

myself, I think is part of it.

So look forward to this year.

I've had great years here.

And again, just because everybody always asks, well, how come you decided to

retire at this time?

And the answer is, in my mind, it's time.

And so that's the answer.

Go ahead, ask some questions.

That'll be easier.

So I've got a number of things to say here.

I do believe that he gets the rare qualification of being a legend even though he

might be the most critical broadcaster that there's been in a home market that I

can think of.

Mike Englis would get really mad during the radio broadcast.

But I think that, well, Tommy Hutton's the only one locally who went away for a while

because he was so critical that ownership didn't want it.

And then they brought him back because he's beloved because he's honest.

Mike was the best.

I remember on those broadcasts, I've been sitting right next to Mike.

They're going to a time out like clippers on a big run here.

He'd are in big trouble.

He'd buy 11 minute, half to go.

It's like, what's up 11 minute left?

Great American man, he is the best.

Who is the most critical sports broadcaster we have ever had down here?

Is it English?

Is it Hutton?

Who else would you go with?

Yeah, English was very critical of the team when they needed the criticism and certainly

very critical of the referees, you know.

I don't know.

Tommy, I don't think Tommy was ever overly critical.

Like I would say Mike was overly critical sometimes.

Yeah, I don't think Tommy was only critical.

Tommy is the only one that ended up losing his job over the criticism.

Right.

And that may have more to do with the sensitivities of Jeffrey Lauria, but those two stick

out.

They're to a tier of themselves and then there's everybody else.

So what, who do you put in the everyone else, Greg?

If I tell you you got to choose five all time, your history in the market, your somebody

who has covered the market since the 70s.

So you have to, you have sports broadcasters for how old is he?

How old is Tommy?

He's turning 80 in April.

Is he that old?

Yeah.

Wow.

I thought he was younger than me.

He looks younger than me.

Okay.

Doesn't everyone?

No, he does.

We should put on the screen them next to each other and just ask the question, who looks

older?

Tommy Hutton, I think that's surprising to learn that he is 80 years old is a bit surprising

there.

I've said this before, the baseball schedule, the travel schedule is an insanity.

I would not want to be doing it if I was 80 years old.

A fellow Ramirez would be in this category of local legend and he was doing it into

his 90s and it seemed like an insanity to be traveling that way.

Tommy Hutton did stop traveling, I believe, a couple seasons ago.

He's been doing mainly home games for a couple seasons, but we're definitely going

to miss him.

And I know he's had a huge drive to the games too.

I think he lives in West Palm and he drives down now to Little Havana.

Yeah.

I know he lived in Palm Beach County, I wasn't sure where.

I would put T-hut at the top of the list only because it costs him his job.

Oh, we're doing goat of South Florida broadcasters.

I'm in on this.

No, no.

I think he's doing it most critical, most critical.

I think anybody who says something that gets him fired from his job, I'm also in that

way on the top.

Hey, you should be into that one too.

No, I'm not going to do the sponsored read for most critical broadcasters.

Let's do the sponsored read for best sports broadcaster in the history of South Florida.

Oh, okay.

So you're including play by play guys.

I'm just saying broadcasters, any broadcasters.

So yes, you are.

Anyway, I'll say Hank Goldberg.

He's got a lot of stuff on that list, you know.

Ooh.

Wow.

I'm going to be doing game broadcast, but we are broadcasting.

I'm not counting us.

Joe Rose has been pretty critical to the team the last few years.

He's been, he's been critical for up for up.

He is critical to someone on the broadcast.

Now that you mentioned that.

Eric reads my goat.

If we're doing local broadcasters, give me Eric Reed, Miami Heat.

Eric Reed of the Miami Heat.

Hello, where with the rebound?

He's now 17th on the all time list of heat rebounders per minute.

He's averaging almost 0.68 rebounds per minute.

Hello, where?

I'd like to nominate the round dog, round bird.

That is the, does that, does that point?

That's a nominee.

I know, I don't think that, I don't believe that is a nominee.

It's, it's, it's, it's just by definition is a nominee.

Look, I just said greatest in South Florida history.

I like Brett Romberg.

That's my god.

You know what, Joe, I'm sorry to do this to you.

Oh, no.

Yeah, I'm the matter of penalty.

Too many sport came out of your mouth.

Just like to tell everyone it's an honor to be nominated.

That's a good one.

That is a good one.

Is it a gag?

Oh, is it gack is one?

It's a good one.

Yes.

Is it gack?

It has to be in the list.

Before, before I knew that we were expanding it to all types

of broadcasters, I put together my top five personal

favorite color commentators in the history of the South

Florida market.

Number five, wasn't that long that he was doing inner Miami

games, but he's a goat.

And when it comes to soccer, color commentary, Ray Hudson.

Rocky Ray.

Number four, I put Tommy Hutton.

Number three, I put Randy Moler.

Number two, I put the mad dog, Jim Manditch.

And number one, my all time favorite local color commentator.

And quite possibly my favorite hoops color.

Get it right.

Get it right.

Doctor Jack Ramsey.

He got it right.

Thunder.

That's right.

On the undisputed number one color analyst

in the history of our market as doctor.

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Make every dish the greatest.

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I am stunned that Tommy Hutton is 80 years old.

He does not look 80 years old.

I'm thinking that a lot of people looking at this are saying

there's no way that that human being is 80 years old.

But as we were celebrating him,

Chris Cody did something that I believe was both cruel.

And also something Chris Cody notices

because these sensitivities are something that he has.

Chris Cody in my ear took out one of the reporters

who could not have liked the angle that he was featured in

while sitting next to or standing next to Tommy Hutton.

Chris Cody was making fun of.

It's just, I'm not making fun of any person,

more just the shirt and the angle of the stomach.

I can relate to this.

I feel bad already.

We've gone too far.

It was supposed to be a private show just for you.

But yes, that's not a great angle there.

That's my colleague there.

Jordan McPherson does a great job.

Thank you for naming me.

You're the one who named him.

Yeah, here you go.

Well, now that we're on that topic,

Jordan knows exactly what he did.

Yeah, it's the shirt.

It's not nothing he did.

No, no, he did something.

He apologized for it though.

Oh, you remember the top 25?

You remember the top 25 disaster AP vote?

That's true.

That's not a great shirt.

He's trying to highlight the biceps there

and sometimes we lose sight of the belly.

Well, I'm highlighting that he ranked Notre Dame.

I had a Miami that one time.

The salmon color with the weight

is really just a combo that makes me a little queasy.

Tommy was great with two things.

He was great at chastising the Metz fans.

Whenever the Metz were here, especially if the Marlins were

winning and the Metz fan would leave the game early.

He was great at speaking for the fan

when it came to chastising the Metz fan.

And he was also great whenever there

was a situation where if a Marlin player gets hit by a pitch

and you got to stand up, enough's enough.

All right, he liked when there would

be a fight in a situation like that.

You can't just allow them to throw it

our guys eventually enough's enough

and you got to do something about it.

Let's put back up here, Jordan McPherson.

Let's put this back up there.

And notice that the veteran next to him,

the veteran next to him is preventing

anyone from seeing whether he's got anything going on

over the belt that he does not want seen.

He is hiding behind his hands there

to make sure that a bad angle doesn't catch him.

You're awful, man.

This is incredible.

You're the one who mentioned him though.

You can't say it's cruel.

I'm giving a praise for being a great reporter.

This is all my fault.

I should never have made a mistake.

No way slime looks like anything in Dan's ear.

So this is all Chris's fault.

Dr. Jack Ramsey, when you mention him,

the goat locally is Eric Reed.

Correct. Eric Reed.

Correct.

Yeah, Eric's the goat.

He's been around how long, Eric Reed.

Tell us Eric. Tell us Eric.

Very first year, 88.

I remember Grant Long.

When he was with a heat,

that was an all round player right there

in and out of the starting lineup,

but you could always count on Grant Long.

You know, Eric Reed's first year,

he was the color analyst for the heat.

Not played by me. Really?

I can't picture him as a color analyst.

What would that sound like?

I'm so Eric Reed as a color analyst,

just doesn't make any sense at all.

That's not what I wanted.

That's all right, Chris.

I think we've expired what your dad has

in this particular bucket.

His Eric Reed has also gotten worse with age.

Like it's got, it's less nasally.

It's not quite as good as it used to be.

We should highlight that Goldie had been

a long time South Florida broadcaster on the airways.

First team, yeah, and did it the hard way

when it came to his climb over at the Florida Panthers.

And since then has been the voice

of this golden era of Panther hockey

and has an incredible signature call.

Also, can you give maybe an oil eye, Danny Potvin?

Yes, no doubt.

Jeff Rimmer.

Well, all of these though, I think,

have to take a back seat to Molar, do they not?

You're only allowed to take one or two

from each franchise.

Each franchise isn't going to have one

of these long time legends.

So you get Eric Reed and Jack Ramsey,

and that's the list, right?

I don't think that Mike Inglis would crack the list

of best South Florida sports broadcasters ever.

Yeah, baby.

Tony Fiorentino does not belong on this list.

You cannot have him on this list.

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Don Lebatard, you don't remember the idea

for home run call?

I was probably like that kind of thing.

Something.

Okay, no, the home run call was that kind of swing,

that kind of thing.

Stu Gotts.

Oh, it's a good call.

Thank you.

And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it.

Like you're not tailing it to a particular name.

You know, all that jazz, you know,

you don't gonna do that.

You just don't know that.

Oh, that's so good, great call.

Oh, that kind of swing, that kind of thing.

This is the Don Lebatard show with Stu Gotts.

I like to nominate a two-time champion,

do two-time champions belong on this list or not,

because I know one in my own personal record book,

Jonathan Zaslow, and thank you to you, Jim.

Thank you for recognizing.

Were you waiting?

They just raising his fist before you even

set his name this guy, because I knew.

Unbelievable.

How about a little love for Rick Weaver?

The original go, the play by play man

of the Miami Dolphins when they were winning Super Bowls

back in the 19th century.

Rick Weaver, who had such an ego,

he had a vanity plate on his car that said the voice.

I mean, you know the 19th century is the 1800s, all right?

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, but when you put that detail in,

when you put the detail he just gave us,

somebody in the 1970s was driving around

with a license plate that said he was the voice

and you could pull up and cars had drivers back then.

Yes, they did.

You could pull up next to Rick Weaver

and the voice would be right there.

You are the only one around here old enough to remember.

None of you, none of you remember that name, right?

Roy, do you even remember Rick Weaver?

No, sir.

What?

Really?

No.

Roy doesn't remember.

He would have been done.

He would have been finished in about the 80s, right?

He would have been out of, out of a job in the 80s, right?

What do we do with PAs?

Because Mike Biemontek gives a heat of third.

There's only one known PAs.

No, Jero, Jero Keach, Jero.

I'll take in the pro teams.

You're right.

Jero Keach at the University of Miami baseball

and UM football games.

And I think he did basketball too.

He just had, they just honored him with a first pitch

this last weekend, did they not?

Mario did the other first pitch.

I think he needs Tommy John.

That was, he was throwing gas in the pen.

He does everything the same way.

He definitely went out to a field and threw before that.

He had to.

From the mound, just, I didn't,

yeah, it was up there.

Of course, did I ever tell the story

of when I sat behind Jim Harbott, a Yankee game?

I do remember that, I don't remember the detail of it.

So he brought a glove and the entire game,

he was furiously playing catch with himself.

This guy was in his fifties at the time,

looking ridiculous.

And he was sitting next to a woman

and I was right behind him for this game.

And he threw the ball with such force into his own mitt

that it hit the lady next to him

and legitimately hurt her.

He had to buy her a bunch of soda pop

and get up and leave.

That tracks.

Like if you had asked me, what do it sports is?

Now, in the most ridiculous circumstance,

what is Jim Harbott doing at a baseball game?

It's bringing his own glove and playing catch with himself

so ferociously that he injures the woman next to him.

I can't in fiction make up something better

than what it actually was.

Speaking of Tommy Hutton, the Marlins of our teams down here

have had the best resume of broadcasters.

Like by far, right?

We're talking Joe Angel, Dave O'Brien,

Bouchambi, Len Casper, Rich Waltz.

This is by far your saying by far,

but it's because the heat have had only the one

like he won't give up the job.

It's their problem.

Yeah, he won't.

Because it's such a transient job.

They either the administration doesn't like them

or they get better opportunities because they're so good,

but you're right.

Pound for pound, they keep putting out winners.

The dolphins have had a ton as well.

I mean, the dolphins have had a ton of,

I mean, Hank Goldberg was doing broadcasters.

Larry King.

That's right.

Not Larry King.

Not a lot of people lying.

Yeah, Larry King is one of them.

I never lie.

No, he's right, Larry King.

Put it on.

Now I pull at Levitard Show.

Did you know that Larry King was a dolphins broadcaster?

Gotta hear this.

Larry King also was famous for owing people money

throughout South Florida when he was a broadcaster back then.

He was notorious for.

Oh, Hank Goldberg used to make fun of him mercilessly.

As far as that, the dark side of Larry King.

That was funny.

By the way, grown men, grown adults who bring a glove

to a baseball game, get out of here.

What are you doing?

Why are you going to show up in a full uniform next?

Come on, it's a kids game.

Let the kids bring a glove.

Quit stealing foul balls from the kids

with your big giant mitt.

Leave it at home.

I'm with you on taking the balls from the kids,

but you gotta bring a glove for safety.

Why?

What if I'm with my kid?

And a screamer comes at me.

You should.

You're sitting behind a net and a lovely thing.

I'm not saying he.

I'm just saying he's saying anyone in the stadium

should not bring a glove.

Adults should not be allowed to bring gloves

into a glove.

No, shouldn't be allowed.

If you don't like the glove, how do you feel about

Harba coming to a recruiting visit

and being in full football cleats on Mahogany floor?

Again, it.

That's against it.

He could have said just against it,

but he decided to do it with an apostrophe

and just an end for some reason.

I mean, I'm again, it's quicker.

Can you get through my age and try to save your breath?

Yeah, way more of that.

Mike mentioned earlier, top 25,

and something I have not celebrated yet

is that the University of Miami basketball team

is now ranked.

Duke seems a lot better than everybody.

I mean, they beat up Michigan and home.

They just dragged Virginia.

They gave Notre Dame their worst home loss since 1898.

And now Duke has been ranked number one, a record 149 times.

Miami's never been ranked number one, correct?

That's nice.

We've ever been as number two.

When was that?

Shane Larkin.

OK, impressive ranked victory.

Is that I do think like the Tim James team?

I don't know where they peaked.

I think they were top 10.

They may have gotten as high as like three-ish.

Yeah, because they were trading wins

with lots of like a really good St. John's and Yukon.

Did you mean that Larkin team was number two overall

or a two seed?

They were both.

They were number two in the nation

and ended up being a number two seed

that lost in the second round, I believe, to Wisconsin.

How high did the final 14 get from a few years ago?

We actually did that from like an eight, eight, nine spot.

Really?

Yeah, yeah, we weren't really respected in that.

But I'm starting to get used to Miami being good at basketball.

It's crazy that the amount of momentum

they just immediately nuked.

The team after they went to the final four

had an NBA player in key Sean George.

Yeah, they lost the ACC player of the year and they won.

But they reloaded.

They re-tooled.

And a lot of those guys came back and they just threw up

a fort over there.

But they burned it up in two years.

And here they are.

Jay Lucas totally reshaping the team,

not a single player or coach was on this team last year.

And here they are ranked number 22 in the nation,

playing for seeding.

Do you have sour feelings toward Larinaga

because of all that?

No, Larinaga's a legend.

He just had his name hung up on the rafters.

I can't believe he caught lightning in the bottle,

the way that he did with us at that time.

Because by then, NIL had started taking hold over the sport

and there was already a change in the sport.

It was just crazy how in tune he was with that team

and it was the very same guys and he just lost it.

It's crazy.

The most impressive game that I've seen Miami play

over the last seven, they've won six of the last seven

is the loss.

They went to Virginia and had a game they could have won

at Virginia, a very difficult place to play Virginia.

Are they a top 10 team right now?

They're close to it.

They're close to it, Virginia's pretty good.

I gotta admit, this is a really difficult sport to follow.

It really is.

It happens when there's a whole bunch

of other big sports going on.

You gotta either be all about college basketball

or a serious DJN if you know the entire landscape.

You have to do a lot of reading.

Most of the college basketball that I follow

is on a second or third screen.

So while I'm watching Michigan,

Lucid, Duke in Washington, DC,

I'm not really getting much of the player's names

or much from it.

So I kind of need somebody to help me bone up on this

because this is March.

You're not alone, though,

because I just had this conversation last week

with Barclay where he's like,

I didn't study like this at Auburn.

I didn't go to, he's like, I've got every year,

I've got to get ready.

And I'm like, but all you've got to do is be Barclay.

Like, what do you have to do?

But he feels the need to know what it is

that he's talking about when it's impossible

to know it's impossible to be doing what he's doing

and then also be following college basketball

the way you need to this time of year.

But what you have happening,

so you've got the two Miami's are ranked now.

Miami of Ohio is undefeated

and Bruce Pearl is fighting with Miami of Ohio's

athletic director because Bruce Pearl says

they'd be the bottom of the SEC

because they've got, I think their schedule

is close to 300 in terms of how easy their schedule is

but they are undefeated, okay?

So if you're winning all of your games,

people should notice that.

And the athletic director from Miami of Ohio

like dragged Bruce Pearl

because he was so insulted by that

but when you mentioned the University of Miami locally,

they so rarely have pros.

You mentioned Tim James.

Tim James was drafted by the Heat in the first round.

That team was one of the best they had.

Johnny Hemsley was on that team.

I thought he was gonna be pro, he was not.

But the University of Miami does not produce

many pros in basketball.

No, I mean, that final four team, Jordan Miller

and Norch had O'Meer, they had to go through the G league.

Is James Jones the best of this like not Rick Barry,

not counting Rick Barry, but James Jones the best?

Yeah, you would rate him higher than Bruce Brown.

I mean, Bruce Brown in terms of like actual impact

within a series.

Man, Bruce Brown was pretty important to that Denver run

but I mean, that's open for debate.

But now with NIL, look, I mentioned a really disappointing

team after the final four.

Kishan George turned himself into a decent NBA player

that has a lot of value in this year.

You look at players like Sheldon Henderson, first off,

I just learned he was Eric Dickerson's nephew.

He had no idea.

He was a five star that we took from Duke

and he's going to be in the league.

He's got an NBA body.

The shot needs to be a little bit more consistent.

But Uday, Renew, like these guys are going to make the league.

I think Uday is going to be a curious example

but defensively, he can keep up with perimeter guys

a way that traditional Biggs can.

Miami's got some pros on this team right now.

I don't think Uday is a pro

but that's because of his limits offensively.

This team though would be considered championship worthy

if they had gotten boozer.

Like they were close, they finished second.

They finished.

We were close.

They finished very close.

And Duke is pounding people because cam boozer.

It's not just what he does in the post scoring

is he's just a great passer out of the post as a freshman.

He's awesome.

He's been better than Cooper Flag was for them.

He's awesome.

And they came so close to getting him.

I really did think, when you're named after Cameron Indo.

Yeah, how about close to the end then?

I mean, they got close.

If the move to J. Luke has happened a year earlier,

like it probably should have,

the boozer twins would be at Miami, I think.

I mean, it's just like Jeremiah Smith.

Like you had guys believing, but they wanted to see it in action.

They wanted proof of concept.

They didn't want to just jump in and trust that the process

was going to work the way that they did.

I get it.

One goes to Ohio State that, I mean,

he won a national championship.

It worked out, but Miami is already better than them.

Now you saw and boozer the same way.

Roy, how are you feeling about the Panthers?

Are you of the belief that Babroski?

I know it's been a disappointing season, okay?

But this is not a bad hockey team

and all the other times that I feel like we've talked

about the Panthers being six or five points

out of the final playoffs.

But it's not because they're an above 500 team.

It's not because they're winning more than they're losing.

The strength of the playoff teams in hockey make it

so that a two time defending champion can't,

you know, like I know you guys are frustrated

with what this season has been,

but under the circumstances,

this has been a really good season for this team.

And if you had told me with those injuries,

this is where they'd keep things.

I would have had some optimism.

The problem is that there are just too many good teams above them.

Well, if they were in the Western Conference,

there would be a playoff team.

That's how good the East is this season.

Yeah, give me that night's division.

The only thing I disagree with you,

on Dan is that Bob has just been so bad this season.

I don't think, I think even with the injuries,

I thought this season was gonna go better

and by a pretty decent margin.

I'm really disappointed by how far Bob is swelling off.

Well, a lot of injuries, man.

No, I get it, but Bob has nothing to do with that.

This is just a guy that might be losing it.

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Dan Lebatard.

He has been great.

He's made great hires.

I said all we've said.

He said all we've said.

We've said all we've said.

Everyone has said everything.

Everything is great.

Everything you're saying.

It's all been said.

It's all been said.

Okay, you got to understand one thing.

Stugats.

Me maximum.

That's right.

Till I say it.

It hasn't been said.

Okay, understand that.

You're the mayor.

Till I say it.

That's what he said.

Me maximum.

Me maximum.

Me maximum.

This is the Dan Lebatard show with the Stugats.

I felt the day that barcog went down.

I know everybody talked about the depth this team has had and granted, like, lost that

all throughout the season because everyone continues to get hurt.

But I thought the moment that barcog went down, it was going to be difficult to make

the playoffs.

And yeah, like Friday is going to be super interesting now because this is a really

well-run team.

And a well-run team is going to understand there are going to be some difficult but necessary

decisions to make before Friday, which means that you probably have some guys, maybe

our fourth line guys who could be super useful for a team that wants to make a push and

get some depth.

And I think there's going to be some names that we like that are going to wind up being

traded on Friday.

I know Boburovsky is like the juicy name that's being thrown around, but here's the

thing.

All right.

There's no real reason for the Panther fans of want them to Boburovsky's and he's in

the last year of the contract.

It's not like, okay, when you get off the money.

And I don't know why a Stanley Cup contender would trade for Boburovsky, you know, when

he's having literally the worst year of his career really, I don't know that Boburovsky

is going to be moved.

And I hope for sentimental purposes that he's not moved because I'd like the Panthers

to be the last team he ever played.

I actually think the Panthers have had a better than expected season given and Markov, his

stature in this market has grown in his absence.

You know, Markov was so valuable to that team and then they missed Kachuk for two thirds

of the season and then he takes a while to get back and form.

Those are arguably their two best players and you just can't abide those losses.

I think to be above 500 in that conference, I think it's

been a good job by Maurice.

And not only the depth, I'm not an expert on fourth lines, but I can tell you, last year,

they had a fourth line that was better than this year's.

Bobbi, Roy, what do you think is going to happen here?

You think a good organization gets rid of popular players?

Yeah, the entire season just based off of long-term inter-reserve and having to get that

money back on the cap.

I thought they were going to make a move way before the deadline.

Like Maggie Samuskevich or even Evan Rodriguez would have probably been traded just to

make the cap more feasible for them.

You know, so once they get Kachuk and possibly Barcar back in the lineup,

but that doesn't seem like that's going to be the case anymore.

I think they should probably just rest Barcar.

Bobbi, are you guys going to be hurt by any of the trades that they made?

Are you going to be emotionally wounded by anything that happens this year?

You win a championship in the market and guys like AJ Greer,

all of a sudden become beloved.

We saw this with Ryan Lomburg where, you know, you would look in the stands and it was disproportionate

like how many Lomburg 94 jerseys would be in the crowd.

I still see them, I was really nervous.

When he considered his actual impact there, but a guy like Evan Rodriguez.

I'm going to be sad when they move Rodriguez.

I think they will move Rodriguez.

I would be sad.

You can help someone.

Winning players.

Yeah, and that's exactly like the prototypical deadline deal that a team is looking to get over

the hump.

Let's bring in a veteran that we can plug and play in any line.

Like he make a lot of sense and he was one of the names identified before they came up with this

solution to put Chucky on the long-term injury list that I don't know if they had to get away from it.

Is there anyone else?

Let's say Bob Rosski doesn't get moved.

I don't think he's going to.

I don't think there is anyone else that I am.

Maybe Mackie?

Mackie would disappoint me.

Yeah, but like that doesn't help money wise.

He's a young player.

I'm not getting paid.

That means just that they don't want to pay him and like let's get a little something for him.

Like I'm not going to be upset if they move Mackie.

Yeah, I don't think Mackie comes back because of the cap situation.

He won't be tough.

He won't be tough.

Get me the sound of Charles Barkley trying to say Bob Rosski as Charles Barkley has gone into

hibernation to try and learn a little more about college basketball quickly.

We do have a college basketball expert with us here in Tristop.

Perhaps she could get us up to speed because we are going to do that

live stream where we combine both selection Sunday and also the Oscars.

Correct. We're going to do both of those things.

Are Adnan Burke and Samson coming down here in Tuxedos to help us do both the Oscars

and selection Sunday because I need some help here in terms of getting caught up to

what it is that's been happening in college basketball this season.

Efforting and hopeful.

Efforting.

I like that word.

Efforting.

It's what I say when Dan says something on the air that he probably shouldn't have.

Got it.

Got it.

Five storylines. Dan's already taken a couple of them but we'll just do them again.

Yeah, just pre-show making it to post show or in the show.

I didn't hear any of that.

That's a lie.

You didn't think you hear my very obvious and unsettled man.

I wish I could have a refresher.

I know it was tough.

It was a tough one.

It's okay.

But then we started talking to you, Rod.

Yeah, I know.

It was a hard pivot in hockey.

I was like, I guess it's just dead all this work.

Man, can anybody help me with some headlines?

I know and you never do that either.

You're an expert on all things.

Number one, Duke.

Number one overall seed for the second year in a row.

Blue devils have the naysmith player of the year.

Runaway favorite for the second year in a row.

Freshman for a second year in a row.

We can go on that headline.

Miami Ohio is the one that you stole.

They are undefeated.

Former Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl

doesn't think that they should make a turn.

Make the tournament at all.

But his son coaches his former team and they are on the bubble.

So I don't know what we should make of that.

Mike said he's all in on the top four teams.

Everyone is talking about Duke, Michigan, Arizona, and Florida,

who obviously won the tournament last year.

But I actually think that there is a team that's better

than they were when they won the tournament a few years ago.

In Yukon, I can give you the reasons why.

The player who may go, number one in the draft,

may not actually get out of the first round in BYU

because of a key reason, AJ DeBanza.

And there are 33 Division 1 freshmen,

averaging at least 15 points,

which is on pace to be the most

in Division 1 history.

Why do you like Yukon more than Florida?

I love the way Florida plays.

I love their speed.

The speed, the pace that they play at

is something that I enjoy watching.

Why do you like Yukon more than Florida?

Well, first of all, do we see the way that Yukon

got screwed against Florida last year

when they were not as talented as they are even this year?

Like, they probably should have beat Florida.

Remember, I can say the F word on the show, yes or no?

Remember Dan Hurley was like, we got f***ed, right?

Like, we got abs and he lost his guts in our mind.

We got f***ed.

Chris, Chris, that is terrible executive producing.

Sometimes judgment.

We need a bunches.

Say it again is what you decided to do.

That was your contract.

Your contribution to judgment and leadership on the show

is to say, say it again.

I agree. It was bad judgment because it kind of stepped

over and we need it clean for the club.

Go ahead, the third time.

We got f***ed.

Yeah, that's better.

Oh, whoa, whoa.

Mike, you got to go.

I'm a penalty agent.

But now you can use it in the club.

A personal and foul.

A foul.

Wow.

What a shit contribution for you.

I thought it was great.

Anyway, Yukon is better offensively than they were in 22-23.

Slightly below structurally than the team

that was just an absolute monster.

Better pick and roll offense.

Better decision making.

The guards are able to deal with centers that end up

dropping in coverage.

This team is just an absolute monster.

I think in a bunch of different ways.

And I think that they will surprise people.

So in terms of a team that is not lumped in with that

traditional four, you're going Yukon.

What do you do with Houston?

I think the problem with Houston

is that they continuously have the same formula

year after year, which is defense first.

And I love Calvin Samson.

But I just think that gets so stuck in the mud offensively.

And we saw that in the tournament last year.

We've seen it in multiple other years.

They keep trying to get more potent offensively.

But I just don't think Calvin wants to play that way.

So I think there are a sneaky team.

I do want to ask you guys a little about this.

Arizona, they are considered soft.

And Tommy Lloyd went on yesterday and say, hey, just

because we're on the West Coast, doesn't mean we're soft.

Do you think that the West Coast is fairly considered soft

as someone who's from work?

They drag Houston, Arizona drag Houston.

That was like the talent disparity in that game.

Everybody keeps talking of you about Houston.

And Arizona seemed to me to be a good deal better than Arizona.

But when you talk about the softness of the West Coast

and you talk about angry coaches like Hurley,

it makes me think of Micronin.

We've got some new Micronin sound.

Micronin is always agitated.

He's always filled with people at UCLA are pretty done

with him representing the school this way.

You got to win more than this.

If you're going to behave this way, always with reporters.

Listen to what Micronin had to do.

What he did to a reporter who asked him about teams traveling

out West as opposed to UCLA traveling somewhere else.

So much has been made about you guys going east.

You just came back from prolonged East Coast trip.

I'm wondering, have you seen anything

from the teams that have to come out here and stay out here?

Is there any kind of balance with that in terms of the wear and tear

and just what you've seen on the floor?

We're on them.

Yeah.

Is that a joke?

Please tell me that's a joke.

Is it even comparable?

Is a sense of what I'm trying to say?

Have you ever looked at the NBA stats

or with the gamblers and all those people

do on West versus East?

Talk to Eric Musselman asking that question.

Who coached in the NBA?

Good luck West going east.

We have to go back four times.

The big 10 teams get to come to Los Angeles

where it's 70 degrees, one time a year.

They don't even have to switch hotels.

We're in a state where 12 miles apart.

Are you kidding me?

Please tell me you're kidding me.

I mean, is this a plan?

Is this a plan of question?

I mean, you cannot be serious with that.

And meanwhile, we've seen the iPhone tower.

We've seen the Statue of Liberty twice.

In the last three weeks, while we were landing,

you can't possibly just stop.

I'm going to eat.

I mean, he's asked me to feel sorry

because I wanted to come to LA for a few days.

You can't be serious.

You don't have much people vacation here.

Trust me, I get a lot of friends.

I have to tell them no.

I'm focused.

Everybody from back in Cincinnati wants

to come out here all the time.

I have to ration them out, OK?

Nobody wants to be back there.

I will house the weather in Iowa City.

Come on.

Got comedians in it.