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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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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.
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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.
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