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Show with the Stugartz Podcast. Always excited to see this man's pale and radiant face with that wonderful hair and all of his statistics and knowledge. He makes everything around him better. Mike, sure, returns as our star intern in order to give us a stat of the day. Before we get to that stat of the day, though, you must have—and I don't know whether you had an emergency podcast or not on this—you and Joe Poznansky do one of the best baseball podcasts anywhere in this or any other country. But did Ohtani's contract, industry shaking contract, a contract that you, as a union man, must find fascinating on deferred payments for labor, did Ohtani's contract merit an emergency podcast?

It did. We're recording it literally when I'm done here today, so it'll be up in the next day or so. Yeah, it's interesting from a union point of view, but it's more interesting from a team point of view, because I was actually shocked that the league allowed this. I don't think the union cares as much as long as the guy gets paid. And in fact, deferring payment means more guys can make more money. So I think it's probably fine from a union standpoint. I'm surprised a little bit that the league allows this amount of deferral. $680,000,000 deferred is pretty insane. I mean, for competitive balance tax purposes, it's still like 46 million a year or whatever. So that's something. They're not totally cheating the rest of the league out of the money that they're giving him. It's pretty clearly gaming the system with a unicorn. The guy, he took the money deferred because he makes so much money in endorsements, he doesn't care about a salary. It's not like this is going to happen all the time, especially in baseball, where no one has endorsement money. But it still is a little shocking that the league allows this to happen.

I don't know what it means long term. It might not mean anything because he's such a special case.

I could see this story really moved you. The emergency pause cast, you can't do it two or three days later, Mike. You just can't do it. An emergency podcast has to be done the second the news breaks. That's it.

Tell me you've never listened to my podcast without telling me that you've never listened to my podcast, I guess.

I'm getting to it.

But, Mike, an emergency appendectomy is not done four days later. The person's dead.

Yeah, thank you.

Yeah, again, that's the whole point of the podcast is that we're incredibly lazy and we don't really get to things. In most of the emergency podcasts we do, we don't actually get to the subject of the emergency for like 45 minutes.

Speaking of dead, and I don't want this to take a morbid turn, but what happens if something happens to Showhay O'Tany?

You don't want it to take a morbid turn.

Why, Billy?

Someone asked me out in the other room, and I didn't know the answer, so I'm asking you. You're the baseball guy. You're the Union guy. Okay.

What do you mean?

What's not? It's an insured contract. Don't legitimize it. It's guaranteed money. It's an insured contract.

It's family-Well, you paid one year, though. It's not, right?

It's insured. His family, whatever it is that he is owed... I'm assuming, Mike, perhaps you have information here. I think.

No one knows the answer.

No, this is a.

Great question.

It's not a great question. Don't just say it's a great question. It's not a great question.

Hypothetically, Oshoh Ohtani dies in two years.

I didn't say that. Oh, my God. What are we doing?

What happened to the country? What are we doing? I mean, the guy just signed a what, a 75-year deal, and we're all worried if America will be around? I think this is an important question.

Agreed. This is a good question. Mrs. Ohtani is not getting a uniform.

What happens?

I don't think you know the answer. What happens.

If something tries to me? I don't think I do either. But if I did, I wouldn't answer that.

That's what's happening here. Maybe Samson will know. I'm going to text Samson.

I know what the answer is not. The answer is not what Greg Cody said it was, which is maybe Mrs. Ohtani has to wear the uniform. Right. That's not what's the case.

That way it's not free money. You got to earn the Ohtani's. If not, Show-hi, then the surviving Ohtani's have to pick up the slack, Jack.

Yeah, I think he's right. I think that's legally correct. Thank you, Mike.

Thank you, Mike.

Surviving O'Tonnie's? Yes. Show-hi is what Stugart's does. I do. Where are you, Mike? Sure. In general, when you look at what's happening with the Dodgers on just the incredible imbalance of we need to buy a TV star, and we can pay whatever we want because we have more regional television contract than anyone else in the sport. The Yankees did this for years. It did not mean they always won, but the Dodgers stole Freddie Freeman when they didn't need Freddie Freeman, and they stole him from the Braves, and the Braves are better still than the Dodgers are.

Yeah, of all the stats, the one that is the most remarkable to me is that in 2025, The Dodgers will pay, Showhey, essentially 70 million. The Braves will spend less than that on Matt Olson, Austin Riley, Spencer Stryder, and Ronald Kunya Jr. The Braves have been so smart about the way... Like unfairly smart in the way they've locked these guys up. So everybody's talking about how the Dodgers are a super team. The Braves are a super team. The Braves are smarter about the roster construction than anybody else. The Dodgers have more money. But the Braves, I think you can argue, are still a better team. The crazy thing about the Dodgers to me is that their problem has been pitching. They have run out of pitchers at the end of both of the last two seasons because of terrible injury. Walker Buler and Dustin May and Tony Gonsulin and all these guys went down with season-engaging injuries. They've had multiple Tommy John's. Then they also had deeply unpleasant people on their roster like Trevor Bauer and Julio Arias who couldn't pitch either. They won 100 and something games last year. They were starting rookies in the playoffs because they had no pitching left.

And Shohey, who is without question the best baseball player who has ever played baseball, can't pitch next year. They're paying $70 million next year for a DH. He's the best DH. He's the best arguably the best hitter in the game. But long term, this is enormously risky for their pitching staff because nobody knows what he's going to be like after he comes back for a second, Tommy John, and they still have pitching problems because they don't know how these other guys are going to be either. Look, when he's healthy, he's the most valuable player in the game by a factor of essentially two. And they paid him like that. They paid him like Aaron Judge plus Garrett Cole. His contract is basically Aaron Judge plus Garrett Cole. And that's what he is when he's healthy in one guy. But they don't know if he's going to pitch to the level that he's pitched in the past, and that's a big question mark. Look, when you have Muki bets, Freddie Freeman, and Shohay Ohtani as the one, two, three in your lineup, that's incredible. That's three MVPs at three different positions that are three of the eight best hitters in baseball, maybe, or seven best hitters in baseball.

I get it, and I think it was worth it. The money that they're paying him, they'll make back tenfold on marketing and everything else. But it's weirdly doesn't fix all of their problems, at least not right away, because their main problem in the last couple of years has been pitching. Mike, wouldn't you argue the Dodgers are being positioned as this nefarious team for.

Pushing all of this money back.

For years? But couldn't you argue that what the Braves have done is the more nefarious version of it by taking advantage of young guys who.

Need the big contract.

Quote-unquote, and signing them for... I mean, what Azialbis is making is criminal compared to the type of player he is. All those Braves players should sue their agents. It is absurd that they got those contracts locked in to the degree they did. Akunya, especially Akunya makes $12 million next year, and then I think, $17 after that, and he's a $40 million player. I have not understood why those guys took those deals. I get it. It's obviously life-changing, generational money. But man, oh, man, are those guys worth more than they're being paid? And they're all locked in for, I mean, 10 years, every one of them. Albee's deal runs out, I think, after next year. But it's absurd. And so look, it's not illegal. It's just outrageous that their agents took those deals to me.

Give me all your thoughts on Juan Soto, who turned down a contract, the equivalent of Patrick Mohomes. Right.

Well, I think it makes a lot of sense to turn that down because he knew that Schohey would hit free agency before he did. Obviously, he doesn't pitch, but he is essentially Ted Williams. If you look at guys at his age, he's 25 years old. The number of guys at his age who have done what he's done offensively, OPS plus and walk rate and all the stuff that really matters, it's like he's top four all time. It's like him and Ted Williams and, I don't know, Babe, Ruth, and whoever. I think it made sense for him because he knew that there was going to be a guy who set a precedent that he could then use to get his deal. He's going to play out this year, and I don't think he's going to join the Braves. I think he's going to make 50-100 million more than he would have if he had taken that deal because of Showhay's contract. I hate that he's on the Yankees. That's bad for me and for everybody who likes justice and goodness and happiness in the world. But I don't blame him at all for taking that for turning that deal down because he knew that it was only going to help him long term.

The thing about the Juan Soto deal, too, Mike, that people fall in love with the 450 that he turned down, but it was over 50 years. It was 440 over 15, so it was less than 30 a year, so he could make it back with a shorter deal.

Yeah, he'll get that for 10 years after next... Assuming that he does what he does and he doesn't get hurt, he'll probably get 450 over 10 at this point because Joey is essentially making 46 a year competitive balance tax, which is what people... That was in the ballpark of what people thought he was going to get total, the 45 to 50 a year. And so tell me why Juan Soto shouldn't get that. He's three years younger than Ohtani. He's one of the greatest hitters who's ever played the game to this point in his career. If he keeps this up, he's going to the Hall of Fame. He's so young. I mean, you're talking about... Ohtani will be 38 when this contract ends. And if Soto signs a 10-year deal, he'll be 35. This is his absolute prime. So yeah, he'll make 450, but he'll do it in two-thirds of the time that that original deal offer was going to last.

Start of the Day. Start of the Day. In thisFirst of.

All, Roy, thank you for turning on original sounds. I can hear the music. You get it. Lots of great show, Hey, Stats, out there. Jason Stark had a good one, which was that he's going to make as much money as a hundred and thirty guys in the AL Central put together. That's a good one. The money he makes is roughly the profit made by the National Airline of Portugal in the year 2022. I like that one, too. But here's my favorite. According to Worldometer, here are nations listed by annual gross domestic product. 176, the island nation of Kiribati, $223 million per year. Number 177 is Shohay O'Tany at $70 million per year. Number 178 is the nation of Tuvalu at $60.3 million per year. We officially have a guy in baseball who is outgrosing an entire nation.

Mike, did David Samson get back to you on what happens if Billy kills Shohayegh Tani?

What? Did not? That's murder.

By the way, Saturday the Day is brought to you by Venmo. Yes, David Samson, and a little heartbreaking sending this text, a little editorial by me. He has experience in this, given what happened to Jose Fernandes, but if something tragic were to happen to Shohayegh Tani, his estate gets paid, but the team collects life insurance.

When you said, Mike, did David Samson get back to you? I thought you were talking to me, and I wanted to tell you again that I blocked his number when he texted me that one time.

Billy, kill.

Thank you, Mike. Don't live a tard. Were you guys building out the A-rod bathroom of your imaginations? Is that what I heard you discussing during.

The break? Towels with an A on them.

You know the thing you slide the toilet paper on? That's a baseball bat.

Hey, I like that. Stugatz. Do you think he actually calls it the throne?

Probably does. It's an.

Actual throne.

An actual throne? There's got to be a full-length mirror in there somewhere.

I imagine somewhere in his house, he has a replica of David, but with his head on it. This is the Dan Lebertar Show with.

The Stugatz. Stugatz in the history of our show. I don't know whether it's JuJu Gadi who's at the top of this list or whether it's Lucy. But in the history of this show, rarely has someone arrived here and immediately made a huge impact that shows everyone that they are a star right off of the bat, a star. But Lucy is now facing her first adversity. She just came into the studio now, and she was fanning at her face saying, I'm overwhelmed. There are way too many people out there.

Second adversity, Dan. Remember, she left that Colorado.

Game early.

We could also do third, the coffee incident as well.

This one, I think, is the hardest you've endured so far. You've survived those and climbed more and more stardom. You didn't get to 24th on the international rankings of college football analysts by not overcoming those two previous mistakes. I don't know if you can overcome this one, though. So she comes in here and she's overwhelmed because there are way too many people out there. It's the holidays and there are a lot of corporate types milling about, a lot of people. There's a lot of money milling about out there. And Lucy keeps scampering back in here to do show. But she doesn't feel totally confident here because she's not feeling great about the content that has emerged from her latest very expensive metal arc trip where she expenses a great many things traveling all over the Earth. So where are you with this Lucy? The video we're about to show, Lucy.

First, let me say I saved a ton of money. I didn't buy a single hat this trip. Not one. Actually, that's not true. Take that back. I bought one before the trip, and I'm going to expense it if I didn't buy one there. We can expense hats? Yes, I have expensed so many hats. What? All my hats, I've expensed every.

Single one. They all make it to the video. Yeah, the fit checks. It's part of.

The gag. The fit check is like the most brilliant plan ever because I can just buy clothes and cool hats. And I'm like.

That's great. If I.

Show my shoe.

Does that mean I get to, All right, I'm going to show the shoe. I have.

To not look.

At the thing. Oh, that's nice.

Paid for.

What a scam. Only if you show your shoe the next time a hockey player gets inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Foot, foot, foot. Lucy, how do you feel about what you made? Because we're about to throw it to video here, and you don't seem confident today. I've seen you, and you've seemed confident almost the entire time here.

Thank you. Yeah, not today. Not our best video, not our fault. I will say that I came in a little nervous for Army, Navy just because it's very different than the normal college football games we go to. And you would have thought I smelled or something because no one wanted to talk to me. No one wanted to be near me, and I wore perfume that day, so I know I didn't smell. There were tailgates there. There were just not tailgates that we were wanted at. And so we didn't really get any interviews because no one really wanted to talk to us. So we did the best we could. And I ended up having to shoot a fake gun, and I didn't really want to do that. It was just this whole deal. And I thought Foxbair was in Boston. It wasn't in Boston, so it wasn't my favorite tool. There was really a lot going on. And I didn't even buy anything there either, so I didn't feel good about that either.

What an amazing discovery has had to have happened over the last 20 years, Dugald, of the Patriotsdominating football, that Lucy realized that on that one lonely stretch of road that takes you to Foxborough- It's awful. -it's going to take you hours and it's nowhere near Boston.

That's why their fans are so angry they have to drive so far.

I'm in the.

Middle of the woods.

It's.

Terrible. This place stinks.

But they do sell it as you're in Boston and you're not. You're not close. It's the furthest thing from Boston. It's like thinking you're going to New York City and you're in the Bronx.

It's something like that. Oh, no, it's not like that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's like thinking you're going to New York City and you're in a marshland swamp in the ocean.

This place- So you're in Jersey.

This place is obscure and off in the shadows, and it's one way in, one way out. This place is so lonely, awful, cold. And how long did it take you to get there?

So it took... I didn't look anything up ahead of time. That's my own fault. I did talk to Jess about it, and I told her my plan to walk around Boston, and she didn't really say anything to me about how far Foxborough was. So okay, a little upset with her, but that's all right. We'll get through it. I drove probably an hour from the airport to Foxborough. I had to drop Rose off because she had something she had to do. And then I drove the hour back from Foxborough to Boston. In traffic. Yeah, because I was like, Well, I'm here. I told everyone I was going. I'm not just going to sit in Foxborough and have a bad time. So then I went all the way back to Boston, but I had to leave early because I was like, Well, it's going to take me an hour or so to get back. I was on my way back, and I thought, Well, I've never been to Rhode Island before. I might as well just go to Rhode Island while I'm close. So I went to Providence just so I could say I've been to Providence, because what if I decide to go see every 50 states one day?

Now I've already seen Rhode Island. Check that box. Then I went back to Foxborough. It was a very long day, and I didn't even buy myself anything.

Let's play that video. Hi, Dan.

We are at Army, Navy in Foxborough, Massachusetts. That's not Boston. I thought it was Boston. It's been this whole ordeal, but whatever. It's basically Rhode Island. But we are here. And you know what? I'm feeling patriotic as hell. Although nobody really wants to talk to us here, and I don't blame them. They look so nice and I'm dressed like a.

No, don't tell. Don't tell my.

Son he's a player.

Okay. I'm a ass. I'm about.

To shoot my first gun. No, I'm not. No, not.

That was the thing.

Hi.

My fucking gun. How are you doing?

Oh, my God. This is so intense. You do this like all the time.

Yeah, I know.

I hated that. I'm pointing it right at people. I hate that. You'd think after living in Florida for several months now, I'd be a little more comfortable around guns. I'm all right.

I'm having fun, but it is our American right not to want to talk to the Levitard show. I get it. I get it. Usa number one. Do you watch the Dan Levitard show with Stugaz?

Do.

You watch the Dan Levitard show with Stugaz? Yes.

We.

Are Penn State. That's so cool. I could never be in the military because my hair looks really bad pulled back. Also physically and emotionally and mentally, I'm quite weak. So that could be a problem, too. I don't really like getting up early, so that might also be an issue. I'mso sorry. Well, Dan, they've got John Cougarmelon camp on. That is the end of Army Navy. It was awesome. It was like all the pageantry of college football to the Nth degree. It ruled. I cried so hard. It was so patriotic. Still somehow not as patriotic as Clemson was, but a very close second. Even though nobody wanted to talk to us, we had a great time here. Usa, USA, USA! Hitting down south to the land of the man, land out the road. I think I know the words so last. Dan, we haven't left the field yet because the vibes are so high and the music's so good.

Put it on the pole, please. Juju@levitard show. Are you surprised that the Army-Navy game was not as patriotic as Clemson? I want to apologize to the podcast audience for all of that royalty-free music. The video was much better, though not that much better because Army, Navy-It.

Was a stretch play in there that looked promising.

I salute you, Lucy, for trying to do that, and thank you for your service. Yes.

It's more than just a game, Dan.

You know that, right?

Yeah. It's also boring content.

Probably on the off-roading chopping block next year, Army, Navy.

It is not Lucy's fault. I blame our military. That is even worse. I would blame our military if that was...

Oh, Jesus. Here comes our kick. It was on me, not the military. I know that if war comes around, I trust them because they didn't want to talk to us, and that shows good judgment. And that shows good judgment.

Shohay O'Tanya, you also trusts them.

Football is super cool in slow motion, huh?

It does.

Oh, it looks great. The video in slow motion looks great, but if you're looking for flimsy content that is all packaging and soulless.

Yeah, but nothing quite.

Connects like- Lucy or the military or Rose, who are we.

Taking out right now? Nothing quite connects like a full back dive in slow motion to royalty-free podcast music.

Don Lebertard. I did not propose in the Hot Air Balloon, but I did go on a Hot Air Balloon trip, a ride in San Francisco, Northern California. On my honeymoon, we got stuck in a tree, and I haven't been back since. I mean, to the entire area, by the way.

Stugats. You just avoided the entire… Not just the tree, not just hot air balloons. You've avoided the entire West Coast. This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stugats. Stugats, I would like to show you jumping off of that segment, which was largely video and probably unsatisfying to our audio community, which is our largest community and is a giant in the space. And we actively alienate by just watching videos that don't have the right sound on audio. I wish to get to a couple of pictures here that I will allow the podcast audience to look this up themselves so they could produce their own television show without our help if they're not watching on YouTube. The first thing I want to do is I want to show.

You a-YouTube. Com/atlevitard show. Make sure to subscribe. Get alerts on when we're doing stuff. We're going to be doing a lot of YouTube-exclusive stuff in the future, so it's a nice little way to supplement your phantom.

I want everyone who's listening to this, before I put the photo up to just google if you're just listening to this, Jim Leland baseball card, 42 years old. So I can show the audience right now what Jim Leland looked like when he was allegedly 42 years old. So this is younger than Roy? This is a young Jim Leeland.

Stephen's doing his Stephen A's list in top five teams in the NFL. Big news at number five, the Dolphins.

Stugatz, I'm doing a different show now.

I know. I know Stugatz on this. That's big. It is big. I mean, it's in the top five.

We don't need to continue our drift on Stephen A's content. Tom braided is presently 46 years old. That picture right up there is of Jim Leeland at 42. Take it in.

I have another one for you, and I want you to guess the age here of one, Sparky Anderson, as I put another one up here for you. Oh, boy. The former Detroit Tiger's manager. How old do you think Sparky Anderson is there, Stugart?

Seventy-nine.

Greg Cody, do you have any guesses here?

Yes, I do. He's 67.

In that photo, Sparky Anderson is 48 years old. What? You are a liar.

A liar. Get out of here.

How about this photo of Sparky Anderson? How old do you think Sparky Anderson is in this particular photo?

With a pipe, 27.

This is Sparky Anderson with a pipe. This is Sparky Anderson at 50. This is Stugats's age right here. Oh, boy. This is who looks- I feel.

Pretty good about myself.

Just to be clear, we're following up, watching a video with Guess What We're Looking At on the podcast.

That's correct.

I already established that. This is.

The same age as Halle Berry.

I'm now going to show you guys a photo of- You're.

Currently.

The same age? -of me at 54. This is a photo of me at 54 here when the pandemic got craziest.

You should feel pretty good, Dan. In comparison, I mean, come on. Thank you.

I appreciate that. Please send us as many of these as you can. I don't think anyone can top Sparky Anderson and Jim Leland.

I believe out of all these three pictures there, you in the center are the oldest.

By a good amount, I would say, because again, Jim Leland is 42 there, Sparky Anderson is 50.

I'm calling to play for Dan Levitard.

Right now. That is crazy. Greg Cody, before I get to Mike Ryan and his thoughts on taking out an athlete that these days no one's taking out.

A little loser. Oh, boy. Big time loser.

Mike Ryan, I don't know if people can guess. Can people try and guess who it is that Mike Ryan is calling a loser? Because this is not someone that a lot of people call a loser. But because the Dolphins are such a national story today, and because I will maintain, there hasn't been a game like that one all year. Double-digit dogs. Look, there are upsets in that sport, but double-digit dogs at home that are good at the end of the season when everyone's broken and a team doesn't have anything to play for. That game has not happened in this season.

Rable always has something to play.

For, though. That's true, Crabel. I feel like a world-class idiot because I had the swap helmet in the Bucket of Death, and I've been doing very well. I swapped my G-men for the dolphins. It's usually embarrassing. I got to dress up and get all kinky for Dan.

Greg Cody, this is your wheelhouse.

Well, the dolphins have earned all the doubts about them. They haven't won a playoff game since 2000, 23 years, almost a quarter of a century. And they have this recent history of fizzling in December, of failing when it matters the most. So all of the ghosts come back with a game like last night. Okay, all of the scars are open again. All of the wounds are open again. Because a long time fans remember, Wow, this is familiar. We're having a good season. We lose a game, we shouldn't, and then it all goes to hell. So if the Dolphins are special this year, and I think they are, this is the time to prove it. They have to beat the jets, and then they have three of the most difficult games imaginable. They got to win at least two out of those three.

Two are at home, by the way.

Yeah, two are at home. But all three are eminently loseable. And the Jets game, frankly, is loseable. Zach Wilson actually looked.

Really good. If last night's game is loseable, they're all loseable. Yes.

Correct. Yeah. But that's the way it is with the NFL, though. Who's an invisible team?

Well, it had been them against bad teams until now. They were.

Eight and a no. And now it's San Francisco for the moment.

Okay. Healthy San Francisco has looked at home has looked invisible.

True. Dolphins weren't healthy last night, though. I know you can probably do this game. When the Niners lost this year, they had injuries. It's almost unnecessary to talk about because it's like, yeah, they were hurt. It's just like a lazy conversation.

To have. But they were hurt three guys on the offensive line and then to re-kill.

First quarter. Everybody's hurt. It's December in the NFL. Are you looking at the Cleveland Browns? How inspired are you right now? They're on Joe Flacko.

Four.

Quarterbacks. No, but my- And Miles Garrett's out there with one out there. Nick Chubb went out week two, and you want to complain about one offensive line? Then shut up. You're going to kick your ass. You better not be playing games. You better win some of these games, because if you see Cleveland in the playoffs, let me tell you something, brother. They're coming and they're dragging you in a rock fight. You know what you need to do if you play the Cleveland Browns in the playoffs? You need to pack a lunch.

Did.

You just...

Are you packing a.

Lunch for a rock fight?

Celebrating the Browns? I mean, you could plug in any team. You can plug in the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Colt team. They're feisty, too.

I believe some of your allegiances are showing here. Texans are.

Difficult, too. Texans are probably going to make it. Not as passionate about it. You don't want.

To face them. You don't seem to have the.

Same- It's just, I mean, the Dolphins. Oh, we had that. So-and-so was hurt. Everybody's hurt, man.

Do we bring a lunch to the Texans?

The Titans were hurt, and you failed to beat the Titans. I mean, you want to prove to me that you're not a lose franchise? How about you win some of these games?

They won eight in a row against teams that they should be.

Sounds like you delph out.

Eight in a row. Can we.

Do this? I'm just issuing an open challenge. By the way, you're going to lose to the Browns.

Can we.

Put- I would be at that game as a neutral observer.

-the game together that allows us to select survivor style officially. And furthermore, whether people around here are Dolph in or Dolph out, we will go to the Super Bowl if the Dolphins have a chance to get to the Super Bowl. Our show will go to the Super Bowl if the Dolphins are in play. But I do believe that what Greg Cody is saying here is true. I heard too much last night. Stugaz, my phone lit up. The fan base of the Miami Dolphins that is generational is fearing and doubting and waiting for that game to happen. And the moment it happens, they forget about the previous two months. They really do. Stugaz, I saw it. I'm like, Wow! All of these people are saying, I felt this before in December. You have to understand that in my case, Stugatz, it's not just that I'm the urinator and objective observer guy. I haven't believed in this team for 20 years, and I've been right for 20 years on this team. The only reason I'm in this year is because of how different it has all looked. Because I know their coach is good. I know their offense is good.

But yesterday, their key player gets injured on one of these plays that's going to be illegal in a couple of years. That tackle is soon going to be gone from the game. As soon as he goes to the sideline, he took all my hope with him. The way that game was ending and what Tennessee did where I'm like, Why is Jaylen Ramsey not on DeAndre Hopkins? Why is he 15 yards behind him? How did Tennessee just get down the field in two plays on a defense? I keep getting told is good in a spot where everyone needed the defense to be good. I'm watching a football team have happened to them at the end of that game, Stugat. Every hope I've had for every 45-15 result the Dolphins have had against bad teams, as soon as Tyree, Hill went to the sidelines, I'm like, They're not coming back in this game. Toa has not had enough time in the pocket for him to go down the field and even get a field goal. They were down by a point, and I lost my confidence in everything that was happening, dolphin related. Here's another thing, Stugat, because I wasn't watching it.

I had just left our watch party, and I was listening on the radio. Big Dog. The local radio. But this is what I want to tell you.

That I heard- How did you like that 15 seconds of silence while they both watched.

The replay. Can you just tell me down in distance, please? This is a long time, please.

Okay, I do not want to kill-.

I'm not doing that.

We're not doing it. I don't want to kill, Jimmy Cefalo and Joe Rose the way that Billy kill.

I did no.

Such thing.

Billy Kille killed.

Closest I came was cutting Jason Sanders.

Killy Gill.

The thing that I heard on the radio around the 15 seconds of silences that are not good for radio, and I legitimately was having a hard time telling, Is this because these broadcasters are indeed older? Or is it a despondence I hear after a lifetime of both of them watching and playing Dolphins football, What I heard on my radio from a couple of Dolphins Legends sounded to me like somber, stunned, despondents. I don't think they were just tired at the end of the night the way that old people get. Although it could have been that. It is possible that it is that. But they sounded so defeated and so despondent as if all of their worst fears, they just witnessed it, and they did not have the words to describe it around the silence that might have been there just because they were watching the replays.

I don't blame the fans. I don't blame, Jimmy. I don't blame, Joe. Dan, the jets are a tortured fan base. We're always expecting the worst possible thing to happen. That's because usually the worst possible thing happens. Aaron Rodgers, you finally get him. He tears his Achilles, four plays into the season. I don't blame fans for being scarred. They expect the worse. That's the way fans are. I do not blame them at all. I know this season seems different, but fans are the same, and they'll always be the same.

I'm not sure if you heard it on TV, but in the stadium, there was booing as that game ended. Dolphins fans were booing their nine and four team. It wasn't super prevalent. It didn't last long, but the Dolphins fans were booing their team at nine and-four. And the reason, what I heard in that booing, is frustration, because fans are thinking, Finally, we thought we were above and beyond this a performance. We thought we were past this, and it's.

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