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Tony's top five is around the corner.

Last time he went out there, he injured himself and he said he was bringing litigation.

I don't understand.

I didn't tell him to do any of that.

I thought it was a bit try-hard, but I appreciated that he was doing it for us.

But I didn't ask him to do any of it.

And now he's suing the company and suing me because he's injured.

And

now he's out out back on the road again.

Where is he today?

Where's litigation right now?

I know he's out in the field.

I think it's a surprise.

So we'll find out together.

Can we make that a class action?

Well, what would you be getting in on?

Psychological and emotional damage.

From what?

What Billy did to you that first segment?

From what's happened for about the last three and a half years.

Okay.

Your love of baseball is nice.

And I hope that someday before the end of these playoffs, we stop segregating it.

Because I really, the Vlad Guerrero story is so cool to have him topple this team while Aaron Judge, like, he's at the top of whatever the sports mountain is, slugging it out for their cities with like Otani over here, who's got Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman behind him.

It's like, it's an unbelievable time in baseball if you've cared about the history of that sport when the Blue Jays aren't even playing with Adante Bachette's kid.

He's not even in this series because the Blue Jays are loaded too, and Guerrero really hates the Yankees.

Like, he really wants to beat them.

Whatever happened to Bigio's kid kind of flamed out.

Huh.

That stinks.

Mike,

are the kids or the sons getting you interested in baseball?

I'm taking a look at the Met.

I don't care.

Yeah, Big Dumper.

Bro, what about Big Dumper?

He hit it to a guy who said, dump, dump it here.

Dumping it.

But Jackie started yesterday.

Jeremy, aren't a lot of fans wearing a dumper shirt?

Like, I feel like the odds of a fan who's wearing a dumper shirt can be...

Did you see the shirt?

Yeah, I did.

He created it himself with his own cricket at home, and it said dump it here.

And it had 61 on the front for the 61st home run and then after that he took it off and underneath that dump 62 now that's cool he had both all right

in left field to have to hit it opposite field and go i mean guys baseball please

join me championship series i think i don't know maybe don't count on me but maybe the world nah i don't know that fan must have been mocked by all his friends like dude you think you're gonna get a home rumble and then you think you're gonna get another one and then look at him look at this guy Has there been a worse nickname than dump?

The big dumper?

Yeah, like a nickname that's

less appealing.

That's a bad thing.

Look, it's a fun nickname to say, but if I'm the guy they're calling the big dumper, I don't know if I like this guy.

He's got a great ass.

You know, that's why I'm not sure.

He's got a great ass.

Yes, he's a catcher.

He's got seen better.

Is there a catcher with a badass?

Pull up.

He's better than an overrated ass.

I mean, look at Paul.

Yeah, Greg's right, overrated ass.

And his dad's ass is horrific.

Let me see that thing.

Let me see that photo of that ass.

Really?

That's what we're doing?

No, I want to see it.

Let's pause until we see it.

It's an average ass.

You know what?

There was a catcher with a bad ass.

Who?

Paul Bako.

I believe it.

Javi Lopez didn't have a great ass.

In the right angle.

I would also say, like, this whole take off your shirt, 61, 62, like, that moment's done.

This is a postseason.

The stats reset.

That's not a home run number 62.

Like, enough of, like, this made-up history where we're rewarding Aaron Judge for doing, like, as the kids say, mid-things, okay?

No, Baco is a friggin.

That's a blancha.

Yeah, that's an ironing board right there.

Baco.

Yeah,

you need an ass like Big Dumpers.

How's it even possible to not have a good butt as a catcher?

I want my catcher to be a pog.

Pudge had a good one, right, Dan?

Yes, for sure.

There you go.

The catcher, I mean, the hips are wide open and they have a lot.

The lower body strength of these human beings is this guy says, because the Big Dumper is saying, be prepared with shirts 62 and 63 for game four.

Like, you've got a legitimate swaggerer over in Seattle who's coming to also try and topple the Yankees.

And we can't do anything to get Mike interested in this.

As like a catcher for all times, who's hitting more home runs than have ever been hit non-steroid division?

No, no, I mean, I'll certainly make time for the M's if they advance.

I have it on the second screen.

I don't know how to pronounce anybody's names.

I did find it weird that you thought Julio Rodriguez was 32, but I'm like, I barely follow this.

24 years old.

No, I judge.

That was weird.

Dan definitely said 32.

No one else.

He said it with conviction, and so did you.

And I was very confused by it.

Yes, I thought we were doing a bit where we were making the old guy, the young guy, old because the catcher's the new hot thing in town after they'd already tired of their Latino Ken Griffey Jr.,

J-Rod, who went over five in this, by the way.

He's been surpassed as a star in his city.

He was supposed to be the star of these champion Mariners.

He's not.

Their catcher is.

The catcher took the team from him.

It's amazing, and they have Randy Aros-Arena.

If you think your familiar with it, what?

You kind of did that.

Look, I can't speak with conviction.

I'm a know-it-all, but I know I know nothing about this.

So I'm enjoying you guys informing me.

Remember that class action I was talking about?

All right, so I want to bring in Greg on something here because I meant to say this a couple of days ago.

If we're going to cover football and sports in this silly of a fashion, it is pretty interesting when the Arizona Cardinals have a loss for all times, like one of the great debacles ever seen in the history of the sport.

And they all pride themselves as like being these military units of precision on Sundays.

Arizona's clown show.

That game they lost is impossible to lose.

You play it a thousand times.

You're supposed to win it a thousand times.

They drop a ball in the end zone that would have put them up 28 to 6.

And afterward, a coach that I made fun of two weeks ago, because you can't win with a top Jonathan unless it's Ogden or unless it's Taylor.

But if he's going to go Jonathan, it's a Gannon.

And he was a total stoic.

He's one of these robots.

These, look, I got Kyler Murray.

We busted on Josh Rosen.

We got out of that quick.

It burned up Kingsbury.

I'm one of these boy children who's trying to be the next McVay.

Stoic, stoic, stoic.

Like that guy has lost games.

That team's pretty talented, but all close with games.

You never see anything from this guy's face.

And then his running back.

flips away a casual touchdown and this guy puts his hands on the player on the sidelines while yelling at him.

When I just told you two weeks ago, this guy seems to show no emotion emotion ever.

He seems almost robotically principled about I'm in control here.

There's nothing that can happen in this game that can affect me right until my running back's a dumbass and then I get enraged and want to punch him on the sidelines.

Yeah, he's allowed to do that in my opinion.

Whoa.

Yes.

He's allowed.

He got fined $100,000.

Yeah, the boy child?

The boy child did.

Dan, when you said he's one of these boy children, what does that mean?

Were you thinking in your...

Was your very next thought, like, I hope no one seizes on on this?

That does sound weird.

Yes, I meant to say

I wrote it down.

I meant to

child wonder is what I meant.

Okay.

Child wonder.

So I'm glad we were right to seize on that, right?

I think the phrase is boy wonder, not child wonder.

Okay, or child.

You know what?

My point was one of these young masterminds on offense that's going to make Kyler Murray championship good.

Well, he's a defensive guy.

Yeah.

He's that type of boy child.

Okay, here's the thing.

We're talking about football here, okay?

Sort of a rough sport.

I don't know how you guys follow the game, how closely.

We're talking about a sport where you literally hit each other.

You're allowed to punch the ball out of somebody's arms.

And we're worried about somebody laying hands on somebody?

Laying hands.

Do you think he hurt the running back?

You cannot defend that.

You cannot defend.

$100,000.

He struck the guy.

A co-worker.

He struck like his player.

That was a bad look.

And honestly,

ESBN did a bad job job covering this.

They did a bad job.

Like, it was only until after the fine was levied did they start talking about it because this video was out there.

Jonathan Gainen gave people a license to discuss this.

He was sorry, as he should be.

Because he said that he hadn't seen the clip, which is BS.

But we can have sound from his press conference.

Let Jonathan Gainen speak for himself because I do think he had a fair amount of contrition because this is not just a bad look, honestly, should have been considered as a fireable offense.

not just losing that game no but striking a player that viciously that was not he slapped the guy on the arm i i i think he struck him pretty hard i mean demarcados have a big back and his body gets pushback but let's have jonathan gannon speak for himself the boy child i didn't see the video david but um

yeah i actually uh i woke up this morning and um didn't feel great about it honestly And so in the team meeting, I addressed it.

I apologized to Omari.

I apologize to the team.

And I just told them I kind of let the moment of what happened get the better of me there.

Obviously, like I try to be emotionally stable and calm because my job is to solve problems

during a game and kind of lead the charge on that.

So it's not really who I am, who I want to be, and I told the guys that today.

So it's a mistake by me, and it's just like everybody in there, everybody made a some type of mistake yesterday uh which is you know calm in as to why we didn't win the game oh no we can't let it happen moving forward you just blamed demarcado again for being on the receiving end of being struck i love how he's like i didn't see the video yeah but i just woke up it didn't feel right

he should have been called into the owner's office that that was such a bad look number one losing the game is terrible that's a just a terrible job out of him.

Well, can we go a step further, though?

Hold on.

Just, I mean, come on, because bad luck is such a swipe that doesn't even mean anything anymore.

It really doesn't.

Oh, bad luck.

It means nothing.

This person who's in charge, who I just two weeks ago,

I'm watching these boy children who lead these men into battle.

And I pointed out two weeks ago, this is like the most stoic of the dudes.

This is like Bud Grant.

This guy shows no emotion.

It is calamity out there every weekend with that team because his quarterback's a lunatic who just runs from side to side trying to get away from coverage and

does it pretty well, but isn't good enough and is going to get ground up physically by what it is to play for that organization.

That guy put his hands on his running back because he's like, you jackass.

It's all our futures.

What are you doing flipping the ball there?

We had the game one.

Of course he's enraged.

Of course he's emotional.

And of course he's got to be better than that.

He's allowed the frustration, in my opinion.

And he said what he had to say.

You have to do the rote apology because there's a lot of people like Mike who are saying that's a fireable offense.

I could not.

I'm the snowflake.

I understand being super upset with DiMorcado in that situation.

I understand getting in his face.

I'll even abide by a little face mask tug.

But to strike an individual?

If that happens in any other workplace, the person is...

possibly fired on the spot.

Wait a minute.

So you'll allow a face mask tug, but not a slightly different.

He said a slight tug.

Yeah, we're not talking about 15 yards here.

We're talking about the old school five-yard penalty.

Do you think the big running back was injured by the battle?

Do you think he didn't feel bad?

Hey, DiMarcado on the sideline was despondent.

Yeah, and should have been.

Yeah.

It's not like he was over there all smiles.

Like, there's no reason to justify it.

And Gannon's apology was good up until the point he decided to blame DiMarcado again.

Because the guy was full of blame for what he did.

There's certain things in sports that you can't do because they're totally within your control.

You can't do that because you're showboating and costing your team a touchdown and a victory.

That's the football equivalent of hitting the game-winning grand slam and having it not count because you forgot to touch first base.

You just cannot do that.

And if I'm the coach of the manager and my player does that, I'm going to be frustrated.

I'm going to be angry, and I have a right to be.

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Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless.

Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

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He's kicked a dog.

Well,

come on.

I mean, we don't know that.

Come on.

That is kick-a-dog energy.

But we don't know that it is.

That is, that is.

That is bad dog energy.

Hold on.

Kick-a-dog energy.

That is a...

No.

I'm just saying.

It's worse than a bad look.

It's worse than a bad look.

You cannot tell me that's not kick-a-dog energy.

K-D-E.

I have a question, Greg.

So, DiMarcado's 5'9 and Gannon is 6'feet.

I guess this is a question for Mike, too.

If it was opposites, if Gannon was 5'9 and DiMarcado was 6 feet, would it change things?

It's the employer dynamic.

Yeah, I mean, no,

I agree with that situation where it's the, because then you start talking about Draymond Green punching teammates.

It's like, ah, it's sports that happens, right?

But here's like the boss-employee situation.

But if their body types were different, would it change things?

DiMarcado's got some biceps to him.

This is not an office where this happens and you call HR.

What do you mean?

This is a violent sport, and the idea of a coach barely slapping a player's arm.

That wasn't barely.

That wasn't barely.

I think the issue that I and many other people like me, Snowflakes, took issue with was the fact that it wasn't just a little slap on the arm.

He struck the man.

He gave him a Ric Flair chop across his chest.

I've seen Chris and his father wrestle.

Greg will get grabby with the elbows.

Greg Greg is not above saying publicly to all who will listen, I'm fine with striking a man.

That's it.

I'll break your arm off.

He'll say to Mike.

No, I mean, I'm kidding when I say it.

Are you?

I'll rip your fingers off.

Sure.

No, yeah.

Look,

Greg can be a violent man when he rains.

No, I can't be a violent man.

This car's the wrong color.

I mean, all bets are off.

Okay.

That's fair.

Call her lean.

I want to find out how she feels about this shitty Corvette.

Did you just eat that for like three years or whatever?

Yeah.

You just drove around a car car you didn't like for how long?

I mean, I grew to like it.

You know, it was a nice car.

It was my first one.

I was thrilled to have it.

You know, but, you know.

The last time.

The last time a head coach.

The last time a head coach struck a player that I can recall was Bruce Arians.

And I think the media held him accountable there.

Oh, my God.

Did I shriek to the heavens?

Yeah.

I mean,

it's not something you see often because it's wrong.

I didn't mind.

Did Singletary show his wiener to his team one time in a moment?

It was a different time.

There you go.

It was palm.

It was Palm Beach.

No, it was his front.

It wasn't his back.

It was his front.

He said, look at these.

You guys don't have a pair of these or something like that.

Yes, I'm pretty sure it was.

No.

I got to look it up.

It was a crazy story.

Look at these back.

Yeah.

I think it was his front.

He said, you guys don't have a pair of these.

It was Palm Beach.

It was the 90s.

The key was he didn't strike anybody with the penis, apparently.

Because if you

lay hands on somebody, what happened to the great Bobby Knight?

Oh my God, I laid a hand on on a player.

Come on.

I get why the league instituted this fine.

I get why the league fined him.

The league has to do that.

They have to be politically correct.

They got to do all that stuff.

I guarantee you that most Cardinal fans are like, yeah, I'd have hit that guy too.

This is not a Newsmax

engagement story.

It's not PC culture.

It's not the softening of America.

It's bad.

I think we have consensus.

You watched that video.

Head coach should not be doing that to players.

Most fans would have hit him too?

Oh, come on.

He needlessly and carelessly and with full of ego

cost his team.

It was a touchdown.

It was a touchdown.

He didn't even.

Look, the ball is ahead of the foot.

The foot is clearly on the line.

That's the other part.

Touchdown.

The other part is the whole league got it wrong.

Look, if you want to go macro on this, this is flatly cruel here.

Okay, the place we've arrived with dehumanization of these athletes with our fantasy leagues and our addictions to all the action.

This dude was shamed upon this happening.

America's laughter fell upon him.

That must be a mental health crisis.

And his coach was not an ally or helpful there because Greg says he's right to be enraged because all of America was.

You careless fool, you idiot.

I just learned who you were.

And what I know now is you're an idiot.

You cost your team one of the most epic collapse I've seen this century.

I'm not kidding you when I tell you that the way that game was lost, that Cam Ward throwing an interception that ends up being the biggest touchdown of his game-winning career in the pros, because Arizona kept giving the ball back.

Arizona became a source of national shame, a regional team for so long.

Kyler Murray can't pull him out of it.

They're a regional team.

That team fights to be 500 every year and threw away a football game yesterday.

And the face of that, the face of that is a guy whose name we all learned together, and I wondered if he was Hispanic.

And then I, and then I'm like, this guy is going to get buried in America's laughing at you.

Wow, that feels shitty.

And there's your coach to tell you just how shitty you are.

And now he struck you.

Like, yeah, we'll be liberal in saying, oh, that's so, like, come on, toughen up, America.

But like, our cruelty is slapping this kid in the face.

Like, he cares about his job.

I hate that we're at a place where, like, someone's labeled soft for saying, you shouldn't be doing that.

It's obvious to the eye that a head coach should not be doing that.

Any workplace, that's not okay.

And I understand the NFL is not just any workplace.

There's a reason why we're talking about it.

There's a reason why there's film of it.

There's a reason why he got fined $100,000 because it is consensus.

We have everybody agreeing here.

Shouldn't have done it.

No, Greg's not agreeing with that.

Look, I'm fine acknowledging that it's not something that you want to see out of your head coach.

He was right right to apologize.

Maybe the league was right to fine him, although it's a slap on the wrist, a token fine.

That's not the phrasing you want to hear.

Yeah, $100,000 is not a small fine.

Right.

No, it's not even just that,

guys, to make this go away, you have to make it look punitive, as if you know that it's bad.

But it's only not as bad as it should be because everyone's yawning and doing what Greg's doing.

Look, he's in charge.

He's allowed to be frustrated.

The dude was an idiot.

What difference does it make if the boss hits him?

But I'm just, the part I'm laughing at is I've mentioned the demeanor of a head coach in the NFL how many times with us doing this history of the sport when I'm telling you that Tom Coughlin's not helping the kicker when the kickers miss the field goal in Green Bay and

the whole Giants building falls on the kicker and Coughlin yells at him because he's not disciplined to make a kick in the snow.

We've allowed this in football so that the guy in charge is in such power that of course he could hit the employee and Greg would yawn and it would be $100,000.

And we'd say that's a lot, but it's not enough.

This guy's job is to make sure that those players feel like they are allies, protected with him, by him.

Like, you're not going to come touch me, coach, not unless you're willing for me to touch you back.

I cannot believe he took the opportunity to blame DiMarcado again.

He apologizes.

At the end, he's just like, well, we all made mistakes.

We all made a lot of mistakes were made in that situation.

We all made it.

That sucked.

He broke the plane.

He didn't make a mistake.

He scored a touchdown.

He saved your bacon with a huge run.

I still don't get it.

Major KDE.

Maybe it was a bad call by the officiating, but that's off point here.

For the record, I never called the running back an idiot, okay?

I called him careless.

No, but I'm just saying that's what America is doing.

You might be more careful with your language, but what I'm saying is it must really stink to be the face of failure on

the run of your life because it's a 70-yard run.

They're hard to get the big plays in that sport.

You've had three touchdowns in your career.

This is a big moment for you.

And it turns like that into you're the one everyone in the sport is laughing at today

for being careless with the one o'clock games.

With the one o'clock game stunk, and your game was interesting, and you threw a game.

We all paid attention on Sunday.

You were one of the big stories because you fooled.

Yeah, all of the athletes on failing teams talk about we have to have accountability, right?

That's like a mantra in sports, especially in football, I think.

And so this is a matter of that.

You have to take accountability.

You effed up majorly, okay?

And yes, majorly is a word.

No one disagrees with any of that.

Okay.

So when you do F up,

you can't feel that surprised

when your teammate yells at you and admonishes you on the sidelines.

Yeah, okay.

I don't think that's true.

Teammates do that too.

I don't think he's surprised by that.

I think he's surprised by getting struck.

Yeah.

No,

we don't see it all that often.

For all the macho attributes you want to apply to this sport, I remember when coaches do this because it's a rare sight.

Because not just is it a rare sight, it's a really bad look.

It's super unprofessional.

Okay.

Bad looks doing so much work there.

Why don't we call it what it is, guys?

You cannot have the white authority figure putting his hands on.

I don't want to say it's a power dynamic thing more than a race.

Even if he was a white player, it'd be a problem.

NFL HR would be so wild, honestly, if like Monday's like, okay, if you have any HR complaints about this weekend, call in.

It's like, when I was at the bottom of that dog pile, someone's finger went

such a good thing.

Wait, what?

Hold on a second.

Do you know which number, what color was the jersey of the opposing player?

Like, it made me feel really uncomfortable when number 72 from the other team touched my burr.

And then I was like, please stop doing that, sir.

And then he tried to swing and punched, tried to, told me he tried to punch at the ball, but instead he punched me in the head, and it made me feel really inadequate at the time.

There you go.

NFLH jar.

I'm serious.

I, by the way, was trying to clear up some misrememberings early on the Mike Singletary situation.

So Mike Singletary in October of 2008 was the interim head coach of the 49ers and they were down 20 to 3 to the Seattle Seahawks.

So he decided as the interface.

Hold on.

What year is it?

2008.

October 2008 as the interim head coach.

Early interim head coach, but October's early for an interim head coach.

But jar my memory here.

So this is this.

So Mike Singletary is being given one of these Jeff Saturday jobs before he's actually qualified.

He's done some assistant head coaching, but he's the emotional leader of the 49ers, and he is their coach.

And he's embroiled in what?

He's the interim head coach.

It's October 2008.

They were losing 20-3 to the Seahawks, and he decided to drop his pants during the halftime speech to motivate the team to express to them that they were getting their tails whipped.

Unclear as as to whether or not Mike Singletary has a tail, but he decided to drop his pants for visual aids.

Now,

speculation ranges from he was in his boxers to he mooned the team.

No, there was not speculation.

This was stronger than speculation.

No, I will say.

This was before the insiders.

Okay, I will say this.

I went to the ESPN article from October 30th, 2008, which was written by John Clayton.

And at the top, there is a note saying this story has been corrected because there were various rumors going around as to what the extent of his pant dropping entailed.

So then I did a follow-up Google search, which was, did Mike Singletary show his penis to his team?

And then Google AI says no, that claim that Mike Singletary showed his penis to his team is categorically false and a baseless rumor.

All right, Pablo, find out, please.

I remember this.

Maybe butt.

Maybe Tim.

I thought it was reported as he mooned his team.

What a boner.

I mean, the mistake by Singletary.

Get it?

You know, it was just a bad mistake he made.

Thank you, Billy, for the helpful aid.

Because it could be like a mistake or direction.

What a boner.

Yes, it was a boner.

That's correct.

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It really is.

Yeah, I'm hard.

Thank you.

Wow.

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So am I, actually.

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He's 70 years old, ladies and gentlemen.

He doesn't have to bathe after taking coins from the local team while protecting his journalism.

And the young kids are out at the gym right now trying to tony want in on his football conversation this is his moment to shine and we've had him sitting around for 30 minutes he's in one of our oh our gym's lovely here at the Elser this is this is a good gym this is one of I mean I think I can say it this is one of the better gyms you will find anywhere in Miami

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It's going to be a better view in four years.

Uh-oh, well, can we talk about that?

Or no?

Can we talk about the presidential library?

Do you want to talk about it right now?

It's going to be speaking.

Yeah, Tony, what are your thoughts?

Kaseya in a couple of weeks.

Yeah, so.

My thoughts are, let's get to the top five.

We've got

right next to us, Tony.

Tony, you were just at, Tony, didn't you just go to Freedom Tower with my dad?

Didn't you just do that?

Yes.

I did.

It was lovely.

It was cool to see somebody who had been there and uh and walk back in your dad's face for the first time when we saw like the grand hall where he walked in was unreal something i'll never forget dan so thank you for that actually did you scout that uh locale next door nice little plot uh i took a look i took a look yeah

Why are you talking about this in such cryptic terms?

All right, so you guys need to watch last week tonight on Presidential Libraries and what an amazing grift that is.

And the land next to us, right between us and the Freedom Tower.

How do you like this setup, Tone?

As Tony, as Tony sues the company, I think

the view the view right now is of Freedom Tower.

Are you on the other side of the gym?

The gym's two stories over there.

Can you see the Freedom Tower from where you are?

Dan, I can see it bright and clear right in front of me.

It looks good.

It's actually never looked better, Dan, to be honest.

Knock it down.

It's going to block.

No, but

by next year, does it mean between now and then, DeSantis is going to give Trump a casino to put there?

Look, I don't have that information.

I don't have that information.

What I would say is,

you know,

buy some stock in the Freedom Tower.

I think it'll be fine.

Top five plots of land to put a library/slash/hotel slash casino.

The Shorty's plot of land that just sold for $14 million.

That's old Herald building.

Let's have two libraries.

Do people know how much he was president twice?

Do you know how?

Should have been three.

There's no land in South Florida.

There's a plot of land next to us that DeSantis just gave to Trump to put a greasy casino.

Presidential library technique

slash hotel slash casino.

Between me and the Freedom Tower.

I can see the Freedom Tower now.

Read between the lines.

Enjoy the view I saw.

While you still can.

That view's gone.

The parking lot is exactly where it's going.

And leave it right there.

Don't elevate it because climate change is a lie.

Put Trump's story in my father's shadow like that?

Come on.

Your father's gonna be the one in the shadow.

Your father will be cutting the ribbon!

My father came to this country through the ribbon!

He'll be at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, like all our great Cubanos

that have been here for a long time.

My father's none of that TBS nonsense.

My father's 82.

Someone say too long.

He just went to Freedom Tower.

Top five Cubans that have been here too long.

Number one, Dan Magatard.

Number two, Mark Cuban, Little Mouthy.

Didn't Tony kip?

Why is he doing stuff on his

needle?

So we learned, Billy.

That's true.

Amen.

So we learned, obviously, Carmen is doing a great job here.

And what we learned is it's actually not my hip.

It's my sartorius muscle.

Sartorius.

My sartorius muscle that is actually

a little known muscle that goes from...

the top of the quad all the way down underneath the big quad muscle.

So

Carmen diagnosed me and was able to figure out, hey, look, it's not your hip.

It's actually your quad.

So Dan, I'm going to have to change the lawsuit and say quad instead of hip.

So just so you know the verbiage on that.

Number four, Chef Andres.

And number five, Cuban that's been here too long, Bad Bunny.

Can you guys

get cleared for me?

Can you please get cleared for me what last week tonight did with Fox's reaction?

to Bad Bunny and just the idea of a Latin

Super Bowl show because I'd like to be able to replay that.

But Tony, I'm sorry, we've taken enough of your segment.

Tell me, what's OLI?

What are you doing?

Just observations?

We got a couple OLIs, and then we're going to get into the top five, Dan.

So we'll start in OLI number one.

Daniel Jones might actually be the MVP if it wasn't that Baker is actually going to win the MVP.

Oh, wow.

We're already there.

Week six, you guys are going to do that?

We do this every week.

Who's leading the MVP race right now?

But you're doing that?

who led it in week six last year it was Baker last year too like we do this with Baker kind of every year and at the end everything shakes out this is this is unprecedented oh it's a popularity contest it's a popularity contest oh Josh Allen yeah he was so good okay fine whatever I think it's the first time since let's give Baker a shot a team that has has won four of its five first games in the last minute

But and when they finish 10 and 7, we'll doubt them in a bad division because they won't be quite as good as the Rams in a playoff game.

Like Baker Mayfield's now in the top tier of he's going to be playing important games at least in part because he'll always, always win that division.

Where are we going next?

All right,

the third OL second OLI.

That looks like it feels good.

That looks like it feels good.

No, when she digs in the elbow into the Sertorius muscle, it doesn't feel good.

It's like he had to give the groaning.

Look at the skin in that leg.

It's not feeling good.

What is that?

Is that color puncture?

What is that?

Why do you...

Were you cupped?

What is that?

It's called cupping, Dan.

Yeah, I am getting getting

actually

allows the blood to kind of rush up to the cup and

move that towel.

What a boner.

This feels pornographic.

That's the most pornographic thing we've done.

Really?

I'm looking at Deshaun Watson here.

What's going on?

Ah, come on.

Greg, I like that one, Greg.

Play on for me.

All right.

Dan, commies are a problem.

Play on.

Do you agree?

Play on.

Play on.

Commies are a problem.

The Freedom Tower is going to be be blocked by the shadow of the Trump Grift Casino.

Oh, a lie.

Both Manny Diaz.

That would.

That's

going to end for the world.

That's how it's going to end for us.

Seriously?

They're going to take the view next door over the casino.

My father came into this country through that building.

And he'll be going out of it through that building.

As the casino host?

That's right.

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Get ready to learn Palantir, Papi.

Why'd they move the fight from the 4th of July to his birthday?

That's crazy.

Because it's a greater date.

He's 82.

My father's 82.

He came to this country through that building.

Last OLI, Flacco to the Bengals.

Intrigued.

That was a good one yesterday.

That was a good old-fashioned one where we all rose our eyebrows and like, oh, Flacco will give you four touchdowns to chase in Higgins in a game.

Maybe Gosecki will get involved because it's Flacco.

Or he'll throw five interceptions.

You have Jake Browning for that.

Flacco coming into the top.

Everybody,

tell me I'm right or wrong here.

Everyone in sports had a consensus reaction to that trade, which was

maybe on Flacco for a couple of games with those receivers.

Consensus.

100%.

Great trade, Cincinnati.

Oli, Little Marco.

Oh, wait, nope.

We like him now.

Too many DSs.

Yeah, both of them.

All right, number five.

Here come the Broncos.

Yeah, everyone's.

Damn, Broncos are a team.

Like you said, they could be 5-0.

A couple bad bounces, a couple penalties.

They could be a 5-0 team.

And we'd be

talking about it like Super Bowl.

They hadn't trailed in a fourth quarter until they got to Philadelphia and ransacked the champions in the fourth quarter.

Here they come.

number four

the patriots are a playoff team i'm gonna say it now week six patriots are a playoff team kill it you laugh at that you scoff oh oh li aoc

number three

are we sending her back yes

back to cuba okay she's where all these people are from

Number three, Dan, do you know what the D and dolphin stands for?

Oh, boy.

It's going to be a spanish word de binga what's the d and dolphin de binga yes dan

out a boy you're on it today the d and dolphin stands for de binga

you lose to the to the panthers who are terrible they don't even want to win and you lose to them christ almighty with their quarterback calling a timeout he didn't have how is that not a penalty

how tiny quarterback at that dan how is that not a penalty greg cody it is a penalty isn't it it wasn't called as a penalty.

It was Bryce Young called a timeout he did not have.

Should have been a penalty.

What is that, a song?

The league is cheating on his behalf.

Should have been a penalty.

Should have been a penalty.

Jeremy Tashay is Jewish.

Yeah, Jewish and Cuban.

Oh, double whemy.

Number two.

Number two.

Do you guys just hear that?

Hold on, hold on.

Do you hear that?

Does that feel good?

That's not a penalty.

That was Dan Campbell.

No, No, Dan, that was Dan Campbell prying open the Lions Super Bowl window, an air-suction cup window that he just pried open with a crowbar, Dano.

Lions, back.

Billy, you're making a face at that?

Nah, I'm just, you know, these are great points that Tony's making.

Taking forever.

Number one.

Number one, there's only one place we could go, Dan.

Do you want to say it for me?

I'm sorry.

I was put off by Billy saying that you were taking forever.

The chance of him getting it right, Tony, this has dragged on forever.

I mean, you were talking about this before, like, what's Tony doing?

He's like, oh, it's going to be a surprise.

I'm like, oh, boy, that's right.

Very rude to interrupt the man.

Yeah, sorry.

Go on.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

Can you please tell me?

We may need to look into that shipping container also and see who else we need to send back.

Say the whole name.

Number one, Dano.

Send back.

Do

you ball?

Yeah.

Yeah, he's coming.

Tony's coming.

Yeah, wow.

Four and one, Dan beat

the two-time Super Bowl Champion Chiefs a couple of years ago on a gutsy Monday night win.

Duval.

I'm going to say, do I have this wrong?

I am going to say that this is Tony's proudest football moment since riding with the Jacksonville Jags.

We didn't even celebrate it yesterday since he was lighting candles to San Boselli, which he, Tony went all in on the Jags.

Jags had a comeback that cost Mike Ryan 80 grand, we learned yesterday, which was a shocking number to hear.

One of the most shocking comebacks in the history of the sport.

Jacksonville's finest moment since then is right now this moment.

You are lighting candles again today for Boselli.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it's as one of, it's probably the biggest Jags

person on the planet, basically, at this point.

I'm very excited.

I think Jacksonville, they did a lot of stupid things, Dan, if you want me to be really honest.

I don't know anybody

who's first past past the line of scrimmage more than...

Enough of you.

You gave up on them after one week.

You said this is their year.

Then they lost week one and you gave up on them.

And now you're the biggest Jags representative on this planet.

Get out of here.

That's that, again, enough from you.

Discord.

Nobody throws the ball past the line of scrimmage more than Trevor Lawrence.

I don't think he understands where the line of scrimmage is.

Like, we need to put one of those VR headsets that shows the line.

So you can be like, buddy, do not pass this line and throw the ball.

On top of that, delay of games.

Why does he have nine delay of games a game?

What is that?

And then he falls on the play and then gets up and scores a touchdown.

Like, thank God he did that because that would have been a bad one to come back to.

But the Jags, Dan, four and one.

They're frisky.

Who would have thought that AFC South is going to be a bit of a problem in the AFC, huh?

Colts, Jaguars?

Do both.

They're doing the thing where they probably walked out on me.

Billy, he's doing 4-1 frisky jags.

He's doing frisky jags, Billy.

Are you going to go?

Are they not frisky?

Yeah, but you gave up on them after week one.

Now you're back?

You don't get it.

You don't get it.

You don't get it.

You don't get it.

I wasn't out on them after week one.

They had a disappointing week one, but now they're stringed off a couple wins in a row, and Jags are a problem.

They're frisky.

Nobody wants to play the Jags.

I'll tell you that right now.

Nobody wants to play the Jags.

I feel like you do want to play the Jags.

You feel like they're going to figure out a way to punch themselves in the face in the fourth quarter.

I feel like everyone's going to keep watching all season expecting Trevor Lawrence to have a three-turnover game because he

throws three laser beams and throws three interceptions.

Yeah, their defensive takeaways are not sustainable.

They'll finish 9-8.

Seahawks don't want to play the Chess.

Rams might.

Raiders definitely don't.

Texans, after that.

Texans are a frisky team, too, Tony, huh?

Yeah, they are.

Friski.

All right, Friskier.

Put it on the poll.

Oh, this is a good one.

A frisky off.

Who's the friskiest?

Wait a minute.

This is how we're doing it?

Frisky?

I saw a stat yesterday that the Ravens' defense this season is giving up more than the Ravens championship season of Ray Lewis the entire season.

The entire season, the year that the Ravens won the championship, they gave up 165 points because they had to win all their games 9-6 with Shannon Sharp.

Is this the same place you got the Jake Browning stat?

No, this is the correct stat.

Look it up.

Look it up.

I'm sorry I didn't come up with the stat of the day.

They've already, that's got to be right.

More what, points or yards?

No, they've given up more points already in five games this season than the championship defense of Ray Lewis did the entire season when Trent Dilfer was their quarterback and they needed Shannon Sharp to get 17 yards a game so that they could win 9-6 because their team didn't, they won a championship not scoring for five weeks.

We're going to check it out.

Are you nervous after the David Montgomery status?

I'm very confident.

Yes, I am nervous after the David Montgomery stat, but I feel like I've got this one right.

It's five games.

It's so hard to believe.

I believe it because I think that team you're referring to gave up less than 200 points.

I think the number is 175 or 177.

They've already given up this season.

It was like 160 something that season.

It was 165.

Dan is right.

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