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It's incredible . Uh you know the Marlins have the third best record in the national league since June twentieth of last year. Sandy Alcantra. That is a good stat. Hold on. Yeah. I thought he was going to say after three games. Me too. It's a trick. No, it's the best. They're tied for the best. It is just them, the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Blue Ja There are some folks saying, Dan, that they have the best one-two. Sandy Alcantra and Ayuri Perez are the fourth pair of Marlin starters to open the season with back-to-back starts of at least seven innings. The others, Kevin Brown and John Burkett. Oh, 1996. Ryan Dempster and A.J. Burnett. It's just Burkett. Yeah, I wasn't. Ryan Dempster and A.J. Burnett. That's why it confused me in 2002. It's Mickey Mantel. And Josh Bequett and Brad Penny in 2004. The NL East is the first division in MLB history to have all of its teams start one and oh. Let me say it again. The NL East is the first division in Major League Baseball history to have all of its teams start one and oh. That seems like such a ridiculously low bar to cross. Ah yeah. No no not not that kind of pog oh my gosh. Uh Tony, did you go? Dan went to opening day. Was incredible. Wanted to see Chris there. We didn't see each other, even though I know he was in the building. I texted Jeremy to come by our section. He also did not respond that text. Wanted him to come over and hang out and bring the camera. But went over with a uh a friend of ours. Frankie was there. Me and Frankie were sitting together. Elvis who got the got us the tickets, incredible seats. We sat there ordering beers, having food. All of a sudden I look up, it's a fifth inning. I'm like, what the hell? What happened here? We c you know quick game Friday. We keep talking, we keep looking around. All right, seventh inning stretch already. What are we doing here? The fireworks rock before I knew it. Damn the game was over in like two hours. It's like we need the game to be slower, not faster. If I'm in person, I want to get my money's worth. Are w are we trying the nine by nine this year or uh the nine nine nine? We could try it. We could try it. I tried to get the machete, but it was sold out by the time I got to it. What? Lone Depot ran out of food? About the sixth inning. Huh? I didn't or I guess I should. You should have gone the first inning when you get the food. How much is El Machete ? Uh my wife went to go, so I didn't see the price, so I cannot. do that But it's it's uh it's a giant what is it, quesadilla or burrito? It's a two foot long quesadilla with carne asada, just a bunch of all the fixings. Yeah, this is uh startling to hear Tony uh years after I've been hearing for de for decades we've been hearing baseball needs to speed up, needs to speed up. Uh I originally the baseball poets would write their stories about it's a game about going home again and there are no clocks and isn't that charming and then everybody's like, hey, I gotta get home. I can't have this you know five hour game. It's the fifteenth inning, nobody scored, put a runner on second, get let's wrap this up. Now you're saying it all moves too fast. Way too fast, right? So it was Frankie on the row, his boy, me, Lewis, Elvis who got us the tickets. Incredible. We were all there hanging out. Make making things happen. That's my guy. That's my guy. But we were seeing a section where they were like, hey, you order on an app, they bring you food, they bring you whatever you want. You don't have to pay for it. Like you make it happen. Why do they do have to pay for it? So then all of a sudden, well yeah. Unless Elvis gets involved. Up front, up front you don't have to pay for it while you're there. You just kind of give the guy a 10 ski and be like, hey, make sure you look out for ticket 72. That's us right here. You're bringing 14, you know, 14 beers and three hot dogs. So with all that, it's like we we're doing our thing, we're going down, we're taking a shot or two. All of a sudden, it's like the game's over. I gotta leave. No, I can't leave. I need this kid five hours long. What are we talking about? There are a couple of baseball stories I want to put in front of you guys and ask your opinion. Okay. I mentioned that the San Francisco Giants, like historically, the most impotent off ensive start to a season in our most historic sport. They got shut out the first two games against the Yankees. They scored a run in the third. And afterward, their manager, I don't know if you know this story, guys , but the manager comes from uh college baseball, Tommy Vitello. He is somebody who doesn't necessarily know the pace and rhythms of 162 games. So after they were shut out in their first two games, he's like, This is on me. I went too much fire in Brimstone at the beginning of the season. We were tightened up a little bit. Do you buy for a second that this could possibly be on a manager the fact that nobody's getting any hits in their first three games of the season? I I I I kind of feel like again, I I am not a baseball expert. I just play Wode on TV, but I kind of feel like at the point the guy steps up to the plate and has a bat in his hands, the managing is done. It's an individual sport in the batter's box. It's the only place that that sport uh can be that individual in terms of its measurements. Like they do a good job of isolating performance in that sport where you can basically scout a player in the minor leagues without ever watching him by just looking at all of his numbers because the Batters Bucks does such a good job of uh measuring individuals. But this is the one manager in the game who can't get away with that explanation after three games because he's an amateur. Like he is he is going so far uphill. Baseball players don't respect a manager very much who hasn't played before. But if you haven't actually coached or managed at the major league level and, then you do this after three games where you're like, my fault? On no, we know it's not your fault, Skip. Like it we know how this game works. How can this be your fault? But you're going fire and brimstone, you're revealing to us that before the season has already started, you went fire in brimstone when you're before you're playing the Yankees. It's just a textbook like college coach going to the pros, right? Like we talk about this in other sports often where that mentality of like being hard ass on the players is, you know, it doesn't translate to the NBA in particular. We talk about that a lot more often. Where you don't really ever see this in major league baseball, having a guy come from a college baseball program to this, and it's like whether it was good managing, bad managing off the top, and getting guys motivated, the putting it on yourself after just a couple of games, it's like very strange behavior to react to two games at all. You could get swept in those first three games. You gotta just like, hey man, long season. There's a hundred and sixty-two of these. Do this. The one manager that can't put that in front of people is this manager. The one that's younger than Aaron Judge. Fair. Their president of baseball operations is 35 and their GM is 31. For reference, by the way, three games in is the equivalent of having that statement after the first quarter of your first NFL game. Like imagine coming out in the quarter break and saying talking like that. That's what he just did. Yeah, it's not showing any perspective for the length of a baseball season. The other the other story though that I wanted to get into with you guys from baseball is the Phillies third bas eman, Alec Bohm. I don't know if you guys saw that he is suing his parents for millions of dollars because uh they have mismanaged his finances, according to him. And I am generally innocent until proven guilty on all of these things, although it made me sad that a family would be fighting over these millions of dollars publicly. He's seeking three million dollars of damages from his parents. But I went innocent until proven guilty until I got to the last sentence of the story . And the report was his parents live in an RV traveling the country? And I'm like guilty. And it's unfair. I know it's unfair what I'm doing, but I did it anyway. Like that, that is what happened to me. I'm like, oh, that's suspicious behavior. You're wandering the country in an R V. Put it on the poll at Lebetard Show. Do you think the people wandering in the country uh in an R V are more liable to steal from their major league baseball playing son, yes or no, than people who have a home that's not on wheels. I'm I'm going the other way. I'm thinking they'd have a nicer home if they stole a bunch of money. This is exactly how you get away with it. You uh you live beneath your means and nobody knows you're stealing the millions of dollars from the account. I'm learning about the story right now, but I'm just gonna guess they're white. Nailed it. I think then I think the Alec with a C didn't give it away. Hey Roy buddy. You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together, in unison know,s to stand up on their feet. Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah, you've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo. Oh delicious. It's the signal that says, We're not checking the time anymore, pal. Mm-mm. It's when small talk turns into stories. Mm-hmm. Quervo, man, it's at high five a random stranger effect. That's right. The game is poppin'. You're hugging people you never met before. That's a kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it, Quervo . Folks, listen up. DraftKings Sports Book, the number one sports book for live betting, is built for March. The tournament is unpredictable, but the rewards are guaranteed. And DraftKings is delivering some of the most generous rewards in the market. New to DraftKings, bet just $5 and get $200 in bonus bets instantly. Download the DraftKings sportsbook app now and use code Dan. That's code Dan to turn five bucks into 200 in bonus bets instantly in partnership with DraftKings. The crown is yours. Gambling problem? Call 1-8e0ight0 hund-red GAMBLER or one-eight hundred My Reset. New York call eight seven seven eight Hope and Y or text Hope and Y. 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Illinois, Arizona, Michigan, and anyone but Duke. Thank God . Nothing gives me more joy than seeing them lose in the most embarrassing manner possible. I wrote this before I knew how we're gonna do the show. I understand. Shout out to Carlos Buzer. You raised the real one. There's a lot of pros who wouldn't do what Caden Boozer did . Not the turnover, I mean facing the music afterward. Saw that? He sat down. He answered the press and. Why don't we face music? You gotta face it. Can't you can't turn away from the music, gotta face the music. And it might have to deal with capital punishment. More on that in a second. Downtown Miami. During ultras like Zaz's algorithm come to life . Took a little stroll last night, guys. Talk to him. Yeah. What's rarer? Was there a lot of toplessness here or was it just uh because no, there's a no, there's a lot of taste. There's a lot of drunken nud ity around here this weekend. More more so than at any other time. You will never see this area filled with drunken nudity. This is not the area of drunk. It's nudity with taste though. If you're gonna be topless, maybe you wear like a f like a floss thing. Just wait till the World Cup. Also , drunken is not the state of inebriation I would use to describe that crowd at all. My bad, drugging . What's rarer? A four-leaf clover or finding five black guys in Iowa versus Nebraska? Mighty white game, guys. I was like, holy shit. Heuberg having only four players on the court is crazy. Bennett Sturtz, good . Remember when college games used to put the players year and their majors on the screen. Pepperage Farm remembers . I have no idea who these guys are I I used to relish that. Like, hey, he's a sophomore. He's a computer science major. I'm like, really? Oh, how about that? Two theories for FaceTimus, by the way. Uh one isne performers had to overcome stage fright. Okay. And it was they had to literally face the orchestra pit. The other is that it comes from the military tradition where when an officer is being cashiered or dismissed, they had to face the music, the band as part of the dismissal process. It's true. Can you also look up Jeremy and and give us later in weekend observations? He used been around the block. Uh I'd like to know. Is that street walking? Is that like what's a or what's around the block? Where does it come from been around the block Google Chrome updates a lot what is that about every time over Google Chrome was like would you like to update I'm like what do we do now just been a week . Death, taxes, and Sean Miller choking in the lead eight. Fraud . I know this is a glasshouse type situation . But I honestly thought number two for Texas Weaver was wearing a white headband. No. It took me a while to figure out like, oh, that's his hero. Look at Andrew Luck coming through the paint there. Sturts. He was giving him work . Ring ring! Ring ring! Oh really? It's Fred Hoyberg, Dan. 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And I can't stand Duke Basketball. And the third? Oh, people in the Epstein Files . The trials and tribulations of being a zealous celebrity. Scott Storch was on my flight. When he boarded, he made eye contact with me, gave me the head nod, and I head nodded back, and then afterwards I didn't I didn't know whether it was because he recognized me or That happened to you, Dan. We're like, I know who you are. And you're like, okay, but like, wait, did he know who I am? Yeah, that's uh that is something that happens to me a lot where people think I'm either Mike Golick or Jay Mariotti. Damn. Jay Mariotti was always funny. Where's that? It's true, it happens. It's always the eyebrows . Dam these bike lanes have got to go. They've got to go. This weekend in Phoenix, I'm walking down third street. Third street used to be two lanes northbound, two lanes southbo und. They a couple years ago they took away one lane each and turned them into bike lanes. We're gonna encourage people to ride bikes. We want to save the environment. I'm like I'm all on board on this, even though it makes traffic worse on Third Street, but I'm on board. Let's give these people bike lanes. Let's make sure the bicyclists can ride safely. I'm making my walk down the sidewalk. I'm on my phone guy on a bike says get out the fucking way. I go oh I'm sorry. I've seen that TikTok channel. Oh I'm sorry. And I'm like, oh my bad, man, I was on my phone, wasn't paying attention. And as he drove back rode past, I was like, wait a second I'm on the sidewalk there's a bike lane we got rid of cars for you asshole and you gonna tell me get the f out the way no you get the f off my sidewalk. Well, you're saying that now though. What th th you're the guy who walks away from the confrontation and has something to say twenty four hours later. You didn't realize it until twenty-four hours later. But you're saying you wanted to say that you didn't say anything. You just moved out of the way. No, I moved out of the way because I wasn't thinking because I was on my phone. I have to apologize. You quietly and meekly got out of the way with an apology. And now 24 hours later, you're bold yelling all sorts of things. I was on my phone not paying attention. So the initial When you say that, you're instantly in the wrong. I don't care where you were. Well, no, no, no. It it feels like I'm instantly in the wrong. I automatically, oh my God, I'm not paying attention. How rude of me. Until after he rode past he's on a bicycle, he's going pretty fast. I'm like, wait a second, I'm on the goddamn sidewalk and we have a bike lane. This this is not a good reflection on you. This is all of this is not a good reflection on you. Twenty-four hours later, you having something to say. It was like it was like a strong 30 seconds. I turned around and said, wait a second, as he wrote, but he couldn't he at that point. No, I would say for the guy on the bike, be nicer. No,, no no , Roy. I don't care if he cussed me out if I was in the bike lane. I would. No no. I'm in the bike lane. It's like shark attacks. It's not a shark attack. You're in their place. But he came on to land and messed with me at the Clevelander. That would be a shark attack. Imagine a shark walking up to you at the Clevelander and then biting you. Like, wait a second. This ain't your place. Get back over there . I still think it's a shark attack if you're in the war and the shark attacks. Why you're trespassing? That's why. Also, get rid of these bike lanes. They don't deserve them. They don't deserve them. They ride in the middle of the street. Then they'll ride on the sidewalk. They'll all be all over the sidewalk. Let's not be all over the sidewalk. And now it's mad max. Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Levitard Show. Is it a shark attack or are you trespassing? Because I'll tell you what. If it's me against him, I guarantee he's gonna get hurt before I will . You gotta keep your balance. I'm standing up buddy. All I gotta do is shove you. And don't let it be me in a car. Oh my god. You know what they call it? Vehicular homicide. They don't call it bicyclist homicide. You know why? Because no one's ever been hurt by a bike unless they were on a bike. Get rid of these bike lanes. Let's see how tough they are. Assholes. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night and write these down with the intention of fleshing them out later. But then they never get fleshed out because I don't know what I was talking about . Case in point. Real one . What the hell was I going for there? Speaking of hell, our prials, those are the weekend observations. You don't remember? I have no idea. So you just I woke up, I wrote it down, I was like, oh this one's gonna be good. And then I went back to sle I think that the editing of weekend observations should be such is if you don't know what that is, you don't bring it to weekend observation. But it it was pretty funny to try to imagine what the why is Tiger Woods a real one? I don't know. Okay, this is not helpful. This is notes by your bedside that don't deserve to leave your bedside and be brought out onto the air. They should stay by your bedside if you don't know what that means. If it was something very mundane and blasé, I would have left it out. But because it was so select-like, how could I have possibly gotten Tiger Woods real one out of whatever happened this weekend? I was like, this is the same. You don't know, we don't know, we still don't know, and now we're all just like wondering. We can come up with a punchline. Scott Storch is a good one. Oh man. That's a good airplane encounter. Tony said, How did you know Scott Storch? Did he have the glasses on? And I said, he did. And what is your best guess on what happened there? Do you think he recognized you and gave you a head nod or he recognized that you recognized him and gave you a head nod? he would have said something like hey so who you think is gonna win the final four that's how they usually do right they when when it's a famous person they never like come out and say unless it's Michael Jordan they never come out and say hey I love your work or whatever Michael Jordan did say that to me but usually they'll just Michael Jordan? The NASCAR owner? Yeah, I know it's crazy. Look at me, Rero oo oo oh . How about that? But like for instance I remember Tyson Beckford asked me like hey who you think is gonna win the Super Bowl and I was like I don't know I I I felt like I let him down because I didn't wasn't on top of my NFL shit. I was like I don't know I just left it I should have lied I'm sorry, Tyson Beckford. It's not really my lane. I wish he'd asked you about the baby. You would have had all sorts of opinions immediately if he had been in your lane asking you basketball questions and about the baby's behavior at a Charlotte Knicks game. Ca can we can we say une quivocally, like we need to stop giving attention? I know I'm doing exactly that. We need to stop giving attention to the clown show in the stands. Hey man , uh we don't go to your concert and then focus on I don't know Lamello Ball kind of like just uh interacting with everyone else. So the Knicks play the Hornets. The Hornets won by a lot. That's a good win for the Hornets. And because it's the South, there are a lot of Knicks fans. All like Atlanta, Washington, here in Miami. That's a normal occurrence. You go to a Knicks game at home here, but it's like most of the crowded Knicks fans. So he sat courtside as he usually does, a baseline, and he was talking trash to all the Knicks fans. Oh, it sounded real quiet, whatever, because the Hornets were up big. But then he just keeps going and going and going he's getting people to throw him jerseys and he's taking off a belt and he's whipping the jersey at the belt, which by the way, copyright infringement, right? That's not yours, right? And then at one point he tears his he's wearing a tank top in this video. He tears it Hulk Hogan style. I don't talk about like pretending to tear it. Completely tears it and is shirtless for a strong like 20-30 seconds, just stand there talking trash before he starts to slowly put on a shirt while still talking trash. Those people were so annoyed by him. You saw nothing but people not enjoying their NBA basketball because of this annoying person wandering around. But I don't like I don't care who wins or loses the game. Uh the Hornets players seem to be for the most part very engaging with it. I know uh Miller had a dunk and then he daps him up after the dunk. That's a pretty cool moment. But it's like not if you're just standing up the whole time yapping away at one point la melo is trying to inbound the ball he's running an under out of bounds play and this fool's over here uh melo my mom wants a jersey again i need a jersey signed by like well just let him play the game, man. Let him play the game. One of his boys got the ball and tried to shoot it over the backboard to try and shoot like if it was horse. It hit the f the back side of the backboard and hit Khan Knipp on the back and it was like, what the hell? That video was great. And then he yelled at him. So you just hurt the rookie of the year right there. And then Con Kanipple hits a three and then he starts He's good. Yeah, look Con Knipple's really good. But I'm just I was just like I I maybe I'm turned into old man Dan, but I'm just like, just uh just buddy, y you're not the show. You're not the show. They they're the show. Let them be the show. Be happy, be supportive, yellow. Even dap him up when he dunks. 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You're one for one there. Did no one just hear the segment we just did with Amin? We cannot be taking counsel from the local drunk on whether or not you should do the impersonation of a black man stumbling over his words. Like you don't see the bad judge in that there it was. Mose and Moody. Moody Moses? Moose and Moody. You need that it sounds worse. Be careful, man. We gotta like we cannot do this. It's too close to the line. This is where the line is. Something legitimately funny can't be funny because we're scared our ginger's gonna do something racist by accident. Carry the hell on, Dan . Rachel. Dan, the line is where we feel alive though. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stu Katz when we were talking earlier about uh the absurdity of Michael Jordan being more excited talking NASCAR or baseball than he is basketball. Uh I was thinking and didn't get to the story from this weekend that made a very quiet appearance that uh that Tom Brady asked the NFL about coming out of retirement. Tom Brady went to the NFL and asked what it would take and uh about and I don't know when this was. I don't know if it was a year ago, if it was three years ago. Uh but he went and and asked and they wouldn't let him because of his ownership. You can't he would have to give up he would have to give up his ownership in the Raiders in order to come back and play football at now 48 years old. You know who did that once upon a time? Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan divested his ownership in the Wizards to play, and under the understanding that when he was done, he would get it back, and then when happened uh that Zaslow was calling Lamelo ball it couldn't have been but a couple of months ago the most unserious player in the league and he was doing so because of this video and the questions he was being asked about uh how recklessly he drives his car. It's very recklessly he drives, you know, a superhero's uh giant ridiculous absurd uh you know, I don't even know what kind of c car it is that he drives. It's just a giant boxy hummer. So let's look at let's look at Lamelo ball here and why it is that Zaz calls him the most unserious player in the league. Lamello, how were you kind of made aware that the other person in the accident was also okay, I know she did suffer some injuries. I know I've seen her just straight out of the car. Can you put into words the last twenty four hours which you how just how it's been emotional for you to have to deal with that and then come here playing a game tonight is on top of that I'm just alive and blessed for . The audio audience his uh his shorts are hanging under his ass as he gets off of the uh the podium there. Uh to see people now making this uh m he's matured because uh whatever. They've won two thirds of their games over the last month is funny. I like the little table drum. He was done with the questions about uh about his car accident. But getting back to what I was asking you guys about Tom Brady. Uh there's nothing he's gonna find in broadcasting that feels the way that Sundays do. But when we were uh when we're pairing this with Michael Jordan and his enthusiasm about NASCAR and bas eball are you in any way surprised that Tom Brady approaching fifty is asking the league about giving back his ownership stake because there can't be anything that feels like what his life felt like on Sundays. There's no replacing that. Can we get down to when this was though? Because in my mind, I got it moments after he hit Gronk in the back of the end zone at the the flag football contest because both of them should have came out of retirement after that one play. We gotta feel alive. You know what? We all did. We all fell alive. But so Gronk immediately pulled his hamstring and it reminded me of Mario R Mariano Romera Rivera. Didn't he uh tear his ACL in an old timers game? Because these guys all think that they're younger than they are and they try to go back and summon whatever it is the prime of their competitive spirit is. But in Brady's case, if I told you right now that he unretired , how many teams would be interested given that Aaron Rodgers is still out there and McCarthy's talking about what a nice story it would be if Aaron Rodgers came back to Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh isn't actually doing anything to uh to dissuade us from thinking that Aaron Rodgers is gonna be their quarterback next year. Because who the hell's their quarterback gonna be if it's I love this game. Let's start right here locally. Dolphins in a heartbeat. I think they're that one's loaded though. And uh heartmaking. No, they just signed Malik Willis. They can't. They can't. Malik, it'll be yours in a year or two whenever he's done. I assume that the timing of this is that he wanted to be Raiders quarterback because he'd wait and groom Fernando Mendoza and and would be sort of a a stopgap. I I assume that that's how that was happening, that he was thinking that he would be renouncing his ownership for the Raiders in order to be the quarterback for the Raiders. But that wouldn't be a great deal of fun uh given their offensive line issues last year. They had real incompetence on the offensive That's why the number one pick, because they were a terrible team. Terrible coaching, terrible team. They were terrible. The Colts should do it. Oh my god . Yes. I like it. Brady with the Cardinals. That's how you that's how you get that paper. Cardinals would be very interesting. Trey McBride. Marvin Harrison Jr. You got tools, got weapons. Wouldn't you guys assume that if Andrew Luck came out of retirement right now and that one's been really interesting to see him c uh retire early and there not even be a hint from anybody that he has any interest in coming back. He saw a ghost at the facility . And it scared him away from the game. Oh. This is a a big time internet theory. The ghost of He saw a ghost. A ghost. There there was like this tweet that's like you know, I I have a family member that works for the Colts and the the hot rumor going around was he saw a ghost, which is just he's the perfect dude to see a ghost. I'd love to workshop this with you, Mike. Uh I'll be the ghost, you be Andrew Luck. Okay. So I'm into practice . Ooh , these are some pretty big showers . Jeepers . Oh didn't I see you a hundred and two hundred years ago on a battlefield . Wait a minute. Who's there? Jack? What does he do? What is what why is Rick Bettino summon the good just gonna be a time you talk like this. No ghosts talk like this. Ghost. Ghost. Brain and Stoke . How do you not know the difference between how a ghost sounds and how a ghost? Vampires talk like this. Blah. Blah. When I'm vampire I always start with bleh . I have accent blair . Also, I used to date Jennifer Lopez . True story. Fibula. Thank you . He says thank you. He's just so grateful that he didn't have to explain. I'm Fibula, the vampire that lies to you. Cause he was feeling so alone with that imperson ation. Because a year from now, Pablo's gonna set up that impression so poorly. But you're gonna spin it into a win by the end of it. Just give me time. I don't want you to have such internet brain rot that you believe the things that you have learned from the internet are things that America at large knows. You have just said that the reason that Andrew Luck retired from football, forsaking hundreds of millions of dollars and doing what no quarterback has ever done in his prime is because he saw a ghost at the facility. Right. This is how fake news works, because you see something on the internet that confirms things that you already believe. Like there's this big uh thing of fake news about Trump like asking DeSantis for a Porton for Tiger Woods. And the reason why it's gotten so much traction is like it's totally believable that that Trump would say like no consequences for Tiger . This is something that I choose to believe. This is my truth. I it was a strange retirement, and I want to believe the reason behind it is Andrew Luck was getting his things. He was like last guy out of the locker room, and he happened upon a ghost. Ghosts are a few th one of the few things that you happen upon. Andrew, I didn't think you'd be here. Let me get my towel . Coach Pagano. Uh what's going on with Pitbull and FIU? Why is there uh why is my news stream being fed a bunch of conflict between Armando and the the uh Panthers? So I'm gonna need some education here too, but uh oh last week there was a lot of hubbub online about this uh this partnership going south. Allegations at Pitbull had never come through with a promise, a can a contractual promise that he had to deliver F.I.U. an FIU anthem in order to hold up his end of the Pitbull Stadium deal. I guess the flames have risen to a point that FIU Athletics and Pitbull have now had to put out a joint statement confirming their partnership and their shared um their shared uh enthusiasm for continuing the partnership and looking forward to continuing uh to build it that brings lasting value to the department, university, and students and the broader community. It got so bad that they actually had to put this out, which leads me to believe maybe the whole anthem thing is true. Feels like an easy kind of thing to do, right? Hit the studio one day. What do you like? I like this, I like that, put the drums on it. All right, dale, let's go. That's probably what FIU was thinking. First day. We're gonna growl. I'm yelling, Panthers. Like that's whatever. Just take any one of his existing songs and change a couple words. I like that song. Maybe we're a little too close to this, but given that we are the co GM of the year and owners for Battle Court, the Fireballs expansion team we were led to believe that that was gonna be Pitbulls. And then that's why they got the name. And then cold feet. Pitbull all of a sudden nowhere to be found. Is everything okay with Pitbull? There's a lot of like concerning news. You're saying that the joint uh joint statement that where there's smoke, there's fuego. That's what you're saying. You're saying a good song. Where there's smoke, where there's smoke, fire. There's fuego. That's all that you've got, huh, Chris? Is dale. The joint statement says both paid