Jonathan Zaslow (2:59)

Well, the first thing that I would say is, have you never been on a vacation where, like, let's say it's a long vacation, okay? You know, seven days, like, at least a week. You've never been on vacation, Dave, where you're like, I'm ready to go home. You know, like, I. I get like that with every vacation. I don't leave every vacation early. All right? But I get that with every vacation where I'm like, it'll get to, like, day five or six, and I'm like, I'm. I'm ready to go home. I like being at home. You know, that doesn't happen to you.

Dave Damaszek (3:30)

I like being at home. There. There. We park our cars in the same garage of our home, I guess. But no, I can't say that I've ever had the feeling of, like, yeah, let's wrap this thing up. Let's wrap up the. The leisure time in the fun and sun. Let's get out of here already. Enough.

Mike Ryan (3:47)

I've probably been on a vacation of seven days where. Day five or six, I'm like, all right, I'm ready to go home, but

Jonathan Zaslow (3:52)

I'm not going to leave.

Mike Ryan (3:53)

I'm still going to stick it out. Like, I might have the thought of, okay, I am ready to go home, but I'm never going to punt. It's a super Boomer thing to do. Like, can we just.

Jonathan Zaslow (4:01)

Let's just leave.

Mike Ryan (4:02)

We're going to leave to go home. Well, what's at home?

Dave Damaszek (4:04)

Well, what.

Mike Ryan (4:05)

You live at home.

Jonathan Zaslow (4:05)

Okay, but, like, but if I'm ready to go home, why don't I go home?

Mike Ryan (4:09)

Did you not pay for the last day?

Jonathan Zaslow (4:12)

Well, on this trip, I didn't. I stayed in a friend's house. She. She gave us her townhouse in, you know, Colorado. So it's not like I lost, but

Mike Ryan (4:20)

if you pay for something, I mean, I'm not going to not get it. Like, I'm coming home with something.

Jonathan Zaslow (4:23)

Well, I did this, you guys may recall, all right, very famously, a year ago this time, I was. I rented a cabin in North Carolina. The Florida Panthers lost game one of the Stanley Cup Final, and I put the Zazlows in the car the next morning. I said, it's time to drive because my team needs me. We got to get home for game number two.

Mike Ryan (4:47)

Wife must hate you.

Jonathan Zaslow (4:48)

And what do you know? The Panthers, not only did they win game two, but they won the series. Matter of fact, Paul, Maurice, you guys may remember, a few months ago, he thanked me for my service. All right? I had to. I had to do my part, and I ended that vacation early. Dave Damascus, like, as well.

Dave Damaszek (5:04)

I think this is weirdo behavior, though. And by the way, so you're so ready to leave that you're willing to take active measures, like booking your. Changing your flight. That's a small thing. That's a pain in the ass. You actually devoted 20 minutes, 45 minutes. Like, let's wrap this up. And part of the time that's left in this vacation that I'm trying to truncate will be devoted to me. Changing on the laptop, right? The phone, changing our flight plans.

Jonathan Zaslow (5:31)

That's weirdo behavior. Well, last year was easier because we drove to and from North Carolina. So it's like, we packed the car the next morning, it's time to go home. The Panthers need us. But last week, I said to my wife, the day before we ended up leaving, I was like, you want to see if we can get on the flight out tomorrow and just go home? Like, we're ready, right? It seems like this is just your thing.

Mike Ryan (5:50)

Like, your wife probably knows. All right? We're going to plan for eight days.

Jonathan Zaslow (5:53)

She was ready, too.

Mike Ryan (5:53)

Zaz is going to do that thing after six, and so we're going to. Does your wife call you Szaz?

Jonathan Zaslow (5:58)

No, she doesn't call me Zaz. John. No, she doesn't call me John either, because that's not my name. Yes. I didn't think you were gonna guess it, but you did on the third try. You got it, schmuckem. You were right. You got it. That's what she called me.

Dave Damaszek (6:12)

Well, what does she call. Did she call you Jonathan?

Jonathan Zaslow (6:14)

She calls me Babe. Hell, yeah, dude. That's right, dog. That's right. That's how we roll.

Dave Damaszek (6:21)

And you go Babe back.

Jonathan Zaslow (6:22)

Yeah, yeah. So, you know, if we both say

Dave Damaszek (6:24)

at the same time, not a big fan of that. Not a big fan of that. Out in the wild. Hey, check this out. Babe. What are you looking at there? Babe? That's. I, I, I.

Jonathan Zaslow (6:33)

No, no, no. We don't do that. We don't do it, like, out in public. I say her name in public, you know, for, you know, shouting across her, hey, Babe. Like, no, no, no. There could be multiple babes in the room. If that's the case, I Don't know. By the way, the kids.

Dave Damaszek (6:46)

The kids. The kids are cool with. With. With the plug. Being pulled on vacations all the time. They must think their old man's a wacko.

Jonathan Zaslow (6:53)

Doesn't even bring his.

Dave Damaszek (6:54)

Better not settle in here.

Jonathan Zaslow (6:55)

One of his kids didn't even go on the. This vacation last week. We left one of them home. That is true.

Dave Damaszek (7:02)

What the hell goes on?

Jonathan Zaslow (7:04)

We. He. Look, he's 17 years old. He's a big boy, you know, if he wanted to stay back instead of coming. Stay back player, you know, so we. We. We. We left him home. Yes, that is true. But apparently I'm the only one.

Dave Damaszek (7:17)

50, 50 chance the old man's gonna want to come home early anyway. Why are you even bothered?

Jonathan Zaslow (7:21)

That's right, man.

Dave Damaszek (7:23)

This zazzle's a weird fella.

Jonathan Zaslow (7:24)

I think if there's nothing else that we've learned, it's that I run the show. When I'm ready to go home, it's time to go home. All right, you tell them, babe. So the Miami Heat last night got crushed in Toronto. Who didn't see that coming?

Tony (7:37)

Brandon Ingram kills this team, huh?

Jonathan Zaslow (7:40)

The Heat, Mike. The Heat were. They lost both these last two games home and home with Toronto Tuesday, Thursday. That's a home and home. Both games were in Toronto. Their home. That's a home and home.

Mike Ryan (7:50)

Is that on a baseball series?

Jonathan Zaslow (7:51)

They lost both games in Toronto, which means they were swept all four games this season by Toronto, which also means two teams who are, like, right above them in the playoff race. The heater, 10th. And we'll get to that in a second. How they're most likely locked into 10th, and they're going to have to win two road games just against the playoffs, which they will not do because they're a terrible road team. But the Heat this year against Toronto and Orlando are oh and nine. What the fuck?

Tony (8:19)

That's. That's not cream of the crop. Exactly. In the east, that's not the teams that you thought. Well, that Heat fans mostly thought they'd be competing with.

Jonathan Zaslow (8:28)

I mean, the teams that are fifth and seventh in the east here, not the teams that are first and second. The teams that are fifth and seventh are oh and nine.

Tony (8:38)

Yeah, it's a disastrous season. It was a disastrous evaluation at the trade deadline to think that they had enough to not either capitulate or add to this team. To think that the way that the roster was constituted following their failed pursuit of Giannis was good enough to help their chances in the offseason to acquire a star like Giannis. I don't. Look, it's been misguided. It's been misguided for years. I'm not going to be a broken record about it. We move on to the off season, hopefully here, and, you know, maybe it works out for them this time.

Mike Ryan (9:13)

Not only that, you're looking at the teams ahead of the Miami Heat, Charlotte and nine. Do you have any faith that the Heat would beat the Charlotte Hornets right

Jonathan Zaslow (9:20)

now on the road?

Tony (9:21)

No, just, like, how do I like my chances this season? You look at the teams ahead of you and they have nicer pieces. You'd rather be them. And this is a franchise that always hung its hat on not only being able to compete, but also having foresight,

Jonathan Zaslow (9:40)

and they've shown no foresight the last couple.

Dave Damaszek (9:42)

Yeah.

Mike Ryan (9:43)

And that's what I'm talking about.

Tony (9:43)

And they're not competing.

Mike Ryan (9:44)

And looking at the teams directly ahead of you this season, it's like going towards the future. You like the Hornets pieces Really, really well. You like the SEC, the 76ers. You like what they've got, the magic.

Jonathan Zaslow (9:56)

I don't know.

Mike Ryan (9:56)

You like edgecover? Maxi?

Tony (9:59)

At least they have maxi. Well, you could point to my edge.

Mike Ryan (10:02)

Yeah, it's really good.

Jonathan Zaslow (10:03)

Okay. But I guess. I guess the place that I'm looking at there is they're never going to win anything with Joel Embiid on the books. And he's not going anywhere because he's under contract for four more years. And by the way, he just had surgery for appendicitis, so he's going to miss the remainder of the season. That, like, they're completely screwed. Go ahead.

Mike Ryan (10:18)

Magic pieces, I like Von Caro better. France, Franz Wagner, I like him better. The Hawks, I like all their pieces better. And the Raptors, like, just put a steamroller to the Miami Heat.

Jonathan Zaslow (10:29)

Well, so. So that brings me to the next question. Where the Heat are going to pursue Giannis again this summer.

Tony (10:37)

By the way, Brandon Ingram, another one of those not so sexy names that were rumored to have the Heat in the mix for that. The Heat just right.

Jonathan Zaslow (10:46)

Like, what did Toronto give up for Brandon England? What they have to give up.

Tony (10:49)

It wasn't much, and everyone likes to remember the Donovan Mitchell's, the Kevin Durant pursuits, the, you know, all the failed Whale pursuits. But there have also been little small pieces like Pascal Siaka, OG Anunoby, Brandon Ingram, guys that have made a difference that Miami has also failed to either pursue or decided that's not worth it. We're either aiming higher or we don't think that this person can help our team.

Mike Ryan (11:15)

Last year they traded Brandon Ingram for Bruce Brown. Kelly Olenek, a 26 first rounder via Indy and a 2031 second round pick.

Jonathan Zaslow (11:26)

Yeah.

Mike Ryan (11:26)

And he got an extension. Three years, 100.

Jonathan Zaslow (11:28)

So that's a perfect example of why couldn't we do that Perfect. And Siakam's another great one. Like what? That's all you get? Why couldn't we do that?

Tony (11:38)

And the theory is we didn't want to do that because we were aiming higher.

Jonathan Zaslow (11:42)

Well, you always have that flexibility, even though they never do anything with the flexibility.

Tony (11:46)

You think Toront, who is who just beat up on the Miami Heat back to back games are like, man, this Brandon Ingram trade really hurt our flexibility.

Jonathan Zaslow (11:53)

Like no one else seems to care about flexibility the way the Heat care about flexibility. And the Heat never do anything with it.

Tony (11:58)

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Dave Damaszek (16:09)

Is this, may I ask, as an outsider here is Babe Zaslow. Is the state of Miami sports overall so bad that he would consider walking out on it right now? No, from a D. This is the worst. I mean, I, I'm off the top of my head. This is a pretty bleak spot that you are in if you're a Miami sports fan.

Tony (16:31)

I know you're feeling yourself because your friends made the playoffs, but the, the Panthers are going to be right in the mix with the title favorites next year.

Dave Damaszek (16:37)

They're not in the playoffs. The Miami Marlins, everybody makes the playoffs in the NBA and the NHL and your two teams aren't in them. The Dolphins, you know, right now, you know, as we sit here in April, are out of it. They are. They are not in contention. They'll give you the Dolphins. They're not in contention.

Tony (16:54)

We'll give you the Dolphins. What are the mar.

Jonathan Zaslow (16:56)

What are.

Tony (16:56)

The Marlins are. Are feisty fighting fish.

Jonathan Zaslow (17:00)

Way to fight back and split a four game series, Marlin.

Tony (17:03)

Yeah, yeah.

Jonathan Zaslow (17:04)

Look, look, look.

Dave Damaszek (17:05)

I like it. See, I backed into a corner and look who's ready to fight.

Tony (17:09)

Yeah. Over the last hundred games, Dave Damaschek, the Miami Marlin. Stop trying alpha me. Look at me, Dave.

Dave Damaszek (17:16)

Stop trying alpha me.

Tony (17:18)

Over the last hundred games, the Miami Marlins have the same record as the world champion Dodgers. Them fighting fish, they might be for real. And if you don't think it's a good time, if you don't think it's a good time to be a sports fan in Miami, why don't I come and grab you and take you by the neck to green tree so you can see the title favorite Miami Hurricanes and see a superstar like Malachi.

Jonathan Zaslow (17:39)

Tony, you know about that green tree.

Tony (17:40)

And also Lionel Messi plays in this town. Lionel Messi plays in this town.

Dave Damaszek (17:47)

All right, good for you. See, this is what you were getting. Down in the dumps. All of you in that. In there. We're all, oh, broken record, the heat, I'm getting tired. All flexibility. They never do it. Then an outsider, an interloper comes in and insult you. All of a sudden you. You found your salt. I loved it. See, look, damage served a purpose.

Jonathan Zaslow (18:07)

The Panthers lost.

Dave Damaszek (18:08)

I reminded you who you were.

Jonathan Zaslow (18:10)

The Panthers lost last night to 51 in Ottawa. But I like, I don't. I'm going to miss watching the Panthers in the postseason this year because just, I mean the Panthers made the had made the postseason a franchise record five consecutive years. I don't count 20, 20 when they let 12 teams in because of COVID That's bullshit. Because they wouldn't have made the playoffs if they didn't do that. So five straight years franchise record, they made the playoffs, three straight Stanley cup finals and they become like the first team ever to win back to back championships and not make the postseason the next. Although in, certainly in, in the NBA that happened with the Bulls. So this is the first time that it's ever happened with hockey, I guess. Yes.

Dave Damaszek (18:49)

Dave, will you or anyone in the. In South Florida watch the Stanley cup playoffs without your team? Oh, because Chuck. Oh, don't say so. I'm be legitimately, you know, Kachuk and Captain America and all that kind of stuff all sounds great. But do you check out now that the Panthers aren't relevant in this spring in the chase for the Cup?

Tony (19:13)

You're talking to the wrong crew.

Jonathan Zaslow (19:16)

I'm glad that you asked that, Dave, because I don't know if you are.

Tony (19:19)

Tony didn't watch at all when they were winning.

Mike Ryan (19:21)

Exactly right.

Jonathan Zaslow (19:22)

Dave.

Mike Ryan (19:22)

I haven't seen a second of ice hockey.

Jonathan Zaslow (19:24)

Nothing changes.

Tony (19:26)

And the rest of us, we love puck, especially playoff.

Jonathan Zaslow (19:29)

I'm glad that, I'm glad that you brought that update because yesterday I don't know why Dan said this yesterday. Like Dan made a point to, to, to look and point at me and make the point that with the Panthers not in the playoffs this year, I'm not going to be watching the Stanley Cup. I don't know. Like I didn't push back because he was in the middle of a point. You know, it's like whatever. But I don't know why he accused

Tony (19:50)

me of that postseason in sports.

Jonathan Zaslow (19:53)

Do you remember that, Roy? Like he.

Tony (19:54)

Yes, absolutely.

Jonathan Zaslow (19:55)

I know, I know Zaslow is not going to be watching now because I'm like what are you talking about, bandwagon fan? I used to pointing in that direction

Mike Ryan (20:02)

and just saying something like that.

Jonathan Zaslow (20:03)

Oh yeah, yeah.

Tony (20:04)

You were wearing an ill fitting Panther shirt at the time.

Jonathan Zaslow (20:08)

How dare you. So back to the Heat. All right. This summer they're certainly going to go after Giannis again. And did you see by the way, tonight's the Bucks. So tonight's the Milwaukee Bucks home finale. Everybody in the NBA plays tonight and then everybody plays on Sunday. Two games left for everybody and then the playoffs start. The Bucks home finale is tonight. And there was thought that because of what could take place in the summer, are the Bucks going to let Giannis play? Because he wants to play apparently and he wants to play with his brothers. So maybe just kind of as a goodwill deal, they'll let him play tonight. Well, they've already ruled him out, so he's not playing tonight and he's going to go into the off season. Source he didn't get to play with his brothers. The Heat are certainly going to go after Giannis again this summer. What happens if slash when the Heat don't acquire Giannis again this summer? Because last year, you know, they, they, they lost in historic fashion in the first round and embarrassment in the first round of the playoffs. Last year they vowed to come back better. They come back worse. They're going to finish 10th. They're most likely going to miss the playoffs altogether. If they strike out on Giannis this summer. How can you possibly rationalize bringing back the same group?

Tony (21:32)

So if they strike out on Giannis, is Giannis a Catch all for a superstar that is either as good or better than Bam out of bio or do they miss out on that entirely?

Jonathan Zaslow (21:44)

What does that mean, a catch?

Tony (21:45)

All right, like a superstar? Because somebody who could be there could be somebody else available. That's not Giannis that comes to the Miami Heat that improves them. Like I'm not all in on Giannis,

Jonathan Zaslow (21:55)

but has to be someone better than Bam.

Tony (21:57)

Yeah, well, someone as good or better than Bam in terms of improving this team's prospects. If they fail to do that, then I think you, you take a hard look at rebuilding because we have three years worth of data saying that this core is not good enough. They're not. Something's not going to all of a sudden flip on with this team. I don't think there's any more steps for Tyler Hero to take. Respectfully, I. Maybe you have some of your developmental guys, but is that enough to compete with even like the Orlando's of the world at that point the franchise for really like the first time ever going into a season because when they had the number two pick, Zaz, when they ended up with Michael Beasley, that team had Dwyane Wade on it. That was not the plan for, for them to be bad that year. I think there's a real good chance that it's the first season the Miami Heat finally look at themselves and Say, you know, we're. We're not going to be competing for a title this year. How do we set ourselves up? That would be pretty shocking.

Mike Ryan (22:55)

So a rebuilding year after a great historic draft of this season, you're going to go to next season where there's not going to be a historic draft and try to rebuild. I know, like that that was the play this year. Instead of going 42 and 40 or 40, what are they going to go? 41 and 40. 41.

Jonathan Zaslow (23:09)

Basically 41 and 39 right now. Like, they're probably going to win their final two games. Like, they're going to win 43. Tonight they have Washington, and then Sunday they have Atlanta, although Atlanta likely is going to need that game on Sunday because Atlanta could still drop to 7, which you want to avoid. So they'll win at least 40 games. It looks like 40. Excuse me, 42, which is 42 and

Mike Ryan (23:28)

40 at the beginning of the season. We look at 42 and 40 would be like, yeah, not. Not good enough, obviously, but not worth. Exactly. What's going on is keeping all these guys together, not making a move at the deadline, not trying to move these expiring contracts.

Jonathan Zaslow (23:39)

Well, and we could agree the worst case scenario is if not only do the Heat not acquire Giannis in the summer, but if Milwaukee doesn't trade him. Because then this story continues into next year, Right. Like, if the Heat are not going to acquire Giannis, the Heat fan really needs Milwaukee to trade him somewhere else then, right?

Mike Ryan (24:00)

Yeah, because then you're looking at the same story at the deadline next season, and we're all like, oh, come on. Like, this could be it. He could finally show up here in the Heat, and it's. And it's just not going to happen.

Jonathan Zaslow (24:09)

Yes, that's the worst thing that can possibly happen. And by the way, but also, don't

Dave Damaszek (24:14)

you also think, just from the outside perspective, Giannis is 31 years of age. Are you sure that this is the solve question, all your issues?

Jonathan Zaslow (24:22)

It's a good question. He's going to have you get him.

Dave Damaszek (24:24)

I know there will be a great celebration and star power and all of that, but what does it add up to for you?

Jonathan Zaslow (24:30)

Totally fair question now. Totally fair question. He's played less than 40 games this year, and he's going to be 32 soon. And. And by the way, based on the last couple of years, I think it's okay to question whether or not Giannis can carry a team because they have not been good with him in the lineup. And matter of fact, I Think in his like because he's been hurt some in the playoffs the last years, there's something like 1 in 9 in the last 10 playoff games that he's played in. And I think that's probably, I think that's a little bit of what you're referring to.

Tony (25:03)

Mike Zaz from that recent article. We know that the Miami Heat had the strongest offer amongst the teams that were pursuing Giannis. They do deserve some credit for that. They were, they were willing to do something that hurt. But part of that was we have bam. Now we have this team now, the postseason just a couple months away. Giannis is of a certain age. This is disease on this moment. Who's to say that Milwaukee can fetch the same kind of offer? Would Miami even offer the same kind of thing? Or does the desperation finally get to them that, you know, there's self awareness, realizing we're presently a nowhere franchise right now, Same offer, maybe even improve it.

Jonathan Zaslow (25:43)

The Heater. The Heater almost, almost assured the number 10 spot, which would mean you have to after losing last night, which would mean you have to win two roads games to make the postseason. And I say that because the only way out of the 10 spot for Miami. The Heat would have to win their final two games, which includes tonight at Washington. Okay, they should. And Sunday against Atlanta in a game Atlanta is likely going to need. That's going to be a very tough game. The Heat would have to win both those games and they would need the Sixers to lose their final two. The Sixers have Indiana and Milwaukee, two teams that are not trying. But again, you got the embiid situation. So I don't know. My guess is the Sixers probably win at least one of those games. And the Hornets. The Hornets would have to lose their final two games as well. They play Detroit and New York. Detroit I would assume is sitting guys tonight because they're locked into number one. But New York likely has something to play for on Sunday. So that's why I say it's almost for sure that the Heat are going to finish number 10 and have to win two road games to make the postseason really, really disappointing.

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Jonathan Zaslow (27:32)

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Mike Ryan (27:33)

No, it's our honor.

Jonathan Zaslow (27:35)

It is our larger honor. No, really stop.

Tony (27:39)

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Jonathan Zaslow (27:46)

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Tony (27:47)

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Jonathan Zaslow (28:18)

Don LeBatard our Panther group chat. We're confident against the lighting.

Mike Ryan (28:21)

This is a different team.

Jonathan Zaslow (28:22)

You're a Panther group chat.

Mike Ryan (28:24)

No, no, I think no. But dude, you're so wrong on that. We' been terrified of this team forever and I think there's a different energy where the Panthers, they want the Lightning sts.

Tony (28:34)

I want T shirts made for this Panther run. What could be this Panther run?

Jonathan Zaslow (28:38)

Our Panther group chat. We're not afraid of the lightning.

Tony (28:42)

That's a Tagline for World Raw 3.

Jonathan Zaslow (28:45)

This is the Dan Levatar show with the ST Gods. So this weekend though, tomorrow night, Tony, UFC Miami.

Mike Ryan (29:08)

Zaz, me and you will be in the building. Lewis will be there too. We'll be doing a little bit of content from the fights. Very exciting. Your son's gonna get you there early, I heard.

Jonathan Zaslow (29:16)

So. So Mike, I like. I'm a super casual UFC fan. Like really, really casual. My son loves it. He's 17, he's way into it. Dave loves UFC, knows all the fighters, watches every single week, orders every single, you know, pay per view, whatever it is now Paramount.

Mike Ryan (29:39)

We don't have to order anything, Right?

Jonathan Zaslow (29:40)

Right.

Mike Ryan (29:40)

Turn it on and bam, it's there.

Jonathan Zaslow (29:42)

That's a good deal. So. So we're going. I got set up with the tickets, and I'm super appreciative of that. We're going tomorrow night, but my son, like. So apparently with the new deal with Paramount, they're doing a solid to us folks on the east coast, really are. The show started, the main Card starts at 9 Eastern Time, also known as Lord's time zone, starts at 9pm now, not 10. That's a big difference. Okay, That's a big difference. But my son, he's like, we got to get there for the prelims.

Mike Ryan (30:10)

He's right.

Jonathan Zaslow (30:11)

He wants to leave the house at

Tony (30:13)

5pm I mean, it's a long day at the fights.

Jonathan Zaslow (30:17)

That's a very long night for your boy here.

Mike Ryan (30:20)

Yeah, but, Zaz, you're going to miss Kelvin Gastelum versus Vicente Luque. He can't do that.

Tony (30:25)

Gastelum's on the prelims?

Jonathan Zaslow (30:26)

Yeah.

Tony (30:27)

What happened to him?

Dave Damaszek (30:30)

This is what happens when you have irrelevant NBA and NHL teams. You're left to watch men in bare feet sweat on each other.

Mike Ryan (30:38)

What are you on about?

Dave Damaszek (30:39)

What do you want? About.

Tony (30:40)

Don't sell us short, Dave. We can be bandwagon about the ufc, too. This was consistently a good market for the last few years for the ufc. They're having a hard time selling these.

Jonathan Zaslow (30:50)

Oh, it's not going to be a great crowd there.

Tony (30:52)

There's plenty of tickets still available, which is why, in this market, I saw Dana doing some local media stuff that Yuri's been in town for basically a month, hitting up every media outlet, the ticket situation. And I got to admit, I love Yuri. I think that's a. He's a great UFC fighter, but he's. He's known. If you follow the ufc, casual fans, I'm not sure are all that familiar. The UFC cards in years prior down here in Miami were always bad. No, I'm top tier since they came back.

Jonathan Zaslow (31:25)

Oh, yeah. When they came back, first started doing.

Tony (31:27)

Yeah, this was a market that they avoided.

Jonathan Zaslow (31:29)

Yeah.

Tony (31:30)

And then a couple years ago, they came back here and struck gold, and they had great cards. This is easily the weakest card the UFC.

Jonathan Zaslow (31:36)

Is that true, Tony?

Mike Ryan (31:37)

100%. Two years ago, we had Izzy get his lick back against Alex Pereira after he knocked him out over in New York, which was insane. So that was a great one. Then last year, we had Sugar Sean vs Cheeto Vero, where Sean hit him with a L with a knee to the orbital bone that sounded like a crack bat.

Jonathan Zaslow (31:54)

That was at the night that Patty Pimblett also Fought here.

Mike Ryan (31:58)

That was. I'm think. I think so. I think so.

Jonathan Zaslow (32:02)

On that, I went to that.

Mike Ryan (32:02)

Okay, the, the issue with this one is there is flux in a couple different divisions. Light heavyweight being one of them, where Alex Pereira, who's notorious, you know, probably the biggest star in MMA right now, that was his division. He's since moved up to the heavyweight division, trying to get the three weight belt. Like I said on Monday, with Luke Thomas, now that he's in the heavyweight division, there's a. There's a hole, there's a vacuum at the light heavyweight. They brought in Yuri Prohaska. He's going to be fighting Carlos Ulberg. When you talk about Yuri being casuals, not knowing Yuri, I think casuals know Yuri more so because of stuff on social media.

Tony (32:35)

He does look the hijinks. When he had the top. When he had the top, Ponytail Dave,

Jonathan Zaslow (32:39)

you know that fool?

Dave Damaszek (32:41)

No, I know nothing about it.

Mike Ryan (32:43)

Don't bring up Dave. Damage the bare feet. Dave Damek down there, who cares about him? He's got bare feet on right now. He doesn't even have socks and shoes on right now. In his home.

Dave Damaszek (32:50)

Grown men are just tangled up with each other, sweating on each other, not even a sock to. To split between two of them. What do you want? Double fat? I'd rather. I'd rather watch the golf. How about that? I bet you would.

Mike Ryan (33:04)

That's not what we're talking about right now.

Dave Damaszek (33:06)

You guys are in Florida. You're not talking about the master.

Mike Ryan (33:08)

I don't care about the masters. Yuri Prohaska is looking for a light heavyweight title. What are you talking about? The issue was also that the flyweight title was removed from the card. So there was supposed to be a flyweight title attached to this, which would have been the co main event. Joshua Van got hurt. They moved that over to next month with Hamza Chimaya versus Sean Strickland, which is going to be a banger up at the Prudential center in Jersey. So with all that now you're looking at, even though there's some good fights on this card, you lack the top heaviness of a UFC card that would have, like Miami would have two titles on the line. But you're talking About Tatiana Suarez vs. Lupi Godins. Good fight. Matus Gamna vs. Esteban Rebovic. Good fight. Then you get into the main card. You got Kevin Holland vs. Randy Brown, rude Boy. But I wanted to see if you saw this and this would draw you in.

Jonathan Zaslow (33:54)

Zaz, go on.

Mike Ryan (33:55)

Kevin Holland, the trailblazer who's fought 30,000 times in the last three years. He's one of the UFC's most active fighters. He's a guy that's on social media 24 7, a very good talker, very good promoter. This is what I want you to see. He fought a guy named Daniel Rodriguez who has been in a Tijuana prison for the last eight months, and he bailed him out. Listen to this.

Jonathan Zaslow (34:17)

What?

Tony (34:18)

I know there's one you want to get back, and I know there's a guy that's been missing recently.

Jonathan Zaslow (34:23)

He recently posted on social media. So D Rod is back.

Tony (34:26)

I don't know if he's fighting.

Jonathan Zaslow (34:27)

I don't know what that scenario is,

Tony (34:29)

but he seems to be around.

Mike Ryan (34:30)

I build him out, man. I bailed him out. I needed to get this dub right here, and then I needed to fight D Rod, so I had to bail him out. That way he can get through all this probation period, and then when it's time for me to fight again, he'll be ready.

Jonathan Zaslow (34:40)

So we get through Randy Brown.

Tony (34:42)

It's immediate D Rod call out in the octagon.

Mike Ryan (34:45)

Oh, 100%. 100%. I mean, I went back and watched that fight. I don't know how the. I lost that, but, yeah, run that back two or three more times. I don't care. It was a fun fight, too. The fans had to have had a blast. We had blood in the octagon.

Jonathan Zaslow (34:55)

We had knockdowns. We had all the good stuff.

Tony (34:58)

I don't believe him.

Mike Ryan (34:59)

So my question to you. Do you believe him? He's been in a Tijuana prison for eight months. He's shown the videos of him working out in a Tijuana prison and basically everything.

Jonathan Zaslow (35:07)

And this fight's tomorrow.

Mike Ryan (35:08)

No, no, no. So he's fighting Randy Rudeboy Brown, and then he bailed him out so that he can get ready for the fight that would be next. So if. If Kevin Holland beats Randy Brown, he's going to call out Daniel Rodriguez.

Jonathan Zaslow (35:19)

So do I believe that he bailed

Mike Ryan (35:21)

him out out of a Tijuana prison that he's been in for the last eight months?

Jonathan Zaslow (35:24)

Do we have any idea what Bale is like in Tijuana?

Mike Ryan (35:28)

I feel like you can do it pretty easily.

Jonathan Zaslow (35:30)

Yeah, that's why that. That's my point. So I'm gonna go 400 bucks. Yes. I'm gonna say yes.

Dave Damaszek (35:33)

I mean, all right, maybe. Maybe this is enough to turn me around.

Jonathan Zaslow (35:37)

All right, Dave Daniels, we're talking about

Dave Damaszek (35:39)

De Niro and Cape Fear. Getting sprung to get into the octagon.

Tony (35:43)

Now I'm in, right?

Mike Ryan (35:44)

So he's there, he's there and he's like, you know what? I'm gonna bail you out so you have enough time to get a fight camp in because he beat him earlier this seat this year. So he's going to try to get that lick back on the back end here. But, Zaz, have you ever wanted something so bad you'd bail somebody out to go kick their ass later on?

Jonathan Zaslow (36:01)

No, Like, I, I don't. I've never faced a situation like that where, you know, someone I need something from needs to be bailed out of jail. I don't know what to go kick into bail. How about, how about, how about.

Dave Damaszek (36:13)

Can I. I'm sorry to interrupt you, Tony. I don't know how you perform. Credit to you talk about bailing. Mike Ryan can't even be bothered to listen to you. He's texting while you're talking.

Mike Ryan (36:23)

That's fine.

Tony (36:24)

But he's locked in on UFC Masters week, Dano. He's.

Mike Ryan (36:26)

He's locked in on ufc. He knows the players, he knows the game.

Tony (36:30)

I mean, I got to see what the Miz thinks about, about McIntyre's first

Dave Damaszek (36:34)

round, but Kevin Hart and the Miz are putting their heads together to figure out who's going to be in contention on the back nine of them on Sunday.

Mike Ryan (36:44)

Second nine.

Tony (36:44)

We were, we were so careful because we've played golf with the Miz and Tahoe. We like the Miz around these parts, but the guy was absolutely held up by the rest of the nation as the cause of this is what's wrong with the Masters coverage. And I felt so bad for him because he was just one of many different celebrities they brought through. But I guess the Miz was the tipping point for many folks.

Jonathan Zaslow (37:10)

And he's a golf guy, so in

Mike Ryan (37:11)

his mind, he's like, I'll go to

Jonathan Zaslow (37:12)

the Masters, be awesome.

Mike Ryan (37:13)

Then he gets there and everyone's like, what the hell?

Jonathan Zaslow (37:15)

Well, he's like the designated guy in wwe. We know espn, wwe, they have the relationship and, and they're certainly trying to push the, the ESPN app and WWE WrestleManias next weekend. Miz is the guy who does all of the promotion. Like, I had him on set with me for the national championship for espn. Ray, he does all of this stuff for wwe. He's a great ambassador. But yeah, you're right. Like, it seemed like the Miz, all

Tony (37:40)

the articles, if you Google search the Miz right now, it's golfers up in arms that they had to watch the Miz instead of, you know, Novak on the third hole.

Dave Damaszek (37:50)

Yeah, well, and also Jason Kelsey too. Don't leave him out of this conversation. It's all added up to like, hey, the executives have seeded any sort of creative, actual creative input to just who are the most famous people we can put on location and point the camera at. That's basically where we've arrived. And there are 29 names in total that will satisfy the executives. And apparently Jason Kelsey and Kevin Hart. And now the Miz makes that group. It's a, it's a couple dozen people that are relevant and if they aren't there, it doesn't matter.

Jonathan Zaslow (38:26)

Dave had such a funny tweet yesterday and every time I look at it, it makes me laugh.

Tony (38:30)

What did he say?

Jonathan Zaslow (38:32)

All right, all out. Dave responded yesterday. There's, there's this tweet that was out there with a picture of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett and it says Will Smith and Jada and Jada Pinkett, by the way, who seems to an evil woman anyway. Will Smith. Whatever.

Tony (38:46)

Will Smith seems great.

Mike Ryan (38:47)

I'm with you.

Tony (38:48)

I'm with you. Will Smith seems great.

Jonathan Zaslow (38:49)

Whatever Will Smith. The tweet says. And it's a picture of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett and it says Will Smith and Jada Pinkett are reportedly getting a divorce. And Dave Damascik quote tweets it. Why

Dave Damaszek (39:09)

it was very funny. He had to be there. I like Mike Ryan's response. Will Smith. Smith seems great.

Jonathan Zaslow (39:18)

Every time I look at it, it

Tony (39:20)

makes me laugh at his head on straight. Seems, seems like he's a real nice guy.

Dave Damaszek (39:26)

Don't you have to defend your fellow bald and Jada Pink if there's that.

Jonathan Zaslow (39:30)

See, that's trouble. That's what God has alopecia. That's going to get you in trouble. Keep his ex wife name out your mouth.

Tony (39:38)

Keep my fill in host name out your mouth. Dave Damage.

Jonathan Zaslow (39:41)

That's right. Don't do that, Dave. That's going to get you trouble. Is the President going to be here tomorrow night? Do I have to worry about that traffic wise, Tony, to be honest, like

Mike Ryan (39:50)

he's been at a bunch of UFC fights. Security is the same.

Tony (39:55)

Yeah, I think he saw the card. He's like, no, I'm not going to, I'm not going to this one.

Jonathan Zaslow (39:59)

But you think he's going to be there, right, Tony? He usually shows up like nothing else going on.

Mike Ryan (40:04)

Nothing else going on. But it's usually like right during the start of the the main card, where they switch over, they start playing the music, they start doing the highlights, and he'll walk in, like, later on.

Tony (40:13)

Guys, I know we're making a joke, but there is absolutely something going on. It's moving day at the Masters and he's going to be dialed.

Mike Ryan (40:21)

But the thing is, the Master is going to be done by then.

Tony (40:24)

No, at 9 o' clock for the prelims.

Mike Ryan (40:27)

At 9 o'.

Tony (40:28)

Clock.

Jonathan Zaslow (40:28)

He doesn't show prelims. Guys, little double header.

Mike Ryan (40:32)

He shows up, like, after the first fight.

Tony (40:34)

If he were going, they would have said it by now because they could have used the bump if the President

Jonathan Zaslow (40:39)

wanted to show up at the Masters. Can you do that?

Tony (40:42)

Yeah, I would assume, like, he's the

Jonathan Zaslow (40:44)

President, so he could do.

Mike Ryan (40:45)

Desantis was there yesterday.

Tony (40:47)

Yeah.

Jonathan Zaslow (40:47)

Oh, really?

Tony (40:47)

Yeah. Wasn't announced. Chris is such a huge fan. He spotted him in the gallery.

Mike Ryan (40:54)

Are you sure it's the Santos or somebody?

Tony (40:55)

Looks like.

Jonathan Zaslow (40:56)

I'll look it up.

Mike Ryan (40:57)

I bet you he was spotted.

Tony (40:58)

He looked at the booth.

Jonathan Zaslow (40:59)

Chris has his travel itinerary.

Dave Damaszek (41:02)

I'm interested in Babe's question there. Could the President actually show up at the Masters? I don't know. Because you really do have to clear out.

Jonathan Zaslow (41:09)

Yeah.

Tony (41:10)

Are you.

Jonathan Zaslow (41:10)

Are you a fool?

Tony (41:11)

Pat McAfee complained about it openly and then was at the Masters 48 hours later. I think the President has more juice.

Dave Damaszek (41:19)

No, I'm not saying that. I know he could call shots, but wouldn't they really have to fundamentally just clear out entire. I mean, like, you wouldn't. There wouldn't be able to be the people around an entire hole. Right. He did just have to vacate.

Tony (41:33)

He did 15 laps at the Daytona International Speedway and goes to every football game in the South.

Dave Damaszek (41:38)

They'll be fine.

Jonathan Zaslow (41:39)

Be great. If it's the Masters the President wants to go, they have to clear the whole area out. And it's just the President watching each hole, just standing there. He's the only one in the crowd.