The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: In My Humble Opinion, To My Credit

Episode Date: March 25, 2024

Lucy got the wrong Clark in the video of her trip to Iowa, but she does have an update from the Women's March Madness Tournament. Then, concert tickets are more expensive than ever, Curb Your Enthusiasm nails the feeling of being on a text chain, Chris Cote and Billy Gil might call a Marlins regular season game, and Sam Reinhart officially has one of the best seasons in Florida Panthers history. Plus, the Miami Serpentarium, Chris Wittyngham is good at broadcasting, and Mike and Greg discuss the future of Gregg Berhalter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Iowa played amazing, excuse me. And yeah, it works really hard. And they did a ton of stuff here at this game. I did all of the things really. And I'm sitting and I keep thinking of all the things I've done. And I'm so overwhelmed by it that I can't remember any of it. I'm getting so many likes on this tweet.

I'm gonna create two- oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know me working hard was funny and good content. Dad! I'm working very hard. You said get younger and smarter. Smarter, we haven't pulled off yet, but younger we have. We will be back Monday. We're going to the second round, Iowa against the winner of Princeton, West Virginia. And I will have way more content for you there, even though I worked really hard today and

I did so much. And this is all brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, use code Lucy, get $20 off your first order, terms apply. What a deal. Also, Dallas Clark, right over there. Right over there. Tight end you, right over there.

Don't film him, don't film him, that's weird. Don't film him, that's weird. Rose, babe. That's weird. That's weird. Rose, behave. Lucy Rodin, Iowa correspondent. Flimsy. That report was flimsy and feels a bit like she's stealing medal arc money. That was not a report. What is that? I didn't feel like I got that's the biggest star story going in sports right now She got Dallas Clark. Yeah, she mentioned Kate the wrong Clark

whoops That's not what she was there for am I the only one that wants America to sweat tonight because everyone I I don't want I would have lose yet because I had liked the Caitlin Clark story But everyone's in on this everyone's talking about the game tonight, and I kind of want Iowa to lose yet, because I like the Caitlin Clark story, but everyone's in on this, everyone's talking about the game tonight, and I kinda want America to sweat. They're a 60, I believe 60 and a half point favorite tonight, so it's not expected to be close. I want them to fall behind early,

and I want America to be scared that we might lose Caitlin Clark early in the tournament. I got high hopes for tonight's women's tournament, because that's also kinda chalky, historically is. Everyone got really excited because Middle Tennessee State for a second there was up on LSU and then the second everyone started circulating the score, there was like 20 unanswered points

from Kim Mulkey and LSU. But I think there's some really big juicy spreads in this sport than that. I don't know, I like Syracuse. Anderson Verrajao's daughter plays for them if you want to feel really- big juicy spreads in this sport than that. I don't know. I like Sarah Kuehs. Anderson Verrajao's daughter plays for them if you want to feel really loved. I'm sold. Yeah, they're playing a down UConn team. Nineteen and a half. That's a lot of reputation right there. I'm taking the orange.

Chris Cody was mentioning, he's not quite confident enough to root for Kaitlin Clark to lose. I didn't say that. 100% did not say that. You were scared to, but you want her, you want her to struggle and show us something at the end tonight. I was thinking this weekend, and once I tell you, you're not gonna think this is helpful at all, I was thinking this weekend,

man, it'd be really funny if Caitlin Clark lost in the first round, and then moments later I go, you know what, I think I wanna see her win it all. So I think in terms of Caitlin Clark, I'm fine with her either winning or losing. She is getting some guff for saying that more people are interested in the women's tournament than the men's tournament.

Number one, you have to consider the source. She has an assigned Caitlin Clark reporter. I imagine to her this all feels like a circus and that the women's tournament feels outrageous. But it's also not super important for you to go on the Instagram comments and say no it isn't. Oh but just for the record the final four tickets that have sold for the women have sold at six times the rate as the men because they've got the star power, they've got the storylines, they've got the dramatic rivalries and let's hear from her in her own words the thing that uh... got them at

but you will you will understand that around some of this stuff you're going to get the same stuff that you get in politics where her comment section is just gonna fill up with garbage the moment that women start saying never mind equality just gonna fill up with garbage the moment that women start saying nevermind equality all we're more interesting than the men it's not even equal we've surpassed the men but she wrong i don't know if there's been like a lot of little moments i think uh... i think just the crowds at our games but also just like the people screaming and like wanting our

autographs like many people just screaming constantly and i think that's something that really never gets older you something you never take for granted. I think even like when you're out and about like doing your own things, living your personal life, the people that come up to you and like really support your team and understand the game, I think that's the coolest thing. But I think also just in general like the excitement around this tournament, like it's super cool. Like people are more excited about the women's side than the men's side. And I think that's obviously something that's really never been the case before and it's cool to see how it's evolved.

When I first started this when I was a freshman, we couldn't even use the March Madness branding and now to see this and really it's just taken a whole other level and I expect it to continue to grow this year and I think that's the coolest thing for myself. What's wrong about anything she said? Nothing. Speaking only for myself, I am more interested anything she said? Nothing. I, speaking only for myself, I am more interested in the women's tournament this year. I think part of it is that I don't have a local team to get behind, so I've adopted a team and it's been Caitlin Clark. I'm just very interested. The only game I've

watched this year was the last game, I think it was against Holy Cross. I watched three-fourths of that game. Just proudly stating your ignorance. Alright, so there it is, there it is. I'm more interested in the women than I am in anything. I've watched three-quarters of one game. I mean, to be fair, he isn't articulating how disinterested he is in the men. That's more time that he's devoted to the women than he is to the men.

Listen, it's because it's early in the tournament now. I am not an Arden College basketball fan. I begin to get interested like right now, like in sweet 16 range. Really don't care about the first round games, to be honest with you. In terms of ticket prices also, like in fairness, it should be stated one's being played at a capacity of 19,000 years of football stadium. So like there's different quantities of tickets available. Not to say that the women's tournament is not more popular

or better this year, there's just, that explains some of the ticket prices. Well, thank you for mentioning in general ticket prices, because I wanted to ask you guys something about last night that floored me but maybe shouldn't have. I had a friend who went to go see Drake in Sunrise and was saying that the tickets cost $600 and they were just regular tickets. It's not like they were getting good tickets, they were just getting

regular tickets. And I was trying to think if I've ever paid that much for a ticket that wasn't a plane ticket. And I was trying to think of what I would pay that much for, just regular tickets. And I think if Prince and Michael Jackson returned from the dead for a one-night-only show, I would take just $600 tickets anywhere in the place for that show, and then I would take all your questions afterward about how I could possibly support Michael Jackson in that incarnation. But again, it's a ridiculous hypothetical and it's not going to happen so you don't have to worry about it, I'm sharing my secret inner thoughts on something.

But I can't imagine paying $600 for just a ticket. And any of you surprised by that ticket price? Can you help me understand what I'm getting at the Drake concert for $600? Is this a Taylor Swift effect? No. Because I feel like all ticket prices at concerts are crazy right now.

They are crazy, but what you're seeing with Drake, it may not just be a habit that he posts proudly about on social media. It's also that he certainly has a catalog that would certainly justify one of these big outdoor stadium venues, but him going into a smaller, more intimate arena, you pay a premium for that kind of experience, and the stage production

for that kind of show was really impressive. There was a giant bra on the stage at one point, and he was making like a societal thing. He like, it was a weird time to like get serious with the audience. With a giant bra over him? He was just talking about perspective, and you got like goals in life,

and it was like a really nice message. And he was, a large nice message and he was a large Bra had just lowered from the sea. He's crazy like laser projectors that cost well into the millions of dollars And he only activates them for like two songs, but they take up loads of space It's really the the inflatables that he has flying around the the arena It is a really cool Travis Scott head for sicko mode of just saying he was shooting like lasers out of his eyes. Wow. So you guys are saying $600? It was a great, I went on Saturday night.

It was, I was. You got a better show than I did because you had Lil Wayne open. I had 21 Savage. They're both good, but I prefer the Lil Wayne catalog. And it was more Drake started and then Lil Wayne came out and did his thing and then they did songs together. It was, it was a great show. My wife and I next month are going to the Hollywood Bowl in LA to see the Jimmy Buffett tribute concert, which is led by Paul McCartney and the Eagles.

And that was more than 600, I bet. So jealous. That left 600 behind in the dust. Wow. Now granted, my wife goes after market, she buys the best seats, but 600 for a top-end concert right now is almost inexpensive.

That's how crazy the prices are. What a venue. Have you ever been to that venue? I have not. I'm looking forward to it. Oh my gosh. It's pure hell trying to leave, but god. That's what I've heard.

Gorgeous. There's a shuttle where you can drive, pick up a shuttle like two, three miles from the stadium and then it takes you back there. I think that's what we're going to do. There's also a space shuttle for 20 grand. We could do that too. I could borrow a Leventhal's helicopter maybe, I don't know, we haven't decided yet.

The lineup for this tribute concert is pretty insane. And it's not just musicians, like, oh, Kenny Chesney is such a perfect fit for this. The Cheryl Crowe, Zach Brown, Eric Church, Brandi Carlile, John Bon Jovi. Wow. Yeah, Pitbull, oddly enough. Yeah, he's perfect though.

Dali. Aaron Rodgers is playing. What? That's a good God's joke. The Hee Haw 3 are opening, so that should be. Okay, no, now you're being ridiculous. Wait, you guys have another gig lined up? Like, what's the future of the Hee Haw 3?

Like we kinda left Vegas and there's like these big aspirations and I feel like things are kinda. Paul tried to get them but. Fizzling. They couldn't agree on a number. We turned down, and this is the God's truth, as ridiculous as it sounds, we turned down a St. Patrick's Day gig on the North South Carolina border.

What? Yeah, no we did. Because it would have been at a bar. The Hee Haw 3 can't have their first concert be where, a place, at South of the border, is that where it was? It needs to be show fans. Right on the North and South Carolina border. Well said. Yeah, that kind of thing.

Why did you turn it down? We decided that the timing wasn't right. Did you think you were above a venue? No, no, but we have to, as we develop as a band, we have to have just the right kind of audience. Well, you've been around for 50 years. Well, that's true. You're right. I gotta remember the backstory. You just gotta remember what's canon. Right. I know. God bless Merle Waxman, our original guitarist.

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For some reason, would do a Gary Stephens impersonation of the offensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins and the University of Miami. Go ahead, do you wanna do that for the people? Your Gary Stephens impersonation? You wanna give people some of that? 30 years in the making. Stugats.

What? Who needs me? Oh, that? What? You've got my whole life. You're gonna go to Buffalo and win with Bernie Pommelie? Who needs me? This is the Dan LeVatar Show with the Stugats.

What are you smirking about? Just Mike's limited fake Tom Brokaw amused me. Yes, what did you hear Tom Brokaw complaining about? For some reason an adapter broke off, he was calling engineering. Tragedy struck the ulcer studio today when a quarter inch adapter broke off. That's ooze. I want to get to something from Curb Your Enthusiasm. I know Greg Cody is a big fan. This last season has somehow met expectations. I thought it was going to age poorly when

I saw some of the previews and how old everybody looked, but it has been great so far. And you reminded me when you were saying of Hee Haw 3, what are you, too good for something? You reminded me of a scene from the last Curb Your Enthusiasm, not the last one, the one before last, where he didn't want to be on a group text chain with an assortment of people who were mourning something. Now this is funnier visually when he does some of these things visually with the emojis, but it's funny in general when he runs into somebody who was on a text chain that he doesn't want to be on wale and gross barred

mind are you i'm stew's cousin from the family text chain uh... yeah the text chain yeah we love that you there. I notice you haven't really been very active on it. Barely replying at all, actually. Yeah. Well, we're noticing it's really been helpful for everybody keeping us in the loop

and sort of positive spirits. Is it helpful? Yeah. You think so? I don't know if you saw. My niece sent a great photo of Stu and her by the lake. Uh-huh, yeah, that you saw, my niece sent a great photo of Stu and her by the lake. Uh-huh, yeah, that was really, uh, cute.

Cute? Yeah. You think you're too good for the chain? You know what, Waylon, is that your name? Yeah. I do! I think I'm too good for the chain! Oh, sorry, you don't want to help your friend. Help? You know, it takes minimal effort just to reply, even a ha-ha or a thumbs up.

Oh, really? Are there funny things on there that require a ha-ha? If you read through it, there's a lot of- Can I be honest with you? Please. I'm overwhelmed by this chain. Every two minutes, it's ding, I'm getting a ding, I'm getting a ding. Too many dings.

And what is it? It's just these ridiculous inspirational sentiments that amount to nothing, that all trite. I don't even know why people bother to write them. And you want me to give it a ha ha? A ha ha? Or a heart. That's also an option.

But it seems like that's too much for you. You know what's too much for me? This chain is too much for me. I want off this chain. Once you're off the chain, you can't get back on the chain. Oh, no, don't say that. Really? I would text this to you, but I know you won't read it. So here's the real-life emoji. There you go. Oh, I'll give that a ha-ha.

No, ha-ha to you. Ha-ha to you, sir. No, you're a real asshole. Oh, I'm an asshole? Yeah. Oh, I'm an asshole? Yeah. I'm the one writing. I'm the one writing. Tough times remind us that our spirits are strong. Yeah, I wrote that. Yeah, I know you did.

Well, heart it if you like it. Yeah, I'll heart it. Oh, is that an emoji? That's a nice smiley face. Oh, the praise hands. So you know the emojis, you just won't use them. Oh, nice, a thumbs up? Well, ha-ha to you, sir.

Ha-ha to you. Yeah, yeah, thank you. F*** you. Ho-ho-ho! Ha ha to you, sir. Ha ha to you! Yeah, yeah, thank you. F*** you. Ha ha ho! I should have probably said at the beginning of that that the text string was about somebody who had fallen into a coma. So it's kind of inappropriate to be arguing

about that stuff. But Chris, I will tell you, and certainly, Earlene, your mother has noticed this, your father has so much of Larry David asshole in him where he will take these principled stands on just total nonsense, on stuff that doesn't matter and stubbornly entrench himself. Surely, every time you're watching this, you recognize that your wife is laughing that she married Larry David.

Yeah, I do, yeah. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. And to my credit, my personality does. In my humble opinion, followed by to my credit. To my credit. It's amazing. My personality does predate Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Oh, wow. I'm not going to say Larry David patterned himself after me. All right, put it on the poll, please, Jude. You did Greg Cody copyright asshole long before, copyright being an asshole long before Larry David. I wanted to get caught up here with your son and Billy. What happened with Ultra and what happened with the baseball game that you guys were,

the spring training Marlins game that you guys were going to announce this week. And I saw flooding all over South Florida, flooding in places that you normally don't see flooding. I saw that Ultra, I couldn't help but notice this spring break closed down but a bunch of kids in Ultra all drugged out in the mud and rain here. I don't think it would have looked quite that charming if they'd been a bunch of black kids but that's just woke me talking of course. How did the weekend go for Billy and Chris

with the baseball game and with Ultra? We were supposed to get some correspondence work from Chris, man on the street interviews at Ultra. I did not do that because it was flooded on Friday and Saturday, and I couldn't go Sunday. So the only day that it was, the weather would have let us do it, I couldn't do it. So yeah.

Wires and rain don't seem great. Those drugs don't seem to work unless there's music, or work most effectively. The drugs work. Work more effectively when there's music. You could say the music maybe won't work without the drugs. I think I could say both. I think I could say the music doesn't work as well

without the drugs, and the drugs don't work as well without the music. I think I can say both. I think I could say the music doesn't work as well without the drugs and the drugs don't work as well without the music. I think I could say both of those things. But it was a calamity. Baseball also didn't work without, or with the weather I would say. Baseball doesn't work without the drugs for sure. That's right. Worked less well after the drugs. So you guys went or did you not even go? The game got canceled before you even got there. We were made aware early on that the game was canceled, so we did not trek up to Jupiter,

but we have had discussions and we're told maybe we could do a couple of innings during the regular season, which, you know, a couple innings was the arrangement. Full game is what we're talking about. Talk to my agent. Yeah, so we're gonna see, because here around the office, people were coming up with like,

well, why don't you guys pitch this instead? To which I'm kinda like, well, this isn't really a negotiation. This isn't like, we're gonna tell them what we wanna do, and then we negotiate back and forth. We're kinda just grateful for the opportunity to take part in this fun-ness of calling a baseball game for the audience. Pitches here included, you guys should do like

a second screen watch-along thing for an entire game. And again, I said, this is not what's been offered to us. They said maybe we can do a couple innings during the regular season. So, you know, maybe we'll go, we'll have our people talk to their people and see, to be continued. We'll let you guys know when we have an update

on when we may or may not do one of these games. How many innings would you do spring training? You would do all? We were gonna do the whole game. Yeah. Have you done that before? Yeah, yeah, we've done the whole game Two now two two times. Oh, we've done it twice this would have been three this would have been our third yeah, okay

I thought they always brought you guys in for a couple of oh no We ran out of material in a couple innings, but we did the whole game We prepare for about three innings and then there was the other six that we had to figure out around the seventh inning you Start man. This is a lot, and then it's spring training, and it's like who is this guy? Whose parent does this person know? Or you know what I mean? Jeff Konine, usually. I've learned that who is this guy

doesn't kill on the broadcast. No, that's always bad form when you say, who is this guy? Broadcaster. You guys are surprised. Kyle doesn't like that one. Your general lack of knowledge and preparation and research might not be seen as professional

in the industry. I bought a shirt for this one, too. I was ready to go. I was taking some notes. Oh yeah, I got a shirt. Well, it was gifted to me. A collared shirt? Yeah, of course. It's a professional thing. A long sleeve shirt? Well, no. A polo? It's spring training. Come on. You do polos in spring training. Polos and sometimes some golf shorts if weather dictates. You gotta wear a beige jacket like Vince Gulley. As soon as I got this shirt,

I said this is my spring training shirt. And the person who gave it to me said, this is yours for spring training this year. Which was a bit presumptuous because they hadn't even asked us to do it at that point. But we were kind of hoping that would happen. And weather didn't agree with us this season, but that's okay.

Because starting on, what day is it, Thursday, we start 162, Dan-O, and guess what? I registered for my season pass of Bali Sports Plus, the app, and good news, with that subscription, I also get the end of the Panthers season. Bit pricey, but you know, they had a discount, so I went and I got that, and if I'm gonna be completely forthright here, I was kinda keeping an eye on what was going on with Amazon because I was hoping to get it for free

You know what I mean? Not to say that I want anything bad to happen there But if I could avoid having to pay for a full season worth of things, that's what I'm gonna do but as a result now I have the Panthers for the For the rest of the season Lord Stanley's coming hop on you get to see a 50 goal score You only can't wait second 50 goal score to ever wear that sweater. Five o'clock starts. Weird time. Five o'clock start yesterday, I didn't like that one.

By the way, you know how sometimes, especially in college football, now if you look at the University of Miami's leading receivers, they've had a lot of great receivers there, but it's like Mike Harley and Hankerson and Restrepo's probably gonna be a top it, the especially now the COVID year is warping all these things. Pavel Bure, he had 58 and 59 in back to back years. He played in an era, if you remember how he scored his goals, the fastest player in the league, a lot of breakaways. Well,

he played in an era where they tried to legislate out breakaways. They called two line passes up until 2005. If he played in today's game, Pavel Bure would maybe have 70, 75 goals. To see him do that in that era and get close to 60, it was, I am so sad for Panthers fans that didn't have the privilege of watching Pavel Burey do his thing because Sam Reinhardt is having an incredible year by any standard and compared to how you remember Pavel Burey bossing games without the two line pass, it still pales in comparison. Did Pavel Burey ever win a playoff game? I know he went to the playoffs but I think that-

Yeah, he went to the Stanley Cup final. He got four. Lord Stanley. No, no, no, no, no, but as a Panther. With the Panthers, I'm sorry. As a Panther. He got swept out by a Devils team that went to the Stanley Cup.

I don't think he won a playoff game. I think both times, I think that, I think they got swept both times. Chris Cody, do you have any sound for me of you and Billy making a botchery and a butchery of spring training? Bases will be loaded here for Wilson Contreras, former national. Nope, he was a cop for life.

Well, at least we have our viral clip. Ah, the second visit from Mel this inning. How many people do you think have turned the radio off whoa I think that there's radios being turned on all over America even though you can only listen to this in South Florida. Wow okay Christopher tell them you had a good home run call already but it got rained out what was it oh wow that's a good question well it's from the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody Christopher looks confused. I don't remember

I know he's saying he was trying to toss to you the fact that he has given you the idea for a home run call You don't remember the idea probably like that kind of thing Something okay. No the home run call was that kind of swing that kind of thing something okay no the home run call was that kind of swing that kind of thing oh it's a good call thank you and plus it doesn't matter who's hitting it like you're not tailing her to a particular aim you know all that jazz you know you don't gonna do that you know that would be a great call a generic call on A generic call. All that jazz would fit, yeah. Up, up, and away. That kind of swing, that kind of thing. This is a new and improved down-levatar show with the Stugats.

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This is the Don Lebathor show with the Stugats! We have been rummaging around here as we often do when Greg Cody is in, and he'll be in again tomorrow. We've been rummaging around in some old-age stuff, and I'm wondering, Greg, if you are old enough to remember in South Florida something that was known as the Serpentarium. Do you know anything about the Serpentarium? Because I think you'd be the only one here old enough to know what that was. I remember the word. I don't think I ever went to it, but it was, yeah, I mean, I think it was just for aquatic animals, as you'd gather from the name. Well, I don't think it... no, wait a minute, no, it's serpents. It's not snakes.

Oh, that's right. Wait a minute, you think I was saying the Miami Sea Aquarium? Is that what you thought? I think I did confuse that. The Serpentarium, I think McGill actually worked there very I don't did he Yeah, I believe he did. I think he was a snake handler. Okay. I don't know when this He wrote a book with Ron so I'll take his word for okay, but I just thought that Serpentarium was aquatic John Gruden related maybe The serpentarium I don't know when it closed But I know the reason that it closed because

I was horrified by it whenever in the 80s I learned about it. You want to call Coach Alabama? There was a giant serpent that was very hard to move that the day they tried to move it, like the statue, it broke apart into a million pieces. I think one of the local high schools that were the Cobras wanted it and it just broke apart. But what I remember about that thing, there are only a couple of things one the guy who ran it what his blood was basically anti-venom because of the amount of

times he'd been bitten like if somebody needed some some medicine this is the person that they would go to if they needed blood because his blood was pretty immune to snake bites but also I think it closed because, this is horrible, a kid fell in. The reason that I was having this conversation with somebody the other day is because of how absurd that crocodile attack was in Roadhouse because somebody fell in a serpentarium, a kid fell in a serpentarium who was throwing food and fell in and the gator or the croc immediately rolled on him and I think that's what ended the serpentarium.

But the reason I'm asking you is just because you would have been of an age when you were putting the Paul Radke's bowling scores in the Miami Herald. It would have been at about the time that you were a teenager, I'm assuming. Yeah, I definitely remember the word serpentarium. It's in the back of my mind as a niche in South Florida weird history Along with the upside-down house and what is now sunrise, but I never went to it So you disparaging this saltwater croc attack in? 2024 is Roadhouse is really frustrating to me first off

You didn't know that a saltwater croc could be in the saltwater, which it's in the name, babe. And that's exactly where a saltwater croc would attack you. That's why they hang out in those marinas, because people throw fish off of their boats. So typically if something flies off a boat, it's dinnertime for the saltwater crocodile. And that's exactly what happened in Roadhouse. They warned you. They said hey that that croc over there he's hungry and need in a while. You didn't like that movie. Yeah I did. It's exactly what I was hoping for. Two and a half stars of popcorn fun. So in 1977 a six-year-old boy fell into a crocodile pit at the serpentine serpentarium and was killed by Cookie a

12-foot long crocodile and it closed in 1984. So it still lasted seven years after Cookie killed the child, somehow. I don't mean to laugh. Oh, wait, Hoss killed the croc the next day, so there was swift judgment on that. With nine shots. No, he shot him.

No, he kept shooting him. Believe it was Roy Scheider that did that. 1600-pound reptile. He lived to be 100 and every day, or every week I think he injected himself with venom. I will ask McGill about this person and this thing tomorrow because I imagine that he will help us with some information here on all of the weirdnesses

that South Florida attracts. It was a cocktail of venom from five snakes that he injected himself with weekly. We're all staring at each other quite a bit floored at the stupidity of this. Also the snake is, I believe, still on the roof or whatever outside of Miami, or South Miami Senior High.

Yeah. You know, the last segment we played back you guys broadcasting a Marlins game game and it reminded me that last evening a shipping container adjacent member in Chris Whittingham was given the opportunity to call a ConcaCaf Nations League final USA Mexico a trophy on the line Some people will work for their entire career in that field and never get that opportunity and Chris Whittingham had the opportunity to do So last night here is a signature guys

I don't know if you've seen this goal by Tyler Adams who is working his way to health playing for Jim Favola's Bournemouth Tyler Adams had this unbelievable goal goal and Chris Whningham met the moment. The US lead Mexico by a goal today! While that was playing, I asked a crestfallen Chris Cody to please play for me again his spring training Wilson Contreras call. Bases will be loaded here for Wilson Contreras, former national. Nope, he was a comp for life. Same league. Both Mike Ryan and Greg Cody are done with Burrhalter? Both of you? Are both of you done? Totally done with Burrhalter? Well, first of all, if you want more of Chris Whittingham,

Whitty happens to be a guest on the Greg Cody Show podcast that just dropped today. Huge guest. Fancier than ever. And I let him have it about the Panthers. He's a beautiful thing. It's a great interview. Thank you. Fun conversation. I'm not done with with Greg Burhalter. It's too early to be done with him. But to me, the standard for US soccer right now, there's an opening. I'll be curious if Mike agrees with me. The women's team has dominated the headlines for two decades or more. There's an opening now with the evolution in the women's team, a new coach. It's time for the US men to take

over the mantle of American soccer from the women. Not that a new coach, it's time for the US men to take over the mantle of American soccer from the women. Not that both can't have it, but it's time for the men to step up and actually do something in the World Cup, particularly a US World Cup. I agree, and I have my doubts as to Greg Berhalter being the guy for it. However, he can point to a hardware case and have a lot of trophies. Now granted, the CONCACAF Nations League is a brand new competition. The U.S. Men's National Team has won all three incarnations

of it, but his record against Mexico is very good. What I really liked about this broadcast, and by the way, I loved Chris Whittingham so much that I sat through a pretty terrible stream. Yes, people. I swear I was. You were all probably wondering, is it just me? No, the stream was bad.

And the streams on Paramount Plus have consistently been bad. And if we're gonna take this seriously, as your broadcast suggests it would be, can we please fix these stream issues? Because I was that close to switching to Thutayene, but I wanted to support my friend Chris winning him It was brilliant. It was like standard

Definition it was so bad. It was blurry and I was mad at my wife. I'm like what is wrong with our internet? Yeah, you unplug your router and you at home. You weren't going crazy. It was a bad stream. It was unforgivable They do this off and over there knock it off, but We had audio problems there, knock it off. But. We had audio problems today. Our audience is saying the same thing about us. But Greg Burhalter is absolutely bullying a Mexican team

that he should bully because they are that much more talented than Mexico. And it's not something that I've been able to say during my adult life. But one of the best parts of this broadcast about Paramount Plus is the fact that Jesse Marsh is on the broadcast. And Greg Burhalter does fact that Jesse Marsh is on the broadcast and Greg Burr-Holter does not like

Jesse Marsh. Jesse Marsh went for the job that Greg Burr-Holter presently has. Remember Burr-Holter's contract expired. In fairness, yeah, you say that Mike and Greg are out on Burr-Holter, so was the United States of America. Yeah, but then they were. But then he ends up winning this job search. By the way, Gio Reyna was spectacular for the US Men's National Team and he was kind of at the heart of all the problems his last go-round. So Greg Burrhalter starts press conferences now going at criticisms from Jesse Marsh. And Jesse Marsh is so quick to undercut any success that Greg Burrhalter's had. Yeah, no, they did exactly what they were supposed to do because what I saw was a huge talent discrepancy. So much as even taking credit

for some of the halftime adjustments. See, Gio starts playing the way that I suggested at halftime, and all of a sudden, Greg Burrhalter's lifting a trophy over his head. Keep an eye on that dynamic, because I assure you it's caused problems. I just didn't like Burrhalter making such a big deal of winning a third straight tournament

that really doesn't mean much, right? It's like when inter-May... It means much if you don't win it. What'll mean a lot is Copa America this summer. Yeah, I agree. Testing your medal against South American teams because I am of the belief, and I've said it several times in the microphones,

I don't trust Greg Burrhalter. I don't like how he manages a locker room because that was ugly as all hell. I don't like his tactics. I don't think it's the best way to go about winning these tournaments and he has every right to tell me to go bleep myself And point to three trophies that came at Mexico's expense in his trophy room. It's fair enough There's there's several ways to do this I'm just more inclined to change the tactics some because I don't believe this guy to be a winner despite the record But it's not even that for you it's that his replacement is available and excites you.

Jose Mourinho is out there. He is out there and I think I'm a Jose Mourinho fan because I was a Chelsea fan I'm also a Roma fan and he had some success over there he wears people out but I think Greg Bertholter despite that ugly locker room situation he had the support of the players and I think Greg Bertholter, despite that ugly locker room situation, he had the support of the players. And I think that's because he coddles the players. And I don't think that's the type of mentality that we need headed into the World Cup. I think that we need someone to hold players accountable.

And you could argue he tried to hold you accountable, but it got messy and it didn't feel like real leadership. And Jose Mourinho's got a proud record in single-game elimination samples and what this nation has always done well is counter-attack. That is where they had their best results that that's where they became giant killers because they had the athleticism to put a stranglehold on someone and hit a long ball to someone striking deep and boom you lose 1-0 to the US and I think they need to get back to that identity to win. How do you think Mourinho would handle and manage Reyna?

Because you could make a pretty good argument that Reyna is sort of a clubhouse cancer type and that unless he's really, really good, he's somebody you don't want on your team. Reyna doesn't get talked about, but if Reyna is healthy, Reyna from an attacking sense, he's a pretty complete player, is as talented as any player that we've put out there. However Reyna struggled with fitness. He recently made a move to the Premier League and can't get any time for Nottingham Forest. So I don't really know what it is with Gio Reyna but when he was given the opportunity in this tournament they

succeeded and he flourished. However, let's not forget the Jamaica game where they needed an own goal late to advance to a final where everyone was pulling their hair out because of the performance they came up with against a Jamaican team that was missing six of its best players. I am not sold on Greg Burrhalter. I think his doubters are Legion.

And if he doesn't have a good showing in Copa America, I think you have to make a change headed into a World Cup. You have to just because Mourinho is a better quote. You were given a yellow card. What happened when you went over to the Southampton bench? I deserved the yellow card because I was rude, but I was rude with an idiot. So but I clearly deserved that card.

I was rude. Nice. That is going to be a great Netflix doc. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan. It's springtime. And while every time is a good time for Miller Lite, springtime is among the best. I was sitting out in my backyard watching some flowers bloom and some beautiful birds swimming from royal fishtail palm to royal fishtail palm.

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