The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: March Is For Gohlke

Episode Date: March 22, 2024

Dan is here this Friday and ready to share his disdain for the new Road House movie with Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor, which he is calling both bad and ass. Speaking of ass, did Conor McGregor get ass implants for the role? Mike Ryan laments that March Madness is March Midness and doesn’t deserve the hype it gets yearly. Tony shares his March Madness top five. Then, we look at the impact that Katie Meier made on the Miami Women’s Basketball program before Mike Ryan shares his problem with Heat Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ass hell yeah. Hell yeah with a comma in between It was so bad, I don't trust you with it was so man don't trust you Mike. I promise you. How is this one bad? The trailers look amazing. Mike. I promise you I promise you It's bad and it's ass Connor McGregor is terrible and I haven't seen it yet. He looks great in it. He looks like he's Connor McGregor He does look great and Valerie accused him of getting ass implants because he's nude early. They don't test for that anymore. Put it on the poll please at Levitard Show.

Is it possible that Conor McGregor got ass implants? A spoiler alert, small spoiler alert Mike that may ruin it for you. Somebody got attacked in Key West, just in Key West, by a crocodile. That happens. Saltwater crocodiles in the canals? Very dangerous.

Big problem. This is not how that would happen. There would, this- Did you ever watch Bloodline? Like that's exactly how that happens. Absolutely. A crocodile? Yeah, saltwater crocodiles in the Keys.

Wow, tell me you don't go to the Keys often. Thank you, that's what I was trying to tell you yesterday. Everywhere, it's like one of the deepest fears I have. You can't jump into a canal in the Keys. You've never been to Hog's Heaven, like clearly. You've never been to Hog's Heaven. The ocean is not a place that you're getting attacked by crocodiles.

A canal is a place you might get attacked by a crocodile. He was on a dock, Dan. There are saltwater crocodiles everywhere in the ocean down here. Everywhere. Everywhere. There's orcas now in the ocean. Turkey Point, coconut Grove, the Keys, those canals and the Keys, they're very close to the open water in the ocean. That's all salt water. That's not necessarily brackish water. That is there.

The name is salt water crocodiles. not necessarily brackish water. That is there. The name is salt water crocodiles. Yes, it does in the ocean. All right. I can be wrong because I did not know that. I, I, well you're wrong about two things because roadhouse has a 66 on rotten tomatoes. It's bad ass. One word. You saw the original roadhouse by the way, had 41% on rotten. Also badass. Tony, you're telling us you're the only other one here. I think who's, I saw half of it. So I got to the point where you, you saw the saltwater croc. I got to that bad part. Not the ass part. I'm waiting for more ass to be kicked right now.

Dalton has kicked some ass, but not as much as he needs to. He's about to kick way more as he ripped out a trachea. Not yet. Cause that is essential. That is canon. That happens later on Tony you liked it so far Dan I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt early Okay, later on we're gonna catch up and there's no way Michael will like this the writing is so bad Writing is so bad. I guarantee you I will like it just from the trailer the fact that it's in the keys The fact that Connor McGregor looks like he knocks it out the park because all he has to do Is be Conor McGregor. He does it starchly stiffly. It doesn't feel very good. He's a bad actor. He's very bad at acting

Okay, that works and the writing is very bad. The kid and the dad are also bad actors in the Glass Book I love going to the Keys. It's shot there. So I just think from being able to look around at the scenery I'm gonna get a kick out of it. Oh, kick. How does his roundhouse kicks? Are they good? Because that's also essential. I will wait for your appraisal.

Once I finish Madame Webb, I'll get around to Roadhouse. I was surprised before the show, this has never happened before, in terms of me having to step in to prevent a fist fight. I had to hold Lucy back when Mike Ryan called it March Midness and said that everything he saw yesterday was overrated. The ones who get it get it, the ones who don't don't, and you don't get it! You don't get it! Excuse me Lucy, with all due respect, and of everyone here, I'm probably the only blue blood. And I know what March is all about, having made consecutive very deep runs into the tournament.

And it's a lot of trudging through mud and sewage to get to like a moment. That's what college sports is all about. It's bad. Sewage, crap, it is awesome. You clearly didn't watch Nevada Dayton, that game kicked ass. Dayton was down 13, okay late,

that's like being down 50. We'll see. I'm gambling again, I had Nevada, rest assured, I watched it all. It's just not good, The game isn't great. Would've been a lot better if Miami were in it. Yeah, I can wear that Homerism on my sleeve. But it's just, it's not good.

And I understand getting all super hyped up for it. Yes, it's the best sports day of the year, blah, blah, blah. It doesn't match a regular old NFL Sunday slate. It doesn't match a Saturday afternoon in the Premier League. It doesn't match five 10 p.m. puck drops in the NHL going on simultaneously. It doesn't match these things. It doesn't match- You didn't get Jack Goukis in these things. Goukis, okay, we need to talk about Goukis.

How did you not start the show with Goukis? Goukis is what March is all about. A guy with that kind of hairline who's gonna be a terror in rec league in two years dropping ten threes against Kentucky. I wanna to be goal key. I love goal key. That guy is 40 years old. That guy has the perfect first name for somebody who makes 10 threes, Jack. Uh, that guy is the reason Jay Wright says the following quote, the era of taking these young freshmen and trying to play against older players is over.

I think, uh think Cal did a phenomenal job with these guys all year. You can see they're playing against grown men. The guys on Kentucky will be far better pros than any of these guys on Oakland or any of these guys in the tournament, but they're not as good college basketball players. And that's why we love it. College basketball is for the everyday folk, okay? We're not making it to the NBA, but we're gonna have fun and we're gonna screw things up in the process.

We're gonna hit 10 threes right in Mike Ryan's face. Jack Goldke actually gave voice to this, that point there exclusively in his post-game press conference. Obviously we come in, we're the underdog by all measures, but you just gotta, as a player, you can't think that way. You gotta go out there and you gotta think that you have the same talent level as them. I know they have draft picks and I

know I'm not going to the NBA, but I know on any given night I can compete with those type of guys and our team can compete with those type of guys. And that's why I was so confident going into it and that's why I say we're not a Cinderella because when we play our A-game, we can be the best team on the floor. Put it on the poll, please, at LeBotard Show. Have you ever thought of Cinderella as 50 years old? Looks like Billy Donovan's hair when he wakes up in the morning. It does.

It has an Eddie Munster vibe to it. There's a lot of forehead surface area. That's what Bradley Cooper looked like in Wedding Crashers, by the way. Something's going on there. You may want to look into it. What was the name of, was it Andrew G Gase the Australian player for Seton Hall a million years ago the first time I remember watching a college game and

saying wait a minute that's not fair that guy that guy's clearly you know he's much older than everybody else and I agree with Mike this part cannot be disagreed with. It's bad basketball. It's so the point. Okay. You want to watch good basketball? Go watch the NBA. Dan, this is not good. Basketball. There's no such thing as Jack Goukis. There's no, no such thing as good basketball. In fact, maybe the late, maybe the ladies can come through today because today is also their day. And I'm excited to watch that tournament. But the, it was, it was,

according to you, there's no good basketball dog. I watched all the games yesterday. I need to see your jumper again. What? Excuse me. I know ball. I need to see your jumper. After a means jumper, I need to see your jumper. I need to see it.

My jumper is fine. I'm also, I play within myself and I'm not going to camp out at the perimeter. That's not my game. All right. I'm a junkyard dog inside, everyone knows this. Also, I close out pretty well, all right? I'm not gonna jack up six shots on the outside just because you wanna see this. I'm an efficient basketball player. I grew up reading, you know, Heat Index.

Mike Ryan just mentioned closeouts, and I will never look at them the same after what I saw in a terribly bored Clippers game here where James Harden goes through the paint, passes it in the corner to his teammate Kawhi Leonard and then closes out on Kawhi Leonard, just tries, pretends to try to block the shot of Kawhi. Now keep in mind, they are up 20,

it's the only defense James Harden has played in about five years and he played it on his own teammate. And look at the score incidentally. They get the rebound after this to go up by 24. Did he get the rebound? Because he put himself in terrific position to grab that board. I think that he got the ball back and then passed it again.

Yeah, he did get the rebound. Heads up play by James Harden. For those of you who are not watching and just listening, again, James Harden came through the lane, passed it in the corner to his teammate Kawhi Leonard and then was the closest to close out on Kawhi Leonard and jumped toward him and stuck a hand in his face and Kawhi missed the shot after the game Tai Lu just shook his head and James Harden said that you know we're just trying to keep it interesting late in the season.

They're up like 25 against that terrible Portland team. Here's why people love March Madness. And they conflate the upsets and they forget about the really bad games going on. What they love about March Madness is that it's happening at 1130 a.m. Eastern. Actually, that's a great take. You know what, I gotta give it to you there.

That's what sets it apart. And if you're not myopic and you watch European soccer and these international competitions, you realize, or if you watch tennis that's played in different time zones, you realize that this is afforded to you across the entire sporting landscape. And then when you line it up in terms of excellence on the field to play, you start poking holes on March Midness.

This is where I disagree with Mike because we're having two different discussions, okay? The bad basketball I think we can all come pretty close to agreeing with. I'm pretty upset with Mike's general spoiled about basketball attitude where it's gotten so good that he thinks it's all bad. Like the professional skill level has gotten so incredible that shots from the logo are normal and now Mike is saying that it's all bad but the place where he's right about some of this is this is however how is it what what is it that are 49ers people who look for gold through pan miners okay this is what March Madness is. The pan has just so much dirt, mud, garbage, and worthless in it. But every once in a while, you shake it loose. And what

do you got? You got Jack Golke making 10 threes for Oakland to knock out Kentucky when all you're rooting for is for Kentucky to get knocked out. All I was rooting for yesterday was Kansas and Kentucky to lose. Samford, I had Samford to win. I don't know if I, I don't know. I mean, a lot of people say this. Nobody cares who you had, who I had, but to have Samford to win as a 13 and to lose that way when you get the perfect block at the end, the perfect block at the end, and the referees fell it up, when the referee needs to not do that. You can't, the referees denied us that moment.

So if there's a nugget of gold with Oakland, it gets shit on by that referee who took away from us the ability to have Samford beating Kansas. The only reason they called a foul was because he fell. Like that to me is the only reason that they called a foul. I know that it's like searching for the nugget of gold, but I think the thing that's worth noting is you have this every single year though.

So you always know you're gonna get a St. Peters or an Oakland. So it keeps you coming back, even though like, yes, you're gonna get a bunch of duds. It's that fun Oakland story. It's that fun St. Peter's story that keeps you going. Like I remember where I was when Lehigh beat Duke. Like that's the shit that just stays with you forever. And it's that fun St. Peter's story that keeps you going. Like, I remember where I was when Lehigh beat Duke. Like, that's the shit that just stays with you forever

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["The Stugats Show Theme"] Again, I will double down on my point when it comes to March Madness. What you love the most about it is the time. Can I buy you a better attitude on game time? Can I operate that? Yeah, sure. Look, I'm not, maybe it's ingrained in me to go counterculture.

I also like March Madness, but in experiencing it yesterday, I realized that the only thing that sets it apart is being able to do this before you even have lunch. It's getting home and putting on the games. You've got 14 games going. It's the amount, Mike. It's not just that you've got something at 1130.

It's that you've got before 6 PM, you've got 20 games going on. Any college football Saturday. Any college football Saturday. But you said Saturday. It's the weekend. This is the weekday. This is when we have nothing. This is when we have Bengals Colts on a Thursday night. Again, you have the NBA. This is the weekday. This is when we have nothing. This is when we have like Bengals Colts on a Thursday night.

Again, you have the NBA, you have the NHL, you have simultaneous games going on all the time. And I think a lot of what's happening with March Madness is nostalgia, because it came at a time where you weren't able to watch multiple games at the same time. And you had one network basically cutting to dramatic finish. It was a red zone at the same time. And you had one network basically cutting to dramatic finish.

It was a red zone before the red zone. And while it's awesome, and it still remained kind of good, it's something that's more available than ever for any type of sport. So I think a lot of that shine has worn off and you're just left with the quality on the, on the field to play. And it's not that good. It's the reason that I like college football so much, where if you have an upset in the NFL, you have an upset in the NFL.

If you have an upset in college football, it's the craziest thing in the world. No one can believe Alabama lost. It's the same thing with March Madness. If the Pistons beat the Celtics, okay, you'll get a 30 second hit on SportsCenter and you're done. When Oakland beats Kentucky, everyone is talking about it.

Everyone is involved with this tournament, filling out their bracket. It's a community thing. It's fun. We all care. And maybe you should look at the positive side of things. I like it. I'm not saying I don't like it. I'm just like, Mike, Armando, Baycott's going to be a UNC for his 10th year. You're not excited about that. He was at UNC before Patrick Mahomes won a single Super Bowl. That is a real stat.

You know what? I have a top five for things about March. All right, go for it. Number five, Tom Izzo. Hang on. Give me a second. I'm new at this. People bet against Tom Izzo yesterday. Tom Izzo in March. Are you kidding me? He's so dialed in. You think about coach Cal, great recruiter, good coach. How dare you? Tom Izzo in March, are you kidding me? How dare you? He's so dialed in. You think about Coach Cal, great recruiter, good coach, then he gets to March, crap, right?

Tom Izzo, the complete opposite. During the season, meh, but then when he gets to March, he's dialed in. I really do feel the way Mike is looking at this though is like the person who buys a thousand lottery tickets, very excited, and then none of them come in. But if one of them comes in, if there's's an Oakland in there all of a sudden you love March Midnest. That's how the parlay business keeps going because it's about the one that you win. Guys I like March Madness after this I'm going to a sports bar with my friends to watch March Madness. What I'm saying is it's not the

greatest thing in sports that people make it out to be in fact when you compare it to The sports landscape it's kind of mid number four the aforementioned Armando Baycott playing his 10th The players was going on at a similar time last week with two Amazing holes a hotly contested competition players the players The player's I want to see is Armando Baycoffers 10th season. That's what I want to see. Number three. Nevada blowing a 17 point lead in the second half. That one hurt. That one hurt. You can't get that outside of March. You can, but you can't. That one hurt. That one hurt a lot. I had a decent amount of quid on Nevada.

Dayton ended that game on 24-4 runs. You can't go against the Flyers! Dayton in March? Are you kidding me? That's a lock! Do they still host the first four? Is that still the tradition? I don't get that one. Number two. The AD taking credit for Long Beach State. Getting it.

Please put his picture on the screen here. I want to read this quote because Dan Monson was fired and the press conferences afterward in which all of this stuff was discussed because it was funny to listen if you don't know the story Dan Monson of Long Beach State was fired on Monday and then he you know they make the tournament they win their tournament and the athletic director uh whose name is Bobby Smytherin and looks exactly like you would think somebody who has no respect

for 17 years of building Long Beach State into what uh Monson built it into he comes in after three or four months and he fires him and then the quote is my, and I haven't heard him say this, I'm just reading the quote, so I don't know if there's a smile on his face, I don't know if there's tongue in cheek involved here, I don't know if tongue in cheek is even allowed anymore today, the way the internet works. Not the way that the internet works.

You gotta choose one. Because I actually saw the video in question, and it looks like he's trying to make the most of it because he's got egg on his face. This is not a great look for him despite making it to the tournament which is an achievement for an AD but yeah he made what most people would call is a mistake so he's trying to make the most of it and have fun of an awkward situation but the quote is pretty damning when you see it absent that. Roy can you do me the favor please and find for me the origins on tongue-in-cheek how it is that that works and also egg on his face I'd like some of the origins of that as well because I don't know why someone has egg

on their face but the quote from Bobby Smytherin is my my belief and hope is that by doing what I did and the timing of it, they would play inspired and that's what they did. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, but it worked. That's March. Now imagine- That's Stugats, that's not March. Patino too. Imagine that quote with a shitty eating grin attached to it

and it changes it a little bit. Okay, the shitty eating grin, let's talk about this for a second it a little bit. Okay, the shit-eating grin. Let's talk about this for a second. That's important. It's another one that we have to look at for once. If you were eating shit, do you think you'd be grinning? Because it's a little one. But it's not a grin of happiness.

Like a shit-eating grin is happy. This one does not make sense. This one does not make sense. If I'm eating, you know, the only time the shit-eating grin I've seen is my dog likes to eat the cat turds. Like, didn't, and, and. Does it make him happy?

Yeah, it does. He, that's the only time I've seen a shit-eating grin. And it disgusts me. I've lost respect for my dog when he comes out of there with kitty litter on his face, and I'm like, how'd you get in there again? We've booby-trapped the entire house to prevent the way that you disgust me when you do this.

Shit-eating grin is possibly a contraction of grinning, like a possum eating shit, later detached from meaning persisting due to his vividness. So there you go. Thank you Roy. I don't understand what the last part of that shit is. So possums eat shit and then they smile? Well there are a lot of nutrients,

possums gotta get it where they can get it. And if animals are shit. Are there nutrients in shit? Because I thought your body takes all the nutrients from the shit and then all that's left Is the shit? I think that if a possum is eating it my guess is the possum is finding something in the way of nutrients from other animals having

Undigested things in their shit that possums can eat I think it's like how manure is like used in soil because I think there are nutrients in it that would make sense in My brain, right? The possum is also, I don't know how your brain works, the possum is also not a discerning beast of any kind. It is a pea-brained animal, and whatever it is that it eats, I wouldn't trust it to do what it's supposed to be doing. Human feces is rich in potassium.

Put it on the poll, please, at Lebatard Show. Did you know that human shit was rich in potassium? Also put it on the poll, did you know that in the Atlantic Ocean a crocodile could eat you in the Keys number one Oakland's Jack Goukhi by the way I was just told something and I have breaking news for everybody Oakland is in Michigan that was shocking multiple Oakland country? First time that Oakland's made a run for you guys? Yeah, no.

We've learned that. Not only did I learn that, I learned that the same kind of way that you learned it, Tony, but when Mike was over by the breakfast in the eating area, I wandered past him and mumbled a secret shame. I said to him,

I don't want to admit publicly or privately how much I've bet Oakland the last, I said to him, I don't want to admit publicly or privately how much I've bet Oakland the last, I don't know, seven years, not just in the tournament, just any time I'm scrolling through bets and I'm bored and I see Oakland is playing, even if I don't know anything about them other than the fact that they're in Michigan, because I learned that last time

and I discovered Golkey when I turned on my television, because I can't get these games. I'm not watching these games when I'm betting them. But if I see Oakland on the scroll, I'm like, I trust them to surprise some people and they're going to surprise them as soon as you don't realize that they're in Michigan. Like that, that I discovered all of that

the same way you learned of it yesterday. Jacksonville state, not in Jacksonville. What? Well, Florida anyways. Think about this this I was looking at this as Oakland California and I was like Jack Goukian Oakland I like it. Dog making it happen. Jack Goukian doesn't look like any Oakland I've ever seen in my life. On the tougher side of the bridge. As you can see how I was amused by it. Egg on your face goes back to the late 1800s early 1900s when audience were told rotten

eggs and vegetables are bad actors on stage or actors would smash eggs on their faces to get laughs from the audience. I thought it was tomatoes that got thrown at people during that time too. Rotten eggs and vegetables yes so that would be included. And tongue-in-cheek is the last of these because I don't did you guys think that that quote when I'm reading reading that quote, it doesn't sound tongue in cheek. It sounds like the AD is taking credit for making an inspired run because he fired the coach. Who incidentally is working for not money?

Honestly, James Harden, back again. He's up 21, so he's just joshing out there. It's against the Blazers, no respect for the other team. team how the Blazers feeling about things right now no no respect for anything I have any of you ever seen somebody close out a three on a teammate and a NBA last week we saw Joe Missoula close out after the buzzer which was kind of weird and not talked about that dude is odd. Yes he's an odd person. Yes I cannot wait to see how that disintegrates in his lap because he is unusual. Will you rise with the sun to help change mental health care forever? Join the Sunrise Challenge to raise funds for CAMAGE, the Center for Addiction

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win it all. This is the Dan LeVatar Show with the StuGats. Tongue in cheek Roy, give me tongue in cheek please. The most believable explanation for its origin is that in the 1700s people were show contempt or skepticism by using the tongue to poke out a budge in the cheek. By 1842 tongue in cheek had acquired its modern meaning, meaning take this with a grain of salt. It's intended to be humorlessly ironic. Humorlessly? Humorously.

Humorously. I want to go back to something that broke at the end of the show yesterday, and I and this show have been guilty over the years of not being great about covering women's basketball and through that time Katie Meyer at the University of Miami built something that not only represents, you know an enormous number of wins but

represents a kind of pioneering that none of us can possibly understand how hard it was to build everything she has built. I gave you the stat a few days ago that in college football only one in five coaches are still in the place that they were in 2019. Like the turnover now is crazy in those jobs. To have somebody for 20 years leave on her terms, I mean, she's not happy with what the committee did and what happened with the punctuation at the end. I don't know, Mike's closer to the program.

He'll tell us perhaps how much that did or didn't have to do with the timing on what happened yesterday, because she leaves pissed off She leaves because she feels like the thing that she built at the end wasn't properly Respected and was denied a tournament birth But I don't want to ignore the fact that this woman working in the shadows has built something Substantive out of nothing

has built something substantive out of nothing because this did not have any kind of following when she got here and it got a following only because she built it, stayed with it, cares in a really, I'm not going to say in an unusual way, but cares the way that you have to in order to have that kind of success for that long with all of the changes that have come, but that is a legitimate pioneer that retired yesterday in Miami, a name that's known nationally as a pioneer. And the only reason this doesn't stain the University of Miami is because she's just leaving and not yet taking another job,

and I assume not going to take another job. But if she were to have taken another job, it would be an indictment on the University of Miami, and I just don't know enough of the details about why she left. She bleeds orange and green. She's still going to be around the program. There's a lot that has gone on in Katie's personal life. She's newly married, a wonderful wife in Hunter. This came as a shock. She's still relatively young, but she has been doing this for a while I can I can attest 19 years doing one thing is is a very long time to be doing it

She's done it at a level that we've never seen before You can make an argument that she's on the Mount Rushmore of Miami athletic head coaches And we've had a lot of great head coaches You mentioned that she has a special relationship with her players and that's unique and a lot of coaches do have these really special bonds with their players. I've never seen anything quite like. She cares unusually deeply and has since there was no one at the game. Yeah she wears her emotion on her sleeve. She connects the players on on much deeper levels and she It Miami is an historical outlier for them to really achieve anything in athletics as a private institution

with a really low student body is an achievement and She established high watermark after high watermark after high watermark Developed this program after a run in the elite eight to something that is actually getting resources. Now, um, this yesterday came as a surprise and a shock and it was a little bit heartbreaking. And once you pick up the pieces, you try to wonder where, where you're going for, uh, where, where you're going to from here, I'm so happy that Katie's going gonna at least have a hand in it.

And I hope she basically has the ability to name her successor. I think she's earned that right here. And it's my hope that it's Fitzroy Anthony, who's the lead assistant, who was lead recruiter on Miami's, what is presently Miami's greatest recruiting class in the history of that program here at Miami. I think he'd be a tremendous hire and I'm normally against promoting from within and the AD should do a national search but I think the answer is here and if Katie wants that to be the answer then I think we should all respect it. Great coach, if she were available in an open market, If she were available in an open market, top jobs would be interested in her. She is a pillar and it's really really heartbreaking to see her go. She knows

what's best for this program though, so you're gonna have to trust her judgment, but an icon just hung him up and what's really what's really a bummer about it is I feel like us as a show and we kind of are the talisman of the local market when it comes to speaking about things. We kind of just got around to recognizing this career and that's a shame because we should have honestly been touting her for a very long time. Speaking of the local market and the local media, I want to talk a little bit about what's grown into what feels like Mike Ryan's genuine disappointment with the Miami Heat media, with the team.

Like you've been, a lot of people are annoyed in general with our show for how we're covering the Heat, and it's expansive how they get annoyed, that we talk about them too much, period, or that the way we talk about them is a little negative, emotional, and spoiled. The Heat media though though has been, much of it has been in those jobs for a long time. And there is a symbiotic relationship between the

heat and the media that is a little comfortable and there's not a lot of critique in the heat media. There's a lot more Critique in heat Twitter and in social media There's a big giant gulf between the amount of criticism you get from the objective reporters who are paid to cover the team accurately and then only become very loud critics when it becomes clear to everyone that the heat is Done with Kyle Lowry and then the heat media turns on Kyle Lowry but it is interesting to watch sometimes how the heat media doesn't feel very much all the time like an independent arm that is loudly critical of the team. I will say though that the team often doesn't deserve a lot of criticism so that's

also part of what dilutes the coverage. So last time I decided to side swipe the Miami Heat and criticize them for a year in a season and an approach that I think is worthy of criticism Terry Rozier, God bless him, hit a game winner against a Donovan Mitchell-Les Cleveland Cavs and Miami got a win a huge win for them. Wait a minute that whole sentence Donovan Mitchell, God bless him. Donovan Mitchell, less Cleveland Cavs. I know, but I know, yeah, Terry Rozier, God bless him, and then Donovan, that whole sentence. Yeah, well, I don't wanna necessarily take out

the conventional media because I think the lines are blurred and there's a lot of non-traditional media that has found its way into what we can now categorize as heat media and Heat Twitter adjacent. It's funny that as Twitter, as a platform, later became X, has gotten more toxic, Heat fans have gone the other way. I miss the days of 2010 where Heat Twitter was a very toxic place, very knee-jerk, very hyperbolic.

Oh, I loved it. You guys have changed. You guys have changed. And the people that are covering this, the most prominent accounts that are covering the Miami Heat basketball organization, aren't traditional media entities. And let me tell you something. I have found, especially since I seem to be the only person now in the world that feels like they can criticize the Miami Heat, which is a huge sea change. Look, about 25% of Heat media is actively trying to get hired by the Miami Heat, so you got to take that with a grain of salt. They are incapable of true criticism. They only show spine

when it's evident to everyone that Kyle Lowry is out the door. Heaven forbid you say something about Kyle Lowry that might ruffle some feathers when he is here. That's not spine though, that's not spine. He Twitter and he media adjacent accounts that have rightfully found their way into the conversation and do a great job of covering this team to a degree, generally spineless and some real chickenshit behavior from that. So let me tell you something it is absolutely normal to criticize a team when they are in a run of poor form. You can also have long view conversations but to totally ignore certain facts and to be afraid of criticism. Guys we were born in fire. We invented this toxic platform they

call Twitter and you've all just gone away like crabs scurrying and now you're just all company men. Find your balls. Put it on the poll please at LeBatard show. Worst thing to hear about yourself, spineless or chicken shit behavior? Because you escalated spineless by going to chicken shit behavior? Because you escalated spineless by going to chicken shit behavior and I think it should go from chicken shit behavior to spineless. I also think you made up that stat about 25%.

No, 25% of them are trying to get hired by Miami Heat. All right, so you made one of four Heat media members. Which is fine, God bless you. Again with another God bless. God bless you. I hope you get hired. But you're afraid to criticize them because you're actively trying to get hired by them You're a bless you and you talk yourselves into like the craziest stuff I mean the craziest stuff I see tweets like this is why the Miami Heat brought in Terry Rozier

You've been silent for three weeks. You've been silent No, they brought him in for eight of 36 from the field to do that. Amen Show me that highlight package. Okay enough with this. I've got the god bless list here We're doing Terry Rozier and then heat media But not all of them just a quarter of them and people that like March madness I think God bless them and I think I if I haven't said God bless Katie Meyer Katie Meyer add her to the list God bless her well, but and Alexander Barkov. God bless you This list is back in the line because you're putting Katie Meyer and Terry Rozier to the list God bless her well and Alexander Barkov God bless you this list

Is back in the line because you're putting Katie Meyer and Terry Rozier on the same God bless There's different God bless you could be sarcastic and also sincere, but they can't they can't coexist You've been you you've been using it just so I bless Jack bulky hallelujah Then don't know God bless yous to any of the opposing goaltenders that are facing the Florida Panthers lately. That all turned into Dominik Hachik. Roy, this is the worst stretch of the season for the Florida Panthers. What is happening here?

You guys have lamented 10 days ago they're getting hot at the wrong time. Well, Chris Cody should be really happy. Everybody breathe. They've lost three straight after going on the best stretch in franchise history. They've had some injuries. And on top of that, the teams that they've lost to Carolina, Tampa Bay and last night with Nashville.

These are possibly the three hottest teams in the league right now. I've got bad news. What is the Florida Panthers were plus six 50 and I put a little quit on them to win the Stanley cup. Oh no. And then I think that's when the three games kids Oh, I'm a Tony they've they've gone down. In fact now they are co-favorites inside their own conference Gotcha in a blister to win the Eastern Conference. He damned you. I'm putting my name on it I'm putting my name on it didn't bless you with God. He damned you with God Roy your wife impossible Dan I found him in yes. Yes. I know wife is a holy woman. She cannot be happy with you.

She's not. She's not. This is why he's fasting. I'm not fasting anymore. It ended on Tuesday. So you atoned for all the god damn it's and now you got new ones to atone for. I'm back, baby. 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.

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