The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Mike Breen's Premature Bangulation | Hour 2

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

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Zaz, I don't know if you're surprised by this, but Roy Bellamy and Mike Ryan, they clearly over the last two years, Greg Cody as well, they know what a hockey champion looks like. They have become familiar with what it takes to win a hockey championship. I've been watching a little of the hockey playoffs this year. And Roy and Mike have said it's a bit of a foregone conclusion that the Colorado Avalanche are going to win the title over the United States of Tortorella. This is the United States of America. It ain't the United States of Tortarella. And everyone else in hockey. Do you believe Zaz that it's the foregone conclusion that Roy and Mike seem to think it is?

Roy's doing a live watch-along tonight, the Colorado Avalanche and the Vegas Golden Knights. Roy and the group, that means Rose will be a star. That means Ethan will annoy you. And that means that if you want to watch hockey with the show, they will be doing it tonight. Do you believe it's his foregone a conclusion? I'm not used to ever thinking the hockey playoffs are a foregone conclusion for anybody, but the people here around here who know what a champion looks like

are telling me this is a foregone conclusion. Based on what I've gathered from my foray into the Stanley Cup playoff this season, you know, when the Panthers aren't in it, I usually don't pay any attention, it's been told. Based on what I've seen, yes, I think Colorado is far and away the best team in the postseason. And I'm glad they are,

because you think I need the Carolina Hurricanes winning a Stanley Cup in my life? No, I don't need that. Well, here's the thing. I think Vegas is dead last of the four. Carolina, according to the betting odds, Carolina is barely an underdog to Colorado to win it all. For me, it's Montreal. Montreal is my dark horse, my rooting interests.

I think they're the reason that I'm still engaged in the playoffs. You know the Panthers had more wins this year than the Golden Knights? Like, how ridiculous is that? The Panthers had more wins. The Golden Knights were under 500. How many games were left when the Golden Knights fired their coach? How many games in the season were left before they decided to get rid of their coach? It felt like six or seven.

It's crazy. I have a prediction to make here. I don't make many of these. I have a prediction to make on OKC and San Antonio. Before the end of that series, there will be made the loud public accusation that the OKC Thunder are trying to hurt Wembe. Before that series is over, there will be a story that they're not going to just give their championship to this guy.

Like if it's unfair, they're going to try to hurt him. And I think we're going to have a controversy. By playing good defense? Yeah, no, that's a good take. By playing tough? You know about that Lou Dort? By him flopping? By dorting.

I've seen him flop. I've seen him throw himself into the stands. This guy's such a hater. They're going to dort at his knees. Caruso's at the sides of his knees. He's just trying to play defense. You like that prediction, Zaz? Do you think that before?

I do. I do. There's going to be the story they're trying to hurt him, and it's going to create a story around him as the guy who had the dirtiest play in the entire postseason where he becomes a little embryo that must be protected from all harm. All is is Wemby-led media, Dan? It's just everybody in the can for Wemby.

You are the biggest hater in the world. You're supposed to like this sport. Guys, I love this sport, by the way. I loved it when you guys said it was bad. still loving it. What I'm doing is protecting it a la Mike when he did a couple years ago, but for a different reason. See, I love this sport so much that it offends me when the sport is bad.

The fact that you still love it when it's bad, that actually means that I love it more than you. Impossible. Because I can't sit back and watch when it's bad. No, I find the great inside of it. You think the game's bad. It's a 30-point blowout. Wow, look at all the threes they hit.

When I think it's bad, you're like a fan who keeps going to games and giving the team your money when the team is terrible. Okay, if the team is terrible, I stay away because I need the team to be better. Banwagon is what we call you. We're here on the side. You watch no matter what. No, you're a bandwagoner. If the game's not good, I stay away because I'm a bigger fan than you.

Tony, I love you, but Zaz is a two-time champion broadcaster. That's right. And he's turned his back on the franchise. Greg Cody, do you have your countdown catchphrases ready because we have a lot of them to get to the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody has been successfully executing a joke for many, many months now. That's true. It's a surprisingly successful bit that my show has been able to pull off. And it is. We're doing two a week. We're now at top 60s. So it's going to end up being like a half a year worth a bit with. Also, controversially, we learned last week that the top 50 had been

extended for no real good reason. other than disorganization to a top 60. So that kind of thing. Let's do it right now. Please stop talking to your inner monologue at any point. Okay, I'd prefer you breathe with those giant nostrils into the microphone. Number 60. I'm Fuller than Vern Fuller.

59. Where's my click, click, click 58? Hey, Butterfinger, 57. Punt. 56. Scranton. 55. I'm busy near a one-arm paper hanger 54. George up. George. 53, I'm the kind of guy that 52, balling the jack, 51, hey, hey, with the monkeys, baby.

50, thank you, Billy. 49, I love him like a pet. 48, who made it a salad? 47, we're rolling now, huh? 46, your brain beat me. 45, let's go, states. 44, driver comfort is paramount. 43, dummy up.

Save up, 42, catches, catch can, 41, doesn't make it right. 40, so on and so forth. 39. Very good. 38, the Little League theory. 37, nice hat, asshole. The others, they all learn from me. 35, don't go showering to try to please me.

34, look at that jerk. 33, it's like a packing house in here. 32, would you learn? 31, he-ha, three, bad a dip. 30. I'm not going to take a quiz. 29, sassafras, 28. Would we break a window?

27, hello. 26, who won? 25 trailers for sale or rent. 24, you got to eat a peck of dirt. before you died. 23. Three words, we are the Lobos. And now. Number 22, you're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie.

Oh, wow. Wow. 22. Didn't even make the top 20. Just played Hey Jude. Does that mean we still have one more to update? Oh, my God. So this is very exciting.

We are so close to the top 20, although he might change. it again next week and make it the top 70 It's going to remember 10 more. Yes, that's right. You never know. You never know. That's part of the choice. That one will be high up. I want to know before you give out your second new one this week. Number 21. Which

phrases now for the rest of the way are the ones that you had to add to extend from 50 to 60? I didn't have to add any. We always had a surplus from which to do. He botched it so much that when we looked with 14 left, there were 25 good ones.

So we were like, this is an easy ad. Again, really sloppy the way this was done to start the list before you had completed the list. And so your brain beat me. Tomorrow we will bring on Booghambi and see how many of those as part of a charitable effort that we're helping

Bug Chambi with. He will sneak on to a Cubs broadcast. And we're going to try and do that tomorrow with Boog Shambi. That would be a dream come true. What I'd also like to do, though, before we get to this next update, can you guys please explain to me? Because I really don't want to get numb to this. Pablo Torre has won a National Magazine Award.

I don't know what that is. He does not write for a magazine. So now he won the Pulitzer, and I thought that was a writing prize. He won it for audio reporting as we modernize our awards. is it for magazine shows? What is a national magazine award? Well, the best way I can explain this is what do you refer to as 60 Minutes?

They're a news magazine. They take a magazine style approach to their storytelling. And that's what Pablo does with his. And that's why this group of editors from magazines across the country decided to honor him. And this is the award for outstanding podcasting,

which beat out NPR and the Wall Street Journal. So the 61st annual National Magazine Awards were announced by the American Society of Magazine editors. And this was at a gala hosted in New York City. All three of them? It's not a magazine. Well. Those editors run magazines. Right.

But 60 Minutes is a news magazine. And Pablo Torre finds out is a magazine. Right. But are those editors the editors of news magazines? Are they editors of physical copies of physical written? magazines. I mean, this award in particular was just for podcasting and NPR and the Wall Street Journal were involved in it. Those aren't magazines. Those are different types of publications. So just for the record, because I'm not feigning ignorance here. I don't understand. The modernization

of the Pulitzer makes it so that the Pulitzer, which I had always associated with being the top prize in writing, no longer requires writing to be part of the award. Are you telling me this is normally a written award that they've created another category for? And now Pablo Tori has what is considered in America the finest news magazine type show there is as people voting from printed magazines are voting on because Wall Street Journal and NPR are the top of the food chain on making good things in these modern times. and I just like a clarification because I'm not understanding normally what these awards are given for. What I like to imagine is some editor from Maxim is ripping a vape and saying, I like Pablo. The American Society of Magazine Editors, which was founded in 1963, is the principal organization for the editorial leaders of magazines and websites published in the United States.

So the awards first started in 1966, in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The judging happened in January at Columbia. More than 300 writers, editors, art directors, photo editors, and journalism educators participated in the judging, working in small groups to choose the finalists and ultimately the winners. The awards are in 18 different categories. And the winner in each category receives an Ellie modeled on the symbol of the awards, Alexander Calder's Elephant Walking. Added to the list of stuff that I was telling Pablo yesterday, like, what do you mean? Me?

And I'm like, yeah, you're in the super futuristic building looking down on everybody. Now you get this award that looks like an art piece. Like, oh, okay. Do you guys feel like Mina and Pablo are kicking Nick's ass? Oh, yeah. No, dude. No. Nick goes and wires 150 grand to the win and plays poker all night.

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It's a Tuesday. It's a Tuesday. Stugats. Here's your guy. Greg Cody with Back in My Day. Okay, here it is. Sorry. Adeltery.

Oh. We are back. We're rated for this one. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Mina has won, I think. She'll be on with us later. She's won like three game shows, and she's also hosting the Spelling Bee.

A Nick Wright Challenge, both Mina and Pablo. Nick Wright's not winning any of the awards. Pablo's winning awards from people who write for things that aren't written. It's pretty amazing. The fact that this guy is winning every award for every publication. For everything. Every place that's like, hmm, where is their good podcasting?

Where is there good journalism in podcasting? Oh, Pablo Tori finds out. Honestly, I want to be that guy. I'm giving a free tip right now to any aspiring other podcast magazines. someone needs to investigate the lobbying arm of Pablo Torre finds out because awards are a very political thing. So if you want to make your name and win some of these awards, investigate this team.

I'm telling you, this doesn't just happen because of good work. Look, let's be honest. We're all being selfish. Pablo's being selfish. Everybody's being selfish in their own way, in their own way, right? Pablo's never given me a dime. Mina Kimes never given me a dime. Nick Wright, gave me a stack.

That's my guy. understand that you can be bought, but I don't think he's winning this particular war when they're winning all the awards and he's not. But how are they winning it? Tune in. But if you said to me right now, if you said to me right now,

you can either for the rest of your life be Pablo or Nick. I'm going with Nick. It must be APEC. There should be an award for winning most awards, like an annual award that oversees all of the entirety of awards. and Pablo has just won the award for winning most awards. Let's a little further back.

Pablo. Greg, I am maintaining, and I think I could say this flatly, would you guys agree or disagree with what I'm saying, that in the history, so on one end, we're talking about Pablo, winning awards that are normally given from writers to writers for writing for things that are not written. And in the other category, we have Greg Cody, who, cannot speak into a microphone, but when you don't want him breathing too loud, it's extra close

to the microphone. I believe that this is unprecedented in the history of broadcasting. Do you guys think I have this wrong? I'm also going to start being further away. There should be an award for that. Why don't I win an award if I'm the best at that? Well, you're the only one at that, though. You're not competing with anybody. That means you name the award after me. You never know. Zaslow, do you believe that this has ever been seen before in the history? of broadcasting, the problem that Greg continues to have with just simple broadcasting. I told you, and I knew this from the start. Some days you just know. You can tell right away, this has been a Hall of Fame breathing performance. We haven't even mentioned it. We mentioned it early

in the show. He's been on it today with the breathing. What's your next update, the final update for the week on catchphrases? Okay, number, just to refresh, number 22 was you're going to go to Buffalo? You want to refresh the whole thing? Can we refresh the whole thing? He might die. Are you serious? Yeah, I just like, another update on just the whole thing before we get to last. That backfired on you there, Greg. You thought you were saying something cute by saying just a refresher.

Now you start over. I want to refresh the whole thing. Give Dan an inch. All right. Number 60. I'm Fuller and Vern Fuller. 59. Where's my click? Click. 58. Hey, but a finger. 57. 57. Bunt. 56. Scranton. 55. I'm busy near one arm paper hanger.

54. George. Georgia. 53. I'm the kind of guy that 52. Ball on the jack. 51. Hey, hey, hey, with the monkeys, baby. 50. Thank you, Billy. 49, I love him like a pet. 48. Who made it a salad? 47.

We're rolling now, huh? 46, your brain beating me. 45, let's go, states. 44, driver comfort is Paramount. 43, dummy up. Say, bop. 42, catches, catch can. 41, doesn't make it right.

40, so on and so forth. 39. Very good. 38, the Little League theory. 37, nice hat, asshole. 36. The others, they all learn from me. 35, don't go shower in to try to please me.

34, look at that jerk. 33, it's like a packing house in here. 32, what you learn? 31, he-ho, three, badap, 30. I'm not going to take a quiz. 29, sassafrasse. 28, would we break a window? 27.

Hello, 26. Who won? 25, trailers for sale or rent. 24, you got to eat a peg of dirt before you die. 23, three words, we are the Lobos. Now, 22, you're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmally. And number 21, Rappicac. A lot of breath.

Breathe into the mic. A lot of breath. Now, Rappie Kack is more a home one than one that he's done a lot around here, I would say. But it is a staple. It is any time you're trying to tickle my dad, you know, remember at the old studios, Dan, when I'd come in and tickle him, that's what he calls Rappie Kacking. If I'm tickling you, if I'm jostling, hey, quick, rapy-cacking. Right.

That's correct. Can I ask something? Yeah. Who are you quoting that says, who are you quoting when you... He got you. He got your ass. He got your ass. You're an idiot's ass.

Nice hat, asshole. You know, it doesn't even matter what I was going to say. It's been built up too much. You fell that one time in the chair. Waving the white flag. So rapping. So rapy cagging, put it on the poll at Levitard show. Have you ever heard the phrase rapid cack?

Put it also on the poll, have you ever used the phrase rapid cack? And also put on the poll, do you know what rapy cac means? What you're saying is just the physical job, the rough housing of someone. My brother and I have always, that's how we've, rapid cack is, hey, quick, quick, quick, I'll break your finger off. Quick, rapid cacking me. What did you say on the show that your definition of it was slightly different? Okay, it emanates from the great dolphins. original expansion era broadcaster Rick Weaver,

who thought so much of himself, he used to have a vanity license plate that said The Voice. The great play-by-up. Yeah, right? And it's a great license plate, too. Rick Weaver. Anyway, Rick Weaver used to refer to rapy-cacking as a particularly hard hit.

Like, if a linebacker just flattened the running back, he would say, he got rapy-cacked. And I've never been able to determine the origin of that. I think it might be a Midwestern Ohio-ish. type thing, but I adopted it and made it my own. That's what I did. I have texted Mike Breen here to find out if that has ever happened to him before. We will find out hopefully before the end of the show.

Maybe he'll come on with us. Let's clear Arthur. I'm hoping to get a hold of Mike Breen. Do you think it's happened to him before? No. And matter of fact, when I was watching the game, now, granted, I, you know, I don't have the volume on very loud, tablet time, don't want to wake my wife up. I didn't even notice that it happened when I was watching.

If you have not heard it, get it again here, Chris Cody, please, because he is the consummate professional, and I wonder if he suffers this. Merrill, three-pointer, in and out. That one halfway down. In-and-out! That's how my dad talks with bees in front of everything. Oh, I love that. But hello.

It's a good call for the moment. Merrill, three-pointer. That speaks to how it was almost in. The ball was like 92%. Merrill, three-pointer, back in the out. It's perfect for the moment. If it were a radio call, it would have been perfect way to describe it for everyone to see

exactly what was happening. If it were a radio call, it would be he hit it. No. Merrill, three-pointer. Premature bangulation? Yesterday, Michelle Beatle had a premature celebration. Today, Zaslow, who just got torched by Cody. It gives you premature bangulation, or bamulation.

It's not good enough. Those bad. Yeah, sorry. I was doing my bam catchphrase from PTI back when I had catchphrases. Speaking of which, my father, we'll see if I'll be able to get to this today. My father has objected to both Mike, actually all three of the top ten lists of Mike Ryan and me and Valerie about things that we have done as a show to piss off. ESPN, he has a different list of 10 things we have done to piss off ESPN that he thinks is better than Valerie's list. We'll see if we get to it today.

Before we do that, though, Zazel, what happened with you begging the audience and sponsors for a couch? That's a great update. Okay, but what... So embarrassing. I'm begging for anything. No, you were begging for you. Yeah, he stood right next to me and you begged. I'm begging for anything.

You stood right next to me. There are advertisers out there. There are potential sponsors who may want to get in on my show. Zaslow's show 2.0. This is not a beg. This is a partnership opportunity. You're standing right here. You said, please, I need a new couch.

I do need a new couch. And maybe they need a sponsorship opportunity. All right. This is how you work together. Zaslo 2.0 has blown up in recent months. It has exploded. Juju reprimanded me saying that it's all because of Zaslo's heart. I claim that it might have something to do with his affiliation with our show, regardless.

Can't tell for sure. Neither here nor there. It doesn't really matter. Either way, his show has blown up. What's happening with you begging for a couch? Yeah, so I just, I'm done with the couch in the Zasnoe Mansion fan room. I don't like it. All right. I want a new couch. And my wife says, we just got done paying for this couch. I'm like, I don't care. Damn, we know what wives love. All right? So she doesn't want to waste a the thing that she loves. So I want

a new couch and I'm looking for a sponsor. So I get a message last night, Dan, our friend Brad Williams. Brad Williams sent me a text message last night. And he I'll allow it. And he says, I'll buy you a couch.

If every time you mention the Zaslo Mansion, you say the Zaslo Mansion featuring the Brad Williams couch, listen to his podcast, heightened babble and see him on tour, the couch. brought to you by bad blooms. I mean, our audience has to come up with a better offer than that.

No, I think that's awesome. You happy about that? Now, would this be a normal size couch? Well, what are you saying am I happy? Like, are you doing a thing there where it's like, you know, Zasloor, you want to take a couch? Because, you know, there are people out there, Dan, is like, oh, you know, I'm too proud to accept things. You know, I don't take charity. I'm not one of those people.

I'll take things from anyone. But you're going to do that mouthful of sponsor, like you're going to cheapen the sponsorships. all around that sponsorship by doing that mouthful every time. You're selling basically because of a guy, because someone buys you a couch, you're basically offering a presenting sponsorship to an exploding podcast that cheapens all the other advertising. That's the question, all right?

Like when I'm on ESPN radio, I say all that's, I reference the Zaslo Mansion all the time. So on ESPN, am I also saying, featuring the Brad Williams couch, listen to his podcast, height and babble and see him on tour of the couch brought to by Brad William. You got to negotiate that down.

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I'm walking like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quervo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night. It has that effect on people. It does. You usually take the credit for it. But again, it's the Quervo effect. It's the.

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It's just going to be him coming out. and hitting the one or two notes of that kind of thing, and you know it, and then just giving us finger guns and leaving. Baby. You should listen to the Great Cody Show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catchphrases.

We even make songs about them, and you know it is a song for crying out loud. That's great. Hopefully that's a suey nominee for Best Song. And you know it, baby, and you know it. Stugats. And you know it, baby, and you know it. This is it.

And you know it. Baby and you know it. And you know it. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Brad wants to do this. Like he's excited about this opportunity. I'll outbid Brad Williams. I'll buy you a couch if you sponsor is say that it's brought to you by the Great Cody show.

So the same offer. The same. I'll outbid Williams. Okay, but you need to make it less of a mouthful. so it sounds less cheapening. You have to offer something that's less of a mouthful by telling Zad. Yeah, what do I do? All right, here's what you do.

Okay. You say the Zaz Mansion brought to you by the Greg Cody show. We're going to say my whole name, though, Zazlo. Okay, the Zaslo Mansion brought to you by the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody. Featuring. No, not featuring. With the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody, and then what? What else are we going to say?

How many times I got to do that? That's your thing. No, that's your thing. No, no, we're going to keep it short. Random evidence of a cluttered block. Boy, that's a throwback. That's a throwback. Next thing, you know, you'll be referring to the prep profit, which was the name of my column when I covered high school.

I have a new poll question. Go ahead and check it out. The Zaslow Mansion brought you by the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody. Very good. That's what you have to say. How often? Every time you refer to the Zasno Mansion. Cody's Corner, CBS.

The time before that, Mike, the time before that is the loudest I have ever heard Greg Cody laugh at you simply pressing on the narcissism of knowing the terrible name of the blog column that he used to write, which was random evidence of a cluttered block. No, cluttered mind. But then it became cluttered block. It became cluttered block. Look at these guys. And occasionally featured on Paul and Young Ron. That's true, too. I've never heard Greg laugh that loud at something that delighted him so much.

Now it's just Paul. The prep prophet. Rest and peace. Paul's alive. Paul's alive. Wait, you can hear me? Nice hat, asshole. Where are we with the sponsorship?

Because I believe you should get a new couch, and I also believe that you should adhere to certain rules, and that you should make people compete for the right to buy you that couch. competing. Yeah, that's all you need is two competing offers and now you got yourself a real, you got a real hold down situation. What are you going to do with your old couch? Let me get your old couch. Yeah? Yeah. You come pick it up? It's a good couch. It's a good leather couch. You just finished paying it off, right? Yeah. Your wife called it? Yeah. It's a great couch. It's just not a couch that he likes. How do you know, it's a big? It's got two seats that recline. Okay. It's got cup holders. Okay. It's got iPhone charters. The old version of the iPhone, not the

C. Can't do anything about that. But it's a good couch. Leather. Leather. What color? Really? Not a dog. beige. Bage. You got a dog? I do have a dog. Dogs can age a couch. Is it dirty? No. I mean, just because animals can make it dirt.

We meant USB. No, no. The C is a college in California and South Carolina. No, no, the new iPhones, it's called a USC. No. Oh. It's BC. Maybe. Maybe.

Talk to yourself? Maybe. Please stop arguing with your inner monologue. No one hears it. All right. We may be on to something here. I have one podcast that wants to sponsor the couch. I have another podcast that wants to sponsor the couch.

The thing is here, Brad Williams wants me to say every time I mention the Zazl Mansion. Am I doing that for you as well? Every time? Yes. Yeah, absolutely. But I'm a shorter phrase. You just got to say, brought to you by the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody, very good. And that's it.

So it's still pretty annoying, though. Like, you've got two competing offers that are making you say a mouthful every time. And he's now got an impersonation. I'm not sure his is better if he makes you say very good. I don't think he's actually made you a better offer than the one Brad Williams made you because he's making you make a sound that makes it even more obvious that you're cheapening the sponsorships all around you on your podcast. Zaz would have to audition and convince me that he,

He can say, very good in the spirit it is meant. Okay, that's not how it works. Like, that is cheapening the sponsor. When I have to audition for a sponsorship. Okay, if you simply say very good, that doesn't cut it. Zaslow, I bet I can find a buyer for your other couch. So hold on a second. Just reach out to the vice president.

He just wishes that it was a little more dirty. That's my couch, dude. What are you doing? Greg Cody, we have not talked quite enough about the approaching World Cup, the thing that I hear people talking about when the conversation points start are things that don't quite have to do with play. It's expensive tickets. It's Iran, Italy. It's stuff that doesn't have to do with what we're going to be doing in the coming months, which is talking about the action. As it relates to Inter Miami and what you were

saying yesterday on the show. Mike Ryan objects. You came on and said something different than what we said. We've talked about this quite a bit. The absurdity of the Inter-Miamy La Familia fan base, a very devoted fan base, withholding its song, withholding in protest and in silence its support of Messy and Inter-Miamy because they have not been kind enough to simply give them a gesture of we acknowledge your support. It is one of the silliest back and forth you will ever see, but when you're talking about fandom and the zealotry involving fandom and identity, it also pays for everything. Like, legitimately, people caring that way is what pays for everything.

So while you side with Messi and say he's given you enough, Mike Ryan basically objected to everything you were saying yesterday. There's a lot of people that have this opinion, and it's a very American sports opinion MLS soccer is different, but Inter-Maiami is trying to separate itself from MLS too and try to be this big global brand. I think a lot of people weighing in on the discussion aren't aware of how these supporters sections work and how they do these supporter sections often in concert with the club, because the club loves having these supporters clubs out there, making these festive atmospheres. They're in constant communication. There's someone staffed on Inter Miami who one of their main obligations is to cater to supporters

clubs to make sure things like a festive atmosphere and word of mouth. Hey, did you check out Inter Miami? It was a hell of a party. And it helps the team too because it's often subscribed to you in that sport. Supporters section help the players. It always helps the players perform. It's literally a supporters club that never waivers. You could be sent down.

They could occasionally voice displeasure, but they have your back through thick and thin. And what they're asking for may seem ridiculous to the likes of Joe Rhodes or your local sports anchor because they're not familiar with how this culture is. But within that culture, and within every single player that has ever come up through every rank of soccer globally that is on that roster right now, they understand the deal. I can understand you thinking that, man, this is silly because it is. What we're talking about is a silly thing. But if it's embedded within the culture of the sport, it's a respect thing.

I don't think it's silly, okay? It is the simple human need of acknowledge us. When I talked to you about what happened to the Knicks last night, those supporters feel like they willed that result. Inner Miami's a champion. You can disagree all you want, whether the customer's, support actually matters. The customer thinks the support matters. These customers think the support matters more than most customers. They've won the championship and they have the basic human need

of wanting the smallest acknowledgement. A little bit more context before you get into it. The supporter sections for this club in particular predate the club. The Southern Legion was out at community hearings fighting for this. They were tapped into the political aspects of getting this club off the ground. Right. No, I understand that fans in any sport everywhere and magnified in international soccer, they think they're the heartbeat of whatever home field advantage is. I get that. Okay.

And I get that it, look, if there's a business relationship between Inter Miami and the organized supporters sections, and the business relationship says, the contract says, you got to go like this. You got to go like this to the fans once a game. need to do that. But a point I made in the column I wrote was the organized fans are complaining that in the new stadium they haven't been acknowledged. A point I made is they started off with three draws and a loss in the new stadium. Three draws to teams they thought they were better than and a blown lead loss to their arch rival. There aren't many players in any sport who,

after losing, after not winning for four straight games, are going to be in a mood to go like this at the end zone? I hear you. Are there many fans? Are there many fans that would feel like clapping? Yeah, if Messi's playing through the team. Are there many fans that would feel like applauding their warriors that go do battle after what you said, three embarrassing losses? Because while the players don't feel like that, most fans don't feel like that either. I've left many a stadium, disgusted with an effort and not wanted to applaud my guys. Supporters clubs, though? Those sections?

Right. They always do. Okay. No matter what. And all of a sudden they're turning off all the noise because they haven't been acknowledged enough? Yes. It seems pretty pretty clear.

Because those people can actually argue they are more of a fan than anyone is. They can argue they go well above and beyond what is assumed. a fan should do. They cheer, they sing, constantly, 90 minutes, sometimes more, even when they blow a big lead to their rivals and having an embarrassing situation at home as they're a club in turmoil and transition blowing out their manager, they sing. Okay. And there's fans elsewhere in the stadium, and I've talked to some of them who are sort of annoyed that people are chanting and banging a drum the whole game. The point is you can be any kind of fan you want to be and you can chair if you want and you can show up if you want

you don't have to. And they're great fans. They're great fans in that end zone. But I think it's, when you have a championship team that includes Leo Messi, I just think, man.

You speak to most fans, though. You say that you can choose to be whatever fan you want to be. And most in our Miami season ticket holders are. But the supporters club, they don't choose what kind of fan they want to be. Through thick and thin, they are always at 11 for their club. Every other fandom in MLS would love to have Leonel Messi on their team.

Yes, Greg, I believe that the part that you're right on is that withholding your support can be seen by any person who doesn't care this way as small and petty. Incredibly small, incredibly petty. But I can also argue on the end what they're requesting is that, the very smallest thing. It's a bare minimum ask on, can you make a gesture that acknowledges 90 minutes of us pouring out our heart for the team? You can't ask for less than that. It's the smallest ask.

It is. And here's my point, though. Okay, the fan has a championship team with the biggest athlete on the globe. But that's what the fans have, okay? But they're not going to be happy until the athlete goes like this. That's weird to me. That's weird to me. Okay, you say it's weird, and yet if a person, an athlete is in the grocery store

and you want to take a picture with him and he says no to you, do you think that it's weird to get mad at that person? A player, and I know there was the... That's not the same. They're in the Sansoe and Rapi Cack. It was the famous public's photo of him, so I know that when I'm saying this. Lino Messy's not in a grocery store taking selfies, okay? And I don't blame any celebrity for politely withholding a selfie.

They're looking at me like we've got to end the segment, Greg. I mean... I could feel the weight of dance eyes right now, piercing a hole through our soul. Mike tried to give us the out with a voice modulator. I didn't take it because I needed to finish my point because in the last few years, gone on my platforms of Paul and Young Ron and random evidence of a cluttered blog. Now this is all I have.

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