The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Lead Us, Greg

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

Greg Cote leads the show by doing what all great leaders do: reading the first topic left on his topic sheet and going from there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You ready to lead us well, you know lead us not into temptation what deliver us from evil Thank you We're rolling. Go ahead postgame dad. Take us. Yeah, keep praying, go ahead. What are you talking about? What are we doing here? That's not his role, guys. You don't put the man in that spot. He does, he's done it really good. What's at the top of your head that you wanna get?

Any sports takes you wanna fire off here as this post game is now in your hands? I mean, I would love to talk soccer. Mike, you and I are interested. Inter Miami was in a terrible 10 game slide, nine or 10 game slide. Now they've won two in a row. Very impressive. Messi scored four goals in the last two games.

Did you just look at your topics? No, the top one. No, I think it gives fans renewed hope for the club world cup coming up. Does. And I'm super into the club world cup and it'll be curious to see how these MLS teams that are actually in season. Know a lot of these clubs would have played like two weeks ago, but it is an advantage to be in season, in form, headed into that competition. I'm really excited about this competition. The prize pool suggests that teams actually have to go for it.

It's not what you're used to in the summer when these teams come over to the U S and just do friendlies. There's something on the line here. FIFA is really pushing the clubs to take this seriously amongst other things, because that's what they've sold. This did fetch a big bill attached to it in terms of rights, and they want to make this one of the biggest media rights entities on the planet. So I think the teams are forced to do this.

However, not every team is happy about this. Seattle Sounders, out of MLS, were seen wearing protest shirts, protesting the Club World Cup and the wages that they will get for participating in that. But if we are going to touch on soccer, we have to mention the European Championship that happened, the Champions League final, PSG absolutely blitzing Inter Milan in the final. What's really impressive about that is PSG was always a club that failed to get over the hump. They brought in all these superstars, Zlatan, Mbappe, Messi, Neymar. They get rid of all those names and then they win the final. Yeah. By playing great organized team football, bringing along younger players. It's not the superstar, megastar names that you're used to, although these are very good players. It's not the superstar megastar names that you're used to, although these are very good players, but it's really funny. A year removed from losing Mbappe and having that hang over your

club for years on end. You don't have Messi, you don't have Neymar. Apparently all they needed to do was get away from these personalities and finally get over the hump and achieve the ultimate success. I heard a meme before the show comparing PSG to this OKC team. Like they've had stars in the past, now they've gotten younger, deeper, and it's just a young team. Look, the way to explain it is, well, they still have very rich ownership, but these players aren't at the level of Achille and Mbappe,

who's at the peak of his powers, messy close to the peak of his powers, Neymar peak of his powers. In OKC, they trade away, well, they lose Kevin Durant, but they trade away other players and they get all these pieces. They trade away Paul George and they rebuild their franchise with that. When Mbappe

leaves for less than market value, when you don't get a big transfer fee there, how do you, Messi left as a free agent. They're not getting draft picks to help build their roster. They have to lean on their scouting. Now they have the ultimate resources. Their owners are very cash rich, but again, they're not in the mix because France has not looked as a great domestic league. They're not often in the mix for the best players in the world anymore. People, they were looked as a club that was a launch pad club that people would either go to at the end of their careers or to launch pad success for more regular competition. So to see PSG in this spot so closely removed from the likes of Neymar, Messi and Mbappe is really impressive. In the 70-year history of

this tournament, it's the first five-goal margin ever, which is pretty darn impressive. You don't do that to Italian clubs in finals. You don't do that. Right. I watched every second of that game. I was riveted. But getting back to the Club World Cup for just a second, what fascinates me is the disparity of competition among all of these teams. Example, Inter Miami opens with a club from Egypt, which you don't think of on the world football. Yes, because here we go, and Messi's used to this the past couple of years in this league. You've got a team from Egypt that nobody knows very much about. that team will never take a pitch more motivated than when they're playing Lionel Messi. And that's what they have to put up every game, Miami.

Look at that. You landed the plane. Good job. Just hit it that kind of thing and we're done. Hey, that kind of thing. Thank you, Greg. All right. Thank you, everybody. All right. Now I'm going to take this down and gum it in my mouth.