Local Hour: The Bicycle in the Barbie Room

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Podcast Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: The Bicycle in the Barbie Room

Date: November 24, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Chris Cody, Greg Cody, Mike, Zaslow
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This "Local Hour" episode is classic Dan Le Batard Show chaos—broadcast from Miami and pulsing with football, soccer, and local-life absurdity. The crew dives into the intersection of South Florida sports and everyday family drama, highlighted by Greg Cody’s struggles to watch Lionel Messi’s heroics from exile in his house's Barbie room. There’s lively discussion of the Miami Heat’s rapid new identity, soccer’s odd place in U.S. sports culture even with Messi present, the business foibles of MLS, Inter Miami, and the University of Miami’s college football playoff chase.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Greg Cody’s “Barbie Room” Exile: Sports Fandom in the Modern Home

[04:55–13:15]

• Greg Cody’s Plight: Greg laments being banished to the Barbie room (a mishmash of workout space, playroom, and home office) to watch Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi star in a playoff game while the rest of his family monopolizes the main TV with NFL RedZone.
  • "I gotta relegate myself to the Barbie room to watch Lionel Messi." —Greg Cody [09:35].
• Family Divide: The room is described as lonely, scattered with Barbie dolls and a stationary bike ("very stationary"), and the rest of the household ignores Greg’s attempts to rally anyone for history-making Miami soccer.
  • "It was a happy moment in Miami sports history for you. Sounds like it was lonely in your own home." —Chris [12:35].
  • Greg confirms: "Only when my wife came in to say when are you ready to eat?" [13:29].

2. Messi’s Miami Miracle vs. American Sports Dominance

[13:39–17:59]

• Messi’s Star Power Localized: Greg and the crew marvel at Messi’s impact—his age-defying brilliance, his direct role in a historic Inter Miami victory ("responsible for all four goals"), yet how this transcendent performance struggles to overshadow Saints-Falcons in most homes.
  • "He’s the greatest player in the world...and Greg Cody could not get it on the big television in his home. He was an outcast in his own home." —Chris [07:53].
• Cultural Commentary: Greg offers, "My house at that moment was a microcosm of America. The NFL is still way up here and MLS, even with Lionel Messi, is down here." [23:24, 23:44].

3. MLS, Apple TV, and the Business of Soccer in America

[17:08–18:11]

• Critique of MLS Choices: Mike highlights failures in MLS’s approach to growing the sport—specifically, putting games behind a paywall (Apple TV MLS Season Pass), leading to declining attendance and TV ratings, despite Messi’s arrival.
  • "The paywall was a huge mistake...They’ve kind of wasted the Messi thing." —Mike [17:59].
• Messi’s Miami Legacy: The panel agrees his real legacy may be the coming Miami stadium, but even this can't hide that too many local fans remain locked out of the Messi phenomenon.

4. The Miami Heat’s Jet-Age Transformation & Greg Cody’s New Stat

[24:50–28:34]

• Basketball Shift: Excitement for the Heat’s radical speed and depth. They’re young, deep, running faster than any team in the NBA, and playing "the most fun basketball of any Heat era."
  • "They're going after the top of the conference with speed. They're going to try and play basketball faster than you and think their bodies can hold up." —Chris [29:15].
• Greg’s New Metric: Greg debuts a satirical new stat, T Y D W T P I T F R ("Team You Don't Want To Play In The First Round").
  • "Everything has an acronym now. This does not flow mellifluously off the tongue..." —Greg [25:35].

5. Heat Roster Chemistry & Tyler Herro Concerns

[29:41–38:46]

• Roster Debates: Debates over how Tyler Herro’s return will affect the team's chemistry and rotation, with concerns about disrupting the Heat’s best-ever offensive pace and balanced depth.
  • "It seems as though Miami plays better without Tyler Herro." —Mike [30:45].
  • Zaslow defends Herro’s team-first attitude and questions assumptions.
• Bench & Depth Praise: Consensus that the Heat’s future lies in spreading minutes (10-11 deep), trusting Spoelstra’s rotations, and leveraging youth and athleticism to outlast older, injury-prone contenders.

6. College Football: Miami’s Playoff Hopes and Narrative Battles

[41:05–45:25]

• UM’s Position & National Narrative: Miami football beats Virginia Tech, yet fights a national narrative (EDS headwinds, ESPN "eye test") that downplays their wins while computers/commercials threaten their playoff chances.
  • "What about the field test?" —Greg, echoing coach Mario Cristobal [43:58].
  • "This is absolutely a culture war... Computers are trying to tell you that Notre Dame is better. Who's Notre Dame beating?" —Mike [44:17].
• Playoff System Frustrations: Mike calls out the replay officials and announcers, rails against metrics/algorithms, and defends Miami’s case for a playoff spot based on head-to-head wins and on-field performance.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Greg Cody on Watching Messi Alone:
  "Nobody else herded with me into the Barbie room to watch." [12:03]
• Chris Cody on Greg’s Home Situation:
  "You were lonely in your corner of the house loving soccer as the rest of your family loved a different sport in another room." [12:17]
• Mike on MLS’s Missed Moment:
  "All the buzz from Messi seems to have evaporated and they're playing their most consequential games during the NFL window...The paywall was a huge mistake. But thankfully MLS is going to learn from this, but it's a shame they've kind of wasted the Messi thing." [17:52–17:59]
• Greg’s Self-Deprecation:
  "I don't keep [track]...I meant to do [bike exercise] over the weekend to make up for the physical therapy session I had to skip months ago." [10:19]
• Chris (to Greg, about South Florida soccer history):
  "He covered the Fort Lauderdale strikers 50 years ago. He's like, what is this in Miami? How is it possible a championship can be won with this player, in this town, on this team?" [11:12]
• Greg Cody, Synthesizing Soccer’s Place in America:
  "My house at that moment was a microcosm of America, really...The NFL is still way up here and MLS, even with Lionel Messi, is down here." [23:24–23:44]
• Greg Cody Debuting His Statistic:
  "Everything has an acronym. Now, I'm going to be the first to admit I want to get out front of this...T Y D W T P I T F R. Team you don't want to play in the first round." [25:35 & 26:05]
• Show’s Self-Awareness:
  "When you say it in that voice...that changes things." —Chris [26:32]
• Mike’s Rant Against College Football Playoff Metrics:
  "Guys, this is an assault on the fiber of America... What happens on the field matters. They don't just pass the eye test...they pass the field test." [45:06]

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Segment Timestamps

• [02:28] Disarray in the studio; technical issues and "Shadow Show" recurring bit
• [04:55–13:15] Greg Cody’s Barbie room saga: Messi, exiled fandom, and generational divides
• [13:39–17:59] The Messi phenomenon: cultural impact, MLS business woes, and local legacy
• [24:50–28:34] Miami Heat’s new style; Cody’s "team you don’t want to play" stat and optimism
• [29:41–38:46] Heat’s deep bench, Herro’s fit, and the future of NBA depth/science
• [41:05–45:25] University of Miami playoff outlook, sports culture wars, and college football’s narrative battles

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Tone and Style

Irreverent, zany, Miami-centric, and self-aware. The cast toggles between wild bits, heated sports takes, cultural commentary, and roasts. Family banter and hyperlocal references abound, giving the show its signature flavor.

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For New Listeners:

You’ll walk away knowing:

• The Miami sports scene is both electric and exasperating, especially when technology, family dynamics, and shifting viewer habits clash.
• Messi may be the best in the world, but even he can’t break past the American NFL wall—sometimes not even in his own fans’ homes.
• The Heat’s transition to a speedy, deep lineup has revitalized hope.
• Local sports fandom isn’t just a public experience: it’s shaped by private family rituals, generational gaps, media gaffes, and a steady sense of Miami weirdness.

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Skip the plugs and join the chaos—this episode is a microcosm of Miami and its sports passions, for better or worse.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Mike]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Mike]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Mike]

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[Mike]

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[Chris]

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[Mike]

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[Chris]

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[Chris]

Chris, I'm worried about today's show. There's a lot going on. I believe Zaslow just snorted or cleared his sinuses.

[Zaslow]

Don't make me laugh.

[Chris]

Okay, I think you're sick.

[Zaslow]

I'm not sick.

[Chris]

All right, so I've got. I've got Jeremy. He is dressed in George Harrison's costume as part of his punishment. It's a bit distracting.

[Stu]

My dad's wearing his headphones. Weird.

[Chris]

I've got. Well, your dad. Your dad is mad about everything that happened to him yesterday in his own home.

[Ad Voice]

A home.

[Chris]

He hit 1440.

[Stu]

I wish we were on video right now.

[Mike]

Hey, Greg, are you all right? Honestly, are you okay? Yeah.

[Chris]

We're not on video, right?

[Mike]

That looks like he's tripping balls. Greg, if I told you your dad was tripping balls, you'd be like, that's what it looks like.

[Chris]

Greg, do you know that the Shadow show isn't anything but audio? Like, when you're making faces.

[Stu]

Was that with your hand?

[Chris]

What were you just doing?

[Greg Cody]

Well, first of all, normally it starts off with Shadow Show. Haven't done that in months and stuff like that.

[Chris]

We did do it last week.

[Mike]

Define normally.

[Greg Cody]

I didn't hear that.

[Chris]

All right, so let's. Let's start over here. Chris. Yes, Go. Because the Shadow show is meant to be. As if we don't know we're on air. Shadow Show.

[Greg Cody]

Shadow Show.

[Chris]

Shadow Show.

[Greg Cody]

Shadow Show.

[Chris]

Shadow Show.

[Greg Cody]

Shadow Show.

[Chris]

Shadow Show.

[Greg Cody]

Shadowing it. I'm not hearing anything.

[Mike]

Oh, okay. All right, all right. What's going on here? He's tripping balls, dude.

[Greg Cody]

That's what it is.

[Mike]

He's tripping balls.

[Greg Cody]

I know better.

[Mike]

You know how to turn up your headphones. You can't hear us for real.

[Chris]

You gotta turn up your headphone. You're not.

[Stu]

I actually like this game.

[Chris]

You're not ready for the start of the show. All you've got to do is turn up your headphones. Your headphone knobs are not here.

[Zaslow]

Touching his computer.

[Chris]

It's not on your computer. It. Why? How do you know so little about what we're doing? How do you think the Shadow Show.

[Mike]

Turn up the volume, Dan.

[Chris]

Shadow.

[Greg Cody]

Somebody was sabotaging me. Shadow Show. Seriously? Intentionally downplay.

[Chris]

Explain to people what just happened. As someone who's routinely disgusted by how little Greg Cody knows how to do this.

[Zaslow]

You know, this is the way I love to start the week with Cody just not understanding how to do a radio.

[Chris]

Greg, you were trying to fix your headphones on your computer.

[Greg Cody]

It's true that someone had turned down the volume on my microphone. Why? I have no idea. Could it be sabotage? It's possible. I need to investigate.

[Chris]

He's also mad, Chris. He's also mad because I got Mike. Mike is unhinged, okay? I can't harness the way Mike feels about the University of Miami right now.

[Zaslow]

It's a bad week in Mike.

[Chris]

I can't do a month of this. I can't do a month of this. Well, you're about to, but Greg is enraged at what happened in his living room yesterday because he. He wanted Messi in his living room the best player in the world during a playoff game and he couldn't move his off. Saints, Falcons.

[Greg Cody]

It's. It was so ridiculous that they in the main room with our main TV by habit on a sun late Sunday afternoon they have on Red zone, right? So they're watching all this stuff. I hate red zone because 90% of the time you're watching something that doesn't really matter. You're watching Gino Smith try to evade his 10th sack of the game by Miles Garrett in. In a meaningless game when in on another channel.

[Chris]

Greg, save it.

[Stu]

Let's start the show.

[Chris]

Save it. Just save it. This is the Dan Levator show with the ST podcast. Are you winded from watching yourself do that intro? Are you winded from in here singing to yourself? That's what just happened, isn't it, Zazlow?

[Zaslow]

I think he's winded from celebrating himself.

[Greg Cody]

Well, who knew that pantomiming something lip syncing would be so exerting. But it was what a banger of a song. Yeti Blanc in the house even though he's not in the house, but figured.

[Stu]

You'Re like Jamis yesterday giving a speech. Okay, we outside even though we're inside past the hour.

[Chris]

Jameis was wonderful yesterday. So many wonderful trick or treats with Jameis yesterday. Look, yesterday was spectacular for a number of different reasons. Like over here, Romo's telling you here comes playoffs Mahomes and here comes Mahomes with the single biggest by number deficit comeback in his career because he does this the way Tebow did it. Tebow's the last quarterback to be this good in games like this. At the end of games like this when he's got a deficit of 10 or more in a game. The football of yesterday was great and Greg Cody was trying to watch.

[Mike]

We're all looking around like, did he just compare Patrick Mahomes to Tim Tebow?

[Chris]

Yeah, well, the number was. This is.

[Mike]

I mean, even your own body stopped in its tracks for like five seconds.

[Zaslow]

Like it was a pause.

[Mike]

Did I really? Am I about to compare the greatest quarterback we've ever seen to Tim Tebow?

[Stu]

That pause terrified me.

[Zaslow]

I got confused.

[Greg Cody]

I was trying to. Dan got confused.

[Mike]

That's how bad of a take it was.

[Chris]

I'm going to give you the take. Reese said a different way, but the show's moving too fast. Even though it hasn't started. Mahomes is now 20 and 18 in games where he's trailed by 10 or more points. 2018 for his career. It's the best quarterback record of any kind like that since Tim Tebow, who did it at 5 and 6. Like when. When you're down 10 in games like this, you tend to lose them in the fourth quarter. And that Tebow miracle, people thought he could play quarterback. You're right. You've derailed me.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Chris]

The thing that happened though yesterday as Mahomes is saving his season and Romo's telling you that that guy's coming. Here comes playoff. Mahomes. Greg Cody is unable to get the best real football player in the world on his television, having three assists and a goal as Inter Miami wins after a month wrestling match with many rest days wins the biggest game in its history. And Messi is the greatest player in the world. And Greg Cody could not get it on the big television in his home. He was an outcast in his own home. He couldn't do picture in picture. He had to watch Saints, Falcons.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, well, I had to watch Red Zone, which is worse because it's Saints Falcons times five or six where they're going back and forth between games. I don't care about good games. Yesterday, while the goat of goats, Lionel Messi is absolutely taking the Eastern Conference semifinal on his shoulders. He's saying, I'm 38 years old. I'm still better than you are. I'm still better than anybody. I don't know about you, Mike, but we're three years into Messi now. I still find it hard to believe that Inter Miami was able to sign Lionel Messi and that he still is so great. So I'm trying to watch this on the big screen. Turns out we can't get Apple TV on our big screen for some reason. I have no idea it's above my pay grade. Fire stick. I don't know. Something's going on in my house and.

[Chris]

So you just can't get inputs.

[Mike]

HDMI 2.

[Greg Cody]

We all know it's ridiculous, all these sayings. So I gotta. I gotta relegate myself to the Barbie room to watch Lionel Messi.

[Zaslow]

What's a Barbie room?

[Greg Cody]

It's my granddaughter. It's like a playroom. It's a combination my wife's office and my workout room. Workout room and the bar.

[Stu]

Oh, yeah.

[Greg Cody]

You know, so anyway.

[Zaslow]

So you're just sitting there with a bunch of Barbie dolls around you.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah.

[Chris]

It's a girl's. It's a girl's. A little girl's room. And your workout room.

[Greg Cody]

I have my. My stationary bike in there.

[Chris]

When's the last time that.

[Guest Analyst]

And stationary. Very stationary.

[Greg Cody]

I don't keep.

[Stu]

Was the last time you were on it when we did the Greg Cody show? Like where I walked in the room as if I was interrupting a workout? Just like a pretend workout, just for the video.

[Greg Cody]

Don't be ridiculous.

[Chris]

When was the last time you exercised on the bicycle in the Barbie room?

[Greg Cody]

Oh, let me think. You know, let me think of an exact date. I don't know. I meant to do it over the weekend to make up for the physical therapy session. I had to. Had to skip months ago.

[Chris]

Years ago.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, months ago. Weeks. Weeks sounds better. A couple of weeks. Several days.

[Chris]

What is in that room? Is there a plate? Is there a recliner of any sort? Look, this is the home. This is 1440. How long have you lived in 1440?

[Greg Cody]

Well, it's not literally 1440. It wants to be.

[Mike]

This all makes perfect sense to me.

[Greg Cody]

We've lived there since Christopher was a boy.

[Stu]

At 1440, is his childhood home our house?

[Guest Analyst]

Come on, catch up.

[Greg Cody]

Christopher's childhood home.

[Chris]

My apologies. You've lived in this home for how long?

[Greg Cody]

Since he was a boy? I don't know.

[Stu]

I was 2.

[Chris]

30 years. This is the home. This is the home for Dolphin Sundays across three decades.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Where you watch the game that you want on Sunday afternoon, but now there are too many inputs and you can't get the real America. You can't get the real football. You are stuck with the American football. When Lionel Messi, best player in the world, is when you say you can't get your head around it. What Greg's watching on his television, he covered the Fort Lauderdale strikers 50 years ago. He's like, what is this in Miami? How is it possible that a championship can be won with this player in this town on this team. And I can't even watch it in the big room in my house. I'm in the Barbie room. What's in the Barbie room?

[Greg Cody]

It, you know, a bunch of toys, closet full of shoes, you know, a couch, a desk. Yeah, it's an unremarkable room.

[Zaslow]

Why can't you get some control your house, man. If you want to watch Messi on the big TV instead of sage Falcons.

[Greg Cody]

Well, part of the issue.

[Zaslow]

Get some hand, man.

[Greg Cody]

Part of the issue is that we literally can't get Apple TV on the big tv.

[Stu]

My mom just tells him things.

[Greg Cody]

But the disappointment is that nobody else herded with me into the Barbie room to watch.

[Zaslow]

Was it one of those who's coming with me?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. And they're all watching Red Zone. They're like a bunch of zombies staring at.

[Chris]

So you were lonely in your corner of the house loving soccer as the rest of your family loved a different sport in another room.

[Greg Cody]

Correct.

[Zaslow]

But what's the seating setup in the Barbie room? If it's everybody come with me. I feel like you're sitting on a bed watching.

[Greg Cody]

No, there were. It's a large fold out couch, seats three or four chair seats one.

[Chris]

This sounds lonely. A happy moment in Miami sports history for you. Sounds like it was lonely in your own home.

[Greg Cody]

It was an historic win. First time they've ever been to the East.

[Zaslow]

When Messi scored and they went up one nothing. Did you cheer like loud so maybe others would come and see what's going.

[Guest Analyst]

On in the bar.

[Greg Cody]

Find myself cheering.

[Mike]

Messi's doing it again. If you. If you want to catch it and.

[Greg Cody]

And join me and nobody jumping.

[Mike]

Charlie wouldn't even go in the Barbie room.

[Greg Cody]

No, nobody's coming in because you know Jacoby Brissett is in the red zone. You know, it's like.

[Guest Analyst]

So it's a big game. By the way, did you see Shador Sanders throw that bomb to number 16?

[Greg Cody]

I don't even know who that guy is. I did not.

[Mike]

The new kid just scored Messi with an assist.

[Greg Cody]

The new kid, I call him Leo.

[Mike]

We bench swore it's for the kid. And the kid answered the bell.

[Greg Cody]

How about that, huh?

[Chris]

Did anyone in your home step foot in the Barbie room during the historic real football being played in your lonely corner of the house?

[Greg Cody]

Only when my wife came in to say when are you ready to eat? Because you know the egg noodles are on the boil.

[Mike]

Am I ready to eat? Messi's eating right now. That's his third assist.

[Greg Cody]

Damn right. That guy. Don't quit. 38 years old. A wonderful coaching job by Mashrano.

[Mike]

I mean it is bold to pull out Luis Suarez from that starting lineup and go with the Newell's old boy signing Matteo Silvetti. But that bet has paid off.

[Chris]

What are you laughing about, Tony?

[Mike]

This is great.

[Guest Analyst]

Like they might be making this up and I have no idea because I was locked into Tyler Shuck.

[Mike]

Why were you locked into that? Look, I understand you don't like Darnell.

[Guest Analyst]

Mooney had 3 for 74 to score.

[Mike]

It's not like the. The 4 o' clock hour had anything going on for it. I thought the most compelling story Cowboys Eagles was awesome. That's all right. That was a nice little second screen experience for me. Messi trying to win the biggest game in club history at a team that he lost 3, 02 earlier in the season. That didn't pop you. I don't know what will, Mike.

[Guest Analyst]

Michael Wilson had 10 for 118 his second game in a row with more than six.

[Mike]

He was responsible for all four goals. Tyler Shuck.

[Guest Analyst]

Are you not listening to me?

[Mike]

Scored the first one, got three assists. He's playing his best footy right now.

[Guest Analyst]

Sanders showed him what time it was.

[Zaslow]

I was annoyed yesterday, man, because I actually. I haven't watched intermiming a long time because I told you I was out on your Miami. I don't like that Suarez's behavior.

[Chris]

I don't.

[Zaslow]

I just. They're. They're not a likable team right now. But it was a semifinal.

[Chris]

Wait, what you say right now? Well, they.

[Zaslow]

Ben Suarez yesterday. They bench like that.

[Greg Cody]

Hold them. Hold on.

[Chris]

They're not a likable team right now. Let's call it for what it is. You were out on this team after Suarez spit on somebody because they were representing Miami in a way that you did not like so much. They were overshadowing the best player in the world because Luis Suarez is very publicly exhibits the behavior of an asshole internationally across oceans. Everyone knows this and they took on the person personality of Luis Suarez and.

[Zaslow]

They didn't condemn it either.

[Chris]

Unlikable. Didn't condemn it, didn't punish it. No. That's who we are. We'll spit in your face. We've got Lionel Messi. But this by itself. Yesterday was just Lionel Messi being all the things, the majestic things that he is to bring a signature win to Miami that you're out on because you are watching. Wait, I don't understand. A.J. brown's got 110 yards and catches. Why they lose it?

[Greg Cody]

I mean this was a must win game on the road.

[Mike]

That's how playoffs usually roll. Must win for interview.

[Zaslow]

Okay, but the usually is key here because for some reason the first round is a series and the more important the games get. It's not a series.

[Mike]

I get it. Every game's do or die right now. And it was a road game in a raucous atmosphere in Cincinnati on a day that the Bengals played didn't matter. That crowd was electric and the goat shut them up.

[Greg Cody]

Right? Absolutely. It was magical. And it's always interesting to, to watch and hear an Inter Miami game on the road because there are Messi fans there. Like I'm not saying they. They outnumbered Cincinnati fans but.

[Chris]

But they're everywhere. I mean he is growing the sport. Like look, this has been weirdly. This is weird what I'm about to say. This has been a spectacular success. That isn't because they've done just about everything wrong. But they've gotten the soccer right. Like the way they've sold their sport putting it behind a paywall. They made egregious business errors. But they've best player in the world. Being the best player in the world as major changes are going to come to this business. And the miracle is so Messi's going to get that stadium built in this city next to the airport and he's going to grow the sport in America being better than everyone else still at 38 years old.

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Chris]

But Mike, what I'm.

[Mike]

It's hard to quantify that when their attendance is down and their TV ratings are down and MLS realizes the other ways and the partnership with Apple has an early opt out that Apple has jumped at. This is not worked out the way that MLS planned for. They have decided they're going to do away with MLS season pass. Basically, if you just have Apple Apple TV now you get the mls.

[Zaslow]

Nice.

[Mike]

The paywall was a huge mistake.

[Zaslow]

I didn't get to watch last night.

[Mike]

They're back to 2021 levels of. Of attendance which is not what the sustainable growth model chart was telling us because this was a live event sport. All the buzz from Messi seems to have evaporated and they're playing their most consequential games during the NFL window Playoff games.

[Zaslow]

Mind a paywall is bad.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Mike]

But thankfully they're altering the calendar and it seems as though MLS is going to learn from this. But it's a shame they've kind of wasted the Messi thing.

[Greg Cody]

I agree. I mean the Apple TV thing was a was a huge blunder, but the new stadium is Legacy's or Messi's legacy and they've already set the opening date. It's April 4th, folks.

[Stu]

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[Mike]

I feel like we need to normalize saying the scientific terms for organs on the air. Like if someone. Yes, you know what? If someone takes a foul ball to the penis, we should just say he took a foul ball to the penis. Stugats.

[Greg Cody]

That free kick hit him right in the cock. A doodle doo.

[Chris]

This is the Dan lebatar Show with the Stugats. The new stadium is Megy's. No, it is not.

[Stu]

It's legacy's Messi.

[Chris]

No, in this town, perhaps the new stadium is Messi's legacy. But do you realize what the size of your career has to be for you to birth a stadium near the airport? That's very expensive real estate. Like, you've birthed the possibility of sports getting grand in your market while you were taking the best player in the world and renting him to Fort Lauderdale for a couple of years while telling people, no, we got a billion dollar business down here. Wait, watch. Watch what we can make down here with the real estate. They've made it a success in Miami and that might be his legacy in Miami, but doing what this man has done at this point in his career to grow the sport and having the business betray him behind a paywall because not everyone has known that it's happening to see the best being the best behind a paywall. But then some of your. So many of your fans getting cut out by a line of, we can't keep paying for this. Zaslow is out on Inter Miami early. Mike was in on Inter Miami early and slow. They greeted him out and he's still interested. But the business of it was like, this is no longer affordable to me. Miami is gouging me for Fort Lauderdale games at Miami prices.

[Greg Cody]

Right? No, I can't disagree.

[Chris]

But so the fandom. So the. So. So look at what surrounds Messi as he does the most amazing things behind a paywall. At this age. He's denied the credit of being able to break into your American Football Sunday because, hey, holy shit, Messi's over there and he's scoring the goals in a playoff game. Like that's not a normal thing.

[Stu]

What.

[Chris]

What happened yesterday was one of the biggest international Sports things that has ever happened in Miami.

[Mike]

That's one of the greatest postseason performances in Miami.

[Zaslow]

And I couldn't see.

[Mike]

Well, it's like we talk about LeBron game six, you talk about Sam Reinhart in back to back cup clinching games. What Messi did in the Eastern Conference semifinal is an all time Miami sports postseason performance.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, but he has to do it two more times to get full coverage.

[Chris]

Okay, but hold on before you do that, because. Yes, okay, do it two more times. Fine. It couldn't even make its way into Saints, Falcons, in your living room. This thing that to you as a lifelong sportswriter, when I say it's lonely, it must have felt to you that the other half of your house has no respect for South Florida history.

[Greg Cody]

Well, what it felt like to me is that my house at that moment was a microcosm of America. Really? Because I. Don't.

[Mike]

Don't. Dan's so full of shit. He was watching.

[Zaslow]

What were you watching?

[Mike]

Tyler Schuck, too. Don't let him do this.

[Greg Cody]

Tyler Schuck.

[Mike]

He's trying to make this bigger than it is. I understand. Look, it's the NFL. It's Inter Miami versus Cincinnati. Dan didn't watch a second of that game. Don't let him do it. He's doing the writer thing, wanting to frame it. Put me in the Barbie room. You don't like soccer, I get it. You're not an ally. Get out of here.

[Greg Cody]

But the problem is that's indicative of America at large. The NFL is still way up here and mls, even with Lionel Messi, is down here. Yeah, it used to be.

[Mike]

But it's a shame. It's a shame that you have such a big game in the heart of a, you know. Eagles. Cowboys. But that's the Eastern Conference semi.

[Stu]

What a comeback.

[Mike]

They'll play in the Eastern Conference final. Hopefully after that they'll play in an MLS Cup. And every casual fan understands that Messi has to win the MLS trophy. So he's a couple of games away from doing that right now. And he's playing his best football on the business end of the season.

[Greg Cody]

Right. Especially after what happened, the flame out early in the playoffs last year. But you know, my wife, she loves sports. She knows sports. She could not name who they were playing yesterday. Like she had no idea Inter Miami was in the playoffs. She had no idea where they were playing, whether it was home or away, you know, And I think, was it home or away? That's indicative of mls. Even with Messi, imagine without him. Still has to make inroads that it hasn't made yet into the American sports consciousness at large.

[Chris]

Greg Cody has at his disposal. You know, he is against metrics. He has told you a number of different times. We give you way too much information in sports. Don't tell me how many miles per hour this leaves the ballpark. Don't tell me the pace of speed that the Miami Heat are playing in or how many miles they run.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, how many miles? That's my favorite. He ran 3.8 miles.

[Chris]

Okay, but this game, this is the highest tempo team that there is in the sport. They're going to play faster than everyone else. And Norman Powell is putting up like Giantis. That's my dog. Giannis Antetokounmpo Numbers, terms of efficiencies.

[Greg Cody]

Mvp.

[Chris]

Well, okay, but, but so, so you have come with a metric of your own to, to give the Miami.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Chris]

What is this, what is this statistic you have?

[Greg Cody]

You know, every. Everything has an acronym. Now, I'm going to be the first to admit I want to get out front of this.

[Zaslow]

Go on.

[Greg Cody]

This does not flow mellifluously off the tongue. The acronym is T Y D W T P I T F R. And what that means is team you don't want to play in the first round. Okay? That's what that acronym stands for. Because here's what the Heat are. And I'm not going to be the one just to. Just to make a headline.

[Zaslow]

What's the acronym again?

[Greg Cody]

T Y D W T P I T F R Team you don't want to play in the first round.

[Stu]

Feel like I'm back in the BCS.

[Greg Cody]

And I'm not going to be the guy trying to make a headline by saying, you know what? Nobody's talking about it, but the Heat have a chance to win the championship. I'm not that guy. I am a guy saying they're going to finish in the top four, they're going to have home court in the first round, and you don't want to be the team that plays that.

[Chris]

See, when you say with that voice, see that?

[Guest Analyst]

That changes things.

[Chris]

Wait a minute. Right?

[Guest Analyst]

That changes things.

[Mike]

Because when he said top four, I was like, eh, I don't know about that.

[Guest Analyst]

But then he said the Voice.

[Chris]

And I was like, okay, say it in a more threatening way. Because I do believe the Heater now that I believe it's not too small a sample. When you win at Philadelphia, when you're winning that. That way at Chicago, it's imp. Well, but it. I mean, look, Maxi, scoring 33 a game. If we're going to speed the whole thing up. Okay. If we're going to speed the whole thing up. And all of a sudden the Heat are going to have a young 20 year old who's going to do all the rebounding in where he was a plus 26 yesterday.

[Greg Cody]

He's incredible.

[Chris]

Okay, but so if he's going to grow that fast in front of us to being a rebounding monster, Wembley junior. And on the perimeter, you have a point guard whose assist to turnover ratio is only going to get better with the speed. They're the fastest team in the sport. So they're playing the most fun. They ran like they ran Chicago off the court. And so what you're saying is now in play. Like you got to say with that voice though, you got to say the, the initials like, you do not want to see this team in the first round. None of you. None of, none of you do.

[Mike]

I don't like you saying it. I want the voice.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, listen, it's T, Y, D, W, T, P, I T, F, R team. You don't want to play in the first round. The Miami Heat running like jackrabbits. They're going to be a top four seed. They're going to have home court. This team has never scored like this during the LeBron era. They weren't putting up 140 point games like this regularly. This is an exciting team. If you grew up watching the Heat and you're still looking at those 90s games against the Knicks where two teams are playing in the mud, throwing elbows, the final score was 86, 78. This is the opposite of that. This is the exciting Jet age Miami Heat. It's exciting. I give Riley and Spolster all the credit in the world for flipping the whole script on how you envision Miami Heat basketball. This has been a fantastic season.

[George Harrison Impersonator]

Greg's absolutely right. We're running around at the jackrabbit's pace and running around in the Jet era. You know, the Miami Heat really are one of those teams you don't want to see in the first round.

[Stu]

He's a Beatle.

[George Harrison Impersonator]

Yes. I'm George Harrison. I'm from the Beatles. And you know, Khalil Ware dominating last night on the glass.

[Guest Analyst]

Taser and Taser.

[Greg Cody]

All you need is love, am I right? Stop talking.

[Mike]

This is gonna be a long day. If that's the bit.

[Chris]

Greg is very. Greg is legitimately excited today. He's legitimately excited today because the soccer team locally is exciting and the basketball team is clearly good. Like that's. Maybe they get hurt. I don't know. Maybe Tyler Herro throws something off and all of a sudden people are complaining. Or this is what it's going to be. They're going after the top of the conference with speed. They're going to try and. They're going to try and play basketball faster than you and think their bodies can hold up.

[Zaslow]

Look at the top three of the East. Detroit or top four. Detroit. Toronto. Mix in Cleveland, Miami. Miami, Detroit and Toronto 1 and 2.

[Mike]

You're not worried about heroes screwing this all up?

[Zaslow]

What's the screw up?

[Mike]

This is the perfect screw up.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

This is the perfect.

[Mike]

You just said the standings.

[Zaslow]

This is the perfect style of play.

[Mike]

If he's bought in those.

[Guest Analyst]

As if he's bought in.

[Stu]

Right.

[Mike]

If he doesn't want to be the.

[Guest Analyst]

Ball dominant because he thinks he's the guy walking and being like, I'm the All Star on this team. I'm the guy that is the engine of this offense. And now he's got a mix in with Norm Powell, who's probably the best Heat player we've ever seen through the first 14 games.

[Mike]

I agree with that. He's the greatest Heat player we've ever seen for the first 15 games. You missed that for the first 15 games.

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Chris]

So there are only two players in the sport scoring more than 24 and shooting more than 46% from two and three. It's this guy and Giannis. Giannis does it on 18 threes. He's made half of them. He can't keep it up. This dude's. This dude's shooting better than Duncan Robinson and he'll eat you up inside and out. Like. Like.

[Mike]

All right, why am I worried about Tyler Herro screwing it up? Because over the last couple years, I know he had a decent bubble, but Miami's gone on runs without Tyler Herro.

[Zaslow]

Okay, but you're okay.

[Mike]

But it seems as though Miami plays better without Tyler hero.

[Zaslow]

Okay, that's not the way you prefaced it, though. You preface it with the whole, you know, he's, I'm the All Star. This is my team. As if he's not team first guy. When his entire tenure with the Miami, he has shown you he has absolutely been team first guy.

[Mike]

My. I guess my mistake there is. I thought that that was implied hanging over this whole Tyler hero thing is the Heat seemed to play better without him over the last couple.

[Chris]

Tonight is the third game in four days and he's going to come back against a Dallas team that is in disarray, is broken. And this has the potential. This has the potential to start one of those dumb conversations around a team. Is the team better without its all Star? But but the thing about the Heat is they're top five defensively. When bam plays they will not be that with Tyler Herro. What they did, they choked out Bulls. They said Bulls. You want to play at that pace? Okay, we'll score the 140.

[Stu]

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[Chris]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Chris]

That's shocking, Stu.

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[Chris]

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[Mike]

Yeah.

[Chris]

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[Zaslow]

Show with the stage. That's most confusing to me is what their starting group is going to wind up looking like because I like, I, I don't know how Eric sp is going to handle that. I, I can only see it being that Davion Mitchell is going to move to the bench, which it's like, man, he's really good for them on the ball and he never turns the ball over.

[Chris]

His assist to turnover rate is great.

[Zaslow]

It's the best in the league.

[Chris]

They're playing at a pace that doesn't make sense. Like you can't bench that dude.

[Zaslow]

They're going to, to like. It's the only guy you could take out of the lineup for here. You can't take Wiggins out because, like you can't have a, A three.

[Guest Analyst]

You need size.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

You can't have Smith, Mitchell, Powell and Hero. Okay, you're starting out.

[Mike]

You're highlighting real concerns with this Hero thing.

[Zaslow]

Well, I'm highlighting concerns as far as what the group is going to be out there together.

[Guest Analyst]

I think the other thing too is this offense is so fast paced that you need to be able to, to have the minutes spread out. So maybe a guy isn't playing 40 minutes a game, but you've got a couple guys playing 30, a couple guys playing 20, something like. I think that's where that rotation.

[Chris]

But guys, if consider the science of this, like the science of it on what the heat endured in an offseason where? Get the guy. Get the guy. Get Durant, get the guy. If what you're trying to do is that you've already figured out in the science of this. Oh, this speed is busting everybody in this sport. Every physical body in the sport except okc, because they're really young. But that might happen to homegrown. Seems like a lot to put on the joints and the ligaments and stuff. They'll go 10d. Bam. Was out and they survived it. Hero was out and they've survived it.

[Greg Cody]

It.

[Chris]

Because they can go 10 deep at this pace. Like, it's not. And it's not six or seven players anymore. So you want to play 10. All right, here are our 10. And we've got some young ones now. Like, that's. That's future of the sports stuff, how you compete at the top of the Eastern Conference. As the Knicks break because Brunson breaks down, you wait for the Pistons. Is Kate Cunningham. Is he going to hold up under all of that? They're good. They're clearly good.

[Guest Analyst]

Very good.

[Chris]

Giannis is out again. Because is his body. Is his body going to hold up, up? Like, that's interesting to go into the playoffs in a new, new NBA where everyone's hurt and say, our science will be better than yours will go 11 deep.

[Greg Cody]

Well, the. The depth is. Is crazy. If you look at the box score now, just about every game, they have eight or nine players playing 20 minutes, 25 minutes. And. And that's what you want to trust Eric Spoels with, right? That kind of depth spread out to increase that kind of pace of play, to maintain that kind of pace of play is exactly the formula. And I don't know about 10 or 11, but they. When Hero comes back, they absolutely have nine players that they want to give minutes to.

[Chris]

And that's a luxury you can't in today's NBA. If I don't make it about the uniforms or the names or the All Stars or the credentials, in today's NBA Jazz, if I tell you you're playing at the fastest rate of speed in the league and your point guard has the best assist turnover ratio, he doesn't turn the ball over, and he's a great defender on the perimeter, you don't want to bench that.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Zaslow]

And overall, they're one of the best teams in the league. I mean, they're top four defensive rating.

[Greg Cody]

Well.

[George Harrison Impersonator]

And if we're trying to figure out the starting lineup, Greg's absolutely right. The team's really deep. We can move Pele Larson to the bench. Although he's been a great connector like Ringo Starr was for us with the beats.

[Greg Cody]

All right.

[Mike]

Warming up to it. As long as it's that efficient.

[Guest Analyst]

You think he's right, Greg, or what?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I do. I, I think Ringo was the, the unspoken beetle, the one everybody ignored about.

[Chris]

The, about the basketball point.

[George Harrison Impersonator]

I'm George.

[Zaslow]

Yeah, he's George.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. No, no, I wanted to substantiate what George was saying about Ringo's place in the Beatles, but Pell Larson. Yeah, I mean he's, he's, I don't think he's, he's more than sixth or seventh on the depth chart under any math.

[Zaslow]

Do you believe that story they told last night on the broadcast about Pella Larson and Dan Marley?

[Mike]

I don't watch the broadcast.

[Zaslow]

Was I the only one who thought that that was a little, you know, a little too coincidental for those that didn't watch.

[Mike]

Why don't you let them know what happened?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, so.

[Zaslow]

So Pella Larson's father, apparently his favorite player was Dan Marley.

[Stu]

Thunder.

[Zaslow]

Hard to believe for all those years. Well, no, that's not necessarily hard to believe.

[Chris]

Believe.

[Zaslow]

But then Pella Larson gets to the NBA, gets the Heat, and the father and Pell Larson realize, wow, you're wearing number nine. That was also Dan Marley's number. And it's like this big coincidence. I don't know, I found a little hard to believe.

[Chris]

So wait, are you calling the Heat fishy? You're calling them a propaganda program? You calling Jason Jackson and his friend somebody that makes up stuff in order to get ratings? Look, what's it, what are you saying there? Are you saying they're putting this. What, what is the accusation? You'. You're a journalist now hold on a second, let me see here. If you're going to do this, do it correctly. You're a journalist now. Like, time to throw away the journalistic credibility and get reckless.

[Greg Cody]

Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

[Chris]

I'm good.

[Zaslow]

I'm just saying it's a great story. All right. I mean, if Pelors its father's favorite player is Dan Marley, A, he doesn't know his favorite players number and B, it's a huge coincidence that he then realized, oh wow, my son is wearing the same number as my favorite.

[Chris]

You're saying it's a made up story is what you're. You're accusing the heat of propaganda fake news.

[Zaslow]

And by the way, and by the way, my son plays a lot similar to my favorite player.

[Chris]

So that's what you're doing my favorite.

[Greg Cody]

Part of that whole story is you saying that they're telling that story to boost ratings as if the ratings are skyrocketing by a Pella Larson Dan Marley anecdote.

[Chris]

Well, if it's a lie, if it's a fabrication, if it's being accused by Zaslo of being a little too conveniently syrup good story. Like come on. It's a no. He's saying it's a good story but he's accusing them of not being true. Like being a propaganda clear about what you're saying. Zazzle. Make the. Make it with your chest that accusation.

[Zaslow]

That guy was number 23. My favorite player was Michael Jordan. Can you believe my son wears the same number? Oh my God.

[Greg Cody]

Oh my God.

[Zaslow]

It's a good story.

[Chris]

The University of Miami this weekend Buzz saw it on the road. Virginia tech won easily 34 17. And it's just total chaos in college football. You can't tell who's good. Ohio State hasn't played anybody. You saw what happened to Texas A and M. We all think Indiana's good, but anybody can win and Miami's got a team that can play with anybody. Everybody can see that much. And so the question of whether or not they will be denied the playoffs because some things had to happen this week and did happen for them and they're in a good position if they beat Pittsburgh.

[Mike]

I mean, had to happen to them for them in the ACC. But the top 10 in the AP had its most dominant week in several years. Utah even survived though. I think. I think enough happened this weekend for Miami to leap over Utah because Utah's resume compared to Miami is so flimsy. It looks like SMU should enter the rankings again and Pitt should probably re enter the rankings as well. That gives Miami an opportunity to play a ranked team. But if you watch the broadcast, I know a lot of people had a problem with it. It wasn't a compelling Saturday Miami. The framing of this narrative. I saw it on espn. Miami survives a scarecrow. That game was never in doubt. They Never dipped below 92% win probability in the entire game. A bunch of funny things happen in that game. Bad replays, bad first down calls, improbable plays being made by Virginia Tech that prevented that game from.

[Zaslow]

Was there cheating?

[Mike]

Oh, it was the ACC reps. You know, there was cheating, but it was pretty bad both ways. That was a really bad crew. But Miami probably had the most compelling game in that window and. And it fed this narrative. Bob Washoesen, who's Been called chuckle fuck on social media.

[Chris]

Oh, no. They hit Bob with the chuckle fuck.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Chris]

No, Bob's a South Florida legend.

[Mike]

They call it Bob Wishooz and Chucklefuck. He and Lou Riddick just kept. It was a horrible way to watch a game because the entire time is at any point in my lifetime. Miami performing that well in Blacksburg is a hell of a performance. But this thing was framed from the jump that Miami has to win this game by four and then Lou Riddick after the games, like, head to head is all that matters. Well, it would have been nice to hear that on the broadcast. It would have been nice to frame that narrative during the broadcast. But instead I'm out here feeling like a failure because Miami isn't winning this game by 50 points. It's bullshit. And the fact that Miami is directly compared to Notre Dame outside of all the other teams is bullshit. If you're not going to take what happened on the field as a primary metric, we are losing. We are losing touch with our great traditional American football values here. What happens on the field matters. They don't just pass the eye test. As Miami is playing their most dominant football with the hottest quarterback in the nation in November, they pass the field test.

[Greg Cody]

Greg Cody and Mario Crispal said exactly that in his postgame. He tried to couch it a little bit, but he basically said, everybody talks about the eye test. What about the field test? And he didn't bring up the head to head win over Notre Dame, but it's out there for everybody to see except, apparently, the College Football Playoff voters.

[Mike]

Guys, this is a culture war. What is happening right now with the computers having so much say in all these acronyms and having a group of five team inexplicably join this playoff. Let me tell you something, group of five. It's dei. It's dei. Let's call it for what it is. Call it for what it is. This is absolutely a culture war happening right now. When computers are trying to tell you that Notre Dame is better. Who's Notre Dame beating? Notre Dame's best win win is against a stinky USC team that's Notre Dame's best one. Wow, they look so dominant since they lost to Texas A and M. They're.

[Chris]

Playing garbage 70 to 7. Against Syracuse, they're playing garbage.

[Stu]

I will say, though, I tuned into that Miami game late in the. In the fourth quarter, only up 10. I did say to myself, I'm like.

[Mike]

Ooh, you didn't have to say to yourself for the chuckle. Fuck was telling you what to think.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just for the optics, I was like.

[Stu]

Oh, I feel like they needed.

[Mike]

Yes.

[Stu]

And then.

[Chris]

Which is bullshit.

[Mike]

They beat Notre Dame. All right, stop with the computers. The computers only matter. This is. Guys, this is an assault on the fiber of America. This is not good. Are you seeing this? You should be scared. And your children should be scared, too. Minor penalty, Two minutes. Personal foul.

[Chris]

Personal and foul. Wow.

[Mike]

Who's gonna take this one off the chin?

[Zaslow]

It's time to fight.

[Mike]

It's time to fight, Mike.

[Chris]

Virginia Tech was able to run the ball against Miami, me, and big time.

[Stu]

To almost 200 yards.

[Chris]

And. And that.

[Mike]

Don't do the thing where you kick me out and I can't defend this. You're part of the enemy.

[Chris]

You're out. You're out. You're. You have to leave the room and you have to go away for a minute and gather yourself, because my guy was spitting. I. I want to talk about the actual game. Whether Pringle is better for what they do than Fletcher.

[Stu]

Can we whisper while Mike's out of the room for a second?

[Greg Cody]

Second.

[Stu]

The way he's acting about all this is kind of make me want Miami to bubble.

[Chris]

Wow.

[Stu]

I kind of want them to come.

[Greg Cody]

In 13th and they're headed there just.

[Stu]

To see Mike lose his mind.

[Zaslow]

You want them to be first team out.

[Mike]

Monitor is out there, pal.

[Greg Cody]

They are headed there.

[Mike]

Pick a side.

[Chris]

Now. Stay. Stay strong, guys.

[Stu]

I think it's best for content if we just bubble. If they become the face of the bubble.

[Mike]

No, no, no, no, no. We can't. We're three weeks into this. Miami is doing their part. They needed to see more consistency. You can't get more consistent than this, guys. This is bad. You should be scared.

[Chris]

They didn't cover only up 10.

[Stu]

Bad Virginia Tech team. Bad Virginia Tech team.

[Chris]

You know, when you're favored by 17 and a half, you can't win by 17.

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[Chris]

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[Mike]

What are you doing here?

[Chris]

Cuervo? Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Mike]

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[Chris]

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[Mike]

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[Chris]

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[Mike]

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[Mike]

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[Mike]

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