The Big Suey: Hockey Player or Prescription

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: The Big Suey: Hockey Player or Prescription

Date: February 26, 2026

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Episode Overview

Recording live from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and their cadre of regular contributors blend sports chatter with signature humor and cultural banter. This "Big Suey" episode is anchored by a playful new trivia game ("Hockey Player or Prescription"), shoe mishaps, creative team names in sports, and a discussion of the immense pressure in Canadian hockey markets. The hosts’ relaxed, improvisational style and rapid-fire exchanges are on full display.

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Key Discussion Points

1. The LeBron/Bronny Shoe Mishap

[03:14–08:30]

• Mike Ryan’s Sneaker Fiasco:
  Mike describes ordering a pair of limited-edition LeBron sneakers through the secondary market app, Goat, only to discover each shoe is a different color—one a LeBron and the other a Bronny James model.

  • Mike Ryan: "One shoe is gold and black and white and perfect...The other shoe is purple and black...I’m 40 years old. I cannot pull off this look." (04:35)
  • Frustration about aging out of sneaker culture and feeling "washed" ensues.
  • Amin Elhassan: Jokes the packaging is akin to “hiding a pork barrel rider” in Congress (05:22).
  • The group riffs on possible ways to salvage or trade the mismatched shoes.

• Orthopedic Shoe Conversation:
  Dave talks about resorting to unhip orthopedic shoes due to flat feet and plantar fasciitis.

  • Dave: "I don’t like wearing my orthos because...they look like orthos and B, I feel like an old man" (09:03)
  • Chris Cote: Suggests inventing "cool-looking orthos" (09:49)
  • The group humorously debates velcro, slip-ons, maximum grip soles, and confesses to owning “oofos” (orthopedic slides/shoes).

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2. Segment: "Hockey Player or Prescription"

[13:23–18:35]

• Premise: Chris Cote hosts a quiz where participants must guess if a given name belongs to an NHL player or a prescription drug. The names cleverly mimic the linguistic style of both categories, exposing their similarities.

• Examples:

  • "Brukinza": Is it an NHL grinder or lymphoma medication?
    • Amin Elhassan: "Brukinza is a hockey player." (15:05)—Incorrect.
  • "Anzubko": Is it a speedy defenseman or hand eczema treatment?
    • Mike Ryan: Correctly guesses it’s medication.
  • "Van Robies": Player or esophagitis medication?
    • Dave: "The fact that you’re having trouble pronouncing it makes me believe that it’s a medication." (17:20)—Incorrect.

• Memorable Quotes:

  • Chris Cote: "It’s hard to distinguish... whether I’m talking about an NHL player or a prescription drug." (14:33)
  • Chris Cote: "I want to do... a Oscars award style award of the greatest prescription drug jingle out there, because there are a lot of them." (18:17)
  • Several name puns and an extended riff about the proliferation of eczema commercials.

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3. Canadian Hockey Pressure & Media Scrutiny

[20:00–24:37]

• Connor McDavid’s Challenge:
  The show discusses a pointed media question about McDavid’s lack of a Stanley Cup, sparking a debate about expectations for Canadian hockey stars.

  • Reporter’s Question: “Stanley Cups found Gretzky and Crosby...Did you think it would be this hard?” (20:24)
  • Hosts note it’s the “nicest possible way to ask” about a legacy gap.
  • Chris Cote: "That is the whole point...He hasn’t won. So that is why he is out of that conversation at this point.” (21:21)

• Media Intensity in Canada:
  Hosts cite the Toronto Star’s harsh headlines on Auston Matthews, and Sarah Sivian is mentioned as a future guest to further the conversation.

  • Mike Ryan: "The pressure is immense. The media coverage there is very intense. It’s like New York City media." (23:05)
  • Discussions about national pride, cross-border rivalries, and potential player backlash after the Olympics.

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4. Game: "Same Nickname, Different Teams"

[25:27–28:18]

• The group plays a trivia game trying to name North American pro sports teams who share nicknames across leagues (e.g., Jets, Panthers, Cardinals, Giants, Kings, Rangers).
  • Mike Ryan: "It’s the same name, but two different sports." (26:54)
  • The challenge sparks playful confusion among the hosts.

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5. What’s Left? The 'Cool' Team Names Crisis

[30:21–41:26]

• Amin Elhassan: Asserts that there are "no more cool names" available for pro sports teams—everything’s been taken or copyrighted (30:35).

  • Minor league baseball gets a pass for playful names, but Amin wants names fit for national marketing and seriousness.

• Group Riff:
  They deride single/plural noun names (e.g., Mammoth/Mammoths), revive the "Washington Bullets" story, and unearth bizarre historic names (e.g., Brooklyn Bridegrooms).

  • Chris Cote: "Any team whose name doesn’t end in S...it’s basically a tie at the bottom." (34:16)
  • "Predators" is labeled the laziest name: “Let’s just get out. Predators it is.” (34:53)
  • Miami Heat and Utah Jazz get special derision for awkwardness.
    • Dan Le Batard: "Jazz is the worst for me. That’s the goat of bad ones for me." (35:50)
    • Amin Elhassan: Explains locally the St. Louis Blues are called “the notes” (36:02)

• Naming After Local Features or Animals:
  The group debates the unfamiliarity or irrelevance of names like Lakers/Clippers, and proposes more locally appropriate or creative options.

  • Chris Cote: "Clippers...should have just...rebranded as Hollywood Knights...or Rhinos." (37:35)
  • On the Oklahoma City Thunder: "Twisters" was suggested but rejected as too sensitive (38:29).

• Hurricane/Storm Names as Teams:
  Tangent into meteorological storm names and the missed opportunity to use football player names for added fun (39:36).

• Amin’s Final Pitch:
  He suggests the last good name still available: “Mako Sharks…Miami Makos." (40:25)

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Notable Quotes & Funniest Moments

• Mike Ryan on shoe mix-ups:
  “I got got big time.” (05:55)
• Chris Cote on medical naming games:
  “I get it right here too. Look at us, we park our car in the same garage… I don’t like that garage though.” (16:16)
• Chris Cote on lazy team names:
  "Let’s come up with a fearsome beast...It’s 4:59 on Friday. Let’s just get out. Predators it is." (34:53)
• Amin Elhassan on jazz/jazzman:
  "If I play for the Jazz, I’m a—you’re a jazz player, a jazzman. That’s the...literally what?" (35:33)
• Dan Le Batard (jokingly):
  "Jazz is the worst for me. That’s the goat of bad ones for me." (35:50)
• Chris Cote on the redundancy of “Wild” (Minnesota’s NHL Team):
  "The Minnesota Outsides is a terrible name." (41:28)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:14–08:30] – Mike Ryan’s LeBron/Bronny shoe mix-up & orthopedic shoe banter
• [13:23–18:35] – "Hockey Player or Prescription" trivia game
• [20:00–24:37] – Connor McDavid’s quest for the Cup & Canadian media pressure
• [25:27–28:18] – Same Nickname game (teams across leagues)
• [30:21–41:26] – Crisis of cool (and uncool) team names; heated naming debate

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Tone & Style

The episode is full of loose, witty, and at times, self-deprecating humor. Segment transitions are sharp, and the group’s chemistry gives listeners the feel of being in the room for a freewheeling sports-and-pop-culture conversation. No topic is too trivial to escalate into big riffs or silly games, and their lampooning of team names and pharmaceutical ads is textbook Le Batard Show energy.

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For New Listeners

This episode is quintessential Le Batard: digressions, running jokes, group games, insight into sports fandom and culture, and a constant blur between earnest debate and comic absurdity. The “Hockey Player or Prescription” segment is a highlight—demonstrating the show’s inventive approach to commonplace sports talk. The extended naming debate, meanwhile, offers both laughs and legitimate musings on branding in sports.

If you love sports, language puzzles, and a self-aware, irreverent approach to both, this episode is essential.

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Transcript

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[Dave]

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[Amin Elhassan]

Why are you listening to this show?

[Dave]

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[Amin Elhassan]

the other Dan LeBatard podcast? I'm sorry.

[Dave]

I'm not gonna apologize for that.

[Amin Elhassan]

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?

[Mike Ryan]

I've done it.

[Dave]

And now here's the marching man to

[Amin Elhassan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Dave]

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[Amin Elhassan]

You a sucker's ass.

[Dave]

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[Chris Cote]

That's not it.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, of course it's not that. You know, that he says things, but

[Dave]

I have a different mindset when I'm sitting in this chair.

[Mike Ryan]

Why don't you look at him? Two left feet.

[Amin Elhassan]

Take that hat off. Maybe that'll help.

[Chris Cote]

By the way. Yeah, that's right. Colin Cowherd would admonish you for wearing your hat backwards. Zasla, where are you going in this world with that look?

[Dave]

I don't know, I feel like I'm moving up. I'm doing all right with backwards.

[Mike Ryan]

It has been working out for him.

[Dave]

Yeah, I think it's going okay. I did Samson. So speaking of, of left feet, I saw Mike Ryan complaining about shoes that he bought that have made you feel old.

[Mike Ryan]

Super.

[Dave]

And this is interesting to me because I want you to tell me about it, but I think I'm going to be able to relate.

[Amin Elhassan]

Are they Hokas?

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, no, no. Not actual. Like orthos. So occasionally I'll go on an app where you can get some shoes. I don't, I don't do like the, the sneakers app draws anymore because you never get anywhere. It's basically everything secondary market. It's a lot like getting concert tickets. You're not getting these things once they go on sale.

[Dan Le Batard]

You.

[Mike Ryan]

You gotta do secondary market. So I. There was this pair of LeBrons that I saw on the app that I'm like, wow, these, they're doing the Forever King. It's like a career retrospective series. And there was this shoe of a new of LeBron's and I'm like, wow, it's gold. It kind of looks like the Js that you can wear to formal events. So I just see the one shoe. I'm like, let me get this. And then there's this huge box that gets delivered to my house. Massive. I'm like, what the hell is this? And it was from the app store. It's Goat.

[Dave]

Whatever.

[Mike Ryan]

So I don't know what I'm doing. Like, I did like, anybody that wants to be a shoe, we got shoe. Secondary shoes. Come on over. I'll shop on your place. So I open this box from Goat and it's massive. I'm like, okay, these are the LeBron shoes. It's like a casket sized box. I'm opening it up. I'm like, I didn't know that I would not have bought this particular shoe size box.

[Chris Cote]

It's huge.

[Mike Ryan]

I would not have done this. It took me forever to open. I would not have done this. Had I known that this was like the presentation of this, this bo. But whatever. Takes me like 10 minutes to finally get to the part where I see the shoes and I open the shoes up. I'm like, huh? Did they screw this up? Because one shoe is gold and black and white and perfect. And the shoe that I looked there, looked at on the app and decided to buy. And the other shoe is purple and black. They're two different color shoes.

[Dave]

So you have Laker shoes.

[Mike Ryan]

I I'm 40 years old. I cannot pull off this look. At least I don't think one of the shoes is a LeBron shoe that says Chosen One. The other shoe is a Bronny James shoe. The one who chose, I didn't like whatever they like. I can't read this, but yeah, it's a Bronny James shoe that's entirely the different color. And I have one standalone shoe, and I'm hoping that they kind of switch it up. Maybe there's a set out there where the left shoe is just the black and gold one that I wanted, but the entire thing, from the box to the two different color shoes, to me being confused about, made me feel really old. And someone that could not pull off wearing two different color shoes.

[Amin Elhassan]

Wow, man. Let me tell you something. That is the old, like, people in Congress know about this. You want to get something, you hide a pork barrel, a rider on that shit and say, oh, put it. Oh, so you're against children being saved, and meanwhile, you've got your rider in there. That's just, hey, let me get $100 million for this. Or whatever. That's what just happened to you. They slipped the Bronny James shoe in there because, like, hey, look, Bronnie sold a million pair, right? Because everyone bought the LeBron shoe, man. I'm sorry for you because you got got.

[Mike Ryan]

I got got big time.

[Dave]

Well, what are you gonna do?

[Mike Ryan]

I have to eat it.

[Dave]

No, I mean, are you gonna wear it?

[Amin Elhassan]

Hell, no.

[Mike Ryan]

How can I wear it, dude? I don't need that in my life. You can't return on goat either. So that's. No, she's gotta eat it. No, I'm not gonna be that guy either. I just gotta eat it or hope or.

[Dave]

Does anyone want these?

[Mike Ryan]

That has a left.

[Amin Elhassan]

Not even does anyone want these? Or you do unto them what was done unto you because you can throw them back on goat as a seller, mint condition. Never been warned. And just keep pictures of the LeBron shoe and not the Bronnie shoe.

[Mike Ryan]

I didn't even know Bronny had shoes.

[Amin Elhassan]

Exactly.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, he doesn't even have shoes.

[Chris Cote]

He has shoe.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, shoe.

[Dave]

Can you. Can you order which one you want to be the left and which one you want to be the right?

[Mike Ryan]

I'm hoping, but I'm too. Obviously, I'm ancient now, so I don't even know how to figure this out. But if anybody has the left LeBron shoe, come at me. That's the one right there.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's that.

[Mike Ryan]

You have it on your so I'm watching on Stockx, and they actually have the purple one in front of the golden, so you can't even see the golden. So if you're in the market for a purple shoe, you're like, oh, I love this one. But then you look at the gold shoe, and you're like, oh, wait a second. I only saw the gold shoe. The gold shoe looks great.

[Amin Elhassan]

Mike sounds so old.

[Chris Cote]

Excuse me, does anyone have the missing pair?

[Amin Elhassan]

What I'm searching for.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm conceding that. I know I sound washed. It washed over me right then and there. Like, you're too old for the kick game.

[Amin Elhassan]

Let me get my.

[Chris Cote]

But if we can make lemonade out of the lemon here. What you would like to do is find a trading partner, right? You would like for somebody to set. You'll send off the purple one in exchange for the gold one that you lack.

[Mike Ryan]

But I mean, I doubt.

[Chris Cote]

Right shoes.

[Dave]

Yeah, that's why I'm asking. Can you pick left or right?

[Amin Elhassan]

Hold on.

[Chris Cote]

Oh, they're all right. That makes sense.

[Amin Elhassan]

Let's just assume you could. Who's the guy that says, hell yeah, send me the Brawny shoe? I want two Bronny shoes. You can have them hold LeBron's. Who's that guy?

[Mike Ryan]

I saw the Brawny shoe. I'm like, this is basically big baller brand. What is this? It just tanked the value of this. Not only would I have not at all been interested, I would have made fun of it on the Internet. I had no idea he had a shoe.

[Dave]

So that's what it means when they say that Bronny has sold X amount of units, right?

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, yes. He.

[Chris Cote]

He.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a. It's coupled with a LeBron shoe, but a singular LeBron shoe of a different color.

[Amin Elhassan]

How many others are there? Like you?

[Mike Ryan]

I got to imagine there's a lot of dads out there that are like, all right, let me fire this up. LeBron's been playing basically my entire adult life. I like this forever king thing. He has good shoes. Occasionally. I'm in on this.

[Amin Elhassan]

You know who'd never do something like this? Michael Jordan. That's my goat.

[Dave]

Every time we go somewhere on vacation. Like, recently, my wife and I, we went to Vegas a couple of weeks ago, and we get to where we're going, and one of the days, we did a day trip to the Grand Canyon. You know, it was cool. Grand Canyon. All right, whatever. But there's a lot of. There's a lot of walking going on, and when we get there, when we get to Vegas, my wife always says, did you pack your orthos?

[Mike Ryan]

What'd you say?

[Dave]

Cause I have, I have orthos. And I say no because they always make me feel really old. I have orthos for when we're doing long walks or, you know, on vacation, stuff like that. Because I'm flat condition. I'm flat footed. I'm flat footed and not gonna get drafted and any. That's a positive. That was a positive. Yeah, not gonna get drafted. But when we do long walks and it doesn't have to be a long walk when we're on vacation, it becomes very painful for me and I develop plantar fasciitis and I don't like wearing my orthos because A, they look like orthos and B, I feel like an old man and there's nothing I could do.

[Chris Cote]

You have cool orthos at least.

[Dave]

There's no cool orthos. No, they're not cool looking at all. And I feel like an old man.

[Chris Cote]

Well, I think you've just, just landed on something that we should put our heads together and figure out. Cool looking orthos.

[Amin Elhassan]

Insoles, right? Like, insoles help.

[Dave]

I mean, you can't do insoles. I try. Like, does it help? Maybe, like, what would it feel like if I didn't have the insoles? But it still hurts.

[Chris Cote]

What are they? Are they like, just. Are they like off beige kind of your orthos?

[Dave]

Like, they're. They're like gray. They're like a light gray.

[Amin Elhassan]

Velcro straps.

[Mike Ryan]

No asking slip ons?

[Chris Cote]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

You have maximum stick on the bottom so you can like, really grip. My grandma has us.

[Dave]

I. I'm not in jeopardy of falling down, right?

[Mike Ryan]

Because usually they're two for one, right? Like, you get the Velcro, but max stick on the bottom with the orthopedic. That's the three for one.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's the shoe.

[Dave]

Makes me feel old, man.

[Mike Ryan]

You got those oofos.

[Amin Elhassan]

Oh, I got those oofos.

[Mike Ryan]

They, they came out with like a shoe.

[Amin Elhassan]

I know. I gave one of my dad.

[Mike Ryan]

The shoe is very comfy. All right. I. I wore it. I've only worn them once. I worn them to like a, a rock music festival, which was a much older crowd, so no one can make fun of them, but they, you know, it's not aesthetic. What are you laughing? They're also military green.

[Amin Elhassan]

I got, I got the shoes. They used to be a sponsor, so I got the shoes and the slides. I kept the slides for myself.

[Mike Ryan]

The slides are amazing.

[Amin Elhassan]

Slides are amazing. They're very comfortable. But I gave the shoes to my dad because I know he doesn't care.

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[Dave]

Don Lebatard.

[Mike Ryan]

We're gonna win. Stugats. We're gonna win. They're annoying.

[Dan Le Batard]

What an old reference.

[Dave]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. Dave, I hear we have a brand new game that we are going to play here, and it is called Hockey Player or prescription.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, Old news. That NHL players of this millennium owed to the fact that it is, in fact a global sport now. You have those. Those Scandinavian names added. Added to the great names of Canadians. You have the Russians and. And so on. Also, everybody's aware of the prescription drug ads that are ubiquitous in our lives thanks to watching sports.

[Dave]

A lot of blood in your stool.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. All that kind of talk. So let's see how good we are collectively here. I'll go one by one here, and I'll start with you, Amin. You'll see it's hard to distinguish when I put them into context here, whether I'm talking about an NHL player or a prescription drug. Here we go, Amin.

[Amin Elhassan]

I'm really good at these games.

[Chris Cote]

Okay, Brukinza. Let me put that into a sentence for you.

[Amin Elhassan]

Spell it.

[Chris Cote]

Senators oft penalized. Grinder Darius Brukinza or lymphoma treatment. Brukinza.

[Amin Elhassan]

Can you spell it or no?

[Chris Cote]

I'm not spelling anything for you.

[Mike Ryan]

Come on.

[Amin Elhassan]

Country of origin.

[Chris Cote]

Let's go.

[Amin Elhassan]

I'm gonna go. I'm gonna. Brukinza. Brukinza is a hockey player.

[Chris Cote]

Damn.

[Mike Ryan]

He said Darius.

[Dan Le Batard]

Darius is what they're doing.

[Dave]

Oh, he said Darius.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. You're not listening.

[Amin Elhassan]

I wasn't listening.

[Chris Cote]

The Darius threw you off.

[Mike Ryan]

There's white Dariuses, especially in hockey, Especially from Eastern Europe.

[Amin Elhassan]

Remember Darius and Gala.

[Chris Cote]

Darius Casperitis was the inspiration here. Let's try another one real quick. Mike Ryan and Zubgo and Zupco. Maple leaf. Small but small. Speedy defenseman Yossi and Zubko. Or chronic hand eczema treatment and Zubko.

[Dave]

You know about that eczema.

[Mike Ryan]

I know you do, Zaz. I'm gonna go with. Whoa. I'm gonna go with eczema.

[Chris Cote]

Do I look like I have eczema and eczema?

[Mike Ryan]

Yes. Not today. But when I saw you earlier this

[Dave]

week, I didn't know eczema carries a look.

[Mike Ryan]

It does. Famously.

[Amin Elhassan]

Soda drinking, too.

[Mike Ryan]

It's either that or rosacea.

[Chris Cote]

That's what I've learned from the last decade's worth of commercials. And is that eczema is society's greatest plague. It's the greatest issue out there. I didn't know that everybody. Or so Many people were struggling with it that it. That were required to have 78 different medications available. Oh, yeah. No sufferers of the eczema get it

[Mike Ryan]

on the eyebrows occasionally.

[Chris Cote]

I get it right here too.

[Mike Ryan]

Look at us. We park our car in the same garage.

[Chris Cote]

I don't like that garage, though. Keep me out of that garage. So wait, did you give an answer?

[Mike Ryan]

No. We got into it with Zaza's rosacea slash eczema. I think it's a. I think it's medication.

[Chris Cote]

Let's see if you're right there. And zoop. Go. And zoom. Go Is in fact, the medication. Rub it on your. On your eyebrow there, Mike Ryan. Or your terrible sneakers.

[Dave]

Can we do one more here?

[Chris Cote]

You want to do another one? Would you like to play yourself, Zaz? Here we go. Van Robies. Van Robey.

[Amin Elhassan]

Get the easy one.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, so far, Dave has stumped everybody. Well, you.

[Chris Cote]

I'm going with it. I'm being told by. By the fellows behind the glass. Louis is saying we don't have that. I'm going with it anyway.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, whatever.

[Chris Cote]

Come on, Van Rubies. I'm sorry. Van Rubies. Shark centerman Lucas Van Rubies or esophagitis treatment. Van Robies. Van Robies.

[Dave]

You're pronouncing it too.

[Mike Ryan]

Van Rubies.

[Chris Cote]

Van Rubies.

[Dave]

All right. The fact that you're having trouble pronouncing it makes me believe that it's a medication, so I'm gonna go medication.

[Chris Cote]

You are wrong. He's a hockey player. He is an actual center iceman for the San Jose Shark. Like, right now, I'm saving some. I'm saving some for later.

[Amin Elhassan]

If you watch hockey.

[Mike Ryan]

It's killing folks.

[Dave]

Good game.

[Mike Ryan]

Fourth liner.

[Chris Cote]

I'll be honest with you. I don't think he's played a great deal. That's part of the secret. I really couldn't go kachuk, could I? I mean, I think that would be a celebrini.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's a medication.

[Mike Ryan]

Celebrity sounds like an antidepressant.

[Chris Cote]

If you didn't just watch the Olympics, celebrity would be the most hockey player, actual name that sounds like a medication ever.

[Amin Elhassan]

Celebrating is the medication you take. And then in the commercial, they've got celebration is the song, but it's not actual celebrity.

[Chris Cote]

Come on.

[Amin Elhassan]

Exactly.

[Chris Cote]

Well, I want to do. When we have more time, we should do a Oscars award style award of the greatest prescription drug drug song out there, because there are a lot of them. It used to be the 80s when Zaz and I were growing up, the, like, everybody you Know family ties and Cheers. You knew the. The jingle for the sitcom. But those have gotten the way of the dodo bird. Thank goodness they've been replaced by drugs.

[Amin Elhassan]

I miss those days.

[Chris Cote]

No, I'm saying thank goodness that somebody stepped up and it was the prescription drug industry.

[Amin Elhassan]

If I give you guys something, Skyrizzi, I don't think anyone beats me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is that the goat?

[Amin Elhassan]

Skyriz, number one.

[Chris Cote]

I don't want. Listen, I want to have a problem.

[Amin Elhassan]

I want to have a gang hang like that one.

[Chris Cote]

That's nothing. Is everything.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah. Skyrizy, baby.

[Chris Cote]

My dream in life is to be as happy as the people plagued by whatever ailment has landed them in a prescription drug ad. Those people have the best lives going.

[Dave]

Oh, oh, oh.

[Chris Cote]

Ozemic.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, you know, that's a good one. That is a good one.

[Dan Le Batard]

Goat of commercial jingles for medications, though,

[Chris Cote]

take once daily jaudience at each day Star.

[Mike Ryan]

Terrible. Terrible.

[Chris Cote]

As time goes by, it was easy to see it's lower in my A1C.

[Dave]

It's pretty good.

[Mike Ryan]

That might be a suing nominee, Dave. Oh, well, thank you.

[Dave]

So the.

[Chris Cote]

I didn't write that. That wasn't an original.

[Dave]

The NHL got back to action last night. Panthers are playing tonight. That's most important. But the NHL got back to action last night, and so that means that the best player in the world, right, Connor McDavid, he met with the media yesterday. And how about now? Certainly this is not the only. Probably wasn't even the first question, right? It's a whole media session. He's. There's a scrum. He's meeting with the media members. But get a load of this very forward question from one of the Edmonton beat guys. For Connor McDavid, this is a hard

[Mike Ryan]

question, but, you know, Stanley Cups found Gretzky and Crosby and those guys and gold medals and you've been in. Put yourself in position and it's not finding you. Did you think it would be this hard? That's a nice question. Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, no, no. He said nice question.

[Chris Cote]

Thanks for that.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was a nice question. He said, wow.

[Chris Cote]

Some people are defending it like. Well, he gave a fuller answer to that. I'm confused by why that's an inappropriate thing to ask him. The whole point is to win when you're playing a professional sport. Right. Why is it out of line to ask him what's going on there?

[Amin Elhassan]

And it was the nicest possible way to ask that question. Like he said, why hasn't it found you? As if it's just something that happens

[Dave]

did you think it would be this hard?

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah.

[Dave]

I don't know. Do you expect him to say, I thought it was going to be easy to win Stanley Cups and a gold medal.

[Amin Elhassan]

I'm disappointed in myself. I would have thought I would have been successful in one of these tries. But the good news is I'm young. I think I'm going to have a lot more opportunities to do it.

[Chris Cote]

Not that young. And it is. I mean, it may be uncomfortable, but that is the whole point. And it is the subject when you're talking about Connor McDavid, who otherwise is in the conversation for greatest player of all time. He hasn't won. So that is why he is out of that conversation at this point.

[Mike Ryan]

Looks a big gunt there, right?

[Chris Cote]

Yes, he does. I thought, oh, that's Connor McDavid, huh? Yeah. He doesn't look well. Yeah, Maybe that's part of the problem.

[Dave]

And did you see. Did you see in the Toronto Star yesterday as the Maple Leafs are back and they're playing. That's my gimmick. The Maple Leafs are at the Panthers tonight and the Toronto Star headline yesterday, Auston Matthews made his choice, seemingly putting the party and the president ahead of the playoffs. I know the Canadian media is especially. Toronto is really tough when it comes to hockey. Like, really, really, really tough. They're going to push these guys away from these teams when it comes to free agency. Like, you want to talk about, the Florida has become an attractive franchise. The winning for sure, but there's a lot that goes around in it. These guys are anonymous. All right, when they're walking around here and like this kind of shit with Auston Matthews and even, you know, if you think that question was fair, fine. But, you know, there's a lot of pressure with Connor McDavid. Like, they're going to push these guys away from those six Canadian teams.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's what Sid Sehero was telling us on Tuesday, that a lot of players are fleeing the Canadian markets not because of, like, all the others, like the weather or whatever, but because the pressure is immense. The media coverage there is very intense. It's like New York City media.

[Dave]

I think it's a lot worse.

[Amin Elhassan]

You think it's worse than New York?

[Mike Ryan]

It's worse.

[Dave]

I think it's a lot worse.

[Mike Ryan]

We're gonna be joined by Sarah Sivian.

[Dave]

It's a national sport.

[Mike Ryan]

We're gonna be joined by Sarah Sivian at 11:15. I'm curious. Like, I don't. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that A guy like Hunter Hellebuck gets some booze at home because like, come on. No, I'm telling you, like the weight, geopolitically speaking, it is as tense as it's ever been in our lifetimes. Right now between the US and Canada, you have this layer of them losing to the Americans in their sport, which is embarrassing enough, but then how the Americans have carried themselves gallivanting with an administration that has started this whole geopolitical mess between the two countries. They are not pleased. I've seen plenty of Winnipeg jets fans going at Conor Ellebukh. I've seen plenty of these Canadian based teams with Americans on them going at these players. And I'm saying it would not surprise me. It would be a bad look, but it would not surprise me if these players in some cases get booed in their own buildings.

[Chris Cote]

Winning or losing in that gold medal game may end up being everything. Yes, it would be okay with Canada if Auston Matthews hadn't won. But taking this off now in celebration of old glory and now going back to the team that is starved from for a Stanley cup run. Yeah, he's I, I, man, I'm with you. I think he's going to get booed. Austin Matthews. Okay, so in, in Toronto, I mean not, not obviously by the Florida and Hellbuck too. I, I could see that.

[Mike Ryan]

I could, I mean Winnipeg. Yeah, like I've seen. That's a, that's a guy that's getting like a lot of it right now on social media.

[Amin Elhassan]

Are you guys saying booed as in like and starting a goal?

[Dave]

Connor, Hello?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, I don't know, are you saying

[Mike Ryan]

like smattering when they, when they lose

[Amin Elhassan]

or if he lets a goal in, then they'll get on him like now Captain America can't stop.

[Mike Ryan]

So the scenario that you're painting right now, I think maybe a smattering before the game, but if he lets one in, like. Yeah. Then tensions start to boil over.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, I mean you're, you're right. I mean you would need practically speaking someone to say and in goal, Connor Hellebuck and then see what the response is if they, if you don't give them the moment, which in fact I guess you do that standardly before the game. So yeah, it'll be interesting his first time up there very quickly. Can I ask you guys this because I mentioned it a day or three ago in honor of the Houston and Edmonton Oilers. They're no longer the Houston Oilers, if you haven't heard about that.

[Amin Elhassan]

They're the Tennessee Oilers.

[Chris Cote]

There are A number. There are, in fact, six North American sports teams among the four major leagues that share the same nickname. Tony V. Chris Cody, let's go. You're up first. Tony, name a team. A team.

[Dave]

I love how you're pitting people against one another.

[Mike Ryan]

This is good stuff.

[Chris Cote]

Tony, you go first. You know what I'm getting at. The Oilers belong to two franchises, or used to.

[Mike Ryan]

I'll go. I'll start with the hometown Florida Panthers and Carolina Panthers. Well done.

[Chris Cote]

Well done.

[Dan Le Batard]

Next up, Lions.

[Dave]

Do you understand what we're doing?

[Chris Cote]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

Can I take his answer?

[Chris Cote]

Go ahead, Tony. This is your show. The jets is correct. And you name them all. You have four to go.

[Dave]

I'm ready.

[Chris Cote]

Go ahead, Zaz.

[Dave]

Cardinals.

[Chris Cote]

The Cardinals.

[Mike Ryan]

Can I get a Giants?

[Chris Cote]

You got the Giants.

[Mike Ryan]

Can I get a Kings?

[Chris Cote]

You got the Kings.

[Mike Ryan]

And there's one left. Wait, I want Chris to keep going left.

[Chris Cote]

Two left.

[Mike Ryan]

Two left. Chris keeps going.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, Chris, get one right.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't want to play.

[Dave]

There's one more.

[Chris Cote]

There's two.

[Dave]

Oh, this is good. I like this game.

[Chris Cote]

We've got Panthers, right? Got the Kings. We got the Giants.

[Dan Le Batard]

Giant.

[Dave]

Oh, you said Giants.

[Mike Ryan]

We got the Lions.

[Chris Cote]

We got the Cardinals. We've got the. The King of the jungle.

[Dan Le Batard]

I still don't know what game we're playing.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, so there's.

[Chris Cote]

I mean, this isn't difficult. They're the Arizona Cardinals and then they're the St. Louis Cardinals. Right? You understand?

[Mike Ryan]

It's the same name, but two different sports. Chris, you got me. So the Lions felt like Lions was a safe guess. They're only in one sport.

[Chris Cote]

I think it's cool that the St. Louis Cardinals of baseball and the St. Louis Cardinals of football and the St. Louis Cardinals of football didn't start out there, but they just so happened to both land in the same American metropolis. But anyway, that's the game we're playing here. Sheesh.

[Dave]

How come we can't.

[Chris Cote]

There aren't two Timberwolves. There are not. Yes. There aren't Two Steelers, not two Browns.

[Dave]

How come we can't think of the one?

[Chris Cote]

There are two more.

[Amin Elhassan]

I think you think about Celtics and Celtics, right?

[Dave]

And certainly Hawks and Seahawks. We're not counting. Right.

[Mike Ryan]

We're not counting American sports, just North American sports.

[Chris Cote]

Four major sports. There may be one in Mike Ryan's beloved. He loves. The greatest single position group in Miami sports history is soccer attacker. If that were true, it would be sad. But it's not true.

[Dave]

Thank goodness we're not going with, like, you mentioned.

[Mike Ryan]

Roy's Got one, Roy. The Rangers, New York and Texas Rangers is correct.

[Chris Cote]

Well done there.

[Dave]

And we're not counting the Oilers anymore because they don't exist in football.

[Chris Cote]

There's one left, unless I missed somebody saying it. But you're already real close, regionally speaking,

[Mike Ryan]

between New York and Texas.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Nuggets.

[Dave]

Regionally speaking. Northeast Stars. No.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hurricanes?

[Mike Ryan]

No. Oh, no. Pro sports, man. Pro Sports.

[Chris Cote]

Try Lions.

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[Chris Cote]

I think I would have been on his side.

[Mike Ryan]

I would have looked at you like, what did you say?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm telling you, me and my friend, the rest of the way home, all we kept saying was, I ain't cheating stuff.

[Dave]

I think you got your ass.

[Amin Elhassan]

I think he got your ass.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got his way.

[Mike Ryan]

Chris.

[Chris Cote]

Chris won this one for sure. Not that.

[Mike Ryan]

Jeremy, it was great.

[Dave]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. All right, Just give it to us.

[Chris Cote]

It's the Jets. I just said maybe I missed somebody. Say it, Jesse.

[Mike Ryan]

Steve Martin.

[Dave]

All right. So speaking of team names, Amin. Amin has been ranting and raving before the show the last couple of days, trying to get someone to engage with him. Amin, go ahead and let everybody know what you've been all over.

[Amin Elhassan]

There are no more cool names that teams can have because all the cool names have been taken and copyrighted by another team somewhere else. Any cool name. You think there's only one. I've got it. I won't say it out loud. Or maybe I will. Maybe I'LL copyright it to myself right now. Copyright, copyright, copyright. Shout out to Billy Gill. There's one left. I'm not gonna say it first, but I want to point out.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay.

[Dave]

When you say cool name, like, like, so what does that mean?

[Mike Ryan]

There's only one.

[Amin Elhassan]

So like some of the names we just said. Lions, Tigers, Bears, Rockets. Right. Like Steelers.

[Dave]

Like no one's called the tables for a reason.

[Amin Elhassan]

Exactly. Like all these are goofy names or singular names and stuff like that. Nobody likes that.

[Mike Ryan]

Those are leagues.

[Amin Elhassan]

Minor league baseball. But then they get to go crazy over there. I'm talking about something that you could actually market on a wide, wide range.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. Selfie series. I'm. I'm a curmudgeon about the minor league baseball teams. Caps and everything. They're just trying to get people to pay attention to them.

[Mike Ryan]

And they do.

[Chris Cote]

Silliness.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. That's the whole point.

[Chris Cote]

I get it.

[Mike Ryan]

But that's the whole point. Against capitalism.

[Chris Cote]

I'm not against it seems like you're against capitalism. Like a commie.

[Mike Ryan]

We got a picture of you as a commie here. Where was it taken? Out of the ark.

[Amin Elhassan]

Oh, my God.

[Chris Cote]

Wow.

[Amin Elhassan]

What era of your life was this?

[Chris Cote]

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dance.

[Mike Ryan]

Doesn't look like you.

[Dave]

Shocking.

[Amin Elhassan]

By the way. You know Yankee Doodle Dance?

[Chris Cote]

The devil.

[Amin Elhassan]

You know the origins of that song? It's making fun of Americans. That's what Yankee Doodle Dandy is. It's like, oh, look at the Yankee Doodle Dandy. Yeah, you would like that song.

[Dave]

Shocking.

[Chris Cote]

My feelings are getting hurt.

[Amin Elhassan]

There are no cool names. Ass. Like. Think about all the new teams that have arrived. The Utah Mammoth.

[Dave]

Terrible.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's a dumb name, man. It's a dumb name.

[Dave]

I don't think that's a dumb name.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's a dumb name.

[Mike Ryan]

The mammoth. One mammoth.

[Amin Elhassan]

One mammoth.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a big ass elephant.

[Dave]

I think that's. I don't think there's a plural. I don't think mammoths.

[Mike Ryan]

Mammoth. Cannot be mammoth.

[Dave]

No. But I don't think mammoths is. Is the correct 100.

[Amin Elhassan]

Not a cool name.

[Chris Cote]

Okay.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's not a cool name.

[Dave]

Well, I think there could be some stuff that we could consider cool.

[Amin Elhassan]

Give me a call.

[Dave]

They're not appropriate anymore.

[Amin Elhassan]

Okay.

[Dave]

In the vein of, like the Washington Bullets is not something that you could use anymore. You know, stuff like that.

[Amin Elhassan]

You're just.

[Chris Cote]

That's my favorite one ever, though, that we decided 25 or so years ago. Like, you know what? We have to. We have to do our part to diminish gunplay. And there are a lot of kids that are easily influenced. Like I wasn't interested in shooting anybody or anything. But then my favorite basketball team was called Bullets.

[Dave]

Well, gun violence has gone down since.

[Mike Ryan]

Piqued my interest, especially in that locker room. I saw Calber Chaney one time and I was just like, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

[Amin Elhassan]

My gun.

[Chris Cote]

Curious now? Sure I am.

[Amin Elhassan]

The late Abe Poland was greatly moved because a kid in D.C. got shot over a pair of Chris Weber sneakers. And he felt like the violence in Washington D.C. had gotten to a place. And he said he didn't want his team to be associated with that kind of stuff.

[Chris Cote]

It didn't sound as good as Baltimore Bullets anyway.

[Mike Ryan]

They're also bad Wizards. Look up Rasputin.

[Chris Cote]

Amen.

[Mike Ryan]

That too many.

[Chris Cote]

We don't talk enough about how lame that was. To your point, I mean that they know years ago went with Wizards.

[Amin Elhassan]

No cool name.

[Chris Cote]

Pretty bad. What.

[Dave]

What. What about. What about the Commandos? That would be a good name.

[Mike Ryan]

Nah, that's ass.

[Amin Elhassan]

Really? You know what Commando means?

[Dave]

I think so.

[Mike Ryan]

This is a very high conversation.

[Dan Le Batard]

What is the goat of terrible team names in sports?

[Dave]

Of terrible names?

[Chris Cote]

Well, I mean we should get the 10 foot pole out for that one to evaluate that. Because the worst one any really it's. It's basically a tie at the bottom. Any team whose name doesn't end in S. Although I do have to throw in the completely lazy move by the Nashville Predators. Let's come up with a fearsome beast that will. That will intimidate our foes when they. When they walk into our building. Like what should we do? We need a Predators to. You know what? It's 459 on Friday. Let's. Let's just get out. Predators it is. It's just all. We're taking them all. All the prey, all the. All the beasts that eat other beasts. That's our name now. It's the worst one going. He's the goat.

[Amin Elhassan]

Bad

[Dave]

Heat's a great name.

[Mike Ryan]

You got to let him talk like that.

[Chris Cote]

It doesn't have an S at the end. It creates grammatical conundrum.

[Mike Ryan]

Have you been to Miami?

[Chris Cote]

Miami he good. But I'm worried more about the grammar of it. The Miami Heat is good. Or are there 12 guys on the

[Mike Ryan]

team who cares about.

[Chris Cote]

They are good. Miami's hot.

[Mike Ryan]

The Heat. It's always for an awkward interview.

[Chris Cote]

I speak.

[Mike Ryan]

What do you mean?

[Chris Cote]

Why do I care? Because I speak.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a great honor. Miami Heat. Keep moving. It's a great honor and privilege to be a Heat.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

Like that's the thing. Like, like for instance, if I play for the Knicks. Ima. Nick, if I play for the Celtics, I am a Celtic. If I play for the Jazz, Ima, you're a jazz player, a jazz man. That's the, that's literally what?

[Mike Ryan]

Really?

[Dave]

No way.

[Amin Elhassan]

Jazz.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jazz is the worst for me. That's the goat of bad ones for me.

[Dave]

So if someone in Salt Lake City sees a player for the Jazz in the mall, they say, oh, look over there, he's a jazz man.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's a jazz man.

[Chris Cote]

And if you're on the blues, you're a note

[Mike Ryan]

that you're doing a joke.

[Chris Cote]

No, I'm not. They're the notes. No, they're locally the notes. Yeah, yeah, that's, that's, that's not made up.

[Dan Le Batard]

This goat conversation is presented by Frank's Red Hot. Make every dish the greatest. Eat the goat.

[Chris Cote]

And by the way, I've done a lot of great work and I hate to pat myself on the back, but my work here has in fact been great in analyzing these things. As a for instance, why would the Los Angeles clip when they've moved to la, knowing when the day they arrived, that the Lakers own this town? By the way, stupid name. Minneapolis Lakers. That is. The plague of Los Angeles sports team alliteration saved them. Well, LA Dodgers. There are no trolley Dodgers in Los Angeles.

[Amin Elhassan]

You're dodging traffic in there, right?

[Chris Cote]

There are no trolleys. I don't know anyone.

[Amin Elhassan]

No, they have a trolley. The one that goes up that steep ass hill.

[Chris Cote]

That's not a trolley, that's an incline. Or I forget what you call it, but that's what that is. That's more like a train that only goes up and goes down. But if you're the Clippers, you arrive there. By the way, I've asked a bunch of Clippers this, or I did a number of years ago, if any of them knows or knew what a Clipper is. Tony, do you know?

[Mike Ryan]

Of course I do. The Yankee Clipper.

[Dan Le Batard]

Good hotel.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a boat.

[Chris Cote]

It's a boat. It's a fast moving ship. That's right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, we know there's a hotel here,

[Mike Ryan]

or used to be a hotel here called the Yankee Clipper. Chris's favorite pastime.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, Dave, everyone knows now because the Clippers in their most recent rebrand went super nautical on everything. I don't know if you've been into it, but they've got all sorts of waves crashing.

[Chris Cote]

Have I Been into it.

[Mike Ryan]

The Dome. The Dome.

[Chris Cote]

I get it. I've been into it. See, that's another one. Have I been in into it. I have been in into it. But what I should be going in is not the home of the LA Clippers. Instead, they should have just veered a hard right turn away from LA's second NBA team and instead rebranded as Hollywood, whatever the Hollywood Knights spelled with a K. Unfortunately, Vegas has since jumped in, but I had advocated for that for many moons. The Hollywood Knights with a K or Rhinos. Double entendre. Rhinos. That's a fearsome beast and it honors the residents of Los Angeles who've had rhinoplasty. And a lot of people there have. That's a good name. But. But I stick with Hollywood nights as a. As a grand name a better one. And by the way, Thunder Stinks. Oklahoma City Twisters. That would have been a winner.

[Amin Elhassan]

That one was suggested, but they felt because the natural disaster thing was a little too sensitive and they went away from that.

[Chris Cote]

Well, I mean, you know, then you got to get on the Hurricanes, both pro and.

[Amin Elhassan]

But here's.

[Mike Ryan]

We're good.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're good.

[Amin Elhassan]

Here's the deal.

[Dave]

Dave, great name dog.

[Mike Ryan]

Have you seen the great pickle of 2026?

[Dave]

My movie theater sells pickles.

[Amin Elhassan]

How much they charge?

[Dave]

There is two names.

[Mike Ryan]

Good deal. This, this could be problematic. They rolled out the names, the official names for hurricanes named storms. Did you see what one of the names is? Hurricane Bane. No. There's a hurricane that's going to be called Cristobal.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's pretty cool.

[Chris Cote]

They do it. I've looked into this. The meteorologists have some name that they check through A through Z and then they go back to A and they just keep.

[Amin Elhassan]

They've got to alternate male and female names and then they go by the first letter. A, B, C, D, as, et cetera, et cetera.

[Chris Cote]

Well, speaking of this, you know, I've advocated before. It's right there. Why would you. If your home has to get destroyed? It's terrible no matter what. But you know Katrina, she did like Ruth. Hurricane Ruth.

[Dave]

There's a lot of names they have to cycle.

[Chris Cote]

It's an extra gut punch. We should be using football players names. I mean, it wouldn't feel as bad.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hurricane Mahomes.

[Chris Cote]

My house got destroyed by what? Hurricane Debruckashaw. Like, oh, well, I mean, how would you possibly survive that?

[Mike Ryan]

I don't want to see that hurricane.

[Chris Cote]

How about after Butkus? Like what happened? Hurricane Dick. Say no more. Hurricane Mean Joe. I never Had a chance, you know now, Right.

[Amin Elhassan]

To go back to your. Well, how come you got Hurricanes as a team name? Current names or current teams are grandfathered in? I'm saying as a new brand, you can't come out with a new brand like that. But if you did it back in 19. Oh, whatever. Or 1890, whatever, then it's all right. It's fine. Because back then, there were different sensibilities. There's only one name left. You know what I've decided since I said copyright, copyright, copyright a bunch of times, I'll say it on there.

[Dave]

Yeah. I want to know it.

[Amin Elhassan]

Mako Sharks. Mako Sharks.

[Dave]

You needed to copyright that.

[Amin Elhassan]

You fell the Miami. Mako Sharks. Miami Makos.

[Chris Cote]

Okay. If you just go Mako's. That's all right.

[Amin Elhassan]

Mako Sharks. What's it like? Knickerbocker? It's the long name, but then we just shorten it to Makos.

[Chris Cote]

Okay, I like that. You won me over.

[Mike Ryan]

What do the Heat players call themselves on the Internet? Peter, I've seen Heshin's.

[Dave]

No, Heeshin is a stupid name.

[Chris Cote]

Hotties.

[Mike Ryan]

But what do they call themselves?

[Dave]

Heetl. I'm a Heat.

[Mike Ryan]

That's bad.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's bad.

[Chris Cote]

No, it's also bad. You know what the one that has been around for more than 100 years is? White socks and red socks. I'm a Red Sock player.

[Dave]

I'm a Magic is worse.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm a magician.

[Amin Elhassan]

Magician.

[Mike Ryan]

Why do they get to spell it with an X?

[Amin Elhassan]

Jeremy Tache sent me this. It's a tweet from a guy named J. Kuda who says most teams named after a sock by professional sports league. MLB is in the league with two. They've got two teams. All other leagues combined. Zero. Why were we naming teams after Sox back in the day?

[Dan Le Batard]

Sox are big in baseball.

[Chris Cote]

There are a couple that are good. My least favorite going legitimately, not just because it doesn't end in an S, is wild. Minnesota Wild, as in the outsides. That's what it's a reference. The wild is in the great outdoors. The great outdoors would have been better than wild. The Minnesota Outsides is a terrible name. Also, Nets is an underrated, awful one. Let's name it after something to do with the sport. Like the balls? No.

[Dave]

The rim.

[Chris Cote]

The hardwoods.

[Mike Ryan]

Nope. We're not blue. The Metropolitans. There's actually three in baseball. I understand why people think there's, like, a racist origin to it, but they were named the Cincinnati. Cincinnati Red Stockings at first. Remember that show Silk Stockings?

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Right after Raw, right?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Every Monday night on usa.

[Chris Cote]

I liked when they named people after they named the team after their best player. The Cleveland Spiders were called that. Or changed their name from Spiders to Indians because their best player was a Native American. That's true.

[Amin Elhassan]

I got. I got your best one right here.

[Chris Cote]

The Los Angeles.

[Amin Elhassan]

The old name of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Do you know what it was, the name of the Brooklyn Dodgers before they were the Dodgers?

[Chris Cote]

The Trolley Dodgers.

[Amin Elhassan]

The Bridegrooms.

[Dan Le Batard]

Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?

[Mike Ryan]

Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero.

[Dan Le Batard]

Always drink your Jagermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion.

[Mike Ryan]

Everything else?

[Dan Le Batard]

Everything else.

[Mike Ryan]

Wearing clean underwear every day, well, that's

[Dan Le Batard]

just a personal decision.

[Mike Ryan]

Brushing your teeth, Tough.

[Dan Le Batard]

Obviously smart, but not a rule.

[Mike Ryan]

Never pee. Pee on an electric fence.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, maybe there are two rules. But the one that is a hundred percent, that I insist on completely, Jagermeister must be drank ice cold or don't drink it at all.

[Mike Ryan]

Damn, that's cold.

[Dan Le Batard]

Exactly. You're finally starting to get it.

[Mike Ryan]

Drink responsibly. Jagermeister liqueur, 35 alcohol by volume, imported by Mass Jagermeister, US White Plains, NY.