The Big Suey: Three Nothings & A Vote Of No Confidence

Summary

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

The Big Suey: Three Nothings & A Vote Of No Confidence

Date: February 17, 2026

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Episode Overview

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Greg Cody, Mike Ryan, and Zach Zaslow dive into a dynamic, humor-infused discussion at the crossroads of sports, pop culture, and society. This "Big Suey" installment covers the NBA All-Star Game's revival, commissioner Adam Silver's effectiveness, debates on cultural and political expression in sports, and some hilariously heated moments about coaching meltdowns and crowd decorum in college basketball.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. NBA All-Star Game: “All It Took Was Trying”

Timestamps: 01:24–06:55

• Main Idea: After years of criticism, the NBA All-Star Game won fans back with real effort from players, boosted by a new “US vs. World” format and over-the-air TV exposure.
• Player Influence: Victor Wembanyama (“Wemby”) praised for setting the tone and making the game competitive and intense.
• TV Ratings: Notably higher ratings, attributed partly to the Olympics lead-in and network TV, but also to improved game quality.

Notable Quotes:

• “All it took was the players trying. That’s all it took.” – Greg Cody (01:24)
• “Wemby... He set the tone because when he came out playing like that first possession, posting dudes up, slamming it down, like that changed the entire atmosphere.” – Dan Le Batard (04:11)
• “It does feel to me like something out of science fiction... It’s like watching some sort of real futuristic Spider-Man.” – Greg Cody on Wemby’s defense (01:49)

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2. Face of the League: Wembanyama, Attitude, and Maturity

Timestamps: 04:58–06:16

• Maturity & Outspokenness: Wembanyama’s recent public comments, especially about social issues in Minneapolis, are highlighted as showing rare maturity—especially for a non-American player.
• Legacy Comparison: The panel compares Wemby to former “faces of the league” (Jordan, Kobe, LeBron) in his ability to influence culture and effort.

Notable Quotes:

• “...He had the maturity to at least believe that his feelings are the right way to feel, and he’s going to speak out and say the things that he thinks are the right things to say.” – Mike Ryan (05:09)
• “I think that stuff matters, you know, like Michael Jordan’s the face of the league.” – Mike Ryan (05:37)

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3. Adam Silver Under Fire: “Three Nothings & A Vote of No Confidence”

Timestamps: 07:41–09:49

• Commissioner Critique: Zaslow and Mike Ryan deliver a scathing assessment of Adam Silver’s leadership, especially concerning tanking, expansion, and lack of decisive action.
• Criticisms: “All options are on the table” is ridiculed as empty rhetoric; Silver is called a “nothing” and receives a “vote of no confidence.”

Notable Quotes:

• “All options are on the table, which is such a nothing. It’s a nothing answer.” – Mike Ryan (08:49)
• “How many different issues over the last few years need to be in front of him for everyone to finally realize this guy is clueless?” – Mike Ryan (09:35)
• “This Adam Silver vote of no confidence.” – Mike Ryan (09:25)

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4. Patriotism & US vs. World: The Role of Jingoism

Timestamps: 06:16–07:23

• Olympics & NBA Format: The group discusses the increased appeal of All-Star weekend due to patriotism inherent in the US vs. World format, drawing parallels to Olympic viewing habits.
• Skepticism: Zaslow jokes about the limits of modern patriotism, connecting it to broader US political climate.

Notable Quotes:

• “The Winter Olympics are getting high ratings in the US—why? Because all of a sudden we’re chanting USA, USA...” – Zaslow (06:18)
• “Sports patriotism actually tends to be pretty immune from that.” – Greg Cody (07:09)

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5. Feuds & Media Criticism: New York Radio and Boomer Esiason

Timestamps: 15:35–22:40

• Background: Mike Ryan’s social media clash with Boomer Esiason and others over athletes’ rights to express conflicted feelings about representing the US.
• Media Response: Clips from NY radio personalities (including Gio) downplay Mike’s criticisms; Dan and crew defend right to public dissent and call out selective outrage about mixing politics and sports.

Notable Quotes:

• “You want to talk about it like a triggered snowflake. The Olympian was asked a question and all he said was, I feel conflicted.” – Mike Ryan (20:09)
• “If you’re just trying to shut up one side because it makes you feel better and it helps you sleep at night, that’s where I take issue with it.” – Dan Le Batard (22:35)

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6. Coaching Blow-Ups: College Basketball Soundbites & Firings

Timestamps: 25:43–31:29

• Greg Cody Curates: The group plays and analyzes indignant press conference clips from Doug Gottlieb (Green Bay) and Jerome Tang (Kansas State), noting their emotional pitch, dramatics, and consequences.
• Firing for Cause: Discussion on whether Jerome Tang deserved firing after publicly lambasting his own team and stripping them of the right to wear the uniform.

Notable Quotes:

• “This was embarrassing. These dudes do not deserve to wear this uniform. There will be very few of them in it next year.” – Jerome Tang, cited on show (27:57)
• “What are you doing? You’re making it an institution of higher learning as opposed to what it now is, which is just professional basketball played more amateurly than they play at the NBA and G League level.” – Greg Cody (38:40)

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7. Fan Decorum & Language in Sports Arenas

Timestamps: 36:01–42:19

• Discussion: The morality and enforceability of penalties for collegiate crowd chants, specifically the F-word at NC State games.
• Broader Debate: Zaslow, often the voice for decorum, argues for fines and rules against such chants; others on the panel doubt effectiveness and point to the crowd’s irrepressibility.

Notable Quotes:

• “When 20,000 people are chanting the F word... it’s something that’s finaeable.” – Zach Zaslow (37:07)
• “If I’m going to get impolite, I’m going to get it at a sport. Like, it’s... No, it’s not decent. It’s indecent.” – Dan Le Batard (40:23)
• “Throwing words or throwing tortillas... They throw cups full of urine at the guy doing the corner kick in Mexico.” – Greg Cody (40:57)

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Moment | |-----------|----------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:49 | Greg Cody | "[Wemby’s defense]...something out of science fiction...real futuristic Spider-Man"| | 06:55 | Zaslow | “Credit US vs. World to a certain degree with the weekend.” | | 08:49 | Mike Ryan | “This guy. He has no answers for anything. All options are on the table. He’s a nothing.”| | 22:35 | Dan Le Batard | “If you’re just trying to shut up one side because it makes you feel better...that’s where I take issue.”| | 27:57 | Jerome Tang | “These dudes do not deserve to wear this uniform. There will be very few of them in it next year.”| | 38:40 | Greg Cody | “You’re making it an institution of higher learning as opposed to [just] professional basketball played more amateurly than they play it at the NBA and G League level.”| | 37:07 | Zach Zaslow | “When 20,000 people are chanting the F word... it’s something that’s finaeable.” |

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Additional Lighter Segments

• Vegas Trip Fails: Mike Ryan jokes about losing big at Vegas while his wife visits the Sphere, riffing on free drinks and the cost of entertainment (32:10–33:23).
• Regrets About “Love Guru” Segment: Greg Cody humorously laments being “too bawdy” on last week’s Valentine’s show, worrying about young listeners (34:52–36:01).

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Flow & Tone

The episode is wide-ranging, fast-paced, and witty, with the show’s trademark blend of irreverence and passionate debate. The hosts openly disagree but balance serious criticism with warmth, personal anecdotes, and running gags—showing equal parts sports expertise and comedic timing.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This installment is packed with energetic sports talk, thoughtful cultural commentary, and memorable soundbites. The hosts dissect major NBA developments, air real frustrations with league leadership, wrestle with the awkward intersection of sports and politics, and hilariously roast each other over everything from college coaching firings to old-school crowd chants. Whether you care about NBA reform, media beefs, or just want to laugh at Vegas gambling woes, there’s something for everyone in this essential “Big Suey.”

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Transcript

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[Greg Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

A number of different things to get to. I do enjoy that. Everyone says now that the All Star Game is fixed, it seems to be a group consensus. Everyone's applauding, and all it took was the players trying. That's trying. Yeah, that's all that. That's all it took.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you, Wemby.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, that's all it took. They tried a little bit and yeah, when they try, it's fun to watch.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's the best. Kawhi did his thing, too. 31 points. One of the.

[Greg Cody]

That was fun to watch.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was incredible.

[Greg Cody]

Well, Kawhi going at Wemby, too. Like, not afraid. It really. It does feel to me like something. I'm not kidding, you guys. Watching Wemby defend feels to me like something out of science fiction, like something Kawhi trying to figure out a way to. How do I step back on this? When his arms reach down to his ankles, it's like watching some sort of real futuristic spider man and he's 22 like it's gonna kawhi. That was impressive to watch. Did anyone say during the telecast anything about the aspiration stuff? I know that Silver was asked about it during his press conference and Silver actually gave voice on the tanking front. He said we need to not lose sight of our paying customers. When he's talking about the tanking, when you've got so many, so many teams that aren't playing to win and now they're going to add teams as well. Or he talked about expansion as well this week. And so you've already got a bunch that aren't trying. Right. That are just. You've basically got about 10 teams in the league that just exist, exist. So that your team has a home game to play, right?

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah, exactly. The tanking thing is a whole different matter. That's why they needed this to hit a home run in this All Star weekend. They needed the All Star Game. And you saw the TV ratings almost double what last year was.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, there's a reason. There's a reason for that. Well, no, I mean, the reason for that is because they went from being on cable television to over the air broadcast.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

And that's a major difference.

[Greg Cody]

You're right.

[Zach Zaslow]

And they're surrounded by the Winter Olympics on the same network, which helps because the Winter Olympics have been a big draw. But the US versus world thing did work.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, the players tried, I think, trying work.

[Greg Cody]

The players tried and that worked for everybody. We like watching those athletes. They're great athletes. We like to know they care the way we do.

[Dan Le Batard]

And in the days before the game when they were being asked like, you know, what's the intensity level going to be? You had Kevin Durant sort of dismissing the old heads of, of yesteryear, saying like, oh, this effort that they talk about, I don't know, I haven't seen it. And you had Anthony Edwards say, like, ye is what it is. We're not really going to try. And then Wemby came out and played that way. Kate Cunningham as well is another guy who, who helped set that tone. He didn't get as much credit, but some of the other guys were talking about him. But Anthony Edwards right after the game was like, hey, give the credit to Wemby. He set the tone because when he came out playing like that first possession, posting dudes up, slamming it down like that changed the entire atmosphere.

[Zach Zaslow]

And, and, and he set the tone before the games because he said, I haven't seen much effort. He said it plain.

[Greg Cody]

This is so mad. This is face of the League stuff. By the way, we talked about John Morant, we talked about Anthony Edwards, and they try in the spite and the Sprite commercials. But generally speaking, Face of the League doesn't get to be Allen Iverson or Anthony Edwards. It tends to be. They try to present to us somebody like Steph Curry, Wembanyama, somebody who's, who's not quite as edgy as those two guys are.

[Mike Ryan]

Look, Wembanyama has had a really, really good last few weeks when it comes to Face of the League stuff and the maturity that he has shown. Because you had what happened over the weekend and setting the tone, which I want to get back to that in a second. But also, you go back a few weeks ago when everything was happening in Minneapolis and he sat there at his locker and told everybody, I don't care what my PR team told me not to say, I have to talk. And even though I'm not from this country, he had the maturity to at least believe that his feelings are the right way to feel, and he's going to speak out and say the things that he thinks are the right things to say. He's had a. When we talk about Face of the League stuff, he's had a really good last few weeks. But I think that's setting the tone stuff. There's no way to actually quantify it. I think that stuff matters. You know, like Michael Jordan's the face of the league. He's the guy. And guess what? It's going to trickle down. Wow, that guy's out here playing a win. All right, we better play, too. Kobe Bryant, same thing. And then LeBron over the last 10, 15 years. And it trickles down where, yeah, he's the guy who can't even bother to put his jersey on for the team picture. He's wearing street clothes. But now you have a guy in Wembanyama who's like, yeah, we're going to go out here and try. I, I think that stuff matters, but.

[Zach Zaslow]

I also think we can't discount the US versus World format.

[Greg Cody]

The Winter Olympics and the Games were good.

[Zach Zaslow]

The Games were. The three of the first four won on the last shot. Two point games won a three point game. But the Winter Olympics are getting high ratings in the U.S. why? Because all of a sudden we're chanting USA. USA. To cheer for a bobsledder we've never heard of. Because of the jingoism, because of the national identity and patriotism if it still lives. And the NHL succeeded fabulously a year ago with the four Nations Tournament. And that's what the NBA has borrowed with this. I think it's a blatant ripoff. But flattery is, you know, imitation.

[Mike Ryan]

Well put.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah. And so credit us versus World to a certain degree with the weekend.

[Greg Cody]

What do you. What do you say? Why do you say patriotism if there's still any of that left?

[Zach Zaslow]

Because half the country hates the president.

[Dan Le Batard]

Half the.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, but sports patriotism actually tends to be pretty immune from that.

[Zach Zaslow]

Well, I mean, J.D. vance was booed at the opening ceremony.

[Greg Cody]

Of the Olympics, but just. You're still not rooting for the other countries to beat your beloved America.

[Zach Zaslow]

No, you're right.

[Greg Cody]

The people who are watching the Olympics are rooting for the United States. And the people who were rooting, who were watching the United States basketball team, they're watching our old guys. You guys saw what happened to our old guys. They totally ran out of grace.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's like 29, two at one point.

[Greg Cody]

The old guys had nothing left. Nothing at the end of that. But it is fairly funny. And true to say, they revived the whole thing merely by caring about it, by actually treating it as if it matters. It's a legitimate complaint to have about the league. And Silver gives voice to it when he says the amazing quote to me of we can't lose sight of the people who pay for everything. Like because they. Because they have. You can't have everyone. You know, rare it is. Football went through this for a while, then they just changed all the rules. Where we're watching Brock Osweiler and we're saying this stinks, this isn't any good. And that complaint hasn't been around in a long ass time to see basketball get hit with this slapped in the head with the kind of criticism that only used to go to baseball. It is a tribute to their willingness to change. But Zaslo still done with Adam Silver. I saw that he was killing him on Twitter. He said on Twitter over the course of this, this weekend, Adam Silver has lost. The fix is so easy. The lottery is weighted evenly among all non playoff teams. The end problem solved. Completely clueless commissioner.

[Mike Ryan]

I do think it's and I say completely clueless commissioner cuz this, this idea that he's throwing out in front of us, you know, when it comes because he was asked would you consider just abolishing the draft and he gives you the all options are on the table, which is such a nothing. It's a nothing answer. All options. He may as well say no options are on the table. All options are on the table. He just He's a nothing. This guy. He has no answers for anything. All options are on the table. I don't. I'm not going to tell you any of them, but they're all on the table. He's a nothing. This Adam Silver vote of no confidence.

[Zach Zaslow]

Whoa.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, he hit him with a nothing, and then a vote of no confidence. That seems like that you hit him with three nothings. Actually, three nothings. You hit him with how much needs.

[Mike Ryan]

To be in front of him. How many different issues over the last few years need to be in front of him for everyone to finally realize this guy is clueless. This guy isn't in control of anything.

[Dan Le Batard]

Look at.

[Mike Ryan]

Look at everything that's happened under his watch. Player empowerment. The players control the league, all right? Not the teams, not the owners, not even the commissioner. The players run the league. Players don't try under his watch. Teams lose on purpose. On his watch. You have the Kawhi Leonard aspiration situation, which, by the way, when he was asked about over the weekend, he doesn't have a clue what the hell's going on. Someone else hands on. I don't know what's happening. And then we also found out that they did know that Terry Rozier. There were phone records that Terry Rozier texted someone when he was at the Hornets. I'm going to leave the game early. The league and the Hornets know about this. And then in total Miami Heat and the Heater left flailing in the wind. And this Adam Silver won't do anything about it. How many issues do there need to be in front of this commissioner where everybody realize this guy's out to lunch?

[Greg Cody]

A righteous rant from Zaslow. Cody was smiling throughout it. Radiant. That's what. No, but that's what passion sounds like. Cody, that's not. That's what. What do you. What do you mean?

[Zach Zaslow]

Okay, well, everything he said could have been distilled into a dismissive hand wave, but he doesn't do that, so I'm going to do that for him. This is Zach talking about Adam Silva.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Greg, how's your birthday going so far?

[Zach Zaslow]

I invented it. It's going fantastic. My wife and I are staying home tonight. We're watching the. The Debate on tv. We're gonna want to do something special for baby. It's a. It's a nice day for me so far.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats. That sounds like a. Not a super nice night. The debate. Old people love that shit. Yeah.

[Zach Zaslow]

That'S exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly right. Old people do love that shit. And I'm old now. I can't deny it anymore.

[Mike Ryan]

Now, this is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[Greg Cody]

This brings me to what I promised earlier, which is last week, Mike Ryan was aggregated for going after Boomer Esias. Among other things, he called him a few names, and he also said. Say what you mean when you're saying to pipe down to the Olympians in the United or in the Olympics who are saying of America that they've got sort of bittersweet feelings about representing the country. He told those athletes to pipe down. Mike came at Boomer Siassen. And. And this resulted in the defense of a couple of different people. First, there was someone named Al. And I don't mean this dismissively. It's just the first time that I asked your son, the executive editor of this show, who is this person? So that I can source the material. He looked at a piece of paper and said, this is AI and he saw the name Al, Executive editor has been promoted. Yeah. Excuse me, Executive producer. My bad. Let's hear the sound first from AI. Al. And correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't know the history here, but is this producer allowed to talk? Because our producers are allowed to talk. Is this person allowed to have an opinion? Because a long time ago, we allowed our producers to have opinions.

[Dan Le Batard]

I would love to debate that punk. Would you?

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

What's boy? Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Producer versus producer. Some Dan Levitar. First of all, where you would even find the Dan LeBatard show is beyond me. Dan LeBatard is one of those.

[Zach Zaslow]

There's so many guys like this that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Are, you know their name from somewhere else.

[Zach Zaslow]

But what they've been doing for years.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't see, this is what I mean.

[Zach Zaslow]

The social media, they want people fighting like that guy, the land.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dan Levitard, producer.

[Greg Cody]

Do we have a name for this guy?

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know. We should never heard of him.

[Greg Cody]

I did see the write up on it.

[Dan Le Batard]

I love it. He goes, what is the boomer say? What he really wants to say.

[Zach Zaslow]

Well, he did.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're all worked up, fella. So clearly he did, right, Jackass.

[Greg Cody]

So you got a punk. You got a wuss boy. You got a jackass. And then the worst of all of the insults, he hit you with fella. He hit you right in the face with the dead fish of fella.

[Zach Zaslow]

That's low.

[Dan Le Batard]

I can't summon any emotion. I don't know who those people are. I'm not sure that was an AI.

[Greg Cody]

It's.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, it's just like a bot in my mentions, which there's been a lot of those.

[Greg Cody]

All right, so. But we're gonna do. I don't know who you are. Off.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm not. I'm not. I. You're playing that to get something out of me. I don't give a shit what that person has to say about anything. I don't know who that is. It could Twitter spaces. I genuinely don't know. I'm sorry. I know that they were running that bit, and it seems like I don't know what that is.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, let me put in front of you Gio. Evidently you do. Who know?

[Dan Le Batard]

I do know Gio, and I like him. And I do think that Gio was fair. I didn't disagree with what Gio had to say.

[Greg Cody]

All right, well, let's hear what Gio had to say as we continue to feud with New York radio.

[Dan Le Batard]

What it seemed like to me, and I don't know if you agree or not, but what it seemed like to me was this is a lot of misguided anger that this guy is very angry politically about.

[Greg Cody]

Things are going on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Maybe there's people in his life or others that he has stayed silent about.

[Greg Cody]

But then this Boomer thing comes across.

[Dan Le Batard]

His plate, and he all of a sudden just explodes. And all the things that were bubbling up in him about whoever that he's been annoyed with comes out in the direction of it all goes to Boomer.

[Zach Zaslow]

Because a lot of these things that.

[Dan Le Batard]

He'S saying, he clearly doesn't know Boomer and the show. What I mean by that is when.

[Zach Zaslow]

He'S going on, and if you haven't.

[Dan Le Batard]

Seen this, the guy's name is Mike Ruiz, is producer of the Dan Levitard Show.

[Zach Zaslow]

He.

[Dan Le Batard]

He said to Boomer, quit being a P word. Put your name to it.

[Zach Zaslow]

Say what you effing mean. So to microeaves, I sit next to.

[Dan Le Batard]

Boomer five days a week, four hours a day. I wish he would say what he.

[Zach Zaslow]

Meant less, to be honest with you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. So you don't know what you're talking about now.

[Zach Zaslow]

I'm never, ever going to tell Boomer.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stop doing this, stop doing that, whatever. But there are times where he'll jam.

[Zach Zaslow]

Politics into conversations that I'm like, that was unnecessary.

[Greg Cody]

And taxes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. And that was unnecessary. And I like, now I got to find a way out of it. But that's what he wants to do.

[Zach Zaslow]

He's earned that ability to say all.

[Dan Le Batard]

Of these things that he wants with this platform.

[Zach Zaslow]

But to sit here and say that he is on here giving you some.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sort of coded message because he's afraid to say what he wants and he's a P word is just completely misinformed. It's wrong. Okay. I think what was outlined was something that was factual in that I did reach a breaking point. And Boomer was an algamation of a lot of people like Boomer, and Boomer himself included that wade into these waters just to scold what is obviously opposition because Boomer does not have these takes when the UFC is on. I've been to three sporting events that Donald Trump's been at. 30% of these post fight interviews at the UFC are all glowing in praise of Donald Trump. Donald Trump injects himself in the NFL broadcast, Army, Navy often pushing lies. I'm a college football fan, I'm a NASCAR fan, I'm a WWE fan, I'm a FIFA World cup fan. I cannot watch a FIFA World cup draw without some BS Peace award being handed out to the President. And for Boomer Assiasse and others like him to only venture into these waters. When someone says something pretty innocuous, you want to talk about it like a triggered snowflake. The Olympian was asked a question and all he said was, I feel conflicted. And yet that's when you decide to inject politics into the conversation. Because that's when you don't want sports and politics.

[Mike Ryan]

But it's probably accumulation from him though, not just that one medal winner saying, we've seen that forever.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't doubt forever.

[Mike Ryan]

For us, you're used.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't doubt that Boomer doesn't like it when he has to be confronted with political opinions that don't match with his. They won. That side won. And I don't just mean the election, I mean sports. Stop speaking out about these things. There have been plenty over the last four and a half years, plenty of issues that athletes would have taken a stand in the 20 teens that decided, no, we're not gonna do that. They have made people like Boomer and other MAGA conservatives feel more comfortable even though they can go ahead and inject politics into the discussion whenever they feel like it. They just don't like other people's politics. And given the state of the nation right now, where people are being shot, where people, where Americans are being unjustly detained and surveilled, where people with proper paperwork are being deported and put into camps. Some of these interviews with people like, I heard an interview with an Irish national that was being detained there and how these, how according to this person being detained, some of these guards are assaulting some of these people. These detainees, some of them don't know where they're going. One day they're just put on a plane and kind of disappeared. I think that I respect other people's opinions because I have to sit there and take it. When it comes to sports, we can disagree, but if you're just trying to shut up one side because it makes you Feel better and it helps you sleep at night. That's where I take issue with it.

[Greg Cody]

Well, if you keep it in sports, though, what you're saying when you tell our Olympic athletes to pipe down, even if you just want to keep it in sports. Florida has been deemed to be a place, according to human rights organizations, that is not safe for international tourist travelers before the World cup and FIFA because people are being detained. Some of them US Citizens like it. People are being detained and questioned. Some of them are being sent out of the country. So pipe down. The answer has to be no to that.

[Dan Le Batard]

And the person was answering a question like, everybody. Look, I'm sure Boomer felt conflicted about what was going on in the nation's. Probably why he voted. And many other people voted for Donald Trump, because Donald Trump, as a candidate and as a president, talks nonstop about how bad this country is. You weren't confronted with anything. You were confronted with an overwhelming popular opinion. Donald Trump is the least popular US President of all time. Plenty of people are upset with what's going on. Plenty of people are conflicted. In fact, those Olympians were insulted by the sitting vice president, told essentially to pipe down. So, yeah, I take issue with that. And I'm allowed to speak my mind the same way that you are, and all you're complaining about and others like you and nameless producers and other people with varying levels of bedside manner, you just don't like what I have to say, and you just want to be able to say what you have to say, silence other people's opinions and be able to feel comfortable at night. And I'm not gonna do what you want me to do, which is shut up about it. You're all worked up, fellas.

[Zach Zaslow]

I hate any version of telling an athlete, shut up and play. Shut up and dribble. I love it when athletes speak out, no matter what they're saying. They're human beings. I loved it when Wembanyama was outspoken about what's happening in Minneapolis. I loved it 10 years ago when LeBron and Dwayne were speaking out about Trayvon Martin. You know, it's real life, these athletes.

[Greg Cody]

You love it, but you're aware that that's divided, right? You love it, but you're not the popular opinion there. Like, you love it, but.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, no, no, no, no. The opposition also loves it just when it agrees with their ideology. Let's go. Brandon was born from a sporting event, right? They love politics being injected into the conversation. Conservative tennis fans love when Donald Trump is a guest of rolex at the US Open so they can, by the way, effectively ease tariffs on their company. Just overt corruption, using sports as the vessel. They're fine with all of that. They're fine with Ryder cup as long as it agrees with them. And as somebody who happens to like all these sports that along the political spectrum are probably further right. I have to sit there and eat it. I have to. Okay, that's a transaction. But other people get to voice their feelings, too. And all too often, people like Boomer and people that are aligned with the maga. Right. Only want their opinions espoused into microphones. And that's bs. That is not fair.

[Greg Cody]

I need to cleanse the palate here. Do you guys have any sound of Doug Gottlieb, the coach at Green Bay, going crazy about the officiating, calling that.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's fine.

[Zach Zaslow]

You had the exact same play at.

[Mike Ryan]

Both ends in the last play of the game. The exact same play. The exact same play. So I need the new commissioner of.

[Zach Zaslow]

The Horizon League to explain to me.

[Mike Ryan]

What a technical foul is. When I don't leave the box, I don't curse. I'm not demonstrative.

[Greg Cody]

Okay?

[Zach Zaslow]

There was nothing, nothing that should have been called a technical foul.

[Mike Ryan]

I know when I earned one, I did not earn one.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're all worked up, fella style. I was keeping my cool.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Can you say you are not demonstrative when you almost break the table? I love him trying to, like, fix the mic.

[Greg Cody]

Let's play it again.

[Dan Le Batard]

I was even killed.

[Greg Cody]

Let's play it again so that people can just hear. That is as aggressive. I've heard and seen a lot of angry press conference pounding on the table, but the table and the microphones vibrating and shaking from the pounding that it took. Let's see that again.

[Mike Ryan]

Calling that.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's fine.

[Greg Cody]

You had the exact same play at.

[Mike Ryan]

Both ends in the last play of the game. The exact same play.

[Zach Zaslow]

Wow. Had to hurt that detect.

[Mike Ryan]

Same play. So I need the new commissioner of the Horizon League to explain to me what a technical foul is. When I don't leave the box, I don't curse. I'm not demonstrative. Okay?

[Zach Zaslow]

There was nothing, nothing that should have been called a technical foul.

[Mike Ryan]

I know when I earned one, I did not earn one.

[Greg Cody]

What are you laughing about? Chris Cody, he's just like, I don't.

[Mike Ryan]

Even know why that thought.

[Dan Le Batard]

I was angry.

[Mike Ryan]

I definitely wasn't angry. I've been doing work on myself.

[Greg Cody]

There was some fun college basketball sound over the weekend. Jerome Tang is the coach of Kansas State. And I should say former coach of Kansas State. He said this while he was coach of Kansas State. And because he said this, he was fired for cause, which I'm a bit stunned by that you would be fired for cause. Even though of course I don't think anymore that this is allowed when you're 1 and 11 in the conference. It may be allowed if you're 11 and 1 in the conference. But let's listen to Jerome Tang, what he said after Kansas State lost a fall to 1 and 11 in the conference.

[Zach Zaslow]

This was embarrassing. These dudes do not deserve to wear this uniform. There will be very few of them.

[Dan Le Batard]

In it next year. Like, I'm embarrassed for the university.

[Zach Zaslow]

I'm embarrassed for our fans, our student section. You know, it is just ridiculous. We got practice at 6am tomorrow morning and we will get this thing right.

[Greg Cody]

That sounded like a bit of a threat. Practice in the morning sounded like a threat. And your thoughts, Greg Cody on fired for cause there because it's the press conference. The AD said that it's the press conference that got him fired. Gene Taylor, the athletic director.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right.

[Zach Zaslow]

I mean, one of a head coach's big jobs is to decide what motivation means and what it takes to snap his team out of the rut it's in. If he thinks it's that, I sort of support him with that. But dealing with the reality, you know, all of a sudden he's got players who are entering the transfer portal and everything because they're not going to put.

[Greg Cody]

Wait a minute, you support that? But they just fired him for cause. He's not even going to get his at $19 million.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he'll.

[Zach Zaslow]

He'll. Believe me. He'll go to courting it. He'll go to court on that.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, his. His attorney already made like a pretty great statement because. Well, that's my gimmick. Just because I was away a few days doesn't mean you get to take my gimmick.

[Greg Cody]

Don LeBatard. This is the quickest it goes. He is the quickest it goes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sts, everybody. This is the quickest it goes. Yeah. This is the D Ler show with.

[Mike Ryan]

The st. What was I saying?

[Zach Zaslow]

What are you saying?

[Greg Cody]

You were saying the attorney.

[Dan Le Batard]

Attorney.

[Mike Ryan]

His attorney, yes, because the AD said that he embarrassed the university. You know, that's why they fired him for cause. And his. His attorney said if you want to see embarrassed, you know, the athletic department is going to be very embarrassed after all of this. That's a pretty good statement.

[Zach Zaslow]

I support a head coach's Ability to say something like that.

[Greg Cody]

He also took their names off the uniforms.

[Mike Ryan]

Correct.

[Zach Zaslow]

He.

[Greg Cody]

They played without their names on the uniform. I always enjoyed when Penn State did that in a quaint, nostalgic time where they wouldn't put the names on the back of the uniform. But the Nike swoosh was there. You could see the Nike S.W.

[Mike Ryan]

No problem.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Bill O' Brien changed that. His reasoning was, like, these players that decided to stick with the program, they should be recognized. That was actually pretty cool.

[Zach Zaslow]

I think he might have saved his job had he done the token thing that coaches always do, which is smack the table down. No, which is to blame themselves as well. Not just to put it on the players, but to say we as coaches got to do better, too.

[Greg Cody]

Well, no, he got those players, and he blamed all of those players. Those are his players. And Jerome Tang also gave the game away several years ago. He's in the second year of his deal, and he told you what his plan was a long time ago.

[Mike Ryan]

Get a contract extension and then get.

[Dan Le Batard]

Fired the second year. Because that's.

[Zach Zaslow]

No, that's what they do in the NBA.

[Dan Le Batard]

They hire you to fire you.

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Zach Zaslow]

So get fired the second year, but then they have to pay the rest of my contract. And then my wife and I, Ray, we're gonna fly around and go travel.

[Greg Cody]

The world and build schools and orphanages. That music is tremendous. I expect a whole bunch of side effects to be given. Like on one of those ads for Bizzle Teen ain't X Z.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well said.

[Mike Ryan]

When do you think he's gonna build that school?

[Greg Cody]

I wanted to make sure I didn't actually hit any of this. Any sponsor. I call it Bizzle Tx xz. You know, one of you've heard, though, they come out with a happy ukulele, and they don't expect you to notice that. They're saying that you're gonna get spinal fluid that leaks and that you know, you're gonna have perpetual hemorrhaging anytime you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Think there's a 93% chance that this drug kills you.

[Greg Cody]

That's right. But they say it's so happy. They do say it, so. They say it's so cheerful.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ask your doctor about it.

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, doc, this thing says a 93% chance.

[Greg Cody]

Am I good? The ukulele sound so zaslo. How was your trip to Vegas? You haven't given us any.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, yes, Vegas was great, Dan. You know, you told me that Vegas was a little bit down. All right.

[Greg Cody]

Vegas has a lot of hotels that are dying, and the Vegas Strip Many people are saying the economy has harmed the Vegas Strip.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, Vegas, you told me was a little bit down. But you don't have to worry about that anymore because I made a very nice donation over the weekend. Vegas will be keeping the lights on for at least a little bit longer based on your boy this weekend. Come on, now.

[Greg Cody]

It didn't go well.

[Mike Ryan]

You just know it did not. And you know, when I. When I keep making that run to the ATM and then I have to tell my wife, it gets a little bit uncomfortable, you know?

[Greg Cody]

Really?

[Mike Ryan]

Luckily, I sent her to the Sphere on Saturday afternoon. Here, I'm buying you a ticket to the Sphere. Go see a show.

[Greg Cody]

You stay away because of your vertigo. You didn't go anywhere. You couldn't go anywhere near the Sphere.

[Mike Ryan]

I bought her a ticket to the Sphere to go see the wizard of Oz that's been playing there. And, like, I couldn't go with her, so she had to go. And.

[Zach Zaslow]

And you're like, fine, I'll gamble.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, well, yeah. Like, I was totally good with it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cost you $8,000.

[Mike Ryan]

That sphere is expensive. Let me tell you something.

[Dan Le Batard]

But I cause you $8,000 because of what you did while she was alone.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, yes, that's true. Yes.

[Greg Cody]

The free drinks that you paid $8,000.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, but I got free drinks. They kept coming back and forth. I got. It's okay, you know. So we saw New Kids on the Block. That was great.

[Dan Le Batard]

Really quick, Z. I saw the pictures you put up. Not New Kids on the Block.

[Mike Ryan]

What are you talking about? Oh, a little bit older.

[Dan Le Batard]

A lot older.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, you know, it's.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, I. Look, I was like, madam Tussauds.

[Zach Zaslow]

Where is he?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's. As his friend you're talking about. Whichever one is a fan of the show. Respect to him.

[Mike Ryan]

Huge fan of the show.

[Dan Le Batard]

What's his name?

[Greg Cody]

Wait a minute. That is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Have you seen him with his shirt off?

[Greg Cody]

You can't say respect to him. And then. No, respectfully, Madame Tussauds. The wax museum.

[Mike Ryan]

Madame?

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't say madame. I think it's two sides. Either Madame Tussaud, too, so excuse me. Either way you slice it. I thought it was a bunch of wax figures with Zaz.

[Greg Cody]

And I was like, you can't claim a wax museum.

[Dan Le Batard]

To his friend, though.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know which one.

[Greg Cody]

The poll put it on the poll.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's messed up.

[Greg Cody]

If you compare a new kid on the block to someone in a wax museum, can you do it respectfully? Because I don't think you can do that. Respectfully. Greg, Cody, I have been remiss here in not mentioning that you apparently have some regrets about last week's Love Guru segment. You, you came in here kind of mopey today. You, you looked tremendous in an outfit for Valentine's Day that was all hearts. But you came in with some regret. I don't know. Chris, did he tell you any of this? He thought he was a little too bawdy. He thought he went over the line in terms of taste, which I thought was.

[Dan Le Batard]

What the hell does that mean?

[Greg Cody]

The magic of the segment. I don't think anybody other than you had that appraisal.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah, it was body.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't even know what that.

[Dan Le Batard]

What does that mean?

[Zach Zaslow]

B, A, W, D, Y. You know, risque.

[Mike Ryan]

So I want you to say risque.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah, he said it, not me.

[Greg Cody]

Well, I was quoting you.

[Zach Zaslow]

Oh, okay, whatever. No, I mentioned this a little bit on my podcast. The regret I had, I thought it was a little dirty, you know, a little over the top. Particularly the. The thing I chanted, which I will not chant again.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where's my. You said it, though, though.

[Zach Zaslow]

I know.

[Mike Ryan]

Wait, that was a real thing. He said. I saw that on social media. I thought somebody was joking.

[Dan Le Batard]

Somebody asked him where to find it and he said, where's my.

[Mike Ryan]

Sheesh, Greg, that's inappropriate. That's awesome.

[Zach Zaslow]

That was my concern.

[Dan Le Batard]

Damn, I wish I was here for that.

[Mike Ryan]

Not appropriate.

[Zach Zaslow]

Okay. That was my concern. You know, I don't need believe. At one point he said, that's critical of it.

[Mike Ryan]

That's not all.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the size of a stick of butter. There was a lot.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yeah, there was a lot there. You know, I just. Because I always like to think, you know, some. There's a 12 year old in our audience, you know, there's a Lebiton show fan who's 10 years old, you know. You know, I don't want him or her to.

[Mike Ryan]

Man, you're filthy.

[Greg Cody]

Well, what's happening with you today? Because you also, you. You find NC State $100,000 because their crowd was chanting and they will be fine.

[Zach Zaslow]

Mark my words.

[Greg Cody]

I don't think they will be fined.

[Zach Zaslow]

Mark them.

[Greg Cody]

I don't think it's the first time that they've done this. I think that this is a regular thing that they do there.

[Zach Zaslow]

People double the fine then if it's a regular thing, if they get a history of this, double the fine. Next time they do it, triple the fine.

[Greg Cody]

Didn't you just say a little while ago, I love when everyone speaks freely in sports? Wasn't that just a little while ago? And I'm like, you love it, but not everyone. A lot of people love conservative rules, like just rules for people, for all human beings to behave under governance and rules.

[Zach Zaslow]

Dan, when you grow up in school, one of the things you learn about freedom of expression is that there are limits to it. And the old example that was always used as you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Why? Because you're going to start a stampede and maybe kill somebody.

[Greg Cody]

So cursing, cursing at an NC State game is your bridge too far?

[Zach Zaslow]

Listen, I'm not going to. I'm not going to play the prude here. I am not being prudish to say that when 20,000 people are chanting the F word.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's body.

[Zach Zaslow]

It's. It's something that's fineable. If you. If I'm an, If I'm a conference commissioner, yes. I am telling my teams their fans better not chant that because the first time the school's going to get fined and the second time find kids, maybe there's going to be. Maybe there's going to be other penalties that more directly affect the team itself. That's my opinion. I don't think you do that. I don't think you.

[Dan Le Batard]

But Greg, guess what the fans are going to do. They hear the rule of don't say it.

[Zach Zaslow]

Guess what they're going to do.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're going to scream it louder.

[Greg Cody]

Okay.

[Zach Zaslow]

And then the penalties get.

[Greg Cody]

Greg Cody is here on behalf of decorum. Greg Cody is here to tell the college basketball crowd, do not chant the F word. You're fine with sucks, you're fine with mucks, as Joe Zagaki kept saying again and again. But there's one word that for you is a bridge too far from the maker of where's my.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yes. Okay. That's why I regretted that, by the way.

[Greg Cody]

Because of the chanting at NC State?

[Zach Zaslow]

No, because I regretted me saying that. Because I think there is a line that can be crossed. And yes, I think the F word crosses that line. You know, they're not chanting, you know, Miami's dumb. You know, they're chanting the F word.

[Mike Ryan]

That'd be hurtful, I think.

[Zach Zaslow]

You know what, though?

[Greg Cody]

So you've heard me say a little bit around here that we're sort of beyond these days, whatever it is that polite society used to be. So unless you're going to do this in some place like a church, which is an. An aggressive act of disrespect, doesn't the context matter?

[Zach Zaslow]

Yes.

[Greg Cody]

Like a basketball arena, like, what are you doing? You're making it a, an institution of higher learning as opposed to what it now is, which is just professional basketball played more amateurly than they play it at the NBA and G league level. Like, it's not. Like, what is sacrosanct here? The campus, the student, the child.

[Zach Zaslow]

I'm talking about a public event that when you look around, you see a lot of kids there. Okay.

[Greg Cody]

I don't think that's a college basketball game. Do you see a lot of kids in a college basketball game?

[Mike Ryan]

College basketball towns, you'll get families who go, sure. Not a lot, but you'll get families.

[Dan Le Batard]

I just think that the sportsmanship story that came from this game was that Miami players were probably being a little extra by waving NC State fans home. And I think chanting them the F word is also a little bit extra. And that should also be considered when firing off your takes.

[Greg Cody]

But road games are impolite in college sports and we celebrate the regional identity and the atmospheres that make them electric and make it hard to win ACC road games. Like, it's, it's a word being chanted. And they. And. And F U ref is something that I've heard in just about every stadium I've been in.

[Dan Le Batard]

Refuse is a very popular.

[Mike Ryan]

Refuseuck is the most Miami chant there is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Zach Zaslow]

Refuse suck is not you rev.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I think that this is, you know, it's kind of governed. It's kind of governed by the outcome of the game, you know. All right, damn. They got our ass pretty good there with that eight point comeback in the, in the last moments of that game. Like we were chanting them and they waved us goodbye. We keep our head down, we keep moving.

[Greg Cody]

That's.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's sports.

[Zach Zaslow]

So. So you think it's okay in a football stadium for 70,000 people to be chanting F you the opposing.

[Greg Cody]

Look, it's wildly impolite, but if I'm going to get impolite, I'm gonna get it at a sport. Like, it's. No, it's not decent. It's indecent. It's an indecent thing to chant.

[Zach Zaslow]

Not definable.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not.

[Zach Zaslow]

Not.

[Greg Cody]

Well, you're taking away money because of a crowd, doing something that you're saying is inappropriate. When it's like, I'm pretty used to hearing crowds do stuff like that. It's not for me. It's not what I would do.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's hard to find. Like, all right, so you're just gonna punish a team? Like, look at the CONCACAF rules for Mexican soccer. Fans to not say that when the. The goalkeeper kicks in and they can't.

[Greg Cody]

Stop it, they throw cups full of urine at the guy doing the corner kick in Mexico.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, no, no, but I'm talking. I know that. But there is a very popular homophobic chant that Mexican supporters often use, and soccer's tried to govern it and eliminate it from the game, and they cannot.

[Zach Zaslow]

Okay, but the key phrase is soccer has tried to govern it. Why can't American conferences try to govern their fans chanting fu?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a ridiculous example.

[Mike Ryan]

But what was the team with the.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tortillas throwing the tug there? Were they threatened. If you guys keep throwing tortillas, we're going to penalize the team. So it's not that uncommon to take, like, at least threaten the.

[Mike Ryan]

That's because you're. You're throwing an object onto the plank.

[Zach Zaslow]

What I'm saying, it's.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're throwing words. I mean, CONCACAF and FIFA have taken pretty punitive measures. Like, they. They haven't allowed fans to go into stadiums for offenses that cross. For these lewd offenses that cross the line. And it doesn't eliminate it. It's more offensive.

[Greg Cody]

Throwing words or throwing tortillas. Did you feel good about your. They're throwing words because you reminded me.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was battling.

[Greg Cody]

Of the guy throwing ashes on Daytona. When you threw those words and they just blew back in your face and you started coughing, it didn't feel like you felt very good about what you did there with their throwing words. Even your father, who's on this side of the point, is laughing at you and the idea of throwing wor words.

[Zach Zaslow]

I'm totally fine. I'm astonished to be and fine to be the only person standing up for the idea that universities should be penalized when 20,000 of their fans are chanting F Miami or F. And the Dolphins, too.

[Greg Cody]

Right. Not just universities. Any sports franchise.

[Zach Zaslow]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

When the guy at Daytona inhaled his dad's ashes and then he walked back to his seat like, what does his family say? Are they just like, your face is covered in dust.

[Greg Cody]

Your face isn't that gray.

[Dan Le Batard]

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