The Official World Cup Team Of Greg Cote | Hour 3

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: The Official World Cup Team Of Greg Cote | Hour 3
Date: June 2, 2026

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Episode Overview

Broadcasting live from Miami, this hour of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz serves up the show’s signature mix of irreverent sports conversation, Miami culture, and inside jokes with the cast. The wide-ranging discussion centers on the approaching 2026 FIFA World Cup, the explosive ticket market surrounding Colombia’s Miami match, and the reveal of Greg Cote’s official World Cup allegiance, all filtered through the banter and satire the show is known for. Memorable, too, is a surreal segment dissecting Sid Rosenberg’s appearance, demonstrating the show's unique blend of roasts and cultural commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Curious Case of Sid Rosenberg’s Skin Color (00:54–11:20)

• The show opens with a deep dive into Sid Rosenberg's recent viral video appearance, with the crew baffled and entertained by the “unprecedented” purple shade of his skin. This morphs into a comedic round-robin comparing Sid’s color to various fictional and cultural icons (Hellboy, Thanos, Barney, Grimace, Red Skull), blending humor with subtle social commentary.
• The conversation dances around Sid’s real-life struggles, addiction, and political transformations, using his changing skin color as an absurdist metaphor for political rage in America.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • Dan: “This is Realms Beyond Red. This is not red. He looks like he’s coming out of makeup. He looks a bit like Hellboy.” (05:02)
  • Mike Ryan: “We’ve seen people…skin color change. Like, we saw Michael Jackson, we saw Sammy Sosa. We’ve never seen this color.” (08:45)
  • Dan: “Sid Rosenberg has been charred from the inside as his hatred for all the things that America has become… It’s a purple stage of hatred in this country.” (07:40)

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2. The World Cup in Miami: Soccer Mania and Ticket Madness (11:20–25:05)

• Dan introduces the upcoming World Cup as “the biggest sporting event there is,” noting its transformative impact on Miami’s social and financial landscape, especially with Colombia playing local matches.
• Discussion about the astronomical ticket prices for Colombia vs. Portugal at Miami’s stadium (“$3,300 get in price,” 16:47), with Mike and others noting this is unprecedented for World Cup games in the U.S.
• Debate on ticket accessibility and the disappointment for local, working-class fans, highlighting broader issues of gentrification and Miami’s economic divide.
• The crew shares personal and cultural context for what Colombian pride and a World Cup match mean to Miami’s identity, recalling previous wild scenes of national pride and warning of an unparalleled city-wide frenzy about to unfold.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • Dan: “Colombia playing in Miami, a World Cup game, is the biggest thing in this city, given our Colombian representation.” (12:59)
  • Dan: “That ticket being priced out for poor people is a real shame because every poor person also wants to be in that game.” (17:19)
  • Mike Ryan: “You need to have a yellow Colombian national team jersey… every couple of years [Colombians] throw the absolute best party in sports. It is infectious. It is vibrant.” (21:16)

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3. The Greg Cote Show’s World Cup Team Reveal (26:03–28:53)

• As per tradition, Greg Cote picks his official non-USA World Cup team for his podcast—a source of excitement among listeners.
• In a tongue-in-cheek moment of self-absorption, he announces his team as Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), sheepishly admitting the choice is largely because "Cote" looks like "Cody" and their (incorrect) star player is named Wilfred, like his father’s name.
• The show gleefully skewers Greg for his tenuous reasoning and minimal research (Wilfred Zaha isn’t even on the Ivory Coast roster this year; another Wilfried, Singo, is).
• Memorable Quotes:
  • Dan: “How much of the percentage…is you chose that team just because their first name looks like Cody?” (32:29)
  • Jonathan Zaslow: “I don’t want to quantify it… I mean come on.” (32:37)
  • Greg Cody: “You just spotted a Wilfred and said, that’s my team.” (28:13)

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4. Baseball, Streaming Confusion, and Day Game Philosophy (36:16–40:45)

• Amid the World Cup fever, the show pivots to discuss the woes and logistics of streaming local baseball (Tampa Bay Rays, Miami Marlins), the confusion of finding games on modern cable/streaming services, and the oddity of weekday day games.
• Amusing anecdotes about “man spread” at empty ballparks and merchandise tie-ins (“Cuck” shirts) further reinforce the laid-back, self-mocking tone of the episode.
• Dan and Stugotz compare baseball’s niche scheduling to America’s evolving sports-watching habits.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • Mike Ryan: “I like when there’s no one there. I get my man spread on.” (40:45)
  • Dan: “Wednesday day games… it’s like an amusement park for just you and 3,000 people.” (40:26)

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5. Final Sports Bits and Running Jokes (41:16–End)

• The hour closes with classic show tropes: lamenting legendary NFL defensive lines, roasting random hypotheticals, and teasing the confusion of the Marlins broadcast channels.
• Cote and Stugotz quip about charity “round-up” schemes and the economics of selling “Cuck” T-shirts, keeping the inside jokes rolling.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Dan (on Sid Rosenberg): "Sid Rosenberg has been charred from the inside as his hatred…mushroom cloud exploded from inside on the politics of rage." (07:40)
• Greg Cody (on ticket sales): "It’s a damn shame because this is the world’s most accessible game." (18:22)
• Mike Ryan (on Colombian pride): "It is the best things about national pride and sports meeting together. Cannot wait for that energy." (21:16)
• Jonathan Zaslow (on Côte d’Ivoire pick): "I’m not saying [the name] is not a factor. Another factor is their best player. His first name is Wilfred." (27:47)
• Dan (on baseball day games): "Baseball now has a time slot to itself…everybody who wants any kind of baseball fun…I can check in on a Wednesday at 1:00 in the afternoon." (39:21)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Sid Rosenberg "Purple" Roast: 00:54 – 11:20
• World Cup Ticket Frenzy & Colombian Culture: 11:20 – 25:05
• Greg Cote’s Official World Cup Team Reveal: 26:03 – 28:53, revisit 32:14 – 33:16
• Baseball Streaming/“Man Spread” Segment: 36:16 – 41:09
• Final running jokes & sports musings: 41:16 – End

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Tone & Style

The episode embodies the Le Batard Show’s freewheeling humor, Miami-centric worldview, and deep skepticism toward sports establishment and celebrity. Language is sharp, playful, and frequently self-deprecating, with conversations veering from current events to running in-jokes and show lore, always delivered in the cast’s original voices.

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For New Listeners

You’ll come away with a sense of the show’s community and comic rhythms, an appreciation of Miami’s intersection of sports and Latin culture—and, perhaps, a newfound sympathy for soccer-mad Colombians and purple-tinted hot takes.

Transcript

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Jonathan Zaslow]

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[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast, Greg cody. We're doing four hours live. They're not actually four hours every day this week. They're 38 minutes, 40 minutes. But we are trying to do the entirety of the show live for you today. And I don't feel great about everything happening with the puppets. It's. It bums me out. But I think I can lift the mood around here just a little bit because those of you who have been with us for a really long time, 20 years, 7 90, know what this is because you've grown from kid to parent to maybe grandparent on our 20 years of time listening to us. You know the name Sid Rosenberg. It is embedded in the early days of Miami radio when I would say that Miami sports radio was among the hottest things going in the. I would say the lineup that we built at 7 90.

[Mike Ryan]

Best in the country at a time.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes. Was. Was it when Sid was on there or was it before Sid was on in middays? The best 790 lineup there's ever been was when.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, yes. I think it's Sid in the morning and then after Sid was Sedano and then Boog and then you. That lineup there, I think rivaled any lineup in the country.

[Greg Cody]

And Kevin Rogers with Brandon Gooseberry.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, Rog and So Sid Rosenberg. I didn't know much about Sid Rosenberg, had a lot of drug troubles. And I had at least one meaningful, spiritual, loving moment with Sid Rosenberg, at least in part because of just. I'm gonna say how generally hurt he seemed. And, yeah, I just. I had a moving moment with Sid Rosenberg, who seemed troubled the entire time I knew him. Like, just deeply troubled, grabbed by addiction, and always in a state of sort of recovery. So it's been sad a little bit. Just watch as the country has become what the country's become. Everything that's happened to Sid, that includes now him being just, like, really red. Like, just. I don't know how to say it, other than whatever the fury is that roils within him.

[Mike Ryan]

Purple Dan.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I just. I don't know what's happening here on this video, but it was shocking. I can't believe that's not AI. I can't believe that that's real in any way. Roy, you're just laughing, but I really question with great sincerity what happened. This is not. He's not. Is he okay? Is he well? Is he. He's not sick, right?

[Greg Cody]

That is a nuclear shade of plum.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

What sickness would make you plum?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

That. That can't be real.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, it's very real.

[Stugats]

Oh, it's real.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

That's the mortal version of the devil. That guy. What I'm looking at right now, I

[Dan Le Batard]

need to explain to the audio audience. This is a color of skin I have simply never seen on a human being, no matter how burned they are. Look, I've seen Zagaki. I saw Zagaki, and it's Sports Radio hall of Fame stuff. Zagaki got a son, tan, sunburned so bad, wearing sunglasses that he did a game. And his eyes are. The area around his eyes were clearly white, and the rest of him was broiled and charred and red, but it wasn't this. This is miles beyond this.

[Stugats]

It is not even close. If you can close your eyes and picture the Zigaki picture with the redness around his face. Now take that 47 times more.

[Mike Ryan]

This isn't a summer.

[Stugats]

Sid looks.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the color of his skin.

[Stugats]

No, it looks like he's holding his breath. And he held his breath for, like, five hours.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, I need to explain to the audio audience that does not know what this looks like. This is a shade of purpl I have never seen on a human being before. This is Realms Beyond Red. This is not red. He looks like he's coming out of makeup. He looks a bit like hellboy all

[Stugats]

right, so, Dan, so you've. You've given us two people that he looks like. We did put together a couple of compilations to let you know. All right, does he look like this or does he look like.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, you did this.

[Stugats]

Okay, we have a couple.

[Dan Le Batard]

Look, help. The answer's Hellboy. You're not gonna do better than.

[Stugats]

Well, I have a couple. I think I have a couple better.

[Mike Ryan]

I do.

[Stugats]

Let's put up the first one here. Yeah, we got Sid looking very purple.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, look at that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, this is not a normal thing that we have here. I just need to explain yet more to the audio audience that this is not a skin color that any human being has ever had that hasn't been painted on them.

[Stugats]

So this is our first one.

[Greg Cody]

This is vision from Marvel, Dan.

[Stugats]

Remember Wandavision?

[Mike Ryan]

Look at that. That's vision.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's so much more purple than vision. Like, this is.

[Stugats]

Okay, so you want to go purple. All right, let's bring up the next one. Oh, Thanos, Dan, Thanos is purple as all get out.

[Mike Ryan]

Sid looks very similar to Thanos, guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thanos.

[Mike Ryan]

Inevitable

[Dan Le Batard]

skin purple. Okay, how about this is light skinned purple.

[Stugats]

He's right. He's right. How about this? Yes, a little bit more purple.

[Greg Cody]

Barney.

[Stugats]

Barney, purple enough or not purple enough?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's better. Okay, Barney is better than any others you have shown me. But I'm saying Hellboy, and I think he's more purple than Hellboy. I've never seen a human being this purple who's not coming out of makeup.

[Stugats]

We have another purple. That's another purple person. That was very famous a couple of years ago with the Mets. Can we pull up? Grimace, grimace.

[Dan Le Batard]

Now we're getting closer. Now we're getting closer.

[Mike Ryan]

Look at the resemblance.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, what has happened to Sid Rosenberg? Mike Ryan, I see you sitting out this conversation. Why is he sitting out? I see Mike has faded to the back of the room. He doesn't want into these waters with the political nonsense that is Sid.

[Mike Ryan]

Mike doesn't like talking about politics.

[Greg Cody]

I don't take him seriously.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, he spoke at the Republican National Convention.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, but that's typically not a political forum, Dan. Dana White's done it for three straight RNCs, and he's not political.

[Dan Le Batard]

Zaz, I will ask you again. And Cody, I will ask you again. What happened here?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Is Sid okay?

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he's never been okay.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

No, but what I mean is, if he legit, if that. If that's not doctored, if that's actually the way he looked.

[Mike Ryan]

You don't Want to say something and then find out that he's actually sick.

[Dan Le Batard]

This. This is what I'm going to accuse Sid Rosenberg of right now, publicly. Even though I too fear the political waters that bring the Tea Party and Breitbart and shit stain and I and their army of Sids. Sid Rosenberg has been charred from the inside as his hatred for all the things that America has become as immigrants overrun ice and has mushroom cloud exploded from inside on the politics of rage trying to protect his country from like the Lebatard show in the afternoons. Those boys are awfully Latin. I believe that Sid Rosenberg has been charred from the inside. Do you have a better theory than me? It's not yet gotten to totally burnt. It's just in the purple stage. It was red in various phases. It was pink before that, but we've just gotten to purple. It's a purple stage of hatred in this country. Somewhere between white and black. In the racial divisions of this country, it's dark purple.

[Stugats]

So you're saying the internal temperature is climbing so fast.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes. A lava, a volcano of hate from inside that has purple lava. Not white, not black, not red. Sort of green. There's a lot of green in there.

[Mike Ryan]

We've seen people like their skin color change. Like, we saw Michael Jackson, we saw Sammy Sosa.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've never seen this.

[Mike Ryan]

We've never seen this color.

[Dan Le Batard]

No. Sammy Sosa was unprecedented. Look, Michael Jackson was strange. Sammy Sosa was another kind of strange. Sammy Sosa was in the same realm where it seemed everybody just assumed he was trying to look whiter. He goes the other way. Sid in the modern times goes dark purple. Like whatever the spectrum is of ridiculous race colors on the stupidity of what we do around, oh, this person's white. This person's back. This one's purple.

[Stugats]

I have another one for you. I'm gonna bring up Hellboy to see what you think of Sid and Hellboy.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Close enough.

[Dan Le Batard]

But even more purple. Purple than Hellboy. Look. Come on, guys, do I have this wrong? Never in the history of Earth have you ever seen this on this shade of skin on anyone.

[Stugats]

How about Red Skull from the Marvel Universe?

[Dan Le Batard]

Are we closer there?

[Mike Ryan]

Red Skull, good one.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Yeah, there it is, Sid.

[Dan Le Batard]

That one is good. That one is also charred from the inside. I think the red one might be the stage of Sid that there is when the last of the hatred eats him up from the inside. That might be the next stage on the spectrum of cancerous racial opinion. Did I ruin it? I don't know.

[Stugats]

We're looking around.

[Mike Ryan]

Mike, what you think?

[Greg Cody]

I don't have any thoughts here.

[Stugats]

Nobody's got thoughts on.

[Greg Cody]

It's a little dangerous.

[Stugats]

What's dangerous? No human should be that color.

[Greg Cody]

Well, I think someone speaking to the J Post would not like to be compared to Red Skull, given what you know about the background of the character.

[Tony]

Well, Zaz, you and I are going to rule here.

[Greg Cody]

Think it's all right.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want to go back a second and just stew in some of Zaslow's shame for a second. Just real quick, Zaz, what happened with what it is we were trying to do with the Rich Ball?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Oh, man.

[Mike Ryan]

Like Dan says. Dan said during the break. Zazzle, did you. Did you get everything off your chest you want to do about Rich Paul's like, no, and I don't want to anymore. I'd like to move on because I am not happy at all the way that that went. Yeah, no, I performed very poorly there. I have a lot more things to say about. I have more clips, and I want them to go in the garbage.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, I want the. I want the Rich Paul segment that you want as soon as you become full time. You're flatly refusing to do.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, now that you want to do. Now that I'm full time and I have an actual deal, I can. I can say no to things. And you want. You want to know if I have more to say about Rich Paul, and I do not.

[Dan Le Batard]

So whatever your criticism of Rich Paul was going to be, we did it so poorly in execution that it makes you retreat from whatever your opinion was on Rich Paul.

[Mike Ryan]

Not even close to meaningful enough.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, so the World cup is nine days away. Okay. And I really do want to get. We are about to head into a slow time in the sports year, and it's my favorite time when it's slow because we can do what we want, and we don't need too much sports. However, in the middle of. This is the biggest sporting event there is. And so it doesn't actually get to be slow because it kind of ends up being both the hockey and the NBA playoffs in one, because all of a sudden, all of our Latin friends are engaged in a way that they usually aren't. What's that Colombia Portugal ticket going to go for when we're talking about Knicks tickets and what it is that's happening in right now in New York. What you said 4,500 to get in

[Mike Ryan]

the building on Wednesday night for game three? Yeah, 4,500.

[Dan Le Batard]

What's about to engulf South Florida. And, Greg, you can speak to the Sum. I think we're about to have the most expensive ticket we've ever had in town of what? The World cup in this city with Colombia involved. What Colombia? Everything over the last 30 years that has lived here or in Colombia wants to be inside of that stadium.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Right. And, you know, people are so aghast at how much they're charging for World cup tickets. Well, demand equals dollar amount, and the demand is great, and so the dollar amount is great. I don't know why everybody's up in arms that you have to pay a couple of thousand dollars to get a seat at a World cup game. That's that level. Columbia in Miami.

[Mike Ryan]

I think it's because they've. And Mike can correct me if I'm wrong. They've never been this expensive. Right?

[Greg Cody]

That's right.

[Mike Ryan]

World cup happens in countries, and there are countries who are playing at that venue that are super popular, and they've never been priced like this.

[Dan Le Batard]

But to. To explain to America, lest you not know, Columbia playing in Miami, a World cup game is the biggest thing in this city, given our Colombian representation.

[Greg Cody]

Tony, you know that moment at a party or at a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks?

[Stugats]

I know it. Well, it's usually when I show up, everybody goes crazy.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. You usually take all the credit for it, but it's because Tony usually walks in with Cuervo. Walk in like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuervo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night.

[Stugats]

It has that effect on people.

[Greg Cody]

It does. You usually take the credit for it, but again, it's the Cuervo effect. It's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up, hooting and hollering, keep it Cuervo.

[Stugats]

Keep it Cuervo, baby.

[Tony]

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[Greg Cody]

the big game starts stacking up. Now you've got finals games on every other night, baseball's rolling all week, racing on the weekends, and suddenly everybody's looking for an excuse to get together. The other night a buddy texted me, we've got the game on, come through. I figured I'd stop by for maybe an hour. That was optimistic. Next thing you know, everybody's locked into the game and we're all part of the coaching staff. Somebody's yelling at the ref, somebody else is suddenly an expert on pitch strategy, and nobody's even pretending they're leaving early anymore. It's one of those nights where you take a sip of Miller Lite, look around and realize, yeah, this is exactly what summer is supposed to be. That's why Miller Lite is always part of these nights for me. It's clean, refreshing, easy to drink when it's hot outside, and perfect for long nights hanging with friends, watching games. An all American summer starts with an all American beer Miller lite. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard I feel like we need

[Stugats]

to normalize saying these scientific terms for organs on the air. Like if someone. Yes. You know what? If someone takes a foul ball to the penis, we should just say he took a foul ball to the penis.

[Greg Cody]

Stugats.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

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

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Don lebatar show with the stugats.

[Mike Ryan]

Getting price for that first Colombia game, which is at the end of this month. It's Colombia and Portugal. $3,300 get in price.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

And Portugal also has one of the best players in the world.

[Mike Ryan]

So if you want to take your family of four, you're Colombian, you got two kids, you want to go see your country, $13,000.

[Greg Cody]

Or you can fly to Guadalajara like I am to watch him play Congo. Granted, not an opponent of Portugal stature or skill, but it's much cheaper to do it that way.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, but Zaz, what I would say to you about this that I do find interesting if you are to shake your head and say, yeah, expensive tickets to expensive games. Well, the people who get priced out, though, when Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic, that's the World Baseball Classic, that's not the World Cup. When they won the World Baseball Classic, the number of Venezuelans that I saw in our city who were just overcome with joy at sports being the best possible thing that they can feel in their hearts. Whatever you think Knicks fans are feeling now, they were so happy with the World Baseball Classic, Columbia playing in this city and some people being able to go to the games with their kids and stuff. That ticket being priced out for poor people is a real shame because every poor person also wants to be in that game. And them getting this expense, it makes it so that people who aren't as big of fans as the one who are the biggest fans have absolutely no access whatsoever to the biggest game this town has seen for Colombian soccer.

[Greg Cody]

The problem is the primary market and the fact that if you do want to go to this event and do things the right way, which is tickets go on sale at blank time, I'm going to get by my computer. I'm going to try like hell. You've got no shot. And if you do get through, the face value is an absurd amount of money, the likes of which we have never seen for a World Cup. And then the secondary market's going to do its thing. You don't have a shot because all the scalpers and the bots are going for the tickets. And then it's going to the secondary market. And it's a damn shame because this is the world's most accessible game.

[Mike Ryan]

And for some context, comparing the Columbia game to other games that are taking place down here, Saudi Arabia and Uruguay get in, price for that is $400.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Sure.

[Stugats]

Which is what?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Which is reasonable for a World cup match, in my opinion.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, but reasonable guys, give me just historic context. Greg, you are a columnist, but you are a columnist who, even while working at the Miami Herald, doesn't speak Very often on behalf of Hispanic people. Colombia playing a World cup game in Miami compares to what in terms of the number of people.

[Greg Cody]

Colombia playing Copa America final against Argentina in Miami. And we all saw how that went.

[Dan Le Batard]

What is headed our way? My, my larger point on talking about the World cup and what is headed to Miami. I've told you guys before that Miami's dressed up as a big international city. It's a spring break town and a spring break state. It's just covered in the drug money. So when Formula one comes here, it's funny, like, because our. Yeah, no, we're not big time. We look big time. But what's happened in this city over the last few years is a lot of artificial money comes into the city and makes it a real weird place economically where the richest of the rich are here. All of them, because of the homestead exemptions and everything else. The second homes are all here. And you can't live here as a poor person anymore. It's just not. It's not possible. Hialeah is the fifth least affordable or, yeah, least affordable housing market. The Colombians who generationally came through this town cleaning the houses. However it is that immigrants come here and make a population and a life for themselves that is such a passionate fan base about that one sport. The regional identity I was telling you about with Venezuela and the World Baseball Club Classic, there's nothing like this. The way those people feel about their team as an identity where patriotism is the best thing in sports there where the Escobar brothers, you know, you can, you can get shot for allowing an own goal. Because the Colombians are so crazy about their soccer and also proud of their Pablo Escobar ties.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, the Escobar's weren't related. That would have been even more complex.

[Dan Le Batard]

I thought the 30 for 30 was the Escobar brothers. Oh, my bad.

[Mike Ryan]

That was a good one.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, that was one of the best stand. That's another $5 I'm very excited for. I mean, the World cup, obviously it's the biggest sporting event on the planet and it's not remotely close. You could argue it's the biggest event, period, that the planet has to offer. But we are literally positioned across the street from the fan fest and we are going to feel in South Florida, certainly in Miami Dade county, like we are in a different country. I mean, many people would argue listening to this that it already feels that way. But there is going to be so much national pride you are gonna feel when you drive here to work in a couple of Weeks like you are playing a road game, there is going to be yellow shirts everywhere. The Colombian people down here are especially proud. It is an infectious energy. I said before Juju botched the poll question that it is almost a requirement in Miami. You need to have a yellow Colombian national team jersey with James on the back. Just because a couple of times every couple of years they throw the absolute best party in sports. It is infectious. It is vibrant. It is the best things about national pride and sports meeting together. Cannot wait for that energy. So much so that I am seeking it out. I know it's going to be here in Miami. I'm glad to be near it. I'm going to Mexico to be near it some more. I'm not Colombian. I just love their passion for the game.

[Tony]

I'd argue Juju nailed that poll question.

[Dan Le Batard]

Zaslo. The things that Mike is talking about here, when you consider Colombian culture and what it's like for proud people to be proudest of their team than they are of anything else. Like, I don't think we have anything like that here. Like, whatever it is that the US Olympic hockey team did, it wasn't our only sport. There is a region's attachment to just one thing that they export to the world. They're known for their cocaine because of who Pablo Escobar was. Not one of the brothers. Colombia as an entity has more pride in this thing than anything. It is the biggest thing. And I just don't think that people know what's about to ransack Miami. We don't have. We don't have the infrastructure for this. Wait. The poor people are going to be climbing all over each other to try and be around whatever is happening with that team, wherever it's happening, in hotels and buses. Like the insanity. You think the World Baseball Classic was crazy? That's how those countries feel about their baseball. Colombia feels about soccer and only soccer.

[Greg Cody]

That way I think people will get an idea of what's coming to Miami. Because when Colombia faced Messi in a Copa America final, it was one of the more infamous stadium disasters.

[Mike Ryan]

Were we climbing through the air vents like Die Hard?

[Greg Cody]

Exactly right. Who knows who's still there? Trapped. But this is not Copa America. This is the World Cup. This is Cristiano Ronaldo and a really good Portugal team that's one of the favored sides against Colombia, who plays a style that can keep them in any game. And for whatever reason, when those guys put on that yellow shirt, they all play so much better.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

The police preserve the infrastructure. That's what I'M here for the police presence.

[Dan Le Batard]

Good timing, Puppet.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

The police presence in that game is going to be unprecedented. And what amazes me is that Columbia is that passionate despite not being a good team. They're not only Colombia, they're outside the top 10 in betting odds. I mean, they're nobody's favorite.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, the market prices favor some of the European teams and Brazil has a more favorable market price. But if you follow Brazil during qualification, it's not the same Brazil. They made some mistakes when it came to their qualification process. I do have to defend the puppet, which I'm not exactly thrilled about, because Jeremy's operating the puppet from under the table. And here when we do nonverbal communication, we wave a hand. Puppet's hand was waving, calling for ball.

[Dan Le Batard]

Mike Ryan is bringing back morally abhorrent. It was a very popular podcast during the last World Cup. There are all sorts of things around these games that are questionable and corrupt and nobody cares when the Colombians are climbing over ice to get into the arena.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, four years ago when we came up with that name for the Guitar World Cup, I didn't think that the name would be held over four years later. But it still tracks. Yeah, still seems morally abhorrent. FIFA, United States, all of it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg Cody, I am told, and I'm sorry it has taken this long to get to this. I am told that every four years, very big, not quite as big perhaps, as how Colombians feel about being able to see their team in Miami, but every four years you pick your favorite World cup team and you pick the Greg Cody podcast featuring Greg Cody sponsors that team outside of America. It's not let's go States here. It's your giving your allegiances and your interest to another country. Has that announcement been made yet? Because every four years. How long has the podcast been around?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

We were born in 2020. This is our sixth year.

[Dan Le Batard]

So this is the second time doing this for the World Cup. And everybody waits around to find out who is the team Greg Cody is supporting. Who is the team that is not the United States that the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody is supporting this year?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Yeah, we have a major reveal on my latest episode, but I'll it with you here. The official World cup team of the Greg Cody show podcast is Cote d', Ivoire, AKA the Ivory Coast. French speaking. I think they're ranked like 35th of 48 teams. They're a sneaky underdog. They're not at the bottom, but they're nobody's favorite. They're in a tough group with Germany. They've never been out of the group stage. Cote d'.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ivoire.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

That's C O T E by the way.

[Dan Le Batard]

Spelled Cote.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

From where I'm looking, it is Cote d'.

[Stugats]

Ivoire. Great coach.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is that the reason, if we're being honest here, where self absorption resides and narcissism is king. Is this your favorite team? Just because their first name looks like

[Jonathan Zaslow]

it's Cody, that may be a factor. I'm not saying that's not a factor. Another factor is their best player. His first name is Wilfred.

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Wilfred.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Okay, Wilfred. I think his last name is Yaha.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, So I think you're referring to Wilfred Zaha, who did not make the national team roster World Cup. I was actually going to ask you your thoughts about it because good expertise.

[Dan Le Batard]

You just spotted a Wilfred and said, that's my team. Well, so there's my name and there's my Wilfred. There's my analysis.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

First of all, it's an outrage that he did not make that team. With a name like Wilfred, who is my father's name and my son's middle name, Wilfred Zaha. He was a big favorite to make that roster. It's an outrage that he didn't.

[Greg Cody]

You'll be happy to know there's a different Wilfred.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

What's his name?

[Tony]

Wilfried Singo.

[Stugats]

You know about that?

[Mike Ryan]

Wilfried Singo?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I do.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, you don't.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Yeah, of course.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, he's a beautiful player. Greg.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Cote d', Ivoire, ladies and gentlemen.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg.

[Greg Cody]

He's right about that. And that's another Greg Cody, first down.

[Stugats]

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[Jonathan Zaslow]

He's made great hires.

[Greg Cody]

I said all.

[Dan Le Batard]

We've said all.

[Stugats]

He said all

[Dan Le Batard]

the first time I heard any of this. Greg, everything you're saying, it's all been said, okay?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

You got to understand one thing. Sts me maximum.

[Stugats]

That's right.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I say it. It hasn't been said. Okay? Understand that until I say it as a success.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the D? Ler show with the two gods. I just, I want to get. I want to go dive deep, deep into the narcissisms before we get back to sporty things, Cote d' Ivoire sporty adventures.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

If I'm giving you 100% of the pie chart on all of the thinking, research emotions that went into picking the team that you were going to pick as your favorite. To celebrate the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody with.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Right.

[Dan Le Batard]

How much of the percentage out of 100% is you chose that team just because their first name looks like Cody.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I don't want to quantify it. You know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not here to take a quiz.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I'm not here to take a quiz. I mean come on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you didn't know Wilford was on the team. And so I feel like you are here to take a quiz if you're identifying a favorite. And the research you've done doesn't even do us the courtesy of knowing whether a guy's on the team.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I know this. I know Cote d' Ivoire is the leading world's leading exporter of cocoa beans. That I know. Who won?

[Dan Le Batard]

You all did.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Who won?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, we didn't all win. We all lost. And he wins. That's what happens around here all the time. What happens is I'm caught. What did you find me for? I got $5 out. I'm asking Roy. Where's the fine bucket? I don't know what I'm fined for.

[Greg Cody]

Made Pablo Escobar brothers with a Columbia national team player. He might have been buying the murder

[Dan Le Batard]

oak instead of the two Escobars I made.

[Greg Cody]

Real Cain and Abel situation.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Escobar brothers. Okay, I got a name wrong and that's a five dollar fine. What is the tally at on where it is? I have to pay for things before this gets really expensive. ProjectMainStreet.org, boog's at 1 o'. Clock. Boog has a live auction and there's a lot of good stuff to buy there. And you should be a part of what he's doing. It's a big part of his life and his day to day. Can we get Benetti on? Are we? I meant to ask you guys to reach out to Benetti to make sure that we can give him some coaching and some criticism on whatever it is we feel like he got wrong with his first batch of donations here. That means I'm in for $880 so far. That's not so bad.

[Stugats]

A little bit more than that because it's another 80 on top of that. Because the Boog money off for me and then the Greg Cody money for me.

[Greg Cody]

Processing fee.

[Stugats]

Processing fee.

[Dan Le Batard]

10 or 10% or 11%.

[Stugats]

Well, 11% credit card processing fee.

[Greg Cody]

Would you like to round that up for charity?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's how they get you 12%. They do it at grocery store.

[Mike Ryan]

I just say no.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I say no. I help plenty of charity. I do. Not this time on my Own time.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you've noticed this. So now when people ask you for this particular charity, do you get less charitable because you're like, no, this is a grift. I'll keep my change, thank you. I don't like that you're trying to take my credit card pennies and put it round up here. So to grift your game up so that Bezos gets it.

[Stugats]

Yeah. To the Human Fund money for people.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I do that too. It's called Name, image and likeness.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why are we putting that on Cuck T shirts for Zaslow and he's not getting anything out of it. Including business. Not including business. Which would seem to be like, if I believe our audience should support two good causes today. I believe it should buy Cuck shirts to just support Zaz because it's an inside joke. That's what you're buying.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Be the first.

[Greg Cody]

Plus you're letting the world know.

[Dan Le Batard]

No one would do that. It's just a bad marketing campaign.

[Greg Cody]

Someone calls you a cuckold. Wait a second. Look at the shirt.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think anyone's going to wear the word cuck on the front of their shirt with my face. Well, that makes it worse. That does.

[Greg Cody]

But it is also helpful to note that it is not, you know, a personal message. It is strictly for a Jonathan Zaslow type of message.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who's buying that? Who are we selling to? I don't understand our business strategy selling to non cucks.

[Stugats]

I don't think you understand what you're doing. Like the majority of people are non cucks. So you've got a massive audience that are non cucks. You have a couple of cucks who wouldn't wear the shirt.

[Greg Cody]

You could sell this shirt to someone that truly believes Zaz when he claims that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can you get for me, Roy? Jason Benetti warming up. Right? This was calisthenics for both Boog and Jason Benetti. These are five catchphrases. But I believe today is the day that they're gonna give us our payoff. Jeremy, I am concerned though. I don't wanna force anybody to pay $30 to watch this because they gotta go to mlb.com to actually have a sports adjacent appearance.

[Greg Cody]

Well, tough shit.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'd like to, but if that's how

[Greg Cody]

you watch an out of market game, what am I supposed to do? Would you like to tout piracy?

[Stugats]

You want me to pirate the stream?

[Dan Le Batard]

I got a guy.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, MLBX Ratings has been around for, for like 30 years.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tony, I want you to help our audience. Look, nobody else is going to be any kind of interested tonight in Tiger's Rays, except for me. I'll find the Rays wherever it is they're playing.

[Tony]

I love having the awesome baseball.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. But I've got, I've got the Rays and just the Rays. I don't need the rest of baseball. The Rays are what it is that I'm watching.

[Tony]

Do you subscribe to Rays TV and not Marlins tv?

[Dan Le Batard]

I told you, I told Valerie, I had this conversation with you guys. I told Valerie when she asked me, what do you want? What don't you want? Because we got way too many things here. I'm like, whatever we got, we got raised baseball. Like, just make sure we got raised baseball. I don't, whatever else happens, I don't care. Just raise baseball and, oh, make sure. Also red zone. Make sure red zone.

[Stugats]

Raise red zone. Anything else that was must have.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Tony]

Because it's not even the same network

[Greg Cody]

it used to be.

[Tony]

There was a network that had the heat and everybody.

[Dan Le Batard]

Nope.

[Tony]

A la carte. Raised baseball.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I, I got to imagine some people found that confusing. Can Greg Cody find a Rays or a Marlins game on his television? Can you find a, can you find a Marlins game on your television?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

As a matter of fact, I asked my wife over the weekend, Sunday, I think it was, what channel are the Marlins on? And I think she told me MLB tv. So I punch in the MLB TV channel and it's four. It was like the baseball red zone. It's like four shows happening at once, including the Marlins garden game.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's right. So you don't, you, you have MLB tv, but you don't use it? You've never seen it before?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I, I have, I just, I, I don't keep track of what number, you

[Tony]

know, 230 watches a lot of Mar.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

68. I don't know. I, I, I watch a fair amount, you know, I mean, you know, they go from winning four in a row to losing five in a row. That's Marlins, Marlinsing. I mean, you know, it's a frustrating team to watch.

[Tony]

How'd they do last night?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I think they won. Who won? Who won? The Marlins.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did they, did they beat the Nationals? I'm with Tony on this, though. It does have to be confusing to a generation of people to wake up at, you know, stumble out of bed at noon on a Tuesday. Whatever generation of people is stumbling out of bed at noon on a Tuesday and being like, so the Cardinals are playing at 1:15 today. A baseball game at 1:15 on a, on a Tuesday. Why on A Wednesday? Why are they doing that?

[Stugats]

Yeah, it's just a bad business.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who's this for? Like those cuck shirts?

[Stugats]

Like the cuck shirts?

[Jonathan Zaslow]

Yeah.

[Stugats]

I'm at work, what am I gonna take? Hey boss, I gotta take a 30 minute lunch. I'm gonna go grab a half inning of a game and I'll be back at work.

[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

Imagine wearing that shirt and you run into someone who you haven't seen in a long time. What are you wearing?

[Greg Cody]

Is this in reference to your Roman Reigns shirt?

[Dan Le Batard]

I believe the day game is the day game in baseball on Wednesday. While practical matters are just for the team to be able to travel and not get into the next city at 4 o' clock in the morning because these schedules are a bit crazy. What a happy, I'm going to say monetary coincidence for baseball because they didn't know that baseball was gonna get into the business of money moving on games in a way that was socially accepted. And so baseball now has a time slot to himself. That's what football's trying to grab all the time slots. Like give us Wednesday, we want all the nights. Baseball's like, no, we'll take these day games. We'll carve up our little piece to where nobody, everybody who wants any kind of baseball fun and action or any kind of sports action. I can check in on a Wednesday at 1:00 in the afternoon.

[Stugats]

That is true. I mean that's a fun part to look at. But to go to the games, like again, there's 11 people in the stands. Like everybody must look around.

[Dan Le Batard]

But it's not about going to the games. Mike likes having the park to himself. Like that's, it's lovely to see.

[Greg Cody]

Major league baseball described a dream.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is. I mean when you think of the Marlins always playing in empty stadiums, that is a nice ballpark. They're playing major league baseball. The major league baseball is good. Whether it's, you know, good enough to win, win more games than they lose, probably not. But you have all of the place to yourself. It's like an amusement park for, for just you and 3,000 people on a Wednesday afternoon.

[Mike Ryan]

I like when there's no one there. I get my man spread on and

[Tony]

you have a super handsome, talented in game host.

[Dan Le Batard]

Make that a T shirt too to see if it sells less man spread. Joshua, get my man spread on.

[Stugats]

You're supposed to do that when. No, when everybody's there. Zaz, step Your game up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Get my man spread off. Zaslo needs a lot of room. He needs a cavernous stadium with 40 seats empty.

[Greg Cody]

Be comfortable when he's watching so that

[Dan Le Batard]

he could get his man spread on. Horrifying everybody.

[Jonathan Zaslow]

I don't want to be anywhere near his man's.

[Dan Le Batard]

How is.

[Greg Cody]

He'll be off in the corner.

[Dan Le Batard]

How is Sid Rosenberg being purple not the worst thing we've envisioned today?

[Greg Cody]

The worst thing we envision today is a defensive line that features Aaron Donald and Miles Gibbert.

[Dan Le Batard]

How is that allowed to happen? I want to shake my fist at somebody. Why do they get all the good players smarter? What do you mean? That was available to everybody.

[Greg Cody]

Apparently not.

[Stugats]

Just like Luca wasn't available to everybody.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why didn't anybody tell us when the did this slip through the cracks? When the NFL Network and the espn, the information people had to get all their information tight.

[Stugats]

Hey, you got that Miles Garrett thing? Yeah, I got the Miles Garrett thing. No worries.

[Greg Cody]

Do you think. You think David Sampson could be on that defensive line and it would still be the best defensive line in football? You know what's more horrifying? That man spread looking like Sid Rosenberg.

[Stugats]

Your manspread looks like Sid Rosenberg.

[Tony]

Well, if he doesn't. Man spread.

[Dan Le Batard]

Mike Ryan just asked the best question that we've asked around here in football since. How many yards would a shopping cart with a mannequin arm have at the end of the season if Peyton Manning was running your offense? We all agreed it would be Dallas Clark, Dark

[Greg Cody]

Mo, Ellie Cox.