The Top 5 Dumb Unwritten Rules In Sports | Postgame Show

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: The Top 5 Dumb Unwritten Rules In Sports | Postgame Show

Date: April 27, 2026
Setting: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts/Panelists: Dan Le Batard (not present on mic), Stugotz, Juju, Greg, Jeremy, Zaz, Roy

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Episode Overview

This postgame episode dives into the world of "unwritten rules" in sports, highlighting the panel's collective disdain and amusement for some of the most debated and, according to them, "dumbest" traditions that govern player behavior. The lively banter is centered around Juju's rapid-fire Top 5 lists: first, the silliest unwritten rules across sports, and then, the best moments of people who "didn’t want any smoke" (i.e., avoided confrontation or conflict). The conversation is peppered with personal anecdotes, irreverent takes, and the signature sarcasm and camaraderie that define the show.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Juju’s Top 5 Dumb Unwritten Rules in Sports

[02:12 – 07:16]

5. "Don't plant your flag on my field after you beat us."

• Juju (03:03): "Why you care so much? This ain't y’all field either… Why does it matter so much?"
• Panel agrees this is especially a college football taboo, but finds it petty.

4. "Toss back the other team’s home run."

• Juju (03:20): "I've been waiting for this moment all my life. Who cares if it's throw it back."
• [03:31] Greg: "They bring fake balls into the ballpark and they throw that onto the field."
• [03:44] Juju: "I’ll be damned if I go to the baseball field with a pocket full of baseballs."

3. "Don't bunt to break up my no-hitter."

• Juju (04:06): "I'm so sorry. You got a good thing going on right now… but you better stop it."
• Sparks a debate: Jeremy and Zaz side with baseball purists, citing it depends on game context ([04:26-05:29]).
• Juju doubles down (06:12): "I don't give a damn if it's the bottom of the ninth and we down 20, I'm bunting on your ass. Damn your perfect game."

2. "If you break an unwritten rule, expect to get hit by a pitch."

• Juju (06:21): "Just because you deem something happened that you don’t like, you get to hit me with a 99 mile an hour fastball? Sir, unwritten rule. Nah, bro, get me back another way. Don’t hit me with the ball. Bro, get me back after the game."
• Greg (06:40): "That’s assault, man!"

1. "Don’t score on me if you’re already ahead late in the game."

• Juju (06:44): "Whatever Nikola Jokic did the other day to Jay McDaniel, I don't give a damn… Stop me then! … You’re lame."
• [07:16] Panel discusses the NBA moment with laughter and agreement.

Notable Quote

• Juju (06:21): "That’s assault, brother." (about getting hit by a pitch for violating unwritten rules)

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Panel Commentary and Fun Moments

[05:29 – 07:47]

• The group riffs on the etiquette of mentioning a no-hitter in progress:
  • Greg (05:29): "Isn't one of the other things to say is that you're not supposed to mention a no hitter when it's happening?"
  • Zaz (05:43): "If my team is being no-hit … I’m like, hey, you go, he’s got a no hitter!"
• Extended banter about situational etiquette: When is it okay to bunt or break a no-hitter?

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Juju’s Top 5 People Who "Didn’t Want No Smoke"

[07:47 – 09:35]

5. The ref Dan Hurley headbutted

• Juju (07:47): "He could have gave that man a technical… he was like, you got it, bro."

4. LeBron James during 'Beef Stew' incident

• Juju (08:18): "Salute you, King… that was a crazy situation. I don't know if I would have wanted any of that either, brother."

3. Geno Auriemma vs. Dawn Staley

• Juju (08:31): "He refuted just about everything except Dawn Staley saying she'd whoop his ass."

2. Nikola Jokic vs. Jaden McDaniels

• Continuing from the previous NBA altercation discussed.

1. The boxer who walked out without fighting

• Juju (09:05): "He walked out of the boxing ring as soon as the bell rang for the first round."
• [09:10] Greg describes: "That long walkway through the crowd… head slumped, just walks out like Charlie Brown."
• Panel jokes about the economics and courage of simply showing up and leaving.

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Lightning Awards and Polls

[10:01 – 12:20]

• Joke That Deserved More Laughs: Greg Cody for "push it," referencing Salt-N-Pepa. ([10:14])
• The Zaz Is Right Award: For Zaz’s Celtics take ([10:22])
• Joke of the Day: Amin Elhassan’s Cleveland Cavaliers quip ([10:43])
• Cedric the Entertainer Impression Award: To "America" ([11:03])

Daily Poll Results

• [11:05] Red button = panic button? 96% yes
• [11:22] Do people still carry pocketbooks? 57% no
• "Who made it a salad" the breakout star of 'Who made a decision?' 80% yes
• Jeremy look like he knows about that 'get back'? 63% no
• Juju: “T-shirts available on levatoraf.com … very good deal." ([11:45])

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Memorable Quotes

• Juju (05:29): "In the words of Michael Jordan, f them kids. Don’t bunt to break up my no hitter."
• Greg (06:40): "That’s assault, man."
• Juju (06:12): "I don’t give a damn if it’s the bottom of the ninth and we down 20, I’m bunting on your ass."
• Greg (09:27): “That long walkway through the crowd… head slumped, just walks out like Charlie Brown.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [02:12] – Juju’s Top 5 Dumb Unwritten Rules begins
• [03:29] – Home run ball debate
• [04:06] – Bunting to break up a no-hitter discussion
• [06:12] – Juju’s blunt take on bunting late in a blowout
• [06:21] – Getting hit by a pitch for breaking unwritten rules
• [06:44] – Don’t score if you’re up big – NBA example
• [07:47] – Juju’s Top 5 "Didn’t Want No Smoke" Moments
• [09:10] – Story of the boxer who left after bell
• [10:01] – Lightning awards
• [11:05] – Daily poll results

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Tone & Takeaways

Unfiltered, deeply irreverent, and high on group chemistry, this episode skewers long-standing traditions in sports, arguing that many "unwritten rules" are arbitrary or outright counterproductive. Juju’s lists drive the show, but it’s the back-and-forth, playful mocking, and personal admissions that bring out the comedy and relatability for listeners. The episode is perfect for fans who enjoy sports talk that refuses to take itself—or conventional wisdom—too seriously.

Transcript

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[Juju]

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[Greg]

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[Juju]

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[Greg]

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[Juju]

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[Greg]

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[Juju]

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[Jeremy]

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[Zaz]

No, leave that in.

[Greg]

What was that noise?

[Jeremy]

Jesus.

[Zaz]

I guess that's on me. I put him up too early.

[Jeremy]

Ted Williams going to be stunned to realize the Red Sox have won several World Series.

[Greg]

Oh, yeah. Loser. Yeah, it's funny. Just found out he died in 2002, so I don't have to explain 911 to him. Ah, I think it's still my have to explain the Internet. I know the Internet was around and everything, but I still think Al Gore's

[Zaz]

Internet, which by the way, interesting that we call it an Al Gore rhythm, huh?

[Jeremy]

Never really makes you think that way. I'll never think of it that way again. Juju. Good to see you, Juju. I know you got a top five for us, right?

[Greg]

Wait, Juju, are you wearing a Stefan Marbury Timberwolves jersey?

[Juju]

You feel me? Tis the season. Wow, it's really representing. It's Stephon Marbury, but he got the same number as my Brother, this Jaden McDaniel. So you already know what time it is, man. Salute to the good guys. All right.

[Greg]

I'm so old, man. I was like, is that Stefan Marbury? Shut up.

[Juju]

Salute to stop Bar.

[Jeremy]

Juju, you got a top five to get us going here? What do you got for us, bro?

[Juju]

I got two top fives for you, you feel me? So I'm going to go through them a little fast. The first one, cuz. Joker, brother. Lame as hell. You can get the joker of the day. For real. For real, real quick. Nicola Yus. You, sir, are the joker of the day.

[Greg]

I. I didn't know what he you calling him brother or you saying Jokic's brother is lame as hell? Because that could be to put them

[Juju]

all in a box. Shake them up and put them up to Michael Jordan's rings. You did 6 to 1. But yes sir. Also Scott Foster for that BS call. Out of bounds on OG had an OBI.

[Greg]

Whenever the wrong foot.

[Jeremy]

You see this?

[Greg]

Yeah, he's looking at the wrong foot.

[Juju]

Yeah, exactly. But yeah, top five lamest. Unwritten rules, bro. Okay, number five, don't plant your flag on my field after. After y' all beat us.

[Greg]

It's a very college football thing. Right?

[Juju]

Exactly. Ain't now one of y'.

[Zaz]

All.

[Juju]

This ain't y' all feel in either. So this, this, this that big brother upstairs feel. Why you care so much? Number four, Toss back the other team home run. If I catch it. What do you mean? I've been waiting for this moment all my life. I finally caught one. Who cares if it's throw it back.

[Greg]

No throw it back.

[Juju]

They bring fake. They bring fake balls into the ballpark and they throw that onto the field and they keep the home run ball.

[Jeremy]

That is true. They do that.

[Zaz]

That's an insane move. Like whole like bringing a baseball for like seven years every game. Just in case.

[Greg]

That's nuts.

[Juju]

I didn't know that.

[Jeremy]

Roy's right.

[Juju]

I'll be damned if I go to the baseball field with a pocket full of baseballs. Just leave one.

[Greg]

No. What if you catch two?

[Zaz]

Roy?

[Juju]

Well then you give it to a

[Greg]

kid and what does he do? He. He's. Then he can throw it back like his fake.

[Juju]

In the words of Michael Jordan, f them kids don't bunt to break up my no hitter.

[Zaz]

Oh yeah.

[Juju]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Zaz]

It's such a good list from juju right here.

[Juju]

I'm so sorry. You got a good thing going on right now. How about this? You better stop it.

[Jeremy]

This one made me viscerally baseball purist.

[Greg]

Jeremy, you have a problem with that?

[Zaz]

Ah, this one I don't like it hit me.

[Greg]

It just. Just get a hit.

[Zaz]

It depends on how deep into the game you are. Right?

[Jeremy]

Like the game is close. It's okay if it's a seven run lead. You're a dickhead if you.

[Zaz]

Yeah, I think it's like. If we're talking about. It's the. It's the seventh inning. I think after the first two thirds of the game. I have an issue with. Even if it's. That's why nothing. I'm with Zaz on this.

[Jeremy]

No, if it's a one nothing game,

[Zaz]

we're having a separate conversation. If it really is. But also if it's a perfect game. Versus a no hitter. We're also having a different conversation.

[Greg]

10 perfect game. You wouldn't bunt, brother. We're trying to win the game.

[Jeremy]

You're wrong. They're trying to win the game.

[Zaz]

What do you play to do, Jeremy? I'd be mad.

[Jeremy]

Not.

[Greg]

Well, yeah, you should be. This is like. This is like the Nuggets announcers, like. Yeah, he doesn't respect you.

[Zaz]

Oh, God, I'd be so. Aw. I'd be so.

[Jeremy]

You're trying to win the game. Still. It's okay.

[Zaz]

I get it. I get it. And I'm sure the pitcher like himself would be okay with it ultimately. But as a fan, if I was watching my favorite pitcher throw a perfect game and in two outs in the seventh inning and nobody on, and a guy goes to lay down a bunt for a base hit and that's what breaks it up, I'd lose my mind.

[Greg]

Isn't one of the other things to say is that you're not supposed to mention a no hitter when it's happening.

[Jeremy]

Correct. Maybe ju's got that.

[Greg]

Don't steal. Hold on.

[Zaz]

Don't steal it.

[Juju]

I don't have that one.

[Zaz]

Okay. All right, cool.

[Greg]

So. So do the other team. Can they say he's got a no, no.

[Jeremy]

Oh, yeah. I do that all the time.

[Zaz]

Yeah, 100%.

[Greg]

Oh, my God. I wonder if he going to finish that. No, no.

[Zaz]

Yeah, you do that for sure.

[Greg]

Don't mess up his.

[Zaz]

No, no, I do that as a fan. If. If my team is being no hit in like the fifth inning, I'm like, hey, you go, he's got a no hitter. Talking about it with everybody.

[Greg]

You got to talk to. You got to talk to the teammates because then they'll mess up. It'll be in their head.

[Jeremy]

I bet the other team's announcers do it.

[Zaz]

Oh, 100.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I'll bet they do.

[Zaz]

I think once they're through four again, it depends because it's like, I deal at first.

[Greg]

He's got it.

[Juju]

I would.

[Jeremy]

Let's hear what you got next, Juju.

[Juju]

Look, I don't give a damn if it's the bottom of the knife and we down 20, I'm bunting on your ass. Damn. Your perfect game.

[Greg]

That's a

[Juju]

fight. Number two, though, in this same vein. Just because you deem something happened that you don't like, you get to hit me with a 99 mile an hour fastball. What? Sir, Unwritten rule. Nah, bro, don't get me back another way. Don't hit me with the ball. Bro, get me back after the game.

[Greg]

That's assault, man.

[Juju]

Exactly. That's assault, brother.

[Zaz]

I actually agree with you.

[Juju]

Number one. And the number one man. Don't score on me if you up and. But your team has the ball at the end. Whatever Nicola Jokers did the other day to Jay McDaniel, I don't give a damn like Jada McDaniel. Say, man, stop me then. You don't like it. Stop me then, man. Cause I don't like you. How about that? And guess what? You're lame, bruh. Joker, you are the. He ran all the way down there just to not want no smoke.

[Greg]

No.

[Jeremy]

He ran all the way down there again to get punked again by Jada McDaniels.

[Juju]

Exactly.

[Greg]

Run the clip one more time because you'll see he gets hemmed up and he. And it's nobody around. It's just them. And he's like, oh, man, right here.

[Juju]

Oh.

[Greg]

But then when Rudy gets there, now all of a sudden, I'm aggressive again. Poor Rudy, man.

[Jeremy]

And Jaden was laughing in his face.

[Greg]

Why is Rudy always about to fall down? Got terrible balance.

[Jeremy]

So with that said, then, Juju, I know you got another top five for us.

[Juju]

Absolutely, man. I got a top five list of people who didn't want no smoke. Number five, the ref who Dan Hurley headbutted. That brother ain't want no smoke. He could have gave that man a technical vow, the game wasn't over. He was like, you got it, bro. That was awesome. Number four, the one, the LeBron. That one time when beef stew was on his ass.

[Greg]

Oh, man. When he's bleeding, he's running, running across the court, bro.

[Juju]

You the king. Salute you the king, bro. But that was a crazy situation. I don't know if I would have wanted any of that either, brother.

[Greg]

No, sir.

[Juju]

Number three, Gino Arma. After the game against South Carolina, he refuted a lot. After the game, he refuted everything. He refuted this, he refuted that, but he did not refute that. Don Staley said he would whoop his ass. Number two, Nicola Jokic the other day. He ain't want no smoke. We already went through it. And the number one guy who didn't want no smoke, the guy who walked out of the boxing ring as soon as it was like the bell, run for first round.

[Jeremy]

I like that guy. And he walked back that long ramp. I like that guy.

[Greg]

I. That's one of the funniest things I ever saw, man. Greg, do you know this? No, I didn't. It's A box. This is a few. Few years back. But like, they do the intros. The guys are. And then ding, ding, ding. And the one guy just says, you know what? Never mind. And he, what, gets out of the ring and just walks. Like Z said.

[Juju]

It's a.

[Greg]

That long walkway through the crowd. And it just kind of like his. His head slump just walks out like Charlie Brown.

[Juju]

Exactly.

[Zaz]

He get like paid once the bell rings or something. Like, was that a thing?

[Jeremy]

I feel like it's quite possible he didn't get paid. I mean, how are you sending that?

[Zaz]

I'm just wondering. Maybe that's where if the bell rings, you technically get paid.

[Juju]

I don't know.

[Greg]

Let me say this. If he did get paid, then my career as a professional boxer has begun. Just to show up and then actually get hit. I'll get paid to do that.

[Jeremy]

Juju. Let's give us the polls. What do we got today for polls?

[Juju]

Yes, sir. While I pull the pose up, I want to give out a couple awards right quick. The joke that deserved more laughs. Greg, Cody, push it. Good. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, that was a good one.

[Zaz]

That was going. Salt and pepper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How about all of us? All of us, including juju for showing up to work today.

[Juju]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jeremy]

This crew had never worked together before.

[Juju]

Never, never. Had never chemicals. The Zaz is right award goes to Zaz man. About the celtics, bro. I'm a celtics fan. I'm. I don't like watching this man fade away three after fade away three. You didn't sound like it.

[Greg]

You didn't applaud that.

[Jeremy]

You don't have to applaud for yourself. You let others give it to you.

[Juju]

There you go. Right? Also, a. A joke of the day award goes to Amina Hassan on the nonchalance Cleveland cavalier situation.

[Greg]

I thought you said Joe Gurr of the day. I said what I do.

[Juju]

Good job. And last award, the Cedric entertainer impression of the day awards also goes to America.

[Greg]

Well, I gotta tell you, nominee.

[Juju]

Yeah. Here go the pose, man. Does everyone know that the red button is the panic button? 96 of the audience says yes, they do.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Zaz]

I was more disputing just what you referred to. Like, if we say, what do you call it, the red button or the panic button? I think I would have won that.

[Juju]

But red button, play on. Do people still carry pocketbooks? 57 of the audience says no, they don't. Is who made it to salad the breakout star who made a decision? 80% of the audience says yes, it is. Wow. Who made it a salad. T shirts available right now on levatoraf.com support us. 15 bucks, too. It ain't 35. 40. They don't sell for 15 right now, guys. Very good deal. Exactly. Very good. Matter of fact. And the last poll. Does Jeremy look like he knows about that? Get back. 63 of the audience says no. And those are your posts.

[Greg]

Vindicated.

[Jeremy]

Good job, Juju.

[Juju]

Thank you.