Transcript of Messi's Inter Miami Comes to Fisticuffs With a 17 Year Old | Local Hour

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Chris doesn't believe that you can actually slip on a banana peel. I feel like you can.

I sit by it.

I don't believe so either.

You think if you're just walking— now, not carpet, obviously, but if it's tile, you know, flat surface And there's a banana peel. You don't think you could totally slip?

It's too sticky. You ever touch a banana peel? It's not like a slippery, slimy substance. It's kind of sticky.

I've done it.

Where? How?

At a music festival. At Grant Park.

On grass?

No, concrete steps. At Grant Park Stadium.

In Chicago?

Yeah, I was at a Lollapalooza. I was walking from stage to stage. And at a music festival, I guess someone had the protein and just chucked it on the ground. I slipped on it, like legit, and I looked down, I'm like, "Wha?!" It's a real thing! It's super slippery!

There you go, Chris!

Now when you did, did a cartoonish sound of "woop woop woop woop woop woop" happen?

I definitely was like, "Woah!" And then I looked down, I was like, "What is that?" And it was a banana peel, and I just threw my head back and laughed.

I'm like, "Wow!" What are the odds?

Mario Kart was right!

Was there a cartoon dog off on the side going, "Grrr!" Did you want to say, "O'Doyle rules!" No.

Okay. But it's a real thing. It's genuinely slippery.

Like, I just— I think you would have also slipped on an orange peel.

No, no, because it's— all right, you ever peel an orange?

Yeah, all the time.

You ever see the inside?

The little orange, the clementines more than the regular.

It's not the yellow part that gets you, it's the inside. That inside, because like, it, it, that is what is slimy and slides.

Yeah, got us a banana. Someone out there get us a banana. I, I like to investigate because I don't think of the inside of a banana peel as being slippery or— yeah, it's like slimy, the inside. I don't think it's slimy at all.

I think of it as like sandpaper almost.

Yeah, the texture. Sandpaper?

Of all the fruits, I think of it as like the—

Fool?

With those like—

Are you a fool?

Are you a fool?

That's what happened to me.

That's what it sounded like.

We don't have any bananas.

We're showing where we would have bananas, the classic banana bowl.

Yes, we have no bananas. We have no bananas today.

Did anyone watch Inter Miami last night?

I saw of it.

All right, I did not.

So I had Inter Miami on the, on the smaller TV in the Zaslo mansion family room.

MLS, they got it from here.

And Inter Miami, they played Philadelphia, who's one of the worst teams in the league.

La Union.

Inter Miami's really struggling right now.

Is that a newspaper?

Or an NWSL team. And Inter Miami ended up drawing 2-2. All right, uh, Messi had a goal. They're struggling a little bit, but that's not the big story. The big story is In stoppage time at the end of the game, there was a bit of a brouhaha.

Brouhaha.

Yeah.

Do you like— do you prefer calling it brouhaha?

It depends. We did this before. We got a whole pyramid of where it lands on the spectrum of different things, where the lightest is a disagreement, right? And the most harsh is Palace of Auburn Hills.

No, agree to disagree.

Agree to disagree.

Excuse me.

The lightest version. The heaviest version of the spectrum is Palace of Auburn Hills, and all in between we got all these other little steps.

No, the heaviest is Agree to Disagree.

Is it?

Yeah, you don't want—

what was the lightest?

I don't recall. Roy, do we have the, uh, the table? Roy, get the table.

I'll print it out for Zazz. I have it here.

So there was—

well, nobody takes brouhaha seriously though because it's a funny word. You know, there used to be a shampoo called Dippity Doo. You were embarrassed to ask for it. Where can I buy some Dippity Doo? It's the same thing with brouhaha.

A shampoo called Dippity Doo?

Yeah, you don't remember that?

No.

If you were in— if you're involved in a brouhaha, it sounds like you're—

hey, why are you saying it that way? Yeah, haha, I don't like that. Why are you saying it? No, you're saying it like Christopher Walken.

It's a brouhaha, not brouhaha.

No, I think it's brouhaha. I think it's brouhaha, not brouhaha.

Oh, you think it's a brouhaha?

All right, I have the table here.

Agree to disagree.

Yeah, see? Whoa, I was right.

You.

I was right, Mike. Palace of Auburn Hills is the most— Agree to Disagree was midway through. It wasn't even like tops.

All right, what's below Agree to Disagree?

Below it is Armageddon.

Bruhaha's not even here.

And below Armageddon is bruha.

Oh, it is. You're right.

Okay.

So Agree to Disagree is pretty bad.

Yes, it's worse than bruha.

This is the chart of escalating tensions.

Yes, it starts at chicanery.

Yeah, then high jinx, malarkey, skullduggery.

Shenanigans.

Skullduggery sounds violent. I'm surprised it's this low.

Yeah, but he do on the screen.

Yeah, shenanigans, which of course, as I always like to say, if you've shenan'd once, you're gonna shenan again. Tiff, spat.

I like it, play on.

Quarrel, tomfoolery, skirmish, fracas, hullabaloo, ballyhoo, dust-up, brouhaha, Armageddon, Agree to disagree. Gloves off, fisticuffs, kerfuffle, hubbub, hurly-burly, slobberknocker, Donnybrook, riot, riot, war, war, Palace of Auburn Hills.

Wow, it's a good list.

So, brouhaha, you saw it, I didn't see it because it was MLS.

Where does it fall?

So I would go with, yeah, you know what, like right smack, maybe a little bit even under brouhaha.

Oh, not a brouhaha, huh?

Uh, maybe skirmish.

Skirmish.

Maybe skirmish.

I got jacked up when I saw it.

So here's what happened.

On social media because I'm watching MLS right now.

So Greg, did you see what happened yesterday?

I did not. I heard about it. It was fisticuffs, wasn't it?

Uh, well, no.

That kind of—

No, fisticuffs is above brouhaha. No, this would be either a dust-up or a ballyhoo.

So there was a play late in the game in the box, alright? This is near was it near Inter Miami's goal? And there's a play in the box and as the player gets up, the player for Inter Miami does the thing where he steps over him, you know, like Iverson, Tyronn Lue, does the thing where he steps over him, completely unnecessary. And that starts a whole thing. And coming in immediately— oh look, they're actually showing it up there on the screen. Coming in immediately is Kaven Sullivan, who debuted last year at 16 years old for Philadelphia. He's going to play for Man City next year. He's a, he's a major up-and-coming young player.

The future of U.S. soccer, by all accounts, having a really good season.

17 years old now.

And the player that he's mixing it up for, Yannick Bright, who's got the least Italian name out of any Italian you'll see. He's an MLS All-Star for Inter Miami.

So this guy—

I know you knew that.

So he— was it Bright that punched Sullivan?

Yeah, which is crazy because again, I mean, dude, I think it was an open hand slap.

No, no, it was definitely close fist.

Close fist.

Are you sure?

Yeah, it's a line of work where you can punch a 17-year-old.

Yeah, so that's the part that's interesting, right? So it's at best it's a jab that he gives him, but it's definitely close fist, right, into the cheek. At best it's a jab, like definitely nothing that was going to hurt him.

Yeah, literally fisticuffs.

And it doesn't hurt him.

Well, again, fisticuffs is above brouhaha on the list. I would like to call it maybe a fracas or a skirmish.

So Yannick Bright and Cavan Sullivan both draw red cards, which, by the way, as Sullivan gets sent off, Yannick Bright is then chasing him in the tunnel.

Cavan Sullivan, 17 years old.

Right. He's then chasing the 17-year-old in the tunnel and has to be held back.

Is Yannick Bright— I think Yannick Bright's like mid-20s.

Like Inter Miami, before we get into the whole, you know, adult fighting a minor situation. And Inter Miami just comes off so trashy. They're just—

you hate this club.

They're— what's likable about them? They're so trashy.

Best soccer player in the world.

Yeah, I think that he smacked someone last night too.

Did you see Messi? Did? Yeah.

No. Yep.

I mean, that wasn't even covered by ESPN. It was just about Kevin Sullivan.

Rodrygo plays for Inter Miami.

Shut up.

So, I mean, just like, like you punch the— you step over the player, unnecessary, starts the whole fracas. Then I thought it was a hahaha, then jabs at the 17-year-old and then chases the 17-year-old in the tunnel. It's a trashy team. It's like, just, it just is to me. They're not likable. And now to what's probably the more interesting part, an adult punching a 17-year-old, is that okay because it's in sports?

And yeah, yes, yes, this is the loophole.

The rules don't apply to sports. Yep.

Remember when Ja Morant got in a fight with a 17-year-old?

No, but that's, that's, that's like at his home. You gotta be in trouble for that.

But basketball—

oh, so you're not just talking about in an organized game? You think if they're actually playing a sport, it's okay?

If we're playing a sport, yeah, man.

Yeah, if you're a professional soccer player at 17 You're allowed to drink during the game. You can have a cocktail.

You can.

You can have a cocktail right at halftime during the game.

Crack open a— sometimes at halftime.

Yeah, he can drink at games. He can consume alcohol because he plays sports.

So that's the loophole because he's a pro athlete, right?

Pro athlete.

We should distance ourselves from that take.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm, I'm, I'm allowed.

We do things responsibly around here.

Oh yeah, yeah, we do. I was kidding.

Yeah, he's funny.

Oh boy.

So it— we're of the opinion that because it took place in an MLS match, and the kid, he got involved, like he looked pretty tough, like he ran right up and he was not as scared of anybody.

For me, that was a huge takeaway. It was. I was, as a US Men's National Team fan, I got fired up watching Caleb Sullivan have that in him.

Right. He's not pulling himself in the middle of a World Cup game.

No, no.

No!

I said what I said.

Wow.

That's, that's the kind of leadership that you want from like a 17-year-old. That's the, that's the future.

So it's interesting, right? Because let's say it's not okay. Let's say of the people who are of the opinion that it's not okay because he's 17 years old, if I play on one team, am I supposed to just make sure I'm always aware that that player right there, he's under 18, so I better not, you know, slide tackle him with the cleats up? Like, what am I supposed to do in that situation?

Well, you shouldn't do that either way.

Right, but like, I'm not going to do things that could be considered assault on a minor.

Yeah.

Wait, is he supposed to check birth certificates before the game? Like, hold on, wait, you— yeah, you're—

How old are you?

Checking IDs and stuff?

18?

Hold the ID up next to him like a cop would?

You're running with the big dogs now, pal.

Look at him. Yeah.

That's interesting. Like, I don't remember a scenario like this that we've had to talk out.

Well, can you imagine the bad PR that Philadelphia would get if they're like all of a sudden pressing charges because an adult hit one of their kids is not going to fly. Everybody's going to be mercilessly making fun of this 17-year-old and the team and a waste of the law.

And, and it won't stand up in court because of the loophole— you're playing sports, right?

What if it was instead of like a jab, it was a roundhouse?

Like it connected?

Yeah, like, like a roundhouse kick. Like he's Dalton?

Well, no, like a roundhouse punch.

That's not a thing, dude. Have you ever been in a fight? This guy doesn't watch fighting. Just a bunch of almost fights with Romdog behind you, huh?

It was scary when he would grab me. Oh my, you have no, you have no idea how strong these NFL offensive linemen are until they actually try and be strong with you.

Why did he grab you? He's going to swing you as a weapon?

As like a bat?

No, it was like one time me and, you know, we're in a commercial break, me and Amber and Romberg, and in a commercial. It was like, all right, you know, let's see if I could get past you or something, you know. And this is always a gun, and it's like, it's scary. Romberg, center, national champion, Remington Award winner, University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame, never gave up a sack in college.

Let me see if I can get by about him too.

Yeah, but small arms.

McKinney, that was McKinney's thing.

That was, that was always the thing.

Romberg's done that too. It's like, I feel like It was a good offensive line.

Yeah, the Miami Hurricanes, turn of the century, good team.

But now I feel like they're just making stuff up.

He won the ring.

Every guy, 25 years ago, made something up.

Nobody let up a sack during practice.

Wow.

No, I want to know about practice, but I'm talking about in a game. Never gave up a sack in practice. Yeah, McKinney apparently was wherever he was playing football. He never—

all right, I'll allow it.

Yeah, McKinney was a monster though. That guy's like 6'8".

Romberg had the T-Rex arms though. Still impressive.

Canadian.

Never gave up a sack.

Like you.

Uh, I'm not Canadian.

You have Canadian citizenship.

Uh, I have dual citizenship.

So you're Canadian.

I'm not Canadian.

Put it on the poll. If you have Canadian citizenship, can you call yourself Canadian?

Are you Canadian? Yeah, you're Canadian.

Wonder how that poll's gonna come back. That's not leading the witness.

If Greg was a Canadian citizen—

Dude, it's not leading the witness if you're gonna lose an obvious yes answer in the poll. You're Canadian.

Yeah. Dual citizenship, what's that? Make up your mind. Are you an American or not? I'm an American.

Love it or leave it, pal.

Renounce it then.

I love it and I'm staying.

Renounce it.

Unless it gets bad and then you go over there because you got another option. Looks like you're planning to leave.

Renounce Canada.

Which, if so, renounce it, take me with you.

That was the backup plan.

No such thing as halfway crooks, Zazz. Scared of duck is scared of look, you shook.

I don't know what any of those words mean.

Down Levitar!

I do agree with Greg that—

Why are you talking so slow?

The Dolphins need to win this opener! It's because you can hear me.

Hear yourself, it's kind of awkward.

What do you mean?

Greg, do you have a back in my day? A what?

Greg Cody! I stand behind Greg for not doing back in my days anymore. You all have him singing songs and doing so many ancillary things that is ridiculous and you know it!

Talk faster!

Why are you talking so slow?

I'm talking at my normal speed! This is, uh, yeah, my wife loves this deep sexy voice, I'll tell you that.

There you go.

How would you talk to her with it?

Yeah, baby.

This is the Dan Levatar Show.

So that's asking if you're going to Michael Rubin's party.

I don't even know what that's implying.

White party.

Oh, because I'm wearing all white. Yeah, why don't I look good in white, right?

Oh God, you look like Tum Tum in Three Ninjas.

Look like a gallon of milk. Tum Tum.

I look good in white.

Was it Colt or Tum Tum that spray painted everything?

Colt was the cool middle-aged one.

Yeah, but I just wanted to say Tum Tum. Yo, have you seen that movie? Have you?

You've seen that movie?

Is crazy.

That scene in the front yard when they come to fight him.

The guy that looks like Cheeto from Deftones who's straight up trying to murder these kids. Not, not like try to steal something, not like Sticky Bandits, like straight up he's there to murder them.

It's just good old grandpa's house.

I mean, the Sticky Bandits were there to murder Kevin McCallister.

Well, after he started doing his death traps.

That's when they became the Wet Bandits.

Oh, so yeah, but, but Chino from Deftones was straight up there trying to kill him, said as much. Mike, so yes, you're going to the Michael Rubin party?

No, I'm not going to a Michael Rubin party. I just look good in white. This is what I look like today. Canadian ever. By the way, looks like Vita Vae has finally agreed to an extension with the Buccaneers. 1 year, $30 million.

$30 million is crazy.

It's nuts.

You look like you're cheering Wayne Simeon going up the tunnel and saying, hey, good, good couple minutes.

Whatever, man.

Wayne Simeon.

It's a white-hot joke.

Yeah.

Mike, the World Haili League is now under new ownership.

Wow.

Wow.

Yes, it is. And it's huge for the league. Purchased by Rob Goh, the entire league and all its teams.

Oh, that means you guys have sold.

Wait a sec.

We don't know where we are right now.

We're basically the Bus family. We got a big payday and—

No, I'm kidding. Yeah. Chris wants to sell. That—

We were at the draft and they were ready to get out. They were like, they're asking— Blaine, I'm not going to say, I don't want to reveal too much, but they were like, we're asking X amount. Around for teams, and I was like, sold!

And then we found out what they were looking for, and like, it's a—

phew.

We were kind of thinking more like, we'll fire off a couple tweets type of deal. You know, that's kind of the arrangement right now. But Rob Go is actually pretty impressive. You know that Dan always used to wear these hats, the dope hat?

Yeah.

Rob's behind that.

Oh, really?

Yeah, he was also in a movie with Bruce Willis.

Which one?

The Last Boy Scout?

No, that's not Damon Wayans. Does that look like Damon Wayans to you? It's not Damon Wayans.

Fifth Element?

No, I think it was American Siege.

Is that one of those ones where they trot out Bruce Willis for like 5 minutes?

I'm not here to disparage Rob.

I'm not saying Rob, I'm just asking what movie.

We like Rob. I actually had an hour-long conversation with the new owner of the World Highline League, and I love his vision for the league, and I hope that we can be a part of it. I hope his vision includes us because we want to keep the Cyclones in some form or fashion, or hell, We can do theater of the mind stuff. We've been doing a pretty damn good job of pretending we own this team. You mean The Siege with Denzel? Was it?

Yeah, Denzel, Bruce Willis, and Annette Bening.

That's a great movie.

I don't know.

That's the one.

How many siege— like, how many sieges have Bruce Willis been in? There's, there's a high probability that Bruce Willis has been in at least 4 films that have the word siege in it. Yeah, he did a lot of stuff at the end. A lot of siege in All right, so let's look that up. Let's clean that up. But no, he wants to take this to the next level, bring in a couple of big investors. He's actually made a lot of money doing sports memorabilia.

Really?

Yeah.

Lefkoe actually reached out to me. Lefkoe and him were friends, and Lefkoe was like, this guy's a real deal.

This guy, Lefkoe, man.

Lefkoe's so plugged in.

Who's more plugged in, Lefkoe or Masters?

You remember that, that Katie Nolan thing that we did during the pandemic, which is like, let's just see how many famous people we can get on the Zoom.

No.

Oh, everybody remembers it. I think it's still on YouTube. It was a really good piece of content.

It comes up every once in a while. People are like, hey, remember this night?

Really good piece of content. The— like, and we were doing a competition.

Ruined my relationship with, uh, with Jaleel White for good, but it was worth it.

Really? Worth it. All right.

Yeah, because you guys were like, instead of being like, oh, Jaleel White, you're like, it's Oracle, it's Oracle, it's Oracle.

I'm like, guys, I wasn't doing that. I have to watch it back, but I wasn't doing it.

Hold on a second.

There were like 6 people on, 6 of us, right?

Hold on a second. You had a relationship with Urkel?

With Jaleel White.

Oh, dude, that's messed up.

And now you don't have a relationship?

So now you can call him what you want to.

No, I won't. Stefan, this is like—

this is like the Jason Alexander thing where a guy like hates the thing that made him the most fame and money. It's like, get over yourself, Jaleel. I'm saying that, not Amin.

What are you doing? You're putting him in an awkward spot with a guy that already hates him. What are you doing, dude? He doesn't like you. Lean in.

I love him. I love him doing a favor and showing up on the Zoom and everyone just starts shouting Urkel.

I mean, people It was awful.

People were having wine. I do remember that. I remember not being with it, but I want to rewatch it to make sure I wasn't—

Let me just say this. Lin-Manuel Miranda came on. No one just kept saying, Hamilton, Hamilton. They didn't do that. Everyone had reverence.

It's not as known of a character as Earthworm Jim.

But the cheat code that I used was getting Lefkoe in there because I knew Lefkoe— it was like a Ponzi scheme. I knew if I got Lefkoe in there, I'd start stacking, and we got some big whales. Lefkoe was the key to the whole thing.

It was a pyramid scheme. You recruit people and they recruit people, and so their recruits—

he's making money off all of it. Yeah, Mike is.

He sure did.

Well, anyways, he's friends with Adam Levkow, and if you're friends with Adam Levkow, I'm listening.

Do you think Jeffrey Wright still remembers this? He follows me on Twitter.

From Pac-Man?

He—

Jeffrey Wright from The Batman?

Yeah, yeah, from The Batman.

Yeah, there was a, there was a moment there because this was at the start of the pandemic. It did feel like we, we built a relationship with these people and we all got followed. Am I friends with Lin-Manuel now?

Because Jeffrey Wright, like everyone else kind of like came in, haha, okay, fine, left. Jeffrey Wright stayed and then we started talking about serious stuff and like he just, he was there for like an hour after everyone had left. I'm sitting there, it was me and like two other people.

We were friends.

Yeah, I was like, man, I'm friends with Jeffrey Wright.

Yeah, but instead we just like had one night and we'll just think of it.

But does he remember it? You think if I meet him and say, hey, remember that night during the pandemic we all were on the Zoom call? He's like, what? I've been on a million Zoom calls, kid.

Okay, I want to go back to the fallout from Jaleel White. What happened after the call?

No, just kind of like, you know, before, like, with texting, haha, whatever. Like, it was, you know, DMing and all that stuff. And then it just kind of like the communication just weaned out. And I knew I didn't have to ask. I knew.

All right. Roy's got an answer to the whole Siege question that we had about Bruce Willis. Yeah, he was in two Sieges, American Siege and The Siege. And Rob Go was in American Siege. Um, still, I see him up top.

I see him.

Sure.

There we go, there we go, there we go.

Over your shoulder. I'm one of the last boys.

See that fedora? Yeah, I see it. Yeah, there it is.

So, Zazz, the other, the other part of this, right, is we had to see who could bring in the most famous people, or the, the most people of fame, without telling them what they were getting into.

It was just like, just sending them a link.

You just sent them a link. You say, hey, can you do me a favor? Could you just jump into Zoom?

Real quick, I know that's a bit that Paul Castronovo does every year on 105.9 Classic Rock, probably inspired by the incredible piece of content that we did.

And so all of these people, they didn't know what they were getting.

This was back in the day when you would get a Zoom link and you would be like, whoa, where is this going to lead?

You saw like these people get in and there was like 40 faces in there and then you're like, oh my God. So I feel like, look at it like, is that Clayton Kershaw? Like it was, it was, it was a crazy amount like And we— it rapidly reached a level of fame that I was like, this is unbelievable. I couldn't believe it.

Who was the biggest?

Who was the biggest, Mike?

I mean, Lin-Manuel showed up at like the peak of Hamilton.

Tom Phillips from WWE Monday Night Raw.

Okay, I asked who was the top.

Yeah, I'll take Lin-Manuel over that guy.

You would have marked out for Tom at the time.

The host of Believe in Penn State? Tom Phillips?

Uh-oh. Yeah, no, we— I mean, Dwyane Wade was there.

Speaking of Penn State, you look like you were attending one of their famous Whiteout games.

We'll get to that.

Why are you dressed like that?

Seriously. Dressed like— am I dressed like what?

You're wearing an undershirt.

Yeah, it's absolutely not an undershirt.

Yeah, dress like a professional.

Yes, chef.

This is a professional outfit I'm wearing.

You're wearing a white t-shirt. You should be doing yard work.

Hard work. White t-shirts are only allowed if you're home for yard work. It's not a Hanes shirt. It's not Fruit of the Loom.

What is it?

I'm not wearing a beater. What is a regular white shirt?

We don't say beater anymore. Well, he Beater means like, you know, just worn out.

It's all beat up.

Look like you're, uh, in a Tide commercial and something's about to go good. I look clean, Mr. Clean.

I wish I always looked like I was gonna say that.

Yeah, take the hat off, Mr. Clean. Mr. Clean ass.

Where's that Magic Eraser?

You're the worst Mr. Clean ever. Hit the gym a little bit. Terrible casting.

Chat says you look like Casper.

That one's easy.

Okay, the funnier joke would have been if I look like powder, so—

Oh, powder! How about that, chat?

How about that, chat? I could do it myself. I took the joke from you.

All right, there you go.

Dan Levitar.

Hello, this is not Greg Cody. Greg Cody. That kind of thing, and you know it.

This is the Dan Levitar Show. So the Marlins were swept last night. Marlins were swept by the Phillies last night. Jeremy Taché, uh, we could send the bat signal out for Jeremy.

Call in the lefty?

Yeah, we could send the bat signal out. Sandy Alcantara, needed him to shut down the Phillies last night and keep the Marlins within striking distance of this wildcard race. He went 6 innings, 3 runs. If you want to call it a quality start, you can, but you probably needed more than that. But more importantly, you need to score more than 1 run.

Bring in the lefty.

Marlins lost 4-1 last night. They're pretty much out of the— I mean, obviously statistically they're still in it, but you can't get swept by one of the teams that you're chasing. Jeremy, Marlins are kind of toast.

Quality start.

Did we say that yet? Yeah.

No, no.

Like I said, most importantly, you got to score more than one run.

Yeah, it'd be nice. It'd be nice if they could score on the road.

But you also would have wanted Sandy to shut them down. He didn't shut them down.

No. Luis Rivas hit a homer, so that one hurts.

That does look—

he had a, he had a really good start. Um, he's been unbelievable over really the course of this whole season. Like, he'll end up finishing like 7th or 8th in Cy Young, and that's despite the fact that they had all of these starts where he gave up, you know, 8 or 9 runs. Um, look, it's a really disappointing series.

The—

here's the reality: they're, they're .500, they're 13-under on the road, they're 13-over at home.

Well, the, the toughest part to swallow is they were 10 games over .500.

Yeah, I mean, look, you can look across the league and there are a whole bunch of teams that have swung rapidly in different directions. The Yankees are one of those teams that at different points in the season have been electric and then have gone through phases where they've been bad. The Marlins really ended up in a position where, look, they lost their All-Star in Max Meyer on the mound. Robbie Snelling got hurt early in the year. Pitching has been an issue for them because they've had to abuse the bullpen. But even then, they've held tight. The frustration over the last week or so has been that their bats have completely fallen off and Oddly enough, in a park that's always been more of a pitcher's park, their offense has been better at home as well. So look, the hope would be now you come home, you take on the Nationals, you take on the Red Sox, you have a great week at home, and you stick around because in September— look, Marlins have a really tough schedule, but if you can get to mid-September, you've got a road trip where Arizona and San Diego are right there.

And if you could be within 3 or 4 games of San Diego when you go into that, you feel like you got a puncher's chance. But But this week really hurt to be 4 back of San Diego and to now be 6 back of Philly. You're not going to catch Philly unless a miracle happens.

Who do they have this weekend?

They have the Washington Nationals.

Are they off today?

They are off today.

All right.

There you go.

All right. Bye.

All right.

And time.

Shut up, Jeremy. Good report.

Shut up, Jeremy. You're not helping your case by coming back to the mic.

Please just wrap it up. You are not Billy.

See you, dude.

Did you sing that song?

That's weird.

Good quality. He's like Ron Burgundy, he'll read anything.

Can I, can I show you guys a video that I saw a couple of days ago? So I guess I don't know where this was at, but you had a few, you know, old-time NBA players, Hall of Famers, and, and they were together at some function Alonzo Mourning is one of those players. You see here in the still there, it's Chris Webber and Kevin Garnett and Alonzo Mourning and Dennis Rodman. And if you watch this video, Greg, I think you'll appreciate this the same way that I do. You have Alonzo Mourning being jovial and joking around with Rodman, and apparently this is the first time in 30 years— because that series was 29 years ago, 1997— This was the first time in 30 years that Mourning and Rodman, they shook hands and they hugged and they were friendly. See?

Wow.

They're yelling, "First time in 30 years! First time in 30 years!" And it's Zo and it's Rodman and they're being nice to each other and I really enjoyed seeing that.

That's cool.

Because that series in 1997, Heat and Bulls Eastern Conference Final, It was, it was Pat Riley's second year as coach. First, it was the first year that the Heat had ever won a playoff.

I don't remember this one. I remember all the Knicks rivalries, but I don't remember Rodman.

Oh, he used to play the Bulls every year in the playoffs. He used to always lose.

Yeah. So like, especially Rodman would get under Alonzo's skin.

It was nasty. Rodman mentally owned Zo.

Like he would do—

owned him.

So they'd be lining up at the free throw line at the lane and Rodman—

that thing where they're like messing with each other.

No, no, not quite that.

No, because Dennis because Dennis, because Dennis was ahead of his time in terms of like getting in your head. Well, no, not that. I'm talking about like sexual orientation fluidity. So it's like he would just gently put his hand on Alonzo's thigh and I'll smack it away.

And then like Lance Stephenson kind of vibes with LeBron?

No, like more, like more provocative.

Yeah, this may come as a shock, Alonzo didn't like that.

Yeah, he like, we put his hand on his thigh like, hey, what's up big boy? Like, like that was the vibe.

Rodman would stand at the free throw line instead of trying to box out or face the basket.

So, so the basket's right here where Greg is, and usually the guys are like this. Rodman would just— he'd just be staring at you like, literally like this.

I love that.

Yeah. You guys remember when Goldust and Razor Ramon feuded over the Intercontinental title?

Yeah. Rodman was Goldust in this case. And, and just the entire series, Rodman's entire MO was, I'm going to agitate and get in Alonzo's head. And he did. He did. Like, he owned him mentally throughout the series. Like he did a lot of players. Like, he used to do it with Karl Malone in the finals.

You know, my favorite clips of of all time in NBA history is Rodman and Malone. They like, they fall down and then they get up and they both are flopping. So they both fall down and then they get up again and they both fall down a third time. It's poetry, it's dance.

Rodman was amazing. He was amazing. And it was ugly that series. Like Alonzo really had a hard time keeping his cool. There were moments where it would almost turn into a fight. Not Rodman, 'cause Rodman was always in control.

He'd be smiling and laughing.

Always in control.

'Cause he knew what he was doing.

But Zo had very difficult time keeping his emotions in check. And I, I loved seeing that clip there. I like that they made up.

It's, it's sweet.

It's like nice to see, because I think now, certainly at his age, like, I think Rodman does mean well. I know a lot of people made fun of him for everything that happened in North Korea. I think he means well.

Is there a modern-day equivalent of Rodman? Just the colorful, quirky, a little bit strange polarizing, fun. I mean, anybody like that, because I can't—

not with like the, uh, the, the antics that, uh, Amin highlighted. But I do think Draymond is—

Draymond doesn't approach, man. Like, Draymond's too regular of a guy.

On such a different level.

Like, Rodman was— was— I'd say this with all affection— was a weirdo. Yeah, like, Draymond's a regular dude. He could come in here and just be normal around the guys, whatever. Rodman, there was no normal to him. He was always eccentric. This is a guy who, like, dated and then ghosted Madonna and Carmen Electra, right? Like, he just— he was just doing some wild stuff. He would go out, get hammered, and like, they would just let him— the Bulls would let him go to Vegas and get— just get out of here.

He left the Bulls during the playoffs to join the NWO.

Yeah, I mean, like, there's—

all right, Draymond meets Jared McCain.

Not even— see, again, Jared McCain is just too nice.

Yeah, Jared McCain's like sweet, too clean-cut.

It's a different era.

You need like, who's the guy?

Ron Artest in this conversation?

A little bit more.

Just thinking of the Mavs, but not bad.

But he wasn't as weird.

I got Ron. Well, he was, but not like that. Not like that. Kind of weird.

Yeah.

Ron was a different guy. And also Ron had mental health issues. So maybe that's part— maybe Rodman does too. I don't know. I don't want to diagnose.

Yeah. Like, I don't think Ron Artest was playing chess out, mental chess out there. Rodman was.

Yes. Yes, man, who, who today? That's a great question.

I'm trying to think who today is the guy that, that mold doesn't exist in the NBA anymore. No, the guy who grabs 13 rebounds, has 1 field goal attempt at the hoop and doesn't score.

You know what my favorite thing was? When he would take a jump shot and make it and he'd turn around like, oh my God, who would have thought me, Dennis Rodman?

Oh, he would run back up the court with his arm raised.

No, he would do this. Or free throws, like, because he's like, he's a bad free throw shooter, but in the playoffs he'd make them. And he'd make the free throws. Like, oh my— like, he would perform. It's like, oh my God, me, I made a free throw. Can you believe it? Because he knew it got under people's skin.

The chat is suggesting Dylan Brooks.

Yes, but again, that's a little bit— he's just—

but Dylan Brooks wasn't— he's not weird.

He's not weird. I mean, he does weird things, but it's not like he's not wearing a wedding dress, right?

Like, we're just looking for the closest to—

I think we all can acknowledge there's no one.

One-on-one, baby.

No.

Lance Stephenson for a minute, Yeah, but again, like, all of these guys, if I, if I dropped them into a bar with people, they would be normal dudes.

Yeah.

Like, this dude was not normal, man. Who was I talking to the other day? Said they went, they went out drinking with Dennis Rodman.

Oh, it was me here.

Yeah.

If we're talking wedding dresses, Ricky Williams.

Oh, Ricky's closer in terms of like a real outside the box.

But Ricky wasn't trying to like aggravate me.

No, he was. Yeah, it was just him being just a nice guy.

What time's your set at Wimbledon?

Greg, were you watching last night's episode of All Elite Wrestling, AEW?

Ah, damn, I missed it. No, I wasn't.

So get a load of this. Last night, AEW Dynamite is every Wednesday night, and we know that, uh, wrestlers, one in particular, has been using what we believe— what we believe is Greg Cody catchphrases. Well, last night, fans, fans in attendance made signs. The one on the right, you could see the sign very clearly says, "Who made it a salad?" Who made it a salad? That's a fan holding that up on television. Who made it a salad?

That's great.

And on the left, it says, "New Orleans and New Year's Zazz, seriously." That is obscure.

I'm willing to entertain this had something to do with us.

Okay, I mean, you want to say who made it a sound? It's a wrestling catchphrase.

These are fans. These are clearly show fans who then went to AEW wrestling. They made the signs. That's very nice. Thank you very much. Thank you for being listeners. Thank you for shouting us out. This is very different from the wrestlers are doing it, which is what you guys—

so fans, wrestling fans can be fans of the, the Le Batard Show, but wrestlers cannot is what you're saying?

I'm not saying they cannot. I'm just saying it's not likely.

Yeah, it is. I think it is.

I don't think it's likely. You know, I'd love to support you, Greg, everywhere. I have to draw a line somewhere. I think this is the one where I'm like, I think we are doing the navel gaze a little bit.

I gotta see a little bit more.

So the 7 or 8 references to my catchphrases is not—

it's not— all right, there was a Baha Men reference too.

Relax.

Circumstantial evidence. Who won?

Who won?

He was doing a voice. It's a faux combat sport. Yeah, we're asking who won all the time.

The guns versus the dogs.

And saying it like that Who won?

Well, because he was using that voice to guns versus the gun.

He didn't say it like that every time.

Who?

Who? Yeah, third time he didn't say it like that at all.

Oh, okay. Gotcha.

I want to know, the fan holding up the sign that says "New Orleans and New Year's, Zazz, seriously!" with exclamation points, is he saying "stupid idea, Zazzlo" or "of course you should do it"?

Okay, this one is not up in the air, Zazz.

Because I am taking the family, we are going to New Orleans for New Year's.

You would think if he was mocking there'd be a question mark.

No question mark.

Right, so he's doing exclamation points. That looks to me— the exclamation points to me make it sound like, of course you should do this.

Read that in the way that means New Orleans and New Year's, zass, seriously.

That's what that says.

That doesn't sound like an encouragement.

I think it is.

He's mocking you. He's mocking you.

He's saying it's a stupid idea.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

I disagree.

There's no question mark.

Right, if there was a question mark, New Orleans and New Year's, that seriously? That would be denying.

Again, I'm asking you to read it in a way that sounds like an encouragement.

New Orleans and New Year's, that seriously?

When you're going exclamation point and question mark, do you put the question mark first or the exclamation point?

Question mark.

I go exclamation point then question mark.

Okay, all right, starting to hear the bowling.

Damn it.