Mike Ryan Ruiz

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7,223 appearances 29 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 1 Sep

Mike Ryan Ruiz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 25 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

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The Dan Le Batard Show · The Suey Awards: Best Limited Fake | Hour 3 · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

Basketball has to do with the G League, they don't have to do what baseball has to do with the minor leagues. voice-verified

And I'm somebody who wants employees to be paid the most that they can be paid in competitive workspaces. voice-verified

When I tell you that this uh this NFL season, Zaz, there are gonna be players all over the NFL making a great deal less. voice-verified

Than certain college players. voice-verified

When I tell you that if a player finishes college after five years and doesn't make the NFL, that player doesn't have a way to earn money anywhere but in Europe where the salaries are abysmal on what it is you have to do to play professional football in Europe. voice-verified

You essentially have people. voice-verified

People who aren't quite good enough to get to the pros fail to make the Browns, and now Lane Kiffin tries to make him uh make them your tight end. voice-verified

And what happens is the courts are involved, and the SEC and the Big Ten get real precious about protecting their powers on stuff, but all of them are protecting what are antiquated rules when I present to you as the fact, not the opinion. voice-verified

And the absurdity of the fact that all over college football, there will be players paid more than professionals are played to start NFL games this season. voice-verified

That's going to happen all over the league. voice-verified

Once you've allowed that as the insanity of what it is that you're doing, you no longer have to play by the previous rules of pretending that the books or the classes matter. voice-verified

I understand that people are pressured. voice-verified

about this, but what's wrong with my idea of just make the college programs, full-blown minor league professional franchises that have to run on professional budgets and are trying to get the best players, even if that player is in his eighth year of college, because that's the tight end you want. voice-verified

He wasn't quite good enough to make the pros, but he's better than any of the kids you've got coming up that you'd have to develop. voice-verified

also the argument for why you still offer college degrees, especially now if they have an opportunity to make money, you have learned the skill sets and background knowledge on finances to do literally the point with that leg up. voice-verified

And if you're gonna say, Well, let's be realistic about that, Dan, brother, at some point that's operator error and the onus falls on these young men to do something with that education that's being offered. voice-verified

in school, somebody's there telling you this doesn't mean you're going pro after this. voice-verified

I and I would say what Dan is saying is already here. voice-verified

Kind of. voice-verified

Schools operating on professional budgets, let's stop pretending that this is amateurism. voice-verified

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