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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Local Hour: Celebrating Miami Making The CFP!

03 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What are the implications of Inter Miami's upcoming game against the Vancouver Whitecaps?

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Plus, one fan will win a Lely Mays one-of-one game day jacket. Wow. The merch will be dropped on select dates from December to January 21, and it's all courtesy of what brand?

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Me.

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78.685 - 105.337 Dan Le Batard

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Chapter 2: How do Miami fans feel about the college football playoff rankings?

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I don't know. Traffic. What is the percentage of times as though that you would guess that Cody, since you've been around, is on time? What percentage?

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194.169 - 199.058 Dan Le Batard

I would say 20 percent. One out of five. 90 percent.

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I really don't understand what happened. I got a word on a text that you were going to be here at 8.10 in the morning, and then you're just walking in right now. A couple wrong turns. 50 minutes after that. So do you have any excuses, explanations? Why did you text us that you were going to be in at 8.10? What are you smiling about now? I mean, I texted, my initial estimate was 8.16.

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This to me feels exactly like the PFPI controversy from yesterday. Whereas maybe the traffic is mostly to blame, but there's a little look in the mirror of like, maybe I should leave a little earlier. There's got to be a smidgen of blame to go to him.

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want to do the blame to him he hasn't changed any part of his routine but I want to ask the question again because I pointed out yesterday that Spotify sent us that big heavy trophy saying we had a hundred million streams last year and I will say again that's just Spotify we're on in a lot of different places we're a big show tell me all the other big shows where Ryan Clark walks onto the set seven minutes after the show started in my guess my dad's defense I did see Cam Newton walking onto the first take set last night too about

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like 10 minutes late.

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Right.

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I'm going to start wearing hats like Cam Newton.

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There you go. Maybe that's the punishment. He dresses like Cam Newton next week.

Chapter 3: What are the reasons behind the excitement for Messi's impact in Miami?

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I am your career. Stugatz. You have messed with me, David, and now you're messing with me, and I'm more dangerous, pal. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz. You're saying, Mike, I am stunned to hear you pull the parachute on too much soccer talk after 20 minutes when there's a championship game that Greg Cody is calling historic. But let's go to Zazz.

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Here is the official decider on big game or not a big game. We're bringing in a soccer expert to our studios, so we're not talking about whether they're called the Herons or the White Caps, and we're talking about this more intelligently. Big game or not big game Friday, the White Caps against the Herons.

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1375.377 - 1388.297 Dan Le Batard

Well, the game's going to be played on Saturday, Dan, so if you tune in Friday, you may miss it. Inter-Miami, Vancouver, Drive Pink Stadium.

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It's not called that anymore.

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1390.22 - 1397.03 Dan Le Batard

Okay. It hasn't been for a couple of years. Chase. Right across the street from Empty Graffiti Warehouses. Anna Wendy's.

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The MLS Championship, also known as the MLS Cup.

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Usually known as the MLS Cup.

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Lionel Messi and them boys versus the Whitecaps and them boys. I'm going big game. Big game. I have been out on Inter Miami, but I'm going to be in Atlanta this weekend for the SEC Championship, and I'm going to make sure that I watch it. So if I'm watching it, that's a big game.

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Big game.

Chapter 4: How is the promotion of the MLS Cup perceived in the context of other sports events?

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That's funny. Don't look up his record against Messi head-to-head. So last night, the committee got together and the wet sock came out again. And I believe he said the thing that should give Miami fans hope. I do believe that all of this is stupid. I believe we all are in agreement that NCAA leadership, such that it is, has been terrible for a long time.

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And this manifestation of it is the worst. And I'm kind of rooting for Duke to win because then they'll just stop doing it. Like if Duke wins the ACC championship and beats Virginia and gets into this playoff scenario with five losses. There's a good chance that they don't because they won't be ranked. James Madison would make it.

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Then you have James Madison and whoever wins between Tulane and North Texas. Duke wins and the Dukes get in. It's just chaos and it's terrible and it's dumb. It's it's look, this is what I know about sports. And I know obviously people are going to accuse us of bias because we feel like the Miami team is wrong. But what I do know about sports is that people do have at least the illusion.

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that it's supposed to be a meritocracy. Like, you could complain about the officiating and all sorts of things, but the scoreboard ends up telling the story that gives you finality. We have all sorts of imperfect measurement systems for our championships. All of them are imperfect. Basketball's is the best, but all of them are imperfect. There's going to be

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possibly champion of professional football this year that isn't actually the best team, is just the healthiest team at the end of the season that happens to win the game. One game samples are not a representative, but they're the best we've got. And so we have the illusion of merit being the reason. It's not judges. And I think so. And let's get this conference.

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Let's get this athletic director to come out and try and talk for a month in front of the cameras more than he ever has. Be more famous than he ever has been. Be more polarizing than he ever has been. Let's get this sound. I don't want to remember this person's name. I don't know what his nationality is. I don't know. He's a white man.

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Yeah, but most administrators in that sport with a hockey name. But his last name, I don't know. Hunter, you're a check. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to say his name. I'm not going to give him this platform of knowing his name. But I think whatever the ethnicity is or the white, the lineage is of that last name, the history of the last name.

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I think it stands for we're making this all up as we go along.

1623.676 - 1637.51 Dan Le Batard

Okay, here is a really important factor, too, because you're still honoring head-to-head between Alabama and Oklahoma with the Sooners being up, but it has not carried the day for Miami and Notre Dame. Neither Miami nor Notre Dame play anymore.

Chapter 5: What challenges does BYU face in the current college football landscape?

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It's in Provo, even. It's not even getting to Salt Lake City. It's just in Provo. Nobody nationally cares about BYU, let's be honest. And here's the thing about the CFP. It does matter. Reputation does matter. That's why Alabama survives losing to Florida State, because they're Alabama.

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And by the way, Miami would have won the ACC tiebreaker and been in the championship game had FSU finished with a 6-2 conference record instead of 2-6. So it's hurting Miami, but it's not hurting Alabama. The whole process is weird. Louisville, and here's another one, SMU and Louisville would be the fourth and fifth toughest opponent on Notre Dame's schedule.

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Nothing makes sense here unless Miami gets in the CFP. You have mentioned Alabama here, and I want to know if something is accurate, because I saw Kirk Herbstreet saying... while putting up a link that Alabama is now changing its schedule, that Alabama is going to do what this entire system is going to cause, which is don't play any difficult games out of conference. You're an idiot.

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You're not going to get rewarded for it. You're going to get penalized or penalized for it.

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2404.073 - 2404.654 Dan Le Batard

You could get rewarded.

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If you win. Yeah, if you win the game. But when you mention the allies you did, Mike, I notice you chose purposely credible allies. You're going to have some difficulty with Marco Rubio now coming to your side. He is an ally of yours, Mike Ryan. That's your boy. He is. Just like Governor DeSantis.

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And he is now talking next to a Donald Trump who is clearly sleeping throughout everything he's saying. Yeah. And you're going to have to take over next year. Yes. He kind of woke up when he said that. More power? I can have more power? He said he agreed with it. He co-signed it. He's like, that is a good idea. Put me in charge of more things. That's going well. I'll just bomb some boats.

Chapter 6: How does the podcast discuss the influence of media on sports visibility?

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Marco's son plays for UF. Didn't know that.

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2477.728 - 2504.93 Dan Le Batard

Can I potentially pour a little bit of cold water on the theory that Miami is going to get in if BYU winds up losing because Hunter Juracek said that teams could still move up and down after conference championship week, even if they're idle. He also mentioned there that that's based on strength of schedule, right? being affected because the conference champions.

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2505.411 - 2516.592 Dan Le Batard

So does that mean a team like Miami, whose strength of schedule is not affected because of anything that happens in conference championship games, is actually not what he's talking about?

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You could be talking about Notre Dame. Boise State's playing for a conference championship. Boise State, not your father's Boise State, but they're playing against UNLV. They're favored by three and a half. They've could become a Mountain West champion, and perhaps that's enough if Miami gets up there next to Notre Dame. But Miami and Notre Dame, by every conceivable metric, are very close.

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I have a couple of questions for you guys based on what we're talking about. Was there evidence from last night that the committee is positioning itself to allow Alabama to lose a close game to Georgia and still get into the playoff? That's all that was.

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last night was to protect alabama if they lose a game like the only way alabama is affected by what happens in that game is if they're embarrassed all right so the second question i have is give me more information on marco rubio's kid playing at florida he is small he works hard he has to be small but he has to be physically small marco rubio fits in my pocket anthony rubio is five foot nine 191 pounds what position does he play starting he's a running back

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He's a running back with what kind of bona fides? What kind of high school credentials does he have? Is he on scholarship? Has he scored? 5.4 yards per carry. Now that's on five carries. But I'll go ahead and figure that out from high school. But that is with the Gators last year.

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Is Marco Rubio small? He had six carries the year before. Yeah.

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Yeah, he's tiny.

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