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The Dan Le Batard Show

The Dan Le Batard Show explores soccer's global appeal, the cultural phenomenon of the Mexican Batman, and debates around Jaylen Brown's NBA status, using humor and pop culture to examine perception, analytics, and identity. The episode blends sports, satire, and absurdity with sharp commentary on officiating, fandom, and media narratives.

Key takeaways

• Soccer's global fanbase thrives on shared emotional moments despite low scoring.
• Mexican Batman represents a real-world vigilante trend with internet-fueled mythos.
• Jaylen Brown's NBA value is debated through flawed analytics and public perception.

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You are listening to the Dan Lebiter Show in partnership with the Draft Kings Sports Act, now live in all 50 states. I miss the Tartan Army. My wife does not miss the Tartan Army. For those of you who do not know who these people are with their kilts and their drinking, they have made this summer a record-breaking summer for the local beer establishments and all-bar. in South Florida the one under my house had a day last week better than any week they've had in three years a day because of how these people party and at three o'clock in the morning the other day while I'm hearing sung I want it that way by the backstreet boys just all of them singing it in a Scottish brogue my wife says because they're throw they're clearly throwing garbage cans at each other on the street And she says to me, can we call the police or something? And I'm like, Valerie, two of the officers are on their shoulders because they were like, they were just partying with these people who just bring friendliness and drunkenness everywhere they go. Is this how they behave when they're home when they're partying? Or it's like, hey, we're on vacation, so we're just gonna act like this. They do travel famously this way, loudly and fun, and also charitably. The weirdly, weirdly, how about this, or maybe it's not weirdly, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe it's not weirdly, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or maybe, or, or, or maybe, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, The quietest night I've had in 10 days was the United States game. The game that the United States was playing against Turkey, that was not being watched by anybody. And so there wasn't, you know, there weren't police officers on the shoulders of people throwing garbage cans at each other. But this thing has taken over our country in a way that has been really fun to watch. And I don't know how you guys felt about Columbia, Portugal. But I was in a very popular restaurant at about 7.15. Saturday night very popular. You've been there Zuma. No one was there. There was not a person in there. We had the restaurant to ourselves because everybody was gathered around a television and at our watch party, a just vibrating watch party, my wife asked me and I don't know what your wife's experience was with this as it was shocking to me to see you dressed up twice this weekend. My wife looked up and asked the question. My wife looked up and asked the question that I imagine a lot of novices ask about soccer when the game is over and the place is going crazy with columbians she's like wait a minute nobody scored nobody scored the entire game that offsides is bullshit like I don't know how I don't know I know I'm arriving here and changing the rules on things and I know they've been using you know all of their instant replay technology very well and it's super accurate but calling when you get a when you get a goal and stoppage time like that and it's the player could have had a smaller shoe and it wouldn't have been off sides that's an asinine I feel like Mike look correct me maybe I'm being ugly American here but shouldn't it be like if more than half his body is offside I'm I understand this because it bugs me too because that that goes against the spirit of the rule off sides is to take away a discernible advantage by cherry picking if you watch Christiano Ronaldo all game he was very clearly offside because his speed isn't what it used to be That sucks. That's unfortunate. I would like some grace there, but this is something that Americans do often and We have to stop pretending like we're not spending 15 minutes an NFL game Wondering if someone's toe is on the sideline or if something is a catch or not a catch the same type of absurdity happens in American football all the time This is my counter first of all. I think it's dumb in that sport, too I think I think this is the part where people are like oh you want them to get to I said no, but I don't want calls to be determined on technicalities. What you said is exactly right, Mike. The spirit of the rule was about so people would not gain a material advantage by cherry picking. It wasn't so that, oh, my elbow was out. The idea that the silliest things break that invisible plane that no one with the naked eye could ever see is the part that gets so frustrating as someone who's loved this game for a long time. I will say though, they have the technology. in a place now where it's irrefutable it is proven and I know a lot of people don't want to trust the tech and like well they can manipulate it and we certainly heard a lot of that with Iran who were so unfortunate basically this entire tournament was waited against them in really unfair ways but it's irrefutable the technology is such that yes I feel very confident that that dude's toenail was off side and it is a part of his body that he can score with there are pretty absurd things that we've seen in Europe where you know there's there's a shoulder or a hand that's offside like you can't you famously cannot score a goal with your hand I was this an advantage but this is this is a difference though when you mentioned football American football and you're right it's we are now over officiating these things and yet somehow still complaining about the officiating but what I'm objecting to in this particular instance is it doesn't happen very often in American football that the goal is so valuable that what you're doing is you've got an entire country celebrating and then you're like yeah never mind Greg Cody at the watch party Chris Cody's entire role at the watch party was just to throw up an arm he was off sides guy at the watch party he wasn't rooting for anything but corner kicks that he bet on he bet on nine and a half was corners and all he was doing was throwing his hand up he was the only guy there I love to see it first I'm in a bunch of Columbians he's the only guy throwing his arm up in the air to be the official guy I hear and I get it I'm very frustrated with for sometimes although I think the World Cup is probably the best implementation of this technology but like show someone from Morocco the tuck rule and be like you know that started a dynasty the goals are worth so much though that when you've got a whole bunch of people celebrating and then most of the people in the bar were so busy celebrating that they didn't even notice that I had no idea I was on the table. the table with your arm up just telling everybody this is my moment I was just like I told you Quintano I told you Mike Mike was giving me a whole lot of I told you so's on on the goal I couldn't see anything that smoke machine was thick the the country has been overtaken by this in a way that's really charming and it's not just the Scottish who are drinking too much Mexicans are sticking their heads in cotton candy machines I have been told of but don't know about the Mexican Batman I'm gonna need some more information oh what you find about Mexican Batman go ahead tell me about the Mexican Batman Dan the Mexican Batman is a cultural phenomenon that is happening right now somebody a vigilante in Mexico Mexico has a real Batman there are thieves that are stealing motorcycles and this Mexican Batman is catching them and taping them to light posts with complete duct tape obviously the eyes of the accused of one of the eyes of the accused has been blurred out. It's two of the eyes of one of the accused but four of the four of the others with air they have eight eyes none of which are covered up because Batman killed that one why have we covered up just the eyes of one kid when we're clearly accusing five of them of criminal behavior or the Mexican Batman is? The Mexican Batman is again the jurisdiction is not ours they do have different rules over there Mexican Batman has other rules but Dan imagine vigilante justice he's going out and not only finding these people getting them and then somehow some way subdoing them into ductaping them into a light post. Like I don't know if you've ever tried to do this like as with friends or whatever you try to duct tape somebody and do stuff like that. I have not. It will not surprise you to learn that I have not tried to do that. Okay. That Spider-Man's move of like leaving web though. It is but is webbing Batman. But that Batman doesn't generally like leave them there. Guys I'd like to point them there. guy on the left you got the guy on the right you got the guy second from the right the two how do you duct tape two people you sit still hold on I gotta be like it's two me all one he'll have to get away there's no way both of them there's a Mexican robin oh there's a Mexican batman mxican robin robin hold one Batman ties the other one gets the other one going and that's it what do you think mexican alfred's Robin's doing the taping. I think Batman is like now I'm gonna stand back here and Robin's the one really. No but Batman's got to keep the strength he's got more strength than Robin does. He's got more strength than Robin's got his legs. He's got his legs all out but I mean then he becomes nightwing. That's later though that's much later. We're talking about Robin right now. He's the understudy of Batman for the moment. It's a long you know prolonged period of time that he's got skinny until he's