University of Miami football is definitely back, and The Dan Le Batard show The team made it their mission to control the national media’s narrative about the Hurricanes. It seems this mission crossed a line this week.
The show was inspired by a clip of its former cast member, Billy Gil, a frequent critic of University of Miami sports dating back to his tenure at the University of Miami. The Bastard To show. In the clip of Bell tailgateGil mocked Miami fans’ perpetual whining and questioned the Hurricanes’ resume this season after a 31-24 loss to Notre Dame in South Bend.
Rather than simply teasing Gil, their former colleague, or disagreeing with this version in substance, the Show The Bastard went further. Before reacting to Gil’s point of view, Le Batard made fun of the rest of the team. Bell tailgate chosen to “talk to each other”. Then Le Batard co-host Jonathan Zaslow muttered, “Who are these guys?”
The disdain didn’t land well at The Ringer, where on Wednesday’s episode of Tailgateco-host Van Lathan tore apart Le Batard and Co. and repeatedly told them to “suck my dick.”
Lathan disputed that the Show The Bastard manipulated the clip to remove the context of him and co-host Joel Anderson debating the take on Gil’s Hurricanes, as well as how Le Batard and Zaslow spoke to the cast of The Ringer.
“They took that away to focus on the bullshit they wanted to nitpick about. Then they hit us with the white man’s shit. They hit us with the ‘Who are these people?'” Lathan responded.
“Man, I’m going to be real real with y’all. Shout out to everything you do out there, but you don’t do it enough to not come up to anyone like ‘Who are you?’ type shit. I don’t know what you think you did there that made you able to come, especially, talk to us like that.
Lathan reiterated that he actually thought the loss at Miami would help the team advance to the College Football Playoff, although of course, that’s beside the point. The biggest problem for Lathan was that Le Batard and Co. were going out of their way to “disrespect” him and his colleagues.
“Each of the people here has had a long and successful career in this industry and accomplished a lot,” he said. “All that kind of shit doesn’t get answered about football. That kind of shit doesn’t get answered about whether we know…what we’re talking about. It pisses me off. That’s the kind of shit you’re going to get from me if that’s the kind of time you’re having.”
Lathan and Anderson also noted that they were both invited to THE Show The Bastard before, by asking the question of who they are seems even more performative.
Since the start of the last college football season, Tailgate has steadily built his audience and penetrated the crowded college football online media space with a unique blend of humor and insight. Gil joined the series as lead producer shortly after leaving the Show The Bastard amid significant disruptions in Le Batard’s business.
“Whatever history you have with Billy and everyone who was there and is now messing with us here. I don’t want to involve them in anything,” Lathan said. “But don’t hit me, don’t hit Tate (Frazier), don’t hit Joel with the ‘Who are these people’ shit. You’re not on it like that. White man elite shit isn’t going to work.”
After Lathan’s rant, Gil suggested her Tailgate teammates were simply catching “stray animals,” which meant for him, and that Tailgate it was “giving them what they want” by responding to Le Batard’s cohort.
But judging by the extent of Lathan’s feelings about the lack of respect from Gil’s old studio, it’s unlikely that either side will play nice from here.
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