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Manny Diaz Joins The LeBatard Show @11:30am EST

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Willy25 said:
Agree. Show some unscripted personality. He comes out and shows some funny personality, recruits eat that up because it shows he can related on another aspect aside from football.
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he goes full pipo at pipo and everyone on every network eats it up.
 
MedleyCane said:
I remember this maricon in that stupid Billy Corbin documentary about the Canes
where he is decked out in all black, wearing a black hat, trying to come off as edgy as if he was part of those great teams.....what a sapingo....typical greasey haired Miami phony.
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Dan is from broward...
 
Have on Finebaum show to hear the Bama whining - they replayed the Finebaum clip about Manny leaving Temple. Finebaum was a little uncomfortable, said something like, "I got no problem with Manny Diaz, just with LeBatard and Pipo. we're supposed to be on the same team."
 
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D RevLee said:
I personally think he's handled all of his interviews well. He's a no BS all business type of guy. U can definitely tell he's the son of a politician though that's for sure.
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Which one is it no BS or son of a politician ? don't think you can do or be both.
 
MiamiChris said:
I feel a lot of our fans are still butt hurt on what happened in the 90s with LeBatard. He is/was a journalist and that’s what he did. It’s water under the bridge, I love the show and always makes me crack up. I got hooked in ‘05 moving to S Florida, not having any good options the show made me crack up with old wrestlers being interviewed etc. I don’t listen religiously now because I’m in and out of my car but I still enjoy it and get it. I remember when he went National I told my cousin in Michigan about it, he listened and said it’s terrible, I told him it takes time to understand it but if you set your expectations for actual sports talk, learn to laugh with it and not take it to seriously and dabble into other uncomfortable conversations it’s awesome. He texted me 6 months later and said he was wrong and I was right and loves the show now.
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This ridiculous defense of LeBatard needs to stop immediately. He "is/was a journalist and that's what he did" is an excuse, like claiming the ***** were just "following orders". Wrong.

I knew Dan well at Miami. We both started out living in Eaton. We ate in the same cafeteria 2 or 3 times a day. We had a bunch of classes together (School of Communications students have to double-major, and Dan's non-communications major was Politics, which was my first major). We both worked on the school newspaper.

But Dan was very "transactional" about his writing and his friendships. He went to UM, and I'm sure he is proud of that, but he used and abused people and their trust constantly. The rest of the newspaper staff (and even some of the sports staff) did not like Dan and a couple of his buddies (one of whom was Todd Wright). The Miami Hurricane had to suspend Dan for a month after he wrote an article that printed Lou Holtz's home phone number. Multiple times in the same article.

He had problems with the football team as well. Eaton Hall was right across the street from the apartment building where the football players lived. I was friends with several of the guys on the team, and Dan would go hang out with them, go to parties with them, and act like he was actually friends with them.

Let's not forget, nearly EVERYTHING that Dan snitched about in his first "expose" on Miami was personal information that he got from his "friends" while he was still a student. If Dan cared sooooo much about journalism, he could have reported what he knew years earlier. Instead, he waited around and then took all of his YEARS-OLD information and converted his Miami Herald internship into a full-time job offer.

Think about that. When you were in college, you probably had a good time and did a few things that you might now regret. But imagine that one of your former acquaintances, who you trusted and who had not turned your mistakes into a big newspaper article for years, suddenly decided to write about things you had done years earlier, without informing you, giving you a chance to comment or explain, and with no respect towards the negative impact it would have on your life.

And let's be honest, media outlets have been suspending Dan LeBatard for his questionable actions and morals for his entire career. He was suspended by The Miami Hurricane for his Holtz-phone-number nonsense. He was suspended by The Miami Herald early in his career for his misogynistic comments in Esquire magazine. He was suspended by ESPN for the LeBron James billboard incident. Think about what it takes for a media outlet to suspend one of its highest profile contributors.

And, yes, Dan LeBatard betrayed the University of Miami and so many Hurricane alums that once trusted him. Dan never called any of the former Hurricane players to ask them any questions or to give them a chance to respond to the allegations. He just ran all of the gossip that he had accumulated years earlier.

Finally, Tweed is (mostly) correct about LeBatard's treatment of UM (skipping classes and graduation), even though I don't think it's the worst of what Dan has done. But Tweed is 100% correct in saying that nobody at UM really likes Dan, not the former players, not the people on the newspaper staff, not his former classmates.

But, hey, Greg Cote likes him.
 
His brother is the only one with talent and nothing like Dan, a great artist and good guy. I met him a few times and have some of his artwork. I was happy when this bloated asshat got arrested and tried to apologize about bashing the players with regards to the police, pure scum. He is Danny DeVito from Twins and Dave is Schwarzenegger.

Semper Canes!!!
 
I just re-watched this interview w/ Le Batard on YouTube. Why this ******* is allowed to be on TV is ridiculous. Worst interview I've ever seen in my entire life. This show is a joke. Fck Danielle Le *******. I don't ever want him claiming The University of Miami again. He's a **** poor representation of the alumni base.
 
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