Zaslow
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Appreciate You, Hogsmash (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Thanks, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Appreciate You, Hogsmash (feat. JuJu Gotti)
People like ribs. People are willing to take whatever the mess is. Just get some wipes. Ken Silvano says, he's full of shit. So who's more full of shit, you or Jimmy Butler?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Appreciate You, Hogsmash (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Salute to him, Barrow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
Can we acknowledge how brown my hair is in that picture? I mean, look at that. That's a young man right there. Brown, huh?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
I mean, best case scenario is Jimmy Butler missed the shot at the end of the game. He'd win.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
Well, listen, I don't want to revisit that. That's not a good memory for me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
I don't like it. Yeah. And I didn't know where it's coming from, where they're singing these LeBron songs. What the hell's going on here, you know?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
Is it just the subject of the song? Yeah, pretty much. And the lyrics, I just, I don't like it. Do you like Blink-182? No, and I don't like that song either. It's one of those overdone things. They played at hockey games and the crowd all sings. Yeah. It's lame.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
I don't know. I didn't like that song. Thanks. Keep it real. Whatever. Not every song's a banger. No, I know. You're right. Yeah, no, I'm not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
Not if the Heat get that number one all-pick. You know about that culture?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
It depends on the flavor. Turkey, meatball. I have a favorite cheese, and if I'm having a sub, why would I not want to have my favorite cheese on whatever sub I'm getting? So, yes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
Put some Munster on that, baby. Yeah, me too. Dan's trying to shame me here. It's weird that I love Munster cheese.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
I don't know what I mean. And they scrape it onto your meal, right? Yeah. That's raclette.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
It's like a French cheese. I like it better if it were Munster.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
Well, so Jimmy was asked with his media availability yesterday, amongst a bunch of questions, you know, essentially, when did you know that things were awry? Like, you know, he was like, you know, I knew at the end of last year. So back in May, you knew that we were at the point of no return. And he said, yes, I knew back then. Well, then why were we asking for an extension over the summer?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
And Jimmy was also asked, if you sign the extension, if the Heat gave you the money, was this situation avoidable? And he said, flatly, no. So A, why did you ask for the extension when you knew things were done with? And B, he's just trying to make it sound like it's not about money when we know it's about money. It's only about money. It's always about money. So I think he's full of shit there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
But he's saying that even if they gave him the money, he was at the point of no return, that he didn't want to play there anymore. And I think that's nonsense.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
All right, but the girl that I broke up with is in front of a microphone being asked questions. Coming over to your house tonight. And she looks great. By other people. She looks great, and you're so upset. I get it. Talking about me. Oh, but she's going to look like shit in two years.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
What is wrong with the Heat having wanted him to play out the contract they gave him?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: The Fuzz
Look, that girl is going to look busted in a couple of years.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
That right there is now – it was the worst moment of my sports fandom life at the time. It's now the second worst, but that is right after – that's in the bowels of the arena. I just got off doing the postgame show, a postgame where the Miami Heat – lost game five in the Eastern Conference Finals to Boston, and they fell down now three games to two. They were going to Boston now for game six.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
We all know what happened there. LeBron, he had the eyes. He'd win the series. Amazing. But that right there, they fell behind three to two. And Sedano, I mean, like a snake. I'm sitting there with George Sedano. You see, I got a beer. I'm several beers deep at this point. And Sedano, he sneaks his phone and snaps a picture and he routinely shares it in a group chat. Very dirty move by Sedano.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I didn't even, I mean, look at me. Do I look like I'm posing for a picture?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
So like a snake George Sedano now. And that right there, at the time, it's not anymore. It's now the second lowest. But at the time, that was the lowest I had ever been over one of my teams. And yes, I thought they were going to lose.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
He's a Pacific guy. He's so L.A. Yeah. I don't know what to tell you. He's a big-time L.A. guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
But you know what to tell us. He's a big-time L.A. guy. I know what to tell you in regards to Sedano being an L.A.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
My cell phone's 305. That's what matters. You got me there. That's true. Everybody knows that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Have you ever lived in Miami? Of course, I grew up there. I'm from North Miami Beach. Come on now. NMB Senior High. What? What? What did you say?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Orlando, basically. That's not Miami, by the way.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
That's the OG mall, 163rd Street. Yeah. Come on now. What are you doing? It's OG Mall, Dan. I'm repping 305 is what I'm doing. I don't know what you're doing. What are you doing?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
No that's not that's not true at all the only thing that was correct was the medical situation
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
That's not what happened? No. He had that block, and he did the freak out on the ground. Great moment. Game six, 2006. That block, wow. Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Okay, what fan base, I want to hear the fan base that is, eh, you know what, they take criticism really well. It's not criticism. No, but you're saying that when the Heat are criticized, that the fan base is very sensitive. I want to know the fan base that's like, yeah, you know what, we're good with being criticized, no big deal.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I was not a nice person. And he certainly knew about it. I know that he knew about it. All right. And I knew there was going to be a reckoning.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
When I started to work... At ESPN Radio... A day is going to come... Because I don't book the guests... Like the producers book the guests... You know... And there's going to be a day where... Hey... We're going to have Brian Windhorst on today... And I'm like... Oh crap... So that day came... You know... And I'm going to have to deal with this... In some fashion... And I don't know him personally at all... So I have no idea... How this is going to go down... And I actually sent a text message... To another co-worker... And I said... Listen...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I don't know how I should handle this. Should I call Windhorst right now and just be like, do a whole mea culpa, or are we just going to do this on the air?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Well, yeah. First of all, it was never anything personal. I never said anything personal about him. Did I mean the things where I would say that he hates the Heat and has a bias against the Heat? Yeah, I meant those at the time. Sure I did. I didn't know how it was going to come off On ESPN radio. I thought maybe I should call him in advance.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Like, hey, listen, I'm not like a total a-hole, you know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Well, I will say that he was he he was totally good about it. I didn't even have to do a whole deal explaining myself. He's very professional. I ask him basketball questions. He answers to the best of his ability. But that was the one where I was like, man, a total pro.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I'm dopey. He's a total pro, and it obviously showed. He's at the top of the list of people.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
We'll see if we can extract them over the course of— Well, Skip Bayless is not there anymore, so he would be right up there also. Did Windy know who you were? Definitely. Oh, okay. He knew that my show had him in the Tool of the Week Hall of Fame, all right? There was a banner hanging in my studio with him hanging from the rafters.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Right. That's what I'm saying. It was sponsored. Who was the sponsor? I'm sorry.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Instead of earning it. Earned, not given. You've heard that before, right? Earned, not given.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I just said you bought it. That is a shocking accusation. That's very... That's not how I expect to start a Tuesday. I thought I was coming in here. I thought everybody's feeling good about themselves. I thought we're going to be all over the heat's tip tonight because Jimmy Butler is here and he's part of the enemy. I'm just saying, all right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I thought we were all on the same page, and that is a heavy accusation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
You know, let's just put it this way, all right? Everybody knows that if their house caught fire in the middle of the night, we all have that one thing that we would grab on the way out. And the box with my rings in it. That's right, rings, plural. Plural. The box with my rings in it. That's what I'd be grabbing. So the best way to answer that question is, priceless, baby.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
No problem. I can't go to the championship ring store and get another one with Zaslow engraved on it. No. But I can go to the birth certificate store.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Earned. I stole it. How do you steal something with your name on it? It has my name on it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
It's not how you make someone feel wanted.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I was paid through the radio station, not the Heat. I've never been on the Heat's payroll. I do have to mention that. Jeremy says the same thing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I am certainly not told anything since I stopped being on the broadcast. I haven't been on that broadcast since the year 2022 of our Lord, all right? Since then... I've never been told anything, all right? The words that come out of this mouth, the words that come from this lips.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I'm just glad that they won the other day, man. You think I need 11-game losing streak as the headline on national TV? I don't need that in my life.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I'm sorry, Jess. I was going to say, I think most everyone is watching tonight hoping Jimmy Butler crushes the Heat.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
You're not getting fired up for Heat at Chicago play-in?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
I am a journalist. I mean, I'm not a journalist. Ignore what he's wearing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Well, and Mike sits here. Mike sits here and will tell you that he's not watching the Heat. I'm watching the Heat begrudgingly the last couple of months. I wake up in the morning. Now, I don't feel that way today because I'm looking forward to the game tonight. But I'll wake up begrudgingly over the last month. Oh, great, the Heat are playing tonight.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
That's what I got to do for two and a half hours of my life tonight. Mike Ryan won't watch it, though. I mean, I'm sitting here and... Hang with him, man. He'll still tell you what he thinks. Don't worry.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Ooh, that's why I have all the gray hair. I mean, that was... I did that for seven years.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: Heat Stroke
Whoa. I'm just trying to be reasonable here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Is He a Good Player?
love it right now there is an element to it where okay let's get the super hard series out of the way first one the longer you go in the stanley cup playoffs the more beat up physically you're going to be let's get it on right now baby come on and you know what who knows what happens at washington and montreal it took overtime for washington to beat montreal you may wind up playing maybe it's montreal in the conference finals maybe it's ottawa in the conference finals whatever let's face a hard team right now when we're fully healthy
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Is He a Good Player?
They were given a little bit of extra effort. Word got to them. What was on the line tonight? Not the playoffs. Real ballers know. This was the Zaslow game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stukas Podcast.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Not a great moment for him. I mean, I like him. I used to watch him on Amazing Race and then Survivor. So big white guy. Less interested, honestly, in his art than his reality TV appearances. But if you say the sentence, I'm world building, you kind of lose me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
I mean, it's like he had two good seasons. This one was a bit of a letdown for people like that's fine, you know, to get like so angry about it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Well, I mean, people were criticizing White Lotus like on season like on episode three this season. They were like already out on it. They didn't like it from the beginning and they were just kind of waiting for it to end to find what to complain about a mystery crate. We were saying how the finale was a legacy episode for Mike White.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Big episode for him. And what was the conclusion? Inconclusive.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Well, some of the stuff was rushed. Spoiler alert. He shoots his dad. And his dad went and yelled at him. And then the wife was like... That was your dad. And it's like, well, should have told him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Wait, hold on, Chris. Walk us through the surprising moments of this season of White Lotus for you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Like COVID tests. Remember back in the height of COVID, you'd go, you'd wait in the long line, they'd stick the thing up your nose in your car, you'd have to go like this, and you'd have to tilt your head. And then you'd be waiting around like, can I go?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
vacation can I not can I go to work can I not and it comes back it's like inconclusive like how how is this inconclusive and it's like well they did it 14 times instead of 15 times so we don't know if you have it or you don't same thing with the legacy game legacy episode inconclusive a legacy game has to be conclusive no not always soccer could be a time always it's a legacy game if it's a legacy game if it's for your legacy must be conclusive now
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
The weirdest part of the season. He's the only one that left a better person than when he got there. What brother would do that?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
First episode, you're like, okay.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Then it's not a legacy conversation. But season four is definitely a legacy season.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Big bounce back season we need.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
It's a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the League's Cup.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Nate, do you know who Andrew Hawkins is? Yeah. Who's hotter, him or Method Man? Hawkins, definitely. I have an update on the A.J. Brown situation. So A.J. Brown's car was stolen and he put out on Twitter, Dear Philly, to whoever stole my car last night, I'll make a deal with you. Bring back my car and I won't press charges or when I find you today, it's going to be what it's going to be.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Take it or leave it, my guy. And his car has been returned, but Brown says the police returned his car and the thief is dealing with consequences. So either he found that car and consequences are being dealt with, or he may have lied to the people saying there'd be no consequences if they returned the car. That's the latest at the News Desk. I'm Billy Gill.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
I mean, if his car was getting drafted, Nate would know about it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Okay. Omarion Hampton will be a first round pick in the draft. Naughty or Tice? Tice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Like it. Okay. Everyone is sick of Aaron Rodgers and he won't be signed before the draft. Naughty or Tice? Tice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
All right, Nottie or Tice? Trevor Lawrence is not that guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Naughty or Tice. It's very simple. All right, Naughty or Tice. Ben Johnson will lead the Bears to a winning record this season.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Can I propose a spin-off to Naughty or Tice? Naughty and Tice. And we ask you a question, and you tell us the Naughty side, and then from the other perspective, the people that think it's Tice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Hand up. I think I made this game more confusing now because we're not getting any answers. I don't know what he believes or he doesn't anymore.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Wait, one more. Naughty or Tice? Andrew Luck, considering the hype and how he retired early because of injury. Bust?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Inconclusive Legacy Game (feat. Nate Tice)
Where's the entertainment line for you? What crosses and you're like, now I'm entertained?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Our group chat has a pretty good feeling about this one. This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugatz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
So he had an open-door press conference after he had the closed-door press conference. I don't understand the press conference strategy at all. How about no press conferences? Exactly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Got to get there first, right? Right now the series price on most sportsbooks is minus 110, minus 110. This is a total pick-em series going on right now. The two teams that made it to the Stanley Cup last year, appear to have some challenges in front of them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
There were some really bad answers in that one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Was it Kalashaw that asked? Tim McMahon. It was Tim McMahon about the timeline.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Yeah, and he's like, I'm just trying to use your logic here on extending your timeline. You had a championship team. Meanwhile, this team was a Western Conference champion last year. They don't make it out of the play-in this year. No one. in their right mind, would describe that as a good job.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
I think I do see the value in that, in that the questions that were asked were, The journalists were trying to follow Nico's logic in ways that if it's your end of the year presser, cameras are out there, your duty is to your readers and ask the most pressing questions. You can actually have a conversation. This one, they were like, okay, the trade happened. This was your logic.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Now we have a more representative sample. How are we doing according to your plan right now? I thought they extended him a lot and maybe that was the intention behind it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Yeah, confused by his own moves. You could have said that he was doing a really bad job before they traded Luka in. They were just three games over .500 on the heels of an NBA Finals appearance with some glaring needs, and they didn't address it. They didn't try to get better. In fact, they traded the most popular player in the franchise. Not history, but close.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Well, that's why I love Zaz's point about Mark Cuban, who still has an ownership stake. He just sold a majority stake. And remember, they kind of greased the rails for the new ownership group by putting everybody at ease. Don't worry, Mark is still going to be involved in the day-to-day activities, the team, and he's still going to be a part of this ownership group.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
And then, I guess, slowly, the public image divested. But this was actually pretty quick. And in terms of people with good public relations appeal... that could speak to the fans and what Luka meant to that market. Mark should kind of be out there, unless it's the plan from the ownership group that has a majority stake saying, we don't want you around this at all.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
But I feel like Cuban can have actually, yeah, he could have helped.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
He looks great by comparison.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
And I could kind of understand that if he were, say, a former coach that someone decided to let go, but he sold this team for a record profit. It was totally his call. So I don't think you get to be like, sorry, guys, it wasn't really my call here. I'm so sorry. This wasn't inadvertently your call.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
You see that Kanye tweet?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
This is the fourth time we've done this bit. Yeah, World Raw R4. Yeah, this is the fourth straight time. The Panthers? The Panthers and the Lightning. You were not familiar with the Panthers and the Lightning tonight? The show always calls this playoff feud.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Last year's shirt was World War III. Our group chat has a good feeling about this one.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
It feels like a difficult series. I mean, the series prices all reflect that. And while Florida may be top to bottom more talented than they were last year, they still got 88. He didn't have the greatest series the last time these two teams played in the playoffs. And... There's a reason why, though. Florida's going to be getting some guys back, but some guys that haven't played in a while.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Some hugely important guys like Matthew Kachuk, Aaron Ekblad.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Right, so I saw him have a career resurgence, and shortly thereafter he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. I imagine that performance-enhancing drug thing got cleared up during the suspension, and he's probably not on that stuff anymore.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Yeah, so I don't know. And you keep in mind he had a longer layoff. Same thing with Matthew Kachuk. There's new players on the team, new lines that are going to get formed. So we'll see. I do think it's going to be a tougher, longer series.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Put him on that third. I want him on that second. Why do you want a guy with one goal on the second line? Two. I just want to see what it looks like.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
One thing I'm really curious to see is Kucherov had another outstanding season. A book on him, though, is he's a power play merchant. Florida really neutralized Kucherov last year. He was very frustrated. I agree with you.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
That's their thing.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Look, he hasn't been good as a Florida Panther. He just hasn't. Oh, I disagree. He hasn't been good.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
He hasn't been good. He's not a better player than Mackey. He's not. He's a proper third liner on merit. Maybe.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
We got activity for days. Like, Brad Marchand, that's been a lot of the analysis. Wow, Brad Marchand brings activity to the season. Florida's been great on that front.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
I feel like he's not as good a skater as he once was. I feel like he's certainly not the type of offensive threat that he was, certainly not even last year. And on top of that, he's got a really stupid face, and I don't like him one bit. Oh, there it is. If we want to scratch his ass, we can scratch his ass and we can get Greer in there because I like Greer more.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
No, Greer doesn't like Marshawn more.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
He's our rat now. No, he's not my rat. He's our rat.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Do something in the playoff. Do something, and then maybe you could possibly be some of my friend's rat, but you'll never be my rat.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Because it's coming. We have plenty of people that do that. We didn't need more.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
Yeah. Yes, I want to scratch your third line forward for a fourth line forward that, you know, I think is a better player because Brad Marchand's not a good hockey player anymore.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
He didn't score like that for Florida. He's not a good player, guys. I don't know what to tell you. I don't like him. And on top of being a bad hockey player, he's a worse person. Oh, my God.
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Local Hour: "World Rawr IV: Lightning Ain't Shit"
He is to Andrew Hawkins. That's not an upgrade. I mean, from a football analysis standpoint, maybe not.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Thank you, Juju. Jeremy was offended by the fact that Chris Cody said Cleveland, Miami would like a word on boring series.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
This is why Jessica is going to New York. She loves me. Don't let her tell you otherwise. Yeah, why would we let her speak for herself on that?
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Zaslow has been bummed since that song played earlier from Taylor. I was shook. He was emotionally, I'm not going to say broken, but didn't feel like we paused long enough to allow to marinate the emotion of Jessica after four years going from Miami to New York.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Likewise. Before we get to Juju and the polls, real quick, I didn't do this with Mike and Cody today, and I am kind of amazed that things are moving so fast in sports that a Messi situation has escaped our attention today when Greg Cody is desperate to talk at all moments in his life, Lionel Messi.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Obviously, if it wasn't for the 700 things that are more important than that, we'd be talking about Lionel Messi.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
We've got to get to the polls as well here.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
We only prepared a Taylor song, which I'm going to say is the greatest of indictments. It's the least effort any of us can provide in terms of anything to have a Taylor song.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Oh, excellent. We will do that and we will play another song that we have. But first, we do have to get to all of these polls because people like the updating of the polls.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
He's had that pinky ring for a long time, but Monty Jones is a big fan of your pinky ring. The pinky ring has been something in the Cody arsenal for how long?
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Why did you do that?
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
You have no wedding ring. How does Earlene feel about this? And are you sure it's not because your fingers have gotten fatter? She doesn't care.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Let's update. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. When you've been married as long as the Codys have. Who cares? Yes or no at Levitard Show.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
What have been the Jags' biggest moments? I've got them going into New England and almost winning with Mark Brunel as their quarterback. And I also have them coming back from 28-0 against the Chargers in a playoff game.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Was it Bortles that almost went into New England? Instead of Brunel, it was Bortles. It was Blake Bortles.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Not since Greg Cody woke up in the morning at Mardi Gras with mashed potatoes in his hair have I heard a stranger food being associated with somebody's body parts than bread in your eyebrows.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Chris Cody, do you have a song that honors what I call my gangster Wi-Fi?
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Juju, how tired are the fans of the show? He sounded like Weird Al Yankovic.
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Hearing Pearl Jam talk. How tired is the audience hearing? Zaslow's very excited about Pearl Jam tonight. How tired is the audience of Zaslow's Pearl Jam obsession?
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Postgame Show: Jessica's Top 5 Things She'll Miss In Miami (feat. JuJu Gotti)
Juju, see you tomorrow, buddy. We'll talk to you. Thanks Juju.
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Hour 2: Start Spreadin' The News (feat. Ernie Johnson)
Start spreading the news She's leaving today She's moving back to New York, New York Four years in Miami is a long enough stay But she'll still do the show from New York, New York She wants to wake up in a city near all her friends Where there's a functioning train and seasonal change. These Heat Homer shows have pushed her away. Nobody cares about heat culture in old New York.
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Hour 2: Start Spreadin' The News (feat. Ernie Johnson)
If she can work for Dan, she'll survive any man. It's time to move New York, New York.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here?
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
I need those 10 minutes for just the Cal highlights.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
You're just an asshole how I pay my rent
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
I'm going with college Mike, too. Oh, no. Yeah, College Mike, my man Ross, Nate. I'm so excited for this. I was listening to Talladega by Eric Church. And this is the Super Speedway. This is the biggest, most dangerous race on NASCAR's circuit. They do it twice, once here during the regular season, once during the playoff.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
I was texting with Marty Smith yesterday because this is my rookie journey over to Talladega. And he said, it's like Mardi Gras for rednecks. That's a direct quote to which I said, I thought that was Mardi Gras. But there's body parts, beer, fast cars. Apparently, where I'm sitting, right on the finish line, it feels like Armageddon literally every time they go around that track. So I cannot wait.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
And I'm going to be doing a lot of content up there for DraftKings, who was so kind to help me out. And it's presented by NASCAR. Yeah! at Talladega Super Speedway. Tune in Sunday, April 27th at 3 p.m. Eastern on Fox. Hopefully I get in that gridwalk a little bit. I'll be out there with a garage pass. And we're hoping that Ryan Blaney's luck changes.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
Remember when he was on with us a couple weeks ago, he said that It's entirely possible that he gets hit by an asteroid on a final lap, and that kind of happened. His engine blew out over at Homestead. His luck has to change, but this is such a dicey track. It's almost impossible to predict what is going to happen at a super speedway because there are multiple big ones.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
And I'm talking about the butts.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
Howdy, folks. It's Mike Ryan here to remind you that Game Time is the official ticketing partner of the Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gatz. As you know, I talk about Game Time plenty on the show because I use it plenty. And the weather is warming up. It is a perfect time to take family or friends, a whole lot of folks, take them to a ballgame.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
But before you do, why don't you check out the Game Time app? Why? Because Game Time makes getting tickets even faster and easier. Prices on the GameTime app actually go down the closer it gets the first pitch, with killer last-minute deals, all-in prices, views from your seat, and the lowest price guarantee. GameTime takes the guesswork out of buying MLB tickets.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
What if you're one of those fans that likes to travel the nation and go to all these different ballparks? Sometimes you don't know what you're getting yourself into, you're not familiar. Well, those panoramic seat views on the app, they certainly help, almost as much as that all-in pricing tab, to make sure there are no surprises at checkout. Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with GameTime.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code DAN for $20 off. Download the GameTime app today. Last-minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
So I'm in a group chat with both Brad and Zaslow. And once I added Zaslow to the group chat, everyone caught a vibe. And Brad kind of took him out. And I've been waiting for this story. There is a longstanding beef between the two.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
It's actually not that new.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
Zez, you want to J off with them? What are you hearing? How many names you got? How many schools?
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
We are doing the live show out in Nashville.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
But you're seeing your team add people in real time, and you can get excited, have informed people talk about upside. It's the biggest sport in America. College football is the second biggest sport in America. You're adding guys from one sport to the next. I get it. It's like sharing lineup rumors for a music festival. You just get pumped for it. That's what mock drafts are. It's just all around.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
A ramp to tonight.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
I don't understand. You're playing Bo Scheidt. You literally took part in the hype for a transaction while moments before lamenting the hype for a potential transaction.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
Oh, really? Well, I was super hyped about Baker Mayfield going to the Browns and it ended up working out until it didn't. But like...
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
It's additions. I don't get it. Like, dude, okay, you don't like it. I love World Cup draws. They're not playing the games that night, but I get to know what the games are going to be. I hate schedule stuff, too. Okay. Why do anything?
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
I like the games, too. Like, I like...
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
And it's about moments, too. You may not know what finished product you're getting, but... If the Falcons draft Michael Penix after they just gave Kirk Cousins one of the biggest contracts at the position in NFL history, that is a seismic event in that sport. And it's just a thrilling made-for-television event. And I understand you don't know whether or not these players are going to be good.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
You could say that about damn near everyone in this draft. But Let's not pretend like fans aren't right a lot more, too, than we're giving them credit for. When the New York Jets fans are booing the pick of Kyle Brady because they pass up on Warren Sapp, that's a moment. That's also almost immediate confirmation that this front office doesn't know what the hell they're doing.
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Hour 1: You Wanna J-Off With Them? (feat. Brad Williams)
And a lot of people are watching just to have faith that there's proof of concept and they're doing stuff that I like. Okay, I want more reasons to be optimistic.
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Local Hour: Don't Disparage The Upset Bird
Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here?
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Local Hour: Don't Disparage The Upset Bird
Weird flex. Jeremy was explaining to me that Tyler totally cooked areas.
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Local Hour: Don't Disparage The Upset Bird
Is it less racist if the Cleveland Indians logo is upside down? Cool hat, bro.
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Guys that hadn't played in a long time are finding themselves playing way more minutes than they're probably prepared for. But look, this is a one versus eight matchup. But Miami's going back to home court. And I do think that Miami has a shot.
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Miami has a shot to make this an exciting series for the locals.
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Local Hour: Don't Disparage The Upset Bird
Yeah, you mentioned that. Howdy, folks. It's Mike Ryan here to remind you that Game Time is the official ticketing partner of the Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gatz. As you know, I talk about Game Time plenty on the show because I use it plenty. And the weather is warming up. It is a perfect time to take family or friends, a whole lot of folks, take them to a ballgame.
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Local Hour: Don't Disparage The Upset Bird
But before you do, why don't you check out the Game Time app? Why? Because Game Time makes getting tickets even faster and easier. Prices on the GameTime app actually go down the closer it gets the first pitch, with killer last-minute deals, all-in prices, views from your seat, and the lowest price guarantee. GameTime takes the guesswork out of buying MLB tickets.
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Local Hour: Don't Disparage The Upset Bird
What if you're one of those fans that likes to travel the nation and go to all these different ballparks? Sometimes you don't know what you're getting yourself into, you're not familiar. Well, those panoramic seat views on the app, they certainly help, almost as much as that all-in pricing tab, to make sure there are no surprises at checkout. Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with GameTime.
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Local Hour: Don't Disparage The Upset Bird
Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code DAN for $20 off. Download the GameTime app today. Last-minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed.
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Local Hour: Don't Disparage The Upset Bird
Hey, folks, it's Mike Ryan. And if you're watching our show, you probably know your boy has undergone a little bit of a body transformation. And I got to tell you, Peloton has helped me on my fitness journey. It got the ball rolling for me because I watched my wife on the Peloton. She takes all these great classes. She has her favorite instructors. I listen to the music. I'm a big music guy.
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gets me fired up, makes me want to take part in this fitness phenomenon known as Peloton. Peloton offers a variety of challenging classes, from four-week strength-building classes to running, cycling, and everything in between. Peloton will help you achieve your goals, and maybe you'll have some fun along the way. I know I have. It's backed by thousands of members whose lives have been changed.
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Be part of that group. I'm telling you, I'm better for it. Have it in my office. Sometimes I can put on the baseball game. Sometimes I can put on a soccer match. Some other times I'm totally locked in on an email playlist. Find your push. Find your power with Peloton at onepeloton.com.
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You'd take a high risk maneuver. How did you pronounce Kristoff's name? He said Porzingis.
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No, you're not. I'm a lingoist. Famously, you mispronounced Matthew Kachuk's name.
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Because we had a conversation. You told me you went to Santa Fe. Straight up lying. Just a liar.
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You fell for it. He came out the gate, shit-stirring, and you fell for it. You took the bait, you ran with it, you're having an argument about journalism. Just defending my education. No, you're... Zaz, you gotta be better than that. You gotta be better. Greg, you see what this guy's doing in the middle?
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You are a broadcast. Dan is so happy about this.
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Is this what you wanted? Dan is Kevin McAllister giggling at the top of the stairs.
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Oh, yeah. He just swung two paint cans at you guys. That's right. just slipped on micro machines and he's just having the time of his life.
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Which is a surprise, because I know you love them tendies.
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Yeah, I was a little surprised. I don't think that that sat is that shocking. They've played each other in the last four post-seasons. The Panthers' sample compared to other teams is greater.
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Those passing lanes against Tampa in game one were ridiculous. We're literally just saucing air passes over to Sam Bennett in the middle of the ice, shrieking towards the net. How good is Mackey? Mackey is really good, really underrated. It's going to suck when the Bruins sign him to a max tender. There's another tendy there, Dano.
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Tonight's going to be great. A 6.30 puck drop, too. 6.30 p.m. God bless. Way better than the 8.30. And this means, Zaz. Kristen, no. I just learned it's 6.30. You can watch the Cats and then go into your Pearl Jam concert right after.
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The fine goes down to like $45. Tiered system. Yeah, it's a tiered system. Yeah, I think so. It goes down to like $40.
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Not at all. That was awful.
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I didn't enjoy that. But I'm not a Heat fan, nor am I Zazlo.
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Oh, that's the best. That's right.
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So you agree with me? That sounds like an agreement.
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We found consensus. That's great. Yeah, good. All right. Good for us as a team. We did it. We changed someone's mind. I'm proud. I don't agree with you.
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This is also, like, we don't know how bad this injury is. Like, he's got a bruise on his pelvis. He could tough that one out. He was ruled out really quick. He can tough this one out. It could add to his playoff legend, possibly. It was also, like, a freak injury. He's just going up for a board. Dude behind him trips over Draymond. It kind of looked dirty initially.
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You think? I mean, if he did, Draymond would have went at him. But Draymond was kind of responsible because a dude kind of tripped over Draymond's leg.
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Well, he won the trade. Shaq's not thought of that way. Shaq did the exact same thing. It was probably less messy, but that didn't mean it wasn't messy at all. But isn't that because Shaq kind of did it in the shadows? Well, I guess. And media was different there. And Shaq has something that Jimmy doesn't have, a championship in a Miami Heat uniform.
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But I do think time will heal all wounds, especially for a younger generation that maybe was adolescent during the Big Three era. Jimmy was their guy. And Jimmy is like the face that they associate with the franchise. Well, he won.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
No, he's Lex Luthor is what it feels like, right?
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
College basketball celebrity picks.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
My name's right up top there. You got Dick Vitale, and it's a picture of him, and it's who he selects, and it's Seth Greenberg, and it's Jay Billis, and it's me. I'm right next to those guys. And there's my pick. Obviously, I picked the Florida Gators. That's my alma mater. But I'm right there. I'm right there on the Tournament Challenge app where you can compete against celebrities like myself.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
I'm right there. And from what I understand... Not everybody is pleased with me being, because apparently my picture, my name is one of the first ones there. Clinton Yates, ESPN Radio. I heard today he is not pleased that my name is right, that my picture, my name is front and center, and he's not there. He's not happy about it. Hang with him, Clinton.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
I hope the new owner relocates them.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
Yeah. Anyone want to step to that statement about the Boston Celtics? No. Cosign. Anyone?
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New guy got ripped off. They made $6 billion in three years. Classic overpay. Speaking of Boston, what do you think of Marshan? I'm excited for Marsha. Really? I am. I'm excited.
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You know, look, I'm trying to win another Stanley Cup here. All right? You're talking about I'm looking.
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He's one of the great postseason players. All right? He's a rat, but he's now our guy. All right? Last two postseasons, I haven't been impressed with him. I was very, well, we knocked him out. Last post-season. But now he's on our team. And if the guys in that dressing room are okay with it, then you kind of need to be okay with it.
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You're not above the team.
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If Sam Bennett is okay with it, Mike Ryan, you better be okay with it.
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You leave a little bit of context out when you say it like that, though.
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No, that's not the context. It's a little bit unfair. I'm not trying to defend the Clippers. It was a great trade by Oklahoma City, but you kind of need to add the Kawhi Leonard part. Come on.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
about Kawhi Leonard anymore and when it's the Clippers getting 50 from somebody they're getting it from James Harden but I think we don't talk about him anymore because there's nothing to talk about like there's nothing new we've been doing this with Kawhi Leonard he left in 2019 left Toronto in 2019 so we're going on six years oh no but the same
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I'm a celebrity picker. That's not my fault.
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Yeah, but I think part of the reason that I'm shaking my head is we've seen this movie before. We're going to get to the playoffs, and he's not going to play.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
Well, it's because you're competing against us. You're competing against the celebrities. That's the point in the app, in the Tournament Challenge.
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Can you imagine taking the over? I've been to the Dodgers over in the season, a 104.
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For sure. For sure. Everybody knows, especially when it comes to college football, because I host College Football Tailgate on ESPN Radio. College football experts. You've got Paul Feinbaum. You've got Heather Dinnage. You've got me. Everybody knows those are your college football experts.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
College basketball, I'm not going to say that I'm exactly a college basketball expert, but certainly there are people out there who would like to compete against me. And that's why I'm up there with Seth Greenberg and Jay Billis and Dick Vitale.
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Yo, don't worry about that, alright? All you need to know is that you can compete against me in the Tournament App Challenge. That's it. That's all you need to know. No one's interested in how many players I can name. Nobody's ever thought about that.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
Nobody ever starts Z at the beginning, so it's certainly not alphabetical. It's you're trying to get people to sign up on the app. And the way you do that is you put some of your biggest celebrities in the front. And that's why you have my face right there with my pic. Everybody wants to know who I pick. Pick the Gators.
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Everybody sees my face right there and they're like, I would love to compete against this celebrity.
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I mean, you could have said that.
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Most celebrities don't oversleep. That's why I'm up there.
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Oh my God, this White Lotus. Go on. I'm sorry. No, that's all right. You take it. All I'm saying is I've been watching this White Lotus now for three seasons and I'm watching this one. I watch every single week and I really enjoy the show. Let's not, you know, brush that on the rug. I like the show, but I sit there and I watch this show every single week and nothing happens. Nothing happens.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
Every single week I sit there waiting for something. Something kind of happened this past week. You know, a little incest. Something kind of happened this week. But for the most part, every single week, is there such thing as a little incest? Every single week, I'm waiting for something to happen. And the only thing that ever happens in the show is in the final episode.
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Nothing happens the entire season. I'm just sitting there with nothing.
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No one recoiled. That was like, yeah, I get it. I get what he's doing there. What we saw in the White Lotus, I don't get what he's doing there. And part of the weirdness, I guess, was that one of them seemingly really enjoyed it, and the other one did not like it at all.
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But that didn't shock you as much as Sam Rockwell's monologue, right?
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How did they put both of those in the same episode? A show that gives you nothing every single week, every year. Nothing happens in this show. They gave you both of those in the same episode.
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Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
You went so into the sport. Yeah, in hockey. I knew the sport. I knew the sport. I didn't get the reference, though. But then when you got it, you were smiling like I said Ryan Lingerhans.
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Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
I think it's on the crawl right now on ESPN. Dan Labattard says Scott Van Pelt, not important.
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Yeah, it's not just, hey, you're about to be on with so-and-so. It's like, oh, all right, I'm going on.
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I think he's a trusted guy now on television.
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Well, should I give a few right at the top of my head?
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Yeah. That was pretty easy, what he just did. That was like nothing.
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No. I probably would have had trouble coming up with five, because I would not have had the NFL draft there.
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It's the most reckless you could possibly be with money that's NCAA tournaments and gambling on it, right?
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There's a lot of other things you can do in life. You're gambling your money on something you know nothing about.
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because like you're a sloth yeah just just yeah that's too much that 10 hours that's not too much but yeah well if you feel dirty it's probably because it is too much no no i feel dirty but it's not too much like the dirt's worth it i feel gross i've been sitting on my couch all day the food the drinking but at the end i might i may feel like a sloth but i'm like this was a Great day!
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I enjoyed the whole day, and you know what? I'm gonna do it again when I wake up tomorrow.
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You know how time zones work? It's 9 a.m. there.
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I'm big on being able to create your own junk shot. Impossible.
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It's one of the things I'm known for.
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It's one of the many things we have in common, me and UD.
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I thought you went to Santa Fe. Oh, stop it. What an embarrassment that you would say that. Feeder school. I went to a university. No offense to anyone who went to Santa Fe, but it's a community college, all right? And for someone who went to a university and I have a degree, all right? I have a degree from the University of Florida in journalism.
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To say that I went to community college, I'm sorry, you're offending me.
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Okay, good for you. Good for you. But I have a degree from a university. So do I. All right.
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No, I went to the University of Florida. I started at the University of Central Florida, and then I transferred to the University of Florida.
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Listen, we're getting into my backstory.
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I get very excited about the Gators when their basketball team is good.
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I didn't bring it up. He did. Dismissed it, though. And I think you did it to aggravate me.
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Yes, canes, because that's what's best for business. I do a podcast called Zaslow Show 2.0. No one who's listening to Zaslow Show 2.0, a very, very minute number of the millions of listeners care about the Florida Gators. A lot of them care about the Miami Hurricanes. And I do a podcast in Miami, not Gainesville. So I need the hurricanes to do well. That's what's best for business.
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But you say I identify as if like I'm choosing. No, I am a Miami person. It's not a choice. It's not something I identify with.
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I've lived here my whole life, except when I went to school.
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Santa Fe Community College really make me angry, man. Yeah. It's insulting. That's all I'm saying, man. I could have sworn you went there.
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Well, I have zero sympathy for the guy that doesn't enjoy being particularly famous when he's doing this reality show right now. Like, you're going to have to miss me on the I don't like all the fame that's surrounding me. But as someone who doesn't do reality TV, why is this the one that you're picking to watch?
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Yeah, because he's not a leading man, right?
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They're the new big show, you know, instead of Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann and Gary Streisand and Randy Scott, and they're fantastic. But I feel like one of the big complaints that fans, that viewers have with ESPN television these days is that they want more SportsCenter. They want more highlight shows, that they miss that part.
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You know, the same way that, you know, you get older people say MTV, oh, why don't they have videos anymore? I feel like we're in that place with ESPN where they want more SportsCenter. And Scott Van Pelt, by the way, I think you're wrong about that part because that show is pretty damn important.
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Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
He gets amazing guests after all the big games, be it, you know, if it's college football game or if it's NBA or even if it's, you know, for next year, Major League Baseball. He gets the great guests on the field, on the court, right after the game. That show's pretty popular. Yeah.
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Local Hour: Mark's Wife Emmy
I don't think I've made fun of him about it. The column is what it is. There's nothing to make fun of. I think it's the greatest column that he's ever written because everybody knows about it. Everybody knows that he tried to trade Marino. There's no column that stood out more to me as a kid than Greg Cody is saying we should trade Dan Marino.
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You know it's real because it's kids. There's no rules against this.
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By the way, speaking of the Warriors, they only have two more games until Golden State comes here. If the Heat are on an 11-game losing streak when Jimmy Butler gets back, that is such an embarrassment.
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I don't want the storyline. I'm so embarrassed by it. That's going to be a headline all day long on ESPN television, that Jimmy Butler returns to Miami with the Heat on an 11-game losing streak.
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Great question. I think the answer is yes. And I've also, I thought about this yesterday. Very good coincidence that you brought this up because this was in my head yesterday. I think the crowd will cheer him. I agree. I think you'll hear some boos. I think enough time has gone by. I think the crowd will cheer him.
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And, because you know, Mike Biamonte is going to do the whole, the big intro, which I don't like, by the way, but he's going to do the whole big intro at the start. I think Jimmy's going to get a very good position.
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You think it'll just be a picture of him on the Jumbotron? Thank you, Jimmy. Not even a video of it.
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So, I mean, I think maybe it took it out of there because everybody knows it by heart at this point. It's like you don't need it up there.
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I do think they're getting a video. I think you're getting the big introduction at the starting lineup. I think you're getting the video, and then they move on.
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LeBron leaving or Jimmy leaving? LeBron, way worse. Well, we gave LeBron a really good, you know... welcome when they came back.
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That's not true. The first time they were able to come, and he beat them. Remember Juwan Howard Smith?
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It was so much more devastating. Yeah. So much more.
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This was just nasty is what it was. Yeah.
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You notice things have gone downhill since I'm not there anymore, right?
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You've never got up at a game and went, boo!
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Two-time champion, you know. Haven't done any winning since I left.
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Boy, that's gonna be an ugly scene if they're playing a video. and it's just raining down booze. I don't see that. I don't see it either, but man, that will be an ugly scene.
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I'm mostly interested in they're playing that video and then they pan to Pat Riley and he gets up and goes, boo!
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Don Levitard. That was a long story. Yeah. It's the only kind he tells. It was a short one for me.
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A lifer. You got kicked out? I mean, I didn't get kicked out by heat. Like, as far as I know, they love me, or they did love me. I don't know, one or the other.
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Well, when Fidel died the first time.
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Okay, so I got questions. How do you decide the fans? How is that?
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Oh, I understood exactly how you meant it.
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I can tell you Duke and Florida are not 65. All right. Those are two of the same.
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No, he's 70 years old. That would have been wild. Which games are the fans watching with you? The championship game. The championship game. Yeah. And how many of these fans? How many qualify?
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Can I tell you, speaking of Penguin, a couple weeks ago, I passed by Batman Returns on television. Penguin, Danny DeVito. Movie's horrible. No, it's a great Christmas movie. Movie is horrible. Christopher Walken's in it. I hadn't seen it in probably 25 years. Movie is horrible.
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Ooh, good impression. Nobody thinks it's weird that he looks like that. I know.
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Well, I was disgusted because it felt like a part of my childhood was taken from me where the original Batman and Batman Returns I thought were really good movies.
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And then I passed by this dreck with Danny DeVito and I just, how did anyone, I immediately went to Rotten Tomatoes to see what the tomato meter was on Batman Returns because it had to be one of the lowest rated movies ever and I just didn't know it. And like, it's got a high score and I don't get it. The movie is horror-awful.
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Yeah, but everybody knows that movie sucks. I feel like people think Batman Returns is good. It's not. That movie is bad.
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Yeah, I know a lot of people want to go back to the 2018 where they only won like 15 games. But here's the thing. Your experience in that season knowing, or at least believing, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. That light being the number one overall pick. We have the worst record in the NBA. It ended up being the number two overall pick. We know how that went, Michael Beasley.
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The most wrong I've ever been in my sports life, Michael Beasley. But this team... There's no light at the end of the tunnel because they're not even going to miss the play-in. Now they may miss the playoffs, but they're still going to be a play-in team even if they lose the rest of the games this season. And there's no light at the end of the tunnel as far as the lottery goes.
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So I have found this season to be one of the least enjoyable of my lifetime.
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Well, the part that I have a hard time understanding, not that I disagree with anything you just said, okay? Because this team is rotten, by the way. Like, there is something rotten about this team. But Jimmy Butler, it's not like he was playing for them, and then they traded him, and then everything went downhill. He was suspended. They lost him for—he served at least nine games suspension.
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If I'm remembering correctly, they were not this— They were a game over .500. They were .500. They were two over .500. Like, they weren't this. And they've essentially been playing without Jimmy Butler the entire season. So there is something rotten surrounding this team right now. Because you're right, they're not this bad.
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He did nothing in the fourth quarter. 0 for 5, 0 points in the fourth quarter. Agreed, but again.
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They don't have a guy. Like, we watched the Pistons, and Cade Cunningham is able to go out there. He's a dude. Do what he wants. We used to have a guy. They don't have a guy anymore who could do that. And Tyler here is just not big enough to do that, especially in the fourth quarter when everything tightens up.
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He says he whispered it. He says he whispered it.
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Was there any part of you, Jeremy, that almost, because me, if I was in your spot and especially a younger version of me, you're a little bit younger than me, especially a younger version of me. I know people can't tell because we look like we're the same age, but you are younger than me. A younger version of me would have chucked the microphone on the floor.
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Yeah. It's like the stickers. Buckeyes. Okay. Okay.
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So if you run into a guy who's got, like, a bunch of feathers, like, heck.
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Postgame Show: I Like Willow...At Home
I'm not out of toilet paper.
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Postgame Show: I Like Willow...At Home
I'd like a camera on. Cooper Flagg when the draft lottery is done the second year when he skips the first year because it was the Wizards and then the Wizards come up again the second year. There's just a camera on his home which is shit.
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Yeah, well, first of all, Dan Hurley, let's not confuse anyone. His friends call him Bob, yeah. Dan Hurley. And yes, I can't wrap my head around the idea that the game ended, they were national champion back-to-back, and the first thing that goes through his mind is, I've got to find the Baylor players, and I've got to tell them, I hope they don't get screwed the way that we just did.
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I've got to look out for those kids at Baylor.
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Thank you, Johnny Z. Ah, yeah, the Heat won three of those. Celtics only two since their existence.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
He's definitely having a fun time in college, but it's not just about which is more fun, being the big man on campus at Duke or being a professional player in the number one overall pick. It's about what is going to play for Washington or Charlotte going to do to my career, right?
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Well, because I live in Cooper City. Like, I haven't needed a coat. And then ESPN springs on me, hey, you're going to travel the entire country during college football season. I'm like, okay. And then I learned not everywhere is the same weather as Cooper City.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
That is true. These guys have that ego where they believe they're going to be the reason for the winning. But, man, we were probably saying the same type of stuff, and I know injury plays a role, but Zion Williamson was supposed to be that guy. You're going to draft him number one overall, and he's going to turn your franchise around.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
And it's like, hey, he's with an organization that hasn't really done anything, and now he's toiling away there, and they're still kind of a garbage franchise.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Yeah, but we're talking about that as if the career-ending injuries are a common thing. That doesn't really happen, actually.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
You give me a list of places to go to have fun. Duke is not on that list. I guess what I'm getting at is Dollywood, if he declares for and he will, if he declares for the NBA draft and then you got the draft lottery at the end of May and the Washington Wizards win that draft lottery. No one is sitting down and having just a conversation saying, look.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
you would be a year further away from getting that next huge contract. But also, let's consider, do you want to play somewhere where you're winning 25 games every single season? Is that going to make you happy?
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
No, there's a difference between a bad team and a poorly run team. Utah is a really bad team. Danny Ainge knows what he's doing. If Utah gets the number one overall pick, Cooper Flagg is likely going to be in a really good situation. If the Wizards get the number one overall pick, he's going to be in a terrible situation.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
It's getting panned, right?
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Well, he's also on a show on Netflix, too, right now, right?
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
He was like the lead. Him and Leo were the lead.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I mean, he's leaving the floor essentially accusing the referees of cheating. You lost to the number one seed in the region, a team who only behind Duke, everyone else is picking Florida to win the national championship. You didn't lose because of cheating. I mean, this guy, they won the national championship the last two years, winning every game by double figures.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I mean, all the games were, I think the closest one was UM where they lost by, where they won by 13. That was like the closest game. And now when they finally lose, he's accusing the officials of cheating and Yelling to Baylor, I hope they don't F you the way they F'd us. And then he gets to the press conference and with the crocodile tears. My God. Oh, he is a rough watch. Get out of here.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
He is so unlikable.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Crocodile. That means phony tears.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Does he really hope they don't do that to Baylor? Like, he's thinking himself right. He hopes he does. Their season ended. God, I hope Baylor doesn't have that happen to them. What's going to happen to Baylor?
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
God, is Baylor going to be okay? I got to go tell them I hope it doesn't happen to them.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
I don't want to be too loud, that's why.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Thank you.
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Thank you.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Thank you.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Did you show up for the game before also?
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What are you talking about? No, I like it. Just every few seconds, throw in the sponsor. You're doing a fine job, Lucy.
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She's so good at this. She's really good at it. It's amazing.
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So... My son's at an age at 16 where his friends, they're all on social media, and his friends say, hey, look at this clip. It's your dad on the Levitard show, you know, the other day. And okay, you know, my son's not that impressed with it, but he then sees, he looks at the comments, you know, and my son said, he goes, I gotta tell you, the comments, people really liked you.
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And I go, it'll even out. All right, don't worry about that. And then he says, I'll tell you who they don't like. And I'm like, oh, okay. He goes, that Samson guy. And so I laughed. He doesn't know who he is, though. I said, do you know who David Samson is? He's like, he thinks he's just a personality on your show. And I guess that makes sense.
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If you're 16 and David Sampson hasn't been the president of the Marlins in, what, seven years? Like, it makes sense. Like, yeah, he was the president of the Marlins. He swindled the city and got the stadium. Like, you know, everybody hates him. They're cheap. Whatever.
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Yeah. That's it. That's what you lead with, right?
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Yeah. So he has been introduced to David. You know what they don't like? That Sampson guy.
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Never even been to a conference finals.
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They look like they were on to something. Then Dwayne Wade murdered the guy in the purple shirt.
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Something was happening there. And then Dwayne Wade sits his ass down. Nothing since.
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The headband. That was crazy.
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So I've talked about this a bit recently on ESPN Radio with Cooper Flagg, where we're in an age where, OK, he could make as much staying another year at Duke as he would his first year salary, almost as much maybe in the NBA, even if he's the number one overall pick. You enter the draft, you see the Wizards or the Hornets. These are godforsaken franchises, okay? I don't want to go play there.
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You pull out of the draft, you're going to go back to school at Duke, you know, because being the big man on campus, pretty awesome, really fun life, and you're going to make a lot of money. But the pushback that I've gotten, and it is interesting, the pushback that I've gotten is...
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If you stay another year in school, you're delaying yourself another year of getting that first contract after your rookie deal. And that first contract, by the time he gets there five years from now, I mean, it's like a $200-plus million deal.
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That makes sense. I see she's a very busy young lady. I've never talked to her before.
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Right, but it's a lottery. It's not the NFL draft where the worst team, and they're going to be terrible again, and the worst team gets that pick.
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Okay, you're right. It's okay.
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Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadow Show.
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Eight seed.
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Really? That's what we're doing in the year 2025? That's what we're doing? Do you think you just educated someone by telling us it's not real?
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Well, do you think he sits there and watches the game at home? Or does he just check his phone, checks the box score?
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Yes, okay. Everybody knows it's fake.
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That might be second best. That's a good camp. I just like the idea of Taylor Jenkins being out at a bar mitzvah or an event and just rolls up on someone into the third quarter and Grizzlies are down by 50. So you score the game.
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What's the definition? What's fake? What's fake? Them. Wrestling. No, but okay, it's a show.
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41.
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Yeah, I understand. It's a show, though. I get to watch my show in person. It's a bad show. They're like the greatest athletes in the world. There's no second takes, third takes. They do everything in one take. They're doing it all right in front of you. They're acting and performing and performing incredible athletic feats right in front of you, live. No do-overs.
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See what you did there. How you spelling that, Stugatz?
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Oh my God, Pablo, like you have a choice whether or not to do mornings. I would tell you don't do evenings along with it because I did evenings into mornings for seven consecutive years. That was troublesome. I used to have a nice head of hair. All right. And now I have no hair. on this beautiful head. And the little hair that I do have is very gray, all right?
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Don't work nights if you're going to do mornings. That's really the best advice I can give.
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So we're seeing a new Broadway show, right? Here's my big problem, all right? Why is it, and this is you now, Stugatz, you're the guy. Why is it you feel the need to tell other grown-ups about, Like myself. Now, I wasn't there, but Mike Ryan was there. Other grown-ups. Yeah. Why are you critical of other grown-ups enjoying something? It's what I do. Yeah. But you're not the only one.
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You're that representation here right now in front of me. But you're not the only one. Oh, you watch wrestling. You go to wrestling. You're an adult. Why can't you turn on WrestleMania this weekend? There were 60,000 people in attendance each night having a great, great time. What's wrong with people having a great time?
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My son was asking me last night. We were watching the post-press conferences. And he's like, are these real media people? Real reporters? There you go. I said, yeah. I go, I could do that if I want. He goes, but they tell you what to ask, right? I go, no. Ask whatever you want.
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Which is better, the lean or the eyes at the very end?
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So, yes, we all saw that, that apparently it was a big point of contention that Malone would play Westbrook too much. He would play him in the fourth quarter. But don't we now have to question the validity to that if in the first playoff game of the season, the interim coach plays him the whole fourth quarter? 34 minutes. Like, wouldn't you be doing the opposite?
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Because, you know, you kind of want to get the job next year and not do the thing that apparently got Mike Malone fired, right? Yeah.
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Well, okay, they feel that I'm judging them. What? Like, what's their thought?
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Oh, yes, love pro wrestling. Yes, I had a great weekend. It was WrestleMania weekend in the Zaslow Mansion. We all got together, all the Zaslow men, and we watched a lot of pro wrestling. How am I judging you?
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They went on at 8.47. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just want to be clear because I was following exactly this to know how much work you weren't doing.
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I am so motivated to make a memory here with you guys today because the first thing that Cody says to me, I see him. I'm doing nothing personal. Everything's good. You guys are doing your pre-show prep, Zazz. And I can see everyone's into it. You guys are locked in, which I like. You're ready to start on time. We got a core group of lunatic fans here.
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Yeah. Can we put that down the poll? What is something Jimmy Buffett would wear? It has to be a 100-0 Hawaiian shirt. Yeah, Hawaiian for sure.
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And all I'm hearing in my ear and all I'm hearing pre-show is, I hate that Hagel guy.
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I'd say a gross hit. Vomit's gross. Yeah. Not that.
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I actually totally agree with that. And I use game time often.
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The first thing I thought of when I saw the hit, we're obviously talking about what happened. For those of you not locked in because there was so much last night, for those of you who may have been at a Pearl Jam concert and couldn't see it live.
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It's so stressful. It's a stressful situation. It is so stressful. When you go to like a Springsteen concert where the demographics are that I'm on the young side. They want to sit. There's a lot of sitting.
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And I'm a stander. And I was at a Springsteen concert with a friend of mine who is a she's just a friend, but attractive and tall woman. And we're together. Well, yeah, like Dan's X, but he's really tall. And someone so someone said, hey, sit down. Oh, no, you can't do that at a concert. And I said, no, I'm not going to sit down because I am loving the fact that I want to stand up and dance.
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Then why aren't you in GA, the person said. Now it's on. That's a really old person who's talking to you. Now I'm getting upset. Because now I'm thinking, I'm not being recognized, right? We're all good? Like, I'm just a normal guy at a Springsteen concert?
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Can I respond how I want to respond? Or am I being videoed? What's the risk level that I have to tell this person to basically pound Sam?
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Do you do the pre-conversation with the people behind you? Because I've done that before.
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Oh, really? And you're lucky I'm short, but I'm going to be standing.
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40? 40 minutes. It was outrageous. Like the 15th pick that were still playing. There was this hit. And the only thing I was thinking of when I saw the hit is I was frantic that Barkov's skate was going to come up and there'd be a neck slash, if anyone remembers that.
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Every day. Yeah, every day of my life. To worry that much about what other people think and feel.
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I'd like to bring a little over to my side.
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It's that I want to just tell him how it's going to be. Oh, okay. I'm not asking. Let me be clear. Oh, you're not asking. Okay. This is not, hey, do you mind if I stab you?
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Like, I'm not at Adele. Well, it's not Broadway. I don't do this at a Broadway musical, although I wish I did.
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So at music festivals, obviously it's all standing. So I stand. I'm still standing. That's a great one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But when you're in GA, you know you're gonna be standing. And so when you're given a choice for Pearl Jam tickets, which you were not given a choice, you can choose general admission or a seat would you always choose the seat?
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I like being in the seats. Just so you can have the opportunity to sit if you want to.
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That was the scariest thing I've ever seen. Yes, that was incredibly scary. Because when you hit a hockey player, that's what happened. He went off his feet. It looked worse than it was. Yeah. He was fine. He got up. Well, I don't know about fine. He didn't return to the game.
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Can we get an update from you, Cody? Nope, still good. Still nothing. So, by the way, you're way slower than the players are. They can down a thing of Gatorade, a thing of water, and they're going pee-pee immediately after the game twice. Man.
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I'm not there yet. It's nothing. It's just an eighth. So 250,000 people descended on my favorite State of the Union last night. 250,000 people in Green Bay, Wisconsin. And all I was thinking is how jealous I was. That you wanted to be there? Oh, I love Green Bay. I was thinking that I spent 18 years trying to get people to care about MLB's drafts.
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Adam Silver spends every day trying to get people to care about the NBA drafts. And I'm watching Roger Goodell. He did a rehearsed handshake with a bunch of the players. Are you kidding me? Wear the sneakers. I'm fine. But what is that called? Is that the dab? Was he dabbing him? Dab. Yeah. Dab? Yeah.
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It's totally explainable. This every year. Remember when he did it during COVID from his basement? Yeah, the chair. And he had that chair? Yeah. He's always trying to be the cool guy. And I've been accused, the reason I'm sensitive to this is I was once accused of it. My fifth year as a team president, I was accused, hey, you're trying too hard to be cool because I was young.
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Where I was trying to... Be amongst the players.
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Well, no, we're always in there working, but this was on a team plane when I was in the back and we were playing drinking games on a flight where we shouldn't have been drinking.
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None. And as I got older, I did it and it was better. But when I'm younger and they're my age, it wasn't as good.
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When I'm older and doing it, then it's, oh, this guy's an old sick guy. I'm glad he's doing it with us. So it changed throughout my career. And so I was thinking about Roger Goodell the whole time watching him. We know that you're an older guy. We know you have nothing in common with these players. You don't need to try. There's no benefit. We already have full sponsorship.
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There's ancillary content everywhere, including what we did last night in Nashville, where the toothache obviously kept Stu Gatz from being there. But we had Hawkins and we had Mikey A. We had Walter. We had Billy having fun in Nashville. All this ancillary content is happening. And they've done it. The NFL's done it. And I was jealous the whole draft.
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It's for people who live in Green Bay.
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Help me because I'm old. How does the rehearsal go when you've got a player who has a different greeting for every other player? That takes rehearsal, doesn't it?
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That's what makes him a savant genius? Savant genius. I'm asking about the practical part of this. Are there rehearsals? Absolutely.
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Yeah, baby. You're going to be fine. Well, Billy Gill told me. He said they don't mean shit.
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Who's got something fun? No way. What do you mean? First of all, I don't see Roger Goodell spending the night in Green Bay. I see him flying in and out.
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He's got an Airbnb situation. Come on.
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I would like to find out where Roger Goodell spent the night in Green Bay, if we can possibly get our crack staff to figure that out. And then I would like to understand how it's even possible that he would have time to rehearse. And I can't think of the player's name who he did it with. I want to say it could have been Travis Hunter with the two pick, but I can't remember it exactly.
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I was so focused on the close. It's become a fashion show thing now where these guys are so well-dressed. Who was it?
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Google AI coming to the rescue again. I grant you there are not a lot of five stars in Green Bay. And it used to be that when football teams go in there, they're only in for a night. They come in Saturday and they fly out.
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I would say that is likely the biggest one in Milwaukee. You've got the Pfister, which is the haunted hotel in Milwaukee. I would never stay there. I would never.
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Any spooky stories, Dave, or no? No. It's all total poppycock. Do you think it's B.S. ? No, I think there's actual ghosts in the fister.
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Are they lying? No, it's just confirmation bias. You think you're hearing stuff. I don't like it. Just be like me. Sleep in the light. You don't see ghosts. You sleep with the light on? You have to sleep with lights on. I do. I've gotten way better therapy. You don't have to. You definitely don't have to. I'm scared of the dark. And so I've been working on that for a long time.
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And I used to sleep with full lights on. And then I was gradually down to night lights. And I've not moved away from that. Can we get back to why you said you have to? You do it. I don't see any other way to possibly avoid the dangers that come with the night. What dangers? It's just darker. Well, I'm not talking about ghosts because I'm not scared of ghosts because those aren't real.
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I'm talking about the real dangers.
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The parachutists who come into your window and kidnap you.
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The same way I do with how I stand up at concerts. I just go right to it and say, just FYI, happy to have you spend the night. The lights are going to be on.
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Do you have to go pee-pee yet? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, this could be our biggest moment. We have tested the theory this whole hour, whether or not Cody could empty the bladder, drink a glass of water, and how quickly he could empty and have to go again, and it's been 17 minutes.
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It's critical that you go now and do it. Look at him run. Roy, we got a chance here to prove my point that players can actually do what they have to do with someone watching very soon after blowing out their own bladder in the eighth inning of a game.
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Do you remember that player who played for the Pacers, the one who blew in the bronze here? Lance Stevenson. Lance Stevenson. Do we have a view? Reggie Miller. If you annoy, Reggie Miller bothered me on the Nick Pistons game. He's so anti-Nick. I hate the guy. I don't know him. Oh, you're talking about as a broadcaster he bothers you? Yes, as a broadcaster. Yeah, shut up, Reggie.
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Just stop being the way you're being about this game. But in any case, so you believe in that you can annoy somebody and all of a sudden it can change the way they play or act.
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No, no. I saw a five-minute major for interference. Right. And I saw a 2-0 loss. Right. And now a 2-0 series deficit.
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I got a different view here. Just to tell you that what you're focused on inside the clubhouse, you just want to win. It's so weak when you go into the retaliatory business because it means you've already lost. And so if I'm the Panthers and I am, and Paul Maurice, winning back-to-back Stanley Cups, way more important than getting your piece of revenge, your piece of flesh. Totally.
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Forget about it. Totally. And by the way, they know from their run last year, play as few games as possible. Don't throw out a game. Don't say be satisfied up to nothing. You want to close them out in four games if you can. Get as much rest as you possibly can. I think the Panthers ignore it. I don't think that's what Hagel was doing because you can't get a rise out of the Panthers that way.
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It is so exciting to get a player back after they use steroids because you're so excited to say to yourself, hey, are you still using? Is there a chance that you are and you're not gonna get caught again?
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There is no such thing as random testing. As if they're pulling a name out of a hat. This is actually how it works with the P test in baseball. There's a guy who's waiting for you. He doesn't work for your team or the visiting team. They're waiting there after a game.
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I love where your head's at, because the question's been asked. And you get a list of the players, and then you have to pull the players, and they walk with the player to go pee-pee. There's no break at all. You don't get to go back to your locker, you don't get to do anything.
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Nope, no funny business at all. It is direct, lock, stock, and barrel, right to the urinal.
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Listen, these are professional pissers. You can get out a few drip traps any time you need to. I want to test this theory. I'm going to go get a glass of water. I'm going to go pee, and then I'm going to come back with a glass of water. I think you could just – you're leaving me to do this. That's your plan. I'm going to go get a glass of water. There he goes.
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So he's coming back from Star Wars. Where did we get this? We got this because Eckblad's back from – was it 20 games? 20 games. 20 full games missed. Yeah.
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I had diarrhea. Whatever. It's always on purpose. Hockey players, I understand why they need to do it. So we're seeing right now for the people on video on the YouTube channel, you're seeing Chris who's going to try to drink water. He's going to go pee first.
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That's why he's walking away through that hallway.
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It can happen quickly. I mean, we're going to keep going. The show must go on. This is the first time we've ever. Is that correct in this room? We've never had a pee, drink, pee situation.
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We need someone making sure Chris is peeing.
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Now, we don't have to be in the room because we have some HR issues. No, Ethan said it that way. We're good. We can just listen for the drip. Because it's a go problem, not a flow problem.
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I don't pee publicly and I sit to pee because I don't want to get anything anywhere.
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Okay, this is live. You don't get this. There are people talking about the draft, the playoffs, not us. We're watching Chris drink water.
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Speak it on behalf of your wife and the person who does your laundry. Just be aware that once in a while, the eh ends up with a little drip drip. Chris might do his own laundry, Chris.
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Yeah, yeah, as you get older. I would like to go on record while we're waiting for Chris to go pee-pee, which is going to happen. You just did your first, uh. Don't have to go yet. This has been under a minute. We're good. I'm testing it. Right now the tester is with the player. They're in the bathroom in the clubhouse. They're just talking about the game. They're hanging out.
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No. What, like, what, a comeback that he was pregnant? So Lawrence Taylor, in a documentary, came clean, ironically, pun intended, that he used someone else's pee for a drug test, and the person whose pee he used had done coke. Oh, no. So he got nailed for the wrong pee use. Oh, no. Idiot. It's like, PEDs are good, but...
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You're pregnant. So while the focus is on waiting for Chris, something happened last night. Oh, something happened, baby. A lot of stuff happened. First of all, I was not able to be with you at a Pearl Jam concert, and you were not able to do your work because you were celebrating Pearl Jam, so congrats on that.
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If any skater should win it, it should be McKinnon. He's going to lead the league in points again for the second straight year. He's been the best player in the league this year. His team is going to be one of the main contenders to win the Stanley Cup, way more than Edmonton is this year. And we all know that As great as Dreisaitl is, he's not the best player on his team.
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So it's like, can you be the MVP?
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Yeah, his goal-scoring numbers this year are insane.
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What a disaster. This was a huge game for the Panthers. This tied the division. This tied the Atlantic division because the Leafs won this game.
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It's just stupid. Ethan? Guys, the Buffalo Sabres are really bad. And any time you lose to the Buffalo Sabres, it's really bad. But this is one of the worst ways you can lose to the Buffalo Sabres here. Tomasz Hertel has a breakaway with an empty net. Tries to dump it back to Jack Eichel for some reason. Not really sure why. Puck goes the other way.
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Sabres score to tie the game with less than a minute left. We go to a shootout. No goals in overtime. Here comes Alex Tuck, I think this is. Beats him for the winner. Sabres win. They had an empty net goal to put it away. My fellow week goes to the Vegas Golden Knights.
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I think that's how the Utah Hockey Club scored their first ever goal in the preseason this year. It was a goal that was a bad pass into an empty net on a delayed penalty in the preseason.
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Let me ask you, as somebody who has never played hockey before, what's the issue here? Why are these guys so resistant? Is it a tough guy thing or is it a comfort thing? This seems so obvious to me to where everything possible that would be cut resistant.
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How mad were people, though, when the Cup went in the Atlantic Ocean? Like, was Canada, was there a day of mourning in Canada when that happened?
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Common theme here, defense. Well, no, I mean— What's going on recently on defense?
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They were down— Well, obviously, Kulikov, big loss. But what's going on? I can't quite— Oh! That Ekblad guy. He matters. He matters. For all those people that like to sh** on Ekblad a little bit, give him some flack for how he plays. This guy is super important. He got suspended.
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Right. That's the other thing. We don't really know how much of an impact this actually had on his play this year. He's been a great player for them for a long time. And clearly he's really important because not only do they miss him, but we saw what Seth Jones was as a number one defenseman in Chicago, right?
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That was the whole thing when he came here was we thought him moving down the lineup in Florida would make him a more effective player. And he's been awesome since coming over, don't get me wrong.
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Now he's had to shoulder that load as the number one defenseman, and you got a two-goal lead blown in Boston, a lackadaisical effort in Montreal, and then another two-goal lead blown in the third period against the lowly Islanders. I hate it so much, man. They're hot right now. I hate it so much. But, I mean, it was ugly.
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And you see some of the things, you know, even in that Toronto game, which was a great win for them, you saw, you know, a pass go through a wide open lane that you don't usually see where, you know, the defense is usually a lot sharper than that. So I think they really miss Aaron Ekblad.
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And hopefully he comes back ready to play because he's going to be coming back for Game 3, the first round of the playoffs. If they're in a 1-1 series or even, God forbid, they're down 2-0 too, Tampa, Toronto, Ottawa, that's a big hole to dig out of. And they're going to need him to come back firing right away.
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And the other guy who's out too, Chucky. Like, I think Chucky is another guy who, with the physical way that he plays in the playoffs, obviously he's coming off an injury, so it's different. But getting him some time off to kind of get right, get back to 100%. Yeah. It's going to be huge for him in the playoffs. And I think he's going to have no problem coming back firing on all cylinders.
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Jonathan Zaslow in the backwards cap.
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There's different rules.
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They're going to shelter him.
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There was that Tampa game a few weeks ago. This was a sick shot. And I'm screaming out here as he's loading up here. Jones back to him. I'm screaming, shoot, shoot, shoot. And he shoots it, ping, right in.
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It's too easy. Yeah, it's too easy. But he had that game a couple weeks ago against Tampa where he scored twice, two snipes right past Vasilevskyi. And it felt like since then he's been a little more aggressive. He had a game earlier this year. I think it was back in like December against the Blues where he kind of decided in overtime it was the same thing.
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I don't think it was a power play, but he made that sick play. He did. He drew a penalty. And then it was a four on three. And he made that sick play to draw the penalty. And then he just decided this game's over and fired it right past the keeper. Same thing here. I love when he shoots the puck, guys. I love when the captain just decides this game is over.
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And we're going to shoot the puck and it's going to go in and we're going to win this game. And the Panthers look desperate at times last night. There was some desperate that penalty kill at the end of the game was desperate penalty killing. But Columbus is desperate as well. They've scored one goal in their last four games. They're kind of fading from the playoff race a little bit.
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Montreal is hot. All of a sudden, the Islanders are hot. The Rangers are hanging around. So it looked they were those were two teams that really needed to win last night, especially Tampa one. Toronto won as well, so the Panthers had to keep pace with these teams. That was a massive win for the Panthers last night.
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Cats or your boys, Zazz?
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I want to ask you guys about... Hold on.
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Jägermeister, Jägerbomb.
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I just think the teams around them got...
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better and they kind of held steady and I understand not wanting to mess up the chemistry that you have on the team right now because things are rolling I mean they made Pierre-Luc Dubois into a good player and he's been rejected everywhere he's gone and all of a sudden he's been awesome for them this year I just think the teams around them got a little better they're probably going to get a pretty favorable matchup in the first round Montreal in the first round yeah
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You know, if they get Carolina, I mean, I'm not a big believer in Carolina at all. But in New Jersey, they're not going to have Jack Hughes. So, I mean, they've got the favorable side of the bracket. But I just think this is one of those typical President's Trophy seasons where a team has an amazing regular season. They ride the coattails of this awesome chase that they've been on with Ovechkin.
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And then they just kind of fizzle out a little bit. Again, I think the teams around them just got... Got better. And they just kind of held steady. They didn't really make any improvements at the deadline.
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A quick Google will tell you Gretzky has 66 more total goals than Ovechkin. He's got 1695 and Ovechkin has 1629. So he would have to score 66 goals. Edmonton went on a lot of deep playoffs. Yeah, I was going to say they won four cups, five cups, whatever.
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A guy they got to get going is is the guy I always love to talk about is Reinhardt. He's been really quiet since the Four Nations and even a little bit before that. I think the absence of Kachuk is a big reason why he's had to be more of a distributor, especially on the power play. But they really need to get him going down the stretch here. And this is going to be tight.
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It's going to be tight down the stretch.
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Adnan, I want to ask you right now, the Caps just became the first team to clinch a playoff spot last night. They're on 100 points. The Jets are also on 100 points. It's going to be an epic battle down the stretch to see who wins the president's trophy. But neither of these teams really did a whole lot at the deadline.
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And I know sometimes we kind of get caught up in who made the splashy acquisitions at the deadline and whatnot. Do you think they did enough? Do you think too many teams around them got so much better than that they might not be serious candidates to go deep in the playoffs anymore?
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Are they actually the best team in the West? As far as points are concerned. As far as points are concerned, but look how good Colorado looks right now. To me, they're terrifying. McKinnon, McCarr, the way Natchez has been playing since he's gone over there. They've gotten better since they traded Randon, which is an insane thing to say.
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And their lines after the trade deadline, you look at them and they're as deep as anybody in the league right now.
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I think what she's saying. No, no.
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Does Tavares still scar you guys from 2016? No.
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Everybody knows that.
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Adnan mentioned Connor Hellebuck earlier. This guy's pretty amazing. Win of the week from the Jets-Canucks game. Last week, we went with a goalie. We're going back to the goalie well here again. Watch this save that Connor Hellebuck makes. Comes out of his net, dives all the way back with his stick out. This guy's unbelievable. Look at how close that puck is to going in right there. Unbelievable.
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Adnan, could this guy legitimately win the Hart Trophy this year, not just the Vezina?
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The tournament games were kind of stinky. The tournament was not good yesterday. It was not good. I watched almost the whole day. It was not good yesterday.
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No, but you do get them. It evens out. It's pretty likely you're going to get the madness today since you didn't get it yesterday.
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Madness is buzzer beaters. Madness is buzzer beaters. McNeese, they kicked their ass.
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They put a little bit of makeup on a pig there. They never had the ball with a chance to tie.
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But there were no big shots. There were no buzzer beers. That's the madness, all right? And because we didn't get it yesterday, I think we're going to have an overwhelming amount of madness today.
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How happy was Taylor yesterday with the SEC? Georgia's down 30-5.
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Yeah, sometimes you gotta take the old girl out. You know, you gotta let her know you care. And so I took her right across the street here. We went to MJ on Broadway, the Michael Jackson show that's at the Arts Center. How do you feel about that? I thought it was fantastic. I feel good. Like, are you asking me if I feel morally weird about it? Well, you know, it's complicated.
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Like, it was back in the headlines. I guess it's kind of strange. Like, they danced around it the entire show. Like, the whole show is them putting together the dangerous tour. And he's being interviewed by MTV throughout it. So you're going through the timeline of his life leading up to the Dangerous tour, which was in the mid-90s.
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So I never miss a Panther game. I mean, I'm beside myself if I have to miss a Panther game. I love that team so much. I love you, Sacha Barkoff. And so I didn't get to watch the game last night because I got home late. I was really tired. I watched the entire Panther game this morning.
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And they dance around that stuff where several times throughout the story, it's, do you hear what they're saying about me in the media? Oh, really? Yeah. That was the line every time. Do you hear what they're saying about me in the media?
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They never actually... They don't give any details. It's just they're saying things about me in the media.
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I loved it, though. The place was packed, man. It's got incredible music. Incredible music. Incredible.
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Is there anyone more controversial than him?
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He never had to deal with it, right. And it's certainly not a contest, all right? But, you know, if one did it, Diddy's losing.
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Right, right, right. But the things that Michael Jackson was being accused of is, like, the most heinous shit.
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Oh, is that right? It's full scope for Diddy.
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Again, not a competition. Allegedly quite a wide, pervy net he casted. Yeah, I don't know. I never know how to feel about the Michael Jackson stuff. Like, Michael Jackson comes on the radio. I'm like, oh, this song is amazing. Turn it up. And then it's like, I never know how to feel about it.
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I don't know, man. That place was packed last night. I know they're doing a bunch of shows at the Arts Center there. It seems like people are into it, so I don't think I have to feel bad morally.
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Which got the weekend start off on the right foot, by the way. You think I need that shit in my life to start a Friday morning of the Panthers losing? Come on. We're in a good mood today.
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He was my boy last night. He was very good.
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I think you draw the line when they're a super shitty person, which seems to be the case with Kanye, but as opposed to even Diddy. Diddy's being accused of things, okay? You could assume it's true, whatever.
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Osama. But Kanye is like, there's no, they're not accusations. No, he's doing it to himself. Right, right. It's right there. Yeah, he's got a swastika medallion. He's selling swastikas. It's happening. It's right there in front of us. So I think there's a major difference there.
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Of course. Of course. Yeah, yeah. So it's easy to avoid the spoilers last night because it's on my mind. All right, the Panthers are playing right now. Let's not check Twitter. None of that stuff. But when I woke up this morning, the first thing I did, like I go to the bathroom, I'm doing my thing, I'm on the throne. And so I'm scrolling through my phone. Before or after coffee? No, before.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes you need the coffee to activate it. Nope. I don't know what you got going on, but that's not the way I do it.
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Just making sure. I can't stop listening to that when it comes on. That is Brian Adams.
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Yeah! Welcome! Dan Levitard Show of Friday morning, the 21st of March. Good to have you aboard. I'm Jonathan Zaslow, alongside is my pal Mike Ryan. Hello, how are you this morning?
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I was there for that. That was a big one.
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It was like a midnight swap. That was more than 30 years ago. That was a big one. That was a huge one.
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was Channel 6, and TVJ was Channel 4.
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So I'm scrolling the phone like, oh, wait, hold on. I don't want to have the Panther game swallowed for me. So then I put the phone away and I'm like, let's put the Panther game on. So I had the Panther game on when I'm getting ready in the bathroom this morning to come in and look all pretty for all you guys. And yeah, I finished the game like... Right before I got here this morning.
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Well, yeah, they got outbid, which is crazy because some being... I think some being... Well, no, they're saying that they chose like, hey, this is too much money. We're not interested.
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That's what's really wild. So the way that I understand... Okay, so this is confusing though, right? For people who we want to watch sports, all right? ABC is Monday Night Football and NBA on ESPN on ABC. You know, there's stuff that we want to watch. And so... Over the Air, it's going to be on the auxiliary channel, 7.2. That's right. When you're watching Over the Air.
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That's exactly what it's like.
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That's exactly what it's like. But here's the thing. I don't know about you guys. I don't watch Over the Air. I have streaming. And so I'm confused as to how I'm going to get ABC on my streaming subscription.
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So are they just going to come up with their, they're going to produce their own local show?
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Whammy had the Heat road games. Because back then, home games and road games were different channels for our local teams. And ESPN's Mark Jones was the sideline reporter for the Heat on Whammy.
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Yeah, they probably wish this happened a year ago.
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No, I didn't fast forward through anything, any of the games. So the whole game.
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Get some good spin. Let's hear it.
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Yeah, I watched 60 minutes of nothing.
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Yo, just tell me how I can watch my shows.
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I feel like if you're not in the industry, you're just like, what are you guys talking about?
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But it was a great game. It was. It was as good a 0-0 game could be.
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If somebody wants to talk over there, you look at this face. You put me on WPLG. That's bad news for all your networks. Look at that punim. It's a beautiful punim.
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It was a very easy, let's take away that goal. That's cheating. Against the rule. No, it's pretty obvious.
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I mean, heck, last night, the penalty at the end of regulation was just the fourth penalty called all game.
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Great 5-on-5 team. I can't help but remember last year in the Stanley Cup Finals when you would have the matching minors and you would have the 4-on-4. What a disaster! It was like we were on the penalty kill. It was a disaster against that Edmonton team every time that you had to go four on four. But, yes, normally even strength is a positive for this team.
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So my morning, my weekend got started off on the right note. I don't need to start the weekend with a Panther loss. I'd have been in a terrible mood this morning, and I want to be in a great mood for you guys. So I'm ready to go. I'm firing all cylinders here.
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I haven't done that in years. Been a little while.
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It's going to be tough on tomorrow, too. Tomorrow, you've got Washington Capitals. Ovechkin now seven away from the record. I don't like that he's going to get that record, but it is what it is. It's futile for me to root against it.
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He's not Gretzky, but he's a good player.
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No, they needed those points last night because you've got Washington tomorrow and it's, what are we talking, it's a 2-3 road trip so far.
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Yeah, no, they're even. I mean, they're tied with Toronto.
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Percolating. What is the secret sauce? White guys. Yeah, yeah.
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Well, first of all, it takes me forever to get here. So, like, I'm able to accomplish a lot in the morning. I got to get up early. I don't normally get up early, okay? I'm on my own schedule. And I got up early today and yesterday, of course. I'm glad to be back here with you today. Glad to have you back. And, yeah, so I was out last night. I was with my wife.
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He had 20 goal scores so far this year.
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I don't know. Guys, some of this stuff is random with the goal scoring. It's not like the NBA where if you're in the prime of your career, you're going to have these numbers every single year no matter what. It's a little bit like baseball. There's some randomness. You could be in your prime and you didn't hit for average the way you did the previous year. It's like that in hockey, too.
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You don't get as many chances. But I text you the day after the Marchand trade. I was like, hey, Marchand, crazy, right? And Mike texts me back. I hope he's a healthy scratch every game.
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Wow. And look, I've never hated a player, a hockey player, more. Then I hated, I guess, Brad Marchand. Never, never hated a player more. So it's really difficult to digest that they just traded for this guy. And my whole my whole deal was I need to hear him say he wants to win a Stanley Cup with the Florida Panthers. I needed to hear him say that. And he essentially did.
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He did on the Monday of the press conference. And then on Tuesday, he's out there skating with Sam Bennett. And Sam Bennett posts the picture with the two of them and says, just a couple of scumbags.
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And it's like, okay, well, if the guys... See, here's the thing where I say to you, if the guys in the dressing room are okay with the guy that they used to hate, don't I kind of have to be okay with the guy? And the difference is with hockey, you know, in football, when the Dolphins play the Jets... The Dolphin players don't hate the Jet players. The Jets players don't hate the Dolphin.
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Sometimes you got to do date night, all right? You got to take the women out. You got to let them know that you still care about them.
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The fans hate. But the players don't hate. The difference in hockey is they do hate the guys in the other dressing room. I mean, Ryan Lomberg will play for the Calgary Flames now. They were playing the Tampa Bay Lightning earlier this season. He says, I hate these effing guys. You don't even play for the Panthers anymore. These guys actually hate the other guys in the dressing room.
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And so if they're okay with it... I kind of have to be okay with it then.
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That's right. Right next to Vitale and Billis.
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I'm actually not cool with Jamal Mashburn. I'm not taking cues from Mashburn of what he likes and doesn't like. I'm not even comfortable with him sitting first row at the Heat games. Would I have been okay with Alan Houston on the team? Yeah, I mean, I would have had to have been. What, am I going to root against him? It's not like he's a bad person off the court.
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Well, we went to a show, all right? So I had control over that.
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Well, obviously, I mean, I told you a million times. I mean, I've never disliked a Miami Heat. It's very rare that I dislike a player who's on my team. I'll find a way to root for them. And I actively disliked Kyle Lowry his entire time here. It just shows you how terrible Terry Rozier has been, the fact that I'll sit here and tell you that was a terrible trade.
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But it also tells you how badly the organization wanted Lowry out.
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that they were willing to trade him for rogier in a first round pick i i hated kyle lowry so there there isn't anyone in the heat's history they've had storied rivals people forget how intense that pistons rivalry was oh yeah i hated that team oh yeah like if paul pierce came to town and wore a heat jersey that's what i i think that was the comparison i made with brad marshall where it had been like if the heat trade for paul pierce and i don't want that i you think i want to move that piece of shit like i i don't i don't want him on my team i will not root for him
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Well, either you're good at it or you're not. And I would tell you if you're good at it, you don't need to brag.
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Yeah, good for you for not backing down, man. Was I here on a day that Paul Pierce was going to be? Oh, I think David Sampson was grilling me about, why would I not want to do a show with Paul Pierce? Why would I?
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Well, and he pulled that dirty move on P.J. Brown. I mean, he absolutely tried to undercut him. He tried to hurt him. I would tell that to his face if he was right here in this room. You tried to hurt P.J. Brown.
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And certainly Larry Johnson. Don't like Larry Johnson. I'll never like Larry Johnson. He was purposely trying to elbow Zoe in the face while he was wearing a face guard. He had a broken orbital.
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Yeah, there may have been something going on personally with the two of them when they were in Charlotte together.
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Well, Mackenzie Wieger definitely knows what he did. He definitely knows what he did.
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So I had some time this morning, which was great because I never miss a Florida Panther game. Never, ever, ever. I record every game. And last night. You got TiVo, Sil? You have DVRs? Remember how long we called it TiVo? TiVo was the name to record something on television.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But you're a top one percenter, Greg. You are essentially the Connor McDavid of local columnists. You can actually say these things.
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He did. I've seen that on the lower third already.
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He was right. You're literally trying to put a billboard saying that, though. You guys are changing Greg's argument. You are trying to do that. You are saying he is right. That's because that dubbing word is his mouth.
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Yeah, Canada typically handles it that way.
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Did you watch Vancouver after they lost to the Bruins?
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He can't handle his liquor. It's way worse just audio because you can really fixate on the slur.
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We waited 30 years to say we are made it.
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He was growing a playoff beard? Really?
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I'm wearing the same exact clothes I wore to the game. I was at the arena until 3, had a spicy McChicken, set the alarm for 90 minutes from that moment, and went to bed in this, and got out of the bed, and... Went on the train. I'm sweating my ass off.
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And there's so much nuance in the game that is just like you pick up – if you're around the game for 10 years, you pick up something new every day and tactics change. But think about this show. We have a larger ensemble, but we've talked over each other plenty. McDonough and Ferraro aren't in the same booth.
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Ferraro is on the ice. Yeah, it's great. And it's them too. They don't have nonverbal communication. They have to have that chemistry down.
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He had to be the outlet. That's our Philly special. You knew that once they went to the boards with 12 seconds left, that was it. They were Stanley Cup champions.
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That's a really unfortunate take by you guys.
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Hey, folks, it's Mike Ryan. It is Big Game Week. And I've got just the thing to make your big game time a Miller time. From fireside conversations to football Sundays, winter means more moments with the coolest people in your life. Make these moments even better with Miller Lite, the great tasting light beer for people who love beer. A new year is a perfect time for friends.
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family and great tasting light beer. Tastes like Miller time. Miller Lite is brewed for taste. It hits different than other light beers and when you're hosting your ultimate game day party, why don't you bring out a beautiful silver platter of that amazing white can and know you will make everybody there happy because Miller Lite is the original light beer since 1975 and still the very best one.
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Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to MillerLite.com to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Tastes like Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. Dan Levatard.
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Florida claws back from down 2-0 because they were getting their asses handed to them by Toronto to then get lit afire underneath them by their head coach, Paul Maurice, who did the thing. Remember how the run was sparked last year? Stugatz. He called them a bunch of P's and B's. He did the thing again. Called them a bunch of P's and B's, and then, boom, five unanswered. You win the division.
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Do you think the keeper of the cup gets nervous? Hell yeah. Of course.
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Lord Stanley was just fully submerged in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Roy, can you describe what you're seeing right now? Was the cup indeed submerged for a brief moment in time?
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He's getting us good stuff. That was an exclusive, dude. No, no, no, no, no. Stick around. We need you there. Crazy shit like that's going to be happening all day. Yep.
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You're doing great, man. No one else is doing this stuff.
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Your day. We don't congratulate ourselves enough when we actually get stuff to work.
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Yeah, man. No other live show of our stature is doing shit like this. This is an achievement. And he's got a droid. There's a lot of shit working against us.
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Bask in the glow. We are Hockey Town, USA. Roy was on the scene. He got to the elbow room in seven minutes, and he caught video of the cup. How did he get there so fast? Of the cup submerged. That is exclusive video of the Dan Levitard show. That is great stuff, by the way. More than six people, too.
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We got video here of Kachuck and Bennett just pouring beer on this guy. A wise man once said, we are made it. Just drenching this guy.
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We were under a lot of pressure. I think we were all a little anxious. We were all super emotional. One day you will see that I was trying to do the exact opposite in terms of fomenting what you feared. One day you will see that I was trying to stop all of it from happening.
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There's a lot of people tuning into this show for the first time and I'm glad that sits out there with zero context. Hey, folks, it's Mike Ryan. It is Big Game Week. And I've got just the thing to make your big game time a Miller time. From fireside conversations to football Sundays, winter means more moments with the coolest people in your life.
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
Make these moments even better with Miller Lite, the great tasting light beer for people who love beer. A new year is a perfect time for friends. family and great tasting light beer. Tastes like Miller time. Miller Lite is brewed for taste.
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It hits different than other light beers and when you're hosting your ultimate game day party, why don't you bring out a beautiful silver platter of that amazing white can and know you will make everybody there happy because Miller Lite is the original light beer since 1975 and still the very best one. Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories.
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Go to MillerLite.com slash Dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Tastes like Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
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I'm not here to argue against the topic, but I would say, like, if you look at the entire playoffs, the award is given to the most outstanding player. Like, literally no one did more for their team in pursuit of that cup. That's what they voted on.
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They didn't win the Cup, but the voters just said he did everything humanly possible to win that Cup.
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They voted that nobody did more to help their team win a Cup.
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I'll tell you. Stephen A's doing it right now.
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I think we're all clear on what Greg was saying. It's just after that playoff performance on the heels of the greatest season in NHL history, arguably, my opinion of Connor McDavid has not diminished.
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Greg has actually been pretty consistent about this and hasn't deviated from it. So I get his point. And the way that we cover sports in this country is, yeah, Greg gets to be right tonight. I will say, though, in all of this, you mentioned Kevin Durant, who many people blamed Russell Westbrook early on in his career for his failings.
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If Conor McDavid is not in this series, all the hype gets attributed to Leon Dreisaitl. Everyone calls Leon Dreisaitl the best player in this series. You'd have the talking head say, is Leon Dreisaitl the best player in hockey? He did not show up this series. He is worthy of criticism.
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Well, what's he got to do with the next 10-some-odd years of his career?
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Ovechkin played in the same conference as the greatest player of his generation, Sidney Crosby. Ovechkin, great player, may catch up to Gretzky's record. He only had the one crack at it. He won it, but he only had the one chance. You can't take these things for granted.
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It really was the blueprint really all year long, starting in training camp, where I've heard the stories that Paul Maurice drilled them so hard that in training camp to make sure that they are the best condition team. I mean, like Herb Brooks, Team USA style. The worst, hardest training camp that a lot of these players have ever been through.
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And it was to get to that moment where, yeah, they've been a great third period team all year long. And going into the game last night, I was just envisioning, all right, can we, because of the way the last three games have gone, can I be within a goal going into the third? Just... I don't have to be ahead. I didn't expect to be ahead. You would have taken that?
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I was hoping we'd be tied going into the third. But I would have taken, can we be within a goal in the third period? And we will outlast them. And then we went to third and we're ahead of goal. And it's like, oh my God, can we just play them even for the final 20 minutes? And by the way, those 20 minutes, it was the slowest 20 minutes of my life. It was the most anxiety I've ever had.
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I mean, I'm on the verge of a panic attack. every time the Oilers had full control of the puck in the zone, which was seemingly all 20 minutes of the third period. And then McDonough's right. And when he pointed it out, it was perfect because right when he says it, that the Oilers are out of gas, you look at them, they're barely moving. And by the way, McDavid was on the ice, it seemed.
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I think statistically he was on the ice for 10 of the 20 minutes in the third period, which is crazy. He was always on the ice, and they couldn't move anymore at the end of the game. And guess what? The Panthers, they were fresh, and they were fine at the end of the game. It was so beautiful. It was the blueprint.
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Well, it started, though, with the anthem. That was when you noticed, right? The anthem was so loud. Singing the Canadian hands like, whoa, there's a lot of them there.
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Yeah, but I think we were inspired by how loud they were. When do we ever, in any of these buildings, not just here, when does the American national anthem ever get sung by the crowd?
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Bad face by the Canadian fan. I mean, keep it tuned. Come on. Alanis did a bad job. We're going to be honest. Legends did a bad job last night.
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You could tell. There's an intelligence level. Aren't you Canadian? I have dual citizenship. I was born here. Just like Alanis. Yeah, just like Alanis.
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Can I ask you something? Speaking of the national anthem and everything that took place before the game, how did we feel when it was announced? that Roberto Luongo is banging the drum.
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He should have been the guy.
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He hit you with the LFG, like in the crowd. Crazy energy. See, I was worried that they were going to make it Luongo, and they did. And I was worried because he lost a game seven in goal for Vancouver. But then I realized, Dan, the theme of the team this postseason has been redemption. And you know what? Redemption includes that for Luongo as well, to redeem himself from game seven in 2011.
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So I was in on it.
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He banged a drum.
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No, they weren't booing Batman. No, they booed Huizenga. Then there's Huizenga. They booed Huizenga. No way. Yeah, screw that guy.
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Randy, I'm so happy for you, man. Obviously, I worked next year for a couple years on that Panther radio broadcast. I know how much it means to you. I know how hard you work and just how much you love this franchise. So congratulations. I'm so happy for you, Randy. What were the closing seconds? like for you?
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I mean, you thought about it, what it could possibly feel like as the clock's running out and you have a lead in game seven. What did those few seconds when they're pinning the puck on the board feel like for you?
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Oh, my God. Last night. I don't know if you guys heard. I did big game, not big game. It was a big game. I thought about it. It was a big game.
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Randy, did you get any time after the game with Coach Paul Maurice? I mean, it was such a difficult transition for Panther fans last year when he was hired. I was so angry with him last year, and now I love him so much.
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fun i called him the murderer of fun all throughout last year and like i love him i was dead wrong and i can't be happier that i was his coach 2000 damn games i like i love him so much he was so amazing after the game yesterday all of his emotions you could see it when he was holding the cup it's an unbelievable picture did you get any time with the coach after the game last night
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He's too engulfed in the celebration. It's hard to hear with the crowd. Thank you.
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Our whole game plan was icing.
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I can't get past, you know... For the first three years of his time here, we hated Sergei Bobrovsky. Hated him. Worst contract in the entire National Hockey League. And now, he's the greatest free agent signing in the history of the
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franchise he's going to be in the hall of fame his number is going to be in the rafters when he's done we hated this guy his first three years it is the greatest signing in the history of the franchise they signed him dale tallon signed him dale tallon signed him and gave him a 10 million dollars seven a year 70 million dollars no trade to win wasn't wasn't a no trade maybe as well to win the stanley cup
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It's the greatest signing in the history of the franchise.
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He was phenomenal last night.
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And the postseason before it, he was splitting time with Spencer Knight. That's crazy. Is he still a Panther?
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Yes, he was on the ice. He was the one that handed the cup to Paul Maurice. He rang the bell. That was a good job out of Spencer Knight, giving the cup to Maurice. That was a good job out of him.
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Yeah, like, are we going to find out the injuries now?
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It's such a weird sport. We're excited now to find out how hurt our guys were.
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Clutch move. Forsling lost the stick. Stenland said, here, take mine.
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That's what I said last night. I had my father up. We had three generations of Zaslow men watching the game. I brought out the big guns. I brought my father into the Zaslow Mansion serious room. It's a very exclusive group. But we needed three generations to carry us through to game seven. So I brought my father in.
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And when Stenland's out there without the stick, like he's a hockey fan, but he doesn't know all the nuances. He doesn't have a stick. What's he going to do? He's going to block the puck with his face if he has it. So he's going to do whatever it takes.
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Three generations of Zaslow men. Four of us total, three generations, were in the Zaslow mansion family room, which, of course, everybody knows when the game starts, that becomes the serious room.
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The cup is at the elbow room. The cup is at the elbow room. Kachuk said last night on the ice, when Matthew and Brady were being interviewed by the NHL network crew, he said, I heard tomorrow it's elbow room.
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Yo, I repented for that already. Let it go. One year ago, no. Let it go.
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Paul Maurice was the murderer of fun. Now he's maybe my all-time favorite coach.
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Can I ask what the billboard is or do we want it to be like a grand surprise?
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I'm sure that I'll go over in Edmonton.
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Seems right.