Chapter 1: What happened at the start of the show that might ruin everything for the Cyclones?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. We did it, everybody. We made it to the weekend. That's right. Today's Friday. Everybody give it up. Give it up for the weekend. Who doesn't like the weekend? WrestleMania's ass. Whoever said, oh, I hated that the weekend's here. Is that going on this week? Really? They should promote it. It snuck up on us. There's Trick Williams on Get Up.
They should let us know. Hate when it sneaks up on us like that. Mike does not like the omen that just took place. Why are you upset?
What's going on?
We missed the first few bars of Haile's backjack, and the Cyclones have a win-and-in scenario tonight against the Warriors at the Jam Arena. Wait, so the season is about to be over? It's almost playoff time? So in Haile, in battle court Haile, there's a fall season with a very short offseason. We won the fall championship, and then the spring season.
And after that is a longer off-season for Battlecourt. So people get a little confused. But you basically have two championships in one calendar year. Spring season is winding down. We're entering the final week of the regular season. The Cyclones finally got off the schneid earlier this week. Got our first win in about like six match days.
Now we find ourselves in a win-and-in scenario against the very same Warriors that we beat. It's Battlecourt's oldest rivalry. And we'll be out at the Jam Arena. Come on out. Come for the highlight.
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Chapter 2: Why should Chris Martin reach out to the woman from the Coldplay concert?
Save for the TJ Miller stand-up set. So if it's a win-in situation, is it also a lose-or-go-home situation? No, because there's another match day, and I think even if we lose, we still have a chance, depending on how the rest of the fixtures go. We can make the final... Few matches, not that important. If we win today, we can secure our spot. We can coast. We can coast. Let's secure our spot.
You want to play for seeding. There's so much parody in battle court this year. Everyone knows that. Well, it's not typically the case, but there is an advantage when it comes to seedings. You get to decide your tiebreaker doubles team. So we'll see. We benefited from being the one seed during the fall season. We hit a real lull this year adjusting to this new court.
Rumor is they changed the pelota, Chris, which is... you know, the source of a lot of complaints.
I mean, is that collectively bargained?
Can you just change the pelota? I mean, they needed to. They just changed the dimensions of the front on us, you know? I don't want to say too much on air, but you got to keep an eye on this league sometimes. That's all I'll say. Can we welcome our pal out on the West Coast, Dave Damoshek? Hello, Dave. Oh, thank goodness. My heart is full as society's greatest empath.
I was worried sick about all of you there in Miami. What were you going to do to fill the springtime without the heat and the Panthers in the playoffs? I've been given my answer. You have WrestleMania and Battlecourt Highland. Marlins baseball. Distract you. Dave and I had a great exchange on Twitter a couple of days ago. Just a couple guys sharing WrestleMania moments as children, huh, Dave?
That's right.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the Cyclones' win-and-in scenario against the Warriors?
To be honest, my attention kind of wanes around or after the Million Dollar Man. um chapter of of wwe wwf but wrestlemania 3 i went with my pal josh we went to the igloo in pittsburgh with 16 18 000 other yinzers and watched on closed circuit not not live you understand They just had like sort of in the middle of where center ice is.
They just had this four-sided, I think in fact they lowered the scoreboard down and the monitors, I think is maybe what they did. And they just showed from the Silverdome in Detroit, they showed WrestleMania III and like a bunch of goons, we gathered around and looked at monitors in an arena where the event wasn't taking place and watched perhaps the greatest bouts.
In the history of people, specifically Zazz, we talked about the penultimate one that night. It was the Macho Man Randy Savage and Ricky the Dragon Steamboat in their famous rematch after, if I'm not mistaken, Macho Man took the bell to the head. He crushed his larynx! Right. That's right. That's what it was. I was a little hazy on the details.
Dave, I know you're from Pittsburgh, and I know you guys call yourselves a certain thing, but when you say Yinzers, it sounds like a slur. It does. If I call you a Yinzer, is that a slur?
Chapter 4: How does the NHL Playoffs' format compare to the NBA Playoffs?
I don't think you ā it's one of those things. I can call myself ā Look at this Yinzer. I'd rather you not do that.
Tony, look at this blank.
That's what I'm saying. Look at this blank. It's always going to sound like a slur. Shh.
shocking didn't expect i'll do a top i'll come up with the top five words that sound like slurs but aren't i told i want you to deliver it yes you you be the one i told dave that i had the same experience for wrestlemania 6 in 1990 when i was nine years old my father took me to miami arena and because back then pay-per-view was like a rumor like who knew how to order pay-per-view
and my father took me to WrestleMania VI on closed-circuit television at Miami Arena, where you were ableāyou bought a ticket. It was probably like five bucks, if that. You bought a ticket. You sit anywhere you want in the lower bowl at Miami Arena, and there were two massive projection screens on the floor, and we watched WrestleMania VI online. On closed circuit television.
Crazy that that's the way that it used to be. Now you can watch it on ESPN.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of LaMelo Ball's actions and apology regarding Bam Adebayo?
We'll get back. We'll circle back to that. Good news last night, right? Good news last night as far as the Florida Panther fan is concerned. The Panther season ended a couple of nights ago, but you had a few more games last night. specifically Western Conference teams last night as the NHL regular season ended.
We were rooting for ā we needed a couple of the bad teams right above us to at least get a point. I think it was the Sharks and the Blues, and both of them won. So as a result, there is a small consolation, right, Roy? There's a small consolation for the Panthers at the end of this season where they do actually ā get to keep their first-round pick no matter what.
They're currently in the eighth slot. At worst-case scenario, they would be jumped by two teams, which would drop them to ten. The pick is top ten protected. So there you go. Right, Roy? Last night was one of the lone good nights of the season for the Panthers.
Yeah, the Panthers are looking at either picking first, second, eighth, ninth, or tenth in this upcoming draft.
While we're on hockey, and we have the noted Yinzer with us here, Dave, I'm sure you like the playoff format because it harkens back to a bygone era and it's been here for a while, but it is patently absurd. I'm sure you're psyched that you get to play the Flyers. You hate them. Great rivalry. But if we're doing this thing one through eight, that's the seven versus the eight seed in the East.
Those two teams are playing for a chance to advance to the second round. This is nonsense. Yeah, I think it is ultimately nonsense, but you do touch on the fact that I love my rivalries. I don't love having to play the Philadelphia Flyers because of the eventuality that the Flyers win that series. That would be a disgrace and a gut punch to me that would be hard to overcome.
But yes, you're absolutely right, Mike Ryan. It's a weird thing that it sort of, in case people don't know, it kind of jams you to... I mean, I kind of get it spiritually that you have to survive your little region of hockey North America to then move on to a larger tournament.
Basically, you have to get through two rounds, essentially, of your own division to then move on to play for the conference title and then advance to the Stanley Cup final. They load the schedule up with more division opponents, right? So you get a pretty good idea of who the best is in the region.
I kind of dig, though, again, like I say, spiritually, that rhetoric that you hear before a game is like, huh. There are no secrets between these two ancient rivals. I kind of do dig that. And it's sort of the greatness of a hockey series. And you get this from the NBA playoffs as well and to some degree baseball playoffs too.
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Chapter 6: What are the discussions surrounding the playoff format changes in the NBA?
Yeah, I'd like to know what it would look like if the NBA playoff format, which is also eight teams per conference, you know, 82 games, same thing, what it would look like there. Don't we kind of want that, though, Zazz? Isn't that what kind of boosts college football to a degree in SEC versus Big Ten and all the rest of it? We kind of get into that. This stands to reason, then.
I get what you're saying. I think it's been about trying to enhance rivalries, all right?
And I think this has actually worked for the Panthers and for the Panther fan because before they went to this format, now granted the Panthers were never making the playoffs, but with this format and now over the last five consecutive years up until this year that the Panthers were in the playoffs, because of this format, yes, the Panthers were always going to be rivals with the Lightning, but we get to play the Lightning as many times as we did when we were talking about
four times in the last five years the Panthers played the Lightning in the postseason, but also the matchups with Boston and the matchups with Toronto. Like, if not for this format, we wouldn't have this rivalry with the Panthers in Boston and the Panthers in Toronto. So it has worked in that sense for a team like the Panthers.
Well, because of this format, though, we've we had the Kings play the Oilers four years in a row. And yeah, that I don't lose in every single series.
Yeah. Yeah. Like that. That's tough. That I don't like. And by the way, Dave Damoshek, how about how about the very the very rare. Stanley Cup final rematch in the first round of the playoffs. The Lightning and the Canadians are facing off in the first round this year. That was the Stanley Cup final in what, 2021? Because he had the wacky no conferences, you know? That counts for half at best.
And now that you say it out loud a half decade later, I think maybe we should just make it. Yeah, I agree. Maybe it even just counts for a third of a regular Stanley Cup. You know, now that we're steeped in this conversation for a few minutes... Chris looks confused, by the way, Dave. Chris, are you confused that the Canadiens and the Lightning played in the same bottle?
Yes, I was more thinking this was like decades ago, but then Roy reminded me. That was like five years ago, right? Yeah, Roy reminded me of the COVID thing. That's right. All right, go ahead, Dave. Yeah, I mean, listen, now that we've had this little exchange, I've come around on it. I get the fairness issue. I think people get a little too precious about like ā
That series should not be played. You hear that in the NFL playoffs, too. Like, oh, this is unjust that Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are facing off in the divisional round. This is championship game material. Like, who gives a crap? They're playing each other in the playoffs as long as we get to see the series.
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Chapter 7: How do rivalries impact the dynamics of playoff matchups?
So you would punctuate wildcard weekend. So Sunday night would be resolved. All hash would be settled from the wildcard bouts. And then you end it with not a period, but an exclamation point.
The one seed, whatever, Drake May and Mike Vrabel, who's in the news, step to the podium to announce that we have chosen from the available teams, or I guess it would have been Sean Payton and Bo Nix last year, step to the podium and announce of the available teams, we want you. Oh, my goodness. It's already grand. The week is already.
We don't even have to try to come up with things to talk about because the heat has already been delivered for us. Well, and how angry would the fan base be of the team that gets selected first? Like they'd be coming out with like pitch for you. You want to play us? It'd be amazing fodder that entire week leading up to it. I think you're on to it. Dave, you... How about college football?
How about we do it in college football, too? That would really get... Those fan bases would really get pissed off. I like it. Don Libetard.
Bad news for opposing teams in the AAA.
Stugatz. These are smiles till the broads are clutch again. Clutch again. Clutch again. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz. Did you guys see this? Do you like hearing from Mario Chalmers?
What'd he say?
Okay, hey, good job. So, this annoyed me, and I'll play it for you, and you can understand why it annoys me. So, Mario Chalmers was on, is it called Run It Back? That's with Chandler Parsons and Michelle Beadle and Lou Williams, right? And they get good guests. And so, Mario Chalmers... is on the show. I mean, you know, two-time champion with Miami Heat.
And here's Mario Chalmers talking about Heat culture and Pat Riley. Give this a listen.
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