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
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
No, he's Lex Luthor is what it feels like, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
College basketball celebrity picks.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
I hope the new owner relocates them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
Yeah. Anyone want to step to that statement about the Boston Celtics? No. Cosign. Anyone?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
You know, look, I'm trying to win another Stanley Cup here. All right? You're talking about I'm looking.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
You're not above the team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
If Sam Bennett is okay with it, Mike Ryan, you better be okay with it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
You leave a little bit of context out when you say it like that, though.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
I'm a celebrity picker. That's not my fault.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
Can you imagine taking the over? I've been to the Dodgers over in the season, a 104.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
Everybody sees my face right there and they're like, I would love to compete against this celebrity.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
I mean, you could have said that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
Most celebrities don't oversleep. That's why I'm up there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
Nothing happens the entire season. I'm just sitting there with nothing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
But that didn't shock you as much as Sam Rockwell's monologue, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Jonathan Yaslow & Jeremy Foreplé
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
I think he's a trusted guy now on television.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
Well, should I give a few right at the top of my head?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
Yeah. That was pretty easy, what he just did. That was like nothing.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
No. I probably would have had trouble coming up with five, because I would not have had the NFL draft there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
It's the most reckless you could possibly be with money that's NCAA tournaments and gambling on it, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
There's a lot of other things you can do in life. You're gambling your money on something you know nothing about.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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!
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
I enjoyed the whole day, and you know what? I'm gonna do it again when I wake up tomorrow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
You know how time zones work? It's 9 a.m. there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
I'm big on being able to create your own junk shot. Impossible.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
It's one of the things I'm known for.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
It's one of the many things we have in common, me and UD.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
To say that I went to community college, I'm sorry, you're offending me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
Okay, good for you. Good for you. But I have a degree from a university. So do I. All right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
Listen, we're getting into my backstory.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
I get very excited about the Gators when their basketball team is good.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
I didn't bring it up. He did. Dismissed it, though. And I think you did it to aggravate me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
I've lived here my whole life, except when I went to school.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
Yeah, because he's not a leading man, right?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: That's What's Best For Business
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Well, he's also on a show on Netflix, too, right now, right?
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He was like the lead. Him and Leo were the lead.
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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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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)
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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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Yeah. That's it. That's what you lead with, right?
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Yeah. So he has been introduced to David. You know what they don't like? That Sampson guy.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Never even been to a conference finals.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
They look like they were on to something. Then Dwayne Wade murdered the guy in the purple shirt.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
Something was happening there. And then Dwayne Wade sits his ass down. Nothing since.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
The headband. That was crazy.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
That makes sense. I see she's a very busy young lady. I've never talked to her before.
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The Big Suey: Give Me That Plain Stick (feat. Lucy Rohden)
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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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
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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The Hockey Show: Talk Dirty To Me About John Tavares
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.
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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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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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
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Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'll tell you. Stephen A's doing it right now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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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?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!
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.