The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: We Are Made It!!!!!!

Episode Date: June 25, 2024

People are not happy for each other on the internet, but we hope you're happy for us. Greg Cote hates to brag, but he will explain to everyone exactly why he was right about Connor McDavid and what he would say if he ran into Papa McDavid. Roy checks in from The Elbo Room as the Panthers are presently pouring beer onto fans and bringing the Stanley Cup into the literal ocean, but Roy will not get in the water himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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LeBittard and all those dorks are happy. I believe that it is something that the rest of North America feels whenever someone other than your fan base is celebrating anything. The internet is a wildly divided place. I don't believe that people are happy for each other on the internet and I believe that more people would be listening to this show by double today if the Panthers had lost that that would attract more people in today's North America than happiness oddly the only people that were happy for Florida Panther fans were Tampa Bay Lightning fans and their organization I don't believe that the fans of Tampa Bay were actually happy for Florida Panther fans were Tampa Bay Lightning fans. And their organization. I don't believe that the fans of Tampa Bay were actually happy for Florida.

That is simply the organization of Tampa doing the right thing, trying to be magnanimous. I don't believe there is anybody in hockey today, anywhere outside of a 50 mile radius of here that's happy for the sport of hockey today because of what happened last night You know what we say to those people? It is annoying to Sound like you are gloating Chris Cody after wanting to throw up for 12 straight hours just shouting Obnoxiously into his camera how great he is and how he believed all along how it was never in doubt

how great he is and how he believed all along, how it was never in doubt, how he was the only true supporter of everything that the Panthers were this season. And the only reason that he couldn't take more credit is because he was second place in his own family on being able to take credit for why it is that the Panthers won. What a series for Greg.

Yeah, you know, I hate to brag you know that But did your call I didn't read your column after the game apologies Did you hit him with the the con smith? No, I said you were gonna I made a fleeting reference to it, but that was not the emphasis of the column I'm gonna come back with a column today That'll be online later today about the whole past couple of weeks in the McDavid Draw you about yeah About the whole past couple of weeks in the McDavid

Draw about you about yeah A little more I think your original column should be your last word on the topic. That's it. Like that's it You don't to say anything more you won your column should be I was right. Yes. Yeah. Well, you know that maybe essentially not Just that but that may be essentially what I write today But the column I wrote last night had to be a celebration of this epic achievement. You were not right. Oh yeah, I was. No, he's right. Yeah.

I mean, read more about it later today. You were wrong and you get, you're the best kind of right, which is you're wrong. No, I disagree. I'm familiar. Like McDavid just did something that's only happened five times prior in the history of the National Hockey League He was terrible five out of seven games. I don't want to hear about it. He won the Con Smythe on a losing team

Yeah, I know. Terrible is a stretch. NHL is trying to make him a thing. And only the second time that a skater Not a goalie won the Con Smythe on a losing team. Yeah, Bob should have won it Let me tell you what should have happened. McDavid missed an opportunity. He squandered an opportunity after the game He squandered many during the game and during the series, but he squandered one afterwards you accept the cons Smythe you skate it over to Bob you hand it to him. Yeah, that's what you do That's what you do that would have been classic Thank you, Greg What if if you were if you were in front of, because we know that Conor

McDavid's father, not a fan of the Greg Cody column, what would you say to him if he were in front of you now? What would he ask me? I mean, I'm not gonna blow it. No, no, no, you see him. You're face to face. Like he was here. Do you say I didn't mean any disrespect or do you say I was right? What do you say? I would say dad what I said originally I stand for which is your son is top tier in expectations in hype top tier top tier of almost all time with a possible exception of Gretzky he hasn't lived up because he hasn't won a Stanley Cup his stats are great hasn't lived up to what hasn't lived up because he hasn't won a Stanley Cup. His stats are great. Hasn't lived up to what?

Hasn't lived up to those lofty expectations and high. He has to, he just finished his ninth season, he has to win a Stanley Cup. And I thought this postseason was a perfect mirror on his career, which is the stats are great, the numbers are great, particularly the assists, but what's missing? What's missing from this?

I'm not 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 that they voted on that person by definition can't be overrated No, I can't it's not true like they didn't win the cup. No, it can't. That's not true. Like they didn't win the cup, but the voters just said he did everything humanly possible to win that cup. They said he's the best player in hockey.

They said he's the best player in hockey. They voted that nobody did more to help their team win a cup. They made that decision after game five because he did nothing game six and seven. Right, nothing at all. He disappeared in the last game. Well said.

But. At least he didn't say it right into his hand while rubbing his face what you said that i'm awful what you should be saying is who did the most to help his team when thank you stanley cut that's not the award and i'm not the award but but i i was saying earlier in the other room there should be a any chill finals daily cup final award but but I was saying earlier in the other room there should be a NHL

final Stanley Cup final MVP okay there should be both consmite this they should listen to you they should in Greg's defense Charles Barkley agreed with him last night on the broadcast people thank you I'll tell you he's doing it right now going into the third period Subban and Messier were at Sub super especially adamant that that it should be Bobrovsky I was stunned adamant that it should be Bobrovsky. Hmm. Yeah. No, that's true. Pk said that he gave himself a little bit of wiggle room He said if he said if Connor wins it, I won't be that upset, but it should be someone from a winning team Yeah, I think so too was Pk were in a bathrobe when he said it or no

Oh, I'm just curious again You you cannot be right when the voters who have a winners bias choose the loser to give the trophy to on here's your mere value, an independent measurement of your value. We think you're the best even though you're the loser and we have a winners bias. You can't be a lot more wrong than that while still claiming to be right. His talent jumps off the screen. You can tell he's the best player in hockey. That's not what Greg is saying. He's not even debating that. He's saying, if you're going to be that great, you need to validate all of it with a Stanley Cup.

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. It's, it's enhanced for me. Yeah. He, I only, I only think he's better. I think it's adds to the aura. It is not surprising that Stugats would take the position. It is one of the few consistent ones that he has had. You are not validated in his eyes until you win a championship, and even if you do, as Kevin Durant, he will not validate you in his eyes unless you win the

championship the way that he wishes for you to win the championship. Stay in Edmonton. So it's not surprising that Stu Gotts would side with Cody, also not surprising that Cody would double and triple down on what is one of the more hackneyed things that can be done anywhere in sports journalism, which is to establish a rating that cannot be reached by any other Raiders, where you're putting the rating where it is that you want and all the other Raiders are wrong because there's no way to actually measure the rating.

That's absolutely not true. It could have been reached last night. What you just said is complete bullshit If Edmonton wins two to one last night, I'm standing right here going he's properly rated Okay, he has caught up If they don't hit the post and if Reinhardt doesn't score a soft goal then you're wrong What if Kulikov doesn't fall into the net defending the second goal? Things that don't have anything to do with McDavid.

McDavid was not on the ice when one of those things happened. Welcome to sports. We live by the bottom line. The puck did hit the pipe and didn't go in. Skinner did not stop the very equal. That's because McDavid's overrated. Greg is saying they just had to win the game it gave it didn't have to do anything about the play i mean greg is actually been pretty consistent about this and hasn't

deviated from it so i i get his point and obvious the way that we cover sports in this country is yet greg greg gets to be right tonight i will say though in all of this you mentioned kevin durant who many people blame russell westbrook early on in his career for his failings If Connor 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 right? He did not show up this He's worthy of criticism right Greg if you if you're still sticking to

McDavid is overrated, they didn't win, he didn't show up in the last two games, doesn't that take away from the Panthers? No, because the Panthers defended him. Because Barkov. But that's the reason why it happened. Not because McDavid's overrated, because the Panthers did their thing.

Yes, I'm not taking anything away from the Panthers. They richly deserved it. And my co-mvp Along with Bob would be bark off who proved for everyone that he's the two times You're giving it to two guys instead of me gave you guys What about Reinhardt Stanley Cup winning goal No, no He had a disappointing final until last night in my opinion.

Game winner. If you're the greatest of all time, the Panthers can't shut you down. That's Greg's point. And they did, so he's not the greatest of all time. This was Connor McDavid's first final. This was his chance before the world, before North America at least, to prove that all of the hype is real, this is how good I am. I can lift a team that isn't quite as good as Florida and I can make them Stanley Cup champions. He didn't do it, okay?

Maybe that's harsh for some people. He's a great player who in almost 10 years hasn't won a Stanley Cup, overrated, hasn't lived up to the hype. You know, the hype is way up here, but he has not lived up until he wins a Stanley Cup. I just love the visual of Greg Cody telling Conor McDavid's father to his face his son is overrated. He knows.

Does he? Dad knows? You, you, Mr. McDavid knows? That's why it hurts, Dan. You only get offended by things if they have a slight tinge of truth to them. And when he hears it, he's like, ooh, you know what? What you do is you go up to Mr. McDave,

you say, you raised a good boy, not good enough. Well, what's he gonna do with the next 10 some odd years of his career? Let's see. Let's see. Is he gonna win a Stanley Cup? Pucks in his court, as they say. Ovechkin played in the same conference

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This is a different team. You're a Panther group chat though. No, I think, no, but dude, you're so wrong on that. We've been terrified of this team forever and I think there's a different energy where the Panthers, they want the lightning. StuGuts. I want t-shirts made for this Panther run,

what could be this Panther run. Our Panther group chat, we're not afraid of the lightning. That's a tagline for World R3. This is the Dunn-Levatar Show with the StuGuts. ["The Dun Bangs"] Stu Gatz and I are laughing at the same thing together, which is just degree of difficulty on how it is hard to be as good as Conor McDavid.

Like whatever it takes of all the world's skaters and people who do things Professionally for money and fight for money how hard it is to be McDavid and for Greg Cody To wander over with the criticism. That's just lazy at his age that he's overrated And he can't even get through it without coughing the criticism he can't get through his criticism with his breath functioning properly to criticize one of the greatest athletes any of us have ever seen in a sport is just so sports media it's just in general the entire sports media the capitalistic system, whereas I can't breathe but I'm going to take money and attention off your greatness by diminishing you even

though my criticism can't come out without a cough. But you're a top one percenter, Greg. You are essentially the Connor McDavid of local columnists. You can actually say these things. Let me tell you what's ridiculous about what Dan just said, okay? Lebatard referred to my opinion as lazy, okay? A lazy opinion is one that everybody else has.

Nobody else has this opinion. This was bold. He went out on a limb. He went out on a limb. He went out on a limb. It's the opposite of a lazy opinion. A brave opinion, really. Take it back!

It's the coughing now. Take it back, Jack! It's not a lazy opinion. Trust me. Thank you for your bravery. It's just because I cough. Talk about ageism. I have asthma and he's making fun of the fact that I cough. I think that's sicknessism. Do you still have your counsel? It's unhealthism. And for real asthma and he's making I think that sickness is a nut

Do you still have your counsel? unhealthism yes Have you responded yet? I have your attorney respond. I want to be clear about a thing when I say it's a lazy take If I were to somehow not be able in any form to explain to aliens three hundred years from now what sports radio was added to dumbest the argument in opinion i would put in there is someone is overrated or underrated it i don't know what else i put in there to rival but maybe somebody should be fired. Somebody should not have their job anymore. That's why I say it's a lazy opinion.

Did he choke is a good one. Did he choke? That's good. He did. I've seen that on the lower third already. So what are we supposed to do, just give him the Stanley Cup because he had a good half playoff run

and not celebrate the Panthers? I don't understand. He's so great, so let's just give him the Stanley Cup. No, not the Stanley Cup. Why play the games? He's's so great, so let's just give him the Stanley Cup. No, not the Stanley Cup! Why play the games? He's one of the best all time. Just give him the trophy, he's the champion. All you have to do is not say Greg Cody is right.

You don't have to give him anything. But he was right. It was right. You're literally trying to put a billboard saying that. You guys are changing Greg's argument. You are trying to do that. You are saying he is right. That's because, again, it's why it's the joke I want to make.

It's specifically the reason that this is the joke I want to make because he's the most maximum wrong and gets to be right. It's amazing. It's the stupidity of this medium. In all seriousness, that billboard's going to go up in Edmonton and someone's going to burn it down. Sure, yeah.

They are going to vandalize that. No, no, no. They're going to burn it down. They are gonna vandalize. Yeah, no, no They're gonna burn it down. Yeah, Canada typically handles it that way Canadians are too nice to vandalize Did you watch Vancouver after they lost of the Bruins? Yeah, that's true, but that's in the East Go sit in the penalty box. I was thinking of Montreal. It's east of Asia. That's east. I just got in here. Go sit in the penalty box. Just, you can't, that's east, was your argument? It depends where your starting point is. East of the Pacific Ocean. Yeah.

I was right, by the way. I don't know if you've heard that. You were. What we didn't get right, and I don't know what you guys can get for me in terms of information on this, because I would like to continue to cover this throughout the show today. I thought we were gonna have billboards up already.

I was dealing with this late on midnight last night, and then I'm told, oh, our dimensions are wrong. Where are we on getting billboards up that I wanted up a week ago? This is not that hard! Like, what is the latest on why we can't get these things up in Edmonton why are the dimensions wrong and when is this going up is it going up before the end of the show are we gonna have a payoff

before I'm in Africa as you have an update for him yeah I feel like Dan was looking at me for a lot of that? Dimensions. I just, I don't understand. Not on this assignment. Why we're so incompetent as a group. What does a billboard say? Yeah. Well, I think that should be a surprise. Oh, well then how do we know when it goes up?

It's an unveiling. Well, you'll know. All right. Okay. I just got word that we are fingers crossed that it goes up today. There you go. That'd be good timing. Fingers crossed.

I don't believe that Metal Arc has fingers. I will not believe it until I've seen them crossed. I will not believe that Metal Arc is a finger, an operation that has fingers. It comes complete with fingers. You guys wanna hear Roy drunk again? Yeah, sure. All right, we have made it from Amber and Becker,

ain't it? To the interview. Let me hear Charles Barkley, let me hear Charles Barkley not drunk, but you would understand if throughout South Florida, this was how people were describing what they believe should have been the winner of the Con Smythe trophy. Sir J. Bababka.

All right, we have made it from Amber and Beckerana to the infield, which is a couple bucks down. He can't handle his liquor. He can't handle his liquor. It's worth, it's way worse just audio, All right, we have made it from Amerenbeck Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down. He can't handle his liquor. It's worth, it's way worse just audio because you could really fixate on the slur. All right, we have made it from Amerenbeck Arena to the infield, which is a couple blocks down. We are, that should be the, that's the billboard, right? We are made it. All right, we have made it from Amerenbeck it to the infield, which is a couple blocks down.

We waited 30 years to say we are made it. That billboard is going to be awesome! We are made it! How did we feel about the cheering in the press box last night? I love it. It was funny. What do you mean? Very professional. That's an auxiliary press box though.

He was in actual seats. He wasn't in the real press box. So that's different? I think it's okay. Zaslow allows it. It was unusually emotional for Roy. I don't think any of us have ever seen him that happy. There are times in the drink where he gets a little exuberant and gets emotional, but I have not seen him as obviously happy as he was and

visually. The comedy team of Roy's Charisma with David Dwork, the comedy team. Stu got muttered under his breath during one of the breaks here. That guy looks like a murderer. He does. Which one? I mean, if there was a murdering spree throughout South Florida, Dwork's name, his face came up on the television. Would you be surprised? He let out a squeal when the Panthers won

that I've never heard before. Because he's like super serious professional hockey broad. Hockey News, that's David Dwork. Now, when that clock hit double zero. It was interesting to to hear and watch the the objectivity fall away from both a drunk Roy and a an intoxicated by the feeling David Dwork scared around that guy he does look a little more to shave every now and again a little murderous. Throwing a shave every now and again.

A little murderous, yes, he does. Roy says he was happy that he could now shave his playoff beard, which just grew in his playoff patches. Did not, little small tiny pieces of real estate. He was growing a playoff beard? He says he was, yes, and he's happy that he can shave it. Is he now gone? Has he taken stunt Danny and headed toward the elbow room to see if we can get Kachuk and some and

and Barkoff and whoever else is this is a perfect time my god those guys haven't slept Fort Lauderdale right now has to feel and and sound lovely has to be sunny and warm and they're gonna be surrounded by at least 14 or 15 people out there once people find out they're at the elbow room. There aren't that many there right now. Those people are just there. Yeah those are those are just people who would otherwise be at the elbow room which are not people you want to be around on a Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. if they're already at the elbow room. I don't think that's company anyone wants to be keeping.

Sasso, did you sleep at all last night? Yeah, but I obviously went to sleep late and I had a really hard time falling asleep. Like if we lost, no chance I would have fallen asleep. It had been really, really rough. But yeah, I laid in bed for a while before I was able to fall asleep. I'm so jacked up.

I'm wearing the same exact clothes I wore to the game. I was at the arena till three, 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. I got home at three o'clock and watched the end of the game because I had recorded it, just replayed it. Got to watch the final like I do.

I think being there is great, but I do think there are things you miss. Yeah, you miss a lot of the experience. Now you watch the puck up against the boards for two minutes. Oh, McDonough. I heard they're tired. Look how gassed they are. It was a cool call. Yeah. Can I say something about McDonough too? Real quick. He was getting a lot of criticism because he was really sick throughout the series. He was excellent last night. I really enjoyed the final call. I think he's great in general that sports tough it moves so fast I don't think people know how hard it is to do that

He was really upset about the criticism throughout the series I thought he was excellent, and I just don't know how anybody does that sport well I'm telling you when I watch and this is not new I mean this has been some hockey's gotten a ton better on television but it's been a plague for a while how quickly the sport moves the announcers always know before I do that the goal has been scored they always get and it's the horn and some of the help that they have inside the arena but I find very difficult listening to people try to do that sport because the fourth line's got a bunch of names that are tough to pronounce and we're just skittering

past them real quick because we got to get to the action on the other side of the ice. 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. Ferraro is on the ice. And it's them too. They don't have nonverbal communication. Like they have to have that chemistry down.

And they never get the numbers wrong either. Like in basketball, you can memorize seven or eight guys on each team. You're going to know everybody's number everybody plays on the hockey but you got to know all 18 guys that are all over the ice for both teams they never get it wrong let's play for people the sound of McDonough at the end of that game because I did think it was a good call and I did think he was right to identify how tired the Oilers obviously looked. Twenty seconds to go. One last gas for Edmonton.

Bouchard's pass didn't click with Dry-Cytl. Twelve seconds to go. Florida trying to end it up against the wall, which would be fitting. Three seconds to go! The Florida Panthers have won the Stanley Cup! One of the things, Dugats, that I thought was interesting about that, as the puck was in the corner, and there were two Oilers, McDavid was one of them, skating in circles in front of Bobrovsky by themselves, and it was just like, yeah, that's not coming out

of there. We're not, that's going to stay in there. But that's where they have to be. If it did, oh boy. No, I know, but there were five Panthers in the corner with the puck and it wasn't going to come out of there. That's where it was going to stay. It's where Edmonton's season was gonna die.

But McDavid was just skating in circles, exhausted in front of Bobrovsky. Yeah, to be the outlet. That's our Philly special. You knew that once it went to the boards with 12 seconds left, that was it. They were Stanley Cup champions. It was the perfect ending.

How about you get the puck? I mean, best player in the world. There you go. Instead of skating around the net, how about you go get the puck? go get someone to bring it to you? That's a really unfortunate take by you guys. Greg, can you give us your honest, because you left here yesterday, I want your honest appraisal of what the last week has been like for you. If you've seen, you were, you told me leaving here yesterday, Dan, I'm sorry, I'm just generally more emotional

about everything these days than I usually am, but you sent us an enough is enough email over the weekend and clearly the battering that you were taking seemed from where I was standing like it was a little bit scary and uncomfortable and I felt like you were hiding behind a bunch of bravado. I feel like you were scared that that was going to result in Panther fans blaming you for the loss for eternity. Well, had they. This is a new and improved down-labor show with the Stugarts gambled on by DraftKings. Guys, UFC 303 is here and there are some incredible fights.

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He called them a bunch of peas and bees. He did the thing again. Called them a bunch of peas and bees and then and then boom five unanswered you win the division This is the Don Lebathor show with the StuGards Roy has arrived very quickly at the elbow room. I didn't think he could get there that quickly. It's not particularly close It seems like the crowd has filled out there a little bit now that people are hearing That the Stanley Cup is there and the Panthers are there Roy what can you what can you tell us from the scene what what do you have for us

in terms of vibes well the Stanley Cup is right up there behind the guy in the white shirt right there it's on the table they poured beer out of the Stanley Cup down to down below to fans. It is packed. Media cannot go into the building now. That is over. It's not friends and family. So a lot of fans are outside and friends and family are inside. All right. So friends and family. It's a private gathering. We're getting there too late.

Greg, we had something set up. We were trying to get everyone in position and you were gonna go to McDonald's and I think you were gonna order a McOver-rated. Yeah, I was gonna order a McOver-rated chicken sandwich. Right. And if they didn't have that, I would've said, oh, you're all out, I'll have a Barbarowski burger

with some Sasha sauce. Okay, it's too bad we missed out on that, that the technology didn't work so that we could actually do that at the McDonald's You had a whole thing worked out. Yeah, and then I was gonna order a frosty just because I was smoke I was it was that's Wendy's though. It's a long place We were at Wendy's waiting to order. Okay, I got a McDonald's Yeah, we weren't no the whole mick part. Yes, I thought that were at a McDonald's. No, we weren't. No. The whole Mc part. Yes. I thought that's the only do it at McDonald's. All I can tell you is that we were at Wendy's to no avail. Okay, none of it worked and it's not surprising that it didn't work.

We'll come out to Roy in a second and see if he could get any closer to what's happening over there. He seems to be right next to Barkov's golf cart. You have to work your way into that thing. You do. If you're Roy, you have to. Perhaps I should have went with him,. You have to work your way into that thing. You do. If you're Roy, you have to. Perhaps I should have went with him, but you have to work your way into that. You have to be friends and family. Roy, get in there. I can't get in there. What?

You're walking away from the Stanley Cup right now, Roy. You're walking away. No, I'm not. The Stanley Cup is going to the ocean. Oh, you're following? It's being carried by Sam Bennett, I believe. OK. Go touch it. All right. Get close to it. Yeah, you've got to get over there, Roy. Yeah, get us touch it. Get close to it. Yeah, you gotta get over there, Roy.

Get us this thing. Jogging down, yeah. Roy, get over there. I'm in sand right now. It's an Android camera, geez. Oh, you're gonna kiss my ass with that Android camera coming. Tackle Bennett, make some news.

All right, let's- This doesn't seem safe. The sailing cup is in the ocean. All right. So go in the ocean. Get us a shot, Roy. I am not going in the ocean. Get us a shot, Roy. Roy, cut the ocean. It is a shot. I'm not going in the ocean It's a shot Jeans and a

Goddamn shot Little lower lower lower lower lower lower your camera the camera lower your camera Lower lower lower lower lower lower your camera the camera Ship ahoy get in there right what what chips ahoy is right what? Championships chips ahoy. What you say that's what you say And it's a boat thing too with the ocean chips ahoy, yeah, check out this hockey town, huh? What were you saying? Chips ahoy ships ahoy Something differently than what he's saying he's not saying

ahoy He's saying for some reason ships ahoy champion ships. You think the keeper of the cup gets nervous? Hell yeah You think the keeper of the cup gets nervous? Hell yeah. Of course. It's his job. Lord Stanley was just fully submerged in the Atlantic Ocean. I would love it if a shark ate the cup. And believe me, a shark could.

Yeah, that's a good question for McGill. That is a good question. It is a great question. Is he on today? An adult shark could take a bite out of the cup that would render it useless. All right, we'll ask McGill that. I don't think it's a good question for McGill.

It's a fair question today, though. There are no bad questions, only bad answers. That's right. You know what? On a day like today when you're a champion, you can tell anyone. The ship's ahoy, and it makes sense. The San Jose Sharks, they bit a hockey stick

and went right through that. Ships ahoy makes no sense. Championship. Chips ahoy. Chips ahoy. That's what the kids call championship. Chips. We're going sense. Championship. Chips Ahoy. Chips Ahoy. That's what the kids call championships. Chips. We're going for the ship.

Roy, just tell everyone for the ship. Tell everyone your media, Roy, and that you need to get through. Yeah. You are going for chips. That's the problem. We do have someone on the scene. Roy, you're right there.

Touch it. Roy, can you describe what you're seeing right now? Was the cup indeed submerged for a brief moment in time? Yeah, that's Stanley Cup is what it is. It was in the ocean. Can you describe what you're seeing right now? Was the cup indeed submerged for a brief moment in time? Yeah, that's Stanley Kupfers what. It is, it was in the ocean, it was submerged. I believe Aaron Egglatt actually did the backstroke with. Roy, your terrible microphone is exceeded

only by your terrible camera work. Thank you. I can leave now, Dan, if you want. Yes, please, that's enough. 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. I follow that cup. I just get better at the camera work and get better at the chasing.

I have a cell phone. I have a professional camera. I'm sorry. You're doing great, man. No one else is, no one else is doing this stuff. Like we don't, we don't, we don't congratulate ourselves enough when we actually get stuff to work. This is stuff working? OK. 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. It is an achievement, just like going to Wendy's and trying to order an overrated McDavid. Roy Dillaman.

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 submerged. That is exclusive video, the Dan LeBattard Show. That is great stuff. More than six people too. He did get there very quickly.

Something that happened during the break that I want to share with you all because I wrote down what Greg Cody said because I want everyone to hear what he was saying to me. Write that down. Fun. I've been in the elbow room believe me oh yeah talking to the mic yeah yes here I am who needs me what you're gonna go to Buffalo back to hockey back to you at the elbow room it It's a, it's a real tourist spot. Normally just tourists. Yeah. Been there forever.

Are you winded from your last couple of sentences of trying to talk? I could run a hundred meter dash right now and beat half of you. Yeah, no, I certainly could. Yeah. You would beat no one here in a foot race. Not a single person.

You never know. No, I do know. I'm very well aware a foot race not a single person ever know no, I do know I'm very well aware that there's not a single person here that you're in the next room There's there's not a single person that you can see right now who you would beat in a foot race Who won me me maximum 100 meters? What I wanted to get to that actually happened with Greg Cody during the break is that Stu Gotz and I were laughing at how funny visually his private personal parade looked

when they panned out from it, and it was just clearly just one car and no one around him. And he was acting, your father was acting for one of the rare times in his life, he was acting well. It seemed like he was a beauty queen in a pageant, waving at people. He's got that rolled down there, accepting praise. Pretending that he was in a parade.

And this is what he actually said. I'm not making this up. It was not really under his breath, but it was just for me. But your father and I talk during the breaks in a way that he doesn't totally know whether I'm paying attention or not cuz I'm writing stuff down but he keeps talking so I just wrote down what it is that he was saying he didn't know I was writing it down he said you could cast me in a major film I'd be fine I'd be fine. I'd be good at a recurring role. Maybe not the star or second person, but I could be the third person in a major film. Yeah, the guy who gets

credit in the in the scroll, but not major credit. You know, my name is a third of the size of Dustin Hoffman or the actor of the day. Right. You know, my name is a third of the size of Dustin Hoffman, or the actor of the day. Right. You know, Gyllenhaal, that kind of thing. But a third actor. Yeah, you know, I mean, I've been an extra in a major motion picture, I've done that.

Is that so? Yeah. Really? Absence of Malice, yeah, early 80s with Sally Field. Wow. Yeah, that was a good film. Classic. What'd you do, what was your? I played a newspaper reporter. Classic. What'd you do? What was your?

I played a newspaper reporter. And how'd you do it? I am seen sitting on a desk with a newspaper, reading an open newspaper, but you can see my face on camera. Greg, please speak into the microphone. I know you can master a major film, but for 20 years you haven't been able to master

just where you're supposed to speak. Well, the voice carries. Yeah. Like that song, voices carry. Right. We got video here of Kachuk and Bennett just pouring beer on this guy. A wise man once said, we are made it.

Just drenching this guy. That's great. Are we gonna go back out to Roy? I saw him again, just sort of hovering. That's the camera angle I want. Yeah, landscape. Him totally sideways. Yes. Roy, what other updates can you give us about everything that's

happening sideways at the Elbow Room? This is, we should celebrate when Metal Arch Media does things right, the way that they're doing this right now. The Static Cup is back in position right now at the position right now. I believe that is Alexander Balkov right there next to it as he's walking in. They are now officially taking photos with the cup and they are playing the Floater Panthers' Gold Song right now. The elbow room has never quite been this vibrant and lovely and colorful. It is usually just a bunch of concrete and cocaine. Yeah, just white. That's usually what's there. But right now, because I can't

explain to you how bad those bathrooms are and how much sort of cinder block feel it has as charisma from its interior decorator. So Greg, you're saying you couldn't be Maverick, you couldn't be Goose, but perhaps you could be Ice from Top Gun? Yeah, I don't speak that language, but I'm gonna say. He's the third guy, the third star in that movie. Iceman, Iceman. I think, honestly, at this age, I'm a character actor.

Okay, I'm the guy you cast as the creepy neighbor. You know, maybe the creepy neighbor. Radke type. Yeah, maybe the accountant in the office who's nearing retirement as an embezzling on the side. You know, that type thing. Can we get back to what we were talking about before, which was your honest feelings

before you were cut off by the break break in terms of how scared you actually were about being blamed internally for costing the Panthers the Stanley Cup. Right that would have been blame sown by this show quite frankly. Just because you said it here Greg and all we did here was shine a light on the thing you said and wrote. I know, but you had Zaslow on here saying that if the Panthers lose this series, everybody's going to blame you. And Mike Ryan has said something similar. That is what foments the atmosphere for potential harm to me if the Panthers had lost. Luckily they didn't.

In terms of my reputation, I don't give a crap whether people hear my name and they think, oh, that's the idiot who wrote Marino should be traded and McDavid is overrated. That's fine. That's fine. That's perfectly fine. You were scared, though. You seemed emotional and you seemed like you were pinballing emotionally all over the place. I don't find you to generally be someone who is introspective about his emotions, so you might have some lash out because I don't find you to be somebody who's totally comfortable with exactly what he's feeling emotionally at the moment. It tends to leak out in all sorts of other places.

And so I thought what was happening this weekend with you hitting us with enough is enough and I'm tired of it, was at least in part because we're annoying, but also because you were under it. I was never scared. No, I was never scared. I never felt in physical harm. I was joking last night that had the Panthers lost game seven I would have needed a bodyguard that walk right you weren't joking you

You said during a break here yesterday. Are you concerned about liability? I might get hurt after the game Yeah, that's true had that happened, but but I wasn't fearful that it was actually gonna happen. That was a big what-if But yeah, the worst case scenario happens and three disgruntled Panthers fans, you know, Zaslow, Mike and one other guy, beat me up after, as I'm leaving last night's game after a heartbreaking loss. And I come out.

That would have been great. Yeah, and I come out looking worse than I did a few weeks ago in that photo. 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. I was

shining a light on what it is that you had said and done. Our show was shining a light on what it is that you said and did. But you said it and did it. Right. Oh, and as all of you will attest, I have never done anything but double down on my opinion. I've been unwavering in my opinion, and I continue to believe what I wrote. And I think to a large degree, the result did vindicate me. The thing that I got mad about was A, the invasion of privacy photo of me in a hospital bed and B, using that photo of a naked guy on Bourbon Street and saying flat out that it was me when obviously it wasn't.

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