The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The 3-Day Household Name (feat. Sid Seixeiro)

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

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This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. So I continue to see all kinds of videos coming from 11 last night with, obviously, the U.S. men's team is excited, and they are celebrating the gold medal. And we have locals down here that are all posted videos, having a great time. Mike Ryan, what time did you get home last night from 11? I was in bed at 1 a.m. because, as you know, this is a.m. a hockey capital of the world. And we've had so many celebrations at 11 celebrating all of these championships.

The novelty has worn off just a little bit. Yeah. Let's bring aboard Sid Seshero, host of the Sid Sasharo show powered by Sick Media. You can watch the show live Monday through Friday at noon live on YouTube. Listen to the show wherever you get your podcast. Sid, who do you think right now is the face of insufferable U.S. hockey fandom? Well, right now you.

and right now this show because you're the one in front of me. Good to see everyone. You guys are the ones. Mike, were you seriously there last night? You were there? Yes, I was. I was there too.

Yes. Oh, me, everyone else was there? No. Any other invites get thrown out? Greg didn't make it. They don't let all people in. No. No, I'm glad I'm talking to all eight hockey fans in South Florida.

I'm really appreciate the opportunity. I really appreciate the opportunity. No. And by the way, congratulations. You filled a nightclub in Miami. Good job, guys. Good for you. Good for you.

Hockey's alive and well. Did you go to the elbow room where five people didn't notice gold medals walk in last night? Did that happen to Miami too? Did that take place? No, it's great. I love where hockey lives,

where hockey lives in Miami and in the Miami area. God bless all of you. Miami-Dade County. Really appreciate it. Yeah, a pillar. Miami-Dade County of hockey fandom. So I'm familiar with your work here, and I find it even more funny because it's actually true. We don't care that much, and it must kill you that we don't care that much.

I actually think it's way funnier this way. It is for you, you guys should be laughing constantly at this. We are. It is ripping our guts out of our chest and laying them bare on the table. Yeah, loving it. This is the worst thing ever. this is like if this is like if like if latvia beat you guys in olympic basketball honestly what what headspace would you be at it just and it's not just this it's the panthers thing

i'm here in the toronto area it's all the things i heard erin ekblad on a radio show here i'm not making this up it was during the summer he was golfing and he told the guys in the interview they do they took the cup into the elbow room and no one noticed it was there no one And we are dying up here watching by the tens of millions trying to get this gold medal, trying to beat the Panthers once. And you guys got your feet up, just enjoying this for like eight seconds. You move on and talk about the kid from Kansas who hates basketball, doesn't want to play. I know how you guys operate. That's exactly what's going to happen on this show.

And we're dying. We need psychiatric help. And you guys like, good party at the club last night. But don't you feel good for Austin Matthews? he's a winner now, Sid. He's a winner. Good for you. Good for you.

Sid, I, he was carried by three guys. Connor Halibuck. If he didn't change everyone's diaper in that gold medal game, you would have lost. All right. And then pat it everyone in the way out. The Quinn, the Hughes brothers, great games. That was a shot total two to one in our favor. If Crosby's not heard, you guys are done.

That's definitely right, Sid. I have to interrupt you about Crosby. Conjecture. No, I disagree. Absolutely. If 87 is out there, they win the gold medal. I don't know if you're making yourself feel better with that, Sid. I like Sidney Crosby as a matter of fact. Do you think the pushback I've gotten on if Sidney Crosby had played, Mike Ryan has said, oh, who cares? He's their fifth best player. If Cooper had a choice of who he had out on the ice, I think it goes, Kale McCar won, Sidney Crosby, too, and he goes from there.

How say you? Their fifth best player. Yeah. Sid. Are you kidding me? I'm a hockey expert. He is our foundation. I'm a hockey expert, and I have my finger all over the pulse of this league.

I just started paying attention to hockey eight years ago. I'm from a swamp. But Celebrini, McDavid, McDonnell, McCar, actively right now. Not who he'd won on the team, though. He's the fifth best player. If you want to look at age, if you want to make this about ageism, if you want to look at the young bucks coming up, maybe you're right. But here's what Crosby would have done, which would have sunk your whole operation. In that moment where panic started to set in and Connor Hallibuck makes the save of his life on Taves, people started to panic wearing red.

I've rarely seen it. They started to panic. You saw it in the overtime. Who wouldn't have panicked? Who would have been steady? Who would have been our conquest? great foundation as we tried to build yet another hockey conquest would have been 87 and he wasn't out there he studies the ship he's the vet he is the conscience he is the calming influence he is better

than any american player to ever live and he wasn't out there and if he was out there we would have won i hate excuses but i'll make it in this case and he's better than mc jesus too i mean let's not get crazy but jesus is pretty good but i believe who's the winner though that i think we park our cars in the garage here, Sid, who's the winner? We're not talking about who's got more skill, ultimately. It's who you want in big spots. And it's Sidney Crosby, not Connor McDavid, clearly. Right. Now, I don't like this McDavid discourse because the kid's a hell of a player. He's great, obviously. Have you met Craig? Say hello to Craig. Sit, say hello to Greg. There's only few things Canadians hate more than Greg Cody. A few things after that McDavid

incident. And McDavid at 29, two-strike cup finals, been to a gold medal game. I'm very uncomfortable ripping this kid. I'm very, Greg's cool with it. I'm very uncomfortable. Okay, Sid, let me mention it. First of all, my last name is pronounced Cote, because I'm French-Canadian. Do you agree?

And you can speak for all of Canada on this. You can speak for all of Canada. Are you finally coming to grips with the idea that Connor McDavid is McOver rated? And I shouldn't even need to explain it, but whenever he's on the big... Sid is fuming right now. Whenever he's on the biggest stages, his excellence is not enough.

He's just not been able to lift his country to where it needs to be. Great career, great stats, overrated. Two things. Greg, don't touch the goatee. It looks fantastic. Second. Disarming me. Second.

That's the job. You look 18 years younger. You look fantastic. Thank you. Second. McDavid, five scoring titles for McDavid. He's 29. That's great.

Five scoring titles. Three, they're the best, especially when they agree with me. Three MVPs, okay? Two straight Stanley. He won it. Do you know how hardest when a Kahn-Smith Award when your team loses that cup final? It has rarely happened in my lifetime, like J.S. Shigerger and McDavid. That's about it.

Ronnie Hector. Two Titans of the game. We can all agree. Two Titans. And Ronnie Hextall in 87. Anytime you can be in G.S. Shigerger's company. One of the greats. One of the greats, Juan Hextall, one of the best finals ever played, Philly and Edmontton.

But listen, he's 29. He's better than any American player to ever live, to ever live. And I'm not going to sit here and say he's a choke job artist because he happened to be a part of another losing team. Canada outran the states out of the rink on Sunday. You know it. Hallibuck stood on his head. But Matthew could chuck out there. Brady could chuck out there.

even mom Austin matthews pulled up on a shot in front of the neck because he was scared he was jumping at his own shadow you got your gold medal congratulations congratulations plural frauds USA hockey are frauds for that performance and you know exactly what I mean yes mike Ryan I said it frauds all of them this great hockey nation with illustrious history you dare side swipe us we are the gold medal winner just because you got more shots and one of those shots didn't actually hit the frame. Thank you very much, Nathan McKinnon. Just because the U.S. executed. You played right into their game plan.

Absorb the pressure. Be efficient with your chances. That was the game plan. That's what it was. It was roper dope. And Muhammad Ali is considered the greatest. Yes, Ali. Yes, Ali.

Of course. Of course, Vincent Trudecatch. Now, Muhammad Ali, because of the roper dope. Amazing. By the way, what a great hockey nation. all of one camera there to meet the gold medalist at the Miami airport yesterday. What a media frenzied out. Why do you need multiple cameras?

Levine Kava was there? I saw a boom mic and one camera. Look out guys. Matthew, some guy is with his luggage out of customs. He has five gold medals behind him. He doesn't care. None of them cared. Well, congratulations.

Thank you. A hell of a moment for you. Sid, can Nathan McKinnon be the one to say, to puff his chest out and say that the better team did not win? He can. I don't, I don't, is that his exact quote? I didn't hear that exact quote. Yeah, yeah, it was basically everyone, everyone knows what was out there on the eyes. Everyone knows who the better team was. Right. Except the final score. Listen, final score is the final score. I just hope in this country, we kind of look at the team selection differently because what's happening up here is, ah, what are you going to do? Hella Buck. That bothers me. That bothers me.

That bothers me. Drew Doughty should have been on this team. Some guys showed up injured to hell with country. They wanted to play. That hurt the team. Some guys, close to you actually. It was obvious. So like I hope we have that discussion. But I don't, I still would rather have the gold medal and get outplayed than what happens Sunday. Man, that bothers me. Let's go back to Connor McJesus and the guy who's been heralded for at least a half a decade as the guy who's going to by the time he retires at worst be the one A greatest player in the history of people. I say he's tracking towards and getting real close to being the one, I mean, versus the other three major sports in North America, there is not an obvious answer to

the best player to never win a Stanley Cup. Dan Marino is sort of the guy in the NFL. Connor McJesus is going to go down as the biggest loser in NHL history. And by the way, it's especially crazy in Edmonton that Drysidal is one of the top five players in the league as well, two of the top five players. and they've never won a cup together is wild stuff. How say you? You call him the biggest loser is quite a statement.

You get what I'm going for, man. I do, but I do believe we need to pull back. Like, I think what Josh Allen and the bills didn't do the season is probably a greater travesty for that fan base than whatever just happened in Milano Cortina on Sunday. Like, I think there are a lot of example, like the chiefs were neutered this season, neutered. Like, how do you not win this year? How do you not at least get to a Super Bowl?

Like stuff like that would bother me more. Connor McDavid took a pay cut to stay in Edmonton for another two years. A pay cut. That guy's will to win cannot be ignored and cannot be disrespectful. I'm sorry. Now, if he goes another six, seven years, he's 29. If he goes another six, seven years, and I don't think he'll stay in Edmonton for the duration, and still no cup?

Oh, yes, six seven, yes. I saw the six seven. Yes. Then maybe we have a discussion that he is the greatest guy to never win a cup outside of Marcel Dion in the National Hockey League. Yes, I think we'll get there.

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His nicknames include the chosen one and McJesus. Okay? He's a great player. He scores a lot of goals. He scores a ton of assists. But it hasn't translated to making Edmonton a powerhouse in the league. They're in the final. Stugats.

What's your nickname for him? McOverrated. This is the Dan Levitar show with a Stugats. Sid, what are your thoughts in general of the United States? States as a hockey nation? Well, I think the enrollment numbers say a lot. Like, it's basically on par now with us or close. And it's been happening for 20 years.

And people in Canada have been fairly dismissive of it. And it's been to our detriment. Prices for hockey and youth level appear pretty damn expensive. And I'm assuming considering it's still kind of starting out in the States, it isn't at that level. You may get there one day. But I think at the world junior level, world junior hockey championship level, it's a big deal up here in Canada around the holidays.

I know NHL Network does a pretty good job with it. Like, it's now become a fair fight basically every year. Like, we used to own that thing. Own it. That's not happening anymore. So I do give a lot of credit at youth levels, under 18s, under 19s, considering what they're doing. Listen, Austin Matthews plays in the city. I'm in here in Toronto.

Arizona kid. And what time in my youth did I anticipate someone from Arizona being a number one overall pick in the national hockey league and winning an Olympic goal being, captaining the U.S. to a gold medal? It just, it never entered your thought process. Well, the reason why I ask. I respect what they're doing is what I'm trying to say. Because, you know, when you're coping, I saw your socials. You were quick to point out that the United States men's hockey team hadn't won a gold medal.

Dave, you know about that coping? Hadn't won a gold medal since 1980, and you were having a go at them for that. And then I realized the U.S. Canadian men went 50 years without a gold, went from 1952 to 2000. to without a gold. So I'm guessing, does history only start when Canada was allowed to have NHL players in the Olympics? Yes, yes. One thousand percent yes. And I am proud of that selfish take. Yes. Good math. I got better math. Yes, math. That's when it starts. That's when it starts. Sid, speaking of math, the fact that's been more than 30 years since a Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup, how does that rank on the angst level among Canadian?

fans. Is it frustrating at all, or are you all rationalize it by saying, ah, Canadian players, American players, they're all mixed now. It doesn't really matter, or doesn't matter. I didn't completely realize I would speak on all negative Canadian stories during the segment, but I do welcome the opportunity. Thank you. We do think about that a lot. To answer your question, yes, Mr. Cody. We think about that all the time. Cote. Because we believe Montreal Canadiens in 93 was way long ago. And Patrick Wash should have been taken over

on some other netminer in this country to win. Now, the other reason for that, I believe, is the media markets are a little tough up here, and I like it that way. There's obviously a tax situation. But listen, there have been a lot of players within the last four years that have been in a Canadian market like a Matthew Kichuk who ran away very quickly.

And I don't know if Brady Kichuk's going to stay in Nautil. I don't know what's going to happen. Quinn Hughes can get out of Vancouver fast enough. For some reason, there's a thing with certain elite level hockey players in this country, I think it's they can't take the heat in the media market and they want a nice comfortable media market where there's one camera at the morning skate every day. That's my own personal belief. But it is something we think about a lot.

We don't like it. It's not good for us. Think about this. This is a cross sports metaphor or analogy or I'm not sure what. Connor McDavid is akin to a slalom skier who flies so fast down the hill. He goes around the gates, barely even touching them. That works well in the regular season, not in big time tighter knit hockey games. Sidney Crosby is a NASCAR, driver or maybe the car himself, banging in to his foes all the way through, bringing on the contact and surviving it.

That's a better brand of hockey to play. This is an analogy? That's why McJesus has not won so far. How say you? Well, I'll say this in terms of, like, I think it was evident in the overtime on Sunday. Connor had one speed, which is I'm going on. I'm going at Hallibuck. I don't care how many bodies are in front of me here wearing USA jerseys.

I want to try and score the school. So you did like, it makes sense. The analogy makes sense with McDavid a little bit for sure. Crosby, though, what American hockey fans don't understand about Crosby is he is like the greatest Swiss army knife we've ever had. Because Pete Crosby could dance through anyone. Crosby a little older. He's still getting his points. Need something in front of the net.

You need to win something in the corner. What do you need? Greatest mucker of all. greatest mucker of all time. He is never in his career. I think, well, actually, to be accurate, twice in his career, he's gone into the corner to retrieve a puck and not come out with it. He is the greatest, as you say, Swiss Army Knife hockey player. What are we talking about second place for? What do you mean? What is this? Whoa. Whoa. Oh, we didn't even get to Lemieux over Gretzky.

Stop doing sports radio, Dave. I got a question for Sid. Sid, we had a very heated debate over here because Some people, I'm not going to name names, but some people say they value a Stanley Cup for their local team that they root for over a gold medal for their nation. You can mention to me. I'm proud of it. Sid, what is your stance on that? I think if you asked most Canadians privately, they would take a cup any day or the week. Sure. What?

Sure. They're human beings. The Toronto Maple Leafs are a joke and have been a joke since 1967, generally aside from like, maybe three seasons. I'm going to tell you something right now. If there's a choice on the table, do you know there before, like the city of Toronto was shut down four days,

multiple days, if a cup arrived in this market. Same with Vancouver, same with Edmonton, same in Montreal. Like that, to me, I don't think that's a discussion.

This is a big time moment, especially with all the geopolitical stuff. We all get it. But Stanley Cups in Canadian markets don't mess with. that thought because they will take that, they will sell unborn children to get a cup in their market. But, sit, isn't that also a function of the lack of cup success recently over the last few decades versus you guys have won gold medals? Here, like Zazzo is a Panthers fan, they've won

two cups in a row. USA has won two gold medals ever. Put in front of me. Gold medal on Sunday or a third Stanley Cup, it's not even a decision. I say third Stanley Cup so fast, Sid. Isn't that so ridiculous? First of all, you've never seen one in your lifetime of gold medal until Sunday. Second of all, it's only happened twice ever in the history. I mean, it's a party looking for a reason to throw the party, the gold medal.

It's the same thing as 1980. America celebrated the result or what they hoped would be the result against the Soviets and then the party ensued. Same goes with this. The Stanley Cup is the goal every year as you enter the year. A gold medal is is it's not a contrivance to celebrate.

Obviously, we knew the Olympics were coming, but it's very different than rooting for your favorite hockey team annually. But best on best, sorry, guys. The difference there is best on best in hockey is still relatively new. Like, we're talking 26 years, right? If you were to ask an English soccer fan, like a Chelsea supporter, or a Man City supporter, or not Arsenal, because they don't win anything, but like one of the other teams.

Would you rather see your team win another Premier League title or watch England win a World Cup for the first time in your lifetime? Because that best on best means different. That best on best is a completely different thing under the FIFA umbrella. It's well over 100 years and it is just different. I think the Stanley Cup argument Zaz is making is completely rational in reference to how long hockey best on best has been around and how inconsistent it still has been. so I do, I'm still leaning cup. And I can guarantee you, every Canadian market would say the same thing. Guarantee.

Okay, but, but Sid, let's say Montreal wins the Stanley Cup next year. Am I wrong to think that part of one province is going to be thrilled, apoplectic with joy, and the rest of Canada is going, why not us? Do you think the whole country is going to be ecstatic because one Canadian team won a Stanley Cup versus Canada winning the gold medal the other day, which unites the whole country. How can you even compare the two? Well, I can tell you, just from the experience up here,

watching Edmonton the last two finals against the team you're familiar with, and watching one Greg Cody anger the country in a way I've rarely seen in my life. Is he a household name, Sid? Greg Cody? Yeah. For that three days, he was, yes. Remind them that's pronounced Cote. I'll take it.

Yeah, it's Cote. Cote. Sorry, yes. From the Shakutimi area of Quebec, Cote. Yes. Just from my own experience, the Oilers were that close. I was on Team Oil. Now, I think there's half the country, like the other 20 million, who don't care about

anything but their market, and that's fine. But I think a bigger portion of the country, Greg, than you think would galvanizer. And the TV ratings are proof of that. Except for the Leafs, though, right? As I understand it, I've only recently. come to understand the fact that most Canadians hate the Toronto Maple Leafs. Outside of Toronto. It's true, but the Leafs do have the biggest fan base in the country.

So they immediately split the country up. And I'll tell you this, when the Leafs travel out to like Edmonton and Calgary and Vancouver once a year, it's 80-20 in the crowd. Hmm. Wow. Like the Leaf fan base in Canada, to some, is completely nauseating. And to others is the greatest thing they've ever seen. It is the biggest one.

No question about it. So there would be, there would be a section. Greg, I know it's a weird argument to make, but I've kind of felt it. People would galvanize around one Canadian team, not everybody, but a large section of the population would, I think. Well, I'm sure you're filled with jealousy as this hockey team has totally unified, a divided country, something that everybody can rally around and not at all politicize. I hope you're happy sitting in second place. And one last thing, just because we stole your sport, doesn't mean you get to take the selling of unborn children.

That's ours. That's us. That's America's, Jack. All right? Just like hockey. Can I ask you one last question on the way out? And Roy's not in today, which is good, because I know he'd know the answer to this. But I want to ask you guys, this hotbed of hockey knowledge that I am speaking to here. Can I ask one question, Mike, on the way up? Just one? Sure. You can ask it of Tony. He's a hockey expert. Talk to me, Sid. In this moment of love for the sport in Miami, Dade, how many points out of a wildcard spot are the

Florida Panthers entering the resumption of NHL play tomorrow. Why you got to bring up to show. Good interview. They're always, they're always about three or four, five, six, seven, you know, points out of the playoffs. But they have a game in hand. They have a game in hand. They need to go 19 and 6.

You know about that game in hand? We don't deal with the negative around here. I got to go 19 and 6. No idea. Thanks for that. Appreciate it. Sid Sechero, Monday through Friday, live at noon, YouTube and wherever you get your podcast.

Thank you, Sid. Silver, sign. Was I wrong? Was I wrong? Was I wrong? I was bright. See you, boys. Don Lebatard.

There is no question. Dan Lebatard show included. Anybody else that this guy is the best player on the planet. Whether he wins the Stanley Cup or the Const might this year, there is no question about it. Stugats. Overrated. What's going on? Dan Levitart.

How you doing? Are we living in an altered world or my name? Oh, my goodness. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Why is it, why is it me doing sports radio, Mike Ryan, for me to ask the question. Man, you've been holding on to that thing. All right, like I said, I would have been more than happy to move over to Lemieux is better than Gretzky. I appreciate the NASCAR analogy because I wouldn't have understand a word you were saying otherwise.

I didn't understand a word he was saying. It actually made it way more confusing. It's like a G-dog. That's my way. How are you going to make a hockey analogy and reference to more obscure sports to make your point? It's like a biaz. I did what I did. It's like a bi-athlete coming down and a NASCAR driver.

It's a D-Dog on a fly-tip. All right, listen, I'm doing the high arithmetic here. I'm sorry you guys couldn't keep up. Guys, we are at the point of the show today where we do a little something called, You know about that. I'm ready. And of course, you know about that?

We look right at our boy, Amin. I got a bunch of questions. for you here, Amin. And in case folks out there don't understand how this goes, I'm talking to you, Greg. Amin is going to tell us if he knows about that, are you ready? I'm ready. I mean, last night, big NBA showdown took place between the Detroit Pistons and the San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs came away victorious, Kate Cunningham, who's an MVP candidate.

He went five for 26. Big struggle. You know about that struggle from Cade last night? I know all about that struggle from Cade. And it is why on this program yesterday, when you were out sick with your boo-boo, like a sniffly nose had you in bed, couldn't make it to a big show after a gold medal win.

We talked about this, how I have questions about the Detroit Pistons. Last night was a microcosm. because you have A, a very heliocentric offense. Guys, that means when you have a star and that star's got to do everything, that's Kate Cunningham. And if he doesn't have a good game or if he's neutralized, guess what? There's nobody else who could step up.

That's what happened. Number two, a bad three-point shooting team by volume, by efficiency. Last night, 7 of 36, 20% from 3. Awful shooting, but also 363 attempts. That's really low, guys. You gotta get some volume out there, even if you don't have the efficiency. And then number three,

this part didn't really kick in. Bad free throw shooting. Last night they shot well from the free throw line. They used to get there enough. Only 19 trips to the free throw line. Last night was a game, a microcosm of what I fear about the Detroit Pistons moving forward. But I support my boy Tony and saying,

that's good money. It's good money on K, but also if he doesn't go 7 for 26, they're in that game and they win that game. Yes. Right? Like, if he goes 11 for 26, It's like there's a chance that they win that game. Yes, and if Connor McDavid plays, apparently Canada wins.

Sydney Crosby, yeah. All right, let's keep the answers a little bit tighter. Sounds like Amin knows about that. Amin, you're telling us that the Kevin Durant-Burner situation, that there's no real hard evidence. But we do have hard evidence that Kevin Durant and his team at his company boardroom, they did fire his entire editorial department. You know about that?

I know all about that. Actually, someone who used to work at Boardroom confirmed that this was something that had nothing to do with Burnergate. No, this is something completely different. It's called, hey, running a media company in this economy is really hard. And Boardroom, for all of the great content it puts out. Imagine doing it during a pandemic. Building an airplane in the sky. infrastructure

Hollywood went on strike thank you Dan the boardroom content that is most popular is typically aggregation it's not original content

they do make original content and it is typically good but the stuff that does the best for them is the stuff that requires the least editorial oversight in case anyone didn't hear me

let's tighten up the answers All right, it sounds like Amin knows about that. Half the answer was him talking. None of this, Greg. Amin? Luca Dunchich, it seems like we're at the point in the season where when the Lakers losing games, he's all about that nonstop complaining.

You know about that nonstop complaining? Yes. Okay, you could expand a little bit. I'll allow it. You walked into that one there. This is who he is. I feel like this is. just people discovering who he is because Laker fans, they claim to be huge NBA fans,

but a lot of them are just Laker fans, meaning if it's not happening to their team, they don't see it. And so this is the Luka that we've known since he came in the league. I've told stories about watching him say things to his own coach Rick Carlisle that I'd never seen any player, let alone a rookie say in game, right? So this is just part of the Laker. I would like to hear an example. Can you give an example?

Absolutely. His rookie year, I watched him play against Oklahoma City. I had really great seat. Shout out to Dallas PR. So I was basically one of those courtside media seats. And Luca does some kind of little trick thing, and he turns it over. Thunder push it back, throw it up ahead to Paul George. Goes up Windmill Dunk.

And Lucas jogging back. And Rick Carlis Luka yells to Luca, Luca, Luca, you got to get back there. And Luca just looks at him and goes, he just points like, what am I supposed to do with that? The guy, windmill dunk, what am I going to do? I wait through 80 and I'm 6'6 or whatever. And then he comes back and Rick Carlylech calls the play. And Luca looks at him and says, shut up. Literally says, shut up and waves his hand dismissively and runs it, calls his own play.

The Greg Cody backhanded wave? Not backhanded. It was like, it was a forehand. Forehand. Not as disrespectful as the backhand, but close. All right. Sounds like you know about that Luca nonstop complaining. Amin, Anthony Edwards.

Overall Star Weekend, he specifically asked Norm Powell how he enjoyed. Miami, the vibes be looking nice. You know about them Miami vibes? I know all about those Miami vibes. Those Miami vibes were alive and well last night at 11, where we witnessed the gold medal winning Team USA. Come in there. Champagne bottles taller than Ethan and cigar smoke and flags

and women sliding down poles with the flag wrapped around them. Nice. All glory. Miami vibe. There are no vibes in this nation that are quite as strong as Miami's vibes. Unfortunately, there's a thing called the collective bargaining agreement.

Oh, come on, what are you doing there? I just don't see it happening, but could he be curious? Maybe. All right, sounds like you know about that Miami vibes. I mean, finally, one more for you ass here. The Knicks are at the Cavs tonight, big time Eastern Conference match.

You know about that big time Eastern Conference matchup? I know all about that big time Eastern Conference matchup. A lot of people pooping the calves. A lot of people say, oh, so you got another guy who chokes in the playoffs. Big deal. But guess what? Cleveland is a team that started the year. Really rough.

Injuries. Losing. People said, what happened to that 60 plus win team from last year? But they've been slowly getting their act together. And the addition of James Harden is an addition because the guy he replaced was hurt and not playing. And so for whatever you say about James Harder in the playoffs, he is a very real factor in the regular season

as a guy who plays games and plays heavy minutes. And this is exactly what Donovan Mitchell needed. The Knicks must win this game. This is a must-win game for the Knicks. A must-win game in February. Yes. All right. I mean, I got to tell you.

Sounds like you know about that. Doesn't know about what must-win game means, because whether they win or lose, they are going to be required by the league and the network partners to show up for their next game. That doesn't mean they must not win. He didn't say winner go home. He didn't say that.

He said must win. Well, must win indicates that the thing's going to come apart if they don't win, right? Exactly right. Must win means, yes, the season becomes in jeopardy if they don't win this game. I think I know about must win games more than you do. I mean, thank you.

I don't know. I don't think you do. What was the last time you asked someone about a must win game, you fraud? you're sitting over there talking about if 87 was out there. What do you know about must-win games? A must-win game happened on Sunday, and you guys are saying, oh, Mike Ravel didn't know what a must-win game meant.

He said it was. Then he didn't win. Were you rooting for Canada? How many times do I have to make clear to anybody? He was. I once consult. By the way, I should mention for no reason other than I'm vain. I once was in a bar in Pittsburgh,

and the color analyst for the Pittsburgh came right out. What are you talking about? Were you working for Canada? I'm telling you why I care about black and gold one time. I don't care about black and gold. He asked you about Canada. I care about the Stars and Strips spell. They're related.

They're related. We had three Panthers on that team. I have had beer, not just any beer, Iron City beer from the Stanley Cup after I had hoisted it over my head with my pals. Of course I care about black and gold. Of course that's what matters to me. Ergo, I was rooting for number 87. to score the big goal.

I was not rooting for Canada in a way. You were rooting for Canada. It was. And not the stars and bars. Not at all. Not in overtime. Certainly not in the gold medal game. I wasn't because 87 didn't even dress for it.

So I was rooting for USA 100%. So let me ask you a question, Dave. If in overtime, right, third period ends. It's a tie. We're going overtime. Suddeneth, three on three. All right. Canada, who you got out there?

We got Connor McDavid. We got some other Canadian guy that I can't name. Right. And then what's that? Celebrity. Coming out of, is that Sid? Sid's got his kit on, his sweater on. I don't need your hypothetical because in 2010, when Sidney Crosby scored the golden gold,

Sydney Crosby scored. That's what you're asking you about Sunday. All right. Yes, I would still want Sidney Crosby to win score the game winning goal. You'd be startled. Yes, I would rather Sidney Crosby. And in fact, I cheered it. And then I took my concerns because the man in the mirror did have some.

I took them to Sidney Crosby and said, is it okay that I cheered for you when you scored the golden goal? And he said, yes, I'll allow it. If 87 was cool with it, then I am too. You probably would root for Aaron Burr, wouldn't you? Sir, shame the devil. Listen, I'm not here to explain myself to you. You're literally here to explain yourself.

Aaron Burr, fagin. And I just did. I just did black and gold over even red, white, and blue for this guy. I mean, there are three Panthers on Canada, one of them being my absolute favorite player in the world, Brad Marshan, and I was so thrilled to watch the U.S. win. We ain't built the same. Guys, I don't use this word lightly, but I think in this case, it's appropriate. Judge Zaslow, I accuse him of sedition. Of the highest one.