The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Pecan Rolls

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

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I haven't been able to get to you. Bobby. Bobby. Bobby. Hello, Bobby, the middle. Oh, I haven't been able to sleep in the last three days. I couldn't sleep last night. Okay. No. Oh, I was thinking about those speaking rules, man. One after the other.

They didn't they didn't have they didn't have a defensive play. You know, I was saying to myself, why don't they kick the ball? Take your leg. Yes, you've been saying this for a couple of days. Mom is tired of this as your analysis for a couple of days,

that why didn't they just kick the ball all game? Why did, that's not a plan. I thought that that was a hell of a defensive play. Are you kidding me? They could have stopped all the points that they score against them, man. I tell you, I mean, that gotta be part of the playbook for next year.

Okay, so you're saying just keep resetting the clock at 14 seconds and just see if you can keep the game down to two to nothing. That's right, that's really, that's the way to do it. You know, I hear that they're bringing the whole thing back You know what I meant? You want to make another run? Yeah, that's what I hear to my sources. Tell me that Bobby your sources said yesterday that Mickey Harrison left the arena embarrassed in a mustache and sunglasses and a wig That's right. I saw him that he uses secret escape route are you kidding

me in case of fire that's the escape route he uses the owner uses just to make sure that he leave the arena in one piece. I saw it with my own eyes. So it wasn't according to sources. It's a secret call. What did Barry Johnson said about the game? Did he say anything about the series? He was complaining about the Dolphins. He was saying that they were going to have outside of a hamburger place at two o'clock in the morning, a cornerback tryout. A cornerback tryout?

Well, who is it? They still talk about the Dolphins? Who's they? I can't believe that. Who's they? The media here in Miami, they still talk about the Dolphins. No, come on man, they still talk about Schuller and the 74-72 Dolphins.

Not the 72 Dolphins. That's a good name. The perfect season, the perfect season to still get together these guys and celebrate. What do you feel about the Dolphins? You and I haven't talked about this. No, I haven't. Dua is haven't two eyes my guy two eyes my guy. He has to wear a bigger helmet That will be his uh, the solution to all his problems. Too nice my guy

Okay, give him a bigger helmet than they're competing again again. They're they're the super bowl Tuna to a to a Okay, so not do do not do That sounds good to me. Okay. Is mine? Back to the heat. What's going on with the heat? What is going to be the game plan next year? No, back to the heat. I wanted your dolphin's opinions. That's all. Oh, too is my guy is the only dolphin opinion you have for me? But what can I tell you? I call it the way I see it, you know? I see big things for Tua. Even though he's a little guy, he carries a big stick. He's going to turn the dolphins around. So big things for Tua, including a helmet.

That's right. That's my prediction. Is mom there? No, she doesn't want to talk to me. Yeah, you want to talk to her? Yeah, she doesn't want to. Yes, I do want to talk to her because I don't doesn't want to talk to me. Yeah, you want to talk to her? Yes, I do want to talk to her because I don't think she wants to talk to you because of how bad you've been around the heat. Let me talk to mom for a second. Hold on for a second. You've got to get out of bed, don't you? You're laying on your side, aren't you? Oh, I'm having a margarita now. Hold on.

You're not having a margarita. It's very early in the morning. Hello? Mama. Dime. Dad said yesterday when I called him, I said that he was very bad at Heat Games. He's been complaining too much. And he said he doesn't complain at Heat Games.

Oh my God. That's all he does. Who does he complain about? About everything, especially number one, Esportra. So he wants bolster. That's number one. Do you remember when we sat next to Esportra's wife? And he was in the press and he get down. He had the press box, yeah. And then he would go downstairs and he started in the stairs. Do you see a spot? Oh, I did it should be fine. I said Gonzalo his wife is sitting right there shut up. Yeah, I know because I put you on and on and on every game every game

Billy said yesterday he thought you guys might get divorced after 57 years. Yes Yes, the heat will do it. Okay, all right, put back, okay thank you. Poppy, put Papi back on the phone. Go and follow him here. He's warming his, oh, pickle leach. There's margarita, he snuck a margarita in there. So that was the hell of a white arena that Mickey was wearing, white hat. Ha ha ha.

Bobby, you did not see Mickey Harrison leaving the arena embarrassed with sunglasses, a mustache, and a wig. You did not see that. I saw him. I saw him. I swear to you, I saw him. He was really blending with the crowd. You know what I mean?

He didn't want to be recognized. How was the press conference after the game? Was the sports on fire? Papi, mom says you do nothing. I want to know. You are part of the media. You are hanging it there. You know the inside track. Was he on fire?

Did he blame the referees? That was my brother. blame the referees? That was a good one. I bet he said the referees they gang up on you. Yeah, after a 60 point line. He's complaining about the referees. Goodbye Bobby. Okay, bye.

How do you guys imagine Eco celebrated last night? Welcome back buddy. Thank you. How's the tooth? How do you guys imagine eco celebrated last night? Welcome back buddy. Thank you. How's the tooth? Did you? Feeling great. Thank you. Did you rush back in just because you were right about the lucca trade? Did you? flume in by parachute and then a water slide because What you said instantaneously that no one else was saying when it regards the the Luka trait. Should we do a victory lap right off the top? I don't know how Stugatsi is feeling. I don't want him to tear an Achilles or a hamstring or something. He and Greg Cody both have victory laps. Can we do that together? Let's do that together. Let's start off the

show. Both recently had surgery. Yeah, they've I don't know what stood out so i was two weeks ago in his mouth i don't case was it indeed surgery though like that everything with the tooth is now fine with you and obviously greg cody has recovered from his surgery he's ready to have a unit we have not looked at his belly yet if you want to show us if both of you want to give us a victory lap both of them got something right i would like to hear both of you do your victory laps together if that's possible. Sure. Yeah, let's go

I'm good. I prefer a short one if possible. Yeah Okay, so if you guys can go into the other room We will find out together what you got right some some people are writing in on the chat Have they as they have for several days that my, they think he is saying pecan roll. A pecan roll instead of a pick and roll. That he's talking about pecan roll. So put it on the, they're delicious, right? At Leventard Show, is the pecan roll delicious?

I don't blame him. Like if you had to choose between pick and roll and thinking about a pecan roll. It is a true story with my father that he has complained to the owner of the Miami Heat about the media potato chips that are free, not having enough potato chips in his bag. It's why he calls him Mickey Aaron chips

instead of Mickey Aaron- He's working on that, he's working on that. Go with it, there's something there, we'll get it there. And he's trying to show, yeah. Instead of Mickey Aaron He's doing Mark Norman show of from from from sheet to stage like where he's crafting the joke He's bring he's blaming shrink flation on Mickey Harrison. He is he's blaming in fact, not only blaming it on Mickey Harrison I believe he cites Mickey Harrison as ground zero for shrinkflation. No! Yes, like that's where it started.

He was complaining about shrinkflation before anybody was complaining about shrinkflation, but I don't think you can call it shrinkflation when what you're getting is free. It's not, you're getting fewer chips, but all the chips you're getting are totally free. You gotta pick your battles there. You just need more bags is all you need if you're dead. I don't think, put it on the poll, can it be shrinkflation if the chips you're getting are totally free. You just need more bags is all you need if you're dead.

I don't think, put it on the poll, can it be shrinkflation if the chips you got were free at Levitard's show? Because I think those two things are contradictory. We're gonna have plenty of time to talk about LeBron James and we will talk about Anthony Edwards. I feel though like I really aired yesterday in not talking more, like really aired yesterday

because the noise of the moment can always catch you and the drama of the moment can always make it so that you're doing a show without even realizing it that is the easier show to do because you have the sparks of a dad on the court and the controversy of a dad on the court and I didn't concentrate nearly enough on Yanis's grace both in that moment and more importantly in the explanation afterward

because of the following. Everything I'm about to tell you as Greg Cote and Stugatz get into position. But I really feel like I erred yesterday for this reason. I take a little bit of pride in being able to be at the trough that everyone else is at and be able to see the macro instead of the micro, okay? And I know this part is obvious,

but I wanna show you how obvious it is, as LeBron and Luke are now out, slayed by Anthony Edwards with the last couple of post-seasons, he's got some giants on, he's got Booker, he's got KD, he's got Jokic, he took out game seven on his own floor, and now he takes out Luca and LeBron, and how it is that you become a face of a league, because it requires winning

that Anthony Edwards has not yet done, and Giannis has not done enough of to be actually the face of the league, even though his reaction in that moment is exactly what you want as the face of the league, but he hasn't won enough. And I know you know that winning in championships are hard, but just so you know what it does to the body.

Joel Embiid doesn't have one, off to the side. Kevin Durant has two, but Stu Gatz doesn't notarize either one of them. The people who have been fighting over these championships, LeBron has four, seems like not enough. Why? Well, Steph's got a few, and Kawhi's got three. And so Giannis is only allowed to have one,

and he got it by a toenail. Got it by a toenail, and can't be face of the league. But doing in, what language is that for him, Izzy? Where he's explaining for three and a half minutes the amount of disrespect that he felt from Halliburton's dad, and I ask you if face of the league Anthony Edwards faced with similar disrespect reacts that way to disrespect. John Morant might never win a championship. Off to the side. Thanks for playing for a couple of years. Seems like a whole lot of dudes have passed you. It's just really hard.

Luca hasn't won yet. Got real close. Congratulations, Luca. You haven't done anything yet. Yanis has won, he's Aaron Rodgers, and he's an immortal. He's playing, you're watching history in real time. You're not gonna be able to explain to your kids how he only won one, it's like, Wilt Winning only won. Like, what are you talking about? He only won one, and now he's gotta worry about Wemby. I'm trying to figure out what, is it the grace that you're talking about with Yanis?

Like, how how what he said After he got eliminated I want to get the sound and it's three and a half minutes of sound and I never play it But when he said I'm going to address this once in terms of public relations calamity and crisis How do you want your face of the league behaving so it's not a fistfight in the stands? Because that man had no business on the court But especially not at that moment when Yannis knows how hard it is to win and how they blew that game.

Like I'm talking about seven points up, 40 seconds left in overtime, your team ain't not a good enough number two. You remember what it was to have Drew and Middleton? Let's the ball go through his legs. No team has ever lost a game that way, ever. I turned the game off as soon as that ball went through the hoop when Giannis scored in overtime

and they were up seven. The amount of pressure and rage on Giannis in that moment as he's abiding and eating disrespect from someone's father saying to him on the court, on his turf, might as well go into the locker room. He explained to you afterward the amount of disrespect and the place that I aired is I had not had that sound yet. I heard all the other noisy sound and I didn't have the sound where I could hear Yannis in his own voice. What is it? Is it his third language? Is it his fourth language? Trying to bridge the gulf on face of the league

with exactly the behavior you need if you don't want video after first round series that was intense so when you have series that you want right the kind of dramatic series physical series they don't like each other the fact that he didn't tear the head off of Halliburton's dad in that moment just just with rage just with the way rage works it's a blessing to everyone in the league that we don't have the video of that because that could have been the punctuation on his Milwaukee career him losing his temper understandably you think there's a lot of guys who would have mixed it up

with John Halliburton rat because I don't think there's a lot of guys and I'm not disputing what you're saying here I just don't think there's a lot of guys who even would have gone face to face with him. They basically would have shoved him away and asked security to come get him. Janis was face to face, and I do give him credit for, in that moment, looking down on him, feeling like I could do anything at this moment and be okay with it, and the world would be okay with it

because he approached me and not really going off, and then having very wise, I guess, things to say afterward, that is something to give him credit for, but I do believe that everything that you're saying is all part of the reason why he needs to be in a bigger market. That's funny because that's true, but also it felt like a Bane situation in Batman

where it's like, I'm powerful, and then Bane kind of puts his hand on the back of the guy's neck and he's like, do you feel powerful right now? Because I can end you. The thing is, Dan, it feels like the, the, this generation of the MBA learned from the past generation, saw the malice in the palace has seen all the, the, the aftermath of it. And it kind of has like a next gear of, you know what, I know what that was like. I can't do it again at this part they have deterred it but that's not how rage

works it's not the consideration of consequences and if you are feeling you tell me how many guys in that league how do you imagine disrespect goes over with the top players in that league that looks like that because he articulated the disrespect I want to go to Cody and cody and still got some second also didn't know until two years ago two days ago that uh... bane was thomas hardy you mean tom hardy didn't know government name their firm

i did not know that that uh... that he seemed to think to be tom hardy and i can't believe that i did not know bane was tom hardy all right let right, let's go into the other room where you guys aren't running very hard, you're jogging very slowly, are you gonna give your- It's a Luca pace. You're gonna give your victory laps at the same time?

Stu Gatz, would you like us to play the sound, the original sound, or would you like to just go straight into your victory lap? I am in my victory lap right now. Greg and I decided on a power walk because you guys were talking for so long. We started off jogging, but we ended up here at a power walk. Just play my sound, the sound of me being right.

All right, hold on a second. You guys keep jogging, put them- Jogging. Yeah, keep them in the picture in picture, fast walking if you want. I don't think they're really running. I don't think that's the spirit of the victory lap, but let's play the original video of Stu gots reacting

instantaneously to the Luca trade with a take no one else in the world had. This is a nothing trade. It's big names. I understand why it's news. It's a nothing trade. The Lakers are not winning an NBA title anytime soon. The Mavericks are not winning an NBA title anytime soon.

In fact, I would tell you the bigger trade made yesterday in the NBA was the one that got the Spurs, the Aaron Fox. You want to know why? That team might win all the championships soon. This is not a trade that lands you Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. This is not getting Moses Malone if you're Dr. J in the Sixers, the missing piece, and then they went foe foe foe foe. This is not that.

This is a trade with two middling teams and two superstars who barely play. And we're not even into the second round yet. All these players, gone. Not playing. Stu has never been more ranked. Stu, God, continue to take your victory lap. And while he says what he, as he relishes it, go ahead Cody, you at the same time,

tell us what it is that you were right about please. Both of you at the same time, I don't know what your victory lap is around about Greg. So give it to us at the same time. Go ahead, you go first Stugatz. Well, my victory lap was because I said that was a nothing trade at the time and it proved to be a nothing trade.

All the players involved, they're no longer in the playoffs winner Stugats, please tell Greg Cody who's right next to you wearing headphones that he's supposed to talk while you're taking your victory lap and talking Okay, we're still we're talking at the same time. Yes. Thank you You're not running your new power walk you have to stick your own It's a choo-choo train. It's a choo-choo train, that's what it is. Can you talk, can you give us both your victory laps at the same time?

I need the takes at the same time. Stu Gatz, you go first and Greg, you start after him, please. All right, so Dan, I told you at the time, trade deadline, Luca, biggest trade in the history of the NBA, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, a bunch of nothing players Anthony Davis, Luca Docket, Kristy, I mean she's a bunch of bombs with the exception of Lebron. I also was the first one in America to celebrate last night. The Falcons and the coach would be fined by the NFL for what happened to Shador Sanders on draft night or draft day, cause he wouldn't draft

until the 45th round. And I did predict that immediately. First one, first one. Way to go. To predict that. I don't understand why they're skiing behind you. I think Greg was skiing maybe. He wasn't skiing, he's doing a train though.

It's a locomotive move. It could be mountain climbing. It's cross country skiing. All right, thank you. Get back in here. The Atlanta Falcons were indeed fine for what I will continue to say was a good prank. And you can't dispute it.

Worth a hundred K? It's a John Frank. It's not that it's worth a hundred K. It was more than a hundred K. But it's that it will be remembered forever, at least in part, more so than even before because it was fine and punished, all the more making it a great prank.

Now I understand why everyone's embarrassed because we all gotta be, you know, football's very important, you gotta be careful. Now Shador Sanders is human. This one time, now he's a human. Now the Sanders family has a human son. You prank called him. A great prank.

Like it just can't be disputed. Now, but also immoral and cruel. It's less of a great prank because he got drafted so late. Like, if he would have just got drafted in the second round, it would have been like, ah, they got his ass. But now you feel terrible for him, and it's just like, ooh, the prank was a bit much, wasn't it? It's not just that you feel terrible for him.

It's that everyone felt terrible for him and forgot the definition of a prank. Like, the prank exists for that reason. Like, that's, by definition, that's how you do it. Now, you can do it better, but the starting point is, we all know that's a prank. And the only thing that changed is, all of a sudden, everyone in Unity on the internet felt bad

for Shidor Sanders, which was really confusing to me. I mean, it's one thing to fall in the draft like that. When people start feeling bad for you is when people start mocking you for falling in the draft like that. But you understand my just general confusion on athlete generally not human, arrogant athlete wearing a face mask, tends to be someone we don't like being too human, arrogant athlete wearing a face mask tends to be someone we don't like being too famous, arrogant athlete who goes into a new employer and just insults the employer by being cocky during interviews and falling out of the first round.

I like seeing him humbled and oh not that much, not that much, don't humble him that much, that's overdoing it. Which do we hate more, somebody who's that brash or making us feel our emotions? But Izzy, none of us can relate to what it's like to falling in the NFL draft. We've all been pranked before, and no one likes to be the victim of a prank.

Oh, but everyone saw that there was someone down being kicked while he was down and while kicking, people were like, no, that's enough. Like third round is okay, but they see everybody back off while still kicking. Well, that's true though. Second round would have been okay, but fifth round, you're like, whoa,

is this an NFL conspiracy? What's going on? My laughter about this has everything to do with the number of people who joined the kicking. And then people started retreating from the kicking the more the people gathered around to kick. And Mel Kiper Jr. is refereeing the event. It's so good.

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Visit CanadaLife.com slash business protection to learn more. Canada Life. Insurance, investments, advice. Don LeBattard. Lightning, Panthers, what do you think? Stugats. Look at this face while I tell this to you. Okay, because I don't want there to be any kind of confusion. You look me right in the eye. Panthers are going to take that ass, man. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. I have delayed long enough not getting to what the Panthers did last night and they finished all things Tampa in 11 seconds a couple of nights ago. Like that.

Everything that happened to Tampa is The hockey playoffs fell on them at the end of their dynasty. They are you know the heats last embers are What Tampa's last embers are where they start their run winning all their home playoff games and I think they're one and nine now in their last 10 home playoff games, and finished by the Panthers who beat their goalie like no one beats their goalie, just pounding him. And also, people in hockey saying, that's the most physical series we've seen

in the first round. Bow to it, Tampa, you're finished. But when you say finished, the narrative, the whole second half of the season was, they've retooled with Gensel and they're actually, you know, a better version of what they, like not as old as they thought, and they fell apart. The Panthers just dominated.

They led the league in goals this season. Yeah. And they shut them down. They just completely shut them down. Then you got Cooper saying, it's basically the Panthers' time now, congratulations. There's nothing we can do about it. Yeah, that was amazing that John Cooper said that,

I thought, because he's pretty much Handing the torch to Florida admitting that look we had our run now This is another team that's clearly better than us six different Panthers scored goals last night. The defense was great I mean what this team is better? I don't know if you'd agree Roy this team is better than the team that won it all last year I think they are certainly deeper they can field five four lines on this team They got plenty of players if anybody goes down they got somebody to everyone is saying that Marshawn is playing great except for Mike Ryan No, can I tell you what happened last night? He capitulated Wow?

He had no choice. Yeah, I mean more Marshawn had that once just yeah That was I just stopped dead in his tracks and then had to feed, who was it, to, uh, not until, Lundell. But I knew it was a little bit of puck luck. I think it went off a couple of skates and went in. But Mike actually said in the group chat, okay, that was good.

That's not public capitulation in the group chat. It needs to be everywhere. It's a big chat. He doesn't do public capitulation very often. Marshawn played so well last night, we said, you're not coming in today. We kicked him out today we said not enough. He was not on the schedule, he was on the schedule today and then didn't show up and I'm assuming it's because he was in here chirping like he brought the chirping in here on Tuesday. Chirp chirp chirp brought

it in as a verb. I had not heard chirp in our environment ever from anybody and it's just because Ethan of all people enraged him by just saying Marshawn played well last night and just turned him into a total lunatic and now he doesn't show up to work today because he doesn't want to publicly capitulate that Marshawn was good in the first round. Going into the game last night I believe, and when you mentioned Cooper saying,

just having to put down his sword, that coach, that franchise owned Florida, But I believe, and when you mentioned Cooper saying just having to put down his sword, that coach, that franchise owned Florida, owned the United States, owned the sport, owned Canada, made hockey matter in Florida, that team, made Tampa a hockey town. To have 14 of 15 penalties in this age that you kill and Tampa only gets 13 shots going into last night's game during those penalties, when it's being talked about as the most physical series, when, I don't know how you guys felt about this, but I heard from a lot of Panther fans,

yes, Eckblad took him out and gets two games, good. Yeah. Because it's a physical series and Tampa at the end bows to the physical and boughs in eleven seconds and boughs because they're better at the third period and they took the series from you in game four in eleven seconds when they scored three goals in the third period their best period empirically for two seasons now they're best in the sport late

and when you've got that hammer with that defense with that coach with the replenishments of getting healthier because could chuck's been out for two months and that's going to look fresher when it's been out for two months you've got something that handles tampa in a way that tells the entire sport reminds the entire sport last year was a fluke and hey we know we have to end the eighteen of your twenty four experts picked tamp Tampa in this series. Cause you got Forgetful fast, how's that for a reminder?

Being more physical than that team. Florida continues to come across as bullies. It's not just the physical play. You had Hagel at one time for the bolts was trying to get into a fight. Was basically telling Carter for Hagee, hey you and me right here. And they just basically like laugh it off.

We broke them. They laugh it off. And then they get, Kachuck takes a dude out, no suspension, nothing. And then after they take them out in five, a gentleman's sweep, Matthew Kachuck's basically saying, it's not really a rivalry, is it? And it's not, because since he's got here, it hasn't been.

And it's really fun to be a part of just that whole flip. You say that it's the most physical series. Any series the Panthers are in is gonna be the most physical series I don't think Tampa had anything to do with that Tampa was They were just so emotional the entire series their coach was Hegel was Chernak last night was just like broken late in that game just going after people and it was just like this is what the Panthers do They most really they made me break you down and you are done. No an emotional series was Florida against Boston in last year's playoffs. I didn't think this series was was particularly physical but the Panthers no I didn't but the Panthers neither did Paul Maurice by the way listen to what he said. He did say that.

Whenever asked about the physicality of this series yeah but wait a minute okay but Roy you know what you know what Paul Maurice is doing there like it's a everyone is watching this series and saying it's as physical as any of the series that's being played and Paul Maurice is just like not playoff hockey I'm not gonna tell you how tough I am actually I would say it wasn't as physical as previous series that these two teams have had it was just three hits tell you how tough I am. Actually, I would say it wasn't as physical as previous series that these two teams have had. It was just three hits. Thank you, Roy. What I was going to say is that the Panthers defense is so good.

They made Nikita Kucherov disappear in this series, the mighty Nikita. They made him disappear. And that puck, did he take a puck to the balls or was it just above that? That looked painful. I rarely, I didn't think there's anything that could happen on the ice that would make me say I feel bad for Kucharoff but that was a that was a rough shot he took in the first period and by the way some of the deals that made have underlined Bill Zito is the best personnel guy in South Florida sports right now bar none and by far and

the fact that he got Marshawn and Seth Jones, the defenseman who's been great in trades for the playoff run, I thought was genius, and it's worked out that way. I thought he was gonna take that a little further than the best personnel guy in South Florida sports. That's not really that big of a compliment, is it? Well, he is in the NHL. That's why he kept throwing in bar nuns and everything else.

Like, he said it, and he realized. He said, best personnel guy in South Florida, and everything else. Like he said it and he realized. He said, best personnel guy in South Florida. Then he thought about it for a second. He's like, okay, that's not going well for anybody right now. Not even in Miami. And then he said, bar nun, miles away, hands down. There was a bar nun and a hands down.

I believe there were a number of different things. And he was saying nothing. In fact, I'm going to go ahead and have to do this now. I I regret having to do this now. Yeah Minor penalty two minutes for adding nothing What is bar none two minutes what is hands down what is hands down why is it hands down? Why is it hands down something special? I'm on it man You can put into my veins the look of the lightning fans with their shoulders just sad and like four minutes left in the game.

The state, the arena is clearing out. They're cutting the 88, sad 88, just looking sad. Shove that into my veins. Sad Tampa fans. It was just, that was my favorite part. Just seeing the sadness on those Tampa fans. Hands down comes from the world of horse racing. When a jockey knew that his horse was going to win,

coming down the stretch, he would put his hands down to suggest to everyone watching, hey, we've won this race. Man down, hands down. How about that? Bar none means, without exception, of course, it's believed to have originated in the 18th century with bar potentially used as a preposition, meaning exception of course, it's believed to have originated in the 18th century with bar, potentially used as a preposition,

meaning excluding from consideration, accepting, save, but for. For some reason, Izzy decided to make the phrase, man down, hands down, which is not at all the phrase. No, but that's mine. There's had to be a jockey who dropped his hands thinking he was gonna win the race and ended up not winning the race. That's had to happen, right? Well, his hand thinking he was going to win the race and ended up not winning the race

That's had to happen, right? Well, you guys do me the favor please of just finding any embarrassing videos where people have lost a race that they thought they were Winning with cockiness you will find many of those and you could put those on an endless loop on our screen and people would enjoy All of those getting back to Nikita Kuturov, who will win the Art Ross Trophy this year for most points in the league. He's gone 15 straight playoff games without scoring a goal, 10 straight against Florida. In this series, he's had no goals, obviously,

and four assists. E2 Lutson-Rynan, one goal, three assists for four points. So basically, and that was in game five. So Lutson-Ririna had a better game than Kuturov had the entire season. I'd like a thank you from all of you guys, by the way, for me, because I- Thank you.

You're welcome. Thank you, thank you by the way. Why are you doing a you're welcome to his thank you, Roy? You didn't even say thank you. It was Izzy who said thank you. You just took the you're welcome. You didn't offer a thank you. You just took from the entire thing. Roy is welcome. Thank you. Thank me. Um, so

Yesterday I watch no listen. I watched about a minute and a half of the game Second period I was watching some of the game decided. You know what? I'm gonna help the boys out I'm gonna put a couple quid on the lightning. Okay, you know what happens? I bet the team, the opposite team wins. So put a couple quid on the Lightning. When the Panthers were down 3-2, all of a sudden, bam. There it is. You know what?

Thank you. Thank you, Tony. You know what? I try to do my best, Dan. You tell me I don't watch hockey. You tell me that I don't care, that I'm Cuban, I don't care. You're right.

The difference is I want to help the boys out, and I want to watch a couple minutes, see the feel for the game bet the team Have the Panthers win Congratulations, and thank you. You watched five minutes of the game It's a minute a half you've watched one 90 seconds of Panther hockey you won some money and now you've walked away from the table All right, we can stop talking about these lightning losers now Roy. What are we looking at next here? What are we rooting for we got Ottawa Toronto game six tonight. Toronto was up 3-0, 3-2 they're doing the

Toronto thing of blowing it even though everyone expects them to win. Ottawa has Kachuk, so we either have Toronto or the Battle of the Kachuks. What are we rooting for? A couple of Chuckies cutting it up. We're obviously rooting for this to go 7, right? Yes, obviously, but you know what? It doesn't matter. It absolutely doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it's Ottawa or Toronto. I know you want the smoke. Absolutely. Who would you rather play?

Let's do it at Toronto again. I want to see him go down again. I'll take the battle of the Kachucks. A little easier path. Kachucks are fun. No, we gotta do things the hard way, Chris. Yes, that's what we do. We always do things the hard way,

and we come out on top, so I say bring on Toronto. He never shows anything in the way of fear, even though I saw him shit himself and be white during game seven. He just became a white person, lost all of... You saw that, huh? It was weird, it was just fear. Fear swept across him, and he just...

The way people turned, all people turn white when they're most afraid. You wanna talk physical series? Obviously any series will be physical with the Panthers in the next round. Ottawa, Florida will be a bloodbath. Roy, bloodbath, Ottawa, Florida. Yes, they will be bathing in blood.

Okay, that is not what's going to happen. There will be no bathing in blood. There will be occasional blood in blood. There will be Occasional blood. I don't know why he agreed with you there Yes, and himself first and then turned white. Is that what happened? Yeah, you saw him shit I saw it happen. Yeah, Mickey Harrison then ran right past him wearing a fake mustache sunglasses and a wig Saw that as I saw what happened with Roy Roy always pretends He's not scared and that's fine that works for him. It worked last year. Didn't work for 30 years before that with the Panthers but last year it worked and so he's riding that and and he

doesn't want to change his opinion on that. Bring everything that's hard my way because you will not get a lot of photos and hockey that people enjoy more than Vasilevsky on his knees here, just broken. Into my veins. Yeah, Chris is saying Sad88 he's calling him. He won't even refer to him by name for some reason. He's been bad the last three playoffs. I mean, I know it's not huge sample sizes

and it's a lot against the Panthers, but terrible save percentage, last three playoffs for AD. I'm gonna say it again from Tim Reynolds, last 25 games Tampa's played at home, playoff games. In the first 15 of them, they were 14 and one, in the last 10 they were one and nine, and nobody scores against Vasilevsky at that arena the way that the Panthers do.

They've scored five or more goals against him now four times. No team has done it more. That's how you finish a dynasty. That's the way that you take the sport from them. That's as conclusively as you can do it. And Bob doing Bob things, god damn, I love this team. That save, those two saves in the second period.

Oh, good god. I will remind you again, because it that that that franchise owning the state and making Tampa a hockey town to see the Florida Panthers lose to them in a way that extinguished the best offensive season a team has ever had in the regular season and they blew up the blueprint. Tampa blew up Florida's blueprint and made Florida do this to them. They made the Panthers do this to them by being so great, by requiring the excellence and the vision and the leadership to blow up

your whole thing when I've told you guys in the history of South Florida bar none hands down however you want to do it I've never seen such a bold move from a management team ever in the history of this market in the history of this market to blow up the best regular season offense I've ever seen in the most exciting Panthers team I've ever seen to say no we're gonna play a different kind of hockey in the playoffs and it'll be the kind of hockey that will extinguish even in a Vechkin and Washington and the way they play hockey to do that have the foresight to see it and then to actually

execute it requires a bravery and leadership I've never seen from a management team in South Florida and that's watching a Pat Riley who has no fear about blowing things up when things go wrong Yeah, absolutely different philosophy under Joel Crenville and Andrew Burnett. They were a rush team They were a transition team once you get them on the rush They were in the scoring with John John Huberto and then they blew it all up When Tampa beat them and became a four-checking team under Paul Maurice, it's just it was just amazing thing to see So is this the equivalent of speaking of, of Nico Harrison winning a couple of championships

and the Mavs being good five or six years from now because defense wins championships and they made that trade? Not so fast. No. A little ahead of yourself there. If the Dallas Mavericks win a championship with a score of 50 to 47 in a game seven,

it will look something like what the Panthers have done which is I'm gonna say it again just because people get forgetful best regular season offense the Panthers have ever seen and that arguably the sport has ever seen correct like yeah to say no no don't want the best offense, which is what everyone wants everywhere in sports, give me the best offense, nope, wanna do playoff hockey, wanna be tougher than everybody, wanna win all the third periods, okay, good luck with that.

Go ahead and figure out how to do that with Jonathan Huberto as your best player. It seems impossible. Yet it worked. To beat all of hockey at hockey? To be better at management than everyone else at hockey because you have the foresight to say quickly to this man, who are the teams in football? There is a team that moved away.

Oh, it's the Rams. The Rams moved away from Super Bowl golf like that like that they moved away from Super Bowl golf and you're like what whoa everybody likes having a quarterback that's safe leadership always likes to be protected with I've got the best offense in the league I will never do what Nico did and and trade my popular offensive thing even the Chiefs who won that first Super Bowl with Tariq Hill and won it with their offense, they changed the way they went about business.

They got rid of Tariq Hill and it became a defensive team and they won two more. That's a great example, but it helps when you have Mahomes. The Panthers traded for Mahomes. They traded for Mahomes. What the Panthers did, and I know Hubertos not Mahomes, but he was the centerpiece of the best offense in hockey. Probably Barkov, but after this Luka Donsich trade,

there's nothing that's gonna compare. Like it's going to be a while before you can say, wow, that was such a bold move because this one was the boldest of the moves. Like Hubertou, okay, it was a solid number two on your hockey team. That's like trading, I don't know, Kyrie Irving. It's not the biggest deal in the world.

It's the approach to the game I get. Number one offense to being this defense. And that is what's so crazy impressive additionally of what they're doing is they weren't good at the end of the season. They weren't playing their guys at the end of the season. They turn it on, they bring the guys right back, boom, they look like that dominant team again. Rest versus Russ. There's a few franchises that can do that.

Rest is Russ. There's a few franchises that can do that. Rest is winning. Are we now saying that because they lost in the first round of the playoff, that the Lakers didn't win that Doncic trade? Because I don't think anybody else would be saying that yet. I mean, based on one playoff series. But every season that ends with Luka Doncic looking fatigued, maybe hurt, kind of holding his back, Nico Harrison's just gonna pull a Jeremy Tashay fist pump,

like every single time, because it doesn't matter what round it ends in, that's the ending that he has predicted, and so far he's won for one. I would say, Greg, that through five months, four months, the Mavericks won that trade. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's still time to go here. We'll see how things play out.

But for now, Niko's having a good day. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Did the Mavs win the Luka trade? They did. That's the thing, it's like, how many times is the season gonna end with AD holding his back too? So it's like, kind of a good swap there. Yeah, if you can promise that AD's gonna remain healthy

and play 70 plus games a season, then the trade gets a little bit more arguable. Does Luca think the jersey fully untucked looks good? He rocks that thing a lot. He was doing it late in the game last night. It's just, you look so sad when you're losing with your jersey untucked. You have it looking good tucked in.

I mean. That's true. It's not just that it was- Get in shape, man. It was not just untucked. It was also, he allowed more layup points blowing by him individually on defense empirically than have been counted in the age of numbers.