The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Anthony Santander Home Run

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Billy, Jeremy, Lucy, and Mike. After Dan starts the show by being sexist, Stugotz is mad at Aleksander Barkov. Greg Cote is loving the momentum he's been given from this Stanley Cup Final, and it leads to the crew reflecting on their greatest childhood sports memories. Then, Billy Gil predicted a home run last night, and he's riding the high. Plus, Dan and the crew relive the moment he was suspended by ESPN for LeBron billboards because the Edmonton billboard company will NOT ALLOW our "Greg Cote Was Right And Ya Know It" billboards to happen. Also, the rent is too damn high, Charles Ramsey, and Roy's magnum opus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Crypto trading involves risk of loss. See kraken.com slash legal slash ca dash pru dash disclaimer for info on Kraken's undertaking to register in Canada. Billy, do you think we should get a head start on inundating our listeners now with MLS Championship Talk? Like getting them prepared now. I've been trying, no one wants to follow my lead on this.

Now we're doing some Copa something, so MLS is second fiddle as always, which it shouldn't be since it's the biggest league in our country, but whatevs. Some Copa something, I think. That's right. I don't think that that is. Made up World Cup, knockoff World Cup. World Cup,off World Cup World Cup zero sugar

There was a WNBA Commissioners Cup Championship last night. We've got to start we have to start expanding all of the Championships, I think that we're talking about it requires growth and evolution now Because Lucy we have arrived in a point equality now where women are gonna be drafted. We've gone too far. Wow. Women should not be in war. Men should be in war. I think that's accurate.

I think that is correct. I think men are the only one who, they're the only one who cause war. So they should. You can't say that, Dan, only I can say that. Dan Leventhal, Poland, women are not capable of doing war. Back away, Dan. Man, I can't believe you're saying it.

Louise, Louise. Men are the reason there are wars. Exactly. There would not be wars if women were in charge. Put it on the poll at Leventhal Show. Would there be actual wars if women were in charge? Put it on the poll at LeBotard Show. Would there be actual wars if women were in charge? I don't believe that that's possible. I don't think women would cause that.

You haven't been married long enough. He really haven't. I could see this Caitlin Clark thing spiraling. Your war is coming, I mean I promise you. Considering the discourse over the last two weeks of WMBA on court stuff, I could see this getting out of hand real quick. What have you guys seen over the last couple of days

of celebration, or I guess the last 24 hours of Panther celebration that has caught your eye? Because I saw Stugats for sure getting jealous of local radio legend Paul Castronovo. Oh, God. What an underrated radio career. That guy. I mean, Barkov, the captain of the Panthers. You know, Paul is his neighbor. He brought the cup over to Paul's house. At four o'clock in the morning. Oh, you're right. I was so jealous.

Which is fine for a morning DJ. It is fine. Morning radio will ruin your life. And Paul's no getting used to waking up at that time. No, Paul Casper Novo has been up at 4 AM for way too many years to be sane. But Barkov is his neighbor. And I feel like that's the only reason that Stugats lived in Parkland.

So that somebody from the Panthers would show up one day at his golf course and give him the Stanley Cup. I mean, the wango lives five houses down from me. I mean, Roberto, let's go. Bobby Lou. Bobby Lou. I thought he did the drum very well.

He did, I agree. He posted on social media, he banged the shit out of that drum. Did what just happened, did what I think just happened happen where Mike said Bobby Lou on air and Stu Gotts heard Bobby Lou and then repeated it as if Mike was talking to him privately?

Are you becoming Cody right in front of me? I was just gonna say I felt like Greg Cody and it didn't feel good. Greg Cody is riding some kind of high right now. I don't know if you guys have noticed, it's not just because he won, but it's because he got the best thing that he always wants over the last couple of weeks, which is maximum me on the attention. And somebody has written in here, Stu Gotts, and I think they got it exactly right when they say this, because this has to have been a delight for the people in our audience.

Greg Cody swinging the momentum of the finals of a professional American sport is one of the wildest funniest things I've ever seen in my entire life. It's me, Maxima. I said Maxima me? Yeah, fine. Okay, thank you. This is the Dan Leventor Show with the Stugats Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout

the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. The Florida Panthers Stugats have an amazing opportunity here in front of them. An opportunity that the University of Miami basketball teams kind of squandered in terms of building in South Florida what Tampa has built north of here, which is a community somehow in Tampa that cares a great deal more about hockey than it cares about baseball, even though their baseball organization is better than most of the baseball organizations, smarter than most of the baseball organizations, but you have to have the winning in order to create the memories that trigger generational

support. And I was talking to a couple of black friends of mine, Dugats, who have taken their young children to Panthers games over the last two years. And both of them have said the same thing, which is, my kid has been hooked since hearing the goal horn followed by people are throwing rats on the ice Kids not old enough to totally understand everything that they're watching

But are old enough to know what the feeling is when dad is happy and why are there rats? Raining from the sky. I don't know what your guys's earliest Childhood sports memories are I remember sports memories are. I remember mine distinctly. I remember the sights, the sounds, I remember the smells you got of the first time I was in the Orange Bowl with truly terrible seats. Truly terrible because the only ones my father could get in an exile home that was filled with fear and I didn't know that we didn't have money because no one else

around us had money but the only tickets that we could get to anything were the ones that no one else wanted when the bill stunk in o.j. simpson was coming to town all they had was o.j. simpson and so i remember how small my hand felt in my father's as he sort of dragged me through a noise of a place that i didn't even have access to disney world at that point so my world was super super small and so I'm

feeling this feeling of what is this place? What is the energy of this? Why is my father bringing me here? And it's my introduction to sports. I can remember very little else from childhood memories of this age, but I do remember that feeling and the Panthers are in the middle of providing it for a generation. There have been precious few things that felt like that over the last 30 years with this hockey team these smells you mentioned From the orange ball those were bad smells right yes. Yeah, okay. Yes truly terrible smells rust must urine urine vomit Yes, stale old beer that I from seasons imagine a childhood imagine a child's confusion as why does a place that smells?

This bad feel this good So much Tetanus shots you'd cut your elbow on something going to that place you poor kid It is it's a trauma. I carried with me for a long time One of my favorite things is it could be a sellout carried with me for a long time. One of my favorite things is it could be a sellout packed house, so many people got into that stadium without a ticket during the big games.

But in the lower bowl, beneath the overhang, there would always be these little pockets where no one would be standing. And you would have like a little border, kind of like a little mosh pit. Because urine was spilling down from above, and you did not want this liquid, this mystery smelly liquid, coming down on you.

Mike, to Dan's original point, don't you think the Panthers are kinda set up to carry this forward here, the wedding? The team is young, they have a lot of guys under contract. Yes. The ownership seems to take this very, very seriously. Dan mentioned the University of Miami and their college basketball teams

kind of wasting an opportunity. I'd agree, it's also a very different sport. You don't have players under contract, especially nowadays, you can play for four schools and four years if you want. The 96 Panthers are probably the closest comp to squandering the opportunity, but that was an expansion team that had a ton of veterans.

There were a ton of guys, not a lot of young guys, not a lot of long-term contracts. Even though Barkov has played, and Echblad have played here for 10 plus years, they're still in their 20s. You have Reinhardt coming up as a free agent, the expectation is, and I know he said yesterday he wants to be here, you have Gustav Forstling

on a gem of a deal, locked up for a long time. You have Matthew Kachuck locked up for a long time. And the Bobrovsky contract does come off your books in a little bit. So yeah, they're poised to be in this conversation for several years after. I also think one of the great things they have is they have a leader in Kichuk who tells everyone,

hey, playing in Florida for this organization is great. Well, they talk about this all the time, the players around the team. They do like the anonymity that they have, wandering around all of South Florida in a way that doesn't come with a ton of celebrity. And then when you are recognized by people, it feels a little bit better to have the celebrity because they have a genuine appreciation for you and it's not a crowd of people gathering

the way that it does you know every time LeBron has lunch in Toronto it's not an insanity it's a little more comfortable and you're just feeling a little bit of gratitude here and there as opposed to having it immerse your entire life. But when it comes to building blueprints on things in the history of South Florida sports, that original Panther team that Mike talks about was not just veteran-laden, it was a bit of a fluke. So it wasn't something that could be sustained. When you think of things that are sustainable, you think about HEAT 2010, 2014,

and you think about the University of Miami replenishing championship recruitment. Everything else down here? Marlins get broken up when they win championships. They don't have sustaining things. The Dolphins have been bad forever. There's not a thing, even this incarnation of the Dolphins that has a great deal of hope in it, the bill's gonna come due on Tyreek Hill very shortly. Yeah, but you have faith finally that the organization is doing the right things.

As long as that head coach is there, you feel confident in your offense. I think for the first time in my life down here outside of when they had Marino, you know you're going to be a part of that conversation. You know you're going to be playing meaningful games into December. Because it feels like McDaniel will be down here for at least a decade, right? Yes, it does. It really does. The thing about this though, that to me

is the most invigorating of all of it, is it's here. You have the ability to be Tampa. Tampa turned into a hockey town that Tom Brady had to come and wrestle away from that city because baseball has been better than everyone in Tampa for a long time and they weren't able to do it because in the playoffs they haven't been able to sustain the thing that you have to sustain which is create the momentum that gets people

more and more excited until they're unbearably excited and then give them a game 7 for everything you make fans forever there and South Florida is about to find out exactly why this is unbearably excited and then give them a game seven for everything. You make fans forever there. And South Florida is about to find out exactly why this is the most special trophy in North American pro sports because summers with Stanley are a real thing. That cup is if you're out and about in Broward County hopefully one day in Dade you're going to see that thing out. They're going to be celebrating all summer long with it, and when that thing enters the room,

it is the bell of the ball. And it is unlike anything else here in North American sports. A celebration that is attached to that carries over for months on end. I'm so over the Rays, how smart they are. You know how smart they are? Smart enough that they put wild card banners up. That's what real winners do, they celebrate wild cards. Get out of here. Rays, how about be smart enough. They put wild card banners up. That's what real winners do they celebrate wild cards?

I get out of here raise. How about be smart enough to win a World Series? He's right I mean they have like what one ale pennant Maybe two if even that never won the World Series are they that smart they can't figure out how to last all the way through October they win a hundred games with coupons Yeah, but Billy does know more baseball Baseball than most Billy yesterday just correctly predicted a home run out of nowhere What yeah well I got this weird text from juju saying well through Taylor what it doesn't matter But it was like draft Kings were doing this home run special We'd like to pick you to hit a home run which is I'm like that's nearly impossible

How am I gonna do that and then I got lucky Well, you've been very good with betting in general. I don't think that we have a rabbit's foot that is better on gambling stuff than Billy. His information might not be good, but he's been pretty lucky with public gambling. His information wins. You wanna see the home run? We have the home run for whatever reason.

You wanna see an Anthony Santander home run in the eighth inning to make it a 10 to eight game in Baltimore. Look at that. Sons muscles, one wall scraper opposite field. Now, here's the thing. I love how they break up the syllables in his last name. Yeah, it's a tough one. Here's my thinking on it.

Home run in the month of June. I didn't know that. So here's my thinking on this. I looked up, okay, who's the worst pitcher of the day? Or the pitcher that's given up the most home runs? So I found the pitcher that's given up the most home runs and it was the starting pitcher for the Guardians. And then I looked up, well, like,

who's leading the league in home runs? And Gunnar Henderson was an option because he was two in the league right and I was like the Orioles are gonna be good for 10 years but I was like Gunnar's too obvious right let me not pick the guy that has the second most home runs in the league anyone can do that let me go down oh tied for fifth another Oreo let me pick that person so I was thinking the starting pitcher that gives up the most home runs the there are the fourth most home runs against a hitter who's fifth in the league in home runs. This is gonna happen early. Oh it didn't he was looking bad throughout that entire game And Gunnar hit a home run in the first inning

I was like, oh I should have gone with Gunnar every person I talked about yesterday behind the scenes show I hit one in the first inning everyone was hitting home runs yesterday except Anthony until the eighth And then I got you your Dinger what I don't remember what it's called, Home Run Dinger something. What you got today? Sponsored by Draft, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's not you. You want one and done?

You're on a roll. I haven't been asked to be doing this every single day. Now, if you ask me later and I have to do it, I'll figure one out, but anyway, no one cares. Bad information. I mean, Billy studied. He put some research into this. I'm proud of him.

Do it again. There used to be this contest on MLB.com where it was like, so they had two. They had a hit streak one where you had to pick someone to get a hit every day and if you broke Demagio's streak of 56 straight games, the prize was like a million dollars. And then it just kept growing because it's impossible. And I don't know if they still do it,

I doubt that they do, but at one point it was like you win $5.6 million if you could predict a person to get a hit in the game, and not the same person. Every day you could pick a different person to get a hit. And if they didn't play, then they gave you kind of like, you know, you can do it again tomorrow. Impossible. Then they had one, I remember,

I don't know why I remember this, you had to pick home runs. And I think it was like if you get whatever the number was, whatever the number was, you won some big cash prize, right? And the person ended up successfully doing like nine straight games so they would have won the prize, but there was no replay at the time. And the person that they picked was Miguel Cabrera,

and he hit one over the wall, a pro player that hit the guardrail behind the wall and bounced back in. And since there's no replay, they said it was a live ball when it was actually a home run. And then the way that the MLB did a make good, I think they gave the person all-star game tickets or something. These are the things that stay in my brain

that are completely useless, and I can't remember basic things. What's interesting is that you say that you have a bunch of useless information. It's all useless. I don't have any useful knowledge. Like if you were to ask me, give me something useful. You predicted a home run here.

I simply cannot give you useful information. It's all useless and I can't purge it. I don't know how to get rid of it. Usually you do so because it dribbles out of your mouth, yammered on this show. In a useless way, that's what I'm saying. I can't use my base of knowledge in any helpful meaningful way

It's just for bad. Yeah, and and and the first step is admitting it Billy and We have a contract here with DraftKings. This is killing it for them This is a sponsored segment that you just referred to as home run dingers something. Yeah We are partner with this organization to promote the things they have that are not named Home Run Dinger something. I'm not the PR person, I'm the expert on the sports, so that's what I did, I experted.

Yep, you got it right, that's all that matters. I mean, come on. Well, no. I mean, someone put that bet in yesterday, a Philly's Advised, and they got it right, they want some money. Sturgots, you're going to be having the career you've had and say sponsorship doesn't matter.

Totally fair. Okay. It matters, but when it counts, you know, it was called Draft King's Homerfest. Home run dinger something is what you just called it. Yeah, Draft King's Homerfest. I remember saying Draft King's Homerfest, I don't know about you.

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This guy comes in as the next Wayne Gretzky. 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 Don Le're in the final. Stugats. What's your nickname for them? McOverrated.

This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. I have in front of me a piece of paper that has created Stugats, what I'm going to describe as a gurgling, simmering rage that is about to explode in a way that this show often uses as fuel for creativity so I'm going to need some help from the group here because I haven't felt the feeling that I'm presently having simmering and gurgling in ten years Lucy may not have access to the last time I felt this so let's just

play for her the video package, Lucy, of 10 years ago, how it is that I ended up getting suspended from ESPN for something involving billboards that is now returned here with this piece of paper that has enraged me to give you, Lucy, the context of why it is I'm so angry right now. Now at 11, it's a sign of the times. This billboard poking fun at LeBron James went viral yesterday.

Well tonight, the man, the Miami radio host behind the billboard has been both silenced and suspended. Message delivered. You're welcome LeBron. We showed you the controversial billboard in Akron last night. Now the ESPN radio host who paid for it is now paying the price. News Channel 5's Michael Baldwin live in LeBron's hometown where

Dan LeBotard's silence definitely has people talking. Yeah, Danita, we won't be hearing from ESPN host Dan LeBotard anytime soon. That's because he's been suspended for two days. He's been suspended for putting up

signs like these throughout the city of Akron and notice to me that I said these that's because there's more than one not one not two not three not four not five but six that's right six of these you're welcome LeBron love Miami billboards spread across Akron. They cost about a hundred grand and they were put up by ESPN TV and radio host Dan LeBotard, who lives in Miami. Well, the four letter network suspended him for two days because they say they had no idea what he was up to.

They released a statement saying in part, his recent stunt does not reflect ESPN's standards and brand. We were not made aware of his plans in advance. LeBata sent a text to a reporter in response to the suspension, which reads, I guess ESPN didn't find it at all quite as funny as I did. Nope. And neither did people from Akron like the LeBron James Grandmother's fan club. I did not like the billboard. No. Don't mess with my child. Don't mess with our child. A Miami Herald reporter spoke to Libertard and says we may be out of bounds on the sign's

message. Dan did it all in jest. To him it was all good natured know, it was never meant as any sort of harsh criticism of LeBron. No matter what the billboard's message is, people in Akron think ESPN did the right thing by having LeBotard sit on the bench a few days. Well, I think he did it underhanded then. You know, if they didn't know about it, they did the right thing by suspending him. Didn't know about it. They weren't listening to the show.

Ever. We did a week on that. $100,000. It wasn't that much, it was not nearly that much. And I need to tell some of the backstory here, but Lucy, what are your thoughts here as you see this, I'm assuming for the first time? Greg Cody has aged 30 years and 10 years.

He looks so different. Yeah. Crazy. so different. Crazy. Sounds different. It was benign. Sounds different as well. No idea what I was up to. After that we got a babysitter, right? Because there wasn't anybody actually listening

to our show. We got an act, Liam became our babysitter after that, correct? Yeah, we had a babysitter at that point though too. And like you said, we were talking about it on the air. For a week. It's kind of weird for them to say we weren't aware of it. Now were we a little coy when they asked for details?

Perhaps. I also wasn't an ESPN employee at the time, despite producing programming for them. I will give you the details now, because it was not $100,000. What happened here is that we tried to put out we tried to put in uh... the cleveland plane dealer a newspaper ad that cost a hundred thousand dollars and they wouldn't allow it

and i was mad on behalf of free speech journalism on behalf of being leaving and taking the economy with him. Let's be honest, you were mad because they rejected your ass. Really? And that's it. We were all mad because he left. I was mad for a couple of reasons, though, because it was, of course, all of that.

But also, I was mad on behalf of the newspaper industry, which at the time was struggling, for not taking my money and then allowing me to put up those billboards for less than $10,000. So they denied themselves 10 times the profit and I did it anyway, we did it anyway that way with billboards that are incredibly cheap in Akron. You were trying to help newspapers of course, right? It was a noble gesture. That's right. It was an act of altruism.

And it was also, if you're a sports fan from that area, you're happy that your newspaper stood up to someone trying to get one over on you. Billboard company, they let you down. That was also, if I remember correctly, just phase one, that the suspension then killed. Because I remember there were discussions of Skyriders over the LeBron welcome home party.

And then there was debates as to, well, why would we have Skyriders at night? But how much does it cost? I was going there Mike was gonna go I believe the rent is too damn high guy was good offered to be Pop culture time capsule that was I Did have not it wasn't sky writing we did have banners set up that ESPN then nuked like they not literally we weren't no literally they did they used yes they used nuclear weapons on some banners that were behind a plane yes Moe Davenport they spent a lot more money doing that it did seem excessive the whole thing seems a little excessive but I'm here again now I'm mad at a

billboard company because we have been working. I thought this was going up last night at midnight, the Greg Cody billboards. Everything was done. Everything's been done for days. Right dimensions and everything? Yeah, we got those right. We got the dimensions right. Everything.

The dimensions haven't been right for days. No, the dimensions were not initially right. Otherwise, we might not have gotten this letter I now have gotten. Did they change the size of the billboard? Is it funky shape? I'm gonna go ahead and blame that one on general metal arc malfeasance.

These are digital billboards, right? So it's a whole different dimension. I have been very disappointed about a number of different obstacles that have gotten in the way of these billboards. But yes, they were going to be digital billboards that were supposed to go up yesterday. I was told they were going up last night at midnight.

And now this is what I have gotten. Apologies, but your ad request will not be processed, and I'm no longer able to assist with this. Response from our team is as follows. We have declined your request for advertising. Part of our creative approval process includes aligning with community standards and respecting the sensibilities of all stakeholders including our audience who in this case are the citizens of Edmonton as well as our partners and this messaging does not

meet those standards. The messaging is just Greg Cody's face smoking a cigar saying Greg Cody was right and you know it. That's all that it says. That's all it says on the billboard. Maybe the cigar is a problem. Did you also remove the cigar? Maybe it's a smoking situation.

Great job by those folks in Edmonton. It's a great, and real talk from a business standpoint, I would not be putting those up because those are gonna get destroyed. I saw the 30 for 30 on what happened in Vancouver. No, I'm not gonna be putting that up to piss off my community and have them take it out on my digital billboard.

No way. Great call by them to protect those sports fans. I'm being censored and I'm not gonna allow it. And that we have a- It's a different country. You can't claim free speech. We have a mole in our midst here. we have someone on the other side signing with the billboard company this is censorship this is a broken North America but you

can't say this is America Jack you just can't I can say this is America no you can't Canada we've got we've got your trophy we've got more strength here than you do you don't know how to win this trophy This is North America Jack Kachak's American proudly We have freedom in this country to put up billboards inaccurate bar cob first finish captain ever I had no idea barcodes the first captain to never be in a fight to win a Stanley Cup amazing thought it was Russian He is part Russian. I had a friend confide in me who was a diehard for the last few years

and he's like, can I be honest now that we've won the cup? I'm like, what? He's like, for the first entire full season I was watching hockey. I thought Alexander Barkov and Sasha Barkov were brothers. I thought they were like the Sedines. Would you like the rent is too damn high clip, Mike? Would you like to revisit the time of who it is that you were going to go to? This was Mike's bodyguard. No, this wasn't your bodyguard. I don't think that this was your bodyguard.

Was this your bodyguard? This was discussed. I think by the time this was this was your bodyguard. This was discussed I think by the time like I was the whole trip to to Akron that they pulled the plug on it I think like seven hours before I was support supposed to board this Rent-a-sue damn high guy got phased out of the plans like some 12 hours earlier He was yeah He was asking for an appearance a lot went into it like there was multiple He was asking for money too. Yeah, he was asking for an appearance fee. A lot went into it, like there was multiple billboards,

then we couldn't actually use the rings because it was a copyrighted design, so Angel had to redesign the rings, and there was a whole font debate. That's why the Stanley Cup got, the Stanley Cup just got taken out of the Greg Cody was right thing, because you can't use some of these things.

Let's go ahead and play the Rent is Too Damn High guy, please. I represent the Rent is Too Damn High party. party people working eight hours a day and 40 hours a week to some a third job Women can't afford to take care of their children feed their children breakfast lunch and dinner My main job is to provide a roof over your head food on the table and money in your pocket This is politics as usual Playing a silly game, but it's not gonna happen to rent to them movement. The people I'm here to represent can't afford to pay their rent. They're being laid off right now as I speak. They can't eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Listen. Someone's stomach, child's stomach just growled. Did you hear it? You

got to listen like me. Okay, Mr. McConnell. Let's talk about the issue. People can't afford to pay their rent. Mr. Cuomo, 30 seconds for you, sir. Rent is too damn high. As a karate expert, I will not talk about anyone up here because our children can't afford to live anywhere. Nowhere, there's nowhere to go. Once again, why? You said it, the rent is too damn high. Thank you. We need that party in Miami.

Legend. That's the one party we need that party in Miami. Legend. That's the one party we need to have in Miami, but that's not the guy who was going to protect you, Mike. I think that guy got bumped for Charles Ramsey. It was Charles Ramsey. Yeah, from the area. We will update you on Charles Ramsey in a second. We will get our shit together.

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Don Lebatard! Cheaters never prosper! Stugats! I ain't cheatin'! This is the Don Lebatard show with these two guys. We've got a delayed penalty here Mike Ryan. I'm sorry you're gonna have to go to the penalty box for two minutes here. You confuse the rent is too damn high guy with Charles Ramsey. Minor penalty two minutes for lying this is one this is one of those times that I'm headed to the box but the ref got the wrong guy here got the wrong guy no no no I like the penalty kill here you guys go for it Kevin Stinlin over here well you don't want me you don't want Kevin St Sentlin off the penalty kill right now. I'll tell you that. That's my penalty.

We will get to the explanation for this in a second, because I don't think that Lucy knows who Charles Ramsey is either. I don't think Jeremy knows. And speaking of all of that, because... What a weird time, huh? Just reminiscing and looking back at all these people yeah summer odd going through 24 going through our history is something that I always enjoy doing it's nice to see Roy again Roy are you sober are you more sober today than you were yesterday not so long okay you're still

celebrating what are the best parts of the last 24 hours what are the sights and sounds what are some of the things you've enjoyed watching about your hockey team celebrating? Man, I really enjoyed watching that cup going into the ocean. Maybe it is a corrosive property, the salt water. Or the salt water, maybe some of the names are gonna come off that cup, but I'm sure they're gonna

fix that. Can I ask you something? So you were there. What does the keeper of the cup do? Was he in sight at all? Or like, cause they get their days, right? But like you also hear of ways they defile the Stanley Cup. So you were there, what does the keeper of the cup do? Was he in sight at all? Cause they get their days, right? But you also hear of ways they defile the Stanley Cup. And I don't think that the Stanley Cup guy

is like a voyeur, right? So if someone is doing something funky with the cup, is he standing in the corner watching or does he disappear? So when it goes into the ocean, what does he do? I'm sure he was still in the elbow room. I did not see him I'm because they had the cup the entire day. So I didn't see him, but I'm sure he was in the vicinity I would imagine that you asked the keeper of the cup

Hey, can we throw this thing in the ocean before you actually do it? You need his approval? No, I don't Really? I don't think they got his job as keeper of the cup He protects the daily cup. We have talked to a number of different players over the years. I don't remember who the Dallas star was that we talked to about things that have been done with the cup. Parties, weird parties, eating things, spaghetti out of the cup where guys are partying with rock stars and metal bands enjoying God knows what kind of debauchery with the cup. They have many cups, the cup often gets broken, they have to fix it a great deal, and they

come back every year with a cup that seems like it's okay, but there's no way that partying with hockey teams, I don't know that people truly understand how hockey teams rage. Oh absolutely not those boys can party I can tell you that and if they do damage to the cup they'll send it to a shop in Montreal to fix it and they send it right back out. Mike Ryan has been sent out and I do think it was Billy that caused that problem and Billy doing quiet anarchy is one of one of his more enjoyable characteristics But I do want to just get everything I can Roy from what your 24 hours have been because you are You've been weakened by the last 24 hours and your unusual

last 24 hours and your unusual career path in this space, which is to choose a broadcasting career as a man of few words, a man of not many words. He's done pretty well though. Yes, he's done pretty well. No one else has established that broadcasting lane of being a man of few words in broadcasting. AJ Hawk. But I want you,

yes, AJ Hawk but I want you yes AJ Hawk is absolutely trying to find Roy's Lane he's you're the pioneer here Roy on being a man of few words but over the last 24 hours what is happening in your household is your family thrilled for you is Princess Claire on clouds because her father is happier than she's ever seen him? Oh, absolutely. She is ecstatic. I bought her a cap. I bought her a nice little Stanley C. Panther pillow. She is very, very happy with everything that has gone down.

Actually, there is a, my wife, Anid, told me to pray before game seven. She told me to get some divine intervention into this game. Has she ever done that before, before a game? Has she ever wasted prayer on a game before? This is the first time. Whoa! That we have.

I mean, no, there's no such thing as a prayer wasted. But if we're wasting prayers, you don't want to save bullets? That game four would have been a wasted prayer. Yeah, yeah, that's why I didn't do it. Yeah, three in the holster. I mean. You could have saved yourself a lot of stress

if you had just prayed before four, five, and six, Roy. I mean, come on. Yeah, well, you know, I thought I had it in the bag on that one, but. So God's a Panthers fan? I guess so. I guess so. He shows sides.

Roy, your 15-year-long bit of play-by-play on Twitter has actually, that tree is bearing incredible elite fruit now. Because I do think your Sam Rinehart 2-1 tweet is actually an old timer. It is a great tweet, great punctuation, efficient with punctuation. You've got it wrong, Billy.

God is not a Panther fan, but he hates McDavid. He is American, we've established. He's certainly not Canadian. God is American. He is a Greg Cody fan, though, too. He's kept Greg Cody alive. I do actually believe that is the ORNC platform, by the way, that God is American. Yeah, that's right. Put it on the poll. Is God at LeBataire's show. Let's introduce the audience to Charles Ramsay the guy who was going to be Mike Ryan's bodyguard because Akron wasn't going to behave any nicer around our billboards than Edmonton's going to

behave around our billboards. Well I was threatened with a lot of physical violence. We had to get you a bunch of security. We had to get you a bunch of security. We had to hire a bunch of security. There wasn't Charles Ramsey. No, Dan and I were legitimately concerned for your safety, but we were. We had to hire security. We didn't.

And I was prepared to go by myself. Local authorities had been alerted. Like, word got out that I was on my way there. And the security that we were approaching was Charles Ramsey, who said genuinely genuinely if I'm with you nothing is gonna happen. That's correct and he was going to protect Mike Ryan. Here is an introduction to Charles Ramsey. Walk me through again what happened this afternoon. You heard screaming. I heard screaming. I meet my Mcdonald's. I come

outside. I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of her house. So I go on the porch, I go on the porch and she says, help me get out. I've been here a long time. So you know, I figured it's a domestic violence dispute. So I open the door and we can't get in that way because how the door is, it's so much that a body can't fit through only your hand so we click the bottom and she comes out with a little girl and she says call 9-1-1. What was the reaction on the

girls faces I can't imagine to see the sunlight to be around people. I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something's wrong here. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Yes. Punctuation of saying it twice. We went viral. And he was a hero. He is a hero. Yeah, legit hero.

Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan. It is hot. It is damp. It is summer. And it's a perfect time for grilling outside over an open flame or charcoal grill or Propane. I'm not I'm not really sure. I'm not really I'm all that manly. I think you guys can tell but once a year I'll bring out that brush and I'll scrub down the grill and I'll make myself a nice meaty feast

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