The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Is He a Good Player?

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

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along the way. I know I have. It's backed by thousands of members whose lives have been changed. Be part of that group. Telling you I'm better for it, having it in my office, sometimes I can put on the baseball game, sometimes I can put on a soccer match, some other times I'm totally locked in on an emo playlist. Find your push. Find your power with Peloton at OnePeloton.com. They were given a little bit of extra effort. Word got to them what was on the line tonight. Not the playoffs. Real Ballers know. This was the Sasslow game. over time Makes me forget just how bad we suck this year and all the Jimmy Butler shit

cause now Dan's gotta buy him tickets, yeah Who cares if the heat gets wet by the calves? Zazz gets to see Progen. He lies and says they've got a chance to win. Zazz gets to see Progen. The heat are eight games below 500. But Zazz gets to Seafront Gym Who knows if they'll ever be good again

Zazz gets to Seafront Gym My favorite part of that ridiculous three hour livestream that introduced us to too much Zazz over the next three months could have been working for free. Instead, we're going to pay him to be a plague around everything we're doing. My favorite part of the three hours of analysis is there was only one player in that game

in which we were asking the question, is he a good player? And it was Davion Mitchell, the person who won that game at the end, because the only person who we were questioning out there is, is that person a good player? Somehow Zaslow is still confident about tonight, he should not be. Tomorrow.

Tomorrow night, he should not be. And Mike and Roy head into right now tonight the hockey playoffs already We've got Chris with the heavy tongue Billy. Are you gonna be dragged into this mess because watching I told you I'm watching I'm gonna know the outcome already, but I'll be there to support. What is what is the outcome lightning? I need to do lightning lightning ain't shit your words not mine. They they are your words. I came out of your mouth They were they were your words verbatim. I was quoting you. So any of us own words, really? I mean, we just say things, but.

Pat Riley owns three, Pete. That's true. Wish you could bring one here. You guys aren't scared at all? No! You guys are not, Roy, you've done this every postseason. You're one for two, okay? Yeah, but I was a big one, wasn't it?

Well, you're one for 30, really. One for 30? You've been very hopeful about the Panthers many, many times in my lifetime. This is a rarefied air for you. I don't know where. As a sports fan, I think Roy is living right now as a sports fan the top end of what sports can feel like. And this is a first round matchup. Don't like it for my feelings. Don't like it for my heart. Don't like it for my history. Would like something easier in the first round

as the defending champions. Oh, I love it right now. There is an element to it where, okay, let's get the super hard series out of the way. First one, the longer you go in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the more beat up physically you're going to be. Let's get it on right now, baby, come on. And you know what? Who knows what happens at Washington and Montreal? It took overtime for Washington to beat Montreal. You may wind

up playing, maybe it's Montreal in the conference finals, maybe it's Ottawa in the conference finals, whatever. Let's face a hard team right now when we're fully healthy. I'm nervous because the Panthers haven't played really well over the last month and a half and also It kind of felt like as a season went on Wow, Florida definitely shut that Rangers window Florida definitely shut that Bruins window. We thought that we kind of shut that lightning window It's closed and they revamped their roster They made a lot of ballsy moves said goodbye to Sam Coase, but they made an aggressive move, got Jake Gensel on their team. They reshaped their roster a little bit, and

they're ascending. Florida hasn't been really great on form lately, but Florida's getting guys back, and you wonder if they'll subscribe to this championship mentality that teams that have gone on cup runs subscribe to, which is, yeah, we can turn it on when we want. You're talking about, oh, go ahead, Roy. Yeah, the subtraction of Stephen Stamkos hasn't really affected the Lightning's power play at all. And I expect this series to be overly physical. Like, if it's gonna go seven,

then we might lose some players in this series, unfortunately. But yeah, I believe it's gonna go six myself, but it's probably gonna end up going seven. Well, hold on. If you're the Panthers and you know that there's a strength in the Lightning's power play, right? Just follow the rules. Throw them off. Don't make any penalties.

Don't give them that advantage at any point in time. But the Panthers' strength is playing aggressively. So it's a fine line. Don't cross it. It's a double-edged it's a fine line. Don't cross it. It's a double edged sword. Fine blue line. You guys are talking about owning words.

Do you think Carson Beck trademarks the you is Beck? Oh, that's a good one. If he didn't, we should. Do you guys have the video of the latest Cavender Twin drama in Carson Beck? Isn't that something we were gonna try to get to today that we never got to? Mike?

I don't understand how we're post, you asking me the question? I'm asking everyone. We have the video, it's here if you want to play it. I was asking everybody the question. Are we asking that question? Like the voice kept going higher, I'm like, if you want to pal.

I think we're tiptoeing around your feelings to feelings is we're playing a clip of someone's ex-girlfriend talking bad about them so let's go look he definitely has it he moves moves the needle, Carson Beck. Play the clip. So basically, we were supposed to like, we go to Nashville, right? And they want to come to Nashville, whole breakout, all this jazz. On his phone like this, like, hold on. Like dude, get off your phone.

But like, does he have like friends? No! Nobody likes it! And he wouldn't talk to me. He'd be like an ego. He's like he wanted people to stop and like take a picture. He would like pull people out of the bar and I'd be embarrassed. Like I'm sorry, like I'd be like very embarrassed and I was like oh my god how are we gonna do this? And he was like I broke up with him. And then I broke up with him like all these cheating **** came out. I had no idea. I didn't break up with him because of cheating.

I broke up with him because of like...