The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Enough is Enough

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

The nerves continue to rise as the crew discusses Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, and Greg Cote surprises no one by going full “me maximum” about what he believes would be the best storyline tonight. Then, as Dan discusses Greg Cote using veto power over a picture of "him", one of the most hilariously-awful timed events in the history of the show takes place and Greg gets genuinely angry with the crew. The show composes itself and returns to the Panthers game to discuss how poorly the McOverrated take has aged and how good his odds are to win the Conn Smythe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Jersey City, New Jersey. Please drink responsibly. Welcome to the Big Sui! Presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? A podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcasts. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this show. The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.

That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar. There are a number of reasons that obviously we thunder like a million buffalo toward a mushroom cloud of a sporting event in South Florida. The way you guys are talking feels a little bit defeated. It's well beyond scared. I would make the argument to anyone listening The way you guys are talking feels a little bit defeated. It's well beyond scared. I would make the argument to anyone listening

around the good things in sports that cowardice is not the absence of fear. It's the ability to overcome that fear. The fact that you guys- Cowardice is overcoming that fear? I'm sorry, courage. My bad, my bad. Yeah, party and slip. My bad, yes. overcoming that fear I'm sorry courage Well, cuz I'm not feeling I'm not feeling courage right now you nailed it like I I don't really believe I have hope

But I don't I don't believe I got to see my team play well to believe I haven't seen them play Well outside of maybe a a second and third period in game five where you can maybe have some home I I don't really see the path I would say that I would have faith in my team but the team that I've seen over the last three games is unrecognizable Greg But that's one of the fascinating dynamics of tonight is that for the first time in the whole lengthy postseason? The Florida Panthers are doubted and they are underdogs because when it's even in game seven and you're the home team, you're the underdog. Yeah, it's our first elimination game.

Right. It's what's called a pick-em game. If you look at the lines right now on DraftKings Sportsbook, you'll find them at both minus 110. Books are happy because they're getting the action that they want and they're gonna collect on the hand. Right, I always root for the best story and therefore I envision the Florida Panthers

winning today. That is not the best story! It is for my market! It is where I live! It is where I live! It's not the best story. It is the best story. Where he lives, Dan.

Only in your house. The Gretzky of this generation coming down from 3-0, like'm up the like I'm admitting like that's a better story for the league Okay, Canada's used to this Canada's Canada's gone 31 years. They're used to this used to not winning It's nothing new for them answers have also gone this time with Connor McDade, which is why it's a better story Edmonton's won five cups Florida's won nothing it this is a better story Florida winning Connor McDavid is used to not winning a cup

correct okay continue please Craig to all the greats Panthers winning is the best story in the NHL I didn't say it was the most popular when Cindy Crosby went up against the Detroit Red Wings in his game seven that he went on the road I know he there was he wasn't able to finish that game, but his first crack at it, game seven, Stanley Cup final, best player won. The guy that was tapped to be a generational player came through, and now you have a dude that wrote that dude a letter when he was five years old

on how to deal with being a prodigy in the very same position. I think that you have, the ratings are gonna be a bonanza tonight. Connor McDavid becomes an actual recognizable star, no matter the result tonight. But if he transcends and does it, and does something that no one in the history of that sport

can say that they've done that's alive. Do we believe a five-year-old actually wrote a letter because I don't? Does the math add up on that? How does Sidney Crosby versus Dave? So the podcast, the Jeff Merrick Show, when they had this story said Sidney Crosby was 15 when Connor McDavid wrote him a letter at five years old.

Mom, could I have some stationery? I feel like penning a letter. How about you go into, you finish kindergarten first, then we're gonna give you a pen. Zagack. Why are you dragging down a 15 year old's address? That's weird as hell. It's ridiculous. Look, in Greg's defense, I would say this.

Should Connor McDavid win today, the NHL loses that storyline because he's won his cup. It's like the Triple Crown. We've talked about the Triple Crown for years. As soon as a horse won the Triple Crown, we stopped really paying attention to all of the Triple Crown races. Great analogy.

Exactly right, does it matter? Once we lose this storyline, what are we gonna do? Is he gonna win another one? Who cares? He did it already. And let me make this clear when I say that the Florida Panthers winning is the best story I am speaking 100% per oculi. It's me maximum. It is me maximum. I am speaking from my perspective granted the Panthers winning is also the best story for me personally But you know the pain for the Panthers it's also big don't get me wrong it's not just about me big night for the Panthers really not just you me maximum you are

saying that the best story is the Panthers winning nobody listening to that thinks that who is it first time and they're listening at the Sawgrass Mills food court and they're up and cheering right now watching it on on TV. But if it were. It opens in six minutes. Okay. Can I, I ask this question sincerely, having seen the million people that showed up in Boston for the parade, I don't know how many people live

in Edmonton, I imagine every single one of them will be in the street if Edmonton hosts a parade. What's our parade gonna look like compared to Edmonton's parade? I ask the question seriously, because I believe every single person, I believe it would be a national holiday in Edmonton. I believe schools will be closed and no one has to go anywhere but to the parade

in Edmonton, I would assume. That's not what it'll be here. You're planning parades now, are you? I'm saying both parades, both, look! Both sides have to have done some planning already! Somebody's done some planning! You gonna blame that on me too? Hello listeners, it's Mike Ryan. It's the summer.

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This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. I was one of those kids for sure that played by himself whenever ever outdoors or literally anything and thinking about like this is game 7 Stanley Cup playoffs maybe even like overtime thing about those moments so yeah I've had many of those memories but and now it's becoming a truth and tomorrow for sure exciting the most exciting time to be a hockey player. To me Greg Cody and you've been in this market for a long time the thing that makes tonight so incredibly rare and special above all other things is that you have been covering, watching, following this team for 30 years. And in 12 hours or so, you will either have the best feeling

in franchise history or the worst feeling in franchise history. Like there's nothing in between the two. There's nothing else there that you're, if they lose tonight, there's nothing that's happened in this franchise's history that's going to have felt worse than the loss of tonight. And if they win, it'll be the most satisfying thing you've ever gotten for your 30 years of investment.

It's crazy! It's crazy when you describe it like that. It's also crazy when it's not just franchise history. No team that exists right now has any person that has ever dealt with what is on the other end of this. You either win or you're the biggest joke ever in the history of the sport. And that's part and parcel of what I'm thinking when I make the audacious statement that this might be the biggest night in South Florida sports history in terms of a home game because the

extremes have never been this extreme. I've never had a bigger hockey game in my entire life. I mean you know hockey it goes without saying. No no no I'm saying I don't think in my lifetime there has been a bigger hockey game. I've seen game sevens in the Stanley Cup final. Yeah. A 94 New York with a 40 years. That's the only thing that I think comes close to this in terms of what surrounds a singular hockey game, maybe the gold medal game in Canada.

Like I, I don't, there is nothing that has been this big. surrounds a singular hockey game maybe the gold medal game in Canada like I I don't there is nothing that has been this big the extremes almost literally don't get more extreme you're either gonna raise the cup for the first time in franchise history or you are going to be a failure and a choker in public estimation of epic, historic proportion. We said it earlier, it's going to be word association for just hockey fans. Panthers blew that 3-0 lead against McDavid.

That is going to be what we're known for. Shit! Yeah, I'm happy that the sport is, it needs something like this, something that can get into the main cable sports conversation. It hasn't had this kind of launching pad with these type of broadcast partners.

So I know even if I feel bad at the end of it, the game is going to be helped by whatever happens tonight. Overtime? Worst case scenario. It's never happened in a game seven. You can talk me into it. No. How much fun would that be?

No, enough with the fun. I'm with Dan at this point, give it to me. Cause at this point it means that the Oilers didn't beat us by a lot. That the way the last three games, wait a minute, I will just take over time at this point. No, hold on a second. I have a question for you.

I'm glad that you brought this here, cause I've been meaning to ask you, before this series started, you said you would be fine with the Panthers losing the Stanley Cup. You'd just be happy with the fact that they got back to the Stanley Cup finals two years in a row because it shows that your organization is successful.

Do you still feel that? Because right now you just said you'd be fine with them losing it over time. I'm going to find the perspective if we lose this game tonight. I will be the one in here tomorrow saying this was fun. Because this has been fun. No it hasn't.

Like the last four or five days not been fun. No part of Friday was like fun. The last three years with this Panthers team has been, other than maybe the big three heat, like the best sporting thing of my life. Friday, Friday, you're watching the Boston Parade, a million people. You're watching all of the coverage of the Boston Parade.

And then you lose that night 5-1 in an uninteresting game that makes everyone who's paying attention to hockey being like wait is Florida really gonna blow that lead? Is that and the lead obviously has already been blown. I'm just really surprised though I am surprised by this I understand why it happens. Fandom is emotional. Fandom can be flimsy. I mean when when you jump up and down with the results of something That's not what most of you have done when your children were born in the delivery room Jumping up and down the the the wild expressions of emotions here are unique to sports when you ratchet it up to the place

Where you're telling your fan base Here's the deal hockey's super random base. Here's the deal hockey's super random, super random, like anything can happen. Sports in general in one game samples, super random and here's what's at stake tonight. Everyone's going to laugh at you or you're going to get to laugh at everybody who wanted to laugh at you. And in those stakes, what you have is, do you believe in your team or not? Because the three of you have wandered off on what the last three games have looked like,

and you're not looking at the larger sample, which is this team in the third period comes back from if you scored first. This team has the goaltender that until the last three games, you wouldn't have had a doubt that you had game seven at home with the better goaltender. The fact that you guys are running scared suggests to me that the combination of the stakes and 18 to five in the last three games when you needed it and Edmonton needed it.

It's that and it's the fact that you haven't looked like yourself. No, but you did at home in all three games. You didn't look like yourself at home. You went down 3-0 at home and you gave up a shorty and you made mistakes and you had to try to climb back into that game. You haven't looked like yourself. And I think that's where the, I'm not going to do the whole fan thing. You've lost hope and I'm a human being and I've seen a where the, I'm not gonna do the whole fan thing. You've lost hope in, I'm a human being and I've seen a team play totally unrecognizable hockey over the last three games, getting played off the ice.

They don't have a transcendent guy like Connor McDavid where you can just be like, get us one, pal. Just get us one. And you mentioned the goalie. Bob's numbers in the Stanley Cup final, now that the samples increase, he great for a couple games not great. Stuart Skinner's stats went through games four through seven unbelievable. He hasn't lost in the playoffs.

He's impossible to eliminate so far when he's facing that he always shows up. So Bob there it's weird vibes around Bob right now. He's not practicing for a reason. What are you saying? Not practicing and tell them to go home and like he's hiding somewhere? Yeah, don't have him face to media. Like it's very strange around goalies in this sport. They gave him the day off.

Let's not overstate it. They were just like, go home. They've tucked him away somewhere. They don't want him to be seen by the public or to see anybody. They've just tucked him away. I haven't lost hope in my team. Rah rah, go cats go.

I'll be there. And if they go up one zero, I'll be like, yeah, OK, we got this. But dude, I don't think that they're going to win tonight. What? What? I don't think that they're going to win in watching the last. Because it kind of feels, when you're watching on a television screen, that team figured that team out.

And it feels so much like that Tampa Bay sweep. It really does, where you're just unrecognizable to the eye. You're breaking all your habits. You're desperate. You're trying to find your way. Momentum is a thing, I guess. I guess it's a thing.

I don't know what's happening right now, but I don't think they're winning. What are we doing down here, by the way? What are the Panthers and us? I say we, because I'm a Panther fan. What are we doing for game seven? Who's singing the, what are the Panthers and us, I say we, because I'm a Panther fan, what are we doing for game seven? Like, who's singing the anthem?

Who's banging the drum? Mark Levy. What? Well, I would assume, like, somebody older. Yeah, we get somebody older and maybe more associated with failure. Dick Van Duh. Who do we, I feel like Messi has to do it, right?

It's Messi's birthday. Messi's at Copa America. Yeah, but that game's tomorrow. You can fly from Miami to New York every five minutes. You can get on a bus, train, whatever. Kate Taylor, dude, he got there in a day. He'll make it to that game. You bring out Messi.

Messi right now is on what, the hottest team in MLS? They're killing it right now. We're not paying enough attention to them. I've been talking about that. He's in the Copa America. Billy, the name that's kind of. Well, did you commit to Miami or not? Enough of this wishy washy shit with Messi.

I'm so tired of it. One day he's on this team, another day he's on that team. Commit or don't commit. Shit or get off the pot, Messi. This city needs you right now. Come bang the drum. What are we gonna do? We're gonna go to the old,

oh, we'll bring in Dwyane Wade to do it. The guy's a jazz, okay? Enough of him, he's a jazz, he was a cavie, he was a bull. Enough. If Dwyane Wade's banging that drum, I'm telling you right now, turn off the TV immediately. No point in even watching it. And if Ariana Grande's not singing the national anthem, we have problems. I'm tired of seeing her and SpongeBob up in the booth gallivanting around, watching the Panthers. They love it so much. They are such big fans.

How about you do your part? You get down here and you sing this nation's anthem and you make that Canadian dude who sings four words and gets paid for a full song every single game, you put him to shame. You say, you know what? This is the best goddamn anthem on this planet, and I am going to belt it out for free. That's what Ariana needs to be doing.

Not cheering up there in the booth with her boyfriend. Who's banging the drum? I am curious who. Messi. Like, cause it's not gonna be Messi messy he's not in town he should be Wade is the person that the internet is kind of saying would be cool who well like what's the next great coding I would Want Brooks Koepka because he's day in and day out there like he He's a true fan, but they used him like early in the playoffs last year

They just try to go didn't work didn't work out that well. Have him wear the Ekblad jersey again. Greg Cody said to me, muttering during the break, out of nowhere, he's like, you better hope that I don't get harmed by anyone after the game tonight if they lose, that would be a liability issue for you. We know he's litigious, too. Well, plainly, because it's because of this show that some on the fringe, the lunatic fringe,

might actually hold me at fault if the Panthers blow this three-nothing lead and lose. Dan, are you gonna tell him to be accountable for his own actions too? I would like the adults around here to stop fearing jinxes and fans beating them up and the superstition of fandom and rise up and not think your team's gonna lose over there and think you're gonna

get beat up over here. I understand you think it's all very silly. Yeah. And. I think it's great how silly it is. Yeah. But here like. I think, I'll tell you, hold on.

Let me just do this so that you understand it because you say I care differently I've talked before about how it is that the last three years have been unbearably hard to have something that feels good and takes me away out of that because I felt a little sick this weekend because Everyone's gonna laugh at you. I felt a little sick this weekend, and I'm like, god, I'm 55. Why the bleep would I care this way that I don't feel good when I've got an otherwise charmed existence

because I care about this stupid thing this way? That's what funds everything we're doing around here that people care like that. Yeah, I would say this is not a situation which would make me less superstitious. You actively trying to put up billboards and people planning a parade when we're up three zero and then blowing a three zero lead It's not gonna make me feel less Superstition I guess where where I'm at is people are gonna laugh at us regardless

I just feel like we've given them more to laugh at what good is your Superstition if you already feel you're gonna lose tonight and none of your Superstition can rise up and you can't put any magic dust Anywhere by wearing Reinhardt's Jersey. Well damn I've got a couple superstition levers to pull Whoa, he didn't wear Ryan really he didn't wear the Reinhardt Jersey by the way cuz laundry didn't get done. Mm-hmm So that was what happened. So the Reinhardt Jersey was due. He didn't wear it. What did you I got a couple of levers I'm going to pull. I'm not going to out. I'm not going to be out here like playing all my cards publicly because that takes away all the powerful juju. But why wouldn't you play your cards earlier on? Why are we

waiting? No, because you need to save. You've got to have some aces up your sleeve because the job's not done. I think I've gone out to the concession stand. No, I'm saving that for game seven. Guys, UFC 303 is here and there are some incredible fights. We've got the light heavyweight title between Alex Beheda and Yuri Prochaska. Amazing fights happening in Vegas. Jump in on all the action at DraftKings Sportsbook, the official sports betting partner of the UFC. And speaking of amazing, if you're new to DraftKings, listen up.

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He's the one who's got to like worry about what the future is. And Mike Ryan bet on DraftKings because Mike Ryan bet on us. This is the bet you're afraid of doubling down on? Putting up a billboard in Edmonton? Stugats! I care more about Matthew Kachuck than I do my daughter. This is the Don Lebathor show with the Stugats. Kody is in a turbulent place, guys.

Over the weekend, this is something that happened. It's an actual back and forth exchange I had with Greg Kody. Greg Kody was doing one of his petulant storm around. He emailed me, enough is enough, and started vetoing all sorts of ideas. One of the ideas he vetoed is this photo of him in New Orleans that was

dressed in a street. Glad you vetoed that. Well, he did. He vetoed it. He said, well, this photo, he said he would. Why are you saying that's me? Because it is you. It's obviously you.

How about you say that it's someone who looks unsettlingly like me 30 pounds ago? No, for the audience. Oh, wow, you're skinnier than this guy. It's a man wearing a purple Speedo. He's got a drink in his right hand. He's wearing a tiger hat of some sort. A thong Speedo.

He's wearing a tail, a long tiger tail, and tiger claw slippers, and nothing else. His belly is substantive. Well, paw print pasties it looks like. Yes, I'm sorry. Yes, so he's got those paw prints on his nipples. They appear to be. Greg Cody said, enough is enough.

I will not allow you to run that photo. But then, because I wrote Greg Cody's forward to a book that he's publishing, and he read that forward and was moved by it, he then allowed me to run the photo after enough is enough of him in New Orleans drinking too much during Mardi Gras. Okay, I allowed you to run it to make fun of it, not thinking that you would say that it's me when it isn't me. It's obviously you. It's you, Greg.

It's obviously you, the same way it was Belichick walking out of that ring doorbell. That man doesn't have a luscious mustache, so I'm not sure if it's Greg. Do you know when the last time I was shirtless in public? Right then. I'm watching it. We have video proof of it. I wear a shirt in the shower. I am never seen without a shirt. You're never nude? Well, occasionally but normally in the privacy of my own home. Chris, what's going on with your father that he's firing off and enough is enough to me over the weekend?

I don't know what else he was dealing with. He's in a frayed state. He's a little scared of everything that's happening. He wanted all the attention. It was a lot of fun up 3-0 to have all the attention. Less fun at 3-3. He was gonna not come in today and tomorrow over this photo.

I'm gonna take credit for this. I had to call him and be like, Dad, objectively funny, stop it. It's not you, no one actually thinks it's you. Well, he keeps saying it's me. It is him, it's obviously him. He keeps saying it's me. That's what's annoying me.

That's what's annoying me. I did show it to my daughter and she's like, pop? Yes, it is my pop. Because you did that at four years old and she doesn't know any better, as opposed to ostensibly the people in this room. Would you like to retain counsel? Okay, when I-

You get so serious about it. Because it's ridiculous. Because I don't want anyone to think that's actually me. And for him to say that it is, that's what makes me mad. I agreed to let you use that ridiculous photo to make fun of the photo, but to actually say that it's me is absurd. It's an insult to me. It's embarrassing. You're a Miller Light drinker. You'd never have a drink like that. It's f***ing embarrassing to me. Okay, all right, but that forward. I wrote such a lovely photo. It was beautiful. And there's another

photo that I don't want used. Why are you... Wait a minute, don't do that. Don't take time. That's an invasion of my privacy. Wait a minute, don't do that. That's not... That's an invasion of my privacy. You're taking that in the hospital room right after major surgery. I'm not laughing at that. What is this f**king show doing? I'm not laughing at that part. Okay, that photo should never be shown again. That's correct. And if you're going to show the photo of the guy in New Orleans at least don't say that it's me When it isn't me that you in the hospital bed. Yes, let's let's back off. Let's back off

Okay, everyone and and this is what I mean when I say enough is enough. Okay, I get the show I'm playing along with all of this. But there is a line to overstep. Don't show me in a hospital room. I agree. And don't claim that that's me when everybody knows it's me until you start saying it's me. I agree less with that part. But the first part I absolutely agree with.

That was an error. That was a mistake. Then why are you doing it? Because I texted Juju over the weekend. That mistake said don't show that that was a mistake So why is the show showing it because that's our social media department and then our video department the messages And that was an error a very poorly timed error. I also rage texted juju over the weekend There everyone is Really in a frayed state.

I can't wait till tonight. It's not me, it's sports. I mean, showing it to your granddaughter is another thing. At four years old, Connor McDavid is writing letters to Sidney Crosby. It's a very impressionable age. Greg, that was a mistake. It was an error.

I know you're not gonna believe it. You're gonna think that I'm fooling around. Me and Juju were privy to your complaints this weekend about that photo, no one else was privy to that. And that's why that just happened with truly terrible timing, but you did just remind me where the enough is enough came from, and that is where the enough is enough came from.

So I am sorry. Okay, but maybe those who were privy to our exchange and my feeling about that photo should have alerted people here who otherwise might have shown the photo. If I have a complaint about MetalArk Media that is profound and enduring for three years, it's how poorly everyone communicates around here. Yes, you are correct. It was an error on our part, what just happened, with unspeakably funny but bad timing, that it would appear as you were gently.

That's a roll of things we had. We didn't put up that hospital thing. It just happened to go off. It was terrible timing as he is, incensed with rage over something that would have been funny, right until we crossed the line, which is, clearly that's him in New Orleans. The LSU photo is staying up,

because that's objectively. It looks like you, Greg. The thing that's funny about that photo is it absolutely looks like you. You cannot just assume. Body shape. It does look like me. That it looks like you.

I am not that fat. I will go on a scale with that guy any day of the week. I love that. It could be plausibly argued that that is you in a court of law. Like, if I. That's not a court of law. that that is you in a court of law. I like if I. That can absolutely work in a court of law. That's not a court of law.

No, it's not a court of law, but if I put that photograph in front of a jury of our peers, 12 of them more would say that is you than would say it's not you. They would convict you. Witnesses would say that that is you if that was running away from a crime The crazy thing is we very well may find out because I feel like we're gonna see the process server again at some point I'm not saying it doesn't look like me. I'm saying it's ridiculous to say it's me

And by the way, correct, by the way, I'm in a great mood No, no, I am right. I am in a great mood I am the only one in this room who genuinely believes that the Panthers are gonna win I'm actually you say and run your room and he's also I'm right with you I totally believe said you're the only one in the room I have looked I looked at all those game logs and I looked at all of that stuff this year that has played out the Way this is played out Which is when those first three games go the way they do and Edmonton gets hold held to four goals what happens in their game logs after that is explosion after explosion game after game but what I saw in the last

time the Panthers were here and they lost the game I don't forget that they were pelting Edmonton's net with everything that had been figured out that that game at the end was Edmonton skating backwards saying, please don't end our season because the Panthers were at home. And I'm not saying you're not scared. I'm saying I can't wait till that third period tonight. And if they're down, I don't care that they're down

because they've worn down everybody all year on that and they're at home. Am I scared of McDavid? Of course I am. Am I scared of Dricidal? Of course I am. They're worthy champions too. But this is the first time with this Panther team before it started, before the playoff started, and I saw all those hundred point teams that I said to you this is a championship worthy hockey team and it is. You guys have been shook by the last three games. Do not blame you. Understand,

but that's what a desperate champion looks like. Let's go Florida, are you one? Are you a desperate champion? Cuz now the stakes are equal and you know what? No one's gonna laugh at Edmonton if they lose. They're gonna laugh at you, echoing an eternal if you lose this game. Great athletes love those stakes, want those stakes, want McDavid, want the best. Don't want to win this trophy half-assed, don't want McDavid hurt in the second period.

Fans do. Fans want, please get McDavid out of the game. Fans do. Fans are scared. Not champions. Champions don't do that. Champions want the best, want to take out the best. In Greg's defense, McDavid did nothing last game. I'm 4-2 right now. No, wanna take out the best. And Greg's defense, David did nothing last game. I'm four and two right now. No, it's three, three. No, no, but me personally. No, no, it's three, three in that series.

You were up three, two. Now Chris tried to give him one in the three, oh, but we didn't count that one. I'm taking the three victories in last game. Greg hoisted the cup. When he was zero shots, zero points. Yeah. Yeah, I'm four and two

But I got a win to win. It's all or nothing. Well, you already won if it's foreign to know but my whole Night you won four three. Yeah, but my whole premise is based on Rated because he's never won a cup if he wins a cup He's Mcproperly rated if the Panthers now that that's the column you should write tomorrow By the way, it's just like you know what? I upgrade him to McProperly rated. He would be if he wins. That's fair. Never denied it. He never denied it. But if he wins the Con Smythe trophy. Oh, now that'll be an outrage. If he scores six goals and loses seven six,

Greg Cody will say he's McOverrated. You're gonna rant against him winning the Con Smythe if we win tonight, but yes Oh, of course, of course doesn't he have the most points in postseason history? It doesn't matter if you don't win now when it counts That's his whole career having the most points and not winning if it happens again Then that would put the con and cons my else for him for him to win that there's the headline right there raising the cup There is the headline always the brides raising the cup. There is the headline. Book it. Always the bridesmaid.

What am I booking? What am I booking? The fact that that would put the con in Con Smythe if he wins that trophy without raising the cup. So I'm going to my bookie and I'm telling him book this. Yes. So what, he's booking my outrage. It's book this.

Yes. Con it. Or bank it. Go to your teller. Exactly right. So he put the con in Conor too, right? He'd be putting the teller exactly right so he put the con in Connor too, right? He'd be putting the con in con smith and the con are you? Leviton you said that not Greg don't do this thing We're now this gets attributed to Greg and he gets unfairly

They're just called Connor McGregor called on exactly and then he was trying to put those words I got a broken pinky and I my lips were sealed put those words in your mouth. Broken pinky. I know it was and my lips were sealed. That time. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show, have you called Conor McDavid Conor McGregor in the last couple, you just did.

Oh did I? That actually got in print. I know, I know it got in print. Yes, there was a typo. In your column? Yes, I called him Conor McGregor. Yeah, but I switched it out. I corrected it online.

It was a perfect typo. That Conor is a little overrated. I think Chael Sonnen owes Conor McGregor an apology. He owes a lot of people an apology to be honest. So Conor McProperly Rated is what's at stake tonight. Yes. If he raises the cup, he all of a sudden has lived up to the ridiculous expectations and he would be properly rated. I can't keep anything in my stomach right now.

I have to go poop. I know, I know. I have to go poop again. Okay, it's a few hours away and it's how everybody's stomach is here. That's the show, right? We wrapped. Done? We wrapped?

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