The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Guttural Bangs

Episode Date: May 13, 2024

Mike Breen joins the show, and we greet him with a term that disturbs him to his core: "guttural bangs." Breen explains how he's able to remain objective during a Knicks series and why Walt Frazier eats his french fries in such a strange way. We also see if he can guess his own "BANG!" calls without context and make him listen to Stugotz's Top 5 Trademark Calls Throughout Broadcasting. Then, Katie Nolan arrives as we've officially reached the chirping stage of the Panthers-Bruins series. Katie reluctantly shares her hate for the Panthers as Roy belligerently takes over the segment from Dan. Did the Bruins get hosed? Should Sam Bennett have even been playing? Did the Boston hockey team Bruin Mother's Day for the Nolan family? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna 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 that 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. Always grateful for the time of Mike Breen. He is a pillar of professionalism. The voice of the NBA has been doing it very well at the top of the game for a long time, but clearly was biased and corrupt

at the end of that game 3, Indiana, New York. Are you trying to say that he's overcompensating because he doesn't want to show his Nick colors? Yes, well, let's play the audio for him and the rest of you. And I want all of you just to hear where the bang came from. Just I want you guys to all hear with me how surprised he was. And I'm convinced it's not just the drama of the moment, it's also Nem Heart, really? Really, from there, Nem Heart, really.

That's how we're doing this. I believe his heart was totally broken in that spot and he was trying to conceal it. And the way that he concealed it, the way, because this is a lovable mixed team and how can he not be emotional? But he tries not to be biased, he tries to be objective, and it's a human illusion.

We can't be objective. His nem heart was broken. Yes. Go sit outside. Come on, man. No, not before the interview. Come on. Go sit.

Come on. You got Mike Breen. I'm here. I'll find trademark calls for him. You can come back in two minutes with your trademark calls. Oh, come on. Go ahead and play for and welcome Mike Breen. Go ahead and play for Mike Breen this call and we'll see how and what whether he denies

the accusation because he's a liar alabart double-team shot clock at four them are going to put it up step back history or so that's on call you'd never know he was biased and corrupt there you would you just It's an excellent call. You'd never know he was biased and corrupt there.

You just wouldn't know it. You would think that he was just... Mike, welcome to the program. I'm sorry for the accusation. It is nice to see you. Where does that rank in terms of most guttural bangs from you in the history of bangs? Why would you do this to me this early in the morning i'd turn on the zoom call and the first phrase i hear is

guttural bang from you i mean listen to it what happened why are you covering your ears are you like gene hackman couldn't watch himself act he wouldn't watch his own movies you can't listen to yourself call a game not when you get sick of hearing the screaming fool so i i i i've heard it already uh... before

what's the particular question there and it's nice to see you but uh... where does that rank in terms of uh... your best when it comes to really going and summoning what the moment means and reaching it with uh... your best when it comes to really going and summoning what the moment means and reaching it with uh... uh... volume and grace uh... i'd like i don't really right now but anytime one is is uh... makes a difference in a playoff game

especially that particular game uh... i think think is up high. And what made that game so amazing? I actually felt the entire second half, you know, the end of a great playoff game, the last two minutes, it's one of the most magical things in sports, a close playoff game in the last two minutes. That game felt like the entire second half was played under those circumstances. So for then Brunson to go hit that big shot in a game that he had struggled and then for Nimhar

to come down and the most unlikeliest guy and a possession that was about to fall apart, it's the surprise of the moment. Those are the ones to me that, you know, it's it's my my love of the game fan reaction to see something like that happen in such an important game. Because if he doesn't hit that, the series is probably over there down 30. But this young man who had just missed two wide open ones. So, so many things come into play to have that as you call it, guttural bang. You are you're someone this is a rare space that you occupy

in that I very rarely see you criticized as one of the lead play-by-play men for being biased, for picking a side. You're very clearly a fan of basketball, but you're also a fan of the Knicks and have been for a long time. So how in that moment do you actually feel and how are you able to convey something that feels like

objectivity where you just love basketball and not that your team is getting broken because you have relationships on that team you have people you care about in that organization. But this is no question and and I try my very best when I put the headset on and there's so many things that are going on that you have to do your job not just for you but for your partners, for everybody in the truck to do a professional job. So you just have to and I've done it over the years. I haven't done it a lot in recent years because the Knicks have

been in these kind of big playoff positions in recent years. But it's just a matter of concentration, making sure you give that particular play the proper call that it deserves. For that young man to hit a shot like that under those circumstances, you want to make sure that you do that justice. And that's what I try to do on something like that. That one was just, because it was so unexpected, just came flying out. I'm sure there are Nick fans who are annoyed with me for having such a big excited call for an opponent to beat them in a playoff game, but that's what the job entails and you hope everybody understands. But Dan, as you know, we all go through this.

Every announcer goes through this, especially in the postseason when fans emotions are high and they should be high and they should be fired up for their team but they always think that you're rooting for the other team it happens every single postseason this one is just a little different because i'm the regular season announcer for the for the next i think next fans forgive you mike i'm a big. I've listened to probably every game you've called this year. My boyfriend's a huge fan of yours and of the Knicks. Could you talk him off the ledge right now? Like, what is your message to Knicks fans after these last two games?

Stugats, you're not going to believe this. Stugats, after they lost game three, Stugats, who's a Knicks fan, up to one says, it's over. The Pacers are going to win I've never seen that kind of defeat from a fan. Well as Mike said the Knicks should have won that game three They did it they got blown out predictably in game four and Mike. I fear that the season is now over I do There's still a bit of the next three games possible three games two of them Are in an arena right now that is lifting their team up to heights every time they

play, as did the Pacer fans do for for the Pacers this past weekend. But it's a legitimate question, because listen, they had nothing yesterday. The first punch comes, they were always able to come back. They didn't have enough to come back, you could tell that they had nothing. They were gassed. The question is, is that just a one game thing? Or are they really to the breaking point in terms of physical exhaustion? Because what they've done, not just in the playoffs, but the second half of the regular season,

so many minutes, so much extra responsibility, so many games where they laid it out on the line. I can't remember ever a Nick team that at the end of games looked so totally exhausted. It's been inspiring to watch how they've done it, but the question is have they hit their limit? And we'll find out obviously tomorrow night. OG Ananovi loss really hurts. I don't think he's close to returning, certainly not in the next couple of games. That could change, who knows. But tomorrow night is going to be fascinating. We're going to find out if they have anything left in them or have they really put it all out there to the point where they can't fight back against a really good and deeper team right now. We have some video here to show you that is hard to explain.

We have a theory around here. Perhaps you have one as well. Here is the video of Clyde Frazier eating french fries in a way none of us have seen french fries eaten before. He is eating them not with his fingers in a cup of french fries but just eating from the rim of the cup of french fries uh... we think we know why this is do you know why this is all right here's a here's a guess is that he doesn't want to get the grease from the french fries on his fingers and have any possibility of touch that magical suit that he looks so

so wonderful in yesterday so that So that's my guess. I'm surprised he did eat, I'm surprised he had the French rise out in public like that because he's very careful about maintaining this aura that he eats nothing but healthy stuff. I've watched him for years have Snickers bars underneath the table and eating them. So false narrative. Okay, so he's hiding his bad eating and that was our theory, that he just doesn't want to get his fingers on the clothes at all because that wardrobe is unlike anything in the history

of the sport. No, he's impeccably dressed and he doesn't want anything to touch that that would damage that look because he looked marvelous yesterday I would like to play for you. Just a couple of your bangs and I want yes Well, just I want you to see if I want to just see if you can identify the bang I think just like let's not give him any context. Let's just give him the game There's gonna be some slight context here, but you're not gonna hear any players name It's just gonna be an isolated bang and you have to guess which call it was.

We've only got two of them for you here, and it was before we probably, we tried to do this before we knew you were uncomfortable with it, and now we're just being stubborn about it and not caring about your feelings. So let's play the first one. Way down top, bang, bang! Oh, what a shot from- Oh, that's an easy one. That's Curry in Oklahoma City. Taken by Igadala. They do have a timeout. Decide not to use it. Curry, way downtown, bang, bang!

Oh, what a shot from Curry! The rare double bang. There have only been six of those ever, I think, in the history of- Why win? Do I win a prize for guessing it right? He's flexing on us. Oh, that's easy. Yeah, well that one was easy.

All of a sudden, he likes the game. All of a sudden, he's like, oh, that's easy. Oh, that's easy. Oh, that's easy. Oh, that's easy. Oh, that's easy. Oh, that's easy. Oh, that's easy. Oh, that's easy. Oh, that guessing it right? He's flexing on us oh that's easy. All of a sudden he likes the game.

All of a sudden he's less uncomfortable than he was before. Let's play the other one for him. Oh come on. How do we not do better than that? It's Ray Allen. Yes, of course it's Ray Allen. James catches, puts up a three. Won't go. Rebound, Bosh. Back out to Allen.

History point of BAM! Tie game with five seconds remaining! You were looking for a bang, like, on a Tuesday night, Cavs and Wizards, right? Yes, well, I think- I mean, that Mike's calling that game, but- It's bad executive producing from Chris Cody, who was sent eight of these and picked the two we all know. Alright, here we go, here's another one.

BANG! There you go. You guys wanna play the game? There it is. What, Mike? BANG! There you go, now we're playing it your guys' way. Go ahead, go ahead, Mike. BANG!

Oh my goodness, I have no idea. That's also the Curry one again. Bang! Bang! Oh what a shot from me! Chris wins. Stu Gotts has a top five list for you of the trademark calls throughout broadcasting. Do you have any OL eyes are is it just

the top five i have uh... six all allies yeah six of them yeah seven maybe outside looking in uh... seven if stugats is bad at math let's go uh... all i know why bang or not a top five insulting to our guests you literally could have the top ten with one of our i could have done that i did it it's a top five, insulting to our guests. You literally could have done a top 10 with one OLI. I could have done that, I didn't. It's a top five.

Keep going. Lee Corso's Not So Fast, My Friend. That's a good one, that's a good one. Harry Carries. Oh, holy cow. Ha ha ha. Keith Jackson. Oh, Nelly.

Good timing, Chris. Thank you. Booyah! Stuart Scott. As cool as the other side of the pillow. Stuart Scott. Dave Johnson. Down the stretch they come. You got five better than those. I have one more OLI. Jim Nance. Hello, friends. Number five. Hand down, man down. Really? It's a great call.

I mean, Mike will tell you. Great call, right, Mike? Trademark call. No, no. He's just staring at us quietly, stoically, and he said it's great because he's a good teammate. Number four. Mama mama there goes that man two of them number three christopher mad dog russo

good afternoon everybody how are you today is that a trademark call oh it is absolutely his intro yeah it's just him it's my list number two that was if you're in New York you you waited every afternoon to hear that when they came out the air Yeah, they really really those two. Thank you Mike WF a tape number two bang bang My number two on the list you got one better than that I do Kevin Harlan right between the eyes two on the list you got one better than that I do Kevin Harlan right between the eyes how do you feel about that list Mike I love the list I love Kevin being on the list where's Marv's yes oh wow my list make your own where is Marv's yes. Were you jealous yesterday when Murray and Harlan had a face off on the on the single greatest shot I've ever seen by degree of difficulty in the sport were you jealous that Harlan and Murray had that moment together and that you were not in it. Kevin's one of my best friends in the business. I love Kevin. His passion is amazing.

And Murray, interestingly, is a huge, like he's a fan of R Medium and a fan of calls. Like he always, he grew up listening to Marv. And there was a game in the finals the last year where he hit a shot and he turned to the table and he yelled bang to us at the table. So he and listens so he's into it and I thought that was a great moment for him and for Kev. How often, give me a number of times, a player has shouted bang at you? Oh not that much, not as much as you think. I can't believe this is what we're talking about this morning.

Do you like the meme that has your face on it that says I'm about to say bang so MF loud? Well, I get my kids tease me all the time about stuff like that. So it's what I like is what happens a lot at arenas, especially at the garden, is they'll come up with their cell phones recording the younger generation, and they'll stick the cell phone in your face and say, say bang for me, say bang. That's all they want me to do is yell bang. They don't want a picture, they don't want anything else. They just want me to yell bang into their phone.

They're not even ambitious enough to ask for a double bang, that's terrible. No, no, that hasn't started. That hasn't started yet. You seem sad by this, by the way. I mean, another convincing argument on the idea of just banishing young people from interacting with anybody. Thank you, Mike. Good talking to you. Hey, listeners, it's Mike Ryan, and I've changed a lot over the course of 20 years that you've known me.

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Miller Brewing Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories per 12 ounces. Fewer cows and carbs than premium regular beer. Don LeBataard! It's a three, the crowd goes into a delusion. Winning in the playoffs not an illusion. It's a heat check, he's on fire. Stugats! Harry Osh, Jalen Bronson. Thumbs up clutch, that's why we won. New York knows you are the best. Not the joke no more. This is the Don LeBathardt Show with the Stugats. Stugats, you know how much I love going back and visiting 1990s baseball. Yesterday during the Dodgers-Podres game, I'm not even kidding you, I felt like a dinosaur

had wandered onto the field because Yarborough was throwing about 86, 87 miles an hour to a rise who's just trying to slap a single to to left and so I'm watching baseball from another time like It was like watching Jamie Moyer like I didn't know there was a guy I didn't know there was a guy in the big league still throwing in the 80s like I didn't think that that was a thing I didn't think that was possible Little slap single I mean yeah Yeah it was it was baseball from another time but a better time. I disagree okay it is not a better time those games were four

hours long. I needed I needed those games sped up a little bit. I do kind of miss when like you only had one guy that threw 99 like remember when Matt Lindstrom threw 99, how impressed we were by it? It was a thing. Yeah. I love being nostalgic about the things that like a lot of people say they don't like about baseball.

Not that specifically, but games being five hours long. That's fun. Baseball's great. So you miss the slop tosser? You miss the guy who throws a crouton up there? A Luis Aquino who's throwing 88 the entire game, trying to hit the paint. The Neek Rose.

Yes. Jamie, you said it right. That's 45 miles an hour. That second goal from the Bruins last night was a knuckleball. Oh, that was ridiculous, man. I was a high school baseball player sitting in the crowd, being like, I could hit this guy.

Jamie Moyer, I've seen 87 before. Jason Veritek could have made that save, really. 10. An knuckleball. I want to get to that hockey game because, I was afraid of both of those franchises that the Panthers faced in the first two rounds. And I was saying before the playoff started

that this is the most championship worthy hockey team that we've ever had down here and you can make the argument throughout all of our sports region that outside of the University of Miami football teams and the LeBron era Miami Heat that these Panthers are most championship worthy what they did to Tampa and the way they did it what they're doing to Boston which is a very good team where you're just destroying them like the idea that I came in here today and everyone was still confident that the Panthers were gonna win that game when they were down to nothing where every Panthers playoff game I've ever seen before this team if they're

down to nothing that's over but because of the style of hockey that they play, because they're so physical, because they're so annoying, because they're so relentless, because they will fight you, because this series is about physically fighting. Like that's, we haven't even gotten to game five and we're all ready. You saw this Roy, George Richards, legendary sports writer down here

is fighting with Boston media members and we have escalated in hockey to the official chirping stage. We have gotten to the stage where people are chirping. People hate the Panthers now. It's just a sight to behold. I'm just not used to it now. We have all the attention. It's like, it's a beautiful thing as a Panthers fan.

Yes or no, we've escalated to the chirping stage. Oh, we have, we have. Why is George Richards fighting with Boston media? Because Boston is scared. Chirping stage. They're blaming everybody for their own defeat right now. I think the physicality has gotten the headlines of this series so far, but I think Barkov

is the story of this series so far. He's having his moment. He's been great. He's having the moment where everybody, they were just, they were praising him like crazy after that game because comparing him to Mario Lemieux well because the Barkov line has been great and and what a lot of the players for the Panthers were saying is It's not normal to get the winning goal through three defenders, but it's been kind of normal for that guy this season

I don't understand how it is, Roy, that Zaslow traded Barkov last year. I have not heard you guys complain about any Panther more than playoff Barkov before this Barkov, before. Well, he didn't score in the playoffs, that was a problem. But now he's going to playoffs right now. He's the leading candidate for Conn Smike. Ekblad we complained about, but bark off was next on that list

well it has been hampered by injury his entire career in the playoffs like you say you saw that breakaway and game two he was a step slow you're saying if the season ended today that bark off is winning the cons my yeah really yeah absolutely he's been great I promise i promise katie nolan i promise her that we had her book before the boston bruins lost in that fashion we are not trying to consume all of her tears here but this is where we have ended up because she loves her boston teams and uh... is she ready chris is having audio issue she was able to hear us and now she can

we're working on it. Okay Excellent. So she is gonna join us in moments because Boston is a little heartbroken the last couple of years last year's Boston team was Better than this one. I don't know. It's the best ever last year the best team ever best regular season team ever Yeah, absolutely But this year the Panthers just dominated in team defense like if you look at the shot attempts and shots on goal, 304 for the Panthers, 175 shot attempts total for the Boston Bruins. So it's been a domination. They doubled them up.

If the Panthers can get through this day, it will be quite the run, because they beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, beating the Boston Bruins, and then taking on the Rangers. And if they beat them in the Eastern Conference Finals, they get to a cup. Well, you should be. The Rangers are probably the best team in hockey, but that would be quite the run. That would be because hockey has not happened. The favorites are winning

most of these series. So that would be an incredible run to go through. The Lightning, your Nemesis, going through the Bruins, best team in the league last year, and just a point separated those two this year, and then taking on the Rangers and beating them man that would be great. But what Roy is saying though this this part is just different I've not experienced this as a hockey fan or someone who has covered hockey in South Florida in the entire history in this market the team is down to nothing Its fans should be scared based on its history. Look at what Stugatz is doing with the Knicks based on his history. They cough up a game and Stugatz is immediately, he's just scarred by all of the past.

The idea that this team, through its play, merits not just hope from its customers, but confidence from its customers because there is no better feeling for a sports fan than knowing your team is great, not thinking it, not thinking it, knowing it, and then having it validated because you've got a Bruins team that is and was excellent all season, has been excellent for two seasons and

What you're saying is true Roy those numbers of shot attempts. You cannot sustain that and win a series you cannot Maybe if you've got the world's hottest goalie, but Boston doesn't have that Swamen honestly has been good in this series. He's the only reason that the goalie for Boston He's the only reason this has been any kind of series. Yeah, and they can easily switch to Olmok if they felt like in this next game as a desperation attempt. Like last year they had the problem of switching goal tenders based off, Olmok was injured. They waited too late to go to Swainman. This time around maybe they should go to Olmok because it's just not working for them.

Stigatz, you want to start with Katie? I am told that her audio issues have now been corrected. I do want to start with Katie because I figured we would pick up where we left off last time we had her on the Tom Brady roast. She had many more opinions to give, many more thoughts on that, and I thought that was today the natural place to start with Katie. We didn't get enough of those last time? No, we did not. She said she had thousands.

I counted hundreds that she gave out on the show. means she has a couple of thousand to go I think Katie do you have any more roast thoughts for us a week later? I I can flip back a couple pay I trust me. There's nothing I'd rather talk about less than what I'm actually Can we let's do this quick. What do you guys got? What do we gotta say? What do you have on the Brady Rose? Okay, how did all of that feel for you last night?

I swear, we weren't, we thought. Awful! Sorry, Katie. Oh, what? Sorry, I keep cutting you off. It was bad, it was awful, it felt bad. The series has not felt good and that felt worse I because I had audio issues have no idea what you guys have been saying about it

Where do you stand on the non call? Oh, I thought I thought it was gold tender interference Yeah, I thought that that was a cheap goal that the Panthers were lucky to have but Roy is saying that's not a call that Gets made in the postseason. He knows more about hockey than I do no absolutely yeah yeah I get it but here's the thing it sucked here's the thing why doesn't everybody just throw somebody into the goalie then like whoa if they're not gonna call it you're doing that you're gonna call it if the thing because what believe the rationale Roy correct me if I'm wrong I will speak directly to you because I think you're the only one who might have even

watched any of this game. The rationale was that because they can't call a penalty in a replay, it would have had to have been called a penalty before they went to the review for it to have possibly been a penalty. But you can't, how could you have possibly called it a penalty before it became a goal when the penalty happened as the goal was being scored? Well, people are comparing this to the rush to the net in game three that was called a

goal to interference on on Boston, which is completely different. That was a rush to the net. This one was a slight little cross. Roy, we got lucky. Come on. A slight, a slight little cross. A slight little cross check. Roy, we got lucky, come on. A slight, a slight little cross. A slight little cross check. It's emotional for me.

A slight little cross check by the guy who you could argue shouldn't have even been playing in that game. Given the camera angle we oddly only got yesterday of him openly punching our captain. Oh wow, you're saying that's a suspendable offense? It is. That punch? yesterday of him openly punching our captain. Oh, well, you're saying that's a suspendable offense? It is. That punch?

It is. I think it could be. In fairness to Bennett, he claims he was bracing for contact. Sure, and in fairness to Bennett, which I'm not interested in, there's a lot of things in hockey that you aren't meaning to do, and they happen, and you get in trouble for those things.

But Katie, what about that uppercut that David Post and I gave Antoine Landell? Yeah! Well, they called a penalty, Roy. They did call a penalty, but she's saying the Sam Vinnitt punch was suspendable. Wait, what? Wait, what?

Because if you miss it after the fact that you go back and you look at that angle, which again, conveniently came out yesterday, you can't give him a penalty, the game's over. So I feel like, suspend him. There was a makeup call with Eckblad late in that game. I think we're even. Yeah, that was, yeah, with 30 seconds left on the clock.

I don't think it quite makes it up for me. You should have scored with 15 seconds left. I thought you guys were gonna tie the game there. Dan, we should have scored a number of times, but the problem is when you put, what was it, 14 shots on net, it's difficult. And I get it, our coach has a philosophy of quality shots over quantity shots.

But I think as we sit here, about to be eliminated, I wouldn't mind if in the next game, we tried quantity shots and we just pearl pucks at the net Because I think there was a couple goals last night at least that second goal proved that you hurl a puck at the net anything can happen Have you ever heard shoot the puck chants? Oh I loved that It seems impossible In your arena as if the players had forgotten and needed the helpful reminder from the fans.

Look, it's the thing that people yell that then you get made fun of for, of like, stop yelling, shoot the puck. But at that point, I think it was necessary. I don't know. I'm exhausted. This has been an exhausting series. I just don't understand how the second most penalized team

in the league gets to the postseason and suddenly is a bunch of good boys. Oh, they're just a bunch of good boys. Well, there's no scrums after the play. They're not starting the scrums, Katie. You guys are. Oh, wow. Oh, he's accusing you of starting the scrums, Katie.

He's a, he's chirping. We've reached, we've reached chirping. We have escalated to chirping. How did you describe Roy? What happened to Coyle? Cause he's not a small human being and he was thrown on the ice. Like he fell down.

There was a slight cross check. A slight cross check. His momentum was going towards the goal, Dan. He's not a small human being. See his neck like snap back. Roy definitely doesn't sound like a homer. I mean. Summer requires extraordinary hydration that's built for everyday dehydrating moments, especially in Miami We know that it gets very very hot you outside for six seconds

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libertar for weeks months even during the regular season I wondered aloud what Kevin Stenlon did and then about three weeks ago it hit me two gods he gives him one of these and he gives them one of those. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the StuGuts. Where are people on this though? Are they just lining up according to their allegiances? Like I thought... Yeah. Well, but... Welcome to sports.

Did you watch the game? Swamen said our coach wouldn't be challenging that unless he had a pretty good idea that he was going to win the challenge. Like that he wasn't allowed to do his job. They were expecting to win that challenge. I thought he was going to win the challenge. I thought he was going to win the challenge, but apparently not. Okay, but then that suggests. Why did you?

Apparently not Challenge in the regular season, but you thought you are when Stu Stu how much of this game did you watch? Exciting game saw the highlights. I was busy watching the Caitlin Clark documentary. I don't know about you. You were busy being in it. He was busy being in it. I was in it, I was watching myself. Do you hate the Panthers though, Katie?

Just based on their style of play? Yeah, I, yes. I don't know, of course I do. I have a better question, Ashley. Do you hate the Panthers based off of last season? Yeah, I hate, I hate anybody that isn't us, mostly. Um, but yeah, I think the Panthers stink. I think it's a really bad message to send kids about, uh, mouth safety to have a mouthguard,

but never actually put it in one's mouth. And I think that you should have to lose a couple teeth for that. They all have though. They've all lost a couple of teeth. Put it on the poll please. A couple more. Juju at Levitard Show,

have all hockey players lost a couple of teeth. How did Roy get away with just interrupting your question to say I have a better question actually? And it was about last year. We have been arguing all morning because I told him his team pulled one out of its ass last night and he didn't like it. How dare you? I have a better question, actually. And it was about last year. We have been arguing all morning, because I told him his team pulled one out of its ass last night and he didn't like it.

How dare you? He didn't like it. They got lucky on a second goal that tied the game. And Roy doesn't like to be told that they got lucky there. Just say it, Roy. You'll feel better. Just say we got lucky. It's OK.

I refuse to. He does refuse to. Savvy veteran beef. All right, how about this? How about that puck luck when the puck goes through Bobrovsky's legs and then somehow misses the goal. No, I missed the net. That was lucky.

It's like, what is happening? That was lucky. That was lucky. That was lucky. Oh. It's just not in the stars. It's not in the stars for the Bruins this year. And that's fine.

I think that getting out of that first round is more than we thought we were gonna be able to do. We are not better than we were last season. It just stinks that the second round, this is the team that we play against who might again, it just sucks. It just sucks because you have seven fans and it's just a frustrating situation.

That means you're one of the top 10 fans, Roy. That's actually a frustrating situation. That means you're one of the top 10 fans, Roy. That's actually a compliment. Thank you. He's a journalist. Who is the Panther you hate the most, Katie? Do you have some rankings here on the ones who are irritating you the most just because? No, because they like that too much.

You know, it's the obvious ones. Kachak is the worst. I cannot stand him. But this is just fuel. The people will love this. This is what they want. So no, I'm not gonna give you a list. I forget all their names the second the game is over

because they mean nothing to me. The experience of watching the teams in Boston, where are your allegiances strongest and weakest? Like who breaks your heart the most among the teams? But I'm the Bruins the Bruins is my deepest emotional connection to a Boston team This is the team my family has season tickets to this is the sport that has been in my family my whole life this is sport my brother played so this is the one I've been around the longest. And it just like Bruins losses affect not only me, but they affect the people I interact with.

So it kind of like ruins. Last year was a brutal time for us and our family. And I wanted nothing like that to happen again this year. But yeah, the Bruins have my heart the most. Actually right now, big PWHL fan, because that Boston team is winning. So they're up two games on Montreal, and that is who I will be watching on Tuesday night.

Did they Bruin Mother's Day? Hey. For everybody, for everybody in the Nolan family? No. Really, I don't feel like I deserve that. Look, she's still condemning me for how bad that joke was and she said Dan six times and you gave me the Hakeem Nicks laugh and I did not deserve it. But the reason that I asked the question, I did not know that the Bruins were your favorite team. I'm really not trying to agitate you, but in here, for some reason, everybody was still

confident when the Panthers were down to nothing. Is the way these games are going because the Bruins take fewer shots, because the Panthers take so many more, do you feel like they're being dominated or do you feel like the series should be 2-2 I don't know that I'd use the word dominated I think that puts too much of it on the Panthers like they're doing an incredible job I think I think for me at least and I'm no hockey expert so whatever you can feel within the first few minutes of the game which Bruins team we're looking at and there's a couple times where it's been one with

a fire lit under their ass and then there's other times where it just feels like it's the team that's gonna turn the puck over in the neutral zone and is not gonna be able to clear the puck out of the defensive zone and or ever keep the puck and cycle it around in the offensive zone. So it's like we it's a team that I when I'm watching them, I don't feel like we've got this. And then with the elimination of the heart of our team, our captain, who everybody hates, but we love more than anything. I feel like it's just tough to have faith. But look, that's what being a fan is about. And I think

that, you know, you got to try to keep the faith the best you can. It's just like one of those, it's one of those series where it's like, it's things are going to have to go our way for this to work out. And so I think that's why last night when nothing was going our way, and it wasn't our own fault, it wasn't that the, you know, our own, I'm going to get lit up for this And it wasn't our own fault. It wasn't that you know our own I'm gonna get lit up for this It wasn't the Bruins fault Because they weren't putting you know pucks on net or they weren't I Don't know doing things correctly It was there it was and you don't want to be the people that are like it's the ref's fault

But like that was a that was just a brutal series of events and so no I don't feel like they're being dominated But I don't have a ton of faith that this is the year for the Bruins. When you say though, you know which team you're getting early, I would have thought that hopefully, given that Reinhardt got laid out in the first shift when you threatened to lay out their top players and you get up to nothing,

I would have assumed that that is the Bruins team that you thought is the best that you're going to get. But that's why yesterday is so crushing because they actually got a good performance out of their hockey too. You, well you also, Reinhardt getting crushed was great, but that is the first thing that Charlie McEvoy has done that's made any difference in this series. And he didn't do much in the last one he did there.

So it was great and I loved that they showed the highlight 50 times, but I'm also sitting there being like that. Well, at least he's here doing something. And then towards the end of the game, what Charlie McAvoy was doing was letting the puck squeak out of the zone when we had a six, when we had a two man advantage, cause it was six on four.

So it's a, yes, we were winning, but I still don't think watching that game, I was like, this is the team I was hoping, they looked better, but still look at the shots in the, in, by period. It wasn't a lot and it needs to be more, especially when Bobrovsky, if you just lift the puck a little,

he just has a very vulnerable upstairs. I don't know what that's about, but we don't seem to want to take advantage of it. Put it on the poll. Does Bobrovsky have a very vulnerable upstairs? Katie, good seeing you. It's always good seeing you. Thank you for the time. Yeah, I'm going back to bed. Go Bruins. Hey, listeners. It's Mike Ryan, and I've changed a lot over the course of 20 years that you've known me. I've gone from unlikable to, well, my hair has changed. But my point is, while a lot's

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