The Big Suey: It's Friday, No One's Listening
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Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard 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.

Florida Panthers have won the third consecutive Eastern Conference championship and will go to the Stanley Cup final next week. We talked to Bob Ruschusen about it on the Hockey Show. Former Congressman Joe Garcia talks about the end of Cuban exceptionalism and Miamians who overwhelmingly voted to deport themselves. Also, the telenovela at City Hall continues with another near brawl between corrupt Commissioner Joe the Joker Carollo and Miami's Dark Knight Miguel Gabela.

All this week on Because Miami. I love this time! That seems fun. This episode is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. That's a mean thing to say. Well. Since I produced the damn show. It's not about you, Roy. Ah, okay. Wow. Wow.

I was talking to Stu Gatz today before the show. I was talking to Tony, too. I told Tony he was looking thin, which I meant as a compliment. He took it as an insult. It wasn't that it was an insult. It's just I know and I feel self-conscious about it. I have lost a little bit of muscle mass since the baby was born. I haven't been going to the gym as regularly. And I look at myself in the mirror and I'm like, huh, I don't like the way that things are looking. And then I stepped on the scale and I was like,

10 pounds lighter and I was like I haven't done anything different so that can only mean one thing well I have bad news for you because because the conversation I was having with Stu Gatz before is he said you sound like you're you're sick you sound like you have the sniffles you sound like you're like catching something no he was telling me this oh yeah you always sound like that though well that's exactly what I told him I go I always have Jeremy kind of sounds like that right now too if you buy it by the way if you want to talk yeah I'm just mostly exhausted what's happening why is everyone just taking shots of Jeremy it's

No, it just sounds a little sniffly. Today? Just today. The funny thing is, is I woke up this morning feeling a little, like, meh. And I was like, what happened yesterday where I was around germs? Could anything have happened? You guys weren't here yesterday. Yesterday I did some gross stuff on the floor. What'd you do? I dropped a spoon on the floor and I picked it up and I...

That's good. How many seconds? Less than five. Thank you. Oh, you're good. Yeah, but it's a carpet. Hold on, hold on. I wasn't scheduled. All right, second rule. Let's wait a second because he had already put it in his mouth, so now it's a slightly damp spoon. It falls to the floor of the carpet. Like a piece of ham. He picks it up, and he doesn't look at it. I did look at it. We got the video of it. You guys had blizzards yesterday? They had blizzards on Monday. Okay. All right, hold on. Let's see here. Oh, it falls. I pick it up. Okay.

And then I'm like doing show, so I'm not really thinking about anything. And I, yeah, I just go right to my mouth with it. Well, cleans it off with his mouth. I wasn't thinking. Cleans it off. Here's the question. The five second rule. Is it like five seconds from when it hits the ground to back in your mouth? Or is it just five seconds? I think it's how long is it on the floor? Okay, because I was going to say it fell and then it was still there collecting potential airborne germs, you know, in your other hand for a couple seconds here. But...

I think you're fine. Thank you. Who discovered that? Who's the person that saw this happen? The whole room pounced on it. No, because Jeremy's not looking, so Jeremy doesn't realize it. He's not the one that snitched on you. He would be good in the crime category. I would never. Mike Ryan was to my right. I think he saw me. Or Jason State pointing to himself right now. I guess Jason saw it. Jason is being happy about being the snitch. It's weird. And also, but there was actually, if that's where it ended. No one takes pride in being the snitch. That's not where it ended, by the way.

Then Mike came in with a wet, damp rag. Or no, he got a paper towel, got it a little damp, and then to test how dirty the floor was, he put the damp paper towel on the floor and then lifted it up. No, no, no, no, no. He didn't just put it there. He scrubbed the floor. Well, he like pressed down. That's unfair. Yeah, that's not what your spoon did. And it pressed down.

- And he proved that it wasn't that dirty. Like then he lifted it up and there was no, 'cause they clean these floors pretty regularly. - You just gotta drop it and pick it right back up. - And so then we did the bit where we crumbled it up and then Dan was like, you won't put that in your mouth. And I may have put the crumbled up. - You know you don't have to just do whatever Dan says. - That's the part that I felt the pressure. - You don't need to give in to peer pressure. - I felt the pressure from the room of like, I'm a showman.

Like, everyone wants... Like, I can't... Are we gonna end this bit? We like Timothee Chalamet. He was a showman. Is this bit gonna end with just like, nah, I'm not doing it? Sometimes it's just easier to do it. The reality is, if you didn't do it, the bit wasn't gonna end. It was one of those things where I was just like... You're probably right. I'm gonna do it. And then Dan did the vomit-sounding thing, which...

Honestly, it's really gross. And he needs to stop. That's what made me vomit the day of the onion. The vomit sound. It wasn't the onion? No, honestly, it was when he was doing the vomit sound. It was a combination of things. But I was fine. I was plowing through the onion pretty good. And once he started to be like...

Over and over again. That's when like it started coming up, and that's when the vomiting started So you're if somebody else barfs you're gonna barf kind of guy. Yeah, I mean I guess I'm your what are you guys you guys? People are vomiting watch you barf. Yeah, I can watch you barf and not and not feel like I need to barf So I woke up today with a little just like oh my throat does my throat hurt little tickle So I was just like it's not that

It's not that. If anything, that made you stronger. Thank you. So we were talking to Stugatz, and he's like, you sound like you're sick. And I told him, I'm just always different levels of sick. And I was like, I don't think I'm ever going to be just healthy again.

until my children are gone because kids are just always sick bringing in germs until my children are gone and then once my children are gone like out of the house yeah yeah thank you for clarifying then well once my children are gone then I will probably still just be sick because I'll be older and my immune system will be down anyways then the grandkids come and they start getting you sick I'm just gonna be sick for the rest of my life yeah but you get the grandkids in small doses sure but still I mean you know they're there in and out and all of a sudden you gotta cough and then I gotta cough and then

Are you looking forward to being a grandfather, Stugatz? Oh my god, I'm getting close to that.

What? I'm not announcing anything. Neither of my girls are pregnant. None of them are getting married. But they're both about to graduate college, so I am getting closer to that. And I have thought about being a grandfather, and I can't believe that sentence just came out of my mouth. I have contemplated being a grandfather. And what would you do? I'd be a great grandfather. Yeah. Well, you're just a regular grandfather. Yeah, just a regular grandfather at first. How are you handling just dating? Because I'm not looking forward to that.

Nope. I mean, one of my daughters has a boyfriend, a very serious boyfriend. Yeah. I'm okay with it. Emma does not. Rachel has a serious boyfriend. I'm good with it. Like, he's a good dude. Plays quarterback. Oh, okay. That's amazing.

Does he play or is he on the bench? Is he a good dude or does he play quarterback? That's the question. At Northwestern? He's a great dude who happens to play quarterback. Now, if he was a flautist or something instead of quarterback, would we still think that he was a great dude?

Everything else is the same. He's just... I don't think he thought this one through. We're already going to be judging him because he's dating your daughter, but now you're going to be judging the shit out of him as a quarterback, too. No, I don't think... I think just being a quarterback is enough. I don't think he has to be a good quarterback.

He doesn't even need to start. Does he? He started a bunch of games last year. Backup is the place to be. Everybody loves the backup. What was the TD interception ratio? I'm not certain. It's a good question. I saw some potential. Quarterback and he plays baseball at Northwestern. How does he do against a high cover two? Yes, he plays center field. Is that a euphemism? High cover two? If you want it to be. Big bat.

I'll hit it, all right. Jesus. What I was just saying, he uses an oversized bat. This is a really weird conversation. That's your child. Side view mirrors. You guys asked me if I thought about being a grandfather. I said, yes, I have. Well, I mean, I didn't. When I said, have you thought about being a grandfather, I meant like having a grandchild, not the act that would make you a grandfather. Well, I'm not thinking about that. You guys are. Everything was normal until you mentioned a big bat, I think. Yeah.

Really? But you said pocket presents. Really? Yeah, when I said pocket presents, that's on me. Then you got me going, and then I was like, wait a second, this is my daughter we're talking about. I hope she doesn't listen to the show. Why on earth would she?

I don't want to dox the guy, but I did find him. Yeah, and? Big bat? Let's not say his name. Let's not say his name. I know. I'm not going to. Let's definitely not say his name. You've given out all the information. You gave out every piece of information that was necessary. Northwestern has multiple quarterbacks. They don't all play center field.

And now you said the school. Northwestern has multiple centerfielders. It could have been anywhere. They have multiple guys on the football team that are also playing on the baseball team. It's Northwestern. Our backup quarterbacks. Big Ten. You gave all this information out. It could be Mike Wright. I mean. Thick neck. For those who have already Googled, that's a great joke. Thank you.

So, yes, I've thought about it, Billy. I like to not think about it because I'm getting old. Really? Yeah. I kind of want to be there already. I'd like to fast forward to just the grandparent stage already. I know. I know. You want to fast forward to being a grandparent? What an odd thing. Why? Because most people are like, I want to spend as much time with my kids when they're young. You're just like, get me to being a grandpa. Yeah, it seems like it's a less stressful existence than I'm presently in. Exactly. That's when you cash in, when you're the grandfather, when you're just...

with the kids every once in a while and then you just back off and you're their favorite. Yeah, the parenting stuff. Place of golf. I think I'm with Billy. Yeah, there's something cathartic about, hey, you're done. I'm done here. You guys sound ridiculous. Just bring the, no, Billy's right. I want to get to that, but I want to take my time getting there.

You enjoy every moment. I know. I have a destination. Chris, imagine a world where your kids are just dropped off. You deal with them for like an hour. You give them $100. You send them back to the parents. What? And then you go golfing. No, you got to give them $100. You got to give them $100. How often are you seeing these kids? I mean, I don't have them yet, but I'm just saying when I do, I'm going to give them $100 every single time that I see them. I like the idea of dropping off my kids.

at the grandparents now knowing that $100 is coming and they have no idea what the $100 is. It's the best now. It's almost like an itch you want to scratch. You got $10 in your pocket and your nieces and nephews are there. It's like, take my money. Here, here you go. And they love it. They're like, wow, how much money do I have now? And they put it in their piggy bank and they have like $60. This poor kid's about to get thousands of followers on Twitter and have no idea why. That's Friday. No one's listening. That's why he's here. He just wants the followers. Big bet? NIL on the stuff.

How does NIL work? You know how it works. I'm saying, like, do you, like, has Rachel got in any NIL situations? They can sell, like, their names now, right? Like, clothes with their names and stuff like that? They can sell their name and their likeness. The lacrosse program, because it's very good and they've won so many national championships, has had an influx of NIL money, sure. Yeah, but you're a mover and a shaker. I haven't done anything on that front. Really? Yes. That's surprising to me. Why? Because you're kind of someone that, you know...

Likes to figure out how to make things happen. Again, a mover and a shaker. And if there's deals to be made, you like to be making them. That's fair. I just, I haven't, I've tried not to get too involved in what is going on with Rachel and that lacrosse program. Aside from being there every day. Well, I go to the games because I want to support my daughter and I enjoy it. Like, it's fun. It's fun going to the games. But I've just tried to...

I've tried to stay out of it for the most part. There is an NIL deal that has been done with that lacrosse team with Guzman y Gomez, which is the Mexican restaurant that my friends own in Australia and Japan and China.

They've made hundreds of millions of dollars, and they are the team sponsor now of the Northwestern Women's Lacrosse Program because they're expanding into the United States, and they have a store that just opened in Evanston. So I did not put that deal together, but it was a nice deal for Rachel and the suit. So, Stu, they went across the world. They're in all these amazing places overseas. They came to the United States, and they're like...

Evanston, Illinois, that's where we're going. So they wanted to do a test state in the United States. A test state. That's where you do it. They chose Illinois. Nothing says Guzmani Gomez like Illinois. They're crushing it. Naperville, crushing it. Evanston, crushing it. Who are the two guys whose faces we're looking at at Guzmani Gomez? Because it's not your friend's faces. It's Luis Guzman and Michael Gomez. They were two kids who used to smoke cigarettes in the back of our high school.

They have no idea their names and faces are plastered all over these restaurants. Wait, wait, wait. Your friends named a Mexican restaurant after two maybe Mexican kids that were in the class with them. Luis Guzman, Michael Gomez, smoked cigarettes, back of Schreiber High School. But these are like older people. I'm not certain they went to school. These are older people on this picture. Like the logo. One of them looks like Dwight Lauderdale.

honestly wow yeah yeah like who are the who are these faces because they're not teenagers they just said let's draw what maybe Mexican people what they think they look like at the age of 50 yeah right exactly you know when you have those missing kids and it's like this is what they look like when they were little but now this is what we think they look like 18 years later I'm like yeah I don't like this dude did you say earlier that Harlan missed the broadcast last night

I did say that. He was on the broadcast. Stan sounded a little bit under the weather. Harlan sounded a little bit under the weather. Reggie sounded fine while losing. Did he? Yeah, he sounded fine. I'm telling you, I think this is getting to Kevin Harlan. That did not sound like Kevin Harlan. It

It did not. It was either that or the 40 milligrams. I mean, I'm not certain. It's probably that. Is it exhausting now having to pay attention to the Knicks like this late in the season trying to catch up and figure everything out? I liked it better when they were bad. Yeah. Yeah.

Sometimes, like, the Panthers are entering that territory, and Roy will disagree with this, but the Panthers are entering that territory that, like, the big three were at the end were, like, a little bit of fatigue, right? It's kind of like, oh, for Christ's sake. You're already there with the Knicks, you're saying? First round exit, you know what I mean? No, I'm not there with the Knicks. He said that it's exhausting for him to have it go on this long, but once you have, like, the continued success, like, back-to-back-to-back Stanley Cup final appearances...

You are kind of thinking, like, maybe next year we first run exit. This is like you saying you want to rush through your daughter's childhood. Yeah. This is such a weird take. Like, no, this is awesome. Let's get over it. Well, I mean, LeBron James agrees with me. At the end of a playoff run, my liver needs a break. A breath. But...

This is fun, Billy. I do not wish this to be done. I want to go back next year to the final as well. It's only fun if you win, though, right? Yeah. Otherwise, it's a complete waste of time. No, if we lose this round, I still own the East. I can still look at the Lightning. I can still look at Toronto. I can still look at Carolina. I can still look at the Rangers. I can still look at the Bruins and be like, I'm your dad.

Yeah, but you also failed America and you were the team that allowed Canada, not just because of present American-Canadian relations, but just in general. Now Canada ends the streak of 30 plus years of not hoisting Lord Stanley and it's because of the Panthers. I'll spin it as a win. There's a lot at stake with this one, right? I mean, it's the rematch. You've got Connor McDavid. Was it Yandle that said he's the greatest athlete right now? So the greatest athlete.

going for a cup. You've got the Greg Cody situation, right? He's back. What's he going to say this time to get them all picked up? I'm trying to get him to come up with a funny nickname for Dreisaitl. Just guys. So it can be Mick Overrated and...

You know, I haven't been involved with this good part of this. No, that's fine. Can we get ahead of this now? You haven't thought of it yet, huh? Give me good, like, let's do this. Audience, send us in. McOverrated sidle. But, like, do it now because what happened last year was we put up a McOverrated billboard, like, three months after the thing was done.

And it was like one with Greg Cody on it. By the time it went up, everyone had forgotten about it. So if we're going to do this billboard thing again, decide now. Yeah, think about it now. More like Lee Off dry sidle. Huh? Leon. Keep working on it. White Leon. It is a white Leon.

Dry saddle? Maybe. Work shopping. All right, I think we saved that. Conor has to win this one, right? Let's save the billboard budget this year. He can't keep getting to the cup and losing. I mean, that'd be considered the greatest athlete in the world. He can't do that.

I mean, you can make the argument the Panthers are as deep a team that's been in this league in a long time. It's not like he's losing against two bad teams if he loses this year. But yes, no, no, that noise will get ratcheted up. But if he wins, then every team's going to touch it from now on, right? Because they touched it. No. That superstition is too strong. No.

Well, it depends on the team. As you saw, the Panthers, the first time they won it, they touched it. So it just kind of depends on the captains of the team and the coaches. The Oilers are just trying to reverse jinx. See, that's it. They didn't touch it last year. They lost the cup. They touch it this year, figure they're going to win the cup. You know? So wouldn't that be breaking the tradition? Wouldn't that be changing the superstition? I think it's just one of those things. Some teams do believe in that, and some teams don't. I think there are examples of teams winning after touching it. I always want to touch it. Same. Okay.

Would you touch the cup before winning the cup? No. Well, I don't think anyone does that, right? No. Someone's done it. Roy's held the Stanley Cup here in the office. It was the fake Stanley Cup, but you've held the Stanley Cup here in the office. I did not touch that. You touched it. I did not touch it. Not before they won.

You've touched the Stanley Cup. He touched it since they won. I touched it after they won. I did not touch the Stanley Cup. It's like a moratorium period, right? Like where you've got a window where it's okay to touch it after your team won it. What's that window? When does that stop to where now you're cursing the next season? Like right now, Kachuk could not touch it. I think once the next season starts. Once the next season starts. You have the full off season? No, there's no moratorium after you win it. So you can touch it now and it doesn't jinx this season? Correct. No, I disagree. That's ridiculous.

Roy, that cup was absolutely in here. Roy touched the cup. Roy, that cup was absolutely in here before they won the cup. Yeah, but I didn't touch it. No, we didn't. I'm with Roy. We all did not touch it before we won. Thank goodness, because you touched it. But you sure touched it after you won. I have not, actually.

I'm like one of the few people I have not gotten a picture with the cup. Everyone I know saw the cup at some point and got a picture with it. I never did. Roy, is Edmonton better this year? Yes. Yeah, they are better this year. Are the Panthers better this year? So are the Panthers. Wow. Something's got to give. What makes Edmonton better this year? Because they look very similar to me. Actually, Zach Hyman is injured. He's not going to play in this series, so that's a big blow to them. But yeah, they're definitely better this year. And Stuart Skinner.

who had questions about going into the West final because he wasn't consistent. I mean, he still got questions about him. He wasn't consistent going into the West final, but he did really well. Um,

against the Stars. So I kind of expect him to keep that consistency going into the Cup Final. Do we think, just pivoting to the NBA real quick, do you guys think that the Knicks defense, speaking of consistency, can have that type of effort in Game 6? Because to me, the only difference last night was that their defensive intensity was on another level and they were able to prevent Tyrese Halliburton, who's been facilitating the entire Indiana Pacers offense, from

from getting into the lane at all. It'd be like if Minnesota had been able to prevent Shea from doing that for more than one game. Do you guys think that it's possible that they can repeat that effort and slow down Indiana that way? It's hard to repeat desperation, right? The desperation meter, you can only go so high before you start revving in, all right, we've kind of given it all we have. And when the other team doesn't have desperation. Tony's still desperate.

But now the Pacers are feeling a little desperate, too. The Pacers are nervous. The Pacers are a home loss away from going back to the Mecca for a game. Right, which is why they have desperation. And I will tell you what, that building will win that game. That's what I was trying to say. Who's more desperate? I think when you look at defensively, they've probably played the best defense they have in the last couple of rounds, right? Just last night. Because they're playing Jalen Brunson less?

This is what I love slash hate about, you know, assigning people their superstar status, right? Because I love Tyrese Halliburton. He was absolutely masterful in that previous game, but he follows up with a triple single. And now it's all about, oh, the Knicks defense did this. And yeah, the Knicks defense did do something different to Tyrese. Took a while. Took long enough for them to finally try to get the ball out of his hands. But it does give them some hope of being able to replicate that and do that, you know, potentially.

Maybe when the pressure's greater on Tyrese at home to close it out because he obviously doesn't want to go back to MSG. So there's something there. There's definitely a storyline here with this series. It's definitely not over. I think to the point, and we talked about it on Honorable yesterday, how well Cat's been playing.

um yesterday only took one three everything else was at the hoop i think you went like eight for 12 inside the restricted area like that's the recipe for the knicks to be good is carl anthony towns wait you're seven foot two and you're you know 290 pounds go get the bucket that you need to in the paint well and that's why the brunson towns pick and roll had been so elite during the regular season and they've really shied away from using that in the postseason like it's not been something they've gone to and because they haven't gone to it a lot it

also hasn't been efficient. You don't know chicken and egg in that scenario, but that's been something that throughout the year was getting Towns more easy buckets. Last night, it was just his own assertiveness with the ball at the top of the key to decide, I'm just going to drive to the hoop and I'm going to make this happen or I'm going to back guys down. But to me, it's so funny because you look at this performance from Halliburton, you'd be like, oh, now the pressure's on.

But at the same time, just like the one bad Shea performance in this series against Minnesota where they got blown out, if Indiana wins in six, you're not even going to remember this game and this performance because of how spectacular he's been in the rest of the series. The crazy thing about Cat to me is if he didn't have the ridiculous fouls

and maybe didn't sort of move the way he moves, people would be like, this guy is dominating. Because it's 26 and 12 and shooting 52% up until last night. And it's every night. 45 from three and it's every night. And it's just like, oh, okay, well, we're just going to give him a hard time. He's doing it. The only problem is,

Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, your two team leaders, your best combination are one-way players. They are both defensive liabilities. You don't really see champions built that way. One of them's got to be a two-way player.

You don't think that the Fieldhouse is going to win the game for the Pacers, Stugatz? No, I don't. I think, no, I think the NBA is going to win the game for the Knicks, Game 6, and then the building will win the game for the Knicks in Game 7. I think the Knicks are going to the NBA Finals. That's why, like, Dan wants my tears throughout this series. He's wanted my tears, and I haven't given him my tears because I do believe the Knicks are a better team. Like, they are a ridiculous shot and bounce away from being up 3-2 headed back to Indiana.

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Don Levitard. I may take it one step further. Wait a minute. We haven't even. Wait a minute. You're getting sexier by the moment. Slow down. Slow down. We haven't even gotten. Stugatz. Jason Sanders, you're unnoticed. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. What in spite of him. Oh, wow. I love you, Duke. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.

I forgot that we had a game that you wanted to play this segment. Have you guys, uh, you guys familiar with blind rankings? You guys want to try this game? It's called blind rankings. So Roy, Roy, are you interested? Do we need pencil and paper for this for us? Don't look now. You got to put pen to paper. Only if Roy wants to play. Roy, do you want to play blind rankings? No. Okay. Well then nevermind. We're not going to get a blind rankings today. Maybe later. Hmm.

What do you want to do now? I changed my mind. Is this about the time that you just get up and walk out and leave and then say you've got a hockey show? No, that's during a club. That's during a club. Famously don't go to clubs. Tony, you want to throw me a marker? Or a pen or something? Let me know when everyone has a piece of paper and a pen. We're only doing one list, though, right? We're not doing, like, I have this at 6. That'll get way confusing. They all have to agree on where something goes. No, no, no. What?

What? This is the way. This is my list. This is the way that this works, friends. For those of you who are new to the, you know,

The game. Blind Rankings, Stugatz, is going to give us 10 of some category. We play this on Godless Football a number of times. We've done, yet this week, we did coaches on Godless Football. If you want to check that out, subscribe, follow. Backup quarterbacks last week. Backup quarterbacks last week is crazy. That was a good one. So Blind Rankings works like this. We don't know who's coming up next. You put a list 1 through 10, and then when you get the thing, you have to assign them a spot 1 through 10 without knowing who is coming up next. Stugatz.

You wanted to play blind rankings today. You were motivated to do this. I don't know why. What is the topic you wanted to do blind rankings on? I'm doing radio and podcast host. Wow. Oh, wow. Hold on. Local? National? Of all genres? Just radio, sports. Okay, sports. But just radio and podcast host. So you'll say one, and we as a group will decide. No, no. You assign the number yourself. Then we're going to have seven different rankings. Yeah, that's fine. It's your own personal rankings. It's fun. It's too long.

Just sign it and then we can go through each number. Yeah, you just say the name and then you just say 5, 4, 3. Just see what happens. Yeah, it's great. It won't be confusing at all. No, this is going to be easy, I promise. Classic rules guy, Chris Cody over here. Well, it could be so simple. It is. You're the one complicating this. No, the way this is fun is... Why are you making it a team game? This could be so much faster. You say Jim Rome and we're like, oh, that's a 2. Well, hold on. No, that's a 9.

No, that's an eight. Yeah, that's fine. Whereas if we all just get to do our own, it's just not interesting. It's like, I'm putting him at... Exactly right. Yeah, you say, yeah, it's a three for me. Because there's a strategy. You don't get it. Wait, so you want me to throw out a name and then all of you discuss where you're going to slot him in? No, that'll take forever. No, that'll...

That would take forever. That's why March Sadness would take six days to put together the rankings. Is this song, is this looks like a 16 or a 2? Billy, rule with an iron fist. Tell us the rules and then we start. Stugat says a thing and then we just say what number you think it is. All right, Stugat's first name. Wait, are we saying it out loud or is Stugat saying a name? No, we're not going to read our own lists. Nobody, hold on.

Stugatz says the name. Yes. Everybody writes down in the slot and then do we go 10 around the room. Yeah, yeah. Feel free to play along at home. The SAT nerds. Jeez. Yeah, for real. By the way, tweet at us. Does everyone have a piece of paper? With your top 10. Paper and a pen. Does everyone have a pen? I don't know

Why is Chris so annoyed? He's not open-minded to this game whatsoever. It's a fun game. Have you guys ever seen this on the internet? It's always like a consensus debate. You throw out something and then everyone in the room debates. This isn't the internet, Jack. Just saying, it's cleaner. This is actually a fun bit to do if it's clean. You delayed this. Has everyone written down one through ten? We could have been by number seven already here. Jeez Louise. Here we go. Colin Cowherd. The Herd. That's a good one. I'm going to put him at three. Me too, Billy.

Well, I already slotted him at three. I've got him at six. Okay, there you go. That's a safe play on the first one because you don't know who's coming next, so you put him right in the middle. That's a good move by you. Wow. Roy, where'd you put him?

Eight. Eight? Okay. Jeremy, where? Six. Wow, Roy has his list. Roy has his list. Ten at the top, one at the bottom. I put one at the top and ten at the bottom. Yeah, same. One at the top, ten at the bottom. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. Interesting. You're counting down, Roy? Yeah, I'm counting down. That's what I usually do. Interesting. I have it too, yeah. All right. All right, Shannon Sharp. This is a difficult one. Thanks for putting him in there. Yeah, presently this makes it a little tricky here. What if you've never actually heard him?

I got him at five. I got him at six. I think I'm going to put him at six. I was going to have him at five, but I don't want the same as Tony the entire way. All right. Yeah. Eight for uncles. That's the guy that has sex all the time, right? Okay. What's the next name? One of them. Five if you want. Dan Patrick. DP. DP. We all know where Dan Levitar would put him.

I'm gonna put... Four. I'm putting DP at four. Three. Man, you were like super aligned today. I'll put him at five just because. Three for me. Man. Seven. Whoa! Ouch. Because of Fritzy. Oh. Fritzy doesn't have a problem with you. I'm just kidding. No, he's fine with you. He likes you. He told me. I've never spoken to him, but he follows me on LinkedIn. Oh, that's nice.

Why are you on LinkedIn? Never know. It's the smartest way to hire. I've always been wanting to add you on LinkedIn, but then I think, you know what? I don't care. I don't remember my password. I always see you there and like to suggest it. Coworkers on LinkedIn is a dangerous game. We can be friends on LinkedIn once we're not coworkers. Okay, good. Bill Simmons.

Everyone be careful. Damn. Five. I'm nervous. I have him at four. You should be. Because I don't know who's coming up. Should we all say at the same time what our list looks like right now for people? No. Yeah, I think we should just say five. Now I want to get crazy. Now you're making a mockery of this game. Wild card. This is a fun game. Look, the people in the chat are loving this. They're just throwing out numbers here. This is great. Simmons at four. I think I'm going Simmons two. I'm going Simmons three.

I was thinking about it. I was going to do two. I think I'm going to regret this. I was going to do two, but I have it at four right now. No one has slotted in number one, right? I have one, two, three, four available and nine and ten. We're all waiting for a certain someone. Nine, ten, five, four, two, one. Dangerous game Chris is playing. We know where our bread is buttered. Tops and bottoms. Big Cat and PFT together. Yes. Wow. What was that about tops and bottoms? Combo guard, yeah. Cool.

I'm going to put him at two. Wow. Wow. Wow. I regret some of my decisions. I'm going number one. Yeah, well, that's the reason we play the game. I went one. One. Nine. One for those guys, huh? Wow. You didn't want to leave that open for someone? You just don't know who's coming up next. I'm going six. That's a danger. I'm going six for the apartment. It's the problem with leaving one is because you're always waiting because you think I might have a one. Yeah. And then if the person doesn't come, then what do you do? Are you and Dan going to be in this? Well, we don't know. This was a major mistake. This is blind ranking.

I don't read them until they come up on the sheet here. I have no idea what's coming on the sheet. Even though I see a lot of markings on that paper now that I'm looking at it. All right, let's go. Rich Eisen. Eisen, one. Ten. Ten? I have Eisen at one. I'm going seven for Eisen. I've made some mistakes. I got four. Just waiting for the next name to pop up. It's a friend of Stu's.

I have 7, 8, 9, and 10. So far, these have been some good names. I'm going to have some better blind rankings next time. I feel like I need to get used to playing the game. It's a fun... But are you having fun? You'll be better at it next time. I'm having a blast. My first time, it was tough. Yeah, it's difficult. You figure out there's a strategy there. But the thing is, is that most times those names are put in a randomizer, so you don't really know. This one is typed out, so I feel like there's some tomfoolery. You watch people do stuff like this on TikTok, and you think...

I never would have messed that up. I would have known to wait. And yet, here I am making mistakes. It's not as easy as it looks. All right. Here's a big name, guys. Big name. Christopher Mad Dog Russo. Thank God I left number one open. Thank God I left number one open. Mad Dog!

Why did I put Eisen at one? So we can't change, huh? Now Mad Dog's a seven for me! You fool! Roy goes, "Can we change?" I mean, I asked this like ten minutes ago! That's the whole point! No, you can't change, it's locked in! Shit! I'm going doggy at one! I'm going doggy at two. Ah! Number one. Roy! Oh, the pen got stuck in the ceiling! Danil looked the same. Oh wow! He like threw his pen up and it got stuck in the ceiling? Please tell me we can get a shot of that. It's stuck in the ceiling! Ah, it's alright.

Bring the live view in, guys. How did that happen? Roy, it's not a game if you can change your mind. Limited amount of changes. How about that? No. No, there's no changes. What are you talking about? Damn it. Look at that. Respect the game, Roy. We're trying to find it. We're trying to find it. Dan will be okay not being number one, right? Three names left. Mina Kimes.

Oh my gosh! Damn, I should have known. I only have 8, 9, 10 open. I'm gonna go 8 for Mina, because I only have 8. I'm gonna put her 3, because it's the highest I have. That pen is gonna fall, like, on Tuesday, right in front of Dan. And he's gonna freak out. Please, let's just leave it there and see when it falls. That's just gonna fall in the middle of his show one day. He's gonna be like, AHH!

That would be great. I need a number two. Who has one left? I have nine and ten open. I'm so screwed. I have ten and one. I'm waiting on you, Stu. I have four and nine. I have four and nine left. Okay. Jim Rome.

Romy. I'm going nine. I only have nine and ten open. I got to go nine. He played the game bad. I got to go two. I played the game great. This list is great. I've only got one open, and I'm going to be so pissed if the last one's dead. Hold on. Let's go around the room. Tony, what slot do you have open? Ten only. Okay. Izzy? One. One. Ten. Ten. Roy? One. Why'd you say that like Michael Biamani talking to a road team? It's a fair point. Chris? Four. One. All right. Billy?

I only have ten available. Oh, okay. What about you? Oh, you're not playing. I'm not playing. All right, go ahead. What's next? Mark Hockman. Yes! Yes! I like this, actually. That's perfect. Thank you. Number one. I mean, I mean. I have a ten. Yeah, me too. I was laughing the other day. Let's do a sports update with Alejandro Solana. This show has been around long enough to have two Hawks in it. Yeah.

Well, a hawk and a hawk. Ah, my schmuckums. If you have two hawks, you don't have one, Izzy. The time of our lives here at this brunch. How did Andrew Hawkins buy hawk.com and get everything? His ad is at hawk. He did? Yeah, I'm pretty sure his website is hawk.com. It's crazy, right? He had to pay a premium. Good investment. Someone owned that, right? Maybe I was wrong about that.

Hawk.com says this site is under construction. Because you would think AJ Hawk probably has that, right? No. Right? No. Hmm. Hawk.

I like my list. Or Andre Dawson. So should we all read what our list is? No, we don't have to. I've got Hockman as the number one podcaster in America. Gotcha! My list is Big Cat PFT, Russo, Mina Kimes, Hockman, Bill Simmons, Cowherd, Dan Patrick, Shannon Sharp, Jim Rome, Rich Eisen. Wow, so next on the list, 11, 12, and 13, because it was random.

Biz was 11. Dan is 12. Matthew Berry is 13. So those are the OLIs on this situation. You see? You didn't think. You thought that it would be a consensus thing. We did it about as reckless as you could have. I don't know. Not reckless, but we just did it. Why do you care about this game so much? That pen is going to fall. Okay, everybody say where they have Amina.

Three, because it was the highest spot left. Two. I only had eight, because I only had eight available. Well, if you had to reseed, now knowing what you know, Hockman stays at one. Right. I think I flip-flopped Big Cat PFT with Mina. That's about it. I like my list. I wanted some Joe Rose in there. I like them.

I was waiting for Big Dog. I know. I was waiting, but then we got Mad Dog, and I was like, all right, I got to jump on that one. I don't love Eisen at one for me. I don't know why you put Eisen at one, dude. I was trying to just bother Stugatz. I'm surprised how high up I have Mad Dog, and I think that's you, Stugatz. I think it's a stew effect because I was never a Mad Dog. I wasn't a New Yorker coming up, but now I love the dude.

Well, what's changed? You've gotten to know him. You've heard him on the show. You realize he's a great dude. What's changed is that he is... It's almost like he's zagging while everybody's zigging. Like, he is himself this whole time while everybody else is trying to be this nuanced person. He's just still being Mad Dog and just hitting the notes.

And I absolutely love it. You guys want to hear Mad Dog trying to say names in this Knicks-Pacers series? Sure. I mean, Bridges had a terrible game. Owen Obey played well and did a good job. And he played well in the game. Don't get me wrong. He played well in the game. But the Pacers have more firepower than the Knicks. That's all there is to it. You know, they got nothing out of Nebhart last night. But Naismith, bad ankle and all, makes a huge contribution. They got a lot of guys who can do that. Yeah.

What do you call Obi? Oh, and Obi. Can I hear it again, please? Oh, and Obi played well. I did a good job. And he played well in the game. Don't get me wrong. He played well in the game. But the Pacers have more firepower than the Knicks. That's all there is to it. You know, they got nothing out of Nebhardt last night. But Naismith, Van Ackle, and all makes a huge contribution. They got a lot of guys who can do that. He's trying to figure out what sound the B and the H make together. It's like, wait, no, never mind. That's just Nemhardt.

Izzy, I know the Pacers were up 3-1, but why did so many people go to that same exact take as Doggie? Like more firepower? Because they were a lucky bounce away from being down 3-2, headed back to Indiana. The Knicks are just as good as the Pacers. Well, even without the lucky bounce, just...

look at the close games. Like, more firepower than you would assume they've won each game by 20 points. No, it's just the Knicks defense hasn't been there. The Pacers look better and because they've won more games, they said they have more firepower. Izzy, I think it's a thing of pace, right? They look like they have more firepower because they're faster and they play faster than the Knicks who play a half-court offense and want to play a lot slower. But the Pacers are just running and gunning. Everybody's flying and Halliburton's doing all this stuff. That's why it looks like they have more firepower. But when you look man-to-man, it's like, no, they're kind of

even it's just that they have more offensive options that they can rely on because it's just brunson and cat are the reliable offensive bridges sometimes right but you can only go to him on occasion where with the pacers we've seen miles turner has gone off in moments um we've seen benedict mather and well the difference is that smith is the one who let him back stuff right the pacers actually have movement and they find the open person if there's an obvious mismatch they go to the mismatch with the knicks at

Up until last night, because last night there was a lot more offense. There was a lot more plays that ended with just one final assist. But up until last night, it was always, okay, if Brinson's not going, if Cat's not going, once I'm Bridges and I get the ball, I feel like I've got to do something. Now, last night, they were a little bit more team-oriented, a little bit more ball movement-oriented, and it just showed up in making their firepower look a little better. I'm excited for a big Saturday night basketball game. Are you really? Yeah. Yeah.

I'm surprised to hear that. Why? I don't know. You don't get fired up for much these days, man. I mean, you want to sprint and be a grandparent already. I mean, you're missing out on life.

It is kind of lame that the two games, three and four, the Panthers home games here for the Stanley Cup final are on a Monday and a Thursday. That's lame. I don't like that. It doesn't make any sense. Terrible. And game seven would be Monday, right? Nick's Pacers? Yeah. Yeah, I don't like that at all. I don't like a game seven on a Monday. When would you do it? I mean, Thursday? Sunday 3.30. You would wait from Sunday 3.30 is great. Sunday 3.30 game seven is great. The day after? No, but I'm just saying, if the best time is...

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