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Thunder can have as many as 13 picks over the next seven drafts. I've got parade correspondent Greg Cody here. He's sunburned. I can't remember the last time he was this sunburned. You're not exactly bronze, but you're a very dark pink with a lot of makeup over it that makes you look brown.

Well, thank you. I was tomato red yesterday and didn't even realize it until I got home and other son Michael and his new wife came over for dinner and I opened the door to let them in because Michael keeps losing his key to my house and they're like gasping at what I look like because I was completely red. If I take off my glasses, I had the raccoon face.

And I'm not used to that. I spent three or four hours in sun that was hotter than a $2 pistol. And I just couldn't.

I didn't use sunscreen. I wasn't prepared. How did you not know as a lifelong South Floridian, how are you an amateur around the sun? I will tell people that Greg Cody has been known on occasion to vacation in a way that takes him out to Hollywood Beach where he drinks so many beers that he just falls asleep in the sand and then wakes up in the morning. Yeah, Fort Lauderdale Beach. Also sunburned. Right. I don't think I've ever seen my dad put sunscreen on. Yeah.

Because you've had me and Michael redheads that, like, we go out in the sun. My mom's like, she worries about us. Do you wear sunscreen? No, and I'm not bragging because people should. But unlike yourself and your brother and your mother have what I would call fair complexion. Right. Thank you for pointing that out. Redhead complexion. Well, you're leathery. You're reptilian. I am. Thank you. Yeah.

Right. I have the skin of a crocodile, and I'm naturally bronze, so I don't consider myself to sunburn, but I did in this case. You're not naturally bronze. You're closer to naturally pink. Not as pink as you're... Oh, I don't think so. No. No. Come on. I have a dark complexion. Does he?

No. No. What? No. Not dark or bronzer. Naturally bronzer. Yeah, I think Billy's right on the mark. Like the skin of an alligator, some say. Yeah, right. Reptilian. Show us your right arm right now. Bad arm week? Is it a bad arm week? Yeah. Well, it's not his fault. He was thrust into the sun. Oh, my God. What is that? What happened to your arm? It's, you know, it's...

Did you fall down? No. It's scarred, is it not? No, it's not a scar. Are you trying not to talk into the mic? It's just a bruise. He has not done this very long. He still doesn't know how to do it. Do you know, Chris, I left here the other day. I'm not even making this up. I left here the other day laughing sort of at the idea of your dad never knowing that we're doing a show around him.

After all of these years, he's still, he's so comfortable here that he forgets where the microphone is because he's just fooling around all show. I mean, you'd think you guys are old pals and you'd just be interested in talking to him about the sun, about his complexion, stuff like that. Why does it have to be for content? Right, we're having a conversation here. You know, microphone, schmicrophone. Greg, you got to be careful, though, with the sun. That's what got Jimmy Buffett.

You know what? You're not wrong. I mean, Greg, it's moronic to live here all your life and never use sunscreen. Your skin is not supposed to be that reptilian. Yeah, but the thing is, I'm not a sun person. Like, my dad used to lay out on a chaise lounge in the backyard. While ill? Yeah, and personally get sun. And my brother and I used to...

You know, call them nicknames that were inappropriate because they... Yeah, we don't need to go there. It's fine. Let's not do that. Oh, no, no. Oh, my God. When I jumped in mid-sentence to stop you... I mean, what? Like... I mean... Stop! This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. ♪

For so many years before the Panthers were relevant, I would love hopping into this time of year, right after basketball, right after getting into the next two months of just baseball and we're going to be fooling around most of the time. That was an anticlimactic final last night or as anticlimactic as a game seven can ever be.

because Indiana did everything they had to do to win that series except win it. Like, they got four out of the seven games. They outplayed OKC, made OKC play their way, but they lost one of them, the one where OKC made the threes, the three threes.

And so I don't know whether you guys found that unsatisfying as a championship because Halliburton got hurt. And I so badly wanted to see that young team tested at the end. Show me you're a champion because every team that's ever had a regular season like they had wins the title easily. Like loses three times in the playoffs max the entire time because they were an overwhelming regular season team and they were there to be taken. You would have had the not

merely what is already the best Indiana basketball team there has ever been but you would have had the biggest surprise in the sports history in a game seven on the road I wanted to see OKC tested that way and I end up getting disappointed by that final but before we do all of that I do want to celebrate with our parade correspondent here a sunburned Greg Cody he was out there for

hours yesterday. Did any of you guys go? Did anyone go to the parade or is this old hat for you guys now? No, I went to the parade. I was sitting right next to Greg. Yes, we were. Are you parade people? I'm not a real... I don't like being anti-parade, but I'm not a parade person. You really give off parade. Yeah. I was considering it and then woke up and I was like, it's probably going to be hot. Really? Yeah.

So I was like, it's far. And oh, it's a bright line situation. Nah, I'll just watch. I was going to go. And then my daughter woke up and was like, I want to go. And my wife was like, I don't trust you out there for seven hours with our daughter. So we'll just watch it at home. So I stayed home and watched it. I don't do events like that. I don't do things that I can't, that I'm not in control. Like, I just, I don't do parades. I don't tell you. I don't do it.

Well, this team here has already soured on the idea of hiking out to Fort Lauderdale. You want to be in control of the championship celebration? No, if I'm at the parade, I'm stuck. What if I want to leave? What if I want to go home? Oh, that's right, my car is a thousand miles away. What if I want to walk through this street? Oh, it's blocked off. Okay, great, I've got to go five blocks north. I don't do that kind of stuff. I don't either.

I can see what Zaz means because I lived that yesterday. You got a hotel just to avoid driving down there. Your wife and I stayed at a beautiful unnamed hotel. Not my wife. That'd be amazing if his wife and you. What's going on there? What's the big deal? We're sleeping in separate beds. Come on. But he's right. When I tried to leave...

First of all, I'm moving an inch an hour through a throng of 250 million people. I thought you were talking about something else. I couldn't take a left to get back to my hotel. They forced me to take a right and go down to Fifth Street. We've all been there, huh? And then make a U-turn, and it took me an hour. This cannot be the way we talk about this. This is great. What road did you make a right at? Where were you able to make the right eventually? Please keep going.

Wouldn't you rather just be able to do what you want? You couldn't do what you want? You're a parade correspondent. If I'm an event manager, I got a lot to say about this celebration yesterday. This franchise was garbage for 25 years. Are you guys joking? This is what you guys are going to do? I didn't like the traffic. There were too many people. I just want to do what I want. I thought it was going to be hot. It can't be this. But you didn't go. I did not go, but I'm

I'm not sitting here doing what you guys are doing. Because you couldn't do what you want. Look, had I known the tricky triangle at Pocono was going to be delayed two hours, I would have been there. I should have been on a drone flying over the whole thing observing. That's what I should have done. He asked us why we didn't have a parade float. He thought we should have had a float in the parade. I didn't know whether we were asked or not to have a parade float. Were we? No. We weren't asked. I asked.

Presumptuous. Well, no, I just, Greg is asking and I don't know what the parade was. I haven't seen anything except that it looked lovely being on the beach. And obviously there aren't very many cities that can do that, that can win hockey's championship. There's the state of Florida has cornered it over the last seven years. It's crazy that we are the hockey capital of the world.

It's nuts. And it is an idyllic setting. It really is. But not for hockey. No, but for a championship parade to be a slap shot from the ocean, you have boats out there, you have jet skis, you have people watching the parade from balconies of hotels. I have a hungover Meadowlark media. Everybody out there who is a Panthers fan, and there are many, they are just sopped in lighter fluid and Cuervo.

Everyone's just like, "Can't wait to do nothing this week." "What are you doing this week? I'm doing nothing." They're all on the couch. Everyone at Metal Ark Media is laying on the couch as tired as Kachuk. How is it possible that this thing flogged you guys? Billy abstained. What do you mean? You just never got involved. That's not true. I watched a game or two here. I saw parade coverage. I was talking to people that were at the parade. What more do you want from me?

I mean, slightly more than that. Why? You have a room full of people that are big-time Panthers fans, all of which decided not to attend a championship parade because they're so used to winning as Panthers fans. I have a child. But then they also want to complain when people are like, Panthers fans aren't real fans. They're like, no, we're the best fans. Look at that crowd. I'm not in it, but look at that crowd, how big it is. I mean, look, 200,000 for us. 200,000 for us. Seven times, eight times what that arena holds. That's a good amount of fans. Like, that's a...

We don't do that for a whole lot of stuff, and Fort Lauderdale doesn't do it for anything. It felt like this championship resonated more with the market down in Miami-Dade County. More people were watching the games, more people were aware. It certainly seemed like, on television anyways, there was a bigger crowd this year. So incremental gains for what is a weird hockey market, and I don't think that we should be embarrassed by it. I really don't. I think we should lean in. Look at the images behind you. Embarrassed? Why would anybody?

be embarrassed by that. The images behind you are jaw-dropping. It's beautiful. Because people are still trying to come at us. Somehow saying yesterday wasn't impressive. It's 110 degrees out there and you got half the crowd in hockey sweaters. Because there's a couple shots where players are walking by and there's two people deep on the rail. A couple isolated shots, but it's just like, it was insane yesterday. That's how parades work. There's congested areas. Right.

Why do you guys care about the numbers? We want respect! Who cares? Why? You have the cup. What do you need respect for? Well, I think that that was where I was going, Billy. I don't care. This is a team that's made three consecutive Stanley Cup finals, and it is what it is. The fan base is growing, and if people don't like it, they should try winning. I just want to do what I want. Yeah!

Yeah, you mentioned that. And I do want to mention the heat. I don't know. Ellie Dela Cruz is in pretty good shape. Just had a heat problem over the weekend while playing. Happened to a Seattle reliever. Thought we were getting to Durant. Yeah, no, we're not talking about that today. Oh, no, we'll get there in a second. Waiting for the talking points from my pad across the street. I don't want to say MF-er. I'm this close to. All right, let's go there. This mother----.

Take down the... Jovich? Take down... Jovich? He's a Hall of Famer. We don't want to include Jovich. I don't even know his first name.

What's the list, Mike? I'll ask you because you probably know better than anyone here. If we were to make a list of all the players that Heat have not given up over the years to get Kevin Durant in their four or five attempts, what would that team look like? Billy, according to reports, it was like pulling teeth to get 28-year-old Haywood Highsmith included in this deal. Haywood Highsmith. He's older than Bam on a bio. Did you know that? Haywood Highsmith. He's undrafted. What? Is he still a project? Haywood Highsmith? What?

What are we doing? This is embarrassing. So the answer to your question, I don't know how Zaz feels about this. I'll tell you how I feel. Look, it's a maniacal Mike Monday as brought to you by- I hate you. I don't want the graphics. Stop it. Take it out. I don't know how many times you can keep changing the-

The first word. That's not how it works. I've tried. You're stuck with it. Like it or not. I looked him dead in his eye and I said, hey, I don't like this. Take this. Who is telling you to keep doing this? I think I'm your boss. Please stop doing this. Zaslow, the argument...

Were it to be constructed, is just that you want to have pieces for Giannis, that you're all in on Giannis. That's not my argument. You don't get to invoke a bigger star when you fail to get this star. I mean, I don't know if it's about holding out for Giannis. What I do know is you're on another planet if you think I'm about to sit here and get upset that the Heat didn't give up everything for Kevin Durant.

Get out of here. Oh, you Heat fans, stop making Jovic everything. No, I'm not doing that. It was there to be had. If you wanted him, you could have had him. Mike, how could they be a 10 seed without those pieces? Right. First of all, if I've learned anything over these last few weeks, all these reports out there, no one knows anything.

Everyone's report is one thing. And this guy's got another thing. And this guy knows. Nobody knows anything. Are you attacking? Are you attacking Barry Jackson? What I'm attacking is nobody knows anything. You have direct conflicting reports. Okay. But overall, this idea that I'm somehow going to sit here. I didn't want to root for Kevin Durant. If he would have gotten Kevin Durant, great. It'd have been fine to be a better team. They'd still be far away from being a champion. Like,

like far away from being a championship team. But I'm going to sit here and act upset that Kevin Durant is not coming to my team? Get the hell out of here. Oh my God, they got you hook, line, and sinker, brother. It has nothing to do with the Miami Heat. And by the way, the initial report was they didn't want to include Highsmith. That was Shams. And then they went into damage control and started feeding Barry. No, no, no, Highsmith was in it.

Highsmith was in it. It was Jovich, the person, like, that's that much better. There's not a reasonable person believes they wouldn't put Haywood Highsmith in a deal for Kevin Durant. I'm sorry. Yeah, use your head. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, whoa.

Let me tell you something. Every time that the Heat come out against Shams this year, Shams ends up winning that. So if Shams says the Haywood Highsmith thing. Every time. One time. Jimmy Butler. Every time. He's the most reputable news guy there. And then the local beat reporter gives you the Heat spin portion of it. Look, they have failed at least three times. Four times. On trying to get Kevin Durant via trade.

So this is what Pat Riley does, right? He's always been reputed as the guy that I will stockpile the draft picks and I will get the guy. He doesn't get the guy. Let me ask you something. Let's say they wouldn't include Jovich, okay? And that's why the deal didn't happen, which is nonsense. Because what they got from Houston is better anyway. But let's say that they did include Jovich and the Heat acquired Kevin Durant. Where does that put the Heat? Where does that put them?

Where's that put him? Where's that put him? More interesting. Definitely more interesting. Who cares about more interesting? I think they're better. Who cares? You don't think they're better? Of course they're better, but what does that mean? They're like the sixth best team in the East? Who the hell cares? Where's that put him? That's his argument. Where's that put him? Better. Better.

Where's the pudding? Better. It makes them better, which you admit. We'd like the team to get better. Great. They'd be one seed better. Oh, my God. It's so worth it. Great. It's worth it. So keep all of the assets so they're one seed worse? It'd be seven instead of eighth. Great. I don't know. What? We're going to

Keep holding on to the hot guys? Okay, but maybe something else comes up that's more worth it. Who the hell needs to be seventh in the Eastern Conference? How many of these are going to come and go before you stop baking that into your plan for the upcoming season? There was a play-in. And incidentally, that play-in ended up, I can't believe I'm saying this, happy to announce that

Zaslow had a contract clause in our CEOs leaving that got past people. And now because the Panthers won the championship, he's got bonus contract time with our show. It's kind of like Anthony Carter, but the reverse, you know? Yeah. So now we're stuck with him for a while and he's more heat homer than the rest of our heat homers. I want to stop all of you. Okay. I,

Please stop doing this to an all-time great just because he played during LeBron's time. Yes, Kevin Durant is 37 years old, but he's coming off three straight seasons because that jumper is as pure a thing as there's ever been, and he'll be able to make it till he's 50.

He's coming off of three straight seasons, over 50% from the field, over 40% from three. Nobody's done that. And I understand you can criticize it all you want, legitimate star, legitimate economy, and just because he's the second or third best player of this era...

doesn't mean that any team wouldn't be happy to have him. And incidentally, the team that had him last night might have won the championship because Indiana just needed a veteran. They just needed somebody to give them something at the end of that basketball game to change the balance of power in that league because OKC is now architecturally in a better position than everyone else. But this is four straight failures on Kevin Durant who wanted to be here.

There are any number of times Kevin Durant wanted to be here, the time that the Heat was closest. I've told the story before. It's when he went to Golden State because they said, we'll make the game easier for you here. They're asking you to do too much at OKC with Westbrook and with Harden. They're asking you to do too many things, and we can open up the floor for you. And he took that and went to Golden State. That's the closest they ever came. They never thought...

They never thought they were going to have the picks to get into this because the Kevin Durant conversation goes back with the Heat a couple of months and picks is what he ended up going for. And Houston didn't even have to give up. Like that's a better offer than what the Heat had, but Houston didn't have to give up its prime stuff in order to get him. Not its top future.

The closest I think they came, you have your reporting, Kevin Durant thought he was coming here when the Nets dealt him to Phoenix. Ishbia made an owner-to-owner phone call and outdid Miami's deal. He just strolled into the league and took Pat Riley's lunch money and he got the player. Now, retrospect, bad deal because they made a series of other bad deals around the team and now here they are trading Kevin Durant and...

the hardest thing to do is get the cooperation from the superstar have the superstar ask out and ask for miami and why i think it's foolish to bake into your plans like who we're gonna get giannis because he's playing ball he wants out and he's listed miami the last couple of times the

Players have wanted out, and they've listed Miami. Kevin Durant has listed Miami three times, and Pat Riley has failed. Stop making this your business model. It is not sustainable. So if I were to ask you, and I would have liked to have Kevin Durant in a heat uniform as well, he would have been their best scorer. I would have loved to see the punctuation of his career, an all-time great by any measure. Again, please do not disrespect what this person still is as a basketball player. I think we're disrespecting Pat Riley, not Kevin Durant, honestly. That's what I'm talking about.

That's what you're talking about? That's what I'm talking about. What do you mean? Pat Riley can't get the stars anymore. That's what I'm talking about. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Yeah. He can't get the stars or he can? He can't get the stars. That's what I'm talking about. This is going to end very sad for Pat Riley, right? Not if he gets Giannis. No. Well, he's not. So it seems very apparent this is just going to end however it ends for him as just a play-in team for all of eternity.

I would ask you this because the last time it felt like this around here is when the natives got restless because the last 15 years have been a real pleasure. I can't even imagine what it is to be a Patriots fan right now where you're like, look at what we had compared to what we now have. The standard is such that it looks sad now. It looked plenty sad when it was Dion Waiters and Hassan Whiteside.

And since then, in the last eight years, there have been a lot of swings and misses outside of Jimmy Butler. In fact, they used to just be a team that didn't trust young players or develop young players. That's something that came about in Pat Riley's 70s. It was always Dan Marley out there in his late 30s because they just didn't trust these players that they now refuse to give away, right? Because Khalil Ware, I think Heat fans would tell you...

I'd hesitate there if all I'm getting is a year of Durant or I'm getting two years of Durant just because you can tell that at 20 years old he has a chance to develop into something that is obviously going to grow and is physically overwhelming. But

He has failed to get the acquisitions outside of Jimmy Butler that Jimmy Butler needed to take the next step here. That's not up for argument. Forget getting the guys that are better than Jimmy. He's failed to get the guys that you can round out a roster with and make you better than the 10 seed.

They're talking about DeMar DeRozan now. DeMar DeRozan was in play for Miami, and he listed Miami last year. You know what he did last year? Chose Sacramento. That was DeMar DeRozan. You have guys like Siakam and O.G. Ananobi making big-time contributions to their team in deeper runs. These are guys that could have helped Miami. It's not just the big guys that Miami is failing at. They're failing at everything. Let me ask you this question, though, because I really do want to ask it, because, of course, they lose today. There's no questioning that. They are a source of mockery. Ha, the Heat missed again on Durant.

But I'm asking you legitimate, like in terms of what you go into your offseason with and you're going to be in play for all five of the guys that may or may not be available. You've already heard from their people. All of that stuff is in play with five guys. If I say that the priority from the beginning of the offseason is Giannis and protecting all of the pieces that get you Giannis.

I understand why you would doubt that they could do that, but if that succeeds, then all of this becomes moot, does it not? Correct. Does it not immediately become moot if a month from now, and I'm not saying you're not right today.

You're obviously right today. They swung and missed again on Durant. Better get a start on that. A month from now, the entire free agency class is rounded out. You're going to get Giannis. You're going to give up most of your roster and all the picks to get Giannis. What are you going to surround him with? You've run out of time. That's the thing. You need things around. He's been bouncing the first round a couple of years already. That's why the timing was crucial to get Durant done now. Acquiring Durant doesn't completely take you out of the Giannis thing either. Mike, it's...

Wiggins and Rozier, you send those contracts away like that. You're dumping something on the Suns if you're sending Rozier and Wiggins with your picks and you don't have enough picks. They were all cool with that, apparently. And it came between Ware and Jovich and not wanting to include them. And that's the pro-Heat spin after the fact when the initial reports are we didn't even want to invoke Haywood Highsmith in the deal.

Do you think the Heat believed that they failed in not getting Kevin Durant? And the reason that I ask it like that is because...

Based on this conversation we're having, the Heat could have had him if they wanted. Include this guy, which I don't know to be true or not, but include this guy and you could have Kevin Durant. And the Heat decided, no, we don't want to. But what if that's the guy you already know brings you Giannis? What if you know that it's not going to just be Duncan Robinson? Where's the piece? It's not even Jaquez anymore. It's not Jovic either. That's why I'm asking. Do they believe they failed? If the Heat have an asset, it's where? Right.

That's who they wanted for Durant.

And the Heat lowballed the whole offer. The Heat did not give a credible offer to get Durant. The microphone goes in front of your face. It was in front of my face. I just don't understand. Until you moved it away from me. I guess I do understand why Heat fans keep thinking that it's their birthright to be involved in these conversations with the superstar. And naturally, if the superstar says he's interested in Miami, like it's been alluded to, like he's been cryptic, like other people have reported that Miami is certainly in this mix. But...

Here's what's happening with Pat Riley right now is he has a very proud reputation of being the guy that closes the deals. He's the dealmaker. He's this great architect of championship teams. And lately, he has failed repeatedly.

and if you want to pivot and say he chose to fail this time, cool. He's been a finalist for a certain Hall of Famer at least four times that we know of, and he's never been able to secure this guy, even as the asking price continues to go down, even as Kevin Durant continues to still be a real good pro, as someone that you even admitted, Zaz, would make this team better, and I think you can absolutely say that it's a failure if they were a finalist and they didn't get

the prize, they fail. So you're saying though, just to be clear, I want to make it clear if it can be this clear. If I give Ware to the Suns and get Durant, I'm out on Giannis.

You're good with that. How many times are we going to say this? I'm just asking the question. How many deals did we pass up that could have made us better because we were going to get Lillard or we're going to get Durant? No, get better, and you still have some powder to try to get Giannis. You still have draft picks. There was only one draft pick in that deal. It's just the Giannis thing needs to happen. It's not going to be one of those things that happens a month from now. Sometimes a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, Dan. Yep.

That's a good contribution. Billy, hold on just a second. Applause? Oh. Minor penalty, two minutes for adding nothing. Adding nothing to what Pat Riley did yesterday. Ah!

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Don Levitard. This guy comes in as the next Wayne Gretzky. His nicknames include The Chosen One and McJesus. Okay? He's a great player. He scores a lot of goals. He scores a ton of assists. But it hasn't translated to making Edmonton a powerhouse in the league. They're in the final. Stugatz. What's your nickname for him? McOverrated. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz. Stugatz.

I'd like to play some sound that I want to get off the ground here as South Florida echoes and quakes from being a two-time champion. Let's see if Barky can get off a chant on Bobrovsky. Let's see if we can love Bobrovsky in a way that echoes from Sea to Shining Sea. Bobby, Bobby, Bobby. What?

Thank you. It's pretty close to Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, no? Oh, sad chance. Now, keep in mind, this is the second year in a row that he's tried this. He's like, let's do this again. I did it last year. Robbie.

Roy, can you do me a favor, please, and just get Charles Barkley trying to say Bobrovsky? Because Charles Barkley showed up in Sunrise for Game 6. It's an annual tradition. Charles Barkley flies down to see the South Florida team crowned. Yeah, but he's picked Edmonton both years. If you listen to him interviewed, it seems like he's been rooting for Edmonton both years.

Regardless, he doesn't know how to say the name of the fifth best panther. I can't believe I'm saying that. Sergei Bababka. He's a good player. It's not that tough to say. Bobby. Why didn't that chant just echo among 200,000 people? Why is the world making fun of our parade? Bobby. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I'll bet he's hilarious in Finland. Thank you. I saw something where they were saying Panther, like all the Panther players, who's the funniest guy? Barkov. Apparently he's great with the one-liners. I'll bet he is so funny in his home country. Thank you.

You think Barkov does like a comedy tour in Finland? Yeah, I'll bet he could just show up and do a set. I mean, he's hugely popular there. But this, as the hood ornament on South Florida rules all of hockey, listen to us, listen to us roar.

You were feeling good about yourself, Roy. You were feeling good. You were playing that music. And then what happened? I hit the alt button. You are hungover, Roy. I'm dry. I know, but you're hungover. Thank you. You're hungover from hockey. Thank you. You're spent from what it's been to be a Panther fan for the last two years. Thank you.

Let's get some footage here, please, because the Panthers have made it over to 11. Mike Ryan was there, polluted. I can't... That's going to be a different celebration than the Elbow Room. The Elbow Room is all concrete, all asphalt. All humid. But somehow humid, though. Like, the concrete sweats because the Elbow Room just has just...

Frankie Avalon spring break decay. This is your wheelhouse right here. You know what I'm talking about, though? This area of the country made spring break famous, I think, for America, right across from the elbow room. But when it comes to Miami, when the guys come over and party over here at 11, they're a lot looser. Didn't

Didn't several contract extensions get signed the last time that they partied at 11 where they're just sort of doing contract negotiations in public by saying, yeah, I want to come back. Of course I want to come back. Look at this great party here. It seems as though we got an eight-year extension done right there next to the pool. I reported the Bennett one. Yeah, that's true.

Do we have some video of Marchand being hungover? Do we have, like, Panthers are beaten up, right? They've not stopped partying, correct, Greg? What was yesterday like for you as somebody who spent hours getting sunburned over there? The whole team spent the entire week drunk.

Okay. And that's why the F-bombs were flying on the stage from the stage. It was not to get sour, but it was a little bit of an off key note, I thought, because you have a million kids. Oh, stop. Oh, no. He did this last year. No, I'm being serious.

You know for not freaking leaving she said that four or five players were shouting at bombs And I just didn't think you know I thought it was the alcohol talking. I appreciate this perspective It's nicer there are people bringing families there, so I'm glad that you're speaking for me And I was at a hotel this daughter-in-law and she had to hear me and my seven-year-old were high-fiving when those curse words were happening fine I

Okay. So we have sound here. You're your own parent. So they went to 11 on Thursday night. And Friday morning, Sam Reinhardt and Marshawn had paid appearances. And it was just, they did this last year. They're cashing in on the championship. Oh, and they're just broken. They haven't slept for three days. It is hilarious. So first we're going to play a quick clip of Reinhardt. One box combo coming up. One lemonade. You want to make an irony for me?

He's just hung the bleep over. No, but I mean, you can't, you cannot be near fryers in South Florida, grilling up fries and chicken tenders.

That can't be what you're doing with your afternoon if you've been drinking for three days. One box combo coming up. One lemonade. You want to make an Arnie Palmy? And then, so then Marshy. Is that Rhino? Yeah, that's Reinhardt. What? You want to make an Arnie Palmy? Is that what he's saying at the end? You want to make an Arnie Palmy? He's broken. He's physically broken. One box combo coming up. One lemonade. You want to make an Arnie Palmy? I.

I'm sorry. No, it's not Sam Reinhardt. You want to make that an Arnie Palmy? And then we have Marshawn, who was at Dairy Queen. My son was at the Dairy Queen with Marshawn. The Blizzards? He was just giving away Blizzards? He was interviewed, and he sounds rough.

Oh, my God.

The media has seized on their celebration a little bit. It's going over a little classless, be it the bleep McDavid chance or Brad Marchand running up the score seemingly on IG. He put a selfie photo out.

from that Dairy Queen with an Oilers sticker that made the logo say losers instead. People are kind of annoyed by how much they're rubbing it in. No, but no, let's examine for just a moment here what has just been done because the culture of this sport is super interesting. It's a very conservative sport in terms of behavior, handshake line, respect the handshake. There's honor and nobility in defeating your opponent

opponent and then having grace afterward. Like as hockey prides itself on sort of, we'll fight you over sportsmanship. And the, the Panthers are a new kind of team and you don't like them and they don't care. And twice now they've,

They've known that you don't like them. They don't care that you don't like them. They continue to play that way. And Carolina's coach, as he goes down in flames, is yelling, stop retaliating, guys. And Marchand is coming to the bench pointing at his head because this team believes that they are tougher and badder than everyone. They just took out McDavid, and they're not showing him respect the way the Kachuk family normally would. Like, if you represent the Kachuk,

Even if you're, you know, around the net, you use, you know, you're a little dirty around the net. This is not grace for a family called the Kachuks. Like, this is not handling this trophy with care. This is partying like young people. I mean, I think that they heard your message at the parade. Sam Bennett addressed the way they play, the way they've celebrated. Sam Bennett addressed this. You know, a lot of people have, they don't like the way we play. They don't like...

They call us dirty. They call us nasty. They call us bullies. So, no, I would like to take this time to apologize. To absolutely f***. We're the double champs. We do what we want. Yeah, that's not. Let's go! I love the dismount there. That's what I'm talking about. Let's go!

Greg shaking his head. Let's go! Asking for frickin' instead. That's what I'm talking about. Look, it was overboard with the language. I don't care. I'm not being a prude. Shut up. I've heard plenty of other people say that, okay? People who were there with kids. But...

I will say this, and I like this about the Panthers. They are a different animal for this sport. And it's not only celebrating the way they're doing right now, but it's being very open about saying, three-peat, we're going to win again. This is – Kachuk himself used the word dynasty. They're open about that. They embrace that, the idea that they want to be the first –

Please understand, though, that in South Florida, there have only been a couple of things like this ever. Three. I wouldn't say three because those Dolphin teams that you're talking about weren't hated by the country or weren't rooted against by the country or weren't unlikable teams. The

And the 72 Dolphins threw seven times in the Super Bowl. Yeah, I thought you meant dynasty. I didn't think you meant likability. No, well, I'm talking about a team that could create a fan base that is centered around other people don't like us. We don't care. Yeah, there have been two previous. Okay, there's only been two. It's been a segment of University of Miami football.

And it's kind of been the LeBron Wade-Bosch heat, but they pretended not to care and kind of did care. The fan base didn't care around them, but those players actually cared. These players are doing something that's different for hockey. They're bringing the beach to hockey.

They're proud of the region they're representing. And they're doing so by the elbow room purposefully. Like, they're aware of what it is that they're celebrating. And they're in your face. And we have not had that but twice down here ever. Two things. I think that is totally in line for a Kachuk. He's the only Kachuk to lift the cup. And he's shown you, like, that's how we're going to get down here. His dad was at elbow room with him. And also, I'm done going at Greg for the McOverrated stuff. It's not like...

The Florida Panthers gave way more bulletin board material for Connor McDavid last year after the celebration. Certainly this year, be it chanting Connor who bleep McDavid.

He's not necessarily living in their heads because they erased him, but it's almost as if they talk about Conor McDavid even more than the Oilers. Going up against the best player of his generation and to shut him down the way that they did, they're not afraid of motivating him some more. They'll take a right to them. They're having a blast, and they know the fact that they went up against McDavid only cements their legacy more. Correct. That's absolutely correct. McDavid is McOverrated against no one except the Panthers. Yeah.

Okay, they are the ones who are causing him not to dominate, to barely be there in the final. They erased him in the final. That's why they had that parade yesterday. A lot of people are looking at Greg Cody and saying that he looks like Boppy today, that you are so brown from yesterday's sunburn. But before we get to Greg Cody's face, Roy, can you just play the previous sound that we just played that had the trailing let's go because it reminded me of something. Let's go!

Jeremy had something like that where he was trying to be enthusiastic at a heat game and no one rallied around him. Let's go! Bennett's just so much cooler than Jeremy. Let's go! Those are similar things, but just Bennett is cooler. Let's go! Well, but Bennett's helped by just giant ambient crowd noise and Jeremy's doing it a cappella.

Let's go! I mean, he's not exactly clearing a high bar here. Let's go! You cleared the Tashay bar of coolness. Let's go! Now combine them, though. This is the sound of Panthers hockey. I want to combine the let's go with Barky trying to get a Bobby chant off. Let's go! Bobby!

Dude is definitely hilarious in Finland. Bobby. Thank you. I think it went better this year. It definitely got more people. He led with it. He closed with it last year. This year he's like, I'm going to open with it. You guys loved it last year. Goes right into material. Thank you. It was a callback. He's like, and part of the crowd was like, no, he's trying to trick us again. You hear like some of the crowd go, Bobby, Bobby. But most of them were like, you're not fooling us this year. Bobby. Bobby. Bobby.

I feel so close to him. Like he's trying so hard to connect, to climb over the line. Coca-Cola. Thank you. Howdy, folks. It's Mike Ryan. Now, if you've been listening to the show a lot lately, you've heard so much playoff talk. Playoff hoops down here in South Florida were especially enamored with playoff hockey. It's not just limited to the playoffs. Motorsports, tennis, golf. It's truly one of the best times in the sporting calendar. And with the weather outside warming up,

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