The Big Suey: Enough is Enough
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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.

There are a number of reasons that obviously we thunder like a million buffalo toward a mushroom cloud of a sporting event in South Florida. The way you guys are talking feels a little bit defeated. It's well beyond scared. I would make the argument to anyone listening around the good things in sports that, um,

Cowardice is not the absence of fear. It's the ability to overcome that fear. The fact that you guys... Cowardice is overcoming that fear? I'm sorry, courage. My bad. My bad. My bad. Well, because I'm not feeling courage right now. You nailed it. Like, I don't really...

believe I have hope, but I don't believe. I've got to see my team play well to believe. I haven't seen them play well outside of maybe a second and third period in Game 5 where you can maybe have some hope. I don't really see the path. I would say that I would have faith in my team, but the team that I've seen over the last three games is unrecognizable, Greg. But that's one of the fascinating dynamics of tonight is that for the first time in the whole lengthy postseason,

The Florida Panthers are doubted, and they are underdogs because when it's even in game seven and you're the home team, you're the underdog. Yeah. It's our first elimination game. Right. Yeah.

It's what's called a pick-em game. If you look at the lines right now on DraftKings Sportsbook, you'll find them at both minus 110. Books are happy because they're getting the action that they want, and they're going to collect on the hand. Right. I always root for the best story, and therefore I envision the Florida Panthers winning today. That is not the best story. It is for my market. It's ridiculous.

It is where I live. You're such a... It is where I live. It's not the best story. It is the best story. Where he lives, Dan. Only in your house. Gretzky of this generation coming down from 3-0. Like, I'm a...

I'm admitting, that's a better story for the league. Okay, Canada's used to this. They haven't won since. Canada's gone 31 years. They're used to this. Used to not winning. It's nothing new for them. The Panthers have also gone this time without winning. Which is why it's a better story. Edmonton's won five Cups.

Florida's won nothing. This is a better story, Florida winning. Connor McDavid is used to not winning a cup. Correct. Okay? Continue, please. The Florida Panthers winning is the best story in the NHL. I didn't say it was the most popular story. When Sidney Crosby went up against the Detroit Red Wings in his game seven that he won on the road, I know there was...

wasn't able to finish that game. But his first crack at it, Game 7, Stanley Cup Final, best player won. The guy that was tabbed to be a generational player came through. And now you have a dude that wrote that dude a letter when he was five years old on how to deal with being a prodigy in the very same position. I think that's... You have...

The ratings are going to be a bonanza tonight. Connor McDavid becomes an actual recognizable star no matter the result tonight. But if he transcends and does it and does something that no one in the history of that sport can say that they've done that's alive. Do we believe a five-year-old actually wrote a letter? I don't. Does the math add up on that? How does Sidney Crosby versus Steve? So the podcast, the Jeff Merrick show, when they had this story said –

Sidney Crosby was 15 when Conor McDavid wrote him a letter at five years old. Mom, could I have some stationery? I feel like penning a letter. How about you go into, finish kindergarten first, then we're going to give you a pen. Zagak. Why are you tracking down a 15-year-old's address? That's weird as hell. It's ridiculous. Look, in Greg's defense, I would say this. Should Conor McDavid win today, the NHL loses that storyline because he's won his cup. It's like the Triple Crown. We've talked about the Triple Crown for years.

As soon as a horse won the Triple Crown, we stopped really paying attention to all the Triple Crown races. Great analogy. Exactly right. Doesn't matter. Once we lose this storyline, what are we going to do? Is he going to win another one? Who cares? He did it already. And let me make this clear. When I say that the Florida Panthers winning...

is the best story. I am speaking 100% parochially. It's me maximum. It is me maximum. I am speaking from my perspective. Granted, the Panthers winning is also the best story for me personally. But, you know, for the Panthers, it's also big. Don't get me wrong. It's not just about me. Big night for the Panthers as well. Really, not just you.

Me, Maximum, you are saying that the best story is the Panthers winning. Nobody listening to that thinks that. For the first time, they're listening at the Sawgrass Mills food court.

And they're up and cheering right now, watching it on TV. It opens in six minutes. Can I ask this question sincerely, having seen the million people that showed up in Boston for the parade? I don't know how many people live in Edmonton. I imagine every single one of them will be in the street if Edmonton hosts a parade. What's our parade going to look like compared to Edmonton's parade? I ask the question seriously.

Because I believe every single person, I believe it would be a national holiday in Edmonton. I believe schools will be closed and no one has to go anywhere but to the parade in Edmonton, I would assume. That's not what it'll be here. You're planning parades now, are you? I'm saying both parades. Look, both sides have to have done some planning already. Somebody's done some planning. You're going to blame that on me?

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summertime, go outside. I record a lot from my office with you and you've noticed it's sitting there yet. It hasn't been used. Well, now's the time. Summer's the best time to start that push. Right. Can we do it together? Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together. I used to do that. We used to have Guillermo Tan. I'd invite people. We'd all take a class together. Okay. So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy. I,

I sense that with you. We're beyond starting. Okay. Whatever road lies ahead, your training starts here with Peloton Tread and Tread Plus. It's not just a bike, a treadmill too. I'm going to go outside. I'm going to get in shape. I'm going to do it with Billy Gill. I want to be in your class. I want you to be my instructor. You know what? I won't be your instructor. You don't want to spend more time with me. No, I can schedule a class and we can ride together. I won't be the instructor of the class. We can have Camila could be our instructor. I like the Grateful Dead class. My daughter, she uses the Peloton. Mm-hmm.

She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead 2. So let's do that. Okay. Why don't we go for a run outside? Guided run. Peloton. Me and you. That's something we can do together. Okay. Turn on the app. Me and you go outside. Enjoy the summer. Call yourself a runner with Peloton at onepeloton.com slash running. All right.

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 was one of those kids for sure that played by himself whenever ever outdoors or literally anything and thinking about like this is game seven Stanley Cup playoffs maybe even like overtime thing about those moments so yeah I've had many of those memories but and now it's becoming a true and tomorrow for sure exciting the most exciting time to be a hockey player.

To me, Greg Cody, and you've been in this market for a long time, the thing that makes tonight so incredibly rare and special, above all other things, is that you have been covering, watching, following this team for 30 years.

And in 12 hours or so, you will either have the best feeling in franchise history or the worst feeling in franchise history. Like there's nothing in between the two. There's nothing else there that you're, if they lose tonight, there's nothing that's happened in this franchise's history. That's going to have felt worse than the loss of tonight. And if they win, it'll be the most satisfying thing you've ever gotten for your 30 years of investment. It's,

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

Because the extremes have never been this extreme. Ever. I've never had a bigger hockey game in my entire life. No, hockey goes without saying. No, no, no. I'm saying I don't think in my lifetime there has been a bigger hockey game.

I've seen game sevens in the Stanley Cup final. Yeah. A 94, New York with a 40 years. That's the only thing that I think comes close to this in terms of what surrounds a singular hockey game. Maybe the gold medal game in Canada. Like, I...

There is nothing that has been this big. The extremes almost literally don't get more extreme. You're either going to raise the cup for the first time in franchise history, or you are going to be a failure and a choker in public estimation of epic success.

historic proportion. We said it earlier. It's going to be word association for just hockey fans. Panthers blew that 3-0 lead against McDavid. That is going to be what we're known for. Shit! I'm happy that the sport needs something like this. Something that can get into the main cable sports conversation. It hasn't had this kind of launching pad with these type of broadcast partners. So I know even if

I feel bad. At the end of it, the game is going to be helped by whatever happens tonight. Overtime? Worst case scenario. It's never happened in a Game 7 Stanley Cup. You can talk me into it. No. How much fun would that be? Oh, enough with the fun. I'm with Dan at this point. Give it to me. Because at this point, it means that the Oilers didn't beat us by a lot. No.

The way the last three games have gone, I will just take overtime at this point. Hold on a second. I have a question for you. I'm glad that you brought this here because I've been meaning to ask you. Before this series started, you said you would be fine with the Panthers losing the Stanley Cup. You'd just be happy with the fact that they got back to the Stanley Cup Finals two years in a row because it shows that your organization is successful. Do you still feel that? I do. Right now, you just said you'd be fine with them losing in overtime. I...

I'm going to find the perspective if we lose this game tonight. I will be the one in here tomorrow saying this was fun. Because this has been fun. No, it hasn't. The last four or five days, not been fun. No part of Friday was like fun. Overall, the last three years with this Panthers team has been...

other than maybe the Big Three Heat, like the best sporting thing of my life. Friday, you're watching the Boston Parade, a million people. You're watching all of the coverage of the Boston Parade, and then you lose that night 5-1 in an uninteresting game that makes everyone who's paying attention to hockey being like, wait, is Florida really going to blow that lead? Is that...

And the lead obviously has already been blown. I'm just really surprised though. I am surprised by this. I understand why it happens. Fandom is emotional. Fandom can be flimsy. I mean, when you jump up and down with the results of something, that's not what most of you have done when your children were born in the delivery room.

Jumping up and down. The wild expressions of emotions here are unique to sports. When you ratchet it up to the place where you're telling your fan base, here's the deal. Hockey's super random. Super random. Like anything can happen. Sports in general, in one game samples, super random. And here's what's at stake tonight.

Everyone's going to laugh at you or you're going to get to laugh at everybody who wanted to laugh at you.

And in those stakes, what you have is do you believe in your team or not? Because the three of you have wandered off on what the last three games have looked like. And you're not looking at the larger sample, which is this team in the third period comes back from if you scored first. This team has the goaltender that...

until the last three games you wouldn't have had a doubt that you had game seven at home with the goaltender the fact the fact that you guys are running scared suggests to me that the combination of the stakes and 18 to 5 in the last three games when you needed it and Edmonton needed it it's it's that and it's the fact that you haven't looked like yourself no but you did at home in all

You didn't look like yourself at all. You went down 3-0 at home, and you gave up a shorty, and you made mistakes, and you had to try to climb back into that game. You haven't looked like yourself, and I think that's where the – I'm not going to do the whole fan thing. You've lost hoping. I'm a human being, and I've seen a team play totally unrecognizable hockey over the last three games, getting played off the ice. They don't have –

A transcendent guy like Connor McDavid where you can just be like, get us one, pal. Just get us one. And you mentioned the goalie. Bob's numbers in the Stanley Cup final, now that the samples increase, he looked great for a couple games. Not great. Stuart Skinner's stats went through games four through seven. Unbelievable. He hasn't lost in the playoffs. He's impossible to eliminate so far. When he's facing that, he always shows up. So, Bob, they're –

It's weird vibes around Bob right now. He's not practicing for a reason. Well, you saying not practicing and told him to go home and like he's hiding somewhere. Yeah, don't have him face media. Like it's very strange around goalies in this sport. They gave him the day off. Let's not overstate it. They were just like, go home. They've tucked him away somewhere. They don't want him to be seen by the public or to see anybody. They've just tucked him away. I haven't lost hope in my team. Rah, rah, go Cats go. I'll be there. And if they go up,

one zero i'll be like yeah okay we we got this but dude i don't i don't think that they're gonna win tonight what and watch i don't think that they're gonna win and watch in the last because it it kind of feels when you're watching on a television screen that team figured that team out and it feels so much like that tampa bay sweep it really does where you're you're just unrecognizable to the eye you're breaking all your habits you're desperate you're trying to find your way they're

Momentum is a thing, I guess. Uncle Mo. I guess it's a thing. I don't know what's happening right now, but I don't think they're winning. What are we doing down here, by the way? Like, what are the Panthers and us? I say we because I'm a Panther fan. What are we doing for Game 7? Like, who's singing the anthem? Who's banging the drum? Mark Levy. What?

Well, I would assume. Somebody older. Yeah, we get somebody older and maybe more associated with failure. Who do we do? I feel like Messi has to do it, right? It's Messi's birthday. Messi's at Copa America. Yeah, but that game's tomorrow. You can fly from Miami to New York every five minutes. You can get on a bus.

bus, train, whatever Taylor did. He got there in a day. He'll make it to that game. You bring out Messi. Messi right now is on what? The hottest team in MLS? Like they're killing it right now. We're not paying enough attention to them. I've been talking about that. Billy, the name that's kind of... Well, did you commit to Miami or not? Like enough of this wishy-washy shit with Messi. I'm so tired of it. One day he's on this team. Another day he's on that team. Like commit or don't commit. Shit or get off the pot, Messi. Like...

This city needs you right now. Come bang the drum. What are we going to do? We're going to go to the old, oh, we'll bring in Dwayne Wade to do it. The guy's a jazz, okay? Like, enough of him. He's a jazz. He was a cav, he was a bull. Enough. If Dwayne Wade's banging that drum, I'm telling you right now, turn off the TV immediately. No point in even watching it. And if Ariana Grande's not singing the national anthem, we have problems. I'm tired of seeing her and Spongebob up in the booth.

gallivanting around, watching the Panthers. They love it so much. They are such big fans. How about you do your part? You get down here and you sing this nation's anthem and you make that Canadian dude who sings four words and gets paid for a full song every single game. I don't think he's getting paid. You put him to shame. You say, you know what? This is the best goddamn anthem on this planet and I am going to belt it out for free. That's what Ariana needs to be doing. Not cheering up there in the booth with her boyfriend. Who's banging the drum?

I am curious who... Because it's not going to be Messi. He's not in town. He should be. Wade is the person that the internet is kind of saying would be cool. Who will... What's the next best? Greg Coding. I would want Brooks Koepka. Oh, God. Because he's day in and day out there. He's a true fan. But they used him early in the playoffs last year. They just tried to go for it. It didn't work out that well. Have him wear the Ekblad jersey again.

Greg Cody said to me muttering during the break out of nowhere, he's like, you better hope that I don't get harmed by anyone after the game tonight if they lose. That would be a liability issue for you. We know he's litigious.

hold me at fault if the Panthers blow this 3-0 lead and lose. Dan, are you going to tell him to be accountable for his own actions too? I would like the adults around here to stop fearing jinxes and fans beating them up and the superstition of fandom and rise up and not think your team's going to lose over there and think you're going to get beat up over here. I understand you think it's all very silly. Yeah.

And I think it's great how silly it is. I think it's wonderful. I think I'll tell you, hold on. Let me let me just do this so that you understand it, because you say I care differently. I've talked before about how it is that the last three years have been unbearably hard to have something that feels good and takes me away out of that because I felt a little sick this weekend because everyone's going to laugh at you.

I felt a little sick this weekend, and I'm like, God, I'm 55. Why the bleep would I care this way that I don't feel good when I've got an otherwise charmed existence because I care about this stupid thing this way? That's what funds everything we're doing.

around here that people care like that. Yeah, I would say this is not a situation which would make me less superstitious. You actively trying to put up billboards and people planning a parade when we're up 3-0 and then blowing a 3-0 lead is not going to make me feel less superstition. I guess where I'm at is people are going to laugh at us regardless. I just feel like we've given them more to laugh at. What

How good is your superstition if you already feel you're going to lose tonight and none of your superstition can rise up and you can't put any magic dust anywhere by wearing Reinhardt's jersey? Well, damn, I've got a couple superstition levers to pull. Whoa. Really? He didn't wear Reinhardt. He didn't wear the Reinhardt jersey, by the way, because laundry didn't get done. Mm-hmm. Huh.

So that was what happened. So the Reinhardt jersey was due. He didn't wear it. What did you end up doing? I got a couple levers I'm going to pull. I'm not going to be out here playing all my cards publicly because that takes away all the powerful juju. But why wouldn't you play your cards earlier on? Why are we waiting? No, because you need to save. You've got to have some aces up your sleeve because the job's not done. You think I've gone out to the concession stand? No, I'm saving that for game seven.

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I care more about Matthew Kachuk than I do my daughter. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugats.

Cody is in a turbulent place, guys. Over the weekend, this is something that happened. It's an actual back and forth exchange I had with Greg Cody.

Greg Cody was doing one of his petulant storm around. He emailed me enough is enough and started vetoing all sorts of ideas. One of the ideas he vetoed is this photo of him in New Orleans that was dressed. Well, he did. He vetoed it. He said this photo. He said, why are you saying that's me?

Because it is you. It's obviously you. How about you say that it's someone who looks unsettlingly like me 30 pounds ago? No, for the audience. Oh, wow. You're skinnier than this guy. It's a man wearing a purple Speedo. He's got a drink in his right hand. He's wearing a tiger hat of some sort. Thong Speedo. He's wearing a tail, a long tiger tail and tiger claw slippers. And.

And nothing else. His belly is substantive. Well, paw print pasties it looks like. Yes. I'm sorry. Yes. So he's got... Those are paw prints on his nipples? They appear to be. Greg Cody said, enough is enough. I will not allow you to run that photo. But then...

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

It's obviously you. It's you, Greg. It's obviously you, the same way it was Belichick walking out of that ring doorbell. That man doesn't have a luscious mustache, so I'm not sure if it's Greg. Do you know when the last time I was shirtless in public? Right then. I'm watching it. We have video proof of it. I wear a shirt in the shower. I am never seen without a shirt. You're never nude?

Well, occasionally, but normally in the privacy of my own home. Chris, what's going on with your father that he's firing off and enough is enough to me over the weekend? I don't know what else he was dealing with. He's in a frayed state. He's a little scared of everything that's happening. He wanted all the attention. It was a lot of fun up 3-0 to have all the attention. Less fun at 3-3. He was going to not come in today and tomorrow over this photo.

I'm going to take credit for this. I had to call him and be like, Dad, objectively funny. Stop it. It's not you. No one actually thinks it's you. Well, he keeps saying it's me. It's obviously him. He keeps saying it's me. That's what's annoying me. That's what's annoying me. I did show it to my daughter, and she's like, Pop? Yes, it is my pop. Because you did that at four years old, and she doesn't know any better as opposed to ostensibly the people in this room. Would you like to retain counsel? No.

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

I wrote such a lovely photo. It was beautiful. And there's another photo that I don't want used. Why are you... Wait a minute. Don't do that. That's an invasion of my privacy. Wait a minute. Don't do that. That's not... That's an invasion of my privacy. You're taking that in the hospital room right after major surgery. I'm not laughing. What is this...

show doing. I'm not laughing at that part. Okay, that photo should never be shown again. And if you're going to show the photo of the guy in New Orleans, at least don't say that it's me when it isn't me. Is that you in the hospital bed? Yes. Let's back off. Let's back off. Okay? Everyone... And this is what I mean when I say enough is enough.

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

But the first part I absolutely agree with. That was an error. That was a mistake. Then why are you doing it? Because I texted Juju over the weekend. That was a mistake. And I said, don't show that. That was a mistake. So why is the show showing it then? Because that's our social media department. And then our video department, the messages didn't... That was an error. A very poorly timed error. I also rage texted Juju over the weekend. Everyone is...

Really in a frayed state. Yeah, you're doing this to us, pal. I can't wait till tonight. It's not me. It's sports. Okay. I mean, showing it to your granddaughter is another thing. At four years old, Conor McDavid is writing letters to Sidney Crosby. It's a very impressionable age. Greg, that...

It was a mistake. It was an error. I know you're not going to believe it. You're going to think that I'm fooling around. Me and Juju were privy to your complaints this weekend about that photo. No one else was privy to that. And that's why that just happened with truly terrible timing. But you did just remind me where the enough is enough came from. And that is where the enough is enough came from. So I am sorry. Okay, but maybe those who were privy to our exchange and my feeling about that photo...

should have alerted people here who otherwise might have shown the photo. And if I have a complaint about Metal Ark Media that is profound and enduring for three years, it's how poorly everyone communicates around here. Yes, you are correct. It was an error on our part what just happened with unspeakably funny but bad

Bad timing that it would appear as you were gently. That's a role of things we had. We didn't put up that hospital thing. It was terrible. It was terrible timing as he is incensed with rage over something that would have been right. Funny. Right until we crossed the line, which is clearly that's him in New Orleans.

The LSU photo is staying up because that's objectively. It looks like you, Greg. The thing that's funny about that photo is it absolutely looks like you. You cannot shape. It does look like it looks like you. I am not that fat. I will go on a scale with that guy any day of the week. I love that.

It could be plausibly argued that that is you in a court of law. That can absolutely work in a court of law. That's not a court of law. No, it's not a court of law. But if I put that photograph in front of a jury of our peers, 12 of them, more would say that is you than would say it's not you. They would convict you. Witnesses would say...

That that is you, if that was running away from a crime. The crazy thing is we very well may find out, because I feel like we're going to see the process server again at some point. I'm not saying it doesn't look like me. I'm saying it's ridiculous to say it's me.

And by the way, I'm in a great mood. No, no, I am. Greg's right. I am in a great mood. I am the only one in this room who genuinely believes that the Panthers are going to win the game. Me too. I'm actually insane. Dan's in your room, and he's also insane. I'm right with you. I totally believe. You said you're the only one in the room. I have looked.

looked at all those game logs and I looked at all of that stuff this year that has played out the way this is played out which is when those first three games go the way they do and Edmonton gets held to four goals what happens in their game logs after that is explosion after explosion game after game but what I saw in the last time the Panthers were here and they lost the game I don't forget that they were pelting Edmonton's net with everything that had been figured out that

that game at the end was Edmonton skating backwards saying, please don't end our season because the Panthers were at home. And I'm not saying you're not scared. I'm saying I can't wait till that third period tonight. And if they're down, I don't care that they're down because they've worn down everybody all year on that. And they're at home. Am I scared of McDavid? Of course I am. Am I scared of Dreisaitl? Of course I am. They're worthy champions too. But this is the first time with this Panther team before it started, before

the playoffs started and I saw all those hundred point teams that I said to you this is a championship worthy hockey team and it is you guys have been shook by the last three games do not blame you understand but that's what a desperate champion looks like let's go Florida are you one are you a desperate champion because now the stakes are equal and you know what no one's gonna laugh at Edmonton if they lose they're gonna laugh at you echoing and eternal if you lose this game

Great athletes love those stakes. Want those stakes. Want McDavid. Want the best. Don't want to win this trophy half-assed. Don't want McDavid hurt in the second period. Fans do. Fans want, please, get McDavid out of the game. Fans do. Fans are scared. Not champions. Champions don't do that. Champions want the best. Want to take out the best. In Greg's defense, McDavid did nothing last game.

I'm 4-2 right now. No, it's 3-3. No, no, but me personally. No, no, it's 3-3 in that series. You were up 3-2. Now, Chris tried to give him one in the 3-0, but we didn't count that one. I'm taking the three victories and last game. Greg hoisted the cup. When he was zero shots, zero points. Yeah. Yeah, I'm 4-2. But I got a win to win.

It's all or nothing. Well, you already won if you're 4-2. No, but my whole— You lose tonight, you won 4-3. Yeah, but my whole premise is based on McOver rated because he's never won a cup. If he wins a cup, he's McProperly rated. If the Panthers—that's the column you should write tomorrow, by the way. Just like, you know what? You know what? I upgrade him to McProperly rated. Right. He would be if he wins. No.

That's fair. Never denied it. He never denied it. What if he wins the Conn Smythe trophy? Oh, now that'll be an outrage. If he scores six goals and loses 7-6, Greg Cody will say he's McOverage. You're going to rant against him winning the Conn Smythe if we win tonight? Yes. Oh, of course.

Of course. Doesn't he have the most points in postseason history? It doesn't matter if you don't win. Not when it counts. That's his whole career, having the most points and not winning. If it happens again, then that would put the con in Con Smythe for him to win that trophy without raising the cup.

There is the headline. Always the bridesmaid. What am I booking? The fact that that would put the con in Conn Smythe if he wins that trophy without raising the cup. So I'm going to my bookie and I'm telling him, book this? Yes. So he's booking my outrage. It's book this. Yes. Conn, Connor. Or bank it. Go to your teller. Exactly right. So he put the con in Connor too, right? He'd be putting the con in Conn Smythe and the con in...

Levittard said that. You said that, not Greg. Don't do this thing where now this gets attributed to Greg and he gets unfairly judged. Dan Levittard just called Conor McGregor Con. In Dan's defense, he was trying to put those words in your mouth. My lips were sealed that time. But on the poll at Levittard Show, have you called Conor McDavid Conor McGregor in

In the last couple. I have. In the last couple. You just did. Oh, did I? A second ago. That actually got in print. I know. I know it got in print. Yes, there was a typo. In your column? Yes. Conor McGregor. Yeah, but I switched it out. I corrected it online. It was a perfect typo. That Conor is a little overrated. I think Chael Sonnen owes Conor McGregor an apology. He owes a lot of people an apology, to be honest. I know.

So Connor Mick properly rated is what's at stake tonight. Yes. If he raises the cup, he all of a sudden has lived up to the ridiculous expectations and he would be Mick properly rated. I can't keep anything in my stomach right now. I have to go poop. I know. I know. I have to go poop again. Okay. It's a few hours away and it's how everybody's stomach is here in South Florida. Done? We wrapped?

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