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Greg Cody
Cuervo welcome to the Big Sui presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast? I'm sorry, I'm not gonna apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it.
Billy Corben
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Dan Le Batard
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Greg Cody
A handful of amazing things that will pass for the analysis of the game action. Last night, just so that you have some context on what it is was just completed. Tim Reynolds points out that the Panthers have won two cups in 358 days. The Maple Leafs have won two cups in 22,333 days. You have McDavid in game six and seven. Last year he was plus one and zero points. McDavid in games five and six this year to Greg's point minus five and one point. Connor McDavid is the only player in NHL history to have nine straight 90 point seasons but not win the Stanley cup in in any of them. And then this in Greg Cody's column. I have written and said for two years that McDavid should not be called McJesus or the next Gretzky or given goat status because he is A king without a crown. Look at him swug. Look at him swigging confidently before we even get going. He's ready because I'm reading his words as poetry and he's never been more right. The senile old man wrote in the Miami Herald an ancient tablet from another time. I have written and said for two years that McDavid should not be called McJesus or the next Gretzky or given goat status because he is a king without a crown. The Panthers again have verified my claim and serve to underline my admittedly harsh criticism. The nickname for McDavid is just MC overrated. Look at him, the bar, standing from on high like Michael Jordan after making the 63 against Portland, shrugging his shoulders because he can't believe how amazingly right he is.
Billy Corben
Greg, is it the, Is it the proudest you've ever been about, like a column or a sports opinion that you've written?
Mike Ryan
I have to admit, Zaz, I'm, I'm not, not proud of it because, because I created Elaine. Nobody else before or since has sort of jumped on board and said, you know what, he was right. And people still are slow to say it because of that hockey cult I mentioned earlier. But there's no question that by how I define overrated, he absolutely is. And like I say, I feel more right about that now after this series than I did a year ago when it went to seven games.
Greg Cody
Well, if I can offer just some bit of context here, because we are like, that's going to end up being the condensed analysis that I don't think is fair to McDavid because of what I'm about to say in this series. I know it was a six game series and I know that Edmonton won two of the games, but it could have easily been a Panther sweep, right? Those games, like they were played the way Edmonton wanted to play them. And then by the end of the series, we were no longer playing the way Edmonton wanted to play. However, over the course of the series, the Panthers led for more time than anyone's ever led in a series before. Like it went six games, but Edmund was trailing for all but 33 of the minutes in the games. Like that. This is an all time dominance by an all time team. It was very much done to McDavid when he says it's not a choke, it's Barkov. Happened to him because on the third line they've got another guy they're talking about, like baby Barkov because he sees the ice the same way. And he's also a two way player and McDavid's great, but the Panthers have more of them. The Panthers are 15 deep, it feels like, and they just flogged the two players that Edmonton had.
Dan Le Batard
The Panthers are confidently playing their fourth line and you're barely seeing.
Billy Corben
How many times did you say last night?
Chris Cody
Amazing.
Billy Corben
Amazing shift from the fourth line. It's just like I said it three or four times last night. And that's the thing, like home ice advantage in the playoffs. What home ice advantage is, is that. And, and Chris will be able to tell you this. You get last change. Okay? Last change at the second period is an actual home ice advantage where Paul Maurice can make sure Barkov is on the ice as much as possible when he sees McDavid is on there, because the Panthers get last change. But here's the thing. It's not that or it wasn't that big of a deal for the Panthers even in the road games, because you got these three lines and it's like, okay, if we can't get the specific match we want, it's okay, because we're so confident in our top nine forwards that we could just roll these guys out. And that's, that's what you saw, especially as the series went on.
Tony Kornheiser
Man, calling McDavid overrated after losing to this specific Panthers team the last couple of years, it would sort of be like what the reactionary thing would have been if after Oklahoma City lost to the Big three Heat that you called Kevin Durant overrated. Now to say that on the show, we have done that.
Stugotz
He has no rings.
Dan Le Batard
He was also a lot earlier in his career than McDavid is, I believe.
Greg Cody
For sure, for sure.
Tony Kornheiser
He was early in his career, but he was still well on his way to being not only one of the faces of the league, but it was obvious that he was going to be a legend in the league. And maybe if that had happened four or five years down the line, sure, you could have started having those conversations. But to me, this is just an obvious example with the stats Dan laid out, one team being a whole other galaxy ahead of the other.
Billy Corben
You know, last year, after the Panthers won last year, we all would have sat here and said McDavid is definitely going to win a Stanley cup at some point in his career. Have we changed that opinion after seeing him lose again?
Stugotz
Greg said he wouldn't.
Greg Cody
I was scared of him the entire series and then by the end I had no reason to be.
Stugotz
So, Greg, I don't want to get too excited. I don't want to be Accused of starting rumors. But I will say this. Yesterday, Steve Levy. We all know Steve Levy, reputable voice of hockey, correct?
Billy Corben
Yeah, I know that guy.
Stugotz
Would you agree He's a reputable voice. Yesterday he was on Jim Rome and he said, quote, there's a lot of talk within the sport that if they don't win this year, McDavid might look elsewhere. Greg, I think now's the time you start printing up some McJuda shirts and have them ready to go for a year from now.
Mike Ryan
Yeah. I'm already putting lighter fluid on. On your incendiary breaking news. Really? By Billy that.
Billy Corben
Go on.
Mike Ryan
McDavid may end up in a Panthers uniform.
Greg Cody
Is this as right as you've been compared, Greg Cody, to how the most wrong you ever were, which was the column you wrote, trading Dan Marino, that then resulted in you doing an interview from in front of the Miami Herald in which we had to distort your voice and also silhouette you like a whistleblower in interview because you were so ashamed to show your face.
Billy Corben
You know about that reality.
Chris Cody
I saw the column when I walked into the office.
Billy Corben
How hard did you laugh?
Chris Cody
When I saw. I read the whole thing, and I'm aware of it now. I will serve at the altar of Greg. So I'm not here to cast stones at one. What a ridiculous column. It was a ridiculous column.
Billy Corben
Marino.
Chris Cody
Marino. Yeah. So I'm not here to catch and in this whole conversation, the pride that Greg feels. I want to know the pride that Chris feels in having a dad who could be. Well, there's the Marino trade. Yes. Yes. It's the unthinkable.
Billy Corben
Scott Mitchell.
Chris Cody
Scott Mitchell. I mean. I mean, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Stugotz
You don't know what haul you would have gotten from Marino, too. I mean, in fairness, he didn't bring any Lombardi's down to Miami, so.
Mike Ryan
Thank you. Thank you, Billy. Thank you, Billy. That Trade Marino column, by the way, in retrospect, is now surrounded by perfume. It has aged well.
Chris Cody
The TradeMarino column, well, that's 93. And if I remember correctly, Mitchell had a good Thanksgiving game for the Lions soon after that, where he was the. He was. He was operating at a high level. I don't. I don't think that column is. Put it in the office bad. I don't think it is. I think it's nice to see in the office. I appreciated laughing at it, but I'm not gonna call that the worst column in the history of the Miami Herald.
Mike Ryan
Thank you.
Dan Le Batard
You're looking at Dan. Do you have one in mind?
Mike Ryan
What a compliment.
Chris Cody
I only rank Dan's PTI appearances as the worst in ESP industry. That's all. They're on the Internet, Dan. I didn't invent this. The worst odds makers of all time. If you go to YouTube right now, you and Skip Bayless. Come on. That was the low point in odds maker history. Pizza. We don't need to have that conversation. I want to get back to prize. Yes. Yes, he did. I was there. I was there. I want to get back to the pride Chris feels ain't having a father who got everything right and is now seeing things ahead of everybody.
Dan Le Batard
Honestly, I am impressed with them because I have felt the pressure the last two years of the cult my dad speaks of. I've been afraid to agree with him on Connor McDavid because if you do it at all, hockey fans attack you. So I will give him credit because everyone has always kind of couched it with. He's an idiot for saying it, but he does need to win a title. So you get to be right. Dad, I am proud of you for this take.
Mike Ryan
And by the by the way, I want to just note almost parenthetically that in the first two games of this series, McDavid had four combined points, four assists. And in the final four games of this series when his team needed him most, he had two total points, a goal and an assist. That's when he really disappeared. Is is during crunch time in this series. I also want to say one thing about how good this Panthers team is. Okay, Bennett wins the Conn Smythe right there. There were five or legit. There were five or six players. Can I might.
Greg Cody
Can I stop you for just a second here, Greg? Just because we're this deep into the show and this is the first any of us would be mentioning of somebody scored four goals to separate themselves from everyone else and give a trophy that Marshawn was going to win if he scored those four goals. But again, first mention, I'm not kidding when I say this, when I tell you. Will hockey Fans remember the four goals scored to end McDavid to win a second championship? There aren't a lot of times in hockey history you can point to a guy winning the Con Smythe at the end because he scored four goals in the clincher. We could have five other guys that we would say also played almost close to as well, right?
Mike Ryan
Well. Well, two. Two of Reinhardt's goals were empty netters, but not taking away from a four goal performance. And Reinhardt is one of those five or six players who very easily could have won the con Smythe. One of them again is Bobrovsky, who I thought was fabulous almost all of this playoff run.
Billy Corben
I wanted him to get that shut out so bad.
Mike Ryan
I know most fans did.
Chris Cody
Look at the tag.
Dan Le Batard
Saddest goal. That was the saddest goal ever. I didn't even know what happened.
Chris Cody
It was.
Dan Le Batard
I was like, just like, you know, wait, oh, they scored. Oh, there's a one up there.
Greg Cody
Okay.
Mike Ryan
But let me tell you why Bobrovsky did not finish higher in the Khan Smyth voting than. Than he did.
Billy Corben
Go on.
Mike Ryan
The reason. The reason is that Florida scored 94 goals in 23 playoff games, more than four per game, and the average was higher than that in the final series. Florida had a 2 nothing lead. Just about every game they led. In the last five games of this series, the pressure on Bobrovsky was really lowered because this team was so relentless offensively as well as playing terrific defense. This final result is not the least bit of a fluke. The hugely better team won and made the best player disappear bigly.
Greg Cody
Get out of here. Greg, good talking to you. You've been vindicated. Congratulations, Billy. Do you have any advice for him before this White Hat podcast put up on the screen? By the way, we've dented most historic and hallowed trophy in sports already. It's been in our hands.
Dan Le Batard
We've already done 12 hours.
Greg Cody
We've dented the thing that's obviously outside the elbow room. That's how it's looked for 50 years.
Stugotz
Why does the guy even bother with like, the gloves and like, wiping it down after people touch it? It's such a waste of his time.
Greg Cody
Right. That's good, Chuck.
Dan Le Batard
I don't know. That could be forsling. Yeah, I'm not sure.
Greg Cody
I think the shipping container is going to have to offer Tachuk an apology. He said after the game he tore the abductor off the bone and was dealing with a hernia on the same side of his body, so was able to play.
Dan Le Batard
That's how he started the playoffs. And then played and said got healthier as played. He's like, yeah, I started to get healthy.
Greg Cody
Yeah.
Billy Corben
As he got used to it.
Greg Cody
Yeah. Tore the.
Billy Corben
Used to the hernia.
Greg Cody
Tore the adductor off the bone and also a hernia. Greg, good talking to you. I think. I think Mike Ryan described that as banged up. Yeah. Yeah, we expect him to get out there even though he's banged up. Tony, you were right to point out the positivity of father and son. Chris. Cody. Chris Cody is very happy today. And, Cody, I'm going to allow you now to go to the Elbow Room.
Chris Cody
How about that? All it took was praising your dad a little bit. And this is what happens. Positivity begets positivity.
Greg Cody
And thank you, Tony, for bringing the positivity of a championship. Upon arrival, The Elbow Room, somehow. And this I didn't think was possible. About to get pinker.
Chris Cody
Can you talk to me about the Elbow Room a little bit? As somebody who is from out of town and now I'm seeing images of what looks to be a bomb shelter.
Greg Cody
Yeah, it's.
Chris Cody
And I'm not really feeling it.
Greg Cody
It is minimalistic partying. And the story I was trying to tell you before about Zach Thomas that I sort of rushed through is that athletes who represent Broward county and like to be Broward people aren't necessarily Dade people. Wherever it is that Miami is divided here and culturally and nationally or culturally and historically, Wayne Huizenga sort of separated the line between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, and he built something sports in Fort Lauderdale that was for, like, this Panther team. And like Zach Thomas and Trace Armstrong and Jason Taylor before him for two different Americas. There's Dade County, America, and then there's Sawgrass Mills, Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, America. Ours is crazy ethnic. Fort Lauderdale is largely super white. The Elbow Room is the epicenter and soul of 50 years of white spring break partying from. I don't know, I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say Frankie Valli's time. Whenever spring break was popular in the 70s. I'm not even so for 50 years, the elbow Room has been a concrete slab where people party and do things that are not to be talked about and are to be forgotten. As soon as you get outside of the realm of whatever that devil death pin, death bin of excess is.
Billy Corben
It's so great that right after the game, everyone's just tweeting out from every wall the country. Elbow Room's gonna be lit tonight.
Tony Kornheiser
The Stanley cup official account asked if Matthew Tkachuk was bringing the trophy back to Elbow Room, but to defend Broward county and our diversity for just a second, a plurality is white. 33% white, 31% Hispanic, 27% black. So, you know, there's some diversity, just a different type of diversity.
Greg Cody
Improving, Improving diversity. And yes, I' Huizenga, long time ago. My information is somewhat dated. It's.
Tony Kornheiser
I mean, I also count as Hispanic.
Greg Cody
So it's yes, Jeremy. No, Jeremy sound Hispanic to you? Put it on the poll. If you met a Jeremy, would you think he's Hispanic?
Tony Kornheiser
At Lebatard show, my name was almost a frame. Would that have helped? It's my grandfather's name, my hod.
Greg Cody
No. So am I. If we had Mike here. I don't think any of these guys are veterans of the Elbow Room, but Zaslo's got it right. It's just dirty white, tight excess for 50 years. It's not it that.
Tony Kornheiser
It's a. It's a Buffalo Bills bar during the NFL season. Like, that's the type of slice of South Florida you're getting.
Greg Cody
But also, I'm guessing the seats are still concrete and it hasn't been updated.
Tony Kornheiser
In 50 years since the day it was built.
Billy Corben
No shot.
Tony Kornheiser
It's sticky everywhere, right?
Chris Cody
So you still got the Jagermeister on the floor, and you're sticking to the floor when you walk through. I got you.
Greg Cody
Spring breaks for 50 years have washed against that thing, and it still stands. All the venereal diseases, all the drugs.
Tony Kornheiser
And it's spring break every weekend there. Like, whatever you think spring break in Fort Lauderdale is, it's happening at the Elbow Room every single weekend when.
Greg Cody
Look, you guys see that what's happening in the world and how dangerous everything is. The only things that would survive a nuclear holocaust in South Florida are the Elbow Room and Drew Rosenhaus.
Billy Corben
That place is gonna be awesome today. Because last year no one really thought about. It's like, oh, whoa, the cup is at Elbow Room. Let's go. And now everyone just knows everyone is going. I would imagine it's really crowded right now. Where compared to last year, Tkachuk arrived with the cup, and it's like there were not that many people there. Then all of a sudden, you know, we got word of mouth and people.
Greg Cody
Showed up, and Chuck ran into the ocean with the cup. People heard and then went. And now it becomes a thing. Because last year was bark off in the streets with the cop denting it in a golf cart. You know, this is what the story I beginning to tell you about the Elbow Room. And so it's where Dolphins would go drinking during the day on a weekday, and Larry Izzo and Zach Thomas would think it smart to try and race to a buoy deep in the ocean. And Izzo would crap out, and Zach would get there and not realize that the buoy is slippery and he's exhausted and someone's going to need to rest.
Chris Cody
So we almost.
Greg Cody
Or the middle linebacker for the Miami Dolphins is going to drown, and nobody's going to have an explanation and the explanation is going to be the elbow roof. That's what. And that's it. Like, can you imagine? Dolphin dies at sea, Cause of death, the elbow room.
Tony Kornheiser
Just show them a picture of the place. They'll understand.
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Dan Le Batard
Don Le Our Panther group chat we're confident against the lighting. This is a different team.
Stugotz
You're a Panther group chat no, no.
Chris Cody
I think no.
Dan Le Batard
But dude, you're. You're so wrong on that. We've been terrified of this team forever and I think there's a different energy where the Panthers they want the lightning st.
Greg Cody
I want T shirts made for this Panther run. What could be this Panther run? Our Panther group chat we're not afraid of the lightning.
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Stugotz
This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.
Greg Cody
So Roy and Chris are headed out there and now Billy is in charge air traffic control and I'm worried about what Wild Willie Wednesday is about to become. But Zaslo, where did you party? How did you party? And you weren't able to get into the game because you lost an unfortunate bet. Bet that I don't remember what.
Chris Cody
That's what happened. I thought we were deciding whether to choose which child is going. But the bets.
Mike Ryan
Yeah.
Chris Cody
Seated all that well.
Billy Corben
Yeah, we. I lost. You know, it was supposed to be Shay Gildas. Alexander was supposed to get points, rebound, assists over 49 and a half. He ended up with 43. My. My younger son was so mad. He was.
Chris Cody
So your degenerate gambling resulted in the Suns.
Billy Corben
Yeah, them not being able to go the game. But that's okay. That's okay. So we watched the game last night at the Zazlow Mansion in the Zazzle Mansion family room. Me, my two teenage boys, my father. We had three generations of Zazlow's because we won a Stanley cup in the Zazzle Mansion family room last year with that crew. My father came over again. We all watched together, had my neighbor, his son. So we had a good crew. All right. We ran it back from Game 5 because that's the group that won Game 5. So we had to have him back last night to win game six. And we had a great night. There was. I'm pretty hungover today. It was a lot of action in the Zaslow mansion family room last Night.
Greg Cody
I don't know where Mike Ryan is today because I'm imagining that this is the team he cares about the most. Right. More than the heat. More maybe.
Billy Corben
Well, hurricanes. Are we counting hurricanes?
Greg Cody
Okay, probably hurricanes now because he's invested. But Mike's career in this industry began interning for the Panthers. And so when Tony can speak to what it is to grow with something right. In a way that connects your lifetime to choices. Mike Ryan chose a life in sports despite the terrible experience he had with management of the Panthers.
Billy Corben
Yeah, I was gonna say it's interesting that that made him love the team so much because they had horrendous management and they were a horrendous team.
Greg Cody
But it's where his love of sports began, and it's where it started the journey toward making a career in this or thinking that you could. And so he'll forever be grateful to this team, and I think he cares about it more than the heat that way.
Stugotz
He started liking them when they again.
Greg Cody
Well, that's true.
Chris Cody
He's also blinded by the Marchand this. This season. They just couldn't get past it. And that's. That's an unfortunate thing. What I'm trying to observe here, just as an outsider, is, well, now we got two. And this game, in the end, wasn't even close.
Billy Corben
Wasn't.
Chris Cody
And now there is a. There's something about Zazzle. We were saying, you have a puff in your chest today, and it's almost like this is old hat.
Greg Cody
The shirt. The shirt fits better. Like, he looks different.
Billy Corben
I got a glow to me.
Chris Cody
Is this becoming.
Billy Corben
Glad you noticed.
Chris Cody
Too familiar.
Billy Corben
Yeah, no, no, it's something that I could. I can get used to. Yeah, I can get you stalls.
Stugotz
I was wondering that too, Tony, because, like, Zaz probably experienced this differently because he was working for the heater. With the heater. However you want to say it at the time. Right. Yeah. So at the end of the big three run, people won't admit this, but I'll tell you, I'll shoot you straight. At the end of the big three run, there was a bit of, like, championship fatigue. Like year four, there was kind of like, people were not as excited about the big three and LeBron anymore. The games were still sold out, but the tickets weren't as hard to get as they were before. It was an easier ticket to score. You could go to the games.
Chris Cody
Right, so now you're inventing side quests that it's not just about the championship. It's about one particular route that we can go yeah, you're just expected to.
Stugotz
Be in the finals every year. You went three straight. This is where the Panthers find themselves, exactly where the Heat were after year three. Three straight appearances in the championship round. Two straight championships. Now you're going potentially for a three peat. But there was a feeling there with the Heat that I'm wondering if there is for the Panthers here.
Billy Corben
It's not the same because in the NBA or the NBA is not like that now. I mean we're, we're going to have seven consecutive unique champions in the NBA. But back then we all knew at the start of the season the Heat are going to be in the finals. The Heat are going to be in the finals. He's going to be the finals. The Panthers, no matter how good they are, like we'll go into next season, I can't sit here and say they Panthers are definitely going to be back in the Stanley cup final.
Chris Cody
That's the charm of this team though. Again, you guys are living it, you're breathing it. I'm watching it from afar. I'm seeing a team that I don't know if they're the best team on the ice. I don't know it until I see it with my eyes. And now I'm going to say some stuff about Greg Cody here that I wouldn't say to his face because he should be crowing the way that Greg's going to crow. I don't think McDavid is overrated. I think this is the worst possible matchup for him in a big spot. I do. So I think Styles make fights and this has become one sided, this matchup, this rivalry now that we have and it's the worst possible matchup for that one particular player like Tony.
Billy Corben
They were so good. Edmonton throughout the Western conference playoffs they.
Chris Cody
Had won 13 of 15 games at one point. So here we are with a team that can operate, can be high octane, they can do a lot of things, but you get one matchup and for me it's probably McDavid, Barkhoff, it's something of that nature and then it's the, it's the second and third line that has a very defensive forward position. That's what makes this team different and that's all it really takes to elevate to the next level. This is going to now be viewed as an all time team. I absolutely think it is. But when you're going through a season, you're not going to say they're light years ahead of everybody else. They're not until you see it on the ice against a particular opponent and that's domination. As you have the stat in front of you, Dan, they led by more minutes than any other team in 70 years. And then, and then it went on to be the all time record Oilers.
Billy Corben
Led after one period this series.
Chris Cody
Yeah. So that doesn't happen. That just doesn't happen. And it doesn't happen to the Oilers. You can in hockey take away a team's best player but this particular matchup and it gets down to Barkov. For me what he does to McDavid is that's the one solve that no one else in the league has.
Billy Corben
He was amazing.
Chris Cody
So it sounded like you have a copycat, like can we get bark? Yeah, you can get a Barkov. Maybe Florida has a mini Barkov on their third line. Fine, but, but until you get one, there's no copycat to that.
Greg Cody
Hard to get a mark off to.
Jeremy
The comparison point of the, of the Miami Heat, of the Big three. You look at what that was in those four years was wall to wall coverage on espn, on every platform you could mention, there was wall to wall coverage of the Miami Heat. We talked about the Panthers for nationally for three minutes. Hey, they won. They're already on to the NBA finals. They're already on to what's happening in training camp for the NFL it's different where nobody's talking about the Panthers. So how can you get fatigued about something you don't talk about?
Greg Cody
Well, let me explain why it is the show will be doing what it is doing throughout the day today for four hours straight. Tkachuk has been asked if the Panthers are a dynasty and he says hell yeah. Absolutely. There have only been three back to back champions in our city's history. It's LeBron's team, it's the undefeated Dolphins. If you're a back to back champion in our city, it's not University of Miami. Right. It's professional sports.
Billy Corben
Canes didn't win back to back either.
Greg Cody
No. Yeah. Excuse me, sorry. I thought they had won one.
Jeremy
They did. They got robbed.
Greg Cody
I thought they, I thought they had won two in a row. You're right. So the Panthers enter a class that there are only three of in this in the city's history. And the Oilers were outscored by the Panthers 13:4 in the first period in the series, including nine nothing in the last four games. So what Tony was saying about 13:15. The Oilers started the playoffs down 0:2 to the Kings and were down in the last five minutes of games three and four. And then just reeled off like something that could have and should have won the championship playing that way. Except it ran into Tony saying the one thing it couldn't run into where your best player is suffocated by their guy. And then the 10 guys behind McDavid stopper.
Chris Cody
I mean that's basically is what we were talking as you never won back to back championship Zaz for. For journalists of the of the year in.
Billy Corben
I'm a two time champion broadcaster.
Chris Cody
Yeah. Yeah.
Billy Corben
And that was back to back.
Chris Cody
So yeah. So that's another dynasty.
Greg Cody
Did you guys hear and I failed to ask Greg Cody. He's made Brad Williams his former friend now.
Billy Corben
Yeah. What's that about former friend?
Greg Cody
Because Brad Williams went on the White Hat podcast and Greg Cody is feeling himself these days. Billy, how are you feeling in the role there? Because I thought I wanted you to give me the ability to play the Sounder that your Wild Willie Wednesday Sounder on this thing. Because when you asked Zsasz if he's already tired of championship fatigue league. It's an asinine thing.
Billy Corben
No, it's not.
Stugotz
That was a real thing that happened with the Heat. Like people just assumed they were going to be in the finals every year and honestly took for granted the last finals appearance because you just assumed LeBron will be back, this is going to go on forever. And then boom, just like that, he's walking, watching a soccer game, not listening to Pat Riley and he's gone and the whole thing falls apart. Chris Bosh then has his kidney thing and he's gone. Dwyane Wade gets in a fight with Pat Riley, he's gone. Just like that. Boom. You know what I mean? It all evaporated very quickly.
Billy Corben
Zoe was the kidney though.
Jeremy
Yeah. So was it.
Stugotz
Whatever.
Jeremy
Blood clots for Bosch.
Stugotz
Tomato, tomato.
Billy Corben
One thing can kill you, the other thing could kill you. The same thing.
Stugotz
Yeah. I mean, you guys, how does it.
Chris Cody
Always devolve into this? Death, grief, mourning, literally and figuratively. How does it always devolve into that for you guys?
Jeremy
Look to your left.
Greg Cody
I thought, I thought we should have played a game called around the Morn and it could have been around grief and Alonzo Morning trivia.
Stugotz
That's an idea.
Chris Cody
Yeah. Of all the ideas you've had, that's one of them. What else did you want to play?
Greg Cody
Around the porn.
Chris Cody
Of course you do.
Greg Cody
But instead he wanted to do positive Around. Yes. Around the Bjorn. Around the.
Jeremy
Oh, man. Baby Bjorns are awesome by the way. Aren't they, Tony? Listen to this.
Chris Cody
Come on. The relief on your neck and shoulders.
Jeremy
Right here every time. Anytime I put her in the Baby Bjorn.
Chris Cody
Yeah.
Jeremy
She takes a. It's incredible. She's a little constipated. Put in the Baby Bjorn.
Chris Cody
You're still at that age where it smells great, right?
Jeremy
Six months.
Chris Cody
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once you. But because you're not on solids, we're.
Jeremy
Gonna start solids now in a bit.
Chris Cody
Damn.
Jeremy
I'm a little worried.
Chris Cody
Pre solids baby poop.
Jeremy
It smells like waiyah.
Chris Cody
It is. Absolutely.
Jeremy
I'm not gonna lie to you, Dan.
Greg Cody
I'm telling you, I've looked at fine.
Chris Cody
It smells fine.
Jeremy
I'm telling you, I've smelled it. I've been like, oh, God.
Chris Cody
It's almost, I would say, playing Rollatini. I mean, it's. It's a wonderful. I mean, there is. There is a freshness to it.
Jeremy
There is.
Chris Cody
You're saying it's still a new experience.
Greg Cody
You're saying the first. If you tell me the first six months of baby poop. Scent is way out. It smells nice.
Chris Cody
Yes.
Greg Cody
Smells fine.
Chris Cody
I think it is built in our in. In humans, so we don't discard our children.
Billy Corben
I don't remember it.
Chris Cody
You don't remember it?
Billy Corben
I don't remember.
Jeremy
It's been a long time for you. Those as.
Billy Corben
Yeah, I think it's Montero.
Stugotz
No, it doesn't smell for a while. When it starts smelling, though, it hits you and you're like, oh, boy, that's solid.
Chris Cody
But. But Dan started this with. He wants to talk about playing around. You said around the porn or something. So you came up with. You came up with questions overnight. You were writing questions around, doing research around the Morn.
Greg Cody
A trivia game about grief and trivia about Alonzo mourning.
Jeremy
What's the trivia about grief? Like who shot jfk?
Greg Cody
It's not a real.
Tony Kornheiser
What's the saddest part of the life?
Billy Corben
Do you pick which. Which question you want? Like something about mourning or something about mourning?
Chris Cody
Is that what it is?
Greg Cody
Yes, that's the joke. You never know which one's coming.
Jeremy
A lot of Zo stats there for you.
Greg Cody
Yeah. You don't know whether the question is going to be a serious, super serious grief question that's going to make you sad. Would you attend their funeral or is it going to be about Alonzo mourning? You know, where. What was the name of the woman who raised you?
Chris Cody
Would you attend their funeral? Is an interesting game segment, though. We thought of some.
Greg Cody
Some.
Chris Cody
Some games we could play. Early days of pti. This is, you know, when we Were together doing party interruption. Dad. And it would. Who would you rather be stuck in an elevator with? But would you attend their funeral?
Greg Cody
It's a great game.
Chris Cody
Is an interesting game.
Greg Cody
Well, we've been playing it here. Or would. Should we play it with Tony Reali. Should we play the.
Stugotz
Nah, you know what?
Greg Cody
He wants to play it. He thinks it's interesting game.
Jeremy
He would be at everybody.
Chris Cody
I'm not the one to play. I'm. Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Greg Cody
But you don't think I can put someone for you right on the line? You don't think I can put.
Chris Cody
They would call me Mr. 3 to 5, 7 to 9. Tony would show both sessions of the funeral book.
Stugotz
How long?
Chris Cody
Three to five, seven to nine. I'll be there for both. Both shoulders.
Stugotz
How long is your message in the book that you write? You flip the page with, like, your goodbye message.
Chris Cody
This is. This is something we touched upon on South Beach Sessions. Now let me go ahead and tease that, right? We got to this. What'd I write? What'd I write? I'm a writer. I like to write cards out to people. I'm in the process of doing that after we had the finale to the TV show. But I had a change. I had to take myself and my mind over what I would want for myself and think, you know what, actually what I should be writing for somebody who's in that position. Cause how I feel about something isn't necessarily how someone else should feel about something. And that's what we get to. He gets to the core of that.
Greg Cody
South Beach Sessions coming out tomorrow. We've. We've broken the top of the cup as well. Now there's more news.
Chris Cody
That's. That's not a. That's a fracture.
Stugotz
That's a rust situation.
Greg Cody
So the cup has been in our hands for 12 hours, and the bottom of it is dented. The most hallowed trophy in sports also. We've just broken the top of it.
Jeremy
Break that shit. That's our. That's our cup two years in a row. Break that shit.
Tony Kornheiser
Break it. Bury it under the remains of Wanadoo City at Sawgrass Mills Mall.
Greg Cody
Hairs.
Jeremy
The guy with the white hair is gonna come back with another. Oh, this is the Stanley Cup. No, we've got eight of them.
Mike Ryan
Sorry.
Greg Cody
Yeah, break that. Actually, Tony, you're right about this. We learned the last time the cup was here, most hallowed trophy in sports. We interviewed the guy who protects it, and then I think someone whispered. Yeah, they're like a dozen of them.
Jeremy
It's like this is the fake one. I was like, then why is he treated with so much respect?
Greg Cody
Who cares? But they're. They're.
Jeremy
Oh, I can't touch it.
Greg Cody
There are 12 guys running around with 12 trophies and whatever. They'll make 12 more.
Jeremy
Break that.
Greg Cody
We're gonna break all of them. We're gonna keep.
Jeremy
I'm gonna tell Chris when he gets the elbow room. Break that.
Greg Cody
That's not right. That's disrespectful. Canada can't be liking the dorks. Florida treats the trophy that.
Jeremy
Hold that.
Greg Cody
No, that's not cool, Tony. You don't care about hockey. You don't respect the company.
Chris Cody
What are you talking?
Jeremy
Who has more hockey stuff right now than me?
Stugotz
Yeah, literally, who?
Cuervo Rep
Nobody.
Jeremy
Not one person. I'm wearing skates right now.
Greg Cody
Zazlo, is yours. Is one of your sons at the elbow room?
Billy Corben
My 16 year old's at elbow room right now.
Mike Ryan
What?
Stugotz
Like, with a fit Fake?
Jeremy
That can't be.
Billy Corben
What do you mean?
Jeremy
Don't blow up a spot, dude. They're gonna look for the. For the young Zazlo if they're not.
Billy Corben
Gonna let him in the doors. Like, he's outside. Like, they're bringing the cup right outside. Walking on the beach and my son's there.
Chris Cody
Yeah, but does he have your old ID and he's.
Billy Corben
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Chris Cody
I mean, you guys probably have a similar, you know, whole.
Billy Corben
Yeah.
Cuervo Rep
Situation.
Chris Cody
Yeah. I mean. Yes.
Billy Corben
Yeah, he might. His hair is a different color than mine, so I don't know.
Chris Cody
Yeah. Yeah, you're right. I mean, but. But there's the full.
Tony Kornheiser
Young Zaslow.
Greg Cody
Yes.
Chris Cody
Fullness.
Stugotz
Dan, did you notice that everybody here, like, the big hockey guys, Big Panther. Everyone's beard was already trimmed. Like they waited 0 minutes to trim their beard. Shave their beards immediately. Chris Cody's beard was completely groomed. I was like, did you, like, race home to do that last night? First thing in the morning, trim the beard. They wanted nothing to do with their playoff beards anymore. Now that it was done.
Jeremy
By the way, buzzer, at 6:30 in the morning when my wife is sleeping. Not the play.
Greg Cody
Put it on the poll, please. Juju at lebatard show. Does baby poop smell fine? Slash nice until we get to solid foods.
Chris Cody
Right.
Jeremy
Then it changes.
Greg Cody
Until we get to. Until we get to solid foods. I believe the next incarnation of Tony Reality's life will have a lot of parent. I hope it has a lot of parenting stuff in it. Although I. I learned during the south beach session that you mentioned, I Did not realize that you were still at espn.
Chris Cody
Thank you very much.
Greg Cody
Well, but you're not on air anymore at the moment.
Chris Cody
I'm not on air. I'll be happy to.
Billy Corben
He's my co worker colleagues.
Chris Cody
I don't have the back to back broadcaster of the year awards.
Billy Corben
Nobody's perfect.
Jeremy
Neither does he.
Greg Cody
But you're going to be on the air these next couple of months.
Chris Cody
Oh, I mean, any conversation would be fine. I mean, I'd be happy to work. I'm happy to work. Am I here to work?
Greg Cody
Okay, I'm sorry, no, but I'm just saying like that I don't understand. You don't understand. None of us understand. It's not been explained well by anybody why we would cancel a very popular show. But I was talking the other day about like the idea and look, I'm not gonna put Tony in the bad spot here.
Stugotz
Seems like you are.
Greg Cody
No, I'm just gonna explain this part to the audience because to the degree that you should care about something that has been carefully crafted and deserves to be curated and treated with respect. Because Tony, Bill, one of the rarest things there is, an audience uniquely sort of his that will go with him because they like the man that he grew up to be. Over 23 years, you did how many shows? 4,900.
Chris Cody
Porn was 4,953 episodes.
Greg Cody
Yeah. All right, so you were 47 from 5,000. And just where it is that corporations get a little careless. Bryant Gumpel. Bryant Gumbel was one year on the best sports television show There is from 30 years, HBO Real Sports. It got to 29 years. Years. The idea that he's being paid right now. But there are not shows when he could have gotten to 5,000.
Chris Cody
I don't think about that.
Greg Cody
Okay, well, I do, I do. I'm not. You haven't said this to me.
Chris Cody
I'm saying this because nobody knows what episode you're on today. Right now though, you're 20 years of DLS. What episode is it? You don't even know what episode you were on.
Greg Cody
I don't know, but YouTube.comyreali is where you will find stuff that he will be doing to keep around the horn alive.
Chris Cody
Oh, for a little bit, but I'm gonna be cooking in there.
Billy Corben
Is this part of around the Morn right now?
Greg Cody
That's a good game. It's a good game.
Chris Cody
It's the worst game I've ever heard.
Stugotz
Yeah, it's a game.
Greg Cody
So do you want. You prefer to do around the porn?
Stugotz
Neither's option around the Bjorn.
Greg Cody
I'm in because Tony, Tony, when you were doing the Bjorn and you were putting the baby in something, But I thought the Bjorn, we wore it here, right? Like the baby.
Jeremy
So the Bjorn is the actual.
Chris Cody
The.
Jeremy
The. The brand name of it. They have different products. I'm doing the one that's like. It's almost like a sling that she sits in on the floor. So when I'm tired of holding her, put her right on there and then she sits down in it. And it kind of.
Chris Cody
This is new for me. I'm the rap. I'm a wrap myself in my human. My little human wrap myself.
Greg Cody
But Tony's not. Tony Kad is not. He's not describing a Bjorn. He's describing something else that the baby poops in.
Chris Cody
Baby Bjorn is now a full line of accoutrement.
Jeremy
And yeah, so mine is the bouncer, right? So she sits in the bouncer and then she can bounce herself. And then I think at the angle, she's like, ooh, I like this. It's almost like a squatty potty for the baby. Because she starts realizing, wait a second, this position, I can kind of let things rip. Boom, she lets it rip. I can't tell you how many times I've had to take the thing out and change it because it poops everywhere. But we can look for a Baby Bjorn bouncer, which is what I have.
Tony Kornheiser
So a Bjorn can be a Bjorn or a Bjorn can be a bouncer, but a bouncer can't be a Bjorn.
Jeremy
Bjorn unless it's made by the company.
Chris Cody
Unless.
Jeremy
Right, that's right.
Chris Cody
Yeah. Unless the guy working in the Elbow Room's name is Bjorn. Is this the type of stuff you like for. For Zoo Crew Radio? Is that. Is that type of humor?
Greg Cody
Is that. We do Zoo Crew Radio. It's zippy in the juice. We're back after this.
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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: The Big Suey: Around the Mourn & BabyBjörn
Release Date: June 18, 2025
In this engaging episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz delve into a multifaceted discussion centered around the recent NHL playoffs, offering sharp analysis, personal anecdotes, and light-hearted banter. The episode navigates through sports critiques, familial interactions, and humorous segments, providing listeners with a comprehensive overview of the team's performance and the cultural significance of South Florida's sports scene.
The core of the episode revolves around the intense playoff series between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers, with a particular focus on star player Connor McDavid.
Greg Cody initiates the conversation with a critical assessment of McDavid's performance:
"Connor McDavid is the only player in NHL history to have nine straight 90-point seasons but not win the Stanley Cup in any of them."
[01:42]
This sentiment is echoed by Mike Ryan, who expresses cautious pride in his previous predictions:
"I've been scared of him the entire series and then by the end I had no reason to be."
[07:00]
The discussion intensifies as Billy Corben defends Greg Cody's stance, emphasizing the dominance of the Panthers:
"This is an all-time dominance by an all-time team. It was very much done to McDavid when he says it's not a choke, it's Barkov."
[05:01]
The hosts analyze how the Panthers managed to stifle McDavid's impact, attributing it to the team's depth and strategic gameplay. Greg Cody highlights:
"The Panthers led for more time than anyone's ever led in a series before."
[05:01]
Dan Le Batard adds a personal touch, sharing the pressure felt when critiquing a beloved player:
"I've been afraid to agree with him on Connor McDavid because if you do it at all, hockey fans attack you."
[09:58]
The episode underscores the complexity of evaluating player performance within team dynamics, especially in high-stakes playoff scenarios.
The conversation takes a nostalgic turn as Greg Cody and Billy Corben reminisce about past sports columns and the evolution of media interactions.
Greg Cody revisits a controversial column about trading Dan Marino:
"That TradeMarino column, by the way, in retrospect, is now surrounded by perfume. It has aged well."
[08:56]
Chris Cody humorously acknowledges his father's missteps:
"That was a ridiculous column. It was a ridiculous column."
[08:11]
This segment highlights the hosts' ability to reflect on past criticisms with humor and humility, fostering a relatable and authentic dialogue.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the Elbow Room, a legendary sports bar in Fort Lauderdale, and its cultural impact.
Greg Cody provides historical context:
"The Elbow Room is the epicenter and soul of 50 years of white spring break partying."
[15:54]
Tony Kornheiser adds a modern perspective on the venue's diversity:
"For Broward County, a plurality is white. 33% white, 31% Hispanic, 27% black."
[16:21]
The hosts explore how the Elbow Room has maintained its iconic status amidst evolving social landscapes, serving as a cornerstone for sports fans and a backdrop for memorable championship celebrations.
Injecting humor into the discussion, the hosts introduce a playful trivia game titled "Around the Mourn & BabyBjörn."
Greg Cody shares the concept:
"I was going to do a trivia game about grief and trivia about Alonzo mourning, but instead we did positive Around. Around the Bjorn."
[31:36]
The segment features amusing exchanges about baby products and personal experiences, showcasing the hosts' knack for blending humor with everyday topics.
As the episode wraps up, the hosts reflect on the Panthers' potential dynasty status and tease upcoming segments:
Greg Cody emphasizes the historical significance of the Panthers' achievements:
"The Panthers enter a class that there are only three of in our city's history."
[28:40]
Stugotz draws parallels to the Miami Heat's championship run, contemplating whether the Panthers can sustain their momentum:
"This is where the Panthers find themselves, exactly where the Heat were after year three."
[25:46]
The episode concludes with a humorous nod to their adventures with the Stanley Cup:
"We've dented the thing that's obviously outside the elbow room. That's how it's looked for 50 years."
[35:25]
Panthers' Dominance: The Florida Panthers showcased unparalleled dominance in their playoff series against the Edmonton Oilers, effectively limiting Connor McDavid's impact.
Media and Personal Reflections: The hosts engage in self-reflection and nostalgia, discussing past sports columns and their evolution in media interactions.
Cultural Significance of Elbow Room: The Elbow Room remains a pivotal venue in South Florida's sports culture, representing both historical and contemporary facets of fan engagement.
Humor and Relatability: Incorporating light-hearted segments like "Around the Mourn & BabyBjörn," the hosts maintain an engaging and relatable atmosphere throughout the episode.
Greg Cody on McDavid:
"Connor McDavid is A king without a crown."
[02:00]
Dan Le Batard on Personal Pride:
"Dad, I am proud of you for this take."
[09:58]
Stugotz on Steve Levy's Commentary:
"There’s a lot of talk within the sport that if they don't win this year, McDavid might look elsewhere."
[07:13]
Tony Kornheiser on Championship Fatigue:
"Just like that, he's walking, watching a soccer game, not listening to Pat Riley and he's gone and the whole thing falls apart."
[30:07]
This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz offers a rich blend of sports analysis, personal insights, and humor, making it a must-listen for fans seeking both depth and entertainment in their sports discussions.