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All right, we did it, everyone! Give it up for Friday! Everybody give it up for Friday! Good job! Come on now, how about that? We made it through the week. Look at this crew. We got Roy and we got Chris and we have Mike. And Tony, and out on the West Coast is our pal Dave Dameshek. Hello, Dave, how are you this morning?

No hands, it's soccer season, everybody. I'm doing great, how are you?

How about that? They play the World Cup games out there on the West Coast too? You're into it?

That's right. I believe if my sources are correct, there's a soccer game this evening in SoFi Stadium involving these United States.

It's Los Angeles Stadium.

Is that what they're calling it? Important correction.

Yeah. You can't— you can't call any of the stadiums by their unapproved sponsors.

Is that right?

Yes, that's true. Like MetLife is New York, New Jersey Stadium. Hard Rock is Miami Stadium.

Really?

Yeah. You didn't know that?

They cover up everything.

All the sponsors.

All the sponsors have to be covered up. Mercedes-Benz. There's just a big banner that covers the Mercedes-Benz logo and it just says World Cup. You know how Hard Rock Stadium has the Hard Rock signage in each end zone? You have to put a sign over that.

Why is that exclusively a World Cup thing? Like, when the national championship is here, they don't cover up Hard Rock Stadium.

No, because FIFA is its own government. Pablo did a fascinating episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, and they get into that specific detail. Zaz, it's not just, you know, the window dressing of covering up the signage on the stadiums. Internally, your local governments have to refer to that stadium as Miami Stadium.

So you're telling me on the broadcast, when I'm watching the game, you know, whenever the first game on television is here at Hard Rock Stadium, they're going to call it Miami Stadium?

That's correct. In fact, if you live in an area that has road signs that point to the corporate sponsor that don't just say stadium but say, you know, Hard Rock Stadium, it'll have to be changed to Miami.

Like on the turnpike, I drive here, I take the turnpike every morning driving here, I pass Hard Rock Stadium every single morning. You're telling me that on Monday, because I didn't look today, when I look at the signs, it's not going to say Hard Rock Stadium?

It's going to say Miami Stadium.

That's so stupid.

Everybody in internal comms, your local government has to— this was a ridiculous detail because I knew about the stadium itself and the stadium grounds and how FIFA takes over and how they are with sponsorships. I didn't know written into the contract that your local government has to fully assimilate and give itself over to them.

And if the announcer slips up and says the hard—

yeah, they just get killed, right? No trial, no jury, on the spot.

And then Grace Whittingham gets tagged in.

Oh, all right, so there's something to root for.

He says, brilliant, I'm, I'm here now.

Yeah, yeah, he's on the sidelines. He's been— he, he signed an agreement that when they execute, because it will happen, when they execute Ian Dark, he just gets slapped in. What if he slips? Then he's dead.

He'll never win.

Then we watch the game in silence and no one will make a mistake. Speaking of mistakes, Chris Cody, what happened with Louis this morning?

Oh my God, it was last night. Louis, our video guy, shout out to Louis, by the way, for everything he does around here.

Just love Louis. All right.

But last night at 7:45, I get a panicked text. Well, I get a missed call and I'm like, oh my God, why is Louis calling me right now? And then I see a text of him saying, dude, I'm running late. I missed my alarm. I'm so sorry. And I'm like, at what time is it? 7:45 PM last night. I'm like, oh my God, we have a nighttime recording. Like, I'm late for something. I start freaking out. And then I like write back, I'm like, "What meeting?

What alarm?" That is, by the way, it's— I think I've told you guys this, I have recurring dreams. I have like 3 or 4 recurring dreams. And that is one of my newer— well, no, it's not even newer, but that is one of my recurring dreams, that I am late to work and just this panic that washes over me. You may continue.

So he realizes that he thought— he woke up at 7:45 last night from a nap thinking it was 7:45 in the morning and that he was absurdly late for work. He went downstairs, he's mad at his wife for not waking him up. His wife sitting there feeding their kids dinner, just in awe.

And what, he thought she was feeding them breakfast?

He thought it was breakfast. He said that it was 7:45 PM, so it was like that, that time of day where it looked similar to early morning.

It's like dusty, like twilight.

And I was honestly cracking up at my house at the idea of Lou. He said he brushed his teeth.

That's happened to me once before when I was in high school. I got— I put on my uniform, I started having breakfast, and I was like, why the hell is PTI on?

Brushed his teeth. That happened to me once in high school as well, where I went to sleep, you know, probably like, I don't know, like 10:30, 11:00 PM, and I woke up thinking it was morning. I gathered my clothes, I went upstairs, I showered, I put my clothes on, I brushed my teeth, I did everything. I went through my entire morning routine, and then I went into the kitchen, like maybe to grab some orange juice or something, and I saw the time on the kitchen microwave, and it said like 12:20 AM.

Brother, I—

And I realized what happened. You know what happened here? I realized what happened. At some point during that day, the power must have went down in my house. And my alarm is on, and what happens with those electronic alarms when the power goes out?— it resets to midnight, to 12 AM. So my alarm was now set instead of 5:30 in the morning, was set at midnight. I was probably asleep for an hour. My alarm went off. I went up, I showered, I brushed my teeth, I'm fully clothed, and I'm like, what the fuck?

Yeah, yeah. Mine was just a really good nap. And I was like halfway through my breakfast of 2 Entenmann's Rich Frosted Chocolate Donuts and a tall glass of milk, and I was like, why are Wilbon and Kornheiser on? Dave, that's never happened to you? By the look of your face, I can tell it hasn't.

No, that's bizarre. I mean, the closest thing I've had to that was once I was sitting in an airport at the gate waiting to get to board the flight, and I was on my laptop and doing it and waiting and waiting. When are we going to board? And eventually I, you know, I got immersed in whatever I was looking at online. And eventually I picked my head up. I'm like, when are we boarding this? And where is everybody else? And then I went up to the gate agent and they said, that thing boarded like 20 minutes ago and everybody is on there and the flight took off. I said, "How? What the hell? How did I completely miss the entire process of calling, 'It's now your turn to get on the flight,' and the entire 45-minute-long process somehow eluded me while I was sitting right there?" That's as close as I have to what you guys are talking about. Sounds like all of you have issues with booze or otherwise.

So, I was in high school.

I was in high school.

Also, why is Jesus sitting on your microphone?

He's my, uh, he's my co-pilot always.

He's explaining that to us before.

I found him.

He was— I went to an amusement park, uh, with the kid, and there he was just sitting on the bench waiting for me, you know. And so I took him. It was a sign from above or otherwise, so I figured I better bring him home with me. Or just sitting on him down. I'm sorry.

Yeah, could just have been a toy.

He's gone.

Good. Goodbye, Jesus.

So we got a lot to get to. We got the Stanley Cup from last night. Really the first game of this series that wasn't like a banger, you know. We got the NBA Finals which continue tomorrow. That's right. All the games now, Game 5, 6, 7, extra day in between because they're allowing for extra travel day, which is fine because you get so late in the series you want to make sure the games are as well played as possible. So no NHL tonight, no NBA tonight, but thank the Lord. We have World Cup tonight, which includes the United States, who are playing this evening. What do I need to know tonight, Mike?

Well, it's in Los Angeles Stadium.

Yeah, don't want to make that mistake.

Address that. And it's a big game for the US. Now, qualification for the knockout stages is a little different for this one.

Does the US have a tough group? Paraguay, Australia, Turkey?

No, no, it's not a tough group because being a host nation, they get put in Pot A with the global elites. Which means they get to avoid the likes of Spain and England. So it's favorable to those teams that essentially get the highest seed imaginable. But Paraguay is a difficult team. They counterattack. They've got some good players. If you're familiar with MLS, a former Inter Miami player in Diego Gomez, Almiron has been back and forth between the MLS and Europe. They play this counterattacking style and the US has changed its identity in recent years. They want to take advantage of what was labeled a golden generation, more skilled attacking players, and they want to control and dictate the game. But as we've seen in CONCACAF in particular, you run into these gritty, hard-nosed teams that are very organized and want to make the most of their opportunities. The US has really struggled in breaking those teams down. Now, I think the US ultimately wins this game, but this is a tough opponent that does things that I think the United States struggles against. However, If you're looking for hope in this entire tournament, the last two matches that the US have had in this warm-up for the World Cup— Senegal is a very good team.

The United States pretty much bossed that game and got a lot of what they wanted on the attack. And the Germany game— I'm really optimistic after the Germany game because for long stretches of that game, the United States controlled that game, and that is a top-tier opponent. So I I do think there's going to be a little cagey, especially early on. And I think we're going to be a little nervy. But even if the United States— hell, even if they lose, the tournament format allows for a 3rd place finisher in the group to advance even to the knockout stages. They're taking 8 teams that finish 3rd. So it's not dead the way that it would be in previous tournaments, but a big one if you want to get an easier draw in the knockout stages, which is why you want the US to win this group.

Mike, I'm having a tough time like really getting into this USA team, right? Like the generation prior, the Clint Dempsey generation, Tim Howard, Landon Donovan, all those guys I knew. I feel like I don't know anybody on this team outside of Pulisic.

Yeah, Pulisic is the— well, they also miss a golden opportunity in missing a World Cup. This is only Pulisic's second World Cup, and he seems to have been a name that we've all been familiar with for damn near a decade. Yeah, there's a bit of a transition here, but Balogun is a good player over in France.

Man, so it's been 8 years since the U.S. has been— since I've watched U.S. in the World Cup?

No, no, no, they were in the last World Cup, but this is only Pulisic second because they missed the one in Russia because they lost to Trinidad and Tobago.

So that was 8 years ago.

That was 8 years ago. Yeah, but Pulisic is now, I think, 27 years old. This isn't about— this isn't a story of promise. Christian Pulisic has won the Champions League with Chelsea. For long stretches of time, he was the best player on AC Milan. However, this season was really disappointing. Struggled with injury, which is always the case with them. However, he's gotten going here very recently, finally scored again for that national team. And it seems as Pochettino, our manager, is going to do what favors his skill set, which is get Christian Pulisic in space. We have some really good players on the wing. Tim Weah has been a good player. Weston McKinney on form has probably been the best club player. He was the best player for Juventus. Now, if McKinney is your best player, you have a ceiling, as Juventus found out. For the US to get where we all hope that they go, which is a deep run in the knockout stages, it's going to have to be Pulisic because when he's on, when he's in form, he can prove against global elites that he is fully, fully capable of being the best player on the pitch.

So those are the 3 guys that I'm looking for. Pulisic, I'm looking at Weah, and I'm looking at McKinney.

Yeah, McKinney is going to be good, and Tyler Adams is going to do all the dirty work in that midfield in terms of your defensive mid, in terms of being like a stable—

we have a good keeper.

No, that, that is a big change from— I, I'm not even sure who starts today. It'll be curious. I think Matt Turner is gonna get the nod, who you're a little familiar with. He's repped the U.S. before in big-time international competition. Freeze kind of had the inside track, again, based on form, having the strongest season. But Pochettino is a bit of a wild card because the U.S. did not have to go through a qualifying stage. Pochettino took the opportunity to get in like close to 80 players in rotation in this squad to figure out what he wants. And we're here on the day of their first match, and I really can't tell you the formation we're going to play with. I have a good idea, but it seems as though Pochettino is favoring versatility.

I'm a 4-3-3 guy.

That's, that's what you like?

Yeah.

I prepare to be disappointed.

So I want to get to a local story here. Thank you for all the soccer there, Mike. Uh, we're gonna do actually a lot of World Cup stuff coming up later on in today.

But Zazz, you are gonna be watching, right?

Oh no, I'm, I'm gonna watch every game. Like, obviously I will watch every U.S. Game for sure. And every other game, as long as I'm not out doing something, I will watch every other game. Like this afternoon, I know Canada is playing at 3 PM. I'm going to watch that game this afternoon, and I'm 100% going to watch the US game. So no, I'm dialed into it. I like it. I love soccer. I just— it's not like I know the players or what have you, but I love soccer.

But like Jim Carrey— oh, you do?

Okay.

Yeah. So for me, it's a little bit like, you know, how Jim Carrey has to dip— had to dip his toes into the drama waters. He had mastered. I feel a little bit like I'm, I'm pretty steeped in every sport except for the most popular one, which is soccer. And I really do, it's a ramp up for me. And so, so the words of Mike Ryan are, are useful.

Oh, I love it.

Because I really do feel like a complete casual, like, Super Bowl, who are these two teams and how did they get here? Tell me about what I need to know. I'm exactly like, like Tony. I don't really know. I know the name Pulisic, and that's about the extent of it.

I think he prefers it pronounced Pulisic.

You know, the right way.

But no, no, no, it's— I mean, it— he's not pronouncing it the right way.

Tony and Mike just mispronounced it.

They had two different pronunciations. Tony's not the guy to follow.

I said it the right way. I said it the right way. I say it the right way. I used to work with Chelsea, so, and interviewed Christian quite a few times, and I had to like nail down like, how do you prefer to say it? And it seems like I'm the only one that says it the way that he told me. But there is an NFL thread, Dave. Are you aware? That there is a son of a pretty damn good NFL player that is projected to start for the U.S. men's national team. Did you know that?

Yes, one of the 3 most unrepeatable catches in the history of people, Antonio Freeman, the one that went off his butt. Is that right? Went off the Viking— yeah, that's right. You could never go out there. You could go try a million times to repeat the Monday Night Football Antonio Freeman touchdown in overtime that hits off the Vikings defender's butt into his hand. You know the catch I'm talking about, right? That one, the curse catch in the Super Bowl, Super Bowl 49, that precedes the interception, the Russell Wilson, Malcolm Butler, and that's unrepeatable. And the Julian Edelman catch. Those are the three most— you could go out there and try to do it infinitely and you would never get the exact same bounces to repeat themselves.

What about the, the dude from Seattle? Oh my God, what was his name?

Uh, Kurt. Yeah, yeah, Kurt.

Yeah, Kurt.

That was incredible, right? That one. Yeah, the one at the sideline.

Uh, Alex Freeman is Antonio Freeman's son.

I didn't know that.

And he— I'm a big fan of his. I think he's got—

former Dolphin.

I think he's got potential to make it far in Europe right now. He plays for a semi-decent sized club in Spain and Villarreal. He can get frisky in the attack too. 6'2". I like him to show up in the scoresheet at some point in this tournament.

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Whitty, we have a photo right here. If you can see in this photo with my daughter there, I am pointing exactly to the point on the Stanley Cup where it says, "You suck ass." Stugatz! Wow. Right there.

They engraved that?

Really? Yeah, they got it engraved? Yeah, they got it engraved right there.

It says, "Chris Whittingham sucks ass." This is the Dan Lebatard Show with the Stugatz. We'll get back to a lot of World Cup stuff coming up in the show today, But I do want to talk about something local here, and that is, you know, the NBA Finals could end tomorrow. All right, I think, I think the series still has— I think it's gonna go at least 6, still has a shot to go 7, probably ends in 6, but I do think San Antonio wins tomorrow. But that means that we could get some Giannis news once the Finals end. All right, the NBA Draft is on the 23rd, so it certainly seems at some point between the Finals ending maybe tomorrow and June 23rd, that Giannis Antetokounmpo is going to wind up being traded. Now, it feels like there's a lot of smoke out there right now in regards to Miami, and we have talked about that. But see, I think you guys know where I stand with this kind of stuff. I don't believe anyone. I don't think anyone knows anything. And, and, and that only proves the— my point's only proven when a few days ago Boston, not interested, not interested in Giannis.

They're not in on Giannis. And now a day or so later, Boston's in. Boston's going hard after Giannis. Well, you couldn't have not been in and now you're like, you're out on Giannis and now you're making calls and you're trying to acquire him. Well, then you were never out on him. All right, so they're apparently, if you believe what people are saying, they're all in on Giannis now. They're trying to get him. I will say though, I like, I like trying to figure out where the tea leaves are going. And Jaylen Brown, all right, who— like, Jaylen Brown's Kyrie Irving 2.0. We could all admit that, right? He played with Kyrie for a little bit in Boston. Like, Jaylen Brown's new Kyrie Irving, where it's like he's, he's smartest guy in the room. Jaylen Brown walks through him, he, he's gonna say things you're not gonna understand because he's too wise, you know. And so Jaylen Brown tweeted out yesterday amidst all of the Giannis and Boston rumors, "The neighbor's rice always smells better." Now—

He's tweeting like a wide receiver.

I don't know what the hell that means.

I think he's going for the grass is always greener.

"The neighbor's rice always smells better." Yeah, Dave, you speak diva wide receiver. What does he mean by this?

I'm lost by it because rice famously has no smell to it. Well, it was smell. Rice. That's a characteristic.

You don't understand it because he's too wise for you. I already told you. When he talks, if you're not on his level, you can't possibly understand the things that he's saying or thinking. He's too wise.

I see. I see. He's like Confucius, in other words.

So it feels like, because if the Celtics are going to trade for Giannis, like, they're going to trade Jaylen Brown. Are we worried now that, that— and I told you yesterday, I don't think that these trades happen and then all of a sudden that's when everybody finds out. Like, I don't think the player is finding out anymore by seeing the scroll on ESPN television. Oh my God, I got traded. I think these trades happen days before any of us find out. You know, that's why like a couple days ago, right, Tyler Herro puts out the post and Tyler Herro's brother responds with a picture, a GIF of a buck, you know, and oh, he must know the trade's done. The trade happened. Oh, he stopped following the Miami Heat on Instagram like the trade's done. And then you get stuff like this as well. Are we nervous that Boston is going to take our shit?

Sick about it.

I'm absolutely sick about it.

Yeah, I am nervous about it too. I've heard from someone that's pretty plugged in that said Miami is starting to reach out to other teams about Tyler Herro to try to get more for Herro. Because he doesn't necessarily work in the package and Boston's surging now.

Meaning that Milwaukee would not want Tyler Herro, right?

That Miami's making overtures to other teams in regards to Herro to try to get more to make their package a little bit more appealing. Again, not my deal, but the person that I heard from on this matter, I do kind of trust. He's pretty plugged in. The Heat, notoriously quiet on this front, so I don't think it's coming from the Miami Heat side.

Barry had tweeted a bunch of stuff yesterday, Barry Jackson, talking about the possibility of a 3-team trade where Portland would send all of the assets that Milwaukee wants back.

You know, I —this where Barry Jackson tweeted out— it was something to the effect of, uh, you know, if you want to think about like the doom and gloom situation, this is what could happen. They could do this and they could do this, and if they do this, that would trump Miami's offer. And I'm reading this and I'm thinking to myself, why are you giving them ideas how to make like the better— like, we all— I know, you know, if you're a reporter, you're supposed to be on my side. We all want Giannis to come here. Why are you giving out all the ways that other teams can do things so that he don't get Giannis?

This isn't inside information though. I think we can all concede that if Boston is indeed willing to part with Jaylen Brown and if he is indeed on the table for the Milwaukee Bucks as a legitimate option, we're SOL there.

Well, they wouldn't even get him. They would send Jaylen Brown.

Yeah, I don't think Milwaukee would want Jaylen Brown.

Even, even, even that being so, if Jaylen Brown is a part of this package, we don't have a leg to stand on.

Right, right, right. And Zazz, go back.

Why does Milwaukee not want Jaylen Brown?

Well, I'm just assuming there, and my assumption there is All right, if you're trading Giannis, you're clearly in a rebuild, okay? And if you're gonna rebuild, being tapped— being, being taxed with a $300 million contract, you can't rebuild like that.

Also, if you get the value for Jaylen Brown, you get what is tantamount to his talent in terms of trades. Like, you get that haul, and Jaylen Brown— you help facilitate it because Jaylen Brown probably doesn't want to be in Milwaukee where that franchise is, so he'd rather So let's say it's Portland. At least I know, I know what you're thinking, but Portland was in the playoffs. Portland does have some nice little pieces there. So it would certainly be more appealing to Jaylen Brown to go to Portland than Milwaukee, just from a competitive standpoint and also from a town standpoint too. That's just an example. But if Jaylen Brown is a, is a part of this for Boston, the Miami Heat are not going to get back into that trade conversation unless Bam is on the table.

The neighbor's rice always smells better is a Cantonese idiom, a way of saying the grass is always greener on the other side. Uh, Jaylen Brown was in China this past week.

Okay, all right, there you go.

It would make sense, but rice doesn't have a smell to it.

No, it does, but Cantonese rice does. Rice has a smell. They fry their rice.

What was it, like a fried rice? Yes, like I might get at Benihana. Now that's very good because they put that butter in there. Yeah, yeah, very good. Yeah, it's a garlic butter. I love that butter.

Very nice. We also have arroz con pollo that has a beautiful smell to it when you're cooking in a Hispanic home too.

White rice can't smell, but all the ethnic rices, they smell.

Yeah, I mean, I walk into Benihana, I could smell that fried rice. Come on now.

Smell like a frittata.

The ethnic rice? I don't know what you mean by that.

Oh, don't take shots at me. We were talking about Cantonese rice and you took it all the way over to Japan. Yeah. It's all right. I forgot that you mentioned Jermaine Kirsch before, so we're even.

Gentrified rice. All right.

So last night was really like the first game of the Stanley Cup Final that wasn't a total banger. Like, it wasn't, oh my God, this is cocaine hockey. And it was still a comeback.

Vegas still scored the first goal, which appears to be a bad idea in this series.

But it wasn't cocaine hockey. Like, last night was a regular good hockey game, and Carolina won 4-2. So they now have a chance to win the Stanley Cup tomorrow night. I said no, Sunday. They're taking an extra day too. So Sunday they have a chance to win it in Vegas as they've gone up now 3 games to 2. But I want to give you a little bit of Tortorella, okay? John Tortorella, head coach of the Vegas Knights. And you bet, so Carter Hart, his goalie, has now set a record. If I could— if I have the stat off the top of my head correct, Carter Hart has set a record for first goalie ever in the Stanley Cup Final to go 5 consecutive games giving up 4 or more goals. Which makes sense that that would be a record because normally if you're in the Stanley Cup Finals it's because your goalie is awesome. And your goalie has been awesome. So to go 5 straight games giving up at least 4 goals, yeah, that makes sense that's a record. So here's John Tortorella, he was asked after the game about the idea of maybe changing goalies for Game 6.

Far right side, Elliot. John, you watched the end of the basketball game last night? I did. Okay, so I just wanted to ask you about—

this is a different clip. Wow. Let's go to the other.

Wow, Ron Rossin in the house. Stop, stop it, stop.

Hold. Cue up new. Quick. Let's cue up Tortorella, the short one of him being asked about the goalie. John, did you consider at all going to Aiden Hill in the third period, or was there any conversation you thought about?

Oh, for Christ's sake, that could be the stupidest question I've heard.

Why is it so stupid? Brandon Bussi, like, Carolina changed their goalie and they've won 2 games in a row with the new goalie. Why is it such a stupid question, Roy?

I don't know, but, uh, the Freddie Andersen thing, that leads to a question. He's been healthy scratched the past 2 games.

Right, and Brind'War was like, oh, he needs the time off, he needs the rest. Like, Emily Kaplan did a really good job in the middle of the game. She did a really good job at that, like, first period bench interview and asked about him not even being the backup. And Brind'Amour gave some kind of answer like, he's better when he just has the time off. Like, all right.

Well, keep in mind his agent was Claude Lemieux and he had just recently— oh, could very well be protecting Freddie Anderson.

Oh, good job, Roy. Okay.

And the dialog around Carter Hart is ever-present. It's a weird bit of feedback that, "You guys don't talk about Carter Hart!" And I'm like, you want me to shoehorn sexual assault conversations in?

Oh, are people upset that we're not all over that?

Yeah, so for those that don't know, Carter Hart was, along with others, found not guilty for a sexual assault in London, Ontario, but there is evidence that suggests something happened there, and he's been extremely controversial. You have the crowd in Carolina chanting, "No means no." Now, when it comes to his performance, it's been really solid for Vegas right now, and Tortorella just, you know, bucked up against the notion of pulling him. Aiden Hill is a Stanley Cup winner. We know from our time in the Stanley Cup playing Vegas, Aiden Hill was really terrific there. It's a normal question to be asked, but Tortorella is particularly spicy.

So are we like, you know, people are upset that Carter Hart was even allowed back in the league, that Vegas even signed him. So like, are we happy that he's getting crushed here? Because like I said, first goalie ever 5 straight games in the Stanley Cup Finals allowed 4+ goals. People were kind of—

yeah, people were unhappy that he even got the opportunity. Right. So he's been highly controversial.

Yeah, very easy to root against these Golden Knights for many reasons. Carter Hart, the presence just of— if you like merit of the regular season, you want to root against the Golden Knights here. It's weird that they have wound up in the final. It kind of invalidates the regular season of hockey, which is a bad look for a borderline kind of fringy sport. John Tortorello is a jackass to beat all jackasses. That's another reason to root against them. But the other thing is, if you're trying to look at this hockey final in the final days, maybe just 60 minutes left in this season, all the conversation about fungibility of running backs in the NFL applies to NHL goaltenders now, Roy. It's super weird. I mean, that's a big distinction from now versus a decade or so ago. The names used to resonate. The guy between the pipes was everything. Now how a guy is good one season and then the next season he's the reason your team isn't making the playoffs. I don't have to tell people in Florida that too much. Bob kind of blew up this season after being the linchpin to those Cup runs the last couple of springtimes, right?

Yeah, exactly.

It's been a bad week, by the way, for the NHL as far as giving people second and third chances, considering that Mike Babcock might, might be the head coach of the Edmonton Oilers.

The NHL, not exactly leaders in that department, still got a, a ways to go there. But the sport has changed. Typically, if you made it to Stanley Cup Final, it's because your goalie got really, really hot, and that can still happen, but you don't need this incredible goaltender to win a Stanley Cup anymore. These guys kind of come and go now, which is a change for the league. Also, additionally to Carter Hart, why he's even more controversial is within Canada he wore a Free Alberta shirt, which is— why's that bad? Well, it's a separatist movement inside conservative pockets in Canada., and so he's, you know, he's a pariah.

So Alberta wants to like leave Canada? Yeah. The Texas of Canada.

We're used to the separatist movement being the French-Canadian thing.

That's how my family got here, was that— that's literally how, because my family is Canadian, they're from Montreal, that's how my family came here in the late '70s, was because of the French separatist movement.

Yeah, when I was growing up there was always talk that Quebec was going to secede and form its own independent country. Now Alberta has really shifted that conversation.

Kind of like the Conch Republic. Public with Key West, right? Where they're like, hey, we're going to do our own thing over here.

Yeah, we're doing our own thing. Wait, you're not picking up our garbage? All right, we're back.

Dan Lebatard. Mike Ryan's in there and he's the one with a baby. He's the one who's got to, like, worry about what the future is. And Mike Ryan bet on DraftKings because Mike Ryan bet on us. This is the bet you're afraid of doubling down on? Putting up a billboard in Edmonton? Stugatz.

I care more about Matthew Tkachuk than I do my daughter.

This is the Dan Lebatard Show with the Stugatz. Uh, I do want to, I want to, I want to mention something from the game the other night, from Game 4 of the NBA Finals. And I talked a lot about this on Zaslo Show 2.0 yesterday. You know, everyone's got the same talking points essentially after Game 4. We all saw the finish to the game. And I took a little bit of a different tact on Zaslo Show 2.0 yesterday, which was I just wanted to talk about the experience as a fan in these kind of moments. And it really is because I'm not supposed to like the New York Knicks. We're not supposed to like the Knicks. I'm not supposed to feel good for the Knicks fan. And I even said if this was Boston, all this was happening in Boston, I would not feel good for the Celtics fans. I would not. Okay? I would be treating it different. But still, Still, it is New York and it's the Knicks, so it is still surprising that I'm even, you know, happy for them in any sense, alright? But I really am, and I really— I've really enjoyed people that I know, friends of mine who are experiencing this joy, and it just reminds me how I felt about the Panthers a few years ago, because it's the same type of misery that you've lived for decades now.

And I'm also at a point in my life where that really is what I appreciate about sports. And so my favorite story though from a couple of nights ago is Mariska Hargitay, who I think is the star of these NBA Finals now based on what has happened, what happened in Game 4 at the end of Game 4 with her being a huge Knicks fan and running on the floor and she hugs all the players and celebrates the best night of her life. She proclaims it at the end like this is a legitimate hardcore New York Knicks fan. And I love all the little tidbits I can get about Mariska Hargitay because my wife and I are big fans, all right? We obviously, we love Law Order: SVU, and she is my wife's favorite. And so my wife and I, we were in New York City last weekend, right? We went to New York to see Mariska Hargitay. That's why we went. You know, we went for the weekend to go see this play that she just— a one-woman play. That she just started doing a few weeks ago called Every Brilliant Thing. And once we saw— because she doesn't do anything outside of Law Order.

Nothing. What other movie have you seen her in?

Law Order money's good.

She does nothing outside of Law Order. This is her Broadway debut, and it's a one-woman show. We went to New York City to see Mariska Hargitay. And so we went and we saw the show on Saturday night, we're sitting on the stage, we're up close there, she said hello to my wife, like, it It was a thrill for her. It was really great, and she was phenomenal. So we love her anyway, and then to see this, you know, a couple days later and how happy she is, is really cool. So I was wondering, how is she not— how is she at the game? Because does she— does she— when they do the dates for the show, because the show's every night, do— does she say, okay, no show these nights because maybe the Knicks are going to be in the NBA Finals? I'm like, how does she not miss the game?

I would imagine months in advance she tells the scheduling people there, "I'm gonna be going to these playoff games, so when that schedule comes out, I'm out those nights." I would have thought so also, but that's not true.

So here's this anecdote from a couple of nights ago. Mariska Hargitay is such a devoted Knicks fan, she decided to sprint to Madison Square Garden after a 2-show day on Broadway to make it to the 8:30 PM tip-off. Quote, "I took 4 minutes—" it was, uh, we saw the show the other day, it was a little less than 2 hours, the show. "I took 4 minutes off the running time of my show, and I knew the traffic would be crazy, so I sprinted from the Hudson Theater on 44th and 6th to MSG." 'But I knew everything was gonna be alright because I was wearing my Jalen Brunson Kobe 5 Protos that Jalen gave me a few months ago. I'm not gonna lie, the 10-block sprint after a 2-show day was no joke.' End quote. I mean, how cute is she? Fan of the year.

How cute is she? You know what? Worth a toast. Yeah, okay, alright. Worth a toast, presented by Cuervo. Keep it fun, keep it Cuervo. Just shout out to you, great fan.

Those 10 blocks, those are New York blocks.

Those are big blocks. I, I love her so much. And like, she— and I love that story because she is, she is a legit hardcore Knicks fan. And, and I, I love seeing people like her, just huge fans who are experiencing this kind of joy for the very first time. And, uh, yeah, so just wanted to make sure.

I thought it was great too, Zazz, and I was so glad she could enjoy it with her best pal Taylor Swift.

Well, she is, it's She doesn't come up with the seating chart, all right? MSG put Taylor Swift next to Ms. Gargate. They're like, "Hey, these two will have some fun. We'll put them together." But she had one of the shirts.

No, Swiftie brought her a t-shirt. She got her another— she got her one of the matching t-shirts that she and the other ladies were wearing there.

That's right. Good look. That's right. Big, big Knicks fans. That's right. I saw, by the way, tickets for tomorrow night in San Antonio, 50% of the tickets being bought have come from the New York, New Jersey area. That building is going to be packed with Knicks fans. They're gonna take over the arena.

9,000 people are going to fly down from the New York tri-state. That's the, that's the assertion here.

50% of the tickets have been scooped up by New York, New Jersey.

Plenty will fly down, but a lot of people are from New York. I imagine San Antonio has a lot of people with New York roots, or people that are just Knicks fans. There They're a big brand.

I told you, uh, we went over the prices the other day. San Antonio ticket and San Antonio hotel airfare still half the price of a ticket into Madison Square Garden. So yeah, I think the building tomorrow night is going to be flooded with blue.