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The Florida Panthers win BACK-TO-BACK Stanley Cups! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Let's do it. You're listening to Java and the
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Wow, Welcome. We are back with another episode
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of Jabba in the mouth. No, it's not Errol that you're
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listening to. It's me, Aaron Fishman, our
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executive producer, normally filling in as host.
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Tonight, we still got Speedy PD and the one and only Jabba
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Chamberlain live on location out in Nebraska, the site of the
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College World Series hockey. And that one's over, boys.
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The Florida Panthers win the Stanley Cup and go back-to-back
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as champs. The Panthers beat the Oilers 5
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to 1 in game six of the Stanley Cup to win their back-to-back
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Champions championship. Sam Reinhardt scored four goals
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in the game, the most in the Stanley Cup clinching game since
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1922. That's 100 and three years.
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Sam Bennett won the con Smythe scoring 15 goals in the NHL
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playoffs, including five in the Stanley Cup.
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Brad Marshan had six in the Stanley Cup, most by any player
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since SA Tekin in with the Oilers in 1988.
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Think SA Tekinen at that point. His career had about 11 teeth as
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well, and therefore Stanley Cup wins.
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The Panthers outscored the Oilers 21 to 8.
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Six of the last 10 Stanley Cups have now been won by teams going
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back-to-back, with the Penguins doing in 2016 and 17, the
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Lightning in 20 and 21. Now the Panthers these last two
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years. A Canadian team has not won the
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Stanley Cup now for 32 seasons. My, Oh my, this game went
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exactly how we said it was going to go.
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Speedy. We came on, talked about how
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Game 5 went. It felt like all the momentum
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had gone to the Panthers and the biggest reason was goaltending.
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We went back to Stewart Skinner in Game 6, wasn't it?
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Just wasn't it? He did not have.
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You can't just snap out of a funk against any team.
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Look, some teams are slump Breakers.
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We know this. You're going to be able to, in a
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regular season, you have a bad stretch for a little bit and
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then you go and you play the San Jose Sharks and you get back
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into it, you know? That Snugs team.
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Snug the Cat Oh yeah, Snug You can come in and tell us all
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about Joe Thornton's great career or something like that.
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But if you want to call in, I think we are going to try to
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have callers. Speedy I at some point we need
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to figure out a good system. You're going to have to go on
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stream yard with audio only. I think Speedy, if we can get a
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guy like Snug the Cat, a tremendous fan of the show and
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guest, it would be wonderful for you to talk about the five good
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players the San Jose Sharks have ever had.
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Now, let's move on to this year's great team and again, the
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Florida Panthers. Reinhardt had some words about
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the Buffalo Sabres after the game.
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Speed, I don't know if you noticed that I went to College
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in Buffalo And look, as as endearing as the Buffalo Bills
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fans are in football is as obnoxious as the same people are
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about hockey. I have to tell you, I did not
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enjoy the Sabres fans all that much, but the Sabres, they kind
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of treated Sam Reinhardt pretty disrespectfully.
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Speedy, I I think you need to give me a little bit more of a
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history lesson about that whole breakup after he was drafted
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second overall was supposed to be the future of the franchise,
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a couple of those in Buffalo history.
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Yeah, I was going to say there's a, there's a list of them that
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goes that goes way back. And I mean, there's a certain
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Jack Eichel that I remember that also had that title, also was a
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second overall pick and and they they gave away both of those
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guys. And again, it it got ugly really
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badly and with the ownership and with the front office, I forget
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the G Ms. name at the time, but they they let it drag on for a
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while. Sam Reinhardt really felt he was
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just that badly disrespected. And Buffalo's had this track
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record with these top 10 picks for a while where these guys
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have not developed there as a result.
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And they're resorting to these one for one player swaps as
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well. And one of the things I was
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bringing up to you yesterday when we were talking was the
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fact that there were a lot of analysts and, and coaches there.
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They were taking shots at him when he when he left in first
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year with Florida in 2021, right off the short season.
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So a lot of people weren't great yet.
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It was off the there was a 2 month break or something after
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the the 56 game season. And a lot of guys are rusty at
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the beginning of the year, 06 games.
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He has no point. So all of a sudden, no, this
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contract's going to be a bust for Florida.
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And yeah, that analyst certainly eating his words.
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I don't want to say any names. I we have, we've had one on the
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show that I'm actually trying to get Outback on the show as well.
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Rob Ray. Oh well, we can.
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We can make his him eat his words when we talk.
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To him, no, no, no, it wasn't, it wasn't.
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It wasn't Rob, but I'm saying. He might get Rob Ray.
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Rob Lay. He's been on a few times.
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He's a legend in Buffalo, yeah. He is a Buffalo legend.
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When I was in college there, I went to the University of
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Buffalo many years ago now, but there was a bar I used to go to
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at the best of wings I've ever had, I think they're called the
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Amherst Ale House was Crown Royal BBQ Wings.
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They were like sharp hit broiled.
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It's just the best wings ever. He his like jersey was up over
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there. Pictures of him there, like he's
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like this celebrity in Buffalo. So it's just just like they
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really love their hockey there. They love their Bills, but they
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really love their Sabres. Yeah, I love, I love to try to
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get him on again. I last month he said he was
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interested. I haven't heard from him since,
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but yeah, I don't think he's ever been on with you, but he's
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been on with us a couple times in the past fast.
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And yeah, I definitely would like to get him back on.
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But whoever the analyst was and what, I just hope it wasn't him,
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but I maybe he knows him. So I don't want to throw him
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under the bus too badly the the Sabres analyst.
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But nevertheless, like, yeah, yeah, that's how toxic it was
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and that's how toxic these teams can be.
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And it just like there's a reason bad teams stay bad
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sometimes for a while. And Buffalo has the longest
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active playoff drought among any NHL team, I think the second
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longest in all pro sports after The Jets.
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And like, there's a reason for that.
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And they've had so many good players, good prospects that
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have come into their system and not develop as well as as they
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should. Darlene has been the one bright
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spot. And Tage Thompson, since they
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traded for him from Saint Louis, when he's been healthy, has been
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great. But they just can't build a team
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that way. And then on the other side,
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Florida tried a different philosophy where they were
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talented for years. They were making the playoffs
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pretty consistently. Probably the last decade or so,
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I think they had one. They had one dot, I think 2018
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or 2019, where they missed the playoffs.
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Ever since, Ever since then, they've been consistently in it,
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but they never win playoffs. They never won playoff series.
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Even their presence trophy year. They end up losing to the
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Lightning. Lightning or very talented team
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at the time, fine. But this was an identity that
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needed guys like Sam Reinhart to change it and it's position
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versatility among centers playing wing and wings playing
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center and vice versa. And it makes it very tough on
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opposing teams to be able to do that.
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And again, Edmonton was one of those teams that I thought had
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enough when it came to the bigger wingers, when it came to
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the center depth they have that maybe they could expose it this
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time. It did not make a difference
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when it came to Reinhardt finally getting it going at the
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end of that series, Bennett getting it going.
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You won the constant Smythe for a reason.
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And actually Bennett played very well even before he was traded
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to Florida from Calgary against Edmonton.
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Like it was a something that's a thorn in their side against that
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core. So they knew how to build that
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kind of team to counter what the other.
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Obviously I don't think anything expected to play Edmonton
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back-to-back. But those other teams in the
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West that had the good center depth, Vegas couldn't they beat
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Vegas, had trouble or they had trouble with Vegas the first
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year, but they were an eighth seed.
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That's just them getting to the Cup was that spark?
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And it was just a wondering of can they keep it going to get it
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back because we've seen it with OK, the Kings when they won the
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Stanley Cup, they were an eighth seed.
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They got back two years later and obviously beat the Rangers.
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Unfortunately. Then we also saw on the other
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end, Nashville, they won it as an eighth seed, got to the Cup
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and fell off after that. So you don't know which
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perspective it was going on with Florida, but now you're building
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a sustainable core with that group that wants to stay there
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and defensive system that's rotated around all these
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different guys. Ekblad and obviously Forsling
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are the core, but they've rotated in now, Nate Schmidt and
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Seth Jones and last year they had a lot of other veteran guys
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that they brought in. They've wrote all this system
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has just worked really well to get that kind of system to work
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with Florida. And it starts with Sam Reinhart,
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like you're saying, getting those guys, Chuck buying in when
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they trade it for him at the time from the Flames.
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Just guys that really have that extra post season style of game
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to them. And it's bold when teams do
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this, but in hockey, you need to do it the way that Florida's
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doing it, and a lot of these other teams have not recovered
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from it and have not learned from it.
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Got to talk about the captain of the team a little bit, right?
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We got to talk about Barkov, Barkhov, sulky trophy winner,
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right? The guy is the best defensive
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forward. We saw the beginning of the
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series. He was having a lot of trouble
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getting. I mean, we did save your tears.
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I took Barkhov and he had negative points in the first
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three games for me and it cost me my save my the last save our
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save your tears. We can't really do save your
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tears with baseball guys. We're going to try to figure out
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a way to bring it back. We might have to wait for
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football season, but it's been a lot of fun with it.
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Maybe if I could figure out a way to do a baseball, we'll do
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it. But me and Speedy will workshop
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that one. But Barkhov last game in the
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series to assist +3 by the end of the series, that guy just
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wears you down. Even when he's playing against
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literally the best players in the world.
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He finds a way to be a plus player.
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He finds a way to get on the board, and he finds a way to
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shut you down. Because if you look at the Euler
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stats in this last game, what did we get out of McDavid -4?
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McDavid was a -, 4 in this game. Corey Perry, ageless wonder -4.
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Now on his fifth Stanley Cup losing team in the last six
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years, True. Including the light on dry sidle
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-4. I just named two of the greatest
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players in the league and someone who's, I mean, Corey
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Perry, Hall of Famer. I would put him in I I could see
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why people argue against him. I would.
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Put him in, he has some he has some personal stuff, but you
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know, as far as like on the ice, he's his stats are right up
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there, right. So it's that's how good they are
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and they got shut down by this team.
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So now if we were to like even just bringing up Ryan Art
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because of the great game, but would he even be like, what if
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you were to rank the top players on this Florida team?
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Is he in the top five C5? Yeah, that's a good problem to
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have, basically. That's the thing about this
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Florida team. Yeah, this is one of the most
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stacked hockey teams I've ever. Yeah.
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One of the things that I think this year that because during
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the eastern part of the playoffs, they obviously they
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dominated two series and five games, but even the Tampa games
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were very close a lot of the time.
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The defense for Florida, it didn't seem like they were as
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good this year. So like, oh, are they actually
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going to do it again? A lot of people were picking
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Carolina over Florida. They end up being the betting
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favorites at one point, which it never made sense to me because
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this is the worst year for the Metropolitan Division, I think
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since the divisions realigned. So they had like a cakewalk to
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the Eastern Conference finals, whereas Florida had to play
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Tampa, Toronto. This was the best year.
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Toronto, I think well-rounded team on paper.
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I think they would have went to the Cup if they beat Florida.
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But obviously in classic Maple Leafs fashion, they blew it in
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Game 7 and get absolutely steamrolled.
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Blew A2, nothing lead. Blew A2, nothing lead in game
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three and fell off a Cliff after that.
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But what it was was the West. I thought overall as a
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conference was just so much better that was Florida ready
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for that level of competition. Edmonton steamrolled Dallas and
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steamrolled Vegas. Two really good teams in five
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games and it looked like, oh, is this the team that had the
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comeback prowess because Florida, what we were saying
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last year, this was a great team in playing ahead and they have
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so many different players that could play into that role.
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But like what you're saying is Reinhart the 5th best player or
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6th best player, It's a good problem to have.
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Maybe he is like Ekblad when he's healthy, probably is
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better, but he's not 100% healthy.
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And then you're looking at now adding Marsh and I think Bark.
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Yeah, let's go through. I got a list of them so.
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Barkhart, like you said with his defence.
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Could Shuck Marsh and Porzling? Seth Jones had an amazing
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playoffs for the record to throw that out.
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Porzling. Around for a while, Porzling is
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one that doesn't get as much attention because he's like a
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stay at home defensive guy, but he's very good.
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He's he you know what He he's just he moves the puck well and
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he's never at a position and he's physical and he's like the
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perfect guy to pair with an offensive defenseman.
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He is he's the guy that the Rangers have needed forever.
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Like the to play with Adam Fox. Like this is the type of guy, a
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guy like Forsling that you want. He's just always there like a
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rock, but also can set people up very well, you know, it's not
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like. It's hard to find those guys
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with that much skating ability anymore because a lot of those
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guys are trying to be used as an offensive guy now to like Fox,
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not the Foxes defense is bad, but if you were to consider top
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ten, top 15 defensive defenseman, I don't think we're
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putting Fox in that list just on defense alone.
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Like Vegas has a lot of those guys with Theodore with white
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cloud. Florida has with Forestling.
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I think you you don't really have a lot of those guys that
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are just defensive skaters that just do to that very well.
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Dallas has a lot of them on their roster.
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That's why I I was picking them to win at all.
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Like I thought they had enough. Like I'm curious if they were to
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play, if they would have made a difference.
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I don't know. But nevertheless, Florida has
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all those guys that could play their roles really well and all
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the forwards. The top five forwards don't have
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to play one style. Barkov, when he knew he was
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struggling on offense, pass the puck a lot more.
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Marsha and got the skate. I got the space, got the
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skating. He scored a bunch of goals as a
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result. I wasn't sure if he could, but
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he ended up making it work. And like you're saying, Kashuk
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could play other roles. He's had the two goals in the
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one game, but he could play other roles.
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That's the team you want to have to be able to build a
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well-rounded forward identity that I don't think we've seen
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from that much versatility in a long time.
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It's always say you build with three centers and you could make
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the wings work later. You have to have a good enough.
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I mean, we didn't even mention Speedy, Lundell and Verhey.
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I like Lundell a lot so. Lundell is a really, really
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excellent player and he is, I mean, he would play second line
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at worst on pretty much every team.
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They don't need him to. They they're incredible.
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I, it's just amazing to me. I mean, even their fourth line
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guys, you got a guy like Lucy Ryan, you know, he just, I mean.
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Another. Another one for Buffalo sounded
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out. Another one for Buffalo.
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Gotta love. It what a shocker, right?
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It's amazing how Buffalo just can't get it done.
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They're just like so impatient. They just, they love their
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hockey so much. It gets in the way.
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That's the only thing I can attribute it to because as as
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passionate as they are, and I know how passionate Buffalo fans
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are, and if I had to say there was a second team that I would
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root for in in football, it would be the Bills.
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Is there AFC And they we don't play them all that often.
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But I mean, I really have one team.
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I root for it. But I do like Buffalo because I
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went to school there and I do appreciate their fans.
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They're nuts, but they're also not so nuts in a smart way about
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hockey. Unfortunately.
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They are really struggling up there and now they're guys are
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winning cup after cup that they should have held on to.
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It's just embarrassing. Yeah, I got a full.
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Fan I'd be embarrassed. You got you got Jack Eichel with
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Vegas and then Reinhard and Lisa Ryan in the last two years.
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All right, so it looks like I may have forgotten to put up a
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graphic for the next 1, so I'm going to work on that Speedy.
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I want you to tell to tell me what while I'm fixing this out
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last thing about hockey, we have the Panthers with the
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back-to-back. We have the lightning with the
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back-to-back. We have try to go to other.
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There's the Penguins. Have done it now back-to-back
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twice since the 90s, right? Yep, the Penguins did it
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back-to-back and I think Detroit did it back-to-back in the late
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90s, I'm pretty sure. Late 90s OK, where are we
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ranking this Florida Panthers team in the in the pantheon?
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And do they have the ability to bring it back?
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Because you know you're not going to Marsh and next year,
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right, he's going to be a free agent and they already fit him
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in with the cap to in. These, yeah, I think they're
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going to prioritize trying to pay Bennett 1st and I think
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they'll find a way. But yeah, Marsh and is going to
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be a little tougher for them to hold.
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It's interesting though, because I think Tampa's raw talent was
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really good, like their front end talent, the system that they
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played offensively was so creative.
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And then obviously the the Detroit, I think the Detroit
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team of the 90s, like I think that talent wise probably is the
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best one of those five teams you listed.
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Pittsburgh was kind of like a a star and like you filled some
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guys in type teams. That's what I was describing.
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I don't think they were as overly talented as Tampa or
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Florida or Detroit, but they made it work.
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Obviously with the back-to-back in 16 and 17 and then the
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Penguins in the 90s, obviously they had a lot of talent too.
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They were just a little older. What I think Florida is
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different with is the style that they do it at and that's why I
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think other guys can be adaptable to come into the
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system a lot more, which I don't think you can necessarily say
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with all those other teams definitively how many.
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Like after the Penguins won the back-to-back Cups, they tried
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that kind of philosophy for three more years and couldn't
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get anything to work in that system.
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After Kessel retired, they tried to bring in Ricardo Cal as a
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good player, but they really haven't had much besides that.
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And Tampa recently, they've tried good traded line
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acquisitions that have been nice players, but it hasn't worked as
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well for them in the playoffs where I think the Florida, you
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bring in Niko Mikola, Nate Schmidt and that defensive
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system on offense, you fill in these various wingers and these
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hybrid forwards and it just works for them in a system that
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I think can be sustainable. You can't have the same players
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doing it all the time because they'll get worn out eventually.
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But it's a system that definitely has a lot better of a
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chance to still stay strong because of the way that they can
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fill versatile players in the system.
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That's why I I think the talent wise advantage goes to the
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Lightning, But I think the postseason identity wise, you
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could see Florida surpassing that.
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Look the the Panthers have a chance to do something that has
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not been done. Has it ever been done?
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Speedy was just the Canadians like way back in the day.
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Where is a three peat. It was the well the Islanders
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did. 4. Edmonton Edmonton did 3,
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Edmonton did three in a row and I think they did 5 assists.
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So I so that's what it was. So we have since it's going back
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to when goalies stood up, is what we're saying.
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When they played, we're going back to the 80s when Gretzky
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scored a hundred goals, right? But when it was a little
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different game. This is this is an impressive
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team. We'll see what they do in the
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offseason. If it's me and I am need a
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coach, I'd want to know who's on the staff of Paul Maurice that I
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can poach to put that system in with my guys wherever I'm going
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because that what wherever, whatever team I own, that would
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be what I would do. You want to run this system.
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This system is being proven to be an effective playoff hockey
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system. Congrats to the Panthers.
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We've got one segment left. We're going to dive right now
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inside baseball. Now let's go deep, deep inside
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what I am exciting. This is inside baseball.
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And here we go, man. We're going inside baseball.
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Got a few stories to wrap up the night, and I also created a
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pretty cool little graphic here and a list that we'll get into
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in a little bit. So here we are.
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Yes, the Yankees win. The Yankees win speedy.
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By the way, little known fact one was here's a little trivia
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question for you because we were talking about John Sterling
21:56
earlier tonight when we had Gary Phillips on what was the first
22:00
usage of the famous call? The Yankees win.
22:04
The Yankees win because I can tell you when it was, I don't
22:07
think. I know this one the first time.
22:11
The first time he did it and then everyone loved it so much
22:14
he never stopped doing it. I bet he does it in the shower
22:17
still to this day. Yeah, no, I could believe that
22:20
to an extent. No, I don't know the exact one.
22:22
I'll guess it was probably, I'll guess like an ALCS in the 70s.
22:26
I'll go. Off No, it he wasn't.
22:28
He actually wasn't doing it back then.
22:30
It was the 96th World Series win.
22:33
It was the 96 World Series win. So he was actually doing the
22:37
game. This color man Michael K.
22:40
So actually they were together for a number of years and I
22:43
thought they were excellent when they were together.
22:45
That was my favorite radio group grouping I I've ever listened
22:48
to. They really played off each
22:50
other very well. Michael Kay is the lead man.
22:52
Without him. It's not the same to me.
22:54
But obviously still, you know, I don't know.
22:56
Errol doesn't really care for him.
22:58
No, Jabba has some opinions on Michael Kay.
23:00
But when it was Sterling and Michael Kay back in the 90s,
23:03
that was a real great, great boost.
23:05
But let's get into the Yankees right now.
23:07
They just broke that slide. Yankees snap A6 game losing
23:10
streak. The first four games they didn't
23:11
score single run. All right, They were,
23:14
absolutely. We got a couple runs in the next
23:16
couple of games. But six games and they lost two
23:20
teams that were hovering around 500 in the Red Sox and the
23:24
Angels. Both of the teams I believe are
23:26
either a game over or a game under 500 right now.
23:30
They snapped it today, 7/3 in the rain.
23:33
Salvage the series with the Angels.
23:36
We heard what Gary Phillips said.
23:38
He said that no one's panicking. Jabba, do you do you believe him
23:42
on that one? Are guys kind of getting a
23:44
little, you know, a little flustered here in June or is it
23:47
really such a long season? Doesn't matter.
23:51
I honestly, I don't, I don't you don't panic this early and I
23:59
don't, I don't, I don't think they will because they have a
24:05
guy that won't let them panic. And I'm, I'm not just talking
24:10
about Boonie, I'm not talking about judge.
24:13
It's like they have guys around them that won't panic, right?
24:19
And so they have to have that. So we'll we'll see what happens.
24:26
That's a long season. I mean, it was bound to happen,
24:29
right? You know and and.
24:30
See, it's going to happen. It has to.
24:34
It's such a long season. They're going to hit a slide.
24:36
Judge his batting average, speedy has dropped into the
24:39
three 60s. Now, obviously he wasn't going
24:42
to be able to maintain that crazy pace.
24:44
But as we get into the All Star break, which is coming up in a
24:49
couple of weeks, the Yankees are still positioned in first place
24:53
despite this slide. What do you think?
24:55
You think the Yankees are still going to run away with this
24:58
division, Speedy? Seems that way because again,
25:00
obviously the Red Sox now trading Devers, you can't expect
25:02
them to do much unless they just rally around everything.
25:06
I am obviously we've talked about the Orioles
25:07
underperforming all year. So you're yeah, you're really
25:10
dealing with as long as the Yankees don't have like maybe
25:12
two more of these types of slides after the All Star break,
25:16
you're probably looking at them being fine to at least be the
25:19
number, maybe the number two seed in the American League.
25:21
I know the Astros are playing very well right now too.
25:24
So and obviously the Tigers have been probably the best team in
25:26
the American League all year. So it's one of those things
25:29
where the Yankees, I think the more of the concern is trying to
25:32
get those young guys going again in that in the back end of that
25:35
line up that started. They they've all had their
25:38
sparks throughout the year, but just more consistency will be
25:40
key judging Goldschmidt. They're going to do their thing
25:43
at the top of the order. But we always say, do the
25:45
Yankees have enough lineup depth to be able to make it work in
25:48
the postseason? That's where those young guys
25:50
love to come in, including obviously Dominguez that we
25:52
talked about maybe trading or obviously Ben Rice has been kind
25:55
of up and down and recently we're just talking about with
25:57
Volpe. Yes, certainly an interesting
26:03
trade deadline period. I think we're going to see with
26:05
the Yankees, see if what they do, if they make a move or not.
26:08
So we talked earlier about the Lakers being sold for $10
26:14
billion. Here's the other side of the
26:18
spectrum. How about a team that nobody
26:20
comes to watch? The Tampa Bay Rays are valued at
26:25
1.7 billion, more than five times less than the Lakers.
26:31
That seems like a low number for a baseball franchise, but I I
26:36
mean personally, I spent three years down in Tampa, Java.
26:39
You spent more, you played against them that.
26:42
Stadium sucks I I've lived there for a long time so I.
26:48
Why can't they get fans to go? Well, you, you got it.
26:52
You got to understand, like I've, I've got really good
26:54
friends around the Florida area, right?
27:03
But it's like if if I got to drive an hour and a half, they
27:09
don't want to because the Rays aren't in Tampa, they're in
27:14
Saint Pete. So I mean, it's it's 30 minutes.
27:19
Yeah, fish, you know this. And as you said, but I honestly,
27:24
I don't, I don't think they'll ever be able to unless they
27:30
actually go to Tampa. But 1.7 is what they are because
27:40
I love the Trop. But at the same time, it was
27:44
used for so many things where it was never really part of just
27:52
baseball, just baseball. Jabba I, when I taught down
27:56
there, our high school graduation, I think the middle
27:59
school graduation I was at too. They were both at the tribe.
28:03
They were both there. And yeah, so they viewed those
28:06
things, but they like. They don't have high school
28:09
graduation at Yankee Stadium. It doesn't.
28:11
It doesn't. It doesn't make money.
28:13
That's my point. It's such a strange thing.
28:16
And like Speedy, you see the games, you just see empty seats,
28:20
no matter how good they are. They've been the best team in
28:23
the AL East and still don't really get fans.
28:27
I remember going to a Rays Tigers game.
28:29
They both teams weren't great that year, but I got seats right
28:32
behind home plate, behind the meshing in those luxury, luxury
28:36
seats that at Yankee Stadium. Those are going for five
28:38
figures. I think I spent 50 bucks on that
28:43
seat. I just don't understand why
28:47
people, I mean, people love, love baseball in Florida.
28:52
I mean, all of the pre preseason training, all the minor league
28:55
teams, it's all down there. Everyone's there.
28:58
Steinbrenner Field is across from where the Bucks play.
29:02
It's right there. Well, it's it's now where the
29:04
Rays are playing. And now where the Rays are
29:06
playing, right, It's I, I just don't.
29:10
I mean, at least I understand this year why they might not get
29:12
a lot of fans because of the weirdness with the stadium
29:15
playing at a Yankees facility right where the bunch of Yankees
29:18
minor league teams also play. So it's not great.
29:22
But just talking about the Trop, I, I don't get it.
29:26
Now, Speedy, they're going to sell this team because I think
29:31
they want to move this team. They've been trying not to, but
29:35
the city doesn't want to pay up. Then they had that hurricane
29:38
when they said they were going to.
29:39
Now they can't. So it's going to take a few more
29:41
years until it's even serviceable again.
29:44
The Trop for them to play in. Don't you think the MLB wants
29:48
them to get the team out of there now?
29:51
Yeah, they're like you said too well-rounded of a team like well
29:54
run like the small market well oiled machine for the last
29:58
really seven years. They had their stretch in 2008
30:01
to 2013 or so when they were very well run too.
30:04
And for a team that's that well run and create develops players
30:10
as well as they do like not being able to keep them and they
30:13
finally get one they could keep. And he has all these issues with
30:17
off the field and getting arrested and now all of a sudden
30:21
it's going to be, yeah, now it's just going to be very hard for
30:23
you. Just get an image in his
30:25
baseball today where you're seeing all these really free
30:28
spending teams like we talked about with the Dodgers earlier,
30:30
with the deferred money, with the Mets with all the money
30:32
they've spent, it's just very difficult to even just be a
30:35
middle market team. So yeah, it seems inevitable
30:38
that they're going to have to try something because it's just
30:41
not working for them there. They're a good hockey community
30:44
with the Lightning, the French Canadian population down there.
30:46
They're pretty good with football.
30:48
But again, just baseball, as good of a well run of the team
30:50
they have been, it's just it's very difficult and there's
30:53
enough southern locations if you want to stay southern where they
30:56
could be like Nashville, where that could work.
30:59
With all the good college baseball in Tennessee, you can
31:01
get that kind of thing to work. We had one of the first guests
31:04
we had during the pandemic was a guy who's Rick something that
31:08
was trying to petition the MLB to Charlotte that something like
31:10
that could work. There's enough southern markets
31:12
where that could make it interesting for them to be able
31:16
to move. And again, they're going to get
31:17
a better fan base than they are in Tampa.
31:20
It's just puzzling that fan base because they're so gung ho about
31:24
their lightning and it's the same fans and they just don't
31:27
show up for baseball. And, you know, it's a baseball
31:30
state. It's just, it's just really
31:32
tough to understand. I don't think Major League
31:33
Baseball has figured it out yet either.
31:36
So let's move on to the next one.
31:39
Here's a fascinating story. And Nick Castillanos, this was a
31:43
few days ago, he's benched by manager Rob Thompson for the
31:46
following game after when he was pulled for defensive purposes
31:51
late in the game, made some inappropriate comments towards
31:55
his coach that I'm assuming and weren't taken so well.
32:00
So he benched his ass. That's really fascinating.
32:04
You don't see too much of that. You know, it was like real
32:07
punishment for stepping out of line.
32:09
And Rob Thompson, as you know, everyone thinks he's a really
32:12
good manager. He was the Yankees bench coach
32:15
for a very long time. And now, you know, he was with
32:18
Girardi when they took over there and he's been there now
32:22
and he's done well with that Phillies team.
32:24
The fact that he's going to, he has the confidence in himself in
32:28
the standing to go to like I would say, an aging former star.
32:32
I don't I wouldn't call Castellanos a star anymore.
32:35
And he's certainly not a good defensive player.
32:37
He never was a great defensive player, right?
32:40
So now that he's, you know, they're taking him out and
32:42
laying the game. How dare you have anything to
32:44
say to the manager. He's just trying to do what's
32:46
right for the team and probably speedy.
32:48
He's being told from up top, isn't he?
32:51
You would think, because I think Rob Thompson is also one of
32:54
those more, I guess brotherhood type managers.
32:56
He's done a great job with these players.
32:58
Hence why everyone seems like the the Phillies that are kind
33:01
of unconventionally built compared to a lot of the other
33:03
top teams in baseball have been so successful kind of out of
33:07
nowhere. Remember when Bryce Harper
33:09
signed over there in 2019? They were supposed to be this
33:11
really good team on paper and they underwhelmed for a few
33:13
years and then 2022, all of a sudden they randomly go to the
33:16
World Series. And they've been very well just
33:19
put together ever since then. But they're kind of
33:21
unconventional. I forget who was one of our
33:23
guests that was joking about, oh, can the Phillies actually
33:26
catch the ball with how their position player defense?
33:28
And it's not just Casayanos, Like obviously Bryce Harper
33:30
would his issues. Kyle Schwarber forgot in the
33:33
outfield. There's reason.
33:34
He's, I mean, they're playing Schwarber in the outfield again.
33:36
I know because there's they're all butchers out there.
33:39
Right. Reese Hoskins at first wasn't
33:40
that good, Like they had a bunch of defensive liabilities
33:43
throughout that lineup. But again, they've made it work.
33:45
It's just unconventional the way they've done it.
33:47
But their brotherhood that I say Anna is a great culture guy
33:51
there and he's not going to be traded.
33:53
He's not going to be cut for this.
33:54
He's not going to be like it's not going to be any more
33:56
discipline than just yeah, Larry, maybe just bench for a
33:58
few games like they they love him there and it's going to stay
34:01
that way. And there's a reason this
34:02
Phillies team is still very strong despite, again, they
34:05
didn't bear they couldn't make any offseason moves because they
34:07
were salary cap or luxury tax close to it going to the
34:11
offseason. But they're still a very good
34:12
team. Jabba, we were just bringing up
34:15
that Rob Thompson benched Castellanos after he bitched at
34:19
him for pulling him for defense late in the game.
34:22
Do you have it, you have any memories?
34:24
You know, obviously Rob Thompson is a long is a long time.
34:28
Girardi guy was there with the Yankees for a long time.
34:31
I I'm impressed that he has the confidence in his standing there
34:34
to do that to a player like Castellanos.
34:38
Everybody knows Castellanos not good defensively at this point
34:40
in his career, not that he was ever a great defensive player.
34:44
Never was I I I played with him in Detroit.
34:49
But I will tell you one thing about Thomas.
34:54
Thomas doesn't take no shit to. Tell.
34:57
And he's he's one of those dudes.
35:01
Like I played in the game for a long time.
35:06
I played in the game a long time and I'm very fortunate for that.
35:12
But I will tell you, Thomas is a dude that will not stand for any
35:22
of that. It's like if, if, if you want to
35:24
come at me, come at me, but he's going to tell you, he's going to
35:27
tell you. And if you don't like it, sorry,
35:31
I don't know how you're going to accept it.
35:35
But Thompson's great. And I, I stand by whatever
35:41
Thomas does because I think it's a very, that's a baseball guy.
35:50
He's one of those ones that we've talked about so many times
35:54
where he's a baseball guy. Like this is, this is what we
35:59
do. I don't care about numbers.
36:03
I don't care about shit. I don't care about this.
36:06
I don't care about that. If you aren't good for our team
36:10
and if you're, if you're going to try and shit on me, no,
36:16
that's just not going to happen. I supported 100%.
36:22
I loved it. I I just loved it as a coach.
36:26
You don't see enough of guys like that that just don't just
36:29
like, no, this is the way we're going to do it.
36:31
You're going to step out of line.
36:33
Look, I say this to kids all the time.
36:37
Look, you're allowed to have bad days.
36:39
Everyone's allowed to have bad days, Agree.
36:41
You're not allowed to take that bad day and make it everyone
36:44
else's bad day. You know, now you're affecting
36:47
other people. Try to try to bring it back down
36:50
and look, you mess up. That's right.
36:52
Go home, take a shower, try again tomorrow.
36:55
And that's all it was, you know, take it, take a day off, cool
36:58
off. And that's what we're doing.
37:00
But but that's fine. Right.
37:02
I think so. I think so.
37:04
We'll see what they do with Castellanos, because if he gets
37:06
traded, I think we know why. I think we know why.
37:09
So let's keep moving. We're almost done with the show.
37:12
This one I don't want to spend a ton of time on, but, you know,
37:16
if you were following, there was a minor leaguer for the Orioles
37:20
who died in a jet ski accident. Speedy, you were telling me a
37:22
little bit about, you know, just.
37:25
Just terrible we're. Just going to go through it very
37:28
quickly. I unfortunately all of us I
37:31
think know someone who's gotten hurt badly either on a jet ski
37:35
or four Wheeler or trike, family friends.
37:41
We lost, we lost one of our best ever pitchers in a boating
37:46
accident. Like I don't, I don't want to
37:49
cover this because God, I wish I would have had Jose Fernandez
37:55
for as long as we could have had it because he was so great.
37:59
But man, I don't like this. For me, he just especially now
38:05
being on this side of the fence and not on the other side of the
38:08
fence like I just gosh Dang it it.
38:14
It sucks man, the kid had his whole career ahead of him his
38:16
whole life. He was 19. 19 years old, you
38:19
think you're invincible when you're 19, Speedy, I'm going to
38:24
ask you this question because I feel like as athletes, you know
38:29
when you're playing and it happened to me younger because I
38:31
wasn't a great athlete. But you find out you're not
38:34
invincible the hard way. All of us do you know that
38:37
you're just not invincible. Jabba had the elbow.
38:40
You found out you're not your arms not invincible, Speedy.
38:43
You have anything like that where you know you had that in
38:45
your life, where you felt like you could do anything and then
38:49
maybe not. Yeah, and that's the same,
38:51
that's the same extent of a lot of these athletes too.
38:53
And like you were saying with in this case, you're dealing with a
38:56
lot of guys from island nations too that just think, yeah,
38:58
right. I'll go back and I'll, I'll go
39:00
jet ski and just, it sucks what ends up happening.
39:03
Obviously it's difficult in those Caribbean waters.
39:06
I I I like trying a lot of different things.
39:08
I wouldn't say I was ever invincible at anything with that
39:11
kind of like physical strength, the same level.
39:14
Obviously you have fun, you know, it seems like a good
39:16
thrill. I've never done jet skiing, but
39:19
again, a lot of these these water activities definitely can
39:22
be risky, especially in that area of the of the world.
39:25
So with everything that's there but I unfortunately just
39:29
accident that. Very sad for a 19 year old kid.
39:33
It sucks, man. Like I, I just wanted to
39:36
mention, you know, shout out to his family, you know, give them,
39:39
you know, set our thoughts and prayers and, you know, it's not
39:41
much we can do for yeah. And I know, I know from our
39:45
perspective and whether they hear it or not understand that
39:49
like as somebody that is in the baseball family, I want them to
39:57
know that like, I, I'm sorry, it sucks.
40:03
My son is 19 years old. And I want y'all to know, like I
40:09
know that there may be things that we can't do right.
40:13
But I want you to know that we're thinking about you and we
40:17
love you and we do. And I do because when I saw it,
40:23
I was like, gosh Dang it. It's that stinks, man.
40:28
It stinks. It's like I couldn't imagine.
40:31
I couldn't imagine in my life losing my son before I'm 40 and
40:37
he's 19, trying to do what he wants to do and put you guys in
40:44
a in the best position you can be in.
40:47
Man, I couldn't. I couldn't imagine that.
40:49
So I want them to know and I don't know if it's ever going to
40:54
go and do anything, but gosh Dang it, it's it sucks.
41:05
But no, he lived for a purpose and he lived for more than what
41:12
you realize. And I've I've kind of realized
41:16
that since I lost my father. I hear you, man.
41:22
Listen, let's move forwards from it.
41:23
Yeah. I didn't want to spend too much
41:25
time. Let's get into some highlights.
41:26
How about that? Yeah, I got 2 highlights here.
41:28
Zach, why don't you put the one up that you have right here on?
41:32
Let's get into some some Yankee throwback highlights.
41:35
Who does this play remind you of?
41:38
Here's a play that Jeremy Pena in the hole.
41:40
Oh, I mean if you're a Yankee fan, that's the Jeter jump throw
41:45
done perfectly if I've ever seen it.
41:49
Do you realize how good Jeremy Pain is in this year?
41:52
He's currently second behind Bobby Witt, Junior in WAR for
41:57
Shortstops. In the entire defensive
42:00
replacement, yeah. He has been fantastic and it
42:03
hasn't been just defense Java. He's been pretty damn good
42:07
offensively. He's probably one of the bigger
42:09
sleeper guys that people are not really focused in on right now,
42:13
but he's becoming a real guy. He really is.
42:16
He had that breakout when he first came up, kind of had a
42:19
lull. I think he's for real.
42:20
And now this play, my goodness. Let's talk about Gunner
42:25
Henderson for a second and this effort by by Loriano.
42:28
So he gets that ball. Arand is going for two.
42:31
Look at this tag. Oh my goodness, Jabba, I don't
42:35
know if you saw this play. Have you ever seen this type of
42:39
play from middle infielder and it goes right here it comes.
42:43
No look, blind swipe gets him out at 2nd.
42:48
But you got to understand like, like we get to where we're at
42:53
for weird reasons, right? We get to where we're at for
42:58
weird reasons because we're just instinctively good at what we
43:04
do. And just sometimes you can't
43:08
explain what they do. But they've also been put in
43:12
this position. Look.
43:15
At where? I paused it.
43:15
Look at that runner Henderson looks like he's doing like the
43:19
Shawn Michaels stretch, groin stretch thing.
43:23
And the and the the crazy part about it is the dude runnings
43:26
and wearing #62. Unfortunately not a lot of fast
43:31
60 twos out there, Jabba. Hey, well you look at me, I
43:36
wasn't a fast 62. Never have to do a spinning tag
43:40
like that, Jabba. Look, God Anderson.
43:44
'S pretty damn good, man. Yeah, they, I mean, they need to
43:47
pay him or they're going, they're going to lose him at
43:50
some point. But that's that's another topic
43:53
for conversation. Yeah, we get into that next time
43:56
guys. The last thing we're going to
43:58
talk about I made because the first half is almost over.
44:01
I put up like a like how football does have an all pro
44:05
team. I gave you an all MLB team and I
44:08
did it in order of WAR by position.
44:11
So there were a bunch of really good right fielders, but I only
44:14
took the top right fielder. I only took the top catcher and
44:17
it's in order, not by position, by the highest WAR.
44:20
And it shouldn't surprise you. Aaron Judge tops this list
44:23
Number two and three might surprise you because it's not
44:25
Shohei Otani and Bobby Witt junior.
44:27
It's it's the big dumper at catcher.
44:30
Cal Raleigh and PCA peak Crow Armstrong, the center fielder
44:36
dominating. Obviously a lot of the lot of
44:39
it's defense for Pete Crow Armstrong, but Cal Raleigh's my
44:42
goodness, Jabba. I would.
44:44
I got to be honest you, he's the breakout player of the year in
44:47
my opinion. I knew he was good.
44:49
Nobody thought he was this. It's it's, it's not a breakout
44:52
player because he hasn't done it like he's he's been around the
44:56
league. But like they hit like 1000 OPS.
45:00
He just it's it's over 1000. It's like 1 OO 9 or whatever.
45:07
But at the same time it's like the dude's been in the big
45:10
leagues, Like let's let's not act like he hasn't been doing it
45:14
right. And you see some of these other
45:17
guys and it's like, we know what we're going to get, but what
45:24
like, so I'm going to ask you this question.
45:29
When you put this together, and obviously you're great at what
45:32
you do, what is your standard of seeing what it is, honestly?
45:40
For this one, I simply went by F war, which is fan grafts war for
45:45
that, for the position players, for pitching.
45:47
I was a little bit different. I I mean it's pretty obvious I
45:50
could have put crochet in there as well.
45:52
Skeins. I think it's been a little bit
45:54
better when it comes down to splitting hairs like that.
45:57
You know that that's how I did it.
45:59
But Cal Raleigh Jabba, his highest career OPS before this
46:03
year is 774. Last year it was 748 to jump up
46:10
to 1000. That's unbelievable.
46:13
That does not happen. Speedy.
46:15
Can you think of a guy, you know, non steroid era guy, non
46:20
Brady Anderson, fifty home runs out of nowhere guy that's done
46:24
something like this? Right.
46:25
You're going to need something like your random 40 home run
46:29
breakout type year for that because the other thing that
46:31
factors into the OPS getting that up higher is for one thing,
46:36
the other extra base hits that are going to come getting on
46:39
base a lot more overall, which Raleigh has done better.
46:42
He was kind of that all right. He was a power hitting catcher
46:45
but struck out a lot of hit 220 and it wasn't great overall when
46:50
it comes to like getting on base enough and stringing those other
46:53
hits together. And now that's going into a one
46:57
point which is unheard of for a catcher as it is.
47:01
And maybe some of those like lighter hitting middle
47:04
infielders like those, those are only really reserved to 1st
47:06
baseman and those power hitting outfielders.
47:08
And I want you to remember I did it in order.
47:10
Which means that Cal Raleigh has higher WAR than everyone not
47:14
named Aaron Judge in baseball, including all of the pitchers.
47:19
Well, that, that I mean that that's literally fair.
47:23
I I get a fish what you're doing and I get what Speedy's saying
47:28
too on the other side of it. It's like, yeah, you see from
47:32
one side of it and it gets we're going to talk about it right
47:37
now. Do I think he's going to be the
47:43
league guy? No, because he's he's just not
47:47
that dude either. Like he's just he's not like how
47:54
do we, and that's the thing that I say is like, how do we like if
47:59
he is that guy, right and he goes out and does what he's
48:05
doing right now, how do you market him?
48:11
How do you do that? That's all Major League Baseball
48:15
cares about. How do you market that?
48:18
Because you're not marketing Seattle anyways.
48:22
Well, if your nickname is the big dumper Jabba, I guess you do
48:25
commercials with Jlo or something like that and you try
48:28
to get yourself famous. I would, I would, I would love
48:32
that. Let's go through the Let's go
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through the rest of the list and finish up the show.
48:37
James Wood, the The Washington Stud youngster, is the best left
48:44
fielder in baseball right now. He has all sorts of power at
48:48
another two home runs, if I'm not mistaken.
48:50
Last night, yeah. First base was a coin flip
48:54
between Pete Alonzo and Freddie Freeman.
48:57
Lonzo slightly higher right now with OPS plus and WAR, just very
49:02
slightly. I think he'll probably get
49:04
overtaken by the end of the year, but had a great start to
49:06
the season. And Brendan Donovan at second
49:09
base. Second base sucks this year.
49:11
He has a 2.4 WAR. It's the highest after I think
49:15
there's one guy with A2 WAR and everyone else is like 1 1/2 or
49:18
like second base is brutal. There are really no good second
49:22
baseman, primary second baseman out there, right?
49:25
Now, other than Donovan and he's he's been blowing it out at as a
49:30
Cardinal and a lot of people weren't really excited about the
49:36
Cardinals night now. So it's it's just a little
49:39
weird. They have some good youngsters
49:41
on offense. It was just they're pitching.
49:42
That was a big question. I like some of their guys.
49:45
I think they're a year away, at least on that line up.
49:48
And I think they need to add a real arm.
49:50
But what else there? I think, I think they're on the
49:53
way up. I certainly think they're on the
49:54
way up. A guy who's all the way up is
49:58
Terry Schuble. Oh, my God, another win today.
50:01
The front half of the doubleheader, The guy has a 3
50:05
1/2 war. We're not even half.
50:08
We're halfway through June. He's best pitcher in the world.
50:13
Paul Skeens, second Paul Skeens. He's got a three WAR.
50:18
He's got a sub 2 ERA. He strikes out everyone.
50:21
He just plays on a horrible team.
50:23
Just plays on a horrible team. They're just a terrible
50:26
ownership. Management of how you want to do
50:29
something and build around a guy really bothers me.
50:33
We've been talking about negative things about the, the,
50:35
you know, kind of out of nowhere about the Pirates all season.
50:39
It's just shocking. Well, I mean, because it's true.
50:42
It's true from. From like the bricks of the
50:46
fans, bricks that they took out of the stadium because they're
50:48
stupid to, yeah. Go ahead.
50:49
I was going to say, we thought the White Sox, the last three
50:53
years, all the stories coming out with them, were the model of
50:56
what not to do for an MLB team. Now the Pirates might be taking
50:59
that title. I, I love, I love that you put
51:05
Rammer in because Jose Ramirez is the most underrated, best
51:12
player in and I will tell you this, I've played this game a
51:16
long time. Jose Ramirez is the best
51:19
underrated player in all of baseball.
51:24
In all of baseball. And the war doesn't lie.
51:26
I mean he's sitting there 6th in WAR of out of like different
51:31
position players now. Look guys like Fernando Tatis
51:33
junior, he's a right fielder also.
51:35
He would have had higher WAR than Jose Ramirez right now.
51:39
But as far as by position, got to put Jose Ramirez on.
51:42
This, but I'm, I'm, I'm saying as a whole, like, yeah, we can
51:46
look at year to year, right? And that's kind of what we do
51:51
because we analyze this stuff and this is what we do on the
51:54
show. But he is literally the most
51:59
underrated person because he doesn't care.
52:03
He was my locker partner right down the road when I was in
52:08
Cleveland. And you know what makes the best
52:12
players too? They don't give a shit.
52:18
He's like, I got my 100 million, I'm good.
52:24
But I hated facing him and I hated every part about what he
52:31
because it it was. It was a shitty at bat because
52:36
I'm like, I got to, I'm going to throw 7-8 pitches and either I'm
52:41
going to walk him or he's going to get a hit.
52:43
I'm like, this isn't fun. Like it's not fun.
52:50
You know this isn't fun to play against though.
52:52
You know Jabba, you and you were when you were playing.
52:54
You were real lethal in the pen. There's a guy who's dominating
52:59
and he's been dominating this league for years now, and
53:02
eventually we're going to have to start talking about him for
53:05
some accolades after his career if he keeps going this way.
53:07
It's Josh Hader, the best reliever in baseball.
53:10
Speedy. Is there anyone even close as a
53:15
closer at this point? Not this year.
53:18
Hader has been the one down year.
53:21
When he came up last year with the Astros, he had that rough
53:24
start to the year and it took a while to get going.
53:26
And I think he had a little bit of a blemish when he first got
53:28
traded to the Padres. But his entire career beyond
53:31
that has been as lights out as you can get for stuff wise and
53:36
strikeout rate and just per innings.
53:39
Like he he could stretch. He's not just he could be like
53:42
beyond like super closer like he.
53:44
Could just you guys, you guys don't remember when, when I
53:48
retired, I was with the Brewers. Yes.
53:52
Josh Hader was right next to me. Yeah, he bought, he borrowed my
53:57
dip all the time. And then he became what he was.
54:03
And I told him and this this something stupid that I, that I
54:09
hate about social media. He posted something on Twitter
54:15
when he was like 17 years old when he was in the All Star, and
54:26
this dude sat right next to me, right next to me.
54:34
And he had to deal with that. And I'm like, man, the shit we
54:40
did at 16, who the hell gives a shit?
54:45
But now you're fucking talking to him.
54:47
And I'm like, what are we? What are we doing?
54:50
I love hater. Hater is my dude haters, my dude
54:55
and I'm I'm so proud of him I'm so happy for him and like I
55:04
always I always hate when like dudes don't praise other people
55:11
like I hate that like why can't you give love where love is
55:16
deserved? You know what I'm saying?
55:18
Like, why can't you do that? And it's like, yeah, I didn't
55:24
play that long and I didn't do what hater did, but I'm never
55:28
going to hate on that dude. Like freaking AI was part of it
55:36
and I was an honor to be a part of it.
55:39
Like I just, it doesn't make sense to me.
55:43
I remember that story when that came out and they went back into
55:45
his really old Twitter. Yeah, and his old Twitter.
55:48
Yeah. You know, that's a shame, you
55:50
know, But look how he is now. The guy's the best closer in
55:53
baseball. He if he keeps it up for another
55:56
few years, we can. Start first of all, he's not the
55:57
best closer you if you really want to best closer is Chapman
56:03
right now. So I so when I compare the two
56:05
of them, Chapman is number 2 and it's for sure, but it's.
56:09
Like wise numbers. Wise, he's just behind him.
56:12
It's almost a dead heat. He's slightly behind him and
56:16
that and honestly, Chapman's been playing amazing this year
56:19
as I know from my fantasy team that I made sure I grabbed him
56:22
because he was cheaper than Hater.
56:24
Hater went for a lot of a lot of.
56:25
Well, and, and the crazy thing is, like, I don't agree with a
56:32
lot of things that Chapman has done.
56:38
Whatever. But I also can't believe
56:41
everything I read. Right.
56:46
But the dude is still doing it. Yeah.
56:51
He's got it there, man. You got to give credit.
56:54
He's literally like his. I literally sat here and looked
57:00
at it and I was like his differentials and everything.
57:06
He's the best in his career right now, best in his career at
57:10
39 years old. It's crazy.
57:12
It's absolutely crazy and that's the type of stuff, crazy stuff
57:16
that we get on our weekly edition.
57:18
And that's what we talked about. Of Inside Baseball Boys.
57:23
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57:27
and helped out tonight. Our interns have been fantastic
57:30
without Errol putting up the videos, putting up the graphics.
57:34
I really can't say enough about Jake, Aaron and Zach.
57:36
Thanks boys. You know King Zach.
57:38
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57:40
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