A caller was upset with Grant & Danny for saying they hate the Penguins, well they explained that for him here!
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00:00there is no better sports atmosphere in this town
00:04than a playoff hockey game.
00:07There's some things I like.
00:08It's very, very fun to go over to Audi Field for the D.C. Defenders.
00:11It's different. It's low stakes.
00:13The team is 13-3 all time at home.
00:16They've got another game this Sunday afternoon.
00:18That's a lot of fun.
00:19I think the Nats, when things are cooking,
00:22when the team's really good, a blast, right?
00:24That's regular season. That's playoffs.
00:26Doesn't matter. Big game.
00:27A lot of people. That can be a lot of fun.
00:30Although I will say, game-to-game, it's not that fun.
00:33I hope the Orioles series is good next week.
00:36But going midweek last week, even for the Dodgers,
00:38when it was cold out, weather wasn't great, didn't cooperate.
00:40Yeah, it wasn't fun.
00:41It wasn't a good atmosphere.
00:42But the atmosphere is in the arena at Capital One.
00:47Wizards is meh.
00:48Commander's got a lot better this year,
00:50but it's been, we've talked about it a lot on the show,
00:53pedestrian for a long time because of the stadium.
00:56We've always had one saving grace.
00:59You could feel like you were in an awesome sports town
01:02and an awesome moment when you go see the Caps
01:04and everyone's rocking the red.
01:06And if you haven't been to a playoff game
01:07and you're winning these tickets today, good on you.
01:09It is cool.
01:10Now, you're going to feel that heart right out of that chest.
01:15Well, that part's the worst.
01:16I mean, it's coming.
01:18Like, you're going to be cold but sweaty.
01:20You're going to have anxiety, but you'll be cheering.
01:22It is the strangest thing where every second you're walking this tightrope
01:27and you have nothing to do with the game.
01:28All you're doing is cheering when appropriate
01:30and gasping and feeling terrified.
01:33Every time the puck is not on your side of the ice,
01:36it's like, oh, my God.
01:38The hockey playoffs are excruciating.
01:41No doubt about that.
01:42But early in the series,
01:44I am able to still kind of keep my wits about me.
01:47because in Game 1, worst-case scenario, you're down a game.
01:52Now, if you lose Game 1 into Game 2,
01:55I start to get a little tight.
01:56I start to get a little anxious.
01:58There are certainly some nerves.
01:59If you're down 0-2 into Game 3,
02:02now it's on like Donkey Kong.
02:04Now, every time the other team has the puck in the offensive zone,
02:08it's a disaster.
02:09The worst is overtime in the playoffs.
02:13I don't wish that on my worst enemy.
02:15I do, but I know your point, yeah.
02:17It's excruciating doesn't even begin to say.
02:21I mean, if the other team has the puck across center ice,
02:24you feel like death.
02:26Every second that they have the puck
02:28could be the second where you lose.
02:29Now, when you're on the other side of the ice,
02:31here we go.
02:32We're calm.
02:33It's not overly exciting,
02:34but you're just not hating life.
02:39Now we get to the worst one.
02:41So we're walking the path here.
02:43Elimination game playoff hockey.
02:45Kill me where I stand.
02:46Just take me.
02:48I don't care how you want to do it.
02:50Take your hands and choke me
02:51and write a nice letter to my wife
02:53and send it off on my behalf.
02:56Take a golf club to my head.
02:57Whatever you want to do, Ruyet, you do it.
03:00Overtime playoff hockey, years off the life, man.
03:03Yeah.
03:03Bad.
03:04I have...
03:05And the Caps love doing it.
03:07They cannot play.
03:08Watch this.
03:09They will play four overtime games in this series.
03:11Just in the first round.
03:12That's all they do.
03:13The number of times that...
03:17It's like that movie with Justin Timberlake
03:18and Amanda Seyfried or Seyfried or Seyfried.
03:21Seyfried?
03:22You rick me when you do this.
03:23I don't know what...
03:24Have a little respect.
03:25Seyfried?
03:26Amanda Seyfried.
03:27Seyfried.
03:28She's gorgeous.
03:29She's a wonderful actress.
03:30She's very good at acting.
03:31She's been around for a long time.
03:32It's a movie.
03:33It's called In Time.
03:34It's where the whole thing is time.
03:36The currency is time.
03:37Yeah.
03:37Yeah.
03:38That's what I said first.
03:39So they've taken...
03:42I just hold out my wrist
03:43and they've taken the time for me.
03:44It's a long way to get to the bit.
03:46That was a deep cut.
03:47But you're so right.
03:48It's like that sci-fi movie
03:49where you're like,
03:50that's a week for dinner.
03:52I think people are tracking.
03:53But for people like Ryan and Darius
03:55who have never seen a movie...
03:55Now, movies are things
03:56you can go to a theater
03:57and sit down or watch at home.
03:59Every person on their wrist,
04:00it has the number of minutes
04:01you have left in your life.
04:03And it's counting down
04:04and you can look at it all day long.
04:06So you're like,
04:07oh my, I have 900 hours left
04:09or whatever it is,
04:1010,000, 1 million hours.
04:12And so you can do the math, whatever.
04:13But when certain things happen,
04:15the time disappears or doesn't.
04:17And then they pay you in hours
04:19in this futuristic thing.
04:21So when you go to work or whatever
04:23and you do a good job,
04:24someone gives you more minutes.
04:25But my friend Danny,
04:27what he was saying, Darius,
04:28about this hypothetical movie.
04:30Again, movie is...
04:30It's a movie.
04:31It's like pictures that move.
04:32Yeah, and there's talking on it.
04:33Yeah.
04:34Soundtracks.
04:34So you just go up
04:36and put your hand
04:37like at a laser tag
04:38where you have to put the gun
04:39in the QR code.
04:39Like, battery charge.
04:42You're in the laser tag.
04:43You put your little QR code
04:44under there
04:45and the caps just
04:46zap hours from you.
04:47Hey, boof, gone.
04:49Yeah.
04:49I have walked in there
04:50and I'm up three games to one
04:51against the Penguins
04:52and just years off my life.
04:54Only in caps hockey
04:55is three games to one
04:56some of the scariest words
04:57you could ever hear.
04:58Yeah.
04:59Oh, my team's leading the series
05:00three games to one?
05:01Oh my God.
05:02Why?
05:02Why do they have to be?
05:04Yeah.
05:04At one point,
05:05I don't think this is true anymore,
05:06but at one point,
05:07I've reported this out
05:08a million times
05:09to lick you,
05:1120% of all three games to one
05:13collapses in NHL history
05:15belong to the Capitals.
05:16At one point,
05:17I don't think that's the case now.
05:18There have been more teams
05:19that have done it,
05:19but at one point,
05:20if you take five,
05:22three games to one collapses,
05:23at least one of those
05:24was Washington's.
05:25Did you hear,
05:27by the way,
05:27that Amanda Seyfried
05:28and Sidney Sweeney
05:30are going to be in a movie
05:32where they are lovers?
05:34Really?
05:35No, I'm not going to see that.
05:36Like, they love each other?
05:37Yeah.
05:38How about that?
05:39Indeed.
05:40Bet you there'll be some good acting
05:40in that film, right?
05:42Full frontal acting,
05:43you're thinking.
05:44I didn't say anything.
05:46What are you thinking?
05:46I'm just saying
05:47they're both good actors.
05:49Yeah.
05:50We like that.
05:51That's what we like on the show.
05:51I tell you what,
05:52I don't want to see that movie,
05:53but if you want to go,
05:55I'll go with you
05:56as long as there's popcorn.
05:58That's all I'm saying.
05:59Okay.
06:00What's it called?
06:00What's the movie called?
06:01Does it matter?
06:01I don't remember.
06:02Yeah.
06:02I didn't look that part up.
06:04Where'd you find out about that
06:05on one of their Instagrams?
06:07Do you follow them?
06:08I do not follow Amanda Seyfried.
06:09Do you follow Sidney Sweeney?
06:11I think I do, actually.
06:12How come you follow her?
06:13I'm a big fan of her projects.
06:15Of her acting.
06:15I need to know what she's in next.
06:17Yeah.
06:17She's one of the great actors
06:18of our time.
06:19Kurt is in Ashburn.
06:20Hello, Kurt.
06:21Kurt.
06:21Hi, folks.
06:23How are you doing?
06:24Good, buddy.
06:25Listen, I'm an old rink rat.
06:27I've played all my life.
06:29And I got to tell you something.
06:30I don't understand
06:31this animosity
06:32towards the Pittsburgh Penguins
06:34and the Steelers.
06:36I know Washington Area fans
06:38don't want to hear this,
06:39but they're the two
06:40of the classiest franchises
06:41in all sport.
06:42When the Cats won
06:43the Stanley Cup,
06:45Pittsburgh took out
06:46a full-page ad
06:46in the Post
06:47congratulating them.
06:49Did they really?
06:49And while I won
06:50the CS beat,
06:51Crosby and Milken,
06:53I don't hate them.
06:54Did they,
06:54in the Washington Post,
06:56they did that?
06:58Yes.
06:58I don't remember that.
06:59I'll take your word for it.
07:00It's very simple,
07:01though.
07:01I can explain it to you
07:02if you need me
07:03to explain why people
07:04hate them.
07:04It's because
07:05that's our main rival.
07:07Yeah, but, you know,
07:11I'm very uncomfortable
07:12with the way hate
07:13is thrown around.
07:14Like it's having a hang.
07:16Like it's having a what?
07:17I don't hate any,
07:19I don't even hate Dallas.
07:20I hate seeing them win,
07:22but I don't hate
07:23Dallas and football
07:23and I don't hate
07:24the Penguins.
07:25That's good.
07:26Good job by you.
07:28I'm sorry?
07:29That's a good job by you.
07:30Yeah, you have a,
07:31you have a good heart.
07:31Well, thank you.
07:35You know what?
07:36I'm getting old.
07:37It's not that good.
07:39Anyway, that's a good thing.
07:40I don't know
07:40if it's a healthy heart.
07:41That was a good thing.
07:42But you have a good heart.
07:43You don't have any hate.
07:44I don't think hate
07:45is like a real term.
07:47It's sports hate.
07:47It's sports hate.
07:48There's a vitriol.
07:50There's a loathe.
07:51I don't think
07:51if Sidney Crosby
07:53was stuck in an elevator
07:55and, you know,
07:57I found out about it
07:58that I wouldn't tell the cops
07:59to go help him out.
08:00You know what I'm saying?
08:02Okay.
08:03Fair enough.
08:03I understand.
08:05That's up to me
08:05to understand
08:06that hate
08:06in the sports context
08:08doesn't mean hate
08:08like with Al-Qaeda
08:10or Taliban.
08:12That took a swerve there.
08:14Whatever you need to do
08:15to quantify it.
08:16Yes.
08:17Did Darius dump that?
08:18I don't know.
08:19No one knows right now.
08:20They didn't need to dump that.
08:21No one knows.
08:22But that's funny, Kurt.
08:22Good line.
08:23Let me just say
08:24they're among
08:25the classicest franchises
08:27of the sports sports.
08:28Steelers and the Penguins.
08:30That's good for them.
08:31I'm glad that they are
08:33classy.
08:35And they gave Ovechkin,
08:37I think the reason for his call,
08:38they gave him a Rolex last night.
08:39I'm not suggesting
08:41that they're not classy,
08:42by the way.
08:43But they're the enemy.
08:46When they play the Caps,
08:47that's a great rivalry.
08:48There's an animus there
08:49because they had what we didn't
08:51for a long time as well.
08:52And the fan bases,
08:55I mean,
08:55they're insufferable.
08:56They hate Tom Wilson.
08:57They pretend like he can't play.
08:59Mr. Classy fan base
09:00is telling me
09:01I'm a fat loser all day long
09:02when the Caps are playing
09:03the Penguins on Twitter
09:04because they're so classy.
09:06So, yeah,
09:06they are annoying.
09:07And it is okay.
09:09They're super classy
09:09on the portrait gallery steps
09:11after games.
09:11Right.
09:12It's okay to have sports hate.
09:14And I got plenty of it.
09:15And they're the subject.
09:16You actually have real hate.
09:18Oh, yeah.
09:18I got that too.
09:19But I got both.
09:20But we're just doing
09:21sports hate right now.
09:21Yeah, the 92, 94, 95.
09:26So many times.
09:28Just joy stealing.
09:29Didn't matter that we were better.
09:30It was just
09:31because it was Lemieux,
09:32because it was Ron Francis,
09:34a young Yaramir Yager
09:34who I still hate to this day.
09:36All of it.
09:36They can.
09:37They're so obnoxious.
09:38Yuns and yins
09:39in those stupid jerseys
09:41just ruining my time
09:42for years.
09:44So, yeah,
09:44I will continue to hate them.
09:46I got us both, Kurt.
09:47You and me.
09:48If you got zero units
09:49and I got 100,
09:51we got 100 units of hatred, brother.
09:52I got you.
09:53You sound like a sweet man, though.
09:54Very nice guy.
09:55But in 91,
09:57the Penguins eliminated
09:57the Capitals from the playoffs.
09:59And then they did it again
10:00in 92 in seven games.
10:02And then they did it again
10:03in 95.
10:0495, 96.
10:05In seven games.
10:05And then they did it again
10:06in 96 in six games.
10:08And then they did it again
10:09in 2000 in five games.
10:11And then they did it again
10:12in 2001 and I cried
10:13in six games.
10:15And then they did it again
10:16in 2009 in seven games.
10:18And then they did it again
10:19in 2016.
10:21in six games and then he did it again in 2017 in seven games you get the gist here you see what
10:25that is yeah that kept happening that made me sad a lot yeah so i don't like them very much