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The Costa & Jansen crew is fully dressed up for Halloween. In this segment, the crew breaks down their costumes—from an executioner to a crazy cat lady and a national champ cowboy—before diving into the massive drama surrounding Dylan Larkin walking away from the team and forfeiting game checks. Plus, reactions to the Red Wings front office, trade clause chaos, Lions vs. Vikings preview, and more!
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00:02Good morning. We are ridiculous. It is Friday. It's a football Friday, and it's the day before
00:11Halloween. We are in costume. We encourage you to watch along with us. Good morning. 97
00:16one, Jim Costa, John Jansen, Heather Park, Gov, and Greg behind the glass. I did not expect
00:29when we walked in. So we had the agreement that we were all going to wear costumes, and
00:33we have costumes. We got Luigi behind the glass. Hey, I'm running the board here. We've got
00:39Dylan Larkin as well behind the glass, or the hockey player formerly known as Dylan
00:48Larkin. Yeah, I'm technically not dressed up, but he's technically not dressed up
00:52either. Exactly. See there. That's why I'm Dylan and Royal Oak. Yes. John is a
00:58cowboy. I'm a cowboy. What's the belt buckle? I got this one. It's a Michigan
01:03National Championship 1997 National Championship belt buckle. Got my cowboy
01:08boots on. I am down to my backup costume. More on that in a minute, but I am an
01:13executioner. So I'm glad you explained that if anybody is watching on Twitch,
01:18because when you put the hood up. Oh, yeah. Without the axe. The axe in the shot? What
01:25do I look like? You look like, first of all, when it was like down over your face,
01:29covering more, you look more like the Emperor in Star Wars. Yeah. But then when you
01:37kind of push it back, you just look like a little shepherd boy. Oh, well.
01:42There, you see it now. Shepard boy. And Heather? And I am a crazy cat lady.
01:49A plus costume. Yes, A plus. You have now, the dream world has shifted. Now you are in
01:55Jim Costa's dreams. You should have brought in Roomba. I could have asked him, like, could you bring
01:59Roomba for my costume, please? He wants to know if Kelsey can borrow that later.
02:13Thank you for that, John. This is amazing. I love that we're doing this. Now, behind the
02:17scenes, Tom, there's a running joke that goes back to the Jamie days. Oh, yeah. Today, everybody
02:23dresses up on a Today Show. There'll be no show tomorrow for them. So, Jamie always kind
02:29of wanted some sort of tragic event to happen so that they had to present the news in costume.
02:34Costume. That'd be amazing. That's Jamie's sense of humor, man. So priceless. I never would
02:39have thought of that in a thousand years. No. No, but once you say it, he's like, could
02:43you imagine a 9-11 happening with them all dressed up? You're as a mime trying to break
02:48it down. That's so amazing. Dolly Parton as a man. Yeah. And then 20 years from now, they go back
02:54and they do the documentary and they've got everybody all dressed up in their costumes talking
03:01about this tragic event. Very serious stuff. Unbelievable. I also just love that we're doing
03:07this because I remember coming home from school and around the horn would all dress up in the
03:10Halloween costumes. We're having some fun. Yeah. Why not? And it's so to let everybody in behind
03:16the scenes. Yesterday here was when they decided to have the company dress up, which obviously
03:24they do that because New Year, or I'm sorry, Hallows Eve, which is today, is on a Friday
03:33and no one else here shows up on Friday. So if they had the costume party on Friday, again,
03:38we would still be the only ones dressed up because we are the only ones here. And again, if they
03:42don't like that comment, they can come in and say something, but they won't.
03:45We'll be nice to work three days a week. We won't see a Monday either. By Tuesday, they'll
03:50forget about it. Now, I told you this is the backup costume. I had paid for expedited
03:56shipping and they let me down. Oh, what was it? What was it supposed to be? You are the
04:03caveman on the show. Oh, you're going to come as a caveman? I was going to be Fred
04:07Flintstone. Oh, nice. And I had the club and the orange get up, but they let me down.
04:14Well, and you, I mean, technically you can, you could power your car with your feet. Yeah.
04:21But in a scramble yesterday, I go, Oh, maybe I can get something a little more fun
04:26for the show. I'm going to go to spirit Halloween. Terrible idea. Oh yeah. Two days before
04:33terrible idea. Picked over. What was, what was wrong? There were some options. There was one that
04:37was a, the container of cheese balls that I considered being okay. But by the time I would
04:42have found something I want, yeah, we'd had some fun with that today. The line was like
04:47when you walked in spiraling all throughout the store to the checkout, I would have been
04:51there over an hour, right? Just to get the costume. So this is from, um, we have some
04:56friends that do a big Halloween party every year and they do a theme. So they did medieval.
05:00Uh huh. So this is, this was my medieval costume last weekend. So, well, uh, tip of
05:04the cap, um, to, to Heather because hers is the most involved. Yes. And it was a DIY costume
05:10and I am not one to dress up. So when you guys mentioned it, you texted me, I'm like,
05:14Oh, dress up for Halloween. I don't have a costume. But then I thought, okay, well I'll
05:19dress up with my kids. So Emily is being a cat. Brooks is being a dog. And I talked to
05:24Emily, I'm like, what should I be? What can I be with you? And she's like, just be a cat
05:27owner, mom. I'm like a cat lady. Yeah. Perfect. Give me all your cat stuffies. Let's go. So
05:35you borrow the, these are Emily's. Yes. I did buy the robot Amazon and the glasses. Okay.
05:41Oh, you don't have those in your, uh, the back pocket, your readers with the little
05:45chain. The chain's great. Uh huh. Comments on Twitch. Heather looks like younger version
05:50of my neighbor lady. Oh boy. Time to get the paper. All I feel like I need is like catnip
05:56and a cigarette or something like I did. It would pull together even better. So does
06:01Costa. All right then. What are we doing today? It's a Friday, which means we got
06:15picks. It means cookie jar, some Halloween questions, some sports questions. Of course,
06:21we're going to talk Lions Vikings, a massive matchup on Sunday. We'll talk about the bears
06:25swinging a big move yesterday. A couple of first round picks for Jeffrey Simmons. Oh,
06:29and by the way, Dylan Larkin, no show taking himself off of the team.
06:36It's, it was manageable and we were all doing mental gymnastics in regards to, well, do we
06:44still like Dylan Larkin? Well, he, you know, he'd come out and had scored some goals, had
06:49some assists. You know, the wings are kind of in the middle of the pack right now. And we
06:54all thought, well, maybe there's a way to mend fences. And you even heard from Scott
06:57Horkoff, like he initially wanted to mend fences. And then all of a sudden it's, I don't,
07:06nothing's changed, right? The wings haven't just simply become competent. Like they can
07:12make some decisions moving forward to show competency. But Dylan Larkin said, I've had
07:20enough. This was the ugliest possible outcome. What changed is Dylan is no longer going to
07:27be a professional, right? He's no longer going to show up. And as a result, the team's now
07:31going to find him every day. And you said, he's not paying him. Well, yeah, effectively.
07:37Yeah. The same thing, right? Money coming out of his pocket. And you sent us the website
07:41that someone made. Oh yeah. It's, it's the Dylan doe.com, something like that. Yes. And
07:50it, and it tracks every second of every day, how much money Dylan Larkin is losing. This
07:56was inspired by, they did hella bucks in Winnipeg. So Larkin forfeits, I think it's 41
08:01grand a day. Yes. That he's not part of this hockey team. That's what's changed. He's no
08:05longer being professional. He's not holding up his end of the bargain. I agree. And, and
08:11this, I was of the mindset of, we could deal with it as long as he's out there playing and
08:19he's doing well for the wings. I can, I can overlook a lot of things. Guys make decisions
08:23professionally. I've talked about all of that. This one, this one, not just stepped over the
08:28line. This one, he catapulted over the do the D bag line. I just, I, I, I am.
08:35So over it. And now out of spite, and I, this is not how the wings will operate. Like
08:42they want to be able to get players to play now and they want to get them off the books
08:47rightfully. So they'll do that as quickly as possible. My initial reaction was, well,
08:54how long is this contract? Well, let them pound sand for four years. And, and, you know,
08:59let's just keep this meter running of how much money he's losing and just let him sit
09:06there to spite him. There were chants last night in a win, lowly Blackhawks, but in a
09:11win, who needs Larkin, right? Who needs Larkin? It is going to unify this team. They're just
09:18still not a very good team. And they're also not a well-run team. So that's the other caveat
09:24to this Larkin is now acting unprofessional. He's stooping to the low level. The wings have
09:29been at the whole time. I do not want this to be seen as now the wings are doing things
09:33right because they're not, they don't know how to run a hockey team. This doesn't make
09:36the wings competent. They still did no work on their general manager search. They still
09:41are unable to trade Simon Edvinson. And you said, they're going to try to work to trade
09:44Dylan Larkin in a timely manner. I don't know that they are. I don't know that they're competent
09:48enough to pull off anything when it comes to running this hockey team. But Larkin is now
09:52stooped to their level by not being the guy to go out there and play every night and try
09:57hard and compete. And you can question whether he was doing that even when he was suiting
10:00up. But my point is, yeah, sure. The wings want to trade him. Are they, are they capable
10:05of it? Do they understand how to pull off hockey moves? What changed? Why did he play
10:11for how many games and games or what? Why, why, why did he do this yesterday and not a month
10:18ago? Right. Well, so I think he tried to put a good foot forward. I think I know what
10:23it is. It's the Hellebuck trade. It happened last Friday. So in less than a week, they were
10:28out West. He gets back in town. They're probably talking about putting this in play. He probably
10:33talked to Hellebuck since they have the group text for team at USA. I think they're all starting
10:37to become a bunch of little bitches to be honest with all those USA guys. But if you're Larkin,
10:41you go, he didn't get punished. He actually got rewarded. I did it the right way. And
10:46my team couldn't trade me. I would have been better being a petulant brat. If I was a brat,
10:50I would have been traded faster. The guy's not a leader and didn't have the courage to
10:53do it. And he tried to put on this face. And then one of his little buddies on team
10:56USA did it. And he's like, okay, now I can do it. I can, I can withstand being suspended
11:02because I've got the money to do so. Right. And I'm not alone. Somebody else did it. So
11:07I can follow suit. I'm not going to be the leader. I fully agree with that criticism,
11:12but you see what he's looking at it going. If I had been petulant from the jump, maybe
11:18I would have been traded sooner. That behavior is rewarded. I'm not rewarded for showing up
11:23and taking the booze and scoring a couple goals. They aren't in good faith trying to
11:28trade me. I've given them 10 teams. They've known since May, right? They're not interested
11:33in hiring someone to trade me or trading me period. But he doesn't realize if he would
11:37have done this the day after the season, they probably could have gotten what they wanted
11:41to a degree. Right. His timing's been poor on every single thing. June is when he demanded
11:47it. Well, a lot of teams have decided how they're going to handle the off season. You
11:51know, it's, it's just, it's a wuss. You know what? And it's, it's like, I see the no trade
12:00clause that's in there. And, and okay, he earned the right to have a no trade clause so that
12:05he doesn't wake up one morning and he shipped off to Siberia. Like that is to me, the basis
12:12for that. He just doesn't wake up one morning and all of a sudden he's no longer a wing.
12:16He has say in that. And this has been weaponized to say, well, I want to go to the three
12:23most
12:24contending U S teams for the Stanley cup. Okay. Well, they're not giving up anything. And most
12:32of them don't have room for you to, to get in under the cap of the 10 teams. Most of
12:37them, if not
12:38all don't have a way to fit him under the cap. So if you're going to sit there and say,
12:44well,
12:44I'm going to hold you hostage and say, well, you got to send me to a contender, or now you
12:48have to
12:48send me to one of the top 10 U S teams. If you truly want to be traded and you're
12:53going to sit out,
12:54then completely remove the trade clause. And then the team can get what it deserves in return.
13:01You made a commitment. The team made a commitment to you. And there's no guarantee when you sign that
13:07contract that the team that you are signing it with is going there. They're not guaranteeing that
13:13we're going to be a competent franchise. We're not guaranteeing that we're going to be a Stanley cup
13:17contender. We're not giving you any guarantees other than we will pay you money. A lot of it
13:23to play hockey. And we expect you to show up.
13:29Another detail here. Larkin's contract was front loaded. He's actually received a large chunk of
13:35the money already. So he might be more than comfortable taking 41 grand on the chin day
13:41over day, over day, over day while the wings flounder. And some point you want to get something
13:49for him. Right. I know there's a punitive argument today of sit and spin for five years. Okay. So
13:56now you look like the organization that can't handle disgruntled players. That's the emotional
14:00response. And that was the response that I had yesterday. No, I don't want, I don't want this to
14:06be a situation where the wings lose out, but I want them to be able to get something commensurate
14:13for what he is. Do they understand they might not get exactly what they want?
14:19Well, then we're going to sit here and wait until we do. But part of this is the
14:25they aren't able to execute basic hockey functions as a front office. So they might think they know
14:32what they can get or should get for Dylan Larkin. Do you trust that that is of sound mind?
14:38No, I agree with you. Yeah. By the way, he's just lost over $52,000. John, you're just staying
14:44so big. I wonder if it's as big as mine. He has to now work out on his own, right?
14:49He should have
14:50to pay for that. Any of you hockey rinks out there? Don't cut this guy a break. He's a trader.
14:56Okay.
14:57Just because you know him, you have a relationship, whatever arena he needs to go to, make him pay
15:01for ice time. It's expensive. Yes, it is. Ask any youth parent out there.
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