September 30, 2026 • 40 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's a pizza Wednesday. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Was the veep of ops the one who pointed out
the correction to you?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Part of his job.
Speaker 5 (00:12):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (00:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And I said, fine.
Speaker 7 (00:15):
I'm going to– everybody is an executive producer out here,
I guess. I think when we first started, you guys
wanted business cards. It was McLovin and Pauly and Seton
and Todd. And I remember Todd goes, well, I'm going
to put down I'm an executive producer.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I said, but you're not. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 8 (00:31):
It actually went, you asked us what we wanted on
our titles because you were going to buy us business cards.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And I let Todd go first. And Todd goes, ah, producer.
And I went, executive producer.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, Todd.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
But who are we fooling? 25 years later, I'm still
the booker.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Which I love so much. You're Devin Booker.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
He's my booker. Just tell him what guest you want
and he'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 9 (00:54):
Well, should I change my title? Because last year when
I claimed my taxes, I was just bored up. And
they were like, what does that entail? I was like,
I operate the board.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What title would you like?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Associate producer?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Sure. Why not? I think you're higher up than that.
How about just producer? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Congratulations.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
I mean, you got to start producing, but I'm just
saying producer is fine.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I mean, if we get to pick, I'll take executive
producer if we're just handing those out.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I would say producer for you right now.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
All right.
Speaker 10 (01:30):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
And part of every podcast, I think, that we do
here on the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's a little wordy.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
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(02:01):
have a poll question, play of the day, stat of
the day. Tyler's sitting by. He'll take your phone calls, 877-3DP-SHELL.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And yes, Todd.
Speaker 11 (02:09):
Dylan's a little shy, but he whispered to me he
wants to be senior podcast contributor.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Thank you, Todd.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
All right, we'll have a poll question, play of the day.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
See, this is why you can never be anything more
than just a booker.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
What are we wearing today? Anything?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I'm wearing an LIU t-shirt, which is not fitting me well.
Speaker 11 (02:26):
I don't know what company made this, but I would
have got three XL if I knew this XL was
going to fit like this. My nephew goes to LIU,
just started as a freshman. So I wanted to wear
my LIU shirt.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Todd always blames the clothes.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I had nothing to do with it. I had this
large pizza with pepperoni and sausage yesterday at a Coke.
I had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now, why would you do that? Because today is Pizza Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I know, but you can never have enough pizza.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I just went for it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Dylan, give me the menu, please.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
We have, Dan, hot honey pepperoni with stracciatella, which has
become a hit around here.
Speaker 10 (02:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
And Oktoberfest pizza, tis the season. So beer brat, sauerkraut, mustard.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And Todd's famous, wonderful classic cheese pizza.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Who has it better than we do? Nobody.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Okay, we'll have a poll question here coming up, recapping
the baseball yesterday. It was fun yesterday in the man
cave for the Phillies and the Braves. Just about everybody
in the building was gathered around watching that. Braves come
back to beat the Phillies. That Phillies bullpen, not good
in September. Padres blank the Cubs. That was from the
opening swing. The Yankees over the Red Sox and the
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White Sox beat the Astros. Keep in mind, three consecutive days,
three consecutive games, and they don't go city to city.
And if you're wondering, I think since they started this
in 2022, It's 15-1.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
The Red Sox, I think a couple of years ago,
they're the only ones to lose game one, come back
to win. It's a best-of-three series.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Speaking of baseball, Jacob Mizorowski, the Brewers' star pitcher, will
join us a little bit later on. Talk some football
with Devin, don't call me Jason McCourty, NBC Football Night
in America analyst. Play of the Day will be coming
up as well. So Phillies, Braves again today, White Sox, Astros,
Red Sox, Yankees and the Cubs and the Padres. Sometimes
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it only takes two. A lot of times you look
at a roster and you're built for 162 games. I
want to know if you're built for a we have
to win this game or it's a two game situation.
or a three-game series, or it's a five-game series, or
a seven-game series. Down through history, you've seen teams that
are built and aren't built for that.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
162, yes, but maybe for seven games, not necessarily.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
And keep this in mind, and not that I need
to remind you baseball's the ultimate team sport, but Mike
Trout is living proof of that. He was the best
player in baseball for years. He even shared a clubhouse
with Shohei Ohtani. He reached the postseason just once in
his career. Even 162 games, even Hall of Famers need
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some help there. And what you saw with the Yankees
last night was Cam Schlittler, who's going to be the
Cy Young winner. He was dominating, had 10 strikeouts. And
then Ben Rice handled the offense with a couple of
home runs. That can be the recipe. That can be
the recipe for one night. October has a funny way
of creating heroes. And sometimes a postseason game isn't about
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depth or payroll or the perfect roster. Sometimes it's just
you give the ball to your ace and you have
somebody make a couple of swings and you get to
play again tomorrow. And that was the case last night
because Schlettler looked dominating and he's been dominating ever. Six
and a third, two hits, ten strikeouts. And, hey, can
(05:56):
I say this for the 1,001st time? That he is
from Massachusetts, and so is Ben Rice. Did you know that?
Speaker 12 (06:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Ben wasn't a Red Sox fan, but Cam apparently was.
It's kind of like, did you know that Clayton Kershaw
and Matt Stafford went to the same high school?
Speaker 13 (06:17):
What?
Speaker 8 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I know that the announcers have to seem like we
haven't been watching baseball all year long, and they're going
to tell us about this storyline with Cam Schlittler and
Ben Rice. But, man, I look at Schlittler against Boston,
six games, 38 and two-thirds innings, two earned runs, 49 strikeouts.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That is a dominating, dominating performance. And this is what
you need.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
In a seven-game series, if I know I have to
face him at least twice, with the possibility of a
seventh game, maybe he comes in in relief.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's a big advantage.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
And if you have another pitcher to go along with him,
now you have a big advantage, I think, when it
comes to the postseason.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All right, Dylan, poll question today. What do you have
for me?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, after yesterday's Game 1 wildcard results, who is the
most done? So we've got the Astros, the Cubs, the Phillies,
and the Red Sox, all the losers from yesterday.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Oh, boy. There's no spirit with the Astros. I mean,
maybe it's in the dome, but there was nothing going
on with that team. I think the fans know we're
an average team, and we're in because somebody had to
win the division. Red Sox did not look good, but then,
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you know, made them look bad. The Cubs will rebound.
At least I think they will. Phillies, that was tough too.
Donnie Baseball went to his bullpen a little too early
for a closer and paid the price.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But that Phillies bullpen has not been good in September. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Should the score matter to the team that lost or
the fans of the team that lost?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
12-0 versus a 2-1 game.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
No, because I always remind people, if you go back
1960 World Series, the Yankees won three games, I think,
against Pittsburgh, all by double digits. And the Pirates, I think,
won four games by one run, and they ended up
winning the World Series. A lot of times you go,
and even go back to the Red Sox-Yankees-ALCS, where the
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Yankees were blowing out the Red Sox. And You don't
get to take those runs with you. That's what you have. Okay,
go ahead. You're killing us.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And then momentum is next day pitcher. That's all this is.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Because if you have a great performance today, that wipes
away what happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
2004 ALCS, Game 3, Yankees 19, Red Sox 8.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
And I remember going, how do you recover from something
like that? They're just demoralizing. And the fact that the
Red Sox even knew the Yankees were going to beat them.
And the fact that you have a couple of players
from the Red Sox who were congratulating the Yankees prior
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to game four.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Wild.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But it does happen.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
And you see that sometimes where somebody blows somebody out
and you think that's going to be a trend.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And it's not. All right. What other poll questions do
you have? Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
In my lifetime, that might have been the most star-studded
baseball playoff series ever. From one side with Big Papi, Manny, Schilling, Pedro, A-Rod, Jeter, Pettit, Mariano.
They had stars lined up with Boston and New York.
I don't think I've ever seen that type of star
power in one series in my lifetime.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
And to be in the ballpark for... both of those cities,
there's nothing like that. I've never seen, you know, when
you had the air taken out of the building, when
you can see the fans defeated or know they're going
to be defeated, and to witness that in Yankee Stadium,
of all places... I've seen a lot of sports, but
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that's where you go, oh, my God, they know they're
going to lose. And I always tell this story because
I was doing SportsCenter prior to the game, and I'd
always see Spike Lee and his Yankee gear on.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
He'd say, hey, Dan, who do you like?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
I said, I think it's the Red Sox. Now it's 3-0.
I said, I think it's the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh, don't say that. He goes, why do you say that?
I said, they're too good a team to get swept.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
And then next game, I see Spike Lee down the
first baseline.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Hey, Dan, who do you like? I said, I like
the Red Sox. Oh, don't say that. Why do you
say that? I said, I don't know. I sense a
shift here. See him the next game. Dan, who do
you like? I said, I like the Red Sox. Oh,
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don't say. Saw him before game seven. Because, hey, who
do you like? And he goes, don't say it. I
know who you're going to say it. Don't say it.
I said, I like the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Ah!
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Do you think Spike blames you for that series?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
He has every reason to, if he wants to.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I mean, he's in, you know, in cloud nine on
cloud nine because of the Knicks. He, I think he's
good now. I think that may be smoothed over that
rough patch for him or between me and him, but
watching that series, that's one of those where you go, okay,
there's no way they can do this.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
They, they can't come back. Wait, Mariano's on the mound.
Wait a minute. Oh, wait, there's a stolen bet. Wait, wait, what?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's that quick.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And when you lose with your.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Best guy on the mound and you are at home,
sometimes these losses count for just a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And that's the carryover. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, and I feel like even as they got closer
and closer, when the momentum shifted, even they're still waiting
for like an Aaron Boone moment to just bring the
whole house down like literally the year prior.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You're just waiting because, well, we have the best team.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
We're at home. We should win. It just doesn't happen
that way. Even when Schilling was warming up. And you're going,
I remember talking to Terry Francona. I said, wait, is
this a gimmick? And he goes, no, no. Schill wants
to go out there and pitch. I said, why wouldn't
they just bunt on.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Him all the time? He goes, are you going to
say that on SportsCenter? And I said, I might. He goes, okay.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
And I kept thinking, why don't you just bunt on
Schilling and make him go and field every one of those?
So what if he goes through three innings? But I
want him putting pressure on that ankle, the surgery, the stitches.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Wild, wild.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Still one of the most amazing feelings of watching a
game when one team has so much momentum and then
they have no momentum. And then you got Kevin Brown
on the mound and he got bombed.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
And history said before 2004 that this doesn't happen to
the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
It's supposed to go the other way around.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
World Series odds, in case you're wondering, courtesy of DraftKings.
The Brewers were plus 500 yesterday. Now they're plus 600
and they haven't even played. The Yankees were plus 850.
Now they're plus 650. The Dodgers still the overwhelming favorites,
plus 200. The Braves plus 1,500 now after yesterday, plus 1,100.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
The Rays stay at plus 800.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
The Phillies have the longest odds, them and the Cubs,
followed by the Red Sox Astros. And the White Sox, look,
I know it's not a sexy team, but when you
consider what did they lose? 223 games combined the two
previous years, and they win a playoff game?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's remarkable.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
They were an all-time, all-time bad team. Bad organization. Bad ownership.
And somehow here they are after all.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Of those losses. And then you end up winning that
game against the Astros.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
All right, we'll come back. We will settle on our
poll question. Phone calls always welcome. 877-3DP-SHOW. We got football
tomorrow night. The Steelers at the Browns. The new and
improved Browns, 2-1-1. But the Steelers are favored by two
and a half. Take a break. Back after this.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
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Speaker 14 (15:16):
Stu Gatz here, pleased to be hosting college football with
Stu Gatz and the Bear. We do it two times
a week, every Monday, every single Friday throughout the college
football season. You can expect a little bit of this.
Will Stein, the head coach at Kentucky, joins us. Open
bar at a wedding, ordering a Shirley Temple.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Will or will not?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Will not.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Ketchup on steak.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Will or will not? Will not. Thank you. A little
bit of this.
Speaker 14 (15:43):
Rhys Davis, host of College Game Day, is with us now.
And then I'm going home to the BBC, and they're
saying Jockovich instead of Jokovich.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Right, because you can't say Jockovich.
Speaker 14 (15:53):
If you do, you know the blowback you're going to
get from the American audience.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
And a whole lot of this.
Speaker 14 (16:03):
Listen to college football with Stugatz and the Bear on
the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You get your podcasts.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Todd brought up something that every guy probably encounters at
some point in your life. Todd, would you like to
let the audience in on what we talked about during
the commercial break?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Yes, I have a dermatology.
Speaker 11 (16:27):
My annual checkup is today and I used to have
a male dermatologist and then he retired and I decided
for convenience to stay in the practice. And then I
was recommended by the front office there at the desk.
you know, a different doctor who happens to be a
female and it's okay, but you know, it's not as
comfortable as when you're the guy was just doing.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
And some people may think completely the opposite way.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
But that's why I asked the room for your physician
or dermatologist or whoever's examining you at a place at
a medical place. Do you care if you have a
male or a female person checking you out while you're.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Like naked, basically?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay. What are they checking out?
Speaker 11 (17:00):
It's a full body check where, you know, the underwear
comes off or you have to at least shift the
underwear so they can kind of see the undercarriage and
crotch and everything. Make sure you don't have any weird
moles or something that has to be removed. It's a
full body check and it requires some nudity, I guess,
is the best way.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
To put it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yes, Paul?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I would say for this specific one, a dermatologist, they
do have to look everywhere. I went to one just
a month ago and it was a male doctor with
a female assistant and it didn't bother me. But as
opposed to like a cardiologist who may just check your
chest and talk to you.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
So a dermatologist is a little more probing.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, probing would be checking your prostate.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
But yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I think it depends on the nature of the doctor.
I think most women would probably prefer a female gynecologist
or so I've heard. So I feel like it's depending
on what the specialization is and the nature of that
specific doctor. Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Todd, what do you want?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
It really doesn't bother me that much. I always just
get concerned.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But it did bother me. It bothered you because you
told me it bothered you.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Yeah, but it bothered me a little because I, and
my primary care physician also is a, is a female
that used to be a male, same situation.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
He retired.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Maybe I'm causing them to retire. I don't even know
with all my questions.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
So, so now, yeah, my, my primary care physician and
my gynecologist are both females and it's okay. But at
times it's just, it's a little, you know, it's a
little strange in the moments, but I get.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Over it eventually.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
They're a professional, though.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I know they're professional. Maybe I'm the one that's unprofessional.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I'm the weird patient that has, you know, this is not,
you got to, I just, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Curtis in Illinois joins us. Good morning, Curtis. What's on
your mind?
Speaker 10 (18:37):
Morning DP.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I just want to thank you for having Joey Votto
on yesterday and giving me that wonderful advice that I
used to put in the bet.
Speaker 10 (18:45):
Cause with Aaron judge out of the lineup, he just
couldn't see how they'd have.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Enough offense to win a game.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Uh, but then also I got a PSA for Fritzie
cause apparently the PFT this morning and, uh, starting tomorrow,
there is a new law in Connecticut where left lane
camping is illegal. Uh, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, I can confirm.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
October 1st, 2026, the no left-lane camping law takes charge,
and they are going to be actively enforcing it, almost
like the officials in the NFL when they have a
point of emphasis and they call more holding.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Expect it tomorrow. Todd, are you aware of this?
Speaker 11 (19:28):
No, but I don't want to take over the show
because we've done enough on this. But there's the left
lane for speeding. That's where my problem jumps in. You're
not just passing. You're staying in that lane after passing
someone and going 90 and continuing to stay in that
lane just to get to your destination.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Shouldn't the police handle that, not you?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
They should.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
But a lot of times they're not. So I'm like,
okay i guess i'm gonna have to make this person
go around me.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
I'm gonna deputize you okay do you want to take
matters into your own.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
I would like a shit like shaquille o'neal he's like
he doesn't have to sign the police stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Just stay out of the left lane todd okay i'm.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Talking about the people that use the left lane as
like oh i can go 100 miles an hour this
is the speeding slash passing.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
But are you speeding as well I try not to.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
If someone's on my bumper, though, then I either have
to get.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
Out of the way or I have to go even
faster because they're intimidating me because they're in my trunk. Basically,
when I look through the back mirror, they're like in
my backseat on top of me trying to scare me.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You get into the middle lane. This is really easy.
You don't want to be bullied.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Some of these people are not just passing. They just
want to go really fast. Yes, Marvin. Fritzie was definitely
the hall monitor in school.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, you ratted on people.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
You were the guy who said, wait, I thought we
were going to have a surprise quiz today.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Something almost bad happened to me. I did one of
those things.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
I saw a kid with a knife, and I brought
it to the teacher's attention, and somehow it got to
this kid's friends, and they were waiting for me outside
Spanish class.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You tell the.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Teacher that Daniel had a knife, and I'm like, I'm
going to get stabbed here. This is great. Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I know therapists, but I've been near Fritzie literally for
20 years. I think he'd prefer to stay in the
left line and be bothered by it than get in
the right lane and relax on his drive.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I embrace aggravation sometimes. That's a valid point.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Sometimes there's something about being all riled up that feels
good in some sick way.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Zane in Utah. Hey, Zane, what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (21:12):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
510-170.
Speaker 13 (21:18):
Based on the most recent comments, I would prefer Marvin
to check my prostate.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
With his small hands?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Okay. All righty. That's very good, Zane. Sneaky good. Anything else?
Speaker 13 (21:32):
Well, I've got a listener request and two player comps.
Listener request, please have Pablo on to update us on
private equity coming into high school and youth sports. It
is pretty terrifying.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Yeah, if you get an opportunity, New York Magazine did
a cover story on this maybe a month ago. And
if you're parents of, you know, an athlete, a traveling team,
very interesting read.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yes, private equity.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
And the amount of money that can be made because
parents want the best for their kids and they're going
to sign up and they're going to spend that money.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What else do you have?
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Player comp, Fritzie.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
Nine-year-old Labrador, who is still a puppy, sticks his nose
into every crotch, sheds, has chronic ear infections, and too
often licks himself at inappropriate times.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Some of that's true, but that's a little embellished.
Speaker 13 (22:38):
I'm an alumni of Drafts of the Draft Manhattan, so
I've spent time with you and.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
I think it fits.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
Second, Dan, is you, my player comp, as a captive
member of your audience, shut in, occasionally unemployed and challenges,
and you and your guests have shared challenges. You've always
been there for us, and we appreciate it. So my
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player comp for Dan Patrick is Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
All right. Well, thank you, Zane. I like Oprah. Generous person.
Given back to the audience. Yes, Paul?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Remember we met her years ago in Los Angeles?
Speaker 13 (23:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
That was wild.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah. And she was aware of me from SportsCenter. And
I was like, well, great. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
I was going to jump up on a couch like
Tom Cruise did and be really excited. I still look
back on that. And he had fallen in love. With
Katie Holmes. And he got up and started jumping up
and down on the couch. And I just never understood that.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yes, yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That one was crazy, too, because that was like pre-internet, really,
or social media or anything. And that went insanely viral
without any real means to do so.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, 2005. He was in love. Gus in Cincinnati. Good morning, Gus.
What do you have for me?
Speaker 11 (24:09):
Morning, Dan.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
6-1-2-10.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
So another Nick Saban clip dropped yesterday on ESPN. He
was talking about college players and professors and how much
money they make for the university.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
And it kind of dawned on me that.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Nick Saban, obviously, he has made no secret to make
it that he left college football because of the way
NIL was going in the transfer portal. And he's kind
of been the face, not kind of, he has been
the face of this kind of Save College Sports Act
for the college football side. And I kind of realized,
is there a possibility that he left with the plan
(24:47):
of doing what he's doing now on game day?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
But he's become the face of this protecting college because
the grown-ups screwed this up. Players took advantage of loopholes. Now,
all of a sudden, you go, wait a minute. Congress,
can you help us? And the Senate has helped so far.
Now they've got to get it through the House. But
Nick Saban has to be a paid mouthpiece here. I
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don't think there's any way around this. This isn't just, hey,
you work for ESPN.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
It feels like Disney.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
CIA who is represented by something where he's going to
get the word out that we got to clean up
college football. We got to make sure that these kids,
you know, there's a salary cap. This is what I
want Nick to say. Why don't we have a cap
for coaches? Why don't we say a coach cannot take
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another job in a span of five years? So you
take one job, you got to wait, and then you
can take another job. Because when you get bounced, you
get paid.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But why don't we have a salary cap for coaches?
If you want to.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Talk about the value that you have and your coach
and what he's going to make, chances are you're the
highest paid employee in the state, like Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But players, I'm all for you get to transfer once.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
You get five years of eligibility to be able to
complete four years of college. I'm all for those things.
But this is pay for play. This isn't NIL. They've
gone past that. You've got rosters that are spending $ 50 million.
And Nick is worried about a salary cap for the
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kids and how many times you can transfer.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I talked to a school official yesterday.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
And he said, there's still under the table stuff that's happening,
and it will always happen.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I mean, look at the Clippers with Steve Ballmer.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Why would you think that a college or a booster
or a collective wouldn't say, we're going to give you 4.2,
we're going to take care of 1.5?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
The NCAA can't police this. It's happening.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
It's going to continue to happen, whether it's above board
or not, or you think it's above board. And this
is pay for play. Like, does college mean anything anymore
to these athletes? They're employees. It's, you know, Nick Saban
could say, well, what's a scholarship worth? They are paid employees, Nick.
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If they happen to get an education, great. You're giving
them five years. But to be out there railing, I
don't know if you were railing when you were coaching
on the evils of what was going on when you're
winning national championships and then all of a sudden you
saw what was happening and you go to a booster
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event and you say, we got to start spending money
because look at what Texas A & M is doing.
That's what this is about. You can bounce right into
a playoff. You spend money. Texas Tech did that. SMU,
you can buy your way in now. And the transfer portal,
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you can get 40, 50 players. I want you to
be able to transfer once. How about we have a
reasonable facsimile of what the college education, the college institution
is all about? At least try to do that. That
you have to go to class. As I've said before,
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I haven't heard of somebody being academically ineligible in a long, long,
long time. Now, when I went to school, that happened
all the time. I don't know if anybody cares anymore.
Or if those who do have no power in this.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, Pauline.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
And I think what you just said there is the
middle ground that college football fans really want. Players not
leaving every year, jumping from team to team, three transfers,
25 years old.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
They want a little more uniformity.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
It will never be the 80s again, but some type
of consistency in the players from roster to roster. And
of course, they want conferences back to the locations they had.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Two decades ago.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
And look, this comes up at a time when the
Big Ten has won the last three national championships.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's not a coincidence.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
This feels like a protect the SEC kind of feeling
to it.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Chris sims talked about this.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
On pro football talk live but nick is out in
front with this and it feels like he's being a
paid spokesperson to be out in front of this yes marvin.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yeah because about 15 to 20 years ago the sec
title game felt like the college football semifinals it Whoever
won that was going to win the national title, basically.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
And you've still got to make it happen, too. Nick
Saban was talking about Texas A & M, how they
need to spend like them. And I know they were spending,
they were getting all these five-star recruits. They still haven't
strung anything together that resembles a really, truly competitive team.
So you do still have to, there's all these little
pieces and you still have to make the whole puzzle.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
These coaches are control freaks. I get it. They want continuity.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
They want to know that the roster they have at
the end of the season will be similar to the
one they start next season. That's not the case. But
they allowed this to happen under their watch. Now you're
desperate and you want to clean it up. We got
to get it back to where we take away from
the players. They're paid employees. If you want to You know,
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have them file taxes and they're allowed to unionize and.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Whatever, you know, collective bargaining. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
But, you know, to rail on what made him a legend.
And now you look at this and you go, we
got to do something about this. This should have happened
a long time ago.
Speaker 13 (31:09):
And it didn't.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Because everybody's asleep at the wheel.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yes, Mark.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Like in twenty twenty six. Nick Saban wouldn't have been
able to get Derrick Henry to have him sit for
two years. Those days of him stockpiling a bunch of
first-rounders behind another bunch of first-rounders is gone.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
That wouldn't have been the case now.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
And he wouldn't have had Jalen Hurts and Tua Tonga-Bailoa.
I mean, that's the thing with college football now. Depth,
lack thereof. Used to be six or seven universities. They
had teams that were their second and third team that
could be in the top 25. Oklahoma, Nebraska, Ohio State, Michigan,
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they stockpiled. Now these kids are saying, well, wait a minute,
I can play there. I'll go there for a year.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
And you could redo your roster almost instantaneously. The Indiana
national title last year does not happen without a wide
open portal. They took, I think, 15 kids from James Madison,
quality football players, and accentuated their roster with that.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And then didn't Belichick take 60 transfers this year? Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Well, yeah, because I imagine in the past, say if
you're a top recruit, you're like you're going to Alabama
initially because you're like, I'm going to play at Alabama.
And then when you found out that, oh, you might
be backing someone up, you were stuck there essentially because
you couldn't transfer. Now it's like I'll go get seen
playing at, you know, West Virginia or Wyoming or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, because that was not our thought process.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
You were going to the school because you wanted to
go to the school and you were going to, you know,
pay your dues, buy your time. Hey, I'm going to
be a backup for two years. Now the kids have,
you know, they have power and they're like, no, why
am I going to sit here for two years? I'm
going to play someplace. Then I'll transfer. I can make
more money. I mean, it's, it's business, you know, and, and,
(33:03):
They've had their head in the sand for so long,
and we all bought into the student athlete.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Yes, Mark.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Yeah, and Saban's big recruiting tool was never the college
football playoffs or the national championship. It was every single
April when he was going from table to table to
table and seeing all these kids become first and second
round draft picks. And now, like, we can make money
right now. We don't have to wait three and four
years to start becoming millionaires.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
We'll take a break here.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
We'll get to your phone calls, settle on our poll question,
and we've got our play of the day next.
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The play of the day. This is the play.
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Speaker 3 (34:02):
That is good!
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Speaker 3 (34:06):
Riley rattles one out of here as he gave it
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Speaker 7 (34:15):
That's a good call there, Braves Radio Network. Austin Riley
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what is the banger poll question that you and Pauly
are formulating?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yeah, so Pauly sent this over to me. Would you
rather throw a perfect game in the regular season or
a no-hitter in a playoff game that's not the World Series?
So could be the wild card round, but a no-hitter
playoff regular season perfect game.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
I would say the no hitter in the postseason. I mean,
perfect game.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
There's 24 perfect games in baseball history. How many no
hitters have been thrown in the postseason?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Is it two?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Checking.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Yeah, that to me, I mean, Don Larson threw the
perfect game. What was the headline? The imperfect man throws
the perfect game. Something like that. Because Don Larson wasn't
a great pitcher.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
For the Yankees. Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Roy Halladay had one.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
In the postseason. We're checking.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
That's the last one I remember. But I don't.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Plus, nobody is going nine innings anymore, it feels like.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
You know, it's one of my favorite stats. The Nolan Ryan,
Roger Clemens one. Nolan Ryan threw seven no-hitters and never
won a Cy Young. And Roger Clemens won seven Cy
Youngs and never.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Threw a no-hitter.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Both of those are just insane.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Aaron in Fort Wayne. Hi, Aaron. What do you have
for me?
Speaker 12 (36:22):
Hey, Dan, appreciate you taking my call. Yeah, I'm going
to parlay right into that because this is a good
question I have for you, and I might have a
stat of the day for you here. But with Verlander
retiring a few days ago, the art of pitching is
absolutely dead.
Speaker 10 (36:37):
How much do you miss.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
This aspect of the game?
Speaker 6 (36:41):
And, I mean, this is how.
Speaker 10 (36:42):
Quickly it deteriorated.
Speaker 12 (36:43):
2003, 209 complete games. By 2015, you're down to 104
complete games. 2025 down to 28. And this year, a
record low 21 complete games. And this is one aspect
of the game I.
Speaker 10 (36:59):
Just absolutely loved.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I love pitching.
Speaker 10 (37:01):
I love the art of pitching.
Speaker 12 (37:02):
I mean, I was at a Rays game where it
was like Verlander, you know, went eight innings.
Speaker 10 (37:07):
Didn't give up a hit, and everyone was on the
edge of their seat.
Speaker 12 (37:11):
And I just hate that this has gone.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Well, if you saw pitching yesterday and last night, King
for the Padres had a one hitter. Schlittler dominated. Chris
Sale was great. You win with pitching now. Regular seasons
for entertainment, folks. It's like regular season with all sports
for entertainment. Then it comes down to we're matching up
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with you for the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Next week, got this game and then that game against you.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
We're going to have our scouting department zero in on
what you do right, what you do wrong. And it
comes down to pitching and it'll come down to timely hitting.
You know, playoffs, what's it come down to?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Defense. You got to have a stop somehow, somewhere. The NBA.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Everything's great. Hey, back and forth, up and down. Nobody cares.
And then all of a sudden you get to the postseason.
That's the difference. So baseball still has that element. It's
just you don't have, you're not going to have John
Smoltz versus Jack Morris. One of the great pitching matchups
of all time. Nine innings, 10 innings.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah, I was thinking about that poll question again, too.
The no-hitter in the playoff, the only reason I wouldn't
take that is because it is more contingent on the
result of that playoff series, ultimately. Like, if you go
on to lose the series, I feel like that sort
of fades away, whereas the perfect game, you're in there
with the other 24 guys forever.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
Do you remember what happened when Roy Halladay threw the no-hitter?
What happened in that series?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I was going to lie and say yes, but I don't.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I would take postseason. Everybody's watching live.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
As opposed to a perfect game, if you do it
on a random day during the regular season, maybe it's
not even seen.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Let's see. David in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Hi, David.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Hey, Dan.
Speaker 10 (39:02):
Comment for Todd.
Speaker 12 (39:02):
He was mentioning that he was a little nervous about
having a female dermatologist check him out.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
Todd, to fix that problem, perhaps maybe you should sing
some Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
And it'll be.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Thank you. Thank you, David. Trip in Vegas. I'm sure
he has something to say about Fritzie. Hi, Trip.
Speaker 10 (39:22):
Hey, good morning. Always good to speak with y'all. And
as a matter of fact, I do have something to
speak about Fritzie. So he was talking about he could
be a hall monitor. I think that solves one problem.
I have two things, by the way. Back in high school,
he didn't get beat up for listening to Hall & Oates.
He got beat up for being a hall monitor. And
then secondly, with the doctor appointment, How about this? Let's
(39:44):
have a bet on how fast he says this. Easy there, Doc.
You know, we just met and you're moving a little fast.
You're going to have to buy me dinner first. Well, okay.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
All right.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
All right.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Keep that line in my back pocket.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
But if your pants are down, then it will just
be in your back pocket.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Keep it between my toes.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (40:03):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
All right. Just... And I know what you're going to do.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
You're going to be nervous, and you're going to be
talking and talking and talking real fast to the doctor
and trying to humor her. I mean, imagine her job. Like,
you're nervous about her. How do you think she feels
when you walk in?
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's a pizza Wednesday. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Was the veep of ops the one who pointed out
the correction to you?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Part of his job.
Speaker 5 (00:12):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (00:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And I said, fine.
Speaker 7 (00:15):
I'm going to– everybody is an executive producer out here,
I guess. I think when we first started, you guys
wanted business cards. It was McLovin and Pauly and Seton
and Todd. And I remember Todd goes, well, I'm going
to put down I'm an executive producer.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I said, but you're not. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 8 (00:31):
It actually went, you asked us what we wanted on
our titles because you were going to buy us business cards.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And I let Todd go first. And Todd goes, ah, producer.
And I went, executive producer.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, Todd.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
But who are we fooling? 25 years later, I'm still
the booker.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Which I love so much. You're Devin Booker.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
He's my booker. Just tell him what guest you want
and he'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 9 (00:54):
Well, should I change my title? Because last year when
I claimed my taxes, I was just bored up. And
they were like, what does that entail? I was like,
I operate the board.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What title would you like?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Associate producer?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Sure. Why not? I think you're higher up than that.
How about just producer? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Congratulations.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
I mean, you got to start producing, but I'm just
saying producer is fine.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I mean, if we get to pick, I'll take executive
producer if we're just handing those out.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I would say producer for you right now.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
All right.
Speaker 10 (01:30):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
And part of every podcast, I think, that we do
here on the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's a little wordy.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
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Speaker 2 (02:07):
And yes, Todd.
Speaker 11 (02:09):
Dylan's a little shy, but he whispered to me he
wants to be senior podcast contributor.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Thank you, Todd.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
All right, we'll have a poll question, play of the day.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
See, this is why you can never be anything more
than just a booker.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
What are we wearing today? Anything?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I'm wearing an LIU t-shirt, which is not fitting me well.
Speaker 11 (02:26):
I don't know what company made this, but I would
have got three XL if I knew this XL was
going to fit like this. My nephew goes to LIU,
just started as a freshman. So I wanted to wear
my LIU shirt.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Todd always blames the clothes.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I had nothing to do with it. I had this
large pizza with pepperoni and sausage yesterday at a Coke.
I had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now, why would you do that? Because today is Pizza Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I know, but you can never have enough pizza.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I just went for it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Dylan, give me the menu, please.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
We have, Dan, hot honey pepperoni with stracciatella, which has
become a hit around here.
Speaker 10 (02:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
And Oktoberfest pizza, tis the season. So beer brat, sauerkraut, mustard.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And Todd's famous, wonderful classic cheese pizza.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Who has it better than we do? Nobody.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Okay, we'll have a poll question here coming up, recapping
the baseball yesterday. It was fun yesterday in the man
cave for the Phillies and the Braves. Just about everybody
in the building was gathered around watching that. Braves come
back to beat the Phillies. That Phillies bullpen, not good
in September. Padres blank the Cubs. That was from the
opening swing. The Yankees over the Red Sox and the
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White Sox beat the Astros. Keep in mind, three consecutive days,
three consecutive games, and they don't go city to city.
And if you're wondering, I think since they started this
in 2022, It's 15-1.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
The Red Sox, I think a couple of years ago,
they're the only ones to lose game one, come back
to win. It's a best-of-three series.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Speaking of baseball, Jacob Mizorowski, the Brewers' star pitcher, will
join us a little bit later on. Talk some football
with Devin, don't call me Jason McCourty, NBC Football Night
in America analyst. Play of the Day will be coming
up as well. So Phillies, Braves again today, White Sox, Astros,
Red Sox, Yankees and the Cubs and the Padres. Sometimes
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it only takes two. A lot of times you look
at a roster and you're built for 162 games. I
want to know if you're built for a we have
to win this game or it's a two game situation.
or a three-game series, or it's a five-game series, or
a seven-game series. Down through history, you've seen teams that
are built and aren't built for that.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
162, yes, but maybe for seven games, not necessarily.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
And keep this in mind, and not that I need
to remind you baseball's the ultimate team sport, but Mike
Trout is living proof of that. He was the best
player in baseball for years. He even shared a clubhouse
with Shohei Ohtani. He reached the postseason just once in
his career. Even 162 games, even Hall of Famers need
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some help there. And what you saw with the Yankees
last night was Cam Schlittler, who's going to be the
Cy Young winner. He was dominating, had 10 strikeouts. And
then Ben Rice handled the offense with a couple of
home runs. That can be the recipe. That can be
the recipe for one night. October has a funny way
of creating heroes. And sometimes a postseason game isn't about
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depth or payroll or the perfect roster. Sometimes it's just
you give the ball to your ace and you have
somebody make a couple of swings and you get to
play again tomorrow. And that was the case last night
because Schlettler looked dominating and he's been dominating ever. Six
and a third, two hits, ten strikeouts. And, hey, can
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I say this for the 1,001st time? That he is
from Massachusetts, and so is Ben Rice. Did you know that?
Speaker 12 (06:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Ben wasn't a Red Sox fan, but Cam apparently was.
It's kind of like, did you know that Clayton Kershaw
and Matt Stafford went to the same high school?
Speaker 13 (06:17):
What?
Speaker 8 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I know that the announcers have to seem like we
haven't been watching baseball all year long, and they're going
to tell us about this storyline with Cam Schlittler and
Ben Rice. But, man, I look at Schlittler against Boston,
six games, 38 and two-thirds innings, two earned runs, 49 strikeouts.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That is a dominating, dominating performance. And this is what
you need.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
In a seven-game series, if I know I have to
face him at least twice, with the possibility of a
seventh game, maybe he comes in in relief.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's a big advantage.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
And if you have another pitcher to go along with him,
now you have a big advantage, I think, when it
comes to the postseason.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All right, Dylan, poll question today. What do you have
for me?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, after yesterday's Game 1 wildcard results, who is the
most done? So we've got the Astros, the Cubs, the Phillies,
and the Red Sox, all the losers from yesterday.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Oh, boy. There's no spirit with the Astros. I mean,
maybe it's in the dome, but there was nothing going
on with that team. I think the fans know we're
an average team, and we're in because somebody had to
win the division. Red Sox did not look good, but then,
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you know, made them look bad. The Cubs will rebound.
At least I think they will. Phillies, that was tough too.
Donnie Baseball went to his bullpen a little too early
for a closer and paid the price.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But that Phillies bullpen has not been good in September. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Should the score matter to the team that lost or
the fans of the team that lost?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
12-0 versus a 2-1 game.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
No, because I always remind people, if you go back
1960 World Series, the Yankees won three games, I think,
against Pittsburgh, all by double digits. And the Pirates, I think,
won four games by one run, and they ended up
winning the World Series. A lot of times you go,
and even go back to the Red Sox-Yankees-ALCS, where the
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Yankees were blowing out the Red Sox. And You don't
get to take those runs with you. That's what you have. Okay,
go ahead. You're killing us.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And then momentum is next day pitcher. That's all this is.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Because if you have a great performance today, that wipes
away what happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 8 (08:54):
2004 ALCS, Game 3, Yankees 19, Red Sox 8.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
And I remember going, how do you recover from something
like that? They're just demoralizing. And the fact that the
Red Sox even knew the Yankees were going to beat them.
And the fact that you have a couple of players
from the Red Sox who were congratulating the Yankees prior
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to game four.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Wild.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But it does happen.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
And you see that sometimes where somebody blows somebody out
and you think that's going to be a trend.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And it's not. All right. What other poll questions do
you have? Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 9 (09:35):
In my lifetime, that might have been the most star-studded
baseball playoff series ever. From one side with Big Papi, Manny, Schilling, Pedro, A-Rod, Jeter, Pettit, Mariano.
They had stars lined up with Boston and New York.
I don't think I've ever seen that type of star
power in one series in my lifetime.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
And to be in the ballpark for... both of those cities,
there's nothing like that. I've never seen, you know, when
you had the air taken out of the building, when
you can see the fans defeated or know they're going
to be defeated, and to witness that in Yankee Stadium,
of all places... I've seen a lot of sports, but
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that's where you go, oh, my God, they know they're
going to lose. And I always tell this story because
I was doing SportsCenter prior to the game, and I'd
always see Spike Lee and his Yankee gear on.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
He'd say, hey, Dan, who do you like?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
I said, I think it's the Red Sox. Now it's 3-0.
I said, I think it's the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Oh, don't say that. He goes, why do you say that?
I said, they're too good a team to get swept.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
And then next game, I see Spike Lee down the
first baseline.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Hey, Dan, who do you like? I said, I like
the Red Sox. Oh, don't say that. Why do you
say that? I said, I don't know. I sense a
shift here. See him the next game. Dan, who do
you like? I said, I like the Red Sox. Oh,
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don't say. Saw him before game seven. Because, hey, who
do you like? And he goes, don't say it. I
know who you're going to say it. Don't say it.
I said, I like the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Ah!
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Do you think Spike blames you for that series?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
He has every reason to, if he wants to.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
I mean, he's in, you know, in cloud nine on
cloud nine because of the Knicks. He, I think he's
good now. I think that may be smoothed over that
rough patch for him or between me and him, but
watching that series, that's one of those where you go, okay,
there's no way they can do this.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
They, they can't come back. Wait, Mariano's on the mound.
Wait a minute. Oh, wait, there's a stolen bet. Wait, wait, what?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's that quick.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And when you lose with your.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Best guy on the mound and you are at home,
sometimes these losses count for just a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And that's the carryover. Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, and I feel like even as they got closer
and closer, when the momentum shifted, even they're still waiting
for like an Aaron Boone moment to just bring the
whole house down like literally the year prior.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You're just waiting because, well, we have the best team.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
We're at home. We should win. It just doesn't happen
that way. Even when Schilling was warming up. And you're going,
I remember talking to Terry Francona. I said, wait, is
this a gimmick? And he goes, no, no. Schill wants
to go out there and pitch. I said, why wouldn't
they just bunt on.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Him all the time? He goes, are you going to
say that on SportsCenter? And I said, I might. He goes, okay.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
And I kept thinking, why don't you just bunt on
Schilling and make him go and field every one of those?
So what if he goes through three innings? But I
want him putting pressure on that ankle, the surgery, the stitches.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Wild, wild.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Still one of the most amazing feelings of watching a
game when one team has so much momentum and then
they have no momentum. And then you got Kevin Brown
on the mound and he got bombed.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
And history said before 2004 that this doesn't happen to
the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
It's supposed to go the other way around.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
World Series odds, in case you're wondering, courtesy of DraftKings.
The Brewers were plus 500 yesterday. Now they're plus 600
and they haven't even played. The Yankees were plus 850.
Now they're plus 650. The Dodgers still the overwhelming favorites,
plus 200. The Braves plus 1,500 now after yesterday, plus 1,100.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
The Rays stay at plus 800.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
The Phillies have the longest odds, them and the Cubs,
followed by the Red Sox Astros. And the White Sox, look,
I know it's not a sexy team, but when you
consider what did they lose? 223 games combined the two
previous years, and they win a playoff game?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's remarkable.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
They were an all-time, all-time bad team. Bad organization. Bad ownership.
And somehow here they are after all.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Of those losses. And then you end up winning that
game against the Astros.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
All right, we'll come back. We will settle on our
poll question. Phone calls always welcome. 877-3DP-SHOW. We got football
tomorrow night. The Steelers at the Browns. The new and
improved Browns, 2-1-1. But the Steelers are favored by two
and a half. Take a break. Back after this.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at 9 a.m. Eastern, 6 a.m. Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 14 (15:16):
Stu Gatz here, pleased to be hosting college football with
Stu Gatz and the Bear. We do it two times
a week, every Monday, every single Friday throughout the college
football season. You can expect a little bit of this.
Will Stein, the head coach at Kentucky, joins us. Open
bar at a wedding, ordering a Shirley Temple.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Will or will not?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Will not.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Ketchup on steak.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Will or will not? Will not. Thank you. A little
bit of this.
Speaker 14 (15:43):
Rhys Davis, host of College Game Day, is with us now.
And then I'm going home to the BBC, and they're
saying Jockovich instead of Jokovich.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Right, because you can't say Jockovich.
Speaker 14 (15:53):
If you do, you know the blowback you're going to
get from the American audience.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
And a whole lot of this.
Speaker 14 (16:03):
Listen to college football with Stugatz and the Bear on
the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You get your podcasts.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Todd brought up something that every guy probably encounters at
some point in your life. Todd, would you like to
let the audience in on what we talked about during
the commercial break?
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Yes, I have a dermatology.
Speaker 11 (16:27):
My annual checkup is today and I used to have
a male dermatologist and then he retired and I decided
for convenience to stay in the practice. And then I
was recommended by the front office there at the desk.
you know, a different doctor who happens to be a
female and it's okay, but you know, it's not as
comfortable as when you're the guy was just doing.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
And some people may think completely the opposite way.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
But that's why I asked the room for your physician
or dermatologist or whoever's examining you at a place at
a medical place. Do you care if you have a
male or a female person checking you out while you're.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Like naked, basically?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay. What are they checking out?
Speaker 11 (17:00):
It's a full body check where, you know, the underwear
comes off or you have to at least shift the
underwear so they can kind of see the undercarriage and
crotch and everything. Make sure you don't have any weird
moles or something that has to be removed. It's a
full body check and it requires some nudity, I guess,
is the best way.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
To put it. Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yes, Paul?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
I would say for this specific one, a dermatologist, they
do have to look everywhere. I went to one just
a month ago and it was a male doctor with
a female assistant and it didn't bother me. But as
opposed to like a cardiologist who may just check your
chest and talk to you.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
So a dermatologist is a little more probing.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, probing would be checking your prostate.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
But yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I think it depends on the nature of the doctor.
I think most women would probably prefer a female gynecologist
or so I've heard. So I feel like it's depending
on what the specialization is and the nature of that
specific doctor. Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Todd, what do you want?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
It really doesn't bother me that much. I always just
get concerned.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But it did bother me. It bothered you because you
told me it bothered you.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Yeah, but it bothered me a little because I, and
my primary care physician also is a, is a female
that used to be a male, same situation.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
He retired.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Maybe I'm causing them to retire. I don't even know
with all my questions.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
So, so now, yeah, my, my primary care physician and
my gynecologist are both females and it's okay. But at
times it's just, it's a little, you know, it's a
little strange in the moments, but I get.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Over it eventually.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
They're a professional, though.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I know they're professional. Maybe I'm the one that's unprofessional.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I'm the weird patient that has, you know, this is not,
you got to, I just, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Curtis in Illinois joins us. Good morning, Curtis. What's on
your mind?
Speaker 10 (18:37):
Morning DP.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I just want to thank you for having Joey Votto
on yesterday and giving me that wonderful advice that I
used to put in the bet.
Speaker 10 (18:45):
Cause with Aaron judge out of the lineup, he just
couldn't see how they'd have.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Enough offense to win a game.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Uh, but then also I got a PSA for Fritzie
cause apparently the PFT this morning and, uh, starting tomorrow,
there is a new law in Connecticut where left lane
camping is illegal. Uh, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah, I can confirm.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
October 1st, 2026, the no left-lane camping law takes charge,
and they are going to be actively enforcing it, almost
like the officials in the NFL when they have a
point of emphasis and they call more holding.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Expect it tomorrow. Todd, are you aware of this?
Speaker 11 (19:28):
No, but I don't want to take over the show
because we've done enough on this. But there's the left
lane for speeding. That's where my problem jumps in. You're
not just passing. You're staying in that lane after passing
someone and going 90 and continuing to stay in that
lane just to get to your destination.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Shouldn't the police handle that, not you?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
They should.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
But a lot of times they're not. So I'm like,
okay i guess i'm gonna have to make this person
go around me.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
I'm gonna deputize you okay do you want to take
matters into your own.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
I would like a shit like shaquille o'neal he's like
he doesn't have to sign the police stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Just stay out of the left lane todd okay i'm.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Talking about the people that use the left lane as
like oh i can go 100 miles an hour this
is the speeding slash passing.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
But are you speeding as well I try not to.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
If someone's on my bumper, though, then I either have
to get.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
Out of the way or I have to go even
faster because they're intimidating me because they're in my trunk. Basically,
when I look through the back mirror, they're like in
my backseat on top of me trying to scare me.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You get into the middle lane. This is really easy.
You don't want to be bullied.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Some of these people are not just passing. They just
want to go really fast. Yes, Marvin. Fritzie was definitely
the hall monitor in school.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, you ratted on people.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
You were the guy who said, wait, I thought we
were going to have a surprise quiz today.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Something almost bad happened to me. I did one of
those things.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
I saw a kid with a knife, and I brought
it to the teacher's attention, and somehow it got to
this kid's friends, and they were waiting for me outside
Spanish class.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You tell the.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Teacher that Daniel had a knife, and I'm like, I'm
going to get stabbed here. This is great. Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
I know therapists, but I've been near Fritzie literally for
20 years. I think he'd prefer to stay in the
left line and be bothered by it than get in
the right lane and relax on his drive.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I embrace aggravation sometimes. That's a valid point.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Sometimes there's something about being all riled up that feels
good in some sick way.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Zane in Utah. Hey, Zane, what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (21:12):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
510-170.
Speaker 13 (21:18):
Based on the most recent comments, I would prefer Marvin
to check my prostate.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
With his small hands?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Okay. All righty. That's very good, Zane. Sneaky good. Anything else?
Speaker 13 (21:32):
Well, I've got a listener request and two player comps.
Listener request, please have Pablo on to update us on
private equity coming into high school and youth sports. It
is pretty terrifying.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Yeah, if you get an opportunity, New York Magazine did
a cover story on this maybe a month ago. And
if you're parents of, you know, an athlete, a traveling team,
very interesting read.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yes, private equity.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
And the amount of money that can be made because
parents want the best for their kids and they're going
to sign up and they're going to spend that money.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
What else do you have?
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Player comp, Fritzie.
Speaker 13 (22:15):
Nine-year-old Labrador, who is still a puppy, sticks his nose
into every crotch, sheds, has chronic ear infections, and too
often licks himself at inappropriate times.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Some of that's true, but that's a little embellished.
Speaker 13 (22:38):
I'm an alumni of Drafts of the Draft Manhattan, so
I've spent time with you and.
Speaker 10 (22:44):
I think it fits.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
Second, Dan, is you, my player comp, as a captive
member of your audience, shut in, occasionally unemployed and challenges,
and you and your guests have shared challenges. You've always
been there for us, and we appreciate it. So my
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player comp for Dan Patrick is Oprah Winfrey.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
All right. Well, thank you, Zane. I like Oprah. Generous person.
Given back to the audience. Yes, Paul?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Remember we met her years ago in Los Angeles?
Speaker 13 (23:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
That was wild.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah. And she was aware of me from SportsCenter. And
I was like, well, great. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
I was going to jump up on a couch like
Tom Cruise did and be really excited. I still look
back on that. And he had fallen in love. With
Katie Holmes. And he got up and started jumping up
and down on the couch. And I just never understood that.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yes, yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That one was crazy, too, because that was like pre-internet, really,
or social media or anything. And that went insanely viral
without any real means to do so.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, 2005. He was in love. Gus in Cincinnati. Good morning, Gus.
What do you have for me?
Speaker 11 (24:09):
Morning, Dan.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
6-1-2-10.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
So another Nick Saban clip dropped yesterday on ESPN. He
was talking about college players and professors and how much
money they make for the university.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
And it kind of dawned on me that.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Nick Saban, obviously, he has made no secret to make
it that he left college football because of the way
NIL was going in the transfer portal. And he's kind
of been the face, not kind of, he has been
the face of this kind of Save College Sports Act
for the college football side. And I kind of realized,
is there a possibility that he left with the plan
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of doing what he's doing now on game day?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
But he's become the face of this protecting college because
the grown-ups screwed this up. Players took advantage of loopholes. Now,
all of a sudden, you go, wait a minute. Congress,
can you help us? And the Senate has helped so far.
Now they've got to get it through the House. But
Nick Saban has to be a paid mouthpiece here. I
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don't think there's any way around this. This isn't just, hey,
you work for ESPN.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
It feels like Disney.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
CIA who is represented by something where he's going to
get the word out that we got to clean up
college football. We got to make sure that these kids,
you know, there's a salary cap. This is what I
want Nick to say. Why don't we have a cap
for coaches? Why don't we say a coach cannot take
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another job in a span of five years? So you
take one job, you got to wait, and then you
can take another job. Because when you get bounced, you
get paid.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
But why don't we have a salary cap for coaches?
If you want to.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Talk about the value that you have and your coach
and what he's going to make, chances are you're the
highest paid employee in the state, like Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
But players, I'm all for you get to transfer once.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
You get five years of eligibility to be able to
complete four years of college. I'm all for those things.
But this is pay for play. This isn't NIL. They've
gone past that. You've got rosters that are spending $ 50 million.
And Nick is worried about a salary cap for the
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kids and how many times you can transfer.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I talked to a school official yesterday.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
And he said, there's still under the table stuff that's happening,
and it will always happen.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I mean, look at the Clippers with Steve Ballmer.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Why would you think that a college or a booster
or a collective wouldn't say, we're going to give you 4.2,
we're going to take care of 1.5?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
The NCAA can't police this. It's happening.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
It's going to continue to happen, whether it's above board
or not, or you think it's above board. And this
is pay for play. Like, does college mean anything anymore
to these athletes? They're employees. It's, you know, Nick Saban
could say, well, what's a scholarship worth? They are paid employees, Nick.
(27:39):
If they happen to get an education, great. You're giving
them five years. But to be out there railing, I
don't know if you were railing when you were coaching
on the evils of what was going on when you're
winning national championships and then all of a sudden you
saw what was happening and you go to a booster
(27:59):
event and you say, we got to start spending money
because look at what Texas A & M is doing.
That's what this is about. You can bounce right into
a playoff. You spend money. Texas Tech did that. SMU,
you can buy your way in now. And the transfer portal,
(28:22):
you can get 40, 50 players. I want you to
be able to transfer once. How about we have a
reasonable facsimile of what the college education, the college institution
is all about? At least try to do that. That
you have to go to class. As I've said before,
(28:44):
I haven't heard of somebody being academically ineligible in a long, long,
long time. Now, when I went to school, that happened
all the time. I don't know if anybody cares anymore.
Or if those who do have no power in this.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, Pauline.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
And I think what you just said there is the
middle ground that college football fans really want. Players not
leaving every year, jumping from team to team, three transfers,
25 years old.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
They want a little more uniformity.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
It will never be the 80s again, but some type
of consistency in the players from roster to roster. And
of course, they want conferences back to the locations they had.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Two decades ago.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
And look, this comes up at a time when the
Big Ten has won the last three national championships.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's not a coincidence.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
This feels like a protect the SEC kind of feeling
to it.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Chris sims talked about this.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
On pro football talk live but nick is out in
front with this and it feels like he's being a
paid spokesperson to be out in front of this yes marvin.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yeah because about 15 to 20 years ago the sec
title game felt like the college football semifinals it Whoever
won that was going to win the national title, basically.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
And you've still got to make it happen, too. Nick
Saban was talking about Texas A & M, how they
need to spend like them. And I know they were spending,
they were getting all these five-star recruits. They still haven't
strung anything together that resembles a really, truly competitive team.
So you do still have to, there's all these little
pieces and you still have to make the whole puzzle.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
These coaches are control freaks. I get it. They want continuity.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
They want to know that the roster they have at
the end of the season will be similar to the
one they start next season. That's not the case. But
they allowed this to happen under their watch. Now you're
desperate and you want to clean it up. We got
to get it back to where we take away from
the players. They're paid employees. If you want to You know,
(30:49):
have them file taxes and they're allowed to unionize and.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Whatever, you know, collective bargaining. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
But, you know, to rail on what made him a legend.
And now you look at this and you go, we
got to do something about this. This should have happened
a long time ago.
Speaker 13 (31:09):
And it didn't.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Because everybody's asleep at the wheel.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yes, Mark.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
Like in twenty twenty six. Nick Saban wouldn't have been
able to get Derrick Henry to have him sit for
two years. Those days of him stockpiling a bunch of
first-rounders behind another bunch of first-rounders is gone.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
That wouldn't have been the case now.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
And he wouldn't have had Jalen Hurts and Tua Tonga-Bailoa.
I mean, that's the thing with college football now. Depth,
lack thereof. Used to be six or seven universities. They
had teams that were their second and third team that
could be in the top 25. Oklahoma, Nebraska, Ohio State, Michigan,
(31:50):
they stockpiled. Now these kids are saying, well, wait a minute,
I can play there. I'll go there for a year.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
And you could redo your roster almost instantaneously. The Indiana
national title last year does not happen without a wide
open portal. They took, I think, 15 kids from James Madison,
quality football players, and accentuated their roster with that.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And then didn't Belichick take 60 transfers this year? Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Well, yeah, because I imagine in the past, say if
you're a top recruit, you're like you're going to Alabama
initially because you're like, I'm going to play at Alabama.
And then when you found out that, oh, you might
be backing someone up, you were stuck there essentially because
you couldn't transfer. Now it's like I'll go get seen
playing at, you know, West Virginia or Wyoming or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, because that was not our thought process.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
You were going to the school because you wanted to
go to the school and you were going to, you know,
pay your dues, buy your time. Hey, I'm going to
be a backup for two years. Now the kids have,
you know, they have power and they're like, no, why
am I going to sit here for two years? I'm
going to play someplace. Then I'll transfer. I can make
more money. I mean, it's, it's business, you know, and, and,
(33:03):
They've had their head in the sand for so long,
and we all bought into the student athlete.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Yes, Mark.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Yeah, and Saban's big recruiting tool was never the college
football playoffs or the national championship. It was every single
April when he was going from table to table to
table and seeing all these kids become first and second
round draft picks. And now, like, we can make money
right now. We don't have to wait three and four
years to start becoming millionaires.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
We'll take a break here.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
We'll get to your phone calls, settle on our poll question,
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what is the banger poll question that you and Pauly
are formulating?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yeah, so Pauly sent this over to me. Would you
rather throw a perfect game in the regular season or
a no-hitter in a playoff game that's not the World Series?
So could be the wild card round, but a no-hitter
playoff regular season perfect game.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
I would say the no hitter in the postseason. I mean,
perfect game.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
There's 24 perfect games in baseball history. How many no
hitters have been thrown in the postseason?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Is it two?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Checking.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Yeah, that to me, I mean, Don Larson threw the
perfect game. What was the headline? The imperfect man throws
the perfect game. Something like that. Because Don Larson wasn't
a great pitcher.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
For the Yankees. Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Roy Halladay had one.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
In the postseason. We're checking.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
That's the last one I remember. But I don't.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Plus, nobody is going nine innings anymore, it feels like.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
You know, it's one of my favorite stats. The Nolan Ryan,
Roger Clemens one. Nolan Ryan threw seven no-hitters and never
won a Cy Young. And Roger Clemens won seven Cy
Youngs and never.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Threw a no-hitter.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Both of those are just insane.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Aaron in Fort Wayne. Hi, Aaron. What do you have
for me?
Speaker 12 (36:22):
Hey, Dan, appreciate you taking my call. Yeah, I'm going
to parlay right into that because this is a good
question I have for you, and I might have a
stat of the day for you here. But with Verlander
retiring a few days ago, the art of pitching is
absolutely dead.
Speaker 10 (36:37):
How much do you miss.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
This aspect of the game?
Speaker 6 (36:41):
And, I mean, this is how.
Speaker 10 (36:42):
Quickly it deteriorated.
Speaker 12 (36:43):
2003, 209 complete games. By 2015, you're down to 104
complete games. 2025 down to 28. And this year, a
record low 21 complete games. And this is one aspect
of the game I.
Speaker 10 (36:59):
Just absolutely loved.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I love pitching.
Speaker 10 (37:01):
I love the art of pitching.
Speaker 12 (37:02):
I mean, I was at a Rays game where it
was like Verlander, you know, went eight innings.
Speaker 10 (37:07):
Didn't give up a hit, and everyone was on the
edge of their seat.
Speaker 12 (37:11):
And I just hate that this has gone.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Well, if you saw pitching yesterday and last night, King
for the Padres had a one hitter. Schlittler dominated. Chris
Sale was great. You win with pitching now. Regular seasons
for entertainment, folks. It's like regular season with all sports
for entertainment. Then it comes down to we're matching up
(37:34):
with you for the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Next week, got this game and then that game against you.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
We're going to have our scouting department zero in on
what you do right, what you do wrong. And it
comes down to pitching and it'll come down to timely hitting.
You know, playoffs, what's it come down to?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Defense. You got to have a stop somehow, somewhere. The NBA.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Everything's great. Hey, back and forth, up and down. Nobody cares.
And then all of a sudden you get to the postseason.
That's the difference. So baseball still has that element. It's
just you don't have, you're not going to have John
Smoltz versus Jack Morris. One of the great pitching matchups
of all time. Nine innings, 10 innings.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah, I was thinking about that poll question again, too.
The no-hitter in the playoff, the only reason I wouldn't
take that is because it is more contingent on the
result of that playoff series, ultimately. Like, if you go
on to lose the series, I feel like that sort
of fades away, whereas the perfect game, you're in there
with the other 24 guys forever.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
Do you remember what happened when Roy Halladay threw the no-hitter?
What happened in that series?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I was going to lie and say yes, but I don't.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I would take postseason. Everybody's watching live.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
As opposed to a perfect game, if you do it
on a random day during the regular season, maybe it's
not even seen.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Let's see. David in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Hi, David.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
What do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Hey, Dan.
Speaker 10 (39:02):
Comment for Todd.
Speaker 12 (39:02):
He was mentioning that he was a little nervous about
having a female dermatologist check him out.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
Todd, to fix that problem, perhaps maybe you should sing
some Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
And it'll be.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Thank you. Thank you, David. Trip in Vegas. I'm sure
he has something to say about Fritzie. Hi, Trip.
Speaker 10 (39:22):
Hey, good morning. Always good to speak with y'all. And
as a matter of fact, I do have something to
speak about Fritzie. So he was talking about he could
be a hall monitor. I think that solves one problem.
I have two things, by the way. Back in high school,
he didn't get beat up for listening to Hall & Oates.
He got beat up for being a hall monitor. And
then secondly, with the doctor appointment, How about this? Let's
(39:44):
have a bet on how fast he says this. Easy there, Doc.
You know, we just met and you're moving a little fast.
You're going to have to buy me dinner first. Well, okay.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
All right.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
All right.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Keep that line in my back pocket.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
But if your pants are down, then it will just
be in your back pocket.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Keep it between my toes.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (40:03):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
All right. Just... And I know what you're going to do.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
You're going to be nervous, and you're going to be
talking and talking and talking real fast to the doctor
and trying to humor her. I mean, imagine her job. Like,
you're nervous about her. How do you think she feels
when you walk in?
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