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October 7, 2025 41 mins

Dan and the Danettes talk about quarterbacks making tackles after turnovers in the NFL. And Yankees radio PxP broadcaster, Dave Sims stops by to answer Fritzy’s criticism of his call of Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero’s grand slam HR.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Two on this Tuesday, Dan and the Dan Eds Dan
Patrick Show. Glad to have you on board. Fritzie is here,
the Minister of Humor, Seaton, Marv Pauley, yours truly and
the BRGS a shout out and our condolences to the
big German. Eric Jones lost his father last night and
Vietnam vet great man, raised a couple of great sons

(00:27):
and passing away, and our thoughts are certainly with Eric
and his family. Eight seven seven three DP show email
address DP at Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle a DP show.
It'll be a big showdown coming up in about twenty
minutes from now. It's Todd versus Dave Sims, the Yankee
play by play announcer. Who would have thought, but we're

(00:49):
here and it's happening. We are journalists. We reached out
to talk to Dave Simms because Fritzi wasn't thrilled with
Dave Sims call the Yankee announcer when Vlad Guerrero hit
a grand slam, Marvin, do you have the call by
Dave Simms. This is where Fritzy was extremely disappointed in
Dave Simms Carrera.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
At the edition a two to one count. He's looking
on the load right here. Two one pitch he did
big drive left field.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Grant Slam.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay, Todd, Uh, that's that's what you're disappointed with. And
we'll have Dave sims so you can talk to now.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Dare he not be more excited for the home run against.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
They that'll be coming up in about twenty minutes from now.
Chris mad Dog Russo will join us a little bit
later on as well. Talk some baseball Dodgers with some
great defense in the ninth beat the Phillies. Starting pitching
has been unbelievable for LA. They're up two to zero.
Brewers roll the Cubs. They're up to oh as well.
Blue Jays at the Yankees, Mariners at the Tigers. Coming

(01:53):
up later on today. Operator Tyler sitting by at eight
seven to seven three DP show Email address tea at
Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. Good morning.
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(02:14):
on Peacock, which is where you can see this program, Seaton,
would you give us the poll question from our one
those results, and then we'll move ahead to hour two.
Let's see.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Well, we've got our Power and Dowur rankings up there
that you can vote on. We also had Trevor Lawrence's
career as going to be great or disappointing, okay, having
a great season so far, good one right now, seventy
percent of the audience have it as disappointing.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Okay, Well, he's got a lot of work to do
to make up for some lost time here. But last
night impressive. The stumble Rooskie stumbled twice got into the
end zone. By the way, would you check this stat
I don't think Patrick Mahomes has ever won a game
when he's thrown a pick six, and he threw one

(02:58):
last night, a ninety nine hard return. Here is Mahomes
talking about that throw.

Speaker 6 (03:05):
Honestly, they's got me with the covers that they played.
They they had played zero kind of inside that ten
yard area in previous games, and they hadn't shown the
paupers with the linebackers popping out when they were protected.
And I saw the look and I got that checked
to the play with the en routes having three ends,
knowing that they're gonna try to pass off the guys
and Juju was gonna pop wide open, and he did.

(03:25):
But the credit to I mean, they schemed themselves and
they kind of looked over what they could do better,
and they popped underneath where I was throwing the ball.
And so it was a great call to them defensively,
and obviously a great play by Zero getting the pick.
And then I got to find a way to tackle
or slow them down after he gets to the interception.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, no, you don't. It's best that you don't. You're
you're maybe the most valuable player in the NFL. Go
do a fetal position. He did sore of go after
him just a little bit, maybe just to kind of
hold him up a little bit, but didn't really impede
his progress.

Speaker 7 (03:59):
Yes, yeah, quarterbacks, stop with the football stuff. Just throw
the football, all right. Those shoulder pads only for show?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah? Uh, did you did you find a stat.

Speaker 8 (04:09):
PAULI I found that he I see that he's had
five in his career. We're checking the win lost record
in that.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Okay, yes, Todd, I don't care if.

Speaker 9 (04:19):
You're the worst starting quarterback in legal of the best
starting quarterback. I think you need to make a full
effort to make a tackle in a situation like that. No,
I don't care if you're the face of the league
or whatever. Are they that fragile? You're still a football player.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
That present bone Nicks goes out there, and.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I would want him to make an effort to make
the tackle.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
I really, what if? What if he gets hurt?

Speaker 9 (04:36):
I would hope he wouldn't get hurt, But in that moment,
how could you let him run by or not make
a full effort to make the tackle.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
These things happen.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Though you threw the interception, you go tackle it. Well,
I help the process of tackling. I don't know. Well,
that fragile there's an.

Speaker 9 (04:49):
Eighty percent they're gonna get injured. It's gonna be out
for the year because they try to tackle a.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Fellow football player.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Really, okay, can you can knock.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Him over much?

Speaker 9 (04:57):
You know, I'm not saying get run over by him,
but try to push him out, bounce, trip them, and
take a fifteen year upound about something.

Speaker 8 (05:03):
Yes, I like being a tough guy, like trying to,
you know, help your team, but you shouldn't risk yourself
at the quarterback position. You don't make tackles for a living.
You don't know how to make tackles. The last time
you tackled someone was probably eighth grade. So you're gonna
go in, You're gonna crack your collar bone to save
a touchdown in early October. No, it's a risk. And

(05:24):
remember Peyton Manning would just kind of run in the
area and try to slow their path down lightly.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's smart. Yeah. Meanwhile, Andrew Luck is andrew lot head hunting.

Speaker 8 (05:34):
Andrew luck got hurt a couple of times in his
career making tackles.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, man, you're just you're you're fired up.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
A little feisty. Yeah, try to make the tackle.

Speaker 9 (05:47):
Come on, you're gonna get me out for the year
if you try to tackle somebody.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Really, you're not running. A car is not running you over?
Is another human being the.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Year exactly like a car.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Them bump them, give them a little bumpo. You don't have
to get in front of him and let him run
you over.

Speaker 9 (06:02):
There's got to be a way to help the process
with the other ten guys.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Got that guy who's a linebacker, I'm Patrick Mahomes. You
threw the interception, Go get running. He's running fast, and
he weighs two hundred and thirty pounds.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Whenever he weighs, you're both football players. Go get him.
You threw an interception, all right.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Let me hear you're Patrick Mahomes impersonation. Then on trying
to tackle somebody.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
That's the thing. I'm not trying to get him. But
you know, I am the freest of the league.

Speaker 9 (06:28):
And we still consolation the season even a two and three,
and we only won behind the Broncos and Charges, and
I thought it might be best to pretend that I
was going to try to tackle him.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
What the guys that are paid to do it?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Thank you? All right, thank you, thank you. Why didn't
you look for that stat as Mahomes ever won again?

Speaker 9 (06:44):
As we speak as a better of fact, Okay, crack
research on.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Get some of our best people on that. Marcus and Jacksonville.
Congratulations Marcus.

Speaker 10 (07:00):
Let's go Jaguars.

Speaker 11 (07:02):
Dan.

Speaker 12 (07:02):
It's just nice to be relevant. This has been a
very difficult thirty years. I've been in it from the beginning,
from the get go. It was crazy. It's just nice
to be relevant. All jokes aside, Like they both played
a great game. I'm just I that's all the words
I got.

Speaker 13 (07:19):
I'll take it off the air, all right.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Congratulations Marcus, he's been there for thirty years. Go back
to David Garrard when they started out four and one
was David Garrard East Carolina? Is it sound right? Bloop
blue bloop number eight?

Speaker 8 (07:36):
Is that at East Carolina or at that at Jacksonville?

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I'm nine nine. I'll give you half a point for that, okay, blue,
not a or an oop? All right? So poll question
for the second hour of the program, along with the
Power in Dour rankings.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
See yeah, power Power in Dower is interesting because they're
sort of going. There's no real surprises there, okay, which
is fun to be Todd also sent over numerous pole questions.
Paul has sent over another one as well.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
We got a lot of pole questions today.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
Would you rather snap your fingers and put on twenty
pounds of muscle or lose ten pounds?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
There's one from Paul. Oh so, Victor wem Banyama looks
like he's put on twenty pounds. Well, he needed to,
He needed to put on twenty I think most Americans
would snap their fingers to lose twenty pounds I'm good
a guess, yeah, Paul.

Speaker 8 (08:33):
But you can put on twenty pounds of muscle where
like whatever you are now, you're twenty pounds heavier, but
you're in really good shape or just ten less than
you are now and the current shape you're.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
In, Yeah, I think most of us would probably drop
some pounds. What else do you have there? It's tough.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
It's tricky too, because you could go from if I
would be about five eleven, say one ninety maybe one
ninety five, maybe six foot if I can, I I'm
gonna round.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Up to six foot and then be oh, no, no, no,
you're not in You're not in the six foot clode.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
I think I'm five eleven and three quarters, but you're
not in the sixes. I know, I know, I'm I'm
just gonna put the six in front.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
That could go from either that's like a borderline that
if it's muscle though, I'll probably be in pretty good shape,
or I could be a little heavy.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
So you would be Marvin if you put on twenty pounds, yeah,
because you're both around the same size heightwise, well, Marvin
bigger six ft. We would be exactly the same step
that I would have bigger hands. That's how you can
tell us apart is by our hand size. Uh, Fritzy,
did you come up with the pick six record for Mahomes?

Speaker 9 (09:46):
Yes, he has not won a game in the IF
the throwing a pick six, oh and five in the
regular season, oh in one of the playoffs when throwing
a pick six.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Okay, thank you, Todd, thank you.

Speaker 11 (09:58):
In Day stand OUTA day, stand OUTA day, stand outa day.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
This is the stand of the Day, brought to you
by Panini America, the official trading cards of the show.
I know a lot of stupid stuff, like it's weird,
but the things I'm supposed to know, I don't know.
But there's always these randoms like oh, good poll or
how did you know that? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (10:23):
Uh sorry, completely different topic. But Tony on Twitter is
asking if Todd has CT.

Speaker 8 (10:29):
Wow, he's never tackled any.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Football players are football players?

Speaker 5 (10:38):
I just love there's a guy like sitting at home
and they're like, what's the deal with this dude?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Man, this guy got CT.

Speaker 8 (10:43):
I went back and watched the Mahomes tackle attempt. It's
not the worst. He kind of goes low and he
definitely slows him down.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
It's not the worst. That's all I want, just kind
of impede the progress, that's all. Don't don't be goofy.
Don't go in there and you're gonna, you know, slam
somebody in high school. Okay, college maybe pros. No, not
at that position.

Speaker 7 (11:08):
Yes, Marvin, you've seen NFL quarterbacks run over guys and
not go out of bounds and everyone's like, man, that's great.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Don't ever do that again. Never. You're not footing. You're
kind of football players. You're not footing.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Cameron Cameron in Indiana? Hi, Cam, what's on your mind?

Speaker 11 (11:25):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (11:25):
Guys? So if you want content, I think I've got
content for you.

Speaker 10 (11:28):
So that being said, I gotta I will take Indiana
to win first grade ten.

Speaker 14 (11:33):
Marvin and Christy, you guys can have Oregon.

Speaker 10 (11:36):
But if you lose, you got to go to an
African American barbecue together.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
So Cameron's taking his Hoosiers against Oregon. Correct Cam, Yeah, correct?

Speaker 15 (11:52):
Correct?

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (11:54):
And then if he loses, then he gets a spray town.
And then if Fritzie and Marvin lose or Fritzie goes
to a cookout, I.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Want to go to that cookoddy. I think I win.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Why is that.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
I want to be is gonna win and just say, Camery,
you might want to rethink that a little bit, buddy,
that doesn't come up the way you think it does.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
That's true. The cookout sounds like fun. I keep telling Marvin,
what the heck, let's go to a cookout.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
To lose, you have to go to a black cookout, or.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
You lose, you have to go hang out with a
bunch of black people eat food. Oh no, you win?
What the hell? Okay, how about Todd? How about maybe
you get a spray tan. Well, I don't know if
you care about the Oregon Indiana game, not particularly, but.

Speaker 9 (12:45):
Oh they will and I and I'm ready for that barbecue,
like right after the show's.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
No, no, no, no, that's that's not a punish. How
about that you get a spray tan if Indiana beach organ?

Speaker 4 (12:55):
I have to think about that, very sentible. You can
last I break out.

Speaker 9 (13:01):
I'm sorry, we got no we we gotta check with
my dermatogs before I agree to that.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Of course, you have sensitive skinned.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
I've got a big rash. What did you do?

Speaker 9 (13:11):
Dermatow's gonna be all mad at me? And I did
the spray tan thing, and they made me do it
at work.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Why don't you tell me what you don't have, and
then that would be easier the very it feels like
you have everything.

Speaker 9 (13:23):
I've had some pretty much every part of my body
has malfunctioned in some way, shape or form.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Russell in Phoenix, Hi, Russ, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 16 (13:32):
Born?

Speaker 10 (13:32):
And Dan Danett's first time long time? Uh five eleven
and three quarters one ninety soft, one ninety soft. Before
I get into it, I think Fritzy's right, you got
to make an effort as a quarterback. I mean, you
see Trevor Lawrence like Babu diraffing his way into the
end zone. If he can't get hurt doing that, I
think Patrick Mahomes can make an effort. But anyway, is

(13:54):
there a uh past the torch plan for when you retire?
I seem to remember McLevin and I think it was
Paulie having like a weekend morning show. You're gonna pass
the torch to a couple of dan Etts once you
hang it up in a couple of years. What's the
plan there?

Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't have any plans, I mean, and I'm not
I don't want to announce it today with Lebron having
his big announcement. It would overshadow a hijack. No, I don't.
I wouldn't do that. Now, they got two and a
half years decide if they want to put something together.
See if you know anybody'd be interested in it. But

(14:30):
I'm not involved in those conversations. Jacob in Indiana, Hi, Jake,
what's on your mind?

Speaker 15 (14:37):
Warren Fellas six two two sixty. So you guys were
talking about quarterbacks making tackles and how uncommon that is.
There are fancy football leagues out there that if a
quarterback makes a tackle, your team gets a hundred points.

Speaker 16 (14:57):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Well what about Jamar Chase since he had three tackles
for the Bengals, do you get any any points that
only quarterback? Huh?

Speaker 10 (15:09):
Only quarterbacks?

Speaker 15 (15:10):
But Lamar Jackson had one hundred and twenty seven points
the other week whenever he tackled a guy.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Thank you, Jacob, Yes, Todd is the concern.

Speaker 9 (15:19):
And the quarterback's mind anyway, when you're trying to make
the tackle, that they're going to get hurt on the
actual tackle, or they become someone that a blocker can
just level trying to keep you from making that tackle,
because that could happen too. They say, you're trying to
make an effort that gives an opportunity to just totally
take you out because you're trying to make a tackle.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
You realize you just answer your own question.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
I don't think I did. I'm wondering which one is there?

Speaker 9 (15:40):
The quarterback more worried about I'm gonna get hurt in
the act of making the tackle or someone's going to
level me as I try to get to that runner.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Both.

Speaker 9 (15:48):
Which is worse, I guess is the question. He'll be
fifty fifty point. Oh, one's got to be a worse
thing than the other.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
You're not gonna let this go.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
I think it's sixty three percent worrying about I'm un
leveling you and making the time.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
We're gonna take a break here. Fritzie confronts the Yankee
broadcaster Dave si front tell Dave Howl disappointed he is
with his lack of enthusiasm for the opposition. That's after
this on The Dan Patrick Show.

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an hour from now. Marvin part of his job, his responsibilities.
Every morning he'll look for interesting soundbites. It could be
a play by play call, it could be an answer
from a coach or a manager or a player. And
so Marvin played this on Monday, and to our surprise,

(17:25):
Fritzy had a problem with Dave Simms called Dave is
the Yankee broadcaster, and Vlad Guerrero just hit a Grand
Slam Blue Jays scored ten and thirteen runs in the
first two games, So this is the call, and then
we'll bring in Dave Sims. So go ahead, Marv Carrera.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
That edition a two to one count. He's looking on
the load right here, two one Pitt. He did big drive,
left field grand slam.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
So Dave Sims kind enough to it's the Yankees radio
play by play voice on w f A N. Dave,
I don't know if you heard about this big controversy.
You know social media circles. But you've been a broadcaster
a long long time, and Fritzi had a problem. Fritzy,
would you explain? First of all, great to see you, Dave,
but under these certain Yeah, Fritzi, would you like to

(18:21):
tell Davey that the problem you had with his call?

Speaker 4 (18:25):
I will preface by saying that I have to preference.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
No.

Speaker 9 (18:31):
I know a lot of time we worked together in
the early nineties, and I will say when I heard that,
at the moment I was, it made me think, how
does a broadcaster that's doing a local teams game, how
do you juggle a good play, especially in the playoffs?

Speaker 18 (18:46):
Joy you off?

Speaker 2 (18:49):
This is embarrassing. What do you what do you want?
Me to show him, Todd, tell him what you said.
I was.

Speaker 9 (18:56):
I was disappointed because it sounded like, you know, I
don't how do you juggle the You know, you don't
want to be a homer and obviously it's against the Yankees,
but it's a big home run.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Should you show a little more?

Speaker 9 (19:05):
I don't know if enthusiasm is probably not the exact word,
but that's a big play in a playoff game. It
happens to be against your team that you're calling games for,
So how do you capture that?

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Or how im?

Speaker 2 (19:15):
No, I have to finish my son? Don no, No,
you know you've had an opportunity.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
I didn't finish my thought your word thought?

Speaker 2 (19:21):
No, No, I'm not at all. You had a chance. Okay, Dave,
here was the thing you had the call. Fritzy thought
you should have been more enthusiastic because even though it
was the Blue Jays, it was a Grand Slam in
the postseason, and he was surprised that you weren't enthusiastic.

Speaker 18 (19:38):
Hey man, we're down five nothing. We got our clocks
tune the day before. It had gone into page two
in Game two. Here right at that moment, down five
nothing and glad. He's been hot as a pistol, and
I could see it coming. I've been around baseball long enough,
played it long enough like Dan yet like he did,
certainly not the highest, but I know, my baseball you

(20:01):
could feel that coming. And I'm not going to sit
here as a Yankee announcer and go, hey, wow, you know,
Bro Grant slam and we're down by nothing.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Come on.

Speaker 18 (20:11):
You know, I'm capturing the mood of Yankee fans. Okay,
the element on Homer if you want, but I'm bringing
the same emotion that those folks are having at home.
And I also you know, in the immortal words of uh,
you know Ray Scott, who's one of the great minimalists
in our business doing play by play, you know, star

(20:33):
Dollar touchdown.

Speaker 16 (20:34):
That was my baseball version of it.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, I understood it that you're kind of you and
Susan Waldman are sort of prefacing that something bad could
happen because Vlad is you know, he's locked in. So
you kind of led us up to the moment and
it was basically calling a shot and going yeah, gone,
and that was the mood there. But do you do

(20:58):
you ever fight the urge of but you know, in
fairness to what Fritzie was saying, you know, the enthusiasm.
It is a playoff, but you are calling for the Yankees,
the home team, And if I'm tuning in, the last
thing I want to hear is damn Dave sounded really
excited that Vlad hit a Grand Slam in the postseason.

Speaker 16 (21:16):
Well to that point, Dan, you know it's interesting. I
love baseball. We all love it.

Speaker 18 (21:20):
We love it for the excitement, uh, you know, the
juice that you get at a baseball game, particularly at
this time of year, but anytime they're the regular season.

Speaker 16 (21:28):
I appreciate great plays.

Speaker 18 (21:30):
Now if a guy makes a heck of a play defensively,
or makes a great catch the outfield, or he hits
a bad.

Speaker 16 (21:36):
Pitch and he hits it out all out of Ladd Senior.

Speaker 18 (21:39):
You know I'm gonna exclaim, but I clearly I'm pulling
for the Yankees. And now, granted I'm not doing a
national broadcast where I got to be trying to stay
down the middle, I have no problem going, hey man,
I got I got n Y in my heart. I
had see I went my heart, I got n Y
in my heart. Now I'm root for these guys to pull,
you know, pull through with the victory. I have enormous respect,

(22:01):
you know, for the game, and I don't I don't
think I did anything that was you know, out of
the ordinary by any start. As a matter of fact,
most of you know, family and friends and what people
I've heard from him.

Speaker 16 (22:12):
Said, he sort of captured the moment. That's how we felt.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
How about when you're the local announcer and you're critical
of your team, like when when do you when is
that window or door open that? Yeah, I should be
able to be critical with the team that's employing me.

Speaker 16 (22:31):
You have to be you tell the truth, Tell the truth.
You know. We've had pictures.

Speaker 18 (22:34):
I've seen a couple of pictures this year where it's
like the pen relays to get from the dugout to
the batter spox because there is there's no fear of
getting maybe not drilled, but pitched inside. You want to
put batters in a comfortable, uncomfortable position. And I've I've

(22:56):
criticized some guys on the ball club for that, and
I've done in the past. Guy makes a bad play,
you know, tries to make a superstar play out of
a Sometimes we should just eat the ball he's saying,
because the fans are saying the same thing. I'm telling
the truth and I'm not making anything up. Bad plays
a bad play, good plays a good play.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
If the Yankees get swept, finish that sentence.

Speaker 18 (23:22):
It's gonna stink, it's gonna hurt. Toronto's a very good
ball club. I have a tremendous respect for him. As
I like to call them, the non bold face names
that they have on their ball club. You know about
you know Vladdie, you know about George Springer, but you're
talking about David Schneider, Ala Hendro Kirk Kwhy. I just
I love that guy. He's five eight two sixty five
and he's a great hitter. Ernie Clement, Miles Straw, Addison Barger.

(23:49):
These are guys that you know, the mainstream not even
a lot of the mainstream baseball fans. They don't even
know who these guys are. And I've seen them, now
what ten twelve times this year. I know how good
they are. And I think the and Kevin Gosman was outstanding,
and the Savage Kid yesterday the other day, it's off
the chart, no hit ball for five and a third.
I mean, well, eleven punchinges. I mean, come on, so

(24:12):
it would be a very big disappointment. At disappointment. Yankees
tied with Toronto for the type of the third best
record in baseball, and if they get swept, that would
just be termed.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Who's going to wear this? If they get swept? Who
gets the blame?

Speaker 14 (24:29):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (24:29):
You pick a lot of people.

Speaker 18 (24:30):
I don't want to leave anybody out.

Speaker 16 (24:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (24:35):
I you know when I when I did my talk
when I was on a talk show radio at f
An many moons ago, I was big into that category
since I moved in to play. By playing all these
these last few years, I'm not picking up brick bats
or eggs and throwing stuff. I mean, the team was constructed,
it's a home run hitting team, and they've been out

(24:57):
hit a home run?

Speaker 16 (24:58):
So what is it?

Speaker 18 (24:59):
Eight to one and fourteen three in the playoffs? In
the postseason, then I'd hitting home runs. And certainly the
inning that will live in infamy was the sixth inning
game one basis loaded nobody out and score one run
on a baseload of walk that should have been at
minimum of three run a three run inning. So I
mean the players, I guess you'd have to say any

(25:20):
players don't performed, they didn't perform. But you know what,
it ain't over seven one team and the seventeen team
came from behind. That's what That's what I'm hanging my
hat on right now.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
You worked in Seattle for a long time with the
Mariners and now with the Yankees. Who is your MVP
in the American League?

Speaker 18 (25:38):
I went with Judge, but I got no beef if
Calf goes with it. I went with Judge because he
leads to nineteen categories. Yes, cal Catcher runs it. The
whole pitching staff does a great job. He had sixty
freaking home runs.

Speaker 16 (25:53):
I get that.

Speaker 18 (25:53):
I get that, But Judge is overall worth nineteen categories.
He's leading and about about that she's right below, And
I just think that that carries a heck of a
lot of weight on and that led the way on
a team that hits a ton of home runs, and
he hit fifty home runs, and the fact that what
is it, won the batting title and hit fifty plus

(26:15):
home runs. Third guy to do it, Fox and Mantle.
So but again, I think I think it's gonna be
a close vote.

Speaker 16 (26:22):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, I do too. Any last words for Fritzie, your
former friend, former.

Speaker 18 (26:28):
Friend Roncos beat my eagle son. I'm probably more mad
at him about that than Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
You're going to be enthusiastic, though, I want you to
think about this, if you know, are you going to
overcompensate with your call tonight that if we hits A Why.

Speaker 16 (26:50):
Would I do that?

Speaker 2 (26:51):
I know, I just you know the pressure. The pressure here.
Fritzie's in your head.

Speaker 18 (26:57):
Layer, man, I've had I've had a lot worse voices
in my Fritzy.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Have fun tonight, Dave, Thanks.

Speaker 18 (27:05):
Hey, your pleasure is always Hey, Dan, thanks a lot,
good to see him, man, And Hey, a load of
the Dan.

Speaker 16 (27:10):
That's way to go boys. You guys are great.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
That's Dave Simms. He'll be on the call for Game
three Blue Jay's Yankees on WFA on radio. I hope
he's enthusiastic. You know when Toronto does something.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
Todd again, Enthusiastic is not the right word, but I'll
play along.

Speaker 9 (27:24):
There's got to be some other word for what I'm
trying to say about this, calling a big play that
happened to go interest team.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
I like how you are playing along. You created this.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
I don't think I said anything vicious.

Speaker 13 (27:36):
I was.

Speaker 9 (27:36):
I was saying that a thing happens in a playff game,
it happens to be yes, your to. But now the
way Dave explained it, now I understand. I see the
light that everything you call has to be based on
the emotions of the local fans, and that's how you call.
I thought that was more of the analyst than the
play by.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Play Todd, he didn't tell you anything that we didn't
tell you. We told you.

Speaker 9 (27:53):
I guess it was good to hear from someone that had,
you know, the two decades plus of play by play.
But I didn't realize that the play by play person
for a local game, no matter what's happening, really has
to be totally into what the reaction is gonna be
of the fans. Well, you know, good or bad. You know,
you're trying not to be complete Homer. If something big
happens that's done by the other team. That's all I'm saying,
acknowledging it, not enthusiastically.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know, I can see the camera Stone he is
laughing at you.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yes, of course he should. He's got a lot more
experience than I do.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
He wrote to mock you he's laughing at you.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
An Slam home run. Here we go.

Speaker 9 (28:28):
I guess we're gonna have to win the next three.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Knew that was coming.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Just say Todd. There's nothing wrong with saying, you know what,
my bad Nope, that was that was a bad take.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
We don't win the next three games or nobody.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
You can do that. You could, you can say that,
but you die on so many hills you do.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
I never said that. They should have said that. It
is a Grand Slam overroad.

Speaker 11 (28:50):
The Yankees are gonna just about done.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
This one's over and they gonna have to win.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
The next three.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
And they finished.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Last week it was left Lane. This week it's Dave Simms.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
And the Broncos beat the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, and it was very the fast. Keith and Chico
is back. Hi, Keith, Hey guys, good morning.

Speaker 10 (29:10):
I had a comment.

Speaker 19 (29:11):
About the quarterbacks making a tackle. I think you guys
are right and that they cannot go and risk themselves
like that. But I think there's freak athletes like Taysom
Hill and Cam Newton that may be an exception due
to their size and durability. But then again, you've got
guys like Bryce Young on the Panthers They're definitely not
asking him to.

Speaker 15 (29:30):
Make a tackle.

Speaker 13 (29:31):
That's my thought.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Dan, thank you, yep, thank you. Keith Well, Taysom Hill's
not a quarterback. They kept trying to make him one.
I know he was in college and he's you know,
a big guy. Cam Newton, I just too many, too
many things can happen, and you are open for getting
hit if you if you are pursuing the ball carrier,

(29:53):
you are now fair game and now you can get
blown up like any other player. Yeah, Paul.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
In twenty fifteen, Cam Newton MVP took his team to
the Super Bowl. The next year, he injured his shoulder
his AC joint trying to make a tackle. There's multiple
articles I found out there said after Cam Newton through
an interception, he went to make a tackle, extended his
arm and it messed up his AC joint and it
had never been the same again. His career changed off
trying to make a tackle. And that's the biggest strongest

(30:18):
quarterback of all time.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
By the way, do you realize and I just found
this out that the Ravens are almost even with the
Steelers to win the AFC North according to DraftKings. After
everything we've seen with the Ravens that their odds are
almost equal to the Steelers to win the AFC North.
That's wild, Dustin in Cincinnati, Hi, dustin.

Speaker 14 (30:47):
High DP.

Speaker 20 (30:49):
I got a question about the six foot club. Before
I joined pilitary out of high school, I was six
foot even after twenty five jumps out of air claims
being a paratrooper. I'm now officially five eleven and three sportes.
Am I still getting into six foot club?

Speaker 2 (31:09):
You were in the club, but you're not in the
club anymore. I'm sorry, Dustin, You're just you're not. It's
gonna happen to Marvin. It happens to a lot of
the great ones that you're six foot now, but you're
you're not gonna be forever Marvin. Yes, Paul.

Speaker 8 (31:25):
And also that was a clear hubble brag by the
caller saying at five to eleven while being an airborne
ranger is tough guy talk.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, I mean, if you're an airborne ranger and tough guy,
then you don't care that you're under six feet. I wouldn't.
I'm like, no, I don't care. I'm badass. All right.
Let me take a break here. More phone calls coming
up and We're back after this Dan Patrick show.

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Speaker 2 (32:04):
Hi, Paul, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 18 (32:09):
Dan?

Speaker 14 (32:10):
Big fan, Sir six foot and envious one ninety five. Hey,
I gotta help. I gotta help my friend Todd Fritz
out on this pod. Don't be the guy that argues
just to argue. John Elway wins two Super Bowls for
the Broncos. Heir apparent Brian Greasy comes in. Who is
our running back? Brian Greasy throws the pick. Drell Davis tackles,

(32:34):
the guy gets hurt, ruins his career. Stay out of
the picture.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
So I got d all right, thank you, Paul. There
you go, Tod at hit home Drell Davis.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
That is a very good example.

Speaker 9 (32:47):
I just wonder, I just wonder what the other players,
you know, do they understand that that the star players,
whoever's considered a star player should stay out of the
way and not try to make a tackle.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Well, I think it's reactionary. Sometimes you see something happen,
maybe you're responsible for it, and then you want to
go make the tackle. But I think you got to
live to see another plag Don't be a hero, especially
at quarterback. Can't, can't. Matt in Virginia, Hi, Matt, what's
on your mind?

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Hey Dan?

Speaker 10 (33:17):
How you doing.

Speaker 13 (33:18):
I got a comment about Fritzie with the announcer. You know,
I agree with Fritzie because I think he could have
put a little embellishment on the negative.

Speaker 10 (33:32):
He could have said.

Speaker 14 (33:33):
Guerrero with the shot, Oh, that seals the deal the game.

Speaker 13 (33:37):
You know, he could have gone off on the negative
en a little bit more, hicked it up negatively though.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Oh okay, so you kind of agree with Fritzy of
adding more enthusiasm, but negative enthusiasm.

Speaker 13 (33:48):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Okay, all right, thank you man. So Matt's kind of
with you, Todd, I'll take I'll take that half credit,
kind of of course you will.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
We talked a lot about this play yesterday. Amari Demorcado
of Arizona and I fumbled the ball out of the
end zone. He didn't go into the end zone with
the ball. The running back for Arizona. There was a
moment on the sidelines where Jonathan Gannon, the head coach
of the Cardinals, is airing his running back out and

(34:20):
it looked like there was some contact made from the
coach to his player on the sidelines. And here is
Jonathan Gannon, the Cardinals head coach, on that situation.

Speaker 21 (34:31):
I woke up this morning and didn't feel great about it, honestly,
and so in a team meeting, I addressed it. I
apologize to Omari, apologize to the team, and I just
told him I kind of let the moment of what
happened get the better of me there, obviously, like I
try to be emotionally stable and calm because my job

(34:55):
is to solve problems when during a game, and kind
of the charge on that. So it's not really who
I am who I want to be. And I told
the guys that today.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, he was wrong. You know, coaches always would preach composure, composure,
don't lose your composure. Coaches lose their composure far more
than players do. And that was a moment that he
should not be. Well, I'm glad he's apologizing because that
was embarrassing. And if you're putting your hands on one
of your players, that's when you get the players association

(35:31):
involved in it. That's where you get other players viewing this.
Maybe they view you differently. So, yes, did Demarcado make
a terrible mistake. He did embarrassing mistike. But the coach
doesn't have to add to that. I think you can
get your message across. But get your message across as
a coach, not somebody who's just yelling and screaming. But

(35:54):
I would say to every one of my players if
this was something that happened a couple of times, everybody
who scores, bring the football to the sidelines, everybody, and
then I, as the coach, will pay for that, because
you have to pay for the footballs and I will
pay for that. But we will not have this will
never happen again. You score a touchdown, you walk to

(36:17):
the sidelines, you give it to the equipment manager, and
we never have this mistake again. We should never have
this mistake. But that's why I'm putting this in. Don't
score a touchdown or think you're scoring a touchdown and
you want to celebrate too soon. Mark and Saint Cloud
is back. Hi, Mark, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 16 (36:39):
Hey? Dan?

Speaker 22 (36:40):
First of all, love the show. Well, we I'm the
program director of the station here. We added you guys recently.
We're happy to have you back. We were at affiliate
we weren't and everybody loves the fact that you guys
are back. Number one, number two Fritzy question for you,
By the way, you are the embodiment of the Jelly
of the Month club. You are the gift that keeps
on gift. I'm telling you, every day you give us something.

(37:02):
But last year n CAA tournament we get knocked out
on a last second shot. I'm supposed to be excited
about the fact we lost on the last second shot
when nine seniors' careers just came to an end. Guys
I've been with for five years because of COVID.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Definitely not excited. I'm trying to again, and this is
a work in progress for me.

Speaker 9 (37:22):
How do you juggle a big play in the moment
in the world of sports with you know, being understanding
the local fans are upset and trying to capture the
emotions of the fans that did not like what just happened,
but still acknowledging in some way should perform a big
play that happened in the sports world, which happens to
be against your local team, And I don't know if
I have a full grasp of it, so, but enthusiasm

(37:44):
and we've been using that a lot is definitely not
the word. There's something not something to cheer or revel
in that your team just got knocked out.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Okay, that helps you, Yeah, hopefully that's thank you, Mark
for calling it great to be back in Saint Cloud. Yes,
at least you still feel that way.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
They're month to month right now with them.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, day to day, day to day. How about this
divided locker room? Disastrous results? Players, parents blame the coach,
guess the team. Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner
workings of Bill Belichick's program say North Carolina football losses

(38:28):
are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized
coaching staff, and a failure to communicate. Pat Welter of
WRL sports anchor and reporter is the one who did
a deep dive on this quite a few pages here,
But it just talks about really what a disaster it is.

(38:52):
Let's see, North Carolina has been outscored one twenty to
thirty three versus the how are four teams? After losing
to Clemson. After the loss, Belichick was asked what he
asked to say to the fans and donors who feel
like they're not getting their money's worth, We're going to
keep working and grinding. We're going to move in the

(39:15):
right on the right track. Wow, okay, now I'm ready. Yeah, Paulie, I.

Speaker 8 (39:23):
Was reading the article, and there's a bunch of issues
between when you have seventy transfer players, there's some leftovers.
There's maybe forty from the last regime, and the transfer
players may be getting different nil deals than the people
who are staying who didn't play that well. So there's
an instant division and locker room.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yeah. Parents were told not to approach Belichick. Wow. I
don't know if that now in fairness to Belichick, I
don't know if that's standard practice with other coaches. I'm
not sure if it was that way with Saber or

(40:01):
you know, Dion or Dabbo or whoever. But I mean
that almost feels like they don't look me in the
eye kind of thing in the hallway. Yes time, it's
not Little league baseball.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Parents shouldn't be approaching the head coach of a team.

Speaker 9 (40:13):
I don't know, if you got a problem, I don't
put in the suggestion box or something that would be
very odd for a parent to go toe to toe
with Bill Belichick on campus.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
They're not they're not they this was a spring game
and parents are there. They didn't even get to meet
with him until the spring game. The parents, so they're
not walking up to him and saying, how dare you even?
Why isn't my shof?

Speaker 9 (40:36):
But they still shouldn't go up to the I don't
need the parents, doesn't need to go up to the
head coach.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Parent of a current North Carolina player said there's no
communication with coaches and parents period, none, zero zilch. Not
one email from a coach, one text, one phone call. Nothing.
Sounds like we got a failure to communicate it. Two
hours in the books One More to Go? Does Fritzie

(41:02):
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