July 31, 2025 • 42 mins
Baseball Hall of Famer CC Sabathia joins Dan and talks about his recent entry to the Hall and the time his car broke down on the way to Cooperstown. Former Chargers Quarterback Philip Rivers comes on to talk about his retirement, whether he would have had another run somewhere, and engages in trash talk with Fritzy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Final Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
In this Thursday, we'll talk to the former Charger, Philip
Rivers finally got around to announcing his retirement.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
C C.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Sabathia, freshly minted a Hall of Famer, will join us
momentarily the last women's major of the season and it's
the world's best testing their metal, the AIG Women's Open
that'll be coming up July thirty first through August third
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our phone number eight seven seven three DP show. We'll
get to more phone calls coming up, update the poll
results as well. He is a CC Sabbathia Hall of Famer. Now,
how does that feel? Do he called a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Feels good? It feels good. I mean, it's real, now,
you know what I mean. I gave the speech and
had a chance to get up there and see all
the guys, So it feels good.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Your wife doesn't call you hall of favor, does she?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Nobody in this house?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
How nervous? How nervous were you?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Compare that to pitching in a World Series, when you
give your Hall of Fame speech, I.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Was pretty nervous. I mean, you know, knowing you know
from the time that you get elected that you know
you have six months to kind of give this speech
and talk about you know, your life and this life
achievement and who you want to thank and you know,
all these different people. So that that gave me a lot,
a lot of anxiety. But I feel like the way
I delivered my speech and not trying to think a
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bunch of people and just tell stories about you know
who you know, helped me get to this point. I
think that you know, helped me out a lot. But
I'll tell you a quick story about the World Series.
You know, I would get nervous when I walked out
before games or whatever. And you know that postseason and
on nine, I wasn't getting the butterflies. I was just
feeling good, you know, I was feeling kind of fining.
(02:00):
I was feeling like I was going to pitch well.
And you know, I went out for the same thing
in Philly. I went out for Game one. It was
in Yankee Stadium, and everything is fine, Like I feel great,
great October night, and you know, my routine was after
we threw the ball down a second base, I would
go walk to a ride and get the ball from
him with my bare head, and I walked walked over
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to him. He tossed me the ball and he was like,
let's go. I looked at him. I was like, let's go.
And I looked down at the ball and it said,
oh nine fall classic on it, and I immediately broke out.
I hadn't been nervous the whole time. I looked down
and realized that.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I was like, damn, I'm in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I kind of like got back into it, but yeah,
I mean I broke out of a full sweat. Oh
my god, Like this is Game one of the World Series.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
When you're at the Hall of Fame, do you meet
anybody who brings back bad memories?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh? No, not bad memories. You know, just like I'm
a I'm a huge baseball fan, so just you know.
They had a garden party on Friday night that Jane
Forbes Clark hosted, and everywhere I looked around the room,
I'm seeing my favorite player. Like I grew up playing
you know, Nintendo RBI baseball, and it's Ron carew in there,
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it's you know what I mean this Your Eddie Murray
is Kim Griffy Junior, is Sandy Kofax, Randy Johnson. I mean,
it's it's everybody's favorite player.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
In the room. And on Friday night, I'm not gonna lie.
I got like a little imposter syndrome. I'm like, should
I I'll.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Be in this group?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You know what I'm saying, Like this is like the
elite of the elite, and to be part of that
that uh, that crew now feels good.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
But but there's nothing like I gave up a home
run to that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I hope he doesn't bring it up.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
No, I mean, and that's that's the perfect time to
bring it up, right, Like, yeah, I mean, yeah, I
gave up a couple of homers in each ye row. Uh,
you know we always tell the story is you know,
it's fun now to be able to tell those stories
in that room because you know you're all on the
same team.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
A couple of home runs to each row.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, yeah, a couple.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Of home wrest But first time so I started throwing
two thousand and six, me and Carl Willis were trying
to figure out an outpitch, and you know, I was
throwing like this big loopy kind of slurf curveball thing.
And we went down to the bullpen and in Oakland
and he was like, I'm a teacher how to throw
a cutter. So we came out of that bullpen session
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with like this eighty two mile an hour eighty three
min hour slider, and me in my mind, I'm thinking,
all this thing is disgusting, Like I'm taking this right
into the game, taking it to the game. Get on
to him. Each row, he hit it off the windows
first half back like you know, it's echy, you know
what I mean, Like this, I've seen this thing move
like it's nasty.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
So he comes up again. First pitch, I threw it
to him first pitcher.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Of that bad He hits it out again, but it
ends up becoming like my outpitch, you know what I'm saying,
Like that's the pitch that you know, kind of took
my to the next level.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
And you know, each he loved it the first time
he saw.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well, no, it was his outpitch.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He hit it out of the wallpart who picked out
the Jordans that you wore during your speech.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It was they were actually especially made from Jordan. They
were kind of I made a bunch of shoes my
my last year in twenty nineteen during players weekend, and
they were combined them like a high school shoe that
had some Milwaukee stuff in there, some Cleveland stuff in there.
The cool part about it is I played for three
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teams that have Navy in it, so like, you know,
the the left shoe was navy and gold, and that
represented my Yankee you know, Milwaukee and Cleveland Cleveland days,
and then the right one was red, which represented my
high school. So you know, I'm just forever thankful for
the Jordan family. The way they treat us after retirement
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is special, and you know, I wouldn't want, wanted any
other way to go in in the Hall of Fame
wearing a pair of Jordan's and a pair of threes
up on up on that stage.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Okay, but what was it like the first time you?
I think you were the first baseball player part of
the Jordan brand, or does that sound about it?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I was the third, So it was Derek was the first,
and then it was Andrew Jones and then and then me.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And what was it like first time you met Michael?
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It was incredible, you know, he's, Uh, you gotta be
confident when you were around NK. Right, He's, like I
said talked about earlier, is everybody's favorite player. He's he's
the alpha of all alpha. So you gotta, you know,
you gotta be confident when you're around it. But but
I enjoyed spending time with him.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
He's CC Sabbathia, the newly inducted member of the Baseball
Hall of Fame. You know, you did all these things
with the Yankees, but it feels like people still bring
up what happened like the last two months when you're
with Milwaukee, where they were like, uh, three days rest,
CC go out there and get him, and you had
an incredible You knew that you were you were leaving Milwaukee,
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they knew you were leaving, but they worked your ass off,
and I you know, I'd still look back on that.
I mean, that's an amazing run. What were your thoughts
when they kept sending you out and it felt like
on three days rest.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, it wasn't. It wasn't so much them. They were
you know, they were kind of freaking out, just along
with everybody else, my agent, you know, everybody except for
kind of me and my wife like I told her,
you know how I felt. And the biggest thing was,
you know, I had got traded from Cleveland, and you know,
I had been in that organization from the time I
was seventeen and that summer I was, you know, twenty
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eight years old. I had been there for you know,
ten and a half years. And you know, when I
walked into the clubhouse in Milwaukee, you know, I was
scared to death. I didn't know what was going to happen.
I had never been in another organization. And I walk
in and my best friend Dave Risky is there. I
played with him in Cleveland. And then Mike Cameron is there,
and Billy Hall is there.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And Prince Fielder is there, and you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Know, these are still some of my closest friends to
this day. All those guys I just named were in Cooperstown,
you know what I'm saying. So I just didn't want
that season to end. And I felt great, and I
felt like I was gonna go out and win those games.
And it was more and so about me going in
there and telling them a pitching on three days rest
than it was them, you know, asking me or want
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me to do it. It was more and me So
one thing is, you know, during that time, I never
in my career felt like I was gonna you know,
knew that I was gonna win games. And during that time,
I felt like, you know, if you give me the ball,
I can go out and complete the game to win
the game. So I wanted to get that that franchise,
in that in that city into the playoffs. And I
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think it was more about me, you know, telling them
that what I was doing more so than than them,
you know, kind of kind of asking or demanded.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The car breaking down en route to Cooperstown, that's what
a three and a half hour drive. That took eight
hours or so to get there.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Yeah, three and a.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Half hour drive normally, And for some reason, you know,
normally when we go on a road trip, me and
my wife, we drive all over Marcus, Vineyard, Hampton's, whatever.
If we're on a road trip, she drives so slow
that I'm usually like, I'll meet her at the house
and I'm nearby, you know, an hour before. For some reason,
on that day, I was riding behind her, and you know,
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we were just you know, kind of making our way
up there, and we had the kids with us, and
we pull up on the side of the road on
seventeen to get on the on ramp, and she stops.
She's got let a bunch of cars go by, and
so I call her. I'm like, what's going on? And
she was like, my cars just stopped, and I'm like what.
And I can tell them her voice that she was
(09:40):
really irritated and you know, on the verge of kind of,
you know, not breaking down, but kind of crashing out.
And my kids and I can't take anything seriously, So
we all get out of the car. Kids start making tiktoks.
I'm taking pictures on the side of the road. She's
very serious in the back, calling the tow truck.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
But like people starting noticing this is the other side
of the road. They're howking. We're laughing it. It made
for a good time.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And you know, I feel like we know every time
that we're all together, my wife and I and the
four kids and we're traveling, we're gonna something's gonna happen.
So you know, we're used to it and we always
make the best out of it. But thanks for a
good story.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Who gave you the Oakland Raider helmet behind you?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
This is a This is actually a phone my cousin
Dimitris Davis was mister Irrelevant. I think it was in
nineteen ninety and he got all these different gifts from
you know, from every team, you get a gift.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
And this was the phone from the from the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
So that was on the draft, that was on their table.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It must have been on the draft. Yeah, this must
have been on the draft table. So you know, you
get he was mister Irrelevant. You get a bunch of
different trophies and stuff, and this is the one thing
that I kept. And I got this Marcus Allen Super
Bowl Super Bowl helmet right here that always keep up
in you see my Raiders clocket just went down, but
I always have to have something Raiders around.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It seems like you're a football guy more than a
baseball guy.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I'm just a fan of everything. I'm a huge, huge,
huge sports fan, but the Raiders are. I'm die hard Raiders,
like I don't waiver at all. If you you watch
me with my basketball I'm usually picking the best team
just because I'm always in a bad mood after football season,
so I got to pick a win basketball season. If
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the Warriors aren't in it, I'm always going for a winner.
But yeah, I mean I'm just a huge Raiders fan,
and I don't think that'll ever ever lead me.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Okay, what do you think is gonna happen this year?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Hopefully if if, if we can stay healthy, I mean,
the defense is really good. You know, I love Brock Bauers.
I would love to see what Gino Smith is gonna
do for us. But I think if we can stay healthy,
we'll be okay. I mean, obviously we're in in that
division with Mahomes and you know, the Chiefs, and I
think Justin Herbert is great. I even think both Nicks
(12:10):
and the Broncos are going to be good. So it's
gonna be a tough division. But we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
If you could have Gino Smith as your quarterback or
Tom Brady comes out of retirement.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Oh, I would want Tom Brady to come out of
retirement to like run the organization.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
I need.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I need somebody young, young, with fresh legs. I mean,
I find with you know, being quarterback, as long as
he can stay healthy. But I would want time to
like really be hands on and be running like the
football ops.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yeah, probably gonna happen sooner than later.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I would love that I would love that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Congrats you're always a great guest. We appreciate it. Congrats
on the great career, and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Appreciate it, Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That's CC Sabathia just got inducted into the Baseball Hall
of Fame. There's nothing better that I want to hear
than when somebody says, got a quick story to tell you.
When he tells me about the World Series. When he
looks at the baseball and it says the two thousand
and nine World Series and it's printed on the baseball,
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and the fact that it hit him that he's now
pitching in the World Series, that's what you want. I'd
love when I get stories from these guys. Philip Rivers,
you better be telling stories. Fritzy, he's ready, Oh he is, Okay,
all right, we'll take a break. Then Philip Rivers will
join us. And I know we're backed up with phone calls.
We'll try to sneak those in as well. We're back
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Speaker 2 (14:50):
Waiting for Philip Rivers to join us. Just announce his
retirement and he stopped playing like five years ago. Maybe
this is his s in time announcing that he's retiring,
but he'll join us coming up. I saw this story
that Michael Phelps, the Great Olympian, is going to give
the Ravens players swim lessons. And I wasn't sure exactly
(15:14):
what this was. But but if it truly is Michael Phelps,
who is a Ravens fan, is going to give the
players swim lessons, I think it's great because here's something
that at least this is how I looked into it.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I read into it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
There's a lot of African American players who probably didn't
get swim lessons, didn't have a pool that was accessible
to them, and here you have Michael Phelps, So now
you can get swim lessons. You're in your twenties or thirties,
and you know, you're probably embarrassed to say that, you know, hey,
maybe I could get swim lesson. Now you can do it,
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and Michael Phelps is going to help you. So I
think it's a wonderful gesture. And I don't know, Marvin,
if you read into it that same way, but I
did that. In the African American community, you didn't have
or don't have accessibility to pools and to learn how
to swim.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
Yeah, for me, I didn't think about that until you
said it. And it makes perfect sense because the previous
generation that's you know, they're forty fifty years old, they
didn't know how to swim because their parents weren't allowed
to go in pools and things like that and had
to go to a deeper topic. But it's pretty much
a generational because you learn how to swim from your parents,
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and a lot of them their parents didn't know how
to swim.
Speaker 12 (16:33):
And so I think that goes a long way from
what you said.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, the team has a new pool, and uh, I
guess there's a lot of players that are going to
take Michael Phelps up on the opportunity to learn how
to swim. He's Philip Rivers. He played in the NFL
for seventeen seasons and now a high school coach. Look
at there, you look good. You look like you're ready
to play? Wait sight Dan, could you play right now?
Speaker 13 (16:59):
Oh yeah, I'm a little heavier than I was, but
I could get through a game now. I made need
a wheelchair the next morning, but oh yeah, I can still,
I can still, I can still play.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Okay, did you need to announce, like, did you retire twice?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
No?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Here, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Maybe.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (17:19):
The reason there was a little bit of a wait
is I honestly wasn't. There were a couple of November
Decembers there in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two where
I was getting I was staying ready.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I was, I was.
Speaker 13 (17:32):
I threw on shoulder pads a few times and the
helmet and was throwing in the yard and.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Working just in case.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And there were a few things that kind of got close.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (17:41):
But then the last two years it's pretty much I've known,
I've been done it really just timed.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I wanted to retire a charger and do it, do
it right with the chargers.
Speaker 13 (17:49):
Over sixteen years, Gates coming up with the Hall of Fame,
one of my favorite all time teammates and lockermate side
by side for uh sixteen years, I was. I was
doing some stuff, some video stuff for him, and I
was like, hey, guys, when are we going to do this?
I want to retire Chargers. Should we do something on video?
And it it just all worked out.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What team or teams called you.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
I knew you were going there. I guess I'd teed
you up for that one that you say it now, No,
I know it doesn't matter.
Speaker 13 (18:17):
Yeah, well, I think you know, it was the year
that the forty nine Ers had the injuries at quarterback,
you know, and uh before early on, before perty really
got going. You know, it was there's still probably six
weeks left in the year, and it was. Uh, so
there was a little interaction I've had there with with
John Lynch. Uh certainly kept in contact with the Colts
that first year year or so out. Uh, when the
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Saints had the injuries. Uh, you know, I think they
called Drew and I both. I remember being on a
phone call with Drew and it was over Christmas and
it was like the first Christmas I've been all, you know,
been off and not playing and uh, and I was like,
I can't believe I'm being considering this, but uh, Drew
and I ended up talking about Hey.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Were you serious?
Speaker 13 (18:56):
It was, and he was asking me if I was serious,
and I was like, it sounds good, you know, it
sounds good in theory, but then it's like, man, I
felt like the later the season went, I was going
to become a guest quarterback, and to me, that just
was what ultimately, ultimately the teams didn't want me to.
It didn't get that far to where it was in
my control, but I didn't want to be a guest quarterback.
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You know, you want to at least have some camaraderie
and in some sense of man, I've been in this on.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
This journey with you guys at least for half a season.
Speaker 13 (19:25):
But when he got to the playoffs, it's like, man,
you're gonna go and play one game and you're either
the hero to help him win or you came in
and cast him a playoff game.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
So it just didn't make whole lot of sense.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, you could have been a Joe Flacco.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Yeah yeah, which, shoot, I thought it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I was.
Speaker 13 (19:42):
I loved watching Joe and pulling for Joe when he
was in that situation.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
But take me back to when you came out of college.
I remember the knock on you was your arm your
arm angle, or how you like how you threw like
it felt like that was one of those you just
didn't throw it the a quarterbacks the other quarterbacks through
the ball.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Yeah, yeah, no it is.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
I think he gradually got less and less awkward. You know,
as even as my career went, there is a uniqueness
to it, and I shoult I appreciate that now, you know,
I hear you hear people say, oh, man, that's how
Philip rivers through the ball. So I guess uniqueness to it.
That's uh ended up being kind of one of my trademarks.
But growing up as the son of a coach, I
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was the ball boy and water boy when my dad
was coaching high school ball five six, seven years old,
and I was throwing a regulations size football. So that's
the only way I could throw it. You know, you
kind of laid it in your hand and uh and
and pushed it. And so then as I grew up,
you know, as I got a bigger and stronger in
my hand could could reach. There's still an element of that,
you know, muscle memory motion that just became my own.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
And and so that's where it was. I remember norm Chow.
Speaker 13 (20:53):
You know, we had We had one of the great
offensive coaches of all time in college football at NC
State my freshman year. And the first day he watched
me practice, he he asked me if I was hurt
you shoulder?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Is your shoulder? Is your shoulder bothering you? And I said, no,
my shoulder is fine.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
And uh.
Speaker 13 (21:11):
He set the tape off to Mike Homern and said,
now you need to take a look at this, and
and and and Coach Chow ended up telling me Homer
and said, if he's not getting balls about it down
and he's accurate, he said, heck with it, leave it alone.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
And so we did.
Speaker 12 (21:23):
We did.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
How is the position changed? Like, what's the most important
part of playing the position?
Speaker 13 (21:33):
I still think and and I I'm biased, I guess
a little bit. I best say if you asked most
pocket passers like myself, they may say this may not.
I still think you got to be able to stand
in the pocket and make quick decisions and be accurate
with the football and and and and throw it from
the pocket on third and eight and crucial situations on
a two minute drive. All those things that that is
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still going to be a necessity of playing the position.
To me, I think it's a bonus. It's a bonus
if you can do the other stuff like many of
these guys nowadays. Can you know the Josh Allens and
Lamar Jackson's and Bo Nicks has the ability to run,
you know, as you know had an unbelievablerookie year. Obviously
mahomes and I'm leaving guys out unintentionally.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
But if you can't do those things, it helps you.
Speaker 13 (22:18):
But you still got to be able to stand in
there and make a throw and take a hit right
under the chin. Because if you can't do that, if
all you can do is just kind of run around
and you're a fifty percent passer, I don't think you
can last.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
He's Philip Rivers, NFL quarterback for seventeen seasons. Fan base
that probably disliked you the most was which fan base? Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Probably the Denver?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Okay, let me can I bring in Fritzie is a
Denver Bronco fan and all my guests, so Fritzie would
always complain that you complained too much, that you wind
too much when you play. This is coming from a
Bronco fen. Would you say that's fair assessment of you?
You were critical. Philip rivers whining.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
Yes, and I hope Philip agrees.
Speaker 14 (23:01):
And I got nothing against the guy, but being a
huge Broncel fan since I'm like seven years old, I
did see like there was a lot of complaining to
the officials, a lot of trash talking. Even though he
didn't cursy. He was always kind, I guess with his
trash talk, but that seemed like a lot of whining
was going on.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
Okay, Phil, Yeah, I can see it. I can see
it coming across as as whining. It was more a
fire and passion and drive to want to win the
stinking game and for the calls to be right and
for the you know, all those things to go. So yes,
it would it be classified as whining in some cases.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'm sure.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
I'm sure it would. I'm not proud of every every moment,
believe me. There's some many that I look at and
I go, man, I lost my mind?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
What was I doing.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
But there's a lot of it that I laugh at,
And then there's a lot of it that I go, man,
I hope people realize how much I love playing. I
love playing just like I was as a kid in
the backyard and I got to do it as a
you know, forty year old all the way through my thirties,
two hundred and fifty times, and that was it was
truly just how you would be in the backyard, you know,
play with your buddies or brothers and arguing and carrying
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on and talking smack and all those things.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But you did it in a polite way, Like how
do you talk trash in a polite way?
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (24:09):
I don't know if it's necessarily polite. I think sometimes
maybe that's what made it sing a little worse.
Speaker 12 (24:15):
It wasn't.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
It wasn't the four letter words.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Oh wait, wait, how would you talk trash to me
if I'm a defensive player.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
I just sacked you and I got something to say
to you.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Oh I don't know.
Speaker 13 (24:27):
I mean I was gonna say, Dan, I could better
do it with you in your role there. I'd be like, Dan, really,
you're gonna start off the interview at saying I retired twice?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
I mean, come on talking for five years?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
You know?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Hey, will you stop blinding?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
I've retired as something else. How long are you going
to do this?
Speaker 14 (24:45):
Dan?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
How are the kids? What are there ten kids?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Now?
Speaker 13 (24:49):
Yeah, there's a there's ten and I got a little grandson.
I got a little grandson. My oldest two daughters are married,
and my oldest daughter and her husband have a little
little boy that's almost a year old, so that's a blast.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
And then she's the other children growing up fast.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
So I have three that are out of the house
or high school or beyond this year, and then still
seven at home. Three boys, seven girls and three boys.
But they're growing up fast.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Man.
Speaker 13 (25:15):
My oldest son will be the quarterback again this year
at the high school. He's a junior, and he's gonna
have a chance. He's gonna have a chance to play
at the next level, which is exciting. I was gonna
say two back to the throwing motion thing. I threw
that way because I think I had a ball, you know,
a big ball when I was little. He throws that
way a little bit. I don't know if it's just
from watching me or if it's just in our DNA,
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but he's a little more over the top. But when
people watch him throw, they go, man, he throws it
like you, and I go, well, he did watch me
play for his whole life growing up.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Why didn't you teach him how to throw like Brady.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Brady's a little throw over the top. You know, it's little
too over the top.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
What about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 13 (25:53):
I like Aaron Rodgers' motion and he flicks it. He
can throw it every different way. My homes kind of
can throw at every different arm angle. I was kidding
about Brady beans over the top. But but I think
the different arm angles is huge. It's key, you know,
it's key to be able to do that because you're
throwing it. People think, you know, to me, the height
thing is not as big of a deal. You know,
Drew Brees won the best ever six you know, six
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foot or so. But is It's not as much a
height deal.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
It's ability to.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
Throw arm angles. None of us are throwing over sixty
six linemen, you know, none of us are. So you
got to be able to throw around and change, uh,
different arm angles as the pocket you know collapses on
here changes uh.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Philip is the head coach at Saint Michael Catholic High
School in Fair Hope, Alabama. How would you assess the
Chargers this upcoming season with Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 13 (26:42):
I'm interested to see them. You know, they made some
made some additions in the off season. You know, they
got a lot of good young offensive linemen. Obviously Derwin
James still kind of the captain over there on that
defensive side. And Justin Herbert is, you know, a heck
of a player, a heck of a player. They they nailed,
they nailed that pick. It was the timing of me
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to move on and then to get one. They got
a good one. They got a good one. So uh
excited to see to see them this year. Certainly, I
still pull for the Chargers. I pulled for the.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Colts uh one year there.
Speaker 13 (27:15):
But then also one of my closest coach friends, Shane Stiken,
as the head coach there, and then I pulled for
the Eagles, Sirianni being there. Coach Sirianni was I was
with him a long time with the Chargers as well.
So you find yourself pulling for either coaches you were
with or teammates you know that are either at the
at the at the team you were on, or either
there's somewhere else. You know, you pull for them. On
Sundays and we still watch, We still watch watch all day.
(27:38):
We go to maths on Sunday morning, and uh, we
have games on every TV.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
We can find your longest career run.
Speaker 13 (27:46):
Last career run, I probably I don't know. I know
y'all got the stats and there, Fritzy, what is eleven yards?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You know it's eighteen.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Eighteen eighteen yard run.
Speaker 13 (27:56):
My favorite run was against the Ravens and playoff divisional
round playoff game.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
A third down and I.
Speaker 13 (28:02):
Kind of got out of there and uh got a
big first down and UH was able to kind of
do the first down sign. You know that you see
all the watouts and backs get to do.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
I felt I felt like a really I felt like
a real athlete. I felt like a real athlete.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
My teammates Keenan Allen, he was miked up on that
play and you can hear him saying.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Do it, do it?
Speaker 15 (28:22):
Do it?
Speaker 6 (28:22):
You know he was like he was like proud of me,
Like I was actually gonna do a little.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Something like a parent watching their kids take their first step.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, But was there somebody slower than you in the
NFL at quarterback?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I believe I could outrun Peyton and Brady.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Okay, yeah, but that still makes you slow though it.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Does definitely definitely wasn't fast.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Roethlisberger Ben could run a.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Little better than me.
Speaker 13 (28:51):
Maybe as we got, you know, as he got later
in his career, maybe, but no, Ben could run. See Ben,
Ben was one of those, uh you know, the throwback
quarterback that could run, you know, and he wasn't gonna
run for seventy but he had a he had an
ability to es capability in the pocket that was that
was unique. I think that certainly helped his his game
and why he had a lot of success.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
If Michael Vick and you ran a forty yard dash.
Speaker 13 (29:16):
That may be one of the fastest men I've ever
seen on a football field. We were at the Falcons
in two thousand and five, I believe it was four
or five.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I wasn't playing. Drew was the starter.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
I was backing up, and he scrambled left down our
sideline and scored and scored with it.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
And ran through the tunnel. And I just remember going,
that's that's just not fair. That's not fair that he
can run like that and thrown.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, let me know, if you retire again, we'll have
you back on. But if not, good luck with the
upcoming high school season.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 13 (29:50):
Dan, And hey, hey, Frintz, you said I probably did
complain and whine, But what made you so mad as
we were beating their tail a lot of times.
Speaker 14 (29:56):
That's man, that's part of the reason why I was
upset with you beat the Broncos to much.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Very right there.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, take that, Todd. Yeah, that's map very impressive. Thank you,
beg you Philip.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's Philip Rivers. That's talking trash. That's so good.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Take that, Oh Todd, your face.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
When I brought you what you're like?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I never said that.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You bring up Philip Rivers whining all the time.
Speaker 14 (30:30):
True, And he has a good point because a lot
of times he would kick the Broncos button.
Speaker 12 (30:35):
That makes you frustrated and angry.
Speaker 16 (30:36):
Yes, Paulie, this just into the I Team Philip Rivers
career versus the Broncos thirteen and sixteen.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Ritzy Todd, that was your You gold have returned for share.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
I didn't.
Speaker 14 (30:51):
I should have done a little research while he was
doing his kind trash talk to me under five hundred
against Denver.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
But imagine if somebody is going to trash talk you
but they don't curse, Yeah, like it would it would
sound weird, like dad, gummt you you're.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Gonna get it. I We're gonna score on you.
Speaker 12 (31:14):
Gee will face mask.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
How did you miss that?
Speaker 12 (31:18):
Kicking your tails for Gollie g How did you not
call it?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (31:24):
Crying out loud?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
It's it's kind of like that scene and back to
the future when Michael J. Fox's dad is yelling at Biff, Hey,
you Biff, you get your hands off her? All right,
let me take a break. Last call for phone calls
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Speaker 1 (31:45):
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Speaker 2 (31:57):
Fun Day Today, Ritchie did a great justin Herbert, Philip Rivers,
c C. Sabathia telling stories. That's what this job is
all about. Get out of the way and let them
tell stories. Alan and Charleston. Hey Alan, what's on your
mind today?
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Thanks Dan? Yeah, Todd, I'm an old man at seventy seven.
I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Oh we got a bad connection?
Speaker 12 (32:26):
Doesn't happened when?
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Interesting that happened yesterday. Somebody's gonna say something nice about you. Yeah,
bad connection.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
I have to agree with Tom.
Speaker 17 (32:39):
Yes, see, why don't we make up for it thing,
because you're right, Dan Todd did do such a great
job today.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Todd, who do you have lined up for tomorrow?
Speaker 12 (32:45):
Lewis Riddick joins us tomorrow and working on a few
other things.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
All right, Okay, every day this is a super Bowl.
It is okay, every single day, every single day.
Speaker 16 (32:59):
Some days it's the Patriots super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
That's fair.
Speaker 17 (33:04):
Once in a while, yeah, Tuesday in the middle of summer. Yeah,
get a Hall of Fame and do that, ton.
Speaker 12 (33:09):
I know. Sometimes it's a flag football game. We just
got to get out of it.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Jimmy and Chicago. Hi, Jimmy, what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Hey?
Speaker 18 (33:16):
Then a great job on family Feud. I just wanted
to say the during the Fast Money, the first question
they asked you how many fingers? I'm not holding up.
I just thought that was bizarre. I just never heard them.
I'm asked that before and out of the danis, who
would you say is the best Uh, it's the best actor.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Mc mclovin included the best actor. Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I don't know if I've seen the full scope of
their acting abilities.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
At least I hope I haven't their range.
Speaker 17 (33:46):
Yes, see Marvin X like he likes us every day
and he's pretty convincing.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
That's okay. I'm gonna give you a bloop on that one.
All right, So Marvin, I guess you're the best actor.
Speaker 17 (33:59):
He acts like he likes this.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
You see how I'm faking this, laught no Seatan's got
the fake laugh.
Speaker 17 (34:05):
I have heal in Tahoe that somebody held a camera
up in my face and they're like, do it?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Uh?
Speaker 12 (34:11):
Do what?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
They're like your laugh? Like Tyler in Utah? Hi, Tyler,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 15 (34:23):
Hey Dan, thanks for calling me back five ten two hundred.
Just wanted to touch on your Paul wardrobe as you're
prepping for the WATS Vegas Grand Prix. Maybe called Bob
in Montana. Get the Elvis stoop, bring that back then
tell them they don't really have to worry about it.
(34:43):
Every race, I'm a photographer. I work with F one,
been taking pictures and races for a long time. Every
race kind of has its own style. Miami kind of
feels like that old miss Tailgate Vegas more frat, you know,
styles they can kind of get away with. Maybe some
the jeans and a polo, things like that. Maybe pick
(35:03):
a team gets some apparel.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, Well, thank you Tyler for the heads up. Yeah,
I'm making plans to take the show to Vegas for
the Formula one race, and I don't know if we'll
be invited to any of these parties, but I want
to make sure that we bring the proper clothes so
we kind of, you know, we fit in. We're part
(35:25):
of the scenery, We're part of the beautiful people that
show up for Formula one. Brian joins us on the program.
Good morning, Brian, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8 (35:35):
Hey five, Dan, I just want to give you some
historical context what you were saying about Michael Phelps, because
you're exactly right. So, in the twenties and thirties, the
United States had thousands upon thousands of public swimming pools,
some of the largest numbers in the developed world, and
after segregation ended, a lot of cities decided just to
(35:57):
fill in their public pools as to not give in
to the law.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
So you're exactly right.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
Generations missed out on knowing how to swim and having
that opportunity to do so, So you are exactly right.
I just want to give a quick shout out. I
lost my Grandma last night, ninety two years old, Shirley
Huge Buckspan her entire life so special. Shout out to her,
and even with a special shout out as a lifelong
Denver Broncos. And I'll end it with this suck at
(36:22):
Philip Rivers.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
All right, Yeah, I think it's I think it's a
cool thing though the Ravens are doing and Michael Phelps
is going to do and helping some of these players
that they might not they may maybe they never learned
to swim, and now you get that opportunity with the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
They got a swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Michael Phelps says, Hey, I'll teach anybody who wants to swim.
And I think it's pretty cool. Alan, and Charleston is
back Alan, hopefully a better connection. Yeah you hear me, Dan, Yes,
I hear you.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Now.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
All right, let me just say to Todd that I
like I said. I'll I'm a seventy seventy year old man,
and I agree with.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Him when I think we got a bad connection. Alan,
let him talk.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Let the man speak.
Speaker 12 (37:07):
He's got something to say.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
All right, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
He's right there with Springsteen and the Beatles. I mean,
even I remember in Vietnam and sixty nine, you didn't
hear the Beatles very much. It was the Stones and
everybody else. So I don't get it, Todd. So hang
in there, brother.
Speaker 12 (37:24):
Thank you? Wow said we needed to be said.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Yes, I just I can't help you.
Speaker 12 (37:32):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I can't, and I can say that about a lot
of things with you, but when it comes to music,
I can't help you. Although Hollan Notes and Billy Joel
are a great artist, and I enjoy both of those artists,
but to just disregard Springsteen and the Beatles is just
it's ignorant.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
I said it. I said what happened, Yes I did.
Speaker 12 (37:54):
The problem is I don't But you got that something.
You got the ear for it.
Speaker 5 (37:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
You don't have the voice for it.
Speaker 14 (38:02):
Oh wow, yeah, sneaking four minutes the show?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
How's that feel?
Speaker 7 (38:09):
You're now?
Speaker 4 (38:10):
You are the whiner.
Speaker 17 (38:11):
Okay, biggest whiner in the bunch, Todd, not even close.
Speaker 14 (38:16):
I wish I would have had Paul Stout of the
thirteen and sixteen record against the Broncos that Rivers had
what he You probably didn't like my whining when I was.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Beating up Why wouldn't you look at I shared a
record of Philip Rivers, who you disliked because he whined
when he faced the Bronx.
Speaker 14 (38:29):
Was a big mistake. It was a total whiff by
me because I would have had that ready to roll.
But he said, are we beat up on your brother?
Thirteen sixt beating?
Speaker 5 (38:35):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
The next time he announced his retirement.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Wow, then Dan, you hit him with the thirteen sixteen record.
Speaker 12 (38:41):
I got it in my back pocket ready to roll.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Scott in Tennessee, Hi Scott, Hey.
Speaker 19 (38:46):
You mister Patrick, Dan, and how y'all doing today?
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Great?
Speaker 19 (38:50):
Hey, family feud. I actually washed it the other night
when it was on, and the previous caller ship three fingers.
I mean we hear that all the time, right, you
get a concussion, you get knocked out, I mean fingers
I'm holding up right, and so three would have been
my answer. But y'all did great on the show. Enjoyed
watching you on that and listening to you.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Hey, Dan, I know.
Speaker 19 (39:09):
That with the packet. Pat McAfee show was in Pittsburgh yesterday.
I'm being an off long Steeler fan. Uh, you know,
the fan base irritates me somewhat because the expectations is
we want one playoff victory and we're satisfied.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
That's bs I want. I want a super Bowl. We
live in Super Bowl trophies, right, so you know that's.
Speaker 19 (39:30):
That's my expectation every year. But talking about the old roster,
we have twelve picks next year, and everybody says, well,
the Steeler's going to draft a quarterback next year, Well,
hold the forward on that. I think we have Will Howard.
I'm hearing great things about him. He's big Ben size,
and you know it's not two point zero. We don't
know that. But why worry about the quarterback next year
when you I think we have one in house. We're older,
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We're going to get younger through the draft, and I
think Tomlin will get us to this. And my expectations
the minimum is vasty championship game. But we have the
talent to compete with anybody.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I agree that you shouldn't be thinking about let's get
a better than five hundred record and let's get a
playoff win. You're the Steelers. You should be thinking about championships. Yes, Marvin,
the Steelers playoff. This is their longest playoff drought in
the Super Bowl era. Yeah, like, what's that twenty seventeen.
That's not good.
Speaker 16 (40:20):
Thank you, Marvin. This stay in sports history. Paul nineteen
thirty two. Dan Enzo Ferrari retired from racing in nineteen
fifty started a car company.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Called Ferrari's Right. I can't get that past anybody.
Speaker 16 (40:33):
Nineteen eighty one to seven week baseball player strike came
to the end.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
There are seven players in baseball history to have hit
two inside the park home runs in the same game.
This guy did it in nineteen seventy two, and I
never would have thought that he would have the speed
to have two inside the park home runs, and he
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hit both of them off Bert Blyleven Dick Allen hit
two inside the park home runs in the same game.
Seven players in history have done that. On this day
to No. Seven, Kevin Garnett traded from Minnesota to the
Boston Celtics. Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Sebastian Telfair,
(41:24):
Theo Ratliffe and two first round draft picks who won
that dre Let's shut that out, I said, snot come
out of my nose there, Okay, Yeah, Snott is running
down his.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Todd What did I learn today?
Speaker 14 (41:45):
Justin Herbert says, Coach Harbor goes into the ice tub
to maximize the recovery.
Speaker 12 (41:48):
They just don't tub together.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
In this Thursday, we'll talk to the former Charger, Philip
Rivers finally got around to announcing his retirement.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
C C.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
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our phone number eight seven seven three DP show. We'll
get to more phone calls coming up, update the poll
results as well. He is a CC Sabbathia Hall of Famer. Now,
how does that feel? Do he called a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Feels good? It feels good. I mean, it's real, now,
you know what I mean. I gave the speech and
had a chance to get up there and see all
the guys, So it feels good.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Your wife doesn't call you hall of favor, does she?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Nobody in this house?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
How nervous? How nervous were you?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Compare that to pitching in a World Series, when you
give your Hall of Fame speech, I.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Was pretty nervous. I mean, you know, knowing you know
from the time that you get elected that you know
you have six months to kind of give this speech
and talk about you know, your life and this life
achievement and who you want to thank and you know,
all these different people. So that that gave me a lot,
a lot of anxiety. But I feel like the way
I delivered my speech and not trying to think a
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bunch of people and just tell stories about you know
who you know, helped me get to this point. I
think that you know, helped me out a lot. But
I'll tell you a quick story about the World Series.
You know, I would get nervous when I walked out
before games or whatever. And you know that postseason and
on nine, I wasn't getting the butterflies. I was just
feeling good, you know, I was feeling kind of fining.
(02:00):
I was feeling like I was going to pitch well.
And you know, I went out for the same thing
in Philly. I went out for Game one. It was
in Yankee Stadium, and everything is fine, Like I feel great,
great October night, and you know, my routine was after
we threw the ball down a second base, I would
go walk to a ride and get the ball from
him with my bare head, and I walked walked over
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to him. He tossed me the ball and he was like,
let's go. I looked at him. I was like, let's go.
And I looked down at the ball and it said,
oh nine fall classic on it, and I immediately broke out.
I hadn't been nervous the whole time. I looked down
and realized that.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I was like, damn, I'm in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I kind of like got back into it, but yeah,
I mean I broke out of a full sweat. Oh
my god, Like this is Game one of the World Series.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
When you're at the Hall of Fame, do you meet
anybody who brings back bad memories?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh? No, not bad memories. You know, just like I'm
a I'm a huge baseball fan, so just you know.
They had a garden party on Friday night that Jane
Forbes Clark hosted, and everywhere I looked around the room,
I'm seeing my favorite player. Like I grew up playing
you know, Nintendo RBI baseball, and it's Ron carew in there,
(03:22):
it's you know what I mean this Your Eddie Murray
is Kim Griffy Junior, is Sandy Kofax, Randy Johnson. I mean,
it's it's everybody's favorite player.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
In the room. And on Friday night, I'm not gonna lie.
I got like a little imposter syndrome. I'm like, should
I I'll.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Be in this group?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You know what I'm saying, Like this is like the
elite of the elite, and to be part of that
that uh, that crew now feels good.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
But but there's nothing like I gave up a home
run to that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I hope he doesn't bring it up.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
No, I mean, and that's that's the perfect time to
bring it up, right, Like, yeah, I mean, yeah, I
gave up a couple of homers in each ye row. Uh,
you know we always tell the story is you know,
it's fun now to be able to tell those stories
in that room because you know you're all on the
same team.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
A couple of home runs to each row.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, yeah, a couple.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Of home wrest But first time so I started throwing
two thousand and six, me and Carl Willis were trying
to figure out an outpitch, and you know, I was
throwing like this big loopy kind of slurf curveball thing.
And we went down to the bullpen and in Oakland
and he was like, I'm a teacher how to throw
a cutter. So we came out of that bullpen session
(04:31):
with like this eighty two mile an hour eighty three
min hour slider, and me in my mind, I'm thinking,
all this thing is disgusting, Like I'm taking this right
into the game, taking it to the game. Get on
to him. Each row, he hit it off the windows
first half back like you know, it's echy, you know
what I mean, Like this, I've seen this thing move
like it's nasty.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
So he comes up again. First pitch, I threw it
to him first pitcher.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Of that bad He hits it out again, but it
ends up becoming like my outpitch, you know what I'm saying,
Like that's the pitch that you know, kind of took
my to the next level.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
And you know, each he loved it the first time
he saw.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well, no, it was his outpitch.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He hit it out of the wallpart who picked out
the Jordans that you wore during your speech.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It was they were actually especially made from Jordan. They
were kind of I made a bunch of shoes my
my last year in twenty nineteen during players weekend, and
they were combined them like a high school shoe that
had some Milwaukee stuff in there, some Cleveland stuff in there.
The cool part about it is I played for three
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teams that have Navy in it, so like, you know,
the the left shoe was navy and gold, and that
represented my Yankee you know, Milwaukee and Cleveland Cleveland days,
and then the right one was red, which represented my
high school. So you know, I'm just forever thankful for
the Jordan family. The way they treat us after retirement
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is special, and you know, I wouldn't want, wanted any
other way to go in in the Hall of Fame
wearing a pair of Jordan's and a pair of threes
up on up on that stage.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Okay, but what was it like the first time you?
I think you were the first baseball player part of
the Jordan brand, or does that sound about it?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I was the third, So it was Derek was the first,
and then it was Andrew Jones and then and then me.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
And what was it like first time you met Michael?
Speaker 7 (06:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It was incredible, you know, he's, Uh, you gotta be
confident when you were around NK. Right, He's, like I
said talked about earlier, is everybody's favorite player. He's he's
the alpha of all alpha. So you gotta, you know,
you gotta be confident when you're around it. But but
I enjoyed spending time with him.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
He's CC Sabbathia, the newly inducted member of the Baseball
Hall of Fame. You know, you did all these things
with the Yankees, but it feels like people still bring
up what happened like the last two months when you're
with Milwaukee, where they were like, uh, three days rest,
CC go out there and get him, and you had
an incredible You knew that you were you were leaving Milwaukee,
(07:00):
they knew you were leaving, but they worked your ass off,
and I you know, I'd still look back on that.
I mean, that's an amazing run. What were your thoughts
when they kept sending you out and it felt like
on three days rest.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, it wasn't. It wasn't so much them. They were
you know, they were kind of freaking out, just along
with everybody else, my agent, you know, everybody except for
kind of me and my wife like I told her,
you know how I felt. And the biggest thing was,
you know, I had got traded from Cleveland, and you know,
I had been in that organization from the time I
was seventeen and that summer I was, you know, twenty
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eight years old. I had been there for you know,
ten and a half years. And you know, when I
walked into the clubhouse in Milwaukee, you know, I was
scared to death. I didn't know what was going to happen.
I had never been in another organization. And I walk
in and my best friend Dave Risky is there. I
played with him in Cleveland. And then Mike Cameron is there,
and Billy Hall is there.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
And Prince Fielder is there, and you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Know, these are still some of my closest friends to
this day. All those guys I just named were in Cooperstown,
you know what I'm saying. So I just didn't want
that season to end. And I felt great, and I
felt like I was gonna go out and win those games.
And it was more and so about me going in
there and telling them a pitching on three days rest
than it was them, you know, asking me or want
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me to do it. It was more and me So
one thing is, you know, during that time, I never
in my career felt like I was gonna you know,
knew that I was gonna win games. And during that time,
I felt like, you know, if you give me the ball,
I can go out and complete the game to win
the game. So I wanted to get that that franchise,
in that in that city into the playoffs. And I
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think it was more about me, you know, telling them
that what I was doing more so than than them,
you know, kind of kind of asking or demanded.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
The car breaking down en route to Cooperstown, that's what
a three and a half hour drive. That took eight
hours or so to get there.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Yeah, three and a.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Half hour drive normally, And for some reason, you know,
normally when we go on a road trip, me and
my wife, we drive all over Marcus, Vineyard, Hampton's, whatever.
If we're on a road trip, she drives so slow
that I'm usually like, I'll meet her at the house
and I'm nearby, you know, an hour before. For some reason,
on that day, I was riding behind her, and you know,
(09:19):
we were just you know, kind of making our way
up there, and we had the kids with us, and
we pull up on the side of the road on
seventeen to get on the on ramp, and she stops.
She's got let a bunch of cars go by, and
so I call her. I'm like, what's going on? And
she was like, my cars just stopped, and I'm like what.
And I can tell them her voice that she was
(09:40):
really irritated and you know, on the verge of kind of,
you know, not breaking down, but kind of crashing out.
And my kids and I can't take anything seriously, So
we all get out of the car. Kids start making tiktoks.
I'm taking pictures on the side of the road. She's
very serious in the back, calling the tow truck.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
But like people starting noticing this is the other side
of the road. They're howking. We're laughing it. It made
for a good time.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And you know, I feel like we know every time
that we're all together, my wife and I and the
four kids and we're traveling, we're gonna something's gonna happen.
So you know, we're used to it and we always
make the best out of it. But thanks for a
good story.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Who gave you the Oakland Raider helmet behind you?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
This is a This is actually a phone my cousin
Dimitris Davis was mister Irrelevant. I think it was in
nineteen ninety and he got all these different gifts from
you know, from every team, you get a gift.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
And this was the phone from the from the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
So that was on the draft, that was on their table.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It must have been on the draft. Yeah, this must
have been on the draft table. So you know, you
get he was mister Irrelevant. You get a bunch of
different trophies and stuff, and this is the one thing
that I kept. And I got this Marcus Allen Super
Bowl Super Bowl helmet right here that always keep up
in you see my Raiders clocket just went down, but
I always have to have something Raiders around.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It seems like you're a football guy more than a
baseball guy.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I'm just a fan of everything. I'm a huge, huge,
huge sports fan, but the Raiders are. I'm die hard Raiders,
like I don't waiver at all. If you you watch
me with my basketball I'm usually picking the best team
just because I'm always in a bad mood after football season,
so I got to pick a win basketball season. If
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the Warriors aren't in it, I'm always going for a winner.
But yeah, I mean I'm just a huge Raiders fan,
and I don't think that'll ever ever lead me.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Okay, what do you think is gonna happen this year?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Hopefully if if, if we can stay healthy, I mean,
the defense is really good. You know, I love Brock Bauers.
I would love to see what Gino Smith is gonna
do for us. But I think if we can stay healthy,
we'll be okay. I mean, obviously we're in in that
division with Mahomes and you know, the Chiefs, and I
think Justin Herbert is great. I even think both Nicks
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and the Broncos are going to be good. So it's
gonna be a tough division. But we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
If you could have Gino Smith as your quarterback or
Tom Brady comes out of retirement.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Oh, I would want Tom Brady to come out of
retirement to like run the organization.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
I need.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I need somebody young, young, with fresh legs. I mean,
I find with you know, being quarterback, as long as
he can stay healthy. But I would want time to
like really be hands on and be running like the
football ops.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yeah, probably gonna happen sooner than later.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I would love that I would love that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Congrats you're always a great guest. We appreciate it. Congrats
on the great career, and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Appreciate it, Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That's CC Sabathia just got inducted into the Baseball Hall
of Fame. There's nothing better that I want to hear
than when somebody says, got a quick story to tell you.
When he tells me about the World Series. When he
looks at the baseball and it says the two thousand
and nine World Series and it's printed on the baseball,
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and the fact that it hit him that he's now
pitching in the World Series, that's what you want. I'd
love when I get stories from these guys. Philip Rivers,
you better be telling stories. Fritzy, he's ready, Oh he is, Okay,
all right, we'll take a break. Then Philip Rivers will
join us. And I know we're backed up with phone calls.
We'll try to sneak those in as well. We're back
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Speaker 2 (14:50):
Waiting for Philip Rivers to join us. Just announce his
retirement and he stopped playing like five years ago. Maybe
this is his s in time announcing that he's retiring,
but he'll join us coming up. I saw this story
that Michael Phelps, the Great Olympian, is going to give
the Ravens players swim lessons. And I wasn't sure exactly
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what this was. But but if it truly is Michael Phelps,
who is a Ravens fan, is going to give the
players swim lessons, I think it's great because here's something
that at least this is how I looked into it.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I read into it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
There's a lot of African American players who probably didn't
get swim lessons, didn't have a pool that was accessible
to them, and here you have Michael Phelps, So now
you can get swim lessons. You're in your twenties or thirties,
and you know, you're probably embarrassed to say that, you know, hey,
maybe I could get swim lesson. Now you can do it,
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and Michael Phelps is going to help you. So I
think it's a wonderful gesture. And I don't know, Marvin,
if you read into it that same way, but I
did that. In the African American community, you didn't have
or don't have accessibility to pools and to learn how
to swim.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
Yeah, for me, I didn't think about that until you
said it. And it makes perfect sense because the previous
generation that's you know, they're forty fifty years old, they
didn't know how to swim because their parents weren't allowed
to go in pools and things like that and had
to go to a deeper topic. But it's pretty much
a generational because you learn how to swim from your parents,
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and a lot of them their parents didn't know how
to swim.
Speaker 12 (16:33):
And so I think that goes a long way from
what you said.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, the team has a new pool, and uh, I
guess there's a lot of players that are going to
take Michael Phelps up on the opportunity to learn how
to swim. He's Philip Rivers. He played in the NFL
for seventeen seasons and now a high school coach. Look
at there, you look good. You look like you're ready
to play? Wait sight Dan, could you play right now?
Speaker 13 (16:59):
Oh yeah, I'm a little heavier than I was, but
I could get through a game now. I made need
a wheelchair the next morning, but oh yeah, I can still,
I can still, I can still play.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Okay, did you need to announce, like, did you retire twice?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
No?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Here, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Maybe.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (17:19):
The reason there was a little bit of a wait
is I honestly wasn't. There were a couple of November
Decembers there in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two where
I was getting I was staying ready.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I was, I was.
Speaker 13 (17:32):
I threw on shoulder pads a few times and the
helmet and was throwing in the yard and.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Working just in case.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And there were a few things that kind of got close.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Uh.
Speaker 13 (17:41):
But then the last two years it's pretty much I've known,
I've been done it really just timed.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I wanted to retire a charger and do it, do
it right with the chargers.
Speaker 13 (17:49):
Over sixteen years, Gates coming up with the Hall of Fame,
one of my favorite all time teammates and lockermate side
by side for uh sixteen years, I was. I was
doing some stuff, some video stuff for him, and I
was like, hey, guys, when are we going to do this?
I want to retire Chargers. Should we do something on video?
And it it just all worked out.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What team or teams called you.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
I knew you were going there. I guess I'd teed
you up for that one that you say it now, No,
I know it doesn't matter.
Speaker 13 (18:17):
Yeah, well, I think you know, it was the year
that the forty nine Ers had the injuries at quarterback,
you know, and uh before early on, before perty really
got going. You know, it was there's still probably six
weeks left in the year, and it was. Uh, so
there was a little interaction I've had there with with
John Lynch. Uh certainly kept in contact with the Colts
that first year year or so out. Uh, when the
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Saints had the injuries. Uh, you know, I think they
called Drew and I both. I remember being on a
phone call with Drew and it was over Christmas and
it was like the first Christmas I've been all, you know,
been off and not playing and uh, and I was like,
I can't believe I'm being considering this, but uh, Drew
and I ended up talking about Hey.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Were you serious?
Speaker 13 (18:56):
It was, and he was asking me if I was serious,
and I was like, it sounds good, you know, it
sounds good in theory, but then it's like, man, I
felt like the later the season went, I was going
to become a guest quarterback, and to me, that just
was what ultimately, ultimately the teams didn't want me to.
It didn't get that far to where it was in
my control, but I didn't want to be a guest quarterback.
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You know, you want to at least have some camaraderie
and in some sense of man, I've been in this on.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
This journey with you guys at least for half a season.
Speaker 13 (19:25):
But when he got to the playoffs, it's like, man,
you're gonna go and play one game and you're either
the hero to help him win or you came in
and cast him a playoff game.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
So it just didn't make whole lot of sense.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, you could have been a Joe Flacco.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Yeah yeah, which, shoot, I thought it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I was.
Speaker 13 (19:42):
I loved watching Joe and pulling for Joe when he
was in that situation.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
But take me back to when you came out of college.
I remember the knock on you was your arm your
arm angle, or how you like how you threw like
it felt like that was one of those you just
didn't throw it the a quarterbacks the other quarterbacks through
the ball.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Yeah, yeah, no it is.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
I think he gradually got less and less awkward. You know,
as even as my career went, there is a uniqueness
to it, and I shoult I appreciate that now, you know,
I hear you hear people say, oh, man, that's how
Philip rivers through the ball. So I guess uniqueness to it.
That's uh ended up being kind of one of my trademarks.
But growing up as the son of a coach, I
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was the ball boy and water boy when my dad
was coaching high school ball five six, seven years old,
and I was throwing a regulations size football. So that's
the only way I could throw it. You know, you
kind of laid it in your hand and uh and
and pushed it. And so then as I grew up,
you know, as I got a bigger and stronger in
my hand could could reach. There's still an element of that,
you know, muscle memory motion that just became my own.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
And and so that's where it was. I remember norm Chow.
Speaker 13 (20:53):
You know, we had We had one of the great
offensive coaches of all time in college football at NC
State my freshman year. And the first day he watched
me practice, he he asked me if I was hurt
you shoulder?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Is your shoulder? Is your shoulder bothering you? And I said, no,
my shoulder is fine.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
And uh.
Speaker 13 (21:11):
He set the tape off to Mike Homern and said,
now you need to take a look at this, and
and and and Coach Chow ended up telling me Homer
and said, if he's not getting balls about it down
and he's accurate, he said, heck with it, leave it alone.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
And so we did.
Speaker 12 (21:23):
We did.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
How is the position changed? Like, what's the most important
part of playing the position?
Speaker 13 (21:33):
I still think and and I I'm biased, I guess
a little bit. I best say if you asked most
pocket passers like myself, they may say this may not.
I still think you got to be able to stand
in the pocket and make quick decisions and be accurate
with the football and and and and throw it from
the pocket on third and eight and crucial situations on
a two minute drive. All those things that that is
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still going to be a necessity of playing the position.
To me, I think it's a bonus. It's a bonus
if you can do the other stuff like many of
these guys nowadays. Can you know the Josh Allens and
Lamar Jackson's and Bo Nicks has the ability to run,
you know, as you know had an unbelievablerookie year. Obviously
mahomes and I'm leaving guys out unintentionally.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
But if you can't do those things, it helps you.
Speaker 13 (22:18):
But you still got to be able to stand in
there and make a throw and take a hit right
under the chin. Because if you can't do that, if
all you can do is just kind of run around
and you're a fifty percent passer, I don't think you
can last.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
He's Philip Rivers, NFL quarterback for seventeen seasons. Fan base
that probably disliked you the most was which fan base? Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Probably the Denver?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Okay, let me can I bring in Fritzie is a
Denver Bronco fan and all my guests, so Fritzie would
always complain that you complained too much, that you wind
too much when you play. This is coming from a
Bronco fen. Would you say that's fair assessment of you?
You were critical. Philip rivers whining.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
Yes, and I hope Philip agrees.
Speaker 14 (23:01):
And I got nothing against the guy, but being a
huge Broncel fan since I'm like seven years old, I
did see like there was a lot of complaining to
the officials, a lot of trash talking. Even though he
didn't cursy. He was always kind, I guess with his
trash talk, but that seemed like a lot of whining
was going on.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
Okay, Phil, Yeah, I can see it. I can see
it coming across as as whining. It was more a
fire and passion and drive to want to win the
stinking game and for the calls to be right and
for the you know, all those things to go. So yes,
it would it be classified as whining in some cases.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'm sure.
Speaker 13 (23:34):
I'm sure it would. I'm not proud of every every moment,
believe me. There's some many that I look at and
I go, man, I lost my mind?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
What was I doing.
Speaker 13 (23:41):
But there's a lot of it that I laugh at,
And then there's a lot of it that I go, man,
I hope people realize how much I love playing. I
love playing just like I was as a kid in
the backyard and I got to do it as a
you know, forty year old all the way through my thirties,
two hundred and fifty times, and that was it was
truly just how you would be in the backyard, you know,
play with your buddies or brothers and arguing and carrying
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on and talking smack and all those things.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But you did it in a polite way, Like how
do you talk trash in a polite way?
Speaker 12 (24:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (24:09):
I don't know if it's necessarily polite. I think sometimes
maybe that's what made it sing a little worse.
Speaker 12 (24:15):
It wasn't.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
It wasn't the four letter words.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Oh wait, wait, how would you talk trash to me
if I'm a defensive player.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
I just sacked you and I got something to say
to you.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Oh I don't know.
Speaker 13 (24:27):
I mean I was gonna say, Dan, I could better
do it with you in your role there. I'd be like, Dan, really,
you're gonna start off the interview at saying I retired twice?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
I mean, come on talking for five years?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
You know?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Hey, will you stop blinding?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
I've retired as something else. How long are you going
to do this?
Speaker 14 (24:45):
Dan?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
How are the kids? What are there ten kids?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Now?
Speaker 13 (24:49):
Yeah, there's a there's ten and I got a little grandson.
I got a little grandson. My oldest two daughters are married,
and my oldest daughter and her husband have a little
little boy that's almost a year old, so that's a blast.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
And then she's the other children growing up fast.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
So I have three that are out of the house
or high school or beyond this year, and then still
seven at home. Three boys, seven girls and three boys.
But they're growing up fast.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Man.
Speaker 13 (25:15):
My oldest son will be the quarterback again this year
at the high school. He's a junior, and he's gonna
have a chance. He's gonna have a chance to play
at the next level, which is exciting. I was gonna
say two back to the throwing motion thing. I threw
that way because I think I had a ball, you know,
a big ball when I was little. He throws that
way a little bit. I don't know if it's just
from watching me or if it's just in our DNA,
(25:36):
but he's a little more over the top. But when
people watch him throw, they go, man, he throws it
like you, and I go, well, he did watch me
play for his whole life growing up.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Why didn't you teach him how to throw like Brady.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Brady's a little throw over the top. You know, it's little
too over the top.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
What about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 13 (25:53):
I like Aaron Rodgers' motion and he flicks it. He
can throw it every different way. My homes kind of
can throw at every different arm angle. I was kidding
about Brady beans over the top. But but I think
the different arm angles is huge. It's key, you know,
it's key to be able to do that because you're
throwing it. People think, you know, to me, the height
thing is not as big of a deal. You know,
Drew Brees won the best ever six you know, six
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foot or so. But is It's not as much a
height deal.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
It's ability to.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
Throw arm angles. None of us are throwing over sixty
six linemen, you know, none of us are. So you
got to be able to throw around and change, uh,
different arm angles as the pocket you know collapses on
here changes uh.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Philip is the head coach at Saint Michael Catholic High
School in Fair Hope, Alabama. How would you assess the
Chargers this upcoming season with Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 13 (26:42):
I'm interested to see them. You know, they made some
made some additions in the off season. You know, they
got a lot of good young offensive linemen. Obviously Derwin
James still kind of the captain over there on that
defensive side. And Justin Herbert is, you know, a heck
of a player, a heck of a player. They they nailed,
they nailed that pick. It was the timing of me
(27:03):
to move on and then to get one. They got
a good one. They got a good one. So uh
excited to see to see them this year. Certainly, I
still pull for the Chargers. I pulled for the.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Colts uh one year there.
Speaker 13 (27:15):
But then also one of my closest coach friends, Shane Stiken,
as the head coach there, and then I pulled for
the Eagles, Sirianni being there. Coach Sirianni was I was
with him a long time with the Chargers as well.
So you find yourself pulling for either coaches you were
with or teammates you know that are either at the
at the at the team you were on, or either
there's somewhere else. You know, you pull for them. On
Sundays and we still watch, We still watch watch all day.
(27:38):
We go to maths on Sunday morning, and uh, we
have games on every TV.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
We can find your longest career run.
Speaker 13 (27:46):
Last career run, I probably I don't know. I know
y'all got the stats and there, Fritzy, what is eleven yards?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
You know it's eighteen.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Eighteen eighteen yard run.
Speaker 13 (27:56):
My favorite run was against the Ravens and playoff divisional
round playoff game.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
A third down and I.
Speaker 13 (28:02):
Kind of got out of there and uh got a
big first down and UH was able to kind of
do the first down sign. You know that you see
all the watouts and backs get to do.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
I felt I felt like a really I felt like
a real athlete. I felt like a real athlete.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
My teammates Keenan Allen, he was miked up on that
play and you can hear him saying.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Do it, do it?
Speaker 15 (28:22):
Do it?
Speaker 6 (28:22):
You know he was like he was like proud of me,
Like I was actually gonna do a little.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Something like a parent watching their kids take their first step.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, But was there somebody slower than you in the
NFL at quarterback?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I believe I could outrun Peyton and Brady.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Okay, yeah, but that still makes you slow though it.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Does definitely definitely wasn't fast.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Roethlisberger Ben could run a.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Little better than me.
Speaker 13 (28:51):
Maybe as we got, you know, as he got later
in his career, maybe, but no, Ben could run. See Ben,
Ben was one of those, uh you know, the throwback
quarterback that could run, you know, and he wasn't gonna
run for seventy but he had a he had an
ability to es capability in the pocket that was that
was unique. I think that certainly helped his his game
and why he had a lot of success.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
If Michael Vick and you ran a forty yard dash.
Speaker 13 (29:16):
That may be one of the fastest men I've ever
seen on a football field. We were at the Falcons
in two thousand and five, I believe it was four
or five.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I wasn't playing. Drew was the starter.
Speaker 13 (29:26):
I was backing up, and he scrambled left down our
sideline and scored and scored with it.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
And ran through the tunnel. And I just remember going,
that's that's just not fair. That's not fair that he
can run like that and thrown.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yeah, let me know, if you retire again, we'll have
you back on. But if not, good luck with the
upcoming high school season.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 13 (29:50):
Dan, And hey, hey, Frintz, you said I probably did
complain and whine, But what made you so mad as
we were beating their tail a lot of times.
Speaker 14 (29:56):
That's man, that's part of the reason why I was
upset with you beat the Broncos to much.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Very right there.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, take that, Todd. Yeah, that's map very impressive. Thank you,
beg you Philip.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
That's Philip Rivers. That's talking trash. That's so good.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Take that, Oh Todd, your face.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
When I brought you what you're like?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I never said that.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You bring up Philip Rivers whining all the time.
Speaker 14 (30:30):
True, And he has a good point because a lot
of times he would kick the Broncos button.
Speaker 12 (30:35):
That makes you frustrated and angry.
Speaker 16 (30:36):
Yes, Paulie, this just into the I Team Philip Rivers
career versus the Broncos thirteen and sixteen.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Ritzy Todd, that was your You gold have returned for share.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
I didn't.
Speaker 14 (30:51):
I should have done a little research while he was
doing his kind trash talk to me under five hundred
against Denver.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
But imagine if somebody is going to trash talk you
but they don't curse, Yeah, like it would it would
sound weird, like dad, gummt you you're.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Gonna get it. I We're gonna score on you.
Speaker 12 (31:14):
Gee will face mask.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
How did you miss that?
Speaker 12 (31:18):
Kicking your tails for Gollie g How did you not
call it?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (31:24):
Crying out loud?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
It's it's kind of like that scene and back to
the future when Michael J. Fox's dad is yelling at Biff, Hey,
you Biff, you get your hands off her? All right,
let me take a break. Last call for phone calls
what we learned? Watch in store tomorrow right after this.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
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Speaker 2 (31:57):
Fun Day Today, Ritchie did a great justin Herbert, Philip Rivers,
c C. Sabathia telling stories. That's what this job is
all about. Get out of the way and let them
tell stories. Alan and Charleston. Hey Alan, what's on your
mind today?
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Thanks Dan? Yeah, Todd, I'm an old man at seventy seven.
I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Oh we got a bad connection?
Speaker 12 (32:26):
Doesn't happened when?
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Interesting that happened yesterday. Somebody's gonna say something nice about you. Yeah,
bad connection.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
I have to agree with Tom.
Speaker 17 (32:39):
Yes, see, why don't we make up for it thing,
because you're right, Dan Todd did do such a great
job today.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Todd, who do you have lined up for tomorrow?
Speaker 12 (32:45):
Lewis Riddick joins us tomorrow and working on a few
other things.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
All right, Okay, every day this is a super Bowl.
It is okay, every single day, every single day.
Speaker 16 (32:59):
Some days it's the Patriots super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
That's fair.
Speaker 17 (33:04):
Once in a while, yeah, Tuesday in the middle of summer. Yeah,
get a Hall of Fame and do that, ton.
Speaker 12 (33:09):
I know. Sometimes it's a flag football game. We just
got to get out of it.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Jimmy and Chicago. Hi, Jimmy, what's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Hey?
Speaker 18 (33:16):
Then a great job on family Feud. I just wanted
to say the during the Fast Money, the first question
they asked you how many fingers? I'm not holding up.
I just thought that was bizarre. I just never heard them.
I'm asked that before and out of the danis, who
would you say is the best Uh, it's the best actor.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Mc mclovin included the best actor. Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I don't know if I've seen the full scope of
their acting abilities.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
At least I hope I haven't their range.
Speaker 17 (33:46):
Yes, see Marvin X like he likes us every day
and he's pretty convincing.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
That's okay. I'm gonna give you a bloop on that one.
All right, So Marvin, I guess you're the best actor.
Speaker 17 (33:59):
He acts like he likes this.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
You see how I'm faking this, laught no Seatan's got
the fake laugh.
Speaker 17 (34:05):
I have heal in Tahoe that somebody held a camera
up in my face and they're like, do it?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Uh?
Speaker 12 (34:11):
Do what?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
They're like your laugh? Like Tyler in Utah? Hi, Tyler,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 15 (34:23):
Hey Dan, thanks for calling me back five ten two hundred.
Just wanted to touch on your Paul wardrobe as you're
prepping for the WATS Vegas Grand Prix. Maybe called Bob
in Montana. Get the Elvis stoop, bring that back then
tell them they don't really have to worry about it.
(34:43):
Every race, I'm a photographer. I work with F one,
been taking pictures and races for a long time. Every
race kind of has its own style. Miami kind of
feels like that old miss Tailgate Vegas more frat, you know,
styles they can kind of get away with. Maybe some
the jeans and a polo, things like that. Maybe pick
(35:03):
a team gets some apparel.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, Well, thank you Tyler for the heads up. Yeah,
I'm making plans to take the show to Vegas for
the Formula one race, and I don't know if we'll
be invited to any of these parties, but I want
to make sure that we bring the proper clothes so
we kind of, you know, we fit in. We're part
(35:25):
of the scenery, We're part of the beautiful people that
show up for Formula one. Brian joins us on the program.
Good morning, Brian, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8 (35:35):
Hey five, Dan, I just want to give you some
historical context what you were saying about Michael Phelps, because
you're exactly right. So, in the twenties and thirties, the
United States had thousands upon thousands of public swimming pools,
some of the largest numbers in the developed world, and
after segregation ended, a lot of cities decided just to
(35:57):
fill in their public pools as to not give in
to the law.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
So you're exactly right.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
Generations missed out on knowing how to swim and having
that opportunity to do so, So you are exactly right.
I just want to give a quick shout out. I
lost my Grandma last night, ninety two years old, Shirley
Huge Buckspan her entire life so special. Shout out to her,
and even with a special shout out as a lifelong
Denver Broncos. And I'll end it with this suck at
(36:22):
Philip Rivers.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
All right, Yeah, I think it's I think it's a
cool thing though the Ravens are doing and Michael Phelps
is going to do and helping some of these players
that they might not they may maybe they never learned
to swim, and now you get that opportunity with the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
They got a swimming pool.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Michael Phelps says, Hey, I'll teach anybody who wants to swim.
And I think it's pretty cool. Alan, and Charleston is
back Alan, hopefully a better connection. Yeah you hear me, Dan, Yes,
I hear you.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Now.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
All right, let me just say to Todd that I
like I said. I'll I'm a seventy seventy year old man,
and I agree with.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Him when I think we got a bad connection. Alan,
let him talk.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Let the man speak.
Speaker 12 (37:07):
He's got something to say.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
All right, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
He's right there with Springsteen and the Beatles. I mean,
even I remember in Vietnam and sixty nine, you didn't
hear the Beatles very much. It was the Stones and
everybody else. So I don't get it, Todd. So hang
in there, brother.
Speaker 12 (37:24):
Thank you? Wow said we needed to be said.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Yes, I just I can't help you.
Speaker 12 (37:32):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I can't, and I can say that about a lot
of things with you, but when it comes to music,
I can't help you. Although Hollan Notes and Billy Joel
are a great artist, and I enjoy both of those artists,
but to just disregard Springsteen and the Beatles is just
it's ignorant.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
I said it. I said what happened, Yes I did.
Speaker 12 (37:54):
The problem is I don't But you got that something.
You got the ear for it.
Speaker 5 (37:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
You don't have the voice for it.
Speaker 14 (38:02):
Oh wow, yeah, sneaking four minutes the show?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
How's that feel?
Speaker 7 (38:09):
You're now?
Speaker 4 (38:10):
You are the whiner.
Speaker 17 (38:11):
Okay, biggest whiner in the bunch, Todd, not even close.
Speaker 14 (38:16):
I wish I would have had Paul Stout of the
thirteen and sixteen record against the Broncos that Rivers had
what he You probably didn't like my whining when I was.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Beating up Why wouldn't you look at I shared a
record of Philip Rivers, who you disliked because he whined
when he faced the Bronx.
Speaker 14 (38:29):
Was a big mistake. It was a total whiff by
me because I would have had that ready to roll.
But he said, are we beat up on your brother?
Thirteen sixt beating?
Speaker 5 (38:35):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
The next time he announced his retirement.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Wow, then Dan, you hit him with the thirteen sixteen record.
Speaker 12 (38:41):
I got it in my back pocket ready to roll.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Scott in Tennessee, Hi Scott, Hey.
Speaker 19 (38:46):
You mister Patrick, Dan, and how y'all doing today?
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Great?
Speaker 19 (38:50):
Hey, family feud. I actually washed it the other night
when it was on, and the previous caller ship three fingers.
I mean we hear that all the time, right, you
get a concussion, you get knocked out, I mean fingers
I'm holding up right, and so three would have been
my answer. But y'all did great on the show. Enjoyed
watching you on that and listening to you.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Hey, Dan, I know.
Speaker 19 (39:09):
That with the packet. Pat McAfee show was in Pittsburgh yesterday.
I'm being an off long Steeler fan. Uh, you know,
the fan base irritates me somewhat because the expectations is
we want one playoff victory and we're satisfied.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
That's bs I want. I want a super Bowl. We
live in Super Bowl trophies, right, so you know that's.
Speaker 19 (39:30):
That's my expectation every year. But talking about the old roster,
we have twelve picks next year, and everybody says, well,
the Steeler's going to draft a quarterback next year, Well,
hold the forward on that. I think we have Will Howard.
I'm hearing great things about him. He's big Ben size,
and you know it's not two point zero. We don't
know that. But why worry about the quarterback next year
when you I think we have one in house. We're older,
(39:51):
We're going to get younger through the draft, and I
think Tomlin will get us to this. And my expectations
the minimum is vasty championship game. But we have the
talent to compete with anybody.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I agree that you shouldn't be thinking about let's get
a better than five hundred record and let's get a
playoff win. You're the Steelers. You should be thinking about championships. Yes, Marvin,
the Steelers playoff. This is their longest playoff drought in
the Super Bowl era. Yeah, like, what's that twenty seventeen.
That's not good.
Speaker 16 (40:20):
Thank you, Marvin. This stay in sports history. Paul nineteen
thirty two. Dan Enzo Ferrari retired from racing in nineteen
fifty started a car company.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Called Ferrari's Right. I can't get that past anybody.
Speaker 16 (40:33):
Nineteen eighty one to seven week baseball player strike came
to the end.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
There are seven players in baseball history to have hit
two inside the park home runs in the same game.
This guy did it in nineteen seventy two, and I
never would have thought that he would have the speed
to have two inside the park home runs, and he
(41:00):
hit both of them off Bert Blyleven Dick Allen hit
two inside the park home runs in the same game.
Seven players in history have done that. On this day
to No. Seven, Kevin Garnett traded from Minnesota to the
Boston Celtics. Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Sebastian Telfair,
(41:24):
Theo Ratliffe and two first round draft picks who won
that dre Let's shut that out, I said, snot come
out of my nose there, Okay, Yeah, Snott is running
down his.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Todd What did I learn today?
Speaker 14 (41:45):
Justin Herbert says, Coach Harbor goes into the ice tub
to maximize the recovery.
Speaker 12 (41:48):
They just don't tub together.
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