April 8, 2026 • 40 mins
Dan and the Danettes wonder if we’ll ever have teams like Phi Slamma Jamma or the Fab Five ever again in today’s college basketball environment. And MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred drops by for a candid conversation about the ABS challenge system and all the changes we can expect to see moving forward.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio. We made it to the final hour on
this Wednesday. The Commissioner Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred, will
join us coming up in about twenty five minutes from now.
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Stretch for the NBA. As we wrap up the regular
season odd Moment last night with Golden State and Sacramento,
and I think Sacramento has got some questions for the
Commissioner that our answers maybe for Commissioner's questions with what
was happening at the end of that game, because it
didn't feel like it was a real finish there. You know,
(00:54):
you can complain complain about, you know, bam Adebayo getting
eighty three points to what was going on in the
last four minutes of that game. I got more questions
with what was going on with the validity of the
Sacramento Kings Golden State Warriors. Last night, here is Draymond
Green of the Warriors talking about trying to understand why
Sacramento leading by one three minutes to go and they
(01:16):
want to foul Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, I think the play in was made for teams
to not take like that's I think that's the part
that everyone forgets. You know, like the playing came about
to make teams like maybe through twelve or thirteen keep going.
They ain't keep going. They kind of slowed down and
then they hit the brakes. So you know, I saw
(01:40):
a team tonight foul Seth Curry with three minutes to
go in the game for no reason inde penalty. It
ain't working.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And then he's right that the play in was supposed
to prevent teams like this from you know, kind of tanking,
not putting their best team on the floor. But these
teams don't care about to play in that. This is
such a top heavy draft, I mean it's a deep draft.
You've got some guys who are going to be playing
right away in the NBA that are going to be available,
(02:13):
and all of these teams are like, we don't want
to win. You know, it's like you want to stay
away from the hot stove. You know, you want to
have your hands back, like I don't want to get
burnt here. That's what it feels like with victories, like no, no, no,
we don't want to mess with any of those pesky w's.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yes, Marv, it's like the Pacers right now, what if
Tyrese Haliburn says, man, I'm ready to come back. No no, no,
we can get Dabansa or Boozer or Peterson, one of
these guys. No, no, you just sit here. It's gonna
be a gap year for us. Well, look at the
Bucks with Yannis. Janis wants to play.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
They don't want him to play where he gets hurt
and then you can't trade him. But I mean, it
feels like it's inevitable there's going to be a separation there.
But Jannis wants to play. But you know, the Bucks
are saying, we're not winning anything. Doc River probably won't
be back next year, and we'll kind of figure out
(03:04):
what we're doing. And you know, the Bucks kept saying
we aren't trying to trade Yannis, but everybody knew that
they were listening to offers. Whether they were initiating offers.
They did listen to people teams that were offering packages
to the Milwaukee Bucks. And you know, I said, he's
going to get traded in the off season. He's not
(03:25):
going to get traded during the season, and he's obviously not.
You know, it'll be in the off season, I believe,
But I don't know what you can get for him.
Should you rebuild if you have Yannis on your team,
should you be in a rebuilding? It feels like with
Yannis you shouldn't rebuild. But that's what it feels like
Milwaukee is going to be doing. So just some of
(03:47):
the things going on here at the end of the
regular season. The Lakers in name only played last night.
They lost one twenty three to eighty seven to OKAC.
The Pelicans scored a hunt hundred and fifty six points
last night as they beat the Jazz, who scored one
thirty seven. What do we close to forty five teams
(04:09):
this year scored one hundred and thirty points and lost
a game. In the NBA stat of the day, stat
of the day, stat of the day snot of the
day status day.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
STATU day statup to day start.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Just out of the Day, brought to you by Panini America,
the official trading card said the Dan Patrick Show. You know,
it's like Anthony Davis was shut down by the Wizards.
It took forever for Trey Young to come back for
the Wizards. I mean, I know what you're doing, and
I don't know what the commissioner can do about this.
I mean, there's so many questions here. When you talk
about tanking, when you talk about load management, when you
(04:48):
talk about this sixty five game threshold to be eligible
for postseason honors. I mean, there's a lot of things
going on with the NBA, and I don't know if
it's an easy fix for the commissioner.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yes, Marv, sorry, super random, maybe not so random. But
somebody on the Pelicans had forty points last.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Night, yeah fears. Oh the rookie, Yeah yeah, okay, yeah,
I think he's nineteen years of age, Yes, from Oklahoma. Yeah. Yeah,
he had forty.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Brandy game the green light. Yeah, but he's been waiting
all season.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yes, yeah, all right, eight seven to seven to three.
DP Show operator Tyler is sitting by Fernando Mendoza, not
going to Pittsburgh. We'll talk to him early next week,
I believe, and uh, two weeks, I think weeks Okay, okay,
not next week, It'll be two weeks, yes, correct, right
around draft on Okay, yeah, it makes sense, but his
(05:43):
team announced they would not be going to the draft.
All right, Seaton poll question for the final hour this
award well, previously award nominated program.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
I think once your award nominated, you're always award nominated. Uh,
this is a shocking poll result. If I were the
likely number one pick in the NFL Draft, I would
attend the draft or stay home with family and friends.
That's at fifty one percent going to the draft. I
am surprised.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Fifty one percent. Yes, you're the number one pick.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
You get there at six pm, you do the red carpet,
you sit down and have some food and drinks. You're
the number one pick.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
You get picked, a.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Couple interviews, then you're on a plane. You're only there
for three hours.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, they're still going to be celebrating by the time
you get back home. Yeah, I mean it might be
a little later.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
But yes, Tod this Fernandamen does become a little more,
a little less likable for someone that's so perfect and
choir boy and all that how you think the average
person processes his decision to not be there.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, let me ask you the average person.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Unless there's some kind of major health problem with a
family member that you know can't get there. But I
think his mom has been to other events like the Heisman.
I am disappointed. I think he should be there. He
should make it his business to be there.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay, well, it's his choice, his family, his moment. This
is how he decides, then he's gonna live it. Good
for him. Would I like him there? Yeah? But this
isn't about me, yeah, seton.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I mean, he's not the first number one overall pick.
He's not even the first Heisman.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Winner to not go to the draft. And it does
feel like we're living more in an era of players
taking control over the things they can control, like whether
or not to go to the draft, regardless of where
you're getting picked. Yeah, yeah, I kind of feel like
I support it, although it's crazy to me to not
want to. This is the one of the things that
I love most about the NFL Draft is this is
(07:33):
all of your dreams just came true.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's why I love watching it.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
You're watching these kids walk across the stage because their
wildest dreams just came true.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
They made it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
They did it.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
It's unbelievable, and they're choosing to not have that moment.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It is really interesting and everybody wants to hug the commissioner, right,
you did it? Yeah, that's the moment.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
You tap them up, you give a big hug, he
gives you the jersey, you put the hat on.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's like, this is what the moment?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yes, marm this kind of seems on brand for him
because last week during the Pro Day, he was like,
I'm not looking forward to being the best player in April.
I'm looking forward to being the best player in September.
He's probably like, all of this pomp and circumstance is
just not my thing. I'm just ready to get the
games going.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Pomp and circumstance, not pompous in circumstance. Correct, Okay, yes, yes,
Tom should or could.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
The league make it mandatory or the NFLPA or agents
would never go along at that? Would they be able
to say if you're an expected top pic. I don't
know how they can figure out exactly, because sometimes you
think you're a topic and then you sit there embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The two rounds, and you know you're answering your own question.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Well, what did I want to the rooms opinion?
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Your opinion?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
If no, they can't, they can't, No way they can
tell what they what's the punishment going to be?
Speaker 11 (08:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Can we check? The Grizzlies are twenty two and a
half point underdogs against the Nuggets tonight. When's the last
time somebody was twenty two and a half point underdogs?
Now Milwaukee is a nineteen and a half point underdog
against Detroit. These teams are putting five players out there, right, not.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Five NBA players. You feel like g Lee call ups
at the end of the season.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Twenty two and a half point underdog against the Nuggets.
Maybe our stat guy John Tuby can help us help
us with them. A couple of phone calls in here,
what Paul.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Can anyone name a current starting Memphis Grizzly Know your Grizzlies? Damn,
we haven't done this in a while because they got
good for a while, so we had to take them
off the list. Know your Grizzlies, Marvin. They've got five
guys injured. By the way, GG Jackson, it's.
Speaker 10 (09:39):
Weird that you know that.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
GG Jackson is on the roster.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
He's out and he's hurt, So.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That doesn't count on the roster because I would have
said John Moran.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
On the roster.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah yeah, Seaton, did you say starter?
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Currently active player for the Grizzlies?
Speaker 7 (09:55):
And I want to say Cam Spencer please? There does
play there out?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Is that the Connecticut kid?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's the only camps you want to give us? The
players who are.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
I got said, because we're going to be here a while,
we're gonna mess up seats, exit.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I gotta I got a show to do.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
My bad Cedric Coward, tough name, Walter Clayton Junior, the third,
Ryan Rupert, Taylor Hendricks among your luminaries.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, Clayton won a national title of Florida, somewhat known. Yeah,
he was a mop, wouldn't he was the most outstanding player?
Speaker 12 (10:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
The Michigan caller yesterday was saying, hey, you guys don't
say enough nice things about Michigan, and I said, they
played great. I don't think they're going to be a
team we remember. I mean, I mean, this is the
era that we're in where these players come together for
you know, one year, and then they're gone. I mean
(10:58):
and it's not about Michigan. It's about college basketball.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We remember Yukon because they went back to back. Florida
they went back to back, but they did have some
bigger names on that Florida team. But I when's the
last great team as far as we're going to remember,
Like I all remember Fi Slamm a Jama they didn't
even win. All remember the Fab five? They didn't even win. Yes, marsh,
(11:24):
So you're saying the last famous team? Yes, tricky, right, Yes,
I guess. And it's not to be disrespectful to Florida,
but you know, you go all that's right. Florida won.
There's a lot of the Oh, that's right, they won, Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Florida went back to back six oh seven because they
went back to back. You knew Brewer and Noah and
the different guys they had there, but they had to
go back to back to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, but those guys played in the NBA, Yes.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
But they were They got a lot of run because
of the back to back. Man, this is a tough one.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't once again even look at the most outstanding
players in the last decade. There aren't marquee guys in there.
Even this year Cado, I mean not a marquee guy
played well, yes, we acknowledge that.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Yeah, I'm going back to two thousand and one Duke
where the names you knew when they were there, Carlos Boozer,
Shane Bettier, Chris Duhan, Mike Dunlavy, Jay Williams all names.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That was one of the great teams of all time,
according to Palm Roy Ken Palm what is it Ken, Yeah,
Ken Palm ade, Yeah, yes, Martin.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
But even the Duke team that won in twenty fifteen,
julil okafor and Justice Winslow, if they had been better
NBA players, yeah, they would have been more famous because
it's very hard to be a Duke team to win
a national title, and you really don't remember those guys
like that.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
But it's strange when you go, my team won, but
damn it, I want you to say they're great or
why won't you talk more about them?
Speaker 10 (13:00):
You won?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Who cares? And they rolled through the tournament. This is
really an impressive run. There's just no there there where
you go, oh my god, did you see that guy play?
They don't have that.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Yeah, Paulie, I was thinking about this yesterday. When they
do the reunion of this team. I don't think they're
putting anybody in the rafters from this team because none
of them were there for more than five or six months.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You know, a couple, but no, they're going to put
the year in the in the rafters. That'll be your banner.
Curtis in Illinois, Hi, Curtis, what's on your mind? Morner
DP A couple things for real quick.
Speaker 13 (13:38):
A little late to the party on the Las Vegas
name game, but I like to be Las Vegas raised
and then I'll see you were fifty and raise you
a Hundi. And then secondly, I was kind of shocked
and thrown back a little bit yesterday I missed the
podcast that they usually listen to when I can't watch
on Peacock to see the post on Facebook about Seaton's
(13:59):
last day. But the cynical side of me got thinking,
because that's how I roll, uh, that maybe Seton is
trying to develop a plan to since you love your
Facebook now, and maybe the content that he can start
creating will get you hooked since you'll actually see it
on Facebook to where you'll want to continue creating content
(14:20):
with Setan after you stop the radio show. So US
fans can still have something to look forward to.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Huh. Well, if you're going to get my attention, you'll
get it on Facebook. I see where Curtis is going,
all right, I see I see what he's all right,
thank you. Lounge.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Yeah, the corduroy lounge.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's got a ring to it.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Paul exclusively on Facebook, Brandon, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I went top bottom corduroy today. Is there a name
for that, you know? How?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Like if you wear denim top and bottom? Is there
a name for a double corduroys?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Like a badass? That's what it is.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
Yeah, yes, Mortroy like multiple things, more Emori, more de Roy.
I'll be here if you need me.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
In the corner.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
No, I won't need you. I'm gonna miss that, laugh Tod. Yeah,
that's a little preview for next week.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
It's corduroy, but it's multiple items, so it'll be.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
More to.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Sean and Daytona beach. Hi, Sean, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10 (15:28):
God?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
How the hell do I follow that?
Speaker 11 (15:30):
Dan? Very easily, long time, very easily, long time, long time.
Thank you for calling me back. I have to take
a deep breath. I've been watching the seat and sign
offs on peacock, and I just want to frame this
so everyone can understand. I spent thirty years going around
the country doing drive time radio, so I kind of
(15:51):
have a little bit of an idea of professionally what
Seaton brought to the show. I watched it grow.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
I hung with you guys since since the man I'm
getting choked up. I'm sorry, guys, it's since the attic.
Just thank you for everything's seating best bumpers in the business.
You really brought so much of the show. So happy
for you and your family as you continue to grow. Dan,
thank you for everything you've done and then you've brought
to him personally and shared with us. Thank you, guys,
(16:16):
Thank you s eating all the best and can we
get one more official final Tony romo before you go?
Speaker 10 (16:21):
Buddy? Thanks.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh, I think we're going to load up on Friday, though, Sean,
we'll play the hits on Friday. I don't know you well,
we'll take requests. Rich Eisen reached out and wants to
say goodbye to you on Friday, Suon.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, that's Rich has always been very nice to me. Yeah,
he reached out, very supportive, said I like that guy,
I want to say goodbye. I appreciate that I was
suggesting he had you on his show to do that. Yeah, like,
why don't you use your show to say goodbye? Doing
an empty segment five minutes? Then you could go back.
Since Rich is on ESPN, you could be back on
(17:01):
ESPN Radio, back to the mothership. There you go, Yeah,
there you go. Okay, let's take a break. Let's get
ready for the commissioner. Be on our best behavior, Todd,
don't say anything stupid.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I'll try not to.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
All right, we'll take a break back after this.
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Speaker 2 (17:55):
Dodger manager Dave Roberts join us on the program tomorrow,
make way for the Missioner Major League Baseball. He's been
there since twenty fifteen. Rob Manfred back on the show, Commissioner,
Good to see you. How's morale?
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Hey, Dan Morell is very high here at MLB.
Speaker 14 (18:11):
Off to a great start, great World Baseball Classic, and
really good start to the season.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'm curious about you had the fight last night and
when that does that get to your desk of you
getting involved in that?
Speaker 14 (18:27):
Yeah, usually that kind of on field incident, Mike Hill
will handle. He makes a recommendation, and you know, we
kind of go from there. Though only if it's a
really kind.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Of out of the ordinary problem. Would I get involved?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
When's the last one you got involved in that?
Speaker 14 (18:48):
Gosh, I can't even I think the last one I
got involved with involved a player and a fan incident.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
It was several years ago, and I can't tell you
the player or the team the truth. It's rare.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's rare, the abs kind of letting that kind of
trickle into Major League Baseball. How would you say reaction
has been so far.
Speaker 14 (19:11):
I think the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
You know, I thought that my.
Speaker 14 (19:18):
Expectation was that the players would really like it, the
opportunity to, you know, correct a miss at a crucial
point in the game. What actually surprised me, Dan is
how popular it's been with fans. I don't know if
you've been in a ballpark yet, but you know, the
challenge happens.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Everybody's kind of glued to the humble John. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Oh, I love it. I guess my only if you
want to call criticism would be the umpire. They can't
be taking this too kindly. That they're being embarrassed might
be a strong word, but they're being judged by everybody.
Everybody is reacting to that umpire. What kind of reaction
(20:01):
have you gotten from the umpires on this?
Speaker 14 (20:04):
I think the umpires have reacted with professionalism. I mean,
we had a lot of conversation with them about the
implementation of this. I think it's important to bear in mind,
and it's important for me to say.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Publicly, you know, they're right.
Speaker 14 (20:21):
Nearly ninety four percent of the time, which is an
astounding number when you think about how difficult it is,
and most of the challenges are pitches that are in
or out by less, you know, less than or about
half an inch.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
So you know, you can't be too critical of people.
Speaker 14 (20:38):
I mean, I understand, you know, you do get fans,
they get on them, but I think they knew what
to expect, and in general, our umpires want the game
to be as good as possible, and I think they
see it as an improvement in the game.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
When do we get to full time?
Speaker 10 (20:55):
You know, look, I.
Speaker 14 (20:56):
Think that we're a few weeks in to implementation. I
think that we made a good decision by you know,
listening to fans, listening to players, that we should do
a challenge system, we shouldn't go to full ABS. So
we're just too early in the process for me to
even think about any change to the system.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
Right now. I think we're pretty satisfied with where we are.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And I like the element of the stadium with the fans,
and I would be dressing it up. You know, it's
like a game show, you know, you know, was it right,
was it wrong? You show it, the crowd reacts. I
think it's it's a fun element where you're you're you're
treating with something serious, but it is a fun element
with that, and I think that it's got overwhelmed.
Speaker 14 (21:43):
I agree, it's a I think it's a you know,
a former fan engagement. The other thing I think that
it is important to keep in mind is, you know,
we pull our fans about these changes, you know, routinely
before we do them, after we do them, and you know,
the challenge system was the one that our fans overwhelmingly favored.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
What do fans not want when you do these polls
with them?
Speaker 10 (22:11):
Oh, there's things that they all want.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Trust me, it's number one. What's number one? Where you go, Boy,
they don't like this.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (22:19):
Look, I think of the things that we've done, the
one that's the most controversial among our fans is the
extra ending world the run around second base. That's the
one that is you know, the most evenly split among fans.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
I hated, but you know, it is an interesting thing.
Speaker 14 (22:39):
I think that overwhelmingly players like it. You know, it
does prevent the eighteen inning game and the prospect of
somebody who's an outfielder trying to go up on the
mountain pitch and getting hurt. I really do see it
as a health and safety issue.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
But in recognition of your view of the world.
Speaker 14 (23:06):
Our most important games that are playoff games, we play
them out still.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, but I'm the you know, get off my lawn
guy that it's just it's still a weird visual where
you go and we go to the tenth inning and
you see some guy at second base? Is it? Is
it here to stay?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Look? I think that it is here to stay.
Speaker 14 (23:30):
I think the health and safety concern, the popularity of
it among the players, I think it's one that is
going to be with us.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
He's the commissioner Major League Baseball. Your contract expires January
twenty nine.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Yeah, yeah, early in twenty nine, right.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Okay, but you could sign up before then if you
wanted to extend correct.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yeah, I could sign up before then if I wanted
to extend.
Speaker 14 (23:57):
Rarely, you know, as commissioner's contracts in baseball gone all
the way to the end. But you know, I was
up front with the owners when I did my last
deal that this was going to be it for me,
and I'm pretty committed to that position.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Are you involved in approval of stadiums?
Speaker 14 (24:14):
Yeah, there's certain The Commissioner's office has certain requirements for
stadiums that are reviewed to make sure they're in conformity
with you know, major league requirements in terms of what
a stadium must be.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
But as far as you know, a roof retractable.
Speaker 14 (24:30):
Like those are local decisions, you know, in terms of
whether they're going to be retractable, the basic design of
the stadium.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Those are ones that clubs make.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But what happens if a team says, you know, what
we want to bring our fences in, they have to check.
Speaker 14 (24:48):
With the office to make sure that the dimensions of
the field still conform with the minimum standards that we require.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Labor issues are never good content for radio or two.
But let me just ask you from a fans perspective,
what is it that I need to know about Major
League Baseball moving forward with the potential labor issues.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
I think the most important thing for our fans to.
Speaker 14 (25:15):
Know is we're going to provide them a great twenty
twenty six season, and while they're watching that great twenty
twenty six season, we're going to be working hard to
get a labor deal done.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What's the big hold up? What could potentially be the
big hold up?
Speaker 14 (25:31):
Just not at a point in the process where I
can really give you a good answer to that, Dan,
it's just.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Too early and you're shaking me off here. You're like,
you're like Kershawn Mound here, what's going on here? Usually
you give me a little bit of something. Listen, listen
to your own introduction.
Speaker 10 (25:47):
There's nothing good about this conversation, right.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
What sport do you learn the most from? Aside from baseball?
Speaker 14 (25:57):
Oh, I pay a lot of attention to football and basketball.
I think that you know, I'm a fan of both
of those sports growing up, and you know, pay a
lot of attention to what they're doing. You know, for example,
like NBA games, I watched their instant replay carefully because
I think it's something that runs contrary to an issue
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that we've been very aggressive about, which is time a game. Obviously,
you want to get it right, but you don't want
to interrupt the flow of the game or delay the
game make it longer. So, you know, that's an example
of something we pay a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And that takes me back to the ABS. Because you
want to speed up the game, you're slowing down the
game because you're going to review it, as opposed to
it's going to be on the jumbo tron with every
pitch eventually and therefore you know it will keep the
game moving that we won't be slowing down. So how
how important does that tap the helmet and get that review?
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How quickly you get that review?
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Yeah, it is an issue.
Speaker 14 (27:01):
It is the one topic on ABS that I've raised
in the last couple of our staff meetings, and the
data shows we're like a minute and.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
A half.
Speaker 14 (27:12):
Longer associated with ABS. That's a price I'm prepared to pay.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Who came up with robots like that? That to me
was the negative part of this. People go, are you
gonna have robots behind home plate? And I go, no,
they'll be umpires? Like but who did the media do this?
You can believe the media did that.
Speaker 14 (27:30):
We I mean we as a matter of fact, if
you kind of look back when people are asking me
about it, when they asked me about robo umpires, I
uniformly correct the fact that it is a system that
assists a live person in doing his job better, his
or her job better. You know, we always call it ABS,
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and I agree with you that the moniker of you know,
robot or the overlay of referring to it as a
robot is a negative thing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
When's the last time your phone rang after midnight East
Coast time. Baseball wise, it's.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
Been a while.
Speaker 14 (28:11):
I mean, you know, there's periods of time where it happens,
but it has been a while, and certainly not during
the twenty twenty sixth season yet.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Okay, all right, Well we're off to a good start.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
No, we have you know, we have been kind of you.
Speaker 14 (28:23):
Know, look, we had the little uproar in the Angels
Braves game last night, but you know, it's been pretty
quiet so far in terms of the play of the
game on the field. The games have been great and
you know, mostly.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
Positive so far.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
The WBC. I hate that we're gonna lose momentum on
this again. Can you do it every two years?
Speaker 11 (28:49):
You know?
Speaker 14 (28:50):
Look, I think that we're going to have a meeting
on the WBC, which we always do after it is completed.
I think that the event was so successful this time
that we need to talk about frequency, regularity of schedule.
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You know, we haven't even I mean, it's one thing
to not do it every year. Our problem because of
COVID and labor negotiations whatever.
Speaker 10 (29:18):
It's it's not even you can't even say it's every
four years.
Speaker 14 (29:23):
And you know, we do need to get into given
how popular it is, we need to get into a
regular rotation. I think the most important reason for that
is fans, But I'll give you another reason.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
You know, our.
Speaker 14 (29:35):
Broadcast partners were out in force at the WBC Partner Finals,
and you know, I think this is going to be
a piece of our national broadcasting agreements, and obviously to
do that, it has to be on a regular schedule.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
All right, Well, we'll keep an eye on you. We're
grading you all the time as.
Speaker 14 (29:58):
You should, as you should, Dan, you know, I mean
you know we, like you said, you got umpires who
were subject to scrutiny.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
I certainly should be as well.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I go back to Bowie Que. I was there Booie's
last day in office. Really, yeah, I went when he
was packing up.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
Yeah, I'm I missed Booie. But I was. Actually when
I first started as an outside lawyer.
Speaker 14 (30:24):
I was in a meeting where Peter, You were off, Fay,
Vincent Bartchamadi, bud Seal League and I were all in
the meeting and there were only seven.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
People in the room, which you think about that's five
out of ten. Right, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Okay, last day you get to take one thing out
of the office.
Speaker 15 (30:47):
You know, I have a I'm gonna betray myself. I
have a drawing of Mickey Mannle that a fairly well
known baseball artists did sort of as I had done
a speech for them, and it was the honorarium for
doing the speech.
Speaker 14 (31:08):
You know, I grew up a Yankee fan. My very
first game was in nineteen sixty eight. It was mantals
last year, but believe it or not, he hit two
home runs in the game, one from each side of
the plate. It was the last time he ever did it.
And I'm taking that Mickey Mantle drawing with me no
matter what.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Thank you, Rob, good to talk to you.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
It's great to talk to you Dan. As always, I
always enjoy.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It, And so the Commissioner Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred.
You know, people always ask me, Hey, what are you
going to take when you leave here? And I'm going
to take Fritzy. I'm going to make sure that you
get out of the building great, and my last day,
I'm taking Fritzy.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Let me take a break once again. Dave Roberts of
the Dodgers tomorrow on the program, We'll come back. Last
call for phone calls, what we learn, what's at store tomorrow?
After this?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
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Speaker 2 (32:10):
You know, the commissioner didn't back away from the WBC.
Maybe every two years. You know, when it's four years,
it just loses momentum. There the players who were involved
in the previous WBC might not be around. I know
that we wanted to be special, but I don't know
if we need to wait four years for the WBC
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even three. I mean, this isn't the World Cup, you know,
it's it's the WBC and it's part of spring training.
Yes more, you.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Took the words out of my mouth.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
It hasn't been around long enough to consider it like
really special, like the Olympics of the World Cup, like
you said.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Uh yes, Baulie.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
I brought this up years ago and it got severely
poo pooed. I think someday the World Cup and the
Olympics will go to every three years because over a
twenty year span you could make so much more money,
which it always goes that way. I think it's gonna
be a have to accept because it would be less special.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
But it'll happen.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I mentioned Memphis is a twenty two and a half
point underdog tonight, the largest NBA underdogs since twenty fifteen.
Let me see if I have Oh yeah, Utah Jazz.
They were twenty five and a half point underdogs against OKC.
The thunder covered the Jazz again, come on down, and
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twenty twenty five, were twenty three point underdogs against the
Minnesota Timberwolves. The Wizards this year, twenty two and a
half point underdogs against the Knicks, the Wizards again, twenty
one and a half point underdogs against OKAC that was
twenty twenty six, and the Brooklyn Nets at twenty one
and a half point underdog against the Timberwolves twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
Yes, Buck, this is a really telling stat I mean,
this shows that this is peak tanking. That all five
of those lines are teams that are tanking, and they
all happened this past season. That's a message for the commission.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah see where you going to say something?
Speaker 7 (34:04):
Oh, yeah, you know, I had something in the World
Baseball Classic. Actually, but I think I think the scarcity
is part of what makes it special. And the more
you whittle away at that or chip away at it,
the less special it becomes. If you look at the
NFL or you look at college football, what makes it
special is that it's few games. If you add those games,
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or you keep getting more games and more games, and
it becomes less special. The NFL is slowly becoming less
special because you can watch it every single night. It's
not an appointment to view because it's always on.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
A couple of phone calls in here Thomas in Mississippi.
Hey Tom, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call. I just wanted
to go back to the Brave Angels kerfuffle last night,
and I think I think a lot of national media
may be burying the lead, which is white, sixty two
year old manager, very stereotypical looking manager form tackling six
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foot four two and forty pounds Jorge Hilaire to kind
of nullify the threat there. Apparently Walk can really handle himself.
I think he has the black belt, throws around a
lot of weight in the gym, and that's my manager.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah. Uh, Trip in Vegas is back, Hi Trip, Hey.
Speaker 16 (35:27):
Good one again. I always good to speak with y'all.
Had a question for everyone kind of deals with what
you were talking about. Last a little bit of something
for seedon do you think is the best or the
non winner that people think one? Would that be Dan Marino,
the five, Slama Gama or the Fab five? And then
my thing for Seeden is this will miss you, but
do me a favor. Do not let Todd book your flights.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
It's a good call.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
It's a very good call.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It's a good call. I can't even fathom.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Connecticut to Florida's Vegas?
Speaker 10 (36:00):
What are you trying to?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Like?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
When you told me that and I said, did you
connect you? You said, yeah, I go, uh Chicago? He
goes no, d C No. And I go where he goes, Jacksonville.
I go, You're going to Vegas.
Speaker 14 (36:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
On the surface, that doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
But based on some of the other flights I was looking,
I must have missed something.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
I'm like, I don't want to land in Oha.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
What if it's all cold and snowy there?
Speaker 10 (36:25):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
When you go to Landitsburg is I'm connecting in DC?
Speaker 9 (36:28):
My way to Pittsburgh, I'm connecting in DC. I don't
want to do that, but that's basically based on the
flights and that we're doing a show Monday before we
fly to Pittsburgh. I was looking for a mid afternoon
flight and out of Bradley it's not NonStop stop.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
And Cherry and Seattle joins this. Hi, Terry, what's on
your mind?
Speaker 17 (36:44):
Hey, good morning Dan from the great Pacific Northwest. I
wanted to give a shout out the seat and for
all the great years of entertainment and he by far
has the greatest laugh in broadcasting. I had a question
for the Room Masters. If you had a chance to
caddy the last round for any of the past Masters
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champions in history of who would you Whose bag would
you take? I'm going to go with Arnold Palmer.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Yeah, I would take Arnie as well. Not understanding the
magnitude of Arnie when I was younger, but then being
around him and one of my favorite moments I was
in Portland. We were doing the show and the Fred
Meyer Challenge I believe it was, and we were out
there and Peter Jacobson was the host and we were
(37:35):
doing our radio show and all of a sudden, Jack
and Arnie are walking up the eighteenth Fairway and Peter
Jacobson is waiving me, and I'm thinking, what does he
want me to do? And I went out and walked
up eighteen with Jack and Arnie. And that's one of
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those moments that you'd ever think think about you like,
you're going, on, am I What am I doing here?
How did I get here? And I remember talking to
Arnold Palmer after the round. He had these huge hands too.
Remember he shook my hand like man Ernie, but Arnie
was Arnie was like James Bond playing golf.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
There was just something about smoking heaters, his shirt, his
sleeves rolled up and you know, private jet, who knows
what else. Yes, Paulie, you.
Speaker 8 (38:26):
Could caddy for Jack or Arnold. I would go with
Danny Willett. That would be a legendary, you know, a
little sneaky Danny Willett.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, Okay, not many people. Yeah, even Danny Willett's caddy
would probably say, no, I really caddy for Tigers. Charles Schwartzell,
Charles Schorschell that Todd, don't even try to say that one.
Charles Schwey, like.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Gary Player, is the guy I would like to go with.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Why it just seems like a really nice guy.
Speaker 9 (38:56):
It just seems like someone that I think I would
have a good time one.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
But you have to carry the bag.
Speaker 9 (39:02):
Though I understand that I all love that point, but
I did something about Gary play rubs me in a
very good positive.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
About this day in sports history.
Speaker 8 (39:08):
Paul rubs me in a good positive way. Nineteen seventy four, Dan,
you love this guy. Hank Aaron home run seven point
fifteen to break Babe Ruth record.
Speaker 11 (39:17):
That's odd?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
How did it sound? There's a drive?
Speaker 14 (39:19):
It might be?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
This is it?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
It's gone, it's seven fifteen.
Speaker 10 (39:24):
It's seven fifteen.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
There's a new home run kit of all time. That's
Henry Aaron.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Gonna miss that, Seaton extremely. I'll get to watch it
on TV. Though, what else, PAULI, that's it?
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Let it stand alone?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Oh, that's it, okay. Nineteen sixty nine, On this day,
four expansion teams Kansas City Royals, Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres,
Seattle Pilots all win their first games. All win their
first games. Thanks for the phone calls, thanks for the emails, tweets,
They all around support. Let's go around the infield and
see what we learned on the program, Todd, do you
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learn anything to Randall.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
Shamblee believes Tiger Woods would have won a lot more
events if he never took up weightlifting.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
He said a lot, he said, like twenty five majors
over one hundred tournaments. He said, but you know lifting weights, Seatan,
what'd you learn today? The commissioner's feeling good. Yeah he should.
He's been a good start for Major League Baseball. But
he wanted no part of those labor issues. He shook
me off twice, like a.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Sorry, we're gonna have a great twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
No, you had your chance.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
Oh dude, let's live in the presence. Marvin Seetan wants
to take that apology back.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
We ran out of time. We can't go to Paulks.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Twenty five seconds left.
Speaker 9 (40:44):
That's plenty of time.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Thanks for joining us. The countdown continues. We'll talk to
you tomorrow. Have a great day, everybody,
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Stretch for the NBA. As we wrap up the regular
season odd Moment last night with Golden State and Sacramento,
and I think Sacramento has got some questions for the
Commissioner that our answers maybe for Commissioner's questions with what
was happening at the end of that game, because it
didn't feel like it was a real finish there. You know,
(00:54):
you can complain complain about, you know, bam Adebayo getting
eighty three points to what was going on in the
last four minutes of that game. I got more questions
with what was going on with the validity of the
Sacramento Kings Golden State Warriors. Last night, here is Draymond
Green of the Warriors talking about trying to understand why
Sacramento leading by one three minutes to go and they
(01:16):
want to foul Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, I think the play in was made for teams
to not take like that's I think that's the part
that everyone forgets. You know, like the playing came about
to make teams like maybe through twelve or thirteen keep going.
They ain't keep going. They kind of slowed down and
then they hit the brakes. So you know, I saw
(01:40):
a team tonight foul Seth Curry with three minutes to
go in the game for no reason inde penalty. It
ain't working.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And then he's right that the play in was supposed
to prevent teams like this from you know, kind of tanking,
not putting their best team on the floor. But these
teams don't care about to play in that. This is
such a top heavy draft, I mean it's a deep draft.
You've got some guys who are going to be playing
right away in the NBA that are going to be available,
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and all of these teams are like, we don't want
to win. You know, it's like you want to stay
away from the hot stove. You know, you want to
have your hands back, like I don't want to get
burnt here. That's what it feels like with victories, like no, no, no,
we don't want to mess with any of those pesky w's.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yes, Marv, it's like the Pacers right now, what if
Tyrese Haliburn says, man, I'm ready to come back. No no, no,
we can get Dabansa or Boozer or Peterson, one of
these guys. No, no, you just sit here. It's gonna
be a gap year for us. Well, look at the
Bucks with Yannis. Janis wants to play.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
They don't want him to play where he gets hurt
and then you can't trade him. But I mean, it
feels like it's inevitable there's going to be a separation there.
But Jannis wants to play. But you know, the Bucks
are saying, we're not winning anything. Doc River probably won't
be back next year, and we'll kind of figure out
(03:04):
what we're doing. And you know, the Bucks kept saying
we aren't trying to trade Yannis, but everybody knew that
they were listening to offers. Whether they were initiating offers.
They did listen to people teams that were offering packages
to the Milwaukee Bucks. And you know, I said, he's
going to get traded in the off season. He's not
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going to get traded during the season, and he's obviously not.
You know, it'll be in the off season, I believe,
But I don't know what you can get for him.
Should you rebuild if you have Yannis on your team,
should you be in a rebuilding? It feels like with
Yannis you shouldn't rebuild. But that's what it feels like
Milwaukee is going to be doing. So just some of
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the things going on here at the end of the
regular season. The Lakers in name only played last night.
They lost one twenty three to eighty seven to OKAC.
The Pelicans scored a hunt hundred and fifty six points
last night as they beat the Jazz, who scored one
thirty seven. What do we close to forty five teams
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this year scored one hundred and thirty points and lost
a game. In the NBA stat of the day, stat
of the day, stat of the day snot of the
day status day.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
STATU day statup to day start.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Just out of the Day, brought to you by Panini America,
the official trading card said the Dan Patrick Show. You know,
it's like Anthony Davis was shut down by the Wizards.
It took forever for Trey Young to come back for
the Wizards. I mean, I know what you're doing, and
I don't know what the commissioner can do about this.
I mean, there's so many questions here. When you talk
about tanking, when you talk about load management, when you
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talk about this sixty five game threshold to be eligible
for postseason honors. I mean, there's a lot of things
going on with the NBA, and I don't know if
it's an easy fix for the commissioner.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yes, Marv, sorry, super random, maybe not so random. But
somebody on the Pelicans had forty points last.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Night, yeah fears. Oh the rookie, Yeah yeah, okay, yeah,
I think he's nineteen years of age, Yes, from Oklahoma. Yeah. Yeah,
he had forty.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Brandy game the green light. Yeah, but he's been waiting
all season.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yes, yeah, all right, eight seven to seven to three.
DP Show operator Tyler is sitting by Fernando Mendoza, not
going to Pittsburgh. We'll talk to him early next week,
I believe, and uh, two weeks, I think weeks Okay, okay,
not next week, It'll be two weeks, yes, correct, right
around draft on Okay, yeah, it makes sense, but his
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team announced they would not be going to the draft.
All right, Seaton poll question for the final hour this
award well, previously award nominated program.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
I think once your award nominated, you're always award nominated. Uh,
this is a shocking poll result. If I were the
likely number one pick in the NFL Draft, I would
attend the draft or stay home with family and friends.
That's at fifty one percent going to the draft. I
am surprised.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Fifty one percent. Yes, you're the number one pick.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
You get there at six pm, you do the red carpet,
you sit down and have some food and drinks. You're
the number one pick.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
You get picked, a.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Couple interviews, then you're on a plane. You're only there
for three hours.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, they're still going to be celebrating by the time
you get back home. Yeah, I mean it might be
a little later.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
But yes, Tod this Fernandamen does become a little more,
a little less likable for someone that's so perfect and
choir boy and all that how you think the average
person processes his decision to not be there.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, let me ask you the average person.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Unless there's some kind of major health problem with a
family member that you know can't get there. But I
think his mom has been to other events like the Heisman.
I am disappointed. I think he should be there. He
should make it his business to be there.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Okay, well, it's his choice, his family, his moment. This
is how he decides, then he's gonna live it. Good
for him. Would I like him there? Yeah? But this
isn't about me, yeah, seton.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I mean, he's not the first number one overall pick.
He's not even the first Heisman.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Winner to not go to the draft. And it does
feel like we're living more in an era of players
taking control over the things they can control, like whether
or not to go to the draft, regardless of where
you're getting picked. Yeah, yeah, I kind of feel like
I support it, although it's crazy to me to not
want to. This is the one of the things that
I love most about the NFL Draft is this is
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all of your dreams just came true.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's why I love watching it.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
You're watching these kids walk across the stage because their
wildest dreams just came true.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
They made it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
They did it.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
It's unbelievable, and they're choosing to not have that moment.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It is really interesting and everybody wants to hug the commissioner, right,
you did it? Yeah, that's the moment.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
You tap them up, you give a big hug, he
gives you the jersey, you put the hat on.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's like, this is what the moment?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yes, marm this kind of seems on brand for him
because last week during the Pro Day, he was like,
I'm not looking forward to being the best player in April.
I'm looking forward to being the best player in September.
He's probably like, all of this pomp and circumstance is
just not my thing. I'm just ready to get the
games going.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Pomp and circumstance, not pompous in circumstance. Correct, Okay, yes, yes,
Tom should or could.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
The league make it mandatory or the NFLPA or agents
would never go along at that? Would they be able
to say if you're an expected top pic. I don't
know how they can figure out exactly, because sometimes you
think you're a topic and then you sit there embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The two rounds, and you know you're answering your own question.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Well, what did I want to the rooms opinion?
Speaker 10 (08:34):
Your opinion?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
If no, they can't, they can't, No way they can
tell what they what's the punishment going to be?
Speaker 11 (08:40):
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Can we check? The Grizzlies are twenty two and a
half point underdogs against the Nuggets tonight. When's the last
time somebody was twenty two and a half point underdogs?
Now Milwaukee is a nineteen and a half point underdog
against Detroit. These teams are putting five players out there, right, not.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Five NBA players. You feel like g Lee call ups
at the end of the season.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Twenty two and a half point underdog against the Nuggets.
Maybe our stat guy John Tuby can help us help
us with them. A couple of phone calls in here,
what Paul.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Can anyone name a current starting Memphis Grizzly Know your Grizzlies? Damn,
we haven't done this in a while because they got
good for a while, so we had to take them
off the list. Know your Grizzlies, Marvin. They've got five
guys injured. By the way, GG Jackson, it's.
Speaker 10 (09:39):
Weird that you know that.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
GG Jackson is on the roster.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
He's out and he's hurt, So.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That doesn't count on the roster because I would have
said John Moran.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
On the roster.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah yeah, Seaton, did you say starter?
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Currently active player for the Grizzlies?
Speaker 7 (09:55):
And I want to say Cam Spencer please? There does
play there out?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Is that the Connecticut kid?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's the only camps you want to give us? The
players who are.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
I got said, because we're going to be here a while,
we're gonna mess up seats, exit.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I gotta I got a show to do.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
My bad Cedric Coward, tough name, Walter Clayton Junior, the third,
Ryan Rupert, Taylor Hendricks among your luminaries.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, Clayton won a national title of Florida, somewhat known. Yeah,
he was a mop, wouldn't he was the most outstanding player?
Speaker 12 (10:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
The Michigan caller yesterday was saying, hey, you guys don't
say enough nice things about Michigan, and I said, they
played great. I don't think they're going to be a
team we remember. I mean, I mean, this is the
era that we're in where these players come together for
you know, one year, and then they're gone. I mean
(10:58):
and it's not about Michigan. It's about college basketball.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We remember Yukon because they went back to back. Florida
they went back to back, but they did have some
bigger names on that Florida team. But I when's the
last great team as far as we're going to remember,
Like I all remember Fi Slamm a Jama they didn't
even win. All remember the Fab five? They didn't even win. Yes, marsh,
(11:24):
So you're saying the last famous team? Yes, tricky, right, Yes,
I guess. And it's not to be disrespectful to Florida,
but you know, you go all that's right. Florida won.
There's a lot of the Oh, that's right, they won, Yes, Paulie.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Florida went back to back six oh seven because they
went back to back. You knew Brewer and Noah and
the different guys they had there, but they had to
go back to back to do it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, but those guys played in the NBA, Yes.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
But they were They got a lot of run because
of the back to back. Man, this is a tough one.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't once again even look at the most outstanding
players in the last decade. There aren't marquee guys in there.
Even this year Cado, I mean not a marquee guy
played well, yes, we acknowledge that.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Yeah, I'm going back to two thousand and one Duke
where the names you knew when they were there, Carlos Boozer,
Shane Bettier, Chris Duhan, Mike Dunlavy, Jay Williams all names.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That was one of the great teams of all time,
according to Palm Roy Ken Palm what is it Ken, Yeah,
Ken Palm ade, Yeah, yes, Martin.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
But even the Duke team that won in twenty fifteen,
julil okafor and Justice Winslow, if they had been better
NBA players, yeah, they would have been more famous because
it's very hard to be a Duke team to win
a national title, and you really don't remember those guys
like that.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
But it's strange when you go, my team won, but
damn it, I want you to say they're great or
why won't you talk more about them?
Speaker 10 (13:00):
You won?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Who cares? And they rolled through the tournament. This is
really an impressive run. There's just no there there where
you go, oh my god, did you see that guy play?
They don't have that.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Yeah, Paulie, I was thinking about this yesterday. When they
do the reunion of this team. I don't think they're
putting anybody in the rafters from this team because none
of them were there for more than five or six months.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You know, a couple, but no, they're going to put
the year in the in the rafters. That'll be your banner.
Curtis in Illinois, Hi, Curtis, what's on your mind? Morner
DP A couple things for real quick.
Speaker 13 (13:38):
A little late to the party on the Las Vegas
name game, but I like to be Las Vegas raised
and then I'll see you were fifty and raise you
a Hundi. And then secondly, I was kind of shocked
and thrown back a little bit yesterday I missed the
podcast that they usually listen to when I can't watch
on Peacock to see the post on Facebook about Seaton's
(13:59):
last day. But the cynical side of me got thinking,
because that's how I roll, uh, that maybe Seton is
trying to develop a plan to since you love your
Facebook now, and maybe the content that he can start
creating will get you hooked since you'll actually see it
on Facebook to where you'll want to continue creating content
(14:20):
with Setan after you stop the radio show. So US
fans can still have something to look forward to.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Huh. Well, if you're going to get my attention, you'll
get it on Facebook. I see where Curtis is going,
all right, I see I see what he's all right,
thank you. Lounge.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Yeah, the corduroy lounge.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's got a ring to it.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Paul exclusively on Facebook, Brandon, welcome in.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I went top bottom corduroy today. Is there a name
for that, you know? How?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Like if you wear denim top and bottom? Is there
a name for a double corduroys?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Like a badass? That's what it is.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
Yeah, yes, Mortroy like multiple things, more Emori, more de Roy.
I'll be here if you need me.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
In the corner.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
No, I won't need you. I'm gonna miss that, laugh Tod. Yeah,
that's a little preview for next week.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
It's corduroy, but it's multiple items, so it'll be.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
More to.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Sean and Daytona beach. Hi, Sean, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10 (15:28):
God?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
How the hell do I follow that?
Speaker 11 (15:30):
Dan? Very easily, long time, very easily, long time, long time.
Thank you for calling me back. I have to take
a deep breath. I've been watching the seat and sign
offs on peacock, and I just want to frame this
so everyone can understand. I spent thirty years going around
the country doing drive time radio, so I kind of
(15:51):
have a little bit of an idea of professionally what
Seaton brought to the show. I watched it grow.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
I hung with you guys since since the man I'm
getting choked up. I'm sorry, guys, it's since the attic.
Just thank you for everything's seating best bumpers in the business.
You really brought so much of the show. So happy
for you and your family as you continue to grow. Dan,
thank you for everything you've done and then you've brought
to him personally and shared with us. Thank you, guys,
(16:16):
Thank you s eating all the best and can we
get one more official final Tony romo before you go?
Speaker 10 (16:21):
Buddy? Thanks.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh, I think we're going to load up on Friday, though, Sean,
we'll play the hits on Friday. I don't know you well,
we'll take requests. Rich Eisen reached out and wants to
say goodbye to you on Friday, Suon.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, that's Rich has always been very nice to me. Yeah,
he reached out, very supportive, said I like that guy,
I want to say goodbye. I appreciate that I was
suggesting he had you on his show to do that. Yeah, like,
why don't you use your show to say goodbye? Doing
an empty segment five minutes? Then you could go back.
Since Rich is on ESPN, you could be back on
(17:01):
ESPN Radio, back to the mothership. There you go, Yeah,
there you go. Okay, let's take a break. Let's get
ready for the commissioner. Be on our best behavior, Todd,
don't say anything stupid.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I'll try not to.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
All right, we'll take a break back after this.
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Speaker 2 (17:55):
Dodger manager Dave Roberts join us on the program tomorrow,
make way for the Missioner Major League Baseball. He's been
there since twenty fifteen. Rob Manfred back on the show, Commissioner,
Good to see you. How's morale?
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Hey, Dan Morell is very high here at MLB.
Speaker 14 (18:11):
Off to a great start, great World Baseball Classic, and
really good start to the season.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'm curious about you had the fight last night and
when that does that get to your desk of you
getting involved in that?
Speaker 14 (18:27):
Yeah, usually that kind of on field incident, Mike Hill
will handle. He makes a recommendation, and you know, we
kind of go from there. Though only if it's a
really kind.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Of out of the ordinary problem. Would I get involved?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
When's the last one you got involved in that?
Speaker 14 (18:48):
Gosh, I can't even I think the last one I
got involved with involved a player and a fan incident.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
It was several years ago, and I can't tell you
the player or the team the truth. It's rare.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's rare, the abs kind of letting that kind of
trickle into Major League Baseball. How would you say reaction
has been so far.
Speaker 14 (19:11):
I think the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
You know, I thought that my.
Speaker 14 (19:18):
Expectation was that the players would really like it, the
opportunity to, you know, correct a miss at a crucial
point in the game. What actually surprised me, Dan is
how popular it's been with fans. I don't know if
you've been in a ballpark yet, but you know, the
challenge happens.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Everybody's kind of glued to the humble John. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Oh, I love it. I guess my only if you
want to call criticism would be the umpire. They can't
be taking this too kindly. That they're being embarrassed might
be a strong word, but they're being judged by everybody.
Everybody is reacting to that umpire. What kind of reaction
(20:01):
have you gotten from the umpires on this?
Speaker 14 (20:04):
I think the umpires have reacted with professionalism. I mean,
we had a lot of conversation with them about the
implementation of this. I think it's important to bear in mind,
and it's important for me to say.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Publicly, you know, they're right.
Speaker 14 (20:21):
Nearly ninety four percent of the time, which is an
astounding number when you think about how difficult it is,
and most of the challenges are pitches that are in
or out by less, you know, less than or about
half an inch.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
So you know, you can't be too critical of people.
Speaker 14 (20:38):
I mean, I understand, you know, you do get fans,
they get on them, but I think they knew what
to expect, and in general, our umpires want the game
to be as good as possible, and I think they
see it as an improvement in the game.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
When do we get to full time?
Speaker 10 (20:55):
You know, look, I.
Speaker 14 (20:56):
Think that we're a few weeks in to implementation. I
think that we made a good decision by you know,
listening to fans, listening to players, that we should do
a challenge system, we shouldn't go to full ABS. So
we're just too early in the process for me to
even think about any change to the system.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
Right now. I think we're pretty satisfied with where we are.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And I like the element of the stadium with the fans,
and I would be dressing it up. You know, it's
like a game show, you know, you know, was it right,
was it wrong? You show it, the crowd reacts. I
think it's it's a fun element where you're you're you're
treating with something serious, but it is a fun element
with that, and I think that it's got overwhelmed.
Speaker 14 (21:43):
I agree, it's a I think it's a you know,
a former fan engagement. The other thing I think that
it is important to keep in mind is, you know,
we pull our fans about these changes, you know, routinely
before we do them, after we do them, and you know,
the challenge system was the one that our fans overwhelmingly favored.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
What do fans not want when you do these polls
with them?
Speaker 10 (22:11):
Oh, there's things that they all want.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Trust me, it's number one. What's number one? Where you go, Boy,
they don't like this.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (22:19):
Look, I think of the things that we've done, the
one that's the most controversial among our fans is the
extra ending world the run around second base. That's the
one that is you know, the most evenly split among fans.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
I hated, but you know, it is an interesting thing.
Speaker 14 (22:39):
I think that overwhelmingly players like it. You know, it
does prevent the eighteen inning game and the prospect of
somebody who's an outfielder trying to go up on the
mountain pitch and getting hurt. I really do see it
as a health and safety issue.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
But in recognition of your view of the world.
Speaker 14 (23:06):
Our most important games that are playoff games, we play
them out still.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, but I'm the you know, get off my lawn
guy that it's just it's still a weird visual where
you go and we go to the tenth inning and
you see some guy at second base? Is it? Is
it here to stay?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Look? I think that it is here to stay.
Speaker 14 (23:30):
I think the health and safety concern, the popularity of
it among the players, I think it's one that is
going to be with us.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
He's the commissioner Major League Baseball. Your contract expires January
twenty nine.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Yeah, yeah, early in twenty nine, right.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Okay, but you could sign up before then if you
wanted to extend correct.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yeah, I could sign up before then if I wanted
to extend.
Speaker 14 (23:57):
Rarely, you know, as commissioner's contracts in baseball gone all
the way to the end. But you know, I was
up front with the owners when I did my last
deal that this was going to be it for me,
and I'm pretty committed to that position.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Are you involved in approval of stadiums?
Speaker 14 (24:14):
Yeah, there's certain The Commissioner's office has certain requirements for
stadiums that are reviewed to make sure they're in conformity
with you know, major league requirements in terms of what
a stadium must be.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
But as far as you know, a roof retractable.
Speaker 14 (24:30):
Like those are local decisions, you know, in terms of
whether they're going to be retractable, the basic design of
the stadium.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Those are ones that clubs make.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But what happens if a team says, you know, what
we want to bring our fences in, they have to check.
Speaker 14 (24:48):
With the office to make sure that the dimensions of
the field still conform with the minimum standards that we require.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Labor issues are never good content for radio or two.
But let me just ask you from a fans perspective,
what is it that I need to know about Major
League Baseball moving forward with the potential labor issues.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
I think the most important thing for our fans to.
Speaker 14 (25:15):
Know is we're going to provide them a great twenty
twenty six season, and while they're watching that great twenty
twenty six season, we're going to be working hard to
get a labor deal done.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What's the big hold up? What could potentially be the
big hold up?
Speaker 14 (25:31):
Just not at a point in the process where I
can really give you a good answer to that, Dan,
it's just.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Too early and you're shaking me off here. You're like,
you're like Kershawn Mound here, what's going on here? Usually
you give me a little bit of something. Listen, listen
to your own introduction.
Speaker 10 (25:47):
There's nothing good about this conversation, right.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
What sport do you learn the most from? Aside from baseball?
Speaker 14 (25:57):
Oh, I pay a lot of attention to football and basketball.
I think that you know, I'm a fan of both
of those sports growing up, and you know, pay a
lot of attention to what they're doing. You know, for example,
like NBA games, I watched their instant replay carefully because
I think it's something that runs contrary to an issue
(26:21):
that we've been very aggressive about, which is time a game. Obviously,
you want to get it right, but you don't want
to interrupt the flow of the game or delay the
game make it longer. So, you know, that's an example
of something we pay a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And that takes me back to the ABS. Because you
want to speed up the game, you're slowing down the
game because you're going to review it, as opposed to
it's going to be on the jumbo tron with every
pitch eventually and therefore you know it will keep the
game moving that we won't be slowing down. So how
how important does that tap the helmet and get that review?
(26:58):
How quickly you get that review?
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Yeah, it is an issue.
Speaker 14 (27:01):
It is the one topic on ABS that I've raised
in the last couple of our staff meetings, and the
data shows we're like a minute and.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
A half.
Speaker 14 (27:12):
Longer associated with ABS. That's a price I'm prepared to pay.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Who came up with robots like that? That to me
was the negative part of this. People go, are you
gonna have robots behind home plate? And I go, no,
they'll be umpires? Like but who did the media do this?
You can believe the media did that.
Speaker 14 (27:30):
We I mean we as a matter of fact, if
you kind of look back when people are asking me
about it, when they asked me about robo umpires, I
uniformly correct the fact that it is a system that
assists a live person in doing his job better, his
or her job better. You know, we always call it ABS,
(27:52):
and I agree with you that the moniker of you know,
robot or the overlay of referring to it as a
robot is a negative thing.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
When's the last time your phone rang after midnight East
Coast time. Baseball wise, it's.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
Been a while.
Speaker 14 (28:11):
I mean, you know, there's periods of time where it happens,
but it has been a while, and certainly not during
the twenty twenty sixth season yet.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Okay, all right, Well we're off to a good start.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
No, we have you know, we have been kind of you.
Speaker 14 (28:23):
Know, look, we had the little uproar in the Angels
Braves game last night, but you know, it's been pretty
quiet so far in terms of the play of the
game on the field. The games have been great and
you know, mostly.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
Positive so far.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
The WBC. I hate that we're gonna lose momentum on
this again. Can you do it every two years?
Speaker 11 (28:49):
You know?
Speaker 14 (28:50):
Look, I think that we're going to have a meeting
on the WBC, which we always do after it is completed.
I think that the event was so successful this time
that we need to talk about frequency, regularity of schedule.
(29:11):
You know, we haven't even I mean, it's one thing
to not do it every year. Our problem because of
COVID and labor negotiations whatever.
Speaker 10 (29:18):
It's it's not even you can't even say it's every
four years.
Speaker 14 (29:23):
And you know, we do need to get into given
how popular it is, we need to get into a
regular rotation. I think the most important reason for that
is fans, But I'll give you another reason.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
You know, our.
Speaker 14 (29:35):
Broadcast partners were out in force at the WBC Partner Finals,
and you know, I think this is going to be
a piece of our national broadcasting agreements, and obviously to
do that, it has to be on a regular schedule.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
All right, Well, we'll keep an eye on you. We're
grading you all the time as.
Speaker 14 (29:58):
You should, as you should, Dan, you know, I mean
you know we, like you said, you got umpires who
were subject to scrutiny.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
I certainly should be as well.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I go back to Bowie Que. I was there Booie's
last day in office. Really, yeah, I went when he
was packing up.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
Yeah, I'm I missed Booie. But I was. Actually when
I first started as an outside lawyer.
Speaker 14 (30:24):
I was in a meeting where Peter, You were off, Fay,
Vincent Bartchamadi, bud Seal League and I were all in
the meeting and there were only seven.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
People in the room, which you think about that's five
out of ten. Right, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Okay, last day you get to take one thing out
of the office.
Speaker 15 (30:47):
You know, I have a I'm gonna betray myself. I
have a drawing of Mickey Mannle that a fairly well
known baseball artists did sort of as I had done
a speech for them, and it was the honorarium for
doing the speech.
Speaker 14 (31:08):
You know, I grew up a Yankee fan. My very
first game was in nineteen sixty eight. It was mantals
last year, but believe it or not, he hit two
home runs in the game, one from each side of
the plate. It was the last time he ever did it.
And I'm taking that Mickey Mantle drawing with me no
matter what.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Thank you, Rob, good to talk to you.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
It's great to talk to you Dan. As always, I
always enjoy.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It, And so the Commissioner Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred.
You know, people always ask me, Hey, what are you
going to take when you leave here? And I'm going
to take Fritzy. I'm going to make sure that you
get out of the building great, and my last day,
I'm taking Fritzy.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Let me take a break once again. Dave Roberts of
the Dodgers tomorrow on the program, We'll come back. Last
call for phone calls, what we learn, what's at store tomorrow?
After this?
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Speaker 2 (32:10):
You know, the commissioner didn't back away from the WBC.
Maybe every two years. You know, when it's four years,
it just loses momentum. There the players who were involved
in the previous WBC might not be around. I know
that we wanted to be special, but I don't know
if we need to wait four years for the WBC
(32:30):
even three. I mean, this isn't the World Cup, you know,
it's it's the WBC and it's part of spring training.
Yes more, you.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Took the words out of my mouth.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
It hasn't been around long enough to consider it like
really special, like the Olympics of the World Cup, like
you said.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Uh yes, Baulie.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
I brought this up years ago and it got severely
poo pooed. I think someday the World Cup and the
Olympics will go to every three years because over a
twenty year span you could make so much more money,
which it always goes that way. I think it's gonna
be a have to accept because it would be less special.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
But it'll happen.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I mentioned Memphis is a twenty two and a half
point underdog tonight, the largest NBA underdogs since twenty fifteen.
Let me see if I have Oh yeah, Utah Jazz.
They were twenty five and a half point underdogs against OKC.
The thunder covered the Jazz again, come on down, and
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twenty twenty five, were twenty three point underdogs against the
Minnesota Timberwolves. The Wizards this year, twenty two and a
half point underdogs against the Knicks, the Wizards again, twenty
one and a half point underdogs against OKAC that was
twenty twenty six, and the Brooklyn Nets at twenty one
and a half point underdog against the Timberwolves twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
Yes, Buck, this is a really telling stat I mean,
this shows that this is peak tanking. That all five
of those lines are teams that are tanking, and they
all happened this past season. That's a message for the commission.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah see where you going to say something?
Speaker 7 (34:04):
Oh, yeah, you know, I had something in the World
Baseball Classic. Actually, but I think I think the scarcity
is part of what makes it special. And the more
you whittle away at that or chip away at it,
the less special it becomes. If you look at the
NFL or you look at college football, what makes it
special is that it's few games. If you add those games,
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or you keep getting more games and more games, and
it becomes less special. The NFL is slowly becoming less
special because you can watch it every single night. It's
not an appointment to view because it's always on.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Now.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
A couple of phone calls in here Thomas in Mississippi.
Hey Tom, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call. I just wanted
to go back to the Brave Angels kerfuffle last night,
and I think I think a lot of national media
may be burying the lead, which is white, sixty two
year old manager, very stereotypical looking manager form tackling six
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foot four two and forty pounds Jorge Hilaire to kind
of nullify the threat there. Apparently Walk can really handle himself.
I think he has the black belt, throws around a
lot of weight in the gym, and that's my manager.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah. Uh, Trip in Vegas is back, Hi Trip, Hey.
Speaker 16 (35:27):
Good one again. I always good to speak with y'all.
Had a question for everyone kind of deals with what
you were talking about. Last a little bit of something
for seedon do you think is the best or the
non winner that people think one? Would that be Dan Marino,
the five, Slama Gama or the Fab five? And then
my thing for Seeden is this will miss you, but
do me a favor. Do not let Todd book your flights.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
It's a good call.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
It's a very good call.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It's a good call. I can't even fathom.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Connecticut to Florida's Vegas?
Speaker 10 (36:00):
What are you trying to?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Like?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
When you told me that and I said, did you
connect you? You said, yeah, I go, uh Chicago? He
goes no, d C No. And I go where he goes, Jacksonville.
I go, You're going to Vegas.
Speaker 14 (36:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
On the surface, that doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
But based on some of the other flights I was looking,
I must have missed something.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
I'm like, I don't want to land in Oha.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
What if it's all cold and snowy there?
Speaker 10 (36:25):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
When you go to Landitsburg is I'm connecting in DC?
Speaker 9 (36:28):
My way to Pittsburgh, I'm connecting in DC. I don't
want to do that, but that's basically based on the
flights and that we're doing a show Monday before we
fly to Pittsburgh. I was looking for a mid afternoon
flight and out of Bradley it's not NonStop stop.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
And Cherry and Seattle joins this. Hi, Terry, what's on
your mind?
Speaker 17 (36:44):
Hey, good morning Dan from the great Pacific Northwest. I
wanted to give a shout out the seat and for
all the great years of entertainment and he by far
has the greatest laugh in broadcasting. I had a question
for the Room Masters. If you had a chance to
caddy the last round for any of the past Masters
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champions in history of who would you Whose bag would
you take? I'm going to go with Arnold Palmer.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Yeah, I would take Arnie as well. Not understanding the
magnitude of Arnie when I was younger, but then being
around him and one of my favorite moments I was
in Portland. We were doing the show and the Fred
Meyer Challenge I believe it was, and we were out
there and Peter Jacobson was the host and we were
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doing our radio show and all of a sudden, Jack
and Arnie are walking up the eighteenth Fairway and Peter
Jacobson is waiving me, and I'm thinking, what does he
want me to do? And I went out and walked
up eighteen with Jack and Arnie. And that's one of
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those moments that you'd ever think think about you like,
you're going, on, am I What am I doing here?
How did I get here? And I remember talking to
Arnold Palmer after the round. He had these huge hands too.
Remember he shook my hand like man Ernie, but Arnie
was Arnie was like James Bond playing golf.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
There was just something about smoking heaters, his shirt, his
sleeves rolled up and you know, private jet, who knows
what else. Yes, Paulie, you.
Speaker 8 (38:26):
Could caddy for Jack or Arnold. I would go with
Danny Willett. That would be a legendary, you know, a
little sneaky Danny Willett.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, Okay, not many people. Yeah, even Danny Willett's caddy
would probably say, no, I really caddy for Tigers. Charles Schwartzell,
Charles Schorschell that Todd, don't even try to say that one.
Charles Schwey, like.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Gary Player, is the guy I would like to go with.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Why it just seems like a really nice guy.
Speaker 9 (38:56):
It just seems like someone that I think I would
have a good time one.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
But you have to carry the bag.
Speaker 9 (39:02):
Though I understand that I all love that point, but
I did something about Gary play rubs me in a
very good positive.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
About this day in sports history.
Speaker 8 (39:08):
Paul rubs me in a good positive way. Nineteen seventy four, Dan,
you love this guy. Hank Aaron home run seven point
fifteen to break Babe Ruth record.
Speaker 11 (39:17):
That's odd?
Speaker 2 (39:18):
How did it sound? There's a drive?
Speaker 14 (39:19):
It might be?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
This is it?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
It's gone, it's seven fifteen.
Speaker 10 (39:24):
It's seven fifteen.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
There's a new home run kit of all time. That's
Henry Aaron.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Gonna miss that, Seaton extremely. I'll get to watch it
on TV. Though, what else, PAULI, that's it?
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Let it stand alone?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Oh, that's it, okay. Nineteen sixty nine, On this day,
four expansion teams Kansas City Royals, Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres,
Seattle Pilots all win their first games. All win their
first games. Thanks for the phone calls, thanks for the emails, tweets,
They all around support. Let's go around the infield and
see what we learned on the program, Todd, do you
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learn anything to Randall.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
Shamblee believes Tiger Woods would have won a lot more
events if he never took up weightlifting.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
He said a lot, he said, like twenty five majors
over one hundred tournaments. He said, but you know lifting weights, Seatan,
what'd you learn today? The commissioner's feeling good. Yeah he should.
He's been a good start for Major League Baseball. But
he wanted no part of those labor issues. He shook
me off twice, like a.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Sorry, we're gonna have a great twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
No, you had your chance.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
Oh dude, let's live in the presence. Marvin Seetan wants
to take that apology back.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
We ran out of time. We can't go to Paulks.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Twenty five seconds left.
Speaker 9 (40:44):
That's plenty of time.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Thanks for joining us. The countdown continues. We'll talk to
you tomorrow. Have a great day, everybody,
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