October 10, 2024 • 41 mins
Dan Patrick explains how conference alignment and playoff structure in college football could get even wilder in the coming years. Dan and the guys give their Dower Rankings for the week. Plus, FOX MLB Analyst John Smoltz joins Dan to dive into the every postseason series so far.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's the Final Hour in this Thursday Dan and the
Danet's Dan Patrick Show. The Mets are going to have
a new play caller coming up on Monday night against
Buffalo as one of their assistant coaches. Is this Todd Downing?
Who is going to be promoted now? Is he offensive
coordinator or is he just going to be elevated to
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calling plays which feels like that would be what Nathaniel
Hackett does as offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
All that was said by the Jets is that Todd Downing,
which sounds like a made up name, by the way,
does not sound like a real person, is calling plays
for the next game. No word on status, job titles.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Okay, all right, Final hour here. John Smoltz was on
the call last night with the Dodgers and the Podres,
the Dodgers using eight pitchers shutting out the Padres. And
now we have a game five. You have Guardians at
the Tigers, that's coming up later on today, Yankees at
the Royals, and then forty nine ers at the Seahawks.
So Johnny Smoltz will join us coming up here in
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a little bit. Good morning, If you're watching on Peacock.
Thank you for downloading the app you can watch the program.
It's Todd Fritz's birthday today and we want to once
again wish Todd a very very happy birthday. We've had
one woman who in her best Marilyn Monroe voice, was
singing Happy Birthday to Todd.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Was very well done by.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Her, and we got Todd in an ice cream cake
and so we'll have that for him coming up a
little bit later on very thoughtful. Thank you, Todd eight
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on the program tomorrow. They have a big match up
(01:44):
with the Commander's Little Territorial warb there between Washington and
Baltimore coming up this weekend, Big ten Saturday Night Ohio
State Oregon. Todd Blackledge will be on the call for
that game for NBC in Peacock. He'll join us to
preview that coming up tomorrow. So it's Big ten Saturday
Night Ohio State and Oregon. You know, I was wondering
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about this. When Oregon, USC, UCLA, Washington joined the Big Ten.
I think people joked about the cross country travel. The
jokes have become a reality six weeks into the college
football season. As of today, teams who have been forced
to travel a significant distance across the country have lost
nine out of ten games so far in the Big Ten.
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To make it more interesting, or where, seventy percent of
those teams failed to cover the spread in that same game,
meaning they're not only losing, but the games haven't been
competitive either. And I know it's a small sample size,
but this is the downside of Hey, everybody, you can
travel to Piscataway, New Jersey. That's not a big deal,
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leaving you know, Southern California, Oregon hosting Ohio State. We
knew this was going to happen. Practical, that's why you
have regional conferences, so you cut down on travel, you
cut down on cost. The other sports that fall under
this financial umbrella. But hey, football rules, and it's going
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to continue to rule until we have this moment. I
don't know if I'm going to be alive when it happens,
but it'll be a oh, you know what we should do.
Let's get sixty of the top schools and then we'll
put them in regions and then they'll play one another,
maybe they'll play them twice, and then all of a sudden,
we'll have a large playoff. Yeah, that's what we're going
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to do, basically the NFL model. Now, I did talk
to somebody, a college football source, who said there are
plans in play by different people, different groups, not the SEC,
not the Big Ten, not the NCAA. They're trying to
come up with a formula where we would have at
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least twenty four playoffs, twenty four playoff games or twenty
four playoff teams. And they have it, you know, where
they this is how much money there's going to be
rev share. There's going to be a collective bargaining agreement.
I mean, they're going to be basically professional football players
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in waiting to be really truly professional football players. And
this is a model that's being worked on as we speak.
And I was given, you know, I was privy to
at least a little bit of the information. What they
what they think is going to happen is you're going
to have twenty four teams qualify for the playoffs. Now
you have twelve we just start. We haven't even gotten
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into it yet. Now they want to expand because now
everybody realizes the amount of money. What you're going to
get back to is regional matchups. You're going to have
teams on the West coast playing teams on the West coast.
That will be that division. They'll be one let's say, Southwest, Southeast, Northeast, Midwest.
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This is what's going to happen. So basically what we've
had before where conferences stayed within I don't know, a
couple hour radius time radius of travel, and that's what
they're looking at right now. I don't know, you know,
if it comes to fruition, but we haven't even gotten
into the twelve team playoff and they're already looking at
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a twenty fourteen playoff and maybe that's sixty schools and
they would fall under the umbrella. Now, there's a lot
of work to be done. I know that they've reached
out to Greg Sanke, the SEC commissioner, and you know,
does he want to bless this? I think he is
backed away from that from what I'm told, But once again,
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it's kind of in the embryonic stages. But just to
let you know, this is moving fast. May mean we're
not even into twelve team playoff and now they're talking
twenty four and that's where we're headed, and that's where
it's going to be a model. That's and I've asked
about relegation because I was told that I was a
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big proponent of relegation to add yet another I don't know,
week of drama there, and I was told that that
was received, not well received, but received that they would,
you know, think about this, and I was like, okay,
that's fine, Like you can't stop it now. Remember I
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was I wanted from two to four. I said, I'll
be happy with four, and I would have been happy
with four teams. But then all of a sudden, it's well,
wait a minute, it's like having a lottery ticket. And
I'll go back to when I broke the news they
were going to try to break that contract and move
it up so they could go to twelve teams instead
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of having four teams. They were going to break the
Bowl contract and everybody said you can't do it. I said,
you can have a winning lottery ticket and everybody's going
to make more money. And that's exactly what they did.
They moved it up. Now they want to move it
up even quicker because now we're looking at twenty four schools.
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So whether it happens two years, three years, four years,
five years, that's where we're headed. But we are headed
for collective bargaining players getting paid. There is going to
be a reb share where schools I was told would
probably football schools would probably get seventy five percent of
the REB share, and then the trickle down with other programs.
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So these are all things being discussed now. They're being
discussed by people who are outside of the college football world.
They're business people trying to create a plan. Yes, Pauline, I.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Do have a little background on this. About a week
or so ago, this kind of mysterious email went around
to people who cover college football. It was from a
group that calls itself College Sports Tomorrow CST. It's a quote.
This is from the press release. A group of respected,
influential progressive leaders in higher education and sports. Sorry, they're
in the like you said, embryonic stages of things called
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the College Student Football League the CSFL, and as part
of their plan, it could be seventy two programs compete
in a power twelve conferences and then the second tier
would be sixty four teams. Kind of what you've been
saying for years. But this has been pitched from quote
unquote outsiders, college football businessmen, some people who work in it.
(08:33):
Guys like Greg Sank and the SEC are not involved
in this, but they got the whiff of this about
a week or so ago.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, this has been going on, so we haven't even
had the twelve team playoffs, but they're going to because
everybody understands the amount of money that's at stake here,
and that's why they're going to do it. I don't
think it's a question of if, but when, all right,
Thursday night football. This is kind of spicy though, Seattle
(09:00):
against San Francisco. San Francisco given three and a half here.
Time for Dower Rankings. Yes it is Thursday. Seaton is
the host of Dower rankings. If you'll explain Dour rankings.
And do we have any music for Dower rankings? Marvin,
We do, all right, Seaton.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I think we're going to go around the room here
and go with uh, any sport and really anything pop
culture even I think something that you're down on, down,
something that you're down on. Lots of people do power rankings.
These are like the strongest things. Right now, We're going
to go Dower. These things are kind.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Of weak right now, Dour. Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to
start out.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Okay, give us an example example of right now being
lost in all of the uh Mets sort of victory
pree of winning that series. Is just how tough it
is to be a Philadelphia sports fan the last couple
of years. I'm going Dower rankings on the city of Philadelphia.
If you go back a couple of years, Phillies blew
a two to one World.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Series lead to the Astros, that's tough.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Then you have the Eagles looking great, Jalen Hurts incredible,
team makes it to the Super Bowl. They blew a
ten point lead in the second half to the Chiefs.
Seventy six ers, can't beat the Celtics, they can't beat
the Nicks.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Joel Mbat can't stay healthy. Not great.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
The Eagles start the season ten and one. Last year
wash out, and now the Phillies again kick it past.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
The Mets to win a playoff series. That is just
a long stretch for the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, Todd Dower rankings.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
The Cleveland Guardians and scoring two runs in the sixth
inning in Game one.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
The Guardians have been.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Shut up for twenty consecutive innings. Over that span, the
Guardians are hitting one forty seven, which is ten for
sixty eight, twenty strikeouts and only three extra base hit.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We did take the Cleveland Browns off the board, correctly,
correct two Dour, that's just two, yeah, okay, Marvin Dower.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Rankings, Josh Allen's MVP chances. What up? The Bills got
Molly watt by the Ravens and then they went and
he went nine for thirty against the Texans and a loss.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You don't think he can recover to win the MVP.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I didn't say that, but I'm dowur on him right now.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, didn't expect that one early in the season. Media
Darling Josh Allen MVP, Paul Dower rankings.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I'm also going to look for the origins of Molly
wopped because I've heard that phrase before. Kudos to Marvin
for dropping it. We'll get to that later. I'm going
to go lightly dour, medium dour. Michigan football. They got
their four and two. Now, remember they won the national
title last year and lost their coach so it was
great season.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Then there they lost their quarterback, yes.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And they didn't find a quarterback they have. They're four
and two there at Illinois, which I think is going
to be really tough, Michigan State, Oregon, Indiana. They finished
with Ohio State and then the Big Ten championship game,
which they will be watching probably, but that's they could
be out of the college football playoff that's been expanded.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Wow, lightly dour, lightly down? Damn, I just had my dour. Dang,
it's it's dour three of the program.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Eh I Did it have to do with Todd and
his birthday?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
No? No, I'm not good. No, No, I'm gonna celebrate it.
What was my What was I bummed down about?
Speaker 7 (12:26):
A kind of put a screech in hate again?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Maybe your thought was not that dour? So you know,
Oh my god?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Was it the Jets?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
No, the Todd Dower? You doing a play calling now?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
No?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Was it the w NBA Finals?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
No? No, I can't, I can't remember.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
It should be Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Uh well, one for eleven with five strikeouts, something, the
postseason over rated? I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yes, would you rather be for your career? Lights out?
In the regular season and average in the postseason, which
can get you to the Hall of Fame probably, or
a mediocre regular season player and a lights out guy
in the regular postseason that probably doesn't go to the
Hall of Fame. Any sport, you may be in that
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local team's Hall of Fame, like a Julian Edelman's in
the Patriots Ring of Honor, situation, ring of Honor and rings.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
So would you rather be Julian Edelman or Larry Fitzgerald?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Oh, that'll question?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
How about that?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
How many times have we done this?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
We do that every year.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
God, you can be Julian Edelman or Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Selfishly, I think I want to be in the Hall
of Fame even if I don't come through a couple
of times during.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The post shocker that you're being selfish.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
He did come through in the Super Bowl. He played well.
He probably would have been MVP, just not quite that
good if he had gotten the tackle on James Harrison seton.
Would you rather be Julian Edelman or Larry Fitzgerald?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Edelman all day, I want to win, and I want
to contribute in those wins. He had some massive games
big catches, all of that. I'll take that all day.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You can't tell the story of the NFL without Julian Marvin.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Edelman, Paul Fitzgerald nine Pro Bowls. I'm still passing Julian
Edman none Pro Bowls, but first ballot never pays for
a drink in New England again.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
How about Tony Gonzalez, Julian Edelman Todd.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I'm gonna go Tony Gonzales, seatan.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
What are the abtions?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Tony Gonzales, Julian Edelman.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
I'm still taking Julian Edeman.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Adamman more memorable moment, okay, Pauline Adaman, no die.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
I love his career, Okay, maybe fair enough, even just
having that moment against the Falcons. I think where he's like, no,
I got it, I caught it. I caught it, and
they're like, no way, dude, they hit the ground. He's like,
I'm telling you I caught it. Watch and he did.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah. And you know, now, it says a lot about
who we picked because most of us are team players,
and we picked Julian Edelman Todd.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
On my birthday. I'm gonna be suppers today tomorrow, maybe
I have a.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Different answer today.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh okay, I'm going with those.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I'm going with life at jail then tuning them out right.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Let me take a break. John Smoltz will join us.
He was on the call last night with the Dodgers
and the podres. We'll get to more phone calls as well.
And uh, by the way, the gambling podcast that'll be
later on today, that'll be up at Danpatrick dot com.
And that'll be Shane Irving Dylan, the graphics guy. Dylan
and Mario went to the game last night, the Mets
(16:02):
and Phillies game, and I thought we'd see them on
kiss cam, but apparently they were seated in different sections there,
throwing us off a little bit. They actually brought women
with them. Wow. Yeah, yeah, their girlfriends got them tickets,
which I said, man, that might be Marrion type of people.
You know, if your girlfriend's getting your tickets to the playoffs,
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that won't happen when you get married. But right now, and.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
The way that game played at that's a good karma
right there.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I was exciting to be at.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We'll take a break. We're back after this.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
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Speaker 2 (16:48):
We'll talk to John Smoltz. He was on the call
last night, Padres and the Dodgers Game five tomorrow night
in LA, game time eight Eastern on Fox Steven Portland, Steve,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Born in DP, third time, long time, Portland, Oregon. So
my wife's asking me to call in every time Seen
O'Connor has a birthday, because like him, same month, same day,
same year, seven twenty four to seventy eight. But every
time I either forget or I just can't get in.
(17:24):
So say, in honor of Fritty Fritzie birthday, same month,
same day, some beer, we're giving a shout out to
seeing them.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
My wife don now.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Onto the business in honor of Chris Bermant coming on
and all the years in ESPN. Dan, you've talked at
length over the years about your time at ESPN and
going the transition from ESPN to going out on your own,
the attic days, having a beer at the pizza shop
there in La that day and regretting, wondering if you're
going to regret.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
What you did.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
But as I was explaining to Tyler and with Bill
Belichick and Tom Brady and these guys like what do
you do when you leave?
Speaker 10 (17:59):
And these people lot, You have never really.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Went into any kind of detail about how you were
feeling emotionally mentally from you were the star, the faith
of the of the network at that point, the peak,
you were at your peak and with at ESPN, in
my opinion, can you talk to us about how you
felt emotionally going just what you were going dealing with
(18:21):
at that time.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Let me get to John Smoltz and then I'll try
to bring back those emotions or memories there kind of
a blur, painful, don't want to get emotional here in
the final hour. It's Todd's day. It's Todd's birthday, John Smoltz,
who shares a birthday with me on the call for
the Padres Dodgers. Now we got game five in LA
(18:46):
coming up tomorrow. Explain the Dodgers pitching strategy last night, John,
because I likened it to a jigsaw puzzle or Rubik's cube,
where you Dave Roberts had to make all of that
work and somehow did last night.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Yeah, they're limited, right, They put a roster together. They're
supposed to have a great pitching staff and that's been
beat up. So they got to the postseason best record,
all the pressure in the world on them, and then
they really don't have a game for starters. So I've
always said in a vacuum, you could do it one time.
It's hard to do it all the time. You just
(19:23):
need one guy to mess up. But give him credit.
Every single guy came in. The score was lopsided. He's
stick with. He stood with those guys even though he
could have gone a different direction. And I think part
of it is he didn't want the Padres to get
any momentum, any rally, anything going, so that Game five
is a totally different atmosphere now, even though everyone knows
(19:46):
the Padres offense can explode. So he did a great
job last night and sold the bullpen.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Normally it used to come down to starting pitching. It
does it anymore? What do you think Game five comes
down to?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Well, Game five and elimination, winner take all always comes
down to the shortest leash for starters. So whatever starter
goes longer, you think puts that team in a better
chance to be successful. Look, the Mets have had great
starting pitching. They've moved on. You've got teams that are
trying to Like the Tigers, they're at the I mean
every game is a miracle game. They've been playing momentum baseball.
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We've seen this new playoff format put a lot of
stress on the teams that have had rest. Their offense
doesn't get going. There's a lot of things in the mix.
And for the Dodgers, really Game five comes down to
can they do the things and the top of their lineup,
whether Freddie's in there or not, to match what the
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Padres have done in the first three innings. It's been
a simple formula. Padres explode early, they win, and last
night they didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, you know that atmosphere I thought in San Diego,
I mean that that was Can you maybe compare another
atmosphere that you had in San Diego these last two games,
you know, Philadelphia, Philly, You're right, they were.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
This is a stand all the time. It doesn't matter
what the score is. Something's a rally. Two zero counts
a rally. And I've said in the postseason, the teams
that handle the cleanest innings and don't allow some hiccup,
you know what rallies were starting with two out walks.
They were starting with a walk. So I love it.
I think San Diego's atmosphere la will be raucous. I mean,
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these two teams don't like each other, it's well known,
and they're now kind of sparking this rivalry because they're
both good. I can make the argument that the San
Diego Padres have the deepest roster and maybe the best
roster in the postseason. But now they're going to have
to find a way on the road to get by
the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
A better chance of making mistake to Bonds and not
paying for it or Otani.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
You know, Bonds was in an unbelievable world of his own.
But what Otani's done now is early Bonds would steal
a base and make you pay for walking around him.
Otani will steal a couple bases, right, He'll just absolutely
beat you on the path. So they've shown and he's
shown that he is vulnerable to certain pitches. But here's
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the problem in the game today. There's a few pitchers
that can go three times to that spot. We've got
such a max effort and great stuff, but every hitter
today is looking for that one mistake and when Otani
gets it, you may not get it back.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And you bring up a great point. I brought this
up earlier. I sound like the guy who says, get
off my lawn. If I was developing pitching or looking
for pitching, I want to see somebody who can, you know,
give me legitimate velocity but has location and movement. If
you give me that, I'll let you throw a hundred.
(22:59):
I don't don't care. But if you give me location
in movement, and that's what I don't understand that. And
we're not going to be developing these pictures because everybody's
throwing a hundred, you got to throw a hundred, and yes,
I mean that's to me. God, I would love to
have those kind of pictures.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Well, rule changes will come again to effectively change that
again when you think about the way the game is operated. Look,
I understand it's harder to hit today than ever before
because velocity is at an all time high.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
But no rule changes are you talking about.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
They'll be pitching rule changes that will change the philosophy
to get you more towards what you're saying, Because I
if I'm having every picture break down and we're having
this epidemic of pitching injuries. Organizational philosophy is not going
to change unless there's a rule change, and that could
be anywhere from you know, tie in your starting pitcher
to the DH to roster manipulations that don't happen. You
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can only have so many relievers on a team. There's
ways to affect the game, no different than two years ago.
But your point is well taken, because if I don't
have to teach a guy command and I just have
to teach him how to throw that nasty stuff in
that box, then the hitting styles are going to stay
the same. Swing for the fences hope to connect, and
you're only going to find a few elite pitchers that
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can throw a ball in the area that gets a
pitcher out, that gets a hitter out. A well placed
pitch still gets a hitter out. But it is the
kind of philosophy that we're dealing with, and right now
it takes more pitchers in a game to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Talking to John Smoltz, John will be on the call
of Friday Night that'll be back in LA. Game time
is eight eastern on Fox. Are the Mets a good team,
great team or team of destiny?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I think they're a team of destiny. You could make
a statement that this good team, which is on a
great run, believes in itself that after two months of
the season it looked horrible and they stood the course,
and I really got to give them credit that leadership
inside and management took a took a heart look and
saying what direction are we going? Many people maybe complained
(25:04):
that they didn't go out and make a whole lot
of moves before spring training was over, but what they
did is establish themselves in the pitching rotation.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Again.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
It comes down to a healthy starting rotation that now
looks pretty good and a team that has gone through
the gamut. You cannot have that roadmap and predicted they
would be in this spot going to one sixty three. Well,
in essence an extra day after the season playing a doubleheader,
So I give them a lot of credit. That town's
going to be on fire. They've been waiting a long time.
(25:33):
And you've got really two teams kind of mirroring each
other between the podres build it up, tear it down,
Matt spend all kinds of you know, tear it down.
And now look where both of those clubs are back
with a chance to go to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I know that they're not musty TV, but the Tigers
are a fun and I know you grew up a
Tiger fan. It's fun to see and scooball might be
the best pitcher in base If they get to a
game five, then he'll be pitching. But just to see that,
I mean, it's weird because you're like, oh, the starting
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pitcher's still in the game. John's it just does. I mean,
he's that good that he's breaking the mold of what
we have with starting pitchers now.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
He is that good. He pitches off his fastball, he's
a big, strong down the hill, the good mechanics. It's
refreshing and it's one of the things that they said
they were not going to do is trade him. They
traded other pieces. This was not supposed to be their year.
I know. I've done a few events in Lancing, Michigan,
and they asked me how far are the Tigers. Away
said they're not that far and they're like, really, this
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was two months ago. I said, I think they're building
something special over there.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
A J.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Hins done a nice job. He's got them to believe
and it seems like they're just burning the candle at
both ends, trying to get just one win, just one win,
and they're finding ways to do it. You might not
have some wholesale names yet, but you're starting to develop
some of that. And their bullpen's been great.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Aaron Judge is probably
going to the Hall of Fame when it's all said
and done. But he is not a good postseason performer.
He's batting two hundred, you know, he's striking out every
third time in postseason.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
How does that?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I know there's certain guys who just do well in
the postseason, maybe not the regular season, but how do
you explain Aaron Judge struggling?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Yeah, I would say the attention and the over magnified
approach to Aaron Judge is going to be hyper focused
in the postseason when every starter or every pitcher gets
the scorecard, the lineup card, and they circle Aaron Judge.
They don't pitch him that way in the regular season.
It's too long of a season. He's facing too many
different pitchers. He's a great hitter that when he gets unlocked,
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I think will be able to handle what's coming at him.
Because there's so much expected of them. The narratives in
postseason are like the worst things in the world if
you're not able to put them aside and do your thing.
And what I would say, not for everybody, And we
know heart beats are different. If you're mechanically sound at
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the postseason, the game's easier. If you're struggling, you're off,
you're pressing, the game's harder. You're asked ten times more
about your mini slump than you would be in the
regular season.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I have you what five career home runs, three career
stolen bases.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Regular seasons and I got I got a couple.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
In the postseasons. Okay, of course, could you see yourself
as an o'ton? Were you Otani? They just wouldn't let
you be Otani when you were when you were playing
for the Braves.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
You know, that's a great question, Dan, and it's probably
trending towards yes. But I don't want to spend a
lot of time on the fact that I was not
given that opportunity. In all seriousness, I hope this opens
the door for more open mindness towards players who are talented.
Maybe not like him, but I rooted for him to
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stay healthy on the mount because people have yet to
see how great this guy is on the mount, and
hopefully he can show it over the next five years
and stay healthy and avoid the injury.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Great to talk to you, Thanks for joining us. Safe
travels my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yep, same to you.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's John Smolt, Hall of Famer, World Series champ on
the cy Young and of course the lead analyst for Fox.
They don't have their Game five coming up at Dodger
Stadium onnth Friday night. Tony in South Carolina. High tone,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (29:35):
Hell?
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Dan?
Speaker 11 (29:36):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Great? Tone?
Speaker 10 (29:40):
Dan? I just wanted to call in. This is my
first time ever calling in six foot one two twenty five.
I was excited this morning when I found out it
was Fritzy's birthday ten ten. I've just come through a
two year battle with advanced prostate cancer and I took
(30:04):
my last test yesterday and I got the results this morning,
and I am one hundred say cancer phrase.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
That's so big.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's more more important than Fritzy's birthday.
Speaker 10 (30:16):
Hell yeah, but it's a good Hey, can't can't baby,
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Thank you, Thank you, Tony, congratulation.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Good laugh, very healthy.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I know I like that. Ten tane, Let's good news
there good news? Ring my bell?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Who's singing that? Ring my bell?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Blondie?
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Right? No, no, no, call me? Was Blondie?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Ring my bell?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Sounds like? Was it? Patti LaBelle? Anita ward ah Anit Award.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Nineteen seventy nine. Ring my bellned Award not familiar.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I know the song, but it always reminds when I
hear somebody's name is Anita. It always brings to mind
a woman I met and her last name was Hooker
and her first name was Anita, and she even said,
get your joke out of the way. I'm like, don't
need to because she said need a hooker, and I
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didn't like it. Caught me off guard because I was like, wow,
that's forward, and then I realized that that was her
name or she got married, and so she said, you know,
get your joke out, and I go, I don't have one.
I need a hooker. Colin in Iowa, Hey Colin, what's
on your mind today?
Speaker 12 (31:34):
A DP Third Time, Long Time had a question for
the room and a bet for Seaton. A question for
the room is would you rather watch a Jets game
with Woody Johnson a Panthers game with David Tepper or
a Broncos game with Fritzy. And then my bet with
Seaton is Iowa State going to West Virginia this weekend.
Speaker 9 (31:54):
I'd bet a.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
Bunch of Iowa smoke house meet up against the opportunity
to attend to meet Friday. Thanks and all.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Listen, Well, Satan doesn't have the authority to allow you
to come in for a meet Friday. Correct, Yeah, so
we can't have that beat. Do you want to watch
a Bronco game with Todd We've done that, David Tepper
or Woody Johnson. Well, chances are if you're watching a
(32:24):
game with the Jets owner Woody Johnson, there's maybe some
other famous people there with David Tepper. Don't spill a drink,
I'm gonna go Woody Johnson. I think I'd I'd rather
watch with Woody Johnson than David Tepper or a Bronco
game with Fritzi. I mean, Fritzy is exactly how you
(32:46):
think he would be. It's every call, every play, every moment.
It's it's your wife videotaped you watch in the game.
We watched the Super Bowl with you for a little while.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Left in the first quarters, three nothing relaxed.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
No, no, but it's holding on Garrett balls again.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Why didn't you go up to your room when we
were watching the Super Bowl? They were winning, weren't they.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I know, I just needed to be by myself. It's
probably best for you guys to enjoy the second half
of that.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Oh yeah, we would have enjoyed the first half without
you too, Yes, Paul, I would.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Have thought though with Todd. If you're winning, you stay
in the same seat, you stay in the same place.
Like a little superstition. You leave where you're sitting while
your team's winning the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
That is a good point. I am very superstitious, but
in that situation, I'm like, you know, I'm just getting nuts.
Let you guys do your thing and I'll run around
and be crazy in my room.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
If you're watching on Peacock. We are going to give
Todd his birthday cake. We have to take it out
of the freezer. It is a a ice cream cake.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Got a cake to the face?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
No no, no, no, no, no, no no no no.
By the way, we do have a bed a wedding
cake to the face. If Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift
get engaged and Troy Aikman. I thought said that they
were engaged, and then he had to backtrack on that.
But then he was on barstool, and then I think
he did say, hey, he was told they might be engaged.
(34:07):
So if they get engaged, you get a wedding cake
to the face, Todd, I do, all right, take a break.
Last call for phone calls after this.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
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Speaker 2 (34:28):
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yards rushing and score one hundred touchdowns in their first
one hundred and twenty five games. He enjoy. He joins
a list that includes Jim Brown, Emmitt Smith, Ladanian, Tomlinson,
and Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
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Day, Startup the Day, Startup Day, Stup stat of.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
The Day brought to you by Panini America, the official
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join us on the program tomorrow. We are going to
write the headline today for tomorrow with the Seahawks and
the forty nine ers. So I'll give you guys a
little bit of time. Let me get to James in Virginia,
and then we will write tomorrow's headline. Today.
Speaker 11 (35:24):
Hey James, Wow, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Brother.
Speaker 11 (35:27):
Happy Thursday, DT, Dannette, Salute the Commander, Rumbling, bumbling, stumbling,
he could go all the way. Man, what a great interviewer, Boomer.
This my twenty first year at UPS. I couldn't have
madgin him forty five years for the Swami back back
back back, dawn Man. Speaking of baseball, how about the
amazing on a miracle run the miracle Mets man out town, Tyler.
(35:52):
I've been a player for the kids. The Nauset Tides
used to be the farm team that used to come
down and play preseason before the season started. It was
just a great experience. And I would be remiss if
I didn't take the time out to shout out my
guy Frinch do O double D. Happy birthday, brother, it's
your birthday. Yeah, for your birthday fifty five years man.
(36:12):
Congradulations man, you guys have a wonderful day to loot
the commander.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
All right, Salute the commanders. By the way, I get
Todd a cake. Now, I don't decide what the cake
looks like. It's an ice cream cake. And then all
of a sudden he goes, why is it shaped like
a whale?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
A fair question.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
There was a shot.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It was a short notice and it was Anthony the
intern who went out and got it.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Now I always calling him out. Just like that, I
could afford to drop several LB's. I didn't think there'd
be a whale shaped cake.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I have no idea if that's what the cake was.
That was already made short notice, and then they did
put Happy Birthday Todd, and they only had one D
on them.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
But you the well is a famous Carvel cake, so
I can possibly wink at that. But there's gotta be
other cakes.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
I don't think that there was a subliminal message being sent.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
That would be kind of mean on my birthday.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
It would be and I will discipline him. I will
scold Anthony the inter. It would be accurate and fair
to get for me to tell him I'm going to
fire him. No, definitely, okay, because if you say fire
Anthony the intern, then I'll go do that.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
It could be a little more sensitive next time, and
then I'll just leave.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
It at down.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Okay, yes, Paul quickly fritzy, what animal would be more
fitting with your physique?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Like a bullfrog?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It is not wrong.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
I got a big upper part and.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Little skinny legs to bounce around him.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
He is not far off with a bullfrog.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
That's actually really good.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Like throat and the mouth issues like I do skip
leg day and it's just very thin legs and a
big upper part.
Speaker 7 (37:41):
We have the let Todd clear his throat? Uh? Do
you remember that from way back in the day. Yeah,
let Todd clear his Do we have that?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Barman? And he says, looking okay, right tomorrow's headline Today, tom.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
I'm going with Brock in a hard place, fox squawk.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Okay, seek no counter.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
I'm going with forty whiners whoa yeah, okay, okay, take
your losses like Marvin.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
G No thanks, Oh, niners dominated oay.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Okay, Paulie, that was pretty ugly niners no show against
the seahawk.
Speaker 12 (38:24):
All right?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Did you find the the clip there Marvin with Todd?
Speaker 5 (38:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Oh, been a nice payoff. It would let us a right,
They're stay in sports history. Paul the billiard.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt. And I'm gonna
yield the rest of my time for this clip, Marvin.
I heard, I hear him play all right.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
Let's go with.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Uh. Joe Namas and nineteen seventy seven played his last
National Football League game with the Rams. Rams is correct.
Back to you.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Nineteen thirty six On this day, John Brungart, John Brungart
first person to dot the I in script Ohio for
Ohio State marching band. At halftime, John Brungart, run guard.
Let me see anything else here?
Speaker 7 (39:27):
Umm?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Oh? Nineteen twenty, Elmer Smith hits the first grand slamming
World Series history, and then his teammate Bill Wam's Nass
makes the first unassisted triple playing worlds Area again, Bill
wams Ass, Is that the character from Succession? Yes, yes,
Bill wams Nas.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I'm asking you for that.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
March.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Oh, it's not about me, Paul, It's about Todd. It's
his birthday. It's his birthday. Thank you, Todd Blacklitch, who's
doing the Oregon Ohio State game tomorrow. Derrick Henry said
to join us as well. What did you learn today, Tod?
Speaker 4 (40:11):
There's already been some talk about a twenty four team
college football playoff Watt.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Yeah, it's down the road, It's coming. Seaton, Chris Berman
still the King. E Marvin.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
You want pictures with movement, I do.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Give me movement and location over velocity.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Paul Todd is built like a bullfrog.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, and I thought it was Jeremiah Todd. What did
I learn today?
Speaker 4 (40:35):
The new norm using starting relievers and pizzing a game
together like the Dodgers did last night in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
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You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's the Final Hour in this Thursday Dan and the
Danet's Dan Patrick Show. The Mets are going to have
a new play caller coming up on Monday night against
Buffalo as one of their assistant coaches. Is this Todd Downing?
Who is going to be promoted now? Is he offensive
coordinator or is he just going to be elevated to
(00:25):
calling plays which feels like that would be what Nathaniel
Hackett does as offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
All that was said by the Jets is that Todd Downing,
which sounds like a made up name, by the way,
does not sound like a real person, is calling plays
for the next game. No word on status, job titles.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Okay, all right, Final hour here. John Smoltz was on
the call last night with the Dodgers and the Podres,
the Dodgers using eight pitchers shutting out the Padres. And
now we have a game five. You have Guardians at
the Tigers, that's coming up later on today, Yankees at
the Royals, and then forty nine ers at the Seahawks.
So Johnny Smoltz will join us coming up here in
(01:02):
a little bit. Good morning, If you're watching on Peacock.
Thank you for downloading the app you can watch the program.
It's Todd Fritz's birthday today and we want to once
again wish Todd a very very happy birthday. We've had
one woman who in her best Marilyn Monroe voice, was
singing Happy Birthday to Todd.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Was very well done by.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Her, and we got Todd in an ice cream cake
and so we'll have that for him coming up a
little bit later on very thoughtful. Thank you, Todd eight
seven seven to three. DP show email address DP at
Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at dpshow. Stat of the
Day brought to you bot Patine America, the official trading
cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Derrick Henry will be
on the program tomorrow. They have a big match up
(01:44):
with the Commander's Little Territorial warb there between Washington and
Baltimore coming up this weekend, Big ten Saturday Night Ohio
State Oregon. Todd Blackledge will be on the call for
that game for NBC in Peacock. He'll join us to
preview that coming up tomorrow. So it's Big ten Saturday
Night Ohio State and Oregon. You know, I was wondering
(02:07):
about this. When Oregon, USC, UCLA, Washington joined the Big Ten.
I think people joked about the cross country travel. The
jokes have become a reality six weeks into the college
football season. As of today, teams who have been forced
to travel a significant distance across the country have lost
nine out of ten games so far in the Big Ten.
(02:30):
To make it more interesting, or where, seventy percent of
those teams failed to cover the spread in that same game,
meaning they're not only losing, but the games haven't been
competitive either. And I know it's a small sample size,
but this is the downside of Hey, everybody, you can
travel to Piscataway, New Jersey. That's not a big deal,
(02:51):
leaving you know, Southern California, Oregon hosting Ohio State. We
knew this was going to happen. Practical, that's why you
have regional conferences, so you cut down on travel, you
cut down on cost. The other sports that fall under
this financial umbrella. But hey, football rules, and it's going
(03:13):
to continue to rule until we have this moment. I
don't know if I'm going to be alive when it happens,
but it'll be a oh, you know what we should do.
Let's get sixty of the top schools and then we'll
put them in regions and then they'll play one another,
maybe they'll play them twice, and then all of a sudden,
we'll have a large playoff. Yeah, that's what we're going
(03:39):
to do, basically the NFL model. Now, I did talk
to somebody, a college football source, who said there are
plans in play by different people, different groups, not the SEC,
not the Big Ten, not the NCAA. They're trying to
come up with a formula where we would have at
(04:01):
least twenty four playoffs, twenty four playoff games or twenty
four playoff teams. And they have it, you know, where
they this is how much money there's going to be
rev share. There's going to be a collective bargaining agreement.
I mean, they're going to be basically professional football players
(04:22):
in waiting to be really truly professional football players. And
this is a model that's being worked on as we speak.
And I was given, you know, I was privy to
at least a little bit of the information. What they
what they think is going to happen is you're going
to have twenty four teams qualify for the playoffs. Now
you have twelve we just start. We haven't even gotten
(04:43):
into it yet. Now they want to expand because now
everybody realizes the amount of money. What you're going to
get back to is regional matchups. You're going to have
teams on the West coast playing teams on the West coast.
That will be that division. They'll be one let's say, Southwest, Southeast, Northeast, Midwest.
(05:06):
This is what's going to happen. So basically what we've
had before where conferences stayed within I don't know, a
couple hour radius time radius of travel, and that's what
they're looking at right now. I don't know, you know,
if it comes to fruition, but we haven't even gotten
into the twelve team playoff and they're already looking at
(05:27):
a twenty fourteen playoff and maybe that's sixty schools and
they would fall under the umbrella. Now, there's a lot
of work to be done. I know that they've reached
out to Greg Sanke, the SEC commissioner, and you know,
does he want to bless this? I think he is
backed away from that from what I'm told, But once again,
(05:49):
it's kind of in the embryonic stages. But just to
let you know, this is moving fast. May mean we're
not even into twelve team playoff and now they're talking
twenty four and that's where we're headed, and that's where
it's going to be a model. That's and I've asked
about relegation because I was told that I was a
(06:12):
big proponent of relegation to add yet another I don't know,
week of drama there, and I was told that that
was received, not well received, but received that they would,
you know, think about this, and I was like, okay,
that's fine, Like you can't stop it now. Remember I
(06:32):
was I wanted from two to four. I said, I'll
be happy with four, and I would have been happy
with four teams. But then all of a sudden, it's well,
wait a minute, it's like having a lottery ticket. And
I'll go back to when I broke the news they
were going to try to break that contract and move
it up so they could go to twelve teams instead
(06:53):
of having four teams. They were going to break the
Bowl contract and everybody said you can't do it. I said,
you can have a winning lottery ticket and everybody's going
to make more money. And that's exactly what they did.
They moved it up. Now they want to move it
up even quicker because now we're looking at twenty four schools.
(07:14):
So whether it happens two years, three years, four years,
five years, that's where we're headed. But we are headed
for collective bargaining players getting paid. There is going to
be a reb share where schools I was told would
probably football schools would probably get seventy five percent of
the REB share, and then the trickle down with other programs.
(07:38):
So these are all things being discussed now. They're being
discussed by people who are outside of the college football world.
They're business people trying to create a plan. Yes, Pauline, I.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Do have a little background on this. About a week
or so ago, this kind of mysterious email went around
to people who cover college football. It was from a
group that calls itself College Sports Tomorrow CST. It's a quote.
This is from the press release. A group of respected,
influential progressive leaders in higher education and sports. Sorry, they're
in the like you said, embryonic stages of things called
(08:12):
the College Student Football League the CSFL, and as part
of their plan, it could be seventy two programs compete
in a power twelve conferences and then the second tier
would be sixty four teams. Kind of what you've been
saying for years. But this has been pitched from quote
unquote outsiders, college football businessmen, some people who work in it.
(08:33):
Guys like Greg Sank and the SEC are not involved
in this, but they got the whiff of this about
a week or so ago.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, this has been going on, so we haven't even
had the twelve team playoffs, but they're going to because
everybody understands the amount of money that's at stake here,
and that's why they're going to do it. I don't
think it's a question of if, but when, all right,
Thursday night football. This is kind of spicy though, Seattle
(09:00):
against San Francisco. San Francisco given three and a half here.
Time for Dower Rankings. Yes it is Thursday. Seaton is
the host of Dower rankings. If you'll explain Dour rankings.
And do we have any music for Dower rankings? Marvin,
We do, all right, Seaton.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I think we're going to go around the room here
and go with uh, any sport and really anything pop
culture even I think something that you're down on, down,
something that you're down on. Lots of people do power rankings.
These are like the strongest things. Right now, We're going
to go Dower. These things are kind.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Of weak right now, Dour. Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to
start out.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Okay, give us an example example of right now being
lost in all of the uh Mets sort of victory
pree of winning that series. Is just how tough it
is to be a Philadelphia sports fan the last couple
of years. I'm going Dower rankings on the city of Philadelphia.
If you go back a couple of years, Phillies blew
a two to one World.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Series lead to the Astros, that's tough.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Then you have the Eagles looking great, Jalen Hurts incredible,
team makes it to the Super Bowl. They blew a
ten point lead in the second half to the Chiefs.
Seventy six ers, can't beat the Celtics, they can't beat
the Nicks.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Joel Mbat can't stay healthy. Not great.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
The Eagles start the season ten and one. Last year
wash out, and now the Phillies again kick it past.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
The Mets to win a playoff series. That is just
a long stretch for the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Okay, Todd Dower rankings.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
The Cleveland Guardians and scoring two runs in the sixth
inning in Game one.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
The Guardians have been.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Shut up for twenty consecutive innings. Over that span, the
Guardians are hitting one forty seven, which is ten for
sixty eight, twenty strikeouts and only three extra base hit.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We did take the Cleveland Browns off the board, correctly,
correct two Dour, that's just two, yeah, okay, Marvin Dower.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Rankings, Josh Allen's MVP chances. What up? The Bills got
Molly watt by the Ravens and then they went and
he went nine for thirty against the Texans and a loss.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You don't think he can recover to win the MVP.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I didn't say that, but I'm dowur on him right now.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Okay, didn't expect that one early in the season. Media
Darling Josh Allen MVP, Paul Dower rankings.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I'm also going to look for the origins of Molly
wopped because I've heard that phrase before. Kudos to Marvin
for dropping it. We'll get to that later. I'm going
to go lightly dour, medium dour. Michigan football. They got
their four and two. Now, remember they won the national
title last year and lost their coach so it was
great season.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Then there they lost their quarterback, yes.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And they didn't find a quarterback they have. They're four
and two there at Illinois, which I think is going
to be really tough, Michigan State, Oregon, Indiana. They finished
with Ohio State and then the Big Ten championship game,
which they will be watching probably, but that's they could
be out of the college football playoff that's been expanded.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Wow, lightly dour, lightly down? Damn, I just had my dour. Dang,
it's it's dour three of the program.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Eh I Did it have to do with Todd and
his birthday?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
No? No, I'm not good. No, No, I'm gonna celebrate it.
What was my What was I bummed down about?
Speaker 7 (12:26):
A kind of put a screech in hate again?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Maybe your thought was not that dour? So you know,
Oh my god?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Was it the Jets?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
No, the Todd Dower? You doing a play calling now?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
No?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Was it the w NBA Finals?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
No? No, I can't, I can't remember.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
It should be Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Uh well, one for eleven with five strikeouts, something, the
postseason over rated? I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yes, would you rather be for your career? Lights out?
In the regular season and average in the postseason, which
can get you to the Hall of Fame probably, or
a mediocre regular season player and a lights out guy
in the regular postseason that probably doesn't go to the
Hall of Fame. Any sport, you may be in that
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local team's Hall of Fame, like a Julian Edelman's in
the Patriots Ring of Honor, situation, ring of Honor and rings.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
So would you rather be Julian Edelman or Larry Fitzgerald?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Oh, that'll question?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
How about that?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
How many times have we done this?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
We do that every year.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
God, you can be Julian Edelman or Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Selfishly, I think I want to be in the Hall
of Fame even if I don't come through a couple
of times during.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The post shocker that you're being selfish.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
I'll be honest.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
He did come through in the Super Bowl. He played well.
He probably would have been MVP, just not quite that
good if he had gotten the tackle on James Harrison seton.
Would you rather be Julian Edelman or Larry Fitzgerald?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Edelman all day, I want to win, and I want
to contribute in those wins. He had some massive games
big catches, all of that. I'll take that all day.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You can't tell the story of the NFL without Julian Marvin.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Edelman, Paul Fitzgerald nine Pro Bowls. I'm still passing Julian
Edman none Pro Bowls, but first ballot never pays for
a drink in New England again.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
How about Tony Gonzalez, Julian Edelman Todd.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I'm gonna go Tony Gonzales, seatan.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
What are the abtions?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Tony Gonzales, Julian Edelman.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
I'm still taking Julian Edeman.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Adamman more memorable moment, okay, Pauline Adaman, no die.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
I love his career, Okay, maybe fair enough, even just
having that moment against the Falcons. I think where he's like, no,
I got it, I caught it. I caught it, and
they're like, no way, dude, they hit the ground. He's like,
I'm telling you I caught it. Watch and he did.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah. And you know, now, it says a lot about
who we picked because most of us are team players,
and we picked Julian Edelman Todd.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
On my birthday. I'm gonna be suppers today tomorrow, maybe
I have a.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Different answer today.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh okay, I'm going with those.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I'm going with life at jail then tuning them out right.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Let me take a break. John Smoltz will join us.
He was on the call last night with the Dodgers
and the podres. We'll get to more phone calls as well.
And uh, by the way, the gambling podcast that'll be
later on today, that'll be up at Danpatrick dot com.
And that'll be Shane Irving Dylan, the graphics guy. Dylan
and Mario went to the game last night, the Mets
(16:02):
and Phillies game, and I thought we'd see them on
kiss cam, but apparently they were seated in different sections there,
throwing us off a little bit. They actually brought women
with them. Wow. Yeah, yeah, their girlfriends got them tickets,
which I said, man, that might be Marrion type of people.
You know, if your girlfriend's getting your tickets to the playoffs,
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that won't happen when you get married. But right now, and.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
The way that game played at that's a good karma
right there.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I was exciting to be at.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
We'll take a break. We're back after this.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
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Speaker 2 (16:48):
We'll talk to John Smoltz. He was on the call
last night, Padres and the Dodgers Game five tomorrow night
in LA, game time eight Eastern on Fox Steven Portland, Steve,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Born in DP, third time, long time, Portland, Oregon. So
my wife's asking me to call in every time Seen
O'Connor has a birthday, because like him, same month, same day,
same year, seven twenty four to seventy eight. But every
time I either forget or I just can't get in.
(17:24):
So say, in honor of Fritty Fritzie birthday, same month,
same day, some beer, we're giving a shout out to
seeing them.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
My wife don now.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Onto the business in honor of Chris Bermant coming on
and all the years in ESPN. Dan, you've talked at
length over the years about your time at ESPN and
going the transition from ESPN to going out on your own,
the attic days, having a beer at the pizza shop
there in La that day and regretting, wondering if you're
going to regret.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
What you did.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
But as I was explaining to Tyler and with Bill
Belichick and Tom Brady and these guys like what do
you do when you leave?
Speaker 10 (17:59):
And these people lot, You have never really.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Went into any kind of detail about how you were
feeling emotionally mentally from you were the star, the faith
of the of the network at that point, the peak,
you were at your peak and with at ESPN, in
my opinion, can you talk to us about how you
felt emotionally going just what you were going dealing with
(18:21):
at that time.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Let me get to John Smoltz and then I'll try
to bring back those emotions or memories there kind of
a blur, painful, don't want to get emotional here in
the final hour. It's Todd's day. It's Todd's birthday, John Smoltz,
who shares a birthday with me on the call for
the Padres Dodgers. Now we got game five in LA
(18:46):
coming up tomorrow. Explain the Dodgers pitching strategy last night, John,
because I likened it to a jigsaw puzzle or Rubik's cube,
where you Dave Roberts had to make all of that
work and somehow did last night.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Yeah, they're limited, right, They put a roster together. They're
supposed to have a great pitching staff and that's been
beat up. So they got to the postseason best record,
all the pressure in the world on them, and then
they really don't have a game for starters. So I've
always said in a vacuum, you could do it one time.
It's hard to do it all the time. You just
(19:23):
need one guy to mess up. But give him credit.
Every single guy came in. The score was lopsided. He's
stick with. He stood with those guys even though he
could have gone a different direction. And I think part
of it is he didn't want the Padres to get
any momentum, any rally, anything going, so that Game five
is a totally different atmosphere now, even though everyone knows
(19:46):
the Padres offense can explode. So he did a great
job last night and sold the bullpen.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Normally it used to come down to starting pitching. It
does it anymore? What do you think Game five comes
down to?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Well, Game five and elimination, winner take all always comes
down to the shortest leash for starters. So whatever starter
goes longer, you think puts that team in a better
chance to be successful. Look, the Mets have had great
starting pitching. They've moved on. You've got teams that are
trying to Like the Tigers, they're at the I mean
every game is a miracle game. They've been playing momentum baseball.
(20:25):
We've seen this new playoff format put a lot of
stress on the teams that have had rest. Their offense
doesn't get going. There's a lot of things in the mix.
And for the Dodgers, really Game five comes down to
can they do the things and the top of their lineup,
whether Freddie's in there or not, to match what the
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Padres have done in the first three innings. It's been
a simple formula. Padres explode early, they win, and last
night they didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, you know that atmosphere I thought in San Diego,
I mean that that was Can you maybe compare another
atmosphere that you had in San Diego these last two games,
you know, Philadelphia, Philly, You're right, they were.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
This is a stand all the time. It doesn't matter
what the score is. Something's a rally. Two zero counts
a rally. And I've said in the postseason, the teams
that handle the cleanest innings and don't allow some hiccup,
you know what rallies were starting with two out walks.
They were starting with a walk. So I love it.
I think San Diego's atmosphere la will be raucous. I mean,
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these two teams don't like each other, it's well known,
and they're now kind of sparking this rivalry because they're
both good. I can make the argument that the San
Diego Padres have the deepest roster and maybe the best
roster in the postseason. But now they're going to have
to find a way on the road to get by
the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
A better chance of making mistake to Bonds and not
paying for it or Otani.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
You know, Bonds was in an unbelievable world of his own.
But what Otani's done now is early Bonds would steal
a base and make you pay for walking around him.
Otani will steal a couple bases, right, He'll just absolutely
beat you on the path. So they've shown and he's
shown that he is vulnerable to certain pitches. But here's
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the problem in the game today. There's a few pitchers
that can go three times to that spot. We've got
such a max effort and great stuff, but every hitter
today is looking for that one mistake and when Otani
gets it, you may not get it back.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And you bring up a great point. I brought this
up earlier. I sound like the guy who says, get
off my lawn. If I was developing pitching or looking
for pitching, I want to see somebody who can, you know,
give me legitimate velocity but has location and movement. If
you give me that, I'll let you throw a hundred.
(22:59):
I don't don't care. But if you give me location
in movement, and that's what I don't understand that. And
we're not going to be developing these pictures because everybody's
throwing a hundred, you got to throw a hundred, and yes,
I mean that's to me. God, I would love to
have those kind of pictures.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Well, rule changes will come again to effectively change that
again when you think about the way the game is operated. Look,
I understand it's harder to hit today than ever before
because velocity is at an all time high.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
But no rule changes are you talking about.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
They'll be pitching rule changes that will change the philosophy
to get you more towards what you're saying, Because I
if I'm having every picture break down and we're having
this epidemic of pitching injuries. Organizational philosophy is not going
to change unless there's a rule change, and that could
be anywhere from you know, tie in your starting pitcher
to the DH to roster manipulations that don't happen. You
(23:56):
can only have so many relievers on a team. There's
ways to affect the game, no different than two years ago.
But your point is well taken, because if I don't
have to teach a guy command and I just have
to teach him how to throw that nasty stuff in
that box, then the hitting styles are going to stay
the same. Swing for the fences hope to connect, and
you're only going to find a few elite pitchers that
(24:16):
can throw a ball in the area that gets a
pitcher out, that gets a hitter out. A well placed
pitch still gets a hitter out. But it is the
kind of philosophy that we're dealing with, and right now
it takes more pitchers in a game to do that.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Talking to John Smoltz, John will be on the call
of Friday Night that'll be back in LA. Game time
is eight eastern on Fox. Are the Mets a good team,
great team or team of destiny?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I think they're a team of destiny. You could make
a statement that this good team, which is on a
great run, believes in itself that after two months of
the season it looked horrible and they stood the course,
and I really got to give them credit that leadership
inside and management took a took a heart look and
saying what direction are we going? Many people maybe complained
(25:04):
that they didn't go out and make a whole lot
of moves before spring training was over, but what they
did is establish themselves in the pitching rotation.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Again.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
It comes down to a healthy starting rotation that now
looks pretty good and a team that has gone through
the gamut. You cannot have that roadmap and predicted they
would be in this spot going to one sixty three. Well,
in essence an extra day after the season playing a doubleheader,
So I give them a lot of credit. That town's
going to be on fire. They've been waiting a long time.
(25:33):
And you've got really two teams kind of mirroring each
other between the podres build it up, tear it down,
Matt spend all kinds of you know, tear it down.
And now look where both of those clubs are back
with a chance to go to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I know that they're not musty TV, but the Tigers
are a fun and I know you grew up a
Tiger fan. It's fun to see and scooball might be
the best pitcher in base If they get to a
game five, then he'll be pitching. But just to see that,
I mean, it's weird because you're like, oh, the starting
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pitcher's still in the game. John's it just does. I mean,
he's that good that he's breaking the mold of what
we have with starting pitchers now.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
He is that good. He pitches off his fastball, he's
a big, strong down the hill, the good mechanics. It's
refreshing and it's one of the things that they said
they were not going to do is trade him. They
traded other pieces. This was not supposed to be their year.
I know. I've done a few events in Lancing, Michigan,
and they asked me how far are the Tigers. Away
said they're not that far and they're like, really, this
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was two months ago. I said, I think they're building
something special over there.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
A J.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Hins done a nice job. He's got them to believe
and it seems like they're just burning the candle at
both ends, trying to get just one win, just one win,
and they're finding ways to do it. You might not
have some wholesale names yet, but you're starting to develop
some of that. And their bullpen's been great.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Aaron Judge is probably
going to the Hall of Fame when it's all said
and done. But he is not a good postseason performer.
He's batting two hundred, you know, he's striking out every
third time in postseason.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
How does that?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I know there's certain guys who just do well in
the postseason, maybe not the regular season, but how do
you explain Aaron Judge struggling?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Yeah, I would say the attention and the over magnified
approach to Aaron Judge is going to be hyper focused
in the postseason when every starter or every pitcher gets
the scorecard, the lineup card, and they circle Aaron Judge.
They don't pitch him that way in the regular season.
It's too long of a season. He's facing too many
different pitchers. He's a great hitter that when he gets unlocked,
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I think will be able to handle what's coming at him.
Because there's so much expected of them. The narratives in
postseason are like the worst things in the world if
you're not able to put them aside and do your thing.
And what I would say, not for everybody, And we
know heart beats are different. If you're mechanically sound at
(28:12):
the postseason, the game's easier. If you're struggling, you're off,
you're pressing, the game's harder. You're asked ten times more
about your mini slump than you would be in the
regular season.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I have you what five career home runs, three career
stolen bases.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Regular seasons and I got I got a couple.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
In the postseasons. Okay, of course, could you see yourself
as an o'ton? Were you Otani? They just wouldn't let
you be Otani when you were when you were playing
for the Braves.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
You know, that's a great question, Dan, and it's probably
trending towards yes. But I don't want to spend a
lot of time on the fact that I was not
given that opportunity. In all seriousness, I hope this opens
the door for more open mindness towards players who are talented.
Maybe not like him, but I rooted for him to
(29:02):
stay healthy on the mount because people have yet to
see how great this guy is on the mount, and
hopefully he can show it over the next five years
and stay healthy and avoid the injury.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Great to talk to you, Thanks for joining us. Safe
travels my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yep, same to you.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's John Smolt, Hall of Famer, World Series champ on
the cy Young and of course the lead analyst for Fox.
They don't have their Game five coming up at Dodger
Stadium onnth Friday night. Tony in South Carolina. High tone,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (29:35):
Hell?
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Dan?
Speaker 11 (29:36):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Great? Tone?
Speaker 10 (29:40):
Dan? I just wanted to call in. This is my
first time ever calling in six foot one two twenty five.
I was excited this morning when I found out it
was Fritzy's birthday ten ten. I've just come through a
two year battle with advanced prostate cancer and I took
(30:04):
my last test yesterday and I got the results this morning,
and I am one hundred say cancer phrase.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
That's so big.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's more more important than Fritzy's birthday.
Speaker 10 (30:16):
Hell yeah, but it's a good Hey, can't can't baby,
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Thank you, Thank you, Tony, congratulation.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Good laugh, very healthy.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I know I like that. Ten tane, Let's good news
there good news? Ring my bell?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Who's singing that? Ring my bell?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Blondie?
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Right? No, no, no, call me? Was Blondie?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Ring my bell?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Sounds like? Was it? Patti LaBelle? Anita ward ah Anit Award.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Nineteen seventy nine. Ring my bellned Award not familiar.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I know the song, but it always reminds when I
hear somebody's name is Anita. It always brings to mind
a woman I met and her last name was Hooker
and her first name was Anita, and she even said,
get your joke out of the way. I'm like, don't
need to because she said need a hooker, and I
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didn't like it. Caught me off guard because I was like, wow,
that's forward, and then I realized that that was her
name or she got married, and so she said, you know,
get your joke out, and I go, I don't have one.
I need a hooker. Colin in Iowa, Hey Colin, what's
on your mind today?
Speaker 12 (31:34):
A DP Third Time, Long Time had a question for
the room and a bet for Seaton. A question for
the room is would you rather watch a Jets game
with Woody Johnson a Panthers game with David Tepper or
a Broncos game with Fritzy. And then my bet with
Seaton is Iowa State going to West Virginia this weekend.
Speaker 9 (31:54):
I'd bet a.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
Bunch of Iowa smoke house meet up against the opportunity
to attend to meet Friday. Thanks and all.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Listen, Well, Satan doesn't have the authority to allow you
to come in for a meet Friday. Correct, Yeah, so
we can't have that beat. Do you want to watch
a Bronco game with Todd We've done that, David Tepper
or Woody Johnson. Well, chances are if you're watching a
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game with the Jets owner Woody Johnson, there's maybe some
other famous people there with David Tepper. Don't spill a drink,
I'm gonna go Woody Johnson. I think I'd I'd rather
watch with Woody Johnson than David Tepper or a Bronco
game with Fritzi. I mean, Fritzy is exactly how you
(32:46):
think he would be. It's every call, every play, every moment.
It's it's your wife videotaped you watch in the game.
We watched the Super Bowl with you for a little while.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Left in the first quarters, three nothing relaxed.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
No, no, but it's holding on Garrett balls again.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Why didn't you go up to your room when we
were watching the Super Bowl? They were winning, weren't they.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I know, I just needed to be by myself. It's
probably best for you guys to enjoy the second half
of that.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Oh yeah, we would have enjoyed the first half without
you too, Yes, Paul, I would.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Have thought though with Todd. If you're winning, you stay
in the same seat, you stay in the same place.
Like a little superstition. You leave where you're sitting while
your team's winning the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
That is a good point. I am very superstitious, but
in that situation, I'm like, you know, I'm just getting nuts.
Let you guys do your thing and I'll run around
and be crazy in my room.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
If you're watching on Peacock. We are going to give
Todd his birthday cake. We have to take it out
of the freezer. It is a a ice cream cake.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Got a cake to the face?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
No no, no, no, no, no, no no no no.
By the way, we do have a bed a wedding
cake to the face. If Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift
get engaged and Troy Aikman. I thought said that they
were engaged, and then he had to backtrack on that.
But then he was on barstool, and then I think
he did say, hey, he was told they might be engaged.
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So if they get engaged, you get a wedding cake
to the face, Todd, I do, all right, take a break.
Last call for phone calls after this.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
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Speaker 2 (34:28):
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and Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
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Day, Startup the Day, Startup Day, Stup stat of.
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and then we will write tomorrow's headline. Today.
Speaker 11 (35:24):
Hey James, Wow, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Brother.
Speaker 11 (35:27):
Happy Thursday, DT, Dannette, Salute the Commander, Rumbling, bumbling, stumbling,
he could go all the way. Man, what a great interviewer, Boomer.
This my twenty first year at UPS. I couldn't have
madgin him forty five years for the Swami back back
back back, dawn Man. Speaking of baseball, how about the
amazing on a miracle run the miracle Mets man out town, Tyler.
(35:52):
I've been a player for the kids. The Nauset Tides
used to be the farm team that used to come
down and play preseason before the season started. It was
just a great experience. And I would be remiss if
I didn't take the time out to shout out my
guy Frinch do O double D. Happy birthday, brother, it's
your birthday. Yeah, for your birthday fifty five years man.
(36:12):
Congradulations man, you guys have a wonderful day to loot
the commander.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
All right, Salute the commanders. By the way, I get
Todd a cake. Now, I don't decide what the cake
looks like. It's an ice cream cake. And then all
of a sudden he goes, why is it shaped like
a whale?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
A fair question.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
There was a shot.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It was a short notice and it was Anthony the
intern who went out and got it.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Now I always calling him out. Just like that, I
could afford to drop several LB's. I didn't think there'd
be a whale shaped cake.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I have no idea if that's what the cake was.
That was already made short notice, and then they did
put Happy Birthday Todd, and they only had one D
on them.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
But you the well is a famous Carvel cake, so
I can possibly wink at that. But there's gotta be
other cakes.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
I don't think that there was a subliminal message being sent.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
That would be kind of mean on my birthday.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
It would be and I will discipline him. I will
scold Anthony the inter. It would be accurate and fair
to get for me to tell him I'm going to
fire him. No, definitely, okay, because if you say fire
Anthony the intern, then I'll go do that.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
It could be a little more sensitive next time, and
then I'll just leave.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
It at down.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Okay, yes, Paul quickly fritzy, what animal would be more
fitting with your physique?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Like a bullfrog?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It is not wrong.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
I got a big upper part and.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Little skinny legs to bounce around him.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
He is not far off with a bullfrog.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
That's actually really good.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Like throat and the mouth issues like I do skip
leg day and it's just very thin legs and a
big upper part.
Speaker 7 (37:41):
We have the let Todd clear his throat? Uh? Do
you remember that from way back in the day. Yeah,
let Todd clear his Do we have that?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Barman? And he says, looking okay, right tomorrow's headline Today, tom.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
I'm going with Brock in a hard place, fox squawk.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Okay, seek no counter.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
I'm going with forty whiners whoa yeah, okay, okay, take
your losses like Marvin.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
G No thanks, Oh, niners dominated oay.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Okay, Paulie, that was pretty ugly niners no show against
the seahawk.
Speaker 12 (38:24):
All right?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Did you find the the clip there Marvin with Todd?
Speaker 5 (38:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Oh, been a nice payoff. It would let us a right,
They're stay in sports history. Paul the billiard.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt. And I'm gonna
yield the rest of my time for this clip, Marvin.
I heard, I hear him play all right.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
Let's go with.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Uh. Joe Namas and nineteen seventy seven played his last
National Football League game with the Rams. Rams is correct.
Back to you.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Nineteen thirty six On this day, John Brungart, John Brungart
first person to dot the I in script Ohio for
Ohio State marching band. At halftime, John Brungart, run guard.
Let me see anything else here?
Speaker 7 (39:27):
Umm?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Oh? Nineteen twenty, Elmer Smith hits the first grand slamming
World Series history, and then his teammate Bill Wam's Nass
makes the first unassisted triple playing worlds Area again, Bill
wams Ass, Is that the character from Succession? Yes, yes,
Bill wams Nas.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I'm asking you for that.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
March.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Oh, it's not about me, Paul, It's about Todd. It's
his birthday. It's his birthday. Thank you, Todd Blacklitch, who's
doing the Oregon Ohio State game tomorrow. Derrick Henry said
to join us as well. What did you learn today, Tod?
Speaker 4 (40:11):
There's already been some talk about a twenty four team
college football playoff Watt.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Yeah, it's down the road, It's coming. Seaton, Chris Berman
still the King. E Marvin.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
You want pictures with movement, I do.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Give me movement and location over velocity.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Paul Todd is built like a bullfrog.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, and I thought it was Jeremiah Todd. What did
I learn today?
Speaker 4 (40:35):
The new norm using starting relievers and pizzing a game
together like the Dodgers did last night in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
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Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
Paul Pabst
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